Highest Merchant Cash Advance Amounts video

Talking on the Seashore. A quick look at the:

Highest Merchant Cash Advance Amounts video

This video describes an opportunity of getting a cash advance against your credit card receivables. The opening audio is familiar as it has been used in other video productions. I was surprised that it was not a talking head video, but they actually did an on site shot of a person talking at the seashore.

Dexter

What Channel are your communicating on?

What Channel are your communicating on?

What channel are you communication on can be a very important piece of information when judging your success or failure in interacting with any one or dog. So often we do not come across successfully and wonder why we fail in making a point, a presentation or a a sale. Have you checked lately on what ways you are really speaking to your audience. Are you accomplishing your goal of your message or simply waisting every one's time.

People will seek advice on communications for those critical meetings. Sometimes professional or just from the circle of friends you have accumulated over time. Take heart! It is proof enough that you do communicate well. You have some friends! Have you considered that you may be lucky to have in house communications coaches in your own home?

I have two dogs who are close companions to my family. We are lucky enough to have matching personalities who have built trust with each other. The humans in the household have not confused who are humans and who are dogs. I have read enough about the humans playing the part of the lead or Alpha Dog role etc, so we skip that part! :)

We do come close to thinking on the same wavelength at times and certainly learn from our communication interactions. Sometimes I can apply them for outside the species communications.

Just the other day my dog Max has been enjoying some great dog treats bought from the store. The people who make these treats know their craft well as the smells that roll out of the dog snack container are really oderifically delicious ... Even for a human! A dog's nose works so many million times better than a human, so I can only imagine what signals he receives! So what does this all mean?

When I reach down and pull a snack out with my hands, a certain amount of snack oils , smells and what not gets stuck on my hands. So I continue to smell like a great tasting snack long after my dog has gulped down this succulent treat. My dog thanks me for the treat. I pat him on the head. He stays glued right where I am sitting , standing or walking. Sure he like me. But he really is hoping I have another snack in my hand! :)

An oblivious person might think that the dog really is in rapture with your company. Sure Max likes me; but he is hoping all that wonderful smell is still attached another doggie treat!

I talk with the dog. I pat his head. He looks lovingly at me and sends me signals. I could be talking about tearing about and rebuilding an old dot matrix printer and my dog would react the same. Great! Where is another treat! :)

The magic passes. Eventually that wonderful dog treat smell leaves me. Max thanks me and wanders off. So he really now knows more about Dot Matrix Printer Repair! I can't wait to tell him how to fix a blender!

Next time you talk with someone and they look at you in rapture. Just make sure that they are smiling at what you talking about and not the tuna fish sandwich in your hand.

Regards,
Dexter

www.sapcrossing.com A Job site for a specific Niche

http://www.sapcrossing.com/ A Job site for a specific Niche

SapCrossing.com is an example where one can search for "jobs and job openings" or "job search", but what is SAP ?

This is a specific example where the webdesigners who promise a new look assume that you know exactly what is SAP. Its almost a screening mechanism so that people who work with SAP will use this website for job and career search, while people who have no clue either investigate outside of the website to know more what SAP exactly might be, or go away and look at another website.

This is pulled from the top of the website:

SAPCrossing constantly tracks the hiring needs of more than 250,000
employers.
Fastest-growing job database in the world
Jobs from Fortune
500 and other top companies
Hundreds of employees finding and adding jobsaround the clock

So if you need to look for a SAP job, you may want to visit http://www.sapcrossing.com/

All you need to know is if you know anything about SAP! :)

Regards,

Dexter

Thoughts in Web Design : SellingCrossing.com

Thoughts in Web Design : SellingCrossing.com

The format or structure of a website design can tell you much of the plan or lack of plans of a particular company.

I stumbled across http://www.sellingcrossing.com/ the other day and found that they are another example of being very purposeful in showing significant reasons why to look further into their offerings.

Websites can change in a blink. When I looked at it recently, I found it to really concentrate on the "above the fold" with very strong bullet points and graphics to emphasize certain key points:

Trust America's Top Job-Opening Research Institution With Your Job Search The only job-opening research institution in the world whose mission is to track down every job opening through research, offering:
A comprehensive collection of over 1 million researched job openings
Job openings from all Fortune 500 companies
Job openings from virtually every employer career webpage in America
Job openings from virtually every job board in America
More than 500 highly trained job-opening research analysts reviewing jobs Tell us where to send your access instructions:

Where did I get the above key points? Right from the top of the webpage!

One half of the top banner posting these points has a building which is titled "Pasadena CA Research Facility" The web designers worked hard to integrate the colors of the website with this substantial looking building. No its not a skyscraper. Its a place of work. There is much pull in its look to me. This building is full of serious minded people who will help me in my job search efforts.

Scroll down below the "fold" of the browser page and you will see much more detail of what they are going to do, who they work with and what tools they offer to help in your sales related career.

You scroll back to the top of the web page and only then notice the navigation links. They are there for your use, but they were not intended to be emphasized or explored until you took a look at the overall view of the front webpage design.

This is a just a surface look at the presentation of the website. Whether it is well designed with all the hidden tags or website design elements that make search engines excited is a completely different story.

Take a look at http://www.sellingcrossing.com/ . It might give you inspiration for your next communication presentation.

Regards,

Dexter

What mood are you in for news?

What mood are you in for news?

I am always looking for new ways to communicate and share moods, feelings, attitudes and perspectives. Direct communications of knowledge is important, but at times its good to know what others are thinking as well. Perhaps a sanity test for yourself when you read an article on the web. Well the other day I came accross and interesting site called Wevoke.com . http://www.wevoke.com/

It seemed like another simple story collating service or just a means of announcing certain articles. So many exist out there! But I was surprised by a simple little drop down list at the top of the website that asked how I wanted to FEEL.

I wasn't kidding you. Not search by article category or author.. But how I wanted to feel about a particular article or subject. Well at the moment I really needed to hear to some heart warming news. So I selected I wanted to be "most happy"

There were some interesting articles listed. One gave me a smile was titled: News: Couple Has Online Affair With Each Other by Mistake

Way at the top of the website is listed the moniker... "Search by feel" I laughed at the possible unintended humor in that as well.

Give it a whirl. I suspect you are only seeing the beginning of articles and news marketed by feeling!

Spotted Owls and where do they fit in burning forest?

Spotted Owls and where do they fit in burning forest?

It seems that the spotted owl never really goes away. We have been assured that its an endangered species, but somehow it maintains its numbers to come back in full flight for the news at certain critical points.

Lately the South Lake Tahoe fire has been featured prominently in the news. However quite a bit of press has been involved once again about the plight, flight and habitat of this creature of the woods.

Here is quite an interesting transcript of a Rush Limbaugh show discussing the topic.

Rush Limbaugh's recent take on the Spotted Owl

To me this is a perfect example of how a primary news story ... The South Lake Tahoe Fire... gets hijacked by a secondary story... The spotted owl.

I understand Rush's points in the transcript. However it seems that he is catering as well the maneuvering of the main story to a subtopic by by certain interested parties. Worrying about one creature type in an ecosystem by a huge fire. Who is representing the plight of the non-migrating Northwest Mushroom?

So this discussion about owls simply directs additional press and attention to the subtopic rather than the main topic. The South Lake Tahoe fire is being commented on as being the worst fire that has been seen in over a century! This is of course not only referring to the current crisis , but the additional fire potential in the area. But somehow the spotted owl seems to be nabbing quite a bit of press and attention.

So as the various owl types are being discussed:

Spotted Owls - Dragged into all kinds of debates about their degree of being endangered, and its habitat requirements. The result of which changed many aspects of human habitat and livelihood through extreme changes in forest policy. Guess what? Various groups are learning that they may have been wrong on some of its requirements. Will these groups help undo the damage to human habitat and livelihood?

Non-Spotted Owls - I haven't heard too much about these owls lately. Except for the old television and magazine ads for Cigars... I only see some cameo appearances in movies. Are they they intellectual elite in the Owl World?

The Barred Owl - a Google search today reveals that "barred owl" appears on some 479,000 web pages. I must admit that I don't follow owl species as closely as possible, but I understand that they really "LIKE" the spotted owl. They "LIKE" (this is a family oriented blog) so much that they want to cross breed the Spotted owl out of existence. No they are not the Horned Owl or the Horny Owl. Its the Barred Owl. Do Barred Owls publish web pages to get leads on potential locations for Spotted Owls?

So the fire rages on. Hopefully it will shortly be put under control. Incidentally over two hundred structures and countless other types of property destroyed so far. Unfortunately this means that many people no matter what position they have on the topic of Spotted Owls or the Northwest Forest Plan will be far to busy trying to save people and property before worrying about how many owls survived the conflagration.

The owls will somehow determine at the next owl convention how many survived the fire. Are there any owl rescue services out there?

So this blog has been hijacked as well. It was really just a thinly disguised ploy to get Barred Owls more attention. I don't know how many BarredOwl/Spotted Owl Dating services are out there. No doubt someone will ask for funding to make that happen.

Flash! I just went to http://www.godaddy.com/ to do a quick domain check. Guess What?

BARREDOWLDATING.COM

Is still available as a domain site!

No I didn't register the domain. Okay the first person to register it and take advantage of it can thank me in some small way. I know the Barred Owls may thank you. Perhaps you will get a grumble from the Spotted owls.

'Til Next time!



Stay Tuned.

Bypassing Corporate Security or Banging the TV..Same thing

Bypassing Corporate Security or Banging the TV..Same thing

We are pretty ingenious for imitating or creating workarounds in life. Sometimes we shouldn't do it ... But people will fall into a trap of thinking they are "solving" an issue or creating a workaround when they are simply fooling themselves. Its too bad that we do not have enough people looking over our shoulders and asking why we are trying such a silly trick . This can be even more amusing when you find out that OTHERS consider you to be the smart one and they are following you down the same pathway to doom.

A couple examples. Photocopy technology. Still a very complicated process which includes many parts and bits of computer technology. The manufactures try their best to put smarts into these machines to warn you about different problems or issues. How many people have you seen being stuck late at night trying to coax out a bit more toner out of an empty cartridge for that critical report? In some cases the gentle thumping of a cartridge might help, but they are frequently actually resetting certain sensors, timers, reset trips on some machines. So the trick of turning off the warning light might be banging the toner cartridge, or may be something else. However its late at night and you must try all of these things so you can print the last twelve pages of the report! This can be a gentle process or a brutal one depending on the beginning or ending temperament of the user. How many "the copier is broken" notes on copiers that went kaput late at night? So the first person might get away with a few tricks, but the tenth person is certain to have a frustrating experience. Of course no living person or alternate resource! I know most of you in office situations have been there!

I won't bother with the details of fixing the situation. Just that I know that such remedies are probably cheaper than handling picking up the pieces of a copier that did not survive end of month reports!

Banging the T.V. to make it work. This trick may be fading out. However at one time there were some technical reasons that tapping the television could temporarily take care of an issue. The technology has changed over time and the number of certified TV repairman have dropped considerably. Reducing to a great degree that you know what you are doing by tapping the TV to make it work! For some time though... People started tapping anything electronic to make it work! Hey it seems to work! How about mechanical devices! Sure that seems to work! Not sure why.. Uncle Fred did it in the 1950's Maybe it will work for me! That was then .. This is now.

Please explain Corporate Security as it relates to this post?

Check out the Mouse Jiggler

http://www.wiebetech.com/products/MouseJiggler.php

This will be a fantastic gizmo that will fly off the shelves! Many people will buy this because they want to bypass the corporate mandates of screen saver software that is a requirement to auto-run on corporate systems!

There are some applications that will for example pause, crash or halt if screen saver is activated. Some people will request their IT support to remove the Mandated Screen saver or disable it so they can run their application. However this can be a dead end a corporate security policy may not have exceptions or workarounds. So the alternative is to sit around wiggling yourself and the mouse while your app runs rather than walking away and come back to find the application has stopped?

No way!

So the mouse jiggler and its relations will either give the computer the impression that the mouse is being wiggled! So the screen saver stays off. Person at the computer right? Wrong!

The people buying such a device will at first have a chance to get their coffee breaks and IT Security will be happy until they find out that unattended computers are not being protected.

It will be glaring so to speak. Computer screen with a non-screen saver display and human head not nearby to view the screen...

I predict this product will work for a while until the security snoops at the big corporations catch wind and confiscate these gizmos and toss them into the school teacher forbidden items drawer! Then the vendor will have made his $29.00 bucks for a while until piles of these things are stuffed away by the corporate security police! ( Probably stuffed next the the mad-windup-clicking-teeth-toys.)

Its an eternal battle.. So the next round will start again with a new gizmo.

So whats my point? There are reasons for plans. There are reasons for messages. There are reasons for decisions. There are reasons why things work. People who are sufficiently empowered will sometimes take a direct line to "solve" an issue when in reality they are undoing someones plans that were originally intended as a benefit.

So who is at fault? That is a question that surfaces when people try to pick up the pieces after something was "fixed" to death or disabled.

You cannot plan for all contingencies.

Have you planned for the creativity of the human mind to bypass your well thought plans?

Are your instructions geared for your target readership?

Do you still want to wack the Toner Cartridge?

Just do your best!

Dexter

Sank... Company capitulated and .....

Sank... Company capitulated and .....


I wrote a couple brief articles about my getting involved with the fun and travails of a new computer with a really new operating system. Yes I helped my friend out. Here are the original links.

Sink or Swim ? Don't know until you try? And other such ideas.
http://dexterzone.blogspot.com/2007/02/sink-or-swim-dont-know-until-you-try.html

Update on Sink or Swim with a New Operating System
http://dexterzone.blogspot.com/2007/02/update-on-sink-or-swim-with-new.html

Well after some time after the printer/fax machine was working.. The owner of the computer called the people she bought the system .. (computer system + Fax/Printer) The result of the conversation was that the printer was too "new" and no one had turned in any empty ink cartridges ... so they could not sell her any more ink!

So this finally frosted her cookies! So with some notes and encouragement from me... She went ahead and had someone mind her small business while she buried herself in an office for an anticipated battle of a customer return.

To her surprise she found that she part of a wave of unhappy customers and that the company had apparently heard enough complaints lack of resolution of issues that they gave her an acceptable proposal.

She would keep everything except the computer system box itself.
She would ship the misbehaving computer back.

The manufacturer would send her a new tower computer with the previous version of the operating system installed. (Hurrah!)

Yes they did magically find some ink cartridges as well!

I am glad for her. She will hopefully will once again be a happy customer.

I feel sorry for the staff and management of the manufacturer who will have to cycle who knows how many systems back, refurbish and resell. I know its part a fact of life of the business... But no doubt they do not need extra work to do such on top of the normal returns!

In my opinion so much pain could have been avoided. So at best my specific contact will be again paddling water, but there still was a loss in productivity, frustration , and uncertainty.

It was only with some proactive work on the customer's part (With external guidance) to push the issue to some level of attention. I hate to think of how many doorstops were created with this mistake.

I will keep you posted as I learn of the results of their promise to correct her computer problems.

Regards,
Dexter

My Dog the Web 9.0 Communicator. (Part 1)

My Dog the Web 9.0 Communicator. ( Part 1)

I am becoming more convinced that my dog Max has secretly gone to some Internet Marketing and Search Engine Seminars.

He has been trying to tell me something in dog language for some time, but I have been too dumb until recently to figure it out.

There are all kinds of magic terms to be used in Internet marketing. There are quite a number of people out there who make a full time living to convince you quite correctly that the world wide web is huge in terms of the electronic communication space.

You read enough about all of it and find that you have scarcely scratched the surface of how many ways you can go wrong in sharing your message out on the web. Why worry about it? Well it always a question of how much you see is returned to you for the energy spent on a project.

Everyone has to decide what is a successful return on that investment in time, energy and thought.

Some people post on a website or blog and are happy that they alone can see the glowing electrons of their ideas hanging out in virtual space.

Some people want a reference for their close friends and associates to congregate. Almost a virtual couch at the mythical coffee shop in space. Its a public space, but only the people who know or care about stay around long enough to know more.

Some people are happy to contribute in a virtual community of some form. Whether or not they become known, is quite secondary to the sharing of information.

Some want to want to have a virtual business card as a reference for those who know about their services and need additional information.

Some want to create a presence on the web to build a product or market identification with their personal name, corporate name or gizmo.

The last on the list are the people who want to hook or by crook to get everyone to think they are the Center of the Internet world in terms of their company, product or service. They study hard to work the system in order to have everyone see them at the top of the list in search engines or other resources.

I have walked into the valley of FTP and have no fear. I have been one of you and seen much , but I stay on the trail of knowledge to find out where I go in the Internet communications Internet Sphere.

I do have one thing many of the marketeers of Internet Knowledge lack.

Sure they know about SEO, S.E.O. , Web 1.0, web 2.0, Web 9.0. They share tidbits about adwords, adsense, and sundry other internet advertising stuff.

They talk about all this as well:

AJ - Ask Jeeves, AOL - America Online, ASP - Application Service Provider, AV - AltaVista,
B2B - Business to Business, B2C - Business to Consumer, CPA - Cost Per Action, CPC - Cost Per Click, CPS - Cost Per Sale, CTR - Click-Through Rate, DH - Direct Hit, FFA - Free-For-All Link List ,HB - HotBot ,IM - Instant Messaging, INK - Inktomi , LS - LookSmart, MSN - Microsoft Network , NL - Northert Light , NSI - Network Solutions, PFI - Pay For Inclusion, PFP - Pay For Performance, PPC - Pay Per Click, PPCSE - Pay Per Click Search Engine , PPL - Pay Per Lead , PPS - Pay Per Sale , PV - Page View, RON - Run Of Network, ROS - Run Of Site , SEO - Search Engine Optimization , SEP - Search Engine Positioning , UV - Unique Visitor, WWW - World Wide Web , Y! - Yahoo!

This just is the beginning. But these Intern knowledge experts do not have one thing in their arsenal of web domination tools.... What is it ? Not a tool, not a company , not a person.

Its my dog. Max the dog has gone to some of these Internet web marketing seminars. He has gone undercover. So most of the time he is disguised as a typical dog. Sometimes he is disguised as a waiter. Notice a dog hair in your soup ordered at the restaurant near the Internet Web Marketing Seminar? It might have been Max who waited on you! ( I never ask. He converts the his money earned as a waiter to extra dog bones for the backyard.

Sometimes Max has disguised himself as a 3 dimensional logo. So he can walk into these marketing seminars with security escort.

He is a crafty dog. The only problem is the Dog/Human language barrier.

As I translate what he has told me.. I will be glad to share with you.

Stay tuned.

Talk about a cliff hanger!

Regards,

Dexter Babcock