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Spreading the word

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Thanks for the post Linda Thompson

One of the things that I enjoy doing is going to trade shows and meetings where participants hand out practical freebie promotional products. I love the can cozies and the tote bags, the sewing kits and the lottery ticket scratchers and bottle openers.

I belong to a business networking group and we have been meeting for the past four years every Wednesday morning at a local restaurant. We take turns presenting a ten minute sales pitch about ourselves and our businesses. Sometimes the presenter passes out promotional products that their company buys. I really like it when they pass out something useful, like a pen or a notepad. Not so much the neon sunglasses that the eye doctor passed out last month!

One of the things that I’ve been considering doing is asking some of the smaller entrepreneurs in the group is if they want to get together to design a bag that was made in the USA that advertises all of us. That way we could split the cost but still have some freebies we could pass out to our prospective/existing clients. And I really like the idea of supporting companies that manufacture items made in the USA!

I can remember one year that my hubby and I bought five hundred personalized pens with his business name on them. We handed them out to our customers, mailed them out inside Christmas cards, gave a lot to our kids to take to college with them, passed them out at the networking meetings. Everyone loved getting them!

Ethics courses

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One of the most important courses any person can take is a course in ethics. Seems to me that lately there have been a lot of ethical violations in politics and business. That is, in my opinion, the biggest reason we (as a country) are in such a big mess. So I think that it is a good idea that every employer require every employee to take refresher ethics classes every year.

Especially people involved in tax preparation. I was surprised when Janice told me that she has to take a ea ethics course before the end of the year to be able to keep her job, but to be perfectly honest I am glad to hear it. Tax preparers especially are vulnerable to ethical challenges in the course of their jobs. It is good to know that ea cpe courses are available for free on the Internet. I think it is really important that this kind of education reaches everyone involved in the profession.

Advertising Agency Employment

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Had a pretty interesting lunch with a gal, last night, that I met quite some time ago, and until just recently I finally had the opportunity to get to know her during a nice dinner and drinks at my favorite French Restaurant, which is conveniently located only a few blocks down from my place. The owners of this small and quaint little restaurant have come to know me and always go the extra mile with personal service with a smile.

She works for an Advertising Agency and I met her through a friend who also works at the same Advertising Agency, different departments, but both offices are on the same floor, so they see a good amount of each other during their busy days.

Dinner turned out to be a four hour long meal, which included several rounds of a nice bottle of French wine and we got to know each other a lot better during that amount of time and a nice time was had by the both of us. She is one of the rare ones, for this day and age, that has no children and no ex-husbands, but spends long hours at work (she appears to really enjoy her job) since having no obligations waiting at home for her at night.

We spent a good chunk of time talking about the office, since I know several people at the same agency and other advertising companies as well, so I have a good amount of knowledge about the business. She has just recently been given the task of putting together an all together new business mailing list and the undertaking of targeting a newly designated market of thousands of people all over the country. This is something new for her and her excitement and her nervousness about the whole project was for some reason I found a bit charming.

 

 

The employment forecast

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The employment center hosted a job fair this weekend at the local college campus in the student center.  In addition to different booths set up for people to check out different employment opportunities, there were a lot of mini-seminars going on that you could sign up for and attend. One of the seminars that I attended was about educating oneself for the future employment market.

The speaker was talking about how the service industry will be growing, and as part of that industry the healthcare field in particular will be continuing to grow.  He was encouraging people to look into jobs in healthcare. Well, that means taking a number of courses, naturally, and he was suggesting that people go to a local college and see what their educational offerings include. He suggested that if one does not want to be directly involved in patient care, one could take a consultant interview course, or a medical teaching course. That reminded me that my next door neighbor recently retired from her job, and her job was to teach the teachers how to use computers in the classroom. Perhaps taking a teach the teacher course would prove beneficial. Then I started to remember how my ex-hubby’s mother used to help my sister-in-law research and write all of her papers for the medical management course that she was taking and how much that upset me to think that someone in the medical field would cheat in that manner. Isn’t it odd how random thoughts can go off on strange tangents sometimes!

 

Spell check and grammar check

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My brother has been encouraging me to try to make money by signing up to some of those pay-per-click advertising companies. He told me that he makes about $70 a month passive income on his blog. Well, that sounded rather interesting so I asked him to send me the link to the Home page of the company that he signed up with. I found the site to be most intriguing, but I was concerned about some of the errors that I found on the Publisher page. They were minor spelling and grammatical errors, but I noticed them and I had to wonder what impact those errors would have on the clientele of the company.

I didn’t find any errors on the Advertiser page, though. Just finding the few that I DID find on the other page was a really great reminder to me to run everything that I type through a spell checker and a grammar checker. I’m glad that WordPress has spell check; I wish it also had grammar check. Most of the errors that I find on most pages are simple things that a grammar checker would find, like when to use the word accept and except – they both sound the same but mean different things and are spelled differently. A spell checker wouldn’t find either one of those to be a mistake, but a grammar check should.