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Ubaldo Jimenez settled down after the first two innings, retiring 11 batters in a row and striking out a season high ten batters in total. Interestingly enough, Jimenez didn't allow a single until the sixth inning when his out streak was broken. He ended up holding the Twins to a very respectable two runs, although he wasn't able to pitch past the sixth.
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The Indians took advantage of a wild pitch in the first inning to score the first run of the game. Michael Bourn was able to go to second on a Samuel Deduno mistake and then scored when Carlos Santana singled in the same at bat.
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Ubaldo Jimenez likes to do things the hard way. That's why he decided to load the bases in the first inning (on a double and two walks) before striking out the side in order. While this still goes down as a scoreless inning, it is a microcosm of Jimenez's problems all season where he has not been able to pitch past the fifth inning due to high pitch counts. He tried to do it again in the second inning, but allowed three doubles while again, striking out batters for all three outs.
For some reason, Jason Kipnis was attempting to sacrifice bunt with two runners on in the sixth inning. Whether this was of his own doing or the managers call, is unknown, but the fact that he shouldn't have been is obvious. Kipnis leads the team in RBI and had a favorable match-up against a right handed pitcher. In addition, Kipnis has only grounded into eight double plays in over 500 plate appearances this season. Kipnis bunted foul twice then struck out looking, leaving runners at first and second with one out. Michael Bourn was then thrown out attempting to make up for this by stealing third and the inning ended shortly after without a run being scored. What looked to be a great start to an inning was completely destroyed by a poor "old school" call to have the best hitter on the team sacrifice bunt.
It's difficult to beat even a poor offensive team when scoring just a single run and the Indians didn't tonight.
Scoreboard Watch: With the Indians losing tonight, it would have been nice if their competitors had followed suit, but that just wasn't in the cards. Tampa Bay beat the Yankees while the Tigers beat the Mets, combining to decimate the New York City area 13-3. The other two teams the Indians are keeping an eye on played each other and were still playing at the end of the Indians game.
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In the first of a two-part series, author and certified financial planner Guy Hatcher takes a look at godly gifts that sometimes are never used. read more
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Whitnall Park clubhouse and Red Arrow rink open early today
To celebrate the new snow, Milwaukee County Parks officials will open the Whitnall Park Warming House, 6751 S. 92nd St., Franklin, early today for sledding and cross-country ski rentals from noon to 6 p.m.
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Day 33: Journal Communications letter to employees on blackout
Journal Communications employees received the following memo Monday, on the 33rd day of the blackout of Journal Broadcast Group stations, including WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), on Time Warner Cable.
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If you attend "I Left My Heart," the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's season-opening Tony Bennett revue, you won't hear a word about the man who helped liberate a concentrate camp, marched with Martin Luther King Jr. at Selma and became an outspoken opponent of the American invasion of Iraq. Nor will you hear about Bennett's two divorces or former drug addiction.
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The full-scale Beach Boys reunion may have been a short-lived occassion, but Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson is still keeping part of the old band together--and roping in a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Test samples taken from a Bedford Street construction site in the borough's Gaysport neighborhood have confirmed the presence of petroleum-related chemicals in the soil and groundwater.
P. Joseph Lehman Inc. engineers retrieved the samples June 17 after a contractor uncovered groundwater at 10 feet that was "discolored to a blueish gray and had petroleum odors," according to Lehman's report.
The report went on to state that "The results of the soil and groundwater sampling shows that soils ... have been impacted by a petroleum substance, as has groundwater."
The digging crew had been working to replace a sewer line along the street's 400 block.
Borough officials received the results July 12 and then forwarded the information to the Department of Environmental Protection.
DEP spokeswoman Lisa Kasianowitz confirmed that the water and soil showed petroleum components, trimethylbenzene and benzene, at levels above state health standards.
She noted that the levels aren't deadly, but "contact or ingestion wouldn't be advisable."
DEP officials will be present for an Aug. 5 site dig to try and determine the extent of the contamination and begin an investigation to find its source, she said.
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Kasianowitz said finding a source will take time, and if it can't be determined, DEP may pay to remove and replace the contaminated soil.
"Sometimes you can't find the responsible party," she said, "but it needs to be cleaned up."
A few neighbors have speculated the leak was caused by the now-shuttered BCO Mart, a convenience store and gasoline station once located near the contamination site, but Schroyer said there currently is no established connection to Blair County Oil & Supply.
A company secretary who did not give her name said President Fred Marchi was not interested in commenting on the test results.
Kasianowitz said residents can breathe easy, as other testing has shown that the contamination is along only the main sewer line, not lateral lines that run through residents' yards.
"The vapors can travel," she said, and it's possible nearby neighbors could have smelled the fumes in their house, but none are in danger of exposure.
She also said while DEP won't know the cause immediately after the dig, "We'll have a better picture of what we encountered."
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FORT WORTH, Texas, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines, which invented the frequent flyer program when it launched the AAdvantage® program nearly three decades ago, has further revolutionized award travel by introducing an exciting new feature called "One-Way Flex Awards." One-Way Flex Awards offer a whole new approach to frequent flyer award travel, creating even greater value for AAdvantage members. Customers can get further details on One-Way Flex Awards and view an online demo, at www.aa.com/flexawards.
The One-Way Flex feature gives AAdvantage members more options when redeeming award travel, offering - for the first time - the ability to use miles on a one-way basis at half the round-trip mileage requirement. At the same time, American is offering AAdvantage members who travel round trip the ability to combine different types of one-way awards on a single ticket. Therefore, customers may now combine MileSAAver® awards with AAnytime® awards, or economy class awards with First or Business Class awards, to customize award travel to best meet their needs.
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"Since the AAdvantage program was launched in 1981, American has continuously made improvements that make the program more valuable for our members and ensure our industry leadership position," said Rob Friedman, President - AAdvantage Marketing Programs. "Our One-Way Flex feature takes frequent flyer award travel to a whole new level by offering customers unprecedented options and flexibility."
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The primary features of American's One-Way Flex Awards, which are available now for award travel on American Airlines, American Eagle or AmericanConnection® carriers are:
- One-Way Flex Awards give AAdvantage members the flexibility to combine different one-way awards on a single itinerary. For instance, a member may travel outbound on an Economy Class MileSAAver award and return on an economy class AAnytime award. Or, a member may choose to travel in different classes of service on a trip, such as traveling outbound in Business or First Class and returning in Economy Class.
- AAdvantage members can now redeem one-way awards at a one-way price. If a member is only traveling one-way, or doesn't have a return date in mind, the member can simply book one-way travel for half the round-trip miles. For example, a customer may fly one-way using a domestic MileSAAver economy class ticket for 12,500 miles - half the amount required for a round-trip domestic award, which currently requires 25,000 miles.
- AAdvantage members may book One-Way Flex Awards by using the newly enhanced, easy-to-read, color-coded availability calendar on AA.com, allowing members to determine the dates, flights and award types that work best for them.
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In addition to introducing One-Way Flex awards, American has enhanced AA.com to make booking AAdvantage award travel online even more convenient. Now, members can:
- Book multi-city award trips on AA.com, which is especially helpful for members who need to travel to more than one city in a single trip. Customers now can book up to four one-way awards at one time, an expansion from previous capabilities that allowed booking only round-trip travel. Multi-city award booking also allows customers to book travel into one city and return from another. For example, travel to London but return from Paris
- Customers who prefer doing business in Spanish now can book AAdvantage award travel online in Spanish. The new Spanish-language tool is accessed by clicking "Espanol" on the AA.com home page or by accessing one of the country-specific, Spanish-language portals American offers at www.aa.com/espanol.
American's innovative changes to the AAdvantage program - made after extensive research and study - coupled with the technology enhancements to AA.com, make redeeming one-way and combinable awards quick, easy and convenient.
"American is blazing the trail with technology solutions that make innovative and customer-friendly enhancements a reality for our customers," said Andrew Watson, American's Vice President - Customer Technology. "Our customers asked for more options, flexibility and speed when shopping and booking award travel on AA.com, and that's just what we've delivered. Our commitment is to leverage the most up-to-date technology to meet and exceed our customers' expectations."
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Wonder Years star Danica McKellar got a sexy makeover for her role in Avril Lavigne's video for her new song, "Rock N Roll."
Photos taken on the set Thursday show the 38-year-old flaunting her killer abs in a skimpy outfit paired with fishnet tights that showcased her legs.
"Just had the best time shooting @AvrilLavigne's new video. And she is so sweet and fun! Made me feel like a rock star. ;)" the New York Times best-selling author and math expert Tweeted.
The mom of son Draco, who turns 3 in September, filed for divorce from her husband of three years, composer Mike Verta, in June 2012.


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It's funny how your past sometimes sneaks up on you when you least expect it.
A couple of weeks ago, a guy from Southwest Philadelphia — lives here now — came to the front desk to say hello and ask about where in Southwest Philadelphia I was from and where I went to school.
He was from several blocks away. In those days, our "neighborhoods" were very small. We hung at 64th and Guyer and our immediate friends were those kids who lived right around that corner. Not 65th Street — the "Big Guys" or older guys hung out there. Big difference.
The guy who came in, Tom, graduated from West Catholic High School for Boys in 1962, two years before I did. He rattled off some names, most of which I do not remember.
High school wasn't a big deal in my life. I didn't have a bad high school experience. I pretty much enjoyed it. I learned to write there and learned to play guitar while there.
In my memory now, however, it is not a major event. I barely remember the names of my classmates.
Maybe it's because so many changes took place in me and my life since those days. I resemble that high school kid very, very little now.
Friday night, after I finished a show at Sweet Lula's in Pitman, a familiar couple walked up to me. They'd been at the show at the Broadway and were having dinner at Guillermo's when someone said, "Did you see, Jim Six is playing across the street?"
So, out of nowhere, walked in Dennis and Denise, faces I haven't seen in a long time.
Dennis and I were pretty much inseparable during part of grade school at St. Barnabas School and all of high school. We were friends after high school, too.
And then, as it happens, our lives diverged.
The last time I saw Denny was 1976. And he lives in Washington Township, for Pete's sake!
I recognized both of them immediately. What a treat! Some old friends had showed up to see me and my friend, Caryl P. Weiss, perform at the restaurant and it was also good to see them — as much as seeing current friends, of course.
I'm pretty selective with my friends. And these days, everyone is so busy, we don't get to spend time often enough with even our closest friends. So it's nice to find a really old friend like Dennis. He and I were goofy kids together and it will be fun to remember some of that nonsense when we all get together for dinner soon.
We'll no doubt talk about how we used to get on a bus and start talking in pidgin French, trying to convince other riders we were visiting foreigners. (I'm sure, at 14, we were perceived to be mere goofy teenagers.)
Or how we walked around the neighborhood, me banging on a guitar (before I learned to play one) singing "She Loves You" at the top of our lungs.
I wonder what else we'll remember.
No, I really do wonder.
Hey, at our age, I'm happy we can remember anything.


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Now what: Maintenance accounted for some of the drop in production but the numbers were still disappointing. Management predicts 12,000-13,000 boe/day next quarter, which would be a big bump, although may not be enough to make a profit. I'm more concerned about the company's losses than just today's miss. Those losses will keep me from buying the stock's discount today.
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What began as an offer by a board member to help raise needed funds has turned into an annual event anticipated by attendees and welcomed by the Lycoming County United Way in its mission to mobilize resources to improve lives.
"Diane Stine approached me in 2008 with an idea to conduct a basket bingo as a special event fundraiser," said Scott N. Lowery, LCUW executive director.
"We had never done anything like this, but Diane had expertise and energy so we gave her the green light to proceed. We are now preparing for our fourth annual basket bingo to be held Nov. 6. Thanks to all Diane's efforts, the event has been both fun and successful.
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A samplng of the items in this year's"basket bingo" United Way fundraiser.
"Over the years we have conducted a variety of special event fundraisers,"?Lowery continued. "Some have been very successful, while others have produced marginal results. We have a small United Way staff and the detailed time it takes to plan and implement these kinds of events detracted from the everyday efforts needed to support our human service mission.
"Even though Diane has since rotated off our Board of Directors, she has been kind enough to continue this event. It has turned into more than just a fund raiser. We get a lot of repeat customers who really enjoy the afternoon."
This year's Basket Bingo will be held Nov. 6, beginning at 1 p.m. at the Old Lycoming Township Fire Hall.
Advance bingo tickets are available for a $20 donation at the United Way office, at 1 W. Third St., Suite 208.
Tickets at the door the day of the event are $25.
The event will include 20 regular bingo games included with the ticket.
There also will be five special games and a $1,200 super bingo available.
Doors open at noon with an early bird special game at 12:45 p.m.
"While it is a lot of work to put together this bingo, it is also a lot of fun," Stine said. "My mom, Evelyn Free, my daughter, Tanya Frey, and my daughter-in-law, Kaitlyn Twigg, have pitched in to help over the years, so it has been a family affair, something we've enjoyed doing together. It also provides some extra funding for United Way, an organization we strongly believe in and support. Last year was the first time we played a Super Bingo game and it was such fun we are going to do it again."
Stine added that the value of merchandise is more than $1,200.
"Not only do we have many Longaberger baskets and accessories, we received an anonymous donation of an antique wash table," she said. "It has a wood bottom and marble top that is just beautiful; so you can tell the theme for the Super Bingo is a bathroom. From the print on the wall, rug on the floor, towels on the rack, and much more, we think this one game, one-winner Super Bingo, is a great addition to our event."
"I hope everyone brings a friend to enjoy the afternoon of fun and to help raise funds for our fellow Lycoming County residents," Stine concluded. "The need this year is greater than ever."
"Before this event I didn't know anything about basket bingo," said John Brunette, LCUW board president. "But each year when I show up to help I am amazed by Diane's preparations and direction to make this a success.
"There are smiles on lots of folk's faces whether they win a prize or not," he added. "That makes it special for me and I thank Diane and all the volunteers who pitch in to make this possible every year."
This year's basket bingo fundraiser is sponsored in part by Range Resources.
For more information about this event or tickets, call the United Way office at 323-9448.


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Some New MySQL Technical Videos
By Jennifer Glore on Nov 06, 2008
As part of the MySQL on Sun hardware launch, Allan Packer put together 3 short technical videos on MySQL.
- Introduction to MySQL Architecture and Typical Deployments (approximately 8 minutes)
This video give an introduction to MySQL architecture including storage engines, a release status update, and typical deployment scenarios, which includes horizontal scaling via replication and shards. It also gives some advice on how to deploy MySQL on Sun systems today.
- Tuning and Monitoring MySQL (approximately 10 minutes)
This video highlights how to tune MySQL for optimal performance and includes details on which binaries are the right one, how to optimize data load and indexes, how to tune MySQL via my.cnf, which parameters are key for performance, as well as other tuning tips. It also gives some commentary on how MySQL can be monitored to determine performance.
- Future Directions for MySQL by Allan Packer (approximately 12 minutes)
This video addresses the future direction of performance and scalability for MySQL. Today, there are issues scaling MySQL up, and Sun has started a performance and scalability project to address these problems. The performance team, led by Allan Packer, is using Web 2.0 and transaction based workloads to simulate real customer environments and testing is being done on innodb, Maria, and soon to be Falcon. Not that this performance project is not for Solaris only. Linux performance improvement is a priority as well. In this video, Allan addresses the work that has been done so far, some of the issues that have been found, and where the team is going in the future.


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All Discussions Tagged 'ad' - The Rodinhoods 2016-09-27T10:25:02Z http://therodinhoods.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=ad&feed=yes&xn_auth=no How can I sell a mobile, location-based, digital OOH Advertising Channel? tag:therodinhoods.com,2014-09-15:6328457:Topic:239541 2014-09-15T12:32:34.441Z Amit Sarda http://therodinhoods.com/profile/sardamit
Fellow Rodinhoods,

We have been working on building a mobile, location-based, digital OOH Advertising platform. We are planning to launch our operations post Diwali, 2014. We are currently in talks with carriers (radio taxis). There are a plethora of applications of this platform and that could be another topic discussion.

So without wasting much time, I would like to post some questions to my fellow Rodinhoods:

How does a brand/company…

Fellow Rodinhoods,

We have been working on building a mobile, location-based, digital OOH Advertising platform. We are planning to launch our operations post Diwali, 2014. We are currently in talks with carriers (radio taxis). There are a plethora of applications of this platform and that could be another topic discussion.

So without wasting much time, I would like to post some questions to my fellow Rodinhoods:

How does a brand/company select media for its advertisement promotions?

What is the decision making process for media selection decisions?

What would brands/companies look for in an offering like this (if you were to be the brand)?

Whom should I target for my sales pitch - the brand/company or the Advertising Agency?

How can I approach the brand/company or the Advertising Agency with my offering?

As a startup, should I target volumes (through Advertising Agencies) or margins (directly through the brand/company) to get off to a positive start?

As I understand, a lot of decision making in this regard rests with the Advertising Agencies of these brands/companies. But again, I can't be sure and therefore, I need insights from you all, especially the folks in the marketing and advertising domain.

Any help/leads/pointers will be appreciated! Looking forward to a healthy discussion!

Regards,

Amit

Feel free to reach me on Twitter - https://twitter.com/sardamit
 Paisa Swipe- Revolutionary Mobile Ad Network tag:therodinhoods.com,2013-11-06:6328457:Topic:191336 2013-11-06T12:45:55.249Z Revanth Mittapalli http://therodinhoods.com/profile/RevanthMittapalli
Hi Everyone,

I am Revanth from Hyderabad. I am an Entrepreneur, Big Thinker, Action Taker. My dream is to have my own company. I have good experience and knowledge in Digital Marketing. I left my job and started a new company with my friends.

Our company is Paisa Swipe Inc, it is an innovative mobile ad network which will change the mobile advertising world. Our app replaces the smart phone lock screen with an HD ad. We are still in beta testing, interacting with end users to…

Hi Everyone,

I am Revanth from Hyderabad. I am an Entrepreneur, Big Thinker, Action Taker. My dream is to have my own company. I have good experience and knowledge in Digital Marketing. I left my job and started a new company with my friends.

Our company is Paisa Swipe Inc, it is an innovative mobile ad network which will change the mobile advertising world. Our app replaces the smart phone lock screen with an HD ad. We are still in beta testing, interacting with end users to make our app better for everyone.

We are growing very aggressively, Our app is 15 days old in Google Play and we crossed 7000 active users and more than 800,000 ad impressions. We are working very hard to get big players for advertising. Below is the Google Play link of app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paisaswipe.android&hl=en

I like this forum. Its very good to have all the like minded people under one roof. I like to share details about start up in this community.

We like to discuss with people for any partnerships/advertising/consulting to our ad network. We are open for ideas. Just reply me below or send me a message in Linkedin. Below is my Linkedin profile.

in.linkedin.com/pub/revanth-mittapalli/80/860/301

Any feedback or suggestions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Revanth Mittapalli,

Co Founder, Paisa Swipe Inc,

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

www.paisaswipe.com

 Are there any online ad networks that primarily focuses on entertainment industry(preferably indian) advertisers? tag:therodinhoods.com,2013-02-27:6328457:Topic:129951 2013-02-27T05:13:29.908Z Preeti Somani http://therodinhoods.com/profile/PreetiSomani
Hi Folks,

I'm an online marketing/social media consultant. I have a client who has a popular blog on movie reviews. (70,000 uniques/month).

She's looking at better monetization from her site. Any ad networks you know of that has a focus on entertainment industry advertisers?

I'm a new Rodinhooder. So help me out :)

Hi Folks,

I'm an online marketing/social media consultant. I have a client who has a popular blog on movie reviews. (70,000 uniques/month).

She's looking at better monetization from her site. Any ad networks you know of that has a focus on entertainment industry advertisers?

I'm a new Rodinhooder. So help me out :)
 Internet Marketing = Traffic Generation + Conversion Optimization tag:therodinhoods.com,2013-02-18:6328457:Topic:128525 2013-02-18T04:48:42.653Z Abey John http://therodinhoods.com/profile/AbeyJohn

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Sorry about the bad news. But we'll get to that in a moment.

[Thanks Abhishek. Being an advisor is a role that I am not comfortable with. Especially since I don't have those zeroes in my bank to point to as proof of the effectiveness of what I am saying. But then, this is therodinhoods.com and for my purposes I have enough examples (okay one!) to show you proof.

As an entrepreneur that should always be your first filter. A permanently switched on bullshit meter. I'll leave it to you to judge the bullshit level on this post.

 Asha, owww, stop yankin me! :)]

Okay preamble done. Now, shut down everything else, grab a large mug of coffee, some pop corn, sink back into your chair, and read on.

Sorry for the bad news. But your website sucks. No no no. There is not one of you who escapes. Don't look at your revenue numbers and think: 'Okay this doesn't apply to me. My website is raking in the moolah and this is for the losers.'

 When you open a physical store and 90-99% of your visitors walk in, poke around, and don't buy anything, do you sit back and grin contentedly just because that 1%-10% of buyers is keeping your head above water?

 If you are of the mindset 'build it and they will come' or to quote Thoreau 'build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door', sorry. It is my painful duty to inform you that is no longer true. In the 21st century even if you have a iMousetrap that will trap the mice, automatically navigate to the nearest field, and gently release the mouse there, all the while feeding classical music via a 4G connection, you still need to market (and that too aggressively) your product…. to mice for maximum traction. And to home owners if you can't figure out mouse talk. :)

 There are, of course, exceptions. For example: teleportation devices. If you've invented one of those then yes, post a video to youtube, tell your friends on FB, and then please sit back, and wait for the moolah to come pouring in. Also, please mail me directly if you have one. I am dying to say "Beam me up scottie" and scramble my body's atoms and reassemble it somewhere else. :)

Otherwise, listen up.

Internet Marketing = Traffic Generation + Conversion Optimization
 That's it. Nearly everything you do with your site can be clubbed under these two. Sounds a bit too simple, right? It is really once you think about it.

 As an entrepreneur irrespective of whether you are a pure online play or a real world business with an online presence, there are your only two questions you need to obsess over with respect to internet marketing.

 1. How do I get people who want my stuff to my site a.k.a relevant traffic?
 2. How do I get them to take action on my site a.k.a conversion?

 The important lesson for you the site owner is this: every rupee you spent on the website should directly or indirectly be tied to these two aspects.

 SEO, PPC, Social Media, Blogging and Email Marketing are all traffic generation tactics.

Copy (website content), UI, and UX improvements are conversion optimization tactics. Watch out for that radically fundoo, sooper cool design that does nothing for your conversion goals.

Factoid: Any kind of speed improvements you achieve is directly correlated to better SEO and Conversion.

Google's already on record about site speed being a part of the search ranking algorithm.

Amazon says for every 100ms lift in speed (responsiveness to end user) they see a 1% incr.... Google Maps saw a 30% increase in usage after they decreased the page weight by 30%.

If you haven't looked at your site speed and you are growing traffic comfortably with decent conversions drop everything else and fix site speed now. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is the holy grail of responsiveness: 1 second.

 Also, remember not to demarcate everything on-website as conversion related and everything off-website as traffic generation related. In most instances this is true but there are enough edge cases to shoot that paradigm down. For example - Adwords is rolling out new extensions where you can sign up leads straight from the search results page without bringing them to the site. Yahoo has been doing that - somewhat ineffectively - for a while with display ads. So that's traffic and conversion at a single point of interaction. Whether that particular tactic is effective or not will depend in large part on your industry, your offer, the audience you are dealing with, AND how you define effectiveness.

 Should I focus on conversion optimization first or traffic generation?
 That depends, but generally it is cyclical. If you are a startup, you need the traffic first. If you already have a decent amount of traffic then focus on improving the conversion. Ideally you should have two teams, one chasing traffic, the other conversion ninjas. And make sure that they both talk to each other. The ninjas can't do anything if your traffic team is sending irrelevant traffic. Extreme example: Bikers being sent to a Fair and Lovely website. Sounds ridiculous but it has happened. And that with otherwise intelligent people.

 I don't have any money to spend on SEO, PPC, Social Media, Blogging, etc.
 Oh. Welcome to the club. :) There is a great Distilled article about producing content without a budget that effectively sums it up: to produce content you need two of three things - time, talent, money. Now if you don't have money you will need to find the other two. And please do check in at reality 101. It is unlikely that you will ever succeed without active marketing. My favorite example: Sir Alok Rodinhood. :)

Things your site needs:

a) High quality content: gobs of it, produced on a regular cycle. Easiest way to do this is with a blog. Your production frequency and content mix will be determined by your industry. Good news for B2B: you only need to produce marginally more content than your competition. Bad news for B2C: suck it up, grit your teeth, and get down to it. OR you have to find creative ways to take your once a month post and make it a viral smash hit.

Good example of that? Sir Alok Rodinhood of course. :) Okay he was more prolific than once a month in the beginning. But most of his posts were viral smash hits.

b) Social Media engagement: Get people to like, comment on your shit. (The adjective choice of "shit" is a separate philosophical/spiritual discussion which we'll need to carry out elsewhere :-)). Do it sincerely. Absolutely necessary if you are a B2C play. Highly desirable even if you are B2B. Try for Google+ if your audience is there but don't sweat it if not. Same goes for Twitter. Go there if your audience is present and wade into the @replies and win followers. The social media channels you decide on will be driven by your audience. The ones you should consider are: FB, Twitter, G+, and LinkedIn. Remember the second rule of marketing. Go where your audience is.

 Shoutout: Use http://crowdnub.com by our very own rodinhooder - Kiran. Once you have some content and you are going nuts trying to figure out engagement, crowdnub is a great way to get your content in front of your FB audience. Plus I think Twitter also now. (Kiran?)

 c) SEO: Are you doing a) and b)? Oh good. Go directly to d).

 Okay I am not going to get away with that. :)

 Don't obssess over rankings. SEO has changed radically in 2012. Keyword driven SEO is on its deathbed.

 Again: Sir Alok Rodinhood's rant about doing SEO by not doing SEO wins. :)

 [But then I still stand by what I say about being able to double the traffic :D]

 Okay, okay, sorry this is turning into a praise Alok post. Just too lazy to look elsewhere. Besides. He IS punching all the right buttons. Right? :))

 The short version is that search engines are shifting to social relevance, citations, keyword-site entity relationships (what I call Word Cloud SEO), and not to forget personal search and browsing history to determine ranking. And they are shifting away from pure anchor text (links) driven rankings. Please note: this is the general direction in which the google beast is heading and not a prescriptive description of the state of current search algos.

 SEO in 2013 and beyond boils down to this: get people to like (or +1), share, comment, and engage with the content on your site. That is the strongest signal of relevance and authority.

 For some basic technical chops read this no BS SEO primer from Distilled and grab SEO Fast Start from Dan Thies. This is the bedrock underbelly on which you should build your site's SEO. Why?

 IT ALL GOES BACK TO THE SAME SOURCE. Now before I drift off topic... onward.

 PS: One very important thing to note. DO NOT and I mean DO NOT let the content you publish on your site be published elsewhere. Write fresh content for them if you have to but what you have on your site should be unique. Duplicate content raises a quality flag with the search engines. As with everything there are exceptions but in general be mindful of duplicate content.

 d) Email marketing: Get yourself an email system that supports A/B testing and lots of bells and whistles. Mailchimp is fantabulous. But they are known hardasses when it comes to list quality. Work within mailchimp's guidelines and you will develop best practices by default.

Email your audience as frequently as possible This depends on your list and their responsiveness and engagement with your content. In some markets you can do it daily and even multiple times a day. In others they'll throw a hissy fit if you mail them more than once a month. Which brings up the first rule of marketing. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.

Best practices say that you should avoid purchased lists. Good advice. You can break that rule if you know what you are doing. BUT remember if you make a wrong move you will end up on the spam list of ISPs (gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, etc) and once that happens you are up shit creek without a paddle. In general avoid purchased lists. There is ninjagiri which is borderline gray hat but dont go there without reading up lots on the ins and outs of email deliverability, spam ratios, list laundering, etc etc.

 In general your job is to get people to sign up to your email list from your website and then bring them back to the site. Email marketing is both a traffic gen tactic as well as the first step in a conversion funnel.

 Factoid: Email marketing has the higest ROI compared to any other marketing channel.

For a more detailed breakdown of the ninjagiri involved go read Aneja's post on email marketing.

 e) Conversion optimization framework: As soon as you get some amount of traffic please START CONVERSION TESTING. At this point I should probably get on my knees and beg. LOL.

 Every site, and I mean EVERY SITE, has conversion goals. And those goals can be tested and improved.

 Whether you are a content publisher, an ecommerce store, a B2B site or any other type of site, you have conversion goals that you can define and improve.

 Here is the short summary from Brian Massey's awsilicious primer on conversion. Scroll lower for details about the book.

 There are Five Primary Conversion formulas:

 The Brochure site: This one is the barebones site. Depending on your industry maybe that is all you need. Enquiries will come in because you are known in the industry or because you are the default player in the market. If the bulk of your enquiries and subsequently sales come in through the web then you are more in the lead generation category. Ask yourself this question, will I be able to thrive without a website. Not in terms of branding but in terms of sales. i.e. If you did not have a site will your business still continue. If you answer yes to this question. You don't need to do anything. If you answer maybe or no to this question. Then you better start working on your site.

 The Publication site: Games2win and Contests2win fit in this category. So do pure content blogs, news sites, and etc. Unless you are Wikipedia or totally I-am-doing-it-for-the-love-of-it-and-don't-care-if-it -is-read-or-dont, you have to pay attention to conversion goals. The widest possible goal is content consumption. Which in analytics gets translated to pageviews, time on site.

Time on Site is also a quality metric for content consumption. If people are whizzing through your pages at x seconds per page when you know the consumption time should be x+y seconds then you have to look at whats happening and why.

Your conversion goal has to be tied back to a hard monetary number. The exact formula you use is immaterial. It should however be predictable and should tie in with your revenue. You should be tracking this and theorizing ways to improve this number.

 E.g. If your revenue is in CPM. You should focus on both increasing the page views and the Time on Site. Increase page views to jack up the impressions. Increase time on site to push up your rates with the ad vendors. Most ad vendors won't agree of course but once you get enough traction then you are the boss. :).

 There are two ways to increase page views. More traffic. OR More content consumption. When you do both you get a double whammy.

 The trick with publication (and this goes for all sites since content generation and content marketing has to be a part of your plans) is to generate more UGC (user generated content) than you can keep up. That's when you hit, what Dan Theis calls, the virtuous cycle. Your actual contribution can drop way down. And SEO practically takes care of itself.

 And good example of that? :D Obviously, therodinhoods.com. :D

 The Ecommerce Store: This is the easiest to track and the toughest to convert. An average ecommerce store converts at less than 1%. The top of the range in the category convert at 50%+. So, buckle up and get down to it. You have a lot of work to do.

 You need to have a solid rationale in place to stand out from the crowd (aka USP). You cannot buy market share with branding alone. Our desi ecommerce trainwreck is a good example.

 More than any of the others an ecommerce store needs conversion testing. Why? Imagine this: do you ever walk into a supermarket with the sole intention to browse and then walk out? If you are the store owner and you have 1000 footfalls a day and only 10 buyers wouldn't you either commit harakiri or figure out what's going wrong at every point of interaction?

The consultant site/lead gen site: I know I know. Half a dozen people will jump on me now and point at my site. Ashaaaa!!!!! :)

I am lazy. I believe it is all shit anyway. Part of that philosophical discussion I spoke about earlier. Actually my site's dismal state has more to do with laziness and I-am-making-enough-na-so-why-bother than the 'it-is-all-shit' argument.

 Notwithstanding that. Here is what happens in this category. You are selling a relatively high ticket product or service. You need to talk to the client to help him figure out what he wants. The client needs to fill up a form to get in touch with you. Your focus should be in asking the minimum information that will get you quality leads in exchange for some value that is closely tied to your product. Favorite choice is a whitepaper. But that's just one option. Whitepaper marketing when done right is a great lead gen and sales tool.

The online service: This one is relatively easy to convert with a trial offer and with some bells and whistles but retention is hard. That's what you need to focus on. Retention.

The easy way to build your audience is to have a freemium version with upgrades. Your core performance metrics are your freemium to premium conversion rates and your retention rate.

Conversion Testing – The Gateway to More Money

Unless you are measuring, testing, and improving your conversion - you are basically running blind and are more likely to fail. In bar room talk - you are up shit creek.

If that doesn't scare you then take a look at this table below.

 Granted this is a simplified view but this should give you an idea of how the twin pillars of conversion optimzation: traffic & conversion rate, gets your sales numbers moving.

 Note how for the same cost of traffic your sales increases as your conversion rate improves. Look at the rows highlighted in green. By improving your conversion rate marginally you are skyrocketing your revenue with traffic growth. And finally see how as you improve your conversion rate your cost per conversion starts going into free fall and you maximize your visitor value.

 Which is where we started with this article: get the right traffic and get them to convert.

 One of the best books on the subject is Brian Massey's Your Customer Creation Equation. The Kindle version is $9.99 and totally worth it. You can read it off your smartphone (which is what I did initially) and just the reading will pay you back with ideas and insights worth their weight in gold.

 The other book is Bryan Eisenberg's Always be Testing. This is more suited to an enterprise audience.

 Of the conversion testing tools there are three I can recommend:

 Content Experiments (buried inside Google Analytics) is free but you are on your own for tech support.

Convert.com and Visual Website Optimizer are two others.

I haven't worked with VWO but have heard only good things about them. And the little I poked around in the app, I had to suck back the drool. :) And what really kicks me is that they are desi, have refused VC money, and somemany of the top brands in the world are their customers.

Convert.com is awesome and their support is phenomenal. Usual response window is a few hours during their working hours. They are chilling it in sunny Mexico and have customers all over the planet. And they are crazy. I asked a doubt and they came up with a new feature in a few hours.

f) Paid Advertising: Contrary to popular opinion, paid advertising when coupled with a rigorous conversion testing framework can bring you an avalanche of profitable traffic. When you get it right, paid traffic is like a tap. Turn it on or off as you like. The catch though is in the phrase 'when you get it right'. It takes rigorous attention to detail and testing to discover creatives and traffic sources that bring you profitable visitors who are hungry for your product and services.

 The gorrilla in the room is of course Adwords. CPC (cost per click) on adwords these days is expensive in almost all markets but if you can crack it, you will be laughing all the way to bank.

 The other ad networks won't send you as high quality traffic as adwords but depending on your product or service you may find niches that work for you like gangbusters.

 Another Shoutout: Okay this rodinhooder is difficult to get on the phone. Aditya is either blasting it at Punjabi weddings (his friend's not his :)) or is buried deep inside the code of his app. Standard code junkie. And he is at the cutting edge of an industry that is solving one major problem with ad networks. How to reach your audience at the right time and at the most optimal price. If you have a fairly reasonable budget you should use his platform. http://impulsemedia.co.in

I guess I should stop now eh? This ramble has gone on for too long. :))

Questions, comments, doubts? Drop 'em in the comments below and I'll get to them as soon as I can.

 Do you want to transform the online marketing industry with us? tag:therodinhoods.com,2013-02-01:6328457:Topic:125616 2013-02-01T17:14:39.732Z Ankit Arora http://therodinhoods.com/profile/AnkitArora931

Hey,

We are looking for an extremely passionate go-getter to join our team as a Customer Development Co-Founder.

If you're a passionate, driven, and result-oriented individual with adequate business development experience in an ad or an affiliate network then email us at firstname.lastname@example.com…

Hey,

We are looking for an extremely passionate go-getter to join our team as a Customer Development Co-Founder.

If you're a passionate, driven, and result-oriented individual with adequate business development experience in an ad or an affiliate network then email us at firstname.lastname@example.com

Most importantly, we're looking for an entrepreneur and a doer. Email us only If you're comfortable working at a start-up and are ready to make it your top priority in life.

Regards,

Ankit.

Founder - dezyna.com
 Need some understanding on the ad agency business tag:therodinhoods.com,2012-12-13:6328457:Topic:118261 2012-12-13T10:10:14.524Z Hardik Khanna http://therodinhoods.com/profile/HardikKhanna
Hi Rodinhoods

I want some dope on the ad agency business. Would like to connect with someone who has worked for an ad agency or as an ad sales manager.

Please connect.

Hi Rodinhoods

I want some dope on the ad agency business. Would like to connect with someone who has worked for an ad agency or as an ad sales manager.

Please connect.
 From weekend project to a full time company [my Story also seeking a co-founder] tag:therodinhoods.com,2012-10-19:6328457:Topic:111489 2012-10-19T12:07:43.276Z Bilal Budhani http://therodinhoods.com/profile/BilalBudhani
Hi, I'm a tech guy I used to work full-time as a Software Eng. for social media related product company. In my spare time I also used to build mobile websites to earn some more cash from mobile advertisement companies. But, I found it way too difficult to get traction on the mobile websites and I can't afford to advertise on the mobile ad networks.

So, I decided to build my own mobile ad network where publishers don't need…

Hi, I'm a tech guy I used to work full-time as a Software Eng. for social media related product company. In my spare time I also used to build mobile websites to earn some more cash from mobile advertisement companies. But, I found it way too difficult to get traction on the mobile websites and I can't afford to advertise on the mobile ad networks.

So, I decided to build my own mobile ad network where publishers don't need to pay anything to generate traffic. A unique kind of ad network which works on barter system for traffic. I coded this in my weekends and launched it couple of months back. I was amused with overwhelming response, It attracted thousands of publishers and around millions of impressions per day within few months. I was able to generate a good amount of money as well.

I started getting positive response via emails from publishers requesting many more features and other mobile ad agency with various offers for partnering/Business development.

I realized 2 things after this :

This project now can't be handled as a weekend project. As the requirements are too high which requires a good amount of time and resources to fulfill which can't be accomplished with my job.

There's a huge opportunity in this space which are waiting to get tap and I've already taken a good steps towards it.

 Then I decided to quit my job and make this weekend project a full time company for which I started preparing my self mentally and financially by saving my 2-3 months salary.

Finally, around 3 weeks back I left my job, got a space for office, convinced some engineering friends to work with me without salary as a juniors (they just came out of college and were not getting job coz they r freshers so I promised them a good tech experience :P) and gave my old website a complete revamp.

Site Information:

website: http://adshub.net

registered publishers: 44K~

Online since: almost a year.

(other stats are available on the main page)

What I'm looking for:

I can take good care of the Tech side - I need a co-founder who can head the business development of the company. Should have strong understanding of advertisement networks niche.

What I can offer:

 Currently, The company is not funded by any investor so I can only offer equity as of now. I participated in speed dating to investors last month at TiE event (IIT Bombay) and got a good response from them so hopefully we will get funding soon. So a comprehensive salary after getting funded.

add me up firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested to take this further :)

BTW, This is my first post on The Rodinhoods and I must say this is a great community for young entrepreneurs. Kudos to Alok and team keep Rodinhooding.

I'll need all of your help in getting investors as I'm a very young entrepreneur.
 TheRodinhoods Delhi Party - are you coming? tag:therodinhoods.com,2011-04-25:6328457:Topic:17065 2011-04-25T07:59:32.638Z Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal http://therodinhoods.com/profile/alokrodinhoodkejriwal
Just a quick note to figure out if all the Rodihoods in Delhi can get together and party?

I have a session at Ad Tech India on Thursday (28th) from 1230 - 115 or so.. Staying in Delhi that night (The Bristol @ Gurgaon)

Who all are going to be there and what's the plan!??

Can we meet on Thursday night and get some beers (we all go dutch) and…

Just a quick note to figure out if all the Rodihoods in Delhi can get together and party?

I have a session at Ad Tech India on Thursday (28th) from 1230 - 115 or so.. Staying in Delhi that night (The Bristol @ Gurgaon)

Who all are going to be there and what's the plan!??

Can we meet on Thursday night and get some beers (we all go dutch) and laughs together?!!

Can someone (preferably local) suggest a place and time so that we just land up there?

Just reply to this note and feel free to get friends, family, enemies, pets and their wallets along (Delhi politicians not allowed)

UPDATE - VENUE:

We hang out 730 pm onwards (Thursday 28th of April) at:

Striker

Global Foyer

Golf Course Road,
Gurgaon.

Google maps - http://bit.ly/htB51E

(Thank you Rajat Gupta for the quick suggestion)
 Is there scope for Next Social Media :The Next Big Thing" tag:therodinhoods.com,2011-01-31:6328457:Topic:9824 2011-01-31T13:51:00.000Z Saurabh Gupta http://therodinhoods.com/profile/SaurabhGupta
I recently read the hubspot report fr digital Ad spends for 2011 - 2012. And i was surprised to see that the 13 % Ad spends were dedicated to something called Other, and this other was part of every metrics. They referred this other to "The Next Big Thing".

Is there a possibility for this other to outrun facebook like they did to Myspace.

What do you Think ???

I recently read the hubspot report fr digital Ad spends for 2011 - 2012. And i was surprised to see that the 13 % Ad spends were dedicated to something called Other, and this other was part of every metrics. They referred this other to "The Next Big Thing".

Is there a possibility for this other to outrun facebook like they did to Myspace.

What do you Think ???


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The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Coastal Refining and Marketing, Inc., in Corpus Christi, Texas, with safety and health violations with proposed penalties of $178,000, announced the U.S. Department of Labor.
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The citations resulted from an OSHA inspection that began May 13, 1999 following a report of the hospitalization of five Coastal employees and two contractor employees who suffered serious burn injuries. Although the process appeared to be operating normally to workers prior the accident, a pressure vessel had critically thinned over time. The vessel catastrophically failed and split open, allowing sour naphtha and other light hydrocarbons to be released and quickly ignite into a large fire.
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A orange fun-filled wig to give you spirit on game day!
Our Orange Foil Spirit Wig makes an exciting addition to any fans game day wardrobe. Each Orange Spirit Wig includes vinyl strands measuring approximately 11 inches long. One size fits most.
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Using for my Photo Booth..