Designed to challenge your strength, flexibility and coordination, Pilates aims to put your body in perfect balance. During WWI, Joseph Pilates served as an orderly at a military camp, working with bed-ridden patients. Many of these patients were not able to move, but that did nothing to deter Pilates’ determination to help them gain strength and mobility. Experimenting with his patients and on his own, Pilates devised a series of controlled exercises that engaged both mind and body. Watching patients carefully, Pilates saw them become more active and alert. The men taking part in Pilates’ exercise regime recovered more effectively than those who did not.
At one point Pilates removed bedsprings from beneath the beds and attached them to the walls at or above bed level. These springs were used to excercise. His contraption later inspired the Reformer, a popular Pilates exercise machine utilizing springs, straps, and a box to perform a variety of exercises.
Those who performed Pilates exercises developed a strong immune system and managed to escape a deadly plague that killed many at the time. Not one of Pilates students died from the influenza epidemic of this time which he claimed was due to the result of his work. None of Pilates’ followers succumbed even though the camps, where many were located were the hardest hit.
Becoming involved in a Pilates program will change the way you think about your body, exercise, and ultimately your total well-being.
There are a multitude of ways an individual or company can utilize the Internet for earning revenue. Many of which require developing your own web site, attracting traffic, processing payments and other tasks required for generating revenue. One method does not require any of these and just may be the perfect method for making money online.
The method I am referring to is trading foreign currency, also known as forex. Other acronyms include 4X and FX.
I don’t want to be misunderstood. Trading forex is not easy if you are unfamiliar with it. There are many things to learn before you trade real money. How do foreign currency prices work, how to choose the right broker, how does the daily news affect prices, what do technical indicators (price charts) tell you about price movement, proper money management and other information must be learned.
The good news is that there is a wealth of information that can be found on the Internet regarding forex. You can learn the basics first, then advance to more difficult concepts simply by researching the Internet at your own pace.
After learning the information you need regarding forex, you will need to then begin developing a trading strategy. You can develop your own strategy based on what you learned, or you can use a strategy developed by another trader. But be very careful, there are many unscrupulous people trying to promote strategies that may simply not work. Once again, do your research before purchasing any trading strategies.
Once you have decided on a trading strategy, be sure you test and re-test the strategy before using real money. That’s one of the many great benefits of trading forex is that you get to test your strategies with fake money (demo account) before committing any real money. Nearly all forex brokers offer a free demo account in exchange for your e-mail address that utilizes the same procedures as a real account.
Most people that think about making money online generally relate to having an online business where you sell products or services. The reason I chose to include trading forex in the ‘make money online’ category is because everything you need to learn can be found on the Internet, communication with forex brokers is done via the Internet, currency prices are served over the Internet, and trade execution is performed using your broker’s software interface over your Internet connection.
Because there are no sales to make, no traffic to generate, and no payments to process makes trading forex, in my opinion, the perfect method to make money online.
Kevin Moon offers information on trading forex including strategies, money management and other tips. He is currently offering a free download — How To Turn $300 into $30,000 in 6 Months — to all visitors to his web site, http://www.tornadoforex.com.
Og the Deer Catcher and Flam the Wild walk up to a cave. They have never seen this cave before. Flam turns to Og and says “maybe there are some tasty rabbits inside, let’s go inside and take a look. Og disagrees. He says, “nobody from our tribe mentioned this cave before, I don’t think we should go in!”.
Flam is not swayed. He barrels into the cave, mouth watering, ready for the tasty treat inside. Two hours later…Flam is slowly being digested inside a rather large saber-tooth tiger who relaxes comfortably in his cave with quite a full belly and enough Flam to last another week…
Testimonials are powerful.
Why?
Because they give potential customers a reason to believe in you. There may not be a greater influence on human behavior than seeing someone else do something, or hearing about them doing it.
Nobody wants to be the guinea pig. Most people, no matter how insignificant the risk, do not want to be the first to try something. Most people want the other guy to test the waters before jumping in. This has a basis in our DNA through evolution. We humans are hardwired this way because this is what has kept us from being eaten by our early predators.
So since this built in need for prior example exists in all people, what steps can you take in your business, right now to take advantage of this fact?
Get testimonies!
If you already have, great, but I think there are still a few things you can do to make them more powerful. I’ll discuss that later.
But first, I’ll show you an example that you can modify for use in your own business and you’ll be surprised at how easy you’ll be able to collect testimonies.
Sue’s Facial Salon
Sue owns a facial salon. She wants to take advantage of the power of testimonies.
How does she go about doing this?
Here is one way.
Offer a Prize Drawing
The easiest and most straightforward way for Sue is to offer all of her customers, after they are finished with their facials, a chance to win a reasonably expensive item related to her business. The item should be expensive enough to be seen as a nice gift. It can’t be too cheap, but she doesn’t need to go overboard. For example, a bottle of face cream would be too cheap, but a basket of facial products (perhaps a 50 to 100 dollar value) would suffice.
So right before each customer leaves the store, Sue could mention..
“I’m running a giveaway of this $100 facial gift basket. If you want to enter, please complete this card and place it in the entry box”.
Collect Testimonies On Cards
The card should have a welcome note restating how the customer benefits by going to the facial store. Then it should ask for feedback — both good feedback and bad feedback. The card should also ask for the address and more importantly the telephone number.
The telephone number is required so the customers can be reached if they win…and if you are thinking two steps ahead….so they can be contacted to come in even if they didn’t win.
Since she already has established trust with her customers, this method should help her quickly get a card full of comments.
What To Do With All Those Cards
Sue should then sort the card into a few piles. For each positive comment, she should place each card in a stack that addresses each unique selling point of her business. So in this case, let’s say one of Sue’s unique selling position (or USP) is that she provides the most luxurious atmosphere, then all comments regarding that should go onto a stack. Let’s say she provides a free 15 minute shoulder massage as an added bonus at the end of a facial…another stack should be created for those comments.
Now she has many testimonies, each of which talk to each of her unique selling points.
So what does she do with these testimonials? Well, she needs permission to publicly use those testimonials so she goes ahead and puts all the entries in a hat and picks the winner. Sue then calls the winner to tell her she has won and to come pick up the prize.
When the winner arrives and picks her prize up, Sue tells the customer how much she values her and asks if she can use the comments written on the card in a testimonial. If the customer agrees, Sue then can ask the customer to sign and date a simple form giving her permission.
Now, for the rest of the testimonials Sue wants to use, she can call up each non-winner and let them know they didn’t win the prize, but since Sue is so grateful the customer gave feedback, she will then offer each of them a 20% discount on their next visit. When they come in for the discount…you guessed it..Sue can ask if she can use their testimony. Pretty easy huh?
What To Notice
You notice in each case Sue:
1) Gave an incentive to take action
2) Never “bribed” them for a testimony. She asked for positive
and negativefeedback.
3) Got permission to use a testimony easily since her customer
is already happy to get such a great discount.
Lead Them A Bit
Another small tip to add is this: If Sue was having trouble getting specific testimonies, she could (ethically) lead the customer to the category she needed more comment on.
Using the same example about a luxurious atmosphere USP, her card could solicit the proper feedback.
She can ask questions like :
“What did you like about the atmosphere?” _____________________
“What did you not like about the atmosphere?” _________________
This technique will help her narrow testimonies down towards her USP even further.
Can You Use This Too?
Can you see how you can learn from this story and apply the use of testimonies to your business? There are multiple variations to this I will discuss in future articles.
I urge you to examine your own business and see if you can think of different ways to get and use powerful testimonials that speak to your strong selling points.
Jay McKee is a freelance copywriter and marketing consultant located in San Jose, CA. Jay specializes in all forms of direct response marketing. He also provides marketing advice to small businesses located in San Jose. To improve your direct response ads or to learn more about how you can use direct marketing to get more customers, sell more product, and boost profits without spending more on advertising go to: http://www.jaymckeemarketing.com
Flash is pretty popular these days, but many people (especially customers) seem not to realize its weak points, which result in low popularity and usually lower profit in the end.
Here’s the list of main disadvantages of Flash technology :
* Flash plug-in is not built into browsers, so there’s no guarantee that vistors will really see your website or its Flash elements
* visitors can’t rely on browser’s “Back” button, in most cases pushing it results in coming back to first site and flash loading anew
* under mouse’s right click there are no standard options available like “Copy” or “Select All”
* it’s very diffcult to optimize Flash websites for search engines
* visitors using text browsers won’t see website
* Flash devours a lot of system resources, it requires much and requires good computer to work properly
* Flash files are usually relatively big, so it takes pretty much time to download and open
* printing is inconvenient, and very often even impossible
* visitors can’t add any of subpages to their favourites, just main site
Obviously you can always make alternative non-FLASH version of your site, but do you (or your client) have really so much money and time to invest in two seperate sites with exactly same infomation? Personally I share following opinion “Flash programmers like to use Flash for web sites because they can, not because it adds very much to the user experience. (the sentence taken from “Why not Flash?” article at Integra Web Design - http://www.integrawebdesign.co.uk/flash.htm). And as I can understand Flash developers, I don’t understand customers who care whether website looks good for them and on their computers and don’t really care about their visitors.
Prior to installing a body kit on your car, you should take proper steps to ensure that it is done correctly. We encourage you to have the parts installed by a professional but for those you who want to do the project on their own these directions will get you started.
Prepping & Cleaning Procedure:
Using a good quality paper towel and grease remover or lacquer thinner, completely and thoroughly clean the painted surface area on the car where you will apply double sided tape. Do not allow the paper towel or cloth to remain on the car for too long as it will cause damage to the painted surface. Once cleaned, use a minimum amount of adhesion promoter (just enough to fully coat the surface) on a clean lint-free cloth and apply a thin coating to the surface where you will apply the double face tape. All the adhesion promoter to completely dry before you attempt installing the new part(s).
Note: If you do not intend to paint your entire car, we highly recommend that you paint the bumper prior to installing it on your car.
Front Bumper Installation:
Remove your old factory bumper and save all of the hardware to use later. You may need to remove the styrofoam insert as the new bumper may not fit properly over it. Pre-fit the new bumper on the car to make sure that everything lines up. If it does not, make adjustments by sanding or grinding. Use your old factory bumper as a guide to drill new holes into your new bumper. Once you have done so install the new bumper with the original factory bumper hardware.
Side Skirt Installation:
After removing your old side skirts, use a cloth to clean the using the procedure mentioned above. Once prepped, pre-fit the side skirts onto the car to make sure parts are properly aligned. Use a grease pencil to mark where you want to install the side skirts. Now you will need to measure out a strip of double sided tape and attach it to the side underside of the side skirt if they did not come with it. Peel back about 2″ of the plastic backing from the tape, so you can position the part on the car with the remaining plastic backing still on the tape. Position the part on the car and once in place pull the plastic backing to expose the double sided tape and press firmly to assure good adhesion. If screw holes do not align properly you will need to drill them yourself at this point. Use a screwdriver to attach screws.
Rear Bumper Installation:
Remove your old factory rear bumper and trim panel that is located above the bumper. Save all of the original factory hardware for later use. You may need to discard the styrofoam absorber as the new bumper may not fit properly over it. Place the bumper on the car to test fit it. Once you have it lined up properly and fit is assured drill holes into the new bumper using the original factory bumper holes as a reference. Using the original factory screws, attach the bumper to your car. You may need to drill additional holes into each wheel well to secure the bumper.
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The need for notebook computers is skyrocketing in this point in time. Taiwan, which is the chief manufacturing country of laptop computers is having trouble with the demand at present. It doesn’t seem like anything will stop the growth of laptops at present. Manufacturers are trying to structure the technology loops but that doesn’t hinder anyone from coming and bettering things.
I’ve witnessed a growing amount of customers enquiring about gaming notebooks. With prices falling and new technology being introduced rather quickly it means that purchasers are getting greater bangs for their buck. Gaming notebooks are no longer ridiculed by serious game players because they are actually reasonably good. More positives to come from advanced manufacturing practices is tiny, cooler parts that give way for thinner, slick chassis’s. Desktops are greater in size and use more electricity so no matter how much better gaming notebooks have got desktops will always perform faster. Could gaming notebooks ever turn razor thin? I think this is a sector to monitor.
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I am honestly awaiting to see what notebooks hit the market in the future. Except from what has previously been spoken of Ultra mobile notebooks are a further massive thing seeing growth this year. A number of similar products have already been released at a rapid speed. I think the market would like to see larger portables that weigh a lot less than todays systems. If we forget about processing power I’m certaiin we would see those types of notebooks today. The way the market is developing I know gaming notebooks will get thinner. New laptops are seen every couple of months and I’m sure the next year already carries a lot of promise for us enthusiasts.
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