Stress Is Making Kat Von D's Hair Fall Out…Literally!

Yikes!

Kat Von D is literally losing hair because of all the stress she's endured!

When you mix a break-up/make-up, a show cancellation, and all that hair dye together, your hair is bound for some serious damage.

And that's unfortunately exactly what Kat is suffering these days.

Sources close to the tattoo artist say:

Kat totally has bald spots and it’s from stress. It’s worse than anyone her age should have. The combination of all the treatments she does to her hair and stress have finally caught up with her. She’s started ordering wigs along with the hair pieces and extensions she already uses. I feel really bad for her because the bald spots are horrible. The stress of losing her hair is only stressing her out more and making it worse!

Ouch!

Hopefully it's not AS bad as it seems!

Well, we guess even if it is, it's not that big of a blow to her. After all, she is all about the body mods!

[Image via Michael Wright/WENN.]

Tags: break up, cancellation, hair, jesse james, kat von d, la ink, make up, stress, wigs

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Not Using Social Media Marketing? You Could Be Making A Big Mistake!

Social media networks have grown faster than any other form of technology in existence. Millions of people use these social network sites daily. Even on the go, people have the ability to update and stay updated on the latest news from friends and family. They use this ability to talk about all sorts of things including their experiences with different products and services.

Statistics show that 78% of consumers trust the recommendations of people that they know. Only 14% trust advertisers. These numbers show just how important proper social media marketing is to the advertising industry.

Social marketing can be utilized by nearly every company in any industry. However, there are a few exceptions. Promotions, sales and branding can bring consumers right to your door. Additionally, the word of mouth that you receive from consumers can gain you more business than any other form of advertising in existence. However, making your company's presence known on social sites is a very time-consuming commitment. This is why outsourcing your media presence is one of the smartest business moves you can make.

Outsourcing your media presence to either a freelancer or an advertising consultant can keep your employees from spending valuable time updating your company's social media sites. Because of the need for your company to monitor this regularly, in order to have someone from your company manage your social networking sites, they would have to dedicate their entire work day to this task.

Utilizing social marketing is something that your business cannot afford to miss out on. Your company, through social marketing, has the ability to draw in consumers and monitor the word of mouth that is being transmitted through these sites.

The Secret Truth About Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing is one of the hottest new ways to market your business. However, there is an untold truth about social sites. This truth, if left un-revealed, can leave your business rowing backwards in the world of social media, never seeing the returns you had hoped for.

Social media sites are intended for social networking. This is a place where people want to feel safe. Every moment of their day, they are bombarded with commercials, jingles, billboards, sales associates and junk email. The last thing that they want to do is talk to a sales person on a social media site.

On social sites, the main goal is building relationships with people who have the same interests. These interests are what bring people together on social sites. If your company is only focused on the temporary results of increasing sales through sales tactics, two things will happen. At best, you will spend a lot of wasted time on reaching your target market to only achieve short-term sales increases. At worst, you will irritate people and push them away. This will result in your efforts being ignored and your profile possibly being removed from the social network site altogether.

If, instead, your company focuses on building relationships with people, leaving information about your company in a subtle way that doesn't feel like a sales pitch, people will come to your company because they trust and value you. The idea isn't to sell your product or service. The idea is to sell you!

Understanding the untold truth behind social media sites can mean the difference between gaining or losing consumers. Abusing social media sites for the purpose of sales will produce negative results. If you focus your time on social media sites on building relationships instead of selling your product, then your company will reap the benefits that social media sites have to offer.

Do you use social media? How vital do you think is social networking in promoting your business? Drop me a line and let me know.

Chancel Galessami is a network marketer and he uses Internet and all media to create relationships based on value and leadership with people from all around the globe. His products and services allows people to feel better about themselves and his business allows him to fulfill his mission and purpose in life by helping others succeed. His destiny is to serve others and help them. For more information, please visit his blog and feel free to let comments!

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Making Social Media Work For Your Business

Social Media and the Development of the Web 2.0

Designed to be spread through social interaction, Social Media relies on accessibility and consumer usability. Taking full advantage of the wide spread use of the Internet, social media uses web-based technologies to engage singular media sources in dialogue with one another. Social media has brought democracy to the dissemination of information and knowledge, giving a voice to the general public, transforming the masses from content consumers to content producers. Social media has been defined by Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein as "a group of Internet bases application that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Many business have started to take advantage of this "user-generated content", also known as "consumer generated media". The wide spread use of social media has taken the information age one step further into what is becoming known as "The Attention Age"

With so much content available on the web and so many voices contributing to web-based conversations, the question in play now becomes how to capture the attention of the masses and rise above the noise that has been created by the constant online media "buzz". Distinguishing any one particular site, person or idea on the web takes a great deal of creativity and innovation. This need has created a whole new pool of professionals who specialize in driving traffic or attention to a specific Internet "site" or place. Now that everyone has a voice, the goal is to become an "authority" in a certain field or on a specific subject. Much of becoming an authority is developing a following.

Businesses large and small have begun to take advantage of this idea and the facility of user generated content and consumer generated media in order to use their customers as marketing tools. With a few simple incentives, business have to power to use their customers as promoters, increasing brand exposure and positive consumer feedback. With the extensive reach of social media sites such as Twitter, messages and information can be spread instantly to thousands of individuals across the globe.

Other forms of social media include networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, online forums such as Wikipedia, media sharing tools such as YouTube and MySpace (also a social networking site) podcasts, social bookmarking, blogs, vlogs and social network aggregation platforms.

With the widespread use of online media and the prevalence of the Internet, it is in every business' best interest to take full advantage of social media as a marketing and sales tool. In the United States, social networking accounts for 11 percent of all time spent on the Internet. Over a quarter of Internet page visits in the US were to top social networking sites. Twitter processes more than one billion tweets each month and averages about 40 million tweets per day. While these numbers may seem staggering, they are increasing every day.

There are many ways businesses can use social media and Internet marketing to their advantage. By creating their own online profiles, they can develop following online through sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as distributing content through Wikipedia, a business blog and their website. Since the goal of social media is to start and spread conversation, businesses have to offer a point of intrigue, be it through interesting content or an incentive in exchange for participating in an information exchange.

Businesses can also use the information that sites such as Facebook offer about their users to target Internet advertising at a specific market. Since Facebook publicly shares information such as occupation, location, martial status, educational background and interests, it is easy to design and target advertising campaigns at a specific group of users.

If done right, online media can be used to have the consumer do the marketing. Similar to a store selling a t-shirt with their brand name printed across the front, businesses can use their customers as their own advertising tools. For example, if a business creates a Facebook fan page that they invite their customers to join by offering a simple incentive such as a coupon or access to "insider information", their business name will be displayed on all of their fan's profiles in the live newsfeed of all of their fans' friends. By increasing exposure, they will expand their following, thereby gaining more customers.

Social vs Industrial Media

Media can be loosely defined as "a source in which people gain information, education, news, etc." Online media is distinct from industrial media in that it is generally far less expensive and more accessible. Anyone can publish social media, whereas industrial media usually requires significant financial backing. While both social and industrial media have extensive reach, the ability to produce social media is available to anyone. Social media is also far more user friendly. Anyone with access to the Internet can create a Facebook profile or sign up for Twitter with no special training. Industrial media creators, on the other hand, have almost always received some sort of higher education specializing in the field. Perhaps where the two forms differ most is in the fact that social media has the ability to be published in real time. Whereas there is a time lag between an occurred event and the information being published in a newspaper, social media is broadcast instantaneously. It is true that news-reporters can broadcast live to television, but they can only be in one place at one time whereas social media users can send out information from thousands of different sources. Take the recent earthquake in Chile, for example. While a few reporters and camera crews could show live footage from a specific point of interest, anyone with a computer or cellphone could instantly send updates on what was happening from wherever they were, thus providing thousands of live information sources on what was happening in real time. Because of the nature of the Internet, social media is permanent whereas industrial media is destructible. Conversely, however, once industrial media is published, it cannot be edited or altered. On the other hand, social media can be changed almost instantly.

Web 2.0

The term "Web 2.0" first came into play just before the new millennium when Darcy DiNucci used it in an article she wrote about the future of the Internet. Whereas the web was once a static place for gathering information, it has now become an active forum for information sharing and development. The term started to become more widely used in 2004 when O'Reilley Media and MediaLive hosted the first Web 2.0 conference. Web 2.0 does not necessarily refer to complicated technology upgrades, but rather to how the web is used, and the modern ability to interact with it.

The idea of Web 2.0 centers around the idea of using the Internet as a platform. Users are able to do far more than just retrieve data. Users now have the ability to interact with site features (post comments, live chat, upload images, music and video, etc) as well as store, manage and own data that they post.

Social Media is a large part of the nature of Web 2.0. Being able to have live conversations, instantly broadcast information to thousands of users at the same time as well as interact with other sources (live or computerized) has transformed the Internet from a library into a playground.

So where are we headed next? Have we already crossed the line into a new iteration of the Internet? Have we entered into the realm of Web 3.0? The expansion of social media platforms and the web's ability to track and connect user preferences suggests that we are indeed entering into yet another stage of how the Internet is used. Companies have a responsibility to keep up to date with these emerging trends as it is sure to effect the way we conduct business.

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Making jobs priority one

It is looking unlikely that there will be more stimulus from either fiscal policy or monetary policy. Former President Bill Clinton has called for suggestions for other policy options that might be helpful. Here are a few ideas along those lines.

Approve the Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Project. I earlier highlighted the great need for an oil pipeline to transport low-cost crude from Canada and the U.S. Williston Basin to Gulf Coast refineries. TransCanada claims building the pipeline would generate 15,000 high-wage manufacturing and construction jobs directly from the construction itself, and I see huge benefits for U.S. oil producers, refiners, and consumers. It would cost the government nothing, and indeed would generate substantial new tax revenues for local, state, and federal governments. The only reason unemployed Americans aren't working on the project right now is because the U.S. State Department has been holding up approval of the pipeline.

Grant more permits for offshore oil drilling. Although some analysts had estimated that the offshore moratorium could cost tens of thousands of jobs ([1], [2]), the actual losses appear to have been substantially less than this. Nevertheless, we do know that three more rigs left the Gulf last week headed for other countries. Nearly a third of the deepwater rigs previously in the Gulf of Mexico will have ended up leaving due to the drilling stoppage that followed the spill in April 2010. The process of issuing new permits has been slow, and the Houston Chronicle reported on June 3:

The sheer size of the applications has made them difficult to manage, said George Morris, chief operating officer of Houston-based ATP Oil & Gas Corp. "We went from 39 pages to 3,900 pages on a permit," Morris said.

Develop Alaskan energy sources. Shell Oil Company claims that developing Alaskan offshore oil would create 50,000 jobs per year, and the company has invested more than $3.5 billion in leases and in supporting infrastructure. The latest roadblock is the ruling by the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board that Shell had not taken into consideration emissions from an ice-breaking vessel when calculating overall greenhouse gas emissions from the project, some 70 miles away from the nearest residents in remote Kaktovik, Alaska.

Apply sensible cost-benefit analysis. Here's a report from ABC news:

The sand dune lizard is a small reptile that has become the scourge of the Texas Oil industry, not because it is dangerous but because the threatened species could put land ripe for oil exploration off limits.

"As far as I am concerned, it is Godzilla," Texas land commissioner Jerry Paterson told ABC News. "[It's] the biggest threat facing the oil business in memory," said Ben Shepperd, president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association. They believe the small tan-colored, insectivorous lizard could cost the oil industry and surrounding communities thousands of jobs....

The federal government said the sand lizard is on the verge of extinction, and is expected to place it on the endangered species list soon. If the species makes the list, its 800,000 acre habitat in the shinnery oak sand dune communities of southeastern New Mexico and southwestern Texas would receive protected status. That habitat happens to be right in the heart of Texas oil country.

Granted, the employment benefits possible from following the suggestions above would be a drop in the bucket as far as the millions of Americans still needing work. But I think they illustrate the possible benefits of a sweeping directive from the President to all administrative agencies that jobs really do come first. If such an announcement were made from the White House in conjunction with the four specific steps noted above, I could imagine an immediate boost to consumer sentiment and perhaps a noticeable drop in oil prices as well. My basis for the latter claim is the huge disparity in price between Brent and West Texas Intermediate, which suggests potentially significant effects of a commitment to produce more domestic crude and make sure it gets to refineries on the U.S. coasts.

May I also suggest that, in addition to providing a boost to the economy, such an initiative might prove helpful for the President's poll numbers.

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