1. Develop and maintain business networks
1.1 The network and how the contacts were developed My company bring students from overseas to Australia, more specifically from South America. The most part of the students are from Brazil and the company gives the support to them here. I’m product manager and my duty is to make contact with the schools in Australia and make agreements with them. For this, I need to call them and show the interest of my company to recruit students to them, also demonstrate how this can be advantageous. All the contact between my company and the schools are done thought e-mail, telephone an visits. The contact with the students are done from the same way but we also use the Facebook and a website. With the companies in Brazil, we use the means of communication specified and Dropbox.
1.2 The networks strategies or channels for developing new networks or contacts and how these strategies helps to promote the organization
Our company uses Facebook as one of the channels for developing new contacts. The Facebook permits to share all our achievements, our events for students and schools, our new partners and promote our branch. The events to students and schools give the opportunity to us to know new people that can make our company grow in the market. Also it shows how we want to be close to all them. The events also help to promote our organization and the schools which have agreements with us. We are always doing workshops to students, what make them more faithful to our company and us more popular between the students. Using the website you can know better about the company, make contact with the counselors, know about the partner schools and visas and see testimonials from old and currently students. We have fortnight’s news letters that we send to our students telling about promotions, festivals and new information about the company.
1.3 Interpersonal skills required to effectively develop network