A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.

As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown.

The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting:

‘What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That’s a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?’

The young boy was apologetic. ‘Please, mister….please, I’m sorry but I didn’t know what else to do,’ he pleaded. ‘I threw the brick because no one else would stop…’ With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. ‘It’s my brother,’ he said. ‘He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up.’

Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, ‘Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me.’

Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. ‘Thank you and may God bless you,’ the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:

‘Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!’ God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don’t have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It’s our choice to listen or not.

Thought for the Day:

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.

Face it, friend – He is crazy about you!

Send this to every ‘beautiful person’ you wish to bless.

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Read this line very slowly and let it sink in…

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

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A retired Constitutional lawyer has read the entire proposed healthcare bill. Read his conclusions and pass this on as you wish.. This is stunning!
House Bill 3200. Brace yourself and read every word!

The Truth About the Health Care Bills – Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own.

The irony is that the Congress doesn’t have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, to all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital in direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. All of this is a protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn’t work because, since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though.

The 9th Amendment provides: The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;

The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution.” If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas

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WE MUST HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

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1. What made you decide to start Tungling?
The convenience and features.

2. What’s one thing we do better than any other productivity app out there?
Integrate into my already technological life with tools I already use.

3. What’s one thing we could do to create a better experience for you?
Provide more features and tools. Oh, and I know this is two, but get more people to use Tungle!

4. Do you refer Tungle.me to others? If yes, why?
Every chance I get. Because Tungle is a useful and easy tool to use, that does what it says it does and when I find worthwhile tools, I always share them.

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Calendar Integration App

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Tungle.me is a Calendar App that allows you to set up appointments with clients, colleagues, family and friends, without all the Email hassles. There is no requirement for others to register to use the site and set these appointments with you and it works with nearly every Calendar system out there. It’s an easy one stop method for setting appointments and being more productive.

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It has been a while since I made any regular updates or postings to my blog though. I keep telling myself every month or every week, that this week will be different. That I’ll start writing more on this blog and keep abreast of all the things I’m doing. With School (I’m attending Florida Institute of Technology for my MBA, with my emphasis in Marketing) writing for our other business sites and numerous other tasks, I just don’t write here as often as I should.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s because this blog is my personal blog, yet, I’ve used it as a business blog, test blog, etc. I don’t quite seem to have a theme on here and I’m not sure how well that will work out. I do have a more business oriented marketing blog set up. Plus other business or politically oriented blogs, so perhaps as I’ve mentioned even on this blog I think, I should just focus on personal issues and then repost or direct tot he other blogs as necessary.

That way this can be my everything, grand central station. Perhaps, I shouldn’t care if it screws up my SEO or if it’s not targeted enough. I’m ADD, I’m not targeted anyway…

OK… well, lets see if this plug-in I’m testing is working now… Until next time. Unless this doesn’t work, then it could be sooner.

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This blog, is mostly for personal stuff now. I just have so much other writing and planning to do, that writing on here hasn’t been a real priority.

Anyway, if you are interested in America and what happens to it and if you care about Liberty and the ability to make your own choices, then please read the most recent post on Publius Alter and then come listen and participate.

The time is truly now, if we are to take action and save our futures.

Here’s the basic details about the new show:

Take a Stand! Join us and voice your opinion on our new Radio show starting on August 31, 2009. We will be broadcasting from 4-6 PM Pacific Time (7-9 EST) on blogtalkradio.com/publiusalter every Monday – Friday.

What is different about this broadcast?

This is about taking action and the simple solutions needed to make it happen. This is about truly Uniting All American’s for perhaps the first time. But we need your help!

Again to read the entire post just check out Publius Alter.

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Information marketing is a concept that can be utilized in a number of ways to sustain a steady flow of income. Nowadays, the most common and effective tools that can be used to earn money online through information marketing include; article marketing, video marketing, email marketing and affiliate marketing.

Article marketing is the most effective means for beginners and experienced alike to become profitable over the internet. It involves writing articles on anything that you are an expert in or that are useful to people in any way. Articles are used to optimize the website with keywords that best describe their business or are relevant to their area of focus.

Online information marketing is all about promotion of digital products that don’t exist physically. This means that you are marketing information to people. This information mostly exists in form of articles, ebooks, and other digital products. It is also possible to create your own digital products and market them. It will allow you earn more money, because you will be marketing for your own product.

Nowadays, the tools and approaches used to make money online include adsense, adwords, affiliate marketing, etc.; all of which are only effective and useful if you have a steady flow of traffic to your website. These tools to earn money do not involve much cost, and only requires your time and attention in order to keep everything up-to-date.

You can also advertise banners and pay-per-click advertisements on different websites, or can allow others to advertise on your website; both these approaches are equally useful, and you can generate traffic on your website, or on the website of your affiliate company, and this will obviously increase the sales potential of your products.

It is also recommended that before you begin with online information marketing, you must always conduct a detailed research on affiliate programs and marketing techniques that you might be thinking to adopt. This will allow you to select the best program with all the training facilities. Furthermore, you will not have to worry whether your online endeavor will be a success or not, but rather focus on enhancing your business profitability and marketability. This is the right approach for anyone, who wants to make money on the internet, especially for beginners who need assistance in taking the right decisions for their online business.

If you are looking to start an Online Information Marketing business then you must always trust profit lance review.

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But I think there is another important part of social media that may often be overlooked and can’t as easily be measured.

Social media sites are places where people can vent about good or bad experiences. If a business is not involved in the social media circuits and they aren’t tracking what is going on there, then they can easily lose referrals, lose ‘prestige’ as a business and flat out lose customers all together. If only, because you aren’t there to defend yourself or at least build a relationship. Social Media has a huge impact on your PR… which is a big part of Social Media Marketing.

The era we have recently entered is really the newest version of ‘Relationship’ marketing. 40 or 50 plus years ago, companies were founded on exceptional customer service. It was expected. You went to the gas station and you had full service; check the oil, check the tire pressure, wash the windows, etc. You went to a store or any place else and the customer was king. The phrase, “The customer is always right” was coined during that era.

But that was lost over time and the face of corporations became automated telephones, machine operated service centers, lower wages, high inflation and the need for just making a living. Technology came along to make our lives easier and instead depersonalized most of it. Instead of improving everything, it made it worse; maybe because of greed or the quest for lower costs vs. quality or perhaps a number of other reasons. We someone forgot about the customers.

All of that is changing now though, people want that relationship, they want to feel listened to and respected. They want quality customer service. They are also very impatient and want instant gratification.

So we have an entirely new area of marketing, Relationship marketing and Social Marketing is only one piece of that puzzle. The next time someone says, where’s the proof, just remember that information about what people are saying or thinking about you or your business can truly make or break you and also don’t forget that as time goes on, ‘Relationship Marketing’ will become more and more important.

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Poor attendance at meetings and events is always your worst nightmare as hosts. You may use an online survey to determine why potential customers do not enroll. You may ask customer service representatives about the most frequent objections. You may even initiate a promotional phone call to find out about the objections with your own ears. However, no matter what you do, the event will be a disaster if you don’t come up with ways to overcome these objections.

Designing a successful event aims at increasing your profitability and the potential of your attendees. In your effort to discover the needs and wants of your attendees it is advisable to ask attendee-focused questions that require attendee-centric answers. For instance, questions like ‘what would drive greater success in my business?’, ‘what my customers need?’, ‘how could I satisfy my customer needs?’ may help you design an event that will create interest in your attendees.

Promoting your event requires primarily creativity and persistence. High attendance is important for the success of your event and your business. Emphasizing on your attendees will allow you to generate more awareness for your cause and, ultimately, more success for your event.

Here are some guidelines you may follow to increase attendance when hosting business meetings or events:

> Target the right audience

One common factor that makes people restraining from an event is because they are not really interested. In other words, they do not belong in the right target group. If you host the event for the first time, it will take some time for finding the right target audience so as to achieve high attendance. In contrast, if you are already hosting the event for many years, you may experience a decline in attendance rates as a result of inviting the same people without expanding your guest list. You need to keep an updated attendee database and make sure that you target the right audience. This can happen by asking existing attendees to refer you to potential new attendees so that you increase your attendance rates for next year.

> Invite your audience well ahead the event

Once you start inviting people, you should continue at a constant rate. Inviting people well ahead the event is important because it gives you time to remind them about the event even if they have confirmed attendance. The point is to generate excitement and to make them enthusiastic until the date of the event is hosted. You can mention the event to your guests before sending them invitations and then send an electronic or paper initiation including agenda highlights. After one or two weeks, you may call guests and give them a personal formal invite to the event.

> Build credibility and interest in your event

To participate in your event, people need to be convinced that is worth their time and money. To achieve that, you need to choose major sponsors to advertise your happening, esteemed guest speakers to attract the audience and nicely organized promotional material to communicate the benefits of attending at your event. In doing so, you will able to build credibility into your event, convincing people that is exceptional and worth attending.

> Choose the right location to host your event

Choosing the right location may skyrocket your attendance rates. Don’t forget that people enjoy attending events. So, simply offer them an opportunity to detour from their routines and enjoy your happening. When choosing the location for hosting your event, consider a venue that can be conveniently reached because people are busy and do not have too much time. Also, it makes sense to use a venue that has been previously used for other events and people are familiar with. Offer discounts for early enrollment and offer also mail enrollment for people that do not have home computers.

> Provide incentives

Providing incentives raises additional interest. Offer additional discounts for the next year’s event that can be prepaid this year. Offer new activities, perhaps workshops, handouts, signed books for a famous guest speaker for the first ten people, who register; anything that can make your event unique, different than the previous years and worth attending.

As there is no magic stick that can increase attendance in your next event, you need to design your events around their needs. In that way, you will host an event that will be a memorable experience for your attendees, who consequently will drive higher attendance to your next meetings.

I work as a financial and investment advisor but my passion is writing, music and photography. Writing mostly about finance, business and music, being an amateur photographer and a professional dj, I am inspired from life.

Being a strong advocate of simplicity in life, I love my family, my partner and all the people that have stood by me with or without knowing. And I hope that someday, human nature will cease to be greedy and demanding realizing that the more we have the more we want and the more we satisfy our needs the more needs we create. And this is so needless after all.

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