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WorkOasis? introduces Lean Six Sigma for Managing Contractors

FM Solutions, LLC announced today the availability of Six Sigma services for the facility management industry based on its WorkOasis? technology platform. The application of Lean Six Sigma in the property management area represents a $60 billion improvement opportunity for US corporations.The facility management function which includes processes for sourcing service contractors, handling service requests, and paying invoices, has been one of the least automated, measured and controlled functions within the enterprise.
WorkOasis? combines "Lean" service techniques to shorten service transaction time and "Six Sigma" quality methods to better measure and control facility management processes, resulting in improved responsiveness and reduce cost.Corporate owners of large portfolios of distributed real estate will be able to contract with WorkOasis? to perform a Lean Six Sigma audit of their current processes and receive a detailed process map and assessment of their operations and improvement opportunities.
WorkOasis? uses Six Sigma implementation partners and certified blackbelts to conduct the audits.
Bob Dickhaus, founder of FM Solutions and WorkOasis? comments; "The application of Six Sigma techniques to the facility management function is a relatively new concept.

Redesigning and automating paper based service processes can save corporate real estate owners 15-20% of their total operating budgets.
Jim Phillips, Six Sigma blackbelt and Partner of Ogmacon Service, states; "More and more, the world's best companies rely on a common understanding of the facilities operations strategy throughout the organization. WorkOasis's approach of building competitive advantage through facility operational improvement cuts through the rhetoric and provides practical tools and concepts for building sound operating strategies that work."For more information contact Glenn Dorchester at (678) 627-8268 or visit www.workoasis.com.
To receive a free copy of "Improving Facility Management Delivery Using Lean Six Sigma" visit www.workoasis.com/default.asp?W=whitepaper. Contact: Glenn DorchesterFM Solutions, LLC(678) 627-8268.


The Infopreneur's Big, Fat Offline Pay Day

How Infopreneurs Can Produce $1,000 Pay Day's Offline, Even If You'veNever Done It Onlineby Alexis DawesCopyright 2004I've been selling my own self-published information products (mainlye-books) online for the past 3 years. Is it profitable? Definitely.But as any seasoned information marketer will vouch, it takes time to build up your name recognition online. You'll have to spend considerable effort to develop word-of-mouth web site traffic. It's rare that you start off making $1,000 a day.But offline it's an entirely different story. In the real world, when people meet face-to-face, a 10-minuteconversation with a prospect can lead to a $1,000 sale.I know this from first-hand experience.

You see I've been in thatposition several times. How? I'm an author who uses Quickie Seminars to sell my information products.What is a Quickie Seminar you ask?It's a 3-hour talk that you give based around the topic of yourinformation product. If you sell DVD's that teach people how topaint murals,...

The Infopreneur's Big, Fat Offline Pay Day
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Find the most popular web sites in search of genuine free tuff offers and real freebies

If you're looking around the internet in search of genuine bargains, free tuff samples or the best free offers, you may wish to consider the hundreds potential sites to choose from, in turn loosing many hours trying to decide which could be the best and most reliable website, or you could just simply take advantage of www.isjustfree.com or its sister site www.freestuff4net.com . Two sites featuring some of the best freebies, free competitions, special offers, and genuine cash rewards for surveys, free stuff. These freebies websites are specialised places where people can really get something for free. The web master of such special sites usually are dedicated and reliable people that spend may hours searching the internet, for the simple purpose of finding and reviewing the best free offers available from various companies, for you to choose from on their listed sites.The Internet is a wonderful place for you to discover new daily offers and opportunities. For example, by searching the...

Find the most popular web sites in search of genuine free tuff offers and real freebies
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Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORS? Offers PossibleNOW’s DNCQuickcheck™ As Member Benefit

Atlanta, GA (ContentDesk) October 24, 2005 -- PossibleNOW, the leading provider of Internet-based solutions for Do Not Call compliance, announced that the Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORS? (WRAR) will offer PossibleNOWs DNCQuickcheck service as a member benefit. DNCQuickcheck lets REALTORS? instantly check the status of a phone number against the federal and all individual state Do Not Call lists.DNCQuickcheck provides a complete set of tools to help WRAR members comply with all aspects of the federal and state Do Not Call laws. DNCQuickcheck is specifically designed to meet the compliance needs of entire brokerage offices as well as individual real estate agents. Real estate professionals dont think of themselves as telemarketers, yet they must comply with the Do Not Call laws each time they call an expired listing, a for sale by owner or a referral, explains Scott Frey, CEO of PossibleNOW. WRAR members can use DNCQuickcheck to easily identify consumers who dont want...

Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORS? Offers PossibleNOW’s DNCQuickcheck™ As Member Benefit
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Thinking about selling your home?

Owning a home is the original American dream. It's the old frontier spirit, wanting to claim your own tuft of the New World. Then again, these days it also makes perfect economic sense. Experts estimate that all of the homes in the United States alone are worth a combined $14 trillion. That goes a long way to explain why a housing boom has been sweeping the globe.

Where there is a boom, though, there may be a bust. Read any headline from your local newspaper, and you'll see headlines such as "Bye-Bye, Housing Boom" to "Housing Boom is Leveling Off." Some economic forecasters predict a bubble that may be about to burst. They make you wonder: am I missing the boat?Whether you're looking to cash in on this real estate bubble before it pops?or simply wanting to move to a bigger home or move across the country?selling your home can be more a nightmare than a dream. Not only do you have to find and trust a real estate agent. You need to prep your home for open houses.

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