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92% Growth in Enrollments Year-over-Year

Portland, Ore. – May 2008 – BlueVolt announced today that its online training and marketing platform has experience more than 250,000 course enrollments. This 92 percent growth over the previous year reflects the skilled trades professionals’ increasing adoption of online training and marketing.

BlueVolt’s newly developed Electrical Safety in the Workplace online training course has recently won Electrical Contracting Products 2007 Innovation Award. Presented on the second day of the 2007 National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Trade Show in San Francisco, California, this award recognizes companies whose products or services have best responded to electrical contractors' market challenges by offering creative and innovative ideas.

Today, BlueVolt (www.bluevolt.com) announces the addition of over 2,000 new courses to its already extensive online training library. These affordable courses train students on business skills, desktop software, and safety, which allow employees to keep pace with the constant changes in business and technology. Examples of the new courses offered through BlueVolt are: Communication Skills for Resolving Conflict, Managing for High Performance, Fundamentals of Exceptional Customer Service, Getting Started with Word 2003, and Forklift Safety.

BlueVolt announces its new NECA online training course “Emerging Green Markets - Strategies for Electrical Contractors On LEED® and Green Building Projects.” BlueVolt’s interactive course bridges the gap between the electrical contracting industry and the emerging green building market by demystifying the electrical contractor’s role on green building projects.

PORTLAND, ORE. – June 2007 – BlueVolt (www.bluevolt.com) recently launched Test Drive University as a new way for distributors to sample its training content at no cost. Participating companies may enroll up to ten employees for a free, 30-day training program to experience BlueVolt’s Web-based learning management system. BlueVolt offers product and sales training courses to distributors in the electrical industry and continuing education to electricians. To date, it has delivered over 150,000 online training courses to more than 30,000 users.

E-learning has revolutionized the industry, making employee training more sophisticated. One of the many topics that employees need training on is discriminatory harassment prevention. Some of these training courses, however, provide a lot of learning content but do not actually meet an organization’s needs. Good training avoids and defends harassment claims. It also helps eliminate the possibility of punitive damages, and improves and maintains employee morale. Inappropriate training will only bog down employers in litigation quagmire.

Electricians and contractors have many opportunities to purchase products from a variety of distributors, and now, even retailers. As a result, customers have higher expectations for service then ever before. One of the smartest investments that a business can make is in an engaging, ongoing customer service training program.
A well-delivered training program equips employees with the skills and tactics they need to deal with changing customer demands and ensures that poor habits that come when employees train each other are avoided.