The day we decided to register for Great Driving Challenge, Deepak was all excited and I was being pessimistic. The rules said the first round would be based on number of votes received, how would be do that was the question.
We sat together over a cup of coffee and decided on the action plan. The first targets were friends. We made a list of people we were in touch with, whom we could just drop a note and they would visit our profile and vote. That was the easy bit.
Then came people whom we had to get back in touch with, we spent hours on the phone as it felt weird to just call them and ask for votes. We also decided to post updates on Orkut and Facebook. Conferenced among friends and had long calls and thanks to our friends. Check out the Votes ticking high on the right hand pane.( If u havn't voted..Plz Vote!!!)
Some friends called us some messaged but votes started to pour in. Some friends went one step ahead, comments on their profile carried appeal for votes.
Soon realised that was not enough, our next step was to ask our colleagues. This was the weird and fun bit. We personally walked up to people at their desk and requested for votes. Some were people we had seen on the floor but never talked to. Some who occasionally acknowledge our presence. Our managers very good sports they campaigned for us. We soon had our number of votes moving on top gear.
And now that we are out of all strategies we are at our wits end thinking what else we can do… Will an ad in the radio help? It would I guess but who has the money?
On the whole the experience has been a good one. If not anything we made new friends and got in touch with some who were just a memory from the past.
However, We are still in process of Collecting votes...Incase, if you have missed voting or faced any problem in voting..Plz take some time out and plz vote..:)
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