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10 Profitable Tips for Creating Better Sales Presentations
By Thom Reece - 4/3/2009

No matter what your business is, you will enhance your level of success by developing a well-organized sales presentation. A good sales presentation involves two primary elements: (1) The pre-planned sales talk. (2) A carefully conceived and organized visual presentation that documents, confirms, su...

Why eBay Is A Smart Choice For Entrepreneurs
By Tom Gruber - 4/3/2009

Attention entrepreneurs: If you think the search for the ultimate moneymaking business opportunity is like searching for a very small needle in a very big internet haystack, then think again! Perhaps you`ve been searching the worldwide marketplace and are both overwhelmed and frustrated by an endles...

Take the high road
By Lance Winslow - 4/3/2009

With Competitors Take The High Road What do you do when the competition cheats and/or hits below the belt? We recommend that you take the high road. Let them drown in the flood. Remember, he who laughs last! You must resist the temptation to retaliate by descending to their level. You should read t...

20 Tricks to Help Get That Envelope Opened
By DeAnna Spencer - 4/3/2009

When your envelopes aren`t opened, you can`t make money! Before you can get an order, the recipient of your mailing package must first open the envelope. Unfortunately, many recipients of direct mail simply discard the material without opening the envelope. Because of the high costs of printing, e...

College - Helping Your Child Prepare
By Lila Norden - 4/3/2009

Education is something that continues from the day we are born until the day we die. In some cases, it`s formal, with definite starting and finishing times and a specific course of study. After high school, some children go on to university, college, community college, or a technical school. Of...

Heard A Good Radio Ad Lately? Neither Have We
By Hal Eisenberg - 4/3/2009

To many ad agencies, radio is considered advertising?s ugly stepchild. It?s not sexy like television and is treated as a necessary evil with little effort put into it. Unfortunately, that?s exactly what the listener ends up hearing. What advertisers and their ad agencies have forgotten is that rad...

Intentionalize The Coming Year In Three Steps
By Larry Galler - 4/3/2009

Today is the first day of the rest of the year. I hope 2006 is your best year ever in both personal and business terms. While some events are beyond our control, others are clearly within our ability to create the desired outcomes, or at least come close. Here are three steps to help you have you...

How Much Is A Great Business Logo Really Worth?
By Curtis D. Tucker - 4/3/2009

A great logo can help a business project a positive image while a bad logo can bring a negative impression about a company. For many companies, a logo is the only identifiable mark a potential customer may ever see, so it needs to be memorable, descriptive and easily recognizable. If a logo is ...

Stress Management: How to Take Off Those Masks We Wear
By Jeff Herring - 4/3/2009

The Mask of ?I?ve Got It All Together? It?s so easy to put this mask on, and then forget you are wearing it. We want to look to the outside world as if everything is fine, we?ve got it all handled, no problems, thank you very much. This one weighs alot, and is very heavy to carry around. Even worse,...

Media Relations: Minority Media Matters
By Brad Phillips - 4/3/2009

Your boss just stopped by your office. He tells you that he has decided to put you in charge of a major upcoming news release. He wants you to reach the broadest possible audience. He explicitly tells you to leave no stone unturned. You respond by promptly ignoring 38 million Americans. According to...

What to Look for When Choosing an Online Degree Program
By Matt Norman - 4/3/2009

Choosing an online education program should be exciting and fun. While there a many good, recognized diploma or degree programs available through online education, choosing the one which is right for you can seem like a daunting task. There are many factors which you should take into consideration,...

Provisioning/User Management System Upgrades: Part II ? Building Awareness And Building Approval
By Hallett German - 4/3/2009

Somewhere in the world is a person who wants to see their provisioning/user management systems get a sorely needed upgrade. But they seem to be getting nowhere. The technical requirements are unarticulated. Key decisionmakers in the company are not aware this is needed. And the ?project? is funded a...

It?s Time For A Sales Management Revolution
By Nicki Weiss - 4/3/2009

Are you dog tired because of the way you manage your sales team? Many managers tell me that they cannot see a way out of traditional sales management methods that keep them working like dogs, including focusing strictly on revenue goals, staying late, traveling up to three weeks a month, tightly con...

Get Off the Country Road and Get On the Highway
By Ty Wagner - 4/3/2009

Traffic is the main factor into a successful online business or any business of that matter. If know one knows you exist how will they buy something from you. This main factor is holding 80% of online business owners with doubt in there business. Wile traffic doesn?t grow on trees you can start gene...

Ask Me No Questions, I`ll Tell You No Lies
By Bonnie Lowe - 4/3/2009

If only there were no questions involved in getting a job! If you`ve been following NBC`s "The Apprentice," you know who Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth is. She`s had the honor of being fired by Donald Trump (and others, according to "People" magazine). A while back, Omarosa claimed that one of the oth...

Getting Past the Gate Guard
By Bill Lee - 4/3/2009

Over the years, many prospects have hidden behind their well-trained secretaries to prevent interruptions from persistent salespeople. But in today?s electronic world, voice mail systems have frequently replaced the human gate guard. In surveys we have conducted, we have found that salespeople?s in...

Restaurant Owners ? How Important are People Skills?
By Kelvyn Peters - 4/3/2009

You are serving great food. Your establishment is new, spotless and inviting and yet you are not getting the repeat visits that you expect. What?s up? What?s going wrong? The answer may lie with your people skills? Why do people come to your restaurant? By now you should know why people frequent you...

Searching for an IT Job
By Heather Eagar - 4/3/2009

Looking for an IT job is one of the easiest to perform due to the incredibly high demand in the IT field. As the Internet grows, corporations network through Intranets ? even the advancement of science has the demand for anyone with IT skills at an all time high. Computer technology continues to a...

Under Promise & Over Perform: The Art of Managing Customer Expectations
By Dr. Gary S. Goodman - 4/3/2009

I?ll always feel warmly about Conrad?s restaurant, in Glendale, California. On the morning of the Northridge earthquake, Conrad?s was the only restaurant in town that opened for business, and stayed open until the last customer went home. (For the record, I had a jumbo burger with Swiss cheese, gri...

Getting Over Ambiguities in Your Decision Making
By Sergey Dudiy - 4/3/2009

How do you normally go about non-trivial decisions? Even if you prefer to take time to do your homework and systematically clarify and prioritize all gains or costs, you can still face many grey areas, when pure logic by itself does not arrive at one convincing conclusion. It could be that your crit...

How to Get a 100% Return on Your Marketing Investment Guaranteed!
By Stephanie Ward - 4/3/2009

One of the most effective ways to market your products/services is to create strategic alliances. Strategic alliances are partnerships with companies who sell to a client base similar to yours but they sell different products/services. The idea is to find partners whose clients may also be inter...

Looking for Work in All the Wrong Places
By Cathy Goodwin - 4/3/2009

The Question: After identifying a potential employer, I get contact information, do my research and send out my resume and cover letter, requesting an interview for a management or human resource position. I am listed with recruiters and staffing agencies and call them every week. I attend local net...

Perfect Prints
By Peter Horner - 4/3/2009

There are many ways to share your landscape photos with digital photography, but photo prints remain the most popular. Prints can be framed and hung up on the wall to show your photos off to friends and family. Creating the perfect print can become even more challenging if your monitor isn?t calib...

Pre-Bachelor
By Jessy Daniel - 4/3/2009

The program should be one term, two terms or three terms (1 year). This program is meant for students who lack the necessary language skills to start the first-year bachelor program, the course enables them to improve their skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Lenghtime: Students can ...

Succession Planning for Business - 10 Key Points You Must Know
By Martin Haworth - 4/3/2009

By cranking up others development to meet your business needs, big or small, not just for right now, but for the future, you will find payoffs, big-time. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
  1. Building Relationships
    By ensuring that you have informally built good relationships with eve...

Cold Calling is Great!
By Daegan Smith - 4/3/2009

Belonging to this crowd gives you particular limitations. Most probably, the very first thing you would worry about is how to generate your list of customers or how you would market your product to potential buyers. Hence, if you still do not know your way around, you might as well submit yourself i...

Don?t Just Talk About the Weather, Use It to Advantage
By Larry Galler - 4/3/2009

A well known, national chain of restaurants discovered that certain weather patterns substantially impacts their business. They have studied it and found that more people go out to eat dinner when there is a series of beautiful days. So they measure the weather quality at their stores across the c...

Emotions: The Negative Effect They Can Have On Your Career
By Carl Mueller - 4/3/2009

Emotions can play a big part in your career particularly when it comes to thinking about leaving one company for another. Certainly if you have been with a company for a significant period of time and/or are close with your manager, you might be very emotional when it comes time to resign your posit...

Administrative Professional?s Day/ Secretary`s Day
By Tenley McDonald - 4/3/2009

April 24-30 is Administrative Professional?s Week. Wednesday, April 27th is Administrative Professional?s Day, also known as Secretary`s Day. It has become a time for recognition of those assistants and/or secretaries that work with you to make your life easier! Often in the hustle and bustle of wor...

10 Ways To Make Your Business Unique
By Alvah Parker - 4/3/2009

1. Largest Selection - One way that you can make your product or service stand out is to offer the largest selection of products, services or programs. Example: Home Depot, E-Bay, Staples, Amazon.com 2. Innovative Product - If you have a new product with a patent covering it or a service that others...

How You Can Create Advertising That Sells
By Thom Reece - 4/3/2009

A well-planned and properly executed marketing program should include a sufficient commitment of capital resources to an on-going, well executed advertising program. Yes, this includes your business. Businesses spend too many dollars, however, on ads that simply will not result in increased sales an...

Increase Web Site Traffic with New Marketing Techniques
By Eriani Doyel - 4/3/2009

Do you want to increase web site traffic, but you are in a rut, or you don?t have a big advertising budget? There are ways to market your business to sell more products or services that will not cost you an ?arm and a leg.? The key is to find what works for your individual business-because what wo...

Color Your Life
By Sue Trumpfheller - 4/3/2009

Have you ever arrived at place in your career and wondered how you got there? Have you found yourself stuck, not liking your job, yet not seeing how you can change after investing 15 years at it. Let`s take a different perspective and see if you can solve your dilemma through this colorful full spe...

We Are All Consultants
By Kevin Eikenberry - 4/3/2009

In our business lives we wear many hats. We often think of our job title as the way to describe our work. In fact, in any social situation, the question, ?So what do you do?? will come up early in any conversation with a new person. How do we respond to this question? Invariably, we respond with...

Six Great Reasons to Hire a Professional Writer
By Wendy Maynard - 5/13/2008

Most people can write. Some can even write well. But only a few individuals can write as quickly and persuasively as a professional writer. Effective communication requires a well-crafted message that is interesting to your audience. Anything less is a waste of your time and money. Professional wr...

Fast Color Digital Printing For Your Four Color Printing
By Marlon D. Ludovice - 5/13/2008

There are a lot of ways to print your project materials using the technology in Digital color printing. In fact it can be done with any Mac or PC file including Quark, Publisher, Pagemaker, CorelDraw and all popular file formats available in your computer programs. With such an easy access of applic...

Trade Shows
By Matt Bacak - 5/2/2008

Trade shows show promise as a ?golden? marketing opportunity. Many business owners are stepping outside of the traditional box and investing in portable signage. Talking one-on-one with potential buyers provides an immediate gratification that is empowering. The trade show makes highlighting busi...

Which PR? Judge for Yourself
By Robert A. Kelly - 5/1/2008

You are a senior business, non-profit or association manager. So, chances are you call the shots for your department, division or subsidiary. Which means you can make your decisions stick. Like deciding whether a publicity placement is more important to you than creating external stakeholder b...

Be Noticed!
By Florie Lyn Masarate - 4/29/2008

With business cards, that is. They are one of the most powerful weapons in marketing your business or company is through the use of your business cards. Many people have not been using their cards effectively in making them achieve some results and sales to their site and business. With the many p...

Employee Benefits
By Matt Bacak - 4/29/2008

Does employee benefit administration have you more confused than ever? If so, it`s no wonder. Even a simple employee benefit plan can create mounds of paperwork and management problems for businesses. To make matters worse, it has become increasingly difficult for businesses to compete in today`s la...

Difficult Customers - There`s No Such Thing
By Alan Fairweather - 4/26/2008

A couple of years ago I had a call from a Customer Service Manager working in the paper industry. He wanted me to run a seminar for his team, on "How to Deal with Difficult Customers". I had several telephone conversations with this manager organising dates, times and getting to understand his bu...

It`s High Time for Lifetime Savings Accounts
By Terry Mitchell - 4/22/2008

I`m constantly reading articles on the internet and in financial magazines in which so-called financial planning experts express perplexity as to why about 30% of employees do not participate in their employers? 401(k) plans. These writers don?t seem to have clue. Well, allow me to enlighten them a ...

Your Business Merchant Account
By Dane Collins - 4/20/2008

Do you have a business merchant account? If not, isn?t it time you got one? The companies you compete against for customer business may already have this special account that allows them to process customers? credit payments. If you are not yet doing so, why not apply for a merchant account to help ...

How To Get Started In Forex Trading
By Hana Lee - 4/20/2008

You may have been hearing about the foreign exchange market (FOREX) and the investment advantages it offers. You would like to try it out, but don`t know where to start. This short guide will give you the basics in FOREX and tell you what you need to participate in this fast growing field. Foreign...

Employers and Managers - Five Steps to Greater Employee Profitability
By Tony Radford - 4/20/2008

If you do not know right now which of your employees is making money for you, how much they are costing you or whether you`re operating profitably, this short article will provide vital information for you. Employees cost huge amounts of money and the stark reality is that unless every employee pa...

Work At Home Careers! Is Working For Yourself For You?
By Jeff Schuman - 4/18/2008

Have you been trying to think of all of the work at home careers that are available these days? There certainly is a lot of publicity about working at home. More and more employers are having their employees work from home as a cost cutting measure. It just makes sense sometimes for them to have ...

Ten Ways to Save a Bundle on Your Next Lease
By George A. Parker - 5/14/2007

According to the Equipment Leasing Association (?ELA?), U.S. businesses lease every thing from laptop computers to commercial airplanes, racking up more than $ 200 billion in equipment leased each year. Although four out of five U.S. companies use leasing to acquire equipment, many don?t know the in...

Prepaid cell phone plans: Great option or Last Resort?
By Syd Johnson - 5/13/2007

There was a time when prepaid plans were marketed mostly to people with poor or bad credit. Now, prepaid plans are being marketed as a great alternative to unlimited plans. Here are a few things to consider before you sign up for your prepaid. What is prepaid? Prepaid usually involves buying ...

Getting Software Developed for Your Business
By David Berube - 5/9/2007

At some point, your business is going to need to have some software development. Maybe your business is small, but existing software doesn`t fit your needs. Maybe your company is larger, with significant technology resources already, but you need an outside perspective. Whatever the reason, it can b...

The Importance of a Focused Business Plan
By Jack Foley - 4/28/2007

So you have seen a great opportunity and are about to get started. Where do you go from here? Before you dig in, I cannot stress enough the importance of a well laid out business plan. You might then be asking, how do I plan and set goals if I don?t have a clue what I?m going to achieve and in what ...


Fixed Fee Promotions - Fixed Fee Promotions
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Commercial Cleaning Services London - Commercial Cleaning Services London
...ed commercial cleaning services in London to keep the space clean and tidy. Office space is at a premium in the big city so it is very important to choose your space carefully. Obviously, depending ...
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Mailing Bags - Mailing Bags
...s in any given week. If they took a tally of the amount of bags that they used it would surely be a large number. It`s become increasingly popular for a number of companies to use the mailing bags t...
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Business Card Cutter - Business Card Cutter
...have a friend who is really ingenious when it comes to designing things. She designed all her own wedding invitations and every time she has a party of any kind, she designs and prints all her own in...
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Brochure Design - Brochure Design
...r superior range of goods then a beautiful brochure design can create the right look. You`ll be able to place all of your products in one place and let your customers leaf through the pages at their ...
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Internal Signs - Internal Signs
...blic buildings if they didn`t have Internal Signs to follow. How could they find the way to the department that they needed if suitable signage wasn`t on display? We can thanks our lucky stars that ...
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Chinese Translation - Chinese Translation
...working with your company and if they do, the future will certainly look rosy. There`s only one problem that you can foresee at the moment and it`s the language barrier. You are going to study Chine...
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Architectural Exhibition Models - Architectural Exhibition Models
...used. If you want to reconstruct a particular city or bring a building back to life then architectural exhibition models are the ideal answer. Dedicated companies are fabulous at creating scale model...
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Sds Drill Bits - Sds Drill Bits
...or cheap deals on tools as he has told me that tools for the building trade can be horrendously expensive. He was visiting me the other day and over a cup of tea he began to tell me about some sds dr...
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Rear Window Stickers - Rear Window Stickers
...e and being seen by possibly thousands of people a day with out shelling out thousands in advertising money? This is an issue for a lot of companies â?` but one firm has come up with the answer to thi...
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Architectural Models - Architectural Models
...nd they could look impressive with compute aided imagery. However, to fully appreciate just how good a building can look Architectural Models can be put to good use. Not everyone has the vision to b...
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Logo Design - Logo Design
... comes to choosing the right logo design a little help might be required. Plenty of thought needs to go into the logo design to make sure that you portray the right image. When you think about suitab...
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Cd Label Printing - Cd Label Printing
...s very attractive as well as intelligent and he also happens to be very solvent to boot! He owns a business which does cd label printing and seems to be doing very well indeed out of this venture. I...
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Cd Duplication - Cd Duplication
...lect number of audio CDs duplicating that have to be with your customers in a short timescale? Have you just made an educational CD that needs to be sent out to host of educational establishments acr...
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Boiler Maintenance London - Boiler Maintenance London
...d about settling in for the winter. I had furnished the flat beautifully and bought the most lovely carpets and curtains. I loved nothing more than sitting in my house and looking around it feeling ...
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Recruitment Consultancy Surrey - Recruitment Consultancy Surrey
...tter how hard you try, that ideal role just keeps on eluding you. You might think that with years of experience under your belt youâ??d be snapped up straight away. Sadly, this isnâ??t always the cas...
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English Russian Translation - English Russian Translation
...t once might have been confined to the shores of the UK can now reach out to far and distant lands. The only problem that arises is one to do with the language barrier because unless you are fluent i...
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Paint Markers - Paint Markers
... that is used to create permanent writing on a variety of surfaces, such as paper, metal, stone, wood, etc. Unlike most markers, the ink in Paint Markers is oil-based, and generally requires you to sh...
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Contract Cleaning London - Contract Cleaning London
... which offers contract cleaning in London and my job is to source new business. I really enjoy my job and look forward to going into work every day. There are so many opportunities to chat to people...
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Franking Machine - Franking Machine
...city centre and one of my responsibilities is to look after the post each day. We have a franking machine in the office and I have to make sure that I weigh all of the mail and put it through the fra...
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Pallet Trucks - Pallet Trucks
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Franking Machine Supplier - Franking Machine Supplier
...rk in the post department of a very busy office in the centre of Manchester and have spent the most inordinate amount of time sticking stamps on letters in my time. I had a chat with my superiors the ...
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Office Refurbishment - Office Refurbishment
...ilding? Will the extra room allow you to expand but does the current layout need a little work? Before you move into your new office area it could undergo a spot of refurbishment work. Commercial r...
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Self Adhesive Stickers - Self Adhesive Stickers
...ostly used by students who stick them on their books, bags etc. Self Adhesive Stickers usually have glossy material on one side and are sticky on the other side. They are kept glossy to increase their...
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Adana Letterpress - Adana Letterpress
...tric. However, you would describe him there is no doubt that he has some odd habits and customs. He has always liked a variety of strange objects in his homes and, although his strange tastes have b...
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Packing Boxes - Packing Boxes
...e stores then simply select the items that you like and place them in your online shopping basket. Go to the online store`s checkout; pay for the goods and they will be delivered directly to your hom...
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Perspex Signs - Perspex Signs
...er we go we are greeted by signs that are pointing us in one direction or another. Without these signs we`d be lost, it`s simple as that and we`d have no chance of finding our way around our new loca...
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Charity Leaflets - Charity Leaflets
...t of us are very familiar with leaflets. They are used to advertise and promote all kinds of products and services and can be delivered by hand or post. Charity leaflets are a common and cost effecti...
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Promotional Risk Management - Promotional Risk Management
...r they can help to highlight the introduction of a new product to the range. The only problem with running promotions is you can`t always tell how successful they have been. You could invest a large...
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... to for help? Would you know where all the right job websites were and would you consider going to a recruitment consultancy for help? One leading recruitment consultancy is based in Richmond and the...
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Leaflet Printing - Leaflet Printing
...er hand out to people at events or put in the post with a covering letter is really important for making that first impression in business. That`s why Leaflet printing on the office colour printer is ...
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High Lift Trucks - High Lift Trucks
...rucks including High Lift trucks are used in the moving items in a wide variety of ways without any limitations on the load being carried. If the industrial truck needs to carry a load into any area,...
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Business Translation Services - Business Translation Services
...itish based business you might feel a little nervous about entering into a joint venture with a Chinese company. You want the process to run smoothly but there will be a large difference when it come...
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Market Research Companies - Market Research Companies
...s and it seems like a really fun thing to do. What happens is the Market research companies do research for a particular product and to do this effectively they need to get the opinions of the genera...
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Pr Surveys - Pr Surveys
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Russian Interpreter - Russian Interpreter
... world commerce but a language barrier might be unavoidable. Unless you are fluent in a host of foreign languages when it comes to dealings abroad, you might need to use the services of an interprete...
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