Importance of Buying and Selling Business

Buying and selling is a profitable source of family income anywhere in the world, to which can help the family members meet their everyday needs. You can see people engaged in buying and selling activities almost anywheres; in the drug stores, department stores, supermarkets, sari-sari (convenient) stores, in the market, and along the sidewalks.

A good salesperson is a good listener. They are always ready to listen to suggestions for their improvements. Many successful salespersons have a deep understanding of human behavior and are able to use these skills to their advantage. They are aware that, although there is a process for successfully completing a sale, customers fall into a range of different personality types. Most of the top salespersons are very good at managing themselves. They have good work ethics. They understand that if they do not do the work, think creatively, and use their skills and potentials, they will not hit their targets and earn the income they seek.

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Beach and Sunburns

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of © Blue Shield of California for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Beach is always our priority destination during summertime. When I’m there, I always make sure that I wake up very early in the morning to catch the sunrise. I love it when the sky changes its hues until the sun fully sets itself. Afterwards, I go swimming until I get exhausted chasing the waves. It’s just that, I had this very bad experience before when I got sunburn that took me a week of quite a suffering. I even swore not to go back to the beach again but it all changed when I discovered Blue Shield of California in Facebook.

Blue Shield is a non-profit company that offers access to alternative care, like chiropractors and acupuncture. Aside from that, it also provides easy access to great doctors and also offers a wide range of affordable health plans. This company has this dynamic duo named Dr. Jim and Bob who tackles health care issues in an informative yet entertaining manner through their Dr. Jim and Bob's Fun & Helpful Health Advice. What they do is that they browse the web looking for questions regarding health concerns then create a video to answer those questions.

Isn’t that cool? I just learned some easy steps on how to cure sun burns and that makes me ready for my next holiday. You can visit their Facebook page if you want to know these guys or if you have any questions about insomnia, diarrhea, hiccups among other things. 

 

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A Gadget to Help Boost Business

It is true that personal digital assistants are helping people to do more and better business. A decade ago, some of these gadgets like an iPod, iPad, Tablet and more, not yet existed, and most of the businessmen used an easy and simple way like using mobile phones only. I could remember the very first time I saw a mobile phone. I was actually imagining myself that I was holding this big and fat mobile phone while walking on the street or at the mall. Too funny, isn’t it?

Nowadays, bulky cell phones, mobile phones are gone. You can now buy a gadget such as laptops, android cell phones and more that can be connected to the Internet wirelessly wherever you are. Businessmen can now work faster. Students, teachers can do the research without going to the Internet café if they have this gadget. And the funny thing is, you can also use this gadget as a nanny to your kids when you don’t want to be disturbed. Just let your child play the games or else. *wink*

Thus, if you own one of these high-tech gadgets, it is going to make a lot of difference.
 

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How an Ice Rink Is Made

Every year thousands of people around the world celebrate the winter months by enjoying time out on an ice skating rink. Kids play hockey, some learn figure skating, and others just head out for some enjoyment and a little exercise. Whatever the reason they’re out there, one thing people rarely do while skating is to think about just how that ice rink is made, and what it takes to keep it maintained.

Originally ice skating was not a means of entertainment or something to do to just have fun. Initially, skating was a practical activity for people to find their way across frozen ponds in the winter time. It wasn’t until a couple of Canadian brothers decided to start a hockey league in the early 1900’s that skating became amusement and rinks were needed year round. It was then Joe and Lester Patrick began constructing and making ice rinks throughout Canada and the northwestern United States.

Being that it is simply frozen water, there is a misconceived notion that all someone has to do to create a rink is to pour a bunch of water out in a boxed in area and it will freeze. True ice rink engineering is really much more complicated. The ice has to be frozen in a layered system by first using a paint spraying truck to lay the first thin layer, after it is frozen the process is repeated and so on and so on. The thickness of the ice is particular as well because if it is too thin it will be unstable for the skaters and their skate blades would cut right through the ice to the hard surface below. If it is too thick then there is too much energy and power needed to maintain the rink, because on average a typical ice rink will use around 1,300,000 kWh of power a year just for regular maintenance.

When building an ice rink there are actually many layers besides the ice that is needed. The bottom layer will actually be the ground where there will be some sort of water drain. Above that is a thick layer of sand and gravel, as you move upwards there would next be heated concrete, a medium layer of insulation and a chilled concrete slab that the ice sites on. Within the cool layer of concrete there is a system of pipes that run chilled brine water, a special mixture that allows for the refrigeration affect without the water actually freezing. Information on these complex systems can be found through specialized companies like Recco USA or other large American manufacturers.

Ice rinks really are a marvel of modern technology. Though they may not be extremely complicated, their amazing engineering and construction give us tons of fun through sports and fun ice activities. And thanks to the inventiveness of the Patrick brothers these activities can be done year round in comfortable, temperature controlled arenas.

(Thanks for the guest post Sam Peters)

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