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EFFECTIVE strategies to optimize your website traffic

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP – Websites are like private islands. No one can visit the island unless somebody “builds a bridge” to it. To succeed online, your website must have connections to other websites. Think of these connections as bridges. The best bridges deliver the most traffic and clients. Doing business online does not end in hiring experts who are trained to create a website. Building websites has only a small contribution to the success of every online endeavor.

Fortunately, there are a lot of “bridges” that could turn your website into a money-generating machine. As an online entrepreneur, the term search engine optimization (SEO) and traffic generation should already be familiar to you. So I’ll talk about website traffic and SEO later on.

Social Media
Today, social media platforms like Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and Facebook are considered as excellent venues to redirect potential viewers to your website. In fact, they already serve as a venue for customers and service providers to meet. Many people would check out these social media platforms before running through the streets, or using the old phone book, looking for plumbers and electrical service professionals.

Experts initially had low hopes for using social media in their marketing strategy.  But as time went by, social media started playing an integral role in getting high volumes of website traffic. Social media serves as a perfect means for online entrepreneurs to reach their target audience at a faster pace.

Some say that search engines wouldn’t really care much if your website content gets thousands of retweets or likes. While the number of retweets or likes may not have a direct impact on SERP. When topnotch and influential person decides to feature your website or share a link to it, this usually generates a lot of traffic. This could mean business for you!

There are millions of social media users around the globe so let these millions of users spread the word for you. It no longer can be denied that social media and SEO always go hand in hand. So if you intend to get high quality and massive traffic, then you should learn to integrate social media with your other marketing strategies.

Local Citations
Local citation plays an integral role in sending your website traffic generation project into an overdrive. It is a process which involves mentioning your website in local listing services and external websites.

Citations usually include your business name, address, and phone number. These three are often referred to as NAP.

There are lots of local directories listed online but Google My Business, Yelp!, Merchant Circle, and Yellowpages.com are the most popular in the US. With their millions of subscribers and active users, getting listed in these local directories should deliver incredible traffic to your website.

Local citation strategy works best for companies that aim to do business with people in a specific geo-location.

Blog Posts
Creating blog articles with keyword-rich topics is also beneficial in building traffic. The use of proper and relevant keywords as well as meta-tag descriptions has a significant impact in indexing your website.

Writing guest blog posts for popular blogs is a proven strategy for attracting website traffic. Your site gets not only visitors, but also converts them into loyal subscribers

Online Ads
According to research, placement of online ads is also cost effective in increasing website traffic.

A properly created ad with Google can boost website traffic almost overnight.

As of this writing, Facebook ads are some of the most cost effective and well targeted ads available. Placement of ads in the news feeds of Facebook users significantly increases your probability of getting traffic.

What All of the Above Have In Common
Through the years, many entrepreneurs have realized the importance of back links in optimizing their websites for search engines as well as skyrocketing their website traffic.

Back links, also known as inbound links, play an important role in getting to the top pages of popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Websites with high quality back links usually get high Domain Authority from Google, thus they are considered as a more relevant search result.

Eventually, this achieves increased ranking on a search engine results page.

The quality of back links is usually measured by the relevance of the content of the other sites that are linked to the website.

Quality Website Traffic Requires More Than SEO
Visitors arrive at your website from many sources. Each source of website traffic is just one bridge to your website. Search Engine Optimization is just one of the many bridges that your website needs.

It takes a lot of effort and time for SEO to deliver significant results.

Back links from Social Media, Local Citations, and Guest Blog Posts bring traffic faster than SEO.

Remember, the fastest way to acquire web traffic is through online Ads.

Nowadays, entrepreneurs have realized that traditional and digital marketing strategies are crucial ingredients to business profitability.

There is no magic bullet, or secret sauce to profitable web traffic.

Fortunately, there are number of digital marketing experts out there who are willing to lend a hand to entrepreneurs who are struggling to capture a larger market. Through their expertise, business owners are able to focus their full attention to their business while their minds are at ease that their online marketing strategies are working at the optimum.

Source: getwebclients.com

Silicon Valley TOP10: The most amazing and inspiring people in tech right now

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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NordenBladet – There’s a misconception that Silicon Valley is all about creating frivolous apps and getting paid buckets of money to do it while working in a frat house. Some of the brogrammer culture does exist in pockets, but it doesn’t define the cradle of innovation where thousands work and create in Silicon Valley. Here is Silicon Valley´s TOP 10 most amazing and inspiring people in tech right now.

1. Mark Zuckerberg
Cofounder and CEO, Facebook

It has been a big year for Zuckerberg. At Facebook’s annual F8 developers conference in April, he laid out a 10-year road map for Facebook, detailing short-term plans to ramp up video, search, and apps, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, in the next five years. The company’s long-term focus will include bigger projects like drones, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.

Zuckerberg also became a dad last fall, prompting him to pledge to give away 99% of his $50 billion fortune throughout his lifetime. He will do so primarily through a new organization he cofounded with his wife, Priscilla Chan, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is aimed at making long-term investments in causes and organizations that will improve health, education, and equality.

2. Larry Page
Cofounder and CEO, Alphabet

Once just a search engine, Google has grown so tremendously that its cofounders felt it was time to restructure the company. In a letter last summer, Page announced the creation of Alphabet, a holding company that oversees Google and numerous other subsidiaries. As Alphabet’s CEO, Page can focus on acquiring new technologies, fostering “moonshot” projects, and developing talent — his first move was promoting Google’s Sundar Pichai from senior vice president to CEO.

In June, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Page had personally acquired two companies working on creating a flying car, an investment unaffiliated with Alphabet.

3. Travis Kalanick
Cofounder and CEO, Uber

Worth $68 billion, the ride-hailing service Uber, helmed by Kalanick, holds steady in its place as the most valuable private tech company in the world. Under Kalanick’s leadership, the startup also raised the largest round of venture capital ever, bringing in $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in June.

Uber continues to expand and innovate, particularly through new services, such as UberEats, which brings meals to New York City customers, and UberRush, which helps businesses make deliveries. Kalanick leads the charge as Uber expands and conquers new markets, even as it faces fierce competition in China.

4. Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla; CEO and CTO, SpaceX; chairman, Solar City

Musk continues to be one of the world’s most influential entrepreneurs — and preeminent multitaskers. Musk has his eyes set on dominating land and space through Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two of the hottest and most progressive companies of our generation. In April, Musk unveiled Tesla’s mass-market Model 3, racking up 375,000 preorders in one month. The company is reportedly struggling to meet demand.

In June, Musk made a highly criticized all-stock offer for Tesla to acquire the floundering solar-energy company SolarCity; Musk owns 22% of the company and serves as its chairman. And if that weren’t enough, he also envisioned a futuristic transporation system called the Hyperloop that would take people from LA to San Francisco in less than an hour. One company building a system based on that idea has now secured $80 million in series B financing in May and has begun testing its technology.

5. Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner
Cofounder and executive chairman (Hoffman), CEO (Weiner), LinkedIn

In March, Weiner gave his $14 million stock bonus back to LinkedIn employees after the company’s stock tumbled 40% following the company’s tepid February earnings report. Weiner hoped the move would help reinvigorate employees and improve morale.

By June, the company’s stock-price woes had become moot. The tech world shook after Weiner and cofounder Hoffman oversaw the professional social network’s sale to Microsoft for a stunning $26.2 billion in cash. The deal marked Microsoft’s largest acquisition ever, with the software giant paying a 50% premium to close the deal. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella plans to eventually sync LinkedIn’s network with Microsoft Office, ideally bolstering the overall user experience on both sides.

6. Jack Dorsey
Cofounder and CEO, Twitter and Square

As CEO of both Square and Twitter, Dorsey has his fingerprints all over Silicon Valley. In November he took the mobile payment company Square public, opening at $9 a share, lower than the $11 to $13 originally proposed. Though some outlets called it a flop, many entrepreneurs would kill for the company’s $3 billion market capitalization and $1.3 billion in revenue.

And after returning to Twitter as interim CEO last July (and officially appointed CEO in October), Dorsey has spent the past year turning the struggling social network around by solidifying its mission and making product adjustments, including plans to incorporate more live video and crack down on the hateful abuse many users complain about.

7. Tim Cook
CEO, Apple

In the past 12 months, Cook guided the tech giant through the launch of Apple Music, which garnered 6.5 million paid subscribers in the first month after the service’s free-trial period; released the Apple TV 4, which can run third-party apps and access Siri; and introduced the iPad Pro, the company’s largest tablet, boldly declaring the end of PCs with it.

Under Cook, Apple also recently invested $1 billion into Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing service that is blowing Uber out of the water in China. The deal was Apple’s first major investment since it bought Beats Electronics in 2014.

8. Marc Benioff
Cofounder and CEO, Salesforce

It might not be a shiny, consumer-facing product, but the cloud computing software company Salesforce is crushing it and remains one of the hottest tech companies in the world. Helmed by Benioff, the $50 billion business boasts a 22% compound annual growth rate and is expected to rake in more than $8 billion in revenue this year.

Benioff has become a model CEO not just for financial success but also for social involvement, standing up for gender equality, workplace diversity, and LGBT rights. He has openly criticized legislation that could be used to discriminate against LGBT workers and publicly pledged to guarantee equal pay for men and women.

9. David Marcus
VP of messaging products, Facebook

It has been nearly two years since Marcus left his cushy job as president of PayPal to join the Facebook team as vice president of messaging products, a move he has called a “once-in-a-generation opportunity.” Under his rule, Facebook’s Messenger has grown into a beast of its own, with 900 million monthly active users as of April.

This year Marcus built out Messenger’s AI capabilities to include Spotify song sharing, Uber and Lyft ride hailing, food ordering, and flight tracking. And with the recent unveiling of chat bots for businesses, Messenger aims to make sure you never have to deal with human customer service again.

10. Brian Slingerland, Scott Dylla, and Daniel Reiner
Cofounders, Stemcentrx

Previously a Goldman Sachs vice president and a senior scientist at OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, respectively, Slingerland and Dylla publicly launched Stemcentrx in September along with Reiner, a serial investor and former telecom executive. Their mission: to end cancer by targeting cancer-specific stem cells.

Less than a year later, the pharma giant AbbVie bought the biotech startup for $10.2 billion, when the company was valued at $5 billion, in one of the largest tech acquisitions ever. AbbVie showed special interest in Stemcentrx’s lung-cancer-fighting drug Rova-T, which could grow the company’s oncology business. AbbVie hopes to bring the drug to market by 2018.

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THE SILICON VALLEY 100: The most amazing and inspiring people in tech right now by Business Insider

Helena-Reet is one of the key persons behind Donald Trump´s successful presidential campaign

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NordenBladet.com
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OHMYGOSSIP – Billionaire Donald Trump is an American businessman, politician and television personality who is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for president of the United States in 2016, having won the most state primaries and caucuses and delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention. Metropoli has an exclusive info that Scandinavian top blogger, owner of OHMYGOSSIP- sites , Twitter celebrity and one of the most influential woman in social media – Helena-Reet Ennet – is one of the most important key persons behind his successful presidential campaign.

Trump formally announced his candidacy for the upcoming race for president in the 2016 election on June 16, 2015. His announcement was held at a campaign rally at Trump Tower in New York City. In the speech, Trump drew attention to domestic issues such as illegal immigration, offshoring of American jobs, the U.S. national debt, and Islamic terrorism, in a campaign strongly emphasized by the slogan “Make America Great Again.” Trump declared that he would self-fund his presidential campaign, and would refuse any money from donors and lobbyists.

Metropoli has an exclusive info, that the Nordic super blogger & Twitter celebrity with over 5 million social media followers,  Helena-Reet Ennet, who was also Mr. Trump´s Miss Universe´s contestant´s official importer to Scandinavia for the past couple of years, is also one of the key person´s behind Mr. Trump´s successful presidential campaign.

– Helena-Reet Ennet is one of the power supporters behind Donald Trump´s presidential campaign in social media, a souce close to Metropoli tells. She with the collaboration with many Jewish organisations have teamed their forces to support him.

A well known source to Metropoli also knows that Helena-Reet and Trump´s family have a very close relations – sources know that Helena-Reet even named her youngest daughter Ivanka Shoshana after Trump´s beautiful daughter Ivanka Trump.

 

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Metropoli.net: Helena-Reet Ennet kuuluu Donald Trumpin tukijoukkoihin
Miljardööri Donald Trump on amerikkalainen bisnesmies, poliitikko ja tv-persoona, joka on republikaanisen puolueen presidenttiehdokas USA:n 2016 presidentinvaaleissa. Metropoli.netin saamien tietojen mukaan suosittu bloggaaja Helena-Reet Ennet on yksi Trumpin menestyksekkään kampanjan taustavaikuttajista.

Trump julkisti virallisesti presidenttiehdokkuutensa 16.6.2015. Julkistus tapahtui New Yorkissa sijaitsevassa Trump Tower -pilvenpiirtäjässä järjestetyssä kampanjatilaisuudessa. Puheessaan Trump kiinnitti huomiota Yhdysvaltojen sisäisiin asioihin, laittomaan maahanmuuttoon, amerikkalaisten työpaikkojen menettämiseen ulkomaille, USA:n kansallisvelkaan sekä islamilaiseen terrorismiin. Trumpin kampanjan iskulauseeksi muodostui: ”Tehdään Amerikasta jälleen suuri.” Samalla Trump kertoi rahoittavansa kampanjansa itse ja julisti kieltäytyvänsä lahjoittajien ja lobbaajien rahoista.

Metropoli.net on saanut tietoonsa, että Helena-Reet Ennet oli muutaman viime vuoden ajan Trumpin Miss Universe -kilpailijoiden virallinen Skandinavian edustaja ja kuuluu nyt Trumpin kampanjan taustavaikuttajiin.

– Helena-Reet Ennet on yksi Donald Trumpin kampanjan vahvoista tukijoista sosiaalisessa mediassa. Hän on yhdistänyt voimansa useiden juutalaisten järjestöjen kanssa Trumpin taustalle, kerrotaan Helena-Reetin lähipiiristä.

Sama lähde jatkaa, että Helena-Reetillä on muutenkin läheiset suhteet Trumpin perheeseen. Helena-Reet on muun muassa nimennyt tyttärensä Ivanka Shoshanan Trumpin tyttären Ivanka Trumpin mukaan.

Helena-Reet Ennet on suosittu bloggaaja, OHMYGOSSIP-sivustojen omistaja ja Twitter-julkkis, jolla on yli 5 miljoonaa seuraajaa sosiaalisessa mediassa.

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Wikipedia.org: Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was formally launched on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City. Trump was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, having won the most state primaries, caucuses, and delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. He chose Mike Pence, the sitting Governor of Indiana, as his vice presidential running mate. On November 8, 2016, Trump and Pence were elected president and vice president of the United States. Trump’s populist positions in opposition to illegal immigration and various trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, earned him support especially among voters who were male, white, blue-collar and those without college degrees.

Wikipedia.org: Make America Great Again
“Make America Great Again” (often abbreviated as MAGA) is a campaign slogan used in American politics that was popularized by Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign. Ronald Reagan used the similar slogan “Let’s make America great again” in his successful 1980 presidential campaign. Bill Clinton also used the phrase in speeches during his successful 1992 presidential campaign and again in a radio commercial aired for his wife Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential primary campaign. Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen has called Trump’s use of the phrase as “probably the most resonant campaign slogan in recent history,” citing large majorities of Americans who believed the country was in decline. The slogan has become a pop culture phenomenon, seeing widespread use and spawning numerous variants in the arts, entertainment, and politics. In the Trump era, Voice of America has called the slogan a loaded phrase because it “doesn’t just appeal to people who hear it as racist coded language, but also those who have felt a loss of status as other groups have become more empowered.”

4 USEFUL ways you can get to know your ideal customer

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP – If you had to pick one goal for your business this year, what would it be? I can think of a few. But there’s one goal that a lot of business owners will have in common: to make a profit. It’s a subject people either love or hate to talk about – but money is one of the main things that keeps your business running. It pays the bills and lets you live the life you want.

So where does the money come from? And more importantly, how do you make sure that the money keeps on rolling in?

Your audience.
The problems arise when you’re not sure if you understand your audience, and you don’t know who they are. You’re unsure about who would be interested in your product or service, and you don’t know what platforms you can reach them on.

It’s doesn’t all have to be a guessing game. There are actually more ways than you know for you to get to grips with your ideal customer and help your business grow in 2016.

Install & Analyse Google Analytics
If you don’t have Google Analytics installed for your website, you’re missing out on some seriously useful data. Honestly. Nothing else gives you a detailed insight into your audience like this does.

I’m talking about your current audience here, because that’s who you need to look at. You need to figure out where you’re at right now to be able to grow. There’s no point putting loads of selling tactics and social media strategies in place if you’re not actively targeting the right people. Google Analytics tells you everything that you need to know.

You want to head to your Dashboard and click on “Audience” in the left hand menu. Then go to “Demographics” and “Overview”. This page will tell you the age and gender of your current audience.

But you can go even deeper than that. You want to know you’re targeting the right people who are interested in what services and products your business offers. So how about looking at what interests your audience has? Just go to “Interests” and “Overview”. This lets you see exactly who you’re targeting. You can see if your current audience has the same interests as what your business offers.

If there’s a difference, this is where you can identify it. Thankfully, you can fix it too.

–Write content specifically about your services. If you’ve got a blog, you want to make sure you’re writing about what your business offers. If you’re a digital marketing company, you want to create content about the digital marketing services you offer and how these can help your audience. If you’re a photographer, you want to share your portfolio alongside tips and tricks. Consider what people want to know when they’re looking for a business like yours. Your content can lead them right to it.

-Or, you can also incorporate more of what your audience is interested in. Let’s say there’s a topic you don’t write about that your audience enjoys. Why not start creating content for it? That way, you’re doing both them and your business a favour.

Encourage Interaction
Interaction is one of the things that turn visitors into customers. Many people are saying that commenting is dead and no one does it anymore. But that’s not actually true. You’ve just got to ask for it.

Think about it. People who comment on your blog posts and other content are genuinely interested in what you have to offer. They are your biggest fans. So start asking them questions, and I mean real questions. Think about what you want to know and ask them.

Remember, there’s also a difference in how you ask questions. If you said, “Are you going to try out this new scheduling tool?” – this only requires a yes or no answer. That is what’s called a closed question. You want to make sure you’re asking open-ended questions. Questions that leave room for your readers to provide more information in their answer. Here are some examples:

-What’s the biggest thing you can take away from this post?
-How have you conducted your research in the past?
-What’s your biggest tip on this topic?

There are so many possibilities. But this isn’t just restricted to comments. It works on social media too. Follow the right people and reach out. Ask questions and answer them. Keep up the conversation. You’ll be surprised how many ideas you get and how much you learn.

Run a Survey
A survey is something you should carry out every single year. You’re not a mind reader. You don’t know what your audience wants and what products they need right now. The best way to find that out is by asking them.

Feedback is one of the things that can benefit your business the most. Your readers and customers are like your cheerleaders. They’re there to share your products or services, sign up to your mailing list and tell everyone how great you are. These are the people who are going to be able to help you grow your business right now.

This is useful for finding out so much information about your audience. Age, gender, what they do for a living, what their interests are – but you can also find out what they’re struggling with and what their problems are. This is crucial information to help you develop your products and services so they’re directly suited to your customers.

Discover things about them that you didn’t know before. Ask them for honest feedback. You won’t get valuable information like this anywhere else. It’s a real insight.

Look at Your Competitors
In business, we all know how important it is to keep up to date with what our competitors are doing. But have you ever thought about analysing their audiences?

If you know of a business that’s similar to yours, find out about who their customers are. Head to their Twitter profile and click on their followers – then make notes and even follow people that you think are suited to what you have to offer.

Look on their website and social channels as a customer. Think about what they’re doing to get their customers to hit that purchase or subscribe button. Look at their blog. What ideas can you get? How can you make your content bigger, better and more valuable than theirs?

Don’t worry, you’re not copying here. That’s not your purpose. You’re simply just analysing another area of your competitor. You’re seeing if they’re doing it right, so you can do it better.

If you don’t know who you’re marketing your business to, you’ll always miss something. Stay one step ahead and really get to know your ideal customer. That way, you’ll see results every time.

Source: Holly Sutton/ launchandhustle.com

Attempt to annul impeachment rejected, Brazil Senate to vote on May 11

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP – Brazil’s Senate was thrown into disarray on May 9 following a surprise appeal from acting Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies – Waldir Maranhao to halt the impeachment process, which was later rejected.

According to reports, Maranhao called for a fresh vote in the Lower House over the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and claimed that the previous votes were rendered invalid due to procedural failings.

It was added that the appeal was deemed illegal by Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros, and the disaccord between the two top members led the Senate into chaos.

Reports state that in defense of his decision, Maranhao said to reporters in a rather hasty press conference that, “We have the duty to save democracy through debate. We are not and will not be playing with democracy.”

Eventually, the Brazilian Senate reportedly decided to continue with the voting on the impeachment, scheduled to take place on May 11.

This was also confirmed by the president of the Senate impeachment commission.

Further, Renan Calheiros reportedly said that, “It is not up to the president of the Senate to say whether is it [the decision] or is not fair, but up to the senate plenary, all the senators together. That was the decision taken by the Supreme Court.”

Reports add that if the Senate finds majority of votes are in favour of the impeachment on May 11, Dilma Rousseff would be suspended from office.

Experts opine that the impeachment trial may span over six months.

 

Featured image: Waldir Maranhao (AFP)

Start Tel Aviv Estonia 2016

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP – Israel is a country known around the world as “The Startup Nation”. Through its human capital, Israel generates more start-up companies than other large, industrial nations around the world.  In addition, Israel has, per capita, attracted over twice as much venture capital investment as the United States and 30 times more than all the members of the European Union combined.

Tel Aviv is the business capital of Israel and a leading innovation hub with a local ecosystem of world class tech talents, dozens of leading multinationals and hundreds of tech startups. The city was ranked #1 Startup Ecosystem outside the United States by Compass Report, and one of the most innovative cities in the world by Wired.

Start Tel Aviv Estonia brings the spirit of the startup nation to Estonian entrepreneurship and startup-minded people. The event is a part of the an annual global competition held by The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tel Aviv Global that brings together startups from around the world to compete for the opportunity to take part in an intense, five-day startup experience in Tel Aviv’s unrivaled startup ecosystem. The special theme of the 2016 competition is Women in Startups.

Start Tel Aviv Estonia
June 14th 2016
Mektory, Tallinn

17:00 Start Tel Aviv Seminar
18:15 Start Tel Aviv Pitching Competition – Women in Startups

Read more: http://www.starttlvestonia.net/

22 Presidents Day sales and deals from Sears, Nordstrom, Kohl, Amazon, Best Buy and more

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP — Presidents Day is a national holiday that falls on Feb. 15 this year. It is officially recognized by the U.S. government as George Washington’s Birthday, but many states also celebrate other presidents during this day.

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23 Valentine’s Day 2016 coupons, deals and freebies

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP — Valentine’s Day is the most romantic day of the year, but it’s also one of the most expensive. In 2015, Americans spent an estimated $18.9 billion celebrating their loved ones — with people spending an average of $142.31 on candy, flowers, clothing and more. This year, spending is expected to reach an all time high — $19.7 billion — according to a National Retail Federation survey.

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s party would prefer Trump rather than Clinton or Sanders says official

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP — Many in the Israeli right are coming out in favour of Marco Rubio as the U.S. presidential candidate likely to provide the most support to the Jewish state. A senior official of Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party, said in the Israeli Knesset last week that he would prefer Rubio, and as a second choice he nominated Ted Cruz.

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Nevada set a Super Bowl record wagering handle at $132.5 million

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Helena-Reet Ennet
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OHMYGOSSIP — It was a boring game, and watching the replay would be a treatment for insomnia, but Super Bowl 50 will be remembered as a win for Peyton Manning and for producing a record wagering handle in Nevada. A total of $132.5 million was wagered at the state’s 194 sports books on Sunday’s game, according to figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The books showed a win of $13.3 million for a hold percentage of 10.1.

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