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Mon, 02 Fe- New Costa Rica Real Estate Book
Costa Rica Real Estate Investing Book
Real Estate Investing Guide - Costa Rica: Fundamentals for Profit in Paradise
Real Estate Investing Guide?Costa Rica: Fundamentals for Profit in Paradise takes an in-depth look at the strategies for sound investing in Costa Rican real estate. Jeffrey Hickcox provides an easy step-by-step approach that is tailored to the needs of newcomers or advanced investors. Exhaustively researched, this book includes:
- Creative Financing techniques
- Strategies for Profit: Building Spec Homes, Rehabs, Raw Land Development
- Checklists, Contracts, Formulas for Profit
- Costa Rica Real Estate Law
- Interviews with Top Professionals (contact info)
Costa Rica Real Estate Investing Book
"In this new and comprehensive book, Jeff Hickcox gives you the "must have" information to make profitable real estate investments in Costa Rica. Just as he does in business, Jeff goes the extra mile for his readers and prepares them for the little cultural differences which can often make or break a deal. If you are a real estate investor with a plan to make money in Costa Rica real estate, Jeff's book could save you and make you a lot of money."
?SCOTT OLIVER, author of How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa
"Jeffrey Hickcox is the foremost expert on investing in Costa Rica real estate. As the real estate market soured in the United States he had the foresight to look overseas. His tireless research, unmatched local expertise, and creative investing techniques will unlock the mysteries of investing in a foreign land. What you read in this book will make you want to catch the next flight to Costa Rica to see the unbelievable opportunities that exist in this tropical paradise."
?THAN MERRILL, star of A&E?s Flip This House.
"When I was writing my book, Passport to Exotic Real Estate, Jeffrey Hickcox was an invaluable source of information. Now he has put together his own book ? and it is as splendid as a Costa Rican beach. I don?t see how you can think about investing in Costa Rica without this book."
?STEVE BERGSMAN, author of Maverick Real Estate Investing, and contributor to over 100 newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and wire services around the globe.
Mon, 17 No- NEW RESEARCH AND ADVENTURE PARK
Among the frogs, hundreds of butterflies, snakes, insects and a 2,460 foot (570 meters) long zipline, the first eco-tourist adventure and research park was recently inaugurated in the middle of the tropical rainforest in Limón.
The site, called Veragua Rainforest Research and Adventure Park, measures 3,212 acres, of which, only 13,123 sq. feet (4,000 square meters) are under construction.
It is located 25 miles (40 km) from the city of Limón, some two and a half hours from San José. This area is ideal for viewing thousands of rainforest flora and fauna species, with the Caribbean ocean in the background.
The new park is bordered by the La Amistad Internacional Park, a world heritage site, which is part of the Mesoamerica Biological Corridor.
Those that come to Veragua will find a natural adventure. All guides, who are Costa Rican, will take people on a long path just short of a mile, of which 80% is wheel chair accessible.
Along the path, a snake sanctuary (with fer-de-lance and boa snakes), a butterfly garden (with morpho and owl butterflies), an open-air garden with hummingbirds, a couple of waterfalls, and a zipline over the canopy heighten the ecological experience.
The Veragua project will offer not only fun things, but also generations of knowledge to guests. That?s why a fundamental aspect of this site is a scientific station right in the middle of the forest and attractions.
The research center is open to the public. In fact, the laboratory is surrounded by see-though glass so that the tourists can observe how the research is done. In addition, the microscopes have video cameras installed, which transmits the picture ?live? on plasma screens, exactly what the scientists are viewing.
- COCO ISLAND TO RECEIVE A STRONG DONATION
Last April 1st, Wal-Mart of Central America in Costa Rica initiated the ?Pegáte a la Isla? (Give it to the Island) campaign to raise funds for Isla del Coco.
Because of this successful proposal, the company will donate over $97,000 (¢52 million colones) to the Friends of Coco Island Foundation (FAICO).
Customers of Wal-mart Costa Rica pitched in with a total of $83,000, with the purchase of 8 types of stickers at 25¢ (100 colones) each, and a collector?s album for $1 with images of marine life that inhabit the island and its surroundings.
For its part, the company contributed $14,000 to fulfill its commitment for the conservation of the island.
The funds will be channeled through FAICO and will go to support protection programs on the island that develop the foundation.
- COSTA RICA VISITS GROW 12.5%
Costa Rica saw a 12.5% intensification in visits in the first quarter compared to the same period during 2007. The Chamber of Tourism said that in the first six months of 2008 more than a million tourists entered the country by air, almost 90,000 more than last year.
According to this year?s first semester picture, Costa Rica remains one of the most perfect holiday vacation place for tourists.
Specifically, the biggest boost was reported in the country?s main airport, Juan Santamaría, near the capital, where some 674,000 visitors passed through for a growth of 13.1%. Meanwhile, the Daniel Oduber airport, located in Liberia, Guanacaste, saw an boost of 9.7%.
- BRUNKA TO HEAD THE NATIONS ORGANISM
The election of José Carlos Morales, a Brunka native, as the representative of the new Team of Experts on Indigenous Peoples? Rights of the Latin American region, was supported by state members, indigenous organizations, non-indigenous NGO?s, academic institutions, and civil societies, after being put forward by the president of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
After a rigorous and highly competitive selection process, five indigenous experts, one for each region of the world, were named as part of this team, which was created on December 14, 2007, by a unanimous vote of the member States of the UN?s Human Rights Council, resolution L.46/Rev.1.
This selection is an acknowledgement of the work done by José Carlos throughout his life. He was the first indigenous Costa Rican to complete his university studies and dedicate himself to the cause of local people, making him the indigenous movement?s leader in Costa Rica.
Afterwards, he held a series of positions as the president of the Regional Council of Indigenous People, CORPI, as well as being the first indigenous Latin American to occupy the presidency of the World Council of Indigenous People, and also the only indigenous person to hold a position in the Focal Point of the Decade for Indigenous People in the United Nations.
José Carlos actively participated in the negotiation process of the United Nations Declaration on the Indigenous Peoples? Rights, where he presided over the world enclave of Indigenous People for three years, until his successful and historical nomination during the United Nations General Assembly, on September 13, 2007.
Sat, 13 Se- COUNTRY INAUGURATES QUETZALES STATE-OWNED PARK
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.
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.
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 José.
The land in the Quetzal area has three distinct forests, 14 ecosystems, and especially rich flora and fauna.
It resembles Garajonay National Park, on the Canary Islands in Spain, by offering similar waterway properties.
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.
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.
In addition, you can see pumas, coyotes, tapirs, jaguars, agootis and cacomitxles, among other species of animals.
- COSTA RICA WELL-KNOWN FOR WHALE STUDY
The non-lethal use of whales for tourism is a growing activity throughout the countries in Central America, and particularly Costa Rica.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
Sat, 06 Se- Outsourcing Costa Rica. Bilingual lead generation
Costa Rica's Call Center's bilingual lead generation is the key to growth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/lead_generation.html
- Outsourcing with Costa Rica's Call Center
http://www.costaricascallcenter.com
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Outsourcing Costa Rica? It may be wise in 2009.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
http://www.costaricascallcenter.com/why_costarica.html
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