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What Lola Wants
When Staci Takes Charge
About the Author
Calista is a for fast-paced, stea houses include St Martin’s Press, Grand Central Publishing, and Harlequin She is an Amazon bestseller and has won many Reviewer’s and Reader’s Choice Awards, as well as Best Book Awards and other competitions with publication as first prize Calista is a college graduate and teaches online writing classes She is also a Past President/Advisor and four-time Board member of the Phoenix chapter of the Roanization Visit her at: calistafoxcom or via social media at facebookcom/calistafox and ittercom/calistafoxbooks
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Chapter One
“Before rap up this week’s strategic planning session,” Staci Kay announced to the vice presidents of her burgeoning shoe empire, Staci Kay Shoes, “let’s revisit the need to locate a larger facility for our , and distribution functions, since we only have our secondary building on a temporary basis We’re several weeks into a six-month lease of the additional warehouse I don’t want us to be scra for a new home to accommodate the overflow from these crucial operational areas”
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Despite that, Staci brimmed with excite out the new line of six-inch heels on Monday—just in time for Valentine’s Day—and Sales predicts a mad rush from our customers to snatch up that perfect, sexy pair of shoes to coht outfits But beyond Valentine’s Day, the de heels”—she paused and modeled her six-inch, navy-blue suede shoes—“will result in another surge in sales We need to be prepared now and for the future Staci Kay Shoes are beco-quick speed”
Her VPs all clapped enthusiastically Staci beahtly
Maxi Shayne, her Vice President of Operations—whoree to beco officer—stepped in and said, “When it co an appropriate facility for us, think in the same terms Staci did ere in crisisin which to operate ASAP”
“Absolutely,” Staci concurred “Tap those golden databases of yours Contact friends, relatives, friends of friends, relatives of relatives, anybody and everybody to see whaton the h opportunity through public sales avenues right now, so we need to knoho’s holding out for a private sale”
Maxi nodded “We’ll take every lead we can get so that we don’t end up with a production bottleneck down the road, unable to meet escalation in custo efforts and this new line of shoes—having nowhere to store the additional orders and no base from which to ship them”
“Our need for another facility is just one rowth and sustainability in this industry,” Staci said “I thank each and every one of you for all that you’re doing to build our brand and our operations Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday”
Staci adjourned the roup dispersed Maxi collected the leftover packets of docuraphs her director, Ryan Donovan, PhD, had assembled Staci closed her notebook and capped her pen as Maxi kicked off her heels and plopped into a chair