PDCA announces in-house training program
for members
The Pennsylvania
and Delaware Cleaners Association will be offering a new in-house training program
for its members in 2003.
Professional finishing trainer Lisa Dusak
will be available to demonstrate proper finishing techniques to
member cleaners and their employees. The sessions will take
place at PDCA member plants, on their own equipment.
She will teach trainees how to increase
speed, efficiency and quality and decrease touch-ups, rejects
and wasted time.
Her initial seminars will feature general
finishing, shirt finishing, or a combination of both.
She will be available for either full-day
seminars or half-day seminars.
The discounted PDCA member cost is $300
for a full-day session. Additional costs will include
Dusak’s mileage and, when necessary, her hotel
accommodations.
Plants who wish to utilize her training
services for only a half day will play $175 plus the additional
expenses. However, they will have to coordinate a schedule with
another drycleaning plant to run concurrently on the same day,
or back-to-back with a plant in a nearby town. The additional
expenses will be split between the two plants.
For more information on the program,
contact PDCA’s office by calling (880) 822-7352.
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Upcoming business seminars set in
Pennsylvania
Several seminars focussed on helping small
businesses will take place throughout Pennsylvania in the next
few months.
The Service Corps of Retired Executives
(SCORE) will sponsor an eight-hour workshop on “Business
Basics” on Saturday, Feb. 15. It will take place at The
Library Center at 414 Wood St. in downtown Pittsburgh.
The seminar is designed to help those who
are planning on starting a small business or who have done so
already, but face existing problems.
Topics will include: the basic elements of
a successful venture; how to create a business plan; marketing
on a low budget; financing; record keeping and tax
requirements; business insurance guidelines; and legal and
organizational issues.
Cost is $60 per person if paid in advance;
$65 on the day of the workshop. Additional people from the same
company pay $40 each.
Registration and a continental breakfast
will start at 7:30 a.m. The educational program will run from 8
a.m. until 4 p.m.
For more information, call (412) 395-6560,
ext. 130 or visit www.scorepittsburgh.com.
On Thursday, Feb. 27, Kim Flynn of Starn
Marketing Group will offer a seminar on “Effective
Marketing Materials” at the Mercer County Howard Johnson.
She will discuss creating logos, flyer
layouts, mailers, ad creation, web site design and promotion.
Cost is $35 per person. The seminar will
run from 1 to 3:30 p.m. For more information, contact (814)
871-7577.
“How to Attract and Keep New
Customers” will be the subject of a seminar scheduled for
Tuesday, May 6 at Saint Vincent College in Prep Hall Room 220.
The program will run from 9 a.m. until
noon and focus on creative sales ideas, customer service
strategies, improving customer relations, marketing tips and
creative merchandising.
For more information, call (724) 537-4572.
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