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Many women restaurant owners and managers have learned how to drive a starving crowd to their restaurants on a shoe string budget.

On the other hand, many men restaurant owners and managers seem more likely to stick with the status quo and many keep using conventional marketing techniques even while they continue to lose money.

The problem with conventional restaurant marketing techniques is that they are getting more and more expensive while they are proving to be less and less effective.

Maybe a psychologists can explain why women are taking the lead of using unconventional restaurant techniques in the restaurant business. This seems odd because we know that men are usually more willing to take risks.

Never-the less, women seem to be the more aggressive gender when it comes to restaurant marketing.

Here are some of the many unconventional marketing techniques women are now using:

1. Women are using far less radio, TV and print advertising.

2. They are doing a much better job of capturing customer data such as names, addresses, birthdays, anniversaries and most important email addresses.

3. Women are doing a lot of direct mail promotions and they are doing even more email promotions to their customer data base.

4. They are taking advantage of the power of press releases. Maybe they are more successful in this area because a great press release must strike an emotional button in the reader and we all know that women excel when it comes to tuning into emotions.

5. Women know what their “Unique Selling Proposition” or “USP” is and they can clearly explain it in one to three sentences. They don’t try to be all things to all people when it comes to marketing their restaurant.

6. They know the demographic of their customers. They do a better job of learning what it is that their customers like and dislike.

7. Women do a much better job of negotiating and with these skills, they are able to buy advertising for 10% to 50% on the dollar. After all, every dollar saved on advertising and marketing (as long as the advertising brings in the same amount of business) goes straight to the bottom line as profit.

8. They seem to write headlines that bring in two to 10 times more business for the same ad. They probably do this because they are able to do a better job of putting powerful emotion into their headlines.

9. Women are using the power of the Internet to bring in customers and save up to 90% of the typical cost of bringing in a new or repeat customer.

10. Finally, women do a better job of tracking marketing campaigns than men do. This fact alone provides them with the proof they need to drop conventional marketing techniques that are not working and expand the use of unconventional restaurant techniques that are working.

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This information is from Jerry Minchey, editor of the subscription website, http://www.MarketingYourRestaurant.com. Jerry Minchey is an engineer and a restaurant marketing consultant.

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Jerry Minchey is an engineer and a restaurant marketing consultant. He is also the editor of the subscription website, http://www.MarketingYourRestaurant.com.

Recently a new innovation had been launched in the online poker world. Now you and your friends can form “Poker Teams” and compete against other teams online.

Each poker team consists of between five to ten players. A Team Manager heads up the squad and assigns different team players to play in different events.

Your team can choose to play in Poker Leagues and Poker Eliminator events.

I think the addition of team poker to the online poker experience is a great one. One of the things that I’ve often complained about when playing my online poker is that there is often a lack of community at the tables. Until now, it has all been so anonymous.

Team poker is changing all of that. Now your online poker games can be shared with folks you know and have similar expiences. You could form a team with your classmates, co-workers, softball team, or just with old friends.

And because the games are online, geography is no boundry. Maybe a poker team is just the thing to reunite you with your long lost college friends or hometown buddies.

Your team could be formed with new poker playing friends that share a common interest. Maybe you are crazy about the New York Yankees or the Indianapolis Colts. Why not start a poker team that recruits poker players with your same passion?

And why stop at forming sports related teams? I can just see a great rivalry developing between the “Young Republicans” versus the “Old Democrats”. The possibilities for your team are only limited by your imagination ( Middle-Aged Libertarians, anyone?).

Team poker is a welcome innovation for the online poker players that like to play competitive poker- but also enjoy playing a social game with friends.

Chip Westley posts regularly at Home Run Poker. If you would like to find out more about Team Poker, please check out:
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Many experts have come to agree that elliptical trainers are much better than treadmills. While treadmills are a useful piece of equipment for any workout regimen, elliptical trainers definitely have their place.

The most widely known advantage of an elliptical trainer is the low impact workout that it creates. See when you’re using a treadmill your feet leave the surface of the treadmill as you take a step, and then come back into contact with the treadmill. This causes pressure to be put on joints, muscles and parts of the body like hips and knees.

Elliptical trainers on the other hand your feet never leave the surface of the machine, making it a very low impact workout. This allows you to work out for longer periods of time as well as avoid unnecessary pain that ensues after a workout that has an impact.

A second advantage, is many elliptical trainers have a feature where you also workout your arms as your working out your legs. Treadmills on the other hand usually keep your arms in a fixed position for obvious safety reasons. This dual action movement provided by an elliptical trainer helps you burn more calories in the same amount of time. The

Third advantage is many elliptical trainers do not require an electrical source. Treadmills are usually powered by electricity and require you to be near an outlet. This limits traditionally where you can keep an elliptical trainer since many homes do not have outlets disbursed and readily available.

On the other hand let’s discuss some possible advantages of a treadmill over an elliptical trainer. Treadmills allow the user to run, walk or jog giving you a variety of workouts depending upon your skill and fitness level. Elliptical trainers on the other hand usually only give you a foreword and backwards workout motion somewhat limiting your workout routines.

Overall if you are trying to decide whether or not to buy an elliptical trainer or a treadmill I would honestly say I would have to choose the elliptical trainer. The no or little impact that the elliptical trainer provides is a major factor in my decision. Ask anybody who works out frequently and they will tell you the joint pain is commonly associated with workouts. Anything I can do to lessen this pain will be beneficial to me in the long run.

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Placing small classified ads in the back section of newspapers is an age- old advertising medium that has been used for literally a hundred years. This method is still one of the most under-rated methods of earning a big income in today’s economy.

It is extremely easy to place ads (once you know the right source), and the income potential is truly enormous. Did you know that if you earned a mere $5 profit with just one newspaper ad, then you could make yourself a Fortune!

Let’s say you’re selling an information product which costs a total of $5 both to produce and to ship to the customer.

Let’s further assume that the ad costs $25 your total expense is $30 if your ad brings in $35, then you have just made a small $5 profit! Not impressed?

How is this a “fortune”? Assuming you make that same kind of profit in similar newspapers, the “power of multiplication” will EXPLODE your profits!

Place that same $25 ad in just 10 newspapers, and your profit is $50 place it in 100 newspapers, and your profit is $500. 1000 newspapers mean $5000.

Are you beginning to see the POWER of MULTIPLICATION? If you can place 1000 ads per week, your income could hit $20,000 per month, or $240,000 per YEAR!

THIS IS NOT A SECRET THOUSANDS, of people are utilizing this power each and every day! If YOU have a product or service that you can sell by placing simple ads, then YOU should be using the Power of Multiplication right NOW!

David Hocker to learn how to use the power of multiplication please email me at
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The media live by the calendar. Your story pitch might miss the mark with them the first time out, solely because it’s out of whack with the seasonal cycle (obvious examples: just try pitching another tax story on April 16, or offering the media your 10 tips on backyard barbecue safety the morning after Labor Day).

But come back when the time’s right, and you just might be golden: Personal finance and the holiday season… Record keeping techniques for tax time… Saving for college at back-to-school time.

In fact, for just about any topic, with a little thought and creativity, you can work your way through the calendar and fill out a whole year’s worth of media stories based on seasonal tie-ins. You probably won’t land every story, but you will increase your results dramatically simply because you are stepping up to the plate - and getting to contact reporters - more often.

Following the seasons is one of the best - and easiest - ways to slice your topic.

Here’s one example. Let’s say our topic - we consult, write, and speak about it for a living - is time management. A yearlong spin through the calendar might start with this:

January: Keeping that New Year’s Resolution to get yourself organized.

March: Don’t let income tax season throw a wrench into your busy life.

June: School’s out! How to remain productive at work when the kids are at home and leisure activities beckon.

September: Fall’s here, time to get serious again! How to make the most out of your time.

December: Holiday season - how to get it all done.

And before you know it, another year has arrived, and now your media plan is to …. start all over again! For two reasons: not every media outlet you’re targeting did the story last year, and (this is the part I love!) many of the reporters who turned you down last year have since left their jobs and moved on. That frees you to call their replacements, who will be hearing your story for the first time.

Creativity exercise:

Try this right now. List the months of the year on a blank sheet of paper. Fill in one of your topics where it is appropriate for a particular month. See if you can find 6, 8, or even 12 reasons a year why the media should do your story.

Ned Steele works with people in professional services who want to build their practice and accelerate their growth. The president of Ned Steele’s MediaImpact, he is the author of 102 Publicity Tips To Grow a Business or Practice. To learn more visit http://www.MediaImpact.biz or call 212-243-8383.

Faded away are the days where the only ticket outlet you would be able to buy festival tickets would be the box office of the actual premises of the fantastic show that folk were going to watch. There are also now lots of different ways for one to acquire ballet tickets without even having to move out of the bliss of your own apartment. Log on and get your hands on Tickets from Time Out for events around London.

Theatre tickets for terrific artists such as Kylie are becoming harder and harder to see hold of. There are the large online outlets like Timeout for which you yourself can get good musical tickets for everything. Timeout is the most trendy way to find tickets. The ticket business just acts as an agent selling the music tickets that the client makes further available to them. One of the 1st ticketing corporations to sell music tickets on the world wide web, Timeout now provide a great % of its sport venue tickets on the net, some via phones orders & a % through its tons of ticket outlets.

Ticket resale is the method of reissuing theatre tickets for admission to events. All that is also more familiarly known as ticket touting. Folk can normally get ticket touts based all over the place the venue on the evening of the show or theatre starts. Be careful when finding from a ticket reselling tout sometime they will often be selling illegal pop concert tickets that can’t buy one into the venue.

There is a new service offering that is known as SMS tickets. All this is a dirt cheap cost ticketing system that supplies big sport game tickets via text msg (SMS) and print at home e-tickets. All we have to do is get on your mobile screen your text message ticket or print at home electronic ticket to the event venue it might then get scanned & you are in. You are saved pounds by never being charged postage and packaging fees, and the comedy booking fees are likewise regularly kept inexpensive. There are tons of advantages to text ticket tickets; you yourself get your sports ticket given to you right away, there’s no hanging all over the place for the postman or ticket courier. Folk can get new pop concert tickets for free if you yourself lose them and you can get in speedily, there is no waiting around for a steward to manually tag the sports ticket.

Not too many years ago the idea of buying a treadmill online
would have been absurd. Now a significant portion of sales are
conducted through the Internet. And with those Internet sales,
many are through a shopping cart.

More and more people are buying treadmills costing as much as
several thousand dollars, without ever having any human contact.
Who would have thought?

What are the benefits of buying online?

The Convenience of Shopping From Your Home

When you purchase online you avoid the hassle of traveling all
over town checking out various models. For city dwellers you
know how time consuming and frustrating that can be.

You also are not subjected to pushy salespeople, particularly
the ones who work on commission. They are more likely to try and
upsell you on features and functions that are not necessary for
achieving your fitness goals. But even worse are the salespeople
in the mass merchant stores. They don’t have a clue on what they
are selling, and what would best accommodate your needs.

Without ever having to walk out your door you can comparison
shop numerous brands and treadmill retailers. There are no fast
talking salespeople, only the facts in black and white. The
Internet is a treasure trove of information. And if you are
thorough in your research, you will probably know more then many
of “Fitness Equipment Experts.”

Saving Money Buying Online

Another important benefit from buying online is the potential
savings. Of course, you can save a considerable amount from not
paying taxes. Depending on where you live that can be as much as
10%. And with a quality treadmill that can add up to more then
just pocket change.

Although it is not always the case, you will often find the
retail prices lower online. When a business sells online, in
comparison to selling through a retail store, their overhead
costs are substantially less. If a salesperson is involved, than
you have to factor in commissions. All those costs can factor an
additional 10%-15% to the price tag.

But don’t just assume that when you buy online you are saving
money. There are a several Internet fitness equipment retailers
who inflate the MSRP, and than suggest they are offering drastic
discounts. If you do your homework, you’ll figure out where the
real bargains are.

Drawbacks of Buying Online

Of course, the biggest drawback is you don’t get to take the
treadmill for a spin. And that is a consideration if you are not
familiar with treadmills and their features. You may need to go
out and face the crowds in order to get a feel for different
brands and their features. Fortunately the Internet can give you
a virtual experience through reviews, ratings and customer
testimonials. And in many cases this information is more
reliable then a few minutes walking or running on a treadmill.

Considerations when buying online:

1) Check to makes sure the treadmill is a name brand, backed by
independent ratings and reviews. There are a number of sources
that provide reviews, including my site HREF="http://www.treadmill-ratings-reviews.com/" rel="nofollow">Treadmill-Rating
s-Reviews.com.

2) Make sure the treadmill is built with quality components.
Like computers, treadmill manufacturers use similar parts. Be
certain the parts are reputable and that the overall
construction meets or exceeds the standards required for your
needs.

3) A warranty says a lot about the quality of a treadmill.
Companies are not going to offer an exceptional warranty if
the machine tends to breakdown in a short period of time.
Warranties are an indicator of the overall quality. I recommend
that you buy a treadmill that offers at least a one-year service
warranty. There is one company selling treadmills under $2,000,
with a two-year service warranty. If you plan to buy a budget
treadmill consider an extended warranty.

4) Make sure your treadmill is backed by exceptional customer
service. Treadmills are complicated pieces of machinery. There
is a good chance during the life of the machine it will require
service. Whether you buy online or at a retail store, make sure
the company has an excellent customer service record. Online
company reviews can be found at Shopping.com and BizRate.com.

As with any high-ticket item do your homework before you make a
purchasing decision. Shop and compare using the indicators
listed above. Buy smart and you’ll end up with a treadmill
designed to reach your fitness goals.

Experts from the United Nations and Indian Ocean countries agreed to set up a tsunami warning system to prevent a repeat of the catastrophe that struck on December 26, Unesco said.

A fully functioning system that detects undersea earthquakes and broadcasts warnings to coastal communities is expected to be in place by the end of 2006, said Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of Unesco’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, on Tuesday.

“The Indian Ocean countries have agreed among themselves to set up an early tsunami warning system for the whole Indian Ocean basin,” Bernal said. The basin extends to the 11 southern Asian coastlines devastated by the December tsunami.

At a five-day meeting at Unesco’s headquarters in Paris, experts also laid out a timetable for the project and interim measures to help protect the region that was battered by the killer Asian tsunami.

Japan and the United States are to begin providing alerts on seismic activity to the region starting on April 1. The two countries have the world’s most advanced tsunami warning systems, and a UN-co-ordinated network based in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, issues alerts for 26 Pacific Ocean nations.

Could be extended by 2007
Experts say a similar system in southern Asia would have saved many lives in the Dec 26 disaster.

Work will also begin on installing systems that can detect changes in sea level and broadcast the information in real time to countries in potential danger.

Tidal gauges will be installed at six sites, mainly off the coasts of hard-hit Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, Bernal said. Another 15 existing sites will be upgraded around the region.

“We expect to have all those systems operative by October or November,” Bernal said.

A second Unesco-sponsored meeting will be held next month in Mauritius to finalise policy matters and broach divisive questions, including whether one country would host a disaster warning centre or if the responsibilities would be distributed across the region, Bernal said.

Member states plan to meet in June to formally adopt the plan, but work is getting under way immediately.

Officials hope to extend the system globally by 2007 to cover other regions at risk, such as the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the southwest Pacific.

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The phrase “return on investment” (ROI) is thrown around a lot, but do you know what it really means and how to calculate it?

Three ways to calculate ROI
Cash-on-cash If $20,000 is invested and it grows by $10,000, it’s a 50 percent cash-on-cash rate of return, which is great for wealth building.
Total amount of investment If you put $20,000 down for a $200,000 mortgage, the growth is happening on the $200,000, not what you originally put in. This is arguably less relevant because the amount made on what was originally put in is more important and helpful.
Lost opportunity cost When you’re looking to raise money with another person’s money, you need to demonstrate the loss he could incur if he doesn’t invest. If you have an investment that pays a 20 percent interest and the lender has money in something that only pays 5 percent, you need to show him how much he is losing if he passes up your opportunity.

What the rich do that we don’t
The rich develop a wealth building niche that allows them huge rates of return on what they doreal estate, investing in the market, your day-to-day business. Once they make the money, without fail, the wealthiest of the wealthy buy bonds, key bills or some other type of fund that pays a return of three percent to five percent. They want to protect their principle. They only roll the dice in an area of expertise where they can expect a safe return.

During my years of law school, I completed an internship with a New York Supreme Court Justice and second legal internship with a law firm and also began investing in real estate. Immediately upon graduating law school and passing the bar exam, I opened my own law practice. From 1988 to 2001, I practiced with my partner under the name Miles and Gillard, where I concentrated in the area of real estate and business law.

Drew Miles

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