Thursday, September 6, 2007

When you manage to provide a condominium for sale every two and a half days (on average) you have the distinction of being one of the best in your field, especially when you consider the teamwork needed to achieve such stellar success.
That is the story of Plazacorp, a company that has been provided 3,000 homes in Toronto in the past twenty years. It takes a mammoth force of specialists from design to construction, engineering to development to make this work.
The personnel at Plazacorp are on a continuous quest to develop new and innovative methods to bring quality and style to their renovations and new developments. While many builders supply a list of upgrades clients can choose from, Plazacorp includes many of those same features as standards in their building practice.
Customers have been impressed with such design features as granite or marble countertops and flooring along with other desired features such as porcelain tile, stainless steel appliances and hardwood floors. Perhaps that is why Plazacorp customers are often the best source of both repeat business as well as enthusiastic word of mouth advertising.
When you walk into a Plazacorp condominium you will be captivated by the warmth and style that bears the imprint of quality and creativity Plazacorp has been recognized for on so many occasions. It is for these reasons and many more that customers refer to their Plazacorp condominium as 'home'.
The Greater Toronto Homebuilders Association has acclaimed Plazacorp by nominating them in such prestigious award categories as Best Building Design, Best Suite Design and Best Model Suite.
Should Plazacorp customers need to move they discover one of the best reasons to be a customer is the positive resale value that comes with the Plazacorp reputation.
And Plazacorp's commitment to the environment is evident when you consider the fact that hundreds of tons of steel have been recycled as part of recent demolition work in their Wet Harbour City edition. Much of the concrete extracted from the demolition effort will be used as crushed concrete in roadbed projects. The West Harbour City project received the "Excellence in Planning Award" for its outstanding commitment to urban design.
Various neighbourhoods are receiving the Plazacorp level of integrity by seeing existing structures brought back to life and unused areas receiving new and inviting structures that are as appealing to look at as they are to live in. Project areas like 900 Mt. Pleasant, Wellington on the Park and Regency Yorkville are turning heads and raising interest in the craftsmanship and beauty of a Plazacorp home.
Plazacorp has proven that their attention to a blending of environmentally sound building practices along with timeless design and sheer elegance is not simply a passing interest in design features and integrity.
Energy efficiency is also a hallmark of a Plazacorp condominium with attention to details such as efficient appliances as well as heating and cooling systems. These design features not only save you money, but requires less energy to operate.
When a choice is made for a Plazacorp condominium you have the assurance of quality, industry honored construction along with the backing of a tremendously talented design and construction team. When the Plazacorp team passes though West Harbour City, 900 Mt. Pleasant, Wellington on the Park, Regency Yorkville or any of their other development sites they remember both the dreams for the future and the fond memories these homes will evoke.
You live in a house for a long time, Plazacorp wants to be sure you have every reason to call one of their condominiums home.

This article was prepared for this Toronto Condos Site


Learn About Multiple Level Marketing - An Old Method That's Still Useful
Multi level marketing (MLM) has been around for many years and has been successful through the years. Selling Avon products is a current example of MLM. Avon as you know has been in the business for years and successful for many years.
Multi level marketing is also known as network marketing. It is a kind of business where franchising and direct selling are combined. This business makes a person associated with a company an independent person representing the company. It is an approach where the company creates a contractor relationship to the person who wants to expand his business.
The members make their earnings based on the sales they have reached in that particular product or service. It also includes a part of the sales of the person that they have recruited to join the business. Most of the time the individual who has recruited more members and provided a good sales output on the product compensate higher because of the effort to transact in two different levels.
There are "pyramid schemes" or Ponzi schemes, which are illegal. Most people associate multi level marketing to these kind of schemes because they also recognize themselves to be a legitimate networking business. Because of the bad image brought up by these schemes, many prefer to use their names for their businesses as "home based business franchising" or "affiliate marketing".
Commissions or profits are earned in the process of selling a particular product or service in a legitimate multi level marketing. There can be no earnings in what they call as a "sign up fee" or for just recruiting yourself alone.
This kind of marketing has been criticized because of the questionable recruitment process where they get their revenue and profit. They get their sales from members and new members, which are considered the end users of the product and as the distributors.
These criticisms led to the major changes in the multi level marketing in the early 1980s when many companies have started to allow their members to concentrate only on marketing and not on distributing or stocking the product. Most multi level marketing firms nowadays perform as fulfillment firms by taking the tasks of shipping the product, paying the commissions and taking orders from their clients.
There have been victims of the illegal schemes in multi level marketing are required to buy expensive products, but most of these schemes do not last long because most of the sales are not easily resold.
If you start a MLM business you need to be ethical in both the recruitment of sales persons as well as the actual selling to customers. When you do this your business with grow and you will have repeat customers. This is where you can really reap a profit.

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Successful Fundraising Donation Letters Use Before-And-After Samples, Examples.
The best advice I can give you for writing successful fundraising letters is to act as if your donors are obese. Really obese.
Imagine, for example, that they struggle with their weight every single day. Imagine that they hate the way they look. Imagine that they want nothing more than to lose weight and look fabulous.
Now imagine that you have the weight-loss program that your donors need to shed those unsightly pounds and return to the weight and energy level they crave.
But how are you going to persuade your donors that you have the weight-loss solution they need?
With amazing before-and-after pictures.
You know the kind I mean. You see them on the covers of the magazines at the supermarket checkout lane. There's a photo of Tom before his diet and another photo of Tom after his diet. "Before, 357 lbs. After, 168 lbs." "Tom lost 189 lbs in 12 months! So can you!"
I once read through an issue of Weight Watchers magazine that was filled with these sample before-and-after photographs. Even though each example bore a disclaimer saying that the results for each person depicted were not typical, these photos were compelling and persuasive. I was obese. I wanted to lose. So they persuaded me. They proved that the Weight Watchers program worked.
Your donors may not be obese. But they are nevertheless looking to invest their money in charitable causes that make a difference. Your role as a direct mail fundraiser is to prove that your organization is changing the world. The best way to do that is to show your donors before-and-after pictures, both literal and figurative.
You could show the clearcut forest from the 1960s and then show it today, reforested, thanks to your organization.
You could show a before photo of Ahmed malnourished in a Somali refugee camp, and an after photo of him graduating from Yale.
Or you could simply describe your before and afters, showing through vivid word pictures what life was like before your organization intervened and what it is like today.
People who are overweight are drawn to before-and-after photographs of people who lost a lot of weight because these photos show the problem and the solution together. They work because they prove the link between the solution and the problem. They demonstrate cause and effect.
What you must do in your donation fundraising letters is show donors samples and examples of the before and afters. Obese people are looking for hope, and looking for proven weight-loss programs. Your donors are also looking for hope and proven solutions. They want to eradicate poverty. They want to stop drunk driving. They want to find a cure for breast cancer.
So go ahead, act as if your donors are upset with the way things are and want to make a difference. Then show, with vivid before-and-after pictures, how your non-profit organization is changing the world thanks to the gifts that it receives from donors just like them.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alan Sharpe is a professional fundraising letter writer, instructor, coach, author and newsletter publisher who helps non-profit organizations to raise funds, build relationships and retain loyal donors using cost-effective, compelling, creative fundraising letters. Sign up for free weekly tips like this at http://www.RaiserSharpe.com