#technology facts

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Toronto, the raccoon capital of the world, spent CA $31 million on raccoon-resistant trash bins, which raccoons were able to figure out in a matter of days. #FACT

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A new robot can liquefy and retake its form. Click to read the full fact.

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Random Fact #3,584

In 1983, the first mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. at almost $4,000 each.

In today's money, those phones would have cost a whopping $11,162.57.

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A Prescription for Starting a Healthy Business by Greg Mends from Kansas City

Starting a replacement business is an exciting time. With most information available today, how maybe a person understand what's going to work for them? 

Everyone should know that having a thought is vital to business success. Developing a concept is that the part that scares confuses and eludes many emerging business owners. Greg Mends recommend that business owners treat their plan sort of a Prescription; consider each leap forward as a dose of medication designed to allow you a healthy business.

Before you begin a business there are some key decisions that have to be answered;

1. Who are my customers?

2. Where are my customers?

3. How will I attract my customers?

4. How will I deliver my product/service to my customers?

5. How will I manage my finances?

6. Am I able to afford this?

According to Gregory Mends from Kansas City Within each of those questions are the building blocks of a healthy business. To many, these questions seem out of order or aren't all-inclusive of what's needed to begin and maintain a healthy business. We couldn't disagree more as these questions are the Prescription for a Healthy Business.

Who and where are my customers?

No business is often successful without customers. To not know your customers is one of every of the most important mistakes small business people make. the patron is becoming more educated and has more buying opportunities today than ever within the past. 

Additionally, the patron has become more cost conscientious and uses a more thoughtful buying strategy today than ever before. Knowing what your product or service does for your customers is that the easy part, understanding that customer and the way to draw them to your product or service is that the harder part.

Most of the time, new business owners come from a business where they treated customers using the actual product or service that may be the breadwinner for his or her new business. 

Profiling who these customers are will help the business owner gain the insight needed to know who the purchasers are. it is vital to know your company's position in the competition. ensure you're not bound by a non-compete or another non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement before profiling customers.

If you're entering into a replacement area or are under some style of confidentiality or non-compete clause, take a knowledge mining service that will facilitate your understanding of who your customers are. 

Services like Sales Genie, Hudson, or Dun & Bradstreet offer cost-effective mining tools that may put customer information before you so you recognize all you would like to understand about your potential new customers.

How will I attract my customers?

Once you recognize who your customers are and where they're doing business and what they'll need of your product or service, and inspiration is made to draw in them to your company. Understanding what customers explore when making buying decisions will be difficult for a few and seemingly easy for others. 

Many items or services that are commodities are also chosen for price or easy delivery. Other things could also be chosen by necessity, region, or rarity. Finally, there's a relationship purchase, where you've got a longtime relationship with someone in your customer's company which will influence the buying decision; each of those different buying parameters must be understood for your particular area of experience or product.

Commodity items are going to be the foremost difficult area for a brand new business to urge into if you do not have a plus with location or relationship. Competition is created tougher because of more businesses competing for an identical customer base. 

There are ways to differentiate you from others by having a more robust company image, customer services, or delivery model that may better define your company from the others. Keeping your image is as simple as an expert clean look, easy-to-know ordering guidelines, and quick response to questions, concerns, or issues.

Using your regional advantages or the provision to induce rare or hard to search out items should be incorporated into your image or presentation in order that companies know intuitively that you're different from your competitors. 

Employing a professional branding company to assist you to define your image and understand a way to reach them in numerous ways is going to be an investment that will have a decent return on investment if you have got an honest understanding of your message and customers.

Social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn may be good avenues for a few businesses, but all of them are still unaccustomed to the marketing game and their impact on buying decisions continues to be hard to live. However, all offer free accounts and will be implemented to support your brand and provide your company with one added access point to the markets.

Having a website is very important as maybe a good email address. Websites don't have to be complex or overly flamboyant to achieve success. People appreciate the flexibility to quickly access a webpage and efficiently understand a corporation and its product or service offering. Having an email address that's easy to recollect and use will help people to speak along with your company and provide you a chance to start to capture communication history with potential customers.

How will I deliver my product/service to my customers?

Product or service delivery may be an important aspect of your business. The delivery of products or services is synergistic with Customer Service, and at the identical time, it's wholly separate. Product delivery failures can meet or exceed customer expectations and still be inefficient and expensive and hamper a growing business.

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A Fact

Truth is, Crowley probably invented Internet Explorer but y'all too afraid to say it

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Foxes

Foxes use the earths magnetic field.

Like a guided missile, the fox harnesses the earth's magnetic field to hunt. Other animals, like birds, sharks, and turtles, have this "magnetic sense," but the fox is the first one we've discovered that uses it to catch prey.

According to New Scientist, the fox can see the earth's magnetic field as a "ring of shadow" on its eyes that darkens as it heads towards magnetic north. When the shadow and the sound the prey is making line up, it's time to pounce.

Video of a fox in action!

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How to skip unskipable Youtube ads

Ok so imma share this because I recently found out that people didn’t know you could do it & ive been doing it for like a year now

So when you get an ad in the left corner of your screen you should see the “i”, click that. When you do you’ll then see “Why this ad. Stop seeing this Ad. Google controls” click “Stop seeing this Ad” then you can either fill out the little question they give you (takes like a second) or you can just hit submit or continue or whatever it is lol

Majority of the time it’s there but there are times it isn’t so just letting you know. But I use it all the time so now you can too! Hope this wasn’t confusing at all, if anything isn’t clear let me know

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The phantom touch illusion helps explain why we feel things in virtual reality. Click to read the full fact.