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Free Company Credit Report
Credit check one of your business customers for free
Creditsafe company reports are affordable, high quality credit reports giving you comprehensive information on your customers, suppliers and competitors.
The information within a Creditsafe report is updated daily and is sourced directly from Companies House, The Registry Trust, The London Edinburgh Gazette, Trade payment partners and a multitude of additional data sources from around the world.
Creditsafe company reports employ a system which rates companies from 1 -100 indicating the likelihood of a company entering insolvency in the next 12 months. High risk companies are highlighted in red whereas creditworthy companies are highlighted in green allowing anyone in the organisation to make informed decisions when extending credit or evaluating business opportunities.
To access a free company report simply complete your details using the form opposite.
Important Information: In order to receive your free company credit report you must supply a business email address and landline telephone number. Please note only one free report will be given per company.
What’s included in a company credit report?
- Credit Rating Limit
- Up to 5 Years Accounts
- Full Director and Ownership details
- Holding Subsidiary company details
- Adverse CCJ Information
- Payment performance information
- Full registered company details
- Companies House image documents
- Email Monitoring and Updates
Find your business voice solutions here – BT Business #catchy #business #names
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Client Christmas cards – how to get it right
by HCA | Dec 19, 2013
The holidays are a time of comfort and joy—not a time to unleash your inner cynic. The fact remains, however, that nearly everyone on your corporate holiday mailing list knows your gift, card or e-greeting is really an end-of-the-year marketing pitch. A soft sell to be sure, but a marketing pitch nonetheless.
That doesn’t give you full reign to impersonate Ebeneezer Scrooge, however. According to etiquette expert Thomas P Farley—known colloquially as “Mister Manners”—holiday business greetings are a rewarding exercise and a great way to improve client relations, provided you get it right.
“This is an opportunity to get back on the radar with your clients in a meaningful way,” Farley said. “If it’s not meaningful, you’re better off not doing anything at all.”
With that in mind, here are five timely tips for wishing your clients a happy holiday season.
If possible, send a personalized, handwritten card. Operating on a tight budget may prevent you from sending mass-mailed holiday cards to all your clients, but if you can afford the extra effort, it’s worth it.
“An e-greeting can be annoying because they’re often difficult to open and they may not make it to the individual,” said Dianne Gottsman, a national etiquette expert and owner of the Protocol School of Texas. “Handwritten cards breed goodwill.”
Farley agrees, adding that generic e-greetings often “get deleted the moment they’re sent.”
Instead, Farley recommends putting pen to paper and using the opportunity to make a comment specific to the individual, perhaps drawing on a business lunch or meeting the two of you attended.
Choose a tasteful, appropriate design. As head of custom design at California-based Tiny Prints, Heidi Reichert has seen a lot of corporate holiday cards over the years. The best, she said, always “reflect the professionalism” of the company.
“We’ve seen really silly photos or things that might be construed as offensive—maybe it’s a photo of the employees doing shots or something like that,” Reichert said. “It might seem funny at the time, but you never know what your audience might think when they get it.”
Instead, Reichert recommends using photos that are appropriate and professional, along with designs that stand out from the ubiquitous red-and-green that don most holiday greetings. Lime greens and blues are especially popular this season.
Avoid blatant endorsements of religion or cultural traditions. One thing Farley, Gottsman and Reichert all agreed on was that it’s best to “assume nothing” when it comes to recipients’ religious or cultural traditions.
“Being very safe and respectful is the key,” said Gottsman, who added that a neutral “Happy Holidays” is preferable to endorsing Christmas, Kwanzaa, or other holidays.
However, Farley said this rule applies only to the card design itself. Inside, it’s appropriate to wish someone a “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Hanukah,” provided you definitely know your client celebrates that holiday. “It makes your greeting that much more meaningful and warm,” Farley said.
Keep out logos and business cards. Resist the urge to plaster your greeting with your company logo, or stuff the package full of coupons or business cards.
“This is the time for the soft-sell. You’re not pitching, you’re not doing client business,” Farley advised. “The card itself is all the selling you should really be doing.”
While logos do have a place on a corporate card, it should be done in a tasteful way, said Reichert. Placing the logo below your signature or on the back of the card is a nice way to make the card stand out as something personalised by the business, she said.
Send cards and gifts as soon as possible. Now is the time to send out your holiday greetings and gifts, if you haven’t already. The earlier the better, given many companies close up shop the week of Christmas.
If you’ve missed the deadline, however, Gottsman says you can never go wrong with a New Year card, which should be in the mail before Christmas Day.
The bottom line with all these dos and don’ts, however, is that despite your business, your budget or your byline, your holiday greeting should come from the heart.
“If someone is actually taking the time to write a personal message, that’s going to trump even the worst card design,” Farley said. “Even if the card itself is something you get for 50% off at the local dollar store, the fact that you’ve included a personal message is far more impressive than the most stunning card with nothing inside.”
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Leeds Business Week – 17-21st October #find #business
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Leeds Business Week
17th – 21st October 2016
For one week each October, Leeds Business Week brings together over a hundred speakers to present their ideas, share their knowledge and inspire thousands of delegates at 100+ events across the city of Leeds.
Leeds Business Week aims to be the Leeds City Region s annual platform for sharing ideas, building long-lasting business relationships and making things happen. Together, we re sharing great content, staging some terrific events, networking and building better business relationships.
We Are Stronger together
Featured Events
A series of seminars for business owners, executives and not-for-profit organisations.
Leeds Business Week brings together local talent and businesses from across Yorkshire to cultivate relationships and learn more about building better businesses. The Works are proud sponsors of Leeds Biz Week in what is our 25th year and look forward to celebrating our acievements with you all at the drinks party on the 20th October.
Craig Burton – Founder of The Works Recruitment
We are keen to support businesses across Yorkshire, and the Leeds Business Week helps us support a wide range of people by giving them advice free of charge.
Chris Allen – Managing Partner – Blacks Solicitors
“At a key time for the North’s economy, the opportunity presented by proposed faster rail connections for Leeds and Bradford, as well as progress on improving the skills agenda, need to be maximised. Leeds Business Week is the chance to understand what the future could hold for our businesses as well as establish new relationships, and Yorkshire Building Society colleagues will be getting involved as they have done across recent years.”
Chris Pilling – Yorkshire Building Society Chief Executive
By partnering with the Yorkshire Mafia and Leeds Business Week, we will be able to bring the excitement of the bid, open eyes to the breadth of culture in our city and reach out to businesses to be able to be part of this exciting project. Working together we can be successful in our bid and businesses through the Yorkshire Mafia can see success in their marketing, good citizenship of Leeds and developing their businesses.
Sharon Watson – Leeds 2023 Independent Steering Group Chair
Leeds Business School (Leeds Beckett University) is delighted to sponsor Leeds Business week, and in conjunction with The Yorkshire Mafia enable our students to work with the business community throughout the Leeds and Yorkshire region.
Chris Prince – Dean and Pro Vice Chancellor – Leeds Beckett University
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BLOGFree Business Card Templates – download from Serif #small #business #owners
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Free business card templates
Create your own business cards – for free!
These business card templates are all fully customisable so you can create the exact design you re looking for. This pack contains18 different designs from construction to corporate and florists to pharmaceutical. Whatever your trade, create the right impression by using one of these designs to make your own business card.
Creating your business cards is a breeze!
It s so easy to get started. You ll need PagePlus (from version X4 onwards), our desktop publishing software, to edit your free templates. You can get a free version of PagePlus, PagePlus Starter Edition. or buy our full version, PagePlus X8. When you have PagePlus you can log in and simply download the business card templates .
Once your download is complete, you have immediate access to your new free templates to make as many changes as you like to the layout, colours and pictures.
Once you re happy with your design, print as many as you need, saving yourself valuable time and money!
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Template details:
Business card templates
Quantity: 18
Download size: 4.11 MB
System requirements:
5 MB hard drive space
PagePlus X4 or later or PagePlus Essentials or Starter Edition installed
Download includes:
Editable files, photos artwork
Client Christmas cards – how to get it right #business #listing
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Client Christmas cards – how to get it right
by HCA | Dec 19, 2013
The holidays are a time of comfort and joy—not a time to unleash your inner cynic. The fact remains, however, that nearly everyone on your corporate holiday mailing list knows your gift, card or e-greeting is really an end-of-the-year marketing pitch. A soft sell to be sure, but a marketing pitch nonetheless.
That doesn’t give you full reign to impersonate Ebeneezer Scrooge, however. According to etiquette expert Thomas P Farley—known colloquially as “Mister Manners”—holiday business greetings are a rewarding exercise and a great way to improve client relations, provided you get it right.
“This is an opportunity to get back on the radar with your clients in a meaningful way,” Farley said. “If it’s not meaningful, you’re better off not doing anything at all.”
With that in mind, here are five timely tips for wishing your clients a happy holiday season.
If possible, send a personalized, handwritten card. Operating on a tight budget may prevent you from sending mass-mailed holiday cards to all your clients, but if you can afford the extra effort, it’s worth it.
“An e-greeting can be annoying because they’re often difficult to open and they may not make it to the individual,” said Dianne Gottsman, a national etiquette expert and owner of the Protocol School of Texas. “Handwritten cards breed goodwill.”
Farley agrees, adding that generic e-greetings often “get deleted the moment they’re sent.”
Instead, Farley recommends putting pen to paper and using the opportunity to make a comment specific to the individual, perhaps drawing on a business lunch or meeting the two of you attended.
Choose a tasteful, appropriate design. As head of custom design at California-based Tiny Prints, Heidi Reichert has seen a lot of corporate holiday cards over the years. The best, she said, always “reflect the professionalism” of the company.
“We’ve seen really silly photos or things that might be construed as offensive—maybe it’s a photo of the employees doing shots or something like that,” Reichert said. “It might seem funny at the time, but you never know what your audience might think when they get it.”
Instead, Reichert recommends using photos that are appropriate and professional, along with designs that stand out from the ubiquitous red-and-green that don most holiday greetings. Lime greens and blues are especially popular this season.
Avoid blatant endorsements of religion or cultural traditions. One thing Farley, Gottsman and Reichert all agreed on was that it’s best to “assume nothing” when it comes to recipients’ religious or cultural traditions.
“Being very safe and respectful is the key,” said Gottsman, who added that a neutral “Happy Holidays” is preferable to endorsing Christmas, Kwanzaa, or other holidays.
However, Farley said this rule applies only to the card design itself. Inside, it’s appropriate to wish someone a “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Hanukah,” provided you definitely know your client celebrates that holiday. “It makes your greeting that much more meaningful and warm,” Farley said.
Keep out logos and business cards. Resist the urge to plaster your greeting with your company logo, or stuff the package full of coupons or business cards.
“This is the time for the soft-sell. You’re not pitching, you’re not doing client business,” Farley advised. “The card itself is all the selling you should really be doing.”
While logos do have a place on a corporate card, it should be done in a tasteful way, said Reichert. Placing the logo below your signature or on the back of the card is a nice way to make the card stand out as something personalised by the business, she said.
Send cards and gifts as soon as possible. Now is the time to send out your holiday greetings and gifts, if you haven’t already. The earlier the better, given many companies close up shop the week of Christmas.
If you’ve missed the deadline, however, Gottsman says you can never go wrong with a New Year card, which should be in the mail before Christmas Day.
The bottom line with all these dos and don’ts, however, is that despite your business, your budget or your byline, your holiday greeting should come from the heart.
“If someone is actually taking the time to write a personal message, that’s going to trump even the worst card design,” Farley said. “Even if the card itself is something you get for 50% off at the local dollar store, the fact that you’ve included a personal message is far more impressive than the most stunning card with nothing inside.”
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Program Details – Business – Marketing #local #business
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Business – Marketing
Educational Partners
All four semesters of this two-year Marketing program are identical to the first four semesters of the School of Business three-year, six-semester program. Should students wish to continue with a more in-depth study of the field, they will benefit from a seamless transition into the three-year program.
Qualified graduates may also be eligible to participate in an articulated program with select universities, institutes and professional associations. These partnerships will allow them to apply credits earned at Centennial towards further study.
The Business Marketing program s educational partners are:
- Algoma University
- Athabasca University
- Davenport University
- Griffith University
- Royal Roads University
- Ryerson University
- University of Lethbridge
- University of New Brunswick
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology
- University of Windsor
Career Outlook
- Marketing assistant
- Customer service representative
- Account supervisor
- Sales and service representative
- Merchandising assistant
- Advertising assistant
- Blogger
- Promotions assistant
Academic Requirements
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent, or mature student status (19 years or older)
- English Grade 12 C or U, or equivalent (minimum grade required) or take the Centennial College English Skills Assessment for Admission
- Mathematics Grade 11 or 12 C, M or U, or equivalent (minimum grade required) or take a Centennial College Math Skills Assessment for Admission
Additional Requirements
- Minimum 2.0 (C Grade) is required to graduate.
- Students will be placed in the appropriate English level based on skills assessment results. This may lead to additional courses and require extra time and fees.
1. Apply Online
If you are applying through the Second Career Strategy, please apply at the Employment Training Centre for Second Career (Progress Campus). Second Career Strategy is a funding initiative for those who have been laid-off and are in need of training. For more information go to Second Career Strategy .
If you have previously attended a full time program at Centennial College, you may be eligible for a Program Transfer. Visit Enrolment Services at any Campus for information.
All other applicants must apply online at Ontariocolleges.ca. A non-refundable application fee of $95 must accompany applications. The fee is payable online, by telephone, online banking, by mail, or in person to Ontariocolleges.ca. For more information go to Ontariocolleges.ca Application Fees .
2. Submit Documents
Current Ontario high school students and graduates from Ontario high schools: Notify your guidance counsellor that you have applied to college and your school will forward transcripts to Centennial College via Ontariocolleges.ca.
Graduates of college/university, or high school outside Ontario but within Canada: You are responsible for requesting that your educational institute sends any required documents and transcripts to Ontariocolleges.ca.
Applicants who attended school outside of Canada: If you are submitting transcripts to meet admission requirements, you must have the transcripts assessed by an independent credential assessment agency such as World Education Services (WES) or International Credential Assessment Service (ICAS).
3. Confirm Your Offer of Admission
Offers of Admission are sent by mail to eligible applicants. When you receive your offer, you must login to your account at Ontariocolleges.ca and confirm before the Deadline to Confirm noted in your offer letter.
You may confirm only one college and one program offer at a time.
You must confirm your offer by the Deadline to Confirm noted in your Offer of Admission letter or your seat may be given to another applicant.
When you confirm your Offer of Admission at Centennial College you are given access to your personal myCentennial account where you can check your email, grades, register for courses, pay tuition fees, and see your class timetable.
4. Pay Fees
Centennial fees statements are sent by email to your personal email account and to your myCentennial email account. Fees statements are not mailed .
You must make a minimum payment by the Fees Deadline noted in your Fees Statement or your seat may be given to another applicant.
5. Build Your Timetable (Register for Courses)
Build your timetable (web-register for courses) at my.centennialcollege.ca .
Fall registration begins mid-July
January registration begins mid-December
May registration begins mid-April
Your web-registration will not open if:
You have not submitted your minimum fee payment by the deadline
You received a Conditional Offer of Admission and you have not met the conditions of your offer.
Once you have paid your fees or have made appropriate arrangements, register for your courses online through myCentennial .
Fees noted below are estimates only. Tuition is based on two semesters, beginning Fall 2015.