A day before the release of the 4 th quarter financial results of outsourcing company Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), they announced plans to lay off many of its employees, without disclosing how many and which locations would be affected.
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Convergys to Lay Off Workers, Moving Jobs to the Philippines
MediaPost Classifieds for Sunday, January 31, 2010. Find a better job or put your help wanted ads in front of the best-qualified audience in media, marketing and advertising. Submit your classified ads online. Situations Wanted ——————————————————————————– SALES DIRECTOR/SENIOR SALESPERSON POSTION WANTED New York, NY An accomplished multi-platform media executive with exceptional abilities and a proven track record in developing and implementing projects and solving problems through an innovative style of management and marketing in print and new media sales. Please call David at 516-234-0321 or email at kastfmly@optonline.net INTERNET, MARKETING AND MEDIA PROFESSIONAL Orange County/Telecommute OK, CA Highly motivated, self-starter, with account management, sales, marketing, new media and product management experience.
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Future Electronics and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) Sign an Americas Distribution Agreement Pointe-Claire, Canada , December 12 — Future Electronics and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that both companies have signed an agreement for distribution of Toshiba display products in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Under the terms of this agreement, Future Electronics will distribute Toshiba’s full line of TFT Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). “We’re confident that this new relationship will add significant value to our current display offering,” said Bruce Jones, executive vice president of Worldwide Corporate Marketing. “Many of our customers’ applications require a ruggedized LCD with long life, which Toshiba can provide for them.” Future’s strong application engineering, marketing, integration capabilities and supply chain management provides Toshiba with the opportunity to offer the highest level of service to customers across the territory
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Toshiba Electronic Components Sign Future Electronics Agreement
Link Building Tool #1: Link Diagnosis Excellent tool to evaluate your incoming links and the incoming links of your competitors. By far, my favorite link building tool. Link Building Tool #2: Xenu’s Link Sleuth Not really a link building tool, but a great tool to find broken links on your site, 404 error pages and duplicate meta descriptions and page titles. Link Building Tool #3: SEOMoz LinkFinder Amazing free tool to find link building opportunities all over the web. Link Building Tool #4: Majestic SEO Another great competitive link intelligence tool that I use all the time. Link Building Tool #5: SEOMoz Open Site Explorer A much better alternative to Yahoo! Site Explorer. Link Building Idea #1: Ask Business Partners I’m sure you know a lot of people with websites and/or blogs. Ask these people to link to you! It doesn’t get any easier than this. These are some possible link sources: customers, vendors, co-workers, employees, business partners, relatives and friends
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5 Link Building Tools and 5 Weird Link Building Ideas
I travel a lot and so do my partners and employees. We often find ourselves working very far away from each other and we need tools to work just like if we were in the same room. These are my 10 favorite free (or almost free) collaboration tools. Skype Skype allows you to talk to people all over the world for free. It also offers chat, video chat and you can also share your screen with other people
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Top 10 Free Collaboration Tools
Facebook Is Fertile Ground By Kevin Burke Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Facebook has become the whipping boy of privacy wonks and business analysts. For the rest of us, it has become the dominant place to keep in touch with friends. But it also offers a valuable opportunity for businesses — once businesses recognize this opportunity and act on it. Years ago, email changed the way consumers and businesses communicate . Today, Facebook has provided us with a social network that trumps the communication potential of email. The power of this social network has significant marketing potential.
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Facebook Is Fertile
Health Insurance 2.0 — Social Media Resurrects Old-School Values HCC Medical Insurance Services, LLC – Online leader striving to provide world-class customer service via Social Media. Indianapolis, IN, December 19, 2009 — There was a time when customers had to make personal visits to receive assistance. To make these tasks more convenient and cost-effective, companies developed automated systems to support customers 24/7. However, as popular radio host Clark Howard frequently comments, the result has been “customer no service.” With this development, companies are forgetting that customers are the critical element to business success.
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Health Insurance 2.0
When I first heard the words “Security Outsourcing ” together, the first thought that came to my mind is the word oxymoron. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against the enterprise; it’s just that putting the two words together seemed rather contradictory to me. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because I recently read an article on how Forrester Research (NASDAQ:FORR) speculates that security outsourcing may be the newest trend in outsourcing for 2010 dispelling previous notions that security outsourcing is in decline. To define the term briefly, security outsourcing is the process of hiring an outsourcing company that handles security such as SAP (NYSE:SAP) or data management to maintain data security for your company. And according to Forrester Research, this is the next up and coming trend for outsourcing. With this in mind, Forrester has pointed out that although companies may outsource their security, the accountability for the protection of the data needs to still remain with the company and not the outsourcers
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Security Outsourcing: Risky Business for Businesses with Risks?
You may be faced with the daunting task of establishing an outsourcing contract with a new outsourcing vendor. Typically you are confronted with a few well established approaches to tackling this challenge. I’ll review the options you’ve likely considered, and offer a newer model that Waverley has been using for many years that we believe is a much better approach. First, the big contract approach is to establish a multi-year legal structure that defines the areas you wish to outsource combined with various terms to enforce the goals you wish to derive from the relationship. This long-term commitment is highly lucrative for the major outsourcing vendors, but requires you to make remarkable insights into where the relationship will go, and how you must keep the vendor on track. This approach is similar to fixed bid contracts we’ve discussed before, which can be appropriate for some projects, but is often fraught with peril due to the uncertainty of future events and the unknown evolution of your vendor partnership. You want the best terms with your new vendor, but you need to ask yourself how much a huge contract investment and long-term commitment help you to build a truly win-win situation for the two of you. Another approach is to establish detailed project specifications and contract the outsourcing vendor to execute on these precise plans. This also has many parallels to typical fixed bid projects, but fails to lay a foundation for the building of a relationship with the vendor. Are you just looking to satisfy the short-term needs of a specific project, or are you interested in building a real vendor partnership that can deliver value across many projects
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A better way to structure outsourcing contracts
If you’re not in the local listings, you’re leaving a lot of business on the table. It’s free, it’s easy and it’s fast. Where Should You Get Your Company Listed? Google Local Yahoo! Local Bing Local InfoUSA Yellow Pages Localeze Yelp Acxiom (via UniversalBusinessListing.org ) Some Tips to Make Your Ads Appear Above Your Competitors’ Add your location and the keywords you want to rank for in the title tags of your website pages. They should look something like “Janitor in Atlanta, GA”, “Atlanta Janitorial Services”, etc.
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These are the top 10 deadliest website mistakes: No Clear Call to Action Most website just have information. What about the call to action? If you don’t tell people what to do, they won’t do anything. No Effective Sales Funnel There is one thing the most effective websites in the world have in common: they capture the contact information of their visitors and they use email to follow up with them. This works because you ask for a small commitment upfront (name and email or just email) and then you work on building a relationship and trust with your list
A lot has been written on keyword research. This is the criteria I use to analyze keywords and decide whether they’re worth pursuing. Do They Convert? This is the most important factor to consider. Before doing SEO, it’s always a good idea to do a PPC campaign and test your keywords. I can guarantee that half of the keywords you choose by doing keyword research will not make you any money. Don’t waste a year doing SEO for them.
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Do Your Keywords STINK?
RAS & Associates, a management consulting firm, announced their 2010 plan which includes growing staff by over 100% in order to target new industries such as Oil & Gas, Financial Services, and Healthcare.
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Management consulting firm plans to double staff in 2010 (Consultant News)
ROSWELL, Ga.—-The Ux Consulting Company, LLC , the nuclear industryâs leading provider of information services, is pleased to announce publication of the new and expanded 2009 Uranium Suppliers Annual.
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Ux Consulting Releases Uranium Suppliers Annual (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Let’s see if you’ve been paying attention… What’s my favorite word? If you said “steak” you were close, but the answer I was looking for is “LEVERAGE”. Let’s define leverage as using other people resources to multiply the outcome from your efforts. Guest blogging is one of my favorite ways to use leverage because: The most influential bloggers in your industry have access to thousands of people you don’t. When your content gets published on their blogs, you automatically gain access to all these people. The most influential bloggers in your industry are seen as experts and they’re highly trusted. If they trust you, so will their readers. So, How Do You Become a Guest Blogger
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Guest Blogging: How to Reach “Unreachable” Audiences
HOUSTON—-June Consulting Group, the leading woman-owned company specializing in corporate legal technology, announced today that it has hired Phil Neely, a 25-year legal technology and services veteran.
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Phil Neely Joins June Consulting Group (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Social Media Marketing is as easy as 1-2-3: Figure out who your target audience is. Find them online. Connect with them. Most people are good at figuring out who their target audience is (#1) and have good people skills to manage relationships successfully (#3). They only struggle at finding their target audience (#2). The good news is that finding your target audience online is extremely easy. I’ll show you how I’d go about finding potential clients online if I sold Harley Davidson merchandise. How to Find Potential Clients on Forums Search Google for “[keyword] forum”. Some variations: “[keyword] discussion board” and “[keyword] discussion forum”. Use BoardTracker and BoardReader to find forums.
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The 3-Step System to Finding Clients Online in Less than 24 Hours
Keeping abreast with the world is certainly a difficult job, especially now with social media, blogs and other such sources all over the place; it’s becoming difficult to know exactly where to look. I myself have different favored sources of information , including those for news headlines, and social media, that I search regularly. On one such occasion, I came across the Top 10 Business Deals of 2009 from TIME.com. With regards to outsourcing , the item included in the top business deals for 2009 was the HP (NYSE:HPQ) – EDS deal . HP acquired EDS on May 2008 for $13.9 billion, it was listed in 2009 because, even though the deal was made in 2008, it started paying dividends last 2009. This past year, there’ve been lots of different companies signing mergers left and right. With tech companies alone there’s been Xerox (NYSE:XRX) and ACS (NYSE: ACS) ($6.4B), Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Perot Systems (NYSE:PER) ($3.9B) and HP (NYSE:HPQ) and 3Com (NASDAQ:COMS) ($2.7B). And even though this is true, the results of these deals still remain to be seen. With the HP-EDS deal, the results are already out and going down to the nitty-gritty of it, HP would’ve performed dismally this 2009 if they hadn’t acquired EDS. According to the 4th quarter results of the company for 2009, it was their ‘solid performance in Services’ largely stemming from the EDS merger that allowed the company to attain ‘record profit’. The acquisition of EDS by HP marked the company’s transition from a product-oriented company into a service provider, and by doing so; HP has managed to acquire more business, placing them right on the heels of the Big Blue, IBM (NYSE:IBM). With other IT companies largely following in HP’s steps this past 2009, and still ongoing really, prospects for Tech outsourcing companies’ mergers and acquisitions are very high and still climbing. However we’ll all have to wait and see whether the other deals that came through will lead to bigger profits for the corresponding companies this 2010. By and large, I’d say TIME hit the mark by choosing the HP EDS deal as one of the top business deals of 2009. This deal marked a new direction for outsourcing by tech companies and paved the way for many of the different contracts by HP EDS and other companies that we’ve all been reading about this past year. 2009 could have been a better year for HP EDS, but if you think about it, it could’ve been much worse. Author: Audrey B.
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2008 HP-EDS Merger in Top Ten Business Deals of 2009
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