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Historically, brides have been showered with love and gifts on their bridal shower party. Although the maid of honor normally organizes the bridal shower, showers can be organized by anyone close to the bride. To be more politically correct, couples may decide to opt for a couple shower. It is the same concept as a bridal shower, but it is not exclusive to female friends and family. A couple shower enables friends and family to celebrate both bride and groom. Whether it’s a bridal shower or a couple shower, planning the event takes considerable effort. So, read on to learn some fun and helpful bridal shower planning tips.

Planning the shower is the responsibility of the honor attendant or honor attendants. It is quite possible for the bride to choose more than one honor attendant. So, it is quite possible that planning the shower would be a team effort. If there is only one maid of honor, she shouldn’t hesitate to ask for help from the other bridesmaids, friends, and family.

Hint. Several people involved in the planning process can help, but it can also create conflict.

Choosing the right date for the bridal shower is of paramount importance. There is no rule about how much time before the wedding a shower needs to take place. It can take place several months or a couple of weeks prior the wedding day. Often, bridal showers are planned in the form of a surprise party. Regardless of the date of the shower, guest should be notified well in advance. Make sure that the date doesn’t conflict with holidays or other events that would prevent the guests from attending the party.

A bridal shower doesn’t need to be an expensive party, but it certainly can be. Be sure that your budget is set early in the planning process. Once your budget has been determined, be sure the required funds are set aside. Don’t be a hero and ask for help. Just because you plan the shower, it doesn’t mean you have to pay for the whole thing. Unless you are independently wealthy, ask all the bridesmaids to help out.

A bridal shower can be a discreet get together or an extravagant party with some great bridal shower favors. The sky is the limit, and, of course, your budget. If you organize the party, you should know enough about the bride to determine what kind of shower she would enjoy the most. Would she enjoy a relaxed shower at somebody’s house, or is she expecting a more formal party in a hotel ballroom? Does she have specific hobbies or interests that would provide an interesting theme for the party?

You should only invite guest to the bridal shower who will also be invited to the wedding. If you are unsure about who should be on the guest list, feel free to ask the bride to help out. If you are organizing a surprise shower, ask the bride’s mother or someone who would know about the wedding reception guest list.

It is very smart to include information about where guests can purchase presents in the shower invitations. The guests will appreciate your guidance. After all, it makes it easier for them purchase the proper gifts.

The bridal shower invitations can be traditional cards or even e-cards. Most people have an e-mail address, so an electronic invitation might be a feasible option for your shower. E-cards are not only freely offered on many Web sites, but they are also fast. You send them our one-minute and they are delivered the next. If you have a larger budget, you might be interested in sending out personalized chocolate bars as bridal shower invitations. Regardless of what form of invitations you decide to use, make sure they are sent out well in advance. The bridal shower invitations should be sent out about two months prior to the bridal shower party.

Food is an important aspect of the planning process, and it is very much influenced by where the bridal shower is held. If you’re planning an at-home bridal shower, you may prepare the food yourself or you have a catered party. If you’re having the shower in a restaurant or a hotel, make sure they prepare one of the bride’s favorite meals.

Remember: Bridal showers are supposed to be fun, so don’t stress too much. After all, you are planning a party.

George Meszaros is affiliated with Sweet Reflections; a leading provider of wedding favors www.sweet-reflections.com

Your customer data is a precious resource that can literally be worth its weight in gold! If used properly, it can be mined over and over for additional sales and referrals. Do you use this gold mine to increase the profitability of your business?

You should! It can mean the difference between business survival and failure.

Why then do so few business owners take the time to ensure that it is adequately protected? Are we too busy? Perhaps you just didn’t know how to protect it, or couldn’t afford the software and hardware required to back up your data correctly.

Ask yourself these questions:

Is there anything more important to my business than my customer data? What would happen to my business if I were to loose all of my data?

Consider this common scenario. A client calls frantic that she’d loose her business if she couldn’t recover her customer data. She had over five years of information on her computer when the hard drive decided to make her life interesting.

So what are her choices? Renter the data manually, if she has any hard copies available. Call everyone and ask for their contact information again, won’t that make them feel secure about her company. Or call a data recovery technician. Their services can start at a thousand dollars and go up rapidly from there!

Windows XP provides a fully functional backup utility, for free! In fact, many of the commercial backup products use this backup to save the data. All you are paying for is the user interface, the window you enter information into.

Before you run the setup wizard, you need to answer a few questions.

What data do I need to backup?

Only backup data that is necessary. Use the KISS (Keep It Simple Silly) method. Your customer database and correspondence should be backed up as a minimum.

How often do I want to back up my data?

How often does your customer data change? Does a significant amount of data change on a daily basis? Weekly?

Where do I want to store my data backup?

Most data backups still use a tape drive to store the data. The problem is that they cost a fortune! The tapes alone are expensive. Alternatives are to store your data backup on another computer on your network or copy it to a CD or DVD writable disk.

Ok, so you want to backup your data. What now? Before we do that review the table below:

Full Backup

* Copies and stores a complete duplicate of your data every time it runs.

* Takes the most time to run and the most storage space.

* Quickest data recovery feature.

* Easiest!

Incremental Backup

* Copies and stores only data changed since the last backup.

* Must be combined with a full backup, and any other incremental backups.

* Most complicated.

Deferential Backup

* Copies and stores data changed since the last full backup.

* Must be combined with a full backup and the last deferential backup.

* Middle of the road.

If you have a relatively small amount of data, I would suggest a daily full backup. If you have a larger amount of data you might combine the full backup with a deferential backup. Simple huh?

The next question is how to store the data backup. Even though it takes a little extra work, I have my clients back their data up to a DVD writable disk. First, set the wizard to back the data up to a folder. Usually this folder is on another computer. Then burn this data to a DVD burner and place the disk it in a secure location for retrieval as necessary.

If you don’t feel comfortable setting this up yourself, any competent PC technician can do it for you.

Whether you do the setup yourself or have it setup by a professional technician you are taking the first step in ensuring the long term survival of your business. Please take the time to do this.

Ultimately your customers don’t care how or why you lost their information, they just care that you did. I’ll leave you with this statistic:

Estimates suggest that 80% of small businesses that suffer a serious computer failure cease trading within two years. Will yours be one of them?

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Poker is booming in Russia, and Russian poker players are taking down the game tables worldwide. The brightest Russian poker star to rise is Ivan Demidov, who finished second in the 2008 World Series of Poker held in Las Vegas. He also made the final table at the World Series of Europe, where he finished in third place. His winnings through 2008 are estimated to be $6,450,000 US.

But some of his fellow Russians are also emerging as poker champions. Stanislav Alekhin finished second in the 2008 WSOP Europe, winning £533,950. Other notable players from Russian are making their chip stacks heard around the world. Kirill Gerasimov, from Moscow, made a splash in the 2003 World Poker Tour, where his second place finish earned him $500,000 US. Since then, he has become a fixture on the WPT, and has made it to the money in 21 World Series of Poker events. His lifetime earnings from poker are estimated to $1.8 million US.

Alexander Kravchenko won a bracelet and was a final table contender at the WSOP 2007. Alexander Kostritsyn won the 2008 Aussie Millions. Nikolay Evdakov cashed at ten casino games during the 2008 WSOP. The winner of the 2008 WSOP Ladies Event, Svetlana Gromenkova, also hails from Russia.

Networking with another professionals and companies is the key to grow freelance translation or interpretation business sector. It is also very challenging to develop steady cooperation with perspective clients since the market is overwhelmed with any type of translation services. However, if one possesses creativity, and knows which domains are demanding, and less competitive, he or she may find networking and self-promotion easier to conduct. By brainstorming an interpreter or a translator may discover, for instance that a Speech- Language Pathologist will need his or her services.

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We love to watch car races and Americans have both a love for the automobile and a love for competitive racing, but what about the future of racing with jet cars or better yet laser powered ground transportation propulsion systems?

What if we re-designed the racecar motors and powerful engines of today and modernized them with a 10-fold of innovative futuristic research and development. Basically I am talking about building the next generation of CO2 Laser Powered racecar motors which will take auto racing in the Indy Car Series and NASCAR to a whole new level. How is that possible Lance, you ask?

Well consider a diesel- powered motor, which is designed to put out good power and lots of pollution. Pollution you say? I though environmentalism is on the rise along with Al Gore’s Doom and Gloom of Global Warming and Climate Change? Yes well hear me out on this idea. We run smaller diesel motors that put out more CO2 not less and then we take the exhaust and run it thru a large number of parallel pipes which somewhat restrict its flow.

Next we put a reflector in each of the pipes and hook them up to one laser, which sends light into each tube over cooking the CO2 and use that for our propulsion. It will burn up all the CO2 and cause a significant reaction, which we can use for additional propulsion. Lets run our racecars on God’s creation; Let there be light. Gentleman and Ladies Start Your Engines. Consider all this in 2006.

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America’s most famous ski destinations are to be found in Patagonia in Chile with fantastic ski bargains. In the central Andean regions of of both Argentina and Chile you are able to find numerous ski towns. The most illustrious skiing resort in Argentina is known as by many Mini Switzerland and should you travel there you will think you are in the Swiss alps with the gorgeous Swiss barns. The skiing area has hotels, a sports centre, shops, and everything else to make a perfect skiing vacation. The greatest snowboarding field in S America is in Chile. Situated hardly 38 miles from the international airport you can arrive there with a swift trip having flown in direct from many cities among them Paris, Miami, Manchester, Zurich and Geneva.

The Basics of Plot. Although you will obviously be familiar with the concept of ‘plot’, most people don’t actually think in a plot-like fashion. As you write a book, the logical, compelling step-by-step sequence that makes up a good plot almost always starts life as a single good idea plus a jumble of images and thoughts without any coherent structure. To create a bestseller with a plot to die for, these almost random images and turning points need to be assembled into a solid plot. Indeed, if possible, they need to be assembled into a sequence that the typical reader will assume to be the ONLY valid order!

When writing a novel, the most effective way to order your turning points is the ‘plot card’ method. In its simplest form, this involves buying a stack of 3 x 5 cardboard index cards and jotting down one plot point on each of them. You can have as many of these as you like. Doing it with paper and pencil is feasible, although if you want to be professional about it, software is a better route. the ‘PlotCard’ ™ online system offered by www.GetPlotted.com is about the best you’ll find, with facilities to order cards, assign visual clues to them (such as icons for ‘inciting incidents’, ‘black moments’ etc), preview them in the form of a synopsis and so on.

However you decide to do it, when you have enough cards, lay them out in the sequence that seems most ‘natural’ to you. (If you are using the www.GetPlotted.com Plotcard system, use the little arrows to move the cards around, and preview it regularly to see if it really does make sense as a sequence of events). You can use blank cards as placeholders for chapters that are currently blank (for example, how does your hero find out about the villain’s weakness? Use a blank card and fill it in later). Don’t be surprised if new ideas spring into your mind as you address these blank cards. It’s perfectly normal for a blank card to turn into 3 or 4 more as the story grows and expands. The GetPlotted system allows you to add as many cards as you need – just click the ‘new’ button, and use the arrows to position it wherever you like. If you are using paper and pencil, insert a blank card and move the rest up (or down!).

You will also start to realize as you add plot points to your novel that some of your original ideas may now be substandard, and can be deleted. Don’t be afraid to do this! A good plot is lean, and gets where it’s going in a direct fashion. If deleting plot cards scares you, remember that you can always add them back in whenever you like. On the GetPlotted system, a good place to store these ‘dead’ cards is your ’scratchpad’. It can hold over 150k of text – so don’t be shy. If you are stuck with pen and paper, put defunct cards in a separate box in case you suddenly decide to reinstate them.

Most new authors tend to try and run before they can walk – using flashbacks is a common attempt t at this, and trust us, you probably won’t write ‘The Usual Suspects’ first time out!. Until you are comfortable with the process, it is best to stick to standard chronological order, no matter what the actual timescale of the story. As they explain on www.GetPlotted.com, it’s important to continually address the ‘why’ of the story. In other words, avoid randomness. If your hero has to be an ex-football player, why? Is it just because you think it is ‘cool’? Or will he need to throw something 120 yards at the end of the book in order to save the day? What is the REASON?! Same thing applies to scenes – if there is no ‘why’ answer for a card’s existence, why is it still in your plot? As we said before, don’t be afraid to chop.

You will know when your plot is finished. That is the point at which it seems to you that there is no other possible arrangement of cards that is better, and where every single card serves an essential purpose in moving the story on. When this happens, you are ready to actually start writing. We’ll leave that one for another day though!

Several times a year, a new writer will post a question in an online Christian writing group, “Have you heard of the Writer’s Edge? Is it legitimate?” This leads to a debate between editors and authors with years of experience in the industry over whether services like Writer’s Edge and 1st Edition, which post book proposals online for editors to read, are worth the $79-$95 fee.

What are you getting for that fee? ECPA’s 1st Edition, places the book proposals on its site without any evaluation. Their only service is the posting of the book proposals. According to several editors who’ve seen the newsletter, 1st Edition’s collection of proposals contains few “jewels” and a lot of mess.

In contrast to the posting-only approach, The Writer’s Edge offers a critiquing service, in addition to hosting the book proposal. The value of that critique depends on what you’re looking for. According to Chip MacGregor, an associate publisher at Warner Faith, “I’m not all that impressed with the evaluations given by Writers Edge. Some of them might be good…but not the ones I saw.” Pamela Dowd found out the hard way that her evaluation from the Writer’s Edge hurt her. “I changed my whole writing style as a new writer based on a Writer’s Edge critique… Now, years later, the thing that I hear most is that I need to add back into my writing more of what I took out based on that critique.” Her advice to writers submitting to the Writer’s Edge is, “It’s only one reviewer’s assessment of your work.”

Others find a benefit to the general assessment provided by the Writer’s Edge. Lin Johnson, who runs the Write-to-Publish conference for Christian writers, says, “It’s worth the money to find out if your proposal is ready to be seen by an acquisitions editor.” She adds that they give you some suggestions, “but not a thorough critique.” Rebecca Miller submitted a book proposal to the Writer’s Edge years ago and although she didn’t make a sale, she’s thankful for the experience. “They ‘graded’ accepted material, so I had a chance to see how professionals ranked my book.” She learned that her writing was good, but needed work. That was the encouragement she needed to continue improving her writing skills.

If you’re looking for a thorough evaluation and critique to make your proposal ready for publication, the Writer’s Edge service isn’t what you’re looking for. There are many reputable editors and groups who, for a reasonable fee, will help you make your book proposal one that grabs the attention of editors and agents. If you’re willing to pay $95 for a professional’s assessment of the marketability of your work, then you’ll appreciate the Writer’s Edge’s service.

Will you sell your proposal if you post it online? According to the statistics provided by The Writer’s Edge, they place about 2% of the book proposals listed on their site, but they don’t say how many were bought by traditional, as opposed to vanity, publishers. Traditional publishers bought nine book proposals from listings on 1st Edition last year. Most of the publishers that contact authors through these sites are vanity or subsidy publishers that charge writers a fee to print their book. Shelley Hussey, author of “I’m Not OK, You’re Not OK, But That’s OK With God” states, “I’m puzzled as to why authors would require the fee-for-services of 1st Edition to obtain a contract with a self-publisher or subsidy publisher.” What’s more astounding is that 1st Edition and The Writers Edge consider these to be sales.

Elaine Wright Colvin, publisher of the WIN Informer, which keeps tabs on the Christian publishing industry, says, “I have long warned writers to save their money – both of these are just another huge slush pile that give editors an escape so they don’t have to handle the paper piles or deal with manuscripts from uninformed writers.” Many others, like literary agent Janet Kobobel Grant agree, “Most editors have a hard time keeping up with submissions that come to them from agents, authors the editor already has relationships with, and authors the editors meet at writers conferences.” She adds, “One editor said to me, ‘Sure, there might be a fabulous manuscript in Writer’s Edge, but I can’t take the time to ferret it out. I’m willing to miss it because I already have all the manuscripts I can buy in my office.”

Margaret Buchanan is an elite member of the small percentage of writers who receive contracts with traditional publishers through the Writers Edge. She says, “I sent my first book manuscript to the Writer’s Edge… and 5 reputable publishing houses contacted me within 2 weeks.” Broadman & Holman published her book, “Famous Jerks of the Bible”. Randy Ingermanson, publisher of the Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine states, “With a terrific title like that, even an editor with minimal time to scan Writer’s Edge would jump on it.”

The overall opinion of 1st Edition and the Writer’s Edge by writers in online groups is that these companies aren’t scams, and the reason they don’t work is that most writers who use them aren’t yet ready for publication. Deborah Gyapong submitted a proposal to the Writer’s Edge several years ago and received a request from an editor for the completed manuscript. Although no contract resulted from the experience, she says, “While many may argue that it’s extremely rare for anyone to see a contract come out of Writer’s Edge, I would say it’s probably more due to people like myself who think they’re ready long before they even realize how much more work is needed on the manuscript.”

Terry Whalin, fiction editor at Howard Publishing, does look at the Writer’s Edge listings each month. “I did request several entries at my previous publisher and tried in a couple of cases to pitch the books but never contracted a single one.” Like Deborah Gyapong, he thinks the problem with slush piles, electronic or printed, is, “the large volume of poor submissions.” His suggestion is to, “produce quality submissions for publishers and your material will stand out.”

If you think your proposal is ready for publication, go back and edit it again using books about book proposals to find new things to add. “Book Proposals that Sell” by Terry Whalin is a great choice for non-fiction authors. Fiction authors should buy “Self-Editing for Fiction Writers” by Browne and King. While polishing your proposal, make sure you’re doing everything you can to market yourself as a reputable writer on the book’s topic. Then, send your book proposal to a manuscript critique service. Find publishers who print books like yours and accept unagented proposals, tailor your proposal to their guidelines, and start sending it out. Submit your proposal to the Writer’s Edge or 1st Edition if you feel confident that their service is for you.

Seven years after Deborah Gyapong unsuccessfully submitted her novel, “The Defilers” to the Writer’s Edge, she won the 2005 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award for the same novel. Augsburg Fortress is publishing it in Spring 2006. “I’ve spent hours and hours on it since then,” she says. “The basic story is the same, just far more polished.”

You may not sell your first book, but if you keep working and improving your skills, you, like Deborah Gyapong, will reach your goal of publication.

If you stay in sales long enough, you realize that you can’t fix low sales activity. This is as blunt as I can put it. Sales activities drive opportunities which lead to sales. If salespeople don’t do the sales activities, the opportunities won’t develop and sales won’t appear. This is a predictable, yet simple equation. I believe it was Zig Ziglar who said, “If you do the things you ought to do, when you ought to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do, when you want to do them.”

Last month I was reminded how some sales people try to bypass the sales activity with clever tactics, personality and networking. Sales can either be the hardest low paying job or the easiest high paying job there is. I also believe that success comes from the right mix of being smart about what is done and doing the right things.

Managing Sales Contacts and Action Plans

Waiting at the desk for the telephone to ring is not selling. Salespeople must be pro-active and make contact with prospects and customers. If you employ a sales system that records sales activity, the numbers and action plans will predict your sales growth. In sales, you need to know what the success metrics are. This requires an examination of your sales activity results and keeping track of the ratios of success.

When a salesperson monitors the number of sales calls they make to the number of appointments they get, this is an important success ratio. Keeping this data will help anyone analyze the sales activity. When the success ratios drop, or rise, you can often remember what you changed and learn from this. Unfortunately, you can’t discover the ratios, if you don’t have the sales activity numbers. Accurate sales activity numbers are critical to sales activity analysis. If you change a sales script just a little, it might change the outcome of your activity results. This is important.

Analysis of the Sales Activities

One of the reasons salespeople don’t like documenting sales activity is because they don’t understand the value from the analysis. Additionally, if sales activity numbers are inaccurate, they don’t help. The important metrics in managing sales is the success ratios of where success and failure is taking place. Correcting and improving these metrics is where a smart salesperson can further improve and become a star salesperson.

Steve Martinez is the founder and CSO (Chief Sales Officer) with Selling Magic. The Business Development company is sales oriented and a CRM pioneer in automating and customizing ACT or Outlook with the best practices of sales management for increased sales. http://www.sellingmagic.com