Text Message Abbreviations - SMS Dictionary Examples

Basically, this is just another expression for SMS dictionary, or SMS shortcut. These abbreviations are simply the text messaging shortcuts that people use each and every day to make sending SMS messages so much quicker and easier. Some of the shortcuts below are only used for instant messenger messages, or at the end of a text message to convey the mood of the person sending the text message. Some of the txt msg shortcuts are good examples of how people shorten words when they send text messages.

So let's take a look at some common text message abbreviations, then.

SMS Abbreviations:

Text Message Abbreviations - SMS Dictionary Examples

Anything - NTHING

Are you OK - RUOK?

Are - R

Ate - 8

Be - B

Before - B4

Be seeing you - BCNU

Cutie - QT

Date - D8

Dinner - DNR

Easy - EZ

Eh? - A?

Excellent - XLNT

Fate - F8

For - 4

For your information - FYI

Great - GR8

Late - L8

Later - L8R

Lots of love/laughs - Lol

Love - LUV

Mate - M8

Please - PLS

Please call me - PCM

Queue/cue - Q

Rate - R8

See/sea - C

See you later - CU L8R

Speak - SPK

Tea - T

Thanks - THX

Thank you - THNQ

To/too - 2

To be - 2B

Today - 2DAY

Tomorrow - 2MORO

Want to - WAN2

What - WOT

Work - WRK

Why - Y

You - U

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Happy/Smiley -:-)

Angry - :-||

Very happy - :-))

Confused - %-)

Tongue tied - :-&

Sad - :-(

Saintly - O:-)

Laughing - :-D

Crying - :'-(

Surprised/shocked - :-O

Screaming - :-@

Kiss - :-*

Pig - :@)

Clown - *:-)

Wink - ;-)

There are more SMS shortcuts that could make up a so-called SMS dictionary, but the more words you use the less effective the shortcuts are as people stop understanding what you're actually saying.

In this case, a short 'vocabulary' is best so everyone knows what is being said.

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Effective Marketing Strategies for Property Managers

Many small companies get creative when it comes to running their businesses on tight budgets. It can be a challenge to compete with large or small marketplace players, especially when resources cannot always be allocated to areas that do not directly drive bottom line revenues.

Marketing always falls into this category. It doesn't generate revenue of its own even though it gives sales the tools it needs to generate its revenue. Therefore, from a finance perspective, marketing is the non-revenue generating extra that they think they can afford to cut. In reality, they cut marketing and then slowly see a decline in sales. Some understand what they have done to themselves. Some never make the connection.

Marketing is, in fact, a resource and a support network that assists and enables not only sales but also internal culture and communications. Marketing even on a local/regional level includes several elements that get exposure and leads for vacant properties.

Effective Marketing Strategies for Property Managers

Most property management groups have the staff, resources and budgets to handle their local and regional marketing elements. This can include everything from brochures, advertising and websites.

Today's marketplace for rental property encompasses much more than local opportunities and it takes a different strategy to take advantage of the market changes.

Developing national presence to attract renters outside of your local market presents great challenges to your resources.

Get creative with your national strategy.

Look for venues that present you to a national market. By participating in partnerships that open access nationally, property management groups of all sizes can expand their market beyond their city limits.

Venues with national scope enable single companies to include themselves in a comprehensive palette of choices and therefore broaden their range of potential customers to a national level. These venues create a marketplace environment that utilizes complex Internet marketing strategies to reach the consumer base. Individual property management groups just don't have the resources to support this. The price points for being part of the marketplace, however, remain at affordable levels for individual groups.

Almost immediately, a locally and regionally focused property manager can diversify its customer base and protect itself from sometimes fickle localized market conditions.

This strategy is terrific and works incredibly well. Property managers all over the United States are growing their businesses in ways that their traditional local methods cannot.

This grows your market, but it still doesn't provide you with unique services that differentiate you from other property management groups, does it?

Become Unique. Offer more.

What else do your renters need that you can provide?
What could help you make your business run more smoothly or more cost-efficiently?

The answers to these questions should give you a good start.
Or you can partner with someone who can help you make the answers to those questions a reality.

By working with other companies who have like needs, or by finding a service provider who has created an environment for your market niche, you can quickly enhance what your business offers.

For example, your renters need to have renters' insurance. Through a partnership, you may find a way to offer access to one - easily and perhaps even inexpensively. For your own business, your consortium connections may get you access to business operations services that free your employees up to spend more time with your customers - not in front of a computer screen.

The beauty of this approach is your LOW total investment cost. Partnership gives you price point advantages for services and products you previously may have been unable to consider. All the while, you maintain the flexibility of a small company.

Partnerships and consortium programs can open up access to tremendous benefits that impact your growth, your market differentiation and your business stability. Elements such as these enable you to insulate yourself from local market changes, to take advantage of growth in other geographic areas and most certainly to create unique values that identify your company as the property management group that everyone wants to do business with.

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Jill Purdy is director of marketing for Rent2Buy America™. Rent2Buy America, LLC is a Charlotte, NC based Internet venue for rental property. By focusing on the needs of property managers and the demands of renters, Rent2Buy America makes advertising properties easy and effective, and renting homes easier than other traditional processes. Rent2Buy America has properties available across the United States and works with national partners to offer products and services to renters and to property managers that help them each reach their goals.

How to Find Someone on Facebook by Email Address

Facebook is one of the social network sites with the highest growth rate. If Facebook were a country it would be the world's fourth largest country. Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 month! It has become obvious: Social Networking and specifically Facebook is not just a trend - it is the way of interaction of the future.

If you are new to Facebook please view my other article on 'Facebook - How to Sign Up' and 'Facebook - Personal Page, Group and Business Page' to get started the right way.

If you are already on Facebook you have got an option to find friends you already know: via the Friend Finder, which is the place where Facebook matches people you might know through mutual contacts. You can find those friends under the heading 'Suggestions' in the right column in your 'Home' Facebook page.

How to Find Someone on Facebook by Email Address

What if you want to find someone by their email address? Follow these simple steps:

1. Find their email address in your contact list

2. Copy the email address to make sure you have got the correct address

3. Go to your Facebook page, sign in, if you haven't already

4. In the top section next to the Facebook logo you can find three symbols and the search box next to it - paste the email address into the search box

5. Click on the search symbol or hit enter on your keyboard

6. Members with the email address will appear in a list

7. On the left side of the search results you will see whether the result is part of 'people', 'pages', 'groups' or other areas. Choose the one you are looking for, in your case 'people'.

What if the person does not appear after the search?

Either the person whose email address you have entered has not yet become a member on Facebook or is using another email address than the one you have entered.

In that case you can send them a message through Facebook and invite them to join. The search function will give you that step as an option if your search has not been successful. If you do not see that option, click on 'people' in the left column.

Alternatively simply send them on old-fashion email asking them whether they are on Facebook and if they want to add you as a friend!

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Home Remedy For Sinus Infection

Sinus infections are one of the most common infections across the world. Sinus attacks are caused by an infection in the sinuses or cavities that are present in the bones near the nose. When there is any swelling in these sinuses because of some infection, breathing becomes difficult, resulting in fever, headaches, and other discomforts. This is known as sinusitis.

Each sinus or cavity in the skull has an opening that allows free exchange of mucus and air. Each sinus is joined to the other by a mucous membrane lining. When there is an infection like hay fever or a disease like asthma, these sinuses and the lining become inflamed, causing air and mucus to be blocked inside or a vacuum to be created. This can cause pressure on the sinus walls, causing severe pain. Millions of dollars are spent for sinus medications and sinus research.

Sinus infections can cause a lot of pain and discomfort. Sometimes, the infection may also lead to some brain infections or other chronic problems. Though there is no effective remedy for sinus infections, a lot of comfort can be gained by treating the sinus symptoms like headaches, nasal discharge, nasal blocking, runny nose, ear/neck/cheek/jaw pain, swelling of eyelids, etc. However, acute or chronic sinus infections require prolonged treatments, comprised of antibiotics or therapies like saline nasal rinses, topical/oral decongestants, antihistamines, mucolytic agents, and intranasal corticosteroids.

Home Remedy For Sinus Infection

Sinus infections can also be treated by some home remedies. A lot of relief can be obtained by inhaling steam from a vaporizer or a bowl of hot water. Applying a hot or a cold compress over the inflamed area would also provide relief. A decoction of mustard seed powder and water, instilled in the nostrils; eating jalapeno peppers; drinking juice of ripe grapes; applying a paste of cinnamon and water on the forehead; applying paste of ginger and water/milk on the forehead; applying paste of basil leaves, cloves, and dried ginger on the forehead; inhaling steam of eucalyptus oil; and drinking warm tea are all found to be effective in providing some relief. Drinking a lot of water and other fluids would also help. A great deal of rest is also required. However, it is better to consult a specialist if the infection persists.

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Free Sample Sales Letter: Example of How to Write a Persuasive Business Marketing Letter

Here is an example of a business-to-business sales letter mailed to auto dealers by a firm that markets gift cards that replace paper gift certificates. Anything in brackets [like this] did not appear in the letter but simply appears to describe the mechanics of the letter

Author: Alan Sharpe

Target audience: General managers of auto dealerships

Free Sample Sales Letter: Example of How to Write a Persuasive Business Marketing Letter

Mailer: Sharpe AutoCards [a fictional company for the purposes of this sample letter]

Purpose: Generate appointments for salespeople

[MAILING ENVELOPE]

[Is 5 x 9 inches in dimension and has a window, through which appears a portion of a gift card, personalized with the prospect's name. The envelope has a teaser headline: Inside: A win-win-lose proposition for your auto dealership.]

[LETTER]

[Is 8 1/2 x 11 inches, copy on both sides]

December 27, 2007

Brad Carling, General Manager

Tri-City Chev-Olds

123 Any Street

Anytown OH 12345-9163

[Right here, beneath the prospect's name, is affixed to the letter a sample auto gift card, personalized with the prospect's name, and this headline: As you can see, this card has success written all over it.]

Dear Mr. Carling:

Go ahead, pull this amazing little card off the paper.

It's made of plastic. It costs you to buy. But it's worth the price of a new car, sold off your lot.
This card is worth the lifetime value of a loyal customer. In sales, service, parts, accessories and referrals. And goodwill. And free word-of-mouth advertising.

Hold it in you hand for a minute, and think of your competition. Consider your revenue goals for the next quarter. Do you need to increase your new and used vehicle sales? Boost your parts & service department revenue? Multiply your accessories department revenue? Retain customers after their warranty runs out?

This card will help. Big time. It's a vital part of Sharpe AutoCards, a custom-branded loyalty and gift card program that generates revenue for your dealership. But first, how it works.

Take a look at the front of your card. As you can see, you customize the card to match your dealership's brand image and visual identity. Now turn it over. See that magnetic stripe across the back? It stores information about the card's dollar value and each transaction.

You hand cards like this to everyone whose business you want to attract and whose loyalty you must keep. Walk ins. Be Backs. Looky-Lous. Current customers. Even former customers. They all use the card to buy products and services at your auto dealership only.

You manage the program using a simple card reader hooked to a personal computer at your dealership running our software. For an average auto dealership, the start-up cost of buying the system and operating it for one year is less than per car sold that year.

That's what the card does. Here's what it does for you.

Please read the brochure I've enclosed for the compelling specifics. You use the Sharpe AutoCards card to:

1. Close more sales by beating competitors' discounts

2. Boost your service department revenue and repeat business

3. Multiply your accessories department revenue

4. Retain customers for years after the sale

5. Attract potential customers and increase traffic in your showroom

6. Increase referral business

7. Increase revenue on the back end

8. Promote brand awareness of your dealership

The Sharpe AutoCards system is up to five times less expensive than competing offerings. Plus, you pay no transaction fees and you don't have to buy any annual maintenance contracts. I call that a win-win-lose proposition for you, your customers and your competitors.

Use your card today to receive free coffee and donuts for four.

The gift card you are holding in your hand has been pre-loaded with worth of coffee and donuts. Get a first-hand demonstration of how the card works by inviting me to your showroom for a complimentary consultation about the Sharpe AutoCards system. Hand me your gift card, I'll swipe it, process your transaction, and hand over your free coffee and donuts. Like the gift cards you'll use one day, this one can only be redeemed at the place of business on the card, which is to say, Tri-City Chev-Olds.

When is a good time for us to get together for coffee and a chat at your showroom? Call me at 123 456-7891 today and let's set up an appointment.

Yours sincerely,

[signature in blue ink]

Brad K Phillips, Director, Sales

Sharpe AutoCards

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Alan Sharpe is a business-to-business direct mail copywriter and lead generation specialist who helps business owners and marketing managers generate leads, close sales and retain customers using business-to-business direct mail marketing. Learn more about his creative direct mail writing services and sign up for free weekly tips like this at http://www.sharpecopy.com [http://www.sharpecopy.com/newsletter].

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