Apply These Internet Promotion Tips To Your Plan - Maynas Eric

While a few businesses will grow from small beginnings to enormous size, others will remain small scale. Most, however, will just up and disappear. Many online businesses have been known to fail. Take some online marketing advice from this article to ensure that you beat the odds.

Even if you hit a few bumps in the road when it comes to web marketing, you must persevere. When you feel discouraged, remind yourself that success may be just around the corner. Make sure that all your priorities are set before you are going to launch a website that sells your products. Sometimes this takes intensive work. No matter how arduous this journey may be, always keep in mind that your efforts will pay off.

TIP! Using a web page for public relations can be an effective way to market your business on the internet. Include content that online magazines or newspapers may want to publish.

Here?s a tip for your internet promotion efforts. Make sure your readers know you take privacy and security seriously! Place a privacy policy on the upper right spot of the page. By adding the privacy policy to your site, your customers will feel more comfortable engaging in financial transactions with you. They will be more likely to purchase what you?re selling if they know you are protecting their identity.

Make sure you don?t overspend on advertising. Manage your money and don?t pay too much for advertisements, especially when they won?t necessarily help your business. Ensure you know exactly what you are getting for your money when you invest it in your business. For this reason, advertising using banner ads can be a smart investment.

You have probably heard that you shouldn?t mix your business with your personal life. However, this can be an exception to the rule. Simply due to the fact that this is more of a well paying past time without any high-pressure or stress. You should include your spouse in this activity, too.

TIP! By placing surveys and polls throughout your website, you can solicit feedback from site users. This can give you great ideas for new content, and help you populate your site with information your readers really want.

Partner with other online businesses to create interesting combination deals that will attract customers and help you share your customer bases. You can directly increase your sales volume by linking multiple markets. A good example of this is an online booking agent, which has negotiated reduced prices for people who book hotels, airfare and car rentals in one transaction. The best businesses to enter into packaging partnerships are those with products that are complementary, but not similar enough to cause direct competition.

It?s critical for internal links to promote your keywords. Keywords are how search engines find your site, so it?s an important part of website building. Provide your consumers with links to other relevant site content in order to keep them on your site for a longer period of time. By offering them links to your internal content, you not only retain your readers, but you can improve your search engine visibility.

Place ads for your business on high-traffic sites. Making this investment will pay off in the form of valuable exposure for your company or brand. Look for a site that gets lots of traffic, and this can help you get your name out there.

TIP! The most successful marketers online show real enthusiasm for the products they sell and have positive outlooks about their business. Communicate your faith in the product you sell and demonstrate to your potential customer how much you love the business you own.

Interview other people within your industry who can offer legitimate information to your customers. Be sure that you have permission from them before you publish so you don?t face legal trouble. Make your interviews articles and put them on free article and E-zine directories. The end results include increases in sales, traffic and even respect and credibility.

Offer proof that any claims you make about a product you are selling are true. Be believable in your claims and try to demonstrate the benefits of what you are promoting with a video, so that customers can see for themselves. Selling products you really use yourself allows you to provide your own authoritative views on their usefulness.

Failure in other businesses can be a catalyst to your success, so look for those open doors. Apply the helpful tips from this article to help you become a successful Online marketing guru.

TIP! An important tip regarding Internet marketing is to try to adjust your content and delivery of content in a way so that your customers get the impression that they are completely in control. Nothing can turn people off faster than unwanted email.

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Nasty weather threatens Gulf Coast for Christmas

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Nasty weather, including a chance of strong tornadoes and howling thunderstorms, could be on the way for Christmas Day along the Gulf Coast from east Texas to north Florida.

The storms held off long enough, though, to let Christmas Eve bonfires light the way for Pere Noel along the Mississippi River, officials said.

Farther north, much of Oklahoma and Arkansas were under a winter storm warning, with freezing rain, sleet and snow expected on Christmas. A blizzard watch is out for western Kentucky. And no matter what form the bad weather takes, travel on Tuesday could be dangerous, meteorologists said.

The storms could bring strong tornadoes or winds of more than 75 mph, heavy rain, quarter-sized hail and dangerous lightning in Louisiana and Mississippi, the National Weather Service said. The worst storms are likely from Winnsboro, La., to Jackson and DeKalb, Miss., according to the weather service's Jackson office.

"Please plan now for how you will receive a severe weather warning, and know where you will go when it is issued. It only takes a few minutes, and it will help everyone have a safe Christmas," said Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant.

In Alabama, the director of the Emergency Management Agency, Art Faulkner, said he was briefing both local officials and Gov. Robert Bentley on plans for dealing with a possible outbreak.

Forecasters said storms would begin near the coast and spread north through the day, bringing with them the chances of storms, particularly in central and southwest Alabama. No day is good for severe weather, but Faulkner said Christmas adds extra challenges because people are visiting unfamiliar areas. Also, people are more tuned in to holiday festivities than their weather radio on a day when thoughts typically turn more toward the possibility of snow than twisters, he said.

"We are trying to get the word out through our media partners and through social media that people need to be prepared," Faulkner said

Meteorologists also recommended getting yards ready Monday, bringing indoors or securing Christmas decorations, lawn furniture and anything else that high winds might rip away or slam into a building or car.

"Make sure they're all stable and secure ? that there's not going to be any loose wires blowing around and stuff like that," or bring them inside, said Joe Rua, with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, where storms were expected to roar in from Texas after midnight.

In the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Timothy J. Babin said the 10 or so wire Christmas sculptures in his yard and more than 180 plastic figures in his mother's yard are staked down.

Dozens of toy soldiers, a nativity scene, Santa and nine reindeer (don't forget Rudolph), angels, snowmen and Santa Clauses fill the yard of his mother, Joy Babin.

"From a wind standpoint, we should be fine unless we're talking 70, 80, 90 miles an hour," Timothy Babin said.

On Christmas Eve, more than 100 log teepees for annual bonfires are set up along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, which is a bit more than halfway from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, and about 20 in St. John the Baptist Parish, its downriver neighbor, parish officials said. Most are 20 feet tall, the legal limit.

Fire chiefs and other officials in both parishes decided to go ahead with the bonfires after an afternoon conference call with the National Weather Service.

The bad weather was expected from a storm front moving from the West Coast crashing into a cold front, said weather service meteorologist Bob Wagner of Slidell.

"There's going to be a lot of turning in the atmosphere," he said.

In California, after a brief reprieve across the northern half of the state on Monday, wet weather was expected to make another appearance on Christmas. Flooding and snarled holiday traffic were also expected in Southern California.

Ten storm systems in the last 50 years have spawned at least one Christmastime tornado with winds of 113 mph or more (F-2) in the South, Chris Vaccaro, a National Weather Service spokesman in Washington, said in an email. The most lethal were the storms of Dec. 24-26, 1982, when 29 tornadoes in Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi killed three people and injured 32; and those of Dec. 24-25, 1964, when two people were killed and about 30 people injured by 14 tornadoes in seven states.

Farther north, some mountainous areas of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains could see up to 10 inches of snow, the weather service said Monday. Precipitation is expected to begin as a mix of rain and sleet early Tuesday in western Oklahoma before changing to snow as the storm pushes eastward during the day. The weather service warned that travel could be "very hazardous or impossible" in northern Arkansas, where 4 to 6 inches of snow was predicted.

Out shopping with her family at a Target store in Montgomery, Ala., on Christmas Eve, veterinary assistant Johnina Black said she wasn't worried about the possibility of storms on the holiday.

"If the good Lord wants to take you, he's going to take you," she said.

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Associated Press writer Bob Johnson in Montgomery, Ala., and Ken Miller in Oklahoma City, Okla., contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nasty-weather-threatens-gulf-coast-christmas-215722967.html

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Boston condos and real estate report for week ending December 23 ...

The following is Boston Proper condo and real estate sales data for the month ending December 23 2012, (December 16 2012), (December 25 2011), (December 18 2011), (December 25 2010), (December 26 2009), and (December 25 2008) where available. All condominium closings recorded by our local MLS during the past month.

Number of units currently on the market: 228 (254) 467 (499) (580) (837) (N/A)
Average days on market: 141 (132) 159 (157) (177) (155) (N/A)
Median list price: $995,000 ($947,000) $775,000 ($749,900) ($695,000) ($639,000) (N/A)
Average list price: $1,573,809 ($1,519,866) $1,184,088 ($1,172,922) ($1,142,041) ($1,067,755) (N/A)

Number of units sold (past 30 days): 156 (133) 120 (119) (141) (133) (83)
Average days on market: 75 (60) 118 (120) (107) (127) (86)
Median close price: $715,000 ($749,000) $560,000 ($590,000) ($635,000) ($544,000) ($545,000)
Average close price: $987,834 ($964,303) $852,203 ($881,044) ($952,533) ($743,102) ($787,486)
Original list to close price: 95% (95%) 93% (94%) (95%) (92%) (94%)
Sales velocity: $154,102,167 ($128,252,267) $102,264,346 (104,844,246) ($134,307,171) ($98,832,520) ($65,361,360)

Thoughts: Happy Christmas!

This report includes sales and inventory information for condominiums located in the following downtown Boston neighborhoods: South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, West End, North End, Waterfront, Seaport District, Chinatown, Leather District, Midtown, and Fenway.

Data collected from third-party sources by the Multiple Listing Service Property Information Network, Inc.

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Xiaomi Phone 2 preps Hong Kong and Taiwan launch, seeks early local testers on Facebook

We knew Xiaomi's keen to bring its phones out of China and into the European market, but before taking that long-haul flight, the Chinese company is going to make a couple of stops in Asia. According to the latest updates on the company's Twitter feed and a freshly-made Facebook group (under "Xiaomi Asia"), the Xiaomi Phone 2 will be hitting Hong Kong and Taiwan "in the near future," and folks living in those two regions can enter a draw for a chance to become a guinea pig help test the phone's localized MIUI ROM (in traditional Chinese, naturally) ahead of launch. CEO Lei Jun had previously stated that his company would expand into Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore by the end of this year, but due to the overwhelming demand of Qualcomm's 28nm chipsets throughout the year, it's unlikely that Xiaomi can realize its original plan in time. Regardless, from what we know, Xiaomi may partner with Chunghwa Telecom to sell the Xiaomi Phone 2 in Taiwan, whereas in Hong Kong it may utilize the same old online direct sale model to begin with -- unlike Meizu who has a physical shop in the city, as well as a partnership with local carrier PCCW. Now, how about a full schedule for your world domination, Mr. Lei?

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Rockets fired at airport in Pakistan, 2 killed

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ? Officials say militants have fired three rockets at an airport in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing two people and wounding 30 others.

Senior government official Mian Iftikhar Hussain says a gunbattle broke out between security forces and militants out after the rocket attack Saturday night and is still ongoing. Hussain is the information minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where Peshawar is the capital.

Local hospital official Umar Ayub says two people were killed and 30 wounded in the attack, including women and children. Four of the wounded are in critical condition.

Peshawar is located on the edge of Pakistan's tribal region, the major sanctuary for al-Qaida and Taliban militants. The city has been attacked repeatedly in the past few years, but an attack on the airport is rare.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rockets-fired-airport-pakistan-2-killed-165426403.html

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Emotion in voices helps capture listener's attention, but in the long run the words are not remembered as accurately

Dec. 11, 2012 ? Does the emotion in our voice have a lasting effect? According to Annett Schirmer and colleagues from the National University of Singapore, emotion helps us recognize words quicker and more accurately straight away. In the longer term however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech. When we do remember the words, they have acquired an emotional value; for example words spoken in a sad voice are remembered as more negative than words spoken in a neutral voice.

The study, looking at the role of emotion in word recognition memory, is published online in Springer's journal, Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.

In anger, sadness, exhilaration or fear, speech takes on an urgency that is lacking from its normal even-tempered form. It becomes louder or softer, more hurried or delayed, more melodic, erratic or monotonous. And this emotional speech immediately captures a listener's attention. Schirmer and colleagues' work looks at whether emotion has a lasting effect on word memory.

A total of 48 men and 48 women listened to sadly and neutrally spoken words and were later shown these words in a visual test, examining word recognition and attitudes to these words. The authors also measured brain activity to look for evidence of vocal emotional coding.

Their analyses showed that participants recognized words better when they had previously heard them in the neutral tone compared with the sad tone. In addition, words were remembered more negatively if they had previously been heard in a sad voice.

The researchers also looked at gender differences in word processing. They found that women were more sensitive to the emotional elements than men, and were more likely than men to recall the emotion of the speaker's voice. Current levels of the female sex hormone estrogen predicted these differences.

Schirmer and team conclude: "Emotional voices produce changes in long-term memory, as well as capturing the listener's attention. They influence how easily spoken words are later recognized and what emotions are assigned to them. Thus voices, like other emotional signals, affect listeners beyond the immediate present."

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1. Annett Schirmer, Ce-Belle Chen, April Ching, Ling Tan, Ryan Y. Hong. Vocal emotions influence verbal memory: Neural correlates and interindividual differences. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2012; DOI: 10.3758/s13415-012-0132-8

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