Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Production of the Matcha used in FIX Energy Tea

Matcha is made from shade-grown tea leaves also used to make gyokuro.
The preparation of matcha starts several weeks before harvest, when
the tea bushes are covered to prevent direct sunlight. This slows down
growth, turns the leaves a darker shade of green and causes the
production of amino acids that make the resulting tea sweeter. Only
the finest tea buds are hand-picked. After harvesting, if the leaves
are rolled out before drying as usual, the result will be gyokuro
(jade dew) tea. However, if the leaves are laid out flat to dry, they
will crumble somewhat and become known as tencha (碾茶). Tencha can then
be de-veined, de-stemmed, and stone ground to the fine, bright green,
talc-like powder known as matcha.
It can take up to one hour to grind 30 grams of matcha.
Note that only ground tencha qualifies as matcha, and other powdered
green teas, such as powdered sencha, are known as konacha (粉茶, lit.
"powder tea").
The flavour of matcha is dominated by its amino acids. The highest
grades of matcha have more intense sweetness and deeper flavour than
the standard or coarser grades of tea harvested later in the year.
The most famous matcha-producing regions are Uji in Kyoto, Nishio in
Aichi, Shizuoka, and northern Kyūshū.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

How I went from internet obscurity to 3 entries on Google's First page in under 6 months - for only$20!

I have to say I was surprised at just how effective and cheap this
strategy was. $20! Well $19.99 actually, and, if I'm fair, an hour or
so of my time.

My good friend George Moen, President of one of North America's most
successful coffee franchises and a huge advocate of social media
marketing strategies (He was voted one of the most successful brands
at last years Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada where Blenz is
headquartered) put me on to this strategy.

George has built a huge twitter following @georgemoen & @blenzcoffee;
he's on Facebook, LinkedIn and Four Square. If you Google coffee
franchise it's Blenz who dominate, not Starbucks; and Google the man
himself you'd think there was only one Moen on the planet. However, it
is not just his social media presence that has pushed him to the top
of the internet marketing heap, so to speak. It is a strategy so
simple and cost effective I think it has been overlooked by almost all
of the SEO (Search Engine Optomization) strategists. You can't charge
much for something so simple!

Get to the point, what is it?

It is a .tel.

What's that?

Well, you may have missed the boat when it came to registering your
name or your company name .com and have made do with something more
obscure like .org or .net or .country. A .tel is just another suffix.
But, it is a suffix that seems to actually work!

As it's been explained to me, the .tel has been kind of built in to
the DNS, or the very genetic makeup of the internet. As a result the
search engines absolutely love it. You use it almost as an online
business card. It is somewhere you can store, organize and present all
your, or your company's, up to date information and have, whatever you
want to leave public, easily accessible to anyone.

Think about it for a second; between your phone numbers, email
addresses, physical locations, skype, instant messaging, SMS, blogs,
Facebook, twitter accounts... your actual business card isn't
physically big enough (unless you use a font so small nobody over 50
can read it). Never mind how hard it is to keep track of your own
info. Your .tel lets you organize everything online in one place.

To see what I mean you can check out my own .tel
http://www.markwright.tel or better yet http://www.georgemoen.tel.
That's all our physical business cards need on them

As a business tool you can see how I've set our company up at
http://www.natureline.tel and to see how Blenz use theirs with all
their many, many locations check http://www.blenzcoffee.tel/

To see if yourname.tel is still available, and it probably is because
this is so new, go to http://bit.ly/fC8BSA.

I believe (because I was told, and it has worked) that one of the ways
to maximize this .tel strategy effectively is to organize things into
multiple folders. Every new folder is in essence creating a new url, a
new website someinfo.yourname.tel. Whatever, the search engines
obviously eat this up.

With a relatively popular (I can't bring myself to say common) name
like Mark Wright, when I Googled myself (come on we've all done it) I
was no where, a virtual nobody! There's a famous England soccer star -
real tough guy, played for Southampton for many many years, Some
famous professors, News Anchors etc etc...

Who'm I kidding I probably still am, in some people's estimation, a
nobody; but at least I'm a nobody on PAGE 1, and who cares about other
people's estimations anyway!

Woo hoo!

Register your own .tel here http://bit.ly/fC8BSA, you won't regret
adding it to your online branding strategy, I most certainly don't
regret it! PAGE ONE!!! Is that worth $20!

How I went from internet obscurity to 3 entries on Google's First page in under 6 months - for only$20!

I have to say I was surprised at just how effective and cheap this
strategy was. $20! Well $19.99 actually, and, if I'm fair, an hour or
so of my time.

My good friend George Moen, President of one of North America's most
successful coffee franchises and a huge advocate of social media
marketing strategies (He was voted one of the most successful brands
at last years Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada where Blenz is
headquartered) put me on to this strategy.

George has built a huge twitter following @georgemoen & @blenzcoffee;
he's on Facebook, LinkedIn and Four Square. If you Google coffee
franchise it's Blenz who dominate, not Starbucks; and Google the man
himself you'd think there was only one Moen on the planet. However, it
is not just his social media presence that has pushed him to the top
of the internet marketing heap, so to speak. It is a strategy so
simple and cost effective I think it has been overlooked by almost all
of the SEO (Search Engine Optomization) strategists. You can't charge
much for something so simple!

Get to the point, what is it?

It is a .tel.

What's that?

Well, you may have missed the boat when it came to registering your
name or your company name .com and have made do with something more
obscure like .org or .net or .country. A .tel is just another suffix.
But, it is a suffix that seems to actually work!

As it's been explained to me, the .tel has been kind of built in to
the DNS, or the very genetic makeup of the internet. As a result the
search engines absolutely love it. You use it almost as an online
business card. It is somewhere you can store, organize and present all
your, or your company's, up to date information and have, whatever you
want to leave public, easily accessible to anyone.

Think about it for a second; between your phone numbers, email
addresses, physical locations, skype, instant messaging, SMS, blogs,
Facebook, twitter accounts... your actual business card isn't
physically big enough (unless you use a font so small nobody over 50
can read it). Never mind how hard it is to keep track of your own
info. Your .tel lets you organize everything online in one place.

To see what I mean you can check out my own .tel
http://www.markwright.tel or better yet http://www.georgemoen.tel.
That's all our physical business cards need on them

As a business tool you can see how I've set our company up at
http://www.natureline.tel and to see how Blenz use theirs with all
their many, many locations check http://www.blenzcoffee.tel/

To see if yourname.tel is still available, and it probably is because
this is so new, go to http://bit.ly/fC8BSA.

I believe (because I was told, and it has worked) that one of the ways
to maximize this .tel strategy effectively is to organize things into
multiple folders. Every new folder is in essence creating a new url, a
new website someinfo.yourname.tel. Whatever, the search engines
obviously eat this up.

With a relatively popular (I can't bring myself to say common) name
like Mark Wright, when I Googled myself (come on we've all done it) I
was no where, a virtual nobody! There's a famous England soccer star -
real tough guy, played for Southampton for many many years, Some
famous professors, News Anchors etc etc...

Who'm I kidding I probably still am, in some people's estimation, a
nobody; but at least I'm a nobody on PAGE 1, and who cares about other
people's estimations anyway!

Woo hoo!

Register your own .tel here http://bit.ly/fC8BSA, you won't regret
adding it to your online branding strategy, I most certainly don't
regret it! PAGE ONE!!! Is that worth $20!