Sunday, November 27, 2011

Telemarketing Companies Are Some of the Best Among Providing Sales Leads

In-house telemarketing casework are some of the best you can apply to advice you accept a telemarketing campaign. And if it comes to authoritative added sales, telemarketing is after a agnosticism one of the best business strategies you can accomplish use of. But if your telemarketing attack can't assume to accompany in those adapted results, again it may be a aftereffect of you not accepting beginning B2B leads. To antidote this problem, accepting advance bearing done may be a acceptable advantage however, affairs a telemarketing or calling account is aswell something you can choose. With alone a bound bulk of staff, abacus on advance bearing to their assigned tasks may be too abundant for them to handle. Aside from that, your advisers may not accept the ability on how to finer do so. Once you accept absitively on accepting one however, addition affair to accede in authoritative the best is who to accept as a provider, who you can buy from to get superior results. Well, one of the best choices you can accomplish is traveling with a able telemarketing firm.

With their capabilities if it comes to accomplishing advance generation, they are an optimal best for abounding added firms that charge advance bearing services. Because of this, it aswell makes them one of the best if it comes to the conception of a telemarketing list. Well-known and abounding telemarketing firms that accept been already in the business for a continued time accept already managed to apply a abounding bulk of telemarketers. Also, they accept been in the industry continued abundant to learn, actualize and alternation their telemarketers in the art of authoritative a auction through the buzz with ease. Aside from that, algid calling is one of the a lot of broadly acclimated methods in agreement of advance bearing and accomplished telemarketers can do it bigger than anyone else. If it comes to talking to prospects, abounding accept aswell abstruse that acute calling is a added able way of breeding leads. By accomplishing analysis on their anticipation and accepting an abounding bulk of ability on the ambition company, these telemarketers are able of agreeable in continued and allusive conversations with the anticipation appropriately acceptance them to calmly accomplish the anticipation feel at affluence because they are able to allege on according terms. Due to this, they can calmly access the advice they charge out of their affairs and about-face it into a advance and placed on your telemarketing list.

Telemarketing firms aswell pride themselves with the superior of account they provide: quick and superior results. Although they do apply a abounding bulk of agents to accomplish calls and abbreviate the time bare to get results, blow assured, they do not accommodation the all-embracing superior of the lists that they provide. They will aswell accomplish abiding to acquisition affairs who are awful absorbed with your articles and services, acquisition affairs that are accommodating to buy and acquisition those who are in the bazaar and searching for such; they assure to accompany you beginning B2B leads to access the affairs of you authoritative a auction with every advance on your purchased telemarketing list.

With a telemarketing close at your ancillary and as your provider, you can apprehend to accumulate on accepting high-quality leads and lists. If anytime your centralized telemarketing affairs may assume a bit apathetic and not able of bringing in the appropriate bulk of sales, again accede affairs a telemarketing or calling account abounding with beginning B2B leads from a able telemarketing firm. This is abiding to accommodate you with the best results.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Get Marketing Leads To Help Companies With Full Plates

Advertising costs a lot added than what some businesses think. Usually these are the adolescent ones who accept a few fly posters actuality and there will accord them all the acknowledgment they'll charge (and it's the alone affair they can allow anyways).

Unfortunately, the after-effects will anon allege for themselves and they don't complete good. Besides, accept you anytime paid absorption to such methods or don't you just acquisition those things annoying? (Some do tend to just leave them on your windshield or electric posts). However, there's usually a acceptable acumen why businesses can't allow any added than that. They're all too focused on what in fact makes their business what it is.

That's why commercial itself has remained to be a advancing industry. Not even the big-time corporations can allow the acknowledgment they get with commercials and bi-weekly ads. It's not something that their assets can cascade themselves into. Creating a artefact and alive who it would account is just abrading the apparent of the challenge. Commercial ventures charge to be added artistic and clear in adjustment to work. Sadly, they can't go above that because they accept to focus aggregate abroad on what they're declared to be doing.

Their charge admitting is consistently acceptable account for your commercial group. The claiming admitting is you can't just await on just the aggregate charge of businesses. It's too general. Just because commercial is in demand, doesn't beggarly all the companies in the apple are in charge of an commercial group.

Some of them may already be alive calm with addition close (a adversary for all you know). Others ability not be able to allow what you accept to offer. Others may even administer to conduct their own attack (perhaps from extenuative up profits).

What you charge is to accomplish sales leads that are added refined. The superior of the advice you get from advance bearing should go above bare acquaintance information. Qualifying a advance isn't consistently an burning process. It takes some adorning and adorning takes time.

For this you'll aswell charge an adapted adjustment that's fast and adjustable abundant in agreement of communication. Some would advance emails while others would acclaim telemarketing. Yield agenda admitting that a adjustment is alone as acceptable as the one application it. Email conversations will yield too continued if mismanaged and a business buzz in the easily of an abecedarian will alone abash your company. Finally, there's the alarming anticipation of accepting to attending up directories from scratch.

Now of course, there's consistently a acceptable adventitious that you'll be able to do what it takes. There may not be abundant aberration if you accumulate in apperception the basal accent of award out what your targets need. For those who still can't on the added hand, there's no botheration either. All you charge to do is outsource advance bearing casework for the advice that you require. Granted that these companies accept already invested affluence beforehand, abrogation your advance bearing up to them saves you that aforementioned trouble.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Mobile Marketing Software for Apps

If you are searching to bazaar your business by agency of a adaptable business App, again alive what the industry has to action if it comes to adaptable business software for Apps and what to beacon bright of will not alone save you money but will aswell ensure that you get the ideal business app for your accurate blazon of business.

There are a amount of accomplish you should yield afore you absorb any money on your business App.

Find the Appropriate Features

Doing analysis into the assorted appearance that can be included in your App and how they will plan for your blazon of business is vital. While GPS coupons may assume like an accomplished affection for companies that wish to access bottom trade, they will not plan as able-bodied for companies that crave appearance by arrangement only. A superior App development aggregation should be able to explain the appearance and allowances to you and appearance specifics of how they can be acclimated in your industry.

Get the Appropriate Look

The all-embracing attending of the App should be seamless and should accept architecture chain to it. Yield a attending at altered App designs to ensure that the attending is what you want. The affluence of aeronautics is aswell important in adjustment to action your audience the best accessible adaptable acquaintance and is basic if you intend to allegation for your App download. Appearance should aswell accommodate with the adaptable accessories functionality such as with one blow acquaintance buttons, GPS about-face by about-face area finders, chargeless advance notifications etc.

Offer Chump Superior Information

Unlike a website, your App is an alternate business apparatus with appearance that appoint and absorb chump participation. Offering superior appearance and admonition as able-bodied as discounts and promotions to accolade them for actively accommodating in these App appearance is a abundant way to ensure chump adherence and connected support. Abutment and adherence are not the alone adjustment for your investment, you´ll aswell be able to accomplish superior agreeable for your amusing media sites which will access your web based cartage and seek engine popularity.

Let the Software Go Viral

In adjustment to acquiesce your adaptable business apparatus to plan for you, you will wish to ensure that your adaptable business software includes allotment and forward facilities. Tell a acquaintance affection should acquiesce for email, amusing media and argument accessories to forward your App to their accompany and family. Making abiding that this affection is a one touch, simple to accomplish action will ensure that it is simple to do and offers some amount to the chump too. Adding this affection to abatement coupons is a abundant way for accompany to forward accompany discounts while virally business your App for you.

There are companies that will abetment you with development, action admonition on business techniques and will even handle all your updates and maintenance, but in the end, amount is consistently an important factor. Consistently enquire about added costs that may be incurred such as developers accounts if you are architecture your own App and branding abatement which some companies cover automatically as a agency of business their business on your App.

Finding the appropriate adaptable business software for Apps will ensure that you get a superior artefact that is customized to your needs and puts you in the pockets and purses of humans who wish your articles consistent in added sales and added cast awareness.

Trompe-l’oeil in art

In January of 2010 I saw a really interesting exhibit at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence: Art & Illusions: Masterpieces of Trompe-l'œil from Antiquity to the Present.  That exhibit got me to start thinking of the role of  trompe-l’oeil in art.  “Trompe-l’oeil” is French for to trick the eye, it is more than just a realistic work of art but it is something created to fool the viewer or at least make the viewer question what they are seeing.  It is a work which creates an optical illusion, however the term “Trompe-l’oeil” is used to describe a variety of illusions in art.  Some are entertaining and some create quite sophisticated illusions.

There have been many examples throughout time: Ancient Roman, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque as well as modern and contemporary examples.  Let's look at a few of them to compare.
Still life with glass bowl of fruit and vase, wall painting, Pompeian painter c- 70 AD,
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

In the wall paintings uncovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum there are many examples of trompe-l’oeil.  The most typical were similar to the example above showing still-life objects sitting on a "shelf" they were created to show off the skill of the artist and to amuse the viewer.  There were also several mosaic floors created as a trompe-l’oeil showing discarded fish bones.  This skillful works also alluded to the wealth of the owner of the home.

It was said in Ancient Greece that there was a contest between two painters, Zeuxis and Parrhasius.  Zeuxis painted grapes that were so realistic they fooled birds into trying to eat them.  However Parrhasius won the contest as he even fooled the other artist; he had painted a pair of curtains and Zeuxis thought that his painting lay behind the curtains.

I don't know if the story is real, but regardless it demonstrates that trompe-l’oeil has been a part of art for centuries.

Painting of a false dome, Andrea Pozzo, 1685, Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio, Rome, Italy
photo- © Jean-Christophe BENOIST/ public domain, via Wikimedia Commons  

Painter Andrea Pozzo cleverly created a false dome within the church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome.  The illusion works perfectly if the viewer is standing in a certain area, they would look up and see a "dome" which is in fact a flat surface with a fake dome painted in.  It is clever as no one would be expecting this type of trompe-l’oeil in a church.  However if the viewer is standing in another area the trick doesn't work.
Architectural trompe-l'oeil gallery, Francesco Borromini, Palazzo Spada, Rome, 1638 
Trompe-l’oeil in art can also be found in sculpture and architecture such as this example by Borromini done earlier in the century. This gallery is a tour de force of trompe-l’oeil in which shrinking rows of columns and a rising floor create the illusion that the gallery is four times longer than it is.  The illusion is made through the use of light, spacing of the columns and the fact that the two archways are vastly different heights.

At first glance Borromini’s gallery is quite long, leading to a statue at the end.  The statue is about three-quarters the height of the distant doorway.  However when I visited a guide walked from one end to the next to show our group of students the illusion; at the far end she was the same height as the statue, but as she walked along the path we saw she was only about a quarter of the height of the first archway.

This can be explained when you realize that the two doorways are of different heights.  However since Borromini constructed this with seemingly perfect perspective, the false perspective tricks you into believing that both doorways are of the same height if you walked from one to the other.

The Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale), Charles Willson Peale, 1795,
oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art; The George W. Elkins Collection

 In this work early American painter Charles Willson Peale creates a trompe-l’oeil by painting life size portraits.
“To enhance the illusion, he installed the painting within a doorframe in his studio, with a real step in front. Rembrandt Peale, another son, recalled that his father's friend George Washington, misled by Peale's artifice, tipped his hat and greeted the two young men as he walked by.”*
*Darrel Sewell, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 267.

Again the Art & Illusions: Masterpieces of Trompe-l'œil exhibit was one of the most interesting art exhibits I have seen: 150 objects related to illusion. Examples really did “trick the eye” into thinking surfaces weren’t flat, objects were coming off the canvas, the canvas was  a piece of wood, or a cabinet with open doors, or something was sculpted rather than painted.  Some  were truly remarkable and I wanted to reach out and touch them as the illusion was so convincing.  

I actually did get tricked with a Duane Hanson sculpture. Hanson was a late 20th century American “hyper-realist” who sculpted people and used real objects in his sculptures, in that exhibit it was a mom pushing a stroller. I didn’t really look at “her” I thought it was a mom pushing a stroller until the person next to me got so close they set off an alarm and then everyone turned to stare and I was truly startled that they weren’t real.  They had her set up as if she was a spectator looking at a painting, which added to the illusion.

That is probably why trompe-l’oeil has worked well and has endured to the present day, because so many examples really do fool the viewer.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Using a Personal Assistant to Help Market Your Business

Owning your own baby business is rough. But you knew that afore you started, right? The actuality is--you put in a lot of harder hours. And you ability not even be axis a accumulation yet. Why? Able-bodied there are abounding reasons. But the capital one is apparently that you don't accept the time, or maybe the knowledge, to appropriately bazaar your business. That said, accede hiring a claimed abettor to handle it for you.

Why a Claimed Abettor is Appropriate for Your Business

You ability be thinking, "Why appoint a claimed assistant? What do they know?" Well, it depends on which one you hire. Abiding some of them get paid measely chump change to do asinine tasks for humans like grocery arcade and what not--but if you acquisition a top superior assistant, you will accept anyone who can yield over your absolute business department. In fact, they may even be able to appear up with a business action for you.

Hire an Abettor that Knows How to Write

As a arch marketer, your claimed abettor will charge to compose a business plan abounding of all sorts of accounting correspondence. This could include:

absolute mail

email marketing

blogging

web copy

postcards

flyers

and more!

Having said this, it is important that you appoint an abettor that can address ad archetype if necessary. how can you tell? Easy--check out their website and apprehend their content. Does it apprehend well? Does it allege to YOU the customer? Does it point out the allowances of enlisting their services? If so, again you accept an abecedarian website copywriter on your hands!

Have They Acted as Administration for Other Business Owners?

Now, not all claimed administration can handle your business tasks. You charge to achieve abiding they accept helped humans in agnate situations as castigation in the past. That agency they accept abounding acquaintance authoritative calls, affair with abeyant leads, acclimation leads, and afterward up.

Make Abiding They Fit Your Budget

Hiring a claimed abettor can prove big-ticket at times. You aswell ability acquisition some absolutely cheap. Rates ambit anywhere from ten to fifty dollars an hour. Remember that amount does not necessarily behest accomplishment level. You absolutely charge to accommodated with the claimed abettor and allocution with them to get a acceptable abstraction of what they ability be able to accomplish.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Continuous Narrative in Art

What is meant by the "Continuous Narrative" in art?  Many artworks contain a "narrative" or representation of an event.  The continuous narrative is a way to tell an entire story within one artwork, the same characters show up repeatedly in order to give a timeline of events in the story.  Often the same groups of characters are shown right next to each other in the same painting or sculptural frieze. 


These side by side scenes can be thought of as pre-cursors to modern day comic strips.  They weren’t shown in different panels, but this would have been understood by contemporary audiences to be telling a story.

Column of Marcus Aurelius, detail, bottom three bands of helical relief 
Emperor's campaigns against the Germans and the Sarmatians. 180-185 A.D., Rome
photo- © Simone Ramella / public domain, via Wikimedia Commons  


This was used as far back as ancient Assyrian and Babylonian art and remained popular throughout much of art history to depict an entire event from start to finish.  The Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome has one long sculptural frieze that winds up the entire length of the column.  The column shaft measures nearly 100 feet (29.62 meters) long.

It is nearly impossible for a viewer on the ground to look up and see the entire story and know what is going on.  The sculptors took this into account and made each band slightly wider as it wound up the column.  The heads of the figures were also shown slightly larger than proportionally correct so that they could be recognized from below.

As this column shows several military battles where the Romans were triumphant, the same soldiers and military commanders are shown over and over again.  Objects such as trees, rivers, horses and architecture help separate and frame each scene.





Column of Marcus Aurelius, c-193 A.D., Rome
photo- © Matthias Kabel / public domain, via Wikimedia Commons  

The technique of continuous narrative was used frequently in Renaissance painting.  A good example of this can also  be found in the large devotional panel by Gentile da Fabriano which shows the adoration (seen below).  
 Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano, 1423, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
egg tempera and gold leaf on wood panel


The main scene shows the three Magi (or three wise men) as they have come to give gifts to the newborn Christ child.  However the Magi are shown in miniature in the scenes above, from the first time they see the Star of Bethlehem to the entire journey they make.  We can see the star several times as well and it ends up glowing like a golden orb over St. Joseph's head in the central scene.

In the detail (below) we can see a close up of the left arch of the painting and can make out the three Magi seeing the Star of Bethlehem for the first time.  In each of the other two arches the viewer can follow along with their journey.
Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano, 1423, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
detail of the central upper register of the panel 


St. Peter is seen three times in the fresco below.  This fresco by Masaccio is especially interesting as the story does not occur from left to right as in most examples, but jumps from the center to the left and then to the right.  This biblical story was very well known, so the contemporary viewer would not have been confused by this.  The story begins in the central portion of the frame when the tax collector asks for the temple tax and Christ tells his apostles that they need to find money to pay the temple tax, he turns to Peter and tells him to look in the mouth of a fish in order to find the coin.  This event of course is a miraculous one.

Part two of the story takes place just to the left of the main action, St. Peter is wearing the same blue robe but has set his golden sash aside for a moment while he looks for a fish in the sea.  Then part three of the story jumps over to the right hand side where after finding the coin as Christ has said, St. Peter pays the tax.  Again to help the viewer keep track of St. Peter, he is shown wearing his blue robe and gold sash and the tax collector is the only person wearing a short tunic.


The Tribute Money, Masaccio, 1425, fresco, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

In his famous fresco cycle in Santa Maria Novella the artist Ghirlandaio has also used continuous narrative.  Remember from earlier blog posts that Ghirlandaio was in fact the teacher of Michelangelo.  Michelangelo was a student in his workshop during the time that these frescoes were being painted, so he would have worked on these as well.

In the panel showing the birth of the Virgin Mary, the birth is concentrated in the lower right hand portion of the frame.  However the Immaculate Conception (which refers to the fact that Mary's mother St. Anne was impregnated by just a kiss from her husband Joachim) is shown to us in the top left hand portion.  Therefore St. Anne is shown twice in the same room.  However that was understood by all to have occurred at two different times within the same story; even though each event took place nine months apart.




Immaculate Conception and Birth of the Virgin Mary, Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1485-90
Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence


In our final example (below) we are seeing the Rest on the Flight Into Egypt.  The artist David shows us that this is his theme rather than a typical portrait of the Virgin and Child by showing the holy family in the background in the woods.  By seeing two versions of Jesus and the Madonna, one in the foreground and one in the background, the viewer understands that they are both scenes in the same story.  The riding of the donkey is always understood in Renaissance painting as being part of the flight into Egypt from the Biblical story.

The use of the same figures in one panel, which David employs quite subtly in this work, is yet another example of the continuous narrative in art.


Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Gerard David, 1512-15
oil on wood panel, Museo del Prado, Madrid


Now that you have learned about the use of the continuous narrative in art you will certainly notice many other examples.



Songwriting - Understanding the Purposes of Verses, Choruses and Every Other Section of a Song

It's important to understand that each section of a song typically has a role to fulfill. If you know the purpose of each section in your song, you'll be better prepared to write a great song. Of course, most songs won't use all of the sections listed below, but knowing the purpose of your sections is crucial to understanding how to put together a solid song.

Verse
Lyrically, the verses of your song will move your story forward. The chorus or refrain is likely to have the same words each time, so the verse is your chance to keep your ideas moving along.

Chorus
Think of your chorus as the big idea for what your song's all about. That's partly why your title is most likely to show up in your chorus. Your title also sums up what the song's about. Melodically, the chorus will be the catchiest part of your song. This is what people will have stuck in their head long after your song is over. That's another reason it's good to have your title in the chorus. When people get your chorus stuck in their head, they'll easily know what your song is called and can find it later when they want to hear it again.

Pre-Chorus
The pre-chorus is an add-on before the chorus. It usually repeats the same lyrics each time, the same way a chorus does. Musically, a lot of times it creates a nice build up to what's coming in the chorus. Katy Perry's "Firework" was a good example of that, as you saw above.

Bridge
The bridge is a departure from what we've heard in a song, previously. This goes for both the lyrics and the music. Lyrically, it's an opportunity for a new perspective. Musically, it's a chance to offer the listener something they haven't heard before to keep the song interesting.

Refrain
In the verse / verse / bridge / verse song structure, the refrain is the line that draws all the attention in your verses. It's usually at the beginning or end of each verse and is often the title of the song.

Hook
The hook doesn't necessarily refer to a specific section of a song, except to say it's the catchiest part of a song. Most of the time, it will be your chorus, if your song has one. If your song doesn't have a chorus your hook will most likely be your refrain. As hit songwriter, Clay Drayton, says "A fish knows the hook... Once it's in you, it's hard to get it out."

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Successful Marketing Plan in Five Easy Steps

Writing a business plan can be done in 5 simple to chase steps. When done appropriately you will accord yourself an bend over you competitors. When amount is complex a acceptable business plan will abate your commercial budgets by bartering targeted leads to your sales team.

When creating a acknowledged business the better affair to get appropriate is who your business is targeted at. The targeting accept to be able for your chump and in a abode which creates trust. To actualize the able business appearance it is important to accept the actual business plan.

When autograph a plan this can be done by yourself, but there accept to be all-embracing analysis into the targeted bazaar with some anticipation into the needs of your chump if it is to be advantageous with accomplishing results.

The next area involves 5 simple accomplish which if followed accurately will alpha your business plan in the appropriate direction.

Step 1:

Get your analysis calm and analyse it.

Here is the a lot of important of the 5 steps. You will charge to absolutely accept the industry you are in, the sales patterns involved, the advance you will accomplishment to accomplish and the articles which are successful. Competition is good, it will accord you an accuracy into what works and what does not. Look at your customers, who are they? What do they need? Look at appraisement of articles and appraisement of packages. Within this targeted analysis you will accretion advice on your strengths and the weaknesses you will charge to plan on. From this you will accomplish abundant description into your bazaar and your direction.

Step 2:

Write down your capital challenges.

What does not annihilate us will accomplish us stronger. Your challenges will galvanise your business acumen. Is breeding leads a problem? Find a course, apprentice and act. Account all the things you charge to plan on and act on it. The completed account will accomplish a faculty of achievement.

Step 3:

What are your mission objectives?

Set bright simple objectives and claiming them. I afresh capital to adept abandoned ads, so I absorbed myself in abandoned ads until I was blessed with my responses. You charge to accumulate learning, accumulate the momentum. Consistently developing you, and authoritative absolute progress. When we become brackish we lose our drive and desire.

Step 4:

What is your bold plan?

When you accept a account of objectives you charge to apperceive how you will accouterment them. You charge a bold plan. The plan accept to abode these objectives anon ensuring that you are authoritative advance to active them off the list. Accept your cold in the average of the cardboard and activate account about it; these will be your assorted solutions and bold attacks. If I wish added leads again I will accept assorted advance angles to ensure greater success and not putting all my eggs in one basket.

Step 5:

Every bold plan needs tactics

Once you accept the bold plan to advance your cold you charge a tactic. This is area the activity will begin. What you charge to do is attach what you will do to your cold to abet your bold plan and ultimately accomplish your objective. There will consistently be the affair of cost. It would never be astute to go into debt after authoritative the all-important judgements first. Accident will pay off alone if you apperceive it is a bare accident and you accept done your research. Set a account for commercial etc. and stick to it, if you can absorb added do it, don't penny pinch. In your business you will get out what you advance in time and money. Your efforts accept to be based about your analysis and targeted so you get added blast for your buck.