May 19, 2009

The importance of surveys in a business

As a businesswoman who travels the world with the major aim of expanding the business that I am currently running, the truth is that I often end up facing some problems related to the staff in the company or simple misunderstandings with the teams that work with me.

Keeping this in mind, I would say that Employee Survey can really play an important role as the ultimate way of managing a company as they allow the general managers to have a much more precise idea of how all the efforts can be joined in order to make the company profit as much as possible. Moreover, these surveys also play an important role in market research if you would like to have a better idea of how specific groups of people would react to the new products or services that the company is considering to sell to the public.

So, would you like to create your own surveys in order to make your own business benefit from them? If that’s the case, then you definitely need to have a look at the website above and create your own surveys in just a few minutes, while also granting that you are able to take important conclusions from the results that you will get from them.

Chinese hotels



Have you ever been to a Chinese Hotel before? Would you consider going to one? If you would like to know more about these Hotels and the advantages and disadvantages that you are going to find on them, then you definitely need to have a look at the msnbc.com article just below:

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By Will Weissert


LINGANG, China - There are four of them waiting for us, tottering about the hotel parking lot in yellow biohazard suits.

"One question," says the translator, before he lets us out of a government van that's locked from the outside. "Would you like separate rooms or a room together?"

"We're married," we say.

"Yes," he replies, sweating under his plastic safety goggles. "Separate rooms or together?"

Uh-oh.

My wife and I are in perfect health, but after flying to China for my college friend's wedding we're being quarantined in a remote hotel for seven days. The reason: Our flight from our home in Havana included a layover in Cancun, and China is taking no chances with swine flu.

Never mind that we were in Cancun for only two hours, that we didn't leave the airport and that Mexican doctors with electronic thermometers checked us for fever on arrival and departure. Never mind that when our Continental Airlines flight from Newark touched down in Shanghai, we and everyone else on board were not allowed to leave our seats until health workers clamored aboard and pointed a blue beam at our foreheads to take our temperatures.

The Mexican stamps in our passports — my wife is Chilean, I'm American — are enough for authorities to pull us out of line at immigration and send us to a medical room where attendants in white lab coats take our temperature yet again and give us surgical masks.

Confined to a hotel room
I produce the wedding invitation with the groom's cell phone number, hoping the doctor will let us call. The doctor — one of the few people at the airport who speaks English — mistakenly thinks we came to China to get married.

"Sorry you have to spend your honeymoon like this," he says.

After 3 1/2 hours, a man in uniform — speaking by phone with a communist official everyone calls "the leader" — announces we will be confined to a hotel room for seven days.

We say we'll simply fly back home. He tells us that isn't possible.

That draws a protest from my wife, Chilean journalist Monica Medel, who notes that while the United States has more swine flu cases than Mexico, I'm the only one of the 200-plus Americans on our plane going into quarantine.

"Why aren't Americans being quarantined?" she asks.

"Right," says the doctor. "That's the same question all of us have been asking."

And so we are placed in a van and driven to a hotel in Lingang Harbor City, a new industrial zone south of Shanghai. We wonder if it's just a bad dream induced by jet lag, but the hotel workers in hazmat getups leave little doubt this is real.

The hotel is closed except for people in quarantine, and the first day we are the only foreigners. Because government attendants still think we're on our honeymoon, we get the nicest room: a suite with a king-size bed, a couch and a large balcony with a view of the ocean, vast open spaces and farmland in the distance.

It's sort of like a lengthy hospital stay, except that we're not sick. And we're stuck here until Wednesday.

The TV gets 25 Chinese channels, plus CNN International and one Chinese government station in English. A public service announcement about not stealing cable signals in Japan runs again and again.

We watch a lot of badminton, "Sister Act" dubbed into Mandarin and music videos from a Chinese act resembling the Backstreet Boys. We quickly tire of Larry King reruns, and switch to the other English-language channel, which constantly repeats a round-table discussion about trash collection in Beijing.

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