He ain't no Delilah ...

... he's Samson, our new telesales executive!

Samson hails from the Philippines where he has a degree in psychology ... and perhaps that goes some way to explain how he has become the quickest new hire to bring in revenue for the company: three days after joining us, he sold three delegate passes for our upcoming FutureCCTV conference!

Thanks to the sterling work of our Telesales Manager, Jovita, this takes us to 18 delegates booked and confirmed - for an event that is running in April. Bearing in mind this is an entirely fee-paying event, it just goes to show that we have created an industry convergence point for Southeast Asia's top CCTV buyers.

It seems like only yesterday that we were holding our first CCTV event last June - and it's great to see how we've managed to establish ourselves so quickly. Again, another tick in the margin for the value of our cross-media publishing and events brands. By writing about CCTV in every issue of Asian Security Review magazine, obviously we are the trusted organiser of CCTV-related events (and a lot of other security events besides).

Jovita and Samson have really contributed to the January buzz in Alphabet Media - so much so that I'm really missing the office sitting here freezing my arse off in London!

Roger the Dodger

He's not really a Dickensian 'artful dodger', and in no way could you say he was 'dodgy' - it just seemed like too good a rhyming combination to pass up. (Though I am open to suggestions from any budding beat poets reading this post.)

But back to Roger.

He comes to us from Janes', the military and security publisher, as a key part of the Asian Security Review team. Sitting alongside Kelly, Roger is co-selling both the magazine, as well as our portfolio of security events - FutureCCTV, Transport Security Forum and FuturePolice.

A number of things impressed me about Roger. Quite apart from the fact that he was the global lead salesman for his former employer, he had taken the time to pen his thoughts about sales methodology and include that along with his CV. Clearly this is someone who understands sales, thinks about sales, and who wants an opportunity to contribute to the understanding of sales within the wider organisation.

The great thing about Alphabet, is that we're small enough to care what Roger is looking for in his career, and successful enough to provide a number of different present and future opportunities within the organisation for Roger - as well as the rest of our ambitious performers. Businesses that are doubling and tripling in size annually are able to provide more space for top performers to grow. Roger is just the latest in a stream of people to recognise the superior career options that Alphabet can put on the table.