Kansas Commerce
Convergys Home Agent Representative
Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) is a global leader in relationship management. They provide solutions that drive more value from the client’s relationship with their customers. Convergys turns these everyday interactions into a source of profit and strategic advantage for their clients. For more than 30 years, a unique combination of domain expertise, operational excellence, and innovative technologies has delivered process improvement and actionable business insight to marquee clients all over the world.
Convergys has approximately 65,000 employees in 68 customer contact centers and other facilities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with the global headquarters located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A Work-at-Home career with Convergys can be the perfect opportunity to enjoy added income and benefits while still making time for other priorities. Training can be done from the comfort of your own home, and receive the technical support you need to prepare for a successful future. Multiple fringe benefits.
A Convergys Home Agent is paid for the time in training, which as mentioned can be done from the comfort of your home office. A Convergys Team Leader will partner with you to ensure the knowledge you need to be successful. To apply for an at-home position, visit CONVERGYS now!
Northwest Kansas Development Roundtable
The Northwest Kansas Development Roundtable meeting will be held at the Huck Boyd Community Center on March 16 at 10 am through 3 pm. This meeting will be hosted by Phillips County Economic Development (PCED) with Midwest Energy, INC sponsoring the lunch and providing information on their How$mart program. The meeting agenda, discussion points, education and speakers will be facilitated by Kansas Commerce’ s business development regional office, the office of rural opportunties, Network Kansas, and the Kansas Small Business Development Center. This meeting is open to business and community leaders across the eastern nine counties of Kansas Commerce’s Northwest Section, which includes: Norton, Phillips, Smith, Graham, Rooks, Osborne, Trego, Ellis and Russell counties. The following day, a similar meeting will be held in Goodland to host the western counties of the Northwest region of Kansas Commerce. We are very fortunate to be one of the counties chosen to host this event for Kansas Commerce this year and encourage business leaders and city/county representatives to become a part of this roundtable of ideas, program education and organizational networking.
Posted by Jeff Hofaker – PCED Director
Kansas Marketplace Update
On November 9 & 10, the first ever Kansas marketplace event was held in Hays, Kansas. This event was spearheaded by the Center of Rural Affairs (based in Nebraska) and Kansas Commerce. There was an advisory group of twenty some representatives from across the state working for about a year on developing and advising on ideas to make this one of the best avenues of educational and real world networking assistance for small business development.
There was just over 250 registrants to attend the marketplace event. Over the course of two days, there was 42 breakout sessions for business owner and community organizers to acquire new information on events, activities, programs, projects, and ideas to improve their own situations in this time of economic challenges. Networking seemed to continually come up as a key question and information point. The new generation’s way of marketing was incredibly interesting. Although old school marketing was not “kicked out the door” by any means, the new tactics and avenues was a means by which to promote community, product, and services. Working in conjunction with traditional marketing, these new social networks (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Blogging, and others) are becoming the premier way the youner generation communicates and is educated about services/products/communities.
There were two special event speakers whose emphasis was on setting the right environment for business development. Although, this aspect of business atmosphere or environment has been mentioned many times in history, it is an essential part (basis rule) of a business and communities which seems to be undeveloped and often the easiest forgotten in the long run. It may be started in the short term, but often never grows to the peak level of marketing it should.
Plans for next year’s second Kansas Marketplace are already on the drawing board, For our Phillips County and regional businesses who were able to attend, I would ask that you share the information acquired with those businesses and community leaders that were not able to attend. This will help the entire environment for the area. I encourage all businesses not in attendance this year, and even those that were in attendance, to make plans for attending next year’s marketplace, if possible.
Many say “Knowledge is power”, but “Knowledge is only acquired through active pursuit of education, and only education applied (acted on) benefits”. Always strive to improve your businesses edge, through applying new proven (real world) information/education that works. Networking is very important to marketing as well.
PCED has some of the information acquired through the breakout sessions, but the majority of great information came from networking (questions and answers) during sessions and between sessions. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help with your business. We may not know all the answers, but we will definately use our networking to try to find someone or group that can help find an answer.
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