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Village Idiots Improv Comedy
Date: Sunday, September 5Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Village Idiots Pillar Theater
Improv Classes
Long Form: Sundays August 8th - September 19th
Short Form: Wednesday August 11th - September 22nd
Improv Comedy Classes taught by the artistic director of the VIllage Idiots and by a Broadway actor and graduate of New York's Upright Citizens Brigade. For more information see http://www.improvVIP.com.
(Posted by ImprovLover)
Village Idiots Improv Comedy
Date: Friday, September 3Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Village Idiots Pillar Theater
Improv elimination where "Survivor" meets Improv Comedy. A group of improvisers are randomly chosen to play a performance game. After each scene, the audience rates the performance with a score from one to five. Each improviser in that scene receives that score. Throughout the night, the lowest scoring improvisers are eliminated, until there is only one champion. For tickets and more information, see http://www.improvVIP.com.
(Posted by ImprovLover)
RARA September Meeting
Date: Friday, September 3Time: 7:30 PM
Location: 3129 E Henrietta Rd.
MEDIA RELEASE –8-28-2010
September Club Meeting: Topic: "HF Terrain Assessment.”
Rochester Amateur Radio Association
A nonprofit educational organization of Ham Radio hobbyists since 1930
September 3rd, 2010 7:30 PM - Henrietta Fire Hall, 3129 E. Henrietta Rd.
Ken Boasi, N2ZN, has graciously agreed to come to our September RARA meeting and do a presentation titled “HF Terrain Assessment (by N6BV)”. His presentation will elaborate on how your location and its surrounding terrain affect your HF signal. Once you know this, an antenna system can be designed to maximize your signal! This session will be very informative and there‟s something in it for all of us.
Ken is an avid DXer and holds DXCC Mixed, CW, and SSB, WAS Mixed, CW, SSB and RTTY, WAC, and WAZ! He is also an accomplished contester, working as one of the operators of W2FU, K2NNY, W2RDX, N2WK, and W2CCC.
Meetings and programs of the Rochester Amateur Radio Assn. are open to the public. We encourage everyone to attend, members and non-members alike! All meetings feature refreshments, socializing, and a raffle before the evenings presentation.
The public is welcome and it is free. Refreshments will be served. Note: For those interested in the hobby of radio communications, the FCC no longer requires Morse code proficiency for Ham Radio licensing. Join us this Friday.
Contact for Event
Len Crellin, KC2PCD
(585) 210-8910
kc2pcd@rochester.rr.com
HAM RADIO BACKGROUND
Amateur ("Ham") radio operators enjoy worldwide wireless communication with other enthusiasts and in doing so spread international goodwill. Hams are always prepared for portable-powered operations for emergency relief efforts during disasters. These have included, for example, Florida and Gulf Coast hurricanes, the Indian Ocean tsunami, devastating tornados, as well as our local blizzards and ice storms. Local hams have an ongoing relationship with the National Weather Service in Buffalo via the SKYWARN program and are prepared to assist the Rochester chapter of the Red Cross should normal modes of communication become overloaded or fail. Additionally, they participate in Ginna nuclear power plant drills. For many years members of the Rochester Amateur Radio Association RARA have provided portable communications for public events such as walk-a-thons, the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure, the MS 150 Bike Tour, the Rochester Marathon, parades, the Spirit of America Festival, triathlons, and the NY State Police-sponsored Pumpkin Patrol, just to name a few. Hams provide their communication expertise on a volunteer basis for the good of the community. Locally RARA members spend over 2900 volunteer-hours per year serving the Greater Monroe County region. For local Ham Radio information, go to the RARA website www.rochesterham.org, or for national information see the site for the American Radio Relay League http://www.hello-radio.org/. For information about Ham Radio or Rochester Amateur Radio Association contact Len Crellin, Media Communications Coordinator, 585-210-8910 or email: kc2pcd@rochester.rr.com.
(Posted by RARA)
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Upstate NY CyberVillage SpotLight: Peter Corn, Founder-Entrepreneur, Peter’s Cornucopia
As many of you might know, the owner of Peter’s Cornucopia is a gentleman by the name of Peter Corn. It seems like it makes sense, but maybe you didn’t know. We interviewed him for the Central New York CyberVillage SpotLight. [ See Print Version of CyberVillage SpotLight (PDF) ]
The goal of the SpotLight is to learn more about business and political leaders and what makes them successful in their endeavors. We learned a lot about Peter, his entrepreneurial spirit, his business sense and family. [ Visit Peter's Cornucopia Online Health Food Store ]
Peter grew up at 1502 Burrstone Rd. in Utica, NY, with his French-German and Irish-German parents and went to Utica Schools. Peter was at the younger end of seven brothers and sisters. As a teenager, Peter spent a lot of time working for his two brothers-in-law, who were also business owners and entrepreneurs.
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The goal of the SpotLight is to learn more about business and political leaders and what makes them successful in their endeavors. We learned a lot about Peter, his entrepreneurial spirit, his business sense and family. [ Visit Peter's Cornucopia Online Health Food Store ]
Peter grew up at 1502 Burrstone Rd. in Utica, NY, with his French-German and Irish-German parents and went to Utica Schools. Peter was at the younger end of seven brothers and sisters. As a teenager, Peter spent a lot of time working for his two brothers-in-law, who were also business owners and entrepreneurs.
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How Do I Create a Search Engine Friendly Site?
Good Question!If you’re going to spend the money to have a website designed for your company’s online brochure or any other purpose, having one that will be seen should be your number one goal. Otherwise you’re just throwing money away.
5 things to avoid:
Flash intros
I love the look of a good flash intro and we still design them for our clients when they ask for them. However, I always advise not to have one if you are looking to optimize your site for search engines. A search engine friendly site has readable text that the search engine crawlers/spiders/robots can read. They cannot read the content in flash. Consider having a flash header or another flash element on your homepage in addition to readable text instead. It will give you better SEO results.
Lacking content
I always say “Content is King” and I mean it. Having plenty of keyword rich content on your site will help you get noticed by the search engines and visitors alike. I always bookmark sites that have a wealth of information useful to my business or me. If you are looking for a minimal design for aesthetic reasons, you may want to rethink it. Quality content will create visitor loyalty.
Outdated content
If you’re going to place a calendar of events on your site, you should be prepared to update it. If you leave old information on there from last year and don’t have anything current, visitors may just close the browser and look elsewhere. In addition, search engines pay attention to continually updated sites. If your website is static and never changing, you’ll be ignored. Try to continually add fresh content for optimal results.
Too many images or animated gifs I know they look cool and are fun to play with, but honestly, when you go to a site that is flashing and moving everywhere – don’t you feel lost? A little bit of movement works well to draw attention to the areas where you want people to pay attention, but continual movement throughout the entire page can be tiresome to the visitor. Furthermore, the crawlers can’t read the images. Having your sales message in a slick image rather than just plain text might be your desire, but if you’re looking for performance in your website – you’ll want to use actual text.
Generic linking
You should always avoid using “click here” to get your visitor to the next page. The crawlers also see it and give you more weight in the results if you are using proper anchor text in the link. For example, if I want to draw attention to our design page, I might use something like this: Please review the Complete Business Systems website design portfolio to view some samples of our design work.
In addition to the items to avoid, always remember to use your meta tags for title, description and keywords as well as the other SEO tips that I regularly write about. If you need a refresher, have a look through the archives located over on the right hand side of our blog.
How Can I Get Listed on Google Maps?
Good Question - Easy Answer!You should take advantage of any free marketing tool for your business. Google Maps is one of those outlets that are available to you at no charge.
You'll increase your business visibility and provide your customers with a snapshot of your business in an easy-to-use application.
Simply go to:
Google Local Business Center
Add your business listing and fill out the online form:
1. Required Information
2. Category
3. Hours and Payment
4. Photos and Video
5. Custom
You can also create a coupon with your listing that can draw more customers to your business.
Encourage your current customers who are happy with your services to rate and write a review of your business.
You’ll need to verify that you are the owner of your business by phone verification or having a postcard mailed to you.
In addition you can also list your business on Yahoo! by going to Yahoo! Local Listings and creating an account with them.
I encourage you to add your business listing today and start getting the word out - it's easy and it's free!
Joanne
Small Business Bailout?
Yesterday I posted on Twitter that I’m tired of the big guys getting bailed out.How about if they just gave each American 1,000,000 instead?
It would stimulate the economy like nobody’s business!
I was surprised nobody fired back at me with basic economics arguments or anything at all really.
I guess my post was lost in a sea of tweets…
It got me to thinking about how many of my clients are small business owners and they, like every other American are having some difficulties these days.
In fact, I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been out there selling much more than I usually do.
My conversations with potential clients in the past few months have mainly focused on how they can get new business during the economic crisis.
Some consider their advertising to be the number one vehicle and are finding their company resources too low to continue on.
Others see the effects of their website being open 24/7 and want to improve upon conversion by updating their sites.
It is true, your website is one of your most valuable resources.
People are doing research online and at home before venturing out to purchase.
With a website, your presence is open and available even when your business is closed for the day.
Really?
Yes, really.
In fact, let me go have a peek at our analytics so I can give you our numbers – BRB!
OK, I’ve got the data in front of me...
According to our analytics, over the past year 41% of our website visits are occurring after our regular business hours. We are open 8:00 – 6:00 pm PST and quite a large amount of traffic is coming when we aren’t open for business.
What does this information tell us?
People are shopping on their time – not ours.
We receive many contact inquiries from our website contact forms when we aren’t open for business. These are qualified sales leads that are waiting for us in the morning when we begin our workday. Many of these contact inquiries throughout the year have converted into sales.
Who wouldn’t want that?
Maybe if the government was cutting you a check for YOUR bailout you wouldn’t want it…but I doubt it.
What do you think?
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