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Geoh Media has partnered with Cebu Directories Co. for one of their training programs, please see below for more details!

BLOGGING 101: Introduction & Opportunities

Across UP College Campus, 3rd Floor, Cebu Init TBI
Gorordo Avenue, Cebu City, Philippines
November 19, 2011 (Saturday)
1:00PM -5:00PM
email: info@cebudirectories.com
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This workshop will explain why businesses or professionals should blog.  Why blogging matters and how companies are using blogs to spark conversation, maximize online exposure, interests and increase sales revenue.  Why individuals became successful through blogging?  That’s what we need to find out when attending the workshop.


This workshop is also designed to prove everything you need to know to build a successful blog from selecting your blog platform to planning your blog strategy.

This module is the first of 4 parts.
Module 1: Blogging 101: Introduction and Opportunities (November 19, 2011)
Module 2: Advanced Blogging (Date to be announced soon)
Module 3: Allied Skills – Reputation Management, SEO & Marketing (Date to be announced soon)
Module 4: Niche Blogging Techniques (Date to be announced soon)
Blogging has been considered as the new form of media and this workshop will bring more bloggers in the main stream media and into the World Wide Web.

Who should attend?

• Website designers
• Marketing Professionals
• Business Owners / Entrepreneurs
• Interested Groups
• Stay-at-Home Moms
• Freelancers
• Virtual Assistants
• Students
• Individuals who want to set up a blog and drive traffic using search engine optimization and social media  marketing techniques

Learning Investment

Registration is inclusive of Snacks and Certificate of Attendance.
Super Discount        – P600 inclusive of VAT (Deadline October 31, 2011)
Early Bird Rate         – P800 inclusive of VAT (November 1 – 14, 2011)
Regular Rate            - P2,000 inclusive of VAT (November 15 – 17, 2011)
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There will be a BASIC WEB BUILDING WITH HTML, PHP+MYSQL & JAVASCRIPT workshop on August 30-September 1, 2011 (Tuesday to Thursday) from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at CEDF-IT Training Room, Asiatown IT Park, Apas, Cebu City. This is organized by CEDF-IT members but is open to non-members as well to participate.

The facilitator for this workshop will be MR. MARK B. ONTE, a graduate of Master in Information Systems and presently Systems Developer and Database Administrator in Silliman University with more than 7 years of experience in Web Application development.

Please take note that CEDF-IT members are entitled to discounted rate.

Plantersbank SME Speaker Series-SME Ethics: Adding Values to your Business will be on 26 August 2010, Thursday, City Sports Club, Sinulog Ballroom 1 & 2 (Cardinal Rosales Ave., Cebu Business Park) - fronting Cebu Marriott from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. The Plantersbank SME Speaker Series-SME Ethics: Adding Values to your Business Speaker/Guest Lecturer is Mr. Anthony N. Pangilinan.

Unfortunately, the Plantersbank SME Speaker Series-SME Ethics: Adding Values to your Business is an per invitation only event and luckily the EVENT GEEK will be there!

I hope to see you in this exclusive Special Cebu Event Plantersbank SME Speaker Series: SME Ethics~Adding Values to your Business!

The 1-day Buzan Mind Mapping Workshop will be on 9am-5pm, September 20, 2010 New World Hotel Makati City. "Sign up on or before September 3 and Save P1,000 on our Early Bird Rate!" Unleash your mind's potential and the genius in you! Take advantage of the opportunity to learn the revolutionary thinking tool - Mind Maps through our 1-day Buzan Mind Mapping Workshop!

What if YOU are given the operations manual of the brain to unleash your brain's full potential and creative genius? Mind Mapping will help you:

~Absorb various trainings and learnings better!

~Brainstorm better and faster through the Bloom™ techniques and generate 10x more creative ideas.

~Plan and set goals, write proposals and letters 4x faster.

~See the whole picture, the global view at once and understand links and connections.

~Multi-task and set priorities with ease.

~Prepare better for presentations, meetings and briefings with confidence and less stress - and much more!

Discover how people and organizations use the infinite resource of the human brain and be amazed at the transformation of your organizations as well as yourself! We invite you to scroll down below and read up on Mind Mapping and how it has benefited individuals, companies, and even cities!

Course Outline:

Session 1: Definition & benefits of Mind Mapping
1. Introduction to Mind Mapping
2. Introduction to Tony Buzan and latest trends in creativity

Session 2: Brain specializations
1. Brain scales
2. Brain synergy
3. Brain capacity

Session 3: Learn Mind Mapping!
1. The Mind Mapping Laws and the Elements of a Mind Map
2. Association, Bloom and Flow
3. The correct way to read a Mind Map
a. Exercise: Read a Mind Map

Session 4: Mind Mapping Applications
1. Create your very first Personal Mind Map

Session 5: Mind Mapping Case Studies

Who Should Attend?
- Leaders, managers, supervisors, directors, executives, and teams who give importance to organizational development and completion of goals and finding solutions

- Trainers and HR professions who are responsible for implementing innovation, creativity and leadership programs within their organizations.

Training Investment
BUZAN MIND MAPPING WORKSHOP
A 1-day transformational Mind Mapping Workshop
9am-5pm, September 20, 2010
New World Hotel Makati City

Best Buy Rate is only P7,977+VAT when you sign up before August 20, 2009.  Save P2,000!

Early Bird Rate is only P8,977+VAT when you sign up before September 3, 2009. Save P1,000!
Regular rate is only P9,977 + 12% VAT

Inclusive of:
~Workshop attendance
~Workbook,
~Certificate of completion
~Lunch and snacks

*Save as much as P1,000 when you sign up as a group :
3 delegates - Less P 300 per delegate on top of Regular Rate
4 delegates - Less P 400 per delegate on top of Regular Rate
5 delegates - Less P 500 per delegate on top of Regular Rate
6 delegates - Less P 600 per delegate on top of Regular Rate
7 delegates - Less P 700 per delegate on top of Regular Rate
8 delegates - Less P 800 per delegate on top of Regular Rate
9 delegates - Less P 900 per delegate on top of Regular Rate
10 delegates - Less P 1,000 per delegate on top of Regular Rate

For reservations and more info, you may contact seminars@saltandlight.ph

The 5th DEVELOPING THE GM MINDSET: How to Lead and Grow Your Business Whatever the Season with Alex Castillo, will be on September 15, 2010, 9:00am-5:00pm, New World Hotel Makati City.

Reserve seats for the September 15, 2010 5th Developing the Mindset of a GM workshop with Alex Castillo and save P1,000 when you reserve seats until August 31! Learn how to develop the correct GM mindset that will grow your business whatever the season!

Limited seats are available at this workshop that combines both leadership training and business growing strategies in one powerful, impactful workshop. Designed to give you that extra edge to hit your targets, a successful participant of this workshop will discover these 7 key drivers to business growth:

1. Gain a view of your business' potential that you may not have seen before, and capitalize on it for greater growth

2. Discover the "low lying fruits" in your business that are ripe for picking, and learn how to pick them.

3. Understand how to use your corporate culture to not only generate consistently great results but sustain them.

4. Learn how to think like a CEO/GM -- and boost not just your business unit but your career as well

5. Develop and cast vision for your team

6. Learn how to develop a leadership style that is sound, intuitively appealing and effective for the long haul;

7. Discover how GMs can attract and retain the best people.

Program Outline for the 5th Developing the GM Mindset:

Introduction: Two fundamental strategies to help you make your numbers during a crisis

1. What is my business?
Company D marketing innovation case study
Am I marketing my products in a way that touches my customer

2. Do I have a vision?
What is vision?
The impact of vision
How do develop and communicate a compelling vision: visioning exercise
To get buy-in to a vision, be the vision

3. How active is my marketing posture?
Am I in a distribution situation or a demand-stimulation situation?
Company M distribution innovation case study
Distribution-driven growth opportunity questionnaire
Distribution improvement: the frequently overlooked "low-lying fruit"

4. Do I genuinely care for my people and my customers?
The case for a caring leadership style
To care for people, connect with them.
To connect with people, know a few things about them.
Connecting with people is a leader's responsibility.
Do I care enough to develop my people and give them opportunities to grow?

5. How smooth are my operations?
Company M Supply Chain innovation case study
Supply chain diagram
User-friendly supply chain diagnostic tools
Company culture: the invisible supervisor. How culture can lead to great results consistently and sustain it.

6. Do I lead with integrity?
Do I demonstrate character in my decisions?
Do I respect my people as individuals?
Do I recognize the contributions of my people to my business' success?
The case for integrity in leadership.

7. Closing
Do I have a passion for my business?
What can motivate me going forward?
Learn from the former president of Del Monte, who with his team survived the Asian Crisis, several corporate take-overs/buy-outs, and perennial labor and market challenges.

The EXCEEDING CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS Workshop is an intensive customer service learning event designed to reveal the secret to achieving and surpassing your customers' expectations. Through this workshop you will discover the 10 powerful keys to excellent customer service, how to anticipate changing customers needs, deal with upset customers through discussions, case studies, individual and group learning activities. This workshop is facilitated by Boris Joaquin, head of donor engagement of World Vision in the Philippines and an advocate of excellence in customer service. Although World Vision thrives on donations of individuals and organizations, it was in his leadership that donations grew because of the effective donor care programs he spearheaded.


Join EXCEEDING CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS, Achieving True Loyalty By Raising the Satisfaction Bar on August 26 (9am-5pm) to 27 (9am-12nn) at the New World Hotel Makati City. Give your customers that extra mile and they'll give you their time far, far longer than ordinarily.

Exceeding Customer Expectations
Achieving True Loyalty by Raising the Satisfaction Bar
Program Outline:

1. Generally Accepted Facts about the importance of Excellent (Poor) Customer
Service


2. What motivates a customer? Satisfaction vs Motivation


3. How can we best anticipate changing customers needs?
a. S-Plus
b. Equity Theory
c. Positive Side of Equity Theory


4. 10 Powerful Keys to Excellent Customer Service


5. Challenges in customer service


6. The Challenging Customer
a. Characteristics of challenging customers
b. Five Tips to avoid creating challenging customers
c. Six ways to cope with challenging customer


7. The Potentially Lost or Actually Lost Customer
a. General info on lost customer
b. What turns off customer
(1) value turn offs
(2) systems turnoffs
(3) people turnoffs
c. Four Tips in Recovering potentially lost customers
- includes: Preferred approaches when dealing with upset customers


8. Closing

Benefits:
Learn to achieve customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty
Learn how to exceed what customers anticipate
Learn how to anticipate changing customers needs
Learn techniques on how to recover lost or potentially lost customers
Learn approaches in dealing with upset customers
Learn ways to cope with challenging customers
Learn what to avoid to prevent customer turn offs


Who should attend?
Telemarketers
Outbound customer service agents and consultants using VOIP and POP (chat support and email)
Technical support agents
Outbound business support supervisors and heads who need a refresher
Quality assurance team members
Account managers
Sales Managers

Learning Investment: Exceeding Customer Expectations with Boris Joaquin Achieving True Loyalty by Raising the Satisfaction Bar August 26-27, 2010 |  New World Hotel Makati City Early Bird Rate: P6,977 +vat until August 13 Regular Rate: P7,977 +vat Walk-In Rate: P8,977 +vat Want discount? Knock off a couple of pesos off our rates when you register in groups! Call us to inquire about group discounts!  Tailor-fitted just for your company! We'll bring this workshop right at your base - customized and personalized to fit your training needs. Grab this opportunity to train your whole staff and attain results faster and simultaneously. Got Inquiries? Call us at 8132732 or 8132703 Send an email at saltandlightseminars@gmail.com