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Open Letter from Sales to Michael Kleine, CEO of Endogastric Solutions. I hear you are a resonable man. Please help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have NO marketing at this company. Its awful!!!!!!!!!! Who is in charge of marketing at EGS? No-one. The sales force needs some marketing help. If only there were a VP of marketing. We could also use a CPT code. Who is in charge of that? It seems like no one is in charge of that. Michael, you can read between the lines. There is dead wood here at EGS that needs to be trimmed. Do it!!!!!!! Call anyone in the company and they will tell you the same thing. (Google, Chrome, GoogleChrome, Yahoo, Bing, :::/// and or not nor:::/// Endogastric Solutions Board, EGS Board: Michael Carusi, Williams Greene, Guy Jordan, Arda Minocherhomjee, Lee Wrubel, Joe Mandato, Floyd Loop, Brent Ahrens, and Kathleen Regan). We also need to stop the turn-over at this company. Its nearing 40 percent; its time to stop the bleeding. You have been here around 7 seven weeks; its time for action. Clean house in marketing, increase comission rates and/or salaries, fire all PSMs, and close the office in RWS (Why on earth do we have 2 hq? Have you seen our daily revenue tallies?). Do that and you will be a hero. If not, we will be in the device musuem with Endocinch, Gatekeeper, and Stretta.
 






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I used to think these posts were funny but now I'm just really pissed that DS is still at the company. He's costing me accounts because he can't follow-through. He has no reimbursement strategy, no cpt code, no plan...nothing. And I'm supposed to jump hoops for this guy? Am I the only one in sales that thinks this way about DS? I'm ready to walk if DS is not gone soon.
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We have a reimbursement strategy. Wait, no we don't.
 












Anonymous said:
Open Letter from Sales to Michael Kleine, CEO of Endogastric Solutions. I hear you are a resonable man. Please help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have NO marketing at this company. Its awful!!!!!!!!!! Who is in charge of marketing at EGS? No-one. The sales force needs some marketing help. If only there were a VP of marketing. We could also use a CPT code. Who is in charge of that? It seems like no one is in charge of that. Michael, you can read between the lines. There is dead wood here at EGS that needs to be trimmed. Do it!!!!!!! Call anyone in the company and they will tell you the same thing. (Google, Chrome, GoogleChrome, Yahoo, Bing, :::/// and or not nor:::/// Endogastric Solutions Board, EGS Board: Michael Carusi, Williams Greene, Guy Jordan, Arda Minocherhomjee, Lee Wrubel, Joe Mandato, Floyd Loop, Brent Ahrens, and Kathleen Regan). We also need to stop the turn-over at this company. Its nearing 40 percent; its time to stop the bleeding. You have been here around 7 seven weeks; its time for action. Clean house in marketing, increase comission rates and/or salaries, fire all PSMs, and close the office in RWS (Why on earth do we have 2 hq? Have you seen our daily revenue tallies?). Do that and
you will be a hero. If not, we will be in the device musuem with Endocinch, Gatekeeper, and Stretta.
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Let me try a different approach--

Mike, dude, it's been one month since we had a conference call with you where you promised as the new CEO to communicate more with us as a company. In return, you asked for teamwork and loyalty from us. We've kept up our part of the bargain. Now we're expecting that you will communicate some major organizational changes including marketing to right size this sinking ship.

When can we expect such a communications from you, chief?
 






If you want to work for 80-90 a year, sell a product with NO reimbursement, be micro-managed etc. then Endogastric is for you; turn-over is HUGE over here. Average tenure is 8 months. What a joke. This is the biggest joke company on the whole CP site.
 












Anonymous said:
Open Letter from Sales to Michael Kleine, CEO of Endogastric Solutions. I hear you are a resonable man. Please help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have NO marketing at this company. Its awful!!!!!!!!!! Who is in charge of marketing at EGS? No-one. The sales force needs some marketing help. If only there were a VP of marketing. We could also use a CPT code. Who is in charge of that? It seems like no one is in charge of that. Michael, you can read between the lines. There is dead wood here at EGS that needs to be trimmed. Do it!!!!!!! Call anyone in the company and they will tell you the same thing. (Google, Chrome, GoogleChrome, Yahoo, Bing, :::/// and or not nor:::/// Endogastric Solutions Board, EGS Board: Michael Carusi, Williams Greene, Guy Jordan, Arda Minocherhomjee, Lee Wrubel, Joe Mandato, Floyd Loop, Brent Ahrens, and Kathleen Regan). We also need to stop the turn-over at this company. Its nearing 40 percent; its time to stop the bleeding. You have been here around 7 seven weeks; its time for action. Clean house in marketing, increase comission rates and/or salaries, fire all PSMs, and close the office in RWS (Why on earth do we have 2 hq? Have you seen our daily revenue tallies?). Do that and you will be a hero. If not, we will be in the device musuem with Endocinch, Gatekeeper, and Stretta.
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Sounds good, but where are you going to find someone to take over marketing for EGS? Intuitive?
 












Anonymous said:
Sounds good, but where are you going to find someone to take over marketing for EGS? Intuitive?
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WTF?! Are you kidding?! We're better off having no one at the helm of marketing than DS. If you haven't read this far: DS has become a huge liability due to his ineptitude, lacks credibility because he can't follow-through or complete anything of substance and is an all-out total distraction given his arrogance. Anyone, anything or nothing is better than having DS around.

I'm out. Peace.
 






Anonymous said:
Sounds good, but where are you going to find someone to take over marketing for EGS? Intuitive?
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Please please no more employees from Intuitive. TT came from Intuitive and look how he f***ed things up. He hired many from Intuitive, some good, most awful at EGS. I figure FN puts in about a half day of work for every day her bum graces a seat in the office.
 






Anonymous said:
Open Letter from Sales to Michael Kleine, CEO of Endogastric Solutions. I hear you are a resonable man. Please help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have NO marketing at this company. Its awful!!!!!!!!!! Who is in charge of marketing at EGS? No-one. The sales force needs some marketing help. If only there were a VP of marketing. We could also use a CPT code. Who is in charge of that? It seems like no one is in charge of that. Michael, you can read between the lines. There is dead wood here at EGS that needs to be trimmed. Do it!!!!!!! Call anyone in the company and they will tell you the same thing. (Google, Chrome, GoogleChrome, Yahoo, Bing, :::/// and or not nor:::/// Endogastric Solutions Board, EGS Board: Michael Carusi, Williams Greene, Guy Jordan, Arda Minocherhomjee, Lee Wrubel, Joe Mandato, Floyd Loop, Brent Ahrens, and Kathleen Regan). We also need to stop the turn-over at this company. Its nearing 40 percent; its time to stop the bleeding. You have been here around 7 seven weeks; its time for action. Clean house in marketing, increase comission rates and/or salaries, fire all PSMs, and close the office in RWS (Why on earth do we have 2 hq? Have you seen our daily revenue tallies?). Do that and you will be a hero. If not, we will be in the device musuem with Endocinch, Gatekeeper, and Stretta.
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"Clean house in marketing, increase comission rates and/or salaries, fire all PSMs, and close the office in RWS (Why on earth do we have 2 hq? "
We have 2 headquarters because TT didn't fell like going to Seattle any longer. Remember, TT thought there were 2 classes of employees: him and the everybody else at EGS. He always expected special treatment for himself like iphones and ibooks. He wanted swish offices. RWC is NOT appropriate digs for a start-up But TT wanted to live well and it made him feel successful to have fancy offices.
Just another example of TT doing what was best for him, not necessarily for EGS.
 






OK, guys. Time to make this Board truly relevant and even-handed. If anyone out there has anything positive to say about Schummers, please post it. Tell us why you believe he is competent, knowledgeable about marketing, and effective in his position. Include any projects he has actually completed and why he is not arrogant and demeaning .

Can anyone out there do this????
 






Anonymous said:
OK, guys. Time to make this Board truly relevant and even-handed. If anyone out there has anything positive to say about Schummers, please post it. Tell us why you believe he is competent, knowledgeable about marketing, and effective in his position. Include any projects he has actually completed and why he is not arrogant and demeaning .

Can anyone out there do this????
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Nope. And, btw, this board is relevant. DS defensive comments here have already provided balance. 'Nuff said.
 












Anonymous said:
OK, guys. Time to make this Board truly relevant and even-handed. If anyone out there has anything positive to say about Schummers, please post it. Tell us why you believe he is competent, knowledgeable about marketing, and effective in his position. Include any projects he has actually completed and why he is not arrogant and demeaning .

Can anyone out there do this????
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You do the math:
2500 views to this thread
140 employees at EGS
10 Board members
8 senior managers
0 achievements and projects completed by DS
 












Why DS should be fired: DS is the architect of EGS's go-to-market strategy. After 3 years, it is an utter failure.

Why DS is not likely to be fired: The Board likes him. For DS, his survival is dependent more on his 30 minute board presentations every 2 months than his results from running Marketing for EGS. The EGS board is so clueless that they do not understand this.
 






Anonymous said:
Why DS should be fired: DS is the architect of EGS's go-to-market strategy. After 3 years, it is an utter failure.

Why DS is not likely to be fired: The Board likes him. For DS, his survival is dependent more on his 30 minute board presentations every 2 months than his results from running Marketing for EGS. The EGS board is so clueless that they do not understand this.
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Why DS will certainly be fired: new CEO has a fine tuned bs radar. And DS reeks bs twenty4seven. More importantly, Mike knows that it's either DS or him. Easy choice for the big guy to make.
 






Anonymous said:
Why DS should be fired: DS is the architect of EGS's go-to-market strategy. After 3 years, it is an utter failure.

Why DS is not likely to be fired: The Board likes him. For DS, his survival is dependent more on his 30 minute board presentations every 2 months than his results from running Marketing for EGS. The EGS board is so clueless that they do not understand this.
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You're an idiot and severely underestimate the power of money and investing. The Board may well like DS and he may kill on his bi-monthly Board presentations, BUT: the investors have raised and plowed enough money into EGS and cannot afford to go thru another financing round. It's way too dilutive and anyone in their right mind would not invest a nickel in a 3 year failed go-to-market strategy.

Next Board meeting is end of June. DS will be gone for sure by July 1.
 






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