Buy: ITT (ITT Corporation)
Purchased ITT Corporation at $51.53
About ITT Corporation: View Engineered for life videoITT is a vibrant part of the global economy. We are a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company with approximately 40,000 employees. Our portfolio of businesses is aligned with enduring, global growth drivers, and our employees bring extraordinary focus to meeting the needs of the people who buy and use our products and services in all the markets we serve.
Fluid Technology: ITT is a global water leader. Our products touch every part of the water cycle—delivering fresh water to communities and commercial businesses, treating and disinfecting it, transporting the wastewater and returning it to our streams and rivers cleaner than it came in. We are also a leader in supplying pumps and related technologies for handling harsh chemicals, mining slurry and industrial process fluids.www.ittfluidbusiness.com
Defense Electronics & ServicesITT is a trusted provider of mission-critical products and services that support the United States military and its allies. Our Defense group also develops space-based technologies that enable Global Positioning Satellite systems to communicate our precise location and allow weather satellites to help forecasters calculate when and where the next hurricane will hit. In many important ways, we are working to ensure a safer, more secure world.defense.itt.com
Motion & Flow Control: ITT is a global powerhouse in the motion and flow control market. We design, manufacture and distribute shock absorbers, fl ow control devices, friction technologies and other products for use in everything from beverage systems to commercial aircraft. Customers worldwide recognize ITT for our ability to deliver highly engineered, durable components that succeed in the harshest environments where the cost of failure is high.
About ITT Corporation: View Engineered for life videoITT is a vibrant part of the global economy. We are a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company with approximately 40,000 employees. Our portfolio of businesses is aligned with enduring, global growth drivers, and our employees bring extraordinary focus to meeting the needs of the people who buy and use our products and services in all the markets we serve.
Fluid Technology: ITT is a global water leader. Our products touch every part of the water cycle—delivering fresh water to communities and commercial businesses, treating and disinfecting it, transporting the wastewater and returning it to our streams and rivers cleaner than it came in. We are also a leader in supplying pumps and related technologies for handling harsh chemicals, mining slurry and industrial process fluids.www.ittfluidbusiness.com
Defense Electronics & ServicesITT is a trusted provider of mission-critical products and services that support the United States military and its allies. Our Defense group also develops space-based technologies that enable Global Positioning Satellite systems to communicate our precise location and allow weather satellites to help forecasters calculate when and where the next hurricane will hit. In many important ways, we are working to ensure a safer, more secure world.defense.itt.com
Motion & Flow Control: ITT is a global powerhouse in the motion and flow control market. We design, manufacture and distribute shock absorbers, fl ow control devices, friction technologies and other products for use in everything from beverage systems to commercial aircraft. Customers worldwide recognize ITT for our ability to deliver highly engineered, durable components that succeed in the harshest environments where the cost of failure is high.
9-9-09 Restaurant.com
I Just bought $330 worth of restaurant gift certificates for $13 dollars. I almost paid $130, and thought I was, but NO it's 1 3...lol! How funny. It's going to end in a couple of hours!
Go to Restaurant.com and enter Promo code: NINETY
Update: Just bought $890 more for $89
Update: Bought some more. I suppose the promo is still going on!
Go to Restaurant.com and enter Promo code: NINETY
Update: Just bought $890 more for $89
Update: Bought some more. I suppose the promo is still going on!
Hummingbird for Twitter - Why You Shouldn't Waste Your Time and Money!
STAY AWAY from the Hummingbird!(note: as of this writing, I've yet to receive any support, return contact, or a refund from Mesiab Labs.)
I purchased Hummingbird "The Pro Tool For Twitter Marketing," on September 5, 2009 to manage our Clients' Twitter Accounts. Considering Mesiab Labs' hefty price on the tool (approximately around the $100 range, excluding a promo code which drops the price to roughly around $82), I made the decision to purchase my first Twitter marketing tool (Really! this is the first I've ever purchased).
Subsequent to logging into the desktop GUI, my first action was to attempt to unfollow, followers. But it would not get past the first page without having to click the unfollow button again. Apparently, the feature did not work as advertised - the Automated Unfollow Button. Subsequently, I was prompted to download an update, hoping it would repair my concern. Unfortunately, now, I am unable to enter my registration key; and have not been able to use Hummingbird ever since. Overall, I have uninstalled the program from my PC.
Furthermore, I've requested a refund through e-mail. I have tried...
Read the Full Article Here: Hummingbird for Twitter - Why You Shouldn't Waste Your Time and Money!
Garmin (GRMN), Fortress Investment Group (FIG), Hawaiian Airlines (HA)
I'm holding on to my short position on Garmin (GRMN) and have a limit order to Cover all Shares at $31.50. I've purchased shares of Fortress Investment Group (FIG) at $5.11. I've sold my shares of Hawaiian Airlines at $7.60.
How to Determine the Types of Buyers and Consumers
The different types of buyers and consumers are categorized as the consumer market and the business market. Within these two categories, the consumer, or, buyer market makes up individuals and households that purchase “goods and services for personal consumption.” The "business market" however, consisits of organizations that purchase goods and services for the “use in the production of other products and services or for the purpose of reselling or renting them to others at a profit.”
Business markets have a smaller amount of large buyers, whose charactereistics are unlike those of the consumer market. Business Market consuming behavior is “more geographically concentrated.”
Difference between consumer market and business market decision processes.
Consumer Market: Behavior is “influenced by four key sets of buyer characteristics: cultural, social, personal and psychological.”
Consumer Market: Behavior is “influenced by four key sets of buyer characteristics: cultural, social, personal and psychological.”
Culture, is defined by social class and group wants and behaviors; social, incorporates the factors of influences by family and small groups that determine ideal brands and products; personal adopts the different age groups and lifestyles, and psychological, utilizes motivators and perception of “beliefs and attitudes.”
Business market: Behavior is influenced by a buying center that displays “three types of buying situations: straight rebuys, modified rebuys, and new tasks.”
Step 3Understand the type of Buyer or Consumer, their impacts on marketing, and their impacts on the Target Market. Why is this important? Each category host diverse consuming behaviors, are based on market segmentation, are influenced by a market's environment. Considering this, you should always understand that different marketing tools or approaches cost money to implement. And studying various types of consumers can assist in determining the focus and effort required.
Step 3Understand the type of Buyer or Consumer, their impacts on marketing, and their impacts on the Target Market. Why is this important? Each category host diverse consuming behaviors, are based on market segmentation, are influenced by a market's environment. Considering this, you should always understand that different marketing tools or approaches cost money to implement. And studying various types of consumers can assist in determining the focus and effort required.
Overall, due to the amount of time and costs that research requires to isolate and locate their consumers or business market, an organization can ensure their marketing strategy is appropriate by practicing target marketing or questioning center participants, center participants’ influence, environments, organizations, and interpersonal characteristics. Concisely, target marketing defines the relationship between a consumer and product based on market segmentation, which is the dividing of the buyers market into categorical segments, such as needs or characteristics; then the process of evaluating segments based on attractiveness, which in turn, subsequently determines the appropriate position to competitively perform for the benefit of the target consumer. All of these strategies are interpreted as a basis for marketing research and as stated in my previous response, can determine the appropriate strategic plan and collective budget. Full Page
ATT Blackberry Bundle and iPhone Bundle For College Students
As of September 4, 2009 AT&T (ATT) offers a Blackberry Bundle Plan (or an iPhone Bundle) available to 
specific colleges and universities. (For iPhone users, simply follow the steps below, they pertain to iPhone plans as well)
Log on to your AT&T account. Navigate to Business Center in the top right navigation bar, like so:
Then, enter your provided e-mail address (from your institution).
You should receive a confirmation e-mail, That looks similar to the following:
specific colleges and universities. (For iPhone users, simply follow the steps below, they pertain to iPhone plans as well)Log on to your AT&T account. Navigate to Business Center in the top right navigation bar, like so:
Then, enter your provided e-mail address (from your institution).
You should receive a confirmation e-mail, That looks similar to the following:
Now, as a "Premiere" consumer, click "Shop Now" and you can choose much cheaper bundles and may have the opportunity to upgrade your handset device with better savings relative to regular consumer accounts.
If you get the following alert after entering your information at the following page, such as "The mobile number entered does not match the Foundation Account Number (FAN) associated with this account group's site" below, you can give them a call at 1 (866) 499-8008, and press option #4, then press option # 4 again, to speak to a "Premiere" representative. 
Visa (V) and Mastercard MA)
I'm keeping and eye on Visa and Mastercard's price fluctuations heading towards the holiday shopping season. Keep in mind, Visa and Mastercard are founded on a payment processing service, and do not issue unsecured credit, award credit lines to qualified consumers, or provide any financing vehicles to consumers.
Garmin (GRMN) and Hawaiian Airlines (HA) Trade
Increased Short Position on Garmin (GRMN) at $32.86 = Avg. $32.44. Purchased Hawaiian Airlines (HA) at $7.1999.
How to Prevent a Foreclosure of a Home Loan
Let's face it, when you're up to your neck in bills, you'll soon find yourself with the difficulty of paying your loans, mortgage loans, second mortgage loans, or any secured or unsecured credit, on time. Even if it's down to the last stretch of your real estate's foreclosure process, there may still be a way to keep your home and set up arrangements of mortgage obligations in arrears.
Step 1: Contact your mortgage company and attempt to modify your existing loans and set up a workout plan to pay those "in arrears" obligations. If you have been sent a breach letter (usually after three months of delinquent payments), now is the time to really consider your options. You can either make the delinquent payments and write a letter of reason; and submit a copy to your mortgage's loan modification department, main customer service department, and the corporate headquarters, while including all of these recipients as "cc:" in your letter. Or, assume the last resort option to Prevent Foreclosure.
Step 2: If you've done this process, and you still you haven't had any luck with any negotiations (i.e. payments to push the foreclosure date until you've settled your finances) with your mortgage company or their representing attorney, and a foreclosure date has already been defined, there is not one other solution but to file for a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. (Ask any attorney, they'll detail a similar response)
Step 3: Chapter 13 Bankruptcy attempts to consolidate your rearage of the mortgage, in addition to any unsecured or secured credit, to be paid within a typical time frame of 3 to 5 years (dependent on the situation, laws, State, etc.). Simply meaning, its an approved debt consolidation plan that titles itself as a bankruptcy petition/filing that seeks to decrease your monthly payments. However, before you can petition for Bankruptcy, you'll have to take one credit counseling course in order to receive a certificate of credit counseling.
Step 4: Credit counseling classes can be taken online; and usually last...
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Step 1: Contact your mortgage company and attempt to modify your existing loans and set up a workout plan to pay those "in arrears" obligations. If you have been sent a breach letter (usually after three months of delinquent payments), now is the time to really consider your options. You can either make the delinquent payments and write a letter of reason; and submit a copy to your mortgage's loan modification department, main customer service department, and the corporate headquarters, while including all of these recipients as "cc:" in your letter. Or, assume the last resort option to Prevent Foreclosure.
Step 2: If you've done this process, and you still you haven't had any luck with any negotiations (i.e. payments to push the foreclosure date until you've settled your finances) with your mortgage company or their representing attorney, and a foreclosure date has already been defined, there is not one other solution but to file for a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. (Ask any attorney, they'll detail a similar response)
Step 3: Chapter 13 Bankruptcy attempts to consolidate your rearage of the mortgage, in addition to any unsecured or secured credit, to be paid within a typical time frame of 3 to 5 years (dependent on the situation, laws, State, etc.). Simply meaning, its an approved debt consolidation plan that titles itself as a bankruptcy petition/filing that seeks to decrease your monthly payments. However, before you can petition for Bankruptcy, you'll have to take one credit counseling course in order to receive a certificate of credit counseling.
Step 4: Credit counseling classes can be taken online; and usually last...
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GRMN, UNP, AAPL, HA
Garmin, Union Pacific, Apple, Hawaiian Airlines
August 12, 2009
-Covered GRMN at $31.32 from 32.26
-Sold UNP at $61.29 from $59.21
-Sold AAPL at $166.43 from purchase of $162.19-164.77
New Position today
-Short HA at $6.97 and $6.98
August 12, 2009
-Covered GRMN at $31.32 from 32.26
-Sold UNP at $61.29 from $59.21
-Sold AAPL at $166.43 from purchase of $162.19-164.77
New Position today
-Short HA at $6.97 and $6.98
Free Premium Ebay Templates
Searching all over the net, until recently, I've never come across a site that provides free, graphically creative, premium eBay templates. Since most sites require some type of sign up or upfront payment, I'm happy to introduce a cybersite that doesn't require any of this. Head over to Excreted.Com and start using these templates today. (Note: The site owners allow free use of all eBay templates, but suggests to purchase a License in order to fully manipulate each template). Read the disclosures.
How do you use them?
1. Head over to Excreted.Com and choose a template design.
2. Log in to your eBay sellers page.
3. Create a new listing.
4. In the section that says "*Describe the item you're selling," simply paste the HTML code of the template you want to use.
It should look like this:
How to copy and paste the code:
5. Once you're done copying and pasting simply click the tab labeled "standard" and change any of the item details to include your very own item.
6. How about your item's photographs? Easy, upload them to any free photo hosting site like photobucket and copy and paste that photo over one of the existing sample photos. For example, right click the sample photo in the template (in standard view), and paste your new photo over it.
That's it, you're done and ready to list your item.
Our Robbers Caught On Tape
Several Days ago, my family was raped of their personal security. An intruder decided to enter my mother's home. He (judging from his nonchalant demeanor), hopped the fence, and strolled along to the back of the property. He entered through a side door, and decided to steal most of my valuable items (my temporary office while on travel). From my computer techie stuff (I love techie stuff), my wallet, iphone, to even my cigarettes, the intruder returned for a second rampage. With technology so small and expensive, it's amazing what can fit inside of a duffle bag. Luckily however, as the intruder didn't know, we caught him red-handed through our surveillance system.
I'm writing this today, to ask the public, if they may provide some investigative skills with the following video; and I would much appreciate if some could even offer "super-resolution" skills that exceed my current capabilities...Full Read
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Twitter Traffic better than Google? My Hubpages
Twitter Traffic better than Google? My Hubpages
The Kung-Fu Master Reveals! Twitter Versus Google
Hello Everyone!
Well, first of all, I have to say...THANKS TWITTER, for beating the Google Traffic to my hubs!
There's no doubt in my mind that Google is by far the heftiest traffic driver around. And in the world of hubpages, it probably ranks within the top five of your "Traffic Sources;" well, for me anyways. However, that all ended today!
Personally, I've never used social networking sites or any micro-blogging platform to market myself, or my ideas; and always sought after the traditional methods of face-to-face, kung-fu style marketing. So, a couple of days ago, I decided to unleash my hubs one of these sites to experiment on traffic generation and another traffic driver. The lucky candidate here was Twitter – “a service for friends.”
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Management Vs. Leadership: The Real Difference
Management Vs. Leadership: The Real Difference
Managers that comprehend management theories are not born as leaders with leadership qualities or may not posses any form of leadership quality. However, leaders with leadership qualities are instinctive managers of proper management toward any task. Management is “the act or art of managing: the conducting or supervising of something ‘as a business’ (Merriam Webster, n.d., Definition 1).” Although management functions and traits are a full comprehension of occurrences and tasks, an attribute of leadership may not exist within. Leadership is “the act or instance of leading (Merriam Webster, n.d., Definition 3).”
(Patty Inglish writes a great hub defining "The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader.")
Within the organizational structure of my previous employer, our echelon’s high chief portrayed and exercised traits that made him a great leader and manager.
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Workplace Romance, Office Flings? Oh...What To Do?
Workplace Romance, Office Flings? Oh...What To Do?
Flings in the Office or Workplace
I ran across an article after Googling on the topic, which happened to be an interesting read. Marty Nemko, the author of “Career Center: Cubicle love: Tips for workplace dating” (2006), handles the biased issue of workplace romance. Wait a second, don’t deny it. I’m sure we’ve experienced a fling or two, and if not our own, we’ve at least witnessed a fellow employee’s affair within the company. Why are office relationships significant to employee behavior issues?
Several weeks ago, I realized that one of my managers began a workplace relationship with one of my cashiers. While I’ve been a spectator of all sorts of office romances since my first job in high school; they never really bothered me. And to this day, I accept them as the norms of any human and business element. Of course however, more recently, they’ve become more and more of an inconvenience, a nuisance if you will, that has restricted some of my employees’ productivity and workmanship. Okay, I lied, honestly, it has become exceptionally disturbing. Why you ask?
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Management and Leadership Quality: Ways to Influence an Organization
Management and Leadership Quality: Ways to Influence an Organization
Management and Leadership Skills are Limitless
Robbins and Judge note, “in the early part of the twentieth century, a French industrialist by the name of Henri Fayol wrote that all managers perform five management functions: They plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. Today, we have condensed these to four: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling” (2007, Management Functions).
Skills in management and leadership are limitless; and vary based on an individual’s personality traits, or, transactional or transformational leadership styles.
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Types of Buyers and Consumers - Their Characteristics and Marketing
Buyers and Consumers : Consumer Market and Business Market
Different Types of Buyers and Consumers - The characteristics of buyers and the factors that influence their purchasing decision.
The different types of buyers and consumers are combined within several major categories, the consumer market and the business market. Amid these two major categories, the consumer/buyer market is comprised of individuals and households that purchase “goods and services for personal consumption,” whereas the business market encompasses organizational entities that purchase goods and services for the “use in the production of other products and services or for the purpose of reselling or renting them to others at a profit.”
Business markets possess a smaller amount of large buyers, unlike the consumer market, and whose consuming traits are “more geographically concentrated.” Dependent on the type of buyer and consumer, characteristics through decision processes may differ. For instance, the consumer market’s behavior is “influenced by four key sets of buyer characteristics: cultural, social, personal and psychological.” Culture, is defined by social class and group wants and behaviors; social, incorporates the factors of influences by family and small groups that determine ideal brands and products; personal adopts the different age groups and lifestyles, and psychological, utilizes motivators and perception of “beliefs and attitudes.” Additionaly, the business market’s behavior is influenced by a buying center that displays “three types of buying situations: straight rebuys, modified rebuys, and new tasks.”
Know the type of Buyer or Consumer, and how they impact a marketing strategy. How to ensure a market strategy’s effectiveness toward the target market.
Buyers ranging from individual consumers to organization consumers are distinct from one another based on consuming behavior. Such behaviors can vary from the different influences, and comprehending the consumers’ purchasing characteristics or market segmentation, can identify the plethora of strategic marketing tools to implement. Due to the amount of time and costs that research requires to isolate and locate their consumers or business market, an organization can ensure their marketing strategy is appropriate by practicing target marketing or questioning center participants, center participants’ influence, environments, organizations, and interpersonal characteristics.
Concisely, target marketing defines the relationship between a consumer and product based on market segmentation, which is the dividing of the buyers market into categorical segments, such as needs or characteristics; then the process of evaluating segments based on attractiveness, which in turn, subsequently determines the appropriate position to competitively perform for the benefit of the target consumer. All of these strategies are interpreted as a basis for marketing research and as stated in my previous response, can determine the appropriate strategic plan and collective budget.
Different Types of Buyers and Consumers - The characteristics of buyers and the factors that influence their purchasing decision.
The different types of buyers and consumers are combined within several major categories, the consumer market and the business market. Amid these two major categories, the consumer/buyer market is comprised of individuals and households that purchase “goods and services for personal consumption,” whereas the business market encompasses organizational entities that purchase goods and services for the “use in the production of other products and services or for the purpose of reselling or renting them to others at a profit.”
Business markets possess a smaller amount of large buyers, unlike the consumer market, and whose consuming traits are “more geographically concentrated.” Dependent on the type of buyer and consumer, characteristics through decision processes may differ. For instance, the consumer market’s behavior is “influenced by four key sets of buyer characteristics: cultural, social, personal and psychological.” Culture, is defined by social class and group wants and behaviors; social, incorporates the factors of influences by family and small groups that determine ideal brands and products; personal adopts the different age groups and lifestyles, and psychological, utilizes motivators and perception of “beliefs and attitudes.” Additionaly, the business market’s behavior is influenced by a buying center that displays “three types of buying situations: straight rebuys, modified rebuys, and new tasks.”
Know the type of Buyer or Consumer, and how they impact a marketing strategy. How to ensure a market strategy’s effectiveness toward the target market.
Buyers ranging from individual consumers to organization consumers are distinct from one another based on consuming behavior. Such behaviors can vary from the different influences, and comprehending the consumers’ purchasing characteristics or market segmentation, can identify the plethora of strategic marketing tools to implement. Due to the amount of time and costs that research requires to isolate and locate their consumers or business market, an organization can ensure their marketing strategy is appropriate by practicing target marketing or questioning center participants, center participants’ influence, environments, organizations, and interpersonal characteristics.
Concisely, target marketing defines the relationship between a consumer and product based on market segmentation, which is the dividing of the buyers market into categorical segments, such as needs or characteristics; then the process of evaluating segments based on attractiveness, which in turn, subsequently determines the appropriate position to competitively perform for the benefit of the target consumer. All of these strategies are interpreted as a basis for marketing research and as stated in my previous response, can determine the appropriate strategic plan and collective budget.
Honor, Courage, and Commitment: The United States Navy
HONOR
The United States Navy follows three major words as core values to develop positive relationships with people, countries, and governments.
Honor, Courage and Commitment were the words I swore to. They were the seeds considered necessary to be successful toward a vital decision process in the management of human lives.
One word but yet so sound, the word Honor is an absolute decision in itself. It is the decision with action to value others and ourselves with devotion. The United States Navy’s definition of Honor is, “ I will bear true faith and allegiance ...” Accordingly, we will: Conduct ourselves in the highest ethical manner in all relationships with peers, superiors and subordinates; Be honest and truthful in our dealings with each other, and with those outside the Navy; (United States Navy, n.d., ¶ 2)…” The United States Navy has followed this ethical code of Honor by providing life changing and saving duties around the world.
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Litigation, Torts, and Liability: Measuring Risk and Managing It
Traditional Litigation: Encountering Risks and Reducing Exposure
When dealing with traditional litigation, a business or organization will risk scrutiny of the company’s image or brand, and clearly suffers monetary costs, which can affect the entity’s bottom line. Reflecting on the traditional litigation system, dependent on the type of trial, for example, a civil trial, the burden of proof is rested upon the plaintiff. The plaintiff must present truthful evidence or proof to a judge or jury against the defendant. Thus, the strength of the plaintiff’s credible facts and truth must be supportive of the plaintiff’s claim and proven stronger than the defendant’s defense. Considering the requirements to support a case (plaintiff or defendant), research and costs will rise.
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