Friday, 29 August 2003

PAYMENT OPTIONS BRAND AMBASSADOR

Kartavya
cc: Sanjeev

Further to my yesterday’s note (Parta System), following points need to be considered:

  • We have already agreed to offer to our subscribers, both options of payment, viz.:

(1)    By Credit Card / Wire Transfer

(2)    Most foreign subscribers will prefer this.

(3)    By Cheques / Demand Drafts

(4)    Most Indian subscribers will prefer this.

For both options of course, client MUST enter relevant data ONLINE, even as he asks his clerk to post the cheque / DD. Only problem is that cheque / DD may arrive after 15 days! — or may never arrive (cheques) — or may get lost (genuine issue of duplicate) — or may bounce!

Parta statements (A & B) must clearly highlight:

(1) What “monies” have been “realised”

(2) What “monies” are in “transit”

Suggest you discuss with Asutosh.

cc: Asutosh

Kartavya / Abhi

cc: Sanjeev

Brand Ambassador

Sure, we would like ImageBuilder to become our brand ambassador.

But even Sachin Tendulkar would wear a branded T-shirt only on the cricket ground. He gets Rs. 5 crore to do that!

Even if Raymond were to “gift” him a Rs. 5 lakh worth business-suit, he would not wear it as he goes about his daily work, if on the back of the suit, the words “RAYMOND” are printed in 2 inch high letters!

So, whereas we want others to “notice” that we are wearing the most expensive suit ever made, we do not wish to become a “Walking–Talking” advertisement for the product!

Especially if we are a professional executive with a load of self-respect/ego.

But this human psychology is what we overlooked while designing ImageBuilder.

Right at top of ImageBuilder, we put

“www.Recruitguru.com” and our logo in big size!

I have a feeling that this is what must be putting off the executives from using ImageBuilder, even if he is impressed with the Functional Profile graphs.

Perhaps he is getting a feeling that he is being “taken for a ride” — “that he is being used” to promote Recruitguru!
And that is not a good feeling. It’s most certainly not an “emotion” that we intend to arouse.

So, as a first step, let us delete these from both pages of ImageBuilder, whether as seen on Computer Screen or as downloaded/printed.

Let us also immediately delete the notes at the bottom of both pages viz:

“From a plan …”

Only thing that we shall retain is small font on top of each Function Profile which says in very small fonts:

Developed by: (www.Recruitguru.com)

[to add]

Remove this line too: RESUME – SUMMARY

MY FUNCTIONAL EXPOSURE PROFILES

[Sample Size: No. of resumes selected for profiling (by Recruitguru) as on ———]

Add these words in small fonts.

We have discussed — and you have confirmed — that a Placement Agency subscribing to our service can replace top part of ImageBuilder with its own logo/address/name e.g.

www.Recruitguru.com

(to be replaced by e.g.)

Mastermind Network

14, Lajpat Nagar, S. S. Bhakari Complex, New Delhi – 6

Tel.: 26167077

Email: careers.mastermind@softtouch.com

Even a Corporate Subscriber or an HR Consultant Subscriber would like the ImageBuilder to carry his own name/add/logo.

We have following choices:

#1
By default a subscriber sees/gets an ImageBuilder with OUR name & logo, which he can delete/replace with his own.

By default this space is left blank with appropriate instruction:

In this space, you can paste your Company’s

Name/Addr/Logo by doing ____________

Obviously a subscriber would need to do this once at the beginning. Thereafter, automatically every ImageBuilder would carry this change.

This option is MUCH BETTER.

In second stage, please consider following:

Any ImageBuilder is made up of several frames/blocks/sections etc.

Both Corporate Subscribers as also jobseekers want to express their individuality (just like two ladies are awfully embarrassed if found in identical sarees at a party!).

This aspect of a “customization” is much more important for a jobseeker.

We can provide a feature whereby a jobseeker can move around these blocks/sections (like a game of LEGO) to “customize” his “ImageBuilder”! Please consider. Ask, why people hate uniforms?

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