Hallo aus Webhostingday
As I wrote this entry, I was cruising at 11,200m somewhere over New Brunswick, Canada. With about 5,400km to go before touchdown in Zurich, and then another short flight to Frankfurt, followed by a train ride down to Cologne and a cab ride to the venue in Breul, I was starting to have some second thoughts about making this rather lengthy trip to Germany for Webhostingday 2009.
It’s our first time exhibiting at Webhostingday and we have a total of five employees in Germany to tell the OpenSRS story to the European market. We’re accustomed to attending trade shows all across the USA. Over the last few years we’ve been in Chicago, Orlando, San Francisco and San Jose, among other places. At each show we met lots of customers and potential customers from all over the world and we had a great time telling people about OpenSRS.
But because Webhostingday is in Europe, it feels a bit different. There’s a language barrier to contend with, and unfamiliar cities with that old world feel you don’t find in North America.
In making the trip to to Webhostingday this year – thousands and thousands of kilometres from our home base in Toronto – we’re signalling to the European market that we’re committed to their needs and to providing exceptional service.
Of course, we’ve been active in Europe since we began selling domain names wholesale back in 1999 and some of our biggest and best customers are based in Europe. But we haven’t historically travelled to shows on the other side of the Atlantic. That being said, OpenSRS has long regarded Europe as an important part of our business.
If you are in Germany, by all means, stop by our booth in the hostingFAIR and say hello. I always love to hear from OpenSRS Resellers – you can bend my ear and tell me what we’re doing right, and where we could be doing better. And if you’re not an OpenSRS Reseller yet, I’d love the chance to explain why you should be.
Marco Zuliani, our Director of Sales for EMEA, is here along with his sales guys Luigi and Ben, to answer questions and talk shop.
As for me, over the next few days, I’ll be doing my best to give you a sense of what’s going on in Germany at Webhostingday. From the informational sessions to the evening networking events and, of course, the social elements, I’ll try and provide some coverage of what Webhostingday is all about.
It promises to be a great week at Webhostingday 2009!
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Frank Michlick