December 15, 2021 Software And Web Development

Top 10 Reasons Why You Need A Website

Top 10 Reasons Why You Need A Website

by

Dennis Andrew

Your unique business deserves the same amount of attention as large corporations. Technological advances in a world that never pause now enable small businesses to compete with large corporations, and web design is an affordable way to market your business, church, or nonprofit.

We have compiled a list of 10 reasons why you need a web site:

1. Increase Customer Potential

A web site will expose your organization to a larger number of prospective customers and increase the size of your targeted customer base. The web site will make your business available to a larger number of consumers and expose your products and services to a greater variety of potential customers. Effective internet usage creates many bridges by using social networks, directories, and advertising that all point back to your destination: A well designed, well written, web page.

2. Increase Your Profile

With a stellar web site, customers see your business as more professional, dynamic, modern, and better able to serve their needs. Businesses without a web site are often perceived by potential customers as small and inept. Even worse, a business with an unprofessional web page design will seem uncertain and unprofessional. What will potential customers think if your competitors all have a beautiful web site design and all you have is a Facebook page?

3. Promote Your Business 24/7

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Customers can access your web site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They can read about your products and services when it is convenient for them–quite often, long after you have locked up and gone home. An effective web site design can efficiently answer customer inquiries all day and night, not to mention sell while you sleep!

4. Attract Prospects Ahead of the Competition

For many people, the purchasing decision starts by researching products and services using the web. Purchasing decisions are made long before the first phone call or store visit. Become a part of the consumers’ research process with an effective web site design.

5. Increase Popularity

Providing a well designed web site complements social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Using a web site to engage prospective customers by offering exclusive discounts to a specific social network will gain popularity unheard of in any other medium. A web site puts you in control of the purchasing process.

6. Target Potential Customers

Customers who visit your web site are interested in your products and services. They have found your site via Google, or you shared it on Twitter, Facebook or other networking sites. They are ready to make a purchasing decision. Your business promotion is effective when your web site is viewed by interested potential customers.

7. Establish Credibility

Answer customer queries and share valuable information that goes beyond simply selling your product or service by providing compelling content on your web site. Customers value detailed information and an informative web site denotes the business as knowledgeable and professional.

8. Increase Communication with Customers

Use your web site to serve as a catalyst for your business by further engaging customers from popular social networking sites to close the deal on your business web site. Online forms may also be used so that customers can request more information or place orders.

9. Advertise Inexpensively

Technological advances have made small business web development more affordable than ever before. Spruce up your advertising through affordable web design and receive a greater return on your investment when compared to the cost of advertising on radio and television, in newspapers, or in the Yellow Pages.

10. Market Effectively

Web site design does not limit the volume of content that you can present to potential customers. Other types of promotional media such as print, radio, and television, charge fees by the word or second. A six-page web site allows you to fully explain your business, products, and services. You can tell potential customers about your staff, qualifications, existing clients, completed projects, or just about anything that will benefit your business.

We know many more reasons why you need a web site. Ensure that you make the right choice for your organization and not question “if” you will have a web site, but “when.” Your partners at Shooin Company make it easy, affordable, and a shoo-in.

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December 14, 2021 Uncategorized

Crane collapse in Houston, Texas, kills 4, injures 7

Sunday, July 20, 2008

A crane collapsed Friday in Houston, Texas killing 4 people and injuring 7 more. The crane, which stood 30-stories-tall, fell down at the LyondellBasell oil refinery in Houston, Texas. The crane could lift up to 1 million pounds.

“This is a traumatic experience for all of us. We have to focus on the safety and health of our employees,” said Jim Roecker of LyondellBasell.

The company has about 3,000 employees at the oil refinery and another 1,500 contract workers.

Margaret Landry, a spokesperson for Deep South Crane & Riggen, which built, owned and operated the crane, said: “It is a family-owned business, and we are grieving right now with our employees and families going through this tragedy. We’re just getting through it.”

Occupational Safety and Health Administration began its onsite investigation on Saturday.

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Wikinews interviews Steve Burke, U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate

Sunday, December 13, 2015

 This article is a featured article. It is considered one of the best works of the Wikinews community. See Wikinews:Featured articles for more information.

Macomb, New York Councilman Steve Burke took some time to speak with Wikinews about his campaign for the U.S. Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination.

Burke, an insurance adjuster and farmer, was elected councilman in Brookhaven, New York in 1979. He left the town after being accused and found not guilty of bribery in the 1980s. Since 1987 he has served as Macomb councilman off-and-on and currently holds the post. From 1993 to 1996 and 1999 to 2002 he worked as chairman of the Democratic Party of St. Lawrence County, New York. Among his many political campaigns, Burke unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1992 and recently attempted to run for U.S. Congress in 2014 but too many of his ballot petition signatures were found invalid. Burke filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in the 2016 election on September 18, 2015 and has qualified for the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Primary.

With Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn?, Burke discusses his political background, his 2016 presidential campaign, and his policy proposals.

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December 10, 2021 Uncategorized

On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2020

Saturday, July 25, 2020

The following is the second edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories.

This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail includes interviews with the vice presidential nominees of the Prohibition Party, Reform Party, and the Life and Liberty Party.

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December 9, 2021 Financial Planner

2009 Earnings Projections

2009 Earnings Projections

by

Charles Rotblut

Profit forecasts for 2009 continue to be cut in large numbers. For every positive revision , there have been 6 cuts. The ratio is roughly the same whether the sample group is the S&P 500 or the larger Zacks Rank universe, which contains about 4400 stocks.

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There is also quite a bit of difference in what analysts are forecasting. Last night, I calculated projected earnings growth for the S&P 500 based on the lowest, consensus and highest estimates. Here are the results based on a bottom-up calculation. Lowest estimate: $71.60 (-5.8%) Consensus estimate: $91.14 (+9.5%) Highest estimate: $111.14 (+20.7%) The bottom-up estimate is calculated by using the individual earnings estimates for each company and then applying an index-weight to it. The lowest estimate uses the lowest profit forecast for each company. The highest estimate uses the highest forecast for each company. It is possible that some of the highest forecasts are close to 90 days old, meaning that analysts have yet to adjust them for the credit crunch. The top-down forecasts, which are consensus estimates made for the S&P 500 as a whole, show a tighter range. Lowest estimate: $75.20 (+1.6%) Consensus estimate: $93.73 (+6.9%) Highest estimate: $108.00 (+7.5%) As I have said previously, these profit forecasts need to be taken with grain of salt. Brokerage analysts are doing their best to make educated guesses, but the assumptions used in their models could end up being very wrong. It’s not the analysts’ fault, but rather just current reality. Credit Markets The credit freeze is continuing to show signs of thawing, a positive. The 3-month London-Interbank Offered Rate (aka “LIBOR”) is down to 2.29% as of Friday morning. At the height of the credit crunch, the rate had reached 4.82%. This rate is used as the basis for many loan terms, including the interest rate on your and my credit cards. The TED Spread, which is the difference between the LIBOR rate and 3-month treasury bill rates, has also narrowed. Friday’s spread of 2% is well below the recent peak of 3.66%. Higher TED spreads imply greater credit risk. Prior to the current credit crunch, the TED spread was 0.11%. The Election and the Our Portfolios During the campaign, President-Elect Obama said that healthcare will be one his top priorities. Since the Focus List presently has a heavy weighting towards the medical sector, I want to address why I’m not concerned. Healthcare will be a major battle. There are too many players with high-powered lobbyists to allow true change to occur without a fight. Furthermore, even if the U.S. moves towards national health care, much of the existing system could be kept in place. Switzerland has universal coverage AND powerful insurance and pharmaceutical companies. In other words, I expect most companies within the medical sector to remain profitable long after President-Elect Obama leaves the White House. This said, we will monitor progress and make changes to the portfolio if legislation dictates it. The Markets Despite all of the volatility, we are still in one big trading range. The post-election pullback occured as the Dow was just above resistance and overbought on a short-term basis. There was a big rally headed into the election, so a sell on the news reaction was not surprising. In a monthly column that I write for SFO Magazine’s web site, I described the Dow’s range as between 8200-9450. We might see some intraday swings slightly outside these numbers, but I think it’s a close approximation. Though this is a big range, if the Dow can start to see more days with double-digit moves, as opposed to triple-digit moves, then investor confidence would be more fully restored. The Focus List We did not make any changes this week, but there are a few companies we are looking at closely. Our target is adding 2-3 companies per week. Perrigo’s (PRGO) earnings were a penny below expectations, but guidance seemed to be okay. We’re looking at the estimate revisions as they come out. McDonald’s (MCD) said the stronger dollar could hurt fourth-quarter earnings. I do think the company will benefit from more frugal consumers in the U.S., however. We’re going to monitor the estimates revisions.

Charles Rotblut is the Vice President of Web Content for Zacks Investment Research and the Senior Market Analyst for Zacks.com. He oversees the editorial staff, manages the market-beating Focus List, Timely Buys and Top 10 portfolios, and plays an instrumental role in the development of new products. For more information, visit http://www.zacks.com.

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December 8, 2021 Uncategorized

2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition Preview: An exposition with different cultures

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The 2008 Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE 2008), organized by the Taipei Book Fair Foundation (TBFF), will start tomorrow and end next Monday (Feb. 18) at the Taipei World Trade Center in Hall 1 & 3 and in the Taipei Show (TWTC Hall 2). Before the opening of the main show, the TIBE changed significantly.

Since the Preview Exhibition was held in 1992 in Jhonghe City, Taipei County with the “History of books in China” theme, the preview exhibition wasn’t eventually held before the main show every year.

This pre-main-show exhibition style was replaced by a consuming battle between bookstores from actual to virtual (via Internet) and reading festivals from municipal libraries in Taiwan that the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China promoted. But in 2008, after the TBFF was regrouped last year, the preview exhibition finally returned on Feb 2 & 3 with the “Book Market” and “Arts and Crafts” in the Huashan Culture Park, Taipei. With the preview exhibition, the reading population is expected to expand rapidly and widely in Taiwan.

To gather on different cultures, the TBFF not only arranged a variety of seminars from book-cover designing, changes of publishing industry, publishing style, and strategies from global publishing industry, but also invited executives from the publishing industry worldwide such as Michel Le Bris, Gilles Lapouge, Shaun Tan, Markus Zusak, Tony Wheeler, and Maruen Wheeler and executives from the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Apart from seminars and executives, the Stiftung Buchkunst (Book Art Foundation) will showcase several awarded books from “Giant of Japanese Design” and some book design awards in the “Most Beautiful Book Designing” pavilion. Two book design awards by TBEE named the “2008 TIBE Prize” and “2008 Golden Butterfly Award” will be successively announced on Feb 13 & 14.

Not only on book-designing and pavilions, even though Australia was named as the main international pavilion, the TBFF chose the opening movie “What My Eyes Have Seen” from France and a closing movie named “The Edge of Heaven“ from Germany, those selected movies including the opening and closing ones will be screened at the movie pavilion. The Travel Literature Pavilion will show a different style varied from the 2007 Taipei International Travel Fair, not only just about traveling but also mixed with cultures and literature.

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December 6, 2021 Uncategorized

CBC’s new show The One sparked some controversy over simulcast

Thursday, July 20, 2006

The One: Making a Music Star is a new reality show hosted by CBC personality George Stroumboulopoulos.

The show airs on ABC and on CBC.

It premiered yesterday and has sparked some controversy over the simulcast, which according to ABC’s schedule means displacing CBC’s The National for a U.S. program.

Over the past few weeks, CBC’s decision to simulcast The One has drawn criticism from a number of individuals and groups, including Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, NDP MP and federal heritage critic Charlie Angus, and a retired CBC journalist Knowlton Nash.

Since the show airs on Tuesday night, the episodes will bump The National to an earlier slot in Atlantic Canada and a later one in Ontario and Québec, which means it will air at 11:00 PM instead of 10:00 PM in Ontario and in Quebec. The Wednesday night editions will also bump The National to an earlier slot in Ontario and Quebec.

A Canadian version of the series will launch in the fall in another time slot, but a condition of the CBC’s franchise deal for this production was to simulcast the ABC production. This also represents the first time in over a decade that the CBC has scheduled an American-produced series in prime time.

The CBC’s will continue to show The National at different times on the main broadcast network and on CBC Newsworld. “We get discouraged that people don’t appreciate the fact that [The National] is on Newsworld. . . . People watch their news on the Internet, on cable, on broadcast and we’re giving it to them in all different kinds of ways. We’re very proud of The National. I just hope that gets across.” , said Kirstine Layfield, CBC’s executive director of network programming.

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December 4, 2021 Uncategorized

Chilean miners trapped after mine collapse; miscalculated drilling delays rescue

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A gold mine collapse in Copiapó, Atacama Region, Chile has trapped 33 miners since last Thursday. Another collapse occurred on Saturday, that provoked temporary suspension of the rescue works.

Rescue efforts were first focused on a ventilation shaft, but attempts to reach the miners failed. Rescuers have been drilling into the mine since Sunday. “The situation is very complex, the mine continues to have collapses because there is a geological fault-line,” said Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile, who “pledged to do everything possible to get to the trapped miners,” but acknowledged he was pessimistic.

There is no certainty that the miners, who are trapped about 400 meters (1300 feet) below the ground, are still alive.

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December 1, 2021 Financial Planning

Short Term Loans Without A Checking Account 5 Things You Should Know

By Larry Donaldson

In need of cash but don’t have a checking account? You are not alone. These days, more and more people are being rejected for a new account – and the rejection is not for the reasons you might think (see below).

The taking out of short term loans is on the rise due to many people finding themselves in a cash pinch. The economy, personal misfortune, or just bad planning are all possible reasons why you may be running short on cash.

Here are 5 things you should know if you are interested in short terms loans without a bank account:

1. The vast majority of short term lenders require that you have a bank account.

Most short-term lenders require that you have a bank account. There are three main reasons for this:

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a. usually, the lender will want you to write a post-dated check to them so that you can pay them back on your next pay day. And, a check requires a bank account!

b. having a checking account is a symbol your being a responsible person who can pay back the loan.

c. possessing a checking account also allows the bank to establish your identity, which builds trust.

2. Some lenders do not require an account.

There are some lenders who do not require that you have an account. However, these lenders will usually want you to put up some type of collateral in order to potentially cover any risk that your loan represents. And, that is not always easy to come up with.

3. Not having a checking account is frustrating for other reasons, as well:

Lacking access to your own checking is frustrating for many other reasons, besides not being able to get qualified for a loan. For example, having an account allows you to have a safe place to keep your money. It also allows you to write checks and make debit charges at almost any store, gas station, and service provider anywhere. Not only that, but checking accounts also allow you to manage your money through online banking. And, of course, it gives you access to your money through a network of ATM machines located anywhere you go.

4. Chex Systems: the reason you cannot get approved for a checking account.

Applying for a new checking account is a fairly easy process that can take 15 minutes or less. The bank will need to establish your identity and get you set up in their system. But, what if you have applied for one or more checking accounts but been rejected? This is a humiliating and frustrating experience.

The reason that 99% of people get rejected for a new checking account – to the surprise of many people – has NOTHING to do with your credit (FICO) score. Rather, it is because their name has been reported to a database called Chex Systems. Banks use this database to share information with each other about past customers whom they consider a banking risk. Currently, about 80-90% of banks refer to Chex Systems when considering new account applications.

5. Second chance checking accounts allow you to avoid the Chex Systems hassle.

Once your name has been reported to Chex Systems, there is no way to get it immediately removed. However, there is a silver lining to this cloud: there are a handful of banks that do not refer to Chex Systems when considering a new application. These banks are called “second chance checking” banks, for good reason: they give you a second chance when others won’t.

If you are looking for short term loans without a checking account, your best bet is to apply for a second chance checking account first. The approval process can take just minute, and you can find any number of lenders willing to extend to you a new loan.

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November 30, 2021 Uncategorized

Utah police investigate polygamist family from reality show ‘Sister Wives’

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The polygamist family at the center of the new TLC reality television series Sister Wives are now the subject of a criminal investigation. Yesterday, following Sunday’s debut of Sister Wives, police in Lehi, Utah, where the show is set, announced they are investigating Kody Brown and his four wives for possible charges of bigamy.

Sister Wives focuses on Brown, his four wives—Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn—and his 13 children and three step-children. The family has said they are participating in the show to bring more public awareness to polygamist families and fight societal prejudices.

Brown has claimed the arrangement is not illegal because he is only legally married to Meri, and the other marriages are only spiritual unions. However, Lehi police said yesterday that state laws identify bigamy through cohabitation, not just legal contracts. The department plans to turn their findings over to the Utah Attorney General’s office at the conclusion of their investigation.

TLC contacted the state attorney general’s office before the series was broadcast in anticipation of potential legal issues. The office has not explicitly stated they will not charge the Browns, but has stated they do not have the resources to prosecute polygamists unless they are suspected of serious crimes, like child abuse and child trafficking.

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