Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Baja Fish Tacos

This fusion dish is full of summery flavor with moist halibut marinated in lime juice, cilantro, and chili powder, then grilled and wrapped in a corn tortilla with cabbage, avocado, and sliced radishes.

Nutritional Information
(per serving)
Calories382
Total Fat14g
Saturated Fat2g
Cholesterol45mg
Sodium183mg
Total Carbohydrate31g
Dietary Fiber6g
Sugarsn/a
Protein34g
Calcium--
Mark Thomas
Serves: 4 Edit
Total Time: 25 min
Prep Time: 10 min




  • 1/4 small cabbage , cored and shredded (about 2 cups)
  • 3 tablespoon(s) lime juice
  • 2 teaspoon(s) olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon(s) chili powder
  • 1/3 cup(s) chopped cilantro
  • 1  (1.25 lb) piece halibut or mahi-mahi fillet, about 3/4-inch thick
  • 8  corn tortillas, warmed
  • 1  avocado, diced
  • 4  radishes , thinly sliced
Directions
  1. In a large bowl, toss the cabbage and 1 tablespoon lime juice. In a pie plate, combine the oil, chili powder, 1 Tbsp cilantro and the remaining 2 Tbsp lime juice. Add the fish to the pie plate, turn to coat and let stand for 10 minutes.
  2. Heat grill to medium. Grill the fish, turning once, until opaque throughout, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a plate and break into pieces.
  3. Fill the tacos with fish, cabbage mixture, avocado and radishes.

Asian Tilapia Salad

This Asian tilapia salad is perfect for a warm summer evening.

Nutritional Information
(per serving)
Calories230
Total Fat7g
Saturated Fat1g
Cholesterol57mg
Sodium479mg
Total Carbohydrate12g
Dietary Fiber7g
Sugarsn/a
Protein30g
Calcium--
Iain Bagwell
Serves: 4 Edit
Total Time: 20 min
Prep Time: 10 min



  • 1 pound(s) tilapia fillets, cut into 1 1/2-in.-thick strips
  • 3  scallions, chopped
  • 1/4 cup(s) bottled sesame ginger dressing
  • 1 can(s) (15 oz) sliced baby corn, rinsed
  • 1 bag(s) (10 oz) mixed salad greens
Directions
  1. In a medium bowl, toss the tilapia, scallions and 2 Tbsp dressing. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
  2. Heat broiler. Place the tilapia on a foil-lined baking sheet and broil until opaque throughout, 5 to 6 minutes.
  3. In a large bowl, toss the baby corn, salad greens and the remaining 2 Tbsp dressing until lightly coated. Serve with the fish.

Earn money at home via the Internet

Search the Internet for work-at-home opportunities and the results are pages deep. It's true that you can use the Internet to increase your income and do it from home, but proceed with caution. There are plenty of scammers who make their money by taking yours.
There's no quick way to Internet riches. To earn money, you need to provide some sort of service in return for pay. Like real-life jobs, you may need to pass a test or a background check before getting hired. How much you can make depends on your skill and experience. But where possible, I've listed average pay rates.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Hosting and Email Management

We at Crest Media believe that Internet marketing is an important tool for your business to prosper. By strategizing properly, our business remains competitive and that is the key to succeed in any marketing venture. We strive to provide quality hosting and email management and offer only the best for our customers.

Hosting

Hosting and email management are just two of the many web development services that we can provide. It is very easy to obtain web page hosting with Crest Media. After you have acquired a domain for your business, Crest Media can help place you above your competition. Your website will be easily accessible online with no down time with our reliable servers.

Mobile Web Design

Web development has become a huge part of businesses in the United States because of the immense popularity of the Internet. People have become heavily reliant on the Internet to provide necessary information to them daily as well as entertainment. Different kinds of websites have different functions. We here at Crest Media understand the importance of the Internet when it comes to business and entertainment. We can help with any Web project you may be looking to accomplish with the unique and diverse aspects people have come to expect from websites. One of the largest and fastest growing aspects of Web development is mobile Web pages and applications.

e-Commerce Solutions

If a comprehensive e-commerce package is what you’re looking for when launching a new website for your business, Crest Media can furnish you with solutions that are easy to use, functional, and secure.
Like everything we do, our sites our superior in design – but as your partner in e-commerce, we can add features to your website that enhance your marketing efforts tenfold.
How does it work? Simply review our list of e-commerce related website enhancements, then select from it based on your business website needs. Whether you are partnering with us to market one product/service or several, we can assist you with increasing sales through integrating the following e-commerce solutions:
  • Secure credit card transactions
  • Online administration of products and categories
  • Shipping systems
  • Multiple language and currency integration
  • Inventory control
  • Recurring billing
  • Customer service solutions
  • Sales tracking
  • Shopping carts
  • Returns tracking
  • Search engine friendly shopping cart (SEO friendly shopping cart)
Plus, you’ll always have our Internet marketing solutions at your disposal if you wish to incorporate them into your strategy. If you haven’t already, be sure to inquire about the following services:
  • Search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Pay-per-click marketing (PPC)
  • Video production
  • Social media management
It’s true: Crest Media is your go-to source for nearly any Web-based marketing and business development task. Our website development services go above and beyond e-commerce to ensure that you can obtain everything you need from one reliable source.

Website Design

Website Design is the process where the colors, fonts, graphics and layout of a webpage or website are established and drawn up into a sort of “mock-up image”, to be coded and constructed into actual functioning web page(s) by web developers.
Web design is one of the fastest growing industries in the web development field, leading many amateurs to believe that they can perform the task of building a site on their own. However, there’s far more to website design than meets the eye. Those who aim to impress their site visitors and attain a high conversion rate (the process of converting those visitors into paying customers) need a working knowledge of the following website design components:
  • Industry specific layouts, colors, graphics and fonts
  • Current search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and trends
  • Relevant content creation, including keywords, links, and video production

 

Email Marketing Services

It wasn’t so long ago that e-mail marketing, which is the process of acquiring an e-mail address list from your customer base and using it to promote your business, was a frowned-upon tactic that failed to produce positive results; but today, e-mail marketing is no longer a prohibited technique. In fact, it’s an acceptable, and often expected, internet marketing format that’s used by some of the most reputable companies in the world.
E-mail marketing campaigns may be more popular with certain industries, but most of the time, they can work for businesses of all types. When your clients and prospects receive e-mails from you on a routine basis, they can stay abreast of your latest special offers, discounts, and other news. This is a way to connect with your audience on a scheduled basis. But what makes e-mail marketing a more suitable tactic today than in the early days of online marketing?
In short, what sets it apart today is a commitment to following the rules. Companies that find success in their e-mail marketing efforts know there is a clear path to follow for a successful, ethical e-mail campaign. That path is laid out by CAN-SPAM, a policy act of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that was implemented in 2003. Without a doubt, CAN-SPAM is the #1 authority on the best practices for e-mail marketing, for the benefit of consumers who want to reduce unwanted e-mail spam.

 

Local Search Marketing

It’s no secret that today, marketing your business online is practically mandatory; but more specifically, you should know that local search marketing (aka local optimization) is the most effective online marketing strategy there is.
What is local search marketing? It’s a category of Internet marketing that deploys tools that work to your advantage with your local prospects – in other words, the people who are most likely to use the Internet to search for businesses like yours. As a company specializing in local online marketing strategies, Crest Media can provide your business with these services. You run your business; we can effectively run your local search marketing campaigns. Need more information? Please read on.

 

Social Media Marketing

No one needs to tell you that social media websites have exploded in popularity. But like some business owners, you may be holding out on jumping onto the social media marketing bandwagon. As an Internet marketing firm that offers social media marketing services, Crest Media is here to tell you: This is not the best plan. If you fail to take advantage of social media marketing at this stage in the game, you will be missing out on all kinds of advantages – advantages your competition may already enjoy.

What Is Social Media

At its core, Social Media essentially is defined as sharing and recommendation based information exchange through user-managed channels and websites. Social Media's principle difference from search based information sharing in that its dependent on a recommendation or a "vote" from random users and not algorithmic criteria or expert opinion. It is the process of everyday random people sharing & recommending digital information (in the form of website links, image and video files, or self-created content) they believe to be valuable and reputable for themselves, their friends, family and colleagues. As for how social media can affect one's business, one could think of it as the logical extension of a customer's opinion always being right and then using that opinion in a semi-public forum to influence those around them.

 

Search Engine Optimization

These days, everyone is buzzing about getting their websites found by prospects with the aid of search engine optimization (also known as SEO). But even for executive level business owners, the definition of SEO may still be elusive.
You know it’s a process that helps websites like yours rank high in Internet searches – but how? Fear not: Here’s a crash course.
Step 1 - When consumers use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for products or services like yours, they’ll use keywords to help them locate what they’re looking for. Those keywords will be relevant to the product or service in question, and the location in which they’re hoping to find it.
Whatever the case, the words they use make up a keyword phrase – the first component of search engine optimization. In other words, using keyword phrases in your website text is the first step to optimizing your website for search engines.
Step 2 - Next, anyone attempting search engine optimization should be familiar with “spiders,” which “crawl” the Internet in search of specific attributes within websites. The characteristics, listed here, will help the spiders index your website to the appropriate search results page:
 

Pay Per Click (PPC)

As a web-savvy, 21st century entrepreneur, you already knew that search engine optimization (SEO) is the only way to move your website closer to the first page of Google, Yahoo!, and other search engines – in other words, the best way to ensure that your audience finds you online.
Unfortunately, you may not have realized that SEO methods can actually take weeks – if not months – to start working. Do you have that kind of time to wait for the results you want? In today’s climate, where the first few years are critical to the success of any business, most enterprisers do not.
The good news? There is another way to the top (of the search engines, that is), and it works in virtually an instant. It’s pay per click (PPC) advertising, a search engine marketing service used by some of the world’s largest, most reputable companies.
Unlike what you may have heard, pay per click advertising is not viewed as “illegitimate” by Internet users – on the contrary, many people consider the businesses they see using it to be more credible than the businesses in the organic results! Like some of the world’s most respected corporations, small business owners like you can use pay per click marketing with confidence.

 

How to Sleep Better

Tips for Getting a Good Night’s Sleep


Tips for a Good Night's Sleep
How you feel during your waking hours hinges on how well you sleep at night. Similarly, the cure for sleep difficulties can often be found in your daily routine. Your sleep schedule, bedtime habits, and day–to–day lifestyle choices can make an enormous difference to the quality of your nightly rest. The following sleep tips will help you optimize your nightly rest so you can be productive, mentally sharp, emotionally balanced, and full of energy all day long.

 

Healthy Weight Loss & Dieting Tips

How to Lose Weight and Keep It Off


Healthy Weight Loss
In our eat-and-run, massive-portion-sized culture, maintaining a healthy weight can be tough—and losing weight, even tougher. If you’ve tried and failed to lose weight before, you may believe that diets don’t work for you. You’re probably right: traditional diets don’t work—at least not in the long term. However, there are plenty of small but powerful ways to avoid common dieting pitfalls, achieve lasting weight loss success, and develop a healthier relationship with food

 

Senior Exercise and Fitness Tips How to Gain Energy and Feel Stronger

Senior Fitness & Sports
As you grow older, an active lifestyle is more important than ever. Regular exercise can help boost energy, maintain your independence, and manage symptoms of illness or pain. Exercise can even reverse some of the symptoms of aging. And not only is exercise good for your body—it’s also good for your mind, mood, and memory. Whether you are generally healthy or are managing an illness, there are plenty of ways to get more active, improve confidence, and boost your fitness

Exercise is the key to healthy aging

Have you heard exercise is important for older adults, but don’t know where to begin? You’re not alone. Many seniors feel discouraged by fitness barriers, such as chronic health conditions or concerns about injury or falls. If you’ve never exercised before, you may not know where to begin. Or maybe an ongoing health problem or disability is keeping you from getting active. Perhaps you think you’re too old or frail.
The truth is that you can’t afford not to get moving. Exercise is the key to staying strong, energetic, and healthy as you get older.
No matter your age or your current physical condition, you can benefit from exercise. Reaping the rewards of exercise doesn’t require strenuous workouts or trips to the gym. It’s about adding more movement and activity to your life, even in small ways. Whether you are generally healthy or are managing an illness—even if you’re housebound—there are many easy ways to get your body moving and improve your health.

 

Healthy Eating EASY TIPS FOR PLANNING A HEALTHY DIET AND STICKING TO IT

Healthy Eating: Guide to New Food Pyramids and Tips for a Healthy Diet
Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, stabilizing your mood, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible– all of which can be achieved by learning some nutrition basics and using them in a way that works for you. You can expand your range of healthy food choices and learn how to plan ahead to create and maintain a tasty, healthy diet.

Easy Exercise Tips MAKING EXERCISE PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE

Exercise Guide for Exercise Haters
Of all the different ways to improve your physical and mental health, exercise is one of the easiest and safest methods. It is also one of the most effective. Even a little regular exercise can help ease depression, boost energy and mood, and relieve stress. But you don’t have to be a fitness fanatic to reap the benefits. No matter your age, health limitations, or fitness levels, there are enjoyable ways to use physical activity to feel better every day.

Healthy Fast Food Tips for Making Healthier Fast Food Choices

Healthy Choices at Fast Food Restaurants
Fast food is cheap, convenient, filling, and to many of us it tastes good. Unfortunately, eating just one fast food meal can pack enough calories, sodium, and fat for an entire day or more. Eating fast food on a regular basis can lead to a host of different health problems. Still, the quick-and-cheap temptation can often be hard to resist.  As an informed customer, you can make healthier choices and still enjoy the price and convenience of fast food restaurants.