EarthVision Newsletter Archive Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 Subject: EarthVision Cellular Consumer News In This Issue: EarthVision Cellular Will Hire Sales Ambassadors! Interesting Facts about Wireless Users Advertisers Now Moving to Cellular Phones Hands Free Kits Getting Attention in No Cellular Phone Driving Laws EarthVision Cellular Enters Site Fights ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EarthVision Cellular Will Hire Sales Ambassadors! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is official now! EarthVision Cellular will now hire it's very own Sales Ambassadors! The ambassadors will not only seek to expand our market share through direct sales but through personalized customer service and consulting. Since they will be representing EarthVision Cellular, they are not just a sales force anymore. They are our link directly to our customers. By having ambassadors, we will be able to keep in constant contact with our customers. Here is a basic scenario of what an ambassador will do. They walk into an office or hold a trade show booth. For each and every person they have sold a product or service, that customer will be contacted within 2 weeks of delivery to ensure all is to their satisfaction. In addition, they will be trained to answer questions regarding billing, prices, questions on product use, upcoming products, and much more. On occassion, they will contact a customer that we have not heard from in a while and ask them if there is any questions they need answered or if we can be of any further service to them. We intend to nuture a warm and friendly relationship with all of our customers. By being customer service oriented and providing our consulting services combined will give our customers the best service in the industry! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Interesting Facts about Wireless Users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As we know, for many of us the cellular phone has become a part of our daily life. It was recently found that a number of users have now switched to using cellular service and no longer use a home telephone. A recent survey which allowed the respondents to be anonymous found some interesting responses. Some surprising responses were given in this survey. Please read on to find the results of this survey. 38% of respondents said they use a wireless phone to call a parent or sibling every day. 40% said a wireless phone helps them stay connect to their personal lives during work hours 20% said that background noise gave away their location when reporting they were somewhere else 25% said they used a wireless phone to get out of uncomfortable situations such as pretending to be on the phone or using it to call their pager. 15% revealed that they use a cellular phone while in the restroom 10% said they used a phone in a public restroom 2% said they have given their phones nicknames Generation X members are 3 time more likely to give out their mobile phone number than baby boomers. 67% of women are more likely to look through a spouce's or significant others phone bill in search of suspicious telephone numbers. 43% of men are likely to delete a number from speed dial after an argument In general it was found that people use their phones for the most personal of reasons too. For instance, calling a sibling who lives in another state while having a baby?!? Or calling a fiance to tell them to go out and look at the moon right then and there. Cellular phones are definitely keeping us connected more than ever. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisers Now Moving to Cellular Phones ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here comes advertising on your cellular phones. Two companies are coming to the US. BAM customers will be one of the first in Charlotte, N.C. who can recieve targeted audio commercials from Star*Free on their phones. However, the customer has the option of listening to 10 second ads of their choice or none at all. By listening to these commercials, the customers will be given a subsidized service. Meaning that the customer will save but no details are available just yet on just how much that savings will be or how it will be implemented. We can only assume that the customer will be given X amount in credit for listening to a specific number of ads. We make this educated assumption since we know of some long distance companies of whom offer this exact same service and it has worked very well. High volume cellular phone users may have just found a way to make cellular phone communications very inexpensive. By the way, the other company will be SpotCast that will be offering free minutes for listening to commercials. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hands Free Kits Getting Attention in No Cellular Phone Driving Laws ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, the day is here. Some cities have already implemented no cellular phone use while driving laws. And it appears to be a growing trend. Very soon, you could find yourself being pulled over and ticketed for using a cellular phone while driving. Many consumers are automatically switching to the use of hands free cellular phone kits to ensure safe driving. A recent survey has found that 85% of cellular phone users have talked on a phone while driving and 27% have used their phones during half or more of their trips. Some of you may be aware of the story in New York about a banker who climbed in his car, dialed his phone, drove into traffic and was slammed into the car in front of him. Finding he was unable to exit his car via the doors, proceeded to climb out of the sun roof while still chatting on his phone! If we don't already have a hands free kit available for your phone, in a short time they will be on our site. You can also review statistics of the danger of using a cellular phone while driving on our website in the overview section of the cellular industry. You may be surprised by the results. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EarthVision Cellular Enters Site Fights --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How we got in the fights or why we were accepted is beyond us. But we are now in what is called the Site Fights. Our website has been accepted into a battle of the sites to commence on August 30th for an entire week. You don't place bets or blast another site. You simply go in and vote for a website that you think is good. If that site gets a vote every day from the visitors, it chances of winning the site fights is greatly improved. From our understanding, it is very difficult to have your site approved to be entered into these fights. We hope that you will go in and vote for us as we try to make our claim to fame in these fights. We have a graphic on the main page just under the cellular phone graphics to the right side of the page. We hope that you will encourage friends, family, and associates to come and visit us and/or vote for us in the site fights. Just a quick note: We have our specials up on our website in case you haven't had a chance to visit. And if you are shopping early for Christmas gifts check here: We have some novelty products available. The Plug N Start we have listed on this page is at a bargain price too! We have found that they are normally being sold for $49.95 each on the internet. So we specifically threw in at a bargain price to be effective until December 1st, 1999 for only $19.95 each! We can't hold that price forever, so make sure to tell everyone about this limited time offer. By the way, we have finalized our EarthVison Cellular Loyalty Program. If you are interested in hearing more about it, send an email with "Loyalty Program" in the subject line. We will fire off some information for your review. Remember that you heard it here first! Back