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How Real Estate Agent Direct Mail Marketing Can Increase Your Business

Article by Michele Butler

How Real Estate Agent Direct Mail Marketing Can Increase Your Business

According to the US Postal Service, 98% of consumers bring in their mail the day it?s delivered, and 77% sort through it immediately. Now, imagine a piece of Real Estate Agent Direct Mail strategically delivered to one of those consumers, filled with information that addresses one of their immediate needs. It?s like scheduling a face-to-face meeting with your ideal consumer, since Direct Mail gets you literally in the front door!If you are a Real Estate Agent in Orange County, California searching for the most effective way to reach your clients and prospects, Real Estate Agent Direct Mail Marketing may be the answer you?re looking for. Here are some ways where you can effectively increase your business?

* Hit your target. Determine who you?re trying to reach and focus on reaching them. Mass advertising can be expensive and isn?t always an option for small businesses. By contacting only your ideal client through targeted Direct Mail Marketing, you eliminate unnecessary marketing efforts and drastically increase your return on investment.

* Connect on a personal level. Addressing your clients by name, and offering them service based on their needs, forges an automatic connection which makes them more likely to respond. In fact, 55% of consumers ?look forward? to discovering the mail they receive, and you want to ensure your piece is there for them to discover.

* Customize it your way. Infusing the unique traits of your business into your Real Estate Agent Direct Mail Marketing pieces is easy, and you can customize your program the way you want. Some examples of customization include showcasing real estate accomplishments, informing readers of market trends, or simply wishing them a happy holiday!

* Give them something to hold on to. Physically placing your message in your customers? hands engages them in a tactile way, and providing them with useful information encourages them to interact with you and keep your piece handy.

* Track your success.

Real Estate Agent Direct Mail Marketing is one of the few media channels that allows you to track the success of your campaign, and it?s as simple as counting the responses you received from that particular piece. By tracking and analyzing your results, you can make the necessary adjustments to your program to generate more leads.The key to building a strong brand as a Real Estate Agent in Orange County, California and increasing that brand?s value is consistent, regular marketing, and Direct Mail marketing pieces are an easy, cost-effective way to do this. Connect to your target client today with Direct Mail marketing and increase your business!

Michele Butler is the Owner of All About You Marketing, a company that specializes in marketing and promotional items for real estate agents in Orange County, California. She can be reached at 714-960-9878 ext. 302 or Michele@AAYMarketing.com.

About the Author

Michele Butler is the Owner of All About You Marketing, a company that specializes in marketing and Promotional Items for Real Estate Agents in Orange County California. She can be reached at 714-960-9878 ext. 302 or Michele@AAYMarketing.com.

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Source: http://nationalrealtynews.com/how-real-estate-agent-direct-mail-marketing-can-increase-your-business/

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Conversation with Physician Assistant | Health and Fitness ...

Ms. Cook discusses how health care providers can use of screening assessments to identify women at high risk for alcohol use during pregnancy.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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1. Ms. Cook. Great job. You set a wonderful example for all Physician Assistants.

2. This is an excellent video for all to see.
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Hollywood's summer story: more dollars, fewer fans (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? The good news for Hollywood: summer movie revenues are up worldwide as studios rebounded from a dismally slow start to the year.

The bad news: Domestically, revenues rose only a fraction compared to the previous year's, while actual movie attendance dropped for the fourth-straight year.

Taken together, the summers of 2010 and 2011 combined for the smallest domestic audiences since the summers of 1997-98. Since peaking at a modern high of 653 million tickets sold in summer 2002, domestic attendance has wavered generally downward, dipping to 551 million in summer 2010 and sliding again this summer to 543 million, according to projections from box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

One so-so summer can be an aberration, when the movies simply failed to grab fans. Two so-so summers in a row are a sign of the tough task studios face to keep butts in theater seats at a time when audiences have more entertainment options than ever.

"One down summer you could lay at the doorstep of a lack of quality films, audience indifference, whatever. But more than one or two years becomes a trend, and we're seeing this downward trend in attendance," said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. "Emerging technology combined with an audience that is trying to figure out how they want to consume their entertainment is creating this situation."

Making matters worse, Hollywood took a weather hit last weekend, with business down steeply because many East Coast theaters closed to ride out Hurricane Irene.

Many in Hollywood expected summer 2011 to be a knock-it-out-of-the-park season. The summer was jammed with superhero sagas, huge animated sequels and action franchises that studio executives predicted would quickly lift the industry out of a deep rut after the year began with a weak run of movies.

Summer did erase most of this year's deficit on revenues, which back in spring had been running as much as 20 percent behind last year's.

According to Hollywood.com, domestic receipts from the first weekend in May through Labor Day weekend should finish at a record $4.38 billion, up 0.7 percent from summer 2010. But factoring in this year's higher ticket prices, actual attendance will be down 1.4 percent.

Studio executives get defensive comparing this year to last, saying the early part of 2010 made for an unfair contrast because blockbusters such as "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland" were keeping theaters jammed. By comparison, the early months of this year were a quiet time at theaters, digging a hole for a business that's always looking for the next box-office record.

"The challenge the whole industry found itself in was a testament to the films in the market last year," said Dave Hollis, head of distribution at Disney. "It creates a story that is frankly less about 2011 than it is about the amazingness of 2010."

For the year, revenues now are running 4.3 percent behind 2010's, a big recovery since spring. But it's not as good as projected in May, when some Hollywood executives were predicting that this year's revenues would shoot past last year's by early summer.

Still, some of this summer's films delivered spectacularly, including $300 million megahits "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." And while most franchise films packed in big crowds, they often did not live up to the domestic returns of their predecessors, among them "Cars 2," "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "The Hangover Part II," "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "X-Men: First Class."

Surprise smashes such as "Bridesmaids," "The Smurfs" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" were offset by duds like "Green Lantern" and "Cowboys & Aliens." Except for the "Transformers" sequel, domestic audiences turned blas? about 3-D movies, with fans no longer as willing to shell out an extra few dollars for the added dimension.

On the flipside, overseas audiences were hungry for 3-D and Hollywood movies in general. While Johnny Depp's fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" flick managed a franchise low $240 million domestically, it pulled in a colossal $800 million internationally, joining the latest "Transformers" installment and the "Harry Potter" finale to make a threesome of billion-dollar worldwide hits this summer.

"Communication with the Internet and everything else has just made the world a lot smaller place," said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution at Warner Bros., whose $1 billion overseas haul for the "Harry Potter" finale will exceed the entire world total rung up by "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," the franchise's previous top-grosser. "The growth in the exhibition business has without any doubt been international."

Only seven other movies had topped $1 billion previously, led by James Cameron's "Avatar" at $2.8 billion and "Titanic" at $1.8 billion.

"Deathly Hallows: Part 2" provided a suitable send-off for young wizard Harry, the finale taking in a record $482 million worldwide through opening weekend and climbing to No. 3 all-time with $1.3 billion.

Along with "The Hangover" sequel and "Bridesmaids," other R-rated comedies such as "Horrible Bosses" and "Bad Teacher" scored with audiences.

In a season that normally caters to young action and comedy fans, older adult crowds also had some nice choices with the late-summer dramatic smash "The Help" and Woody Allen's biggest hit in decades, "Midnight in Paris."

Though attendance is not what it was a few years back, studio executives seem satisfied with the crowds that turned out this summer and talk hopefully about a strong finish to the year with new installments of "Twilight," "Sherlock Holmes," "Alvin and the Chipmunks," "Happy Feet" and other franchises.

"The thing that comes clear out of all of this is that the business is healthy and well. It's not the doom and gloom pieces that you kind of heard earlier in the year," said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony Pictures. "With all the holiday product, there should be a lot of money there all the way through the end of the year."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110831/ap_en_mo/us_film_hollywood_s_summer

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Starz wanted Netflix to charge more for ?premium tier?

Netflix couldn’t come to a deal to keep Starz content on their service, so they’ll be losing it next February, but it turns out Starz wanted more than just Netflix’s money to stay — they wanted more of our money too: Netflix offered Starz more than $300 million...

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What are some good family tree websites? | Family Tree Information ...

by Family Tree on August 30, 2011

For a homework assignment, I have to create a family tree. I am to my great grandparents in the tree, but I need a free website to find out more about my history. Thank you!

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World's only turbine-powered Batmobile up for sale on eBay, recession hits Bruce Wayne, too

Remember that Boeing-powered Batmobile we ran across last month? Well friends, it could be yours via eBay auction in about a week. Currently, the highest bid is you can buy it now for $620,000 -- which would be enough to cover the cost of several cars not fit for the Caped Crusader. However, none of those come equipped with a helicopter turbine, now do they? Putsch Racing reminds interested parties that the mean machine is street registered in the US, so you can roll like the Dark Knight without fear of the police pursuing you. An iPad loaded with digital avionics helps you monitor the jet engine, and you can use your choice of three fuel sources to power the thing: Jet A, kerosene, or diesel. Hey now, we never said it was environmentally friendly. If you, like Jay-Z, are "planking on a million," check out the detailed auction shots below and bid on Batman's ride yourself.

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Libyan rebels round up black Africans

This is one of eight stories imagining the possible escape or final days of Moammar Gadhafi. To read the others, click here.

He is in a caravan, one of many identical military transports, on their way someplace, he doesn't know where. The driver has stopped talking to him: radio silence. There has been a plan for some time now, since the Americans tried to kill him in '86, that would bring him out through the tunnels, toward Buslim, and then south, in the event of war. But there is fighting in Buslim and so they have driven northwest along the coast, then inland again, and now they are not sure where to go, as the rebels have surrounded the houses and the airport, and this was never part of the plan, everything happening everywhere at once. They didn't imagine it could happen so fast. They didn't imagine the Arab Spring.

What they did imagine is that there might be a time when the Revolutionary Leader would have to ride alone for some hours in a windowless bulletproof chamber, and that's where he is now. It is air-conditioned, and soundproof. There is a bed, where he sits, legs crossed, and a water cooler, and a glass-fronted bookcase, and an entertainment console complete with stereo and television. The bookcase, to his dismay, contains little to read: only the Koran and his own -- he admits it, boring -- writings. The Green Book? Please. He was barely 30 when he wrote the thing. The rest of the bookcase is filled with videocassettes.

There is no computer. There is no Internet. He has his phone, but can't get service. The rebels have fouled up everything.

The Revolutionary Leader is depressed. Really, he ought to have thought to have them keep this transport up to date. The television is a bulbous CRT that hums when you turn it on, and all the tapes are from the '80s. There is also a drawer under the stereo that contains compact discs of traditional music, and a couple of board games. Checkers and Monopoly. And there are video games: Atari, and a little pile of cartridges.

There is also a Rubik's Cube.

The RL draws a breath and lets it out slowly. He climbs off the bed and looks through the videocassettes. "Back to the Future." "The Breakfast Club." "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." Is that the one with Tina Turner in it? He tried to get her to perform in Bab al-Azizia, back then, but no dice. A shame, he thinks she would like him. They would have a lot to talk about, he thinks -- astronomy, socialism.

He considers masturbating, but is too depressed. He misses Halyna and his wardrobe. He misses feeling good about himself. The '80s! he thinks, still gazing at the row of videotapes -- those were the days. When Reagan hated him, when he meant something in the world. Safia still loved him, he had a sense of humor. Life was fun. Now he feels like a loser. Why did he sponsor those terrorists? Why did he get so pissed off at the Berbers? All his decisions now seem arbitrary and capricious. He wants to go home and eat a giant meal and fuck his nurse. He wants to flip through his Condi album and remember the glory days.

Instead he slides a videotape off the shelf -- Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" -- pops it into the player, and snatches the Rubik's Cube from the drawer.

He used to have a book that told you how to solve this thing. Memorized it in a couple of hours. Indeed, he got pretty good, around the time of the conflict with Chad -- he used to sit in the war room, waiting for the troops to move, for the brass to arrive and explain themselves, and he would solve the thing over and over again. It calmed his nerves. And then he would sit there at the conference table with the solved cube in front of him and endure the pathetic explanations of those sweating generals.

That war. A humiliation. Beaten by a bunch of ratty bastards in pickup trucks. And now it's happening all over again at home. But no -- don't go there. Too depressing. Watch TV. Solve the Cube.

Sagan. "One voice in the cosmic fugue." The music is soothing -- pianos and synthesizers, and on the screen, stars and galaxies wheeling past. They cast a red glow on the tiny room. There is a rumble outside, the caravan is turning right, the RL ignores it. He is bent over the Cube.

First, a cross, you make a cross on top. That always bothered him -- why couldn't it be a star, or a crescent? He remembers now, he always started with green or red -- national colors, of course. His fingers, encumbered by rings, twist the slabs of plastic into place; the Cube clacks and clatters as Sagan talks about the Samurai.

A war between clans. "Each asserted a superior ancestral claim to the imperial throne." That's always the problem, isn't it -- everybody thinks they're right, nobody backs down. Well, the RL did, after the Americans got Saddam -- he could see the writing on the wall, figured he'd get himself on the winning side. And look where it's brought him. A metal box in the middle of nowhere. The transport lurches -- just a bump in the road. Back to the Cube.

Corners next. Red, red, red, red. Blood in the corners: That's where they push you, then they kill you. Well, not him, he's getting out. Gave these people water, pulled them out of holes in the ground and gave them houses with electricity, he brought wealth and peace to this country. And this is the thanks he gets. "The Heiki warriors threw themselves into the sea and drowned," Sagan says. The ultimate sacrifice! He would have made it for his people! Instead, this!

And now the edge pieces. Left, up, right, down. Right, up, left, down. Sagan is saying, "... marked the end of the clan's thirty-year rule ... the Heiki all but vanished from history ..."

And now the transport is slowing, and it rocks back and forth, and the lights flicker, casting the Revolutionary Leader briefly into darkness. The air conditioning dies, then wheezes back to life. He could solve it now in the dark, he thinks, though he doesn't have to: He's got the middle row finished, and now the orange edge pieces on the bottom, and all he has to do is the corners. Up, right, down, clockwise. Left, counterclockwise, up, left, down, left, left, and --

Ah, shit. Didn't work. And he messed up the bottom corners. Tries to remember what he did, to do it in reverse. Right, right, up. Left? No, right ... It's like his life -- you think you're planning things out, you think you've created order. But chaos creeps in, doesn't it. There's no keeping it at bay.

Through the soundproofing, gunfire. Shouts. There is an explosion: The transport heaves and creaks. The lights flicker again. Sagan says, "... patterns which resemble a human face ... with the aggressive scowl of a samurai warrior ..." He is talking about crabs, Heiki crabs, the final incarnation of the defeated warriors. And now the Revolutionary Leader knows he's beat, because he has lost the bottom edge pieces, too, and the lights go off, and then on again for the last time. The videotape lurches to a stop, starts up again; and it is to the strains of a shakuhachi flute that he glimpses, in the last seconds of light before he is trapped for good, the pattern of a face, his own face, in the Cube, a broken cross, blood in the corners, the end.

Source: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/09/01/ml_libya_rebel_lockups/index.html

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