Thank you and welcome!A fast yet heartfelt thanks and welcome aboard to some of our new clients, folks whose presence makes the world a much better place: United Therapeutics Corporation brings an obsession with quality and innovation; Phoenix Communications is New England's leading specialists in fiber optic networks; Radius Bank, a financial services company dedicated to delivering only the best to their customers; and the Hachette Book Group, bringing all of us the best in the exciting world of fiction. 
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Our CredoFor what does Return on Initiative stand? What are the values we hope we share with our clients, or colleagues, and even our competitors? Return on Initiative believes that having the foresight, the chutzpah, the drive and, yes, the initiative to work hard today so that you can be inspired to work even harder tomorrow and accomplish twice as much--yes, we believe in that the way we believe in fresh air and sunshine. When you put energy out, you expect to get something of equal or greater value in return. Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When our clients spend money to allow us to work hard for them, we expect them to be rewarded in kind. Back when we started this company, way back in late 2009-early 2010, all we did in those days was to build websites (most of which feel embarrassingly primitive by today's standards) and our method for acquiring clients was a bit unique. A friend came to Lisa Ann and me saying he had dived through the dumpster of a company in the telemarketing business and had a huge stack of leads. We paid that guy $100 and started dialing from home. Fast forward to today. Most of the time people call us--rather than the other way around. They want to know what we think of their existing websites. They want us to build them a website or to maintain an existing one. Many others want us to optimize their websites or to promote it through different social media channels. We do all these things. I like to believe we do them well. The numbers I see and the telephone calls I receive indicate our clients are happy with our work. Having accomplished our share of success, we find ourselves in the fortunate position of being able to be just a bit picky about the clients with whom we work. Our clients are reputable. Our clients are honest. Our clients do well by doing good. We hold ourselves to those same standards. If you are an existing customer of ours, we believe in you and we honor you for your commitment. Most of all we thank you for allowing us to work with you to accomplish your goals. If you are not yet a customer, we hope one day to see you on our client list. I believe you will be far more than merely satisfied. We believe you will be a client for life.  7 Marketing StatisticsEmails with "Welcome" in the subject field have an average open rate of 82%. Optinmonster. 54% of all emails are classified as spam. Statista Nearly all sales reps with more than 5000 LinkedIn contacts exceed expectations. HubSpot Eighty+ percent of all new leads never convert into sales. Invesp Exit pop-ups convert up to four percent of exiting visitors into email subscribers. OptinMonster More than half of all shoppers have bought something with a smartphone. Pew Research By next year (2021) mcommerce sales will account for more than half of all ecommerce sales. CBRE  Mindful Eating Training InstituteHello Everyone,
We are extending our very special Promotional Discount to SAVE $500 for you to join the ‘Flex Time’ Mindful Eating Training (MB-EAT) Online Professional Program that is starting this week. The Flex Time option allows students throughout the world to access the recently recorded live class sessions at your own convenience to learn the principles and tools of MB-EAT to use in your professional practice, whether in individual client sessions or group sessions as well as to benefit personally. This is a great opportunity to start or strengthen your mindfulness, mindful eating and living practices and learn to become an embodied practitioner of mindful eating You can join the May Flex Time program in the next two weeks, to get started right away to learn these powerful tools and techniques to better support your clients. We record each weekly 'live' session and will send you the link to review every Monday. You will be matched up with another class participant in the Mindful Eating Training Flex Time' program to arrange a weekly time to meet online together to practice the 'Teachbacks' that are part of the course. We also recommend that you join the 'virtual' online silent Daylong retreat that will be offered on one Saturday during the 12 week program (we do record this retreat as well, to do on your time, as needed). Andrea offers special monthly 'live' session for 'check ins' and Q&A for the 'Flex Time' students to review the material together and offer mentoring. She will arrange these times to best meet the needs everyone in our Flex Time program. If you prefer to wait for our next 'live' interactive Mindful Eating Training (MB-EAT) online program, it starts on Friday, July 10th, with an "Early Bird Special" that ends June 15th. See below for registration forms for both programs! We are offering a SPECIAL SPRING DISCOUNT (save $500!) for the Flex Time program - register and prepay by May 25th (you can join us anytime this month and catch up with the weekly recorded sessions). For full program details, please click HERE Register for May Flex Time program and SAVE $500 HERE Register for July 10th ‘ LIVE’ program HERE Verb Technology First Quarter EarningsVERB to Host Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 and First Quarter 2020 Earnings Call on Monday, May 18, 2020 at 5:00 PM ET. VERB CEO Rory J. Cutaia and CFO Jeff Clayborne will host the conference call, followed by a question and answer period. #VERB $VERB #OTCVERB
Mariel Miller Resiliencehttps://www.tacklewhatsnext.com/livestream-mariel-miller-TFA Soon, the frost will melt. We'll step outside again and the economy will rebound. While life will never be quite the same, who we will become in the process depends largely on our mindset and motivation today. Join us as we begin to explore some of the most durable and sustainable businesses post-corona and beyond. Start learning today. Begin formulating a plan, investigating options and preparing to invest wisely when the time is right. As the remarkable Anne Frank said: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."  American Dream LiveWioleta Kapusta is so excited to announce a LIVE broadcast at American Dream Live Facebook Group with Kelsey Matheson as a follow-up to our last year's interview and the opportunity to share the amazing things she is creating these days. Please join us on Friday, May 13 at 10:00am PST. https://lnkd.in/gxYHXC6 #americandreamlive #americandream #theamericandream #liveyourdreams #liveyourpurpose #findyourself #followyourdreams #loveyourlife #findjoy #newcomfortzone #openingdoors #experiencethedifference #leaveyourmark #findpeace #livethedream #livingthedream #findlove #liveyourbestlife  Mindful Eating Professional Online Training and Mentoring ProgramMINDFUL EATING TRAINING INSTITUTE (METI) presents Mindful Eating Professional (MB-EAT) Online Training and Mentoring Program with MB-EAT Teacher/Trainer Andrea Lieberstein, MPH, RDN, RYT Our Three Month Online Mindful Eating Training and Mentoring Program will provide you with training in the practices and approaches of the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program (MB-EAT) and other mindfulness practices as they support the practice of mindful eating and living. Through mindful eating practices, one learns to pay attention to what the body really needs, how to experience the full pleasure and taste of food without overeating, and how to release the guilt and struggle so often associated with eating.
The training explores and provides intensive training with the foundational mindful eating, mindfulness and compassion practices needed to become a true embodied practitioner and guide of mindful eating with the core practices of a comprehensive evidence-based program supported by NIH funded research and more. Being the most effective and authentic mindful eating practitioner in our work, calls upon us to learn and embody the practice from the inside out. It calls upon us to understand the practice of mindfulness and how this applies to food, eating, behavior, as well as to our own and our clients’ inner landscape, including emotions and thoughts. It encompasses cultivating and practicing a wise relationship to our bodies, mind, and heart leading to greater equanimity, joy, clarity and skillful means to make wise choices that honor self-care, health and well-being. Learn how to skillfully navigate this terrain with love and compassion in this in-depth program that will transform your personal and professional practice. MB-EAT was pioneered by Dr. Jean Kristeller, an Indiana State University professor, and supported by NIH-funded research. It addresses mindless and stress-related eating, emotional eating, disordered eating patterns and obesity so prevalent in our culture through the application of mindfulness meditation. The tools of inner and outer wisdom, integral to the program help support each person to make informed, balanced, healthy sustainable choices over a lifetime, while being truly nourished by food and other aspects of their lives on many levels. You will learn to become an embodied Mindful Eating and meditation practitioner and instructor. This course integrates the step by step tools for you to teach the 12-week MB-EAT Group outpatient program to your clients. These Mindful Eating (MB-EAT) principles are also invaluable to utilize with your clients to integrate into your private practice. The online MB-EAT Professional Training includes 12 'Live' 2 hour sessions using a state of the art program that has video computer technology so we can all see each other. It's like being in a virtual classroom but from the comfort of your own home or office. The live weekly sessions are recorded so you can listen to them if you miss a live interactive session. This program also includes a day long virtual retreat, a small group coaching session, unlimited email access, training materials, manuals and more! We now include two bonus 1 Hour Q & A sessions as well, which our participants really appreciate! Practices and topics introduced include mindfulness meditation, eating exercises, eating meditations, guided visualizations, loving kindness and self-compassion practices, didactic instruction, inquiry method, role playing, tools, weekly home practices, assignments, coaching and self-reflection to cultivate mindful awareness and a more balanced and positive relationship to eating and weight. This training program provides a weight neutral approach. Upon completion of the training, participants will be qualified to teach the 12-week MB-EAT Group Program to their clients. You will gain personal understanding, experiential learning, and have a new relationship to mindfulness and mindful eating practices. You will also learn to apply a variety of mindfulness and mindful eating practices, information and tools to your clients, both individually and in group settings. Eligibility to teach the full 12 week MB-EAT outpatient program, as a qualified MB-EAT Instructor, is met upon having a regular Mindfulness Meditation practice of 6 months or more (the 3 months of meditation practice and training during this training program may count towards this requirement), related professional degrees, licensure, registration or certification and professional/clinical experience with eating issues along with some group facilitation experience. The 3 Month Program includes:
The Three-month small group program allows time for development and deepening of mindfulness meditation practice and teaching skills, mindful eating teaching skills, Teachbacks and practice. Sessions are recorded so if you miss a session you can receive the recorded session to make it up. Up to three live sessions may be missed. Extenuating circumstances will be considered on an individual basis. CEU’s Available: The training has received prior approval for 46 CPE’s by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for Registered Dietitians. Our program is also approved through Cassidy Seminars for Psychologists, Counselor/MFT, Social Workers and Nurses. ‘FLEX TIME’ Available: If your schedule does not allow you to join our ‘live’ weekly sessions, we now offer the Flex Time option whereby you review each weekly session, along with the current class, at your own time. You will be matched up with another student for the Teachback ‘homework’. We also arrange for special bi-monthly Q&A sessions for the Flex Time students. Ask for more details by email. Program Tuition Fees: Option 1 $1,688 (includes $100 discount if prepaid in full) Option 2 $1,788 – with 4 payments of $447/month paid by the 15th of each month Register early as space is limited. Credit Card, Paypal and Checks accepted. See registration form for more details. Refund Policy: You will receive a full refund minus the $300 nonrefundable deposit up to three weeks before the program begins. If you need to change your program date, tuition is transferable for up to one year. After that time no refunds can be granted. The program is guaranteed to run through completion or a full refund will be granted. Andrea Lieberstein, MPH, RDN, RYT © 2020 Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training and Coaching Mindful Eating Programs for the General Public and Health Professionals andrea@mindfuleatingtraining.com www.mindfuleatingtraining.com (415) 497-3674 Gorgons of Ecstasy Is it redundant to say something that ought to be obvious, to beckon attention to concepts built from facts that people I know to be reasonable have already fathomed for themselves? Reality suggests not.
The Covid-19 virus--as of this writing--has infected 4,169,071 people across the world, 283,218 of whom have died from the disease. These numbers come unbidden from the Center for Disease Control. Because the United States has always prided itself on being Number One, we lead the world--free and otherwise--with 1,364,956 cases and 80,697 departures from this mortal coil. This disease is the Manson Family of viruses. What I mean is that a lot of people back in the summer of 1969 tried to warn the authorities that a short guy with long hair and a bevvy of females and a few young men were attempting to ignite a race war by killing white people and putting the blame on blacks on account of The Beatles told them to do so, but the story was so deranged and confusing and vast that members of the Los Angeles Police Department back in that late summer of 1969 decided the killers of Sharon Tate and others just had to be the result of a drug deal gone wrong and wasted days, weeks, months sniffing the stench of the wrong sidewalks. And so it was in the early days of the Corona Virus. A country all too happy to blame other countries for its own personality defects decided to wait. The mystery disease had not, after all, affected anyone in the United States. The very fact that the United States was now in the hands of a messianic megalomaniac with strong appeal to racists and survivalists meant that the disease would not dare enter our shores. Our leader had scared off the Mexicans, the Arabs, the Asians and godless Canadians. How much harm could some bat in a fish market in Wuhan do to a bunch of hairy muscleheads in the greatest goldarned country on the face of North America? We're great again, dammit! That flu bug will vanish, like a miracle from the Miracle Man. Eighty thousand dead Americans later, we find ourselves hellbent for leather to "reopen" our country tomorrow, as if somehow the last two months has been some kind of grandiose prison sentence, some illegitimate constraint against our fought and won right to cough recombinant ancestral acute respiratory syndrome death seeds into the gaping faces of people too stunned by the idiocy of it all to stay at home. I'm in business. I like working. I enjoy seeing the work I do help other people. But I am not so conceited--no matter what you may have heard--as to believe that my contribution to the health of our collective economy depends in any way whatsoever on my direct physical participation. So I continue to use other means: telephone, texting, email, video conferencing. Sometimes I just dash out the front door, let out a scream that would give a stroke to a timberwolf, and run back inside. I like being alive. I have a beautiful young wife and a couple of silly dogs who look at me as if I know many things. he dogs, that is. Joyce knows better. I have friends all over the country and they mean the world to me. That is why I don't go out to some crowded grocery without a mask, touch as many things as possible, pick my face, shake hands with the cashier, and then make air contact with a whole bunch of other nitwits, anyone of whom might infect somebody else who would then give the virus I so conveniently acquired without symptoms to my young wife or my friends, any one of whom could then in turn join the anonymous list of numbers clicking out the official DOA tickertape. So if this is redundant, as Walt Whitman could have said, very well then, it is redundant. I contain multitudes of forgetfulness. The pity is that repetition and metaphoric restatements are required at all. Internet Usage StatisticsThe following data is courtesy of Statcounter.
Google Chrome holds a global share of 62.48% of browser usage. Safari is second with 19.94%. Google search is the top global engine, with a 91.89% share. Bing is 2.79 Yahoo is 1.87 Baidu is 1.1 Yandex is 0.54 DuckDuck Go is 0.45% Social media global shares are as follows: Facebook: 60.15% Twitter: 15.48% Pinterest: 10.48 Instagram: 8.73 YouTube: 4.20 Tumblr: 0.36% Desktops versus Mobile versus Tablet Global: Mobile: 53.81% Desktop: 43.71 Tablet: 2.92 |
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