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Friday, March 14, 2008

iContact For Your Email Marketing Success

Everybody who begins his business knows that his most great treasure is the list of prospects and customers. That is why you have to be very careful choosing your email marketing service provider. If you make error it could create very serious problems to you. You can ask me, why you need provider if you can sent mails manually. Well, it's true. You can. But there is, for example, very great possibility that your messages will be tagged as spam. And in this case is practically impossible to remove this label. I lived this problem in first person and know what it means. And it's only one of hidden stones of email marketing.

Here I present you one of the best options out there for anyone who needs to send out emails or email newsletters. It's possible to say many good things about iContact Email Newsletter Tool, but in a shot post, I think, is better if I list you only benefits you can have if you choose this service.

First of all they have intuitive and very easy to use interface.
Professionally made templates, possibility to check opened and clicked through mails, to add sign-up form to your site, to segment your lists and to manage subscribers, bonuses and unsubscribers. Not only this. You will find there great inbox deliverability, surveying, autoresponder, and even blogging capability.

Prices start at $9,95 per month and are based on list size. There are different
email marketing solutions that are thought not only for small businesses and non-profit organizations -yes, mostly for them- but for big businesses too. Between iContact customers you can find Bank of America, Ford and other important companies all over the world.

If you are looking for any easy and inexpensive way to put your emarketing on autopilot and get great deliverability, check out iContact.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

2 years on the toilet sit

I say it for years: something is wrong with our heads.
Not because I'm an old grumbler. Not.

Listen, do you think is normal
that little children commit suicide or kill half a class of mates?
That a man (surgery doctor) turns home, wakes up 2 daughters and kills them with a hammer, wakes up the wife, kills her and at the end kills himself too.
That a mother sinks 3 children one after other?
That a happy couple kills 5 neighbours (1 little child) for unknown reason?

This is an other notice. Not so killing but not less strange:
A man calls police because his girlfriend does not want to go out from his toilet.
When the police comes, finds the woman sitting in the toilet-room with her skin grown around the sit of wc-pan.
She doesn't want to go out. She feels good.

The most interesting is that she is sitting there for 2 years and the man takes her to eat and to drink for these 2 years. Suddenly he thinks something is wrong with her. And he decides to call police.

I can maybe understand the woman. There are many cases of mad persons.
I don't understand the man.

Read the article

The Shroud of Turin

In one of the news-sites I read an euphoric article.
The Shroud of Turin is true!
It's the "photo" of our Saviour!
The dating was not exact and with modern technologies they say that the stuff is from I cent. (maybe -the results will be open at the end of March)!

The very new researches say that the man on the stuff was real.
Blood ( IV (АВ) is of a male that was dead in a consequence of torture ( bilirubin is too high)

Just 3-4 days ago I heard an other notice about an other research.
Scientists studied many texts of the period and pictures of the persons that lived in the same places at the same time when Jesus Christ lived. Those were persons with curly hairs, short cutted. And with short curly bart too. At that time was impossible for a man to have long hair, it was dishonour, say the researchers.

Something like Marcus Aurelius (121-180) on this picture from Wikipedia

In fact, even the tradition to paint Saints in early Middle Ages was so: men with short curly hairs. Long hair comes later, after XIII century, I think.

-Seems I was not right, writting about it. I asked one girl that is specialized in arts and she said me, there were Christs with long hair in Bizantin art in about VI cent. When I have time to control it, I'll ad the results here (see photos in the bottom).

This is mosaic of Christ Pantocrator VI cent. in Ravenna (right)
and Daphni, Greece, ca. 1080-1100 (left) (source Wikipedia)



















Saints in S.Pietro a Corte (Salerno) XIII cent.

Read more:
The Shroud of Turin

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Chinese Letters

Photo -gift of my friend Footiam

In a documentary about the first Chinese Emperor great part was dedicated to the art of Chinese calligraphy and a professor told that there are from 16 000 to 28 000 letters in it.

Because I know, that every letter, every symbol (I could not understand at the end, they call them letters or symbols) means an other word, I was very surprised.

First of all, we know that a 3-years old child knows about 3- 5000 words, an adult can arrive till 15 000 words, Shakespeare used 24 000 words in his works. Chinese alphabet uses 28 000 letters...

Now I understand why Chinese industry is growing with this speed. If you are able to remember 28 000 letters you have to be very-very-very clever.

Monday, March 10, 2008

How to Buy a New DVD Player

Do you know what a great job has to make somebody who wants to buy new electronic device today? You want something hot, new, good, at reasonable price and there are so many offers... If you are not a good technician, it's really difficult.

Suppose, you need a new dvd player. You think about a very modern item and begin your research in Internet. What do you do? You visit a great quantity of shops, first of all, and see so many models there. They are different not only by brand. There are many other sides to consider. You could hear about Surround Sound but now you see about 15 types of it. There are about 50 (more or less) types of discs these devices can play. The only thing you are sure to understand in it is that you want player or recorder or combo.

So, what have you do with your dvd player? Visit Wize.com.
Here you can find everything you need all in the same place.
I would say it's the site of rankings. They have users rank, experts rank, their own WizeRank. All this is adorned with reviews of real consumers. Not usual "testimonials" that nobody believes more. They offer you links to famous sites like Amazon or Yahoo if there are reviews available in one of them.

Back to your dvd player. On the left side you find all types of them filtered by all possible criteria and a special page dedicated to very new releases. You find best prices all over the Internet and, sure, price-filter too.

Is it not enough to move away all your doubts? Ask a question! Or read questions and answers of other visitors of this intersting shop.

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