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Dear Friends,

I am very encouraged by the reponse to my blogs so far. I shall try and make my style of writing as lively as possible.

Each day of work seems to be vibrant and showing new paths, new lessons and new experiences. Its becomes extermely important for us to learn each day. Age cannot and will not be a barrier towards learning.

Yesterday was yet another milestone day for me at Odyssey. Its nearly two years since I joined Odyssey and in these two years, it had become one of my aspirations to have a Odyssey Store within the Infosys campus in Chennai. Thus began my journey of getting in touch with the decision makers who would allow me to present a proposal. Here I would like to mention that Infosys as everyone is a giant of a company. the campus in Sholinganallur and in Mahindra City is a fortress. Getting to enter the campus is a herculean task unless you have a prior appointment fixed with the concerned authorities inside the campus. Security is extermely tight and efficient. My only reason to approach IT companies like Infosys is the fact that they have on their rolls, employees who constitute potential Customers for a company like ours.

Anyway we did manage to grab a store within Infosys campus Sholiganallur where there are more than 2500 employees, and yesterday they gave me the nod to set up a Odyssey store in their Mahindra City campus. I had the pleasure of going round the Campus, and I call it a pleasure to the eyes because its lush green everywhere,sans pollution with employees using bicycles for going round the campus, there is a Olympic size swimming pool coming up, and also a world class Cricket Ground. A proud day for me because I achieved what I had set out to do a year and a half ago. To cap it all 9000 potential Customers for Odyssey and promising to become 25000 by the end of 2011

Coming back to Odyssey360, there was a holiday atmosphere setting in Office, Sri is off to Bangalore for the weekend and Rupesh is off to Vijayawada, after great difficulty his father managed to get bus tickets for the to and fro journey. Harsh has taken a break and will be back only in January. Harsh has give a list of tasks to be followed up including filling up the task sheet which he will review once he comes back. The arrangements for the Big Sale is nearing completion. A Flash sheet has gone up on our website www.odyssey360.com announcing the big sale.There are books which you can find on this site at 40% discount. Now the best part is that these discounts are for real,no hidden costs at all and there are some bestsellers up for the grabs. Posters are being designed which will be put up in our different stores announcing the Big Sale. There are some freebies with every purchase. Customers would get a sleek and amart looking book light with every purchase. Harsh wants the Big Sale to commence by Tuesday and we are targetting the same.

Google has become a very useful tool for us tounderstand Customer Behaviour online and Rupesh is in charge of understanding google analytics. He would need to come up with Adwords which can be used for the Big Sale. To put in Layman language, If a Customer types Sale in the Google Search window, the result should lead to various sales being conducted, one amonst them should be www.odyssey360.com This is very intersting and its very important to get the adwords right for this could lead to Customers buying online.

We had a funny incident at work yeaterday. Since Harsh was going on leave he wanted to lock his shelf and take the keys with him. He asked Rupesh to get the keys from the front office. Rupesh did get the keys but in his eagerness to leave for Vijayawada kept the with him in his pocket and left office. I had to call him back to office to hand over the keys to Harsh. Poor Rupesh-the Absent minded Professor of our office.

Here I would like to conclude but not before introducing one more member of the Odyssey360 family-Priya Subramanian who I missed out in my first blog. She is a young charming lady who would be the Head of Business Development for Odyssey 360. A very important job profile as she would be the official spokesperson of the company who would get the Cash Box ringing. Sorry for the faux pas Priya, No wrong intentions just that my bad memory let me down. Before I forget my crcicketing brain makes note of Yeaterday match at the Eden Gardens where India overwhelmed Sri Lanka by 7 wickets. The learning from this match is that we won without contributions from our stars-Sachin and Sehwag, as also Yuvraj and Dhoni were not playing. Extraordinary feats can also be achieved by ordinary mortals, which is what Odyssey360 has set out to do, a group of ordinary highly talented people who want to make Odyssey360 the best online store in the world.

Merry Christmas to all my readers,God Bless and Happy Weekend and Happy Shopping on www.odyssey360.com