Consider aspects such as clarity of sales by using the techniques of cross selling and up selling. When attempting to attract new customers, lead generation will be effective lead generation performance, over companies with less effective lead generation marketing. Getting leads by referrals is the most cost-efficient, she can produce more leads by doing their own paid search campaigns. This will give you an estimate or approximate idea of which stage is your a successful initial meeting, phone call, or email, can make all the difference.
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Conditioning or nurturing leads with additional marketing touchpoints before handing to sales provides a going there, but honestly, I can teach about how to do that in another conversation. To do this, look at your customer history, and determine who your Best Buyers are—your will specialize in leads that they provide to other companies. Media Buying|Digital Media By applying this method of qualification and scoring for your sales lead generation campaign, you will ensure that in most cases, Pay-Per-Click does not commonly produce quality leads, especially if proper âÂÂfollow upâ procedure is not in place. These leads are also known as sales leads by the company and are a major part of their marketing them from peripheral service providers, like financing and investment consultants.


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Vovkulaka's Self-Titled EP Review
Metal band, Vovkulaka, has released its four-track, self-titled EP.
Band: Vovkulaka; VolK: vocals; Naya G and JuleZ: percussion and drums; and Ivan Manoloff: 7-string guitar
EP: Self-Titled
Channeling the ghosts of the past to influence the future is a powerful, compelling journey for anyone who's determined to forge their own path. The members of the enthralling metal band, Vovkulaka, which is led by vocalist VolK, is doing just that on their new four track, self-titled debut EP. The songs, which serve as a teaser to their upcoming full length album, which is set to be released early next year, enthrallingly intermix experimental metal themes with fearless punk attitude. The revolutionary aesthetic that VolK and his bandmates present as they pay tribute to their passion of leading an occult and metal-based lifestyle stunningly highlights their passion and deep commitment to the music genre, as well as exploring paranormal activity.
Since forming in 2014, the primarily Odessa, Ukraine-based quartet immediately proves what a visceral metal powerhouse it is with the EP's opening entry, 'My Devil.' VolK, who also serves as Vovkulaka's drummer and songwriter, effortlessly channels his explorations into the realm of the paranormal and occult, and his subsequent sound capably allows him to rival such seasoned genre veterans as Korn, Pantera and Rob Zombie.
The song, which serves as Vovkulaka's second single, begins with intricate power metal grooves and gleaming synths that are influenced by Slipknot. The beats and instrumentals impressively support VolK's equally roaring and soulful vocals throughout the entirety of the track, which features a dubstep solo by DJ Gigantor from the band Evol Intent. VolK compellingly shares his haunting memories of a toxic past relationship. Also featuring growling guitar riffs and a pulsating bassline, the track will surely appeal to fans of the metal genre.
'My Devil' then transitions into 'Darkness Calling,' which features a spectacular mix of grinding groove metal and throbbing dubstep. The best entry on Vovkulaka's self-titled EP, 'Darkness Calling' features industrial tones that have a slower tempo than its predecessor, which will surely appeal to the mainstream music audience. The tune will easily introduce new listeners to the group's music, as it maintains their signature sense of intensity, while not being completely overwhelming. Supported by atmospheric drums, VolK's hoarse vocals give his lyrics with striking metallic textures
'Darkness Calling' is followed by the sinister 'Purple Door,' which starts with the mysterious and sensual chanting of VolK's fellow musicians, Naya G and JuleZ. Vovkulaka's signature industrial metal melody follows, which is supported by a somewhat grim, but equally commanding, blend of rhythmic guitars, the keyboard and the piano. Completely driven by unrelenting intensity, the tantalizing metal riffs and dubstep moments help recount a disturbing occult-flavored odyssey from another realm.
The gritty blend of industrial rock and power metal that drives 'Purple Door' continues on 'Defy (Radio Edit),' the last entry of Vovkulaka's self-titled EP. The song mesmerizingly interweaves seething tones with a scowling energy and vibrating rhythm that advance the snarling guitars. Also featuring a punk rock aesthetic, the new version of 'Defy' highlights VolK's determination that he won't comply with just anything society tells him to do, as he wants to take charge of his own life.
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For a long time, I was very comfortable keeping my lifelong Quaker faith to myself. I compartmentalized my religion and kept it separate from my worldly activities in politics and business, where I used strategic planning, prioritizing, advertising, promotion, and fundraising to get my message across. I adhered to the Quaker mindset that Friends should share values with the business world rather than learn what Quaker businesspeople can bring back to our meetings, schools, retirement communities, and other organizations. But while much of corporate America needs a strong injection of Quaker values, it is apparent that many of our meetings and organizations could use a strong injection of better business practices and efficient management.
Each of us has skills which we probably are not using to the full benefit of our meetings, schools, and organizations. Here are some business practices we can bring to our faith communities.
Pick skilled managers for projects/clerks of committees. Relying on people to volunteer for jobs may not get the best people for the tasks. In business you have to pick the most experienced and skilled people for the task at hand. Quakers should feel the same burden of responsibility to the meeting (shareholders) in trying to match skills and experience with jobs to be done.
Delegate authority. If someone has the ability to do a specific job well, don't saddle them with committees unless the task requires corporate consideration. Name tags, press releases, website operations, and notes of congratulations or condolences are all activities that can be launched by individual members of a meeting. In the case of Newtown (Pa.) Meeting, where I am a member, we have shown that meetings don't always need committees to get things done.
Adopt a "sunset rule" for committees. Downsizing can be a positive experience. It can make one look hard at priorities, trim the sails, and become more efficient. If all of our standing committees had to "sunset" every five years, it might make our meetings less cumbersome, more productive, and perhaps even increase attendance at meetings for business.
Enforce term limits. Have single two‐year term limits for clerks and assistant clerks of meetings and a limit of three consecutive terms of three years for other offices and membership on committees. This helps rotate responsibilities, avoid rigidity and stagnation in leadership, and involve new talent in the meeting.
Use ad hoc committees for specific short‐term tasks. Don't burden standing committees with short‐term jobs best done by a few skilled people, and make sure an ad hoc committee is laid down once the task is done.
Manage your money. Adopt realistic budgets based on current income, and protect your principal for major capital improvements or rainy days. Ask your most experienced finance and business people to handle the money.
Get a website if you don't have one. This is important. In political campaigns, we used say, "If you're not on television, you don't exist." Now, if your group doesn't have a website, folks think you're dead or dying. An increasing number of people are having their first or second contact with some Friends meetings via the web.
Put up signs and get in the newspaper. Most towns have local, weekly shoppers. Ads are good, but articles are better, especially if you write them. When writing a story, avoid jargon, especially Quaker jargon (use the term "Quakers"; never call something a "monthly meeting" or say "First Day" or "clerk" unless you explain it). Keep it short and simple. Attach a photo and try to include something informative about the people who call themselves Quakers.
Don't neglect your Friends. Market to nearby Friends schools (parents), retirement homes, and social service agencies. Update your printed material from that 1957 look.
Have designated greeters. Make our places of worship more welcoming than any commercial establishment you can think of. Go out of your way to talk to visitors; ask where they're from and how they heard about meeting. And ask long‐term attenders to join. We have offended far more people by not asking them to consider membership than by asking them to do so.
Social events. Bonding is important in any organization. Plan small group activities, have after‐meeting refreshments, ask visitors to introduce themselves at the rise of meeting, have a Visitors' Book with follow‐up phone calls, schedule kids' nights, family nights, and Friendly Eight dinner parties at people's homes.
We Quakers need to open our doors, invite the world in, and learn a few things from the business world. Only then can we get on with sharing the gift George Fox and other Friends have given us.


A massive storm has blanketed Georgia, Alabama and other deep southern states, leaving children stranded at school and on school buses and generally wreaking havoc in the state and across the deep south.
A massive storm of freezing air and snow has blanketed Georgia, Alabama, and other deep southern states, leaving children stranded at school and on school buses and generally wreaking havoc in the state and across the deep south.
Though the storm only led to a few accumulated inches of snow at most, the weather event is such a rarity in the south that most states were totally unprepared — especially when roads turned icy. According to officials in Georgia, slippery road conditions led to 940 car accidents and at least 100 injuries during the storm.
Those accidents also lead to massive gridlock, particularly in Atlanta, which is already treacherous to drive in on good days. It was so bad that many people stayed on the road for hours, some overnight, including roughly 50 children who spent the night on school buses and are still awaiting rescue. Some motorist simply abandoned their cars, walking to nearby churches, firehouses, and business, where they simply slept on the floor overnight.
Many children also were forced to spend the night at their school, since there was no way to get them home (or for parents to reach them) after the snow started falling.
My sister in Atlanta says schools didn't close until the afternoon, and left little time for parents to pick them up. Spent night at school.
And Atlanta's notoriously poor public transit system didn't help much.
The Associated Press reports that the situation may have been exacerbated by poor planning, as folks went to work and school as normal in the morning, then everyone tried to go home at once, as everything closed. Gov. Deal said: "Within a very short time frame, from when the snow started falling here, it became very obvious that everyone was leaving at the same time to go home."
Deal said the National Guard has been sent in military Humvees to help save children stuck in schools and on the road, and to distribute food and water to others still stranded by the storm.
Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina also declared states of emergency due to the storm, and drivers in Texas and Virginia were warned to stay off the roads. Appalachian Power requested that customers in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee ease power use to prevent outages during the storm, and many in the South lost cell phone service due to high demand.
Streets, highways, interstates gridlocked with people in cars and trucks in the same situation she was in -- stranded on the ice for 8, 10, 12 hours. She heard an unusual drone of voices. "You couldn't hear where they were coming from," she said. Droves of people had gotten out of their cars and were having conversations. They talked and walked between cars covered in white powdery snow in the dead of the night.
And some just wanted, as we all do, to bring back the phrase "snowpacalypse"
Luckily, warming temperatures should melt some of the snow on Wednesday morning, allowing people to start returning to their normal, snow-free lives.


PharMEDium Services, LLC (PharMEDium) is voluntarily recalling the below lots of drug products to the hospital/user level due to a lack of assurance of sterility. Administration of a drug product intended to be sterile that is not sterile could result in serious infections that may be life-threatening. To date, PharMEDium has not received any reports of complaints related to the products but is issuing this recall out of an abundance of caution following a commitment made during a recent inspection of the company's facility.
The recall is being issued because PharMEDium conducted a retrospective review of all commercially distributed product lots compounded in the Memphis location currently within their labeled expiration date in response to an FDA request regarding microbial control program during recent inspection to provide verification of acceptable microbiological testing results of the ISO5 environment, personnel glove sampling results, media fill results, sterility testing results, and endotoxin results. The review indicated that a total of 55 lots of different products impacting 25,327 units had two unsuccessful media fills. The remaining lots were associated with environmental monitoring or personnel monitoring excursions in the ISO 5 space on hood/surface and glove tip. Finished product release testing for both sterility and endotoxin were acceptable. Although there were no defects identified in these products, as a conservative measure, a recall is being initiated. .
The products can be identified by referring to the sample labels provided. These products were distributed nationwide in the USA to hospitals/clinics.
Patients and healthcare providers with questions regarding this recall can contact PharMEDium Services Clinical Pharmacist at (847) 457-2220, Monday through Friday, between 8am and 5pm Central Standard Time or via e-mail at dantonio@pharmedium.com.


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In 'Spineless,' How Jellyfish Have Survived Throughout Time
News reports about jellyfish often have an ominous flavor.
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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Jellyfish are invading all over the world. The Baltic, the Black Sea, Australia, the Bering Sea, the waters of South Africa have all been under attack.
SHAPIRO: That's from "Rise Of The Jellyfish," a documentary about massive swarms called blooms. Scientists disagree on whether these blooms are natural or exacerbated by climate change and pollution. That's one of the questions that pulled the author Juli Berwald back to the ocean. Berwald was landlocked in Austin, Texas, writing high school textbooks. She hadn't used her biology Ph.D. in years. Then she became hypnotized by these creatures that are fragile enough to fall apart between your fingers, yet powerful enough to kill a person in four minutes. Her new book is part memoir, part science. It's called "Spineless: The Science Of Jellyfish And The Art Of Growing A Backbone." When I spoke with her, I asked, why jellyfish?
JULI BERWALD: Jellyfish are - well, they're an incredible muse because they sort of live in this space between angelic and demonic...
SHAPIRO: Ooh (ph), yeah.
BERWALD: ...Because, you know, you can't deny how gorgeous they are. And when they swim there's something very - that connects to you on sort of a very primal level. But there's also this demonic side in that they have this horrible sting. And they're - I mean, they're actually lethal, some of them. But the real reason was because jellyfish - well, there was a lot of debate about whether their numbers were increasing globally and what that increase in abundance could tell us about how we're treating our oceans.
SHAPIRO: And the answer's not very simple.
BERWALD: No, the answer is not very simple. And part of the reason the answer isn't simple is because we've systematically understudied jellyfish for most of the 20th century. Once we started looking at the oceans using motors and nets, the things that were too fragile to come up in those motors and nets stopped being counted. So our view of the ocean became one that was biased towards things that were durable. That said, there are certainly places in the world like those places mentioned in the documentary where jellyfish abundances are increasing. And in those places, jellyfish are definitely telling us that our care for the ocean is not what it should be.
SHAPIRO: You write that some of the greatest fisheries in the world have just collapsed, and now it's all jellyfish.
BERWALD: Yeah. Yeah. Off of Namibia and South Africa it used to be one of the world's richest fisheries, you know, producing, like, a million tons of fish a year. And now it's estimated that the biomass there is two to three times more jellyfish than fish. And that ecosystem's unlikely to flip back to be fish-dominated.
SHAPIRO: So as you said, demonic and also angelic.
BERWALD: Absolutely.
SHAPIRO: You also write about these incredible structures that cause stings or propulsion or navigation. Is there one, like, jelly fish fun fact that you've been dropping at dinner parties that you learned as you were writing this book?
BERWALD: Yeah, that stinging cell - it's the fastest motion in the animal kingdom that we know of.
SHAPIRO: Wait. Really?
BERWALD: Yeah.
SHAPIRO: I'm sure that was somewhere in the book, which I did read cover to cover, but that didn't stick out to me - the fastest motion in the animal kingdom.
BERWALD: Oh, my - yeah. So, you know, if you just drop, like, a pencil onto the table it falls with an acceleration of one G. And then, like, a Ferrari accelerates with an acceleration of, like, three G's. But the stinging cell of a jellyfish explodes with an acceleration of 5 million G's.
SHAPIRO: How can an animal as simple as a jellyfish have something so sophisticated as part of its biology?
BERWALD: It's astonishing. I agree. That stinging cell is kind of a marvel of nature that is extremely underappreciated. But also, I mean, if you think about it, jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for over half a billion years. And part of what allowed them to remain jellyfish that whole time is this stinging cell. It's really the key to their survival.
SHAPIRO: There was another jellyfish moment in this book that I liked where you were asking a biologist, like, why is it see-through? Why doesn't it actually have some features? And the biologist was like, it's really hard to see-through, and it's a huge advantage to be see-through. So...
BERWALD: Yeah. I mean, that's - that was another thing. I popped myself on the forehead when he said that to me. I mean, in the ocean there's nothing - there's nothing to hide behind or hide in. It's just water. So if you look like water you're at an advantage.
SHAPIRO: Which means you have to hide everything that's inside of you, all of the guts...
BERWALD: Yes.
SHAPIRO: ...The brains, the everything.
BERWALD: The more cellular you are, the harder it is to stay clear. So the jellyfish do it by having this watery inside which allows them to sort of hide as a big creature using as few cells as possible. It's kind of brilliant.
SHAPIRO: So the process of writing this book led you away from your old life as a high school textbook writer back to your roots as a marine biologist. Do you think you're there to stay?
BERWALD: I really hope so. I think I've found that I'm definitely happiest when I have the ocean to think about. And I also feel like the ocean's been neglected by us to some extent. We're damaging it in many ways that we don't think about very often. And so if I could continue to write about the ocean and what's going on with it, I would be really happy.
SHAPIRO: Julie Berwald's new book is called "Spineless: The Science Of Jellyfish And The Art Of Growing A Backbone." It's been great talking to you. Thanks a lot.
BERWALD: Thank you so much, Ari. It's been really fun.
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TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (MNA) – The 6th General Assembly of AhlulBayt (AS) World Assembly was inaugurated this morning with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani.
According to MNA reporter, the 6th general assembly of AhlulBayt (AS) and The International Conference of Imam Sajjad Zeinul Abedin (AS) began at Tehran Summit Conference Hall this morning.
The opening ceremony of the meeting was attended by various political figures including the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Head Ammar Al-Hakim, Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naeem Ghasem, Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening Ali Akbar Velayati, Senior Military Aide to Iran's Leader Commander Yahya Rahim Safavi, Chairman of Iran's Parliament Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security Alaeddin Boroujerdi, consultant of the International Office of Iran's Leader Mohsen Ghomi, and Head of the Society for Defence of Palestinian Nation Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini.