Guayaquil, Ecuador celebrates its Fundacion de Guayaquil which is Spanish for Guayaquil Founder’s Day. This festival which is carried out with a lot of local pride carries throughout the weekend with parades, fireworks, a federal holiday and lots of festivities. On Friday the 22nd, Laura Santana a native of Guayaquil celebrated the grand opening of her flagship store in Ecuador. This store is the first of many she has planned in her audacious goal of growing into a well recognized brand across South America.
Congratulations are in order for our Team at alpha direct agency; once again recognized as a “great place to work.” The company was founded in 2004 with a mission to create a work environment where employees feel inspired and challenged to grow.
When it comes to a retreat, nobody does it better than Alpha Direct Agency. This year we introduced the first ever CE Team retreat. The weekend event built around our 8 Customer Experience Team member included food, fun, workshops, sight seeing, travel and other leisure.
I am an early adopter of technology but for over a decade I couldn’t be convinced that my clients needed another app on their smartphones to reach their agents. I tried to keep an open mind however, I just didn’t find the top reasons for an app compelling.
Hey business owner. You’re running a business; you’re going concern is finally going but suddenly it gets interrupted by an event. An unexpected event like smoke rising up into your clothing store renders all the clothes unsellable at least not unless you foot the ridiculous dry cleaning bill which forces you to change the price tags from new to used. Fire may have started at a business close by but we all know smoke rises.
First it was phishing and then smishing. Costco has giveaways that they don’t know about; going to everyone’s phones via SMS. Most of us are smart enough to not click on the smishing text messages. When I got a “locked out” text from my bank it addressed me as Peter which was a dead giveaway, plus I had to click a link to secure my bank. Scam alert!
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. “NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to say safer and more secure online.” – dhs.gov
After hurricane Florence floods recede, the journey to restoration begins. Typically the cost of building materials are slightly higher after a storm but “home builders and contractors say this administration’s trade policy will add to the price increases that usually follow natural disasters” writes Nelson D. Schwartz in the New York Times.
When criminals look for a potential victim, they choose the easiest targets. Some simple practices can aid in deterring robberies, such as:
Insurance! Its that thing you wish you had when the unexpected happens by way of loss or damage to your personal property. Policies are typically designed to cover many things while at the same time specific language in the policy excludes coverage for other things. Policies are typically summarized with words, including terminologies that need to be defined in the definition section and of course specific numbers.