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Things You Need To Know About Chronograph Watches

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Although there are a lot of varieties in watches that you get to see on the market, chronograph watches get special attention from men. People usually choose this watch either for its sporty look or to get their running or racing timing right. If its style is your priority, then you may not take much interest in its functionality, though. However, a question remains – what is a chronograph watch? In simple terms, it is a stopwatch or timer. These watches may include one to three buttons for starting, pausing, and resetting the chronograph function. Mostly, car racers wear these wristwatches for tracking their time with precision and accuracy.

How to buy a chronograph watch?

Like everything else, you have to be careful about what you purchase in this type of watch. According to experts, you should look for an easy-to-read watch which comes with bright markings so that you can read it even during night time. For ease of operation, it’s better to opt for the one that has two to three pushers. Also, you should find out a piece that you don’t need to reset every time for convenience. Other than that, factors like water resistance, longer life, and accuracy have to be there.

An Emporio Armani watch in this category can be your best bet as it can offer you maximum satisfaction. The time hands, hour markers, and sub-dials can fulfill most of your needs. Plus, you can enjoy wearing one for its timelessness, sophistication, and functionalities.

Just make sure you don’t get carried away by the options. Some watches can offer you load of features to attract your attention. But these can interfere with the readability factor. Then, you wouldn’t want to pick something for outdoors that cannot cope up with mechanical shocks or water. You have to be careful about the buttons also. If it gets activated with an accidental light touch, you should better stay away from it. At the same time, you also have to be sure about its size for your wrist. An ill-fitting watch is most likely to start, stop, or reset the chronograph by itself, which you wouldn’t prefer for sure.

Why should you buy a chronograph watch?

Whether you are searching for a watch for everyday or occasional purpose, you can trust chronograph watches to deliver your expectations. You can sport it with chinos or formal suits to look your best. It can match your fashion sense without failing, regardless of when you wear one and how. Plus, you can use them to time anything, whether it includes race, cooking, or a work-related project. It would take care of your needs by being accurate. However, make sure you don’t overuse chronograph function as it can consume more power and switch off soon.

Some people stay away from chronograph watch because they find it complicated in terms of functionalities. But that’s not exactly true. When you need to turn the timer on, push the start and then stop buttons on your watch, and when done, you can press the reset button.

Emporio Armani men’s chronograph watches are available in exciting colors and range. You can explore this and other editions of the label for a satisfying experience.

Author Bio:

Sujain Thomas is a contributing author of h2hub.com. She has been passionate about watches since childhood. Although being raised in the digital watch era, she found her way to mechanical timepieces. After being active on watch forums from the 1990s onwards, she decided to start a blog on watches in 2004.

 

 

 

 

Starting A Fashion Blog With Instagram To Gain More Traffic

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If you want to gain more traffic to your fashion site as well as make the best out of the social platforms, the mots productive way is to start a fashion blog with Instagram. However, if you want to get the desired results you will need to know a few things and trends that should be followed in 2019.

Over the years, it is social media that has taken the blogging world by storm. There are different social media networks that you can choose and use to compliment all other traditional blogs and turn these into a full-fledged micro blogging platform of its own.

  • Just like all the fashion bloggers, you too can take your Instagram feeds to a new level than the actual blogs.
  • You will also be able to put more effort through blogs to capture, caption and post the perfect photo.

For an improved result you can also follow the steps of the digital fashionistas to gain more followers for Instagram and become more of an influencer than a blogger simply. This will ensure that you gain more sponsored brand deals as well as make the process of monetizing your Instagram feed much more easily than ever.

Making money on Instagram

As a fashion blogger you can raise traffic to your site as well as make huge sum of money through your Instagram posts. Apart from the sponsorship fees, your social media and Instagram feed may also help you to receive lots of free clothing and accessories from different brands.

If you are into fashion business, you can make money through your Instagram posts by your fashion and style showcases. All you have to ensure is that your posts gain the desired attention which is actually the secret to Instagram success.

The most significant factor in your Instagram success is the number of followers that you have on this platform. This is important because several brands pay for that number of views of your posts.

  • According to research, any Instagrammer that has a few hundred or thousand followers may earn anywhere from $500 to $5,000 for each post and
  • When your follower count reaches to millions for your page you can earn anywhere between $20,000 and $100,000 for every single post.

These figures are however apart from the exclusives that you may also earn as a fashion blogger or an owner of a fashion business and site.

The great thing in it

You may wonder what is so great about being an influencer or a fashion blogger. Well, it is the innumerable opportunities that you will have to reach out to more people and direct them to your site and increase the number of footfalls. In addition to that, there are also a few other specific benefits of being a fashion blogger:

  • You will get invited to different fashion shows and events
  • You will get a better chance to review clothes and makeup but most importantly
  • You will get discovered much too easily in the Google search results.

In fact, fashion blogging using Instagram or any other social media platform for that matter is the best way to gain a strong foothold in fashion industry which by itself is very hard a feat.

In addition to that, blogging will also help you to extend your Instagram profile which will in turn not only enable you to gain a higher ranking in Google and get discovered much easily but will also help you to shape a more loyal connection with your customers.

If you look at the monetary factor, this will help you to charge more money for your sponsored posts.

Choosing a blogging platform

When you choose a platform for fashion blogging, just make sure that you choose the best and most popular one so that you can reach out to more people in an instant.

  • According to research, if you consider only the WordPress.com blogs there are about 76.5 million of it and
  • About 17 posts are published in these sites every second all around the world.

This means that you will need to manage your content well and the best way to do so is to use a proper Content Management Systemor CMS. This will provide both the shell as well as the skeleton for your blogs.

  • The CMS will enable you to control the look of your blog as well as its functionality and performance.
  • It will also spare you from the trouble of knowing the coding requirements of the complicated programming.
  • It will also allow you to include and manage the content of your blog.

You will just need to make sure that you choose the best platform from the limited options that includes WordPress, Drupal and Joomla wherein WordPress.org is the most extensively used platform and ranks one in terms of trust and popularity.

Follow the main idea

You must follow the main objective of Instagram platform when you want to use it for your fashion site. This includes gaining more views, followers and likes that will help you to connect with more people.

  • In order to gain all these, you will need to understand the type of fashion blogger you want to be. For this you will need to know your strengths and chief interests.
  • In addition to that you will also need to know and focus on your main message as well as the concept that you want to follow.

It will also be much easier for you to find your target audience and gain more followers fast or find the advertisers from who you want to earn money and become a top influencer in the fashion world.

You will also need to make a proper content planning to post on Instagram. This will help you to create a content that will perform constantly. The plan must include cyclical photoshoots to ensure best looks and the content contains the best reviews as well of some of the best fashion designers.

One of the best ways to make money and gain more traffic to your fashion site is to experiment to ensure diversity in your content.

Author Bio

Walter Moore is a notable management consultant and digital marketing expert. He is an experienced digital marketer and has helped e-commerce businesses in all niches gain with his effective marketing strategies and guidance.

Restaurant Allows Guests To Pay It Forward – In A Unique Way

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I think this is such an awesome idea. I would have no problem donating like this. It could be as simple a a pay-it-forward change jar where guests could dump some money in that the restaurant could use to feed those who are in need. Some restaurants don’t allow you to buy food for those in need and some have actually denied service to any caught doing so an escorted off the premises. Our world can be heartless sometimes. If opportunities like this were given I think more people would be encouraged to help. What opportunities would you be willing to help like this? Have you seen something equally cool to help those in need you can share?

25 Uses For Coffee Filters

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1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.

2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome… Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.

3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.

4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.

7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.

8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.

9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.

10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.

11.. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.

12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters..

13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. It soaks out all the grease.

14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great “razor nick fixers.”

15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics.

16. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.

17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.

18. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.

19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.

20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.. Saves on having extra bowls to wash.

21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.

22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.

23. Use them to sprout seeds.. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout.

24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book..

25. Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc.

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