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8Jul/100

Ten Most Popular Goldfish

Ten Most Popular Goldfish

You can't imagine the kind of varieties of Goldfish there are! People have been breeding Goldfish for over 2000 years now. China is believed to have over 100 varieties and to think that it all began with the Carassius auratus ? the gibel carp! Not all goldfish have been bred in China though. Other countries have specially bred their own goldfish around the world. Comets and Veiltails are very American while the Jikin, Tosakin and the Shubunkin are Japanese. The United Kingdom bred its own Shubunkins and there are two types? Bristol and London Shubunkin.And so the endless list of Goldfish varieties goes on, so much so that it's hard to say which is the most unique of them all. Today, we can zero in on at least 20 recognized breeds all sorted out according to their color, body shape, finnage and any other very unique outgrowths. There are the orange or red goldfish which we immediately think of as being typical colors but actually the most genuine goldfish colors are greenish brown, blue, black, bronze, olive green, dark brown, reddish brown, light brown, calico, red and white and even white. All of these have been bred by experts.
But some goldfish will be more popular than the others. Lets find out what makes them a hit with the fish keepers in a top ten list.To view the list of the top ten most popular Goldfish click here.Dane Stanton is an expert on goldfish health care. To visit his website visit http://www.goldfish-secrets.com for more information on Goldfish care and other aquarium related topics.
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6Jul/100

Make The Most of Examples and Stories – Public-Speaking

Make The Most of Examples and Stories

Examples and stories can bring your presentations alive. They can transform a dull, dry subject into something which is interesting and alive. When presenters give examples, it helps explain what they are saying in a way that the audience can understand. Examples make the material you deliver less 'information' or and more 'entertainment'.If you can give your examples in the form of stories, you will be using a format that everyone can understand. We were all brought up on stories and some of the greatest influencers in history gave their messages as stories ? remember Aesop and his fables!So, to make the most of the examples you could use you need to have a strategy to include them in all of your talks. There are several ways you can do this. For instance, for each of your main points try to think of at least one example that backs up what you are saying. You may not use each example, but you should have them in mind so you can introduce them if necessary. Keep a list of these examples handy, so that when you put your final presentation together you can choose the most interesting and relevant ones.Make your examples include human beings, preferably real people. Examples that include people are much more powerful than abstract examples. If your examples include you in them, they will be much more attractive to the audience. Research shows us that audiences expect speakers to talk about their own experiences and find it immensely valuable.Try to paint vivid pictures in the mind of your audience with your examples. If your audience can mentally see what you are describing they are much more likely to remember it. Psychologists have demonstrated that much of our thinking is visually-based. Hence, if you talk in word pictures you will make it easy for your audience to understand what you are saying.Make your examples relevant to the audience. Find out in advance the kind of examples that are likely to interest them; do some audience research to help boost your examples.Choose examples that are current. Do not use examples from the distant past as they have less impact than examples set in the present.Always announce your examples with words like 'here's a story that shows what I mean'. Announcements like this will alert your audience to pay close attention.Wherever possible make your examples light or humorous. Avoid being serious or stuffy with your examples. Tell your stories in the same way as you would in a social situation, such as a dinner party or in a bar. The more natural they sound, the greater their impact.Always be on the lookout for new examples and stories that can back up your points. The more examples you have 'in stock' the more you will be able to choose one relevant to a particular audience.Graham Jones runs The Presentation Business, http://www.presentationbiz.com

4Jul/100

The Most Critical Strategy to Your Survival, and Prosperity, Online – Email-Marketing

The Most Critical Strategy to Your Survival, and Prosperity, Online

For the sake of your long term survival and your short term
profitability online, you've got to think of your business
as more than just one or more products or services. Getting
customers is the hard part, so the best strategy is almost
always to gain their business long term.Ask yourself or find out from your subscribers what wants
and needs they have in common. It's commonly known that the
online environment is especially suited to this because it
costs you nothing to keep in touch with them. When done
correctly, these contacts can be very profitable to you for
a long time.What's not as well understood is that for this very same
reason, your survival may easily depend on how well you
execute this strategy. When online businesses get more out
of their traffic by doing this, they're willing to pay more
for the traffic and so the cost of traffic increases
overall.And it doesn't matter whether the traffic is free or not.
Because when it's free, there will be more businesses out
there willing to put in the time to get this free traffic,
which leaves less of it for you, at least for the time you
put in. All other things being equal, if were to continue to
get the same amount of traffic, you would have to put in
more time.And on-line businesses WILL be doing more of this as word
gets around that this kind of strategy is the way to go. So
your survival online will increasingly depend on how well
you do this.For those reasons, opt-in marketing done correctly - where
relationships with your prospects and customers are a top
priority - becomes more important every day. These
relationships are not much different than any other. They
require time. They require the trust of your opt-ins. And
they require that the opt-ins see more value in what you
send them than most other things they run into online or in
their inbox.That last part can be pretty tricky without the personal
element. As an individual, even if you do have people
working for you, you're able to use this to your extreme
advantage. When you throw this into the mix, everything you
do carries more value - both to you and your subscribers and
customers. It becomes easier for you to develop trust and
establish credibility this way. These are important because
as a marketer, the highest level you can attain is that of a
trusted advisor.You personally become be most important element in your
marketing when your subscribers rely on you for your
recommendations and your guidance.All of a sudden, the role you take on with your list allows
you to take on a whole new perspective in your daily life
because if you're tuned in, many things in your work or life
outside of that could be informative or serve to illustrate
a point to your subscribers. This is stuff your readers just
can't get anywhere else!When the sight of your email in your subscribers' inbox
triggers the idea of you as a person in their minds, you'll
naturally get more of your emails read? which translates
directly to more sales. This happens naturally. Your
messages will have more of an impact because the readers
aren't putting up their defenses as they normally would. The
message can be taken at face value.You might think you have to be an expert to attain this kind
of position. You really don't. You can still bring value
without overstepping the bounds of your knowledge. Anyone
can use these elements to build these highly profitable
relationships in their list.Although I'm limited to what I can show you in this article,
I cover these things in more depth in my ebook "How to Win
More Customers That Buy More Product More Often," which is
completely FREE. You'll find the link in the resource box
below.Laurence Baker is the author of "How To
Win More Customers That Buy More Product More Often,"
presenting a solution to the biggest obstacle in making more
sales on the internet -a lack of trust. To download a FREE
copy, visit http://www.netmarkhome.com