It has been claimed companies in the UK must offer skills training to help the country remain competitive on the global stage.

How do you view the skills training you offer to your staff? Are your sales people trained with the latest sales intelligence and do they regularly attend sales training courses?

All major employers in the UK must give their support to skills training, according to one expert.

John Connolly, a senior partner and chief executive at financial services firm Deloitte, has stated that urgent action is needed to tackle the shortage of “employability skills”.

In turn, this will be vital to ensuring that UK businesses are able to remain competitive on the global stage, he stated.

Mr Connolly said: “In the current economic climate, the skills of the UK workforce will be critical to business survival and growth.”

Although many firms are facing difficult decisions when it comes to employment, they still want to make sure their workforce is equipped with the skills needed to “compete in more difficult markets”, he added.

Would you like to discuss the training needs of your staff? Contact Advance Your Sales - Sales Training to arrange for your FREE sales and marketing consultation on 01908 313069 or by visiting http://www.advance-your-sales.com/

Are you questioning if you need to invest in training courses and sales training during the economic downturn?

Businesses should invest in the skills of their employees as the recession bites, according to one expert. Mark Cahill, managing director of recruitment agency Manpower UK, has said the skills of workers will always be a firm’s biggest asset and action must be taken to avoid a talent drain.

“Employers should take the opportunity now to re-skill and retrain workers so they are absolutely best placed for the upturn when it comes,” he said.

Mr Cahill’s comments come as Manpower’s quarterly Employment Survey revealed that just five per cent of firms expect to increase their headcount in the next three months. A further 11 per cent expect to cut jobs while 81 per cent are not planning to change staffing levels over the same period.

Research conducted by Train To Gain during 2008 has proven that “Employers who don’t train are 2.5 times more likely to fail than those who do”

To find out more about the Sales training offered by Advance Your Sales - Sales Training please visit http://www.advance-your-sales.com/

The government has recently announced and promoted its Change4Life campaign - Tips for healthy kids and families.

The campaign focuses on the way people live in modern society and the effects that this has on all of us and especially our children. The call to action is to complete the Change4Life survey and then come up with a plan to make small changes to eat well, move more, and live longer.

Small steps that can make a dramatic difference when consistently applied.

This may have led you to ask the question - Is it time to Change 4 Business?

How can I make small changes within my business that can deliver dramatic changes when applied consistently?

How can I sell well, sell more, and profit more?

Advance Your Sales - Sales Training offer a free business consultation where we will help you with answers to the questions above.

One of our sales and marketing consultants will conduct a free consultation that will identify areas of strength and weakness and the solutions that will make dramatic and sustained changes within your businesses sales performance.

Whether or not you decide to continue with the process and the recommendations that have been made the report we produce is totally free and yours to keep and use.

To arrange your appointment with†Advance Your Sales - Sales Training call us today on 01908 313069 or visit www.Advance-Your-Sales.com

The City Breakfast Club is a breakfast meeting and business networking†event in Milton Keynes. The City Breakfast Club is held on the 1st Wednesday of every month at the Living Room:

The Living Room - Milton Keynes
401 Witan Gate
Milton Keynes
MK9 2BQ

The†Breakfast Club is an opportunity for†local businesses to meet and network in a relaxed environment and just fewer than 100 businesses regularly attend each meeting.

Attendance can be arranged by invitation from one of the sponsors or by visiting http://www.citybreakfastclub.co.uk

If you would like to find out more about Search Engine Optimisation in Milton Keynes and how to see your website at the top of the search engines please click on the following link - SEO Milton Keynes.

To find out about the Advance Your Sales Businesses Networking Events or sales training and sales improvement in Milton Keynes, click on one of the previous links or call 01908 313069.

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According a new survey nearly 70% of employees consider learning and development as important as salary and other benefits when they are searching for a job*.

Despite this fact 2/3 of businesses are unsure of how to monitor the effectiveness of their training investment*.

For 46% of businesses the evaluation of training courses is simply a post-learning discussion with a line manager or for 45% it is based on observing new skills in the workplace*.

At Advance Your Sales we recommend that a full formal evaluation is undertaken in order to successfully establish the full return on investment that you receive from your sales training course.

All of our courses are backed up by 6 months of free email support making it easier for our delegates and their employers to get the full benefit from the new skills they have learnt.

During tough economic times it is essential that you fully understand the return on investment you have received.

Our price match policy provides you with further evidence of our confidence in the competitiveness of our courses and the improvements in performance we will deliver to your business.

For further details visit www.Advance-Your-Sales.com †or contact one of our regional offices.

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Picking a sales training company that can deliver training that is sustainable, measurable and practical is essential if you are to get a return on your training investment.

We offer a sales training price match policy that guarantees you will get the best sales training at the right price.

More important than price though we will work with you to make sure our training fits your specific needs and requirements. The importance of the right training is not something that is only recognised by Advance Your Sales.

Chris Humphries, CEO of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills has told the government that If investment in skills today does not match the UK’s future needs, we could be about to make the same recession mistakes as Labour did in the 1970s and the Conservatives in the 1990s.

Investing in the right skills now is the best way to ensure that 2010 onwards isn’t just a tough climb out of recession but a real opportunity for a profitable and successful future - and could be the difference between a long or a short recession.

To arrange a free consultation to discuss sales training that can help your business to a profitable and successful future please call one of our regional offices or visit www.Advance-Your-Sales.com

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According to a recent survey of 828 senior managers across the globe 40% fear their company does not have a credible plan to survive the economic crisis.

The study by consultancy Booz & Co also found 46% of respondents do not think those in a leadership position at their firm could carry out a plan, credible or not.

The survey went on to show 65% of hard-hit businesses are not taking steps to secure their future, such as disposing of assets or securing external funding.

Advance Your Sales offer businesses an opportunity to look at how to improve the performance of their sales departments by way of their Free Sales Audit.

If you would like to arrange an appointment to discuss how our Sales Training Courses and Sales Management Training can help you increase your sales revenues and profitability please contact one of our regional offices or visit www.Advance-Your-Sales.com

A survey of over 500 business managers from companies with more than 50 employees has shown that 32% today’s business leaders believe that academic qualifications are the most overrated indicator of a good leader*.

Surprisingly the survey has shown Only 32 per cent of today’s leaders left education with a degree or equivalent qualification. 7 per cent of the business leaders left school with no academic qualifications and 12 per cent†left school under the age of 16*.†Would you like to find out more about how sales management and leadership training can help your business? Visit www.Advance-Your-Sales.com or call 01908 313069†to find out more about Sales Management Training in Bedfordshire.†*Source: ILM

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Have you seen the new advertising campaign by Comparethemarket.com for Comparethemeerkat.com?

Launched in 2006 Comparethemarket.com is a trading name of BISL Limited. Comparethemarket.com is an insurance comparison site where customers can compare quotes from over 400 insurance providers.

The latest marketing campaign from the company features Aleksandr from Compare the meerkat and†he is becoming increasingly frustrated by people who visit Comparethemeerkat.com by mistake when they are actually looking for cheaper car insurance.

View the advert on YouTube here.

What a fantastic and innovative marketing idea, however it does not stop there. The Compare the meerkat†theme continues with a fully functioning Comparethemeerkat.com website.

Plus they are using the constantly growing and evolving social networking market with a Comparethemeerkat.com Facebook page and twitter page.

If you would like to discuss innovative marketing ideas for your business please visit http://www.advance-your-sales.com/ to arrange a free consultation

Depending on your individual marketing objectives we can help you with the latest marketing tools including search engine optimisation, search engine marketing and social networking for businesses.

To find out more contact one of our regional offices:

Bedford: 01234 367525 London: 0208 938 3768 Milton Keynes: 01908 313069

Or alternatively visit http://www.advance-your-sales.com/ to find out more about our sales training, sales solutions and marketing & public relations services.

Facebook which is the world’s most popular online social networking site now has over 150 million active users, according to information shared by Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder.

Almost half of users log onto the site every day and users upload more than 700 million photos to the site each month.

The average user has 100 friends on the web site and 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day.

How Can I Use Social Networking To Promote My Business?

Our innovative public relations campaigns are results orientated and span across all types of medium including press,†new media and social networking for businesses.

Our public relations results will speak for themselves and will help you reach your desired audience. They will have a positive effect on your brand, sales and corporate performance.

To discuss your specific public relations objectives please contact one of our regional offices:

Bedford: 01234 367525 London: 0208 938 3768 Milton Keynes: 01908 313069

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