(Blogs) Arsenal Back On Track While Atletico Chokes

October 26th, 2008 admin Posted in news |

By Martin Sejas

Premier League football was back this weekend and despite the international break, it was a case of deja vu for pretty much all the teams. Hull City continued its wonderful start to the season both home and away to notch up another win against West Ham while Manchester United and Chelsea imposed their dominance in ruthless fashion with thrashings against West Bromwich and Middlesbrough respectively. Arsenal’s poor form also looked like continuing for yet another week until a wonderful second half assured a come from behind victory at home against Everton.

Hull has been the revelation of this season, bringing back memories of Wigan’s sensational start to the season about 3 seasons ago. Just when you thought that the international break would end their form, they won comfortably against West Ham and are starting to look like not getting relegated at the end of the season. I know it’s too early to make such a prediction but one would be foolish to count against them.

The 4 big teams also had wins on the weekend, 2 of them in thrashings and the other 2 in tight and tense affairs. The thrashings handed out by Chelsea and Manchester United emphasises the gulf between the big clubs and the rest in domestic leagues in Europe. I discussed this point and the need to find a remedy to the problem a couple of months back. The fact that Chelsea won this easily with so many first team players out through injury shows the devastating effect of this great financial divide.

Arsenal and Liverpool both had their work cut out as both had to come back from behind to win their respective games. Arsenal looked to be continuing their poor run of form with a very lacklustre and forgettable first half where Everton looked the more composed and confident team on the pitch. A better team would have punished Arsenal with more than a solitary goal in the first half.

In the second half however, the real Arsenal turned up to play, and spurred on by Nasri’s great long range goal, ran out comfortable winners by 3 goals to 1. Liverpool were also forced to play catch up after conceding a early goal in the first half. After 80 minutes, Wigan were 2 goals to 1 ahead and looked likely to snatch victory until Liverpool conjured up 2 goals in the final 10 minutes of the game to take home the points and stay in touch with the leaders.

Meanwhile in Spain, the Madrid derby was the big fixture of the weekend and it didn’t disappoint. There’s a saying that “it’s only over when it’s over”, and this couldn’t be truer for Atletico Madrid. Seemingly destined to fall 1-0 at home to their fierce rivals, Atletico’s Simao scored a goal to bring them level. This sent the home fans into rupture as it seemed that would escape with a draw.

However, the action did not end there. At the other end of the pitch, in the final minute of injury time, Real Madrid got a penalty which was converted by Higuain. The home fans went home devastated, the away fans went home rejoicing. This is the beauty of football where anything can happen in the blink of an eye. It’s for moments like this that millions of fans live and breathe football every day of their lives.

Martin Sejas is the chief writer of http://www.SportsNewsFootball.com, a leading sports news football website known for its fearless and critical analysis of the major issues affecting the beloved game of football.

Go Beyond Information
By Colleen Davis

The more connected I am with a company the more I trust them and the more Im going to be willing to devote my time to them.

The purpose of newsletter printing is to help develop that very kind of bond with your customers, and I applaud all of the companies who are making good use of this effective form of marketing. Something to remember though is that not all newsletters are made equal, and too often I see a lot of wasted opportunities because a company doesnt use newsletter printing as best they could.

What I see the most in newsletters is a variety of different articles dealing aspects of what the company is planning. It will list upcoming sales and new products the company is pursuing. Often it deals with how good sales were on a particular month, and other innovations in the industry as a whole.

Now, all of this information is good. Im not saying you shouldnt write anything dealing with topics like this. What I do think though is that you can go beyond just a bit of information on your company.

The first thing to do is put a strong face on your company. Talk about your employees as well and what theyre doing. Have your employee of the month featured on the newsletter where you talk about who they are and how they came to work at your company.

This helps people connect with your company in a way beyond just a place to shop. Youre helping them learn who you are as people and get to know you better.

Secondly, talk about your customers as well. Ask them to send in letters for you to publish or have a regular survey they can write in to give their input to.

People like to know that theyre opinions and their thoughts are being heard by a company. Newsletter printing gives you just such an opportunity to let them know that you hear what theyre saying and you care about keeping their business.

This is about developing a strong bond with your customers going beyond just you selling them products and them buying them. Youre creating a community with your newsletter that shows people who you are and helps your customers get to know each other.

None of this is particularly hard to implement, which is why if youre going to be using newsletters anyways you might as well consider how to use them as effectively as you can.

Deciding that youre going to be using newsletters at all is the first and hardest step. If you already have the system set up for sending out your newsletter theres no good reason to avoid these effective ways of fostering a strong bond with your customers. I have a feeling that if you reach out your hand to them, youll find a lot of customers very willing to give you a chance.

For more information, you can visit this page on newsletter printing

The Top Social News Sites on the Web
By Shawn Wilson

Well there are a ton of social news sites and for those of you that don’t know what I am talking about this is basically a site that allows users to post news articles, photos, videos.

In most cases the sites then have the users vote on which articles should appear on the more visible pages within the site. Here are some of the more popular examples. Digg, Mixx, Reddit, Propeller, Fark and the list goes on. The question is which one is the best site, first off this really is a matter of opinion that being said you can’t argue with the numbers.

As far as overall traffic is concerned Digg is hugely popular at the time of this article Digg has a 237 Alexa rank meaning it is arguably the 237 most popular site on the planet, that’s huge! Digg also has one of the cleanest sites of the bunch and is quite easy to use. Even with these two impressive stats Digg can really suck at times because the site is controlled by a select few that insist on making only the articles that they post popular.

These days unless your article is about anything green, Obama (Positive), Palin/McCain (Negative), technology or Apple products you don’t have a hope in hell of seeing one of your posts hitting the infamous Digg front page. The next inline as far as traffic is concerned is Mixx which currently has a 1,104 Alexa rank still a very popular site. Mixx doesn’t get the traffic but the articles are much more balanced and the site while not quite as clean as Digg is still quite pleasing to the eyes. Reddit has been called the Social News Site for adults and while the posts are usually quite good the interface can honestly give you a headache, great content horrible site. Propeller and Fark run into some of the same issues but are decent.

Bottom line I think Mixx in time will get the traffic that Digg has and as long as they don’t let a few select users take over the site the future looks bright! You also have a choice of visiting some Internet Dating sites which have a news section. There is no doubt that this market will grow and more and more examples of these popular sites will start popping up

Good luck, this stuff is fun to go through so enjoy all of these sites.

This article was written by Shawn Wilson, who is part of the customer support team at Datepad, an Internet Dating website.

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