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13th September 2010
We are offering exciting language courses in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish and Russian to help professionals compete in the expanding international market. Our Beginners Business Language and Culture courses aim to give local businesses and professionals the skills and knowledge needed to compete in an increasingly multi-cultural market. The language will be professionally focused and the culture training will help you to avoid any accidental faux-pas when meeting with business partners or travelling to foreign countries. Courses start in October, for more information click here.
Mediatrain, which is a project within the University, is offering to make short films for local organisations in the voluntary and public sectors – free of charge! Mediatrain works with a variety of organisations to give them access to the University’s broadcast-quality production facilities. Production teams at the University work with final year undergraduates on work experience with Mediatrain to produce short educational, fundraising or training films. To read more about this free service and the other services that Mediatrain provides, click here.
Do you want to master the perfect pitch for investors? Do you want to convince someone to invest in your business? Prepare for tricky questions and get your pitch perfect by attending the latest Venture Academy Series event – ‘Investment Readiness’. Taking place on Thursday 7th October at Butterfield Enterprise Hub, this event will highlight what investors are looking for, how to impress them and will give business leaders the opportunity to prepare effective and confident presentations that can be used for pitching to potential investors. Read more.
1. Set revolutionary strategies. If you do not have a strategy, you will be working from day to day and most of what you have to do will be reactive.
2. Focus on profit. To be successful in business, you must understand money, and the golden rule of money is to make sure more comes in than goes out.
3. A committed team needs to have something to commit to; you can’t just expect them to be committed because you are. Create a goal with the team. It is then their goal. They start to understand why they come to work each day.
4. Build in great customer service. You can’t just delight customers on Thursdays! You have to be offering the same level of product, service and experience every day.
5. Don’t keep secrets! Tell your clients and your prospective clients about all of the things that you do. Before you get involved with expensive and sophisticated marketing techniques, start by simply making sure people know all about the services you offer, products that you sell and training that you do.
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This month’s top tips come from Joanna Stephens from The Joseph’s Experience.
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