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Fundraising is one of the necessary evils of the non-profit world.

In order to keep a non-profit afloat, and do the good works that you originally set out to do, you have to be funded. That requires some mix of seeking grants from the government and businesses, as well as approaching individuals to ?invest? in the work you are doing. And quite often, in this economy, it might seem as though you spend more time trying to raise funds, than you do on your actual social mission.

In his wonderful new book, The Non-Profit Narrative (which I?ll be reviewing very soon), Dan Portnoy notes:

Non-profit organizations weren?t started to consistently ask for money and talk about the troubles of keeping the lights on. Remember, they were started to change the world.

And yet, if you work at a non-profit organization, you may feel like you always have your hand out. And that might actually be the perception that many have of your organization. But what if you just took the time to maximize your fundraising efforts, so that you could generate more money with each ask, and therefore, not have to ask so often? Wouldn?t that be a wonderful thing? It?s no fun asking for money.

Unless you?re creative. And have the right tools at your disposal.

Enter Razoo Giving, an online social giving platform. My friend Ifdy Perez, a champion of social good, and the Community Manager at Razoo, which I believe is the most robust social giving platform[, sent me a DM on Twitter yesterday telling me about their new project: Twive and Receive. When I checked it out, I knew I not only had to write this post about it, but I also signed up. But more on that later?

Twive and Receive is a 24-hour online giving competition scheduled for June 14th. Folks like you and me will represent our communities on Twitter and other social platforms to raise money for our favorite local non-profit, while at the same time competing to help them win a share of $30,000.

Razoo has hosted one-day events like this before, but usually on a more hyper-local or regional level. For instance, ?Give to the Max Day? back in November in Washington, D.C. raised more than $2-million in just one day for over a thousand local non-profits. Pretty impressive, eh?

Here?s what I like about this particular campaign:

1) It?s social ? At the heart of this campaign is Twitter, but other platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, and even blogging will be used to raise awareness during this 24-hour period. While one or two people in each community will be heading up the effort, they?ll be using their online social influence to get others on board.

2) It fosters community ? The large majority of the campaign will be done online, but there can be offline elements as well. And you and other locals can band together online, and even gather together offline, to rally the troops and raise awareness and funds for your cause. Nothing brings people together better than a shared cause that benefits your local community.

3) It?s short ? Many high profile fundraisers seem to go on forever. And ever. This is limited to 24-hours. In. Out. It?s Over.

4) It?s competitive ? Gamification is one of the buzzwords of the social realm these days. Foursquare and other platforms use gamification to get people involved and keep them involved. Who doesn?t love a little friendly competition? It?s you and your city against a host of other cities, seeing who can raise the most money. Community pride can be a powerful motivating factor.

5) It?s fun ? Or, it CAN be fun. It?s all how you execute. But when?s the last time you enjoyed fundraising? Usually we dread the task of asking others for money. Here, you can have some fun and raise money at the same time.

6) It fosters and rewards creativity ? I have no idea how this campaign will shake out, but I?m convinced of one thing: the cities that win will be the ones that exhibit the most creativity. If all you do is tweet about raising money, you can only go so far. But what if you get local businesses and media involved? Are there offline methods you can use to get people involved online? What about a tweetup for happy hour? There are so many things

7) It fosters relationships between the community and the non-profit ? If you do this right, your non-profit will be on board, and they?ll be promoting it as well. You?ll have the chance to connect local folks to the non-profit, who might never have engaged with them in the past. And it feels good to give something back to your community as an individual. At the same time, the non-profit benefits by rolling up their sleeves and working alongside community members.

8) Razoo will help you along the way ? This isn?t some promotion or contest where you?re told to do something, and then the organizing business disappears until the last day. Razoo will be putting together an online toolkit to help you plan your day, including widgets you can put on websites and Facebook pages. They?ll also be hosting weekly conference calls to bring you up to date on the campaign, and offer you tips.

9) Everyone wins ? You win by being a part of something good in your community, and you?ll get to meet and build relationships with others. Your non-profit wins, because even if they don?t ?win? the competition, they still get to keep the money that was raised for them. Plus they?ll most likely have access to new donors. And Razoo wins because they are the organizers of this, and many non-profits will be introduced to their great platform.

I?ve already signed up to be the point person for my community in Lancaster, and I?ve chosen the non-profit for which we?ll be fundraising: Water Street Ministries (client) which provides a variety of services to the homeless and needy in our area. They serve a lot of people and do great work.

What about you? Are you willing to step up and be the point person for your community? If there is no one representing your city, why not consider signing up now? And if your city is already spoken for, join the cause! Contact the person listed next to your city and offer to lend a hand, or a tweet.

What do you think are the hallmarks or elements of a successful online fundraising campaign? What has worked for you in the past? How can you incorporate these elements into your fundraising efforts all year long?

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Electronic nose knows when your cantaloupe is ripe

ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2012) ? Have you ever been disappointed by a cantaloupe from the grocery store? Too ripe? Not ripe enough? Luckily for you, researchers from the University of California, Davis might have found a way to make imperfectly ripe fruit a thing of the past.

The method will be published on March 30 in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE).

"We are involved in a project geared towards developing rapid methods to evaluate ripeness and flavour of fruits," said paper-author Dr. Florence Negre-Zkharov. "We evaluated an electronic nose to see if it can differentiate maturity of fruit, specifically melons. The goal is to develop a tool that can be used post-harvest to better evaluate produce, and develop better breeds."

When fruit ripens, it develops a characteristic volatile blend, indicating its maturity. Traditionally, the gold-standard of evaluating these volatiles has been gas chromatography, but it takes up to an hour to analyze a single sample, which makes it impractical to use outside the lab. Dr. Negre-Zakharov and her team wanted to determine if the much cruder -- but much faster -- electronic nose was able to determine if the melon they used in the experiment were ripe. It was.

"It's quite encouraging technology for the purposes of determining maturity," she said.

The project is part of the Specialty Crops Research Initiative, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, which was "established to solve critical industry issues through research and extension activities." Dr. Negre-Zkharov and her team are working on quantitative methods of evaluating fruit-ripeness in the hopes that it will help the industry produce better quality produce.

"It's very impressive that the electronic nose system can do a type of gas chromatography in about a minute. Ultra-fast, indeed. Also, the sample preparation is as easy as making a smoothie at home. Such a user-friendly system could greatly help analysis efficiency in this field," said JoVE Science Editor, Dr. Zhao Chen. "Given the popularity of JoVE video-articles, I expect many researchers will know and adopt this method in their own research."

Since the very nature of the project is to give people useful tools, the researchers decided to publish in JoVE, the only peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed science journal to publish all of its content in both text and video format.

"We thought that the best way to get people to adopt the method was showing a video, instead of publishing a text," said Dr. Negre-Zkharov.

The next step is to take the electronic nose out into the field to determine if it can still determine fruit maturity with all of the background smells interfering -- like soil and air-quality. Though the team has already tested the device in the field, they have not yet analyzed their results.

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Today?s Theodore direct selling article is for Theodore internet rookies who want to kick up their web marketing a notch by adding a podcast to their Theodore home business blog.

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A related term is the acronym RSS which probably originally stood for Rich Site Summary feed but is sometimes used for Really Simple Syndication. You have probably seen the term RSS on websites. An RSS feed allows digital files to be downloaded in a standard format. Point Clear podcast listeners often subscribe to favorite ongoing podcasts. When new podcasts are produced, they are automatically downloaded by RSS applications.

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On AT&T? Couldn't imagine what a White Nokia Lumia 900 would look like with Ma Bell's branding on it? Then feast your eyes on the picture above. Just remember, it's not arriving on April 8th like its Cyan and Black cousins. A phone that stylish requires you to patiently wait until the 22nd.

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I believe that a barbecue place is only as good as its ribs. If you don?t do those well, then you?d better take a step back and survey your entire production. Of course, the other fare ? brisket, pulled pork, the sides ? follows soon after. I recently made two visits each to three barbecue places ? Smedley Manor in Bountiful, Soul & Bones in Ogden and Moon Dog?s Caf? in Layton ? and I can report that two out of three make good ribs. Bountiful ? Smedley Manor is located in an old house built in the late 1800s by the Smedley family. Each wood-trimmed room has chairs with tables set with your basic commercial cutlery, salt and pepper shakers, wet wipes, ketchup and napkins. Honestly, it?s a bit of a disconnect to eat barbecue in such a stately place. A modest list of beverages (sodas and beer, $2.25-$5) goes along with a concise menu of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, burgers and barbecued items. Start a meal with a brisket quesadilla ($5.99), battered and fried green beans ($4.99) or mild salsa and tortilla chips ($2.99) that are served fresh from the fryer. Entr?es include ribs (? rack, $13.99; full rack, $19.99, both with a side and sauce), which were overcooked on one visit. As I tried to pick up a rib, the meat stayed on the plate and all I had was a bone in my hand. On a second visit, the ribs were a bit better but still overdone, although they had a nice smoky flavor to them. Choose from six sauces, which vary in hotness, though even the hottest one, "honey hot" wasn?t very spicy. The ribs are also served as a sandwich ($8.99 with a side and sauce) or choose a tender brisket sandwich ($8.99; $9.99 as an entr?e; both come with a side and sauce). Both sandwiches are topped with coleslaw in need of salt and vinegar. A side of bacon-flecked baked beans, on the other hand, were plenty tangy. Cornbread ($1.50), minus the funky-tasting honey butter, is also a good choice. The macaroni and cheese (as a side or $6.99 as an entr?e), though, needs rethinking. One day, a lukewarm, $6.99 portion had overcooked pasta resting in a pool of melted butter. On another visit, as a small side dish, it was only marginally better. None of the desserts particularly wowed me: a root beer float ($2.99), a fried tortilla bowl with vanilla ice cream and artificial-tasting red sauce ($4.99), an apple buckle (similar to a streusel) with ice cream ($4.99) and cheesecake ($5.99) topped with more of that red sauce. Service varied from friendly to very accommodating, which felt almost neighborly, especially considering we were eating in what was once someone?s home. I just wish the menu selection and food execution matched the restaurant?s regal name. Ogden ? Soul & Bones is the opposite of Smedley Manor. Situated just off 25th Street, the restaurant?s look is reminiscent of a grand bayou speakeasy. To complement the feel, live music is played on weekend nights and at Sunday brunch. Soul & Bones? food and drink menus are just as grand. The Cajun part of the menu is the "soul," think jambalaya, po? boy sandwiches and gumbo. The "bones" is the barbecue, in the form of ribs, brisket, pulled pork and smoked chicken. Of the many appetizers, be sure to get the crab cakes ($9). They come on dirty rice, collard greens, a tasso ham hollandaise and creole sauce. One of the best salads I?ve had in a long while is the Cajun shrimp and crawfish salad ($10), with mixed greens, pickled okra and onion chutney all tossed with a Cajun spice vinaigrette. The sweet shellfish balanced the pickled vegetables and zingy tangle of onions. For heat-lovers, the jambalaya ($16) is also a must-have. Spicy andouille sausage, chicken, shrimp and crawfish all get mixed in a hefty portion of rice and a creole sauce. As for meat, ribs come as "timid baby backs" (? rack, $16; full, $24) with lots of meat, and "bold St. Louis ribs" (? rack, $15; full, $23), which are more tender but have a bit more fat. Soul & Bones? ribs were nearly spot-on, with the right level of smoke worth every finger lick. Smoky pulled pork and tender brisket come at $12 a pound or in sandwiches with crunchy coleslaw (both $8) and limp french fries. For the indecisive, consider ordering two meats and two sides ($13), as there are 10 to choose from. I?d recommend the baked beans, black-eyed peas, dirty rice and coleslaw ? if you add your own salt. Wash it all down with one of 33 beers, a glass of red or white wine or one of the bar?s specialty cocktails ($8), including the S&B lemonade, made with Jack Daniels, triple sec, sour mix and Sprite. Unlike the rest of the menu, for dessert there?s only a respectable house-made peanut butter mousse pie ($6) and a refreshing Key lime mousse pie ($6), which is fine by me as the savory dishes are where you?ll want to spend your time. Layton ? Moon Dog?s Caf? touts an even bigger menu, as it is open seven days a week and serves breakfast until 2 p.m. The diner-like counter seating and other casually set tables add a homeyness to the place. Breakfast covers the basics: egg dishes, hotcakes, French toast, biscuits and gravy. Carb loaders will appreciate the loaded hash browns ($6) that includes onions and green bell peppers ladled with sausage-flecked gravy, all topped with two eggs. A surprisingly good "snapple" omelet special ($7.49) combined cheddar, ground sausage and chunks of red and green apples. The flavors worked together but I think smaller apple cubes would have been better. From-scratch potato chips and excellent "Moon Doggie" beans come with the 13 burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches and salads that make up the lunch menu. One sandwich was overflowing with ribbons of smoked brisket ($7.49) while a beef patty curiously made it onto a pulled pork sandwich ($7.49) with coleslaw (with a serious amount of mayonnaise) and banana peppers. Dinner, served after 3 p.m., comes with a salad, those beans, coleslaw, choice of potato and Texas garlic toast. In addition to the brisket and pulled pork, there?s smoked turkey, meatloaf and ribs. Order the four-rib plate ($15), with perfectly cooked, smoky ribs. Bottles of sweet or spicy sauce (with just a bit more heat and tang) are on each table. Desserts are of the mediocre cafeteria ilk, but our friendly server offered to top a Utah scone ($2.50) with some vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. For locals, I could see how Moon Dog?s could become a regular lunch choice.

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Location Intelligence and Mobile BI: Advancing data analysis in retail

You?re an area manager for retail conglomerate CheapStuff. The northwestern sector of your region is underperforming. The situation demands your personal attention ? and a visit. Luckily, you can take all the location-based information you need with you on your smartphone ? your Business Intelligence (BI) solution has integrated Location Intelligence (LI) and mobile reporting capabilities.

LI ? the combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and BI allows you to combine location-based data and traditional metrics ? and Mobile BI ? the ability to receive reporting and analytics on-the-go via mobile devices ? empowers you to uncover otherwise hidden trends, patterns and relationships; no matter where you, or your assets are located.

Just ask Yellowfin

So, what can a BI platform, encompassing LI and mobile analytical capabilities, bring to a retail organization?s critical business processes and operations?

Just ask Yellowfin how, at:? http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFContact.i4

6 ways to utilize Location Intelligence and Mobile BI in retail

The ability to access location-based reports from your mobile device allows you to formulate a strategy from the departure lounge.? You?re able to:?

• Track stock levels of individual retail operators to coordinate warehouse deliveries to ensure individual shop fronts are always well stocked
• Categorize underperforming stores to assess their ongoing viability and ability to raise profits
• Assess the sales of particular items by store to determine effective and efficient sales campaigns and stock distribution
• Assess customer purchase habits, frequency and residency to help new marketing campaigns boost store traffic and sales
• Segment customers in a multi-dimensional way via purchase history, demography as well as location, to develop highly effective and personalized relationships
• Identify the location of potential customers and suggest specialized marketing messages via location-specific mediums
• Detect and mitigate unnecessary competition between regional stores
• Forecast and redevelop store-specific budgets and expectations based on the size of surrounding populations and other location specific information

The importance of where: Location Intelligence and Mobile BI

Gartner?s 2012 BI Magic Quadrant survey indicated that the majority (53%) of organizations will deliver some form of mobile analytics by year?s end.? The same report revealed that many organizations, across a diverse range of industries, are beginning to apply BI and analytics to new business areas. As a result, respondents listed ?geographic-intelligent functions? as one of the standout new product requirements for 2012.?

The insight able to be leveraged by assessing location-based data on mobile devices is enormous. LI is the glue that binds organizational data assets together, generating context, meaning and exposing crucial relationships between data types. Mobile BI is the platform of the future for reporting and analytics, as executives abandon their desks, and spend more time amongst assets, employees and customers.

With the intensification of trends towards globalization, outsourcing and the instantaneous (driven by our constant connectivity courtesy of the Internet), not knowing will no longer be an excuse, no matter where you, or your company?s operations, are located.

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Web Fulfillment Companies- Efficient in Product Fulfillment Services ...

Considering carrying out ecommerce? Online fulfillment companies are most excellent to help you meet the orders of the customers in timely manner

When the owners of the businesses takes into consideration the concept of carrying out their businesses through internet that is most popularly known as ecommerce, the most essential concern for them is how they are going to meet the client orders. Meeting the orders of the customers correctly and that too within the promised time is absolutely necessary for the ecommerce companies otherwise they can lose their goodwill along with their customers. This is where the need of online fulfillment firms is felt by the ecommerce companies.

Not considering the services of the online fulfillment firms can welcome enormous harassment for the online businesses

However in most of the cases either the companies frequently forgets about such web fulfillment services or thinks that they are capable enough to carry out every aspects of the trade efficiently and so they do not hire such firms to help them. Such an unwise step maximum times is seen to make the online businesses suffer a lot. Online firms are very much concerned about obtaining orders and they abandon the thought of considering the fact that how they will be fulfilling the orders in correct time. It is undoubtedly a big mistake on their part.

Mailing and product fulfillment, though the concluding steps, may leave a significant impression on the minds of the customers

Mail and fulfillment of product might be one among the concluding steps in this chain of purchasing; however this step is extremely imperative one for the increment in the number of customers, enhancement of goodwill and even for the survival of the business. And nothing can assist the businesses most excellently in this job of shipment and meeting the customer orders than the web fulfillment companies. In any case, it is over and over again the ultimate touch-point amid businesses and its clients, plus ultimate impressions that hinge on accuracy of the order, well-timed deliverance and specialized wrapping are indeed powerful instruments to satisfy the clients.

While individuals need to consider the mail and fulfillment of product companies to run their ecommerce sites along with other businesses, dependability is important. Whenever they select some company to handle such product fulfillment services it is vital to ascertain the firm has a good reputation in handling such tasks. Check out online to get hold of such fulfillment companies.

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Dunkin' Brands Announces Appointment of Ginger Gregory as Chief ...

CANTON, Mass., March 26, 2012? (www.hospitalitybusinessnews.com) --?Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc., the parent company of Dunkin' Donuts (DD) and Baskin-Robbins (BR), today announced the appointment of Ginger Gregory as ?Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer.? She will join the Dunkin' Brands Executive Leadership Team and report directly to Dunkin' Brands' Chief Executive Officer Nigel Travis.

Gregory has held executive-level human resources positions for several multinational companies across a variety of industries. In her new role at Dunkin' Brands she will be responsible for global employee recruitment, training, compensation, benefits, and organizational development.? She will also serve as co-chair of Dunkin' Donuts' People's Subcommittee where she will lead the creation of? tools and programs designed to attract, hire, train, and develop restaurant managers and crewmembers.?

"At Dunkin' Brands, our goal is to offer an exceptional customer experience at our restaurants around the world, and that will only happen if we hire, develop and retain the best employees in the quick service restaurant industry," said Nigel Travis, Dunkin' Brands CEO and Dunkin' Donuts President. "With her executive leadership skills and her passion for organizational development, Ginger is eminently qualified to help us achieve that goal and, as a result, drive the global growth of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins."???

Gregory joins Dunkin' Brands from Novartis International AG, a multibillion-dollar healthcare solutions company, where she led a global team of human resources professionals. In that position, she was responsible for global staffing, talent management and field human resources, and served as a member of the Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Executive Committee.? Prior to Novartis, Gregory held leadership positions at Novo Nordisk where she served as Senior Vice President, Corporate People & Organization at the company's global headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.? Earlier in her career, she held a variety of human resources generalist and specialist positions at Bristol Myers Squibb and served as consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton in the area of organization change and effectiveness.

"I am delighted to be joining Dunkin' Brands, a company with two of the world's best-loved brands and one of the premier franchising concepts in the world," said Gregory. "I look forward to working with the company leadership and our franchisee community to attract and retain great talent for Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins restaurants around the world."

Gregory received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, a Master of Arts in Philosophy, and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the George Washington University, where she also served as a Lecturer in Psychology, Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Fellow.

Source: http://www.hospitalitybusinessnews.com/peoplpe/12217/dunkin-brands-announces-appointment-ginger-gregory-chief-human-resources-officer

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A new test might facilitate diagnosis and drug development for Alzheimer's disease

ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2012) ? An international team of researchers have developed a new method for measurement of aggregated beta-amyloid -- a protein complex believed to cause major nerve cell damage and dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. The new method might facilitate diagnosis and detection as well as development of drugs directed against aggregated beta-amyloid.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of memory decline and dementia. According to the Alzheimer World Report 2011, today around 36 million people suffer from Dementia (around 20 -- 25 million are Alzheimer's patients). These numbers will dramatically increase with the aging populations over the next few decades. For the year 2050 the expected number of dementia patients will be 115 -- 200 million (70 -- 150 million Alzheimer's cases). It is therefore important to develop new therapies and diagnostic methods to detect and treat this complex chronic neurodegenerative brain disease.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by aggregates in the brain, containing a protein called beta-amyloid. The neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease has recently been linked to the neurotoxic amyloid-? (A?) oligomers. The crucial role of A? oligomers in the early events of AD is experimentally underlined. Several recent results suggest that those oligomers may cause the death of neurons and neurological dysfunctions relevant to memory. Furthermore A? oligomers levels are increased in brain and cerebrospinal fluid samples from people with Alzheimer's disease. This reflects the potential of A? oligomers as a marker for the early diagnosis of the disease.

An international team of scientists from Germany, Sweden and the U.S. have used a new method to quantify soluble variants of aggregated beta-amyloid (A? oligomers) in cerebrospinal fluid by flow cytometry. "We found that patients with a greater number of A? oligomers in the cerebrospinal fluid had a more pronounced disease," says Dr. Alexander Navarrete Santos (the developer of this method and now employee of the Research Laboratory of the University of Halle, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery), and first author of the study.

He analyzed the cerebrospinal fluid of 30 neurological patients, including 14 Alzheimer's patients. "These samples provided from leading expert academic memory clinics in Germany and Sweden are of the best quality and are highly characterized in order to provide robust and reliable results on promising novel biomarker candidates," Professor Harald Hampel of Frankfurt University, a lead investigator comments.

"Because of the limited number of samples, however, further study is needed to confirm the results," said Dr. Oskar Hansson of Lund University. The study was an international cooperation with the University of California in the U.S., the Goteborg and Malm? Universities from Sweden and the University of Frankfurt in Germany.

The test might not only be used for the early detection of AD but can also be used when developing new and effective therapies for AD. A decline in the number of A? oligomers in cerebrospinal fluids could be a hint for the effectiveness of new drug therapies.

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Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120323134601.htm

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Carmen Commercial Real Estate - Real Estate Market Recovery ?

I am sharing some interesting facts and figures here from our friends at JLL regarding some signs of recovery in the very lackluster real estate market?.finally!? Always notable is the fact that during the economic downturn, little to no new commercial space was being added to the market, which will factor into the rate of recovery since demand will likely outpace supply.? If you have not had your lease reviewed by a real estate professional, or are getting within 2 years to 18 months of your lease expiration, now would be the time to consider your options!? CARMEN Commercial Real Estate Services would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Social Media And How It Affects Customer Service
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Social media outlets today have created the platform for the customers to vent their frustrations and disappointments if they are unhappy with the customer service of businesses. Poor customer service from offshore call centers can longer be ignored, as the social network forum can take the negative reactions from customers afar and spread the bad word across the globe. The managers at the call centers have to work on behalf of businesses to spread the good image of the company/business and maintain it that way.

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and several other social networking sites allow people to voice their opinions and views on products/services on the profiles of the associated businesses or organizations. There are also forums online where the customers ask and answer questions pertaining to a particular product or service from businesses. If a negative quality of the product/service is talked about, the agents should be careful enough to ensure that the matters are solved and the issues of the customers are redressed as soon as possible, so that the brand image of the business in question can be retained.

Businesses should be mindful that there are several channels available today for the consumers and customers to communicate with their own suppliers; channels include phone calls, chat messages, text, website forums as well as through emails. This balance of power is giving consumers the confidence in making purchases and offering the right review on the products and services. The customer service should be planned in call center outsourcing firms in such a manner that the customers are provided with a royal kind of treatment so that they remain loyal to the businesses for a long time. Note that confident customers are not high maintenance; they just require to be treated well.

Through the social media mechanism, it becomes possible for the businesses to keep the customers well informed and updated on product and service details. Businesses use social media platforms to offer consumers greater access to friendly details and also enabling the consumers to share their likes, dislikes and experiences with using the products and services of businesses; this will help the agents at the call center outsourcing firms address the complaints and issues of customers, in case there are any.

The customer service should be good enough over the phone and through the social media channels, as if there are any loopholes in the call center outsourcing customer service, it will be sorted out before it takes any ugly turn. When the consumers find that the customer service is good and efficient and meeting all their needs, there will be far less frustration among them.

If the customers are provided solutions to their issues and queries by the right 24 hour call center agents, they will be able to better believe in the issues and control their irritation as the authenticity is there. 24 hour call center customer service agents should be thankful that the customers are sending them complaints regarding products and services instead of letting the world know online.

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Icon Health and Fitness-The wellness and aptness attention has confirmed a non-static starting over the past 5 years or so. It is approximated that the UK industry for gyms comprehensive both the in solitude and open location was value 3.8bn this season, whilst the aptness equipment industry, covering both blurb and in-home programs, was value an approximated 354m.

The fitness center industry one after another to flower highly until 2009, buoyed by the local power, business and health and fitness areas, before desire was badly suffering from climbing down non reusable earnings and taking flight lack of employment. In addition, competition powerful with a number of new expenses providers coming into the industry, taking membership rights prices down and going to a relatively advanced level of business activity. Truly, the wellness and aptness team industry blessed a initial season of 0 development in more than a several years, however the industry value is approximated to have came back to development this season ? despite at a low amount.

The aptness equipment industry, on the other hand was impacted early in 2008 by a fall in desire with gyms delaying major repair tasks and the amount of new team spaces climbing down considerably. This event one after another until 2009 going to a fall in industry value during the season. While the wellness and aptness team industry continued to be flat, the blurb aptness equipment industry saw a emotional expand in earnings in 2010 as gyms integrated repair programs in an try to catch more members.

The viewpoint for both of these linked marketplaces in the advanced period is positive. These are developed marketplaces, so development rates will be limited; however, there is powerful actual desire for wellness and aptness services and, therefore, aptness equipment. It is approximated that by 2016, the industry for gyms will have achieved a value of 4.4bn with the aptness equipment industry estimate to be value an approximated 403m.

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