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Standing out at a Job Faire can make a difference in your job search. Job Faires are starting to pick up, and Dice is running some nice ones, called Targeted Job Fairs. At a San Jose Area Career Fair in January, 10 companies as showing up, and a major job search company has 82 career faires scheduled for 2010 across the United States.

How do you stand out at a Job Faire? The competition can be substantial, but you can help yourself leap out from the gang with early homework. At AA-Careers, we have a simplified 6-step process to prepare. Planning to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, investigate the companies that are going and pick your targets. Use the internet to research the companies that are there before you even decide to go. Go to their sites and see if they have their openings posted. Pick a sane number to go after, and get ready to spend up to an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than nine in a day, and 3-5 is a much more reasonable target. For each company, you want to know: recent news, key product lines, and contacts you know. Try to see if you know anyone at the target companies. You will end up with with a page or two of research for each company/job.

Second, if there are job postings on the web, read them to see what the organization is looking for. Create a mapping of your achievements and skills to the requirements of the job. Make the nomenclature match. If the hiring organization calls customers "clients", your resume should do the same thing. The accomplishments should be written in the style of the hiring organization.

Third, create a ‘short sales pitch’ for each potential organization/job combination. Write down a 60 second ‘thumbnail’ that you can repeat verbally depicting why you are a key candidate for that position. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet the team from the company at the job booth.

Fourth, modify your resume for each job type. The objective on your resume should exactly match the job you’re want. The executive summary should be a written form of your “mini sales pitch” for the job. Then choose the achievements and skills that most clearly match the job requirements. Especially at a Job Faire, the purpose of your resume is a sales tool for you – to get you on-site job interviews. It should be simple to see that you’re a fit based on your resume.

Fifth, rehearse your ‘mini-sales-pitch’. Collect your research and the resume for each opportunity - bring a couple of copies for each – and put each in a intelligibly labeled folder. Keep them in a lightweight briefcase or folio.

Finally, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress nicely and be well groomed. Avoid strong cologne or perfume…use any cologne or fragrance meagerly, if at all.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

This type of marketing resembles an auction. Your internet site pushes merchandise and for your work, you’ll take a percentage from every lead. There is less work involved, few operating costs, it sells twenty four hours a day, and it is easy to master. The first step you must take is to make a choice as to which merchandise or area most suits your business style. A way of doing this is, you need to find out solutions to issues a specific set of individuals are looking for, and determine the best solution. One of the better ways to determine this easily is to search for unique extremely targeted longtail keywords or phrases; there are fewer internet searches for these generally, nevertheless many more of these result in a sale.

To get hold of these crucial keywords, you should use Micro Niche Finder. The data gathered from Micro Niche Finder or other computer programs and services results in related keywords in a list providing worthwhile targets to earn a great listing in an internet search and generate a great deal of traffic.

Further information is supplied by the program, for example search frequency, exactly how many different web sites are employing them, and details on the competition too. Ultimately, Micro Niche Finder data can identify suitable domains, material for your website, and point out the best sales opportunities.

Next you need to put together a site; however you still have some important things to do. You will need to optimize your site for the search engines. Applications like SEO Elite can make this simpler. Your competitors’ web sites are examined by Seo Elite information which then provides advice on how to improve search results. With software such as SEO Elite, data produced by the computer software indicates where you should look for relevant links, what words to focus on, and details on where to submit articles. In Brief, the data produced are similar to the data you may receive if you consult a practised SEO specialist.

Once you know what niche you want to sell in, design your product ads, and your internet site has been designed, it’s time to get your site up in the search results. You’ll pick up a steady paycheck and you will question why you doubted that this method of marketing could work for you!

Increasing Sales by using Coupons. Will it help your business? Well, the Promotional Marketing Association’s (PMA) “Coupon Council” shows that 3.8 Billion coupons were redeemed in 2003. Consumers saved over 3 billion dollars. 79% of American’s used coupons last year. There are many Coupon Franchises out there with quite a track record. Here are a few of them: Val-Pac; http://www.valpak.com/info/franchise/franchise_faqs_content.jsp.

United Coupon Corp. United Marketing Solutions. Adventures In Advertising. Coupon Tabloid, INC. Consumer Network of America. Coupon-Cash Saver. Effective Mailers. Money Mailer. Welcome Host of America.

What do all these services have in common? Well, for retailers and service providers they are quite effective at getting people into your franchise to try you out. That means new customers. There are a few things to remember, first; keep the message simple, less clutter is better. Second; Specific Dollar Amounts are more favored by consumers and tend to grab and keep their attention better and are more effective. Third; coupons are great but if you say special savings or special offer, do not keep running the same ad. Forth; You want customers to fall in love with your product and/or service, not the discounts.

We have often watched the miss-treatment of those customers coming in with coupons to those without, since the store owners feel they make more money on the ones who do not have discounts, but this misses the point of getting new customers. Also always remember a current customer is 4 times more likely to buy from you again than a first time buyer of your wares. Coupons are such an interesting free market innovation. One of the earliest examples of coupons in the US was with Asa Chandler, who bought the Coca Cola secret recipe; He offered free soda drinks using coupons in 1894. By 1895 everyone was copying this idea in various industries, another early adopter was C.W. Post who offered a 1 cent coupon for Grape Nuts Cereal. Hey back then a penny was a big deal. Another tip in coupons is to put lots of disclaimers all over the coupon so the FTC or some consumer watch group headed by an attorney does not try to figure out a way to hit you with a class action lawsuit, paying millions of people 35 cents, which costs more to mail them out than the amount in the check, while the attorney clears many millions of dollars at your expense.

Franchisors who wish to help consumers save money and promote their businesses so they can expand, pay more taxes into the system, provide more jobs and further the economic expansion, will have to pay to play. No we do not mean the costs of the coupons, those are relatively inexpensive. You will have to hire attorneys to protect you from attorneys. Think of it more like the Mafia charging you for protection. Of course all this hurts the consumers in the end. Since it causes higher costs in the market to all Americans and prevents competition in the market place, but we will pretend that this is okay in a free market in the Greatest Nation on Earth. We will pretend that this unbelievable extortion is helping consumers. We will pretend that the loss of economic output, jobs, tax base to governments is fully acceptable and that attorneys are knowledgeable, ethical and without every single one of them the entire country would instantly turn to anarchy? After all Einstein always said a good imagination is favored over good education. So pretend with me will you?

Regarding the argument that all those disclaimers clutter the coupons and make them less effective; well, yes that is true, but we had to destroy the coupons to protect the consumer. If this does not work we may have to destroy all the businesses to protect the consumer? Hey, what if an attorney actually produced something for society? Yah, wow, isn’t that a great challenge for your imagination, let’s also Pretend that too? I wonder if we are protecting the dumbest Jerry Spinger Future Guest Star or the Jeff Foxworthy; “Here’s Your Sign Candidates? Oh well, The Darwin Awards are only second to the events described on: http://www.overlawyered.com

Coupons work, they bring people into your franchised outlet, so you should consider coupons as a way to increase sales and help you business grow. So we recommend mailer coupons, try it a few times see the new customers it brings in and then work really hard to keep them while you go get some more.

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