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Dr. Emil Chynn Featured on FOX News (WNYW-TV) Park Avenue Laser Vision Center Recognized for Creative Internet Marketing
Dr. Emil Chynn of the Park Avenue Laser Vision (PALV) Center recently appeared on Fox Weekend News on Saturday, June 28, 2008, as a featured guest to discuss the issue of offering his patients discounts for posting videos of their laser surgeries on the popular video sharing site, YouTube. Dr. Chynn explains on the segment that he uses this promotional technique as a way to reach people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who frequently use the Internet and may be interested in laser vision surgery.

LexiConn Unveils New ShopSite E-commerce Email Marketing Module
LexiConn Internet Services, Inc., a privately held provider of web hosting and e-commerce services, today announced the availability of a new Email Marketing Module for the ShopSite e-commerce software solution.

Why Should I Get A Business Gas Credit Card?
If you own a business with a fleet of vehicles and you?re still paying full price for gasoline, you should stop right where you are now and really consider a gas rebate credit card that is designed for business. Whether your business owns one car or a thousand, you can save gas either way, there are no set restrictions. If you?re already familiar with the concept, I assure you after you read this report, you?ll want to apply for a gas credit card and start saving money for your business today.

Why Is There A Rush To Join Multilevel Marketing Opportunities Again?
MLM Marketing is on a new phase of growth. People have started seeing the benefits of MLM Marketing. Big corporations have seen the benefits of the MLM Marketing model of home biz and are utilizing MLM Marketing to sky rocket sales.

What The Home Shopping Networks Can Teach Us About Online Marketing
Who would have thought that a TV network dedicated to selling products on a cable network could become a success?Besides most people hate commercials..

Management: & The Business of Change
Management is crucial in any business, and the management of change is particularly important How you manage your business is important in determining its success

How To Choose The Right Affiliate Marketing Program
Not all types of affiliate marketing programs will be suitable for you. According to experts, about 80% of all the affiliate programs being offered online will not really bring you any income at all. Of course that doesn?t mean that these affiliate programs will not work for somebody else under different circumstances. What won?t work for you may bring something good to another. Bear in mind that different strokes apply for different folks so make sure that you get something that suits you well.

New Paper Offers Business-to-Business Marketers a Systematic Approach to Improve Marketing Results
A new paper from Media Logic offers business-to-business marketers innovative perspectives about how they can fine-tune every aspect of their marketing program for improved results and increased revenue. "The Marketing Optimization System? for Business-to-Business" paper is now available for download at http://www.mlinc.com/convertleads/

7 Things You Can Do To Weather The Lows Of A Business Cycle
Hey, as hard as this may be for you to swallow, business online is no different than a business on Main Street in your home town or city. We have good times and we have slow times.

Why a Collection Agency Is Your Small Business???s Best Friend--Really
Does the term ???collection agency??? put you on edge? If you???re like many small business owners, the mountain of debt you accumulated during startup might have been enough to make you worry about collection agencies every time you answered the phone. But your feelings toward collection agencies are eventually going to change, if they haven???t already.

Red Bricks Media Signs Two New Search Marketing Clients
Agency to run search marketing campaigns for Pacific Life Insurance Company and Salon.com.

Dread Planning? Simple Business Planning That Works Well
Your business day has just begun and you quickly whip out your clearly written plans. Pardon? Did you say you don't have a written business plan? Then join the club, 'Business Owners Without Plans'. The main problem this club faces is that the majority of it members' businesses are likely to fail. Business failure rate is high and a crucial reason for this is lack of planning.

'Little Miracles' Yields Big Results in New Business Book from Renowned Networking Expert Mel Kaufmann
'Little Miracles' is the methodology for creating wealth without the debilitating demands of prospecting and cold calling. With 'Little Miracles,' the new book from renowned business relationship networking expert Mel Kaufmann, a professional, using Kaufmann's Link System, seeks a person who has a database full of prospects to share, rather than seeking a solitary prospect. This leverages both time and money. 'You cannot use 20th century marketing concepts in the 21st century,' says Kaufmann, who recently developed a training course for additional teachers to fulfill demand for his workshops.

Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Strategies
Being an affiliate marketer can be tough. Not only do you always have to reinvent yourself, you also need to stay ahead in the race. Here are the best 10 ways in which you can ensure your affiliate marketing stays on top:

Interest Facts And Tricks Of Internet Marketing
The internet is one of the most powerful tools in business today. There is hardly any kind of business in the world that does not maintain a presence in some way on the web. This is all due to the fact that the internet has become such a part of the daily lives of those that live and work in the world.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Risk Analysis and Control

In the risk evaluation phase, there are a number of key areas that must be covered. One of the most important is to understand probable threats. In an ideal world, which most of us have noticed does not exist, we would identify and protect ourselves against all threats to ensure that our business continues to survive. Obviously, we are constrained by other factors such as budgets, time and priorities and need to apply cost benefit analysis to ensure we are protecting the most critical business functions.

A second important step is to identify all probable threats and prioritize them. Threats, typically, can be classified in several ways such as internal/external, man-made/natural, primary/secondary, accidental/intentional, controllable/not controllable, warning/no warning, frequency, duration, speed of onset etc. While classifying threats is helpful in terms of understanding their characteristics and potential controls, grouping and understanding by business impact is also important. Obviously, the same impact can result from a number of different threats.

Identifying mission critical business processes and systems is another fundamental building block of the business continuity plan. After your critical business processes and systems and probable threats are established, the next step is to identify vulnerabilities and loss potential. This requires an extensive scan of the organization to identify vulnerabilities and then analysis to understand those vulnerabilities which would have the greatest impact on your critical business processes and the organization. This starts to clarify and quantify potential losses, which helps to establish priorities.

Following the identification of the most probable threats and vulnerabilities, an analysis of existing controls is needed. This spans physical security as well as people, processes, data, communications and asset protection. Some controls such as physical security and data backup are obvious. Other controls required are often less obvious, but they can be identified through the risk evaluation process.

Once the key building blocks of critical business functions, most probable threats, vulnerabilities and controls are identified, the next stage is to develop an understanding of the probability of threats factored by the severity or impact of the threats. This leads to the business impact analysis phase which establishes priorities for protection.

The goal is to minimize threats, impacts and downtime and to mitigate any losses. Fundamentally, the goal is to protect your people, protect your data, protect your vital communications, protect your assets and to protect your brand and reputation. Overall, of course, the goal is to ensure your business continues to operate and to do it in a cost-effective way meeting standards of reasonable and prudent judgment.

About The Author

Robert Mahood has significant technology and management experience in data communications, internet, storage, disaster recovery and data recovery. He is currently the president of Midwest Data Recovery. www.midwestdatarecovery.com

bmahood@midwestdatarecovery.com, 312 907 2100 or 866 786 2595