Eating Out Why do we Tip?

Where is my tip
Ok here is a dig directed at the United States third largest employer (per the National Restaurant Association figures published in the Wall Street Journal) by industry the National Restaurant Association accounts for 13.1 million employees and it’s way of doing business utilizing our tip money to subsidize the low pay usually minimum wage a restaurant server makes from their wealthy employers.

One larger gripe expressed in this article is how the hours that restaurant employers work their employees to prevent providing paid health care to their employees as well shows a true sign of greed overrunning common sense.

Our Tips Pays Wages of Rich Restaurant Industry Employers
Before you and I tip our servers did you know that in most cases they would not make enough money to survive any kind of meaningful lifestyle? It is more of an American custom that primarily exists in most part because of easy credit meaning we American’s have access to and use our credit cards more then any developed country on the planet.

Credit Squeeze Kills Tips
With credit on the squeeze in America and now in most industrialized nations as well, the servers are feeling the pinch because fewer people are dining out and the people still dining out are not spending as much creating a lower total on the tab and they are not feeling as artificially wealthy as they were before the cost of everything started to rise (gas, food healthcare, and soon sales tax) and their homes began to go down in value and even be repossessed from the (REO) Real Estate Owned you know the bank police for real estate.

No brain-er jobs that pay well
What is amazing is that the restaurant, fast-food, coffee and doughnut to mention a few jobs are the biggest no brain-er jobs in the top three employers by industry because the number one employer is the United States Government followed by the second biggest Heath Care Industry and these two carriers are ones that require a person to think, have skills and be driven to take responsibility in their carriers.

Questions to ask ourselves
Why do we tip a coffee house or doughnut house but not the cook at a fast-food restaurant?
Did you know that Europeans do not tip?
Did you know that some of the lightest tippers are Asians and Canadians? (Industry sources tale Logic)

Logic’s final thoughts
We should ask ourselves do servers know that those tips should be spent on buying healthcare insurance because most employees do not receive fully paid healthcare insurance like most professional jobs. It makes sense because most professionals like Logic have fully paid insurance and retirement funds.

This article is directed but not to two groups one is the actively retired and the students going through gaining a higher education. Our articles below warn of the coming demise of the retail and server industries in America and show ways to get out from a retail or server carrier builder and change your income by taking it to unbelievable levels providing full healthcare for you and your families and building a retirement package in ways that no retail or server carrier could ever begin to imagine.

Best Tip one could ever give a Server
Here is a few links to articles that pertain to this subject that is unfolding now months after we wrote about the death or retail and the growth of Americans saving more spending less. Please enjoy our thoughts on retail including restaurants in America.

US Unemployment 2010 US Employment Forecast 2010
Retail in a Tailspin US Retail in a Tailspin
Employed in Retail Worried About Your Retail Job

Building a Business starting at $9.95 Part 2

Yes you can really start a business today for $9.95
We really mean what we say although this approach is going to be more work then just signing up with a paid (24.95 per month) web site hosting company but either way be sure they offer site traffic statistics.

This article and the Part 1 article here Building a Business Part 1 with your new domain name you are going to be off and running even starting to gain Internet site popularity and add (PPC) pay per click and affiliate partner advertising on your site this way money starts coming in to you.

We want to get you up and in the money making business, though these two items will only make you some money, so we are going to call this income seed money because you will need money to build a relationship and fund a product or service of your own by year two.

Recap of Part 1 on building a business for $9.95
Part 1 went really well in two ways, you started your domain name investment portfolio even though you might only have one name perhaps with the vast amounts of domain name buying tips we provide here on the blog here Domain Name Investing and you have an official site on the Internet so you are now beginning to be able to be found.

Signing up for a PPC (pay per click) campaign with your favorite search engine
We will share first how to sign up for a PPC advertising campaign where every time someone clicks on an advertisement on your site you will be paid then for number two we will share how to select and sign up a few choice affiliate programs this is where a company pays you for every site visitor that clicks on then signs up to be an affiliate member from your site and the payments vary but you can make even more seed money with affiliates then the PPC campaigns. 

We produced this article a while back but nothing has changed as to how to begin collecting your very own advertising revenue here How to Sign Up for PPC

Finding and signing up for affiliate partner programs
Lets start with the best affiliate program which is Logic’s own Viper Partners here Viper Affiliate Programs but we will show you how to find others and what is a good and what is a bad affiliate program.
Lets go to your favorite search engine and type in the keywords “Affiliate Programs” and see the 10’s of thousands available to you to choose from then pick one and become an affiliate member so you can be provided a code for your web site so each time a person signs up coming through your site and spends money you will be paid.

Now that you searched and found all of the affiliate programs available to you read very carefully and select only a few hopefully for products or services that are related to your sites content topic these will convert with greater ease into paying customers of the programs you selected because those that find your site are looking for the similar topic of the affiliate programs you selected. Note you should not offer more then a few affiliate programs besides our Viper Partner program of course and we do not want your site to look to busy and full of stuff because remember you have a lot of content on your site, you have a PPC campaign running and you are now going to have several affiliate program links as well.

We just want you to have a lot of content about your topic, (in our case Freedom Cookies recipes about cooking and making things for FreedomCookies.com) we want you to offer a little PPC advertising and a few affiliate programs so your site looks clean as is easy to navigate around on the pages making the visitor experience pleasant so they return again and again.

Your site promotion is needed now
Lets take a look you have bought a name, set up a few email addresses, built a site, added content, added two revenue seed money builders and it is now time to work at getting your traffic up to a level that will get your site enough click through from your two money makers to build up your money for the final stage of building an online business starting a $9.95.

First of all your site will automatically be indexed into the search engines for it to begin getting a start of traffic daily, next you are going to go in some industry groups online or offline your choice that are on your sites content topic, then you do not want to sign up for 500 directories, search engines in fact if you do submit your site to a directory be sure to find directories that are popular like DMOZ.org is number one and you can do this by going to some web master forums just do a search for “Webmaster Forums” visit and again save your time by not signing up besides the signature back links will bring you very little value because the audience is mostly in under developed nations and they are there to push their stuff usually pyramid schemes and affiliate programs of their own.

Good Traffic Building Resource
We encourage you to not sign up for webmaster forums, they are usually (Logic has over 60 accounts with webmaster forums and we used them to test for quality and signature back links by being active daily and our conclusion is they are a waste for where we want you to go $$$$$$) people with to much time on their hands or they are lonely, so just browse though the pages and read and learn unfortunately you are going to see the same questions asked over and over again a good reason no one does what we are asking you to do which is to read and make notes, you will learn techniques that you can apply to your site to build on your traffic like article writing, learn more about affiliate programs, learn a lot about search engine optimization etc. 

Near the end of the first year it is time to have your own product or service
When the time comes after nearly one year of working five differant times a week on your site by adding continuous content and building on your sites popularity through what you learn in online forums and in the online communities and your traffic per day is a steady couple of thousand unique visitors (learn unique visitors through your site traffic reports that should be a part of your web site hosting plan) it will be time to begin offering your own product or service where you will be making the bigger money and also you will have a site that you can sale for a profit because you have a try offered product or service and not just affiliate programs and some PPC advertising campaigns from your favorite search engine.

We have written two articles on unique products how to find and sell them on the Internet
These will help you learn what to look for when searching for a product or service to offer for your now popular site:

Unique Products that sell Part 1 Products that sell on the Internet Part 1

Unique Products that sell Part 2 Products that sell on the Internet Part 2

Email Marketing Tip Email Surveys

Should email surveys be a part of your email campaign
This tip is brought to you by Viper Mailer’s CEO Logic the Email Marketing Authority for your business growth and we have selected surveys as the topic of this tip so we dive into surveys because we have done research into the time the typical person has to spend on receiving and taking action for each email arriving into their Inbox.

The required time a person would need to spend taking a survey accurately is what we are sharing today and a little discussion about knowning your customers likes and dislikes well enough to ask them to participate in a survey is equally important. This article is not to say surveys are bad because they are not, in fact in the right situation they can be informative and profitable to any group, business or organization especially non-profits.

What is a survey
I think most of use have taken a survey usually a paper survey sent to us by an organization, magazine renewal or even the Census Bureau so we are not going to waste your time writing for you to read about surveys other then to mention the typical types of surveys which are Customer Satisfaction, Marketing Research, Opinion Polls, Sampling Statistical, Quantitative, Questionnaire even Paid Surveys and they come in many forms of information requests like Multiple Choice, Ranking on a Scale, Open Ended where the recipient writes in their thoughts or answer and Closed End where they might have a set number of statements that best pre-answer how the customer is feeling and check a choice.

How do surveys get to us
Today we all have email and the Internet so we realize that surveys are being sent to us from companies and groups requesting us to participate in a questioner or survey from online via web sites, email and offline via telephone snail mail. 

What is an Email Survey
Our story is focused on just one of these surveys and it is in the form of email surveys that arrive in our Inbox from known and unknown sources for topics that are as diverse as any other type of SPAM we also receive in our Inbox each day

Email surveys are not the answer and in the Email Marketing Industry these are more then likely to fade away as many email marketing services that also tried RSS Feed via email messages found out in 2006 and 2007. RSS Feed Defined here What is RSS Feed and hey even this Logic Talk Blog offers you to sign up right here on our own forum (no takers to date) and we view these RSS Feeds (though voluntary through sign up because they are pushed on us all) to be very intrusive as a way to put news, blog updates and pod cast information out to people to receive information and in our opinion this has failed to really catch on with the masses though RSS Feed was market hyped to no end early on.

Just ask others around you, not if they know about RSS Feed but if they subscribe and happily receive these feeds and you will understand what our opinion are all about or you will find they love RSS Feed and can not live without it.

Surveys can be good for some business types but not all
To build a survey is not imposable to create one at all however you must ask the right questions and the answers you provide for your questions need to be on target to the recipient to select from however as a special note the Q and A needs to be held tight so you do not receive to many variable answers leaving your whole reason for applying surveys to your email marketing campaign more confusing then before you started.

All of the above being pointed out we also know that some of the reasons for offering surveys are generally because the email campaign offers, the click through rate for a call to action campaign or the in store sells are down resulting in your wanting to try new things which is smart but in this case applying new services offered to you may not be the correct answer.

What more then likely needs to take place first if you are already utilizing email marketing is to become very educated into the world of email marketing and if you apply our 19 steps to building a successful email marketing campaign (link below) and this blogs email campaign tips more then liekly your call to action requests will lead to a gain in your overall business sells.

Next to apply surveys to your email campaign which there is little harm in applying just watchout for Opt-Out increases (customers leaving your contact list) it is really critical that you know your audience well enough to ask them to take the necessary time out of their busy schedule and to ask that they be truthful and objective providing you, your company or organization with well thought out answers to help you in building on your operations, offers and affectivity like customer support can gain customer insight for you of your customer base, resulting in growing your overall customer satisfaction ratio and sells.

The reason Viper Mailer is the email marketing authority for your business or organization is in part to because we resist offering unproven features or services like Email Surveys just like we elected to not offer RSS Feed email services because as the authority we want to be sure that what we do offer we are the authority in.

We want to focus on providing the best email marketing reports, additional features, simplified campaign builder functionality and effective training tips and techniques that will drive the ultimate results you are looking for and that is the power of sells through call to action.

To learn more from Logic, CEO of Viper Mailer here are some outside resources:
Email Marketing Knol Email Marketing Knol

Email Marketing Blog Email Marketing Blog

Email marketing Help Email Marketing Tips and Techniques

Discovering Cities in California Series - Benicia

Welcome to Benicia, California
The city is located in Region 14.
The County is Solano.
The city has nearly 27,000 residents living in 12.9 square miles of area and this city has 2.7 square miles of water area.
The city was incorporated in March 1850.
The city is located in Northern California.

Some Interesting facts about Benicia, California.
In 1853 and 1854 this city was actually the State Capitol for of California during the California Gold Rush days and this building a great California historic site and it is located in a California State Park and what is important is that the structure is the only pre-Sacramento State Capitol building to survive.

The city while being inland from the Pacific Ocean is actually connected via the San Francisco Bay and this is where the city, has within it’s boundaries 2.7 square miles of water area. Benicia has a marina that will make a great addition to learning and exploring the cities water front so take a walk, enjoy some great food and meet the locals. 

Things to do in and around Benicia, California.
If you are a fan of great fire houses and fire engines then Benicia is the place to see the oldest volunteer fire service that has been maintained continuously and they established a Fire Museum in 1981. Fire Engine enthusiasts you are going to love this a Phoenix Engine the first fire engine to arrive into California and you can see more then we are writing about here Benicia, California Fore Museum.

Next you can enjoy the Benicia Arsenal and Barracks an old military installation and to learn more about the important roll this facility played in American History and California History please visit this site Benicia, California Arsenal

Official City of Benicia, California web sites.
City of Benicia City of Benicia, California

Benicia Chamber of Commerce Benicia, California Chamber of Commerce

Benicia Historical Museum Benicia, California Historical Museum

BeniciaWeather.com