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The right presence at industry tradeshows is an effective way to make lasting impressions and increase traffic and provide a better ROI on your tradeshow involvement. Media relations is an important aspect of trade show marketing, and, with the right amount of effort, preparation, and execution, can be an excellent opportunity to get immediate and future coverage. Finally, trade shows last only a few days, while articles in key trade journals, search engines, and Web sites help customers to find you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To get every tradeshow you attend to really pay off with the media, consider pursuing the following 5 tips: TIP # 1 IDENTIFY YOUR GOALS - DEVELOP A STRATEGY, THEN DEVELOP TACTICS Is your company announcing a product? Trying to differentiate an existing product from your competition? Trying to break into a new market? Do you want direct sales or hits to your site? Are you trying to capture information from key customers? Define your goals and be specific. 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You can eat while cleansing provided that you use cleansing foods. If you want a specific food list for cleansing check into any cleansing book and they will list the foods specifically. Generally, it is avoiding heavy foods like red meat, wheat, dairy, fried foods, Soya products, dried fruit etc. You would eat fresh fruits, fresh veggies, whole grains with the exception of wheat, some chicken or fish etc. (Some veggies contraindicated when cleansing are tomatoes, potatoes, squash family. Dried fruit is usually a no-no.) Any condiments you use would be very simple like; flax oil, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, vegetized sea salt etc. The idea is to eat easily digestible foods so as to free-up the eliminative organs; liver, kidney, skin, lungs, colon, and lymphatic system, so they can spend more time detoxifying and less time digesting. (Some of these organs arent directly digesting food, but do help in the processing part of digesting.) A juicer is also recommended, though a basic cleanse can be done without this. With these things in mind, let me run through a few ways you can accomplish this. Plan A: Fast for days with fresh vegetable juices and fruit juices. Then eat lightly in the latter part of the day. I.e.: Brown rice or millet with fish or chicken and a salad. Have a variation of this for supper or have a few glasses of fresh juice from your juicer. Plan B: Juice with veggie and fruit juices all day (take your juice 1 to 2 hours apart) with 4 to 6 fiber drinks hour between juices. A mixture of a high quality psyllium mixture and ground flax seed is excellent for cleansing. It aids the removal of toxins from the intestines. Add hydrated bentonite clay to help absorb even more toxins from your body! (1 tbsp per drink is usually enough.) A word of caution here: if you havent ever done a fast before do not attempt this without doing the day fast first. 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