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How to Backup WordPress

How to Backup WordPress

If you want to create a new website, you should backup it up regularly, and it is extremely important. If the updates or sites are injected with the malicious code or virus or an, unfortunately, deletion of files, the data corruption will occur.

It doesn’t matter, how secure your website is, it has a chance for some accidents. It is a security measure that has to be implemented. Now we are going to know, how to set up a system to Backup WordPress.

They have two options to back up WordPress. We will show you both options. Let’s get into our zone, right now!

What type of files should you Backup WordPress?
First, we have to know about, what are the things need to be backed up and how will you do it, before getting into the Backup process. They have two section, which includes, User data and WordPress core files.

User Data files: This file includes plugin, theme directory, upload directory, and some other files, which is located in the wp-content folder. When the user makes changes in the site, these files are updated by WordPress.

Upload directory is a file directory, which contains all uploaded images and documents
Only, those files are needed to be backed up.

WordPress core files: It means original files which download from WordPress. Once you Extract the files, it doesn’t change, if there is not update the WordPress. We should not edit any of the WordPress core files, both designers and developers are aware of that fact.

According to the rule, there is no plugin or theme will modify the WordPress core files. Al the plugin and themes files are upload to the specific folder within the wp-content. Consequently, it is not much relevant to back up those files as they can download the files at any time.

How will you do it?
You can back up the data daily and also have it from the 90 days or 3 months. It is a good idea to back up the data regularly, at which copies of your sites are created. Like this, if you want to restore the files or data, you can use a recent backup and reduce your work loss.
For every site, the backup schedule will be different. A blog publishes a new content thrice a week and daily get dozens of comments, that needs a plan with very short time.
For instance, an e-commerce site which has transactions to track and other necessary data should not get lost.
Under other conditions, a mostly static website is to be updated only once a quarter that can get away with weekly update automatically once or choose manual backups.

Update the plugins or change theme on your site. These are the significant possibilities for some problems like incompatibility, may happen. Before an update, it is one of the most important and frequent possibilities. You are much better furnished to run with them.

What do we do for in a WordPress Backup Solution?
In the WordPress, not all the backup solution are the same. Some may come with different features and also concentrated in different areas. While making a decision, pay attention to this features, which includes:

Backup Frequency
How could you back up your site? Whether that frequency for your purpose is sufficient or not? Some solutions promote real-time basics and for websites, Doesn’t make sense to rectify for less.

Restore ability
How can easily to restore a site? Does it take place automatically? Do you have any necessary to do things by hand? There is the different perspective, and some approaches are more comfortable than others.

Storage Location
Where do the backups save? Can you use remote storage such as Google Drive or Dropbox? Backups are kept on the same server, as the sites beat the purpose of the server is the reason, why your site is fall.

Full or Partial backups
Different backup solutions offer different backup options. Some save only the database, not the entire site. But you can find that backup entirely.

Ability to automate
Able to backup your WordPress automatically, is one of the crucial factors. Automation holds one more item off our to-do list. You can easy to know that your site backup is taken care and it is not necessary to remember to do it.

Other features
Like site Migration, Does the solution provides additional features? It is not crucial for backup your site, and it depends on your workflow
Each feature’s weight based on your site and needs. It is important to hold those things in mind as you to choose the solution to backup WordPress from the below possibilities.

Possibility 1:

Hosting Provider Backup Your site
The hosting provider is one of the first addresses in the WordPress backup solution. There are so many people offer regular backups as part of the service.
Once upon a time, when a business partner, unfortunately, wiped out the entire website, thankfully, a call to our company brought it all back. This backup solution saved my backups.
Mostly, WordPress Hosting Providers provides excellent backup services, which includes automated daily backups and also have a possibility to download those backups.
When your host does n’t have anything at all, it is possible to make the switch.

Here, you can also find lots of materials and topics on this hosting website like best tips.

WordPress Hosting
` Based on your website, the backup solution deal with your provider to backup WordPress might be enough.
It is a great idea to make it your first port call.
Although, if you want extra insurance or it is not sufficient to you or if you need something more, one of the services or plugins, should fit the tickets.

Possibility 2

Use a WordPress Backup Plugin
Luckily, the number of backup solutions are provided by the WordPress sphere. The ones, which are some of the best on the market on that list. Absorb, who they are, and the way of handling backup and restoring websites, as well as their pros and cons.

A very popular backup plugin is the top contender with some solid ratings. The main reason for this is because it provides a lot of features for free that you have to pay for at some other places. That features are;

  • Easy to restore the backups from a saved version
  • Backups are either full or partial site
  • Backups automatically with configurable intervals
  • Remote backups to Google Drive, Dropbox and some other
  • Easy to backup with UpdraftPlus. You press the big blue button in the settings and follow the given instructions.

The plugin enables you to send your backup site to any place, you hold them on your server.
Additionally, it holds an existing backup list that if you want it, you can either restore it or download it.

It is crucial to note that this plugin, classified into various parts, which includes plugins, themes, downloads, databases, etc., so you deal with them individually. It also promotes backup schedules at some time intervals.
Even though, you need the premium version for more scheduling details. Including migration tools and comes with a price tag of $70 and upwards per year which is based on your license.


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70% of Youth in America Leaving the Church

Leaving copyAccording to George Barna, 70% of our youth are leaving church after high school and 80% will be disengaged by the time they are age 29. According to the New York Times, only 4% of teens will be “Bible believing Christians” as adults. That would be a sharp decline compared with 35% of the current generation of baby boomers, and before that, 65% of the World War II generation. (New York Times).

Why has the church become so irrelevant over the past decade? There are many people who are offering solutions to this problem, but the Bible has the best solution. If we look at the early church in the book of Acts, we see that the church was devoted to prayer and the study of the Word of God. According to the book of Acts, the early church continued with one accord in prayer and supplication (Acts 1:14). Another verse says, “And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith” Acts 6:7 (KJV). So the church was praying and the word of God increased and so did the number of disciples. Not only was the church praying together, but the apostles gave themselves “continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word” Acts 6:4 (KJV). So the church needs to pray and the leadership of the church needs to pray.  Jesus said that His “house shall be a house of prayer for all the nations” Mark 11:17 (NASB). When he taught the disciples how to pray he said, “after this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name” Matt 6:9 (KJV). I know many don’t like to use the King James Version, but it offers something in this verse that modern translations do not, the pronoun “ye”, which is the plural form of “you”. Not only is the “ye” plural, but so is the other pronoun “our”.  Jesus was instructing the disciples to pray together in the Lord’s prayer. Jesus also told the disciples that they would “receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” Acts 1:8 (NKJV). Where is the united prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit in our churches? If our churches became houses of prayer, then we would see more power of the Holy Spirit. Until united prayer returns to the church, revival in America cannot come.

I have more to teach about what God requires for revival, but that lesson is for another day. Please pray with someone, today, for America. We are at a crossroads in America and I wonder which path we are going to take as a church? Remember that the church is the body of Christ, not an individual church. United Prayer for America

Please download our free prayer guide which includes prayers based from the scriptures on how to pray for our youth in America: Prayer Guide “Leaving” 2013

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Social media marketing on its own is free to use, as is content marketing if you’re creating and managing the content yourself. Several email marketing platforms have free plans for your first few hundred or thousand subscribers, giving you time to get your revenue increasing before you have to start paying. There are even free keyword research tools like Google’s Keyword Planner that can help you optimize your site at no cost.
Culp, the Smart Furniture founder, agrees that the lack of clarity is what hurts businesses the most. "I suspect most Americans would agree that both the burden and the benefit of taxes should be shared fairly," he continues. "What freaks online retailers out is less having to pay the taxes, and more having to manage the new burdens of thousands of tax jurisdictions, myriad filings, and compliance at a scale they cannot administer."
You do not need to collect sales tax on items you deliver directly to out-of-state locations. To document such a sale, your records must include proof of delivery, such as a bill of lading, a shipping invoice or a postal receipt. You may have to collect tax in another state if you are engaged in business there. You should contact the states where you buy or ship merchandise to find out if you are responsible for paying or collecting their taxes. The Multistate Tax Commission has a useful website at http://www.mtc.gov with links to the tax websites of other states.
Internet marketing, or online marketing, refers to advertising and marketing efforts that use the Web and email to drive direct sales via electronic commerce, in addition to sales leads from websites or emails. Internet marketing and online advertising efforts are typically used in conjunction with traditional types of advertising such as radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Delivery Company.  An unrelated person who, pursuant to an agreement with a vendor, delivers tangible personal property or services sold by such vendor and may also provide additional services, including order fulfillment, order management, return processing, the preparation of sales reports or other analytics and consumer access to customer service.

Ultimately, most seem to agree that a sweeping, federal law regarding internet sales tax is necessary to ease the burden on retailers large and small. "This [issue] is crying out for Congressional attention," adds Mittelstadt. And in a statement last month, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman said: "We believe there is now a call to action for Congress to create a simple, fair, federal solution for micro-businesses."
Since the Quill decision, states have become aggressive in expanding the definition of tax nexus in order to stop the outflow of tax revenues. Some states have taken a tax nexus to mean the presence of an affiliate. For example, Amazon sellers have been called affiliates, and California (among other states) has enacted state laws stating that the presence of an affiliate creates a tax nexus in that state, thus the requirement that sales tax be charged on all internet sales taxes from these affiliates.
As mentioned earlier, technology and the internet allows for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week service for customers as well as enabling them to shop online at any hour of that day or night, not just when the shops are over and across the whole world. This is a huge advantage for retailers to use it and direct customers from the store to its online store. It has also opened up an opportunity for companies to only be online based rather than having an outlet or store due to the popularity and capabilities of digital marketing.

Recent research clearly indicates that electronic commerce, commonly referred to as e-commerce, presently shapes the manner in which people shop for products. The GCC countries have a rapidly growing market and characterized by a population that becomes wealthier (Yuldashev). As such, retailers have launched Arabic-language websites as a means to target this population. Secondly, there are predictions of increased mobile purchases and an expanding internet audience (Yuldashev). The growth and development of the two aspects make the GCC countries to become larger players in the electronic commerce market with time progress. Specifically, research shows that e-commerce market is expected to grow to over $20 billion by the year 2020 among these GCC countries (Yuldashev). The e-commerce market has also gained much popularity among the western countries, and in particular Europe and the U.S. These countries have been highly characterized with consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) (Geisler, 34). However, trends show that there are future signs of a reverse. Similar to the GCC countries, there has been increased purchase of goods and services in online channels rather than offline channels. Activist investors are trying hard to consolidate and slash their overall cost and the governments in western countries continue to impose more regulation on CPG manufacturers (Geisler, 36). In these senses, CPG investors are being forced to adapt e-commerce as it is effective as a well as a means for them to thrive.
Your customers, prospects, and partners are the lifeblood of of your business. You need to build your marketing strategy around them. Step 1 of marketing is understanding what your customers want, which can be challenging when you’re dealing with such a diverse audience. This chapter will walk you through (1) the process of building personal connections at scale and (2) crafting customer value propositions that funnel back to ROI for your company.

However, e-commerce lacks human interaction for customers, especially who prefer face-to-face connection. Customers are also concerned with the security of online transactions and tend to remain loyal to well-known retailers.[65] In recent years, clothing retailers such as Tommy Hilfiger have started adding Virtual Fit platforms to their e-commerce sites to reduce the risk of customers buying the wrong sized clothes, although these vary greatly in their fit for purpose.[71] When the customer regret the purchase of a product, it involves returning goods and refunding process. This process is inconvenient as customers need to pack and post the goods. If the products are expensive, large or fragile, it refers to safety issues.[64]

The other important factor in this equation is that the variables keep changing. It’s not like you can build a massive spreadsheet today and be ready for business tomorrow. Many states who were watching the Supreme Court case from the sidelines are about to pass new legislation. Six of them – Illinois, Iowa, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kentucky, and Vermont – already had laws in the works prior to the Supreme Court decision that were loosely modeled on the South Dakota law, and are slated to go into effect by January of next year. Others, such as Washington, emboldened by the Court’s decision, quickly introduced new legislation. Washington’s Department of Revenue announced the state’s new tax on out-of-state retailers on August 3 which will take effect on October 1 of this year.
That type of earth-shattering failure and pain really does a number on a person. Getting clean and overcoming those demons isn't as simple as people make it out to be. You need to have some serious deep-down reasons on why you must succeed at all costs. You have to be able to extricate yourself from the shackles of bad habits that have consumed you during your entire life. And that's precisely what Sharpe did.
Our leadership philosophy is to both lead and be led. We derive guidance and strength from every team-member in the company no matter what rank or experience level. We invest a great deal of time and resources in recruiting and developing the best talent in the industry. Every team member at IMI is encouraged to be an emerging leader and take on responsibility outside of their normal role. That is what makes IMI great and why we continue to flourish.
It is important for a firm to reach out to consumers and create a two-way communication model, as digital marketing allows consumers to give back feed back to the firm on a community based site or straight directly to the firm via email.[24] Firms should seek this long term communication relationship by using multiple forms of channels and using promotional strategies related to their target consumer as well as word-of mouth marketing.[24]
Content marketing is more than just blogging. When executed correctly, content including articles, guides (like this one), webinars, and videos can be powerful growth drivers for your business. Focus on building trust and producing amazing quality. And most of all, make sure that you’re capturing the right metrics. Create content to generate ROI. Measure the right results. This chapter will teach you how.
Your sale of electronic data products such as software, data, digital books (eBooks), mobile applications, and digital images is generally not taxable when you transmit the data to your customer over the Internet or by modem. However, if as part of the sale you provide your customer with a printed copy of the electronically transferred information or a backup data copy on a physical storage medium such as a CD-ROM, your entire sale is usually taxable.
It is the long established physical presence rule that will apply with regard to Internet sales to customers in Texas. Online sellers with possible in-state agent or related party status should check the rules more carefully. This is a contentious and evolving area of law so be sure to check in periodically with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to see if the rules have changed.
An Internet marketing campaign is not an isolated, one-off proposal. Any company that plans on using it once is certain to continue to use it. An individual who is knowledgeable about all aspects of an Internet marketing campaign and who has strong interpersonal skills is well-suited to maintain an ongoing managerial role on a dedicated marketing team.
So be wary. Ensure that you learn from the pros and don't get sucked into every offer that you see. Follow the reputable people online. It's easy to distinguish those that fill you with hype and those that are actually out there for your benefit. Look to add value along the way and you'll succeed. You might find it frustrating at the outset. Everyone does. But massive amounts of income await those that stick it out and see things through.
Affiliate marketing - Affiliate marketing is perceived to not be considered a safe, reliable and easy means of marketing through online platform. This is due to a lack of reliability in terms of affiliates that can produce the demanded number of new customers. As a result of this risk and bad affiliates it leaves the brand prone to exploitation in terms of claiming commission that isn’t honestly acquired. Legal means may offer some protection against this, yet there are limitations in recovering any losses or investment. Despite this, affiliate marketing allows the brand to market towards smaller publishers, and websites with smaller traffic. Brands that choose to use this marketing often should beware of such risks involved and look to associate with affiliates in which rules are laid down between the parties involved to assure and minimize the risk involved.[47]

For instance, you might use Facebook’s Lookalike Audiences to get your message in front of an audience similar to your core demographic. Or, you could pay a social media influencer to share images of your products to her already well-established community. Paid social media can attract new customers to your brand or product, but you’ll want to conduct market research and A/B testing before investing too much in one social media channel.
By now, you've likely seen all the "gurus" in your Facebook feed. Some of them are more popular than others. What you'll notice is that the ads you see that have the highest views and engagement are normally the most successful. Use a site like Similar Web to study those ads and see what they're doing. Join their lists and embed yourself in their funnels. That's an important part of the process so that you can replicate and reverse engineer what the most successful marketers are doing.
A key benefit of using online channels for marketing a business or product is the ability to measure the impact of any given channel, as well as how visitors acquired through different channels interact with a website or landing page experience. Of the visitors that convert into paying customers, further analysis can be done to determine which channels are most effective at acquiring valuable customers.
As we discussed above, one of the best things about Massive Internet Profits is that it doesn’t require a Bachelor’s Degree or any college education. Truly, this world is becoming too hungry for people who have degrees. But, that leaves out all those who couldn’t afford college. Now, this system opens up online money making to the masses. So, you don’t need any special skills or education to get this system to work. And, you can work online at any time and in any place. Truly, this system makes you the boss.
2,  Dormant Commerce Clause. The provisions of M.G.L. c. 64H, § 1 are enforced to the extent allowed by the “physical presence” dormant Commerce Clause standard as set forth in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992), where a state sought to impose a use tax collection duty on an out-of-state mail order vendor on sales of tangible personal property shipped into the state. Unlike the mail order vendor at issue in Quill, Internet vendors with a large volume of Massachusetts sales invariably have one or more of the following contacts with the state that function to facilitate or enhance such in-state sales and constitute the requisite in-state physical presence:
Digital marketing is also referred to as 'online marketing', 'internet marketing' or 'web marketing'. The term digital marketing has grown in popularity over time. In the USA online marketing is still a popular term. In Italy, digital marketing is referred to as web marketing. Worldwide digital marketing has become the most common term, especially after the year 2013.[19]
Balancing search and display for digital display ads are important; marketers tend to look at the last search and attribute all of the effectiveness to this. This then disregards other marketing efforts, which establish brand value within the consumers mind. ComScore determined through drawing on data online, produced by over one hundred multichannel retailers that digital display marketing poses strengths when compared with or positioned alongside, paid search (Whiteside, 2016).[42] This is why it is advised that when someone clicks on a display ad the company opens a landing page, not its home page. A landing page typically has something to draw the customer in to search beyond this page. Things such as free offers that the consumer can obtain through giving the company contact information so that they can use retargeting communication strategies (Square2Marketing, 2012).[43] Commonly marketers see increased sales among people exposed to a search ad. But the fact of how many people you can reach with a display campaign compared to a search campaign should be considered. Multichannel retailers have an increased reach if the display is considered in synergy with search campaigns. Overall both search and display aspects are valued as display campaigns build awareness for the brand so that more people are likely to click on these digital ads when running a search campaign (Whiteside, 2016).[42]
An eBook is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can be read by using a tablet computer or by using an eBook reader. Users can purchase an eBook on diskette or CD, but the most popular method of getting an eBook is to purchase a downloadable file of the eBook without purchasing any physical storage medium. A mobile application, also known as a “mobile app”, is computer software designed for use on a smartphone or tablet computer. The transfer of a downloadable file such as an eBook or an “app” without purchasing any physical storage medium is not a taxable transaction.
It is the long established physical presence rule that will apply with regard to Internet sales to customers in Texas. Online sellers with possible in-state agent or related party status should check the rules more carefully. This is a contentious and evolving area of law so be sure to check in periodically with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to see if the rules have changed.
Word of mouth communications and peer-to-peer dialogue often have a greater effect on customers, since they are not sent directly from the company and are therefore not planned. Customers are more likely to trust other customers’ experiences.[22] Examples can be that social media users share food products and meal experiences highlighting certain brands and franchises. This was noted in a study on Instagram, where researchers observed that adolescent Instagram users' posted images of food-related experiences within their social networks, providing free advertising for the products.[26]
The challenge to overturn Quill v. North Dakota was brought to the Supreme Court by South Dakota. South Dakota passed a law two years ago demanding that all retailers that, on an annual basis, have more than $100,000 in annual sales or engage in 200 or more separate transactions, pay a 4.5 percent tax on all sales, “as if the seller had a physical presence in the State.” The state government then filed suit to have the case heard by higher courts, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the argument earlier this year.
For traditional businesses, one research stated that information technology and cross-border e-commerce is a good opportunity for the rapid development and growth of enterprises. Many companies have invested enormous volume of investment in mobile applications. The DeLone and McLean Model stated that three perspectives contribute to a successful e-business: information system quality, service quality and users' satisfaction.[58] There is no limit of time and space, there are more opportunities to reach out to customers around the world, and to cut down unnecessary intermediate links, thereby reducing the cost price, and can benefit from one on one large customer data analysis, to achieve a high degree of personal customization strategic plan, in order to fully enhance the core competitiveness of the products in company.[59]
The current state sales tax rate on taxable items delivered into Texas is 6.25 percent. Local sales and use taxes may be due depending on where you receive orders and where the products are delivered. You should not collect more than 2 percent local tax on any one transaction. To find out the proper rate for any jurisdiction, use our tax rate search engine. More information on local sales and use taxes is available online.
Marketing managers need to be conversant in every element of a marketing campaign, and considering the importance of an Internet presence in any marketing plan today, this means having a clear understanding of Internet marketing from start to finish. A marketing manager should have confidence in his or her team and know how to facilitate work efficiency and communication between coworkers. This keeps each project on schedule and helps create a relaxed work environment.
Private corporations use Internet marketing techniques to reach new customers by providing easy-to-access information about their products. The most important element is a website that informs the audience about the company and its products, but many corporations also integrate interactive elements like social networking sites and email newsletters.

While many people attempt to understand and wrap their minds around the internet marketing industry as a whole, there are others out there that have truly mastered the field. Now, if you're asking yourself what the term internet marketing actually means, it simply boils down to a number of marketing activities that can be done online. This includes things like affiliate marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, blogging, paid marketing, search engine optimization and so on.
There are two ways for marketers to conduct business through e-commerce: fully online or online along with a brick and mortar store. Online marketers can offer lower prices, greater product selection, and high efficiency rates. Many customers prefer online markets if the products can be delivered quickly at relatively low price. However, online retailers cannot offer the physical experience that traditional retailers can. It can be difficult to judge the quality of a product without the physical experience, which may cause customers to experience product or seller uncertainty. Another issue regarding the online market is concerns about the security of online transactions. Many customers remain loyal to well-known retailers because of this issue.[66][67]
Brian Dean, an SEO expert and the creator of BackLinko, uses SEO tactics to rank #1 on YouTube for keywords like “on page SEO” and “video SEO”. Initially, Dean admits his YouTube account struggled to get any views. Employing SEO methods like keyword optimization has enabled Dean to rise to #1 on YouTube for search results related to his business. He published his full strategy on Backlinko.
Another disadvantage is that even an individual or small group of people can harm image of an established brand. For instance Dopplegnager is a term that is used to disapprove an image about a certain brand that is spread by anti-brand activists, bloggers, and opinion leaders. The word Doppelganger is a combination of two German words Doppel (double) and Ganger (walker), thus it means double walker or as in English it is said alter ego. Generally brand creates images for itself to emotionally appeal to their customers. However some would disagree with this image and make alterations to this image and present in funny or cynical way, hence distorting the brand image, hence creating a Doppelganger image, blog or content (Rindfleisch, 2016).

To the great disappointment of many small business owners and supporters of federalism, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wayfair v. South Dakota opened the door for states to impose an internet sales tax, even on businesses that have no physical presence in their borders. Because Congress has the constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce, it is now considering ways to address this newfound taxing authority.  Congress must take this opportunity to use its power to protect small businesses from these taxes and perhaps to at least work to slow the process down while a long term solution is explored. The strength of the American economy depends on it.
DisabledGO, an information provider for people with disabilities in the UK and Ireland, hired Agency51 to implement an SEO migration strategy to move DisabledGO from an old platform to a new one. By applying 301 redirects to old URLS, transferring metadata, setting up Google webmaster tools, and creating a new sitemap, Agency 51 was able to successfully transfer DisabledGO to a new platform while keeping their previous SEO power alive. Additionally, they were able to boost visitor numbers by 21% year over year, and the site restructuring allowed DisabledGO to rank higher than competitors. Their case study is available on SingleGrain.com.

It’s really similar to other scam systems I have exposed recently such as Online Profits Breakthrough and Home Earning System. Essentially you are told you can make a fortune without lifting a finger. All you need to do is sign up to Massive Internet Profits, spend your hard earned money and then you can access their system that will make you a fortune, yeah right!
To create an effective DMP, a business first needs to review the marketplace and set 'SMART' (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant and Time-Bound) objectives.[60] They can set SMART objectives by reviewing the current benchmarks and key performance indicators (KPIs) of the company and competitors. It is pertinent that the analytics used for the KPIs be customised to the type, objectives, mission and vision of the company.[61][62]
Understand that whatever you're going to do, you'll need traffic. If you don't have any money at the outset, your hands will be tied no matter what anyone tells you. The truth is that you need to drive traffic to your offers if you want them to convert. These are what we call landing pages or squeeze pages. This is where you're coming into contact with the customers, either for the first time or after they get to know you a little bit better.

Among the specific evidence presented by the court? Less than 2% of Americans had internet access in 1992, compared with about 89% today. Last year, e-commerce sales alone totaled $454 billion. When combined with traditional catalog and other “remote” sales, that figure topped half a trillion dollars. What’s more, since the Department of Commerce first began tracking online sales, e-commerce has surged tenfold, to nearly 9% of total U.S. retail sales, from just 0.8% — a number that will likely become larger with online sales growing at four times the rate of brick-and-mortar retail.
Unfortunately systems like Massive Internet Profits exist purely to make the owners money and the affiliates who promote them money. They don’t care about their customers at all, you are just a way for them to make some quick money. Many of the people operating these scams were involved in binary options not too long ago which is a really nasty industry. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with affiliate marketing and my recommendation which you can see below actually teaches you how to make money as an affiliate but unfortunately the affiliates that promote systems like Massive Internet Profits would rather earn a quick buck at your expense than offer you a genuine product or service as an affiliate.

If your company sells canned (noncustom) software programs to customers who download them from a server, those sales are generally not subject to tax. However, if you also provide your customers with a backup copy on a CD-ROM, the entire transaction is taxable. Similarly, if you transmit a stock (noncustom) database to your customer over the Internet and also provide a printed copy of the contents, the entire sale is subject to tax. For more information regarding the sale of computer programs and data processing services, you may wish to obtain a copy of Regulation 1502, Computers, Programs, and Data Processing.
An aesthetically pleasing and informational website is an excellent anchor that can easily connect to other platforms like social networking pages and app downloads. It's also relatively simple to set up a blog within the website that uses well-written content with “keywords” an Internet user is likely to use when searching for a topic. For example, a company that wants to market its new sugar-free energy drink could create a blog that publishes one article per week that uses terms like “energy drink,” “sugar-free,” and “low-calorie” to attract users to the product website.
Several states have crafted internet sales tax legislation, which has produced lawsuits by online sellers like Wayfair and Overstock. As a test case, South Dakota has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the Quill case. Specifically, S. Dakota asked  the U.S. Supreme Court "to overrule Quill’s physical-presence requirement which currently prevents the State from requiring out-of-state retailers to remit taxes for sales made within South Dakota."
Update: Below is an article on the Internet sales tax rules for this state prior to the Supreme Court's decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc. on June 21, 2018. The Wayfair decision overturned the prior rule established in Quill Corporation v. North Dakota which prohibited states from requiring a business to collect sales tax unless the business had a physical presence in the state. Some states already had laws prior to the Wayfair decision (commonly referred to as Amazon Laws) that require larger Internet sellers without a physical presence in the state to collect and pay sales tax under certain circumstances. It is expected that states will now pass new laws requiring online retailers to collect sales tax for sales within their state. We will update this article as the laws change. For more information, see Internet Sales Tax: A 50-State Guide to State Laws.
Social Media Marketing - The term 'Digital Marketing' has a number of marketing facets as it supports different channels used in and among these, comes the Social Media. When we use social media channels ( Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, etc.) to market a product or service, the strategy is called Social Media Marketing. It is a procedure wherein strategies are made and executed to draw in traffic for a website or to gain attention of buyers over the web using different social media platforms.
Here is a prime example of the deceptive tactics they are using to try and get you to sign up to their scam. When I entered my details I was forwarded to a page that looked like this one above claiming that there was only 50 spots left. But wait, there’s actually only 12 spots remaining now and I would need to be quick to actually get in, otherwise I would not be able to be a part of the amazing system that is Massive Internet Profits.
To cease opportunity, the firm should summarize their current customers' personas and purchase journey from this they are able to deduce their digital marketing capability. This means they need to form a clear picture of where they are currently and how many resources they can allocate for their digital marketing strategy i.e. labour, time etc. By summarizing the purchase journey, they can also recognise gaps and growth for future marketing opportunities that will either meet objectives or propose new objectives and increase profit.
Once you sign up, you’ll go through the sales pitch and get sucked into it, and if you decide to invest you’ll end up spending a bunch of money on crap products you don’t need. These products will give you some BS system and training but ultimately you won’t make a penny from it. Then you’ll receive even more spam emails from the owners since they now have your details. They might even sell them to a 3rd party!
The case confronted the constitutionality of a law South Dakota passed in 2006, which requires online retailers to collect sales taxes if the business generates more than $100,000 in annual sales to South Dakota residents, or more than 200 separate transactions with state residents. Up until this point, remote sellers had taken their lead on this issue from a 1992 Supreme Court ruling – Quill Corporation v. North Dakota – and been only required to collect sales taxes on purchases if they had a physical presence in the state where the goods were bought.
The field is replete with terms that might confuse and perplex the average individual. What is a squeeze page? What's a sales funnel? What's a CPA? What's SEO? How do you setup a good blog to filter the right type of relevant traffic and get your offer in front of eligible users? What's a massive value post (MVP) really mean? Clearly, there are an endless array of terms, some of which you might already know or might not depending on how much you presently know about the field.
You’ve launched an amazing product or service. Now what? Now, you need to get the word out. When done well, good PR can be much more effective and less expensive than advertising. Regardless of whether you want to hire a fancy agency or awesome consultant, make sure that you know what you’re doing and what types of ROI to expect. Relationships are the heart and soul of PR. This chapter will teach you how to ignore the noise and focus on substantive, measurable results.


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When operating on the spine, a surgeon will often opt for one of two approaches: from the front (anterior) or from the back (posterior). However, it’s sometimes necessary for a surgeon to utilize both approaches simultaneously—in the cases of an extreme deformity or curve in the spine or if prior surgeries and non-surgical treatments to correct the curve have been unsuccessful, for example—with an approach known as anterior and posterior scoliosis surgery.

Under general anesthesia—and with constant monitoring of respiration, heart rate, blood pressure etc.—a surgeon will enter through the side of the chest (anterior) after a deflation of the lungs and removal of a rib in order to gain proper access to the spine. Then a disc is removed from between vertebrae of the impacted area of the spine, which allows the curve to flex and fuse.

After sealing the incision the patient is turned over and the surgeon again accesses the spine through a new incision, after which the back muscles are moved to the side. Metal rods are connected to the vertebrae with screws or wires, making the spine rigid enough so that it cannot curve anymore.

Post-surgery, a patient will commonly remain in the hospital for monitoring for one to two days (and possibly up to a week) during which pain management medications are administered. Also during this time the patient will be evaluated as to their post-operative condition, including their ability to walk, their range of movement, their respiratory function etc.

Complications from anterior and posterior scoliosis surgery can occur, and may include unexpected blood loss during the procedure and infections. Additionally, the surgery may be unsuccessful in that the fusion of the spine fails to be maintained, there may be damage to the nerves around the surgery site and normal lung function could be compromised.


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Integrating Tech: Using Skitch & Evernote to Analyze Images

This is a guest post from Kerry Gallagher, a Technology Integration Specialist at St. John's Prep, a 1:1 iPad school serving grades 6-12, and former middle and high school history teacher. We learn about the lives of our friends partly through the images they share with us on social media platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook. Similarly, students can learn about history by piecing together clues from primary source images, acting as investigators who analyze events. When students … [Read more...]


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A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Adam lives and works as an artist in Cambridgeshire.

Since his graduation in 2006, he has exhibited widely in the UK, America, Europe and Asia. The British Museum, the V&A, UBS, Boeing Asia and Debbie Harry are just some of the collectors of Adam’s work. In July 2009 Adam was awarded his first major public art commission by Commissions East. He has since gone to complete a number of important projects, including work for YouTube, Google, Heal’s, Airnimal bikes, Commission Projects, SmartLIFE, Jacuzzi and Eastern Pavilions.

Whether descriptive of change or constancy, Bridgland’s work keys into our desire to remember and relive, and plays upon our tendency to elevate our shared memories with the rose-tinted, wistful spectacles we don when thinking of the past, as well as the future. His depictions of identity and belonging, nostalgia and emotion give to his work a hugely personal aspect, and are influenced by a graphic and visual tradition that is quite specific to Britain. Yet his subtle combinations of image and related text play on everyone’s perceptions of shared occasions. Perhaps then it is the delicately précised power of the experiences he attempts to capture that make Bridgland’s work so accessible to all.


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We are thrilled to broadcast that today at the Inman Connect Conference, we have officially announced the launch of Premier Home Services, a technology platform designed specifically for real estate agents looking to maintain relationships with their past, current and potential clients.

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At its core, Premier Home Services simplifies the home improvement process for an agent’s client as they prepare their house for sale or make upgrades after purchase. Pro.com has over 400,000 branded agent sites already live (including this one for Keller Williams agent Ben Kinney) and running with custom content and a home maintenance calculator for homeowners.

Premier Home Services leverages the Pro.com home improvement ecosystem to include:

1. Client Marketing

Pro.com distributes agent-branded content, including home improvement tips and ideas, straight into the inboxes of past and present clients. With this monthly outreach, agents can easily add value before and after a home transaction, fostering a lasting relationship.

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As a Premier Home Services member, every agent is provided with a personalized website that is updated automatically with home improvement content, instant price quotes on projects and immediate access to prequalified professionals.

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3. Analytics Dashboard

Premier Home Services arms agents with insights based on how their clients interact with the platform. Agents can learn whether any given client may be getting ready to buy or sell based on the website activity, such as assessing the value of their home, or researching home improvement projects.

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Through Premier Home Services, agents have instant access to Pro.com’s network of service providers, granting clients on-demand access to the right professional who can quickly complete any project, large or small.

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Premier Home Services will be offered as a free service through the end of this year to real estate agents who sign up during the month of August, 2015. For more information and to sign up, please visit: https://pro.com/realestate.

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Upgrading a gas heating system

Gas boilers are still in use that use outdated technology and are a burden not only economically but also ecologically. By modernising their outdated gas heating systems, homeowners are only making a positive impact - in many ways.

Modernisation of gas heating from an ecological perspective

The modernisation of gas heating can also make a difference for environmental reasons. Because natural gas is still a fossil fuel that will sooner or later be used up. By choosing a weather compensating gas condensing boiler, homeowners make an active contribution to conserving resources and protecting the environment.

Further advantages of modernising a gas heating system

Economic and environmental aspects play a decisive role in the modernisation of heating systems. However, there are also a number of other aspects that show why it makes sense and in some cases even necessary to have your old gas heating system modernised.

Modern boilers increase the value of your property

Another reason for the upgrading of gas heating is the increase in value of the property. A new and reliable gas boiler is an important criteria for attracting buyers, especially in the case of completely renovated properties that are to be used as rented apartments. New gas boilers are also very compact and can be installed to save space. An exchange would also save space.

The connection to a solar thermal system is almost always worth considering when modernising gas heating.

Combination with solar technology increases efficiency

Last but not least, the possibility of combining gas heating with solar thermal energy is an argument in favour of modernising with a new gas heating system. Solar energy is a free and almost endless source of heat that homeowners can tap into with a solar thermal system.

In this bivalent operation, the solar system provides hot water and backup heating. The gas boiler itself has to work less, which in turn means low heating costs. Another advantage of this combination is the growing independence of homeowners from their energy suppliers.

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Using analytics, decision sciences, branding, design thinking and digital integration to capture growth opportunities, he’s equally at home running Monte Carlo simulations as he is breaking-down a Beethoven piano sonata. Before joining Prophet, he spent 14 years at Interbrand, working around the world and with such companies as AT&T, GE, Credit Suisse, BMW, Target, Roche and UPS.

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“Relate to the Proximity of a Situation” is a shorthand abstraction (SHA) that may improve your cognitive toolkit.

In 2011, edge.org asked: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? Then 164 different contributors answered it. They were basically asking the contributors for what are known as shorthand abstractions. Here’s how they explained it:

James Flynn has defined shorthand abstractions (or SHA’s) as concepts drawn from science that have become part of the language and make people smarter by providing widely applicable templates (market, placebo, random sample, naturalistic fallacy, are a few of his examples). His idea is that the abstraction is available as a single cognitive chunk which can be used as an element in thinking and debate.

Recently I attended a meetup.com philosophy meetup, where we discussed a slight tweak to this question: What one, scientific or philosophical concept would improve everyone’s cognitive toolkit and worldview? This got me thinking and resulted in the following short piece related to the proximity thinking framework. I’d like to introduce you to this shorthand abstraction: Relate to the proximity of a situation. Here’s the essay …

Relate to the Proximity of a Situation

You can also relate to the proximity of a situation, as opposed to just relating to elements within it like people, things, ideas, feelings, etc. A situation is whatever you are dealing with or considering. But what is the proximity?

Informally, good examples of larger scale proximities are contexts, environments, regions, communities, and neighborhoods. A lot of our toughest problems and challenges these days have to do with these kinds of proximities, so I hope that motivates you to read on.

Good examples of smaller scale proximities are a multi-person shared office; the people, ideas and things related to a project; and the location, people and feeling of a party or conversation.

But how to define the proximity in a useful way? One of the dictionary definitions of proximity includes nearness in relationship. Which leads to the question, relationship to what? And also, what are being related? So in the proximity thinking framework, I’ve had to be more specific. More formally, the proximity consists of elements related or potentially related to a situation, in physical, mental and other ways. What are elements? An element is something you’re relating to other things, such as a person, place, object, idea, feeling, time, group, relationship, situation, proximity, etc. (Yes, a proximity can be an element in a different proximity.)

So while we often relate to proximities more indirectly by relating to elements within them, you can also often relate to a proximity more consciously and directly. Although you may do this sometimes, you may not be used to thinking this way, because our current systems of organization and thought often tend to focus on elements rather than proximities. But it’s possible to change. And here’s more motivation to read on: our networked world is sometimes making it harder to separate elements from what they’re connected to, but also making it easier to relate to proximities.

Of course it’s been possible since the dawn of human coordination to do things which relate to a proximity, and people have done so. The key idea is that you do things with the proximity in mind, that have a chance of keeping the proximity alive, vital, interesting, invigorating and growing. These can be things you do on your own, as well as things you do in some coordinated way with other people, which benefit, for example, the context, environment, region, community, neighborhood, office, project, party or conversation. “Do them on your own” kinds of things might range from doing something that boosts the vibe of the party, to something that affects the environment, to something that helps the atmosphere at the office, to something that improves the neighborhood, to a change that affects the direction and progress of a project. Things you do with other people in some coordinated way might include meeting, planning, coordinating, celebrating, innovating, collaborating, creating shared systems, etc.

Now, think about the times we live in. We have many physical tools, such as computers, mobile phones, sensors and networks, to help more of us relate to proximities, and relate more directly to proximities. These can affect both things people do on their own to relate to a proximity, and things people do in coordinated ways.

And how do we best use these new tools? I think the biggest opportunity lies in certain conceptual tools that can help us leverage those physical tools even better. There are two conceptual tools I’d like to point out.

One of those conceptual tools for relating to proximities is the idea of a proximity itself. You’ll notice this one concept was just applied to contexts, environments, regions, communities, neighborhoods, offices, projects, parties and conversations. Any situation you are considering has an associated proximity, so the concept of proximity can be used at any scale. But what about when a number of people share a proximity? That’s where the other conceptual tool comes into play.

The other conceptual tool for relating to proximities is a model for coordinating and collaborating that I call the ProxThink Growth Model. It has four processes that are not too difficult to explain, and they make the proximity easier to relate to, especially when a number of people share a proximity. The four processes are RelatePoints, ProxMonitors, Vadi Agreements and ProxRewards (or the shorter version of ProxReward, which is proxri). The four processes and the growth model are in turn part of the proximity thinking framework. The framework is built on the concept that being is about relating, and the notion that you can think in a very general way with just four terms, which are: situation, element, relationship and proximity. The framework also has ProxPatterns for relating to proximities with more creativity and innovation. But back to the processes of the growth model. I’ll define the four processes and then provide examples.

RelatePoints are points or places for coordinating relationships in the proximity.

A Proximity Monitor, or ProxMonitor, increases awareness of the proximity, and provides information about the proximity.

The term Vadi (pronounced vah’dee) is short for valuable differences. A Vadi Agreement acknowledges that differences are a part of relationships and some differences have value. Vadi Agreements provide relationships and agreements which can help valuable differences persist, adapt and change as needed.

Proxri (pronounced prox’ree) is short for one or more ProxRewards, which are rewards made with the proximity in mind. Proxri may include money, things, services, relationships, actions, and so on, as well as a combination of these. More formally, a ProxReward, or proxri, is a reward which relates elements in the proximity.

Of course you can use the ProxThink Growth Model informally without high technology. Here are examples: In a shared office, a RelatePoint could be the water cooler or a bulletin board in the break room. The ProxMonitor process could occur in the notes on the bulletin board or the discussion around the water cooler. The Vadi Agreement might be agreements or understandings about the use of the shared refrigerator in the break room, or that the company survives and thrives thanks to certain valuable differences between people, materials and processes. And proxri can include a wide variety of actions, from cleaning out the refrigerator once in a while, to financial dealings, to saying things to people in the office which help keep the atmosphere professional but also lively, interesting, and growing.

But now consider the technological possibilities. I think we could be doing a better job of using networks and technologies to relate to proximities, by using the ProxThink Growth Model with technology in networked applications. I think RelatePoints could be accessed via computers and mobiles, that have ProxMonitors showing both human- and sensor-generated monitoring of proximities, allowing shared Vadi Agreements on the network to be viewed, discussed and updated, and in terms of Proxri, there could be suggestions for proxri as well as places to share and discuss proxri that were made or received. You’ll notice the four processes, when combined with technologies, have the effect of transforming the proximity of a situation, or even multiple situations, into more of a tangible element you can relate to. I think such networked applications which use the growth model can be deployed at various scales, from homes and team projects to regions and global proximities.

In addition to the benefits of keeping a proximity alive, vital, interesting, invigorating and growing, I think relating to the proximity of a situation has other benefits. I think relating to proximities is a way to make proximities more sustainable, and also helps us with the challenge of climate change. (I’ve used the ProxThink Growth Model in what I’m calling a sustainable proximities approach.) I think relating to proximities can help people within them be healthier and happier. And, since proximities often overlap, relating to a proximity often helps other proximities.

I think one other interesting thing happens when the focus shifts to relating to proximities. It’s about variety. I think variety and relating to proximities help each other, grow each other, and reinforce each other, at many levels. But perhaps the most interesting level is that of individual people. When individuals relate to proximities, they often need and develop a variety of skills, viewpoints, and efforts, which is invigorating, challenging and rewarding and partly why they may become healthier and happier. The proximity also becomes a kind of living thing, and generates variety for the individuals within it. So relating to the proximity is partly it’s own reward, and becomes self-reinforcing. This is also related to my project VarietyPeople.org.

I hope this essay has helped convince you that you can also relate to the proximity of a situation. You may have picked up a few other shorthand abstractions as well! These include: proximitiesRelatePointsProxMonitorsVadi Agreements and ProxRewards (or the shorter version of ProxReward, which is proxri). For more about the growth model, please see this link: Brief Intro to the ProxThink Growth Model. I’m also trying to spread this approach via a project and site called Proxri.org. For more about the proximity thinking framework, please see proxthink.com or the new mobile site proxthink.wordpress.com.

Here are some ways you might want to explore the ProxThink Growth Model. I’m working to deploy the model in some basic ways with two arts projectsArtsdown and Artsflex. If you would like to somehow deploy this model in your business or organization, in any way, low-tech or high-tech, please get in touch. If you would like to adopt or adapt the growth model for your proximity or situation, here’s more about that. If you would like to explore tools that can be used or adapted to implement the growth model for a proximity that people share, please see this page. If you would like to find other individuals, websites, groups of people, proximities or situations using proxri and the growth model, please see this page.

I’d like to collaborate with developers to create networked applications that use the ProxThink Growth Model with technology in more extensive ways, to boost the sustainability and variety of proximities. If you are a developer interested in collaborating, or know of developers who might be, please get in touch with me and/or them. We could start small, and perhaps the process of building it and using it could be so much fun that it grows. I think people should get involved at first mainly for the challenge and the variety, and only work on it part-time. Also, we should have a place where people involved could post their own ProxMonitors and proxri wishes, so others could proxri them for their efforts in building this.

I’m also seeking a group of individuals who might like to collaborate with me, even part-time, on my projects as a collection (ProxThink, sustainable proximities, Proxri.orgVarietyPeople.org, Artsdown and Artsflex), as I think there is potential to grow them faster and better with a team of people and with each project helping the other projects.

Finally, I’m available for services such as webinars, flexible collaboration, idea sessions, speaking and consulting, each of which uses and demonstrates the proximity thinking framework, so please contact me for more information or scheduling.


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The Real "Winner" in Iowa: New "Super" Front Groups That Are Super Corrupting Our Democracy Thanks to "Citizens United"

Contrary to most press accounts, there was a decisive winner in the Iowa caucuses last night, and it was neither Rick Santorum nor Mitt Romney. The "winner" was the so-called "Super" PACs (political action committees), the mutant front groups for political candidates that were "created" in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that unleashed corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited money influencing elections.

Upcoming American Petroleum Institute 'Vote 4 Energy' TV Campaign Disrupted by Undercover Activists

This report exposing the deceptive tactics of the American Petroleum Institute was originally posted at Greenpeace.

Recently, Greenpeace got a rare look behind the curtain at how Big Oil stages citizen support for huge oil companies, when activists got inside a TV commercial shoot in Washington DC. The American Petroleum Institute(API), and their PR firm Edelman, were filming a new series of TV commercials that we learned API plans to air nationally on CNN starting in January. The ads, aimed at the 2012 elections, will aim to demonstrate authentic citizen support for the oil industry's agenda.

Sludge Industry Reveals "Resource Recovery" Spin

The Water Environment Federation (WEF), the sewage sludge industry trade group that invented the Orwellian PR euphemism "biosolids" for toxic sludge in 1991, is now "rebranding" sewage treatment plants as "water resource recovery facilities." The PR spin conveniently glosses over the toxic sewage sludge removed from the water and then heated and dumped on land for crops and grazing as "fertilizer" or misleadingly called "compost." The toxins in sludge can then bioaccumulate in the meat and dairy we eat and be taken up by the food plants that feed us.

The Battle Between O'Dwyer and PRSA

Jack O'DwyerThe Public Relations Society of America, the trade group for the American public relations industry, and Jack O'Dwyer, who has specialized in reporting on the PR industry for over 40 years, are at war, and the battle is getting heated -- and harmful for PRSA.

Why should people care about this obscure fight? Because the conflict is a microcosm of the battle against the unethical and harmful PR trends that are hurting this country.

Synagro's Shiny New Patina

Synagro protest in DetroitSynagro Technologies is the latest big corporation trying to ditch a scandal-ridden past by re-branding itself. In an August 10, 2011 press release, the company announced it is launching a new website as part of a "rebranding initiative." The press release says the initiative "is a reflection of the enhanced and growing service and solution offerings that have resulted from organic growth and recent acquisitions." Of course, the press release fails to mention the back-to-back scandals that have plagued Synagro since 2008 as well as earlier controversies.

Synagro is in the business of marketing sewage sludge as "compost," or, as the company's new, PR-approved website puts it, "Transforming natural waste challenges into sustainable, planet-friendly solutions." The company is a subsidiary of the Carlyle Group, the largest private equity firm in the world. Carlyle is also a sizeable part of the military-industrial complex with ties to numerous national politicians, including former British Prime Minister John Major, Alice Albright (daughter of former Secretary of State Madelyn Albright), and both George W. and George H.W. Bush.

Gore Condemns Dirty Industry PR Tactics that Sow Doubt on Global Warming

Al GoreAlmost two years ago, former health insurance PR executive Wendell Potter published his tell-all book, Deadly Spin, about the deceptive media campaigns and PR trickery the health insurance industry uses to beat back meaningful health care reform in the U.S. Potter pointed out the striking similarities between the insurers' tactics and those the tobacco industry applied for decades to delay regulation and confuse people about the health hazards of smoking and secondhand smoke. These manipulative PR tactics held off meaningful tobacco regulation for over 40 years, and also proved highly successful for the insurance industry, which used the same strategies to defeat true health care reform. Now Al Gore is pointing out that the energy, steel and utility industries are applying those same, tricky and time-worn PR strategies to confuse people about global warming and delay efforts to address it.

New Documentary Explores Subconscious Manipulation by Corporations and Others

It's our responsibility as journalists to let the public know who is paid by what corporation, or if they're representing the government. Otherwise, it's unforgivable. The media is our lens on the world. And it is absolutely critical we trust the media. Because, ultimately, when people are terrorized, when people are targeted, when people are marginalized, that does not make any of us safer.

- Amy Goodman, interview in "Programming the Nation?" documentary

Can PR Save Bahrain's Monarchy?

Bahrian's Sunni-led monarchy has hired the Washington, D.C. PR firm Qorvis Communications at a rate of $40,000/month to help improve its image after the Bahraini government, struggling to suppress a Shia-led protest movement, attacked the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders (DWB).

Chesapeake "Declaration of Energy Independence": NAT GAS Act Embodied

On July 11, Chesapeake Energy, the second largest methane gas corporation in the United States, announced its "bold new plan": a "Declaration of Energy Independence" for America's energy future. ("Natural gas" is the public relations term the industry uses for methane gas, because it sounds so much more appealing than the real name.)

The plan is double-pronged and will no doubt lead to increased levels of fracking, the process drilling companies use to extract methane gas in areas like the Marcellus Shale and other shale deposits throughout the country. Fracking is a dirty process, as indicated by the Center for Media and Democracy's ongoing look into the state-by-state and federal legislative push for domestic gas drilling.

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Working Full-Time and Still Living in Poverty

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Photo Credit: Walmart Corporate via Compfight

By Roberta Downing, PhD (Senior Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer, APA Public Interest Directorate – Government Relations Office)

In the State of the Union, President Obama announced that he would use his authority to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour for all federal contractors. The current minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Why is this so important? Even working full-time, a minimum wage worker with children is still living below the federal poverty line (which is roughly $19,000 per year for a family of three).[i]

Some people might say this move by the President is no big deal. But it is a very big deal to the janitors, receptionists, childcare providers, and food service workers who are employed by the thousands of companies that contract with the federal government. A 2009 study suggests that out of the two million contractors that the federal government employs, 20% are earning wages that put them below the poverty line.[ii] So this change in income for the thousands of workers who will see their wages rise is very important to the health and well-being of these individuals and their families.

What are the psychological ramifications of earning such low wages?

Psychologists have documented extensively the negative effects of poverty on individuals and families. Individuals working full-time earning the minimum wage cope with the constant stress of financial insecurity while working jobs that are some of the most difficult in our economy, often spending long hours standing, doing strenuous or dangerous manual labor, and interacting with a public that does not necessarily value their work or even see its existence (e.g., the office cleaner that is only visible during evening hours when staff have already left for home).

Minimum wage workers often prepare the food we eat in restaurants, care for our children in daycares and schools, clean hotel rooms, tend to our elderly family members in long-term care facilities, and work on the grounds of our military bases. Their jobs often do not offer health coverage, retirement plans, paid sick or maternity leave, or other benefits that are afforded to middle class and upper income workers. And when these workers return home, they are faced with impossible choices, when they find that they do not have enough income to feed their children healthy food or pay for rent, medical bills, utilities, and other necessities, despite their full-time labor.

What can you do?

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative George Miller (D-CA) have introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 (S. 460/H.R. 1010), which would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. This bill, if enacted, would increase an annual minimum wage salary to $21,000 per year, lifting a family of three above the poverty line.

Use APA’s Federal Action Network to email your Member of Congress and Senators and urge them to support this legislation. Show them that the public is on board. A recent poll found that 76% of Americans support a higher minimum wage.[iii] Our lawmakers have to get on board too.

Tell your elected officials that the 3.6 million minimum wage workers in our country deserve an income that puts them over the poverty line, at minimum.[iv]

Roberta Downing, PhD is a Senior Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer with the APA Public Interest Directorate Government Relations Office. Dr. Downing is a former APA Congressional Fellow (2004-2005), working for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. She was also a healthcare staffer for Senator Brown of Ohio. Most recently, Dr. Downing was a Senior Legislative Associate at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

[i]   U. S. Census Bureau (2013). Poverty thresholds by size of family and number of children. Retrieved from

[ii]  Edwards, K. & Filion, K. (2009). Outsourcing poverty: Federal contracting pushes down wages and benefits. Retrieved from Economic Policy Institute website:

[iii]  Gallup Poll (November, 2013). Most Americans for Raising Minimum Wage. Retrieved from

[iv]   Bureau of Labor Statistics (2013). Characteristics of minimum wage workers: 2012. Retrieved from

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Volcano Erupts Near Our Team

Please pray for our team in Malang, Indonesia. One of the nearby mountains, Gunung Kelud, just erupted spewing gravel and ash up to 50 km away.  Malang is only around 35 km away from the volcano, basically the distance from Chilliwack to Abbotsford. This is the city I traveled to just last month for meetings with this team.