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How the Constitution Protects Our Rights – Business – American Sentinel University Blog
"Interesting, but the "Framers" (as Freddy Thompson refers to them) were by and large slave owners. By "All men are created equal" what they meant as far as how they lived their lives was that all caucasian male, land-owning, Anglo-Saxon Protestant citizens were created equal - everyone else can suck weeds. (I Hate to say this, but it's a fact - we didn't even begin to have equal rights till Lincoln, and Women - 1920??-Paleez!) (Please don't shoot the messenger.) Duncan"Buying on eBay: What My Husband Learned About Negotiating
"Hi Miranda. "Buy it Now/Best Offer" can go one of 2 ways depending on how the seller has it set up. Sometimes it means you can buy it for the asking price after lower bids are placed, other times, once a low bid is entered, "Buy it Now" disappears. If it's just :"Buy it Now" w/o "Best Offer", it remains at the asking price till it runs out. Sellers are unfortunately allowed to end offers early w/o warning. The great thing about eBay is that it's nothing like the old days of shopping through catalogs - then they had only so much inventory - if you didn't buy before they ran out, you'd never see it again. The web has changed all that. There will always be another one coming up - maybe a lot cheaper. I prefer "Buy it Now" because I don't like the feeding frenzy during the last 30 seconds - it's fun to watch if you didn't bid, not when you see yourself paying top dollar after all. It helps to "lurk" - just watch stuff in your niche to see what it might go for. The more months you watch, the more low prices you'll end-up seeing - then you'll know a good ceiling (forget about collector's book values). Bid what it's worth to you - not one penny more. Sellers will get in trouble if they approach or are approached outside of eBay - it might be OK to approach them through eBay after a sale - I don't know the right answer there. Duncan"Improve Sales by 25% with Customer Suggestions
"Angel: "Now, don't think that you are being evil by steering your customers to buy something they may not want". See, right here is the kind of thinking that would make me not want to do business with you. I find "reminders" & "Suggestions" from vendors both idiotic (not one has ever been right) - and worse, quite annoying! This is advice I constantly see given by bloggers to vendors - advice that can & does make some customers want to Puke! It may sound great in theory, but it offends people in action. Further, it goes right into my Google spam filter. Just because I bought from you, abandoned a shopping cart on your site, or worse still - just searched - doesn't give you the right to pester me with emails! Lay Off! Duncan"Are dishonesty, stretching the truth, or white lies necessary to be a good marketer?
"Hi David. I read your comment before reading the text - to a person they all took the high road (of course I agree - lying is for crooks). But the people represented were all above board, all talking "best practice" - a tally of spammers & crooks might've been: "Sure - you gotta lie", or "Everyone does" (which is one way crooks justify it to themselves) - imagine a round table of '30's Chicago gangsters. I agree about testimonials & reviews, too - they're bunkum. Duncan"Is There A Dislike Button On Facebook - 5 Reasons It Will Never Exist
"Hi Jenny. Ultimately I agree. There'd be a passel of idiots unlikeing everything they saw but didn't bother to actually read, and there'd be spammers unliking the competition. It's the same for "voting-down", or "unvoting" for something you previously voted for if the author later does something highly offensive. Still, sometimes I've seen something so awful I've wished I COULD unlike it - human nature. Duncan"Subscribe
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Video for websites – Talking Heads:How to do it & make them interesting — SaucyHorse
"Hi Tracy. I especially like your saying the camera should be 7-10 feet away from the subject, with a separate mic, and the lens zoomed in a bit. The huge advantage of moving the camera away & zooming in is that the lens will be at a slight telephoto focal length - perfect for portraits. One of the biggest mistakes I see in talking head videos - the ones that look slap-dash, is that the camera is really close to the subject, at a very wide-angle focal length. This causes 2 huge problems - 1st, it's close to being in "fish-eye" perspective, and 2nd, every time the subject moves in or out just a couple of inches, the effect is magnified several times on camera. i.e Always have the camera far enough away that you're nowhere near fish-eye mode - you may not notice it, but I will. "Portrait" lenses are from about 85-180mm focal length in 35mm terms - a short telephoto range (50mm is standard, anything less is wide angle). If there's a crowd, use a cardioid mic - with a narrow pick-up range, or the crowd will be as loud as the main subject - no one listening will know what's going on. Don't use the on-camera mic with the camera close to the subject - in that case, you're not ready to go "live" in front of an audience online. Duncan"