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Machine Vision Do's and Dont's by Austin Weber For some people, learning how to ride a bike or swim comes naturally. For others, it’s one of the hardest things they ever do. Implementing machine vision technology can often be a similarly easy or difficult scenario. Despite numerous advances, vision systems remain somewhat intimidating. However, thanks to new software and improved components, the black art of imaging and image processing is better understood these days. More manufacturers are becoming comfortable with machine vision, thanks to lower costs, simpler designs, increased flexibility, higher reliability, more powerful algorithms and increased processing speed. End users are also benefiting from increased functionality and new capabilities, such as higher resolutions, greater field of view and better color imaging. In addition, there is less propr

In Part I of Marketing Bulldozer - Top Five Ways to Beat the Competition, I went over the basics to get you started on your path to success. Now I'm going to give you the top five tools and resources that top companies and entertainers use to get on top and stay there.

Meet the press. You will need the press on your side to get your product the attention it deserves. To do that, you will need to write a compelling press release. If you feel you can't do that, Google my name, Jaci Rae, and look up the various press releases. I will also put them on ideamarketers dot com for reference. Look at my articles section and you'll find them.Once you have a kick it press release, go to prweb dot com and sign up for an account.

The competition is fierce and your company is just one in a billion others trying to grab the attention of consumers and the business world. How can you get your company to the top of the pile and start gaining the clout and money you need to succeed? In Part I and II of this article, I will reveal some of the top five marketing and promotion tools that are used by some of the biggest names in any industry. I call it Bulldozer Marketing. First, let me start with the basics.

It's all about marketing and promotion. While there are never any guarantees that your product or service will become the next big thing, one thing is certain: Unless you know the rules of engagement to this game, no matter how unique and urgently needed your product or service is, most people will never hear about it.

In todays society we know that the moral fiber of our communities is in peril. Why then, do we not protect our children? We have a responsibility to safeguard our most vulnerable; instead, we prematurely catapult them into a world they are not mature enough to handle and destroy their innocence. Frequently, I am asked by parents and friends of aspiring stars to offer my opinion about getting their child into show business. Recently my publicist, Marsha Friedman, President of Event Management sent me the following question: After the performance I spoke with her mom (who was in tears the whole time) about their incredible daughter and her future. Their daughter's dream is to be on stage singing professionallyI said I would forward some information to you - to get your thoughts. After much contemplation, I wrote to the parents (excerpt):

If you've ever felt like your career was heading for a train wreck and didn't know where to turn, look no further than your own mirror. While you will find there are many people in the industry who will help you once you've succeeded, it's a far cry sometimes for anyone to help you when you are climbing up a ladder that sways in the wind and each rung seems like it's going down instead of up. The biggest inspiration you can have to avoid a career collision is to get up, look yourself in eye in your mirror and remember the classic children's book, "I Think I can, I think I can, I know I can, I know I can." From "The Little Train That Could." Say to yourself when you are looking in that mirror that You Can do it! You will do! And then get out of your comfort zone and DO it! Then start looking on the Internet for local musicians meetings to begin your networking today. Build your list of potential supporters one hand shake at a time.

As a musician, bands have it easier than a solo artist in terms of cost to make a CD. Other than that, there are little or no differences. For bands/artists who wish to start the process of making, distributing, and getting radio airplay by themselves, believe it or not, you are starting your own record label. Even if your goal is to land a major recording contract, you will still need to gather more attention for your music by cutting, distributing and promoting your own music. Youll have a much better chance at getting a great record deal with a major label if you are successful on your own first.

Let me preface this by saying that I have the utmost respect and admiration for songwriters who can write song after song. Those very talented individuals who, while they are sitting on the plane, in the bathroom, or at a dining table, grab a napkin, the roll of toilet paper, the safety guide on the airplane, or whatever may be handy and start frantically writing. While I have had this inspiration once in a while, its not a fluent talent. So my hats are off to you! The statistics were very interesting and I hope not conclusive of what is going on in the music industry right now, although I suspect they are indicative of it.

51 Billion Dollars and rising! Sounds like a company a wise investor should invest in. After all, having a piece of a 51 billion dollar industry is an exciting prospect, filled with anticipation for the future right? Not this time. This industry takes away any hope for the future. Any promise of potential greatness is dashed to the ground, becoming ashes and dust when people continue to invest in this business. Warnings have been issued over the years advising people to avoid investing in this global industry. Still people chose to purchase the stock some one share at a time, others in large quantities.

Summer has just ended, the kids are back in school, and there is just the faintest touch of color to the trees that stands as testimony to a glorious fall season to come. Surely it is too soon to begin worrying about the Christmas holidays. Or is it? We have all felt the pressure and stress that comes from trying to buy holiday presents for everyone at the last moment, the strain that it puts on our finances, and we all resolve not to fall into the same trap next year. And yet, year after year, many of us find ourselves repeating the same situation. Now is the time to start making plans so that you can enjoy shopping and be stress free during the holidays. The best way to plan you shopping to be stress free during the holidays is to start buying some presents now.

Seeking a pickupTruck purchases in Texas turn flat this yearBy SHANNON BUGGSCopyright 2006 Houston Chronicle TRUCKS always sell well in Texas, but this summer they didn't sell as well as usual.Texas still leads the nation in truck sales, and dealers say they are are doing better largely because energy companies are going strong, as are related construction and services businesses where pickups are amust.But when domestic truck sales in Texas, the No. 1 market for full-size pickups, are virtually flat compared with the previous year, as they were in June, July and August, the national sales declines look even worse."We're not doing as well with full-size trucks as we did last year, but we're doing better in Texas and Oklahoma than we are in the rest of the country," said Earl Hesterberg, chief executive of Group One Automotive, a Houston-based national auto-dealership chain.That's because soaring oil prices in Texas and Oklahoma mean higher gasoline prices and more money flowing into and out of t

"It

all starts from a great song" -

Michael

Gudinski, CEO - The Mushroom Group of Companies

As

part of their 150

commemorations,

NAB in conjunction with Mushroom Marketing and support from The

Mushroom Group and APRA, launched the NAB Songwriting Competition -

an initiative designed to help inspire, educate and unearth the

nation's next generation of great song writers.

This

new initiative supports a raft of music initiatives NAB have been

undertaking in 2008 - free public music performances by established

artists, showcases for local and upcoming music artists, the

successful NAB Songwriting Workshops at secondary schools as part of

the NAB 150 Roadtrain tour across Australia which

have featured likes of Dean & Adalita - Magic Dirt, Monique

Brumby and Nicky Bomba, and NAB's recent Sponsorship of APRA's

inaugural S3 Summit 'Play the Music" Showcase.

"It

was an honour for us to play t

Nashville songplugger Raleigh Squires, a 30-plus-year veteran of the music business, has announced the opening of a new Internet record label/music download store at www.VirtualMusicMarket.com.

According to Squires the store will serve as a platform from which independent artists and musicians can market their music in a different way than most of the other online stores. The label/store debuts with six independent artist products and also serves as a portal to Amazon.com's mainstream music downloads in addition to movies, videos, books, and e-books. Squires' daughter Sarah, a 10-year Nashville advertising and marketing executive, is also a partner in the venture.

The store/label will pick and choose the best independents they can acquire either through purchase of the master or on a consignment basis, and will release, service, and promote each act to radio through Squires' digital radio promotion company, 1617 Virtual. The company will also market the store and the music to consumers via the Internet

Three influential U.S. music marketing and promotional companies have come together to provide indie artists a vast array of personalized marketing and consulting services.

MusicDish, Inside the Music Business (sm) and Serchlite Music have announced the Music Consulting & Marketing Collective (MCMC) - a full marketing and promotional service providing a new arsenal of cutting-edge offerings and avenues for indie artists looking to break into the music industry.

MCMC is designed to offer a new voice for emerging artists seeking access by developing a substantial suite of hands-on consulting and content-based marketing products and services. Each partnering company will bring their respective specializations under the joint venture, providing an unparalleled foundation of more than 40 years of music industry experience.

"While many labels and artists often lack the supporting marketing and on-hand expertise necessary to succeed in one of the most competitive music markets in the world," noted Musi

MusicDish Network Brings The News To Waveform Media

MusicDish LLC, publisher of leading music magazines MusicDish and Music Industry News Network (Mi2N), announced a partnership with Atlanta-based Waveform Media, a music business directory publisher that operates a resource music site for musicians.

Under the partnership, MusicDish has developed a white label newswire for the Waveform Media site, featuring coverage of the indie music scene as well as search, news submission and RSS functionalities. In turn, MusicDish will gain valuable advertising through Waveform Media's website and monthly local print music business directories, available in Atlanta and slated for release this fall in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Boston. The pocket-sized directories are free to the public and can be found in targeted locations where musicians and other music business professionals gather on a regular basis, such as musical instrument retailers, rehearsal studios, and venues.

"When I founded Waveform Media, my main

MusicDish LLC, publisher of leading music magazines MusicDish and Music Industry News Network (Mi2N), announced a partnership with Montreal-based TiBConcerts.com, an online concert listings site for underground, independent music. Under the partnership, both entities have created white label content solutions for their respective audiences.

As part of the partnership, TiBConcerts has developed a white label concert listing for the Mi2N site (http://musicdish.tibconcerts.com/), publishing over 20,000 events from 33,000 venues across 7,000 cities. In the spirit of it's own 'open submission' policy, Mi2N will encourage artists and promoters to submit event listings to TiBConcerts.com, particularly through prominent placement in its daily newsletters.

In turn, MusicDish has developed a white label newswire for the TiBConcerts.com site (http://www.mi2n.com/tibconcerts/), providing its 500,000 monthly concert fans with the coverage of the indie music scene as well as search, news submission and RSS functional

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As the Great Lakes Songwriting Contest celebrates its fifth year of operations, the entry fee has been lowered and the Grand Prize increased.

This year, the Grand Prize will be $2,000 cash, plus tuition, room and board at a music retreat, plus a chance to headline the Winners' Concert in February 2009. And entrants can choose to enter by mail or on-line, thanks to a partnership with indie music promoter Sonic Bids.

The contest is open to songwriters of all ages and all musical styles in the eight states and one Canadian province that border the Great Lakes: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, and the Province of Ontario, Canada. Songwriters give up no rights to their songs as a condition of entering or winning. Eleven winning songs will be chosen in 2008. Entries must be postmarked on or before Friday, April 25, 2008.

"A lot of great music has come out of our part of the world, from Motown to Prairie Home Companion to Chicago Blues and Broadway,"

-

by David Knight (Music Talk Sessions),

Recording artists new to the Music Talks community, the session wrap up is an overview of previous sessions. In the wrap-ups I highlight what took place during the sessions along with initial information about the sessions. Video footage of the sessions will be released in the coming weeks. Let's jump into the wrap-ups!

Listen 2 Ya Mix launched New York and Los Angeles February sessions. The recording engineers Peter Barker, Keith Wechsler and Drew Daniels really got into listening to the music and providing the creative and technical feedback to artists. All recording engineers in NY and LA got up from the dais and went to the back of the room to have a more accurate listening position, treating Listen 2 Ya Mix as they would any professional critical listening situation. As a whole many of the songs we listened to were pretty well recorded. I believe it's a sign that recording artists are starting to embrace the recording process. While we don't strive to

PAY PER MATCH PRESS RELEASE & TESTIMONIALS

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Pay Per Match is now bringing out a niche-dating directory, adding momentum to the move from "broad" to "specific" by Internet-savvy single men and single women.

(PRWEB) January 3, 2008 -- When it comes to matchmaking, innovation Pay Per Match will change the matchmaking approach online -- an innovative approach is usually necessary to get to the top of a saturated market. Pay Per Match is about making members' profiles the main focus of matchmaking.

Matchmaking Bioaffiliates is a carefully targeted matchmaking marketing approach with profile match accuracy that is the best way to find a partner who thinks just like you. That's where "Pay Per Match" online dating comes in. The matchmaking industry has finally figured it out. Singles need to make money to afford dating. Not every matchmaking online datin

DANNY SILLADA: A FILIPINO RENAISSANCE MAN

"Danny Sillada is the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe. Sillada is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic."

The critical approaches to art or theories in studying art works are surely a rational activity. But more than that, it develops a completely new dimension and a broader yet at the same time more concrete perspective on the artistic phenomenon under question. Theories explain the unity of the work of art among its diverse manifestations. They explain why works of art are admired by people who know little about the history of art, why they survive th

The winter months have hit us and unless you live in Southern California, most people aren’t swimming in open-air pools any longer. Until recent times, Indie Artists and the labels they set up for themselves had a hard time getting their music heard by anyone outside their own backyard pool of fans. With guerilla marketing finally becoming common practice and online music stores becoming a main stay for the music aficionado, record pools are now open for business to the general indie population. What is a record pool? Basically, a record pool is a membership of DJ’s that act as an intermediary between DJ’s and the music makers. The power behind a record pool is that it can reach a mass, global market in lightening speed. As of 2005, there are over 7000 DJ's and industry professionals who are part of this digital revolution. In order for a DJ to belong to a record pool, they must pay a monthly association fee to obtain the latest and most current music. Frequently this music is available to t

Arguments happen in every kind of relationship. They're just a part of life. Therefore, it's how we handle those moments that will define the future of our relationships and how well they prosper and grow. I am sure that you've heard it said many times that in a heated moment you have to watch your words.

This is because words are very powerful and whatever you say can never be taken back. So try to follow a few basic steps when a heated argument arises in your life. Step back and don't say a word until you have had a chance to process the situation. Try to really hear, not just listen to what the other person is saying. Even if you don't agree with them, accept the fact that its how they feel and you will go a long way if you hear what they are saying. Your partner will begin to feel validated and believe that you do care about their feelings.

Once you have listened to your partner's side, offer to sit down to discuss the matter together. It's important to use an even tone, no matter how angr

Relationship…for some that word stirs up fears of commitment and for others it conjures up the idea of ever lasting love. For many on the dating scene ‘ever lasting love’ is their ultimate goal but how do you find someone to go on a date with and once you do how do you go from date to relationship?

While the person you’re dating may be looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right, they may not be looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right now, meaning pull in the reins and go a little slower. But let’s start at the beginning instead of jumping straight to the finish line. Let’s get back to the basics.

To get back to basics, let’s start with a history lesson. Dating can be a scene right out of your High School memory banks. Many are haunted by memories of their first date and the nervous tension that resulted from the anticipation of it: “Did I pick the correct outfit?” “Will I smell good to them?” “Is my breath okay?” “What will

Boston - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal judge Tuesday to lift an unconstitutional gag order issued to three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) whose academic research uncovered vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system. A hearing on the temporary restraining order is set for 11am Thursday at the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston. The students -- Zack Anderson, RJ Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa -- would like to resolve this dispute amicably with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). However, it has been hard to find an amicable resolution when the students are the subjects of a vigorous lawsuit and under the restrictions of a temporary restraining order. This remains true even though the MBTA filed a motion earlier this week to modify the restraining order to only prohibit disclosure of "non-public" information. "We appreciate the gesture," said EFF Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann. "But it does not resol

Well, you knew this would happen sooner or later. Cefiore is trying their hand a little viral marketing by launching a video contest. Prove how much you love Cefiore on YouTube, win $2,500 and free frozen yogurt for a year. Some rules: The video must be between 30 to 60 seconds max (no froyo opus, please)

No brand names or trademarks other than Cefiore (sorry, no Ed Hardy T's)

"Must keep with Cefiorie's image" (sorry, no Paris sex tape-type antics)

Only Cefiore’s theme song or your own original music allowed (sorry, no Kanye)

No copying or plagirizing from any source (sorry, no "swirly bliss" references) Videos will be judged on 30% creativity, 40% on how well it communicates the Cefiore brand, and 30% overall appeal. Granted, the money would be nice but who can eat that much froyo?

Comtactics, an emerging marketing and Internet solution firm based in Dayton, Ohio, has been selected by a Cincinnati church to manage the purchase and installation of new equipment. (PRWeb Aug 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1179724.htm

Can we have a drum roll please -- the selection process for the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival Programming has begun! Click here to access the Panel Picker voting application. To comment and to vote, you will need to create an account (a very simple task which takes all of about two minutes). Creating an account does not sign you up for any kind of e-mail list -- it just establishes a unique login ID that lets you experience the full functionality of this remarkable interface. One of the most amazing aspects of the Panel Picker is that it provides an intriguing snapshot of the current state of the new media industry. Recession, what recession? For 2009, we received 176 submissions in the "Business / Entrepreneurial" category. In fact, the only category which received more submissions was "Advertising / Marketing" at 185. These numbers reaffirm how important a role emerging technology now plays in the commerce of our day-to-day lives. What is the most common cross-category theme amongst 2009 submissions? Th

Sushi boats float by at Chinatown's Floating Sushi Boat. [Photo: Flickr/chibi.masako] Uva's Meats and Wine Cocktails Impress [SFE]

Another Look at Novato's New Hit, Portelli Rossi [MIJ]

Bargain Bites at Mi Lindo Yucatan [Chron]

Ruby Tuesday's Viral Marketing Ploy: Fail [Serious Eats]

The Story of San Francisco's Japantown [DD]

Q&A With Harmony Fraga, Bartender at Farmer Brown [SFE]

Yank Sing Will Be Very Crowded on Friday [Chron]

The latest guerrilla marketing campaign for Sto Corp, a maker of coatings and paints for the construction industry, features "Ben the Bucket Drummer," a YouTube video submission contest and, of course, Sto paint buckets. (PRWeb Aug 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1186664.htm

Travelling to Bali and fancy a couple of days shopping in Singapore as an added bonus? Then there is good news with a joint agreement between Singapore Airlines and Garuda Indonesia covering code-sharing, joint marketing and promotion, and network development. So, you can hop over to Singapore, lighten your wallet, and then return to Bali [...]