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How many times has it happened to you? You walk through the doors of a place of busineess and here he comes - perfectly groomed with a smile planted across his face in greeting. Within two minutes he has talked non-stop and promised you everything, including the stars if you purchase his project. You lift and eyebrow, and think to yourself… “Yeah, right!”

The distrust between consumer and salesman is a longstanding feeling. After all, you know they are wanting to make a buck off your purchase. Sure, you don’t mind them making a few dollars… everybody has to make a living… but heck, it would be nice if they were at least a little concerned about what your needs are too!

Let’s face it… customers aren’t likely to buy from you unless they feel confident that you will deliver. There are a few easy steps that you can take to give them the confidence they need to take the plunge.

1. Let Previous Customers Make The Claim

The proof is in the pudding… No one can say that you deliver and make good on your promises like a satisfied customer. It pays to use customer testimonials. Now, we’re not talking about blindly pasting testimonials everywhere… a little business sense and organization will be helpful in making the most of them.

Choose testimonials that are exact and talk about specific aspects of your business. “Thank you so much for your hard work!” is wonderful, but “Thank you for spending 2 hours with me yesterday. Your personal attention is greatly appreciated.” says a lot more. Yeah, the reader knows that you are willing to take whatever time it takes to help them through the purchasing process.

Be sure to get your customer’s permission to use their testimonial as part of your advertising campaign. While you’re at it, get as much personal information about them as you can. Their occupation, city, etc., create a more realistic appeal to their testimony.

2. Be Specific In Your Claims

Specific claims are more believable than vague, generic brags. Order today! It’s Fast, Easy and Cheap! sounds much better when you say… Order Today! Take 2 Minutes to Fill Out Our 7 Step Order Form and Save 20% on Your Purchase!

Specific numbers don’t always come out even. In fact, readers tend to believe numbers that have decimals are more accurate than whole numbers… even if the real number is exactly a whole number!

3. Be Realistic

Don’t alienate customers with claims that sound too good to be true. Yeah, we all know the old saying that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Unrealistic claims steal your credibility and leave the customers with a raised eyebrow.

Think of it this way… what if you do understate the beneifits? When your customer finds out the truth, he’ll just be that much more satisfied! Marketers suggest that you under promise and over deliver to create the greatest customer satisfaction.

Customers who believe in you aren’t afraid to buy from you. That means higher sales numbers and greater profit.

Copyright 2006 Cutts Group, llc

Who is Allyn Cutts, and why should you care?
Allyn has spent over 24 years helping businesses like yours find new customers and increase sales to current customers. Allyn is a marketing and sales fanatic, providing measurable marketing solutions that drive huge results for small-to mid-size business clients. Allyn works personally with clients to design and deliver off-line and on-line direct marketing strategies that focus on metrics and measurable results. You can learn more about Allyn Cutts at http://www.AllynCutts.com and you can call 610.437.4106 between 10 AM and 4 PM Eastern Time Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Chaos and confusion come when established rules and procedures are not followed. Even mixing and matching systems to favor one’s own position can cause a great deal of consternation. In writing a book, the first rule is to know and understand why you want to write in the first place.

In other words, you need to develop a theme that will answer the question of why you want to write. I usually get a blank stare when I ask a budding author, “What is your book’s theme?” Eventually the answer I get may be the title of a manuscript.

When I explain that a title isn’t a theme, I then may hear, “It’s the story of my life.” That is unquestionably the number-one answer I get. There is a big difference between the title of your book and your theme.

While your title may be the sizzle, the theme is the flavor and is formally defined as a “recurring, unifying subject or idea.” This is the aim or the main message of your book. Generally speaking, in writing there are two themes: the author’s theme and the book’s theme.

The author’s theme is the usual subject matter the writer handles, or the one the writer is most comfortable with. For example, a writer may find his forte in the subject matter of healing or forgiveness. Another may write most of the time in the area of spirituality or motivation.

Don’t confuse the author’s theme with genre, which is the category of writing. In addition to establishing if you are writing fiction or non-fiction, there are several categories your book may fall into. Some of the most popular ones today are biography, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, thriller/espionage, horror, inspirational, historical, and courtroom drama.

Your book’s theme is what the reader should learn most after reading your story. There are two answers that you as a writer shouldn’t give when questioned about your theme: 1) This book is about me and the things that have happened to me; and 2) A rambling, almost incoherent dissertation that leaves one asking, “Huh?” Every author should ask and answer the following questions: “Why am I writing? What am I trying to articulate? What kind of outcome will the story have on the reader and what is the outcome I’m aiming for?”

In other words, what is the rationale behind your book? For example in his bestseller, The Purpose-Driven® Life(Zondervan), author Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, takes readers on a “personal 40-day spiritual journey” to find the answer to the question, “What on earth am I here for?” To me, the most important element of your book is its theme.

Writing professors will probably disagree with me, and that is their right. In fact, some say the title is the most important. I understand, because all of this is subjective and mostly based upon personal preference. After all, there are many elements to creating a successful manuscript. But after years of trying to get would-be writers to complete their novels, short stories or even church talks, I’ve discovered that nothing has helped to move them “off the pot” quicker than having a well-developed theme.

Marvin D. Cloud is founder of http://mybestseller.com and author of “Get Off The Pot: How to Stop Procrastinating and Write Your Personal Bestseller in 90 Days.”

One of the core conflicts for creative artists of all kinds is the tug-of-war between art and commerce. Frankly, an artist needs to make money, and it is preferable to make it from his craft.

A writer who must work a full-time job to support himself will struggle to find the time to work, and often eventually gives it up altogether. On the other hand, being able to write on any project at all can polish valuable skills, and teach one the rules of the publishing industry.

On the other hand, I’ve met writers who were clearly working on projects, or toiling away at a career, that was burning out their souls. I remember meeting one such writer. His business card read “freelance hack and literary mechanic.” Sadly, but not entirely unexpectedly, he was dead of alcoholism within a year.

How to avoid such burnout? Well, in my own career, in addition writing the books I cared about the most, I’ve written Batman comic books, a Star Trek novel, and a Star Wars tie-in. In my television career, in addition to writing for “Outer Limits” and “The Twilight Zone,” I also wrote four episodes of “Baywatch”(!)

And never for a moment did I feel that I was selling myself out. Let’s get something straight: Shakespeare wrote for money. One can keep a careful eye on the bank account, and still reach the heights of craft. But again, how?

In my own case, the answer is fairly simple. Envision the thought process like this: I draw two circles. In the first, is everything I would like to write (and there are always dozens of projects in the mental hopper!). In the second is everything someone else is willing to pay me for. Where the two circles overlap, I write. In other words, are there projects I’d love to write, but can’t get paid for? You bet, and I generally don’t write them unless they are quite short. And there are projects that producers or publishers might want me to do, but don’t touch my heart at all. Having learned through experience that there are limits to my creative flexibility, I turn those down.

But from time to time, an opportunity arises that is in the no-man’s-land between the circles. There is money, but the project isn’t exactly something you have ever considered writing. What then?

Then, you ask yourself if the project is something that you could be proud of. If you would read it, or respect someone who did. For instance, when my agent called and said that the producers of “Baywatch” wanted to talk to me, I had the office send over six hours of video on the show. I sat on the living room couch and watched them with my daughter, who was about six at the time. After a few episodes, I asked her what she thought. She liked it. I asked why. She said: “Because it’s about nice people working hard to make the beach safe for us.” I thought about it, and then replied, “you know? There are worse things than that in this world, by a long shot.” And decided to try writing for it.

Every show, every project has its limitations. You must use certain characters, must get them into certain kinds of situations, and must avoid certain topics. That can be restrictive, but you can also decide to take it as a challenge. After all, you could give Fred Astaire a stage of any kind, and props of any kind, and he would find a way to create dance. Should you be committed to a lesser level of skill and vision? No.

You must find ways to amuse yourself while writing, to stretch your skills by trying something you’ve never done before, by empathizing with a younger audience if necessarynever ever writing “down” to your audience. That is the death of art. But if you can be truly flexible, you’ll find that more doors are open to you, more opportunities arise, that brass ring comes around more often. A writer ready to leap at any opportunity to show his skill, and who finds it easy to fall in love with about a project will often out-perform a brittle “genius” who must have everything exactly his way in order to write.

And if that approach is good enough for the Bard, it’s good enough for me.

NY Times bestselling writer Steven Barnes has lectured on creativity from UCLA to the Smithsonian Institute, and published over three million words along the way. For a FREE daily writing tip go to: www.lifewriting.biz, or www.lifewrite.com

Many people who had durom recall used in their hip cup replacement surgical procedures are finding that there are negative effects that far surpass the regular expectations for recovery. These poor people are experiencing a lot of excess pain for lengthier time periods, facing revision surgical procedures and elevated medical costs, and losing income by not being able to work at their regular occupations. Although Zimmer Holdings, Inc. is postulating that that their hip replacement implant is not conceivably imperfect and have basically denied blame for the faulty surgical procedures, many people are filing cases against them and obtaining settlements.

During the month of October, 2008 Zimmer announced that it had reserved $47.5 million to pay for claims that had been filed against them. Many physicians have reservations that the zimmer hip implant is good to go and without problems. As A Matter Of Fact, when Zimmer offered up online coaching to surgeons in order to instruct them what was supposedly more accurate techniques for doing the implant surgical operation, roughly 50% of the docs refused to participate. Thus, the whole situation continues to be disagreeable for all parties involved, but none more than the hundreds of implant recipients who are looking forward to revision surgical operation due to problems with their implant not staying tight in the socket.

These troubled unfortunate people definitely deserve some help and compensation which is the reason product liability attorneys are telling them to start the lawsuit process. dorr durom cup has been paying out of court for some of these claims. Even So, even if the money they are being offered sounds like a fair amount, in most cases patients are settling too quickly and with no provision or allowance being made for reoccuring issues if they happen down the road. If they don’t hold off and wait, to find out what an actual case is worth, people may find themselves ending up paying alot more money from their own pocket when more medical issues exist or surface.

For anyone who believes they probably have a claim against Zimmer may consider peering into it. If you believe you could qualify, you should probably call a attorney to find out for sure. Look for a firm that covers across the country and centers their attention on litigation against flawed medical devices. This law firm has gone so far as to setup a special section to research and handle the claims against Zimmer and secure equitable settlements for their clients.

If your orthopedic MD lets you know that you require a revision surgical process to repair your Zimmer Durom hip replacement device, call an attorney as soon as humanly possible.

Stono Ferry is a community with a long history and a typically South Carolinian character. It is located on a bluff above the Stono River, adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway. With its strong historical roots and vibrant community ambiance, Stono Ferry is great place to call your home if you like the South Carolina lifestyle.
Originally established in 1682 as a plantation, Stono Ferry is only 20 minutes from the city of Charleston. The towns homes are built in a typical South Carolina style with luxurious features. It is not only the style and ambiance of Stono Ferry that attracts residents, though. The community also boasts superb facilities that make it an enjoyable place to live.
The variety of amenities on offer guarantees that you will never run out of things to do. Stono Ferry hosts one of the top steeplechase events in the country, for instance. Horse lovers from all over the world come to Stono Ferry to use the equestrian center, which is regarded as one of the best in the United States for boarding and riding.
The Links at Stono Ferry is another major attraction. This championship par 72 golf course is known as one of the premier courses in the state. This is where many of the best golfers in the world come to play in tournaments.
The natural beauty of the area makes Stono Ferry a particularly special place. No matter where your home is situated, you are bound to have spectacular views over the surrounding countryside. You might have a view of the ocean, the Intracoastal Waterway or the marshes. It all adds up to a fabulous lifestyle in Stono Ferry.

Chamonix Haute Savoie is located at the base of the soaring Monte Bianco in the Alps and is regarded as the mountaineering and extreme skiing capital of the European Alps. Chamonix Mont Blanc has long been known as a veritable domain for activities during both winter and summer. It held the inaugural Winter Olympics back in 1924 - furthermore it’s also an area of outstanding natural beauty providing a lot of different things to the adventurous climber and holiday maker.

Unlike most up to date ski areas the resort of Chamonix is not a souless skiing domain and has been mostly preserved from the modern monstrosities which litters so much of the Alps. It’s blessed with not only and infamous snowboarding domain moreover a cosmopolitan and busy centre.

It is of ample size to guarantee there is a lot of activities for the non skier to do and see, with the Chamonix ski pass offering a lot of skiing. However you choose to enjoy your trip theres an activity to enrapture anyone. Including an impressive swimming and sports complex, cross country skiing, museum and weekly market with fresh local produce; and lots of boutiques, cafes and clubs, Chamonix Mount Blanc supplies a choice of snowboarding, town charm and shopping, which only a few ski areas can match. So research your ski break now.

Most Internet marketers worth their salt know how effective articles can be to generate promotion for their web sites. The major problem for many is simply writing the article.

This article shows you the exact steps I usually take to construct an article to achieve maximum publicity for my web site. By following this model you will be able to do the same quickly and easily.

1. The Big Idea

The very first stage is to get the basic theme of your article. The inspiration for my own articles often comes to me when I am ’switched off’ and doing something completely different.

The theme for your article should be closely linked to the theme of your web site, in order to attract targeted prospects.

2. Write The Title And Introduction

At first this is only a rough introductory paragraph or two, and I do not worry too much about the exact wording at this stage. My introductory paragraph(s) simply tell the reader what the article is about. I usually write my first idea of a title for the article at this point too.

3. Sketch Out The Content

I brainstorm the major points I want to cover, and write them down, one after the other. I do not worry about their order, my major concern is getting the ideas in my head down on paper. I may even write down the odd sentence or paragraph to back up each point.

Once I’ve got the basic outline, I look at the order of the points I am making, switch them around if necessary, and make sure I have written down everything I want to cover.

4. Fill In the Content

This is when the real meat of the article is written.

Each of the points I have briefly written down before need filling in. I need to explain what I mean, and go into further depth.

You should not fill your article with affiliate links to sites you want to promote, nor link to your own web site unless absolutely necessary. Publishers do not like it and many will ignore your article. If you want to link to a quality in-context resource, link to the main web site URL instead. You get ample chance to link to your own web site via the resource box at the end of the article (more details below).

Also do not make any part of your article sound like an advert. Publishers are looking for quality articles that will be appreciated by their subscribers, not solo ads for your web site. You have plenty of room to link to your own web site in the resource box.

For the maximum chance of your article getting published, you are looking at an ideal length of around 800 words. I would also ensure it is not less than 600 words, or more than 1000 words - although I must admit I do occasionally write longer ones.

Remember at first this is just a draft. I never expect it to be perfect straight away - I just get my words down and my points across. Once I have got the main body of the article in place, I go back over it and revise as necessary until I am happy with the content.

5. Write Your Resource Box

Many authors struggle with this part, but there really is no need.

The resource box goes right at the end of your article, and provides some information about the author. Think about the reader of the article - they want to know more about who wrote the article.

I include a bit of information about myself, and provide a link to one of my web sites that has some relevance to the article. Ideally a resource box should be brief and contain just two or three sentences. For an example, see the resource box at the end of this article.

Some authors attempt to cram the resource box with more than one link. Rather than achieving more promotional power from their article, it actually has the reverse effect by turning off the publisher, who may have otherwise published your article, and confusing the reader.

6. Leave It Alone

In my experience, this is the most essential stage. I save my article and leave it completely alone for at least a couple of days. So many people are impatient and do not do this, but I find it to be essential in boosting my chances of publication.

The idea is that you come back to it with completely fresh, but critical, eyes. This works like magic for helping to transform a fairly mediocre article with low chances of publication, to a high quality article that is more likely to get picked up by a large number of publishers and reward you with a flood of publicity.

7. The Final Edit

I open up my article again and read it. I usually spot parts of my article that do not flow very well, paragraphs that can be improved or condensed, sentences with words missing, and typos. This is where I polish up my article and ensure it all flows really well.

I have seen many articles that have obviously never gone through this stage, and they will only have a very slim chance of publication. Some minor editing would have improved them immensely. It really is worth that extra bit of effort to get your article up to scratch, otherwise all your hard work in writing the article will be wasted.

Copyright 2004 Steve Shaw

About The Author

Steve Shaw works full time online, creating systems and software for effective e-marketing. His popular e-course provides a lot more information on how you can publish articles for profit, including how to submit them to potential publishers for a flood of publicity to your web site:

=> http://www.takanomi.com/publish-articles.php

All of us atleast have one expertise on which we can speak, write and work on our website. But now your website is ready and you do not have been listed in major search engine like Google and yahoo etc. You want them to listed as soon as you started a website. But it is tricky.

To get into Google and Yahoo listing you can use a lot of method described by many so called experts. And quite true too. I want to remind one very sophisticated and elegant way to do this and believe me Google just love it. The method is Article marketing. And this is done by getting backlinks from a already listed website. In this Article can work wonder. There are many article publishing websites and ezines where an article is accepted free and after review get published.

For example, www.ezinearticles.com accept the free article submission and its Google page rank is 6 which is quite a good one. Now any article published in this ezine will get a good SERPs in Google as well as any search engine.

All the new article content of these pages are crawled by google bot almost daily. So if you put a backlink in your articles resource box to you website, your website will also be crawled daily for that article in this ezine. And you site will also be indexed by Google.

Another good website is www.impactarticles.com This is a very good website for getting listed in google particularly. Submit your article here and see the result in few days in your Google listing.

Apart from these SEO aspect, articles are a great way to market and brand your own name. It establish you as an expert in that particulare subject. Article marketing can help you to gain a good number of visitors who are highly targeted one. And these article can help you to get higher Google page rank. If you are interested into submitting your articles at 85 websites with higher Google page rank visit

http://www.nuttymarketer.com/green/gorilla_marketing_service.htm for the list of websites and ezines.

This article may be re-printed as long as following resource box is included as it is with out any alteration.

Article by Arvind Kumar. Arvind Kumar is one of prominent writer and consultant on Marketing and Management. You can reach him at arvind@nuttymarketer.com. For more on Gorilla Marketing Strategy and planning visit http://www.nuttymarketer.com

Regardless the fact that Property Index is still a recent corporation, registered only in March 2007, they have fast advanced to expert status. They are actually a very hassle free corporation specialized in looking after everyone dedicated to buy, sell, etc. estate in most parts of the world. What they pledge to do is to aid you pinpoint exactly what’s called for fast and, moreover, in a trouble-free manner.

Property can easily be purchased almost anywhere in the world presently, probably the really elite area being property on the market in the States. It should really be no effort to write a list of the tremendous realty available in the States, one reason for selecting property here being properties on the market and the sensational chance of living among this animated and spirited people. This is one of the truly well-liked markets presently, and with the lovely landscape and agreeable weather surrounding you all day long, how can you be wrong? Property in the States is very rich in history and culture, this area of the world has been and is still home to a good number of indigenous civilizations.

Property Index have a range of properties for sale in America, from villas to apartments.

About one generation ago you would find only very few of Englishmen keen on realty in the States. Ask any one single person who has chosen to move to the States and they’ll be sure to confirm this. Many would tend to view it as a rage and others tend to view it as a virtually a fixation. The people intent on relocating to this region extend from yuppies looking for a bit of a new life perspective to pensioners planning to put their feet up. Do bear in mind, though, that there might be situations when purchasing realty abroad - you’ll have to cope with 100s of disparate steps when plotting, inspecting or signing the documents. Even if but a single action is missed that is liable to easily bring about large situations and, critically, loss in financial terms.

Obviously and expectably with this popular location, realty could well be unbelievably high priced in this destination which is purely caused by the increasing market demand. Yet, the buyer is really pretty much spoilt in terms of choice in an area boasting such a terrific terrain. It’s patently got everything you could want, and plenty more.

Almost all gamers should have discovered the term “offshore sports betting”, though a few are not totally in the know what that suggests. A foreign gaming web site in essence acts outside of the laws of any given nation or it can be a net based betting web site running its main servers inside a land in which on-line sports gaming isn’t at the moment illegitimate. To sum up therefore, it’s best delineated as a gaming internet site doing business extraneous to the national territory of the consumer. Machine-accessible sports wagering world wide web sites are now regulated with the help of 3 governing bodies. These are OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), the IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association FTGA.

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The Offshore Gaming Association is a self-governing bureau which regulates the thriving overseas sports gaming industry, they strive to also deliver gambling fanatics access to swiftly locate acclaimed internet businesses to play betting games on, without anguish. The Offshore Gaming Association strives to maintain the rights of customers, additionally they do not levy any annual dues. The association are an extremely expert and neutral third party agency who convey impartial conclusions, built on your feedback, unprejudiced scrutiny, phone chats, insider tips and in addition delivers industry information.

The Interactive Gaming Council are a not-for-profit agency. The organisation was established to supply a platform for involved people to talk through problems not to mention to further collective interests in the multinational interactive gaming industry, in an effort to establish just and also sound trade guidelines and procedures that raise consumer confidence in net based betting commodities and services, also to be of assistance as the trade’s extensive strategy representative and the IGC provides a data depot.

The Interactive Gaming Council has built a reputation for dependability, stability and in addition sincerity through its strict ethical code, also its allure to concerns of exemplary practise. The IGC regularizes overseas sports betting by championing a particular 10-step code of practise and also charges gambling businesses license fees for featuring the council’s logo. Unsatisfied customers can moreover recount any of their misunderstandings to the Interactive Gaming Council.

The FTGA was formed in order to construct a standard which will reform the policies of web based gambling trading operations. The IGC proposerealize that doing business with honorable web sites, they are able to fashion a coalition of the fairest and professional online betting companies worldwide. These are bodies which supervise the conduct of internet based sports gaming and which should with luck aid to relieve a few of the apprehensions experienced by cynics. Internet based sports betting web sites are entirely trustworthy, now that private data are no longer a necessity and in addition the recompense and the odds are as equal and sportsmanlike as an orthodox Vegas-type bet. These websites cut the travel costs, but nevertheless keep of a conventional gambling casino, but today you may play in your own house.