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Dear Fred and Lyna, For the past 20 years, I have worked as an account executive for a major soft drink company and frankly I am sick of it. I have been looking into owning my own business and have run across several franchise opportunities. Do you think a franchise is the way to go or should I s
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Your self confidence inevitably takes a knock when you lose your job – whatever the reason. What I’m going to describe is my version of what I believe you are going through, how it affects you, how it may affect your family or loved ones and what you can do about rebuilding your self-confidence.
1. Do what they ask you to do. Funders may specify on their website how they want to be contacted the first time. Honor these requests, e.g. if they ask to approached by email, do not call. Be sure you have the correct contact number or email and name. This shows you care enough to have done your homework.
2. Play detective. Find out as much about the foundation and their program as you can before you call. Read their website, the annual report, and search local newspapers for their name. Get a good idea that your program is appropriate from them.
3. Have a concrete idea. Before you approach them, be sure you have a good idea what your program will look like. Write down a three-paragraph summary of your idea using the 5 Ws to guide you: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? This way you will be prepared to answer tough questions about your proposed project and will show that you are serious about making it happen.
4. Ask intelligent questions. There may be no stupid questions, but some smart questions can make you look stupid - especially if they have already been answered on their website. Draft a couple of questions in advance and be sure that you cannot find the answer to them anywhere else.
5. Start early. You can’t assume that you are the only procrastinator in a group of applicants, so understand that if you wait until the days (hours) before the deadline to ask your questions, you will be in a long line. Try to plan ahead and avoid this all together, but if you must, be sure to emphasize that while you appreciate the help, you understand if it is not possible. Don’t whine, beg, or plead the computer-crashed-and-dog-at-my-hard-copy story. Do you appreciate these things when someone is asking you to do them a favor?
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Franchising companies must be very specific with regards to manager training and requirements for their franchised outlets. It is ultra-important to maintain consistency, quality and customer service in a franchising company. The name brand depends on it.It is for this reason that I took the
2. Play detective. Find out as much about the foundation and their program as you can before you call. Read their website, the annual report, and search local newspapers for their name. Get a good idea that your program is appropriate from them.
3. Have a concrete idea. Before you approach them, be sure you have a good idea what your program will look like. Write down a three-paragraph summary of your idea using the 5 Ws to guide you: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? This way you will be prepared to answer tough questions about your proposed project and will show that you are serious about making it happen.
4. Ask intelligent questions. There may be no stupid questions, but some smart questions can make you look stupid - especially if they have already been answered on their website. Draft a couple of questions in advance and be sure that you cannot find the answer to them anywhere else.
5. Start early. You can’t assume that you are the only procrastinator in a group of applicants, so understand that if you wait until the days (hours) before the deadline to ask your questions, you will be in a long line. Try to plan ahead and avoid this all together, but if you must, be sure to emphasize that while you appreciate the help, you understand if it is not possible. Don’t whine, beg, or plead the computer-crashed-and-dog-at-my-hard-copy story. Do you appreciate these things when someone is asking you to do them a favor?
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In staffing terms, recruitment refers to the process of looking for new staff.A recruitment agency is a company that specializes in recruitment. They employ recruiters to find client companies who are willing to pay the recruitment firm to find their staff for them.A rec
3. Have a concrete idea. Before you approach them, be sure you have a good idea what your program will look like. Write down a three-paragraph summary of your idea using the 5 Ws to guide you: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? This way you will be prepared to answer tough questions about your proposed project and will show that you are serious about making it happen.
4. Ask intelligent questions. There may be no stupid questions, but some smart questions can make you look stupid - especially if they have already been answered on their website. Draft a couple of questions in advance and be sure that you cannot find the answer to them anywhere else.
5. Start early. You can’t assume that you are the only procrastinator in a group of applicants, so understand that if you wait until the days (hours) before the deadline to ask your questions, you will be in a long line. Try to plan ahead and avoid this all together, but if you must, be sure to emphasize that while you appreciate the help, you understand if it is not possible. Don’t whine, beg, or plead the computer-crashed-and-dog-at-my-hard-copy story. Do you appreciate these things when someone is asking you to do them a favor?
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Why be a Hot dog man (or woman)? If you're reading this, maybe you're looking for the answer. As someone once said: "Just when you think you have the answers, I change the questions!"For me, I wanted a low key business that involved lots of interaction with people. I like most people and enjoy
4. Ask intelligent questions. There may be no stupid questions, but some smart questions can make you look stupid - especially if they have already been answered on their website. Draft a couple of questions in advance and be sure that you cannot find the answer to them anywhere else.
5. Start early. You can’t assume that you are the only procrastinator in a group of applicants, so understand that if you wait until the days (hours) before the deadline to ask your questions, you will be in a long line. Try to plan ahead and avoid this all together, but if you must, be sure to emphasize that while you appreciate the help, you understand if it is not possible. Don’t whine, beg, or plead the computer-crashed-and-dog-at-my-hard-copy story. Do you appreciate these things when someone is asking you to do them a favor?
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Good customer service is indeed hard to find, much more to provide. It is one thing to want to provide good customer service to your customers and yet another thing to do it. Information sharing between the management and frontline staff, budget constraints and equipments needed to do the job makes pr
6. Be respectful, courteous and grateful.If all goes well, these funders will be financing your dreams and you certainly want to show them the proper respect for the opportunity to ask them to do so.
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