Feb 28 – Mar. 1st, 2017, SDS Headquarters, the Marketing & Sales Department held a Kickoff Meeting with all Marketing & Sales staff. Mr. Bao Kai, the Marketing & Sales Manager, presided at the meeting. 

At the beginning, Mr. Zhu Junjie, the Marketing Manager, delivered a summery of the department’s work in 2016 and then gave a clear introduction of the guidelines and sales objectives of the year 2017.  

Ranging from the latest policies, to business introduction, to Q&A and case sharing, the Kickoff Meeting covered 13 topics, including: Explanation of the Latest MIIT Instruction, 2017 Cloud Business and Products Overview, VDC2.0 Introduction, Explanations of Computer Room Resource Management and Allocation Rules, AWS Business Introduction, VMware Hosting Provide Cloud Service Introduction, Ali Cloud: an Introduction and an Outlook for Future Cooperation, Calling up Recommendations on Improvement Measures in Operation Service Center, CRM Operating Skills and Q&A, Marketing and Sales Billing Policy Q&A and Relevant Process Introduction, ‘When there is something wrong, how would we let you know’, Mz. Hu Li (the SDS Top Seller) Shares with You Her Sales Experiences, as well as Value-added Business Department Case Sharing.   

The first topic is Explanation of the Latest MIIT Instruction given by Mr. Wu Haochen, Administration and HR Manager, which immediately captured the attention of all account managers and aroused many questions. In January, the China MIIT released the Circular on Cleaning Up and Standardizing Internet Access Service Market, saying that, in a period from the issuance data to March 31st, 2018, a nationwide campaign will be launched to clean up and standardize domestic internet network access service market. 

Picture: All Staff Learning the Latest MIIT Instruction, by Mr. Wu Haochen 

The MIIT will launch a thorough investigation over Chinese IDC, ISP and CDN markets and take legal actions against all cases of ‘operating without license’, ‘operations beyond registered business scope’ and ‘subleasing business’, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. In addition, the MIIT will hold enterprises in the industry accountable for fulfilling their corporate responsibilities, strengthen the control over operation permits and access resources, enhance network information security management, and maintain the fairness and order of the market, to promote the healthy development of the industry. Clear explanation with concrete cases helped all staff constructed a clear understanding over the things they would handle in their daily work. 

Also in this learning activity, a complete series of introductions of SDS Cloud products, as well as the knowledge and services that are designed to help SDS people better get along with our customers, not only received warm response from account managers, but also inspired great confidence in the marketing and sales team of future market development.