January in the new year!
This month has been pretty hectic, mainly due to the fact that after two weeks off it is quite hard to fall back into the swing of things. Also we go into January with a sales conference for the sales reps and I have been asked to help on a technical level. The conference was over three days and consisted of Reps being given sales figures talks, promotional talks one on one sessions with editors about new product and of course demonstrations of the interact softwares. I was kind of running round like a headless chicken for most of the three days, setting up projectors and laptops and creating little screensavers for the reps to have on their own computers!
Also in January was the Bett conference which is held in Kensington Olympia and is the biggest display of interactive learning materials in the UK. I was invited to go along and help with the OUP stand, which allowed me to go visit some of the other businesses that were offering software the same as us. It showed me that the interactive software business was one of the most fiercly competitive out there. It also showed me that not just names like OUP and Doring Kinsley were pushing interactives but also the likes of Microsoft had a stand, which was directly opposite Apple! Although I must say the Apple stand had a much more cool approach about it (and several Gibson SG guitars scattered about!).
This month has been pretty hectic, mainly due to the fact that after two weeks off it is quite hard to fall back into the swing of things. Also we go into January with a sales conference for the sales reps and I have been asked to help on a technical level. The conference was over three days and consisted of Reps being given sales figures talks, promotional talks one on one sessions with editors about new product and of course demonstrations of the interact softwares. I was kind of running round like a headless chicken for most of the three days, setting up projectors and laptops and creating little screensavers for the reps to have on their own computers!
Also in January was the Bett conference which is held in Kensington Olympia and is the biggest display of interactive learning materials in the UK. I was invited to go along and help with the OUP stand, which allowed me to go visit some of the other businesses that were offering software the same as us. It showed me that the interactive software business was one of the most fiercly competitive out there. It also showed me that not just names like OUP and Doring Kinsley were pushing interactives but also the likes of Microsoft had a stand, which was directly opposite Apple! Although I must say the Apple stand had a much more cool approach about it (and several Gibson SG guitars scattered about!).
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