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...: Let'sTalk :...Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-12821180799925997422014-07-14T03:29:00.000-07:002014-07-14T03:29:09.758-07:00Big Brands and QR Codes 2014<div style="font-family: Georgia;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYI1Y3j7CSonn8rADEVhqcQXiA3w-oOcePBn6wLMTW0dbUQTJPaRCmzz8Qgdlmm4FoqswN3YVVhPkf32gFC3mmE87eLNpBpZgOzfmcz3rEg1hc2ZBSRipLgeyTZnnodgFQwPdcnqLmJz4/s1600/ab13d18101286d621db09503c65f9e5c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDYI1Y3j7CSonn8rADEVhqcQXiA3w-oOcePBn6wLMTW0dbUQTJPaRCmzz8Qgdlmm4FoqswN3YVVhPkf32gFC3mmE87eLNpBpZgOzfmcz3rEg1hc2ZBSRipLgeyTZnnodgFQwPdcnqLmJz4/s1600/ab13d18101286d621db09503c65f9e5c.jpg" height="400" width="300" /></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">At QR codes of Note, we have long forecasted that when smart phones and tablets reach saturation levels in the public format, marketing with QR codes will get a serious and closer look.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In 2014, big brands like PayPal have already invested in research and development and are now embracing QR codes in a big way: point of sale (POS) transactions by a quick scan of the featured <a href="http://bit.ly/1jij5Ks">PayPal QR code</a>. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>BIO: Written by branded QR code strategist: Rhonda Smolarek from QR Codes of Note, an industry leader in mobile marketing. Your customer has smart technology and takes it everywhere, you brand message should be easily accessible. For QR designs and their marketing strategy, you may reach Ms. Smolarek at </i><a href="mailto:info@QRCodesOfNote.com"><span style="color: #1e00a7; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>info@QRCodesOfNote.com.</i></span></a></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://bit.ly/1zAXVMN">What is a QR (quick response) Code?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bit.ly/U3KB2z">Time to Get Your Head Out Of The Sand About QR Codes</a></li>
<li><i style="color: #1e00a7;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1sdMOXX">5 Ways to Market with QR Codes</a></i></li>
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-46370004795637046812014-03-28T14:32:00.001-07:002014-03-28T14:32:44.246-07:00Vanity Plates for your FB Fanpage or Business PageWe notice that many of our facebook friends who have a Fanpage, for themselves or their business, are using the generated FB URL they received when they created their profile and do not have a customized FB URL. Sometimes we don't know what we don't know! With a customized FB URL, you can simplify the way you add your FB name to your email signature and business communications.<br />
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For example, instead of an URL like this: Facebook.com/JaneSpear49374/7565788/ref=td<br />
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Which is not easy to remember. Once your page reaches 30 Likes, this number sometimes has changed, you can have an URL like this:<br />
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Facebook recommends you consider the extension you'll use prior to committing, and create a "handle" as close as possible to your public figure name or business name. This change will be permanent, non-transferrable and unalterable. These usernames can be only Alphanumeric characters [a-z, 0-9] or a period[.].<br />
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Once you have given this some thought, go to www.facebook.com/username<br />
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Choose "Select a Username...", a drop-down menu appears, select the page you want to make a user name for. If your page has reached 30 Likes (or whatever the number required is today) a box will appear. Then you enter your desired name, FB checks for availability. If that name is available for use, terms for use will appear. If you are happy with the selection, click "confirm" or if not, choose "cancel" in order to try another name.<br />
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When you have success, you are ready to share your new Facebook URL:<br />
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Bio: Rhonda Smolarek, Social Media coach, Mobile Marketing Graphics and Extraordinary Promo Products. www.Facebook.com/QRCodesOfNote , <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">www.Facebook.com/smbSocialMediaWorkshop.com Let's have a Like-Like relationship!</span></div>
Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-48963635910296838792014-03-01T14:54:00.001-08:002014-03-01T14:54:15.912-08:00Mobile Marketing...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="goog_1209039460"></span><span id="goog_1209039461"></span>Look around and take notice that mobile device use, smartphones and tablets, are pandemic right now. It is time for smart marketing, that is, marketing with mobile strategies.</span><br />
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Share on <a href="http://facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://plus.google.com/">Google+</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As research and statistics on this <a href="http://www.eloqua.com/" target="_blank">eloqua</a> chart reveals, 70% of mobile searches lead to an action within one hour whereas it takes an entire month for the same percentage of desktop users to take action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">81% of smartphone users have performed research via their smartphone. 50% have made a purchase with their smartphone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Currently, reporting shows that 34% have scanned a <a href="http://oliverosehips.blogspot.com/2012/07/savvy-marketing-today.html" target="_blank">QR (quick response) code</a> with smartphones. Presumably, these scans went to the widespread, plain looking codes. <a href="http://www.scanlife.com/blog/2013/02/qr-code-adoption-2013-trends-and-statistics/" target="_blank">Studies have shown</a>, however, that when QR codes are branded with graphics or logo's, smartphone users are more likely to engage. Whether this is from curiosity or the perceived value from a branded code, it is unmistakable that graphics make a difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Graphics are always better than un-adornment when it comes to advertisement but coupling with a value to the scan goes even further. This is evidenced from historical uses of loyalty reward cards that have standard bar codes on them. Offers like "Buy 10 get one free" or "10% member discount" have long encouraged consumers to sign-up for loyalty reward programs. Since a QR code is a 2-d bar code, in the right marketing hands, these codes can feature customer loyalty reward value in lieu of the oft boring links to a website (Contact <a href="http://qrcodesofnote.com/" target="_blank">QR Codes Of Note</a> for loyalty rewards programming for your marketing projects).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">MOBILE MARKETING 2014, it's time to include smart marketing in your game plan. Things are changing and the sooner you get on board, the better for your business goals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://oliverosehips.blogspot.com/2012/07/savvy-marketing-today.html" target="_blank">What is a QR code?</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://oliverosehips.blogspot.com/2012/06/5-ways-to-promote-with-qr-codes.html" target="_blank">Marketing with a QR code?</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">BIO: <a href="http://qrcodesofnote.com/" target="_blank">QR Codes Of Note™ </a>, a leader in mobile marketing, invites you to Follow along at <a href="http://facebook.com/qrCodesOfNote">Facebook.com/qrCodesOfNote</a> to stay current with Mobile Marketing with quick response codes and if you are a SMB (small or medium business) <a href="http://facebook.com/smbSocMed">Facebook.com/smbSocMed</a> is also a great new site to get good info on Social Media marketing trends as well as webinar training. This group of professionals is lead by Rhonda Smolarek, founder of QR Codes Of Note™, bringing custom QR Codes to life since 2012.</span></i>Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-73039491095118186712014-01-04T11:17:00.001-08:002014-01-04T11:17:14.718-08:00Mobile is Everywhere, Time to Behave?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In 2014, Mobile is everything. Everything and everywhere. Go to any public place, work place, and or relax place and you will see mobile devices (smart phones and tablets) in use. Mobile and Social Media go hand in hand, one is used to connect to the other.<br />
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What does mobile mean to you as a small business professional? Some timely realization is that with mobile being everything and everywhere, giving thoughtful application to your online presence or footprint is now a timely consideration. In 2014, the competition is fierce for customer experience. The customer experience begins online for the most part. You and or your business are easily researched, quickly rejected when your posts are considered offensive or you are not credible or even nice. Like it or not, opinions are formed and you are always a click away from that follow. We don't suggest you adopt paranoia, or put your head in the sand, but some skilled awareness about what and how you are sharing are in order.<br />
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With Social Media, you are your own media department. Social media is like a really big cocktail party, and the way you conduct yourself and respond to others is noticed by those considering engaging into business and interpersonal relationships with you. Are you falling into pitfalls that are considered online no-no's? Are you sending accurate and positive messages? Are you being off putting without realizing?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9vRRcGiZ6UIWFvhLCNI6LW7qYVU3jFRt6ffozhJzRhEuyM7G2hhhMll_Ia-un_rg2dX2rfrLX4ZQBIrluuNZ3NwHfurnvPiKPtsIXz7Y-exck_Xj5Xnq-zS_vvNB2UOyrELfd8Lvs6AtB/s1600/use-of-tablet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9vRRcGiZ6UIWFvhLCNI6LW7qYVU3jFRt6ffozhJzRhEuyM7G2hhhMll_Ia-un_rg2dX2rfrLX4ZQBIrluuNZ3NwHfurnvPiKPtsIXz7Y-exck_Xj5Xnq-zS_vvNB2UOyrELfd8Lvs6AtB/s320/use-of-tablet.jpg" width="320" /></a>Competition heats up in 2014. Unless you are the only one who does what you do, this is the year to be skillful, fun, and engaging simultaneously. People are using their mobile devices to connect and they are mostly into light hearted, unique, positive and relevant posts. Do you have a blend of these elements in your posts? Do you do what everyone else is doing? Are you paying attention? Are you savvy about new uses with social media?<br />
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It is time to brush up on Social Manners and Social Analytics. Social media is not necessarily a big waste of time if you know how to use it to advantage. If you are not seeing results with social media, however, you are likely wasting your time. 2014 is the year to learn how to win at this fun medium.<br />
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<a href="http://smbsocialmediaworkshop.com/">smbSocialMediaWorkshop.com</a> offers private, personalized webinars where you can ask your pressing questions without 20-40 other classmates present. We also offer small class webinars for a lower price point. Our webinars are recorded for your review at your convenience, they are included in the price of the personal webinar and purchased optionally with a class. Our class times are Mountain Time, we are in the Denver time zone.<br />
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Remember, in the year 2014, mobile is everything, make sure you know how to leverage it.<br />
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Sources: <a href="http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2603623" target="_blank">Gartner: Mobile</a> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2014/01/01/ka-ching-mobile-payments-predictions-for-2014/" target="_blank">Forbes: 2014 Mobile Payment</a> <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/01/04/facebook-customer-service/" target="_blank">7 Ways to Deal w A-holes on FB</a> <a href="http://www.mobileenterprise360.com/blogs/jimmaloneidg/everything-mobile-you-need-know-and-grow" target="_blank">Mobile Device Onslaught</a> <a href="http://www.robborley.com/is-a-tablet-mobile-or-portable/" target="_blank">Tablet Image</a>Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-2707120904587030982013-12-05T16:52:00.000-08:002013-12-05T16:52:22.509-08:00ONE SIZE FITS ALL <div style="font-family: Helvetica;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us consider for a moment that the average guy isn’t all that tech savvy and you have a tech product to promote because you are, well, a tech nerd. Do you make a product that appeals to the technologically dim, but massive in terms of the population demographic or do you design a more fun tech oriented product that would have great success if only consumers “got it”? Pretend you are a passionate, forward thinking QR code nerd and you can not bring yourself to dull down your creativity. Then you must raise the level of QR code awareness for that average guy. Apply what thinking Henry Ford </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/henry-ford-9298747" target="_blank">(Image source)</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> shared about his automobile, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I suggest that those using QR code generation rethink the notion of aiming for ONE SIZE FITS ALL QR code leveraging and put our money on the awesome sauce of fun products that a tech savvy consumer would enjoy. When I design a QR code product and discuss it among my QR code enthusiast peers, I immediately hear the response “but most people don’t know how to use a QR code”. And your point is?!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>QR codes do not require quantum physic knowledge and getting people on board with their crazy, fun potential doesn’t mean we have to be super mindful of the audience that isn’t in the know. Not directly anyway. Techies have smart phones. Lots of non-techies have smart phones. QR codes are launched by tech phones (and tablets). If you want to increase the QR code product’s potential, design a common interest product and include a QR code. The techie will “get it” and want it if the product is pretty cool. His friend, Average Joe will see the cool product and want to keep up with the Joneses and he will figure out the QR code thing. Which again, is not an advanced rocket science brain application and we can do better than simply using QR codes to go to an URL. Especially a non mobile friendly URL which is even worse than going to an URL that lacks value for the scanner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So can we stop treating QR codes like the public can’t figure them out? The average guy may not get them right away, but this doesn’t mean he can not understand them. Attach a QR code to something wonderful and let the games begin!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Written by: Rhonda Smolarek; QR code designer, social media coach, strategist, technology nerd. Find her online at QRCodesOfNote.com or Facebook.com/QRCodesOfNote or LinkedIn.com/in/RhondaSmolarek or AlphaSutraPress.com or at </i></span><span style="color: #0045df; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Etsy.com where you can purchase a holiday card like this featuring your own memories: </i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Epifanies?ref=shop_sugg">Epifanies</a></i></span></span></span></div>
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-62149441071683272002013-10-31T09:15:00.002-07:002013-11-04T11:43:55.896-08:00Why People Who Say “QR Codes Are Dead” Should Like Crow<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDmnGkhX7G90dUOsKkPdhj0FvQUhd21yFLd11J_Ol_pAK0av1eCfMi2PfNfbhwvnywTHDOiOaA8THRMbmXmqPiY4Y67lZ9LQukJ8rV2VZK0q5O9Y-jpBOvN15GP-Yno7IKjUYMyuwt7DX/s1600/starbucks_QR_codes_vote(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDmnGkhX7G90dUOsKkPdhj0FvQUhd21yFLd11J_Ol_pAK0av1eCfMi2PfNfbhwvnywTHDOiOaA8THRMbmXmqPiY4Y67lZ9LQukJ8rV2VZK0q5O9Y-jpBOvN15GP-Yno7IKjUYMyuwt7DX/s200/starbucks_QR_codes_vote(2).jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">I commonly research QR (Quick Response) codes online. Why? Because I am patiently waiting for the North American senses to grow sharper. QR code products and marketing are just amazing in other countries! Who am I? I am an artist with a computer programming history and I design compelling Quick Response codes at QR Codes Of Note™. Yes, visually these codes are far more intriguing than that generic black and white square you see hiding like a dull wall flower in the bottom of adds, but more importantly, graphic codes know how to “Make Friends and Influence People” (my nod to Dale Carnegie). </span></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">QR code: Starbucks </i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxyf2e0eu9aRAw5Vqyu83C7n_ZimFJ7kgkoeraFs4_d8c-0-gpWwbc794ku3XqplkyR8GoFnHkGjXaXQOdEC-xcS-pLH-b6VfRI2J3LKcHJocLN0rDLI8ObUVS4ZcCgiG4ipgeDL55pr5p/s1600/Qlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxyf2e0eu9aRAw5Vqyu83C7n_ZimFJ7kgkoeraFs4_d8c-0-gpWwbc794ku3XqplkyR8GoFnHkGjXaXQOdEC-xcS-pLH-b6VfRI2J3LKcHJocLN0rDLI8ObUVS4ZcCgiG4ipgeDL55pr5p/s320/Qlogo.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is why people who pronounce “QR codes are dead” need to be fond of crow: <a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/eat+crow" target="_blank">Crow is exactly what they will be eating! </a>Their reports are premature. QR codes as a marketing tool have been in their infancy stage here in North America, they haven’t reached their potential. I don’t know about you, but I did not have much success when I was an infant yet years later I really hit my stride. QR codes will, too. People who say these incredible, mobile launched icons won’t be phenominal clearly do not understand the full scope of the QR code range. </span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">We test scan our QR codes with the free scan app: i-nigma and invite your scans. QRCodesOfNote.com </span></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A QR code can activate just about any feature your smart phone or tablet device can perform. QR codes can instantly position a pre-composed tweet, give map directions, save your date to a calendar, play music and video, and I could go on because this is a tool that is only limited by your imagination. If you copy everyone and keep it plain in looks and typical in destination, you will continue to get a resounding FAIL in your marketing with QR codes.</span></span></div>
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-51713791094855743462013-07-26T10:52:00.001-07:002013-07-26T11:00:39.293-07:00 OLDSTER<br />
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<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is age 40+</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pays 100’s of dollars yearly and several hours a month to belong to a leads group for the privilege of networking with the same 20 people every week and refuses to learn how to use LinkedIn</span></span></li>
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<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">May belong to a leads group but uses LinkedIn for <b>free </b>to get business leads whenever he wants as opposed to when he gets lucky at his business group</span></span></li>
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<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The typical salary of a LinkedIn user is 100,000+</span></span></li>
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<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">No one on LinkedIn cares about what you had for lunch so you don’t have to inform them with constant updates about your day</span></span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rhonda Smolarek is a marketer and speaker who writes and trains old people (like herself) to use social media platforms to generate business leads. Register for her social media webinars at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://smbSocialMediaWorkshop.com/">smbSocialMediaWorkshop.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-89410203749093455832013-06-27T13:49:00.003-07:002013-06-27T13:49:27.227-07:00Handling Customers on Social Media<br />
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When an untrained business professional begins a Social Media presence, one of the first things s/he does is post sales messages. The next thing they do is log off. Both activities are a colossal FAIL. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1. A business using Social Media needs to be mindful that people are using Social Media as a social tool. Social Media is like a little party that is always going and people pop in and out. Would you interrupt a live party to broadcast your commercial? If you did, people would want you to leave. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">On Social Media, there is a word for that, it is called an "Un-Follow" and that is exactly what people will do to your business page.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">2. You posted a sale and then you logged off? Now I ask you: is that being "social"? Would you "Like" (the facebook coveted marketing attention getter) a person if they came to your party and handed out their business card and then immediately left? What if someone had a question aobut your product or service? You would not be there to respond. If you returned 3 days later, the moment would be lost.</span></div>
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-68535217615762647872013-05-28T04:34:00.003-07:002013-05-28T04:34:53.206-07:00Facebook-ing Is Networking<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let’s say you have bought table or booth space at an event and realize that you are not seeing any new faces. The crowd is made up mostly of your networking croonies. You ask yourself every time: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Q: Why do I keep doing this when I am not getting great results? </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A: You do it because you don’t know another way.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You hear your friend Mike talking about Facebook but you are not interested in social media because networking is your thing. Dude! Facebook is networking!! <a href="http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/by-the-numbers-17-amazing-facebook-stats/"><span style="color: #1e00a7; letter-spacing: 0px;">The average person on Facebook has about 141.5 friends</span></a>. I have more and so do many of my friends but let’s move on. You have the business cards of people in your networking group so let us say you discover 50 of them that are using Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Without paying for another table and spending another evening or weekend, and only using Facebook (which is free, by the way) you could be introducing your product/service to <b>7,075 new people</b>. You still think you don’t want to bother with Social Media? You still get to do the the whole table/booth renting thing if you want to, if only to collect people for your facebook campaign (Have people drop cards for a drawing!)</span><br />
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-81058910643201245962013-05-20T08:00:00.000-07:002013-05-20T08:00:07.073-07:003 Ways to Get More Likes & Engagement on Facebook<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even though the average FB user checks status 14 times a day, s/he is actually busy and simultaneously interested in participating in something entertaining. Make interaction simple by asking questions that do not require a lot of thinking for a response. Try questions like would you prefer this food over the other, ask if you are ready for the weekend. This tip is not suggested for every post, but it is a great method to encourage some quick likes and even response.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Calls to action are great - they make it easier for people to know what you want and many times people comply. Try “Click “like” if you can’t wait to see latest ____” inserting something your audience can relate to. Don’t over use this strategy. Try keeping it encouraging with “it’s easy to share this by clicking that share button”.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You want to post something that people will share so you need to seek images of things that are interesting or humorous. Otherwise, sharing is not going to happen. Images that catch the eye are great for posting. Find something delightful by searching Google or Bing for example for humor/funny.</span></div>
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-61435574580683897992013-05-13T03:08:00.000-07:002013-05-13T03:08:08.476-07:005 Things You Are Doing Wrong on Facebook<br />
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<li style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>You don’t have a Facebook Fan (Business, Company) Page.</b> Many of you sign on to Facebook because you want to do business but you do not know there are pages for business that show how many people saw your post or any of the other helpful graphs and analytical tools that Facebook offers to help improve the effectiveness of your reach.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>You are not using Facebook. </b>You do not use Facebook to post regularly. You do not add content. You are not being someone people can relate to. You are not being engaging. More engagement on Facebook adds up to more people who will engage with you which in turn equals more success for you. You must start using Facebook.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>You do not make it easy to like you. </b>The Facebook like button and opportunity is something that you should be including on your business card, your blog, your website and/or landing page. You should have a call to action that requests to be liked. </span></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>You do not share the love. </b>If it’s all about you, you are turning people off. For example, you only use Facebook to announce your product or event: we mean you. People are on social media to engage and not to feel used. You love it when someone likes your post and the same is true for other people and their businesses.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>You are not posting interesting content and links from others.</b> If you find some content interesting, share it. Your fans will appreciate it. Share exciting new trends and links to similar interests and you become a resource of information.</span></li>
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-72990875809905739162013-04-26T12:54:00.000-07:002013-04-26T16:54:32.442-07:00SoLoMo and QR Codes<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">SoLoMo </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">is the new buzz word for to pay attention to if you want to engage consumers. SoLoMo refers to the American shopping trend. Shop socially, search locally and do it all using mobile devices (smart phones, iPads and tablets).</span> </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you are <i>not</i> tuned in to the SoLoMo thing you will quickly be left behind according to current (2013) research by <a href="http://www.eventility.com/"><span style="color: #1e00a7; letter-spacing: 0px;">Eventility</span></a>, and event promoting entity. </span></div>
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<li style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eventility highlights 97% of consumers now search for local businesses online. Remember, smart phones are used for online searches. </span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The biggest attention getter: 78% of small businesses now receive 1/4 of their new customers from <b>so</b>cial media.</span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This article aims to respect your intelligence, rather than telling you what to think, here are numbers and sources to help you decide for yourself. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: blue;">To quote </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Mark Twain: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The May 2013 <b><a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/index.html" target="_blank">Entrepreneur</a></b> magazine, a credible source, in their SoLoMo print magazine article, reports that Apple and Starbucks are using currently harnessing QR codes for purchases. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When big names talk, they lend cred to QR codes because these generally do research on their own and determine what is effective and therefore relevant.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My source, the Chief Marketer, in a 2012 mobile marketing survey determined: 51% of all print ads contain a QR code. Below are examples of QR code use by big brands in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/02/13/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-lexus/">Swimsuit Models Come to Life Via QR Codes in Lexus Print Ad</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.luxurydaily.com/maserati-enhances-print-ad-with-optimized-qr-code-content/">Maserati enhances print ad with optimized QR code content</a></span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Back to SoLoMo: regarding the QR (quick response) route, do you know that <a href="http://livepage.apple.com/"><span style="color: #1e00a7; letter-spacing: 0px;">129 million Americans own a mobile device</span></a> ? They are using their mobiles recreationally and because they are fun toys. If you have an attractive and prominently placed QR code that makes an offer, you compel the consumer to take out their beloved toy and investigate. If you hide some generic, selfish QR code in a bottom corner with no offer besides the joy of visiting your website, well, frankly you deserve to go overlooked. When people tell me QR codes are not effective, and I consider myself an expert, I can quickly sum up the problem: it is not the QR code that is the problem it is the marketing that is the problem. If you want a fish to ride a bicycle and it can’t, is something wrong with the fish? It doesn’t take an Einstein to figure that out. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">SoLoMo. <b>Social</b> networks are accessed by <b>mobile</b> media to dine, purchase, hire and shop <b>locally</b>. I bet you feel smarter about your marketing. Bank on boosting your SoLoMo with a branded QR (quick response) code created by a professional to get the intelligent marketing your business deserves. </span></div>
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The next time some rigid oldster tells you that QR codes are dead, be sure to help him or her across the street. Or if it is some microscopic blogger telling you QR codes have faded, ask them for the facts that support their article. We all know that a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth even puts it's pants on and opinions are not facts.</div>
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<span style="color: #1e00a7; letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://qrcodesofnote.com/">QRCodesOfNote.com</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> brings you this intelligent article.</span></div>
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-73985102275936575592013-04-17T11:48:00.002-07:002013-04-17T11:48:18.978-07:00SMO and SEO<h2>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>SMO </b>stands for<b> Social Media Optimization</b> and it is the process used to increase awareness of a brand through the use of social media outlets and communities. The sharing of your content generates awareness of your brand, service, product or event. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As a business, you want people to see your message and helping people easily view your content through entry points like QR (quick response) codes gets people to your website and any other online destination you have in mind. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Social networks (such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest) drive traffic to websites in ever increasing amounts. Search engines are utilizing the recommendations of social network platforms to rank pages in search engine results (the process of SEO) so when a page gets a like, it is seen as a vote for that pages quality. Using a branded QR code improves your SMO and increases your SEO.</span><br />
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While chatting recently with a Juice Plus representative, I noticed she had colorful key chain fobs dangling with small Juice Plus containers. I inquired about them and she smiled. This lady was paying for her QR code design at the time and she went on to tell me how those small containers have provided so many opportunities to begin a conversation with people, some of whom go on to become customers and more. I knew immediately why I did not have to tell her about the benefits of graphic QR codes because they have the same advantage and more. <br />
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Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-37894812066750061272013-01-13T11:21:00.003-08:002013-01-13T12:15:12.593-08:00TIME TO GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yes, yes, QR codes have had a very bland induction, where they sent scanners on a pointless journey, usually to an URL. They were babies; you experimented when you were young, too, and you were also forgiven and then taken seriously when you were no longer wet behind the ears. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>QR (quick response) codes are scannable images containing embedded information that loads onto smart phones and mobile devices when scanned with an app like i-nigma (which is free, by the way). Your purchases are scanned at retail stores this same way but using a bar code reader.</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">New technology can be great but admittedly also a little vague and sometimes even intimidating. The profitability factor of adding a custom QR code to your marketing in this era where over 75% of the population is holding a smart phone: staggering! You see, a plain, black and white QR code is easy to ignore. You know because you do it all the time. Try to pass by something like this. You know you are curious to know what this code does. So are consumers and potential clients. Add one to your business card and suddenly you don’t have to get all sale-sy. Include one at the end of your presentation and incredibly, you can increase sales because your audience is flowing with the momentum! Put one on your vehicle and wherever you park people can tune in to the video you have in your custom QR code. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">See a professional about branding a QR code for you. A custom campaign will be developed around your goals and you will find yourself suddenly and easily in the present and out of the sand. QRCodesOfNote.com creates custom, graphic QR codes that scan super-quick, track the number of scans received at different locations, and can change your message without redesigning your QR code. Call a friendly professional today at: 719/428-5451. Email: <a href="mailto:QRCofNote@gmail.com"><span style="color: #1e00a7; letter-spacing: 0px;">QRCofNote@gmail.com</span></a> and get your questions answered. </span></div>
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<br />Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-58310844530522431172012-12-31T08:52:00.002-08:002012-12-31T11:45:43.003-08:00DISMISSED?<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> While having a debate over QR codes with a witty, albeit unarmed nay sayer, I learned some opinions against QR codes. Chris was his name and he pronounced vehemently that QR codes “blew it!” and that people don’t scan them anymore. He even backed this up with facts that he collected from an entire one person: himself. I listened and took mental notes because Chris’ boldness represents the polite folks who may be thinking what he is thinking. I recognized that Chris and others have been unimpressed with prior QR code experiences but were very aware of their potential. If he were indifferent with QR codes I would have believed him a degree more but it seemed to me that he wanted to like them. I agreed with Chris on some things, such as: who wants to scan a code just to visit a website? I wouldn’t necessarily feel compelled to do that. I also tend to ignore QR codes that hide in the bottom corner and don’t provide a call to action. QR codes, in general, remain rock stars even if they aren’t largely being strategized effectively. The disappointment reminds me of this comparison: if you have an awesome Smart phone and only use it for calls; the phone is still great but you, you need to take advantage of the phone’s potential.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I showed Chris some branded QR codes with great calls to action that linked to engaging content. I wasn’t merely trying to shut him down, I wanted him to respond about his experience because I knew I could count on him to be honest. I put a custom QR code in front of him and I did not ask him to scan it. He could not resist. He said “Do you want me to scan that?” and I said “If you want to” and he was noticeably eager to. He proclaimed that if more QR codes were customized like this one, he would be curious about scanning. The good looking QR code contained catchy music and an inspiring ski video. The video was somewhat long, at 5 minutes, but I could not get Chris’ attention until it was over. I enjoyed chatting with Chris and I don’t think he minded having his negative opinion about QR codes shut down. I would have asked him if he minded but he was busy scanning all of the QR codes in my portfolio.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">A basic QR code, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://fmgplan.com/powerful-ways-to-use-qr-codes/"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">such as this example shown</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">, is a pixelated box containing embedded data that is activated by scanning with a smart phone or other mobile device. The scan launches the QR code message onto the phone through the use of a downloaded scanning app such as the Red Laser. The scanned information can offer limitless experiences such as scan incentives, videos, music, contests, scavenger hunts, and special offers of all kinds.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Encourage shoppers to scan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> your code with a well thought out QR code marketing campaign which is visually intriguing and offers rewards for scans. With the implementation of a colorful and/or artistically altered QR code, the customer is more interested in seeing what is inside the code. That, and they like their new iPhone 5’s and find it cool to whip it out and scan your stunning graphic QR code. <a href="http://mobileleadersalliance.com/home/2012/07/20/55-of-smartphone-owners-run-price-comparisons-in-store-infographic/"><span style="color: #1e00a7; letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Image Source</i></span></a></span></span><br />
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<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #444444;"><b>Screen Saver</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">. Once you have a branded QR code image file, put it on your smart phone as a screen saver, that way you always have a business card on hand to share. You take your phone with you and so does just about everyone else you want to know.</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #444444;"><b>Email</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">. Your email signature line may already include where to contact you. People see signature lines so often that they don’t see them anymore unless you do something noteworthy such as add an interesting quote. That single line wrapped in quotes has the reputation of being a fortune cookie for the mind so people read it. With a call to action inside of quotes placed above QR code in your email signature area, you can capture that same short span of attention that would be given a quote because your contact wants to know what it says! Yes, you can scan QR code from a computer monitor as long as the screen isn’t creating glare at the QR’s location.</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #444444;"><b>Mailing label. </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Mailing labels are just stickers waiting to happen. Add your QR code image to mailing labels templates and print. Use the “stickers” by affixing them to newspapers and distribute the papers complimentary to your favorite coffee shop or other places that people gather.</span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #444444;"><b>Job Boards. </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Job boards offer a chance to post your business card with a tear-off edge and when they’re gone, they’re gone. If you add a colorful, graphic QR coded message to your top sheet and when the tear-offs are finished, your message still has staying power! </span></li>
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Word of mouth is the absolute best advertising available: it is trust worthy, personable familiars providing feed back on their actual experiences with a product or service. This ideal goal is called a “direct marketing” because selling points are spoken directly to the consumer. Today's marketing and advertising has gotten quite sophisticated with social networks and strategies providing a platform that exposes messages to the masses who incorporate high technology into their lives. With advertising messages inundating consumers, one has to wonder if people are becoming oblivious to the steady presence of online ads and scrolling past, not grazing any ads except the savviest eye catchers.<br />
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With marketing: aim out of the ballpark, right? Absolutely. Your marketing goal should be to be that savvy add that doesn’t get overlooked as well as one that taps into word-of-mouth advertising. For those reasons, a smart marketing plan will include branded QR codes. QR codes are square matrices scanned by mobile technology such as a smart phone or iPad that puts your information directly into the consumers phone or tablet which can then be easily shared by word of mouth and even a cool show-and-tell.</h4>
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While Americans are slowly getting on board with QR codes potential, impressive financial increases are being realized from QR code use around the globe. In crawl-before-you-run-style, QR code advertising in the US is largely through the incorporation of the black and white message embedded squares tucked into corners and embedded with URL’s. That recipe will get you overlooked.<br />
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Consumers will whip out their phone to scan the attractive ad that answers the question: what’s in it for me? Be the gold standard advertiser and have a branded QR code designed that answers the big consumer question by offering an incentive such as "Scan for your...", "A gift...", "Play to win...". Suddenly you’ll have attention and you are portable enough to be shared and even displayed through the interactive word of mouth and mobile technology combination. Aren’t you clever?</h3>
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Comments about QR codes? Questions abut how you can use QR codes in your advertising plan? Your feedback is always welcome. <br />
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<br />Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-45616401946851416202012-06-25T18:00:00.000-07:002012-06-26T07:40:18.912-07:005 Ways to Promote With QR Codes<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">QR codes (Quick Response codes) are the dot matrix squares you have noticed showing up in print advertising (magazines, newspapers, billboards). These squares actually contain messages that can be read with a scanner. A quick scan using an app (application) like Red Laser from an app store and instantly, the embedded message is experienced on the mobile technology. Yes, mobile technology, not just a cell phone. Tablets, iPads, iPods and any mobile technology equipped with a camera that can download an app can scan and read a QR code. Therefore the reach of QR codes encompasses the great majority and so those little squares can pack an big profit jump. Remember the fun of finding a prize in the cereal box or the Cracker Jacks? Remember the thrill of finding Waldo? Well, just imagine the fun has grown-up and you are half-way there regarding both the thrill and the potential of QR codes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"> </span></span></h4>
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<li style="font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <b>Knowledge</b>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Be aware of some of the many actions QR codes can produce; QR codes can send a text, make a call, play a video, <a href="http://backtobasicsnewport.com/custom_content/c_101561_promotions.html"><span style="color: #1e00a7; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">offer a discount</span></a>, add you to contacts, launch an app,<a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_1113quick_thinking_at_salvation_army_in_plan_to_up_donations_charity_uses_quick_response_codes"><span style="color: #1e00a7; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"> make a donation</span></a>, <a href="http://www.simplyzesty.com/mobile/2-stunning-case-studies-show-how-qr-codes-can-generate-revenue/"><span style="color: #1e00a7; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">have a competition</span></a>, <a href="http://www.walgreens.com/topic/apps/learn_about_mobile_apps.jsp"><span style="color: #1e00a7; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">refill a prescription</span></a>, provide map directions to your location, or hey, here’s a fun idea: add a QR code on the label of your free samples of wine, music, magazine, book excerpt or product and the consumers enjoying the fruits of your labor will want more information. <a href="http://www.epic-business.com/mountain-dew-taco-bell-qr-code-cup-campaign/"><span style="color: #1e00a7; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Partner</span></a> your QR Code campaign with another professional group to provide a free item (such as free music), place the QR code on a flat surface (bag, cup, business sized card) and when consumers scan your code everyone wins. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Add value</b>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I can not think of anything more anti-climactic than scanning a QR code and arriving at a landing page full of words, more words, and even more words about you and none of them saying “win”, “prize”, “just for you”, “to thank you...”, “free”, “gift”. While that level of let down may be a slight exaggeration, I hope it illustrates the fact that the URL you worked so hard to develop can be overwhelming and go overlooked when loaded on a cell phone or the small screens of hand held technologies. People are largely motivated to scan QR codes because they believe they are going to receive something of value. The mere pleasure of visiting your blog from a mobile technology is a little flat, especially since if you have FLASH on your URL, mobile technology can not load it (*get a mobile website).</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Add a grain of boldness</b>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yes, many consumers notice the QR code squares but they can hold little interest when they consist of boring black and white blocks hidden in corners seemingly for some purpose not related to the general public. When you incorporate your QR codes into your marketing, be bold! Do it in a highly visible manner so that people know your QR code was meant for them. Include a call to action with “scan for...”, “Like us on facebook...”, “scan to follow us on twitter”.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: normal;"></span>Inform</b>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some people, even those who have all the latest great tech toys are still not in the know about QR codes but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a scan. Include a little information to give them a nudge such as: 1. Download a scan app such as Red Laser 2. Scan and enjoy! It’s cool to find a new use for your favorite toy. You remember how thrilled you were to discover you could play word games and with mad birds or whatever distraction app you downloaded. It’s no different when people are encouraged to discover what lies embedded in QR codes.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Get branded QR code</b>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you do any print advertising or use email, blogs, social networks or cell phones, this is probably the most important thing to note: A multimedia graphic artist can transform a plain, black & white qr code square into an extension of your brand or service. Use that logo you developed and add have your image and company name customized into your QR code message. You are more likely to get scan if your QR code is attractive and professional in appearance. There is power in beauty! A consumer will say “oh, a QR code from my favorite insert your name profession here. I wonder what it contains.” </span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We are a technology driven society</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and so it is no wonder that many people will visit your site first from their cell phones. If you don’t already have one, you are going to need a micron representation of your website: a mobile website. What is that? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The mobile web uses a browser based internet service from a handheld device like a smartphone or a tablet computer and connects from a wireless network such as the free wifi you absorb at that coffee shop on your cell phone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>If you have a website then it can be accessed by cell phones but most of the time regular websites look awful, they are suddenly overwhelming and take much too long to load on a little cell phone. If you also have flash movement and bells and whistles and hoops for visitors to jump through, people can’t get the best experience visiting your site from their cell phones.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Add a mobile website to your line up or contact me for another comparable micro solution which saves time and expense. Then you can get some of that custom QR code I told you about and then the walking past your shop can scan your window sticker to see what’s on sale, or when they’re waiting in the dentist’s office they come across your business card or ad in a local publication, they will see your intriguing QR code with its graphically enhanced flair and believe you me, they can’t wait to scan it and see what’s inside!</span></span></div>
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You see them and maybe you don't give them a second thought. You should. Everyone should. QR codes hold the magic fun of secret messages, remember, from your childhood? Oh, you're that old? Well, these have to be decoded with a Smart phone. With QR codes businesses share savings, directions, contact information, videos... but first you download a scanner app, point your camera at the code and then check out the QR code message. <br />
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Look at this image, the QR code has bee colored to match the graduation announcement and it launches a video of dear Melissa walking across stage. Included is a message to scan this code and see this special moment. I think this is just wonderful use of QR code. If you can not make this type of invitation yourself, there are QR code artists who will create the code and the invitation for a small fee. <a href="http://QRCodesOfNote.com/">QRCodesOfNote.com</a><br />
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QR code can also be used to keep track of valuables like with this <a href="http://penguinspark.com/3-qr-code-uses-for-everyday-life/" target="_blank">(found this here)</a>, just print a page of QR code labels and affix to your personal items. Yes, yes, of course you could just be old school and write your name and number on a label. Yawn. Why do you even have a phone? For calling people?! You are under using your technology, smart guy. Got to<a href="http://QRCodesOfNote.com/" target="_blank"> QRCodesOfNote.com</a> and they can create very attractive labels for your inventory.<br />
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Jessica and Terrance, a lovely couple, used QR code as part of their wedding journey. With QR code, you can launch a map with preloaded directions, include a phone number in case your guests are running late and want to call ahead. A QR code could also be used to save the date in calenders with a quick scan. In time, the happy couple could use QR code to share the birth of their little one, or invite you to their new annual holiday party.<div>
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Hopefully, now I have you thinking about QR codes. Use them in your life and be sure to include a written website address for all the people you know who aren't yet QR code savvy. Since you're cool now and know, "Hey, I could use some some QR code in my life" or if you are only moderately cool and want to appear even more so, just contact <a href="http://QRCodesofNote.com/">QRCodesofNote.com</a> to help you come up with a custom design that flatters your special event to full effect.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">CUSTOM is the key word here. The <i>quick response code</i> (QRC) contains an embedded message that can be read with a scan from a cell phone. You will need to download a scanner app, we use Red Laser. The custom QRC on the left has been colorized and an image inserted. An email address has been included below the matrix for the benefit of those not using a smart phone. More and more people are using smart phone's and this will continue to increase. QR codes are appearing in more ads.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">QR codes can launch a number of events: take scanner to your youtube video, your URL, provide your contact information, promote and event, offer a coupon and more. <a href="http://oliverosehips.blogspot.com/2012/04/qr-codes.html" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When you purchase a custom QRC, you are commissioning a unique piece of logo or branding artwork from a multimedia graphic designer. Consider custom QRC art work just the same as a brand or a logo that you would have a graphic artist create except that this high-tech artwork begins with a message embedded into QR code. Multimedia graphic artists transform a matrix into something eye catching and deliver it to you in an email. You then use this QRC multimedia artwork/message on your promotional products just like you would do with any other logo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From <a href="http://www.qrcodesofnote.com/" target="_blank">QR Codes Of Note™</a> you receive by email, a scalable, high resolution file which is in eps or jpg format. Other QR designers offer you a low design price when you initiate the design process only to later charge an additional $10-35 to email your design. I think that’s just absurd, of course and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.qrcodesofnote.com/" target="_blank">QR Codes Of Note™</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> have no such hidden fees. Your payment includes email of your QRC and you own all copyrights to your commissioned multimedia graphic design. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Once you have a custom QRC, you can use it in print advertisement, business cards, posters and countless promotional products. We can offer promotional product contacts that work for your embedded message such as window stickers, chocolates, keychains. </span></span></div>
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Say you saw some great item at the store, scan it and get the price for the same item at venues all around town or as far away as you seek. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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❧ event announcements ❧ promotions ❧ possibilities abound<br />
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business cards email ❧ mass mailing ❧ car magnets ❧ lawn sign (real estate) <br />
❧ office window sign ❧ flyers ❧ posters ❧ and more</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWJSpwzj3L2ExTcsdGWfdpGO76P9za_6fvvEm-pM1eOehoaC5fZYm0H8N6VfP8ksvq2jn321Ul1ZBnk6zSoS9KPMGn34yZw1EftdWUUcx97cKZOWswbQHV7IgLBYPixCLHAshQ_isIDwa/s1600/bCardInside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWJSpwzj3L2ExTcsdGWfdpGO76P9za_6fvvEm-pM1eOehoaC5fZYm0H8N6VfP8ksvq2jn321Ul1ZBnk6zSoS9KPMGn34yZw1EftdWUUcx97cKZOWswbQHV7IgLBYPixCLHAshQ_isIDwa/s200/bCardInside.jpg" width="200" /></a>QR codes don’t have to be the boring black and white code you are seeing here and there. We can create QR codes for you that are attention getting, colorized and infused with your brand logo. Our QR code marketing ideas aren’t just some square shoved into your marketing material like an after thought. We can design innovative and attractive marketing material that makes your message shine to your target market.</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs4urL30A239fcanMFSJX6DZ2hjTPTng30g7r7P9OnKFoBNmj3F2eRRimk3P1evMcwBIm5i5WtWN7grH9bGvMVHHhsqhhnSZtkWzr0Juq1SEiXX8LRc4_Y5ebfCD4OdhS3aABx7oVB_DfK/s1600/busby-contact-3-0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs4urL30A239fcanMFSJX6DZ2hjTPTng30g7r7P9OnKFoBNmj3F2eRRimk3P1evMcwBIm5i5WtWN7grH9bGvMVHHhsqhhnSZtkWzr0Juq1SEiXX8LRc4_Y5ebfCD4OdhS3aABx7oVB_DfK/s200/busby-contact-3-0.jpg" width="106" /></a>Once scanned, information can be saved directly to your phone. QR codes are great for invitations like to graduation parties, wedding announcements, corporate events. I am sure you can think of a way to make use of them. </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><h3 style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Where can you get a creative QR code made and then what can you do with it?</b></h3><h3 style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">contact: <a href="mailto:Olive.Rosehips@yahoo.com">Olive.Rosehips@yahoo.com</a></h3><h3 style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">or go to the <a href="http://www.wix.com/oliverosehips/qrcodesofnote" target="_blank">QR codes of note website</a> found here</h3><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Olive, a multimedia graphic design artist specializes in QR code marketing which includes incorporating codes onto exciting products like car magnets, t-shirts, invitations, announcements, yard signs, business cards...</div>Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-9052219215820619272011-10-17T09:55:00.000-07:002011-10-17T10:56:37.756-07:00CHAT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCypqxQheytWjk0_3cCF6JlktzzEB3cpkdECXPtw3B7Q4h91tVyWQBUSp7zRwwf7WfDiA4BTjQiy1HNj6VgNjpU9iRznKinYmmqZd7FvWZc9CuCn7fBek3SE0uTm6JlcaUEIl-yVjSsyw/s1600/6a01053593a874970c01348519c02b970c.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCypqxQheytWjk0_3cCF6JlktzzEB3cpkdECXPtw3B7Q4h91tVyWQBUSp7zRwwf7WfDiA4BTjQiy1HNj6VgNjpU9iRznKinYmmqZd7FvWZc9CuCn7fBek3SE0uTm6JlcaUEIl-yVjSsyw/s400/6a01053593a874970c01348519c02b970c.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lots of people are meeting members of the opposite sex online these days and having first dates and it is required that you chat with that someone you do not yet know. Even meeting people at a forth coming holiday party or other social setting requires talking to a perfect stranger. Business networking... ok, you get the idea: you need to know how to talk new people without looking like a <b>jerk</b>, <b>idiot</b>, <b>bore</b>, <b>stalker</b>, <b>desperado</b>, <b>needy</b> or <b>creepy</b>. Symptoms that you are blowing it:</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><ol style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When people back up as you are talking - stop inching forward. You are being <b>creepy</b>.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When people are reluctant to answer the question you have just asked, back off. You are being an obtrusive <b>jerk</b>. You also seem like a <b>stalker</b> if the questions going unanswered are of a personal nature.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If you find you are doing most of the talking, well, it’s time to share the mike. You are being a <b>bore</b>. Yes you are, I don’t care how interesting you feel in that moment.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If you are winning an argument and you are loud, animated and spraying your words; seriously, you’re probably being a <b>jerk</b>. It is probably not the first time either. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If you only want to talk about yourself or how something went terribly wrong and it’s not your fault, hello: You are being <b>needy</b>. Yes you are, and the person you are talking to knows it and will bolt the first chance they get. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If the person you want to talk to keeps getting away from you and you have had to look for them several times; they are ditching you and you need to know that you are being a bit of a <b>stalker</b>.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If you are staring at a person and they will not make eye contact with you, walk away. Otherwise, you seem a tad <b>creepy</b> for not taking the hint that the individual does not want to chat with you.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If you are calling someone a name for not answering your questions, or participating in your discussion, I am sorry to tell you: you are being an <b>idiot</b>. I know, you feel powerful and entitled but no, you’re just an <b>idiot</b> and others are too polite to tell you as much. Mostly, nobody smart wants to argue with an <b>idiot</b>.</span></span></li>
</ol><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”<br />
― <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6245.Dave_Barry" style="color: #666600; text-decoration: none;">Dave Barry</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Comments? We'd love to hear examples of "winners" you've met at parties. </span></i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908093635347259934.post-329531653136764602011-10-09T12:33:00.000-07:002011-10-09T12:53:54.847-07:00THE TROUBLE WITH FICTION<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><img src="http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu320/jenny44416/woman.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://forum.baby-gaga.com/about1932461.html">Beautiful model Tara</a><br />
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<div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I recently saw this photo of a beautiful, voluptuous woman on FaceBook along with an article rebutting an offensive question this photo posed in a gym: whether one wants to be a whale or mermaid.</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Many of my friends LIKED the article raising hell about the whale/mermaid ad.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">To moi, the woman in this photo is outwardly beautiful: manicured eyebrows, lovely hair, sultry lips, moisturized skin and pedicured feet. To say one is beautiful because one is slender, well I beg to differ. Worldly beauty demands maintenance, this woman maintains herself. Her weight is but an ingredient in a recipe that would still be well received by many: what is not to like about a vibrant and passionate person; their embrace, their laughter? </span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I agreed that mermaids are lovely, fictional creatures and feel this media generated sensation was a successful ploy against very real, lemming like human beings unwilling to think for themselves and I enjoyed the light rebuttal from what was likely a plus sized woman, right up until this part:</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> <b><i>“We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn’t enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies. We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.”</i></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The person who wrote that was probably kidding and that made me think that it was a jolly and maybe nervous coverup for what is true<b><i>: you consume more fat and calories than you are willing to burn. I can accept that and you should, too.</i></b></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> </i></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>That ad was offensive and I bet it was more discouraging than it was encouraging. Please keep this in mind: </i></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Helvetica Neue'; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;">“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”<br />
― <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3534.Toni_Morrison" style="text-decoration: none;">Toni Morrison</a>, <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/736076" style="text-decoration: none;">Beloved</a></i></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">Did this article leave you with something to say? Sound off in the comment section. All comments welcome. Really</div></div>Olive Rosehipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120795345128553706noreply@blogger.com0