Money In Relationships | The Ugly Truth

Relationships on a regular should be about the people involved and their feelings. These days it?s about how much you have at the moment, how much you plan to have in the next few years.

I?m not sure at what point we lost the main focus of relationships and turned it into an emotional business deal. It has become majorly a case of ?what shall I gain from this??.

Personally I do not put much emphasis on money when I?m thinking of relationships, and that is because I can afford most things myself but I have to admit that it is easier being with someone who?s financially stable or to a large extent, independent. I also believe in helping your partner especially when you?ve decided in your heart that this is who you want to be with for a while.

To survive in a relationship in today?s world we need money??. Be it ?for communication, fun or just basic surviving.

If we are to look at communication, you need money to do this, and in this world where there is a blackberry craze everywhere, you would need to pay for your BIS. And in all honesty, you can?t keep all the communication to blackberry alone because there are some things/feelings which are gotten through speaking/hearing the voice of the other party. And considering the fact that an average person has over 50 contacts on his/her blackberry, as a partner in a relationship, you would need to go the extra mile lest you lost in the crowd.

Heaven help you if you are in a long distance relationship like across the ocean kinda thing. You?d spend more on communication, be it calls, text or good internet for all those your skype dates and others. I guess that is part of the reason why they say LDR isn?t for the faint hearted.

Let us look at the fun aspect of the relationship; because every now and then you need to put spice in your relationship else it starts to feel like a routine. If you want to catch a movie or go kart racing or something as simple as a hangout at the beach you need money especially if you live in Nigeria where all these things are apparently like gold (God knows why though). To continue to spice things up, you need elements of surprise and flowers don?t count for the average Nigerian girl just like boxers don?t count for the average guy. So you?d need to be grand in your surprises, creative too. And this takes time and money (you just might pay someone to do thinking for you).

Nobody wants to date a liability and just be the one giving; it?s not fun and makes the other person feels taken advantage of. I?m a girl and I pay for stuff too. I know there are a lot of girls that feel like they should be taken care of. And there are a lot of guys with ego problems that feel they should do the paying and when the girl gets used to it, they now say she is a gold-digger. First of all, you taught her how to dig the gold??..in short you created the monster so live with it. And there are a lot of girls who take advantage of? these ?generous? guys and ask for the most ridiculous things on earth e.g freshest newest gadgets, fancy cars, designer this and designer that or the persistent craze with all the Brazillian, Peruvian hair.

There are some weird extreme cases like asking for the guy?s 6months bank statement (I find this a tad uncomfortable since they are not engaged or anything like that). While I know it is important to look at the financial status of the person you are with, I think it is wrong when it becomes the major criteria while considering a relationship. The joy is in growing together, building your life together. You get to appreciate each other more because you know that you went through thin together and are coming out thick. Unlike when you land with a partner who is already swimming in cash and would constantly see you as an accessory and not an equal partner.

The society too plays a major role in this line of thought as well because you bring a partner home to the family and the question of what they do comes up??.where they live??.where they schooled. ?Some even go as far as asking how often the person travels out of the country.

A male friend once told me this ?if you meet a guy who isn?t doing so well, ask him about his past, rate his present, consider his principles not his sweet-spoken nonsense and from there predict his future from all he says and all you can get from his body language?.

I guess in essence he was telling me to judge my partner with my head not my heart as the heart has been known to lead people astray.

No one is saying you should walk blindly into a relationship with someone that cannot meet his/her needs and has no intention of trying. Just make sure that the size of the wallet isn?t your major ?attraction?.

There was a point in this life when all you needed for a relationship to work was the commitment of the people involved. Now the commitment can be ?bought? because

?Love isn?t all that matters?any more?.

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Jennifer Lopez in V: A Foxy Boxer!

Jennifer Lopez may have flashed a nipple while presenting at the Oscars.

But, in the latest issue of V, the singer/dancer/actress/American Idol judge makes sure not to expose any other private parts: she's donning a protective cup over her crotch.

Why? Lopez tells the magazine she "thought it was more graphic," while going on to explain how boxing is a parallel to her life:

"I've always felt like a tough girl from the Bronx, but I have a soft core," Lopez says. "I can take a lot of punches and still keep going. I've been trained like a boxer to go 15 rounds."

And she's certainly been through a lot recently, of course, as Jennifer's divorce from Marc Anthony made headlines for weeks.

"We’re parents and friends first. That will be the thread that ties us together," she tells the publication of her ex. "I don’t know if people expect it to be negative just because the relationship didn’t work out.”

Lopez has been married three times now and has also seen a couple albums and movies go bust. But she tries to take each failure in stride.

“You’re not going to hit the target or the bull’s-eye every time. That’s part of it. At the end of the day, I made those choices. I’ve been in the business now, I don’t want to say how many years. You have amazing moments of recognition and success. But at this point in my life, I try to take it all with a grain of salt.”

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/02/jennifer-lopez-in-v-a-foxy-boxer/

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'The Hobbit' Is Going To Be 'Amazing,' Star Says

Benedict Cumberbatch tells MTV News working with Peter Jackson was 'extraordinary.'
By Kara Warner

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For those who have been keeping tabs on the comings and goings surrounding Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," there is a unique level of excitement building around the film. The die-hard Jackson fans and "Lord of the Rings" loyalists are eager to see anything helmed by the Oscar-winner, particularly when it involves a faithful adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's beloved book, which has a different tone and fanbase from "LOTR."

This excitement level is not just for fans like us, but everyone involved with the production as well. When MTV News caught up with rising star Benedict Cumberbatch recently, who is playing not one but two roles in the film, he was full of praise for Jackson as well as his friend/co-star Martin Freeman.

"I was very lucky [to work] with Pete," Cumberbatch told us at Elton John's Oscar-viewing party. "As far as the experience, what an extraordinary one it was because at the time I was in my work; I was in isolation with him and this incredible tag team. And at the very cool place with that technology doing mo-cap for two characters, Smaug the dragon and another character, which will remain nameless, and it was an awful lot of fun."

Cumberbatch went on to say that he hasn't seen any finished shots from the film since he worked mainly by himself doing voice-over work and movements for the characters.

"It's a sort of wonderful ongoing process," he said. "I spent a lot of time recording voice as well as doing movements. So, it was sort of freeing; it was fun. It was like playing a game. It's going to be an amazing film; it's going to be a real treat. I watched 'The Lord of the Rings' again before I started working, and the way those films grow in depth of craft on every level are extraordinary. Their mark is for that."

The "War Horse" actor admitted that the only trouble he had while on set was keeping a straight face when he saw his friend and "Sherlock" co-star Martin Freeman in costume as lovable Hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

"It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo," Cumberbatch said with a grin. "For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film."

What are you looking forward to most in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"? Leave your comment below! Check out everything we've got on "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."

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How to Profit From Mobile Marketing For the Enterprise | California ...

Mobile marketing is an enormous potential source of traffic, clients and gain for your company, but as yet relatively untapped. Yet, on the next 3 years, it?s expected that more than half existing online users may be opening the net via phones and other mobile devices.

Mobile marketing offers a very individual sort of interactivity for relationship building with your prospects. It?s not only about bombarding folk with wording SMS advertising communications. Mobile helpful internet sites and mobile applications mean entrepreneurs could accomplish a much better target audience.

The data are very genuine leadboltapz and rivalry in the portable direct advertising industry is still fairly low.

Progress in mobile clients

Worldwide there are 4 billion people who have cell phones. In fact, you will find almost five times more cell phone owners than laptops and pc owners, specifically house net ready.

Gartner, the IT study company, forecasts that within the next three years over half existing internet users can be opening the web via mobiles and other mobile devices.

?There are distinct options for mobile dealings to expand as people, in this and past surveys, suggest which they wish to be able to use their mobiles to buy more products, such as publications, music, journey providers, house utilities and electric appliances,? suggests BuzzCity CEO, KF Lai.

It is a very global development. BuzzCity?s new survey questioned 1,798 cellular customers across the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Western Europe and the Americas and indicated that 90% had immediately bought products via their mobile.

The trend towards mobile advertising

It?s no surprise actually that the fastest growing advertising technologies and emerging programs are social media marketing and cellular, rich media. You just need to do a search on some of the common keywords for the website marketing and online home-based business marketplace to observe how these methods are all being adopted with eagerness by entrepreneurs.

Unica simply introduced its ?The State of Marketing 2010? results from the newest Global Survey of Marketers and there are some astounding conclusions.

The survey noted that ?Nearly 1 / 2 of marketers surveyed have appreciated cultural media advertising, and ownership is balanced across many cultural media sites, such as sites, Facebook, and Twitter. Nonetheless, marketers have to think more about integrating social media with additional marketing practices.

Despite the rapid increases in the possible audience, ?mobile marketing? is a comparatively new practice. The term describes advertising on or with a mobile system, such as a cellular phone using WAP or texting to connect between your enterprise and the client.

Mobile marketing is growing in importance with over 30% of marketers interviewed currently using some form or other of mobile advertising and many sources of information (magazines, and services open to help them.

However, mobile marketing has grown over the past 1-2 years (nearly 100% in the UK), despite the economic decline. The total is quite little compared to advertising on the web, which this past year was greater than that used on TV.

However, the Mobile Marketing Association implies the progress in cellular advertising is more likely to accelerate as handsets built with new technology, including special broadband, become ubiquitous and consumer behaviour changes.

The reply from marketing suppliers is not far behind. For instance, 84444.com recently introduced its Do-it-Yourself cellular advertising campaigns which can be run from the ease of a desktop computer Facebook is making massive changes to its mobile web presence and has begun adding ads throughout its mobile website.

How to tap into the cellular market

Everyone in business should always be searching for new approaches to feel their clients and reach out and create consideration from new leads. And mobile advertising may just be the golden solution.

Your mobile user is ready, impulsive and completely switched-on to interact at the drop of a cap. Who would not want to tap into cellular marketing? It?s the ultimate immediate response application.

Cellular marketing, you could claim, is possibly a relatively more attentive market. When somebody downloads a and has their telephone in their hand page they?re much employed than on a desktop based internet site. It is a far more potent immediate response application compared to web.

Conversions from phones compared to net or e-mail marketing are five times larger. Because this is really known about by nobody yet and, clearly opposition is much lower.

Just what exactly changes do you have to produce in your business to attract mobile customers?

Effectively, first you must make you are sending wording SMS communications with active internet links to your cellular associates sure your website is cellular pleasant, especially. There?s a tonne of reasons why that is significant, but mainly because mobile is energetic and an type of method, so you want the beneficiary to be ready to get quickly and to a useful site and follow the url.

Contemplate that prospect on your e-mail list may well be reading their messages on their telephone. So you desire to keep your url and main communication ?above the fold? to use a newspaper expression. To clarify: when you?re opening emails from a portable, often the longer people will remember the rules of convincing statements and get truncated so set your url early on.

But in addition, as with the SMS, your cellular person should be able to press your call to action link in the email and bring up the page then and right there from their phone?s internet browser. The chances when they get back to their PC they?ll visit your site are far lower.

If their consumers are happy because this is a big supply of income for them bing is positively trying to find respectable mobile permitted sites to feature in its search results. There is inadequate mobile sites available. Therefore discover ways to create a Google-friendly mobile model of your site and you might rank greater than for your typical desktop website.

There?s a whole array of answers for producing your website cellular friendly. These range from the easy and cheap like adding a bit of code you increase your WordPress weblog to costly and a more selection to develop a full and full cellular web site.

Having your website found by Google on the cellular internet search engine?

Google have mobile website routes distinct from the common site maps. Check out their webmaster instruments for help on that. And get yourself stated in the Google nearby business entries. Bing features a way you are able to create a cellular landing page within that software. It works best for mortar and stone firms, but it is all good website.

Google understands that people search differently on their phones than they do on their computer. They actually have a particular mobile keyword analysis device. Not the whole different algorithms to be then clued up by a bad thought search engines are applying for mobile hunting.

Yet another thing to remember to keep your mobile text advertisements small, replicating the style of social network discussions. Opera (one of many cellular browsers) statistics show that 41% of people opening the portable internet are likely to social network web sites, so MySpace, Facebook, facebook. So these ads have to work together they are intertwined and meshed together as a.

Automating the SMS text marketing procedure

You wish to put in a mobile phone area to your web if you presently seize your readers page record form? mail addresses and names. With a set of figures, your mobile direct marketing electricity can be unleashed by you by giving automated, scheduled SMS or text messages to your members.

Internet marketers have known for years the income is in the partnership with your email list. As cellular marketing gets exposed, it?s likely your telephone record can become the gold standard.

SMS posseses an impressive 97% open fee ? and usually within the first 5 minutes of getting the communication. That?s potent to entrepreneurs. Do you?ve an enterprise strategy for that dramatic change if the ?autotexter? restores the autoresponder?

Early adopters ALWAYS take advantage money. So go check out cellular advertising and see what a big difference it could produce in your business.

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