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http://bbbroundup.com/LeadStory.htmlApparently, the terrorist organization HAMAS is now a member in good standing with the Los Angeles BBB. HAMAS joined the LA BBB on July 12th of this year and have been given a BBB company ID number of 100096748.
HAMAS is described by the Better Business Bureau as a company who provides educational programs for troubled youth. This sounds like a ‘cleaned up’ description of exactly how HAMAS recruits its members for jihad.
The contact listed for HAMAS is one Bill Mitchell. It may be a co-incidence, but the CEO of the LA BBB is one William Mitchell.
However, five minutes of due diligence reveals that this listing for HAMAS is a joke. Of course, that is five minutes more due diligence than the BBB ever undertook. This speaks volumes about the credibility of the Better Business Bureau. In fact it’s all you really need to know to understand just how corrupt the BBB actually is.
For the complete story on how HAMAS joined the BBB and received an A- grade, click here.Original post blogged on bbbroundup.film connection fraud
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In my last entry, I stated that if you want to become an on-air radio broadcaster, you have four primary options. Let’s take a look at option 2.Many people exploring their Broadcasting Career options available will inevitably be faced with the choice of whether Radio Broadcasting Schools are a viable option.OK, I’ll admit: I’m NOT a big fan of traditional brick and mortar Radio Broadcasting Schools at all.Nothing personal, I’ve just had too many people come to me AFTER they’ve completed their ‘training’ and were extremely sour on them. Their biggest gripe always centered around job placement and their inability to get their foot in the door and make connections of any kind upon completion of their ‘schooling’.I often question the financial solvency of these schools, as well. Regardless of how well capitalized they seem to be, they appear to spend more money on acquiring the next student than they do on keeping their current students, faculty, and physical plants operating efficiently.I look at the ungodly sums of money schools like the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, Ohio and Illinois Centers for Broadcasting, and a few others carelessly throw into advertising, and you wonder just when one of them will be forced to file for bankruptcy.Face it, regardless of what new field you may be looking to enter, it still all boils down to a common sense, age old truism:It’s not just WHAT you know….But WHO you know.Don’t park your common sense at the front door on me now, but think about it…Traditional brick and mortar Broadcasting Schools will have at least 20 people in each class, who serve essentially as your competition when it comes to landing your first radio job.Then, they’ll stick you in a radio station to do an internship, where…That radio station also has 10-15 college students doing internships, who ALSO serve as your competition for whatever job opens up.Why would/should they pick you out of all of these candidates?You may be good, but it’s a numbers game and a certain element of timing/luck will factor in. For instance….say a job opens up right after you begin. 3 other college students have been there for 6 months now, and have been able to leave a positive impression with the PD, merely because of their longer time at the station.You may be better than they are, but the boss just doesn’t know you as well. Then, If nothing becomes available during the rest of your internship….You’re stuck…and on your own.The Broadcasting School has cashed your check and is now making the same lofty promises to their next enrollee as they did with you!Nonetheless, let’s partially review broadcasting schools:So Much Money . . . There are several regional and national broadcasting schools such as the Ohio and Illinois School of Broadcasting and Columbia School of Broadcasting.These brick and mortar facilities offer broadcasting courses much like a college, and their price tags are much the same, too. Tuition is between $9,000 and $15,000! (Yep, you read right: nine thousand to fifteen thousand dollars! There?s one in Minnesota that?s over Thirty thousand dollars and one in Florida which approaches that). . . So Few Results: Because broadcasting schools are just schools, and are not connected with actual working radio stations.Little or no insider radio contacts are available to the student.This should be of concern, because most jobs come from having contacts in the business. Without having a chance to make these contacts, all the other students from the school end up competing for the same limited openings.Your real chances of becoming hired upon graduation from a Broadcasting School are, sadly, very slim. How do radio industry decision-makers view them? (After all, this is whose opinions REALLY matter).Bob Thornton, General Manager of KXOJ Radio in Tulsa, once told me how most general managers and program directors feel about broadcasting schools:?We’ve found in the past that students of broadcast schools are often taught outdated or irrelevant techniques that get in the way of training. In fact, I speak at radio seminars all over the country, and work extensively with some of the top consultants in the industry, and I have never met, in all my years, a single graduate of broadcast schools working in radio.?Certainly, some have had success through broadcasting schools, and are gainfully employed today. Bob just hasn?t met any.SUMMARY: The people who do well in this type of environment tend to be ?classroom type? learners who have a sizable amount of discretionary income or are willing to go heavy in debt through their financing programs.It’s fair to call Broadcasting Schools ‘the $10,000 gamble’, I’d say.Next, we’ll cover another aspect of Broadcasting Schools that is rarely spoken about.Until that time,Many BlessingsMichael Maddenhttp://www.BroadcastingCareer.comradio connection
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Date: Mar 24, 2010
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Whenever people approach me asking for assistance in launching their Broadcasting Careers, regardless of whether it’s in Sports Broadcasting or Radio Broadcasting, my first question will always be “Why are you interested in a Broadcasting Career?”The answers are always telling.If fame is you’re reasoning (and many of those interested in Sports Broadcasting Careers seem to fit this mold), you may want to reconsider…and I’ll tell you why.I once heard a famous Christian author and reputable child psychologist, Dr James Dobson, speaking on marriage. The question was posed “How do I know whom the right person is for me to marry?”His answer involves a principle I transfer to those looking to begin their broadcasting careers. He simply stated that he believed the right person is NOT the person you think you’d like to spend the rest of your life with, but rather…The right person to marry is the one you couldn?t imagine living your life WITHOUT!(That truth has worked in my life, as I fooled my high school sweetheart into believing that I was the one she couldn’t live without over 33 years ago:>))Now, let’s carry that same principle over to your broadcasting career.Is radio broadcasting (or tv) something you’d just like to spend your life doing, or…is broadcasting something your life couldn’t do without?There’s a huge difference, and the people I come in contact with whose motives are fame in desiring a Broadcasting Career should probably step back for a moment.On the other hand, those who ‘have the calling’ in them, and feel their life would be incomplete without taking action on this unquenched thirst, would do well to seek options for moving forward.I’ve met and interviewed a goodly number of famous people, but will share a story with you regarding my niece, on the importance of answering your calling without fame as your motivator.From the time she was a young girl, she loved sports…. and was darn good at whatever she put her hand to. Always shy and never one for the spotlight, she became too talented to play with other girls, so she began competing against boys…and seriously began to put the hurtin’ on them, as well.Fast forward to her high school days, and she settled on Soccer. Eventually, she decided to leave Texas and move in with my brother in Virginia while her parents were reassigned to Italy by the military.At 15, she was named to the US Women?s national soccer team, eventually played in 3 Women?s world cups, 3 Olympic games and recently retired as the all time leading scorer in the history of International soccer.You?ve most likely seen her on various Nike/Gatorade/Mattel commercials over the years and is probably one of the most famous women?s athletes in the world today.And yet, a major part of her appeal is, simply…she’s still that quiet, shy kid who’d rather let someone else enjoy the spotlight.The bottom line is, she would’ve played soccer if no one in the world knew her name. She was simply answering her calling.This past Christmas she made a comment to my wife that ties all this together, in saying “Soccer was the only thing that I ever wanted to do and could envision myself doing”.Can you say the same thing in regards to your desire for a career in broadcasting?This appears to be a common thread for many truly famous people. Their greatness attracts fame as a result of them answering that thing they “had to do”.If pursuing a Broadcasting Career is something you have to do, stay with me. If a Broadcasting career is something you’d just like to try…stay with me, and I’ll point you in a direction that may be initially safer.How can you discern the difference between whether it?s your actual calling or just something you?d like to do?Just trust your instincts…they?re usually right.Until next time,Many BlessingsMichaelhttp://www.BroadcastingCareer.com/P.S. To clarify one minor point, when you see the term Broadcasting career, I’m speaking of entering this field in either a part-time OR full-time capacity.entertainment career connection scam radio connection fraud
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You can learn about work at home jobs from various sources, it all depends on the nature of your profession. The Internet is definitely the best means to find out about the alternatives to getting full employment. Just keep an eye open for scams!
Classifieds!
Many people learn about work at home jobs from local newspapers. The local work force can be targeted by work at home legitimate companies or institutions. This is how an educational institution may search for an online tutor. Or registered nurses can get work at home jobs from clinics, hospitals and doctors either for telephone triage or for case management.
You can try your hand at phone sales, which is another solution for work at home jobs. From the seller’s perspective such contracts are pretty advantageous as you pay for the phone bill. Get a good phone service contract in case you think you can make money with a phone commercial activity. Plus, you always have the Internet to make some calls.
Stuffing envelopes with advertising materials is probably the best known form of work at home jobs. Such ads still get published in the local newspaper, but few people still buy this. Otherwise, scams are often camouflaged in the classifieds section, and it is not advisable to answer jobs that don’t specify the nature of the occupation. Ignore messages that emphasize the gains but don’t tell you the source of the profit.
The Internet!
Lots of entrepreneurs learn about work at home jobs from the Internet. They are either after some business opportunities, or they receive emails from people who seem to have succeeded in online activities.
Affiliate programs or direct marketing networks are just two from a much longer list of occupational variants available online. Nevertheless, the Internet is not exactly the land of all possibilities and you have to avoid treading on too thin ice.
If you have the right skills you can develop a good career out of some regular work at home jobs from online sources. This is how freelancers will get ongoing contracts with customers pleased with their professional performance. Web designers, computer specialists, transcribers, editors, ghostwriters and lots of other skilled professionals can actually make a living independent work activities on the Internet. Get a look on freelancing websites and you will see what successful profiles many members have. Even if they involve lots of hard work, successful work at home jobs are possible online!
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The care taking home’s of the child should be full of happiness and joy such that it resembles the home. Parents with fond memories of their childhood trips to the zoo really love the idea of decorating an entire room with monkey crib bedding set. This fun theme can be found both online and in retail stores where monkeys and chimps swinging through the jungle foliage are featured on crib bedding.
While some kinds exhibit different types of the monkey clan, certain others capture different poses of these intelligent animals in their playful moods. Also, monkey imagery can be found in more intricate designs that include them within a safari theme that also pictures exotic foliage and additional jungle creatures that give your little one even more to focus on.
Monkeys remain popular in many children’s stories and movies allowing parents to choose from many favorites when decorating. When we go shopping out for necessary nursery articles we have so many extremely good designs available but we finally stop at crib bedding for boys.
Monkey accessories for the nursery are readily available from curtains to laundry bags and more all featuring these playful creatures. It is easy to find monkey designed items for infants because this animal is so popular with the younger set.
On the other hand, there can be no monk eying around at all when it comes to looking after your son’s health and safety. Whatever the pattern or theme, bedding must first and foremost been chosen with an eye towards safety. Availability of coordinated packages from well-known producers make life much easier for the parents as they provide products at an acceptable price and create their products according to standard dimensions and have the knowledge of the best materials due to their devotion to the field of crib bedding.
If the prospective parents aspire to have the convenience of complete decoration of their little new male member of their family in one pattern and style and at the same time still want to have a hand in personalizing their little boy’s bedroom, then they must buy a pattern which they can search either by searching on the internet by logging on the concerned websites or to decorate the room of your son with one or more adorable baby bedding sets with monkey themed bedding so as to provide full fun and enjoyment to your son as he is going to play with those monkeys. It’s not difficult to do, and when you are finished you will have a very unique and special gift.
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Practically every company on the planet sets out with the main objective of earning money. This is generally done by manufacturing some form of product, or offering a service, and then charging people money for it.
First of all, it is a very rare case where a business can offer a product or service that is genuinely unique and cannot be provided by anyone else. This means that your enterprise will be competing with other businesses that sell a similar item and you will both be trying to make money from the same customers, who only want to spend their money once.
Marketing is the primary tool used by modern firms to draw prospective customers to do business with them and not with their rivals. It is a very extensive topic that is affected by a great number of internal and external factors, but when done well it can be the one business practice that can make or break a corporation.
So where should you begin when creating a marketing strategy for your own company? Well, every situation is different, and every industry will have its own set of strengths and flaws that must be taken into consideration, but there is a marketing rule that can be applied to almost any corporation to be used as a marketing framework.
The Marketing Mix
The marketing mix was a phrase that was first coined during the 1950′s and is a phrase that is used to express the fundamental building blocks of any marketing system. It reflects the fact that marketing is not a simple, blunt-edged business tool, but rather a subtle balance of different aspects of business operations. It got its name since it is similar to the ingredients list for a recipe.
The term was later developed to include the idea of “four P’s” that described the critical elements of the marketing mix. The formalisation of these P’s made it very clear for business managers and marketers to swiftly relate the elements of marketing to the strengths of their own companies, and by doing so could very rapidly form a personalised and effective marketing strategy. The four P’s are Product, Price, Place and Promotion.
When we were planning the launch for some of our Nottingham swivel seat products we used concepts from the marketing mix to devise a plan.
Product
Although every aspect of the marketing mix is a necessity, the “product” element mentioned as one of the four P’s is possibly the most crucial of all. It identifies the physical product or intangible service that your business will be selling, and at the end of the day it is the reason that buyers are going to spend money with you. If this element is not correctly managed then your company will find it hard to make it through.
Many people don’t think that marketing has any place to play when it comes to the actual product that your business is selling. In fact, the common train of thought very often bears the exact opposite sentiment. Surely it should be the other way around – your production department creates an item for sale and then it is the job of the marketing department to discover ways to sell it, right? This is not necessarily the case.
Take the computer software market as an example. There are many established brands of both operating system as well as software application solutions in the marketplace already, and because the market is relatively well saturated it would be incredibly tough (and expensive) to “take on the big boys”.
Rather than creating an operating system and then trying to craft a marketing strategy to rival the likes of Microsoft or Apple, it would be more effective to look at what sorts of product are sought after in the current marketplace, and how viable it would be to manufacture and sell them. By being mindful of the marketing mix early on in your product development period you can avoid business dead-ends at a later stage.
Once your goods have been designed and created it is still a vital skill to be able to objectively evaluate your own products to recognise the reasons why a customer should buy your product rather than a competitors’. The skill is called product differentiation and forms one of the fundamental skills of the product part of the marketing mix cake.
A different form of this part of the marketing mix is called product variation and is generally used to either prolong the lifecycle of a product already in the market, or to make your brand new product attractive to as many customers as possible.
The car industry uses this technique very effectively by offering different engines, trim packages and interior options with the cars that they sell. They use the marketing mix to great effect to sell their own goods in an extremely competitive marketplace. Although these companies may have substantial marketing budgets, the same principles can be applied to all businesses.
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Price
Another key factor in the marketing mix relates to the price of your products or services. This isn’t a simple case of performing market research to determine the top price that your customers would pay (although that can be a handy tool to use), but rather making use of the price of your products as a strategic weapon designed to achieve any particular objectives your business has.
Whilst it may seem obvious, it’s still worth pointing out that price has always been, and probably always will be, one of the key factors that customers take into account when they are making a purchase. It is also worth noting that customers do not always consider the lowest price to be the best value.
There are many questions that you need to ask yourself while devising a good pricing plan, key among which are the price sensitivity of your clients, what your rivals are doing and how can pricing maximise your own profits. From a strategy point of view however, pricing can be covered by two main principals; price skimming and also penetration pricing. These are outlined below.
Price skimming
The principal idea driving price skimming is to make as much cash as possible from the segment of the market which is price-insensitive and will be willing to spend a large amount of money to receive a product or service early on. Not only can this approach yield great financial benefits, but it can also advertise an exclusive and high quality image of your item.
This pricing strategy is frequently used in the consumer electronics industry where customers will often eagerly await the launch of a new mobile phone or computer games console. Manufacturers could set nearly any price they wanted to and there would still be a loyal core of customers that would pay it. By making use of this method as part of a pre-ordering strategy, a firm can help to smooth its own money flow.
Penetration pricing
Penetration pricing is at the opposite end of the pricing spectrum, and is geared towards gaining a large market share at a short-term cost so that monetary rewards can be earned long into the future. It can be a risky strategy, but when employed correctly it can create revenue streams for many years to come.
Another thing to keep in mind is that “price” is the only part of the marketing mix that will generate revenue for a business. The other members of the four P’s will all cost money to produce or undertake. So it is even more vital to get your pricing strategy right.
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Place
Place is the component of the marketing mix that’s often overlooked by companies, but it’s still a significant part of selling your product effectively. In a nutshell, it describes the method in which you provide your product to your customer, and subsequently how you receive money from them.
The most typical ramifications of place-based marketing are the physical locations in which your goods are sold. For the vast majority of consumer products, this includes the distribution infrastructure between your production centres and shops or other outlets around the world. Since distribution of a physical product costs money it is important to determine your own priorities and adapt your distribution network accordingly.
With the increasing use of the Internet by your potential customers, marketing strategies have had to take into account how they use the Internet to help deliver their products. By using the Internet as a place of contact (or even as a complete distribution channel in download-based markets such as MP3s) firms are now able to reach out to a large pool of potential customers. Effective placing of your product or service can therefore yield impressive economic results.
Promotion
When you say the word “marketing”, most people instantly think of the promotional aspect of the marketing mix, although as we have seen, this is merely one branch of a more complete system. Promotion can be used on a very individual basis or as a mass communication tool, and whilst it can be an expensive undertaking it is often an essential one.
Advertising is one of the most common forms of promotion. Classically it would be done by posting on billboards, creating short clips for TV and radio or by physically distributing flyers or leaflets to potential buyers. With the coming of the information age we have seen a great increase in promotion via e-mail and the Internet, or just as targeted advertising materials posted through your door. The potential for individualised advertising has never been so great.
Another significant part of promotion involves branding, which will not necessarily yield more product sales directly, but goes back to one of the preliminary functions of marketing; getting customers to pick your product over those of your competitors. When all other pieces of the marketing mix are equal it could be branding that swings a customer’s decision.
Putting it into Practice
As previously mentioned each business is different and will have different marketing needs. By using a mixture of the four P’s reviewed above you can take an effective view of your own marketing plan.