Friday, June 29, 2012

Ann Curry?s Emotional Today Show Exit Video

It is official Anny Curry is dunzo as co-host of the Today show. She broke her silence on the show this morning it what turned out to be quite the emotional exit. If you missed her final words never fear you can see it all in the below video. Although it was already confirmed that Curry would no longer be co-hosting the Today show with Matt Lauer, Curry herself had kept quiet about the situation until this morning. She not only addressed the issue of leaving but revealed that today would be her last show. Ann was very emotional as I am sure you can imagine but she handled herself with dignity and class even as she broke down. Al Roker and Matt Lauer each had very kind words to say about the departing Curry, which you can see in the below video. She may be leaving the Today show but Ann is not leaving the NBC network family. In fact a unit is being created for her that will allow her to focus on national and international reporting. Ann revealed that her new role will make her very happy as covering that kind of news is something she has [...]

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Pokemon: A Trainer's Journey

There comes a time in nearly every young person's life that he or she decides to embark on a journey with Pok?mon. It's a life-changing experience - a brand new adventure full of joy, sorrow, struggles, and friendship. Every day children leave their homes, eyes gazing into the sky, the dream of one day reaching the stars reflecting within them.

They soon find, however, that the world they've imagined, shining and full of Pok?mon and fun, glows with a darker aura. The path they'd mapped out in their heads for years twisted with detours. The people they met were not T.V. characters, and some of them had the worst of intentions. They grow. They learn the world is a complicated place, only made all the more confusing by Pok?mon. They learn to navigate the labyrinthine corridors of the most sinister human mind and heart. They learn of hatred, of jealousy, of evil.

But don't be discouraged. For every pain and trial endured, an equally powerful experience of joy, happiness, and love is found. They learn trust, the value of teamwork, friendship, and what it means to be a good man or woman.

It is time for you to embark on that journey. It will not be an easy one by any means, but you've spent a few extra years preparing; you could consider yourself "ahead of the game". Just last week you attended your final lesson at your city's local Pok?mon Academy. It has prepared you and taught you all the technicalities of the Pok?mon: battling, training, contests, moves, typing, status, items, and the like. All students were given their own Pok?dex to use as part of the class, which was available for purchase for a discounted price at the end of the program. As a typical graduation present, your parent(s) or guardian(s) have both paid for your Pok?dex and gotten you your very first Pok?mon. But the rest? well the rest is up to you.

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Patriots owner Robert Kraft may have no interest in owning an English soccer club, but he definitely wants to see someone own an English NFL franchise.

According to Neil Reynolds of Sky Sports, Kraft has said during a speaking engagement in England he believes the NFL should have a team in London.

?I personally think we should have a franchise in London and that is something I am going to push for,? Kraft said.? ?I think I said that the last time we were over here in 2009 and before this next decade is out, I hope we have a team here.? I think that would be right for the NFL and this fan base has proven they deserve it.?

And by rewarding the fan base in England, the NFL will be rewarding itself.

?I think we?re starting to tap out in the United States,? Kraft said.? ?If you look at the last Super Bowl we were in this past season, we had over 180 million people watching ? that?s almost two thirds of America.? So for us to grow the game, we have to expand globally.? Having seen the kind of support we have received here in London, it is the intention of the NFL owners to get two games here, starting next year.?

Of course, when it comes to moving an existing team, Kraft isn?t willing to put his money machine where his mouth is.

?The only bad part of putting a franchise in London is that I can assure you it won?t be the Patriots who are moving here,? Kraft said.

So who will it be?? At a time when many believe the Rams are destined to finagle their way out of a lease in St. Louis, it?s presumed they?ll return to Los Angeles.? But with the Rams throwing their hands in the air with Horshackian zeal to play three homes games in London over the next three years, they?re at the top of the short list of potential candidates to make the move.

The possibility of sending the Rams or any other team to London comes with plenty of question marks.? But there?s an exclamation point to be realized if/when more of the people who don?t live in the United States develop a true passion for the NFL.? What is a billion-dollar business could become, sooner rather than later, a trillion-dollar endeavor.

No successful enterprise is content to tread water.? For the NFL, the possibility exists for exponential growth, once the sport officially begins crossing the various bodies of water that surround our borders via the permanent placement of teams on the other side.

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Asteroid hunters want to launch private telescope

This artist's rendering provided by Ball Aerospace/B612 Foundation Sentinel Mission shows the Sentinel Space Telescope which the nonprofit B612 Foundation wants to launch. The group of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists on Thursday, June 28, 2012 announced they plan to launch a privately-funded space telescope to search for small asteroids that may pose a danger to Earth. (AP Photo/Ball Aerospace/B612 Foundation Sentinel Mission)

This artist's rendering provided by Ball Aerospace/B612 Foundation Sentinel Mission shows the Sentinel Space Telescope which the nonprofit B612 Foundation wants to launch. The group of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists on Thursday, June 28, 2012 announced they plan to launch a privately-funded space telescope to search for small asteroids that may pose a danger to Earth. (AP Photo/Ball Aerospace/B612 Foundation Sentinel Mission)

This radar image provided by NASA shows a large asteroid named 2005 YU55 that harmlessly passed by Earth in November 2011. A group of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists on Thursday, June 28, 2012 announced they plan to launch a privately-funded space telescope to search for small asteroids that may pose a danger to Earth. (AP Photo/NASA)

(AP) ? Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? A team of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists thinks it's up to them.

In a bold plan unveiled Thursday, the group wants to launch its own space telescope to spot and track small and mid-sized space rocks capable of wiping out a city or continent. With that information, they could sound early warnings if a rogue asteroid appeared headed toward our planet.

So far, the idea from the B612 Foundation is on paper only.

Such an effort would cost upward of several hundred million dollars, and the group plans to start fundraising. Behind the nonprofit are a space shuttle astronaut, Apollo 9 astronaut, former Mars czar, deep space mission manager along with other non-NASA types.

Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of the solar system some 4.5 billion years ago. Most reside in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter but some get nudged into Earth's neighborhood.

NASA and a network of astronomers routinely scan the skies for these near-Earth objects. And they've found 90 percent of the biggest threats ? asteroids at least two-thirds of a mile across that are considered major killers. Scientists believe it was a 6-mile-wide asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

But the group thinks more attention should be paid to the estimated half a million smaller asteroids ? similar in size to the one that exploded over Siberia in 1908 and leveled more than 800 square miles of forest.

"We know these objects are out there and we can do something to prevent them" from hitting Earth, said former Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who helped establish the foundation a decade ago.

Asteroids are getting attention lately. NASA nixed a return to the moon in favor of a manned landing on an asteroid. Last month, Planetary Resources Inc., a company founded by space entrepreneurs, announced plans to extract precious metals from asteroids within a decade.

Since its birth, the Mountain View, Calif.-based B612 Foundation ? named after the home asteroid of the Earth-visiting prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince" ? has focused on finding ways to deflect an incoming asteroid. Ideas studied include sending an intercepting spacecraft to aiming a nuclear bomb, but none have been tested.

Last year, the group shifted focus to seek out asteroids with a telescope.

It is working with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., which has drawn up a preliminary telescope design. The contractor developed NASA's Kepler telescope that hunts for exoplanets and built the instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

Under the proposal, the asteroid-hunting Sentinel Space Telescope will operate for at least 5 1/2 years. It will orbit around the sun, near the orbit of Venus, or between 30 million to 170 million miles away from Earth. Data will be beamed back through NASA's antenna network under a deal with the space agency.

Launch is targeted for 2017 or 2018. The group is angling to fly aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which made history last month by lifting a cargo capsule to the International Space Station.

Experts said the telescope's vantage point would allow it to spy asteroids faster than ground-based telescopes and accelerate new discoveries. NASA explored doing such a mission in the past but never moved forward because of the expense.

"It's always best to find these things quickly and track them. There might be one with our name on it," said Don Yeomans, who heads the Near-Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which monitors potentially dangerous space rocks.

Aside from the technological challenges, the big question is whether philanthropists will open up their wallets to support the project.

Nine years ago, the cost was estimated at $500 million, said Tim Spahr, director of the Minor Planet Center at Harvard University who was part of the team that came up with the figure for NASA.

Spahr questions whether enough can be raised given the economy. "This is a hard time," he said.

The group has received seed money ? several hundreds of thousands of dollars ? from venture capitalists and Silicon Valley outfits to create a team of experts. Foundation chairman Ed Lu said he was confident donors will step up and noted that some of the world's most powerful telescopes including the Lick and Palomar observatories in California were built with private money.

"We're not all about doom and gloom," said the former shuttle astronaut. "We're about opening up the solar system. We're talking about preserving life on this planet."

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Did I tell you we were Top Listing Agents at REMAX of Santa Clarita ...

by paris911 on June 26, 2012

The driving force behind our real estate business has to be the Sellers of the world. Buyers are wonderful, but sellers are a bit more needy and not in a bad way.

Look at it this way. ?With real estate buyers, we have no contract, at least with most. ?They are surfing the internet all day long to find properties that suit them.

It is very rare for a buyer of real estate to let their real estate agent do that they do best, find listings that fit their needs.

It is also more rare to have a buyer that will get into contract with their real estate representative by means of a Buyer Broker Agreement. ?If they did, they would now be as strong as a real estate seller in position. ?They have a signed contract between themselves and their agent.

Back to the Sellers of Santa Clarita real estate. ?There are three types of Sellers that are the most prevalent in today?s real estate market. ?The first is the Standard Seller. ?They have equity and usually want to buy something else ? most want to close at the same time. ?That type of seller is not very common in today?s real estate market of distressed homes and short sale properties.

The Foreclosure Seller. ?We get approached by Banks to sell their foreclosure assets. ?The primary thing that asset managers want is to be told the truth and not to be B.S.?d. ?They want their agents to answer the phone or to call them back post haste. ?Asset Managers and REO management companies want to have their email?s returned quickly with complete answers. ?Another thing that the Foreclosure Management companies want is agents that will not bend the rules, show extreme?diligence, and do what they are told. ?However, they do not want robots. ?They want solutions to problems as they present themselves ? they want them to be vocal and to speak out with solutions.

The Short Sale Seller/Owner. How can you find short sale sellers? ?In today?s market the BEST short sale agents in the Santa Clarita Valley are talked about. ?It is no longer the case that a person who is short selling their home look like a person with three eyes. ?The Short Sale clients that had success with Their Chosen Santa Clarita Short expert ? are telling others they know. ?They are explaining to their family how they were protected and how the 1000 pound monkey, with sharp claws, was pried off of their back by The Paris911 team.

With all of these types of sellers in the current Santa Clarita real estate market, it?s kind of nice knowing you have a one stop shop at your fingertips. ?Add The Paris911 Team at REMAX of Santa Clarita to your ToolBox, under the heading Real Estate Services.

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General System of Portable Evaporative Cooler And Its Features


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The evaporative coolers deliver a natural way of cooling the room temperature by offering a constant flow of fresh and cool air to keep you comfortable during summer. When place next to an open window or door, they can draw outside air and make it pass through moisture rich pads. This system cools and filters the warm air which is then circulated in the room. The fresh cool air getting into the room flushes out the stale hot air through the open doors and windows.

Most evaporated coolers usually are fairly heavy and slightly bulky which can make them difficult to carry around from room to room. While they may do an excellent job, sometimes they are needed in different rooms as they do not always access every single room of the house. For this reason portable evaporated coolers have been created and they make things a whole lot easier.

If you live in an area where the weather is hot and dry, you can use a portable evaporative cooler rather of air-conditioners. These coolers are simple elegant devices that give your aid from rising temperature without increasing your electric bills. Since these units are portable, you can relocate them from one room to another with ease. They also decrease your investment as a single machine can be used to cool several rooms in your home.

These coolers are also the excellent alternative for people who don't possess an air conditioner or are looking to switch their air conditioners with a unit that is low-cost. If you are planning to purchase evaporative coolers or also known as swamp coolers, you can look into the various models available by online and offline vendors. Before you buy a cooler, make sure you check the space available and the area you plan to cool. If you have several rooms in your home, you can get a portable evaporative cooler. They can aid in cooling several rooms in your home as they moved from one room to another.

There are positive aspects that portable coolers offer which you do not have with other types of coolers. A roof mounted Cooler is more difficult to access and maintain. It also cools the house with a larger motor that uses more power. This is not necessary if only one or two rooms of the house are used at a time. Window coolers are more accessible but are too tricky to move from room to room. Portable Coolers are perfect for moving to different areas of the home when needed.

Today, there are several manufactures that make portable evaporative coolers based on the requirements of the users. The design of the machine will vary depending on the area you want to cool and the space available. For example, if you want to cool a small to medium sized room, you can get a 10-inch personal portable evaporative cooler. These units can be used in your home or office and can cool an area of up to 750 square feet. When buying these devices, make sure you take into account of prices and benefits. Prices of the unit with limited features is usually low when compared to machine that has various features.

It is quite convenient to have a portable evaporative cooler around the house. These kinds of coolers will have the air cool during summer or hot days. Visit evaporative cooler reviews for more advices about different kinds of coolers that would meet your needs and wants.

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Are There Business Ethics in the Financing Industry Or Not?

The financial industry is changing for the better. Slowly, but surely, it is improving. However, the same cannot be said about business ethics. The finance industry needs to follow some strict business ethics in order to flourish and keep businesses out of debt.

business ethicsBusiness Ethics|It Affects Everyone

Don?t just go ahead and think that you are not affected by the industry just because you don?t work in it. If you are using the services of the industry, you are a consumer; making you a part of the industry. If you ask anyone, they will tell you that the financial services sector is highly unethical; more so than all the other sectors. However, that is not what Mr. James A. Mitchell seems to think.

As the Center for Ethical Business Culture?s Executive Fellow-Leadership, he states that this sector is significantly misunderstood. He states that misconceptions have risen in the sector for quite a number of reasons.

One of the primary reasons behind this misinterpretation is due to the size of the sector. Insurance companies, various banks, pension funds, money lenders, security firms all encompass this sector. Best of all, this is only a very small fraction of the sector. The size of the sector has aided the media in setting headlines. Many of these headlines are aimed at the ethical problems of the sector.

In fact, this sector alone is worth over $50 trillion and is increasing at a steady rate of 8% a year. Interestingly enough, not even the gross domestic product is that high. With literally billions of transactions taking place annually, micro and macro, there are bound to be a few ethical issues. Even more interesting is the fact that the media never covers the good, always the bad; it?s where the money is.

Business Ethics|Self-interest Consumes Us All

One of the biggest problems that any sector faces is that of self-interest. However, in the financial sector, this self-interest grows and becomes worse. Considering how so much money is involved, people become easily corrupted. Businesses forget long-term sustainability and concentrate more on maximizing their short-term profits.

Business Ethics|It?s all about the Benjamins

Another ethical issue this sector faces is that of insufficient mentoring and making money, as opposed to the consumers, the focus of everything. They both go hand in hand; the reason why many businesses make it big while others don?t. Many businesses offering financial services fail because they try to maximize their profit at the expense of their consumers. When people (and the media) find out, nobody blames the single business but rather the entire sector.

If you are in debt, most businesses will show they care about you but primarily care about their profit. Consolidated Credit provided debt settlement advice

Business Ethics|Who to Blame

Nobody is perfect. If you work very hard for a bonus and do not get it, you will be upset. Akin to a waiter who does not receive tips despite his or her excellent service. When executives do not give employees their just rewards, the employees will start to think only about themselves and not the company. This can lead to a plethora of unethical issues. If the executives had paid the employees their just dues, these unethical issues would not surface.

Business Ethics|Consumers Fault

Many unethical issues are caused by the demands of the consumers. In order to keep the customer, the businesses bend a few rules. Claim falsification is one of the biggest ethical issues that plague the sector. If businesses would simply stick to the rules, despite consumer demands, these would not arise.

The financing industry is not a machine; it is not perfect. This $50 trillion industry has its faults here and there. However, in order to promote the industry, a few ethical issues need to be resolved. Small businesses need to stop making their profits their focus. The aim may be to make profit but it?s unethical when the consumers and the laws are neglected and/or bent. The industry needs to boost its professionalism.

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The Hearing Test Delay

There are a lot of things that go into cooking a meal. First, someone has to figure out the ingredients. After that they must secure the ingredients, which can sometimes be difficult. Once all of the ingredients are secured; then the person must take all necessary steps to make sure the meal is prepared properly. It usually takes these steps just to make a small home dish for a family of four. So, you can only imagine how difficult it would be to actually prepare meals for large numbers of people in a restaurant kitchen. Although some people may not realize it, cooking in a restaurant or other large kitchens doesn?t just require that someone is an expert cook. However, it also requires that they have properly functioning ears. If not, they could mess up orders, which could reflect badly on their reputation along with the restaurant itself.

Just imagine if someone who couldn?t hear very well decided to work in a restaurant as a cook. Because of their superb skills, it didn?t take much for them to convince the owner that they were capable of doing the job. So, during their first day, they were extremely excited, although they were experiencing a slight earache that had been persistent over the past two weeks. However, they ignored the pain and decided to work through it. What they didn?t realize, however, was that they were in dire need of a visit to an audiologist along with a hearing test. Yet, they forged ahead to work.

During the early hours, everything seemed to have been going rather smoothly. That? may have been due to the fact that the restaurant got most of their customers during the dinner and lunch hours. So, it was rather quiet in the kitchen, making it extremely easy to hear.

After a few hours had passed, things had begun to become more intense. It became almost chaotic in the kitchen. People were constantly yelling orders to the back. For most of the workers, it didn?t faze them too much because they were used to it. However it seemed as if the new worker was having trouble. This was surprising to everyone including the new chef because he had a great deal of experience in chaotic kitchens. However, he had never messed up as many orders as he did on this particular day.

The supervisor finally got fed up and sent the new chef home for the rest of the day. On his way home, he didn?t really have much time to be depressed about the situation. That?s because his earache had become even worse. Instead of driving home, he pushed himself to go to the nearest hearing test center to see an audiologist.

After speaking with the specialist, they learned that they had experienced hearing loss and their earache was a warning sign. If only they had come to take a hearing test at the onset of their issues, the audiologist could have prevented most of the damage.

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Reviewing Go free credit dot com - gofreecredit.com | Finance ...

I received an email from GoFreeCredit.com last week, went to their website GoFreeCredit.com site. They are offering
free unlimited access to your credit report for 30 days. Along with automatic notifications of changes to your credit report, a detailed personal analysis, and details of who has reviewed your report in past.

GoFreeCredit.comThere fine print declaration that when you order your free credit report from GoFreeCredit.com, you will automatically be enrolled in a 30 day free trial of credit monitoring. You will be billed $16.95 for each month that you continue your membership if you do not cancel your membership within the trial period.

So essentially you can apply for your free credit report and within the first month if you cancel you will not be charged even a single penny. Yes, there prices have gone up by $4 per month in last few months. A thing to watch out for definitely.

Why should you know your credit score?

I really don?t like much about credit score services. I am comfortable seeing simulated (fake) score through credit sesame or credit karma. Nevertheless, it?s great to know your real credit score when you?re trying for a new home or car.? Getting your information in advance may give you an opportunity to correct any errors or resolve any negative bureau reporting.

GoFreeCredit is a company offering credit scores from each of the three bureaus (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). Each bureau uses its own slightly different calculation to determine your credit score, and each may still differ further from the FICO score, the credit score used by most lenders to determine your risk profile and your interest rates. Even though there are some differences, the more numbers you have, the better understanding you can get of how the financial industry sees you.

With GoFreeCredit, you can receive scores from all three credit bureaus ? Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion when you enroll in Triple Score Complete program. This is a $19.95 per month service, but it?s free for 30 days. If you do not want to pay $19.95 and just want to know your current score and report, you must cancel before the 30 day trial period is over.

Even viewing your score an knowing what?s in there in your credit report is essentia and beneficial because of the following

  • Lower your interest rates
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  • Qualify to get a new credit card

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When I created account, it did ask me for credit card for verification. Once you do that and answer a few past history question, they offered me a couple of extra services which I did not select. The page design is to trick a new customer in to accepting these new services which may not be free for 30 days, so, be watchful.

The credit card used for verification is charged if you do not cancel your membership within 30 days. I then went on creating my user id and password.

Once I was in he system, which didn?t take much time, there were three bureau credit scores and reports that were displayed. I did spend a lot of time looking at the report as I was looking it after a few months. Thankfully my score didn?t come down since i checked last and the report didn?t have a negative incident.

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To cancel your credit monitoring service, login to your account. Go to ?My Account? page and then search for ?cancel membership?. If may call their representative to cancel your account. You may not want to do that and continue receiving score updates.

Don?t just read your report, if any disputed information is found which you believe to be false, you have every right to file a claim, as per FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) law. Contact the credit reporting company(one of the three bureaus) and the information provider like loan or card provider, apartment association, etc.

We give GoFreeCredit.com a ?apply? rating but, once you know your score you may cancel your membership.

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What Silicon Valley can learn from Mother Russia

Imperial tax records mined for ingredients of successful start-ups

Web edition : Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

EVANSTON, Ill. ? Venture capitalists deciding whether to fund a new start-up could learn a thing or two from imperialist Russia. A new analysis of relationships among Russian entrepreneurs during the economic boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s reveals that the most successful teams were a mix of outgoing, gregarious networkers and cohesive, insular types.

Those ventures may have been trading in beets, barley and burlap, but they still hold lessons for doing business in the digital era. When investigating a potential start-up, investors should consider the mix of founding members in addition to each individual?s credentials, Brandy Aven, an expert in organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, reported June 20 at the International Conference on Network Science.

Entrepreneurship research tends to focus on the characteristics of individuals when examining winning ventures; there?s little research on teams and even less consensus on what makes for success, Aven noted. Members of tight-knit, cohesive teams tend to have a lot of trust and share knowledge and information well. But these dense little groups may have fewer outside contacts and miss opportunities. Teams of brokers ? people with wide and varied contacts ? have a lot of access to new information and opportunities, but may lack trust and solidarity.

To get at whether all-broker or nonbroker teams fare better, Aven turned to data from late imperialist Russia, when both railroads and population were expanding and there was explosive growth in private enterprise and industrial output. To best tax this burgeoning economy, the czarist state began gathering data on all partnerships and joint-stock companies. Those contracts were later digitized by legal historian Thomas Owen, an independent scholar affiliated with Harvard University. These data included information on industry sector, including mining, manufacturing, finance, railroads, textiles, beets and malt. Contracts also revealed team size and membership, where the firm was located and how much capital it had raised.

Aven and Henning Hillmann of the University of Mannheim in Germany used this data gold mine to trace the relationships among team members for 2,053 Russian firms founded between 1869 and 1913. The teams that raised the most capital turned out to be functionally diverse ? some members had connections with a lot of outside people, and some members were from networks that were cohesive and tight-knit.

?All things being equal, if I have two firms to choose between, I should go with the one with more diversity,? said Aven.

People tend to think that brokers have all the advantages: They are very good at finding and using new stuff ? and at making money, said Ron Burt, an expert in networks and behavioral science at the University of Chicago. ?But once you are trying to get an operation running, closed can be better.?
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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Don?t quit your day job just however.For anyone who is an infant boomer wanting to get started a house organization, you will discover five essentials things you will need to do 1st.

Leaving the security of a job with an established 401(k) program, health insurance coverage or other positive aspects can make a genuine tug of war for baby boomers who need to pursue their dreams of owning their own enterprise.

Analyze Your Exit Technique

At the time of this writing, the youngest of the baby boomers are turning 42 along with the oldest are turning 60. No matter where you fall into this group, analyzing and preparing your exit technique from your job will likely be vital to your long-term good results as a home business enterprise entrepreneur. Do you might have adequate savings If you?re married, will you be capable of participate in your spouse?s well being insurance coverage

Make a Financial Strategy

How much is your salary now What are your fixed, variable and frivilous expenditures Producing a solid program in order that you and your family will know precisely what the financial picture might be until your business gets off the ground and starts creating income.

Choosing an Enterprise Model and Legal Entity

There are actually various small business models to select from; house party plans, consulting, and affiliate marketing and advertising to name a handful of. You will need to make the selection according to your personality and what that you are best-suited for. Picking out a legal entity for the business enterprise should really be discussed with a tax accountant or your lawyer. Possibilities are sole proprietor, LLC or Subchapter S- Corp.

Set Small business Benchmarks

You would not travel across the country with no a road map, your company will be the exact same. Setting monetary and business-building benchmarks will help you to create a focused strategy that may allow you to to reach your good results.

Get a Physical

What does finding a physical have to do together with your company The moment you leave your job, probably your well being insurance will modify and as unfair because it may perhaps be, looking to get new well being insurance coverage when in your 40?s, 50?s or 60?s may be tricky. When pursuing your dreams of a house small business is something you happen to be most likely quite passionate about, if you don?t have fantastic well being to enjoy the rewards of the efforts, then not much else is vital.

The baby boomer generation is like no other before it or after it. Technically, we are regarded as middle-aged, but we?re anything but middle-aged in mind, body and spirit. We know there is certainly far more meaning to life than a commute to an unrewarding 9-5 job, but you will find also significant actions we should take 1st. Planning and preparing for the household small business now will result in much less headache?s later on.

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For starters, massage is calming and also stress-relieving. In addition, this improves blood circulation as well as physical health, which can make you are feeling much more energized during the workweek. The same is true regarding other basic day spa services. Finding a facial, shelling out fifteen minutes inside a sauna, or having your head massaged prior to visiting the hair salon may melt off your entire worries regarding perform as well as residence stresses for at least how long you may spend being fussed over.

Together with their particular mini-vacation recreation, numerous health spas offer courses which are meant to help you learn to handle stress and take it easy on your personal. Yoga exercise, tai chihuahua, and also meditation classes are usually kept from doctor offices in order to obtain visitors to discover ways to get away their own constant worry as well as issue over their own difficulties. Furthermore, many health spas use visitor loudspeakers in the future and also talk to consumers upon anxiety supervision strategies.

Another method associated with stress reliever widely used with a day spa is actually aromatherapy. Particular aromatherapy aromas are designed to affect the transmitting of brain chemicals that induce tension. The existence of these types of aromas leads to the actual decrease in anxiety. Aromatherapy is often utilized with spas.

Numerous spas provide weight-loss as well as fitness counseling solutions. Simply because weight-concern is definately a top reason for anxiety, many people sense significantly less anxious once they understand that they?re getting far better care of by themselves. Furthermore, workout and also healthful consuming result in far better health and, subsequently, better mental health.

Many people elect to use the stress-relieving benefits of a day health spa each week, a few prefer a yearly vacation to a location health spa, plus some simply devote a day with a spa sometimes once they do not want a regular getaway plus they have to have a crack. Vacation to per day spa may be only the break a person needs each time a vacation is out of the particular question. Regardless of how usually an individual check out a health club, it is possible to advantage on an emotional level simply by involving oneself within the stress-relieving great things about a day spa.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Blog Business Model 1: Land Public Speaking Gigs Through Your ...

This is the first post in our series on Blog Business Models.

Marcus Sheridan runs?The Sales Lion blog, where he explores the marketing approach he?s used to build a successful business. But his blog has helped Marcus springboard very successfully into the public speaking circuit.

Marcus Sheridan

Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion

Marcus has told us his story before, in the post From Small-time Blogger to Professional Paid Speaker: My Journey. Here, he talks about how the blog supports that business in a little more detail.

Marcus, what was it that drew you to blogging in the first instance?

Since 2001, I?ve owned an inground swimming pool company that installs pools throughout Virginia and Maryland. Things grew nicely until 2008 when the housing marketing collapsed, ruining many pool companies and forcing us to figure out a way to continue to survive despite so few potential clients.

During this time of struggle I stumbled upon a company called HubSpot and learned about inbound marketing, and decided to embrace blogging as a means of generating more traffic, leads, and sales through our company website.

Because of our willingness to be incredibly transparent and informative about all things swimming pools, the site?s popularity quickly exploded and it became the go-to source for the inground pool industry. It also saved our business because although it really didn?t cost us much at all to do, it sold us many, many pools.

With so much success in the swimming pool industry, I decided to teach others about what I had achieved, and these teachings became what is today TheSalesLion.com, a blog that has made its mark as one of the premier inbound and content marketing focused blogs on the web.

The blog supports your business as a public speaker. Did you develop the blog with the intention that it would support your speaking work?

I knew I?d never get the type of speaking gigs I wanted unless I had a platform to build my overall brand awareness and influence. With The Sales Lion, I accomplished just that as it allowed me to express my thoughts in all their forms. Because people saw I had a unique approach to things, I started getting more and more invitations to speak.

Forcing myself to write about all things marketing, sales, business, and personal development has allowed me to refine my message. It has also embedded these teachings into my brain in such a way that I can now speak for hours upon hours about business and marketing without notes. Such is the power of blogging if we go about it the right way.

So the strength with which the blog supports you as a speaker is no happy accident, then.

Make no mistake about it: my blog strategy is intentional. I want companies to see I can come in and speak to their organizations and assist them in their content marketing efforts. I want conferences to see that I?m wildly opinionated, thought provoking, and unafraid to say what?s on my mind?with a whole lot of passion mixed in.

you make it sound so easy! Do you face many hurdles in using your blog to build your business as a speaker?

I think the biggest challenge is continuing to plant the seeds while you?re reaping the harvest.

In other words, striking the balance between producing new content on my blog and continuing to network while I also need to be helping my actual, paying clients. One will help sales later, while the other will help my cashflow right now. I think this is a balance we all struggle with, though.

True. So what?s the secret sauce that?s helped you get your blog business to where it is today?

  1. I make people feel good when they stop by and leave a comment, because I care and I?m grateful.
  2. I?m opinionated and not just regurgitating what everyone else is saying.
  3. I?m dang good at storytelling.
  4. I teach/write in such a way that anyone can understand what I?m saying. In other words, my goal isn?t to try to impress myself or sound intelligent.
  5. I haven?t let off the gas in three years.

That?s quite the list! But how do you define your unique selling proposition?

I don?t try to be all things to all people. And I?m certainly not afraid to have some guts when necessary and put myself in the line of fire if I feel something needs to be said.

Also, I know my shtick. I?m one of the best in the world at content marketing?not Facebook, or Twitter, or Linkedin?etc.

Well, speaking of online tools, which ones do you rely on most in your blog business?

As I mentioned, I love HubSpot for their lead tracking and behavior software. Like everyone else, I use WordPress and my theme is Thesis. I also have a virtual assistant who helps edit my stuff and offers needed support.

So what words of advice would you tell a blogger who wanted to get into public speaking, using their blog as the platform?

  1. Answer every single question in your field. Be the wiki of whatever it is you do.
  2. Be bold and gutsy.
  3. Make your readers feel good about themselves.
  4. Stand up to the ?big boys? when necessary.
  5. Be great at networking.

Great advice! Finally, Marcus, what does the future hold for you, your blog, and your business?

That?s a tough question, because stuff is changing at an incredible rate. But I see my brand growing, along with my speaking schedule. I plan on being one of the best keynote and business speakers in the world and feel I?m well on my way to reaching that goal.

I?ll always have a blog, no matter what, because I simply have to express myself and put my thoughts to pen. That?s just who I am. And I plan on smiling for the entire journey.

Thanks to Marcus for sharing his thoughts with us. To find out more about Marcus?s business model, visit his site at The Sales Lion and read his story in From Small-time Blogger to Professional Paid Speaker: My Journey.

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Best known for his poetry, John Ciardi was also a critic, translator, editor, and etymologist. He influenced many aspiring poets during his years at the "Saturday Review," working ?as both a columnist and poetry editor. However, he made his most lasting impact on verse with "How Does A Poem Mean?," a book that was used in high schools, universities, and colleges around the country. Born in Boston?s Little Italy in 1916, Ciardi graduated from Tufts University and received his master?s degree from the University of Michigan. He went on to serve in the United States Air Force during World War II. For the last 10 years of his life, Ciardi worked as a reporter of word histories on National Public Radio?s "Morning Edition."?

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Link Building Idea for Restaurants ? Alex Czartoryski's Blog

Here is a quick link building idea for restaurants. ?This is a theoretical idea that I have not tried, so feel free to modify and use it as you see fit. ?If a variation of this works for you, I?d love to hear about it.

The Idea:

Offer people a free desert or $10 off their next meal if they do an honest blog or review of your restaurant. ?The review can be negative or positive, but it must be real and honest.

Here is how I see it working:

  1. The #1 rule is that the review must be HONEST and AUTHENTIC. ?Bad reviews are just as beneficial as good reviews, as they give you an opportunity to improve on your product.
  2. The request asking people for reviews must be displayed BEFORE the customer receives his food (so that they can take pictures, and get into a ?reviewer? state of mind)
  3. Every time?a review is written (and you are notified by the reviewer) you send them the ?reward?.

Rules:

  1. The review must be honest and authentic ? bad or good, the customer will receive the same reward (if you only rewarded the good reviews, this would probably be a violation of Google?s terms of use). ?Besides, if the customer had a bad experience, you want to hear about it so that you can fix it.
  2. The review can be placed on a blog or a review site (yelp, google local, trip advisor, etc?)
  3. The review must include a picture of the actual food/drink that is being reviewed ? ?No stock photos allowed.
  4. A reward will not be awarded for reviewing the same item twice
  5. One reward per visit
  6. Although NOT required, it is appreciate if the review includes a link to the restaurant.
  7. Once a review has been written, an e-mail must be sent to the restaurant advising them of the review (so that they may reward the reviewer)

This hopefully causes a few things to happen:

  • Free PR as people start to buzz about getting free stuff
  • You start getting honest feedback on how to improve your restaurant
  • You hopefully start getting reviews which hopefully raises the ranking of your Google local page
  • You hopefully start getting lots of reviews on blogs with unique content and pictures

Some posible negatives:

  • If your restaurant sucks, everyone will know about it
  • If this promotion really takes off, you will have a restaurant full of people photographing their food ? potentially ruining your ambiance.

That?s it! ?Would love to hear your comments on this?

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