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Ready to turn your traffic into sales?
Then you won't want to miss the replay of this In Session workshop co-hosted with Arianne Foulks of Aeolidia.
She shared the double whammy of how to get traffic to your website and convert it into sales!
Arianne will help you understand:
- how to decide if your focus should be driving traffic or improving your site
- why it's important to review your data (and what you should be looking at)
- how to discover if you aren't getting enough of the right kind of traffic
- why balancing traffic and conversion rate is vital
Season 2 Episode 5 Live Broadcast Replay
- The massive PDF on how to get more traffic and increase sales in your online shop from Aeolidia
- The Creative Business Model Canvas
Season 2 Episode 5 Live Broadcast Transcript
Good morning everyone. Another in session in session is a weekly series that I do kind of designed to help you build a strong foundation for your creative does that so that when the right opportunities come along you can seize those opportunities and every once in awhile I like to bring a guest experts who can complement of a kind of different skill sets that I definitely don't house about how to build a strong foundation your creative business so today I'm I'm really excited to bring kind of my go to expert and resource that I always ask questions too on helping creative business owners especially product these businesses set up and create an online store and really succeed and connect with their clients and customers you're having a greatly designed website that makes it really easy arm and reduces or shouldn't apply as well as having the branding and the beautiful and boxing experience and everything else that. So welcome today I couldn't what are you excited to talk to us about today. I spent the last week writing this huge document that is the basics of everything I know about conversion rate in getting more traffic to your site and that's the only thing I've been thinking about her like a week or 2 now so right now if you hit me with questions I probably don't know the answer. Are you sent it over to me last night and I was really quickly tried to get up before we started and it's amazing guys it's like 30 something pages of everything you need to know about kind of making more money. So here's some PDF right in the chart right now so that you can hop over and grab that. The link below us says grab the issue also has another article kind of on which I think you kind of quickly cover in the media about that you wrote about how you determine your conversion yours talking about this workshop in what you thought was the kind of pre requisite for everyone you said to know how to find your conversion rate on and so if you click the link below that says grab the issue you'll find the article as well as. 7 or 8 others about building your online presence there's one in there about how to stay legit when it comes to your email marketing help you get quick and dirty privacy policies and terms of service on your website so that you can be legally compliant their own and then information about testimonials and how you can't just slap a testimonial on as soon as someone sends it to you on your sales page on without doing a few things on it so there's resources in there as well on that so I'm sure we've got lots of shop owners in here you know kind of I think the common frustrations that you probably hear often are either I'm not getting on sales or I've got lots of traffic and they're not turning it so either there's not the traffic to generate a sale your conversion rate media all point but you're just not getting traffic or you're getting a ton of traffic and maybe it's not the right kind of traffic or you've got many problems with your website that are meeting those people are becoming fighters. Do you think that's kind of probably the major frustration pain point that a lot of people are experiencing yeah there are a lots of places to get back in feel confused I get email from people a lot where they wanted to wear their site isn't working and then when I do a little digging into their stats with them I find out that they're not actually getting enough traffic to know what they're saying is working or not because if you're only getting a few visits any data you try to gather is actually to be statistically insignificant you just have no way of knowing. Right science backgrounds biology backgrounds and so we're like that. This is just not gonna work we don't have a good work. Yeah and so I think that that kind of so how do you you're saying that you're digging into people's stats what are these data and data that you should be looking. Right so I'm kind of a data nerds so when people write me and ask question I like to have some input he used to actually answer it when you know at least an educated guess it so I'll just ask a couple basic things I need to know how many mysteries you've gotten in the last month or 2 and then how many sales you've gotten in the last month or 2 and then we can use that information to find out what your conversion rate if you're getting a lot of traffic that conversion rate is probably pretty accurate if you're only getting a handful of people you know they probably wondered over your site by accident don't really know why they are so we don't really know is that what they're doing on the site is accurate to what people would want to be there would be doing so we like to talk about getting targeted traffic. I think the example I use in that document I just wrote was that if you get 30000 hits from a motorcycle in the easiest website that's not gonna help you out very much if you make surround mix. Well. You don't know what the problem is your website there or if you just a whole bunch of people visiting your website who were never going to buy anyway so it's just really important to you kind of dig in there look around and see what's going on in figuring out what kind of people are visiting your site and then you can decide how much you trust that deny you got there yeah yeah and that's definitely something that I noticed is sometimes people wakes him to my site from something that like they just want this one teeny little piece of article it's not kind of the core offering of my business and it's great trip its traffic but it's not the kind of traffic that I'm looking at. So how do you know what is good versus bad traffic how do you know what that targeted traffic. My gosh I news that Rachel says her dad makes ceramic motorcycle sculpture. That's amazing I've used to really getting. Well be great for rituals that it would be terrible for someone yeah. Right so when you're coming up with your marketing strategy like when you're trying to figure out who you're going to talk to online and what you're going to say to them it's really important to know who would be most interested in purchasing your product and that is where you can come up with your target customer profile where you think of the one most perfect person for your business and then you want to find out where they actually hang out online what their concerns are what they're interested in what their style is and then you can start trying to drive the kind of traffic that's most likely to buy from you not just random traffic yeah yeah so really neat kind of honing in on that core customer first and then I'm using that to build either some sort of profile about where that person hanging out online or those kinds of things so that you can do it that way is that kind of. The trend of that confusion often goes hand in hand like people. Don't know why they're not getting any sales but they also have no idea who they're talking to you here when they're trying to sell their product the getting really clear about the first thing makes everything else make a lot more sense so knowing what it is that you make like knowing what's different about your business and your products that people can't get from even your closest competitor is how I like to think about it coming up with something totally unique and then knowing what person is going to value that the most then you have the tools when the info you need to figure out how you want to try to reach those people and where you want to reach them and then you start getting a stream of targeted traffic like just the right people to your site then you can really understand how well your site is working so. There's 2 things that are really important in trying to get more sales you need to get a bunch more traffic that's great and it should be targeted traffic but if you're getting lots and lots of traffic and those people are converting into sales as often as you like if your conversion rate is really low then you're really missing the boat there so you're sending tons of traffic but it's not going to pay off for the second part is making your site worked really well. That's super important for making the sale that you want to make their stock can also be expensive you know to get it to get it done properly so if you are someone who's just kind of starting out and you don't necessarily have a big budget to spend all that what are some of those small tweaks and things that you can experiment with to kind of make those improvements. Yes so if you've got your site set up and you've got people coming to it they're buying and everything seems to be going decently or at least you know you like you're on the right path you might want to dig in and start improving your website so then when you go ahead and pay for Facebook ads it's gonna pay off better your site working better so there's a few main places to take a look at your website and see if you can make it better one is the shipping rates I think that is one of the hugest reasons that people are going to start shopping get some stuff in the car and then we'll see the shipping and go well I'm not thinking that and they disappear and you've lost them so. I know when I'm shopping that I kind of set the price on the product he just like I'm looking in a dress or whatever and I'm like $42 yeah I guess I could be that and then if I go to check out it's like plus $10 shipping only $50 now where you create. Yeah dressing cost $50 on the product page I would buy with that and then gone ahead to check out so you really want it balance what you're charging for shipping with what the product costs and you want to see like one trick that people use it as they will offer free shipping if you add a certain amount like a dollar amount of products to your cart like spend $50 get free shipping kind of thing the reason that's common is people left reaches me. They love it and encourages them to buy more so if your average order value like if you know most people spend $30 when they check out and you wish they were spending 40 you can try free shipping with $40 and see how that works out got no I've heard Lee let's say that before that you figure out what your average cart order is and set your free shipping just slightly above that to encourage people to put one more thing and art Carney. I want to tempt him to go just a little bit farther with you and ask the shopper myself I know that I'd much rather pay $10 and get like an extra pair of leggings and pay $10 for shipping which feels like nothing right. Just a little bit more and. Yeah I'm so just a minute ago you. Mentioned a lot of you kind of quotable reason this play any kind of things figuring out who your ideal customer is and where they're hanging out and all that. Earlier this year I create incredible one next year based on questions I was getting a lot about do a legally need a business plan I'm inside the link to that in the comments instead something you kind of need to hone in on another kind of one sheet way exercise to think about out by inserting a couple questions speaking of questions we do have an ask a question button below as. And I know there's one question in there right now if I think that the question ties right into the topic we're discussing all bring it in and address it right then otherwise I'm just going to kind of hold them towards the end for kind of eggs you in a kind of action. Amanda had asked where did I see the info about using testimonials was arm at that is not out of. Below me that says grab the issue it is in there and it specifically addresses for those of you who have at the stores. Where else how else you can use customer information you get from C. and C. is really particular through their terms of service about how else you can use the customer information I'm and so there is a specific side bar in there about how you can use testimonials which kind of addresses Rachel's question as well. So perfect so I'm you know we've kind of talked about improving your site I know in your PDF and I know from previously talking to you there are find ways that you can only find ways that you have to worry about to drive traffic to your site of it so once we kind of know who we're targeting and I'm kind of what kind of traffic we're looking to drive what are these ways are gonna think about driving traffic to your site. Find ways so thinking about driving traffic to your site can feel really overwhelming if it's not something you've done before. And I feel like a lot of people think social media and then they stopped. But that is not necessarily the best way to drive traffic to your site so the by ways to get traffic to your site our search engine optimization which is pretty much just Google I know other search and that's kind of things you know everybody does Pinterest account there. Search engine yes it's like a visual search engines so I don't really think about that a social media although Google sticks in my analytics under social media right when people are looking for things they might find you on Pinterest so search engines and social media of course and when you think about social media it's not just you posting on social media but is people sharing your products themselves on social media so maybe you don't use social media at all but you get tons of traffic from Facebook because your customers share your products for their friends so let's see search engines social media I'm only press and publicity is kind of my big catch all or when people blog about you or write about you or if anybody is an influencer anyway that's the catch phrase people use now than influencers just somebody who has an audience and can influence people so if you send your products to an Instagram or who has a huge audience that's one way to get online press and publicity an online press is great because instead of just talking to your people over and over again you get to go to a pool of new people and talk to a bunch of people who haven't heard it yet and might be interested in the great thing about online press is your link is really clickable and they can just hop right over. And that other kind of press to get is offline press which is a lot trickier to get people relate to your site that would be if you were in a magazine or newspaper or on TV or even if you had like a podcast data were interviewed on. Make your about it or read it but they can't instantly click over your site ask more about your name recognition there. I'm and then not. What is number 5 ovoid. Right. We'll leave it in person my number 5. I mean. In prison would be like if you have a brick and mortar shop or if you go to you. Crafts fairs or markets or your sold in stories people can find out about you there if you like I'm missing number 5 you need. There's a word of mouth I just I. What if you're in your fifties yeah I got I can't believe I forgot about return visitors okay all my gosh return I don't drink coffee that's probably the problem. Return visitors is so important and I'm I've taken it upon myself every time we have a new client LED I pop right in there and I'm like let's talk about your mailing list even though that's not what we're doing with them at all because it drives me absolutely bonkers when people are trying to build a business and they don't have a mail list so when somebody has purchased from you before. They are much easier to commence the project again in a brand new person like much much much easier. Yeah. When we look at our clients that their conversion rate for the whole site might be I don't know 4 percent rate and then we look at the conversion rate or when they send a newsletter and those people converted 9 percent or 10 percent it's amazing and it's beautiful. Don't neglect your return customers and remember that customers talk to their friends and their family about you know the amazing jewelry they're wearing or whatever it is you do that they bought and so being really awesome with your customer experience in your customer service and all that is. Rates you get new people that. Yeah I'm so we kind of talked about you know increasing traffic we've talked about increasing our website how are we knowing which bucket we're in. Hello which when did you first. And and I'm sure that there is also some like balancing acted like you start to do one and then you need to do the other and then it's probably like if you saw your can constantly going back and forth right. True so I am going to my ear not just me. I'm not hearing that. Gonna try to. Acting now. Okay so balancing act between your traffic in your conversion rate. I'm. If you know your website is just terrible like if you just noticed her whole work on that of course because you don't want to spend a lot of time and trouble sending people to a website that is embarrassing were terrible are hardly works but if you feel like you put together a website that is pretty decent and it's probably going to work then the first thing you want to do is build your traffic. So once you've got traffic going then you can start seeing how well it's working and that is when you can start messing with things like your shipping rates for your product descriptions are what you show on the homepage or what your policies are or what your by button looks like what when everything's that you think might be slowing people down once you're getting a decent amount of traffic that's when you can optimize and so we kind of see we've seen that there's a few different levels I'm after after we launch a client's site the last year or 2 weeping coming back 6 months later to analyze their stats so we have a report from before we launched and then the check and see how they're doing it 6 months and we have found that if you get less than 1000 visitors per month it's really hard to get super insightful data from that so that point it makes a lot of sense to try and build your shop if you're getting between maybe 3000 visitors per month that's where you're there nice about balancing point where you do want more traffic but you can also start optimizing your site improving it and then we kind of found like once you get in more than 2000 visitors per month that's when you really can start making things work a lot better that feels like you're more established you're not struggling to get traffic all the time and now you can try and find 2 things and see what's gonna make actual improvements yeah so how are we how are we because I sometimes and one of those people who like gets bogged down in okay this sounds great but how like in a like track what these numbers are hell making this seat in the buy button that blue is better than the buy it button that. No green how do I how to a lake. Logistically do this. Right so that's a great question because if you start poking around in trying to learn about conversion rate you'll like get into the world of EDT testing re try like option a an option being in you see which one actually works better I don't think a small creative business needs to dig into anything really complicated and you don't want to try and do what the giant businesses are doing because it's gonna be hard for you to understand the results and it's just the kind of work or not huge gain where I would concentrate on instead is just the very basic things that really do trip people up when they're trying to stop beyond the document I put together without a lot of them there's things like your shop navigation has to be clear and easy to understand people should be able to search and find what they want to find on this site easily your photography needs to be absolutely beautiful and it needs to help people understand how big the product is or what it would look like on a person or in the home or something like that photography is huge I would say probably shipping and then photography if you're trying to figure out how to improve your site I'm just look at all the really obvious places where people can get hung up one thing that I like to do is user testing and I talk about that a bit you in the PDF on user testing can be as simple as grabbing your best friend and went down to run your website and saying trying to find pearl earrings and buy them and they just never talk aloud while she does it and you can see where something that you thought made perfect sense is very. And you know what am I also have some resources or doing user testing in our I'm using software. In your real customers not interesting to look at. I think you definitely don't want to launch a new website redesigned website without having at least somebody look at it like a second. So much that can be confusing working go wrong I think those are all good places to start looking when you feel like you can make some improvements yeah so we have a follow up on shipping so our Kristin asked us all about should be offering free shipping make you look desperate I've heard this kicking around and she's really curious to hear your view point she's inclined offer free shipping over a dollar amount like you suggested but this concern keeps coming up what's kind of your reaction to that. You don't think free shipping makes you look desperate at all I think the thing is very standard for ecommerce sites and people expected I think they get disappointed when they find out they have to pay for shipping I do think that offering discounts can work desperate or even if it doesn't look desperate it can make people think oh I won't buy now will wait till she has another discount but I don't think freeshipping balls in that area at all yeah I ate Coles is my example first for discounts like my monologues cold but she like she goes in there with like this stack of coupons. Buys the thing on sale that is already discounted within like stacks all these coupons on it she was telling me the other day she got this pair of pants for $2. My. A whole other issue but. Right answering. Refuses to buy anything Albright calls because they just give her all these discount so I think that you can train your customers to expect discounts but I think I I agree I think that as a consumer when I shop online you know like especially things like Amazon prime just trained us but like 2 day shipping is just include it free 2 day shipping and so I think depending upon your product you know like if you're doing you know obviously if you're doing like original paintings and those kinds of things like the what you would need to charge for your paintings in order have free shipping with us you know insurance and all that you need to do to ship the product is a little bit different than AB with prince and the like and you know kind of smaller products. That there is that I am and I know that I know that this person in particular does to you both original art and prints I'm so I think that there can be a disconnect between the kinds of things you offer free shipping on but again you're talking about a different customer to a different kind of point and so I think that that. Is it okay to say we offer free shipping on friends if your order is over that we can't offer free shipping on originals just because of the what goes into shipping products yeah that makes sense and if you know you're going to be selling online as part of your business plan when you're working on your pricing you just need to factor shipping into how you decide to price your product it shouldn't be a surprise for you. Yeah so perfect hopefully that answers your question. So we've started to make these weeks we've started to increase traffic were on this kind of Esau of increasing traffic making tweaks to our website when is it how often do we need to like reestablished read plan look at things kind of how do we you kind of figure out what that looks like. Do you think that I would like to recommend that you look at your stats at the very least quarterly like maybe you have a couple reports that you're familiar with then you look at every week or if you've just done a big campaign and you want to see how it did of course take a look at that but I don't think you should go longer than 3 months without taking a good look at how everything is working and being more thorough about it. A website. Just does not last very long hate you can't like you can set up a brick and mortar shop and then leave it pretty much as it is for 10 years and it's still going to work but technology changes so often with websites and the weak people shop changes and just the way your customers are gonna feel about things like shipping like like you said crime is trained everybody to inspect the ship things of that type of thing where changes in the industry are going to affect how your own site works even if you didn't make any changes. So I don't think you need to overhaul your website completely all the time but I definitely think you should be popping in looking at making tweaks and adjustments and fixing little things your content should always be changing in updating so it looks new and fresh in there you don't want to keep the very same thing on your homepage forever for instance and. Yeah you can expect your website to last forever but it will last longer if you take a look at your stats and see what's working best and what's not working and make adjustments as time goes by that's a really good thing. Perfect so. What did we. Arm we haven't really talked about any sort of content marketing and pay a traffic and kind of those kinds of ways to. Increase sales. So content marketing do you have to blog if you have a shop. The content marketing. I think everybody should have a blog but no you don't have to hobble blog there is a lot of other ways to do content marketing if I can hence my very favorite thing a blog just a little bit. If you have a blog the great thing about blogs is it fills your site up with many many pages many many keyboards that you want Google to find you boring Google loves blogs and it's a great way to show up more highlands search engines in once you're blocking you find that all your other social media stuff just gets easier so it's easier to send a newsletter if you've already written an article on your blog that week you can mention it or write about it or point people to it. I find it easier to do social media because I can just grab stuff from my blog post and make it look. So media it's kind of like a blanket for the hope that all of my constant marketing goes out room and I love it and you can do it on any commerce site of course we like Shopify and Shopify has pretty good quality I mean it's not as high powered as wordpress but lets you have some really intense lobbying plans you don't need to hurt. Was your house like a gazillion pieces of content and yeah yeah. We we got some pretty huge logs on Shopify but like yeah if you need a bunch of different plugins and like advertising stop and all kinds of crazy things. You would like wordpress but I'm. Why game but if you decide you don't want to live firstly you can plug anyway because maybe you're not a great writer but you have beautiful photography you don't have to write like piles and piles and piles of words blog lighting can be like if you feel comfortable on Instagram you practically written a blog already with your photo your caption why not put it on your site and get a little more Google traffic and have people were interested but if you really really really don't. You have a lot of content on your site that you can think about as far as Google does so all the text on the homepage all of your product descriptions all the photography you use all that kind of stuff helps you with Google and you can use it for all the other things we talked about like you can grab your product description in your product and put them on Instagram Facebook or whatever so when do you think of yourself as a content market or not if you're doing any marketing online and you have any content which is just you're texting your photos you are doing marketing and it's really not that bad. Yeah. So at this point in time if you're joining us on Facebook or on YouTube and you've left the question unfortunately we can't see them. And about we will hop over and hopefully a truck then later if you want to make sure I get to get the answer right now there's links to take you over the crowd cast to go ahead and hop over and join us here a which is where we can see the questions live and where we've been polling so those of you who are here live. I think at this point we're gonna start transitioning into the kind of culinary portions so start throwing your questions down there I know several of you are on the ill Lydia army newsletter listed you've already seen this PDF and maybe have a chance to dig into it and I don't have a more high level questions on it I think the great a great one to start with and is another question from Kristin. Excuse me. Asked about kind of the path and I know you're going to cover this in the PDS the past to purchase so what should you keep in mind to make your store easier to navigate so that someone can land on the page and end up at the cart and checking out. Yeah the path to purchase so you can also think about this as kind of your purchase final right think maybe most everybody dump on your homepage or you know maybe you got lucky and you've got some interest directing everybody to a category or an item in your shop or something like wherever people land on your site there in the big wide part of the final and people are gonna drop off and drop off into you have just whoever decides to check out after that if you shop by yourself up my stats will show you how many people out of the products are and then I guess ministers of how many people are on the site and then how many people out of products to cart how many people look at the car and then how many people make it check out and you'll see that you lose a lot of people want to wait and we just looked at one of our clients stats and she is doing amazing like the amount of drop off between those steps adding to cart looking at the car going to check out is only a percent or 2 each time which is incredible and that shows that people are having a really easy time getting getting what they're looking for in getting through to check out and actually checking out sometimes will see that you lose like half the people added to cart you leave them on the cart page and they don't go through the checkout and that's when you know there's something in that like something that happened stopping people from going ahead and often again I hate to hammer and shipping probably your shipping rates. So you want to look and see where you're losing people. And see if there's anything that you can do to help make it easier so it might be something you haven't even thought of like maybe there's a question people have about your product and they can't find the answer in the description and you don't have an FAQ or something and it just feels like a lot of trouble to ask you like to write an email and whatever people won't bother to do unfortunately so just try to answer every possible question people may have is a really great thing to do so you talked about funnel and people dropping off and she's only losing a percentage as people drop logs on and then if you're losing you know almost half the people so what are we thinking on the perfect ideal scenario what can we aim to look back when were at different stages. I don't know if I knew the answers that I mean perfectly beat everybody would come to you live from you. 100. Right. You've got a high goal. You know what I am not exactly sure what that would be I do know that I was super impressed to see that our client was only losing a couple present people on each step so I would think that's definitely possible because I see no. And the great thing to in order I think losing half the people is I don't know if that's the bottom of the range I'm sure I haven't seen the worst of the worst 1 I've been looking at people that but that's definitely a red flag there that there is something that you can improve and if you like we can just go all the way back to conversion rate if you're getting 2000 visitors per month but less than half of a person converting to sales there's definitely something wrong with your site and if you're getting more like 2345 percent that's great made you can focus on getting more traffic while you work on the site a bit more. But yeah there's no specific answer and one thing I cover in my PDF is sometimes you will have unrealistic expectations based on what kind of product you have so you mentioned shipping large have the artwork that can be a real barrier to purchase maybe you sell a product that starts at $250 right you're not going to get a 5 percent conversion rate on a $250 product there just aren't that many people were willing to spend $250 on the website so you also want to look at what kind of product you're selling and adjust your expectations there somethings are just harder to buy. Perfect. So Regis question I kind of addressed earlier it's more one for me and then one for you about best practices to use reviews from elsewhere and specifically in order to encourage trust and sells on your site so you can handle kind of the U. Exide on the legal side. One thing that's not discussed a lot well first off and she specifically says without permission of the customer you cannot add that person to your email list you cannot use their review your testimony all you can't use anything that they send you and the messaging system you can't use it any of that without specific explicit permission from the customer I'm so anti specifically you have to get permission I'm in order to even just add them to your email list when it comes to reviews and things outside of that there is this kind of a little discussed area of law right of publicity that says I have the right to control how you use my name my likeness my photographic center up to sell your product and service and that makes a lot of sense that we can't just slap Kim Kardashian's image on our stock but not true goes all the way down to just the average people like that you can't just use someone's name to sell your product because they might think old I love you know this I've got a business question this person if they're using it I must need it for my business. I'm in so you must have permission in order to avoid these right of complicity laws in order to use these testimonials on your website on these reviews on on the sales page still kind of function as an endorsement or a reason to buy your product so that's kind of from the legal side and as I said I've got an entire article that dive into this in this month's issue of artists journal which is kind of what how I've switched from like straight blogging to kind of creating these digital magazines this year I'm in so you can grab that using that crop. Issue button below and. Social proof we haven't really talked about that you know kind of how do you use these things from a US standpoint in order to create trust and transparency with your with your client. I love that topic because this is another thing that customers have gotten used to online like if I go to stop us and I want to buy shoes I'm not just going to click the buy button without reading the reviews that would be insane I need to go back to you but like it's either going to bed or if they were uncomfortable or if I can you know walk around London for 9:00 hours and survive like that kind of thing so once people get in the mode of checking reviews on Amazon or Zappos or wherever when they come to your site there are no reviews it kind of feels like taking a leap of faith so if you can get some reviews on there that is a great thing to do one thing I would encourage is you don't really want to start trickling reviews onto your site I don't think because if you only have one review for every 5 product that looks a little sad and it makes you look at it smaller than you or anything so if I was going to set up an E. commerce site I want to get some reviews on there what I would do is I would email all my past best customers and that number refusing someway offer them something in return and trying to get like a a decent group open to start with. Another great thing about reviews which I just discovered recently I love it when I find out something new about getting traffic but when you start getting reviews on site Google actually loves that and the ranking more highly and they on certain sites they will show your review star rating in your Google search results like it here on yelp or something like that all your business name and then the number of stars and it gets people really confident feeling and I'll be a lot better purchasing from you eons there's another exercising it so exciting. But when a customer writes a review of your business you're writing a review in their language like the magic customer language that when people are searching the type of words than a real shocker we use are the type of work search your reviews and they can be much more likely to find your site based on that review tax game review. Yes. So you think that influenced Rachel's question. Thanks for liking the artist's journal this is issue number 2 I'm having so much fun creating them. That you guys are liking that because it like is totally my jam but I can like only focus on one topic as I like create it for 6 weeks and then talk about it with you guys for 6 weeks. It's a lot of fun I'm glad you're liking it too on racial. Linking to that at sea shock reviews is that kosher so if you're just saying senior my reviews out at sea you're not posting them on your site so. God it without going back and looking at the terms of service got says that's okay because you're not reposting that anti review on to your site you're just saying to see reviews of my products head over to see and those customers have manually enter those reviews cells so you you would be able. I just would be off the top of my head without digging into the terms of service but I can't in linking I can imagine. I can't imagine that well there's there's a whole case law about in line I'm still trying to wrap my brain around but I don't think about what I'm coming to play here. So are we going to question it says is it better to use keyword rich descriptions on your website or keep it short and sweet and put the key words in the blog and other content one issue with descriptions is content duplication on similar products. Yeah so I'm thinking kind of want to do both so I think you can keep it short and sweet and also be keyword rich you don't have to write paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs there was an old school method of doing search engine optimization where you would just like put this huge pile of key words at the end of everything you wrote but Google hits that that doesn't work anymore in fact it's probably going to get you penalize so just when you're writing your product description I think the best thing to do is to think about how your customer would describe the products what they'd be using it or or you know if there are if people buy your jewelry is yeah it's worth mentioning like great gift for mother in the product description because then you get more people who are looking for that kind of thing so when you're going out of writing thinking about why people might be buying is a great thing to do and then just a few words of what your product is made out of and everything makes sense to you I'm if you're having duplicate descriptions across all of your products. I think that's a place where you can just go in and write first new descriptions for everything the only reason you have to click it descriptions if you're trying to save yourself some time of course it's great to save yourself sometime but not to the detriment sales so if you feel like it's detrimental I would spend some time to go in there and just get everything being a little bit more unique and interesting and keep people's attention and then you got working within their critical. Perfect. So any and that's all the questions I'm seeing right now will give everyone a moment to kind of throw any additional questions anything we haven't covered that you saw we were we should head on today. Not really. I think we did it. Okay so I next week from. We are going to. First you start from next week we are back for another in session next game also going to be joined by a guest host. He mall in camp will be here next week and for those of you who maybe have custom work that you do in addition that you'll need a client or customer she's going to be talking about something that I am completely ignored for my business which is when he stands up and telling us to think about how we can optimize Arlington profiles to really generate new clients and customers for any one on one and custom illustration work those kinds of things that we do in our business so I will. Throw the link here so that in fact is of interest you can join us Kermit also on Fridays I've started a brand new series where. I basically what I do is take all the questions to get email to me and it gets submitted to me I pick 3 of them a week and I send them out to my email and and say which of these 3 questions do you want me to answer on Friday on Facebook and then I've got kind of a Facebook only lives. Alright you answer that question. So the question that got the most votes this week that I will be starting on Friday. Has to do with what steps you're gonna take when someone copies or steals your work on it and how does my answer differ when a fellow creative business owner first is a big box retailer. So because of how we do goes on. There are unfortunately I haven't figured out a way to do the like send me the reminder things for it arms so those happen on Fridays at 10:00 AM Pacific 1:00 PM eastern I'm so if you want to know the answer to that question tune in live or you can just go ahead and like the Facebook page and see it arm at a later point in time so those are the things I wanted to make sure to let you know before we wrap up for today I'm I'm not seeing any other questions so thanks so much for joining us today thanks so much for sharing Sherlock PS one more time with them. And I want to add if you guys are looking at your stats are your sales or anything and you don't feel confused and you just don't know what to do next this is my favorite topic to talk about please feel free to email me and we can take a look at what's going on. Perfect it so yeah so I just threw the link to the PDF in there again like I said it's like 31323130. Huge number of pages of content for you. You kind of died in to really kind of working and making these tweaks your business so that you can have that strong foundation and build a really strong successful creative business that does what it needs to do for you know we kind of all have different and run goals in our businesses and so what's important is to kind of take this information and figure out how it applies specifically to your situation your customers and do all that kind of stuff so not everything we said today have to immediately apply in your business. So thanks a lot for tuning in thanks so much all of you for coming today asking questions and interacting with us. I had a lot of fun these always are so much fun for me so I hope you enjoyed it as well on anything before we sign off. Great thank you can see me thanks a lot everybody have a great day. I.


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Classic crispy Swedish cookies with vanilla creme and fruity raspberry filling. Suitable for vegans and vegetarians. 190g
(please note this biscuit is branded as Singoalla in Sweden but Ballerina in Finland & Norway)
Ingredients: wheat flour, vanilla creme 23% (sugar, fully hydrogenated coconut oil, emulsifier (soy lecithin), acidity regulating agent (citric acid), flavors (vanillin)), raspberry filling 14% (sugar, water, glucose syrup, raspberry juice concentrate 2.1%, blueberry juice concentrate, gelling agent (carrageenan ), flavorings), sugar, vegetable oil (sun flower, shea, coconut), invert sugar, leavening agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), salt, barley malt, emulsifier (soy lecithin), flavors.

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Ladies Dinner Tues 18 September
A special invitation was given to our ladies of St Alfred's and St Luke's churches!
They enjoyed dinner together. 6.30pm, Tues 18 September.
Look out for future announcements! Make some new friends, catch up with existing friends, and enjoy conversation and each other's company in a relaxed setting.


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Blockchain financial ecosystem Infinity Foundation has announced it's releasing the crowdfunding platform on April 7 as the network sets a 655,230th block milestone. Along with this announcement the project also setup several feature release block further: as the height of the blockchain gets to a certain point, the specific feature is activated automatically. The coming features include shuffling, subscription, escrow and smart contracts.
Infinite Economics sees great potential in idea realization through democratic methods, i.e. crowdfunding: all that's necessary is the initiator, the donators and the platform that serves as a bridge to bring the parties together. Nevertheless, the biggest disadvantage of the current approach is fees: payment processing fees, raised amount fee, etc. Having a built-in currency feature, Infinite Economics offers fully automatic decentralized solution for fast and affordable crowdfunding that may include projects in arts, medicine, travelling, charity, social entrepreneurship and many others.
The company as a whole provides a decentralized and transparent system that allow transactions to be processed peer-to-peer over the blockchain. It recently partnered with LiveTree (blockchain based end-to-end production and distribution platform for TV and film) to offer loans to content makers through LiveTree's platform. As of the moment of the publication, the market indicators for Infinite Economics are as follows:
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Good morning fellow Seekers,
I'm not going to bore into your brain with some wasted ideological rant. I will let "The Great One" as Hannity calls him. Give you the low down and just how MEANINGLESS yesterday's outcomes were. In the Cohen and Manafort results.
Yet again the left and the MSM will be blowing up the airwaves with their slander and vitriol, but once again…there's no THERE THERE.
Here's a great rundown by Mark Levin…
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Monday December 20, 2010
What is it?
The Army Reserve, using the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) model of providing forces in a cyclic manner, provides operational forces to the total Army, to meet the nation's military demands. Many of the Army's civil affairs, psychological operations, medical, and transportation capabilities reside predominately within the Army Reserve. Due to mobilization and rapid-deployment demands since September 11, 2001, the Army Reserve has evolved into an operational, expeditionary force replete with streamlined deployable headquarters.
The Army Reserve's ability to mobilize quickly and essential capabilities make it well-suited for meeting the nation's future military requirements as a part of the operational force. Compared to the cost of active component support capabilities, the Army Reserve is able to provide enabler support more cost effectively, in order to meet security requirements at home and abroad. Army Reserve Soldiers will remain a vital part of the total force for meeting the national security challenges of the future.
What has the Army Reserve done?
The Army Reserve continues to be called to address imbalances within the Active Army for many required enabling capabilities, including logistical, engineer, military police, medical and civil affairs support, as well as to fulfill active duty generating force requirements. The Army Reserve is in the process of recasting itself from its part-time "strategic reserve" role, to a fully integrated and critical part of an operational, expeditionary Army. After a century of serving as the nation's strategic federal reserve force the Army Reserve has transformed into a ready operational force postured to effectively and efficiently support the Nation's evolving and challenging security requirements.
What does the Army Reserve have planned for the future?
For now and into the foreseeable future, the Army Reserve will function as an integral member of the total Army's operational force and we will continue to be a positive investment for the nation. Progress is being made to transform the required institutional, policy and systemic resource processes and procedures to ensure a sustainable and ready force.
Why is this important to the Army?
Employing the Army Reserve as part of the operational force provides the nation a "best value" cost-savings option, resulting from the nation only paying the full cost of Army Reserve Soldiers when they are mobilized. The Army Reserve, using the ARFORGEN rotational readiness model, is capable of providing support enablers to the operational force at nearly one-third less cost than maintaining the same capability in the Active Component.
An Army Reserve, as part of the operational force, provides predictability to Soldiers, families, employers, and allows for the synchronization of resources.
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The Windows registry is a storage area used by the Microsoft Windows operating system to hold important configuration settings that control how the computer operates. Everything from Windows itself to installed programs and hardware must be able to retrieve a variety of keys and values from the registry to function as expected. If the registry develops any type of problem, the results could range from a slow system to one that doesn't work at all.
Manually Fixing the Windows Registry
If you think you have a computer problem caused by a Windows registry error, you can use the utility supplied by Microsoft to fix the problem. Regedit.exe will run on any Windows-based computer and allows users to access and edit the Windows registry. However, it can be difficult to find the problem, and it's very easy to turn a nuisance into a major issue.
If you decide to take your chances, always create a restore point before proceeding. The restore point acts as a registry backup and allows you to revert to a previous version of the registry if you decide to backout your changes. However, if you make a major mistake while you're editing the Windows registry, you could render the system inoperable to the point you can't even use the restore procedure.
In this case, you'll need to completely reload your machine using the install discs that came with the computer. This will put the machine back to its out-of-the-box state. This means you will lose any stored data, Windows updates, and installed programs. It could take hours or even days to recover from your Windows Registry editing mistake.
You May Not Be Able to Find the Problem
If you know your problem is isolated to a single program, you have a fairly good chance of locating the subkey within the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE area when you access the Windows Registry. However, what will you do then? Unless you know how the program functions or you have access to someone with inside information, you might not be able to fix the problem. Of course, you can always uninstall the program and delete anything that appears to be related to the program. This might work, or you could disable another application in the system if you delete the wrong subkey.
If you're trying to clean up a virus or other type of malware, a manual fix with regedit.exe becomes even harder. These tricky programs like to masquerade as Windows programs and embed their registry entries within the areas reserved for the operating system. In some cases, they even replace the Windows subkeys with their own version of the entry. This usually allows Windows to function unless you remove the entry.
Using Software to Fix the Windows Registry
Instead of going through the tedious, time-consuming, and risk-laden process of using the regedit.exe program to manually fix Windows registry errors and problems, you can save a lot of time and aggravation by allowing specialized software to do the job for you. Registry cleaners can safely fix a damaged Windows registry to restore your computer to an efficient state. Without losing a speck of data or a single update, your machine will run as good as a new one. To prevent Windows registry errors and problems in the first place, download a registry cleaner today to implement a regular maintenance program.


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JIANGSU AUPWIT has been through professional quality system certification, CE certification, SGS audit, TUV audit, and as a member of the China national resources recycling association.
Machine main core parts, use Germany Siemens motor, France Schneider electric, USA KK pressure gauge, USA parker valve, Germany Rexroth valve, Pikes high-pressure hose. Technology and performance of our products has reached the industry leading level, and has won the trust of the customers.
Our products have been exported to more than 90 countries, such as Russia, Australia, USA, UK, Germany, Ukraine, etc. We have agents in the USA, Australia, Singapore, Kuwait, Russia, Brazil.
Our team comprises of member equipped with rich experiences in recycling design and custom. If you have any needs for your waste or make further improvements for our machine. We are here to offer our support.


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Author: SMR Recruitment Team
Security Management Resources has been retained by a global institutional investor in Abu Dhabi to continue assistance with building and strengthening their security team.
Project Overview:
Our client is a global institutional investor who has holdings across multiple sectors, geographies and asset classes. Its team is world-class and demonstrates the highest standards of leadership, integrity and professionalism.
Our client is seeking prospective candidates for security positions across several levels. These security roles represent pivotal opportunities with the potential to significantly grow and advance the careers of successful candidates.
Well-known and highly regarded in the global financial industry, our client is committed to hiring diverse talent reflective of their strong cultural values. As a result, they consistently recruit and invest in top talent who are key to the ongoing success of the institution. With a workforce comprised of both local and international backgrounds, SMR's client is emblematic of the success that can be achieved when diverse backgrounds and expertise are brought together in a collaborative environment.
On offer for successful candidates is a comprehensive expatriate package including schooling, housing and medical cover. Once onboard, our client focuses on retention of high-performers and provides a work environment focused on long-term growth and development. Educational opportunities abound as do diverse programs and resources designed to engage and develop individuals to their highest potential.
Position Overview:
This challenging position for an experienced manager will supervise a team of control room operators. In addition to oversight, management and development of your personnel, you will assess incidents and prioritize escalation of issues on a 24/7 shift rotation. Your extensive knowledge of electronic security and monitoring systems together with your experience in the fire and life safety sector will enable you to develop policies and standards for operational security functions. Our client would prefer someone with Middle East regional experience, however this recruitment is open to well-qualified candidates globally.
How You'll Contribute:
- Supervise all day-to-day operations of a control room team on a 24/7 shift rotation in accordance with legal and operational compliance standards.
- Function as a key security partner for other departments and external agencies and emergency services.
- Evaluate and manage the contracts for third-party security vendors.
Your Education and Experience Include:
- A Bachelor's degree in a related area of study.
- Extensive relevant security control room supervisory experience in either a medium or large-sized organization together with knowledge of both international and regional safety and security standards.
- Membership and participation in relevant professional organizations.
Your Competencies and Skills Define You As:
- An ambitious, sophisticated self-starter able to step into the role of decision maker when the need arises.
- An excellent communicator with English and (preferably) Arabic language skills.
- A partner adept at forging relationships across the organization. A problem solver who can quickly and decisively develop responses consistent with objectives.
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Risk Management is an integral part of all organisational processes, including strategic planning, all projects, and change management.
Virrata have found that when we work with our clients to find causes for particular poor performance metrics, often other hidden opportunities for improvement come to light that are directly, or indirectly, part of the solution.
Case Study – Poor accident rate metrics needed to be addressed.
The client need:
On reviewing plant accident rate data, management knew that they needed to make urgent improvements. Their own analysis showed that the majority of accidents were related to back injuries caused by manhandling components out of boxes and then after process, back into them. Back injuries are particularly painful, pernicious, and costly; it was important to find solutions that were both effective, and affordable. They were not sure how to proceed or what to do first.
What we did:
After reviewing and analysing all existing data, we were able to confirm the type of injuries, general causes, and identify missing data needed to pinpoint specific issues. We worked on site with a representative team of managers and operators to identify the current process flow, and activities that increased risk of injury. We utilised a mixture of records, observation, photographs, and video, to gather evidence, then with guidance from Virrata, the team was able to identify priority changes required.
What they got:
Nine priority changes were identified, and solutions determined. Each required action was scheduled, and to each a champion appointed. Some of the solutions involved training, others addressed; planning, logistics, information, and product flow, through the plant. The team were now armed with the necessary tools and methods so they could address remaining risks and new issues in the future.
As an added bonus to improved accident statistics, with very little associated cost, new flow methods and better information transfer have improved plant overall efficiency.
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The Premier League is set to drop its longstanding lion-based logo this summer, with a rebrand imminent ahead of the league's first season without a title sponsor since 1993.
The crowned lion has been a prominent feature of the Premier League product since its inception in the 1992-93 season, representing the relationship between the league and the English Football Association.
The news has been met with varying degrees of sadness and range by fans across social media.
R.I.P the Premier League Lion which will reportedly be removed from the badge as of next season #neverforget pic.twitter.com/jgd839v9nB— WeAreFootballBanter (@WAFBaus)
January 12, 2016
Premier League will have no sponsor or lion in the logo next season, I don't like change.— Georgie (@FutbolSloth)
January 12, 2016
Some people have read a great deal into the Premier League's announcement – perhaps too much.
Disgusted at the Premier League mocking the death of Cecil by scrapping the Lion from the badge, disgraceful @premierleague— John Yiasoumis (@jy_15)
January 12, 2016
The Premier League is yet to put the contract for the rebrand out to tender, but is viewing the departure of current title sponsor Barclays as the opportunity to refresh the company's image.
The Football League unveiled the results of its own rebrand in November, with the new logo in particular attracting the derision of supporters on social media.
With the new name, the 'English Football League' or 'EFL', one detractor noted that the initialism "sounds like some kind of racist political party".
The Premier League will be keen to make sure their strong brand takes no backward steps as it heads into its first season with only secondary affiliated sponsors.
• Richard Scudamore: 'No betting sponsors for Premier League'
Barclays have been associated with the Premier League as a title sponsor since 2001.
Prior to Barclays' involvement, the lager brand Carling had featured in the league's name between 1993 and 2001.


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Published on August 27th, 2015 | by The Horse
Gambit (2012)
Cheap Imitation
Michael Hoffman
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (screenplay), Sidney Carrol (short story)
Cameron Diaz, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Tom Courtenay
Nothing to do with the X-Men character I'm afraid – you'll have to wait 'til 2016 for that origin story.
This Gambit is a loose remake of the 1966 Shirley MacLaine / Michael Caine crime caper. With a screenplay by The Cohen Brothers and a strong cast on board, it all sounds pretty cool.
Thus, we have socially awkward English art curator Harry Deane (Colin Firth) conning his filthy rich and often naked boss (Alan Rickman) into buying a fake of a long-lost Monet painting, "Haystacks at Dusk", using a tempting Cameron Diaz-shaped lure.
The plot is a convoluted load of cobblers involving a Texan rodeo queen, some measure of getting caught with your trousers down, maybe some lessons learned, and a lion. Because lions.
First Gambit aims for high English farce and misses. It lacks polarising characters and you're never quite sure who to root for. Not to be deterred, it then goes for cunning heist caper and falls short. Blighted by limp direction, the disjointed plot never engages.
The film was subject to many rewrites to secure a lower rating and this seems to have been what neutered it. Given more bawdiness and criminality, it might have been the riotous prospect the cast were probably all expecting.
Or, with a load chopped out and a shorter running time, it might have made a passable late-night BBC comedy.
What we're left with is a talented roster of players working too hard for too little.
Both men inevitably fall for the charms of the leading lady and obviously one will end up with her, but neither deserve her. Diaz's PJ Puznowski really should have sacked them both off and disappeared with the Monet money.
Alan Rickman as the "evil" boss Shabandar (?!) is a bit of an arse, but not dislikable enough to be an infuriating antagonist. I'd watch Rickman do just about anything (as long as he kept his pants on), but he doesn't seem to be enjoying his character much.
It's like he has to remind himself he's the baddie and destined to lose. Shabba's intermittent acts of douchebaggery feel out of character, and all he's left with is hammy grimacing.
As PJ Puznowski (by now you'll have noticed they all have fucking stupid names), all Cameron Diaz has to do is charming Americana trailer-trash. And so she does, apart from the accent, which even to someone who's never been to Texas seems farcically overdone.
As the plot's honeypot, Diaz must deliver titillating moments too – her lingerie and cowboy boots combo reminiscent of her retina-searing reveal as Tina Carlyle in 1994's The Mask. But Diaz aside, Gambit lacks most of The Mask's sexiness and all of its madcap lols.
Firth is an odd combination of measured and wet, which in small measure is what such a role traditionally requires (he's English, remember), but there's not enough besides to sympathise with. Mostly just hapless and exasperating, Harry Deane is neither plucky underdog nor crafty mastermind.
The highlight is Stanley Tucci as Geman art "expert" Martin Zaidenweber, a performance that seems to owe a great deal to Sacha Baron-Cohen. The real crime is his character didn't get more screen time. If anything good could come of this movie it would be a spin-off about Zaidenweber's wacky art adventures.
At last, the implausible denouement leaves the viewer bemused – we're left with a disappointing knockoff rather than a carefully crafted original.


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MPI is happy to provide a list of frequently asked questions... and our answers!
A: Yes, maybe. Many policies for people with 'pre-existing medical conditions' can be more restrictive than normal policies. However, MPI Don't Stop Me NowTM is a travel insurance policy specially for people like you – and it uses 'normal' policy wording, so you can travel and ski with your friends, without any additional restrictions.
A: Most insurers either exclude 'off piste' skiing or insist that you are accompanied by a guide. At MPI Brokers we recognise the impracticality of this, because one can ski 'off piste' unwittingly and in certain circumstances it is possible to ski on a 'pisted' run that is designated 'off piste'. So we do not exclude 'off piste' skiing – but, as with all insurance, we expect skiers to behave in a reasonable and sensible manner.
A: First, check whether the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued any warnings about travel to that country. MPI Brokers' policies allow you to travel to countries where there is an FCO warning in place – but exclude any accidents arising from the situation the FCO warned against.
A: An EHIC provides a limited amount of cover for emergency medical treatment in national hospitals overseas. There is no cover for repatriation, or personal liability, and many smaller overseas medical clinics don't accept it. If skiing, there is also no cover for 'extras' such as piste rescue.
A: Yes, the Carte Neige does provide cover for piste rescue, and emergency medical costs, but there is limited repatriation cover and a very low sum insured for medical. Plus no Personal Liability cover. So it should work hand in hand with Ski Insurance.
A: AMT policies are normally for short trips, and usually only up to 31 days at a time. Family policies usually cover children under 18 (sometimes under 21 and in full-time education). The main reason is that an AMT is a holiday insurance for short trips, whereas those going on a gap year will usually go from anything from 1 to 18 months without returning home and may participate in working, volunteering or more high risk activities. Gap year and backpacker travel insurance takes these activities into consideration.
A: If you choose MPI Wintersports cover, then you are automatically covered to ski and/or snowboard in Snowparks. It is not a condition of our policy to wear a helmet, but of course, you may wish to for safety reasons.
A: As long as you purchase an MPI Wintersports policy, there is cover for piste rescue, including by helicopter if necessary.
A: There is cover for any ski racing where the entry age of the race is under 16 (national, International or local). There is also cover for racing of any entry age as long as it isn't an international race e.g. world championships, British championships, combined services etc. There is also cover for the Masters Circuit, the Inferno and interclub racing. If the racing is excluded, MPI can usually include this for an additional premium, please call MPI to arrange.
A: With the MPI Main Plan policies, skiing is permitted for 17 days any one trip. You can go on as many trips during the year as you wish. The number of days can also be increased to 31 or 62 days for any one trip.
A: If you are planning to book some high-risk activities prior to your departure and/or they are the reason for going on the trip, then you must inform MPI by phone or e-mail. We can then establish if cover is available. If, whilst overseas, you take part in an activity that wasn't planned before your trip, then in the majority of cases there is cover – for specific exclusions please see the policy wording.


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1215 – Why aren't replacement batteries working in my ActivExpression2 devices?
Applicable to:
Some AA batteries have different sized positive (+) terminals depending on their manufacturer. Batteries with a smaller positive terminal may not work after insertion.
If this is the case, the positive connector on the ActivExpression2 device can be adjusted. Use a very small flat-blade screwdriver or other sharp, pointed instrument to gently prise forward the curved part of the positive connector.
The next image shows the adjusted positive connector which has been moved slightly forward, compared to the other connectors which have not been adjusted.
Once you have adjusted all three positive connectors, insert the replacement batteries.
The batteries should now make contact with the positive connector. You may notice a small gap between the battery and the plastic housing. This is normal.
Replace the battery cover and tighten the screw. Power on the ActivExpression2 device.
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Many who are gym addicts are more likely to have heard about the Clebuterol ads for sale. Fitness supplements have long been gaining popularity in the circles due to the requirement of staying healthy. Although not many know it yet the use of Clen for weight reduction has been on for many years by the body builders, athletes, models, and celebrities. Initially it was launched as drug to treat a certain asthmatic conduction. Still it has remained as one of the least understood supplements used by the fitness enthusiasts.
Knowing about Clen
Body builders for long have been using the supplement to reduce fat and get the lean muscles. Lately it has made it to mainstream with people by and large recognizing it as a hugely advantageous drug. Athletes have been able to get desired result with lean body and defined muscles. A pharmaceutical grade product of such power needs to be used with control and proper advice to achieve the wanted results without any problems. There are many products that claim to be as good as the real Clenbuterol but the truth is that you will have to check for the reality. There are many countries manufacturing not so good quality Clen which should not be trusted. US and Canada originated medication is of the best quality and should be sought after even if ordering online.
There are a lot of suspicion and misconceptions being spread about the product due to ignorance among the common people. The thing to be sure about is the result that it has provided to many of the high profile people including sportsperson and body builders alike. Many countries have legal control on the drug due to the misuse or abuse of the product that has made the negative impact get highlighted. For simple reasons, the use of the supplement under expert supervision would never result in any form of side effect as you would have complete control. It can turn any person willing to put in extra effort into a lean machine with power and muscles to envy. Anyone using it would be able to push their workout sessions to the next level without having to wait much longer. All that is required is to avoid any misconceptions and work with the experts on getting the positive results.
Order the best thing
Clenbuterol is definitely the thing which you need to cut out fat from the body and gets a leaner look. People who are unable to achieve the desired result need to know that there are certain supplements that can work great wonders and Clen is surely one of them. It is one pharmaceutical grade product that you don't want to be missing when the need is to reduce the body fat and take your training to the next level. Strength and power increased by using this supplement can be put to good use when you have reduced the fat in your body. Just ensure that you order the best thing without mistake.