Business Consulting & Translation Services

Advice in Marketing and International Trade

Relocation Services

 

Do you want to live in France?

Do you want to learn French?

Do you need a translation from English into French or French into English at a fair price?

I offer you a tailor-made range of services to make your life in France easier:

- Help for your daily activities and administrative procedures

- Translation of your documents, administrative letters writing

- Individual French conversation course by phone or Skype to give you quickly the vocabulary you will need

- Coaching about French culture

For further information please feel free to contact me at info@mercisa.com or coach-isa (on Skype)

April 4, 2008 Posted by Isabelle J. | Relocation, Services, Translation | , , , , , , , , | No Comments

ADVANTAGES OF OUTSOURCING

To have recourse to outsourcing allows your company:

- to benefit from the services of a specialized professional who brings his external point of view to answer the problems met by your company, when you need some help.

- to gain in competitiveness. The freelance professional is continuously trained and had a new vision of your company and thus a different look from your entire staff. He has a specific mission to carry out but he is not dependent of your company. So he can underline points which appear important to him that your team would have point out, identified or reveal by fear of managers.

- to gain flexibility. You contract him by mission and you pay his fees when you need some help. Not more.

- To reduce your costs. You have not to pay him for compensations, vacation, contributions or others. He makes you invoices for his fees and he is in charge of all the other contribution obligations. You have simply to pay the fees corresponding to the mission or consultation.

March 17, 2008 Posted by Isabelle J. | Consulting, Management, Services | , , , , , | No Comments

HOW TO LAUCH A NEW PRODUCT: 1. Validation of your idea

  

  • Go out in the field: to do shopping, to go in stores and supermarkets, to observe the consumers, to determine the buying factors

  • Want to launch a product that meets a real need by a great number of people. To seek the objective of the satisfied need. To bring a real plus compared to the already existing products.

  • See how the land lies: to carry out a market research in order to know the reasons for which people would buy your product and according to results to modify your idea , or adapt it in order to create a product that meet totally the need of the consumers.

  • Put your idea into concrete form by creating a prototype! After a fast stage of presentation of your project and planning, to pass to the creation of the first prototype as soon as possible. Very often too many time is lost in meetings and plans whereas to make a prototype is sufficient to discover the improvements to be brought or the lack of demand with respect to our idea. The time factor is also determining compared to competition.

  • Conduct tests with the best version of your prototype. To organize focus groups, to obtain the more feedback from potentials consumers possible. To test your prototype by professionals in marketing who will bring an external glance useful for the development of your product.

If your product comes from an wonderful idea but is not judged like a useful progress for the greatest number, it will be difficult to sell it and thus to carry out consequent benefit.

March 17, 2008 Posted by Isabelle J. | Consulting, Marketing | , , | No Comments

What is a Business Plan?

 

Why to do a business plan ? Who can help me to write my business plan?

Everything should always start with a strategy! A good business plan is essential to ensuring the future of a successful company. It helps you to introduce your company and your objectives to potentials investors, trade partners and collaborators by giving to your projects the credibility which they deserve.

How to present your project and your company to be attractive to shareholders, banks, institutions and customers

How to envisage, plan and analyze the needs of your company

How to obtain an increased understanding of your industry and to identify real opportunities

How to identify your customers

How to understand the strategies of your competitors

How to make a financial forecast and to draw up a budget

How to increase your overall potential

More information at http://www.mercisa.com/

March 17, 2008 Posted by Isabelle J. | business plan | , , | No Comments

CANVASSING

To canvass new customers or potential suppliers, it is advised to make a table under Excel for example.
This document makes it possible to see the achieved work, the number of prospected companies and the follow-up to be ensured. It will be then updated and supplemented by a more detailed card for each company with which you will develop commercial bonds.

Here is key information to be listed on a canvassing sheet:

- company name

- data that allow to identify quickly the company: address, country, phone, fax

- its Internet site

- the type of products or services offered by this company (its conditions: minimal quantity by order, for example)

- information concerning your contact within this company (name, email, telephone hot line, language of the exchanges)

- the sending date of the first mail or e-mail

- the follow-up to be ensured

Company Adresse/phone Internet site Kind of products Contact 1st mail sent on… Follow-up

 

 

 

March 17, 2008 Posted by Isabelle J. | Consulting | , , , | No Comments

ADVANTAGES OF E-MAIL OR PHONE CONSULTATIONS

 Consulting by Internet is a service of advice and support by E-mail or phone (by using Skype for example).That enables you to have a specialized adviser who answers your questions and helps you to find solutions to your problems or to concretize your project. He ensures a follow-up and proposes personalized advice and solutions to you , even exercises to make you progress.

- You do not have to move to go for an appointment, you can stay at home.

- You can advance at your pace.

- You receive an answer personalized in less than 48 hours.

- You can keep and consult several times your received e-mail.

For who is this service?

- Private individuals

- Companies

- Business creators

For any information request: info@mercisa.com

March 17, 2008 Posted by Isabelle J. | Consulting, Services | , , , , , , | No Comments

Translation

What could I do for you?


Copywriting-Translation-Localisation-Proofreading   (English/Spanish>French          French>English)

My fields of expertise are
- business: marketing, advertising, globalization, economy and finance, tourism, ecology (websites, business plans, product descriptions, surveys, brochures, flyers, reports, business letters, resumes and cover letters).
- literature and arts general, fashion, cooking, music (blogs, articles, essays, short stories, websites)

All my translations are top quality, guaranteeing your message will be understood.
All the translations from French into English are proofread by a native English marketing professional without additional fees.

Inquire for rates. E-mail me to info@mercisa.com

March 2, 2008 Posted by Isabelle J. | Translation | , , , , , , | No Comments