He ain't no Delilah ...

... he's Samson, our new telesales executive!

Samson hails from the Philippines where he has a degree in psychology ... and perhaps that goes some way to explain how he has become the quickest new hire to bring in revenue for the company: three days after joining us, he sold three delegate passes for our upcoming FutureCCTV conference!

Thanks to the sterling work of our Telesales Manager, Jovita, this takes us to 18 delegates booked and confirmed - for an event that is running in April. Bearing in mind this is an entirely fee-paying event, it just goes to show that we have created an industry convergence point for Southeast Asia's top CCTV buyers.

It seems like only yesterday that we were holding our first CCTV event last June - and it's great to see how we've managed to establish ourselves so quickly. Again, another tick in the margin for the value of our cross-media publishing and events brands. By writing about CCTV in every issue of Asian Security Review magazine, obviously we are the trusted organiser of CCTV-related events (and a lot of other security events besides).

Jovita and Samson have really contributed to the January buzz in Alphabet Media - so much so that I'm really missing the office sitting here freezing my arse off in London!