Shopping Carts & the E-aisles

Have you ever gone to the store and thought you only needed a few things so you didn’t grab a cart? The next thing you know your hands are full and groceries are crashing everywhere making a big mess. If only you had gotten a cart. Shopping carts are not necessary on your website as long as you do not mind doing a little extra work (just like carrying all those groceries) and processing each order individually. If you choose to forego having a shopping cart on your site, it is important to remember you will have to calculate all the taxes and fees yourself. This delay will ultimately kill your sales.

The system I use allows you to enter your credit card number, buy the product, and receive authorization all in about fifteen seconds. It will also send a confirmation e-mail to whoever is shipping the product, without me touching a thing. A system like this is perfect for someone who travels a lot and does not have time to sit around entering numbers and expiration dates. The shopping cart will help to eliminate many of those problems and will boost your sales. This is a fast-paced world, if people have to wait even an hour to buy, they probably won’t.

About the Author
Tom Antion provides entertaining speeches and educational seminars. He is the ultimate entrepreneur, having owned many businesses BEFORE graduating college. Tom is the author of the best selling presentation skills book "Wake 'em Up Business Presentations" and "Click: The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing." It is important to Tom that his knowledge be not only absorbed, but enjoyed. This is why he delivers his speeches laced with great humor and hysterical jokes. Tom has addressed more than 87 different industries and is thoroughly committed to his client's needs. http://www.antion.com/

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A Guide to Buying a Mattress

Many of us spend more time using our beds than any other furniture at home. If you’re shopping for a new mattress, look for comfort and support. Some people have bad experience with their new mattress, preferring the comfort of the old reliable to the new one. This is because they have selected a new mattress with different support to their old one. This is why it’s very important to take care when choosing a new matttress.

Types of Mattress:
There are two types of mattresses – Spring Mattresses and Non-Spring Mattresses.

Spring mattresses

• Open Coil Springs
This is the most widely used type of material in the mattresses. Each spring in the mattress is connected together with a firm wire to form the spring unit. The steel used in the springs will be tempered to ensure recovery and a long lifespan. Generally it is cheaper than the other options and comes in a variety of tension options.

• Continuous Coil Springs
Continuous coil springs works as an inter-linked system, made from one long piece of wire, which allows all the springs to work in unison. This continuous spring wire runs from top to bottom of the mattress, which distributes the weight of the body through the springs across the entire sleep surface. The high spring count makes them responsive to individual body shapes and support requirements, which makes them more comfortable.

• Pocket Spring
This is the popular type in the spring mattresses. Pocket spring mattress is made up of small springs placed in individual fabric pockets. The pockets are connected together to form the bigger spring unit, which allows the mattress to fully support the body and totally adopt the bodyline, giving a better support from head to toe. This spring system is considered to be the best of the category. One possible disadvantage of this type of spring system is that it is expensive.

Non-Spring Mattresses

• Natural Latex
Natural Latex is a hypoallergenic and anti-microbial material, which is particularly helpful for people who have respiratory problems. Latex also moulds perfectly to the body giving greater comfort, and good neck and back support. Water based latex is a good material available in the category. Natural Latex is derived from the sap of rubber trees and also it is known for its distinguishing elastic properties and durability.

• Memory Foam/Visco Elastic
This is the most popular mattress. Originally developed by NASA, visco elastic contains millions of microscopic memory pockets, which slowly react to body heat and weight allowing the body to partially immerse, whilst moulding to the body. The result is optimum support and pressure relief. Visco elastic mattress gives relief for pressure points and respite for backache, painful joints and circulatory problems.

This information will help you in choosing the right type of the mattress according to your needs and requirements.

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Clerysbeds is devoted to providing a unique range of high quality furnishing store for beds from Ireland and Europe. Clerys was founded as one of the world’s first purpose built department stores on Dublin’s main street. Clerys is technologically advanced when it comes to its products like beds ireland, headboards, memory foam beds, slumberland, beds Ireland, furniture beds Dublin.

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Helping a Parent with High Cholesterol

Are you a chartered member of the so-called “sandwich generation”, struggling to take care of your aging parents while simultaneously raising your children? Such a tug-of-war between generations can be maddening enough, but when you add your mother or father’s high cholesterol in the mix, it can be downright life-destroying.

If you have a parent with high cholesterol symptoms who has been hesitant to check out methods to lower cholesterol (or defiant about their high cholesterol, even after a physician’s diagnosis), you may need some gentle ways to them lower cholesterol without seeming too pushy. Here, we’ll explore some methods of nudging mom or dad toward treat their high cholesterol symptoms(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/High-Cholesterol.html).
Make Healthy Low Cholesterol(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/High-Cholesterol.html) Meals for Your Parents

Many older adults aren’t fond of cooking for themselves anymore, so they tend to either eat at “home cooking” (aka, “lard laden”) restaurants or at home with prepackaged high sodium, high fat microwavable meals. Such fare is simply not helpful to lower cholesterol, and may even be inching your parent toward dangerously high cholesterol levels.

The next time you’re making a healthy meal, why not freeze a portion to deliver to your parents as a surprise? Your food should be high in vitamin C to promote lower cholesterol, high in fiber, and, of course, low in saturated fats and calories. Learn to cook with spices and your parents will never notice that they’re eating something “good” that may reduce their high cholesterol symptoms(http://www.mitamins.com/disease/High-Cholesterol.html).
Take Your Parents for a Cholesterol-Busting Walk

Exercise is an excellent way to tackle high cholesterol symptoms. However, most aging adults don’t get the recommended 30 minutes a day, three days a week, of moderate activity that they need to lower cholesterol and keep their hearts in tiptop shape.

It will go a long way toward helping your dad lower cholesterol if you invite him on a weekly “walking date” with you and/or your kids. Even a parent who is generally sedentary may jump (though not literally!) at the opportunity to spend some time with the grandkids.
Offer to Shop for Your Parents, and Get Lower Cholesterol Foods

Finally, it may behoove you to offer your shopping services for your parents. That way, you can choose the bulk of the groceries going in and out of your mother and father’s home. As the “dietician”, you can ensure that items which clog the arteries and therefore promote high cholesterol are replaced by more heart-healthy choices.

Best of all, you can be very subtle. If your dad adores peanut butter, get the low fat or all natural version. Does your mom crave loads of chocolate? Rather than getting her bags of candy, there are plenty of healthy alternatives to satisfy even the most ravenous chocoholic. Are they fond of pizza? There are lower cholesterol versions of them in your grocer’s freezer or at the natural food store.

Again, you don’t ever have to confront a parent about his or her high cholesterol. Instead, you can simply insert these “sneaky” ways to make sure you have your folks around for many more years to come.

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Quick Facts Yahoo Shopping Cart

• Easily customize your entire checkout process to maximize sales.
  
• Automatically calculate and display shipping and tax fees in the
  shopping cart.
  
• Offer gift wrapping and messaging options and sell downloadable products.

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Help maximize your sales with Yahoo customizable checkout process.

With Yahoo checkout tools you can:
Choose a single- or multi-page checkout process to help customers complete their sales process faster.
Easily tailor your checkout page layout, fonts, colors, and buttons to match the rest of your site without any coding.
Easily modify your checkout fields to collect information relevant to your business.

Checkout pages are created automatically after you select your preferences - no coding required.

Automatically calculate shipping, tax, fees, and discounts before checkout.

We calculate purchase totals in the shopping cart so customers can see exactly what they'll owe before they check out, eliminating a common frustration.
Encourage larger orders with cross-selling tools.

Set rules to display complementary products when a user adds an item to their shopping cart. For example, whenever a digital camera is purchased you can show batteries and camera cases as a cross sell.

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Available with Standard and Professional plans only.

Save shopping cart contents so customers can return.

If customers leave your store without purchasing the items in their shopping cart, those contents are automatically saved for up to two weeks. Returning customers can then pick up where they left off and complete interrupted purchases.

Show customers where they are in the checkout process.
Display a progress bar at the top of your checkout pages to help prevent shoppers from leaving your site before completing a purchase.

Offer gift wrapping and messages.
Give shoppers the option to select gift wrapping services and leave personalized messages (if you offer them), and automatically add your gift wrapping fees to the purchase total.

Sell downloadable products.
Our flexible platform also allows you to sell non-tangible goods like downloadable products (such as software or music) or gift certificates.

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