Sometimes on the Internet, you wonder how it’s possible to build such strong relationships with people all over the world that you’ve never met in person.  This past year, has been one of the most fulfilling for me because I have been traveling more and meeting many of our client base and friends face-to-face.

Yesterday, when I wrote to everyone to apologize for missing a conference call Wednesday night, I was really just writing to let people know how badly I felt about being a no-show.  Needless to say I was totally taken back and blown away on the amount of e-mails I got. Never would I have imagined that so many of you would be legitimately concerned about the back pain I suffered.

In reflection, I really want all of you to know that a Ilona, myself, and my staff deeply care as much about you all as it looks like you care about us. I really miss the beginning days of Kiosk.ws when we had about 400 clients. I was able to give the much-needed personal attention to almost all of our clients at that time.  Now that we service close to 50,000 people it has become unfortunately an impossibility for me to stay in touch with all of you in this fashion on a regular basis.

So I just wanted to let you all know, that some of you do call me, and yes, I never returned a call.  Please know and understand that every morning that I awake and every night before bed the first and last things on my mind are you all. 

Back for a moment to the legitimate concerns many of you e-mailed about my health. Firstly, please do not be too concerned.  Well before the Internet I have always been a “health junkie” very in tune with my body.  I follow a healthy diet religiously, I take plenty of anti-oxidents, exercise at least four times per week, and I am decently knowledgeable about naturopathic and homeopathic remedies.

I will admit, /”>propecia low price that I push myself to the limit way too often and at this very moment there’s a lot of emotional stress in our business.  The cost of opening a satellite office in Texas is going to be astronomically expensive as well as a huge emotional stressor on my family. 

So why go?  To be honest, from a financial business decision we can not ignore the huge cost in savings primarily in bandwidth and real estate.  My goal is to take kiosk.WS, Hotconference.com and other sites that we own to the $100 million per year mark.  In order to be able to do so, and to better compete on the international market we need to lower costs.  Moving from Canada to Texas will cost us approximately one tenth of our raw bandwidth costs. That is a savings that is impossible to ignore.

So again I just wanted to thank all of you for so many kind e-mails. It has humbled me greatly and I promise to always do my best and always have you in mind as we continue to move our business forward.Have a tremendous weekend!

–Joel Therien