John Linton Whether it's a week day, a weekend day or a public holiday makes little difference to my personal 'working week' but obviously it does for sensible people. With three 'working days' in the week less was accomplished than usual and the working days were effectively mostly taken up with discussing mobile plans and finishing off the mobile broadband discussions of the previous week. Not a great deal of progress has been made with the possible exception of 'tidying up' a different future approach to the presentation of these services and beginning the much larger task of re-vamping the current web site and back end order forms and user facilities.
The major decision we made was to advise the current customers using mobile services on the Exetel Vodafone services to move to an Exetel Optus mobile service before July 1st 2011. Many of our current Vodafone customers have already done so but some 3,000 current customers, mainly very low monthly usage customers, have not seen any benefit in doing so. So we created a series of plans starting from $9.00 a month plans with free activation for our remaining Vodafone users that, as far as we can see, is the lowest post paid plan on the market with far more 'included minutes and data' than is available from any other supplier. The plan is only available to our remaining Vodafone customers and the free activation is only available up to May 31st. It would be uneconomic to offer these new 'V' plans to anyone other than current Vodafone/Exetel customers (it's a really, really good deal) and just how similar approaches could be used more widely was not apparent by the time we ended the Friday meeting.
The two best aspects of the truncated week were that we had another very good month for corporate sales and the two outbound sales teams in Sri Lanka continue to make significant progress in generating large scale sales leads they find for their North Sydney based 'buddies' and are making more small business themselves directly or from leads passed to them by the North Sydney sales people. While this 'concept' is far from unique most people I have spoken to about it said it would never work using Sri Lankan personnel - it's a little premature to say they were wrong but I think they will have to eat their words in the not too distant future. A third 'pleasing' aspect of the week was that the fit out of the new floor was completed except for some 'cosmetics' and we will begin to move the corporate sales people from their current location to the floor below by the end of next week - all continuing to be well.
So, the rain continues to stream down for yet another day putting an end to our initial plans for today and therefore tomorrow. I sometimes wonder how it's only over the past few years I have heard of La Nina and El Nino? It didn't seem to rain this much in the 1960s through to the end of the 1990s.
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