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Sharif 'most trusted man' of Saudi royal family in Pak: PML-N
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LAHORE: Pakistan's main opposition PML-N party says its chief Nawaz Sharif is the Saudi royal family's "favourite and most trusted man" in this country despite "some misunderstanding" between them in the past.
These remarks by a senior PML-N leader came amid release of secret US cables by WikiLeaks, which showed that Sharif broke a promise made to the royal family by issuing political statements from Saudi Arabia while he was living there in self-exile and by visiting Pakistan in 2005 in violation of an agreement not to return to the country for 10 years.
"Yes there may have been some misunderstanding between Sharif and the Saudi royal family at that time but now he is Saudi Arabia's favourite and most trusted man in Pakistan," the PML-N leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told PTI.
The cables released by the whistle-blowing website say Saudi Arabia's royal family historically disliked the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and feared that its chief, President Asif Ali Zardari -- who is a Shia Muslim -- could be part of a Shia triangle with Nur-al-Maliki's government in Iraq and Mahmoud Ahmedinajad's regime in Iran.
This has affected the flow of financial aid and an agreement to provide oil to Pakistan at concessionary terms. Zardari has built strong ties with Iran, which is one of the reasons for Saudi Arabia's disapproval, the cables revealed.
The PML-N leader said Pakistan's "cordial" relations with Saudi Arabia would be back on track "once we get rid of the Zardari regime."
He added: "Pakistan and Saudi Arabia will be fast friends again."
Addressing a public gathering yesterday, former premier Sharif was very critical of the PPP-led government at the centre.
He claimed that Pakistan is facing numerous problems because of the ill-conceived policies of President Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
Power cuts, unemployment and terrorism are the outcome of such policies, Sharif said.
He said Musharraf implicated him in several cases and it was "divine justice" that he (Sharif) was now living among his own people and the former military dictator was living in exile.
Sharif said the "former rulers wanted to hang him."
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A new path of endless growth

Sometimes we cannot choose the path we walk. Sometimes our path is given to us by someone else. Sometimes it is not the path we thought we would end up on and sometimes we don’t like that path. However, it is how we handle this new path that defines us.

I sit with tears running down my cheeks in total shock. This is not what I expected when I walked into this work meeting with my bosses this morning.

After a year off from my job as a Store Manager, dealing with severe depression, PTSD and reporting my abuser, I have spent the past year back at work trying to prove myself.
Starting back as part time sales, and overcoming some stumbles along the way, I have eventually made it back to full time and lower management.

Dealing with not only the police case but also my mental health and a new therapist and the loss of my family, I have worked hard and pushed myself at work. I can honestly say I have been excelling, getting nothing but positive feedback. Which is why this meeting comes as a shock.
Instead of stepping back up to higher management as I expected, they have decided that they want me to stay as lower management, at least until the case is over. Lower position, lower wage.
I cannot help it, tears continue to flow. I am heartbroken.

Please understand, my employers have been nothing but amazing in supporting me through this journey so far and I will be forever grateful, but this is not what I expected.
When I went to the police and took a step back at work to deal with things, it was on the understanding that, when able, I could go back into my management role. That is what has kept me going. That is what I have worked towards.

You can understand then why this would come as a shock. There was no notice, no clue, that this would be their decision. And while I understand that they must do right by the business as well as myself, this truly sucks. I am devastated and I am angry.

Angry at them? Yes, a little. Though I understand their decision, I cannot help but feel hurt and angry. I don’t mean to.
Angry at my abuser? Yes. A whole lot. For he has already taken so much, and now this.
However mostly I am angry at myself, for I have failed. The one thing I swore that I would not let my abuser take from me is my job and yet here we are. I worked so damn hard for that job and now he has taken that too. I have failed.

My bosses tell me that they are proud of me for reporting him and for starting my journey towards justice and recovery. They tell me I have grown and matured and that I have not failed. But their words change nothing. In my own mind I have failed and I am my own worse enemy. I have failed and I am heartbroken.

Deep down I know that reporting him was the right decision. However, in this moment, I wish I had never bothered. I have lost and sacrificed so much already since doing so, that this is just too much.

Knowing I am devastated my bosses take me home and ask me not to do anything silly, for they know of my self-harm. However, coping the only way I know how, I pick up my blade.
With tears rolling down my cheeks and sobs leaving my lips , I slice the blade across my skin. I need to bleed. I need to punish myself. I have failed. I need to make this go away.

Eventually I am so exhausted from sobbing and cutting that I take my meds and go to bed, hopeful that I will be able to think a bit clearer tomorrow.

I feel like I have failed. I feel like I have been defeated. This is not the path that I had planned for myself. I am terrified.
I am afraid to travel a new path. Does it mean I am defeated? Does it mean my journey is over?
No. It doesn’t.

This is a stumble. Stumbling blocks can also be stepping stones to victory. This is a fall and what defines us the most is how well we rise after falling.

We must not be afraid to travel a new path, for it may be the way that we find what we have been looking for all along. Just because my path is now different, doesn’t mean I am lost.

This new path scares me. It gives me financial worries, for I have a mortgage and responsibilities. It gives me worries for the future, for I love my job and I am good at it.
However, it also gives me more time.

It gives me time to work on my art and my writing. It gives me time to focus on my blog. So that I can raise awareness and help others. It means I can finally spend more time on the book I have decided to write. The book I want to write so badly to help other victims and survivors feel less alone.

My new path gives me time to focus on my journey to justice and recovery. It means I can speak up and raise awareness of childhood sexual abuse. It means I can focus on my goal of becoming a voice. A voice for the children, the victims and the survivors who cannot speak for theirselves.

Just because my path has changed doesn’t mean my whole journey has to. I am passionate and I will be fearless in the pursuit of what sets my soul on fire. I will become a voice. The voice that no-one spoke for me.

My path is changing, but I have learnt that when a new path reveals itself I should follow it. So far my new path has been better than my old one.
My past has not defined me or destroyed me. It has not deterred me or defeated me. It has only strengthened me.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart and the one thing I know I definitely have is courage.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest and sometimes new beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Maybe this new path is where my light begins to shine. Maybe it will lead me to a beautiful destination.
After all, so far, my path has been one of endless growth!

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  1. Truly inspiring! Such a beautiful soul and kind heart you have and I am rooting for you and know you will have a future better than you could have imagined. I hope to be as brave as you one day. This was so touching I’m in tears but with a smile.

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  2. ❤ this. So eloquent, you have a gift with words. I want to tell you, you are NOT a failure, you are a survivor. God/the Universe is giving you more time to heal. I've done that in my career, taking a step back from management stress, and you WILL slowly gain the strength to step up again! God bless you on your journey – and yes, please keep writing, for yourself and for others!

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    1. Thank you so much xx if I can help at least one other survivor feel less alone then my pain and sadness and loss will be worth it x
      Thank you for supporting me x

  3. Though financial concerns are real and I hope you can make do with the lower income, it is far from defeat or failure. My god, look at you! Such a shimmering example of fortitude, strength and courage. Asking you to remain in a lower position does make you lower. It is a gift of caring towards you as you proceed with a very difficult trial. None of us are superhuman. This is a gift.
    I know the strong feelings though, the black and white thinking. It has controlled me often. I love the way you turned it around. Such amazing self-talk!

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    1. Thank you for reading and for understanding xx
      It is hard. This piece was a hard piece to write however very much needed to help myself but hopefully others x
      Thank you for supporting me x

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      1. the honesty is what draws me. That harsh voice with all the beatings, then the gentle more realistic one. I could feel the depth of hurt and feelings of devastation during and after the meeting. My interior world is much like that.

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I Abandoned My Baby to Die

Okay, so I’m not really taking about a flesh and blood baby here. But if you’re a writer, you will understand. I had to abandon a novel I was working on for nearly three years. I dropped it cold. One day, revising a chapter. The next. Gone.

I felt strange. A piece of writing, especially something of novel length, does feel like a child. You give birth to it, and watch it grow. In the case of this novel, I’d started it time and time again over the course of two years. Then, using the NaNoWriMo month of November, I plowed through and completed a whole draft.

It was awful.

That wasn’t the way I was used to writing. I like chapters to come off polished and clean, not all ragged and error filled. Yes, I did have 50,000 words. But that was not a story.

That was one year ago. I took up the job of revising it and found that I was starting from scratch again. A few of the plot ideas from the writing marathon remained, but mostly, I had to trash it all and start over, yet again.

Dragging my butt over to the keyboard became harder and harder. I found plenty of excuses. Yet I still wrote. I’m not a quitter. It just felt like rolling a rock uphill. Every time I sat down, I’d only made inches of progress. (Just call me Sisyphus).

Then I had an opportunity to revise a former novel. My agent wanted to know if there were any changed before going for a second round with publishers. The difference in my writing was ridiculous. I yearned to write. I pushed myself to crazy limits to totally revamp and revise that writing.

That’s when I realized that the unfinished novel had to go. The passion wasn’t there anymore.

And so I left it, like the Spartans do with their babies, to fend for itself. Parts of the old writing will live on in my imagination. I know I’ll cannibalize scenes and ideas. That’s what writers do. But I will never take up that novel again.

I think I was too in love with the idea and the world of that novel and not in love with the characters. That’s a danger for me. Characters and story need to come first.

The current novel, started the same day the old one was abandoned, and it is going swimmingly.

Tim Kane

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  1. Yay, you! Better to abort than deliver an abomination. (And, no, all you crazies out there, I don’t mean that literally!!!!)

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Today in Madonna History: November 9, 1996

On November 9 1996, Madonna’s You Must Love Me debuted at #24 on the Adult Contemporary Billboard chart in the USA.

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“Memory”: Kane Brown’s new blackbear duet is a sobering look at the downside of life lived fast

Kane Brown and his latest out-of-genre collaborator, pop songwriter/producer blackbear, share a word of warning in their new song, “Memory.” The song’s lyrics address the anxiety of living and partying in overdrive, while worrying about when the repercussions will hit.

“I wanna live life fast, I don’t know how to slow down / I wanna get high, I don’t know how to come down / Help me now, I’m running on empty / And I don’t wanna be a memory,” the pair harmonize in the chorus.

Kane and blackbear swap lead vocals throughout the track, with Kane singing, “I know this can’t be healthy / So I’m lookin’ for a way out,” in the first verse.

Per Billboard, “Memory” is headed to pop radio this Friday. The two artists co-wrote the track along with Ernest Smith, Andrew Goldstein and Joe Kirkland. They also premiered the music video for their new song on YouTube Friday afternoon, signing onto the platform for a live chat with fans shortly beforehand.

“Memory” is the latest in a long string of non-country collaborations for Kane, who’s previously shared songs with the likes of Marshmello, Khalid and Swae Lee, Becky G and Camila Cabello.

Meanwhile, Kane is continuing to dominate the country world, too. His duet single with Chris Young, “Famous Friends,” is currently a top-five hit.

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Book Notes - The Happiness of Pursuit

I loved this book from Chris Guillebeau and just like his two previous books [The Art of Nonconformity and The $100 Startup] it's filled with fun stories, great personalities and the sense that life is an adventure to be lived.

In this book, Chris unpacks the idea of a quest and gives us some compelling examples of people that have pursued something quests: something with a clear goal and a specific endpoint, a clear challenge, sacrifice of some kind, a sense of calling or mission and something that requires a series of steps. Along with telling us about quests, he inspires us by visiting the big ideas as adventure, personal vision, risk, courage and personal growth.

Probably my favorite part of the book talks about what happens when people are done with their quests - they gain independence and confidence, they mature, their vision seems to grow, and they are empowered for more. I've seen this first hand as the organization I work with has tried to send as many young people as we can on some kind of quest or adventure. Time and time again, those experiences have helped grow people along the lines that Chris has outlined.

Here are a few more quotes I loved from the book:
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. - Thomas Edison
He had decided to live forever, or die in attempt. - Joseph Heller
The most courageous act is to think for yourself. Aloud. - Coco Chanel
When you've given everything you have in pursuit of something great, it's hard to toss off a few quick sentences on "what it's like."
Why pursue a quest? Because each of us in our lives is writing our own story, and we only have one chance to get it right.

The Happiness of Pursuit is a great read and even though all of us could probably stand to read about more adventure in our life, this might be the motivation to get you to actually take the first step.

Disclosure - I was provided a copy of this book for free.

  1. Tony - thanks for sharing. Adding this to my list.

  2. Thanks Jorge - you will love it. Hope you are doing well!


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The Truth About Lizzo And Chris Evans’ Friendship

Lizzo is the unofficial queen of TikTok. She’s known for popularizing viral vegan recipes like “Nature’s Cereal” and ricotta toast (via Parade). She’s also participated in several TikTok trends — from dancing to Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” to trying on those viral Amazon butt-sculpting leggings (via Shape). The “Good As Hell” singer has also been known to post a hilarious TikTok or two, like the one where she revealed she drunkenly DM’d Chris Evans on Instagram (via Us Weekly).

In a TikTok video posted back in April, Lizzo admitted to her followers that she direct messaged the Marvel actor and even showed a brief screenshot of her message. The screenshot revealed a series of emojis, including a basketball and female athlete, implying that she was shooting her shot. In her caption, Lizzo even wrote “Don’t drink and DM, kids.” What was meant to be a joke eventually had fans shipping these two celebrities together, so what’s their relationship like now that the “Truth Hurts” singer has made it clear how she feels?

Chris Evans told Lizzo he's a fan of her work

Lizzo’s DM wasn’t the first time she’s interacted with Chris Evans on social media. According to Billboard, back in 2019, Lizzo posted a video of a young girl dancing to her song “Juice,” which Evans retweeted with, “This kid is cooler than I could ever hope to be.” Lizzo responded to the retweet with a hilarious, “Wow marry me.”

Cut to April 2021 — when Evans got wind of Lizzo’s TikTok confession, he had to reply. According to Buzzfeed, Captain America not only replied to the DM, saying, “No shame in a drunk DM,” but he also followed the singer back. He also revealed that he’s “done worse on this app.” The conversation continued with Evans admitting that he’s a fan of Lizzo and even told her to “keep up the great work” (via Glamour).

While there haven’t been any updates since April, it’s clear that these two are mutual fans of each other’s work. Hopefully, that means we’ll be privy to more fun interactions between the two in the future.

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It is clear enough that Rock is the most energetic and impulsive kind of music that exists in our world for decades. So it is not a surprise that people who adore this music rhythms like to be bright and have an extraordinary life image. Thus, we can’t deny that clothes play a huge role here as every person tries to show his belonging to his favorite music kind. And it is absolutely right thing to do!

This article is supposed to tell you about best rock T-shirts that are possible to find now and which will highlight your true self feeling. Here you will find all necessary information about prints, T-shirt types and color decisions that are current in a modern world of rock fans. We guarantee that you are here to find your perfect T-shirt that won’t ever leave you indifferent. So let’s get started!

TOP 5 rock T-shirts of 2021.

Classic rock album cover Classic T-Shirt ($18.67)

The right of opening our top-list of best rock T-shirts is definitely behind this classic black one. Noble and elegant, it will suit any person and will make them look stylish at any time. The idea of having album cover as a print is an explicit trend of this year.  With this T-shirt, you won’t only stand out from others but forever conserve the memory of your favorite album on your new brand clothes!

  • Classic.  Black color and adorable pic are perfect at any event. No need to think about what to wear today.
  • Album cover. This type of print looks fresh and stylish. What is more, this T-shirt will remind you about your beloved music band and its importance that it has in your life.
  • Complete picture. No extra details. Everything is both simple and cool.

  • Wear. When the print is made of different material than T-shirt (literally printed on it), it can be damaged during the washing process, so check carefully the cloths operating instructions.

Jesse and the Rippers: Forever Tour 89' Essential T-Shirt ($19.45)

Here is another example of classical black T-shirt for every taste. As it is seen, it has the same specifications and can be appropriate for both festive and casual activities. However, the idea of the print is a little bit different, because this kind of T-shirt implies the name of the band as a print itself. The bright traits on the solid color background make it look interesting and fashionable in all ways.

  • Print. Bright colors make sense, especially on the T-shirts with black background.
  • Appropriate for all. With this T-shirt you won’t think about other options to choose.
  • Letters. The font and the size of the words are soft and pretty, so the print looks interesting and brings positive vibes.

  • Wear. Here we are again with the same problem. But if you wear and wash it carefully the T-shirt will serve you for a long time.

Ramones (white distressed design) Essential T-Shirt ($20.23)

As you see, the most trendy color of this year is black, but what a big selection of prints can be involved! This model unites two previous ideas combining text and picture together, but at the same time making this T-shirt unique and unforgettable. Brief name and logo pic create a new version of a stylish Rock T-shirt that can appear in front of a rock lover as a true find.

  • Combination. The idea of having both picture and band name makes this T-shirt print complete and good looking.
  • Black and White. When there are a lot of different details, there is no need to add different colors. Classic black and white variant is the best!
  • Official style. Because of the strict print decision this exact T-shirt can become a good addition to the work outfit.

  • Too conservative. If you are young and full of energy and dreams about rock concerts, it is better to choose something else. This type suits the longtime rock fans more.

Jimi Hendrix Classic T-Shirt ($18.67)

And here we are with a brand T-shirt and a portrait of Jimi Hendrix! Of course, there are many different options with portraits of other musicians to choose from, but the fact that black on white looks fantastic is undeniable. With such a cloth you won’t ever hesitate about your good looking and what is more, it can be easily combined with your entire wardrobe.

  • Print. When your print is a portrait of your favorite singer, it is just great. But when this portrait is drawn on the white background, it is absolutely fantastic!
  • White color. Such a thing should have every rock amateur because it goes in combination with all jeans shirts and even skirts.

  • Spots. Obviously, this kind of T-shirts can’t hide any spots. So when you choose this one be prepared not to spill cocktails on yourself during some rock festivals.

Queensryche Rage For Order Essential T-Shirt ($19.45)

The last option is for those who are never afraid of being bright and special. The colored T-shirt can not only highlight your personality but to express the color palette of your favorite music band as well. The combination of gold letters and black inserts gives the T-shirt a very successful decorative decision that will constantly remain being actual.

  • Brightness. There is a big chance that wearing this T-shirt you will be noticed by your favorite singer while being on a concert. Isn’t it great?
  • Color mix. Logo, band’s name or even portrait printed on a bright background will give a new interesting impression in comparison to usual black and white cloth variants.

  • The impulsivity. It is evident that we all are different and some colors don’t suit us at all. Another factor that does make sense is that bright shades can disturb our eyes when we wear them too often. So this type of T-shirt should be worn only for special cases.

It is needed to say that all models that were presented in this article have different options like classic fit, slim fit and so on.  In this case it is better to choose the T-shirt that you think will suit you most. Moreover, print placement may vary slightly from preview, so be prepared for this fact. Otherwise, don’t worry and make your choice in favor of these wonderful T-shirts. Let’s rock this world together!


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Remember the weird kid in class with the Wayfarer glasses and whose doodles looked like intricate M.C. Escher sketches? Well, we’re those weird kids all grown up. Instead of a Michael Jordan poster, we had one of A Collection of Postmodern Scandinavian Chairs. (After all, Vernon Panton was the Michael Jordan of chair designers.) We here at Tough Guppy live and breath design. We keep up with the latest trends and cutting edge techniques, while still recognizing the value and importance of a classic look. Our team integrates graphic design into every fabric of digital marketing while focusing on the development and success of your brand. Whatever your need – graphics for your website, logos, flyers, business cards, brochures, posters, motion graphics for video, packaging – we’ll make sure it’s visually engaging and aesthetically pleasing.

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Unlike other copywriting services, we take the time to interview and understand our clients’ individual perspective and tone, enabling us to truly “write in their voice.” This well-written, powerful content results in a deeper connection with the reader.

Whether it be the “about” section of your website, staff biographies, press releases, SEO content, video scripts, or newsletters, you can trust us to create content that eloquently and succinctly conveys your point of view. See, we use words like eloquently and succinctly; you’re gonna be just fine.

Social media is a wonderful tool on which revolutions were started. It’s also an annoying place where you’re bombarded with cat pictures. But that’s what’s so great about it – It can be whatever you want it to be. And Tough Guppy can help conceptualize what it should be for you. We can plan interesting strategies where your customers want, nay need, to follow you. We can ghost-write Tweets or Facebook and Blog posts to engage your customers. We can make beautiful Instagrams and Pinterest posts. We can create videos or Vines to help your business go viral. We’ll start the business revolution for you, so you can just sit back and enjoy those sweet, sweet cat pics.


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How to recover after Hibernate’s OptimisticLockException

I've read many articles about optimistic locking and OptimisticLockException itself. Problem is that each one of them ended up getting their first exception and no word on recovery. What to do next? Repeat? If so, how? Or drop it? Is there any chance to continue? How? Even more, documentation says that if you get Hibernate exception - you're done, it's not recoverable:

An exception thrown by Hibernate means you have to rollback your database transaction and close the Session immediately (this is discussed in more detail later in the chapter). If your Session is bound to the application, you have to stop the application. Rolling back the database transaction does not put your business objects back into the state they were at the start of the transaction. This means that the database state and the business objects will be out of sync. Usually this is not a problem, because exceptions are not recoverable and you will have to start over after rollback anyway.

Here is my attempt on this: repeatable and recoverable.

Business case

Let's say we have distributed application with two web servers, connected to the same database. Applications use optimistic locking to avoid collisions. Customers buy lottery coupons, which are numbered from 1 to 100. In the same second Alice on web server 1 draws two coupons: 11 and 12. In the same moment Bob reserves two coupons on web server 2. It draws 11 and 13 for Bob and tries to write it back to database. But it fails, since Alice's commit was first. I want a web application server to draw coupons for Bob again and then - try to save again until it succeeds.

For every request Hibernate associates different Session that is flushed at the end of request processing. If you hit OptimisticLockException then this Request Session is polluted and will be rolled back. To avoid this we will create a separate Hibernate's Session especially for drawing coupons. If separate session fails - drop this session and try again in a new one. If it succeeds - merge it with a main request session. Request Session cannot be touched during draws. Take a look at the following picture:

On this picture yellow and green short-term sessions has failed with OptimisticLockException. Red session was successful and these objects are merged to a main session on the left.

Reservation entity

Key requirement here is to keep a domain you want to lock on as small as possible and not coupled directly to anything else. Best approach here is to create some Reservation entity with few fields, let's say: couponId and customerId. For each Coupon create one Reservation row and use reserved boolean field as a reservation status. For coupon and customer use weak identifiers (long) instead of real entities. This way no object tree will be loaded and Reservation stays decoupled.

import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.ToString;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;

import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.isTrue;
import static org.springframework.util.Assert.isNull;

public class Reservation {
private long id;
private long couponId;
private Long customerId;
private boolean reserved;

public void reserve(long reservingCustomerId) {
isTrue(reserved == false);
reserved = true;
customerId = reservingCustomerId;

Method reserve has some business assertions to keep it legit. You can also spot lombok's annotations that provide getters, setters and toString methods on the fly.

Reservation Service

Reservation Service implements my solution. I've commented some steps for better reading. Please read a source code:

import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.hibernate.*;
import org.hibernate.ejb.HibernateEntityManager;
import org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateOptimisticLockingFailureException;

import javax.persistence.OptimisticLockException;
import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext;
import java.util.List;

public class ReservationService {

private HibernateEntityManager hibernateEntityManager;

private Iterable<Reservation> reserveOptimistic(long customerId, final int count) throws NoFreeReservationsException {"Trying to reserve {} reservations for customer {}", count, customerId);

//This is the request session that needs to stay clean
Session currentSession = hibernateEntityManager.getSession();
Iterable<Reservation> reserved = null;

do {
//This is our temporary session to work on
Session newSession = hibernateEntityManager.getSession().getSessionFactory().openSession();
Transaction transaction = newSession.beginTransaction();

List<Reservation> availableReservations = null;

try {
Query query = newSession.createQuery("from Reservation r where r.reserved = false")
.setLockMode("optimistic", LockMode.OPTIMISTIC)

availableReservations = query.list();

//There is no available reservations to reserve
if (availableReservations.isEmpty()) {
throw new NoFreeReservationsException();

for (Reservation available : availableReservations) {

//Commit can throw optimistic lock exception if it fails

//Commit succeeded - this reference is used outside try-catch-finally block
reserved = availableReservations;

} catch (OptimisticLockException | StaleObjectStateException | HibernateOptimisticLockingFailureException e) {"Optimistic lock exception occurred for customer {} and count {}: {} {}", customerId, count, e.getClass(), e.getMessage());

for (Reservation availableMsisdn : availableReservations) {
} finally {
//Repeat until we reserve something
} while (reserved == null);"Successfully reserved {} reservations for customer {}", count, customerId);

//Merge reserved entities to request session
for (Reservation reservedMsisdn : reserved) {

return reserved;

This code says it all. It tries to reserve some Reservations until it succeeds in a do-while loop. Main Request Session is not polluted and it achieves our goal.

I hope this example helps you in similar some cases. It works as expected for a few months on our customer's production site and I recommend this solution.

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The Test Drive

Sometimes, in order for us to properly diagnose an automotive problem, we need to have the customer duplicate the problem on a test drive. I recall one test drive where a customer complained of a vibration coming from their car which warranted a test drive with the shop foreman. Apparently the vibration was felt when taking a tight right hand turn at 40 miles an hour; but we didn’t know that until the customer demonstrated the vibration. Feeling like he was in a NASCAR road race pulling 2 g’s in the corners; the shop foreman, holding on for his dear life, actually was able to narrow the problem down to a tie rod. As a result, we did learn to ask a few more questions before going on test drives with customers who think they are a racecar driver.

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One particular automotive diagnostic adventure was with a certain female customer that had a 2003 Honda with an intermittent sound coming from the front of the vehicle. After three separate service visits where the shop foreman and technician test drove the vehicle, we were never able to duplicate the noise that she described. Then one day I get a phone call where she said that she was hearing the noise and wanted me to hear it over the phone: before I could tell her that “I can’t pinpoint a noise over the phone”…  She had put her cell phone out the window at 55 mph. I heard a noise all-right, the noise of wind blowing past a cell phone at 55 mph! Needless to say the phone call did not help me narrow down the problem. Still a regular customer, we often joke about it; today it’s one of our favorite “adventures in diagnostics”.

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Request for Proposals: Municipal Finance Software

RFP #2020-001

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  January 31, 2020 at 5:00 pm

The Town of Montreat is requesting proposals for municipal finance software including conversion and implementation services, ongoing training and technical support for the system.

There is no expressed or implied obligation for the Town of Montreat to reimburse an organization for any expenses incurred in preparing responses to this request for proposals (RFP).

The Montreat is organized into ten departments including: Governing Body; Administration; Building and Zoning; Environment and Recreation; Police; Public Works; Public Buildings; Streets; Powell Bill; Sanitation.

The Finance Office manages all of the accounting functions for the Town. The Finance Officer oversees the collection, deposit, and investment of all Town funds. The Finance Officer is also responsible for managing the Town’s annual audit process and the other accounting functions for the Town. In addition, this office also collects water and sewer billing, assists other departments with purchasing, manages payroll, provides budgetary analysis to the Town Administrator, and prepares multiple monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.

The software package should include the following:

  • General Ledger – Multiple Funds, Customizable Account Structure, Project Funds
  • Budget
  • Accounts Payable – Checks and ACH – Scanning Invoices
  • Purchase Orders
  • Pre-Audit Certificates
  • Accounts Receivable- including cc payment option where the system automatically posts from cc processing to the General Ledger
  • Utility Billing
  • Payroll – Direct deposit and accrual balances
  • Fixed Assets
  • Building Permits
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Grant and Project Accounting
  • Report Writer – Ability to produce GASB statements
  • Monthly, Quarterly, and Year-end Processes
  • Data export to Excel, or CSV files
  • Data import
  • Training
  • System Security, Backup, and Recovery
  • Phone Support
  • Maintenance
  • Implementation Assistance

Desired functionality includes:

  • Fully integrated and automated accounting modules
  • Real time information
  • Windows technology
  • PDF backups (scan)
  • Customized reporting capabilities
  • Online screen inquiries
  • Drill down capabilities for transaction details – Vendor, invoice, check number, general ledger number
  • Unlimited account capabilities
  • Audit trail history
  • E-billing (utility billing)
  • Budget maintains original and revised totals
  • System supports the Modified Accrual Basis accounting methods
  • Journal Entries – Copy, delete, reverse capabilities and reoccuring
  • Vendor Maintenance tracks W-9 requirements
  • System prepares 1099s, W2s, ACA, 941 Quarterly Reports and submits electronically (Payroll)
  • Budget verification prior to accepting transaction posting
  • Duplicate payment verification warnings
  • CAFR coding for GL accounts
  • Fringe and Indirect distribution to multiple accounts capability
  • Automatic tax table updates
  • Billing invoices can be set as recurring transactions
  • GIS interface (Building permits)
  • Payroll module can schedule accruals and special payments based on specific pay cycles
  • Standardized Reports to include:
    • Trial Balance
    • Balance Sheet
    • Open Encumbrances
    • Account Transactions by fund, department, or general ledger number
    • Revenue and Expense detail by account
    • Revenue and Expense summary
    • Cash Flow Statements
    • Accounts Payable
    • Vendor Detail
    • Budgeted accounts report
    • AFIR analysis report

System data and reports need to meet all North Carolina Local Government Commission, North Carolina and Federal reporting and audit requirements.

General Statute 159-26 requires that each county and city maintain an accounting system, which must do the following:

  • 159-26. Accounting system.

(a)        System Required. – Each local government or public authority shall establish and maintain an accounting system designed to show in detail its assets, liabilities, equities, revenues, and expenditures. The system shall also be designed to show appropriations and estimated revenues as established in the budget ordinance and each project ordinance as originally adopted and subsequently amended.

(b)       Funds Required. – Each local government or public authority shall establish and maintain in its accounting system such of the following funds and ledgers as are applicable to it. The generic meaning of each type of fund or ledger listed below is that fixed by generally accepted accounting principles.

(1)        General fund.

(2)       Special Revenue Funds. – One or more separate funds shall be established for each of the following classes: (i) functions or activities financed in whole or in part by property taxes voted by the people, (ii) service districts established pursuant to the Municipal or County Service District Acts, and (iii) grant project ordinances. If more than one function is accounted for in a voted tax fund, or more than one district in a service district fund, or more

than one grant project in a project fund, separate accounts shall be established in the appropriate fund for each function, district, or project.

(3)        Debt service funds.

(4)       A Fund for Each Utility or Enterprise Owned or Operated by the Unit or Public Authority. – If a water system and a sanitary sewerage system are operated as a consolidated system, one fund may be established and maintained for the consolidated system.

(5)       Internal service funds.

(6)        Capital Project Funds. – Such a fund shall be established to account for the proceeds of each bond order or order authorizing any debt instrument and for all other resources used for the capital projects financed by the bond or debt instrument proceeds. A unit or public authority may account for two or more bond orders or orders authorizing any debt instrument in one capital projects fund, but the proceeds of each such order and the other revenues associated with that order shall be separately accounted for in the fund.

(7)       Trust and agency funds, including a fund for each special district, public authority, or school administrative unit whose taxes or special assessments are collected by the unit.

(8)       A ledger or group of accounts in which to record the details relating to the general fixed assets of the unit or public authority.

(9)       A ledger or group of accounts in which to record the details relating to the general obligation bonds and notes and other long-term obligations of the unit.

In addition, each unit or public authority shall establish and maintain any other funds required by other statutes or by State or federal regulations.

(c)        Basis of Accounting. – Except as otherwise provided by regulation of the Commission, local governments and public authorities shall use the modified accrual basis of accounting in recording transactions.

(d)       Encumbrance Systems. – Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, no local government or public authority is required to record or show encumbrances in its accounting system. Each city or town with a population over 10,000 and each county with a population over 50,000 shall maintain an accounting system that records and shows the encumbrances outstanding against each category of expenditure appropriated in its budget

ordinance. Any other local government or any public authority may record and show encumbrances in its accounting system. In determining a unit’s population, the most recent federal decennial census shall be used.

(e)        Commission Regulations. – The Commission may prescribe rules and regulations having the force of law as to:

(1)        Features of accounting systems to be maintained by local governments and

public authorities.

(2)       Bases of accounting, including identifying in detail the characteristics of a modified accrual basis, identifying what revenues are susceptible to accrual, and permitting or requiring use of a basis other than modified accrual in a fund that does not account for the receipt of a tax.

(3)       Definitions of terms not clearly defined in this Article.

The Commission may vary these rules and regulations according to any other criteria reasonably related to the purpose or complexity of the financial operations involved. (1971, c. 780, s. 1; 1975, c. 514, ss. 11, 16; 1979, c. 402, s. 6; 1981, c. 685, ss. 6, 7; 1987, c. 796, s. 3(6).)

Maximum Time Allowed

All aspects of the project will be completed no later than June 31st, 2020.

Questions and Clarifications; Addenda

Questions and requests for clarification regarding this RFP must be submitted in writing. To be considered, all questions and requests must be received by 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, on 01/24/2020. The Town reserves the right to revise this RFP at any time before the due date. Such revisions, if any, will be announced by addenda to this RFP. The Town of Montreat will answer questions and requests for clarification and post the answers to the Town’s website:

Conflicts of Interest

The Submitter’s attention is directed to N.C.G.S. 14-234, which prohibits public officers or employees from benefitting from public contracts. In addition, The Town of Montreat has a policy regarding Conflicts of Interest. A copy of this policy is available upon request. The Submitter is prohibited from receiving any advice or discussing any aspect relating to the Project or the procurement of the Project with any person or entity with a conflict of interest.

The Submitter agrees that, if after award, a conflict of interest is discovered, the Submitter must make an immediate and full written disclosure to Town of Montreat that includes a description of the action that the Submitter has taken or proposes to take to avoid or mitigate such conflicts. If a conflict of interest is determined to exist, the Town may, at its discretion, cancel the contract for the Project. If the Submitter was aware of a conflict of interest prior to the award of the contract and did not disclose the conflict to the Town of Montreat, the Town may terminate the contract for default.

Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE)

It is the policy of the Town of Montreat that Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs), as defined in N.C.G.S. 143-128.2, and other small businesses shall have the maximum feasible opportunity to participate in contracts financed in whole or in part with public funds. Consistent with this policy, the Town of Montreat will not allow any person or business to be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or otherwise be discriminated against in connection with the award and performance of any contract because of sex, race, religion, or national origin.

E-Verify Employer Compliance

Contractors and their subcontractors with twenty-five (25) or more employees as defined in Article 2 of Chapter 65 of the NC General Statutes must comply with E-verify requirements to contact with governmental units. E-Verify is a Federal program operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies, or any successor or equivalent program used to verify the work authorization of newly hired employees pursuant to federal law. Please understand that Contractors, as defined above, must use E-Verify. Therefore, all contractors must be in compliance with the E-Verify requirements to enter into contracts with the Town of Montreat. An E-Verify certification form is included in the vendor application packet and must be submitted for the submittal to be considered.

Iran Divestment Act Compliance

Pursuant to N.C.G.S. 147-86.59, any person identified as engaging in investment activities in Iran, determined by appearing on the Final Divestment List created by the State Treasurer pursuant to G.S. 147-86.58, is ineligible to contract with the State of North Carolina or any political subdivision of the State.

Time Schedule for Submitting Request for Proposals

Request for Proposal packages will be received by Darlene Carrasquillo, Finance Director until January 31, 2020 at 5 p.m. Submittals may be received by email or physical mail, but must include a copy in pdf format. All envelopes, email subject lines, and/or fax coversheets should be clearly identified with the words “RESPONSE TO RFP FOR FINANCIAL SOFTWARE.”

Contact Information:

Darlene Carrasquillo

Finance Director

The Town of Montreat

PO Box 423

Montreat, NC 28757

Phone: 828-669-8002

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Cyberduck Mountain Duck CLI

Version 37 (modified by dkocher, on Jun 23, 2019 at 7:56:07 PM) (diff)

Cyberduck Help / Howto / Backblaze B2

B2 Cloud Storage. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage works similar to Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure, allowing you to store unlimited data in the cloud. But does it for 1/4th the cost.

Connecting to Backblaze B2

Obtain the login credentials from Choose Account ID & Application Key from B2 Cloud Storage Buckets. Once you have your credentials, choose B2 Cloud Storage from the list of protocols when editing a bookmark or use the b2:// scheme when using the CLI.

Authenticating using master key

Use your Account ID and Master Application Key to login.

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European Cruise: Day 12 Corfu

Greece!!!!! We are in port from 8am to 4:30pm. I have a half day excursion planned with Carra’s grandma. We are taking an island drive and are going to tour the Koum Kouat Distillery, yep! I am getting my drink on! They distil some kind of Grecian citrus alcohol. Mmmmmm. And since I am too broke to eat a big lunch this means when I get back to the ship to wonder around on my own i’ll be walking around Greece drunk hahaha.

On our way!!

Is that not a crazy beautiful sight??!!

I put my feet in the Ionian sea!!!! Didn’t even know that was a thing

More beautiful-ness!!

Their local coffee drink, called a frape lol, was interesting. It was both sweet and bitter at the same time.

Old town Corfu was beautiful!!!

After the tour i wandered around and had an espresso, of course

Just before getting back on the boat.

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Stitch Fix for Europe!!!

Good morning!!!

Europe is coming up quick and after asking my roommate about her packing situation and realizing we have 2 formal dinners on the cruise I thought I might need a little more style to add to my wardrobe for the trip. So I my clothes will be have stylish have workout clothes hahaha. I ordered a stichfix and for the first time gave them a dollar amount that I needed to stay with and they totally listened! She was actually $1 under my budget! I was impressed. But I won’t be keeping the whole box unfortunately. I wish they gave you like 10 things instead of 5. But here is what was in the box:

This necklace is actually on point for my style but so much so that I have at least 2 necklaces that are pretty similar hahaha.

This doesn’t wow me or unwow me. I have been starting to lose weight so in another 10lbs it will look totally cute but I have a few things in this style already.

LOVE this shirt, it is cute and comfy and has Polka Dots which are totally my jam. It is adorable and conservative so I can wear it to the more strict dress code places in Europe like Vatican City. and it is loose a breezy so I shouldn’t be dying on a hot day. This is definitely a keeper.

This dress is the style I love, its empire waist-like and its a dark green color which I love, it would be great in fall with leggings and boots and I like the neckline design, it makes it cute but still classy because it doesn’t really show cleavage. But again I have a dress pretty similar to this so I unfortunately don’t need to spend the extra money on something similar.

The fifth piece is this kimono cover thing. I don’t hate it but I don’t love it. I can see how it would be cute with jeans and a tank top in the fall and the colors are great but I am not 100% sold on it. And if my first thought isn’t “omg I have to have it” then it goes back.

That leaves me with the polka dot shirt. Maybe I will check out target and some discount websites.

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Hello everybody, and welcome to the Trainer Academy online personal training strategy guide.

In this article, we aren’t really going to introduce fitness newbies to the PT business; instead, we’re aiming this at established coaches and fitness pros, providing insight on how to start an online personal training business.

If you are certified and have an online operation, you want to optimize; this one’s for you.

We will aim to shed light on some powerful strategies and hacks you can include in making your online business thrive.

So with that said, let’s get right into it.

Making Your Brand Presence felt

Becoming an online fitness trainer requires people to have a strong association with your brand.

Brand presence is important to capture the hearts and minds of your target market.

To do this, you need to optimize two essential aspects.

The first one is the visual identity. Visual identity is the look of your brand and the message this look conveys.

Your visual identity is centered on your company logo.

This icon needs to be unique but simple at the same time. Unique in the sense that it stands out and doesn’t get overshadowed by similar-looking branding.

It also needs to be simple in the sense that it is a familiar symbol or one which bears relevance to your business name or services.

Your logo should be simple enough for someone to sketch it from memory.

This isn’t because you literally want people to make hand-drawn copies of your logo, it’s because being able to draw something from memory indicates that it is firmly anchored in the person’s thoughts.

After landing on a successful logo, you also want to identify a good color palette.

Your visual identity hinges on color in a way many people don’t care to recognize.

Studies in consumer psychology and marketing have shown that certain colors inspire different subconscious responses in people.

One great example of this is the use of hot colors in the food industry, especially fast food.

Red, orange, and yellow tones are quite popular in fast food marketing because it is believed that these colors are hunger triggers.

Similarly, the fitness industry often incorporates blues and reds in its branding and visual ID.

These colors inspire a sense of empowerment and internal motivation, making them great for gyms and trainers to incorporate.

The colors you choose need to complement each other; having a color palette that makes sense is the quickest way to achieve this.

For a really effective visual brand presence, we suggest hiring a freelance graphic designer or simply taking advantage of design apps such as Canva.

While learning to use advanced platforms such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator can certainly help, the learning curve and time consumed makes learning design in this way not entirely viable.

Getting accredited with any of the established personal training bodies is very flexible if you make use of study materials from Trainer Academy.

Check the links below for more info to help you get started.

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Optimizing Your Digital Real Estate

As a serious online trainer, you will most certainly have a couple of social media platforms and a website.

That’s all great, but just having these platforms won’t serve you unless you optimize their look and feel.

We will talk more about marketing strategies and SEO later since they are necessary to platform optimization on how to be an online trainer.

For now, let’s discuss optimization from a foundational perspective.

The first thing to look at is your website.

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Building up Your PT Website

When we’re asked how to become an online personal trainer, the first thing we ask people to work on is their website.

Websites, or at least setting up and operating them, used to be complicated business not so long ago; today, however, a website is as easy as doing laundry.

There are several quick-fire platforms for building a site, such as Squarespace, or you can go all-out on a customized site.

We prefer WordPress. It’s a good balance of a user-friendly experience, with the optional benefits of more complex tinkering through coding options and the endless amount of plugins.

Make sure your brand presence and visual identity are maintained and prominent on your website.

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Building up Your Social Media

Social media is now an ingrained fixture in our day-to-day functioning. Once a tool for personal, social interaction, SM has sprawled into a necessary business tool.

As a fitness pro, your big three are Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. LinkedIn is great, but not necessary, and Twitter is just a hive of toxicity at this point.

As someone involved in fitness, an industry where a lot of debate and controversy can arise, it’s best to keep your nose clean of that platform.

But back to the good stuff, and for each social media platform, you will need to employ a different strategy.

For Instagram. Content is consumed at a break-neck speed, so keep your posts snappy but eye-catching.

Always use calls to action in your posts and take advantage of the Stories and Reels features.

A link to your site should be included in the profile description to funnel leads.

Next, we have Facebook. FB is great for creating groups that you can use to develop a community and broadcast important information.

Facebook is also one of the best places to run ads and get some decent engagement from them.

Lastly, Youtube. This is where you can really connect with an audience through long-format, insightful and impactful content.

Youtube is an effective way to drive traffic to your site and all other platforms.

It can also serve as its own income stream through the Youtube partner program and advertising.

Ads that run on your content make you eligible for earnings. If done with enough focus, your youtube ad earnings may even eclipse your earnings as an online PT.

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Marketing to Online Clients

One of the main things you want to be good at to bring more sales to your online table is, of course, to get more clients.

Getting said clients is a resource-intensive endeavor; no matter how well packaged, attractive, and valuable your services and platform are, they’re no use unless they’re fully utilized.

The first step to doing a good job is doing a good job; the next step is letting people know about it.

That’s where marketing comes in, and this will probably be your most resource-intensive aspect of client conversion.

To help you optimize your marketing, we’ve come up with a few handy steps you can and should implement.

1. Provide Introductory Special Offers

To attract new prospects, try and introduce an intro offer such as a free trial session or session package, or a welcome package including merchandise and other goodies.

Attracting new clients by offering them something special on their introduction to your services is a great way to develop a strong positive impression, loyalty, and investment.

While this is a great strategy in winning new prospects, try not to overdo it with the freebies. If you give away too much value for free, the value will erode, and people will see your services as inferior or disposable.

Too many freebies also disincentivize people from committing and adhering to your plans and programs. Since they have nothing to lose, it’s easy to flake.

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2. Provide Evidence of Success

Another great way to inspire others to sign up for your services is by proving what you are capable of.

This can easily be done by using previous or current client results as a testament to your effectiveness as an online coach.

The most popular way to do this is with before and after transformation pictures, but you can pretty much use any comprehensible progress metric as a show of results.

Even with functionality-based goals, you can post side-by-side videos of functional progress.

Another powerful tool for successful testimonials is the power of reviews.

Positive reviews rank amongst the most powerful forms of passive marketing.

Review platforms such as Facebook, Google, and TrustPilot are amazing avenues for building positive word of mouth.

Evidence of success can also come in the form of displaying your credentials.

As a certified trainer, letting prospects know that you are, in fact, formally qualified to help is a massive bonus towards selling your services.

3. Share Valuable Insight and Advice

In your work as an online personal trainer, content production should be one of your most frequent engagements.

Whether that consists of blogging, YouTube content, Instagram, or Facebook, you need to be churning out content.

This content should be valuable and insightful enough to attract the trust and intrigues of prospective clients, but not so much that they won’t need to actually pay for your services.

Providing tips and hacks that can be implemented regularly as well as just providing insight on topics of common interest, can really boost your value.

That’s because doing so places you as an authority in your field, which translates into trust within your target market.

Just as with offering introductory specials, keep the value of your content at a moderate level while keeping the really good stuff at a premium.

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4. Simplify Your Pricing

You want to make money, so pricing is key.

Your pricing needs to be sustainable for you and attractive to your target audience, which can sometimes be a tricky balance.

One way to avoid the potential setbacks of trying to formulate effective pricing is to just keep it simple.

Firstly, don’t bloat your services, just keep a few primary, strong services.

Next up, you want to make sure the pricing makes sense to your prospects. Use the currency that’s relevant to your market.

Lastly, be upfront with costs. Don’t hide additional charges within the fine print or terms of service bible. What you list is what your clients should expect to pay—nothing more and nothing less.

Since you are giving your clients a good deal, you can also upgrade your skills today by taking advantage of these offers from ISSA especially if you desire to become a certified nutritionist also.

5. Run Ads on Social Media

The most successful companies in the world are marketing juggernauts. They focus their resources and expenses on marketing and advertising more than any other operational aspect.

You can take this advice and apply it to your online fitness business by running Facebook and Instagram ads.

Generating leads and converting them is a numbers game, and getting your business out there in the form of paid ads is the fastest way to build those numbers and boost your odds.

Before running ads, make sure the content you promote is relevant and has the necessary CTA or call to action for converting as many prospects as possible.

The beauty of running ads is you can be very specific with your targeting, or you can cast your net as far and wide as possible.

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6. Harness The Power of SEO

SEO, short for search engine optimization, is a digital marketing strategy whereby you enhance your website and digital platforms’ visibility through Google search results.

This increases both the quality and quantity of traffic to your sites and accounts by allowing search queries relevant to your niche or industry to return with your platforms in the top results.

Naturally, when you use a search engine, you would typically click on the top results.

That’s the effect of good SEO.

SEO is executed through content sharing and link-building strategies, many of which are quite complex and require their own article.

In a nutshell, using keywords that match up with popular search queries, as well as sharing links across websites, content, and social platforms is also a form of SEO.

The use of hashtags in social posts is SEO tailored to media platforms like Twitter and Instagram.

The great thing about SEO is it can happen organically or as a part of a digital marketing strategy.

We suggest you get an SEO strategist to handle the tough stuff; as we said, the process can get pretty complex.

7. Boost your Marketing Activity Around Weight Loss Season

Fitness is actually a seasonal industry.

Not as beholden to seasonal shifts as hospitality and tourism, but there is a significant degree of seasonality when it comes to most fitness markets.

The common term “sun’s out, guns out” provides some insight into this. Spring and summer are the busiest seasonal moments for the fitness industry.

That’s because, like it or not, health and fitness is primarily a vanity industry, just like beauty and fashion.

That means when the season approaches for pool parties and beach days, people will be aiming to look as good as possible in as little as is permitted.

So your marketing intensity as an online fitness business should be responsive to this perennial trend, and you must ramp up engagement accordingly.

8. Keep It Old School

With all the digital tools and technological shortcuts we have at our disposal, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the process.

You can very soon get lost between client management software, social media tools, and all the plugins on your website.

Sometimes it’s a great idea to take a step back and focus on traditional touches like sending postcards or handwritten letters in the mail.

Many people still remember when this was the primary means for delivering information, and the value of nostalgia and personal investment is a great way to win over your prospects.

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Managing Your Clients

So you’ve built everything up and succeeded in getting a few clients through the doors. Now what?

Well, now you need to manage them.

People signing up for your programs is great, but if you can’t follow up with a satisfactory delivery of service, not only are you missing out on great earnings, you’re also tarnishing your reputation.

It takes a lot of organization to successfully manage clients, and when it comes to online, the potential influx you can expect will be overwhelming if you decide to do it manually.

That’s why we suggest you make use of a client management platform.

A client management platform or CRM (customer relationship management) is what can make or break your ability to retain clients.

Getting them in is hard enough; keeping them is the important bit.

Our top picks for online trainer CRM software help you automate many of the tedious tasks while also offering a suite of solutions for programming and communication with clients.

Let’s have a look at some of our favorites:

My PT Hub

It comes with all the standard programming and tracking features, from fitness to nutrition.

You can try it out on a 30-day free trial.

Nudge Coach

A remote coaching masterclass, this platform focuses on adherence and accountability, helping you achieve status as a reliable virtual trainer.

PTDistinction is a robust, in-depth take on online PT CRM.

It comes with great depth and a variety of features, one of which includes the website integration and customizable app which you can brand according to your business’s visual identity.

PTMinder caters to a wide variety of fitness client relationship scenarios. Aside from being a great tool for yourself as an online personal trainer, it’s also fully functional as a booking and management platform for gyms and fitness studios.

Trainerize is one of the most recognized CRMs for personal training online. It’s jam-packed with features and allows you the option of a custom branded website.

The website isn’t the most flexible option, but it can be made to work within the ecosystem of Trainerize.

Most of these software solutions find their power in automation. Automating tasks such as scheduling, tracking, notifications, and database management is the best way to free up your time for the more personal side of personal training.

Providing the Service

Now that you’ve upgraded the way you deal with your clients efficiently, the next battle is executing your coaching services effectively by delivering online personal training programs.

As an online coach, many of your clients will simply require a program they can follow and execute on their own with just a bit of feedback and accountability.

In other cases, your services as an online coach will include live sessions. In that case, you would need to set up a virtual live coaching system.

Zoom seems to be the way to go when it comes to virtual live coaching, with a great assortment of features, including having clients pay per booked session through the Zoom platform itself.

You can also run group classes in this way.

When it comes to nutrition, things are a bit different. Since nutrition doesn’t require live coaching, you have more flexibility to deal with this aspect.

Nutrition coaching does require a bit more feedback and communication than fitness coaching since food and eating habits are a bit more challenging to modify and adhere to. For this, simply keeping in touch with clients over text regularly with perhaps a weekly catch-up call will suffice.

To make your service delivery more effective, encourage your clients to make use of exercise and nutrition tracker apps as well as wearable fitness trackers.

This technology can provide you with useful data that will help make the process more tailored and effective in the long run.

What About Hybrid Training?

Hybrid personal training is a concept whereby, as a PT, you manage and service your clients both online and offline. This makes you a virtual personal trainer as well as a real-world personal trainer all in one.

This can take the form of having online clients and separate real-world clients or integrating your online client services with what you provide in a real-world setting.

You can create hybrid packages where a com[onent of the coaching your clients receive will be online, while the heavy lifting (no pun intended) is done face-to-face.

Hybrid training can be very lucrative and seems to be a great way to solidify client retention.

When thinking about how to start online personal training, hybrid training is a worthy consideration.

If you aren’t yet established as a trainer, we suggest you look into getting certified first. We have lots of info on how to go about it below.

Click the link to access these valuable study materials right now.

It’s Time To Earn

Your ultimate goal when you become a virtual CPT is to earn money; that’s the whole point of any career. Of course, having a passion for what you do and the fulfillment that comes with it is necessary too.

As for earnings, online coaches typically make around $50k per year.

This is a national average, so the figures shift based on several factors.

These factors include location, level of credentials, and the recognition of your qualifications.

Experience and online brand presence also factor in for sure.

The upper percentile of online coaches can net over $100k per month.

Top earners in the online fitness space tend to have a decent amount of experience and a well-established real-world reputation—this, along with a strong captivating brand presence, ups the value.

Find out more: Personal Trainer Salary

Conclusion on Becoming A Successful Online Trainer

And that’s it on how to become an online fitness coach.

Being a top-tier online coach takes some time, patience, and a generous amount of resource investment.

The digital economy is getting more and more competitive by the day, so your best bet is to level up and niche down.

You need to captivate your market and then keep them hooked! The use of clever branding, marketing strategies, and the implementation of cutting-edge software are key points.

By implementing the strategies and ideas laid out in this article, you will be well on your way to transforming your online PT business from just a blip on the radar to a dominant empire!

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