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The very first thing you want to do before you even consider the surgery is really contemplate if surgery is the only way to lose weight. If you have exhausted every diet or new lifestyle of eating, the last resort should be Gastric Bypass Surgery or another name is Bariatric Surgery.

First of all what is Obesity?

This results from too much accumulation of fat once it exceeds the body’s skeletal and physical needs.

According to the NIH (National Institutes of Health) 20% more than you “ideal body weight” is when excess weight becomes a health risk.

Almost 2/3 of the adult population, approximately 200 million, are overweight or obese.

What is Morbid Obesity?

Morbid Obesity is when it reaches the point that one or more obesity-related health conditions result in significant physical disability or even death.

Clinical Severe Obesity is also the same term as Morbid Obesity. Morbid Obesity is more or less defined as being more than 100 lbs over your ideal weight or have a Body Mass Index of 40 or more.

It is considered a chronic disease, meaning that it develops over time.

What Causes Morbid Obesity?

Believe it or not and despite conventional medicine wisdom, it is not just the result of overeating.

There is much research shown, that in quite a few cases, the significant underlying cause is genetic. There have been studies done that has shown that once the problem is established, efforts of dieting and exercise or fitness programs are really limited to provide effective long-term relief.

Science is always continuing to find answers. But until obesity is much better understood, the control of obesity is something patients need to work on for their entire lives.

It is very import to understand that the medical interventions, including bariatric surgery, should not be considered as medical cures.

Weight loss surgery attempts to reduce the effects of excessive weight and alleviate the serious, mental, physical and social consequences of the disease.

You want to take into consideration the benefits and consequences of weight loss surgery before you undertake the procedure.

The first thing you want to do is make an appointment with a Bariatric surgeon who will accept your insurance.

It is important that you go to a meeting setup by your doctor where other people have had the surgery or are contemplating the surgery even before you make your decision.

Stomach stapling is a major surgical procedure, whereas Gastric Banding is not. Both have its advantages and disadvantages.

Please check for other gastric bypass articles. There will be a series of articles pertaining specifically to this type of weight loss surgery.

Your medical doctor can determine if the weight loss surgery is right for you depending on your age and medical condition.

Copyright 2005

Article can be reprinted as long as the links are active

Fern Kuhn, RN
Specializing in Diabetes and Obesity
http://www.gastricbypassreviews.info
http://www.diabetestestingcenter.com

How To Sell On Ebay: The Money Is In The Back-End

Many people who sell on Ebay completely neglect the follow-up
process. They post an auction. Someone wins. They send an
automated message to the winner. They ship the item. End of
story. End of buyer-seller relationship.

. . .end of customer’s total worth to the business –and this is
why so many people who sell on Ebay fail or make negligible
profits: they have no idea that the real money is actually in
back-end and follow-up sales.

In this article, I am going to go over one of the tools you can
use to make follow-up sales on Ebay: autoresponders.

Autoresponders will allow you to automate the follow-up and
upselling process. You can subscribe to an autoresponding
service through a number of different companies. Most will give
you a free trial that limits your abilities, but lasts
indefinitely.

Getresponse (getresponse.com) is one of these companies. It has
a user-friendly control panel, excellent customer service, and
offers a free trial version that will give you access to
everything you need for early upselling and follow-up.

You can use your autoresponder a number of different ways to
make follow-up sales, but you must start by collecting names to
load into your autoresponder.

You can do this by asking customers (after you’ve made a sale)
if they would like to join your mailing list and receive special
offers, discounts, and the chance to buy items before they go on
auction. Load the names and email addresses of the people who
respond positively into your autoresponder.

Getresponse will send them a confirmation message. The rest is
up to you.

Come up with special offers, discounts, and contests and send
them out via broadcast to your subscribers on a regular basis,
but not too often.

Your customers have already a) purchased from you and b) agreed
to receive special offers. From here, it shouldn’t be too hard
to get follow-up sales. They are already hooked–just give them
a good offer.

For instance, you could send out special offers for
complementary products at certain intervals. You could target
people who purchased digital cameras and offer them sticks of
memory at a discounted price, but only if they buy within a
certain amount of days after the close of the auction. You could
do the same thing with camera bags–and also set a specific date.

If you sell jewelry, you could offer customers a matching set of
earrings for a necklace at a discount. Or cleaning tools. Or a
jewelry box.

There are a number of different ways in which you can structure
your Ebay post-sales follow-up with your autoresponder. There
are only two real rules you should follow:

1) Do not, under any circumstances, add people to your list who
did not specifically ask to be added to it. It is illegal and
unethical, and it could land you in jail; and

2) Make sure you are targeting the right people with the right
follow-up pitch. If you’re trying to sell discount plastic
dinosaurs to someone who just bought a case of motor oil, you
probably wont get the response you want.

. . .other than that, it is completely up to you. Come up with
some creative ideas; put them to work; and you can easily double
or triple the lifetime worth of each customer who shops at your
Ebay store.

When I meet with sellers about listing their home often times I
hear the strategy of setting the initial asking price high and
then coming down in price if it does not sell. This is really
not a good idea in a traditional real estate market.

Over the last few years sellers in Sarasota, Florida were
successful using this strategy of listing their property with a
high sales. They were successful because Sarasota like other
parts of the country was in an extreme sellers market. Our
prices were continually going above the most recent sales price.
Now that the market has cooled off a little bit it is necessary
to change strategies when deciding on an asking price.

If you start out with too high of a sales price, then decide to
drop it later your house has lost that initial flurry of
activity that new listings typically get. This strategy could
hurt your chances of selling your home quickly.

I think home sellers want to try this strategy hoping to find an
uneducated buyer. Our real estate markets have become very
efficient. Real estate information is easy to get and it travels
quickly. About 3 out of 4 buyers start their home search on the
internet. Today’s buyers are more savvy and are more educated.
Properties are listed on the MLS and most buyers have access to
these listings quickly. The chances of pricing your home very
high and selling it to an uneducated buyer is slim.

Lets say you do price your home high and later lower the price.
Once your home has been on the market awhile it becomes stale
and is harder to get a good offer. Potential buyers always ask
how long a home has been on the market. If they see it has been
on the market awhile they will make lower offers. By overpricing
your home in the beginning, you could actually end up settling
for a lower price than you would have normally received.