In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: With a 2-question survey, you can gather a lot of information about what your customers think about you. All you need to do is ask them if they'd recommend you to other people. Ask, "Would you recommend our product or company to friends, family members, and co-workers?" Have them rate the question on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being "definitely would recommend." Ask them to follow up by having an open-ended "Why?" underneath. Run the numbers by tallying the percentage of people who voted 9 or 10 (positive promotion) compared to those who voted 1 to 6 (negative promotion). Those who rank your system 7 or 8 are relatively neutral, so don't count them. Subtract the negative promotion score from the positive promotion score for your net promotion. Track the improvement or decline of your net promotion over time to give you an idea of how you're doing. A simple survey question about where your customers found out about your business can help you analyze how your marketing tactics are working. Plus, you'll be gathering information on whether customers are recommending you to people they know. Perform this survey with a simple in-store form or an online question. Alternatively, you can ask employees to gather this information verbally and record it in a computer. Develop a short 1-2 question survey asking about the reasons the customer uses your business. In fact, a ranked survey question can help you determine the most important reasons your customers visit so you can develop those attributes in your business. For instance, start with the question, "Why did you buy from us today?" Underneath the question, make a list like this one: Convenience Low Price Best Quality Best Selection Ask the customer to rank the selections from 1-4, with 1 being the most important.
Summary: Use a simple satisfaction survey to track your net promotion score. Ask how they found out about you to improve marketing. Request information on why customers chose you to better serve them.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Maybe you don't have a vegan-dedicated restaurant in your town, but there are probably some places with menu items that are vegan. Before you go out, have a few places in mind where you know you'll be able to get a healthy meal and enjoy yourself. Steakhouses, barbecue joints, and fried chicken spots are probably out. If your friends insist on going to one, you could always order a heap of fries and ketchup and call it a day. Many restaurants that offer cuisines from outside the US have vegan menu items. Try checking some menus out online, then up the restaurants beforehand to double-check that dishes are vegan. If you're seated at a restaurant and weren't able to vet the place beforehand, side dishes are often the best bet. Unless you're at a place where everything on the menu is made with bacon or ham drippings, you'll probably find some tasty items that don't have any animal products. If you decide to order vegetables, be sure to request that they be cooked in oil instead of butter. Look for tasty beans, peas, or other legumes and rice. These items aren't often cooked with animal products. If you're at a restaurant with tasty salads, you're in luck. See if you can customize a salad to include extra vegetables, beans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and any other toppings they have that are vegan. Order it with oil and lemon juice or vinegar, since most dressings on offer probably contain an animal product or two. You might feel shy asking for favors at first, but as a vegan, it definitely helps to speak up. You deserve to be able to eat a healthy, delicious meal, and most restaurant owners strive to be accommodating. Explain that you don't eat meat, milk or eggs, and ask if there's something they can prepare for you without any animal products. For example, they could give you plain pasta with garlic, olive oil, and veggies, beans with veggies, rice and beans, and so on. Even if the host of a party knows you're vegan, he or she might try to serve you something with eggs, milk or even fish, not quite understanding that vegans don't eat any animal products. Hopefully, your well-meaning host will have something on hand you can eat, but just in case, you should eat before you go.
Summary: Find the vegan-friendly spots where you live. Check out the side dishes. Order salads with all the (vegan) trimmings. See if they can whip something up for you. Eat before you go to parties.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Start as described in the previous part, doing the thin Burnt Sienna layer, then using tube texture paint and carefully brushing it, do a realistic black and white painting with all the details of your subject just using Ivory Black and Titanium White. Let that "grisaille" or "dead layer" dry thoroughly. It will look like a black and white photo in a way, very detailed. Then start mixing oil with all your colors, using them very thin, start painting over the grisaille layer. Covering the black and white painting with various transparent colors will let the light bounce back and forth within the dried layers and give it a unique luminosity. Only slow, heavily layered colored pencil rendering comes close to the effect. It's one of the things oil painting is famous for. You can try this method if you have a lot of time to let each glazed layer dry before doing the next. But if you don't want to take that long, just let the grisaille dry, add a bit of oil, paint over it in the right colors and add one final glaze when that layer's dry. You can get as elaborate or as simple as you like with oil painting.
Summary:
Try one of the traditional Old Masters techniques that doesn't rely much on brush textures.