Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
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Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
18-11-2009 11:56 PM
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The last Newsletter made no mention of this change.
Today I've seen yet another post from an existing user who was intending to leave rather than change to a different (more appropriate) Plusnet product because he didn't want to be tied in to a new 12 month contract; hence this poll.
Edit: Subject changed to alert more visitors
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Re: Have Marketing failed?
19-11-2009 5:10 AM
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They need to make it clearer, perhaps send out a more informative newsletter.
Re: Have Marketing failed?
19-11-2009 9:49 AM
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The calculation would have been that the numbers staying because they thought they still had to would outweigh the numbers leaving because they didn't want to renew a long term contract.
Or am I being unduly cynical? Like jelv, I can see no other reason for the remarkably low key publicity to the dropping of long term contracts, other than the embarrassment factor of introducing them & then being obliged to drop them after such a short time.
Expect the marketing message to change over the coming months as more people get to the end of their now non-existent contracts & it becomes imperative that these people know that they don't have to re-sign for extended periods.
Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:12 AM
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Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:16 AM
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To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:19 AM
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Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:21 AM
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Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:25 AM
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Is that a marketing success or is it a failure?
What was the marketing objective - to publicise the change to the existing users or to keep it as quiet as possible while not deterring new prospects?
Strat - you didn't miss much. You would have needed to be a real expert at 'reading between the lines' to have worked it out from the newsletter. As a business account, I didn't get that one either.
Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:34 AM
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Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:36 AM
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Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:40 AM
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Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 10:52 AM
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Oldjim - the paragraph that precedes that link is very cleverly/very badly (choose according to point of view) worded to make the casual reader think that they only needed to click the link if they are interested in the Home Phone changes. I agree that if you go back & read it very carefully, it does become apparent that the FAQ covers more than just Home Phone. Even when you get to the FAQ, you have to read quite a lot of Home Phone stuff before you find the references to broadband contract length.
I still think Marketing did a cracking job of achieving exactly what they wanted to do. The only other explanation is a level of incompetence that I do not believe.
Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 11:09 AM
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But this does seem fairly obvious - I actually thought they may have made them worse so checked.
Quote Back in April we revamped our Home Phone products, packing in more features such as discounted rates to mobiles, 300 minutes of international calls to 20 top destinations, inclusive voicemail, and even inclusive calls to Plusnet support. We’ve now made some further changes that we wanted to share with you.
We’re pleased to announce that as of 22nd October 2009 you’ll be able to make FREE calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers within the inclusive call time of your Anytime Talk Plan*.
In addition, Ofcom (the industry regulator), has recently issued some new guidance to broadband and phone providers and we’ve incorporated their recommendations into the terms and conditions for your products. Some terms and conditions and charges relating to broadband cessation have also changed and these have been included as well. If you’d like to find out more, and for more information on the changes to your Home Phone service, we’ve put together an FAQ on our website:
Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 11:11 AM
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Quote Dear Oldjim
Back in April we revamped our Home Phone products, packing in more features such as discounted rates to mobiles, 300 minutes of international calls to 20 top destinations, inclusive voicemail, and even inclusive calls to Plusnet support. We’ve now made some further changes that we wanted to share with you.
We’re pleased to announce that as of 22nd October 2009 you’ll be able to make FREE calls to 0845 and 0870 numbers within the inclusive call time of your Anytime Talk Plan*.
In addition, Ofcom (the industry regulator), has recently issued some new guidance to broadband and phone providers and we’ve incorporated their recommendations into the terms and conditions for your products. Some terms and conditions and charges relating to broadband cessation have also changed and these have been included as well. If you’d like to find out more, and for more information on the changes to your Home Phone service, we’ve put together an FAQ on our website:
http://www.plus.net/go.html/faq_anytime
Kind regards,
Anthony Vollmer
CEO, Plusnet
*Inclusive UK Landline calls of up to 60 minutes are to numbers beginning with 01, 02 and 03, 0870 and 0845 (excluding Channel Islands) and at any time to Plusnet Home Phone customers. Inclusive international calls of up to 30 minutes are to our top 20 destinations (to a maximum of 300 minutes per month). Calls to indirect access numbers and dial up internet access are excluded. See website for details.
Now is any reasonable person who does not have Home Phone going to realise that this applies to them or are they going to think it is marketing spam?
My guess is that most people without home phone will have stopped reading after the first one or two paragraphs.
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Re: Have Marketing failed? (change of all contract lengths to 10 days)
19-11-2009 11:17 AM
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Note that the bold text isn't in the email - so is a bit of a fiddle - like in my previous post
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