Nate Diaz will get next title shot after UFC on Fox 3 win

Nate Diaz's next opponent is set. After his dominating win over Jim Miller on Saturday night, MMA Junkie reports that Diaz will get the next shot at the UFC lightweight belt.

Though previous reports had Diaz possibly facing off with Anthony Pettis for a title eliminator, UFC president Dana White confirmed that Diaz will get the next title shot after champion Benson Henderson and former champ Frankie Edgar rematch this summer.

In his last three fights, Diaz has a second-round submission over Miller, a decision over Donald Cerrone and a first-round submission win over Takanori Gomi. With an overall record of 16-7, five of his losses have come in the UFC but he has never been stopped in the Octagon. Diaz was last submitted by Hermes Franca at a WEC bout in October of 2006.

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Vacation Rentals by Owner is the way

While planning your next vacation, regardless of where you may be going, you will obviously wish considering leasing a private home or villa. A very cost effective means of taking your vacation can be renting your own vacation home. For an extended vacation it is definitely an attractive alternative to a motel or hotel. In addition you would be traveling with several people in your party it is without a doubt the least expensive choice.

The motel or hotel can appear impersonal and cold not nearly as inviting when compared with a private villa or home. Here are quite a few interesting tips on leasing your first vacation rental home.

Start by listing the number of people who will be going on the trip along with you. The number of people and their ages will help you determine which house to rent. Because of possible damage to their property many owners do not cherish the thought of renting their home to families with many young children or to a group of partying college students.

Now you need to do is get on your computer and search for "(the town you want to visit) house for rent".

Do some serious search engines work in the area in which you will be vacationing. You will find an amazing array of choices; check on the various properties in the area. There are literally hundreds to choose among in many popular vacation spots. You will be able to see pictures of the homes and villas as well as information about the surrounding vicinity on the web. Or having a glance through the classified section of a newspaper in the area for information relating to the leasing of summer homes may also help. These reviews will also provide you with a feel for what is available as well as the prices that prevail in the area.

You also can contact the homeowners association which governs any of the condos or rental homes which you may be considering renting.

There are chances of them placing you in contact with various homeowners who might have a vacancy in their rentals. You also can obtain a copy of the rules and regulations which governs that particular community.

You need to keep in mind that many homeowners in order to protect their property from damages will require that you leave a security deposit when renting their home. Usually the procedure is that once you have checked out and the owner or his agent has inspected the property and found it to be acceptable your deposit will be refunded. You well may say "This was the best vacation we have ever taken!? once you rent a home or villa and experience the fun you can have with the whole group under one roof.

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Direct Mail Marketing ? Powerful Tips For Small Business | Presort ...

Direct mail advertising is still perhaps the most powerful and effective methods for any small business to get new customers and to sell more products and services to existing customers and clients, as well.

The challenge is business owners go about it in totally the wrong way. A profitable direct mail marketing campaign is not just a matter of posting some random letter or card through the post and expecting it to generate a flood of sales.

Successful direct mail marketing, like every other of effective and profitable small business advertising is based on keeping to the rules of the game, rules developed over the last 150 years or so.

They are not rules as in laws you must observe ?or else?, but rather are suggestions which have been found empirically to give superior results (i.e. higher Return on Investment, or ROI).

Unfortunately, the individuals responsible for generating most of the direct mail marketing campaigns small businesses run are not in fact qualified for the job. Because it tends to be left in the hands of graphic designers, and unless they?ve been expressly trained in direct marketing principles, they ?ll produce something that looks marvelous ? but in terms of ROI is a disaster.

More serious still, it?s pointless arguing with them: in spite of reams of evidence to the contrary, I still hear graphic designers advising my customers what I?ve created for them has too much text and no one will read it (which must be why the 22-page sales letter I recently sent out for a client went to 30,000 + people and produced an ROI of 150,000 GBP or more, I imagine). So here some simple rules for direct mail. I promise, abide by these and you?re going to get better responses:

Rule # 1: Don?t bawl ?ADVERTISING?

Most direct mail advertising LOOKS like advertising. You get it in a stock envelope with a label or printed address on it, and as often as not it has the company name and logo on it, to. This is a really atrocious idea..

How come? Because it?s obvious even to my dog this is a marketing piece ? and it follows you?re going to seek and sell me something, which right away puts me on the defensive.

Rather, I recommend you use a simple, white envelope, the kind you?d use for a personal letter. Then use an actual stamp (as in, a stamp from the Post Office), and hand-write the address, or at least use a reasonable looking handwriting font printed right onto the envelope? NO LABELS.

If you are compelled have a return address on it, simply use the address in the top left corner ? no company name, no logo.

Just doing this one means your direct mail is going to be delivered to and opened by many, many more people. No one can resist a hand-addressed personal letter.

Rule # 2: Write from ?one person to another ?

This is in direct contrast to the direct mail advertising pieces you get every day, I ?d put money on it. Most of them have no obvious reason even for existing ? I assume the fool producing them waxed lyrical about ?brand? or something. But developing your ?brand? doesn?t by itself make you money. Brand follows and because of service.

You should write your direct mail marketing pieces in exactly the same tone as you ?d write a letter to an appreciated aunt or uncle. Forget about being ?professional? or keeping to the practices they taught you at school. Simply write as you speak, and you won?t go far wrong.

Aim your entire piece at emphasising one problem and one problem only, by giving a big, bold promise in your headline. Then, in the body of the piece, tell them you CAN resolve it, and then explain to them EXACTLY HOW they can obtain this miracle solution you have. In other words, you need a focused and impossible-to-miss call to action, like ?Telephone me on 00000-000000 NOW and book your free appointment ? places are limited to the first seven callers, so if you?re the eighth caller, you?ll miss out?. Easy as pie.

These suggestions by themselves will make a significant difference to your results, I guarantee.

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Jon McCulloch is Ireland?s leading direct mail expert. Visit his website now and take just three of the 52 FREE small business marketing ideas he?s giving away today, and actually put them to work for you and you?ll be amazed by the results.

They?ve all produced substantially improved results for small businesses just like yours in the past two years.

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UC Berkeley freshman shows us his ridiculously automated dorm (video)

Besides beer pong, the whole point of going away to college is to blossom into an independent, motivated, self-sufficient adult. That is, of course, unless your dorm's name is BRAD (Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm), where freshmen Derek L. My controls devices all around his room without even getting out of bed. An app on his phone can adjust ambient lighting and curtain position depending on the situation. His laptop uses Dragon Dictate to turn shouts into tasks his pile of servos and motors can accomplish. Just saying "Romantic mode" makes a disco ball pop out of the ceiling and plays the epically passionate Elton John song, "Can You Feel The Love Tonight." As if that wasn't enough, the emergency "party mode" button located next to the bed activates a bunch of lasers and strobes, as well as fog and blacklights while a bumpin' stereo system cranks out dance music. This dorm is clearly every college freshman's dream. I mean, who wouldn't want to wake up with Justin Bieber every morning? Check out the video after the break.

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Samsung releases... Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1 source code

Did you hear the news? Y'know, about Samsung's latest release? No, not the Galaxy S III -- that's officially yesterday's news. No, today's story is all about tablets, Galaxy Tab 2's more specifically. The Korean tech giant has released the source code for both the seven- and ten-inch varieties, effectively handing developers the keys to the customization kingdom. So if you love the technology, but the interface less so, you might not have to wait all that long for a better option. The exact models that have been opened up are: GT-P3100, GT-P3110, GT-P3113, GT-P5100, GT-P5110, and GT-P5113. Got a feature you'd really like to see? Better get poking the fine chaps at xda-developers with your requests.

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