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Friday 12th December 2009
To all our Seatoun supporters
from our earlier request for ideas to assist with promoting the existing daily Seatoun service, I would just like to thank everyone who responded. There were some really great ideas (and some wacky ones!) and we certainly utilised a few of them and it was most successful campaign.
We promoted our two for one voucher offer through the schools and I’d particularly like to thank
Peter Pointon, Headmaster of Seatoun School, for his assistance in distributing our vouchers to parents. As I write two classes from
We also said we’d hand out a ten trip to the best idea and contributor. We really did have some good ones but for the idea and the effort put in, it has to go to Catherine & John Timms. Not only did they tell us to hand out our vouchers at the bus stops and which ones and times to do this, but they also personally delivered a sizeable number of our vouchers around Seatoun central residences. So many thanks Catherine & John and a complimentary ten trip with our thanks is winging its way to you. Also thank you to everyone who contributed. Do keep the ideas flowing for next year!
As a result you will be pleased to know that in late November we hit a record number of commuters on our weekday 8.20am sailing departing
I was also asked to speak at one of the breakfast meetings of Enterprise Miramar, organised by Chairman Allan Probert. This resulted in an article and great write up in the Cook Strait News and we were certainly extolling the virtues of a dedicated 3rd ferry to serve the
As many of you would know, Allan is certainly very active in promoting the
Finally I wish all of our Seatoun supporters a very merry Xmas and a safe and prosperous New Year. All of the crew at East By West all look forward to seeing you on board in numbers in 2010!
Happy Sailing
Jeremy Ward
Manager
East By West Ferries
4th September 2009
To all our Seatounite Supporters.
Firstly let me say from all the team here at East By West, we love the support we get from our passionate Seatounites supporters and we really enjoy our daily visits to
As I believe most of you know, we’re really keen to increase our services in and out of Seatoun and add at least two earlier sailings to our weekday departures in the morning peak commuter hours (and the same in the afternoon evening for the return trip).
It is though somewhat of a catch 22 situation as to do this we need that third ferry and we can’t justify that third ferry until we get our numbers up on our existing schedule. Now we fully realise the current 8.20am departure from
So the long and short of it is we are on a mission to increase our patronage on the 8.20am sailing out of Seatoun by 6 – 10 commuters a day (& the 3.40pm & 5.50pm return from town) and we’d really value your support to assist us.
The first thing we’d really like to ask you is for any ideas you might have on how we can better promote ourselves in the Seatoun area and to local residents in particular. One initial question that you may be able to help us with is what local newspaper is widely distributed and read in Seatoun? We’d obviously like to run a promotion through it to encourage potential commuters to try us out.
We have a number of other stimulating marketing initiatives in mind and we expect to be implementing them in the next couple of months. But in the meantime we love to hear from you with any ideas you may have and we’ve got a complimentary 10 trip to give away to the best idea that comes forward. Please don’t be bashful as all and every wacky idea will be gratefully received. And it’s all about working together to progress the introduction of a dedicated ferry to service Seatoun which I know a lot of you are as passionate about as we are! Please lets hear from you…….!!!! We’ll let you know some of those ideas (and the winner) in our next newsletter.
As part of our initiatives, we expect to have a Seatoun page on our website shortly whereby we can keep those interested particularly in Seatoun posted on what’s happening and obviously the “contact us” page is another way to get in touch with us.
Also if you do know of others who would be interested in joining our supporters base please do tell them to send in their email address and we’ll keep them informed with newsletters such as this and other information as it comes to hand. The bigger our database the stronger the ‘third ferry goal’ becomes and the more influence we can assert! And if anything is certain, we are not known for giving up. We have dogged determination and you will see that Seatoun ferry arrive!
In the meantime you can contact us through our website or feel free to email me direct on jeremy@eastbywest.co.nz. We just want to hear from as many as possible with any and all ideas, comments, support, brickbats or whatever!
Until next time….
Happy Sailing
Jeremy Ward
Manager
