How to Buy Property in Florida – FREE SEMINAR

Posted: January 21st, 2011 | Author: Chris Jaensch | Filed under: Investor Visas | No Comments »

The End of the Green Card Lottery?

Posted: January 6th, 2011 | Author: Chris Jaensch | Filed under: National News | No Comments »

On January 5, 2011, Rep. Darrell Issa of California introduced H.R.43 to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas (50,000) to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States. The bill has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which will be chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas. House Immigration Subcommittee will be chaired by Rep. King of Iowa. We will keep you posted on any developments.

Free Business Management Skills Training from Business Productivity Group in Sarasota

Posted: January 5th, 2011 | Author: Chris Jaensch | Filed under: Sarasota Immigrants | 1 Comment »

One of our favorite local experts on business (particularly business in Russia), Nikolay Safonov, is part of a group providing FREE business management skills training in Sarasota. The subjects of each training session are listed below. For more information and to register, follow the link for the session in which you are interested:

The location of each session is the Fruitville Library, 100 Coburn Road, in Sarasota (just east of I-75). Business owners and managers form the target audience.

The group’s goals are as follows: Our members benefit from sharing their business expertise, and getting an access to group intelligence. We improve business productivity through building a set of mandatory skills like communication, financial analysis and business planning. During our sessions we review real life cases and brainstorm solutions for each of them.

Date	Time	Theme
Jan. 11	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Word Processor) Using Word for your marketing needs. Flyers, Brochures, Catalogues, Mass mailing. Basics of Auto-formatting, styles and auto content.
Jan. 18	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Word Processor II) Using Word for complex documents. TOC, indexes, bibliography, footnotes. Headers and footers, embedded files
Jan. 27 Thursday	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Spreadsheets) Financial functions Loans and assets amortization Bond pricing
Feb. 1	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Spreadsheets II) Lists, data bases, sales reports Pivot Tables
Feb. 8	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Presentations) Themes, transitions, branching. Presentation automation Producing video presentation
Feb. 15	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Webcast) Providers review Preparing your webinar When you are on the air
Feb. 24 Thursday	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Website Development) SharePoint Designer, WordPress and others Site structure, navigation, links and buttons SEO awareness Hosting, domain, e-mails
March 1	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Accounting) Quicken, QuickBooks and others Your CPA’s role Integration with Outlook or ACT! Splashing data to MS Excel.
March 8	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (CRM) Outlook Business Contact Manager Communication with customers
March 15	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Sales Management) Opportunities tracking Marketing Campaigns ROI Sales People performance Evaluation
March 22	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Productivity Software (Project Management) MS Project, Primavera and others Scheduling, resources allocation, budgeting Reports, Tracking performance
March 29	11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Theme of choice

Canadian Investor Opens “20 Minutes to Fitness” in Sarasota

Posted: January 3rd, 2011 | Author: Chris Jaensch | Filed under: Sarasota Immigrants | No Comments »

In light of the many people who resolved to get fit in 2011, we would like to congratulate Canadian investor, Hugh Elsam, who recently opened a 20 Minutes to Fitness studio in downtown Sarasota. This fitness studio is unique, because it offers a complete, full body work out once per week for just 20 minutes.

The 20 Minutes to Fitness training is performed: (1) on highly-specialized, compound-muscle training equipment; (2) using a slow, safe, proven training protocol; (3) under the supervision of certified, 20 Minutes to Fitness personal trainers; (4) in a quiet, semi-private studio, where there is no waiting on equipment; and (5) typically requiring only one, 20 minute session a week. A training session lasts from 20 to 22 minutes, with the client training on five to seven pieces of equipment. Since most of the equipment focuses on a compound muscle groups, one session provides a full-body workout.

The 20 Minutes to Fitness studio in Sarasota occupies over 3,000 square feet in one of the new office buildings on the Rivo on Ringling property.

I was recently invited to an orientation and trial workout to see how I would like a 20 Minutes to Fitness concept. I met with the General Manager, Michelle, who first talked to me about my health and my fitness goals. Then, she had me work on four different machines for approximately 2 minutes each. With each machine, she showed me how to do a slow contraction and release it (it has to take 10 to 15 seconds one way and 10 to 15 seconds back). After I had the timing down, I had to do slow repetitions for up to two minutes on each machine until I could not do any more. It was a real workout! When I was finished (in 20 minutes!), I felt like I had really put my muscles to the test. I will be back for sure.

20 Minutes to Fitness gave me some certificates for a fee orientation and workout. If you would like to try them out, please send me an email: Chris@VisaAmerica.com

Chris Jaensch