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It is surprising to us that many of the people we know have never heard of Acadia National Park. The park attracts thousands of people each year eager to explore the many scenic areas of the mountainous island on which the park resides. Although the park is a fair distance away (about 10 hours by car from Pennsylvania) we feel that it is well worth the drive.
In our area many people flock to the New Jersey shore to simply sit on the sand for hours on end, sometimes venturing into the murky waters of the Atlantic. We'll have none of that – we want a more active vacation: hiking the rocky trails that lead to amazing views; biking the carriage roads designed by John Rockefeller Jr himself; waking early to see the sunrise, staying up late to see the sunset, and staying up even later to see millions of stars in the night sky. This is the essence of a truly rewarding vacation for us.
The Island
Before I dig into the park attractions and activities, let's have a geography lesson. The island that Acadia NP mostly sits on is Mount Desert Island, first discovered by explorers in 1604. This island has many mountains, lakes (the smaller ones called ponds), and rocky granite cliffs and coastlines. Glaciers played a big part in the formation of these features. On this island sits the majority of Acadia National Park. The park actually extends to some other areas outside the main island, most notably Schoodic Peninsula to the north.
The main town on Mount Desert Island is Bar Harbor, which is where most of the shops, restaurants, and boat tours in the area are located. It is not necessary to stay in or near Bar Harbor to enjoy your trip. We rented a house about 6-7 miles from town, and although we did have to do a little more driving we had a beautiful view of Somes Sound as well as very peaceful surroundings. There are a handful of other towns scattered around the island, some with nice shops and restaurants (like Southwest Harbor), but also some that are mostly residential.
The Park
Now for the park … let's start at the beginning. This is the stretch of the Park Loop Road right after the ranger station. This area approximately 2 miles in length encompasses a number of destinations that can keep you busy for a couple of days. Consequently this is the area that attracts the most visitors, which can lead to crowds during the summer.
- Sand Beach
- The rocky coastline
- Thunder Hole
- Otter Cliffs
- The Beehive trail (challenging)
- Gorham Mountain trail (moderate)
- Great Head trail (moderate)
Tip: Avoid the busy summer period from the end of June through August.
Tip: Parking is typically allowed in the right-lane of the park loop road. Watch out for parked cars.
Sand Beach is a nice scenic little beach. It is not really a destination like the New Jersey shore – it is more of a respite from an otherwise busy and active visit to the park. You can stop by for a quick lunch, or stay for the day and sit in the sun or play in the water.
Tip: If you eat lunch on the beach watch out for the seagulls that like to swipe food right from your hand if you're not careful.
The rocky granite coastline between Sand Beach and Otter Cliffs is a lot of fun to walk along. You'll see boats in the water, people fishing, and seagulls catching and eating crabs right from the ocean.
Photo Tip: This is a great area for catching sunrise photos. The beautiful morning light on the coastline and Otter Cliffs make for beautiful photos. Remember – sunrise is very early in the summer – before 5 AM.
Thunder Hole is a geologic formation that shoots water up when waves crash in. It is fun to watch (around high tide only), and it draws lots of visitors to a very small area, so it probably has the highest density of visitors compared to its area.
We hiked all three trails listed above, and they are all worthwhile. The Beehive Trail is the most difficult, as it requires you to climb vertically on steel ladders at a number of places during the hike. It also has the biggest "payoff" – a beautiful view of Sand Beach from over 500 ft high. The hike down is much easier!
The Gorham Mountain trail is more moderate and a little longer, but it also has some great "payoff" views during the hike. The Great Head Trail is a fun trail that does not take you too high but gives you various scenic views along the coast, including a great view of Sand Beach and the Beehive.
Beyond the Sand Beach/Otter Cliffs area, the other main areas and attractions of Acadia NP, in no particular order, are:
- Jordan Pond, and the Jordan Pond House
- The Carriage Roads which weave throughout the park
- Cadillac Mountain
- Bar Harbor town
- The western side, including Echo Lake, Acadia Mountain, and the Bass Harbor Lighthouse
Jordan Pond is the central hub of activity in the interior of the park. The pond itself is very attractive, with trails around it and distinctive "bubbles" in the background (small mountain formations). You'll find the Jordan Pond House which has a very good restaurant, the feature item of which is the Popover. This is a tasty baked treat that is a staple of this restaurant. And finally there are many carriage roads that pass through this area and weave throughout the park (see below). This is a must-stop for any visitor.
Photo Tip: Late day or early morning light can make for fantastic photos here. Try to find different compositions with rocks and other features.
The carriage roads were designed to carry horse-drawn carriages around the park, but today the most common usage is bike riding. Walking and jogging are also common. There are many miles of carriage roads, so you have a lot to choose from. They also extend all the way to the visitor center at the northeastern tip of the park.
Tip: Be wary that the carriage roads can be quite hilly. Buy a $5 trail map at one of the park shops and pay attention to the topographical lines to determine the slopes.
Cadillac Mountain is the spot where you can be the very first to see the sunrise in the US. You get great views of the whole island and surrounding smaller islands, especially near Bar Harbor. In summer sunrise is around 4:50 AM, so be prepared to get up very early for this. Sunrise is also very popular, and the preferred area is the Blue Hill parking lot since that's on the west side of the mountain.
Tip: You may want to drop into Jordan Pond House after seeing the sunset, to have dinner or to simply have a tasty dessert, including the popovers.
When you want to get back to civilization, or just to have a sit-down meal, Bar Harbor is the place to go. Dozens of shops and restaurants fill the streets, and if you want you can even find the docks that serve fresh lobster dinners – and by fresh I mean straight off the lobster boat.
Tip: Spend an hour or so around low tide and walk across the sand bar at Bridge Street to Bar island. The walk to the peak of Bar Island yields a nice view of Bar Harbor and Cadillac Mountain.
There are also some attractions on the western side of the island, but not as much as the east side. We loved the Acadia Mountain hike, and many people swim in Echo Lake (on of the few lakes/ponds you are allowed to swim in). The Bass Harbor lighthouse is small but photogenic.
Final Tip: You are not limited to the lengthy one-way Park Loop Road when planning your driving routes. Study the map of the island and find alternative roads. The one we used most often is Otter Cliffs drive, which you can use to exit the Park Loop Road right at Otter Cliffs and make your way back to Bar Harbor or other areas.
I hope you can now see why we love Arcadia National Park. Please include this park in your future vacation plans.


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Ashlee feels a failure
Ashlee Simpson was one of the first to know about her sister Jessica's pregnancy and she was one of the first to congratulate her.
But while she's all smiles on the surface, Now can reveal she's wracked with jealousy underneath.
A source says: 'She thinks Jess has everything while she's struggling.'
Ashlee split with husband Pete Wentz in February 2011 after three years of marriage.
Meanwhile, Jessica's pregnant with her second child just seven months after the birth of her daughter Maxwell.
Our source adds: 'Ashlee's pleased about her sister's news, but she always thought she'd be the one happily married with kids and Jess's pregnancy has re-enforced her feelings of failure.'
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4th of April 2017, in Paris: Mon Intérieur Sur Mesure realized the rearrangement and the decoration of an apartment, in partnership with Les 3 Ouvriers de France. The kitchen, the bathroom, the living room and the bedroom are then the object of renovations. The aim being to have some light in the various spaces and a functional layout of the apartment. From now on the flat is restful and bright at the heart of the city.
This French start-up gathers hundred interior designers all over the country, but also abroad (Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg…). After its meeting with the customer, MISM sends him/her a report which he/she confirms before supplying him/her a complete, on-line portfolio, which details his/her whole project: plans, mood boards, sketches, 3D, shopping list etc…
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In case you haven't noticed our once rock hard economy (that was in my lifetime, wasn't it?) is still a little soft—make that downright squishy, so with the holidays now in full swing, many families are scratching their heads and wondering how they will possibly afford all those gifts that continue to multiply on their holiday shopping lists.
Fear not! I've been in touch with my "inner holiday" and have come up with a few frugal but thoughtful suggestions for the loved ones on your list.
Teacher Presents: Back in the day when I only had 5 kids in school, I went all out and gifted those marvelous human beings that take my children off my hands for 6 precious hours a day with extravagant tokens such as Whitman's Samplers and boxes of fine wine. With eight now in school, I'm afraid I'll have to cut back and either go for the two for $1 candy bar specials at Benny's (don't worry, I'll make sure my kids don't take a bite and re-wrap them like has happened in years past) or with cold and flu season upon us, bottles of Purell hand sanitizer wrapped in velvet gift bags might be a better bet.
Spouse Gifts: With all the rage that TLC's Extreme Couponing is causing these days you can't go wrong if you stuff your significant other's stocking with some extreme coupons of your own. Not sure what you could possibly offer in the way of a coupon? Keep it simple! "This Coupon entitles you to more time with me! In other words—if you would like to get me a cleaning service, a personal chef, a chauffeur, and a personal secretary, I can be at your beckon call—most of the time!"
BFF Picks: You hate to be chintzy when it comes to your best friend, right? This is a tough one because best friends are the heart and soul of our day-to-day lives, even if we don't see them on a regular basis. Guess what? If you're truly blessed to have even one special friend that makes you laugh, cry and is there for you no matter what the circumstance you can give that important person something priceless—let her/him know why you cherish the friendship—in writing. Whether you write it down on some festive snowflake stationery or on a simple crisp piece of white copy paper, just write from the heart—all the things you admire and treasure about your special friend. It may sound sappy, but a gift like this will be treasured for years and years to come.
Inlaw Specials: Oh my! What to give to your inlaws this holiday season—this can be a tough one. If you've already gifted your mother n law with unique finds such as a nighty with an iron-on photo of you and your spouse, peppermint scented bunion cream, or a reversible faux-cashmere scarf don't think for a second you're out of options. This year, you can pull out all the stops without spending a fortune—send them a singing holiday card! Head over to Hallmark and sample all the musical cards until you find the loudest and jolliest one of them all. If you think this might not be enough, you can grab one of those self recording cards and let the whole family send a sentimental holiday message. Tis the season! Fa la la la la……………….la la la la.
Something for the Boss: First of all, if you are lucky enough to be employed during these tough times, that in itself is reason enough to find an appropriate token for your boss! Whether or not you have any type of admiration or feelings of good will toward this person must be put aside during the holiday season. Let's see—home baked cookies or other treats are a tasty way to go, or my personal favorite—a lottery ticket. A friend of mine did this for one of the most critical bosses she's ever had and don't you know it was a winning ticket of $10,000! And in case you're wondering, yes, that very picky boss did share a piece of the pie, he gave her a gift certificate to The Home Depot because he knew the toilet in her master bathroom made a scary whistling sound every time she flushed. She ended up marrying him and as far as I know, they're not having any plumbing issues.
Can't Forget our Pets: Surely you know by now that your darling pooch or cuddly kitten care only about one thing—spending time with you! An extra long scratch of the belly (uh, that would be your dog's not your own) or cozying up on the couch in front of a roaring fire with your favorite feline will have them purring and dreaming of much more than a white Christmas.
It's so easy to get wrapped up with the craziness of the season, especially if the focus becomes on shopping and thinking we have to spend a lot of money to make it a magical day, but why should it have to come at such a high price? This year, make the most valuable gift you can give to your friends, family and neighbors the merriest one of all—the gift of yourself. It's the gift that keeps on giving and can surely make this "the most wonderful time of the year"—for you and for them!
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Effective Holiday Email Marketing in 2019: Examples, Tips, and Tools for Successful Campaigns
GET THE FULL HOLIDAY GUIDE Get ready to conquer retail's busiest time of year. Download the complete guide to selling during the holidays online.
Get ready to conquer retail's busiest time of year. Download the complete guide to selling during the holidays online.
CyberWeek and the holidays are a great opportunity to increase sales and maximize revenue.
In 2018, Cyber Monday alone drove $7.9 billion dollars in ecommerce sales, and that number grows year by year. It's never too early or too late to get involved, and the weekend of Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM) occurs a little later this year: the perfect excuse to start those deals early.
Holiday email marketing is the perfect way to start gathering interest and to help you capture a percentage of that revenue.
Via email, you are reaching out to your most engaged audience — customers and subscribers you already have — and you can also create campaigns to reach out to leads. Showing any of these audiences the value that your store offers, particularly within the holiday period, is the secret to conversions
Let's delve deeper and explore several areas of holiday email marketing, including:
- Reviewing some real-world examples.
- Analyzing some possible email optimizations.
- Discussing holiday email marketing campaign tips.
- Reviewing the tools you should be using to optimize your email marketing for the holiday season.
It's time to drill down on your holiday email marketing strategy and make sure it's running smoothly for the upcoming holiday season.
Optimizing for Mobile
Email marketing has changed dramatically in the years since smartphones became the norm, and even more so since screen real estate has become a priority (e.g., buttonless smartphones to maximize on readability).
In the last four years alone, the increase in purchases made from mobile devices has risen from 3.4% to 36.7%. If you're not optimizing your holiday email marketing to keep up with these developments, you risk missing out on a remarkable amount of revenue.
According to ChannelSight, the revenue from smartphone shoppers over BFCM in 2018 alone was a standout $2.1 billion. This equates to 48.1% growth in customers shopping with their smartphones year over year.
If your emails aren't going to stand up to the smartphone user's test of high-resolution, concise information and clear benefits, you're not going to see the revenue from these customers.
Keep these points in mind when creating your holiday marketing email campaigns:
- Visual appeal: use crisp, clean and high-resolution images and logos that are compressed so that they load quickly and use less data.
- Relevance: give customers more than a reason for why you're contacting them, give them a reason to convert, e.g., a sale or promotion.
- Preempt their questions: give them a bonus, like the opportunity to join your loyalty program or an indication of their tier and the benefits.
- Keep it snappy: nobody wants to scroll endlessly or read paragraphs of text on their mobile device.
Types of Emails to Optimize During the Holidays
Gone are the days of looking at email marketing campaigns with a "set it and forget it" mentality.
To ensure your campaigns are effective, you need to consider your audiences, your goals, and your possible return on investment (ROI) — and you need to track these results to help you improve each and every campaign.
As you prepare for the holiday season, take the time to review and update these three key holiday emails:
- Welcome emails.
- Relevant promotional emails.
- Abandoned cart emails.
Let's break each of these down.
1. Welcome emails.
Some studies suggest welcome emails have an average open rate of 34% — that's more than twice as much as all other emails.
According to Experian:
- Welcome email open rates are 4X higher than bulk emails.
- Welcome emails see more than 3X the transactions and revenue per email.
With such high open rates, it's clear that welcome emails are a vital marketing tool. For starters, they help you to kick-off of the personal connection with your customer, which in turn will have an impact on their customer lifetime value (CLV). They're also an opportunity for you to coax your customers back to your store through loyalty program reminders, product updates, coupons and recommendations.
And, when your customers' open your emails, it's a signal to their email service provider (ESP) that you are a welcomed sender — this way you don't end up in the spam folder.
How do you craft a successful welcome email?
Here are a few quick tactics you can implement to optimize your welcome emails:
- Send it immediately, usually from the moment they have made their first purchase with you.
- Make sure it's recognizable — a simple, high-resolution logo placed at the top reminds your customers of exactly who is contacting them.
- Ask your customers to engage. Think small; for example, product recommendations with a 'continue shopping' at the bottom prompts them to redirect to your store.
- Give the recipient an incentive to engage with your email. Coupon codes and exclusive offers are a great way to initiate this.
- A bonus during the holiday season is to give estimated shipping times or, better yet, tracked shipping and real-time shipping updates.
Let's look at how The Mountain crafts a welcome email.
What The Mountain did well:
- The Mountain's Welcome email is instantly recognizable; the first part of the email that the recipients will notice is The Mountain's crisp logo, complemented by consistent brand colors throughout the email. Notice how the theme of a deep forest green complimented by orange accents throughout the entire email is reminiscent of The Mountain's logo.
- The imagery throughout The Mountain's welcome email is high-quality, clearly displaying their products while also supporting their company ethos of sustainability and green manufacturing.
- Subject lines are important, and The Mountain makes sure they remain recognizable and that their reason for contact is clear: "Welcome to The Mountain – Bold Apparel for Passionate People." their subject line tells the reader, "Thanks for joining us and here's who we are/what we do". Engaging their customers with a reminder that helps to re-engage their customers and convince them to check The Mountain out when they're shopping for apparel.
- The email goes on to link to sections that give further insight into The Mountain's brand and ethos, including 'Green Manufacturing'. With customer segments that will be influenced simply by the sustainable production aspect for The Mountain's products, adding these details is a clever marketing tool to help engage a variety of their customer groups.
- The bottom of the email features links to The Mountain's social media channels and to their blog. Customers are far more likely to engage with these content sources if they're easy to find and easy to navigate; by adding these links, The Mountain ensures this is the case.
One way that The Mountain could use this email to encourage sales and recapture customers who may have signed up but not made a purchase is to include a coupon or deal (such as free shipping on orders over a certain amount). This would give email recipients the incentive to make use of any deals and increase the chances of them completing a purchase.
Here is another example of how Skullcandy effectively uses a welcome email.
What Skullcandy did well:
- Skullcandy's colloquial street-style vibe is core to their branding – their welcome email subject line perfectly captures their brand: "You're in! Welcome to the Skullfamily" appears in the inboxes of those who sign up to the Skullcandy newsletter almost immediately.
- With a black background and white typeface, Skullcandy's email stands out straight away. They've also made sure to keep their email concise by not including so much content that readers are inclined to just scroll past it.
- The only image within the email is crisp, eye-catching and clearly shows off one of their top-selling products being used by the model – a pair of their wireless headphones.
- One of the first pieces of content within the email is a small sentence which states that standard shipping is free for orders that amount to more than $100. This will inevitably help convince customers to consider making a purchase, and furthermore, to consider making a purchase over $100.
- By offering a discount code (10%) and following that with a 'SHOP NOW' button, Skullcandy have created email content that actively engages their newsletter recipients and encourages them to complete the Call To Action (CTA) and follow the links to complete a purchase.
Remember we explained the importance of mobile compatibility? One thing to note is that this email changes when viewed on a mobile phone.
Notice that in the mobile-version of the same email, the 'SHOP NOW' button is no-longer center-aligned. This is obvious to recipients that it's an error and could deter them from shopping for a number of reasons, one major one being that it could seem to them to be a copy-cat email and therefore possibly nefarious. The repercussions of small mistakes like this could result in the email being marked as spam and effect delivery rates in the future.
2. Relevant promotional emails.
Give your holiday shoppers insights and set expectations on what promotions you are running during the holiday season.
Here are a few things to include in your promotional emails to subscribers:
- Shipping info (including final delivery dates).
- Gift card services.
- Gift wrapping options.
- Customer service contact details.
Let's take a look at how Jeni's Ice Creams did this last year.
Let's break these down (left to right):
- Email 1:
- Clear campaign launch and CTA to shop a holiday gift guide.
- Fun graphics appealing to the indulger in us all.
- Clear CTA at the bottom.
- Additional CTA for a Thanksgiving delivery.
- Email 2:
- The Thanksgiving dinner CTA is moved to the top of the email – clear CTA.
- Holiday-themed graphics and visuals.
- Gift guide callout at the bottom.
- Email 3:
- More visible 'ORDER NOW' CTA as the deadline to order approaches.
- The approaching holiday is called out even more visually with graphics.
- Shipping costs clearly advertised to alleviate any cost concerns.
- Email 4:
- Post-Thanksgiving emails change to holiday dinner push, with clear CTA at the top of the email.
- Visuals switch to gift-like themes to match the upcoming holidays.
- Images show holiday-specific ice cream flavors.
- Email 5:
- Even larger CTA announcing order date deadline.
- Personalization options advertised.
- Last-minute gift guide offered.
While we're here, let's look at just one more example to really drive this home with this tip in mind: include a countdown in your emails. Giving your customers a clear purchasing deadline tells them when they need to complete orders to ensure products get where they need to go in time for the holidays.
This applies a little pressure too and, according to Sendlane, has even been attributed to a huge 400% increase in conversions for ecommerce stores during Black Friday.
Here is how Harry's did this.
What Harry's did well:
- The first thing readers notice is the countdown timer, and then they feel the pressure to make an order because they're "almost out of time" and need to order by December 20 to receive their orders before Christmas Day.
- The image featured between the countdown timer and this information is crisp and clearly shows off one of Harry's high-end products, helping to remind the email recipient what it is that Harry's has to offer customers.
- The clear "Shop Immediately" CTA prompts customers to jump in there and complete a purchase before they miss out.
3. Abandoned cart emails.
An abandoned cart is the last thing you want.
Usually, it means that something was wrong with or missing from the customers' shopping experience.
A shocking 70% of customers abandon their carts rather than completing a purchase.
Imagine what proportion of these you could convert just by setting up a compelling and automated abandoned cart email flow.
During the holidays, here are three of the main reasons people abandon their carts (and what your email needs to answer to solve for them):
- Shipping costs: Is it feasible for you to offer free shipping? Do you track parcels?
- Better deal elsewhere: Tempt customers back with price, sales and emotional cues.
- Out-of-stock: How can you capitalize once your products become available again?
For these people, it is crucial that you trigger automatic and instant abandoned cart emails that address their needs.
Let's look at each, and what you can do to address them so you can start seeing abandoned cart numbers like these:
Reducing shipping costs.
In a survey conducted by BigCommerce, 80% of Americans cited shipping costs and speed of shipping as a major factor in determining where they shop. Furthermore, 66% decided not to buy entirely because of shipping costs.
Sure, offering free shipping is one way to reduce cart abandonment. For many businesses, however, offering free shipping just isn't an option, especially if you're shipping items across the United States.
Large companies like Amazon can offer free shipping simply because of their size, but what about small-to-medium-sized businesses? When and how can they start to offer free shipping, or shipping at a rate that doesn't put customers off?
- If you're a seller competing primarily on the uniqueness of your product, try increasing the average order value (AOV) by offering free shipping after certain conditions have been met. You'll often see this as a floating banner on websites stating something like: "Free shipping on orders over $100."
- If you're competing on price and are not willing to absorb the cost of shipping as a marketing expense, then you'll need to raise the price of your products to cover shipping. Remember though, price rises can be a recipe for losing valuable loyal customers, so make sure you think carefully about how you'll do this.
- If you are willing to absorb the cost, then do so.
- If you're somewhere in the middle, and you're based within the United States, try offering free shipping to certain locations only.
- Do you offer expedited shipping? If so, including a surcharge for this service could help eat some of the deficit.
Better deal elsewhere.
If your customers are finding better deals somewhere else, all is not lost.
Sure, sometimes customers genuinely find a better deal; however, they could be playing hard to get. Some shoppers will abandon their carts on purpose, in order to trigger a discount or deal email. Before you start offering discounts in your abandoned cart email, there is little evidence to prove that offering a discount in abandoned cart emails works.
Figure out what your customers want from you. If your abandoned cart email conversion rates are too good to be true, perhaps consider readjusting your flow or adding certain conditions such as the discount only applying if the customer spends over a certain amount.
If you are losing a lot of customers to competitors with cheaper prices, then you might have a bigger problem than your price point.
What should you do instead?
- Create scarcity and the fear of missing out. Remember the email above from Harry's? Language is key: clear "Back-in-stock" language reminds your customers that this item often isn't in stock. Buttons which allow customers to sign up for alerts for when items are back in stock give you even more opportunity to maximize on this.
- Use influencers. Offer your product for review to a well-known person in your industry so they can put you ahead of your competitors, or you can also use micro-influencers to drive increased awareness of your product. With the changes to major influencer platforms like Instagram, you need to be increasingly careful who you approach with influencer offers and make sure that their audience is your audience, too — but get it right and you could see very fast results.
- Bundle products together. By offering key products together you can sell more than what shoppers were originally looking for, and they usually save money either on shipping or on the products themselves.
Out of stock.
You should have ample inventory to make sure items don't go out of stock. While BigCommerce has the functionality to ensure that out-of-stock items are removed immediately if something does become unavailable, then responding to customers in the right way can make or break a sale.
Take Suzanne Moore, founder of So Suzy Stamps, who uses InStockAlerts to send a personalized message to shoppers when their items are back in stock:
"With InStockAlerts, I was able to send a customized email to people who wanted alerts when a product was back in stock. I'd say:
'Hey, hurry up, it's back in stock! You need to order it before the other lady does.'
I was able to add my personality into those automated messages and it's that personality that really attracts and retains my customers."
— Suzanne Moore, Founder of So Suzy Stamps
Those InStockAlert emails, by the way, enjoy an 80% conversion rate.
Suzy's message of, "Hey, hurry up, it's back in stock! You need to order it before the other lady does," is simple and effective. Messages like this can make all the difference.
You can (and should) plan for people potentially abandoning their carts due to stock issues by keeping your inventory in check. If you have plans to move a particular product in its entirety and you're prepared for BigCommerce to remove it once it goes out of stock, then prioritizing scarcity and urgency should be your focus.
Tips For Your 2019 Holiday Email Marketing Campaigns
We've optimized emails, now let's look at some holiday campaign strategies and tactics you can implement this holiday season.
1. Check out last year's trends.
Why reinvent the wheel?
In 2018, there were some noteworthy email marketing holiday trends:
- Holiday gift guides. A roll-over from 2017, but the gift guide is a goodie bag in itself, and for good reason.
- Winback emails. Been a while since you've seen a certain group of customers? Send that segment an email reminding them what you've got on offer this season.
- Mobile-friendly content. We've already touched on this but can't express the importance enough.
- Holiday-centric themes and imagery. This is an easy one… remind your customers why you're getting in contact and that there's something in it for them with on-brand imagery that references the holiday season.
Holiday gift guides.
Holiday gift guides are the perfect opportunity to curate your best sellers, top-rated, and other top products in your inventory for your target audiences.
Using dynamic content, you can create digital gift guides that show relevant products to specific audiences that will help you cross-sell and upsell based on a user's price sensitivity, demographic, and personal interest.
Winback emails.
Winback email campaigns target customers who previously showed an interest in purchasing from you, but some time has passed since they've engaged with you. These campaigns are the perfect way to re-engage. Remind these customers why they were interested in you in the first place and even introduce one of those countdown timers we mentioned earlier.
The email should focus on:
- Reminding them about your brand.
- Reminding them why they initially showed interest in purchasing from you.
- Showing what product or related products they viewed.
Mobile-friendly content.
Let's just revisit this again very quickly. The stats say it all — Small Business Trends attributes as much as 56% of Black Friday 2018 online fashion sales to mobile.
Focus on getting the basics right:
- Clear, high quality images that have been compressed to allow for fast loading.
- Concise content that grabs the customer's attention and entices them to engage.
- CTAs that invite customers to your store.
- Website compatibility on mobile is core to the success of this. If completing an order on your store is a nightmare with a smartphone, don't bank on any of the above.
Holiday-centric themes and imagery.
This is a simple one. Get your customer in the spirit with themed content, just as long as it's on brand.
Finally, strategically placed and timed pop-ups on your site can help you grow your customer base.
A 2017 Listrak study found pop-ups can improve an email list growth by about 20%, and welcome email series saw a revenue increase of 23% for new subscribers who submitted their email through a pop-up. Just look at the pop-up that APTO uses to capture newsletter subscribers and entice them to shop again with a welcome email offering free shipping.
2. Start planning early.
You may have heard, "Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine."
For a holiday email marketing strategy, this saying could be, "Poor planning on your part does not necessitate a purchase from a customer."
Planning your holiday email marketing strategy and teasing it out is important so your customers know what offers they might expect.
Just over 20% of marketing professionals plan more than 3 months in advance for the peak email season.
By planning out in advance you are able to:
- Create the various pieces of content necessary to improve conversions.
- Review content and strategies that led to high conversions previously and implement them.
- Ensure you are tracking important micro- and macro-conversion points for future data analysis.
3. Segment your list.
Segmenting your email list is crucial.
When 27% of email subscribers over 55 years old believe their emails are meant to appeal to millennials, then they have a high chance of not converting.
Break out your email list into various segments that allows you to show relevant products to each segment. This can be a big job with a lot of factors to consider, but some email marketing apps like Marsello do this organisation for you.
Customer segmentation creates an opportunity to cross-sell and upsell your customers, but it goes beyond that, you can use these groups to create lead campaigns and even use the same lists with your social media marketing.
Holiday email marketing segments to consider are:
- VIP customers.
- High average order value customers.
- High total transaction customers.
- Lapsed-purchase customers.
- Subscribers who have not made a purchase.
- Customers who haven't bought recently: 30 days, 90 days, and 180 days ago.
- Demographics: age, location, income.
Creating targeted messaging for each of these customer segments will improve your conversion rate compared to a generic, cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all email.
Improve your customer targeting with BigCommerce customer groups. Offer your important customers discounts, access to special products, and more by creating Customer Groups within BigCommerce's control panel. No apps are necessary. Learn how to set up customer groups and the effective ways you can use them.
Black Friday Email Examples
1. Murad's on-brand excitement.
It may be Black Friday, but Murad got into the spirit in a colorful way. This big, bright image puts a festive touch on Murad's typically more neutral aesthetic, but does it in a way that still stays on brand — choosing colors that complement the products' packaging.
The email subject line — "Ready. Set. Black Friday!" — capitalizes on the excitement of Black Friday as the starting line to the holiday shopping race.
The primary message inside, "All About the Present," and accompanying CTA of "Shop Now," connect back to that excitement and sense of urgency and provide a clear path to the product category featuring gift sets. And the bit of clever wordplay reinforces the email's light, fun tone without going overboard.
2. Kelty's Bright Idea.
Black Friday can have a negative connotation: mobs of shoppers looking to scrap and claw their way to a great deal.
Kelty does a great job of putting a fun spin on Black Friday by calling it Bright Friday Savings.
Beyond the wordplay, they also make their customers feel smarter by taking advantage of the various discounts and free shipping they are offering.
They show a selection of products and at the bottom of the email also offer a gift guide their customers can use to find the right products for their friends and family.
Cyber Monday Email Examples
1. Mario Badescu Skin Care brings clarity.
This Cyber Monday email from Mario Badescu Skin Care opted to forgo any unnecessary cleverness for clean but festive holiday look and clear, direct messaging — packed with incentives.
The subject line gets straight to the point. "20% off + Free Gift | Today Only | Cyber Monday is Back." This email works to cut through the noise and tell you exactly why it's worth your time to shop today.
Discounts of 20%, 15%, or 10%, depending on how much you spend, are compounded by the promise of a free gift. In addition, free U.S. shipping eliminates the risk of cart abandonment due to high shipping costs.
2. Cutter & Buck cutting to the chase.
Simplicity can be effective.
Cutter & Buck keeps their email simple:
- They provide a discount code.
- A large SHOP NOW call-to-action is front and center.
- They include a soft call-to-action: Free ground shipping for $100 or more spent.
Cut to the heart of what your customers want to know: what discount do I get, and is there free shipping?
Christmas Email Examples
1. Precision Gift Giving.
Precision Camera & Video focus on their major offerings: products, classes, and gift cards.
The core focus of the email is on their affordable and lower-priced last-minute gifts, but they do toss in one mid-range priced product.
They note upcoming classes they offer, allowing their customers to provide continuing education as a gift. This is perfect when you consider the amount of customers they'd capture who know someone that wants to learn more about photography.
Finally, for gift givers who are not sure what a photographer or videographer may want or need, they can simply get a gift card. Never underestimate the power of a gift card, particularly during the Christmas gift-giving season.
2. Kelty Gifts by Christmas.
This a great email for last-minute gift givers.
Kelty's Christmas email starts off with a clear subject line,
Ends Soon: Free Next Day Shipping, Guaranteed by Xmas.
The sense of urgency and offer of a guaranteed solution would generate a high open rate.
Once open, Kelty sets the expectations of when customers should order by (date and time) to ensure their gifts are delivered by Christmas. Additionally, they clearly mark off what shipping options are no longer available if the customer wants the shipping guarantee.
Top Email Software For Holiday Campaigns
Finally, we've picked out some of the most useful third-party app and service integrations available with BigCommerce.
Use these to build better campaigns both on-site before visitors become subscribers, and when you're sending those important holiday emails.
1. Marsello.
Marsello is a high-powered email marketing companion for ecommerce and POS retailers. With features such as customer segmentation, loyalty marketing, pre-designed automated email flows, customer feedback collection, and one-off email campaigns.
We've touched on it — customer segmentation is the secret to mastering email marketing, and by appealing to your customers with exactly what relates to them, you'll see your conversion rates climb.
Marsello creates customer segments based on your customers' shopping history and site interactions, grouping them into such segments as 'Lost,' 'At Risk,' 'Best,' 'Loyal,' 'Promising,' and 'New,' making it so much easier to target each group. And as we've mentioned, you can even export these segments into social media and carry your campaigns through to your social media plans.
Here's everything you get with Marsello and BigCommerce:
- Customer segmentation: RFM-based segmentation is almost an industry standard, and Marsello's AI groups your customers into the segments above, making it easy to drill down and develop targeted marketing.
- Automated email flows: With pre-designed, optimized email flows such as Welcome email and Win-back campaigns, Marsello makes it pain-free to start targeting customers with automated emails that trigger instantly. It's as easy as adding your branding, enabling the emails, reviewing them and then saving. And should you wish to, these email flows are fully customizable.
- Loyalty program: Promote customer loyalty and increase sales by prompting customers to join your branded loyalty program. With the ability to add tiers and customize the program to suit your branding, your loyalty program is quick and easy to set up.
- One-off email campaigns: Want to let your customers or a specific customer segment know about product updates for a flash sale? It's a lot easier when you can create one-off email campaigns. Marsello makes this easy with segments, drag-and-drop email builders and saved branding.
- Customer feedback: Understand your customers, what they think of your store, and how they rate their experience by collecting feedback. Customer feedback is an important tool for business development, and Marsello's feedback tool makes it easy to regularly gather feedback.
2. Springbot.
Springbot does some seriously cool data manipulation for BigCommerce store owners.
Using your out-of-the-box analytics or your Insights (or both), Springbot layers on additional user data and provides actionable steps you can take to segment your lists and make more money. Some customers are raving: "This is the best app ever!"
Here's everything you get:
- Marketing dashboard: Robust data and analytics based on your customer and product data.
- Email marketing: Integration with your favorite email service provider so you can easily send personalized emails to customers as well as automated emails triggered by your customers' actions.
- Social media: Schedule, edit and review your social media posts across Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Also, make your Instagram shoppable.
- Online ads: Re-engage visitors who view but don't purchase your items by showing them a display ad on the web, mobile and social through our integration with AdRoll.
- Marketplaces: With Amazon Marketplaces, expand your products' reach by quickly migrating your listings to Amazon. Match your store's products, set pricing and optimize listings to win the Buy Box, as well as manage product listings, inventory and shipping updates.
- Onboarding and training: Once Springbot's installed on your site, you are assigned your very own Customer Onboarding Manager. They will help you get up and running to get the most out of Springbot.
3. dotmailer.
With dotmailer, you can:
- Make contact, product and order data automatically flow into your account to supercharge your email marketing.
- Use the data you hold in dotmailer to better target users and create powerful multi-channel automation without the need to code.
- Send personalized campaigns powered by customers' order history, web behavior and more.
4. Constant Contact.
With Constant Contact, you can:
- Create mobile-responsive emails customized to your brand that look great on any device.
- Set up an automated email series to send your customers personalized welcome, birthday and anniversary emails.
- Track results in real time, and build your list with free list-growth.
- Ensure your emails get delivered to inboxes, not spam folders.
5. MailChimp.
With MailChimp, you can:
- Send personalized product recommendations to individual customers in just a few clicks.
- Follow up with, delight and re-engage your customers using our preset customer lifecycle automation workflows.
- Create targeted campaigns that get the right messages in front of the right customers at the right time.
- Monitor our robust campaign reports to measure ROI, see what's working, and learn how you can get better.
6. Privy.
With Privy, you can:
- Rapidly grow your email list and store sales with high-converting pop-ups, spin to win, and offers with bulk and unique coupon codes.
- Trigger popups using exit intent, time on site, scroll, cart size and more.
- A/B test campaigns to continually optimize performance.
- Sync new contacts to all email marketing platforms including MailChimp, Bronto, Klaviyo, Soundest, Constant Contact, SendGrid, Adroll, Zapier and more.
7. Happy Email.
With Happy Email, you can:
- Automatically send a thank-you email from store founder/owner to new customers.
- Connect, make your customers happy and build trust for your brand.
- No need to worry what to write to your customers. We've done it all for you.
8. JustUno.
Hailed by many brands as the most powerful free app in the marketplace, JustUno helps you to collect more emails so you can better segment, grow sales and increase lifetime loyalty.
Here are just a few of the things they offer:
- Email pop-ups: The simplest and most effective way to build your email list and generate sales opportunities.
- Exit pop-ups: Add exit intent pop ups to your site to capture emails before your visitor leaves.
- Mobile-optimized pop-ups (SEO-friendly): Engage and convert mobile traffic with mobile-specific pop-ups. In compliance with Google's recent mobile SEO policies.
- Cart and checkout abandonment offers: Prevent cart abandonment with targeted offers proven to convert shoppers into customers.
- Banners, bars and slide-ins: Use for email capture, sale notifications and effective website messaging.
- Form integrations: Add the emails you capture to any list from MailChimp, Bronto, Klaviyo, Hubspot, Constant Contact, Rejoiner and more. Plus, add any HTML form to your pop-ups, banners and slide-ins.
9. In Stock Reminder.
With In Stock Reminder for BigCommerce, you can add a customized subscriber box to any product page, which, when completed, will inform customers by email when that item is back in stock.
Final Words
Email marketing is irrefutably important and can be a high-converting traffic channel for your business, especially during the holiday season.
Take the time to:
- Optimize key emails to drive conversations, and ensure you account for mobile compatibility.
- Plan and strategize for the holiday season far in advance.
- Select the right email marketing tools for your business.
Now that you have the information, it's time to start working on optimizing your holiday email marketing strategy and making sure it's geared to get the results you want. Start by taking a look at the welcome emails from stores like yours and see how you can make the most out of your marketing.
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The first horseman of the SSLpocalypse, or what your website might look like starting July 1st.[/caption] But if you own a site that is suddenly displaying a "Not secure" message, you may not feel as grateful for this change. Don't panic! Getting your site running through HTTPS should be pretty simple, and your visitors will appreciate the peace of mind it will give them, knowing your site is safe to use. In this article, I'm going to explain a little more about what HTTPS is, explain what sites might and might not need to worry about this change, and finally get into how you might be able to get it working on your site. If you don't care about what's going on and just want to know how to get it fixed, feel free to skip to the bottom.
What is HTTPS?To start off an explanation of HTTPS, we need to first talk about it's namesake, one of the most integral frameworks of the internet, HTTP.
Okay, then what is HTTP?HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. You don't need to understand what those words mean to understand HTTP. Instead, let's use an analogy: Taking a trip back to the analog world, let's imagine that the Internet was a physical library. When you need to get information, you head to the library, which is roughly similar to connecting to the internet and opening your browser. However this particular library is enormous, and in order to get the right information you need there needs to be some kind of system of delivering that information in a way that you, or more accurately, your browser, and the library of the Internet, can speak to each other. That form of communication is HTTP. [caption id="attachment_291" align="alignleft" width="300"] What "Googling" looked like before there was Google.[/caption] It's sort of like the "Dewey decimal system" of the Internet, it structures requests in a way that is mutually understandable for everyone. Each time you type in something into your search bar, your browser sends a 'request' to the server associated with that address (or to your search engine's address), and the server sends back a 'response' which gives your browser the necessary information to display the site. There are different kinds of 'requests' and 'responses,' which we don't really need to get into here. Some of them, like the infamous '404 error,' would probably sound familiar to you. Just know that HTTP is built off a system of requests and responses, and that it's the language of how browsers and servers talk to each other. It's simple, and it's how the internet works. And it works quite well! Well enough that it's allowed us to build the largest hub of information in human history. But it's not perfect, and understanding that explains why we need HTTPS.
The issue with HTTPThe problems with HTTP come from the very same simplicity that caused it to be chosen as the framework of the web in the first place. [caption id="attachment_292" align="alignright" width="300"] Because apparently all hackers wear hoodies.[/caption] That simplicity means it's very easy for bad guys to 'eavesdrop' into your connection. In some cases, like just navigating to a website, this may not be an issue. You may not care if somebody else knows that you asked Google "how to tie a tie" (the #4 most asked question on Google according to this list). But you might start caring when you're sending websites passwords, social security numbers, bank account information, credit card numbers, and countless other things that you'd prefer nobody else see. This is where HTTPS comes to the rescue!
SSL & HTTPS: Keeping Bad Guys from seeing your Passwords (or memes)SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. Once again, that doesn't need to make sense. What you need to know about SSL is that it it's a protocol that allows browsers and servers to converse in a way that's encrypted, so that it's a whole lot harder to steal useful information from the connection. Sites that are running under SSL use the aforementioned extension of HTTP, called HTTPS. The S stands for secure, and that's what it's meant to do: add a layer of security to HTTP. It's like getting in the fast line on a roller coaster. [caption id="attachment_294" align="alignright" width="300"] The way is open to more secure internet.[/caption] But in order to enter the fast line, you've got to have your pass. In this case, that's an SSL Certificate. An SSL Certificate is a little packet of data that gets associated with your site, which contains an encryption key. That allows you access into the more secure channel of communication known as HTTPS. For most of us, that's something that we will need to get from our web hosting service, which I'll talk about more below.
Do I really need to secure my site?Okay, great, we've learned all of this about HTTP, SSL, and HTTPS. But is it really important for me to buy this "pass" to make my site secure for my site? Especially knowing that a few of the most popular websites in the world, like wikia.com (#56 in global traffic), at the time of writing this, are still not running on HTTPS. Well in response to that, I'd say you probably want to secure your site anyway. But let's unpack the reasons a bit.
Why you would want to use HTTPS/SSL:
- Your site handles sensitive data. If your site uses log-in features, has a web store, or any other case where users are entering data that they wouldn't want strangers to see, it's time to switch to SSL/HTTPS.
- It might boost your search rankings. The evidence isn't conclusive, but there's some data that shows that having a secure site that uses HTTPS causes a moderate boost in search engine rankings. And as adoption grows, if you're not on HTTPS your site might be punished more and more in search rankings.
- You want your users to feel secure. Ultimately, regardless of whether your site is handling sensitive data, you want your users to feel like browsing your site doesn't put them at any unnecessary risk. The benefits here may be completely psychological, as you may not be exposing any data that matters, but the peace of mind alone is probably worth the bill.
- You want your website to be part of the future of the web. The reality is, HTTPS is the direction the web is headed. And it's quite possible, even likely, that in 5-6 years if your site isn't running on this protocol it will be effectively shunned: plummeting in the search rankings, and getting all sorts of warning alarms from browsers before someone enters it. Plus, perhaps worst of all, it will be totally uncool.
Why you might not want to use HTTPS/SSL:
- Your site is small, and you don't handle sensitive data. If you're currently running a small site, like a blog, which has a low amount of traffic, and you don't plan on expanding it or adding anything like a web store, or a login function, then it's probably alright you stay unsecured. But know that in a few years this may no longer be a viable option.
How to get your site securedAfter reading all of that, hopefully the majority of you will respond with "I really need to secure my site then!" If that's you, here's how you can get started on that.
Buying an SSL CertificateFirst things first, you're going to need to buy an SSL Certificate. This is something you're going to have to do through your web host. If you don't remember what a web host is, this is the site your paying to give you a server on the web. This may be separate from your domain hosting, who holds the specific domains, or addresses, of your sites. Very popular web hosts include GoDaddy, Bluehost and HostGator. [caption id="attachment_302" align="alignright" width="300"] The Holy Grail we're working for: Secured status.[/caption] To get your SSL Certificate, you're going to need to log in to your account with them, and look around. Each host has their own way of doing this, but if you're having troubles, just Google "your host name SSL Certificate" and you'll get pointed in the right direction. Depending on your host, you'll either get your certificate for free, or you'll have to pay for it. Prices for those vary by host, but seem to average around $50-$70 USD a year. If you're getting it for free, it's probably because of a fantastic non-profit service called Let's Encrypt which provides free SSL Certificates. However in order to benefit from this, your host needs to actually support the use of Let's Encrypt, and not all hosts do. I won't speculate why those hosts choose not to support it, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with being able to rake in more cash selling the certificates themselves. If you don't want to pay your host for SSL, then it might be worth considering making a switch of hosts. Here's a list of hosts supporting Let's Encrypt. I especially recommend SiteGround as a host, as I've had nothing but a positive experience with them. Here's a great review from Fred at WPShout that will give you more reasons to switch to them. I'm not even getting paid, I just think they're that good (and some of the other hosts are that bad).
Okay, I've bought my SSL Certificate, why am I still not secure?Buying the SSL Certificate is the first step, but often not the only one to get your site running smoothly through HTTPS. If you still are finding your site with that pesky "Not secure" message, you probably need to do some additional cleanup on the site itself. Often sites, especially more complex ones, are pulling in resources from various places in the web. Some examples of resources you might be pulling in:
- Custom fonts
- Embedded videos
- Images not hosted on your site
- Social media widgets
- Etc.
A WordPress SolutionFixing this on WordPress is usually pretty simple. Typically, you just need to install a plugin that is going to force all links to use their HTTPS versions. There's quite a few that do this, one that's worked for me is Really Simple SSL. If that didn't work, you might need to try out the solution I've listed below for non WordPress users, or it might be time to talk to a developer to get things straightened out.
If you're not using WordPressSince there's a whole load of other ways you might have built your website besides WordPress, I can only speak in generalities, but basically, you need to look for any links to outside resources in your site, and make sure they're using HTTPS versions. If you're site is just built on simple HTML, this is easy: just do a simple search for "http", and edit all of those instances. If you're using another kind of CMS or site builder, it might be a little more difficult: you'll need to make sense of the aforementioned Developer Tools console messages, and track down in your site where each of those requests is coming from. If it's an embed code (it'll look like html, which tends to start like "<div…."), you can change any URLs you find inside it from http to https. If it's getting pulled in a different way, by some service that your site is handling for you, you might need to recreate whatever element is generating it. It's worth saying that some of the resources you're using might suddenly become unavailable after this change, either because they don't support HTTPS, or they have a different address in their secure versions. If that's the case, I'd recommend trying to search something like "name of the service https" and see if there's any documentation available. If none of this gives you the much desired "Secure" status, or some necessary resources for your site are not working, it's probably time to call a developer.
Success! My site is Secure. What's next?[caption id="attachment_300" align="alignleft" width="264"] Sweet victory.[/caption] If you followed those steps, and the web gods are in your favor, you should get the beautiful green lock that signifies your site is secure, meaning it is using the HTTPS protocol. Now your site can reap all of the benefits of being part of the secure web. However, there's probably one more step you'd want to take to ensure everyone is accessing the secure version of your site, which is to set up 301 redirects from the http to the https version, so that if someone tries to access your domain via http, perhaps by an old link embedded on another site, they will be automatically be forwarded to the secure version of the site. A redirect is essentially a rule that you can set up in your site so that whenever someone accesses a particular location, the site sends them somewhere else you'd like them to go. We've all probably seen this happen when we navigate to a page that doesn't exist (the classic 404 error), and get sent to the "Page not found" page. A 301 redirect is a specific kind of redirect, and all you need to know is that it's the best kind to not mess with your search engine rankings (you can learn more about them here). Getting this setup on WordPress is once again quite simple. First, install a 301 redirect plugin (the industry standard seems to be Simple 301 Redirects) onto your site. Then, following the documentation, add your redirects. The main ones you'll probably want to add will be these, substituting in your domain:
- http://www.yoursite.com to https://www.yoursite.com
- http://yoursite.com to https://yoursite.com
- http://www.yoursite.com/* to https://www.yoursite.com/*
- http://yoursite.com/* to https://yoursite.com/*


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Salt Lake City District Schools
There are several great schools in the Salt Lake City School District. You will find a wide range of public, charter, and private schools for elementary, middle school, and high school grades. Salt Lake City's East High School was even featured in Disney's High School Musical.
Local Apartments and Condos
We are located in close proximity to several reputable apartment and condo complexes such as Cliffside Apartments, Capitol Villa Apartments, and Marmalade Hill Apartments, which makes it easy to utilize our self storage units for any extra belongings you may not have space for in your apartment or condo.
Local Moving Companies
If you are in need of assistance with moving your belongings to your storage unit, we recommend the following moving companies:
- The Other Side Movers
- Two Men and a Truck
- Miracle Movers
History of the SLC Area
You'll love this area. It's filled with rich history and full of cultural diversity. Much of the cultural diversity is due to the pioneers who settled in Utah from all around the world. When the transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869 more cultural diversity began to fill the valley. In 2002 the Olympic Winter Games welcomed the world to Utah and brought economic growth and expanded transportation routes.
STOR-N-LOCK Self Storage in Salt Lake City is right near the heart of the city so you can easily store your belongings and enjoy the wonders of the area with peace of mind that your self-stored possessions are safe.
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Here are a few places we'd recommend visiting while in town:
- Temple Square and Downtown Salt Lake City
- Ensign Peak
- Park City and Sundance Resort
- Watch Utah Jazz at the Vivint Smart Home Arena
- Red Butte Garden
- This is the Place Heritage Park
- Utah State Capitol
- The Cathedral of the Madeleine
- Abravanel Hall
- Lagoon
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A Midland-based manufacturer of asphalt repair equipment celebrated relocating its headquarters and production facility to Bay County with a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday at its new site. Falcon Road Maintenance Equipment LLC announced plans to construct a $4.7 million, 54,000 square foot facility to house its operations at 2600 Salzburg Road, in Williams Township near the State Police Post.
The company, officials said, is the only one of its kind in the region that manufacturers asphalt hot boxes and tack distributors used to repair potholes, a source of concern to motorists locally and throughout Michigan.
"What an exciting day for all of us here today," said Michael Day, Falcon president. "We've all done a lot of hard work to get to this point. Our employees build the best pothole repairer in the industry."
Falcon's headquarters and production has been split among two separate sites in Midland. Its sales office is located in Southfield. The move to Bay County will allow us to move from "band-aided facilities to a consolidated facility with space for a lot of potential growth," Day said of the 15-acre parcel the company purchased.
Day believes that by expanding its operations, Falcon positions itself to seize new opportunities for work and increase production of its asphalt repair units from about 400 units per year to between 600-800 units per year. The company is bringing over 50 existing jobs to its new site and plans to hire an additional 50 employees over the next three years.
Williams Township Supervisor Paul Wasek welcomed the new development with open arms. He feels the economic impact will be significant.
"It's very exciting to have more development in our community and we will do whatever we can to make sure they continue to be successful," he said. "Who else manufacturers this equipment? No one. Who makes one better? No one. We can thank Falcon's outstanding employees for that."
Day praised many people for their respective roles in making the development happen, including Trevor Keyes, president & CEO of Bay Future Inc. The economic development agency worked closely with Falcon over the past year on the wide range of complexities--including finding a suitable site -- that had to be solved to attract the company to Williams Township.
"Trevor has been awesome," Day said. "He's been fantastic to work with and we appreciate all he did to help us move forward with this project."
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Will Star India recover its investments in cricket?3 min read . Updated: 12 Apr 2018, 05:51 AM IST
Star India has to recover Rs6,500 crore every year for the next five years if it has to justify the Rs34,000 crore it has earmarked for IPL, BCCI media rights and ICC cricket
That is the million dollar question that really irks Star India chief executive Uday Shankar when journalists ask him. President, Asia, at Twenty-First Century Fox, Shankar says that he is part of a professionally managed media company which prides itself on its financial discipline. "We have a plan," he says, referring to the recovery of the investments that the company has made in cricket in India.
But first a quick look at the big bet that Star has placed on cricket. Star India has agreed to spend more than Rs34,000 crore on cricket over the next five years. Basically it has ploughed in Rs16,000 crore plus for the Indian Premier League (IPL), a little more than Rs6,000 crore for all BCCI media rights and approximately Rs12,000 crore for ICC cricket.
This means that Star India needs to recover more than Rs6,500 crore from the market every year for the next five years. Executives at rival channels say that sounds implausible. Their arguments are based on the annual growth rates in advertising and subscription revenue. Television advertising, for instance, is growing at 10-12% a year, says a senior executive at a channel that competes with Star. So if the total TV ad market of Rs25,000 crore is growing at that rate, then it will generate Rs2,200-2,500 crore of additional revenue every year.
The Rs12,000 crore TV subscription industry, meanwhile, is growing at 8-10% a year, he says. That means another Rs1,000 crore in revenue. That totals Rs3,500 crore a year. And to recover its investment, Star needs to earn nearly double that every year. "That is assuming that no one else gets anything," he says.
He further argues that among the BCCI matches (102), only ODIs and T20s are watched. "Test matches (there will be 22) generally report a low viewership," he adds.
Although media experts accept that the task ahead for Star is challenging, they do not agree with the arguments made by its rivals. According to Shashi Sinha, chief executive officer of IPG Media Brands, the recovery will be a combination of three streams: advertising on TV, pay television and digital subscription. "Pay TV is very big globally. In the UK, football is all pay," he says.
The broadcaster could win if both television distribution and digital subscription money start flowing in. "Even in terms of television advertising, Star will get a disproportionate share of growth since it has launched the property in different languages. It has sold almost all its inventory on all the feeds," says Sinha.
Gopinath Menon, an independent media buying expert agrees. He says cricket is sought after especially by cut-throat product categories like consumer electronics, e-commerce, soft drinks, mobile phones etc. "On cricket, pricing becomes inelastic unlike, say, on entertainment. That is not all. If you have cricket on your channel, it enhances the stature of the network," he adds.
His contention is that with 180 days of cricket, one can make money, especially with a prestigious property like the World Cup thrown in. Additional revenue comes from the steeply priced inventory for the IPL semi-finals and finals where it could sell spots for as high as Rs8 lakh for 10 seconds.
Menon doesn't see Star struggling too much on the advertising front. "Cricket defies media logic. Nobody looks at return on investment. You buy and sell on impact," he says, explaining how brands and marketers place their bets on cricket.
Digital media experts also see Star's digital platform Hotstar gaining momentum. Although digital media is growing at 30% a year and is likely to touch Rs10,000 crore in 2018, a chunk – nearly 70%—of this revenue accrues to Facebook and Google. So where does that leave Hotstar?
Shamsuddin Jasani, managing director at the digital marketing agency Isobar, says that while it's true that 70% advertising goes to Google and Facebook, that is changing. "Lots of advertisers are asking questions whether to associate with curated or created content. Advertisers want to go with safe environment. So while Google and FB may not crash, advertisers will move to over-the-top video streaming platforms and that may work in favour of Hotstar," he says. He further believes that Hotstar's growth will accelerate with data becoming cheap.
But the fact remains that Star has paid a huge premium for cricket. "The challenge will be monetizing it. But on the other hand, it has all the content, it can charge appropriately," Jasani says. Agrees Sinha: "Cricket is a big punt for Star which may not see results in the first couple of years. But things may turn eventually."
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Making it happen – steps to implement the Electronic Components and Systems Strategy in Europe
On 30 of June the ELG and VP Kroes meet to discuss the roadmap's implementation plan. This meeting will focus on engaging with the whole electronics value chain.
On 14 February 2014 the Electronic Leaders Group (ELG), that represent today's major electronic industry players in Europe, submitted to Vice-President of the European Commission @NeelieKroesEU responsible for the Digital Agenda 'A European Industrial Strategic Roadmap for Micro- and Nanoelectronics components and systems'. The guidelines which Europe should follow for assuring its leadership in the electronics sector.
Three months later the Council adopted the Innovation Investment Package (IIP), following the Commission proposals. Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership (ECSEL) Joint Undertaking is a part of this package. The EU will invest about €1.18 billion in this public-private partnership. A similar amount will come from Member States and the industrial partners will contribute some €1.65 billion.
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VoIP technology is one of the fastest growing technology today. With VoIP technology you can use your existing network architecture to place phone calls over the internet. Ozeki Phone System XE uses VoIP technology to enable voice messaging in your application.
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If you follow the configuration steps of this guide, you will have a telephone system that works as follows: As a first step, you need to create an extension in OpenSIPS PBX. Ozeki Phone System XE will connect to OpenSIPS through this extension. Once Ozeki Phone System XE is connected, you can start calling your contacts. The destination phone could be a VoIP-based phone, a regular phone or a mobile phone. Figure 1 demonstrates the process.
Figure 1 - Connecting to OpenSIPS
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Before you start to configure this solution, it is assumed that you have already installed your OpenSIPS PBX on your Linux server, and downloaded Ozeki Phone System XE from the download page.
Connect your 3rd party PBX with Ozeki Phone System XE. The computer where you install PBX will be a virtual machine or a computer. Start with a simple installation to co-operate with Ozeki Phone System XE. Follow the installation guide at OpenSIPS wizard. There are some packages that need to install for kamilio installation.Follow the requirements to install the packeges for 3rd party PBX using. If you dowlnloaded 3rd party PBX just type just install the package with "rpm -i" command. Upon installation, the default configuration file path is : [INSTALL_PATH]/etc/opensips/opensips.cfg. The variable, contains the IP address is dst_ip.
After you installed you can reach from remote browser if you type the IP address of the 3rd party PBX and start to configure SIP account for Ozeki Phone System XE.
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I have created two users in OpenSIPS PBX: user 100 and user 101. Ozeki Phone System will register as user 101, and a VoIP phone will be registered as user 100. You can see the created users in Figure 6.
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It is assumed that you have already downloaded Ozeki Phone System XE and installed it into you computer.
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