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<title><![CDATA[RELOCATION CONCIERGE SERVICES]]></title>
<author>WeLoveAtenas@relocatecostarica.com</author>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:02:02 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Costa Concierge Services is the premier relocation experts in Costa Rica, we assist you in a wide array of services.<br /><br />Our Concierge Services center around your personalized needs and life style – With our extensive network of resources and knowledge of Costa Rica, we are able to provide you with services related to:<br /><br />Relocation to Costa Rica <br />Home and Family Needs <br />Senior Assistance <br />Travel in Costa Rica <br />Referrals for: <br />Costa Rica Real Estate Companies <br />Atenas Lots, Homes and Investment Properties <br />Costa Rica Rental Properties <br />Costa Rica Attorney’s <br />Costa Rica Medical and Dental resources <br />Office Services <br />And, much, much more <br /><br />Contact us: <a href="http://www.costaconcierges.com"><a href="http://www.costaconcierges.com" target="_blank">www.costaconcierges.com</a></a><br />Email:      <a href="mailto:stef@costaconcierges.com">stef@costaconcierges.com</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Atenas Construction Company]]></title>
<author>WeLoveAtenas@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=93</link>
<category>Sales</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:51:17 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The BEST contractor in Atenas, <a href="http://www.inversiones-sibaja.com"><a href="http://www.inversiones-sibaja.com" target="_blank">www.inversiones-sibaja.com</a></a> is the only turnkey builder in the area, quality construction, experienced and reputable company. Check us out: <a href="http://www.inversiones-sibaja.com"><a href="http://www.inversiones-sibaja.com" target="_blank">www.inversiones-sibaja.com</a></a><br /><br />Read what others have to say about us: <a href="http://forums.arcr.net/lofiversion/index.php/t2300.html">READ THIS</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[COUNTRY INAUGURATES QUETZALES STATE-OWNED PARK]]></title>
<author>carlos@relocatecostarica.com</author>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:34:28 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Quetzales National Park was recently opened in the country with an area of over 9,884 acres in the Talamanca hills in order to preserve its oak tree forests, cloud forests, highlands, valuable water sources, as well as the areaâ€™s wildlife habitats and quetzal repopulation.<br /><br />The Quetzal National Park will entail some thirty national parks, biological reserves, wildlife reserves, monuments and recreational areas, public as well as private, which in whole cover more than 25% of Costa Rica.<br /><br />It is specifically located in the Talamanca hills, at the head of the Savegre River between Providencia and San Gerardo de Dota, some 49.7 miles (80 km) from San JosĂ©.<br /><br />The land in the Quetzal area has three distinct forests, 14 ecosystems, and especially rich flora and fauna.<br /><br />It resembles Garajonay National Park, on the Canary Islands in Spain, by offering similar waterway properties.<br /><br />Its 7 different altitudes explain its biological diversity. There are some 25 different local species, 116 types of mammals and wetlands such as seasonal lagoons from the glacial era.<br /><br />But undoubtedly, the parkâ€™s greatest attraction is the Quetzal, with its green and red plumage, which makes it one of the most beautiful birds of the Central American rainforests.<br /><br />In addition, you can see pumas, coyotes, tapirs, jaguars, agootis and cacomitxles, among other species of animals.<br /><br />]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[COSTA RICA WELL-KNOWN FOR WHALE STUDY]]></title>
<author>carlos@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=91</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:30:05 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The non-lethal use of whales for tourism is a growing activity throughout the countries in Central America, and particularly Costa Rica.<br /><br />The activity, known as whale watching, has grown 74% in the last 10 years, a considerable increase if you compare it with that of other countries like Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Argentina, where tourism of this type grew between 15% and 19%.<br /><br />This activity directly benefits 91 communities from 18 countries and has quadrupled its potential at a regional level in the last 15 years, generating around $280 million just in Latin America, according to data from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Global Ocean, and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.<br /><br />There are eight main communities that benefit from whale watching on the Pacific coast and one on the Atlantic coast in Costa Rica. There are some 52 whale watching operators in these areas at these locations that, in 2007, took in around 100,000 tourists, with the majority (85%) being foreigners.<br /><br />The Humpback whale is the most widely viewed cetacean on the Costa Rican coasts because it is very migratory. It spends the summers in the cold waters at high latitudes and reproduces in tropical or subtropical climates. This species has been protected since 1967. Today there are less than 10,000 of this species worldwide.<br /><br />]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing Costa Rica. Bilingual lead generation]]></title>
<author>RichardBlank@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=90</link>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:39:13 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Costa Rica's Call Center's bilingual lead generation is the key to growth.<br /><br />Costa Rica's Call Center assures that we will inform, pre sell and qualify each and every potential client to maximize the lead acquisition of your lists in both English and Spanish. That is our word. We go into every call believing in a sale and if they do not end the call during the course of the presentation, they may be interested and need a little more convincing. <br /><br />Every name costs time and money and must not be rushed off the phone or wasted. The lists are not extinguished on the first call as they are worked diligently and kept current until all potential leads are in your sales rotation. Since sales people are typically the highest paid non-executive employees in an organization, it makes sense to provide them pre-qualified leads so that their production is highest by selling and not by cold calling. <br /><br />Identifying and qualifying a prospect can be an expensive and complex task. It becomes even more so if you do not have mechanisms in place to capture that information for a sale. There will always be a set of well-matched candidates for the purchase of your product or service within a larger set of poorly matched candidates that must be filtered.  The logical question is, do you personally have the time and energy to achieve new leads and reconnect with all prospects, including past and current clients? Your solution is to leave the prospecting calls to us so we can supply qualified hot leads, define the interest gauge of the prospect and determine the sales potential for you.<br /><br />As you would expect, a pertinent information checklist will be verified and double-checked for quality during each phone call to increase your odds of reaching the proper person by phone and those that want to do business with you. Our agents are trained to carefully repeat the information provided by the client so that both parties will avoid costly mistakes. At Costa Rica's Call Center, we like to ensure that the client was sincerely listening to our proposal and that their cognitive reasoning ability has been tested and verified. Every contact we make on the phone is not considered a lead, only those that show a real interest in the product or service you are offering will be delivered.<br /><br />We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb a volcano or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/lead_generation.html" target="_blank">http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/lead_generation.html</a><br />]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing with Costa Rica's Call Center]]></title>
<author>RichardBlank@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=89</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:38:10 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.costaricascallcenter.com" target="_blank">http://www.costaricascallcenter.com</a> <br /><br />Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art outsourcing company located in the Central American country of Costa Rica. Our focus is to personally offer key telemarketing services to small and medium sized companies looking for a proven method of expanding their business. Costa Rica’s Call Center gives any company a competitive advantage by providing our clients more than twice the number of highly trained and educated bilingual staff for the same price as they would pay within their local area. <br /><br />In addition, Costa Rica’s Call Center stays focused on managing no more than a hundred seat call center, one campaign at a time, in order to properly control quality, performance and positive employee morale.Once capacity is reached, another call center will be created in order to keep our results and expectations consistently high. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica.<br /><br />Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center, a division of Cheyenne Consultants, a company incorporated in Costa Rica. At the beginning of the decade, Mr. Blank relocated to Costa Rica to train over 500 employees for one of the larger call centers in Central America. By utilizing his motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, he has successfully prepared and managed some of the finest telemarketers in the country for the past seven years. In addition, Mr. Blank has earned the reputation of running a school for telemarketing and is often sought after for private training sessions and consultation. <br /><br />In anticipation of CAFTA, Mr. Blank became a strategic partner of the Pacific Rim Chamber of Commerce, Beverly Hills, California and Selway Global Communications, Tempe, Arizona to expand Costa Rica’s international telecommunications and business appeal. Mr. Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain.<br />]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing Costa Rica? It may be wise in 2009.]]></title>
<author>RichardBlank@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=88</link>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:36:58 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ In today’s highly competitive outsourcing market, a closer proximity to the United States , Central Time Zone and  Spanish language capability as an added value are now considered almost basic requirements when making a decision on what call center to use for your important project.  Leaving this to chance is not even an option anymore.<br /><br />Many of the offshore call center agents are bilingual in their native Middle Eastern or Asian language which is difficult to the North American ear. Whereas Spanish is more useful and practical as a second language for potential untapped markets throughout the North, Central and South American populations as well as those countries where Spanish is either a primary or secondary language. This aspect alone has made Costa Rica a very attractive “near-shore” outsourcing solution. Most importantly, you can take advantage of the international tax laws granted to international companies that invest in Costa Rica and its local economy. The potential savings and benefits will make your outsourcing campaign a very wise business decision.<br /><br />In addition, unlike other traditional call centers, Costa Rica’s Call Center stays focused on managing no more than a hundred person call center, one outsourced or inbound customer oriented campaign at a time in order to properly control quality, performance and positive employee morale. Once capacity is reached at one of our call centers, another location will be created with the same structure and business plan in order to keep our call center results and expectations consistently higher than that of the competition. <br /><br />Call center software is as important to an outsourced campaign as telemarketing training. Both areas must be secure, reliable and willing to out perform the same competition that you are currently considering. Costa Rica has a very solid infrastructure ,stable democratic government, very competitive labor costs and a call center job pool that is especially attunded to the North American culture. Call center jobs are some of the top paying career opportunities in Costa Rica. This differs greatly from other countries that consider it as a starting position in a dead end company.  Turnover at these other locations are five to ten times more than in Costa Rica. The high demand for call center services has provided our company with an abundance of respectable resumes of qualified telemarketers that want to work with and for you.<br /><br />We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb a volcano or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/why_costarica.html" target="_blank">http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/why_costarica.html</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Costa Rica’s Call Center Employment Opportunities]]></title>
<author>RichardBlank@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=87</link>
<category>Jobs</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:35:08 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Costa Rica’s Call Center Employment Opportunities<br /><br /><a href="mailto:costaricascallcenter_jobs@yahoo.com">costaricascallcenter_jobs@yahoo.com</a><br /><br />Costa Rica’s Call Center is always open to meet new prospects to join our team at all levels for a variety of campaigns. <br /><br />Executive secretaries, customer service agents, teachers, expatriates , highly skilled telemarketers, imaginative web designers, sharp computer programmers, anyone who believes that their skills can enhance a campaign are all encouraged to immediately contact our human resources department.<br /><br />We will carefully evaluate each applicant’s education, abilities and personal goals. Age and gender will not deter us from selecting the top candidates for a campaign. Our call center’s Executive Officers personally encourage you to receive the best in telemarketing training, call center work environment and career development in Costa Rica. Contact us today to begin your future with our company!  We look forward to hearing from you.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/employment.html" target="_blank">http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/employment.html</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing Costa Rica. Plenty of IT jobs at a cal]]></title>
<author>RichardBlank@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=86</link>
<category>Jobs</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:33:41 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Costa Rica’s Call Center IT Employment Opportunities<br /><br /><a href="mailto:costaricascallcenter_jobs@yahoo.com">costaricascallcenter_jobs@yahoo.com</a><br /><br />Costa Rica’s Call Center is always open to meet new prospects to join our team at all levels for a variety of campaigns. <br /><br />Imaginative web designers, sharp computer programmers and SEO experts are encouraged to immediately contact our human resources department.<br /><br />We will carefully evaluate each applicant’s education, abilities and personal goals. Age and gender will not deter us from selecting the top candidates for a campaign. Our call center’s Executive Officers personally encourage you to receive the best in career development in Costa Rica. Contact us today to begin your future with our company!  We look forward to hearing from you.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/employment.html" target="_blank">http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/employment.html</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[COSTA RICA ON TOP OF ATTRACTING INVESTMENT]]></title>
<author>carlos@relocatecostarica.com</author>
<link>http://www.relocatecostarica.com/r/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=85</link>
<category>News</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:59:56 -0600</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Costa Rica ranked seventh in attracting investment among Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2007, according to a study done by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL).<br /><br />The amount of $1.889 million brought in by Costa Rica last year, was only surpassed by Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru, according to the report.<br /><br />With respect to CEPAL’s investment measurements, the country surpassed all the Isthmus countries, Panama, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Bolivia, among other South American and Caribbean countries.<br /><br />Mónica Araya, president of the Chamber of Exporters of Costa Rica (Cadexco), reiterated the excellent image that the country has on an international scale.<br /><br />]]></description>
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