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Full name Paul James Toohey
Born June 25, 1972, South Brisbane, Queensland
Current age 44 years 7 days
Major teams Queensland Country
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
His club cricket is with Metropolitans in Toowoomba. He made his debut for Queensland Country in 1992-93 and returned for the two following seasons but then joined Eastern Suburbs in Brisbane in 1995-96. In two seasons with that club he found lack of runs from the team restricted his bowling appearances and so he returned to Toowoomba for the 1997-98 season and quickly regained his place in the Queensland Country team. In the recent Schaefer Shield series he bowled most economically as well as capturing wickets. In eighteen matches for Queensland Country he has captured 37 wickets at 24.78 and scored 175 runs at 14.58. His fourteen wickets in the series at Barooga in 1998-99 was third to DK Wrixon (18) and BJ Smith (17). He appeared for Queensland Academy of Sport in 1994-95 and 1995-96. He is a very competitive player who bowls the ball well up to the batsman and can provide very handy runs in the lower order. He bowled most economically in long spells in the recent match between South Queensland and North Queensland played at Mackay. His primary education was at St Bernards, Mount Gravatt and Our Lady of Lourdes, Toowoomba while he attended St Marys CBC at Toowoomba for his secondary education. He is currently attending University of South Queensland, studying towards a degree in education. (Warwick Torrens, December 1999)
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I'm a student who is looking to get a job. I've tried to do get a corporate headshot done based on an old photo but i doesn't seem to be working. I think it's maybe because I'm new.
I've been trying to clear the background as well as crop the picture so that it's a "head and shoulders" kind of shot but it's not working for me. I've got limited time to do this so I was wondering if there was anyone here who could maybe help me out as to how it would look good and professional. I'm not the most photogenic guy in the world but I've tried to do my best.
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Plans to extend a church car park have got nearby residents in a flurry.
But leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Sandringham say they're only trying to be good neighbours.
The Kiwitea St church is seeking consent from the Auckland Council to turn two of its residential properties on Calgary St into a 52 space car park.
"It would be a total eyesore for the whole street. It has a huge amount of history, and beautiful old houses, and then we would have this massive concrete mess in the middle," resident Wayne Evans says.
"The car park is also used for activities that make a large amount of noise and draw a huge number of people to the area.
"The people who use the church don't just celebrate a wedding or a funeral, they celebrate all the time. There would be cars coming and going at night and noise," he says.
Resident Jocelyn Brice fears the car park would be a security risk.
"We've had four burglaries in the past so we're quite emotive about security and a car park would create an escape route for burglars," she says.
Many of the houses on the street were built in the early 1900s including the two homes that would be removed.
"It's demolishing the history of the street, and it seems crazy to get rid of two houses when there is a housing shortage in Auckland," Mrs Brice says.
Residents have been holding meetings and intend to oppose the car park if the plans are publicly notified by the council.
Church stake president Anthony Wilson says the sections were purchased in the early 2000s as a way to appease neighbours. There were complaints about churchgoers parking in the street.
Plans to convert them into a car park didn't go ahead when one of three congregations was moved to another building and numbers levelled out.
Mr Wilson says congregation numbers are again growing and other facilities are under pressure.
Two congregations of around 200 people currently use the facility each Sunday and that is expected to grow to three.
"As a consequence we're going to need the car park. I know some of the neighbours don't like the idea of it but we believe we can mitigate some of their concerns being raised. We're just trying to do the best we can to be good neighbours."
He says traffic on Calgary St won't be an issue because there will be no entrances and exits on the road and users will need to use the existing church entrance on Lambeth Rd.
News of expanding congregation numbers has further riled residents.
Resident Renske van den Brink says until now relations with the church have been amicable.
"We've been fairly tolerant neighbours really. We're quite happy with the two congregations. We don't mind the odd bit of noise and celebrations. We don't ring noise control at the moment.
"Our bottom line is we don't want the two houses to be bowled. We want the church to act as a responsible neighbour," she says.
The say they would like the church to consider other options including parking on Lambeth Rd which is much wider, or asking church goers to walk where possible.
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QUESTION:Would love to plant various varieties of strawberries on a bank for erosion control and ground cover. How can we keep the slugs at bay? We are in the the Pacific Northwest
There is an array of methods for controlling slugs and snails beginning with simply picking them off the plants as you find them, trapping them with homemade attractants and killing them, physical barriers, importing natural enemies and the use of commercial chemical repellants and and toxic baits. The University of California Integrated Pest Management UC IPM Online has a thorough guide to snails and slugs in their "How to Manage Pests" series.
You can read about several methods of organic control from Mother Earth News (which include placement under plants of "crabgrass cookies" made from chopped up crabgrass leaves, corn bran, cornstarch and beer—a substance in crabgrass is toxic to slugs). You can read How to Kill Snails and Slugs—The Definitive Guide from Weekend Gardener Monthly Web Magazine, January 2013. It has descriptions of a wealth of organic methods plus several chemical methods.
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Tens of thousands of people living in heaps of steaming trash in Cairo are quietly cleaning the city far better than Egyptian sanitation services could ever dream.
They are known as the "Zabaleen" (Arabic for garbage collectors) and they earn a living sorting and recycling the majority of Cairo's 10,000 pounds of fresh daily refuse.
Together with their families, they live and work in filthy, hazardous conditions, contending with the severe pollution of Africa's most populated city. Blow your nose after a few hours in their neighborhood, "garbage city," and the tissue will turn black.
Though the situation may seem disorganized and desperate, it's actually efficient and profitable, and provides a regular income for more than 50,000 poor Cairenes.
"They're full of life and charm," said Samuel Allison over the phone. A former Cairo resident and photojournalist, Allison says "without them the whole city would collapse into medieval squalor."
Sadly, the government has been trying to disperse these unsightly communities for years, ignoring the Zabaleen's interests and overlooking both the environmental benefits of the industry and the potential for development. The unnecessary pig cull this past spring was only the most recent example of their misguided and short-sighted strategies to shut them down.
Six days a week the Zabaleen meticulously organize the city's trash into metals, plastics, glass, textiles, biodegradables, etc. They then sell their harvests for a small profit to a variety of manufacturers who either re-purpose the ingredients or export them as recycled raw material.
For example, a plastic water bottle collected by the Zabaleen might end up as part of dry cleaning hanger in Cairo or a sheet of recycled plastic being shipped to China for use in a factory.
According to New Scientist magazine, the efficiency rate of the Zabaleen is almost 85%, rivaling the best of Western urban recycling models.
Pollution in Cairo is extreme, inflicting roughly $2.5 billion worth of damage to the Egyptian economy annually, according to the World Bank (compare that to $1.5 billion in annual aid from the United States). Any such grassroots green activities should incentivize the community, and not hamper it.
In April the government ordered the slaughter of 300,000 pigs, putting thousands of Zabaleen out of work. Pig farming has become an integral part of the Zabaleen recycling system, as the pigs consume the organic waste that comes in.
"They destroyed our income," said Umm Gerges, a 37-year-old Zabaleen mother, as quoted in the London Times. "Since the cull we don't have any work. We just sit around and don't know what to do."
When the cull was first ordered the Egyptian government blamed it on the threat of swine flu (though there have been no known cases of animal to human transfer of the virus), but shortly afterward they changed their statement, saying the mass-slaughter was intended as a public health measure.
--Ministry of Health spokesman Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, as quoted in Business Today Egypt.
"We know from the scientific point of view that we don't have a real threat from the pigs now...the government was really responding to the recommendation of [a government committee] in 2006. So the decision was taken to slaughter them now, get rid of the current population of pigs and then, in parallel, to build new farms in a desert area [away from the population]."
"The government has taken the wrong slant," said Andrew Kraczkiewicz a program officer for a non-profit development agency, formerly based in Cairo. "Instead of trying to support the safe development of this system that works fairly well, they've tried to marginalize them and push them out of business."
Now the Zabaleen are forced to ferry their organic waste nearly 60 miles outside to an Italian-owned processing plant. The new system is burdensome, unaffordable and less-efficient than the old one.
For years already the state has experimented with wiping out the Zabaleen, but there is widespread disagreement over why. Some say they are targeting the Zabaleen because they're Christian minorities, while others argue they are catering to foreign business interests. Still fewer seem convinced they're intending to tackle a public health problem.
"It's unclear what's motivating the government's decision to overhaul the system...a botched response to problems is not shocking" explained Hani Sabra, a Middle East analyst at Euraisa Group, via e-mail.
Curiously the group with the most impact on the situation appears to be the Cairo Beautification Committee. In 2005 they helped award contracts to European-owned waste companies to take over Cairo's garbage collection.
"They wanted to replace them with this modern, Western-style system and it just basically didn't work," said Kraczkiewicz, explaining that the Spanish and Italian systems were ill-equipped to deal with the water-heavy biodegradable Egyptian trash. "It was a technical failure."
The government also sneakily tacked on a new tax for this garbage service on to residents' electricity bills. The Zabaleen provide trash pick-up across the city for little or no-fee.
Instead of rashly imposing quick fixes to deal with these long-term challenges the city should work with the Zabaleen to develop a sustainable and safer sanitation business. Already schools have been built to educate and train Zabaleen children, but much more remains to be done to improve health conditions. If successful the model could help create "green jobs" in developing countries around the world.
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I am amazed at the fear and ignorance that still lurks in the hearts & minds of this supposedly free and secular nation.
As an Atheist, I care not which set of "invisible friends" Barack Obama chooses to embrace. That is his choice, and only his. But the continuous, desperate smear campaign against Mr. Obama is helping to show America's "true colors".
First, the guilt-by-Muslim-association ploy; next, the guilt-by-association-with-abrasive preacher ploy; what will come next? Judging by the reactions I am hearing from so-called "mainstream" Americans, I am expecting the worst. Minds ruled by fear and ignorance soak this stuff up like sponges.
May I remind each and every American that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." (Article VI of the U.S. Constitution).
Mark A. Tiborsky
Richmond Heights
No hate calls yet! (Just kidding).
There were 3 other letters on the Obama/Rev. Wright topic, all differing perspectives- I thought all 3 were good letters.
So I guess I've outed myself as an Atheist to all of greater Cleveland! I didn't really think about that when I sent the letter Saturday morning.
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|May 29, 2008
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|Stephen J Blauer, Thomas W Ames
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|Blauer Manufacturing Company, Inc.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to protective clothing, and, more particularly, to the high-visibility requirement of firefighter turnout coats.
2. Description of the Related Art
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard 107-2004 provides guidelines for high-visibility safety apparel to improve worker visibility during the day, in low-light conditions, and at night. In 2006, ANSI approved and published a new standard, ANSI 207-2006, for visibility requirements for safety vests worn by public safety personnel such as firefighters. The standard specifies minimum performance and design requirements for safety vests to insure appropriate visibility to moving vehicles while simultaneously minimizing interference with equipment worn by the person. The safety vests are to be worn only around traffic and, in accordance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1971-2000 (Standard on Protective Ensemble for Structural Firefighting) must be removed before approaching a fire. One way for firefighters to meet the visibility requirements is to wear a high-visibility vest over the turnout coat that can be easily removed prior to approaching a fire. One such vest is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,820,280, entitled RIP-OFF, HIGH-VISIBILITY, SAFETY VEST. The vest has hook and loop fasteners, such as VELCRO, at the waist or hips and shoulders so that the vest can be easily pulled away when necessary. The main drawback to this arrangement is that it employs another garment that must be donned after the turnout coat, taking extra time, a luxury that firefighters do not always have.
An object of the present invention is to provide a clothing assemblage that permits firefighters to easily and conveniently meet both the visibility requirements of ANSI 207-2006 and the protection requirements of NFPA 1971-2000.
In the present invention, a high-visibility covering is removably attached to a firefighter turnout coat at the shoulders and front closure by easily separable fasteners. The assemblage is donned as a single coat and the high-visibility covering can be easily ripped off.
The covering has two embodiments. In the first, the covering is a single panel that wraps around the coat, extending from the shoulders to the waist or hips. In the second, the covering is composed of three panels: a right front panel, a left front panel, and a back panel. Front shoulder straps on the covering are removably attached to the front of the turnout coat at the shoulders by easily separable fasteners. Back shoulder straps on the panel overlap and are removably attached to the corresponding front shoulder straps by easily separable fasteners. In the three panel embodiment, the back panel has a pair of lappets that overlap and are removably attached to the corresponding front panel by easily separable fasteners.
The covering panel(s) is a polymeric fabric that is finished with a high chromaticity fluorescent dye in a highly luminescent color.
Several embodiments are contemplated for the covering closure. The coat closure has a fastener, typically a zipper, and a vertical flap the covers the fastener. In one embodiment, the front edges of the covering are removably attached to the front of the coat adjacent to the flap by easily separable fasteners. In another embodiment, one front edge of the covering is removably attached adjacent to the flap and the other front edge is removably attached to the flap. In a third embodiment, one front edge of the covering is removably attached adjacent to the flap and the other front edge overlaps the flap and is removably attached to the first front edge.
Retroreflective bands span the covering in any pattern that that meets the requirements of ANSI 207-2006. Optional trim at the edge of the bands provides a distinctive and sharp border.
Other objects of the present invention will become apparent in light of the following drawings and detailed description of the invention.
For a fuller understanding of the nature and object of the present invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The present invention incorporates a firefighter turnout coat 12 and a high-visibility covering 14 in an assemblage 10. The covering 14 is removably attached to the turnout coat 12 by easily separably fasteners. The coat/covering assemblage is donned as a single coat, rather than as a coat and then a high-visibility vest, saving time. When the high-visibility covering is no longer needed, such as when approaching a fire, it can be easily ripped off.
The preferred fasteners are hook and loop fasteners, for example, those sold under the trade name VELCRO. Hook and loop fasteners come in two mating elements as fabric patches. The patches can be attached to the coat and panel fabric in whatever way is appropriate, and can include sewing and adhesives. Attachments to the turnout coat 12 cannot impair the protective requirements of the coat as mandated by NFPA 1971. Although hook and loop fasteners are preferred and are employed exclusively in the remainder of the present specification, the present invention contemplates the use of other easily separable fasteners, such as snaps, tacky patches, and magnetic patches.
A turnout coat 12 is the type of jacket worn by firefighters. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1971 (Standard on Protective Ensemble for Structural Firefighting), a turnout coat must be comprised of three components: an outer shell, a moisture barrier, and a thermal barrier, with pockets of air therebetween. The materials used for the three layers may vary but will very often include a NOMEX/KEVLAR combination of material.
The present invention envisions two embodiments of the covering 14. In the first embodiment 16, shown in
Preferably, the panel 20 is composed of tightly knit or woven strands of polyester or polypropylene, and are characterized by a denier ranging from 30 to 500 and a weight ranging from 2 to 6 ounces per square yard. This polymeric fabric is finished with a high chromaticity fluorescent dye in a highly luminescent color, such as yellow, green, orange or white, that collects light, which may be of relatively low luminosity, e.g. ambient light, and responds by emitting light of relatively high luminosity.
Front shoulder straps 36R, 36L (collectively, 36) extend upwardly from the right front portion 46R and left front portion 46L, respectively, of the panel 20 and are removably attached to the front of the turnout coat 12 by easily separable fasteners 40R, 40L (collectively, 40). One element 42R, 42L (collectively, 42) of each fastener 40 is attached to the front of the coat 12 at the shoulders 30 and the other element 44R, 44L (collectively, 44) of the fastener 40 is attached to the inside of the corresponding front shoulder strap 36.
Back shoulder straps 38R, 38L (collectively, 38) extending upwardly from the back portion 34. Each back shoulder strap 38 overlaps the corresponding front shoulder strap 36 and is removably attached to the corresponding front shoulder strap 36 by an easily separable fastener 48R, 48L (collectively, 48). One element 50R, 50L (collectively, 50) of the fastener 48 is attached to the outside of the covering front shoulder strap 36 and the other element 52R, 52L (collectively, 52) is attached to the inside of the covering back shoulder strap 38.
For all attachments between the covering 14 and the coat 12, in order to avoid problems with undesirable objects adhering to the turnout coat 12, it is preferred that the fastener element 42 on the coat 12 be the loop component because of the hook component's tendency to adhere to most fuzzy surfaces that come into contact with it.
In a similar vein, it is desirable that both fasteners element 44, 50 on the front shoulder strap 36 be same fastener component, be it the hook component or the loop component, so that when the covering 14 is removed, the fastener element 52 on back shoulder strap 38 will not inadvertently adhere to the fastener element 42 on the front of the coat 12.
The second embodiment 18 of the covering 14, shown in
The back panel 24 has a pair of lappets 60R, 60L (collectively, 60) that overlap with the front panels 22 and are removably attached together by easily separable fasteners 62R, 62L (collectively, 82). One element 64R, 64L (collectively, 64) of the fastener 62 is attached to the inside of the lappet 60 and the other element 66R, 66L (collectively, 66) of the fastener 62 is attached to the outside of the corresponding front panel 22.
FIGS. 3 and 6-9 show several embodiments of the covering closure 26 for both the single-panel embodiment 16 and the three-panel embodiment 18. The covering closure 26 of
In the closure 26 of
In the closure 26 of
In the closure 26 of
All embodiments of the covering fasteners 72, 90, 92, 110, 112, 114 may extend continuously over the length of closure, as in
Retroreflective bands span the covering 14. As is well known, retroreflective surfaces (i.e. distributions of minute corner reflectors or high refractive index glass beads) return specular light in the direction of its source, e.g. vehicle headlights at night. An example of a retroreflective band contemplated for use in the present invention is sold by 3M Company under the trade name SCOTCHLITE.
The present invention contemplates any pattern of retroreflective bands that are adequate to meet the requirements of ANSI 207-2006, which requires at least 201 square inches of retroreflective material. Two different patterns are shown in the figures.
As shown in
A pair of vertical retroreflective bands 160R, 160L extend upwardly from the upper band 152 in the front to the shoulders 30 and a pair of vertical retroreflective bands 162R, 162L extend upwardly from the upper band 152 in the back to the shoulders 30. The vertical bands 160R, 160L, 162R, 162L overlap with the shoulder strap attachments 40 to form bands that appear continuous around the shoulders 30.
Another pattern is shown in
A pair of slanted vertical retroreflective bands 164R, 164L extend upwardly and outwardly from the center of the upper band 170 in the front to the shoulders 30 and a pair of vertical retroreflective bands 166R, 166L extend upwardly and outwardly from the center of the upper band 152 in the back to the shoulders 30. The vertical bands 164R, 164L, 166R, 166L overlap with the shoulder strap attachments 40 to form bands that appear continuous around the shoulders 30.
The covering 14, when normally viewed, is generally of a highly luminescent color. The retroreflective bands, when normally viewed, are generally dull gray. Optional trim 180 at the edge of the bands provides a distinctive and sharp border.
Thus it has been shown and described a high-visibility turnout coat assemblage which satisfies the objects set forth above.
Since certain changes may be made in the present disclosure without departing from the scope of the present invention, it is intended that all matter described in the foregoing specification and shown in the accompanying drawings be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Mar 24, 1959
|May 15, 1962
|Jack Eilenberg
|Warmer for outer coat
|Oct 23, 1980
|Mar 23, 1982
|Gilbert Saft
|Wearing apparel
|May 15, 1986
|Jul 5, 1988
|Brucato Norma J
|Special garments for the disabled and infirm
|Oct 17, 1990
|May 5, 1992
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Removable, high temperature resistant retroreflective marking material
|Jul 25, 1991
|Feb 23, 1993
|Lion Apparel, Inc.
|Support arrangements for firefigher's self-contained breathing apparatus
|Jun 18, 2002
|Nov 23, 2004
|Blaver Manufacturing Company, Inc.
|Rip-off, high-visibility, safety vest
|Feb 17, 2004
|May 17, 2005
|Morning Pride Manufacturing, L.L.C.
|Protective garment having reversible shell for military or paramilitary firefighter
|Apr 2, 2004
|Dec 27, 2005
|Globe Manufacturing Co.
|Liner system for a flame resistant coat
|Mar 25, 1999
|Apr 17, 2001
|Head Lites Corporation
|Enhanced visibility safety garment
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Jul 28, 2009
|Jul 24, 2012
|Honeywell International Inc.
|High visibility safety apparel
|Sep 29, 2010
|Oct 8, 2013
|Nike, Inc.
|Convertible garment
|May 13, 2010
|Dec 23, 2014
|Gregory C Jones
|Pull away vest with detachable shoulders
|Sep 15, 2008
|Mar 19, 2009
|Juliet Marie Landeck
|Garment having a combination jacket and vest
|Feb 11, 2010
|Honeywell International, Inc.
|High Visibility Safety Apparel
|Feb 11, 2010
|Grilliot William L
|High Visibility Safety Apparel
|Jan 30, 2009
|Nov 25, 2010
|Graduation Regalia Pty. Ltd
|Attachment of a hood to a garment
|Jan 27, 2011
|Nike, Inc.
|Convertible Garment
|Nov 17, 2011
|Jones Gregory C
|Pull away vest with detachable shoulders
|Jan 24, 2013
|Aug 15, 2013
|Andrew Ceo
|Hunting jacket
|Mar 7, 2012
|Sep 12, 2013
|Frank J. Conca
|Body armor stabilization system
|Oct 23, 2012
|Baker Street Willenborg Consulting, LLC
|Sep 28, 2011
|Apr 19, 2012
|Boatright Alann J
|Reversible safety garment
|Sep 28, 2011
|Jun 7, 2012
|Boatright Alann J
|Reversible safety garment
|U.S. Classification
|2/81, 2/95, 2/97, 2/94, 2/462, 2/102, 2/46, 2/48, 2/96
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|May 29, 2008
Owner name: BLAUER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., MASSACHUSETTS
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:BLAUER, STEPHEN J;AMES, THOMAS W;REEL/FRAME:021012/0838
Effective date: 20080527
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With hundreds of millions of tweets per day, it's impossible to follow everything happening on Twitter. Every Friday, the Daily Dot rounds up notable Twitter news and stories from the past week—in 140 characters or less.
Music fans sent more than 14 million tweets about the Grammys.
A pay-by-tweet service from American Express doesn't sound like something that will ever be abused or annoying (/sarcasm).
Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Anthony Foxx got hacked.
Jim O'Heir, a.k.a. Jerry from Parks and Recreation, tried to define what a slut is.
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Saudi authorities are struggling to monitor the volume of tweets in the country, and thus having trouble censoring them.
Here's Jim Carrey, dropping some knowledge about existentialism and the meteorite, and going mad today apparently.
A Tory MP is giving up Twitter for Lent.
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The magic of watching a 'Harry Potter' movie performed by a live orchestra
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Customer Service is the New Marketing
Buzz Marketing for Technology
Zappos was founded in 1999 and sold to Amazon for $1.2 Billion Dollars just barely over ten years later. Zappos is powered by its customer service and was built on the premise of WOWing each and every customer. It's that WOW or should I say WOM that enhanced the value of their marketing and attracted a player like Amazon. But great customer service enabled by social is a no brainier. Tweet This!
You May Not Be My Online Friend -- But You Influence Me
Leader Networks
I am growing weary of all this social media silly talk about trust and friendship as it applies to professional collaboration online. have online "friends" in my knitting community and my travel community, for example, but my professional networks do not yield friendships in the real, down-and-dirty, share a beer or drive me to the airport at 5am kind of way. believe this is a real mistake.
Social Media: right here right now, or one for the future?
B2B Marketing Online
Normal. 0. 0. 1. Silver Bullet Publishing Ltd. 10. 2. 10.1316. 0. 0. 0. Social media is the big opportunity in the B2B space right now - very few people would even question that statement. The ability that it offers decision makers and influencers to by-pass traditional vendor-driven product and service information and gather views, opinions and attitudes direct from contemporaries promises to fundamentally change how must B2B brands conduct marketing , and how they communicate with their audiences. But potential is one thing: what about the reality?
5 Ways to Better Marketing Performance with Marketing Operations
Everything Technology Marketing
In my last post " 5 Steps to B2B Marketing Success " we established a simple approach to improving success in B2B marketing, starting with understanding your audience, building a strong value proposition, mapping out the buyer's journey, building compelling messages and content, and finally, investing in robust marketing automation. What happens if I cut your budget by 20 percent?
150 Content Marketing Tips
Drive traffic—and leads—with these tips for SEO, social media, content optimization, email marketing, and more.
Understanding Those Mysterious Facebook Spam Messages You May Be Receiving
WindMill Networking
Image via Wikipedia. If you are one of the 400+ million people on Facebook , you have probably already figured out a way to deal with filtering out the many potential notifications that you could be receiving. But this particular type of spam is not related to this type of general message. When I click on the person who sent the email we are not friends. Please comment and educate us!
Sales Prospecting: Who's Helping Your Sales Team?
Sales Prospecting Perspectives
Sales Prospecting Perspectives is pleased to bring you a guest post from Chris Lang, AG's Sales Director. Chris lives and breathes sales and sales prospecting, and we are very happy to have the opportunity to share this entry from him with our readers. Thanks Chris! 01/07/09 - "My sales rep's are going to do all of their own calling. 03/25/09 - "Things are going great!
Data Q&A: channel data
B2B Marketing Online
Indirect channels are a key route to market for most organisations, but particularly those in the technology sector. What are the issues with collecting and managing databases of channel partners, and how does this compare with customer data? What tips and guidance should channel marketers consider?
How to Find Killer Topics for Blog Posts
There have been many excellent pieces written on how to find topics for blog posts, such as The best 50 blogging ideas to choose from by Aswani Srivastava and How to find topics for your blog posts from Mike Consol. But the most powerful blog posts are those that answer questions your readers have. What kind of question? So how do come up with such a question? Share this on del.icio.us. Digg this!
Designing Social Media Engagement Programs
Leader Networks
"An organization's best customers…are not just "satisfied" or "loyal," they are emotionally attached to the organization's brands or services. They are engaged" ( Gallup , 2009). disengaged customer is not really a customer, or at least not a good customer. Unfortunately, few companies have implemented effective systems to gauge the level of their customers on social media.
Will Social Media Replace Traditional Marketing?
Content Marketing for BI
Social media is on the tip of most every B2B marketer's tongue these days. They're wondering which activities they should be participating in. Should we be blogging and tweeting?" Should we have a Facebook page?" What about LinkedIn? Should we be there too?" These are typical of the types of questions that are heard whenever new techniques are introduced. 55% use Twitter for marketing.
Content Marketing 2016: Staffing, Measurement, and Effectiveness
We surveyed 2016's content marketing leaders on their biggest issues, hurdles, and goals.
5 Ways to Attract People to Your Content Before They Even Click
Ad Your Comment Here
This may be old news to a lot of you, but I keep seeing enough pieces of content out there – blog posts, eBooks, articles, you name it – that are unattractive enough for me to not even consider opening them. The sad thing is that many of them are probably great sources of information and value. What a waste! So how can you boost the attractiveness of your content right off the bat?
Leading Lights: Marketing and PR Strategist David Meerman Scott
Illuminating the Future
We've been liberated to elevate our businesses and ourselves through the new tools of marketing. In fact, new tools mean new rules. We no longer need to rely on the media for attention and publicity. We are the media now. We build trust, credibility and enthusiasm through our own direct communication with our prospects and customers. . Here's what he had to say:
Keep Your Teleprospecting Intro Simple and Effective
Sales Prospecting Perspectives
"Here at XYZ Comp, we offer a solution to automate your process by blah blah blah.". This opener is inevitably going to happen. I've done it, you've done it, all great sales reps have done it. After going through the whole process of training on a new product with your value proposition, learning all the key benefit points, and differentiators, going back to the importance of keeping the message simple can be the most difficult part. I was reading an article by Michael Pedone , CEO of online sales training company SalesBuzz.com, entitled Bad Phone Sales Script Advice. What do you think
The new realities of corporate blogging
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
I've had the most fun over the last few weeks working with Billy Mitchell , Martine Hunter and the incredible professionals at MLT Creative in Atlanta preparing their company's first major webinar. For example, have you considered: Actively selling <gasp> through your blog in a way that your customers will love? Dismissing customer comments as a measure of blog success?
Study: How Much of Your Content Marketing Is Effective?
745 marketers told us how effective their content marketing is. Here's what we learned.
Lead Nurturing Checklist for Marketing Automation
If you want to make a start with Lead Nurturing, what are the right questions to ask? And what are the decisions that you need to make? In this post I present a short checklist of questions to ask before you get started with lead nurturing: Do you want to nurture new leads, existing leads or both? How do you to segment your audience? Which content is available for nurturing? Segmentation. Content.
Inside the Mind of the B2B Buyer – New Paths to Purchase
Fearless Competitor
(Editor' s note: We ran this blog post in March but it was so popular and so important, we wish to run it again.). Great insights presented last week by Genius and DemandGen Report , in the webinar Inside the Mind of B2B Buyers: New Paths to Purchase. Love hard facts. Hope you do too. Should this matter to YOU? Kaput. Unless you want your business to go the way of the dinosaurs, take note.
Trade Show Tricks to Maximize B2B Marketing ROI
B2B Marketing Traction
Tweet. Having a presence at an industry trade show can be one of the most expensive B2B marketing tactics in your annual program. But it's no longer enough to just show up, exhibit and leave. Here are six trade show tips to help you maximize return on your investment and, in some cases, even reduce your costs. Be a speaker at the conference. Send follow-up messages after the show.
Wayne Gretzky was an Inbound Marketer
Buzz Marketing for Technology
A few years ago in every presentation I made I had a slide at the front of each presentation that featured Wayne Gretzky. It was affectionately called the "Wayne Gretzky School of Marketing" slide and it was basically a photo and a single quote that said "Skate to where the puck is going not to where the puck has been". Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin. Digg this!
Content Methodology: A Best Practices Report
If you're concerned that your organization's content marketing isn't as effective as it could be, this report is for you.
A powerful story: Simple, but not simplistic
grow - Practical Marketing Solutions
If I asked you to create a compelling three-minute video with only written words, could you do it? Take a look at this interesting video treatment of words playfully telling a serious story. It's simple … but not simplistic. Seems to be a hallmark of good storytelling? What's your (non-political) reaction to this story? Share this on del.icio.us. Digg this! Tweet This!
Sales Prospecting Perspectives, April 12th - 16th
Sales Prospecting Perspectives
These weeks just fly by, don't they!? Well, we're two full weeks into Q2 of 2010 - where are you against your goals? Hopefully ahead of them, right where you want to be! We had three great blogs this week, and here are the recaps and links: Monday April 12th. Sales Prospecting: Who's Helping Your Sales Team? - Our Director of Sales, Chris Lang , wrote an entry for us about why it's important that your sales team have support from a teleprospecting perspective. Chris shared, "Your outside sales executives are trained to close deals. The sales executive role is a full time position.
It's official: Marketing owns social media management. Now what?
Chris Koch
We just completed our ITSMA survey on social media. I'll be reporting some of the major findings here and at ITSMA.com over the coming weeks. But one finding sticks out. Marketing owns social media management. That's right. It's our job. In our survey, we asked, "In your company, is marketing the catalyst for social media being used by others in the company (product development, HR, etc.)?" 68% of our respondents said yes. Will social become a silo within marketing? This has big implications for how we organize marketing. And to business people, that all represented value. Do you?
SAS, Unica and smartFocus Add Social Media Features
Customer Experience Matrix
Summary: major consumer-oriented marketing automation vendors have all added some type of social media capabilities. But some focus on monitoring conversations while others help marketers send more messages. Be sure you know which you're getting. On Monday, marketing automation vendors SAS and Unica both announced new social media capabilities. SAS provided quite a bit of detail while Unica did not , so I can't compare the two announcements in depth. What's really interesting is how widely those flavors vary. See my discussion last July for details.
Staffing and Launching Your Content Marketing Program
Brand voice? Editorial calendar? Approval workflow? Learn how to craft the crucial parts of a content marketing program. In the third installment of our five-part playbook series, discover the necessary steps to execute a content marketing program.
Responsible for B2B marketing or lead generation? Be my guest at B2B University in Boston on May 18th
Sales Lead Insights
If you are a B2B Marketer, or are responsible for lead generation, don't miss this complimentary, half-day, educational event! What: B2B Marketing University. When: May 18, 2010. Where: W Hotel, 100 Stuart Street, Boston, MA 02116. Click here for the agenda and to register. Why bother attending? Today is both a challenging time and an exciting time to be a B2B marketer.
The Laser Focused Teleprospector
Sales Prospecting Perspectives
I'll be the first person to admit that cold calling was not first on my list of priorities during my days as an inside sales rep. Working on an RFP, doing an on-line demo, assisting in a presentation with an outside rep, sending the appropriate materials out to interested prospects, finalizing a proposal.the daily tasks are unending. So where should cold-calling fall? From my experience it generally tended to land last on my list of priorities for the day. scenario like that ironically doesn't surprise the best inside reps, but we still can easily find a way of putting it off.
The 10 Rules for Creating a Buyer Persona: Rule 3
Tony Zambito
Image by nubui via Flickr. Did you ever have one of those sleepless nights in a Godforsaken hotel and you find yourself channel flipping? You 100k miles per year executives know exactly what I am talking about. You suddenly hit an infomercial promising you earnings twice to three times what you are making now and you only have to work as little as 10 hours per week.
Savvy Week in Review: April 16
Savvy B2B Marketing
Whoosh! Know what that was? It was the sound of the weekend flying past and slamming head first into the weekend. Can you believe it's Friday already? We can't, but here we are anyway. Happily - Friday's are about sharing all the great blog posts we read over the week. well, not all of them. that would take FORever; but here are a few choice bits to keep you up-to-date and inspired.
Marketing Optimization Toolkit: The Science behind Marketing Analytics
Marketers are well-versed in the art and science of optimization.
5 Ways to Attract People to Your Content Before They Even Click
Ad Your Comment Here
This may be old news to a lot of you, but I keep seeing enough pieces of content out there – blog posts, eBooks, articles, you name it – that are unattractive enough for me to not even consider opening them. The sad thing is that many of them are probably great sources of information and value. What a waste! So how can you boost the attractiveness of your content right off the bat?
Random acts of marketing (Why you need outside help)
Fearless Competitor
I was having a great conversation with a Vice President at a $100MM West Coast software firm when she told me: " We're kind of old school, Jeff. We just engage in random acts of marketing.. What she was referring to was their tendency to run multiple marketing campaigns without insights into prospective buyers. Unfortunately, what she complained about is far too common.
The 10 Rules for Creating a Buyer Persona: Rule 2
Tony Zambito
Image by Trinity via Flickr. If you've visited Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco, you've undoubtedly encountered the many street vendors. One of the most visible is those who promise to draw your caricature profile on the spot. This next rule has to do with profiling. Customer profiles have been around for a very long time.
Group Blog Style Guides – creating the fence in the play yard
Savvy B2B Marketing
"A style guide is not a rule book. The guidelines can and should be broken as necessary. The rules should never be viewed as set in stone or beyond reproach. They are there to help, not restrain. - Blog Herald Those words of wisdom are what you will read at the very top of the Savvy B2B Marketing blog's style guide. Diversity is what we want and strive for in our blog. Wendy E.N.
Content Marketing Playbook: Strategy and Roadmap
Every brand's content roadmap is different; each path to success is unique to that brand's story, perspective, assets, and goals. But there is an overarching approach that's proven to work—one we've refined after helping hundreds of brands reach their content marketing goals and after speaking with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
Are You a Thought Leader? No, You're a Guru.
Sales Lead Dynamics
I really don't like the term "Thought Leader." It sounds pretentious. Also, thought leaders sound like distant cousins of the "thought police," those nasty characters in George Orwell's book 1984. What is a thought leader, anyway? Most of us are experts in our fields. But few of us are gurus. What's the difference between an expert and a guru? Gurus get more business. Writing articles. Spread them.
5 Keys to Effective B2B Content
B2B Memes
Photo by Brenda Starr. For the last couple of weeks, I've been working on a project that involves reading a bunch of feature articles from a wide range of B2B publishers. It's been, surprisingly, an inspiring experience. Why the surprise? guess because there's so much gloom and doom surrounding the future of B2B publishing. Prefer expert writers over experts who write.
3 Reasons Why This Headline Works
Marketing Edge
I'm not a fan of Solution Headlines, like the one for this post, but I know why they work. There are all kinds of headlines. In fact, I think there are more blogs written about blog headlines than most any other topic about blogs. Sure some will say the Solutions Headline gets to the point, they are highly search friendly, and they make life simple. No it doesn't work that way.
Pacing Your Product Marketing Launch for Success
Savvy B2B Marketing
I ran a half marathon last Sunday. It was a big endeavor for me. hadn't run a distance like that in over a decade. Obviously I didn't just wake up that morning and decide it looked like a lovely day for a 13 mile run. My journey towards the finish line actually began in December 2009 when some friends asked me to join them in the run. Assess Your Terrain. Map Out Your Plan.
B2B Marketing Trends for 2016
25 B2B marketing thought leaders answer the question "What do you expect to B2B marketers to be doing more of or differently in 2016?" The results are amazing insights around content marketing, achieving business results, alignment, employee advocacy, new technologies, customer experience and more.
The 10 Rules for Creating a Buyer Persona: Rule 1
Tony Zambito
Image by False Positives via Flickr. The rise in popularity of buyer personas has also meant a rise in people getting them wrong. The building awareness of the term and the idea of using buyer personas in marketing on a mass level can be traced to David Meerman's Scott book, The New Rules of Marketing & PR. I guess we should have written a book!


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How about "smaller government" and "less intrusion"?
Let the businesses decide if they want to open on Sunday.
I can guarantee that Highland residents are going to other towns to shop, and be entertained.
Not all are your religion.....and not everyone celebrates Sabbath on Sunday.
Demonstrate Utah values and let the people decide!
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House may give a proposed constitutional amendment that targets discrimination and affirmative action a second chance.
Submitted Friday, an unapproved substitute resolution would call for a series of public hearings during the summer, a proposal designed to placate Republican critics.
After voicing opposition to the original HJR24, Rep. Steven Mascaro, R-West Jordan, said he drafted the additional language in an effort to ensure public debate on the measure, which calls for a ban on any affirmative-action policies in state agencies, schools or government contracting.
"I was concerned that this resolution would pass without sufficient public scrutiny," Mascaro said. "With this in mind, I came up with the idea that if it passes, it will at least pass with the opportunity for the public to understand and debate these changes to our constitution."
As reported by the Deseret News, Mascaro was among a handful of Republican holdouts who said they would not vote for the original resolution, effectively preventing its passage. Mascaro said if his substitute were accepted, he would vote for the revised resolution.
"We should not be considering a change to our constitution without deliberation," he said. "This change would mean that the amendment would pass with the expectation that voters would be better educated about it."
Mascaro predicted the resolution now has the support needed to pass the House, and the measure's sponsor agreed.
"I think we have the votes, but we won't know for sure until it comes up on the floor," said Rep. Curtis Oda, R-Clearfield.
As to when he would bring the resolution back for a vote, Oda said he is waiting for a day when all the supporters he needs are at the Capitol to vote.
Rep. Brian King said the proposal for public hearings does not change the underlying resolution.
"The time to get input is before the exact wording is in place," the Salt Lake Democrat said. "After it's passed here, we can't change it, no matter what we talk about in the hearings."
As outlined in the substitute, the four public hearings would be conducted by the Constitutional Review Commission and would be designed to allow debate by opponents and supporters.
The resolution, as approved by the Legislature, would still go on the ballot in November.
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Pelosi Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary of Health Care Law That 'Honored Vows of Our Founders'
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Alongside Reps. Steny Hoyer of Maryland and James Clyburn of South Carolina at a ceremony on Capitol Hill, Pelosi said, "After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all — not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses."
Senior citizens, parents and children joined the lawmakers on Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act and show support for its provision that prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against those with pre-existing conditions.
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