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TrekDesk
According to the CDC 60% of Americans are overweight with a health care cost
impact of $100 Billion annually and an estimated $60 Billion cost in lost
business productivity. A Mayo Health Study points to the main culprit: our
sedentary lifestyles, primarily time spent sitting at the office.
TrekDesk offers a solution: A universal workstation that attaches to
existing treadmills, allowing users to walk and work (at slow speeds ).
Users can easily burn a minimum of 800 calories a day, (without sweating or
losing their breath) equating to a weight loss of approximately 60 - 70 lbs
a year.
Market: There are more than 50 million home offices and 47 million
treadmills in the US alone.
Click here to read more details.
Looking for distributors and resellers
Contact
Steve Bordley
480-907-6793
sales@trekdesk.com
http://www.trekdesk.com
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The Web Site Reality Check: Taking a Site
Inventory.
Many small business owners make the mistake of launching their website and
never looking at it again! If you're not updating your website regularly,
visitors aren't likely to visit your site on a regular basis, and you may
even be reducing your chances of higher search engine rankings. Improving
your search engine rankings is much easier when your site is updated with
fresh content, contains significant keywords, and features relevant
backlinks. Developing a valuable small business internet marketing strategy
is essential for driving traffic and increasing website optimization—a
well-developed strategy can also make your website more credible.
Is your site outdated or in need of a refresher? Here are just a few top
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May 2008 News from the
American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA)
New membership commitments:
With all the activity we missed one new member last newsletter: GJM
Associates. Our sincere apologies to George Mollo. (GJM Associates was
actually the first consultant to sign up as an ACMA new member.) Since our
recent update we also added Art.com and Country Casual as new ACMA members
and have received promises from several more leading firms we expect to
announce shortly. Welcome to all these fine companies!
Slim Jims to Slim Down?
Hard to know exactly but odds favor the USPS moving to reduce the acceptable
thickness of slim jim format booklets and specifying the material to tab the
booklet. Currently, slim jims of a thickness of 1/8th of an inch are
mailable. The USPS is indicating they may need to reduce the this thickness
to 1/16th of an inch because of “train wrecks” that are occurring on letter
sorting machinery when running slim jims. This issue is of interest to
catalogers because slim jims were heralded as a solution to disastrously
higher rates effective in 2007. (Slim jims under 3.3 ounces mail at lower
letter postage rates.)
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How to Make Your Advertising
Make Money.
With so much attention to on-line advertising and email marketing, many
people forget about improving their print advertising, or are not doing any
print at all. I consider both a mistake. There are some great deals to be
had in print (see mediabids.com) and with all the specialty magazines
available to choose from, it’s very easy to find your target market.
However, to make your ads pay the highest dividends, you need to know how to
create ads that pull.
So, if you currently do any type of print advertising or are thinking about
doing it in the future, it’s very important to learn how to create good
advertisements, or be able judge good advertisements from bad if you hire
someone to do your ads.
One of the best books I’ve come across over the years, with plenty of
pictures to learn from is Creating Successful Small Business
Advertising by Jerry Fisher, one of America's best-known experts. It
will help you to immediately improve your advertising's effectiveness.
I highly recommend getting a copy of this book to read and refer to.
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Five Speed Bumps that Halt Your Company’s
Profits…and How to Eliminate Them
If you want to be competitive in today’s marketplace, you have to do one
main thing: Serve customers ten times faster than you do now. “What?” you
may be thinking. “How is that possible? I’m already too busy and
overworked.”
Realize that everyone thinks they’re already too busy. Unfortunately, a
large part of people’s busy-ness is the fact that they’re repeatedly picking
things up (products, parts, paperwork, etc.) and putting them down. In the
process of picking the thing up, you have to remember what you were
originally doing with it and what you need to do next. In the process of
putting it back down, you have to bookmark it somehow so you can continue
working on it later. On top of that you have delays and redundant or
unnecessary processes that slow you down. So while you are indeed very busy,
you’re often not productive.
The fact is the slower you are to meet customer demands, the more money your
company is losing. Things like long lead times, slow turnaround times,
unnecessary steps, and sheer carelessness cost you in terms of repeat
business and referrals. So what exactly is causing all the redundancy and
slowness? The five speed bumps of business. Beware of these five things in
your own company so you can reclaim your lost profits.
Click here to read the five things that kill profits. |
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