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  • Internet Marketing: Especially in the Worst of Times
    The Economy is bad, very bad. GDP was just reported at close to a -4% for the last quarter of 2008. Unemployment is above 7% and could hit the, previously unimaginable, double digits in 2009. We are hearing of massive layoffs everyday and 5 million Americans are on the roles of government unemployment, the highest in almost 30 years. Just last week, there were more than a half million first time unemployment claims.
  • Natural Oils in Moisturizers for Skin
    We all use and need to moisturize our skin on a regular basis. But when coming to our facial skin should we use the same moisturizer that we use on our bodies? I hope not. Moisturizers are available in different formulas for different skin types. But so many regular moisturizers contain ingredients that can clog your pores and will not keep your skin properly hydrated.
  • Applying Mascara
    When coming to mascara, I realize that what seems easy to apply by some women, can be a difficult process for others who always ask “how do I apply mascara”. All women with short lashes wish they were born with long lushes lashes, and when they come across someone who have them naturally, envy rises up inside because it just doesn’t seem right that they have long lashes and you don’t. Ladies, take heart. There’s no need to be jealous of those long lash beauties when you too can also have long, beautiful lashes. Using the right mascara will help you bring out the true beauty of your eyes by creating thick, full and long lashes. If you tried applying mascara before and ended up with a black eye, or your lashes seem to get stuck together when your mascara dries, chances are your problem is in the brand you chose.
  • Love With The Proper Type
    Studying personality for the dating site Chemistry.com, noted Rutgers anthropologist Helen Fisher found keys to compatibility.

    When it came to love, Helen Fisher figured she had done it all.
  • Identifying Your Skin Type
    Do you know your skin type? Are you using several products hoping that one will work? Most people are in a hit or miss situation with their skin care regimen because they do not know their skin type.
  • Labor Of Love
    A New Jersey architectural team painstakingly restores—over a twenty-year period—a classic Frank Lloyd Wright gem of a house.

    When Sharon and Lawrence Tarantino discovered an original Frank Lloyd Wright house in Millstone, it was love at first sight. Love was complicated, though, by the home’s decrepit state—buckets were scattered to collect leaking water and thick layers of paint covered the original Philippine mahogany. Clearly, years of neglect had taken their toll.
  • Viral Marketing – Where the Underdog Has a Chance
    A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about how a certain NBA player was using viral marketing in the form of YouTube videos and a website to get fans to vote for him to be able to compete in the NBA Dunk Contest. The voting took place between three NBA rookies; the winner of this contest gets to be the fourth contestant in the Dunk Contest that will be held in February. I made a prediction that the player who ran a successful viral marketing campaign would win, regardless of playing time, stats, or even dunks seen on television. The voting ended on January 14th. I never cease to amaze myself.
  • How to Use Long-Tailed Keywords for Better Traffic
    Long-tailed keywords are keyword phrases used by Internet users that have 3 or more words in them. An example is Real Estate Broker in Miami. This is highly targeted, and if you are a real estate broker in Miami, you would want to rank for this over broker. Why?
  • Lasik Surgery
    LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) Surgery is a type of refractive laser eye surgery which is performed by ophthalmologists for correcting hyperopia, astigmatism and myopia. In layman’s terms, LASIK is a surgical procedure that provides patients with an alternative to wearing corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses.
  • New Faces NJ: Status Green
    The boys of Monmouth County pop/rock band Status Green seem to do everything fast.

    Their get-up-and-dance tunes make fans shimmy and shake, they opened for fellow Jersey boy Bon Jovi within four months of forming, and they have already released a “greatest hits” album. Well, kind of.
  • Winter Face Essentials and Skin Care in Winter
    There is no denial about the certainties in life: death and taxes. But who say that your skin have to suffer because it’s cold outside? In the summer, the air is humid, and the driest of skin gets moisture from the air so you don’t hear the usual complaints about skin feeling dry. But in the winter, humidity is gone and so is the moisture. Your face cries out for moisture because it takes a beating from the dry winter air, and from the indoor heat. This is especially true if you have dry skin. You may say what am I suppose to do then? Since you asked the question, a good skin care regimen designed for your skin type is the first step to winterizing your skin.
  • What are Peptides? - Skin Care
    The use of peptides in skin care products today is due to its ability to firm, brighten and smooth wrinkles from the skin. Peptides help to stimulate collagen to plump and firm the skin, allowing us to slow down signs of aging. The aging process brings about changes in our bodies that many of us would like to avoid. Some of those changes includes the appearance of fines lines and wrinkles to our skin. These lines and wrinkles are a direct result of our bodies producing less collagen which is responsible for keeping our skin looking firm and smooth.
  • Filmmaker’s Banner Day
    First she lived it, then she wrote and produced it. Now Gabrielle Berberich’s Greetings From The Shore arrives on the big screen.

    Sitting on the beach in Malibu, tall palms bowing behind her and the blue Pacific rippling before her, Gabrielle Berberich realized there was only one place to shoot her first feature film—the Jersey Shore.
  • Strategies to Lower Office Lease Costs
    In challenging economic times business owners must be creative in seeking ways to lower the costs of running their organizations. At the same time they must maintain modern workspaces in order to keep valued employees and to provide an attractive hiring environment when business conditions improve.
  • The Perfect Face - Skin Care and Makeup
    After all the holiday partying, everyone with their very busy lifestyles is saying to me that they want to look their absolute best for their New Year’s party and beyond. They seemed worried about having the perfect face as they move into the New Year. We all want that flawless look and it can be achieved with regular skin caring treatments and color cosmetics to bring your best face forward.
  • Nearsightedness – Eye Care
    Myopia, better know as nearsightedness is a vision impairment which allows close objects to be seen clearly, but objects father away appear blurred. Nearsightedness occurs when the eyeball is too long or the cornea has too much curvature. When these problems exist the result is the light entering the eye isn’t focused correctly and distant objects look blurred.
  • Red Lipstick and The Timeless Red
    Have you’ve ever thought about wearing red lipstick, or what color red is best for my skin tone? If any of your answer is yes, then read on and discover an effortless way to add red to you lipstick collection.
  • Cleaning Your Home for The Holidays
    We all know that when the holidays arrive we all want our house to be sparkling clean. The holidays are not only about the decorations in your home but also about cleanliness. Decorations will only look their best in a spotless home. The holidays are filled with Christmas shopping, social events, cooking etc, and it seems almost impossible to fit in cleaning on to your to-do lists. The holidays are hectic and with your regular routine along with Christmas shopping there is definitely no time to think about cleaning your house. However, you do have to get to it some time, so here are some tips for making your house sparkle for the holidays and save time.
  • Makeup Shelf Live - Should I Toss It?
    Do you know what’s in your makeup bag? You might be saying I have lots of makeup and I’ve hardly used them. Or, I’ve had my makeup for almost three years and since I just barely used it, I guess it’s OK. For many of you who have all that makeup and wondering how long I should keep it, these general guidelines will help you to decide what you can keep and what you should toss.
  • Makeup Brush Essentials To Get The Job Done
    Ladies, it is essential to have the right brush to apply your makeup. You maybe thinking that applying your makeup with your hands will get the job done. But consider that when you eat you use a fork, and when you write you use a pen. Those things which you use are your tools to get the job done. Well, makeup brushes are the tools you’ll need if you want to apply your makeup with greater accuracy and precision. Purchasing a good set of makeup brushes is one of the best investment you can make.
  • The Creative Approach to Selling Tickets
    Type in "empty seats 2008" into an Internet search and watch the results rack up quickly. The results indicate an alarming amount of evidence ranging from professional sporting events to music concerts to small theatre productions that the economy has caused a dramatic decrease in ticket sales leaving seats empty all across the nation.
  • The White Album at 40
    Forty years ago, George Martin, the Beatles` producer, advised the band against releasing what would become known as the White Album as a two-record set, and both Ringo and George later allowed that editing it down to a single disc might have been a good idea.
  • Employment and Industry Outlook
    Employment Outlook, 2000-2010, published by the Department of Labor`s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) states that the twenty-first century workplace is a completely different environment; the future will bring even more significant changes. The BLS report examined the job scene in the United States in the forthcoming decade with a goal of projecting the developments in two key areas: percentage growth and numerical growth. According to BLS, total employment is projected to increase by 22 million (to 167.8 million) jobs or 15.2 percent - slightly less than the 17 percent growth during the 1990s.
  • Makeup and the Right Shade
    Are you confident when applying makeup to your skin, or are you wondering if this is the right shade for your skin tone? Makeup is designed to enhance your beauty, and not wearing the right shade will do your looks more harm than good.
  • Anti-Aging: High Performance Treatment Solutions
    Here we are once again talking about a subject that some of us may not want to talk about. Our strenuous lifestyle shows up in our skin with wrinkles, darks spots and loose skin which makes us look older than what we really are. But if we want ageless beauty, regular and persistent skincare must be followed daily.
  • Knife and Fork Inn
    Recipes don’t come much more retro than lobster Thermidor, named for the eleventh month of the First Republic’s new calendar, when Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have first tasted this dish. Restaurants don’t come more retro than Atlantic City’s Knife & Fork Inn, which opened in 1912 as a men’s club and was famously raided by bottle-smashing federal agents during Prohibition. Two retros, it turns out, can make a very persuasive neo. The Knife & Fork has done it by a feat of entrepreneurial imagination and daring bolstered by hospitality know-how and culinary care.
  • Sun Protection for Skin - Essential for Everyone
    OK, let’s admit it. Everyone has heard about the importance of wearing sunscreen. But wearing sunscreen is not what most women think of when they envision a youthful, healthy complexion. So what’s all the fuss about?
  • Anti-Aging and Caring for Your Skin
    Caring for the skin you’re in. We hear about it and agree that as we age, (and I hate to mention it but we are getting older) our pattern of taking care of our skin must change. Every time we look in the mirror, we’re reminded that our skin is changing. When you open your favorite magazine I’m sure you’ll see an ad on reducing wrinkles, or on getting rid of dark circles, etc. Millions are spent each year on anti aging products that promises to help retain our youthful look, or to help make us look younger.
  • What’s Your Eye Shadow Color?
    If you’re wondering what color shadow should I wear as we move into a new year, here’s a heads up for the experienced eye shadow wearer, and as for the novice shadow wearer who feels somewhat lost in the sea of available colors. Soft smoky eyes will be flattering to not only your eyes, but can also be complementary to your clothing as well.
  • Beauty and the Holidays - Makeup and Skincare Needs
    The holidays are approaching so fast. Christmas parties are popping up everywhere and wanting to look your best seem to follow suit. For the black tie affair, it’s all about glamourous shimmers. But for the office party, or the family and/or friends get together, looking your best is still the theme for the season.
  • Users Are the Only Real Metrics That Matter
    The most important metrics involve what users do once they land on your site. From a web development perspective, that is the key to making sales.
  • Internet Marketing Services - 6-Point Checklist
    Whether you are looking for Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Paid Search Management (Pay per Click or PPC), you need to make certain that the Internet Marketing Company you are interviewing includes or excludes the following:
  • How to Measure Your SEO Campaign Success?
    It’s no secret. The main objective of all SEO Campaigns is high organic search rankings. The higher you rise on those top 3 pages, the more successful you become. Most SEO Professionals measure success with rankings. We follow a bit of a different route here at Optimum7.
  • Marketing in a Social World
    Everything is social nowadays and users are as aware as ever. It’s as social as it has ever been online with social media, social bookmarking, and social networking. The main objective is to attract users, generate traffic, to keep them there for increased page views and average time on site to sell Ad Space.
  • How to Deal With Online PR Nightmare
    Controlling your business brand’s image online is essential. Bad PR can kill a brand easily and quickly online. The online world is like a time warp, what could take days or weeks to snowball offline to create a PR nightmare, can literally happen within hours online.
  • You Need Control of Your Leads
    Having a website that converts traffic into leads should be the #1 goal of lead generating websites. Getting the site focused and fine-tuned to maximize conversions is half the battle. The other half is turning the leads into sales, generating profits if your costs are in line.
  • Your Website is Already International
    The primary business language of the world is English … 50% of the websites in the world are English. The potential of reaching the biggest audience at minimum cost is already in all web site owners’ hands, they just need to utilize it. Here are some pointers when focusing on a more international campaign:
  • Combating ADD – The Online Community’s Public Enemy Number 1
    Let’s face it, we all have A.D.D. Whether it’s quickly flipping through channels on television, flipping through magazines at your local grocery store, or surfing online, our attention spans have shrank to that of a goldfish. With all of the new media and marketing out there these days, we are being conditioned to only process thoughts and images for a small portion of time. Think about it, how many texts do you receive a day, instant messages, pop-ups, emails, commercials, flyers and the list goes on.
  • Catching Contemporary Dance Events...
    For live entertainment, some might say nothing is more exhilarting and visually pleasing than modern, contempoarary dance. Considering it was only developed in the 20th century primarily in the United States and Germany, this art form is relatively new in comparison to the rest of the arts. However, it has made gigantic strides in such a short period of time.
  • Bamboo
    Bamboo’s inventive pan-Asian menu roams far beyond sushi, shumai dumplings, and satay skewers. And its knockout modern space makes diners forget they are eating in a mall anchored by a CVS and an Applebee’s.

    Owner Daniel Chong is equally adept at cuisine and ambience. He’s the guy dressed like Che Guevara—with a cotton beret and cargo pants— lounging around the front sushi bar every night. By day Chong runs his own construction company. He envisioned Bamboo’s unlikely but harmonious aesthetic: a high ceiling crisscrossed by silvery ventilation ducts, walls inset with bamboo stalks, and a slate floor with a walking path paved with sole-tickling round river stones.
  • Marketing and Apple: Are they boring?
    Marketing is tricky, especially when there’s much anticipation and different distribution channels. This was exactly the case when the specifics of the iPod were leaked before the actual unveiling, making the information at the event predictable and disappointing. However, this does not seem to make anybody talk less about Apple. They’re everywhere online; blogs, forums, articles, news and media. Apple has created a buzz and it works to their advantage. But, how are they able to keep doing this?
  • Systems Furniture Solutions for Virtual Offices
    Virtual offices, also called shared office space, and executive suites or serviced offices, provide temporary facilities for organizations setting up operations in a new location or space for additional personnel.
  • 10 Hot Performing Arts Events in Texas
    Can’t quite find a way to beat the heat this summer? We have put together the Top 10 Theatre Events for you to attend in Texas this October. There have been a lot of Performing Arts companies who have been affected by Hurricane Ike and are just now starting to get in full swing. Now is as good a time as any to get out of the house and into a great night out.
  • Platform Scales Used For Commercial Laundry Applications
    Laundry services across the country process many tons of laundry daily. There are massive requirements throughout the armed services. Each of tens of thousands of hotels must launder linens, towels, and other articles. Large restaurants may have in house laundry facilities, while smaller ones contract to professional laundry services. Schools, and camps may need to provide laundry services for their students. Many industrial firms need to launder uniforms or protective clothing. And of course there are any number of professional laundry services that are available to consumers.
  • Large Cylinder Scales Weigh Chlorine and Other Liquified Gasses
    Many types of gases are stored under pressure in liquefied form. This allows large quantities of the gas to be stored and used in industrial processes. Generally, these gasses are contained in cylinders, dewars or tanks. As the gas is required, and released from the tank, a small amount of the liquid will boil off into gas. A valve will allow this gas to be piped into the required area. The remaining contents will stay in liquid form until further gas is required.
  • Paint Formulation Process Using Industrial Scales
    The human eye is one of the most sensitive and accurate optical instruments known. Along with interaction with the human brain, the eye is capable of recognizing and differentiating thousands of different human faces. It can detect the smallest amount of motion in an otherwise static view. It is capable of recognizing written letters, combinations of these letters, and can formulate words, ideas and themes when these letters are formed into words, sentences, paragraphs, and books.
  • Day Trip: Princeton
    Princeton University’s orange and black pride is splashed along the Ivy League sidewalks and historic architecture of Nassau Street. This central Jersey treasure is filled with upscale boutique shopping, secret sweet spots, engaging theatrical performances, and school spirit.
  • A Conversation with Gary Vaynerchuk
    Gary Vaynerchuk has become an Internet celebrity with Wine Library TV, his popular daily wine blog. The director of operations at the Wine Library in Springfield, Vaynerchuk is known for his bold, irreverent comments about wine.
  • Dry Eyes; Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
    There are two kinds of tears; those that lubricate the eye and those that are caused by an irritation or emotion. When lubricating, healthy eyes are constantly covered by fluid - a tear film designed to remain stable between blinks. This film prevents dry eyes and allows your eyes to maintain a clear and comfortable vision.
  • Our Top 10 List of Events And Things to Do In Houston
    After visiting many sites and having been around the block a few times I have come up with a Top 10 List of things to do in Houston. Most of these are on local websites listing events in Houston and surrounding areas. Some are offered on StubDog at half price and others are free or tickets can be found at the box office of the show. So here goes...

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