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Ink prices have always been high, but with the economy tanking and many businesses suffering greatly it is more important than ever to look for inexpensive alternatives when you are restocking your supply, whether you use HP, Lexmark, Brother, Dell, or Xerox toner. Use this article to help decide which avenue you would like to utilize when purchasing toner online, as there is a surprisingly large selection of options available to choose from.
First of all, it helps to understand why ink and toner prices need to be as high as they are. Consumer electronics manufacturing companies, like those listed above, are locked in a fiercely competitive war for consumer sales of printers. This battle is so fierce and so demanding that often (especially for lower end household printers) these companies will offer printers under cost. That is, they will either lose money on the sale or come out even. At first sight this appears to be a very bad call, but the same thing happens with a number of industries. Shaving companies sell cheap shavers and make a killing of expensive replacement blades. Video game consoles cost their makers as well, but games are easy to burn up and sell, making long term steady profits that multiply by each cheap console sold. With printers, the profit comes from the ink.
It makes sense. When you sell someone your printer they are locked into a certain type of cartridge (since very few printers use the same cartridge as other printers, and never between different manufacturers). So in effect, once these companies sell a printer they have the consumer at the bottom end of an ink monopoly. Or at least, that's how the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) would like it to be. The lucrative profits associated with these ink and toner cartridges has created an unexpectedly fierce aftermarket as third parties refill and remanufactured toner cartridges across the world. This means that you can buy high quality, expensive, original Samsung toner Which can make quality an important variable to consider when doing your shopping. You will want to begin your search at the actual website of your printer's manufacturer, i.e. HP, Dell, Lexmark, Xerox, etc… from there you should be able to do a quick search for your printer and see a menu of the various toner options available. Packs containing more toner or ink (by page count) will be more expensive. Color toner will be much more expensive. If you need guaranteed high quality results, it may be worth it to spend the extra dough and go for these genuine articles. Otherwise, of course, you have more economical options.
The first and probably the best (for a business) are certain large online ink retailers like 247inktoner. These guys are easy to find, simply type in the full search string of what you are after in Google, like toner cartridge, and you should get companies all over your search results offering various cartridges which will work with your printer. The advantage of these large online stores is the competition they face. These sites are established, entrenched. And because there isn't all that much difference one to another they will do their utmost to keep every buyer that comes through (and if they don't find someone else who does.) The other nice thing, besides the customer service, is the selection. These sellers offer not only OEM options, but also third party cartridges of various prices and qualities, giving you many more options and someone to complain to if the cartridges don't work when they show up.
You can find many of these same options at physical stores like Staples and Office Max who have their own lines of remanufactured cartridges as well. This can be good if you need something that day, and it can also be nice as these cartridges tend to be very reliable, sometimes coming out with a higher page count than the OEM packs (although rarely higher quality printing).
Lastly of course, you have your small storefronts on Amazon or eBay listing single packs of toner or ink. While this may be fine for a home computer that rarely needs to be refilled, these companies can be dangerous for businesses looking for large, steady resupply. First of all, many of these packs are of very low quality, having been made overseas and not working or arriving half-dried out already. Secondly, the shipping time for these can be horrendously long. Thirdly, if it's a relatively new eBay account there is nothing to stop them from selling a bunch of bottom barrel crap and then closing shop. Always go with a seller who has something to lose and who has been around long enough to have reviews in place.
If you are anything like me, one of your least favorite activities in the world is shopping for replacement ink cartridges. Oh sure there are things I can think of that are worse. I mean no one likes a dentist appointment or working late on a Friday night. But within the realm of day to day chores, this is one of my least favorite office jobs. The amount of misinformation out there is huge, and it can be crazy to navigate all the different brands, sites, and deals out there. Luckily I have discovered some ways to save myself time on this chore, and now you can save time too!
First off, I always buy online. If you go to a physical store, even one that specializes in office equipment, chances are you are going to pay a higher price. Remember they have to pay for their building, their employees, their heat and utility bills, etc. That cost is passed on to you the consumer. If you think about it, once you switch to online shopping you can also forget about all those coupon pages and mailers the big stores send you too.
Second once you are online where do you go? People want to start googling around but believe me that is going to take a lot of time. I start off just by reading a review of toner for the machine I am using. This often gives me enough information to choose the brand I want.
These are little habits but they will save you time and, ultimately, money. And who does not want that?
Look online at any large printer and ink manufacturer, say Brother, and you will find the same concept continually reiterated. For brother you will find a line stating that if you don't get your Brother toner direct from them "it's not guaranteed Brother quality. Non-Brother supplies may affect hardware performance, copy quality and machine reliability. Safeguard your investment by using only Brother printer supplies for your Brother machine." There is truth to these claims, but perhaps not all as much truth as they would like you to believe. The fact is that few printers make much profit for their makers. In fact, quite a few models actually lose money for the company selling them—but ink sales are pure profit, as these little devices are relatively simple to spit out and fill with ink or toner. And once a consumer buys a printer, they're basically locked in to that type of cartridge for the length of their device's lifespan. So, when you buy ink from the manufacturer (and you'll need to buy it quick with the size of the introduction packs that come with most printers) expect to spend premium prices. It's going to hurt in the wallet.
Faced with this challenge, along with an economy that isn't doing anyone any favors, it can be tempting to visit eBay or Amazon as you search for elusive cheap ink and toner. I confess, I've done it too. And so have a lot of people, in fact there are thousands of ink packs that are bought and sold online every day and many many of them are good quality. Because of the ridiculous prices charged by the original makers, third parties ranging from Chinese entrepreneurs to Staples are remanufacturing and refilling ink cartridges which will work in your, say, Dell printer just the same as genuine Dell toner. At least that's the story. In fact you can find a lot of information that gives reason for caution, my own personal experiences included.
There are some good online sites to purchase your ink and toner. You just need to research the companies. Some sites you can look into are imagetoner.com, databazar and 247inktoner.com. Check out the low prices at this online store!
It's not all as bad as the writers at Brother have stated, necessarily. In many tests these third party packs are actually found to be overfilled, resulting in more pages available to be printed in the cheap generic stuff. And most of the time these packs will work when you plug them in. But they also do have a point. I some tests third party ink packs have demonstrated a failure rate four times greater than the failure rate of genuine ink packs. Also, even in tests using reputable third party ink, the quality of text and images tends to be lower (resulting in lighter print, striping, on and off fading, etc…) than when using genuine ink and toner (you can look up the PC World Ink and Toner trials for more information). HP, who has done aggressive work pitting their product against imitators, claims that in tests their genuine HP toner never failed whereas a significant amount of third party packs (from online marketplaces, like those I've shopped from) were dead at the start twenty five percent of the time.
I don't have my own company with banks of high quality laser printers, but if I did I suspect that this figure would give me pause before I went out and bought third party inks. I'm a home printer user (or a college user printer, until recently), and I didn't want to spend forty bucks on an HP ink pack I could get for eight on eBay. During my years with that printer I probably ended up buying five or six replacement ink packs, all from eBay. Here is what I found—ready for this?
You do get what you pay for. The two times I bought the penny ink it took them a month to make the trip over the big water to my college, bearing custom marks in Chinese from the trip. These packs were spotty at best and didn't last very long (although whenever I moved my ink basically dried out anyway, thanks to the month without use each time). Those that I bought more in the middle range of prices (from the USA) worked very well and very consistently (at least until the end of my printer's lifespan—when it was basically broken and on the way out).
So I can believe the one forth stat, provided you're buying from the bottom barrel and neglecting to check user reviews, which I didn't know to do back when I was getting started. Actually, if you find a good, highly reviewed, US seller with an old established eBay or Amazon storefront you're probably just as well off as you would be visiting any large online seller—although I would recommend any high quality jobs take you to the maker, and any large orders to someone with a sale or a customer appreciation system.
I know a lot of you out there spend tons of time searching for discounts on the right kind of toner to buy. You probably dig through coupons and websites, but have you ever watched a video on toner?
It may sound weird but a video can actually tell you a lot more than a simple article or ad. If you think about it, what are the things you are looking for when you shop for toner? Obviously, a low price is at the top of the list, but what else? The other big thing on most peoples minds is whether the toner you are looking at is going to work for you. That means two things: is it compatible with your machine and what will the final print quality look like?
Compatibility should be listed on the product page, but when you are looking at different brands than your own machine it can be hard to say. Once you see the cartridge ion the video you will immediate know whether it is the same as your own cartridge.
Print quality is something you cannot tell from a product page however. Every company will say their is the best and they will all have very attractive examples. But in a video you can often see the pages come right off the machine. You can see what real pages look like with the same machine you use and the same toner you are considering purchasing. This is why I always try to see a video before I buy!
There are a whole lot of people out there who are frustrated with buying toner. I know, you are probably one of them, otherwise why would you be reading this article? Toner can be a big hassle. It is expensive, it comes in a million varieties, and the market is crowded with misinformation. Yet it is a necessity for most of us, so let me give you some advice on how I have made my peace with buying toner.
The first thing I have to say is some people way over think this. Yes, there are hundreds of offers out there, and they are always changing. But the truth is you only need to do your research once. When you find a brand or supplier that offers you quality at a discount, stick with them. Sure, their discounts next time may not be the same as last time, and someone else may have a sale going on. But these companies know what a competitive market they are in and they value customer loyalty. Do not be afraid to call them up and tell the sales rep you are a regular customer and need a discount. Chances are they will come through for you.
Second, you know how everyone is worried about buying the wrong brand? Do not be. The generic compatibles are just as good as the brand names. If you find one that saves you money, go for it and do not look back.
Those two things alone will save you hours and hours of searching. That means less frustration, and more time for other things!
The other day I found a website that I had never heard of before, wonderhowto.com. I am surprised more people do not know about it. I mean everyone knows other helpful sites like wikipedia but, personally, I find Wonder How To way more useful.
I do not know about you, but I have always had a hard time learning how to do things online. It is not that I have a learning disability or anything, I am just more of a hands on learner. If I bring home a new tool or appliance I never read the manual, because reading words is just not the same as seeing something firsthand. For that reason I do use Wikipedia on occasion to look something up, but I have a hard time learning practical things from it.
That is why Wonder How To has blown my mind. Imagine an entire website that consists of how-to instructionals. Overwhelming, right? Yeah, they would be if they were all text. Even pictures can be hard to use. But what if every one of those how-to pages was actually a video? That is how Wonder How To works. I love it.
So now when I want to try something, instead of paying big bucks for a class or trying on my own and messing it up, I just look it up and find a video. The videos are pretty good and go step by step. I cannot believe how much I have already learned and I plan to keep going!
Our company recently did some downsizing and one of the positions that got cut was our office manager. That has left me doing the ordering, looking for replacement toner cartridges, bulk paper, card stock, etc. I did not know what I was getting myself into.
Honestly I guess I did not know what our office manager did before she left. I knew she handled the logistics but I always assumed that was a pretty minor thing. I am never happy to see someone laid off, but since our company, like everyone else, is experiencing tough times in the economic downturn, I felt it must have been a call to get rid of some not-so-essential positions. Maybe it was, but I am no longer sure hers was one of them!
Take the toner cartridges for example. I have access to all her old files so I know where she ordered from before, but she seemed to shop around a lot. I had no idea that cartridges came in so many types. We usually do not order from the company that made our copiers and printers, we usually order compatible cartridges that are cheaper. But knowing which ones to get can be tough. And if I spend more on them than she did, it is not going to look good for my own career future!
At first I spent hours shopping for this stuff, but I am starting to get the hang of it. I still hope we will have the budget to add an office manager again soon, but at least I do not feel so lost anymore!
I see so many products around the office from Epson Corp that I started to wonder, exactly how big is this company? And what else do they make besides printers and office supplies? I do not know why I get so curious about these things, but when you see the same logo every day at work eventually I guess you just start to wonder.
Well the answer really surprised me. Apparently Epson got its start as Seiko in the 40s. You know Seiko watches? Yep, that is the same company. They started out doing clock repair and watch making. This was the mainstay of their business for the first few decades of their history.
So how does a company go from clocks and watches to printers and ink? Well think about the technology used in the mid twentieth century. A clock company had to manufacture lots of tiny mechanical parts, not a far cry from what used in typewriters (which were still common) and early printers. This allowed Epson to branch out into the office technology field.
Of course any smart corporation wants to make all the accessories and peripherals that are necessary for its main product. So ink ribbons and, later, toner and ink cartridges were a natural next step for Epson. By the time desktop computers went mainstream, they were entrenched in the industry. This allowed them to lead the way with the spread of inexpensive personal printers like laser printers and ink jets in the 1990s and since.
You know, it is funny. I have been working as an office manager for years and that means I handle a lot of ink. But only recently did I ask what is ink? I do not just just mean whats in pens, I mean toner, ink cartridges, refills, I handle all that stuff. But what exactly is in there?
Well the first thing I found out is that toner and ink are two different things. Toner refers to a dry substance. It comes as a powder and is heat activated to go on the page. Ink is usually a liquid applied directly to the paper, but can also come as a solid in which case it too is heat activated.
However both substances rely on essentially the same ingredients, just in different forms. For most of history, these ingredients were fairly crude. For instance, mixtures of soot, ash, tar, pitch, and even burnt bones were common. Some mineral ingredients such as graphite could also be used. These made simple black inks used for writing for centuries. In more recent times, turpentine and walnut oil have been used for ink for printing presses.
Of course, even though modernization has made ink much more consistent and uniform, it is still a commodity. The process of making it is expensive, and color inks use a large number of pigments derived from different sources all around the world. Both the process and the ingredients are figured into the price we pay for ink and toner.
I work as an office manager. It is not the most glorious job but it does come with a certain amount of job security. After all, I keep everything moving behind the scenes: supplies, toner, stuff like that. That means I am often looking for reviews on toner.
You would think these would be easy enough to find. I mean after all, if you are enough of a geek to write toner reviews, you are probably enough of a geek to do it right, right? Well it turns out that is wishful thinking. I tried googling up toner reviews to see if I could find some solid information on how to stretch our budget, and what I found was all poorly written or vague.
It does not have to be hard. The information needed for a good toner review is relatively simple. What I look for is the cost of the toner, any special rebates or discounts available, the machines it will work with (especially if it is a generic compatible brand), how full the cartridges are (if I am looking for cartridges and not refills) and what the print quality looks like. Of course a link to the product is always helpful too, and any personal experiences or problems that the reviewer had.
Luckily through a lot of hunting I have managed to track down some good sources for reviews (see above), but I am amazed how hard it can be to find. Hopefully we will see more and more quality reviews.


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FRENCH PAPERS, Mon. 29/01/13: French and Malian troops take back Timbuktu and Gao, but does this mean mission accomplished? The French Parliament starts debating the government's bill to legalise gay marriage. Nearly two years after the triple disaster, Fukushima is still cleaning up. And Carla Bruni releases a new song.
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LE MONDE: The hardest part is yet to come in Mali
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HUFFINGTON POST: After Gao and Timbuktu, what's next for France?
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Changing . .
This is my last post here on HIVstigma.com. It's been a great opportunity for me - and I hope for many guys out there too - to explore an important but rather nebulous topic in some depth. Pinning down HIV stigma - what it looks like, what we think and say about it and what it does to folks - seemed at first like nailing jelly to a wall. Our first few conversations here, even our early video blogs . . . .
are evidence of that. Now, stigma seems like - well, jelly on a plate. It's still a bit hard to contain, to come to grips with, but we know better now the nature of it and what it looks and tastes like. Quite well, in fact, I'd say.
Too well, I wonder? Have some of us become so sensitive to stigma that we see it lurking behind every bush? Here's an experience that just happened to me this week that caused me to ask that question.
I'm a researcher (believe it or not, because that is soooo not my background) working on a trial intervention with poz guys. The objective is to see if a group of guys' approach to risky behaviour can be changed by a series of group sessions which stress a holistic approach to sexual health. It's largely untried, anywhere, and potentially very worthwhile. The normal way to fund research like this is to approach various bodies for grant money. One such body, an incredibly esteemed one here in our province, turned down our application. That's OK, we can likely resubmit. But in declining us, the reviewer - a behavioural scientist (I imagine) experienced in HIV research who remains anonymous - made what I thought were some startling observations.
"Despite continued unprotected anal intercourse among HIV+ people, an overwhelming majority of HIV prevention efforts continue to focus their efforts on HIV-individuals. This is problematic because working with men who are already HIV+ has a greater impact on the epidemic than focusing on those who have not yet acquired the virus" he said.
Now this struck me as stigmatizing us poz guys - and I said so. It seems to be fingering positive gay men as drivers of the epidemic, when we know - or at least we should know - that they are not. Here are the facts one last time. the majority of new infections come from so called "neg guys" who aren't aware of their positive status. Talk that suggests otherwise, I think, is stigmatizng, and I'm finding it increasingly annoying.
But in raising the issue of stigma lurking in the response to our grant application, I also raised the question of whether I'm being a little bit too sensitive. Has participating in this campaign led to me seeing stigma where it's either not there, or perhaps more likely, not intended?
I honestly don't know.
What I do know is that I've learned a lot. We all have here, I think. We've learned about how we think about stigma, about sex and about life. We've learned about strength, and about frailty. We've learned about our community too - about some of its very real strengths and some of our collective weaknesses we need to work on. We've learned to listen. We've learned to be respectful but we've also learned to be opinionated when we need to be (We've seldom minced words here.) We've learned about technology too and new ways to play with it, to exploit it and to explore it in future. And we've gained new friends. (If we've gained some enemies in the process too, they've been well-behaved ones.)
There are people who've left comments here - lots of them - that I only know by their first names, I'd love to meet them in real life and carry on these conversations over coffee. Perhaps one day I will. But to everybody who has dropped by and who has contributed to the discussions - or not (we have had lots of lurkers, and we love them) a big THANK YOU from me.
Now we go in to evaluation mode. We may be taking the show on the road too; it looks like I'll be speaking about this campaign in both Toronto and in London shortly. And then, for me, it will be back to blogging about more everyday topics - the ebb and flow of my life in the country in particular. Follow me there, if you want, at http://ruralrob.livejournal.com/
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—It's no secret that many of America's bridges are in sad shape. One of the reasons is the corrosion of the steel rebar used to strengthen concrete structures. Deluged with de-icing salt and acidic compounds from industrial production, the steel weakens—potentially leading to disasters.
But changing the composition of the concrete can help reinforce the steel, according to Michael Loy, 17, one of 40 finalists in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search here in Washington, D.C. this week for the final rounds of judging. (Read all of our coverage in this In-Depth Report.)
Loy, a student at Oregon Episcopal School, discovered that adding a certain mix of sodium borate to the concrete kept the steel from corroding under extreme conditions far better than a control mixture—to the point of being "still shiny, like it's brand new," he says. The steel also turned out to be 10 to 20 percent stronger in tests. He also had a unique way of presenting some of the data—as a comic [see photo above].
Loy hit upon the idea for his project while working at a structural engineering company in Portland last summer. The company was retrofitting an old department store to become a hotel. Loy's boss took him up on the 10th floor, then called him over and showed him one of the steel beams inside the old concrete. The metal was rusted, corroded and "generally not looking too good." His first thought (after wondering how quickly he could get off the 10th floor) was that "if it's happening here, it's probably a problem elsewhere."
After surveying the field and finding out that it was an extensive problem, he began tests at Portland State University and through a private testing service to determine ways to make the concrete stronger. He tested various solutions before finding out that sodium borate worked best. This is good news, because "it's much cheaper than anything on the market – before I take my little cut," he notes. He's been offered a job at W. R. Grace, a Cambridge, Mass.–based firm that produces building materials, among other things, this summer, to continue his research and potentially bring the technology to market.
Photo of Michael Loy by one of his posters, at a pre-gala reception, by Laura Vanderkam/copyright Scientific American
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I'm impressed, If this is for real and does not degrade the concrete this young man deserves a Nobel Prize. The corrosion of rebar in concrete and support steel, that is caused by moisture in the concrete is a major destroyer of things of ferro-cement construction. A most valuable contribution to the world.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe article is rather shallow; it doesn't mention the major mechanism by which corrosion of rebar destroys the integrity of a structure. Since the corrosion product ("rust") occupies a larger volume than the iron it's made from, corrosion results in the concrete spalling off the rebar. That's more significant in weakening the structure than the loss of tensile strength of the the steel. But the idea is still valid if, as pgtruspace suggests, it doesn't degrade the concrete. One more caveat: this is a problem that takes decades to show up. How did a 17-year-old come up with valid data?
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The summer is flying by so quickly!! With this in mind comes the end of July 2011 and I wanted to share some information with our members and potential advertisers.
TyingTheKnott.com was publicly launched on July 10th, 2011 and the end of July marks exactly three weeks that this website has existed within the online wedding industry. With such a minimal amount of time you may wonder what impact the website could have possibly had, so let's find out...
As you can see in the chart above, the date (shown at bottom of chart flowing horizontally) begins on July 10th, 2011 (website launch date) and ends on July 31st, 2011. You can see that the website traffic climbed immediately after its launch, but aside from traffic spikes, you can also see some drops in traffic on other days, (exact daily stats listed below). We have taken the time to look into why this is to determine the trends of our website and the online wedding industry in general, here are the results...
I invest several hours every day into TyingTheKnott, and while I could take an hour or two daily to post blogs and forums, I intentionally did not do this the past few weeks.
There are a few reasons why... such as trying to determine how many loyal members we have, to determine how many members know that they can post blogs and the benefits of posting, but more importantly I wanted to see the changes in website traffic within the time frame of new wedding blogs being posted here on TyingTheKnott and also the blogs impact and visibility within the search engine results of Google and other search engines.
I have determined that there's a positive response with new visitors and returning visitors on the same day and 2nd day following a new blog post. This tells me a couple things... first, that if our traffic is spiking within 48 hours of every new blog posted, that many of our members return to check out the blogs and new website content.
Next, our analytics show that TyingTheKnott gets an average of 600 new visitors each day within the first 48 hours following a new wedding blog... that's an average of 1,200 new visitors each time we post a new wedding blog... and that's in addition to our normal average daily traffic - our current end of July average (based on a 3 week total) is just over 1600 daily visitors - this means each day that a new wedding blog is posted on TyingTheKnott that are reaching over 2,000 people daily and nearly 5,000 visitors in total within 48 hours following a new wedding blog.
With these proven results and traffic trend identified, I will now be investing much more time into adding daily wedding blogs and encouraging other members to participate in writing their own blogs here on TyingTheKnott.
As I mentioned earlier, looking at the website traffic chart above for the TyingTheKnott website, you can see many traffic spikes (peaks) and traffic drops (valleys) just as you may be wondering the reason for this, so did we, and here's what we found...
In the first week following the launch of TyingTheKnott I didn't expect to make a very big impact so suddenly within the online wedding industry, but when I noticed that my website's traffic was doubling and tripling by the day, I knew that I was onto something good. This motivated me to continue on and improve upon the website's design and development.
A week goes by, following the website's launch, and I noticed that my traffic dropped nearly 50%... and as anyone most likely would... I panicked!! I grew so concerned that maybe I wasn't onto something good after all, but before I knew it, a couple days pass and TyingTheKnott returned to its previous average daily visitors, and once again the amount of visitors and members began to double and triple just like the last week.
I felt much better. My confidence was restored, and it motivated another duct-taped eyelid website design binge!! TyingTheKnott was once again seeing peaks in daily website traffic... but before I could finish peeling the tape off my eyes to get some rest, once again the traffic declined to yet another valley.
Oh No!! What Now...?!
Rather than worry again, I was now curious to find out exactly what was causing these very obvious website traffic peaks and valleys, which uncovered trend #2 for TyingTheKnott and possibly the entire online wedding industry.
I realized that the days my website traffic spiked, the peak was always during the weekdays, and the website traffic would always reach a sudden decline with a valley always appearing on weekends, particularly Saturday's.
While there's an average to high amount of visitors still showing on Friday's, the traffic begins to decline Friday afternoon with a sudden drop on Saturday. Then on Sunday into Monday the traffic gradually increases back to normal, and then spikes again throughout the week, with the highest peak in traffic always appearing within the 48-hour time frame of new wedding blogs being posted, as mentioned in the first trend.
An "Aha" Moment...
The more I thought about it, the website traffic peaks and valleys made perfect sense... Almost every wedding takes place on the weekend.
Since TyingTheKnott is composed of wedding specific content, and all of our members and website traffic is from brides, grooms, wedding vendors and other wedding industry professionals, it would only make sense that a good majority of these people don't have time to be on the internet most weekends, because they are working their customers/clients weddings. The weekends are also the most common time a wedding vendor meets with prospective brides and grooms to book new weddings.
With this in mind comes the discovery of trend #2 for the TyingTheKnott website, and quite possibly an impact on the entire online wedding industry. I would be very interested to hear from other people who own a wedding related website...
Do you own a website specifically related to weddings? Whether it's a site like TyingTheKnott or a wedding business website such as a wedding photographer, wedding planner, wedding entertainment, wedding officiants, etc...
If you have any wedding related website and have access to your website's statistics, either through Google Analytics or another method of evaluating your website's performance... do you see similar results with your traffic? Do you see this same trend that we have with a steady volume of traffic and peaks during the week, and a decline of traffic and valleys during the weekends? Please comment below to share your stats or opinion on this traffic trend for wedding websites.
You can see the website traffic statistics for TyingTheKnott in the graph above, but here's a quick explanation and breakdown. The chart reads with the dates across the bottom starting on July 10th ending on the 31st. The numbers on the left which go up the side of the chart shows you the number of visitors. For any particular date (on the bottom) all you have to do is follow the dotted line above the date to its landing point to see the amount of visitors / website traffic for that particular day. Our exact numbers are as follows:
Percentages and +/- figures are based on the difference in daily traffic. For example, if yesterday we had 1,000 visitors and today we have 1,500 there would be a green (up) arrow for today since it's higher than yesterday's traffic which is a 50% increase with an increase of +500 more visitors than there we had yesterday. However if today we have 1,500 visitors, but tomorrow we have 1,125 there would be a red (down) arrow for tomorrow since the traffic would be 25% less than we had today with a decrease of -375 less visitors than we had today.
SUN 7/10/2011 -- 431 Total Visitors -- The Day Our Website Launched
MON 7/11/2011 -- 689 Total Visitors -- ▲ 60% Increase +258 Visitors
TUE 7/12/2011 -- 1037 Total Visitors -- ▲ 51% Increase +348 Visitors
WED 7/13/2011 -- 1320 Total Visitors -- ▲ 27% Increase +283 Visitors
THU 7/14/2011 -- 1652 Total Visitors -- ▲ 25% Increase +332 Visitors
FRI 7/15/2011 -- 1893 Total Visitors -- ▲ 15% Increase +241 Visitors
SAT 7/16/2011 -- 989 Total Visitors -- ▼ 48% Decrease -904 Visitors
SUN 7/17/2011 -- 1208 Total Visitors -- ▲ 22% Increase +219 Visitors
MON 7/18/2011 -- 1725 Total Visitors -- ▲ 43% Increase +517 Visitors
TUE 7/19/2011 -- 1908 Total Visitors -- ▲ 11% Increase +183 Visitors
WED 7/20/2011 -- 2014 Total Visitors -- ▲ 6% Increase +106 Visitors
THU 7/21/2011 -- 1979 Total Visitors -- ▼ 2% Decrease -35 Visitors
FRI 7/22/2011 -- 1875 Total Visitors -- ▼ 5% Decrease -104 Visitors
SAT 7/23/2011 -- 1202 Total Visitors -- ▼ 56% Decrease -673 Visitors
SUN 7/24/2011 -- 1398 Total Visitors -- ▲ 17% Increase +196 Visitors
MON 7/25/2011 -- 1729 Total Visitors -- ▲ 24% Increase +331 Visitors
TUE 7/26/2011 -- 1590 Total Visitors -- ▼ 9% Decrease -139 Visitors
WED 7/27/2011 -- 1940 Total Visitors -- ▲ 22% Increase +350 Visitors
THU 7/28/2011 -- 2132 Total Visitors -- ▲ 10% Increase +192 Visitors
FRI 7/29/2011 -- 2004 Total Visitors -- ▼ 6% Decrease -128 Visitors
SAT 7/30/2011 -- 1565 Total Visitors -- ▼ 28% Decrease -439 Visitors
SUN 7/31/2011 -- 1884 Total Visitors -- ▲ 21% Increase +319 Visitors
7/10/2011 TO 7/17/2011 - 9,219 Total Visitors - 1,317 Avg. Daily Visitors (8 days)
7/18/2011 TO 7/24/2011 - 12,101 Total Visitors - 1,729 Avg. Daily Visitors
7/25/2011 TO 7/31/2011 - 12,844 Total Visitors - 1,835 Avg. Daily Visitors
Total Website Traffic / Visitors To TyingTheKnott In July 2011 - 34,164 Total Visitors
July 2011 Average Daily Visitors - 1,553 (based on 22 days from 7/10 to 7/31/2011)
Last 7 Days Traffic Increased To 1,835 Avg. Daily Visitors
Keep in mind that these numbers are not based on a full month since TyingTheKnott did not launch until July 10th, 2011 which is a total of 22 full days.
We will be writing another post (and will link it here once we do) with our current Google and search engine stats and trends, but for now... just know that there are already hundreds of pages for the TyingTheKnott website that are already indexed in Google and other search engines, from the blogs and forums right down to all of our members profile pages, photos and videos. More on this later, so check back for the link...
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As a Handmade Paper Flower vendor...I noticed a big slow down starting Friday afternoon until Sunday evening...and then sales would start to pop again!
Sunday evening through Monday night is very busy for me to reply to Brides-To-be and create custom listing for them!
During the "low" period..I concentrate my energy to create new designs of blooms, filling and packing orders.
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Spring 2011 Legislators visit Clinton Middle School The Tulsa County Child Protection Coalition hosted a legislative visit Jan. 14 at Clinton Middle School.The purpose of the visit was to inform Tulsa-area legislators about work being done by School Based Social Workers/Service Specialists through the Check and Connect Program. The program is a cooperative effort between the Tulsa County Juvenile Bureau, Oklahoma Department of Human Services and Tulsa Public Schools. A number of legislators attended, includingRepresentatives Wade Rousselot, Pam Peterson, Jeannie McDaniel, Sue Tibbs and David Brumbaugh.There was a great turn out. Also attending was April Merrill from the Schusterman Family Foundation;Lael Engstrom, Director, Check and Connect; John Selph, CEO, Volunteers of America; Claudette Selph, Tulsa County Child Protection Coalition; Margaret French, Check and Connect Program evaluator. Michele Kelly, Anthony Taylor and Jeff Isenberg, all Check and Connect Social Workers at various schools, attended as well. Hosts were Charity Clark, Check and Connect School Based worker at Clinton Middle School, and Shelly Holman, Clinton Middle School principal. Engstrom began the morningÕ s visit with an overview of the program. Clark then shared stories of some of her students at Clinton and invited one of her eighth grade students to speak. After the student told her story, she sang a very emotional song called ÒB roken,Ó for which she received a standing ovation. This was the first of two scheduled legislative visits for Clinton Middle School. The second was held in late January. Clinton Check and Connect students Brianna Carson, Jaden Weir and Malia Factor. Brianna and Jaden served as hostesses for the legislative visit, and Malia gave a speech and sang. Charity Clark (third from the left) with legislators and community partners. Over winter break, Charity Clark, school based worker at Clinton Middle School, and Michele Kelly, school based worker at Eugene Fields, took 28 kids ice skating at Winterfest. Time does flfly. Seems like a short while ago we were Greetings from Booker T. Washington High School 2011 SCHOOL BASED SERVICES NEWSLETTER Social Worker Helps Establish East Central GSA As East CentralÕ s school based social worker, Schel-londa Jones has the opportunity to help develop many new organizations for the school. One of those is the Gay-Straight Alliance. The Gay-Straight Alliance Network is a youth lead-ership organization connecting school-based GSAs to each other and to their community resources through peer support, leadership development and training. The GSAÕ s goals are to: 1. Create safe environments in schools for students to support each other and learn about homophobia and other oppressions. 2. Educate the school community about homophobia,gender identity and sexual orientation issues. 3. Fight discrimination, harassment and violence inschools. East CentralÕ s GSA students are in the process ofcreating posters for the school to promote aware-ness. They also had a very successful fund raiser tosupport this cause. Greetings from Booker T. Washington High School fly. welcoming back our returning students and greet-ing our new freshmen. Reflecting back, it has been a busy time. With the help of Youth Services, OKDHS employees and Booker T. Washington Parent-Teacher-Student Association members, many resources have been available to our students in need this year, including donated school supplies, hygiene items, food pack-ets, housing needs and clothing. During the Christmas season we coordinated with the BTW-PTSA to identify students for the Adopt-a-Hornet program. Participating students were pro-vided not only a Christmas gift, but also received gifts to help meet their school needs, including itemssuch as an upcoming school yearbook, class dues payments and participation fees for student events. Generous PTSA members were also able to secure four computers for students as well as a new bike for a studentÕ s transportation. We also addressed our studentsÕ emotional needs by providing a listening ear and aligning their needs with available community services. As BTWÕ s Safe Team coordinator, I have provided forums through the services of DVIS and Palmer for the studentsÕ participation with topics like ÒWh at Makes a Healthy Relationship?Ó and ÒM anaging Stress.Ó Upcoming topics include ÒT ime ManagementÓand ÒA nger Management,Ó all subjects chosen by the students and addressed by community services representatives. These forums are held during the schoolÕ s activity period in the Safe Team room and are open to any BTW student who wants to attend. We also partici-pated in the Tulsa Mental Health Association Youth Outreach Listen-Up Conference in February at the Greenwood Cultural Center. This conference al-lows students to tell the Òm overs and shakersÓ of the Tulsa community what they see as important issues needing to be addressed. Columbia Teen Screen returned to the school in January for depres-sion screening for any students whose parents de-cide to allow them to participate, concentrating on the freshmen class. Things are happening around BTW and I am proud to be a part of aiding in the studentsÕ success, and to be a part of the Hornet family. Until next timeÉ Currin BradleyOKDHS/TPS Social Services SpecialistBooker T. Washington High School SpringSCHOOL - - --- - - - Will Rogers High School Òd Edison Prep Hosts esentation -- school based social work er at Rogers High School, is what I call a iamond in the rough.Ó She has positively impacted many of our students and staff throughout the years. Her title may be a social worker, but she assumes many roles. She is a with ease and makes everyone feel comfort able. Her daily responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: interviewing students to determine nature and problem at hand; assisting family members understand the clientÕ s needs; and assisting them in working out realistic functional goals. She also helps or group conferences to understand, accept Many times her personal impact may not be noticed immediately due to different aspects involved with each individual case, but when a student or familyÕ s needs are met, the happiness and excitement illuminates to others may otherwise --Shawnee Allen, R.N. Samantha Checotah serves as a co-chair on the Edison Preparatory School Safety Com mittee. This committee is made up of stu dent, parent and staff participants. Theywork together to create a safer and healthier envi ronment for students and staff. On Jan. 28 they hosted Ò Stand for the Silent,Ó a presentation about bullying. This presentation was created by Kirk Smalley and the Upward Bound orga nization. After losing his son to bullying and suicide, he has made it his mission to spread the message of his sonÕ s life and others who have been affected by bullying. Bullying and cyber-bullying have become a major problem in the schools, and with the collaboration of the students and the staff, this problem can be eliminated. Anti-Bullying Presentation 2011 SCHOOL BASED SERVICES NEWSLETTER Update By Carrie Fleharty, Librarian/Media Specialist Will Rogers High School canÕ t live without their social worker! She stays busy behind the scenes keeping the students fed, clothed and in homes or shelters. She is a helpful ear in times of a cri-sis, and is a liaison between the community andthe students in need. Will Rogers High SchoolÕ s social worker, Mary Tippett, is almost everythingto everyone. More importantly, she is appreciat-ed by the students, the faculty and the adminis-tration. During the holidays, Mary is a liaison betweenmembers of the Tulsa community who want to provide for families in need. She also helps dis-tribute coats and clothing to students who are in need. Mary is a great source of information about the different agencies and their programsand services. She connects the students with the agency that can best help them. Sometimes there are students who, through no fault of their own,become homeless, and she will guide them andhelp them find shelter until they graduate. TodayÕ s students come from many types ofhomes, from those with a single parent to homes where they are raised by grandmothers, grandfa-thers, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers or sisters. According to Mary, the students of Will RogersHigh are her first priority. Their safety and well-being are first. She will help and guide them to the best of her ability. One thing is certain: shewould rather empower students more than justhelp them. Teachers and administrators also suffer from similar burdens. Mary has started and imple-mented a support group for teachers. She willlisten to and help all people in education learnthat the stress of educating urban schools can be managed. Will Rogers High School appreci-ates the help their social worker provides in her many endeavors to help the school become a bet-ter place. Mary Tippett, worker Òdiamond teacher, student and staff advocate, as well as a leader. 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Are there any good boards for software-related jobs- preferably free? I am trying to find a software marketer; it's either Craigslist (resulting in hundreds of non-targeted emails/resumes) or a paid job board.
Any free job boards that might do the trick? Preferably NY-area, but doesn't have to be location-specific.
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MARTIN, Tenn. – Quarterback Derek Carr and place kicker Cody Sandlin, both members of The University of Tennessee at Martin football team this past season, will play in the 2012 FCS Senior Football Bowl at 4 p.m. CT, Saturday, Dec. 15 in Myrtle Beach, SC at Doug Shaw Stadium.
The Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Senior Bowl will bring players together who represent 124 FCS programs to a North vs. South format all-star game.
Both Carr and Sandlin will play for the South team which will be coached by the Johnson C. Smith University staff.
Carr is the only player in the FCS or FBS to throw seven touchdowns in a game this year. The McKenzie product did it twice this season, once against Murray State and the other time against Jacksonville State.
Carr completed 264 of 415 passes for 3,276 yards and 31 touchdowns. He set new UT Martin school records for career TD passes (69); career passing yards (8,428); career pass attempts (1,110); career pass completions (665); and career total offense (8,484).
Sandlin made 44-of-45 PATs and nine field goals this past season. He kicked the game-winning field goal with four seconds left to beat Memphis in the first game of this past season.
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Declaring early that she will be nobody's queen but her own, Merida — the flame-tressed Scottish princess at the heart of this quest — is completely on trend within a spate of revisionist fairy tales.
After dispatching her suitors at an archery competition, Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) embarks on an adventure that pivots around her fractured relationship with her mom.
As refreshing as it is to see family dynamics, rather than romance, define the fulcrum of the story, the tale that unfolds isn't the most sophisticated of the Pixar canon. The elements of the film seem strangely by-the-book for a studio that avoids the book. The film contains some scary action and rude humor.
2 Days in New York
French actress Julie Delpy starred as New York-based French photographer Marion in 2 Days in Paris (2007), in which she takes boyfriend Jack (Adam Goldberg) on a disastrous sojourn to France to meet her family. Take 2 Days in Paris, swap Goldberg for Chris Rock, corral the whole clan in New York and the result is a manic but frustrating sequel.
The film takes Marion's family to Manhattan, where she lives with her new boyfriend, talk-show host Mingus (Rock); Mingus' daughter; and Marion's son from her relationship with Jack.Marion's family invades their snug apartment with a vengeance, swiftly pushing Marion and Mingus to the outer limits of sanity.
Marion is just as magnetic as before, and watching her come apart at the seams is one of the chief joys of the film. But the downward spiral of her mental state is cheapened by a final sexist twist.
The film contains nudity, sexual references, illicit drug use and profanity.
The Watch
The premise of the movie is so goofy, the performances so winningly wacky, that a willing suspension of disbelief has rarely been easier.
As The Watch opens, Evan (Ben Stiller) explains in a voice-over why he is so happy in the suburban idyll of Glenview, Ohio — where he lives with his wife, Abby (Rosemarie DeWitt), manages a nearby Costco and pursues a devotion to civic engagement that borders on the obsessive.
When one of his night watchmen is killed on the job, Evan immediately organizes a group to prevent further attacks. Soon, Evan is joined by Bob (Vince Vaughn), Franklin (Jonah Hill) and Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade) in a bumbling series of encounters with an unseen foe.
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Name | Agneta Spjuth |
Job Title | Loyalty Program Manager |
Organization | Personal |
Subscription Level | Small Business |
Registered Since | 19 Mar 2007 |
Areas of Expertise | Ecommerce, Strategy & Operations, Web Analytics, Web Project Management, eCRM |
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About Me
Loyalty program manager within Retail business. Strategies for improved loyality by CRM, Database management and analytics.
Previously 10 years self employed market consultant with focus on Project Management, Online-marketing, Web analytics, CRM, strategy and planning.
Background in market analysis, data mining, market coordination, communications manager and project manager.
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- Economics, Business & Management
- Communication, Marketing and PR
- Datamining and Database analytics
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