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Is Growth Hacking a thing? The experts sound-off
May 28th
By Kiki Schirr, {grow} Contributing Columnist
As I was beginning to write my second post for {grow}, Mark posted the following to Facebook:
Whoops. Guess I shouldn't write about growth hacking, then!
But then I thought, a topic like growth hacking should stir some debate…
So I went ahead and asked some industry experts about what they thought about growth hacking–I think the results might surprise you!
Growth Hacking Has a Specific Meaning–and isn't for Everyone – Sujan Patel
Sujan Patel, VP of Marketing at When I Work, and founder of ContentMarketer.io, sees a distinction between Growth Marketing and Growth Hacking. "I wrote an ebook on Growth Hacking [100 Days of Growth] but I'm more of a growth marketer. Since I can't technically write code (at least not anything good) I wouldn't call myself a "hacker … it's only okay if you can do both the growth (ideation and marketing) and the hacking (implementation). To me a Growth Hacker is 30% Marketer, 50% Developer, and 20% Analytics/Data."
"If you're a developer that has implemented growth hacks … you're still a developer. You must come up with the idea, execute, and measure to be a true Growth Hacker."
Growth hacking "will be around for the next 3-5 years until the industry evolves and/or something new comes along."
Being a "Growth Hacker" is like having blue hair -- Jay Baer, author of YOUtility
"As long as online business remains, we'll have growth hacking as a concept." Jay said. "Whether the title persists over time, I doubt it. … it has a specific and particular connotation that is rooted in SaaS, startups, and online business."
"If that's your jam, go for it. But if that's not your jam, tread carefully. It's like going to the job interview with blue hair. Is it okay? Sure, but you're making a statement."
Jay has a specific and thought-out definition for growth hacking: "Obsessive optimization of tactics and techniques that increase online conversions." But does he associate himself with the term 'growth hacking?' "My team and I at Convince & Convert are certainly engaged in many/most of the principles of 'growth hacking' –we just don't position it that way…"
"Maybe because I'm old, maybe because we mostly work with enterprise companies."
Growth Hacking is not a subset of Marketing – William Harris, VP of Marketing & Growth at Dollar Hobbyz
When I looked for someone who was using growth hacking principles on a daily basis, I reached out to William Harris, who is known for making a splash with his company Dollar Hobbyz. "The term is very polarizing." said William. "People either love it (and abuse it) or they hate it."
"Growth Hacking carries with it the connotation of a rapid iteration of something that might not really be marketing related (hacking), but can bring about huge gains (growth). An example to me would be using IFTTT to automate your Twitter account and double your followers in 2 weeks."
"The term 'successful marketing' [referring to Mark's quote] doesn't instill in me any understanding of the process … using a term like 'growth hacking' tells me that something was 'hacked' to grow faster than 'successful marketing' would typically allow."
"I think 'growth hacking' is as all-encompassing as the term 'growth.' It is not a sub-specialty of marketing, because you can have growth hacks in sales, customer service, networking, etc.It's bigger than marketing, and yet, it's smaller… because by its nature it is something that is quickly iterated to produce large growth with minimal input."
Being a "Growth Hacker" is not Something to be Ashamed of – Tracy Ingram, Growth Hacker
When I went to a Startup Grind meeting in Tampa, I was surprised to receive a new card from Tracy Ingram, a friend of mine. "Growth Hacker" it read in bold, red script. Startled, I asked him if he ever got ripped on for using it as a title. He hadn't, but this was the debut of the card–and by asking if he got made fun of for it, wasn't I also questioning the validity it?
"It was the only term I could think of to take all of these traffic sources and turn it into a simple line." Tracy said. As a consultant, the people that he wishes to appeal to — "a startup in trouble, a conference two weeks before an event, or someone whose Kickstarter hasn't hit 20% in the first few days" –those are the people looking for a Growth Hacker, and that's what he's selling.
To Tracy, "Growth Hacker" is a new term for what people used to call a "Rain Maker," some one called in to make things work. Tracy had been in SEO for over 10 years, but sees the dominance of search engines fading and social slowing taking their place. "I think of growth hacking as getting the growth or leads in a way that increases ROI with the lowest possible cost." And ultimately, he concludes that Growth Hacking is a thing "because it works."
Growth Hacking: the haterz
- Gary Schirr, @ProfessorGary at Radford University
- Gregg Hilferding, Owner of Green Bar Labs
- Mitch Neff, Global Director of Startup Bus
When I asked on Facebook about Growth Hacking, I received some very witty comments:
Growth Hacking is more complicated than you think – Nichole Elizabeth Demeré, Customer Success Evangelist, NicholeElizabethDemere.com
I sat down with Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré to get her opinion of Growth Hacking. Although Nichole is an internationally-known Customer Success Evangelist and growth hacker, of GrowthHackers.com, Product Hunt, and formerly Inbound.org. I read her parts of what others had said about growth hacking, and that got her started:
"Conversions are just part of what you're trying to optimize, the conversions are not the end goal. The end goal is retention, customer lifetime value, think the full customer life cycle," she said.
"I can get rankings and conversions all day but if I'm not retaining, improving the customer lifetime value, or creating brand advocates, it doesn't matter."
"In growth hacking, you do experiments with hypotheses to prove or to disprove, and in either case, you learn something important. If you learn that the hypothesis is true, you need to determine what to do next to take advantage of it, and so you should iterate on it–quickly!"
"Don't spend time on things that don't work. i.e. Don't use Pinterest if it's the wrong distribution or acquisition channel. Come up with a hypothesis, prove it or don't, and then you'll figure out what to do. –and then, from there form another hypothesis."
"Part of the issue I have with the whole 'we improved our homepage conversions by 50%' thing is that you could be in a local maxima problem–where your page isn't the ultimate version despite all the optimization you've done. Therefore, I don't 100% agree with all of these quotes, it's not always about optimization, sometimes it's more about improvements through 'crazy ideas.'"
"Optimizations are about small increments, Growth Hacking is not conversion rate optimization, though it's about the same. This is because Growth Hacking is also about embracing crazy ideas, sometimes."
And finally, Mark Schaefer has his say. (This is his blog by the way!)
Is growth hacking a thing? Five people have weighed in favorably about "growth hacking," and they have had five quite different definitions. There's a clue.
But whether it is "iterating quickly" as William contends or "testing hypothesis to optimize retention and customer lifetime value," as Nichole claims, guess what? It's all still marketing!
I am keenly aware that taking the unpopular position that "growth hacking" is puffery could mark me as a geezer, but I also have an obligation to call it like it is and I am siding with Greg on this one: "Growth hacking is what you call it because you don't know what you're doing is marketing"
Do people honesty believe marketers have never iterated quickly before the Internet? We've never done market testing? That "hacking" quick prototypes and using every available technology to test ideas is new this year? Marketers have been doing this for decades, at least the good ones.
Blogging is not "word hacking." It's still writing.
Implementing a CRM system does not make you a sales hacker. It's still personal selling.
And marketing is still marketing, even if you use computer code to help you do it.
What do you think?
It's time for you to sound off. I'd love to hear your opinion on what you think of Growth Hacking in the comment section.
Kiki Schirr is a cofounder of the fitness app Fittr, and also does the company's marketing. She is the author of the Product Hunt Manual and hosts her own blog at kikischirr.com.
Four key marketing lessons to propel us into 2014
Jan 2nd
By Kerry Gorgone, {grow} Contributing Columnist
2013 is over. What are the marketing lessons from that year that will help propel our efforts into the New Year?
From Jay Baer's Youtility to Brian Solis's What's the Future of Business, marketing thought leaders this year have pushed marketers to create content that helps the audience and enhances the customer experience. Let's revisit some of the year's core lessons as 2014 blasts off.
1) Create marketing so helpful people would pay for it.
"As Gary Vaynerchuk has said, the problem with marketing today is that everybody wants to be a hunter and nobody wants to be farmer," author Jay Baer wrote.
"Youtility is really a book on how to farm. You have to change the way you think in the organization from, 'hey, here's coupon, buy in the next 10 minutes,' to 'hey, let us help you and you will connect those dots eventually and you will eventually reward us with attention, sales, loyalty, and advocacy,' but it takes time to do that."
Did you create helpful content and cultivate a deeper relationship with your customers this year?
2) Have real conversations, and publish them as content.
We're seeing a resurgence people's awareness of podcasts, which is driving an interest in podcasting. In part, as
The Invisible Sale author Tom Martin observes, this renewed interest is the result of mobile technology: it's easier than ever to subscribe and listen to episodes, and in part because the low barriers to entry make podcasting a great alternative for marketers serving a niche audience.
Define your audience segment and go after it. Create custom content that goes deep to add real value, the way a long conversation with a mentor makes you feel energized and ready to take action.
"I believe [digital channels] extend the physical boundaries of what a true conversation could be," explained Mitch Joel, author of Ctrl Alt Delete. "What a form of niche content can be. And I believe what we're creating falls into that category… the depth and the analysis of it."
In the 2013 book Born to Blog, authors Mark W. Schaefer and Stanford Smith propose that if you can have conversations — answer questions, teach a lesson, help somebody — you have the essential skills to create meaningful content.
3) Intentionally design the customer experience.
"If our customer is sharing experiences about the products that they have or that they're using, how can we better understand them? Not just their expectations, but how can we take those and create aspirational experiences, create the experiences we want them to have and in turn to share," asks Brian Solis in What's the Future of Business.
Offering a great product or service isn't enough. Offering helpful marketing content isn't enough. Think bigger.
Map the customer journey for your audience, from first touch to purchase and beyond. How does it look? Will their online comments reflect well on your brand when they talk about that experience? If not, it's time to make changes.
Have you really looked at the business experience through the eyes of your customers?
4) If you can go beyond being just "helpful," you should.
Inspire people with your marketing content. Surprise and delight them.
In 2013, Jason Falls pushed marketers to create content that makes their audience exclaim "Holy Smokes!" "You want to elicit a strong emotion." That's "Holy Smokes," not "hmm, that was helpful."
Ann Handley took it a step further, and issued a challenge at Content Marketing World marketers to inspire their audience, not just "address pain points" through content.
For 2014, she encourages marketers to "give your customers a gift." Ask yourself how you can delight them, the way Westjet delighted their passengers by granting their Christmas wishes.
How will you take some of these lessons to improve your marketing in the coming year?
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone teaches New Media Marketing at Full Sail University. She also hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast for MarketingProfs. Find Kerry on Google+ and Twitter.
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A content marketing framework for the digital age
Jul 1st
If you're a regular reader of {grow} you'll know that I'm a big fan of Jay Baer. I think he is one of the great minds and entrepreneurs in this marketing space. So I was really excited to get an advance copy of his new book, Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype.
Youtility is packed with data and examples that set forth an unsettling new path for content marketing in the digital age. It synthesizes the technological forces of the web, the psychological needs of consumers, and the common sense that can only come from Jay's extensive experience to create a formidable new idea.
Instead of summarizing the book, which really would be a disservice to you because you MUST READ this book, I thought it would be much more interesting to explore a little of the back story of the subject matter with first-hand insights from the author. Here is an interview with Jay Baer and the creation of "Youtility:"
Mark: One of the interesting things about this book is that you actually discredit an idea from your first book. I thought this was bold and honest. Instead of "be amazing," you now counsel "be useful," which I think is a lot more accessible. Was there one conversation or event that crystallized this concept for you? An "a-ha" moment that led to the framework for this new book?
Jay: Certainly, The NOW Revolution isn't wholly (or even significantly) about being amazing, but certainly we advised in that book that being incredibly responsive and human can be a success formula for business. And I still love it when companies commit to massively exceeding customer expectations. After all, the praise you earn online almost always comes from real actions offline.
But, customer experience as the fulcrum for "amazing" is one thing. Trying to make "amazing" marketing is quite another, and that's where the disconnect occurs. For me, the tipping point was Old Spice. The success of that campaign, and the corresponding media coverage, drove a shift in marketers' thinking that spawned 10,000 "get me one of those viral videos" meetings.
"Viral," "wacky" or even "amazing" aren't marketing strategies, they are hope. They are commandments that ask businesses to purposefully be what they aren't, in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle. Lots of consultants are making a living these days telling companies that the best way to succeed in marketing is to just be a better business. That's a circular argument, at best.
So, I created Youtilty as the rational counter-balance.
Simultaneously, we have the meteoric rise of content marketing as a marketing imperative. There are great books that offer outstanding how-tos for content, but in the conversations I have with large corporate clients, what seemed to be missing was the "why" and the proof that it works.
Youtility is a strategic framework for content marketing, and it's a broad enough framework to also apply beyond content. In fact, several people who have read early copies feel Youtility works very nicely on the personal level. I didn't write it that way, but am delighted if people can apply Youtility lessons to their real lives, not just their business lives.
The book is filled with fascinating and original case studies. But it occurred to me that ultimately, there are also probably limits to how useful companies can be, too. For example, Columbia Sportswear created an app to help people find tie knots. Once you find a way to help a customer at a point of need, then what?
Youtility is about marketing sideways, instead of head-on. Columbia doesn't sell rope, but their prospective customers often need knot-tying help. That gives them a new relationship foothold with those customers that transcends the transactional. The fact that they gave away useful information without the expectation of immediate return will drive awareness, loyalty, and advocacy long-term among the consumers of that information. Among all of them? No. But among some of them? Absolutely, and you only need to look at the success of Marcus Sheridan's River Pools to see the dollars hidden inside being useful.
One of the things you say in the book that is profound, maybe even shocking at first, is that we've always tried to build loyalty with people, and we can no longer rely on that. Now, we must build loyalty with information. That's going to be a disorienting concept for a lot of people. Can you explain this idea?
Yes, for old dudes like us, it goes against everything we've been taught. But, it's very much the case. Customers of all types increasingly have access to high speed Internet access at all times. Thus, they have the means to research everything, and they do. Research from Google and elsewhere show a sharp rise in the number of information sources consumers need before making a purchase. And why not? Why wouldn't you do some research before buying, when there is almost no hassle involved in doing so?
Both you and I keynoted a big conference of automobile dealers a few weeks ago. Talk about an industry that is living through this "relationships created by information" lesson! Routinely, they told me, buyers come into the dealership knowing more about the vehicles than the salespeople. At that point, the role of the salesperson shifts entirely. And this will happen to most industries, eventually, as information is set free.
Concurrently, the extreme (although perhaps self-imposed) time pressures this always-on world has created makes consumers far less interested in synchronous exchanges.
If you and I talk on the phone (which we rarely do) we have to coordinate schedules. If we email, text, DM, Facebook message, Linkedin message, etc. we can communicate asynchronously, on our own schedules. Every person reading this has purposefully NOT filled out a contact us form on a site, even though they were interested, because they didn't want to be contacted by a salesperson. Instead, they chose to kick the informational tires themselves, and only when they are WAY down the purchase funnel do they reach out for human contact.
Another key idea I loved in the book is that "industry doesn't matter." Consumer expectations are being set by whatever content, apps and brands they love. Are we at a point where there is a blurring line between B2B and B2C marketing?
Yes! I've been preaching this for a long time. It doesn't matter what your competitors are doing, it matters what the bellwether sites and companies are doing. B2B buyers are also B2C buyers, of course. Thus, their expectations are manifestly influenced by what the big B2C players are doing. If you think Zappos' norms have no impact on what SAP is doing, you're missing the big picture.
B2B and B2C marketing mechanics are fundamentally the same. The only differences are at the execution layer.
You obviously did a tremendous amount of research and interviews for the book. I can imagine you had weeks of almost total immersion in the subject. How are you personally different after this intense experience?
I wish. I researched and wrote the book almost entirely on nights and weekends, as the consulting side of Convince & Convert could not halt (or even slow down) to create the book. But, I had some help! Kim Corak, who heads special projects at C&C, organized and executed a lot of the interviews in the book, thankfully. Both she and I used Speechpad.com to create text transcripts of all the interview calls, which was a big time-saver. Also, the book of Youtility is loosely based on the keynote presentation of Youtility, so that made the narrative structure of the book a little easier to get. Overall, the writing took about 10 weeks.
I am personally different in that I feel significantly better about creating books. I know now that I can do it myself (I wrote The NOW Revolution with Amber Naslund), and I know now I can do it with a fair degree of efficiency (other than the need to essentially ignore my family on nights and weekends for a couple months).
The marketing of the book is still a ton of work, and I'll need a break after launching this one, but I hope I have many more books to come.
Here's a free chapter of Jay's book for {grow} readers!
Disclosure: I received this book for free. Book links are affiliate links.
8 Shocking New Social Media Facts
Jun 14th
I'm pleased to be a collaborator with Edison Research on the new Social Habit Project. Why? Because I'm a numbers geek so I'm overjoyed to finally get some social media data we can trust! Here are eight fantastic facts from the Social Habit's latest study.
1) 7 percent of Americans have never heard of Facebook
So on this one, can I hear a big ol' what the HELL? How can seven out of 100 people you see each day have no clue about Facebook? The social network has dominated ALL media, not just social media, for a couple of years now. TV. Magazines. The news. Even a movie. This is one mind-blowing fact. Who are these people? Even my mom knows about the "Facebox."
2) 80 percent of Americans between the ages of 18-24 use this one product
Can you name any other branded product in the world that is used by 80 percent of the young people in the United States? I asked this question in a class once and somebody shouted out "toilet paper." Ha ha. Very funny. That's not a brand. But Facebook is, and the penetration of this single brand is beyond belief. It seems like that fact alone might be a reason some people would want to invest in Facebook. They are just so … THERE.
3) Facebook acquired one new user in the U.S. every second for three years
Check out this growth rate between 2009 and 2012. Over three years, Facebook acquired about 3,805 new users per hour. That equates to almost exactly one new user per second — and that's just in the U.S. I wish I had the server installation and maintenance contract for this outfit.
4) 74 million Americans are passive aggressive
If these numbers are to believed — and they are — 74 million Americans are at least somewhat concerned about privacy issues on Facebook. That is one significant gaggle of people. Why is there no outcry? Why isn't anybody DOING anything? How come there is no Occupy Facebook Movement? Seems a little passive-aggressive to me.
5) Look to your left. Look to your right. One of you is a social media stalker.
So how many social media users are active on the network but NEVER post? If you guessed about one-third it's only because you looked at this graph first. Come on, you didn't REALLY know that did you? I would have guessed about 5 percent. Shows how much I know. I guess I haven't earned my guru merit badge yet.
6) Foursquare still sucks
Well maybe I took some liberty with that conclusion, but the data show that there has been a dramatic drop-off in both the use of location-based service and the amount of check-ins going on. Why? Boresquare is not delivering enough value to its users. We want free pastries and we want them NOW. Here's the bright side. It has never been easier to become the fake mayor of your favorite donut shop.
7) Companies are rapidly figuring out social media
I think this chart is a real-eye-popper. Here's my assumption. Since 2010, human nature has not necessarily changed so that we are more open to "following" brands and companies. I'm thinking that people aren't waking up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat and a sudden realization that the simply MUST follow more brands on Facebook. The way I interpret this chart is that the brands are delivering more value so that people WANT to follow them. I think this is a pretty amazing validation that the money being spent on social media is at least having some impact on customer connections.
8. Content marketing is for real
Here's another good news chart for marketers. A significant number of people are coming to our social media sites because they like the content, not just because they are getting a coupon. I would like to see more research about this as far as loyalty to coupons versus content, attitudes, conversions, etc. but this is pretty encouraging. Maybe there is an alternative to buying off fans and followers with daily discounts?
If you thought this information was interesting, wait until you see the whole report: The Social Habit. It is very well done and has lots of pictures of Beyonce and Justin Bieber. Well. No it doesn't. But I'm suggesting it for the next report, along with free pastries. Somebody has to do it.
Many thanks to my partners Jay Baer, Jason Falls and Tom Webster of Edison Research for collaborating on this project.
Now, here's how you can get involved. What question did we NOT ask that needs to be included next time? Give it your best shot in the comment section!
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Emerson S-Series – New Paradigm?
I imagine that by now most of you have at least received the June 2010 issue of Control magazine with its "Special Advertising Supplement" from Emerson Process Management promoting the new Human Centered Design S-Series control products. Of course the biggest part of the announcement is CHARM. Some folks have indicated that the concept is not that radical since Europe has been using Remote I/O for many years – especially in Factory Automation and Batch Operations.
CHARM is consistent with the present design practices of distributing I/O throughout the plant and of having the option to change the type of I/O basically on the fly is also useful since as the articles state you can now fast track engineering even further and only have to determine your I/O needs as you go to the field. Getting rid of the Marshalling Cabinet with all its connections is also a time saver – but if you use any of the fieldbuses you don't need a Marshalling Cabinet with them either.
If Emerson REALLY wanted to make an impact with CHARM, they should offer it with standard open protocols such as Profinet, Foundation Fieldbus HSE, and ISA-100 Backhaul when it is ready, so that the product can be integrated with anyone's control system. Doing so would not only push the acceptance of CHARM but also the addition of similar ports to other more complex devices such as Motor Control Centers, analyzers, and other Remote I/O and PLC products. The result, easier integration for End Users.
As it presently stands, CHARM means "Connect Here And Remain Hooked" - to Emerson. This edition of S-Series rather than being a New Paradigm is more of the protect my turf mentality on which all the bus wars are based.
Great concept Emerson though like you did with DD for HART and FF, if you "opened it up" your prize will be even bigger.
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Fighting Sioux ballot language OK'd
The issue will be one of several measures on the June 12 primary election ballot.
Because the nickname measure asks for a vote on a referral of a law requiring UND to keep the nickname, Jaeger said his office took care to ensure that voters would understand what a "yes" vote or a "no" vote would do.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem reviewed and approved the ballot language, Jaeger said.
Here is how Referendum Measure No. 4 will appear on the ballot:
"This referendum measure would reject Senate Bill 2370 as passed by the Legislative Assembly in the November 2011 special session (Session Laws, Chapter 580). Senate bill 2370 repealed section 15-10-46 of the North Dakota Century Code, which required the University of North Dakota to use the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. Approval of the referendum measure would mandate the use of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo by the University of North Dakota."
"Yes — means you approve the measure as summarized above.
"No — means you reject the measure as summarized above."
The State Board of Higher Education seeks to retire the nickname and logo to comply with terms of a lawsuit settlement agreement with the NCAA and avoid continuing NCAA sanctions against UND. The board and UND officials supported repeal of the 2011 nickname law.
The law drew the threatened sanctions when it went into effect in August 2011 and again in December when the filing of petitions to "repeal the repeal" had the effect of at least temporarily reinstating the law.
On behalf of the state board, the attorney general's office last month asked the state Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional and to strike the referral from the ballot. The court, in an opinion released Tuesday, declined to take up the constitutional question at this time or to direct the secretary of state not to place the referendum measure on the June ballot.


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Multiple domestic trouser-hanger comprising a certain number, preferably five, of horizontal bars, one bar for each pair of trousers, adequately spaced one from another, projecting from and fixed to an arm held by an articulated joint to a base which can be fixed to any wall and which can take up two main, self-locking positions according to whether the plane on which it is fixed is vertical or horizontal.
1. A household trouser-hanger comprising a plurality of parallel horizontal elongated hanging bars; a supporting arm connected to said bars and disposed normally to said elongated bars; a joint connected to said arm and adapted to pivotally support said arm at one of said bars at one end thereof; and a wall-mountable bracket arranged to receive said joint and having a substantially cylindrical chamber and an outwardly extending horizontal pin, said joint including a cylindrical member and a disc coaxially mounted on said pin and disposed within said chamber, said disc being formed with a cut and said cylindrical member having a longitudinal slot at an outer surface thereof, a pawl supported on said bracket and a spring arranged to press said pawl against said cylindrical member and said disc; said joint being pivotally movable on said pin within said chamber due to a swivelling movement of said supporting arm between a vertical position in which said arm is held vertically downwards by gravity and a horizontal position in which said pawl is arrested within said slot of said member and pressed against said cut of said disc to thereby provide two terminal self-locking positions of the trouser-hanger for hanging over and taking off several pairs of trousers.
2. The trouser-hanger of claim 1, wherein the width of said pawl is roughly equal to a sum of the thicknesses of said cylindrical member and said disc.
3. The trouser-hanger of claim 1, further comprising means for rotating said cylindrical element together with said disc.
4. The trouser-hanger of claim 3, wherein said rotating means include at least two stops fixed on said cylindrical member and a pin mounted on said disc and outwardly projecting therefrom, said two stops and said pin being aligned along a circular trajectory thereof upon rotation with said cylindrical member.
5. The trouser-hanger of claim 4, wherein said two stops are angularly spaced from each other so that when said arm is moved upwardly toward and reaches said horizontal position, said disc is drawn along with said cylindrical member and said pawl being released by said disc enters said slot of said cylindrical member to thereby prevent said arm from accidentally falling down and to prevent said pawl from entering said slot of said cylindrical member when said pawl is pressed against said disc, and thus allow said arm to pass beyond said horizontal position and be moved toward said vertical position.
6. The trouser-hanger of claim 5, wherein said one bar is fixedly mounted to a wall at a second end thereof to give extra resistance to said bar for opposing the loads placed on said elongated bars during said pivoting movement of said joint.
7. The trouser-hanger of claim 1, wherein five elongated hanging bars are connected to said supporting arm.
The ordinary trouser-hanger used in the home can only take one pair of trousers. Both the clip types and those consisting for a cross bar added to a normal coat-hanger can in fact take not more than two pairs of trousers at the very most.
It is an object of the invention to provide an improved household trouser-hanger for a number of trousers hung on the hanger.
Another object of the invention is to provide a trouser-hanger of relatively simple but reliable structure which may be placed in two self-locking positions for hanging over or taking off the trousers.
These and other objects are attained by a trouser-hanger which comprises a plurality of parallel horizontal elongated hanging bars, a supporting arm connected to the bars and disposed normally to the bars, a joint connected to the arm and adapted to pivotally support the arm on one of said bars, and a wall-mountable bracket arranged to receive the joint and having a horizontal pin. The joint positioned within a substantially cylindrical chamber provided in the bracket includes a cylindrical member and a disc coaxially mounted on said pin and a pawl biased by a spring. The cylindrical member is formed with a longitudinal slot, and the disc is provided with a cut so that when the joint is pivotally rotated on the horizontal pin due to a swivelling movement of the supporting arm the pawl is arrested within the slot of the cylindrical member and pressed against the cut of the disc when the arm is in its horizontal self-locking position or released from said slot and said cut when the arm is in its vertical self-locking position.
The invention here described consists of a device suitable for hanging a certain number of pairs of trousers, each one hung separately from the others though the whole only occupies approximately the same space as that needed for one trouser-hanger.
The invention includes a certain number of suitably spaced projecting bars fixed to an arm revolving on a vertical plane around an articulated joint. The bars remain horizontal and parallel in the two main positions the arm can assume, namely one vertically downwards and one horizontal. One pair of trousers can be hung on each bar.
The figures in the enclosed drawings further show, by a practical example, how the invention works:
FIG. 1: the device seen in perspective with the horizontal bars aligned on a vertical plane.
FIG. 2: Perspective of the device with the horizontal bars aligned on a horizontal plane.
FIG. 3: is a perspective view of the articulated joint.
FIG. 4: Internal locking disc.
FIG. 5: Cylindrical block.
FIG. 6: Locking pawl.
FIG. 7: Spring.
FIG. 8: Cover.
FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the cylindrical block, shown in FIG. 5;
FIG. 10 is a back view of the cylindrical block shown in FIG. 5;
FIG. 11 is a side view of the assembly of a joint with a bracket in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 12 is a side view of the assembly when a supporting arm is in its horizontal position;
FIGS. 13-15, each shows a side view of the assembly in corresponding intermediate positions of the arm; and
FIG. 16 is a side view of the assembly when the supporting arm is in its vertical position.
An arm (11) with its fixed horizontal bars (12), (13), (14), (15), (16) moves on a joint (10).
The articulated joint substantially consists of a casing, which can be easily fixed to a vertical plane (panel, wall), enclosing a horizontal pin 28 around which a cylindrical block 26 can turn; arm 11 supporting the horizontal bars is firmly fixed to the cylindrical block.
A bar (17) is supported at its two ends respectively by a joint casing (18) and by the wall-mountable fitting (19). A disc (20) with a depressed zone 23 can rotate on a raised ring (21) situated at the bottom of a casing 18. On the rotating cylindrical block (26) which rotates through the hole (27) on a pin (28) lying horizontally in the casing 18, there is a slot (30) in which a tip (31) of a pawl (32) can be inserted. This pawl is set in a recess (33) while a spring (34) presses a tip (31) causing it to emerge from the slit (41) in a cylindrical chamber (35) inside which the cylindrical block (26) rotates pressing up against the cylindrical surface of the chamber. The cylindrical block 26 is fixed to the arm (11) by means of screws or something similar. Through holes (37), (38) and threaded holes (39), (40) of the casing, a cover (36) is fixed to the casing 18 by screws. A pin (22) can be seen on the disc (20) and this pin is served by two stops 44, 45 shown in the FIG. 10 and formed by ribs placed at a distance (measured over the circular trajectory which the pin takes) of about 45�. The point at which the stop is placed, towards the end of the arm, is such that when the arm is turned upwards, the disc is so pulled along by the stop as to maintain alignment of the depressed zone (23) of the disc 20, (in the form of a "circular segment") with the slot (30) in the cylindrical block; thus when the arm is lying horizontal, the tip (31) of the pawl (32) enters the slot and gives sufficient support to the arm and holds it straight enabling it to withstand the weight of all the trousers that can be folded over the bars projecting outwards from the arm. To release the arm from the horizontal position, all that is required is to raise it, utilizing a fissure (24), (FIG. 1) into a free area (25) above it. By thus lifting the arm, the resulting presence of a circular zone (42) of the pawl 32 enables the pawl (32) to leave the slot (30).
In operation, when the arm is rotated together with the cylindrical block 26 a frontal slit 41 in the casing allows the arm 11 to take the vertical or the horizontal position. A pawl 32 fitted in the casing is pushed by a spring 34 towards the inside of the cylindrical chamber 35 in which the cylindrical block 26 can turn. When the arm 11 is in the horizontal position, the pawl 32 enters a slot 30 in the block and this holds the arm in place. A disc 20 serves for releasing the device. The disc 20, the diameter of which is the same as that of the cylindrical block 26, has a hole which enables it to rotate around a ring 21 built in the inside of the casing 18 and concentric with the horizontal pin 28 mentioned above. The small pin 22 projecting from the surface of the disc 20 counterposed to one of the two lateral surfaces of the block 26, is served by two stops fixed to the above lateral surface. The disc 20 is thus forced to rotate together with the block 26 except along an arc of about 45� comprised between the two stops. The disc 20 has a depression 23 in the shape of a circular segment, i.e. like the area comprised between a bow and its string. When the arm is pushed upwards this depression is held by one of the stops in a position of alignment with the slot in the block and in this way the pawl can enter the slot.
It follows from the above that, to release the arm 11, from the horizontal position, all that is needed is to push it upwards as the curved edge of the pawl 32 allows this latter to leave the slot.
When the arm 11 is bent downwards the disc 20 remains unmoved till the second stop on the cylindrical block 26 has reached the pin 22 projecting from the disc. This point is reached only when the slot 30 on the cylindrical block 26 has passed the pawl 32 which, coming up against an undepressed arc of the disc, cannot enter the slot 30 and the arm 11 can therefore be lowered to a vertical position.
If the arm 11 is brought back up to the horizontal position the disc 20 resumes its higher position keeping the depressed part 23 aligned with the slot 30 in the cylindrical block 26 thus permitting insertion of the pawl 32 the thickness of which is roughly the same as the sum of the thicknesses of the cylindrical block and the disc together.
When the arm is moved down again, the disc 20 remains still so that the pawl is up against a full arc and remains so until the slot (30) has passed the area occupied by the pawl (32). The latter cannot therefore enter the slot and the arm can be lifted to its second working position, namely vertical as shown in FIG. 1. It is clear from FIG. 13 that arm (11), firmly fixed to the block (26), is kept in its horizontal "working" position (i.e. able to withstand the weight of the trousers), by means of the tip (31) of pawl (32).
To move arm (11) to its resting position (as shown in FIG. 16), this being vertically downward, it must first of all be moved upwards to the position as shown in FIG. 14. When this is done the action of the radial stop (44) on the pin (22) causes disc (20) to rotate together with block (26).
At this point tip (31) is out of slot (30) and has simultaneously moved over against the cylindrical surface of block (26) and of disc (20).
As FIG. 15 clearly shows, when the arm is moved downwards disc (20) remains stationary preventing tip (31) from entering slot (30) when it passes in front of the tip. By continuing to lower the arm 11 down to the position seen in FIG. 16, radial stop (45) acts on the pin (22) and this moves disc (20) bringing its cut or depression (23) opposite the tip (31).
Force of gravity keeps arm (11) steady in its vertical resting position.
When arm (11) has to be returned to its working position, as in FIG. 13, it just has to be lifted up in a direction shown by an arrow in FIG. 17. The radial stop (44) of block (26) acts on the pin (22) of the disc until, as appears in FIG. 13, the depression (23) of the disc 20 is brought up against tip (31) allowing the tip to enter slot (30) of block (26) thus locking the arm in its operating position and preventing it from accidentally dropping downwards.
To restore the arm to its resting position, proceed as already described. The device can be made in various materials: wood, metal, plastic or others as, for example, the hinge can be in plastic or metal, the projecting bars of wood and the arm of metal.
The advantages of the invention are clearly evident; not only can it take a considerable number of trousers, but the trousers themselves can be easily put on and taken off seeing that the bars project and are entirely free at one end. As the trousers do not completely overlap and can be seen, it is easy to choose which pair is desired. The space occupied is more or less the same as that taken up by a single trouser-hanger. Two working positions can be used, the first with the bars disposed on a vertical plane, the second with the arm lying horizontally and thus with the bars disposed on a horizontal plane at 90� in relation to the first position. The device therefore ensures maximum practicality, minimum bulk in the vertical position when out of use, maximum ease in taking off trousers when the device is in the horizontal position as already indicated.
As the applications envisaged for the device have been described as examples of use only and are in no way limiting, it is understood that any and every equivalent application of the inventive concepts set forth, and any product constructed and/or operating in accordance with the characteristics possessed by the invention, are covered by the protection accorded to it.
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DCC ACC 104 Chapter 11 1 3 Primary Forms of Business Organization Sole Proprietor Set-up Life Borrow Regulations Liability Taxation Easy Limited Hard Few Unlimited Single Partnership Easy/Hard Limited Hard Few Unlimited Single Corporation Hard Unlimited Easier Many Limited Double Corporation Management Stockholders Chairman Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer CEO President General Counsel Marketing Treasurer Controller Chief Financial Officer CFO Internal Audit Human Resources Operations DCC ACC 104 Chapter 11 2 Stockholders Rights • Vote for Board of Directors • Receive Dividends • Pre-emptive Right – maintain percentage ownership of company when new shares are issued • Share in assets upon liquidation Authorized, Issued & Outstanding Treasury Stock = Issued - Outstanding Authorized # of shares set by the corporation's charter with the state Issued # of shares sold to the public Outstanding # of shares still in the public's hands DCC ACC 104 Chapter 11 3 Par – No Par Par Value Stock has been assigned a nominal value within the corporate charter from the state, e.g., $1 or $.01 per share. 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The Renville County sheriff's office says the two men were reported shocked Monday along the CapX2020 power line construction site near Fairfax. They were both flown to trauma centers in the Twin Cities.
CapX2020 project spokeswoman Lori Buffington says the two worked for Donovan Construction of Ham Lake. A Donovan Construction spokesman says Roberts is being treated in the HCMC burn unit.
The 250-mile line will run from South Dakota to Hampton, Minnesota.
Minnesota OSHA and the Renville County sheriff's office are investigating.
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Join us for coffee, stories, and play. Stories begin at 10:20 AM. For kids birth-18 months with parent/caregiver.
Thursdays, 7/9-7/23, 10 AM, Toddler Time, 18 months-3 years
Join us for stories, music, and movement. For kids 18 months-3 years with parent/caregiver.
Fridays, 7/10-7/24, 9:30 AM, Family Story Time @ Whole Foods Market, Birth-6 years
Story time for kids ages birth-6 with a parent/caregiver.**Note: program is held at Whole Foods Market River Forest, 7245 Lake Street, River Forest, IL 60305, 708-366-1045.**
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6/1-6/30, DIY June: Tangrams
Create interesting designs and pictures with these fun shapes in the Children's Room.
6/1-7/31, Every Hero Has a Story! Children's Summer Reading Program
Babies through children entering 5th grade who sign up and read will earn new books to take home and other great prizes. Enjoy daily programing for kids of all ages and weekly story times for babies and toddlers. The fun officially begins at our Summer Reading Kick Off Party on June 5. Skip the line! Between June 1-4, pre-register for the summer reading program and receive tickets for the Kick Off Party
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Still fresh off last year's revamp, the 2015 Chevy Silverado adds an 8-speed automatic transmission for 6.2-liter V8 models, upgraded MyLink infotainment system with text messaging alerts and Siri Eyes Free iPhone integration, available 4G LTE connectivity with in-car Wi-Fi, and an available spray-on bedliner.
The Chevy Silverado 1500 has been totally redesigned for 2014.
Changes for 2013 are limited to two new exterior colors and the addition of powertrain grade-braking that uses transmission downshifting to ease stress and temperature build-up on the brake rotors.
For 2012, Chevrolet gives the Silverado full-size pickup a refreshed front end, available heated/cooling seats for the LTZ, and a new White Diamond Edition. Also new is an available navigation radio with built-in hard drive that eliminates the need for map data stored on DVDs.
Beyond an upgrade to OnStar 9.0, some new colors and some minor enhancements to reduce wind noise, there are no major changes for the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado.
The 4.8-liter, 5.3-liter and 6.2-liter engines are now E85 Flex-Fuel compatible; the 4.8- and 5.3-liter engines also gain variable valve timing. New standard features on all 1500 models include side-curtain and front seat-mounted side-impact airbags as well as StabiliTrak stability control. New available features include a USB port on all but the base radio, a six-speed automatic transmission on Regular and Extended Cab models with the 5.3-liter engine and greater availability of the backup camera option.
A six-speed automatic transmission is now paired with the 5.3-, 6.0- and 6.2-liter V8s. New available features include OnStar 8.0 with Turn-by-Turn navigation and Destination Download, Bluetooth hands-free phone connectivity and a rearview camera system. The 6.2-liter V8 is now E85 compatible and StabiliTrak becomes standard equipment on all trucks equipped with V8 engines.
When it comes to full-size pickups, it's hard to find fault with what Chevrolet has done with its 2013 Silverado 1500. Though technically not the best-selling full-size pickup in America (that honor goes to the Ford F-150), when combined with the sales of its sister pickup, the GMC Sierra, the two handily outsell their Ford rival. To remain relevant, Chevy continues to improve on the Silverado's powerful yet fuel-efficient V8 engines and offers the industry's only full-size hybrid pickup. We know truck buyers don't care as much about fuel economy as they do sheer brute force, which is why the Silverado delivers performance at or near the top of its class in almost every category, including a maximum tow rating of 10,700 pounds when properly equipped.View Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Crew Cab vehicles for sale near you.
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I own this car - My approximate mileage is 2,200overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "Ride, interior comfort,fuel economy"
Cons: "price"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I traded in a 2013 F150 XLT SCREW Ecoboost for this truck. The Ford only had 3800 miles on it. Road like a brick and had a vibration that 4 trips back to the dealer could not fix. The 5.3 is no Ecoboost in the power department but is adequate and gets better gas mileage. The RAM is a nice truck but don't forget that the plugs are only good for 30K miles which is pretty pathetic considering GM has had 100K sparkplug changes since 1996."
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I own this car - My approximate mileage is 10,000overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "Comfort and mpg with strong V8"
Cons: "cost"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"Excellent engine 5.3 with excellent interior...link/nav works great. Cost is high , but sometimes you get what you pay for. Third truck and this is hands down the best yet."
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By JR on Sunday, December 29, 2013
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 1,800overall rating 10 of 10rating details
Pros: "navigation system is a must if you travel"
Cons: "a bit crowded in rear seating area but not bad"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"After buying trucks that were "totals" and fixed them, or Suv's that were from a previous lease, etc. We took the plunge and got a brand new Chevrolet 1500 Silverado LT with sports package and had 6 miles on the odometer. Have had it 3 weeks. No regrets except price but it is what it is. Love the navigation system. Highly recommend it. You can check current gas prices before getting close to the station, you can locate destinations with out a paper map and onstar is there to assist as needed. About to take a 1500 mile road trip in 2 weeks. Looking forward to this. Hands free telephone system. Rear camera so you can see what is happening behind you when in reverse and see the hitch ball when hooking up to trailer. Makes our life easier. Who needs leather seats? The material in our seats is tougher than the old fashioned cloth seats and no cold/hot leather seats as well."
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Benjamin David ("Benny") Goodman (1909-1986) Born and raised in Chicago, Benny Goodman was well situated for exposure to both classical music and the evolving American music form "jazz", spreading north to Chicago from New Orleans. His father, who never lived to see Benny's major success, should be credited with introducing the Goodman children to music and seeing that Benny had, as a youth, high quality musical instruction. Benny Goodman has always been regarded as a technically gifted clarinetist whose instrumental abilities were on a par with the most accomplished classical clarinetists in the world. If there were ever any criticism of his classical playing, it was never for being too jazzy, to relaxed or sloppy or in any way "technically" deficient. Rather, it was actually for not being expressive enough—being too serious, maybe. Benny Goodman joined the musician's union to play professionally when he was 13 (1922), joined Ben Pollack's orchestra to work with it in California when he was 16 (1925), played with Red Nichols (1929-30), and was among the busiest of "studio" musicians (1930-34). He formed his first regular orchestra at age 25 and had a national radio spot at 26. He turned Carnegie Hall "on its 'classical' ear" with his historic Swing Concert there in 1938. That concert and many other aspects of his music can be credited with the introduction of high quality jazz music to the upper-middle and upper classes in America. Goodman is probably not so well known to most of you as Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, with their numerous phenomenal hits like "In the Mood" and "Take the A Train", etc. However, Goodman's role and overall importance in the history of jazz are certainly greater than those of Glenn Miller and rank with the "Duke's". Benny Goodman's innovation and success paved the way for those figures and facilitated the acceptance of their styles. Similarly Benny broke ground for others like Count Basie, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, the Elgarts, and even Stan Kenton. Goodman's success derived from a combination of great musicianship, personal leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, determination, and hard work. His story is in many ways that of the American Dream--poor immigrant's offspring makes good against difficult odds, with his own efforts and the opportunities in this land. What Benny Goodman actually did, which was new and significant, was to create a style of tightly arranged "swing" jazz music for the now traditional dance-band size ensemble, with a great dancing and listening "beat". His was music played by exceptionally talented musicians, adding brilliant, improvised phrases and full solos. This was a style quite different from the smaller, less structured and less arranged "traditional" groups, spreading out from New Orleans and other ports along the Mississippi. These had already had their influence on the Chicago jazz style, and at that time were exemplified by performers such as Louis Armstrong. As well, Benny's innovation was substantially different from the other "jazz" of the day-- more the "listening" styles of Ben Pollack and Paul Whiteman--music that today we would probably not identify as jazz, not thinking of it as "swinging" or particularly "jazzy". In today's politically "correct" environment, but more importantly, in consideration of some of the negative side of our history, one should know that Goodman was important also for taking, at the time, a personally very risky step--integrating the live, public performance of music. There had been racial integration in the recording studios, but not in public. To him music was music, and good music was what his life was about. When he met the African American jazz piano great Teddy Wilson and also later with Lionel Hampton, expanding his trio to quartet, there simply was no way in his mind that they were not going to perform together in public. With the mention of Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton we have another of Mr. Goodman's contributions, his discovery and development of great talent, including other jazz greats such as Harry James and Gene Krupa. All was not wonderful for Benny over the years. As an orthopaedic surgeon I can appreciate the background of one of his great tunes "Slipped Disc". He was a patient several times at the Mayo Clinic and many times performed under fairly strenuous circumstances with his back trouble. At any time you should feel invited not only to sit back and listen to the music of Benny Goodman but also to get out onto adance floor and to do what it was intended for. Know that many of his original tunes and arrangements are among the most significant in jazz and American popular music. Understand their and Benny's place in the history of what is said to be the only original and true American art form--jazz music. Kenneth A. Krackow, MD '71 BGF* '57 Clinical Director, Orthopaedic Surgery KALEIDA Health, Buffalo, New York, USA *Benny Goodman Fanmoreless
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