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India has accepted online shopping and many of the business giants today are going for e-commerce. The dream always being seeing themselves as one of the pioneers in the e-commerce industry, many of them have tried out hundreds of ways to convince their customers.
Following the trend for quite sometime now I have come to a conclusion that Amazon has outsmarted all other e-commerce portals not only in India but in all over the world. All they have done is pulling the right strings at the right time. A combination of website usability, website personalization, and capital investments is what can pave the way to success for all the e-commerce websites cropping up each day. What Amazon has done is nothing but playing a smart and simple trick…they have used their contents as never before, unique in its subject and presentation.
To build a successful e-commerce program one has to keep in mind that only an image of a product is not enough…right content is immensely necessary to get the user's attention. I have however, noticed that getting the contents of e-commerce portals modified can make it more interesting for the e-shoppers.
- Quote what people say: Shoppers all over the world have one but common behavior…they like to get the view of other shoppers before going for a particular item or brand. Quoting as much good words as one can that the customers have said about an e-commerce portal can immensely add to the process of convincing the buyers to go for it.
- Let them know about the sellers: And of course it works. I mean buyers prefer to go for the products they know in details. As in, full information about the company and the sellers help to convince the shoppers. So there should be enough contents to draw a clear picture of the companies and their products.
- Letting them move around: just like shoppers do in the shopping malls. Interesting and attractive contents always help the users to stay glued to a particular website and linger around. The more they move around, more is the chance of them landing up buying things.
- Convince your customers: It is very necessary to include such contents in the websites which would convince the shoppers to give out their credit card numbers to a website. It's all about convincing them to trust the portal.
- Lessen the advertisements: Powerful contents of a website never fail to draw traffic. The e-commerce portals which have less number of advertisements attract more traffic. Clear and crisp page layouts always help the customers to find out things they need and at the same time concentrate on the contents and the products. If the content is apt then there would be no dearth of money coming in.
E-commerce in India has opened up new dimensions for marketing and shopping. Indians take time to trust but once they do, they tend to stick to it. Contents say how a portal works and how they do it. If contents of an e-commerce portal are interesting and convincing enough, there is no second thought that people will go for online shopping.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Clowns from Amsterdam
So I asked to send the picture and some info on how the person got the painting: Thus another testimony on Tony Mafia's Amsterdam period.
I quote the text: "Hereby a picture of the Clown. I haven't got a photo of
Winnie the Pooh, as it is currently with my daughter in the UK. I did not
meet him personally, but a friend of mine met him in a bar in Amsterdam
and I bought these two works via him in 63/64. Tony seemed a bit down and out at
the time, so I heard.
I am prepared to sell. Kind regards, Hans.
Tony painted a lot of clowns, he loved the circus. I can't quite tell from the picture whether this is an oil painting or a pastel drawing (which I think it is). Then it would be behind glass.
If you're interested leave an e-mail address in a comment... and I'll get back to you to get you in touch with Hans.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo men's swimming & diving senior Jeff Doser was selected as the Dr. Sam Molnar Award winner by the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) on Friday.
The annual award is given to a senior male student-athlete with the best combination of academic and athletic ability as voted upon by conference members. Doser is the ninth Geneseo student-athlete to earn the Dr. Sam Molnar Award and the fourth in the past five years.
A senior captain for the men's swimming & diving team, Doser earned a combined 14 individual and relay conference championships as the Knights won SUNYAC crowns in all four years that he competed. Doser was a four-time All-SUNYAC team member, a two-time SUNYAC Men's Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and two-time SUNY Chancellor's Scholar-Athlete Award winner. He qualified for the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships in each of the last two seasons and holds SUNYAC records in the 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay. In addition, he also holds Geneseo program records in the 200 free, 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay & 400 medley relay.
A mathematics and biology double-major, Doser graduated with a 3.86 cumulative GPA and received the Dr. Dan Mullin Scholar-Athlete Award, given to Geneseo's most outstanding senior male scholar-athlete. A two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection, Doser is a member of Phi Beta Kappa national honors society and Sigma Xi research society, and was named to the Dean's List four times while earning two President's List nods. He was the recipient of the Geneseo Foundation scholarship, Edgar Fellows Honors scholarship, and the Barry M. Goldwater scholarship. Doser will attend Michigan State to pursue a doctorate in forestry and a master's in computational mathematics, science and engineering.
The men's award is named after the late Dr. Sam Molnar, who was the Director of Athletics at Potsdam for over thirty years, caoching various sports during his tenure. He served as SUNYAC President from 1962-64.
2017-18 - Jeff Doser (Men's Swimming & Diving)
2016-17 - Brad Campion (Men's Soccer)
2014-15 - Gordon Lyons (Men's Basketball)
2013-14 - Jack Caradonna (Men's Ice Hockey)
2003-04 - Paul Weismann (Men's Ice Hockey)
1998-99 - Josh Muldner (Men's Swimming & Diving)
1994-95 - Edward Curry (Men's Soccer)
1990-91 - Thomas Van de Water (Men's Swimming & Diving)
1977-78 - James R. DeWitt (Men's Swimming & Diving)


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My name is Corina Krecker, my husband James Krecker and our family have been fighting the Department of Human Services in Crawford County for the past two years going on 3. Our family was been split. They took my husband kids January of 2015. Due to abuse apparently by me. Dhs knew the trouble of the children were causing before they stepped in they failed to help us. I still remember Jerome Tidwell telling me Dhs could not help us. That they could not help our blended family being exposed to sexually acting out because my husband kids were molested from his ex-wife new husband and that acting out as much as hurting the other children was just unheard. We signed a case plan started our plan. By October or September of 2015 our second case worker was out the door. Our last staff meeting with him and kids lawyer we stated his counselor said to make an appointment as needed and they refused him service due to appointments he never made. The next case worker we relayed the information but nothing was done about it. That case worker gave us weekend sleep overs and we followed procedure s to ensure the kids safety. While me and my husband we out of the living room. His eldest child acted out on our son. We told the truth about what happend. They used it against us. They said I deprived the children of food. And I told no they got up got into potato chips and that was their breakfast. Dhs put me on the list for deprivation of food to a child! They also have an allegation that my child was in appropriate against his child. It was dropped after two weeks by then our weekend visits got taken away. We did not see the kids again till October 2016. In September 2016 they took my child for being in appropriate with our son, me and my husband's. While she was in custody she deprived correct medical care and they cut her hair even though they knew we didnt approve. The case worker never called me about seeing our kids nothing. They just showed I allowed them to investigate and they took her. We did everything they want us to do. We did classes, counseling psych evaluations. And yesterday 6 days before my birthday. They denied our appeal. What the department failed to mention in court that we had gone 6 months without visits with us. They failed to deliver our reffaral at any counseling facility. Until it was too late. I have recorings emails where they failed to do their job as high as the supervisor Erica Eneks. They should have put all kids in counseling when it first started due to the exposure in household but failed to do so. 7 case workers through out our two year case. And I have emailed the judge too. Our family is torn apart. We will never be the same. Please help to change this injustice.
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Strategic Lift Concept Study and Analysis: Utility of Sealift Capability of the Proposed Ship Design for Project M2673 - ALSC
- Authors
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- Operational Research Div, Ottawa ONT (CAN) Directorate of Operational Research (Joint and Land)
- Abstract
- The Strategic Lift Concept study team was requested by the Director Force Planning and Program Coordination to examine in more detail the utility provided by the lift component in the proposed design of the ALSC (Afloat Logistics and Sealift Capability) vessel as part of project M2673. The project team utilized the STRATL mobility model to analyze potential strategic movement scenarios involving specific operational structures, the proposed ship design, and several levels of strategic air transport capability. The utility of the ALSC capability in the transport of current and future Canadian Forces operational units to a potential theatre of operations was quantified in terms of deployment timeline.
- Keywords
- Airlift operations;Force deployment scenarios;Multi-Criteria Decision Making;Sealift operations;Strategic Lift Analysis;Transportation modelling;Sealift capacity
- Report Number
- ORD-DOR(J&L)-RN-9902 — Research Note
- Date of publication
- 01 Apr 1999
- Number of Pages
- 39
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- 99-01026
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- 510936
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course I do not here speak of that beauty which strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities and of appearance; not that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has nothing to do with science; I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of the parts and which a pure intelligence can grasp.
A common classical idea of beautiful art involves the word mimesis, the imitation of nature. Also in the realm of ideas about beauty in nature is that the perfect is implied through symmetry, equal division, and other perfect mathematical forms and notions.
Matter and energy
Some fields of science see nature as matter in motion, obeying certain laws of nature which science seeks to understand. For this reason the most fundamental science is generally understood to be "physics" – the name for which is still recognizable as meaning that it is the study of nature.
Matter is commonly defined as the substance of which physical objects are composed. It constitutes the observable universe. The visible components of the universe are now believed to compose only 4 percent of the total mass. The remainder is believed to consist of 23 percent cold dark matter and 73 percent dark energy. The exact nature of these components is still unknown and is currently under intensive investigation by physicists.
The behavior of matter and energy throughout the observable universe appears to follow well-defined physical laws. These laws have been employed to produce cosmological models that successfully explain the structure and the evolution of the universe we can observe. The mathematical expressions of the laws of physics employ a set of twenty physical constants that appear to be static across the observable universe. The values of these constants have been carefully measured, but the reason for their specific values remains a mystery.
Beyond Earth
Outer space, also simply called space, refers to the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. Outer space is used to distinguish it from airspace (and terrestrial locations). There is no discrete boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space, as the atmosphere gradually attenuates with increasing altitude. Outer space within the solar system is called interplanetary space, which passes over into interstellar space at what is known as the heliopause.
Outer space is certainly spacious, but it is far from empty. Outer space is sparsely filled with several dozen types of organic molecules discovered to date by microwave spectroscopy, blackbody radiation left over from the big bang and the origin of the universe, and cosmic rays, which include ionized atomic nuclei and various subatomic particles. There is also some gas, plasma and dust, and small meteors. Additionally, there are signs of human life in outer space today, such as material left over from previous manned and unmanned launches which are a potential hazard to spacecraft. Some of this debris re-enters the atmosphere periodically.
Although the planet Earth is currently the only known body within the solar system to support life, current evidence suggests that in the distant past the planet Mars possessed bodies of liquid water on the surface. For a brief period in Mars' history, it may have also been capable of forming life. At present though, most of the water remaining on Mars is frozen.If life exists at all on Mars, it is most likely to be located underground where liquid water can still exist.
Conditions on the other terrestrial planets, Mercury and Venus, appear to be too harsh to support life as we know it. But it has been conjectured that Europa, the fourth-largest moon of Jupiter, may possess a sub-surface ocean of liquid water and could potentially host life.
Recently, the team of Stéphane Udry have discovered a new planet named Gliese 581 d, which is an extrasolar planet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581. Gliese 581 d appears to lie in the habitable zone of space surrounding the star, and therefore could possibly host life as we know it.
See alsoScience:
- Mother Nature
- Nature
- Naturalism : any of several philosophical stances, typically those descended from Materialism and Pragmatism that do not distinguish the supernatural from nature. This includes the methodological naturalism of natural science, which makes the methodological assumption that observable events in nature are explained only by natural causes, without assuming either the existence or non-existence of the supernatural.
- Balance of nature : A discredited concept of natural equilibrium in predator:prey dynamics.
- Natural History, by Pliny the Elder
- Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature, a prominent scientific journal
- Nature
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- Ministry of Environment Republic of Korea - Nature
- Nature Journal - Weekly journal of science.
- The WILD Foundation.
- BBC - Science and Nature.
- European Commission - Nature and Biodiversity homepage.
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Some folks think Twitter is only a way for people with no social life to tell their friends what they had for lunch. But the truth is, Twitter is just another tool for you to use in your online explorations. When you use that tool the right way, you can learn all kinds of things and make connections with people around the globe.
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"Ciao Anna and Marcello,
I'm very late is sending a message to thank you for arranging our trip this year. I have to say that we loved all the accommodations, all the recommendations that you provided in the detailed Trip Notes, and all the advice that you included in your communications. If we had to chose a favorite place, it would probably be the Hotel in Tremezzo. The view from the patio alone made it hard to leave the hotel to do any sightseeing… the location of the B&B in Venice, right on the Lagoon made it all worthwhile. It was the perfect place to stay in Venice. You could see everything in the harbor and easily get anywhere in the city, but you were just far enough away from all the crowds. Another plus was a gelato shop right underneath the B&B where we stopped every night on the way back from dinner. And once more, you were absolutely right about staying in Carona rather than in Lugano. We loved Carona and the food that we were served there was some of the best of our trip. Lastly, Rosso Segnale was another perfect B&B and our hosts were so accommodating and helpful that we wished we had more time there.
Thank you again for arranging another perfect visit to Italy.
Regards, Pat"
"Venice, Como & Lugano Lakes – Sept 2016″
We finished our trip on Friday and arrived home late Friday night. All four of us enjoyed it immensely.
All in all, our trip was wonderful. We were reined in a bit by bad weather in Cinque Terre, but Levanto is a nice town to wander on a rainy day. We didn't expect to be as impressed with the Leaning Tower and Duomo and Baptistry in Pisa, but they are AMAZING. My husband almost would not leave Greve, especially after we spent a delightful day in Montefioralle. We climbed the towers in Siena and Florence and saw as much as we could in the time we had available. We loved it all.
Ciao and thank you,
Now we are all falling back to our everyday routine but full of wonderful memories.
I want to thank you for planning this great trip for us we are very satisfied with everything and I am not afraid to state that everyone in my group is overjoyed.
The scenery was fantastic, the walks were different every day, the information package was faultless, the hotels where nice, the restaurants were good, the Italian people are wonderful and you of course were always by our back ready to assist.
(One of my friends said to my yesterday " this trip exceeded my expectations by far even though my expectations were very high" and I think we feel all the same J). In other words thank you so very much for everything.
If you and your colleges are planning on visiting Iceland one day we will be more happy to assist you in your planning and recommend nice places to visit.
Best regards, Bogga and co J"
"We cannot applaud ICNOS ADVENTURES and Anna and Marcello enough for the perfectly choreographed "Jewels of Amalfi Coast" self guided tour that we enjoyed in mid May 2015. They could not control the perfect weather, but their attention to every detail did guarantee we would have a stress-free adventure. Having so many specific bus and train schedules to choose from, options on the hiking itineraries, great restaurant recommendations and wonderful, well located hotels all contributed to a vacation we will always remember with incredible memories. Although there are other tour companies to choose from for these types of trips, we selected them because they are locals and know their region better than outsiders. We indeed made the right choice! Anna helped us so much with preplanning suggestions for the 2nd half our Italy holidays as well – in the Umbria region. The maps, daily directions and other valuable literature were great resources as well. Bravo and grazie mille for such extraordinary service.
Dottie is a former travel agent with over 20 years of experience, so she can be hard to please.
This was a trip of a life time and mapped to perfection.
Grazie Mille!!
Dottie & Jack"
"The Jewels of the Amalfi Coast – May 2015"


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Hi Guys,
I began this blog on my 33rd birthday and it touched so many people and still is, so I decided each year I would add the biggest life lesson I learned in the year that preceded each birthday. I turn 35 today and each year gets better and better.
Here are my 35 things, I hope they make you laugh and cry. If you read this last year…skip down to number 35.
- Hug things. Anything. Dogs, trees, people you need to forgive, babies (ok, not the babies of strangers. That would be weird/borderline illegal. Make sure you know the parents).
- Take care of something. Learn the art of being nurturing. In my case, this was through my Mum. A woman who was the least maternal woman I knew. She would give me Oreos to take to cake day at school and scratch off the brand name off the cookie with a butter knife and insist she baked them. Really. But what a huge lesson it was to learn to take care of her, take her to the toilet, towel her down in the bathroom after a shower, put her make up on for her. Maybe you don't have a Mum in nappies but you have a child, a dog, a chia pet. Whatever it is, by 35, giving of yourself to someone else and having that things' happiness depend on you, will make you happier and grow you from the inside out. It will also make you feel more youthful, that is what the expansion of the heart does.
- Get some fake hair. I hate to break it to all you mid-20s-Megan-Fox-Lookalikes, but with age the only thing that gets thinner is your hair. In some cases, it just stops growing. I have been rocking a hairstyle inbetween Ashton Kutcher in "Dude, Where's My Car" and Steven Seagal for what seems like forever. No one's hair should grow that slowly (except maybe Chewbacca 'cos dat boy got enough). So do yourself a favour, buy some fake-ass clip-in ponytails and run.
- Cut out all the people who do not want the best for you or support you. I mean it. Cut those people out like cancer (I feel I can use cancer here, because *cough* I am the daughter of a cancer victim). Any friendship you have that doesn't serve you, serves to make you more aggravated. It weighs you down and that aggravation leads to stress which then makes you age. PS. This also extends to family. If there are any "Debbie Downer" cousins or bitchy aunties, get the scalpel out and cut them away. This also goes for social media, unfollow and block anyone who makes you feel bad about being you, your mental state is far more important.
- Live in a city which you love and that makes you feel alive. At my lowest point in Perth, I sat down with a piece of paper and wrote down the things I loved the most of all the countries I had lived in until that point (Switzerland, Singapore, The United Arab Emirates and Australia). I decided that the next destination I would choose to live in had to afford me all those good traits. Singapore gives me proximity to my mother but at the same time allows me to have a frenetic life (like Dubai) when I want it but the choice to be quiet when I need (like Perth) and surrounds me with highly interesting, cosmopolitan people which keep my mind agile and challenged and is such an efficient city (like Switzerland).
- Do a job that you love (or at least like). I don't know about you, but besides really wanting to be able to talk like a sassy black woman, my other life goal was to wake every day completely turned on, in love and besotted by my job because I always knew I would spend more hours with my career than with any man.
- Make yourself do things you fear. I have a fear of dark water (because I grew up in Western Australia, the land of shark attacks and tennis-ball-sized blue-ringed octopii which can kill toddlers), which I define as any water that I cannot see the bottom of. This proved super-limiting when travelling and almost vetoed any trips which involved the ocean. In 2015, after moving to Singapore, I decided to throw away the fear, I snorkelled in Bali for the first time. That was actually bearable. So, then, because I have balls bigger than Hulk Hogan (as we all know), I jumped off a cliff (no fear of heights) 10 metres above the ocean into the water. Since smashing that fear, I have gone swimming in Boracay and snorkelling for hours in Palawan. Throwing away fear and limitations is like throwing away stress.
- Have friends from diverse backgrounds because they will broaden your mind. This means people from all over the world (much easier to find in some cities than others, mind you), sexualities, genders and faiths. Something that Singapore gives me that no other city I have lived in gives me, is diverse perspectives. If I have a problem, I can call a member of my family (who are local), an expat friend (foreigner) or someone who is a friend and local but not family. In this way I get 3 comprehensive opinions and am able to make the best and wisest decision.
- Stop giving a damn what people think. This absolutely released me and has led me to become the happiest I have ever been. I laugh all the time, I laugh at myself, I forgive myself and here's the thing, when you're in my line of work which depends on others' opinions of you, this can actually stifle creativity. Being afraid of what people think makes you less entertaining and more vanilla. So this year, I decided to get brave about things because creativity also makes you more youthful. If you get bold and real and stop allowing other peoples' judgement of you to determine your happiness, you also release yourself from so much harsh, self-directed judgement. It also gives other people permission to be more authentic too (that is not a Simone Heng original, some chick called Oprah came up with it. sigh. All the good lines are always taken).
- Sing. A lot. Not just at karaoke, but in the car, shower, walking naked in your house. Just do it. Release, release, release. There is something innately powerful about knowing that God planted an instrument inside of you, the same way man created a Stradivarius. How unbelievably friggn' awesome, to know you were so loved that he/she gave you an inbuilt means of making beautiful music. Even if you cannot hold a tune, I promise it will make you feel younger and look younger because of all the facial masks we use when we sing. Just close your eyes and lip synch for a while. Talk about Japanese facial yoga, ya'll.
- Do things you used to love as a child because being childlike makes everyone feel young. I used to paint in high school and started again when I lived in Dubai, eventually doing an entire exhibition. It was very fun and very relaxing. Last year they made me sprint a relay at work for a celebrity sports day, I hadn't run sprints since high school but to my amazement I could still run super fast. I then started singing again recently thanks to lessons from Aureus Academy and it is like my pipes remember. Every time I sing scales, I am 14 again in school choir. I also used to write and up until today had not penned anything longer than a Facebook status in 5 years. Oh, how I blame the internet…
- Stop judging. Just stahhhhhp. All of it. This was a tough one for me, I grew up in a judgemental house in a judgmental migrant community. Judging for me was like breathing. But compassion is so much easier for good people to cultivate. Compassion is the natural, child-like reaction we all have in us. It opens the heart, it draws people to us and it makes everyone (you and others) happier. It isn't your concern how other people choose to live, their choices are their choices, if it doesn't affect you or concern you, why even think about it.
- Get botox. Money cannot buy you happiness but it can buy you botox. Botox makes everyone look younger…except for people who buy it on the internet and inject it into the wrong places in their own faces. No, seriously, there are too many videos of that on Youtube. I adore Dr Valentin Low. That guy is the bomb diggity. Dr V for President, pullleassse!
- Dance naked while listening to music from the year you turned 18 (in the United States this is 21). They did a radio study that revealed that people largely loved the music from the year they turned 18 and named songs from this era as their all- time favourites because this was the year they experienced a lot of their profound firsts. In my case, learnt to drive, got drunk for the first time, went to a nightclub and moved to Switzerland and lived away from my parents for a year. The music from this time becomes the soundtrack for those profound and heightened experiences, so whenever you hear it, this music will make you feel more youthful. So now ya'll all know why I be playin' Ja Rule and Ashanti on repeat when ya'll are over.
- Buy something for yourself and completely on your own. It never occurred to me that there were people in the world that never paid their own rent, bought their own cars or homes. There are people who have always been someone's dependent or "other half" forever. This was the level of my independence. When I was 30, I bought my first property on my own. When I collected the keys to that apartment, it was a rush that I cannot explain to you. Those little metal keys were made of sweat and tears. They were made of the sacrifice of giving up everything I knew to chase a dream halfway across the planet. I moved to the Middle East as a single woman, alone at the age of 23, knowing no one and worked almost every day for 5 years, so I could one day hold those keys in my hand and know that no one had ever helped me financially to get there. That moment was all mine and it was so sweet it almost gave me diabetes. If you have never felt this rush, brothers and sisters, do it because this sense of achievement and faith in yourself will make you feel strong!
- Travel by Yourself. Just do it. Do not get married without knowing how to do this. I am the daughter of a widow. My mother was one of the most co-dependent Asian wives I have ever seen. When my father died of cancer in 2004, after a short 90 day battle, my mother's world changed overnight. Like Moses down the mountain, her hair tuned white. She didn't know how to do anything without him. Her isolation, living in a suburban environment full of couples, was palpable but travelling alone brought happiness back to her. Years later, after my mother's stroke, I went and cleaned our entire family home so we could get her into a 24-hour care facility, here I found a thumbdrive. I took it back with me to Dubai, thinking it was empty. To my surprise, when I opened it, it was full of images of my Mum riding on camels in front of the pyramids. Here I was, living in the Middle East, and my little grey-nomad Mummy had the balls to go on her own to travel in parts of the region I hadn't even seen yet. She had taught herself, to finally be independent while travelling and she looked the happiest I had ever seen her. But don't wait until a tragedy happens to gain that happiness and sense of self, get out there and give yourself that gift.
- Find the funny in everything, even in the darkest moments. I think by now, you are probably taken aback by the ease in which I can talk about some of the tragedies in my family life. Many people say to me they cannot believe all of this has happened in my 34 years and yet I laugh as if I am some sort of carefree 18 year-old. It was not funny going through those things at the time. Laughter is one of the best things about living, I challenge myself to laugh every day until I almost pee my pants. My Mum's face is slightly crooked now from her stroke, she cannot laugh that big, youthful, full-faced laugh of her teens, so I figure I should try and laugh extra to compensate. I went into her bathroom at the nursing home recently, on the wall was a photo of George Clooney (*2018 Update: George Clooney has been replaced by Prince Harry) and I asked her why he was there, she said it was so when the nurses cleaned her bum and she had to try and stand, she would aim to stand straight and kiss the photo of him. I thought, yes, that's where I get it from, that resilience in seeing the funny, even in the darkness. Find the funny, find the fountain of youth.
- Do the self-work. Before you procreate, do it. Everyone has issues, get a counsellor. Face them, be brave and sort it because the type of partner you will choose will change depending on those issues being solved or not. And that partner, will determine the happiness of you and your babies until you die. Also, do the self-work because it will give you life tools to be smarter and happier.
- Get out of the Sun. Yes, I mean you over there. Yes, you, wearing the linen shirt opened to your navel like you are Richard Branson sans the private jet. Cover up that chest, wear a hat and you will age backwards. It's beyond fact, it is science.
- Double your exercise. Want to age backwards after 30? Well, Sweety, it actually pains me to say this, so I am going to grab your shoulders and shake you at the same time. Y O U R M E T A B O L I S M IS A B O U T T O DIE. Glad we got that out of the way. Now that I have made that clear you cannot claim I said nothing, because all my retired supermodel friends tried to tell me in my twenties and I was all like "Whatever, I eat Mcdonalds and never run and have enough sass to burn calories at rest. Basically I am a superhuman." I was such a punk. Well, they were right. I should have believed them, after all, they are retired supermodels.
- Learn to be Happy for Other People. So here's the thing, the more we are happy for others, the less jealousy, envy and hate in the world. The less jealousy, envy and hate, the less crime, war and sadness. Easy right? So it does start with you, so be happy for others, it'll make you happier and make you look younger.
- Go and get drunk and dance like when you were a teenager. When I lived in Dubai, I worked like a dog. I worked almost 7 days a week for half a decade. I did not go out. I went clubbing maybe 3 times in 5 years. Somehow I was too focussed, I felt dancing the night away was a waste of time, but I started to look uptight. I started to get that stiff "old lady hunch" and frozen "old lady hips" like I could no longer shake it. So now, I go out with the girls every 90 days and we dance it off. I always make sure that I have the day off the next day because the 30-plus hangovers actually makes you feel 1000. (*2018 Update: Hangovers now so bad that have resorted to dancing like drunk but actually sober. Proof is on Instagram).
- Learn some new skills. Build some new pathways in your brain by taking up a new sport, language, musical instrument etc. I had to learn protools for my new job when I moved to Singapore and I was amazed at how slow I am to learn after 30. When you pick up new skills and you're in your teens, your mind just soaks things up. Stay youthful and keep the mind malleable by forcing yourself to upskill.
- Understand that "family" doesn't mean you have to take meanness from individuals. This was hard for me, it still hurts sometimes to think about the members of family I found out were disloyal. I realised that just because we have shared genes, doesn't mean I have to swim in their negativity pool. So cut the cord and replace with friends, many who will be more loyal and generous than a lot of your real family.
- Stop trying to control everything. Remember when you were a kid, and a teacher at school would lose her shizz. Like literally, throw her toys out of the pram. You'd look up at her stressed-out, raisin face and think, "Dayum girl, you really look old." That's the face you get when you try and control things that you can't control. Accept, let go, move on = looking like a hot young thang.
- Watch children play. Obviously not in a creepy way, but marvel at their absolute lack of inhibitions. Look at how simple things make them happy. Suck up their youth like a Dementor sucks up feelings. No, seriously, be more childlike, it'll make you lighter and make you look younger.
- Find something to laugh at every day until you almost pee. I promise, if you go to certain instagram accounts with hilarious content or watch part of an old Dave Chapelle standup every day, you will laugh that kind of laugh that you cannot control your bladder with. Instead of trawling the internet for fake news, blog forums of people complaining or insta accounts of girls contouring their abs, look for comedy, you will be happier. Period.
- Mentor people. Just do it. The universe blessed you. This is what Hollywood-types call "giving back."
- Go and live in another country if you have never done it before. Making your mind malleable keeps you empathetic, it keeps you flexible, it stops you from judging and nothing will build new pathways in your brain and ignite your passion for life like having every single thing in your daily routine turned on its head. In my 34 years I have lived in 4 countries alone and I have moved back to Singapore and Australia twice. Every move has made me better, more happy and more youthful.
- Eat 70% less carbs. I do not need to explain this. As in item 20: Y O U R M E T A B O L I S M IS A B O U T T O DIE.
- Don't be afraid to ask for help. I never used to do this until my girlfriends in Dubai would have to bang my door down to bring me food when I was sick (you girls know who you are). We are born to work in a team (tribal creatures), you need to accept help and help others sometimes. Relying on people keeps you connected to your external environment and that connectedness makes you happier. No man/woman is an island. (However, if I could be one, I choose Mykonos).
- Forgive your parents, for everything (except criminal offences, natch). They gave you life. If your mother is Asian (or Jewish) she will remind you of this fact. In which case, why are you even reading this?
- Turn off the notifications on your social media now and again. Studies show that looking at other peoples' selfies makes us more depressed. Being sad makes you look old. I hope this blog made you the opposite of sad and that you are on your way to feeling younger on the inside than ever before. I want that for you because remember item 21, I am happy for your happiness. Be well. Be kind. Love life.
- Give first and expect nothing in return. (*2018 Update) I used to be a "matcher," largely because my Mum always raised me to think that someone was always trying to take advantage or take things from us. Outsiders were to be treated with suspicion (Ps. Not blaming Mummy Heng, as in item 32, she did the best she could with what she knew at the time). Maybe a lot of Asian migrants thought that way because it is largely a survivalist way of thinking. It is complete scarcity mentality. I woke up 8 months ago and realised, I am not a migrant, it is not 1987. I am blessed beyond belief, I am a serial expat and I have a wealth of resources (everything from truckloads of free beauty products to only the slightly more valuable career contacts from 3 media markets around the globe. LOL) to share with people. So at the end of every meeting, every email or every interaction with a new person, I began asking "Let me know if I can ever be of service." I started replying to every message on social media giving help, guidance or advice. Always with the expectation of nothing in return. This was hard at first, because our society conditions us to trade and barter. But do you want to know what is even harder than giving without expectation? Keeping score of the people you helped hoping for your favours to come in? Now that is truly freakin' exhausting, ain't nobody got time for that shizz. I hope my daughters will grow up to offer their help immediately with no expectation, no point scoring, it will be second nature to them but if they ever get asked if they want something in return, I hope they answer "No" just like Destiny's Child in that song "Survivor" "Because my Mumma taught me better than that." That's the NEW "survivalist" thinking.
- Dream Big and then Dream BIGGER. (2019 Update) That's a direct quote from Victoria Beckham. I remember watching her lip-synching in the Spice Girls and she was probably well aware she was the least musically-talented member of the group. I feel if you zoomed in on her face in interviews back then you could basically see the cogs in her head turning planning her global fashion domination, you could see that this woman was dreaming BIG.
One of the only regrets in my life is that when I lived in Dubai I didn't have the mindset and maturity I have now. There were so many things in my life that needed to be sorted out.
So instead of focussing on the profile I had been blessed with at the time and setting myself up for larger success, I had these negative voices in my head that kept me playing small and limited. I made the unconscious choice to listen to my limiting beliefs instead of dreaming bigger. I do not think like this at all anymore.
I only had this epiphany this year while looking at the success of some of my counterparts from that time like @hudabeauty and @supercarblondie. These girls have done so well because they believed in themselves and were surrounded by people who believed in them.
They also chose to ignore those limiting voices. PS. This is me at 14, see the cogs turning in my brain back then?


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Situational awareness:
- EU regulators fined Google $1.7 billion for blocking ad rivals. (CNBC)
- Japan's government downgraded its view of the economy for the first time in 3 years, blaming the trade war for weak exports and industrial output. (Reuters)
- FedEx reported all-around downbeat results for its third quarter. Executives again said a global slowdown hurt earnings. (CNBC)
- Shares of Bayer fell as much as 10% after a jury found a man developed cancer from exposure to its Roundup weedkiller product. (WSJ)
- UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti dialed back expectations for the investment bank's first quarter performance and told investors business conditions are the toughest in years. (Bloomberg)
1 big thing: Powell gets political
Jerome Powell is a new kind of Fed Chairman for a new time in American history. As President Trump has bulldozed norms of presidential behavior, Powell has gone about changing the nature of the Fed's relationship with Wall Street, Congress and Main Street.
What it means: Powell has clearly set his sights on changing the public's perception of the Fed from a faceless private bank that upholds the interests of corporate America to a source of economic growth that supports job creation.
His strategy is threefold:
- Win friends in Washington by taking 4 times as many meetings with Congressional lawmakers as his predecessor.
- Remove the target from the Fed's back and shore up support on Wall Street by emphasizing "data dependence" rather than a pre-determined rate hike path.
- Appeal to the public with speeches and television appearances.
What they're saying:
- "Powell has figured out that it's in the long-term interest of the Federal Reserve to be better understood by ... the American electorate," Steven Skancke, chief economic advisor at investment firm Keel Point and a former White House and Treasury Department official, tells Axios.
- "Is that political? Yeah, that's political. Is he being partisan? I don't think so. But it's a political point of view when he says, 'We need to be sensitive to how we are viewed by the constituencies of America,'" he added.
The intrigue: Powell is also facing unprecedented pressure from Trump, who looks to have lined the Fed up to take the blame if the economy turns south, as he did when the stock market sold off in December.
Investors, too, were leery of the new Fed chief when he was raising rates last year and looked poised to hike the U.S. into a recession, as many market participants believe has been the central bank's wont in the past. But as he's backed off of plans for further hikes, and paring down the central bank's now-less-than $4 trillion balance sheet, a consensus has grown on trading desks that the chairman has done the right thing.
- Powell "made a mistake in December. And we see what happened," Skancke said. "Why would we otherwise expect the chairman of the Federal Reserve on '60 Minutes' trying to explain himself?"
2. The diverging markets
It appears nothing can move long-dated U.S. Treasury yields higher. At around 2.6%, the yield on benchmark 10-year notes is almost unchanged from where it was in late 2017 just before the enactment of the Tax Cut & Jobs Act.
- Ed Yardeni, president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research, notes that since then, "the 12-month federal budget deficit has ballooned from $681 billion through December 2017 to $914 billion through January 2019."
Why it matters: Yardeni argues in a recent note to clients that the yield curve is signaling "weak global economic growth and low inflation without necessarily implying a recession in the U.S."
- That explains the strong rebound in U.S. stocks so far this year, he says. Credit spreads "also support this thesis" as the difference between the 10-year Treasury yield and high yield corporate bonds has fallen significantly since Dec. 24.
The bottom line: "Perhaps," Yardeni writes, "there is too much pessimism about the global economic outlook."
3. Stagflation and shorting European equities
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's latest fund manager survey shows investors remain down on the global economy, but have found new ways to express their skepticism.
What's happening: The most popular trade is shorting European stocks. It's the first time in the survey's history that betting against European equities has topped the list. Last month's top trade, being long emerging market equities, has fallen to fourth, behind long U.S. dollar trades and bets on the FAANG+BAT stocks.
"Conviction is low with only 3% separating the first and fourth most crowded trades," BAML's data analytics team said in the report.
- Allocation to global stocks fell to its lowest since October 2016.
- Only net 30% of hedge fund investors are long equities, the lowest level since December 2016.
- A net 25% of those surveyed say they are expecting global growth to weaken.
What to watch: The bank's currency analysts tell Axios they are starting to worry about global stagflation.
"Although global data is weakening across the board, wages are increasing, which points to inflation risks. What explains both is that labor markets are now tight everywhere.
"This suggests capacity constraints, which could explain both slow growth and high wages, leading to stagflation risks. The market is pricing slow growth, but no inflation. The U.K. is the only exception, as the market is pricing both slow growth and inflation."— BAML FX strategist Athanasios Vamvakidis in an email to Axios
4. More problems for Mozambique
Mozambique has declared a state of emergency after flooding that followed Cyclone Idai. The storm has destroyed an estimated "90%" of Mozambique's fourth-largest city, Beira, which has a population of nearly half a million. So far 1.5 million people have been displaced or otherwise affected by the storm.
- "African economists fear the scale of devastation will be 'very damaging.' Mozambique is already in default on about $2 billion of external commercial debt," Bloomberg's TicToc reports. The country is currently trying to restructure the debt.
Why it matters to the market: The $2 billion default is the result of the almost-too-surreal-to-believe tuna bonds scandal, in which the country's finance minister and supposedly rogue agents from Credit Suisse fleeced Mozambique for at least $200 million in kickbacks and ill-gotten gains, and possibly more than $1 billion.
Where it stands: So far at least a dozen people have been charged by Mozambique for crimes like abuse of office, embezzlement and money laundering. The U.S. is seeking to extradite a number of the main parties involved, including Mozambique's former finance minister and representatives from Abu Dhabi-based Privinvest and Credit Suisse.
- None are yet in U.S. custody, according to recent reporting from the Financial Times.
Go deeper: Why Mozambique's debt scandal has drawn U.S. scrutiny
5. The great oil mismatch
It may not be the age of American oil after all.
After we published our story last week on the booming prospects for American oil exploration in the next decade, Anas Alhajji, an oil industry adviser and longtime investor, directed me to an op-ed he'd written for the Financial Times arguing the converse.
Why it matters: Alhajji asserts that demand is growing substantially for heavy crude while supply is growing substantially for light crude from U.S. shale, creating a mismatch of supply and demand. The imbalance will choke off the growth of shale and the broader market, leading to an "energy crisis."
- "We have two problems here," Alhajji tells Axios in a phone conversation. "If you look at U.S. shale forecasts, where will all this light, sweet crude go? We don't have enough refining capacity worldwide to handle it."
- "Secondly, we have a mismatch between the quality of oil produced and the products we get out of it."
What's happening: The demand for heavy crude is coming from diesel, Alhajji argues, as emerging countries grow their economies and need more fuel for trucks and heavy machinery. That demand will continue to grow. Further, he says, refiners in these countries (and in the U.S.) have invested heavily in refineries that use heavy crude.
What's also growing is U.S. shale production, which is expected to eclipse Russia in the next 5 years. But the demand for specialty products made from light crude such as plastics, including straws and bags, is falling. That will keep the demand for shale from keeping pace with the supply, Alhajji says.
- "Price differentials are going to explode as international prices jump while shale oil prices fall to a price where producers can barely survive."
6. The Council of Economic Avengers 🤔
Per the New York Times: "For the second straight year, the group of economists that do regression analyses and forecast annual growth rates for President Trump has slipped a straight-out-of-Comic-Con Easter egg into its annual report."


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text: Seller: leeds-antiques (1.534) 100%, Location: Leeds, Ships to: GB, IE, Item: 264515237460 Early Victorian Pair of Balloon Back Mahogany Dining Chairs C1850Early Victorian period, pair of balloon back mahogany dining chairs, Circa 1850. These chairs with open balloon backs with carved splat. Over drop-on seats covered in burgundy coloured brocade patterned fabric. Raised on ring turned, fluted front legs and splayed rear legs.Dimensions:These chairs measure approximately 87 cm (34") tall, 47 cm (19") wide, and 53 cm (21") deep. The seat height is approximately 45 cm (18").Condition:Please see the pictures for details of the items condition. - These chairs are in a reasonable condition commensurate with their age, and the frames are structurally sound and sturdy. There are odd minor marks, bumps and blemishes. The upholstery seat covers have some small marks. The upholstery is structurally sound. Repaired split to one chair front left knee. Usual scuffs around feet. Very serviceable and ready to use. - As with all vintage & antique furniture there will be signs of use, marks, wear & tear, etc.Viewing:This item can be be viewed at my workshop in Stainburn, near Otley (Leeds), LS21, by appointment only. Please contact me to arrange an appointment.Any questions? Please contact me... If you have any questions about this item or any of my other pieces please feel free to contact me. My name is Jon Williams, I am always happy to speak to customers. I often work late and start early, plus weekends. You can find my contact number and email address in the contact details below. Please don't call me after 11pm or before 7am, but you can text, email, or send me a message through Ebay at anytime. About Leeds Antiques At Leeds Antiques you will find quality restored and preserved antique, vintage and period reproduction furniture & décor. I believe in ensuring quality furniture remains in circulation so it can continue to be cared for and enjoyed. All of my current available stock can be found here on eBay. New stock is added several times a week. Payment:Payment by cash is acceptable if you are collecting goods. Goods being shipped must be paid for by Paypal or bank transfer. Goods will only be shipped once payment has been received and has cleared. Payment must be made within 3 days of purchase, unless otherwise agreed. Shipping:Delivery usually takes 1 to 3 weeks from receipt of payment to mainland England (except Cornwall); 2 to 4 weeks for Scotland, rural Wales and Cornwall; 4 to 8 weeks for Northern Ireland and Ireland. Sorry I cannot deliver this item to the Channel Islands, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Scilly Isles, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Islands.Delivery is by Man & Van type courier. This is NOT a regular box courier type service. As such deliveries take time to be collected, scheduled and booked in. Where possible the courier will try to accommodate specific date and time requirements, but this is not always possible. Please consider before purchasing that the Man & Van couriers I use are one man or small operations, and are not able to offer the service that big national couriers do. However they rarely break items and know how to handle these items, they will try to accommodate your requirements where possible, they will also help lift items into your location, and sometimes they may even be able to deliver on evenings and weekends. Though please be aware they may get held up in traffic and be late, and sometimes even have to reschedule deliveries. They are on the road constantly and major traffic jams are now very common place.If you do have any urgent or important requirements, please contact me beforehand. I would much rather meet and exceed all your expectations rather then disappoint.Collection:This item can be collected by appointment from Leeds LS6, or Leeds LS21. Full address details on request.Returns:This item is available for return within 30 days of receipt. Goods must be returned in the same condition as when received. Buyer is responsible for the cost of return shipping. Goods remain the responsibility of the buyer until they have been received back. No refund for courier shipping costs will be made. Condition: Please see the pictures for details of the items condition. I upload Hi-Res images which can be seen in greater detail by mousing over the individual images. - As with all vintage & antique furniture there will be signs of use, marks, wear & tear, etc., Style: Victorian, Material: Mahogany, Original/Reproduction: Original, Type: Dining Chair, Featured Refinements: Balloon Back Chair


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Thumbs up to Sharon Houge, developer and coordinator of the
Emmet County Public Health Healthy Beginnings program, and home visiting nurse, on receiving the Iowa Family Support Credential for the Healthy Beginnings program from the Iowa Department of Public Health State Home Visitation Program Friday, Dec. 19. It was a rigorous, three-year process to document and meet the 139 credential standards. It's quite a seal of approval, and everyone in Emmet County should be proud of Houge and the rest of the Emmet County Public Health employees.
Thumbs up to Estherville Lincoln Central preschoolers and their teachers for a wonderful Christmas program Monday at Roosevelt Auditorium. It was a darling performance and one of which many parents and grandparents should be extremely proud.
Thumbs up to everyone who invited someone from outside the family to Christmas Eve or Christmas dinner this week. It's a longstanding tradition of many families to do this, and it's an important tradition to keep up.
Thumbs up to all our elected officials, paid and unpaid, for the service they've given us over the past year. It isn't easy trying to do your job when you have so many bosses - and every voter is a potential boss. We hope the voters understand that often the right decision is not the popular decision, and that in order to make that right decision our public officials sometimes have to go against the grain of public opinion. And that is truly heroic.
Thumbs up to the designated drivers who are volunteering to drive people around this holiday and New Year's season. Speaking of heroes, that's exactly who you folks are.
Thumbs up to everyone who makes the decision to not drink and drive this holiday season. We all know there are laws in place against drinking and driving and we also all know that the penalties are stiff. But it still takes a smart personal decision to not drink to excess and climb behind the wheel.
And by the way, thumbs up as well to someone who takes a friend's keys when that friend has had too much to drink.
Thumbs up to Estherville's 2014 Business Christmas Tree Decorating Contest winners-first place going to Employees Credit Union with Ace Hardware placing second.


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Within this Market Hero review, I will show some email advertising secrets that are so good, you'll want to crawl buck-naked across broken glass simply to locate them. Autoresponder For Terminated Employee
But , I want to say"thank you" to Alex Becker, the creator of Market Hero.
I began watching Alex Becker's YouTube movies back in 2016. He taught me how to run a Shopify store, and that a bunch of stuff regarding entrepreneurship advertising.
It was right around the time that Alex released his book, The 10 Pillars of Household: Mind-Sets of The World's Richest People. I got that book once I saw it and I jumped to highlight it and mark it up. In fact, I could move re-read it.
Actually, Market Hero isn't even his only multi-million dollar company. He also founded the SEO software development company Source Wave and he's running a supplement manufacturer new. He got a couple of classes out there in the marketplace teaching people how to increase their lists and market more.
The dude is a freaking machine. My hat off to you, Alex.
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What's Market Hero?
Anyway, Market Hero is among the best email Because it concentrates on revenue metrics autoresponders available on the market today and it's so much better than its competitors.
I've used a bunch of email autoresponder software through the years, including MadMimi and Drip. Drip was my favorite up until I started using Market Hero. Drip allows you tag your readers, like track your open rates and to do lots of cool stuff.
But if you're anything like me, as you take care of open prices and click-through prices, the thing that matters is SALES. Sales are the lifeblood of your business and sales is what places hard cash into your pocket. Market Hero helps you monitor sales, plain and simple.
Market Hero Support
While I did not have to use Market Hero service that Much since everything is, the few times that I did reach out to them, they got back to me. Autoresponder For Terminated Employee
The service is not amazing to the point at which they supply you with detailed step-by-step videos and also hold your hand through every step of the way, however it isn't terrible. If you need that degree of hand-holding and coddling, possibly Market Hero isn't for you.
Market Hero has English-speaking support team available to respond to your queries through live chat at no cost. You do not have to be part of any exceptional plan or updated package to possess priority support, such as some firms do. You just log in and start chatting.
Can Market Hero Truly 4X Your Business?
On Market Hero's homepage, one of those headings You'll see says,"4X Your Email Business With Unequaled Delivery and Revenue Metrics". This immediately set my B.S. sensor because I understand how difficult it's to 4X an email sequence, especially if you're any good at everything you're doing.
But Market Hero provides a free trial, and so I figured I would register and see whether it was any good. I figured that I just need a little increase in earnings for Market Hero to cover itself and when it did 4X my business, I would be flying high.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure I really do want to inform you that Market Hero has NOT improved my earnings 4X (yet), but I am getting more earnings than previously and Market Hero IS paying for itself. Rather easily, in fact. I had my own game tight and was doing well, so I understood a 4X increase would be tough.
But in case you are new to email marketing or if you've got a bigger online company, Market Hero could probably 4X your earnings. Here's the way:
It monitors your customers' lifetime value.
I know I already mentioned this, but the secret to Market Hero is the way that it retains your customers' lifetime value (LTV) facing you constantly and it changes as you send out emails and tweak your own autoresponder. Once you understand your customer value, it's possible to literally"buy" clients. What Market Hero does is each conversion for each and every lead on your list and monitor every sale. It gives you and averages together everything.
If you were to do this manually, then you would probably have to experience different softwares, various spreadsheets, and go back through your prior earnings. You would need to crunch on a great deal of numbers which you don't have anymore. Market Hero simplifies this issue better than anybody else available on the industry.
You can segment using tags.
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I understand that you are probably thinking,"Tags? Okay… big deal." However, the manner that Market Hero allows you to use tags is better. This is why…
Let's say that I am running two different opt-in campaigns for the same audience. Anyone who opts-in to the first effort will be labeled as"A" and anybody who opts-in to the second campaign will be tagged as"B".
I will enter Market Hero and filter out all of the"B" opt-ins and see just how much they're worth compared to"A" opt-ins. If I find out that the"B" opt-ins are earning more money, I understand that I should be pouring more ad dollars into marketing the"B" opt-in. Autoresponder For Terminated Employee
If you do so again and again, you can create a strong business because you will always be split-testing to see which kinds of people are worth more to your business.
And getting this up and running will be super-easy too. All you have to do is take the pixel which Market Hero provides you and place it in the regions which you want to monitor. From there, Market Hero will keep tabs on all of your clients, sales, conversions, etc., to supply you with the data which you will need to grow your business.
You're able to incorporate with a lot of other services.
Inside Market Hero, there's a button called"integrations" that – you guessed it helps you incorporate with matters like ClickFunnels, SamCart, Shopify, Leadpages, Zapier, and more.
I think this is a wise move by Alex Becker because it indicates he understands his market. He understands that are using things such as this and he wants to be certain that his software integrates.
My only complaint is that a lot of the applications I use, such as OptinMonster and Thrive Topics has not yet been put in the"integrations" tab. That does not mean you CAN'T incorporate thembecause you can (you use Zapier to make them speak to each other) but it is not as easy as something like ClickFunnels or even Shopify.
Talking of Shopify…
How Is This Different From Autoresponders?
The best way for me is of The other autoresponders were built for email marketers. Their thinking has its own limits and that I send mails although I have nothing against marketers. Market Hero was built BY a company owner FOR company owners.
Market Hero is different because it provides you with a bunch of different ways that will help you track ROI and create more profit from the own emails.
For example, among the coolest features is that it shows you how much each lead is worth. Imagine logging in to your email autoresponder and viewing that each lead is worth $6.87 to you. Meaning that you can go out and"purchase" email addresses to make money. Everything you do is that you buy paid visitors from Google, Facebook, etc. and send that traffic into an opt-in page. If you can find a prosperous than it is worth, you have a profitable small business. Simply rinse and repeat as many times as possible.
Additionally, it also lets you segment your list in much deeper ways compared to other autoresponder services out there. I utilized Drip and they have some segmentation tools, largely from the ability to use tags to your prospects like I said, but it is small potatoes compared to Market Hero. I really don't need to give any of Market Hero's proprietary info, but let's just say that you will most likely be impressed by the segmentation ability. Autoresponder For Terminated Employee
Is Market Hero a Scam?
From what I've seen, absolutely not. I think that At this time, by being a scam artist, Alex Becker has to lose. Various companies's running and he's smart enough to realize that when he tarnished his reputation, he would be screwed.
From what I have seen, people have complained about his refund policy. These people are typically the individuals who have used Market Hero for months and try to get all their money back. These are the actual scammers. You are scum, if you aren't willing to cover for a service that can enhance your business and your life. Plain and simple.
Market Hero's free trial offer is really straightforward. It states that in case you cancel within 14 days then you won't be billed anything.
Rest assured, gentle reader. Market Hero is untrue.
In Case You've Shopify (Or Any Online Business…)
When I began writing this Market Hero review Was worried that it went to lean a little too much towards Shopify entrepreneurs. That's why I want to stress that Market Hero can help you in ANY online business, not just Shopify.
On his YouTube channel, Alex has posted a great deal of different videos about Shopify. You discover he provides a lot of info about how best to earn money with Shopify, When you get beyond the clickbait-style titles. Part of this reason that he does this is because he needs to get folks to test out Market Hero because he understands it can help them with their Shopify company.
By way of instance, Market Hero allows you to create abandoned cart sequences. When someone begins the checkout process in Shopify (by entering their email) but does not finish it, that gets monitored in Market Hero. From there, you can follow up with that person and get them back to complete their purchase.
The ability to create these abandoned cart sequences is only one of the ways which it is possible to make Market Hero literally pay for itself. Let's do some math…
Depending on the study that you browse, the average cart abandonment rate for an internet shop is usually somewhere in the area of 70-80%. Are there individuals with abandonment prices? Sure, but this is the typical.
Imagine that you have 100 people go through your checkout process and 80 of those people abandon your cart. That means you have 80 non-customers and 20 customers. Imagine if a cart retrieval sequence just got a 10% of this non-customers to purchase?
That would get you an additional 8 customers. Which means that you would literally boost your sales 40%! (Because 8 additional sales is 40% of the 20 sales you had.)
If you boosted your sales 40%, would that justify the investment in Market Hero? But that's not all…
Market Hero also lets you create upsell sequences. Can you create such sequences? Yes, you can. I'm completely transparent about that, but it's nowhere near as fluid and it will not provide you that all-important lifetime customer value. Autoresponder For Terminated Employee
The motive Market Hero is so strong is because you can use tags and track LTV. When you link Market Hero into Shopify, it begins monitoring. Buy tags are applied that show you that purchased which products.
Imagine that you have a Shopify store selling print-on-demand dog tops. It would be silly to attempt to sell Golden Retriever stuff to that individual if a person bought a pug shirt? But that is because they don't have the information in front of them exactly what a lot of entrepreneurs are doing. Because Market Hero enables you to see exactly what the person bought, you can concentrate on selling only stuff.
You are able to totally geek out on this stuff. You can get as detailed and intricate as you like. In my personal business, I use it to segment the subjects that financial advisors want to know more about. I don't want to bombard them because they would be irrelevant Since I market products that assist financial advisors GET clients and help them KEEP clients, if a person is interested in KEEPING clients. That person would finally unsubscribe.
Oh, and if you're interested, here's a video of Alex Becker showing you ways to raise your own Shopify sales 300% with Market Hero. Just keep in mind the Market Hero may be used with ANY business, not only Shopify.
Market Hero is an email program because It is built for people that are currently trying to earn money on the internet. If you haven't done So go over there, import your list and take advantage of the free trial.
You can not afford not to understand your numbers. That's like Driving blind. You are leaving a huge, if you do not understand your numbers Amount of money. Imagine how much more money you can make if you Knew precisely what every lead was worth. How would your decisions alter? How would that change your life? Autoresponder For Terminated Employee
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Field Notes now offers the often requested open-edition dot-grid and black notebook. The Field Notes "Pitch Black" edition has a 100-lb French "Blacktop" cover with gray type and gray dot-grid paper inside.
Each book measures 3-1/2" wide by 5-1/2" tall and is bound with a rugged three-staple saddle-stitch process.
Set of Three Memo Books with Dot-Graph Paper or Ruled Paper.
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Shown here is a close-up photograph of an under deck ceiling for an elevated deck in St. Louis West County.
Using this type of ceiling, the space below the deck becomes dry and useful, ready for a screen room or patio enclosure addition.
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Vancouver REALTOR® Restrictions
Ah, the woes of being a Vancouver REALTOR®.
Notice the capital letters. Note the R in a circle. I may be a lawyer as well as a real estate agent, but I have never seen such stringent legal requirements imposed on the communications of a small business for things that are not causing public harm.
As a Vancouver REALTOR®, I am required to write the caps, add the little R and follow this through in every piece of communication I sent out, be it a blog post like this, an ad, a tweet, and apparently, even my Twitter handle.
In case you were looking for me, I used to be found at www.twitter.com/RealtorVan
Now, my new handle is www.twitter.com/RealEVancouver
The reason? Well, you can't write REALTOR® without the registered trademark. It just can't be done. Even in Twitter, where they don't allow symbols in their handles.
How crazy is that? Imagine if we had to write GOOGLE® every time we googled something?
I can't think of an industry as closely regulated in the way we must communicate (but in my opinion not closely regulated enough on things directed towards public protection)…or a group of people more interested in complaining about their peers for petty things….why not save those complaints up for those who don't act in their clients' best interests?
Not even the Vancouver Sun and The Province adhere to this convention. (Just check these links.) It's strictly an awkward, REALTOR® induced restriction.
Even the National Association of Realtors doesn't use this convention.
Here is the REALTOR Code, in case you don't believe me.
Either way, in case you were wondering, that's why I'm always throwing out the caps. I'm not yelling. I'm not trying to say that REALTORS® deserve some special emphasis when being discussed. I am just playing by the rules…..I don't want more REALTORS® complaining to the Real Estate Board about my tweets missing the trademark sign! (you'd think they could spend their time trying to sell their clients homes rather than policing Twitter!)


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- Date: 11th September 2017
- Company: Marontech Communications
Long range easy to fit, easy to use Hawkeye Vehicle System on stand S8-140
A quick fit electro optical system designed for reconnaissance vehicles is launched at DSEI by Chess Dynamics on stand S8-140.
The Hawkeye Vehicle System is an easy to fit and easy to use surveillance system which allows the operator to see out to 20km using a long range day/low light and IR cameras.
"The basic principles of reconnaissance have not changed in millennia, it is to gather and disseminate tactical and operational level information which enables commanders to understand, anticipate and disrupt an enemy's activities," said David Tuddenham, Managing Director at Chess Dynamics. "Our Hawkeye Vehicle system is designed specifically to enhance the most reliable method of persistent surveillance and observation, eyes on the ground."
To reduce the operator's workload the system uses a touch screen, icon based display with a Game Pad stylecontroller. The system has built into it the ability to set up specific target areas which are monitored automatically and the operator alerted to any activity rather than having to continually monitor the screen. It also has target tracking and image stabilisation to reduce fatigue and the cogniscent burden on the operator.
The system comprises a four metre pneumatic mast that lifts the electro optic head, which enables the vehicle to remain "hull down" in anonymity while observing targets at a safe distance and out of reach of direct fireweapons.
The sensor suite incorporates a Laser Range Finder capable of measuring ranges up to 20km; an optional Laser Target Marker, Designator or Near Infra-Red pointer can also be fitted to enhance the platforms capability. The addition of a geo-reference system enables the platform to give accurate target location, which, with the correct battlefield C4I system, can support and feed into the wider targeting cycle.
A Gen4 cooled thermal imager and Chess Dynamics Long Range Piranha Day/Low light camera forms the backbone of the system, detecting targets at extreme ranges.
"A combination of these assets in a squadron would prove useful for target hand off and directing troops at night," said Mr Tuddenham.


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SHIRAI TECH has proudly achieved the 5th Higashi-Osaka
"Monozukuri (innovative manufacturing)" silver prize award in 2003.
|SHIRAI TECH as a specialty maker of glass processing machines:
|Founded in 1962, SHIRAI TECH has since then dedicated itself in developing and manufacturing glass scribing and processing machines. By using our accumulated knowledge and continuing to develop and improve our glass cutting and processing products, we have grown to be a reliable supplier for major LCD and PDP makers around the world. SHIRAI TECH will continue aiming to meet customer needs and demands with traditional yet innovative products.
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