Edition 178 Monday March 18th 2013
Hi,it is kind of cool having adult children,mainly because in most cases they don’t live with you and there are some other fringe benefits. I have found our four boys in their twenties and thirties to be a constant supply of good quality work and casual clothing, in fact I havent bought a stitch of clobber for years!! It was all going swimmingly until the recent ‘do’ at our place when they all recognised bits of their ‘pre loved garb on the old man and spent some time ribbing poor old ‘steptoe’ Jones J
I guess in our situation being ‘older’ parents it is also very cool to be able to hand up and hand down baby/kids clothes to our siblings young families as well. We are pleased our kids recognise the value of recycling stuff including clothing not that they have much choice with the Green Gorilla around !
From the Fletcher file; we can confirm last week was a big one on the business/finance front for our little man opening his ‘kiwi saver’ account with $1000 ‘free money’ contribution from John Key and to cap it off he won $20 in the latest bonus bonds draw! Yes FJJ is a winner, now how about those Mighty River shares Dad?? A visit to Plunket last week confirmed the rumours that this kid qualifies in the heavyweight class for his tender age cruising along at 98% growth weight and height!
We had fun this weekend getting caught in the rain for a change, seemed silly to waste the chance to get soaked given we havent seen any moisture for so long. Paul the VW spent the weekend under his flash new cover and the Blues retained their existing record with the bye this weekend Yay !
I hope you had a good weekend mixing some fun with rest, relaxation, family and friends.
Have a great week ahead, cheers Jonesey.
Harry and the Hendersons love Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain !!Scooby Doo !
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think”. A. A. Milne
The humble Green Gorilla continues to fly under the radar but it is getting increasingly difficult as we come to the attention of more customers and more of our competitors!
We recently acquired another business and their customer base that we have ‘tucked’ into our existing business to give us a more economical and profitable ‘critical mass’ of business in a particular service division. As part of the customer base we have several companies in our industry that we provide this collection service to as part of a range of waste and recycling services they offer.
The companies we are ‘subcontracting to have their own sales teams out selling their services who are now also adding the service we provide to their own range. This has given us an opportunity to work smarter by getting together with these other sales teams to provide training on our own unique points of difference. By doing this we have effectively quintupled our own sales team and we now have an extra nine sales people on the road selling our services……hold on to your hats folks this could be bigger than Texas, Topsy, Green Gorillas and sliced bread put together!!
Here we were wracking our brains about how to increase our market share , do we hire more people and wear more shoe leather knocking on doors or do we get smarter and use a resource that is already out there calling on the customer base we want to penetrate further?? Sure the answer came from the acquisition but it didn’t have to. The companies we are partnering with were there anyway and open to the combined approach to growing business and profit. This is a good example of the value to be gained from ‘thinking smarter and outside the square/box’ We all get radical ideas from time to time but not many of us have the confidence to pursue them,back yourself,its worth a crack!
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