Ways To Establish Good Rapport With Customers

PARO’s advanced Business Accelerator program provides a flexibility of workshops, mentoring, business counseling, web and tele-classes to women who are already established in their businesses but want to ‘grow a little or shift a lot’. This program builds knowledge, skills, capacity, confidence and resilience as a business owner, and each participant’s program is specially tailored to suit their needs. Contact accelerator@paro.ca to find out how the program can benefit your business.

PARO's Accelerator project has been supported with a grant from the Canadian Women's Foundation Economic Development Collaborative Fund, a partnership of the Canadian Women's Foundation, CIBC, The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation, The Ontario Trillium Foundation and an Anonymous donor.

This project is supported by Industry Canada / Fednor.              

June 18th - Biz and Bagel

Biz & Bagels are open to the public and we welcome you to join us
Mondays, 12:15pm - 1:15pm @ PARO Centre

If you are in the region and would like to join us, we have limited spaces available through teleconference.  Please contact Joni @ jsharkey@paro.ca or 1-800-584-0252.


This program is funded by the Government of Canada

    

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Start Your Business Today. Let us help you!

Join the Making A Difference: A Business Development Program

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It’s feeling like summer and summer means an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables. The farmer’s market and the fruit stands are open for business!  

Well if that’s not enough reason to pick up on your produce, how about this:  

Besides the fact that 9 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables a day offer divine cancer protection, they also,

      Keep you trim – lots of vegetables have only 50 calories in a whole cup, the same as 5 measly potato chips of a very tiny cookie

      Protect your heart – antioxidants, soluble fiber and folate in produce are kind to the heart and blood vessels

      Lower high blood pressure – 8 to 10 servings of fruits and veggies and 2 to 3 servings of dairy reduces moderate high blood pressure as much as medication

      Stop a stroke – high vegetable and fruit intake can reduce your risk of stroke by 30%

      Love your eyes – you will have less risk of the two most common causes of adult blindness, macular degeneration and cataracts

      Wards off diverticulosis – you don’t want to be one of the 3 people who develop this condition over 50! Solution – a diet high in fiber of which fruit and veggies are the top sources

      Help tame diabetes – fruits and veggies seem to raise blood sugar less that other foods containing carbs

      Protect your bones – Calcium and vitamin D are crucial, but two studies show that eating lots of fruits and veggies helps too.

      Provide pure pleasure! There beautiful, vibrant colours just make any dish look more appealing!

While the opportunity it there, make it your goal to get 8 to 10 servings of fresh fruits and veggies everyday! Eat them raw, try some that you have never tried before, be creative and try out a new recipe!  

Make it an excellent summer! Get up and get going and walk to the market to pick up your produce!!

Deb  

Deb Coulis - Lifestyle Coach
Coulis Connection
www.coulisconnection.com

Ph:   807-935-2484
Cell: 807-628-2408

E-mails and Business (Continued)

 My last two columns note that, in a business environment in which customers and entrepreneurs rarely meet face-to-face, it is important for entrepreneurs to craft their e-mails in ways that allow them to maintain their reputations, credibility, and professionalism; the columns also contain a number of basic rules designed to accomplish this.  These rules included:

• the maintenance of an air of formality in all e-mails, including personal messages;
• the use of proper grammar, since grammar comprises a set of rules, which, by their very nature, impose structure, organization, and discipline and, thereby, convey an air of formality; and
• the use of proper paragraphs, which, when constructed correctly, give the material order.

 
There are a number of other rules worth following.

4.      Avoid using technical writing devices designed to draw an inordinate amount of attention to your message.  For example, DO NOT WRITE ENTIRE WORDS IN CAPITAL LETTERS.  This practice “MEANS THAT YOU ARE SHOUTING” or has the same impact as shouting.[1]  It not only irritates people, but also makes the e-mail harder to read.[2]  In addition, avoid using large font sizes.  They also have the effect of shouting.  Even more problematic is the practice of WRITING IN CAPITAL LETTERS IN A LARGE FONT SIZE.  

5.      Avoid using acronyms.  Do not even use common ones, such as BTW (by the way) or FYI (for your information).[3]  The e-mail recipient who is not familiar with the acronyms will be irritated; acronyms can look like a secret language and, so, for those unfamiliar with them, evoke exclusion.  In addition, acronyms convey an air of familiarity, which is to be avoided in business.  Some acronyms are referred to as emoticons because they are imbued with emotion.  One example is LOL (laugh out loud).  Avoid these, too; be businesslike.[4]  Similarly, avoid ‘smiley faces’.[5]  

6.      Use proper salutations and farewells, just as you would in a well-written letter.  Use a salutation or greeting that contains the recipient’s title, and avoid shortening the name; for example, write ‘ Doctor Lois Lake ’, rather than ‘L. Lake’.[6]  Avoid farewells that sound too familiar; instead, use farewells that sound professional, such as ‘Regards’, ‘Best Wishes’, or ‘Sincerely’.[7]

 Use of capitals with titles:

If the title appears before the person’s name, capitalize that person’s title; if the title appears after the person’s name, do not capitalize it.[8]  

For example: Professor Jane Smith or Jane Smith, a professor

                      Doctor Pamela Jones or Pamela Jones, a doctor

                      Judge Suzanne Burke or Suzanne Burke, the judge

Learn a New Word

Taciturn: adjective: (pronounced tas-i-turn)

-habitually silent, reserved, uncommunicative, or quiet

For example: In front of an audience, her shy, taciturn manner was transformed; she became the life of the party.

Please join us in the Celebration!
Digital Fine Art Society of Thunder Bay 's 2nd Annual Group Exhibition: 

DIGITAL MASQUE: HOMAGE TO MAGRITTE

When: Friday, June 15th, 2007 - 7:00 p.m.

Exhibiting Artists: Carol Cooper, Foster Gauley, Patte Foreman-Doherty, 
Mark Nisenholt, Lois Nuttall

Where: Definitely Superior Artist Run Centre & Gallery, 250 Park Ave, Thunder Bay 
(old Eaton's building, entrance on Park Ave)
Music & Refreshments!

http://www.dfastb.ca:80/

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GARDEN SALE
Perennials, Hanging Baskets & Planters

Saturday, June 16th    10:00am - 1:00pm (or until sold out)

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