| Secret Math of Making Money with Insurance Leads
To increase sales insurance agents should: "Put themselves in their prospective client's shoes." More and more consumers are shopping online for insurance. Thousands of insurance prospects go online to find local insurance agents everyday. The solution to contact these insurance prospects is an online lead service QuotesAuction.com available to insurance agents by subscription. A number of things make QuotesAuction.com unique in the lead generation niche: .
Online shopping site: www.myshape.com
Forget shopping by size. myShape offers a new way to shop: by shape. The site categorizes clothes by what fits and flatters seven different body shapes. (Not coincidentally, shapes are named M, Y, S, H, A, P and E.) So whether you're a curvy S ("curvy front and side profiles as well as softened shoulderlines, whose waist measurements are at least 10 inches smaller than their balanced bust and hip measurements") or a pear-shaped A ("hips are broader than their busts and shoulders"), myShape will provide you with a list of dressing tips and suggested outfits best for your figure. In addition, you can set up a "Personal Shop" with your measurements and clothing preferences and allow the site to custom pick clothing just for you. myShape also allows you to shop by designer, occasion, separates, accessories and sale items.
Bettelheim and the Importance of Play
In his landmark work "The Importance of Play" Bruno Bettelheim lays out a penetrating study that attempts to describe the psychological importance that play has upon the development of the mind of young children. Bettelheim proceeds from the perspective of classic Freudian psychology with the suggestion that play is a method by which children are able to foster mature development by addressing issues of past psychological problems. Even the most seemingly mindless of playful activities therefore works as a royal road into their minds in which they can confront unconscious fears through their consciousness, not unlike an adult may do through role-playing in a psychologist's office. According to Bettelheim, then, play is very much an intellectual activity. It is through playacting and imagination and role-playing that children can develop cognitive functions that may very well be applied specifically in adult versions of the very games they play.
SoftwareProjects Gets Integrated with UltraCart
SoftwareProjects, an Internet marketing and Web development firm, has announced that it has completed integration with the UltraCart shopping cart. This lets merchants using UltraCart manage their UltraCart-powered stores from a single interface.
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Online Retail API facilitates CREDITZ implementation.
April 23, 2007 - Merchant API v1.2 promotes integration of CREDITZ electronic payment, loyalty, and marketing system in online environment, regardless of shopping cart platform, OS, or payment gateway. Available to online merchants and marketers, API enables online electronic payment applications in US and gives clients direct access to CREDITZ digital currency. Web service lets users accept CREDITZ as loyalty form of payment as well as pay customers and visitors for specific behaviors.
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Online Priority: Dealership, Brand or Price?
Zag's CEO discusses how dealers can adapt their online presence to keep up with the ever-changing media landscape. Here's the truth that no automotive dealer likes to admit: the car has become a commodity. We've all heard the numbers. J.D. Power and Associates says that more than two-thirds of new-vehicle buyers use the internet in their vehicle shopping process. But what's changed over the past few years is the level and nature of the research that consumers can find online. Buyers have used the web for several years now to learn about the various makes and models, get detailed specs, research safety features and compare feedback from other buyers, mostly anecdotal product information. But today some services -- and some competing dealers -- go beyond informational tools to provide detailed price comparisons side-by-side with invoice, MSRP and Kelley Blue Book's New Car Blue Book value, which reveal what people actually are paying for a new car.
Ashford.Com Acquired by Luxi Group
NEW YORK, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxi Group, a private holding company focused on the luxury goods market, has acquired certain assets related to Ashford.com (http://www.ashford.com/) from Odimo Inc. (Pink Sheets: ODMO.PK). Luxi Group is led by Internet retailing entrepreneur Eli Katz in partnership with the prominent Wechsler family who are notable experts in the diamond and jewelry manufacturing trade. Luxi Group is to re-launch Ashford.com with a large selection of designer and brand name watches and other competitively- priced luxury products. One of the earliest luxury e-commerce sites on the Web, Ashford.com was launched in 1998 and today possesses a legacy of providing unmatched selection, price and service to millions of satisfied customers. By 2001, Ashford led the online luxury market with revenues exceeding $65 million.
The art of books unbound
Local artists Judy Anderson and Ginny Hoyle use acrylic, ash, bolts, butterfly pins, Hoflund-Schmidt type specimens, leather, letterpress furniture, linen thread, museum board, paper, ribbon, and typographic journals in their work, "House of Fire." (Special to The Post) .
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