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One of the scariest things a content marketer can experience is a sudden and dramatic drop in organic traffic. When Britt Schwartz saw this happen with one of her clients, she immediately set about identifying what the root cause was and determining how to address it.
What Britt found when she analyzed Ambs Call Center's traffic was that they had fallen far down the search engine results pages for certain keywords, and traffic has dropped as a result. To bring the company's rankings back up, she turned to technical SEO strategies.
This campaign is still in progress, but in just two months, Britt has been able to increase the company's rank from 57th to 7th in Google for its top keyword.
Listen to the podcast to hear how Britt got such great results in just two months, or read the show notes below for a quick summary.
Kathleen Booth (host): Welcome to The Inbound Success Podcast. This is your host Kathleen Booth, and today my guest is Britt Schwartz, who is a principal strategist with IMPACT. Welcome Britt.
Britt Schwartz (guest): Hi guys.
Kathleen: I'm so glad to have you with me today. Britt is a coworker of mine, and somebody that I've known for about six months, and I've been really impressed with some of the marketing work she's done and excited to for her to share some of her lessons learned today.
She is also one of the co-hosts of another IMPACT podcast called MarketHer, which, if you haven't checked it out, is great. It's actually three of our principle strategists who all happen to be female, talking about issues relating to just being a woman in marketing. It's part professional issues, part personal issues, but really, really great stuff, so definitely check that out.
Britt, can you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?
Britt: Yeah, absolutely. First, Kathleen, I'm really excited to actually be able to be on here. As Kathleen shared, I am a principal strategist here at IMPACT. My role is twofold, I oversee a quarter of the clients that we have here with IMPACT, and my job is to, from a really high level, make sure that the strategies we're recommending are doing the things that we're trying to achieve. And on the other hand it's in growing and teaching our team, and coaching them along the way to become stronger strategists day over day.
Kathleen: I love it. One of the reasons I was excited to have you on is that I've had kind of an interesting mix of guests since we started. This is going to be my 21st episode, and in the last several months of doing this I've had agency owners, I've had in house marketers, I've had solopreneurs, and I've had one or two other agency marketers.
One of the things I think is interesting about that, is you get to see how so many different companies and brands handle their own marketing throughout a really wide range of industries. You have quite a variety of types of clients that you work with, and I'm excited to hear a little bit more about how you pulled some of the lessons in from different experiences you've had, and different things you've seen to really help the particular client that we're going to be talking about today.
Britt: Yeah, Kathleen, you make an excellent point. My entire career to this point has been in agencies, so I've been exposed to almost countless industries and different types of businesses, and what I've found after a good six, seven years of doing this, is that you start drawing connections, and you start building this bank of knowledge that's transferrable across industries and across clients. If I've seen this before I have a point of reference, so that's something I think really helped in this situation as well and I really, really enjoy doing the agency side of it.
Kathleen: Yeah, I think to be an agency marketer you have to be a naturally very curious person, because I know for myself, one of my favorite things about my job and my career within agencies has been that I do get to learn about so many different industries. People will come to us and say, "Oh, I'm in this really boring business. I do X," and I'm like, "Oh no, that's so interesting!" You know? You have to be the kind of person that doesn't just want to eat the sausage, you have to want to know how it's made.
Britt: Absolutely, and then, like I said, the longer you do that … You might work in a secondary industry that effects a first one, so you start building, at least I saw, like little guide posts around what's happening in different industries, and I know that I have clients that we're able to have such rich conversations with because I might have experience in another space that directly relates to theirs.
Kathleen: So just for kicks, give me a sense of the range of industries that you've done marketing for?
Britt: Absolutely. So, in my earlier days it was attorneys and service based businesses, such as electricians and plumbers, but I've gone through manufacturers, SaaS companies, and pharmaceutical or medical.
I lately find myself really dug into technology companies, from large to small, and my favorite to be honest with you, I think my favorite tends to be more of those high level enterprise brands, because there's, at least I found, this sense that "inbound doesn't work for us." And I've really enjoyed being able to draw the connection between how what works for a local attorney could also work for a larger brand, you just have to approach it a little different.
Kathleen: Yeah, it's funny. When I first started out in inbound marketing, two of my earliest clients were both in the landscaping industry. One was a landscape architect, pretty high-end residential and commercial, and the other was a commercial landscape contractor, and so I have this bizarrely deep level of knowledge about commercial landscaping for someone who's never worked in the industry, and I'm sure you probably have some of the same stories of things you could talk about at dinner parties that lots of people may or may not want to hear.
Britt: My brother-in-law is an electrical engineer, and he came down to spend the day with us after Christmas, and him and I ran to grab pizza together for dinner. I was asking him more about what he does, and one of my clients that I worked really closely with was an architecture firm, and so he's saying things and I'm able to keep up with the conversation. He's like, "I thought you were in marketing?" I said, "I am. I am in marketing," but it was really cool to be able to connect with him with a sense of "I understand what's going on." I am certainly not an expert…
Kathleen: But you know what questions to ask, right?
Britt: I know what questions to ask, yes.
Kathleen: Yeah, that's so cool. I love that. Well, today I know we're going to talk about a particular client that you've been working with, and when I do this podcast I always like to dive into something that's working really well. The genesis of that was just my own curiosity hearing over the years. You hear all these stories from other marketers about how they're killing it, and so rarely do you get the details of exactly how they are killing it.
So that's always my goal in this podcast – to try and, I like to say, "peel back the onion" and figure out what's really going on here, and what made somebody successful, so that other marketers can take something away from that and apply it to their own circumstances.
So, tell us a little bit about the client that you've been working with. What they do, what industry they're in, and what audience they serve.
Britt: AMBS Call Center is a local family-owned call center here in Michigan, and they've been around for a long time. I really enjoy getting to hear the history of the evolution of their business. What they do is they provide phone answering services, virtual receptionists for business offices, medical offices, things like that. So, like I said, they've been with us for a little while, we've been doing projects after project for them, and just this quarter we really started to delve down into creating some solid goals around their marketing.
What is really fun about working with Aaron, the Owner, is that he is all about inbound. When we first met there wasn't a whole lot of having to convince him the tactics that we should be doing, but one challenge that he did bring to the table for me was, he's like, "Brit, we've been doing this for awhile now. We've been creating content, and we've seen a little lift, but I'm not really seeing the hockey stick that I was expecting after investing in inbound for as long as I have been."
So we created some goals this quarter. We work in quarterly cycles, and so he started with me in October. The beginning of November we would get on our calls, and we used Databox here at our agency as a data aggregation tool, so it's what we look at to see what's happening. And we started noticing in early November that organic traffic specifically was starting to decrease.
I'll be honest, on the first couple calls I told Aaron, "We're not really gonna worry over a couple days worth of data, it's not something worth taking action on, but we'll keep an eye on it." And we did, we kept our eye on it, and come end of November we were not only seeing that the downward trend was continuing, but we were now getting into the double digits for decrease, we were down 25%, 30%.
Kathleen: Wow, I imagine he must have felt a sense of panic when that happened?
Britt: Oh, he did, and Aaron would agree with you. He was like, "Okay guys, not only are we not doing the hockey stick that I was looking for, we're actually going in the other direction. What's going on?" So being the principal strategist, it's really my job to first tell Aaron "We're gonna figure it out," and I did. I said, "We'll figure it out," and then we got offline and it was time to actually figure out what was going on.
Kathleen: So, let's take a step back for one second. He's got a business that provides call center, virtual receptionist type of services, he'd been doing inbound and creating content. When he first came to you and you entered into this kind of longer term support arrangement, what were his goals?
Britt: Like any business his goals were to affect the bottom line revenue. But the part where Aaron's belief and trust in inbound comes in, is that we were able to set goals around traffic, MQLs, and calls, so while the end goal has always been to drive revenue, we were really looking at increasing traffic and increasing the leads coming from the site.
Kathleen: So the leading indicators that would eventually produce the revenue impact?
Britt: Yep, absolutely.
Kathleen: And who is his buyer?
Britt: Absolutely, so this is the fun part about AMBS Call Center, they can be a single person working at home who runs their own little business, but simply can't take the time to answer all the phones coming in. It could be a medical office that simply needs someone there for off call, right? If it's in the middle of the night they have somebody answer the call. All the way up to large corporations who need to manage a massive call volume. So there's a wide variety of personas, and really getting to understand those has been fun.
Kathleen: Yeah, I imagine that there must be some challenges inherent in targeting such a diverse audience from the individual solopreneur to the … I don't know who the buyer would be in a large corporation, if it's the customer service person, I'm not sure, but those people have very different day-to-day jobs and priorities.
Britt: Yes, they do. The thing that we found that was the common denominator is that they need someone to pick up the phone. So we were able to understand that that's the bottom-line need, is someone is needing to pick up the phone. We address it in different ways, in the context around what that might look like individually, by creating industry pages. So we'll talk very specifically to the needs of a medical facility versus the individual entrepreneur on those pages, but the core of Ambs is that we're here to answer for you.
Kathleen: Thank you for that background. So you were working with him and he was continuing on what he'd been doing for quite some time, creating content, and you mentioned that the organic traffic to the website started to really dip, and you had to find out why. When you're presented with that circumstance, I mean you're primarily working in a strategy position, you're not necessarily the boots on the ground person within the agency who's writing the emails or posting the social … As a strategist, walk me through, step by step, when you see traffic go down, what do you do? Where are you looking for the information? What red flags are you looking for?
Britt: Sure. So my immediate look was to the conversion rate, which might seem weird, but I went from, "My traffic's down" to "What's happening to the conversion rate on this site?" I've seen, in my career before, where traffic had decreased even by that percentage, but our conversion rate doubled, and what that meant is that while we were driving less traffic, we were driving more qualified traffic, so there's a give and take there.
I did the same, I looked at Aaron's conversion rate. We were staying about the same, but I hadn't seen it jump to say this is really answering this. It was a little comforting for me, to be honest, that we weren't just nosediving everywhere, but I still recognized something was going on.
Kathleen: And what platform did you use to determine what his conversion rates were? How did you track that?
Britt: HubSpot. We're using HubSpot for him with a mix of Google Analytics. So, HubSpot's where I went, I looked at the trend of the conversion rate and I wasn't alarmed by what I was seeing, but again, seeing this different traffic, and the conversion rate staying the same, something is going on. I don't know what that thing is yet, but something is going on.
Kathleen: Just to make sure I understand completely, the conversion rate was the same, so then I assume the overall sheer number of leads was going down proportionate to the decline in traffic?
Britt: Absolutely, yeah.
Kathleen: Okay, got it.
Britt: So this was very alarming for Aaron. I mean, like I said, he's invested in inbound, he's seen his numbers go down, and it was really my job at that point to be able to give him an answer why. And just looking at the set of data, I didn't know why. I didn't know what had caused that. I did some research, and there wasn't necessarily an algorithm update that was very publicly known that could have affected this. We hadn't made any drastic changes at his site, like taking down half the site, so I was trying to figure out what was going on.
Kathleen: And to clarify, the traffic had decreased. Was it traffic in a certain channel?
Britt: Just organic traffic.
Kathleen: Just organic? Okay, so his social, his email, if you did pay per click, all that was the same?
Britt: Yep.
Kathleen: Got it.
Britt: Everything was trending about the same except for organic.
Kathleen: Okay.
Britt: And so to dive in, and to really understand what was going on, what we did is we went into SEMRush, and we started pulling his real technical keyword data…where he was ranking in October versus November, what was happening. Now at this point we were in early December, so we were able to track December to November rates. We downloaded this spreadsheet, it was a massive amount of data, which can be overwhelming, even for a seasoned marketer, when you have that much data and you don't quite know how to aggregate it or what to look for.
Kathleen: Yeah, and not every marketer is great at Excel.
Britt: Right. Stacey is our Excel queen here on my team. So what I did know, what I was trying to find, the answer I was looking for, is are there keywords that we used to rank for that we're no longer ranking for? And we looked at that by the difference in rankings, so you can pull where he was in November versus December, and also the click through rates. If you're not ranking, people are not going to be clicking through your listing.
So we pulled this together, we called Aaron randomly, it wasn't a scheduled call for him, and we said, "Hey, can you jump online with us?" And we pulled up the spreadsheet and we said, "All right, we're gonna start looking through this together," and we started sorting the data. And as we looked for the trends of keywords that had lost a significant amount, you know, four to five, up to 13, 14 places over the last four weeks, what we noticed was that there was a trend with all of these keywords, they were all call center keywords.
So we started reading the data in a different way, we isolated those keywords, and what we found is that this topic, this theme of keywords that used to rank for him and were driving some traffic, we no longer ranked for. So Aaron goes, "Well, that makes sense, I really don't want to be focusing on those. I would really rather be focusing on the answering service than the more contextual keywords that really describe what we do."
What we noticed, and what Aaron had shared with us, is that he found that the call center theme wording never really lent itself to what they did, and therefore when we pulled up those keywords, when we stopped ranking for them, our conversion rate didn't really change, because that traffic that was being driven wasn't exactly relevant to what we were doing.
Kathleen: Gotcha.
Britt: So, I was relieved, I'll be honest. Understanding what was happening makes me feel better, even if it's not good news. I knew what was happening, and I was able to confidently say to Aaron, "This is what caused our different traffic. This is what happened." As any good business owner did, Aaron goes, "That's nice, what are we going to do to fix it?"
Kathleen: Exactly.
Britt: Well, the good news is that we had already thought about that, and so our answer to Aaron was, "Now we need to apply some technical SEO tactics to the site, really focused on the keywords that we want to rank for."
Kathleen: Great, and so it's interesting because a lot of inbound marketers would look at this situation and say, "Well, we just need to create more content around the keywords we want to rank for," so why start with technical SEO?
Britt: That's a really great question. From my perspective, having watched inbound grow from when HubSpot used to be a tiny little software company that very few people knew, to what we have now, just applying more content to a funnel that's broken isn't going to solve your problem. Now you're just going to almost make it worse, because you're investing in content, at least, for Aaron if I said, "We need to do 10 more blogs," well, I'm increasing his spend, but it's not really increasing traffic, then it's just wasted resources.
And so, at the time you need to really understand what's going on to even know what to write for…
Kathleen: So, it's kind of like pouring more water into a leaky bucket?
Britt: Absolutely. Pouring more water into leaky bucket. If you're just slowly trending down, if you're seeing like a small slope, I might be inclined to say, "Let's ramp up some content, let's make sure that our content is ranking." So not just create content but create content that's good and solid and is going to rank for us. But when you see a nosedive, or you see what feels like a nosedive, that is an indicator that something else is going on, it's not something like a "create more content" situation.
Kathleen: Now, just out of curiosity, when you first encountered the dip in traffic, did you also look in Google Search Console? Because one of my first instincts would be to say, "Gosh, did we get penalized?"
Britt: Yeah, absolutely. That was one of the first places we looked. Was there anything from the algorithms that was going on? And we weren't able to see anything the first week or two that this happened, and it was interesting because we were going down by 7%, and then maybe 6%, and then one week we went down to like 30, so it was definitely a nosedive at that point.
Kathleen: Yeah. All right, so you chose to focus on technical SEO. It makes sense, I love the reasoning there, and I think it would be very easy to make the mistake of just going to more content creation. "Let's really dive in on that keyword, and write more blogs," so when you decided to focus on the SEO, walk me through some of the things that you specifically did in order to plug those holes, if you will?
Britt: Absolutely. Here at IMPACT, we've been working with Franco Valentino, who to me is an SEO god. He is the person I go to when I see something going on. And I had list of notes from hearing him speak and consuming his content about things to look for, so honestly that's where I went first, and I started at the top. We looked at Page Speed Index. Did our site all of sudden slow down and is that what caused this? I didn't think that would be it alone, but we still addressed it.
Kathleen: And what tool did you use to determine PageSpeed Index?
Britt: We used Webpagetest.org, so you put in your URL and it will spit back to you your areas that you need to reduce. We did see that some of his images were too large, and so here at IMPACT we have an image optimizer script that we'll run, and it reduces the file size of the images while still keeping their integrity.
Kathleen: Wasn't it one of our developers who built that?
Britt: Yeah, it was Kyle Sheldon. He's on my team. We use it here internally almost on all of our sites, and we've now started to offer it up to our clients. Franco's been using it for a few of his clients as well.
Kathleen: That's neat, I always love hearing about that. That particular tool.
Britt: Yeah, it's pretty fantastic, what it can do. And so we ran that, we reduced the page speed, so we were able to check that off the list. I also took a critical look at his website. I looked at his homepage, and I was comparing him against the competitors that were outranking us for our keywords. And being a marketer I always go back to that story, right? I was looking at what was happening on the site, and we were able to identify from a user perspective that we weren't necessarily being as clear and overt about what we did as some of our competitors.
So, we combined the idea of being real clear in our content with keywords, and we went back to the homepage and we optimized it. And what we did is any of the headlines, the meta descriptions, the page titles, really made sure that we were clear, not just to the search engines but to the reader. We updated all of those, and the third thing we did on our homepage … Well, we reduced images, we updated the SEO content, we also dove into LSI keywords.
Kathleen: All right, you just used a technical term. Can you please give us a definition for what an LSI keyword is?
Britt: Yes, I will. So LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing, and I'll be honest, it took me probably 20 minutes of searching when I first heard this term a few years back to understand what it is and how I'm supposed to use it as a marketer. And so essentially what it is, is even though it might sound complicated when I'm saying it out loud, it's really pretty simple.
LSI keywords are words or phrases that are semantically related to each other. They're not limited to synonyms or keywords with similar meanings, they're just the most keywords that are used together often. And so the really good example I found on thecontentwrangler.com is he talks about if you were to write an article about cars, there's many things, but here's five examples that you could be talking about: You could be talking about a car as a vehicle, Cars the Disney movie, CARS the Canadian Association for Rally Sports, the Canadian Aviation Regulations. How does Google know which cars you're talking about?
So it's by providing that context in the keywords. We took a look at all of our content and we said, "Are we really being clear to the user, and to search engines, what we're talking about here?" An answering service, if you put them together, or you separate them, how do we create a theme around our content?
Kathleen: You raised something I think is really important. You have to be clear not just to search engines but to people, and the reason I wanted to take a minute and just kind of underline that statement, is that one of the trends I've seen that I think has had a major influence on how people can market successfully, is the shift within Google from an algorithm-based search result to artificial intelligence-based search results, so RankBrain.
When it was an algorithm, you could really kind of game the keywords more. I mean, it was a mathematical equation. You dropped enough of certain words in and you would get found, and Google recognized that that was solving for search engines but not solving for people, and now they're using RankBrain, which is artificial intelligence for the vast majority of search results. And they're basically trying to mimic with artificial intelligence the way that people search. So you've made such an important point because in some senses, by optimizing for people you are now optimizing for search engines.
Britt: Absolutely, that's been the biggest shift that I've seen in SEO, and it's such fine balance to walk as a marketer because you do have to be cogniscent of the fact that there is a machine on the other side of this. But the fun part for us is I go back to that page story. There has to be a human element to what you're doing, you have to look at it as a human. You have to understand my personas, my visitors coming to the website. What questions are they asking? What are they doing?
Something that we've started doing here is if we recommend a new page or we recommend updating a page, the very first thing you see on our creative brief is the page story. Before we talk about the colors, before we talk about layout, or before we talk about the technical SEO, what are we trying to convey on this page? What is the purpose that this page exists for, and what are we answering? So when we solve for that first, the technical SEO comes in and supports you from a technical standpoint, our graphic designer lays it out for us from a graphics standpoint, and then content sort of fills in the rest.
Kathleen: I love that, because I think if there's one way as a marketer that you can future proof what you're doing, it is by solving for the people, as opposed to the machines. And I say that only because when you think about Google, they're in a competitive business, there are other search engines that people can use, and so Google has to solve for people.
So, Google is always going to be, however they decide to rank their results, it's always going to be in an effort to solve for the people that are searching. So if you as a marketer are also solving for people, you're going to be really well aligned longterm with what Google's doing, regardless of how they change their algorithm, or regardless of how they tweak their artificial intelligence. Whereas, if you are solving for the algorithm, then you're screwed, pardon my french, because the algorithm can change.
Britt: Kathleen, that statement you just made is why I so love working with you. My view on SEO for years, and I've said this for years, is that Google is a business, and we as a business, as marketers, have to appreciate that Google is a business, and that they're going to stay in business by staying the top search engine that we use. And they've done that by evolving, well, they've evolved how we behave, and now we are effecting how it behaves. And so, if you approach it from that perspective, and to your point, you really solve for the user, you solve for why does this page exist? If they come here am I answering their questions? If I'm not, then I might as well take it down because it's just going to hurt us.
Kathleen: Yeah, so true.
Britt: I think that's an excellent point.
Kathleen: All right, so technical SEO. So you got the page speed down, you compressed the images, what other little tricks did you have up your sleeve?
Britt: Well, there was one other that we did, and again, this is a huge shout out, and this win I want to be super clear is as much Aaron and Ambs as it is IMPACT, this was a group effort from both of us, if we recommended something Aaron was all in. And one of the things that we recommended was attacking local SEO. So while Ambs can support national, and they do, they also have concrete locations, like I said, here in Jackson, down in Tampa.
And here up in the Midwest, being a family owned local business really means something. That's an important thing that we're looking to convey. So it's imperative that if someone's searching "answering service by me," or "near me," that's the new "answering service near me," he's found. And so we were taking a look at, recently they acquired, did they merge with another company? Their local citations across the web were just sort of all out of whack.
So what we did is recommended a tool that we use called Moz Local. It's about $99 dollars a location a year, and what it does is it crawls all the really important citations, things like Yelp, Yahoo, Bing, Google, Google My Business, Facebook, and it alerts you, and in certain cases will actually fix your business information.
So, something that was really interesting to me, Kathleen, was how important those citations are to local SEO. For example, if your address in one place says Avenue, spells the word out, versus another citation uses the abbreviation AVE, Google actually says those are two different things. Everything else can be the same, but all the way down to the indexing and making sure that everything's correct was really important.
Kathleen: Boy, sometimes Google's so smart, and then other times you're like, "How are you so dumb?"
Britt: Yes, exactly. Yes, but this was one area where it was a pretty obvious win, so we signed up for Moz Local and we got it all set up. We got his citations taken care of, and the crux of the story, the fun part, is that towards the end of December, beginning of this year, again, at this point I'm checking his traffic literally every day. I have Databox on my phone, I have reports for all of my clients come in, and Aaron's the one I look at first, and it's probably because he starts with A, but I tell him it's because-
Kathleen: That's the old phone book technique, right? We are the triple A call center, triple A air conditioning.
Britt: Yup, and so we started seeing traffic stop decreasing. Okay, wait, hold on, we're at zero, which is good. We're 10% over, wait a minute, we're at 20% over. Okay, hold on, I'm starting to see things are moving, and we did the exact same exercise that we did that told us what keywords we had lost rank for, and what we found is that the keywords that we wanted to rank for, the answering service context keywords, had jumped almost as far as our others had fallen.
Kathleen: Wow, that's great.
Britt: The one that we call Aaron's golden keyword – this is the one that if he ranks one on Google then I mean, I don't know what Aaron's gonna do, we're gonna have to pull him back down from the sky – is answering service. On November 3rd he was ranking 56, and so that's south of the 60-
Kathleen: Right, you might as well not rank at all, because nobody goes that far.
Britt: Exactly. I am proud of our collective effort with Aaron, to say that today when I logged into SEMRush, we are currently ranking number seven.
Kathleen: So that's from mid-November?
Britt: Yup, mid-November.
Kathleen: To mid-January. So two months you went from 56th to 7th?
Britt: Yep.
Kathleen: Wow.
Britt: So, it's a celebration. I mean, every day we're looking at this and we're sending screenshots to each other of where this ranking is, and it's exciting to see this keyword move up. This set of keywords. What it's doing to his traffic is even more exciting. We're seeing we're up 30%, we're up 23%. Now, if you remember at the beginning of the story, last month we were down about that same, so we're starting to climb ourselves back up, and I project that into the middle of February we will start having net new gains, we'll be able to say this dip will no longer have counted and we're still going in the right direction.
Kathleen: That's exciting. So the traffic has come back and it's traffic that is for the more desired keywords. Tell me about what's happened with leads.
Britt: His conversion rate currently is 2.4%, so it had increased I think 45% over last month's just simply by doing this. Now granted, these are moving numbers. This is the numbers we have today. Tomorrow that could change, and from Aaron on an anecdotal standpoint, the phone is ringing again, the things are coming back that he started to see going away at the end of last year.
Kathleen: Well, to provide some context, 2.4% for anybody who doesn't watch closely benchmarks around conversion rates, that's really good. It sounds like such a low number but what I usually see is that most companies are below 1%. Really kind of well performing companies that are doing inbound marketing are generally between 1% and 2%, I would say that's pretty much a best practice. Over 2% is really, really, really good.
Britt: We're ecstatic. We're ecstatic to see that the three strategies we applied, which were really re-optimizing our content for both the user and for SEO, and making sure that we were providing enough context to what we were recommending or what we were talking about. And through LSI keywords, and then the local SEO has done what we intended.
Now the fun part, Kathleen, is that this isn't the end of the story. We're all celebrating, we're all really excited that what we did is working. At any moment things could change, but we're committed with Aaron to be looking at these numbers and continue to push forward to create our goals. Our goal is to get him to number one. That's where he wants to be, right? And it's gonna be a heavier lift from position seven to position one, or position zero, if we try hard enough, to say now we're really coming up against these bigger competitors, and we're not only going to be able to just apply technical SEO, we really have to start looking at messaging, and providing for that user in a really, really deep way, because that's how we're going to compete with his other competitors who are currently sitting in those early spots.
Kathleen: Yeah, so going back to the analogy we used earlier, you've plugged the holes in the bucket, now it's time to start adding the water back in.
Britt: Now is the time to start adding the water back in, which is what we're focusing on this quarter and coming quarters.
Kathleen: Well, that's great. That's all very kind of exciting, and I'm looking forward to seeing how those results continue to increase, and maybe we'll have you back on when you guys get to number one, and we can all toast at that point.
Britt: Absolutely, I had a call with Aaron yesterday, or actually the day before, asking if it was okay if I came on. I invited him, unfortunately schedules didn't allow. He was ecstatic to be featured here and he said as well that in the next coming months we'll be back on with Kathleen, with Aaron with us, talking about not only how we plugged those holes, but what our other strategies have done for us.
Kathleen: Perfect. Any other key take-aways that you think are worth sharing as far as things that have worked really well for them? Either content types, or promotion strategies, or nurturing strategies?
Britt: Really for them it was just creating contextual content around … You mentioned a great point earlier that they answer the phone, but that could mean different things in different lives of our different personas, so we've really been creating content that's contextual to what it would mean to a medical persona versus a solo-entrepreneur. And we're really seeing that that content's being consumed and that people are following a theme. So they are looking at one page and going to another, but they're really staying within the context of how it relates to them. And so part of our strategy moving forward is to create even more segmentation, and to speak really deeply to the different segments of the business.
Kathleen: Now, if somebody listening wanted to dive more into Latent Semantic Indexing, those are the LSI keywords that you mentioned earlier, and they wanted to come up with, I don't know, I'll go back to my example, let's say I'm a commercial landscaper and I want to rank for commercial landscaping, how would I begin to understand how to put together a list of semantic keywords that I would want to use in conjunction with that primary one?
Britt: That's a great question Kathleen, and one I'm actually excited that I'm prepared to answer. There's a website called lsigraph.com, and it's just an LSI keyword generator. And I will say, as with any tool, use it with caution, first apply common sense.
For example, it worked really wells for Ambs, it gave us a list of other topics and keywords that would fit really well for him. We just recently tried doing this for another client of ours, now we were really specific for location, and the only thing it spit back to us were competitors. So, first I'd start here, and then really going back to the topic around if you're talking about cars, are you talking about Disney versus a vehicle, versus something in Canada? Really understand what you're talking about and how you create content that best supports what you need, is where I would go next.
Kathleen: So some of it's really just kind of common sense, but then there are some good tools out there as well?
Britt: Yeah, absolutely.
Kathleen: I've also found that Google itself can be an interesting source of information. So if you plug your keyword in and then you look at some of the suggest terms that come up after it, as well as some of the things at the bottom of the page, related searches, those are often really good tells as well.
Britt: Yes, absolutely.
Kathleen: I love hearing these stories, I love the detail and how you use technical SEO. I'm curious, you're somebody, again, who's used lots of different companies and how they market and as someone who has to really manage a portfolio of clients for an agency, and be focused on the strategic aspects of those engagements, how do you stay educated yourself? Where do you go to get really good information that you feel keeps you on the cutting edge of marketing?
Britt: Absolutely. There's a few places that I go. It's gonna sound like a plug but it's true, Impact Elite, so that's our Facebook group for marketers. There's so much information being shared and bubbled there that I'm able to at a glance go through and see what traffics are trending and dive into the content being shared.
I mentioned him as well, Franco Valentino, he's fantastic when it comes to this technical SEO, I go right to him. I do follow HubSpot's content, probably not as frequently as I used to, but really again, it's that peer to peer content that has been my biggest source over the last six to eight months of understanding what's happening in the marketing space.
Kathleen: Great, thank you for sharing that. And then, lastly, I always like to ask people who, either companies or individuals, do you think is doing inbound marketing really well? So if one of our listeners wanted to go out and look at somebody who maybe could be a role model for them, who would you suggest?
Britt: Oh man, I love this question. The brand that I think is doing it really, really well, is Joanna Gaines. So if you're not familiar, she had a TV show on HGTV called Fixer Upper, she has a shop. Why I look at her to say someone who's doing inbound really well, is the stories that she's telling, there's a theme along everything that she's putting out across her website.
The videos she's creating…she's creating content that's relatable. If you're somebody who's interested in her topics it's very easy to draw into and you want more. I want to go to her store, wherever it is, I will drive there to go and buy from her. And to me that's really the goal of inbound, is to communicate your story and your purpose and your life in such a way that it's almost a no-brainer for somebody to say "I want more." And when I consume her content, man, I want more!
Kathleen: So, true confession time, I am sort of obsessed with the show Fixer Upper.
Britt: Oh, I didn't even know that, Kathleen!
Kathleen: Yeah, and I don't watch a lot of TV, but I love that show. And it's very interesting to me because there are several Fixer Uppers, much like there are several NCIS', right? There's versions all over the country, but her's is the only one that I like to watch. And I think you hit on it, it's because they're very relatable and very natural, it's her and her husband who host it.
But here's what's so interesting. My husband, who I think normally would not be caught dead watching shows like that, I've looped him into it now too. And we were just talking about maybe going to the store, so I totally get what you're saying, and I completely agree with you, that I don't know what magic dust they're sprinkling on their content, but it works.
Britt: It's their brand too, Kathleen. And I said brand on purpose, because though she's a person, I don't know her, I just know the brand, and the story and everything that comes out from them, I mean, I would imagine if I were to walk into Target, I could pick out her section without ever seeing the brand's name on it, to say that is their brand.
And I think that's something that we should all strive for as marketers is to create a brand, to create a story, to create a space that's so strong, that with or without our logo or our name on it, that our prospects, that our audience would be able to say, "Hmm, that must have come from IMPACT, 'cause that feels like IMPACT."
Kathleen: I love that. Such a great point, and such a great example. When you mentioned it I was like, "Wow, I never thought about that as inbound marketing," but you're absolutely correct, she's got videos, she's got blogs, she's got her fingers in a lot of pies.
Britt: Yes, I don't know how she does it, but man I want some of her stuff.
Kathleen: Yeah. I know, "I'll have what she's having," right?
Britt: Yes, exactly.
Kathleen: Great, well thank you so much for joining me today. I'm sure there's going to be people who have questions about some of the things you talked about, maybe they want to reach out to you and get some more information. What's the best way for somebody listening here today to find you online?
Britt: Absolutely. So, as we say on MarketHer, you can find me on the Twitter @britt_schwartz, or you're also welcome to email me, I love getting emails, and you can find me at bschwartz @ impactbnb.com.
Kathleen: Awesome, and I will put those links in the show notes. One last plug, you should definitely check out the MarketHer podcast, you can find that on the IMPACT website under podcasts and shows.
That's all I have for today. Thank you for joining me, and if you like what you heard today please give us a quick review on iTunes or Stitcher. And if you know somebody else who's doing really kick-ass marketing work, Tweet me @workmommywork, because I'd love to interview them.
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Nominate Your Product for the 2020 Buyer's Choice Awards!
Do you have unique, innovative products for museums and cultural institutions? We know we are going to see them at your booth during MSA FORWARD 2020 Retail Conference and Expo in Cleveland, but we want to recognize your creativity with an award too! Submit a product in one of six categories for your chance to selected as a finalist for the Buyer's Choice Award. During the Expo, buyer attendees will tour the floor, view the finalists' products at the Buyer's Choice display, and vote for their favorites in each category.
If selected as a finalist, your company will be listed along with your booth number in the Spring issue of Museum Store magazine, in the on-site Program Book & Expo Guide, and on www.museumstoreassociation.org. Finalist products will be featured in the Buyer's Choice Display at the front of the Expo. The winners will receive additional exposure in the Summer issue of Museum Store magazine, as well as placement on the MSA website and in the post-MSA FORWARD 2020 e-newsletter.
Submission Process and Requirements:
To submit your product, please fill out the Nomination Form below (incomplete submissions will not be considered) and submit it by midnight EST on January 15, 2020. Please remember the following guidelines:
- Only companies exhibiting at MSA FORWARD 2020 are eligible to participate
- Companies may only submit one (1) product for nomination
- Each submission should have a 25-word product description and a photo of the product
- Product must be in production and intended for sale in a museum store
- Please select one (1) product category that best represents your product
- Incomplete submissions will not be considered
- If selected as a finalist, companies must bring the nominated product to Cleveland, OH to include on the Buyer's Choice Awards display table at the front of the Expo.
The slate will include the first 15 nominations received in each of the 6 product categories.
Finalists for each of the 6 categories will be chosen by the Education Advisory Group (EAG) based on these attributes: originality, relevance to the industry, value, and quality. 18 products (the top 3 in each of the 6 categories) will be selected as finalists. Exhibitor finalists will be notified on February 1, 2020.
The deadline for nominations is midnight EST, January 15, 2020.
Final Voting and Awards Process
MSA FORWARD 2020 buyer attendees will receive a ballot in their Cleveland, OH registration materials. The ballot will be organized by product category. Voting will be held during Expo hours on Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26; buyer attendees will have until 11:00am to submit their ballots. Attendees will be encouraged to tour the show floor, view the Buyer's Choice products on display, and select their favorites on the ballot. The winner for each product category will be announced during lunch at the Expo on Sunday, April 26 and will be invited to accept their award at the Buyer Vendor Hub.
Contact MSA at email@example.com or 202-367-1106 with any questions.

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TMM says that JC Tradicional is diffuser and column still. The bottle claims clay ovens and 2x distilled in copper stills. It tastes diffuser because there are notes that I don't usually find in other tequilas and I drink a lot of blancos, the purest form of tequila. Try it before you buy it. There are excellent tequilas in this price range.
I mean just look at this stuff. Color is right aroma is right.. flavor profile is awesome love this shit
For years we've been saying "process matters", and that each choice made during the production process will find its way into the finished product. Now we have proof.
Diageo's Don Julio Tequila has smashed through the million-case sales barrier for the first time, Brand Champions data has revealed.
Despite the global popularity of its namesake beverage, Tequila has been overlooked as a tourist destination—until now.
Tequila remains ascendant in the U.S., with 100%-agave expressions still leading the way. Market leader Jose Cuervo appears to have taken a small step back last year, slipping 1.5%, but Patrón (+8%) and Sauza (+12%) were up significantly.
Mexico's Jose Cuervo , the world's biggest tequila maker, reported a 48.5 percent slump in profit in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared to the year earlier period, the company said.
Tequila maker José Cuervo went public yesterday, raising 18.363 billion pesos, about US $910 million, exceeding expectations by at least 3 billion pesos. - See more at: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/cuervo-goes-public-raises-18-billion-pesos/#sthash.BPz
Jose Cuervo, the world's biggest tequila producer, is planning a Feb. 8 pricing for its delayed initial public offering (IPO) in a bid to raise up to $1 billion, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Mexico's Jose Cuervo, the world's largest tequila producer, on Tuesday announced its long-awaited initial public offering, which could raise up to $1 billion, another sign of a wider revival in Latin American stock flotations.
Jose Cuervo, the world's biggest tequila producer, is seeking to raise as much as $1 billion in an initial public offering planned for the third quarter of this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.


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Max Joseph, the acclaimed filmmaker of MTV's Catfish fame, gives GQ the download on the most breathtakingly beautiful bookstores in the world, having traversed continents to find them for his Vero Original series, Bookstores
In 2017, as part of a short documentary I made – in partnership with Vero – about where books fit in to our modern content diets, I ventured to continental Europe and South America in search of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. Now, admittedly, there are many elements that factor into making a bookstore one of the best in the world. Age, history, helpfulness of staff, rare editions and the like all come into it, but my criteria was mainly aesthetics. I wanted to find the most attractive and uniquely photogenic bookstores – and I mean actual shops, this search didn't include libraries or second-hand bookstores – on the planet. From Lisbon to Brazil via Brussels, these are my absolute favourites.
Cook & Book is a combination bookstore, restaurant and café located in Brussels, Belgium. Housed in two separate building complexes, its nine (yes, nine!) different libraries are each wondrously decorated according to their respective theme. The English Book Room is all Chesterfields and Victorian, the Cookbook Room is an Italian cucina, the Travel Room is a world café with an Airstream in the centre, converted into a private dining area, and so on. There are so many different rooms and ornately designed environments that you could spend years here without ever running out of things to discover and delight. A hot chocolate in the Music Room, a tea in the English Book Room, or a La Chouffe in the converted Airstream. I've also heard that the waffles are not to be missed (I missed them).
Bottom line: Think of it as the Charlie And The Chocolate Factory or Alice In Wonderland of Bookstores.
Boekhandel Dominicanen (formerly Selexyz Dominicanen) is located in a former Dominican church in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Originally finished in the 13th century, the church has had many lives: a place of worship, then used to store Napoleon's horses, then it housed the local guillotine, then Christmas markets for a time until it became a nursery and then a bicycle garage and, finally, in 2006, a bookstore designed by modernist Dutch architects Merkx + Girod. Well worth the pilgrimage to the charming town of Maastricht, Boekhandel Dominicanen is definitely one of the seven wonders of the bookstore world, with its formidable gothic bones, medieval frescoes and stained-glass windows depicting the life of Saint Thomas Aquinas. It has a healthy selection of English books as well as Belgian and French books.
If you're there at closing time, you might have the pleasure of watching the store's staff shut the huge bronze doors then open out to the street, which, when shut, create the shape of a book. I suggest you ask the well-read managers for a book recommendation and get an espresso or ham and cheese croissant from the cheerful employees at the coffee bar. Also, feel free to get lost upstairs in the stacks, where it's quieter – the holiest reading experience you're sure to find. You won't be far from Brussels, so I recommend doing these two bookstore pilgrimages on consecutive days.
Bottom line: The Name Of The Rose of Bookstores.
A quick note on Portugal: in my modest sojourns I found that Portugal celebrates books and bookstores perhaps more than any other country or culture I have seen. If you are a bookstore nerd or bibliophile thinking about where to plan your next vacation, look no further. In Lisbon alone there are a number of legendary bookstores, such as the 285-year-old Livraria Bertrand, which claims to be the oldest bookseller in the world and Livraria São Cristovão, which claims to be the smallest.
Livraria Lello is located in downtown Porto, Portugal. Opened in 1906, this bookshop is adorned with a spiral wooden staircase, a large stained-glass window and a combination of gothic and art nouveau architecture. What sets Lello apart from many of the other most beautiful bookstores in the world is that it was originally built to be one (as opposed to being converted from a Dominican church). The urban legend is that JK Rowling, who lived for a time in Porto, was so inspired by Lello's whimsical architecture that she based many details of the Harry Potter universe on it. Turns out, however, that JK Rowling has never once entered Livraria Lello, but that doesn't stop them from milking the tenuous affiliation for every last tourist dollar it's worth.
Bottom line: The Hogwarts of Bookstores, Lello is definitely a place of unrivaled beauty and seductive charm. But be warned: it is more of a tourist attraction than a place where you can casually browse and get wrapped up in a book. Get in, get your selfie and get out. You might have to wait in line first though.
Ler Devagar is located in Lisbon, Portugal, in a converted industrial campus called LX Factory in the Alcántara neighbourhood. Ler Devagar is not only a store for book browsing but it is also a café, a bar, a restaurant, an art gallery and regularly hosts concerts and events. An aesthetic wonderland, it is packed floor to ceiling with books and features a large metal bookcase that leads upstairs to the café and art gallery, both of which are built in and around the antique printing press machine which was the building's raison d'être. Revered local artist-inventor Pietro Proserpio – who designed the store's iconic winged bicycle, which hovers over the middle of the store and comes alive intermittently throughout the day – has left a treasure trove of his beautiful industrial inventions throughout the store.
Ler Devagar means "read slowly" and that is what I'd encourage you to do here. Just camp out for half a day with an espresso and then eat dinner at the restaurant. What is also impressive about Ler Devagar is that the group that owns and operates it has many other magical bookstores across Portugal – eight of which are located in the small medieval hamlet of Óbidos, just 40 minutes outside Lisbon. In fact Óbidos is a "Vila Literia" or "Literary Town" and a must for any bibliophile worth his salt. Of note are the Botanical Market (or Livraria De Mercado), Livraria De Santiago, which resides in an old, 12th-century church and The Literary Man Hotel, a beautiful converted convent that has been turned into a place to worship literature. Just outside the monstrous castle walls, The Literary Man is the biggest literary hotel in the world. If I could I would stay there for the full length of a writing project just immersing myself in books and ideas. In fact, Ler Devagar throws an annual international literary festival in Óbidos for a week, starting around the end of September.
Bottom line: The King's Landing of Bookstores.
Livraria Da Vila is a chain of magical bookstores around São Paulo, Brazil, but the Jardins location is my favourite. From the outside, it looks like a giant concrete monolith resting on top of four glassed-in bookcases that open out to the street and close into a seamless wall of books when the store is closed. Inside, each of its vastly different floors (three) feels like a vision of the future from the Seventies – thoroughly Kubrickian in their density, symmetry and warm vivid colours. Designed by Isay Weinfeld in 2006, the Livaria Da Vila Jardins has a café and music store on its top floor and an imagination-inducing space-themed children's room in the basement, complete with a elliptical book-lined atrium in the ceiling that opens up to the ground floor above. Grab a coffee and thumb through any of the gorgeous oversized Sebastião Salgado or Oscar Niemeyer art books or a novel by Clarice Lispector. Note that the hours of operation are from 10am till "the last client leaves". But don't be that guy.
**Bottom line: **The A Clockwork Orange of Bookstores.
Livraria Cultura is also another popular bookstore chain in Brazil. The location, at the Iguatemi shopping mall in São Paulo, is especially spectacular. An all-white, open two-story floorplan with giant wooden steps that lead up to backlit bookshelves, designed by minimalist outfit Studio MK27, Cultura actually glows. Like an indoor, minimalist college green, Cultura is the perfect place to camp out and get lost in a book. Along narrow corridor underneath the big wooden staircase houses the magazines and periodicals and feels like the deck of Stanley Kubrick-designed spaceship.
Bottom line: The Apple Store meets 2001: A Space Odyssey of Bookstores.
El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is often cited as the most beautiful bookshop (along with Livraria Lello). Originally built as a theatre in 1919, with its majestic, painted ceilings and curving balconies, it sat more than 1,000 people and was where Argentines flocked to glimpse tango legends Carlos Gardel, Francisco Canaro and others. Ten years later it was converted into a movie theatre and remained that way until 2000 when, due to the poor economy, it was almost demolished. Thankfully, or controversially, depending on who you ask, it was bought and converted to a giant bookstore with a café-restaurant located on the stage behind the velvet curtains. I recommend grabbing a book and posting up in one of the old theatre boxes, which have been modified for your book-reading enjoyment.
Bottom line: The Grand Hotel of Bookstores.
Out of all the wonderful bookstores I visited, if I had to say which one was my absolute favourite, I'd go with Cook & Book in Brussels. That place is a physical manifestation of, and mind-blowing testament to the joy, inspiration, and excitement of books. In short, heaven on Earth.
There are many more beautiful bookstores in America and around the world that I have visited and want to visit that are not included here. In Europe, I'd thoroughly recommend you visit Shakespeare & Company in Paris; Tropismes in Brussels; Re-Read in Barcelona and Book In Bar in Aix-En-Provence. In the US: The Strand in New York; City Lights in San Francisco; Powell's in Portland; Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle; and, in Los Angeles, The Last Bookstore and CA Book Soup. All are must-sees.
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Hardware specs
- 15.6-inch HD (1920×1080)
- Intel Core i7, 2.2 GHz
- 16 GB of RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce 1060 GTX
- Windows 10
Other Features
Upgradable memory; Full HD Anti-glare display; Chassis lighting; Digital media card reader; Built-in webcam; Backlight keyboard
- Great performance for gaming
- Modern look design like standard laptops
- Lots of features including G-Sync and 144Hz display
- Short battery life
- Fans get quite noisy
- Performance does not utilize the 144 Hz display
The laptop comes with a black chassis and a brushed metal lid to give it an edgy look. The red emblem on top gives it a nice unique look to it. It is ultra slim measuring at 1.02 inches and weighs 2,52 kg making it light to carry and fits well into a laptop bag.
The fans at the bottom help improve heat dissipation. It can get quite loud whilst being used but it is something you can get used to.
The sound speakers are placed at the bottom of the laptop. It comes with input ports, such as three USB ports, headphone, microphone, Ethernet, HDMI, and a USB-C.
The laptop comes with a 15.6-inch 4K display that offers a slight degree of brightness. The maximum resolution reaches up to 1980×10804 offering full HD quality features and capabilities.
The laptop comes with an NVIDIA GeForce 1060 GTX graphics card that can run the latest gaming software. It offers the most cutting-edge graphics, with a 144Hz refresh rate which allows for smoother on-screen performance.
Keyboard and TouchPad
The laptop comes with a fully customizable backlit keyboard layout. The touchpad is large but is occasionally unresponsive even whilst gaming, so it is best to use a normal mouse instead.
The laptop falls short here, as it has a short battery life of up to 4 hours. It is best to keep a power adapter ready for long hours of gaming.
Overall impression
This gaming laptop is one of the very best performing gaming laptops of 2018. With its loads of features and excellent performance especially in gaming, if you have the money for it, get it, you will not be disappointed.
Final score = 4.4 out of 5.
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Santa is already on his way and he is delivering the first gifts on the other side of the world… and, even without a reindeer sleigh, we do not want to be outdone! As tradition, we want to celebrate Christmas by giving you a gift that will accompany you, if you want, for the whole new year: our Kawaii Calendar and Kawaii Planner to download and print.
The "theme" we have chosen for 2019 is the night sky and in particular the constellations, which the ancient sailors (perhaps even the modern ones) used to follow their course. Our wish for the new year is that you too can find the North Star that will guide you towards all your dreams and goals.
To download the Kawaii Calendar 2019 and the monthly and weekly Kawaii Planner (they are not dated, so you can use it in the future) what you have to do is click on the links below the pictures. We hope you enjoy them and that they can be useful to pin down all your new year's plans.
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The January 4th edition of The Australian has the story in English:
|President Jacques Chirac has vowed to bring to justice a gang that terrorised hundreds of train passengers in a long rampage of violence, robbery and sexual assault on New Year's Day.
|The two hour criminal frenzy by between 20 and 30 youths was "totally unacceptable," he said.
|The gang boarded the train, bound from Nice on the French Riviera to Lyon, in eastern France, early on January 1, as it carried 600 passengers home from New Year's Eve partying overnight.
|Once inside, they went wild, forcing passengers to hand over mobile telephones and wallets, and slashing seats and breaking windows.
|A 20-year-old woman cornered by several of the marauders was sexually molested.
Well then… plan B: so of course the police were called and they surrounded the train and took the miscreants away in large vans, right? You wish.
It's true. The police were called. And the train was stopped. And then the police waited for reinforcements before entering the train --while the thugs continued their rampage inside.
And then the police got on the train and the train proceeded on to Lyon. I kid you not:
|The three officers who initially turned up had to wait for reinforcements before boarding, during which time the youths continued to cause trouble.
|The train then resumed its journey with a heavy police presence aboard but, just before Marseille, the youths pulled the emergency stop and escaped by running along the tracks.
|Only three - two 19-year-old Moroccans and a minor, all living in France - were arrested.
But never fear. Chirac is on the job:
|"Those guilty will be found and punished as they deserve."
The New Year
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- equipped with a high quality SPILKA fittings
- can be opened with hooks, forvriders or with a traditional handle
- can be produced as a two-frame window without a fixed centre mullion
- made in different types of profiles: 95 and 109 mm
with aluminum cladding: 106 and 120mm
Side Hung is a window which opens outwards. SIDE HUNG has a safety lock as standard. The opening of the window in a first phase is to a maximum of 80mm at the side of the window, which has been adapted to the requirement for child safety.
Window can be clamped not only by fittings but also by wind when a sash is closed and wind is blowing. Thanks to this solution, window tightness is increased and unfavorable draughts are avoided.
For cleaning purposes, the window may be turned 180° and the safety lock would hold the sash firmly in position.
For increasing safety, handles with a lock can be mounted.
PVC glazing beads are used for white windows as a standard. For other windows colors, wooden glazing beads are used.
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Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Enters Liquid Biopsy Partnership with Apostle Inc.
AQUIOS CL Flow Cytometer Wins Two Awards Year in International Business Awards
Indianapolis (September 10, 2015) -Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has gained two prestigious business awards for its clinical flow cytometer, the Aquios CL Flow Cytometer – winning gold as Best New Product Feature of the Year for Pipeline Sample Processing and Silver in the Enterprise Product of the Year, both in the Best in Biz Awards 2015.
Beckman Coulter Unveils Biomek Method Launcher
Indianapolis, Ind. (February 29, 2016) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences recently introduced Biomek Method Launcher, a software user-interface enhancement for running methods on Biomek Automated Workstations. The software add-on helps new and experienced operators set up and automate workflows with ease.
Evolution of Flow Cytometry as a Drug Screening Platform
Flow Cytometry is an established technology used in many research and clinical laboratories. The largest users are immunologists and haematologists who use it for cell sorting and analysis. Increasing requirements for processing larger numbers of patient samples led to the development of automated tube loading carousels and, later multiwall plate-based sampling systems. The high speed quantitative high content analysis of cells also makes flow cytometry an attractive technology for drug discovery applications and it is used at many stages of this process. Recently it is also finding a niche in drug screening laboratories sharing bench space with other high throughput technologies. Flow cytometry is becoming an ideal tool, particularly in an environment where primary cell-based assays are increasingly being deployed to monitor drug responses.
Buyers' Guide: Flow Cytometers
(February 15, 2013) - The ability to sort individual cells quickly based on their size or protein expression has had a significant, positive impact on any area of cell biology research or medicine in which a mixed population of cells needs to be sorted out. This is accomplished using flow cytometry, in which cells (or particles) in suspension are funneled single-file through a narrow opening that ends in a nozzle, such that droplets of fluid emerge one at a time. Each droplet may, or may not, contain one cell.
FormaPure DNA:オートメーション向けに最適化された拡張可能な高品質抽出キット
インディアナ州インディアナポリス (2016年10月20日) – 本日バンクーバーで開催された米国人類遺伝学会年会において、ベックマン・コールター ライフサイエンスは拡大を続ける同社の核酸分離、洗浄、精製用の試薬キットラインナップの最新製品であるFormaPure DNAを発表しました。FormaPure DNAは、拡張可能な高品質ホルマリン固定パラフィン包埋(FFPE)DNA抽出キットであり、使用目的で求められるレベル以上の柔軟性を備えています。特に、Biomekリキッドハンドラーで自動化することで、所要時間を短縮して実作業時間を15分未満に抑え、時間を大きく節約できます。
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ベックマン・コールター社、世界レベルの処理速度を備えより使いやすくなったフローサイトメトリー用ソフトウェアKaluza 1.2を公開
カリフォルニア(2012年1月17日) - ベックマン・コールター社のKaluza 1.2は、高い評価を頂いている弊社製フローサイトメトリー用ソフトウェアの強化版であり、研究者の方々が自身の研究に専念できるよう、複数の新しい可視化ツールが追加されるとともにデータの処理速度が大きく改善されました。わかりやすくシンプルなインターフェイスに放射状のメニューが搭載されているため、これまでよりもはるかに使いやすくなっています。複数の次元でデータをアニメーションとして表示する機能を備え、優れたビジュアライゼーションを簡単に行うことができます。また、数百個のグラフィックプロセッサーの同時利用により非常に高い処理速度を実現しており、数百万個の細胞を一瞬で分析可能です。
Beckman Coulter Expands Portfolio of Standardized ClearLLab CE-IVD Reagents for the Clinical Flow Cytometry Lab
MIAMI, US (January 14, 2019) ─ Beckman Coulter launches the ClearLLab 10C System for the clinical flow cytometry lab. The new system includes the first 10-colour CE-IVD panels of immunophenotyping reagents for both lymphoid and myeloid lineages. The tubes utilize DURA Innovations dry reagent technology for the panels, which requires no refrigeration.
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Acquires Blue Ocean Biomedical
Brea, California (March 29, 2012) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has acquired Blue Ocean Biomedical, LLC, a Pembroke Pines, Florida-based manufacturer of automated flow cytometry systems and reagents. The transaction provides Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with low complexity analyzers that integrate automated sample preparation and directly address emerging flow cytometry market trends.
Beckman Coulter Launches Kaluza C Flow Cytometry Software for Clinical Labs
Beckman Coulter's CytoFLEX LX Flow Cytometer Delivers High Complexity Cellular Analysis
INDIANAPOLIS, USA – (Mar. 20, 2017) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences continues to expand the multi-parameter capabilities of its patented CytoFLEX flow cytometer technology. Its latest model, the CytoFLEX LX, with up to six lasers and 21 fluorescent channels, delivers even more parameters with the same exceptional fluorescence sensitivity and superior nanoparticle detection demanded by high end researchers.
Beckman Coulter CARES Update
Dear Concerned Advocacy for HIV/AIDS,
It's been a busy 2015 at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences as the Global Flow Cytometry Business Unit joins the mission to fight HIV/AIDS. During this past year there were a number of noteworthy milestones worth mention. First and foremost, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has renewed commitment to bring innovative solutions for HIV patients. The AQUIOS CL was introduced into resource limited settings and achieved two stringent regulatory milestones: USFDA clearance and WHO Pre-Qualification. We are pleased to offer this platform for automated lab based testing in environments where expert Cytometry skills and staff turn-over are ongoing challenges.
Beckman Coulter Expands Detection Boundaries of CytoFLEX Flow Cytometry Platform
Beckman Coulter 'Green Lights' Innovation with Biomek i-Series
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences 'Green Lights' Innovation With Biomek i-Series Automated WorkstationsNext-Generation Liquid Handling Platform Designed to Meet Evolving Workflow Priorities
Indianapolis, Ind. (February 6, 2017) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences re-emerges as an innovator in automated liquid handling solutions with today's introduction of the Biomek i-Series Automated Workstations, at the 2017 international conference of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening in Washington D.C.
Beckman Coulter to donate $2,500 to AIDS Vancouver at IAS 2015
Indianapolis (July 2015) – As part of their commitment to support the fight against HIV/AIDS, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is making a donation of $2,500 (USD) to the AIDS Vancouver charity at the 2015 International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference, being held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on July 19-22, 2015 in Vancouver, Canada. The funds will go to the charity's Health Promotion Program.
(MIAMI – November 20, 2018) – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences today announced the previously communicated global voluntary recall launched in January 2018 related to the FC 500™ Series Flow Cytometers (FC 500), COULTER® EPICS® XL™ and COULTER® EPICS® XL-MCL™ Flow Cytometer with System II Software (together referred to as the EPICS) has been classified as Class 1 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Mobile Demo Lab Highlights ASCB Conference Plans
Indianapolis (December 12, 2013) A demonstration van on wheels, presentation of the inaugural ASCB Kaluza Prize and an exhibit offering innovative cell research technologies are the high points for Beckman Coulter Life Sciences at this year's annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), which convenes December 14-18 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Acquires Assets of ReaMetrix India Pvt. Ltd
New $5,000 ASCB Kaluza Prize Supported by Beckman Coulter To Encourage Creative Graduate Student Research
Bethesda, MD. (August 27, 2013)-A competition for a $5,000 prize to encourage excellence in research by a graduate student member of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) was announced today by ASCB President Don Cleveland, PhD. The ASCB Kaluza Prize supported by Beckman Coulter, Inc., an international biomedical devices manufacturer, is named for the German mathematician Theodor Kaluza (1885-1954) who is the namesake of Beckman Coulter's flow cytometry software system.
Beckman Coulter and Uganda National Health Service Pilot
MIAMI, Fla. May 2, 2016 -- Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and The CARES Initiative to fight HIV/AIDS has partnered with the Uganda National Health Laboratory Service (UNHLS) within the Ministry of Health based in Kampala, Uganda. The partnership was formed to support a laboratory strengthening Pilot. The Pilot will run 12 months and focus on improving laboratory operational efficiencies within the country's HIV testing centers.
Automated Cell Staining in Drug Discovery
(April 9, 2013) - Cell and molecular biology become more integral pieces of the modern drug discovery process on a seemingly daily basis. Monitoring the interaction of cells and internal cellular activity provides vital information about cell health, changes in disease states, and the response of targets to potential therapeutic compounds.
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MoFlo® Astrios EQ from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Delivers Simultaneous High-speed Cell Sorting and Sub-micron Particle Detection
MIAMI – (April 30, 2014) – MoFlo Astrios EQ, a six-way jet-in-air sorter from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, delivers patent pending enhanced dual forward scatter (eFSC) technology for simultaneous sorting and detection of particles from 200 nm to 30 µm in diameter. The instrument sets a new standard for flow cytometry core facilities, delivering high-speed cell sorting and micro-particle detection in a single package. Featuring detailed and precise forward scatter resolution, beadless drop sample handling and increased biosafety, Astrios EQ meets a range of analysis needs.
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences To Acquire Cytometer Maker Xitogen
Indianapolis (April 22, 2014) - Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has entered into an agreement to acquire Xitogen Technologies Inc. together with Cytojene Corporation. Xitogen, a flow cytometer developer based in Suzhou and Dalian, China, will provide Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with both a strong operational base in the growing China market and a high quality research instrument to round out their world-class cytometry offering. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2014.
WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack Update
WannaCry ransomware first appeared on Friday, May 12, 2017. Since then, WannaCry has attacked computers worldwide—spreading itself across organizations' networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft® Windows® operating systems without the MS17-010 Microsoft security patch. WannaCry encrypts data on infected machines and demands ransom payments to decrypt the data.


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Is it said anywhere during season 1 from where Fisk got his money and education?
Viewers see his history when he is 12 years old living in NY with his poor family. Then he is sent to some relatives and reappears in NY after ~30 years with wealth and connections, knowing Japanese and Mandarin etc. You could say that he is very intelligent, educated himself and has risen to his position. On the other hand, the show also presents him as a fury-driven brute who exposes his entire operation because of the woman.
I did not read many comics with Kingpin but I know that the above characteristics are consistent with comics. On the other hand as far as I know, in the comics he was a gangster from the beginning. In the series he is portrayed as clumsy, shy kid who probably wants to be an astronaut. I find it hard to imagine how he was able to become a criminal mastermind.
Did the series state something about his past after leaving NY? Did I miss something? Who were these relatives? Maybe they were relevant to him becoming mobster?


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Birds are on the move tonight. Radar images show migrating birds crossing the Florida Straits right now. Wednesday night a fresh SSE wind will prevail over Havana, Cuba with clear skies. Looks like perfect weather for takeoff. Here back at home a mid-level trough will move south bringing a change in pressure and humidity which should cause some fog into Thursday morning and could help us catch some migrants at our traps. A west wind on Thurs betters our chances of getting lucky but only if birds take off of course. All this plus winds aloft at 3K ft. forecast to be a swift west wind over the straits and most of the state; we may see some birds.
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Is science political? If you consider climate change, you will find vast divisions of thought, frequently along 'party lines', much like you will with drug discovery. On the other hand, there is little political wrangling about oxidative phosphorylation or T-cells.
A new paper in Nature Human Behavior explores the political dimensions of science utilizing a fascinating technique. Anyone who has used Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble to order books knows that they make recommendations based upon your purchases. These recommendations are based on sales. The researchers made use of that feature in looking at what science books were acquired by the two traditionally cited political distinctions, liberal and conservative.
How did they know a consumer's political affiliation? They used a purchase of two canonical political books as their 'seed' to start building their networks. Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father" was the seed for liberal viewpoints and Mitt Romney's "No Apology" the seed for conservatives.
The researchers mined the 100 recommended books and chose the political books that were associated with these two books. After repeating this enough times, they compiled two stable lists of political books that were recommended from those books - a network of the top conservative and liberal political books.
Using this network of books, they then re-queried the 100 recommended books, that were based on co-purchasing, now searching for every science and non-science (and non-political) book in the recommendations. Once again, they repeated the process until they had a listing of common science book choices falling along liberal and conservative lines, based on the people who had bought political books. They had defined networks of the most popular (by sales) science books bought by individuals who fell into those distinct political camps. They used these market created networks to analyze how the conservative (red) readers and the liberal (blue) readers read, and perhaps, thought about science.
They found that, with respect to political books, red and blue book readers had the same behavior. In both groups, over 93% of people read the political books that were linked to their own network - red book readers read other red books and blue book readers read blue books. [No surprise here for those that follow the polarization of politics]
Science books attract similar overall interest from liberals and conservatives because both groups are buying them at the same rate. But, when the science books were analyzed for "polarization," (1) the choices were more polarized than non-science books. this can be seen in the graph below. This was more apparent in the social sciences and humanities, while the physical and life sciences are similar to non-science overall. [Again, not a particular surprise if you refine the distinction as between the 'hard' and 'soft' sciences]
In order to investigate further, books within a particular scientific discipline were visualized as a network. Books in the center of the network were those books that were most 'purchased' within that discipline. You might consider the central books to be the current dogma or general beliefs within a discipline.
Climatology (as shown to the left) provides an excellent example of the visualization. In this diagram, all of the books on climatology are represented. But, there is a distinct polarization in the choice of books [note the separation of blues from reds]. Red books [those pesky conservatives] were often near the periphery – meaning that the books chosen were less likely to be 'relevant,' further away from the central common beliefs.
Another distinction between the two groups can be seen in the network visualizing environmental science. Blue readers had a broader selection of books within the discipline; red readers were more focused in certain areas. These differences are more accentuated in the more polarized subject matter. [Notice how much larger an area the blue books cover in the environmental science visualization.]
In conclusion, people who buy liberal and conservative political books are more likely to buy books on science than non-science.
And simply put, "even when left and right are equally likely to read books in a discipline, they are rarely the same books or even from the same topical cluster."
And one more thought for the sake of due diligence.
Applied disciplines such as medicine and law attract readers at the red end compared with other disciplines in their respective schools, whereas anthropology and astronomy attract readers at the blue end. This mirrors the ideological differences among scientists employed in academia versus industry, as reported in AAAS/Pew surveys from 2009 and 2014. A possible interpretation is that scientific puzzles appeal more to the left, while problem-solving appeals more to the right.
Whether I see a real distinction between problem-solving and puzzles is a topic for another article.
(1) Each political book was examined by two independent coders and was classified as liberal, conservative or indeterminant based on two criteria 1) the book must express an ideological position on a partisan political or social issue and 2) the espoused ideology must be consistently liberal or conservative. A total of 667 conservative, 587 liberal and 2,545 indeterminant books were identified. The coders concurred 83.5% of the time, and the remaining instances were identified by a third 'tie-breaking' coder or the book's author. In an attempt to control for bias, an additional 315 indeterminant books written by members of Congress were included in the test set basing their categorization as red or blue on the author's known political affiliation. The inclusion of these indeterminant books had no impact on the reported results.
To determine the polarization of books a mathematical formula was used to calculate the overlap in purchases of a book by both red and blue readers. As the degree of overlap decreased (number of purchases by red and blue readers) the extent of polarization increased.


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If you've been watching us in the past, you probably know we like switching things up, exploring the boundaries, pushing limits. In that tradition we decided to give the Berlin marathon weekend a make over and literally tune things up this time around. So this year's maxim stood under the credo of Days of Thunder – an ode to the iconic 90s flick featuring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Over the course of three days we have hosted a series of events circulating around running and the culture of racing. The main focus this time did not lie only on the marathon itself but on the introduction of a new running initiative called Hood Laps. As long distance running is somewhat for the more experienced runners, we decided to focus on the young generation with a speedy relay race in the heart of Kreuzberg.
But back to the beginning. On Friday night, we have invited both our local and international homies from the Bridge the Gap community to join us in our HQs for the opening night of Days of Thunder.
This time around we exclusively dropped a new set of race shirts accompanied by the matching interior in our studio of love. Moreover our running team captain and very talented photographer Pim Rinkes debuted his very first solo exhibition called "Ongoing Motion". He showcased a selection of works circulating around urban running while Dreea and Haizel set the tone musically. As if that wouldn't have been enough excitement already, we had the honor of welcoming one of the most inspiring figures in running, Paula Radcliffe, for a panel discussion hosted by our very own Joey Elgersma and Track Mafia's Bitbeefy aka Cory Wharton–Malcolm.
And for the sake of feeding our souls and tummies we invited the homie Brandon of Barb's Soul Food for some good old Southern Cuisine.
On Saturday we met up again to start the day right with our traditional social run, where we took all BTG members and relay racers around Kreuzberg to get ready for their respective race.
Coming back the highlight of our weekend kicked off: Hood Laps – our very first urban relay race.
The whole idea behind hosting a relay race was not only to offer a new initiative for the youngsters, but also to connect with our neighborhood and bridge the gap between those whose focus of the weekend lies on running 42k and those who just wanna go as fast as they can on a short distance.
So 16 teams of 16-to 24-year-olds subsequently went head to head, pacing a distance of 400m around the Berlin Braves headquarters.
For the culinary entertainment we invited our homie Tiny Tim to grace everyone with his homemade pizza, as well as our good friend Tarik to provide everyone with Hawaiian burgers.
As you can see above the winning team did not front when they called themselves "FAST DON'T LIE" as they they gloriously took first place. Congrats once again!
Big up to everyone that showed up to race, cheer, thrift shop at our flea market and simply showed love – we appreciate it! It was one for the books. We can't wait to do it again.
Knowing us, you know we roll by the motto "If you don't run you cheer" and after you run and cheer, you party.
That is exactly what we did after the first leg of Hood Laps. We teamed up with the good homies of St.Georg and hosted our very first joint Summer Fest at luminous IPSE together. To finish this Summer with a highlight, bringing together all fam, friends and crews that shape our beautifully diverse communities, while celebrating the NEW BERLIN and its exciting mix of Hiphop, RnB, Soul, Dancehall, Baile, Afrobeats and Club Sounds. More than 15 of our favorite DJ's, 10 Live Showcases, a Voguing Battle, Jerk Chicken and of course: Very Good Vibes! The line up included Naru, Fergy53, VVarhola, Yung Emkay, Get.home.safe, Quame56, BassGang's very own J.Cloud and Ostblokkk, Kikelomo, Moneyama, Ricky Tan, Bafouboy, Dreea, Greentea Peng, Free.Lipa, Leya, DJ Nomi, Mr Wallizz, Haizel and Chadna. Also the amazing Zueira Mizrahi presented a mini voguing function to top off a spectacular night.
Sunday was of course serious race day for everyone participating in the marathon, and serious cheer day for everyone else. Check out the video below to see what went down at the cheering zone.
Once again thank you to everyone who came out and joined us for the weekend – we had a blast.
And big up to the Basketball team that kicked off their first season in Freizeitbasketball Liga Berlin on Sunday!
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Lori Kaback is best for city's town clerk
As an assistant town clerk, Lori has always been of great help to me and my family members whenever we needed something at the town clerk's office.
Lori is always there to respond to people's concerns, big and small, and is truly a public servant for all of the people of Danbury.
Lori Kaback has made public service a priority in her life, serving nearly 14 years in the town clerk's office. She has been the assistant registrar of vital statistics and an assistant town clerk for eight years.
She reaches out directly to the residents of this city to help them at City Hall.
Lori Kaback is a true public servant with a family history of community service. Her father,
While others just talk about making a difference, Lori has been working to make a difference for Danbury's future.
When you feel that government is not listening, look to Lori Kaback to listen and work for you. She is a tireless public servant who deserves your support for town clerk on Nov. 8.