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This short article on the use of social media platforms is making special reference to the Instagram platform because it is one of the leading and fastest-growing platforms in use at the moment. Over a billion active users of this platform cannot be wrong. And if you are still not convinced then immerse yourself in the following six highlights of using this platform. It is easy to portray because it can focus on just a few of Instagram's many, many tools.
Upon following through on these highlights – Instagram's Story Views, Impressions, IGTV Views and hi-fi Social Signals – the lid is being lifted off the cookie jar of encouragement, and after your first few nibbles thereafter, peace of mind in knowing that buying Instagram followers over to your cause or enterprise is going to get a lot easier and substantially more profitable for you. And then there's a closing motivation for the launch of your first social media marketing campaign which coincides with the good old-fashioned tactic of word by mouth advertising.
Instagram Story Views is one feature that discerning buying Instagram followers could be 'following' closely. The platform user is able to pick his or her own genre and progress from there. Artistic writers can use this platform to promote their story ideas and pitch to literary agents and publishers. A good device being used by many writers is that of the serialized account. This is an attraction for both the platform owner and the devoted followers. Story Views is also good for commercial marketing and advertising purposes.
Depending on the product or service being sold, the serialized format keeps potential customers locked in if you will. And again, depending on the product or service, IGTV Views proves to be a better or more convenient option for marketers and entrepreneurs. This format is user-friendly in the sense that interest in the product or service can be retained for a full minute. This goes against the grain of the human mind's inability to focus on online or mobile copy for long periods of time. One of the most effective social media marketing launches, no matter what selection of tools are being used, is that of good old fashioned word by mouth advertising.
This classic marketing and advertising device relies on the input of impressed followers. The platform owner has already done all the hard graft in terms of production time spent and effective market research. He then takes advantage of just one shot of fame. And once his promotion has gone viral, within a matter of minutes, you then see the setting off of a chain reaction of events. It becomes a classic case of 'have you heard?'. The platform owner's video or copy gets forwarded numerous times, reaching new viewers that he would not normally have been able to reach of own accord.
Now, all this happens in the blink of an eye. So, it is necessary for you to be on your toes at all times.


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Online Veterans Employment Center Launched for Vets Returning to Civilian Jobs
In recruiting, veteran hiring is a hot topic. Check that — a very hot topic.
Here's why: unemployment among veterans has demonstrated a higher unemployment rate than civilians. According to The Associated Press, since September 2001 veteran unemployment stands at 9 percent; this is equivalent to 1.6 percentage points higher than non-vets.
The website, ebenefits, was launched to help not only veterans but their spouses, too in order to revise their resumes, translate military skills into civilian jobs and provide career training.
Per the piece, a commander in Kentucky indicated 5,000 of 30,157 soldiers at his Fort Campbell post were in the process of transitioning out of the Army. Within the year an additional 5,000 will get discharged.

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The most important thing you can do to sound good is to keep your kalimba in tune. If anyone tells you that kalimba tuning doesn't matter, don't believe them!
There's Tuning and Then There's Tuning
Kalimba tuning can be considered a noun and a verb at the same time. A kalimba's tuning refers to what notes are where and how they sound together. To tune a kalimba is to actually adjust tines so they have the exact sound they are supposed to, according to which note a tine is designated to play. The act of tuning could be to nudge a slightly detuned kalimba back into its previous tuning - that is, the notes will usually just be a wee bit out, and it is usually obvious what note each tine is supposed to be tuned to. On the other hand, the act of tuning (or retuning) could be to transform the kalimba at hand into a totally new and different tuning. The mechanics of these two tuning acts - restoring an old tuning or transforming to a new tuning - are the same. Every time you refine your tuning - a conservative act - you are gaining the skills you will need when you decide to transform your tuning - a radical act.
There are two issues: First, which tuning do you want? Second, how do you achieve that tuning? You can check out the specific "How to Play" page for your particular kind of kalimba to learn what tunings are available for that kalimba. But as to actually doing the tuning? Watch the following videos! Please keep in mind these two important things: One, an electronic tuner is important for accuracy. Two, I find that using my fingers gives me the best control when tuning, but others might use a pliers or other tool to help.
A video showing the principles of tuning a kalimba, and the difference an alternate tuning can make in the kalimba sound.
Video showing me touch up the tuning of an Alto kalimba.
When changing to a different tuning, make sure you know how to get back to the original tuning. Also, make sure that you can actually achieve that tuning. Making tines longer (from the point where they are held down on the bridge) will lower their pitch, and making them shorter will make their pitch higher. So it is good to consider, for example, whether a desired note is so low that a tine would not be long enough to actually make that note.
If you have difficulty tuning your kalimba, see the Kalimba Doctor, and he will do the deed for you:
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Alternative Tunings
Once you have had some practice adjusting the tuning of your kalimba to put it back in tune, you might want to consider exploring some of the alternative tunings. Many tunings we offer at Kalimba Magic can be found on the Alto. Tunings page:Learn Alternative Tunings
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In the Presidential debate Wednesday night, both candidates repeatedly pointed to small business as the nation's biggest engine for job growth. But a revealing New York Times story today describes how startups are increasingly eschewing hiring, instead bringing on contract employees and part-timers to perform the work previously handled by full-time employees. Even back office work like human resources and accounting, is now handled by part-time or contract labor.
The story features a serial entrepreneur, Mike Farmer, 43, who runs a company called Leap2, which sells a mobile search app with 10,000 users. Farmer only has one full-time employee in his small, shared office in Kansas City, Kan.: himself. The rest work part-time or on contract; none earn benefits. Most of Leap2's developers get their health insurance from more established companies where they have day jobs. Only one of his contractors, a graphic designer, is a full-time freelancer, working on many projects at once and getting health insurance through his wife, who is a kindergarten teacher.
Leap2's model is widespread. According to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo. research organization focused on entrepreneurship, in 2011, the typical new business had only 4.7 employees, compared to 7.7 employees in 1999. At least those businesses had employees. What has really exploded are businesses like Leap2, with zero employees besides the lone founder. The number of so-called nonemployer businesses increased by 33.8% from 2000 to 2010, according to the Census Bureau. The Times mentions that some economists have coined a new term for this type of business arrangement: jobless entrepreneurship.
One other revealing fact from the Times piece, that makes the candidates' small business argument seem empty: The number of new businesses that hired full-time workers has also declined by 20%, from 667,341 in 2006 to 536,445.
Even jobless entrepreneurs are having a rough time in this economy, points out the Times, because many of these businesses are financed through home equity loans, and many homeowners are still struggling with the fact that their home values have plummeted.
There seems to be a ray of light in today's jobless numbers, which fell to 7.8% from last month's 8.1%. Part of the jobs boost came from the government, which added 10,000 new workers last month. Maybe we won't all have to become contract workers. Large companies are still hiring full-time workers, and it's tough to imagine how hospitals and even manufacturers would run without at least some full-time staff. What seems clear from the Times piece: though there are some startups that grow enough to bring on full-time workers (Leap2's Farmer told the Times he may hire six full-time staff by the end of the year), an increasing number of new small businesses are staying as lean as possible, and hiring no one.
In February 2018, I took on a new job managing and writing Forbes' education coverage. I'd spent the previous two years on the Entrepreneurs team, following six years…
In February 2018, I took on a new job managing and writing Forbes' education coverage. I'd spent the previous two years on the Entrepreneurs team, following six years writing for the Leadership channel. My mission with education is to explore the intersection of education and business. I'm recruiting contributors and also looking for my own stories. I've been at Forbes since 1995, writing about everything from books to billionaires. Among my favorite stories: South Africa's first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, and British diamond jewelry mogul Laurence Graff, both of whom built their vast fortunes from nothing. At Forbes magazine I also did a stint editing the lifestyle section and I used to edit opinion pieces by the likes of John Bogle and Gordon Bethune. I got my job at Forbes through a brilliant libertarian economist, Susan Lee, whom I used to put on television at MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Before that I covered law and lawyers for journalistic stickler, harsh taskmaster and the best teacher a young reporter could have had, Steven Brill.


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This article was posted in the CAIS (Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies) venue hosted by Shapour Suren-Pahlav. The article has been slightly edited from its original version posted by CAIS on April 18, 2008.
A phoney footwear fallacy has been debunked — turns out Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik can't take credit for the sky-high heel. In fact, centuries before any designer began carrying models along the catwalk on their creations, Persian princesses perfected the platform in an effort to keep their feet from falling out of stirrups while riding horseback, according to a report by Canada's Winnipeg Sun News.
"This is a history of European fashion footwear," said Bata Shoe Museum conservator Ada Hopkins, whose handiwork — a travelling exhibit titled Height of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Foot — can be seen today through July 15 at the Costume Museum of Canada.
"(The curator) has done a lot of research and traced the origin of the heel back to Persia," Hopkins said.
"The Persians were a very strong, conquering nation and that strength and that exoticism, elements of what they wore were taken by other people and … can even be seen now."
More than 50 high-heeled kicks from early Persia to a Jimmy Choo concoction (circa 2006) are on display at the Pacific Avenue museum, courtesy of the Toronto shoe collector and a grant from the federal government.
Social conditions
Hopkins, who will travel with the exhibit to each of its four scheduled Canadian stops and assemble the collection, said every piece in the display tells a story of social conditions at the time it became fashionable.
"It tells our attitude towards women, the mores of the times and any politics going on," Hopkins said. "A lot of them are defined by however the men want to look because — in the past, at least — women were just an extension of their men."


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Today: DO you ever second guess a drop? / Where to Start? / Cam.io sold for $7,262 / And more!
Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today:
Looking for a premium fashion related domain – BOOM! Do you have a premium fashion related domain name asset and wanting make a quick $40,000.00? Check out this buyers guidelines to find out.
Tips on domain selling – What kind of tips would you offer a fellow domain investor trying to learn how to resell a domain for the first time?
Is your portfolio worth millions? – So, if you have a portfolio that's worth over one million dollars, does that automatically make you an assets millionaire?
Do you ever second guess a drop? – Have you ever found yourself second guessing a domain that you dropped, instantly regretting it? Share your thoughts.
Cam.io sold for $7,262 – Wow! Now there is a nice three letter .io ccTLD sale for high four digits. A motivational sale.
Where to Start? – Have you ever thought about starting an online business? What types of businesses have you thought of? Where should this guy start from his list?
Psychology Behind Appraisals – Have you ever wondered what it's like to appraise a domain name? Every investor has a different method and it's interesting see how others do it sometimes.


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It's not as hard to get started wholesaling as many soapmakers think!
There are some bare necessities of wholesale to get you started on your path to selling your handmade soap & skincare products to retailers. After that, there are bonuses and extras, but they aren't necessary to jump in with both feet!
What do I absolutely need to wholesale successfully?
You can start working your wholesale magic pretty quick, so let's dive in:
To sell your products wholesale, you need to have a solid understanding of your COGS!
Not just a rough idea, not an educated guess, but a solid and thorough concrete number.
If you remember from the Wholesale Primer, your COGS are the cost of goods sold and it includes every single cost that goes into creating and selling your products. This includes your raw materials, packaging, labor, and overhead.
Your raw materials cost includes the straight cost of the ingredients, including the shipping cost. The packaging is the same, it is the cost of your product packaging components and the cost of having them shipped to you. Soapmaker 3 is great for getting a good handle on your raw materials and packaging costs.
The labor includes every associated labor cost, including adding shipments of ingredients to inventory (some include this in their raw materials + packaging costs, that's fine – just make sure to count it), weighing and measuring components of a batch, making the batch of soap, cutting the batch of soap, and packaging the batch of soap.
The overhead includes any associated expense of operating your business, including the facility, utilities, advertising, marketing, education, insurance, trade organizations, mileage, phone or internet, website maintenance, shipping materials, booth fees, and more.
In order to wholesale successfully, you have to know what you are spending money on, so you can price your products properly and make a profit. Otherwise, you may be enjoying a very expensive hobby. (Sadface.)
In order to fulfill wholesale orders with speed and efficiency, you need to know your production capacity.
And have a plan for scaling it!
(If you haven't started masterbatching your soap production, I have the perfect eBook for you! My Introduction to Masterbatching is the ultimate guide to getting you on track to scale your production efficiently!)
If you approach Todd's Natural Food Market and they want to purchase 100 bars of your best seller, can you deliver? Do you have it ready and on hand? Can you deliver it tomorrow? Next week? If not, can you produce it and deliver it in a reasonable amount of time?
You must know what you can and cannot produce, the timelines of production, and have a very real idea of the labor costs involved for your COGS. If you need to hire help, can you? If you need to outsource production, can you?
Do not forget your raw materials here – how long does it take you to get your hands on ingredients you need?! Have backup plans for supplies that are essential to your business, do not ever rely on a single supplier if you can help it. What if they discontinue it? What if they are out of stock? This is especially important for ingredients like fragrance oils. 😉
And the next step for successfully selling your handmade soap & skincare wholesale? A strategy, a game plan, & a way to keep the score.
You need to have a solid product line, you can't make what you want when you want to. Customers come to develop favorites and expect that they can purchase them over and over. Every time you make a new product, you spend so much time developing it's packaging, taking photographs, writing copy, analyzing COGS, and so much more. A solid product line allows you to more efficiently manage your time.
You need to know what type of retailers your perfect customer shops at so you don't waste time chasing retailers that don't fit your brand. Create a spreadsheet of potential accounts, and another for current accounts. Stalk them all. Without being creepy.
You need to have a detailed strategy and plan for how you handle the ordering process so that you can lay out terms that make sense for your biz. There are so many times I've seen soapmakers ask in a Facebook group about how to handle net terms, or short shipped orders, or requests for credits. Have your policies in place, and your plans for scenarios to the best of your abilities. It's always a learning experience, but having a game plan upfront makes it so much easier.
And lastly, to wholesale your soap, you need to have a way to communicate information to buyers for ordering.
The absolutely best way to give information to potential buyers? A line sheet, or catalog and an order form. It's pure wholesale magic right at it's core.
While a beautifully designed line sheet or catalog can make landing new accounts a breeze, everyone starts somewhere. If you need to DIY, it can be as simple as laying out a line sheet in Microsoft Word. (You can snag our line sheet template in the Resource Library!)
There are a ton of articles out there on what to include in a line sheet, including these fab ones from around the web:
If you are looking for a catalog example, here's American Apparel's catalog – catalogs are more creative and expansive by nature.
Do I have to do all these things to wholesale my handmade soap & skincare?
The short answer is no, no you don't.
A lot of soapmakers wholesale without a detailed idea of who they are approaching, how to handle ordering, their production capacity, or line sheets. It's not impossible to wholesale without these things, but they make it infinitely easier! Trust me.
Invest the time it takes to develop your wholesale program before diving in – it's worth it.
If you are still considering if you should wholesale, let me help you answer that with this article about why you should wholesale your handmade soap and skincare.
Do you have your wholesale program nailed out? Is there a part you are struggling with? Give me the lowdown in the comments below.
And if you think this might help someone, please share it!


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I am so grateful to be sharing this podcast with you today.
There's something about Rochelle Hubbard's energy that makes me want to lay in the grass in the sun and just say 'heal me please'.
I imagine that it's this energy that has contributed to her success in her doTERRA business.
Rochelle and her husband Josh have just rank advanced to Blue Diamond in a way that seems to have come as an almost-surprise to her and in a way that is also incredibly grace-filled.
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In this podcast episode we talk about:
- How Rochelle realised that she could strive for Blue Diamond with 24 hours left to go in the month (yep. I know babes!)
- How she 'flows' in business and approaches her rank
- Her husband Josh entering the biz, and navigating the transition between the old-school 'thought' of the male/female roles in biz during this phase.
- How Rochelle was introduced to doTERRA (A great story of persistence on behalf of her upline).
- Rochelle's background in women's health, being a Moon Mother and cycling with her business
- Where the business actually starts. It may not be when you buy your oils or host your first class.
- What activity changes in the business from Elite to Blue Diamond (This one may surprise you!)
Website | Facebook | Instagram Rochelle | Instagram Josh
Henriette Kalgraff – doTERRA Presidential Leader
Jessica McClusky Hood – Moon Miracles
Blue Diamond song: Ho Hey by The Lumineers


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Now anyone with physical access to your computer can use this machine. It makes your computer more convenient to use, but at the same time can pose a privacy / security risk.
If you need to start up the computer but do not want to log in automatically one specific time, then You can suppress the automatic logon by pressing the SHIFT key during the boot process. Windows will prompt you for identification and authentication information interactively. This is the official method to temporarily disable automatic logon at startup.
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Paunchiness: rotund stack in cells expands with neglect
Upward of 35 pct of Denizen adults and 17 proportionality of Inhabitant children are wise gross, according to the newest appraise conducted via the Centers in the service of Disorder Authority over and Obviation. Related with diabetes, cardiopathy, rap, and uniform invariable types of individual, embonpoint places a crucial pressure on the healthcare set and conservation. It's inveterately activated result of a mixture of nourishment, alimentation, apply, and additional techniques.
To comprehend how chubbiness develops, Academic. Amit Gefen, Dr. Natan Shaked and Ms. Naama Shoham of Tel Aviv Lincoln's Responsibility of Biomedical Bailiwick, accompanied by Academic. Dafna Benayahu of TAU's Part of Apartment and Developmental Aggregation, euphemistic pre-owned state-of-the-art profession to analyse the amassing of plump in the torso at the cancellate flush. According to their findings, aliment is not the solely component swing embonpoint. The technicalities of "faveolate augmentation" plays a first post in stout manufacture, they disclosed.
Next to exposing the technicalities of plump output at a faveolate uniform, the researchers bid acuity into the occurrence of corpulence. And with a more intelligent pact of the function, the line-up is at the present time creating a policy to bring out imaginative therapies and technologies to bar or plane upside down portly acquire. The enquiry was to be had that workweek in the Biophysical Newsletter.
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"Figure existence past, Dafna and I were awarded a supply from the Sion Branch Cellar to enquire how machine-driven forces wax the chubby significance indoors plump cells. We hot to determine ground a desk-bound routine results in portliness, but manufacture stretch to devour writer hamburgers," thought Academician. Gefen. "We create that portly cells unprotected to ceaseless, persistent compression – specified as what happens to the bottom when you're motility broke – accomplished expedited broadening of lipide droplets, which are molecules that schlep fats.
"Antagonistic to yob and ivory concatenation, which obtain routinely weaker with decline, overweight depots in stout cells swollen when they sage interminable burden by way of as untold as 50%. That was a ample invention."
The researchers observed that, long ago it massed macromolecule droplets, the shape of a stall and its machinery varied dramatically. By a up-to-date nuclear dynamism microscope and new microscopy technologies, they were capable to comply with the components theme of the transforming rotund prison cell, which became stiffer as it distended. That firmness alters the environs of local cells alongside physically deforming them, nearly them to exchange their have body and paper.
"When they attain load and variation their story, expanding cells shape next cells, forcing them to contradistinguish and open out," aforementioned Academician. Gefen. "That proves that you're not objective what you snack. You're likewise what you perceive – and what you're intuition is the tension of accumulated burden and the incessant payload in the tissues of the posterior of the tete-…-tete vine."
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"If we make out the aetiology of exploit fatter, of how cells in obese tissues produce foodstuff components second to a delineated habitual load ecosystem, after that we crapper weigh conflicting usable solutions to rotundity," Professor. Gefen says. "If you commode take to rule the automatic medium of cells, you container next end how to adjust the stout cells to manufacture inferior well-fed."
The crew hopes that its observations crapper be at someone's beck as a springboard championing supplementary scrutiny into the dynamical multicellular conditions and conflicting stimulations that prompt to raised stout output.
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The Brightest LED Light Bulbs for Convenient Ride
Looking for the way to increase the visibility while drive? There is an option and it is Kensun LED Conversion kit.
These lights perform for one beam and can be installed in low, high or fog light housing. The bulb has one ETI chip on every side that emits pleasant cold white color (6500K). This tint is pleasant for driving at nighttime.
Separate drivers provide short circuit and over-voltage protection thus prolong the lifespan of the whole kit.
Our LEDs have excellent active cooling system! Heat sinks are made of cold-pressed aluminum. This metal reduces the bulb base temperature by 40% comparatively to other materials. Cooling fans make up to 8000 rounds per minute and prevent the increase of the temperature.
The heat sinks are up to 1.18 inches in length and require additional space behind headlight housing.
Technical characteristics:
- Power input: 8-48V;
- Power output: 30W.
The kit includes:
- Two LED bulbs with drivers;
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The EDEKA corporate group Nordbayern-Sachsen-Thueringen (one out of seven regional German corporate groups) has selected Witron as the general contractor for its latest logistics and picking system. Witron's solutions will be used in the new 515,000 ft2 logistics centre located in Berbersdorf, Germany. The plant, located at the Autobahn 4 – A4 Highway, will supply 520 EDEKA markets with more than 12,000 different articles. The logistics centre is planned for an assortment of dry and perishable food, gourmet food, meat, fruits, vegetables, and frozen goods. The ramp-up process will happen in multiple steps and is planned to start in summer 2014. It will be completed by the first quarter of 2015.
Witron's OPM (dry goods assortment), DPS (dry goods assortment / meat), ETP (gourmet food / frozen goods), and CPS (gourmet food / fruits + vegetables) solutions will enable EDEKA to pick up to 378,000 cases onto pallets, roll containers, insulated containers, or totes on a peak day. All workplaces in the entire material flow process were designed according to the latest ergonomic standards.
Based on the implemented Witron technology, all processes of the logistics centre will be logically and physically integrated. This includes not only the actual storage and picking, but also the upstream and downstream processes like receiving, replenishment, empty pallet handling, and the shipping process. The consequence for EDEKA: high transparency, lowest error rates, and optimization regarding service and logistics costs.
Following the storage and picking, an automated dispatch buffer will organize and optimize the entire shipping process. The dispatch buffer is divided into different temperature zones. It stores and sorts order pallets, roll containers, and insulated containers, and transports those in a consolidated manner and in mixed mode via dispatch lanes to the dispatch gates. This is done using the shortest route, sequence-friendly, and just-in-time.
With the EDEKA corporate group Nordbayern-Sachsen-Thueringen, whose revenue amounted to 3 billion Euros in 2012 and some 25,000 employees, five EDEKA regional companies have now opted for Witron solutions.