On site spanish and english training including workplace english programs and seminars
On site spanish and english training including workplace english programs and seminars
Spanish and English training, on-site language seminars, esl products, translations and workplace English
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workplace english,seminars,spanish,translation services,translation,spanish and english training,corporate
Workplace Languages offers customized Survival Spanish seminars, classes (or other languages) to management in a variety of industries. We also teach a very functional workplace English to those employees with limited English proficiency. Our classes and seminars are always taught on-site at the company 24/7.
All classes, English and Spanish seminars are taught on-site at your place of business and the curriculum is always customized to meet the needs of your company. All information is practical and no grammar is taught. Classes & seminars are upbeat; nobody is put on the spot and we understand that you only want enough Spanish, Chinese, French … whatever language it is – to communicate immediately, easily & effectively. We understand that you don’t want to be a language major. You just want to get your point across.
Workplace Languages offer a large number of bilingual training tools to a variety of industries. They are all ultra easy-to-use and are all customizable with content and we can even add your company’s logo. What’s nice about our bilingual training tools is that there is nothing to retain, no classes to attend and no huge time or financial commitment. We have pocket-sized “survival language booklets” that come with a pronunciation guide. And our 24 X 36” color laminated poster has both Survival English for the Spanish speakers and also Survival Spanish for the non Spanish-speaking managers & supervisors.
Successful communication has always been the key to good management. Now, with an ever increasing need to connect with workers from other cultures, the need is even greater for both managers and employees to educate themselves in each others’ ways of acting, speaking, learning foreign languages using as method English or Spanish seminars. The rewards are potentially great if the methods that both parties use to educate themselves are appropriate. Success doesn’t necessarily take a great deal of time, it takes the right training.
Seaside Heights Public Relations Talky Blog # 8 7/20/07
Een andere Talky Blog geproduceerd door Pete Smith van de Seaside Heights Office of Public Relations. Onderwerpen: Water Safety Day, Two For The Road & Frank "Cosie
Free Help Desk Software Download – How to Download Helpdesk Software for Free
You know how having your own help desk software helps your business increase your profits, by having happier customers. Because when you show you can take care of their questions and problems effectively and fast, they are going to love buying from you.
But there is a small challenge here…
Helpdesk software solutions usually don’t come cheap. If you have done a bit of research, you already know most of the famous help desk software out there is quite expensive.
So is there an easier way? Can you really find a powerful, all-in-one help desk software to download for free?
The good news is, yes, there are some professional, great help desk solutions that are not only easy to use and very powerful, but also totally free to download and use.
It is like a secret weapon many famous companies use. Actually you may have already been there and used the free helpdesk interface thinking how professional it was and it should have cost them a few thousand dollars to build.
What you probably didn’t know was it was actually a free helpdesk software they easily downloaded online and customized it for their business.
Wouldn’t it be perfect if you do the same and make such a powerful impression on your customers?
Another name for these free solutions is open-source help desk software. It means the source of the software is open to public users to download and change to any way you wish.
Isn’t it just perfect for your business? You can simply download them for free and then customize the software for your business to match your exact needs.
How to Find the Best Free Help Desk Solutions?
If you search online, you’ll see there are quite many websites that offer you the promise of great free help desk solutions. But the secret is, what most of them are offering is actually a free trial of their expensive software.
So after you try and like the software, you have to pay hefty amounts of money to be able to continue using it.
But what about truly free helpdesk services? There are a few secret resources where you can find top quality helpdesk software to download for free.
By discovering where to find them, you will get an unfair advantage over your competition.
Looking for easy-to-use help desk software to download for your business? Why pay money when you can find powerful help desk software downloads for free. Then check out this helpful guide to discover top free help desk software to use as easy as 1, 2, 3.
How to Get Your First Customer
How to Get Your First Customer
The first day of your new business is here and you have to secure your first customer. It all looked so easy when you were planning, but now this is real. What practical steps can you take to ensure your business gets off to a flying start?
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getting customers
Starting a new business is always tough. You have spent hours and hours putting your Business Plan together, sorting out the financing, arranging your office and buying equipment. And the big day arrives … you have to get out there and secure your first customer. It all looked so easy when you were planning, but now this is real and doesn’t seem as effortless as you thought.
What practical steps can you take to ensure your business gets off to a flying start?
Put a Plan in Place
If you didn’t write a Business Plan (tut tut!) then putting pen to paper is your first step. You have to careful plan what you want to achieve and what you are trying to do. A Plan will help crystalise your thoughts and ideas and act as a spring board for creative thought.
It also will be a useful boost when you come to review your progress against what you set out to achieve – a cause for celebration or a kick up the backside!
The key element in your Plan is to spell out exactly who your typical customer is going to be. Are they young or old? Well off, or on the look out for bargains? Single or married?
Once you have clearly defined who you are after then chasing your first sale becomes easier.
E-Mail All Your Contacts
You may not think that personal friends and family may be interested in your product or service, but don’t forget that they have friends and family as well and so can help spread the word!
E-mail every one in your address book and tell them, if they don’t already know, that you are starting up in business and need their help. In your e-mail describe what you do and the products you offer and request that they forward it to everyone in their address book. A bit ‘spammy’ I know but when such a note comes from someone you know then it doesn’t seem so bad.
For those family and friends who don’t have e-mail, call them, write to them, to officially launch your business. Very quickly word will spread and enquiries and orders will start to flood in.
Ask For a Referral
It’s possible you may have ‘road-tested’ your business before you decided to go full time. In that case you will already have a small database of customers. Ask them if they can provide you with some names of people or businesses whom they think may be interested in what you have on offer.
A referral, or positive recommendation, is a powerful and easy way to give your business a kick start. If you want, why not offer a small gift, or a discount on the next sale, for all customers who refer someone to you? This gesture will further cement your relationship.
Tell Everyone You Meet
Be a walking advertising board for your business! Find any opportunity to tell people, especially strangers, what you do. Be enthusiastic! Have a rehearsed opening which encapsulates everything about the benefits and problems your business offers and solves.
Take your business cards wherever you go and leave them all over the place! Supermarkets, restaurants, shops, anywhere where people will find them.
Be a Media Star
The local newspaper or radio stations are always on the look out for stories which are of interest to the locality. Don’t expect them to run a story along the lines of ‘And today, Joe Bloggs has just started in business doing …’. Your story needs to be interesting and have an unusual slant. Did you travel the world and come up with your idea whilst riding a train in India? Did you have a flash of inspiration following a shocking experience? Carry out a survey which shows that local people are crying out for a service such as yours. Think of something that will grab the editor’s attention and this will increase your chances of appearing in print.
Build Relationships
Don’t be disappointed if you don’t get a sale on the first approach. Sometimes you have to patient. A way of achieving your batch of first sales is to concentrate on building a relationship with your prospective clients. Keep in touch, remind them you are still around and, assuming you have targeted correctly, they may eventually place that coveted order!
If you are about to start your business get planning right now and start to implement some of these ideas to get your new business off to a flying start.
Multisourcing Creates More Opportunities
Multisourcing Creates More Opportunities
As more companies turn to outsourcing to alleviate budget issues and increase productivity, they are generating more business through multisourcing agreements in tandem with other firms. Through multisourcing, smaller firms are being given the opportunity to compete with larger organizations.
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Multisourcing Creates More Opportunities
As more companies turn to outsourcing to alleviate budget issues and increase productivity, they are generating more business through multisourcing agreements in tandem with other firms. Through multisourcing, smaller firms are being given the opportunity to compete with larger organizations.
Early in 2006, General Motors announced a $15 billion, five-year outsourcing plan and awarded long-term contracts to a host of vendors, including EDS, Hewlett Packard, Capgemini, IBM, Compuware, Covisint and Winpro.
Private equity firms with cash flow are turning their attention to multiple small and midsize technology outsourcing firms to meet their needs. According to analysts, similar long-term contracts and the resulting stable cash flows make the companies attractive takeover targets for equity firms.
Servicing clients like these is the expertise of Quintek Technologies, a rapidly growing outsourcing firm based in Huntington Beach, Calif. Since 1991, the company has provided outsourced back-office services to Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies alike. Last year, Quintek posted a 418 percent increase in revenues.
Quintek is an industry leader in document management and related back-office services, providing a variety of customized solutions for financial, insurance, medical, professional and government institutions of all sizes.
Clients rely on Quintek to quickly, efficiently and accurately convert paper documents into electronic images and to capture and process mission-critical data from imaged documents through customized and state-of-the-art workflow solutions.
Quintek’s Business Process Optimization solutions encompass a wide range of services, such as mailroom services, document scanning and imaging, on-shore and off-shore data entry, and image and data distribution.
News@Northwestern – Small Business Opportunity Center
See how students at Northwestern University’s School of Law are helping small businesses and non-profits in Chicago communities launch their dreams through the Small Business Opportunity Center.
Seaside Heights Public Relations TALKY Blog # 33 1-25-08
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Small Business Eigenaar Ontploffing Obama
Een kleine zakenman ontploffing Obama's plannen om de belastingen voor kleine bedrijven. Vraagt de kleine zakelijke ruggengraat van de economie.
Home Networking Tools, Tips and Tricks
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Going Paperless
Going Paperless
Going paperless. Sound a little scary? Nah, not really. At least it doesn’t have to be. As few as 10 years ago, we kept box upon box of archived paper files. At one point, we had at least 100 of those boxes stuffed to capacity with trees. Unfortunately, it was a necessity. Back then, though, the technology (at least affordable technology) to go paperless wasn’t there. It would have cost thousands of dollars in labor and services to retroactively make all those paper files into electronic files. Fast forward to today and going paperless is quite simple and inexpensive. But why go paperless?
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virtual, virtual work, online storage, online files, file storage, filing, office organization, office organizing, organization, organizing, files, paper
Going paperless. Sound a little scary? Nah, not really. At least it doesn’t have to be. As few as 10 years ago, we kept box upon box of archived paper files. At one point, we had at least 100 of those boxes stuffed to capacity with trees. Unfortunately, it was a necessity. Back then, though, the technology (at least affordable technology) to go paperless wasn’t there. It would have cost thousands of dollars in labor and services to retroactively make all those paper files into electronic files. Fast forward to today and going paperless is quite simple and inexpensive. But why go paperless?
Less physical storage space necessary – save on file cabinets, paper, and folders
Locating files becomes more efficient – it’s as easy as “edit” “find”
Paperless, or electronic storage, is more cost-effective than printing everything and storing it on paper copy – electronic storage space is cheap!
The “ink” on an electronic copy of that important whatever won’t eventually fade like a paper copy will
Files are more easily transferred from your archives to an associate who may need to see it
You don’t need to pay an assistant to constantly do your filing for you. With electronic storage, it’s a snap to quickly “save as” into the appropriate folder on your hard drive
Of course, there can be some disadvantages to going paperless too:
Because electronic media is susceptible to power surges, scratches, and the like, there is a risk of losing that data
You MUST remember to back up your disc drives and keep a copy of that data in a safe place – off premises preferably
You’ll likely have to do your own filing unless you want your assistant to access your computer
Even if you’ve been a long-time packrat of paper files, there’s no reason you can’t start going paperless now. Start by making a conscious decision NOT to continue printing and filing everything that comes across your desk. Just as you would keep your paper files organized by setting up folders for various topics, do the same for your electronic files by creating folders in Microsoft Explorer
Depending on your filing system, set up folders for things such as “Clients”, “Prospects”, “Form Files”, “General Information”, etc. Within those folders are more folders. For example, your “Clients” folder should contain a folder for each client. Your “Prospects” folder should contain a folder for each prospective client and so on. Then, when that prospect becomes a client, you can simply drag his or her folder over to your “Clients” folder
Save all files that seem important.
Before the virtual world, business people were conveniently divided into 2 categories: filers and pilers. Filers kept things that they thought they might need, but dumped the rest. They could fill up a wastebasket of paper in half a day. Pilers, on the other hand, saved everything. Their wastebasket was for decorative purposes only. They’d save the most trivial of things “just in case”.
The virtual world has ended this distinction. Now, you can (and should) be both.
For the Pilers:
Keep all of your files; or most of them. Just create more folders to store them in. If you require more hard drive space, just go out and get it. Hard drive space is ridiculously cheap compared to even a decade ago.
For the Filers:
As soon as you’ve received or created a new file, save it to the appropriate folder. Naming your files appropriately will facilitate retrieving those files easily later on. Your filing system should first and foremost be one that you can understand and easily remember – it should make sense to you. When you name your files use as many characters as you need in the file name so you can search on a portion of that name later. It should give a good, but brief, description of what the document pertains to. Most people have used Windows Explorer’s search feature. If not, practice with it until you can easily locate your files. It’s a pretty powerful tool and very user-friendly.
There are a few other tools that will help you with your goal of going paperless:
eFax (http://www.efax.com) is what we use here. For a nominal monthly charge, all of your incoming faxes will come to you by way of email. Yep, they’re dumped right into your inbox as an attached picture file.
Adobe Acrobat (the full version – not reader (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html) allows you to take almost any file, select the “print” option, and print to the Acrobat Distiller. This will turn the document into a .pdf file. A very easily transportable and easy-to-file file type, almost anyone can read a .pdf file. This makes sending your documents (and protecting them) a breeze. As a side note, when I receive an eFax document, because the file type isn’t so universal, I print from my eFax viewer to my Acrobat distiller, making the fax into a .pdf file. I then file the .pdf version, making it more transportable and viewable.
Scanners are another tool that is indispensable in the paperless world. Virtually any piece of paper or photo that you receive can be scanned and made into an electronic picture file. After you’ve created that picture file, you can email it to anyone you’d like as well as store it in your electronic files on your hard drive
LapLink Everywhere http://www.laplink.com/products/lle/overview.asp can facilitate having your virtual assistant do your electronic filing for you. It includes remote desktop search from any Web-enabled device (powered by Google Desktop Search) Laplink Everywhere lets you choose how you want to work and which device with internet access you want to use to access your PC. It’s easy and fast to set-up and simple to use
LapLink ShareDirect http://www.laplink.com/products/sharedirect/overview.asp is another great tool for going paperless. It allows instant sharing any folder on your PC with one or thousands of users, without ever having to change or manage your Internet, firewall, or router configurations. And it is 256-bit encrypted.
Hopefully you can see how going paperless can benefit almost any company or individual. The cost savings alone are enormous; reducing the amount of paper, ink, and folders you need to purchase.
