Ian Grewcock

Before writing my final blog for inafishbowl I decided to look back and see what I was doing at the start of July. Six months ago we were about to release version 1.0 of the web site and was looking for office equipment. Today, we’ve been fully up and running for 3 months, have the first invoices under our belts and have plenty of proposals out with possible customers.

This week I have experienced the highs and absolute lows of customer service. Without wanting to go into vast detail BT decided to cease my phone line and broadband service to the office last Friday. No notification and instruction from myself just a dead phone line. Even worse, in my book, is that I’m not even their customer, our comms service is provided by Virgin over BT lines.

As we start to monetise myjobsplace.co.uk there is question of how we gather momentum as quickly as possible. What we have developed is unique, but not really protectable under any IPR umbrellas (we have asked!).

Here at myjobsplace.co.uk the fact that we’ve only been in the office for one day out of the last two weeks is indicative of the non-stop sales effort at present. Everyday is a cycle of appointments and follow-up work to hopefully secure orders.

The last two weeks for myjobsplace.co.uk has been really good we’ve been pretty much on the road non-stop both raising awareness and selling. We’re now starting to build a very good pipeline and are finding as we hoped, that as we have a pretty much unique service, that every sales call is tending to open the door to another opportunity.