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Treasure Coast residents spending less on grocery items – Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2010
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Treasure Coast residents spending less on grocery items
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What is the best way to find online coupon codes and/or promotional codes for online discounts?
Posted by admin on Mar 10, 2010
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where to sign up for a free 500.00 gift card?
Posted by admin on Mar 10, 2010
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Are you “cell”ing yourself Short?
Posted by admin on Mar 10, 2010
Cell phones have changed our world. With few exceptions, we can now talk to anyone we like whenever we’d like. The staccato symphony of ring tones accompanies us through our days: from the morning commute to the crowded restaurant at lunchtime, during meetings and even during the quick stop at the grocery store when the day is done. We’re always connected, always reachable. It’s a marvel.
It’s a marvel that can destroy your tradeshow performance.
Consider the following:
You’re at a tradeshow. An attractive exhibit catches your eye. The product on display is exactly what you’ve been searching for. When you approach the booth, a staffer looks up and with a gesture indicates that you should wait, just one minute, while he finishes his call. When he’s done talking to the important people, the message seems to be, he’ll be happy to talk to you.
How long are you going to wait? After all, you’ve only a limited amount of time at the show, and there are dozens of other booths on your ‘must-see’ list. When you discover that the display just a little further down the aisle also appears to feature a product that could fill your needs, chances are that’s all the impetus you’ll need to move along. There’s no sense waiting for the staffer to finish his call, not when there are other people who are more than ready to talk to you right now.
Let’s flip the scenario around. You’re on the other side of the aisle when your cell phone rings. Do you take the call?
I can hear you now. “But that’s different! My call is important!”
Guess what? The salesman in the first example thought his call was important too. And it was — to him. It was more important than you were, at least.
Talking on your cell phone tells tradeshow attendees three things:
1. Your team’s focus is NOT on the tradeshow.
2. Your attendee is not the most important person in the room — that honor belongs to whoever has your cell phone number.
3. The attendee’s business is not valuable to your company.
Add to this the very real possibility that attendees are listening to at least one side of your staffer’s cell phone conversations. What might they be hearing?
• Confidential business details, including customer names, order size and more. What great info for your competitors to have.
• Intimate, personal conversations. Nothing’s more off putting than TMI (too much information)!
• Humor or observations that may be considered offensive. What a PR nightmare!
How does this impact your marketing message? How does cell phone use by your staffers affect how that message is received by the show attendees?
(For a free copy of “10 Common Mistakes Exhibitors Make”, e-mail: article4@thetradeshowcoach.com)
It’s entirely possible that cell phone use by your staff will eliminate the clear communication of your marketing message. Sad but true: that’s the best you can hope for. Worse, and far more likely, attendees are getting different messages from your company, including:
• We’re too busy for you.
• We’re too important for you.
• We don’t care about you.
• You’re not worth our time.
• You don’t deserve our attention.
Is that the message you want to send? Emphatically NO! That’s why you need a cell phone policy. This policy will obviously vary by company, but should include the following:
• Cell phones must be shut off when you’re on the floor.
• Give staffers regular breaks so they can check messages and make calls, away from the exhibit.
• Staffers who have personal reasons to be in constant contact (i.e. small children, ailing parents, etc.) should be encouraged to program their phones to signal ‘high priority’ calls with a distinctive ring or vibration pattern. That way, staffers can only answer emergency calls and let voice mail pick up the rest. This offers your team the security of being constantly connected while still keeping the focus on the tradeshow attendees.
Expect some resistance when first introducing this policy. Cell phones have become such a part of our lives that many people feel naked without them. Explain the benefits and reasoning of the policy. Minimize tension by being flexible, providing ample opportunity for staffers to ‘check in’, and leading by example. You can’t tell your people to turn off their phones and then spend the day chatting on yours!
Susan Friedman
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/are-you-celling-yourself-short-110396.html
4 Ways to Dine Cheaply in Mexico
Posted by admin on Mar 10, 2010
It’s not only your feet that you have to prepare when you’re going to Mexico. You also need to get those taste buds ready. After all, the Mexican cuisine is truly worth your time and money. They are considered to be one of the best in the world, and if these weren’t enough, there are hundred dishes that you can try. This is because the meals vary from place to place.
However, some restaurants will cost you more than what you can afford, and thus, you should learn the ways to make sure that you don’t burn a hole in your pocket when you are served with any of your well-loved Mexican dishes. Some good tips are found below:
1. Check out for discounts and promos. Some of these restaurants and cafes are willing to bring down their prices, especially if off-peak seasons. They need to bring in more customers into their shops. Hence, you can perhaps try their nachos at 30 to 40 percent off their regular price. There are also some do promos. For instance, you may get a free soda or Mexican drink when you’re going to buy a meal, or you may have discounts the next time you visit the restaurant. You just need to present a gift certificate or a pass.
2. Make use of the coupons. Coupons are very important, more so when you want to limit your expenses when you’re in Mexico. These are being handed by representatives of various Mexican shops as part of their promo, or you can buy them online. When you’re running out of cash, you can present them to the restaurant or to the café. You can also get those that allow you to get goods at a much lower price in grocery stores.
3. Get local restaurant listings. There are brochures that will tell you all the restaurants that are located in your area. What you can do is buy one and place a call to the restaurant of your liking. You can ask beforehand of how much most of their dishes will cost. It doesn’t have to be exact figures. You can simply inquire about estimates. The most important thing is that you will have an overview of how much you would likely spend if you dine there.
4. Take advantage of a licensed restaurant of Grupo Mayan. A Grupo Mayan hotel will have its own licensed restaurant, which serve authentic Mexican dishes. You can save some money since you don’t need to pay for your transport just to eat. Moreover, some packages may actually involve free breakfast or lunch, allowing you to save some more pennies that you can use all throughout your stay. There are several Grupo Mayan hotels all over the country, so you’re guaranteed of the same service wherever you are. And just to make sure that you can relish the meals, you can ask a Grupo Mayan staff to bring your food to your room.
Whether you want to try the dishes at Grupo Mayan or use discount coupons, there are countless ways to end your hunger pangs without spending a lot.
irinaM
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/4-ways-to-dine-cheaply-in-mexico-690796.html
Savvy Shopper: Peninsula Town Center opens with discount events – Daily Press
Posted by admin on Mar 9, 2010
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Savvy Shopper: Peninsula Town Center opens with discount events
Daily Press With an eye toward savings on groceries, in particular, the newsletter highlights the best sales at local grocery chains, pairs the sales with available … |
Building a “business Funnel” and Help Your Business Start Earning More Money
Posted by admin on Mar 8, 2010
Practically every business out there operates on a “business funnel” system. What exactly does this term mean and how can you use to earn some money for your business? The concept of a business funnel is actually a fairly simple one that takes just a minute to wrap your brain around. One end of the funnel (the smaller end) is your front end sales and the other consists of back end sales (larger end).
Front end sales are the products and services you can quickly sell to your customers. This is where you make a fast return on your goods. Back end sales include the things that you sell to those clients later on, through return business, additional services or affiliate programs. Sure, it’s rewarding to make those fast front end sales, but it’s also a lot more work to get those sales made. With back end sales you will build more lucrative and long-lasting wealth that can maintain and grow your business over time with much less effort spent.
The business funnel concept is nothing new in the marketing world. Retailers use this all the time. For example, let’s look at the local grocery store. Every week, they send out ads selling items at low prices, some even offering buy one get one free deals to consumers.
The advertisements are what get customers like you in the door to take advantage of these front-end sales items. But what the grocery store knows is that you will more than likely walk out of the store with an additional $40 worth of grocery purchases because smart consumers get everything they need for their household in one trip to save on gas and time. While the front end items may have cost you around $20 or so and saved you a good deal of money, the additional purchases you made are how the store made its real profits. In other words, the small end of the funnel was the sales items, the bigger end of the funnel and profits were the large grocery purchase you just made.
Many business owners concentrate too much on the front end sales, but the smart business owner will offer front end items but concentrate more on the back end profits they can potentially make. Likewise, if you are a business owner and you have a website where you can advertise your products, specials and other information about your company, you can take advantage of the business funnel idea to increase profits and make more money for your company.
Recently, BusinessWeek offered a webcast about “Turning the Reverse Funnel Upside Down” (Ron Hubsher, BusinessWeekOnline.com) What the author and host of this webcast was trying to promote is the business funnel system; increasing wealth with back-end sales instead of spending so much time with front-end efforts. It’s not a new concept; the way it is executed with the power of the Internet is just new.
So how can you as a business owner with a website and a dream start building wealth using the business funnel model? Here are some ways you can do this and start making money with less effort:
The web-seminar. This is a new twist on an old idea. The Internet is full of information just waiting to be found. Offer your website viewers the opportunity to review a free web seminar offered remotely via their computer or a phone in session (called a tele-seminar).
While holding the seminar, the host can offer free information and advice, allow callers to comment and the whole thing gets recorded for later promotion. At the conclusion of the seminar, offer participants the opportunity to attend a low-cost class or provide a deal for one of the services or products your company offers. If they like the information you present, they will be hooked and will keep coming back to learn more.
Offer affiliate opportunities. That’s right, you can build up a nice back-end income by allowing others to share in and promote your products and services with a small monetary incentive as their reward. Affiliate programs are becoming wildly popular ways to make more back end sales with minimal efforts on your behalf. It’s basically a low cost alternative to advertising and offers endless networking opportunities. Just think for every website visitor you get, each person may know hundreds of other people who may be interested in what your company can do for them. It’s a new concept based on word-of-mouth advertising that offers great potential for anyone who taps into this.
Have an action plan. Just as any organization would include a plan for growth and sales, your business needs to come up with a plan to add back end products to the existing offerings. For example, if you offer products for home building, you may also want to offer financing or consulting as some additional services. You can affiliate yourself with other companies who will provide these services and then make an income from their efforts, just for referring customers their way.
Be accountable. Each person in your company should be responsible for the success of the growth and wealth building, even if it’s just you. That means following up on every possible lead that may introduce you to other sources of income. That means measuring everyone’s success to determine what’s working and eliminate things that aren’t. It is recommended that your business spend at least an hour everyday seeking out other residual forms of income to build your back-end of the funnel.
With just a few simple methods, your business can earn a substantial amount of income by building up back end sales. Using the business funnel system is a great way to increase the chances that you will be earning more money with less effort.
Jeremy Gislason
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/building-a-business-funnel-and-help-your-business-start-earning-more-money-695557.html
How to Simplify your Living Expenses
Posted by admin on Mar 8, 2010
Here’s the thing: I’m a New Yorker. And in New York, it is amazingly difficult NOT to spend a lot of money, just on the basics! As a student of Harv Eker, I am trying to limit my expenses to 50% of my after-tax income, and I have to tell you, that is really hard to do. Harv isn’t the only one to suggest this either: almost every money-management guru gives the same advice. Simplify your expenses.
The fact is, if you want to become financially free, you must do two things: increase your passive income and decrease your expenses. Once your passive income is equal to or greater than your expenses, you are financially free. The concept is simple enough — and in other articles I address creating passive income (the easiest and fastest way to do this would be by renting your rooms). But how do you simplify your expenses? Especially when you look around and you don’t see a way HOW? Here are a variety of ways you can still live a decent life and be a bit more frugal at the same time.
Food & Toiletries
- By far, making lunch at home was one of my biggest savings! I made lunch and snacks and bought them to work.
- Instead of buying shower gel, go back to soap bars. They last longer and are much cheaper.
- Don’t wash your hair every day, and when you do wash your hair, only wash it once. That saves lots of shampoo.
- I made my own coffee at home — or cut it out altogether and put that money aside in your financial freedom jar. One guru calls that the “latte factor.”
- As a nation, we eat out a whole lot more and buy convenience foods to just heat in the microwave — but these can be expensive. Cooking may take time, but it does save you lots of money.
- Buy generic! I was so opposed to this, and one day I ate some potato chips that my boyfriend bought. Seriously? They didn’t taste different from the name brand. Try it. Ok, some things may be non-negotiable, but you’d be surprised what is. Your grocery bill will go way down.
- Take the effort to cut coupons, take advantage of sales, and go to discount warehouses, like Sam’s Club or Costco.
Heat & Electricity
- If you don’t already have one, get an electric thermostat with a timer, so you can change the temperature automatically during specific times of the day. Lower the temperature when the family is out of the house.
- Use space heaters and lower the heat in the rooms you use. Use an electric blanket at night.
- There is plastic covering you can get at the hardware store and cover your windows. That keeps the heat in the house.
- Make sure your boiler and hot water heater are maintained properly.
- Wear layers of clothing and keep the heat lower.
- Use kitchen and bathroom vents sparingly in the winter
- Replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescents
- Wash laundry in cold or warm instead of hot
- Use a clothesline instead of using the dryer
- Use a ceiling fan instead of an air conditioner.
Cell Phones, Internet, and Communication Utilities
- Avoid pre-paid cell phones, even if you just want the phone for emergencies, unless you are careful to use a plan with minutes that don’t expire. You pay exorbitant rates per minute.
- Never underestimate the minutes your teen may use. Be careful not to get the lowest plan. Constant overages are very expensive overall.
- You don’t necessarily need a home phone if you have a cell phone. With free nights, weekends and long distance, you may save considerably. Be careful with phone plans that have low rates, because the taxes add significantly to the bill.
- For your Internet connection, you don’t have to get the highest rate of connection speed. For the average user, you won’t be able to tell the difference and that can save you $20 a month.
- If you switch to broadband, don’t keep your dialup (unless you travel often outside the country or in rural areas). Also, drop paying for AOL. All AOL features are free if you have broadband.
Entertainment
If you really wanted to be extreme about it, you could cut entertainment out altogether. But that’s not really practical, so here are some ideas.
- First, if you think FREE, you may not get free, but you do end up with “cheap.” Cheap doesn’t mean less fun, either. Sometimes you can have MORE fun.
- If you live in a city, just try walking around. In New York, I have found impromptu concerts by street musicians or just sat in the park and people watched. You’d be amazed how much fun you can have!
- Instead of eating out or going to bars with friends, host a potluck at home or just have friends over for drinks. It’s much cheaper to buy liquor than to buy drinks at the bar.
- For movies, go to matinees or the $2 movie (some communities have them). Yes, those movies are second-run, but hey, it’s worth financial freedom to me. You can also always rent movies.
- Cable. When times are tough, the cable needs to get going. It can get so expensive! If you do need it for the reception, get basic and then rent movies. Buying a great DVD player and renting movies is cheaper than cable in the long run. If you rent rooms in your home like I do, keep the cable — it’s a perk for your tenants that are worth paying for.
- Take your kids to the bookstore and hang out.
- Find free community shows, like Shakespeare in the park or fireworks.
- Take the kids on the subway trip — as far as you can and go explore. In New York, take the train to Coney Island.
- In the summer, there is always a local food festival or street fair.
- Get your kids involved in a community group, like a theatre. They develop skills, make friends and have fun.
Clothing
- For kids, don’t go over the top with the brand names, especially since the kids will grow out of them quickly.
- For adults and older teens, don’t buy really trendy clothes that will only last one season. Buy classical fashionable clothing that will last, and get trendy with accessories.
- Buy shirts and ties or blouses and just one suit — accessorizing is cheaper.
- Buy a few pieces of quality clothing as opposed to lots of cheap clothing. They will last a lot longer.
- This goes without saying, but buy clothing in the off-season and on sale. You will save a tone of money.
Transportation
- A gas saving tip I just learned: put your car in cruise control whenever you can. It has cut my gas bill in HALF.
- If you live in a metropolitan area, try walking around the city as opposed to taking a bus or a train. In New York, you can even get there faster sometimes!
- Maintain your car — tire pressure, oil changes, everything. Preventative maintenance is way cheaper than repairs.
- Never use cheap gas – use quality gas and the correct octane for your car. It may seem more expensive, but it’s cheaper in car repairs in the long run.
- Don’t be afraid to walk, even in the winter. It’s great exercise and it saves a ton of money. Bring a backpack with you for grocery shopping if you need only a couple of things.
The Change Jar
I have a change jar. Every time I pay for something, I always use bills and get the change. I put the change in the jar. You wouldn’t believe how much money you can save! This money could be entertainment money, allowance for the kids, put it in a savings account or saved for emergencies. This change jar has saved my butt many times over the years, and is a great way to have “found” money at the end of the month.
A. Annika Smith
http://www.articlesbase.com/finance-articles/how-to-simplify-your-living-expenses-77152.html
Goodbye chains, hello belt-drive bicycles – Los Angeles Times
Posted by admin on Mar 6, 2010
 Los Angeles Times |
Goodbye chains, hello belt-drive bicycles
Los Angeles Times Solid, dual-legged kickstand perfect for parking at Starbucks and loading up to two bags of groceries in the wide, wood-bottomed rack. … |