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Friday, March 15, 2013
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Repix turns smartphone snaps into finger-paint masterpieces (video)
Sepia, Polaroid, Vignetting... Sepia again. The realm of ironic picture-sharing services suffer from a lack of imagination on the filter front -- which is why everyone's snaps are shot with the same three tints. Repix, on the other hand, is an iOS app that wants to bring some creativity back to food pictures with a set of creative brushes that you can apply to the limits of your artistic talent. Rather than uniformly applying the effects, you finger paint them onto your original image. If you're familiar with iPad app Paper, then you'll already be comfortable with the UI and business model, with additional brushes setting you back $1.99 / £1.49 per set, or $4.99 / £3.99 for everything. If you'd like to see some more, erm, professional examples of what Repix can do, head past the break for a video.
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/SndSJ9dkGrA/
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10 Ideas That Make Business Relationships Work ... - Sales Training
Many salespeople and sales managers that I meet and work with are really excellent at their job. They accentuate the positive nature of what they do, and create reasons for clients to not only do business with them in the first place, but also remain loyal, even in the face of concerns and trouble.
What do they bring to the client that make them maintain this loyalty? How do they make business relationships work so well, they create advocates for themselves and profitability for their clients?
1) Both the supplier and the customer share common ideas, philosophies and business values. This creates a clear picture for both of them to paint and add colour to.
2) The customer views the supplier as a valued, trusted advisor and a strategic partner. This means the client sees you, not as a vendor of products but as a supplier of value.
3) Both parties see each other as contributing to each other?s success. There isn?t an ?us and them? mentality ? they both thrive as business increases.
4) The client sees the supplier as an additional spoke in their business wheel. At no time is contact between them seen as an inconvenience.
5) The supplier asks the power questions that are needed for the client to think about their future business. Making the client concentrate on the future roles you are going to play in their business keeps the focus on value, not cost.
6) Both parties focus on positive results and establish measurements to ensure the route is clear. This means there is no focus on blame or lack of achievement ? both realise the emphasis should be on outcomes and results, not blame.
7) The supplier keeps to the SLA at all times. Keeping commitments builds trust and this will lay the firm foundations for honesty and confidence in the future.
8 ) You prove yourself likeable, building confidence and belief as time goes on. This way, you recognise you are dealing with human beings and not automatons.
9) Both parties are willing to try new ideas and be creative. Everyone in the business relationship recognises there are more opportunities when you think out the box, so they share new ideas and concepts
10) You create value continuously, in the ways that the client can measure it. This means the emphasis is never on cost but always on how the client can increase their productivity, profits, promotions or products.
These aren?t the only ones, of course, but they give you a good idea of what the top quality salespeople work on continuously to create top value in their business relationships.
Happy Selling!
Sean McPheat
Managing Director
MTD Sales Training
www.mtdsalestraining.com
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Yani Tseng trying to recapture youthful enthusiasm
Stacy Lewis of the United States celebrates after sinking a shot on the 18th green on Sunday March 3, 2013 in Singapore to win the HSBC Women's Champions golf tournament. Lewis won the tournament on Sunday for her sixth career LPGA title, overcoming two bogeys and some shaky putting on the back nine to hold off South Korean Na Yeon Choi. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Stacy Lewis of the United States celebrates after sinking a shot on the 18th green on Sunday March 3, 2013 in Singapore to win the HSBC Women's Champions golf tournament. Lewis won the tournament on Sunday for her sixth career LPGA title, overcoming two bogeys and some shaky putting on the back nine to hold off South Korean Na Yeon Choi. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
PHOENIX (AP) ? Yani Tseng is trying to recapture a youthful enthusiasm, searching for the balance of fun and precision that carried her to the top spot in women's golf.
The No. 1-ranked Tseng enters her title defense in the LPGA Founders Cup on a 22-event, 50-week winless streak. Conversely, third-ranked Stacy Lewis is coming off a victory ? her fifth in her last 22 tournaments ? two weeks ago in Singapore.
"I just want to have fun and enjoy as much as I can because I know last year I paid too much attention to world No. 1," Tseng said. "I feel like I lost some childlike. I just want to play as a child, and I feel like I lost that enjoyment for playing golf last year. ...
"You want to have fun out there. You don't want to think about results too much. But you want to try to find the fine line because it's very easy to be too relaxed, it's very easy to have too much pressure. You just want to find the balance."
Lewis is closing in on the top spot in the world.
"I never expected to be No. 1 in the world, so if I get there one day, I'm going to enjoy the heck out of it because there's no way that kid growing up in a back brace would ever think about being the best golfer in the world," said Lewis, forced to wear a back brace for six years as a teen because of scoliosis.
Lewis' agent recently asked if there was anything he could do for her.
"I said, 'More time in a day,'" Lewis said. "It's definitely been busy, it's been tough. We've had to unfortunately say no to a lot of things, but for me golf needs to be No. 1and I need that time to get my practice in then if I have time for other stuff, great."
Last year at Desert Ridge's Wildfire Golf Club, Tseng won the second of her three 2012 titles, holding off Na Yeon Choi ? No. 2 in the world ? and Ai Miyazato by a stroke in cold, rain, wind and hail. The Taiwanese star won the Kia Classic the following week at La Costa for 15th LPGA Tour title, then struggled the rest of the season.
"People started asking, 'What's wrong with Yani?'" said Tseng, No. 1 in the world for 109 weeks. "I think that is time I feel really pressure. ...
"This year, world No. 1 still means a lot for me, but I just don't want to really focus on that. If I lose, it's OK, I just try to get it back. I'm not worried about too much. It's very hard to always be on top, and I think now the LPGA is getting tougher and tougher."
Tseng and Lewis will open play Thursday in a group with Paula Creamer.
The tournament is the fourth of the season, and first in the United States. Jiyai Shin won the season-opening Australian Open, Inbee Park took the LPGA Thailand and Lewis completed the Asian swing with her victory in the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore.
"It's nice to just be back in the States in general," said Lewis, the Texan who played at the University of Arkansas. "It's nice to not have to get on a 12-hour flight to go to your next golf tournament."
She tied for 10th last year at Wildfire.
"The greens are holding a little bit better," Lewis said. "That kind of frustrated me last year, so I was kind of looking forward to getting back here and getting some redemption."
The tournament will be played in far better conditions than the players faced last year in the chilly final round, with highs forecast in the 90s Thursday, Friday and Saturday and high 80s on Sunday.
Natalie Gulbis withdrew Wednesday because of malaria contracted during the tour's Asian swing. The LPGA Tour and the International Management Group said Gulbis is being treated at home in Las Vegas and is expected to be at full strength in three weeks.
Two weeks ago in Singapore, Gulbis pulled out before the second round because the illness that was later confirmed to be malaria.
DIVOTS: Jaclyn Sweeney got a spot in the field last month with a victory in the Symetra Tour's VisitMesa.com Gateway Classic at Longbow. Symetra Tour players Amelia Lewis and Giulia Molinaro also earned spots Monday in the qualifying event at Longbow. Molinaro played at Arizona State. ... Suzann Pettersen is coming off a victory last week in China in a Ladies European Tour event. ... Karrie Webb won the inaugural tournament in 2011.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Pinterest offers new tool, lays base for money-making features
By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online scrapbook Pinterest is rolling out new tools that will show businesses the number of visitors it delivers to their websites, part of the fast-growing start-up's efforts to forge closer ties to companies and build a base for the introduction of money-making features.
The latest offering -- known as Pinterest Web Analytics -- will give site owners insights into how people are interacting with "pins" that originate from their websites. The start-up company will announce the free offering on its blog on Tuesday.
"The goal is really to help websites understand what content is resonating with people on Pinterest," Cat Lee, a product manager at Pinterest, told Reuters in an interview.
Pinterest, which allows users to create online bulletin boards of images and photos based on various themes such as travel, decorating, or sports, was the 38th most visited website by U.S. Internet users in January, with roughly 30 million unique visitors according to online measurement firm comScore.
Pinterest does not currently display any revenue-generating advertising on its website, but retailers and large brands such as The Gap, Patagonia and Dell are increasingly using the site to promote their products.
Providing companies with data about usage is a "pretty clear step in the direction" of monetizing Pinterest, said Greg Sterling, senior analyst with Opus Research, a San Francisco-based market research firm.
"They couldn't really start charging people without some way of measuring the efficacy of the spend," he said.
Pinterest is "building foundations to monetize" its service this year, Chief Executive Ben Silbermann told The Wall Street Journal last month.
In February, the company raised $200 million in funding from venture capital firms that include Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. The funding deal valued the three-year-old company at $2.5 billion.
The new tool will provide information about various types of user activity on Pinterest, such as the frequency with which people are clicking on a company's online photos.
Pinterest has not disclosed how many companies have set up official business accounts on its service since it began offering the feature in November.
(Additional reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pinterest-offers-tool-lays-money-making-features-030830769--sector.html
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Hard to find good info on drug safety in pregnancy
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Nearly every woman takes a medication at some point during pregnancy. Yet there's disturbingly little easy-to-understand information about which drugs pose a risk to her baby, and what to do about it.
Need some pain relief? In the fine print is the warning that painkillers like Advil aren't for the third trimester. Left unsaid is whether to worry if you took them earlier.
An awful cold? Don't panic if you used decongestant pills, but doctors advise a nasal spray in early pregnancy.
And don't abandon antidepressants or epilepsy medicines without talking to your doctor first. Some brands are safer during pregnancy than others ? and worsening depression or seizures aren't good for a mom-to-be or her baby.
"To come off of those medications is often a dangerous thing for the pregnancy itself," warns Dr. Sandra Kweder of the Food and Drug Administration. "They need information on what to expect, how to make those trade-offs."
A new study shows how difficult that information is to come by.
Women often turn to the Internet with pregnancy questions. But researchers examined 25 pregnancy-related websites and found no two lists of purportedly safe drugs were identical. Twenty-two products called safe on one site were deemed risky on another.
Worse, specialists couldn't find evidence to back up safety claims for 40 percent of the drugs listed, said Cheryl Broussard of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led the recent study.
"The reality is that for most of the medications, it's not that they're safe or not that's the concern. The concern is that we just don't know," she said.
Broussard experienced some of that confusion during her own two pregnancies ? when different doctors handed over different lists of what was safe to use.
It's a growing dilemma. The CDC says medication use during the first trimester ? especially vulnerable for birth defects because fetal organs are forming ? has jumped 60 percent in the last three decades. Plus, women increasingly are postponing pregnancy until their 30s, even 40s, more time to develop a chronic health condition before they're expecting.
The CDC is beginning a Treating for Two program to explore how to get better information, and the FDA plans to revamp prescription drug labels with more details on what's known now. But people want an easy answer ? use it or don't ? and for many drugs, they won't get one anytime soon.
"Women agonize over it," said Dr. Christina Chambers of the University of California, San Diego. She helps direct California's pregnancy risk information hotline that advises thousands of worried callers every year.
Some drugs pose particular birth-defect risks. For example, the FDA requires versions of the acne drug isotretinoin, first marketed as Accutane, to be sold under special tight controls. Similarly, last year FDA said women who want to use a new weight-loss drug, Qsymia, need testing first to be sure they're not pregnant.
Other medications are considered safe choices. Obstetricians say pregnant women need a flu shot, for example. A recent massive study in Denmark offered reassurance that taking the anti-nausea drug Zofran for morning sickness won't hurt the baby.
But many drug labels bear little if any details about pregnancy. Drugmakers shy from studying pregnant women, so it can take years for safety information to accumulate. Moreover, the CDC says 1 in 33 babies has some type of birth defect regardless of medication use. It can be hard to tell if a drug adds to that baseline risk.
Consider antidepressants, used by about 5 percent of pregnant women. Certain brands are suspected of a small risk of heart defects. Studies suggest a version called SSRIs may increase risk of a serious lung problem at birth ? from 1 in 3,000 pregnancies to 3 in 3,000 pregnancies, Chambers said. Also, some babies go through withdrawal symptoms in the first days of life that can range from jitteriness to occasional seizures.
Women have to weigh those findings with the clear risks of stopping treatment, she said.
"The time to be thinking about all this is when you're not pregnant," when your doctor can consider how to balance mom's and baby's health and might switch brands, Chambers said.
That's what heart attack survivor Kelli Tussey of Columbus, Ohio, did. The 34-year-old takes a variety of heart medications, including a cholesterol-lowering statin drug that the government advises against during pregnancy.
So when Tussey wanted a second child, she turned to doctors at Ohio State University who specialize in treating pregnant heart patients. They stopped the statin and switched her to a safer blood thinner.
"They said my heart could take it," Tussey said. Now four months pregnant, "it seems everything's fine."
Sometimes it's a question of timing. That painkiller ibuprofen, sold as Advil and other brands, isn't for the third trimester but isn't a big concern earlier on, said Dr. Siobhan Dolan, an adviser to the March of Dimes.
And women should watch out for over-the-counter drugs with multiple ingredients, like decongestants added to allergy medicines, Dolan said. While any potential risk from decongestant pills seems small, "the question is, 'Do you really need it?'" she asked, advising a nasal spray instead.
Ask your doctor about the safest choices, Dolan said. Also, check the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists, or OTIS ? www.otispregnancy.org ? for consumer-friendly drug fact sheets or hotlines to speak with a specialist.
Stay tuned: The FDA has proposed big changes to drug labels that now just say if animal or human data suggest a risk. Kweder said adding details would help informed decision-making: How certain are those studies? What's the risk of skipping treatment? Is the risk only during a certain trimester?
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Online:
www.otispregnancy.org
http://www.cdc.gov/pregnancy/meds/index.html
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hard-good-drug-safety-pregnancy-165904362.html
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One Direction's Zayn Malik Tells Justin Bieber: 'I Got Your Back, Bro'
In the wake of some public controversy, Bieber gets some love from his pals in 1D as well as Will Smith.
By Jocelyn Vena
Justin Bieber and Zayn Malik
Photo: Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703377/one-direction-zayn-malik-just-bieber.jhtml
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