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Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up (and yet another broken embargo too!).

It’s like Groundhog Day in Silicon Valley as usual.

Today, Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot wins tech’s version of the lottery, grabbing $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and also Salesforce.com.

It is unclear what the valuation for HubSpot is now, although it is likely high given it has raised $65 million now.

HubSpot makes marketing software for businesses, who use it to find prospects and generate leads, along with tools to analyze the process. It claims it has “4,000 customers, over 50 percent market share, five million leads managed, and 70 million page views tracked monthly.”

The Series D financing included HubSpot’s existing venture investors–General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners, and Scale Venture Partners–and part of it will be used to cash out existing shareholders. In previous rounds, the start-up has raised $33 million.

Here is the official press release:

Sequoia, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com Invest $32 Million in HubSpot

Marketing Software Company Attracts New Strategic Investors

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – March 8, 2011)–Today, for the first time ever, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce.com all invested together in one company, providing HubSpot with a Series D round of financing through a $32 million investment. HubSpot provides all-in-one marketing software used by over 4,000 businesses to get found by more prospects, convert them into leads and sales, and analyze the entire marketing process.

“The fundamental way that people shop, learn, and buy has changed radically in the last few years. HubSpot helps transform the way businesses market from outbound marketing (cold calls, email blasts, and direct mail) to inbound marketing (Google, blogs, social media, mobile, etc.),” said Brian Halligan, co-founder and CEO of HubSpot.

Sequoia Capital has a long history of partnering with founders to help them build long-term, multi-billion dollar companies, including Google, LinkedIn, AdMob, YouTube, Yahoo!, Apple, and Oracle. “We back companies that are transforming their industries,” said Jim Goetz, General Partner at Sequoia Capital. “HubSpot is the emerging category leader in the SaaS marketing sector. Their customer base exceeds that of all the other relevant marketing software companies combined, including Eloqua, Marketo, Genius, and Manticore.”

“Today, every company needs to succeed in search, social, sales, and marketing–I can’t think of a more powerful trifecta than Google, Salesforce.com, and HubSpot. With 4,000 customers, HubSpot is already a clear marketing leader–now, with this new infusion of capital and recognition by Google’s venture arm and Salesforce.com, HubSpot has a great opportunity to separate itself from the pack and become the leading marketing platform in the small and medium business space,” said Brent Leary, co-founder of CRM Essentials.

Google Ventures Partner, Rich Miner (formerly co-founder of Android) said, “We agree with HubSpot’s belief that search engines, social media, and mobile devices have fundamentally changed how businesses should market themselves. We’re thrilled to support their efforts to help thousands of small and medium businesses reach potential customers.”

Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot commented, “We founded the company based on a simple premise: Businesses want an easy-to-use, complete and integrated marketing platform that helps them get more leads and customers. We plan to use this new capital to further invest in this ambitious vision and further our existing lead in the marketing software category.”

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What is your social media brand? Do you have one? Sure, many small business owners and entrepreneurs are coming around to the enormous importance of social.

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For Apple, the mobile market is a cash cow. The company’s iPhone and iPad are proving to be the top mobile companions for people around the globe. Apple has sold over 100 million iPhones. Its iPad sales have hit 15 million. The company understands the mobile market and it knows how to capitalize on it.

But what about the living room? It has the Apple TV, sure, and the Mac mini is often times connected to an HDTV, but what else has Apple done to push the envelope in the living room? It still hasn’t launched the long-rumored television we keep hearing about, and it seems that offering a game console — a hope for many Apple fans over the past few years — won’t happen.

I fully realize that Apple can’t be everything to every customer. It delivers computers, smartphones, tablets, personal media players, two operating systems, wireless routers, and much more. But I also realize that Apple is an entertainment company. It’s about trying to give people more opportunity to enjoy their lives through technology. And it would only make sense if it doubled down on the living room.

Let’s turn our attention to the Apple TV for a minute.

Prior to its announcement in September, rumors were running rampant over what the former “hobby” would offer. Folks thought it would deliver gaming, interface with DVRs, include Apple’s App Store, and much more. They thought it would be a sizable update over its predecessor.

Instead, Apple offered a stripped-down alternative.

The second-generation Apple TV comes with the ability for users to stream Netflix content. It has Flickr and Internet radio. And it allows users to stream their music over their home network to their televisions. It offers movies and television shows, as well, but most would agree that it’s slim pickings for now.

At that event in September, Steve Jobs said that Apple’s research showed customers didn’t want everything a company could pile into a device. They simply want the ability to consume the content they enjoy without the fuss that might come along with something like Google TV-based devices.

But by delivering the bare minimum, Apple did itself no favors. The company took the easy way out and pretended like it no longer views the living room as a hobby. The only issue is, the Apple TV is still a hobby. It’s a device that lacks all the functionality we’ve come to expect from Apple — a company that typically prides itself on offering the best value for the cash. And at least so far, it leaves me wanting more.

So, what am I looking for? I want to see Apple improve the Apple TV by bringing its App Store to the platform. I’d also like to see some kind of gaming component come to the device, either through the App Store or as part of a more-capable platform.

And perhaps most importantly, I’d like to see Apple think beyond its set-top box and deliver products that try something new. I’m not sold on the possibility of Apple offering a groundbreaking television, but if it can surprise me, I’m all for it.

Simply put, I’m looking for Apple to be Apple. Right now, it’s just like every other company in the living room; it’s content to have a presence but not dominate.

That needs to end.

No single company can stake claim to the living room right now. Steve Jobs just needs to take advantage of that void and do something special.

But first, he needs to take the living room — and its revenue potential — seriously.

Apple advertises its products as magical. They’re at the intersection of “technology and the liberal arts,” Steve Jobs said today. Something that moves your heart, not just your lust for technology. Will consumers still buy that in 2011?

The big picture question of the day is whether Apple has done it again. With the original iPad, Apple crushed its rivals, taking more than 90 percent of the tablet market in 2010 and selling more than 15 million units. Jobs predicted today that 2011 will be the year of the iPad 2. Based on what I have seen today, I think he’s mostly, but not entirely, right.

Competitors will discover that Apple has a lot of inherent financial advantages, including being a low-cost leader. That may not sound intuitive, but I believe it has to be true. It is selling so much volume of its products that it can get discounts on parts and manufacturing services that no one else can get.

When it sells its products in stores, it also doesn’t have to give away 20 percent of the margin to a retailer. That is a huge financial advantage. Carriers are also willing to subsidize the costs of Apple products in a way that they won’t with other tablet vendors. All of these things may explain why the Motorola Xoom, a very cool product, is selling for $800 while Apple has priced its new devices at $499 to $829, (and dropped the price of the old iPad to $399). Apple has also left very little room for rivals here, since it has signed up both AT&T and Verizon. Perhaps there is room for rivals to sell $199 machines, but users probably aren’t going to like them.

Those are reasons why any cool Apple mobile product could beat other rivals. But Apple has also done some smart things with the iPad 2. It has created another rev of its microprocessor, the A5, which has two cores, or computing brains. And it has nine times faster graphics than its old A4 chip. Since Apple designs this chip itself, it doesn’t have to give away much margin to a chip design firm. It only has to give a small margin to a chip manufacturer such as Samsung to make the chips.

Apple has also custom-designed the A5 to run Apple applications on a device with a 10-hour battery life. Apple should have an edge there, as it won’t sell the A5 to rivals. But if this is an advantage, it isn’t likely to last long, as Nvidia is being very aggressive with a new quad-core chip that it could sell to any Android rivals.

The design of the iPad 2 is where Apple has more advantages. The iPad 2 will have faster web-browsing with a new version of Safari. It has two cameras that will inspire a lot of video and photo-related apps. The availability of the Mac applications — iMovie, Garage Band, and Photo Booth — on the iPad 2 will make a lot of users happy. More interesting features will come with new releases of the iOS, or Apple’s operating system in the fairly near future.

There are some users who won’t like the restrictions of Apple’s ecosystem. If they want universal serial bus (USB) and SD card ports, they are out of luck. Apple didn’t change the resolution of its screen either, leaving it at 1024 x 768. Competitors could add these options and put emphasis on them as selling points. (Critics are disappointed that Apple did not improve the display, but that’s a big cost issue others have too).

Apple has also made great improvements in the feel of the product. It’s 33 percent thinner, 2 ounces lighter, and it has a wonderful new screen cover that doubles as a stand for the device. (It wakes up the device when you peel it back and it has micro-fibers that clean the screen when the cover is on).

Now here is why Jobs is not entirely right. Apple has come up with a stunning machine at prices that the competitors will have a hard time beating. But it is almost inevitable that Android-based tablets will gain market share on Apple.

So far, I don’t see the Android machine that will beat the iPad 2. But the potential is there, given ingredients such as Android 3.0, Nvidia Tegra 2 chips and other fast microprocessors, and 4G LTE. The latter is the main weakness in Apple’s armor.

LTE is fast, with a minimum speed on Verizon at around 12 megabits a second and actual speeds running much higher than that now. Getting access to 4G LTE is as big a benefit as having access to lots of cool apps, from my point of view. Right now, the timing of the still-young LTE technology means that Apple cannot yet put it into its mass-produced, lowest-cost tablet computers.

If LTE costs come down sometime soon, then Apple can launch a new version of the iPad to incorporate the technology. But it’s not a simple upgrade, as it means that the hardware of the machine — including the radio chip — has to change. And for now, LTE chips are larger than their 3G equivalents, so the heat dissipation and product size are affected. In other words, LTE can force Apple to redesign the iPad.

Apple can do that. But Android tablet makers might be able to move faster than Apple directly into the 4G LTE tablet market. If they do that, then they will have found a scenario where they could steal a march on Apple. Apple is not likely to let that gap last for a long time, but it might be enough for Apple to lose some share this year.

Apple’s leadership position in this market will be hard to beat, but the collective weight and reach of Android rivals could erode it. And here’s a sobering thought: If Apple eventually winds up with only 30 percent of the tablet market, it could still be No. 1, and its place as the largest technology company in the world will not be at risk.

Check out Apple’s overview video on the iPad 2 and Jobs’ comments on technology and the liberal arts below.

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What is your social media brand? Do you have one? Sure, many small business owners and entrepreneurs are coming around to the enormous importance of social media as a marketing, customer service, and, yes, even sales tool. But if you haven’t thought about how social media can define your brand, you are probably missing a HUGE part of what social media tools can do for your business. Here’s more…

Tools & Techniques

Creating a great brand with these blog tools. Tools that improve the look and functionality of your blog also improve your brand. A well-maintained small business blog is one of the most obvious and least expensive branding tools at the entrepreneur’s disposal even more so than social media channels like Facebook and Twitter because of how a blog can be customized to fit your needs and personality. This list of tools is a great way to start. EpicLaunch

What Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi can teach you about social media. One of the stars of the hit reality show “Jersey Shore”, “Snooki” is a perfect example of personal brand, but social media entrepreneurs could also learn much about building their own online presence from Snooki. Being yourself and using a simple, short tag to indelibly brand your identity are also great techniques in social media. One site is already trying to apply the starlets techniques in the social media space. Brand-Yourself

Tito Philips doesn’t want your comments on his blog! At least, not if they’re the wrong kind. And the wrong kind would be comments left for no other purpose than to get the blogger and his/her readers to visit your blog and perhaps comment on it in return. Why is comment trading bad? Don’t get Tito started! There are many ways to engage in social media marketing. Be sure you understand and respect some of the attitudes you may face. Blogging Bookshelf  

News & Trends

The best of the best. Want to get a look at arguably the 20 best Facebook fan pages for business on the planet? By now you should know the value of a Facebook fan page to your branding efforts. What’s also true, however, is that not all Facebook sites are created equal. If you want to take your social media marketing to the next level, have a look at this list of cream of the crop sites. Inc.com

Even churches use social media marketing! In this article on the growing market for tech services among religious organizations, we learn that many churches have also already entered into the social media space. As houses of worship, particularly huge mega-churches, expand and build congregations, it’s easy to see how social media can work as a marketing tool here as well. Is your religious organization using social media for branding? WSJ

Tips & Tricks

20 tips that will make you a Twitter star. Among the tools popular in the new digital space is Twitter. The microblogging platform can be used for business or non-business purposes and it can be the key to your small business’s success. Learn how to use Twitter like a pro and you may be surprised at the benefits your small business gains as a result. Global Copywriting

Valuable lessons in social media. Gary Vaynerchuk, author of The Thank You Economy and a successful social media entrepreneur in his own right, has many insights to share with small business leaders seeking a new way to define their brands in an age of social communications. Read some of the takeaways Vaynerchuk shares with those trying to define their businesses with social media. E-Marketing Associates

Success Stories

Doubt the power of FB to create brand for almost anyone? You won’t after you read the story of Princeton English Professor Jeff Nunokawa and “Jeffbook”, a collection of 3,221 brief literary essays on Facebook, that have created an incredible cult status for Nunokawa in the process. His motivation? Not too different from those of most marketers. Nunokawa simply started sharing where he knew his audience already spent lots of their time. The results speak for themselves. Fast Company

Increase exposure with niche social media. Blogger Mavis Nong talks about the importance of niche social media sites including social bookmarking sites as a key method of creating exposure for your online business. Mavis talks about her experience with our sister site BizSugar.com (thanks for the shout out! ) and explains how smaller more focused social sites can sometimes have a surprising impact even larger than the big guys. Attraction Marketing Online

Opportunities

Sponsors wanted for new SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest. Put the power of social media to work for your brand. We’re looking for sponsors to help with a brand new blogging contest involving two of the fastest growing small business communities on the Web, BizSugar.com and Bloggertone.com. Learn more about the contest by reading the full announcement and get in touch today! BizSugar Blog

What is your social media brand? Do you have one? Sure, many small business owners and entrepreneurs are coming around to the enormous importance of social media as a marketing, customer service, and, yes, even sales tool. But if you haven’t thought about how social media can define your brand, you are probably missing a HUGE part of what social media tools can do for your business. Here’s more…

Tools & Techniques

Creating a great brand with these blog tools. Tools that improve the look and functionality of your blog also improve your brand. A well-maintained small business blog is one of the most obvious and least expensive branding tools at the entrepreneur’s disposal even more so than social media channels like Facebook and Twitter because of how a blog can be customized to fit your needs and personality. This list of tools is a great way to start. EpicLaunch

What Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi can teach you about social media. One of the stars of the hit reality show “Jersey Shore”, “Snooki” is a perfect example of personal brand, but social media entrepreneurs could also learn much about building their own online presence from Snooki. Being yourself and using a simple, short tag to indelibly brand your identity are also great techniques in social media. One site is already trying to apply the starlets techniques in the social media space. Brand-Yourself

Tito Philips doesn’t want your comments on his blog! At least, not if they’re the wrong kind. And the wrong kind would be comments left for no other purpose than to get the blogger and his/her readers to visit your blog and perhaps comment on it in return. Why is comment trading bad? Don’t get Tito started! There are many ways to engage in social media marketing. Be sure you understand and respect some of the attitudes you may face. Blogging Bookshelf  

News & Trends

The best of the best. Want to get a look at arguably the 20 best Facebook fan pages for business on the planet? By now you should know the value of a Facebook fan page to your branding efforts. What’s also true, however, is that not all Facebook sites are created equal. If you want to take your social media marketing to the next level, have a look at this list of cream of the crop sites. Inc.com

Even churches use social media marketing! In this article on the growing market for tech services among religious organizations, we learn that many churches have also already entered into the social media space. As houses of worship, particularly huge mega-churches, expand and build congregations, it’s easy to see how social media can work as a marketing tool here as well. Is your religious organization using social media for branding? WSJ

Tips & Tricks

20 tips that will make you a Twitter star. Among the tools popular in the new digital space is Twitter. The microblogging platform can be used for business or non-business purposes and it can be the key to your small business’s success. Learn how to use Twitter like a pro and you may be surprised at the benefits your small business gains as a result. Global Copywriting

Valuable lessons in social media. Gary Vaynerchuk, author of The Thank You Economy and a successful social media entrepreneur in his own right, has many insights to share with small business leaders seeking a new way to define their brands in an age of social communications. Read some of the takeaways Vaynerchuk shares with those trying to define their businesses with social media. E-Marketing Associates

Success Stories

Doubt the power of FB to create brand for almost anyone? You won’t after you read the story of Princeton English Professor Jeff Nunokawa and “Jeffbook”, a collection of 3,221 brief literary essays on Facebook, that have created an incredible cult status for Nunokawa in the process. His motivation? Not too different from those of most marketers. Nunokawa simply started sharing where he knew his audience already spent lots of their time. The results speak for themselves. Fast Company

Increase exposure with niche social media. Blogger Mavis Nong talks about the importance of niche social media sites including social bookmarking sites as a key method of creating exposure for your online business. Mavis talks about her experience with our sister site BizSugar.com (thanks for the shout out! ) and explains how smaller more focused social sites can sometimes have a surprising impact even larger than the big guys. Attraction Marketing Online

Opportunities

Sponsors wanted for new SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest. Put the power of social media to work for your brand. We’re looking for sponsors to help with a brand new blogging contest involving two of the fastest growing small business communities on the Web, BizSugar.com and Bloggertone.com. Learn more about the contest by reading the full announcement and get in touch today! BizSugar Blog

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Babies are big business. Nobody wants to be a bad parent, so there is great pressure to be sure you have not just the essentials, but the best essentials for your new baby. If you're a first-time parent, you have no experience to guide you. The helpful salesperson at the local Baby-Mega-Super-Store will be more than happy to provide you with a mile-long list of what, you're assured, are really and truly the essentials.

Well, I'm here to tell you different.

My fourth child is scheduled to make her appearance in just a couple of months. My oldest child is not yet five years old. For the last several years of my life, I've been a card-carrying, dues-paid, full-fledged member of the baby club. Many of those "essentials" you see for sale just turn into extraneous stuff that you have to keep cleaning, moving, and, at times, paying for. Save yourself some money and space, and stock up only on what you'll actually use. Here's my list of needs. (See also: Which Baby Products Are a Waste of Money?)

A Place to Sleep

A decent crib, a good mattress, and enough bedding to keep baby comfortable are essential. You don't, however, have to buy a crib new to get a good one. Search your local classifieds for a used crib; just make sure you get one that isn't more than five years old. It should be sturdy, with small spaces between the slats and all hardware intact. Most cribs that have been made within the last five years convert easily into toddler beds.

Salespeople at the Big Baby Box Store will scare you with talk of scoliosis and try to get you to buy the premium mattress for your crib. I bought the mid-grade; it's obviously firmer and nicer than the cheapest option, but it's also as firm and nice as I need it to be for peace of mind.

As far as what to put on the mattress, keep it simple. Bumper pads are not necessary and can even be a suffocation hazard. Same goes for big, fluffy comforters, pillows, stuffed animals, or piles of blankets. For the first six months or so, you'll want to have a mattress cover, five crib sheets (frequent spit-ups and diaper incidents make extras really nice to have around), and a couple of lightweight blankets. When the weather is cool, dress baby warmly so she won't get cold during nap time and night time.

A Place to Play

For the first several months of your baby's life, mobility won't be an option for him. This means, basically, that you can plop him down on a blanket, and he's not going anywhere. This also means that baby doesn't really need a swing, a bouncer, a play center, a play pen, a walker, a baby papasan, or any of the other play area options out there.

The caveat on this is when your baby does start to get mobile. Rolling, scooting, and then crawling will introduce a whole new world of possibilities. At that point, it's nice to have one or two confined play areas handy, so you can keep your baby entertained and safe while you need to do something else. But you don't need all the options.

Before you buy, test out what your friends have; go have a play date and put your baby in your friend's swing. If he's screaming in five minutes, don't spend $100 on a swing. If he's happy, it might be worth the investment. I've had the best response from my children with a very basic baby swing, a little reclined baby seat, and a Pack 'n Play that serves as a confined play area and can be moved to any room of the house, the yard, a friend's house, or Nana's house.

A Way to Travel

A safe car seat and a sturdy stroller are investments worth making for your new baby. You'll get the best deal on new items by purchasing a car seat/stroller combination; those will start at about $150 new and go up from there. The same advice applies to car seats and strollers as to cribs. If you're purchasing used, make sure the car seat/stroller isn't over five years old, and inspect it thoroughly to be sure it's in good condition.

The only other "travel" item I've used over the years is a front-pack baby carrier. I got a good brand, and it's lasted through heavy use with three babies. These seem to be mainly a matter of personal preference, however; if you can't picture yourself walking around with a baby strapped to your chest, don't buy one.

Clothes

Brand-new babies, prone to random bouts of spitting up and explosive diapers, can go through quite a few outfits in a day. Stock up on essentials that are comfortable for your baby and easy to get on and off: ruffles, ribbons, bows, zippers, buttons, and extra clothing "decor" tend to make the dressing process complicated and long (not fun when your baby is screaming), and, generally, the more "stuff" on an outfit, the less comfortable your baby will be in it.

Zecco iPhone app. Zecco recently released their free iPhone app, Zecco Mobile Lite, which is already among the highest rated investment apps in the iTunes store. The iPhone app also works on the iPod Touch and iPad. The good news is that anyone can use it for stock research, updates, tracking your portfolio, maintaining a watchlist, real time streaming quotes, and free push alerts. The downside to the app is that you can’t make trades from it at this time. And if you’re like me and have an Android based phone, then don’t worry – the Android app is currently in development, but the Zecco rep I recently spoke with wasn’t allowed to give me a launch date at this time.

Zap Trade. This is a truly unique feature which Zecco holds a patent to, so you won’t see it elsewhere. Zap Trade is a FireFox browser plugin which gives you the power to make trades from any web page once you are signed in. Zap Trade will automatically scan the website you are visiting and highlight any ticker symbols to give you easy access to more in-depth research on that stock, or the ability to trade that stock from that page. It’s a powerful tool for traders who know what they want.

Premium investing tools. If you are a day trader, you will want a tax planning tool to help you make the best decisions regarding which shares to sell for the highest tax efficiency. Zecco offers a free integrated cost basis tool for all shares purchased in 2011 and going forward. Zecco also offers Gainskeeper, which is an industry recognized tool for tracking cost basis. There is an associate fee with the latter tool.

Account records. Zecco keeps their costs down by automatically enrolling you in e-statements. You can receive paper statements for a fee.

Zecco Customer Service

Zecco offers e-mail, live chat, and telephone support through a free customer service number – 1.877.700.7862. Zecco’s FAQ section can take care of many questions, but if you need immediate assistance, you will need to call between the hours of 9am-6pm est, Mon-Fri.

Security and insurance

Your money is safe with Zecco. Zecco is a member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. Zecco is covered by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which is an organization that acts as insurance against your broker filing for bankruptcy or otherwise going under. Funds are available to meet customer claims up to a maximum of $500,000 in cash and securities with a $100,000 cash maximum. Zecco has additional coverage from Lloyds of London insurance and is secured through a VeriSign SSL Certificate to assure your confidential information remains secure.

Trading Key. Before making a trade, Zecco members must enter a trading key – this is a separate step that occurs after logging in to their account. This prevents unauthorized users from causing some major damage to your account.

My overall opinion of Zecco

I think Zecco is a quality trading platform, which certainly can’t be beat for the price. Zecco is a flexible brokerage and will meet the needs of many different types of investors – from the investor who buys and holds ETFs (such as myself) to the day trader who makes dozens of trades in a month. The biggest complaint that some people have is the additional expense of certain premium tools. But in my opinion, if you are trading often enough to need those tools, you are most likely saving a lot more money based on the average trade commission with Zecco compared to the average trade at another brokerage. You can learn more about Zecco at: https://www.zecco.com/

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Search <b>News</b> &amp; Headlines Around the Web - March 28, 2011 #SEWatch

Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category....

&#39;Know Your Meme&#39; Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal

Cheezburger Networks has acquired online meme database (and popular web series) Know Your Meme from Rocketboom in a seven-figure deal.

Pawlenty Announces His Money Team - FoxNews.com

Republican Tim Pawlenty's exploratory committee has announced the key players who will make up Pawlenty's national finance team. The announcement comes as Pawlenty's team gears up for a major-donor fundraising effort.

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Now, you should know that you will not use SEO service if you're not an internet business - but then again, if you don't have an online presence if you are an offline business, then you will not allow it to be very far.

 

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You can do this in all sorts of ways, however these companies usually make use of multiple techniques to create an ideal marketing technique online. It is possible to employ them to write articles for you personally, post on forums and blogs, create meta data and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags to the images plus much more.

 

It is very important that you simply do this because otherwise the company you have worked so hard for could wind up losing the money. When you have a website you want to create, then you'll also use the expertise of a search engine optimization company, which stands for seo company. What this company does is actually go ahead and take best parts of your site, look into the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your site is placed close to the top of the list for the major search engines like google.

By doing this the Search engine optimization company can not only increase your traffic, but additionally make sure that your site is fully optimized for that internet search engine spiders that will be introduced to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your site and put it in certain positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to make use of the SEO services Vancouver then all you've got to do is discover the top companies. It is through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you have to be certain the main one you're going for is reliable. You ought to be able to ask for a failure of what you want, and the company should also be able to tell you know long they have been operating for. This will limit their email list to reveal the very best ones.

 

Search engine optimization Offered by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are extremely beneficial for business growth as they provide quality services. If you're planning to produce a website for the online business, then you've come to right article as I will be explaining below how Web optimization Vancouver company services can improve your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you need to know what Search Engine Optimization is. It is not that complicated and I'm sure you will get a grasp of it after reading my article. The primary goal of SEO is to get increased traffic aimed at your website and audience. It's a good decision to select a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this kind of work, which means that your website could be indexed by search engines like google.

There is no reason for you having a website with no website ranking whatsoever while you won't get any business and profits to survive. It is a very tough atmosphere available as there are a lot of online business people exactly like you, who want their share of pie. You have to be familiar with the fact that nearly 85% of online traffic can be got from web sites.

When a user types in a keyword or keywords for which he/she wants to know in various sites, these use crawlers to get websites with the relevant content and index them according to algorithms. You don't have to be worried about the algorithms which these sites use as that isn't important.

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What to anticipate Whenever Hiring a Roofing Contractor

When the time comes to repair or substitute your homes roof, it's really a daunting task to locate someone who is qualified for the job. There are many roofers available, but the types who will do a great job for a sensible cost are not often simple to find. If you are in the market for a contractor, use the ideas beneath with regard to meeting with and hiring the right one.

Interview as well as Discussion

Most roofing contractors provide totally free consultations. This is particularly essential, because it provides them an opportunity to assess what your homes roof needs, also it provides you with a chance to assess them. As with all of companies, believe in intuition concerning the individuals you allow up onto your roofing. No issue how good the contractor's status or suggestion, he or she should begin by presenting you having a company card. If the contractor occurs looking and talking within an less than professional manner, chances are that the task he's going to do will also be unprofessional. This isn't to say that you ought to expect contractors to reach within suits. They is going to be hiking on your roof, so the majority of will be dressed up in denim jeans as well as function footwear or even athletic shoes. If the contractor seems to be more interested in talking upon their cell phone while on your homes roof than he is within evaluating your own roof's requirements, which may be an additional sign that he is not the one to do the job. For the lawful safety, make sure that the service provider has sufficient liability insurance.

Roof Evaluation

Anticipate that the service provider will be going up on your roofing. Actually, any kind of service provider who not want to increase in your roofing to evaluate the problem should be immediately discounted. Those who're serious about their own function will either make a drawing of your roof's surface area as well as mark trouble spots on it as they undergo their own evaluation, or even they'll consider photos or video clip of the surface area while they're available online for. This is an extremely essential step, because it allows you to observe just what the problems are as well as understand how they will be set.

Estimation

The next phase would be the written estimate. The service provider will take out his loan calculator and come track of an itemized estimate. Some contractors goes out to their own vehicle or even van as well as write down the proposal, while some may crisis the actual amounts for the job in front of you. Once you are given the proposal, ensure that you understand exactly which items is going to be used, how long the task will take and if there are any additional or even hidden expenses that could occur during the restore of the roof. The service provider should be able to solution many of these questions with ease as well as forewarn you associated with a additional expenses that could be sustained should the roof's integrity end up being broken within.

Once you have received a few created estimations from roofers, evaluate exactly what every company or even service provider is willing to provide for the cost. Do not necessarily low cost the highest bid, simply because sometimes the highest bid will actually be the service provider who does the job properly. Additionally, be skeptical of bids that are significantly less than other people. They might be utilizing inferior items or perhaps be untruthful about the possibility of hidden expenses. Above all, trust your instincts as well as go with the contractor who enables you to feel most comfortable regarding giving more than your hard earned money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

 

AFP

A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

 

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

 

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

 

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

 

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

 

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

 

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

 

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

 

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

 

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

 

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

 

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

 

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

 

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

 

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

 

Earlier cases

 

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

 

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

 

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

 

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

 

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

 

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

 

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

 

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

 

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

 

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

 

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

 

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

 

New training scheme

 

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

 

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

 

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

 

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

 

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

 

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

 

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

Copyright © 1998-2011 Radio Free Asia. All rights reserved.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghur

through henry on Dec 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were ever uncertain, information acquired by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese language federal government worries more than it's ongoing control of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables from Ough.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the degree that Chinese authorities make an effort to convince government authorities globally to adopt its stance on problems affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires also show the U . s . States' concerns as well as sights regarding the ongoing repressive steps in the region.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese federal government pressure would be the cables directed to Chinese language frustration, or even the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A December 29, 2008 cable television relates exactly how Chinese language Assistant International Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.S. Ambassador to China in order to tone of voice Beijing's powerful opposition of launch to any kind of nation apart from The far east, and that when the Ough.Utes. did certainly accede for this ask for it would "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, a Feb '09 cable television describes the way the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave towards us" along with a "slap within the face". The Ough.Utes. federal government stood firm within not really liberating the actual detainees to China illustrates the extent of the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial program. Legitimate issues more than terrorism tend to be understandable, but in the Ough.Utes. government's view the detainees might probably encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as execution when they came back in order to China

Chinese federal government pressure in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just put on the actual Ough.S. federal government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand and a handful of Western government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, in addition to European Union member says just about all have the symptoms of borne the brunt of Chinese government disappointment. Regarding Germany, which was at first willing to consider two Uyghurs on purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less preferable to additional detainees due to the negative effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relations with China. The May 8, 2009 cable television relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported which Germany had knowledgeable The far east from the U.Utes. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had already been consequently cautioned by China of ‘a heavy load upon bilateral relations' if Germany had been to accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires additionally talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the actual regional capital, in This summer 2009. The July Thirteen, '09 cable television talking about bulk incidents in The far east states:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March associated with 2008 differ markedly within origin as well as nature from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party management wouldn't wait to open fire upon Uighurs or even Tibetans if they considered it necessary to restore order. Mass incidents pose another kind of threat, he explained, since the leadership is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters with regard to anxiety about sparking huge open public outrage that will turn from the Celebration."

This is a relaxing opinion, particularly when one views the evidence offered by 50 percent reports released this year by the Uyghur Human Privileges Project (UHRP) and Amnesty International which detail eyewitness company accounts of the utilization of lethal live fireplace against Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. Additionally, the actual declaration that fire wouldn't be deployed against Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for the various approach taken through Chinese language security causes in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests in September 2009. During individuals protests, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, that had demanded that he inform them regarding federal government responses to protection concerns. A similar ask for to meet using the Celebration Assistant by Uyghur demonstrators in This summer was not met.

The broader repercussions from the unrest additionally noticed a brief dialogue about the effect it would have upon Iran-China relationships, and on relationships along with Sydney after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the National Press Club within Canberra within July 2009. Within the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie bank that vendors the nation's Push Membership to use it's influence to block a Kadeer talk there".

The United States' concerns concerning the scenario within the Uyghur region also come via within the cables. In a dialogue on plan direction within Tibet, U.S. authorities clarify that it'll end up being not possible with regard to Chinese language frontrunners to consider the much softer line "if they appear like doing this under worldwide pressure". The actual cable dated April 16, 08, one month after the outbreak associated with unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the actual declaration "that domestic balance remains the leadership's top priority above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' be no rest of the present difficult line on Tibet or in places such as Xinjiang." The information included in the cable additionally storage sheds gentle on the severe sensitivity that china federal government views territorial integrity, and the possible spill more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect associated with methods to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from civil culture tend to be discussed inside a February 24, 2008 cable television. While suggesting which China's financial success increases its potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable additionally discusses exactly how Chinese leaders begin to see the usefulness of "a limited expansion of civil society, including enhancements within the rule of law along with a more powerful part with regard to authorized religions, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors in areas which contribute to sociable balance and do not problem Communist Celebration rule." This can be a significant change in considering, that has observed U.Utes. officials market the idea that Chinese language financial improvement, and financial relations with China will bring about a steadily democratic culture; however, much more faith seems to be put into the grassroots motion than one that starts in the top levels of the Chinese government. Nonetheless, the cable television concludes that "[i]n places such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear of separatism leads to tighter limitations on the growth of municipal society." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the official, that shows that the Ough.Utes. federal government "should still express...serious issues more than Beijing's individual rights report as well as appeal to China's developing consciousness that higher regard for individual privileges, religious freedom and also the guideline associated with regulation assists to promote the improvement as well as social stability that China seeks as well as to enhance China's worldwide image." Such a strategy would take considerable diplomatic skills considering "China's weird fear that the Usa secretly encourages routine change and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The wires provide insight into the daily business associated with diplomacy that's hardly ever owned by everyone, and it is interesting to note the quantity of work done nowadays on Uyghur issues. The significance of the part of the United States like a monitor of Uyghur human privileges conditions within personal discussions is made clear, and contrasts using its sensible public position. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Rights Task is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese federal government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts associated with Chinese language federal government pressure upon it's counterparts is actually illustrative from the degree which Chinese authorities attempt to suppress contrary stories. With increased facts in the future through Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not get the headlines, but the cables possess get rid of brand new light about the paperwork of individual rights conditions in the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

by holly upon Dec 20, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been ever uncertain, info obtained by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese language federal government worries over its ongoing control of the location it phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked cables through U.S. diplomats demonstrate the actual extent that Chinese authorities make an effort to persuade government authorities worldwide to adopt its position upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires also show the United States' concerns and sights concerning the ongoing repressive steps in the region.

The majority of lighting of Chinese language government stress would be the cables pointing in order to Chinese language anger, or even the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. A December Twenty nine, 2008 cable television applies how Chinese language Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.Utes. Ambassador to China to voice Beijing's strong competitors of launch to any country apart from China, which if the U.Utes. did indeed accede to this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, the February '09 cable explains the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act towards us" and a "slap within the face". The Ough.S. federal government stood company within not liberating the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the extent of the politicized character of the Chinese judicial system. Genuine concerns over terrorism are easy to understand, but in the Ough.S. government's view the detainees would probably face torture as well as execution if they came back to China

Chinese government stress regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the Ough.Utes. government, but additionally to New Zealand and a handful of Western governments which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to Eu member states all appear to have borne the brunt of Chinese government disappointment. Regarding Germany, that was at first prepared to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less better than other detainees due to the negative effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships with The far east. The May 8, 2009 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported that Indonesia had informed China from the U.S. ask for to accept some Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo and had already been subsequently cautioned through China of ‘a heavy load on bilateral relations' if Indonesia had been to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic wires additionally discuss the unrest within Urumchi, the actual local funds, in July '09. A This summer Thirteen, '09 cable television discussing mass occurrences within China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 associated with 2008 vary markedly in origin as well as nature from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe problems for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party leadership would not hesitate to open fireplace upon Uighurs or Tibetans when they considered this necessary to restore order. Mass occurrences pose a different kind of risk, he said, as the management is ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters for anxiety about causing huge public outrage that will turn from the Celebration."

This can be a chilling opinion, particularly when 1 considers evidence presented in two reviews launched this season by the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that fine detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of deadly reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. Additionally, the actual observation that fire wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the different strategy taken by Chinese security forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders within September 2009. Throughout individuals protests, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who had demanded he let them know about government responses to security issues. A similar request to meet using the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur demonstrators in July was not met.

The wider repercussions of the unrest also saw a brief discussion about the impact it might possess on Iran-China relations, as well as on relationships along with Australia following Globe Uyghur Congress President, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the National Push Club in Canberra in August 2009. In the second option case, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie financial institution that sponsors the National Push Membership to make use of its influence to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The U . s . States' concerns about the situation in the Uyghur region are available through within the cables. Inside a discussion on plan direction in Tibet, U.S. authorities explain that it will end up being not possible for Chinese leaders to consider the softer collection "if they look like doing so under worldwide pressure". The actual cable dated April 16, 08, one month after the outbreak associated with unrest in Tibetan regions, also relayed the declaration "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, which means there will ‘almost surely' be absolutely no rest of the current hard collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable also storage sheds light on the severe sensitivity with which china federal government sights territorial ethics, and also the feasible drip more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect associated with methods to stress within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal culture are debated in a February Twenty-four, 2008 cable. While suggesting that China's economic success increases it's resistance to democratic reform, the actual cable also talks about how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness of "a restricted expansion of municipal culture, such as enhancements within the guideline of law along with a more powerful role for approved beliefs, NGOs, charities and other actors in areas that bring about sociable stability and do not challenge Communist Party guideline." This can be a significant change in considering, which has observed Ough.Utes. authorities market the idea which Chinese financial development, as well as financial relations with The far east brings in regards to a progressively democratic society; however, much more belief seems to be put into the grassroots motion compared to one that begins in the best levels of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, the cable television concludes which "[i]n areas for example Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear of separatism leads to tight limitations about the development of municipal society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, who suggests that the actual U.S. federal government "should still express...serious concerns more than Beijing's human rights record as well as attract China's growing consciousness which greater respect with regard to individual privileges, religious freedom and the guideline of law will serve to promote the very improvement and social balance that China seeks as well as to enhance China's international image." This type of technique might take considerable diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's paranoid fear the United States secretly encourages routine change and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The wires provide insight into the actual daily business of diplomacy that is rarely owned by the general public, which is interesting to note the quantity of function done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The significance of the role of the United States like a keep track of associated with Uyghur human rights problems within personal conversations is made clear, as well as contrasts with its sensible open public position. Employees of the Uyghur Human Rights Project is well aware of the pressure china government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese federal government stress upon it's counterparts is actually illustrative of the degree which Chinese authorities make an effort to suppress contradictory narratives. With more revelations in the future from Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not get the head lines, but the wires have shed brand new light on the documentation of individual rights problems in the Uyghur area.

 

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Seo and article marketing are a couple of the strongest strategies that can be used to promote your website and get the revenue and success that you desire for your internet business. Both of these stuff has been around for a really long time already however they still still be really effective. Actually, these have helped many people free themselves from your traditional methods for money-generating options of society.

In this post, I will be showing the ways on how you are able to properly execute seo and article promotion for the betterment of your business enterprise web site. In addition, I will also be discussing different points that you must look out for when you're using these two website marketing strategies to market your website and get customers. Despite the fact that marketing with articles and Seo have been established for a long time already, you need to know that the trends and choices concerning how they are carried out are continually changing, which explains why you should remain up to date with these items through the help of Search engine marketing forum sites so that you can quickly adjust and learn how to make your strategies far better.

In the past article marketing to different web-sites used to be so simple yet the effects they produce for websites was really powerful. However, stuff has changed a whole lot today. Nowadays submitting the identical article to various websites is not recommended because engines like google have now changed to some huge extent in how they rank pages. They no more rank contents which are identical like they utilized to in the past. This is the most effective examples of changes that occur in web marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that internet marketers are using today. Nearly all of online marketers now produce articles and distribute them in really popular article directories and wait for targeted prospects arrive at their pages. Perhaps that most reliable Search engine optimization strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, this provides positive benefits on a regular basis. A small problem with this particular strategy is that the caliber of traffic you will get out of this defintely won't be that good if you don't do proper keyword research beforehand and use in-links. You need for attending these two things before you submit your posts so that you won't find yourself losing huge amounts of targeted traffic. Which means that you need to practice good amounts of diligence if you would like your advertising initiatives to function.

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Roofing Contractors Vancouver British Columbia

There are lots of things to take into consideration when looking for any roofing contractor. Cost, experience, and also referrals are a few of the things you'll likely be concerned about. Read on for even other great ideas.

• Finding a Roofing Contractors

Before buying roofing contractor, be sure you have a basic idea of the project that you need to have inked. By no means must you be a specialist. If you have the Roof Qualification, read it completely to find the information about your existing roof. Should you not have a Ceiling Certificate, refer to documents authorized during final to locate your Roof Inspection page. These files should provide everything you need to find out about your roof. Just before contacting a new roofing contractor, you need to have a list of specifications and requirements to help you determine exactly who would work for your roofer project. Make sure you write down every single potential roof covering contractor's answers and also check all of them against one another. If you will find any discrepancies, be sure to notice this as well as take this into consideration when making a final determination. There are no straightforward ways to go with a roofing contractor, but if you take pay attention to to the information provided, your chances of a successful roof covering project are generally greatly improved.

One of the best means of finding a roofing contractor is by recommendations. Try asking a friend or relative that has had roofer work carried out, and has been satisfied with the job. Get the brand of the enterprise and their own contact info. If you have not sure of mouth area referrals, try first looking in the phone book and internet based. A large advertisement or elegant website is not necessarily indication of the quality of work, but tend to be a good tool pertaining to measuring the amount of time and commitment they have put in their particular profession. Also, try discovering current worksites and appearance at the roof covering work which is done or in the process of getting finished. If you are visually pleased, ask the property manager for that name of the roofing contractor and also their make contact with information.

• Preliminary research

When looking for any roofing contractors, it's imperative to very first do your own background research. Acquire the best in the phone directory or on the web is a suitable spot to find a service provider, finding essential information on most of these businesses will likely be found in a number of other areas. 1st, check with areas like the Bbb, city, condition, and county public records, and also local certification agencies. Request your roofing contractor if they are a member of any roofing contractor associations. These types of precautions may mitigate the risks. In addition ask them what types of roofing they specialize in. Also ask the roofing contractor about any guarantees they offer on their installed rooftops. Find out what safety measures they choose to use avoid harm done to the rest of the home simply by workers. Items such as gutters, home siding, and fireplaces are near the coast proximity and thus susceptible to unintentional damages.

Make sure all of this info is included in your composed contract. Determine whether you need a roofing permit and/or authorization from your house owners association in advance. These organizations will let you know who is responsible for acquiring these permits and permissions. If it is the responsibility of the roofer, also have it included as part of your contract. If it is your duty, get stated permits and permissions collated while using estimated roof covering project and also have it plainly posted or perhaps readily available.

• Licensing and Professional references

Roofing Companies are not necessary to be licensed in all claims. Contact local licensing agencies that oversee general design contractors for the list of demands. Once you have acquired the requirements, make a list of thorough questions to ask the potential roofing contractor. This simple list should immediately help you to discount the skilled from the unqualified roofing contractors. Qualified building contractors should be able to very easily answer questions or tell you that they need to do further research before giving the definitive reply.

Even if the roofing contractor offers all needed licensing, you need to ask to see pictures associated with completed roof covering jobs and also speak to satisfied clients. Have a list of concerns handy ought to recent consumers, such as the character of the career, timeliness, and total satisfaction. Make certain these are recent clients and cross reference point if possible. In the matter of commercial roofer, make sure that the roofing contractor is actually bonded. Checking out these recommendations is another included measure of safety to restrict the list of potential roofing contractors.

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In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the land of Xinjiang is the very least populated province whereas it covers close to a sixth from the nation's territory. Having resisted during generations the chinese domination, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Eastern Turkistan, fell into under the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is primarily Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Muslim especially, the Uyghur people have a deep religious identification which, in specific, permitted them to protect a strong big difference towards the Chinese enemy. Of course, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a amazing civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their own history, the Uyghurs successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., thus opening the way to the Islamization of the whole Central Asia.

Under the effect of the beliefs which they adopted, the Uyghurs used successively, and at times in a competing way, a great number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own graphic system.

The entrance of Islam was a great change simply because it was followed by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the immense Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used currently.

If their writing, their own language and their religion mark a real big difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, Uyghur People also differ from their aspect, so characteristic of Central Asia's people. A matt skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features going out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek origins of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only nine million inhabitants - a little for this specific immense country. Thus, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six ethnic minority groups having been known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This particular statute will allow them a few privileges in a land exactly where their difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur families escape the "single child policy" and their language is accepted as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in China, however, looks quite illusory. The presence of all-natural resources in Xinjiang, and its closeness with locations identified as sensitive, strongly encouraged the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the higher responsibility jobs.

In response to this true will to assimilate the Uyghurs into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Asserting more freedom, but primarily the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The situations of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghur peoples population continues today to proudly keep their identity and their civilization , although they become a minority on their own land.

For more information and facts about the Uyghurs, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

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Small businesses are seen as an important part of the American economy. These businesses often rely heavily on loans to stay afloat. The recent economic recession has created a reduction in available credit for many small businesses, making it difficult for many businesses to operate. Tansel Yilmazer, assistant professor in the personal financial planning department in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri, says that lack of available credit has forced many small business owners to use their household savings or other personal assets to support their businesses, putting their personal assets at risk.

Yilmazer says that due to the present reduction in credit availability, small and family-owned businesses look to reduce their dependence on outside financing by utilizing two general strategies. The first strategy involves diminishing or eliminating the need for financing by reducing the cost of operations and carefully managing the cash flow of the business. The second type is to acquire finances by raising money from personal and other sources external to the business without resorting to bank loans.

Yilmazer says that businesses that use owner resources and delay payments for household expenses are the ones that typically report a need for further financing for their businesses. Because these business owners have not established relationships with banks, they may face problems obtaining future bank loans. Yilmazer says the recent recession has affected the direction of the resource flow from household to business and the owners might be putting their own assets at risk for the business.

"Recession has increased the risk of business failure," Yilmazer said. "Since business is inherently risky, financing with owner resources would seem to extend that risk to the household in ways that owners may not be adequately considering."

Yilmazer found that the use of financial resources is a two-way street in small and family-owned businesses, confirming that the family and business interact and resource exchanges occur in both directions. She says that while small businesses can provide income for households, owners need to be aware that financing a business from household funds opens the door for household assets to become susceptible to loss.

"Business ownership is an important household investment," Yilmazer said. "Ownership may serve as a source of income and expenses as well as an investment vehicle, but it is not generally understood or considered as a household portfolio risk. Small and family businesses may be riskier than other investments because they are more susceptible to attrition."

More information: Yilmazer's study was published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues and was co-authored with Holly Schrank from Purdue University.

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Small businesses are seen as an important part of the American economy. These businesses often rely heavily on loans to stay afloat. The recent economic recession has created a reduction in available credit for many small businesses, making it difficult for many businesses to operate. Tansel Yilmazer, assistant professor in the personal financial planning department in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri, says that lack of available credit has forced many small business owners to use their household savings or other personal assets to support their businesses, putting their personal assets at risk.

Yilmazer says that due to the present reduction in credit availability, small and family-owned businesses look to reduce their dependence on outside financing by utilizing two general strategies. The first strategy involves diminishing or eliminating the need for financing by reducing the cost of operations and carefully managing the cash flow of the business. The second type is to acquire finances by raising money from personal and other sources external to the business without resorting to bank loans.

Yilmazer says that businesses that use owner resources and delay payments for household expenses are the ones that typically report a need for further financing for their businesses. Because these business owners have not established relationships with banks, they may face problems obtaining future bank loans. Yilmazer says the recent recession has affected the direction of the resource flow from household to business and the owners might be putting their own assets at risk for the business.

"Recession has increased the risk of business failure," Yilmazer said. "Since business is inherently risky, financing with owner resources would seem to extend that risk to the household in ways that owners may not be adequately considering."

Yilmazer found that the use of financial resources is a two-way street in small and family-owned businesses, confirming that the family and business interact and resource exchanges occur in both directions. She says that while small businesses can provide income for households, owners need to be aware that financing a business from household funds opens the door for household assets to become susceptible to loss.

"Business ownership is an important household investment," Yilmazer said. "Ownership may serve as a source of income and expenses as well as an investment vehicle, but it is not generally understood or considered as a household portfolio risk. Small and family businesses may be riskier than other investments because they are more susceptible to attrition."

More information: Yilmazer's study was published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues and was co-authored with Holly Schrank from Purdue University.

Provided by University of Missouri-Columbia (news : web)

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