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Great news for Pink Connect as we have been selected as a finalist for the ‘Business of the Year 2011′, given by Pride of Stratford Awards 2012.

We are absolutely thrilled as it is a fabulous achievement and showing that all our hard work has not gone unnoticed.

The winner of the award will be chosen on February 17th, so let’s keep our fingers crossed!

BNI TESTIMONIAL

RAJ DEOKAR – PINK CONNECT

We was in the process of reviewing our company mobile phone package, our existing supplier had submitted renewed costs and we also acquired a number of other options from direct suppliers (Vodafone, o2 etc) Pink Connect had one advantage of visiting and listening to what we personally all wished to have, the quotation was submitted professionally and quickly—the proposal gave us a saving from previous and a better service to suit our needs.

Raj has personally helped set up the phones and has answered any queries we have experienced, I would have no hesitation in recommending Raj to any of my contacts requiring a review of their company mobile phones.

Kind regards, Mark Brown

DATS Print Services Ltd

Great Testimonial for Great Service

According to the latest report by ‘billmonitor’, created and run by Oxford University mathematicians, UK Mobile users are wasting £4.9bn a year on the wrong mobile tariff!

At Pink Connect, we have always said that 82% of business mobile customers are on the wrong tariff. Billmonitor says this percentage is 76% for all mobile customers.  Since it doesn’t take data and text into consideration this figure could have been higher!

Due to fear of going above the allowance offered in their tariffs (named as “bill shock”), customers typically bought FOUR times more talk time that they actually used.

The report claims that if everyone used the right tariff, the UK could stop wasting £4.9bn a year that is being spent on wrong tariffs. The task of choosing right tariff is difficult as there are over 8m contract permutations available to mobile customers!

You can read full story on this on BBC website by clicking on the following link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12996175

At Pink Connect, we offer FREE mobile bill analysis and advice to select the best suitable tariff for your business. We are committed to bringing down the wasted £4.9bn spent on wrong tariffs!

About the blog author: Raj Deokar, is the director of Pink Connect (Northampton) Ltd.  Raj has got over 13 years experience in Telecommunications.

You can reach Raj Deokar on 01604 217271.

Raj Deokar, Pink Connect Northampton, was recently speaking to a friend who had just got a new mobile phone. The proud owner of this new piece of kit told Raj,  “it has got all sorts of new features including Bluetooth” and Raj replied, “well that’s really cool, what do you use it for?” to which the answer was,  “it enhances my mobile signal but I don’t use it specifically as such!

Being an expert in telecom and mobile, Raj was shocked by his answer!  So he thought of putting together some of the many ways one can use Bluetooth:

• One of the obvious uses of Bluetooth is to connect mobile to your Bluetooth headset – flexibility and handsfree talk
• Connect mobile to Bluetooth enabled car handfree systems – handsfree talk, handsfree dialling (if mobile accepts voice dialling)
• Connect PC/Laptop and Mobile – data exchange, synchronize calendar and contacts
• Connect to other mobile device – data exchange, play games against another person’s device
• Connect devices to Bluetooth enabled printers – send data to printers without wire
• Connect devices to Wifi systems, TVs  – audio / photo / video transfer (Bluetooth high speed technology) without wires
• Use PC devices such as keyboard, mouse, headsets wirelessly – flexibility without cords
• Connect Bluetooth headset to Landline phone and Mobile phone at same time – flexibility of having just one handset for landline and mobile
• Marketing use – some already use Bluetooth as a marketing tool. E.g. A retail unit transmitting message over Bluetooth about discount offers that can be received by mobile devices of people passing by.
• Some other uses include in camcorders, hi-tech devices and various other industries – there are literally thousands of devices that make use of Bluetooth technology.

More facts about Bluetooth®:

• Bluetooth is a wireless technology (uses r-waves in 2.4 Gigahertz range). It’s secure (as pairing is required), low energy consuming and one of the inexpensive ways of connecting and exchanging information wirelessly between devices. It allows Bluetooth enabled devices to talk to each other over short distances (PAN – Personal Area Network – range up to 33 feet).
• Bluetooth brand and technology is promoted by a non-profit group called Bluetooth SIG (Spec. interest group) so no single company owns the technology.
• The kind of technology that Bluetooth uses dates back to discoveries pioneered by military in 1940s.
• The name ‘Bluetooth’ is from 10^th century Danish King – Harold Blatand or Harold Bluetooth who was instrumental in uniting warring functions!

Are you using your Bluetooth enabled devices effectively?

PS.  At Pink Connect, we provide range of mobiles with Bluetooth and fully installed hands-free car kits that are great value – all with our friendly customer service!

David Cameron of Pink Connect Watford has just connected a delighted Prontaprint with the fastest speeds on the internet. Pink Fibre Pro has given Aarif Merali (pictured right with David) upload speeds of up to 10Mb and download speeds of up to 40Mb!

“Our previous supplier provided us with a very slow broadband connection and we needed to improve the speed in order to cope with the larger file transfers that our clients were demanding. Pink Connect came in to evaluate our requirements and managed to provide the Pink Fibre service which increased our broadband speed twenty fold.” said Aarif.

“From the initial requirements gathering, installation and post-installation follow-up Pink Connect were extremely professional and competent while demonstrating a great deal of understanding for our requirements. I would have no hesitation in recommending their services and, in particular, their Pink Fibre service. If you haven’t done so already – go Pink!”

If you would like to know whether you too can take advantage of the fibre superhighway, just contact the friendly team at Pink Connect

Bad weather makes it difficult for many organisations to operate as normal. Whilst employees struggle to reach their workplace, desk phones are ringing unanswered as customers and suppliers try to place orders, reschedule appointments or seek customer service. Due to this, business profit can suffer heavily.

With “Inbound” service, you can have one or more numbers mapped to your existing landline or mobile number. These “Inbound” numbes can be geographic (starting with 01 or 02) or non-geographic numbers (starting with 08 or 03 etc).

“Inbound” service enables you to do following:

• Online portal enables instant redirection of calls by you – so if you or your staff can’t make to office due to bad weather you can receive calls on any number by using online portal
• Ease of use means changes can be made to multiple numbers simultaneously
• A host of extra features – send calls to a recorded announcement giving advice or information
• Network based call queuing to deal with excessive demand
• Call tracking gives precise information to measure your marketing activity along with giving answers to following questions:

• Where are my Customers located?
• How many Customer calls are getting through?
• When are my busy hours?
• What are my call trends?

So whatever is the weather, our “Inbound” service means that these calls will be answered, even if no one makes it into the workplace!

PS. You can see more information on our ‘My Inbound’ service by clicking here: http://www.pinkconnect.com/my_inbound.html

Hi there,

Yes I have have somehow hit upon this crazy notion that I am capable of running the 26 miles of the London Marathon. The last time I ran was at school some 15 years ago, I have done little or no exercise since then and have smoked heavily up until last year.

Before I made this somewhat crazy decision I did do a test run of just over 10miles and keeping in mind I was completely un-prepared and running in my work shoes I am still fairly confident I can pull it off.

As its mainly businesses that I am connected with I am offering the chance to get your logo onto the Virgin Money web page (link below) and printed onto the kit I train and run in. The logo would also be displayed at the many business meetings and exhibitions I will be attending in the next few months.

£20 will get your logo onto this Virgin Money Website that has (received over 4000 mainly local visits in its first week alone). The logo will also be a click-able link to your website which will not only generate traffic to your site but will boost your search engine results considerably.

£40 will get your logo on both the Website and printed onto the top that I’m training and running in. Naturally I’m going to be shouting about this from a very great height and grabbing any PR available. I’m sure to be photographed at many different opportunities in the top with your logo on.

Any ideas, help or advice would be much appreaciated so please email or call me any time. danny@pinkconnect.com or 07739178234

If you’d like to make a donation you can visit…

www.virginmoneygiving.com/DannySnelling

If you can think of no way to help and don’t wish to make a donation please at the very least visit the Facebook Page and hit the “like” button.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Danny-Snelling-Runs-the-London-Marathon-for-EAAA/144295175627947

Thanks for your time and support.

Kind Regards

Danny Snelling

Rajendra Deokar of Pink Connect Northampton has helped Richard Alton of Rialto Health & Safety make a good start this new year:

Richard says, “Raj explained the cost savings in simple terms and showed the comparison against my existing supplier.The 50% saving was a very pleasant surprise.  The switch over was trouble free and there have been no problems so far at all – excellent service!”

The Inspire Team with some of its business sponsors (Pink Connect, Inspired Change, Repro Arts) at the Norwich B2B Exhibition - All Photos courtesy of Antonella Muscat Photography

The Inspire Discovery Centre in Norwich has  been through some tough times of late with three break-ins only months apart and running costs which have been spiralling out of control.

The centre, which is based in St Michael’s Church, Oak Street, was spared the axe in 2008 and despite increasing visitor numbers year on year now finds itself struggling to survive once more.

Bosses at the centre have recently organised two events to try and generate awareness for the centre. The first (pictured above) was a stand at the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce B2B exhibition which was an outstanding success. The second was labelled a “Save Our Science” (SOS) meeting at the Forum in Norwich  to give businesses and other interested parties the chance to suggest some new ideas to keep the centre running.

Shell Fearn, centre manager, said: “We called for this meeting as although we’ve been working very hard for two years to maintain the

presence of Inspire and we’re proud 
of what we’ve achieved we’re still heavily reliant 
on the financial support of one individual. We only have one funder who very generously puts his hand in his pocket once a year to give us a top up of funding, but we can’t rely on that. This is not fair either to that individual, our chairman trustee, or to the centre.”

“We’re looking to the businesses and community of Norwich and the wider area to offer us support and ideas to help us build a stable network to aid Inspire.”

Danny Snelling, managing director of Norwich telecoms  firm Pink Connect has been very keen to help out in what ever way possible. Mr Snelling, who has two young boys himself that absolutely love the centre, has already donated a new phone system which has dramatically improved their call handling and saved them over £500 a year on their phone and broadband bills. Pink Connect also has a commercial power brokering team that are now looking to save them over £6000 on their gas and electricity aswell.

A spokesperson for the Centre said the following today “There have been a lot of kind people offering to help out the centre in these rough times and Danny Snelling from Pink Connect is one of them. He has been really supportive of the centre and has helped with our phone system as well as looking at our current bills in order to save Inspire money. As well as this help, he has been ever present to offer words of advice and offer assistance whenever he could.’

If you can help Inspire or have any ideas about how to keep it running call 01603 612612 or email michelle@inspirediscoverycentre.com

Or if you know any local charities like Inspire who could benefit by saving some serious money please give Danny a call on Norwich 01603 510710 who would be happy to take a look.