Advanced Training Group return to work with Bangkok’s top businesses

Bangkok based business consultants, Advanced Training Group, are to follow up the recent successes of their business seminars with a company revamp and busy schedule for the last quarter of 2010.
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PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 17, 2010 – Advanced Training Group, the Bangkok based training company are to launch the next phase of the company success for the next business quarter in 2010.

The company have seen a tremendous success in the Asean region with various workshops during the previous six months and also obtaining a major contract with Australian based company New Image.

Ron Cartey, founder of Advanced Training Group, comments, “2010 saw Advanced Training Group take major leaps forward including taking a much more active role in the social media arena. We worked with some major Bangkok businesses in implementing and advising on the best ways to establish and maintain social media to enhance their business and corporate image.”

Ron continues, “The next quarter of 2010 will see Advanced Training Group take another couple of giant leaps forward. Our new upgraded website, we are very excited about and feel this will promote the perfect image for our company.”

“In addition, we are remodelling the company by adding two more divisions and working together with two established major companies in their field or expertise. This undoubtedly will enhance our reputation and provide a fuller and complete business package for our clients and we will be releasing more details in the next week or so.”

“Also, within the next 10 days, we will be releasing details of our Q4 seminars, workshops and training days which I am confident will have something for every type of business in Bangkok and indeed, the Asean region as we will be expanding more into the region.”

Bangkok businesses really have something good to look forward to and more details can be obtained from Advanced Training Group.

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About Advanced Training Group (Bangkok) – Advanced Training Group’s operations started 1984. Since then restructuring has taken place throughout the Group due to the continuous growth of the organization to where the practice now operates from four regional offices, UK, Australia, Thailand & Malaysia.

The five main sectors in Advanced Training Group’s programmes are:

• Customer Service – retaining and keeping existing customers,

• Sales – attracting new customers and sales,

• Management – implementing internal business strategies and change management,

• Corporate – sending out the correct and appropriate message with the business brand and

• Personal Development – personal one on one growth and development.

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Advanced Training Group go viral with Bangkok’s top businesses.

Bangkok based business and training consultants Advanced Training Group held their Achieve Marketing Success seminar at the Grand Millennium Hotel, Asok, Bangkok and was very well received from the delegate of some of Bangkok’s top businesses.

Riding on the wave of social media and social networking, Advanced Training Group hosted their second phase of their social media workshops entitled Achieve Marketing Success. The half day seminar follows up their Social Media workshop by showing Bangkok’s business delegates the most effective ways of viral marketing.

Almost everyone today uses social media but very few can claim to use social media to its potential. To maximise marketing results Advanced Training Group’s Clint Barnard introduced delegate to the importance of viral marketing and how to achieve this.

The first part of Advanced Training Groups seminar was how to maximise email campaigns and the critical factors to take into account. With so much of online marketing constantly changing, Clint offered his expert opinion and advice on how to achieve marketing success with email viral marketing.

The second part of the session involved the use of the biggest aspect of social media and that is video viral marketing. Often overlooked due to seemingly complex, expensive and often intricate nature of video presentations, Advanced Training Group explained how video marketing can be one of the most successful tools for a marketing department and campaign.

Examples of YouTube videos and how these were not put into the mainstream but promoted through word of mouth and through email contacts were shown and suggestion, tricks and tips on how businesses in Bangkok can incorporate these into their marketing strategies.

Advanced Training Group will be offering Bangkok’s businesses their expert guidance and advice on how to produce, present and edit short video presentations as part of general marketing and viral marketing campaigns. Details of which are available from Advanced Training Group.

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About Advanced Training Group (Bangkok) – Advanced Training Group’s operations started 1984. Since then restructuring has taken place throughout the Group due to the continuous growth of the organization to where the practice now operates from four regional offices, UK, Australia, Thailand & Malaysia.

There are five main sectors in Advanced Training Group’s programmes. These are

• Customer Service – retaining and keeping existing customers,

• Sales – attracting new customers and sales,

• Management – implementing internal business strategies and change management,

• Corporate – sending out the correct and appropriate message with the business brand and

• Personal Development – personal one on one growth and development.

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https://advancedtraininggroup.wordpress.com

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http://www.youtube.com/user/AdvancedTrainingGrp

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Advanced Training Group join forces with Bangkok’s business leaders for outstanding results

Advanced Training Group take their social media programme to the next level with a workshop for Bangkok businesses to successfully integrate social media into their company and see the results.

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Advanced Training Group, the Bangkok based business consultants and training company are holding the next phase of their corporate social media programme on Thursday 29 July 2010 at the Grand Millennium Suhkumvit Hotel, Asoke, Bangkok.

The successful workshop of the Power of Social Networking was very well received with some of Bangkok’s major businesses attending and finding out what social media is and how it can work for them.

The next stage – Achieve Marketing Success – shows how and what to do for specific businesses and how specific content in a company’s social media outlets can really achieve a new marketing outlet for a business.

It is well known that anybody and everybody is becoming involved with social media and to coin a phrase from the Social Media player – Socialnomics – that social media is here to stay and it is not a case of whether or not we do social media but it is how well we do it that counts.

The Advanced Training Groups Achieve Marketing Success programme will show businesses exactly that – how to do it successfully and what critical factors must be taking into account. With the expertise of Advanced Training Groups social media expert and consultant Bangkok’s major businesses can achieve outstanding success by getting ahead by standing out in the social media market.

Bangkok’s businesses are invited to register for the half day workshop at the Grand Millennium Hotel, in the Asok area of Bangkok with this registration form – http://www.atgroup.org/newsletter/brochures/atg_sem_bk.pdf

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About Advanced Training Group (Bangkok) – Advanced Training Group’s operations started 1984. Since then restructuring has taken place throughout the Group due to the continuous growth of the organization to where the current practice now operates from four regional offices, UK, Australia, Thailand & Malaysia.

There are five main sectors in Advanced Training Group’s programmes. These go from
• Customer Service – retaining and keeping existing customers,
• Sales – attracting new customers and sales,
• Management – implementing internal business strategies and change management,
• Corporate – sending out the correct and appropriate message with the business brand and
• Personal Development – personal one on one growth and development.
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Advanced Training Group soon to be looking for highly talented sales and managers

Advanced Training Group are working as an external training and business consultant with a large plc based in Australia and New Zealand. The company client was recently noted at the 84th largest company globally and have plans to move this to number 50 by the end of the year.

As part of this expansion, Advanced Training Group are assisting the company with their expansion into Thailand, Malaysia and the Philipines. Advanced Training Group will soon be recruiting for management positions on behalf of the company. Sales managers who can establish themselves and a sales team in Thailand will be asked to submit their resume.

Founder of Advanced Training Group, Ron Cartey, is enthusiastic about the coming months working alongside the client in this new, ambitious and highly charged venture. Ron says, “I work with this client and regularly attend their offices in Sydney and New Zealand in a consulting capacity. When the new venture was discussed I was highly enthusiastic and very pleased to be involved in this exciting new chapter for the company.”

“We obviously have a good contact base to assist with this start up but in addition, we will also be promoting this generally and will be asking various head hunters in Thailand to recommend suitable candidates. We feel that there is huge scope for success and we will also be sourcing for new and highly talented, dynamic individuals to join us.”

Advanced Training Groups golden reputation increases…

With the undoubted success of recent social media workshops Advanced Training Groups reputation as the premier training and business consultancy in the Asean region continues.

Advanced Training Group have already received requests from companies unable to attend their social media workshops. Included in this was perhaps the largest property developer in Thailand which we were happy to present a company specific presentation to the board of directors at the end of last week.

More details to follow

Collect the Cash and Keep the Customer (CCKC)

HOW TO COLLECT OUTSTANDING DEBT BUT STILL MAINTAIN CUSTOMER LOYALTY? THIS “COLLECT THE CASH AND KEEP THE CUSTOMER” PROGRAMME PROVIDES A STEP BE STEP GUIDE OF THE REQUIRED SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES NECESSARY TO COPE WITH EVER INCREASING DEBT AND REDUCING CUSTOMER BASE

1. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this programme are three fold i.e. 1.1 To share ideas, techniques and skills that enable the delegates to have a general awareness and fundamental understanding of Indebtedness and Collection Techniques 1.2 To ensure that these techniques are totally relevant to the company requirements and more importantly, adapted to the varying collection scenarios. 1.3 To practice the skills, techniques and methods necessary to apply those concepts in the working arena & to ensure the ongoing application of ideas in conjunction with the long-term success of the sister ‘Achieving Service Excellence’ programmes. To achieve these objectives, Advanced Training will provide the necessary proven training material together with the training expertise and experience necessary.

2. SUGGESTED PROGRAMME CONTENT

2.1 The programme is be designed to provide a structured development programme for staff across differing backgrounds and operating roles aimed at improving collection techniques. It is also designed to create an awareness and understanding of the importance of the collection function in the corporate world. 2.2 The programme will run on an ‘Interactive Training’ and ‘Highly Participative’ format and will conform to Advanced Training’s effective combination of lecture, discussion, analysis, professional critique and coaching allowing for maximum practical application 2.3The following are suggested contents to cover possible requirements however, the final content and structure would be determined upon further discussion to custom fit to specific requirements.

2.4  The C.C.K.C. Collection Programme

• The Challenges of Telephone Collecting &The Communication Filters
• The Importance Of The Collection Role & Collection Tactics
• Understanding Why People Don’t Pay & The Reasons Why Someone Should
• Various Collection Approaches & Techniques
• Reasons For Default And How To Adapt Accordingly Planning & Making An Effective
• Call & Motivating People To Pay
• Dealing With The Unexpected & Countering The ‘Non Payment’ Reasons
• Countering ‘Stalling’ Tactics and Overcoming Reasons ‘Not To Pay’
• Keeping The Collection Process Sweet Ensuring The Customer Returns

3. DURATION AND TIMINGS To achieve the result desired, Advanced Training recommends that each training & development session should be of 1- 2 days duration with 10-12 delegates. The programme timings are subject to final agreement. Our suggestions are as follows

Day 1 9.00am – 5.00pm Day 2 9.00am – 5.00pm

Advanced Training Group at the Grand Millennium Hotel Bangkok

Advanced Training Group of Bangkok, Thailand held their latest round of Social Media Workshops today at the Grand Millennium Suhkumvit Hotel. The workshop brought together a number of the top companies in Bangkok to show the power of using Social Media and Social Networking.

The Grand Millennium Suhkumvit Hotel on Asok Road, Bangkok was the ideal setting for this total immersion workshop. The speaker, Advanced Training Group’s Brian Jenkins is an expert in the field of Social Media and has delivered and presented to numerous organisations, communities and the public.

Social Networking – An Old Head On New Shoulders

With the success of the last round of Social Networking workshops, Advanced Training Group are throwing the Social Networking net further afield this time. In addition to Bangkok, workshops are also being held in Pattaya City and Phuket in what is being described as roadshow, Ken Thorkildsen of Advanced Training Group looks at the Social Networking phenomenon and who is using what.

The computer age has really hurried along business over the last 20 years. From the days when only a few businesses used a computer and indeed all those years ago I am remembered of a client who called computers “a fad”, to now where essentially computers are regarded by some as just important as an air supply.

Business in that time really has not changed, we still prefer do business and network face to face wherever possible but client loyalty is less regarded as there are more and more outlets for businesses to grab clients, to move their heads and ultimately to steal them away from you. It is indeed a difficult job to get a client and even harder to keep one. One thing is for certain, the business world has shrunk but the amount of businesses vying for position in this shrunken world has grown.

Far from changing the business world, the internet revolution has changed the way businesses can promote and market themselves to the population. There seems to be a million and one internet companies all offering the same products with “unbeatable” value or indeed giving their opinion on something. Trawling through the internet dustbin of companies can take what seems like a lifetime when really all the client has is an hour or so during their lunch break to get the information they are looking for.

So what advantages do businesses have and what tools can be used to retain clients, to buy their loyalty and importantly to keep your business in front of the client? Well, it seems that old principle of simple Networking but on a new footing seems to be the order of the day. The last four or five years has seen consumers spending more time online and consequently building up an online life into what is now commonly known as social networking. Social networking is easy as all your friends, family, business contacts etc are all there in a nice folder. Social networking is convenient as you can quickly hop on the PC and instant message, update your status or tweet. Social networking will also let everyone know, in an instant, if something is good or bad.

The last one is very important for businesses as it means that a good review from your product or service can wing it’s way around numerous Twitter, Facebook, My Space, Digg, Blog etc. You name is, within the space of an hour Social Networking news can do more than the time it took for the first letter in an old fashioned mail shot to be printed, let alone delivered. What is better way for a business to grow than through old fashioned referrals and social networking is exactly that but faster. Mail shots by letter or indeed email shots to a list of unknown people on a database is very ineffective and indeed the chances of your email shot being read by the recipient is very slim and probably has the same chance as that being sent by some Nigerian company offering you $7.5m for a safe and legal investment.

Social network marketing is giving businesses the opportunity to market to clients by numerous different angles and all at the client’s leisure without the client feeling hassled at the amount of correspondence that you are sending them. It is human nature to want to be part of a group and by offering consumers to be part of your online Facebook business group or asking them to follow your Tweets on Twitter or to read your blog businesses can now ask client’s to buy their brand for free. Businesses can now get their product and company updates out there to their prospective clients in an instant, direct the client to their website and brochure, the client choose the product and be delivered the following day.

So who is using social networking? Well the short answer is the smart business. The question is really, who should be using social networking? And the answer is any business that has a customer.

Far from being a passing fad, the internet and social networking phenomenon is here to stay and will only get faster, higher and stronger.

Advanced Training Group are providing social networking workshops around Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket, Thailand. They will also implement your company’s business in the social networking area.

Advanced Training Group are International Communication Specialists. We offer business corporations and SME’s business consulting services, marketing services, employee workshops and seminar speaking and presentations. We have centres in UK, Asia and Australia.

For more information on how Advanced Training Group can work with you, call Ken Thorkildsen on (0066) 860 57 11 56 or email: kt@ atgroup.org.

Advanced Training Group Social Networking in Action

With the first round of the Advanced Training Group’s Social Networking workshops completed, the initial signs are showing it to be very successful with companies in attendance beginning to take on board the ideas and lessons.

Social Networking is making the business world smaller whilst making each business target a larger client base and audience. Social networking sites such as Facebook and Flikr are allowing clients to window shop more for the products and services that they require and for the business owners it’s indirectly buying client loyalty.

From a networking perspective with Distressed Invest Property being based in Europe, while Advanced Training Group based in Bangkok, Thailand, it proves that social networking and conducting business globally to be easier than ever. A point that is not lost on both companies.

Distressed Invest are property specialists focussing on international properties that need selling quickly and for a price under the market value.  For example, clients may have defaulted on their mortgage payments and the bank has foreclosed the mortgage. This leaves the bank with a problem as they still are owed the money and they now have a bank of properties they have no experience of selling.

Ken Thorkildsen, of Advanced Training Group, has been advising and consulting with Distressed Invest on how best to use and market with social networking. “Distressed Invest usually market to their clients with email and telephone call. You just need to check your emails every day to see the amount of junk and spam that is being sent to us all every day via email which means that the proper business emails you send can often not get read or indeed may end up in the junk mail folder.”

“One to one telephone consultations will definitely build up a relationship with clients and indeed advising clients that all calls will be followed up by an email is always to be recommended.” Ken goes on, “Social Networking will now allow Distressed Invest Property to give clients up to the minute news and information on products and properties without the need to keep inundating the client with telephone calls and emails. It also gives clients the opportunity to browse of “window shop” the services and also to make comment etc on Distressed Invest and for other clients to browse these comments. Facebook for example has 462m users worldwide and will grow into an excellent shop window for Distressed Invest.”

“The AT Group, in addition, believe that Twitter will also be an excellent marketing tool for Distressed Invest. Twitter is non offensive in that it is a simple couple of lines of marketing to each client directing them to updates etc at the blog they have started.” Ken concludes, “I wouldn’t say it is a new direction for Distressed Invest, however it is an additional approach to their already professional and successful business model and AT Group look forward to helping and watching the business grow and the success that will grow with it. This ultimately is the mission for Advanced Training Group and their clients.”

Matthew Moore, founder of Distressed Invest adds, “I have been involved in marketing and real estate for many years and I feel that that the external expertise and new approach from AT Group will definitely help grow Distressed Invest. The amount of networking contacts we all have through our many years of business it makes sense to move our marketing into this direction. With AT Group behind the majority of the marketing, it will allow me and my team to focus directly on servicing our clients. I am very pleased and indeed very excited about the way forward.”

Distressed Invest can be found at

http://www.facebook.com/DistressedInvestProperty

http://www.twitter.com/DistInvProperty

http://www.DistressedInvest.eu

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The next phase of Social Networking?

The demise of Bebo has been widely reported with analysts looking to the other major social networking sites so see the next stage in the evolution of social networking. It is anticipated that Twitter is to announce a new key word system long the lines of what Google introduced a few years ago with Google Keywords.

The new system will see users being able to buy “Key words” or phrases in the search content which will divert relevant searches to their tweets. Twitter is around four years old now and has never really moved into the market of being a profit driven business, preferring to build up a client base or user base. With social networking now evolving, and Facebook bringing in a reported $1bn dollars last year, Twitter now feel the time is right to bring in revenue to invest in their services.

Ron Cartey of the Advanced Training Group (AT Group) who are running specialised corporate workshops on social networking, says, “The news about Bebo has barely hit the newspapers but already we are seeing how the other social networking sites do not want their businesses to follow suit. With Twitter following a very good business model in Google Keywords, we will surely see over time investment to improve Twitter and of course, to attract more businesses to Tweet.”

Ron continues, “with Facebook already providing revenue through demographic targeted advertising inline with users profile, the door is wide open for businesses to take advantage of the extra marketing tool for their business.”

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