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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Ideas For Your Internet Marketing Campaign - Maynas Eric

Do you have a great business idea? With the internet developing a business based on an idea, it has never been easier. If you require some assistance, use this advice.

Integrate social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter into your Online marketing efforts. This helps to interact with your visitors and provide them updates as well. Although, you should not advertise too often as this can push your customers away. Try to keep your posts valuable and insightful, and only include marketing in a portion of them.

Consider implementing a banner in your site with your business logo or mission statement. This will help make your site more recognizable and help your customers know what you and your website are all about. Make it easy for customers to order products and services.

TIP! A short-term sales promotion can quickly improve your website?s PageRank. If the deal you offer is good enough, consumer deals sites will offer links to your website.

A sense of security is important to many online shoppers. Make your customers feel secure that they can feel perfectly safe entering their personal information on your website. Put a site-wide link to your privacy policy at the top right corner of your site. That way, customers who are worried about identity theft will have something to have their fears allayed. Furthermore, you have an obligation to protect your customers from fraud.

Part of operating a successful online business is ongoing market research on your competitors. Peruse your competitors? websites, noting what they could be doing better. Look through the websites of your competition. If you see that they are lacking in services that you offer, boast this in your advertising copy.

Make sure you use emphasis tools when you develop text on your website. Aim to emphasize important words by bolding, underlining, or italicizing them. You can get your point across if you find out how your customers like being communicated with.

TIP! Be sure to have at least one very unique characteristic or offering on your website. This will most likely get you a ton of traffic.

Consider making a video demonstration of the products you?re selling. You can allow the customer to see you with the product this way. Use this platform to fully outline features and benefits of your product that can be missed in the advertising. Post your video on your blog, as well as other websites like Vimeo and Youtube.

Try to avoid spending too much on advertising. You don?t want to spend any money on advertising that won?t help out your business. You should get the proper feedback and analysis of your online advertisements and break them down in terms of cost versus benefit. When the ratio gets unacceptable, it?s time to re-tool your marketing strategy.

Consider how good your product or service actually is. If your product is sub-par, no amount of Affiliate marketing will change that. If your product is the greatest ever, people will flock to it.

TIP! Consider blogging on a regular basis as a means to improve your internet marketing venture. Consistent blogging provides yet another way to keep your customers informed.

Be creative when designing your banner and avoid making ads that look generic. An exciting or interesting banner ad will attract more attention and inspire more clicks.

Incorporate a ?chat? option within your company website so that visitors can exchange information and interact together. People will identify with your brand if they can discuss things they enjoy with people who have similar interests. People enjoy being part of groups and clubs so treating them as if they are part of a select group will keep them coming back to your site.

Inspire confidence in your products by offering a guarantee that you will return a customer?s money if they are not satisfied. People don?t have a lot of money to spend these days, and trusting things bought online is hard enough as is. Offering a guarantee increase the sense of security a customer feels. When you give reassurance to your customers, they will be that much more likely to give you business.

TIP! Connect to other articles you have created by linking to them in your article. Keep your viewers on your site by giving them links to other informational content you have on your site.

Be sure to include photographs and other graphics that highlight the good qualities and uses of your product or service. Your customers will appreciate being able to clearly see the items that you are offering in detail, if they are considering placing an order. Considering including a section that allows customers to upload their own photos of your product. If you are selling a product for the improvements it makes, ?before and after? pictures can really help market the product.

Your goal is to build a solid business that will last and grow. The best measure of success is repeated success, and that is true of small businesses and big businesses alike. The tips listed here should help you build a solid online marketing company.

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Chinese astronaut teaches 60 million kids from space

A Chinese astronaut gave China its first physics lesson by video from space today, a required lesson for middle schools across the country.

By Peter Ford,?Staff writer / June 20, 2013

A student looks at his iPad as his class watches a live broadcast of a lecture given by Shenzhou-10 spacecraft astronauts on the Tiangong-1 space module, at a primary school in Quzhou, Zhejiang province June 20, 2013.

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Peter Ford is The Christian Science Monitor?s Beijing Bureau Chief. He covers news and features throughout China and also makes reporting trips to Japan and the Korean peninsula.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Taliban vow suicide and 'insider' attacks in new spring offensive

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban in Afghanistan vowed on Saturday to start a new campaign of mass suicide attacks on foreign military bases and diplomatic areas, as well as damaging "insider attacks", as part of a new spring offensive this year.

The offensive was announced via emails from Taliban spokesmen. The Islamist group has made similar announcements in recent years, which have sometimes been followed by spikes in violence after Afghanistan's harsh winter months.

The announcement of more mass suicide and insider attacks will likely be greeted with concern by the NATO-led military coalition, which is in the final stages of a fight against the Taliban-led insurgency that began in late 2001.

However, there was no immediate reaction to the Taliban's statement from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

After announcing their spring offensive last year, the Taliban launched a large attack in Kabul involving suicide bombers and an 18-hour firefight targeting Western embassies, ISAF headquarters and the Afghan parliament.

The start of the traditional "fighting season" is particularly important this year, with ISAF increasing the rate at which it hands security responsibility to Afghan forces before the withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of 2014.

The Taliban statement said this year's offensive, named after Khalid bin Waleed, one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Mohammad, will involve "special military tactics" similar to those carried out previously.

"Collective martyrdom operations on bases of foreign invaders, their diplomatic centers and military airbases will be even further structured while every possible tactic will be utilized in order to detain or inflict heavy casualties on the foreign transgressors," the statement said.

Insider attacks, also known as "green on blue" attacks, involve Afghan police or soldiers turning their guns on their ISAF trainers and counterparts. They have grown considerably since last year and have strained relations between Kabul and foreign forces.

However, there is considerable debate over how many can be attributed to infiltration by insurgents and how many are by disgruntled members of the Afghan security forces.

Last August, then ISAF commander, U.S. General John Allen, said about a quarter of such attacks involved the Taliban.

The spring offensive was coordinated to begin on May 28 - or the 8th of the Islamic month of Thaur - to coincide with a national holiday to mark the overthrow of the Soviet-backed government of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992, the statement said.

(Reporting by Dylan Welch and Mirwais Harooni; Editing by Paul Tait)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-vow-suicide-insider-attacks-spring-offensive-071938216.html

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Boeing says new battery system ensures 787 safety

Boeing Co.'s chief engineer Michael Sinnett speaks during a press conference on Boeing 787 jets in Tokyo, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Sinnett said Saturday that changes to the lithium-ion battery system are fully sufficient to ensure the aircraft's safety, although the company has been unable to find the cause of the original battery failures earlier this year that led to groundings of the plane worldwide since mid-January. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

TOKYO (AP) ? Boeing Co.'s chief engineer for the 787 Dreamliner said Saturday that changes to the lithium-ion battery system are fully sufficient to ensure the aircraft's safety, although the company has been unable to find the cause of the original battery failures earlier this year that led to groundings of the plane worldwide since mid-January.

Michael Sinnett gave a briefing on the revamped battery to reporters in Tokyo after Japanese and U.S. regulators gave carriers permission to resume 787 flights once battery modifications are made.

The new battery system is designed to prevent a fire, and to contain one should it occur with an "enclosure," a casing around the battery to prevent heat from being released in the aircraft, Sinnett told a news conference in Tokyo.

"Even if we never know root cause, the enclosure keeps the airplane safe, it eliminates the possibility of fire, it keeps heat out of the airplane, it keeps smoke out of the airplane, and it ensures that no matter what happens to the battery, regardless of root cause, the airplane is safe," he said, adding "in some ways it almost doesn't matter what the root cause was."

He said Boeing has identified over 80 potential causal factors and addressed all of them in the new design.

The 50 Dreamliner jets in service worldwide were grounded in mid-January after incidents with smoldering batteries occurred aboard two different planes, leading to hundreds of cancelled flights and revenue losses.

Japan's two biggest carriers have the most 787s ? All Nippon Airways owns 17 of the jets, while Japan Airlines has seven. They have begun installing the new batteries over the last week, and airline officials said commercial flights would resume around June as the safety improvements are expected to take several weeks to finish.

It takes five days to completely retrofit one airplane, Sinnett said, and repairs to nine jets are almost complete. New batteries are being shipped from Japanese battery maker GS Yuasa to the airlines, he said.

ANA is planning to conduct a test flight using a modified Dreamliner in Japan on Sunday.

The only U.S. airline using the 787 is United Airlines, which owns six.

Japan is mandating additional safety measures including one test flight after the new system is installed. Operators will need to monitor the new battery system during flight and authorities will require airlines to conduct a detailed sampling inspection of the batteries after a certain period of use.

Special training for all on board personnel including the pilot on 787s is mandated, and airlines are to disclose information on safety measures taken on the 787 to the public.

Boeing has 840 purchase orders of the plane so far.

Sinnett declined to comment on cost for repairs worldwide. He plans to meet with executives from ANA and JAL during his Japan trip.

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Associated Press writer Emily Wang contributed to this report.

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Earth's cooling came to sudden halt in 1900, study shows

An international study used tree rings and pollen to build the first?record of global climate change, continent by continent, over 2,000 years.

By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / April 23, 2013

Emperor penguins walk across sea ice near Ross Island, Antarctica, in this 2012 photo released by Thomas Beer. The continent's pristine habitat provides a laboratory for scientists studying the effects of climate change.

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A reconstruction of 2,000 years of global temperatures shows that a long-term decline in Earth's temperatures ended abruptly about 1900, replaced by a warming trend that has continued despite the persistence into the 20th century of the factors driving the cooling, according to a new study.

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Indeed, for several continents, the increase in global average temperatures from the 19th century to the 20th was the highest century-to-century increase during the 2,000-year span, the study indicates. It's the first study to attempt building a millennial-scale climate history, continent by continent.

The research wasn't designed to identify the cause of the warming trend, which climate researchers say has been triggered by a buildup of greenhouse gases ? mainly carbon dioxide ? as humans burned increasing amounts of fossil fuel and altered the landscape in ways that released CO2.

Still, it's hard to explain 20th-century warming without including the influence of rising CO2 levels, because the factors driving the cooling were still present, notes Darrell Kaufman, a researcher at Northern Arizona University and one of the lead authors on the paper formally reporting the results in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The study, five years in the making, drew on the work of 87 scientists in 24 countries as part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. One goal of the 27-year-old program is to gain a deeper understanding of Earth's climate history and the factors that contribute to climate variability.

The study used nature's proxies for thermometers ? tree rings, pollen, and other natural temperature indicators ? to build continent by continent a coordinated record of temperature changes during the past two millenniums.

Scientists use this proxy approach to reach further into the climate's temperature history than the relatively short thermometer record allows. Such efforts aim to put today's climate into a deeper historical context as well as to identify the duration and possible triggers for natural swings that the climate undergoes over a variety of time scales.

Last March, for instance, a team led by Shaun Marcott at Oregon State University used climate proxies to build a global temperature record reaching back 1,200 years ? one that also noted the pre-1900 cooling trend.

Until now, however, the proxy approach has been used to reconstruct changes in global-average and hemisphere-wide temperatures, Dr. Kaufman explains.

"There was very little information about past climate variability at the regional scale," he says. Yet the team notes that no one lives in a global-average world. People live in specific regions where geography plays a vital role in shaping the climate patterns they experience.

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Alleged 9/11 airplane part to be examined

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Twitter reportedly working on location-based discovery tool

The next big Twitter feature? Finding out what your neighbor's talking about, 140 characters at a time, of course. According to All Things D, the service is working on exactly that, a location-based feature that was reportedly developed at a hack week held by the company earlier this month. Twitter, predictably, isn't commenting on the reportedly upcoming feature, but D has says that this information is coming from "multiple sources." No word on how close they all are to one another.

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