John Linton ....and thank you very much for your support of Exetel over the past year - Annette, Steve and I very much appreciate it. 'Traditional carols' are playing in the background bringing constant reminders of happy boyhood Christmases far away with more than one old favourite bringing a few tears every now and then. The aroma of cooking is beginning to spread through our house as it must be doing in the majority of dwellings all around Australia at this time despite the 'unseasonality' for cooked food in summer as the grouches may observe and I, like most people I imagine, are looking forward to a very enjoyable day.
I checked Exetel's 'progress' earlier this morning and even on a Christmas Eve Saturday orders for many residential services were at relatively high levels and there were even two corporate data orders submitted - something that has never happened before. With seven 'dead' days to go we have exceeded all of our December targets and look like finishing the month more than 20% higher than in December 2010. So a great month's results to end the best revenue year Exetel has ever enjoyed....profit?.....we will have to wait to see if 2012 can make that grow to something more consistent with the huge efforts we put in to supplying services...there is no hurry.
I am continually surprised, and humbled, by the number of customers who have supported Exetel for so long - some since our first month in business. These are the percentages from our first year:
2004 - 02.5%
2005 - 05.5%
2006 - 09.0%
2007 - 10.0%
2008 - 12.0%
2009 - 17.0%
2010 - 21.0%
2011 - 23.0%
So, to all of us who have allowed Exetel to make it through 2011 - mainly our customers but also our personnel and our suppliers (apologies to Tiny Tim who had far more reason to say it) - God bless us every one.
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PS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8975721/Why-the-lowly-shepherd-is-the-one-who-gets-to-hear-the-angels.html
PPS:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100126056/in-praise-of-jesus-christ/