Teen Parent Connection Baby Shower Went Ducky!


The conference room at Global Resources was taken over by rubber duckies—they floated in punch, sat on cupcakes and generally welcomed guests to our baby shower that collected donations to stock the Parents’ Pantry at the Teen Parent Connection.

 

Bringing in donations!

The Teen Parent Connection empowers young families by offering resources and teaching positive parenting skills.  Parents set goals such as finishing high school, taking job training, or going to college to earn ‘Baby Bucks’ that are then used at the Parents’ Pantry to purchase needed child care supplies such as diapers, wipes, shampoo and bath products, …

Global Resources Reviews: Highly Recommend Their Services

Situation

Global Resources, LLC was invited to assist a contractor offering Heating, Venting, Air Conditioning and Plumbing services who was experiencing growing pains.  Specifically, “we needed direction on growing our company and to be profitable during growth.  We had issues with cash flow and could not track profits accurately.”

Process

A structured plan was developed through the consulting process that helped the client work through all their issues and provided them with the snapshot of their company which was required to go forward.

Result

“We now feel that we have the compass in place in order to operate our company

Surpassing The Fundraising Goal For ALS!

Global Resources employee Scott shared that his team at the ALS Walk4Life event, held Sunday, September 22nd, surpassed their $8,000.00 goal this year, raising a grand total of $9,964.00.  Scott thanked the generosity of his coworkers for contributing $670.00 as team sponsors.

The Walk benefited the Les Turner ALS Foundation, “a leader in research, patient care, and education about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and other motor neuron diseases (MND). The Foundation serves more than 90% of the ALS population in the Chicago area.” The cause is very close to Scott’s heart, since his …

Holiday Marketing Opportunities – It’s Not Just Black Friday!

Baynote, a provider of customer personalization solutions for multi-channel retailers, produced an insightful infographic on holiday spending to showcase the prime opportunities for businesses to capture seasonal sales via their marketing campaigns.

There are numerous retailers that can benefit from these holidays with product categories that range from greeting cards, flowers, candy, groceries, jewelry, electronics, to themed clothing and décor.  Restaurants, gas stations, airlines, hotels and other transportation and travel-related vendors can also see the positive impact of these holidays.

There are Sales Generating Holidays to Tap All-Year-Long!

While many businesses prepare for the powerhouse gift shopping that traditionally occurs …

Global Resources Reviews: A Lifetime Resource

Situation

A client in the automotive services industry employed Global Resources to provide the equivalent of CFO services.  The client’s father, now deceased, had held this position, “Global Resources, LLC was able to deploy a team of an expert analyst and a tax strategist to immediately help us in our time of need.”

Process

The Global Resources consultant became a part of the client’s operations for approximately a month, “replacing the functions performed by my Dad.” As CFO, the client’s father had looked out for the client’s “wellbeing from a professional and personal standpoint.”

Result

Although the consultant was only …

Global Resources LLC Reviews: What I Received Exceeded My Expectations

Situation

Before Global Resources entered the picture, a client in the commercial construction industry had become discouraged with his business and found that he was “just going through the motions.” He felt as if he was only buying himself a job and that he would have achieved nothing in the end.  “I was not providing leadership for my employees.  The overall morale was low, while stress was high.” The client’s controller of seven years had just recently given his two week notice.

Process

“My expectations were that I would spend a few days with someone and be given a business

Going Back to School!

Global Resources’ employees rallied with great generosity to fellow co-worker Denise’s ‘School Supply Drive’ to help provide needy children with everything that is required to fill up their backpacks for the first day of school.

Denise picks up the box of donated supplies and offers her thanks on behalf of the school children to her supervisor, Steve, and to everyone at the company for their support!

Items collected included 3-ring binders, calculators, compasses, composition notebooks, crayons, erasers, folders, glue sticks and bottles, graph paper, hand sanitizer, highlighters, Kleenex, loose-leaf paper, lunch boxes, markers, pencil boxes, pencils, pens, rulers and spiral …

Gone Fishing!

Our pond attracts a multitude of wildlife including ducks, geese, and the occasional heron as well as employees hoping to be entertained during their lunch break.

Global Resources employees toss leftover bread to feed the fish.

 

Welcome to the school of fish!

 

A tranquil reflection of blue sky and cotton candy clouds!…

It was the Best of Times and the Worse of Times: When is the Best Time to Post on Facebook?

An educational infographic created by digital agency Linchpin presents when would be best time (as determined by the greatest amount of interaction, i.e. the number of ‘Likes,’ comments and shares obtained) to post on Facebook.  Segmented by fifteen industries, their data revealed that the best time for the majority of businesses is over the weekend—Saturday and Sunday.

Gaining a Competitive Edge on Facebook

The only notable exceptions were companies in Clothing and Fashion (Thursdays are better) and General Retail (with interaction spiking on Mondays).  Every other industry segment had engagement soar over the weekend.

This weekend prime time for Facebook …

Global Resources LLC Reviews: No Cookie-Cutter Plans—Took The Time To Understand The Specific Challenges That We Face

Situation

A transportation repair service, in business for 26 years, needed analytical tools in order to reach a position of greater profitability.

Process

The Global Resources consultant took the time to become fully knowledgeable about how this business functioned before making educated recommendations.  The single largest cost was labor.  A dashboard was developed for the owner to track and analysis direct labor costs, enabling him to take labor cost-cutting measures, in a timely manner, based upon production.

Result

“Although, it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks, Global Resources has certainly succeeded with me.  I now have the