Posts Tagged Test
Cooking Academy 2: World Cuisine - Your Culinary Skills Under Test!
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 4th, 2010
Fugazo Games have released the second part of their hit Cooking Academy, and the sequel preserves all the great features of the original game. Delicious food to cook, lots of information on various world cuisines and addictive simulation game play - all this makes Cooking Academy 2: World Cuisine a perfect choice for action gamers. Consider yourself a skillful cook? Welcome to Fugazoville! As only here the annual World Culinary Workshop is held, and only here you can improve your culinary skills even more. Especially if we take into account that the most renowned chefs from all over the world (namely, China, Japan, Italy, France, Thailand and others) have given their consent to train you and other contestants and reveal the secrets of their national cuisines. A great chance to learn for a young aspiring student, not to mention the opportunity to win $1,000,000 and start your own restaurant, don’t you think? So, meet your first instructor and start cooking! The game play is mostly taken from the first Cooking Academy, though it’s better balanced now and some new exciting tasks are added. The game is divided into stages organized by countries, and in each national cuisines you’ll have a bunch of exotic dishes to practice, and then you can take exams in order to proceed to the next country and its peculiarities. You choose which dishes to try first, and you can replay any recipe at any moment in order to get a better score. First that you get for every dish is its history, tradition of serving and other interesting facts about what you are going to cook. Then you can proceed to the cooking itself, step by step. And here the diversity of tasks is amazing, and surely enough not to make you bored. Though you only use your mouse, the tasks will require both speed and accuracy, as you need to fulfill a certain number of actions within a tough time limit and in a given sequence. You will dice and slice all possible types of food using your mouse for directing the knife, then you’ll add ingredients in a correct order (the visual clues may be a bit confusing sometimes, so the tasks can become really challenging), stir and grate, fold fortune cookies and break eggs under an absolutely correct angle and with absolutely precise strength, set temperature and watch you buns, for example, turn golden brown and not a shade darker. Most of the tasks will require your complete attention and perfect timing, so sometimes you’ll really need to replay certain steps in order to get enough stars to proceed (stars are used for evaluating your hard work - and the judges are strict, I should say). The graphics are great - nothing more to say, you have to see it by your own eyes. And the music, changing from stage to stage to match the national environment, creates a nice background. So, if you are ready to test your culinary skills and maybe even find something to use in your everyday kitchen life - it’s time to attend Cooking Academy 2: World Cuisine!
Dramatically Increase Sales With the Kiss Test
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on August 20th, 2009
We have all heard the term KISS at one time or another - "keep it simple, stupid." However, most vendors violated this basic principle in most cases. Let me start with some examples of what I speak. In a position that he held, I sat next to someone that might have been a best seller. He and I used almost the same as in the cold instead of calling, we held our own marketing programs to generate leads and simply took the calls as a result. The problem is what has made the calls. When someone called me, ready to buy, I went immediately to the closure of the face and make arrangements to come, whether the documents sent by fax or over. He, moreover, entered into a long history and many other data to be saying no to a qualified, unless they request it. The end result is that people calling to register for one of our services of interest and not buying anything at all. Another example is what happens every time you try to make a purchase. Here I am, saying "Yes, I will buy, and he launches into a long history of how they have been in business, their main customers, and so on. Fortunately for these vendors, the product sells itself normally, and I continue to buy. However, I am willing to bet that many people do not. Nothing is more frustrating to pick up the phone saying "Hello, I am ready to buy, and will have representatives on a proud history of the importance of society and all they can do. This is highlighted by sheer arrogance of the owner of a business. Also, talk about their big business clients alienates most small business owners. They assume their needs will be the second of the big dogs, and was treated like a number when the service call. I think most of the training is at the root of this problem. Each course I have experienced the stages of a sale. The problem is that if all actions take place? Think of "objection-handling." When I worked for this company that I mentioned earlier, many of my prospects had no objection because my campaign was responsible for them in advance. Assuming that each of these steps will occur, many sellers will do something when they should not have started. If a prospect does not come with the main objections, do not give them the right! I have seen many managers ask their representatives to complete a "sheet", documenting every step of the sale. This implies that each step is going to happen in May when no. If you are required to such documents, to move to something that does not occur naturally. Not induce a prospect to enter a phase of the sale in May, not only unnecessary, but in May lose the sale entirely. Use the KISS test when you sell. Always ask if what we are doing is really necessary. Believe me, you'll save a lot of lost time and lost sales by doing so. I did.