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Welcome to Femtasia, the world of Femke Hiemstra.
I'm not sure how to best describe the work of this artist from the Netherlands. It's a mix of vintage cartooning meets the style of modern vinyl designer toys. Perhaps pop surrealism. Whatever it is, I like it.
For those of you who might want to see her work in person, she's currently exhibiting in the States. Femke has also published in a few interesting books including Beasts 2 (to learn more, you can read the interview on www.comicbookresources.com) where she teams up with another artist I like by the name of Travis Lampe.
While Travis doesn't do many pieces that would fit the theme of this website, he did create the trick or treater painting seen at the end of this post.
I was so distracted by the glowing fingers story (see previous post) that I completely forgot to wish you all a Happy Friday the 13th (I should note I nabbed the image to the right from Monsterama: Cute Creeps From Popular Culture who seems to have the same distaste for Valentine's Day as I do).
I ask, what better way to celebrate Friday the 13th than with the transformation of Winnie the Pooh into Jason, the homicidal machete-wielding maniac?
Found this on Deviant Art and had a good chuckle. See what too much honey can do? If you check out the creator's gallery, you'll find a load of zombified toys from Mickey Mouse to Hello Kitty and even My Little Pony.
Have a good day folks, and if I don't see you tomorrow, Happy Horrible V-day as well.
Every holiday results in retailers trying to convince customers that their product is the perfect gift for that particular time of year. The folks over at www.techchee.com are no exception, but I think the boys from China have pushed positioning of a product just a bit too far in this post for a Valentine gift idea published on Feb. 6, 2009.
The title reads "LED finger lamps for creepy-yet-romantic night on the Valentine's day". As a haunter, I thought the title seemed promising. Even after I saw the picture of the odd LED fingertips, I didn't dismiss the gadget completely, and thought perhaps they would spin it for people who like weird Halloweenish items (I could see prop and costume potential). But then I read the post that explained why these glowing fingertips would make the perfect gift:
You may wanna create special atmosphere on the Valentine's day. What about getting your girl and you in darkness and show her your green-glowing fingertips? It would probably be the most unforgettable Valentine's night for her.
Confused, slightly uncomfortable, and suppressing the 13 year old boy in my brain who is already stringing together inappropriate off-colour jokes, I keep reading the pitch.
Still pushing on with my Valentine theme, I decided to explore Valentine ideas when it came to presents: traditional gift ideas with a twist. Where better to do this monitor shopping (my term for window shopping online) than www.pushindaisies.com.
The first and most obvious choice is candy in a heart-shaped box. These are gummy hearts, and the front of the box reads "My love is pure, my love is true, you can have my heart and eat it too!". *cough*
If she prefers chocolate, then you can get her a chocolate heart instead; a one pound chocolate heart.
While I'm all for candy, I like jewelry even more (probably because Yetch never buys jewelry for me. Say it with me: awwwww, poor Ghoul Friday). Where was I? Ah yes. I really like the skeleton bracelets, and the coffin earrings aren't bad (but my spidey-sense tells me they might turn my earlobes green).
Zombie Harmony: because the apocalypse doesn't have to be lonely.
This is the slogan at Zombie Harmony's Free Dating Site; a site strictly for the undead. Animated corpses can search through the database, narrowing their selections to fast-moving or slow-moving mates, with or without limbs, ranging from fresh to rotten.
User names include 'Hungry Barbara', 'I_ate_my_family' and 'luvs2cuddle' (who enjoys slow lumbering walks along the beach, and whose interests include staring vacantly).
While the recipe has made the rounds online, I thought I would post it anyway. I originally saw this on yumsugar.com. In honour of V-day, I am resurrecting it from Internet oblivion.
I should note the recipe is originally from Hey There, Cupcake! by Clare Crespo. Here's the recipe:
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20 glass marbles or small balls of tinfoil 1 recipe batter for White Cupcakes (store bought or see below for the homemade recipe) 2 to 3 cups strawberry jelly or smooth strawberry jam 1 recipe Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting (store bought or see below for the homemade recipe) Red and blue food colouring Pastry bag and medium round tip (optional)
Ah Valentines. I never was a fan of the holiday, regardless of whether or not I was in a relationship. I'm a firm believer of year-round wooing (for me and my partner) and I don't have much faith in the authenticity of gestures made on February 14th.
Despite my general misgivings, I thought I would dedicate a couple of blog posts this week to the theme of marketed love. Today we'll look at your card options.
The spider card (pictured left) is a product posted on zazzle.com (along with a number of anti-valentines day items, for those interested). They also had a rather nice skull card (pictured right).
I was reminded of a quote today by Georgia O'Keefe: "To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage." This is true of all genres, but I think the statement has a heavier truth when applied to artists whose focus falls outside the realm of the mainstream; whose subject isn't easily identifiable as beautiful to most people.
All artists have to face scrutiny, and there is a chance that some (if not many) people will dismiss the notion of the artist having talent. But I think it's harder for the haunter or artists whom are more dark at heart, because sometimes people aren't just rejecting your skills, but how you view life, and what you deem to be beautiful (or what you classify as art, for that matter).
I've come across a couple of interesting ideas for serving watermelon at your next bone-bash. The first, a watermelon brain, comes from two sources and seems pretty straight forward.
You can try following scoochmaroo's detailed instructions (her melon brain is pictured right), or Disney's version.
Feeling a bit more brave and artistic? I got a good chuckle when I saw this idea of having the dead rising out of the grave (or melon, as the case may be).
I've tried to find the original source for this idea. I always feel a bit unclean when I post an image or idea without giving credit. Unfortunately, Kim's Halloween Recipes page where I found this image simply label it 'online idea' without a reference. If anyone knows who came up with this little beauty, I'd love to know.
Kris Kuksi is a genius. I can get lost in the tiny details of his sculptures. Whenever I view his work online, I end up leaning forward in my chair, nose close to the glass of my monitor, but I can never see it as clear as I'd like to.
Each piece is like two works of art in one: you have the wide view, like a dark landscape; and then you have all the tiny characters within it.
Luckily, it seems he is coming to the Meta Gallery in Toronto from May 15th to June 14th, 2009, so I will finally be able to see those micro-beauties clearly.
For those of you who aren't going to check out his show in person, you can view his sculptures online. He has a handy (yet finicky) flash application that allows you to zoom in fairly tight on the images.
He has an interesting bio posted on his site, not unlike many stories we've heard before. But there were specific quotes that resonated with me:
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Just two minutes down the road from us you'll find incredible history, stunning scenery in some of the nicest people a little town called Field, BC.
Tents and shacks were set up as the first settlers arrived in the 1880s to start construction on the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). This was crucial to not only trading but also the development of the country; it enticed many provinces to join the confederation creating the foundation for Canada.
The townsite was named after an American investor, Cyrus Field, who never ended up investing a dime! The CPR built and developed many of the surrounding hiking trails and even hired Swiss guides to escort amateur mountaineers in order to entice rich potential investors to stay at the many mountain hotels and chalets.


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Cam Fuller went into the final round of the Newschannel 7 Golf Classic tied for the lead. Fuller shared the lead with Bull's Eye Country Club member Rick Miller and Brian Krueger. But from the first tee box on, it was all about Fuller.
Fuller shot a 71, en route to a -1 143 for the weekend. Good enough to earn the title of NC7 Golf Classic Champion.
Miller bogeyed hole number one, and played from behind the rest of the day. He ended up shooting a 77, earning a +5 for the weekend, and tied for sixth place.
Krueger was consistent in the final round, and finished tied with Josh Grisa for 2nd place honors. Krueger and Grisa ended up with a +1 overall score.
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I love Sly Cooper. I remember putting hours into the games just to get 100% completion to show on my save data. And now I get trophies? Ths is gonna be awesome
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The president said he is saddened that some families will spend the holidays in evacuation centers because their homes were destroyed.
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It has caused at least 418 deaths in the country, left about a quarter of a million homeless and affected more than 5 million people overall, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the Philippines' emergency management agency, reported Friday morning. Some 383 people are missing and 445 are injured, the agency said.
The typhoon arrived just ahead of a sinister anniversary on Mindanao. A year ago, Tropical Storm Washi drenched northern areas of the island with heavy rain, setting off flash floods and landslides in the middle of the night that destroyed entire villages.
Washi, dubbed "Sendong" in the Philippines, killed more than 1,200 people and left painful memories in the hardest hit areas, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City.
The approach this week of Bopha, a far more powerful storm than Washi, had residents fearing fresh devastation. Local authorities took preemptive action, relocating thousands of people to evacuation centers and setting up emergency supplies.
But in the end, northern Mindanao was spared the worst of Bopha's fury. It was the less prepared communities of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, further south and east, that bore the brunt.
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EDMONTON - A young doctor in a slim-fit navy micro-check suit opens the front of Jenna Ferretti's papery medical top and examines her breasts.
"Definitely there is quite a bit of drooping," plastic surgeon Dr. Feng Chong says to Ferretti, nodding his head. "Your nipple is well beneath the fold."
We are in a stylish examining room in a medical office on 124th Street. The floor is black tile, the walls a soothing neutral brown. It is a crisp autumn morning. Ferretti, a mother of two, has waited several months for a consultation with Chong, one of just a handful of plastic surgeons in the city who specialize in "mommy makeovers." The alliteratively named cosmetic procedure offers a combination of breast lift, breast augmentation, tummy tuck and/or liposuction that reverses some of the physical tolls of pregnancy and breastfeeding. Mommy makeovers are not covered by the provincial health care plan, and they're not cheap: at Chong's clinic, a woman will pay anywhere from $9,000 to $24,000, depending on how much "work" she has done.
With her five-year-old, Julian, distracted by a hunting game on her smartphone, Ferretti gives the doctor some backstory on how having babies has changed her figure. Her cup size has gone from a double-A to a D, and "gravity's kinda taking hold," she jokes.
Chong explains how the sag of a woman's breasts is graded on a scale of one to three, three being the saggiest. "Unfortunately yours are the most severe," he says, then goes over a hand-drawn diagram of how a breast lift works.
Ferretti, 36, wants to have surgery to fix her breasts and her belly. She unzips the fly of her jeans to show Chong a deep, dimple-like scar above her navel, the result of multiple laparotomies and keyhole surgeries. A tummy tuck will remove excess skin and get rid of that scar, though it will also create a new scar running across her lower abdomen from hip to hip.
Ferretti is OK with that. She's going to pay for the mommy makeover with savings. The surgery isn't about vanity. It's about self-esteem.
"I want to feel good about myself," she says. "I've put the kids first for so long, and now it's my turn. " She is divorced and wants to start dating again, but right now the thought of being intimate with a new man makes her cringe. "You know what, it's lights off. I'm completely embarrassed."
Mommy makeovers are increasingly commonplace among ordinary women who have finished having children and can afford the hefty price tag. Neither Canada nor Alberta keeps statistics on cosmetic surgery procedures, since they are largely a private service, but the United States does track these numbers. A 2011 study by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons showed that women had nearly 112,000 tummy tucks and 90,000 breast lifts in 2010, an increase of 85 per cent and 70 per cent respectively from 10 years earlier. It's in part because the procedures are more socially acceptable than 10 years ago, the organization reported. And women are getting mommy makeover procedures younger — in their 30s, rather than their 50s. Breast augmentation has been the top cosmetic surgical procedure in the U.S. since 2006, the organization reported. (This doesn't include minimally invasive facial rejuvenation procedures like Botox. A staggering 6.1 million Botox injections were performed in the U.S. in 2012).
In Edmonton, potential clients wait months to get a consult with Chong, who performs up to 10 surgeries each week. Most of his patients are in their 30s and 40s.
"It's a lot of money but on the flip side, what a lot of women tell me, what I hear more and more is, 'I've spent so much of my effort and money taking care of my kids, now it's time to take care of myself," Chong says. "They say things like, 'I could go buy a new car but I'd rather invest it in myself.' "
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Chantelle Leclair had gestational diabetes during both her pregnancies, gaining 80 pounds each time. Leclair, who runs a crossfit studio, managed to lose the extra weight both times, but barely recognized her body afterwards. "There was this big pooch of skin on my stomach," Leclair recalls, "and my breasts were like socks with bowling balls in them." Without a bra, "the skin was hanging there with no structure in it. And the more weight I lost, the more the excessive skin became prevalent."
Leclair felt "grossed out" whenever she'd bend forward and feel things hanging and find herself tucking in skin. "It's a really uncomfortable thing to have this disfigurement going on."
In January 2013, she got a mommy makeover with Chong for $24,000. "People say, 'your boobs look the same as before,' and in clothes they absolutely do," Leclair says. "It wasn't my goal to turn my body into the body of a 23-year-old woman who hasn't had kids."
The procedure isn't without its drawbacks. There's a long recovery period, and scars too. Leclair's scars run around the circumference of her nipples, and running from the base of each nipple down under the bottom of her breasts, and a hip-to-hip scar across her lower abdomen.
But it was worth it to her. "I feel comfortable back in my own skin. I don't have those moments where I look at my body in a mirror, catch myself in a certain position if I didn't have everything tied in and have that sense of 'YECH.' "
Some women go abroad to take advantage of lower priced surgeries. Prices in Edmonton tend to be steeper that those in the United States and Mexico. In June 2013, Heather Zavisha got a full mommy makeover at a private clinic in Tijuana for $15,000 including airfare and accommodation. The 28-year-old had a consult with an Edmonton surgeon but he wanted to charge more and do the surgeries separately. Friends recommended a Mexican surgeon; Zavisha went to Tijuana for eight days and got the full-meal deal. "If I'd have done it on my own, I'd have been like, oh Mexico, ew, dirty, but that place is cleaner than any hospital I've been in here," she says of the Limarp clinic where she had her surgery.
"It has made me a happier person, for sure," Zavisha says. She doesn't need to wear a bra and isn't afraid to wear bikinis or strapless clothes. "I'm more outgoing. I don't sit behind a table, for sure, I'll stand up and talk to everyone. It's something I've wanted for five years and now that I have it, I'm like, yay!"
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"TREAT YOURSELF TO A MOMMY MAKEOVER TODAY! YOU DESERVE IT," it says on Chong's website, www.plasticsurgeryalberta.ca. The website is elegant, simple, the models in the photos are youthful and feminine. "Safe surgical procedures can be performed to help mothers regain their pre-pregnancy bodies, and to help them feel more attractive, confident, and comfortable."
Chong clarifies, however, that he won't do surgery on everyone who comes into the clinic. He has had to turn some women away because they have unrealistic expectations. For example, some women want liposuction when they are already thin and healthy. He also turns away women who want to take a shortcut, "as in, let's get a tummy tuck as a weight loss procedure," he explains. Mommy makeovers are meant to correct things that "can't be reversed with exercise and diet. It's not an alternative to a healthy lifestyle, a healthy diet and so on."
Because Chong can improve aspects of the body that a woman can't correct on her own, the work is as rewarding as it is lucrative.
"The first two weeks they don't like me very much because of the pain," Chong says, but afterwards, "they're extremely happy. Women come and want to give me a hug. 'You changed my life.' A lot of women say, they wished they'd done it earlier. 'I was afraid, afraid of the recovery, I thought I was being selfish.' "
Despite the positive outcomes, every surgery carries risk. With mommy makeovers there is always a small chance of infection, bleeding, blood clots and reduced sensation, Chong explains, as well as the risks associated with being under general anesthetic. Liposuction, which can be part of a mommy makeover, carries another risk: fat embolism, in which fat globules get into the blood vessels. It can be deadly. In 2008, Ashish Toews, a Calgary mom of two, died of a fat embolism while getting lipo. She was 33.
There are no long-term side effects to the cosmetic surgeries involved in a mommy makeover, Chong says, citing studies, although breast implants might need to be replaced after a period of 10 years or more.
The main issue is that a woman shouldn't invest in a mommy makeover until she's certain her child-bearing days are done. The bodily changes of pregnancy and breastfeeding can effectively undo the results of the surgery, meaning a woman who has had the surgery might need to go under the knife again to get that pre-baby figure she desires. Also, a woman who breastfeeds after a breast lift may have a reduced milk supply, Chong says.
While the medical risks may be low, there are many who firmly believe mothers ought to celebrate their postpartum bodies — stretch marks, love handles, sagging and all. These are maternal war wounds, they argue, physical changes not worth losing sleep over and certainly not something to "correct" with a scalpel and a line of credit.
"For some women, it's a badge of honour," says Tara-Leigh McHugh, a body image expert at the University of Alberta. "Some women just don't care."
To label a mommy makeover as good or bad isn't possible because body image is incredibly complex, McHugh explains. "I might feel really good about myself because of relationships, my role as a mother, whatever. Maybe other women, how they feel about themselves may be very appearance-based. There's no correct answer."
McHugh knows the toll pregnancy and childbirth take on the body, and she can sympathize with women who decide to go the surgery route.
"I'm a mom of three children under five and even as a body image researcher I've thought a lot about it," she says. "Women have a big challenge on their hands. Whether they've had babies or not, they face society-imposed expectations about how they're supposed to look."
Jade Beall is trying to change the perceptions about mothers' bodies — one photo shoot at a time. For the past five years, the Tuscon, Ariz., native has been helping empower women of all ages and body types with "truthful" photography. When she had her own baby in early 2012, Beale's artistic focus, quite naturally, shifted to the postpartum physique. She herself had gained 50 pounds during pregnancy and was struggling to lose the excess weight. "My body was really altered," she recalls. "That was a source of sadness. But it was also empowering. I was amazed by my body, too, by this process of giving birth. 'I am so badass!' "
Beall went into her photo studio and did a tastefully nude photo shoot of herself and baby Sequoia, then posted the pictures to her website. It wasn't her best moment. "I wasn't elated. I had to push myself," she says, noting she has had body image issues since she suffered extreme acne as a teen. "It was like, awesome, I'm going to show myself at an all-time low.
"And yet I really wanted that variety on my website."
The response was overwhelming; hundreds of emails came flooding in commending Beall on her beauty and bravery. "I had no idea they would be so well-received. People were, I guess, ready to receive them."
That's when Beall decided to make A Beautiful Body Project, a website dedicated to postpartum photography that has garnered a huge flurry of media attention and online interest. The first shoot was of a mom with "amazing stretch marks" whose children are snuggling up to her belly. The Facebook response was incredible, with many telling Beall they'd never even seen such a photo before.
"It's beautiful to see myself in this," Doris Palmeros wrote.
"I've got tears streaming down my face. My daughters love to play with Mommy's big soft belly they grew in. Thanks for the reality check!" Nat Di said."I was shocked that people were shocked, that people felt they were the only ones who had it (this type of belly)," Beall says.
A Beautiful Body Project has grown to include photos of 100 women's postpartum bodies. "It's just getting better and better. Just when I think we're at the peak of sisterhood and awesomeness, it gets even juicier."Since it launched, the website has had more than a million unique viewers and Beall gets requests from all over the world from women who want her to photograph their bodies, too. "It's beautiful to see women united in this form, wanting to share and create art and share stories. I hope this platform does take off, become a place where both men and women like to share this truthful imagery and art."
The Guardian called her up after Kate Middleton gave birth to Prince George, asking for her opinion on Kate's appearance outside the hospital wearing an empire-waisted dress that made no effort to hide her post-baby belly. "I was a little shocked. 'Really? You want my take on this?' I was honoured. It was an amazing turning point for women, having her standing there in her gorgeous body. 'OK, Kate Middleton, come on, let's do a shoot, girl!' I'm dreaming."
A book of Beall's photography featuring portraits of between 50 to 70 mothers will be out in February 2014. Beall calls it the first volume, because she's already got other plans for subsequent shoots celebrating women's bodies on themes other than motherhood.
But while she's all in favour of celebrating the natural, she isn't against women who've had surgery to fix their tummies and breasts after babies. "I really want to be all-inclusive," she says. "I'm all for whatever makes you feel empowered, if that's truly going to bring you happiness. I will not condemn. I want to be a support to all my sisters."
It does sadden her, though, when women think they ought to have a mommy makeover to be truly beautiful. "Ugh, ugh, it hurts me," she says. "It hurts my soul. I think a lot of people make a lot of money when we agree on that. It hurts my heart. I don't think we need to surgically remove or alter anything in most cases."
Yet not everyone follows Beall's lead and withholds judgment. Many women who've undergone cosmetic surgery face negative reactions from relatives, friends and coworkers.
Zavisha lost a friend on Facebook after she wrote testimonial about mommy makeovers online, saying how she loved her kids but they'd "damaged" her body. "My friend said I should walk around with stretch marks and excess skin with pride, because my kids gave them to me. My opinion is, if you can fix it, why not?"
Leclair, 36, has faced her share of criticism, too. When she said jokingly she could not longer afford to send both her kids to university, some people didn't laugh. Women have called her selfish and said she's making other women feel pressured to make their bodies live up to an ideal that isn't realistic.
"I find it extremely difficult when people tell me my individual choices are responsible for the decimation of women's rights. It's such a huge leap, but I've certainly heard it. I did it for my own personal preference. I don't think it impacts anyone but me. I don't walk around naked around other people's husbands and say, 'Ha ha, make your wife look like this!' "
"It's an individual choice," says Chong. "We spend thousands on gym memberships, diets, supplements, eating well. I can't fault a woman who says, I've worked hard, I'm fit and healthy and I want to look better.
"I've had some women tell me, 'my neighbours gave me a hard time.' I don't think that's necessarily fair. You shouldn't get upset at someone, or think they're shallow or vain, for wanting to feel more confident about themselves."
Ferretti doesn't care what people think. She's looking forward to perkier breasts and a smoother, slimmer midriff. "If I want to look better to go out and date, I think I deserve to do that."


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The alleged sexual harassment occurred at the fundraiser, where Fink guided Filner from table to table.
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I'm coming up against a problem that I didn't anticipate, and am wondering how other SEO professionals have dealt with this. I have a few clients that have chosen to not give me access to their servers, which I'm great with (I don't want to be in the equation if anything happens to their site). It means that they have to take action on the tasks that I send them though, and they aren't. I'm still getting paid, but there is no net change in organic traffic because nothing on their sites has changed. So frustrating!!
Has anyone else faced this? And if so, what did you do?
Posted 24 March 2008 - 08:32 PM
What to do next depends upon a lot of things, most importantly your relationship with the client. If it keeps happening though you're eventually going to have to do something. I always had good personal relationships with my clients back in the day. So eventually when they asked me to do something else that was going to cause billable hours I'd ask for a meeting, sometimes, usually starting with the person I was actually coordinating with, sometimes I'd go to whoever was signing the checks to make sure they were aware. During that session the convo would usually go something like:
I really enjoy working with <insert company> but I fear you're not getting the best performance out of the investments you're making in your web site. You see, I keep sending in the work you ask me to do but nothing ever appears on your web site. Frankly, I don't think it would be right for me to keep taking your money if nothing ever gets implemented. It just doesn't feel right.
I never had a single one get mad at me for looking out for their interests. I've had a few people who weren't doing their jobs for no good reason get mad at me, but the big bosses always appreciated me giving them a heads up.
And to answer your next question, yes I had to fire a few clients over such silly things.
Posted 25 March 2008 - 01:16 AM
Not necessarily something you will work out for this case. But achieving results are important to your business as a consultant as well as their's.
I'd say you can expect a certain amount of this, depending on you target market. Especially if the project goes on for a while and your clients have lost their sense of excitement for it.
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At first I didn't mind as I was getting the monthly payment but as soon as there IT manager took a holiday, that was it, everything stopped and that was incredibly frustrating from my point of view.
Now I write that into the contract that I have full FTP/site/server access in order to carry out my job effectively. Since then I have had no issues.
That's probably the best way to go about it.
Posted 25 March 2008 - 12:22 PM
In most companies that have more than a few people working at them, it would be extremely rare to be given ftp access and have the ability to make all the changes that you want to make. And quite frankly, it shouldn't be part of your job as the SEO. Companies should have their own web teams in place to make the sort of changes you'll be recommending.
Whether they make them is up to them. There could be a number of reasons why they're not making them. They may just not have the time, or they may not agree with them. Most likely, they have to go through numerous layers of internal struggle to even get one word changed on a website.
As long as they're paying you your fees and you're delivering what you said you would, then personally, I wouldn't worry about it. Yes, you need to make sure they understand that to benefit from your recommendations they will have to implement them, but beyond that, it's in their hands.
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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:46 PM
Should they not follow these specific instructions, then that could have a detrimental effect on their rankings.
That's it.
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The only problem with that is if the client (and most of the time they will be) is naive about SEO and do not fully understand and appreciate the work that goes into achieving high rankings. I am sure a number of people still see SEO as a black art, a manipulation of the search engines - they expect you to be putting in a piece of code that no one else has. So although lenwood is correct in what he is doing - there is always that concern that the client will not believe they are getting a ROI - and look elsewhere.
Lenwood - How complex is the site? I have an similar issue, however we actually built the site so I made a test copy on my local machine. I liaise with the webmaster on a regular basis, sending updates and changing things on the test site from time to time. It's more management and time consuming, but at least you are comforted with the fact that you are getting the recommendations implemented. However by the sounds of it, I doubt they'd be that considerate for a test site!
Good luck.
Posted 26 March 2008 - 04:24 AM
That's where you will need to educate your client, and explain - in a simplified way - how it works.
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I think having those responsibilities outlined in your proposal and contract have you covered. If there is an actual name put on those responsibilities, that's even better.
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Posted 26 March 2008 - 04:52 PM
This was my first large customer, and a very resistant I/T manager is the bottleneck. Sometimes he pushes back and sometimes he just ignores my input, but out of the three months that I've spent with them, the only thing that's been done is a robots.txt file.
This has been a real source of frustration for a couple of reasons. First, I want to make money AND I want to build a portfolio. Both are equally important. I'm just starting out, so every new client is taking me at my word that I'll be able to help them. A year from now if I can't point to some successes... Second, at some point the management team that hired me is going to want to see results. I send them extensive reports each month, they're paying substantial money and the numbers aren't moving. This isn't going to continue forever. Whether the problem is me or their employee, my contract is going to get cut for underperformance.
I'm willing to let the client go if it comes to that, but its not my first choice. I've begun daily calls and emails to the I/T mgr. If he doesn't implement my work it won't be because he didn't understand.
Jill, you mentioned working with larger companies/sites, that's my target. Do you address this at all in a contract, or raise this issue in the initial dialogue?
Posted 26 March 2008 - 06:19 PM
He sees you coming in telling him that he needs to do this and that to change "his" site. He probably already has a backlog of his own work to take care of, so he puts your tasks at the bottom of the "priority list" (don't you hate that term) because it couldn't possibly be as important as the 100 other things he needs to do.
He doesn't much like the idea that some stranger can come in and start telling him to make changes that could improve upon the site, since he has already done everything he can...and how could you possibly know better than the IT Mgr what "his" site needs anyway.
Nobody ever said working in SEO was easy.
Many times you are essentially looked at as the bad guy, coming into their territory saying this or that needs to be changed. You're asking everyone from the top down in the company to take time out of their busy schedules to help you (whether they have to provide you with content or articles that they want you to add to the site, or you need them to implement tracking code, make coding changes or upload pages for you).
Even worse, sometimes you ask for server/FTP access.
You are the bringer of bad news when you explain what is going on with their site currently, because you are asking them to take time out of their busy schedules, right away, to take care of things so you can get results (that they were unable to get, which touches on their own insecurities).
In reality, you are the bringer of good news. If they cooperate, working with you to give you/do what you need, everyone benefits through increased exposure.
Unfortunalety, many IT guys egos are more sensitive than their desire to work with you to improve upon what they have already done. They should be proud of what they have achieved but to have someone come in and say it needs to be improved upon...well that just cannot be tolerated.
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No. 3 Gonzaga 81, San Diego 50: Kevin Pangos scored 18 points as the host Bulldogs won their 12th West Coast Conference regular-season title in the last 13 years with a rout of the Toreros.
Player of the Year candidate Kelly Olynyk had 14 points and nine rebounds for Gonzaga (27-2, 14-0), which has won 10 straight over San Diego and 32 of the last 34 meetings. The Bulldogs turned a 14-point halftime lead into a 64-32 bulge with 11:09 to go.
Elias Harris added 12 points and five rebounds as Gonzaga won the battle of the boards 38-22. Pangos, Olynyk and Harris combined to shoot 16-for-20 from the field.
Chris Manresa scored 19 points for the Toreros (13-16, 6-8), who lost to Gonzaga 65-63 on Feb. 2 - the Bulldogs' only WCC victory by less than five points. San Diego has lost four straight and eight of its last 10 games.
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Red blood cells are initially produced in the bone marrow with a nucleus. They then undergo a process known as enucleation in which their nucleus is removed. Enucleation occurs roughly when the cell has reached maturity. According to one research (Ji, et al., 2008), the way this occurs in mice is that a ring of actin filaments surrounds the cell, and then contracts. This cuts off a segment of the cell containing the nucleus, which is then swallowed by a macrophage. Enucleation in humans most likely follows a very similar mechanism. The absence of a nucleus is an adaptation of the red blood cell for its role. It allows the red blood cell to contain more hemoglobin and, therefore, carry more oxygen molecules. It also allows the cell to have its distinctive bi-concave shape which aids diffusion. This shape would not be possible if the cell had a nucleus in the way. Because of the advantages it gives, it is easy to see why evolution would cause this to occur. However, since little is known about the genes the control enucleation, it is still not a fully understood process. | |||||||||||||||||||||


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I'm upset we didn't get more information on Episode N. The first 5 minutes that we saw we basically already knew about. We should have gotten a Looker scene or a Charizard scene.
I'm upset we didn't get more information on Episode N. The first 5 minutes that we saw we basically already knew about. We should have gotten a Looker scene or a Charizard scene.
Believe me, its nothing special. It just showed randoms stuff from old episodes like Tracey's Sycther giving TR a haircut, Ash in the giant apple disguise when they were trying to wake up Snorlax, some random DP clips of a Hippopotas and some recent Best Wishes scenes.
I don't know why people care what was shown, it was nothing important.
They should have had more audience participation. Have the audience vote for their favorite episode, movie, character, etc. I'd love to see what the results of that vote would be. We would get to see what the Japanese kids like. Maybe they are saving that for the last season or 20th anniversary.
I don't know why they choose random scenes all the time. They should have the writers' favorite or the audience favorite to change things up. I thought they had a vote to see which movie viewers wanted to see again and Movie 14 won (I don't know how it won) but I guess since it was the most recent, most people remembered it.
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1. The Anime: OS > AG > BW > DP = XY
2. The English Dub: 4Kids + TAJ Productions (Seasons 1-5) > 4Kids Entertainment (Seasons 6-8) > DuArt Film and Video (Seasons 11-Current) > TAJ Productions (Seasons 9-10)
3. The Games: XY > BW > RSE > GSC > Y > HGSS > DP > RBG
4. The Manga: RSE > RBY > DPPt > BW > GSC
5. Pokemon: The Origin: Excellent: 94.7/100.
English Dub Episode 1: 85/100
English Dub Episode 2: 80/100
English Dub Episode 3: 100/100
English Dub Episode 4: 80/100
English Dub of The Origin: 86.3/100
6. The Movies: OS > AG > DP = BW
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This Haiku Deck and ScentTrail Marketing blog post captures ideas percolating from launching one of the first crowdfunding cancer research platforms (http://www.curecancerstarter.org) l last week.
One of the big Should of Had A V8 moments last week was the realization that the way the new Google set the table does not favor a rebel Rat-Tag army.
Since climbing the latter to AUTHORITY and TRUSTED status now can take years and you will have a giant pissing our your head every step of the way, better to create conversations not website and then inject your conversation into their castles via widgets, apps and white label embedding.
Can a rebel army survive when the new Google swings the machine gun so deliberately and giants are trying to knock rebels to the ground? Yes IF they THINK WEB FIRST and this post should help with that.
What about you? Do you think web first already? How did you get there? What have you changed?
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The customer acquisition landscape is constantly in flux. The introduction of disruptive technologies and tools over the last few years has spawned enormous changes in online marketing.
Despite BIG changes in email such as MOBILE email remains #1 customer acquistion and converison tool for most online marketers.
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Not sure I understand this yet, but going to stay with it since Trendwatching is a great and trusted source. The promise is also intriguing. The ability to SEE and "unpack" a trend in one's favor is too promising to ignore even if the model takes a little getting used to.
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In a social mobile and connected time for profit companies should learn emotional storytelling from nonprofits. Nonprofits should learn viral marketing and SEO
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As data visualization expands its reach – through the rise of Massive Online Courses, the countless events and, most significantly, the interconnection between different disciplines and knowledge fields that produce inspiring works and innovative projects -, it's only natural that the number of folks writing about it keeps rising.
There are literally hundreds of interesting blogs out there, covering all the aspects surrounding the production of quality, effective data visualizations.
Visit the link to find a collection of resources and interesting projects that give a pretty good idea of how vast and rich the data visualization community is...
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Data visualization is now critical. My favorite of those blogs are Storytelling with data, and Ilovecharts (quite funny although not necessarily business related)
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Wow, finally there is a book / tool that takes the PAIN out of creating a business plan. Too good and shout out thanks to Frank Pollack for sharing.
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Creating online scale is the hardest job you will ever love. This Haiku Deck shares tips learned from $30,000,000 in online sales and scaling CureCancerStarter.org, a new website to help crowdfund cancer research.
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These secrets are hard to share not because of how SECRET they are, but because of how automatic they become after Internet marketing for almost 15 years.
6 Internet Marketing Secrets
* use WordPress Themes.
* Solve Brand Conflicts.
* Tease Clicks Don't Drown Them.
* Test Video Marketing.
* Align Website Nonverbals.
* People and Stories Sell not Cool Tech.
This last bullet is the hardest to convince #startups and #smbs. Real estate agents want to show their MLS widget, the same widget every other real estate agent has. Startups want to show their widget.
PEOPLE and STORIES are what makes great website content because we BUY with EMOTION and JUSTIFY with LOGIC.
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Owning conversations means curating related content without worrying over if competitors created it. Owning a conversation means you know that the conversation is happening.
We suggest using Scoop.it and Paper.li to help "spider" the social web. When you "own" a conversation curating realted content, adding your take via Scoop.it-like snippets and being creful with attribution and how you use curated content (to avoide dupe content penalties) you are acting like a Google Authority. Have to act like an authority for a long time before Google trusts and rewards you.
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How much time do you spend consuming information that you have no intention of taking action on or that you don't care deeply about?
Love this post as it reinforces why I'm so careful with my consumption of mainstream media. Once I heard "cancer" and my name in the same sentence I knew curating my head was going to be critical. "All energy to shields," was kind of how I thought of it.
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Circles of Concern are the things that you often waste time and energy worrying about, but that you have little to no control over. Meanwhile, Circles of Control are the things that you can influence in your daily life.
As an example, the vast majority of news stories — war and terrorism, the economy and stock prices, celebrity gossip and political scandal — fall squarely in the Circle of Concern. They can easily soak up your time and energy, but you have virtually no control over those events.
Other examples include getting angry about what someone posted on Facebook, worrying about what other people think about you, or wishing your kids would make better choices (a valid wish, but still outside of your control).
Agreed! Curate yourself!
"The world doesn't need more people who mindlessly digest whatever information is around. What the world needs are people who learn with purpose, who take action on the things that are important to them, and who seek out high quality information as a way to spark creativity — not as an excuse to consume even more."
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Hint: You want to focus on the Circle of Control.
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The SEO controversy seems to be understanding exactly what Gooogle has and has not killed with their algorithm changes. This post explains the history from the first time I heard "SEO is Dead" two years ago right up to present day where any marketing unsupported by social signals is a dog that just doesn't hunt.
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Branding opportunities don't have to be big to have impact. Take advantage of these 5 moments to reinforce your brand promise.
Small touchpoints, especially at this time of year, can make a huge difference in winning the post-sale advocacy we depend on (See David Edleman's new conversion funnel HBR post linked from my Atlantic BT post http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/social-medias-magic-loops/
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If the first use of our magical global network was mostly about logistics the next web is going to be mostly about connection. Walmart and other big box retailers took advantage of the web to build logistics that would make Romans proud.
Problem is NOBODY LOVES LOGISTICS.
In fact the ONLY expression of logistics on the web is our kudos or complaints. Logistics are too far removed from places hearts and minds are won. Granted logistics can make it easier or harder to win hearts and minds.
This ScentTrail Marketing blog post and Haiku Deck demonstrates how two lines will cross. One line is the profits and power from logistics and it is significant but not growing. The other line represents gains from creating community via the social web and that line is growing rapidly.
When those line cross it will be clear that the next web is about people not logistics.
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As usual, a thought provoking scoop from Marty.
For a starter we are now in the Castle Construction Industry!!
QDF (Quality Deserves Freshness) is our fortress.
Miss reading the article at your peril
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Ad Serving is so much more than you think. If our we design future is a series of contingent creative modeled to display based on predictive analytics then the existing very close to that idea is sophisticaed ad serving.
Ad serving is knowing who is looking at what and how often they've seen it, but ad serving also forms the core of predictive modeling. When we show this ad to this person aor segment in this kind of environment it converts and that is exactly the way we will think of our content soon (as either converting or not).
The problem now is the top of our content marketing funnel insn't connected to our bottom so traffic generation isn't related to conversion. Traffic is such an interesting problem.
When I sold my house only one person looked at it. Traffic LOW but converison HIGH. When I was an Ecommerce director we needed 12,000 unique visitors a day to sell 400 or 500 customers. so Traffic HIGH but conversion LOW.
In our new GOOGLe world washing 12,000 uniques a day through for so few conversions would slowly lower your website's value. These days you want your heuristic measures (time on site, pages viewed, conversions such as downloading or signing up for something or buying something to go UP).
Better to move LESS traffic through your website and get more from them. Sales were interestingly tied to traffic. On the one hand traffic reduciton move the conversion needle down, but that was only because our analytics weren't sophisticated enough to know who to court and who to let go.
By "court" I mean use sophisticated ad serving to model and convert the visit. With Google's new thinking about value and content marketing any websites HEURSTIC measures must improve and in an ever increasing pattern, so can't we use sophisticated ad serving to focus the right content to the right audience and so move heursitcs up.
I can see a financial person doing the, "Sophisticatd ad serving costs X, what does it get us?" Thing and boy do I hate gatekeepers like that because we are on the BLEEDIG EDGE now talking about something that cost NOTHING in relation to its potential benefits such as:
* More Page Views Because More Relevant Content Presented.
* Lower Bounce Rates As You Model Out Crap Traffic.
* Faster pattern recognition on content (ads) that are working.
Last idea is very important because what is our content OTHER than long form ads? A: Our Content Is Exactly A Long For Ad. what DMers used to call "advertorial". The role of our content in an inbound marketing world is the same as advertorial. It doesn't look as "sell you a a used car", but don't kind yourself if your company is spending millions there better be some clear ROI somewhere.
Clear ROI is why I want to speak with ADZERK about sophiticaed ad serviing for http://www.curecancerstarter.com. I suspect we will find so many unintended benefits that building a ROI case won't be a problem. Stay tuned.
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I started my career as a Sales Information Analyst at M&M/Mars. If that sounds like hours slaving over spreadsheets and using other tools (SAS) then you got it. Analyst work HARD and rarely get a cookie (praise they deserve).
I propose a special BI Expert and Data Analyst Challenge. RALLY and GIVE at least $1,500 to these three CureCancerStarter.org cancer research campaigns by this Friday:
Vitamin D & Lunch Cancer Research
Brain Cancer Vaccine
Personalizing Treatments For Colorectal Cancer
and here is how I will say THANKS to the hardest working bands in rock and roll (BI Experts and Data Analysts):
* Match your donations so $1,500 becomes $3,000.
* Write HERO stories about every BI Expert and Data Analyst who contributed (email me your contribution at either Martin(at)storyofcancer.org or Martin.Smith(at)atlanticbt.com).
* Enter every Analyst and BI Expert who contributed into a drawing for a personal digital makeover where three of my wizard friends provide notes on how to tighten up your personal branding.
* Be rewarded in our HEARTS and MINDS like BI Experts and Data Analysts rarely are!
Thanks and let's reach $1,500 from BI Experts and Data Analysts by Friday.
Remember, email Martin(at)storyofcancer.org or tweet to @CureCancerStart (http://www.twitter.com/curecancerstart ) or @ScentTrail (http://www.twitter.com/scenttrail )
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Martin's Ride To Cure Cancer just outside of LA PHOTO submitted to Cure Cancer Photo contst on Facebook. I can't win, but you can. Imagine what the day we cure cancer looks like and share that photo.
Easy to enter: http://on.fb.me/16b4hBG
Remember, together we cure cancer in our lifetime. What if your photo gives a cancer patient, threir friends or family HOPE today? What's that worth? Would make my day, week, month, year :). Marty
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Deluxe supplement
Upgrade to a deluxe room for a supplement of just £49 and enjoy a private chauffeur transfer to the airport at a time of your choice as well as a complimentary newspaper. On your return, we'll greet you in arrivals with your car keys, so all you need do is drive home.
Deluxe rooms offer a little more space to unwind, and complimentary wi-fi comes as standard. With sleek flat-screen TVs, marble-clad bathrooms, plush bathrobes and seamless service, the holiday starts before you've even reached the airport.
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