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Earlier this week, when talking to my partner Réjean, I realized that we have been in business since 2003. It’s already been 7 years that the little project I started building Web sites with XOOPS was created. First known as InBox Solutions, then, when we incorporated, as  INBOX International, we are now more then 15 people from all over the world, sharing a unique passion: the Web!

Much has been accomplished since 2003! We served hundreds of customers, got involved in hundreds of projects, did a lot of errors, and a lot of great things! But I have to say that 2009 marked a very important milestone in the development of our organization. For the first time in our history, I am finally able to focus less on the production and more on business development!

In most starting companies, the founding entrepreneur is usually doing all by himself in the beginning: finding the clients, getting the job done, invoicing, administration, etc… It’s normal, he’s usually alone. In my case, I was very lucky to have a long time business man by my side looking after me and making sure I was not doing any obvious mistakes. That allowed me to not focus to much on the administrative tasks and dedicate my time on our products and services. Which I did for a few years. Then, when we started to grow and added a few people in the team, we could get more things done, but I was still very caught up in the day to day production tasks. Which was fine by me because coding was probably what I liked the most!

But as the years passed and we got more and more clients, I discovered something I did not expect: I was enjoying more and more the business things! Finding clients, closing deals, making strategies, thinking of new products, new services. I always have a passion for the actual coding parts, but the true business things became much more fun!

In 2009, we got more people on board and finally, there are people much better then me for the actual production parts. This means I can now focus on business development to get more clients, close more deals, create more partnership, and most of all, taking care of clients, listening to them, help them, solve problems to generate more revenues or help them become more efficient.

2010 will definitely be a great year for INBOX. We have a great team, we have great clients and we are evolving in a fantastic industry where opportunities are absolutely everywhere!