Posted by Joelseah on June 22, 2009
Spent the morning giving out flyers for Home Tuition Solutions around Sengkang. You’ll find this hard to believe, but giving out flyers door to door is not as relaxing as it seems.. For a start, the flyers need to be folded in a manner whereby it is easy to slot between the grills, and yet not be blown away by the wind.
Also, going down the 15 levels of stairs for every block slowly takes its toll, not to mention the occasional dogs and unwelcoming home owners. So there you go folks, if you’re considering distributing flyers for some income.. think again because it can potentially be quite tough work for 10 odd dollars every thousand pieces you distribute.
Posted by Joelseah on June 19, 2009
Conducted a Visual Merchandising and Presentation Skills Training at Nokia yesterday. It’s been a while since I went back to conduct training at HQ. Had a bit of a mix up cos I brought outdated slides to the training =P Thankfully, the problem was sorted out, albeit with a bit of hassle.
Conducting the presentation skills training made me realise there’s actually pretty decent content that can be packaged into a program itself, for budding trainers perhaps. So that’s the next program that I’m gonna come up with: Presentation Skills With NLP And Enneagram.. after my Communication Skills program =P
Latest update on the Search Engine Optimisation project for AZ Education. We’re on page one of Yahoo search for the keywords Singapore Home Tutor and Singapore Tuition Teacher. Pretty good progress in a week =) Next up is offline marketing, which will start next week.
By the way, I have a friend desperately looking for those Mac glasses (lime colour). If you spot any Mac with lime coloured glasses available, do a good deed and let me know =P
Posted by Joelseah on June 15, 2009
Listening is one of the most underrated aspect of Effective Communication Skills. If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll probably agree that it requires mammoth effort to be listening 100% of the time. Occasionally, we’ll have thoughts crossing our minds, we could also be thinking of what to say next, or perhaps just distracted by things taking place in the surroundings.
There are generally three styles of listening:
1. Competitive Listening
2. Passive Listening
3. Active Listening
To find out the full details about the various listening styles, please visit my Communication Blog =)
Posted by Joelseah on June 14, 2009
Folks, I’m venturing into Home Tuition Solutions with my friends. If you’re interested in becoming a home tutor, or you need a home tutor for yourself or your kids, do check out our website at http://www.az.com.sg
In fact, we’ll be launching our referral system soon. So you’ll get a pretty good deal for every successful customer you recommend. Stay tuned for more news on that! =)
Posted by Joelseah on June 13, 2009
The past week has seen plenty of excitement in Sports (save for the fact that Ferrari failed to get a podium finish in Turkey after so much promise). Anyway, the biggest news of the week has to be Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to Real Madrid. More about that later..
First up, Roger Federer has finally done it! Yes, the man whom many has debated to be the greatest player of all time has finally completed the grand slam with a win in the French Open. Of course, many people will argue that he won because Rafael Nadal was knocked out. Well hey, give him some credit.. 19 consecutive Grand Slam Semi Finals is an awesome record, and no one else has come close to that.
In Soccer, Real Madrid has done it again! There’s definitely something in their system that many corporations or even countries can take a leaf from, because they seem to have endless amount of cash for players. After a £59 million record breaking deal for Kaka, they now have an £80 million bid for Cristiano Ronaldo accepted.
Personally, i’m kinda glad to see Ronaldo leave. As much as he guarantees at least 20 goals a season, i think he’s slowly becoming a nuisance at the club. Anyway, latest news today is that Manchester United is attempting to hijack Real’s bid for David Villa by launching a £45 million bid of their own. Don’t think they’ll succeed though.. Villa has stated that he prefers to stay in Spain.
