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INVITATIONS TO TENDER NOTICE Townsend Enterprise Park Ltd is one of Belfast’s original and most successful enterprise development organisations and since its foundation in 1987, it has earned the reputation of being a major enterprise development player in the Belfast area and has helped hundreds of businesses start up and develop their business.
The company offers competitively priced managed workspace and business services to meet a wide variety of business needs and it is located parallel to the Westlink in Belfast City Centre, the ideal place to do business with ample parking.
Townsend Enterprise Park Ltd now wishes to invite competitive tenders from suitably qualified and competent contractors for the supply of the following services for a fixed term period. Legal services Accountancy services Waste management Energy supply Insurance Security IT maintenance services Full details relating to the requirements of Townsend Enterprise Park Ltd including the terms and conditions governing the award of the contract are available from www.townsend.co.uk.
Christmas Final Countdown
It's officially just Four weeks until Christmas, no time for printing flyers or placing ads, but you can still do a lot online. Promoting your business online is the fastest way to reach your customers. The right use of Email marketing, social media, adwords, online PR & marketing will get your message out there. Whatever you need help with please call me for advice 07900317253. www.webdesignomagh.com
December 14th 2011 – 14:00-17:00hrs
ICAGNI Christmas gathering – Seasons Restaurant
Mount Conference Centre Belfast BT6 8DD
Informal gathering with late lunch – a la carte – pay as you go.
Book here
ICAGNI’s informal Christmas celebrations will be on December 14th from 2pm at the Mount Conference Centre. Orders will be taken up to 2.30pm and thereafter guests can have coffee/tea and a mince pie. Each guest can choose their own food from the delicious menu and will settle their own Bill. Early booking advised via this link only www.trainingpeople.biz/ICAGNIXMAS2011/default_form.htm
Marketing students should all be familiar with the quote from 19th Century US merchant John Wannamaker who said “I know that half of my advertising budget is wasted. The trouble is I don't know which half."
Fortunately in the 21st Century marketers don’t have to rely so much on guesswork or outdated metrics for assessing the impact of their campaigns. One of the big questions in marketing surrounds the return on investment from websites and wider internet marketing campaigns. With more money being allocated to web promotion it’s not surprising that businesses are paying more attention to how their websites are actually performing. With these questions in mind several technology companies, most notably, Google, have developed powerful analytics software systems. So what is web analytics and why is so important for businesses?
Getting Started
In a nutshell, web analytics is ‘the measurement, collection, reporting and analysis of internet data to understand what website visitors are doing on your website’. Onsite analytics, the most common form of web measurement, allows website owners to track a website visitor’s interaction on their website. While there are a multitude of competing web analytics providers, Google offer the market leading service in the form of Google Analytics. Google’s service is perfect for small to medium sized businesses that require an effective and easy to use online measurement system. It’s also free and easy to use, factors which have helped Google Analytics become the most widely used online measurement program - currently in use at 57% of the world’s top websites.
Using Analytics for Business Improvement.
The most common use of web analytics is to find out where your website visitors are actually coming from on the web. Analytics reports allow marketers and businesses to test the performance of their wider marketing campaigns, by showing how many web-visits came from online advertising campaigns, paid search activity and referrals from emails and other online media. Reports can even tell you where your web visitors are actually located and can show which countries, cities and regions are generating the most web traffic for your site.
The second main use of web analytics is to test the interaction that users have on specific websites. This is a very valuable tool for businesses as they can gain valuable insights into how their website visitors are using the site. As shown in the Google Analytics image, users can find out key metrics including the number of visitors, the average number of page views, the average time spent onsite and the overall bounce rates. The last two metrics are highly important in assessing the effectiveness of your site. If your analytics reports show a low rate of time spent onsite and high bounce rates then it reveals that your website is poor at maintaining user interest and engagement as site visitors are exiting the site quickly – all of which is bad news for the site owner. Site owners can also check what’s working on the site so they can continually improve their website offering.
Analytics Trends
Web analytics is playing an increasingly important part in business and marketing. The vast majority of businesses now use an online analytics system and according to New Media Age, companies are fast increasing their investment in web analytics with 48% of companies intending to invest more staff resources to analytics.
And with continuing investment in analytics technology, maybe one day you might be able to find out which half of the advertising budget is being wasted.
Paul McGarrity is Director of Octave Online Communications, an internet marketing consultancy based in Belfast. The consultancy helps business and organisations to benefit from online marketing strategy and campaigns.
www.OctaveOC.com
We are currently recruiting for the following sales positions:
Business Systems Sales Executive
Job Specification
We are seeking a skilled telecom’s systems sales professional with experience in selling PBX systems predominantly into the private sector in NI, but any public sector sales experience would be advantageous. You will generate your own appointments through new business development and via some existing accounts, be able to identify potential business opportunities, present solutions and close the sale face to face to meet and exceed targets.
Experience of selling a range of switches will be extremely beneficial. You will be strong at developing new business both directly and strategically through third parties (architects, developers etc) with a successful sales track record.
THE PACKAGE:
Basic Salary - Excellent Basic (£20-25,000) + uncapped commission (OTE up to £45K)
Company Car Allowance – Negotiable
Benefits - Mobile, Lap Top, 23 Days Holiday (plus statutory days).
Network Sales Representative
Job Specification
Rainbow Telecom seeks a highly driven and target focused sales professional preferably with a Telecoms background or alternatively a strong field sales background. The successful candidate will self generate appointments within the B2B sector and will report directly to the Sales Manager. Experience in B2B and Self Generating business is essential as your roll would involve developing new business. Duties will include sitting 2-3 appointments per day and performing in line with company's targeted KPI's.
THE PACKAGE:
Basic Salary – Excellent Basic (£15-20,000) + uncapped commission (OTE up to £40k)
Company Car Allowance – Negotiable
Benefits - Mobile, Lap Top, 23 days holiday (plus statutory days)
Another First for a Northern Ireland Consultant
Congratulations to Steven Chambers who was the first candidate in Northern Ireland to achieve the internationally acclaimed Certified Management Consultant (CMC) award through the Institute of Consulting’s professional discussion route.
Certified Management Consultant (CMC) is an international professional certification for management consulting professionals, awarded by institutes in 46 countries (as of December 2009). The CMC enjoys global reciprocity; consultants certified in one country are recognized in most other countries. The standards for CMC in technical competencies and professional conduct were developed by several of the international associations together with The International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI).
Increasingly, both clients and employers are starting to recognise the CMC as a mark of a professional consultant. One of the challenges we face in this sector is that it is possible for anybody to market their services as a 'consultant' even though they may lack many of the core consulting competencies. The CMC provides you with a mark of excellence and shows that you are both able and committed to performing against a set of high consulting standards. It helps you stand out from the crowd - it demonstrates that you have been through a rigorous assessment process, and that you are acknowledged by the IC as being a confident and competent consultant.
Up until now, applying for the CMC has been perceived by many IC Members as a pretty arduous task involving a detailed application form, assignment case studies and an assessment centre (including presentation and role play).
Things have changed - up to 20 'pilot test' candidates are being invited to assess the potential merits of the PROFESSIONAL DISCUSSION (PD) route to achieving CMC.
The PD approach is no less rigorous and has been designed to fully test the capabilities of candidates against the stringent international requirements that follows-on from the successful implementation of the PD route for Chartered Manager. CMI successfully introduced this approximately 2 years ago and have seen about 30-35% increase in uptake in Chartered Manager status each year since the approach was introduced!
Here’s what Steven has to say about the process:
“Whilst challenging, it is much less bureaucratic than I have encountered in other processes. The application process was simple, straight forward and practical. As a qualified Assessor in other areas, the professional discussion was just that - a professional discussion.”
If you would like to express your interest in being considered for one of the 5 remaining places on the pilot programme, please email Ellie at
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for details.
Active Inspire’s Customer Wisdom
Key Features
· Allows involvement from across the whole customer base
· Can evaluate perceptions of competitor offerings
· Can compare service and competition against market expectations
· Captures Weak Signals that can prompt innovation
· 100% anonymous, prompts real and unfiltered messages
· Free text format input only
· Overcomes all obstacles of disparate and geographically spread locations and also shift or time zone difficulties
· Delivers results very rapidly, typically in 5-6 weeks.
· Takes advantage of internet opportunities and technology.
· Minimises consultancy expenditure and effort required from the customers’ employees and managers
· Scalable to meet different requirements
Promotes involvement and engagement, builds the customer relationship
Obtains evidence as to where improvement or change is needed, from the customers themselves
Can engage thousands of customers in contributing in a few weeks
Introduces a novel level of engagement and responsiveness
A new era of participation, co-operation and commitment
Raises the barrier to competition
Return on Savings
Implementation is easier, less expensive than other methods.
Costs are a fraction of the equivalent analysis conducted by traditional questionnaire, survey and focus group techniques.
Because it is fast to deliver results, the lost opportunity cost of delay in acting is reduced.
Promotes involvement and engagement, builds the customer relationship
TENDERS
For Northern Ireland specific contracts, there are a number of sources of information specifically for contracts within Northern Ireland. The Central Procurement Directorate (CPD) handles contracts for a number of government departments. You can find a list of current tender opportunities on the CPD website. Again, there is no email alert facility that we can find which makes the content difficult to adapt to the Bulletin format. Please see https://e-sourcingni.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/toolkit/notice/public/opportunities.do?reset=true for the current list of Northern Ireland opportunities. Ref: NOV287776
Ref: NOV290115
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: Evaluation of Training Networks Programme and Finuas Programme
Published: 23/11/2011
Published by: Skillnets Ltd
Deadline: 13/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV290115
Ref: NOV290095
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: Meath Rural Tourism Trail Development Strategy
Published: 23/11/2011
Published by: Meath Partnership
Deadline: 01/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV290095
Ref: NOV289435
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: Invitation to Tender for the Provision of an Eco Tourism Training Programme within Duhallow
Published: 22/11/2011
Published by: IRD Duhallow Ltd
Deadline: 05/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV289435
Ref: NOV289815
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: Online e-Worker Training
Published: 22/11/2011
Published by: Avondhu Blackwater Partnership
Deadline: 05/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV289815
Ref: NOV289775
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: Rural SME Mentor Panel
Published: 22/11/2011
Published by: Sligo LEADER Partnership Co. Ltd.
Deadline: 09/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV289775
Ref: NOV288335
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: The Historic Country Homes and Gardens of Meath
Published: 18/11/2011
Published by: Meath Partnership
Deadline: 01/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV288335
Ref: NOV288315
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: Oral History Training Programme
Published: 18/11/2011
Published by: Meath Partnership
Deadline: 01/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV288315
Ref: NOV288336
Notice Type: Invitation to Tender
Title: Harnessing the Potential of Rural Tourism in County Meath
Published: 18/11/2011
Published by: Meath Partnership
Deadline: 01/12/2011
Full Text: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/Search_View.aspx?id=NOV288336
Belfast City Council Tenders are available at www.belfastcity.gov.uk/tenders 
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