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At Pobal, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We respect your trust in us.
In this notice, we explain how we collect personal information about you, how we use it and how you can interact with us about it.
This document is being provided to you in line with our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force from 25th May 2018. The GDPR, together with applicable Irish data protection law places enhanced accountability and transparency obligations on organisations when using your information. The GDPR also gives you greater control over your personal information, including a right to access your personal information.
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Pobal respects the rights of its users. Any personal information which you choose to send to us via the website will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality.
Some of this information is used to create summary statistics, which allow us to assess the number of visitors to our site, identify what pages are accessed most frequently and generally, help us to make our site more user friendly, and for inclusion in aggregated summary in our reports.
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As Pobal works on behalf of government, we are legally required to hold information to fulfil regulatory and statutory obligations. We use information about you to:
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Pobal takes our security responsibilities seriously, employing the most appropriate administrative, physical and technical measures to safeguard your personal data, and regularly review these measures. All our webpages are secure using the latest Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security standards. When you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear within the address bar.
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From 25th May 2018, you have several enhanced rights in relation to how we use your information, including the right to access your information and receive copies of your information. If you wish to exercise any of your data rights, you can contact our Data Protection Officer. We are currently working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, to request a copy of your personal information please email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
When you contact us to ask about your information, we may ask you to identify yourself. This is to help protect your information.
If we are unable to deal with your request fully within a calendar month (due to the complexity or number of requests) we may extend this period by a further two calendar months and shall explain the reason why.
Contacting Pobal on Data Protection
If you have any questions about our privacy statement, the data we hold about you or you wish to ensure that the data we hold about you is accurate and kept up to date, please do not hesitate to contact our Data Protection Officer, Patrice Kieran at:
Pobal, Holbrook House, Holles Street, Dublin 2
Tel: 01 5117500 or email us at www.dataprotection.ie
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If you have a complaint about the use of your personal information, please let us know to give us the opportunity to put things right as quickly as possible. You can make a complaint by emailing us at: email@example.com. Please be assured that all complaints received will be fully investigated. We ask that you supply as much information as possible to help our staff resolve your complaint quickly.
You can also contact the Data Protection Commission in Ireland at www.dataprotection.ie
Updates to this notice
We will make changes to this notice from time to time, particularly when there is a change to how we use your information, when new programmes come on stream or when there are changes to our technology.
You can always find an up-to-date version of this notice when you log onto our website. This notice was last updated in May 2018
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We have listed cookies used on Pobal websites based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide for cookie categories:
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- Targeting– these cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
Click the 'Tools' icon in the top right hand corner and select 'Internet options'. In the pop up window select the 'Privacy' tab. This tab will allow you to change the security of your browser and the restrictions on cookies.
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Click the spanner in the top right hand corner and select 'Settings'. From here select 'Under the hood' and change the settings under 'Privacy'.
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From the drop down menu in the top left hand corner select 'Options'. In the pop up window select the 'Privacy' tab. From here you can adjust your cookie settings.
From the settings drop down menu in the top right hand corner select 'Preferences'. Select the 'Security' tab and from here you can adjust your cookie settings.
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Betolot Exposed — You Won't Find the Usual Lotteries to Bet!
Betolot Review
"Every second ticket – can win!" or so they say at Betolot.com. I would hope that every ticket can win. This is an online betting site for Casino (slots), Vegas, Sportsbook and live betting – and scratch cards. Don't look for your usual international lotteries here. Betolot has their own games and it took a while for the team to get their heads around this one.
Games at Betolot.com
Betolot definitely got creative. They have a heap of casino games with inventive names like Immortal Romance, Mermaids Millions and Bust the Bank – and that's just to name three. They each of their own rules & regulations, as well, there are demos that players can have a taste of playing before they actually do it for real. There are slots, roulette and blackjack – and yes, poker. Actually, I think the hardest thing about this site would be deciding on which game to play. It was hilarious as we – the team – were all clicking on different demos to see how the different games play.
Betolot's Casino Bonus
Start playing here and you get a bonus of up to 50% of what you deposit up to €350 but the catch. You have to play 25 times the amount that you originally deposited in their casino (meaning online games). This bonus can only be used to play more games and cannot be cashed out. If you stop playing before you hit that 25 times the original deposited amount, then it voids the bonus. We're still sitting here trying to figure out what we'd have to play for what we'd actually get as a bonus.
Getting Your Winnings
There is a minimum withdrawal of £10 and maximum £50,000. You can ask for more, but they might say no. There is a heap of info that they may ask for to ensure Betolot meets the 'anti-money laundering and prevention of terrorist financing legislation and regulations'. The other thing that is weird is winnings are described in the terms and conditions in Great British Pounds (£), but ticket purchasing and winning are shown in Euros (€).
Who Is Betolot?
Betolot.com is owned by a company called Joint Sports Betting Limited and operates under the rules of the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission. There is an Isle of Man snail mail address, UK phone number and an email address for customer support.
Betolot.com's Bottom Line
I'm sorry folks, but this is just too strange for me. I love playing my usual weekly lotteries and enjoy jumping on the band wagon when others start to climb to those mega amounts. The amount of games here is incredible and I can't believe how much time the team used just trying out their demos!
Lots of Different Games
Lots of Ways to Win
Figuring out the Actual Bonus
No Syndicates
No Big Jackpots
The team won't give a thumbs up or a thumbs down on this one! If anyone out there is playing Betolot's games, we'd love to hear how you are getting on.

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At InsideOut Hyperbaric + Wellness, our team focuses on providing the most personalized and innovative regenerative care to help our patients unlock their body's maximum potential for health and performance.
Because we personally understand the frustration of not getting the personalized care needed for better health and wellness, we have created our InsideOut Patient Promise.
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The teaser of much-awaited song Main Taare, from Notebook, is out and the song has been crooned by none other than Salman Khan.
In the video, Salman is seen wearing a T-Shirt and jeans with a leather jacket. He teamed it up with black shades and black shoes. The superstar sings the song with major feels.
Reportedly, Main Taare is the same song that was earlier being crooned by Pakistani singer Atif Aslam. However, after the ghastly Pulwama Attack on February 14, the film's team decided to not have any Pakistani artist on board.
With 'Notebook', Salman will be launching two new faces in Bollywood, Zaheer Iqbal and Pranutan Bahl. The trailer of the film has received a lot of love and appreciation from the audience.
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Notebook tells the story of two teachers, played by Pranutan and Zaheer, who fall in love with each other without ever having met each other. They leave behind notes for each other in a shared 'notebook' while teaching in a school at different times.
The film is set in Kashmir and is being produced by Salman Khan Films along with Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde of Cine1 Studios.
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Notebook song Bumro: Zaheer Iqbal shines with his dancing skills
Directed by Nitin Kakkar, the film is slated to release on 29th March, 2019.


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Capital is an essential measurement of a credit union's financial fortitude. It works as a bulwark against losses and provides protection for members during periods of economic trouble for the credit union. When looking at safety and soundness, more capital is preferred.
On our test to measure the adequacy of a credit union's capital, FCI racked up 22 out of a possible 30 points, beating the national average of 15.65.
FCI appears to be more resilient than its peers, with a capitalization ratio of 22.00 percent in our test, above the average for all credit unions.
In this test, Bankrate tries to determine the impact of problem assets, such as unpaid mortgages, on the credit union's loan loss reserves and overall capitalization.
Having extensive holdings of these types of assets suggests a credit union may eventually have to use capital to cover losses, diminishing its equity cushion. It also means that there are likely to be many assets that are in non-accrual status and thus aren't earning interest for the credit union, decreasing earnings and increasing the chances of a failure in the future.
On Bankrate's asset quality test, FCI scored 36 out of a possible 40 points, coming in below the national average of 38.09 points.
A lower-than-average ratio of problem assets of 0.00 percent in our test was potentially indicative of superior financial strength compared to other credit unions.
A credit union's ability to earn money affects its long-term survivability. A credit union can retain its earnings, increasing its capital buffer, or put them to work addressing problematic loans, potentially making the credit union more resilient in tough times. However, credit unions that are losing money have less ability to do those things.
FCI scored 0 out of a possible 30 on Bankrate's test of earnings, less than the national average of 10.11.
The credit union had an earnings ratio of 0.00 percent in our test, above the average for all credit unions, an indication that it's running ahead of its peers in this area.
Bankrate.com's Safe & Sound Ratings provide a star rating system to evaluate the current financial status of financial institutions. The information gathered about banks, credit unions and thrifts is updated as set forth in the Terms of Use of Safe & Sound Ratings and Reports. The Safe & Sound Ratings information is grouped by categories of banks, thrifts and credit unions.
Bankrate.com evaluates the financial condition of institutions and assigns a one- to five-star rating for each with five stars representing the highest rating. Institutions with satisfactory performance will generally receive a rating of three or more stars. The majority of institutions fall into the three- to four-star range. An institution with an "NR" rating may be too new to rate or may have limited the publicly available information in their regulatory filings. The "NR" is not an indication of financial strength or weakness. The Safe & Sound rating is believed to be reliable, but the information is not guaranteed. In addition, events since the information was collected may have altered the institution's financial condition.


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Translator: Eleanora; Editor: Spencer
"Real snow?"
Perhaps it was too unexpected. The Director repeated the words with a stunned look.
"Are you suggesting that we use something like a Snow Blower and spray artificial snow or something?"
"Something similar."
"Would that work? It's not like this is a skating arena, and there isn't any temperature control equipment necessary to maintain freezing temperature. How would you maintain the snow in indoor temperature?"
Unlike the pessimistic reaction of the Director, the Representative showed interest in his gaze.
"Director, who is this fellow?"
"Ah, this man here is the staff in charge of today's Pyrotechnics."
"Wasn't that your area of expertise, Director?"
"He's also highly skilled. For me, all I can do is choose the timing to fire off the effects, but Jungwu is able to manipulate the fireworks itself and give it flavor."
The Representative looked Jungwu up and down as if to inspect him.
"Highly skilled you say?"
Jungwu didn't get intimidated nor did he look overly confident, maintaining a calm look as he faced the Shopping Mall's CEO. The Representative said,
"I have considered using real snow before. I've visited Dubai once and seen their ski resort. Why shouldn't it be possible to do something that they managed to do in that sweltering desert?"
A question was posed by the Representative. Since Jungwu had never imagined anything so fancy as running a ski resort in the middle of a desert, he answered while scratching his chin.
"Of course it will be easier than in the desert. Like the Director said earlier, cold temperature is necessary to form snow. But having bone-chilling coldness like a Skating Rink is also not necessary."
Jungwu thought about the snowflake phenomena he had witnessed earlier in the room, and then started with the conclusion.
"It will be made on top over there. If you open all the windows the top floor will get sufficiently cold enough. It's a method that will work even if it doesn't get below freezing. It's fine just reaching near freezing temperatures."
"Near freezing? Hey Jungwuya, near freezing temperatures in winter isn't cold, it would be considered rather comfortably warm. Ice doesn't even easily form until you reach negative 5 degrees celsius. So wouldn't the Snow Blower just make rain instead?"
Jungwu nodded to the Director's logical statements.
"Pure water actually freezes at negative 39 degrees celsius or lower. But snow isn't simply frozen water. Ice star…oh I should call it Ice Nucleus, as long as there is a material to maintain the Ice formation, the freezing point can be much much higher. Whether it's an impurity like dust or a granule that water molecules stick to…"
He imagined the process of the Ice Nucleus transforming into a snowflake star. Jungwu looked at the chemical composition of molecules gently wrapping the surface of the Ice Star.
"…like a man-made protein compound."
"Protein compound?"
"Did you know that when there is formation of frost in the fall, the plants form a layer of ice at mere negative 2 degrees celsius? It's caused by a microorganism called Pseudomonas. This Microorganism has protein on the surface that acts as Ice Nucleus needed for ice to form. And so crops freeze at relatively higher temperatures."
Perhaps it was due to the calm manner he was giving his ideas, even the Director became engrossed in the explanation. It was then the Representative who was wanting to grasp at straws finally looked pleased.
Soochan who had been viewing the situation nervously finally calmed down when he noticed the two men's reactions.
"The ski resort built in the desert probably used this protein to mass produce snow that forms at a higher temperature, since it's cheaper to do this than to use the air conditioner to reduce the temperature by even one degree."
"So where can this protein be purchased?"
The Representative asked without being able to hold himself back. Jungwu scratched his chin and replied nonchalantly.
"Pseudomonas doesn't have all that of a complex genetic structure, so most chemical companies should be able to design a much more effective product…"
Jungwu suddenly stopped speaking.
"Excuse me, Mr. Representative. Would you mind if I called our company KG Chemicals to see if they sell it?"
"KG Chemicals?"
Because Jungwu was wearing a "Sing Company" entry tag around his neck, the Representative looked confused. Jungwu pointed towards his friend.
"I came today to help out a friend. I actually work at KG Chemicals."
"So you worked for a Chemical company. That explains why you speak so differently from other stage crews I've seen. I would love to move ahead with the idea at the earliest convenience so please go ahead and give them a call."
"Alright, please give me 3 minutes."
After leaving the control room, Jungwu found his cellphone and dialed the number.
'Please answer.'
The signal rang a few times, and luckily the person on the other end picked up the phone.
– Yes
There was a sense of intelligence behind this woman's voice.
"Ah, Doctor Moon. Sorry for calling so suddenly.
– Jungwu ssi? What do you need?
"I think I just ran into an opportunity to raise my work performance."
Jungwu quickly summarized the events.
"So what we need is large amounts of specialized protein compound, and so I was wondering if KG Chemicals would have them in stock, and what are the processes of obtaining it."
– …You're making sales on weekends?
Doctor Moon's puzzled tone of voice was apparent even through the phone.
"I didn't come here to make a sale per se. First step is checking if we have this material in the material library at the Central Research Laboratory. So, do you know anyone who's hard-working enough to go to work on weekends?"
– Tell me then.
"Excuse me?"
– I'm close to where I can access the database so just tell me then.
"Doctor Moon, did you head to work today?"
– I am in the middle of making progress on my project.
Jungwu swallowed back his groan of surprise. Last weekend, she had stayed awake all night with him, and even this weekend she decided to go to work. Recalling that he had been complaining just this morning that he might be suffering from work addiction, he couldn't help but feel that he had been naive in the face of a real workaholic.
Feeling humbled, Jungwu said,
"It's a protein made by a microorganism called Pseudomonas. I don't know how far the production stage has reached, but to begin, with we need Malonyl, Acyl Carrier Protein, and something that can act as coating for transacylase…"
After searching based on the chemical information that Jungwu provided, Doctor Moon finally answered.
– There is a record of producing a product called Super Snow Max. What's this? It's listed as a product targeted for Ski Resorts.
"That's the right one."
– It's quite expensive. Although it showed 89% increase in the volume of snow, the note states that it was put on hold due to high production unit prices. There's raw material stored in Paju Factory's number 13 warehouse.
"How can I obtain them?"
– It's a 24-hour production factory so as long as you place an order, it should work.
"I don't know how contracts work so…"
– So why is a researcher involving himself in sales?
"I'll explain when we meet later. 3 minutes are almost over. The Representative is giving me looks. I need the product within the next 2 hours."
– I'll give you the phone number of R&D Sales division's Deputy. He's our project supervisor, so he's currently at the company.
Jungwu guessed that the man was probably forced against his will to come to work because of Doctor Moon, but Jungwu didn't comment and gave her a reply.
"Thank you!"
After calling Sales Team 2's Deputy named Sangchul Jo, Jungwu was able to get the answer that the product could be provided within the time constraint.
The price was agreed to at a higher premium for being a weekend rush order, but considering the Representative's personality thus far, he probably wouldn't mind the total.
Soon after, Representative Yum and his secretary stood before Jungwu.
"It's a verbal contract, but the preparations will be done on time right?"
"Yes. And please make sure to deposit the money if it works."
Jungwu thought of Deputy Jo who was rushing on his way with the materials for the artificial snow and said,
"Please keep one thing in mind. The Clean up after spraying a ton of snow into the interior of the building… My neighborhood gets chaotic when it snows every year. The neighbor across the street spends most of the time sweeping the snow, and when his wife came to nag once, she slipped and had cracked her hips. My mother is the head of Women's Club, and she always goes to meet a grandma who claims that all you need to do is lay charcoal."
Mr. Representative gave a smile.
"The value of advertisement for spraying real snow is much greater than the cost of cleanup. We already completed the agreement for artificial snow. All I can do is wait and hope that things go as planned."
"You won't have to worry about that. There is no such thing as fake or coincidence when the criterion for a chemical reaction is met."
"Did you say you were a chemist?"
"Yes, sir."
"I didn't notice it before, but when I look at you, I get the feeling that it's a very interesting area of study."
"I am experiencing that for myself recently."
'Along with 3D VR mixing into my reality.'
By 6 30 pm, the shopping mall became packed with customers who came to watch the mini concert. Jungwu leaned against the rails on the top floor to look down.
It was the stage he had been helping set up since the morning. Behind it were the VIP guests. And beyond that were what appeared to be thousands of regular audience. Seeing them from such a height made them seem small and tiny.
"Oof so cold."
He was wearing a glove, but he still felt the chill from the wind that blew in from the open windows.
'If I were to convert a hotpack with the corrosive process like the last time the snow won't form."
There was nothing he could do but endure it and wait. The employees who installed and were waiting on standby next to the snow-making machine were also shivering in the cold.
Bee beep
– Jungwu ssi, when will Deputy Jo arrive?
Jungwu couldn't answer the question asked over the radio. The Deputy was supposed to arrive already but was caught in traffic. He asked instead,
"Until when do we have to spray the snow?"
– Isul's entrance is the cutoff line. One hour from the start of the concert. If we don't then the customers won't be able to enjoy the event.
It meant the snow had to begin before 8 pm.
"Eh? Are you Director Kim?"
– That is correct.
"Why are you using elevated terms?*"
– I'm showing deference. You just don't seem like someone I should be speaking plainly to.
"It's ok though. I'm Soochan's friend.
– I think it was a good thing that Soochan decided to bring Jungwu ssi today. The Representative is looking forward to the event. If we fail, this will be the last time for me to run the show in this mall.
"And if we succeed?"
– Then, how do I say this. You save the life of a person with the title of Business Vice President. And I will probably be given monopoly over all events that happen in this giant shopping mall.
"That sounds great."
– If that happens, I will make sure to compensate properly.
Once 7 pm hit, the Mini Concert began with a spectacle.
The Girlgroup TOT took to the stage and gave an energetic introduction and began with their hit song 'Go!', which raised the atmosphere of the mall in mere moments.
Jungwu couldn't take his eyes away from the stage despite stomping his feet to chase away the cold. The live show was definitely fundamentally different from the rehearsal.
"The right thing for the right time, stage performance really benefits from support devices."
Lights and smoke; everything on top of the stage blinking and sparkling along to the rhythm drew in the audience's attention.
Once two songs were over, the first Fireworks went off.
It was short, but it created an unmistakable image of chrysanthemum flower with the letters [TOT] clearly written in the center for a brief moment before disappearing. The fireworks gave a refreshing feel as they popped and illuminated the image. It was wonderous, like a magic show.
Bee beep
– Wow, what the. Jungwu ssi, just where did you learn to do that? I don't think even the H Innovation pyrotechnic experts can make something like that. And they are the ones who manage fireworks run by the City of Seoul during festivals.
"That's because they're only a 5th rank Chemical Company in the country. I work for KG Chemicals."
Jungwu made a subtle inference at KG Chemical's 1st place position and let him know his company's greatness. He then resumed putting his attention back to the Girl group's enthusiastic performance below.
Thanks to the great intro, spectacle, and fancy fireworks, the applause of the visitors of the mall reached fever pitch. He even saw that there were people at the entrance that couldn't enter and were watching from outside.
As an event, this was most definitely a success.
And eventually, the 3rd group on the list came on stage.
"It's the Girlfriends!"
Jungwu shouted when he stopped himself.
For one reason or another, he was unable to get Yulhwi's autograph.
'Oh my god, that was the most important thing.'
Jungwu watched their performance from afar with a dull face. It wasn't like he was in the front row with the best seats, so Jungwu became even more wilted.
'Let me see! Zoom in!'
He couldn't closely perceive the events on the stage even with the chemical worldview. Too many Dust Stars were dancing along to the rhythm, making everything look wavy.
'All of you guys go away!'
He was waving his hand when his cellphone finally rang. It was the Deputy he had been waiting for.
"Hello, Mister Deputy? Back door? There should be a staff named Soochan Park there waiting so just give him the materials. If you hand the purchase receipt to Secretary Jung, they should transfer the funds right away."
Although he didn't get any signature on paper, Jungwu felt confident everything was going to work out well. He quickly addressed the staff standing before the sedan-sized snow machine.
"The additive is on its way up. Please begin the snow machine. And you can start shooting as soon as the material is mixed."
5 minutes later, the Elevator doors opened, and Soochan came running while pushing a cart filled with boxes.
"Hey, this way!"
A box was opened, and they mixed the powder in the plastic container with the label "Super Snow Max" into the water tank, and Jungwu nodded.
The Engine gave a rawr as it began to work, and the nozzle of the snow machine began to blow water molecules from the humidifier. Jungwu was worried that the energy from the Dust stars might raise the kinetic energy in the air and chased them even further away.
'Ok, now freeze!'
The humidity in the air first looked like white fog. But the water molecules began to freeze rapidly and gather around small particles as they floated around. Soon the reaction Jungwu had seen a few hours ago was repeated.
'It's done.'
Chasing away the Dust stars was very helpful. There were more particles than perfect snowflakes, but this concentration of snow was still a success.
Soochan who was watching haplessly from the side suddenly opened his mouth.
"What did I tell you?"
A particle of snow became focused by Jungwu's vision.
It was transparent and flat. It was a more perfect six-sided wings than any other snowflake he had ever seen.
'Oh, you were made so well. Bye bye~'
The perfectly pure and clean snowflake gently floated down to the plaza below.
The Snow machine was connected to the fire extinguisher system of the building, so soon the snow machine began to bellow snow like a storm.
At the same time, on the stage.
[Isul ssi, please prepare to make a comment during the interlude.]
Isul was in the middle of singing her third song 'Winter is Coming~" when she saw the message pop up from the Stage use monitor. She sent the control room a quizzical look when she noticed it.
'What do they mean?'
She had only worn an earpiece that played the accompaniment so she couldn't ask directly. Once the verse was over, it was time for the guitar solo. The message on the screen surprised her.
'Why this?'
Isul carefully opened her lips.
"Everyone, do you like snow?"
The crowd that had been listening enthusiastically answered happily with a "Yes!"
"Um…shall we look up at the sky?"
Once the comment was over, the lights moved as one and aimed at the Mall's ceiling.
A brief moment of silence fell over the mall.
"What is that?"
"My goodness…"
Isul also looked up hearing the murmur of the crowds and couldn't help but watch agape.
Soundless snowflakes.
The air was filled with them.
The snow gently fell upon the heads of the guests below, and all of them were shocked.
[Isul ssi, the interlude is over!]
– We should sometimes run forward without looking back on days like this so that we can leave footprints upon the white snow
The thin ice melted the moment it landed on the outstretched hands. It was just an ordinary symbol of winter, but it seemed so tender.
Couples leaned on each other's shoulders, and families grasped each other's hands. The guests enjoyed the unexpected gift happily.
'It looks like we are inside of a snowball globe.'
Isul couldn't help but smile when she felt the pleasant sensation of something cold touch the hand she was strumming her guitar with.
– Since its snowing, since it's winter. Let's walk together through the whitened world…
Once the song was over, everyone gathered in the mall gave a standing ovation. To Isul. To the miracle from the sky.
When Isul read the message on her monitor, she immediately began to speak into the mic.
"They've turned off the heater. Please put on your coats. I'll begin the fourth song."
'Zzzt PIIII'
While Isul was speaking she suddenly heard a strange sound from the right speaker and flinched.
TL NOTE: Korean has various 'forms' of the language. Rude, regular, elevated, super-elevated, deified, etc. The reason why it's a 'form' is because grammar and vocabulary actually differs between them significantly (and it is obvious when someone switches form). Most common forms are rude regular and elevated language. And the people you use each of the forms for are fairly common sense (rude for people you can afford to insult and dislike, normal form for people of the same standing or below, and elevated for people of higher rank or age). The fact that the Director used elevated form means that he perceives Jungwu as being higher standing than his own (because Director is for sure older) which is why Jungwu is shocked.
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Food tour of Sydney
The Taste of Sydney is more than a tour; it's an inspiration.
This indulgent six hour extravaganza of Sydney's most vibrant precincts will have you exploring and arriving in style. Get an exclusive introduction to Barangaroo, The Tramsheds in Rozelle, The Cannery in Rosebery and Spice Alley in Chippendale.
As we drive from venue to venue, you will get an update of the city's many special neighbourhoods and appreciate how they are evolving as the city continues to prosper.
Why not consider this tour to celebrate a special occasion such as Mother's or Father's Day; anniversaries, engagements, get-together with out of town visitors, or a corporate team building event. The Taste of Sydney tour makes a great gift for the 'hard to buy for', so why not buy a gift voucher today?
Each of the four precincts visited are a buzz of activity. If you are after a fun and entertaining day out, with plenty of delicious food and drink to devour, then this is the tour for you.
On The Taste of Sydney tour, you will experience:
- Comfortable travel in a modern air-conditioned minivan, with your personalised guide
- Convenient pick up from your city hotel, or chosen city location
- Delicious signature share plates (with paired drinks) created exclusively for our tour
- Premier seating at all venues
- Dine at Sydney's newest waterfront dining precinct
- Exclusive behind the scenes access at one of Sydney's premier distilleries
- Dine in a fully restored 1904 tram that has been converted into an amazing restaurant space
- Meander down Spice Alley and experience hawker style dinning as you sample an array of Asian street food
- Wine tasting of six carefully selected favourites and premium wines with in-house Sommelier
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HERE are some of the key infrastructure projects in China's top tier cities that have involved government agencies and private sector players from Singapore.
- The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) celebrated its 20th anniversary in October last year. The SIP began in 1994 as a bilateral project for Singapore to share industrialisation experiences with China and was backed by the late former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.
- Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is the second flagship government-to-government project between Singapore and China after SIP. The project was mooted by then Singapore senior minister Goh Chok Tong and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao in April 2007. The development is designed to be a model of sustainable development.
- Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City is slated to be China's first smart city and a catalyst for Guandong's economic transformation. Six pillar industries have been identified for development, namely: next generation information & communication technology (ICT); biotechnology & pharmaceuticals; clean technology; next generation materials, culture & creative industries; and science & education services.
- Ascendas Lotus Business Park is a premium business park project in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park. The technology park is located in the Pudong district of Shanghai which was recently included in the Free Trade Zone. The project occupies a gross floor area of over 70,000 sq m and is easily accessible to the metropolitan area and Shanghai's Pudong International airport by road and rail.


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Basalt football's Thomas Wirth signs with Oregon's DIII Willamette University
For the better part of four years, and especially the past two when the Basalt High School football team won back-to-back Western Slope League titles, the offensive line has been the heart and soul of the program.
And among the three senior linemen this past season was Thomas Wirth, who will take his talents west late this summer when he begins playing for Willamette University, an NCAA Division III school in Salem, Oregon. Wirth signed his letter of intent on Thursday in Basalt.
"Ever since I started playing football in third grade it's been my top priority as far as looking at colleges," Wirth said of his desire to play football after high school. "I think it's a cool state. It's a little bit like Colorado, except it's going to rain a lot more. I'm going to bring a rain coat."
Wirth, who also was a standout wrestler for the Longhorns, played on both sides of the ball for the football team. He said the Bearcats are looking at him as a possible lineman on either side of the ball as well, along with plugging him in as a fullback or H-back.
While not the biggest of players — he was only listed as being 5-foot, 5-inches and 200 pounds on MaxPreps as a senior — he's made up for it in the way he plays.
"I can't be happier for him and his family. He's an extremely hard worker and I'm glad he found a home," Basalt football coach Carl Frerichs said. "It seems like it's a great school as well. More importantly, he found a great place to keep playing football and get a great education. He's one of the hardest working kids we've had."
Wirth said he had dozens of schools reaching out to him, and slowly whittled it down to the final two or three schools before deciding on Willamette. The Bearcats, who are coached by Glen Fowles, won only a combined five games the past two seasons but have periodically had strong seasons in the past. They won a combined 15 games over the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
"I appreciated his journey because he started over a year ago and worked with communicating with all the coaches," said Kerry Wirth, Thomas's mother. "I'm disappointed it's so far away — 18 hours by car. But we are saving our points to fly back for a couple of football games."
Wirth plans to major in exercise science at Willamette and hopes to someday be a college football coach. He'll report to camp Aug. 10, with the Bearcats set to play their first game of the 2018 season Sept. 1 at Simon Fraser in British Columbia, Canada.
BHS football will get its first taste of 2018 when it starts spring camp in the coming weeks. The Longhorns are scheduled to host Paonia in a June 7 scrimmage.
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ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — I've heard many marketers say that it's impossible to effectively target using the Internet, much less diagnose why visitors are not exhibiting a desired response. Visitors are coming from search engines, from links and more links that are in ads, newsletters, e-mail campaigns, various forms of social media, other Web sites and by direct URL access. Visitors are coming from every corner of the world, every cubicle, coming by the millions, and skipping to and from and all around your Web site. Targeting on the Internet, analyzing the possibilities and permutations is just too daunting. Or is it?
You absolutely can effectively target using the Internet, and it's more important than ever. Cost-effective qualified lead generation is an inviolable objective of marketing. This does not change just because you are working with new media options, larger potential audiences and more data to process. Indeed, the ease of reaching vast audiences with countless online media alternatives is a reason why targeting is more important than ever. You have to minimize the possibility of being inundated with junk leads that can hamstring your system for lead follow-up.
Or worse, alienate your sales people because they're tired of calling on college kids who downloaded information on your products for a term paper. Success hinges on using today's sophisticated Web analytics tools in combination with a deliberate strategy to reach the target market and buyer with linking, e-mail and search strategies and, very importantly, making sure your communications are crafted for your target buyer.
The double-edged-sword of search engines
Thousands of articles on search engine optimization (SEO) have been written to help companies increase their search engine rankings. What these articles don't tell you is that some of the things you may do to increase your search engine rankings can negatively affect your efforts at targeting, such as, the drives to increase links and paid search click throughs.
The drive to have more and more inbound links to increase search engine rankings is probably the single greatest source of unqualified visitors. Links from Web sites that are offering products and services that do not attract a common target buyer are a prime source of junk visits. Programs that focus on links, such as link exchanges, paper or logo partnerships, and unmanaged affiliate free-for-alls may increase your search engine rankings but like any haphazard campaign, will generate tons of junk leads.
A well-conceived linking strategy, on the other hand, will improve search engine rankings and drive qualified visitors to your site. Take public relations activities, such as press releases and articles that contain that all important inbound link. You need these vehicles to consistently reach and speak to the visitors you really want. If a PR activity is geared toward multiple-audiences, you'll need to develop multiple constituency communications – but make sure you never forget to focus on the target buyer.
Another source of wayward visitors comes from partnerships where the first objective (and often the last) is to exchange logos with embedded links. When the principle objective of a partnership is lead generation, focus on partners with a common target buyer.
To successfully target buyers through search, paid or organic, you have to know how your target buyer thinks about the products you are promoting. I once sat in a room full of employees and asked them to identify the search terms that we needed to incorporate into our paid and organic search plans. I then sat down with a group of customers and asked them the same question and then repeated the process with a group of prospects.
There was some overlap, but even more variations. In most companies I have worked with, search terms are determined internally and by looking at what competitors are using: competitors that are probably relying on the instincts of their employees rather than reaching out to the target buyers. If you want search engines to bring target buyers to your site, you need to speak their language.
The true cost of free e-mail blasts
The ability to send targeted e-mail has advanced greatly beyond the days where the only throttle was excluding folks that opted-out. Still because e-mail is viewed as free or nearly so, e-mail campaigns often blast way beyond the borders of the target buyer's universe. The problem with this is twofold: (1) following up on junk leads is not free; and (2) you may cause qualified buyers for one of your products to opt out of your communications, because you've polluted their inbox with information about product they have no interest in. When defining the reach for an e-mail blast you should always select recipients based on the profile of the target buyer. Your database may not contain all of the target buyer characteristics that you would like to select on, but work with what's available. It will reduce the two problems noted above. Meanwhile, put a plan in place to build out your customer profiles, and reduce those two problems further.
Analyzing if page view and visitor counts are the work of the target buyer
Targeting with new media is similar to targeting with old media, with one gigantic and invaluable difference: you have real and current data to analyze a campaign's success – which will be intricately tied to the definition of your target buyer and whether you have reached and communicated with the buyer. I have seen many who toil over reams of data analyzing page view, visitor and click-through quantities and trends. This data has some value because it let's you know that someone has actually viewed your promotions, if only for a split second, but it is nearly as nebulous for understanding the success of your targeting as the old media metrics of readership, audience share or the number of direct mail pieces posted.
Better information is in store if you look at the paths and patterns of visitor behaviors. Try looking at what your Web analytics are telling you about your visitors. What information did they view and very importantly, for how long? How many times did they visit your site and over what time period? Did their views or visits follow an orderly path, perhaps inspired by a cleverly crafted integrated campaign that indicated they were working their way through a normal new customer process: first becoming educated on a product and a brand; then looking for more in-depth information on a solution and competitive offerings, and finally moving into purchase mode.
Even with all of this data, you will still fail to possess the identity and characteristics of your visitors, forcing you to draw inferences on whether you have really reached and communicated with your target buyer. However, if visitors are following a somewhat orderly path, with or without campaign guidance, even if the path takes months to complete, or if they're returning over and over again and spending time on their visits looking at product-related information, with some confidence you can infer that you are reaching your target buyer.
Visitors completing the forms for a sale, and those creatively encouraged to register on your site can help minimize the need for inferring success in reaching the target buyer, because now you have some information on the identity of the visitor. Depending on the data required to complete the registration or visitor willingness to volunteer information, you may have access to demographics, information on why a product was purchased, and even psychographics, such as buyer interests and preferred activities. This additional data can assist in evaluating: if you have reached your defined target; aid the process of really sharpening your segmentation, communications and promotional mix, and facilitate targeted follow-on sales and marketing outreach.
Communicating with the target buyer
If you are confident that your promotions are reaching the target buyer, but they are abandoning the process too early, you may have defined your target buyer too broadly or even incorrectly or perhaps you are not effectively communicating with the buyer. When crafting communications try following these simple guidelines:
(1) Understand what unmet need(s) target buyers are seeking solutions for from your products, and then communicate how your solution meets the need — in their terms. The writer relying on insulated internal sources to develop copy is doomed.
(2) Determine to what degree the target buyer is interested in production orientation versus marketing orientation: how something is built versus how a product helps them solve problems. Technology companies are often guilty of piling on production-oriented technical jargon that may appeal to an IT professional but means nothing to a non-technical target buyer.
(3) Decide if you need a global or multi-domestic communications strategy. If clients around the world view the benefits of your product similarly, you can use a global strategy – with translations as needed. If not, use a multi-domestic strategy. With technology products I have found the world at large often does not adopt simultaneously. Adoption varies among continents and countries, and so do the problems they are trying to solve at any given time. If your Web site is globally beaming solutions to the most complex problems, you may be building innovation into your brand, yet alienating prospects looking for solutions to modest problems.
(4) Decide to what degree your target buyers need to be educated about the benefits of a category of products (primary demand sell), versus why your product is the best (secondary demand). When companies incorrectly assume that a secondary demand strategy should be followed, target buyers often abandon a Web site scratching their heads and wondering what your product actually does. When companies focus too heavily on primary demand, they can serve as lead generators for their competitors. Have you ever wondered why so many visitors leave your site and next surf to your competitor's site?
Winning strategy
Visitors can arrive at your site from many sources. Haphazard approaches to linking, e-mail and search can easily result in millions of unqualified visitors. Instead take a deliberate approach. Find out what Web sites your target buyer frequents, what their needs are and how they think about your products. Then target your plans for using links, search engines, direct marketing, advertising and communications to reach this buyer. Use Web analytics to monitor the results and to guide efforts that will further fine-tune your online promotions and presence.


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A Bar Without Campari Is No Bar At All
Campari is an Italian company and actually owns Wild Turkey down in Kentucky. For some more cool trivia, it used to be colored with red bug shells but they stopped in 2006. If you care about rankings Wine Enthusiast gave it a 96 out of 100 a few years ago (post bugs) and that places it in great company with some of . . .
Your Grandfather Liked Anise and You Should Too
for a Cloudy Afternoon
Anise Liqueur
For whatever reason our American taste buds aren't really huge fans of anise the way just about every other culture is. The Turkish go nuts for Raki while the Greek drink their Ouzo. Sambuca is seen more on the table and less in the club in Italy and in Southern France, Pastis and water is a . . .
Stop Leaving Your Vermouth Out on the Counter
and Other Fortified Wine
A broad term for aromatized and fortified wine. It is flavored similarly to gin with roots sticks, flowers, and barks. China actually can lay claim to first fortifying wine all the way back in 1250 BC (before cocktails) as an ancient stomach relief. Wormwood being a key ingredient and where Vermouth got . . .
The Only 3 Bitters You Need to Make Great Drinks
The Salt and Pepper of Cocktails
Great in drinks, soups, sodas, and medicines yet terrible for white cotton oxford shirts or any fabric for that matter. Really quickly we are going to talk about three very different bitters and you should collect them all.
Angostura Bitters: sits at a lovely 44.7% abv and calls Trinidad and . . .
Why Triple Sec is the New Curaçao
But it doesn't really matter
Orange Liqueur
You know what I am talking about, Triple sec or Curaçao if you like to sound fancy! The stuff that Chili's has been up charging us for in our giant sugar town presidential margaritas for years. Originally produced on the island of Curaçao in the Caribbean Sea, it is a liqueur (pronounced like . . .
How Brandy is the OG of Modern Distiliation
The Original
Eaux-de-vie. Burned wine. Blame it on the Henny. Etc. Brandy is basically the corner stone of distillation and aging spirits as we know it today. Brandy is made from fruit. It is very common to see grapes used as in Cognac or Armagnac but apples, peaches, plums, whatever can be used. Without brandy we would . . .
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Enjoying Scotch More
Here it goes down...down into my belly
My favorite "brown" spirit. Scotch is rarely actually brown in color due to its prevalent use of previously used casks or barrels. A part of production that is forbidden for Bourbon and totally fine for Scotch aging. Another big difference is the allowance of coloring but it is usually obvious, often . . .


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Federal Work-Study (FWS) is a type of financial aid that allows students to earn money through part-time employment on the CSULB campus. The intent of the program is to assist students with paying for educational expenses. FWS jobs are available during the Fall and Spring semesters to undergraduate, credential and graduate students who meet federal and institutional eligibility requirements.
How do I maintain my eligibility?
- Complete your FAFSA each academic year by March 2nd
- Indicate on your FAFSA that you are interested in Federal Work-Study
- Receive FWS award offer in your financial aid award
- Enroll in minimum of 6 units per semester
- Maintain good academic standing according to Satisfactory Academic Progress standards
- Maintain Office of Financial Aid eligibility criteria
Please note: if you do not earn any of your FWS award during the academic year, the award will not be offered to you in the future.
How do I look for jobs?
You can search for available FWS jobs on CareerLINK through your Single Sign On. Each FWS job posting will indicate the job duties and hourly rate of pay, as well as how to apply for the position. You should apply directly with the department who posted the position. If you are selected for an interview, the department will reach out to you directly.
How much can I earn?
You can earn up to your FWS award amount listed in your MyCSULB account. The department that you are working for will set your hourly rate of pay, which will be at minimum the California State minimum wage. You and your supervisor will determine your schedule, up to a maximum of 20 hours per week, during the academic year.
Please note: FWS award amounts are subject to change before and during the school year, depending on your eligibility and other financial aid awards. You and your supervisor will be notified if changes are made to your FWS award.
How will I be paid?
You will be paid monthly with a pay date of the 15th of each month. You can sign up for direct deposit through the CSULB Payroll department or receive a paper check from your FWS supervisor.
How do Federal Work-Study (FWS) students maintain their eligibility?
Students must:
- Complete their FAFSA each academic year by March 2nd
- Indicate on their FAFSA that they are interested in Federal Work-Study
- Receive FWS award offer in their financial aid award
- Enroll in minimum of 6 units per semester
- Maintain good academic standing according to Satisfactory Academic Progress standards
- Maintain Office of Financial Aid eligibility criteria
How will I know if my FWS student is eligible for my position?
Verify with your potential candidates that they are offered a FWS award by requesting a copy of their financial aid awards from their MyCSULB account.
Please note: FWS awards may change at any point during the academic year. If a FWS student's award changes, the student and employer will be notified via email.
How do I hire a FWS student?
- Once your Position Request Form is approved through the Office of Financial Aid, you can post your open positions on CareerLINK
- Contact the Career Development Center for questions on posting your position
- Interview your potential employees
- FWS is considered part-time employment at CSULB. The Office of Financial Aid highly encourages employers to conduct interviews with potential candidates to ensure the student is a good fit for the department
- Once you have selected your employee, contact your ASM for what forms and documentation must be submitted


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8 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My eCommerce Business
– Hey, what's up everybody? Anton here, from dropshiplifestyle.com. And today I'll be spending
a bunch of time working on some training we're doing
that's gonna be released at the same time as my new book. And when I was doing that,
it really got me thinking of, like, the beginning, right? When I First got into
E-commerce back in 2007, and specifically it got
me thinking of the things that I wish I would've
known way back then. That would've given me a big jumpstart. There were eight things that stood out. So today, in this episode
of Drop Ship Weekly, I'm gonna share those eight
things that I wish I knew back when I started in E-commerce. (upbeat guitar music) So the first thing is what
I call the 90/10 rule. It's similar to the 80/20, but I do 90/10. And this is basically
something that I apply when it comes to our marketing efforts. So, how we're trying to attract
people to become customers, and even things we're doing
once they're on our site. So, where we're spending
money, what we're doing in terms of conversions, how
much testing we're doing. For the formula that I
like to do, it's 90% going into what is working and 10%
on what is experimental, right? So, let's just say hypothetically
that Google Ads is making up, right now, all of our revenue. It's all coming from
Google Ads. Well okay. Maybe rightfully, I would
start thinking, "You know what? "We should test some
different platforms out. "What if, you know, knock
on wood, something happens "with Google and we either
get too much competition "or they decide they
don't like us anymore." Right? So back in the day, my thought
process was very similar to that, and it was okay,
now let's start spending in other places. And really what ended up
happening is we were taking too much of the main budget,
not just the money budget, but like time budget, like our effort. And we were diverting too much
away from what was working and putting it into all these
little buckets of testing, like okay, well we should
do this and this and this and this. And what happened is
too much of what worked was being pulled away,
again between time and money to be put into other things as projects that we were testing. Now what we do now and what
I believe everybody should do is only take about 10% away. So again, whatever your thing
is, whatever is working, you wanna basically double down on that. You wanna, you know, put
your foot on the gas. You wanna make that as best as it can be. And you still do wanna be
experimenting, but again in my opinion, only
about 10% of your budget in terms of money and in
terms of time should go towards those experimental things. If you wanted to get into,
you know, Facebook Ads and again, Google was
your moneymaker right now, you should not take 30% of
your budget and throw it towards Facebook this
month to see what happens because that's gonna take
away from what is proven. So again, 90/10 rule. That's the first thing I wish I knew. It would've allowed me to
put more of my own time, energy, and money into what
is working and still be able to have this playground
where we're learning about what may come next
or what could be there as a safety net. Now the second thing that
I wish I knew earlier on was that when you outsource
tasks and when you hire people, and when you take things off your plate and have other people do them for you, they can actually improve. And this might sound obvious
to you, but I'll tell you. My first few years in
business, I was like, terrified to let anybody do anything. Like, I was doing, you know, emails. I was answering phone calls. I was doing every single part of it. Because I thought if I
hire somebody, you know, what if they tell the
customer the wrong thing, or what if they steal
my credit card number, or what if they don't answer
the phone and we miss out on all these orders, or what
if they offer bad support. I had all these things
running through my head of why somebody else
couldn't do what I did. And finally what happened for
me, the reason I started to was we got a breaking point
in the E-commerce businesses where I just literally
couldn't do it anymore. It was too much. There
was too much volume. So that's when I started to outsource. And I, firstly, which I
recommend every one do as well, I firstly outsourced the customer service. And instead of, you
know, everything breaking like I thought it would, guess what. Our customer service
was dramatically better. We had happier customers. They were being responded to faster. The customer service people
liked customers a lot more than I do, so they were
nicer to everybody, and it grew the business. So this thing that for years,
again I was so hesitant and like, terrified to do,
which is let go of some of the operations, as soon as I did it, it actually was better than it was before. It was better than when I did it myself. So I wish I would've
known that earlier on, and wish I would've, I guess,
trusted that earlier on. And what that would've
allowed me to do is have more time myself, in those early years, to focus on more of expansion
instead of expansion and operations. So, hopefully that helps
you if you're kinda feeling that way right now, like you
have to do it all yourself. The truth is you really don't. There's people that are probably better at at least some of what you
are doing than you are. Next thing, speaking of people, okay. I'm calling this one people lie. And maybe, again, you've
had experience with that so you're thinking yeah, of course. Well, I don't know why but
like, I started young, you know, my first E-commerce store
when I was 21 years old. And I just always thought
that people were honest. You know, I thought that, when people- And I know like, people lie
to each other and what not. But I thought like, from, you
know, a customer perspective, right? I thought they like, just
normal people shopping online. I thought if somebody had a bad experience they would tell you. I thought if somebody was
happy they would tell you. What I didn't think is
people would do things like, you know, place fraudulent orders, and I didn't think that
people would, you know, get something delivered to their home where there was literally
something signed by them saying I received it,
and then they would say, "No I never got this thing.", right? And I let this happen
for years where like, maybe not years. Maybe the first year. But I let it happen where
like, it was driving me crazy. 'Cause I was like, how
are so many things like, you know, with like, the
way customers are, you know, messaging us. And some of the things
they were saying like, how can this be happening. And it took me a while, but I
finally realized, guess what. People are not ethical,
and it's really sad. And I think it's gotten
worse because, you know, we've just seen it in different businesses with how people are so
confident and almost like feeling that it's fine to rip people off. Like, it's crazy. Like,
not even E-commerce waited. But this video. Somebody will probably make another video that's literally copying
exactly what I'm saying and pretend it's their own. And people are totally okay
with that for some reason. Like, it's really sick, but there's, yeah, there's sick people out there. So, when you get into
business, you can't have this naive attitude like
I had, where everybody is always honest all of the
time, and you can take them for their word. Because there's some bad people out there, and you can definitely do
things to protect yourself when it comes to different
things like orders and making sure that, you
know, they're actually legit. Now there's a lot better
fraud prevention tools that are available than there
were when I first started. Shopify has built-in fraud protection. There's also different
apps that you can use, and that helps on that side. And then, you know, on
the same line with that, like, when people do, kind
of, you know, freak out and if you get like a nasty
email or a nasty phone call, I used to take it personally. I used to think like,
again, you know, we really must have messed up. But I realized there just are
some sick people out there, and being able to literally
brush it off as soon as the interaction is
over has really helped. I might've taken it a
little too personally for my first year or so in business. So just know that you're
gonna deal with cheats and frauds and con men in your life, and as a business owner, you'll
be able to just write some of them off. And if it ever gets too bad, you'll have fraud prevention
apps to get your money back. And if anybody ever
rips your business off, I have another video, actually a podcast, on what to do if you get ripped off. And it's talking about,
you know, different ways to actually get money from
people if they're making money using your stuff, or just
to how to get them shut down with whoever is processing
what it is they're using. So people lie. Number four is numbers don't. You've probably heard that before. It's in a bunch of different rap songs. They love that. But yeah, numbers don't lie, right? One of the things that
I neglected early on was tracking. And I'm talking about
tracking where my visitors were coming from. Tracking which visitors were buying what. Tracking how long people
had known about us before they bought. And I neglected this because
money was just, you know, it was coming in. I was spending on all
these different ad sources, and we were profitable,
so I didn't, you know, I just didn't think. Again, this is like naive,
and maybe this is something you need to learn this you're new. Again, it's what I wish
someone would've told me way back then. But tracking everything
is just so important, and not just tracking things
where like, for example, you have Google Analytics
set up and you look at it, and you're really like, not confident. You're like, "I wonder if
this is accurate or not. "It doesn't feel right." No, you need to get
tracking set up to the point where you are confident
enough when you see a report that you can make decisions off it. Because when I'm saying numbers don't lie, I mean you might have in your head- Let's just go back to
the Facebook Ads example. Maybe you just think like,
"Wow, Facebook is doing well "for me, like it's gotta be. "I see how many people,
you know, like my stuff. "Like, I'm sure it's doing well." Well if you have a report
in Google Analytics with E-commerce tracking
enabled, and you see that maybe Facebook, it's
showing, is, you know, losing you, you know, maybe
it's like -30% compared to ad Spend every month, you
need to be able to look at that and make a clear decision of,
okay, do I just cut Facebook? Do I totally change everything? But you need that data, and
you need, more importantly, data that you're confident
in, so when you see numbers like that you can accept
them for what they are and actually implement the
changes that need to be changed so you can just grow faster. Again, I wish I knew that. Something I spend a lot
of time and energy on now and something I recommend you do as well. Fifth thing that I wish
I knew back in the day is that the money is in the list. I'll change that now. For the past, you know, few
years the money is in the lists, with an s on the end. And what I mean by that is
email lists, Facebook lists for E-marketing, you know,
Google lists for E-marketing, Pinterest if you use them,
basically every platform. What you should be doing when
people come to your website is capturing their data. Now for emails, simple enough, right? We're collecting their
email addresses by doing all different types of either
giveaways or incentives or even just through abandoned
cards sent through customers. But, you know, when I
first started, again, I never thought that email
marketing was important. The only emails that I
captured for years were from customers, people that
were checking out and buying, which is a great list
to have, but I lost out on a ton of money. At this point, email marketing
makes up between 30% and 40% of our revenue, and it's
because, again these people we can reconnect with. We could send them emails,
we can make different offers, and we can bring them back,
whether it's a day later or five years later. So definitely focus on
growing an email list. Yes, even in 2019. Start focusing on that today. Not just with a little
basic opt-in box that says hey get my free, you know, newsletter. Make it like, hey you can
get a discount code or enter to win a free $100
coupon or whatever it is. But incentivize it, start
building email lists, and then, of course, have the
Facebook code on your website so you can remarket to people on Facebook. Same thing with Google and
basically anywhere else that you wanna run ads. Having those remarketing
lists has just lead to very, very, very high
return on ad spends, and it's not worth neglecting. Something I had no idea
about when I first started, and now is a massive focus
and source of revenue and profitability. Next thing. The sixth thing I wish I knew is that everything is negotiable. Now when I started, my goal
like, I obviously I wanted to make money and have, you know, margin, but the thing I really
was looking at is like, how do I get revenue as high as possible. And what's good about that
is you can have a business that's generating, you know,
200k a month, 300k a month, 500k a month. But the thing is like,
when you're at that size, you don't like, it sounds weird, but like, numbers don't seem real, you know. Like, you're like, paying off
your credit card every day from 30k of orders and
like, literally every day it's getting built like
that, and just things kinda like, get- I don't know. They feel fake. Like, a dollar seems the same as 100,000. And I know that sounds
crazy. It's not to be cocky. It's just when you have huge numbers going through your accounts every
day, like, an instant thing. Like, it just totally changes. So, what I'm saying with
everything is negotiable is if you're doing that, right? If you're starting to hit
these huge, huge, huge numbers, you might just stay at them and be happy. But what I realized after
a few years in business is, let's just say you're
operating at a million dollars in, you know, top line
money, and you're netting, you know, 20%, so you're
netting $200,000 a year, that's your profit. Well there are some very, very
simple things you could do that could add 5% more
margin, maybe even more. So instead of making $200,000 that year, you could make $250,000
for literally not doing anything different, for
sending a few emails. Because everything is negotiable. So the main things that
saved us a ton of money, and just like, WOAH, like,
next year just instantly made a ton more, were getting
different pricing structures with suppliers, so negotiating
different pricing terms, sometimes only around the
holidays, sometimes forever. And another thing is shipping
because shipping isn't a fixed cost, right? Like, you know, it varies from
everything that's going out, so there's usually a lot of
room there to save money, especially if you've never tried before. And negotiating that, especially
like, if you just did one or the other, you can make
a ton more money this year. If you do both, you could,
you know, have enough to buy a new sports car at the end of the year. Again, assuming your revenues
are already up there. But either way, you should
do that now because, again, it's just extra money in your pocket, in your bank account every year. Seventh thing. This I actually have a
whole training lesson on in my Drop Ship blueprint
because it's that important. And I call this one Usability over Design. Now I was, you know, my
first store was disgusting. Like, visual wise, like,
it was literally me trying to figure out how to use
Yahoo stores back then. Like, no idea, like black and red colors, and like, it was terrible. But as soon as I started
making money, I was like, okay now I'm gonna hire some,
you know, fancy company to make this beautiful website
and have all this like, cool looking stuff on it. And again, what I
learned after doing that, probably too many times, is
that having a pretty website with a whole bunch of
animations and all that does not make you any more money. What people care about is usability. They care about information.
They care about trust. So yeah, don't, you know,
I would've told myself, again back in the day,
like, don't spend thousands and thousands of dollars on
this gorgeous site design. Instead just make sure
when you go to it like, people can actually find what they want, they can add it to their cart,
they can enter their payment information, and they can
have a good experience. Like, it's so much more
important than the vanity of having it look good. So I wish I knew that. Hopefully, that helps you. And finally, the eighth
thing, the final thing that I'll share in this
video that I wish I knew when I first started is
that you should always build to sell. There was a great book that
came out, probably right at like, I don't know,
five years ago, called "Build to Sell". I'll link to that in the description. But, basically like, when I
first started I didn't know my businesses would ever even be sellable. So I was doing things
like, you know, I started and I was like, oh okay, I'll use my, you know, personal checking account, and I was a sole proprietor. And then made some money,
and then, okay now I have a S-Corporation, and now
I have a business account. But I also have like, another
business that I'm doing and I'm using that same account. And basically things got like co-mingled. And while that's fine if you're
not gonna sell the business it's not good if you ever want to. And maybe you're thinking
you never want to, but I never thought I wanted to and I did. So my first network of stores that I sold. So What I wish I would've done is had- Okay, this is the business. This is the business bank account. This is for, you know,
E-commerce stores A, B, C, D for that network. And then if I wanna launch
E-commerce stores, you know, X, Y, Z, I'm actually gonna have a whole different bank account for that. I'm gonna have a different
credit card for that. That way if I ever sell
stores A, B, and C, and normally they would
be interrelated niches, so you would sell them as a
network, then that would have its own accounting, right? It would have its own bank statements. The credit card would all be set for that. That way if you ever do wanna sell, again, everything would be so clear. You could talk to a broker. They would have a nice
package of your financials. They would give it to
the prospective buyer. They would look at it. They would say, "This makes sense. "I'm gonna give you a good multiple." And everybody is gonna make money. Now if you do it the other
way, you have to start pulling things out, and trying to
figure out what is what, and it just gets messy. So it's as easy as opening, you know, another checking account and
having another credit card just to separate things. Make sure if you wanna sell,
you have that separate thing that doesn't get co-mingled. So those are the eight guys. Quick recap. 90/10 rule. Put 90% of your efforts, both
financially and time wise, into what is proven to work. Put 10% into what you're
experimenting with. The second is handing off
tasks and hiring people can actually improve the
operations that you might think you're the only one that could do. The third is people lie
whether that's crazy customers or, you know, demented
competitors that just rip your stuff off and pretend to be you. The fourth is numbers don't lie. So set up tracking,
tracking that you trust, so you can make data
driven decisions off that. The fifth is the money is in the lists, that includes email lists
and remarketing lists. The sixth is everything is negotiable, and you can easily make
more money just by sending a couple of emails or
making a couple phone calls. The seventh is usability over design. Don't focus only on cosmetics. Make sure people can get what
they want out of your website. Meaning find the products,
add it to their cart, easily buy, and trust what is there. And finally build to sell
because you never know when you might wanna cash
out, and you wanna make that process as easy as possible, and you wanna make sure your
business is worth as much as possible. So hope you found that valuable guys. As always if you did, please
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