Archive for July, 2010
Watch in HD! Apple iMovie 2009 demonstration. I created a video to demonstrate all of the cool features in iMovie 2009. I show all of the available titles, transitions, new backgrounds, and maps. Also shown is the cool new picture in picture! It also can do green screen, detaching of sound from one clip overlayed onto another and a couple other nifty features. So far, I’ve been pretty impressed! It did crash twice on me while putting this video together but when I brought it back up everything was still there & I hadn’t lost any of my work (Way to go Apple!)
Renewable green energy needs to be utilised more in our current society as the conventional sources of power are found in limited amounts and with our current rates of use they will run out before we know it. Watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, we get an impression that we need to change our ways and decrease our use of fossil fuels. The environmental impacts by climate change and atmospheric pollution will result in actual permanent harm to our planet.
For a really great guide on solar power, check out Types of Renewable Power
The persistent use of nuclear power and fossil fuels presents clear threat to the environment so it is a good idea for us to be making the most if renewable green power technologies. Renewable green power technologies are being developed at a rapid rate and we should thoroughly investigate all of them. Fossil Fuel reserves are finite, significantly, the renewable energy sources of solar, wind and water have energy reserves that far outnumber the existing amounts of fossil fuels left. With the present destruction we are doing to the environment, we need to reduce our use of fossil fuels.
The increased use of renewable green energy technologies will help to preserve our environment against irrecoverable damage that may arise from our continued use of fossil fuels. It is broadly accepted by the climatology community that our human activities have accelerated global warming and already caused much damage.The planet gets it heat from the suns rays while greenhouse gases such a carbon dioxide multiple this by trapping the heat in the atmosphere. Burning wood, oil and coal generates superfluous carbon dioxide generating accelerated global warming and overheating this planet of ours.This in itself, doesn’t sound too bad does it? We’d all like to live somewhere a little warmer and a bit more sun! However we have accelerated the situation by destroying rain forests, plant and animal life, diminishing the planets natural healing. The consequence of our actions has been to globally shrink the extent of ice sheets and glaciers, warming of polar regions and causing severe heat waves and floods.
Check out Types of Renewable Power for more information on Solar power
In an attempt to reduce the affects of accelerated global warming, we should be making use of renewable green power technologies such as wind and solar power to lower our reliance on fossil fuels. You can use the energy from the suns radiation to produce power that is sustainable and renewable, this is Solar power. Buildings are currently being designed to use the advantages of passive solar technology helping to contribute to the lighting and heating needs. Currently, lowering homeowner’s carbon footprints and heating bills can be accomplished by using small domestic solar collectors that generate hot water or electricity. Climate change is a worldwide issue so we all should contribute and take advantage of renewable green energy.
For an informative guide to installing domestic solar panels visit GreenDIYEnergy Review
Energy efficient households can contain many ways in which to lower use of fossil fuels. Natural Light is let into the building during the colder months by using large windows, screens help cool the rooms in summer time and outdoor lighting uses solar panels. The walls and loft cavities are well insulated and this prevents the building losing heat to the outside, and you can use a solar power hot water system. It’s great how people are undertaking all they can to find ways to use renewable green power and therefore to provide a cleaner and greener future without pollutants.
Mark Matherson is an IT Professional and concerned about the environment. He runs an informational website detailing the type of renewable energy available in todays society at http://bluestonesolar.com
An e-book on The Beatles that gives the most interesting and little-known facts about them, with a couple of really interesting bonuses.
Rare Beatle Facts
Get New Music Without Using Peer-to-peer (p2p) Networks. Awesome Conversions. Make $15 Commissions.
Record Internet Radio With Radio2MP3.
Dressed2Convert shows you how you can increase conversions / sales by the implementation and use of site design elements and methods! Learn the real truth behind direct response design online and start increasing your potential!
Dressed2Convert: Using Design that Converts!
Let me tell you about a scrapbook store near my home. It opened about 4 years ago with a BANG! It had a BEAUTIFUL interior – very “Melissa Francis”. They got hold of a mailing list of scrapbookers and sent postcards out to scrappers all over the state. My friend who lives 80 miles from this store got one. So far – so good. But, that’s where it ended and they closed when their lease ended 3 years later.
I had predicted its death shortly after its opening. It was beautiful as I said, however, 12 months later, I could pretty much tell you everything that was in the store. What was there in the beginning was pretty much what was there when it closed. And, they had a little of everything that made up a whole lotta nothing. I called it the “Scrapbook 7-11″. If I needed cardstock or stickers for a card, I went there. But, if I wanted specific themed products for a coordinated page, I headed to the other bigger store that had purchased products deeper into lines and had a bigger selection of coordinated products.
But, I digress. These were just symptoms of a problem. The biggest problem was that they were living in a world that was best summed up by Will Rogers when he said, “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” They WERE on the right track, but they didn’t move and eventually, they got run over.
Problem one – they had a LARGE sign on their store that said, “Classic Keepsakes”. Well, how many things could THAT be? Antiques? Collectibles? Children’s clothing boutique? Nothing on the store front (which was somewhat visible from a major road, although hidden slightly by a gas station) said “SCRAPBOOKS”. The large sign by the road that had smaller signs on it for all the stores in this strip mall said, “Scrapping and stamping supplies” at the BOTTOM. It was pretty much covered by bushes and at 45 miles an hour on the busy road, very few people noticed.
Problem two – they sent out email newsletters to current customers, but did nothing to bring in new customers. They simply didn’t reach out past the group of people who had already discovered them. They relied on (I guess) their current customers to do their marketing for them. No postcards beyond the first group went out to anyone. They didn’t place ads or hold special events, they did nothing. We have a very growing and mobile community and over time, they lost many of those customers who knew about them from their opening. They were doing nothing to replace those people by introducing their business to those moving into the area. And, as I said earlier, they didn’t turn their inventory very fast so those of us who DID know about them, stopped coming in very often since we already knew what they had.
When this store started their “Going Out of Business” sale at the end of their 3 year lease, I happened to be in the store when I overheard the owner talking to an employee. The store had dozens of women crammed into it and the cash register was jumping. She said, “If this many people had known about us last month, I wouldn’t have decided to close”. Apparently, since they announced their sale, messages about their sale were posted all over the internet to local scrapping groups. Word of mouth also spread the news like wildfire. She said the phone kept ringing and ringing with people wanting directions to their store. I wanted to bring back my “Duh” board and smack her with it. I can’t believe she hadn’t figured out earlier that she needed to be reaching out to new customers.
So, what can we learn from this?
1. Get a decent sign! Many store owners think of some cutesy name for their store that’s oh so clever and then have a sign made. “LadyBug Designs” isn’t going to make me slam on my brakes. But, a giant sign that says “SCRAPBOOKS” will. Save your cutesy name and logo for your door and put the biggest “SCRAPBOOKS” sign you can afford on the outside of your building facing the street.
2. Market, market, market! It’s money well-spent and will directly affect how many times your inventory turns. More traffic means more sales which means more products coming in which means more money. Did you realize that less than 5% of women scrap? That’s a whole bunch of potential customers out there for you to tap. How many people have not even HEARD of scrapbooking? Probably more than you’d like to think. You probably have a “Scrapbooking 101″ class, but how about going into the community with a “Try Scrapbooking” class? Teach it through your Parks and Rec department or even have a booth a community festival with a hands-on project. Have a simple make and take and literally INVITE curious people to TRY scrapbooking. Offering a beginners class is a lot different than INVITING people to try something. Everyone has photos, teach them what to do with them. Don’t start out with the over-done page, show them a very simple way to scrap and let THEM move down the path to more embellished pages at their own pace.
The main point here is that if you are just selling to the people who stumbled into your store by accident at some point, then you are guaranteed to be one of the many store causalities out there. You MUST, and I mean MUST be introducing your store to new people on a regular basis. Then once you do get them in, keep in contact with them with that monthly or quarterly newsletter you are already sending out.
If you are on the right track with your store, don’t let yourself get run over by the marketing train. Keep your customer base as fresh as your products for the best chance of success!
Kim Guymon is the founder of ScrapBiz and is considered one of the foremost experts on starting and running a business in the Scrapbook Industry. Since 2001, she has helped hundreds of entrepreneurial scrappers realize their dream of owning a scrapbook business. She has also introduced the wholesale side of the industry to the idea of non-traditional retailers. Kim can be contacted at Kim@ScrapBiz.com or you can view her website at http://www.ScrapBiz.com or her business blog at http://www.KimGuymon.com
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Pooper scooper businesses are booming for a reason: low start-up costs and high profit potential. This e-book is a step-by-step guide that covers every aspect of starting and operating this unique pet business.
Starting a Pooper Scooper Business E-Book
Building Websites, Mini-Sites and Salespages was never this easy. This 19 piece straight to the point Dreamweaver Course will help the beginner and the advanced web designer with very helpful videos. – For Aff. Banners And Articles Check /JVpartners.html
The Dreamweaver Video Tutorial Course.
The Pilates instructor manual to identify and correct golf swing faults using the Pilates Method.
Pilates for Golfers