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Thursday, May 31, 2012

SEO Friendly Shopping Cart | Toys

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As we have discussed in several of our previous articles, when are you developing a new website it is imperative that you use an SEO friendly shopping cart that will effectively assist you in not only managing your ecommerce website more easily, but that the shopping cart will also allow your site to become more visible among the major search engines. Today, there are literally hundreds of different web programmers and software development firms that specifically develop and sell SEO friendly shopping carts. This is primarily due to the fact that these software companies are well aware that the individuals purchasing these shopping carts ultimately want to have their content and their products effectively indexed among the major search engines.

As we have touched on before, it is not just enough to have all of your products offered in a laundry list format as you showcase your products to visitors that come to your website organically and through search engine optimization methods.

You will need to not only dedicate a substantial amount of your website towards the products you sell (as ultimately this is how you make your income), but you also need to devote a substantial amount of time and effort into creating new commentary, reviews, discussions of industry trends, and other information that is pertinent so that your customers can make informed decisions as it relates to the products that you sell through your ecommerce platform. In one our future articles, we are going to discuss how you can properly monetize the content that you develop (or have developed on your behalf) so that in the event that someone does not purchase a product from your website ? you will still generate income simply by having the visitor come to your platform. This is why it is especially important, when developing a new ecommerce platform, to use a SEO friendly shopping cart. In many instances, these new shopping carts feature functionality that automatically allow you to effectively monetize your content while concurrently making sales of products.

Additionally, when purchasing a SEO friendly shopping cart you want to make sure that the proper reports are developed so that you can continue to see where your customers are coming from, and what they are purchasing. In our previous article, we focused on the development of a SEO optimization report that should allow you to effectively determine the return on your investment as it pertains to your ecommerce sales. When you acquire a SEO friendly shopping cart you should, again, make sure that the proper reporting metrics are in place so that you can continue to make determinations as to which search engine methodologies are working best for you. A well developed shopping cart will have all of these software modules in place.

In regards to the expense of a SEO friendly shopping cart, you can anticipate that costs will range from $ 1,000 to $ 5,000 depending on the quality, number of modules, and customization that is available to you. In many instances, if you intend to operate a number of different ecommerce websites, then you may be able to use the SEO friendly shopping cart among a number of your platforms. Many software companies allow you to use the same program in conjunction with three to ten ecommerce websites. This is primarily due to the fact that they want you to continually upgrade the SEO friendly shopping cart software that they have developed. Additionally, the purchase of high quality shopping carts from reputable companies allow you to frequently have new modules installed in order to further drive your ecommerce experience and search engine optimization campaigns.

Of course, the alternative to purchasing an off the shelf shopping cart is to have a highly experienced software developer produce a SEO friendly shopping cart on your behalf. This can be a very expensive proposition as having a completely custom ecommerce platform that can both manage sales while monetizing your produced content can range anywhere from $ 5,000 to $ 20,000. However, in most instances, once the project is complete you can use the SEO friendly shopping cart an unlimited number of times for any new ecommerce platform that you develop. However, one of the cons of having a completely custom SEO friendly shopping cart developed is that there may be very little ongoing support once the software programmer finishes the development of the platform. Unlike major software companies, the individual programmer that you hired for the job may not be available to deal with technical errors or troubleshooting as you continue to progress through your sales and ecommerce SEO operations. As such, we only recommend that you hire an individual programmer (or small software company) to develop an SEO friendly shopping cart unless you are well versed on computer programming and can make any changes to the code on your own. It goes without saying, from time to time, your website will go down and you will need to have the appropriate technical experience (or technical staff) in order to bring the operations of the site back up.

One of the other issues that you are going to continue to face is the ongoing need to produce new content for your ecommerce website as part of your overall search engine optimization campaign. When you are investigating which type of SEO friendly shopping cart to use, it is ? again ? important to make sure that the software has the following capabilities (from a technical standpoint):

The ability to generate HTML files for each product that you sell through your ecommerce platform.
Blog and article posting capabilities so that you can seamlessly integrate new content into your website.
The ability to have SEO Optimization Report functions that will ensure that you can continually review the return on investment you have made as it pertains to your ecommerce SEO campaigns.
The ability to generate dynamic pages quickly so that users can easily find the products and content that is available on your ecommerce platform.
That the SEO friendly shopping cart produces an automated Robots.txt and sitemap.xml files that major search engines use in order to effectively spider the content that you continually integrate into your website.

The final two notes are typically the most important aspects in regards to having a website that is highly visible among major search engines. This is primarily attributed to the fact that your SEO friendly shopping cart will continue to inform the major search engines each time a new change is made to the website. This includes uploading new products, images of products, comments, articles, and commentary that relate specifically to the genre of ecommerce platform that you operate. The other important factor when determining which shopping cart to use is how this software can monetize the content that you have created specifically in regards to your search engine optimization campaign. As we have discussed, there are going to be instances where individuals come to your website, browse your products, and ultimately purchase a product from a different site or competitor. As such, your SEO Friendly shopping cart should have built in functionality that will allow you to generate income from referrals and advertisements that can be tastefully placed on the content pages of your ecommerce platform.

There has been a substantial ongoing debate as to whether or not the usage of advertisements and affiliate marketing programs on an ecommerce platform is appropriate. In certain circumstances it may be completely appropriate to fully monetize your website by offering customers alternative portals from which they can purchase products while providing you a referral fee for sending customers to a competitor?s website. However, some individuals find the usage of advertisements on ecommerce platforms in poor taste. Ultimately, when you acquire SEO friendly shopping cart software ? it is up to you to determine whether or not it is appropriate for your site to feature banner advertisements or referrals that can produce additional income for your website but may take away from the professionalism that you are seeking to achieve each time a new visitor comes to your website. In regards to the actual acquisition of an SEO friendly shopping cart you need to make sure that you have all of your options available to you as it relates to monetizing your site most effectively while concurrently having your site listed quickly among the major search engines. Unfortunately, this is one of the issues that you are going to need to determine as you progress through your ecommerce SEO operations. However, there are several rules of thumb our there as it relates to whether or not affiliate marketing programs or advertising programs should be used in conjunction with your ecommerce operations and your SEO friendly shopping cart.

In regards to whether or not you should feature advertisements in conjunction with your SEO friendly shopping cart, you should first determine the type of products that you sell. If you are a general retailer of electronics (or other generic products) that it may be in your best interest to monetize the content that you have developed in regards to your ecommerce operations. However, if you have developed a proprietary line of information products then it may not be in your best interest to showcase advertisements by third parties. If you have a SEO friendly shopping cart then you can experiment, very quickly, as to whether or not the full monetization of your website is appropriate for you. One of the interesting things about using an off the shelf SEO friendly shopping cart is that you can make changes ?on the fly? as it relates to experimentation for not only increasing your awareness of the content that you offer through your search engine optimization campaigns but also whether or not you should include third party advertisements as it relates to your ecommerce operations. If you have developed a large amount of new content that has been seamlessly integrated into your SEO Friendly Shopping Cart then you may want to seek to generate additional streams of income through the work that you have completed. This is especially important for new ecommerce platforms that are immediately seeking to generate revenue in order to recoup the costs associated with the acquisition of an SEO friendly shopping cart or other program that acts in a similar manner.

In short, when seeking to acquire a SEO friendly shopping cart you will need to make a number of decisions and comparisons regarding the numerous programs that are out there that tout themselves as able to not only being able to provide you with the software you need to effectively manage your ecommerce platform, but also provide you with the ability to frequently create and upload new content that will become highly visible via your search engine optimization campaigns. Again, you need to determine whether an off the shelf solution or a customized SEO Friendly shopping cart is your in your best interest specifically for the genre of ecommerce website that you have developed. If you have ongoing questions as it pertains to ecommerce SEO and related shopping cart software then you need to make the determination as to what solution works best for you. In our opinion, it is imperative that you focus on ensuring that any SEO friendly shopping cart software that you purchase provides you with the ability to effectively make sales, showcase newly produced articles (including commentary, reviews, and other pieces of information), and allows the search engines to become immediately aware of any changes that you have made to your website. If you able to find software that focuses on each of these aspects then you will be in an excellent position for developing a new ecommerce platform that provides you with the longevity that you expect through the continued and ongoing ecommerce SEO campaigns that you have worked so diligently to produce through your business operations.

As we have discussed earlier, you should always conduct a substantial cost benefit analysis as it relates to the acquisition of new software including SEO friendly shopping carts. As such, you also need to continually focus on the return on investment (again, in both time and money) for your search engine optimization campaigns and the acquisition of programs that increase your visibility among the major search engines.

In our next articles, we are going to focus on a completely new aspect of your operations as it relates to producing traffic for your website through the ongoing acquisition of small blogs that currently generate a significant amount of traffic through effective search engine optimization campaigns and a substantial amount of content. We thank you again for tuning in to our discussion as it pertains to SEO friendly shopping cart software.

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Protein pathways provide clues in leukemia research

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Rice, MD Anderson scientists hope detailing networks will help fine-tune therapies

Scientists at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have successfully profiled protein pathways found to be distinctive to leukemia patients with particular variants of the disease.

Their research involved the creation of a new computational approach to identifying complex networks in protein signaling. They reported their work this month in the journal Proteomics.

With their new method, Rice bioengineer Amina Qutub, MD Anderson clinician and scientist Steven Kornblau and Rice graduate student Heather York analyzed more than a decade's worth of data. They identified patterns in the expression of 203 proteins studied in cells of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients and found nearly 700 protein pairs (from among thousands of possibilities) implicated in such networks.

The goal is to fine-tune therapy for patients, Qutub said. If it's possible to know the protein signaling pathways of particular types of leukemia, she said, then drugs may be found or designed to target the disease by blocking those pathways.

"Leukemia is not just one disease," said Qutub, who attended Rice as an undergraduate and is now an assistant professor of bioengineering based at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative. "It's many, many diseases lumped into one category. You can't use a sledgehammer approach to treat it, though that's what clinicians have been doing."

"A Phillips head screwdriver does great if you've got a cross on your screw head," Kornblau said. "It doesn't work very well if you've got a slot. Companies have drugs that might work gangbusters in a small fraction of patients, but if you study a large aggregate, it doesn't look like a very active agent. Ideally, if it works in 5 percent of patients and you can pick them out ahead of time, you put them on the right drug and spare the other 95 percent from getting a drug that is not going to help them."

It's not unusual for leukemia patients to go into remission, Qutub said, but most suffer a relapse within two years. "We're trying to figure out what's so different about these patients, and whether we can enhance their therapy. The only way we know to do that is to figure out the protein signature."

Proteins are the workhorses of the cell. Created from blueprints stored in DNA, they pass chemical signals from one to another with instructions on just about every activity a cell is capable of. But when their basic coding is scrambled, they can just as easily cause a cell to self-destruct.

Qutub likened protein signaling pathways to city traffic. "You might take a train, drive a car, walk or take a bicycle, but eventually you would get to your location," she said. "In cancer patients, protein pathways seem to follow patterns. In normal cells, there are predominant pathways, and while you may have the same pathways in cancer cells, they might also have alternate routes and take them, to varying degrees."

Specific routes proteins use to pass signals may be the key to determining their type, so it was worth investigating a treasure trove of data that had been gathered from MD Anderson patients, Qutub said.

The project began with a chance meeting by Qutub and Kornblau at a conference in Colorado on hypoxia. "Steve said, 'You're working with mathematical modeling of hypoxic response. I have a patient set I think you might be interested in.' That's how it started, and it took us down a very different road, using machine-learning algorithms and statistical techniques that hadn't been part of my core research but have now become integral to both this project and other research in the lab," Qutub said.

The World Health Organization had categorized AML patients by certain cell phenotypes, Qutub said, "but very little had been done at the protein level. Our clinical collaborators had started genetic and proteomic studies a while back and identified recurrent patterns of protein expression, some of which were associated with recurrent chromosomal changes like 'inv (16),' the inversion of chromosome 16, or 't(8;21),' which is the transpose of the 8 and 21 chromosomes." They are found in about 15 percent of patients with AML, she said.

"Patients with these two chromosomal changes respond more favorably to current AML therapy," Kornblau said, "and the genes from each of these genetic abnormalities are involved in the same transcription factor complex, creating a mechanistic link. But despite this mechanistic link, they differ in some clinical features and outcome."

Kornblau's data was precisely what Qutub and her group needed. They targeted inv (16) and t(8;21) to learn what protein pathways were common to both of these cytogenetic categories, what might explain their increased responsiveness and what changes were unique to each that might explain their clinical differences. From the mass of data more than 20,000 possible protein pairs they found that 678 pairs related to inv (16) and t(8;21) were significantly different compared with normal cells.

"There are some genetic markers that are definitely associated with a prognosis of leukemia," Qutub said. "And other things can cause leukemia -- acute myeloid in particular -- perhaps even chemotherapy itself. The way cancer patients are treated may be causing mutations and in turn triggering leukemic response."

With their analytical method tried and tested, Qutub and her team can now statistically group patients who present with particular protein pathways by age, gender, therapies and other criteria, and then take a closer look at protein signaling pathways in bone marrow-derived stem cells, a prime suspect in patients who relapse even after decades of remission. "We think something has to be unique about stem cells," she said.

The key problem with all cancers, including leukemia, is their plasticity, she said. "Cancer has multiple ways of getting to the same destination. You try one drug, and cancer's going to circumvent you and go a different way. What we're trying to say is, 'Here are all the possible ways,' so we can begin to target the intersections."

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The research was supported by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Rice University.

Rice, MD Anderson scientists hope detailing networks will help fine-tune therapies

Their research involved the creation of a new computational approach to identifying complex networks in protein signaling. They reported their work this month in the journal Proteomics.

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The research was supported by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Rice University.

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Salt Lake City, Utah (PRWEB) May 30, 2012

As the housing market continues to struggle, more and more homeowners have decided to stay put in their current houses. As a result, remodeling projects have skyrocketed in popularity as people make upgrades and improvements throughout their homes.

One of the most popular rooms to remodel is the bathroom. From old and chipped bathtubs to showers that have seen better days, homeowners around the country are eager to re-do their worn-out bathrooms with projects like a shower remodeling or a tub to shower conversion.

Lloyd Peterson, founder of the BathCrest company, understands how people feel about the look of their bathrooms. Prior to opening his own company, Lloyd worked as a real estate broker, and found it extremely difficult to sell homes with outdated bathrooms.

That is why, since the first day BathCrest opened for business, Lloyd and his staff has worked extremely hard helping their customers update the look of their bathrooms with their popular EasyCare Bath and Shower System. These products, which are both attractive and economical, have helped thousands of homeowners throughout the United States and Canada to complete a bath remodeling project in less time and for less money.

The company, which has been in business for over 30 years, recently announced an exciting new business opportunity for home improvement stores that are looking to grow both their business and their profits. The EasyCare Bath and Shower System bath remodel products are now available to qualified companies across the United States and Canada.

As an article on the companys website noted, smart business owners who are looking to increase their product line as well as their bottom line are welcome to call the friendly and knowledgeable BathCrest staff at 866-289-2607 to see if the EasyCare Bath and Shower System is right for them.

If your company qualifies, we will train you and help you implement EasyCare Bath and Shower products into your current business product line, the article explained, adding that territories are limited so any interested business owners should try to call as soon as possible.

We are looking for people and companies currently in the home improvement industry with great customer service and business track record.

About BathCrest:

For over 30 years, BathCrest has helped thousands of homeowners across the United States and Canada improve the look of their bathrooms. The companys popular bath, shower and wall surrounds are well-known for being both elegant and economical, as well as quick to install. The company produces all of its acrylic products in its 90,000 square foot manufacturing plant to the highest possible industry standards. For more information, please visit http://bathcrest.com/Bathcrest/business_opportunity

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Sanchez has no regrets about 'Idol' finish

By Ree Hines

When Phillip Phillips took top honors on "American Idol," fellow finalist Jessica Sanchez said that she believed the voting public made the right call. Looking back on her second-place finish now, the 16-year-old stands by that assessment.

Sanchez, who performed on TODAY Thursday morning as part of the Toyota Concert Series, continued to sing Phillips' praises when she spoke to Matt Lauer.

"He's really fought through the competition -- not only mentally but physically too," she explained. "I mean, his health issues -- he really fought through it, and now, he's working on it at this moment. I'm really proud of him."

And she's proud of herself too. While she admires Phillips' hard work and perseverance, Sanchez has no regrets about what she brought to the talent showdown.

"Not at all!" she insisted. "I mean, there's been some bumpy moments in the competition, but I made it to the finale. So I have no regrets at all."

With her "Idol" days behind her, Sanchez is now ready to move on a make her own music and "just enjoy life."

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Nuclear transmutation is a cool idea for a hot problem

On high-level nuclear waste, the world's governments are registering low levels of activity. The US pulled the plug on its planned Yucca mountain repository in Nevada last year. The UK has been inviting local communities to "volunteer" to host a storage facility since 2008. Meanwhile France and Germany shunt waste between each other, hoping something will turn up.

That something may be "transmutation". Using particle accelerators to convert waste into elements with shorter half-lives - perhaps coupled with thorium reactors to generate electricity - looks increasingly attractive (see "Nuclear technology: the lure of transmutation"). It is not a new idea, or a panacea. The generated waste would still remain dangerous for hundreds of years. But given the existing waste problem and the looming energy one, a partial answer is better than none.

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Philanthropic-Team-Building-Article Many of the nation?s largest public and private companies have combined philanthropy with corporate team building for years.? Philanthropic giving in general has been boosted by several technology fortunes, according to a recent USA Today article.? But the great news is that you don?t have to be a Microsoft co-founder or a Facebook CEO to combine team building with corporate philanthropy.

In his first book, Compassionate Capitalism, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff insists philanthropy should be integrated into every business. Even if you aren?t running a Fortune 50 company or don?t have $20 million in corporate assets, your team can benefit from team building and philanthropy.

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Child at Food Bank Even though the concept of philanthropic team building has been around for over a decade, there?s always a fresh crop of business owners or new managers looking for an effective way to impact their team. Everyone can take a cue from large corporations who are taking their giving efforts more seriously than ever before.?? They are making philanthropic team building a strategic part of their business because they see the impact these efforts are having.? A recent pharmaceutical client explained the effectiveness after an interactive team building workshop: ?The lines of communication, or lack thereof, where definitely highlighted with our group.? Our current motto is ?all the answers are in this room?.? Now that we have clearly identified what needs help we can begin to evaluate how to improve it.?

So where do you start?? Start with your next meeting.? Find some way to add a philanthropic twist and your team building will be that much more memorable.? People who participate in team building programs combined with philanthropy not only love it ? they remember it along with the team building skills they learned long after the meeting has ended.

This article was written by Colette Johnston. Colette is a Corporate Team Building Consultant with The Leader?s Institute headquartered out of Dallas Texas. You can reach Colette at 800-872-7830.

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As?our technology start-up, Handshake Media, Incorporated, approaches the anniversary of its fourth year in business, I am reflecting upon what I might do?differently if I were starting the company today.? About corporate intellectual property (IP),?here are the three pieces of start-up advice I would?give myself:

1) Pick names for your company and products that aren't common words.

In 1996, "Internet Technologies" seemed like a cutting-edge?name for a line of World Wide Web products and services.? I worked that year for a company with a similar name that's out of business now.??I can't imagine the difficulties in trying to trademark that name today.

I look up URLs, trademarks and do Google searches on every company or product name before I even think of launching or releasing it, but not everyone does.??A whole lot of people have the same great ideas for business products, services, and company names, too. If a company doesn't declare and protect its naming and trademark rights, it risks losing them. The fellowship of entrepreneurship makes start-up-to-start-up cease and desist actions?demoralizing and miserable for all parties involved, and the requisite legal fees are miserably hard on both start-ups' budgets.

2) If the .com URL isn't available for the name you have in mind for your company or product, change the name of your company or product.?

Don't add "inc" to the end, i.e. companynameinc.com, or add a hyphen because someone already has the unhyphenated version.? That generates confusion?in the marketplace and has both legal and business model ramifications.? You could be the receiver, not instigator, of a cease and desist action.? And you will build a valuable company or innovative product and make its name brand?URL very valuable to the person who owns it, which isn't you.? Competitors out-compete you.? Trolls happen.

3) Trademark everything from day one.

Handshake 2.0 (R) is a registered trademark of Handshake Media, Incorporated Consult an IP attorney about trademarking?your company name, tagline, products' names, everything that could be considered intellectual property and a corporate asset.? Although I showed more initiative than most, I still was "pennywise and pound [dollar] foolish" by not spending small amounts on trademarks early and ending up paying larger sums to fix problems or rebrand later.? Entrepreneurs want to pivot?because of momentum, not mistakes.? If someone has already used what you want to use, see #1 and #2.

These lessons were hard to learn, but not as hard as they could have been.? I followed advice I was given from day one:? Do not DIY?IP.? Hire an IP attorney.?

In 4 years, I have worked with 3 IP attorneys, the most recent for the past 2 years.? Having done 2 years of work with me, my IP attorney knows my business, my business model, and our industry.? Doing business with her costs fractions of hours, not hours, because I don't have to provide a context.? Most importantly, she has the education, knowledge and experience of an IP expert.? I don't.?

Paying for hours of expertise frees up my hours for?what I really want to do - grow my start-up exponentially for next year's anniversary celebration.

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Sponsored by LeClairRyan specialized in high-tech corporate law. LeClairRyan, a law firm with deep entrepreneurial roots, having originally been founded as a venture capital boutique. With more than 350 attorneys and offices from Virginia to New York to California, the firm provides business counsel and client representation in matters of corporate law and high-stakes litigation. Its mission is to achieve excellence for its clients by providing integrated, responsive and timely services.

For information about LeClairRyan's Intellectual Property Practice,?please contact Rebecca Conner.

LeClairRyan is a client of Handshake Media, Incorporated, the parent company of Handshake 2.0.

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Business management courses cover the ins and outs of running a business from a managerial standpoint. There are three main tracks you can follow: General Management, Sale Management, and Hospitality Management. If you like problem-solving, planning, and working with others, you may be interested in working towards a Business Management Associate (A.A.S.) degree. Whichever track you choose to focus on, you will also learn about entrepreneurship, sales promotion, marketing, and finance and money management.

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Creating a business structure is a large part of what you will study in business management courses. You will learn effective ways to structure a business, like dividing your business up into departments and establishing effective hierarchies. You will also learn about breaking down the various parts of a business by dividing responsibility among the various levels you create. The goal of organizing your business is to achieve maximum output by arranging resources in the most effective way possible.
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Learning how to plan properly will help you to complete a project from start to finish. This is a key part of learning about business management, as it ensures that your business will effectively make progress and profits. In learning about planning, you will cover how to establish a plan of action. A plan of action is an outline of what needs to be done, who should be completing it, and how every step will work to achieve the desired outcome. In its essence, planning covers how to establish goals and reach them by taking logical, ordered steps.
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Staffing is another important aspect of business management you will learn about when earning your degree. Human resource management relates to understanding the needs of a business in terms of human capitol, and seeks to find the best applicants for available job openings. Learning how to discover strengths and weaknesses of a potential employee is a key part of staffing. You will learn about determining the needs of the business in regards to staffing, and you will also learn various effective recruiting techniques.

Business management courses will cover a range of topics, but structuring, planning, and staffing are at the core of your business studies, no matter the focus. This knowledge is the foundation on which you will build your business management skills. For more information about business management or to learn about technical colleges that offer these courses, contact Bramson ORT College at (347) 741-8589.

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The Roots of acupuncture and Amazing benefits To Great Health

The documented heritage of China clearly demonstrates how acupuncture was developed there thousands of years ago. Even so it wasn?t until some time ago, Maybe couple of hundreds years, That this mode of the treatment plan made its way into Europe. It took until around the twenty first century before acupuncture received popular natural beauty in the US and additional countries. The situation now is that a lot of study has been performed. The ancient and modern Chinese texts assert that quite a few types of ailments are treated. Though, It is still highly advised that you talk to your family doctor prior to acupuncture. Just as a broad summary, There are specified meridian lines by the body processes which are the areas for the points. Meridians are situated all over the body, And the number of them is perhaps hundreds of. The meridians are energy channels elsewhere in your system, And the right flow of energy must be existing for optimum health and fitness and vigor. The action of the acupuncture needles is to clean the obstacle to energy flow and restore well-being and health. Discomfort caused by other ailments can be reduced utilizing the same basis. truly, You can find an excessive amount of people who regularly receive this treatment for pain control. But you can find known circumstances such as help with stress connected headaches as a result of tension. Migraines are a typical problem that runners use acupuncture for, And they which effective treatment can occur. This operation can be very safe but only when treated by someone who is properly trained with the right qualifications. Apparently there may perhaps be some side effects with some types of problems, But the best path to take is ask a quality professional acupuncture therapist.

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