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Common revealed that as a young child he was molested. He detailed the horrible experience in new memoir Let Love Have the Last Word.
The incident went down when he was just 9 or 10 years of age when a relative of his godmother molested him. Common refers to the abuser as "Brandon" and described the traumatic experience.
"At some point I felt Brandon's hand on me," he wrote. "I pushed him away. I don't remember saying a whole lot besides 'No, no, no.'"
Common mentioned that he immediately felt a "deep and sudden shame" after the incident. He added that the memory of his childhood was suppressed by his brain, only coming to the surface while he was working through a scene with actress Laura Dern.
"I just pushed the whole thing out of my head," he wrote. "Maybe it's a matter of survival—Even now, two years after that flash resurgence of memories, as I'm writing, I'm still working through all of this in myself and with my therapist."
Common described the way the memory was unearthed, talking through the experience of realizing he was molested years before.
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6 Cost Effective Marketing Strategies – Uplift your Small Business
Budget matters a lot in marketing process. Large scale business will definitely have a big budget according to their goals but small businesses are working within a limited budget. But they are trying to compete with large businesses to attract the audience. So, here's a question how they are going to compete with a limited budget?
Honestly, there is no magic or back door to win the game but there are some marketing strategies that can help you in uplifting your business. These strategies are cost effective and they will do more for you in terms of marketing within a small budget. These strategies will provide high ROI irrespective of your industry or business niche.
Now, let's discuss about the top marketing strategies listed below for your small business to boost your business:
1- Search Engine Optimization – Improve Your Ranking
First on the list, we have SEO. It is the key player in the marketing world. It is defined as a process to optimize the structure and content of your website. This is done so that your website becomes easy to crawl by the search engines. You can improve your ranking on the search engine pages by making changes to your overall website and create a content that focuses on the relevant keyword according to your business. The science behind this practice is simple. Higher you rank on the Google, more chances you have to attract the audience.
SEO is very significant for the small business. The reason is consumers who are searching for the brands in their local area use their mobile to find out their nearby location. So, if you have optimized your website and content for the purpose of local SEO, then there are increased chances that you will appear in these local search result done on mobile due to your increased Google local page ranking. Keep one thing in mind, for this purpose you also need to make your website responsive and adaptable to the mobile devices. Your website should have proper navigation and accessibility on a mobile device.
How you can improve SEO for your small business? Start the process with site SEO audit. You can do this by yourself or hire experienced SEO agency. You need this to know where your website stands in terms of search engine optimization. The audit will give you information about your on-page strengths, weaknesses, analysis of your website structure, and content.
There is no doubt about the significance of SEO. But this can be a tricky process if you don't have proper knowledge or a competent in-house SEO marketing expert in your company. If you are not having the knowledge, then you will not be able to understand the ins and outs of optimizing your website for search engine like Google. One solution to this, is to contact our Boston local SEO company to improve your rankings on search engines.
2- PPC Advertisement – Paid Marketing
PPC known as pay per click is a type of advertisement in which your ad is shown to the people who are looking for the product or services offered by you. This helps small business to reach their target audience.
You can have a clear understanding from the name. You pay only when a customer clicks on your ad. Platforms like Facebook and other uses the pay-per-click model but we will be focusing on google PPC advertising, in which the ads are shown on Google along with other search engines.
Wondering, how PPC ad work on search engines? Allow us to explain this to you. In this, the advertiser bid on certain keywords that are relevant to their business. After this search engine uses algorithm to show the ads on search engine result pages according to their relevance, validity, and quality.
PPC keyword research plays an important role in PPC just like SEO. You have to bid on the keyword that will be mostly used by your relevant leads. To find the keywords, you can take the help of keyword research tools for free to pick the relevant keyword according to your business. Learn how PPC can help you grow your business?
PPC platform: You might have heard about Google Ads previous it was known by the name of Google AdWords. It can be termed as Google ads campaign management tool. It is one of the most popular platforms for PPC advertisement. Since a large percentage of the user on internet uses Google as their search engine for getting knowledge about product or services. So, it is the best place to run your PPC advertisement.
Google use your keyword relevancy, quality of landing page, and other factors to give you a quality score. This score decides when and where your ad will be displayed on the search engine as per your related search queries.
When creating your keyword list, you should ensure that you have added all the relevant, most searched terms keywords, and less competitive long tail keywords to get maximum output. As you know that search trend changes so, you should update your keyword list accordingly for your ad campaigns.
If we try to summarize the PPC process, it will be having 9 steps as listed below:
- Do a keyword research
- Create your ad
- Develop a landing page
- Setup your account
- Reviewing and Testing
- Launching your campaign
- Monitoring your performance
- Do an assessment of your campaign
- Perform analysis of your campaign to get a feedback.
To save your money due to a limited budget you should be familiar with the PPC advertising requirements. If you are not doing it right then you might be losing money as you will be charged on every click made by the user. What are you waiting for? It is better to hire a professional company for this task.
3- Content Marketing – For Engaging Content
Content marketing is heart of marketing strategy. In this, you create and publish quality content relevant to your audience so that they can spend some quality time on your website. The key ingredient to add in your content for making it engaging is by delivering the solution of the problem for your audience. Furthermore, you should understand their need and desires when develop content.
Content marketing is a long-term strategy, which can be used to improve your SEO and produce SEO optimized content writing. In addition to this, it also helps you in building a relation of trust with your audience and promoting a good picture of your brand. As a result of these achievements, you get a good return on your investments.
Things to Know: Before you start your content marketing there are some things that you need to know for getting productive results:
- First, make sure that you have collected all the relevant information about your audience and fully understand their requirements.
- Developing a buyer persona is a good way to keep your audience in the center of your all marketing efforts. Buyer persona refers to a profile of your audience that includes information related to their preferences, needs, demographics, buying behavior and other information that are important to understand your customer properly.
- After getting knowledge about your buyer, it's a time to brainstorm some content topics. Begin the creation of your content with audience's greatest challenges. When creating content keep in mind what question they will be asking? What information they need before a purchase? These are some points to start creating topic of or your blog, social media posts, eBooks and infographics.
- When crafting content, it is important to know that where your leads are standing in the buyer's journey. Different type of content and topic work well for different parts of the funnel.
You need to provide these three things to your audience so that they can make a purchase:
Awareness: This can be given with the help of blog posts, videos, quizzes, infographics, and social media post.
Consideration: For this, you need to provide newsletter, white paper to your audience along with the arrangements of webinars and events.
Decision: Audience will decide about the purchase after going through your prices, case studies, and demos.
Creating and publishing a content consistently is not an easy task. You need time and resource to ensure that your content is relevant and possess a quality to deliver the right message to your audience. If you are not having a good resource, then it is better to get content marketing services from an experienced company for frequent publishing of content.
4- Email Marketing
Email marketing is one of the best marketing strategies for a small business. No customer is going to purchase from you on the first visit of your website. So, you need to stay in touch with your customers once they leave your website. Once you get the visitor's contact information, then you can stay in touch with audience via email marketing.
Before you implement the email marketing campaign, you need to capture the contact information of your target audience. You can get this information through "lead magnet", this is a good offer to get your visitor detail in exchange of their email address. You can offer your visitor an eBook, special promotion, webinar invitation or whitepaper.
After compiling the list of your audience, you can design your campaign to build relation with your customers. You can provide different types of messaging to your email list. Mostly, consumer get promotion or sale detail in the email. You can also deliver your valuable content like eBooks, infographics, blog posts, and other marketing content.
Furthermore, email newsletter is also one of the good ways to stay in the mind of your audience. You can tell them about your latest promotions in your newsletter. If you are not having an email marketing strategy for your business, then you can contact Marketalist, to guide you in a better way for uplifting your business email marketing strategies.
5- Social Media Marketing- Socially Connect with your Audience
The use of social media in your marketing is must! You should focus on building relationship with your customers. When you are going to plan your social media marketing strategy, first, you need to pick a channel on which you will spending your most of the time. Keep the following two things in your mind:
1- You need to identify which platform is mostly used by your audience.
2- Select the platform that will attract more audience for your business.
After the selection of your social media channel that you will be using to connect with your buyer. After this, you need to think about what type of content you will be posting? And how often you will be posting the content.
Create your social media content calendar to stay organized. It will help you to stay organized and post your content on time. In case, if you are not having the resources you can contact a professional company to get social media optimization services.
6- Facebook Advertising – Social Media Platform
Facebook is an important social media platform. There are total 2 million small to medium sized business advertisement ads on this platform. There is no surprise in this fact that Facebook advertising services are effective and cost-effective ways to advertise your product.
You can reach to your desired audience on Facebook irrespective of your industry. Some of the Facebook ads statistics are as follows:
- 0.90% of the CTR Facebook ads across the industries.
- 75-90% images account for Facebook ad performance.
- Facebook Ad revenue is $9.16 Billion.
- 26% of the Facebook user make a purchase by ads.
- 20% of the Facebook mobile ad revenue comes from the Instagram.
Facebook ads are easy. The first thing you need is to have a business page on Facebook. After this you will access the ad platform through Facebook Ads Manager. You can access this setting on the drop-down menu on your Facebook account. By clicking on "Manage ads", you will be able to see all the features related to ads.
Once you have the business page and know about the Facebook Ads manager, following are the five steps that you need to do for Facebook ads management:
1- Choose your objective: You will get many subjective options between the awareness, consideration, and conversion phase of the buyer's journey.
2- Define your audience: On Facebook you can easily narrow down your audience to target the relevant audience depending on the interest, behavior, demography, and connections.
3- Set up a budget: You are given the choice to set your budget for the ad. You can set the limit either on daily basis or on the overall life of the ad campaign.
4- Create your ad: Before you create a headline or ad copy you need to decide the format of your ad. You should include an image or a video in your ad.
5- Pick the place for ad: You can place your ad on different areas of Facebook and on Instagram as well.
Now, you are ready to take your campaign live! If you are planning to get the most from your ad, then you need to monitor it. If you find that one ad is doing good then it is better to see the factors that are making it better, however the factors can be the graphics, headline, or etc. You need to learn from your previous experience and improve your effort of creating ads for future. If you need help regarding Facebook advertising services, then experts of Marketalist can help you out. Our experts will guide you to implement best marketing strategies for your small business.
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Fourteen University of Arkansas students are living in a study room because the school doesn't have enough room in its dormitories.
Instead of moving into a dorm room, the students moved into the study lounges. The university described it as a temporary fix until it can get the students into permanent rooms.
Steve Voorhies of the University of Arkansas said four students will be assigned by the end of the week, leaving 10 students without a permanent place to stay.
"We had a larger population than we were expecting, and a larger population of female students than we were expecting," Voorhies said.
Voorhies said the student body is usually split between half men and half women.
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Ali's Story of Transformation
Growing up, Ali never felt like his mother loved him. As a single mom, her attention and care were fixed on her other three children and Ali was left to fend for himself. He began to hang out with the neighborhood kids in order to have a sense of community. At the young age of thirteen, Ali began drinking alcohol. "Part of me wanted attention," Ali says. "But I also think I was trying to deal with the pain of rejection I felt from my mother."
As he grew older, Ali began to rely on alcohol to get him through tough situations. He dropped out of high school and worked in physical labor for years.
He moved from house to house to stay with different family members and friends. When he was 38, he went to see his estranged father in Philadelphia and learned that his father was in the final stages of cancer. While there, he met his half-brother, Darryl, and they began to form a relationship. Tragically, his father passed away on Christmas Day while Ali was with him.
This was the breaking point for Ali. He drank to deal with the pain. His whole world revolved around alcohol. He and Darryl were both addicts, using alcohol and drugs to numb the pain of loss. When he was at his lowest point, Ali decided to seek help. He had heard of The Potter's House and he and Darryl made the decision to go get clean and rebuild their lives together.
Ali has now been here for eleven months. He is in our Make Progress Services and his life has changed drastically. He has built close, trusting relationships with staff, volunteers, and other clients. He has taken classes on emotional health, relapse prevention, and other life skills. His counseling sessions have helped him face the trauma he has endured and begin to process it. Above all, Ali has found hope at The Potter's House.
"When you are so broken, no matter how much you try to fix yourself, you can't," says Ali. "You have to humble yourself and learn new tools for a better life. The Potter's House gives you those tools. God is truly at work here."
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For our last event of the 2017-18 season, CapCHI is holding an interactive Design Sprint workshop! Led by former IBMer and design thinking advocate, Ron Gagnier, participants will spend the evening learning techniques that Google Ventures call "a "greatest hits" of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more."
This hands-on event will see participants working on a fun and unique design challenge with a team of fellow UX and HCI enthusiasts. Everyone who registers will be placed on a team of 5 or 6 and we are limiting participation to 60. Pre-registration is REQUIRED, so get your ticket before they're all gone.
Join us at The Fox & Feather Pub and Grill for complimentary appetizers and networking opportunities at 6:00pm, with the workshop beginning at 6:30 (running for approximately 1.5 hours). As always, our partners at The Fox & Feather will be providing our attendees with 10% off food and non-alcoholic drinks.
Date: Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Time: Doors open at 6:00pm; workshop begins at 6:30pm
Place: Upstairs room (3rd floor) at The Fox & Feather Pub and Grill, located at 283 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Registration is REQUIRED (limited tickets!) (Free!): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/capchi-event-design-sprint-workshop-tickets-46533379591.
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Product success hinges on exceptional customer experience. Do you think your customer experience is on the right track? What can be done if it isn't? Learn how to use Design Sprints to achieve awesome design results fast through a hands-on workshop. The workshop will provide an overview of an emerging design approach known as a Design Sprint which packages all the facets of design thinking into short, high-impact sprints. Sounds intense? Google Ventures believes design sprints are the best way to accelerate product design. Ron has used the design sprint approach to achieve great outcomes with both start-ups and established companies. Bring your enthusiasm and get ready to roll-up your sleeves for this fun interactive workshop.
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Ron Gagnier is a champion of customer experience, product design and design thinking. He has worked in the design studios of IBM, started the design program at Halogen Software, been a design consultant with start-ups and enterprise companies for 20 years and currently acts as the resident design expert at Invest Ottawa. He is an outspoken advocate for design thinking and delivers fun, memorable workshops around the city. As a design consultant and business mentor for start-ups Ron has observed most struggle to utilize design to deliver the best customer experience they can. Ron works with a company to develop the design strategy needed for success. When Ron isn't evangelizing the merits of design he can be found at a local ice rink with his kids or playing the guitar.
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At the conclusion of our event on Tuesday, June 26, CapCHI will hold it's annual general meeting (AGM), as stipulated in our organization's charter. This meeting is open to all and is a good opportunity to learn more about us if you are interested in volunteering to help build our events and bring the community together.
If you are interested in event planning, social media, or have other ideas of how you could contribute to our team, please come see us on June 26 after the Design Sprint Workshop. This is a great opportunity to expand your network and to be part of a dedicated team of volunteers
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Club America could make it a Liga MX Christmas as Necaxa stands in its path
After Wednesday's 1-0 away win for Tigres over Leon and Thursday's 1-1 draw between Necaxa and America, Los Auriazules and Las Aguilas now have slight advantages heading into the second legs of their respective Liguilla semifinal series. But Leon and Necaxa have 90 minutes to flip the script. Although this would be considered a monumental task for many, both have exceeded expectations of late and fans should not count them out.
Here are five things to watch for in the decisive second legs:
1. Gignac to maintain his goal-scoring form?
Tigres striker Andre-Pierre Gignac was in a slump before the Liga MX playoffs got underway. In his last 10 games of the regular season, the France international managed to find the back of the net only once for his club.
But it didn't take long for Gignac to rediscover his tenacious role in attack. He bagged a hat trick to down Pumas in the second leg of the Liguilla quarterfinals and followed that performance with the winner in Wednesday's 1-0 victory over Leon. With four goals in his past two matches, Gignac has undoubtedly found the confidence that could lead Tigres to a league title.
On Saturday night, all eyes will be on the French striker at Estadio Universitario.
2. Leon's attack keeps up with Tigres' star-studded front line
Leon will have to be proactive against Tigres given its one-goal deficit. That means going toe-to-toe with not only Gignac, but also other noteworthy attackers like Jurgen Damm, Javier Aquino and Ismael Sosa.
While this could be a daunting task, Los Panzas Verdes can count on the help of their own talented names like Mauro Boselli, Luis Montes, Elias Hernandez and Fernando Navarro. Boselli, who has eight goals and three assists in his past 10 matches, will be the key to success against Los Auriazules on Saturday.
If Leon wishes to make it into the final round of the Liguilla, it is imperative that manager Javier Torrente secures a convincing win. In fact, a 1-0 result would not be enough; in order to make up for Tigres' first-leg away goal, Torrente's team will need to score at least two goals.
3. Barovero needs to be at his best for Necaxa at Estadio Azteca
Necaxa goalkeeper Marcelo Barovero could prove to be the most important member of Los Rayos' starting XI.
After allowing just two goals in three playoff games, making an impressive 17 saves during that run, it's fair to say that the Argentine is one of the reasons why newly promoted Necaxa is still fighting for a title. On Sunday, Necaxa will once again count on his reflexes to shut down Club America.
As for Las Aguilas, America has its fair share of attackers, each of whom will be eager to find the back of the net in the second leg at home. Options like Darwin Quintero, Oribe Peralta, Silvio Romero and Michael Arroyo will all surely test Barovero on occasion at Azteca.
Although Necaxa's Edson Puch and Felipe Gallegos have the talents to knock in a couple of shots on the opposite end, Barovero will need to be at his best to ensure a spot in the final for Los Rayos.
4. America must keep momentum after transfer announcements
America is usually expected to fight for titles, but there is even more pressure to succeed in the club's centennial season. With an away goal in hand after the draw with Necaxa, Las Aguilas are now in prime position to end the year in perfect fashion with another piece of hardware.
That said, it is also important to note the recent announcements from Santos Laguna regarding the transfers to and from America. While Santos goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin will be sent to Las Aguilas, Ventura Alvarado and Osvaldo Martinez will depart to Los Guerreros.
The big question now is how these transfers -- which were announced on Friday, well before the end of the season -- will impact the team's motivation in the second leg this weekend. Will starting goalkeeper Moises Munoz have much self-confidence after the recent addition of Marchesin? Will it be difficult for the roster knowing that two players are already on their way out?
Luckily for Las Aguilas, all that is needed for a spot in the final is a 0-0 or 1-1 draw. A victory at home would also suffice for a place in the next round.
5. Potential for a Liga MX Christmas
The second and final leg of the Liga MX final might land on Christmas Day.
Due to the fact that America is involved in this year's FIFA Club World Cup, which starts for Las Aguilas on Dec. 11 with a game against Jeonbuk, a spot in the Liga MX final would push the finale of the Mexican tournament to the end of December.
If America sneaks past Necaxa in the semis, the first leg of the Liga MX final would be on Dec. 22, with the second landing on Dec. 25.
For Las Aguilas, no present would be greater than the combination of an impressive showing at the Club World Cup and an Apertura title on Christmas Day.
Cesar Hernandez covers Liga MX and the Mexican national team for ESPN FC. Twitter: @cesarhfutbol.
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