Roleli Speaks

Maxfield Bakery seems to be all sold on Buns at least on-line. I went to check the Maxfield Bakery web site, on Tuesday April 11, 2006, to look the prices of Easter Bun on-line. To my shock I was greeted by the notice below. It seems that Maxfield is doing extremely well with this on-line venture. For years they advertised and marketed this service on Go-Jamaica.com & Jamaica-Gleaner.com along with other sites. In later years they even added to the advertising mix online an audio advertising clip on or before the Power106 FM stream. This was a good case of advertising to a niche overseas of Jamaicans scattered around the world by using web sites, on-line properties, that they new their target market visited. It would be good if other Jamaican advertisers followed suit. nb: The actual URL http://www.maxfieldbakery.com/(hrisug55brvue1ubixfd4hel)/default1.aspx I suspect that the notice will be removed soon so I took a screenshot.

Well Flow , a new entrant in the internet Service Provider(ISP) market in Jamaica, is here and once again Cable and Wireless Jamaica(CWJ) find themselves challenged. Flow Jamaica is getting ready to roll out their Internet service bundled with landline and digital subscribe channels to residential customers for as low as US$10(J$650).The promised bandwidth sounds better that CWJ but seeing in Jamaica is believing. They have a big advantage over most of the other ISPs in Jamaica in that they have their own fibrelink out of the Island. I have heard it is 250 GB/s link. When Digicel came, with their hype and in reality better service, I stuck with my CWJ cell phone because honestly I was having no real problems so I never rushed and got a Digicel phone.That was despite the fact that nearly everyone I knew was getting on the supposed 'bigger better network'. I think though I might behave differently when it comes to internet Service. I started with Colis, in those BBS days, then to