Saturday, June 4, 2011

Sales And Marketing Recruiting Guidelines To Help You Hire The Suitable Prospects



Sales folks are always in considerable demand. Even though sales career could prove to be incredibly beneficial for people, the organizations on the contrary generally find it hard to find the best mixture of sales skills to assist them lift their sales and earnings.

Since organizations are being focused on restoring from loss produced by economic depression, they are looking for great sales folks who could assist them to maximize their earnings and set them on the journey of the expansion in coming years.

Quite a few companies depend on their HR team and sales management groups to help them with the process of recruiting the sales folks. Other companies rely on sales recruiting companies and firms to assist them fill up their most critical sales positions. Regardless of your own strategy in hiring sales folks, below are some beneficial recommendations which could enable you to boost the sales hiring procedure:

The sales hiring procedure gets underway with presenting an advertisement inside the newspapers or some other pertinent media channels. You need to write a precise and interesting ad to draw in the perfect sales people. Avoid writing a monotonous and puzzling task description. Be precise and straightforward. Place yourself in the shoes of individuals and provide the information and facts the prospects will be searching for and not the info that you would like to impart. Talk about the function, reporting line, approx. starting salary, percentage of commissions, office area and so forth.

Pick the best suited media channels for the job advert. Do not just focus on the daily papers. Try and place you advertisements inside the employment forums and trade magazines that are highly relevant to your own organization and which has the better probability to catch the eye of proven sales experts. Free of charge online forums and job posting websites may offer you access to thousands of CVs, yet you will have to go through many trash and spam CVs. Therefore, be mindful with your selection of media channels for the work advert placement.

Advertising with the help of networking is best method of getting access to perfect folks. Spread the word regarding your own sales recruiting campaign. You could discuss with great hiring agencies. In addition, involve your existing sales staff in your hiring campaign and request these folks to refer any prospective applicants which they might know about.

In case you have a high turn over rate of sales representatives, then deal with the issues and concerns of current personnel first. Find out regarding the causes that are actually making your own recent team members abandon your business. Handling all those concerns can help you construct a skilled and stable workforce and help you decrease the costs that you may possibly be incurring for selecting and training new staff members.

The existing economic downturn has prompted many organizations to restructure and lay off their employees. As a result, many great sales experts are currently looking for secure careers and jobs. So, this is an excellent time for you to get hold of great people at reasonable prices.



Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Pamoja Media Participated in TED 2009

The just ended TED 2009 Conference titled “The Great Unveiling” celebrated the 25th anniversary of the prestigious conference. During this conference, TED unveiled a new program extending TED’s mission worldwide. The TED Fellows program is designed to foster the spread of great ideas. Initially 50 individuals, selected for the world-changing potential of their work, will be invited to participate in the TED community each year. At the end of the year, 20 of these 50 will be selected to be TED Senior Fellows, participating in an extended three-year program that will bring them to six consecutive conferences, along with additional benefits. The principal goal of the program is to empower the Fellows to effectively communicate their work to the TED community and to the world.

The TED Fellows program focuses on attracting applicants living or working in five parts of the globe: the Asia/Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, with consideration given to applicants from the rest of the world. TED seeks remarkable thinkers and doers that have shown unusual accomplishment, exceptional courage, moral imagination and the potential to increase positive change in their respective fields. The program focuses on innovators in technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship and the NGO community, among other pursuits.

For the inaugural TED Fellows program, Pamoja Media was honored to have its co-founder Joshua Wanyama selected. Pamoja Media is Africa’s first dedicated online advertising brokerage focusing on connecting marketers with Africans worldwide. Through the use of behavioral and contextual targeting on some of the world’s prominent online brands and partnerships with leading African and African American sites, the company delivers a targeted audience to advertisers.

Benin Brown co-founder at Pamoja Media had this to say about his business partner being selected as a 2009 TED Fellow, "Pamoja Media's representation at TED came not only because of the company's positioning as the operator of Africa's first dedicated online advertising brokerage. It also has a lot to do with the fact that by helping monetize African online publishers, both large and small, Pamoja Media assists these publishers make their communities more self sustainable.”

When asked about his experience at the TED 2009 conference Joshua Wanyama replied, "TED is wonderful. They had great speakers. Networking, learning of new innovations in different industries and getting a chance to talk about world changing ideas was very important. It was truly inspiring and a well organized event.”

Pamoja Media wishes to thank and congratulate the other 2009 TED Fellows who participated in the event as well as thank TED for selecting Joshua Wanyama as a fellow. A complete list of the 2009 Long Beach TED Fellows can be found at www.ted.com/fellows/2009.


About TED

TED is an annual event where some of the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. "TED" stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. And in fact, the event is broader still, showcasing ideas that matter in any discipline. Attendees have called it "the ultimate brain spa" and "a four-day journey into the future." The diverse audience — CEOs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists — is almost as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck and Bono.

TED was first held in Monterey, California, in 1984. In 2001, Chris Anderson's Sapling Foundation acquired TED from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman. In recent years, TED has expanded to include an international conference, TEDGlobal; media initiatives, including TED Talks and TED.com; and the TED Prize. TED2009, "The Great Unveiling," will be held Feb. 3-7, 2009, in Long Beach, California, with a simulcast event in Palm Springs, California.

About Pamoja Media

Pamoja Media, Inc. is a private company based in Kennesaw, GA. Pamoja Media provides marketers with a one-stop shop for reaching the African and African American market online. The company achieves this by placing display banner advertising on both large publications and top niche sites. The company currently has access to over 1 billion impressions and reaches over 35 million Africans worldwide.

Visit us today at http://www.pamojamedia.com

For further information please contact us:

Benin Brown
Pamoja Media
3329 Blue Springs Station
Kennesaw, GA 30144
404-492-6088
benin@pamojamedia.com

Logan McClure
TED
212-346-9333
fellows@ted.com

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Cheetah Index Publishes First Podcast

Africa's premiere portal for reaching the continent's Cheetah Generation, Cheetah Index, has just published its first podcast today on August 26, 2008.

The podcast titled, "Fast Forward Podcast: The 2008 Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Award" interviews two of the people behind the $350,000 2008 Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards which will be held in Kigali, Rwanda on November 21, 2008 to honor Africa's best entrepreneurs.

The podcast may be found HERE.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Social Entrepreneurship: Tobias Sturmer, Artistic Director for Empowerment Works

Social Entrepreneurship: Tobias Sturmer, Artistic Director for Empowerment Works:

"As part of the Cheetah Index's commitment to highlight social entrepreneurship in Africa, the Cheetah Index brings you this interview with Tobias Sturmer-Artistic Director of Empowerment Works Music.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

African Path TV Launches in Concert with Live African Cup of Nation Broadcasts!







African Path will broadcast the Ghana 2008 Africa Cup of Nations from January 20th till February 10th, 2008 online. The games will be available as both live feeds and as saved games for those who missed the live broadcasts.

In addition a forum on the African Path Village will provide an ample platform for all soccer fans to discuss the games.

A partnership with All Soccer Africa allows African Path to offer a Fantasy league for the 2008 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations.
Enjoy the games

Saturday, December 8, 2007

African Path launches social networking site

For Immediate Release

African Path launches social networking site


Visit African Path Village



Minneapolis, MN December 07, 2007 - African Path (http://www.blogger.com/www.africanpath.com) has just launched the African Path Village (http://village.africanpath.com/). African Path works at providing Africans with a platform where they can own and tell their stories on the global stage.

“The Village will allow our site visitors to connect and share the unique cultures from within Africa,” says Joshua Wanyama, founder of African Path. “We strive to provide a great online space that represents the continent. We are excited about the African Path Village as we have now opened doors for a lot of people to tell their stories while interacting with friends and family on our space.”

The growth of online communities has also made it possible for people to connect and discover new worlds. The African Path Village will facilitate this connection while providing the added benefit of news and opinion content from our flagship site African Path and our business site Cheetah Index.

This additional service allows African Path to better serve a growing number of site visitors seeking to connect with African culture, access breaking news and opinion on the continent and discover new businesses serving the African communities worldwide.


About African Path

African Path is an online portal that allows Africans to tell their own stories on the global stage. While most representation of Africa outside the continent is by foreign media houses, African Path provides the platform for Africans to express themselves. The site features daily headlines, opinion and commentary through our comprehensive blogs and an interactive calendar.

Visit us today http://www.africanpath.com/, http://village.africanpath.com/

For comprehensive business news in Africa: http://www.cheetahindex.com/


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For further information please contact us:

African Path

242 W Franklin Av, Ste. 301
Minneapolis, MN 55404

Phone: 612 424 5459

Benin “Mwangi” Brown
http://www.blogger.com/benin@africanpath.com

Joshua Wanyama
http://www.blogger.com/Joshua@africanpath.com

Monday, November 26, 2007

African Path launches Cheetah Index

African Path launches business site



As part of our mission to fill the void left by conventional media in covering African issues, African Path will take an active role in supporting and empowering the continent’s young and progressive decision makers. Today, African Path announces the launch of a dedicated business section under the African Path network which will be branded as the Cheetah Index. Currently the site will run on a Beta version.

The Cheetah Index derives both its name and inspiration from Ghanaian economist Dr. George B.N. Ayittey, author of Africa Unchained. A central topic in this book is the new generation of young African professionals who look at Africa ’s problems from a different and revolutionary perspective. Dr. Ayittey believes that this group of professionals plays a central role in re-vitalizing African economies. This group of progressive, problem solving and action-oriented Africans are called the “Cheetah Generation”.

African Path will build the Cheetah Index into a leading online resource for Africa ’s current generation of decision makers. These will include managers, entrepreneurs, government officials, educationists and other people who influence Africa ’s development. The site will provide breaking business news, profiles on African entrepreneurs and industry news while making it easier for business people from Africa and other continents to connect and network.

The site will premiere on November 26, 2007 at http://www.cheetahindex.com.

About African Path

African Path is an online portal that allows Africans to tell their own stories on the global stage. While most representation of Africa outside the continent is by foreign media houses, African Path provides the platform for Africans to express themselves. The site features daily headlines, opinion and commentary through our comprehensive blogs and an interactive calendar.

Visit us today http://www.africanpath.com

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