thursday - parmesan-schnitzel-day... all united again, between spaghetti mountains and monster schnitzel, a pleasant get-together at the italian restaurant.

joined by: sales professional sebastian pister, honorary chairman of the Parmesanschnitzel Talheim e.v., in the meantime member of the WiredMinds AG.

topics: lazio rom - an italian soccer team (well, marco - i am afraid they won't win the championship title this year, maybe next year...) , tsg hoffenheim - a german soccer team, salad dressings as a modern way of torture, old times in general, and the web-analysis and winning new customers by using usb-sticks. the usb-stick, a promotional product with unimagined opportunities. so far, it is possible to engrave usb-sticks, and to load all kinds of interesting data onto an usb-stick. therefore it must be possible to use this clever promotional gift even far more effective and more successful than one would have guessed 'til now.

with autorun functions, which were loaded onto the stick, and connections to websites or printed, engraved web-addresses, the behaviour of visitors which use promotional products can be viewed statistically. the user lands on a landing-page, which was specifically installed. this landing-page can be aimed at a certain target group.

the behaviour of users than can be tracked and examined. the phrase "they don't know, what they are doing..." already belongs to history.

after a funny and comfortable hour, dinner was already over. until next time.
 

the guessing team from cocos is still in the lead of the trade journal's guessing game. since our lead decreased by 200 points to a mere 350 points during the past 4 to 5 matchdays, and we all became nervous;-)) the cocos-team was able to fight back on matchday no. 26, and we could extend our lead to a very comfortable 721 points. certainly a matchday with many points, a 0:4 of gladbach, a 1:4 of dortmund in bochum, and a 4:2 of leverkusen against hamburg contributed to our lead. besides the team ranking, there are two top-ten placements in the trade journal's tendency list, and currently position 23 of elke in the single player ranking. unfortunately, there is no way to reach a top position in this category. this hope was shattered during the last matchday because the gaps are too wide.

we are looking forward to thursday, to welcome our so far best promotional products-sales representative, mr. pister, to our legendary parmesan-schnitzel-dinner. the team already started a diet and asks to arrive on time. we will resent any delay without permission.... ;-))

the current team ranking:

a warm welcome to mrs. grossmann, the new member of the cocos-advertising gifts-team.

currently, mrs. grossmann is spending her first days with the advertising gifts team. in the future, she will support the sales team with the main focus on telephone consultation, and also function as a link between prospective customers, clients, and sales team. her long-time experience in the field of advertising gifts was one determining factor.

 
this time, it was very difficult to select a new member. many adequate canditates applied for this job, almost 50 alltogether. we would like to thank all applicants for their application.

the cocos management

promotional gift team cocos won't be put off -

german football league: leverkusen still unbeaten and ahead of the strongly advancing bavarian football team

despite two very weak guessing weekends, the cocos team continues to be on top of the trade journal teamranking with a comfortable margin. but now it is time to take the next step after winter break, and to maybe extend our lead. the field behind has moved tightly together.

the internal match also has heated up, after the cocos-network technician dared to pass the flagging boss for the first time, despite massive threats. only the lady of the team still is unchallenged on top, currently position 12 of the overall standings. this still means a closeness to the group of the first five, and therefore reasonable hope to gain a price...

above, the current chart after the 20th matchday.

team cocos still ahead

14 matchdays have already passed in the german soccer league. for the fith time in a row, the cocos advertising gifts-team defends position 1 (3935 punkte) at the german league guessing game of the trade journal.

the cocos-team currently leads by 216 points ahead of the bergmann borsig team (3709) on position 2. the 14th matchday was quite a day. many unexpected results on saturday stirred up the ranking from 2 to 10. the blutgrätsche-team (3583) had a fantastic day. they made it to position 3 at first go. still advancing is the team of the ksc ole. yet, the team rEd fAmiLy (5.), which was leading for quite some time, is slipping, and isn't making any progress for the past 4 to 5 matchdays.

the single positions of the cocos-team are still stable. 16, 98, 201 and 210 amongst 4408 participants. even with the tendency-points, we made the top 40 twice (27th/32th). alltogether, these strong results add to the lead of our team. but it won't be possible without hitting it big.

the air is thin, the fight is hard - the cocos-team is looking forward to the next matchday and would like to defend its position til after winter break. it's a pitty, you can't win a price...

it's me, bernd