Odyssey360-Day 6-Happy New Year

Good Morning to all Readers & Happy 2010,

Its been hectic the last one week with everyone working at a feverish pace to ensure that the Odyssey Big Sale gets kick started.

The year ended on a good note for the team, managed to get a part of the 7 lakhs order, order for 2 lakhs has come in while the balance is expected by Monday. Congratulations to Rupesh, I for certain know that he has been putting his full effort to ensure that the order comes through. looking forward to the balance order to come through. I have quite a job on hand as I have to sign on 700 Gift Vouchers. Quite a imposition!!!I remember my school days where we had to write impositions like:”I will not talk in Class” but this one is a pleasurable imposition and I will be more than happy to put in my signatures even thousand times over. I could see that everyone was working to get this order through-Rupesh with his Sales pitch, Sri was working backend to ensure that the banking formalities were taken care of since this was a Credit Card transaction. Chandru was giving billing instructions and Satya was making the all important bill.

I could also sort out a confusion with one of our upcoming partner portals in terms of sharing of data, but hopefully we should start this activity again from next week and orders should start flowing in. A couple of us wanted a few days off this week but with Boss away on vacation all holiday plans were shelved for the time being as we had to hold fort.

We had a team meeting in the morning yesterday. Here I would like to introduce one more member of our family-Hem Kumar, a very interesting character and important member as he would handle everying concerning books. Hem went through a bad patch when he joined as he took some time to adjust to the new job and to the other team members and I myself was not sure if he was a horse for the long race ahead. This was the reason I did not blog about him in my earlier notes. However we decided to leave Hem on his own to figure out what he wanted to do. He was on his own for a few days, that worked wonders with him and slowly and steadily he is now getting into the scheme of things. This team was to welcome the Prodigal son back home and we did welcome him with open arms. This team held for this very purpose and I was more than happy that I could drive home the point. The Team has finally gelled into one cohesive unit. As is mentioned in the team meeting, the road has been laid and we are now waiting for the traffic to flow in.

Rupesh has been actively involved with his google adwords and trying to get the combination right. He has been placing ads all over google and trying to ensure that shopping happens online. Sometimes I feel that this entire thing is a computer game and we are trying to put all the pieces together. We know that we are almost there, its just a question of time before we hit the jackpot.BINGO!!!

I hope that 2010 Odyssey360 makes its mark, which I am sure will. So till we meet next time, Good day,God Bless and Happy New Year.