06.27.08
Posted in Business at 2:33 am by CMJ Office
Are you on a special diet that requires sugar-free products (South Beach, Atkins, etc.)?
Are you a diabetic?
Do you or someone you know suffer from Celiac Disease?
Are you looking for a great treat for you and your children?
Look no further than Baskin Robbins Candies by BestSweet, Inc. They have created a line of hard and soft candy products that are all wheat, rye and barley gluten-free. Their product line includes sugar and sugar-free candies (sweetened with Splenda).
The best part is that these candies taste great. They come in your favorite Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavors.
Hard candy flavors include: Cookies ‘n Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, Pralines ‘n Cream, Fruit Medley (sherbet flavors), and Creamy Vanilla.
Soft candy flavors include: Mint Chocolate Chip and Very Berry Strawberry. My kids love the strawberry!
These candies are available at Wal*Mart, Target, Walgreens, Dollar Tree, Stop & Shop, Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Save-A-Lot, Weis Markets, Kmart, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, and Blockbuster Video. You can find them online at Amazon.com and GroovyCandies.com. For product information in your local area, you can call 1.888.211.5530.
You can find advertisements for Baskin Robbins Candies on Kaboose.com and in Parents, Parenting and In Touch Magazines.
These candies are wonderfully tasteful. I highly recommend that you try them.
Colleen
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06.22.08
Posted in Business at 3:38 am by CMJ Office
Nothing hurts your business image more than misspellings, typos and grammatical mistakes.
Business image is everything when you are a business owner. Why jeopardize your image with grammatical errors on your website and written materials? These so-called little mistakes can cost a business owner clients, business and money.
Let’s look at this from your potential clients’ perspective. Picture yourself handing a prospective client a flyer, brochure or business card riddled with proofreading errors. What will they think of you and your business? If you were handed business materials that were less than perfect, would you take a second look?
Now, send that potential client to your web site and let them start browsing. What do they see? Well, some clients might not catch those mistakes but some will. What will they think? They will think that you are unprofessional or a fly-by-night operation. They will even question the quality of your services and/or products. If there are mistakes on your web site and published materials, prospective clients may look to your competition instead of going with your services.
It’s amazing how much can be missed. When someone else looks at your copy, they can spot the smallest errors glaring out at them. For example, a second pair of eyes can find a double ‘it it’ when it should read ‘it is’. You would still be seeing ‘it is’ because that is what you intended to say and so, that is what you will read even when it isn’t there.
There are many proofreading errors that can mar your image. Think of all the material that is associated with your business image. There is your newsletter/ezine, blog, brochure, flyer, business card, and web site. There are many things to check along with grammar. Your contact information should be accurate including phone, fax, web address and email. Formatting errors need to be proofed. These are mistakes you find that involve fonts, spaces, extra tabs, page numbering, headers and footers, inactive links and the like. These errors are annoying because they can creep up on you.
We are all human and no one is perfect. Typos happen to the best of us. Never proofread your own material. It pays to hire a professional when proofing business material. If you don’t, you could be confronted with an embarrassing situation, a waste of money, and a loss of business.
Business image is easily ruined. Why take that risk? Solve the problem and hire a virtual assistant to proofread.
Colleen
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06.20.08
Posted in Business at 7:44 pm by CMJ Office
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Colleen
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06.15.08
Posted in Genealogy at 9:06 pm by CMJ Office
When I first began to research my husband’s family, his maternal grandmother was still alive. I phoned her to discuss her family and her deceased husband’s family. One thing that she was completely adamant about was the spelling of her late husband’s family name. She kept repeating, “It’s Gragg not Gregg.”
My husband later explained to me that there were Gregg’s in the area he grew up in that were not related to his family. I’m not sure why she was such a stickler with this point.
My research has taught me to always keep an open mind even when you are presented with stories that people claim to be factual. Always keep an open mind.
Through my research, it came to pass that the family name flip-flopped through the years and census records between ‘Gragg’ and ‘Gregg’. I will never know why the name kept flip-flopping but it did. This is why researchers always check different name spellings. Things are not always what they seem to be.
Colleen
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06.07.08
Posted in Chat at 6:30 pm by CMJ Office
We all carry our mobile phones with names and numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family members or friends.
If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn’t know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Now, there is an “ICE” (In Case of Emergency) Campaign in progress across America. I actually think that this is a great global idea.
The concept of ICE is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name ICE (In Case Of Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scene of an accident, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn’t know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as ICE.
For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. This is a great idea that will make a difference!
Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our mobile phones today.
Colleen
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