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All State Van Lines Relocation Hires Only Quality Employees

In Business on September 15, 2013 at 7:09 am

All-State-Van-Lines-Relocation-Employees1All State Van Lines Relocation is a moving brokerage firm based in Margate, Fla., that coordinates residential and corporate moves and relocations nationwide. In the following interview with Presentation Solutions, All State Van Lines Relocation describes its hiring philosophy.

Presentation Solutions: A service company like All State Van Lines Relocation is so much more than its president or CEO, isn’t it?

All State Van Lines Relocation: Absolutely. Our employees are the ones meeting and serving customers. That’s why we take so much care in hiring.

Presentation Solutions: Tell us more about that.

All State Van Lines Relocation: Hiring the right person isn’t easy. We can train, but we have to find people who have certain natural talents and characteristics first.

Presentation Solutions: What would those be?

All State Van Lines Relocation: First, we’re looking for people who are honest. After an initial interview, we do an extensive background check, since All State Van Lines Relocation employees work directly with the public.

Presentation Solutions: What else do you look for?

All State Van Lines Relocation: We look for good previous employment references and evidence dependability. Someone who will not just show up for work but will actually do the job of serving customers. All State Van Lines Relocation is a service company.

Presentation Solutions: Is there a certain personality type you look for?

All State Van Lines Relocation: Everyone is different, but basically we want positive people who are focused on finding solutions, not complaining about setbacks or challenges. All State Van Lines Relocation is a “get the job done right” kind of company.

Presentation Solutions: I would think handling people’s personal items would require special care, right?

All State Van Lines Relocation: Yes, so we focus on training in a big way. All State Van Lines Relocation employees undergo training that molds them into expert packers and movers. It’s a science of sorts.

Presentation Solutions: What do you mean?

All State Van Lines Relocation: There’s a right and a wrong way to pack furniture and belongings. All State Van Lines Relocation has more than 20 years’ experience in getting it right, and we train our employees accordingly, using top materials and highest industry standard practices.

Presentation Solutions: Your employees probably have to make a lot of minute-by-minute decisions when moving an array of items.

All State Van Lines Relocation: Yes, and that’s where the character issue comes in. We look for people with good judgment and a desire to please customers. That’s why we also depend a lot on referrals from within our All State Van Lines Relocation staff.

Presentation Solutions: You mean hiring friends of your current employees?

All State Van Lines Relocation: The experts do say that’s a good place to start. People who know what the job requires are often good at figuring out folks they know who might be a good fit. But they still have to go through background checks.

Presentation Solutions: And networking sites?

All State Van Lines Relocation: Yes, they can be good for upper-level staff. But sites like LinkedIn are really just sophisticated referral sites—people who know people and can vouch for them.

Presentation Solutions: Why is this so important?

All State Van Lines Relocation: It’s a lot tougher on everyone to terminate someone who’s not working out than to make a good hire at the start.

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Marla Ahlgrimm: Exercising for Life

In Health and Beauty on January 9, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Marla Ahlgrimm

Marla Ahlgrimm

In her three decades of working with women, Marla Ahlgrimm, founder of Women’s Health America, has found that exercise makes a big difference in a woman’s health. But for many women, “exercise” is a bad word. How can women find an exercise program that they’ll want to stick with for life?

To begin, Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph. stresses the importance of asking oneself why you are interested in beginning a new exercise program. If you are hoping to stay healthy, you will likely have more success than if your only goal is to lose weight. Likewise, if your goal is to do something you enjoy doing, and exercise is one of those things, you’re more likely to stick with it for many years, Marla Ahlgrimm says.

According to Marla Ahlgrimm, co-founder of Madison Pharmacy Associates, the key is to focus on physical activities you enjoy doing. Many women give up when an exercise program doesn’t yield results immediately, Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph. points out. By choosing physical activities you enjoy doing, you’ll stick with it long enough to begin seeing and feeling overall improvements.

Marla Ahlgrimm advises several small changes you can make that will improve your overall health. For good health, Marla Ahlgrimm, co-founder of Madison Pharmacy Associates, states that you should incorporate 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic activity at your target heart rate at least three days a week. By spreading these activities over the day, Marla Ahlgrimm suggests, you can work in thirty minutes of moderate exercise without having to set thirty minutes aside to do a formal workout. This can be done by using stairs instead of elevators, as well as parking far away and walking to your destination at a brisk pace. You can also spread your thirty minutes out throughout the day by dancing, riding an exercise bike, or playing actively with your children for a few minutes throughout the day.

To be most effective, your exercise routine should utilize the large muscles of your lower body, according to Marla Ahlgrimm, founder of Women’s Health America. Activities that fit in that category include walking, jogging, cycling, cross-country skiing, stationary cycling, and aerobic dance classes, Marla Ahlgrimm states.

Additionally, Marla Ahlgrimm recommends weight-bearing exercises. This includes jogging and dancing, Marla Ahlgrimm points out, but not swimming. And pharmacist Marla Ahlgrimm advises against working one part of the body in the hopes of losing inches there. Marla Ahlgrimm points out that by focusing on making all of your body’s muscles stronger, you’ll slightly increase your metabolism to maintain weight, decrease fluid retention and improve your lean muscle mass. Your body will become more efficient, Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph. says, and you’ll increase the strength of your body’s joints and bones and improve balance which is much more important as you get older.

You should begin any exercise program gradually, Marla Ahlgrimm advises, to avoid injury. While your cardiovascular system may be able to adapt, your body’s musculoskeletal systems may break down if pushed too hard, Marla Ahlgrimm, pharmacist, warns.

The benefits of an exercise program go well beyond stronger muscles and joints, Marla Ahlgrimm states. Both women and men report regular exercise helps them sleep better at night and gives them a greater feeling of energy throughout the day. Exercise also helps them better cope with stress, Marla Ahlgrimm adds, providing an outlet for that ‘fight or flight’ physical response brought on by stress.

Lastly, if your exercise program makes you feel overly tired, Marla Ahlgrimm suggests pulling back a little. Decrease the intensity or choose different exercises until your body adjusts.

For more information, visit Marla Ahlgrimm online at http://www.marlaahlgrimm.com

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What Makes Madison Pharmacy Associates Unique

In Health and Beauty on January 9, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Madison Pharmacy Associates

Madison Pharmacy Associates

Madison Pharmacy Associates’ Marla Ahlgrimm remembers life before premenstrual syndrome was a household term. In the late 70s, Marla Ahlgrimm and her associates were working at a pharmacy when they encountered a patient suffering from PMS. Along with her associates, Madison Pharmacy Associates’ Ahlgrimm began treating the patient and soon were working to help others with premenstrual symptoms.

After encountering resistance from pharmacy management, Marla Ahlgrimm and a colleague founded Madison Pharmacy Associates, a pharmacy with an emphasis on women’s health. In the early days, Madison Pharmacy Associates pioneered the field of PMS treatment, compounding specialized prescriptions and consulting with doctors and patients throughout the country. Since Marla Ahlgrimm founded Madison Pharmacy Associates in the early 1980s, she estimates it has helped more than 300,000 women and 7,000 physicians understand, diagnose, and treat PMS symptoms.

With a focus on quality, service, and innovation, Madison Pharmacy Associates believes in involving its full staff in every aspect of daily operations. “We encourage ideas, creativity, and change,” Madison Pharmacy Associates’ Marla Ahlgrimm explains. “In a small company, we have the luxury to dispense with formal meetings—we all discuss ideas and quickly implement them to simply see what the results are.”

Madison Pharmacy Associates was among the first group of medical professionals to sit in on the FDA advisory board which met to discuss the relevancy and magnitude of PMS in America. Since Madison Pharmacy Associates was at the forefront of PMS research and treatment, many of the educational materials the practice used had to be developed from scratch. Madison Pharmacy Associates has always placed importance in providing one-on-one consultation to patients and their physicians, helping both to understand PMS in order to more quickly come to a treatment plan.

“Too often, management makes the mistake or is forced to separate themselves from the day to day operations of their business under the guise of tending to more important things,” Madison Pharmacy Associates’ Ahlgrimm believes. “That connection is the whole point of being in business and successfully staying in business.”

One of the things that has helped Madison Pharmacy Associates succeed is Marla Ahlgrimm’s devotion to her patients. Madison Pharmacy Associates’ Ahlgrimm grew up in a family that owned a small business. This helped her understand the importance of thinking outside the box, focusing on Madison Pharmacy Associates’ mission, rather than trying to outdo the competition.

“You can’t quantify the degree to which your business reflects your passion, vision, trust, and optimism,” Madison Pharmacy Associates’ Marla Ahlgrimm says. “Yet these values reveal themselves in each transaction you and your employees are involved in.”

The information in this article has been previously published and is provided as a reference resource by Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph. Madison Pharmacy Associates was sold in 2011. Marla Ahlgrimm is also the co-founder and President of Cyclin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The company sells proprietary products for the women’s health market as well as ProCycle PMS and ProCycle Gold products. For more information, go online to http://www.cyclinpharma.com

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VMI Marketing | VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc. – VMI Marketing

In Marketing on October 7, 2009 at 8:24 am

VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc. Receives High Marks From Clients

Oak Brook, IL based marketing firm, VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc., is extremely proud of the work and dedication that its employees and partners have contributed this past year. Thanks to their loyalty, VMI is having a record breaking year.

07 October, 2009 – Oak Brook, IL – VMI MARKETING, INC. In the business world today, return on investment is what companies look for in their partners. Outsourcing is a tried-and-tested model that is recognized as a long-term competitive strategy for success. Around the country companies now have a great new resource when it comes to outsourcing – VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc. The question no longer is ‘why outsource?’ but ‘why not outsource?’

The economist, Adam Smith, stated in his treatise The Wealth of Nations, “If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, it is better to buy it of them. As companies grow in size and operations, it becomes increasingly clear that their focus has to be redirected to their core activities while the non-core functions can be ‘sent out’ or ‘outsourced’ to vendors specialized in that particular function”. VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc. possesses the ideal model for sales (retention and acquisition) and marketing.

Fortune 500 companies contract VMI’s marketing and sales teams for a variety of reasons. Over the past 10 years, VMI Marketing, Inc. has been able to help clients launch marketing campaigns across the United States in record setting time. This allows these clients to focus on developing new products and services to better take care of their current and future customers.

Companies that partner with VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc. find that expensive infrastructure requirements are cut back drastically when some of the functions move to external locations. Cutting edge IT systems, state-of-the-art customer service call centers and technical help desks entail heavy investments for companies. In layman’s terms, a large company is able to divert its attention to providing more up-to-date, complete, and accurate service to their customers when they outsource to VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc. Thus, customers are more satisfied and willing to retain their relationship with that company.

VMI Marketing, Inc. is known around the country for the way they do business. VMI Marketing Oakbrook, Inc. conducts business with the utmost honesty and integrity, and that helps them to stand head and shoulders above other marketing firms. VMI continues to showcase their professionalism and success year to year with each one of their clients.

About VMI Marketing Oakbrook

VMI Marketing Oakbrook, founded in 1999, continues to expand as a premier marketing company. VMI has over 30 locations nationwide and is averaging a yearly growth rate of over 24 percent. Our tremendous growth can be attributed to two primary ideals–the innovative marketing and sales strategies of VMI Marketing Oakbrook, and a deep sense of caring for the security, growth, and well being of our employees.

Our VMI Marketing Oakbrook clients are looking for an edge in marketing, advertising, and sales. They must outshine their competitors in all of these categories. The VMI client acquisition team offers an extremely effective approach to marketing and client relationship management. In our experience, the most effective way to market one’s services is through a live, personal presentation. On behalf of our clients, we personally introduce ourselves to their customers in order to establish relationships with them. The power of a live representative is unparalleled. This approach at VMI Marketing Oakbrook enables us to educate the consumer about changes in the industry, to sell our client’s services, answer questions, and personally thank them for their business.

VMI Marketing Oakbrook’s personal technique has enabled us to generate huge success for our clients. Our professionals have the ability to represent clients in the best way possible: face-to-face. VMI Marketing Oakbrook reps are trained to interact with customers in a friendly, courteous, and professional manner while responding to their questions or concerns We have found this to be the best possible way to acquire and retain new customers.

VMI Marketing, founded in 1999, continues to expand as a premier marketing company. VMI has over 30 locations nationwide and is averaging a yearly growth rate of over 24 percent. Our tremendous growth can be attributed to two primary ideals–the innovative marketing and sales strategies of VMI Marketing, and a deep sense of caring for the security, growth, and well being of our employees.

VMI MARKETING INC.

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Our VMI Marketing clients are looking for an edge in marketing, advertising, and sales. They must outshine their competitors in all of these categories. The VMI client acquisition team offers an extremely effective approach to marketing and client relationship management. In our experience, the most effective way to market one’s services is through a live, personal presentation. On behalf of our clients, we personally introduce ourselves to their customers in order to establish relationships with them. The power of a live representative is unparalleled. This approach at VMI Marketing enables us to educate the consumer about changes in the industry, to sell our client’s services, answer questions, and personally thank them for their business.

VMI Marketing’s personal technique has enabled us to generate huge success for our clients. Our professionals have the ability to represent clients in the best way possible: face-to-face. VMI Marketing reps are trained to interact with customers in a friendly, courteous, and professional manner while responding to their questions or concerns We have found this to be the best possible way to acquire and retain new customers.

Contact VMI Marketing Oakbrook:
VMI Oakbrook
600 Hunter Drive
Suite 250
Oakbrook, IL 60523
Phone: (630) 571-3202
Fax: (630) 571-3204