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Virtual Assistant Agency US Project Manager Marketing Admin Sales Service Launch

Howling Assistant, a virtual assistant firm, has launched US-based management, marketing, and administrative programs and services for small and medium businesses. The company’s staff is trained to perform many repetitive tasks such as answering phones, handling email, managing data, and scheduling. They also have dedicated teams capable of managing all aspects of digital sales, website traffic, and more.

For further information see https://www.howlingassistant.com

This agency’s launch was prompted by a need for virtual assistants familiar with American customs and language. The US-based project management program employs individuals with decades of experience working with clients ranging from entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, franchises, and more. These qualified persons can effectively coordinate and manage many of the functions a company must do to stay competitive in today’s market.

All virtual assistants can operate in various customer relationship management platforms, including Infusionsoft, Zoho, Active Campaign, and HubSpot. They understand their client’s business processes and strive to simplify and automate daily repetitive tasks.

Dedicated digital sales experts within Howling Assistant create custom content, design posts, and post every day to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Personal profile, LinkedIn Company Page, Twitter & Pinterest, and more. Team members engage and interact with a company’s current followers and groups so that they become loyal customers and fans over time.

Data management can also be delegated, including timely delivery of reports for a business’s partners, shareholders, banks, and customers. Internal data about a company’s different departments, up-to-date trends, brand development, social media, and website statistics can all be integrated into a greater whole to help businesses become better organized and efficient.

The firm has competent virtual assistants that can turn a website into a marketing tool that produces a steady source of leads. Sales channels, chat features, scheduling add ons, instant response features, and many other interactive functions are used to capitalize on a company’s digital real estate.

Assistants can update images, copy, add pages, upload blogs, and more on WordPress, Shopify, and Big Commerce. They create high converting funnels and landing pages for Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and all other traffic campaigns.

Howling Assistant also has dedicated experts that can help a company increase its sales using the telephone. These lead conversion experts are trained to book leads, qualifying, and follow-up. This frees the in-house sales teams to only focus on closing high-quality prospects. Phone services include monitoring incoming calls, follow up calls, lead connections, appointment setting, multiple call rotations, analytics dashboard, and call recording.

A company spokesman said, “We want to free up small and medium businesses to focus on their core functions. We use US-based assistants and program managers that receive ongoing training in administration, management, customer service, marketing, and sales conversion, and more.”

The launch of Howling Assistant’s US-based management and sales services gives small and medium American businesses resources designed to free them to focus and grow their core business.

For further information visit the company’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HowlingAssistant

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A Sneak Peek Into the Flourishing Outsourced Drug Trials in India

Over the past decade, the big pharmaceutical companies have moved their clinical testings abroad. Among all others, India has become a choice destination—a goldmine for their operations.

A majority of the research on new drugs is carried out in the more developed countries (MDC). However, according to a recent study by Rabo India Finance, a subsidiary of Rabobank of the Netherlands, there is a 50-60 percent estimated cost of savings if the trials are held in developing countries. The contract research market is worth an estimated $10 billion while the international clinical trial business is worth a whopping $40 billion.

Just as India has become the premium destination for tech giants to outsource their software development needs, the country has also become a hot-spot for a clinical trial like no other country. The country is a fertile ground for this practice with copious, low-cost and English-speaking medical staff, a functional medical infrastructure, heartwarming reception towards foreign industry, and, perhaps, the most important factor: millions of poor citizens ever willing to try out new drugs. 

Despite the economic revenue it accrues to the country’s GDP, to an estimated $2 billion by 2021, there’s been a public outcry in some quarters against clinical trials in India, more so because it has slapped on the country, the denigrating nickname of “guinea pigs to the world”.

The major concern of most critics against this practice stems from the fear that U.S. pharmaceutical companies may be eluding regulatory controls by outsourcing trials to India rather than conducting them in the United States. Speaking about this, Tripti Tandon of Lawyers Collective, a legal group for HIV-positive people, said: “It is important that the regulations take into consideration the rights of the people on whom the tests are being carried out.” Lending his voice, Mira Shiva of the Voluntary Health Association of India said: Post-marketing surveillance needs to be strengthened to ensure that fake data has not been used to get a drug into the market.”

Consequently, Indian health authorities have posited, times without number, that they are on top of the situation. However, this may not be entirely true. In 2015 the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), teaming up with the Johns Hopkins University, USA, conducted some cancer drug trials. Cancer patients were injected with experimental drugs without due clearance from the appropriate authorities. A special committee investigated the incident, and the matter dismissed.

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How Does Gamification Enhance Mathematics In The Classroom?

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What is gamification? How does it help in Math education? Here is how: Thanks to the ingenuity of one Nick Pelling, gamification has changed how activities are carried out. Being a game developer from Britain, he coined this term in early 2000s as a tool for enhancing quick and fun electronic transactions. Gamification applies the use of game-playing in non-game activities. Its intended purpose is to motivate, enhance participation and improve memory skills of the activity. Nowadays, gamification has found its way into other industries such as education. As a result, it is applied in numerous subjects, one of them being Mathematics. Here are 5 ways that gamification helps in Math education: 

  • Gamified Math lessons enhance problem-solving and thinking skills in students. During such lessons, students will use all sorts of tactics to win the games. This improves their problem-solving skills and how they process a challenge, both of which are useful in Math.
  • Gamification serves as an assessment tool for learning abilities in students. As a tutor or teacher, you are able to analyze learning styles, strong areas, weak areas as well as their way of approach to each Math topic.
  • Gaming elements in Math lessons improve interpersonal relationships and interactions among students, parents and teachers. It narrows the generational gap between children and adults. This creates openness and freedom of expression, hence children easily seek help.
  • Gamification fosters an open-minded approach. It enables students to understand that there are always two sides to every story or situation, and that none is superior to the other. Losing, whether in Math or life is not the end, you have to try again.
  • Gaming elements enhance active participation in classrooms. For subjects like Math, active participation is an indispensable tool that mitigates boredom and facilitates better understanding of topics.

 When used effectively, gamification enhances solution-seeking, interactions and participation in Math lessons.