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Life science customers are evolving faster than we are as marketers. Hrissi Samartzidou is working to fix that. She is VP of Marketing in the Biosciences Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific.
She sees the need to bring life science marketing into this new era where customers are interconnected 24/7 and, in this interview, explains how she is doing that.
We also discussed:
- What area of digital marketing she is most excited about
- Different approaches to marketing in China and Latin America
- What it means for life science companies when our customers become more like other consumers
- Why customer experience beats incremental technology improvements
You can listen here or read the complete transcript at the bottom of this page.
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Hrissi Samartzidou is Vice President of Marketing for the Biosciences Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. She is responsible for the marketing strategy, the portfolio development, and the commercialization as well as e-business, e-commerce, and digital marketing for biosciences and also for channel marketing.
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Chris: My guest today is the Vice President of Marketing for the Biosciences Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific, and I'm very excited to have her on the show. Hrissi Samartzidou, welcome to Life Science Marketing Radio.
Hrissi: Thank you, Chris. Thanks for the invitation.
Chris: Well, I'm excited. I think this is going to be a great one. Just to set the context for this interview so people know where the questions are coming from, can you tell me a little bit about your job and your responsibilities?
Hrissi: Absolutely. As you described in my title, I am the Vice President of Marketing for the Biosciences Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Biosciences is a fairly large division, and we cover a lot of the academic, pharma, biotech, and even some applied markets in the context of bioscience research, including molecular biology type of applications, protein biology, cellular analysis, cell cultures, even synthetic biology. So a broad spectrum across life science research.
My particular responsibility is global marketing. We pretty much influence the marketing strategy, the portfolio development, and the commercialization of all the new products. Also, my team is responsible for, through the appropriate campaigns and promotions, all the awareness, demand generation and of user conversion to sales.
I also have responsibility for e-business, e-commerce, and digital marketing for biosciences and also for channel marketing. A lot of our go-to market varies. We leverage a lot different channels, from traditional feet on the ground from distribution partners, direct marketing all the ways of usually to e-commerce and digital channels. So part of my responsibility is managing those channels, the marketing for those channels. And lastly, I have responsibility also for regional marketing, where it's self-explanatory. In other words, we have regional marketing teams across the globe where they take the global programs and are regionalizing them, tailoring them to our customers by region. That, in a nutshell, is my responsibility.
I obviously not only worry about impacting our go-to market for strategy and successful commercialization, but also I have responsibility for growing and managing the marketing function itself. A lot of my responsibilities is bringing new talent, growing talent, and improving the marketing competency and the marketing effectiveness for the Biosciences Division.
Chris: Well, that's a lot. We will cover some of those, but certainly not all of those. Because you mentioned it right there, I'm curious when you say developing the talent, and growing the function itself. Tell me a little bit more about that, because I think that will be of interest to my marketing audience.
Hrissi: Absolutely. This is a big part of my focus, is to bring the marketing competency in what typically is in a traditional life science supplier type of company to the new era. And what I mean by that, to the era of the digital 24/7 interconnected type of customer we have to serve, to leverage the digital channels, to leverage content and data. A lot of data, data in terms of the data our customers generate, but obviously the data about our customers.
I'm a firm believer that our customer base is changing faster than we do as marketers in life science. What I mean by that is we have a new generation of customers entering the marketplace by the thousands. If we want to call them millennials, that's fine, but it's a younger generation of customers that have a different way of, in essence, finding information about a product, finding the product, making a decision of which product they will pick, and making a decision of how we will purchase the product. The fundamentals around the customers' journey, the customers' needs from that perspective has changed tremendously. I think in life science the marketing function itself is pretty much, as I said earlier, evolving at a slower pace. So I find it my responsibility to get my marketing team modernized or evolved in a similar pace as our customers need.
With that said, I'm working on this two-fold. One is I'm trying to cross-pollinate what used to be the traditional marketers and product management in life sciences with marketing experiences from and marketing best practices from the consumer industry, and I do that by hiring…we're trying to hire people with experience from the consumer industry. That's one. Number two, obviously, I'm leveraging whatever tool I can from training all the way to sending my marketing people into conferences, training courses, etc. to give them exposure into this new customer base that I'm talking about, and to new tools that we need to employ from the consumer marketing and beyond, from the consumer industry and beyond, to address our customers in today's marketplace.
Chris: Honestly, one, thank you. That's a fantastic answer. And that's a question I've asked some other people, and I've got some various responses on it. I asked a recruiter recently on this podcast about recruiting from outside the industry, and they didn't see that happening so much because they thought…and I used to work at Thermo. In the group I worked in, it was thought to be essential to get people with a technical background. And I've asked a recruiter recently who thought that that was true, but I've also talked to other people on this podcast who recognize the same thing you do in that the tech industry and other consumer marketers have skills and awareness of strategies and tactics that the life sciences are lagging in.
I just think it's a smart answer, and there are things to be learned from other industries. It's great that you're sending your team to conferences to learn. If we had to pick one thing, one focus in the digital area that you're really excited about, what would it be?
Hrissi: Dynamic content, content in general, leveraging content, as I said earlier, to engage the customer across the customer experience journey. We develop a lot of content naturally. We are technology driven organizations, but we don't develop it with the digital vehicle, the digital media in mind. And even when we do, we don't leverage it to the maximum. I'm focusing a lot on improving content marketing capabilities in the team.
Chris: Nice. I think that's a great idea as well. Jay Baer, I don't know if you're familiar with him, he's not in our industry, but he thinks the same way in that he says, "If you create a video, for example, then you have audio and you can make text. But you can't make a video out of text and audio." And pretty pictures even.
Hrissi: Exactly.
Chris: Yeah, it's a different way of thinking about doing things. I want to shift gears a little bit, and talk about the global picture. Recently, I went to the genome meeting in San Diego, and I talked to a couple people with respect to the ACP-LS and what they want to know, or what would be helpful to them. So China and Latin America came up, so let's first talk about China and then I'll ask you about Latin America. Tell me what you think about China as an opportunity because obviously, companies need to go there to grow. But also, there must be a challenge because they're growing and competing as well, I imagine.
Hrissi: China represents a tremendous opportunity, which we are scratching the surface or the tip of the iceberg, if you will. I think most of us, that we play there. Personally, I think that the biggest challenge… Before I say that, before I go into challenges, also, obviously, working for a large corporation like Thermo Fisher Scientific, and without going into confidential information, we have ongoing investment in China, and we've tried different models, as other multinationals.
The key to China is, obviously, a couple of things here. Not to underestimate the local competition, and I think a lot of multinationals going into China have done that, they literally grow the local competition. I will not go into cultural differences. I think this is a given. For every time we go, particularly Western Europe or North American based companies they will always need to be culturally sensitive when they get out. With that said, I don't know if you are familiar with the concept of…I think the term is reverse engineering, but in essence…I think GE pioneered it first where, in other words, instead of trying to push products that they developed in North America into China, I think companies like ours should focus the other way. In other words, start from China. Develop products potentially for China in China. If applicable, commercialize them the other way out into the rest of the world. I think that will be more of a winning proposition versus the traditional way, again, trying to force products and solutions that are tailored for North America to be successful in China.
That's how, personally, I'm thinking about China. So we are investing a lot of time and effort, obviously, staying close to the field in the country with respect to voice of the customer and cultural differences and sensitivities, as I mentioned earlier. But I don't think the game will be won by pushing from outside in. The reverse, in my mind, will be the winning proposition.
Chris: That's fascinating. So the thing that strikes me when you say that is what about the requirements for infrastructure development? Is that a big part of it, if you're going to go over there and say we need to develop these products locally?
Hrissi: Yeah, I think the country has…there is tremendous improvements that have been happening the last few years from that perspective. I don't think in China infrastructure is much of an issue, as it is in other countries like India.
Chris: Right. And what I meant by infrastructure is really like factories themselves. So you could go over there, perhaps, and find businesses that are doing similar things and cooperate with them in whatever way, whether you acquire them or partner with them to develop the things that you think the market in China needs.
Hrissi: I think so. Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I thought you meant literally infrastructure.
Chris: Like roads and so on?, No.
Hrissi: Yeah, infrastructure like supply chain and distribution, etc. That's exactly what I was referring to. In other words, in a way go on board the concept of China for China that they have been pushing, and develop the capabilities there.
Chris: I like that. So something you said there…well, that whole idea of developing things locally. So this is exactly what a person from a North American company who works in Latin America said to me. I said, "What would you like to know if you were going to go to the ACP-LS meeting? What kinds of things would you like to learn about?" And he said, "I want to understand how US companies think about doing business in Latin America, because…" he didn't say it exactly the same way that you did, but it was very similar to: the products and the marketing are all developed in North America and then it's pushed down there. And he said, "I don't think they realize the difference in the realities down here." So is Latin America different than China? Would you do the same thing?
Hrissi: That's a good question. I think high-level the approach can be similar, but there are fundamental issues between the cultures and also…let's call it the local infrastructure in this case. I think…I'm trying to be careful here with my answers so that I don't cause trouble from the perspective of confidentiality. But the focus is still more on China. The uncertainty that comes from the Latin American market recently put them on a second priority, if you wish. But if we forget that, still I think…and I'm looking at the experiences that we had in Latin America, the fundamentals of the approach is similar. In other words, the products, the promotions, the solutions, the go-to market need to be totally tailored to that particular culture. And when I say "culture" in Latin America, I put more emphasis…the Latin American cultures are much stronger. And I don't know how to explain that, but the messaging, everything needs to be tailored, if not developed from within, from the local teams in Latin America.
Also, I wouldn't say everything, but we also had done certain investments for local manufacturing there. As simple as that, you cannot compete for various reasons, by bringing certain products from the outside into the Latin American market. Also, what makes Latin America more difficult from my perspective is obviously rules and regulations even for importation and customs, they vary from country to country, which makes the whole continent even more difficult to play compared, let's say, to China.
Chris: So a market…I don't know it they are exactly the same size, but in China, whatever the size is, one way to do things; in Latin America, 10 ways to do things.
Hrissi: Ten ways to do things. Exactly.
Chris: That's fascinating. So are there other…now I'm just going more general. Are there other changes or opportunities you see in the life science business?
Hrissi: I think, honestly, the opportunities in my mind are not going to come from pushing the technology barriers and improving sensitivity of assay X by a little bit more, or reproducibility and resolution by Y and Z. We can go on and talk about technological advancements in the context of life science like CRISPR for genome editing and single cell analysis. Yeah, technologically we're driving towards being able to do assays at the single cell level. I think we will get there.
I think the big change that is happening…I will tie it back to the introductory discussion of ours. It's about the customer. I think the customer is changing. It's becoming more and more of a typical consumer. When I say that, I'm referring to the customer on the bench, but also the procurement agent or the lab manager. If you look at them, they are adopting more and more processes and habits from the rest of the consumer industry. I remember having similar discussions or going to different conferences around these topics and talk with other marketers. The notion of our customer being a consumer was like, "No way." They are scientists, they are thinking differently, their money doesn't come from their pockets. I think all this is gone. The landscape is changing dramatically. So the games will be won on how we treat these customers of ours as consumers that have personal needs, that they have career needs, that they have family needs, and they have preferences in terms of, again, how they find information versus how they pay, and so on and so forth.
Let me add one more thing. Going back to technology versus experience, I want to add one more thing — convenience. I think focusing on improving the convenience factor when it comes to how our customers engage with our products, and also improving their productivity, I think this is where, as I said earlier, the games will be won in the marketplace. This is where marketers and organizations will be able to make the difference for our customers moving forward, versus incremental, technological advancements.
Chris: I wrote a blog post around that yesterday, and it wasn't on the technological improvements. It was actually around products that are already commoditized, like simple reagents. But it sounds like you would say that even at the high-end, many products are becoming commoditized to a degree, and it's the experience around those things that makes the difference.
Hrissi: I think you summed it up pretty well. I think, yes, history has proven that technological innovation is…it's a matter of time, to be copied or become more of a mainstream if not commoditized. And then where we can make the difference is in all these other aspects of the customer experience.
Chris: And how you make them available. I was talking to David Salmon who used to work for Roche Molecular and he's moved on to Abbott. But he said a customer doesn't look for information about products on Facebook and buy things on Amazon one way, and then go into the lab and think about buying something in a completely different way.
Hrissi: Exactly.
Chris: And you just think about all the ways that our consumer…how much time we spend in those consumer interactions that are really the thing that are training our brains how we want to do things, and the life sciences should have to catch up to that and recognize that.
Hrissi: Exactly.
Chris: Well, Hrissi, this has been a fantastic interview. I learned a lot. We've covered a lot of things. I'm really looking forward to hearing whatever you choose to talk about at the ACLS meetings in November. I just want to thank you again for taking the time to give us all this great insight.
Hrissi: My pleasure, and thanks for the opportunity.


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A set of studies was designed to understand flicker detection, and the role of flicker on comfort and acceptability of a system.
Flicker study 1:
Subjects were shown a variety of lighting conditions in a controlled office-like environment. Conditions included frequency (50, 60, 100, 120 and 300 Hz), modulation depth (100% and 33% flicker), duty cycle (50% and 10%), waveform shape (rectangular and sinusoidal) and CCT (2700 K and 4000 K). Subjects were asked to perform a variety of tasks such as moving their hands, or a white wand, under the LED fixture apparatus or moving their eyes back and forth between two points on the far wall.
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The studies showed that flicker is directly visible at 60 Hz and lower, as has been shown by previous research. Flicker visible at 60 Hz and lower was rated as unacceptable. It was seen that at frequencies of 100 Hz or higher (with 50% duty cycles and 100% modulation depth), flicker was not visible and was rated as acceptable. At 300 Hz, subjects were able to perceive flicker stroboscopically, for instance when waving a hand under the LED light fixture apparatus.
Duty cycle and waveform shape were not seen to have an affect on flicker detection, however changes in modulation depth had an affect on perception of stroboscopic flicker in some cases.
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Using the same apparatus as the first experiment, subjects were shown a variety of flicker combinations including frequency (100, 300, 1000, 3000 and 10,000 Hz) and modulation depth (100%, 54%, 25% or 5% flicker), and asked to perform a variety of tasks such as moving their hands, or a white wand, under the LED fixture apparatus.
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The results can be seen plotted here:
(from Bullough et al. "Detection and acceptability of stroboscopic effects from flicker")
The graphs here suggest that both frequency and the amount of modulation of the flicker affect perception of indirect flicker (stroboscopic effects), and these variable interact. Those interested in creating systems that have no flicker or acceptable flicker, may benefit from trying out combinations of frequency and modulation based on the results shown here.
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Bullough, J. D., N. P. Skinner and K. Sweater Hickcox. 2012. Visual performance and perceived lighting quality under flickering illumination. Light Sources 2012: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Lighting, June 24-29, 2012, Troy, New York, pp. 375–376. Sheffield, UK: Foundation for the Advancement of the Science and Technology of Light Sources.
Bullough, JD PhD, K Sweater Hickcox, TR Klein M and Narendran N PhD. Effects of flicker characteristics from solid-state lighting on detection, acceptability and comfort. Sept 2011, Lighting Research and Technology Journal Vol 43, pg337-348
Bullough, J. D., K. Sweater Hickcox, T. R. Klein, A. Lok and N. Narendran. 2012. Detection and acceptability of stroboscopic effects from flicker. Lighting Research and Technology 44(4): 477-483.
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VIENTIANE, Laos—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to press China to do more to address North Korea's recent nuclear test and try to calm increasing tensions stemming from maritime disputes in the South China Sea.
Mr. Kerry, who arrived here Sunday, will travel to China late Tuesday for meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other senior officials, the State Department said.


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Here at The Green Yogi we pride ourselves in the talent each one of our team members brings to our yoga studio. We have inquiries all the time asking about teaching positions but it is paramount to us to have teachers that fit our vibe and will create sweat AND bliss filled classes for our yogis every.single.class.
Which is why I'm thrilled to introduce (and take their classes) Ryan James Batiste and Dani Robinson.
If you look at the name Ryan James Batiste close enough you will actually see the word 'Namaste.' Ryan is a natural born yogi, and genuinely embodies what he teaches. Basically…we all want to be around him to soak up his good yogi energy! Ryan discovered yoga at the age of 6 when his father brought him to a Bryan Kest power yoga class in Santa Monica. He was immediately drawn to the endless physical and mental benefits of the practice. After struggling with substance abuse throughout his teen years, Ryan turned to yoga to heal his body and mind through a daily practice of meditation and asana.
The lovely Dani has a whole lot of soul, and an equal amount of East Coast sass. She recently moved to Los Angeles from Chicago, right off the heels of her 500-hour teacher training in Bali (with the beautiful and beloved Julie Rader!). Now Dani is thrilled to share her love of creative Power Vinyasa with our beloved West Coast Yogis.
Yoga helped Dani overcome anxiety, doubt, and injuries to her body and heart, and enabled her to find true love and joy within herself. Dani believes deeply that yoga's healing power can benefit anyone, regardless of age, background or circumstances. Inspired to live Karma Yoga, Dani co-founded a nonprofit effort called Yogis Can Help, which provides cancer patients with supplies and much needed yoga. After a successful trip to Haiti in January 2013, She is returning this November to continue the work they started. Dani is passionate about spreading the healing benefits of Yoga to those who are underserved.
Dani also writes for the Travel Yogi, MindBodyGreen, Spirituality & Health Magazine and is a proud ambassador for YogaEarth and Natural Fitness.
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Discover the cosmos!Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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Explanation: As seen from Frösön island in northern Sweden the Sun did set a day after the summer solstice. From that location below the arctic circle it settled slowly behind the northern horizon. During the sunset's final minute, this remarkable sequence of 7 images follows the distorted edge of the solar disk as it just disappears against a distant tree line, capturing both a green and blue flash. Not a myth even in a land of runes, the colorful but ellusive glints are caused by atmospheric refraction enhanced by long, low, sight lines and strong atmospheric temperature gradients.


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Everybody who owns a car automatically needs insurance. Otherwise, the vehicle will not be registered by the DMV. Needless to say, you will have to purchase coverage for as long as you drive your vehicle. Not only it is required, it can give you peace of mind while driving, because truth be told, no matter how carefully you drive, you also never know when an accident might occur. An insurance policy is an investment for the future, something that you pray will never need but also something that will secure you and keep the worries away.
The first step in buying your policy is to compare insurance quotes. It is true that doing this step can become time consuming but it is necessary, nonetheless. You will realize later on the when you compare insurance quotes you actually save time and money in the long run.
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It's probably not a coincidence that spring is a popular time to deep clean your house and also a great time to list it for sale. Any good agent will tell you that cleaner houses always sell faster and for higher prices, so taking some time to really make your home sparkle is almost always worth the extra effort.
Of course, clean is also a very relative term. What some people see as clean, others just won't be satisfied with. And when you are expecting to welcome a steady stream of potential buyers into your home, you definitely want to make sure that you have all of your bases covered.
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The Windows: Both Inside and Outside
One of the most important things that you can do to really help your home shine is clean the windows.
And it's not enough to simply wipe them off from the inside. Getting the outsides clean too will more than double the positive impact this job will have on the way your home looks.
Having crystal clear windows has two specific benefits. First, clean windows will let in more natural light, brightening your entire home. As if that wasn't enough, clean windows will also invite perspective buyers to appreciate whatever views you might have.
Inside the Kitchen Cabinets
Everyone who plans on listing their home knows that they need to clean the kitchen countertops and scrub the floors. But not everyone realizes that home buyers will want to see what the insides of your kitchen cabinets look like.
Would looking inside your cabinets cast your home in a positive light? What about that junk drawer in the kitchen?
Drapes & Light Fixtures
Another commonly overlooked area that could probably use some cleaning is your drapes and light fixtures. Dusting them off is a good place to start, but why stop there?
Take those light fixtures down and wash them out, and when was the last time that you actually washed the drapes? You'll be shocked at the difference clean light fixtures and freshly washed drapes will make in the way your home presents itself.
The Office Area
You know that one spot where all the bills tend to pile up while you are putting off sitting down to pay them? That's another place that lots of sellers forget to take care of during their spring cleaning.
In addition to being neat and tidy, your home office area needs to look functional. Make sure that anyone who walks through your home will be able to see themselves working productively there.
The Overstuffed Linen Closet
The linen closet upstairs (the one that has never really been big enough) is another place that can really turn off potential buyers. In order to make it look more roomy, take as much of your stuff out of it as possible and put it in storage until your home sells!
You should also make sure that everything in the bathroom medicine cabinet is neat and tidy.
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While most spring cleaning efforts are focused on the inside of the house, you definitely don't want to overlook the outside of your home.
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While you're at it, you might also want to get out the ladder and give those gutters some attention.
One of the best practices to make sure that your spring cleaning efforts are successful is to simply start over every time you think that you are finished. There is literally no end to the amount of cleaning you can do, and every single bit of that effort will help to sell your house faster for a higher price.


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Home based business or Work From Home Job – Which is Best?
Most mums ask themselves whether they can and perhaps should work at home. These questions arise with a need to be more present for their family, to raise their young kids at home, to do school pick-ups and drop-offs… and to make an income!
First, I need to explain something. Work from home opportunities come in two different types: the home based job and the home based businesses. With a work from home job, you still work for somebody else. Your employer is allowing you to work from home (telecommute), but you're still being remunerated for the time you put in and the work you're hired to do. With a home based business, you are your own boss, you choose your work, and you get paid profits for the sales or services you generate. With your own business, you don't get rewarded for the hours you put in, you get rewarded for results, and that implies that if you can generate great results, regardless of the number of hours you worked, you can make an unlimited income.
So which is best for work at home mums? A home based business or work at home job?
There are several things to consider when choosing a work at home opportunity, between a job and a business. Moreover, within the home business category, you have various options: you can start your very own business from a skill you have or a product you manufacture or make yourself. For example you can do personal assistant work, data entry or typing, craft, cooking, teaching, personal training, coaching, graphic or interior design, writing, clothing and fashion, and the list continues on and on. Alternatively, you could start a work from home business opportunity within an existing company, where the company usually provides you with all the products, the systems in place and the support and training you need to set up your home business.
A home based business or work from home job, which will be best FOR YOU?
If you're undecided whether you should seek a work at home job or home business, firstly you need to consider your personality. If you're a person who prefers to report back to someone else, who doesn't like decision-making or being independent, who needs to be provided with a structure with deadlines, agendas, and a definite description of your role, your responsibilities and the activities that you need to do to get compensated, then a work at home job might be for you. In contrast, if you are somebody who's more self-directed, who likes to call the shots, who's self-driven and self-reliant, someone who wants to control how much they get paid and has a lot of determination and tenacity, then you definitely can succeed as a work at home mum with a suitable home-based business opportunity.
An added really important criteria is the cost to work from home. If you happen to choose to choose a job, you will need some money to set up your own home office, and some of your expenditures may even be paid by your employer. Starting a work from home business usually is more costly. Depending on the business opportunity, you might have initial costs associated with a membership, using business tools or systems, purchasing or manufacturing products, education, and marketing your business. Remember that in both cases, you can actually get tax deductions. And let me give a word of caution: if you do find a work at home opportunity that promises a huge income with no start-up costs, then you should start hearing alarm bells because it's probably not a genuine business opportunity.
Working from home can be so rewarding for mums. You are able to do activities during the week with your little ones, take them to playgroup, the park, after school activities, catch up with friends, give them flexibility around their sleep habit and also just enjoy being at home. It is on the other hand a juggling act, just like it would be if you worked in a company setting since you would still have to juggle everything between work, daycare or school pick-ups, groceries, etc. It just means that you can run the schedule that will be just right for you and you'll be more flexible around looking after your loved ones and doing your work. But for work at home mums to succeed, it demands discipline and organisation.
I hope this helps clarify your options to work from home with a home-based business or telecommuting job, and whether this can be for you. Being a work at home mum myself, my online business gave me the opportunity to bring up my 2 young kids at home, to build my business part time around them, to become my very own boss, and to make an unlimited income. I wish you all the success in working from home, to find a business or work at home job that you can be passionate about, and in achieving the great income and family lifestyle that you desire!
Justine Simard is an online business and network marketing coach. This article was originally published 2011 and has been updated for re publication.


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"New Years is an opportunity to collectively step outside the rush of everyday life for a couple days and recenter. This year, these moments have been an opportunity to inhale deeply and find a measure of tranquility. To recognize tranquility as an important counterbalance to the urgency of our disturbing political and cultural moment. Like twin planets that keep each other in orbit through mutual gravity."
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I went to Mexico City in search of this psychedelic sound, manifest in any way possible. The problem with the record shops was that they were full of American imports, things I could easily buy in 10 different record stores in Chicago. Finally, seeing my relative disinterest, the owner asked what I was actually looking for. "Things I can't buy in the States. Especially psychedelic cumbia, stuff like that." He immediately named two shops I needed to check out. I never did get to either of those shops, but looking them up online (especially Dedos Sucios) it was clear that what I was looking for did exist. I'll be back...
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"This month I hit a major wall in my life as a grassroots political organizer. Back when I was leading meetings of our neighborhood Indivisible group, I got in the habit of encouraging everyone to find some time in their week to do something joyful that has nothing to do with politics. I guess that's what I've been trying to do this month. This music has been a major part of that recharging."
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"Seeing basically every woman I'm friends with on Facebook write "#metoo" (and sometimes much more detail) really breaks my heart. And, even though I feel generally confident that I'm on the positive end of the spectrum of male behavior, hearing so many stories has me revising my take on some things in my past and thinking deeply about the way I move through the world, connecting some dots that needed connecting. My personal take-away: Keep learning, keep listening, keep striving to be better."
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"Hiss Golden Messenger's M.C. Taylor introduced his song "When the Wall Comes Down" by commenting on how ridiculous the idea of a wall with Mexico is. Although his music is never explicitly political, it's clearly on his mind. His descriptions from the road of seeing Trump signs disappear in towns that were littered with them prior to last year's election has been one small spot of hope for me this year."
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"Working on putting this playlist together, it started to feel like there was a secret theme - music that sounds like it's from Africa, but isn't."
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"Everything Ishmael Butler has a hand in sounds amazing, and the two new albums from Shabazz Palaces are no exception. I've said it before, but this music is leading the vanguard of hip-hop, pushing the outer edges of what it can be. This group has perfected the formula for blending spaced-out experimentalism with street attitude. Yup, this is rap music, but, damn, it's got very little to do with, say, Gucci Mane, or even Kendrick."
Featuring: Dizzee Rascal, fIREHOSE, Colin Stetson, The Damned, and more.
"My god, this is the kind of music we need right now, especially in the country music world. I know there are so so many people who identify with this sound, who maybe speak with a twang and drive a pick-up truck, but who are compassionate, intelligent, progressive. I'm so grateful to Isbell for giving them a voice."
Featuring: Jason Isbell, Kevin Abstract, Amara Touré, Sex Bob-Omb, and more.
"Between the political echo between Nixon and Trump and the revival of '60's soul sound (courtesy of Daptone Records and similar units), it was actually hard to suss if this song was contemporary or from the '60's. It's about Nixon, but, damn could it just as easily be about the current crook in chief."
Featuring: Algiers, Yazz Ahmed, Soundgarden, the Honey Drippers, and more.
Faux Sounds is psyched to partner with the Harris Theater's MIX at SIX! Enjoy the playlist and the great performance tonight by Chicago Academy for the Arts.
Like the music here? I encourage you to dig into Faux Sounds for many, many playlists full of great music.
"Kevin Morby's song is a rambling bramble of Dylanesque musings, with plenty of trenchant contemporary references:
'If you ever hear that sound now
If the door gets kicked in here, they come now
Think of others, be their cover
I am what they're not' "
Featuring: Hurray for the Riff Raff, jaimie branch, Big Boi, Feist, and more.
"Ken knew a lot about a lot of stuff. He was a self-educated cantankerous iconoclast in a classic mold. He could be a pain in the ass, I'm sure. The main event for me, though, was getting to back him on guitar while he spun old-timey American gold on his banjo. Ken was one of my all time favorite musicians to play with. I can't say exactly why. It was just always fun."
Featuring: Tamikrest, Wheelchair Sports Camp, alt-J, Gorillaz, and more.
"I love it when great rappers get political, socially conscious, whatever you want to call it. Especially when they continue to sound like they're doing the same old rap braggadocio. Nope. This is a song about black power. Period. And Staples doesn't pull any punches."
Featuring: Vince Staples, Jesca Hoop, Oddisee, Las Cafeteras, and more.
"This month has been all about resisting apocalyptic notions - adjusting to the new political reality, the new social reality, the new personal reality. Hell, this month has been just about resisting, period."
Featuring: Elza Soares, Laura Marling, Idriss Ackamoor, Killer Mike, and more.
"We went to Cuba for six days this month, the first time I've been out of the country for at least 15 years. As usual, searching for vinyl was a central activity. Like most things in Havana, this isn't as simple as it is here in the States."
Featuring: Benny Moré, Run the Jewels, Psalm One, Benny Thomasson, and more.
"I just don't recognize my reality, my America, in all this crap. I know that my life, and the lives of so many people I know, has nothing to do with these cartoonish characterizations. So, to battle this maddening reductionism, I want to state for the record who this real American is."
Featuring: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, A Tribe Called Quest, Laura Marling, Run the Jewels, and more.
"It's interesting to compare the parallel careers of Solange and her sister, who both released albums in 2016 that are largely about black pride and the empowerment of black women. With her lower pop-profile, Solange seems to be able to come at it from a sharper angle - the lyrics more plainly and assertively hew to the theme, and the music is more stripped down, much further out from the center of pop radio accessibility. Delightfully, the album still hit number 1 on the charts."
Featuring: Deerhoof, Kate Tempest, Danny Brown, EL VY, and more.
"Margaret Glaspy could hang with the gutsiest belters around, but chooses not to - which makes her even more magnetic. Like just a small handful of concerts in my life, I left the Green Mill that night feeling sure that I'd witnessed the earliest days of a major artist, one likely not to play such a small venue the next time around, or ever again."
Featuring: Swet Shop Boys, Arvo Pärt, Kevin Morby, Jody Stecher, and more.
"One day at work my co-worker Sammi asked me if I ever listened to Ought. "Are they a punk band?," I asked, likely with barely disguised disgust. "Ah, yeah, I guess so," Sammi replied. "Oh, I don't like 'punk' music," I declared, using actual air quotes, and walked away. What. The. Hell?"
Featuring: Mbongwana Star, Juan Gabriel, Twenty One Pilots, The Avett Brothers, and more.
"I found myself being incredibly moved by RP Boo's set at Pitchfork. It was getting a glimpse into a genuine Chicago, an organic and utterly unique expression of culture from a part of the world that is reliably portrayed in the negative. It felt like a clear and forceful refutation of the idea that all Chicago's south and west sides have to offer the world is violence and poverty."
Featuring: Xenia Rubinos, The Frightnrs, PWR BTTM, William Bell, and more.
"One of the surprising things I've learned is how much more moving I find dance performances than classical music. Spurred by that experience, I've been trying to develop my classical music knowledge a little. As I suspected, knowing something about the historical/musicological context and technical skeleton of the music really helps."
Featuring: Margaret Glaspy, Vince Staples, Christian Scott, Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band, and more.
"This month was my 40th birthday. Leading up to my birthday, my friend Robb jokingly told me I was 'halfway to 80.' I think it was partly meant as a needle, but it has actually served as a pretty great way to put everything in perspective. "
Featuring: Har Mar Superstar, ANOHNI, Bee Gees, White Denim, and more.
"The greatest perk of my job at the Harris Theater is the opportunity to see some incredible dance. It seems pretty clear to me when a choreographer cares about the music - and it can just wreck a dance for me when either the music is terrible or it just doesn't seem to have anything to do with the dance."
Featuring: Anna Wise, Rachmaninoff, Billy Paul, Big Black Delta, and more.
"It's not like the world needed more evidence of Bowie's artistic courage and genius, but holy shit what a swan song."
Featuring: Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Anderson Paak, Gustav Mahler, Yuck, and more.
Regardless of your conclusion about what gates have or haven't been knocked down, or what technological/political changes in the music industry have taken place to create opportunities for women in music - women around the world are clearly making some of the most exciting, diverse, confident contemporary music.
Featuring: The Coathangers, Tune-yards, Sisyphus, Quilt, and more.
Even though it was kind of like eating candy for me, I felt slightly guilty about the retro focus of last month's playlist, with its severe dearth of new music. This month I renewed my commitment to finding new music, and also devoted energy to researching some new sources, a few of which I'll mention below. Looking at this mix now, I wonder if I've swung too far in the other direction - but that anxiety is assuaged by what I think is a pretty tight, well-paced mix.
Featuring: Xenia Rubinos, Sharon Van Etten, Black Milk, John Lurie, and more.
A good cover honors the original and puts a new spin on it. A great cover can make you completely reevaluate an original (no matter how mediocre) by seizing the kernel of genius within and spinning it into something barely recognizable.
Featuring: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Moondog, Neneh Cherry, Tinariwen, and more.
When trying to fulfill a New Year's resolution, it helps mightily if you've chosen to nudge yourself in the direction of something pleasurable, rather than trying to force yourself on an odious task. With one of my two musical resolutions in mind, I've been spending some time checking out Bandcamp as a resource for new music, and it's been pretty rewarding, turning me on to this incredible collection and more.
Featuring: Asaf Avidan, El Rego, Martin Carthy, Sharon Jones, and more.
Gabe and I completed our Tennessee Tour 2013 this month with a few days in Memphis, a city whose musical culture, both past and present, is a gift that keeps on giving.
Featuring: Amy Lavere, Quadron, Wiley, Ry Cooder, and more.
For me, this month essentially began and ended with Ry Cooder. I've fallen in love with albums of his before, especially the stellar I, Flathead, but the enormity of his genius, the sheer amount of time he's been making great music, escaped me until I started sifting through his catalogue (which goes back to 1970) this month.
Featuring: Cate le Bon, Arcade Fire, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and more.
Last week I had the privilege of visiting my friend Johnny Suh's music appreciation class at Linblom High School and playing some music for them. The opportunity to blather on about music for 45 minutes to a group of people who have to listen and can't leave the room is a dream come true for me.
Featuring: Tanya Morgan, U2, Linda Thompson, Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest, and more.
A couple weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of DJing a birthday party at an outdoor pool in Jupiter, FL for my friend Griffin, who turned four.
Featuring: Johnny Otis, Nirvana, STRFKR, NRBQ, and more.
I used to rely on the library heavily for new music, checking out CDs regularly from the public library and hitting the music section of my college library hard for four solid years. Without thinking about it too much, that habit tapered off into nothing long ago. A few weeks ago, though, I found myself killing some time in the music section of the Harold Washington Library downtown, and wandered into the world music CD section.
Featuring: Lucius, Cam'ron, Moderat, Eleanor Friedberger, and more.
The Pitchfork festival was this month, and was my second year of going - but only for one day this time. It was especially fun because I got to take Gabe to her first outdoor music festival. There are more details about what we saw below, but I walked away with a general impression - younger artists need to step it up.
Featuring: Kobo Town, Mikal Cronin, Bjork, Tyler Ramsey, and more.
This, well... This is what happens when you're messing around on Spotify searching for "Bosnian." It's stuff like this that makes me really love Spotify.
Featuring: Percy Mayfield, Alpine, Queens of the Stone Age, and more.
I've never been a big fan of Vampire Weekend, although it always seemed to me like I should. But I love this new record.
Featuring: Death, Huey Lewis and the News, K-Os, Rick James, and more.
I've been interested in the incredibly diverse and all-around badass music coming from Mali for probably about 15 years. Probably about 60 seconds into hearing Bombino's new album Nomad I thought to myself, "This is the next evolutionary step of Touareg music."
Featuring: Bombino, Blood Orange, Bassekou Kouyate, Bronski Beat, and more.
Thank god for the Carter Family. There's something so elemental, so foundational about their sound. Even though I grew up with their songs, and experience the same kind of spiritual relief when hear them as when I hear my mom sing, there's still so much of their music I've never heard.
Regions of Light and Sound is this month's obsession for me. Like most music obsessions of mine, it is like a teacher whose lessons seem bottomless. The more I listen to it, the more I learn.
Featuring: Jim James, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, Gramma's Boyfriend, and more
Is really seems like more and more contemporary musicians are shrugging off the tyranny of linear time, figuring out how to embody older musical ideas while maintaining a completely up-to-date feel.
Featuring: Joe Barry, The Amazing, Chavela Vargas, Tame Impala, and more.
Lots of sentimentality in this month's mix, which I guess is fitting for the holidays. And romance, which is also fitting for a month which hosted a very romantic trip to New York City, and New Years Eve - which is my personal favorite holiday.
Featuring: Ella Fitzgerald, Nico, Frank Ocean, Radiation City, and more.
Every once in a while I get obsessed with just one song, and listen to it over and over again - which I'm sure, if you are someone who spends a lot of time in my company (like, say, a really patient girlfriend), can become insufferable.
Featuring: John Fahey, Macklemore, Cody Chesnutt, Solange, and more.
This month's mix reflects, in large part, a major event in my life - falling in love.
Featuring: Calexico, Flying Lotus, alt-J, Fruitbats, and more.


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Who Represents You?
Posted September 21, 2010
Every three or four years, Nova Scotians elect a provincial government. Elected members from the leading party form a cabinet which manages our health care, education, support for disadvantaged members of our communities, care for the environment, worker safety and training, economic development and many other functions. In fulfilling these responsibilities, our provincial government spends about $9 billion a year, or $1 million per hour.
Politicians do not tend to be held in high esteem at the best of times, and the recent disclosures of inappropriate spending by MLA's have further hurt the image. The new NDP government looks more like its predecessors than was hoped or expected, so the whole political class is under a cloud. Two MLA`s have already resigned and been replaced.
The key political roles are premier, opposition leaders, and cabinet members. They represent between a quarter and a half of the elected members. To fulfill these roles properly requires sound judgment, skill in policy development, and strength in both written and verbal communications. These are in addition to the empathy and endurance that are required to be a successful constituency politician. In fact it is good constituency level skills that get people elected, but these skills are not necessarily those needed by leaders and cabinet members.Download the paper
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Colonial Day at Middletown Presbyterian
Experience life as an 18th century settler in Middletown. Learn about everyday life from colonial actors. Listen to Colonial music, play colonial games, make candles, crafts and enjoy some tavern fare.
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My Frustration with Google Page Rank
Why is everyone so stuck on Page Rank? Lindsay at Just My Blog and Lindsay Socializes asks this very question. I am asking the same thing. I have been turned down, insulted and told my blog isn't good enough to do reviews or paid posts and I am so extremely frustrated!
Google hasn't updated PR since April. I used to blog over at http://stacievaughansblog.blogspot.com on Blogger. In May, I decided to take my blog to the next level and switch to WordPress and my own domain, http://www.simplystacie.net. I hired a designer to move me over and knew that I would take a hit in Page Rank. My old blogspot blog had a PR of 3. I figured since Google updated every few months back then that I would be given a rank by the summer. I was ok with the wait and the drop to a PR of 0 and figured it would be worth it to have my own domain and be on WordPress which is more SEO friendly.
Boy was I wrong! I feel like I am being punished because I moved my site. It's November and Google still hasn't updated in over 6 months. In those 6 months, all my other blog stats have grown in leaps and bounds. I have close to 6000 Google Friend Connect Followers, my Alexa Rank is under 45K worldwide, we are at the top (or near the top) most days for the blog with the most comments on Comment Luv, my traffic is awesome and I have an interested and engaged readership (love you all!). Yet, I am still not good enough to some companies who ONLY look at Google PR.
Both my review team and I have received insulting emails from companies telling us that we aren't good enough to review their $20 product. The kicker was the email we received last week saying we weren't good enough to review their candle and must have done something pretty wrong for Google to strip us of PR! Huh? ALL WE DID WAS MOVE DOMAINS AND TO A NEW BLOGGING PLATFORM. I was so angry at this email and how rude this man was. Excuse me for trying to improve my business.
I know there's lots of us out there in the same boat. I just wish Google would either update or announce that it is doing away with PR altogether. I have been hearing rumors that they are not going to ever update and be done with PR and the more months that pass, the more I am believing that is the case. I guess we can't do anything but wait and see. I have tried to see where to contact Google, but it's a mess to try and find how to reach them.
If you have been affected by PR and have been treated rudely and unfairly by companies and PR professionals, I hope you will write a post on your blog and link up over atLindsay Socializes. I am glad that I could vent my frustration today and know that I am not the only blogger out there who feels like this.


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Chicago Prepress Shop First to Use Agfa's New Flexo Plate
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Press release from the issuing companyChicago, Ill (Labelexpo Americas, Booth #5729) – September 13, 2004 – Advanced Prepress Graphics (APG), a prepress facility located in Wood Dale, Illinois, that specializes in high-definition platemaking for flexo printers, has become the first user of Agfa's new AquaFLASHTM photopolymer plate, the fastest flexo plate available in the North American market today. By exposing AquaFLASH plates with a single point light source, APG's customers get the highest quality plates available. "Our customers enjoy the results they get with Agfa's AquaFLASH," said James Kadlec, owner, APG. "For us, digital processes were deemed to be cost prohibitive. Thankfully, the efficiencies and quality we get from AquaFLASH equals the results from more expensive digital systems." Customers also appreciate APG's high-definition exposure systems, which produce high-quality plates quickly and efficiently. "APG is a great example of a facility that has carefully examined what works best for its customers, and decided that, when all aspects are considered, digital processes are not yet up to the task," said Frances Cicogna, Agfa's packaging segment manager, North America. "With its more environmentally friendly water wash system and speed of platemaking, AquaFLASH is perfect for anyone looking to considerably improve their platemaking capabilities." APG – www.flexoprepress.com – is showing samples of its work at Labelexpo Americas.
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RICHMOND, Va. – The award-winning seasons of VCU senior Robyn Parks (Waldorf, Md.) and freshman Keira Robinson (Columbia, S.C.) picked up a little more bling Tuesday, as both players earned All-Atlantic 10 honors on the eve of the start of the conference championship.
Parks (pictured, right), the conference's leading scorer and rebounder, was named All-Atlantic 10 First Team and earned a spot on the league's All-Defensive Team. She is the first Ram to earn First Team honors since VCU joined the A-10 prior to the 2012-13 season.
She was joined on First Team by Dayton's Ally Malott and Andrea Hoover, Fordham's Erin Rooney, as well as Katie Healy of St. Bonaventure. Hoover was named A-10 Player of the Year.
A 6-foot forward, Parks is averaging 21.8 points and 9.3 rebounds and has compiled 12 double-doubles this season. On three occasions, she's reached the 30-point plateau. If she holds steady, Parks will become just the eighth woman to lead the A-10 in scoring in consecutive seasons. Parks was an All-Atlantic 10 Third Team pick a year ago after pouring in a league-best 18.7 points per game.
It's been a season of accolades and historic moments for Parks. She's pumped in 631 points this season, third-most in school history, to climb to sixth on VCU's all-time scoring list with 1,500. Parks also ranks eighth in program history in rebounds (692), 10th in steals (172), fourth in free throws (363), sixth in double-doubles (21) and second in games played (122).
Parks is the first Ram since Courtney Hurt in 2012 to earn a First Team All-Conference award and the first since Kita Waller in 2010 to nab an All-Defensive honor.
Meanwhile, Robinson has spearheaded one of the nation's top freshman classes. A speedy point guard, Robinson is averaging 11.6 points, 6.3 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game this season. Robinson ranks 16th nationally – and second among freshmen – in assists per game, and her 183 assists this season are third-most in school history.
Behind Parks and Robinson, VCU has staged the fifth-best turnaround in the country this season, adding 10 wins to its 2012-13 total. They'll lead eighth-seeded VCU (21-8, 9-7 A-10) into the A-10 Championship this week at the Richmond Coliseum. The Rams will open tournament play in Thursday's first round with crosstown rival Richmond at noon.