Party Poker Sign up Bonus Code Tutorial
at 11:42 am on Thursday, 31 July 2008
I have had a lot of emails from people who are looking for a partypoker sign up bonus code. To save some time I have written a simple tutorial on how to get and use a partypoker sign up bonus code.
The first thing you need to do is visit the site (partypoker.com) and download their software. This is quite simple, there is a large graphic in the middle of the site simply click it and follow the instructions.
Ok, so now we have downloaded and installed the software. The next thing you need to do is register a new account, this to is very simple. This is also where you will use the bonus code. There are 2 different codes available. The first one is “ONTHEFLOP” this one will give you an additional 20% on your deposit. The second one is “ONTHETURN” and will give you and extra $25 on your deposit. Note that they are all one word and without quotes. When registering you will notice a little box where it says enter bonus code. Choose what bonus you would like and enter that code. Now when you decide to make a deposit, they will add the additional amount to your account automatically. There you have it, simple wasn’t it?
Want to be a winning player? Poker is a dynamic game that revolves around luck and skill. Both of these are key components of a winning player. Unfortunately you can’t practice luck, but you can always improve your skill. The only way to get better is to practice. I consider reading practice also. What I like to do is read various online poker websites and forums, then apply some of the concepts. When I lose a certain hand, I will post the hand on a forum and get some feedback or I may do a simple search on Google. This helps tremendously. If you keep reading, playing and stay disciplined you can be a winning player. Good luck at the tables.
As I mentioned earlier in the article there are many other online poker rooms you can play at. You can find our reviews of all the ones worth their salt at our Review Section
Mark Lambie is an avid online poker player. He runs a website for players of all skill levels at On The Flop
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How To Look For Your Perfect Companion In The Right Places
at 1:38 am on Thursday, 31 July 2008
Are you looking for Love by Design? Well you certainly have found the right place. A lot of people go through life completely unconscious and not knowing exactly what they want to have in a relationship until they get into a relationship and find that they don’t have what they want.
It’s sad but it’s a true fact that the in our society people are not trained on how to understand relationships. Relationships are very simple, they are a mutual filling of needs and it is usually not until someone gets into a marriage or a relationship that they find that there are difficulties. Usually we marry because of love and lust or attraction or we find someone who is pretty or handsome or they got a good job or they have ambition or they want to create a life or they want to have a family. You may have met them at a bar or meet them at school and you decide to fall in love and you have some things in common and you want to have kids and you decide to get married.
So many people do that when they are 18 or 20 or in their early 20s up until their 30s now. People are basically uncomfortable and they don’t really make a Love by Design. A Love by Design is really ultimately the way to create a relationship by designing the perfect love for you and the perfect relationship for you. Now there are 2 reasons why people break up in relationships. Rob (who is the Director/Counsellor of the Centre for Life Management, co-author of Love by Design and my life partner) and I have been counselling couples for years at the Centre. We find that if you look at all the hundreds of thousands of cases that we see every year it usually boils down to 2 main reasons why people aren’t creating the relationships of their dreams and having their Love by Design.
The first reason is they are not really compatible, although they may have some compatibility in some areas. Maybe they like bowling or hiking or going to the same movies, but they may not be compatible in their visions, they may not be compatible in their timing or when they want to have children.
They may not be compatible in their workstyle or lifestyle or where they want to live. One person wants to go out and live in the country, and have a small little market garden in a dairy farm and the other one wants to live near the beach on the coast of California and pursue their Ph.D. In this case they have two different visions, it is actually the visions and the values that are the glue that holds relationships together. In fact, it’s not so much looking at each other, it’s looking at the same direction together. That is what values and visions do. So you may be totally in love with somebody, and may get a long in some areas, but you may be fundamentally not compatible.
For example, my partner, Rob Bilton, was with this young lady Lucie and she was a very lovely woman. However, Rob wanted children at the time and Lucie had hers and wasn’t interested in getting children at that time, so that is an example of incompatibility.
The other reason why relationships have a tendency not to work out that we see at the Centre is because of people who are not that functional and are not able to have the skills that make successful relationships work. They in fact may have picked up bad habits or toxicities from their family of origin and from their early relationships that wreck an otherwise good or compatible relationship.
So ultimately when you are going out there and wanting to create a Love by Design, it is good that you screen for compatibility and functionality. The other thing is that if you are in an existing relationship, you can see what you have and see if fact if your partner is functional. Then you can take action and read some of our books, consulting or counselling to improve on your functionality and if you are not compatible in some areas then you can shift that or you can accept that or compromise. There are always ways of doing that. If you are really fundamentally incompatible, (which is something that we will talk about in some of our teachings on deal breakers), then you may have a life decision to make.)
Melody Chase is a Writer and Counsellor at the Centre for Life Management/ LMC Relationship Centre and is the Co-author of “The Ultimate Love By Design System” at http://www.LoveByDesignBook.com Would you like to know whether HE or SHE is THE ONE for you? How could you find out whether the one you are with is your Soul-mate? Sign up for your free E-courses (Value $97) at http://www.LoveByDesignBook.com. Also, Grab this amazing Ebook which has changed thousands of lives! FREE instant access for a limited time! Download your copy at http://www.retrievealover.com/message.htm.
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Professional Debt Advice is Hardly Ever Cost Free
at 12:04 am on Thursday, 31 July 2008
Presently there are large numbers of debt advice businesses fiercely competing with one another to offer cost free debt advice. Such businesses claim to be able to offer free no strings debt advice. The question is whether these companies are delivering best value with regard to the services they offer and the advice they provide?
Debt counselling organisations are overseen by government agencies to ensure they are professionally qualified and properly respect individual confidentiality. Unfortunately it is very difficult to scrutinise or demonstrate an advisers rational when giving cost free debt advice. Cutting to the chase, how does a governmental department ascertain if debt advice was given in the best interests of the debtor or if, perhaps, the kind of information given was was driven by the advisers profit margins?
Choosing un-biased debt advice is often stressful. In spite of the problems shopping around for the best service is essential where debt management is concerned. Debtors should not simply go with the first company they come across.
The blunt truth is a great proportion of debtors do not properly understand all the services with reference to debt and financial packages generally. If clients had a proper understanding these customers would no longer require expert advice from debt specialists.
The truth of the matter is financial companies are out to return profit, this can raise ethical issues between the person seeking debt advice and the adviser. Revenue is derived by passing debtors to alternative organisations or instead by collecting arrangement fees from the credit companies. Therefore it is difficult to audit how efficiently these companies are really helping their customers. The major risk is that these debt advice organisations will in reality give guidance to clients influenced by their own revenue rather than serving the best interests of the client.
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Don’t Ditch The Happy Sheets (7 Ways To Get Valuable Feedback)
at 4:25 am on Sunday, 27 July 2008
The usefulness of evaluation forms (or so-called happy sheets) has been a hot topic for years. Some experts even challenge us to ditch them completely. Of course you will always have attendees who use happy sheets to make comments about the trainer’s accent being too strong (accent, moi?) or that the trainer was sitting on the arm rest (when training in a rather health and safety conscious refinery). But with the right questions, happy sheets can be extremely useful to redefine your course content. It can help find out what people truly want or need to know about a subject and give you ideas on how you can help them to learn the topic for themselves. So don’t throw out the baby with the bath water!
Why not?
1. Because it’s low-fuss, quick and easy. Even if you have limited time and budget, a simple feedback form can be used to check whether the first step of the learner’s road towards mastering the new topic has been successful.
2. Because it doesn’t have to take place when purposefully dashing for the door. If you feel uneasy to ask the student to fill out an evaluation form at the end of the session, experiment with an online form or e-mail it the evening of or the day after the training event. Using this method people allow themselves more time to consider the questions and give useful feedback. It even challenges them to investigate “unlocking” the electronic evaluation form, as one proud student demonstrated sending back the modified form.
3. Because feedback can be given anonymously. Not everyone has the ability to express his or her opinions in writing. Others might be afraid to “speak” up and share their ideas, so feedback can be given anonymously.
4. Because you can get feedback in other ways. Consider building in interim sessions throughout the day. Ask the learner to reflect on and write down what they are taking away from each section and what made that section so powerful. Brainstorm whether the learner understood the material and encourage them to tell you whether you should stop doing, continue doing, or start doing something. Again, this can be done anonymously and dropped in a box during the various breaks.
5. Because you simply might need to redesign your form. Paul Clothier gave some excellent examples in his book “The Complete Computer Trainer”. He suggests the form should include a list of topics covered in the class, with check boxes for the learner to indicate the level of understanding for each topic, such as “very clear”, “clear”, “a little confusing”, “very confusing” and “not covered”. Focus on the learner, not the trainer. If you want applause, sign up for Sylvia Young’s Theatre School.
6. Because you’re not super (wo)man. Just because getting negative feedback isn’t easy, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t ask for it. (I always tell them the Dutch are known to be uninhibited, which often gets them to open up, which in turn will help me shape course content when certain aspects seem less relevant.) If all we’re after is getting “fives” and a few feel-good comments, then the questionnaires are extremely limited in value.
7. Because it can make a real difference! For every completed evaluation form I pledge to donate three pounds to “Children of Nepal”, a small British charitable organisation that has the aim of extending and improving educational opportunities for children living in Nepal. It gives the learner an incentive to return the form - or ask for 10 more, as happened recently.
Karen Roem is the founder of software training and support firm Roem Limited (http://www.roem.co.uk) and a columnist in the Cambridge Evening News and IT Training Magazine.
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Building Healthy Self-Esteem
at 9:07 am on Saturday, 26 July 2008
Our family of origin teaches us our self-esteem. It is based upon an evaluation of ourselves we form about our personal competence and self-worth. The bad news: low self-esteem becomes a habitual, self-defeating way of reacting in the world. You forgo a level of personal responsibility and follow a path of passivity. Events happen to you instead of you making events happen. Successes are discounted and failures are noticed. Anything “good” that happens is viewed as luck, chance, fortitude or a fluke! When mishaps occur, you identity your core being with the failures instead of viewing the failures as temporary events. On the other hand, the good news is since self esteem is a learned behavior, you can unlearn, relearn and change it.
So, where can you find healthy self-esteem these days, especially if you have been on this path of low self-esteem for some time? For one, it is not found in the past. Regardless if you learned your poor self-esteem from childhood, you cannot go back and retrieve it. In fact, healthy self-esteem is always found in the present by changing your current state of mind. You can learn to raise your self-esteem while uncovering the truths about yourself, and this comes down to one main tenet. This tenet asks you to change your decision about yourself by changing your evaluation of yourself today, in the here and now!
As Eleanor Roosevelt pointed out, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” The truth is that no one can “make you” feel anything if you do not buy into it in the first place. You must learn to buy into believing in yourself and not into perpetuating your own assaults on your self-worth. There will always be naysayers and critics out there, but their beliefs are not your truths, but only truths about themselves.
So what does healthy self-esteem look like? Studies show that high self-esteem correlates to how successful one is in life. A person with a healthy self-esteem not only feels good about oneself, but also, most importantly, establishes a sense of personal and social responsibility. Personally, this person takes responsibility for their strengths, knowing that their perseverance allowed them to succeed. They admit their mistakes, knowing that their weaknesses and failures are opportunities to realign themselves with their goals. They know that all people make mistakes and do not interpret their mistakes as indicative of their self-worth. Socially, they acknowledge the strengths and successes in others and do not have the need to compete or compare themselves with others.
So, how do you raise your self-esteem? Here are several tips for developing your self-esteem quotient:
1. Be open-minded - hear critique and criticism, but only hear them as half-truths. Everyone has their own side to a story, as do you and other people who know you. If you feel badly about some critique you received, do not stew on it instead ask another you respect what their take is. Do remember, that one’s negative talk about another is often just a projection of one’s own internal conflicts and fears. They dump these fears instead of owning them.
2. Start praising - and stop critiquing. By accepting others and their weaknesses, you start to accept yourself. When you stop finding fault in others, you learn to let up on yourself. This includes, stop criticizing yourself! Learn to view your failures and weaknesses as milestones to guide you on your way. Often you learn the most under pressure and from our hardest times.
3. See successes - take appropriate credit for your successes. Chalk them up to dedication, hard work and your positive thinking. Do not believe in luck and chance. Instead, know that you magnetized your successes to you through an extension of your energy and efforts. Accept responsibility. Praise the successes in others. Know that their successes open the door to yours.
4. Accept weaknesses - know that everyone makes mistakes and no one is perfect. View your failures and weaknesses as temporary statements about your existence. By no means are they permanent, unless you perseverate about them. Ask yourself what your ideal person with healthy self-esteem would do to move forward. Conjure up the answer and focus on the solution. Think present, not past!
5. Provide Self-care - pay attention to the needs of your heart, mind and body. Follow their lead and learn from yourself. When you learn to listen to your needs and wants and take action to meet them, you elevate your self-worth. You become important. How you treat yourself is how others learn to treat you. This means accept compliments from others regardless of your belief behind their motivations. Look the complimenter in the eyes and say, “thank you.” They are immediately rewarded and acknowledged for their compliment and you are establishing patterns for more compliments in the future. Compliments definitely help in dire times and become a way of receiving instant, external confirmation and validation.
6. Have goals - be the person you are and become the person you want to be. In other words, participate in the act of living your life. Make choices. Be proactive. Try something new or give yourself permission to do something you have always wanted to do. Be gentle with your imperfections and shortcomings, and do not allow them to become roadblocks. Let go of perfection and focus on direction.
Your road to a healthy self-esteem is paved by your choices in the present. Change the way you evaluate your experiences and you can change the way your feel about yourself. Low self-esteem continues out of practice of bad habits. You can change a habit after thirty days of instilling a new behavior. Give yourself one month for practicing the above tips and you will see a major difference in the growth of your healthy self-esteem.
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Copyright (c) 2005 Karen A. Dahlman. All rights reserved.
Have a well-being question you would like to have answered? You can write Karen at wellbeing@giftsofthegoddess.com for answers.
Karen A. Dahlman, art therapist, licensed counselor and entrepreneurial business owner aspires to teach others to lead a creative life. She is founder and CEO of Creative Visions Consulting, Inc., a consulting & design firm for fortune 500 telecommunications companies. Her latest business endeavor is Gifts of the Goddess - All-Natural Body & Skin Care, which is close to her heart as it developed from her work as a therapist, inspiring women to evoke their inner goddess through self-empowerment and self-care of their bodies.
For more information about Gifts of the Goddess - All-Natural Body & Skin Care, visit: http://www.giftsofthegoddess.com
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Advertising - Should You Be Advertising Your Services?
at 12:47 pm on Friday, 25 July 2008
You offer a reliable, quality service. You know that if more people knew what you can do, you’d increase sales. So you advertise in the most likely media for potential clients to read about you. But there’s no response. Why?
If this scenario is familiar to you there’s a few likely causes.
1. Maybe your ad’s aren’t designed well - poor layout, inappropriate offer, etc.
2. Maybe you have selected the wrong media, placement or timing.
3. Maybe you shouldn’t be advertising your services.
Now I know there’s a lot to consider when writing advertisements - creating “killer headlines”, long copy versus short copy arguments, using white space, etc - and I could give you some tips on how to buy media. But I’m not getting into that today. I’m going to talk about the third point - maybe you shouldn’t advertise.
But wait! (I hear you ask)… Why shouldn’t I advertise my business?
Put simply, some services are not suitable to be advertised in the usual fashion. Most advertising is to stimulate action, usually a purchase or decision to place an order. If you’re selling a ‘product’ this is relatively easy to achieve. Customers know what they are buying. There’s usually some sort of benchmark, or product criteria, customers use to judge whether your product will do what they want.
But when it comes to services, many potential customers (or clients - I use both terms interchangeably) may not be able to make the same sort of judgement. This is particularly the case for services where the specific outcome is hard to predict, or where there is a large degree of emotional involvement or risk in the customers decision making process.
Think about it this way. Services can be broadly classified under the following headings:
* People Processing (eg hairdresser, medical)
* Possession Processing (eg computer repairs, dog obedience training)
* Knowledge Processing (eg education, entertainment)
* Information Processing (eg accounting, investment advice)
Generally speaking, possession and people processing services are more tangible than knowledge or information processing. For possession and people processing services, clients can see/touch/feel the outcomes, and they may even be personally involved in the delivery of the actual service. Additionally, tangible services usually incorporate a higher level of personal contact (intensity or frequency) between the provider and the customer.
So, for more tangible services, clients often have more reference points on which to base a future purchase decision.
If your business provides services with less tangible, and more variable, outcomes then media advertising may not be the best answer for you. For your type of services customers will be very interested to understand ‘how’ you deliver your service and will need to develop a suitable degree of trust in you before they will make the decision to use your services. These criteria cannot be fully met through advertising alone.
So what should you do to get more business?
Here are a few ideas:
* Perform your service to an excellent standard - surpassing mere customer satisfaction.
* Provide information to educate your potential clients.
* Develop sales processes that identify real problems you can solve.
* Make sure you address the true concerns and risks of your clients.
* Understand the clues customers use to decide whether they will use you.
* Create a network of related service providers who may refer prospects to you.
* Develop mutually beneficial joint-promotional activities with well-respected businesses in complementary fields.
Please don’t misunderstand my message. Advertising can be very productive. If you can clearly state specific benefits (i.e. outcomes) and overcome the initial concerns of prospective clients, then advertising may work for you. That’s why possession processing services such as lawn mowing can be easily advertised. For your average lawn the customer can recognise and understand what they are buying.
However, if your business provides relatively intangible services that deliver outcomes dependent upon a variety of factors, then media advertising should not be high on your list of marketing activities.
(c) 2004 Marketing Nous Pty Ltd
Stuart Ayling runs Marketing Nous, an Australasian marketing consultancy that specialises in marketing for service businesses. He helps clients to improve their marketing tactics, attract more clients, and increase revenue. Stuart also offers telephone consultations and runs regular marketing seminars. For additional marketing resources, including Stuart’s popular monthly newsletter, visit his web site at http://www.marketingnous.com.au.
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Learn about the Famous Royal Family
at 9:55 pm on Thursday, 24 July 2008
Public Business & Image
Individuals of the Royal Family involve themselves in many civic activities month on month, all through the UK, as formally documented in the Court Circular, to credit, support and learn about the achievements or deeds of individuals, associations and enterprises in a range of sections of life. As representatives of the sovereign, they recurrently connect with the community in observing recorded events, holidays, celebratory & sad occasions & repeatedly she also sponsors or participates in selected charitable, artistic & communal activities.
Their trips abroad on behalf of the U.K. (called State Visits when the sovereign formally visits other government officials) brings public notice to harmonious links within & between the Commonwealth & other nations, to British produce & trade, and to Britain as a historical, vacation, & holiday destination. Their current activities and usual; positions forms the height of a current “royal court,” and supply a particularly British and historical vision to royal services (Like that of the Trooping the Colour) and flavour to public proceedings (Like that of the Summer Parties, Ascot).
During their lives they draw immense journalist exposure in the shape of pictorial, online and televised commentary regarding their daily lives, family associations, rites of passage, personalities, attire, actions, and public roles.
Funding
Monies that help out the British Queen in the running of her duties as the head of state of the U.K. comes from the Civil List. This is a return of a tiny portion of the revenue from the Crown Lands that are provided by the monarch to parliament at the beginning of each and every reign; all Crown Land being overseen by The Crown Estates, an establishment accountable to parliament. In the two thousand and three-four fiscal year, the amount provided was one hundred and seventy-six million pounds, where the Queen’s payments totalled thirty six million pounds. The Queen’s expenditure doesn’t contain the expenditure of protection. If you are travelling to England then why not find out more about the Royal Family at enjoyEngland.com today.
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Definition Of An Entrepreneur
at 12:15 pm on Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The dictionary outlines an entrepreneur as somebody who initiates and assumes the risk for business ventures. However the definition of a successful Entrepreneur is something a little different.
We use information in this business, knowledge that leads to profits. Entrepreneurs make money by applying supply and demand information against an existing environment to produce a result. So even though the existing dictionary definition talks about assuming risk for the existing project, a successful entrepreneur actually assumes profits. Its the difference between a success and a failing project.
An entrepreneur studies his market and knows the current price points that investment objects will sell for. Armed with this knowledge he/she can confidently make investments and know the price negotiated is actually locked in profit. Its this intrinsic value knowledge that is so vital to an investing entrepreneur
So entrepreneurs buy profits and sell into working capital. If you were to define the absolute activity the typical entrepreneur does it would be the deal maker. Entrepreneurs deal in value and value exchange.
So to define clearly what an entrepreneur does we can say that they measure and deal in values, ensuring that their purchases are always below the value of the investment object. To do this they actually study the market they specialize in. In other words, they literally keep track of sales as they happen in there market and maintain constant vigilant surveillance so they know exactly what a given investment object (making allowances for current condition)is actually wort6h and what current perceptions are about that object.
A smart entrepreneur also reads charts of recent price movements and studies the emerging trends, to anticipate coming bubbles and troughs in the price points they currently deal in.
Martin Thomas (c)2005
Martin is a professional investor and Entrepreneur. If you would like to discover more about being an entrepreneur, you can read “The Million Dollar Mentor” by Hayden Muller. Martin recommends this work highly and has used the very concepts contained in the work for his own successful entrepreneurial activities.
http://www.opportunity-investor.com
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Dear Student of Logistical Supply Chains of the US Military
at 11:58 pm on Monday, 21 July 2008
When recently talking with a Supply Chain man about the advances in business distribution and the US military it occurred to me that perhaps I should take this conversation a little deeper for all students of logistical supply chains. I would like to discuss with you theory based Logistics, scheduling, manufacturing models, distribution strategies and to do that I will need to catch you up to speed with some of my thoughts on this subject matter. So I have provided links to information I have written and give to the world from my knowledge base, which can assist you.
Perhaps this information with a little help of the knowledge of the system that the military logistic officers use to protect this great nation, can help them formulate thoughts or even suggest a plan to improve logistical efficiency in the US Military. You see, in this day and age of moving components to the battlespace everything must be done without detection, as to not tip off your enemy of logistical movement and warn them, thus losing the element of surprise. It is no different in business when launching a new product, you have to use a lot of thought to not give clues to what you are doing or misdirect to allow your competitor to assume something else.
Here are the ideas, which those involved in logistical supply chains might find somewhat relevant to both Military Logistics, business and franchising.
http://worldthinktank.net/wttbbs/index.php?s=9d273564b15ff133e60999f9ca7f49d0&showtopic=196
http://worldthinktank.net/wttbbs/index.php?s=9d273564b15ff133e60999f9ca7f49d0&showtopic=601
http://worldthinktank.net/wttbbs/index.php?s=7e40269fe34140927d8643de919afc04&showtopic=692
Any way this might be some food for thought for those who study distribution and help them formulate their current thoughts on streamlining logistics and perhaps allow them to assimilate all this information with their inner working knowledge at logistical companies, large corporations or even the US Military to come up with solutions to increasing efficiency there. Consider all this in 2006.
“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/
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Ondeck Yachting School provides an full variety of Business Sailing Days
at 9:31 pm on Sunday, 20 July 2008
Ondeck Yachting School are one of the most excellent sailing businesses in the UK, with over 7 years of sailing experience under their belts they have merited that title. The sailing business itself was not begun till 2004 where they then became labelled as the Ondeck Sailing Group. The main plan was to develop the charter segment of the company to individuals, groups & companies. The outlay they decided to make in obtaining Pindar Volvo 60 sailing yachts has in fact worked out for Ondeck, they have built on what they had in the past & essentially just developed on it. They incorporate a huge array of sailing courses on board their boats and nowadays offer skippered charters, corporate sailing race charters, mile building opportunities, cruising, adventure sailing trips, ocean passages and also Caribbean charter. Check out Ondeck for the latest Corporate Sailing packages.
Ondeck Sailing & Yachting supply Business & Team yachting experiences to all of their existing and new yachting clients. Ondeck Sailing Group aspires to assist all of their clientele to form stronger more experienced teams & profitable durable business associations through a unique selection of corporate sailing day activities that are testing but are entertaining and there is something for everyone.
The Corporate Sailing events are accessible to everyone with a team scaled from six to 600 & the choices of what can be supplied to you are ever-ending, in actuality it does count on what type of thing you desire. It is imperative to keep in mind that corporate yachting is for each person and it’s not constantly about spectating & racing at all of the important events in the sailing & yachting diary, they also organise for any parties, networking and business or leadership developments that your company possibly will wish to apart off.
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