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… well not the computers in the data center, but at least our workstations.

We’ve been in our hip new loft-style offices for about a year and a half now (after being in Southfield Michigan for seven years), and up until last Friday, we still hadn’t formally had our clients, vendors, and friends over for a party. Last Friday we finally put up a tent in the parking lot and threw a nice little catered affair, aptly named The First Annual Awecomm Summer Shindig.

The relaxed, summer-bbq-style event was planned by a team at Awecomm consisting of our two administrative assistants (Nicole & Jacque), my business partner Brent, and both of our Sales Directors (Jimmy & Mark). The party went off without a hitch, and it looked like everyone had a good time. Great job guys!!

Most of my time was spent giving tours of our office space and data center. I’ll admit that after four hours it started to become a little repetitive, but it was well worth it just to hear the compliments from both people that we’ve just recently met, and customers we’ve had for many years that just hadn’t yet seen the new space.

One comment that I kept hearing over and over as I walked guests past our gallery wall (a space in our office that showcases websites that we’ve developed) was: How do you get so much done with such a relatively small team?? Most of the comments came from people who are used to working with huge ad agencies on their website projects. My answer is pretty straightforward; hire extremely talented and driven individuals, and keep processes as lean as humanly possible. Hearing that over and over from people definitely made my day, and everyone at AWS deserves a huge pat on the back for cranking out so many successful projects (especially recently).

Thanks to everyone that showed up to celebrate with us. If you didn’t make it out, we’ll hope to see you next year!

Everyone here is still in the process of uploading the pictures that they took during the event, so I’ll post some links when they’re available.