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Flavor &texture of this soup is amazing. Rich & creamy without the fat& calories Egg naturally gives a nice creamy consistency, tastes absolutely decadent. All the flavor, none of the guilt.
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Serves: 8
Total Time: 40 min
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 30 min
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- 1 tablespoon(s) extra virgin olive oil
- 1 small onion (chopped)
- 2 large shallots (chopped)
- 2 green onions (chopped)
- 1 clove of garlic (minced)
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) crushed red pepper
- 1-28oz can(s) crushed tomatoes
- 3 cup(s) vegetable juice
- 1/2 cup(s) milk
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/4 cup(s) cilantro (finely chopped)
- 1 teaspoon(s) cornstarch
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon(s) lemon juice
- 1/2 cup(s) shredded firm textured goats milk cheese
- 1 tablespoon(s) finely chopped parsley
- In a 6 quart sauce pan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onions, shallots, green onions, garlic and crushed red pepper. Cook 5 minutes until onions start to caramelize.
- Add crushed tomatoes, vegetable juice, milk, black pepper and salt to the sauce pan. Increase heat and bring mixture to a boil. Stir well lower heat and allow soup to simmer for 20 minutes. Remove mixture from heat. Add cilantro
- in a medium size bowl whisk egg together with the cornstarch and lemon juice. Slowly whisk in 2 cups of the hot soup. Pour egg mixture into sauce pan while stirring well.
- Turn heat on to lowest setting and allow soup to come barely to a simmer . Keep on heat stirring frequently for 5 minutes
- To serve, ladle soup into 8 bowls, top with goats milk cheese and garnish with parsley
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We are so excited to announce that our mobile App for Android is now available as a FREE download from the Android Market. iBridalGown has helped iPhone users walk down the aisle in their perfect wedding gowns, and now it's available for Android users, too! This handy little app is designed to minimize frustration by helping brides shop for their gown, compare their favorite dresses and share via email or Facebook!
The Android app delivers the same great features as the iPhone app. It has everything you will need to organize your selections in wedding dresses, all in one application. You can take pictures and store them alongside information about each dress for easy future review. Instead of managing scribbled notes on individual business cards and scraps of paper, this fun and friendly app puts all of your wedding gown details at your fingertips.
iBridalGown also helps you understand bridal jargon you might not be familiar with. Don't know the difference between chiffon and charmeuse? Wondering about wedding gown silhouettes, necklines, and trains? Definitions and descriptions of these terms are in the app!
Since your Android phone is always with you, so is your dress information!
Click here to download iBridalGown for Android
Have you tried it? I would love to hear about it!
How different is the actual gown from the sample?
I know it sounds CRAZY, but often the sample dress you are ordering from looks different from the actual gown once it's made. This variation can be very slight and hardly noticeable or can be a completely different color or fabric. Even normal wear and tear can cause the sample to seem different than an actual gown based on it. So, it is important to know what to expect before you put the deposit down.
There are some great new bridal trends making their way in for 2012, and some not so great. Here are a few that have caught my attention:
1. Illusion Neckline
The illusion style is created when a sheer, delicate and often embellished layer of fabric is added to cover all or part of the space that is otherwise exposed in a strapless gown. Think of illusion as strapless… with coverage. It can transform the whoa! of way too much cleavage into something soft, elegant and romantic. This is absolutely my favorite new trend. Look how beautiful this one shoulder illusion by Monique L'huillier is!
Before you set foot inside a bridal salon, here are 5 things you should do to make sure your search runs smoothly!
1. Know the logistics of your wedding.
It is best to know where and when your wedding will be. For instance, if it is to be a small, intimate wedding on the beach, then a sheath gown would be perfect. Or, if it will be at a yacht club that is overflowing with guests, perhaps a feather adorned ball gown would complete the occasion. These factors are extremely important when deciding on your dress, so make sure this item is crossed off your list! Believe me, you don't want to be the bride who wore velvet at her summertime garden wedding!
While running my bridal salon, trunk show season was always my favorite time of year. There was a lot of buzz around the store, and best of all, there were new dresses!!!
What is a trunk show?
A trunk show is when a designer showcases dresses from their latest or upcoming season. These are new dresses, sometimes right off the runway! I love how clean the dresses are and how carefully handled they have been. Each store packs the gowns and send them to the next store in the trunk show, and if there is anything wrong with the dresses, there is hell to pay!!
Who attends a trunk show?
Usually the designer ( or a representative) comes to a trunk show. They will sometimes offer special incentives like custom measurements, or free custom changes, or even a percentage discount off purchases made during the show. Trunk shows are fast and furious and lots of gown sales are made.
As a boutique owner, I loved it…
…but many brides don't enjoy trunk shows. Why?
It happens so often, but what do you do? How do you decide? In the boutique I would see it all the time – strong confident woman reduced to tears because they simply can't decide. I'll never forget one bride of mine who came in 17 times until she finally chose between the 2 gowns.
Granted, 17 times is a bit extreme, most brides finally decided by the third or fourth time. However, assuming you have followed all my guidelines about the best silhouette / neckline / fabric for your body and you are truly stuck between 2 equally flattering dresses, and your friends and family don't have any useful opinions, then here are a few factors which should come into play.
Let me start by saying Monique L'huillier spring 2012 collection is outstanding. She brought her signature romance to this collection, but balanced well with sophisticated silhouettes and thoughtful details. But honestly, would you expect less from her?
Look at this exquisite gown called Peony.
Got my invite to the Couture New York Bridal Fashion Show today! Fashion week is amazing, and you get a special preview and one on one time with Bridal fashion superstars such as Vera Wang, Monique L'huillier, Rivini, and Cymbeline Paris (LOVE THEM!!!)
This fabulous week that is complete bliss for the bridal fashion obsessed, is topped off with a huge gala hosted by no other than Martha Stewart. This year it's October 15-17, and you can count on me to be there talking to all the designers, post pictures and give all the beautiful (and not so beautiful) details of what's new in bridal fashion!
The hardest part is getting started, and this is most certainly true when it comes to shopping for your wedding gown… Where do I begin? Where is the best place to start? When do I start? What is the best shade of white for my complexion? What kind of train should i have? and what the heck is the difference between a french and an english bustle?
It's enough to make your head spin and just walk down the aisle wearing your over-sized pink fuzzy bathrobe!
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Hi, I'm part of the staff on Pokemon Showdown!, if you have any questions or need any help, VM or PM me.
Right of course because the rest of the post in question didn't disparage the logic behind the OP's flawed concept of rape nor did it highlight the serious nature of rape above almost all other incidents.
You'll chastise me for (not) trivialising rape when that is exactly what that woman did with her broadly inaccurate sign. Your argument is so inherently flawed it's almost unbelievable. Must try harder.
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Personally I think the worst pokemon is Porygon Z. It is over the top, but in a redundant way rather than an awesome way. It evens evolves through the same item trade it's pre-evolution does.
I hate Dunsparce
why was it created? like it serves no purpose in battling
Hi I am a white male! I am pleased to meet you.
I am automatically racist and privileged. I make more money than you. I cannot grasp the concept of racism nor can I feel its effects because I am white, hence empathy is impossible for fair skinned folks like me. I am a bad person for being White. Shame on me! Thanks for teaching us so much about equality and prejudice, MLK!
does SC not realize that *****ing about a rape victim's grammar is trivializing rape lmao
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>Drawing a Lucario licking the tears of his self-insert
Nope, there's nothing creepy about this. Not a single thing.
e: And fyi Lumineon is worst pokemon.
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I think we can all agree that the worst Pokemon is hands-down Stantler. Seriously, I saw it once, and it was in the wild in Gold Version.
I have never seen it anywhere other than that.
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does not trivialize rape by implying that her message is null and void due to the fact that she used bad grammar.Girl in first pic is a moron just for writing a whole paragraph in block caps. Poor use of English too.
hey guys didnt you know if a penis thinks it wasnt rape then the penis's word is law
be sure to read the rules of every section before posting ;)
Little Miss Stalinist/Secret Al-Qaeda agents (i.e. Ellie) would be a ***** even if she was a conserative republican. What makes her the way she is happens to be the fact that the webmaster of this site let's her behave like this. (Of course, I would never make a liberal a staff member at any forum I'd be in charge of, regardless.)
Rezzo, your signature is seriously the most adorable thing ever but it's breaking the sig rules Is there a way you can make it smaller than 500 kb? I love it so much
I have a Tumblr! Come check it out or something.
It just changes the dimensions, but not the file size itself.
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text: Education and the Workforce The ability of manufacturers to succeed in the highly competitive global marketplace depends on access to an educated, flexible and knowledge-based workforce. American employees, in turn, need the education and skills to participate in a high performance workforce for the robust and dynamic U.S. manufacturing economy. The United States faces the daunting challenge of ensuring that every student possesses the appropriate knowledge and skills required to succeed in the 21st-century global economy. The NAM's skills gap surveys consistently underscore how a vast majority of American manufacturers are facing a serious shortage of qualified employees, taking an increasingly negative toll on America's ability to be innovative and productive. 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General Workforce Policy A skilled labor force is a basic requirement for economic growth and prosperity. Employment and retraining efforts should be based on future market demand for jobs and should be directed toward private sector needs. For their part, employees must undertake their own initiative to use the education and training programs that are available and invest their own time and resources to improve their skills. Back to top 1 .12. Workforce Development and Training Workforce training programs should be consolidated and coordinated into a comprehensive and adaptive system centered on the needs of regional economic development and accountable for results. The workforce system should be easily understandable, accessible and responsive to the needs of both the business community and job seekers. Increased outreach and involvement of local communities and governments should be encouraged and supported. 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Growers with winterkilled alfalfa in older stands can remove it with herbicides and/or aggressive tillage, says Mark Renz, University of Wisconsin Extension weed scientist. (See "Winterkill Claims Alfalfa, Other Forages In Upper Midwest.")
"If using herbicides, remember to read the label of the products used, as plant-back restrictions can vary between products," he warns.
Applying herbicide before tillage "greatly improves chances of alfalfa mortality. For no-till fields, spring herbicide application can provide good to great removal depending on the year," Renz says. When alfalfa plants are stressed, as they are this year, they often resprout and require control in the following crop.
Most labels recommend at least 4" of alfalfa regrowth to maximize control. The most popular active ingredients in herbicides used to control the legume include glyphosate, 2,4-D, and/or dicamba. Glyphosate has no plant-back restrictions for other crops, but 2,4-D and dicamba do.
"The restriction varies depending on the crop, rate and product, so read the label carefully," he says. "In a typical year, the restriction for 2,4-D (seven-14 days for corn) and dicamba (zero-30 days for corn) can be met easily prior to planting corn without a yield hit. This year, however, an application of one of these products may result in a one- to four-week delay in planting."
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Growers planning to harvest first-crop conventional alfalfa before terminating the stand should apply glyphosate 36 hours or longer before harvesting. Up to 1.5 lbs acid equivalent (ae) per acre is registered for this type of application. This will allow for hay harvest and improve effectiveness of removal. "I am not aware of any other herbicides that can be used in this fashion," he says.
Or growers can harvest the hay, let the alfalfa regrow and then apply herbicide to eliminate the stand. This adds at least two weeks time before planting and plant-back restrictions would need to be followed, Renz says.
To control volunteer alfalfa, consider using glyphosate on Roundup Ready crops unless you're removing Roundup Ready alfalfa. Other products containing dicamba or clopyralid are effective in corn. "I am not aware of effective non-glyphosate options in soybeans. Make applications in a timely fashion, as I expect significant yield loss could be seen from volunteer alfalfa in fields," Renz advises.
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Becoming a Skillful Teacher Teaching skillfully requires a constant openness and flexibility to experimenting with whatever approaches help students learn. This means we need to build the critically reflective habit into our practice so that we can be as sure as is realistically possible that the teaching actions we take are based on valid and accurate assumptions about how our students learn. We need to know how students understand material, experience classroom activities, read meaning into our teaching actions, and make progress as learners. In this presentation Stephen Brookfield will present the core assumptions of skillful teaching.
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I was just wondering is it right to name your children after a character on a T.V. show or film or even another celebrity you admire?.
Is it right and would you do it, and if so what T.V. shows films or celebrity's do you like and what characters names do you like?.
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I don't see any problem as long as the name isn't so rare that the character/star is all you think of when you hear it (eg. I'm thinking of a name like Katniss from the Hunger Games).
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Totally! I was named after Natalie Wood (my mom loved her!) and what's strange is that I sort of look like her :O
I especially want to name any potential daughters after characters or authors (Elinor from Sense and Sensibility, Charlotte (Lottie) as in Charlotte Bronte (one of my favorite authors), and one of my sons after a favorite celebrity (Hugh, as in Hugh Bonneville)). I've known people that have named their kids after presidents (Reagan, Carter, Theodore, etc.) and writers (Emerson) and even characters (Hermione, Forrest, as in Forrest Gump lol).
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I have found several places selling single handled cornys for less than the regular style. Are there any disadvantages to the single handles ones? Beer goes in, beer goes out, who cares about the handle, right? or very wrong?
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I like them. They are a bit hard to turn upside down for soaking. I have 1 five gallon and 2 three gallon cornies with 1 metal handle.
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From what I've read, the metal is usually a little thinner on the 1 handled. I figure so long as there aren't any enormous dents, it doesn't matter. They're going to live in a fridge or the closet. I ordered 4 from Chi company because they're so much less expensive than the 2 handled ones.
I vastly prefer them, and they are the only kind I'll buy in the future. Both my kegerator and my brew-fridge are on the small side, and it is SO MUCH easier connecting/removing gas and beer lines without that huge black top blocking me from both sides. Plus, the rubber topped kegs leave nasty black marks on everything they touch. Not so with the single metal or plastic handles. I've got a handful of the double-handled kegs, and I'll happily trade them to locals for singles.
See, that's what I love about this place. In the time it took me to pitch the yeast into my starter, and pop on the airlock, three replies. This site rocks. It sounds like there actually may be a few benefits with the single handles ones, and they are cheaper. Win.Win
I have a Sanyo BC-1206 kegerator and the only way that I can have three kegs and a 10lb CO2 tank is to have the two kegs in the back be of the single handle design. There is a compressor bump out in the back, on the top, that will not allow a double handle cornie to fit. The only way to use a double handle keg would be to cut off one handle with a sawzall, which I've seen done. I found a place a long time ago that was selling the single handled, ball lock kegs so I scooped about about a dozen of them.


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". . . Obama has to take some responsibility for." Only some? He appointed the damn commission. And they are doing exactly what he wanted them to do.
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The Bitterroot National Forest crew from the Sula Ranger District will be closing Road #729 near Indian Trees Campground on the west fork of Camp Creek
Vandals caused an estimated $15,000 damage to concrete-and-wood picnic tables at Lake Como over the weekend. Bitterroot National Forest Public Affairs Officer Tod McKay said the tables, weighing about 500 pounds each, were overturned Saturday night or Sunday morning
Is there a place in the Bitterroot that you think could use a little TLC?
The Ravalli County Resource Advisory Committee is accepting project proposals from the public until March 30th for this year's funding
It's one of the best views of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Montana. The Forest Service lookout at the top of St Mary Peak west of Stevensville will be staffed by volunteers this summer. The Bitterroot National Forest and the Selway-Bitterroot Foundation are looking for volunteers who will live at the lookout for up to 4 weeks at a time


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Kristen rocks blonde hair and sports a pair of vintage shades in the new poster — what a good look for her!
As the release date draws closer and closer, a hot new poster for On the Road featuring Kristen Stewart sitting in the backseat of a car has surfaced. "Love is a duel," the tagline reads.
It sounds to us like Kristen will find herself torn between two men in the movie. We wonder which of her sexy costars will succeed in winning her heart!
On the Road is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this May, alongside Kristen's boyfriend Robert Pattinson's new movie Cosmopolis. Both stars are confirmed to be attending the star-studded affair, and we bet they'll walk the red carpet together!
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The Chicago Cubs are one of the hottest teams in baseball, but that was when they were playing teams marginally still in the race. Can they keep it up when not playing the role of spoiler?
By way of reminder, the Series Preview hooks you up with what you need to know about every series this year – streaks, broadcast information, pitchers, lineups, etc. That way you can look like a genius, hardcore fan in front of all your friends, with minimum effort. Oh, and there will be pictures of beautiful women, too.
We're Going Streaking
The Cubs are still one of the hottest teams in baseball, having won 11 of 14, and four straight series.
Hey, here's a shocker: after an already miserable Houston team unloaded its two best players at the deadline, the team has gone 3-10 and have lost six in a row.
Game Times and Broadcasts
- Monday, August 15 at 7:05 CT on CSN.
- Tuesday, August 16 at 7:05 CT on WGN.
- Wednesday, August 17 at 1:05 CT on WGN.
Expected Starters and Lineups
These lineups are likely to be pretty close to what actually gets fielded.
Starters: Rodrigo Lopez (3-3, 4.78), Ryan Dempster (10-8, 4.70), Casey Coleman (2-4, 7.23)
- Castro, SS
- Barney, 2B
- Ramirez, 3B
- Pena, 1B
- Byrd, CF
- Soriano, LF
- Colvin, RF
- Soto, C
- Pitcher
Starters: Henry Sosa (0-1, 6.00), Brett Myers (3-12, 4.71), TBA
- Jason Bourgeois, CF (or J.B.Shuck)
- Jose Altuve, 2B
- J.D. Martinez, LF
- Carlos Lee, 1B
- Brian Bogusevic, RF
- Jimmy Paredes, 3B
- Angel Sanchez, SS
- Carlos Corporan, C
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Casey Coleman finally returns to the bigs after pitching very well in AAA, but not because Mike Quade became more amenable to seeing what the youngsters have – it's because Carlos Zambrano semi-retired.
Darwin Barney clearly (a) reads Bleacher Nation, and (b) responds well to criticism. He's had seven hits in his last two games; all I have to say is: it's totally unsustainable. Go forth, Darwin.
Starlin Castro might finally need a breather after yesterday's 0-5, 4 K day. Then again, the day before he was 4-5, so I can understand why it's hard to find a good time to give him a day off.
This Astros squad bears little resemblance to the team the Cubs played just a few weeks ago. And that one stunk. This one would get its ass kicked by that one.
I'd be lying to you if I pretended to know who most of the guys in the lineup are. Ok, I'd be lying if pretended to know who anyone but Lee, Sanchez, and Bourgeois are (and the latter two are stretching it).
I've read, though, that Jose Altuve has a nine-game hitting streak, and has hit safely in 21 of 24 games. Good for him.
The one name you do recognize for sure is Carlos Lee, who's hitting just .135 in his last 15 games. It probably doesn't help your production when you have no one around you whom pitchers know, let alone fear.
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The Series She-View is one beautiful woman representing the Cubs taking on another (usually) beautiful woman representing the opponent. The Cubs' representative will change as the team's needs change – in other words, if the Cubs are winning, the rep will stay the same. But if the Cubs' performance calls for a change, someone new will step in. The opponent's representative will change from series to series, at my whim. But at least she'll probably be wearing the opponent's colors or have some connection to the team or something like that.
It remains impossible to change the Cubs' current rep, Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (yes, it's still impossible – good thing this hadn't all started when the Cubs' rep was a burrito).
Under her watch, the Cubs put together their first three-game winning streak of the year. And, after a tiny, little five-game losing streak, the Cubs swept a four game series in Pittsburgh, and then won another three series on top of it. She's earned a particularly sexy photo this time.
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Posted by David Cooperstein on March 7, 2011
On February 10, our Researcher Mike Glantz was able to attend the ANA TV and Everything Video Conference. In light of our recently published call on the future of TV audience measurement in our new report "TV's Currency Conversion" (client access only), here are his observations from the event:
Overall, the conference featured an excellent lineup of presenters and speakers:
Posted by Kerry Bodine on March 7, 2011
Call centers sit on the frontline of customer experience where they provide sales, support, and customer service functions. They're often customers' first — and sometimes their only — human interaction with a company.
Even with conservative estimates, it's easy to make the case that large call centers have customer influence on par with, if not greater than, that of mass advertising campaigns. (Assuming a call center with 3,000 agents and an average of only 50 calls per agent per day, a company has the opportunity to make 1.05 million personal connections each week — and 54.6 million each year.)
Call center interactions have the potential to build a company's brand image, delight people so much that they recommend the brand to friends, and even generate incremental sales.
But bad call center experiences spoil millions of daily opportunities to drive business value.
Despite their reach and potential impact on the business, call centers go largely ignored. Instead, companies are making deeper investments in the Web and other sexy of-the-moment digital service interactions, like mobile and Social Computing. Consumers have noticed — they tell us that phone conversations with live agents just don't stack up to online or in-store experiences. What's worse, Forrester has been tracking US consumer satisfaction with phone conversations across multiple industries since 2007 and 2008, and all but one industry saw their satisfaction rates sink during this time period. Only investment firms bucked the downward trend, and even there, the story isn't a whole lot better: Satisfaction scores have been effectively flat since 2007.
Posted by Melissa Parrish on March 4, 2011
Marketers often ask me what their mobile strategy should be: What are the key elements? How can they make sure it's successful? Where should they put their money? These may sound like simple questions, but given how complex the technology and landscape are there's a lot more involved in answering them than it may appear at first glance.
In an effort to unravel the complicated answers to these questions, I undertook some research that led me to the essential question that lurks behind marketers' inquiries but is rarely stated: Is "mobile" a true marketing channel that demands its own strategic expertise and focus, or is it simply a different device through which consumers come into contact with messages you've already established for other campaigns? The answer is that it's both.
In my latest report, "Evolving Your Mobile Marketing Presence," I talk about how marketers are working through the stages of mobile skills and strategy development in an effort to approach mobile as wisely as possible. After talking with marketers, vendors, and agencies, these are the phases I identified:
For more information about each of these phases and how marketers are tackling them, Forrester clients can access the complete report at the link above.
As I've mentioned before, I'm going to be focusing on mobile marketing for much of this year, so I'm very interested in hearing about your own experiences. Have you asked yourselves the device versus channel question? How are you approaching each of these phases?
Posted by Ellen Carney on March 4, 2011
Without a doubt, the hottest inquiry category for insurance ebusiness and channel execs (and insurance IT, for that matter) has been anything to do with claims. And why not, since as one insurance ebiz executive we talked with pointed out, isn't claim handling the real business of insurance? We also saw the big interest in both customer experience and claims processing when we surveyed 75 or so US and Canadian insurers a little less than a year ago, with both appearing in the top three insurance business priorities into 2011.
The claim is the real moment of truth in the insurer-policyholder relationship, and that experience is a big factor in whether that policyholder decides to stick around when the claim gets settled. Just what's on the minds of insurance roles when it comes to claims this year? For starters, here's a sampling of claim-related inquiry topics I've fielded:
I'm just wrapping up a report on how carriers can tame the claims beast, but in the meantime, if you'd like to learn our thinking and what else is simmering around the topic of claims, that's just an inquiry away.
Posted by Peter O'Neill on March 4, 2011
As you'd expect from a Forrester analyst, this is Peter O'Neill by the way, I travel a lot— about 40% of my working days. But it is also amazing how a full week spent in the home office can still feel so busy! These days, social media keeps you in the discussion mainstream – perhaps even more so than if you are on the road because you have more time to engage. Bob Apollo, at the UK-based consultancy Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, even tweeted me privately this week with the message, "And you a VP at Forrester, reading my stuff, an 'umble blogger... I'm not worthy..." after I told him that I enjoyed his tweets and found them useful. Well, even as a fully fledged analyst for tech marketers, I continue to be eager to learn from anybody else. And I do this without any fear of appearing to copy others — here in Germany, a popular government minister has now resigned because he plagiarized the majority of his doctorate dissertation years ago; bad enough itself, but he initially denied it when discovered.
Posted by Reineke Reitsma on March 4, 2011
Young consumers are now almost always connected to media — which would rationally lead you to think that the more times and places they are connected, the more ways there are (and the easier it is) to interact with them. This is where market researchers need to step in and push their companies to dig deeper than just measuring the time spent on a media channel. They need to truly understand these consumers' core motivations for using it.
Earlier this week my colleague Jackie Anderson published a report 'Understanding The Intricate Digital Behaviors Of Young Consumers', that looks into this in detail. Some interesting findings from Forrester's North American Technographics Youth Survey Q3, 2010 shows that youngsters are highly active on social networking sites.
More than 90% of 12- to 17-year-olds who are active on social networks have an account on Facebook, which is their go-to social network, no doubt. But they haven't completely abandoned other networks: almost 40% have an account on both Facebook and Myspace.
With 78% of 12- to 17-year-olds having a social networking account, social networking's power is undeniable. But it's not enough just to look at these channels to see what type of content or information 12- to 17-year-olds are consuming; it's how, why, and when they're consuming it. Without tapping into these deeper motivations, brands will never fully benefit from this social opportunity.
Posted by Andrew McInnes on March 4, 2011
Most customer experience professionals recognize that the voice of the customer (VoC) is critical to their success. After all, if you're trying to improve customers' perceptions, you better understand them. But building a comprehensive VoC program isn't easy. It involves complex challenges, such as collecting customer feedback across channels and tailoring reports for diverse internal audiences. Nothing can erase these challenges completely, but the right set of tools can help overcome them. Enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors offer many of these tools, simplifying VoC activities by providing central systems for feedback collection, analysis, response, and reporting.
To get a better sense of the EFM market, Roxie Strohmenger and I scanned the space and asked 26 of the vendors to provide information about their software and services. You can find the vendor responses and my analysis of the market from a customer experience perspective in my latest report. Or you can check out Roxie's take from the market insights professionals' perspective.
Here are the key findings from my report:
The EFM market is crowded and hard to navigate. Most EFM vendors are small. Twenty-four of the 26 we surveyed generated $30 million or less in revenues from EFM in 2010. The lists of common competitors provided by the vendors suggest that survey technology is still the centerpiece of the market, but many vendors are evolving beyond that traditional area of focus.
Posted by Diane Clarkson on March 3, 2011
I've had an abundance of inquiries recently on co-browsing — allowing a contact center representative to interact with a customer using the customer's web browser — so I wanted to share some thoughts on the topic here.
First, the cautionary tale: I believe it that co-browsing can potentially be a solution looking for a problem. For example, if you are looking for a solution to customers having difficulty understanding how to complete a form, it may be more cost-effective to do a page redesign or offer click-to-chat.
But that said, co-browsing — when implemented at the right time and place — can be an effective approach to escalated and personal support. Co-browsing can be used for many objectives including support, sales, product selection, and account management. The value proposition is that co-browsing can improve call handle times, support sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and — in some instances — be a teaching tool that deflects future telephone calls as customers learn how to perform tasks in a co-browsing setting.
Co-browsing can be an effective tool when it is offered at the right time to the right customer. Here are a few key considerations for companies thinking about offering co-browsing:
Posted by Ronald Rogowski on March 3, 2011
At some point in our lives, we all go through the challenge of moving, and it isn't a whole lot of fun, even when it should be. You have to find a place to move, make offers, secure loans and income verification… all that fun stuff that you swear to yourself you'll never go through again because it's such a hassle. For me, it's not the boxes, the upheaval of routine, or even the challenge of dealing with all the administrivia that seems to pop up just when you think all the paperwork is in order. No. What I dislike most is changing my address for subscriptions, financial accounts, and other services.
At some point we all have to go through the basic task of updating our personal information with a company. It's simple self-service task, right? You log in to your account, click on a link that says "change mailing address," input your new information, and move on. You may even get a reassuring email confirming that your information has been changed. It seems so simple — and in this day and age it should be. But why, then, do companies make it so hard to change your address online?
In the past week I must have gone through the process at least 20 times and found a range of problems including:
Posted by Sarah Rotman Epps on March 2, 2011
Apple understands desire. The first thing consumers will notice about the iPad 2 is how it feels: Lighter (by a crucial 2 ounces) and thinner (at 8.8mm, thinner than an iPhone 4). Color triggers emotion: iPad 2 comes in not just black but white, with multiple colors in the thin "smart covers" that snap into place with "auto-aligning magnets" and clean those unsightly fingerprints off your screen. The rest is important but more cerebral. Dual-core processor, HDMI video-out converter for the 30-pin connector, etc. Emotion enters back into the equation when consumers see what they can do with the device--see their loved ones through FaceTime, touch-edit videos in iMovie, improvise on touch-instruments in GarageBand and actually sound good doing it.
In a post-PC world, consumers have a more intimate relationship with their devices. They use them on the couch and in bed and not just at their desk. They show their devices to other people (40% of iPad owners in Forrester's surveys report regularly sharing their iPad with other people). Fostering that desire is a smart way to differentiate your piece of glass from other pieces of glass that perform essentially the same functions.
Beyond the device itself, Apple's product strategy cultivates an emotional connection with consumers through:
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