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I believe it was John D. Rockefeller who at one point quipped, while writing a large (by anyone else's standards) check, that in the time it took to actually give the money, he'd already made more. This is a common problem today for rich folks. While everyone's quick to say that the millionaire could give them the money and they'd spend it easily, it's actually very hard to find good ways to spend a lot of money.

Rockefeller, unlike most of our current crop of multimillionaires and billionaires, was a philanthropist. He believed that he had a responsibility to give back something to a community that had given him so much. But that's a rare viewpoint amongst the "old money", that is -- people who were born into wealth. The rich have very different ideas about money, people, relationships, etc.

I'm not saying we should storm the castle, but we do need to redistribute the wealth much more evenly than we do now -- I don

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Magic Diets don?t exist. But because they?re rich in fiber, some foods take longer to eat, yet have?fewer?calories per gram. They may also alter intestinal hormone levels and lead to your feeling less hungry.

That?s the idea behind the following foods which because they?re also tasty-trick your body into feeling satisfied with far less fat and fewer?calories:

Salads: Make salads with tomato, car rot, beetroot, cabbage, capsicum, lettuce, or cucumber all low in calories-your?diet staple, to liven them up, you can use curd or lemon as a salad dressing. Sandwiches too, are a goods way to have these raw vegetables. The bread helps fill you up, but don?t use butter-spread a coriander-and-mint chutney instead would do good.

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Grapes: Instead of munching your way through a packet of biscuits after a hard day, try grapes instead. They?re high in sugar, but as long as you don?t overdo it, they offer the same soothing hand-to-mouth action with none of the fat. They?re especially good chilled besides, a hundred grams of grapes contain only 70 calories.


Oranges
: The more slowly you eat; the easier it is to recognize your body?s satiety signals. And what snack takes longer than peeling and sectioning an orange? Oranges have only 48 calories. (200 ml of orange juice, with all the fiber gone, has about 115).

Potatoes: Surprised? The problem is not the potatoes, but the way they are cooked . Finger chips or other forms of fried potatoes are high in fat. But if baked or boiled and eaten without fatty accompaniments, potatoes are great for your diet. Have them mashed, adding pepper and a dash of lime. Or stuffed-as in aloo parathas, prepared without oil or ghee of course. (If you must have finger chips make them in the microwave). Potatoes contain only 97 calories.

Sweet potatoes when boiled have a naturally rich taste and creamy texture. They have 120 calories more than potatoes ? but they?re delicious even without accompaniments. And although they belong to a different botanical family, calorie they?re just as nutritious as regular potatoes.

High fiber cereals: By providing bulk, some cereal-based foods, too, fill you up on relatively few calories. They include chapattis, roasted corn on the cob, dhokla or idlis, and white rice upmas. Other breakfast choices could be oats, poha, or rice wheat-or- corn-flakes low in sugar?. Pour skim milk on the flakes. If you prefer them sweet, add chopped fruit.

Sprouted pulses: When pulses are sprouted, they gain vitamins and fiber. Eaten raw, they?re good for slimming. Moong, for instance, sprouts quickly and its sprouts taste good raw. A 50-gram serving has about 140 calories. Raw sprouts of other pulses-rajma, broad beans and dried peas for example-can be made more palatable if they?re steamed, though this lowers their nutrient value.

Curds: If made from skimmed cow?s milk, curds contain only 56 calories and are a good source of protein, calcium and vitamins, Plain curds with a little fruit is delicious as a dessert.

Water: Research shows that snacking in particular is often the result of mistaking thirst for hunger; write Tarla Dalal and Dr Swati Piramal in East Your Way to Good Health. Water has no calories, so it?s great for filling up. Those who find it a plain bore can quaff low-calorie drinks that contain mostly water such as buttermilk, coconut water, and watermelon juice. Clear vegetable or dal soups are nutritious and don?t have?manycalories, avoid cream soups.

Air popped popcorn: That?s popcorn made without butter, oil or salt. Pop it your self in a container with a lid, either over a stove or in a microwave oven. If quantity affects the quality of your eating experience consider that four cups of air-popcorn have only 100 calories and one gram of fat. Compare that to potato wafers-four cups have about 600 calories and 40 grams of fat.

Chocolate bar: To avoid binges, it?s important to indulge yourself once in a while. An occasional 20-gram chocolate bar-about the size of a small 5 star-is a good choice for sweet-tooth cravings, because it?s individually pack aged and thus less risky than cake, ice cream, or puddings.

A diet containing these foods can help you?lose?weight, but don?t neglect exercise. Scientific studies have shown thatcalories?intake is not necessarily higher in the obese than in normal people. It?s energy expenditure that?s often lower in those who are overweight. So make sure your weight-reduction plan gives equal importance to exercise

So the next time when each one of you is off to shop for food or sit down to eat, don?t forget to incorporate these foods in some or the other way to achieve a healthy and?balanced?diet.

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Direct Mail is Dead | Business 2 Community

direct-mail-is-deadDirect mail is dead?or at least it is at my school!

Are you still using direct mail at your school?

Does direct mail work for your school?

Are you tracking the success or failure of your direct mail efforts?

Our Story

A little over 2 years ago we got serious about tracking all of our marketing efforts and focused on direct mail. We were working under the assumption that direct mail can be potentially effective if you have the time and money to saturate your target market with constant and personalized messages. Although we were literally spending thousands of dollars on our direct mail campaigns we really weren?t sure if they were yielding the results that we needed. The issue for us is that we operate with a limited marketing budget and we began to feel that we didn?t have the money or time to make direct mail work for us. As a result, we began to question our investment in direct mail.

Where?s the Data?

Our questioning alone wasn?t enough to begin writing direct mail?s obituary though. We needed data to make an informed decision about the future of direct mail for my school. We decided to track the effectiveness of one of our direct mail campaigns by using a Vanity URL to send the prospective family to a landing page and specifically asked them to pre-register to attend an open house.

We used the following Vanity URL: http://www.sewickley.org/openhouse

If you follow the above link you can also see the landing page that we used to have families pre-register.

Results

For this particular direct mail piece we sent somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 ? 4,000 pieces and only had 2 people pre-register. We also asked the families who attended these particular open houses how they heard about the open house making sure not to mention any particular marketing efforts. Not one family mentioned the direct mail piece!

This direct mail campaign cost us thousands of dollars and only yielded 2 inquiries. We also tracked the 2 inquiries through our admission process and they didn?t even apply. After looking at this data we determined we had enough to information to kill direct mail at my school.

Take Aways

Am I suggesting that you kill direct mail at your school and follow in our footsteps? Absolutely not!

What I am encouraging you to do is to question ALL of your marketing campaigns ? including direct mail. Each of our schools is unique and we all operate in different markets and face different external pressures on enrollment. What works at one school might not work at another and visa versa. You owe to yourself, and your school, to begin tracking and evaluating all of your marketing campaigns and make decisions after you have gathered the data to do so.

I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions about using direct mail at your school. Does it work for you? Do you still use it? Please let me know by sharing in the comments section below.

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CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model ? not to deliver more with less. As the Age of Austerity dawns, however, corporate leaders will have no choice: they will have to bite the bullet and infuse their organizations with a frugal mindset. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda.

Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. In our last blog post, we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment.

Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. In our book Jugaad Innovation, we profile leaders at companies such as GE, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, and Siemens who are also working on frugal ways to innovate and drive sustainable growth. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains. Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers.

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization ? focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Specifically, CEOs must:

1.) Challenge R&D teams to create "good enough" solutions. CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" ? which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly ? and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products. Such quick-fix solutions could leave customers feeling less than satisfied, and designers would inevitably have to return to the drawing board down the road to undo the problems caused by such half-baked solutions. Rather, engineers of large firms need to create affordable solutions from the ground up ? by heeding the advice of John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, who notes: "R&D engineers must make frugal simplicity the core tenet of their design philosophy. They must design for the 'real world' by practicing...'radical incrementalism' ? which is doing more with less."

Emerging markets like Africa, India and China offer Western engineers a great training ground to practice frugal simplicity. For example, Siemens, the German industrial giant, is using its R&D teams in India and China to develop minimalist solutions that deliver higher value to customers. In one instance, Siemens' engineers in India ? working closely with their German colleagues ? developed a Fetal Heart Monitor that uses inexpensive microphone technology rather than the costlier ultrasound technology. This "good enough" medical device promises to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible to more people ? not only in emerging markets but also in developed economies.

2.) Create separate brands to sell the company's less expensive offerings. Given that they might already have well-established brands for higher-priced segments, to avoid brand dilution, marketing heads should develop distinctive new brands for their company's affordable segments. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage. For instance, many of Renault's affordable entry-level vehicles are sold under the brand Dacia, which includes the Logan, the highly successful sedan that sells for about $10,000, as well as an affordable van, pickup, and even SUV. Rather than marketing its Dacia products as "low-cost" vehicles, Renault is cleverly positioning them as vehicles that are stylish, comfortable, dependable, and affordable ? i.e., they deliver more value at less cost.

Similarly, Siemens is grouping its affordable offerings ? such as the microphone-tech-enabled Fetal Heart Monitor ? under the label SMART, which stands for Simple, Maintenance-Friendly, Affordable, Reliable, and Timely-to-Market. In other words, Siemens is positioning its SMART products not only as being less expensive (they are 40-60% cheaper than high-end solutions) but also faster to deploy and easier to use and maintain for customers. Siemens's SMART product portfolio already boasts more than 160 affordable solutions ranging from X-ray machines to steam turbines to railway signaling systems.

3.) Create incentive systems for salespeople to sell frugal products. Western companies must recognize that frugal innovation isn't just about designing affordable products. It is also about successfully selling these frugal products in the marketplace. But successful selling won't happen as long as salespeople have the incentive to sell only big-ticket items. Instead, companies will have to align their salesforce's incentive systems with the corporate strategy of doing more with less. Companies can address this issue by reorganizing their salesforce along brand lines, with different salespeople responsible for the low-end and high-end segments. This will also help reduce any internal resistance based on the fear of cannibalization. Even better, as Renault-Nissan has successfully proven, healthy internal competition between divisions could drive sales and marketing personnel responsible for different brands to be more innovative in how they reach and keep their respective customers.

Consider that for decades, Procter & Gamble maintained a homogeneous sales structure, selling premium products to mainstream middle-class consumers. But as the purchasing power of middle-class Americans declines, P&G has restructured its sales force into two distinct groups that separately target high-income and low-income segments. This restructuring of the sales function bodes well for P&G, which is currently engaged in a "frugal innovation arms race" with its archrival Unilever. Indeed, Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, has set a bold goal to double Unilever's revenue by 2020 while simultaneously curbing its environmental impact by 50%.

CEOs who are bold enough to implement this frugal innovation agenda ? as leaders at P&G, Renault-Nissan, Siemens, and Unilever are doing ? will be able to deliver significantly more value to customers while saving on costs and reducing environmental impact. According to the World Economic Forum, corporations can save a whopping $2 trillion by 2030 by implementing frugal innovation strategies that do a better job of utilizing resources.

In our upcoming blogs, we will share more case studies and proven techniques that can help you effectively design, make, and market frugal products and services.

Meanwhile, we are curious to hear from you: Is your organization, led by your CEO, driving a frugal innovation agenda? Are you involved with developing and commercializing affordable, good-enough solutions for customers feeling the squeeze of the recession? We want to hear about the challenges you have faced and the lessons you have learned so far in your frugal innovation journey.

Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_ceos_frugal_innovation_age.html

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LIVE VIDEO: Donna at Edinburg North, Two Other Games : Sports ...

Read?more: Local, Sports, News, Donna Redskins, Edinburg North Cougars, Valley View Tigers, Mission Veterans Patriots, Weslaco East Wildcats, PSJA Bears, High School Football, Live Video, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, High School

Thursday night football from Edinburg this week will feature a couple of the remaining unbeaten teams here in the Rio Grande Valley.

The 4-0 Donna Redskins will take on the 5-0 Edinburg North Cougars in a 30-5A showdown that will be streamed with?LIVE VIDEO?on our website?www.valleycentral.com.

We'll also be streaming two other games:

Valley View at Mission Veterans
Weslaco East at PSJA?

I?m feeling pretty lucky to be a part of the broadcast of this one which has been talked about for a few weeks now by fans on both sides of the field.

The Redskins appear to be the favorite here based upon the schedule they have played and the numbers that they have produced.

Edinburg North lost a bit of momentum coming into this game as they just edged by Edinburg 8-3 last week.

Donna, earlier this year, beat that same team 31-7.

Regardless of the outcome, this game appears to feature two of the three teams in this district that are locked into a play-off spot if they continue to play the way they have.

Lurking on the schedule for both of these teams is a road trip to another unbeaten team Sharyland.


Edinburg Texas, Cats Stadium 7:00 Kick-off
Live video and audio stream valleycentral.com
4-0 DONNA REDSKINS???? ?VS-???? 5-0? EDINBURG NORTH COUGARS
Coach??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Coach Roy Garza
OFFENSE
157 (39.3)????????????? Points Scored?????????? 123 (24.6 ppg)
1144 (286)????????????? Rushing Yards?????????? 689 (137.8)
560 (140)????????????? Passing Yards?????????? 580 (116)
1704 (426)????????????? Total Offense?????????? 1269 (253.8)

DEFENSE
62 (15.5)????????????? Points Allowed?????????? 43 (8.6 ppg)
783 (195.8)????????????? Rushing Yards Allowed?????????? 415 (83)
142 (35.3)????????????? Passing Yards Allowed?????????? 430 (86)
925 (231.25)????????????? Total Offense Allowed?????????? 845 (169)


Oct 04, 2012
Edinburg Texas, Cats Stadium 7:00 Kick-off
Live video and audio stream valleycentral.com
4-0 DONNA REDSKINS???? ?VS-???? 5-0? EDINBURG NORTH COUGARS

SCHEDULE/RESULTS
PSJA North W 42-21???????????????????? WEEK 0????????? @ Rio Grande City W 42-14
@ Weslaco W 28-14????????????? WEEK 1????????? Brown. Rivera W 21-0
@ Edinburg W 31-7??????????????? WEEK 2????????? @ Economedes W 21-20
Palmview W 56-13???????????????? WEEK 3??????????????????? @ Juarez-Lincoln W 31-6
BYE?????????????? WEEK 4????????? @ Edinburg? W 8-6
@ Edinburg North??????????????? WEEK 5????????? (Oct. 4) Donna
Edinburg Vela???????????????????? Oct 12???????? (Oct. 11) @ Palmview
@ Sharyland????????????? OCT. 19????????? BYE
LaJoya?????????????? Oct. 26????????? (Oct 25) Vela
@ Economedes??????????????? NOV. 2????????? @ Sharyland
Juarez Lincoln??????????????? NOV. 9????????? (Nov. 8) La Joya

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Oct 04, 2012
Edinburg Texas, Cats Stadium 7:00 Kick-off
Live video and audio stream valleycentral.com
4-0 DONNA REDSKINS???? ?VS-???? 5-0? EDINBURG NORTH COUGARS
LEADERS
? 12 Dion Padilla 35-55 525 (1TD)????????? PASSING?????????? 6 Josh Vela 48-74 577 (1TD)
19 Austin Nash 1-3 35???????????????????????????????????????????? 17 Alex Guererro 1-3 5
26 Aldo Silva 43-498(11.6) 6 TD?????????? RUSHING?????????? 5 Adrain Alvarez 67-408 (6.1) 4 TDs
24 Abel Garcia 31-291 9.4 3 TD????????????????????????????????????????????? 28 Steve Garza 40-107 3 TDs
24 Elpidio Yanez 19-136? 1 TD????????????????????????????????????????????? 6 Josh Vela 32-78 3 TDs
88 Anthony Gonzales? 8-142???????????????? RECEIVING?????????? 24 Eddie Sanchez 21-300 (4TDs)
15 Casey Ramirez 6-80 2 TD????????????????????????????????????????????? 10 Matt Ramirez 8-64 1 TD
24 Darien Hernandez 4-55??????????????????????????????????????????????? 1 Adrian Morales 6-61 1 TD

GAME FACTS

*** Donna won this game last year 21-7
***Donna won this game two years ago 21-20
***2005-06 Donna won this game 26-6
*** Last year Donna won their first four games but then lost four of the next seven. Sharyland beat them first and they also lost to McAllen, McAllen Memorial and Del Rio.
***The last two times that Donna has ended their season in the play-offs it has been with a loss to Del Rio.
*** It has been at least eight years since Donna began a season 5-0.
*** Edinburg North?s Adrian Hernandez caught the touchdown last week to beat Edinburg. It was his first TD of the year.
***Donna?s pre-season favorite as top receiver Darien Hernandez had been sidelined due to injuries. He returned last week and could be a key to this game.
***Donna missed the play-offs before returning last year for one year.
***Edinburg North has the top defense in the valley for points allowed per game. They have the second best defense in yards allowed trailing only Mission.
***Donna?s offense is rated number 3 in the valley in points scored per game.
***Mission and Sharyland and these two teams are the four unbeaten teams in the valley heading into this weeks play.

Source: http://www.valleycentral.com/sports/story.aspx?id=809237

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Two Public Speaking Models For Marketers ? Educating Vs. Selling ...

Oct
5

You may have heard that speaking ? on stage, in teleseminars, via webinars ? is a terrific way to build your list and get those in your target market excited about doing business with you. What you probably have not heard is that there are two vastly different paradigms for using speaking to generate leads and grow your customer base.

Depending on your goals and your vision of how you prefer to relate to clients, you?ll surely gravitate to one model or the other. This is important, because mixing elements from the two models leads to frustration and confusion, both on your part and among your audience. Once you understand your preferences, you?ll know which marketers to emulate and which to ignore ? and why. And because you?ll be more consistent in how you speak, you?ll see results from your speaking efforts gradually improving.

Model #1: Speaking to Sell

Here the overall goal is to maximize sales to those in the audience, both now and in the future. Whatever accomplishes that goal is considered appropriate. Any education that comes about through the event is incidental and not a high priority.

Model #2: Speaking to Educate

Here the overall goal is to provide a service to the audience by informing them about a topic area. Those who find this education helpful are invited in a low-key way to become clients, either by simply signing on to a list where they will be further educated and sold to over time, by contacting the speaker after the talk or by making a small introductory purchase now. In this model, selling takes place but it is essential for each educational event to be complete and self-contained rather than a come-on for something else.

Advice from proponents of Model #1:

* Speak fast, which creates an environment conducive to buying. It doesn?t matter whether or not the audience can follow.

* Tell your personal story so the audience will feel comfortable buying from you.

* Include testimonials and success stories, which prime people to buy.

* Ignore program evaluations. All that counts is how much you sold from each event.

* Provide an order form, not handouts.

* If using informative slides, keep them up only for a short time. Their function is to serve as teasers for a paid product, not to teach anything.

* Don?t charge a speaking fee. Your compensation is your sales. It?s customary to split event sales 50/50 with the sponsor of the event.

* End with an explicit offer and tell the audience where to go immediately with their credit card or cash in hand.

Advice from proponents of Model #2:

* Master the art of speaking, so listeners have the best possible educational experience when in your audience.

* Have someone else introduce you so you can concentrate on subject matter during your talk. Stay away from personal anecdotes unless they drive home an educational point.

* Include examples only to the extent that they make your educational points more vivid.

* Always scrutinize program evaluations for ways you can improve.

* Provide handouts that include your short bio and where audience members can learn more from you.

* When using slides, orchestrate them so participants can absorb the information more easily.

* If an audience includes perfect prospects, you may agree to speak for free, but given the valuable educational information you provide, speaking fees are welcome and appropriate. Sales at or immediately after an event are a nice bonus, not the main goal. Event sponsors do not receive a cut of sales.

* Conclude with a strong close that reinforces the overall theme of your talk and the audience?s perception of you as the expert.

Both of these models can build a large, thriving business. Sticking to the model is important so that those in the audience receive consistent signals and know what to expect from you in the future. My own passionate preference is for Model #2 because I find it more respectful of audiences and it better fits my values and personality. When I encounter gurus using Model #1, I can?t stand to follow them for long because I come to feel all they care about is money. Your preference may be the opposite!

Veteran teleseminar presenter Marcia Yudkin specializes in high-ticket, high-value teleteaching courses, including webinars. To learn more about your teleteaching options, download a complimentary copy of ?66 Ways to Use Teleseminars to Promote Your Business,? go to http://www.yudkin.com/teleteach.htm

Veteran teleseminar presenter Marcia Yudkin specializes in high-ticket, high-value teleteaching courses, including webinars. To learn more about your teleteaching options, download a complimentary copy of ?66 Ways to Use Teleseminars to Promote Your Business,? go to http://www.yudkin.com/teleteach.htm

Source: http://www.icontuners.com/marketing-category/two-public-speaking-models-for-marketers-educating-vs-selling-from-the-stage/

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