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Attaining new clientele is the essential focus of sales reps in a host of fields. In the financial services sector, sales people are constantly looking to grow their prospects of business in the most economical manner. SRCList.com is a contact list provider that a sales rep can opt to use to gain qualified lead lists. They offer sales leads to help sales people in building their client base smoother.

SRCList offers a variety of sales contact lists to those who sell financial services products. They believe that helping sales professionals spend more time addressing the needs of prospects is a more efficient way to build their business. Not having to spend time searching for prospects means sales representatives can spend time on actually building their book of business. This is through concentrating on setting appointments and delivering information-packed presentations to interested people.

Hence, if after contacting the full list provided, a salesperson doesn’t earn a minimum $1,000.00 for every 100 names purchased during the first 90 days, SRCList will refund one hundred percent of the purchase price. Their dedication is to their clients’ needs, just as a financial service sales rep’s commitment is to their clients needs. This truth in business operations benefits all parties involved.

Approximately twenty thousand agents have had the benefit of setting appointments with an average 10 percent of the people in the SRCList files.The Company works with anyone who use their service so that they fine-tune their name collection approach and always provide quality leads. For example, a financial services sales professional looking to receive a Debt Refinance Prospect List will receive a list where everyone on the file has lived at his or her current residence for over five years.

Sales professionals always look to avoid spending time chasing down lead lists that are unlikely to produce results. Their want is to contact people who have an affinity for what they have to provide. SRCList.com furnishes qualified contact lists that can help financial services sales representatives convert a higher percentage of contacts into customers. They continue to work to offer leads of different sizes to meet the special needs of various sales representatives.

In a new development on the Lehman Brothers collapse issue, the creditors have started demanding their money back from the bankrupt securities firm. Where the total claim could reach something above $1 trillion, Canary Wharf Group Plc has begun the process by asking back its $4.3 billion of rental from the firm.

The 30 year lease taken by the securities firm was the largest among all the tenants of desk space London in Canary Wharf. The Wharf filed its claim for rentals for the huge space on the Bank Street inclusive of the future rentals as well as additional amounts of projected costs and miscellaneous expenses totalling to around $4.2 billion. However, the claim does not mention the exact time period covered.

The biggest shareholder in the property, Songbird Estates Plc has decided to increase its shareholding from 61% to 69% by taking over 56 million shares of Commerzbank AG. It is also planning to raise funds for repayment of certain loans from Citigroup Inc and other projects by selling off some shares later this year. It is also notable that over 16% of last year’s income for Songbird estates came from the office space in Canary Wharf.

Songbird Estates has a number of major players as its shareholders. The top names include U.S. investor Simon Glick, China Investment Group, Qatar Holding LLC, British Land Company and the New York-based U.S. bank, Morgan Stanley that is not a just a tenant but also holds around 12% of shares in the company.

Each company tries to lure potential clients to their merchandise. If you obtain a monopoly or incomparable product your marketing goal is to fill your customers desires with your products. These days obtaining that monopoly or exclusive agenda is next to impossible, and even if you can discover it odds are another will duplicate it very instantly.

Wouldn’t it be fantastic if your marketing resources was limitless and you could try it all including the web, print material, television, newspapers, radio..), and you would surely to get great results. Unless your Microsoft, Google or Ebay odds are you don’t have the means to do that. The number one thing you must do is identify who your market is. Do you sell locally, nationally or worldwide. Even if you might sell nationally or globally is it worth it? In order to sell nationally you have to have enough resources both financially and in support workers. Your market is greater than settling just for locally but your competition is usually better as well.

More often we are looking at target market. Identify your market, generate less promotion material but control it to persons who you really have a possibility to sell your merchandise too. Build a list of potential clients ( using Dunn and Brad Street lists, Yellow Page Lists, Industry Lists, Industry Show lists,…). As soon as you have a list start consolidating a record of potential clients who’d you’d like to market to. Take into consideration Variable Data Marketing plans or direct marketing Email campaigns. At all times try to speak to your customers needs instead of than focusing on your product.

You barely have one opportunity to make a excellent impression. First of all try to offer your potential client a “discount” or “special offer” for them to use your product. They need to have some incentive to separate you from your competitors. Your good name and reputation are great once when they become existing loyal customers means nothing to a skeptical prospect. Stay away from going the cheap route. Use a quality printing company, create an exciting campaign, consider promotional products, or a professional web presence. Brochure printing or flyer printing has proven to be successful marketing campaigns. You must stand out to make an impression.

Once you get a lead from your campaign, you must service, service, service. As easily as it might have been to get some one interested, it usually is just as easy to lose their business. A dissatisfied customer usually does more harm to your company’s reputation and image than all the good can you acquire from your happy customers.

Buying Platinum jewelry can be fun, exciting and confusing. Whether you’re considering a gift of Platinum jewelry for someone special or as a treat for yourself, take some time to learn the terms used in the industry. Here’s some information to help you get the best quality Platinum jewelry for your money, whether you’re shopping in a traditional brick and mortar store or online.

Platinum is a precious metal that costs more than gold. It usually is mixed with other similar metals, known as the platinum group metals: iridium, palladium, ruthenium, rhodium and osmium.

Different markings are used on platinum jewelry as compared with gold jewelry, based on the amount of pure platinum in the piece. The quality markings for platinum are based on parts per thousand. For example, the marking 900 Platinum means that 900 out of 1000 are pure platinum, or in other words, the item is 90% platinum and 10% other metals. The abbreviations for platinum - Plat. or Pt. - also can be used in marking jewelry.

Items that contain at least 950 parts per thousand pure platinum can be marked simply platinum. Items that have at least 850 parts per thousand pure platinum can be marked with the amount of pure platinum and the word platinum or an abbreviation (for example, 950 platinum, 900 Plat. or 850 Pt.). Jewelry that contains less than 850 parts per thousand pure platinum, but has a total of 950 parts per thousand of platinum group metals (of which at least 500 parts is pure platinum), may be marked with both the amount of pure platinum and the amount of the other platinum group metals in the piece. For example, the marking 600 Plat. 350 Irid. means that the item has 600 parts per thousand (60%0 platinum, and 350 parts per thousand (35%) iridium, totaling 950 parts per thousand of platinum group metals, and 50 parts per thousand (5%) other metals.

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Glow stick dancing, also called flow dancing or liquid dancing, involves twirling glow sticks to the beat of a song while simultaneously dancing. This dance has become popular with the techno and, to some extent, the hip-hop scene — especially in cities such as San Francisco and New York.

Glow stick dancing is all about having fun. Nevertheless, there are some basic things that any would-be glow stick dancer should know. First, dancers should hold the glow sticks in a way that allows plenty of movement between the fingers, but that also feels comfortable. Try holding out your hand, palm down, and placing the glow stick under the index and pinky fingers, and on top of the middle two fingers. This hold allows for the best grip and visibility.

A good glow stick move to know for glow stick dancing is the figure eight. This move allows the dancer to twirl the glow sticks very close together and can look much more difficult than it actually is. To do the move, practice making a figure eight with your leading hand. Hold your arm out with your elbow slightly bent, and move only your wrist. Imagine the face of a clock, and, starting at 12, move to the following numbers in this order: 1,2,8,7,6,5,4,10,11,12,1,2. Repeat the process several times to create a figure eight.

Once you learn how to do the figure eight with one hand smoothly, try following with the other hand. Note that both hands will follow the same sequence, one in front of the other. While making the figure eight, try dancing to the music. When you have mastered the figure eight, you should be able to dance with your body and the glow sticks in perfect beat with the music.

The most important part of glow stick dancing, though, is to always have fun!

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In this article, we want to explore the idea of using the popularity of celebrities and current event (news) topics to help market any internet business.

The Idea

Celebrities and news events are not only popular topics, they are also popular “keywords” in the major search engines. Thousands upon thousands of users everyday search the engines to find the latest info.

The idea is to build mini sites that target this market.

We call these “pop surfer” sites.

It sounds a bit far fetched at first, but with a little strategy, these “pop surfers” can help sell our products - NO MATTER WHAT WE SELL, or at least generate a decent amount of qualified traffic.

To get an idea of the type of traffic, have a look at these sites:

http://buzz.yahoo.com

http://50.lycos.com

http://www.wordtracker.com

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Look at the terms in these lists. I’m sure you recognize most of them, as they are an indication of what and who is “happening” right now. Also, keep in mind these sites (Yahoo, Google, Lycos, etc.) are among the most visited sites on the net.

The “Pop Surfer” Mini Site

The first step is to develop a “pop surfer” mini site (or sites - the more the better). It doesn’t have to be the greatest or prettiest site ever created. Don’t put as much work into it as you would your primary site. The key to these sites is to get the popular names and terms on the page so the search engines can find and spider them.

When developing your “pop surfer” page, keep in mind that you want a page that will 1) get into the search engines, and 2) grab the pop surfers’ attention while they are searching for their favorite artist, news story, etc.

The Strategy

After we have our “pop surfer” mini site(s) built and listed in the engines, how do we use it get customers to our businesses?

There are two models that we will call the Indirect model and the Direct model. Each approach has it’s own advantages and uses. In one model we “indirectly” target the “pop surfers”, and in the other model we “directly” target them.

The Indirect Model

This model gives us the most qualified visitors. In this model, we utilize the power of traffic “exchanges”. After we start getting our share of “pop surfer” traffic, we use the exposure ratio from these “exchanges” to drive qualified, targeted visitors to our primary business site.

This works because exchanges allow us to target our visitors. When signing up for an exchange you are usually asked what category you want exposure in. They often give you a list with such categories as Health and fitness or Business Opportunities. This gives us control over where we want our primary sites’ information viewed.

Some exchanges have a 1:1 ratio where one exposure on your page is worth one exposure on someone else’s page. Others use different ratios such as 2:1 which gives two exposures on your page for one exposure on someone else’s.

There are several types of exchanges. The more popular ones are:

Banner Exchanges, which gives banner exposures in exchange for placing other banners on our site.

Exit Exchanges display your whole website, usually as a pop under window when a visitor leaves your site, in exchange for your site being displayed (as an exit pop under window) on someone else’s site.

The most powerful, however, are:

Opt In list exchanges. These are special, because in every marketing circle, the number one rule for promoting your online business is to obtain an opt in list of subscribers. Opt in exchanges deliver the most targeted, and qualified visitors we can get with the exchange model.

How they work is when someone enters or leaves your site, a list of newsletter, or business opportunity sign up forms are generated in a small unobtrusive window. When that happens, your newsletter or biz-opportunity is listed on someone else’s website - IN THE TARGETED CATEGORY THAT YOU CHOSE when you signed up.

Put the exchange code(s) on your “pop surfer” sites, and take advantage of the traffic.

The Direct Model

The direct model is more of an indirect approach in that we may not necessarily use the “pop surfers” for our primary business but we can still profit from them.

How?

One way is by utilizing Pay Per Click. Not pay per click in the sense that we bid for our sites’ exposure in a search engine, but Pay Per Click in the sense that we place listings on OUR sites and GET PAID for having them there. Every time someone clicks a result in your page, you get a percentage of the bidding amount for that click. If you use pay per click strategically, it can be very profitable.

Merchant affiliate programs work well also. Amazon.com, for example, sells books, music, toys, and more. They let you place their products on your website, and you get a percentage when someone buys from you.

Several other merchants work the same way. Do a search for merchants who sell CDs, books, video, toys, or clothing, and have an affiliate program. There are many out there.

Finally, you don’t only have to look for affiliate programs. If you have a business or product that you think might cater to popular culture, target the “pop surfers” directly!! For instance, if you print T-shirts, you could probably sell some with hottest stars’ faces on them.

Do your research for your pop surfer page topic. You can bet that if a celebrity or topic has recently made news, the traffic is sure to follow.

Rony Perry is an internet marketer with a B.S. In Computer Science. He maintains websites on various popular topics.
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Advertising on television is one of the most effective ways to reach your target audience. With nearly 99 percent of American households owning a television, it is marketing tool that almost any type of business could use effectively to its advantage.

Unfortunately many small businesses don’t even think about advertising on television because they feel it is just too expensive. Small business owners feel that television is a medium that is reserved for only large companies with huge advertising budgets.

However, with the growth of cable and regional television, a small business can benefit from television advertising just like the large corporations. The industry is exploding today, new cable stations are starting up every year, and they need advertising to be able to stay on the air. Because of the competitiveness of television today, many stations offer very affordable rate packages for small businesses.

Television advertising is very powerful. Your businesses can gain instant credibility when you advertise on television. Advertising on television puts you in the same league as the large companies in the eyes of consumers.

Advertising on television is like any other form or marketing, it must be done correctly. Poor ads will do you no good and will cause you to loose a lot of money. Many ads you see on television today try to be cute, funny, and entertaining. With many television ads, it’s hard to tell what the company is even selling.

Studies show that with television advertising people pay attention to the graphics first, the headline second, the bullets third, and the text fourth. Headlines are just as important in television advertising as they are in print advertising. You only have a few seconds to grab the viewer’s attention, so you need to begin with a powerful headline that stresses benefits and then end your ad with a strong call to action.

Your ad must speak with a clear message to your target audience. With television advertising people will remember how they felt after seeing your ad more than the actual details of the ad itself. So it’s important to have great visuals that are supported by a good script. You want your ad to leave people feeling good, well informed, and motivated to buy.

Your call to action at the end of the television ad is critical because you must tell people what to do. They need to know what’s in it for them and how to reach you. Make sure you give your location, your phone number, and your Web address. If your ad will be seen by viewers outside of your immediate area, include your toll-free number.

The key to a successful television advertising campaign is no different than any other marketing campaign: repetition. The more times people see your ad, the deeper your message will driven into their subconscious mind which will bring your prospects closer to purchasing your product or service.

Television advertising can be expensive, so it’s important to do your research before investing in a campaign. Look closely at the make-up of the station’s viewing audience. There are plenty of cable channels out there that get a large viewing audience. Just make sure it is the audience you need to reach. How many viewers does the channel reach? Are the viewers made up of business owners and managers, or do they consist of mostly working men and women? It is a younger viewing audience, such as teens?

Getting a return on television advertising is like any other type of advertising, it takes time. It does not happen with just one ad. So once you’ve found the station that reaches your target audience, get a package that fits your budget, because it may take three to six months to begin to see results from your advertising.

It’s important for any business and especially for a small businesses to make sure you’re getting a good return on investment. So you need to be constantly planning, measuring, and evaluating your television advertising campaign. You must test your ad to see the audiences response. Testing is the best way to determine if television advertising is the right medium for your business.

Just because you’re a small business, don’t automatically discount television advertising. With all of the cable television stations, advertising on them has become more affordable.
If you advertise on the right station that targets your prime prospects, and have the right message, television is the most powerful medium you can use to get your message out.

Copyright©2006 by Joe Love and JLM & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.

Joe Love draws on his 25 years of experience helping both individuals and companies build their businesses, increase profits, and achieve total success. He is the founder and CEO of JLM & Associates, a consulting and training organization, specializing in personal and business development. Through his seminars and lectures, Joe Love addresses thousands of men and women each year, including the executives and staffs of many of America’s largest corporations, on the subjects of leadership, self-esteem, goals, achievement, and success psychology.

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Promotional mouse pad: A promotional advertising product is an article given away free of charge to the public in an attempt to boost business or increase interest in, or sales of, a product or service. Oftentimes given out at trade shows, used in direct mail as a marketing campaign. Promotional items are also used in politics to advertize campaigners and different causes. custom promotional items are sometimes used by organizations, and schools oftentimes as a function of fund raising. Commercial enterprises are always trying to develop the best and an effective way to have their marketing message in front of likely candidates. One excellent method was used first in 1957. It was a custom t-shirt with an print on it. The promoting blank space on a t-shirt is almost 150 square inches which makes this a nifty walking billboard and one of the most skilful ways to locate the business advertising message to the end user! Another great item that can be used is a mouse pad. This is an item that will be used by almost anyone and has the ability to get your advertising message right under your customer’s nose. We have mouse pads with vivid 4 color process imprint unlike any other company. Our color is continuous color image where as everyone else useses a dot pattern. The difference is the same as comparing a newspaper photo to a picture. So if you want state of the art color mouse pads give us a call. Sixty three square inches of billboard advertising space can be placed right under your customer’s nose. Just think how nice it would be to have your company name and your products as well as your phone number 15 inches from your customer 8 hours a day. You can with custom imprinted mouse pads.

Have you thought about applying for an About.com guide position? This article will give you a few pointers from someone who has been there. I applied for the Stress Management site and lost but my experience may help you become familiar with the process.

At the bottom of their homepage, you’ll find a link to available websites. The guide prep is 17 days with four deadlines. You’ll be in competition with up to five other guides that have applied. They start guide prep every week. I started late on a Friday afternoon with the deadline for the final eval occurring on a Monday.

It could be a few weeks until you hear whether you’ve been accepted. My acceptance letter was received approximately three weeks before starting the competition. They’ll give you a start date and tell you to expect another email.

You can use this time to brush up on web building skills and write a few articles, a complete glossary and frequently asked questions. About has their own language - using brackets [a href] instead of arrows for their code. Their blog which is hosted by Six Apart uses regular html. Research the best way to word link descriptions - it’s a big part of their site. SEO is also important. Every page has keywords and meta descriptions.

They prefer “Top 10″ or question and answers for their articles. Read web references for writing on the web: short paragraphs, paragraph headings, simple sentences and language. They prefer content that is offering specific advice, motivates a reader to take action or answers a specific question.

Guide Prep is a self directed step by step program for developing one of their mini sites. It includes an orientation forum with questions from previous guides. You’ll notice some of the questions go unanswered with little recent posting. Questions are answered hours to days later.

It’s helpful to read the questions and answers but some of the information is outdated. Keep in mind that it’s meant to be a self directed program.

Top 10 Tips to Win The Guide Prep Competition

1. Prepare - After you’ve written them regarding one of their open spots do some preparation. Write a couple of articles in the “written for the web” format. Research keywords appropriate for your subject. Research writing for the web. Compile a glossary and frequently asked questions. Keep note of links for your content. Each original article should link to 3-5 sources and your glossary.

2. Practice and become familiar with uploading images with a FTP client. I didn’t include images in my practice site. That could have been one of the reasons I didn’t win. It could also have had something to do with my writing skills. I found it difficult to write on a deadline.

3. When you receive the welcome email the competition begins. I received mine about three weeks after the acceptance email. You’re encouraged to take a few days to become familiar with their guide prep site. Take the time to look over their lounge and pay attention to their tools. They have preferences for the kind of content that goes in each. Their site building interface has some bugs in it. When you publish make sure that it posted.

4. Plan your site before you enter categories and content. You are required to have 10-15 categories with a piece of original content or a link to websites in each.

5. Glossary tool - Each definition is typed in separately on a form. What you type in first is at the bottom and each additional entry is above the first. If you type in your glossary starting at “A” - the content will publish with “Z” being at the top of the list. Anything added later will be out of alphabetical order because it will publish on top. There is no way to insert items.

Compile a complete glossary before you begin and start typing from the bottom of your glossary. It will then be in alphabetical order.

6. Read the information in the lounge, the Q & A in the orientation forums and the guide prep before you start. Pay attention the the description of the content that goes in each tool. There is a lot of information in the lounge if you look for it.

7. Don’t expect much help nor ask for it. You’ll just be frustrated waiting for an answer. Use your judgement based on what you’ve read and the site description they emailed you.

8. Make sure what you publish is ready for prime time before the site is live. When you hit “publish” make sure it is ready for viewing by the public. You can’t delete content later. Only support can do that.

9. Plan your schedule to reduce commitments during the competition. You’ll spend quite a few hours planning the site, writing articles and finding the best links. Learning to use their tools is one of the most important functions of guide prep.

10. Make sure the content is in the correct tool. Thoroughly read through each tool before entering content because the instructions can be confusing.

Write a bio of your qualifications, education and a message to the public. Look at a few About.com guide sites to get ideas. While you’re at it, read as many sites as you can to become familiar with the content.

When I received the welcome e-mail, I did a search for information about guide prep and found nothing on the internet. It would have been helpful if I knew what to expect. I hope this helps you and good luck!

Copyright 2005 - Cathy Gariety, RN - USA

You may use this article if you keep the link active.

Cathy Gariety is a Registered Nurse and researcher specializing in Stress Management. She is in the process of developing programs for hospitals nationwide. Visit her website at http://www.garietygroup.com