Network Solutions Product Celebration Scavenger Hunt

Internally posted, but I thought it worth sharing!

From: Mitchell, Champ
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:29 AM
To: NSI All
Subject: 1st Quarter Product Release Celebration!
Importance: High

Team-

Thank you so much for all of your hard work during the first quarter of this year. Your accomplishments will help us meet our 2007 bookings goal of $335 million, improve our competitive positioning and enhance our customers' experience. The new products and projects that we have launched this quarter include:

• Integrating SSL certificates into the Network Solutions storefront. In just under two years, we have become one of the Top 5 providers of SSL certificates in the world. Your work will help us soon move up to #4 on the list, as this integration has doubled our sales of SSL certificates from the Storefront, as well as ensured that our customers receive the best and most cohesive, user-friendly experience possible.
• Enhancing the Shopping Cart, Homepage, and other aspects of the Storefront. Recent changes to the storefront including a new homepage, enhanced shopping cart, and new secondary up-sell pages will improve our customer experience, conversion rate, bookings, and ability to showcase new products and services.
• Enhancing Image Café. Enhancements to Image Café, our Do-It-Myself Web site creator package, including the new 'Click and Drag' functionality, will make it even easier for Internet novices to quickly and easily publish professional looking Web sites. This is yet another important investment towards our future business growth in this critical segment of our customer and prospect bases.
• Launching Extended Validation (EV) Certificates. EV certificates provide the highest level of SSL security online, bringing our customer's customers an increased assurance that their transactions will be secure. Offering this product gives us not only a chance to enter a new market, but also makes our offerings more relevant to a wider range of perspective customers.
• Implementing the Singl.e View Upgrade. In addition to delivering a required upgrade of the billing system and saving the company money, this implementation significantly improved the user interface performance (by 1,500 percent!) for the Accounts Receivable team by reducing account look-up time from 30 to two minutes.
• Adding blogs to Web hosting. This addition has provided not only a value-add to existing hosting customers, but has also provided us with a critical competitive advantage in the Web hosting marketplace. Since launching blogs on February 24, more than 1100 blogs have been configured.

In addition to the token of my appreciation that was waiting for you on your desk this morning, you also have an opportunity to win prizes while you learn more about our products—both new and existing—through the Product Celebration Scavenger Hunt!

Simply go and click on the link for the scavenger hunt, which will take you on a journey through the Network Solutions storefront. We will randomly choose 10 winners out of all correct entrants—who will receive a $50 American Express gift card!

No celebration is complete without snacks, so be sure to check the break room nearest you this afternoon for refreshments.

Thank you again for all of your hard work. Here's to more successful releases!

Best-

Champ