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Author: Jessica Deets

As fears of bird flu increase… so does the claims by companies trying to cash in on it. Some of the strongly worded claims made by the companies about their treatments include phrases like “prevents avian flu,” “a natural virus shield” and “kills the virus.”

Since the H5N1 bird flu hasn’t mutated to a human-to-human version, there’s no real way to know what we’re fighting against.

The best thing to do in preparation is to boost your immune system. Go to your local health food store and they can tell you what to take for boosting immune. Also find a local myropractor if you have one nearby, or someone that has undergone the Total Body Modification educational program and they can do many things for you to boost immune.

What the Food and Drug Administration did was to warn nine companies to stop selling purported remedies for bird flu because they have not been approved by the agency. Because of the claims, the FDA looks at their products, most of which are marketed as dietary supplements, to be new drugs that do require approval before they can be sold to the public. The FDA statement is “the FDA is not aware of any scientific evidence that demonstrates the safety or effectiveness of these products for treating or preventing avian flu, and the agency is concerned that the use of these products could harm consumers or interfere with conventional treatments.”

The FDA sent warning letters to the nine companies saying they are presenting misleading and unproven claims. The companies were given 15 days to respond.

So don’t get taken in by these claims. Save your money. The time-tested method is to build up your immune to as strong as it can be and then be optimistically hopeful that everything will be ok.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/companies-offering-bird-flu-remedies-cant-substantiate-their-claims-8930.html

About the Author
Jessica Deets researches the internet for information to benefit others. You can find more news about the bird flu H5N1 at http://www.bestfluinfo.com and the blog has updates at http://www.bestfluinfo.com/blog

Author: Clive Simpkins

A reputation is something acquired, rather than worked toward,over a long period of time. The brand name or ?equity’associated with that reputation can be worth a fortune. Or, oncetainted, it can become your greatest liability. Reputation is adelicate bloom. The public are short on good memories and big onretention of one slip-up. So it begs the question – why wouldyou, without careful thought and assurance of quality control,relinquish your business’ reputation into the hands of someoneelse? Too many businesses today are doing just that.

I’ve been a subscriber to Financial Mail (FM) longer than I canremember. My week just wasn’t complete without it. Courtesy ofthe relentless inefficiency of the Post Office, I often had toread my FM several days late. But read it I did. This year, Ididn’t receive a notification for renewal of subscription. Itjust stopped arriving. After a series of attempts to renew,endless waits to get through to the subscription call centre,unreturned calls and the like, I gave up. Then somethinginteresting happened. After two weeks, I found my addiction toFM waning. I could actually get through the week without it.Business Report, FM’s stablemate Business Day and Moneywebproved more than adequate to keep me thoroughly briefed onbusiness news. So I was weaned, involuntarily and throughsomeone’s inefficiency, from a career-long subscription andaddiction to FM. It was rendered obsolete courtesy of a badlymanaged subscription renewal service. About a week later, Ireceived two printed notices in my mailbox inviting me tosubscribe to FM.

I haven’t used this space to take a gratuitous swipe at the FM.But the experience reminded me afresh of the danger of leavingsome aspect of your business in the hands of someone, or people,who seem not to care. Indian, Jewish, Chinese and many othercommunities have historically used family members in theirbusinesses, because they understand the need for ?ownership’ andan appropriately vested interest. When it’s your money going outthe door through wasteful phone calls or unnecessarily discardedpackaging material, you tend to notice. When it isn’t, we’re notas inclined to care. It’s to this issue that business, with itsfalling service standards and ?don’t-care’ unfocussed employees,needs to pay attention.

I recently had to deal with Capital Alliance on behalf of myelderly godmother. Their call centre employees and indeed eventhe manager of the call centre didn’t understand the scope andauthority conferred on me by a general power of attorney, asopposed to a special power of attorney. Nearly fourteen days offrustration culminating in a call to their MD’s office, wasrequired to educate them. Their letter of apology indicates thatthey now understand how a power of attorney functions. But theexperience with their call centre was deeply annoying.

Many companies have call centres or switchboard operators whoanswer the phone as if through a wad of Kleenex. To this day, Iwouldn’t know the name of several of them if it were up to theoperators.

For business, this means giving very careful thought tooutsourcing facets of your organization that have a directimpact on your customers, clients or suppliers. The behaviour ofthe outsourced operation becomes what business legend JanCarlzon (of SAS airlines fame) dubbed, ?A moment of truth.’Carlzon emphasized that it doesn’t matter how that encounterwith your organization occurs, or through whom it occurs – ithas implications for your reputation and your customer retention.

The customer is not interested in your infrastructure problemsor your outside supplier issues. They’re doing business with youwhen someone answers ?your’ phones. Example: I’ve just had aquality assurance call from the UK. The incompetence of theBritish call centre functionary who called me to check on myHewlett Packard South Africa service centre experience, was mindnumbing. She was incapable of working ?off-script’ – a commoncall centre problem. As a result, any information HP get on myexperience, will be useless.

If you’re going to outsource – whether through a call centre ornot – make sure you remain the brand custodian. It’s you who’sinvested the time, money and energy in building your brandequity and reputation. Why on earth would you want to abdicateresponsibility and leave that precious asset in the hands ofsome socially unsophisticated yobbo who doesn’t give a fig aboutyour business? You might as well just throw it away yourself.Think about it.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/throwing-away-your-reputation-1873.html

About the Author
Clive is a marketing & communications strategist. He specialises in helping people and organizations make sustainable change. http://www.imbizo.com

Author: John Doetsch

Delivering regularly updated content to website visitors iseasier through RSS resources.

RSS, also known as Rich Site Summary or Really SimpleSyndication, has been used for years by online visitors.However, it has only recently begun to gain popularity amongwebmasters as a means of providing visitors with constantlyrefreshed content. These feeds were originally developed todeliver updated news more quickly, but they have since evolvedto allow for nearly instantaneous updates of many types ofinformation.

Growing websites can benefit from RSS feeds since they allow forfresh copy to be updated regularly online. Once the RSS feedsare inserted into the web pages, they provide a steady stream ofsyndicated content updated continuously. Most RSS feeds consistof a headline, content summary, and a link to the actual onlinearticle. They are typically composed in XML, a markup languagesimilar to HTML, to allow webmasters to manipulate and integratenew copy into their existing site pages.

The increased popularity of these RSS feeds have benefitedonline sites as they the have helped to drive increased trafficand search engine ranking results. The fact that the syndicatedcontent is changing constantly in RSS feeds means that searchengine spiders are likely to visit and index your website pagesmore often. RSS feeds also keep webmasters from having to worryabout updating their content, and visitors can rely on fresharticles being available to read whenever they want. Articlesare also easy to locate on RSS feeds, as they can be categorizedfor easy navigation. This increases the chances of receivingvisitors from other sites.

While modern technology has made integrating RSS feeds intoone’s website easier, contributing content to RSS feeds remainsa bit more complex. To effectively post copy onto RSS feeds, youfirst need an RSS program that will allow you to format yourcontent for syndication. If you are a professional webdeveloper, for example, you might be interested in creating yourown XML files to display content. This option will allow formore flexibility in the way content is displayed. If you lackthe online knowledge to understand how to use XML, you mightwant to invest in one of the many RSS software programs thatallow users to create and publish syndicated content withouthaving to use any XML language at all.

One of the most popular software programs is FeedForAll, whichis an inexpensive yet effective tool for developing andmaintaining an RSS feed. This program, and others like it,allows users to utilize their own syndicated content, or todownload existing feeds from the internet. It also providesusers with the ability to manually edit their site to includepictures and colors which may create a more exciting onlineexperience for customers.

As the need for the internet to provide instantaneous access toa wide variety of information continues to grow, RSS feeds havebecome a critical component of information distribution. It islikely that RSS feeds will serve as an important tool forsharing information on the web for years to come and could, inthe not too distant future, even begin to rival e-mails as thepreferred method of knowledge sharing. Therefore, understandinghow best to utilize RSS feeds into your website may havelasting, positive effects on your business’ growth.

Online reprint rights granted as long as the article ispublished in its entirety, including links and resource box. ?JohnDoetsch 2005

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/publishing-articles/content-syndication-through-rss-feeds-2199.html

About the Author
John Doetsch is founder of Websition.com, a website content provider featuring articles written by the Internet’s most gifted authors. http://www.websition.com

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