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Xhibit Affliate Signs Digital Marketing Agreement With Punch Monkeys To Manage Digital Marketing For Idol Winner Jordin Sparks
Nov 19, 2012, 08:10 ET
TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FlyReply Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Xhibit Corp. (OTCQB: XBTC) ("Xhibit" or "the Company), has signed a digital marketing services agreement with Punch Monkeys, LLC, a company which manages fan engagement on behalf of American Idol winner Jordin Sparks. The agreement provides for FlyReply™ to provide comprehensive digital marketing and social media marketing strategies for Ms. Sparks.
Jordin Sparks is a multi-platinum recording artist, songwriter, humanitarian and actress. At the age of 17, Jordin won the sixth season of American Idol, becoming the youngest winner in American Idol history and remains the most recent female to win American Idol. Her self-titled debut album was released in 2007, which spawned two top-ten singles on the US Billboard Hot 100—"Tattoo" and "No Air." The album sold more than two million copies worldwide. In 2010, Jordin partnered with her brother P.J. to launch a charitable initiative: "I'm M.A.D. Are You?" (M.A.D. stands for making a difference). Jordin made her acting debut in 2012, snagging the lead role in her first feature film "Sparkle" which starred the late Whitney Houston.
FlyReply™ believes that its social media platform will enable Ms. Sparks to connect more directly with her fan base and build stronger social relationships through her digital communications.
Jordin Sparks states, "I really want to connect with my audience and supporters on a one-to-one level no matter what I'm doing. I'd like to share my thoughts and my experiences with my fans directly without any clutter or media spin. Xhibit will help me do that by using digital and social media."
Chris Richarde, President and CEO states, "We are very excited to join Jordin Sparks in creating a total digital strategy to help her reach and engage with her audience. We're confident that our FlyReply™ email service and AdMail™ products, supported by our total marketing and ad agency capabilities, will allow us to provide a unique solution to create a more direct and personal channel with her audience. We want to help Jordin have more access and control over her message and media. One of Xhibit's long term strategies and goals is to help celebrities create long term goodwill for their brands and monetize themselves more effectively. We are excited about the opportunity to start this process with Ms. Sparks."
FlyReply™ will employ a combination of its FlyReply™ email marketing platform and social media strategies using its AdMail™ products to deliver dynamic communications and create greater engagement to the global audience for Ms. Sparks and convert her social followers into email newsletter subscribers.
FlyReply™ is an ESP or Email Service Provider platform developed, owned and operated by FlyReply Corp. It is an intuitive email marketing suite, providing integrated social media with leading edge advertising and analytical tools.
AdMail™ enables marketers to monetize their newsletter campaigns with less intrusive ad placements.
All products developed are supported by Xhibit's comprehensive digital strategy, including full service digital ad agency and marketing resources.
About Xhibit Corp.
Xhibit is a cloud based marketing and technology development company focused on digital advertising, online and mobile social media, CRM (customer relationship management) solutions. Xhibit offers a total solution for digital advertising that is integrated throughout its divisions and shares technology and resources across all of its services. Through its subsidiaries, Xhibit utilizes its branded products and services to provide digital marketing and advertising solutions for top tier advertisers and agency clients.
For more information see www.xhibitcorp.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This press release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" relating to the business of Xhibit Corp., and FlyReply Corp. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements" including statements regarding the advantages of Xhibit's and FlyReply's products and services, market acceptance and success of the social media campaign for Ms. Sparks, the business strategy, plans and objectives of Xhibit Corp and FlyReply Corp; and any other statements of non-historical information. These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects", "intended" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results and ultimate corporate actions could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including Ms. Sparks' ongoing popularity, the demand for this form of social media and viability of it for advertising, products and services developed by other companies that are competitive with this form of advertising, market share garnered by competitors, ability to maintain customer and vendor relationships, and those factors discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website (http://www.sec.gov), among other factors. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
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The Fender audio system debuted in the US in the Jetta GLI and the Beetle is the first to take this equipment to European customers. It uses special Panasonic speakers to create a soundstage similar to a live performance – audio quality that won CNET.com's "Best-sounding car stereo" award last year.
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Circuit City Stores Inc. said Monday it is closing about 20 percent of its U.S. stores — cutting thousands of jobs — in an effort to return to profitability as it finds consumers reluctant to spend and its vendors less eager to give it credit.
The nation's No. 2 consumer electronics retailer said it will shut 155 of its more than 700 stores and leave at least a dozen markets entirely, including Phoenix and Atlanta, by Dec. 31. It will lay off about 17 percent of its domestic work force, which could affect up to 7,300 people.
Circuit City also said it will further cut back on new store openings and plans to work with landlords to renegotiate leases, lower rent or terminate agreements while it deals with tightening credit from its vendors.
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Seib & Wessel: Full Glenn Hubbard Interview
In an interview with WSJ's David Wessel, the Dean of Columbia's Business School Glenn Hubbard discusses why economic mismanagement has been behind the fall of the world's great empires and what that means for modern America.
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David Wessel Wall Street Journal joined today by Glenn Hubbard is currently the Dean of the Columbia graduate school of business ... and has been an adviser to both President Bush isn't it out presidential candidate Mitt run ... but I'm glad you're here today because you have a new book out ... called balance ... which is a very ambitious look at the history of vampires back to Rome ... where hours like Paul Kennedy the historian at Yale who said basically great empires died because they ... overreach and spend too much on military ... your view is that they make economic mistakes ... and have ... institutions that don't adapt to changing times ... and that's the real problem to have the right thing you do it's really about politics not keeping up with economics ... in making fairly simple Ecomomic errors ... now you have a number of case studies ... but the one they were going to treat me most was California ... didn't realize is gone the way of Rome just yet ... so what what we learn from California with you for the town's twelve California section the nice example of a very prosperous state obviously ... that has dysfunctional political institutions ... and over time the sources of California's prosperity TBD and if those institutions and budget processes are performed ... California's budget disaster isn't happening because the sport ... it's happening because it's for that and ... and you ... think that California's getting better and injured brewer works well there's certainly some short-term steps that look better ... but in the long term problems are still there are a very large looming pension like the ... right for governor credit spread right ... now on ... when I read your book and utilizes the fall of Rome is the mistakes of the Chinese made in the ancient China that set them back in the technology race ... is the fall of the Ottoman Empire there's the famous story of Japan which has been in either a launch and is now ... trying to pick itself up the floor ... so I spent the last chapter to be ... an American is just gonna go that way to put on us to know that at the ... height I am very optimistic ... about the nine states we have gotten through ... problems before ... this one though was quite serious because both our politics enter budget processes percent for decline ... but both of those can change so explain what's the diagnosis it would use their politics but prices are set ... for ... what we have veering March of water holding title of liabilities in Social Security Medicare to threaten the crowd out all the rest of what government is ... to raise tax burdens on acceptable levels ... and they're not really discuss in our political process in our budget rules to be with them and all ... if we don't adapt ... we will go the way you know ... and and is that the fundamental problems do the things I think that our largest potential challenge because ... it's much harder then a clear and present enemy in the here and now this is is slowly melting problem ... and that's very difficult for politicians ... and why do you think it's so hard for our political system to deal with this particular fiscal problem with our fiscal problems often on over the last fifty years makes the difference I think first of all we have a much more polarized political process than we've ever had before and by that I don't mean part is we always have partisan ... processes in the U S but it's much more polarized ... we don't have budget rules that allow a serious discussion of this these programs grow completely on their own without an auto writer on autopilot and then reviewed ... we can change the politics to make ID is more competitive than we can change budget rules that both of those required ... to ask about the economics and politics ... so ... the carrier beyond economics is you know we've done some deficit reduction it was awfully but we've done some ... the raise taxes we put some caps and only appropriate spending ... health care cost growth seems to slow ... actually if you look over the next decade things don't seem to be getting worse as we fear so is this much ado about nothing in a time when a real problem is unemployment ... well certainly growth is a big problem for the United States but I would argue that making strong true long-term changes ... would give this more room to move for growth oriented policy today ... yes the pixel the fiscal picture is still quite that ... going for if you look at the most recent report from the Congressional Budget Office ... the further out you go ... the gym or it looks ... one of things to surprise me is that I get this right you arguing that the notes that there's too much money in politics and that's the problem has it exactly backwards ... you think there should be more money in politics the new welcome the fact that the Supreme Court ... has let everybody is brother contribute to campaigns to the Senza doll ... I think it's important to step back and look what happened in the early nineteen seventies we assume well intentioned reforms ... that essentially gave the two major political parties of monopoly duopoly ... up on fundraising ... that's really helped of the Interpol would lead to polarization and power to incumbents we need more competition Citizens United ironically provides exactly that competition ... for new ideas that its absolutely ... so you think they did is we have more money go into politics is more likely to be ... some party to spring up in the center or somebody ... to move to the left to the right that is crowded out by the US the optimal number of parties for system like America has is to ... but it doesn't have to be pieced ... into ... overtime to replace the vote what if you look over time to read the Republican party started as a radical abolition party in age don't one major political party that and became oneself ... I think there's every reason to believe we can pull the parties to better ideas or pull up a little ... we also advocate a balanced budget amendment to the constitutional Owen ... got complicated it gets me said when you look back and stuff well I think that's so well I think we may be at that point we have to tie ourselves to the man stood or budget rules we recommended the book that ... we should consider balanced budget amendment that not one that he did deficits one that actually sets a spending limit ... equal to slow moving average inflation adjusted revenue in the reason for that he is ... that it's I wonder whether we should raise taxes or cut spending that we wish to be a political choice ... and I think we ought to allow universal exceptions as long as you make them harder and harder ... to mean more will take us right before you've read and do that Mr. Rudd rather than defining things like war or hurricanes with everything you want whether Congress to get that I think part of the problem particularly frankly on the right ... is that people don't trust the American people we needed budget will its respectful political process ... so let's say they don't take your advice let's say we just shocking ... we don't do much more of the deficit ... and the political system continues a few more years of this ... kind of gridlock where with the possible exception save an immigration bill ... basically no far reaching legislation ... passed ... what will America look like ten years ... if we go the other half will have gradually rising tax burdens and gradually shutting out ... most of what ... many Americans think government speeches diminish defense ... diminished research and education spending ... are you looking more like a common European country and don't think that's what most Americans want signed up and will finally what AHTSs you get you think that ten years and I will look back and say ... basically we got our act together or do you think will be like Roman yet ... 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Betfred Boss: It's Done and Dusted for United
11 Feb, 2013, 11:06 GMT
MANCHESTER, England, February 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Betfred boss Fred Done is making his earliest ever pay-out on his beloved Manchester United winning the Premier League title.
And that comes despite the Salford bookie famously losing over £1million by paying punters early on United and getting burned twice before - including last season.
Sunday's 2-0 victory for Sir Alex Ferguson's men over Everton combined with Manchester City's shock 3-1 loss at Southampton extended the Red Devils' lead at the top to 12 points.
And Done decided to hand over £300,000 to United backers with 12 games still to play - almost a third of the campaign, including a derby against nearest challengers City.
Fred Done said: "After it all went wrong last year, my missus made me promise to never do it again.
"But with United 12 points clear with just 12 games left the title race is over - so my punters can collect their dough on United."
The Betfred chief was the first person to pay out early on United in March of 1998, when they blew an identical 12-point lead and were pipped to the title by a point by Arsenal.
That cost lifelong Reds fan Done a cool half a million - a loss matched last term after paying out on United when five points clear with seven games remaining.
A late collapse saw bitter rivals Manchester City famously snatch the title with virtually the last kick of the season against Queens Park Rangers.
Done is risking the wrath of Sir Alex Ferguson and United fans. Fergie told him never to repeat the move after 1998, and fans have blamed him for jinxing last season's challenge.
But despite being stung in the past he is sure that there is now no way back for United's rivals - and insists they are a cert to clinch a 20th Premier League crown.
Meanwhile Manchester United are preparing to take on Real Madrid in the Champions League and they are 4/1 at http://www.betfred.com to win the first leg.
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Tips for Developing an Effective Black Friday Marketing CampaignAssociation of Strategic Marketing
November 13, 2012 — 2,609 views
Black Friday is traditionally said to be the day that retailers start turning a profit for the year. The term refers to the retailer's bottom line going from red to black, and it is the day the holiday shopping season unofficially starts. Therefore, it's important to market Black Friday's discounts and sales effectively. Everything from the timing of the release of the ad to the time the store opens can affect the customer turnout on Black Friday.
Get in the Holiday Spirit
The holidays are festive and exciting, and holiday decorations put customers at ease and make retail stores stand out. Consider decorating the inside and outside of your store and highlighting your sale signs with holiday lights. Holiday lights draw the eye, and once the customer is looking at your store, they will be more apt to read your sale signs and enter your store looking for more discounts and special offers.
Ad Release Timing
Most companies release Black Friday ads the week of Thanksgiving. To get a competitive edge, consider releasing your Black Friday ad early. This can be done online on the store's website, by traditional mail or both. By releasing the Black Friday ad early, you are gathering customer attention early and giving customers more time to preplan their Black Friday shopping sprees.
Store Opening
Many brick and mortar stores are opening early this year. Walmart and Toys R' Us have already stated that they will be opening at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. The early opening hours are an effort to get shoppers to start spending their holiday budgets early. The collective thinking is that the first couple stores a shopper visits will be the stores where they will spend the most money. Therefore, it's a good idea for a traditional retailer to consider opening their store early in order to get more of a customer's holiday budget.
Black Friday is traditionally a day full of deep discounts for popular items, including electronics, clothes, toys and holiday decorations. Take the time to figure out what your customers want for the holidays and offer discounts on those items. Deeply discounted items are also called "loss leaders." "Loss leaders" are the items that get customers in the store. Once the customers are in the store they are more likely to buy other things that are not on sale.
For Example:
Your retail store decides to advertise deep discounts on 22" HD TVs. Once the customer is inside the store, they decide to purchase the HD TV, a DVR recorder, a box of DVDs and a can of air. The discounted TV is what brought them into the store, and while they were there, they picked up $230 worth of additional merchandise.
Social Media
Take the time to reward your social media followers. Put exclusive ads and discounts on your social media webpages. The discounts could include percentages off the total order or dollar amounts off the total order or exclusive sale items. Customers love exclusive discounts and rewarding loyalty pays off in the long run.
Word of mouth is also effective on social media. Loyal customers, who see your discounted ads on your social media pages, are more apt to tell their social media friends about your discounts. This translates into more followers and more traffic into your store.
Email Drip Campaigns
Consider doing an email drip campaign for your email subscribers. The email drip campaign could start off with early sales on small items and build to the bigger sales on Black Friday. The key to creating a successful email drip campaign is to keep the emails short, easily scannable and to the point. This means that the customers receiving the email should immediately see an image of the sale item, the link to the sale item, the discounted price and the percentage saved.
It's also important not to bombard your customers with emails. During the two weeks before Thanksgiving, send no more than one exclusive sale email per day and make sure the sale items and discounts are different each day. Also remember to create professional yet catchy subject headings for each email.
Consider instituting a layaway program just for the holidays. Start the layaway program on Thanksgiving and end it on Christmas Eve. By implementing layaway, you are helping customers buy more without using credit cards or other high interest payment options. You are also letting them know that you care about their budgets and their ability to pay. Layaway departments are very well received and appreciated by customers during the holidays.
Layaway departments are especially helpful for customers with young children. This is because young and school age children tend to go through the house looking for holiday presents. By instituting a layaway program, you are helping mothers and fathers keep the idea of Santa Claus alive and well in their children's minds and helping them hide the gifts.
Customer Service
During the holidays, offer exceptional customer service and quality and satisfaction guarantees. Customers want great deals during the holidays, but if something happens to the product, they want to know that they can bring it back and exchange it or receive some type of store credit. By offering exchanges and store credits, you are not hindering your business or your bottom line. You are creating happy and loyal customers for the holidays and potentially into the New Year.
During the holidays, it's important not to neglect your online customers. Every year more and more customers buy their holiday presents online. Remember to offer exclusive online deals during the week of Thanksgiving and on Black Friday. For added appeal, you could even offer free shipping all week.
Don't Forget Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday has become just as big as Black Friday for retailers with online stores. Don't forget to offer special discounts for your online customers on Cyber Monday. Discounts could include percentages off the total order or specific sale items such as clothes, electronics and holiday essentials such as wrapping paper.


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Greetings blogfriends! How are you? I healed really quickly and i am on my feet again. I realised that since i begun the balance weekly theme on my blog, i am more centered and grounded. Thank you for your support!
The subject of today's post is music in witchcraft. I am a singer, so i love the use of music in witchcraft. But you do not have to be a musician to use it. First of all, using relaxing music helps you focus, meditate and breathe properly. Also, sounds of nature in indoors rituals aid in keeping you connected with the Great Mother. I have permanently in my stereo a cd with nature sounds and i press the button in the morning and let it play throughout the day. Whenever, i feel tense i just concentrate and listen and the tension melts away.
One of the things i enjoy the most is writing a simple spell-song and chanting it. But chanting can be in the form of just a vowel, or a small phrase. I have noticed that chanting is especially effective when it comes to cleansing and meditating. But that is just what works for me. Try it out and see what works for you. You do not have to make a melody of your own if that seems difficult . You can use a melody you like and sing it with just a vowel. You can use any song you want from Aerosmith to Britney, as long as you think it is pretty and it feels magical.
Another extremely mystical use of music is drumming. Once again, you don't have to be a drummer to do it, or even have a drum. Just keep a steady bit, on whatever inspires you and lose yourself in the sound. Of course, you can just listen to someone else doing it, but give it a shot, because it is a wonderful way to free your spirit and connect with The Spirit.
Chanting and drumming are magical and powerful because of their shamanic roots. They are the first ways our primeval ancestors tried mimicking the sounds of Nature and connect with the Unseen. They are ancient and they come from our heart of hearts. You can also combine the two methods. I unfortunately, only enjoy it when i am alone at home because my husband who is a drummer makes fun of my drumming. Admittedly, i am not good!
Another wonderful musical, magical practice is bell..i wanna say... jiggling?Did i get that right? Anyhooo... The bell is a magical tool that represents the Goddess because of its womanly shape. It is great for invoking spirits, magical creatures, elementals, and of course the Goddess. In some cultures, jiggling the bell is believed that it cleanses and protects from evil spirits.
So, for this week i challenge you to make your life a little bit more musical. Fill your days and nights with beautiful sounds and surround yourself with happiness and joy.
Be blessed and be loved.
Music in witchcraft-Balance weekly
Greetings blogfriends! How are you? I healed really quickly and i am on my feet again. I realised that since i begun the balance weekly theme on my blog, i am more centered and grounded. Thank you for your support!
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5 comments:
- jaz@octoberfarm said...
in greece i am sure you can buy very good pits. in the states they are awful. they are the taste and consistency of paper envelopes! i have to make them myself!
- May 6, 2011 at 1:30 AM
- Soraya said...
MUSIC!!!! It's such a HUGE part of my life! I love it DEARLY!
I do Yoga to this wonderful Chill station that I've created on Pandora.
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh452758577546622149 - That's the Link.
Also, I listen to Metal. It sounds strange, and I'm sure that no one would understand unless they pick out what I do in Metal.. But... I love the stories they tell. and the Instruments in Folk Metal? ZOMG!!!!
Eluveitie is a GREAT band for anything to make you feel spiritual... It's All sorts of folk instruments and awesomeness! They sing in ancient Gaulish.
That's one of my favorite. Omnos is a really good one, but the translation isn't very... positive. haha!
Arkona, Now they're an interesting band. The lead singer is a female, but she growls like a damn man! haha! However, she is actually a high priestess of the coven she's a part of (or at least that's what I've heard and have come to believe... They do have chants on their albums.. and she does them BEAUTIFULLY! I'm actually going to Belly Dance to one of their songs called Gutsulka. They sing in Russian/Slavic...Of some sorts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwiqun38irw That's one of their chants called Tuman Yarom. AND SHE YIPS! Which makes it even better! haha!
And finally, Zalvarinis.
http://youtu.be/Wv-ixjwJd78 - Enough said. Haha! They're all mostly chants too. And realllllly chill. If I remember languages well enough, they're in Lithuanian. :)
Okies, I end my novel :-p
- May 6, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Grammy said...
Sounds like a beautiful way to spend your day. I have been listing to inspirational radio on the computer and finished the meditation just yesterday. With he on line link I gave you. But I will still do it every day as it is so wonderful And I feel great passion in it. I am so glad to hear you have recovered quickly too.
Many blessings sent your way.
- May 6, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- Diandra said...
I love to dance for meditative purposes... and I used to learn the harp (I never really got around to "playing", although I did take part in an event at a small arts store where I wore black and made lovely sounds with my harp and everyone was impressed.) Singing doesn't do it for me, unfortunately, but my sister (who's got a great voice) chants sometimes in her rituals.
And: Your husband should teach you how to drum properly instead of complaining. ^^
(I'm totally going to get myself a drum, once I find one that is not too expensive. As soon as we've got a kitchen, and maybe a closet.)
- May 6, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- Soraya said...
Thanks :) I'm rarely ever nervous on stage. And if I am, it lasts for like... three seconds, and then I'm good. :-p
Good luck with your gigs! :)
- May 8, 2011 at 10:00 PM


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- Working With A Shared Document
- Sharing Files From Photoshop
- Creating A Contact Sheet
- Creating A PDF Presentation
At the completion of this course you should be able to:
- understand and work with your Adobe account
- understand, modify and create Creative Cloud libraries
- apply layer effects to an image
- understand and work with smart objects
- transform images, including flipping, rotating and skewing
- correct the tone and colour of photos using adjustment layers
- understand and use masks, filters and blending modes
- understand the 3D tools and settings in Photoshop
- manage your digital images and other assets using Adobe Bridge
- understand and work with Camera Raw
- understand how Adobe mobile apps work
- share documents in Photoshop
Watsonia workbook with 115 topics. Files for the exercises are provided on a CD or can be downloaded here
Approximately 20 hours
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