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At Klaviyo, we're strong believers in more personalized and targeted email marketing. It's better for consumers because the content they'll see in their inbox is more relevant to them. It's better for you because consumers will be more likely to read your emails, less likely to unsubscribe and, ultimately, more likely to make additional purchases or recommend you to a friend.
So without further ado, here are five emails you should be sending your customers that are triggered based on their behavior:
1. Win Backs
Win backs are triggered email campaigns designed to "win back" previous customers. Because marketing to existing customers is often much easier than new customers because they've already had a positive experience, these campaigns can dramatically increase sales.
If you're not yet sending these types of emails, the simplest approach is to get a list of all your customers and when they last made a purchase, choose the period of time after which you want to email them and filter out customers who have made a purchase more recently. How long to wait before sending a customer a win back will depend on your business, but a good estimate is between three and 12 months. Once you have a list of customers, you will send them an email campaign designed to motivate them to revisit your website or business. The two most common carrots you can offer are either a limited time offer/discount or a summary of new or related products.
Once you've sent the first campaign, you'll want to repeat the process at least every month or two. You can also start to test different ideas around what message or offer to use and who to target. For instance, you might want to send different win backs based on number of times a customer has purchased or what types of products they typically purchase. You'll also want to measure the effectiveness of these campaigns and the number of purchases and sales they drive. Our Campaign Analyzer is a free and easy way to measure which email campaigns lead to purchases.
There's lots more to discuss around win backs, but I'll leave that for another post.
2. Abandoned carts
Most businesses know they should be sending triggered abandoned cart campaigns, but few e-commerce businesses actually implement them. This can be a big missed opportunity. Studies have shown that 87% consumers abandon online carts and 75% say they intend to complete their purchase. Most importantly, 54% of abandoners who intend to buy will do so in the first 24 hours after leaving. This means there's a small window for reaching out to those consumers before they lose interest.
To send these emails, you need to know when a consumer adds something to a shopping cart online, but doesn't complete that purchase within an hour. You also need to collect their email address during the checkout process so you have a way to contact them. Once you have that information, you can monitor for new abandoned carts yourself or set up an automated system to do it for you.
It's also important to think about the message you want to send. It's easy to think the reason for a consumer abandoning their cart is price, but that's often not the case. It might be that the checkout process was confusing or complex or that consumer simply didn't have time to finish the transaction. The content of your email should include a link directly to their shopping cart and a clear message for how someone can get help with their struggling with the checkout process or would prefer to complete it over the phone. As with win backs, you'll want to experiment with different types of content and different timings to maximize the number of completely purchases.
3. Post-purchase Product Reviews
We've discussed triggered emails before a purchase is completed and long after, but an often ignored opportunity is shortly after a purchase is made. A key to driving repeat customers is keeping the conversation going and growing their relationship with your brand or business. A good way to do this is by asking a customers to leave a product review after they've made and received their purchase.
Asking consumers to leave reviews not only adds great content to your website for the future, but it allows consumers to create a personal bond with your company by giving their opinions about your products. Just as politicians asking voters to pledge their vote increases the odds those voters actually vote, customers who write positive reviews are more likely to recommend your products or become a repeat customer.
4. Related Product Recommendations
Another strategy for engaging customers after a purchase is sending them a time based email with products related to the one they just bought. Larger retailers are famous for using these types of recommendation emails. This type of campaign might seem complicated, but getting value is easier than you'd think. Most businesses have a handful of very popular products. To get started, choose one of your popular products and a few related products. Then find all of the customers who bought the popular product recently, but did not buy one of the related products and send those customers an email campaign highlighting those items.
You can then repeat this process for your top products to see which combinations perform best. If you have a few products which account for the bulk of your sales, you can do this process manually. However, if you have a large number of products you'd like to try this with, you should consider finding an app or service to help you identify related products and automatically creating different customer segments.
5. Loyalty and Referral Offers
So far we've focused on emails that are triggered based on the time of a purchase, but that's not the only dimension that matters. You should also trigger emails based on a customer's overall purchase history. For instance, when someone reaches five or 10 purchases all-time, they've demonstrated some serious allegiance to your business. Simply recognizing their patronage with a thank you email is a great start, but you can take it even further. Once someone shows their commitment you can reward them with special VIP offers and incentivize them to refer others to your business with refer a friend deals.
This strategy is similar to a loyalty program, but it doesn't need to be overly formal or complex. You can get started by having a set of triggered emails that are sent when customers reach different lifetime thresholds. With a few well timed emails, you can encourage more repeat purchases or turn high value customers into great affiliates.
Those are just five triggered emails we think you should consider. What are others your business already sends? Let us know.
And if you're interested in easily sending any of the above triggered emails, you should give Klaviyo a try.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday emails have become a firmly entrenched part of the collective American experience. In light of this (and wanting to see what I could learn about their email marketing), I took a deeper dive into the last 5 years of Amazon.com emails I've gotten each November.
While Amazon's emails are remarkably personalized and targeted, what's most clear is that Amazon has adapted their email strategy based on broader trends (the rise of Cyber Monday), new learnings in what's effective (significant changes in subjects based on the rise of mobile), and offline competition (expanding the Black Friday focus) numerous times over the years. The lesson for other companies isn't so much specific subject lines or topic areas – but instead in how to keep email adaptive and effective.
Different: Emails have adapted extensively to external developments.
Consistent: Highly personalized, geared to making me (the customer) happy and consistent references to what makes Amazon stand out from competition.
5 Years of Amazon Subject Lines
Here are the subject lines:
Beyond the analysis I'll do here, I've probably also revealed more than I ever intended to about myself (though I've still yet to figure out why Amazon tried to get me to buy the Large Print Edition of Heart of Darkness in 2009). What's undeniable is that Amazon has customized how they communicate with me – in a way that is radically different from what existed before the age of Ecommerce.
The Rise of Cyber Monday
By taking a look at the number of emails mentioning "Cyber Monday" (i.e. the Monday after Thanksgiving known for electronics deals), we see that Cyber Monday first started being mentioned in 2009, but it's being referenced more and more often.
What this means: Consumers are likely becoming more aware of Cyber Monday as an event, and there's likely an opportunity for software / technology companies to take advantage of this awareness. For the first time this year, I got an early offer from a web host promising hosting discounts.
The Impact of Mobile on the Changing Email Subject Line
If we take a look at the first word in Amazon subject lines, we notice that there's been a remarkable shift from starting nearly every email with Amazon, to an increasing use of the word Save in 2010, to a shift to less consistent titles in 2011. My hypothesis is that this trend away from consistent subject lines is largely due to a greater reliance on mobile – if people are reading an email on their smart phones, starting with Amazon doesn't provide enough information to encourage them to open the email (especially when you're emailing them every single day).
The Competitive Response
Finally, Amazon's Black Friday deals started earlier and were more pervasive this year than previously. Black Friday deals started 9 days before Black Friday and were released hourly. Given that Target and Best Buy promised to match Amazon prices this year, this shift is hardly surprising.
Play to your Strengths
Each year, Amazon has consistently played to their advantages over other retailers by retaining a focus on why shopping online is better than offline. Their main taglines in their primary Black Friday email on Thanksgiving reliably focus on avoiding the lines of offline retailers:
- Don't spend Black Friday jostling for parking spots (2008)
- Big Savings, No Waiting (2009 – 2012)
Thanksgiving Email Lessons
The key lesson here is that email strategies (described broadly as how you communicate with customers) needs to be adaptive to what's happening in the world (And with your business), yet have underlying focus on being personalized and playing to your strengths.
A few specific learnings:
- Take advantage of events. Whether it's holidays or competitor actions, leverage external events as a chance to reach out to customers and build your relationship with them. The greeting card industry gets a bad rap for inventing holidays – you probably don't want to invent Valentine's day, but there might be a way to create consistent communications around holidays, competitive launches or milestones.
- Adapt to changes in technology (i.e. if most people are reading your newsletter on mobile, make sure it fits their use case – not just in terms of content, but also in terms of subject).
- Personalize your communication. Take a look at the last 5 years of Amazon subject lines and you are learning more about me then you are about Amazon. That's pretty remarkable – and given that they are the largest eCommerce retailer in the world, is what your customers are rapidly growing used to.
Even if all of these ideas sound good, you still have to be both willing to try new things and disciplined about taking a data driven approach to analyzing them afterwards. You send email for the benefit of your customers in the hope that that translates into a positive outcome for your business – so you better understand whether those emails are actually working. Try often, make sure you are being creative and ambitious enough that you sometimes fail, but know that you are continually improving.
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Having previously found that the Obama campaign ended 1 in 6 of their email subject lines in colons, I decided to dive into the last 30 days of election emails (available online thanks to ProPublica) to see what they might tell me about Americans and how we respond to email more broadly.
From free car magnets to exactly which friends we should tell to vote, I realized that the emails we get are about to radically change as political campaigns and businesses get even more sophisticated at poking our psychological triggers and leveraging our social networks.
Do vs. Believe
I decided to create two word clouds out of the subject line to see how the language of each campaign differed. For each campaign, I took all of the email subject lines, took out the candidate names and extremely common words / combined words with the same meaning, and then sized each word based on how many times it was used.
Take a look at the word cloud at the top. Which campaign do you think it's from? Now, look at this next word cloud:
The top cloud is President Obama, and the bottom is Mitt Romney. The most common words in Obama's emails were share (or forward, like an email), calls and free – compared to America, help and love in Romney's emails. Many of Romney's email subjects wouldn't have been out of place on motivational posters, while Obama's would fit better as the names on Facebook buttons.
1. Jump on Facebook, 2. Make some Calls
Diving deeper, this change seemed to be reflected in the purposes of the emails sent. Nearly half (46%) of Obama's emails explicitly asked the recipient to do something in the email subject line – whether that was to make phone calls, forward a message to friends, or sign-up for something – compared to 28% of emails.
Romney's emails tended to focus on ideas:
- "A Strong America"
- "This is a time for greatness"
- "We Will Recover"
While Obama's focused on taking action:
- "Three Things you can do right now"
- "Forward this:"
- "RIGHT NOW: President Obama Needs you to make some calls"
These emails represent strategic choices and differences in voter base certainly, but given the deep sophistication of the Obama campaign covered elsewhere, it's very likely that giving people you email a direct next step in the subject is actually just more effective in many cases.
Tell Jason, Jim and Leah to Vote
One of the most interesting emails from Obama came on election day and had a personal list of your friends in swing states you should encourage to vote – all mined from your Facebook account if you'd given the campaign permission to access it. Based on other accounts, the Obama campaign knew who the voters on the line were in swing states – and based on these emails, it looks like they also knew which of their friends could encourage them to vote for Obama.
FREE Shipping (and $5 off!)
At varying points in the campaign, Obama was offering free t-shirts, free car magnets, free tickets to see James Taylor and Dave Matthews, free shipping – all to get people to donate. While the idea of free stuff to get people to do things isn't new, the prevalence of these offers in the campaigns may mean that it's poised to take over all the marketing emails we get.
3 Key Trends in the Future of Email Marketing
- More and more marketing will come through people we know. By getting people to engage their friends, marketers are able to increase their reach and give a personal touch to an otherwise impersonal ad or email. From mining Facebook data to tracking your demographics and actions around the web, marketers will know who you are, who you know, and what message will be most likely to resonate with you and your friends.
- Direct and clear next steps will become more pervasive. As social psychologists and marketers have long known, giving people an explicit action to take significantly increases the likelihood of them doing it. The Obama campaign emails suggests more and more advertising might include a direct call to action that is tailored explicitly to you.
- Marketing will become better – and harder to resist. As marketers become more sophisticated and metrics-driven, they'll be able to stop sending you marketing that doesn't have an impact. If I show that I like celebrities and contests, more of my emails may include free contests to hang out with celebrities.
If the 2008 election was the first election where donations of the masses played a bigger impact than the donations of the rich, then the 2012 election might be remembered as the election where email meant that even the concept of the masses has ceased to exist. We're entering an age when political campaigns (and business) will send us personalized emails based on who we are and what we like – and they'll ask us to bring our friends along with us.
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Early in 2012, I signed up for the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney campaigns' email lists with a rarely used old email address. While I knew that this small dataset couldn't reveal the extreme sophistication of their email strategies, I set out to analyze the emails I'd received (and rarely read) – and discovered some surprising differences in strategy (at least as it related to the emails I was sent).
The Emails in Numbers
From June 1st through November 5th, I got 35 and 37 emails from Mitt Romney and Barack Obama respectively (see chart above showing cumulative # of emails sent to me over time since June 1st).
There are two main differences you'll notice – first, the sharp daily dose of Romney emails right after June 1st. Second, the month-long gap that immediately followed them. This gap began June 18th – the same day that I clicked the unsubscribe button on the Romney emails from another email address (once I realized I was signed up twice). While I can't prove it, impressively, the Romney campaign seemed to realize I might be close to unsubscribing and put me on pause for a month.
Who Sends the Emails
When we break the emails down by who sent them, the results get interesting:
The Obama campaign is twice as likely to send emails from Barack Obama (49% of overall emails coming from him) than the Mitt Romney campaign is to send them from Mitt Romney (23% of overall emails coming from him). While the campaigns are roughly equal on the number of emails coming from Michelle Obama vs Ann Romney or Joe Biden vs Paul Ryan, there is a major difference in the use of others – a bucket largely made up of Zac Moffatt and Matt Rhoades (other Romney staffers) and his son Tagg.
A few hypotheses for why this might be true:
- A difference in strategy to add increased importance to emails from the candidate by sending fewer of them.
- Less candidate allegiance from Republicans in this election (and a greater emphasis on the party).
- Individual targeting or testing differences based on who I am. Had I exhibited some personal behavior that I liked emails from Obama but would prefer other people on the Romney campaign to Mitt? Is there someone out there who see the exact opposite of what I see?
The most interesting aspect of this finding is that it may reflect very real perceptions of what drives voters for each candidate – namely, more voters relating to Barack Obama on a personal level, and more potential Romney voters holding deeper party than candidate allegiances.
The One Word Subject Line
In a similar vein, while none of Romney's emails had single word subject lines, about 1 in 7 of Obama's did. Examples:
- Joe
- So
- Hey (this was a common one)
The one word subject line evokes a certain casualness and personal relationship and this difference seems to parallel many of the media portrayals of the candidates. Are the one word subject lines actually less effective for Romney? It's hard to say, but what might be most clear is that the campaigns have developed real stylistic differences in how they talk to their constituents – and those could be rooted in the real differences of who their constituents typically are.
The Enigmatic Colon
Very unexpectedly, 1 in 6 of the Barack Obama message subject lines ended in colons (and none of the Romney subjects). Here are a couple of examples:
- Real Quick:
- Urgent:
- This Matters:
- Deadline:
Given how high this number is, my guess is that the Obama campaign has tested (and shown) that ending a message in a colon makes people more likely to read it. While the circumstances of a presidential campaign are obviously very unique, this isn't a piece of advice I've heard elsewhere (and certainly not one that the Romney campaign has acted on in their emails to me).
The Future of Email may contain more Colons
First off, all of these analyses are based on a single person, and as ProPublica's attempt to reverse engineer email strategies is starting to show, there are wide variations in what you'll receive based on where you live, how old you are, whether you've donated, etc. As these systems get more complex, it will become more and more difficult to analyze any company or campaign's email strategy – because that strategy might actually be 300 million different strategies.
That said, the emails will likely always say more about the particular cultures and moods of a campaign or organization at a given point in time. Would Obama letting Biden send more emails have changed how much money was raised? Would a "Hey:" from Mitt Romney have increased his chances of winning my vote?
The email strategies of the political campaigns are among the most sophisticated in the world and are a great indicator of how email will be changing as companies get better at linking the emails they send to the behavior of consumers. Just as Obama and Romney know what makes you press the donate button, companies are getting better every day at knowing how to make you purchase. In the future, it might not just be presidential candidates who are ending emails in colons and varying senders to figure out who you connect with – it might be your local farmers market stand.
Please tell us more about the Obama and Romney emails you're receiving in the comments and if you want to know more about the future of email marketing, check out Klaviyo. And – go vote.
Say this is true:
Your customer/user success and happiness = Your success and happiness
If so, it seems to follow that you (as a company) would only send me emails I wanted to get. Yes, one more email might get me to do something today, but in the longterm I will be more likely to ignore your emails or not enjoy interacting with you.
To that end, here are the emails I personally like getting from companies:
- Emails that give me something I want – meaningful discounts, announce new products or features I care about (not just the ones you care about), etc.
- Personalized emails telling me what to do to accomplish my goals – did I set something up wrong when I signed up for your service? Did I never get started?
- Notifications about my money or other things like that. Is my credit card bill overdue? Did my idiot friend just tag me in a terrible photo on Facebook? Do you need my approval to add me to a mailing list?
- Emails that make me smile. If your email genuinely makes me smile, I'll forgive pretty much any other flaw with it.
A few rules follow from this list about what I really don't like:
- Stop emailing me if I ignore you or show that I don't care
- Don't send me emails that are irrelevant. Announcing a feature that I already use? Announcing a new line of dresses? (I'm male) Telling me about the offereSkip me unless you're telling me something new.
- Don't send me emails that are blatantly in your interest and not mine. Enough said.
Done right, emails are great for you and your customers – it just takes thinking about things from the customer's point of view.
Tell me more about what I missed in the comments.
No matter how good your templates, your products or your content this holiday season, you're competing with record numbers of other emails coming in the door. According to WhatCounts, there were 343 million emails sent by publishers, retailers and Ecommerce firms between October 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011. While you'll find a ton of articles out there telling you how to optimize your email campaigns, you have a big key advantage that you can choose to leverage: your existing customers.
The Customer Advantage
Your customers understand what you offer better than anyone and are much more likely than anyone else to be willing to engage with you – but you have to make sure that your past relationship isn't forgotten amidst the barrage of other companies trying to woo them over the holidays. To this end, sending a few targeted emails to your most loyal customers (outside of the typical holiday countdowns, Black Friday specials, and last minute deal days) to engage with them can go a long way.
3 Extra Ways to Win this Year
The goal isn't to replace your other efforts or to figure out some big analysis – keep it simple and focus on getting something out the door. Here are three ideas to consider:
- Retarget customers who bought last holiday season. If a customer bought from you last year, you know that they consider you as an option. Why not engage them early and simply to just let them know you're still there and update them on what's new? By doing this early and in a more personalized manner than your typical newsletter, you have a much higher chance of having them commit to you later in the holiday season.
- Send special offers to your VIP customers that they can send to their friends. You know that the customers who shop with you frequently are loyal supporters of your business – so why not engage them to help you market this holiday season? The holidays are a natural time for people to share the products and brands they love, so it's a great time for you to take advantage of it. The key note here is just to make the sharing something that everyone will view positively – whether by discounts, beautiful content or longer term benefits.
- Target gift buyers with follow-on content geared towards them. Once someone has bought, consider sending them content focused on both building a long-term relationship that extends beyond the holidays – don't only continue to hit them with the plethora of great holiday campaigns you have planned.
The holidays are the most competitive time of the year to reach buyers, so make sure you take full advantage of the customer base you've worked so hard to build. You can't just do what everyone else does and try to do it better. Try a personalized and targeted email to your customers and measure the impact – they'll reward you for it.
We recently sat down with Fan Bi, Chief Shirt at Blank Label, to learn more about how they are using Klaviyo to improve their marketing and better understand their customers – as well as to learn more about the joys of a custom dress shirt.
Tell us a little more about Blank Label…
Blank Label is a custom dress shirt brand. We exist to help men be better. Custom is for those who appreciate the fit and finish of something made for their body, not for a hanger.
What does Blank Label use Klaviyo for?
We have two main uses of Klaviyo:
1. To better understand our customers' behavior. With Klaviyo we are able to segment our 13,000 plus customers with almost every combination of filtering, from where they came from, how much they've spent, whether they've required customer service help, etc. From there we're able to answer interesting questions, including:
- Did customers who originated from Google spend more than those from Facebook over the last 6 months?
- Did customers who received email newsletters spend more or less than those who did not?
- Etc
2. With those various segments created in Klaviyo, we can then email them individually directly from Klaviyo. Rather than sending just a generic email newsletter, you can send a much more personalized message based on, for instance, the fact they have purchased three times in the last year but not in the past six months, or that they've purchased a five times in the past three months and you want to send them a thank you email.
Who are some of the key groups of customers you focus on in Klaviyo?
We have created over 20 groups of customers in Klaviyo to focus on – everything from filtering based on amount customers have purchased, the time period they've been a customer, and how long a customer has been inactive.
The most interesting group is perhaps one defined as "high spenders who haven't spent with us in 180 days". Our top quartile of customers make up a significant portion of our sales and so we can now be much more on top of them churning, and do everything possible to get in front of them before they completely turn away.
How has Klaviyo changed what you do on a daily basis?
We were doing customer segmentation based off of a couple of variables all in excel. What used to take me 5 hours now takes 5 minutes, and I'm able to get an order of magnitude deeper analysis.
Once customers have been emailed, Klaviyo tracks how their customers behavior changes over time.
What are some of tangible impacts you've seen on your business and customers?
Our quantitative analysis has shown us that we've been able to recapture at least a couple hundred of lost, inactive customers just by using Klaviyo in the past several months.
Try Klaviyo today with no commitment to see how it can help you better understand and market to your current customers.
All of us make a ton of decisions everyday, but most of us also spend a lot of time not making decisions – debating the merits of doing A or B, questioning a decision we've made, etc. This debate doesn't really make sense – in many cases, just trying something out and then measuring the outcome is the most effective, efficient and valuable way to make the right decision.
Let's take email as an example (though the same idea is relevant to many of the other decisions we make on a day to day basis).
The Problem of Email
Email is a problematic – it's overwhelming, it's annoying, it shows up whether we like it or not, but it's also the most effective tool businesses have to communicate with users and customers.
The real problem with emails for most businesses is that the fear of the downside of email (becoming annoying spammers) is not justified by the risk it takes to test emails to actually know their impact and what customers like. In short, we can just take a subset of people and send them different emails, more or less emails, etc and see how their behavior changes (and even assess their customer happiness). This isn't how most companies do it – instead they either A.) just spam the heck out of us or B.) stick to the most basic and minimal of emails, even when more emails might be helpful to the customer.
Be More Creative, but use Analysis to see what Happened
The core idea here is that rather than companies just keep doing what their doing or doing nothing, they could just go out and try ideas and see what happens. I'm not talking about comparing slightly different message content here – I'm proposing comparing radically different approaches, such as:
- Not sending users emails
- Sending personalized emails individually
- Sending only trigger based emails (you've done X but not Y so here's how to do Y)
- Sending one more / one less email
- Sending more casual emails
What does it take to know what the impact actually is? Not as much as you'd expect. If you are a web app with 100 sign-ups in a week and devote 20 of those to testing new ideas, you'll start to gain real data into what new approaches would actually do. If you see one being successful, you can expand the test, run it for longer, etc.
Stop Pointless Debates
I used to work with a large web storage company that was in the midst of a long debate about whether to collect more information about users during sign-up. The core issue was whether the value of knowing the information (which allowed targeting emails and better support) was higher than the lost customers who wouldn't want to answer the question.
There's no reason to sit around debating this for months when you can find out the right answer by taking a small subset of new sign-ups and treating them differently.
Get Sh*t Done
In summary, if you can cheaply and easily test something, it's better to see what actually happens than to sit around debating it. Email is a great candidate for this – it's cheap, easy to target, directly reaches customers and for most businesses on the web is a huge area of improvement.
Klaviyo is a new kind of CRM that can handle this entire process – seeing your customer behavior, sending emails and understanding their impact. Try it today with no commitment.
Big data is likely the most hyped term in tech of the past two years; however, amidst all the hype, we may have actually missed the point of having all of this data in the first place: to generate more value for businesses and consumers. Importantly, it's this gap between hype and value that speaks to why Boston might be at center of what's next in data and analytics.
Why We Have Data – Big or Otherwise
What's often lost in the big data discussion is that data and analytics tools generate no value until they lead companies or individuals to make different (and better) decisions than they would have made otherwise. While we do occasionally read about big data success stories (for example, Target's marketing to newly pregnant women or Ginger.io's health monitoring), most companies still aren't clear on how they actually could use big data to impact their business. For data to become valuable, companies need to have a direct path from that data and analysis to tangible action.
The Unique Position of Boston
As companies start to look beyond buzzwords to value, the unique qualities of the Boston ecosystem put it in a powerful position to have a major impact on how data and analysis get turned into action.
Boston combines three key qualities that don't occur together elsewhere:
- Boston has world-class data and analytics expertise. From university research groups like MIT's bigdata@CSAIL to the more than 100 big data companies in Massachusetts, the ecosystem around Boston is uniquely endowed with deep knowledge of the technologies used for data collection, storage and analysis.
- Boston has a critical mass of leading marketing software companies. From more established companies like Hubspot, DataXu and Constant Contact to new companies like ThriveHive or GaggleAMP, Boston is filled with companies focused on helping marketers generate measurable business value by using their software.
- The Boston startup and investor scene is highly revenue focused. As the stereotypes would indicate, Boston's investors and entrepreneurs are more likely to be focused on companies generating measurable revenue quickly than their west coast counterparts historically have been. This means that companies are more likely to solve immediate problems for paying clients.
In short, Boston's emerging companies have the ability to draw on a wealth of technology and data expertise, as well as significant experience using software to drive immediate business value – all while being healthily pushed to find paying clients to generate revenue.
A Personal Experience
Klaviyo, the company I co-founded, is proud to be a part of this movement in Boston, and we wouldn't exist without the unique Boston qualities described above. Our focus is on helping our clients better understand and market to their customers based on things those customers have or haven't done – whether that's helping software firms find users who may need more help getting setup or helping Ecommerce companies reach out to customers who haven't purchased in awhile to offer them a discount.
In our case, the data volumes we deal with are what many would consider "big" (since we let our clients combine customer interactions ranging from emails opened to items purchased to features used in a single place), but our core reason for being isn't the size of our data – it's that we can generate real business value for our clients by solving the problems they were already struggling to solve.
An alternate version of this appeared on BostInno as a guest post.
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This is not an attemot to stop you putting your point of view across, but once again, you are trying to ram your own opinions down everyone's throats, and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong. You must realise that there are always differing viewpoints, and people may not always agree with you. In fact, If you can't submit an argument without resorting to shouting at those who disagree with you then I think we'd all just as soon you didn't post anything at all. We all know you don't like the new
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I do appologize for yelling? But it gripes me when somebody mentions the different bridges in the movies and compares that to the new bridge in the new movie. I never saw an Apple store bridge in any episode of TOS. This movie is supposed to represent past. Before the events of TOS. But apparently during Pike's tour of duty on the Enterprise. Again, we already know what the Enterprise looked like then. Why change it so radically. Why not stay a little closer to the original? And I'm not shoving my opinions down anyone's throat any more than anyone else is trying to shove theirs down mine. I'm told to shut up and to get over it and that the old Enterprise is dead and that I should get a life. So get over it if it irks me. I can express my opinion just as much as anyone else. And I don't curse or call anyone names, as I have been cursed at and called names here in the past. So I will continue to express my opinion. If you don't like it. Don't read it.
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'Google Now' for iOS Promotional Video Leaks on YouTube
The video has since been pulled from YouTube and appears to feature the same voice actress as the original Now announcement (which you'll also find after the break for comparison). Supposedly, Now will be accessible in an upcoming iOS app update simply by swiping up from the main screen. Of course, there's always the chance that is an impressive fake or even a canceled project that's only being leaked now. We've reached out to Google for comment, but even if the search giant remains silent, we're confident the truth will be known soon enough.
Google Now aggregates various bits of information that users may need throughout their day, including flight notifications, weather, traffic, reservations, packages, birthdays, transit information, stocks, movie times and more.
The original Google Now launch video is available on YouTube for comparison to the leaked one above.
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lets hope theres some cydia tweak coming that makes it a full on siri replacement like it did with chrome
Wait, so there will be a Google app AND a Google Now app?
Or would the plan be for this to replace the old one?
Why not just add these features to the Google app?
Did you even watch the video?? Geez. Some people have attention spans lasting a few microseconds at most.
To be honest, Google Now is a flagship feature of Android... and Google are putting it on iOS. I'm not putting two and two together here, but I think Google know that iOS is winning, and are taking it very seriously. (Google Maps, excellent implementation: reviewers call it better than the Android version, YouTube app is fantastic, Google Now, well, let's see if the trend continues.)
And no, sales don't mean a platform is winning.
Google's product isn't Android, Google's product is the data it's collecting on you. What better way to get more data than to get more people participating?
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News: Big Boi's Lips Are Sealed On OutKast, "We Will Not Discuss Any Information"
Thursday, Jun 24, 2010 3:50PM
Southern rapper Big Boi has vowed to keep silent on plans for another OutKast project despite being frequently asked about his relationship with Andre 3000.
Boi said they would wait until a new group album begins to come together before giving out details.
The more visible OutKast member says he's frequently asked about the long-awaited project from him and André 3000, but things could get ugly if he spills the beans. "When I do interviews and they ask where the OutKast album is, I have to tell them it's top-secret information, and that me and Andre 3000 will have to put something to your temple if I say something about it," he tells SPIN magazine. The duo made a promise not to speak about their next collaborative effort until the release is near. "We made a pact that we will not disclose any information until it's about to come out," he reveals. (Rap-Up)
Recently, Boi spoke on Andre 3000 being removed from his upcoming solo debut, Sir Luscious Left Foot.
"Jive Records is trying to block 3 Stacks from being on the album. Boi Stop!!!!"
"They told me my album was a piece of art... And that they didn't understand my music. Now they mad because y'all love it !"
"The Andre 3000 records r on deck..Stay Tuned !!!!!!!!!!!!" (Big Boi's Twitter)
He later blamed "stupid politics" on the part of Jive Records for Andre's removal.
"It's plain stupidity. It's stupid business and it's stupid politics. I mean, Jive Records had 'Shutterbug' for three years. And 'General Patton' for three years. You see what I'm saying? They told me to go in and make my version of Lil' Wayne's 'Lollipop!' I love that song. That was my favorite song when it came out. But how you gonna tell me to go bite another MCs style? How are you even going to open your mouth up to tell me to go and do that? That's the highest form of disrespect ever. So that's when I wanted to get off Jive. And the only honorable thing they've done is allow me to do that. So I've had nothing to do with them. Dré tried to have a talk with Jive and they said, 'No, we can't. That's gonna make us look bad.'" (GQ)
Earlier this year, Boi said a new Kast album would follow Andre 3000's solo debut.
"The OutKast album, I can't really say which label it'll be on because I really don't know which label it's gonna fall. I'm gonna put my solo album out first, Dre is working with his solo album right now..." (Gyant Unplugged)
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The Miami technology sector is growing up — fast. Taking a quick look back, we can see that this momentum was started in 2013, a banner year. It started with Rokk3r Labs taking it to the next level in the heart of Miami Beach, followed by The Atlantic's Start-up City: Miami, which brought together a world-class line-up of speakers that firmly announced that we were ready to raise the bar. SIME MIA closed 2013 by letting everyone see our unique take on innovation with over 600 high-profile attendees.
In between, we saw Refresh Miami continue its growth and maturity, LAB Miami become a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation, Venture Hive graduate its first class of startups and Endeavor Global launch its Miami office.
We also saw the launch of Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses at Miami-Dade College, Miami-based Kairos become the Wall Street Journal's Startup of the Year and local hackers make serious noise in Paypal's Battle Hack in San Francisco.
There were "green shoots" of activity and optimism everywhere, and while there is reason to believe that we are on our way, the reality, as usual, is more complicated.
As we look back at 2013, we can say that, yes, we made great strides and momentum is on our side. However, it is critical to realize that we've only just begun, and that there is a lot of hard work ahead if we are to prove that all of the sizzle is more than deft marketing, but in fact, a demonstration of a vibrant community of ideas, entrepreneurship and investment that is poised to transform Miami's economy.
Now we need to step up our game and prove that our entrepreneurs and companies are ready for the serious business of growth by forging of a unified community strategy that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, educators and government officials.
First and foremost, we need to help local entrepreneurs continue building their businesses through access to mentoring and financing. It is through the successful growth of homegrown technology and innovation businesses that we will ultimately prove that we truly have a real and thriving ecosystem worthy of the buzz.
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Tikul, one of La Jolla's newest restaurants, closes after two months
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Tikul Coastal Mexican at 1250 Prospect St., in La Jolla, a restaurant which opened a couple of months ago where Pasquale on Prospect had been for nine years previously, closed its doors Sept. 3.
"My husband Alberto and I opened Tikul Coastal Mexican with the concept of offering a high-quality, modern Mexican cuisine in a beautiful ambiance with great Latin music," said Renee Perez. "We are proud as we feel we accomplished our goal and shared a bit of our Mexican culture with La Jolla."
In the end, Perez said she and her husband made a personal decision based on family and time commitments.
"We also need to focus our attention on our established restaurants in Puerto Vallarta," she said. "We hope to see our new friends around town or in Mexico. We will always fondly remember this as the summer of Tikul."
Perez said she and her husband, who was a chef and a musician for Tikul, signed a lease in April and opened for business July 1.
She said they will refocus their attention on their two restaurants in Mexico, both well-established, fine-dining establishments, one of which has been in operation for 25 years.
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Rory McIlroy looks to extend his tournament lead on Sunday in the third round of the 2012 Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston. The Irish righty holds a one-stroke lead over Louis Oosthuizen after a second-round 65 (six-under par) for a total of 12-under on the tournament.
McIlroy and Oosthuizen make up Sunday's final pairing and will tee off at 1:45 p.m. ET. The round gets underway when Graeme McDowell and Sean O'Hair tee off at 7:25 a.m. ET.
Tiger Woods (-10) is lurking two shots behind the lead after shooting three-under on Saturday. He pairs with Ryan Moore (-10) in Sunday's second-to-last pairing, which tees at 1:35 p.m. ET.
The third round will be televised on the Golf Channel from 1-3 p.m. ET, then move to NBC from 3-6 p.m. ET.
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7:55 - Keegan Bradley and John Huh
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12:05 pm - Robert Garrigus and Ian Poulter
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12:25 - Greg Chalmers and Ted Potter, Jr.
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12:45 - Dustin Johnson and Jeff Overton
12:55 - Charley Hoffman and John Senden
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1:15 - Chris Kirk and Charl Schwartzel
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1:35 - Ryan Moore and Tiger Woods
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The truck grill front is ugly, this is just a polo for badge whores. Other manufactures offer much better driving cars for the price, which is exposing the A1 and overpriced car with poor driving dynamics.2 1
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CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT: A presence full of love
6:00pm Thursday 16th January 2014 in Opinion
AS I write this it is pouring with rain, so to cheer myself up, I imagine a warm sunny day.
I am going for a walk in a wood. I am walking briskly and making a bit of noise; my breathing is heavy and with each step twigs snap and leaves crunch. I seem to be in a hurry.
I don't think there is much wildlife in this wood, there is nothing apart from me and the noises I make and my own preoccupations. At least I don't notice anything else.
But then I stop, my breathing quietens and I stay very still.
Now I can hear all sorts of sounds that I hadn't noticed before: a trickle of water, the movement of a small animal, birds singing.
It seems the world around me is full of life and movement and sound and beauty. I should stop more often.
I wonder if I sometimes experience something which is more than nature in a similar way.
I stop the rushing and the noise (both real and inside my head) and there, underneath everything that fills my day-to-day existence, there is a presence, a life, a beauty.
And that presence is full of love. That presence is love.
Because we have language we want to give things names and I feel I should name this presence. The word God seems to fit, so that is what I will use.
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But it is underpinned by heartlessness and cruelty, an evolutionary process which demands that those higher up the food chain cruelly exact their torture and death on those below in order to survive themselves. A humpback whale needs to kill at least 5,000 other animals every day to survive. Some species of birds give birth to two young, so that the bigger chick can devour the weaker. Can you tell me how many animals are killed each day to feed the animals in a zoo?
We have natural disasters that wreak havoc on nature and humanity, killing thousands every year.
We have small children in the undeveloped world dying in pain and misery at the rate of one per minute, because of the selfish survival needs of the malarial mosquito.
If you invoke a God that " so loved the world" for "all things bright and beautiful", you also have to query why he underpinned that beauty by creating such an unnecessarily torturous, desperate and risky method for survival.
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The convention also deal in areas of the horror genre outside filmmaking, as well as exploitation, science fiction, and fantasy entertainment.
Fangoria editor Tony Timpone acts as the emcee for the panel presentations at every Weekend of Horrors, with occasional assistance from Creation's Adam Malin. Fangoria's Managing Editor, Michael Gingold, appears annually at the Secaucus, New Jersey convention.
Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors conventions are typically composed of three areas:
Some conventions also have Film Fests (occurring at neighboring theaters) and a Cocktail, or more recently, Dessert Party, where guests can casually mingle with horror personalities after-hours.
Weekend of Horrors occurs annually in Rosemont, Illinois (Winter), Burbank, California (Spring), and New York City, New York (formerly Secaucus, New Jersey) (Summer). An additional destination is chosen based on the year. There are traditionally four Weekend of Horrors conventions held annually in the United States, but in 2009, Fangoria is planning only the aforementioned three.
Starting with the 2006 Weekend of Horrors in Secaucus, New Jersey, the convention has expanded from a two-day (Saturday and Sunday) event, to a three-day (including Friday). This expanded schedule, common for most current conventions, was continued for all future Weekend of Horrors.
Notable guests at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors conventions have included:
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ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - An Aberdeen woman charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing her live-in boyfriend has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of domestic aggravated assault.
In exchange for 23-year-old Crystal Wettengel's guilty plea, prosecutors will ask that a judge sentence her to serve no more than 10 years in prison. A sentencing date was not immediately set.
Wettengel was accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the neck with a steak knife during an argument March 24 in their home.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is behind bars after being arrested and charged with murder in the case of a semi-pro football player in Massachusetts. The Patriots released Hernandez immediately after he was charged in the killing of his friend, Olin Lloyd. Police say the murder came several days after the two feuded during a trip to a nightclub.
LONDON (AP) — Seven-time men's champion Roger Federer and 2004 women's champ Maria Sharapova were ousted in the second round at Wimbledon today. Federer was a 6-7, 7-6, 7-5, 7-6 loser to 116th-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky, and Sharapova suffered a 6-3, 6-4 loss to Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal. Second-seed Andy Murray managed to advance to the third round, as did American and 17th seed Sloane Stephens.
LONDON (AP) — American John Isner (IHZ'-nur) and women's second-seed Victoria Azarenka (ah-zah-REN'-kuh) were among several players who withdrew from Wimbledon today due to injuries. Isner retired during his second-round match against Adrian Mannarino of France with a left knee injury after only two games. Azarenka withdrew minutes before her second-round match against Flavia Pennetta (FLAH'-vee-uh pehn-EHT'-uh) after being injured in her first round match.
UNDATED (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland Athletics used strong starting pitching performances to win today. R.A. Dickey scattered two hits in his first complete game of the season as the Jays blanked Tampa Bay 3-0. A.J. Griffin also fired a two-hitter and received support from Josh Donaldson, who crushed a three-run homer in the Athletics' 5-0 whitewash of Cincinnati.
UNDATED (AP) — Jordy Mercer singled home the go-ahead run with two outs in the ninth inning as Pittsburgh downed Seattle 4-2, putting the Pirates 18 games over .500 for the first time since 1992. John Lackey struck out a season-high 12 while allowing two runs in seven innings of Boston's 5-3 triumph against Colorado. Placido Polanco and Jeff Mathis belted their first homers of the season as Miami rallied from three runs down to beat Minnesota 5-3.


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Barmageddon: Law students sue when software fails
Thousands of law students attempting to take the bar exam in 42 states got a nasty surprise: They couldn't upload their answers.
Thousands of law students attempting to take the bar exam in 42 states got a nasty surprise: They couldn't upload their answers.
An Austrian waging a battle against Facebook's privacy policies said Wednesday that 25,000 users of the social networking giant have signed on to his class action lawsuit.
(AP)—Two doctors are denying claims by an Alabama man who says his penis was amputated during what was supposed to be a routine circumcision.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit an Idaho woman filed against President Barack Obama and other federal officials over the National Security Agency's collection of cellphone information.
Nearly 60,000 high-tech workers are likely to receive an average of $4,000 apiece in a settlement of a class-action lawsuit alleging Apple and Google conspired in an illegal cartel of Silicon Valley employers that secretly ...
A rights group is suing Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency over cyberattacks revealed by former intelligence worker Edward Snowden, saying it's the first time the agency has been sued over hacking.
Silicon Valley jurors deciding a patent-infringement lawsuit involving smartphone giants Apple and Samsung have submitted questions Wednesday to a judge just a few hours after beginning their first full day ...
Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe Systems have settled a class-action lawsuit alleging they conspired to prevent their engineers and other highly sought technology workers from getting better job offers from ...
The major US music labels joined the legal battle against file-sharing website Megaupload, with a copyright infringement lawsuit against the site shut down by US authorities.
The top US film studios have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, shut down by US authorities as part of a criminal probe of online piracy.
A Seattle-area taxi drivers organization has sued an app-based ridesharing service, alleging that Uber violates multiple laws and regulations, thus harming taxi drivers and the public.
Google and Viacom announced a settlement Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit claiming the Internet giant's YouTube video-sharing site promoted copyright infringement.
Federal officials have filed a lawsuit alleging that Sprint Communications Inc. overbilled government agencies $21 million for wiretap services.
Children's advocacy groups fired at Facebook, rejecting a $20 million deal made to settle charges that the social network violated privacy by using "likes" as endorsements for ads.
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Cedar Park City Council voted to pass the strongest-ever water restrictions in city history. This is a proactive step and Thursday night's vote now puts Stage 3 water restrictions into effect August 1.
Stage 3 water restrictions limits outdoor watering to just one time a week, according to assigned mandatory watering schedules.
Hand watering is allowed at any time, but only with hoses that have a nozzle. Charity car washes, power washing and using recreational water devices like splash pads and plastic water slides would be prohibited.
This vote comes after the City's Director of Community Affairs suggested implementing Stage 3 restrictions before lake levels hit the predetermined number that would trigger the Lower Colorado River Authority to implement mandatory restrictions.
"What I'm hearing from residents, we talked about this a week ago and I'm hundred percent of the feedback that I got is...we don't really like this but we understand," Cedar Park Mayor Matt Powell said.
The Cedar Park City Council also discussed the possibility of increasing water rates. Any increases would have to be brought up for a 1st and 2nd reading before they could be approved, and would not go into effect until mid-to-late August.
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Ohio Election Panel Unanimously Throws Out Dems' Complaint Against FNC
Ohio election officials have unanimously dismissed a complaint by the Democratic Governors Association, alleging that the Fox News Channel made an illegal in-kind contribution of nearly $170,000 to then-gubernatorial candidate Republican John Kasich.
The DGA had alleged that the 90 seconds Kasich's campaign web address appeared at the bottom of the screen during an interview on Fox amounted to a political advertisement. The Ohio Elections Commission ruled 5-0 that it did not.
Fox News's legal counsel said the DGA's complaint ran counter to "the whole concept of press coverage."
The Columbus Dispatch reported Friday:
Kasich, who narrowly defeated Gov. Ted Strickland in the Nov. 2 election, also said "send me your nickels and pennies" while the Web address was on the screen and later said publicly that the appearance helped him raise $21,000, according to the DGA.
But lawyer Larry Noble, a former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission who represented Fox News and appeared at the commission hearing yesterday, said nothing improper happened.
Noble said that as a media entity, Fox has a First Amendment right to interview Kasich and even endorse him, and that running the website is a standard way to identify candidates.
"To call this a political contribution would run afoul of the media exemption, the whole concept of press coverage," Noble told the commission.
The DGA did not have a representative at the hearing, and Philip C. Richter, executive director of the elections commission, recommended that the complaint be dismissed.
Democrats have complained that Kasich, an on-air personality for Fox from 2002 to 2008, unfairly benefited from the 16 times he appeared on Fox television or radio programs since he announced his bid for governor in June 2009.
The far-left Fox-haters howled about the DGA's allegations regarding Kasich, who was elected and will be seated in January. Of course none of them were bothered by near-identical practices on MSNBC.
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Submitted by IgnatzJFahrquar on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 12:35pm.
Kasich won by 2 points which in reality was probably 5 or 6 if you take out the fraud from the urban precincts. Please, John, redistrict Kucinich and Sutton out of existence.
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I wonder how many opportunities Kasich's opponent lost to get his name, face, and web address on Fox by refusing to appear?
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Even though the tombstones were carved by hand , there was not a signature by the stone carver. The way to tell was by the characteristics of the carvings. James Ford had precise, fancy lettering and he used lower case letters. Also, his "J" was written as an "I" and is "l" was written as a "J".
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James Ford, d.1781, is currently buried at St Peter's Episcopal Church in Salem, Massachusetts. He was a master write, as his head stone states, but he was also a stone cutter. He cut stones from 1741 until his death in 1781. He also taught penmanship to boys and was a treasurer of the church he is currently "residing" at.
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Isfarkand checks into the Mandarin Oriental
When it comes to luxury, details are key and the choice of toiletries provided in the best hotels is a well-considered decision. Very few of us can resist leaving a hotel room without swiping the miniature soaps and potions on offer in the bathrooms and they are often the sole souvenir of your hotel stay (unless you've stolen the bathrobes, which is not classy behaviour and something we would never do …)
The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in London has recently launched an exclusive line of products by the British fragrance line Ormonde Jayne into their bathrooms. Guests to the hotel will be able to experience the Isfarkand fragrance by Ormonde Jayne from head to toe including an Isfarkand conditioner, body lotion and soap which are exclusive to guests of the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park and not available for general purchase. Isfarkand is a sparkling green lime citrus scent, rolled in peppery spice which skips past vetiver through to a light woody finish after a few hours. Miles above the usual functional fragrances of toiletry products, the Isfarkand range gives another absolutely necessary reason to book into a room at the Mandarin Oriental.
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If you're a fan of high-scoring hockey games, Game 7 between the Sharks and Kings isn't for you. But don't change the channel, because the scoreless first period in Los Angeles proved the rest of the game will be memorable.
After one period, it's hard to say which team holds an advantage. The shots are a dismal 5-3 in favor of the Sharks, but San Jose blocked eight shots. In fact, most of the scoring chances either came harmlessly from distance or looked like this.
That is literally the only highlight of the frame.
What the period lacked in scoring, it made up for in pure excitement. The two clubs were cautious, yes, but they both set out to establish a physical presence. In fact, there were four times as many hits as shots in the first period. As time wore on, the game started to open up a bit. Expect an equally physical second period as the two teams tire and start to capitalize on mistakes.
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But registering just one win in their last four has brought the realization there is always something to work on and right now it appears to be goal scoring.
During this stretch, the Wolves have scored just one goal in three of those games, including Sunday's 3-1 loss in Windsor.
It is a problem that has Head Coach Paul Fixter concerned.
"Obviously, we're not scoring enough goals and our power-play has gone south," Fixter said. "We're squeezing our sticks a little tight right now, but that to me is not the area of concern — my concern today was our work ethic, it wasn't good enough, and we got out-worked."
The Wolves and Spitfires were scoreless after the first period Sunday afternoon and it was Windsor who scored first, early in the second period short-handed. It was the second straight game the Wolves gave up a short-handed goal.
But a hard working shift by fourth liners Nathan Cull, Danny Desrochers and Connor Burgess resulted in Cull's fourth goal of the season at 17:35 of the second to send the game into the third tied 1-1.
For Cull, it wrapped up a strong weekend of play that on more than one occasion saw him rewarded with extra ice time.
"I'm satisfied with my play", said Cull. "I put the puck in the net today with the help of Burgess and Desrochers and the coach put me up on a line with Mathew Campagna and Dominik Kahun, and it was fun playing with guys with that kind of talent."
However, the Spitfires scored two unanswered goals in the third period to seal the 3-1 win.
Wolves captain Kevin Raine was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct for a knee on knee hit on Spitfires forward Steven James late in the third. It's expected the play will be reviewed by the league and will likely result in a suspension against Raine.
While the Wolves penalty kill is much improved, the power play that was one of the best in the Ontario Hockey League early in the season has gone stone cold. It was 0-3 against the Spitfires and is 0-24 in 2014 with the last Sudbury power-play goal coming Dec. 31st, 2013 in a 2-1 shoot-out win in North Bay.
The Wolves finished the weekend 1-2 after a 4-3 loss in Saginaw on Saturday night and a 1-0 win in Plymouth on Friday night.
With the loss in Windsor on Sunday, the Wolves season record drops to 25-12-3-4 with their road record dropping back below the .500 mark at 8-9-3-3.
Game Notes:- Wolves scratches: Craig Duininck (lower body), David Zeppieri (healthy) and Brody Silk (upper body).
- The Wolves out-shot the Spitfires 33-27.
- The Wolves power-play was 0-3 while the Spitfires went 1-6.
- 3 Stars: 1) Brady Vail (WSR) 2) Sam Povorozniouk (WSR) 3) Alex Fotinos (WSR).


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THE newly-formed Dartford Round Table is kick starting 2012 with a series of new crazy events.
Since the first meeting of the round table group in December last year, seven new men have signed up and will spend evenings getting involved in events including a scavenger hunt, a whacky games night and crazy golf.
Men aged between 18 and 44 from Dartford and Gravesend are invited to get involved to network with others and give something back to the community.
Round table member Stuart Hadley said: "With the children back at school and adults returning to work, men like us typically look for new social activities as the darker evenings start getting brighter.
"Round table is all about providing a fun and relaxed environment where men, from all walks of life, can enjoy fellowship, improve their social lives, gain friends and get involved in all kinds of team activities and trips."
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Best High-Tech Hotel: Hi Hotel
Just because Hi Hotel is located in one of the world's most beautiful natural settings—Nice, France—doesn't mean it can't also be a high-tech wonder. Located less than a quarter mile from the gorgeous coast, the Hi Hotel offers some fun and innovative amenities for guests. For example, the "techno corner" suite features a couch with built-in speakers and a huge screen that acts as a monitor and as a physical barrier between bedroom and bathroom. All the rooms feature space-age looking furniture, thanks to French designer Matali Crasset.
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Adam Seger has raised the bar when it comes to Chicago's cocktail culture. The Nacional 27 mixologist/sommelier made his reputation crafting drinks noted for their flavorful flair, fresh ingredients and ultra-primo hooch. He cemented his position with other beverage professionals through his collegiality and mentoring skills, while getting customers to belly up to the bar with his enthusiastic charm.
Who else could turn a strawberry, rhubarb, balsamic vinegar and basil mojito into such a hit that the drink sold out in four hours? That the drink sounds more like dessert than a cocktail is intentional. Seger likens the mixologist's role at the bar to that of a chef in a restaurant's open kitchen. He believes customers are looking for similar things from both: seasonality and top ingredients. He cares so much for quality that he founded Hum Spirits Co. and his first liqueur, Hum, debuted in November.
Seger's motto is: "Drink like you eat." That's also the subtitle of his book-in-progress called "Whet." "It's more of a cocktail book disguised as a cookbook or vice versa," he said.
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Three stores in five years despite a tanking economy testifies not only to Chicago's growing hunger for fine food but also the acumen of Pastoral's co-owners, Greg O'Neill and Ken Miller. The pair, partners in life as well as in business, are particularly noteworthy for elevating the cheese game in the city to new heights. Their impact extends far beyond the customers who shop at their stores. Pastoral has helped to design and supply cheese programs for 30 of the region's top restaurants.
"Cheese is the center of our universe, wine and bread are the spokes on the wheel," O'Neill said.
O'Neil, a marketer, and Miller, a chef turned computer pro, got into the high-end food business because they saw a need for it in their Lakeview neighborhood. Cheese comes first in their store's name because O'Neill's initial research showed how much people really care about it. That passion is still pulsing.
"It's been really fun to see how engaged our customers have been," he said.
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Canterbury Cathedral has missed out on being awarded millions of pounds for vital repair work to the crumbling building.
Bosses had applied for more than £10m from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out structural repairs, including replacing the lead roof.
It was as part of a £17m conservation project started more than five years ago.
Six other projects have been awarded cash, including Silverstone race track and a former brewery in Cornwall.
Speaking after the announcement, the Dean of Canterbury, the Very Revd Dr Robert Willis, said "Everyone here is naturally very disappointed with the decision.
"If the project had been approved, it would have a great benefit to the county, city and local communities; and it had the support of the Canterbury City Council, key stakeholders, and local businesses.
"We will have to examine the reasons why our bid was unsuccessful before we decide whether to re-submit a bid next November, but we remain committed to restoring the Cathedral and to offering our many pilgrims and visitors a warm and rewarding experience".
Each year more than a million pilgrims visit the Anglican church's 'mother church'.
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