Learn Spanish the easy way with Shayarina and open up new markets

There are so many facets to any startup business that can help you to get ahead of the game and become more established in the business world. There are always opportunities out there and the successful entrepreneur will seek these out and make his or her startup business ready to make the most of the chances that are out there. Someone once told me that their definition of competitive advantage was “to do something that our rivals either can’t or won’t do.” I must say that I agree with this.

If you found a new market then how would you enter it? What if the market was in a different country? What if the market spoke a different language?

Well the successful entrepreneur would do whatever they could to learn that market, learn that country and learn that language.

That is where a great company like Shayarina can come in and give you the competitive advantage. Shayarina is an online Spanish school that will get the enthusiastic learner up and running with their Spanish in no time at all because the lesson are delivered one on one via Skype. The teachers are university professors that will be able to help you with your development of Spanish to enhance your understanding for-

•          Your business
•          Your vacations
•          Your understanding of other cultures
•          And much more!
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Learning Spanish via Skype means that you will learn in the most natural and inspiring way possible.  It is effective because you can interact with the Spanish teacher at the other end of the line so you get the chance to ask questions, check understanding and repeat where necessary.

It is an efficient and cost-effective way to learn another language because the lessons are great value and the teachers are well trained. The idea is that you become effective in Spanish in a very short period of time. They are so confident that you will love the way that they teach that they offer the first lesson for free!

When you look to expand your startup business you will want to consider all options that make you money. If the next big market for what you have to sell is in a Spanish-speaking country (and there are so many of them) then you do not want to be held back by your lack of understanding and language skills. Let Shayarina help you to develop in this area.

A handcrafted website will really set you apart from the crowd

At ‘245 days...’ I want to bring you the best solutions for your new startup business. It can be difficult to prioritise which things to get done when you are starting out but one area that any modern business needs is a quality website. I speak to startup owners all the time. In my experience, there are too many occasions when the entrepreneur has a wonderful vision for their website and then gets talked out of it by a cheap web designer that wants to produce a website that is easy for them to replicate. The less work for the designer, the happier they are.

Not so with https://internetpop.ca/ where they specialize in producing a handcrafted website. The difference between this and the run of the mill, out of the box websites is stunning. You want your website to sing about all the things you do well, and a website from https://internetpop.ca/ will help you to do that. As you start your new company you will have ideas about the values that you hold and the type of company that you want to be viewed as. Your website is a natural extension of that. It is the presence that a large proportion of your customers and potential customers will first see. You want it to sing your values. You don’t want it to look like another corporate website that has been churned out by an un-inventive designer.

The guys at https://internetpop.ca/ understand all of this so they work with you to create a website that you will be proud of. It should give the visitor a reason to look further, to return in the future and to buy from your company. This is not achieved by repeating what you can find everywhere else on the web. It is done by offering something unique and special. https://internetpop.ca/ can make that special website by talking to you, listening to your needs and acting upon your requests.

At ‘245 days...’ I like to let you guys know about services that can really make a difference to your new business. I think that a high quality website that is handcrafted to your exact specifications is an investment really worth making. It can help to set you apart from your competition.

You can contact them via their website, social media or get them to call you. Talk to them today and you will learn what their handcrafted website can do for your business.

Professional interest and personal panic

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There's a professional interest and personal panic when I see a shop being renovated in the town I'm going to operate in. I think "is it an estate agents? What are they going to be like? Will they steal a march on me?"

Twice since I started the 245 days journey there have been actual estate agents open.

The first was not long after I started planning, and it was a low-key opening in a side street, and in the couple of months since they opened I haven't seen one of their boards, or any adverts in the local newspapers or any listings on Rightmove. I know that opsonise an estate agency is, and will be, a slow burner but I don't feel that they have started with a bang, or had a good presence, or offered anything different to the existing agents. Phew (so far.)

The second is starting to emerge this week, where an agent from a neighbouring market has decided to open up an office in town. I don't know a lot about the existing office or the new satellite office of this company but I'm going to research today and see what I can find out.  As it happens, I'm on the park and rude, travelling past their existing office in a minute or so...

It's a sales and lettings office (I was hoping for lettings only) and again, it doesn't look to offer anything substantially different to our existing agents, from first look.

I'm not afraid of competition, in fact I think that my experience and the proposition I am building will stand up well against the vast majority of estate agents I have encountered. In my view traditional estate agents have been left behind by the service levels offered in other service industries. Complaints about estate agents, particularly about fees and communication, are rising. This shows that customer service levels haven't reached the standards that they should. Simple conversations or disclosures about fees and basic agreements about contact with customers can eliminate most complaints of this nature. I will have a contact schedule written into my contract with clients that let them know how often I will contact them, and how.  Something like-

"I will call you weekly, on a Thursday between 1pm and 5pm, as this is your afternoon off work. This call will be to give you a marketing update and any alterations we need to make."