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Didn't we have a lovely time in Monaco?
29th September, 2011. The dust has settled and we can now see the wood 
for the trees and the conclusion has to be that this year's Monaco Yacht Show was definitely a good one. Our team of 8 plus 10 of our Partners from 9 countries were non-stop for the full show period and beyond.
Was it worth it? Did we take many orders? Success at Monaco isn't just measured by orders taken but by a large number of factors. One of those being the opportunity to have meetings with people from all around the world, whether business to business or client meetings, which under normal circumstances would take you weeks, significant travel time and cost during the rest of the year.
Orders were taken by us and others. Every time a sale of a yacht was made a horn would sound and this was heard a lot more regularly than during previous shows. We actually took two orders on the setup day before the show even opened this year.
The weather couldn't have been better. It was hot, sunny and without a breath of
wind. There were 100 yachts in the Show, in the port, and at least 120 anchored off the harbour in mill pond conditions allowing potential clients to be shown a whole raft of additional vessels to those in the show.
The launch of our eDSC Data Service Controller was better than we had even dared to hope for. We had one captain bring some fellow captains back to our booth to show it to them himself as he was so impressed. The fact it was controlled by an iPad and iPhone captured the attention and then when people could see that you could simultaneosuly allow different groups of users to use different data connections then that blew them away.
For the third year in succession we had The Jetstream running live on our booth but this year using the new Jetset box. The Jetstream allows you to watch your home TV anywhere in the world when you have a good data connection. We were very pleased to take an order at the start of the show this year.
Good business, good chat, good food and wine and the panache of Monaco all goes to make a potent mix for doing business. Alas another year is over.....
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