Sporting ST Crane Hire’s trademark colour – purple – the eight-axle semi-trailer is equipped with a wooden deck floor and hydraulic double ramps, which, according to Faymonville, significantly reduce the drive-on angle for mobile cranes and other machines.The semi-trailer also features an extendable loading deck, making it suitable for the transport of a wide range of equipment.The trailer was purchased through the South Africa dealer, Saxeni Equipment.Also in South Africa, CTS-East has utilised its G-MT modules from Faymonville to transport a lime cooler, used in paper manufacturing, from Richards Bay to Nelspruit, a distance of approximately 600 km.CTS-East used the G-MT modular trailers in a 4×6 lowbed combination to transport the machine, which measured 9 m in length and had a weight of 100 tons (90.7 tonnes).  www.faymonville.com www.stcranehire.co.za www.cts-east.co.za read more

A Vermont Senate committee is considering a bill that would create a farm guest worker program to allow the estimated 1,500 to 2,000 immigrant workers on Vermont dairy farms.The bill would create a state identification for the workers and a registry of those workers that would allow them to be eligible for state services.advertisementadvertisement The bill’s sponsor – Democratic Sen. Jeanette White of Windham County – told the Senate Agriculture Committee that there’s already a federal guest worker program for seasonal farm workers and for ski resort employees.She says immigration is a federal government issue, but Vermont has always been willing to go against the federal government when “it’s the right thing to do.” PD—AP newswire report read more

FAREWELL Pep Guardiola gives Man City injury update and talks Christmas schedule PEP TALK NOW: #GameDay Live 🗣Adrian Durham brings you all the goals as they go in from across the divisions.We’ve got reporters all over the country bringing you goals, updates & analysis.📻 Listen → https://t.co/nOCybh8ExD pic.twitter.com/PjfG1fSnqI— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) August 17, 2019Norwich City vs Newcastle United live on talkSPORT 2Norwich lost 4-1 at Liverpool in the opening game for the new season last Friday but did play some good football at times at Anfield.While the Reds exposed some dodgy defending from the top-flight’s new boys, Daniel Farke’s men looked sharp going forward. GameDay returns this weekend to bring you all the goals and action from the 3pm Premier League clashes.talkSPORT’s new Saturday special got off to a bang last weekend as the top-flight burst back into life. Ian Holloway thinks Arsenal have made a mistake in hiring Mikel Arteta 3 deals They’ll hope to get their first points of the season when they welcome Newcastle to Carrow Road.The Toon lost 1-0 at home to Arsenal last weekend in Steve Bruce’s first game at the helm and will be looking for a big improvement in Norfolk.To tune into our live commentary on talkSPORT 2, just click here for the live stream or on the radio player below.Norwich v Newcastle: Team newsNorwich: Krul, Aarons, Hanley, Godfrey, Lewis, Trybull, Leitner, Emi, Stiepermann, Cantwell, Pukki.Subs: Byram, Roberts, Vrancic, Fahrmann, McLean, Tettey, Srbeny.Newcastle: Dubravka, Schar, Lascelles, Dummett, Krafth, Hayden, Shelvey, Ki, Ritchie, Almiron, Joelinton.Subs: Clark, Muto, Willems, Fernandez, Manquillo, Darlow, Longstaff.Referee: Stuart AttwellAround the Grounds live on talkSPORTThere’s storylines aplenty in the 3pm ties on MatchDay 2 in the Premier League.Liverpool, fresh from their UEFA Super Cup win over Chelsea on Wednesday, make the trip to Southampton, a club they’ve infamously raided on several times in the past. BIG PRESENTS UP TOP Chelsea fan arrested for allegedly racially abusing Heung-min Son OFF Redknapp calls Son ‘petulant’, but Holloway says red card for Rudiger kick was ‘soft’ In the first batch of afternoon kick-offs, Burnley and Brighton claimed impressive wins, Sheffield United snatched a points at Bournemouth and there was nothing to separate Crystal Palace and Everton.Now, it’s time for GameDay round 2!We’ll have full commentary of Norwich vs Newcastle live and exclusive on talkSPORT 2 this weekend.Russ Williams will bring you all the build-up before handing over to Ian Danter and David Connolly for the action. Daniel Farke’s newly promoted Norwich face Newcastle today and it will be live on talkSPORT 2 rookie error statement Man United transfer news live: Haaland ‘wants a change’, two players off in January Mo Salah and Liverpool face Southampton today Getty Images – Getty Steve Round reveals how Mikel Arteta convinced him to join Arsenal staff appointed Meanwhile, Everton boss Marco Silva is set to return to Vicarage Road and face Watford, the club he left on rather bitter terms last summer.Aston Villa and West Ham will then be looking for their first points of the season when they take on Bournemouth and Brighton respectively.You can listen to Adrian Durham’s GameDay special by clicking here for the live stream or on the radio player below.Saturday is GameDay on talkSPORT and talkSPORT 2 as we become your go to destination for all the Premier League action. We’ll bring you LIVE commentary of Premier League games across all three time slots on Saturday – 12.30pm, 3pm and 5.30pm – delivering award-winning coverage to more GameDay listeners than ever. Steve Bruce’s Newcastle face Norwich this afternoon Matic one of two players for sale with ‘two Premier League clubs’ interested 3 3 Meanwhile, Adrian Durham will also be on hand for our Around the Grounds show to bring you all the goals as they go in up and down the country.It’s a bumper Saturday and Champions League holders Liverpool will be in 3pm action when they make the trip to Southampton.Also on show will be Aston Villa hosting Bournemouth, West Ham making the trip to Brighton and Everton vs Watford.Once the full-time whistles go, Adrian will then lead our Full-Time Phone-In so you the fans can have your say on all the action.Premier League 3pm full time scoresAston Villa 1 (Douglas Luiz) AFC Bournemouth 2 (Josh King, Harry Wilson)Brighton 1 (Leandro Trossard) West Ham United 1 (Javeir Hernandez)Everton 1 (Bernard) Watford 0Norwich City 3 (Teemu Pukki HAT) Newcastle United 1 (Jonjo Shelvey)Southampton 1 (Danny Ings) Liverpool 2 (Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino) Getty Images – Getty LATEST PREMIER LEAGUE NEWS Spurs investigation into alleged racial abuse of Rudiger is so far ‘inconclusive’ What every Premier League club’s fans dream of this Christmas Liverpool news live: Klopp reveals when Minamino will play and issues injury update update latest read more

Monday afternoon Haywood County Sheriff’s Deputies and several other emergency crews responded to a 9-1-1 call about an explosion on Zurich Lane in Waynesville.Officials learned a child had been in close proximity to the explosion and has since been transported to a regional hospital.As deputies secured the scene of the explosion that injured the child, a house located nearby became engulfed in flames and more fire departments were called to the scene to assist.The SBI’s EOD team was dispatched and it is believed that the explosive device that injured the child is commercial fireworks.It is not known if the two incidents are related. No one else is injured. The investigation is ongoing. read more

The race for admissions to Delhi University affiliated colleges is all set to begin from Monday when the varsity will start selling centralised forms for admission to the around 54,000 seats under the Four- Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) Students can also fill the form online on the DU’s website and make payment through e- banking. This year, the admission forms will not have the ‘ college option’ and the students will only have to fill the courses in which they want admission. Officials said there is no limit on the number of courses and students can fill as many courses as they want.The admission forms will be available at 18 centres across the Capital, including five colleges each in north and south Delhi, three each in west and east Delhi and two in central Delhi. The last date to submit the forms is June 16.Applicants will have to shell out Rs 150 for over- the- counter admission forms. The same will cost Rs 70 for SC/ ST students. They can also take the cheaper option and fill form online which will cost Rs 50 for SC/ ST and Rs 100 for the rest.The first cut- off list will be out on June 24 after which the admission process will begin.Students eligible for admission under first list can submit the fees and documents till 1 pm on June 26. There will be five cut- off lists in general category and more lists will come only if seats are vacant in any college. ” The 10th cut- off list, which will also be the final cut- off, will be issued on July 21,” Dean of Students Welfare, DU, J. M. Khurana said.advertisementDU aspirants have been attending open house counselling for admissions. On Saturday, the last open house session of the Delhi University was attended by over 2,000 students.”Only two days are left for the process to begin so students had a lot of queries. We have made all the arrangements for ensuring smooth admission season,” Khurana said.In an attempt to make the admission process smoother, the Delhi University has done away with additional eligibility criteria, earlier set by individual colleges at their own level. ” There will no additional criteria for admission to any course or college. All colleges will follow the same criteria system,” he said.Another major change in the admission process this year is that students will be eligible to use the marks obtained in vocational subjects in Class XII to calculate their best of four marks based on which they will get admission to colleges. “Vocational subjects can be included to calculate aggregate, but 10 per cent of the maximum marks will be deducted from the marks obtained in the vocational subject while calculating best of four,” DU joint-dean of students’s welfare and media coordinator Malay Neerav said.The university also launched an Android- based mobile application using which students can not only get admission related information, but also fill their admission forms on their mobiles.The DU officials advised students to fill in the actual marks obtained in the admission form and leave it to colleges to deduct or add marks. As the forms are centralised, there will be no sale of forms at individual college level, except for those candidates applying under sports and extracurricular activities categories.As the Delhi University admission procedure for various undergraduate courses starts from June 2, traffic advisory has been issued to manage the crowd.Visitors have been asked to use public transport and avoid getting their own vehicles as there will be limited space for parking and only vehicles with valid University stickers will be allowed entry.The vehicular movement will also be restricted from Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station to Delhi School of Economics on Chhatra Marg and on GTB Khalsa Road (North Campus) from 9 am to 2 pm (except on Sunday-June 8 and 15). read more

Conversion Rate Optimization Originally published Apr 19, 2007 11:05:00 AM, updated October 30 2019 Topics: Don’t forget to share this post! AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to Email AppEmail AppShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to MessengerMessengerShare to SlackSlack The most important key to converting website visitors into leads is to have what marketers call a “strong call to action” or a particularly convincing offer that asks people to give their contact information (so they become a lead for your business) in exchange for something.  People are on your website, viewing your company information, and they are looking for clues as to what they are supposed to do next.  A strong call to action is a clear, simple and compelling offer that persuades them to take the action you want.What always surprises me is how most small business websites don’t even have a “call to action”.  Just having a “Contact Us” form on your website is not very appealing to your website visitors and is barely counts as a call to action.  What’s in it for them?  Not much.  So why should they use it?  Most people won’t.  Sure, some people will use it.  And the people who do use it will sometimes buy your services since they gave you their contact information in exchange for nothing – just the hope that you will call them and sell them something.  But, if you really want to increase your website conversion rate beyond 1% to an above average 4% or 5%, you need a stronger call to action.Here are some tips on creating a strong call to action:1) Keep it Simple.  People don’t like to think too much, especially when surfing the web.  The more confusing the call to action, the fewer people who will respond.  Use fewer words.  Make the offer clear.  Don’t have any conditions or special rules.  Don’t force people to click through to too many pages to complete the action.  The harder it is to complete, the fewer people who will complete it.2) Make it Obvious.  Don’t bury your call to action at the bottom of a page.  Make it clear and upfront and obvious.  Believe me, some portion of your website visitors are looking for a call to action.  Just by making yours more obvious you can get more of the to find it an complete it.3) Most important: Make it Valuable.  You always want the offer (what you are giving people) to be appealing and valuable to your target audience.  One way to do this is by adding a gift, like a USB drive or an iPod.  But a better way is to give useful information that is targeted to your audience (and therefore will attract them but not the other people you don’t want to talk to).  Usually, you can repackage existing materials to make something more valuable.  For example, maybe you are a small consulting group that works with companies to implement better management and organizational behavior practices to lower their turnover rates.  You want the HR managers that are viewing your website to complete a form to give you their contact information so you can follow up with them and sell them on your standard 5 day consulting engagement.  You probably already have a 2 page PDF document that describes the services your company provides.  You also have a couple customer case studies in PDF that show how you have helped other customers reduce their turnover.  And you might even have a short document that you leave with clients that contains the 10 most common mistakes or the 5 best ways to reduce turnover, or maybe you even have reprints of some articles you have written for an industry magazine.  Well, combine all these materials, and now you have a “Free Expert Guide to Reducing Employee Turnover”.  What HR Manager would not want a copy of that?  Another great thing about these electronic guides is that they are downloadable – your prospect gets instant gratification and you don’t pay more than a couple pennies for bandwidth.  If you have even more content, you can create a “whitepaper”, which is usually also very appealing to business prospects. read more

To get things started, I put together a list of our top five resolutions for the HubSpot blog in 2009.  In the New Year we want to keep improving our blog — and the conversation around it — so we’d like your input.   (4) Don’t forget to share this post! AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to Email AppEmail AppShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to MessengerMessengerShare to SlackSlack Even Better Posts! webinars events Webinar: Blogging for Business 2008 was a greatyear for the HubSpot blog — we had lots of excellent conversations, welearned a ton and we attracted over 5,000 new subscribers. Coordinate Better With Other HubSpot Content Provide Better Access to Our Archive Originally published Jan 2, 2009 9:34:00 AM, updated October 20 2016 , we need to share some of the greatdiscussion there on the blog. Same for Search engine optimization is central tobusiness blogging , Content is the bottom line for any blog. We get alot of great feedback on our content, and it’s gotten better over thepast year, but we can continue to improve. We can do more with theamazing data we have at HubSpot. We can write posts that engage morewith current discussions and events. We can pull in ideas and voicesfrom politics, non-profits and other places that are relevant tointernet marketing, but are rarely discussed. What should we add to this list? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments. — We need to coordinatethe HubSpot blog with more of the other great things we’re doing atHubSpot. When we have Download the free webinar (5) (1) — We have hundreds of great postsin our archive. We need to do a better job of providing access to thiscontent. Looking for advice on blogging? We have it. SEO? That, too.Linkbuilding? Absolutely. Trouble is, Google’s search engine is theonly practical way to get to most of these articles. In the New Year, Iwant to do things that will provide more access to these articles. More Keyword-Rich Posts , Topics: So that’s my list. What do you think we should do more of? What should we do less of? What should we change? . It’s one of the main reasons we blog here atHubSpot. To keep improving our SEO, we need to create more content onthe HubSpot blog that’s relevant to the keywords we want our businessto rank well for in search engines. . This type of cross-channel coordination amplifies thediscussion and also makes the discussion in each channel richer.  HubSpot TV (2) white papers and Photo: Coquetboy on Flickr — I don’t know about otherHubSpotters, but I don’t participate in the comments enough. Sure, Ianswer everybody who asks questions, but I don’t do enough to continueand expand the dialog I begin in posts. I need to. If you engage withpeople in the comments — really rub brain cells together — you’llsee a return.  Want to learn more about publishing a blog on your business website? Participate More in the Comments — videos (3) Blogging to learn how to create a thriving inbound marketing blog. read more

Topics: Download the free video Social Media Video Learn how to use online video and podcasts for promoting your brand and generating new business. Don’t forget to share this post! AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to Email AppEmail AppShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to MessengerMessengerShare to SlackSlack to become an online video marketing superstar. Originally published Jan 28, 2010 8:30:00 AM, updated October 20 2016 Video: How to Use Online Video for Marketing read more

Are you It’s public.  In an effort to streamline customer support throughout the upcoming tax season, popular online tax software TurboTax is launching a new initiative to help its customers (and other taxpayers) through the daunting process of paying taxes by answering questions on — you guessed it — Twitter!  for the very same purpose.  , specifically devoted to the new initiative and enlisted 14 of its employees to answer people’s software and general tax questions.  Similarly, TurboTax has also created a Tax season is without a doubt a busy time for a company like TurboTax.  Eliciting other tools such as @TeamTurboTax Not only is TurboTax answering questions from their software’s customers but also from non-customers. Answering general tax questions shows their tax paying expertise and possibly attracts new customers to its software. Why it works for marketing and PR: to interact with and support your customers?  If not, start brainstorming ways you can utilize the tool to benefit your customer service efforts! using social media for customer relations and customer support completely makes sense.  Here are a few reasons why: As of yesterday, TurboTax has created a new Twitter account, TurboChat application on its Facebook page Download the free webinar social media sites Webinar: Twitter for Marketing and PR Want to learn more about using Twitter for Marketing and PR? TurboTax is going where its customer already are.  Topics: Originally published Feb 2, 2010 1:46:00 PM, updated October 20 2016 It exhibits industry expertise to non-customers.  It’s timely.  for tips and tricks to drive inbound marketing using Twitter. taking advantage of Twitter Twitter Marketing Examples So now one question remains.  In my opinion, this is brilliant!  I love seeing companies using Twitter as more than just an endless feed to promote their content, and as a public relations professional, TurboTax is taking something that is usually a one-on-one, customer-to-support process out in the open for the world to see.  Take a look at the TeamTurboTax feed and anyone can see how well they’re handling customer issues.  Done right, and this can be great for TurboTax’s PR efforts. Twitter is a great tool to help achieve a number of business and marketing goals Rather than making them sign up for another support website or using a separate chat service, TurboTax is giving its customers the opportunity to communicate using an application they may already be signed up for. to manage the influx of customer support issues is smart. , whether they be promoting content, connecting with prospects or building relationships with other thought leaders and industry experts.  However, there is one Twitter use I think many may overlook — the opportunity to facilitate customer support.  Don’t forget to share this post! AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to Email AppEmail AppShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to MessengerMessengerShare to SlackSlack read more

Originally published Jun 29, 2011 9:00:00 AM, updated October 20 2016 . Science of Social Media webinar For more mythbusting and social media science, don’t forget to register for my  There is no correlation between the number of comments on a post and the number of views that post got. There’s also no correlation between comments and the number of links that post got. There is some positive correlation between views and links. To view the linear correlation and scatter-plot data see the graphs below. Social Media Analytics With your blog, comments should not be a goal. They don’t lead to views or links, which is what leads to actual revenue. Enagaging in the conversation doesn’t work. My favorite unicorns and rainbows myth to pick on is “engage in the conversation.” While it can be useful for customer service, from a results-driven marketing perspective, I believe conversations aren’t very important. The correlation numbers in the above graphic are linear regressions. The scatter plots are shown on double logrithmic scales to show that there is no non-linear correlations in the data. Topics: To continue proving that point, I analyzed comment, view and link data on over 100,000 blog posts. What I found may surprise some. Don’t forget to share this post! AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to Email AppEmail AppShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to MessengerMessengerShare to SlackSlack read more