Pest Control Services
Vacaville CA
Client since Sep 2018
Friday, December 29, 2023
Monday, December 25, 2023
Saturday, December 23, 2023
3 tips to boost your confidence - TED-Ed
When faced with a big challenge where potential failure seems to lurk at every corner, you’ve probably heard the advice, “Be more confident!” But where does confidence come from, and how can you get more of it? Here are three easy tips to boost your confidence.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Start with WHY in ALL Your Conversations
Whether you're on a date or on a sales call, you want to be chosen over someone else. Simon explains how starting with WHY can help.
Video from the Banca Mediolanum National Convention, May 2023
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
How stress affects your brain - Madhumita Murgia
Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can affect brain size, its structure, and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes.
Lesson by Madhumita Murgia, animation by Andrew Zimbelman.
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Monday, December 11, 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
How to make smart decisions more easily
Explore the psychology of decision fatigue, what kinds of choices lead us to this state and what we can do to fight it.
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Everything our bodies do— whether physical or mental— uses energy. Studies have found that many individuals seem to have a daily threshold for making decisions, and an extended period of decision-making can lead to cognitive exhaustion. So, what kinds of choices lead us to this state, and what can we do to fight fatigue? Explore the psychology of decision fatigue and ways you can avoid fatigue.
Directed by Jolene Tan.
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Saturday, December 2, 2023
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Daily Habits of Successful People | Brian Tracy
The most successful people all have certain habits in their daily routines.
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Thursday, November 23, 2023
Happy Thanksgiving
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Friday, November 17, 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
9 Types Of Logos For Brand Design & Strategy (44 Top Examples)
Discover 9 logo types and logo design styles you can use for branding your business and building your brand.
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Saturday, November 11, 2023
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Sunday, November 5, 2023
How to overcome your mistakes
Explore what prevents us from learning from our failures, and how to become more resilient through cultivating a growth mindset.
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People often describe failure as a teachable moment— a necessary stumble on our way to improvement. But learning from our mistakes isn’t always easy, especially when those failures are demoralizing, overwhelming, or just downright confusing. So what prevents us from turning our mistakes into mastery? Explore the biggest obstacles of learning from failure, and how to cultivate a growth mindset.
Directed by Luiz Stockler.
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Thursday, November 2, 2023
Monday, October 30, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023
How to brand anything | Youri Sawerschel | TEDxEHLLausanne
The way we value things depends on how we perceive them. But can we actually change perception? Brand Strategist and Educator, Youri Sawerschel, showcases the art and science of branding and the central role it plays in creating perceived value. To illustrate his point, Youri transforms a random pen into a meaningful brand. Backed by powerful storytelling and brilliant visuals, Youri’s talk is a masterful display of the power of brands. Youri Sawerschel is the Founder and CEO of Creative Supply, a branding company present in Zurich and Paris. Youri has driven projects focused on creating, launching and managing brands in Europe, China and the Middle-East. He has worked with brands as diverse as Kempinski Hotels, UBS, EPFL, Cemex, digitalswitzerland and Mondelez. Youri is a lecturer at the EPFL in Lausanne, the ESSEC Business School in Paris, EHL (Lausanne/Singapore) and Geneva School of Business (HEG). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
ATOMIC HABITS - Tiny Changes that Create Remarkable Results - James Clear
James Clear is a writer and speaker focused on habits, decision making, and continuous improvement. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits. The book has sold over 7 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 50 languages.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Monday, October 9, 2023
One of the Greatest Speeches Ever | Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs delivers an inspirational speech. Listen to the end for the most life changing quote of all-time. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you cannot achieve your dreams.
You will be inspired and motivated to go out there and achieve your goals. I hope you all enjoy this motivational video. :)
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Friday, October 6, 2023
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Saturday, September 30, 2023
How to Find Balance in the Age of Indulgence - Dr. Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
"Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021), an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Elon Musk's 3 Rules To Learning Anything
I do think there's a good good framework for thinking it is physics you
know the sort of first principles reasoning generally, What I mean by that is boil things down to they're fundamental truths and reason up from there as opposed to reasoning by analogy....Elon Musk's 3 Rules To Learning Anything
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Monday, September 18, 2023
Friday, September 15, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED
In a talk packed with wry wisdom, pop culture queen Bevy Smith shares hard-earned lessons about authenticity, confidence, mature success and why, if you put in the work, "life gets greater later."
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In a talk packed with wry wisdom, pop culture queen Bevy Smith shares hard-earned lessons about authenticity, confidence, mature success and why, if you put in the work, "life gets greater later."
Saturday, September 9, 2023
Client Highlight : Croz Custom Metal Fabrication
Croz Custom Metal Fabrication
Fairfield CA
(707) 580-4727
License# 991945
C13, C23, C51, C60
Welding Contractor
24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICES
Client since Dec 2020
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Computer Scientist Answers Computer Questions From Twitter
Professor and computer scientist David J. Malan joins WIRED to answer your computer and programming questions from Twitter. How do search engines compile information so quickly? Which operating system is best? How do microchips work?
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
Homepage Design
Usability experts, including Jakob Nielsen and Kyle Soucy, have often emphasized homepage design for website success and asserted that the homepage is the most important page on a website. Nielsen, Jakob; Tahir, Marie (October 2001), Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed, New Riders Publishing. However practitioners into the 2000s were starting to find that a growing number of website traffic was bypassing the homepage, going directly to internal content pages through search engines, e-newsletters and RSS feeds. Leading many practitioners to argue that homepages are less important than most people think. Jared Spool argued in 2007 that a site's homepage was actually the least important page on a website.
In 2012 and 2013, carousels (also called 'sliders' and 'rotating banners') have become an extremely popular design element on homepages, often used to showcase featured or recent content in a confined space. Many practitioners argue that carousels are an ineffective design element and hurt a website's search engine optimization and usability.
Read more, here.
Monday, August 28, 2023
Are You A Trendsetter?
Having an effective Internet presence is critical to your business growth. But, just building a website is not enough. At Upward Trend, we have a systematized strategy that has been proven effective, and we have just taken that to whole new levels with our Trend Setter Package. Give us a call today and find out how inexpensive your new Internet Marketing Department can be! We do 80% or more of the work for you! Our passion is not to build websites; it is helping you grow your business.
TO LEARN MORE, CALL TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Friday, August 25, 2023
Neuromarketing: How brands are getting your brain to buy more stuff
Businesses have always been looking for ways to sell us more things – which we may or may not need. As we learn more about the inner workings of the human brain, they are now venturing into a new realm on this quest – our subconscious minds.
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Our goal is very simple ...
Help you grow your business. Everything that we do is aimed at helping you grow your business, from our Internet tools and packages, to consulting services, to sales management. We didn’t get into this business to sell websites. We got into it from our business background to help people grow their business, and the Internet is such a valuable tool in helping to achieve that. And, we’ve done it inexpensive enough that any business can afford it–and thrive with it.
TO LEARN MORE, CALL TODAY:
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Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Whats it Look Like?
Curious about what we do? Find some examples for our clients here.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
The benefits of doing nothing ⏲️ 6 Minute English
Some animals evolved to do nothing. And if it’s good enough for animals, would being lazy work for humans too? That’s what Beth and Neil talk about as they teach you some useful vocabulary.
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Sunday, August 13, 2023
More Than a Website
Having an effective Internet presence is critical to your business growth. But, just building a website is not enough. At Upward Trend, we have a systematized strategy that has been proven effective, and we have just taken that to whole new levels with our Trend Setter Package. Give us a call today and find out how inexpensive your new Internet Marketing Department can be! We do 80% or more of the work for you! Our passion is not to build websites; it is helping you grow your business.
Ryan Stone
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Get in Touch
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Monday, August 7, 2023
Is it normal to talk to yourself?
Dig into the psychological benefits of positive self-talk, and find out when it can become problematic.
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Being caught talking to yourself can feel embarrassing, and some people even stigmatize this behavior as a sign of mental instability. But decades of research show that talking to yourself is completely normal; most if not all of us engage in some form of self-talk every day. So why do we talk to ourselves? And does what we say matter? Dig into the psychological benefits of positive self-talk.
Directed by Avi Ofer.
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Friday, August 4, 2023
Types of Businesses We Have Served
We serve an ever-widening arena of types of businesses.
See the extensive list below:
Alternative Fuels Consortium
Alzheimer & Dementia Care
Archery Shop
Artistic Adventures Abroad
Author
Auto Body Shop
Auto Dealer
Auto Financing Group
Auto Repair Facility
Auto Salesperson
Automation & Control Technology
Baseball Training Center
Bathroom Remodeling
Bible College & Seminary
Bicycle Shop
Boat Racing, Design & Repairs
Book Publisher
Bookkeeping and Payroll
Bowling Alley
Business Consulting
Business District Group
Business Introductions
Business Networking Group
Business to Business Marketing
Business Ecosystem Strategists
Car & Truck Accessories
Carpet Cleaning
Cemetery Services
Chiropractor
College Educational Foundation
College Student
Commercial Truck Consulting
Commercial Truck Dealer
Concrete Cutting
Concrete Grinding
Consignment Shop
Construction Contractor
Consultant
Contractor Group Alliance
Country Retreat & Spa
County Fair/Event Center
Court Reporting Services
CPAP/Sleep Apnea Consultant
Cupcake & Dessert Bakery
Day Porter Services
Deceased Remembrance Site
Dentist
Designated Driver Wine Tour Service
Developmentally Disabled Non-Profit
Disadvantaged Youth Training
Doctor Training
Dog & Cat Teeth Cleaning
Drywall Tool Rentals
eBay Store
Education (Tutoring)
Electrical Industry Search Engine
Electric & Power Distribution
Electrician & Electrical Services
Elevator Repair and Service
Emergency Restoration Services
Employment Development Organization
Energy Management Consultant
Engineering
Event Marketing
Event Rentals
Event Staffing
Environmental Technologies
Eye Doctor and Surgeon
Face and Body Spa
Family and Children's Services
Family Law Association Foundation
Fencing Contractor
Fitness Center
Flooring Center
Florist and Gifts
Food Safety Education
Forklift Sales, Service & Rental
Funeral Services
Furniture Store
Gift Shop & Tobacconist
Glass Company
Government Reentry Services
Green Energy Contractors
Hair Salon
Headhunter
Health & Fitness
Health Products
Health & Welfare Support
Hearing Aid Services
Heating & A/C Contactor
Homeless Transition & Assistance
Home & Business Security
Home & Garden Show
Independent Insurance Agency
Independent Scentsy Business
Internet Technology (IT) Solutions
Janitorial Services
Just In Time Inventory Management
Karate Dojo
Kitchen Remodeling & Refinishing
Landscape Supply
Landscaping Contractor
Law Firm
Lean Manufacturing Consulting
Lending Services Consultant
Liquid & Vapor Leak Detection
Literary Agent
Litigation Support Services
Logistics Services
Mailing List Broker
Management Consultant
Manufacturing
Martial Arts Training
Massage Therapy
Meal Replacement
Medical Trauma Training
Metal Fabrication
Mobile Truck RepairMortgage Broker
Mortuary Services
Motorcycle Repair & Service
Multi-Level Marketing
Musical Artist
Music Bands
Music Instruction
Music Store & Teaching Academy
Multi-Level Marketing Business
Non-Profit Organizations
Nurse Training
Nutrition Store
Overhead Door Company
Overfill Prevention Systems
Paralegal Document Service
Painting Contractor
Patient Advocacy Consultants
Pest Control
Petrochemical Services
Philanthropic Organization
Physical Therapy Specialist
Plumbing Contractor
Pool Service
Powder Coating
Realtor
Real Estate Salesperson
Recreation Center
Regulatory Software Services
Rescue Mission
Restaurant (Bar & Grill)
Restaurant (Fast Food)
Restaurant (Fine Dining)
Restaurant (Italian)
Roofing Company
Sales Training Consultant
Search & Recruitment Services
Self-Storage Facility
Skin Care
Societal Reentry Services
Software Development
Solar Energy Sales
Solar Panel Cleaning & Maintenance
Spray Tan Mobile Service
Static Ground Monitoring
Statistical Information Systems
Stone & Tile Dealer
Tax & Accounting Services
Theatre For the Arts
Towing Services
Trauma Surgical Training
Travel Promotion
Tree Service
Truck Dealer
Truck Body Manufacturer
Truck Body Upfitter
Truck Clubs
Truck Rack Manufacturer
Truck Repair & Parts
Truck Transportation Center
Tutoring
T-Shirt & Apparel Design Co.
Vehicle Transporter
Veterinarian
Weight Loss For Teens
Wine & Liquor Store
Wine Tour Service
Winery
Writing, Editing & Author Services
Yogurt Shop
Youth Job & Life Skills Training
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
What Does the Trend Setter Package Include?
- Professional Website
- Blog & Regular Blog Posting
- Limited Social Media Posting & Management
- Personalized Email Newsletter
- Video & YouTube Channel
- Marketing & Business Consulting
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Saturday, July 29, 2023
How word of mouth really works | Chris Cowan | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
A far cry from the overused buzzwords they have become, Chris promotes ‘segmentation’ and ‘advocacy’ as ideas that must be delivered with simplicity in order to positively impact the way a business goes to market. He takes us back to one of the purest ways of delivering ideas, word of mouth, and explains how it really works.
Chris Cowan once followed the typical path of a successful marketeer: Unilever, Duracell Batteries, Disney. He then decided to start over and set up Clusters, a market research agency, which was built on his passionate belief that evidence-based targeting is a prerequisite for great marketing.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Trend Setter
Our Trend Setter Package is unique in that it offers even the smallest businesses the marketing power of a much larger business. We do this by combining all of our services into one low cost monthly package, which ensures your Internet properties are updated regularly every month.
Think of it this way; You open a business and want some customers. So, you put out a sign. Then, you want some more business. So, you put out a sign down the street, then two streets over, then out on the freeway, and pretty soon you have them all over town. People now know about you even if they have never been in your store or used your services.
This is exactly what we do for you via the Internet. Beginning with a website, we add a blog, a monthly (or more often for some businesses) email newsletter, social networking in Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in. Next we add a YouTube channel and video is included. We help you get found. Last is our own consulting to help you get the best of our services and more.
We do this in a systematic way, which allows us to keep the cost low. Now, virtually every business can afford to look like a much larger business.
Each business is different. Give us a call to talk about your specific business. We will let you know how little it takes to get started right away.
TO LEARN MORE, CALL TODAY:
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Ryan Stone @ 707-480-0959 /or
Terry Minion @ 707-434-9967
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Publications
Commercial Truck Success, The Book
Building or Rebuilding an Effective, Successful,
and Profitable Commercial Truck Operation
within a Retail Auto Dealership
First edition published Feb 2012.
2nd Edition (2016)
For more information about us and what we do, visit our website.
Ryan Stone
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Thursday, July 20, 2023
How To Integrate Personal Brand Strategies on Social Media | Dr. Soo Win...
In social media era, how do you build up your own personal branding? In fact, how is it making you a star in your circle? Dr. Soo Wincci shared her ideas and strategies upon this which was also what she researched on when doing her PhD.
Dr Soo Wincci is an award winning Malaysian singer, actress, composer, chef, apprentice radio DJ, ambassadorial role, host, model, beauty queen and also an entrepreneur. Dr Soo was crowned as Miss World Malaysia 2008 and represented Malaysia in the Miss World 2008 beauty pageant. In 2014, she was selected at TOP 100 world most beautiful faces by Hollywood Independent Critics. She is a law graduate from UK, MBA holder from Australia and PhD in Business Administration from Malaysia. She was awarded as “The 1st Miss World Malaysia to receive PhD” in 2016 after her completion of six years PhD in Business Administration.
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Monday, July 17, 2023
Consulting Services
The majority of our combined experience of over 50 years is in sales and sales management. That experience is available to help you build your sales team, or improve the one you have. We offer a complete range of services from a short session with ideas for you to implement, to a full time management situation.
We have particular expertise in the fields of light and medium duty commercial trucks, as well as the auto dealer business in general. Terry worked at the dealership level for 25 years, and Ryan for over 10 years. In addition, Terry worked for a major truck body manufacturer for 10 years, calling on auto truck dealers and using his expertise in this field to help train and improve numerous commercial truck operations. In February of 2012, Terry published his ground-breaking book, Commercial Truck Success to help all dealers to be more successful and profitable in the commercial truck market within a retail auto dealership. Terry has also owned three other retail businesses. All that experience in addition to our own businesses today.
To see these services in more detail, go to www.ctsdealer.net
All of our experience is among the best training for any retail operation. As a result, it is a perfect way to help most businesses improve the sales and sales management aspects of their business. Call us today for a free consultation to determine if and how we might help you in your business.
Ryan Stone
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Terry Minion
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Friday, July 14, 2023
Meet Us .. Hello, I'm Ryan.
Hello, I'm Ryan Stone, partner of Upward Trends.
RYAN STONE
Partner
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e: rstone@upwardtrend.org
Internet Marketing
Consulting | Sales Management
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Branding for a Better You | Americus Reed | TEDxPenn
What do Nike, Apple, and Disney have in common? These are not just global brands with tremendous market valuation. These are symbols of self-expression that can connect to people’s identities. Wharton Marketing Professor Americus Reed II, argues that branding need not be some evil, capitalistic enterprise. Dr. Reed suggests that branding is an important, ubiquitous and perhaps inescapable phenomena that when embraced and harnessed properly, can actually be a positive force to help people improve their lives. Americus Reed II, is the Whitney M. Young Jr. Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School. He is intellectually obsessed with how, when, where and why people figure out who they are, act on it, change and evolve. How can people make their lives better by tapping into the power of their identities? He is the proud Dad of a 7 year mixed chick whom he constantly toils to parentally ensure that she internalizes a “warrior princess” identity and makes the world a better place. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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Saturday, July 8, 2023
Meet Us .. Hello, I'm Terry.
Hello, I'm Terry Minion, founder and partner of Upward Trends.
TERRY MINION
Founder/Partner
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e: tminion@upwardtrend.org
Internet Marketing | Blogs
Consulting | Sales Management
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Our Team
There are currently six people on our team. Three bloggers, two graphic designers, and then Ryan and Terry. Because Ryan and Terry interact with clients and prospects, we are listed here. Everyone else enjoys their anonymity, but rest assured that there are people getting the work done in a timely and professional manner. All of these team members have been with us for quite some time, and Ryan and Terry appreciate that stability. Yes, absolutely! You will too!
Our goal is very simple: Help you grow your business. Everything that we do is aimed at helping you grow your business, from our Internet tools and packages, to consulting services, to sales management. We didn’t get into this business to sell websites. We got into it from our business background to help people grow their business, and the Internet is such a valuable tool in helping to achieve that. And, we’ve done it inexpensive enough that any business can afford it–and thrive with it.
Being effective on the Internet is much more than just having a website, so we help you by not only having an effective website, but put signs all over the Internet directing people to your business enterprises. We do this through the use of various Internet properties, all in concert toward growing your Internet presence and expanding your businesses influence and success.
It is our sales management experience that helps drive our focus on improving your bottom line. Between Terry and Ryan, we have over 50 years of sales and sales management experience in a variety of fields. This experience is invaluable in helping small businesses increase their marketing and sales effectiveness and profitability.
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Sunday, July 2, 2023
Building Brand - The Power of Social Media: Daryl D'Souza at TEDxRyersonU
Daryl D'Souza speaks to the power of defining and communicating brand; leveraging the power of social media to communicate and engage within our communities. Daryl emphasizes the vast potential of using real-time connectedness to communicate a personal focus to a global reach. His brand, Lou Dawg's, promotes good times with great people.
Daryl D'Souza is the co-owner of the Toronto-based Lou Dawg's restaurants, and a marketing instructor for the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Ryerson University. As a Ryerson computer science alumni, he worked as an information technology professional in the eHealth industry. Daryl completed a Masters of Business Administration and launched Lou Dawg's shortly thereafter with a business partner to create a dining experience that resonated with their personality and student roots.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
What Do We Offer?
Our Trend Setter Package
Having an effective Internet presence is critical to your business growth. But, just building a website is not enough. At Upward Trend, we have a systematized strategy that has been proven effective, and we have just taken that to whole new levels with our Trend Setter Package. Give us a call today and find out how inexpensive your new Internet Marketing Department can be! We do 80% or more of the work for you! Our passion is not to build websites; it is helping you grow your business.
RYAN STONE 707-480-0959 /OR
TERRY MINION 707-434-9967
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Monday, June 26, 2023
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Friday, June 23, 2023
7 Strategies to Grow Your Business | Brian Tracy
What does it take to be successful in today’s business world? To start, you have to have a product that’s wanted or needed, and it has to be properly priced.
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
HTML Data Types
HTML defines several data types for element content, such as script data and stylesheet data, and a plethora of types for attribute values, including IDs, names, URIs, numbers, units of length, languages, media descriptors, colors, character encodings, dates and times, and so on. All of these data types are specializations of character data.
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Sunday, June 18, 2023
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Bad typography has ruined more than just the Oscars
How bad graphic design changed award shows, elections, and your medicine cabinet.
The 2017 Oscars ended with a pretty shocking mix-up. Announcer Warren Beatty incorrectly named La La Land as the Best Picture winner, and the mistake wasn't revealed until crew members had already started giving their acceptance speeches. A lot of things went wrong for the snafu to happen the way it did. But what if typography was one of them? A better announcement card design could have made for a very different Academy Awards show — not to mention a much less embarrassing Miss Universe show for Steve Harvey back in 2015. But the implications of bad typography don't end there: poorly designed ballots in the 2000 presidential election arguably could have swayed the outcome, and illegible type on medicine bottles could be causing nearly 500,000 cases of drug misuse per year in the U.S.
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Elements of HTML
HTML documents imply a structure of nested HTML elements. These are indicated in the document by HTML tags, enclosed in angle brackets thus: <p>.
In the simple, general case, the extent of an element is indicated by a pair of tags: a "start tag" <p> and "end tag" </p>. The text content of the element, if any, is placed between these tags.
Tags may also enclose further tag markup between the start and end, including a mixture of tags and text. This indicates further (nested) elements, as children of the parent element.
The start tag may also include the element's attributes within the tag. These indicate other information, such as identifiers for sections within the document, identifiers used to bind style information to the presentation of the document, and for some tags such as the <img> used to embed images, the reference to the image resource in the format like this: <img src="example.com/example.jpg">
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
Monday, June 5, 2023
5 tips to improve your critical thinking - Samantha Agoos
Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us, and it’s impossible to make a perfect choice every time. But there are many ways to improve our chances — and one particularly effective technique is critical thinking. Samantha Agoos describes a 5-step process that may help you with any number of problems.
Lesson by Samantha Agoos, animation by Nick Hilditch.
Friday, June 2, 2023
Markup of HTML
HTML markup consists of several key components, including those called tags (and their attributes), character-based data types, character references and entity references. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>, although some represent empty elements and so are unpaired, for example <img>. The first tag in such a pair is the start tag, and the second is the end tag (they are also called opening tags and closing tags).
Another important component is the HTML document type declaration, which triggers standards mode rendering.
The text between <html> and </html> describes the web page, and the text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content. The markup text <title>This is a title</title> defines the browser page title shown on browser tabs and window titles and the tag <div> defines a division of the page used for easy styling. Between <head> and </head>, a <meta> element can be used to define webpage metadata.
The Document Type Declaration <!DOCTYPE html> is for HTML5. If a declaration is not included, various browsers will revert to "quirks mode" for rendering.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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