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The Domino Theory… By Phil Basten and Jane Mark (JPE
Advertising)

Most of us know what dominos are and many of us have seen those
amazing demonstrations when a massive number of dominos are set
in a somewhat magical array and the creator pushes one domino
over and they all fall down in harmony one after the other.

It’s called the domino theory and if you do it just right it
works and looks spectacular.

Wouldn’t it be great if online businesses worked this way?

It would be terrific if you could set up all your business
dominos (strategies) and have them fall in just the right
direction, wouldn’t it?

Guess what?

You can, and it’s easier than you think.

Ken McArthur and Sid Hale, two seasoned marketers, have put
together a brilliant program that allows you to do this easily
and quickly.

The program’s called JV Alert.
http://www.jvalert.com/invite.aspx?id=69

It allows veteran and inexperienced marketers alike to get
together with other marketers and do the kind of Joint Venture
deals we all dream about.

When this site first opened over a year ago, My partner Jane and
I jumped at the chance to be involved. It was a decision that
has proved fruitful many times over.

We had one goal in mind at that time and that was to connect
with someone who could help us sell an ebook we had written
called ‘Joe? Yes, Mable? Are We Rich Yet?’

Because of JV alert’s unique service and reach, we were able to
put out a call for a joint venture partner instantly.

In walked a joint venture partner who help us get the now
well-known Joe and Mable show off the ground.

In its first major Joint Venture, our company, JPE Advertising
was able to meet other influential marketers such as Joe Vitale,
Shawn Casey, Mike Glaspie, Mark Joyner, Ken McArthur, Jim
Daniels and then continue to do exclusive deals one after the
other.

It only takes one successful joint venture to open the doors to
many others.

If you have a great idea and some talent, it’s not that hard to
get yourself firmly entrenched into the exciting world of Joint
Ventures and the dominos will soon begin to fall your way.

Where do you start. AT JV alert.
http://www.jvalert.com/invite.aspx?id=69

———————————————————- Jane
Mark and Phil Basten run a successful ad agency online and have
been helping internet marketers succeed for 8 years.
http://jpeadvertising.com

You can talk to them in person about JV alert and their
experiences in their online office at:
http://webcast.worldprofit.com/live/jpeadvertising/
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The texture of fabrics varies but all of them add warmth and
personality to a room. Many possibilities are available in
decorating shops, making the work even easier by selling fabrics
and papers in the same pattern. Traditionally it was used to
cover walls but has since given way to wallpaper, which is more
practical and easy to use while carrying out the same function.

Here are ten household helpful hints for choosing floor and wall
covering fabrics to decorate your home:

1. Use fabrics to provide soundproofing in noisy rooms.

2. Curtains or blinds allow us to play with light.

3. Choose flooring like according to a room’s use.

4. Use tough floorings like marble, stone, or tiles where lots
of people move about, especially if they have hard heels or
dirty soles.

5. Use warm flooring like carpets or wood where you will walk
barefoot.

6. Before choosing flooring, try and determine how it will look
in the lighting of a room.

7. Take good care of your flooring to ensure it will last a long
time.

8. Avoid paint in areas with heavy circulation. Tiles and marble
are both washable and longer lasting.

9. When deciding on the flooring and the wall coverings remember
just how much space they occupy and therefore how important they
are.

10. Well-matched wall coverings and floorings can be mutually
enhancing so it is best to select them at the same time.

The popularity of beach weddings has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, and the popularity of beach wedding favors has been growing right along with it.

Having a great wedding on the beach can be a lot of fun, and choosing the right wedding favors for that wedding can make a great day even more exciting and fun.

Shop Early To Ensure You Have A Better Selection Of Favors To Choose From

Choosing the perfect beach wedding favors is never easy, but it is important to shop around as early as possible.

The earlier you are able to shop for the wedding favors you need the better off you will be and the better the selection of wedding favors you will have to choose from.

Places To find The Perfect Favors

There are of course plenty of places to shop for the perfect wedding favors for your big beach wedding.

Some of the many places that sell all kinds of wedding favors include specialty party planning stores, department stores, discount retailers, stationary stores, office supply stores and even the internet.

There are many great web sites that sell all kinds of wedding and party favors, and these web sites can be a great way to find the beach wedding favors you need at prices you can afford.

The Many Different Kinds Of Beach Wedding Favors To Choose From

There are many different kinds of wedding favors on the market of course, and it is important to shop for the ones that best suit your own personal taste and style.

There are an increasing number of different styles of beach wedding favor on the market these days, and it is important to look at as many different styles as possible in order to get the very best deal on the very best wedding favors.

The right wedding favors can make an already exciting and memorable day even more exciting and memorable, so it pays to consider this important purchase very carefully.

The body thermage is a relatively new procedure sweeping the plastic surgery field. Yes, it is the procedure you see performed on many of the makeover television shows.

New Plastic Surgery Procedures – Body Thermage

Many people wonder how celebrities can lose a dress size so fast with apparently doing anything. The answer is a procedure known as body thermage, which is generally used in the treatment of facial and neck laxity. Body thermage is considered an innovative and safe cosmetic option, which is based on radio frequency energy applied to the skin.

The body thermage procedure is often referred to as radiothermaplasty, therma-lift or therma-cool. The treatment is a non-surgical procedure that has shown effectiveness to temporary correct lax abdominal skin, but thermage can be also applied to lift other parts of the body including buttocks, thighs and arms.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the thermage procedure in 2002, originally for the treatment of facial wrinkles and rhytids. Since then, increasing references from TV shows promoting the results resulted in the procedure receive additional clearance for the extensive use of treatment anywhere on the body.

Although almost anyone can undergo body thermage, people whose age is between 35 and 60 are the ideal candidates for the procedure due to the mild to moderate skin laxity present at that age. The skin tightening procedure is meant to be permanent, but this can only be achieved with corresponding maintenance and follow-up programs.

In a massive breakthrough, thermage is also used to successfully treat stretch marks and loose abdominal skin after pregnancy or remarkable weight loss, particularly in obese patients. However, this procedure is not recommended for women immediately after childbirth, except if they are done having children because the effect will be lost with a following pregnancy.

A typical thermage procedure will last from 30 to 90 minutes depending on the area to be treated and pre-existing condition. People with implanted cardiac devices, including pacemakers, should avoid undergoing thermage procedures due to the radio frequency energy below the surface of the skin into the collagen. Specifically, the energy can interfere with the functioning of cardiac devices, a true disaster. Thermage does not require incisions, injections, or surgery. However, individuals taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), such as naproxen, prednisone, and ibuprofen, must avoid it.

The decision to have a body thermage procedure is not one that should be taken lightly. Make sure to consult with a qualified plastic surgery to determine if it is solution to your condition.

Ricardo de Silva is with PlasticSurgeonPractices.com - a directory of plastic surgeons.

Make no mistake. Your resume cover letter is what will get somebody to read your resume.

If that initial commercial for you isn’t shockingly, preferably uniquely good, your resume probably doesn’t count for much.

If your cover IS great, though, you’ve got to have a resume behind it.

Your resume needs to present the product (that’s you) in such a way that the person reading it stumbles over himself trying to pick up the phone to call you.

Having just read that, imagine most resumes you’ve ever read. Did you jump? I doubt it.

Most resumes tell an exhausting story of a person’s work history. What a resume should present is the high points of a compelling career narrative. Anything else is boring, useless reading for somebody who doesn’t have the time for it. And won’t take the time to read it through.

So what should be in a resume anyway? Maybe not what you think. If you get nothing else out of this article, remember one point.

A resume is not a laundry list of your work history.

A resume must contain

• Professional accomplishments (dollar-quantified whenever possible) that your potential employer cares about
• Some more of those
• And, finally, some more of those

Maybe that stuff isn’t as exciting to you as your birthdate, or your hobbies, but nothing else matters as much as that quantified experience your potential boss cares about. If you create a resume without that in there, odds are good it’ll end up in the garbage.

Why?

It’s a matter of time, really. Your potential new boss (or somebody working to fill the position for him, like a recruiter) has only so much of it. Not unlike you, right?

Imagine a business seminar where the speaker drones on about useless or redunant material. Work is piling up back at your desk. You have deadlines to meet. You were supposed to get something out of this seminar. Instead there’s a boring speaker wasting your time.

Get the picture?

A resume reader will move on the instant you stop being compelling. That instant arrives when you stop talking about what the reader cares about. And he cares about quantified (preferably dollar-quantitied) accomplishments.

Think again about the typical resume again. Better yet, think critically about yours. Here’s what most have in them:

• “Tasks.” That’s what you did, not what you achieved.
• “Awards.” Those recognize accomplishments.
• “Promotions.” Those validate repeated accomplishment.

Go ahead and include those items in your resume. Make sure, though, that they add icing to the accomplishment cake.

There’s an old adage in the sales world: Sell, don’t tell. Blah experience listed without any sizzle is telling, not selling.

If your resume doesn’t have quantified (preferably dollar-quantified) accomplishments, it’s a poor commercial for You, Inc.

Copyright (c) by Roy Miller

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Magic tricks have been around for centuries and are practiced in
every society. They are among the most popular past times both
for children and adult.

Tricks may make use of materials or objects such as coins,
cards, tables, game cards, and number tricks but the one that
remains to be the most popular among children and the one that
is first learned by a beginner is the handkerchief.

Linen or Silk?

Tricks using a handkerchief can be either performed in whatever
material it was made of. However, the type of tricks to be
performed determines the type of handkerchief you are to use.

For knots and similar activities, a silk handkerchief is chiefly
used because they slide quickly in the process of tying up.
Other magic tricks using a handkerchief requires a hard material
like linen as in the case of bringing about a hypnotized effect
on a handkerchief.

Below are just some of the most common magic tricks that involve
the use of handkerchief together with explanations on how magic
works.

- Standing Handkerchief - This type of magic trick makes use of
a hemmed linen handkerchief which is ironed to make it even more
stiff. This very same stiffness determines the success for this
performance.

The handkerchief is taken folded from somewhere and spread on
the table. The magician picks it up on the centerfold and raises
it up in the air until it takes the shape of a small tent.

He will do the usual mystic hand pass while putting the
handkerchief in an upright position. The hanky will stay upright
as predicted as if it was put on a spell.

- Detachable Thumb - In this trick, you will need both a hanky
and a piece of carrot. The carrot should be cut in a way that
resembles your thumb. It should be as small and has the same
thickness as your finger.

Partly cover your hand and parts of your thumb finger with the
hanky. You will need both sleight of hand and dexterity in this
kind of activity. Quickness is the rule of the game in order not
to spoil the trick.

Place the carrot in the same position as your thumb showing only
that portion while covered with handkerchief. Patter a little
bit with your audience describing how you have been feeling
about your finger since you accidentally hurt it.

Ask one to participate to do the inspection and possible
massaging for them. The moment they hold the carrot, release it
and act like you were surprised.

- Handkerchief That Changes Color - Apparently, this is one of
the simplest magic trick usually done by magicians in terms of
minimal effect on the audience but one of the most difficult
when it comes to preparation and production.

The magician will show the audience a hanky and toss it around,
up and down, right and left, and changes color along the way.
The hanky does not actually changes its color since the magician
is holding not one, but two hankie!

As the hankie is tossed up and down, he makes it a point to
reverse the position of the topmost hankie so that the one in
the bottom with a different color is showed up and the hankie
apparently changes color.

This quite a difficult thing to do for many suspecting audience
are trying to find out if you got several hankie at hand. This
requires swiftness in the movement of your hand and making sure
that the hankies you are holding do not move independently of
one another.

Tips on Performing Handkerchief Tricks

- Be swift - Try to be mindful of astute members of the audience
at all times. Even the most seemingly attentive spectator are
keen enough even the most slightest mistake made along the
process of performing your tricks thereby spoiling it.

- Mouth Shut - Secrecy is the basic rule that magicians should
keep in mind. Blabbing about the secret of your tricks makes it
even less appealing to onlookers. Allow the audience to make
their own guesses and find it out in their own way. In short,
keep them mystified.

- Practice! Although practice may not help you master all the
skills needed for a certain trick, constant and intense practice
helps and keep you on the right track.

Additionally, convey a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm in
what you are doing for it helps you connect with the audience
and infect them with your attitude along the way.

The loss of a loved one. It is often difficult to find the right words to express your sympathy to someone during this time of sorrow. A floral tribute and supportive message can offer much support to those grieving such a loss. Here we list some suggestions, perhaps to inspire you as you offer your condolences with your floral tribute.

~Our deepest condolences
~With Sympathy
~Our thoughts are with you and your family.
~In Loving Memory
~You are in our thoughts and prayers.
~Fondest remembrances
~Thinking of you and offering you hope and comfort.
~May you find peace and love in the memories you cherish.

In the weeks after…

After the initial outpouring of support, even weeks after the service, encouraging words can provide continued comfort. Consider sending a floral arrangement, a green or blooming plant, or even a gourmet or fruit basket to the family’s home with a supportive message. Here are a few suggestions for you;

~Just wanted you to know you are in my thoughts
~I have been thinking of you
~Hope this brings sunshine to your day
~Let’s get together soon for lunch, give me a call.
~Just as you have been for us, we are always here for you.

Overall, an uplifting and sensitive message is most comforting. Avoid words like “sad” or “I know how you feel”. Messages offering your heartfelt support and friendship with your floral tribute will be appreciated. Your local florist can offer further suggestions about sending a floral tribute.

Tenley McDonald- Former Florist- Now Co-Owner of http://www.flowerpowernetwork.com (Online Directory of Real Local Florists) You can call a local florist direct! No middleman, no extra fees! Ms. McDonald has over 14 years experience in ~Consumer Relations/Marketing ~Customer Service Management ~Floral Design.

Is the choice of colors for your website and print materials more than just a matter of personal preference? Does it really matter what color choices you make? Will your audience really feel differently because of the color combinations? The answer to all these questions is Yes, Yes, and Yes!

Color is considered emotional, because variations evoke different emotions in people. We all know that green is the color of money, but did you also know that green can symbolize greed, envy, and jealousy? The colors you choose will have a direct effect on how the public perceives your company or product. This can be complicated by the fact that our use of color on the web is now limitless: technology allows us to create millions of color combinations. So how do you choose? This brief article will make it simple to understand the basics of choosing colors.

It’s important to understand that every color has a positive and negative set of emotions associated with it, what I call the “color meaning”. It’s this meaning that will affect your customer’s emotional response to your company, brand or product. So when choosing color schemes for your website, or any other media type, you need to make sure you’re presenting your company or product with a color that will most likely entice the audience to choose your company or product.

Take a quick break, and go look in your lunch room, refrigerator, or kitchen cabinets at the products we purchase from the grocery store. What color do you see the most of? Chances are, you’re seeing red, and lots of it. Just glimpsing into my cabinets, now that I know I’m looking for it, I seem to be thrown in to a world of red products. Chef Boyardee, Kellogg’s, Lipton, Carnation, Ragu, Aunt Jemima, Nestle, Betty Crocker, Orville Redenbacher’s, Heinz, Pam, all of these brands are jumping out at me with red in their labels. Why? Red is a very “hot” color, and very emotional as well. In studies, red actually has a physical effect on people, increasing their heart rate and causing blood pressure to rise. Red grabs our attention, stirs us to action, and thus is a very powerful color for product packaging.

All colors fit into three categories; cool, warm and neutral. While you can select all of your colors from the same category, it is often possible to achieve a more powerful effect by introducing a color from one of the other groups. Let’s take a look now at how colors work together, and what each color may mean to the viewer.

Cool Colors
Blue, green, purple, turquoise and silver are cool colors. Cool colors tend to have a calming effect on the viewer. Used alone however, these colors can have a cold or impersonal feel, so when choosing cool colors, it may be wise to add a color from another group to avoid this.

Blue Color Meaning.
Positive: tranquility, love, loyalty, security, trust, intelligence
Negative: coldness, fear, masculinity

Green Color Meaning.
Positive: money, growth, fertility, freshness, healing
Negative: envy, jealousy, guilt, disorder

Purple Color Meaning. (purple is a combination of blue and red, so it is found in both the warm and cool categories)
Positive: royalty, nobility, spirituality, luxury, ambition
Negative: mystery, moodiness

Turquoise Color Meaning.
Positive: spiritual, healing, protection, sophisticated
Negative: envy, femininity

Silver Color Meaning.
Positive: glamorous, high tech, graceful, sleek
Negative: dreamer, insincere

Warm Colors
Red, pink, yellow, orange, purple, and gold are warm colors. Warm colors tend to have an exciting effect on the viewer. However when these colors are used alone they can over-stimulate, generating emotions of anger and violence. When choosing warm tones, adding colors from another group will help to balance this.

Red Color Meaning.
Positive: love, energy, power, strength, passion, heat
Negative: anger, danger, warning, impatience

Pink Color Meaning.
Positive: healthy, happy, feminine, compassion, sweet, playful
Negative: weakness, femininity, immaturity

Yellow Color Meaning.
Positive: bright, energy, sun, creativity, intellect, happy
Negative: coward, irresponsible, unstable

Orange Color Meaning.
Positive: courage, confidence, warmth, friendliness, success
Negative: ignorance, sluggishness, superiority

Purple Color Meaning. (purple is found in both warm and cool colors)
Positive: royalty, nobility, spirituality, luxury, ambition
Negative: mystery, moodiness

Gold Color Meaning.
Positive: wealth, prosperity, valuable, traditional
Negative: greed, dreamer

Neutral Colors
Brown, tan, ivory, gray, black and white are neutral colors. Neutral colors are a great selection to mix with a cool or warm palette. They are good for backgrounds in a design, and also tend to tone down the use of other more overpowering colors. Black is added to create a darker “shade” of a primary color, while white is added to create a lighter “tint”.

Black Color Meaning.
Positive: protection, dramatic, serious, classy, formality
Negative: secrecy, death, evil, mystery
Gray Color Meaning.
Positive: security, reliability, intelligence, solid, conservative
Negative: gloomy, sad, conservative

Brown Color Meaning.
Positive: friendly, earth, outdoors, longevity, conservative
Negative: dogmatic, conservative

Tan (beige) Color Meaning.
Positive: dependable, flexible, crisp, conservative
Negative: dull, boring, conservative

Ivory Color Meaning.
Positive: quiet, pleasantness, pureness, warmness
Negative: weak, unstable

White Color Meaning.
Positive: goodness, innocence, purity, fresh, easy, clean
Negative: winter, cold, distant

You may be asking, “What is the right color combination for my business website?” While there is no absolute “right” color for your website, you need to understand your target audience, and consider their response to colors, not your own. If your end goal is for them to choose your company or product, then your color palette must appeal to them. There are overall factors that indicate what your audience may or may not like.

The basic target audience factors to consider are age differences, class differences, gender differences and overall color trends.

Age difference is a key factor that should not be ignored. If children and adolescents are your target audience, then they prefer bright, primary colors like red, blue, green and yellow. However, if your target is older adults, they would prefer more muted or darker colors, along with colors from the neutral color group.

Class difference is another key factor in choosing colors. United States research has shown those in the working class prefer colors they can name like blue, red, green, etc. Those that are more educated tend to prefer more obscure colors like taupe, azure, celadon, salmon, etc.

Gender preference is an obvious factor in choosing your colors. Men tend to prefer cool tones like blues and greens, where women prefer warmer tones, reds and oranges. If you have an audience of both men and women, consider mixing some colors from the warm and cool palettes that would appeal to both men and women.

Last but not least are color trends. By definition, a trend means “current style”. Choosing currently popular colors may work well for some types of websites and products, but if you want to present longevity and stability, then popular colors may not be the best direction for you. Instead, you may want to consider more traditional colors that stand up over time.

Choosing color is more than just picking what feels good to you, it is about creating a response from the viewer. By knowing your target audience and the effect that different colors can have, you gain a greater ability to determine what colors will work best for your audience.

One final note on color. Viewers on the web can use different monitors, different browsers, and different operating systems. It is nearly impossible to ensure that your colors come across the same on every computer as well as in print. Don’t be overly concerned with the differences on varying computers, but do try to be consistent. Whether you’re creating a color palette for your company, a brand identity, or product colors, consistency is key. Use the same colors throughout all your marketing efforts to create familiarity with your company or product. Consistency will help instill trust with your viewer.

Angela Nielsen is President of NIC Media Group, an award-winning web development company located in San Diego, California. To find out more about Angela Nielsen, and NIC Media, visit www.nicmedia.com or call them direct at 888 NIC Media. Copyright 2005 by Angela Nielsen and NIC Media Group

“Inspiration does not beget action. Action begets inspiration.”
- Chinese Proverb

This proverb succinctly sums up the power of intention. Nothing
happens, nothing changes without intended action.

An intention can best be described as an aim guiding an action.
What you intend, what you truly focus your energy on, will in
some form be realized. The thought alone will not make the
intention come true–rather, the outcome will be influenced by
your desire combined with action steps, small or large. Clear,
achievable intentions lead to transformation.

When you are clear on your intentions, your expectations become
realistic and achievable. That leads to less disappointment and
more happiness. How many times have you found yourself wishing
you’d done things differently? That party you planned just
didn’t come off exactly as you’d hoped. Your presentation did
not have the desired effect. Your holiday was fun but it was not
all you had hoped it would be.

If you want things to turn out in your favor start becoming
more intentional. Here are three ways to support you to take
intended action.

1. Know What You Want

As Steven Covey says “start with the end in mind.” Whenever you
are about to embark on new adventure ask yourself what you want
it to look like. Get a clear picture in your mind. If you are
thinking about booking your next holiday visualize what you
truly desire…the location, the weather, the experience, the
connections with people and how you will spend your time. Ask
yourself, “What is my overall intention for this vacation.”

2. Take Action

Knowing what you want is only half the equation. You must strike
a plan to make it happen. If your intention is to have a
relaxing, sun-filled vacation with your family, you need to
share this vision with your family and take the desired steps to
make it a reality. It is important to list the actions items
that must take place. Then start checking them off, one by
one…with some help, of course.

3. Solicit Support

Whatever you’ve got planned for you and/or your family, make
sure you resist the urge to take on all the action steps
yourself. In fact, be intentional about not doing it all. If
your ideal family vacation has been imagined and the steps that
need to be taken to realize it listed, then now’s the time to
get the right support to execute your plan. Maybe you need a
travel agent, maybe your partner can research hotels, maybe the
kids can start packing their bags. The point is to share the
load and everyone becomes inspired and happier as a result.

Garden planning is an avocation that can be carried to extremes. I have heard rumors that there are actually places that pay people to plan gardens for them. No one would be that silly. Imagine being paid to do something that is well, an obsession.

Personally I have perfected garden planning. It is considered high art when I undertake flower garden design!
I post do not disturb “genius at work” signs in preparation.
Pictures of flower garden ideas drift like colors in your mind.
Formal gardens, whimsical gardens, oriental gardens, rock gardens.All the garden types you can dream of are at your fingertips, if not actually in your yard!
Somehow the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew come to my mind as a attainable garden goal.
Better homes and gardens has a wonderful tool to help you plan layouts and colors.
better homes and gardens flower garden planner. It’s a fun way to spend a blustery afternoon.

Planning the layout and textures of gardens is very diverting.
I can spend hours making lists from the garden catalogs.
These usually arrive just in time to take my mind off of winter.
Winter is relative after all. In Florida the land of sunshine, just a few grey windy overcast days,Can precipitate severe gardening withdrawal, fits or even swoons may follow.
I think it is probably akin to those heavy snow days in the north.The kind that cause cabin fever.
Give me a cup of coca and a couple garden catalogs, and I am happy. Burpees catalog another favorite of mine is the white flower farms catalog.

I won’t even mention what awaking to a frost with a temperature of 20 degrees will do to you if you garden in Florida. Living in paradise I consol myself with knowing that in a few weeks summer will arrive.

Then I will of course be nattering about heat and sweating in the summer.

I actually plan flower gardens on paper; I draw them out, several hundred dozen times. Of course I always find a reason to change this or that, depending on catalog advice, which direction the wind is blowing and whether or not it’s a full moon. Great bargains can be found if your patient. Then I throw the flower garden layout ideas in the trash and start buying what’s on sale at the flea markets. Gardening is always good.

Pet Campbell is a gardener, photography and artist, transplanted from the cowboy kingdon of Montana, to gardening in Paradise Florida.