Create your free business listing on the Smart Guy Business Network in your local area.

It automatically creates a free web page which will rank on the 1st page of Google usually with 2-3 weeks for your niche business in your local area.

Once completed, you have instant access to “Discounts” offered by other members within a 30 mile range of the network you choose, the ability to “Barter” with other businesses interested in bartering with you, access to “Jobs” posted & the ability to contact thousands of “Members” across 500 established Smart Guy Business Networks. However, the power of Smart Guy is right in your back yard. Use it to make new contacts locally and develop those relationships in the interest of assisting one another to refer each other’s business. (I chose to take the leadership role for the “Fairfield County Business Network”)

The Smart Guy Business Networks is the genius of Jordan Wexler who’s developed lead generation systems for the Mortgage & Real Estate industries in addition to one of his more recent lead generating tools to “Find a Professional”.

Click on the button to “Add Your Business” and list it for free to expose yourself to others in your local area interested in networking with you and become a member of the thousands of other “Smart Guys” around the globe.

Here’s a recipe for a hot sandwich to serve your group on SuperBowl Sunday.

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Enjoy!

What’s in Your Wallet?

If You Lose Your Wallet or it gets Stolen…

Read this, make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it someday. CLick the Tweet button above and / or post to your Facebook NewsFeed. It may help protect someone you know or who sees this information.

You probably know some of the precautions to take already however I am willing to bet there are a few in the list below you may not be aware of that will make the difference to your or someone you know bank account. We should all take some of this corporate attorney’s advice who sent the following information in an email to his associates & employees in his company:

1. Do not sign  the back of your credit cards. Instead, put ‘PHOTO ID REQUIRED.’

2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts,  DO  NOT put the complete  account number on the ‘For’ line. Instead, just put the  last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check processing channels won’t have access to it.

3. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO Box, use your work address. Never  have your  SS# printed on your checks. (DUH!) You can add it if it is necessary. But if you have It printed, anyone can get it.

4. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel.. Keep the photocopy in a safe place.
I also carry a photocopy of my passport when I travel either here or abroad. We’ve all heard horror stories about fraud that’s committed on us in stealing a Name, address, Social Security number, credit cards..

Unfortunately, this attorney has first hand knowledge because his wallet was stolen in January 2012. Within a week, the thieves ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change his driving record information online, and more.

But here’s some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know:

5. We are told we should  cancel our credit cards immediately. But the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them.

6. File a  police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your credit cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).

But here’s what is perhaps  most important of all: (This astute attorney never even thought to do this either. Have you?)

7. Call  the  3 national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and also call the Social Security fraud line number. The attorney had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell him an application for credit was made over the Internet in his name.

The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit..

By the time he was advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves’ purchases, none of which he knew about before placing the alert. Since then, no additional damage has been done, and the thieves threw his wallet away (someone turned it in). It seems to have stopped them dead in their tracks..

Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact about your wallet, if it has been stolen:

1.) Equifax:  1-800-525-6285
2.) Experian (formerly TRW):  1-888-397-3742
3.) Trans Union :  1-800-680 7289
4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line):   1-800-269-0271

So many people pass along jokes via email on the Internet. I rarely read them. But this one came from my Mom so I thought it was worth posting to my blog where it will be for as long as I keep this blog online – which I suspect will be forever!

As mentioned at the beginning, click the Tweet button, post to your Facebook page by simply copying the URL in the address bar to this page above or forward in an email to your list of contacts. It could really help someone you care about.

Keep Yourself, Friends & Family Safe.

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THINK!

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For Private Host(esses), Event Staff & Employees of Food and/or Beverage Establishments

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Proven effective by third-party studies, TIPS is a skills-based training program that is designed to prevent intoxication, underage drinking, and drunk driving by enhancing the fundamental “people skills” of servers, sellers and consumers of alcohol.

TIPS gives individuals the knowledge and confidence they need to recognize potential alcohol-related problems and intervene to prevent alcohol-related tragedies.

TIPS sessions are administered through a Certified TIPS Trainer in all 50 US States & 30 Countries around the globe. Training is implemented through use of video & printed materials to facilitate discussion of the course content. Course material is presented in three sections: Information, Skills Training and Practice/Rehearsal.

BENEFITS of TIPS Certification

• Adds Professionalism & Improves Customer Service
• Creates a safer, more responsible environment
• Legal Protection
• Lowers Risk
• Insurance Benefits
• Practical & Effective method of reducing drunk driving and underage drinking.
• Minimizes Property Damage caused by Intoxicated Individuals
• Identifies the Professionals & Enhances a Business’ Image
• Provides a Common Language to Use in Assessing & Handling Alcohol Related Incidents.

TIPS COURSES OFFERED

• On Premise:   3 hour session for caterers, hosts, stadiums, civic centers, festivals and arenas.
• Off Premise:   3 hour session for grocery, convenience and package liquor stores.
• Concessions: 3 hour session for stadiums, civic centers, festivals and arenas.
• Gaming:         5 hour session for casinos, gambling halls, racetracks and riverboats.
• University:     2 hour session forstudents and faculty, on and off university and college campuses.
• Workplace:    2 hour session for corporations, government agencies and company- sponsored parties at work or for gatherings after work hours.
• Seniors:          2 hour session for senior citizens, retirement communities and social groups for the elderly.

If you are serious about your business, consider yourself a professional, are concerned about your exposure as a private entertainer or business owner or want to become more marketable in the hospitality/food & beverage service industry, decide which TIPS course is for you and invest 2-5 hours in yourself.

America’s Funniest Video (AFV) “Snow Tubing Accident”, by Twin 11 yr old’s Ben & Dan Piro, was televised on the May 1, 2011 show. Take a look at this edited version which is so much better than the raw footage AFV required & shared…

AFV Entry “Snow Tubing Accident” at Woodbury Ski & Tube Center January 30, 2011

What is a QR Code?

Most basically, a QR Code is a barcode on steroids. They’re used for encoding information in two-dimensional space — in magazines, newspapers, flyers, brochures, as well as on TV and Web sites. They were originally used to track auto parts, but have become popular for commercial purposes.

How is it different than a barcode?

Whereas a barcode encodes data in only the horizontal plane (as scanners read the width and distance between the vertical lines), QR codes encode data both horizontally and vertically in a grid of tiny squares. This allows for much more data to be encoded in a smaller space. Barcodes are good for little more than identifying products and objects. Specially programmed scanners can read barcodes, and match them to product names, prices and inventory, but that’s about it. QR codes, on the other hand, can actually embed that information in the code itself, and, when read with the proper software, can trigger actions like launching a website or downloading a file. Additionally, QR codes can be read from any angle, while barcodes must be aligned properly.

QR codes are bound to become more common as time moves on as we become increasingly reliant on our mobile devices. Typing out URLs or other data on the tiny keyboards is cumbersome to say the least. These squares of elaborately arranged boxes are a shortcut around that problem, can easily be integrated with various services, and incorporate geo-location data. Most advertisers have not figured it out yet, but QR codes will be their best friend!

“On your website” face-to-face two-way streaming video allows you to communicate with anyone from anywhere in REAL TIME, giving you the power to:

(a) Convert your web site visitors into customers, associates, partners, distributors, etc.

(b) Communicate with your web site visitors, colleagues and friends LIVE, from your website.

(c) Visually present your product or service without your visitors having to download any software to view.

(d) Instantly present to potential customers via text, audio and video communication.

(e) Create a “Buddy List” of colleagues who use Web Site Communicator and stay connected.

(f) Set up an “Associates List” and take turns streaming LIVE on the same page.

and more.

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No matter what profession, career, trade or business you are in, SMS Mobile Marketing is  the most direct, instantaneous medium to market your products & services in the marketplace today. There is no faster, cheaper or efficient method for anyone who needs/wants to get their message in front of their customers, prospects, vendors, family, friends eyes than using SMS Mobile Messaging.

Watch this  video to understand the facts of Mobile Marketing & the excitement that surrounds this instantaneous response marketing tool.

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