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Choosting A Wedding Consultant By Jen Carter Maybe you’ve been toying with the idea of hiring a wedding consultant. If you have the budget and an excessive amount of guests, than it may be a great idea! Prior to selecting your wedding consultant, you should ‘interview’ several of them and compile a list of questions. After all, you want to hire the right man/woman for the job, don’t you?
The idea behind hiring a wedding is to take the stress of planning and arranging your wedding--off of your shoulders. Let someone else worry about it. And, best of all, you always have final say. You’re the boss. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it? Just make sure you do it right, boss!
The final fifteen questions are a great guideline to
finding the perfect person to plan and arrange your wedding. If you’re looking for the PERFECT wedding consultant, than they shouldn’t express any hesitation when asked these questions:
1) Are you licensed, or do you at least have a DBA registration document?
2) How long have you been in the business of wedding consulting?
3) How many weddings do you do on an annual basis?
4) Do you have any feedback/testimonials?
5) Do you belong to any professional organizations?
6) Are you certified? If so, by whom?
7) Do you have a contract (if so, may you see it?)
8) Do you plan on doing this work yourself or are you using the services of your staff? (You’d be surprised how many wedding consultants send other people to do their work--this is an important question to ask).
19) Do you accept referral fees and/or commissions? (If they say that they accept referral fees--you should walk out the door, this sounds like a scam artist).
10) How do you work? Will we be meeting on a one on one basis, or will you full staff be there?
11) Will you be able to work within my budget? If I give you a ceiling budget, will you go beyond it to meet your expectations? (Make sure they are willing to work within your budget--it’s always easy to spend someone else’s money!).
12) What are you willing to do for the fee you are quoting me? Make a list and make sure it coincides with any written contract that requires your signature.
13) How often will you provide me with updates on my wedding planning?
14) Will you be present during my wedding rehearsal and wedding day? Will this be included in your fees?
15) What type of attire will you be wearing should you attend these events?
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Success University - Learn To Earn With Internet Marketing By Len Bartholomew Education is not always the best road to higher earnings. Many people spend many years on education and wind up making a ton of money for somebody else. They may attain a certain level of financial Read more...
Ich wei? nicht, woher der "Standard" dieses Zitat nimmt. Ich habe jedenfalls mit niemanden von dort gesprochen. Wenn das ein ?bernehmen-ohne-zu-Zitieren-Neuschreiben-ohne-selbst-zu-Recherchieren von hier dr?ben (hier verlinkt) sein soll, ist es gr?ndlich missgl?ckt: Ich habe eben genau _nicht_ ?ber irgendwelche "Auslaufmodelle" geredet, sondern lediglich betont, dass es noch _anderes_ gibt. Da l?uft ?berhaupt nix aus.
Und jetzt schreibe ich eine Mail an den Standard.
("Einig sind sich die Experten dar?ber, dass Blogs, die reine Tageb?cher sind, ein Auslaufmodell sind." Was f?r ein Unfug. Grr.)
Online University Design
An online university is a web site that provides a complete "one-stop shop" for all your employees' training
needs. By logging into an online university, your employees obtain information about newly released training
programs, guidance on the programs that are appropriate for them, registration services for both online and
classroom courses, and immediate access to their training records.
Online universities are not the exclusive province of large corporations. Small and midsize firms that do not
have their own private networks can provide online university services to their employees using an ASP
(Application Solution Provider) model. Many of the key features of online universities are now offered by a
national and international suppliers on an outsourced basis.
How to Teach Adult Learners
Many aspects of teaching adults are fundamentally different than those employed in teaching children.
Andragogy is a word popularized at the end of the twentieth century to describe the difference. This article
by D. Verne Morland, managing partner of ROI Learning Services, highlights the important principles in
teaching adults and suggests how they can be applied to business training.
How to Write Instructional Articles
Instructional articles are very different from articles in reference manuals, product brochures, or even
professional literature. This article by Herbert L. Bivens, chief learning officer of ROI Learning Services,
defines instructional articles and describes how to write them.
Put Earn in Your Learning
Many companies view training as a component of their employee benefits package - an expense to be controlled,
not an investment to be maximized. This attitude is dangerously outdated. Survival in today's global economy
requires continuous, cost-effective, world-class training. This article by D. Verne Morland, managing partner
of ROI Learning Services, explains how to identify the "earn" in learning and measure the results
as you would with any other business investment.
Online and Blended Course Development
Online courses are self-contained, independent-study programs delivered via the worldwide web. They may be
relatively simple and short, delivering a little knowledge when and where it is needed. Or they may be
sophisticated, multimedia learning experiences that engage students for many hours over several sittings.
Online courses are primarily useful for conveying new information; they are less effective in conveying and
rehearsing new skills and in motivating students to apply their new knowledge.
Blended courses use a combination or blend of instructional methods and delivery technologies to convey
information, skills, and motivation to students. Blended courses offer almost all of the same instructional
methods and benefits as classroom courses, but with the distinct benefit of being delivered virtually.
ROI Learning Services has the expertise to identify which type of course is best for your company's
learning needs and we can deliver high quality programs that will have a measurable impact on your
business results.
Designing Online Courses for Adult Learners
At most schools of education aspiring teachers are taught the elements of pedagogy ? the art and science
of teaching children. Many aspects of teaching adults are fundamentally different than those employed in
teaching children and for this reason a new word gained currency in the late 20th century ? andragogy. This
article highlights the important principles in teaching adults and suggests teaching strategies to support
these principles in online courses for higher education and corporate learning programs.
ROI Learning Scorecard [tm]
The ROI Learning Scorecard [tm] is based on the Balanced Scorecard concept created in 1992 by Dr. Robert S.
Kaplan and Dr. David P. Norton. Having a balanced scorecard requires you to plan, manage, and measure your
organization from four perspectives: 1) The Learning and Growth Perspective, 2) The Business Process
Perspective, 3) The Customer Perspective, and 4) The Financial Perspective. This philosophy is consistent
with ROI Learning's holistic approach to training and organization development. By using our ROI
Learning Scorecard your company will focus on and invest in the right programs to build and nurture a
continuous learning organization.
Education Consulting
Survival in today's global economy requires world-class performance. World-class performance requires continuous,
cost-effective, world-class learning. The consulting and course development services provided by ROI Learning
enable businesses in all industries to achieve world-class learning results while maximize the return on their
learning investments.
How to Save Money on Training
Significant cost savings can be achieved by using technology to deliver training outside the traditional
classroom. This article illustrates the component costs of a hypothetical two-day classroom course delivered
to 20 students ten times a year and explains the significant reduction in training costs that can be achieved
by using a "blended" delivery approach.
How to Use Training to Improve Your Business Results
Training your employees is an investment in your business and like any smart investment it should have a
good rate of return. Although training is not the solution to every problem, where it fits it can improve
your sales and sales productivity; it can lower your costs and improve your gross margin; and it can bring
expenses into line and increase your profitability. This article explains that by investing in the right
programs managers will clearly see the business results and will, at the same time, be creating a highly
competitive, continuous learning organization.
List of Services
ROI Learning is a full-service consulting and development firm for technology-enhanced training. We have
the experience to help you accomplish all of your training objectives. We can help you: analyze your
training needs, start a training program, reduce your training costs, increase your training effectiveness,
reach new audiences cost-effectively, develop and deliver online training programs, and measure the impact
of training on your business. We can also take a more holistic approach and help you with your education
strategy, tactics, programs, and success measures.
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