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BELLEVILLE, Ill. (KMOX/AP) — The adoptive mother of a southwestern Illinois boy who authorities say was forced by his stepfather to do over 1,000 push-ups and eat two screws as punishment is now charged with misdemeanor child endangerment.
Prosecutors in St. Clair county charged 39-year-old Lashawn Jennings on Saturday.
Her husband, James Jennings, already had been charged with aggravated battery, domestic battery and child endangerment. He's jailed on $400,000 bond.
Police began investigating last week after the 12-year-old boy reported the alleged abuse to a nurse at an elementary school on Scott Air Force Base, where Lashawn Jennings is stationed.
The Belleville News Democrat reports that the boy was severely punished because he got crumbs on the floor after eating cookies. St. Clair County Sheriff's Office Capt. Steve Johnson told the News Democrat that James Jennings beat the boy with a wooden paddle, made him eat screws and forced him to do over 1,000 push-ups as punishment. KMOV-TV reports that X-rays showed the screws inside the boy's stomach.
Authorities say Lashawn Jennings was in Florida at the time of her husband's alleged misconduct. She is being held on $20,000 bail.
Online court records do not show whether the Jennings have an attorney.
KMOX has reached out to the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office for comment.
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Elijah Bell of Bell Boys Music Releases His New Single "Stay" [VIDEO]
A few months ago, I posted on a local group "Bell Boys Music" who got booked in the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas. Several weeks later, I was privileged to emcee one of their gigs "Show In The Snow" in Lake Nebagamon.
I was really impressed with the group, they have a tremendous sound, great interaction with the audience, write all their own material, and sound to me a lot like the "Black Keys." One of the Bell brothers, Elijah, has just released a single (Stay) which in my opinion is awesome. The graphics in the video are fantastic. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 492754, 2 pages
A Fibroid or Cancer? A Rare Case of Mixed Choriocarcinoma and Epithelioid Trophoblastic Tumour
1Royal Hospital for Women, Barker Street, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
2Gyneacological Cancer Centre, Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
Received 20 March 2013; Accepted 12 April 2013
Academic Editors: M. Furuhashi, P. Kovacs, P. McGovern, and M. A. Osmanagaoglu
Copyright © 2013 Wan Yu Luk and Michael Friedlander. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Background. Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) is a rare complication of pregnancy which is characterised by abnormal growth of the trophoblasts at the placental site. It is categorised into benign and malignant forms, which include hydatidiform moles (HMs) and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN), respectively. A mixed choriocarcinoma (CC) and epithelioid trophoblastic tumour (ETT) is an extremely rare subgroup of GTN, which is a highly curable but aggressive form of malignancy. Case. We report a case of mixed CC and ETT in a 41-year-old patient who presented with a 2-year history of menorrhagia and fibroid uterus in the absence of previous history of molar pregnancy. She had a 12-year interval between the antecedent pregnancy and presentation. She was treated with intensive regimen of adjuvant chemotherapy, etoposide, methotrexate, and actinomycin-D with etoposide and cisplatin (EMA-EP). She has remained disease free for more than 5 years. Conclusion. This case highlights the importance of considering GTN as one of the differential diagnoses value of β-HCG in patients presented with menorrhagia and growing fibroids.


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Industry day highlights significant interest in AWPR project
Transport Scotland has hosted an Industry Day to inform potential contractors and funders of the opportunities the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty project offers their businesses.
The project is a key driver for major economic growth and is expected to lead to the creation of 14,200 jobs in the North-east, bringing a boost of £6billion to the local economy over the next 30 years.
The Contract Notice in the OJEU will be published next week, formally inviting expressions of interest from companies interested in bidding for this significant contract. Procurement as a single construction project under one Non-Profit Distribution (NPD) contract ensures best value for money for the public purse.
Transport Minister Keith Brown, who addressed some 150 delegates from over 60 organisations at the Industry Day, said: "After many years of delay this essential project has gathered significant pace since the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal against the AWPR with the immediate publication of the PIN followed by commencement of supplementary ground investigation works and now this Industry Day.
"Ensuring that we deliver this long-awaited project for the north-east of Scotland through investment in the AWPR alongside our partners, Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils, is something we are committed to doing and I am very pleased to have been able to address major organisations from Scotland, the rest of the UK and across Europe today.
"Over the next three decades, the project is expected to bring in an additional £6billion to the local economy and create around 14,000 new jobs. The major works phase will deliver a huge uplift in employment opportunities across the construction sector and associated disciplines.
"The AWPR/ Balmedie-Tipperty project will improve journey times, reduce congestion and help open up wider markets for the regionally and nationally important economy of the north-east delivering benefits of both local and national importance.
"This Government has taken forward the largest investment ever in the country's transport infrastructure, completing a number of vital projects on time and on budget."
Aberdeen City Council Leader Councillor Barney Crockett, said: "The presence here today in Aberdeen of representatives from some of the world's leading construction companies really drives home the true scale, significance and economic importance of the AWPR/Balmedie-Tipperty project to the North-east and the rest of Scotland.
"After years of delays we are now making rapid progress towards delivering this key piece of transport infrastructure which will boost jobs and business in the city and far beyond."
Leader of Aberdeenshire Council Councillor Jim Gifford said: "This Industry Day provides a major showcase for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie-Tipperty project and encourages consortiums and construction firms from across the world to bid for the work.
"This will be one of the largest construction projects in the UK and Europe in the next few years, stimulating the economy and providing local jobs. I am keen to demonstrate our total commitment for this project and enthusiasm for appointing the right team to develop this important piece of infrastructure."
Tom Smith, Chairman of ACSEF (Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future), said: "It is no surprise that there is significant interest from the construction sector across the UK and Europe for what is one of the largest infrastructure projects being undertaken in Scotland in recent years.
"Employment opportunities will flow not only from the construction process but the economic growth forecast on completion of the project. This is fantastic news for a region which continues to maintain its place as one of the best-performing in the country. The Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie Tipperty project will help deliver not only a modern transport system bringing reduced journey times, but a major boost to the local, regional and national economies modernising infrastructure to ensure the north-east of Scotland fulfils its strategic promise over the next 30 years and beyond."
Bob Collier, Chief Executive of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, commented: "The AWPR / Balmedie-Tipperty project is a significant project for the region. Our members will be pleased to see preparations well under way for the implementation phase with contractors from across Scotland, the UK and Europe in Aberdeen to learn more as part of the tendering process."
The indicative timetable for the combined project is:
January 9, 2013 - Hold industry day to discuss tenders
Early 2013 - Publish Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) notice
Spring 2013 - Issue invitation to tender
Autumn 2014 - Award contract/commence works
Spring 2018 Completion
Preparatory work is already under way along the AWPR route, including archaeological and environmental surveys, and supplementary ground investigation works. Ground investigation work for the Balmedie to Tipperty scheme is also progressing.
Further information on the AWPR / Balmedie-Tipperty project is available by visiting: www.awpr.co.uk


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When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, displacing thousands of people and causing widespread devastation, Entergy's Waterford 3 nuclear energy facility safely withstood the storm and quickly aided in the local relief efforts.
Hours of training, a focus on continuous safety enhancement and lessons learned from previous events ensured that the facility and Entergy's employees were fully prepared when Katrina moved onshore on Aug. 29, 2005. Waterford is located 20 miles west of New Orleans.
Jack Lewis, Waterford 3's emergency preparedness manager from 1996 to 2010, said Hurricane Katrina was unique because hurricane advisories from the National Weather Service shifted the storm track an unprecedented 100 miles, from the Florida Panhandle westward to the Louisiana Gulf Coast, in just six hours. A storm that had initially appeared to be of little consequence to Waterford 3 was now heading directly toward the facility.
Despite the sudden warning, Entergy's employees had long been preparing for this type of situation.
Every year prior to hurricane season, the facility's staff inspects the site to identify vulnerable areas and to secure equipment. The facility also holds an orientation for all employees to review the site's emergency response plan and ensures that each staff member is aware of his or her responsibilities in the case of an extreme event.
As an additional precaution, the plant's management coordinates with local emergency preparedness officials in St. Charles Parish to review hurricane scenarios and discuss how they will work together to prepare for a storm.
The facility's "comprehensive hurricane response procedure was built over a number of various storms to capture lessons learned from the event as well as lessons learned from other businesses in the region, including the chemical and oil industries," said Lewis.
When the threat from Hurricane Katrina became apparent, plant staff quickly established a command center to coordinate the facility's response, supported by Entergy's corporate response center in Jackson, Miss. The command center was the focal point of communication with state and local government officials, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the facility's staff.
The plant established a duty roster consisting of two sets of operations crews that remained on-site throughout the storm, enabling employees to work in shifts. Two Nuclear Regulatory Commission resident inspectors were also on-site throughout the storm and served as liaisons to the agency's regional office in Arlington, Texas.
Waterford 3 worked so closely with the local government's emergency response staff that Lewis was the first industry person notified that St. Charles Parish would be evacuated on Aug. 27. The plant's emergency response team – trained in keeping the facility safe during extreme events – was given time to secure their homes and ensure the safety of their families before reporting to work well ahead of Katrina's arrival. Waterford 3's emergency sirens were used by the local government to notify the community of the parish evacuation.
As the strong category 3 storm neared, plant personnel conducted another training exercise on dealing with the loss of off-site power and procedures for a safe plant shutdown. Waterford 3 is required by its operating procedures to shut down the reactor at least 12 hours before hurricane-force winds arrive on-site. This was done on the afternoon of Aug. 28, well in advance of any threat of hurricane force winds.
The 138 employees on-site and in the command center were moved into the reactor auxiliary building, the facility's safest area before weather conditions deteriorated. When the hurricane cut Waterford 3 from the off-site power grid on the morning of Aug. 29, the facility's two diesel generators maintained power for reactor cooling and other functions until the lines were reconnected on Sept. 2.
When the storm knocked out the plant's communication system, the staff was ready, using satellite phones to stay in contact with government officials and Entergy's corporate office. All employees remained safely inside until the storm passed and the recovery phase began.
By Sept. 13, Waterford 3 was back online, providing electricity to power thousands of homes and businesses and helping with the emergency relief efforts. The site also served as a staging area for the massive restoration effort in southeast Louisiana, housing more than 700 utility workers and tree trimmers that arrived at the facility from around the country to help repair Entergy's battered transmission system.
"The good part of the story about Katrina is that the nuclear plant was not the story," said Lewis. "The nuclear plant functioned and responded as it was supposed to, and the safety systems operated as they were designed to."


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0001 Wovoka, the Paiute messiah from Mason Valley, was the originator of the Ghost Dance religion.
0002 Women of the early 1900's. Mary Davis, Nina (Davis) Smith, and Myma Briggs.
0003 Early 1900's. Northern Paiute people began to incorporate non-native materials into their camps.
0004 Hand game competition at the Ft. McDermitt Indian Reservation.
0005 Indian couple carrying railroad ties. (Early 1900's)
0006 Tuba (pine nuts) was an important food to the Paiutes.
0007 Maggie Jones holds Louise James (wrapped in a cradleboard).
0008 Mary Lowe (age 70), standing next to a rabbit blanket she made.
0009 Women playing Na-zi-sa-ka.
0010 Bobbie Dodd and Hastings Pancho prepare to distribute food rations.
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0011 Children at the Duck Valley Reservation preparing to attend school at Stewart in 1901.
0012 Shoshone man in Elko County with paint and feathers.
0013 Students of the Indian Service Day School at the Goshute Indian Reservation. 1930 photo.
0014 Ruby Valley Indian leaders: John Carson, frank Jim, Jack Temoke, White Man, Bert Moon, and more. Photo taken around 1920.
0015 Shoshone woman and daughter of Tonopah displaying water bottles.
0016 Shoshone families of Smokey Valley displaying game after a hunt.
0017 Shoshone woman standing by her horse and wagon in the early 1940s.
0018 Katie Wilson with cradleboard and baby.
0019 Indian hand games at the 4th of July encampment at Towhee, NV.
0020 Tom Wilson of Death Valley holds a 100 year old water basket.
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0021 Moapa Reservation in the 1930s.
0022 The Brother Chiefs and their wives. Photo taken on Powell Expedition (1871-1875)
0023 Southern Nevada's ancient salt miners at work in Salt Cave.
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0024 E-nu-ints-i-gaip, one of Major John Wesley Powell's guides.
0025 A band of Southern Paiutes in 1871.
0026 A Southern Paiute sun shelter located near Las Vegas, 1907.
0027 A Kahn or Southern Paiute winter home.
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0029 Josephine Pete of Cedar City, Utah with baby in cradleboard.
0030 A Southern Paiute family from Goodsprings, NV. Bahoon, Daisy Mike, and unidentified woman. Taken in 1912.
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0031 Captain Pete, an early spokesman for the Washo in their dealings with the whites.
0032 Two Washo basket makers.
0033 Washo couple with a trout they caught at Lake Tahoe.
0034 Dat-So-La-Lee with her husband Charley Keiser, outside their home in Carson City, NV.
0035 Captain Jim, a Washo spokesman.
0036 The Washo lived around lake Tahoe each summer, fishing and gathering foods well into the 1900s.
0037 Washo children of the Carson Indian School at Stewart, NV.
0038 Cave Rock, overlooking Lake Tahoe, was a sacred place of the Washo doctors.
0039 A cradleboard of the Washo people.
0040 Clara Frank and Hank Pete, Washo elders, in tribal dress.
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When an up and coming cellist is attacked in her own apartment, Detectives Benson and Stabler begin to investigate those individuals who were in close contact with her. Their first suspect is her orchestra conductor. They quickly shift their focus when they find that there were cameras hidden throughout the victim's home. When a website is found that shows videos of the victim's actions inside her home, they begin to suspect a stalker.
This was a decent episode. I was interested in how the perp managed to get all the cameras into the victims apartment without her knowledge. It is scary to think about someone violating you in that way.


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Ever since my operation .. i don't have any more craving for ice cubes. Strange as it is.. it is true. The man is the happiest of course. But i fear that now without my ice.. i am drinking alot more cranberry juice.. so that means.. i might put on unwanted weight…?? Some diet pills is in order .. i guess, else i will be putting on weight again.
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Sugarless cranberry juice ain't fattening, isn't it? It's really sour!


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The year ahead appears poised to be another wild ride for the energy sector. A recovering US economy combined with continued strength in China and India will send oil and coal prices toward highs not seen since 2008. Meanwhile, solar and wind power will become increasingly attractive investments and grow their share of Continue reading
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This month brought another exciting piece of news for those of us hoping the US will transition to renewable energy in the years ahead. Not only did the US add a record amount of wind capacity in 2009, but new data show that the potential supply of wind power is almost infinite relative to our electricity consumption. The US government agency that deals with renewables, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), finally updated their study of onshore wind resources (since the last comprehensive study in 1993). They now estimate that wind power Continue reading
Wind & Solar Poised to Supply New Demand
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Some balance returning to US fuel inventories
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) just released its weekly reports on petroleum and natural gas supply and demand. They both showed the beginnings of a return to balance in the American fuel market. While demand remains low for oil and its refined products, supply is moving lower for equilibrium. The same is happening for Continue reading
EIA: US emissions diving more than 4% in 2009
As I wrote last month would probably happen, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) lowered its estimate for fossil fuel energy demand in 2009, translating into a huge drop in greenhouse gas emissions. Emissions projections for coal, oil, and natural gas were all lowered in its July Short Term Energy Outlook — meaning, by my calculations, that US emissions are expected to fall Continue reading
Solar quickly approaching grid parity
Solar module prices are falling so fast that solar may be able to cost-effectively compete with fossil fuels within a matter of months. The latest bit of news confirming astounding price drops was from China's LDK Solar. LDK is a producer of the main component of solar modules (wafers). While their second quarter guidance showed a boost in shipments, it also lowered their revenue expectations, translating into a cost per watt of Continue reading
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Posted 25 May 2007 - 04:41 PM
At first, when I was asked to give my presentation of the SES NY conference I gave a data-dump of everything that I learned. To me, imparting that knowledge, was my way of saying, "all this I can do for you. these are infinite benefits"
I'm not really good at making projections, so I didn't. And my data-dump wasn't what was being looked for. I have been since asked to write up a document with the basic goal of being able to express:
How can SEO and what I learned benefit my company and my clients.
For two days I have looked up ways to help our clients with Google AdWords and Pay Per Click campaigns, I have looked up organic ways to help our clients...
I know how SEO helps companies. It's there to get the traffic that should be going to your site too your site. I know that if done correctly it's not just supposed to get traffic from search engines, but it's supposed to get the people now on your site to either buy or read information depending upon the type of site that you have and what the site does. I can say that with proper meta information, design and content your site will generate more business because the website will be functioning as it is supposed too.
I feel like I'm missing something somewhere though because I still don't have numbers. I have the "if we do this and this we can increase our profits/leads/viewers" but not the "by 67%" or whatever. I don't have pie charts and graphs and I'm not sure how to find or even go about creating that information.
Can anyone offer any help? Do you happen to have any suggestions on what I can do? I feel like I'm school again staring at a blank document having to write a research report and having no idea where to start. (I didn't like that feeling much )
I hope I didn't ramble too much, but thank you for any help that any of you can provide.
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Posted 25 May 2007 - 05:35 PM
It's an analytical art, and you can make predictions, but they aren't anything you can necessarily be pinned to.
The problem, really, is a lack of comprehension of how search works. Fundamentally, you've hit it on the nose:
I can say that with proper meta information, design and content your site will generate more business because the website will be functioning as it is supposed too.
What people don't always understand is how they're site doesn't operate correctly: not being aware of the difference between text as text and text as images, or not being aware of the difficulties involved in javascript navigation, etc.
What you really need are practical case studies - cases where search marketing demonstrates a notable change. Perhaps somebody else here has something they can refer to - all I've got is my own chronicle of marketing my own site. This is based almost entirely on new content creation and external profile development, but it's got some hard numbers, at least!
Posted 25 May 2007 - 05:49 PM
So to answer you question, there isn't any metric that I can give you that is the standard since different sites perform differently and different industries have different performances.
The first thing you'll want to do is figure out what metrics the site is currently tracking what what metrics they are interested in. Typically it's UUs (unique users), visitors, visits, page views, and time spent on site.
After you've figure out what you need to report on, you'll want to track how your SEO efforts are improving those numbers. To do so you'll need to track your rankings on the SERPs for a lot of keywords. I use WebCEO personally, but there are a lot of tools that can help you do this.
Then you'll want to figure out how much traffic these keywords are bringing in. So you'll want to get the all the traffic numbers that come from search engines (you can determine this by the referrer) and then filter by the keywords. You can now match up the position of your rank to the metrics you want to track (e.g. UUs (unique users), visitors, visits, page views, etc.)
As your rank improves you can show on a spreadsheet / chart on how your efforts of improving your ranking increase those metrics.
Also, you'll want to measure how much generic / type in / bookmarked traffic you get as well. This traffic doesn't have any referrer so it's more difficult to figure out, but you'll want to track a baseline and see if there is a correlation of increase between type in traffic and your SEO efforts. Over time you'll see that if you're doing a good job, people will bookmark your site and no longer use the Search Engine to come to your site. But they are still there because they first found your site through SEO.
Another value that is sometimes over looked is the strategic value of SEO. For many of your customers, the first time they see the website will be from a search engine. So it's your job to make sure the Title, Description, and the page they land on are all part of a good user experience. It also plays into branding and how people perceive your site and company.
Lastly, competitive intelligence SEO is another metric to track once you get all your internal tracking down. You'll want to monitor your competition and their ranking as well. As you rank higher they will rank lower, which means you are taking traffic away from them. If you can push a competitor off the top 3, they will see a significant drop in traffic for that keyword.
This is only the tip of the iceberg... I'll probably blog about this stuff more, since I think there are too many SEOs out there that don't. Everyone knows they want SEO, but many times they don't know how effective it is or even how to measure it. They just know that everyone else is doing it and so should they.
Over time you'll be able to extrapolate and better predict / forecast those metrics such as profits/leads/viewers by building a history of data and watching the trend.
I feel like I'm missing something somewhere though because I still don't have numbers. I have the "if we do this and this we can increase our profits/leads/viewers" but not the "by 67%" or whatever. I don't have pie charts and graphs and I'm not sure how to find or even go about creating that information.
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Posted 25 May 2007 - 05:59 PM
It is a balance between the cost of the attack and the purse that is up for grabs and if that attack is suited to your resources and talents.
With that background I reject topic after topic as not being in alignment with my skills or being in an area where I would be outgunned. I don't think that you can build a profitable attack on everything and any SEO who takes every job that comes by will probably end up with some poor performers.
I am going to make a presentation like yours to an institution soon. It will actually be two presentations. The first will present possible goals that a competetive website might help them with. I will present many possible targets, branding, sales, community, communication, gathering data from their service areas, placing information into the open which was previously obtained by phone call or email (and which consumed staff member time)... etc.... then at the end of that presentation we will brainstorm and the leaders will tell me which targets they want to attack. I will then study on those and come back with presentation #2... one that explains the resources, efforts, determination and timeline that will be part of reaching their defined goals. A LOT of guessing and gut feel will be in those projections. You don't know how some contests will go until you are into them... and some of these goals are not contests - you simply do them.
In short, the boss should define the goals and only then can you give specifics - if you have some experience from previous work - if not then you need to consult with a pro... In areas where competition is involved, the sizes of the slices in your pie charts will depend upon who you are competing against and the resources, etc. that your leadership will commit to the attack. If they don't think in an "attack" mode then their success will be marginal.
Edited by EGOL, 25 May 2007 - 06:38 PM.
Posted 26 May 2007 - 01:04 AM
I'll just briefly add, if I was in your shoes, I'd be telling my boss that one of the things I'd learned about SEO is that few SEOs give set numbers. There are just too many variables. You can bring your boss here, show him this thread, and hopefully he'll see that what you presented is, in fact, what most SEOs have to tell their clients. Work comes first, numbers come afterwards, when you see what happens with the work you've done.
Just my 2 cents!
Posted 26 May 2007 - 05:55 AM
- How many sales calls does that sales representative make?
- What proportion of face-to-face meetings result in sales?
So how do you get your on-line sales representative (your website) to perform well. The first step is to hire the right website. In other words, it must be designed with the potential to be selling-effective. Unfortunately most people don't realize how complex that is. There are so many ways you can get it wrong and cut the efficiency by 10% or 50% or 99%. In these Forums you can learn how to do most of the right things to mean you've got a pretty good website.
After that, then you can do a simple metric exercise just as you did for your human sales representatives. Two good measures are:
- How many visitors arrive at the website every hour or every day?
- What proportion of those visits result in actions that will lead to sales?
Then there's the question of what those visitors do once they're on the website. Again this can be a complex subject. There's lots of good advice in the Google Analytics Conversion University.
If the management doesn't realize that the Internet is the real market-place now, they're missing the boat. This becomes more and more true as time goes on. We now have the Mobile Web opening up, which will be much bigger than the Desktop Web in a few years. Just get management to look at what their competitors are doing on the Internet. If that's minimal, then you have a great opportunity to beat them. If they're already active, then you've got to match and even exceed what they're doing. It can be a question of survival.
Posted 26 May 2007 - 07:29 AM
Most people who run very successful websites spend a good amount of time studying and exchanging ideas with others - as you see happening all over these forums. Most here are not chatting because we lack something to do. We do it because it leads to success - and forms strong relationships where you can turn for advice.
If you company expects you to do this work then they should back you with adequate time to learn. Without that you leave things to chance and when you leave things to chance you genearlly lose.
The people I know who run very successful websites spend a couple hours a day learning and researching. Then the rest of the day implementing and assessing.
You management needs to realize that there are only ten spots on the first page of google. If you want visibility you must take one of those spots away from someone else who probably worked hard to earn it - and they might fight back when you take it. If you go into this without a commitment to excel your efforts will be second rate and second rate in a competitive space yields very little prize.
THen if you claim that space you need a website that can easily be used by visitors and that is attractive and inviting to use. There are many pieces to the puzzle.
Commendations to your management for sending you to SES. That is a great start. Many of us here attend those meetings - and others - frequently.
Edited by EGOL, 26 May 2007 - 07:37 AM.
Posted 26 May 2007 - 11:15 AM
I think that a lot of managers believe that it takes a few minutes a week to tend a website. That is very true - if you expect poor results from that website.
Well said! It never ceases to amaze me the number of people out there that STILL think that having a cheap website putting in very little effort will result in them making millions/hundreds of thousands...
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 09:26 AM
One critical point that needs to be looked at is the site itself.
No good getting users to the site if the site's design/layout is not optimized to generate sales/leads, etc.
I've worked with a few sites where the goal was to positively influence inbound traffic from search sources. basically, they wanted better rankings on Google. I usually explain that it's not better rankings per se that you might want, but trackable results such as 20% more inbound traffic from the engines overall.
So, I'm going to suggest you split this hunt into two segments:
1 - take a look at your traffic logs and determine what volume of traffic you currently get is from inbound search traffic. Most analytics packages should be able to show you these numbers.
2 - review the site with an eye towards improving the sales funnel. Are there barriers such as;
~ a prominent phone number shown instead of an obvious online path
~ hidden pathways - build a sign up section to look too much like the rest of the site and new users may miss it
~ asking for too much information up front - asking users for a lot of personal info up front is a turn off for many
~ number of steps in a process - make the process too long and you'll lose users along the way
Anyway, my point is that increasing inbound search traffic is only one variable in the conversion chain. So, tread carefully when trying to determine dollar values when pitching execs. SEO and it's results are but one tool in the Marketing department's tool box.
I personally stick to using my seo methods as a way to help with inbound traffic numbers.
If you can, ask the sales department what an average conversion is worth to your company. You can use THAT data to project "what if" scenarios. If the average conversion is worth $500, and you know the current site converts at a 3% rate, then any MORE traffic your SEO efforts generate will likely follow the pattern.
10,000 visits from search a month now = 300 conversion @ $500 = $150,000/month in revenue
Let's say your search optimization efforts alone net a 15% increase in inbound traffic:
11,500 visits from search a month then = 345 conversion @ $500 = $172,500/month in revenue
So, obviously it's worth it to your company, should the numbers be realistic. Couple this with reviewing the site and optimizing the sales funnel and you could see even greater returns.
Now, on the cost side, we have:
Your salary, your benefits, the costs of having you in place (computer, phone, etc.)
...and in reality, we also must account for the other folks in your business you'll need time from - IT folks, SysAdmins, Product Managers, etc. (as applicable). Each hour of anyone's time increases the cost to your business of getting the project (search optimization) up and running.
In the end, experience has taught many of us that the return is easily well worth the investment.
If your company requires some concrete numbers before unleashing you with funding, two things will need to happen:
1 - you will need to give them some level of comfort that this is not a black hole for funds - which I think you can do.
2 - you will need to educate them that there is nothing you currently possess (as a company) that you can use to say, "If we spend this, we get this back." Running a well optimized website can be very different from running a poorly optimized website - in terms of traffic...and traffic = revenue.
At some point they will need to have faith in what you say. Getting an optimization campaign running from the inside is very much a sell-job at times. But in the end, YOU could legitimately come out a hero.
Posted 28 May 2007 - 10:25 AM
I would never advise anyone NOT to have a prominent telephone number if the site is their own, and is geared to sell.
2 - review the site with an eye towards improving the sales funnel. Are there barriers such as;
~ a prominent phone number shown instead of an obvious online path
The only times you should not have a very prominent telephone number shown on every page is if you are an affiliate site, and need all transactions to be online to get counted (and are unable to place your own telephone number and fill in the applications for people), or if the site's primary aim is not to provide sales leads, but instead is to reduce call-center time spent on support and answering questions.
In all other cases, emblazon a telephone number on every page, because a large number of people don't trust forms as much as they trust the telephone. There is a proportion of people who will not buy without talking to a human being. If they can't do that on your site, they can certainly do it at someone else's.
What you should do however is have a dedicated telephone number given on the website that is not given through any other marketing. That way every call to that number is attributable to the website. Even when the call is made by someone who was given the number by a friend or relative, and never personally saw the site themselves (and may not even own a computer).
Back to the original questions...
In general, a successful SEO optimised commercial website gets around 80% of its traffic (and customers) from search referrals. This figure is higher where other forms of advertising (such as magazine ads and billboards) isn't driving traffic to the website. Companies with market-leading brand names, the really well known brands in any market, get a higher degree of type-in trafic, but then, they also get a higher degree of search traffic serching for them by brand name. Getting hard and fast numbers where so many variables are in play is impossible.
So instead, perhaps it is best to look at the opportunity cost. As Barry mentioned above, a website geared for sales isn't just a brochure with an order form. Not if it is done right that is. Instead, it is an automated sales agent, present in every town, city, village, farmstead, car, or cafe, where there is internet access. This sales agent has the accumulated sales talent of your entire existing sales team, works 24 hours a day every day of the year, never takes vacations, and can serve as many customers at a time as you care to allow.
The website can out-perform your best sales person by such a length it could terrify him. Done right, it will outperform 6 sales people with ease. In fact, the only limit on its performance is the sales talent put into the site's content and processes. That doesn't in any way imply that you should replace a few salespeople and put their salary into the website instead. Far from it.
The website can provide an endless stream of hot prospects calling your sales team for fast closing. Or it can, with their input, be as good as they are in selling the product from initial enquiry to closure, and still keep those existing sales folks busy just with people who'd prefer to close the deal with a human voice or a personal meeting or whatever.
There's an important point in this. Too many companies have their websites written by the marketing team, as if it were a brochure. But brochures are used by salespeople to actually get the deals. For a commerce site, you are far better having the content written by front-line sales people, creating pages based on all the customer-cases they can think of, knowing the precise questions customers ask, and the answers given that convert most successfully.
It is the sales people who can answer the question "if someone comes up to you interested in [search keywords here], what's the best way to lead them to a sale?", and in doing so, can give you the content for the best possible converting paths and landing pages.
Posted 28 May 2007 - 10:29 AM
Maybe it's time to do some mindmapping. No need to invest in expensive software either. You can do it on paper or use a free web service such as MindMeister.
I've attached a quick braindump mindmap to give you an idea. It can help to visualize information.
Posted 28 May 2007 - 12:09 PM
Posted 28 May 2007 - 06:15 PM
This is a very good point, and one that can be hard for the non web person to grasp. This is also a very good reason to hire people who do specifically web work to make a site, not print designers or someone whose primary background is in other forms of communication.
...brochures are used by salespeople to actually get the deals. For a commerce site, you are far better having the content written by front-line sales people, creating pages based on all the customer-cases they can think of, knowing the precise questions customers ask, and the answers given that convert most successfully.
Posted 29 May 2007 - 07:23 AM
But this will vary widely depending on the intent of the customer during the first visit.
Customers who are highly motivated during visit #1 are definitely going to be more expensive (more people are going after them) but are also going to be more motivated to open your emails, tell their friends, read/listen to subsequent offers, etc.
Posted 29 May 2007 - 08:25 AM
You make an excellent point. That leads into the thought that you should work hard to make your website "sticky". Hopefully it's so attractive that visitors will want to bookmark it for future visits. If you have a RSS news feed even better. If they subscribe to that, they will get an instant alert when you add some news.
Posted 29 May 2007 - 11:16 AM
i wish i knew what to say individually to each of you for your comments and your suggestions, but i am at a loss of words. :notworthy:
thank you all very, very much for all of your fantastic input.
i'm assuming that a program like webpostion gold can do this?
After you've figure out what you need to report on, you'll want to track how your SEO efforts are improving those numbers. To do so you'll need to track your rankings on the SERPs for a lot of keywords. I use WebCEO personally, but there are a lot of tools that can help you do this.
i think i know how to do that, but i'm not totally sure. the webstats that i use don't show all the search engines (which i'm assuming you mean the referrer is the SE). so, lets say that "keyword A" brings in like 10 people from Google, but there isn't a record for any other search engine, what do i do? i'm not given an accurate result then for my search term thus i won't be able to give an accurate report on traffic + stats = sales/leads/etc.
Then you'll want to figure out how much traffic these keywords are bringing in. So you'll want to get the all the traffic numbers that come from search engines (you can determine this by the referrer) and then filter by the keywords. You can now match up the position of your rank to the metrics you want to track (e.g. UUs (unique users), visitors, visits, page views, etc.)
i think what i'm asking is how can i find out how much traffic each keyword is bringing in?
ok, here's another question for you all.
what if i don't have control over design, content or anything? what if i only have control over finding keywords and putting them into the code and building rankings that way.
all of the suggestions and and replies to my first message are great if i'm given control over content, design and the optimization. can i still utilize the same suggestions and methods if all i am able to do is find keywords and building rankings?
thank you!
Edited by tambre, 29 May 2007 - 12:49 PM.
Posted 29 May 2007 - 03:17 PM
Is tracking ranking on a phrase a realistic metric?
I say, not really. I no longer track SERP rankings and focus solely on the log details to measure inbound search traffic. if those numbers are good, everything else is moving in the right direction.
Sure, I watch our ranking on select phrases when we introduce new content, but generally speaking, in the broader picture, I stopped tracking SERP rankings years ago.
In the end, I simply don't feel that tracking SERP rankings is a real metric - opinions may differ and that's fine.
In the end, if you are goign to use a rank checking tool, do so carefully. History has shown Google might push back on sites abusing it's resources. Using their API should keep you in check, but still...
what if i don't have control over design, content or anything? what if i only have control over finding keywords and putting them into the code and building rankings that way.
If you are goign to put something in the code, it'll be int he content. If it's hidden from view in the content but resides in the code, this can be a form a spam, so treat carefully.
On balance, you NEED access to those areas you mention in order to make the many minute changes needed to every site to rank well over time. Search optimization is a game of inches, not miles. So, for every inch you cannot gain, you're still that much farther from the goal.
In the end, if you cannot influence any of the on-page items that can be tweaked to help a page become optimized, then it's a lost cause. if even one competitor does a slightly better job than you optimizing, well, they'll get more traffic, etc., etc.
Posted 29 May 2007 - 03:52 PM
what if i don't have control over design, content or anything? what if i only have control over finding keywords and putting them into the code and building rankings that way.
If the client isn't willing to make changes to design or content for purposes of SEO, then you really aren't accomplishing an SEO project, and it would be very difficult to project any level of success.
SEO entails:
- Clean design/navigation that makes the site search-engine friendly
- Keyword rich, useful content that's enticing to search engines and site visitors
- Appropriate coding (page title tags, etc.)
- Attention to incoming links
Posted 29 May 2007 - 04:42 PM
oh, sorry, i meant "in the code" as in putting in the meta information, nothing shady. i like to be as close to white hat as possible
If you are goign to put something in the code, it'll be int he content. If it's hidden from view in the content but resides in the code, this can be a form a spam, so treat carefully.
Posted 29 May 2007 - 11:53 PM
The best ways to describe a commercial website that hammers its power into the noggins of management:
* wholesale/affiliate/retail/consumer question/problem answering departments.
* in-house branding/marketing/advertising agency.
* lead generation, sales and after-sales service departments.
The website is the company made virtual.
In manufacturering it is equivalent to a major branch plant, in retail to regional-mega-store. And it requires the same level of commitment the company would provide the B&M equivalent.
It can be a real slog to get the suits to see that some servers and relatively few geeks can have such an impact on the bottom line. I suggest you research the staffing and authority levels of successful online players in your industry (there be gold in annual reports and trade mags).
what if i don't have control over design, content or anything?
You must have input into those things. And your input must be taken seriously. SEO like usability and accessibility is an integral concept and commitment, not a tacked on afterthought.
Site architecture, canonical issues, linking patterns, appropriate navigation, web optimised content, unique title and page descriptions, maximised keyword/phrase page/content/description/title/heading considerations, duplicate and thin content concerns, site log and A/B testing analysis, backlink acquisition, etc. ad nauseum.
If you, as SEO, are not a valued member of the site design and maintenance teams you can not do your job properly and the company will likely fail its website objectives, if it has any.
TEAM. Be part of the team. Team effort. Go team go. Yea TEAM.
Posted 30 May 2007 - 02:07 AM
SEO/SEM is a Marketing activity. It cannot be effectively done if it is not treated as Marketing, but instead is treated as mere advertising.
what if i don't have control over design, content or anything? what if i only have control over finding keywords and putting them into the code and building rankings that way.
You'd be limited to paid placements and a rather limited link-building effort.
You cannot perform organic SEO at all without being able to change copy and content, unless you use cloaking and face all the risks that entails.
Adjusting meta content hasn't cut it since around 1996. You might as well try to power sailing ship by standing at the stern and blowing through a straw.
The Meta keywords is not a ranking factor at all. Putting keywords into a keywords meta tag can have no positive effect on rankings a all. The Meta Description tag is used really only for snippet generation, and even for that is highly limited. Again, adjusting this won't really help you rank at all, it just improves the appearance of a high-ranked listing you get through optimising the content and a powerful link-building campaign.
Posted 30 May 2007 - 07:07 AM
You might as well try to power sailing ship by standing at the stern and blowing through a straw.
BWAHAHAHA! Coffee out my nose when I read that one this morning...LOL
Nice one!
Posted 31 May 2007 - 01:00 PM
Posted 04 June 2007 - 12:31 AM
This question was a bit confusing. I'm going to assume that the website already is tracking the web site traffic accurately. Most analytic packages will give you the breakdown of how much traffic arrived from search engines and what search term was used to find your site.
so, lets say that "keyword A" brings in like 10 people from Google, but there isn't a record for any other search engine, what do i do? i'm not given an accurate result then for my search term thus i won't be able to give an accurate report on traffic + stats = sales/leads/etc.
i think what i'm asking is how can i find out how much traffic each keyword is bringing in?
This is usually done automagically by the analytics package, but if you needed to do it manually through server logs, you would look at the referer data. When a webpage is requested certain information is passed between the browser and the server. If a user clicks on a link from a Google SERP it will tell the server the URL which the click came from... so in a manual process you would look for 'google.com' in the referer data as well as the search term which typically follows the 'q=' parameter in the URL string.
Referer: http: //www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=new+homes+for+sale
An interesting point, and yes the inbound search traffic is probably the most important metric to be following and if you have limited time and resources I would probably focus in on the same. However, rankings are not to be discounted.
Is tracking ranking on a phrase a realistic metric?
I say, not really. I no longer track SERP rankings and focus solely on the log details to measure inbound search traffic. if those numbers are good, everything else is moving in the right direction.
I realize that with the different data centers, personalized search, co-op, etc. can skew rankings dramatically, but I've still found as a whole it's still a good metric to track.
One of the points on this thread was alluding to forecasting and predicting future efforts. By matching up the amount of search traffic of a keyword phrase(s) to the position it holds will provide great insight into how much additional traffic you can expect by moving up in the rankings. In addition, you will know how much traffic you are taking away from your competitors when you displace them from their higher ranking as you move on up.
When dealing with budgeting, long range forecasting, or any type of executive reporting these metrics not only reveal a great deal to the business owners, but will also hopefully gain you a larger budget to work with.
Edited by phaithful, 04 June 2007 - 12:33 AM.
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The increasing intake of fructose has been associated with an increase in obesity among US children and adolescents, but its "dose dependent" effects on insulin sensitivity and lipid metabolism has not been studied in detail. Methods: 36 healthy male adult human subjects will be included in this study. They will be randomly allocated into a low, moderate or high fructose, a moderate or high glucose and a sucrose diet for 3 weeks. In randomized order and with 4 week wash out intervals each subject will receive all six different diets. Three day food records will be used to measure total fructose and glucose intake. During the low fructose diet subjects will be instructed to avoid nutrients containing fructose aiming at consumption of less than 1g fructose/d. During the moderate fructose diet subjects will receive 3x13.3g of fructose or glucose, respectively. High fructose diet subjects will receive either 3x26.7g/d of fructose, 3x 26.7g/d of glucose or 3x 26.7g/d of sucrose in the form of three daily soft drinks taken together with the three main meals.
75 g oral glucose tolerance testing will be performed and composite insulin sensitivity index will be calculated The presence of phosphorylated fructose metabolites in plasma will be measured by targeted LC-MS/MS. In addition, metabolite biomarkers in plasma will be screened by untargeted metabolite profiling using both LC-MS and GC-MS. In a subgroup of 10 subjects an euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp will be performed using [6,6- 2H2]glucose.
Thus, the lipogenic potential of fructose in humans will be compared with isocaloric amounts of glucose. Particularly, the question whether lipogenic effects are continuously dose dependent or whether there is a lipogenic shunting and if yes, at what level of ingested fructose will be addressed.
|Other: Fructose
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Effects of Dietary Fructose on Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Healthy Human Subjects
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|Study Start Date:
|June 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Other: Fructose
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- Healthy male volunteers aged 20-50y with a BMI between 19 and 25 kg/m2
Exclusion criteria:
- Acute infection, malignant disease, renal (abnormal creatinine), hepatic (more than two-fold increased transaminases), pulmonary, neurological (epilepsy) or major psychiatric diseases, manifested atherosclerosis
- Fasting plasma glucose > 5.6 mmol/l
- Known alcohol or drug abuse
- HIV-antibody positive
- Subjects likely to fail to comply with the study protocol
- Smoking (>1 cigarette/month)
- Subjects who do not give informed consent
Additional exclusion criteria after baseline measurements:
- Subjects with high baseline consumption of soft drinks (>60g of carbohydrates daily)
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Welcome to the wide world of science-or is it theater?
That is the question at the heart of this week's cover story, "Shock Value," by Russell Working, who ventured to the Museum of Science and Industry's blockbuster exhibit "Body Worlds" for the first time on a cold, bright morning last April. "It seemed to me that where there is a dead body, there is a story," recalls Russell. "The story here proved to be about anatomist Gunther von Hagens himself."


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All inclusive complex offering a good range of indoor and outdoor leisure facilities for children as well as adults. The hotel provides all the ingredients for a fun family holiday and, located on a hill, it also enjoys lovely views over the resort, to the sea.
Eri Sun Village Hotel, Hersonissos
Cheerful and spacious double rooms and 2 room apartments, sleeping families of 3-5 people.
Eri Sun Village Hotel has a large pool complex with 3 swimming pools, one with slides, surrounded by sun terraces with loungers, parasols and pool-side bars.
For children there are 2 separate pools, one with slides; playgrounds with outdoor play equipment, a large well equipped indoor playroom with bouncy castles and, organised games and entertainment.
Further leisure facilities include 2 tennis courts, a fitness gym, beach volleyball, a games room, pool and table tennis tables, darts, water polo, aerobics sessions and, a TV lounge.
The restaurant offers a generous and varied buffet of Greek and international cuisine. Dress code requires formal wear at dinner. There is also 2 pool-side bars and a lounge lobby bar with an internet cafe and satellite TV.
The complex has a mini market, parking spaces and 24 hour reception.
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Hersonissos is approx 25km from Heraklion Airport
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Accommodation at the Eri Sun Village Hotel is cheerfully styled and includes double/twin rooms (for up to 3 people), family apartments (for 2-4 people) and superior family apartments (for 2-5 people).
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All accommodation is air conditioned and has a private bathroom, satellite TV and a direct dial telephone, a fridge, a hairdryer, a safe deposit box and a balcony or terrace with views to the sea or over the gardens.
This accommodation has previously been known as : Eri Palace Hotel
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Due to the location of the property this hotel is not suited to those with walking difficulties or those with small children in pushchairs unless a car has been hired.
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Great place to stay and friendly staff. Close to shopping centres and beaches. Highly recommend and will stay there again if I'm ever back up that way.Lynne Denman - Launceston, TasmaniaDate Reviewed: 01 Feb 2013
I stayed at Aruba from the 5/2/13-10/2/13 and found my appartment to be very comfortable and close to shops, casino, beach surf club and Broadbeach tavern.
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platinum recording artist Ashlee Simpson. Under the
global endorsement agreement, the 21-year-old singing
sensation will appear in the Company's worldwide ad
campaign through 2007.
"I grew up wearing SKECHERS. Like me, they are not
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Ashlee is a leading force in the music industry,"
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Ashlee first sparked interest in the entertainment world
and with teens in her recurring role on 7th Heaven
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A5: : For Flagship Grant applications, the applying charity completes the form. There are no Flagship Grants availabile in 2017.
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The industry is buzzing with talk about an e-mail that hit inboxes earlier this week — a message about a newly formed movement dubbed Brick & Mortar Lighting [1].
The campaign is being driven by long-time brick-and-mortar showroom owners, and they want to accomplish one thing — take online sales and bring them back to physical lighting stores.
The founder of Brick & Mortar Lighting is a retailer who would like to remain anonymous. His job, he says, is just to make sure the message gets out. "It's about all of the brick-and-mortar showrooms, not me."
The movement's roots began with him, though. As he was walking his dog the night before trash day, he saw a large chandelier box next to his neighbor's garbage cans. He inspected the box and realized that his lighting showroom didn't provide the chandelier to the neighbor, but that it came from a major lighting.com.
"It was a vendor that we carried, a vendor that we supported, and it was a neighbor that knew I was in the lighting business," the founder says. "And that neighbor still chose to buy that chandelier online. I went into the office the next morning and found that we could've actually given it to him for a cheaper price than he paid for it online. The whole thing started to burn with me."
What the founder discovered after a few Internet searches is that many lighting vendors are making it very easy for consumers to buy their products online from one of several national lighting e-tailers. When a shopper visits certain manufacturers' sites and drills down to a specific product, he will see a description, some photos, and a "Buy Online" button, which directs him to a lighting.com site to make the purchase.
The founder shared this information with fellow lighting showroom owners and said many had no idea it was happening. It left them all wondering how vendors could do this to the stores "that have supported them year after year."
The fire was fueled and the group started researching, says the founder. It determined that 12 to 15 percent of all lighting is purchased online.
"We started looking deeper and also found that a majority of those online lighting sales are made by less than a half a dozen lighting.coms, and one of them is actually owned by Lowe's," he says. "So these lighting vendors are indirectly supporting Lowe's and the brick-and-mortars are out here standing in the wind, despite the fact that we've stocked the product, shown the product, serviced the product, you name it."
And so Brick & Mortar Lighting was born in May 2013, after frustration came to a head. Its supporters, which the founder says already measure into the hundreds, are asking lighting manufacturers to remove the "Buy Online" buttons from their websites. Or, alternatively, the founder says, these vendors should also include a "Buy Online Local" button that directs to local showrooms with online stores. The group is also suggesting that vendors stop drop shipping outside of their market areas.
The founder says that the Brick & Mortar Lighting movement is necessary because there's never been a unified voice on this matter, but he also wants to make it clear that the group is not trying to threaten or boycott vendors.
"Our mission is not to strong-arm them. What we're trying to do is get them to reconsider. We believe that if they do reconsider they'll see those sales that were going to lightinguniverse.com will now come to our brick-and-mortar showrooms and they'll still make those sales — they'll just be directed from different channels."
To get the campaign message out, Brick & Mortar Lighting supporters distributed window decals to all of their "approved" lighting vendors — those that don't facilitate purchases through lighting.coms — to display at the upcoming Dallas Intl. Lighting Market [2], June 20-23. A full list of these vendors is available here [3].
The founder says that although he doesn't have any idea where this movement will be a year from now, it was time to take a stand.
"Brick-and-mortar showrooms are real places," he says. "We're a part of America. We support Little Leagues and churches and charities and pay taxes. Vendors need to realize this."
To learn more about Brick & Mortar Lighting, visit www.brickandmortarlighting.com [1].
[1] http://www.brickandmortarlighting.com
[2] http://www.dallasmarketcenter.com/markets/overview/lighting/
[3] http://www.brickandmortarlighting.com/the_list.htm
[4] https://www.residentiallighting.com/sites/residentiallighting.com/files/BaML_Circle_Logo.JPG


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PHS Boys Basketball: Jackets get road win at Barnesville
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Ben Bucholz scored 15 and Nick Tobkin added 13 as Perham picked up a 50-42 Heart O' Lakes Conference road victory at Barnesville Friday night, 50-42.
Perham also beat the Trojans on Jan. 5, 80-63, and have now won six-straight in the series.
Perham will hit the road again tonight (Feb. 18) when they head to Barrett to play West Central Area. Perham beat WCA on Jan. 7, 85-47, for their fifth straight win over the Knights.
The Jackets will return to Prairie Wind Gymnasium on Feb. 23 for the second "Battle of the Bees" against Frazee.
Cresap is 31-0 against the Hornets in his career at Perham.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Rick Scott has signed a death warrant for a man convicted of raping and suffocating a 10-year-old girl after breaking into her home almost 23 years ago.
The warrant for 56-year-old Elmer Leon Carroll was issued Wednesday.
Carroll is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. on May 28.
He was sentenced to death in the killing of Christine McGowan in her Apopka home the night before Halloween in 1990.
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A Federal District Court Judge in Florida has ruled the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, is unconstitutional. What are your thoughts?
At issue are pure matters of law: the constitutionality of the individual mandate under the Commerce Clause, and of the unfunded Medicaid expansion under the Spending Clause, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments. Early in the decision Federal District Judge Roger Vinson signals he sees the case as one about federalism:
"I emphasized once before, but it bears repeating again: this case is not about whether the Act is wise or unwise legislation, or whether it will solve or exacerbate the myriad problems in our health care system. In fact, it is not really about our health care system at all. It is principally about our federalist system, and it raises very important issues regarding the Constitutional role of the federal government."
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