Canada has achieved a remarkable increase in its agro-food exports to Vietnam, said a senior trade commissioner at the Canadian consulate general in HCMC.
Nadin Nanji demonstrated that Canada’s agro-food exports to Vietnam last year jumped to US$69 million, a stark increase from US$17 million in 2004. He provided the Daily with this figure before the launch reception for “The Great Taste of Canada” - a food promotion featuring the gastronomic quality ingredients of the North American country.
Nanji said the Canadian consulate organized the event to introduce a variety of seafood including live lobster, geoduck, oysters, Dungeness crab, mussels and scallops, as well as Alberta beef, wines and cherries. He added that the Canadian menu would be offered to the public at the Reflections Restaurant of the Caravelle Hotel from September 15 to 25.
Canadian consul general Audri Mukhopadhyay told the reception on Wednesday evening that agro-food accounted for a major part of Canada’s exports to Vietnam.
Canada’s two-way merchandise trade with Vietnam has increased steadily over the past decade, and now stands more than four times greater than in 2000. Nanji said the Canada-Vietnam bilateral trade reached an all-time high of more than US$1.43 billion in 2010, with that country’s exports registering over US$264 million.
Last year saw Canada’s merchandise imports from Vietnam exceed US$1.17 billion worth of textiles, manufactured articles, footwear, machinery and mechanical appliances, and animal products.
Nanji said besides agro-food and agriculture, Canadian companies had found opportunities in other sectors in Vietnam, including education and training, forestry, information and communication technologies (ICT), machinery and mechanical appliances, and base metals.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Canada sees strong rise in agro-food exports to Vietnam
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
How to get traffic ? Rank for target keywords ? Serect is link building - backlinks
Many people think that having a good blog/site is all you need to get tons of visitors. Wrong answer. If you are promoting one or more blog/sites, you already understand the need for quality backlinks.
Where and how can I get backlinks ?
Links from major social bookmarking and content publishing sites are considered a vote of confidence. If you have enough of them, your site will rank well. Once you rank, you will get traffic. At this, if you have a good blog/site, visitors will stay there for a long time.
There are 4 steps help you have quality backlinks:
- Step 1: Submit your article/content to blogging networks or WordPress self-hosted and link back to your main site (it's backlink). Advanced of this step is link wheel: each post will be link each other and also link back to your main site.
- Step 2: After the successful, collect all URLs of postings and you have a list full URLs. Ping all of them to get indexing of Search Engineer.
- Step 3: Go through URLs list to bookmark to top social bookmarking sites.
- Step 4: Combine all of URLs into an RSS Feed to submit to the RSS submission sites.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Creating a Business in 5 Easy Steps
Many people, who decide to start a business, often have no idea where to begin or what steps to take. However, we’ve devised a set of 5 general steps that will set your business on a path to success. We will cover topics such as naming your business, obtaining web hosting, establishing a business space with an online fax service, legal structuring, and provide you tips on how to obtain more clients.
1. Your Businesses Name The first impression your business will make on the public is its name. When future business owners sit down to create their business name, they often spend too much time trying to come up with the perfect name. This is a mistake. It’s not necessary to spend a lot of time on this because it can always be changed in the future. Just make sure that your business name is unique, easy to spell, and has a simple pronunciation. 2. Getting a Domain Name Once you have your business name, setting up a website is a good idea. To setup your website, you will need to have a domain name. Ideally, your domain should be the name of your business or something that tells people what you do. Once you have a domain name, you should go to a web-hosting site and check for availability. If the name is available, then you should look at any additional customizations that you want to add to your domain. For example, some of these customizations can include bandwidth, private registration, and variations of the domain. After you fully customize your domain, simply pay and the domain becomes your “web property”. 3. Setting Up Your Business Space Once you have the domain and the website is in development, you need to start setting up your business space. To setup your business space properly, you will need a business phone line, a business address, and a business fax number. When first starting a business, many people setup their personal and business space as one. This is fine, but if you ever want to move or separate the business from the personal then you may have some problems. The most common examples include business document reprinting, legal document editing, and client information loss. In addition to the physical space, you will need a virtual space. More specifically, your business will need to setup an email inbox. There are two ways to do this. You can go to a free email website such as Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail. The other option is to direct your emails to your web-hosting site. 4. Forming a Limited Liability Company When you thought about starting a business, you probably thought briefly about legal protection and benefits. One of the most common business legal structure that people choose is a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Some of the benefits of becoming an LLC include favorable tax treatment and limited liability. When your company becomes an LLC, it’s eligible for an Employer Identification Number, which allows you to open a business bank account, take out a loan, and buy insurance. There are other legal structures that may fit your needs better than an LLC. These structures include sole proprietorships, limited partnerships, general partnerships, and corporations. 5. Networking Every new business must work hard to get clients. A strategy that is used by many people is email marketing. To do this type of marketing, you can get an email marketing service like GetResponse or MailChimp. The prices will vary depending on what you want. It’s recommended that you compare a few services before you buy, so that you may receive the best service for the best price. After you have worked through these 5 easy steps, you should be set on a path that will allow your business to flourish and become successful.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
A Few Tips That Will Help You Quit Smoking
The negative effects of smoking are actually taking their toll and a growing number of people want to quit. Although non-smokers may believe that if a smoker wants to quit they can just quit, smokers know differently. You must comprehend that smoking is so addictive that for some people, quitting without help is impossible. You will see that in order to stop smoking many people have even had to be hypnotized, and there is still no guarantee that they will not go back. You will even find that many people who used to smoke belong to support groups to assist them to not go back to smoking. In this article we are going to be covering a few tips to help you break the addiction.
To begin with, you aren't addicted to smoking. Even though the habit of bringing your hand to your mouth is one thing that makes giving up smoking hard it's just a habit and habits can be broken. In fact, it is the nicotine within the cigarettes that make people want to smoke them. And because your brain is aware that it gets this nicotine from cigarettes, people just assume that they are addicted to smoking. One thing that can make giving up smoking easier is to grab a pack of nicotine gum or you could even use the patch to get the nicotine your body needs. Although this can help people to be successful when stopping smoking one thing you should understand is that if you really don't want to quit then they truly won't help that much.
Another thing that can help to curb the desire to smoke is toothpicks. This will help you to deal with the actual habit of bringing your hand to your mouth, while the nicotine may help curb the chemical urge. Although this is only a habit and can be broken a lot easier than the nicotine urge it is always good to have help with it. If you do a search on the internet you should be able to find cinnamon toothpicks. And when you desire a cigarette all you have to do is put a toothpick in your mouth instead. The main reason I recommend the flavored toothpicks is because for some reason the flavor helps to make the toothpick chewing less boring.
Another big thing that will help you to quit smoking is to find some type of motivation. One of the greatest motivators that people use advice on how to stop smoking is their families. I am certain you don't want to die before your time, leaving your partner or even children with out a parent figure. And when it comes to motivation you will find that your loved ones can be one of the best motivators.
Even using the suggestions above you may find that giving up smoking for you still seems impossible. If that is the case, and you actually want to quit, you should try seeing a hypnotist or a doctor. Hypnosis is one thing that could be very helpful and many individuals have successfully quit with this technique. And there's medication which a doctor can prescribe that will also be able to help you advice on how to stop smoking. Having said that, I would truly only recommend this as the final thing you try.
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Monday, September 5, 2011
Beauty treatments, which are the most effective?
There are many ways a women can make herself feel more beautiful, however truth be told you already are probably beautiful, whether that be inside or outside. It is only recently that the government in the UK has tried to stop the craze of companies offering cosmetic surgery as a prize of competitions, and cosmetic surgery is the last step in trying to get yourself to look how you’d like, but what other means are there to making yourself feel more naturally beautiful?
Popular methods women undertake to make themselves feel prettier and to boost their self-esteem are to use self-tanning agents, try out new shower and skin rubs, use clay masks, use anti-ageing creams and also re design their wardrobe and dress younger than they really are. Other popular methods in the beauty industry which are popular include nail extensions, eyelash extensions, manicures, pedicures and hair extensions.
One of the most effective ways to draw attention to your face and eyes is to seek out professional eyelash extensions which can come in daily use and semi-permanent forms, as these cost effective beauty methods stay in for a number of weeks and are perfect for all occasions such as birthday parties, nights out and other occasions where you want that extra ‘wow factor’.
It is always important that whilst undergoing any treatment near very sensitive areas such as your eyes that the treatment is done professionally and by an experienced practitioner as not only will this allow for a better level of service and expertise, but it will also make you feel safer and the quality of the work carried out will be higher and last longer within a time frame.
As with all non-permanent beauty treatments it is important that you take in to consideration that any strenuous activities can cause treatments to fade much quicker than normal (swimming and excessive sweating / sports) will trigger your treatments to possibly end prematurely which is never good, however if you are going on holiday and swimming / excessive perspiration is unavoidable then you can always purchase some accessories which allow some treatments to last that little bit longer.
Overall there are a few treatments which will allow you to take full advantage of your appearance right now without the need for anything over drastic such as cosmetic surgery, and as noted above, nail extensions and eyelash extensions are very popular indeed.
Lyndon is a keen author and has a particular interest in the beauty industry. His latest projects surround kent eyelash extensions and beauty respectively.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
How to Get Blog Traffic That Sticks
One major priority of bloggers is getting traffic to their blogs but a lot of people make a great mistake nowadays, not because they don’t know how to get traffic but because they don’t know how to make their traffic stick. It doesn’t matter how many visitors you’re able to get to your blog there is no point in it if you’re unable to make them return.
While it is important to know that you can’t make 100% of the visitors to your blog stick you should also know that there are some things you can do to increase the likelihood of your blog visitors sticking.
Give Them What They Want
People are not visiting your blog for fun or because they want to make you happy but because they believe they can gain something from you. While it is possible for you to spend a lot of money on advertising your blog or to try several marketing strategies you can think of you should know that this won’t help you if your visitors don’t find anything valuable on your blog. The first step to making sure your blog visitors stick is by giving them what they want: this means you also have to know where they came from and why they’re reading your blog. If people are reading your blog because they want more information about home insurance you won’t have any luck giving them information about blogging and if people are visiting your blog in order to know about the latest fashion in town you won’t be able to make them stick by trying to teach them how to make money online.
Try to have a crystal clear understanding of what your readers want from your blog, if you aren’t sure about this you might want to survey them or even contact some of your major commenters to ask them what they’d like to be seeing more often on your blog. You will go really far if you can understand and meet the needs of your readers.
Get Them into a Funnel
Another sure fire way to make sure your blog visitors stick is by getting them into a funnel. This means you should try to know how they react to information and what is the best way they love to consume information. If your readers are tech savvy the best way to get them to continue to read your content might be by making them subscribe to your RSS feed and if you’re in the marketing niche or in a niche where people aren’t that tech savvy the best way to make sure your readers keep reading your content might be to make them subscribe to your email list.
Don’t rely on the thousands of daily visitors you’re getting because the source of that traffic may crumble: Google might stop sending you traffic one day and that big site that keeps sending you tons of visitors might one day stop, the only way to make sure you enjoy is by being in control. Start building a mailing list now and always ensure you do the best to make sure your readers always come back to your blog.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The Jersey Shore Guide to Irresistible Personal Branding
The Jersey Shore is back and up to its old antics again.
My guess — you being a respectable content marketer who finds that sort of display crude, irresponsible and embarrassing — is that you’re not tuning in.
Hey, I hear you. But do you know who isn’t offended by it?
The 8.4 million people who tuned in to the season premiere last month, making it the network’s most-watched series episode ever.
Whether you’re a true fan of Snooki, or you credit her with single-handedly hammering that last nail completing the Decline of Western Civilization, it doesn’t matter.
The fact is that each member of The Jersey Shore cast has gone on to create a recognizable and profitable personal brand in the 14 months the show has been on the air.
Not too shabby. And tucked inside the show’s success are personal branding lessons that any marketer can benefit from. Even if you’re not spray-tanned to a disturbing shade of orange.
Get a pen and paper because personal branding school is in session, Jersey Shore style.
Lesson 1: Own your oddities
If there’s one marketing principle reinforced by The Jersey Shore it’s that your oddities are what make you watchable.
Five minutes into checking out what’s going on in Seaside Heights this season and you’ll notice that most of the Jersey Shore cast barely looks human. They’re walking Halloween costumes, tanned, oiled and gym’d to the max.
And it’s their oddness that makes them interesting and what drives millions of people to tune in each week.
In an earlier Copyblogger post on branding and belly dancing, I spoke about the importance of creating a character — one that allows you to show off a heightened version of yourself to attract the right people to what you’re selling.
You’re probably not 4’9″ and God knows the world doesn’t need another Snooki, but what’s kooky and stand-out about you?
Figure out what it is and how you can make it work to your advantage.
Identify it. Use it. Become it.
Lesson 2: Polarization is a good thing
It doesn’t matter if you’re big, little or fall somewhere in between. Most of us are afraid to be a polarizing figure by taking a hard stance.
Just look at what happened to Groupon after the Super Bowl.
We hold back from going too far left, too far right or too far in our own direction in fear that we’ll be isolating our audience. And I get that – because you very often will be. But that’s not a bad thing.
The Jersey Shore kids are good examples of that. You’re either appalled by their train wreck or you’re mesmerized by it. And that’s why it works.
A post on the OK Cupid blog last month touched on the same concept, bringing up the mathematics of beauty. Specifically, it showed how playing up what some people don’t like about you allows you to attract the people who will.
It’s why edgy Meaghan Fox is more attractive than wholesome Kristen Bell, or why guys with tattoos are rated better looking than the average prepster.
If you want to be memorable, create a contrast. Going the safe route and trying to be everything to everyone won’t win you fans, it’ll only bring in people who don’t have an opinion about you either way.
Those people aren’t going to buy your stuff, and they won’t remember your name in the morning.
Lesson 3: People want a little drama
Season 3 of The Jersey Shore came with one promise -– that it would be the most drama-filled season to date.
So far, it’s lived up to the hype, with cast members getting into scary physical altercations, getting arrested, and with sudden character exits. The drama keeps people hooked because everyone wants to see what’s going to happen next and who is going to do what to whom.
If you’re working to build your personal brand, I wouldn’t recommend going out and getting arrested tomorrow, but do look for ways to create a little spice.
Maybe it’s Groupon releasing controversial commercials or you deciding to take an unpopular stance on your blog.
Associating your brand with a splash of excitement will help keep it top of mind and always relevant.
Lesson 4: You’ve got to build your platform
It’s easy to hate on The Jersey Shore kids for what they represent, but at the end of the day, they’ve created a platform that extends far past the show.
Snooki is a New York Times Bestselling author (wrap your head around that).
“The Situation” is said to have made $5 million from appearances and products (including his own vodka line and garment bags).
Jenny aka “JWOWW” has a book and bronzer, Ronnie endorses a popular weight loss drug, Angelina has a music single, Sammi has a perfume, and Vinny and Pauly D both have clothing lines.
Not bad for 14 months in the spotlight.
Sure, it’s ridiculous, but they created it.
The personal brand you create means nothing if you don’t have a business model. If you’re spending an hour a day on Twitter talking to people without finding a way to bring them back to your site or direct them somewhere else to do something, you’re leaving money on the table and you’re wasting your time.
Decide what you want these channels to give you and then create a plan for how you’ll be accomplishing that.
While The Jersey Shore certainly isn’t doing our younger generations any cultural favors, they are giving smart marketers some branding lessons worth tuning in for.
And now you have an excuse for the next time you’re caught watching …
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