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Rio De Janerio Wins 2016 Summer Olympic Games
Posted by: | CommentsSouth America will host the Summer Olympic Games for the first time in 2016, as Rio De Janeiro, Brazil was awarded the honor on Friday. Rio beat out the US choice of Chicago, Illinois along with Tokyo, Japan and Madrid, Spain to earn the right to host the games. Despite a high pressure effort from the American power elite–including President Barack Obama and TV gabfest queen Oprah Winfrey–Chicago was the first city eliminated from contention. Tokyo was the next to go, before Rio got the nod over Madrid in the final round of balloting.
Bookmakers offered odds on the host city choice, with Rio listed as second favorite at +200. Chicago had been the wagering favorite at most books, particularly after President Obama got involved personally in the US bid effort. Chicago was bet as high as a -300 favorite, while Madrid and Tokyo were priced in the +250 range. Some suggest that Tokyo didnt deserve to have such short odds, but was the beneficiary of regional pride from the notoriously enthusiastic betting population of Japan. Despite some media attention to the betting odds, bookmakers reported that they didn’t receive a lot of action on the event.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, got the better of his US counterpart with a passionate speech that stood in marked contrast to Obamas typically baleful collection of talking points;
“It is a time to address this imbalance. It is time to light the Olympic cauldron in a tropical country.”
The Olympic committee was apparently swayed by this presentation and paid no mind to Rios many downsides. It is without a doubt the most dangerous of the finalist cities, where drug cartels and armed bands of thugs roam without impunity. Well do to Rio citizens are used to removing watches and jewelry before they drive anywhere lest they be targeted by carjacking brigands. Rios murder rate is also one of the highest in the world. Brazilian bid officials have stressed that security will be a priority at the games and it better be lest the Olympics turn into a bloodbath.
Some IOC members suggested that the summary dismissal of Chicagos bid was more of a rebuke of the notoriously corrupt USOC. The last two Olympics held in the US were tainted by crime and corruption. The’96 Atlanta Olympics were disrupted by a terrorist bombing, while the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games were marred by a well known bribery and corruption scandal.
Ross Everett is a widely published widely published freelance sports writer and respected authority on football betting. His writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sports news and sportsbook directory sites. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and an emu. He is currently working on an autobiography of former interior secretary James Watt.
Using Research To Earn Money From Your Hobbies
Posted by: | CommentsIt is the dream of many a person to forgo the workaday world of heavy traffic and corporate conformity and focus instead on their hobbies and interests. If you’re not already rich enough to enjoy your hobbies, you might consider a way to let your hobbies make you rich!
The number of people who have become filthy rich by accident as a result of their hobbies is impressive. You may need to do a little bit of research to see where the profits lie in regards to your particular hobby.
With some hobbies, the way to make money might be obvious. Crafts can be sold for a profit if they’re unique and the public is willing to pay for it. But what if your hobby is knitting? Is there really a market for the scarves and sweaters that you knit?
You have to start your quest for information by going to the king of all search engines – Google. Enter your hobby in the search box and you’re all set. Now look at the right side of the screen – you will see a list of ads right beside the search results for your hobby – and we shall use knitting for this research example.
You can easily find out who shares your interests and who’s making a profit from your hobby. Then check out the results after clicking. Some are for online magazines people sell subscriptions to, or newsletters where they can read knitting tips and stories.
Other results may direct you to a list of baseball card prices, or online stores where to buy sports memorabilia. You can make a lot of money from your knitting hobby by buying and selling supplies for knitting. You may not be collecting the baseball cards and other sports memorabilia items for yourself, but you are nonetheless sharing your expertise by using the information you’ve gathered to buy and sell your items at the right price.
You can go to a keyword tool to find out what people are searching for within your hobby, and then create a business out of those searches. A free keyword tool like Good Keywords could give you a clearer picture of what the general public wants to research on.
Using the knitting example above, you will discover that most people are using the Internet to search for knitting machines, knitting supplies, knitting books, knitting instructions and knitting stores.
And you can make your earning potential explode by opening an online store that caters to the above results you found with the keyword tool, or offer to teach your hobby-related expertise to novice hobbyists wanting to learn the tricks of the trade. Making money from your hobby isn’t hard. You just have to find out how the masses need your expertise and then charge for it to consumers willing to pay.
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PPC – How It Works
Posted by: | CommentsHave you been wondering how you can use pay per click advertising to boost online sales without losing a fortune to learning what really works? You may have heard that pay per click is one of the most powerful ways to earn money on the internet, but it can be quite expensive if you do it the wrong way.
So how can you use this powerful advertising tool to create an automated income stream without riding a steep and expensive learning curve? If you are anxious to know how you can get pay per click advertising to work for you, here are three key principles which you will need to win.
First of all, in order to set up a great PPC ad, you need to think of relevancy. Imagine, you are going to pay money for every single click on your ad. You definitely dont want people not to find what they were searching for.
Many online business owners make the same error – they use too general terms as keywords, which only leads to wasting money, as it increases traffic, but this traffic is not really targeted, and obviously, it doesnt increase your conversions. What you need to do is be as specific as possible in describing your offer, and you can be sure to make more sales.
The second principle is urgency. Lets face it: if someone wants to buy your product that does not necessarily mean that they want to buy it right now. So you may get them interested, but then they go to do their research somewhere else. By the time they come back, your ad is nowhere to be found. Either that or they find something else that is similar and has a more urgent offer. The ability to build urgency is the key difference between being a well paid salesperson and being an unpaid consultant. Find a way to create urgency and get your buyer to take action before they have a chance to change their mind.
The third principle of pay per click advertising and probably the most widely neglected, is testing. You simply cannot manage or improve what you cannot measure. Never run a campaign without having two pages to rotate so that you can find out which one performs better. When it comes to that, test one variable at a time, for example, starting with the heading first and then working until you find the better of two headlines. This will insure that you are able to determine which variable is making all of the difference.
Treat Pay Per Click campaigns just like any other marketing campaign, like an ongoing process, involving testing and adaptation to the public behavior. The truth is, you may think whatever you want about your ads, but it is audience which determines if it will have success or not.
Apply these principles when setting up your own Pay Per Click advertisements and soon you will be able to witness how profitable and forceful they can be.
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The Importance Of Fragrance Of Flowers
Posted by: | CommentsLong before the use of metal ornaments, women put on flowers to beautify themselves. Colourful and perfumed flowers have been serving the aim of beautifying people for thousands of years. In most ancient civilizations, putting flowers in the hair or around other parts of the body was considered a critical aspect of self-adornment, and even men were known to do this.
Every flower has its own unique fragrance. Colour, shape and scent are the three factors that have determined the different moods that different flowers generate in humans, and this in turn has decided which flower would fit which occasion. As many perfumes have been created by perfume manufacturers as there are varieties of flowers, and the distinctiveness and subtle differences among flowers’ scents have given the industry limitless opportunities for many new products. However, now the demand for flowers in perfume manufacturing is somewhat waning as artificial ingredients have started replacing them.
The significance of flowers’ scent is not restricted to manufacturing perfumes. In fact the whole charm of giving flowers to people rests on their fragrance along with their appearance. A room made fragrant by flowers can generate positive vibes and can cheer a person. To an experienced florist, the true quality of good bouquets is that they should appeal to both the eyes and the sense of smell of a person. Similarly for any ceremonial occasion, people use flowers extensively so that the surroundings emanate a naturally delightful scent.
However, in the quest for more beautiful and long-lasting flowers, horticulturists down the decades have neglected the importance of scent in them. With the arrival of genetic engineering in biological research, this pursuit has been given further impetus. For example, carnations and roses that are available today are immaculate in appearance and brilliant in freshness, but excessive tampering with nature has deprived them of their fragile scent.
Therefore, you have to be quite careful these days to ensure that the flowers you are purchasing are scented enough. Whether you are getting bouquets made or purchasing flowers in large volumes for a wedding or any other function, it is crucial that you take the counsel of a reputed and well established florist in the market.
The internet is the best place to look for a reputed florist in Singapore, or you may enquire people about who has a good record in the flower-selling business. Another way of picking a florist is that you go with a branded flower outlet. Firms doing roaring business will never sacrifice quality or service, and so it is a wise decision to approach them, especially if you are making a bulk purchase.
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A Meeting with Economic Strategist James Scott, CEO of PCS Inc.
Posted by: | CommentsAs a journalist I find myself ghost writing books for self absorbed executives and politicians and never able to take credit for it. I usually get a call from the executive’s publicist and they want me to write a bunch of garbage about his soft side, his humanitarian side or his golf swing. The article is written, published, the clients happy and I feel like a sell out with no journalistic integrity because in this industry, to pay the bills means to compromise and do things you don’t like. This interview was different, completely different.
I met James Scott at Earl’s, a fine dining establishment for Bucks County’s upper crust. The waitress was a snob, I was invisible to the bartender and the experience of waiting for him to arrive was a pride swallowing nightmare that is difficult to put into words then James walks in, polished, confident and ready to get down to business. “Why is my friend still standing” he snapped at the waitress walking by, “I’ll be with you in a…” before she could finish, he interrupted, “we’ll find our own seat, you’ll find us and bring us menus, Steve follow me”. We grabbed a table and to him, this was normal. “If you wait once you’ll spend your life waiting. So what can I do for you?”
I was expecting someone older, in their 50′s or 60′s, he was in his 30′s with a chip on his shoulder to act as warning to any opposition, anytime, anyplace that you may start an argument or debate, he’ll finish it. I became drawn in immediately. He received a call as we sat down from a congressman in the north east and spoke with such confidence, eloquence and authority I felt as though I was sitting in front of an 80 year old statesman that’s been born and bred into the political strategies game.
When he hung up my first question was “Where do you get your confidence to talk to power players with such comfort and ease?” He looked up at me with a glare that was focused and made me feel he was looking into me as opposed to at me and replied, “I think confidence is all relative to what you know and what you know you know” with a grin, he crossed his legs, ran both hands over his slacks and continued, “I made it a habit early on to say as little as possible so that when I was ready to talk I had the attention of the entire room. I made sure that I studied the attendees and read through the body language and speech patterns of everyone there to find the leaders, followers, supporters and skeptics and after collecting all this information I could determine who I needed to address in the room. After 12 years of studying body language and voice patterns it becomes a process of analyzing the situation at hand and responding with an objective strategy that can be applied to the situation. I gained confidence from the successes of using this process time and time again.”
“How do you define this unique area of consulting that you specialize in? There are only 3 or 4 other consultants globally that have the contacts to both economic power players and political lobbyists and special interest groups. How do you keep everyone happy in such a stressful environment where crisis management is typically the job you’re being hired for?”
The waitress arrived at the table, it was 10:35am, some people were still having breakfast, I ordered a coffee, he ordered a vodka tonic, double Belvedere with extra lime as if drinking in the morning was normal behavior. He answered “My core consulting genre is strategic facilitation. I started with public and pre public corporations by setting them up properly to go public, then my firm would take them public, put together a post public investor relations process to grow their marketability to investors and then help them expedite their growth with acquisitions and merger identification and facilitation.” He continued, “I began getting involved on the political side as I would be contacted by a lobbyist group that was working with a congressman or senator who had issues they were trying to sort out and there was no one to call so they would typically get referred to me from a board member of a company I structured and they would say something like, ‘our candidate is having a similar issues that the CEO of ABC Inc was having and we wanted to see if you could come on board to help us work it out . . .’ and that’s how I started getting involved on the political side. Politics just like general corporate and economic strategies have many similar threads. I just try to use the experience from one project for the next and so on. I guess more than anything now I’m a fixer but I’m working more with lobbyists and special interest groups.”
I asked him what prompted the change from focusing on corporate strategies to lobby and special interest, “Well, at the end of the day politicians are the visual identification for an agenda. The agenda is typically started by demands from the localized constituency. Lobbyist and special interest groups spend millions of dollars researching statistics and geographic layouts to find the areas of the country/world that their prototypical support base resides. The next move is to identify the political power-base in that region and initiate support planning. If the political figures are open the next thing is localized job creation and general economics. The convergence of the two in a way that is conducive to instantaneous capitalization and results is where I come in. I work with lobby firms because that is where the real power is, not the actual politician.”
Again, every word was pronounced perfectly, his vocabulary was authoritative, his eyes didn’t blink, his posture was perfect and I have to admit, I couldn’t find a single chink in his armor. There wasn’t an ounce of pretentious or insecure put-downs or belittling of anyone and in talking to him I felt myself gaining more and more respect and admiration for him.
This 30 something ‘kid’ has more global political pull than even the most seasoned politician yet he was comfortable in his skin and completely calm. His breathing was paced and as I looked for the prototypical nervous habits such as a bouncing foot on the floor, sweaty brow, nail biting etc, none were present. He was, in every sense of the term a W.A.S.P without a single trace of insecurity. I was in awe and when I think about it now I believe I took something away with me that day. I’m 54 years old and I have to admit, I look up to him. That may sound strange and it’s even stranger to admit this after I’ve been writing on economics for 25 years.
As we wrapped up the meeting (he only set 20 minutes aside for me and time flew by) his next meeting rolled in. A Chinese oil company needing his strategies to help them out of some issues in Africa. “have a seat gentlemen” he said “I’m going to walk my friend out and will be back in a moment.” He walked me out and we shook hands and he said, “I know you’re a journalist and you’ll want to ask me how I want to be portrayed in the article and I would say this, just go with your gut. I have nothing to hide and my reputation is more about what I am able to accomplish for my clients as opposed to what potential clients read about me. Just write for your readers and it will be fine.” He put his left hand on my shoulder while his right hand stopped shaking my hand and just held it for a moment and then he walked away.
That’s it. That was my interview with James Scott, CEO of the almighty Princeton Corporate Solutions. We didn’t get into the juicy family topic because he wouldn’t mix work and family, we didn’t cover any controversy that surrounds him because there is none, there are no legitimacy issues with him as his cell phone has the world’s most influential professionals and political organizations on first name speed dial.
What I took away from this interview is one thing. The economy is in shambles our government is a disaster but there is a part of me that feels safe and secure knowing that James Scott is involved in the process. We need people like him to help the power structure keep order and to make the moves by these groups solid, strategic and strong enough to help us rebound the devastation we are now experiencing. We need leaders who were born to lead to take us as a people by the hand and tell us that it’s going to be OK and to just focus on our jobs and family, there are qualified people working in the shadows that don’t need nor want special recognition or their names in lights. James Scott is the silent leader that enables crumbling economies to rise again and hopeless corporate organizations to thrive. Keep an eye out for him; chances are he’s turning around a company or an economy near you.
Find out more about James Scott and Princeton Corporate Solutions, some more information can be found on their Corporate Blog