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		<title>Bodyweight Exercise Book Released On Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Mattingly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Barrett, a self-taught nutrition and fitness author , has recently released a book designed to teach basic bodyweight exercises and calisthenics to people who are interested in getting into shape. The book, entitled &#8220;Natural Exercise: Basic Bodyweight Training and Calisthenics for Strength and Weight-Loss,&#8221; teaches over a dozen bodyweight exercises which were chosen and [...]]]></description>
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<p>Patrick Barrett, a self-taught <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Barrett/e/B0064N6HFE/">nutrition and fitness author</a></p>
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<p>, has recently released a book designed to teach basic bodyweight exercises and calisthenics to people who are interested in getting into shape.</p>
<p>The book, entitled &#8220;Natural Exercise: Basic Bodyweight Training and Calisthenics for Strength and Weight-Loss,&#8221; teaches over a dozen <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Exercise-Calisthenics-Weight-Loss-ebook/dp/B0063HSZAG/">bodyweight exercises</a> which were chosen and grouped together to create a complete, total body workout.</p>
<p>Although Barrett does teach the reader how to do a full suite of exercises designed to both build muscle mass and burn body fat with each workout, that is only part of the value of the book. He also goes into detail to discuss such topics as proper breathing, nutrition, joint health, and other popular concerns which often go overlooked in such publications.</p>
<p>Beyond that, there is a very thorough treatment related to the idea of properly understanding how to create one&#8217;s own workout schedule. A variety of sample workouts catering to the needs of different readers are provided, but the book also provides the information needed to develop your own schedule which will be difficult enough to get results, but not so difficult as to be discouraging.</p>
<p>Bodyweight exercises, calisthenics, and other <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Exercise-Bodyweight-Calisthenics-Weight-loss/dp/1467965693/">bodyweight training</a> is used by almost every military organization in the world, and by many elite athletes. It is one of the most convenient forms of exercise in that it requires little or no equipment and can essentially be performed anywhere.</p>
<p>The book is available for purchase both in paperback form and also in the popular digital Kindle format.</p>
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		<title>World of Warcraft &#8220;Cheats&#8221; in this WoW Strategy Guide Will Blow You Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Mattingly</dc:creator>
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<p><div id="attachment_10899" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.headlinesnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/world-of-warcraft-girls-300x244.jpg" alt="World of Warcraft players" title="world-of-warcraft-girls" width="300" height="244" class="size-medium wp-image-10899" /><p class="wp-caption-text">World of Warcraft cheats and strategies can save you a lot of time that you can spend making costumes.</p></div>Are you tired of walking around in greens, while other players get their epic mounts and high level gear? Do you wish there was some way to get all the Arena ratings and gold you could want&#8211;without wandering around for hours and just wasting time?</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://bit.ly/9fI3tE">here</a>&#8211;You could have over 25,000 gold <i>in a matter of weeks</i>.</p>
<p>The fact is that World of Warcraft gets more complicated and difficult all the time, and that players who just try to keep up with what might have been working a week ago, or a few months ago, end up getting left in the dust. People who hope to figure it out on their own, well&#8211;they&#8217;re even worse off.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re ready to get down to business and start getting serious results in a fraction of the time, you need to look into Warcraft Formula. This is more than just a World of Warcraft strategy guide. It&#8217;s a comprehensive tool that will allow you to get the absolute most out of your playing time, and start dominating&#8211;that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re playing the game in the first place, right?</p>
<p>If you already have all the gold you want, if you&#8217;ve already hit level 80, and if there&#8217;s not a mount you don&#8217;t already own, then by all means, keep at it. But if you&#8217;re looking for that boost you need to start playing like an expert, then these World of Warcraft &#8220;cheats&#8221; are right up your alley.</p>
<p>Click <a href="http://bit.ly/aI939X">here</a> to check out the most thorough, most efficient World of Warcraft Strategies in the whole game (you won&#8217;t believe the low price, or the guarantee&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>Healthy Weight Loss Diet: No Low-Fat, Low-Cal, Low-Carb Fads?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy weight loss programs seem to be on everyone&#8217;s mind these days. Women everywhere are trying to lose fat by following one fad diet trend after another in the hope of fast weight loss. And sometimes, women say, it seems like the harder they try to keep up with all the newest weight loss tips, [...]]]></description>
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<p><div id="attachment_10884" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 152px"><img src="http://www.headlinesnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/obesity-142x300.jpg" alt="Have weight loss programs made people fatter?" width="142" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-10884" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Weight loss programs may not be the proper recipe for real weight loss.</p></div>Healthy weight loss programs seem to be on everyone&#8217;s mind these days. Women everywhere are trying to lose fat by following one fad diet trend after another in the hope of fast weight loss.</p>
<p>And sometimes, women say, it seems like the harder they try to keep up with all the newest weight loss tips, the fatter and the more discouraged they get.</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/cNwhR3">Click here to break the cycle&#8211;learn how to work with your body and lose the weight for good.</a></p>
<p>Dieters could try a new &#8220;popular&#8221; diet every week without ever getting the results they&#8217;re looking for.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s the famous low-fat diet, which has been around for years now, with new low-fat and non-fat products hitting the shelves all the time.</p>
<p>And what&#8217;s the result? People in developed countries like America, Britain, and Germany are getting fatter than ever.</p>
<p>To make it even more confusing, now there are certain &#8216;fatty acids&#8217; that are supposed to work wonders, and some fats that were supposed to be bad before are now supposed to be good.</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/cNwhR3">Forget the mindless trends. Click here to find out about an effective approach that doesn&#8217;t involve low-fat foods.</a></p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s low-calorie food. Sometimes it seems like restricting calories is the one thing that guarantees that women won&#8217;t lose weight&#8211;not to mention how grouchy, stressed, and tired it can make them.</p>
<p>And how about the Atkins Diet? That one actually you to restrict fruit, which is one of the healthiest foods to a lot of people.</p>
<p>Actually, that might be the worst part&#8211;not only do these fad diets not work, they all seem to contradict each other.</p>
<p>But there is some good news: a system called Yay Food that actually seems to fit with the way your body is supposed to work.</p>
<p>It teaches that the body doesn&#8217;t know the difference between dieting and starvation&#8211;and that a body in starvation will hold on to fat stores to protect itself.</p>
<p>That explains what a lot of women experience.</p>
<p>The program speaks for itself, really. <a href="http://bit.ly/cNwhR3">Click here to check out Yay Food.</a></p>
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		<title>Controversial Tutor&#8217;s SAT Prep Course Offers Unique Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Mike Barrett is no stranger to SAT prep. He&#8217;s been training students to take this hated test for more than a decade, as a private tutor, a teacher, and an author. He works with programs ranging from KIPP schools to admissions consultants at the top of their field. Now, he has created an online SAT video course that captures what he feels is the best possible approach to taking this test.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acethesat.com">Click here to learn more about Mike Barrett&#8217;s SAT Prep Course.</a><a></a></p>
<p>Barrett does a lot of phone tutoring for clients all around the world, and he says he runs into a lot of students who have previously wasted time on ineffective strategies. Some memorize vocabulary, study advanced math, or even read history textbooks or novels in order to get ideas for the SAT essay. Barrett says that all of these are a waste of time when it comes to SAT prep.</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, if you want to learn more words for its own sake, or learn more math formulas for fun, or read novels for your own satisfaction, that&#8217;s great. In fact I&#8217;m a big believer in education for its own sake,&#8221; Barrett says. &#8220;Just don&#8217;t expect it to raise your SAT score very much.&#8221;</p>
<p>If this sounds like it contradicts the advice students tend to hear from the big providers like Kaplan and the Princeton Review, that&#8217;s just the beginning of the ways Barrett&#8217;s approach seems to contradict the more traditional methods.</p>
<p>Barrett says that, over the years, his approach has sometimes drawn fire from other tutors and teachers. He said, &#8220;When I tell my [clients] that they shouldn&#8217;t guess, or that I think memorizing vocabulary isn&#8217;t the right way to raise their scores, that rubs a lot of people the wrong way for some reason. But I&#8217;m a big believer in just looking at evidence, and I bet if you talk to the people you know who&#8217;ve gotten good scores on the SAT, most of them will tell you that they didn&#8217;t guess a lot and they didn&#8217;t memorize test scores. For some reason most people just ignore that fact, but I think it speaks volumes about the real way to approach the test.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acethesat.com">Click here to see more about Barrett&#8217;s Approach to the SAT Test.</a></p>
<p>The problem, says Barrett, is that the SAT is a poorly understood test in general. If students knew more about the structure and purpose of the exam, they would be able to exploit its weak points and be totally ready for it on test day, he says, and they would realize why most people aren&#8217;t happy with the results from traditional courses.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the worst things you can do is prepare for this like it&#8217;s a regular high school test. That&#8217;s probably the biggest trap that the SAT sets for test-takers, and you really see it come out on the math. People are sort of trained over the years to think that you do well on a math test by being familiar with the types of questions in advance, but on the SAT you see lots of things that don&#8217;t look anything like the kinds of questions you see in math class in school. So people freak out, because they&#8217;re in a new situation and they assume they don&#8217;t know how to answer the question. But when you give them the tools they need to decipher the questions, a lot of the time they&#8217;re amazed at what happens.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acethesat.com">Click here to find out more about Mike Barrett&#8217;s Approach to the SAT Test.</a><a></a></p>
<p>Barrett says his online SAT video course was born out of the high demand for his personal tutoring services. &#8220;I was getting to the point where I was literally sleeping 2 or 3 hours a night in the week before a test, because with the different time zones and countries there was always somebody who wanted to do a call at 4am or midnight or whatever. I love what I do, but you have to sleep sometimes. And I was just having to turn people away. So I thought, I&#8217;ll break all this stuff down into a video course.&#8221;</p>
<p>The video course turns out to have certain advantages over the phone tutoring for a lot of people, according to Barrett. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize this beforehand, but having the SAT course online works out even better in a lot of ways. Students can watch the videos whenever they want, instead of having to do things on my schedule. They can review lessons again if they feel like it. And they still get that one-on-one aspect because they can ask me questions in the private forum that comes with the course.&#8221;</p>
<p>Readers who would like to learn more about Barrett&#8217;s unique approach to the SAT should visit his web site at <a href="http://www.AceTheSAT.com">www.AceTheSAT.com.</a> Subscribers to his free email newsletter will receive an instant lesson on how to write the SAT essay.</p>
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		<title>OnApp and JumpBox simplify deployment of Open Source web applications in the cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US">London, 01 September</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">: OnApp and JumpBox have announced a new deal for hosting providers that makes it significantly easier to deploy and maintain popular Open Source web applications on cloud servers, using commodity hardware. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For a low monthly fee, hosting companies can deploy the entire JumpBox library of ‘ready to use’ web applications in the cloud, using OnApp’s unique elastic cloud engine, while benefiting from easy upgrades to those applications from JumpBox. The result is significantly reduced cost, complexity and time to deployment for the applications that hosting providers’ customers want to use. The monthly fee includes unlimited user access per cloud.<span style="color: #333333"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">“The combination of OnApp’s highly configurable cloud hosting engine, and JumpBox’s ‘ready to use’ web applications, makes it simple for hosting providers to deploy and manage the applications their customers need,” said Carlos Rego, MD of OnApp. “With more than 50 JumpBox applications available today, a low monthly fee, and OnApp’s unique approach to cloud hosting, our clients can expand the services they offer in a very quick and cost-effective way.” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>&#8220;With the combination of JumpBox and OnApp, hosting providers now have a ready library of application solutions for their customers,&#8221; said Kimbro Staken, CEO of JumpBox &#8220;Adding these easy to deploy applications to a hosting service encourages increased usage by hosting customers and higher revenue for the hosting provider. Plus, since the library gains more applications over time, the provider’s revenue opportunity just continues to increase while the low monthly fee stays the same.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">OnApp’s elastic cloud engine enables hosting providers to set up and manage cloud and virtual servers on commodity hardware, extremely quickly, using virtual machine templates and a web-based user interface. JumpBox makes it simple to deploy and manage Open Source web applications by packaging each one as a ‘ready to use’ virtual machine. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With the library of JumpBox virtual machines available through OnApp, hosters and other service providers can quickly deploy, configure and manage cloud-based applications<span> </span>- from blogging and content management systems to wikis, bug trackers and e-commerce platforms &#8211; to meet the needs of their customers. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The OnApp cloud hosting engine is licensed to users on a cost per CPU core and cost per cloud basis, but is currently available with a full year’s free trial. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US">About JumpBox</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With customers in forty countries and over 350,000 JumpBoxes distributed to date, JumpBox is the recognized leader in providing hassle-free Open Source server software. JumpBox enables businesses to deploy a wide array of collaborative infrastructure in minutes across a variety of computing environments. Offering the convenience of a SaaS-based service and the control and flexibility of private, run-anywhere instances, the JumpBox service enables IT admins to concentrate on extracting value from their software rather than maintaining it. For more information, visit JumpBox on the web at <a title="blocked::http://www.jumpbox.com/ http://www.jumpbox.com" href="http://www.jumpbox.com/"><span style="color: purple">http://www.jumpbox.com</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US">About OnApp</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">OnApp is one of the fastest growing cloud platforms in the market, with over 30,000 virtual servers deployed in less than two years. Designed for the needs of the hosting market, OnApp enables hosting providers to set up public or private clouds based on commodity hardware, and deploy customizable virtual machines in just a few clicks. OnApp uses multi-hypervisor technology (such as Xen and KVM) to ensure complete security and isolation for virtual machines. It also offers unrivalled scalability, with virtualization management that enables service providers to optimize their use of server resources, creating the potential for significant hardware and energy cost savings.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">OnApp has offices in the US and Europe, employs more than 40 staff and can be found at</span><span lang="EN-US"> <a title="blocked::http://www.onapp.com/" href="http://www.onapp.com/"><span style="color: purple">www.onapp.com</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US">More information</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For more information, please contact:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Steve Fenton, OnApp:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Steve.fenton@onapp.com</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Sean Tierney, JumpBox: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="mailto:sean@jumpbox.com">sean@jumpbox.com</a> </span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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		<title>Helpful Assistance for Unemployed Homeowners from Making Home Affordable Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Huffman</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: justify">Abilene, TX Aug 09, 2010 &#8212; All mortgage servicer providers contributing in the making home affordable program will offer extra assistance for homeowners who are stressed while making their monthly mortgage payments due to loss of their job. The Unemployment Program would offer homeowners a waiting period for the time being, and help to decrease their monthly mortgage payments and extend the repayment time while they are out looking for a job.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The smallest amount forbearance period is three months, although a mortgage service may extend it depending upon the investor and regulator guidelines. If a homeowner turns out to be re-employed in that time, the forbearance period would end and the homeowner would be eligible for a <strong>mortgage modification</strong> under the MHAP. Unemployment advantages will no longer get eligible as earnings for the mortgage modification program.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Throughout this period, an individual’s monthly mortgage payment should be reduced to no more than 31% (or less) of their total monthly earnings. The lender could also temporarily suspend the monthly payments completely. The payment amount and the due dates would be resolute with the lender depending on investor and regulator procedure.</p>
<p><strong>To meet the requirements, a homeowner should meet the following eligibility criteria:</strong></p>
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<li>The mortgage should be a primary lien mortgage, start off on or prior to January 1, 2009, and the unpaid principal balance should be equal to or less than $729,750 for a one-unit assets.</li>
<li>The property ought to be the homeowner’s main residence.</li>
<li>The mortgage hasn’t been previously modified through a Home Affordable Modification.</li>
<li>The homeowner was disallowed for a <strong>Home Affordable Modification</strong>.</li>
<li>The homeowner is either behind on payments (nevertheless not by 3 consecutive months) or it is rationally foreseeable that the homeowner will fall behind.</li>
<li>The entire monthly mortgage payment is greater than 31 percent of the individuals gross monthly earnings. If the payment is less, it is up to the servicer’s discretion if they would provide the program to the homeowner.</li>
<li>The homeowner would be unemployed at the start of the forbearance period, and is able to document this because they will be receiving unemployment advantages in the month the forbearance period begins (even though the advantages run out prior to the forbearance time ends).</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify">A mortgage lender might require that, based on investor and regulator procedure, homeowners have received as a minimum 3 months of joblessness benefits prior to they start on a forbearance period.</p>
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		<title>Mesa Bankruptcy Attorney Occupies New Executive Offices</title>
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<p>Americans are online. Everywhere. Google. Twitter. Facebook…Big Surprise.  Small businesses (and that includes law firms) haven’t caught on.  Almost half, 46%, don’t even have a website.  And for the vast majority that do have sites, they are ineffective brochures that no one sees. Traditional advertising outlets like Yellow Pages and Newspapers are delivering less bang for their buck…if any.</p>
<p><a title="Mesa Bankruptcy Attorney" href="http://www.mesabankruptcyattorney.org">Mesa Bankruptcy Attorney</a> Benjamin Dodge recognized this void and pounced on the opportunity to partner with legal specialty, online property developer, and direct marketing firm WebLegalMarketing.com —a company that guarantees their “tenants” a 1,000% return.</p>
<p>As a result Dodge now occupies prime online-real estate, http://www.mesabankruptcyattorney.org , situated on Google’s first page for several important search terms. (Mesa bankruptcy Attorney #2, Mesa Bankruptcy Attorneys #6, Mesa Bankruptcy Lawyer #8, Mesa Bankruptcy Lawyers #10)</p>
<p>“While this is a nice start, we anticipate owning position #1 for all these terms and significant positions for several other important relevant searches, but it’s just the beginning,” affirms Tobi Rhayne, head of webLegalMarketing, “Through our Social Media Management we’ll drive significant traffic to the site. We’ve already seen the beginnings of that. And compounding that with video production and distribution, email capture and follow-up as well as other initiatives…our goal is to help make Ben Dodge a very significant player on the Mesa, Arizona legal scene.”</p>
<p>Practising law, obviously, requires its own particular expertise. Given the daily restrictions on a successful lawyer’s time, it&#8217;s unrealistic to expect to master the law, marketing and dynamic technology involved online.  Something has to give.  It makes more sense for a lawyer to spend their time perfecting their ability to truly benefit their clients than to understand the nuances of Twitter and how to integrate it with their blog and 25 other social networks.</p>
<p>“We recognize the need for having an online presence.  We can do it ourselves but when we do, our implementation, often using multiple vendors, ends up piecemeal…a website here, a video there, and keeping up with the technology and the marketing avenues requires time” states Ben Dodge, “Time that I’m unwilling to pull from my clients and practising law.  The breadth of services that WebLegalMarketing  is astounding…and their 1,000% return guarantee doesn’t hurt either”, grins Dodge. “We really hope that this flourishes into a long term partnership. So far so good.”</p>
<p>Website: http://www.mesabankruptcyattorney.org<br />
4824 E. Baseline Rd.<br />
Suite 124.<br />
Mesa, Arizona,<br />
85206<br />
Telephone: 4807451410</p>
<p>WebLegalMarketing is currently developing properties for <a title="Mesa Bankruptcy Attorney" href="http://www.mesabankruptcyattorney.org">Mesa Bankruptcy Attorneys</a> in geographic markets that they determine will support a minimum of $25,000 in monthly billings.  Bankruptcy Attorneys are encouraged to contact Tobi Rhayne via email or telephone to discuss opportunities in their market and explore if they qualify.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Return on Investment (ROI) is the ubiquitous buzzword of 21st-century business. Yet in media and advertising, many firms are locked into a traditional understanding of ROI that treats it as an unexamined constant, or worse, as a necessary evil. Responding to ROI demands using the full gamut of modern technological and business tools is [...]]]></description>
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<p><!-- 		@page { margin: 0.79in } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } 		A:link { so-language: zxx } --><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>Introduction </strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"></p>
<p>Return on Investment (ROI) is the ubiquitous buzzword of 21st-century business. Yet in media and advertising, many firms are locked into a traditional understanding of ROI that treats it as an unexamined constant, or worse, as a necessary evil. Responding to ROI demands using the full gamut of modern technological and business tools is often not the firm&#8217;s top priority, leaving these solutions to be applied piecemeal rather than in a comprehensive way.</p>
<p>TeleDirect surveyed over 2,600 media and advertising companies, with a survey response rate of 10%. The results illustrate surprising gaps between respondents&#8217; perceptions of ROI demands, and what they themselves feel is missing in their clients&#8217; efforts to support true ROI.</p>
<p></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>Results </strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"></p>
<p>Respondents were asked eight questions:<br />
</span></span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Are 	your clients asking you to show Return on Investment on advertising 	you are involved with? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Do 	you feel confident you can prove Return on Investment to your 	clients? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Do 	you feel your clients work leads hard enough to establish a true 	Return on Investment? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Do 	you feel confident you can prove the number of leads your clients 	receive? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Do 	you provide Internet advertising for your clients? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Do 	you resell Contact Management Solutions or CRMs? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Do 	you resell call tracking? </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Do 	you outsource to or resell call center services?<br />
</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">Responses to the first question paint a &#8220;good news/bad news&#8221; picture. Fully 31.5% of respondents say that clients are asking the</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">m to </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://teledirect.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>demonstrate ROI</strong></span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">. Of the remainder, some may have formally or informally passed the ROI test, and others may yet face such demands in the future, as clients become more sophisticated.</p>
<p>The second question yields a less ambiguous result: only 58.3% of respondents feel confident that they can prove ROI. The nearly 42% who cannot, then, are to say the least in a disadvantageous position, to the extent that such proof may be demanded, now or at some future date.</p>
<p>But respondents do not entirely accept that this state of affairs is within their control. Only 32.3% say their clients work leads hard enough to establish a </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://teledirect.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>true ROI</strong></span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">. But some of the responsibility lies with the respondent&#8217;s company: only 48% feel they can prove the number of leads their clients receive.</p>
<p>The remaining four questions expose a gap in services that could help establish ROI. Of the companies surveyed, only 32.3% provided Internet advertising; only 10.2% offered Contact Management Solutions or CRMs; only 12.6% provided call tracking; and perhaps most surprisingly &#8211; in light of these numbers &#8211; only 20.5% made call center services available to their clients.</p>
<p></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>Analysis </strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"></p>
<p>The portrait that emerges is of an industry that is hesitant to accept a role in quantifying and </span></span></span><span style="color: #000080"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://teledirect.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>enhancing ROI</strong></span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"> t</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small">o the benefit of its clientele, whether by willful adherence to earlier role definitions or lack of awareness of present trends. As ad spend increasingly migrates to electronic media, for example, fewer than one third of respondents report offering Internet advertising services.</p>
<p>Similarly, while more than 40% of all respondents do not report confidence in their ability to prove ROI for their services, and only about a third of respondents report that their clients provide the necessary follow-up to establish a true ROI, very few report providing the services that could help clients do so. This may be due to acceptance of a bright dividing line in the mind of the advertising or media company. In effect they declare that they will provide creative and exposure; it is the client&#8217;s responsibility to determine whether it works.</p>
<p>This division may be blurring with the advent of new media and more integrated marketing; in any event those few companies that </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><em>are</em></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"> providing proven resources for establishment of ROI are clearly at a competitive advantage.</p>
<p></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>One Case Study: Seminar Edge Calls From Direct Mail</strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"></p>
<p>One example of the ROI advantage offered by well organized call center services can be seen in TeleDirect’s reporting of its Seminar Edge service. Seminar Edge handles every telephonic aspect of seminar reservations, providing 800 numbers for advertising, as well as booking, customer care, and integrated mail services to attendees.</p>
<p>Gathering data on 1,058,272 calls, the company found that fewer than 60% were true leads, whereas more than 40% were wrong numbers, reservation confirmations, requests for information, directions and other calls.</p>
<p>While hang-ups are an inevitable part of call center response work, and while informational aspects of customer care have value of their own, those calls that resulted in registrations are the cornerstone ROI metric for a direct mail campaign advertising a seminar.</p>
<p>Measuring against the 60% lead figure, TeleDirect is able to refine its services; just as importantly, direct mail advertisers are able to determine whether their campaign is encouraging reservations or other services (such as requests for directions to the seminar). A direct-mail advertiser working hand-in-hand with TeleDirect is able to determine which types of information are being neglected in their mailers, and which are being overemphasized; when ROI is measured and pursued, both the advertiser and the integrated call center can pursue measurable improvement in campaign services.</p>
<p></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>Conclusion</strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"></p>
<p>Whether an advertising/media company operates through new media such as the Internet, through traditional media such as broadcast and print, or through a combination, information on return on investment is currently demanded by a sizable proportion of advertising clientele, and is likely to be demanded by a larger segment of that clientele in the future.</p>
<p>In the past, media and advertising companies could create walled-off silos of service provision, but the increasing emphasis on ROI puts pressure on these companies to establish or acquire services to reliably measure ROI. Proven resources are available to establish ROI for media and advertising companies. It remains to be seen which firms will avail themselves of them.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"><strong>About Teledirect</strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small"></p>
<p>Sacramento-based TeleDirect [www.teledirect.com] has been supporting business owners since 1961. TeleDirect&#8217;s call center, customer survey, and lead-tracking solutions have been recognized time and again for providing outstanding customer experiences with comprehensive tracking, management, and reporting capabilities.</p>
<p>To contact a consultant call 1-800-776-1081 or e-mail sales@teledirect.com.</span></span></span></p>
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		<title>New WaterRipper Water Ball Sweeps the Northwest</title>
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<p><!-- 		@page { margin: 0.79in } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } 		A:link { so-language: zxx } --><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><strong>July 21st, 2010- CHICO, CA.</strong> The WaterRipper, the exciting new water ball from inventor Tim Leefeldt, made its debut last week in the Pacific Northwest at various aquatic centers. The patented design of the WaterRipper allows the ball to skip and roll over the surface of the water. Inventor Tim Leefeldt toured northwest aquatic centers to introduce the incredible technology of the WaterRipper to the public. Audiences cheered as the ball bounced and glided over pools of water with ease. WaterRipper’s official website features video footage of pool games and other activities using the toy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The invention was discovered over two decades ago, and was recently introduced to the market. Aquatic engineers celebrate the patented design of the WaterRipper, citing that the technology is, “…unlike anything else on the market.” Tim Leefeldt’s genius design uses a slow-acting collapsing bean bag. It finds a careful balance between density and water absorbing materials to stay afloat and skip on the surface of the water without sinking. Leefeldt is still astonished by the science of his invention. The ball skips across the water like a rock, but can be caught like a beanbag.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">After Leefeldt purchased a Wobaba ball, he noticed that the design was inferior to his own; the ball moves too fast for beginner players, it bounces out of your hand and poses potential dangers for kids and other pool users. This inspired Leefeldt to bring his 22 year-old invention off of the shelves, find a licensee and introduce it to the sports &amp; water toy market.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">His design was first encouraged by Wham-O then rejected by them and several other major toy companies. Doug Rubel of Mindwalking Inc. shared the vision and assisted in the development of the watertoy. The </span><a href="http://www.ripperball.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><strong>water ball</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> will make its market debut at the New York Toy Fair in February 2011, and will hit store shelves next Spring.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Alan Teitel of Ultraslo.com is in the process of making a slow-motion video of the </span><a href="http://www.ripperball.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><strong>water ball</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">, demonstrating the remarkable science and physics involved in the fast action and slow acting phenomena of the floating ball.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The water ball is celebrated by sports enthusiasts, toy critics, and families alike. Reviewers online have unanimously rated the toy as one of the best products of the summer. Links to reviews of the toy can be found out the WaterRipper’s official website.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The ball will see future employment in therapy as a way for recovering patients to get their exercise without strenuous sessions. Elder therapy could see extensive use with the ball as well, since it is a safe and fun way to get exercise in the pool. Youth centers have pre-ordered WaterRippers for summer camp activities, where it will keep those energetic kids busy when just can’t get enough of the water.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Whether you are a competitor, a family of four, a group of friends, or a physical therapy assistant, the WaterRipper promises to be one of the most fascinating and fun inventions on the summer market. With year-round appeal and universal acclaim, the WaterRipper has lasting appeal.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"><strong>About the Inventor</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Tim Leefeldt is an architect, toy and puzzle designer living in Chico, CA. WaterRipper is his new waterball innovation that has been in the works for 22 years. Eureka! Archimedes principals applied. This revolutionary new high performance sportswater toy that has two patent pending applications with assistance with From Patent to Profit author, Bob DeMatteis who assisted in bringing this innovation to market in less than 9 months. WaterRipper is distinctly different from all waterballs on the market, the key is slow acting collapsing bean bag design, the balanced density and water absorbing materials to maximize density and performance on water.  For more information please visit www.ripperball.com.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify">Abilene, TX July 23, 2010 &#8212; These days many homeowners are searching for mortgage modification as a way to decrease their monthly mortgage payments, save cash, or prevent foreclosure of their houses due to failure in repaying.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Opportunely, due to President Obama&#8217;s stimulus program, homeowners availing a mortgage from Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae are qualified to avail a home loan modification. Here are a few guidelines for homeowners who need to qualify for the stimulus program and avail a home loan modification. The Obama stimulus program lets homeowners who are paying more than 31% of their gross monthly earnings to automatically become eligible for a home <a href="http://www.refinanceitt.com/loan-modification">loan modification</a> through Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. There are numbers of individuals who are stressed, and the on the whole housing market and economy are is in bad form. These new mortgage modification alternatives exist due to over $75 billion in funding which is coming with Obama&#8217;s stimulus program. This money allows homeowners to have more advantageous mortgage refinance and modification alternatives compare ever existed prior to, in spite of of their financial circumstances. A big part of the stimulus program is the fact which all homeowners through a Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac backed mortgage could get it customized if they repay over 31% of their monthly earnings towards it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">This stimulus would also allow homeowners having bad credit, an upside down home loan, or additional financial issues to obtain approved for a mortgage modification with Fannie or Freddie. That is for the reason as it’s guaranteed in President Obama&#8217;s program. The only way this wouldn’t benefit homeowners who make use of Fannie or Freddie is if they repay less than 31% of their monthly earnings towards their mortgage payment each month.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">This stimulus programs is huge, and millions of individuals are going to save their cash with using it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two of the leading mortgage lenders in the country which means the new mortgage modification options would apply to a lot of homeowners. Individuals are previously using this program for themselves and saving enough cash. Never prior to this program this big been facilitate for so number of people to take benefit of.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Don&#8217;t lose your house to foreclosure or loan failure to pay. Don’t believe that you have no alternatives left because of financial hardships or additional issues. Do get in touch with Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae today to see what latest home loan modification options have as it exist for you.</p>
<p><strong>About Us:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">While the obama loan modification plan has had high hopes of helping millions of people, the real facts on the ground are somewhat different and a bit disappointing.</p>
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