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Tuesday, May 19th 2020, 10:59 pm

By: Daniel Hawk

The pandemic has changed the landscape of sports on how athletes train and prepare for competition.

Golden Dragon Taekwondo of Tulsa has come up with new ways to train and stay healthy.

"This training is very simple and not complicated. Good training should be simple," said Master Seo.

With the coronavirus affecting sports globally, it has changed the game as far as how sports are trained. At golden dragon Taekwondo, theyre implanting a new workout plan that you can do while at home.

"I think the isolation is going to make us feel all kinds of lonely and out of shape, and dare I say depressed. I mean, this is a really hard time, said Erica Silverstein, a participant. The only thing that has ever helped me with any of that is working out. I have used taekwondo to channel all of my negative emotions and it just wipes away when you hit the mat.

The workout is a fast paced with different pushup workouts, squats and kicks and will roughly take 30 minutes a day.

"Your solo workout is really going to step up your game because there is no waiting for the next person to go or, but I think this is going to be a good alternative, Silverstein said.

Only time will tell how long workouts will be at home. One thing is for sure, when classes do resume motivation will not be a factor.

"I can't wait to get to class because of the social aspects and the energy in the room. Hopefully with the internet, facetime and all these things that we can do, we can have a community at home, Silverstein said.

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Paul Barber believes it has been a pretty good week so far on the route back to Premier League action.

But Albion will tread carefully and consult with players every step of the rest of the way.

That will include a week ahead which could see training stepped up to the more full-on stage two.

Barber and many of his players spent part of last weekend watching Bundesliga action on television as the game returned in Germany.

The unanimous Premier League vote to approve stage one of training was passed on Monday.

And Albion report no problems or Covid-19 positives in the days since then.

Barber said: It has been a pretty good week, from seeing the Bundesliga get under way at the weekend, watching the games.

Even though the atmosphere was strange, looking at the TV it was strange, it was good to see football.

Good quality players, good teams, great stadiums and, even though it was empty, it was good to see.

Then getting the protocols, being agreed unanimously was important, we all worked hard on that and every club had their own individual concerns and points.

We really worked hard behind the scenes to get as many of those points across to the Premier League and they did their best to accommodate as many of our points as they could.

Then, of course, we got the players to support it, which was vitally important and training has got off very well.

All those things are small steps towards what ultimately we want to achieve, which is to get back to playing.

Getting back to playing is not just about concluding this season, its about making sure were in a position where we can support the wider game as well.

If we can finish this season, get next season underway, then all of the solidarity payments that go through the Premier League to the lower levels will hopefully give those guys a boost as well and enable them to get through a very difficult period.

It is a rebuilding process and so far, so reasonably encouraging.

Barber said: I think its a really good foundation, with the players going back this week, the pitches looked amazing, the weather has been fantastic, they would have seen the level of detail that staff have gone into to make sure the protocol is followed.

Disinfecting balls, disinfecting corner flags, grass, goalposts, all those things have been debated over the last few weeks and, when you see the environment that has been created and hopefully the players are feeling its as safe as it can be, recognising its a global pandemic and there are some risks there, then thats a little bit of confidence today that they didnt have a week ago.

If the detail of the next two protocols comes through quickly and gives us time to assess that, then of course we can start to look to move forward.

That detail was, as of yesterday still an unknown but it will be passed on to the players when possible. Their agreement is fundamental to Albion voting in favour.

Barber said: We havent had those discussions.

We have to break this down into pieces and deal with each piece in detail. The Premier League have done their best to show us what each piece looks like.

Were now looking towards the detail of the next two pieces, which is the return to larger groups of contact training and playing.

I think the one thing we all must keep in our mind is that there are nearly 40,000 people that have died from this virus in the last two months in this country alone.

When you have a backdrop like that, it would be incredibly insensitive and disrespectful not to take into account anyones fears individually, collectively and certainly within a club.

So for me its been really important to allow Glenn (Murray) either personally or on behalf of the group with Lewis (Dunk) as captain to express any concerns or fears they have.

We have to address those fears, whether they are public or private.

Suppressing them doesnt make any sense because theyre still there.

Id rather they were actually out and on the table for us to consider and to try and allay as quickly rather than players harbouring those fears without telling us. We can then assemble the appropriate experts to provide that reassurance.

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Despite the stay-at-home order, a pop-up drive-in movie theater is coming to downtown Chicago. The temporary outdoor venue is aiming for showing movies six nights a week to 300 vehicles, which seems to the standard for permanent outdoor movie theaters. The "event" will be hosted byBucket Listers, according to Chicago Sun-Times.

Some details are not yet public, notably the location, but it is said to have close proximity to the downtown area.

The tentative list of movies to be shown has not been announced either but you can have a hand at picking the films. Bucket Listers has promised great classics like The Sandlot, E.T., Back To The Future, and more, but you can nominate movies by sending them an email. You'll also want RSVP even though there isn't a date or exact location. Chicago Sun-Times reports of 60,000 people have RSVP for events tentatively scheduled throughout the country.As far as safety concerns, organizers promise contact-less concessions and clean bathrooms. And ticket prices will be $40 per vehicle.

If you're looking for closer outdoor movie theater options there are a few options.

Many of these outdoor movie venues have come up with plans to practice social distancing.

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Broker/owners seem to have a love/hate relationship with online internet leads. They often struggle with the feeling of obligation to deliver leads to their agents, and with the high cost to generate leads and the unfortunate management that glean little results.

The lack of success with internet leads is usually based on the real estate agents who should be responding to and nurturing those leads, but instead, complain that internet leads are bad. I assure you, they are not bad. There is no type of online inquiry from a human being looking at properties that is bad. The inquirer may not be ready to pull the trigger at that very moment or they may not have enough for a down payment at this time, but they arent bad. As long as there is intent, it is viable. There are many agents and teams that have wildly successful business models that include internet leads.

I had a front row seat to developing a process to manage internet leads at a corporate level in 2002. That was the year the company I was working for asked me to start up the internet lead management program. I didnt know anything about internet leads, or the online shopper, and I had never managed a call center. Zillow wasnt a thing yet, and there were not any brokers who had figured out how to effectively manage leads.

The consumer was starting to show interest in looking at properties online. Unfortunately, the agents were not showing the same interest in responding to those inquiries.

Fast forward to 14 years later. We had evolved the program to have nine full-time staff working seven days a week facilitating over 50,000 online leads a year in five states. We were earning over $4 million dollars in profit annually in the internet lead department from referral fees and millions more in company dollar retained in each company and paid out to agents in commissions.

I had a hard-working staff leading the program that was creative and unafraid to try new things. If something didnt work, we scrapped it and moved on to the next strategy to improve nurturing and conversion.

The consumer, agent and the lead aggregators have evolved dramatically since 2002. The pandemic has pushed even more consumers online to search for homes. Many have determined that living in a crowded metropolitan area or a small apartment may not be for them any longer.

Virtual tours are here to stay and may shorten the house hunting time by giving the shopper a more real viewing experience and allowing the process of elimination to be virtual, instead of in person, which saves the agent time.

There is a lot more data science, artificial intelligence and algorithms that factor in now, but some things havent changed. Many real estate agents still dont value online leads, so they dont engage the prospect long enough to achieve success. If the inquiry is made on a listing that is no longer available, then the listing agent will often ghost the prospect. Its not just about selling a listing, its about securing a new client. So many buyers being ignored. To have a successful online lead management program as a broker, there are some things that must take place.

Brokerages need to:

Contact people fast, really fastwithin 15 seconds of the inquiry.

Make sure your website is easy to use, engaging and informative so the prospect has a rewarding digital experience.

Seek out your team of eAgents who understand and will patiently court and build rapport with the online shopper for as long as it takes. Offer the listing inquiry to the listing agent, but if they dont accept the lead within the designated time period, route it to an eTeam agent for immediate response.

Have a highly trained staff (in a call center environment) that is tenacious and willing to try new things to move the needle on conversion. If you want to outsource it, make sure you have control on how your leads are managed, scrubbed and distributed.

Get some routing and lead management software, and a call center phone system that all seamlessly integrate.

Actively coach and observe, through management software, the eAgents interactions with theprospect.

When an agent marks a lead dead, dont let it die there. Have your call center reach out to the prospect and reassign it to an eTeam agent if its still viable,

Constantly monitor the performance, through reporting, of the eAgent team and make changes to remove team members who dont meet established metrics.

Dont get hung up on how long an agent has been in the business. Some of the best eAgents are newer to the business. Monitor leads seven days a week with extended service hours24/7 is even better.

Offer easy-to-use marketing tools and scripts for the agents to generate customizable drip campaigns and keep the dialogue and engagement moving forward.

Provide best practices to the eAgent team to share success stories and training tips Communicate with your eAgents regularly and provide report cards and acknowledge successes

Establish a decent SEO budget to ensure your company website shows up in searches

Make sure your website has your call center contact information on every page and a call to action button. Develop partnerships with outside aggregators whose only job is gathering online leads and distributing them out to brokers. Some are now working on referral fee-based models versus per-lead fees. Make your peace with them, they arent going away.

Have a strategic plan and someone at the helm that is motivated to achieve success.

I hear real estate agents talk about lead fatigue. The field is crowded with everyone fighting for the same leads, but ifyou have a solid plan, an easy-to-use website, excellent software and marketing, a strong lead management staff, and an enthusiastic and dedicated eTeam of agents, internet leads can be a very profitable business line for a brokerage and their agents.

Teresa R. Howe, founder of TRH Real Estate and Relocation Consulting, has a 30-year track record of developing and managing highly profitable programs and services for the real estate industry.For a free assessment of what services might be right for your company, contact Howe atteresa@teresahowe.com. For more information, please visitteresahowe.com.

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In April, the unemployment rate rose by more than 10%, with at least 26 million Americans out of work due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

With more time spent at home to stop the spread of the virus, many people are turning to side hustles as a way to make more money in trying times.

Curious how you can earn some cash? Here are some areas where you can find lucrative work that you can do from home, according to experts from freelancer platforms Fiverr and Upwork.

These companies examined their database to see trends and popular gigs that are getting traction while people stay home amid Covid-19.Some of these jobs require special skills or expertise, while others can be done remotely with just a computer and internet connection.

When considering a side hustle, "think about your competitive strategy,"Nancy Van Brunt, director of freelancer and agency success at Upwork, tells CNBC Make It. In other words: What skills do you already have that could be marketable? "Really think about your services as a business," she says.

As more businesses transition online, they're looking to hire people who know how to build an online presence for a brand, a representative for Fiverr tells CNBC Make It.

The side hustles

There are lots of ways you can do this, for example, you can earn anywhere from $75 to $1,045 writing an online article, or $135 to $995 optimizing existing content for SEO, according to Fiverr, which looked at a sampling of what users are earning now in their more than 300 categories.

(Pricing depends how long the project will take to complete and level of expertise, and both Fiverr and Upwork take a percentage of earnings.)

Building a website, which entails writing code for WordPress, can earn you $395 to $4,095, according to Fiverr.

Video editors can charge between $100 and $3,200 to edit everything from social media videos to event footage.

And managing social media accounts for a brand,which includes strategizing, writing and creating posts for platforms like Twitter and YouTube,can earn you $25 an hour on average, according to Upwork.

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a 50% increase in registration volume across many categories on Upwork, including technology-related jobs, according to data from the end of March and April.Specifically, there's a demand for web, mobile and software development,says Upwork's Van Brunt.

The side hustles

Mobile app development is one of the highest-paying side hustles on Fiverr, withprojects costing between $300 and $3,000, but this requires knowledge of software engineering and coding.

Graphic designers who focus on UI, or user interface (which basically means designing the way users interact with a product like an app or website via the buttons they click or the text entry fields that use, etc.), can earn $185 to $6,300 on app projects.

Quality assurance testing, which is essentially testing that a piece ofsoftwareor an application does what it says, can earn you $36 an hour on average, per ZipRecruiter. (QA testers typically have a computer science background and knowledge of testing software likeSelenium.)

More consumers are looking for productive ways to spend their time in lockdown, according to Fiverr. If you have internet connection and a computer, you can earn money teaching a variety of skills you already have.

The side hustles

Fiverr introduced new service categories between March 20 and April 3 to cater to people stuck at home during the pandemic, such as crafting, cooking, music, language and fitness lessons. People charge from $5 a class to $100 depending upon how involved the lesson is, and their own experience.

For example, home chefs sell recipes and remote cooking tutorials starting at $5, and as high as $100.

Personal trainers offer virtual training sessions or classes from $15 to $75.

While the pandemic crisis has put many people out of work, clients and freelancers on Upworkare seeing a demand for projects that are specifically related to Covid-19, according to Van Brunt. "There's opportunity to really make an impact by helping companies looking for help on these immediate and urgent needs," she says.

The side hustles

Van Brunt has seen job listings on Upwork for graphic designers who can create new signage for hospitals, software developers who can build apps that track Covid-19 cases,for example.

Graphic design projects like this creating displays, logos or marketing materials cansell for $100 to $3,000 on Fiverr.

To find work that relates to Covid-19, Upwork has added a "Covid-19 Job Feed" for users who are registered with the site and looking for Covid-19 jobs.You may alsowant to search for keywords like, "healthcare industry" or "online educational services," according to Upwork.

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