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LivePerson Guide Site Buys Web Analytics Firm NuConomy For $3 Million

Advice site LivePerson has acquired web analytics company NuConomy for $3 million, Techcrunch reports, citing an unidentified source and a rumor on an Israeli website. No comment yet from the two companies. Tel Aviv-based NuConomy, which also has a San Francisco office, has raised roughly $3.3 million since launching about four years ago.

In early 2008, WPP Group became one of its backers. New York-based LivePerson, which has been pursuing an About.com-like model of having individual experts provide advice, has made a previous acquisition in Israel. In June 2007, LivePerson bought Israeli psychic online readings site Kasamba.com for $40 million. It’s not clear how NuConomy would fit into LivePerson’s holdings, but engagement metrics is in wide demand by online media companies these days, so it could represent a good way for LivePerson to expand its ties to other sites.

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‘Hope for Haiti Now’ Telethon a success

Last night’s George Clooney-organized, multi-network Hope For Haiti Now telethon was a huge success and, according to CNN, ‘dominated airwaves’ long after the 2-hour event was over.

These are the highlights of the performances of last night’s Hope For Haiti Now World Telethon, including Alicia Keys, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Shakira, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Coldplay, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban, Jennifer Hudson, Madonna, Dave Matthews and Neil Young.

Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna also joined for a song.

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Meet the Experts – Tory Johnson

Career Expert Tory Johnson mentions LivePerson.com during her segment on ‘The View’ about Stay-at-Home Mom jobs. Tory Johnson is the founder of women4hire.com

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How One Step could become a Giant Leap…

Dear Experts,

Thank you for attending all of ‘The League of Extraordinary Minds’ Discovery sessions.

Regardless of whether you’ve attended all 9 of them or just one – we hope you have drawn a tremendous value, both for yourself and for the future of your business.

Here is our final gift for you…

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You know how they’ll give you ten top Hollywood, "blockbuster" videos — ALL for just a penny—when you agree to try out their "dvd of the month club"?

Well we’ve decided to do something far better—and infinitely more profitable for you—to get you into the role of serious business builder.

So, if you take one more action right now – we’ll guarantee you’ll make more money, gain greater satisfaction, work shorter hours, have less stress, and be well on the way to recreating your business so it finally gives you all you want.

And our proposition has zero downside to you. With those "dvd-of-the-month" clubs you have to purchase ten more dvds (at full price) before you can stop. But in our offer — if you don’t profit you don’t pay!

Most importantly, you get to listen inside our "paid-members-only inner-sanctum"— for one full month (on top of the six weeks of guest member sessions you’ll be hearing).

Not only is there absolutely no purchase risk—whatsoever.

But – unlike the "dvd-club" there is no long-term purchase commitment, either.

Whether you have a business… or you’re just
thinking about starting one…

This is the most important thing you could do for
your future at this moment.

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TONIGHT: How to Manage, Maximize and Master the Opportunity That Constant Change Presents‏

Your "League of Extraordinary Minds" Free Access
Webcast…

"Master Your Universe: How to Manage,
Maximize and Master the Opportunity That Constant
Change Presents"

… Is Happening TONIGHT!

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The final free access Web Broadcast of "The League
of Extraordinary Minds"…"Master Your Universe:
How to Manage, Maximize and Master the Opportunity
That Constant Change Presents"… is happening
TONIGHT, Thursday, January 14th.

This breakthrough "discovery session" will cover
this critically important business success factor…

"Master Your Universe: How to Manage, Maximize
and Master the Opportunity That Constant Change
Presents".

You can access this FINAL free "League of Extraordinary
Minds" Webcast online at 8:00pm tonight (YOUR
Local Time), Thursday, January 14th at this web
page:

>>CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE FINAL BROADCAST<<

Tonight you will hear:

– Dr. Spencer Johnson… discussing one of the
biggest mistakes you can make in these "troubling
times"…

– John Kotter… sharing how you can do very well
right now by doing things differently than
everybody else…

Plus LOTS more!

See you on this FINAL free Webcast of The League of Extraordinary Minds…

And get ready to take LOTS of notes.

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Beat Recession with ‘The League of Extraordinary Minds’

A groundbreaking NEW (and free) resource from 53 Leading Experts to help and advise small business owners and entrepreneurs to profit in this recession.

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TONIGHT: Accelerators That Drive Rapid and Soaring Success Webinar‏

Your "League of Extraordinary Minds" Free Webcast…

"Fast-Tracking Your Business: Accelerators That Drive
Rapid and Soaring Success"…

Is Happening TONIGHT!

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Dear Experts,

Your next free Web Broadcast of "Fast-Tracking Your
Business: Accelerators That Drive Rapid and Soaring
Success"… is happening TONIGHT, Thursday, January 7th.

This breakthrough "discovery session" will cover
this critically important business success factor…

"Fast-Tracking Your Business:
Accelerators That Drive Rapid and Soaring Success"

You can access this free "League of Extraordinary
Minds" Webcast online at 8:00pm tonight (YOUR
Local Time), Thursday, January 7th at this web
page:

>>CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE BROADCAST<<

The expert panel for "Fast-Tracking Your Business:
Accelerators That Drive Rapid and Soaring Success" session includes:

• Become invaluable to your customers…
• Succeed by changing your assumptions…
• Take your business to ever increasing heights…
• Position your company to execute and make things happen…
• Overcome obstacles in the way of clarity, focus and execution…
• Determine what the best use of your time is right now…
• Stop your entrepreneurial spirit from driving your business off a cliff…

Introducing:

Tony Jeary: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist

Tony Jeary

Tony Jeary, America’s “Master Strategic Facilitator”, has personal experience with both success and failure. Tony made and lost several million dollars before he was 30.  Today he walks the talk and practices the distinctions that characterize Communication Mastery and Strategic Acceleration, both personally and professionally.

Tony developed Strategic Acceleration, a leadership methodology that combines awareness, operational practices, and powerful informational resources.  It is designed to produce “strategic  speed” and superior results within time frames that exceed traditional expectations.

Tony’s latest book, Strategic Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of Life, details a methodology that will help you get clear, stay focused, and efficiently execute relevant, high-value activities… thereby getting you the results and success you really want …. faster!  It is destined to become the ultimate success guide for corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes and other individuals seeking success.

Tony Jeary’s  thinking is sought after and used by the presidents of the world’s top companies, like Wal-mart, Bridgestone-Firestone Diversified Products, Qualcomm, and even the U.S. Senate. Many of the world’s top achievers fly to his back yard to learn from him on how to make things happen.

Tony was raised by entrepreneurial parents who thrived on identifying and pursuing new opportunities to serve others. Tony’s father taught him the powerful principle that has driven Tony’ professional and personal life: “Always give more than expected.” Exceeding expectations is the common thread that every Tony Jeary client experiences first-hand.

Greg Hicks: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist

Greg Hicks

Greg Hicks is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of happiness.  Along with his business partner, Rick Foster, their extensive and acclaimed research has taken them to six continents where they spent years interviewing people who are thriving and happy, even under the most adverse circumstances. Their early findings culminated into a  system of nine choices, which are continually being studied by mind-body researchers at leading institutions, including The Mayo Clinic.

Greg’s LeaderShock — And How to Triumph Over It, which revealed a new brand of behavioral leadership, was chosen as the #2 Best Business Book of 2003 by Amazon.

With a reputation for dynamic and transformational presentations on health, happiness, leadership and team productivity, Greg has taught the Brilliant Health program to over 10,000 doctors and nurses, to patients battling serious illness, and to countless others in organizations such as G.E., Mercedes-Benz, Wells Fargo, and AXA-Financial and are on the faculty of the Health Research and Educational Trust Fellowship programs.

Hicks and Foster are often sought out by the media for their advice and have appeared on numerous national T.V. and radio shows and featured in such magazines as Health, Fitness, Self, Good Housekeeping, Fit, Working Mother, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Readers’ Digest.

Herb Cohen: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist

Herb Cohen

Herb Cohen has been called “the world’s best negotiator”  and is internationally renowned as a corporate and governmental consultant on negotiating strategy, commercial dealings and crisis management.  As a U.S. presidential advisor, he has helped formulate policy on hostage negotiations and terrorism.   His clients have included business executives, entrepreneurs, sports and theatrical agents plus large corporations as well as governmental agencies, such as The Department of State, F.B.I., C.I.A., The U. S. Conference of Mayors and The U.S. Department of Justice.

Cohen’s analysis, insights and humorous view of many of these high-level happenings have appeared in many international publications, and he himself has been the subject of articles in Time, People, The Economist, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and even Playboy magazines.  He is considered “America’s foremost convention speaker, presenting serious subjects with such humor and dramatic flair that they become pure entertainment”.

He is the author of You Can Negotiate Anything, which was on the New York Times Bestseller List for almost one year and has been translated into twenty-one languages.  His latest book, Negotiate This! By Caring But Not T-H-A-T Much is written in the same humorous style as his first book.  Critics have said, “It’s a must read for not only business people, but parents, politicians and consumers”.

Cohen has lectured at many educational institutions and enterprises, such as The Harvard Negotiation Project, Yale Law School, The Kellogg School, Wharton, the University of Wisconsin, the University of California-San Diego, McGill University, UBC and the Columbia University and Chicago University Schools of Business.

Barry Schwartz: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz explores the social and psychological effects of free-market economic institutions on moral, social, and civic concerns. In his book, The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life, Schwartz finds that market values undermine morals and community-building.

His more recent work, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less is More, examines the often-paralyzing effects on consumers of a marketplace offering a bewildering array of choices.  He explains at what point choice (the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish) becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being.

In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice – from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs – has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution.  By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter-intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives.

Schwartz, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, has been awarded several grants by the National Science Foundation over the last three decades.  In addition, he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the American Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Paul Schoemaker: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist

Dr. Paul Schoemaker

Dr. Paul J.H. Schoemaker is the founder and Executive Chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic management, executive development and multi-media software.  He also serves as Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches decision making and strategy as a part-time professor.

Dr. Schoemaker took an extended sabbatical with the scenario planning group of Royal/Dutch Shell in London, and has since worked with over a hundred organizations around the world.   He’s written more than 100 academic and applied papers, including multiple articles in the Harvard Business Review. He’ has also (co)-authored of several books, including Profiting from Uncertainty and Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us?

His 1995 article, “Scenario Planning”, was the second most reprinted publication in the 42 year history of the Sloan Management Review, and is listed by among the most highly cited scholars in terms of academic publications in business and economics. Paul Schoemaker is also an active private investor in new technology-based ventures and serves on the Board of Directors for several of these, including the Decision Education Foundation.

His hobbies include tennis, golf and piano. He lives with his wife Joyce in Villanova, Pennsylvania and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in the winter; they have two kids just out of college.

Paul Zane Pilzer: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist

Paul Zane Pilzer

Paul Zane Pilzer is a world-renowned economist, a multimillionaire software entrepreneur, an adjunct professor, and the author of eight best-selling books and dozens of scholarly publications.

Pilzer completed Lehigh University in three years and received his MBA from Wharton in 15 months at age 22. He became Citibank’s youngest officer at age 22 and its youngest vice president at age 25. At age 24, he was appointed adjunct professor at New York University, where he taught for 21 consecutive years.

Over the past 30 years, Pilzer has started and/or taken public, five companies in the areas of software, education and healthcare. He is the Founder of Zane Benefits, Inc. and Extend Health, Inc., the nation’s two leading suppliers of individualized health benefits to corporate America.

He was an appointed economic adviser in two presidential administrations and warned of the impending $200 billion savings and loan crisis years before official Washington was willing to listen—a story that he later shared in Other People’s Money, which was critically acclaimed by The New York Times and The Economist magazine.

Pilzer is a prolific author, and in one of his most recent books, The New Health Insurance Solution he sets forth a bold new direction for U.S. health insurance and explains how individuals can now get affordable health insurance independent of their employer.  This book also explains how employers can end their health insurance nightmare while still being able to hire great employees by providing the same health benefits for less than half the cost they are paying today.

And MUCH More!

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See you on the Webcast! And get ready to take
LOTS of notes…

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Tomorrow: Your ‘League of Extraordinary Minds’ Session 8‏

Your "League of Extraordinary Minds" Webcast…

"Fast-Tracking Your Business: Accelerators That
Drive Rapid and Soaring Success"…

Is Happening TOMORROW 

**Free Access Details Below**

Your next real-world, game changing, business-
transforming, free Webcast of "The League of
Extraordinary Minds"  is happening tomorrow,
Thursday, January 7th.

This breakthrough "discovery session" will cover
this critically important business success factor…
"Fast-Tracking Your Business:
Accelerators That Drive Rapid and Soaring Success"

You can access this free "League of Extraordinary
Minds" Webcast online at 8:00pm tomorrow,
Thursday, January 7th (YOUR Local Time) at
this web page:

**Click HERE to Register**

During each of these "discovery" sessions, our
expert panelists will focus completely on YOUR
challenges as a small business owner. They will
address the most vital aspects YOU need to focus
on to succeed in today’s challenging economy.

On our "Fast-Tracking Your Business: Accelerators
That Drive Rapid and Soaring Success" Panel session,
we will be joined by these world-class business
experts:

– Dr. Paul Schoemaker

… discussing why you can’t
just deal with the symptoms of a problem…

– Herb Cohen

… revealing how YOU can become a
masterful negotiator…

– Greg Hicks

… shares 9 behaviors leaders MUST
adopt to reduce stress…

– Barry Schwartz

… discussing why offering as
much variety as you possibly can will LOWER sales
drastically…

– Tony Jeary

… on dealing with distractions so
you can be more focused with your efforts and get
better results…

– Paul Zane Pilzer

… sharing why every
entrepreneur needs to see themselves as one link
in a chain…

And MUCH more!

Go and register now, so you don’t miss out on even one minute of
what this high-level group of "business-building
power" has to share with you… for free!

**Click HERE to Register**

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My New Year’s Resolutions for 2010

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to help more Experts and Advisors promote themselves and their expertise to the World.

So, if you are one of the Experts on LivePerson, Experts-Exchange, Guru.com or Mechanical Turk – these videos are for you.

Back in 2008 I started a new Social group on Dailymotion.com. The goal of the group is to help all Experts of the World to promote themselves globally.

Join our group if you are an expert in your field and would like to get more exposure. Here’s the direct link to where the group is located:

http://www.dailymotion.com/group/digitizergroup

Here’s the newest additions that I made to the group today:

David James is a Spiritual Advisor with 17,000 plus reviews on LivePerson. He’s gotta be doing SOMETHING right, don’t you think so?

Join our group if you are an expert in your field and would like to get more exposure. Here’s the direct link to where the group is located:

http://www.dailymotion.com/group/digitizergroup

Terry is a sensitive and compassionate Professional Counseling expert who will help you break through whatever roadblocks you might have in your life.

Join our group if you are an expert in your field and would like to get more exposure. Here’s the direct link to where the group is located:

http://www.dailymotion.com/group/digitizergroup

Jamie is a LivePerson Expert in Technical Writing services. She can help you in writing professional reports, research papers and develop presentation slides.

Join our group if you are an expert in your field and would like to get more exposure. Here’s the direct link to where the group is located:

http://www.dailymotion.com/group/digitizergroup

Richa is an Expert in Physical sciences with specialization in chemistry, biochemistry, physics, general science as well as life sciences.

Join our group if you are an expert in your field and would like to get more exposure. Here’s the direct link to where the group is located:

http://www.dailymotion.com/group/digitizergroup

As I mentioned earlier, one of my New Year’s resolutions for this decade is to help as many Experts as possible – in as many ways as possible.

So if you are interested in creating your own video, audio or need any marketing help whatsoever – please feel free to visit us at: http://www.liveperson.com/digitizer-group

We’ll be glad to help…

MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO YOU IN THE NEW DECADE!

Keep smiling,

/Val Slastnikov/

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