Catherine Rudolph - VANILLA Blog

Fibre Networks and ISPs

A new fibre provider, Octotel, is currently laying down fibre cabling in Sea Point and other areas around Cape Town CBD. There's also Cybersmart and Vumatel and Telkom and MTN, and the City of Cape Town, and lots of others. For the residents this means more cabling and more digging

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The Fastest Internet in Africa

Fibre has recently become a much-used buzzword, referring to super fast internet connectivity. Many companies are offering deals of 10Mbps or even 20Mbps Fibre. Compared to Telkom's 2Mbps ADSL lines, this might seem really fast. Yet, this is not even half of what fibre should be giving you. A fibre

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My Partner in Crime (and Sales)

Meet Caitlyn Holiday, part-time model, tutor and sales consultant at Vanilla. In all the business meetings, cold calling and coffee pitstops, Caitlyn is by my side — I like to think we make a pretty impressive sales team. Like me, she is ambitious, curious and ready to explore the wonderful world

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Walkabout

We've been learning the basics at Vanilla, while trying the first stage of selling... door to door. It's defined; "Door-to-door is a sales technique in which a salesperson walks from the door of one house to the door of another trying to sell a product or service to the

Do Less, Drink More Coffee: Starting out at Vanilla

On my first day at Vanilla, I was set to task with a strange tool and some multi-coloured wires and taught to crimp my first ethernet cable. This one experience characterises much of my time here: a time of new challenges and endless learning, whether in addressing sales goals, interpersonal