Happy Birthday to US!

We are excited to announce that we’ve been finding great products for American engineers for 20 years now. Saelig Company was founded on April 28th, 1988, and we have grown from very humble beginnings (selling one controller board) to now representing more than 80 companies from around the world, each with unique product offerings. It has been said that 50% of new business don't survive even one year, so we are very grateful to all our customers who have contributed to both our success and our longevity. To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, this month’s Newsletter Prize is extra special! It’s a TrackStickPro - a GPS logger with a list price of $239! You’ll want to try for this one! Send an email to newsletter@saelig.com to enter.

And thank YOU! We hope you are (or are on the way to becoming) Happy, Prosperous, and Blessed. What benefit is it being prosperous without being blessed? (Pr. 22:1; Lk 9:25)

ESC San Jose

Thanks to all who stopped by the WIZnet Stand at ESC - and your kind comments! We had a lot of interest in the new 5300 TCP/IP IC as well as non-WIZnet items too. And on another of our suppliers - Byte Paradigm - who were exhibiting their range of USB2.0-connected 'digital exerciser' boxes. Some lucky visitor won an iPod Touch, just by filling out a Byte Paradigm questionnaire.

Kudos

It's always rewarding to know some folks appreciate what you're doing! Here are some recent replies to our recent newsletter (send us an email at info@saelig.com to make sure you get the latest news of products we've found for you).

Love the variety of unique products available from Saelig and the newsletter for up and coming products. More than once I have been able to come up with a solution for a problem using a product only found and available through Saelig. Great service.

JB -- Coleman Technologies, Inc.

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Thanks for the great newsletters! This helps us stay on top of our competitors and have a leading edge on new technology for our customers.

JM

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Hey there,

I want to tell you that your products have always been unique and reliable. I'm glad you're doing what you're doing. Thanks.

Cal

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Now we have to try to stay humble ......... but proud of it.....

Drop by and see us on WIZnet's stand at ESC in San Jose this week.

Good folks, bad folks

1) I'll have to turn 'comments' off - someone left a malware link in a comment box.

2) A kinder person shared a recent press release on digg for others to see - thank you:

http://digg.com/hardware/Saelig_introduces_tiny_uDRIVE_disk_memory_card/blog

Word-of-mouth really is the best advertising that money can't buy .......

3) I've discovered that there are two types of people: one comes into the room and you can tell they are thinking "Here I am am, how can I help?"; another comes in and thinks "What can I get from this?". In English terms, this is translated: "Here I am - where's my cup of tea?" or "I'm here - would you like a cup of tea?"

Which are you?

Making a Difference

It's a challenge each day to make a positive difference in the world - even it it's just a kind word to the checkout clerk or mailman.

But here's a shameless plug for my wife who is using her fine art skills to raise the funds to dig a fresh-water well in Africa. She's trying to raise $4,800 in 2008 to dig a well for a village. In return, donors receive an original piece of oriental artwork. 100% of the donation goes to the well fund. Original greetings cards and bookmarks - $5 each; paintings 4x6"/5x7"/6x8" - $10/12/15 suggested donation. Each painting is an original, painted on Japanese or Chinese Xian (shuen) ‘rice’ paper and mounted on art card. Each painting is then applied to colored mulberry paper and delivered to you ready for framing. Donate your tax-deductible gift at www.lifetoday.org/goto/carollowne

Make a difference today!

Attitude and long-itude

Seems to me that business success – or any success – is determined principally by one thing – your attitude to what is happening around you. Life is, after all, what happens while you’re making other plans. I clearly remember seeing the following on someone’s cubicle wall, which captured exactly what I thought:

ATTITUDE

by: Charles Swindoll (www.insightforliving.org)

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.

Strategy

Ethical dilemmas are inevitable in business. How you deal with them reveals your principles. Some companies are just after your money, others realize that customers won't stay long with that attitude. Same with employees. My view is that we are all on the same team and all involved need to benefit from our transactions to make this all worthwhile - customers, vendors, employees. That's why our company name is so important to me - "happy, prosperous & blessed" needs to apply to the complete "food chain". Give customers good value, go the "extra mile" with support for them; give employees fair wages and good benefits with profit-sharing; represent vendors to your best ability.

Proverbs 22

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches;
to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.