Online Video Marketing ? 3 Tips for Small Business Success ...

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online video advertising is big business these days, and as you?d expect, there?s always someone out there ready and willing to take your money in return for some flashy and slick video production.

Now, the thing with online video marketing is you really don?t have to spend a lot of money on equipment and you don?t have to go to a studio. Anyone who tells you otherwise is pulling a fast one.

I film all my own videos on a Kodak Zi10 (you can?t get the Zi8 any more, I believe) a fairly cheap microphone, a simple tripod and a memory card that goes in the camera ? and the whole thing cost me under ?200.

And the scenery is free ? but unfortunately you?d have to move to Ireland to get it.

But that?s not the point. You can shoot your online advertising videos anywhere.

Now, a guy I met a long time ago did a lot of video testing (and he tested this to death) and he found the more casual, unscripted, and unprofessional his videos were ? like being filmed in the middle of his field with just a T-shirt on and a funny hat ? he got a better response than if he was sitting at his desk in his library.

And we can theorise all we like about why this might be, but there?s a good chance it was because if you look too professional you?re obviously trying to make a sale. I mean, who else but a salesman wears a suit, and talks to you about the benefits of a product or service?

Whereas, if you?re more friendly and unprofessional, so to speak, and casual, you?re actually putting yourself on the side of the person you?re talking to.

Rather than being on the other side of the table, you?re on the same side of the table. So that?s probably why it works better.

But, of course, you can test it in your own Market. All you need to do is follow these three simple tips:

1. Make a list of the top ten most frequently asked questions about your products or services.

2. Make a list of the top ten most INFREQUENTLY asked questions about your products or services that OUGHT to be asked.

3. Make a simple 3 minute video answering each one, upload it all to YouTube, and you?re done (you can also use the audio for Podcasts and get it transcribed and use the content for articles, blog posts, and article marketing).

The point is don?t go rushing out spending money on studio time and expensive professional equipment.

A simple camera, like the Zi10 (it?s sometimes called the PlayTouch), cheap microphone, tripod, memory card ? all under ?200.

Nice scenery and a sunny day and you?ve got yourself a decent online marketing video you can use to great effect.

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Victoria De Francesco Soto of NBC Latino talks about the Senate race in Texas over Sen. Kay Baily Hutchinson?s seat. Candidates have spent about $25 million ? more than any other Senate race in this cycle.

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liberation: NZ Politics Daily: 29 May

At each stage of the ?baby boomer? life cycle the decisions benefitting them have always been pushed as ?what was best (and necessary) for the country as a whole. And so it is now. The current pressure on National to agree to raise the age of eligibility for superannuation is perversely pushed as being necessary to remedy ?intergenerational unfairness? ? see, for example, Grant Miller?s?Doing nothing about super. It?s exactly the opposite in many ways but that shouldn?t come as a surprise to anyone who has tracked the fortunes of this ?lucky generation?.

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If you were born in the 1950s you would have grown up as New Zealand?s economy boomed, with almost zero unemployment. If your family couldn?t afford a decent private rental there were literally entire suburbs of state houses built and available at low rent. These were not the multi-story blocks that later tenants had to endure, but roomy, well-built (and now much sought after) houses with quarter acre sections. If you wanted to own your own house but didn?t have the deposit then your universal family benefit could be capitalised and there were subsidised housing corporation loans to make sure the mortgage payment weren?t too onerous. Most health and education services were, for all intents and purposes, free. School donations were actually donations ? not invoiced with threats of exclusion if not paid.? Tertiary education required almost no fees and living allowances were easily accessible, along with plentiful holiday employment.

Of course the top marginal tax rate was 66% in order to pay for all these benefits. But in the late 80s, just as middle class baby boomers entered their high earning years, the top tax rate was halved. That meant the next generation had to start paying and borrowing for their education, along with market rentals for state house tenants and numerous other user-pays charges.

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A new generation of graduates already saddled with mortgage sized debt wasn?t really a problem. They were told the need to own your own home was irrational and there were plenty of houses they could rent from the well-off baby boomers, who were furiously investing their surplus income in property, claiming deductions but still free of any tax on their substantial capital gains. House prices rocketed ? which was great for growing untaxed wealth, but was a disaster for families trying to buy their first home.

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Baby boomers who joined Kiwsaver early will have received the highest proportion of Government subsidy for their savings ? the state?s generosity is already being ratcheted down. Kiwisaver funds will be the icing on the cake for baby boomers, but is likely to be the main staple for those that follow with auto-enrolment already planned and compulsion being mooted by Labour (see: Alex Tarrant?s?Labour considers not letting KiwiSaver savings out of NZ). John Armstrong certainly sees the writing on the wall: ?it might survive as a vital back-stop for those unable to save for their retirement if the bulk of workers can draw their retirement incomes from elsewhere. It stands to reason that the more workers there are with KiwiSaver schemes, the less the future pressure on the existing state scheme? ? see:?Shift that would turn Key into a superman.

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Paper boys and girls are having their taxes increased to save a few million and childcare subsidies are being reduced, but huge sums are still flowing to the ?lucky generation? each year. The government apparently had no choice but to fork out $1.6 billion to save (overwhelmingly older) finance company investors who chased a few extra dollars in return for much higher risk. Treasury had kindly underwritten these risks and, as usual, the boomer?s well-being was deemed essential to all taxpayers.

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Particularly hard hit will be Maori, Pacific people and those on low incomes whose relative life expectancy worsened in the 80s and 90s, a gap which has never been made up (see: Otago University?s?Unequal playing fields). The number of years they will be able to securely retire will be dramatically cut ? many Maori and Pacific males will never see a pension. Raising the retirement age is not only an intergenerational transfer of wealth ? it is effectively a massive shift in public benefits to middle and high income pakeha retirees.?

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We shouldn?t be surprised that the ever-increasing health spend goes largely unquestioned and attempts to direct it to more cost-effective prevention rather than treatment continue to be resisted. We can probably look forward in a few years to greater government regulation and subsidies for funeral services ? those customised Harley Davidson hearses don?t come cheap.

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Raising the age of entitlement to superannuation is presented as the only option. It is apparently unthinkable that we should ask the most well-off of a generation to contribute back some of the wealth they have accumulated (thanks to their dream run through the welfare state) so that their children can at least retire with the same security as the ?lucky generation?.?

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Luck, as they say, has nothing to do with it.

Other important or interesting political items today include:

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• Graeme Edgler has an interesting proposal that our MPs should be allowed (and encouraged) to regularly undertake part-time work in other jobs ? see:?Shirking their responsibilities?.

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• With the plug about to be pulled on TVNZ7 the campaign to save it is louder than ever. Duncan Graham acknowledges that TVNZ7 wasn?t perfect but says New Zealand will be much poorer without a commercial free channel ? see:?Whose airwaves are they anyway?. The campaign to save the channel is misconceived according to Steven Cowan, especially as it allows Labour to posture as the defender of public service television ? see:?Letting Labour off the hook.

• National, Labour and even the Greens are skewered by Toby Manhire over the WWF?s damning report on New Zealand?s environmental record over the past 20 years ? see:?100% Pure New Zealand. Ha, ha, ha.

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• Rod Oram looks at the contrast between the Auckland Council?s long-term growth plan for Auckland and Bill English?s zero budget ? see:?A tale of two budgets.

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• The media has an obsession with turning elections into a two horse presidential style contest according to political scientist Jack Vowles. He argues that this ignores the MMP reality that an election can be very close even though the gap between the two main parties is wide ? see: Reesh Lyon?s?Media Blamed For Low Election Turnout.?Mark Blackham disagrees ? see:?Election turnout not media fault.

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• Willie Jackson says?At least Louis Crimp is honest, claiming Crimp?s views are not that far from the more carefully worded utterances of Michael Laws, Paul Holmes , Don Brash and John Banks.?

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• Kim Dotcom seems to be growing on New Zealanders according to the Southland Times editorial, despite the latest attempts by US law enforcement to smear him by claiming there were some child porn files amongst the 800 transfers per second on the megaupload servers ? see:?The pirate king?.

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• The struggle over reproductive rights in New Zealand has never been properly written up, but Alison McCulloch has a book coming out on the recent history of this very contentious area of sexual politics ? see:?Return of the DIY Abortion.?

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• Finally, leftwing economist Brian Easton has penned a lengthy and very thoughtful take on the evolution of the political left in recent decades entitled?Rogernomics and the Left. He concludes with a warning to the left ? that its failure to take ideology and economics seriously, could result in the next Labour Government essentially being a repeat of the Fourth Labour Government: ?The danger remains that there may be a repeat of Muldoon?s legacy in which a future government of the left has to introduce major radical modernisation to resolve its predecessor?s failures to respond to change, while handicapped by the limitations that these failures cause. Will the incoming government be as bereft of analysis and vision as the left was after Muldoon? Last time the consequence was Rogernomics?.

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Below are the internet links to all the NZ politics material from the last 24 hours that are either informative, insightful, interesting or influential. This list and the links are taken from a fuller document,?NZ Politics Daily, which is emailed out, Monday to Friday, to various researchers, academics, journalists, MPs and so forth. The document is purely for private/research purposes only, and if you would like to be on the subscription list, please email: bryce.edwards@otago.ac.nz

Superannuation

Duncan Garner (TV3):?Pressure for John Key to raise retirement age

Duncan Garner (TV3):?Superannuation costs on the rise

Newswire:?Key stands firm on pension age

TV3:?John Key not moving on superannuation

Alex Tarrant (interest):?Key: Even if promise not to hike Super age had been made, Budget 2012 would not have dealt with it

Grant Miller (Manawatu Standard):?Doing nothing about super

Newstalk ZB:?No major cuts to SuperGold card scheme

Isaac Davison (Herald):?Smokers save Govt cash, says report

Newswire:?Smokers saving Government money, in theory

David Farrar (Kiwiblog):?Grey Power hypocrites

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Kiwisaver

Alex Tarrant (interest):?Labour considers not letting KiwiSaver savings out of NZ

David Chaplin (Herald):?Be a tidy KiwiSaver - cleanup campaign begins

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour):?Labour's KiwiSaver plans [Updated]

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TVNZ7

Danya Levy (Stuff): Coleman:?Number's up for TVNZ7, regardless

Nelson Mail:?Editorial ? Loss of an important New Zealand voice

Robert Winter (Idle Thoughts):?More blame game in the Key Government?

RNZ:?End of TVNZ7 seen as big mistake

Steven Cowan (Against the current):?Letting Labour off the hook

Duncan Graham (Pundit):?Whose airwaves are they anyway?

Russell Brown (Hard News):?Reading the Numbers

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Families Commission

TVNZ:?Families Commission funding slashed

RNZ:?Major restructure at Families Commission

Isaac Davison (Herald):?Families Commission in for major shake up

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Education?

Stuff:?Reforms too far for some schools: PM

TVNZ:?Govt backtracks on teaching cuts

RNZ:?School working group set up for protection ? Labour

RNZ:?Govt 'committed' to working with schools over class sizes

John Hartevelt (Stuff):?Allowance cut adds thousands to loan

RNZ:?Call to urgently review home-based childhood education

John Hartevelt (Stuff):?Schools 'transition' sped up

John Minto (Herald):?Education policy forgets the heroes

John Parker (Herald):?Quiet learning is banished from open-plan classrooms

Vaughan Elder (ODT):?Otago University worth $1.4 billion

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Child poverty

Jessica Tasman-Jones (Stuff):?Children in poverty 'lost' to education system

Jonathan Carson (Stuff):?Poverty-stricken kids resort to scavenging

Holly Walker (frogblog):?Can we end child poverty in two Parliamentary terms?

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Environment

Newswire:?NZ 'dropping ball' - environment commissioner

Toby Manhire (Listener):?100% Pure New Zealand. Ha, ha, ha

No Right Turn:?Breaking our word on the environment

David Kennedy (Local Bodies):?Head in Sand over WWF Report!

Jenny Keown (Stuff):?'Grave fears' for border security

Reuben Hunt (Press):?Facts, fracks and community action

TV3:?Youths strip off for greener transport

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Ureweras

Herald:?Editorial: Police chief right to back Urewera team

Dom Post:?Editorial: Political acts must fall within the law

RNZ:?Regret over Urewera expressed by Broad

Matthew Backhouse (Herald):?Iti's Urewera appeal filed today

Ian Steward (Stuff):?Tame Iti appeals Urewera conviction

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Christchurch rebuild

Press:?Govt agencies wanted for Chch rebuild

Chris Trotter (Press):?As the cathedral fares, so fares Chch itself

Marc Greenhill (Stuff):?Three precincts for Chch, Aust planner says

Peter Cresswell (Not PC):?A conclusive experiment with a crucial lesson for Christchurch

RNZ:?Te Tai Tonga MP getting help in Christchurch

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Same sex adoption

Danya Levy (Stuff):?Key signals gay adoption support

Tova O?Brien (TV3):?Supports grows for gay adoption law change

TV3:?'I support gay adoption, but it's not a priority' ? Key

No Right Turn:?Key misses the point on same-sex adoption

David Farrar (Kiwiblog):?Handing over law making

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Judith Collins defamation case

Timaru Herald:?Editorial: Stop this silliness

Hayden Donnell and Newstalk ZB:?Mallard gets served, snaps and tweets

Tracy Watkins (Stuff):?Mallard: You've been snapped

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Green Party

Colin James (ODT):?Greens, Labour jostle for position

Niki Lomax and Bryce Edwards (liberation):??For a richer New Zealand?: Environmentalism and the Green Party in the 2011 New Zealand General Election

John Moore (liberation):??Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me? ? How the Green Party aims to woo back left voters

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Parliament?

Graeme Edgeler (Public Address):?Shirking their responsibilities?

Deborah Russell (Dom Post):?Parliament needs diversity to rule fairly

Reesh Lyon (Parliament Today):?Media Blamed For Low Election Turnout

Mark Blackham (Political Business):?Election turnout not media fault

Pete George (Your NZ):?The kneecapping of United Future?

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Budget/economy

Rod Oram (Stuff):?A tale of two budgets

Eric Crampton (Offsetting Behaviour):?Unemployment lenses: Salmond edition

Rob Hosking (NBR):?Why Key is right, and wrong, about job numbers ? and why it matters

TVNZ:?Budget smartphone app cost Govt $59k

Joshua Drummond (Waikato Times):?Roof leaks, flatmates squabble: it is the economy, Stupid!

NZ Parliament:?Detailed examination of the Budget

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Other

Isaac Davison (Herald):?Govt cool on insulation extension

Claire Trevett (Herald):?Mfat chips in to relieve Cup chaos

TV3:?Local councils under pressure to use asset sales

Herald:?HRC call for increased government funding welcomed

Newstalk ZB:?Questions asked over SIS overspending

TVNZ:?Hike alcohol price to target binge-drinking: Doctor

David Farrar (Kiwiblog):?Keep it 18 reason #1

Newswire:?Labour calling for review of shipping rules

Tracy Watkins (Stuff):?John Key to tour Europe

Vernon Small (Stuff):?New head of PM's department named

Kirsty Johnston (Stuff):?Kim Dotcom allowed back to mansion

Southland Times:?Editorial: The pirate king?

Morgan Godfery (Maui Street):?The best and worst Maori MPs for May

Willie Jackson (RadioLive):?At least Louis Crimp is honest

Alison McCulloch (Scoop):?Return of the DIY Abortion

Brian Easton:?Rogernomics and the Left

Stuff:?Today in politics: Tuesday, May 29

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Scalado Photobeamer for iOS brings rapid photo sharing to any web-connected display (video)

Scalado's latest 99 cent app for iOS only does one little thing, but it does it well. Its singular mission is to let you share an image from your Camera Roll to any web-connected display in front of you, without having to navigate through a more sophisticated file-sharing platform or use extra hardware on the receiving device. That recipient can be anything -- a smart TV, tablet, PC, Mac, games console, whatever -- so long as it has a browser pointed at the Photobeamer homepage. That page displays a QR code, which provides all the clever linkage you need: you simply load up the app on your mobile, pick the image you want to share, and then point the rear camera at the QR code to beam the image across via the web.

Having given it a quick test, we'd say it's definitely up to regular domestic challenges where you just want to display a few photos rather than perhaps videos or presentation slides, and where there's no need to print or store shared images. You can swipe left and right between different pictures in your gallery, and also choose whether you want those images to be fitted to the recipient display or resized to fill it. There's a video after the break to help you decide if that's worth a dollar, while the Photobeamer app itself waits patiently at the iTunes link below.

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Pusha T's 'Exodus 23:1' Video: No Hints At Lil Wayne Beef

G.O.O.D. Music MC's gritty new visual accompanies fiery track that Weezy took exception to.
By Rob Markman

Pusha T in his "Exodus 23:1" video
Photo: Universal

If Pusha T was challenging Lil Wayne on "Exodus 23:1," he makes no allusion to Weezy in the song's video, which he dropped on Tuesday morning (May 29).

Not that Wayne waited for the visual to respond. On Friday, Tunechi dropped "Ghoulish," a venom-laced dart aimed directly at the G.O.O.D. Music MC. Still, in Pusha's new vid there's no hint of rap beef, just a gritty look into a street life where dealers sell to soulless junkies and live to reap the profits.

In the Old Testament, Exodus 23:1 warns: "Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness." On Pusha's track of the same name, he chastises rappers who he feels embellish their street ties; he then proceeds to cast ambiguous stones at unnamed figures — widely believed to be Drake and Lil Wayne. With the "Exodus 23:1" video, the Virginia lyricist presents a realistic look at the underbelly of the frequently glamorized drug game. Though the scenes are staged for the camera, it's plausible that the man smoking crack (or heroin) from a beer can is no actor.

The Samuel Rogers-directed video is set in the rough-and-tumble Berkley section of Norfolk, Virginia, on Walker Avenue to be exact. "Beef is best served like steak/ Well done, get a gun in your face," Push begins, evoking the Notorious B.I.G. and clearly inspired by the late rapper's 1997 track "What's Beef."

Push continues to rap in a number of different settings: riding atop a bicycle handlebars, on a street corner surrounded by his street family and in a kitchen while a buddy sniffs coke from a dollar bill seemingly unaware of the camera's gaze (or quite aware).

The Clipse rapper throws up gang signs when he spits the lyric, "Throwin' that flag up, runnin' 'round you hot sh--/ Takin' half of everything you get." And though Wayne openly has played up his affiliation with the Bloods, Push could be rapping about any number of individuals with gang affiliations. The same can be said for the next line, which many believe is aimed at Drake: "Contract all f---ed up, I guess that means you're all f---ed up/ You're signed to one n---a, that's signed to two n---as, that's signed to three n---as, now that's bad luck."

There are also no visual references to Wayne, Drizzy or any member of the YMCMB camp in the four-minute, 23-second clip. But there is a clear message that Pusha T is sending: mainly, that he takes street life very seriously. Though we may see him on the VMA stage with Kanye West or out in Cannes with his G.O.O.D. Music crew, his background isn't all bright lights and billboard hits, and Push raps it all with one figurative hand on the bible.

What do you think of Pusha T's "Exodus 23:1" video? Let us know in the comments!

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Utilizing Auctions to industry your internet website

Ok, you might have a product or program you need to market; you might want to allow people learn about that product or provider and you also don?t have significantly money to devote. Consider a location that will get over 3 million clients that are prepared, in a position, prepared and trying to get everyday. It is a Super Shopping mall!

Inquire any company person what they?d spend to be within a mall that got 3 million guests per day. You?ll be able to see the greenback indicators mild up within their eyes? each when it comes to price and product sales potential. Don?t forget my goal from earlier within the course after we talked about enterprise arranging? I should have 4200 guests a month appear to my net website as a way to sell 420 copies according to my business strategy. Nicely E-Bay will get 3 million visitors a day! Does one believe that may be a spot that I would desire to advertise my publications or my web site? You wager! In actual fact I?ve bought pretty some of my other textbooks on E-Bay together with bottles, baseball cards, clothing, computer systems, software program, education, video clip and substantially additional. So can you.

Let us get my Weekend Chef?s guides and see how I can sell them on E-Bay, Yahoo Auctions, or MSN Auctions. Very first I will need an account. This is uncomplicated, but does differ based on who you?re signing up with. Comply with the directions (in the end of the page is a great program on the best way to definitely generate income on auctions, but this can get you started). When you may have an account, we now ought to place something available for sale. Consider from the auction website as your internet web-site As such we must produce an internet web page that delivers you product/service on the market. I exploit a software package package call Public sale Wizard 2000. They have an excellent program that enables you to try it for 60 times ahead of you may have to sign-up. It can be so simple to use as well. Utilizing Auction Wizard, I can create an public sale web page and instantly post it and repost as needed to any of the supported auctions. No unique knowledge of html is required. Straightforward fill within the blanks and add any photos or graphics and I am accomplished. Additionally, it will monitor the revenue, send email messages to effective bidders, observe inventory and so significantly more. If you?re thinking of performing auctions, this is one bit of software program to take a tough have a look at.

Again to selling my guides and developing my organization. Inside the public sale listing, I can place a link to my internet site, give a totally free down load of some chapters with the e book, certainly, I will require your email before you are able to download. Remember, I have to maintain you coming back. Be careful here, E-Bay does not like you selling outdoors of their public sale so ensure that the visitor is not permitted to purchase from your web site at that hyperlink. Nicely, now we have given something absent free of charge (a chapter of the e-book), we?ve the guests e mail address, and we ideally will get a bid around the product/service. If not, we?ve the e-mail to stick to up. What has it price us? Every single product up for public sale on E-Bay cost ? . are you ready for this thirty cents to checklist it plus a tiny percentage in the marketing price. If I checklist my Weekend Chef?s Guide to Sushi on E-Bay with a starting value of say $1 it is going to price me a complete of about thirty cents for your week. 30 cents to reach numerous possible clients each day. If I offer the ebook, I will have recovered my thirty cents and began building my buyer e mail list at the same time.

Now I could compose an entire net web page on employing auctions, but this web page is just how to use auctions to industry your business. You are able to offer items and produce a revenue or you?ll be able to just checklist products and construct a consumer database to market place to later on. Either way Auctions make a terrific way to market your business.

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Making use of Auto responders to market your net web page

Determined by the solutions, solutions or details you will be offering auto responders could have the ability to automate a very good part of one?s net website organization. An automobile responder is a bit of software package that checks email for specific phrases or phrases and responds according to your wishes. As an example, you could possibly have obtained a newsletter by sending an e mail to me with Subscribe as the subject. My car responder sees that e-mail are available in and features an arranged of actions outlined that once the topic has subscribe in it that it will email back again to you personally our newsletter. An additional thing that the car responders can do is subsequent up with your consumers at predetermined instances using a predetermined letter. This is great for driving targeted traffic to your web site immediately after they have visited and left their email address like to subscribe to a newsletter or obtain a no cost chapter of an e-book or other information and facts you might have created readily available. For my training business I send up to 4 diverse e-mails to each and every person that request my guide to boost their income. Each e-mail introduces them to other advantages and solutions which are readily available. Several of the emails will supply a low cost or totally free instruction class being an incentive to enroll for a course. All of it carried out without me getting to get concerned.

Auto responders could be set up on your laptop or computer or used via the web. Some are cost-free and other individuals you have to pay both from the email deal with or depending on the quantity of responses you need to program it to respond to. Here are some links to auto responders on the web in addition to a computer software package with a trial version you are able to use yourself.

Promasoft: This really is the one we use with our servers. I highly advise. They?ve a trial version that is certainly a full version. It locations a header within the outgoing email, so you?ll want to register as soon as you have got it up and operating. I feel it?s an excellent plan.

GetResponse: This is also a terrific program, even though, this one is a subscription support. It could become a much less high priced option to attempt out an auto responder. They do supply a no cost account at the same time.

This can be component one of a multi-part collection of Promoting you internet web-site. In the next section we?ll go over marketing and advertising you internet internet site utilizing banner ads and classified advertisements .

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How Social Media Is Used for Breast Cancer Awareness | Patricia ...

Social media provides tremendous opportunities for inexpensive word-of-mouth marketing thus allowing non-profit organizations to reach out to more people than ever before.

With regard to breast cancer awareness campaigns, some organizations using social media to spread the word include Susan G. Komen, The Breast Cancer Site, The American Cancer Society, and countless foundations and private hospitals.

Susan G Komen for the Cure is one of the most effective Facebook campaigns against breast cancer

Spreading the Word with Social Media

TweetCaster

The popular Twitter mobile app went pink in support of breast cancer awareness in October 2011. They even?offered a special pink version of their app to users who purchased TweetCast PINK and donated 50% of the proceeds to the campaign.

General Electric

In September 2011 General Electric (GE) created the?HealthyImagination Challenge?to?identify and accelerate ideas to advance breast cancer early detection and diagnostics, and ultimately help save lives affected by breast cancer.

As part of the campaign, GE?is on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube as well as their own ?Healthy Outlook Blog? actively engaging online communities in?spreading the word. In this YouTube video for instance, six GE employees share their stories about surviving breast cancer. Take a look:

Through these social initiatives GE is also providing screening to women who do not have access to such services.

Estee Lauder

Global cosmetic company, Estee Lauder dedicated part of their website to educating people on healthy living and breast cancer prevention, in addition to the latest breast cancer news and updates. Estee Lauder also dedicated an entire Facebook fan page to breast cancer awareness.

Other Successful Breast Cancer Campaigns

In 2010, the YouTube ?Pink Glove Dance? video done by the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Oregon proved to be a compelling content marketing study and an online sensation. The dance was meant to raise awareness for early detection and to encourage those in the fight against breast cancer.

With over 1.8 million hits on YouTube, this campaign was so successful that Medline, the Chicago-area company that made the pink gloves and produced the video, decided to create a sequel?involving more than 4,000 healthcare workers and breast cancer survivors.

Key Takeaway

There?s no denying that the effects of successful social media campaigning for breast cancer have led to more awareness about the disease. Both Susan G. Komen for the Cure and The American Cancer Society have stated that they received a significant increase of Facebook fans and inquires for more information about the disease.

Social media has proved to be a powerful tool for word-of-mouth marketing in the non-profit sector.

Over to you: What social media campaigns for breast cancer awareness have caught your attention?

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How To Circumvent Estate Tax | FINANCE-DEBT RELIEF

Estate planning is a very important financial undertaking you should complete no matter how much money you may have. The process of completing this undertaking will provide your family with additional security and peace of mind once you are gone. You can also take certain steps to reduce the amount of estate tax that will be owed upon your death to increase the benefits your family receives as a result of your financial planning efforts.

Taxes generally must be paid whenever there is an exchange of valuable property at the time of a person?s death. Payments are not owed to the government when certain types of financial vehicles are exchanged though. By taking advantage of these financial instruments and numerous other tactics, you can easily reduce the size of the payments your family will have to make to the government once they inherit your assets.

The type of assets being transferred for instance often comes with varying degrees of taxability. You can greatly reduce the amount of taxes that will be owed at the time of your death by maintaining the right type of financial assets while you are still alive. For instance, there are certain types of trusts you can place your money in to greatly reduce the amount of taxes your family will owe in the future.

The establishment of a will can also be used to greatly reduce the amount of taxes that will be owed as well. A will can provide your family and legal courts with guidance as to how you wish to have your assets dispersed. By outlining a clear will for legal courts and your family to follow once you are gone, your family will be able to avoid quarreling with each other in order to gain access to the assets and your financial worth will be dispersed in a manner that is more to your liking as a result.

Your will can be used to designate recipients that will not face heavy levies if your assets transfer into their possession too. Spouses for instance do not have to pay levies on the assets they inherit from those they are married to. This single step can help you protect your family from heavy levies to an impressive extent.

Another great method you can use to decrease the amount of taxes your family will have to pay is the method of gifting. You can gift numerous individuals $12,000 or less per year without being taxed. If you make these gifts to your family each year and your spouse does so as well, you can transfer a large portion of your liquid assets to your family to avoid paying estate taxes on that capital.

You can also establish a private annuity too. A private annuity will result in the transfer of your assets to the individuals you would like to inherit them. Then, they will simply make payments back to you throughout the life of the annuity to complete the transaction.

In the end, it really all comes down to planning. There are numerous techniques you can use to decrease the amount of estate tax your family will ultimately pay. By properly planning for the future, you can take advantage of every technique at your disposal.

Have you spent any time analyzing your family?s estate tax liability? You can ask for support from a professional like an estate law attorney or a CPA. To seek attorneys in your area who specialize in the area of estate law, you can use an attorney referral service like Lawyers.com.

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Why Real Estate Investors Need A Strategic Plan

It is mocking that many of us would never regard of having life-altering operation achieved on ourselves or the youngster without initial knowing what the blood tests, x-rays and lab results uncover and what the medicine recommends formed on this evidence. We would never erect a world-class review without initial having an granted set of architectural drawings ready by an architect.

Yet many of us outlay more time planning the eighth month than you do the own business and financial security. Some even settle corporations or paltry partnerships or trusts with small or no considered since to because or how they fit with the rest of the retirement, estate, taxation or financial life.

START WITH YOUR ? CORE VALUES ? .

Many planners purchase in to the widely-held parable that business estate, retirement or financial planning is usually about transferring ?the money? rsther than than the high quality of life and the core values together with the assets. Instead of starting with what the customers wish their young kids and grandchildren to mount for and accomplish, many concentration instead on luck initial and family second.

As a result, estate planning, retirement and financial planning turn focused on certitude documents, notarized signatures, coverage amounts and appropriation strategies rsther than than how these utilitarian collection exercise the prophesy and goals of the parents. Our young kids get the values just as certainly as they get whatever you have gathered financially. Their stewardship and the financial choices are similarly as important.

DADDY ? WHERE DO ?CORE VALUES? COME FROM?

I?m frequently astounded just how far people will go in their financial life without a roadmap. They will frequently ?put the barrow before the horse?. They settle insurance coverage, business entities, partnerships, assorted kinds of certitude structures, taxation planning and retirement skeleton without a clear, courteous and well-defined matter of precisely because they are carrying out it in the initial place, what personal core values such choices simulate and how they wish their heirs to request the properties being acquired. It?s similar to office building a oppulance review without an architectural outline or having leading operation with no x-rays being completed before-hand.

STEP ONE : HAVE A WRITTEN PLAN THAT MAKES SENSE.

o Start by assessing not usually what you have right away in the way of assets, but what your future skeleton are and the dreams and goals that you wish to matter in the lives of your young kids and grandchildren. The finish outcome can develop in to a personal ?Values and Vision Statement?. It should simulate what you and your young kids as adults will wish to be well known to have stood for.

o Next, accumulate your critical papers. These add a net value statement, insurance policies, retirement accounts, estate planning documents, taxation earnings and a list of any business or investment land you currently or outline to have together with your income and responsibility statement.

o Most important, have an ?integrated? Strategic Solutions Plan? created by someone that knows what they?re doing. If you are using a business consultant, CPA or financial advisor, their skill may be really willing to help in implementing the outline once it has been developed. To be integrated, it should add tax, estate, mortgage, insurance, retirement and business planning. It should be formed on the data you provide. That way, the planner can investigate your planning ?as is? to be able to develop a step-by-step action outline that ?make sense? and is easy to understand, follow and implement.

o Finally, once the Strategic Solutions Plan is completed, read it delicately and ponder any of the recommendations. Look at the taxation extra savings that may be possible. Consider how you can upgrade your legal case insurance by implementing established combinations of legal entities.

Ensure that the privacy component will complement your insurance against identity theft and fraud. See what estate planning improvements make clarity along with your financial and retirement planning. This will prevent the complaint of putting the barrow before the horse, and will help keep you on follow as you pierce forward.

STEP TWO : PUTTING YOUR PLAN ?IN MOTION?.

The final step is as critical as the first. It?s the Implementation Phase. It is the follow-through that really counts, and in the Implementation Phase, your planning ?comes home?. By having your roadmap in front of you and your advisors ready to assist, you can move forward with confidence, knowing that you have established priorities, goals and have a context in that to pierce forward.

Your implementation of vital solutions may be a source of great satisfaction. Whether you select to highlight the multiple-generation estate planning, business entity formation, taxation efficiency, chance administration and retirement planning or concentration on formulating a tax-free inheritance, having a outline that creates clarity and a that you?re cozy with gives you a roadmap with that your advisors can map out a improved march for a more secure and cozy future.

Having written thousands of Strategic Plans for others over the years, I?ve schooled from long experience that the more definite the Plan, and the improved ?tied-in? it is to your priorities and values, the more expected it is that you will obviously exercise the Recommendations.

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HIV charity closure hits North West?s LGBT community

Hundreds of people in Greater Manchester and beyond are now in need of support after a major HIV charity lost more than ?1.5million over five years.

Body Positive North West, based in Whalley Range, Manchester, announced it was folding due to ?financial pressures?.

Despite counselling services still remaining available via Talking Therapies, eleven staff members will lose their jobs and the hundreds of people suffering from HIV and AIDS in the area will be forced to seek help from other avenues.

Michael Snaith, ex-service user and founder of the Greater Manchester Coalition for HIV and AIDS, said even though many found the charity to be ?badly managed?, this closure would leave a gaping hole in the North West?s HIV/AIDS support network.

?There was a lot of negativity from ex-service users but we are all very very sad that the service is closing,? he said.

?I really do feel sorry for the service users, and the staff. The liquidators came in and now they?re just concerned about selling their services.?

Since an estimated 80% of Body Positive?s service users were from the LGBT community, there is increasing pressure on health services to do more to promote the use of condoms and stop the spread of infection.

Figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) showed the North West had the largest number of people outside of London accessing HIV treatment. They also revealed that half of people undergoing treatment in the North West were homosexual men ? and this group remained most at risk of acquiring HIV infection in the UK.

Mr Snaith said: ?Safer sex among gay men in Manchester doesn?t seem to be recognised.

?I really do think the government should do more. There are so many people living with HIV and we are going to be bottom of every list. It?s still just not talked about enough.?

Users of Body Positive have been advised to approach the George House Trust?as an alternative source of advice and?support.

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Ceo Forum Africa: African patterns rendezvous in Geneva

Ceo Forum Africa: African patterns rendezvous in Geneva

Ceo called Africa Forum, the first meeting of CEOs of large African companies will be held on 20 and 21 November 2012 in Geneva, organizers said in a statement received yesterday in our writing.

This first edition will see the presence of ?300 business leaders from across Africa, more than one hundred investors and financiers of the most influential of the continent and African personalities and leading international,? adds the same Source. Among the patrons whose presence is confirmed, there are business leaders like businessman Issad Rabrab, CEO of Cevital, the first private group in Algeria, Aliko Dangote, the first CEO of industrial conglomerate in Nigeria, Ekpe, banking group Ecobank CEO, Jean-Louis Billon, president of Sifca, largest private employer in the Ivory Coast, Terrab Mostafa, CEO of Moroccan OCP, leading exporter of phosphate, Mark Cutifani, head of South African mining group AngloGold Ashanti or Karekezi Cornelius, CEO of Africa-Re, the No. 1 African reinsurance. Leaders of international groups have also announced their symbolic participation in the appointment of Geneva, as Tidjane, CEO of British insurance group Prudential, and Sunny Verghese, Olam CEO of the multinational agribusiness based in Singapore.

Co-organized by the African Development Bank (ADB) and the group Jeune Afrique, the event aims to be ?a platform for dialogue to develop solutions to accelerate the development of African business and its markets? says the statement. ?The ADB is fully in the initiative of the Africa Forum Ceo. It shares its aims to highlight the initiatives of African companies, to bring the views of entrepreneurs and promote regional trade and intra-African, ?said Donald Kaberuka, the AfDB President, the website devoted to this economic meeting. Ceo Africa Forum will also be an opportunity to promote the success stories of the African private sector.

?Through the many ?case studies?, business leaders will testify about their strategies for expansion and conquest of markets?, say the organizers. Among the key topics chosen for this event, we note that the ?Development of trade and investment within Africa, new ways of financing the business? or ?The relationship between the private and government , ?the statement said. The official presentation of this appointment will take place during a press conference on the occasion of the general meetings of the ADB, scheduled between May 28 and June 2 in Arusha, Tanzania.

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Rick Scott Cleans Florida?s Voter Rolls (again)

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Florida finds itself in the news again regarding voters and registration, but this time the dissatisfaction is arising from within the state, rather than from outside as was the case in the Gore/Bush election of 2000. Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch is claiming Republican Governor Rick Scott is actively attempting to suppress voter turnout by removing ?180,000?citizens from the state?s registration rolls. Deutch?s concerns stem from the fact the list of ineligible voters is incorrect, and several false removals have allegedly occurred.

Critics of the efforts to clean voter rolls acknowledge that?s it is not as much an issue of voter fraud in Florida, as it is voter disenfranchisement. In the months following the disastrous 2000 Presidential Election and Florida?s infamous role in anointing George Bush as president, The Palm Beach Post did an investigation looking at voters purged prior to that election. There were some interesting facts that emerged as the investigation progressed. Unfortunately, they were a bit predictable, too.

While no one is making the overt claim that the purpose in purging voter rolls is discriminatory, it?s hard to ignore the results of that purge. After a Miami mayoral race was discovered to have had dead people voting, a major contract was awarded to a company to weed out those who were registered but ineligible to vote for whatever reason.? What the 2000 Presidential election highlighted was that the purges, in many instances, were incorrect. A Palm Beach Post computer analysis found approximately 1,100 eligible voters who had been incorrectly denied the opportunity to vote. Given that George W. Bush won Florida, and therefore the election over Al Gore, those inaccuracies very well could have cost Gore the election in during the contentious ballot re-count and investigation of hanging chads.

Even more stunning was the revelation that while African-Americans only comprise 11% of Florida voters, an unprecedented 88% of those expunged from the voter rolls were African-American. Does this mean anything when the current governor is making efforts at completing yet another purge from the voter rolls? What do they stand to gain by disenfranchising voters?

What we?re seeing is a typical difference between the two primary political parties. Democrats seek to open the opportunity to register and vote to anyone and everyone who IS eligible to vote. Republicans seek to disenfranchise voters, and limit opportunity through methods such as voter roll purges and redistricting. Is there a possibility that Gov. Scott?s efforts to clear voter rolls are not based on good democratic principles, and is instead another thinly veiled attempt to sway the upcoming presidential election?

As a Republican, Rick Scott has fallen out of favor with his party, perceived as not Republican enough, or a RINO (Republican In Name Only). By capitulating to typical Republican warfare tactics, he may be seeking to ingratiate himself with his own party again. He knows Florida will be a battleground state one more time, and by helping the party machine in advance he?s playing the political game, with little regard for the damage to the principle of democracy.

Congressman Deutch is concerned about the potential for errors, as the state has already experienced. For those inaccurately denied their chance to cast a vote in the 2000, the chance of being singled out again is a real possibility. What Deutch and in all likelihood the rest of the Florida delegation should be supporting is cleaning up the registered voters in an accurate and appropriate manner. No one is arguing that voters shouldn?t be registered per Florida?s laws, but when the state has a history of denying eligible voters the chance to vote, it?s an easy assumption to make that mischief may be afoot. For Rick Scott and Florida?s sake, let?s hope there?s not.

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Devices' embrace of disabled community is improving, but big challenges lie ahead

Brothers Adam, 10, left, and Brendan Koeppl,11, have autism and use an iPad to help with their motor skills, eye/hand coordination, learning facial/verbal expressions and learning to verbalize wants and needs. (Photos by Teesha McClam, Dayton Daily News/Special to The Denver Post)

When the iPad debuted two years ago, there was lots of talk about whether people beyond the iPhone and Mac faithful would use such a thing.

But it became very clear to a particular group of people ? advocates for those with autism spectrum disorders ? that the device could be a new tool for communication and education in that community, something perhaps even Apple didn't foresee. Some autism-related apps aid conversation between parents and children, while others help with learning words or social skills.

In fact, there are now so many autism-related apps for the iPad and other iOS devices that there's "Autism Apps," an app that provides a comprehensive list.

Kel Smith, a blogger, consultant and founder of the Philadelphia-based technology accessibility company Anikto LLC, has been studying technology shifts like this one for a book he's working on, "Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward Without Leaving People Behind."

It revolves around "accessibility," the idea that websites, apps, hardware and other technology should be designed in ways that do not shut them out to those with disabilities including blindness, hearing loss and other physical limitations.

But the concept of the book is changing as Smith works on it.

"I went in with the premise that there's entire populations of people who are being left behind; they're not being considered. Then I realized, they're the ones driving the innovation and moving it forward. They're forming their own solutions at this very grassroots level."

Smith's company Anikto (the word is Greek for "Open") has for years been advocating more accessible web design, hardware and software. In recent years, he says, tech companies are realizing that they're leaving money on the table by not making their sites or products accessible.

"Ten years ago, I was being laughed out of boardrooms for bringing up that we should make things accessible," Smith says. "Now, there's a

Adam and Brendan play HalfBrick-Fruit Ninji on their iPad to help with their motor skills and eye/hand coordination.

greater recognition that there's a market for this type of stuff and it's not just what we do on a secular level."

The idea is that designers should think about accessibility because it's in their own best interests ? in addition to being altruistic.

For companies selling products online, for instance, "You have to understand that people who have a disability that prevents them from leaving the home will be shopping from home. You don't want to have barriers (to) that purchasing decision," he says.

What's more, the cost for individuals and nonprofits to create their own web design tools and apps is falling, making it easier than ever for technology for the disabled to be distributed and for communities online to get the word out about them.

Another big shift is that for years, accessibility was largely focused on how the web is viewed on computers, how the online world interacts with computers, and mice and text-to-speech devices.

But now, much of people's web browsing is moving to mobile devices like smart phones, which have much smaller screens. We're also being introduced to personal tech like Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect, which relies on gestures and movement.

These new interfaces can be a double-edged sword. They provide "a whole new array of possibilities," Smith says, "and a whole new array of problems... We're almost back to square one in terms of web accessibility."

Improvements in tech accessibility are likely to benefit an increasing number of people as aging baby boomers will soon dictate the demand for devices suitable for people with limited motor skills, hand-eye coordination, poor vision and hearing.

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California says it shouldn't have to return foreign-bought execution drug to FDA

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California's lethal injection chamber at San Quentin State Prison.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is arguing that it doesn't have to give up its stock of the lethal injection drug sodium thiopental to the federal government. In a letter dated May 1, 2012, CDCR General Counsel Benjamin Rice told Domenic Veneziano, director of the FDA's Division of Import Operations and Policy, that "CDCR must decline to return the thiopental in its possession at this time."

The letter was in response to the FDA's order in April that states that imported the execution drug from abroad stop using them and return them to the FDA.?

The drug, sodium thiopental, is an anesthetic used by many states as an execution drug. In California, the drug is the first of three used ? the condemned inmate is first put to sleep using thiopental, then given a paralyzing drug, followed by a third drug that stops his or her heart.

In 2010, the US experienced a massive shortfall in sodium thiopental supplies because the sole US manufacturer lacked a necessary ingredient. That firm, Hospira, was also the only source of the drug approved by the FDA. The company has since completely abandoned making the drug, as it had always objected to its use in executions.

Amidst this scarcity, California and several other states purchased sodium thiopental from?a company in the United Kingdom. Some have used the drug in executions. At the time, the FDA, did not interfere with the states importing the drug.

In April of this year, following a lawsuit by death row inmates, the FDA issued a letter ordering the states that bought foreign drugs to return their supplies to the agency. The inmates had argued the drugs had not been reviewed for their effectiveness. If the drug didn't work properly, they argued, they could experience severe pain during an execution, a violation of the Eight Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.?

The CDCR, in its May 1 letter, the CDCR urged the FDA to appeal the ruling in the death row inmates' suit, Cook v. FDA. The FDA apparently agrees. On Friday, the agency?filed papers in federal court?to appeal the ruling's ban on importing foreign sodium thiopental.?

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Audio: KPCC's Julie Small on the decision.

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The Kobe That We Used to Know: Gotye Parody Laments Decline of Lakers Star

L.A. Lakers fans Dan Rib and Ken Belcher rip Kobe Bryant for not being “The Kobe That We Used to Know” in this hilarious parody of Gotye's hit song.

Following the Lakers' unceremonious dismissal from the playoffs at the hands of Oklahoma City this week, the duo took out their frustration musically.

With references to the triangle offense, Bryant's maligned teammates, his running Shaq out of town after the 2004 season and, of course, Kobe's ball-hogging tendencies, the video set almost perfectly to Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" is classic:

Kobye - The Kobe That We Used To Know

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Royal Bank of Canada reports 7% decline in Q2 net income

BBR Staff Writer
Published 24 May 2012

Royal Bank of Canada has reported net income from continuing operations of $1.6bn for the quarter ended 30 April 2012, a 7% decline from $1.7bn in the corresponding quarter previous year.

The company has registered diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.01 for the quarter, down $.09 from $1.10 in the same quarter in 2011.

Excluding the previously announced loss of $202m after-tax related to the bank's agreement to acquire the other 50% in its joint venture, RBC Dexia Investor Services, net income from continuing operations was $1.76bn, up $83m or 5% from last year.

Strong growth in Canadian Banking, improved results in Capital Markets and solid growth in Insurance and Wealth Management have contributed to improved performance of the company.

The bank registered $937m net income in Canadian Banking operations, up $42m when compared to last year.

RBC president and CEO Gordon Nixon said Canadian Banking delivered another quarter of consistently solid results with strong organic volume growth driven by our ability to offer our customers unmatched advice, value, service and convenience.

"Our recent recognition as Best Retail Bank in North America by Retail Banker International is yet another testament to the success of our strategy," Nixon said.

Wealth Management net income was $212m for the second quarter, down $15m compared to same quarter last year, the company said.

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