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Rupp, who had already sealed his Olympic place with his 10,000m triumph in a US trials record last Friday, will now be able to keep Farah company in both long-distance races in London.
"I look at it as a great opportunity," he said. "We're both going to be up there for the medals. Afterwards, we're still going to be friends.
?He's like a big brother mentoring me. He's just the most humble, quality, hardworking guy there is."
Rupp, 25, out-kicked two-time Olympic medallist Bernard Lagat in the final straight to cross the line in 13min 22.67sec, surpassing the previous meeting record held by long-distance legend Steve Prefontaine.
His victory means he becomes the first runner to achieve the 5,000-10,000 double at the US trials for 60 years and his hot form will give huge confidence to Farah since both men have identical training regimes under American coach Alberto Salazar.
Lagat, who won two world titles in 2007, had beaten Rupp in their 12 previous meetings and described his compatriot?s performances as ?amazing?.
Sanya Richards-Ross, winner of the 400m earlier in the week, kept alive her hopes of a 200-400 double in London by advancing safely to the 200m semi-finals.
Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh, who finished in a dead heat in third place in the 100m last Saturday, also progressed to the 200m semi-finals but made no comment about how they intend to resolve the issue of who will get the third 100m spot at the London Games.
The two women been offered the choice of a run-off or the toss of coin but they will not make any decision until after the 200m final.
Anyone who can remember the Y2K hysteria remembers when computers were primarily for work and the Internet was only good for email and dancing hamsters. That time, however, is only a memory. Now the Internet is a place for news, entertainment, socialization, education, and commerce. Each of these facets has seen tremendous growth online due to their digital synthesis, but Internet commerce has undoubtedly seen the greatest benefits. The ability to trade internationally has become accessible and affordable because of companies like Magento Ecommerce. As the Internet?s significance becomes broader, the need for online trade gets stronger.
Though,?ecommerce?is not a weighty decision that ties a company down to an online business strategy?it grants wings that allow them to soar to new heights of success. More than anything else, ecommerce allows companies to better represent themselves online and expand their identity in the digital realm. Professional web design offers companies the chance to express their brand and appeal to their customers, and online stores are no exception.
An online store is not some entity that exists apart from the company it represents. It is just another branch of the system that supports it. So when people go to buy a shirt from their favorite website or make a donation to an online charity, they expect the store to resemble whatever drew them there. Just as a company is so much more than a name and a slogan, so is its online representation. Magento Ecommerce goes beyond the conventional limits of personalized web design, giving companies the opportunity to create an online store that meets their needs and their wants. By providing the source code for their ecommerce software, Magento ecommerce enables companies to customize every aspect of their online store to ensure its style and functionality suite the organization that the store is a part of. As the Internet grows to encompass nearly every business we deal with on a daily basis, standing out in the digital sea has never been so important.
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The complexity of the online world discourages many from attempting to explore its borderless waters. How can they expect to stand out if they cannot even stand up? Thankfully, Magento Ecommerce is there to hoist their anchors and raise their sails?all they have to do is steer the ship toward the open sea. Even though technology has become the foundation the lifts us toward a higher society, most of society is only familiar with it at the level of user interface. Anything more requires extensive education and training. With Magneto Ecommerce, all a company needs is vision and drive. The software makes it easy to have a professional online store that simplifies the shopping experience for the company and the consumer. Its designed to utilize search engine optimization as well as user analytics, giving companies the tools to stay on top of their markets without having to climb to the top of the technological learning curve. After all, the Internet is the ultimate platform of accessibility. This holds true for individuals and organizations.
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As the Internet expands, so does the market for ecommerce. This is a trend that is not expected to slow down. In fact online transactions have increased annually, despite a harsh economic climate, and will continue to increase for many years to come. Magneto Ecommerce was designed to anticipate growth and accommodate the array of changes it brings. Whether a company?s online store needs to offer more products or reach more people, the software can be easily adjusted to provide the precise changes needed without additional investments or a digital overhaul. This makes it suited for independent entrepreneurs and corporations alike. Because Magento Ecommerce is open source software, the potential change and growth is limitless. In the rapidly evolving environment of the Internet, this flexibility is the trait that ensures longevity.
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Our increased reliance on the Internet is inevitable, but it is not a direction to pull away from. It is an opportunity. As everyone gathers in the digital world, the restrictions of the physical world shrink away. A company need not be limited by size or geography in an international market. The only real limit is a hesitation to embrace the technology that is shaping tomorrow?s market. Magento Ecommerce provides companies with tools to move forward, whichever direction that may be for them.
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Mexico is winning its death match against the drug cartels and rebuilding once-corrupt institutions in the process. But an election is approaching, and the candidates are calling for a truce. Mexico can take its place in the sun, but only if it wipes out the cartels for good.
A police officer on patrol in Guadalupe. (Courtesy Reuters)
U.S.-Mexico security cooperation has been strikingly close and effective during the tenure of Mexican President Felipe Calder?n. A country that had traditionally seen the United States as the principal threat to its national security has come to accept its northern neighbor as a partner in the battle against organized crime. Mexican intelligence agencies and naval units now collaborate closely with U.S. security personnel despite the historic reluctance of Mexico?s highly nationalistic military establishment to do so. At the same time, the United States, a country that had traditionally seen Mexico as a weak and unreliable counterpart, has learned to see its southern neighbor as an increasingly trusted associate. The United States now willingly shares sensitive intelligence with Mexican officials, playing a critical role in improving the effectiveness of Mexican counternarcotics operations. Just a generation ago, this would have been unthinkable.
Yet this could change after the Mexican presidential election, set to take place on July 1. The recent era of cooperation relies on an unusual coincidence of national interests and close personal relationships, rather than on a permanent, codified set of formal agreements. Relying on personal chemistry and common interests, which are liable to be interpreted differently by different governments, makes bilateral cooperation vulnerable to the policy and personnel changes that will come with a new administration in Mexico, regardless of who wins the election. (Enrique Pe?a Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has enjoyed a substantial lead in the final polls and is favored to win.) Moreover, because each of the main candidates has promised to redefine Mexican security priorities, focusing more on fighting organized crime than on cutting off the flow of drugs to the United States, the transition to a new administration will likely damage trust between the two countries, which will in turn threaten to weaken security cooperation. Policymakers on both sides of the border must prepare for this thorny transition in order to mitigate its impact on their shared struggle against organized crime.
Policymakers on both sides of the border must prepare for a thorny transition.
According to a March 2012 poll by Consulta Mitofsky and M?xico Unido, the vast majority of Mexicans believe that the government must bring organized crime under control and support the use of the military in this fight until effective police forces are available. But their central concern is reducing violence and crime, not drug trafficking, and less than a quarter of the public says that the government?s current strategy is working. That is understandable: Since Calder?n took office in late 2006 and declared war on the country?s drug-trafficking organizations, Mexico has seen a dramatic increase in the brutality and frequency of organized crime?related murders (over 50,000 and counting) and an explosion of kidnapping, bribery, extortion, and robbery.
Despite stump speeches devoid of detail, all three leading contenders -- Pe?a Nieto; Josefina V?zquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party (PAN); and Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, who represents a coalition of left-leaning parties -- have signaled their intention to implement three core policy changes, albeit somewhat differently, in deference to these public demands and informed by the successes and failures of the Calder?n strategy.
First, the next president will likely build up Mexico?s weak state and local law enforcement, prosecutors, and penal systems, without which the battle against organized crime cannot be won, and will welcome U.S. collaboration in the process. This will be coupled with a greater emphasis on rebuilding communities and creating job and educational opportunities for at-risk youth.
Second, Mexico?s next president will continue the current strategy of countering violent organized crime organizations with force. (This is true even of L?pez Obrador, whose pragmatic streak should override his campaign promise to return the military immediately to the barracks.) But this method will be more targeted than in the past. The Calder?n years demonstrated the government?s inability to combat all of Mexico?s crime syndicates on multiple fronts. The new administration will instead concentrate its limited resources on the country?s most violent regions and activities, such as mass killings in public places. Drawing on lessons from outside of Mexico, the government will seek to bring together community members, law enforcement officials, and prosecutors in particular neighborhoods and target specific criminal groups. Since several U.S. municipal police forces have had great success with such an approach, this strategy offers another opportunity for bilateral security cooperation.
The third anticipated policy shift, however, could present a challenge to the U.S.-Mexico relationship. All three leading candidates have promised to shift the country?s crime-fighting priorities away from arresting drug traffickers and seizing drugs and toward stopping the violence associated with organized crime. This is what the Mexican population demands, and it also turns out to be what the country needs. But this modified perception of Mexico?s national interest could produce tension with Washington, where stopping the flow of drugs into the United States continues to be the top priority.
Jay's notes:? In some markets ( Phoenix ), the best time to buy was last year, in some markets ( Atlanta ), the best time to buy will have been this year, but Equifax is confirming what we are seeing in the marketplace.? New foreclosures and good prices are quickly going away. The smart buyers are snapping things up now to lock in the best cash flows before prices move up. What investors buy now will be very shrewd investments and investors will be thanking themselves in a couple years for every property they picked up.
The number of home owners with severely delinquent mortgages ? 90-plus days past due or in foreclosure ? fell 37 percent in May compared to its peak in January 2010, according to a new report out by Equifax. Seventy percent of those delinquencies are loans opened between 2005 through 2007, Equifax notes in its May National Consumer Credit Trends Report. "That severe mortgage delinquencies are trending downward is not surprising given generally improving economic conditions," says Amy Crew Cutts, Equifax chief economist.?"What is surprising is that even with the foreclosure moratoriums and the slow resolution of foreclosure backlogs, the downward trend has been a steady, consistent drumbeat of recovery. If this pace continues, we expect the volume of severely delinquent mortgage balances to return to mid-2007 levels by the end of 2014." According to the report, severely delinquent non-agency loans have seen the largest drops. Non-agency severely delinquent loans fell 45 percent in May to $320 million compared to its peak in January 2010 of $580 million. Meanwhile, agency-sourced mortgages ? those that are backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Administration, and Veterans Administration ? declined 9 percent in May to $130 billion compared to its peak in January 2010 of $142 billion. The report also showed that mortgage write-offs have dropped 28 percent in May from their peak in 2010. Also, home mortgage balances have fallen 12.5 percent to $8.6 trillion compared to its record-setting $9.8 trillion reached in October 2008. Source: Equifax Thursday, June 28, 2012
Screening horticultural imports: New models assess plant risk through better analysisPublic release date: 28-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: J.P. Schmidt jps@uga.edu 706-613-8483 University of Georgia
Model asks if importing a plant is worth the risk of environmental damage, economic costs
Athens, Ga. Weedy plants, many introduced to the U.S. for sale through plant nurseries, are responsible for extensive environmental damage and economic costs. Although legislation restricts the introduction of certain species, the procedures used to select species for inclusion on the restricted list are haphazard and out of date.
To meet the need for more systematic weed risk analysis, researchers at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology and the University of California, Davis have developed a "cost-sensitive" model to determine when importing a given plant is worth the risk. Their work was published in the May edition of the journal Ecosphere.
Although the problems caused by invasive plants are well known, Odum School postdoctoral associate J.P. Schmidt, the lead scientist on the study, said the U.S. has historically placed very few restrictions on the import of plants.
According to UC Davis economist and study co-author Mike Springborn, "our approach represents a shift from the current practice of scrambling to address invasives only after they are already established. In this paper, we develop tools for making informed decisions ahead of time about which plants have an acceptable level of risk given their anticipated benefits. We now have the combined biological and economic tools to take an informed look before we leap with trade in new species."
The model uses statistical procedures to assess how likely a plant is to become a weed. To do this, it compares the estimated probability with the average costs of a new weed and the expected losses from foregone sales of non-weed species that are presumably safe. Using the model as a screening tool, the researchers say, would provide a net economic benefit of at least $80,000 to $140,000 per species assessed, which could translate into tens of millions of dollars in total.
Had the proposed screening system been in place historically, they calculatedusing just low-end estimates of invasive species damagesthat one third of the most noxious species could have been excluded. To realize this benefit, only 15 percent of potential introductions would need to be prohibited.
At its core, the model consists of two parts. First, the researchers sought to identify a small number of plant traits that could be used to predict invasiveness.
"Amazingly, we found that just four traits could discriminate pest from non-pest species with an impressive degree of accuracy," Schmidt said. "Namely, pest species tend to have some combination of the following traits: seeds that are in the mid-range of seed sizes, that have higher chromosome counts than their close relatives, that have affinities for both wetland and upland habitats and that have large native ranges."
"Second," said co-author John Drake, an associate professor at the Odum School, "we asked where to draw the proverbial line-in-the-sandin this case the line between probable pests and probable non-pestswhich requires accounting for the value of the ornamental plant trade and the costs associated with weeds. The economically optimal decision rule is the one that settles that line where it exactly balances the costs from invasion with the benefits from trade."
Schmidt explained that the cost of mistakenly keeping out a non-invasive plant was far lower than the cost of mistakenly allowing an invasive plant in.
To make these results equally accessible to scientists, decision-makers and the interested public, the researchers then encapsulated the resulting decision rule in a series of four graphics. Every plant species can be placed somewhere on these diagrams. The location on the diagram indicates the economically optimal policyeither to admit or deny import.
Although these methods were developed to aid decision-making about potential plant pests, the techniques used may be helpful for other problems in environmental management, for instance in prioritizing rare species for conservation.
Results from the analysis inspired a companion study by Schmidt, Drake and Odum School assistant research scientist Patrick Stephens, in the journal Ecological Applications, which contrasts invasive and rare plants of North America.
Using a much larger data setthe roughly 15,000 species native to the U.S. and Canadathis second study developed predictive models to distinguish species classified as pests together with rankings developed by the Nature Conservancy concerning extinction vulnerability.
"In summary, decisions about allowing plants into the U.S. are being made every day," Schmidt said. "Our models could help to better guide those decisions, potentially saving tens of millions to billions of dollars in costs associated with plant invasions."
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The full text of the Ecosphere article is available at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES12-00055.1. The full text of the Ecological Applications study is available at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/11-1915.1.
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Screening horticultural imports: New models assess plant risk through better analysisPublic release date: 28-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: J.P. Schmidt jps@uga.edu 706-613-8483 University of Georgia
Model asks if importing a plant is worth the risk of environmental damage, economic costs
Athens, Ga. Weedy plants, many introduced to the U.S. for sale through plant nurseries, are responsible for extensive environmental damage and economic costs. Although legislation restricts the introduction of certain species, the procedures used to select species for inclusion on the restricted list are haphazard and out of date.
To meet the need for more systematic weed risk analysis, researchers at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology and the University of California, Davis have developed a "cost-sensitive" model to determine when importing a given plant is worth the risk. Their work was published in the May edition of the journal Ecosphere.
Although the problems caused by invasive plants are well known, Odum School postdoctoral associate J.P. Schmidt, the lead scientist on the study, said the U.S. has historically placed very few restrictions on the import of plants.
According to UC Davis economist and study co-author Mike Springborn, "our approach represents a shift from the current practice of scrambling to address invasives only after they are already established. In this paper, we develop tools for making informed decisions ahead of time about which plants have an acceptable level of risk given their anticipated benefits. We now have the combined biological and economic tools to take an informed look before we leap with trade in new species."
The model uses statistical procedures to assess how likely a plant is to become a weed. To do this, it compares the estimated probability with the average costs of a new weed and the expected losses from foregone sales of non-weed species that are presumably safe. Using the model as a screening tool, the researchers say, would provide a net economic benefit of at least $80,000 to $140,000 per species assessed, which could translate into tens of millions of dollars in total.
Had the proposed screening system been in place historically, they calculatedusing just low-end estimates of invasive species damagesthat one third of the most noxious species could have been excluded. To realize this benefit, only 15 percent of potential introductions would need to be prohibited.
At its core, the model consists of two parts. First, the researchers sought to identify a small number of plant traits that could be used to predict invasiveness.
"Amazingly, we found that just four traits could discriminate pest from non-pest species with an impressive degree of accuracy," Schmidt said. "Namely, pest species tend to have some combination of the following traits: seeds that are in the mid-range of seed sizes, that have higher chromosome counts than their close relatives, that have affinities for both wetland and upland habitats and that have large native ranges."
"Second," said co-author John Drake, an associate professor at the Odum School, "we asked where to draw the proverbial line-in-the-sandin this case the line between probable pests and probable non-pestswhich requires accounting for the value of the ornamental plant trade and the costs associated with weeds. The economically optimal decision rule is the one that settles that line where it exactly balances the costs from invasion with the benefits from trade."
Schmidt explained that the cost of mistakenly keeping out a non-invasive plant was far lower than the cost of mistakenly allowing an invasive plant in.
To make these results equally accessible to scientists, decision-makers and the interested public, the researchers then encapsulated the resulting decision rule in a series of four graphics. Every plant species can be placed somewhere on these diagrams. The location on the diagram indicates the economically optimal policyeither to admit or deny import.
Although these methods were developed to aid decision-making about potential plant pests, the techniques used may be helpful for other problems in environmental management, for instance in prioritizing rare species for conservation.
Results from the analysis inspired a companion study by Schmidt, Drake and Odum School assistant research scientist Patrick Stephens, in the journal Ecological Applications, which contrasts invasive and rare plants of North America.
Using a much larger data setthe roughly 15,000 species native to the U.S. and Canadathis second study developed predictive models to distinguish species classified as pests together with rankings developed by the Nature Conservancy concerning extinction vulnerability.
"In summary, decisions about allowing plants into the U.S. are being made every day," Schmidt said. "Our models could help to better guide those decisions, potentially saving tens of millions to billions of dollars in costs associated with plant invasions."
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The full text of the Ecosphere article is available at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES12-00055.1. The full text of the Ecological Applications study is available at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/11-1915.1.
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If you watch TV or pick up a paperback sooner or later you are bound to come across a psychic detective (a psychic detective is a person who investigates crimes by using their claimed paranormal psychic abilities). The first psychic detective appeared as early as 1897 in the form Flaxman Low who was invented by mother and son writing team Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard.
More recently TV viewers in Australia, Japan, America, Canada and the UK have been treated to the series Psychic Detectives or Psychic Investigators (the program name changed according to the country in which it was shown).
The programme follows cases in which real-life psychics try to help the police with their investigations. The series isn't too popular with sceptics who claim the psychics involved have made exaggerated claims of events. Whilst this might make good TV the series raises some questions; can psychics really help solve crimes and do the police ever resort to using psychics to help their investigations?.
Psychic Sleuths, a study of the subject by Joe Nickell PhD suggests that psychic detectives were not particularly effective; many gave uselessly vague information that could be made to fit the case after it was solved but that would have been no use to the police investigating the matter whatsoever.
Some cases however were more intriguing than the others. In 1980 a nurse went missing in LA, at the time an ordinary woman who was not a professional psychic claimed to have a vision of the nurse's body. She was able to point the area on a map where the unfortunate nurse's remains were and even arrived at the scene before the police. Nickell claims the woman could have found out about the murder site before the police as a local man had already boasted about killing the nurse. Whatever the truth of the situation a number of people have claimed their psychic abilities have allowed them to assist police in solving cases.
Most police departments say that they do not keep records regarding such activity or seek out such help. Nevertheless, there is some evidence that despite their reticence the police aren't adverse to seeking a little extra-sensory help from time to time. One former Detective Senior Constable of the Australian police; Jeffrey Little, has said police do use psychic detectives "even though they officially say they don't".
It seems the police in NSW have used psychic Debbie Malone on a number of cases. While no evidence she has supplied has solved murders or missing investigations on it's own she has been asked to corroborate theories. Little, in reference to one case she assisted on, felt her description of what happened was "exceptional", other officers also had been impressed by her assistance, while yet other NSW officers felt she had not helped solve any cases. Sergeant Gae Crea and Detective Sergeant Damian Loone, state that she did not give them anything the police and the public didn't already know.
Perhaps more interesting are the cases where the police did not listen and clearly should have. In 2001, the body of Thomas Braun was located by Perth based Aboriginal clairvoyant Leanna Adams in Western Australia. Police had initially been unable to find the body. Braun's had been told to contact Adams, an Aboriginal psychic who lived in Perth. The Braun Family had requested police to conduct a search based on Adams' directions but they had not assisted. Adams went to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, and took the family members directly to Braun's remains, a spot high on a ridge west of the town, some 20 kilometres out. The remains were not immediately identifiable but the police later confirmed the remains to be his using DNA testing.
In the UK the Police have also officially pooh-poohed the idea of using psychic help and in 2009 the Metropolitan Police categorically denied using psychics to assist them with their cases. Later, emails were published that suggested they had used psychic helpers on investigations. The shame faced Met issued a statement which read; "We do not identify people we may or may not speak with in connection with inquiries. We are not prepared to discuss this further."
Now, if you are open to the help psychics can give you, why not have a Video Psychic Reading which guarantees a 100% refund if you are not happy. Then again, if you would prefer to speak to a Psychic by Telephone, this service is available too.
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depends on whether or not he sold the home at market rates or reasonably close thereto.
Just because it's a mansion doesn't mean it's actually worth a lot. We just had a friend of the family die who owned a property with 3 buildings on it, where similar properties down the street were going in the 2-2.5 million range, the one in question got just under 500k. Because as it turns out, no one had updated the electrical system since the switchover from 25 to 60 Hz power, and 75 years of bats living in ceilings doesn't do buildings any favours. Who knew?
If you read the TFA's (and god are there a lot of them) the house was, pre 2008, appraised at between 1.3 and 1.4 million. And was the mansion for the university chancellor. Jobs bought it for 850k. Which, considering memphis has seen year over year price drops of easily double digits wouldn't be a huge shock. (http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/Tennessee/Memphis-heat_map/). Also keep in mind that the Steve jobs LLC probably paid cash.
From TFA, Eason paid 850K, which is the same as the LLC paid, I think.
So what I would read into this is that housing prices for Million plus dollar homes in memphis crashed by 40% from 2008 to 2009, or at least expensive house prices crashed, and then there was the specific house in question, which, having been a chancellors mansion for the university might have only a limited client?le of people who would actually want it. (Location maybe? I've never been to TN let alone memphis so the address means nothing to me).
So sure, Steve probably got himself a deal from the government who were and are desperate for money on a house that wasn't going up in value any time soon. Whether or not it was actually an unfair deal is much harder to say. When housing prices are falling expect to get less than you were asking, and less than you appraised for.
During fight weeks, the UFC houses all of their fighters and staff at the same hotel. From Tuesday, when the fighters arrive for pay-per-view events, to Sunday, when they leave, there are plenty of opportunities for awkwardness as opponents see each other in hallways, restaurants and elevators.
Does this mean fights are breaking out left and right, or does it give fighters a chance to be pros who can have fun:
Not surprising to see Wanderlei Silva and Rich Franklin show the latter.
Just how important is a reliable and continually tested business continuity plan?to the success of your business. Well consider this:
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Unfortunately, this is a mistake that far too many companies make. A pre-existing business continuity plan or low occurrence of ?natural? disasters has them believing that they are immune to data loss.
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How To Create Your Own Online Business Marketing Strategy Throughout these sets of articles we have looked at many different ways that one can create online business ideas. This is very important but it is equally important that you know how to market your business ideas so that people know what you have to offer. Within this article today we are going to look at what you can do in creating online business marketing that will sell your product.
We will look at two different methods that you can use but, to truly become successful at online marketing, you are going to have to make sure to learn about the subject as much as possible. Without a certain number of hits to your website every day, you can be guaranteed that you will not have great sales figures. The only way to get the hits that you want is through marketing and this is where this article comes in.
The first thing they can do in creating online business marketing is to make sure that your website is properly created. This article isn?t long enough to go into everything that you need for your website but you should make sure that your site is properly indexed by all of the major search engines so that you?re getting the maximum amount of natural search engine traffic you can. If you need more information about this, look in your library for books on search engine optimization.
This can help you redesign some pages on your website to make sure that you are getting maximum exposure. If you want to get more people to your website, you may also want to look into Adwords. Where this can benefit you is that you can bid on certain keywords so when people search on these keywords, your ads will come up. You will pay a certain amount per click that you receive from your ads being displayed. This is very good for you because you can target the audience that you want to bring to your website. By bidding on this, you are able to control your marketing costs and still receive leads.
Another way to get traffic coming to your site and help in creating online business marketing is to offer some free giveaways. There are a great deal of free forums out there where you can post about free giveaways at your website and this is an additional way to bring traffic to your website. The word free is one of the major hot buttons for most people so by offering something for free if they visit your website, you will be guaranteed to get a great deal of traffic. The way to run giveaways would be to have someone sign up for your newsletter in exchange for the free gift. This will help build your newsletter and create more online business marketing because you have a larger responsive list who is potentially interested in the products that you sell. The way to do this in a newsletter is to make sure you do not push products but rather soft sell them while pushing information your target audience can use.
Hopefully these two different methods of creating online business marketing can help you out. What we have told you about today only scratches the surface of the possible things you can do but these are two of the more popular methods and they are very low-cost methods so that you do not have to use a great deal of money that you may need to run the business.
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I happen to think that Obama?s been a much better president than people give him credit for. He?s in a very difficult situation. You?ve got a Congress that is very polarized and partisan. There are problems all over the world. Our two big markets, China and Europe, are in big trouble? And I agree with the President on many of the social issues. I?d like to see him do more, but you?d always like to see him do more? It?s easy to say that the President should be doing more, but he?s got a lot of things to balance.
NEWARK, N.J. ? The mayor of New Jersey?s largest city again came upon a life-or-death emergency, but the hero was someone else.
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker tweets that he was one of several people who helped stabilize a pedestrian hit by a car Friday. A spokeswoman says an Essex County detective who arrived first on the scene called 911, wiped blood from the face of the victim, poured water on his wounds and helped him lie still.
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The Star-Ledger reports (http://bit.ly/PK4c0N ) that the spokeswoman says the mayor happened to pull up minutes later, alongside police and the ambulance that had been sent for.
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Booker tweets that the driver also helped the victim.
In April, the 42-year-old Booker rushed into a burning home to save a woman, pushing aside his security detail who tried to hold him back.
This year in 2012, the most renowned, popular & biggest games ever in the history of mankind civilization, Olympic Games 2012, will take place in the capital city of England , The Beautiful & magnificent London. These games are scheduled to be held from July 27th 2012 to August 12th, 2012.
London Olympics 2012
London had been bestowed with the honor & distinction of hosting these games three times in their history, the other two were held in 1908 & 1948. London successfully competed against Moscow, NYC, Madrid and Paris after four rounds of voting prior to being given this honor on 6 July 2005 at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore of being the Olympics host city.
Because of Olympic Games 2012, London, the city has witnessed an massive display of developmental activities in the past 2 or 3 years, with utmost planning & responsibility.
Venues of sports
Wembley Stadium, Wembley Arena, Wimbledon All England Club, Lord?s Cricket Ground, The O2 Arena, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, and also the Excel Centre are the previous venues that might be used again, along with the newer ones, where work is going on.
Scheduling the Olympics
The schedule & time table for Olympic Games 2012 is still on the cards after immense efforts and discussions. Some of the Muslim representatives from different countries have protested the dates overlapping with the fasting month of Ramadan, which in 2012 is actually from 20 July to 19 August and asked for rescheduling of these games.
Sports to be played during the Games
The Olympic Games 2012 working committee in London would be organizing several sporting events in the Olympics For example aquatics, athletics, swimming, archery, lawn tennis, ping pong etc.
The Olympic Games 2012 Events would as a whole have 26 sports and a total of 38 disciplines. London?s bid had featured 28 sports, just like another recent Summer Olympics, however the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball in the 2012 Games two days after selecting London as the host city.
Grand Olympic Games Tickets
The Organizers based in London Olympics 2012 have estimated that 8 million tickets could be arranged for the Games, and that 1.5 million tickets could be there for the Paralympics Games. The Ticket sign-up programme in the UK was launched on 22 March 2010 and also the application website was inaugurated on 15 March 2011 until 26 April 2011. Online Olympic game tickets and value details are mentioned on the Games website. Price of tickets range from ?20 for many events to ?2,012, which would function as the highest prices going for the outlet ceremony seats.
London Olympics 2012 - Scheduling the Olympics
Logo for the Games
Logo of Olympic Games 2012 continues to be one of the things in which many people are interested. Initially two London 2012 logos were considered: one was for the bidding process developed by Kino Design and a second was to serve as the company for the Games themselves.
The former the first is a ribbon with blue, yellow, black, green, and red stripes winding with the text ?LONDON 2012,? denoting the River Thames in East London.
The second was designed by Wolff Olins and it got unveiled on 4 June 2007 and price ?400,000.This new logo represents graphically the amount 2012, with the Olympic Rings fixed inside the zero.
World Wide attention
Olympic 2012 will be the most watched sport ceremony to be viewed by the spectators all around the world through their television sets and hence a big chunk of revenue of the Olympics is going to come from the sale of television right to the big media houses and advertising sales
Internet marketing isn?t something that just started, and every day it keeps getting bigger and bigger. If you want to become good at internet marketing, heed the following tips. We are confident many would like to take advantage of the full power of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqy3cByYDUc in their internet business; but you have to be careful and avoid proceeding with limited knowledge in your campaigns. If you found your self nodding your head because it seems all too obvious, then you have to keep in mind all those who do not have your level of expertise. If you are just entering the world of IM, then it is a great idea to network with experienced marketers so you can ask questions. What you are about to discover in the rest of this article will be very solid information but definitely not all you can find out on the subjects. Definitely get in the habit of looking for opportunities and not necessarily with business opportunities; we are talking about marketing hybrids that can be created and used.
When you are an online marketer, it is up to you to bring up your conversion ratio and produce sales. So, getting the traffic to your website is not the only thing you have to concentrate on, you also have to convert that traffic once it is there. Although you can go about this in many different ways, the increased popularity of video marketing has allowed it to be a method that is wonderful for promoting to prospective customers. Videos are starting to dominate the web and people, especially Internet marketers, are starting to realize their value. It many not be considered as a new method anymore, but many internet marketers are using video marketing as a way to get new viewers to their websites. But you can go a step ahead and use videos on your sales page to talk about the product you?re selling. Being an online marketer, you can replace your normal sales copy with your video or you can use it as an addition to your promotion presentation. The reason videos work great when it comes to selling is they are more personal and approachable than just plain text. When the videos on your site are able to show your customer the advantages of owning a certain product, it isn?t that hard to sell them the product. This is because when they are watching your site video, they customers are seeing and hearing about the benefits of the product, which makes the buying experience seem realistic. There are times when people find video content easier to consume than going through long sales letters. Also, if your video is really interesting, many of your prospective customers will watch it through its entirety. A lot of leading online marketers are using video marketing quite successfully, why aren?t you? If you want to be prosperous at online marketing, you must find a method to stick out from the crowd. Since there are so many people in the business of internet marketing, it is so hard to stay ahead of everyone else due to the enormity of the internet. The only method to deal with this is to make up your own unique selling angle so that you will be different from everyone else. Your USP must be about more than the product itself, but also about how you will introduce it and sell it. For example, if you?re promoting a weight loss eBook, find out what makes it different from the other weight loss products that are out there. Once you find that USP, sell it all the way to the bank.
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NEWARK, N.J. ? The mayor of New Jersey?s largest city again came upon a life-or-death emergency, but the hero was someone else.
