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We've gotten through year-end, and now we can focus on growing your business. One of the best ways to reach your candidates -- and even your clients -- is through social media. That's been the focus of the COATS blog this month, and we're eager to help you learn more about how to get the most out of social media.
Speaking of social media, please feel free to drop into the COATS Users Group on LinkedIn to get advice from your fellow staffing leaders, and like us on Facebook for a chance to win an iPod Shuffle!
Let's all keep warm and get your business hot!
Thanks for being part of our family,
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What's New in COATS' New Versions
For COATSsql, the latest version is 4.3.2 (but 4.3.1 is fine as long as you're not doing business in California). New features and options:
- Texting via individual employee, group of employees at one client or group of employees at one job
- Filterable mass email for employees
- Emailing resume via employee file
- Handling W2s online
- Running bank balance in bank window
- AR history by date range
- Invoice dates included on collection letters
- Keeping LPM status when deleting employees on job order
- PO# adding to right click in payroll data entry
- Employer contribution of healthcare compliance
For COATS Standard, the latest version is 9.0.4. New features and options are: - Employee Master Record now has a check box for E-Verify
- Online W2 box added for online W2 management via Global Cash Card
- HIRE ACT Retention Credit report has been added
- All W2, year-end and state tax updates have been added
Feel free to let us know which of these is/are your favorite in the COATS Users Group! |
Coming Soon: A New COATS Website
We're going to unveil a new look for the COATS website next week. Even the Customers Only portion of the site is getting a makeover!
Don't worry; the only thing that's changing is the look. All of your logins, all of the white papers, all of the downloadable files will still be there. And if the redesign works the way we planned it to, you'll be able to access everything faster and easier than before.
Please let us know what you think once you've seen the new site! |
 Focus: Staffing and Social Media
Social Media: Why It Matters for Staffing FirmsWhile some publications have published articles pondering whether social media is a threat to the staffing industry, a better way to look at it would be to view social media as the powerful tool it is and understand how it can strengthen your recruiting and sourcing efforts. Social Media for Staffing Companies: Avoid the MulletSocial media is not a fad or something used only by kids and people who want the world to know about their lunch; it's a proven platform for marketing. But while most companies have one audience for their marketing, staffing companies have two: candidates and clients. Trying to speak to both audiences at once using one channel results in the communications equivalent of a mullet. Using Social Media to Follow Up with CandidatesSocial media is a powerful way to interact with large audiences like potential candidates or client prospects. But it can also be a great way to communicate directly with individuals, and that can help you follow up with highly desirable job candidates. Mobile Media, Staffing and RecruitingSocial media was the next big thing in communication three years ago; now, that title belongs to mobile media. More and more, people-especially teens and young adults-are accessing the internet on mobile devices.
Not only that, they're using those devices to consume entertainment (watching TV on their phone, for instance), and texting is still huge. |
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Like Us on Facebook and You Could Win an iPod Shuffle!
 We're trying to build a nice, healthy staffing community on the COATS Facebook page. We want you to know the latest from COATS HQ, including news of our clients' growth, pics of us out and about and updates from the COATS family (which includes you!).
In fact, we want that so much that we're holding a drawing for a free iPod shuffle. Once we get to our 200th "Like," we're going to use random.org to select a number between 1 and 200. So even if you've "Like"d us all along, you could still win.
So "Like" us! Really, really "Like" us! Click the box below to view our Facebook page.
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Contest: How Do You Use COATS?
 Tell us and you could win a $25 gift card!Whenever we talk to you, we're amazed at the innovative uses you find for the capabilities of COATS. Send us an email telling us what special way you've devised of using COATS, and we'll enter your name in a drawing for a $25 gift card! We'll also publish the best COATS tips in our newsletter. |
Join the COATS Users Group on LinkedIn
 The COATS Users Group on LinkedIn is starting to heat up! We created this group for COATS users to discuss the software with us and with each other so we can all get more out of it. This is a members-only group, so you don't have to worry about anyone wandering in and spamming us. Unfortunately, that means you do have to apply for membership, but we promise you'll get in; all you have to be is a COATS user. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Miss a Newsletter?
COATS has been sending an emailed newsletter since August of 2008. If you missed one of our monthly newsletters, click below to see what you've missed!
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Upcoming Training Times for COATS
Group training times for COATS customers (all times are Eastern): February 2012 23: 10 am-noon, 2-4 pm
24: 10 am-noon, 2-4 pm March 2012 22: 10 am-noon, 2-4 pm
23: 10 am-noon, 2-4 pm |
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Welcome to Our New Users!
These COATS clients added more users this month:
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Altruistic Staffing
- Alpha Staffing Services
- Kamran Staffing
- Premier Electrical
These clients expanded their power by adding COATS options:
- All Staff, Inc. - Job Posting
- Level Resources - Online Applications
- MuniTemps - IntelliPath
Thanks to all of these companies; let's grow bigger and better together!
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Compliments of:
Stacey E. James
Littler Mendelson P.C.
501 W. Broadway, Ste. 900
San Diego, CA 92101-3577 (619) 232-0441
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