A good friend of mine, Anne, is trying to run an accessory business for women and children, specializing in trendy headbands.

 Anne was in the beginning stages of getting started and was unsure of how to actually sell her products and where to start. She came to me last week and asked for some advice because I’ve had sales experience in the past. It was perfect timing as LearnKey had just released their Sales with Integrity course! I told her about it and why I thought it would help her- not only to better understand the sales process, but how she can implement that into her accessory business. She took me up on the offer and watched the course.

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Michael Meskers is back in the LK house and is in the midst of filming our PowerPoint 2010 training! We always enjoy working with Michael. He really knows his stuff!

Speaking of PowerPoint 2010, did you know that it has the capability to broadcast presentations over the Internet for remote view or for viewers over the network?  All you need is a Windows Live ID! How cool is that?

All you need to do is open a presentation in PowerPoint, start a broadcast, and share the unique link PowerPoint provides with your audience. Then anyone, anywhere who is listening to your presentation via phone or conference call can open the link and see your slide show in their Web browser. Whenever you change a slide or start an animation their view is updated automatically.

Very cool.

Check out the PowerPoint Team Blog to learn more about it.

LearnKey is helping people to succeed all over the world!

In fact just today, as I was working on this post and preparing it to be published, I received this email from one of our clients. It fits perfectly with the promotional video I was uploading to our blog (see below) and expresses exactly what I was trying to convey, only this is from an actual student- probably in training as I type this.

Here’s what this person had to say:

Dear LearnKey,

I am really enjoying the LearnKey/ExamForce OnlineExpert on Microsoft Office 2007 program.  It is awesome!  What is really great is that I can do it from home.  I don’t have to get dressed up, comb my hair, drive someplace and wait on an instructor (who is probably old, boring, with a long beard and bad breath!).   All I have to do is walk into the next room and turn on my computer.  How easy is that!?!  I can learn in my pajamas, with my slippers on or however I want to be dressed…

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…. Goldberg’s Famous Bagels and they were so delicious! What a great way to start off our Word 2010 training! Thank you Mandi!

(left to right: Brad, Kendell, Mandi, Ammon, Brad)

He’s a baker, she’s a software trainer and techno geek!- truly this can only happen in New York.

This week LearnKey is welcoming into our studio, Mandi Bergenfeld, a software trainer and computer instructor from New York who owns her own training company, Twin Computer Training. Her husband, on the other hand, is a baker and owns his own Bagel shop, Goldberg’s Famous Bagels– Great Food, Great Friends, The Perfect Cup of Coffee!

Mandi, is our newest expert and author of the Word 2010 video series. We are so excited to have Mandi working with us to create this course. With her 20+ years experience in the IT training industry I’m certain that she will put a course together that is both engaging and full of  the newest tips and tricks.

My only concern now is, will she bring us some of her husband’s delicious Goldberg’s Famous Bagels? I’m hungry!

-Ammon Wiese

Nearly two weeks ago, on May 26th 2010, Apple became the world’s most valuable Technology Company based on market capitalization, beating out long time leader, Microsoft.

One million iPads trumped one billion PCs that day!

I read an interesting article this morning on Reuters.com called Microsoft CEO Says Changing Market Not a Danger, written by Alexei Oreskovic, that said although Microsoft’s Chief Executive Steve Ballmer called the transition from PCs to smartphones and tablets a time of “potential tumult” in the technology industry, he still encouraged that “the software maker will continue to prosper in the changing market.” He proceeded to say, which will comfort and reassure us longtime PC users, that Microsoft’s Windows operating system will feature on the new breed of touchscreen tablet computers.

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For fun this morning I took the “How would you handle these business situations?” quiz on LearnKey’s website and I nailed it! Well to be honest, I nailed it all, minus one question- #4.

The question asks this:

You get a promotion! Good for you. But now you have to try and manage former friends who think they can take advantage of you. How do you deal with this?

a) You should be there for your friends. You would expect the same treatment if the situation was reversed.

b) Let your friends know that you can be friends when you are off the clock, but during company time you have no friends.

c) Talk to your friends. Let them know you are committed to your friendship and part of that commitment includes helping them keep  job and commitments and responsibilities so they too can be promoted, or at least not fired when you get transferred.

d) Fire them. This will serve as a good example that you should be respected and feared. Besides they have served their purpose, and it’s time for you to make new friends anyway.

Which one do you think it is?

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