Ayna Corporation

Incredible 870m2 Office Space For Rent in Beirut, Furn Chebbak

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:58:08 +0000

This office is the MENA headquarter of Ayna, is not now available for 1-9 year lease.

The office consists of three floors, each with 290m2 for a total space of 870m2, each floor has been exquisitely designed by DAZ architects to create a work environment like no other. The space includes several amenities not available anywhere else and include:

In-house day care space
In-house prayer room
In-house cafeteria
In-house multi-purpose room for training, entertainment and cafeteria use
Twelve bathrooms (four per floor)
Two mini kitchenettes
Three conference room that can be converted to extra office space
Central battery system to provide uninterrupted work from power outages
CEO Office with live green wall
Air conditioned server room for hosting your critical hardware and software
Emergency fire exits
Integrated security system of Cameras, and solid gates.
Private elevator between the three floors.
Twelve reserved parking spots in addition to available on street free parking.

Office in move-in condition, fully furnished and wired for computer use, and open space concept to increase efficiency and communication between team members.

Each floor is designed to maximize the efficiency with choice of productivity boosting colors, and floor layout to maximize the flow from one area to the other.

Ideal for software development firms, banks, service companies. The office has been featured in Architecture magazines for best modern office. Office has a capacity for 70 employees, and there are available options for larger teams that include another floor in same building, or reconfiguring some of the existing spaces.



	
	
		
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Galleria for Malls

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:18:17 +0000

Galleria is a ready to use Platform for Malls to Communicate with Consumers, Manage Tenant Store Information and Monetize Their Online Presence to increase visibility for Tenants and Traffic to Malls.

punto for retail

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:23:45 +0000

With Punto, business owners communicate with customers, market deals, promote events and establish a professional presence online and mobile in one easy to use platform that is hassle free and cost effective.

Restaurants and Cafes Tips

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:23:31 +0000

Serving Up New Customers

Good restaurateurs know, the success of a restaurant hinges on its ability to offer good food and quality service. One of the biggest challenges is first getting customers through the door to discover that the dining experience you offer is worth coming back for. Attracting new customers and retaining existing ones depends on how well you market yourself and promote your business.

Create an Online Presence

when creating your online presence, make sure it includes :

An online presence that is both professional looking and full of information about your restaurant.
Opening and closing times
Take-away and delivery services
A map so that people know exactly where you are located. This is even more important if you are located in a high tourism area.
Create a flyer that showcases what your restaurant has to offer, and link it with QR to your Punto site to access promotions, special deals, as well as other information related to live music and entertainment – all adding further incentive for local residents to choose your restaurant next time they are dining out.
Encourage your patrons to including positive reviews in your Punto store to demonstrate your uniqueness and credibility.
Clearly highlight what makes your restaurant unique. Is it your friendly staff? Or that you serve seafood that is caught daily. Maybe it’s that you are a family business that’s been operating for over 30 years.
Use mouth-watering images on your Punto site and flyer that will make people hungry and eager to visit your restaurant!

Other initiatives you can take to boost patron numbers to your restaurant:

Networking is the key! Get involved in your local community. You will be amazed how powerful word of mouth marketing is.
Sponsor a local sporting team and use the publicity to build your restaurant brand. Provide branded uniforms or merchandise to the team and use the team to promote your restaurant. Also attend as many of their team functions as possible to further build your brand.
If you are a cafe introduce a loyalty program. You will be amazed at how many people will return to get their ‘10^th coffee free’.
Use referral based marketing. Ask your regular patrons to promote your business to their friends and family.
Promote your restaurants history. People love a good story. Is your restaurant a family owned business or is the cuisine from a remote part of the world? You will be amazed at how a cultural experience will encourage more people to eat at your restaurant.
If your restaurant has a strong cultural connection use it to your advantage. Whether that’s decorating your restaurant in theme or providing live entertainment –
- Italian restaurant – Italian flags and white and red checkered table clothes
- Arabic Food – Home style, live entertainment, belly dancers
- Steakhouse – Old rustic license plates, tin cans and other goodies that will set an outback scene
- Indian Restaurant – saris from the ceiling, Bollywood dancers
If your restaurant is involved with local charities try to secure free publicity within local newspapers. You will be pleasantly surprised at how many people support businesses who make a difference in the local community.
Take advantage of public holidays and events – Valentines Days, Christmas, Ramadan, Long Weekends are a great time to advertise your restaurant because people are looking for places to dine.
And above all ensure your customer service is unbeatable. Although simple, so many restaurants fail to realise its importance. Remember you wouldn’t pay for a bad night and neither will your customers.

Whether your business is just getting started or you are looking to re-engage with the community there are plenty of initiatives you can take to build the number of customers walking through your doors. In Australia we recommend highly targeted, cost effective letterbox advertising campaigns.

Original Article from Local Direct Network: http://www.ldn.net.au/restaurantmarketing

Hair Salon Tips – Cut Hair, Grow Sales

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:42:41 +0000

Hair is defining! And that’s why so many of us put so much effort into fashioning it. Finding the right hair stylist is just as or even more important than finding the perfect hair style.

But with so many hair dressers to choose from what will make your salon stand out from the one down the road?

It’s not a Service! It’s an Experience.

Our lives are hectic and to take out the time for a simple haircut can be a task. It is therefore important to make your salon an enjoyable experience for your clients.

Enthusiastically greet your clients and offer them a beverage – coffee, tea or a cold glass of water.
Present each client with a series of magazines. They may not know what style they are after and a series of magazines can provide much needed inspiration. It will also save time as they will have a better idea of what they want.
If you are running late due to previous appointments ensure you advise your clients that you are experiencing a delay. In most instances people don’t mind waiting as long as they have been told.

It’s the little things that matter.

We can all make an instant coffee at home but why not offer your customers an espresso coffee while they are waiting. You can make a deal with the coffee shop next door or buy a small coffee machine for your salon. Even adding a small cookie with every tea or coffee you serve or a fresh lemon to your water can make a difference to your client’s experience.
If you wash your client’s hair before you cut it, why not offer a head massage to make the experience even more enjoyable. An additional 5 minute head massage can be the reason a client remains loyal to your business.

Remember it’s the little things that count!

Offer your ear more than your talent.

You will be surprised at how much information a client will share with you because you have no connection to their life. You have two ears and one mouth. Use them proportionately and you will be amazed at how much a client will tell you. Pay attention because the next time they visit your salon, you can pick up where you left off. Before you know it they will consider you a friend and not just the person who cuts their hair. Don’t forget people like dealing with people they like.

Be a style icon.

You are the best sales tool for your business. All of us have bad hair days but it’s harder to forgive a hairdresser if they are having one. So make sure you and your staff always look your absolute best. If you look great your clients will be more trusting of your skills. You wouldn’t use an overweight personal trainer so don’t expect your clients to use a hair dresser with bad hair.

What you see is what you get. Appearances matter.

Your salon is a reflection of the talent within your team. If you salon is funky, vibrant and fresh you will be sure to attract clientele.
Always keep your salon tidy and clean.
Play appropriate music to suit your target market. If you cater to an older audience keep the music subtle and relaxing. If you are tailored to a more youthful crowd play tunes that will appeal to them.

Build your business profile within your local community.

Word of mouth marketing is extremely powerful especially for a service based business. Introduce a referral based program where your customers receive a discount off their next cut if they refer a family or friend.
Start a Punto page and request your clients to share or like the photos on Facebook or Twitter of the hair styles you have cut for them. Use Punto to show off new celebrity styles and trends. This will help to show passion about style and emphasize to your clients that you know what’s happening in the fashion world.
Customize your Punto Profile to match your business and give a professional look online to attract new customers.
Ask your customers to write reviews about their experience at your Salon, the more the better.
Run promotions and deal through your Punto page.
Unless your salon attracts celebrities you will find that most your clients will come from your local community. Make sure you engage in local marketing activities.

Make your salon a winner.

Do you offer trading hours that most salons don’t? ‘Open Wednesday until 9pm’
Do you have special rates for Senior citizens? Or maybe on your quiet days you run specials? ‘Half price Mondays!’
Do you have a beautician who works within your salon? ‘Hair and Nail packages available’
Do you offer gift vouchers. ‘Looking for a birthday present for a loved one? Why not give them a gift voucher to Envy Hair & Beauty’

Whatever it is that makes your salon a winner, make sure you communicate it to your clients, Use your Punto profile to reach your local community online and via mobile! If you are located in Australia, Letterbox advertising is a great way to reach your local community. It’s remarkably cheap and you will be surprised at the response you will receive.

Original Article from Local Direct Network: http://www.ldn.net.au/hairsalon

Ayna Shifts Gears

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:04:05 +0000

Beirut – December 2011. Ayna has announced today its plans to shift gears by increasing its sales force and customer service in Lebanon. The change will reduce the development workforce, as the software platform has reached maturity after being developed and sold for several years, and focus on developing the retail business products and services in five markets. Management views this move as a progressive shift for the company in response to business demands in the region.

The changes will not affect the development and sales of the Galleria and Punto Platforms which are which has also received acceptance from retailers in the region, nor will it affect the Scrum Training and Coaching services, which has grown over the last couple of years to service a substantial number of clients with successful engagements. However, several online properties focused on providing free services will be affected by the shift in the company’s goal, and online users may find some of these services inaccessible in 2012.

Ayna offers small and medium business owners an integrated online-mobile presence and social marketing platform, enabling business owners to increase sales by connecting with customers and managing their business information and reputation online. In addition, the company provides Agile and Scrum Consulting in the Middle East and North Africa.

For further information, please contact Ayna offices at +961.1.280416

Ayna Launches Training Center in Beirut’s Offices

admin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:19:45 +0000

Beirut, Lebanon – April 14, 2011, Ayna, the leader in online industry in The Middle East and North Africa Region, has launched its Training Center in Beirut, Lebanon. All this came after a big success in several countries;Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Dubai.

Ayna has been known for the past years as a pioneer in giving different training subjects for employees and managers specialized for governmental and non governmental institutions. As for the Lebanese Market today, Ayna is focusing on four major areas:

SCRUM MANAGEMENT: Scrum is an agile framework for completing complex projects. Scrum was originally formalized for software development projects, but works well for any complex, innovative scope of work. (Follow us on Twitter@scrumarabia).

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, and created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blog… (Follow us on twitter@media_beirut).

ONLINE MARKETING AND ADVERTISING: Online Marketing is a compilation of special techniques used to increase a website’s ranking on the search engines and improve traffic flow to the website. As for Advertising, it is the promotion using online services like text ads and banners. (Follow us on twitter@omar_Khaled).

RISK MANAGEMENT: It is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events, or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

Ayna offers every Wednesday a free one-hour training session where trainers explain and demonstrate the latest techniques used for the above training courses and trainees interact with each other and expose their problems.

For more information, you can visit our following websites: www.scrumarabia.com , www.engagink.me , inbound.engagink.me , OR follow us on our Facebook group .

Contact us:

Ayna Corporation
Beirut, Lebanon
Omar Khaled
Partner Relations Manager
Mobile: +961.3.936304
Tel: +961.1.280416
Omar{at}aynacorp.com

References are from wikipedia.org

Foreca Sun Shines All Over Ayna Sky

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:45:20 +0000

Beirut, Lebanon – October 28, 2010 Ayna today announced the adoption of the services of the pioneer in internet and mobile weather services Foreca, for its new and comprehensive Ayna weather service. Ayna Weather provides weather forecasts for over 1500 cities in the Arab World and many other cities worldwide.

Utilizing the best data sources and most accurate forecast models available, Foreca’s services ensure that Ayna’s customers always have reliable weather data. Trusted by some of the biggest global brands such as Microsoft and Google, Foreca offers weather applications and solutions with a dedication to accuracy and innovation, in an aim to provide people with a rich, interactive media experience.

Ayna Weather is currently available on Ayna Maps (http://maps.ayna.com) for over 80,000 cities, and will be soon available on the web and mobile platforms. It offers weather information updated every six hours in a six-day weather forecast system. Current conditions are also updated every 15 minutes. The weather forecast includes temperature variation, wind direction and speed, humidity, visibility, and other.

About Foreca
Foreca Ltd. provides digital weather services to the world’s greatest companies. With a growing international presence and a dedication to quality and innovation, Foreca offers a unique combination of local knowledge with global coverage.

Marko Moilanen, VP Business Development

e-mail: marko.moilanen@foreca.com

Website: www.foreca.com

About Ayna
Ayna.com provides local answers and solutions to Internet users in the Middle East & North African region. Ayna started out in 1997 being the First Arabic Search Engine. Today, Ayna holds a respectable position in the MENA market, offering businesses various marketing and advertising solutions on web and mobile. Ayna Corporation is headquartered in New Hampshire, USA, with offices in Beirut, Dubai, and Cairo.
For more information about Ayna, please visit: http://aynacorp.com http://ayna.com http://places.ayna.com

AYNA Corporation
Nohra Center
Furn El Shebbak
Beirut, Lebanon
Tel +961.70.470418
www.ayna.com

Ayna in “Abu Dhabi Internet Show”

Ayna — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:25:54 +0000

Beirut, Lebanon – September 23rd, 2010 Ayna Corporation was recognized as the Golden Sponsor of the Internet Show that took place in Abu Dhabi – UAE, on the 21st and the 22nd of September, 2010.

The show, organized by Terrapin, happened to be the first show of its type in the Middle East, and attracted leading key players in the online industry, in addition to visitors interested in acquiring knowledge about this industry.

During the Show, Ayna exhibited its current services and products, and promoted its newly launched Local Service that connects businesses to their customers in a social-themed experience. Ayna Local Service was highly welcomed and appreciated by visitors and exhibitors of the show.

Moreover, Ayna was an active speaker in the seminar program, presenting interesting subjects and tactics for online marketing.

Mr. Omar Khaled – Partner Relations Manager at Ayna Corporation, tackled on the first day important tactics of how to achieve better results through Local Online Marketing. On the second day, he discussed the tools to be used when taking advantage of the What & the Where to reach your customers.

Mrs. Pamela Farhat Gaby – Marketing Manager at Ayna Corporation, was an active speaker as well on the second day, showcasing the tactics of how to use Social Network to localize and personalize Online Marketing Campaigns.

All three presentations were highly appraised by attendees and deemed informative to knowledge seekers in the online industry.

Reaching your (X+1)
Speaker: Mr. Omar Khaled

Know the Where to Define the What
Speaker: Mr. Omar Khaled

Using Social Media to Localize & Personalize your Marketing Campaign
Speaker: Mrs. Pamela Farhat Gaby

Overall, the show being organized for the first time in the Middle East, witnessed huge success and support. Terrapin, the organizer, have plans to improve the show in its upcoming editions engaging new sections in the online industry to the show.

Awareness campaign in the lebanese market

Ayna — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:32:54 +0000

Beirut-Lebanon- August 18-2010- In the aim of creating awareness about beirut.ayna.com , the marketing team prepared flyers and branded a car with the “inta chou ra2yak?” campaign. For 2 weeks, promoters and Ayna team members cruised in the branded car around all Lebanon to distribute the flyers to local customers, local business owners as well as tourists. This activity was the perfect opportunity to create interaction with local people and foreigners and generated positive outcome.