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Ever wondered how your email marketing campaign was performing relative to others in your industry? A new MailerMailer.com study (http://www.mailermailer.com/metrics/) of nearly 270 million emails from 22 different industries reveals fresh insights into email marketing, providing important takeaways for every email marketer. Among top findings is the correlation between shorter subject lines and significantly higher email open rates.

BCI Adds New Products to Equip Existing Audi/Video Matrix Router/Switch Equipment with Fiber Optic Ports
BCI's new MCP-1000 Media converter platform has been certified for use with existing copper based matrix/routing switches to enable them to supply as needed, fiber optic ports for the transmission of video , audio and data.

Multilevel Marketing
Basic IdeaMultilevel marketing (MLM), also known as "Network" marketing, are a way of selling goods or services through self-employed independent distributors. As a networker (independent distributor) you receive commissions - for both your sales of the company's goods or services and those of other people you recruit to join the distributors.

Nestle Selects Cognos 8 BI to Complement Its SAP BW Reporting Solution: -- Global roll-out of C8 Business Intelligence follows successful
Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that Nestle has selected Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to complement its SAP Business Warehouse reporting solution.

Website Business Optimization Services
Many businesses are occupying their place in the online community and in order to make their business running, they are opting for website business optimization services. While others are just changing a few Meta Tags, Keywords, and images which is not going to give a positive impact. What attracts the visitor to a site is the users experience and optimized pages.

A Day In A Video Game Virtual World
An 11th grader comes home from school and throws his or her backpack onto the floor and immediately jumps into their favorite chair and prepare themselves to transform themselves. A video game collector comes home from a long day of work as he places his brief case on to the floor and grabs a bite to eat before plopping down into his favorite chair to begin a day within a video game wonderland. The 11th grader is no longer a student; he or she is what ever character they want to be in a game. The same goes for the business man; he?s no longer a suit but a character with special powers to conquer their own world. Today?s game technology allows players to role play and become what ever character they desire.

A Major Temptation When Developing A Home-Based Business
From what I have seen and experienced, to quit is the greatest temptation during the first year of working at a home-based business. If smoking was like working at a home-based business, the occurence of lung cancer would be dramatically reduced.

The Absolute Best Baby Shower Gift Idea?and Equally Awesome Business Opportunity!
I was invited to my sister?s baby shower recently and in the process, discovered my next business venture?diaper cake making I had rushed to the store, the day of the event of course, and bought the customary bib and pacifier set for baby, along with a nursing bra for mom, plopped them in a gift bag with tissue paper poking out of the top and arrived fashionably late, fingers crossed that this was a catered affair

Jivox Video Network Grows to Over 40 Million Viewers in Three Months
New publishers joining the network include Brown Publishing, ExpoTV, AOL India, Sulekha.com and Reliance Entertainment's Bigadda.com; publishers using Jivox to monetize video assets and reach local business advertisers

How To Launch A Successful Internet Marketing Business
There are a lot of people that are interested in launching a successful Internet marketing business. Some people even get to the point where they try but, unfortunately, many of them fail in their efforts. This isn't necessarily because the idea that they had was inferior, it is more than likely a matter of not knowing exactly how to take care of every aspect of their online business. For this reason, it is often necessary to go with a turnkey package, one that will help you to develop your entire Internet business in a smooth fashion. Not only will this help you to be successful, it will teach you the different steps that are necessary to make any online business a success.

Business Phone Systems - Types Of Systems Available
There are three major types of phone system available: KSU-Less phones, Key systems and Private Branch Exchange (PBX) systems. Which type of phone system you choose will depend on the amount of extensions you require and the features your telephone system needs to have installed.

Simple Marketing Strategies Versus an SEO Line of Attack!
Each and every day those of us on the Internet are bombarded with information about Search Engine Optimization and all that goes along with it. For the majority of folks who are promoting a business online, this can often lead to confusion especially when it comes to understanding key words, meta tags and title tags.

Seven Tips on Making a Successful Video Production
Producing a video for your company can be an exciting and potentially stressful experience. There's more to it than simply assigning a video production company to the task and crossing your fingers.

Searching For The Best Nokia Business Mobile Deals For You
When you speak of Nokia, you are talking about mobile phones. Indeed, all their mobile solutions are considered to be the best and one of the most-selling ones in the market today.

Discovering A Work At Home Business Idea
Many home businesses are started based off of a good idea that the business owner had. These types of businesses have owners who are creative and love to think outside the box. These businesses require a lot of work, but in the end the business owner gets a great feeling of accomplishment because they built the business themselves from the ground up. So, how can a person come up with a work at home business idea?

You Need Insurance Regardless of Your Business

While it might be comforting to think that insurance is something that only the big companies need to worry about, insurance is something that all businesses need to worry about. Indeed, the smaller you are as a business, the more vulnerable you are to a wide array of risks that can only ultimately be dealt with by adequate business insurance protection.

When you run your own business, you take on obligations and responsibilities above and beyond that of the average citizen. In fact, it can be seen as somewhat of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you probably go into business hoping to make a profit doing something you love while providing a benefit to others. On the other hand, all those others are affected by what you do ? good or bad. It's the latter that can get business owners into trouble if they don't seriously think about serious business insurance protection.

Let's take small business liability insurance as an example. Without this form of insurance protection, a business owner is putting themselves in unneeded and unnecessary financial risk.

Small business liability insurance is that which essentially protects a business from the threat of a lawsuit. It differs from other kids of protection many individuals might already be familiar with because it covers assets from the risk of being attacked by a claim of misconduct carried out by you or your business. If somebody decides to sue your business, not only could you be on the hook for the damages awarded, but the legal fees involved can often be staggering, even if the lawsuit is frivolous. Things like small business liability insurance, as part of a comprehensive business insurance package, are meant to deal with just such instances.

If you don't think that your business is at risk like this, you might want to reconsider. No business is too small or irrelevant to be untouched by the risk of a lawsuit. In fact, the smaller you are, the less you'll be able to count on your own resources to address the crisis of a legal proceeding, or the damages awarded as a result.

Perhaps for no sector of business is this reality more apparent than with small offices providing services of various sorts. While the amount of resources at your disposal is tight, the extent to which you may have an impact on the public is very considerable. And the extent to which that same public can come back and bite you can be similarly considerable, too. This goes for real estate professionals, management consultants, tax preparers, lawyers, doctors, and so on. No one is immune from the threat covered by business insurance that includes things like small business liability.

No matter how competently you think you run your business, how much emphasis you place on customer satisfaction, how well thought of you are in the business community, or the lengths to which you strive for excellence and achievement in your profession, you can be hit by a lawsuit. And, very often, you won't even have seen it coming. Even some service provided as a sub-contractor for someone else can be seen as having done harm to someone. If that someone decides to sue, there are costs that have to be covered. Good business insurance will cover it. More specifically, good small business liability insurance will cover it.

Let's take the management consultant industry as an example of where business insurance that includes small business liability is necessary.

The duties and responsibilities associated with the job of being a management consultant are considerable. In such a capacity, you use your expertise in the field of management to advise people professionally on a whole range of matters related to the proper running of a business. This can includes things as simple as staffing to something more sophisticated like public relations. Good management consultants provide a professional service noted for the extent to which comprehensive solutions are offered to meet challenging business environments.

This is precisely why management consultants need to be covered by good business insurance that includes small business liability insurance.

The extent to which their advice and solutions impact people can be almost limitless. In fact, if you tried to figure out who might sue you for advice you gave a client, you might never be able to do it. There will always exist people who simply perceive themselves to have been hurt by something you did. And they'll sue you for it.

Alternatively, even the best management consultants make mistakes. Sometimes they could have legal ramifications. Other times, they could have professional ramifications. Indeed, things like errors and omissions insurance or professional liability insurance exist because professionals make mistakes. Not only do they make mistakes, but they make mistakes that violate the professional principles involved in their industry. It happens. It's why even management consultants need good business insurance and liability protection.

Of course, whether you're a management consultant, real estate agent, tax lawyer, or healthcare specialist, the specifics might be different, but the insurance risks are much the same. As small business owners with offices that need to be protected from the threat of financial loss, business insurance and small business liability insurance is simply a smart solution to that end. They literally help protect the small guy and gal from the swamp out there that could digest everything they've worked for. And that swamp could include the unwanted lawsuit.

James Cochran is the founder of Business Insurance Now, a web-based umbrella insurance agent. Business Insurance Now and Techinsurance have grown to become America's leading online provider of professional business insurance, including excess liability insurance (umbrella insurance), for a wide range of small businesses, currently serving more than 12,000 business clients throughout the US. For more information about please visit http://www.businessinsurancenow.com/