Intent, Invest, Income
138 days ago“Intentions, Investments, Income” Remember watching the show Family Feud? If a question was asked of 100 people about why we have a NBA lockout, I would bet every single person being...
“Intentions, Investments, Income” Remember watching the show Family Feud? If a question was asked of 100 people about why we have a NBA lockout, I would bet every single person being questioned would answer that it is caused by the overpaid players wanting more money. Which is exactly the perception NBA owners want to maintain, [...]
Tony Parker: French Connect
141 days agoT. Parker the Player/Owner? – Take Poll Regardless of your position on NBA Lockout issues or NBA players leaving to play internationally, you have got to love this story! Spurs superstar...
T. Parker the Player/Owner? – Take Poll Regardless of your position on NBA Lockout issues or NBA players leaving to play internationally, you have got to love this story! Spurs superstar and NBA Finals MVP, Tony Parker, has interests in basketball that have lead him to the ownership end of the basketball business. In the [...]
NBA Preseason Really History?
141 days agoWho’s to Blame? David Stern: “we’re looking to finalizing close to a 200 million dollar loss as well as regular season games.” Derek Fisher: “We don’t want to be locked out,...
Who’s to Blame? David Stern: “we’re looking to finalizing close to a 200 million dollar loss as well as regular season games.” Derek Fisher: “We don’t want to be locked out, but the reality is we are employees, and the owners are employers, it is their decision to make.” Adam Silver: “We are looking at [...]
Kobe – Italy Actually Happening?
148 days agoKobe Leaving NBA for Italy – Take Poll Kobe Bryant is a name that turns heads. What can this latest news about the imminence of the deal be about? We were...
Kobe Leaving NBA for Italy – Take Poll
Kobe Bryant is a name that turns heads. What can this latest news about the imminence of the deal be about? We were curious, so we asked some lakers fans on this Facebook thread, what they thought about Kobe’s possible NBA leave for the Italian Virtus Bologna: NBA Lockout Discussions
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MILAN (AP) – Kobe Bryant said it was “very possible” he will play in Italy during the NBA lockout, adding the country is like home because he spent part of his childhood there.
“It’s very possible. It would be a dream for me,” Kobe Bryant said of the contract off from Virtus Bologna, according to the Gazzetta dello Sport.
Virtus Bologna has made numerous contract offers to the Los Angeles Lakers star. Bryant discussed the offer with the Gazzetta dello Sport during a sponsor’s appearance in Milan on Wednesday.
“It’s very possible. It would be a dream for me,” Bryant said, according to the Gazzetta. “There’s an opportunity that we’ve been discussing over the last few days. It’s very possible and that’s good news for me.”
Virtus told The Associated Press that the latest talks are centered on a $2.5 million offer for 10 games over 40 days from Oct. 9 to Nov. 16. That would come out to about $1.5 million after taxes.
The deal would allow Bryant to return to the Lakers immediately if the lockout ends.
The 33-year-old Bryant spent several years in Italy when his father, Joe Bryant, played on five teams from 1984-91. The elder Bryant, who once owned a small part of Olimpia Milano, now coaches the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA.
“Italy is my home. It’s where my dream of playing in the NBA started. This is where I learned the fundamentals, learned to shoot, to pass and to (move) without the ball,” Kobe Bryant said, according to the Gazzetta. “All things that when I came back to America the players my age didn’t know how to do because they were only thinking about jumping and dunking.”
Turkish club Besiktas and at least one team in China have expressed interest in Bryant, a winner of five NBA championships and 13-time All-Star. However, he seems most interested in the Virtus offer.
“It’s a huge honor for me to return to Italy. It’s home for me,” Bryant said in fairly fluent Italian in a video posted on the Gazzetta website. “It’s always been a dream for me to play in Italy. We’ve got to wait and see what happens.”
Virtus also recently reached out to Manu Ginobili, who played with Bologna before joining the San Antonio Spurs in 2002. Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari rejoined his former Italian club Olimpia Milano last week.
The NBA season usually begins in late October, but owners and players have failed to agree on a new labor deal. The two sides are at odds over how to divide the league’s revenue, a salary cap structure and the length of guaranteed contracts.
Last week, NBA officials announced the postponement of training camp and the cancellation of 43 preseason games.
Virtus has won 15 Italian league titles but none since 2001, when it also won the Euroleague for the second time.
Bologna opens the Italian league against Roma on Oct. 9. It did not qualify for this season’s Euroleague, although the team has big ambitions after signing former Clemson point guard Terrell McIntyre, who led Siena to four consecutive Italian titles before transferring to Malaga in Spain last season.
From: USA Today Sports
Economic Impacts?
152 days agoVideo Games no longer Realistic? How will video games sell and release if the season is delayed? The video game is a reflection of the real thing, we don’t know the...
Video Games no longer Realistic?
How will video games sell and release if the season is delayed? The video game is a reflection of the real thing, we don’t know the final rosters yet, player movement hasn’t kicked in, we don’t even know when it begins. So how can EA and 2k produce a good product?
In a recent article written up by video game vendors, the topics of how the Video Game industry would be affected by the delay of the NBA season?
Well it seems a few weeks are definitely going to be cut out of the season this year. The Game version of the 2012 season is supposed to launch on Oct. 4th. I wonder if it will sell as well with the season not starting when it is supposed to?
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=A2KLOzFbX35OjhMA7ydNbK5_?slug=ycn-9172841
NBA lockout continues, jeopardizes NBA season: A fan’s take
By Mark Hawkins, Yahoo! Contributor Network Sep 23, 11:24 am EDTWith time running out, the NBA and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) met on Thursday, Sept. 22,in an effort to strike a deal in time for the NBA season to begin as scheduled. After negotiating for approximately five hours, the two sides failed to strike a deal or even make any appreciable progress.
After the meeting, there were no indications from either party that a deal would be forthcoming anytime soon. Both NBA Commissioner David Stern and union president Derek Fisher(notes) of the Los Angeles Lakers expressed the sentiment that “the calendar is not our friend.”
Stern, who celebrated his 69th birthday on Thursday, represented the league along with NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver, head of the labor relations committee; San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt; and NBA Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Dan Rube. The union was represented by Fisher, NBPA Executive Director Billy Hunter, union Deputy General Counsel Ron Klempner and economist Kevin Murphy.
Neither side revealed details of the meeting, but both sides did say that they hope to meet again next week. But next week may prove to be too late.
With training camps scheduled to open Oct. 3, any chances of the 2011-2012 NBA season (preseason included) being played as scheduled were placed in serious jeopardy when the NBA and NBPA failed to strike a deal Thursday. By the time the parties meet next week, there will basically be no chance of the preseason beginning on Oct. 9 as scheduled.
The NBA lockout has gotten to the point where NBA fans are counting down the days before they are likely to hear the dreaded announcement that games will be canceled instead of counting down the days until opening night. Unfortunately, NBA fans may get that dreaded announcement as early as Friday, Sept. 23.
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports and Ric Bucher of ESPN have both reported that David Stern, after a conference call with members of the NBA’s labor relations committee on Friday, is expected to officially cancel training camps and the first slate of preseason games until further notice. Even after the postponement of training camps and cancellation of preseason games, there will still be a little time for the parties to try to work out a deal in time to save the regular-season opener.
The NBA champion Dallas Mavericks and the Chicago Bulls are scheduled to open the regular season on Nov. 1. From the time that a deal is made, the NBA would need at least four weeks to prepare for the regular season. Two weeks for the deal to be put in writing and ratified, one week for a free-agency period and another week for truncated training camps and a few preseason games. Based on that four-week window, the NBA and NBPA have until Oct. 4, at the absolute latest, to work out a deal that will salvage opening night.
Unfortunately, one of the principal negotiators does not seem to believe that is likely. In an interview with Chris Sheridan, Billy Hunter said, “I really don’t think they are ready to do a deal. My position is that they said two years ago they were prepared to lockout for a year to get what they wanted, and I think they way they’ve negotiated gives every indication that that’s bearing out.”
The parties are scheduled to meet again sometime next week, and according to Hunter they both “agree that the only way to get a deal is to keep talking.” But with just 11 days between now and Oct. 4, those talks are up against a calendar that is not a friend of the NBA, NBPA or NBA fans.
Why SEO Leads as your Online Marketing Strategy?
198 days agoMake SEO your Online Marketing Hedgehog Strategy? SEO (search engine optimization) matters because it brings you a different kind of lead than most other channels. In conventional inbound marketing and advertising,...
Make SEO your Online Marketing Hedgehog Strategy?
SEO (search engine optimization) matters because it brings you a different kind of lead than most other channels. In conventional inbound marketing and advertising, the user is interrupted to see a product or service. Although annoying, we know it still can work. The fact is people need and more-so, want things!
It’s a matter of finding the right buyer for your product or service. Or is it?
In the modern world of search engine marketing (which also includes pay per click advertising with SEO), we have the prospect coming to the vendor. 10-15 years ago knowing about the value of SEO on the archaic search engines, could have made one a small fortune.
Today there is far more competition because the word has gotten out about search engine based leads being several times as likely to purchase because of a personal motivation or interest, as opposed to an interruptive message.
I guess it’s not sooooo modern, search engines like Google are digital, mathematically accurate, infinitely vast, neo Yellow-Pages. From a business standpoint, it’s a tool that can allow one to grab more market share when wielded with patience, longterm investment, and commitment to content production.
Copywriting & Content Production for SEO
Content (copywriting and visual communication) is one of the biggest reasons SEO should be chosen as a channel. SEO strives on links and needs links (from other websites who are authoritative on the topics you want to rank for) to gain popularity, but more than anything, what fuels those links as well as the algorithms of the search engines, is content!
Now what does this have to do with why SEO is better converting? Because users NEED CONTENT! We need content to understand the product or service, we need content to gain some further perspective on functionality, pricing, competitive selling points, etc…
Now the goal here is to help the user in some way. Either you have to entertain them or solve their problems, or somebody else will! Good copywriting for SEO involves the challenge of balancing the art of writing for the user, with science of writing for the search engines.
Now some may argue that copywriting seems to be headed in the “dying art” direction with the advent of youtube and different visual communication medians (check article on why Youtube is good for SEO). However all that is content! Furthermore, when was the last time you saw a web video without some copywriting around it to frame it or explain an adjacent service or offer?
SEO leads Provide Online Marketing Strategy Success
If you stick to the goal of improving your content for the users, while finding a way to work your optimized keyword phrases in, you will most likely succeed.
Success will be found in forms of:
- gaining more brand reputation (credibility) with your prospects improving the strength of your brand
- driving more targeted traffic
- enjoying a growing database (if your content is helpful and free, you will grow – it’s a no brainer)
- enjoying good ROI with conversions
- experiencing a strong longterm rank in the SERPS (depends on the competitiveness of your words)
Remember as you take different online marketing strategies into consideration, search engine marketing allows for more control (seo keyword motivation and psychology; ppc daily budgeting management), targeted and qualified inbound prospects (seo keyword modifiers such as “price”; ppc regional ad targeting), and measured for increased improvement (seo and ppc allow for full tracking of the user’s origin as well as a variety of data fields on user behavior after arrival to your site).
If you need more help understanding search engine marketing and how it can fit your present online marketing profile, please feel free to get in touch with us by your choice of phone, email, or website.
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- Ensight Audits your online marketing
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- You choose to keep it for later or begin implementing the ROI now
Wrapping up the SEM Strategy Blog
To wrap the Search Engine Marketing (SEO focused) conversation back up, here is a summation:
- SEO doesn’t involve outbound hassling; it’s an inbound non-interruptive marketing channel
- SEO leads are motivated, qualified, and convert better in the longrun
- SEO forces you to produce lots of useful content for the user
- SEO means your higher in Google, needless to say, they have a good amount of user loyalty
Look for more articles from Ensight Marketing on a variety of online marketing consulting practices and strategies. Please feel free to get in touch at anytime or let us know if you would like us to blog about a certain marketing topic.
sincerely,
Michael Bhrad
Fake Apple Store in China
211 days agoNo this isn’t jus another story about counterfeit Apple products! Last week Market Watch reported a wacky story about a Fake Retail Apple Store. This is truly amazing … so these...
No this isn’t jus another story about counterfeit Apple products!
Last week Market Watch reported a wacky story about a Fake Retail Apple Store.
This is truly amazing … so these guys in China not only are producing counterfeit Apple Macintosh products, they actually opened a counterfeit retail Apple Store!
HAHA … I mean this is just amazing to me, the effort and craftsmanship exercised to con the public here should truly be noted … Apparently the employees even thought they were actually employed by the Bay Area based company! If there was a set of “Conny Awards” (like the Webbys), this would be in the top 3 hands down!
If you read the linked article one of the comments touches on how this global coverage could be equivalent to millions in brand advertising dollars saved for Apple, what do you think? Even if they are losing x mil in potential sales from each one of these operations, we’re all now talking about Apple and sharing this spectacle with friends!
Perhaps Jerry Jones is right when he says: “there is no such thing as Negative Press!” Press, negative or positive, tells a story. Story telling is key in branding and markeitng. Check out this section we built for Ensight’s Branding Services
Here is the link to the original article by Market Watch: Fake Apple Store in China
Crazy things going on in the world when doesn’t know the real identity of their employer! More than ever before, buyer beware … especially if it’s made in China!
Michael Bhrad
Ensight Founder
Encino Chiropractic Client News
244 days agoACRC: Sport Injury Clinic Solutes Darius! Sports injury rehabilitation can be difficult, especially at the pinnacle moment for any basketball player: NBA Draft time! Darius Morris came to our Encino chiropractic...
ACRC: Sport Injury Clinic Solutes Darius!
Sports injury rehabilitation can be difficult, for the common person it's a hassle, for an athlete it could mean their quality of life altogether. Especially at the pinnacle moment for any basketball player: NBA Draft time! Darius Morris came to ACRC Encino chiropractic & sports injury clinic with general soreness and pains of everyday professional athletes. ACRC doesn’t ever disclose any patient-doctor privilege information, but they can positively say that Darius was feeling great going into the draft combine workouts in the last few weeks after mild concerns about performance ability. Alas, drafted by his hometown Los Angeles Lakers, Darius stays right here in our California backyard! Best of luck to you D from everyone at ACRC, stay informed about your body, stay healthy, and dominate on the floor! Are you reading this in hopes of finding info on Sports Injury Rehabilitation] or just want a general idea of what kind of Encino – Los Angeles Sports Injury Clinic ACRC is? Be sure to check Advanced Chiropractic Rehab Center's newest drafted players, Los Angeles Chiropractic Portfolio as well as ACRC's other NBA and pro sports rehab therapy patients! We are also a family Encino Chiropractic treatment center, so please don’t be intimidated by the long list of pro athletes! Just be assured, if they trust ACRC with their million dollar bodies, why shouldn't you? Call ACRC Encino today for an Appointment | 818-986-1203 | or visit us at » Sports Injury Rehab ClinicMore to come soon from Michael Bhrad, your Ensight: Search Engine Marketing Consultant
Beyond Bay Area SEO Consulting
252 days agoWhat’s “Ensightful” World? This Bay Area SEO Consultant of Ensight Marketing, hasn’t been an active blogger for some time, lots going on right now with Ensight Marketing, my California based internet...
What’s “Ensightful” World?
This Bay Area SEO Consultant of Ensight Marketing, hasn’t been an active blogger for some time, lots going on right now with Ensight Marketing, my California based internet marketing brand.
The Bay Area is full of SEO consultants and website designers among all internet marketers, so it makes for a competitive playing field for us marketing consultants, and a great consumer’s choice opportunity. Ensight Marketing’s a Bay Area based web marketing consulting company with a versatile online marketing reach. So is the marketing consulting from a hi-tech naval center better than from other regions of the world? Afterall, Google is located in the Bay Area 
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We haven’t really talked about our growth and events much, because well, we’re busy working on great results for clients! Of coarse we will post some News & PR type stuff as we move on and grow.
Ensight Marketing really specializing in search engine marketing (SEM), with more of a focus on search engine optimization rather than pay per click ad consulting. We do offer full internet marketing strategies and practices through all main channels, but our focus is more in the world of search engine marketing consulting.
Ensight is of the adage that an SEO lead is more controllable, “qualifiable,” and simply, time-worthy. So we tend to focus a bit more heavily on SEO for small business in the Bay Area as well as Southern California and out of state. We also do website design and branding, we have several U.S. based partner companies that we exchange specialty services with.
Ensight Marketing is now looking to sign two prominent contracts for major websites in the sports entertainment arena’s of the internet! Ensight’s most current project is Dr. Patrick Khaziran’s DC Advanced Chiropractic Rehab Center in Encino, California. ACRC serves as Encino’s most modern and friendly sports injury rehab therapy and chiropractic treatment center.
Visit Patrick Khaziran’s Encino Chiropractor website today to see how good Dr. Patrick’s services are, and the quality of product Ensight Marketing proudly stands behind producing.
Some other projects to check out:
• Alexander & Sons Inc: Bay Area Landscaping Contractors
• Pacific Kitchen & Bath: Bay Area Custom Kitchens
[projects on the horizon]
• SEM via SEO: SEO Practices – Strategies
• Sweet of the Day: Baking Sweets Recipes
• VIPfund.org: Pulminary Disease Foundation
Update you all soon!