Archive for June, 2010
Night Clubs in Las Vegas
After a day by the cool pool in the hot sun with pina colada’s, dinner and a popular Vegas show, it is time to take on the night. Save some of that gambling money to hit some of the hottest night clubs in the world. All of the best Vegas hotels have a great night club in them and if you had a month you could hit most of them. Like many people, you may only have a couple of nights to a week to spend hitting all the hot spots so your going to have to do some research.
The club LAX is a super dance club with two levels of dancing fools. They attract some of the hottest DJ’s because they have the best in sound and lighting and a good crowd. If your traveling with a group, check out the VIP packages and see if you can sit in the celebrity section. You never know who might show up. This club is well known across the country with its great Gothic style decor. It has a real lush and modern atmosphere and filled with a hot crowd.
Check out the DJ spin off at Club Tao . This club has some really fun things going on. In the past they have had a giant pillow fight. They throw parties for celebrities or they bring in the hottest DJ’s and let them throw the party. This club is an Asian decor that is modern and sexy. The staff is beautiful and so are many of the people who hang out there.
Get on your best club attire and head over to The Bank. The Bank is the essence of modern and sexy with all the trimmings. They have some great special events going on and top notch amenities and service.
Posted by admin on June 29th, 2010 filed in Travel
Important Things for All Salespeople
Sales are the backbone of all companies. Even if the company is one lone person who does a lot of talks and speeches, you have to sell yourself and the speeches as the product to get people to buy what you do. You will have to have some kind of customer base in order to sell this product, but there will also mostly be new customers which means that you have to be a salesman as well as a master of your field to make sure that you can continue to make a living doing what you love. Every person approaching sales for the first time should understand a few key points.
Make sure you know yourself. Don’t get try to sell something you don’t love. Don’t try to sell in a way that goes against your identity, or your DNA. Know how you work best and what distracts you from that work. If you have to take on multiple roles, know which ones you will do well and which ones you may need some corporate training or business training to help you develop. If they aren’t something that you can learn and do on your own you may want to consider getting someone who is good at these things to help you out.
Express your passion for your product, service, or field. Passion can not be taught, or learned. If you are passionate, no one will be able to stop you. If you are selling what you love, you will know everything about the product including all the bad things about it. Be willing to admit to the bad things and help people find the appropriate product for their needs. If you are passionate, you probably know about more than one product and could talk about any given one for hours.
Work to develop your own brand . If you are your own brand people will eventually want to buy from you because they will see you as someone to be trusted. Be distinctive, be known. Get your voice out there and have fun with it. One of the easiest ways to get people to trust you is to entertain them. Do so in an honest way and people will take notice of it. This doesn’t just apply to people selling wine or talking about tea but it also works for people who professionally prepare taxes or who try legal cases.
Remember that all jobs are sales positions. Even when working for someone else, you are selling your product with each interaction you make. If you find that you are more interested in this idea take a sales process improvement course. It can help you better understand what makes people buy.
Posted by admin on June 25th, 2010 filed in Business
Fun Times in Murfreesboro
Murfreesboro, Tennessee is home to the ‘Go USA Fun Park’ , located at 2270 Armory Drive. This is family fun at its best, with super-fast go carts, an 18-hole miniature golf course, a driving range to improve your golf swing, video arcade, and a batting cage; all in one place. Go USA Fun Park is a great place when you’re on a vacation and need a day to unwind or let the children run wild, plus you can have your child’s birthday party in one of the party rooms. If you’re staying at one of the hotels Murfreesboro offers its visitors, ask if they have coupons for the park.
The Go Kart track is almost a quarter-mile long, and they have 20 great Karts. There’s more than enough to race all of your friends and family. It costs only $6.50 a ride and kids ride free with adults. The miniature golf course just had new carpet installed and features 18-holes of very challenging putt-putt golf, plus the course is fully lit, so you can putt-putt into the night; tickets are $5.00 for 13 years and up – $4.00 for under 13 and $3 for additional rounds. The Batting Cages offer both Softball and Hardball, with slow, medium and very fast speeds; tickets are $1.00 for 16 balls.
Practice your swing at one of their 30 fully lit golf tees. Plus, if the weathers bad, Go USA is where you’ll find most golfers practicing their swing, because Go USA Fun Park offers covered, heated tees for those cold and rainy days; tickets are $7 per bucket, which is about 80 balls. The arcades room features all the latest in video games, bazooka ball and a large Redemption Game area, which offers fabulous prizes for the children.
This park is well worth the money and is so much fun you’ll hear your children ask if they can come back the next day. There’s something for everyone at Go USA Fun Park, the entire family will have a blast, and the kids will remember that their summer vacation was totally awesome.
Posted by admin on June 23rd, 2010 filed in Travel
Hot Night Life in Atlanta
What is your kind night life atmosphere? Do you like the posh dance clubs or the layed back live music pubs? Atlanta has something for everyone so you can bet you will find somewhere to call home away from home.
The Mark Ultra Lounge has given the hot mix to the big city of Atlanta. This is were many of the hottest DJ’s spin the most popular dance tunes on 2 levels of atmosphere. The music reflects the best in retro and modern dance hits. They take pride in their sound with the latest in DJ systems and state of the art custom room sound and lighting. The crowd is a great mix of ages and interests. You could find yourself in the company of celebrities at the Mark.
For another totally different atmosphere you may want to take a walk into the Clermont Lounge for a night. This club is in the a building that has been putting on some sort of show since 1955. The party used to be in the basement as an upscale supper club. In 1965, the club took the name Clermont Lounge and has become a historical landmark for the city of Atlanta. They have some great bands and comedy acts through out the week as well as solid drink specials. This is also a popular stop for traveling celebrities like Kid Rock, Jon Stewart and even Marilyn Manson. This place is definitely funky.
A great concert venue in the heart of midtown Atlanta is Primal . This club has a more Las Vegas style to it, rather then the Hollywood style. There are some great city views from the upstairs, sky bar. They have different rooms each with different themes. The Rockbar has a huge dance floor with VIP accommodations. It’s cool. So find a room at one of the four star hotels atlanta has in the city and get out and have some fun.
Posted by admin on June 21st, 2010 filed in Society
Interesting Museums of Delhi
There are many museums in Delhi some of them are more personal to the local people and traditions. One of the more famous people who spent time in Delhi is Mahatma Gandhi and there are a few ways to see some of the items and stories left behind by this interesting person. You can ask your concierge at one of your chosen Delhi hotels for a map to get to the Gandhi Smriti Museum and the Indira Gandi Memorial. Both locations have information and the story of his life as well as many books and cassettes of his teachings. This is a good local way of tapping into Gandhi’s life journey. Check out the National Gandhi Museum this museum is located close to were Mahatma Gandhi was cremated in January of 1948.
A great place to learn about the local and countries history to check out the National Gallery of Modern Art . They have quite the worldly exhibit of paintings, sculpture and other art featuring artists from India and from all over the world. Some of the current exhibits include The Master’s Strokes which is the art of Rabindranath Tagore. His followers believe him to be quite the genius and this is a fantastic collection of the gifts he has give the world. Their international collections feature artists from Germany, Japan, Switzerland, America, France, Italy, Britain and many more. The collection is exquisite.
One of the ways that this country grew quickly in the mid 1800s. This form of transportation gave trading a big leap into success and the effects were spread out into the world turning trading ports into big cities. The National Rail Museum is the perfect place to see how the railroad effected India. The exhibit is rather extensive with more than a 100 life sized displays of train models as well as many other artifacts like records, photographs and documents. Go and see what boosted the economy of India into what it is today.
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2010 filed in Travel
Be With Me Playseum in Bethesda
Anyone can go to a museum, but how many kids can claim they’ve been to a playseum? And what is a playseum, anyway? Whether you’re local or traveling and staying at one of the Bethesda hotels in Maryland, you can find out by taking your child to the Be With Me Playseum, located at 7000 Wisconsin Avenue. There, you will find a used children’s bookstore that features interactive exhibits to teache kids about life in a city. While there’s used books and arts and crafts for sell, there’s also free song and story times aimed at particular ages, daily art and science activities, as well as activities structured for kids to play and learn after school hours.
The idea for Be With Me Playseum began about four years ago, when a mother’s fourth child turned nine months old, and she made a decision to stop working and be at home full time. After the passing of her own mother and spending time with her children, she began to conceive of a place where children and parents could go together and be themselves. She wanted a place where parents and nannies and children could come, a place without memberships, a place inexpensive enough that parents who had more than two children might be able to afford it.
Three years later, in 2009, the Be With Me Playseum was fully up and running, offering a place to have unstructured playtime with parents. It’s also a place where parents can come together, especially those who have been sending a little too much solo time with the company of kids; in this setting, it’s possible to watch your child play and read and create, while enjoying a cup of coffee with fellow adults.
The Playseum offers activities for children nine months old to 14 years old. The cost is five dollars a person; however, if you bring a bag of 25 used books, it’s free for a parent and child. Parents who have been there recommend the pet room, where there are hamsters and rabbits, birds, frogs and fish. Next door to this room, girls will find a dress up room where, for example, they may paint their nails. Kids are also taught about finances in a grocery store where children can shop using miniature carts.
You’ll discover the Playseum open from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. If you want a little time to spend with your kids in a place where you may relax as well, take a look into this child and parent friendly concept.
Posted by admin on June 17th, 2010 filed in Leisure
Panic Bomber Lures Palm Beach
It’s kind of like the happiest version ever of the old adage, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” Richard Haig, a local musician who has his academic cred from the University of Miami, and his street cred from a long list of clubs in town, has hit the golden age he’d been looking for. It’s happened in a most usual way, perhaps, but in the music community, it’s unusual and rather delightful. While his success at playing live rock was moderate, the long nights and endless openings for big-name groups finally got to be too much. While other musicians were sneaking in through the back door by reaching popularity with techno and electronic music, his skills kept getting better.
After a certain point, he realized, those other people playing the electronic stuff, he could do that, too. He made the switch, which is a big turnaround in artistic direction, and started playing electronic music under the moniker Panic Bomber last year, and already he’s made it as the top pick for the Best New Electronic Artist for the Broward/Palm Beach New Times in 2009. This is a very good report card, overall, but he’s also been featured in France’s electronic music magazine “Trax,” and has won a number of other awards for the best album.
This is very good news for the local crowds, and for visitors in town staying at Palm Beach luxury hotels , who are looking to listen to the next big thing. It’s a wonderful thing to see people who are determined to make it get somewhere, and it’s also inspiring when destiny comes calling after a big change in direction. It’s not exactly a musical move that’s leaving the roots behind, either, because the music is capable of inspiring spontaneous acts of dancing, and the grooves move through visceral landscapes that end in a territory that is pure rock and roll.
Posted by admin on June 14th, 2010 filed in Entertainment
New York City’s Teacher
Tours are always best done when the person giving the tour not only knows a lot about the area, but also loves the area. This could be no more true than The Street Teacher who offers a number of tours that range from going all over the New York City, to just around a few select blocks. The teacher is always helpful, has a lot of knowledge about the streets and has a lot of fun showing off.
The original idea for this was a brilliant one. People like to take tours, and there are a lot of people who come into New York City without a lot of working knowledge of where things are or where they want to go first. Many of these people are coming in on their own buses anyway, so why take them off one bus to put them on another one. It is called a step on tour, and the guide instead of getting their own bus to show a group around will step onto the tour bus and give the tour from there.
Like any good idea this one got a little out of control and has blown up into a full blown business with options to do a lot more than that. They now do walking tours of various areas, as well as advertising that they will help you find the place your great grandparents lived, or just give you a tour while you are waiting for your flight out of there.
This isn’t the only tour that is out there. If you want something a little more alternative once you have settled into one of the luxury hotels New York City has to offer take a food tour, or take a tour at your own pace with a hop on hop off tour line that will take you all over the city and let you get off at any of the sites.
Posted by admin on June 10th, 2010 filed in Travel
Direct Selling and Gender
Direct selling has a long history. The things most people think about when they think about the direct selling of the past are Tupperware parties and MaryKay sales women and while it is obvious that for many direct selling opportunities women have dominated the market because it allowed a way for women to work their own hours and at home with the kids. It also gave them an excuse for social events such as having Tupperware parties or other social events of the same nature that asked friends and family to come over, have fun and experience a product that could change their homes. However, overall women did not dominate the direct selling market for a long time and these two companies were not the only ones that were out there selling door to door.
Southwestern Company is a good example of a direct seller who has been in business for a long time. It was only recently that they started hiring women. This was less because of prejudiced and more because of cultural norms. Southwestern Company asks the sellers to travel away from home for long periods of time, live in a new area for a summer or longer and sell door to door. These sales aren’t as fun either. While there are probably a few people who have tried to have book parties, it is not a very common practice and would be harder to turn into a social gathering in which it doesn’t feel like the product is the main point of the show rather than socializing being the main point. This has a turn off effect when it comes to buying because then people feel like they are being sold to. For these reasons it has not been a company that many women have wanted to work at until recently.
Now days there are a number of men and women working in the direct selling field across the board. Many of these people become very rich from their sales, while others find that they can live on what they make and don’t have to work as many hours. For many people that makes this work very much worth it.
Posted by admin on June 4th, 2010 filed in Business