Make Your Courtyard More Eye-pleasing Having Beautiful Landscape Design in Los Angeles

How does your dream garden look like? Make your dream garden a reality with garden design secrets and ideas. That generally includes stunning colors, adorable plant combination, attractive flower arrangements and many more garden decor tips. If you are searching for rousing garden designs, you will get the best help. The Garden Design and Landscapes is the appropriate place wherein you can get captivating landscaping ideas that can help you design garden you have always dreamed about. [...]

Importance of Social Media

Check Out the Importance of Social Media Online marketing will never exist without social media. Therefore, thelatter is very important for businesses around the world. Bear in mindthat the power of a business is in the customers or clients. Withoutthem, it would be impossible to earn any amount of income. Online visibility through social media marketing is the secret weaponof businessmen in having a strong customer or client base. This is thereason why there is a great rave [...]

Destination wedding in Croatia, Dubrovnik

Hi, I'm a wedding planner from Dubrovnik, Croatia helping foreign couples from the States, UK, Norway and many other countries to organize their romantic events in this area. Based on experience I've had working in organizing such weddings I'd like to share with you how these type of events work. I've organized this article divided in 5 chapter, so actually it could be called "how to easily get married in Croatia in 5 stpes", :)Step 1 - first contact  Couples make a first [...]

Storytelling for an Internet Audience

The most effective way to make a point is to surroundit with a story the visitor/viewer can relate to, a story with abeginning, a middle and an end.By letting the reader identify with the story, we make our point in anon-intrusive, non-threatening fashion. This is what makes testimonialadvertising so effective: someone like us telling his or her experiences(story) with the product or service. The best stories are personal because they allow us to identify on a personal level, [...]

Choosing a Web Designer

Back to the home building analogy. Based on your needs and budget you will first determine who you should be talking to:A neighborhood builder – pick the appropriate model and then customizeA custom homebuilder – choose from one of many existing styles and floor plansAn architect – have a home designed just for youChoosing a Web Developer Just like choosing an architect/builder, the web process begins with the following choices:A local software [...]

MTCD: 2012 SBCA Award Recipient

Melanie Thomson Communications Design received the 2012 SBCA Award!PHOENIX, November, 29th 2012, Melanie Thomson Communications Design has been selected for the 2012 Best of Business Award by the SBCA Community. Being in business sets people apart from most ordinary people and the SBCA Community is dedicated to helping others understand that running a business is an obtainable goal and that everyone should try their best at living their dreams. The SBCA Community [...]

What Does The Fiscal Cliff Agreement Mean to You?

  By now, everyone has heard about the "fiscal cliff" bill signed into law on January 2, 2013, but what you might not understand is how it affects you. With that in mind, let's take a closer look. What is the "Fiscal Cliff"? The term "fiscal cliff" refers to the $503 billion in federal tax increases and $200 billion in spending cuts (according to recent Congressional Budget Office projections) that took effect at the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013--before Congress passed ATRA. [...]

Some Couples Hire Gospel Choirs For Their Weddings

In recent years some brides and grooms have hired a gospel singer or a gospel choir to add a spiritual vibe to their weddings. Some select gospel singing just because they wish to recognize their cultural heritage, or to re-affirm their Christian beliefs, or just because they love hearing Gospel music. Some couples have gospel singing as a surprise for the wedding guests, or for their parents, or as a surprise for the bride or the groom. Some couples feel that having a gospel singer or [...]

What Does The Fiscal Mean to You?

By now, everyone has heard about the "fiscal cliff" bill signed into law on January 2, 2013, but what you might not understand is how it affects you. With that in mind, let's take a closer look. What is the "Fiscal Cliff"? The term "fiscal cliff" refers to the $503 billion in federal tax increases and $200 billion in spending cuts (according to recent Congressional Budget Office projections) that took effect at the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013--before Congress passed ATRA. It is [...]

2013 Checklist - New Law Changes

Welcome 2013! As the new year rolls around, it's always a sure bet that there will be changes to the current tax law and 2013 is no different. From health savings accounts to retirement contributions here's a checklist of tax changes to help you plan the year ahead. Individuals For 2013, the big news is the signing of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), which modified, made permanent or extended a number of tax provisions that expired in 2012 and 2011, for both [...]

Choosing the right entertainment for you Child's party

I own Tickle Me Pony Rides and Traveling Petting Zoo (www.ponyparty.com)  We are fortunate to be invited to lots of Birthday Parties every year.  While I love the customers who get one of everything, I think it is important to remember "a little goes a long way".  You can have an amazing party with one pony, or one petting zoo for an hour.  Kids attention span is only so long, and they are practiced party participants.  They know they are going to do an activity, [...]

Treasures in your old tax returns

Loans and credit too tight? "Cash in" Old Tax Returns Instead Operate a C-Corporation? Own realestate? Make investments? Pay payroll taxes?Los Angeles CPA EmilEstafanous uses his accounting skills to review a taxpayer's 5 pastyears of returns, restructure income and expenses, and refile the returnto get a tax refund. Says one business-owner client: "It was likegetting a $74,928 loan - only I never have to pay it back."Emil Estafanous, CPA Iwant to get the numbers [...]

Water Damage Definition

  DEFINITION OF WATER DAMAGE?   Terminology can sometimes be misleading. What might appear to you to be a flood in your home might actually be termed a “Water Loss” by your insurance carrier, and the difference might be a denied claim or conversely a covered loss.  Water damage describes a large number of possible losses caused by water intruding where it will enable attack of a material or system by destructive processes such as soggy wood, mold growth, [...]

What is the 14 day Water Loss Rule from Insurance Companies?

What is the “14 day Water Loss Rule” from Insurance Companies?   In recent times, insurers have been writing into their policies, language that would cause a claim denial if a water leak has gone on for more than 14 days.  This denial is said to include leaks that are obvious and/or hidden.   While obvious long term damage claims have always been denied, the question now arises, how long a leak has been going on, and not just when was it discovered.  [...]

Shhh? I Have a Secret

Customer service is a pretty hot topic and can make or break your business. Consumers have little patience for lousy customer service and easily get tired of waiting in long lines, trying to get a live person on the line, going through an interrogation to return something or trying to communicate through a language barrier. If you provide them with a simple, efficient, pleasant experience they will revisit your business over and over. More importantly, they will tell everyone they [...]

Storm Damage

“Storm Damage Article for You, the Homeowner”   During the Hurricane season in Florida, there is cause for great concern for storm damage from a hurricane. This is a real threat for those that live in areas where hurricanes are most likely; however, it is far more likely that a property might be affected by a substantial tropical storm, that is, not necessarily a full blown hurricane.  A hurricane by definition requires maximum sustained winds of 74 [...]

How to choose a wedding photographer

There is plenty of advice on the internet on how to find a weddingphotographer. And you know, most of it is actually pretty good (yes,even the stuff on The Knot.Most of the time when I meet with potential clients, they say the samething. They don’t want their parents’ wedding photos. They want natural,unposed documentation of their wedding from someone who isn’t going tointerrupt the natural flow of the day. The good news is, many (and I’dargue most) [...]

Portland Web Design and Development

With so many options to choose from when it comes to getting a new web site designed there's a few things to do to ease the process.  1.  Choose local.  A local web designer will be able to meet in person and go over concepts, ideas, and brainstorming much quicker in person then back and forth through lengthy emails and phone calls.  2.  Look at the portfolio.  Always take a look a the previous clients of the web designer to make sure that they are the [...]

Don't skimp on your DJ entertainment!

It's no secret that planning a wedding can be a very expensive venture.  What's not as well-known is that who you select as your DJ can be one of the biggest decisions you will make in determining the success (or lack thereof) of your wedding day.  I certainly don't expect you to take my word for it; obviously I'm a little biased in this area.  I recomment getting professional references as well finding out what past clients have to say.  Scanning Yelp reviews and [...]

Reception Venues

Brides to be are reserving their reception venues earlier and earlier than ever before.  I'm currently working with a client and several of the venues that she wanted are already booked all the way into 2014.  Granted her wedding is in early 2014 but still it use to be just a year out and you were pretty safe on getting what you wanted. Not so anymore.  The really "hot" spots are going quickly and further and further into the future. Just something for you to think about [...]