Why Telephone Verification Software is Important for Business
3:19 AM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
Communication is a
very critical factor in
every business no matter
what nature it is.
An efficient and effective
communication between the
company and the
customers will surely
lead the business into
success.
It is very
important for a
business to verify
phone numbers. Phone number
verification increases
the reach of the
business to contact
their costumers, that is
why many businesses
have telephone verification
software or simply render a company that offer telephone verification service.
Phone verification
will decrease the cost
lost due to mismanagement
of data, it also
strengthens the communication
and relationship between
the company and the
customers.
Phone verification
is usually done through:
a) an
individual will fill
up an online registration
form and click the
submit button.
b) Normally,
a confirmation program
through a cellphone
will initiate a call.
c) The
individual will enter
the pin code using
the telephone keyboard.
Indeed the changes made by science and technology is
rapidly increasing as well as the changes that affects our daily lives. Today,
almost everything is processes electronically. We all wanted to have a fast
processing transactions, however, we forgot the negative impact it will deliver
to us. Yes, everything goes hi- tech and so the scammers. You have to think of
ways that will protect your business
against these scammers, and one way to do this is through phone
verification.
Here are
some benefits you would
gain if you verify
your customers' phone numbers:
1. Phone
verification is also
one way of strengthening
the resistance of the
company against identity
fraud and other crimes.
We all know that
identity fraud is
one of the most
common problems that causes
headaches to all
suppliers. Verifying
your customers' phone number
will help you fight
those frauds and avoid
fake deals.
2. Most
businesses nowadays have
a website and you
might also have your
own site. For websites
that need a registration
or authorization, a
VoIP phone confirmation
is needed. This is
used for signing to
validate the user's
identity.
3. If you validate your
customer's phone number, you will be ensure that the communication between the
both of you will be consistent, and so lead into a harmonious relationship. One
common problems of businesses is that reaching their previous customers. Very
often, most business companies lose their previous customers and clients
because they fail to build a good communication link between them.
Good communication links are
part of the company's marketing strategy. You must remember that you should not
only focus on acquiring new clients or customers but you also have to keep and
maintain your current customers so that you will not lose them. And the most effective way to keep your current
customers is a consistent communication, updates of your new services and
products. Through this, the trust will eventually grow stronger and these
customers will become your regular customers. Isn't it very interesting and at
the same time very effective and very healthy for your business. I am sure that
when you learn the techniques on good marketing strategies, it will surely be
easy for your business to grow.
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Dental Hygiene – The Basics
8:08 AM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
Dental hygiene is incredibly important to
your overall health – poor dental hygiene and you run the risk of losing some
or all of your teeth and contracting various infections. Gum disease is also
common amongst those with poor dental hygiene, and it can cause sore, bleeding
gums, so it’s definitely something you want to avoid! To help you on your way
to gleaming gnashers, we’ve come up with a list of the basic things you need to
be doing to practice good dental hygiene.
- Thoroughly brush and floss your teeth twice a day. You need to be brushing your teeth for at least two minutes, and you need to brush them fairly vigorously – if you brush them very gently, you are unlikely to shift any of the plaque or dirt that has built up on your teeth during the day. Work the toothbrush all around your mouth and make sure you brush all sides of your teeth for an equal amount of time. Don’t forget the teeth in the back! Follow your brushing by flossing – be careful not to work the floss too close to the gum line, as this could cause damage to your gums. Carefully follow the curves between your teeth to get rid of as much plaque and dirt as you can.
- If you have soreness or pain in your teeth and gums, make sure you use a good all-rounder mouthwash. If you want to, use a mouthwash every day. Using a mouthwash that contains fluoride or chlorhexidine is one of the best ways to prevent gum pain and to treat gum disease – it also helps to prevent against plaque build-up. If you experience prolonged pain in your teeth or gums, visit your dentist for a check-up.
- Go to your dentist for a check-up every six months. Even if you don’t think you need a check-up, it’s best to get one anyway as your dentist will be able to tell if you need a filling or not (or any other treatment), even if you’re not experiencing any pain – for example, they’ll usually be able to tell in advance if you need a full filling, which will save you money and spare you a little pain, too.
- Get a scale and polish whenever your dentist advises you to. This is an excellent way to get rid of plaque build-up, which is a good way to prevent against tooth movement.
Practising the steps mentioned above is an excellent way to keep your teeth clean and in sparkling condition. But if you practice good dental hygiene and visit your dentist regularly and your dentist fails to make a diagnosis or causes you to have an injury or accident, there is some support out there for you. Contact Pryers Solicitors for more information on dental negligence claims.
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Best Free Video Converter for Windows
3:23 AM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
This article deals
with the Freemake Video Converter, which according to the expert opinion is one
of the best free tools for Windows now. Let’s consider the overwhelming
advantages of this soft to prove the above stated point of view. As a matter of
fact, it is a complete of tools, used for prompt video conversion into
widespread formats, and subsequent editing and recording to optical media.
Below there listed the basic features and main pros of the Freemake Video
Converter for you to better understand the heart of the functionality:
Free Download. The
utility is provided on a free of charge basis.
Numerous Input Formats
Support. The Freemake Video Converter supports over two hundred input formats,
including but not limited to AVI, MP4, MKV, FLV, TOD, RM, MTS for video, MP3,
WAV, WMA for audio, and GPG, GIF, PNG for images.
Fully automatic
conversion of video files into formats is supported by popular portable devices
such as iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, Xbox, Blackberry. In fact, this option is
extremely important with the expansion of the mentioned gadgets.
DVD Ripping. The users
will, certainly, appreciate the feature to rip dvd
for extracting their favorite audio tracks from video clips and movies.
Online Video
Conversion. Using the direct URL copy/paste from popular social networks and
other web recourses (fifty on the whole), all enthusiasts are able to download
and convert the desired video files into any format.
Advanced
Functionality. With the Freemake Video Converter users can perform a range of
additional options. For instance, it is possible to prepare content for viewing
on portable devices, to make high quality slide show, or to extract the audio
feedback from the favorite movies.
CUDA. The owners of
Nvidia graphic card with CUDA technology support will see the true value of
video coding speed as well as the load decrease on the central processing unit.
As a result the users of the Freemake Video Converter will always enjoy the
maximum conversion speed.
Slideshow. The
Freemake Video Converter is one of the best applications for creating the
slideshows with background music. Now it is possible to download the ready
clips in AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP formats and digital images in JPG, BMP, GIF and
watch them as a slideshow changing their order and creating music
visualization.
Video Processing
Options. This
application will ease the process of removing the unwanted scenes from video,
image rotating, combining interesting shots and setting the size of final file
in order to avoid flagpoles after conversion.
Speed. It
insures the quick conversion of the video files with embedded subtitles into
any required format with adding external subtitles in SSA/SRT/ASS formats.
File Uploading. The
YouTube service visitors can use the Freemake Video Converter to upload the
ready clips in AVI, WMV, MP4 formats through the program interface. The videos
of big size will be divided into 15 min clips each within one playlist.
Conversion Settings.
Each user of the Freemake Video Converter can choose the own conversion
settings and save the required changes for future usage.
Beyond a doubt, the
Freemake Video Converter is considered to be the best alternative to commercial
software programs. It does not contain the embedded advertisement ensuring the
user friendly interface.
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Starting Your Social Media Marketing Campaign
2:06 AM
Posted By
Unknown
Social networking sites have been used by many people for years to connect with other people. It has evolved into something that marketers can use in order to improve their brand awareness and make profit out of it. Facebook for example, is not only used for personal profiles but business and brand profiles as well. It helps a lot to let people know more about your brand and what you have to offer. If you're still new when it comes to social media marketing, you probably didn't visit the web for a year or two. It's because almost all people know about the things they can get from a social media marketing campaign.
Through the years, social media marketing has matured and gone through its trial-and-error phase. Nowadays, it's a very important factor of an online marketing campaign. If web experts have to choose, they are willing to give up their own websites for social profiles (although this is not really advisable). For starters, you should understand how to manage your social media campaign properly. Here are some of the things that you should remember.
Create Social Profiles
Social networks provide a virtual persona of you. From big to small social networking sites, it allows you to create a profile - your description, brand, looks, etc. However, you have to bear in mind that social networking sites have a different idea about the kind of information you can have, share to other people. They also differ in the amount of space you are entitled to have in your social profile.
Twitter and Facebook are social networking sites but they differ a lot. Facebook gives people a limitless amount of space to introduce products, services, and brands. On the other hand, Twitter only gives two sentences to their users. That's why, it's really best to develop several different profiles of different lengths in your social marketing campaign. It will not only guarantee that the information and messaging is consistent, it will also allow you to broaden your reach.
Your Voice
In most companies, the marketing department claims that they should be the one to manage social media marketing campaigns. Sometimes, the Public Relations department makes a buzz out of this because they specialize in people and they carry the voice of the company. Search engine optimization experts also claim that they should be the one to manage social profiles because they know how to use social media very well and they can create a strong link portfolio and online brand visibility. The brand manager, creative team, and so forth, have the similar reasons in managing social profiles.
The truth is, it doesn't really matter who you decide to hand your social profile. You just have to make sure that the person involved is accountable of and in charge of everything that goes through your social profile. This will makes sure that your branding stays strong and your messaging remains consistent.
The Big Three
Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are very popular social networking sites for years. These sites have been providing tools for social media marketing for a long time and they were able to develop a stronger approach in this field of marketing strategy. Although these sites are very powerful, it doesn't mean that you only have to stick with it. In fact, there are hundreds of smaller, niche networks that you can use to develop a community - just because they're small, it doesn't meant that they aren't valuable.
If you take some time to recognize smaller social networking sites, you might even find something that directly appeals to your target audience - making it more powerful than any other social networks you could use. If you join a network, you have to remember that there is much more value in taking your time in building a community around your brand. If you're just creating profiles to get links, you are not doing much to make the most out of your social media marketing campaign.
Social media marketing isn't rocket science. It takes time and effort to make significant effects to your brand visibility. A successful social media marketing campaign is accompanied by patience and dedication. The moment you do something wrong will make a drastic effect to your campaign. You have to be careful and choose the one that will manage your social profile the best.
Article written by Arindom Chanda. A freelance writer for Maple Forest, a well-known PPC Agency.
Article written by Arindom Chanda. A freelance writer for Maple Forest, a well-known PPC Agency.
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Facts about Debt Consolidation
2:50 AM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
The
debt consolidation refers to the
process or method for integrating your credits into one specific location with
the faith of reducing the monthly payment and interest rates. This is very
advantageous for people who have many credits from different settings. By
having only single location for payments will help the client to prevent forgotten
payments from other creditors that can result to extra charges and penalties
with higher interest rates.
There
are various alternatives that you can utilize when searching to use debt consolidation as a method to
resolve your debt payment. It is the clients responsibility to carefully assess
their financial situation and think of the best way for their unique situation.
Some of the alternatives are advisable, financial responsible, flexible. There
are opportunistic companies that will offer promising deals but in the end you
still fall on the worst scenario of what you are already facing. The best
alternative for you is to avail of a secure debt consolidation loan like the
home equity loan.
This
kind of loan normally offers with a very affordable interest rate, subsequently
you need to endorse some of your properties and assets as collateral. Although
the chances for losing your property such as home, business and car is higher
if in case that you did not meet the requirement for payments, still it is very
difficult to look for a better contract on a secured debt consolidation loan.
Since there are some legal corporations and consumer lending firms that can
help you to eradicate your credit, on the other hand there are plenty of
opportunistic companies that use your fear and vulnerability as their capital
for this position.
These
corporations may exhibit like they are capable of managing everything and all
your concerns will be removed immediately. However, most of these corporations
are charging their clients with hidden fees for their services that can come up
to twenty percent of the credit in other cases while receiving payments by the
credit collectors as well. It is highly recommended for the clients before
applying at the debt consolidation company, they need to read all the terms and
conditions that are applicable for their services.
You
need to settle with a corporation that has good reputation from other clients
who avail of the same loan. It is very essential for the client to identify the
difference between unsecure and secure debt consolidation loan because there
are desperate clients who are confused and might settle with the wrong choice.
You need to think of the best plan to settle your worries if in case that you
are drowned with credits. Make sure that you are well-informed of the agreed
statements of the company.
Article is written by Arindom Chanda. A passionate writer who loves to surf and shop at www.mattressnextday.co.uk
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LH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2012 AT OAKRIDGE BUSINESS PARK
9:03 AM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
The LH Foundation Inc. will hold its LH Leadership Conference 2012 entitled “Be a Champion” on July 27 at the Oakridge Pavilion of Oakridge Business Park, A.S. Fortuna St., Mandaue City.
This will be an afternoon learning session that will feature notable speakers who will discuss about the principles behind being a champion in life and living a healthy and active lifestyle.
The speakers for this year’s Conference are former Wimbledon and U.S. Open tennis player and sportscaster, Dyan Castillejo, who will talk about The Heart of a Champion; power couple in sports and in broadcast, Paolo and Suzi Abrera, who will share about Raising Champions; and the Philippine national football team, the Philippine Azkals, together with their team manager, Coach Dan Palami, who will expound about Building a Championship Team.
The LH Leadership Conference 2012 will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and is organized by LH Foundation, with the net proceeds being donated for the benefit of the charity projects of the Sacred Heart School – Ateneo de Cebu Alumni Association (SHS-AAA).
LH Foundation is the Cebu-based philanthropic arm of the LH Paragon Group of Companies, a Cebu-based group engaged in various industries in the Philippines, and it envisions a progressive community, with access to spiritual growth formation, quality education and a healthy environment for its many constituents.
Sponsors of this year’s Conference are Oakridge Realty, Basic Graphics, Golden ABC, Matimco Inc., LH Prime Medical Clinic, Creative Cuisine, SunStar, RCTV, Y101 and Cebu Ad Consultants Inc.
Tickets are available to the public at P2,000 each and may be ordered online through www.facebook.com/LHLeadershipConference.
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Pros and Cons of CRM Software
5:31 PM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
The customers are the most
important element in every business establishment. Every company managers and
executives know this that is why most of larger companies have their own CRM or
Customer Relationship Management. This CRM is responsible in over all welfare
of the customers. The main objective of CRM is to look and attract probable
customers, maintaining and satisfying current clients and earning and winning
back the trust of the former customers.
Remember that it is necessary
for you to build a strong and positive relationship with your clients. By doing
this, you would be able to gain the trust of your clients and have a positive
feedback. This is a positive indication that your current clients are satisfied
in the service you are giving them and eventually these customers will invite
their friends and these probable customers will later on become your regular
clients.
One of the advantages the CRM or the Customer Relationship
Management will give to your company is improving the quality of service you
are giving to your clients. The CRM will
collect and analyze complex data that will be greatly affects decision making.
Another benefit that CRM could give to your company is that it will help you a
lot in saving money. The CRM software
might cost you a lot when purchasing but if you compare it in hiring employees
and then train them would also cost you higher than purchasing CRM software.
Customer
Relationship Management would be a great help in your company depending on how
are you going to utilize it. CRM might be very difficult to use and understand especially for not well-
trained users for CRM software contains very complex data.
According to some companies that are using CRM software, implementation of CRM software needs careful planning. Keep in mind that your company's relationship with your clients is at stake. Ever should be planned before the actual implementation. Determining first the impact of the changes it will bring to your company as well as in your employees and customers will help you made up your mind if you want to continue implementing CRM software. Also, keep in mind that security is an importamnt issue. Since all information given by the customers are gathered by the CRM software, it is essential to keep thier confidentiality. Make sure that the CRM you want to implement is secure enough to protect those information.
The biggest challengge for software developers is to create
balance between security and usability. Security and usability are both
important features of a software especially if it is CRM software. However,
creating balance in these two features are quite difficult to achieve, why?
Software equipped with security features tend to have poor usability while
software developed with the best usability tend to have poor security features.
Remember that the CRM collects information of the clients and if
there happens an accident which compromises the security of these information
will bring your company's name in a bad situation. Which of course, you do not
want to happen. However, a CRM that is difficult to use will also make your
clients uncomfortable. That is why you have to choose a CRM software which is
highly secured and user- friendly.
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Advantages of Having Carbon Fiber Hoods
7:53 PM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
To protect the engines and other important components of
an automobile, a hood must be provided.
If your car engine is too open, it might seem unpleasant, so it would be
better to have a hood to cover it. Hoods are necessary for automobiles, they
serve as screen and shield. Many automobile owners prefer to have a fashionable
hood to enhance the look of their cars.
Manufacturers of automobiles try to produce materials that
are light as possible considering that heavy vehicles consume more energy and
power in order to drive. And that means a lot of money to spend for fuels.
Because of extensive researches and studies to produce lighter materials,
Carbon Fiber was developed and many people today
opt to have materials
with carbon fiber. Carbon
fibers are known because
its properties like high
tensile strength,
high stiffness, high chemical
resistance, light weight,
low thermal expansion,
and high temperature
tolerance. Because of
these properties, carbon
fibers are ideal on
civil engineering, aerospace,
military and extreme
sports like motorsports.
Because of its
high qualities, carbon fibers
also costs higher than
any other fibers such
as plastic fibers and
glass fibers.
Carbon fibers are light and you could form it into
different shapes depending on the design of the automobiles. Because of this,
carbon fibers are best used in making hoods. Furthermore, since carbon fibers
are lighter, it reduces the weight of an automobile and enhances the balance
between the front wheels and rear wheels resulting in a more increased in speed
and performance.
Aside from it is light weight, another reason why people
opt to have a carbon fiber hood is that it is tough and strong. The hood plays a very important
role in an automobile's life time. Lot of times it needs to be opened and
closed and opened again. The hood must be made of a tough and strong material
which is capable to withstand this extensive usage.
Another factor to consider in choosing the materials to be
used for your hood is that its heat- tolerance. When you use your automobile,
its engine produces heat. And when you use it fr a longer time, the hotter it
becomes, so your material should be able to withstand the heat. Carbon fiber
hoods can withstand even high temperatures and when properly designed, it would
allow proper air circulation that would help cool your automobile's engine.
Given the same amount of fuel, your engine will give a much more better
performance.
Carbon Fiber is indeed helpful not only for automobile
manufacturers but also for the users of these automobiles. Some owners would
want to make their hoods customized according to their preferences but maintain
its high quality performance. With carbon fiber hoods, the manufacturers would
able to balance high performance with fashion.
If you want to learn more about carbon fiber, or you want
to have a carbon fiber hoods or other materials that made from carbon fiber.
There you could see many designs and creations that will surely suit your
taste.
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First Social Media Day in Cebu
8:36 AM
Posted By
Herbert Kikoy
This year, Cebu will be joining the annual Social Media Day which is lauched by Mashable three years ago. This event will be a venue of the top social media practitioners, top bloggers and top people who excel in their chosen fields in the world wide web.
The recently concluded Social Media Day will not be a success without the participation and support of our major sponsors,Mactan Isla Resort and Spa | Cebu Tech Jobs | Pinoy Great Deals | Sun Cellular | Globe Tatt Awards | Smart Communications | PR Works | Diamond Suites and Residences | iTravel iExplore Tours and Services | Krispy Kreme | Lenddo | JY Gonzalez and Partners | Marc Louie Photography.
A big thanks also to Social Media Day's Online Media Partners, Third Team Media | RLCOMM International | TekWorx Mobile and Web Services. And Offline Media Partners, Sunstar Cebu | Cebu Daily News | Freeman
Kudos to you guys for making Cebu's first Social Media Day a BIG SUCCESS.
Full event details here
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Why Reputation Management is Good for Branding
9:00 PM
Posted By
Unknown
Your
company's
reputation
is
very
important
because
in
it
the
future
success
of
your
business
depends.
Whether
your
current
customers
will
continue
to
patronize
your
products
or
probable
customers
will
become
your
regular
clients
will
be
based
on
the
reputation
of
your
company.
To
ensure
that
the
reputation
of
their
business
will
be
highly
monitored
and
taken
care
of,
they build a
Reputation
Management.
It
is
a
process
in
which
the
tracking
of
an
entity's
action
so
as
the
opinion
of
other
entities
and
taking
actions
to
the
reports
gathered
to
create 'feedback loop'. These entities may be people, animals, materials and even locations. Tracking these entities may be through statistical analysis and word-of-mouth.
Today,
because
of
advance
technology,
Reputation
management
is
made
easy.
Reputation
management
systems
were
developed
to
analyze
complex
data
to
produce
reputation
report.
These
systems
automate
the
process
in
determining
the
trustworthiness,
this
includes
interpersonal
relationships,
stock
markets,
international,
diplomacy.
This
also
includes
different
communication
in
sports
and
public
relations.
Public
relations
industry
is
where
a
reputation
management
specialized.
Another
important
function
of
a
reputation
management
is
to
make
the
information
about
a
certain
individual,
organization
or
business
accessible
to
the
public
and
making
sure
that
these
information
are
authentic,
accurate
and
up-
to-
date.
Another form of
reputation management
system is the ORM
or Online Reputation
Management. This online
reputation management
involves the controlling,
addressing or extenuating
SERPs or Search Engine
Result Pages. The primary
objective of Online
Reputation Management
is to track the
contents written on
the Internet everything
about the client then
using sophisticated techniques
in promoting neutral and
positive contents online
or offline. While doing
this, ORM is also
hiding the links in
which the sponsors do
not want to show whenever
their name is searched.
These sponsors may be
an individual or businesses.
ORM takes care of the prevention and repair of online reputation threats that may occur over the online community. It also aims to produce an environment with positiv results and lessen the negative posts off the search engine result pages.
Online
Reputation
Management
uses
many
techniques
to
do
its
functions.
The
most
common
technique
is
through
the
use
of creating new contents that can be posted in different social web sphere such as blogs, forums, and social networking sites. Promoting existing positive content and building social profiles , and making personal domain names are also used. User- created contents like blog and blog comments and also professional journalism is also highly monitored including cosumer reviews and traditional websites. Some are requesting website manageers to remove contents that are negative.
An immediate response to the public criticism is a proactive approach which is also highly effective. An unannounced changes of products or features that has been based from the comments of the cutomers and writing positive comments and responses is also effective.
Reputation management should not be set aside nor forgotten. Since most marketing techniques were developed based on how search engines work, knowledge in Search Engine Optimization or SEO is necessary and that includes your Online Reputation Management.
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