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WALTHAM, Mass. -- Polaroid's place in history has already been secured by its trademark cameras with their signature instant prints.
But bad investments and the digital imaging revolution buried that business, sending the company spiraling into bankruptcy two years ago as it failed to evolve gracefully in a new instant photo world.
Now Polaroid is back, reconstituted and trying to refocus under new ownership by Chicago-based BankOne. And it's betting its future on digital -- on printing kiosks, that is.
"It has to be their future," thinks Ulysses Yannas, an industry analyst at Buckman, Buckman & Reid. "They don't have a choice."
Relieved of large chunks of the old company's debts (including some pension obligations, to the fury of retirees), and slimmed down from its 1978 peak of 21,000 employees to 3,700, Polaroid is actually making money again on its traditional film and camera business.
But that's clearly a dead end.
The percentage of U.S. households using a digital camera will rise from 20 percent in 2002 to 30 percent by the end of this year, according to Infotrends Research Group. That shift inspired Kodak's recently announced plans to slash its dividend and invest $3 billion in digital research, while companies with no previous connection to photography are flooding the market with new digital camera models.
Polaroid thinks its best bet for a piece of that action is on the digital processing end, but it will have to play catch-up. A dozen rivals, including Kodak and Fujifilm have already claimed much of the best real estate with nearly 50,000 kiosks installed in the United States.
But Polaroid says it can beat them with speed and convenience, and even persuade consumers to print more of their pictures instead of just e-mailing them around to friends and family.
Polaroid's kiosks, fed a credit card and camera memory card, spit out a high-quality print every two seconds. That's three times faster than what Kodak, with the largest installed base, plans to roll out next year and ten times faster than the current top speed of most competitors.
The new Polaroid kiosks don't offer bells and whistles, such as cropping and enlargements. Polaroid says 85 percent of the digital print market is first-time printing, with most customers wanting merely to pick their best shots and print on 4-by-6-inch paper -- all in a transaction as easy as getting cash from an ATM.
Polaroid aims to deploy its kiosks in airports, cruise ships, and restaurants popular for children's birthday parties -- anywhere the urge for instant photographic gratification may strike.
The hope is that the higher speed will open up the market for larger orders, like running off photos to send out with the family Christmas card.
"The difference between 2 seconds and 20 seconds is not too big a deal if you're only printing two or three or four prints," said Bob Barton, the director of marketing at Polaroid for the new product line. "But we're finding that a lot of people are doing transactions of 100 prints or more. If you start doing a hundred-print transaction on a 20- or 23-second printer, you're going to be there for a long time."
Polaroid's strategy has chains or other third parties -- shopping malls, for instance -- buying its kiosks and setting their own prices. A trial version operating in Boston's Prudential Center mall, one of about a dozen now deployed, is charging 59 cents per print.
The technology, dubbed Opal and Onyx, will eventually appear in home printers, though no timetable has been set.
The decision to start with retail appears curious. Four out of five digital camera users say they print at home, according to Infotrends, while only 12 percent use retail locations (leaving off their memory chips for pickup later, or printing themselves at a kiosk). The percentage using online services is also 12 percent.
But the percentage of people printing at home went down this year, while the 12 percent using retail locations is quadruple the 2002 figure, according to Infotrends.
That may be because the early digital camera buyers were techies who enjoy fiddling around on their computers. Newer, less savvy users, may prefer to do their printing in the midst of other shopping instead of going online and using such services as Kodak's Ofoto.
"Now digital cameras are going more and more mainstream," said Kerry Flatley, an analyst at Infotrends. "You're finding, to use a stereotype, a mother who's really busy and really doesn't want to print her own photos at home. She just wants to get her prints quickly."


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Art for: The Siege of Tyler City
One of the upcoming releases for AnSR Games is the 2-player Wild West game The Siege of Tyler City. As we get ready to release it upon the masses, we thought we'd share a little artwork with you.
Pictured below is some of the raw art about the no-good outlaw leader, David Glynn. He appears on the Outlaw cards in the game, and in various other places. The folks of Tyler City are hoping he does NOT appear in their neck of the woods.
Check out the Siege of Tyler City when it releases in March of 2018.
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The Smart Grid
What makes a grid smart?
For most European countries, the grid as we know it — the electrical power transmission network consisting of transmission lines, transformers, substations and much more — was built in the early 20th century. A century later, it is beginning to transform into something much smarter.
What makes a power grid "smart"? As we've seen in other industries, digital technology paves the way for both gathering enormous amounts of important data and taking instant action based upon that data. Sensors are deployed where power is generated, along transmission lines, on electricity meters, even on individual appliances. Communication from the sensors give us a bird's eye view of generation and consumption in real-time.
Sensors gathering and communicating data is just one aspect. With computers, controls and automation, digital signals are used to automatically trigger actions with little or no human intervention required.
What role do energy storage technologies play?
To keep the electrical grid operating correctly, supply and demand must be perfectly balanced at all times. When they are not, the changes to grid-wide voltage and frequency can cause power outages, malfunctions and even damage or destroy electrical equipment.
When the bulk of power is generated from sources with a constant output (fossil fuels and nuclear), controlling power supply levels is relatively simple. As more renewable generation sources are plugged into the grid, their variability brings new challenges. Common occurrences, such as a cloud passing in front of the sun or a momentary drop in wind, cause a sharp drop in power supply.
The more variability that exists in supply and demand, the more difficult it is keep the grid stable. Demand constantly fluctuates depending on time of day, month of the year and end-user consumption. When clouds cover the sun or when large numbers turn on their air conditioning on a hot day, stored energy is needed to pick up the slack at a moment's notice.
The bulk of the world's stored energy — in 2017, approximately 95% — is in pumped hydro power. While this is great for injecting a surge of power into the grid to meet peak demand, the suitable geographical conditions for the technology are not available in every region. More importantly, the moment-to-moment fluctuations of the modern grid require energy storage systems with more flexibility and faster response times.
Recent years have shown that battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are ideally suited for smart grid purposes. When renewable electricity generation surges on windy days or hours of peak sunshine, BESSs charge by drawing the excess power. For sudden drops in supply or spikes in demand, power is injected back into the grid to instantly smooth out fluctuations. Finally, the smart digital technology connecting these networks makes these processes close to automatic.
What are the benefits of combining energy storage with smart grids?
It's clear that both smart digital technology and energy storage work together harmoniously to increase grid flexibility and stability. But what are the main advantages, and who benefits from them?
For grid operators and utilities, smart grids come with legions of benefits. Electricity can be transmitted more efficiently, systems come back online quicker after brownouts and blackouts, peak demand is lowered and operations and management costs are reduced. Additionally, renewable energy systems with variable output can be better integrated. Recent advances have even seen multiple homes, each equipped with solar panels and battery storage, use smart technology to operate as "virtual power plants".
End-users and consumers benefit from higher resilience — fewer outages — as well as lowered electricity costs. When they have their own residential energy storage systems, they can be almost completely self-sufficient and even profit by selling electricity back to the grid.
The cost of energy storage technology has finally dropped to a level that makes these residential and wide-scale installation economically feasible — where will it go from here?
If you want to know more about this and other topics directly from end users of energy storage technologies join us at one of these annual events: The Energy Storage World Forum (Grid Scale Applications), or The Residential Energy Storage Forum, or one of our Training Courses.


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Cold, windy, wet weather was predicted for last night and today. Apart from a few showers, it has turned out quite mild; but the prediction had already encouraged me to cut one flower for today's vase. The enormous bud on the rose "Mister Lincoln" stood a good chance of being broken off or at least battered about if the winds blew in.
So I cut it last night and slipped it into a vase this morning. The rose had a beautifully long stem, so I tried one of my taller vases. It was too wide for a single rose. Then into another vase. It was the wrong color. Then...
Out to the garden to cut a few more flowers. After bringing them inside, it was clear they would not help blend the colors at all. So at last I cut the rose shorter and used my little stoneware bottle to hold it.
The color has blued since I brought the flower in, but it's still such a beauty.
And it is big - over five and a half inches across and not fully open yet. And fragrant. Need I say more...? (Actually I did, as I posted separately about the bush some weeks ago.)
Here it is several days ago out in the garden.
So then there were the extra flowers, which clearly needed a vase of their own.
Several stems of Senna nemophila, which is in full bloom now (with a fragrance reminiscent of chocolate, I might add)...
...and a few blooms here and there from Justicia californica...
...and a cluster of leaves and berries from Hamelia patens. Not too many berries left now, but these are still bright!
The year has certainly come in like a lion here; we have had more rain in January than I remember through all of last year.
Wishing everyone a happy week! And do check the other vases at Rambling in the Garden, where Cathy hosts In a Vase on Monday!
Weather Diary: Cloudy with rain showers; High: 59 F (15 c)/Low: 47 F (8 C); Humidity: 51%-100%
Hi Amy, your stunning rose certainly chased my January blues away! Such a beauty, bet it has a very velvety texture too. The other vase is delightful too – chocolate scent, yummie :)
It is such a joy to see roses in January and we really appreciate you sharing them with us. The airy senna foliage is a great filler to accompany its tiny flowers
So glad you enjoyed it, Annette! The texture is something between velvet and satin ;-) My sister and I discovered the Senna's chocolate scent unexpectedly, just sniffing the air and wondering where it came from! Funnily, I have the "chocolate flower" itself (Berlandiera lyrata) planted just beneath. It does not bloom this time of year, so now I have a replacement for the scent for winter...!
Cathy - I thought we might all enjoy the rose more if I cut it ;-) Your are right about the senna, and I would like to use it more often in vases, especially while it is in bloom!
Ah that Senna is perfection in a vase, especially with the Justicia californica. I grew Senna didymobotrya a couple of years ago. Perhaps it's time to seek it out again.
What a beautiful rose! Both vases turned out to be really pretty - I like the look of the Senna, and am sure I would like the smell too! ;-)
I love both this week's vases, Amy. Mr. Lincoln is unequivocally the prettiest red rose, in my opinion. I wish I had a lacy Senna like that one. How big does it grow?
Thanks, Loree - Senna is a wonderful genus, isn't it?! Even when the flowers are similar, the foliage may be quite a bit different!
Cathy - It's another fun scent and wafts a little on a warm morning - fortunately as I wouldn't have remembered to check the smell otherwise! So glad you liked these :)
Kris - I definitely thought of you when I started in on a second vase ;-) I expect the Senna to get around 6 ft in height and width; it is growing even faster than the acacia it's under and clearly still hasn't reached full size...
That rose really is amazing Amy - how beautiful! I love that Senna too. I had no idea that there were so many different types or even that they were scented. I really should do this In a Vase Meme but I worry that I would never get to it if it is every week - you are so much more organized than me!!
Kate - I have no idea whether scent is common among the Sennas, but this one is delightful on a warm morning or indoors :) I do hope you'll try the In a Vase meme; there's no requirement to do it every week, of course, and I've been amazed to find myself doing it consistently as I am by no means a well-organized person...! And I know your vases are always so lovely! Your cutting garden has already inspired me to grow more cutting flowers ;-)


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(Vatican Radio) The Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, says Pope Francis's appeal to the United Nations to intervene in Iraq shows the Holy Father feels the international community is "compelled" to take action. Islamic State militants in northern Iraq have purged entire towns and villages of people, threatening to kill all those who fail to embrace their brand of Sunni Islam. Tens of thousands of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities have fled their homes – many have been without food, water and shelter for days.
In an interview with Vatican Radio, Archbishop Tomasi describes Pope Francis' recent letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as reflecting the "sum total of the different appeals coming to the international community. The World Council of Churches has been writing to the Secretary General invoking some action on behalf of the people of the northern Iraq region – so has the Organization of the Islamic Conference and many other people beginning with the Patriarch of the Catholic Chaldean community, Patriarch Sako."
"All of these people," continues the Archbishop, "take note and condemn in the strongest way the violation of the fundamental, basic human rights of the Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq."
"What seems to be particularly important in the letter of the Holy Father," observes Archbishop Tomasi, "is the expressions that he uses: the tragic situation 'compels' the international community. There is a moral imperative so to (speak), a necessity to act."
Arcbishop Tomasi notes that while Pope Francis does not specify exactly what action should be taken in Iraq, he does give some indication of his thoughts when he refers in his letter to the juridical norms governing the United Nations:
(excerpt from Pope Francis' letter to Ban Ki-moon):
"In renewing my urgent appeal to the international community to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway, I encourage all the competent organs of the United Nations, in particular those responsible for security, peace, humanitarian law and assistance to refugees, to continue their efforts in accordance with the Preamble and relevant Articles of the United Nations Charter."
In the various articles making up the Charter, Archbishop Tomasi notes, it is foreseen "that there might be occasions in the life and in the relations between states when dialogue, negotiations, fail and large numbers of people find themselves at risk: at risk of genocide, at risk of having their fundamental, their basic human rights violated. In this case, when every other means has been attempted, article 42 of the Charter of the United Nations becomes possible justification for not only imposing sanctions of economic nature on the state or the group or the region that violates the basic human rights of people, but also to use force. All the force that is necessary to stop this evil and this tragedy."
Archbishop Tomasi concludes on this somber note:
"I would say that we should not have a short memory. A few years ago, I remember we were faced with a similar situation as we are faced now in northern Iraq when Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda were killing each other. There were meetings, political declarations, but very little action. And then, every year when we commemorate the almost one million people killed in that genocide, we make a kind of 'mea culpa' saying we have not done anything effective to prevent the killing of those innocent people. God forbid that this may also be the same situation today in northern Iraq."
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By Matthew Tarleton, Project Manager.
Oh, Durham, home to Duke University. If you're a college basketball fan and you didn't attend Duke, then a string of curse words are probably running through your mind right now. If you're a college football fan, well, you may have never heard of Duke University.
Raised as a Tar Heel that attended school in Durham, I will always jump on an opportunity to take a shot at Duke. And I couldn't possibly write anything glowing about Durham without first getting that out of my system. So with that behind us, I must say that Durham has come a long, long way since my last days as a resident of the Research Triangle around the turn of the millennium.
Over the course of the last ten years, a lot has changed in Durham. In the late 1990s, Downtown Durham was dead. D.E.A.D. My best friend owned and operated a deli in the first floor of the largest building in Downtown Durham. He ran a great business and had many loyal customers, but (no offense, John) I think that was partly due to the fact that his deli was the only place to buy lunch downtown. Today, he'd have a lot more competition.
Since the mid-1990s, a number of new developments have reshaped Durham as young people continue to flock to the Research Triangle. The new Durham Bulls Athletic Park opened in 1995, a catalytic development that supported the redevelopment of Durham's many abandoned tobacco warehouses (The American Tobacco Project) and the emergence of new entertainment options such as the Durham Performing Arts Center, the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas. Downtown still has its challenges, many born from the recent financial crisis and its affect on the development community. That building that my friend's deli once occupied has been vacant for years now as a developer attempt to convert the 17-story art-deco tower into a hotel and spa. Like most other urban cores, office vacancy has risen. But entrepreneurs, like my friend John, are finding that these challenges have given rise to many new opportunities in and around Downtown Durham.
If The Cookery had been established in the late 1990s, I'm rather confident that my friend John would have found a way into the facility. Today, John runs the kitchen for New York City's most successful and celebrated wine bar. He's worked in Michelin-starred establishments and built an enviable career for himself in a City where even the most driven and talented individuals fail on a daily basis. But a decade ago, he was running his deli, operating another small restaurant on the edge of downtown, and constantly looking for new and exciting business opportunities, from property management to event promotion to owning a record store. And all of this came before the age of 25. He was the type of young entrepreneur that every community craves. And while the Big Apple came calling, I can't help but wonder if he might have stayed in Durham if The Cookery and other incubators were established at the turn of the millennium.
The Cookery is one of many new incubators that have emerged in Durham in recent years. It is a self-described "commercial food production facility with a small food-business incubation program." Its primary goal: to lower the risk threshold for opening a culinary business. The Cookery provides a state of the art kitchen and bakery to "members" who rent low-cost space to experiment with ideas, launch their catering business, and support food truck operation. Beginning this fall, The Cookery will start offering courses in culinary technique and restaurant management, as well as hands-on design and marketing services to help entrepreneurs launch their business.
American Underground is shared office space that is home to multiple tenants which have access to low-cost space, shared conference rooms, and a shared break room and arcade. It is not a traditional incubator, but rather, it is envisioned as a new corporate campus that enhances networking opportunities and connects entrepreneurs to other forms of assistance. Many of its tenants are small technology companies that are developing new concepts for mobile and web-based applications. However, American Underground is also home to the Council for Entrepreneurial Development(CED), Joystick Labs, and LaunchBox Digital.
CED provides "education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through conferences, forums, and workshops on entrepreneurial management and finance." Joystick Labs seeks to "identify, seed, accelerate, and launch the next generation of best and brightest digitally distributed video game entrepreneurs" by providing early-stage seed funding, mentorship, and education. There are currently five companies operating with Joystick Labs' assistance. LaunchBox Digital is a "seed-state investment program" that provides hands on mentorship and capital to launch new startups. Each year the accelerator program selects 7-10 companies out of hundreds of applicants and provides them each with $20,000 in seed capital, three months of intensive mentorship, and the opportunity to pitch their ideas to more than 100 venture capitalists and angel investors at the end of the program. The program has been tremendously successful with participating companies receiving millions of dollars in additional capital after completing the program.
Bull City Forward, another new and visionary initiative, is a public-private partnership with numerous founding funders. Unlike most incubators which focus on technology companies, Bull City Forward is a social entrepreneurship incubator, supporting social entrepreneurs develop solutions to social problems through "peer networking, enhanced collaboration, mentorship, skill-building, support services, access to talent, and access to capital." Bull City Forward operates on a membership model with a tired structure providing a variety of benefits to social entrepreneurs from a simple support service membership ($25/month) to low-cost office space ($250/month).
And last but not least, the Durham Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Durham, Inc. have recently launched their Bull City Startup Stampede initiative. The initiative invited startups from Durham and across the country to apply for two months of free downtown office space, a business "boot camp," free high-speed wireless, and many other benefits. Eleven startups were chosen from over seventy applicants. Thanks to contributions from partners throughout the community, the initiative will only cost the Chamber $8,000 over the two month period. Participating companies were selected in late March, and Durham hopes that all eleven can be steered to one of the many aforementioned incubators for hands-on assistance and access to capital following completion of the two month program.
Each of the aforementioned incubation initiatives have been launched in the last three years. And while many communities are beginning to finally recognize the role and impact of small businesses in their community, and aggressively invest in them, few are doing it at the scale and scope seen in Durham. And few are doing it in such creative ways. A social entrepreneurship incubator? An incubator for food trucks? There's a lot that other communities can learn from Durham. And for my friend John – if you're reading – maybe a culinary incubator is your next foray. Atlanta is calling you!


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At Garza Protocol Associates, we believe that where cultures collide, where business and diplomacy intersect, where titles meet egos, protocol is the tool that ensures success. Sonia Garza-Monarchi applies her years of experience, study, and practice to help others succeed, to teach, and to entertain.
Many Garza Protocol Associates clients are in the energy, hospitality and tourism, consumer products, or health care industries. Others are government agencies, educational institutions, or non-profits who serve an increasingly international and culturally diverse constituency. Sonia Garza-Monarchi works with professionals who have spent decades in their fields, and with those just starting out in the business world who are looking for a confidence-building edge. She is a regular speaker to corporations, professional groups and conferences about our interlinked world and the way protocol can build relationships.
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So, you may not know this, but the first paid online course launch I ever did (in 2014) was to an email list of only 71 people. For a total of $1350. And some recurring revenue of about $1000 per month after that. And guess what? I ran exactly zero high-pressure webinars (or webinars at all) for my launch, and I sent zero pesky emails, just emails filled with value and information.
It was a crazy time. In which I had no idea what I was doing, but I desperately wanted to get my valuable, organized information out to more people at once—more people than I was able to reach through 1-on-1 coaching and small in-person workshops.
"But, what's up on this case study though?" You may be wondering.
It's funny. I was having a conversation with one of my best friends not too long ago—a friend who was definitely around me all the time when I was launching this first product—and they had absolutely, 100%, no idea that my email list had only 71 people on it when I first released this course. And then, they told me it actually inspired them a ton.
That meant so much to me. And also made me realize that the few Periscope broadcasts I've shared this in before are not enough to really help and (hopefully) inspire others. I knew I had to make a case study out of it.
And so I did. I made two versions even. A shorter one that you can consume as a podcast and cheat sheet and a longer one that you will be able to watch as a workshop in the near future. For now, may I please introduce you to the audio version.
You can catch it as a podcast episode here (it's even downloadable). And you can download the accompanying cheat sheet here. Or, you can read below for some of what I cover in a Q+A style. It's not the whole episode and all the tips, but if you're short on time or only want to read, the cheat sheet or summary below is for you.
So, some of the main highlights of what I cover are in this episode are:
- What it means to "scale" a product. (Hint: Scalability does not mean passive income.)
- How I built my (super small) audience before my launch.
- How I decided on the topic of my first course.
- What exactly my first course consisted of.
- How much (if any) money I had to spend to make the course.
- How I picked the price for my first course.
- How long the course took to make and if it was finished when I launched. (Hint: No. It wasn't.)
- How I promoted the course and which promotion efforts gave the best results.
- How much (net) money the course brought in.
- What % of my total list purchased.
- What I did after my launch.
- And more.
And here's a summary of some of the episode's points as a Q+A of sorts:
How long ago was this course launch?
2.5 years ago
What does it mean to scale something?
For something to be "scalable," it has to be able to be sold to more people. Scalability does not necessarily speak to how passive or active the income is.
How did you build your audience and brand before the launch of your first paid online course?
- I had around 17 blog posts live on my site when I launched to offer a solid foundation for all of my promotion efforts to lead back to.
- I created a free, online 90-day course (say what? that was way too long) that people signed up for (on a separate page/URL before I launched) to kind of test out this new brand and inadvertently kick off my list of contacts beyond my mom, dad, brother, and best friends.
- I promoted said free course from my personal Facebook page (~250 friends at the time). I promoted the blog posts from my page as well.
- I messaged acquaintances and friends I was comfortable with and sent a personal note letting them know what I was doing and asking them to please share the brand with any friends they felt needed help with starting a business or a blog. I was a web designer before this so I had created probably hundreds of sites.
Did you decide your course topic based on something you struggled with or did you solve a problem?
I created my first paid, online course by looking back at what I had done, unintentionally, and thinking, "It would be cool to teach this." At the time, I was still happily meeting with some clients (in person and online), doing in-person classes, and selling a physical and digital book. The thing that I saw as most repeatable (at the time) should someone wish to start their own business that provided them more freedom, was the client work I was doing. Hence my course, Creative Coaching from Scratch was born.
What was the product, exactly?
The first version of the product was an online 7-week course, where 3 lessons (or mini-modules) would be released each week. It was a total of 21 lessons on starting and growing your own creative coaching business.
Did the course cost money to make?
I did not want any recurring fees when I didn't know how much income I would make, so I didn't sign up for anything that had unending monthly fees.
- I had previously purchased a $99 course plugin on WordPress, for when I had my free course. So I used that.
- I was on the free MailChimp plan—I was too scared of the commitment to $10/month. Even though I was making money in my business, endless monthly money commitment scared me. I didn't think it was necessary or wise at the time.
- I created all the worksheets myself in Apple Pages, and at the time, I was still using iMovie and QuickTime to make videos (screen recordings and otherwise) for free.
How did you pick the price for your course?
Out of complete fear. But check out the podcast episode for the two things I feel I did do well with the pricing of my first paid course.
Was your product finished when you launched?
Absolutely not. At all.
How long did the course take to make?
Since I didn't have to do research, read books, etc. for the information—it was all coming from my experience of doing it myself and helping other people do it, each lesson took between 2 – 5 hours to outline and create.
How did you promote your online course?
Through blog posts on the topic of the course, my newly formed Pinterest account, and my 71-person email list.
Which course promotion efforts gave the best results?
- The blog posts were clutch because my blog had the widest reach (of any of my channels) at the time.
- Pinterest was key because a $75 product from a source that had some decent design and great information wasn't too insane. My first one or two sales cane from a Pinterest pin.
- And my email list was super important because everyone on that list REALLY wanted to be there at that point. I hadn't graduated to using opt-ins or attention-grabbing promises to get people to sign up for my list.
What really helped the course sell?
I will address more of this in the workshop version, but for now, I can say what people told me at the time:
- The solid outline of what the product was made a huge difference.
- The supporting content (in the form of blog posts and worksheets) made it seem valuable and actionable.
- The visuals and great graphics on my blog really helped.
How much did you net from your first paid online course?
What percent of your email list purchased your course?
I didn't have great sales origin point tracking in place at the time, but from what I remember about 11 of the people who purchased were people whose names I recognized from my list. So 11/71 = 15.5%.
What did you do next?
Well, the $1350 helped me to not take on as many clients the next month and free up my time. So, I revamped the course a little. Bought a domain. Got better design popping. Made more materials for a second soft launch, which helped me make about $1000 per month with the course for the next few months until I stopped selling it to do a FULL revamp.
How did you use it to continue to grow your audience?
I was able to take some of the content from the course and form it into different materials—I used some for blog posts (like the one on 30 ways to find your first clients) that became some of my most popular pieces. That one has around 47,000 repins right now.
What are some absolute "must knows" for first-time course creators?
- Help people visualize themselves with your product. With information products, you don't have the "luxury" (if you will) of being able to take epic photos of people wearing or using your products the way traditional product makers do. "Look at happy Sally on her beautiful yoga mat." "Look at Edward using his new man journal." So you have to get creative about HOW you help people visualize themselves using and benefiting from your product.
- Have a before and after product—whether paid or free—for people to use or move into/from.
Psssst. I hope this helps. I discuss more in the podcast episode, and EVEN MORE in the workshop that is coming up soon. If you're signed up for emails from me (there's a signup bar at the top of my website), then you will get an invitation to watch this one-time-only-no-replays online workshop on my full case study.
Questions? Anything else you'd want to know about someone's launch? Please leave a comment below so I can try to add it to the full case study! Thank you.


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Gemma from NZ on Screen got in touch with me this morning and recommended the following videos as great Conservation Week viewing. These are all free, high-quality videos from NZ screen history, available to all.
Here are some faves:
Seven Black Robins – incredible, dramatic 1980 documentary http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/seven-black-robins-1980
Moa's Ark (with David Bellamy) series – http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/moas-ark-1990/series
The Unnatural History of the Kakapo – http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-unnatural-history-of-the-kakapo-2008
The Black Stilt – http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-black-stilt-1983
Wildlife of the Mountains – amazing 1958 doco about the wildlife of the Upper Waitaki – http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/wildlife-of-the-mountains-1957
Kea – Mountain Parrot – http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/kea-mountain-parrot-1993
Bandits of the Beech Forest (wasps vs Kaka) – http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bandits-of-the-beech-forest-1996
Emperors of Antarctica – http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/emperors-of-antarctica-1992
Old Man's Beard Must Go! http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/old-mans-beard-must-go-1989
and here is the Peter Hayden-curated 'Nature' collection as a single great link: http://www.nzonscreen.com/collection/nature
What gems! Thanks Gemma!


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The ultimate customized car entertainment system would not be complete without fixing an impressive set of video monitors. In recent times, many vehicles, especially SUVs have made video monitors a default component in their manufacture. Besides giving your car the wow factor, they have greatly enhanced the entertainment experience especially for kids to watch their favorite cartoon and movie DVDs, and even to play video games. It has also been possible to fit headphones for a private experience, aside from the main car radio. Some video output systems can be connected to the vehicle's navigation system for efficiency in giving directions.You can combine them with backup cameras mounted on the car's rear for a good view when backing up, especially for big vehicles. Three main components constitute a vehicle's video system; the monitor, the audio system and the media component. There are systems that incorporate all three while others allow for separate assembly of components. They can be categorized into front and backseat monitors. Both have their merits, and what you want to get from the system will determine the right type for you.
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Another key element to consider is the sensitivity. Once combined with power, a high output can easily be achieved. Less power is required when a sub is highly sensitive to give out good quality output. The enclosure type will also greatly determine the kind of sound produced from a subwoofer. Sealed enclosures give deep and accurate sound, while bandpass and ported ones give out greater volume. Dual voice coils also give better sound compared with typical subwoofers, which ordinarily have just one coil. This makes them popular among motor vehicle enthusiasts who are looking for flexibility in their sound systems.
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Customizing your vehicle's interior certainly comes at a price. You can achieve almost as much from simple and inexpensive ideas, as you can from extravagant investments. Giving your car a wonderful color scheme gives your car a classy, sophisticated look.Lighting effects are an inexpensive way of enhancing your interior, and they do not have to cost you an arm and a leg. You caninstall colored neon and LED accent lights that match the color scheme inside your car to give it a groovy feel. You also do not have to invest in an expensive sound system. With a combination of a good inexpensive amplifier with speakers, you can still get good quality sound in your car.
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Ruth Mott Foundation
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National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)
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Michigan Association for Justice
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FTI Consulting
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Brodeur Partners
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Michigan State Budget Office
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Hegira Programs
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Bard College Hannah Arendt Center
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U.S. State Department
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Kiwanis International
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Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office
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Jennifer Peabody will serve as vice-president of the newly reorganized short-form media group at Euro RSCG Edge, the direct response marketing branch of Euro RSCG Worldwide. Peabody will be receiving some help from Chad Crammer, who will serve as director of client services for the new branch.
Regarding the short-form group, Steve Netzley, CEO of Euro RSCG Edge, states, "The short form DRTV world is changing at an amazing pace. With the emergence of new devices, from iPads to GPS systems in cars that serve as portals for ads that are designed to change consumer behavior, I knew it was time to raise our level of thinking and approach the space in a new way."
Peabody will be bringing her arsenal of more than 20 years of direct response experience to the short-media group. She's been vice president of direct marketing for Murad Skincare and has also served as director of development for World Media TV Productions, and director of development for Western Media/Main Street Media.
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These are experts whom I want to believe, so I do:
Violent video games may actually reduce crime as aggressive players are "too busy" shooting virtual enemies to cause trouble in the real world, experts claim.
I have long believed that television caused crime waves, in each country it arrived in, by immobilising the respectable classes inside their respectable homes and handing the world's public spaces over to non-television-owning ne'er-do-wells, every night. It is not the sex-and-violence-on-telly that causes the crime. It is the near total absence of these things. Violent people were repelled by telly, because it was so abysmally well-behaved.
I myself have spent a huge proportion of my life watching television. Had television not existed, I would have been out in public places fighting crime, by looking like I might notice it and then give evidence against the ne'er-do-wells committing it.
But now, with the rise of video games, it is the ne'er-do-wells who are busy playing video games. Video games are not well-behaved. You get to kill people, and to commit grand theft upon autos. If duty calls, it calls on you to kill yet more people.
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The facelifted Maruti Suzuki Ciaz has gotten off to a flying start. Maruti shipped out 7,002 units of the Ciaz to dealers across India this month. This is a very impressive number considering the fact that Kerala – a key market for the brand – was off limits due to floods. Hyundai put out 3,361 units of the Verna while Honda managed only 2,822 units of the City in August 2018. So, the Ciaz has single-handedly outsold the Verna and City put together. This may be an aberration that lasts only one month though because Maruti virtually stopped Ciaz dispatches last month. So, the big rise in dispatches are due to Maruti pushing out the facelifted model in a big way.
The next 2-3 months of dispatch data will give us a clearer picture of how the facelifted Ciaz is doing. Meanwhile, the Toyota Yaris – a petrol-only car in a segment where all the top-sellers offer diesels – finished in fourth, with just 1,047 units dispatched last month. Premium pricing and a petrol-only approach may be limiting Yaris' sales as the car continues to be stuck at sub-2,000 levels for the last couple of months after having a promising start. For now, the Maruti Ciaz is the king of the C-Segment sedan space – a place it has reclaimed after months of being in second/third place on the sales charts.
The facelifted Maruti Ciaz has a good chance of doing very well as it's priced very well, offers significant mechanical changes and is also the newest car in its segment. The car is available with petrol and diesel engine options, with the petrol engine also getting an automatic gearbox option. More features have been added and the new car is also the first hybrid in its segment thanks to the mild hybrid system on both the petrol and diesel engines. The Hyundai Verna still continues to be the segment leader, in terms of the sheer number of engine and gearbox options. The Honda City's premium positioning may be giving it a hard time in sales as the likes of the Ciaz and Verna are better value propositions. A price cut? Well, we don't think Honda will oblige.
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This sparked a love for electronics and a desire to understand how they worked and what I could build with them. This interest continued to grow, and eventually I received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. I then went to work at Intel designing cutting-edge microprocessors. Later I worked at Samsung where I helped develop the world's fastest computer memory chips, and at Broadcom I worked on a team that made the highest performance core logic chipsets for servers that had ever been made.
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Bernie says we have to do some housekeeping. This means what, exactly?
"Tell them that other guy's site isn't up to date. I checked it yesterday and it needs work – problem is you-know-who has to find someone to do a whole redesign, he says. Hope it happens soon, because the site doesn't even mention Bullet Point, his teen suspense novel – pretty dark, for teens – coming out in April. And why doesn't it say that Reality Check is a finalist for the best YA Edgar Award?"
Don't ask me.
"And as for the To Fetch A Thief pub date – there's still nothing set."
To Fetch A Thief? I thought the title was …
"And ask them, kind of as an experiment, if they'd like to read this short story the other guy wrote for a kids collection called Up All Night. It's over 5000 words, but you could post it over the course of three days or so."
I could. Or I could have a nice big stretch.
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So, my theory of all this accountability kinda worked…….
1. The kids have learned most of the letter sounds, they're stuck on the ones that have 4 or 5 sounds, but that's partially because we didn't get to work on it as much as I wanted to.
2. I did sew something, and got another project partially done. Of course neither were the two quilts I need to work on.
3. I kinda got further on my Bible study like I wanted, but not as much as I'd like.
READING: Finish alphabet part of reading program (review of that to come, I'm still ambivalent on them partially because of customer service).
MATH: Again, working on their writing. I'm thinking through how I want to achieve this, part of it is I need to make some hints for them they can keep with them, probably to be added to this project.
SCIENCE and HISTORY: by the end of October I'm thinking we'll be finished with insects, so I want to have them be able to tell me about what they've learned, and in History by the end of this week we'll have finished the first quarter, so that's another review spot.
Physical: continue working out, my goal is to work out 3 times a week.
Work on cleaning my house. The challenge for this week is to clean my coat closet and any other hall closets. Not having any other hall closets I'm going to work on the closet in the guest bedroom which houses all of the random "to be grown into clothes." I think I can get this done by the time this post goes up on Friday, we'll see.
Spiritual: finish the 1 Thessalonians study, and get started on 2nd Thessalonians. I'm also tempted to write a "How to Study the Bible" mini-blog (as in it will be for a limited duration until I've gone through the lessons I want to write), but that may be biting off too much.
School: I want to finish up my planned out schedule for history, and again work more on geography plans, they're coming along, kind of.
And hopefully I'll get a slew of laundry done and put it away, emphasis on putting away.
Oh, and cleaning the downstairs, hopefully by the time you read this it's much prettier. Fingers crossed.


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Hi, I am Krishna, currently working for Dr. Jenna Jambeck at the Driftmier Engineering Center and pursuing my Masters in Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia. I graduated with my Bachelors degree in Biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2009. My dream to pursue higher education in Environmental Engineering was to contribute to environmental research, and to help make the world a safer place for the future generations.
Here, at Dr. Jambeck's laboratory in Driftmier Engineering Center, we are currently working on developing semi-continuous microbial fuel cells to treat landfill leachate. Microbial fuel cells are used to treat wastewater/leachate and can produce power simultaneously. We are using two new electrode materials in our fuel cell. The focus of our research is to build microbial fuel cells with less expensive and highly efficient materials and thereby bringing it closer to real world applications.
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Recommendations for establishing or renewing scientific councils in protected areas
The following recommendations stem from a workshop entitled Interface between science and mountain pro- tected areas: The role of scienti c councils, held in Chambéry (France) in June 2015. This workshop gathered together some 30 scientists and managers from all Alpine countries and different types of protected areas (PA) and allowed discussing the goals, composition, organization and management of scientific councils. While based on experiences in Alpine countries, these recommendations can be applied to managed PAs in general.
These recommendations are addressed to PA managers and scientists involved or interested in participating in scientific councils, as well as to the PA executive boards and administrations in charge of PA management and policy. They intend to help decide if and when to establish a scientific council and how to compose, organize and manage it if such a decision has been made, is planned or envisaged. Given the diversity of national regulations and practices, they remain rather general: the aim is to identify the questions to bear in mind when establishing or renewing a scien- tific council rather than to give predefined or definitive answers.


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