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Top 10 Gamma Ray Songs of the 90s
Gamma Ray are a German power metal band.
Kai Hansen is the mastermind, primary songwriter, lead singer and lead guitarist of this band.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
The Facebook Algorithm Demystified: How to Optimize for News Feed Exposure
The Facebook Algorithm Demystified: How to Optimize for News Feed Exposure
Are your posts reaching fewer people on Facebook? Wondering how to appear in more people’s news feeds? Facebook’s algorithm dictates who sees your content and who doesn’t. In this article, you’ll discover how the Facebook algorithm works, and how marketers can optimize their posts for maximum news feed visibility. #1: How Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Ranks [...]
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Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Gold’s Next Spike
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Gold’s Next Spike
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Is the latest gold rally for real?
Investors can be forgiven for asking that question. Gold reached an all-time high dollar price of $1,898 per ounce on September 5, 2011. Then it began a relentless four-year, 43% plunge that took it to $1,058 on November 27, 2015.
Of course, gold did not go down in a straight line. There were numerous strong rallies along the way.
Gold rallied 13%, from $1,571 in June 2012 to $1,780 in October 2012. Then gold rallied 15%, from $1,202 in December 2013 to $1,381 on March 2014. Gold rallied 22.5% again, from $1,058 in November 2015 to $1,366 in July 2016, just after the Brexit vote in the UK.
If you were fortunate enough to buy each dip and sell at each high, lucky you. I don’t know anyone who actually did that. More common behavior is to buy near the interim tops on euphoria, and sell at the interim lows on depression. That’s a great way to lose money, but unfortunately it’s exactly how many investors behave.
With that said, no one can blame investors for being discouraged and skeptical about the price action in gold. Every rally since late-2011 was followed by a sickening plunge.
Perhaps the worst plunge was the dizzying 24% plunge, from $1,607 to $1,223 per ounce, in a brief 15-week span between March 22 and July 5, 2013. That period included the notorious “April Massacre” when gold fell over 5% in just two trading days.
Each time gold experienced one of these major reversals, investors were quick to claim price manipulation by dark forces, usually central banks, using highly-leveraged “paper gold” dumps on the commodity futures exchanges.
Actually there is strong statistical and forensic evidence to support the gold price manipulation claims, as I explain in my 2016 book, The New Case for Gold. China has a keen interest in keeping gold prices low because it is on a multi-year, multi-thousand ton buying spree. If you were buying 3,000 tons in a thin market, you’d want low prices too.
Of course, all of that will change when China reaches its gold reserve target of 10,000 tons — surpassing the United States. At that point, it will be in China’s interest to become more transparent and let the price of gold soar, which is another way of saying the value of the dollar is in free-fall.
China’s endgame may still be a few years away. Meanwhile, there are other more prosaic explanations for the long decline in gold prices from 2011 to 2015.
The best explanation I’ve heard came from legendary commodities investor Jim Rogers. He personally believes that gold will end up in the $10,000 per ounce range, which I have also predicted. But, Rogers makes the point that no commodity ever goes from a secular bottom to top without a 50% retracement along the way.
The calculation of a retracement necessarily relies on certain assumptions about which baseline to use for the analysis. For instance, gold fell, but traded in a narrow range between $490 per ounce in November 1987, and $255 per ounce in August 1999.
From there, gold turned decisively higher and rose 650% until the peak in 2011. So, the August 1999 low of $255 seems like a reasonable baseline for a retracement calculation.
Based on that, gold rose $1,643 per ounce from August 1999 to September 2011. A 50% retracement of that rally would take $821 per ounce off the price, putting gold at $1,077 when the retracement finished. That’s almost exactly where gold ended up on November 27, 2015 ($1,058 per ounce).
This means the 50% retracement is behind us and gold is set for new all-time highs in the years ahead.
Still, investors have been disappointed so many times since 2011 that they remain skeptical. Why is this rally different? Why should investors believe gold won’t just get slammed again?
The answer is that there’s an important distinction between the 2011-2015 price action and what’s going on now. The four-year decline exhibited a pattern called “lower highs, and lower lows.” While gold rallied, and fell back, each peak was lower than the one before and each valley was lower than the one before also.
The March 2014 high of $1,381 per ounce was lower than the prior October 2012 high of $1,780 per ounce. The November 2015 low of $1,058 per ounce was lower than the prior December 2013 low of $1,202 per ounce. Meanwhile, the overall trend was down.
Since December 2016, as shown in the chart below, it appears that this bear market pattern has reversed. We now see “higher highs, and higher lows,” as part of an overall uptrend.
The February 24, 2017 high of $1,256 per ounce was higher than the prior January 23, 2017 high of $1,217 per ounce. The May 10, 2017 low of $1,218 per ounce was higher than the prior March 14, 2017 low of $1,198 per ounce.
Of course, this new trend is only five months old and is not deterministic. Still, it is an encouraging sign when considered alongside other bullish factors for gold.
The current rally in gold began on December 15, 2016 at $1,128/oz. For over 5 months, gold has Adhered to a pattern in which each new high price is above the one before (“higher highs”), and each drawdown settles at a price above the one before (“higher lows”), If this pattern persists, the next high will be above $1,300/oz. Gold could rally further from there based on Fed policy.
The question for investors today is: Where does the gold market go from here?
We’re seeing a persistent excess of demand over new supply. China and Russia alone are buying more than 100% of annual output each year. That’s on top of normal demand by individuals and the jewelry industry. This means that demand has to be satisfied from existing stocks in vaults.
But western central banks have all but stopped selling in recent years. The last large sales were by Switzerland in the early 2000s and the IMF in 2010.
Private holders are keeping their gold also. On a recent visit to Switzerland, I was informed that secure logistics operators could not build new vaults fast enough and were taking over nuclear-bomb proof mountain bunkers from the Swiss Army to handle the demand for private storage.
With gold sellers disappearing and large demand continuing, the price will have to go up to clear markets — regardless of how much “paper gold” is dumped.
Geopolitics is another powerful factor. The crises in North Korea, Syria, Iran, the South China Sea, and Venezuela are not getting better; they’re getting worse. The headlines may fade in any given week, but geopolitical shocks will return when least expected and send gold soaring in a flight to safety.
Fed policy tightening is normally a headwind for gold. But, the last two times the Fed raised rates — December 14, 2016 and March 15, 2017 — gold rallied as if on cue. Gold is the most forward-looking of any major market. It may be the case that the gold market sees the Fed is tightening into weakness and will eventually over-tighten and cause a recession.
At that point, the Fed will pivot back to easing through forward guidance. That will result in more inflation and a weaker dollar, which is the perfect environment for gold. Look for another Fed rate hike on June 14, and another gold spike to go along with it.
In short, all signs point to higher gold prices in the months ahead. I look for a short-term rally to $1,300 in the next month, and then a more powerful surge toward $1,400 later this year based on Fed ease, geopolitical tensions, and a weaker dollar.
The gold rally that began on December 15, 2016 looks like one that will finally break the bear pattern of lower highs and lower lows, and turn it into the bullish pattern of higher highs and higher lows.
Regards,
Jim Rickards
for The Daily Reckoning
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Visual Content and Social Media Marketing: New Research
Visual Content and Social Media Marketing: New Research
Are you wondering how important visuals are in your social media posts? Do you want to know how other marketers approach visual marketing? In this article, you’ll discover new research that reveals why you should include visuals in your marketing, and insights on the types of visual content marketers are focusing on. #1: Visuals Reinforce [...]
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Monday, 29 May 2017
Facebook Mobile Video: What Marketers Need to Know
Facebook Mobile Video: What Marketers Need to Know
Want more traction with your Facebook videos? Have you seen the new video-only feed on Facebook’s mobile app? Marketers and video creators who capitalize on this video-only tab now will have a strategic advantage over those who wait. In this article, you’ll discover what the new Facebook mobile video tab is and find 14 ways [...]
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20 Stunning Consumer Services Video Examples
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20 Stunning Consumer Services Video Examples
JP Morgan Chase Consumer Services Video
Whether you’re just starting to invest or need to evaluate your existing strategy, your J.P. Morgan Financial Advisors will help you prioritize your goals and develop an appropriate approach tailored to your situation. Together with a Banker, you’ll receive a powerful combination of banking and investment expertise to help ensure your money is working hard for you. The J.P. Morgan consumer services video talks about the commitment to building long-term relationships and partnering with you over time to help you achieve your important financial goals.
Deutsche Bank Consumer Services Video
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The Bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people. Their services include on-shore investment banking, institutional equities broking, asset and private wealth management, retail banking and business processes outsourcing. The consumer services video shows how Deutsche Bank is a fully integrated financial services provider to corporate, institutional and individual clients.
Ola Consumer Services Video
Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners onto a mobile technology platform. As one of India’s fastest growing companies we ensure convenient, transparent and quick service fulfilment using technology to make transportation hassle free for everyone. The Consumer Services video explains how Ola is making it easy for employees to manage their travelling.
Jelastic Consumer Services Video
Jelastic offers hosting service providers a complete Platform-as-a-Service and Container-as-a-Service solution that supports Java, PHP, .NET, Node.JS, Python, Ruby and Docker technologies. The consumer services video shows how Jelastic can hasten up the cloud hosting process by delivering a superior turnkey cloud environment at a fraction of the cost.
Palo Alto Consumer Services Video
The Palo Alto Next-Generation enterprise security Platform protects the digital way of life by safely enabling applications and preventing threats across the network, cloud and endpoints. The native integration of the platform delivers a safe architecture providing superior security. The consumer services video walks you through the threats faced by enterprises and how next-generation firewall technology can benefit.
SYNERGi Consumer Services Video
SYNERGi is a SaaS based Cyber Risk Management platform. SYNERGi gives you a single, unified view of your organisation’s whole cyber security landscape across risks, threats, vulnerabilities and controls. The consumer services video acts as an overview of how SYNERGi can get you one view of your entire business.
Exel Consumer Services Video
Exel provide services from a total transportation outsource to helping you find capacity when you have a tough load to move. Its asset-neutral approach allows designing of a transportation solution that leverages multiple modes to ensure your product arrives where it needs to be at the lowest landed cost. The consumer services video shows how Exel helps transform your transportation network into a competitive advantage.
Capita IT Professional Services Video
Capita provides a range of IT solutions and world-class services based around the full Application Lifecycle Model, with information security at its heart, helping companies get the most from their investment in IT while minimising risk and increasing quality. Capita IT Professional Services applies technology to drive through secure business change. They design innovative end-to-end solutions to ensure that your business programmes deliver what you need while maximising quality, reducing risk and cost. The Professional Services video shows how Capita provides businesses with integrated IT Professional Services and support.
nuSIEM Consumer Services Video
nuSIEM is a managed cloud based SIEM service that provides complete visibility of all aspects of your UTM/firewall. nuSIEM, backed by its distributed, parallel processing cloud, combines high speed, real-time analysis of logs with intelligent alerting and Dynamic Drill Down Reporting. The ability to scale the nuSIEM is virtually unlimited and can be quickly achieved through scale-out architecture. The consumer services video highlights how their threat intelligence system can help your enterprise respond to malware or unknown attacks.
Sears Consumer Services Video
Sears Home Services delivers solutions for your entire home, from appliance care to interior and exterior upgrades for your home. You can trust their experts to help take care of your house so you can enjoy your home. To ensure they have the right parts to fix your appliance, they use technology to diagnose problems before they arrive at your home. Whether you purchased your appliance at Sears or not, a Sears Appliance Expert can help. The consumer services video describes Sears as your ultimate go to option for all your home care needs.
Ayehu Consumer Services Video
Ayehu provides IT Process Automation solutions for IT & Security professionals to identify and resolve critical incidents, simplify complex workflows and maintain greater control over IT infrastructure through automation. The consumer services video shows how Ayehu eyeShare can cut the Mean Time to Resolution and manual, repetitive tasks out of your IT operation with security incident response automation.
The Professional Service Consumer Services Video
The professional service centre offers a comfortable environment for health related consultations. The centre offers a wide range of facilities and equipment that facilitate diagnosis and management so that those who use the services offered can be managed as efficiently and conveniently as possible. They offer a wide range of services offered by equally committed specialists in their respective field. They work in close collaboration with a number of other specialists and diagnostic facilities to ensure the highest standard of care. The consumer service video shows how The professional service centre is working towards providing promising medical services.
Hutt Trucking Consumer Services Video
Hutt Trucking offers warehousing, transport and logistics services for manufacturers of all sizes. They offer creative solutions that helps you streamline your logistics by examining every link in your supply chain. They provide transportation services can help you reduce product fluctuation, shutdowns, backups. The consumer services video shows how Hutt Trucking can provide you a seamless producing and delivering experience.
Business Doctors Consumer Services Video
Business Doctors Professional Services is a collaboration between Business Doctors and is the fastest growing business consultancy in the UK. With challenging market conditions and competitive pressures from bigger firms, they are committed to supporting you with knowledge, expertise and resources to help widen both your range of services and revenue streams. The consumer services video highlights how Business Doctors Professional Services can make your business run efficiently.
Telefonica Consumer Services Video
Telefonica Cyber Security services provide intelligence to clients to help them detect internal and external threats, using that intelligence to implement preventive measures that helps to minimize threats and create reactive measure to deal with inevitable attacks. The consumer services video uses great visuals to highlight the deep knowledge needed to tackle the Cyber Security of today.
Edge Consulting Consumer Services Video
The Edge Consulting is a fully dedicated Human Resource (HR) Consulting Firm specialising in Strategic Human Resource Management and Development; they therefore provide expertise and direction through cutting edge consulting services and support in key areas of Human Capital Management. This consumer services video highlights the core expertise and what’s their consulting approach.
Telstra Consumer Services Video
Telstra Cloud Services offers businesses a scalable solution to deploy applications deployment, deliver business processes and deploy offshore disaster recovery solutions across multiple geographic locations. The consumer services video overview communicates how Telstra can provides customers with an exceptional experience, combining the flexibility of cloud computing with a world-class high-performance low latency global network.
Enterprise Consumer Services Video
Enterprise cloud is a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) by NTT communication offering efficient management and unified control of both Enterprise Cloud and third-party cloud provider solutions. The consumer services video highlights how Enterprise Cloud can simmer down the inconvenience of cloud management within a single dashboard.
2nd watch consumer services Video
The 2nd Watch Cloud Management Platform is a robust system that leverages cutting edge software with years of cloud experience. With automation and technology you are able to monitor, patch and optimize across thousands of instances, in moments. The consumer services video shows how 2nd watch can reduce risks and increases overall performance.
Toll Consumer Services Video
Toll is one of Asia Pacific’s largest freight transport provider permitting moving your goods by air, road, rail or sea. It has specialised fleet to provide a wide range of heavy haulage and bulk freight services for payloads exceeding normal capacity. The consumer services video shows how Toll provides safe, secure transport services for a wide range of freight types, providing the accredited expertise to handle your specialised cargo.
With the above consumer services video examples for website it’s evident that companies are fast integrating videos in their marketing campaigns and various other touchpoints. If you planning to develop these videos a good start is to develop a brief of what can be the tone and style for your videos. We advise you to be different and unique while you create your messaging through the videos.
We at Advids, create custom consumer services video based on your brief. With a complete video production services plan at a fixed price,our design team works right from concept development, to art design and animation. Having created 1200 plus explainers for businesses, our Creative team can help you come up with the right fit. Do talk to us or send us a note on what your company plans to create with for the next consumer services video requirement.
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Sunday, 28 May 2017
20 Kitchen Equipment Video Marketing Examples
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20 Kitchen Equipment Video Marketing Examples
LG NeoChef Kitchen Equipment Video
LG NeoChef Microwaves marry beautiful minimalistic designs with precise cooking and includes an anti-bacterial easy-clean interior coating to eliminate most of the harmful Bacteria. The kitchen equipment video introduces the latest technology, beautiful designs and an affordable price with LG’s microwave technology that is designed to make life good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAn1xYTZACQ
Poppy Pour-Over Kitchen Equipment Video
Poppy’s Pour-Over makes perfect cup of coffee and even brews one on demand.You can share your favorite settings with the pour-over community all from the Wink app. Get automatic refills on your favorite coffee beans, water filters, and coffee filters delivered by Amazon when the machine detects that you’re running low. The kitchen equipment video shows how Pour Over is a smart and beautifully designed product that thinks for you.
https://vimeo.com/123626425
Indel B Kitchen Equipment Video
In the hotel and interior design sector Indel B is the only producer offering minibar fridges designed with three different refrigerant systems capable of satisfying the needs of every client. Indel B’s minibars are innovative also in terms of consumption: the new K ECOSMART minibar were the first compressor refreshment center in the world to obtain the A+++ Class energy efficiency rating. The kitchen equipment video explains the efficiency of the Indel B Minibars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5PBdvARYU
Essence Aerospace Kitchen Equipment Video
The first complete family product line of its kind, the Essence Inserts Collection redefines the aircraft kitchen experience. Consisting of ten individual products with a single design language including a steam oven, convection oven, bun warmer, beverage chiller, refrigerator and freezer, SCS connected chiller, refrigerator and freezer, beverage maker, espresso maker, water boiler and hot cup, the Essence line of products is intended to harmonize with one another and promises an unmatched end user experience. The kitchen equipment video shows how the collection’s design, cost and easy-to-use features make it the ideal galley solution.
https://vimeo.com/43058091
Zytronic Touchscreen Kitchen Equipment Video
ZyThe Zytronic range of touch sensing products are based upon internationally award winning and patented projected capacitive technologies. Zytronic develops and manufacture highly durable and adaptable touchscreens in a near limitless range of shapes and sizes, ideally suited for the most demanding self-service, public-facing interactive systems and kitchen equipments. The kitchen equipment video shows how Zytronic’s Touchscreen feature is Durable, reliable and adaptable and how Zytronic puts the world at your fingertips.
https://vimeo.com/24997718
Moccamaster Cup-One Kitchen Equipment Video
The elegant Moccamaster Cup-one is a machine that gets the best out of your coffee. This compact and fast coffee machine, makes it easy for you to brew the coffee, right where you need it. At home or in the caravan, the boat or the small office. It’s up to you. Cup-one gives you the freedom to decide for themselves. Brew a cup of your favorite coffee in your best cup and enjoy. The kitchen equipment video familiarizes consumers to the elegant Moccamaster Cup-one Orange coffee maker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoC3NTuI_Zw
Hafele Kitchen Equipments Video
Hafele make a range of kitchen fittings, appliances and lighting for the modern kitchen. Hafele’s equipments are designed to make your kitchen, where meals are prepared quickly and tidying up is simple. This kitchen equipment video shows some of the company products animating to life, giving this ‘No Fuss Cook’ everything that is needed for a modern kitchen that utilises space and functionality.
https://vimeo.com/87573833
Glen Cooktop Kitchen Equipment Video
Glen India brings you designer cooktops, which let you use LPG with maximum efficiency. Equipped with toughened glass, these high quality cooktops are a culinary and visual delight. It’s Pressure die-cast, ultra light burners increases the longevity of the cooktop. To ensure liberty in hand movements while cooking, the glass cooktop is designed to be extra spacious. The kitchen equipment video shows how Glen cooktops come with multi-spark battery operated auto-ignition option, so that you don’t have to search for a lighter every time you cook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lELeGHBtfgM
Panasonic Kitchen Equipment Video
The NC-ZA1 is Panasonic’s first espresso machine. As soon as you open the box and see the product, its range of bundled accessories and the weighty manual, it’s clear that this is a high-quality coffee machine.It also looks great, and is surprisingly compact, barely taking up any room on your counter. It helps that the trip tray is spring-loaded, sliding out of the way when you don’t need it, saving even more counter-top space. The kitchen equipment video introduces the Panasonic Espresso machines as a sleek and compatible equipment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgdXaxBMv8w
Cerasure Kitchen Equipment Video
Cerasure Non-Stick Colour-Changing Frying Pans has durable non-stick inner coating requires little to no oil, allowing you to create a healthier alternative to fried family favourites. Complete in a stylish graphite exterior and suitable for all hob types including induction, this 2 Piece Fry Pan Set makes a vital addition to any home. The kitchen equipment video shows how Cerasure’s set offers enhanced durability whilst also enabling easy portability from stove to sink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a56YLnemmrE
Universal Appliances Kitchen Equipment Video
Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center is a premier dealer of brand name home appliances, They carry the most popular products manufactured by the leading manufacturers, which makes their company a one stop shopping for all your kitchen and bath needs. The universal kitchen video helps the consumers explore Bosch’s kitchen appliances in the new Bosch kitchen, including Flex Induction Cooktops, Gas Cooktops, Side Opening Wall Ovens, Steam Convection Ovens and quiet Bosch dishwashers.
https://vimeo.com/121515121
Nespresso by KitchenAid Kitchen Equipment Video
Nespresso by KitchenAid offers an exceptional combination of an iconic silhouette, high quality materials and an array of functions to help you easily prepare your favorite Grands Crus, such as a manual lever and a brewing button with six pre-programmed cup sizes. The kitchen equipment video concentrates on the exterior of the machine to impress the consumers.
https://vimeo.com/107496512
Panasonic Cooker Hood Kitchen Equipment Video
Powerful performance meets quiet delivery and clean kitchen design. Wall-mounted or covering a cooking island, the new Panasonic cooker hood fits beautifully into any kitchen. Bright and efficient LED lighting beneath the impressive hood means you can always see what’s cooking, while the four-speed, powerful, yet quiet extraction takes care of the rest, at an impressive rate of 705m3/h. The kitchen equipment video uniquely represents Panasonic cooker hood as an ultimate appliance to own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVGAwllk_A0
Whirlpool Kitchen Equipment Video
This 13 place setting A++ energy rated Whirlpool Dishwasher is not only designed to make your life much easier, but it also only uses 11-litres of water on average per wash, so making washing by hand a thing of the past. With Whirlpool’s 6th SENSE Powerclean technology, this dishwasher has specially fitted jets at the back of the cavity to blast away dirt from all your dishes including pots and pans. The kitchen equipment video demonstrates the characteristics of the dishwasher in a detailed manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9e8mXAo3k
Viking Professional Kitchen Equipment Video
The new Viking Professional French Door Oven has Side swing doors that provides convenience, better accessibility to your dish within arm’s reach and superior power and performance. It has Durable Metal Die-Cast Knobs and a capacity of 4.3/ 3.8 (AHAM). The impressive kitchen equipment video introduces the customers to the high class qualities of the Viking’s Professional French Door Oven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am3SpVQR7cU
Bosch Dishwasher Kitchen Equipment Video
Bosch is the quietest dishwasher brand in the US, with the dishwasher that operate as quiet as 38 dBA.Known for their signature sleek, European design, Bosch’s dishwasher is designed to complement any kitchen design. Features like the flexible third rack adds 30% more loading area, while RackMatic allows ultimate loading flexibility with 9 possible rack positions. The kitchen equipment video highlights the Energy Star qualified models that save energy and water without compromising performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1E9pMaI5Fc
Big Chill Pro Kitchen Equipment Video
The new Big Chill Pro Stove is a modern appliance both inside and out, with clean lines and bold colors. Cooking like a pro is easy with professional level power and versatility, with up to 18,000 BTU burners. The full motion grates let you slide pots and pans from front to rear burners without lifting them. The Pro stove has the largest oven capacity available on a 30” stove and will accommodate a commercial size baking sheet. The kitchen equipment video takes you through the impressive features of the Stove.
https://vimeo.com/91971675
LG Door-in-Door Refrigerator Kitchen Equipment Video
For those quick trips to the fridge, the Door-in-Door is a magnetically sealed section that allows you to access the door bin for easy access to your favorite snacks without opening the entire refrigerator. Whether it’s a refreshing drink, condiments or a healthy snack, the Door-in-Door is the ideal space for your family’s go-to foods such as canned or bottled drinks, salad dressings and condiments, as demonstrated in this kitchen equipment video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GFxE29OLMA
Philips Pasta & Noodle Maker Kitchen Equipment Video
The Philips Pasta and Noodle Maker VIVA edition will automatically mix, knead and extrude your pasta. The pasta & noodle maker comes with 3 shaping discs including discs for penne, spaghetti and fettuccine. The kitchen equipment video demonstrates the versatility of the pasta maker for different types of pasta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-hJ7ZCmQI
Key takeaways from the above video examples are :
Build a strong creative brief
Find a reference video or combine multiple video elements from different sources
Work with a company that can understand your video production requirement easily
A Kitchen Equipment Provider can create the following videos :
Kitchen Equipment Intro Video
Kitchen Equipment Marketing Video
Kitchen Equipment Animated Video
Kitchen Equipment Promotional Video
With the above kitchen equipment video examples, it’s evident that companies are fast integrating videos in their marketing campaigns and various other touchpoints. If you are planning to develop these videos, a good start is to develop a brief of what can be the tone and style for your videos. We advise you to be different and unique while you create your messaging through the videos.
We at Advids create custom videos based on your brief. With a complete video production services plan at a fixed price, our design team works right from concept development, to art design and animation. Having created 1200 plus explainers for businesses, our Creative team can help you come up with the right fit. Do talk to us or send us a note on what your company plans to create with for the next Kitchen Equipment video requirement.
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Saturday, 27 May 2017
Memorializing a Real-life James Bond
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Memorializing a Real-life James Bond
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It was April 1945 and the German SS had just captured French agent Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld…
The Gallic saboteur was coming off another mission of derring-do when the hated German occupiers collared him.
Monsieur Rochefoucauld was a man used to seeing off long odds. But Lady Fortune turns a cold cheek to every man eventually.
At least he would die a proud man.
He had sold himself dearly — he left a path of lifeless Germans behind him — and covered his name in glory.
Nazi justice would be swift… and it would be severe.
German soldiers seized the condemned by the scruff and hauled him into a nearby field.
They fell in, line abreast… readied their weapons… and awaited the order…
“Feuer!”
A belch of machine gun fire tore the early spring air. Then silence.
But something was wrong. Cosmically wrong. The Frenchman was… alive. No, alive doesn’t describe it. He was unscratched.
What happened? How could they miss from point blank range?
The Frenchman was now living a moment of pure adrenaline, a moment beyond description. Then suddenly his disbelieving eyes solved the mystery.
The bullets weren’t for him.
Rochefoucauld’s French Resistance confreres saw the proceedings and opened up on the SS men just in time. The timing was a thing of Hollywood — only more so.
Survival trumps justice, so the Germans wheeled to their immediate source of anxiety. The Germans would deal with their prisoner later. Streams of molten 7.92 millimeter arced their way downrange.
That’s when Rochefoucauld seized his chance…
His heart pounding to ¾ time, the galloping frog dashed out of sight — unexecuted, unbroken and unbowed.
Rochefoucauld had cheated death… again…
Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld was born in 1923 to a family of Paris aristocrats. They could trace their roots to the time of Charlemagne. One of his ancestors, Francois de La Rochefoucauld, often drank with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin while they were in France.
Before the war Robert attended Europe’s most elite schools. High society was his natural habitat. The young Count knew this one and that one, went to all the parties — as one would expect from a young aristo. He had life by its tail.
And believe it or no, the young man actually met Herr Hitler in 1938. The German chancellor even pinched the young 15-year old’s cheek. But that was before Hitler was Hitler. And before the Germans invaded France two years later.
The Germans settled into the rough business of occupation after their lightning victory in June 1940.
Rochefoucauld’s father was dragged off. Other relatives weren’t as fortunate. But young Robert managed to slip through the dragnet.
He tried to piece a resistance group. But he soon learned that his efforts attracted the Gestapo’s worried interest. It was time to quit Paris. He’d take his chances in the French countryside…
Rochefoucauld shed his aristocratic title, assumed a false name and went as a commoner. It was life at the other end.
He soon fell in with two downed British pilots who needed out of occupied France. The hatchling guerilla volunteered his assistance. So the three struck out for Spain, the Germans hot behind them.
They somehow made it through the German patrols. But when the unlikely trio crossed into Spain, their luck drained. They were immediately arrested. Spain was technically neutral — but still fascist. And international law demanded neutral countries intern foreign combatants.
The war was over for the young aristocrat… before it even started.
Rochefoucauld spent two impossible months holed up in Spain’s notorious Miranda de Ebro prison. It was known during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s for its ghastly conditions. It was here, here in this pit, that the young Frenchman nursed his appetite for revenge.
What those Nazis did to his country… what they did to his family…
Then one happy day a fellow from the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) — also known by the sterlingly British “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” — showed up to spring the pilots. But when the airmen told the SOE officer about their comrade who saw them out of France, the Brit also worked a get-out-of-jail card for Rochefoucauld.
The Frenchman was off to England, where he’d soon acquire the black arts of ungentlemanly warfare…
Rochefoucauld was immediately assigned to SOE’s espionage section. The Count was schooled in skydiving, sabotage, safecracking, weapons tactics and self-defense. By June 1943 he was cutting wild capers in his native France… and visiting unshirted hell on its Nazi occupiers.
Rochefoucauld took up with the local Resistance and went straight to work. He cut his teeth dynamiting train tracks and an industrial power station.
But cruel fate moved against him…
A collaborator turned coat and delivered Rochefoucauld to the Nazis. He was badly used by the Gestapo, and sentenced to death as a spy… his days of sabotage over.
The inevitable day came. His captors bound his hands and packed him onto a truck. As the truck sped towards his personal Golgotha, Rochefoucauld considered his options.
Options? The fellow was flanked by guards with submachine guns. And his hands were bound.
An absurd idea suddenly jumped into consciousness. What if I…
He’d only have one chance at it.
The bound captive suddenly bolted to his feet and dashed for the stern of the speeding truck. The fall should have broken an ankle, a leg… or cracked his skull. But nothing. The guards weren’t about to let him go so easily, of course…
Bullets screeched by the former prisoner as he dashed for the tree line, his hands still bound. By some miracle he escaped through the hail.
If you’re starting to think this was a man with unique talents for luck, you might be right…
Rochefoucauld proceeded to skirt enemy patrols, and snaked his way back to the city. Darting through the streets he suddenly found himself in front of the local Gestapo headquarters — the same Gestapo that was trying to kill him.
Tugging on fate’s cape, this daredevil walked right up and stole a Nazi limousine parked in front. That’s correct. He stole it.
The Germans were toweringly unamused.
They got his scent right away and Rochefoucauld led the Nazis on a high-speed chase through town. At one point he crashed through an SS roadblock. His New York taxicab driving bought him time before he ultimately ditched the car. He then took to his heels, losing his pursuers in a minotaur’s maze of city streets.
Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld defied death yet again.
Rochefoucauld eventually made it to the French coast. He then boarded a fishing boat that rendezvoused with a British submarine in the English Channel.
But the gods weren’t through testing his mettle…
Shortly after Rochefoucauld boarded the sub, it was sniffed out by a German destroyer. The “swish-swish” of the destroyer’s engines attained a fiendish pitch as the hunter closed in. What followed Rochefoucauld described as his worst experience of the war. “I’d never been so scared in my life,” he would later say.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Place a garbage can over your head and invite a lunatic to proceed against you with a sledgehammer. That may give a faint suggestion of the experience (we highly recommend the German submarine movie Das Boot).
But the sub survived the attack. After three impossible days at sea Rochefoucauld was back in England. And glad of it. “We were invited to the best houses,” he’d later say. “Girls fell into our arms.”
No doubt they did.
Rochefoucauld’s next mission took place in May 1944 — a month before D-Day. And this one was one for the books. His job was to destroy the largest ammunition factory in France, near Bordeaux. All by his lonesome.
The place was a fortress, airtight with security and strewn with guards. And he’d somehow have to smuggle 90 pounds of explosives past it all.
But how? Then the Count had another sunburst of inspiration…
He might blend in as a factory worker. But how would he get 90 pounds of dynamite in through security? Then it came to him…
He’d hide it inside hollowed-out loaves of bread. The French and their bread, after all. Who’d suspect?
It took him four days to smuggle it all in… loaf by loaf.
Undetected, he placed the dynamite around the factory’s structural supports and set the timers. Then he sauntered out, scaled a wall and made off on a bicycle…
The explosion could be heard ten miles away. Rochefoucauld didn’t even bother looking back. He just single-handedly destroyed the Germans’ largest ammunition in factory in France. And in time for D-Day.
But his satisfaction was short-lived…
He was off to Bordeaux to meet a contact who’d get him back to England. But he chanced upon a German roadblock. The winsome young man told them he was heading for a romantic assignation. They didn’t believe him.
The French aristocrat was taken prisoner again.
Torture is an insufficient description for what the Gestapo would work once they discovered he was responsible for the factory bombing. So Rochefoucauld nearly resorted to the final solution — downing the cyanide pill he kept hidden in his shoe.
He’d escaped from German captivity once before. But this was a Fort Knox. And he was locked in a dungeon.
This seemed the end of the tether for Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld.
At one point a guard entered his cell, only to find the French saboteur writhing on the ground in an epileptic seizure. When he approached the flailing prisoner, Rochefoucauld whipped out a table leg he’d broken off, and clouted the guard over the head with all the energy at his command.
The guard staggered, stunned, then the trained killer snapped his neck like a twig. “Thank Goodness for that pitilessly efficient training,” Rochefoucauld later noted.
But now what? He was still trapped inside this fort, Germans everywhere.
Another inspiration came to him…
Rochefoucauld donned the guard’s uniform and walked out of the cell. He proceeded to the guardroom. And shot dead two additional guards.
Then he walked right out the front door.
He’d escaped from German hands — for the second time.
Rochefoucauld joined a local contact as he figured his next move. By now the Nazis were out for blood, and swarmed the area. He was trapped. And there would be no escape next time.
Then someone else had an idea this time…
His host’s sister was a nun. Nuns wear funny clothing. So Rochefoucauld slipped into a nun’s habit and started out of town. Sure enough, he made his way past the German patrols and to eventual safety… disguised as a woman of God.
Finally, in April 1945 Rochefoucauld was captured in his final mission, which led to the dramatic escape with which we opened this story. That would be the third time the Germans captured him. And the third time he escaped.
As the Count would later say, “I had what I needed more than anything else. Luck.”
Better to be lucky than good. But best to be both.
But what a war! He carried out many successful missions — including one that had him singlehandedly dynamiting the largest ammo factory in France.
The Nazis captured him three times… and he escaped certain death each time. He also survived a savage depth charge attack while trapped in a submarine.
The James Bond of film couldn’t hold aces and spades to this royal gent.
After the war Rochefoucauld was recruited by the French secret services. He led commando raids against the Viet Minh during France’s 1950’s war in Vietnam.
His retirement into peaceful civilian life left him bored. So he pursued his thirst for risk by running a banana company in Venezuela. He tried his chances in Cameroon.
Count Rochefoucauld ultimately returned to service in time for the Suez Campaign of 1956, during which he parachuted into the Sinai. But fighting concluded before he could see action.
In 1966 the seasoned aristocrat became mayor of a small French town. It was an office he would hold for 30 years.
Time accomplished what the Nazis couldn’t. Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld died on May 8, 2012, aged 88 years.
Life is lived not in years, but in moments. And this man packed more moments into 88 years than most could fit into a thousand.
Well and truly, a remarkable life.
Regards,
Brian Maher
Managing editor, The Daily Reckoning
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Instagram Location and Hashtag Stories, Pinterest Autoplay Video Ads, and New Twitter Direct Message Cards
Instagram Location and Hashtag Stories, Pinterest Autoplay Video Ads, and New Twitter Direct Message Cards
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show with Erik Fisher, we explore Instagram location and hashtag stories with Peg Fitzpatrick, autoplay video ads on Pinterest with [...]
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Friday, 26 May 2017
Local Social Media Marketing With Facebook and Instagram
Local Social Media Marketing With Facebook and Instagram
How do you promote your business locally? Are you using Facebook and Instagram? To explore how to reach a local customer base on social media, I interview Bruce Irving. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers and [...]
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Thursday, 25 May 2017
Social Media Metrics: How to Choose and Track What Matters
Social Media Metrics: How to Choose and Track What Matters
Interested in building a dashboard to track key social media metrics? Wondering which data and metrics to include? With a little strategic planning on the front end, you can select and track meaningful metrics that relate to your business goals. In this article, you’ll discover which metrics to track and how to organize them into [...]
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20 Excellent Startup Marketing Video Examples
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20 Excellent Startup Marketing Video Examples
Shuuga PaaS Explainer Video
Shuuga is an innovative, geo-location, application platform for mobile smartphone advertising and content distribution. Suited to both bricks & mortar and online channels, Shuuga is an industry averse and efficient cloud-based solution for Retailers. It allows Merchants to advertise new products, promote sales and run competitions directly to consumer Smartphone devices. The PaaS Explainer video will gives you a gist about how to publish adverts and access powerful real-time and analytics tools via the Shuuga Merchant Portal.
IBM PaaS Explainer Video
The cloud security platform from IBM enables your business to innovate, improve defenses and improve risk. Enterprise cloud adoption requires a structured approach to security. Cloud data security is a top priority, whether your cloud is on-premises, off-premises or a hybrid. The finely crafted Animated PaaS Explainer video is sure to keep viewers engaged while providing all the knowledge about IBM’s cloud security.
OBMS PaaS Explainer Video
OBMS is a platform dedicated to the global management of your contingent workforce. OBMS assists you in managing your invitations to bid: a simplified need outline while providing collaborative support to analyze bids. It Simplifies your administrative workflow and puts an end to your invoice disputes. OBMS lets you fill out and approve timesheets and milestones directly in the VMS. The PaaS Explainer video takes you through how OBMS streamlines your external resources management processes.
HQVM PaaS Explainer Video
Appsolid is a powerful cloud-based mobile app security solution created for app developers to scan security vulnerabilities and apply binary protection within minutes. After that, track real-time security status and use Kill-Switch to shut down any compromised installs at a device level. The mobile security explainer video highlights it’s high performance, customization capability and ease of integration.
Microsoft System Center PaaS Explainer Video
System Center 2012 App Controller gives you the ability to create a truly agile private cloud infrastructure in your organization by enabling business units to provision standard virtual machines in a controlled environment, reducing administrative overhead and improving time-to-market. The Animated PaaS video explains how the System Center 2012 App Controller can be used to seamlessly create private cloud infrastructure.
Simplycast PaaS Explainer Video
Simplycast a 360 Marketing Automation platform helps automate marketing campaigns across all channels. Understanding, organizing and communicating all the user generated data to deliver custom content at the right time. The animated PaaS video captures how an online retailer maximizes conversions through Simplycast.
Trend Micro PaaS Explainer Video
Trend Micro is the leading provider of server security for physical, virtual and hybrid environments, giving you the most complete set of security capabilities with automated management. Analysts view Trend Micro’s hybrid cloud security as an opportunity for organizations to leverage the agility of the cloud. The PaaS Explainer video elegantly expresses how Trend Micro’s Hybrid cloud Security can abate Hybrid cloud computing threats.
Gemalto PaaS Explainer Video
Gemalto’s proven SafeNet two-factor authentication, encryption and enterprise key management solutions turn any cloud environment into a trusted and compliant environment by solving the critical challenges of data governance, control and ownership – no matter where you store your data. The Animated PaaS video uses dynamic animated visuals to showcase benefits of using Gemalto Cloud security.
GREENPAGES PaaS Explainer Video
GreenPages Cloud Management as a Service (CMaaS) provides the right management tools to deploy environments through an enterprise command center approach that gives a singular view into physical, virtual and hybrid cloud workloads. The Animated PaaS video shows how Greenpages can reduce hardships of cloud management by equipping you with enterprise-class management solution.
MediaFlux PaaS Explainer Video
Mediaflux is a flexible data + metadata management solution that virtualizes otherwise incompatible data stovepipes into a secure distributed collaboration environment. Designed for extreme scale and flexibility, Mediaflux provides automated indexing of content and metadata to enable global management of any type of structured and unstructured data on any storage system across multiple classification levels and locations, with no operational impact to existing infrastructures. The Animated PaaS video shows how Mediaflux breaks down the barriers between disparate data, enabling researchers to focus on their work.
EasyCars PaaS Explainer Video
EasyCars Auto Dealer Management Solutions provide dealers with powerful tools to help increase sales and reduce administration time. EasyCars solutions are suitable for Car – Truck – Bike and Caravan dealers. Offering a complete dealer management solution that will revolutionise the way you do business and increase your profit. The Animated PaaS video shows how the dealer management solution is an one Stop Solution.
2nd watch PaaS Explainer Video
The 2nd Watch Cloud Management Platform is a robust system that leverages cutting edge software with years of cloud experience. With automation and technology you can monitor, patch and optimize across thousands of instances, in moments. The PaaS overview video shows how 2nd watch can reduce risks and increases overall performance.
CURA PaaS Explainer Video
CURA’s Cloud Usage & Risk Analysis service helps your company overcome the dilemma of growing “Shadow IT” Cloud applications. CURA discovers all your Cloud app usage and gives you deep real-time analytics and smart policy enforcement offering you greater control of your workforce cloud usage. The PaaS overview video shows how CURA can curb threats of shadow IT and ease cloud management.
Edgedocs PaaS Explainer Video
Edgedocs is an online international trading platform that lets you handle all aspects of the import and export trade from one place. It handles everything from quotes to invoicing and tracking, and everything in between. Their platform empowers your business with tools to assist you in your domestic and international markets. The PaaS Explainer video details the features offered by Edgedocs that makes it a great international trading platform.
Anturis PaaS Explainer Video
Anturis is a cloud monitoring platform built for both external monitoring of company web services and internal monitoring of IT infrastructure, such as servers and applications.It is built primarily for busy IT administrators who aim to minimize maintenance complexity and costs. The Animated PaaS video displays the characteristics of Anturis as a reliable monitoring platform.
Bluekai PaaS Explainer Video
BlueKai’s Data Management Platform (DMP) centrally organizes a company’s customer and audience data in the cloud to help implement personalized marketing campaigns across all channels and deliver better results and higher marketing ROI. It offers services relating to third party data collecting and collects PC & smartphone users data to enhance ad marketing for their clients. The PaaS Explainer video shows BlueKai allows you to turn insights into action by making use of big data into marketing.
Fishbowl Prizes PaaS Explainer Video
Fishbowl Prizes is a platform to capture email addresses from your website visitors. They follow the classic concept of drop your card in the fishbowl for your website. Fishbowl can be embedded on any website by using integrations, or simply copying and pasting a single line of code into your website. The PaaS Explainer video demonstrates an easy way to reach out to a big group of audience.
Nimbus PaaS Explainer Video
Nimbus Private Cloud Video is a dedicated private cloud for your business. Nimbus web fully managed solutions eliminates IT management burdens and costs. It enables providers of resources to build private or community IaaS clouds, users to use IaaS clouds and developers to extend, experiment and customize IaaS. The PaaS overview video shows how Nimbus can help you eliminate complicated and expensive IT management fees.
Metacloud Private PaaS Explainer Video
Metacloud Private Cloud as a Service lets companies access benefits of Public cloud by having engineering and operations teams supplement in-house staff’s capacity without moving off-premises or turning over control. And with OpenStack’s steep learning curve, this type of arrangement could increase efficiency. The PaaS Explainer video acts as an introduction to the advantages of using Metacloud Private Cloud features like virtualized computing, network and storage.
Panzura PaaS Explainer Video
Panzura is a cloud management platform that optimizes the enterprise data storage management and distribution in the cloud, making cloud storage simple and secure. The PaaS overview video effortlessly conveys how Panzura’s revolutionary global cloud storage solution seamlessly combines the flexibility, performance and productivity.
With the above Animated PaaS Explainer video examples it’s evident that companies are fast integrating videos in their sales campaigns and various other touchpoints. If you planning to develop these videos a good start is to develop a brief of what can be the tone and style for your videos. We advise you to be different and unique while you create your messaging through the videos.
We at Advids create custom PaaS Explainer video based on your brief. With a complete video production services plan at a fixed price , our design team works right from concept development , to art design and animation. Having created 150 plus animated platform videos for businesses, our Creative team can help you come up with the right fit. Do talk to us or send us a note on what your company plans to create with your next PaaS Explainer video requirement.
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Wednesday, 24 May 2017
How to Run an Instagram Story Takeover
How to Run an Instagram Story Takeover
Want to reach more people with your Instagram stories? Have you considered hosting an Instagram Story takeover to grow a larger following? Collaborating with highly engaged Instagram users will introduce their followers to your content. In this article, you’ll discover how to plan and execute an Instagram Story takeover. What’s an Instagram Story Takeover? Instagram [...]
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Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Best Songs from Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory", "Meteora", "Minutes to Midnight" or "The Hunting Party"
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Best Songs from Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory", "Meteora", "Minutes to Midnight" or "The Hunting Party"
Why Man in the Box by Alice in Chains is Better Than Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
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Why Man in the Box by Alice in Chains is Better Than Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
These are reasons why Man in the Box is better than Smells Like Teen Spirit
Monday, 22 May 2017
Making the Empire Pay
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Making the Empire Pay
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President Trump writes a new chapter in the art of the deal…
Official business brought Mr. Trump to the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia this weekend.
He now heads for Israel to maybe write another.
But not before his Saudi hosts agreed to take purchase on nearly $110 billion of U.S. arms.
American-born tanks, ships and missile defense systems will find loving new homes in and around the deserts of Araby.
U.S. radar, communications and cybersecurity technology will go with them.
“It was a great day,” gloated the American president. It means “tremendous investments in the United States… and jobs, jobs, jobs.”
It also means a red-letter day for American defense stocks…
Lockheed Martin opened about 2% higher this morning. Raytheon, over 1.4%. Northrop Grumman climbed 1%, while General Dynamics was up about half a percent.
All four stocks tallied record highs today.
Meanwhile, the iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA) was up about 1.3%.
Jim Rickards and veteran defense industry insider Kevin Massengill run a trading service around the defense sector.
They advised their Defense Technology Alert readers to close out a handful of positions this morning for gains of up to 97%.
Well played, gentlemen.
Now, some readers have accused us of treason against the decencies… that we’re hawking the wares of the military-industrial complex — the “merchants of death.”
Shouldn’t we be more “socially responsible”?
Our intrepid leader Addison Wiggin tackled the question in 2014:
Name almost any investment and we can come up with a valid objection to it…
If you own a gold stock, there’s a good chance the company is stomping all over the property rights of someone whose land happens to sit on top of a gold deposit. Third-world governments routinely cut sweetheart deals with mining firms to seize land held in the same family for generations, with zip for compensation.
Or if you own any kind of government bond, your stream of income depends on the ability of that government to extract tax payments from the citizens in its jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, if you shun the stocks of the major banks because they accept government bailouts, you’ve passed up monster rallies going back to late 2011.
Just sayin’.
Addison found justification in the late libertarian writer Harry Browne:
Maximizing profits and conforming to social policies are separate endeavors. You can cater to one endeavor only at the expense of the other… The stock exchange isn’t a pulpit. If you want to promote a particular environmental policy, political philosophy or other personal enthusiasm, do it with the profits you make from hardheaded investing.
Head over heart, that is… at least if you seek profitable returns.
You might not like it, argued Addison. But if the U.S. is going to play empire, you might as well “make the empire pay.”
So he recommended the iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF back in 2010.
If not “socially responsible,” the trade’s certainly been personally profitable for anyone taking Addison’s advice.
It was trading in the $50 range at the time he recommended it.
Today it trades above $154 — more than 200% higher.
“Just sayin’,” as Addison did in fact say.
Last month’s budget deal locked in billions of new military spending. But that should just be the opening installment…
Just this morning Vice President Mike Pence pledged the Trump administration would “rebuild the military” and seek the largest increase in defense spending since Reagan.
They probably won’t get as much as they want. But still…
Regards,
Brian Maher
Managing Editor, The Daily Reckoning
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Sunday, 21 May 2017
20 Flat Animation Video Marketing Examples
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20 Flat Animation Video Marketing Examples
TraQtion Flat Animation Video
With TraQtion, you can track quality and compliance from the macro to minutiae, anticipate problems and take corrective measures, wherever you are. Working in the cloud, you and your suppliers can access the system anytime, anywhere, so you are always in the loop. TraQtion created this flat animated video to convey how seamless Quality and Compliance can be. A neatly done video overall.
TITAN Flat Animation Video
TITAN is a scalable cloud school solution that makes school operations stronger, more effective and efficient. They provide simple straight-forward, yet comprehensive management and communications tools with a revolutionary, all-inclusive subscription model. TITAN School Solutions is a company of school information technology veterans with a passion for improving operations in education. The flat animation video portrays how TITAN can reduce workloads and streamline school operations.
Efficiency Nova Scotia Flat Animation Video
Efficiency Nova Scotia is Canada’s first energy efficiency utility. Working with more than 100 local partners, they have helped 225,000 program participants complete energy efficiency projects, saving. They wanted to spread out the word and start new conversation of how the Non-Profit body can help businesses. The flat animation video servers as a great intro to the idea and how they might help you achieve better business results.
Trippeo Flat Animation Video
Trippeo is an expense and travel management solution that streamlines business trips with corporate travel management built right into the booking engine, so you can book according to your own needs without disrupting company protocol. Trippeo automates the expense process and offers a modern way to book business trips with an easy, mobile-first approach. The flat animation video displays how Trippeo is as good for your team as it is for your business when it comes to travel management.
Ahrefs Flat Animation Video
Ahrefs is a toolset for SEO and marketing. A complete toolset for backlink research, organic traffic research, keyword research, content marketing & more. Ranking websites or webpages is a need today, with Ahrefs its easy to understand what needs to be done. The flat animation video acts as a quick intro to the tools available and the features.
Smartwave Flat Animation Video
Smartwave is a family of simple and beautiful wireless technologies that work together to make life simpler and better. Smartwave keeps a check on all your appliances while you are away ensuring security and energy saving. It allows you to monitor and control all your appliance remotely from anywhere. The flat animation video highlights how Smartwave can increase convenience and comfort of your home.
Charity Water Flat Animation Video
Charity water is a non-profit organization that helps in bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. They invest the money they raise into organizations with years of experience to build sustainable, community-owned water projects around the world. Their team works closely to ensure that every dollar is accounted for and then provides reports back to our donors. The flat animation video addresses the faced difficulties faced due to water crisis and how they are working towards eliminating them.
WIRECARD Flat Animation Video
Wirecard is a software and IT specialist for outsourcing and white label solutions for payment processing and issuing products. It provides end-to-end support to companies for accepting electronic payments from all sales channels. It provides a global multi-channel platform that bundles international payment acceptances and methods, flanked by fraud prevention solutions. The flat animation video shows how WIRECARD can mitigate the complexity of payment processing and make online payment transparent and secure.
NetSure LifeScan Flat Animation Video
NetSure LifeScan by Curvature is an IT asset management solution that provides in-depth assessment of your network identifying growth projections, OEM support terminations and areas to reduce operational costs. It offers innovative solutions to leverage multi-vendor and multi-generation equipment strategies. The flat animation video shows how LifeScan can help you identify ways to extend the life of your network.
The Professional Service Centre Flat Animation Video
The professional service centre offers a comfortable environment for health related consultations. The centre offers a wide range of facilities and equipment that facilitate diagnosis and management so that those who use the services offered can be managed as efficiently and conveniently as possible. They offer a wide range of services offered by equally committed specialists in their respective field. They work in close collaboration with a number of other specialists and diagnostic facilities to ensure the highest standard of care.The flat animated video shows how The professional service centre is working towards providing promising medical services.
Omnibank Flat Animation Video
Omnibank provides a unified solution with a complete suite of integrated electronic connectors and modules including Internet and mobile banking, Personal finance manager, Electronic bill payments, Statements and Notifications, Authorization host. It offers features such as cross device web interface, multi functionality and multi level of security. The flat animated video shows how Omnibank gives the opportunity to streamline and and perform all sorts of transactions across every digital touchpoint.
Personal Finance Society Flat Animation Video
Personal Finance Society (PFS) is the professional body for the financial advisory profession in the UK. They promote the highest standards of professionalism for technical knowledge, client service and ethical practice across the entire financial advice community for the ultimate benefit of the profession and consumer alike, engendering confidence and trust in our profession. The flat animation video shows how Personal Finance Society is helping financial planning community towards higher levels of professionalism.
Expensify Flat Animation Video
Expensify offers real-time expense reporting integrated with that takes care of all the expense management details. It lets you customize how expenses are coded to Xero accounts such as tracking categories, customer contacts and more. It lets you centrally manage your team’s corporate cards, simplify reporting non-reimbursable expenses and gain realtime insight on company spend. The flat animated video shows how Expensify can ensures that employee expenses are recorded accurately and submitted on time.
Dell Flat Animation Video
Dell’s big data solutions allow you to improve customer experiences and business operations in this new data economy. Their big data analytics offer data integration and data management solutions to help you quickly and effectively transform all your data into opportunities. The Dell flat animation video shows how their solutions can help you reinvent your data ecosystem and discover new customers, revenue streams and increase business efficiency.
Capgemini Flat Animation Video
Capgemini’s integrated supply chain management, planning & execution solution synchronizes all supply and demand plans with execution processes across your supply chain, allowing you to read and react based on customer demand and actual sales. They offer flexible, sustainable and technologically robust solutions to help you integrate your value chain, from suppliers to customers, based on their Integrated Planning & Execution model. The flat animation video details how an organisation can achieve better margins, cost reductions and improvements to efficiency and working capital through Capgemini’s SCM tool.
S&P Global Flat Animation Video
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a leading provider of financial and industry data, research, news and analytics to investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities worldwide. It collects, scrubs, interprets and analyzes vast volumes of content, turning it into actionable intelligence on the global financial markets and the companies and industries that comprise those markets. The flat animation video highlights how S&P Global Market Intelligence delivers the data and insight needed to make informed, smarter business decisions and investment decisions that are critical to the future.
Rep Express Flat Animation Video
Rep Express is a management and regulatory reporting system used to record, report, process and store data from different banking systems and applications for statutory, operational, management and IFRS compliant reporting purposes. It is available to the user administration via Web-based client interface, providing option to maintain nomenclature values, edit reports, define and modify settings. The flat animation video shows how Rep Express is a single solution to overcome all the financial related challenges.
AT&T Flat Animation Video
AT&T’s Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions wirelessly connects millions of diverse devices to a network, enabling two-way communication. Monitored and managed remotely, M2M automates processes in industries from transportation to healthcare. Deploy Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions quickly and cost effectively to transform your business processes with our market leading suite of M2M solutions. The flat animation video highlights the expertise AT&T has to offer in M2M.
RingCentral Flat Animation Video
RingCentral, is a cloud unified communications and collaboration solutions for businesses. More flexible and cost-effective than legacy on-premise systems, RingCentral solutions empower today’s mobile and distributed workforces to be connected anywhere and on any device through voice, video, team messaging, collaboration, SMS, conferencing, online meetings, contact center and fax. The flat animation video shows how RingCentral provides an open platform that integrates with today’s leading business apps while giving customers the flexibility to customize their own workflows.
TEOCO Flat Animation Video
TEOCO’s Business Analytics portfolio provides a granular view of network and business transactions, enabling CSP’s to increase revenues, margins, subscriber value and profitability. Their business analytics solutions cover cost management, routing management and financial analytics. The flat animation video shows how TEOCO can help you identify ways to reduce costs and optimize resources.
Key takeaways from the above flat animation video examples are : [su_list icon=”icon: send”] Build a strong creative brief [/su_list] [su_list icon=”icon: list”] Find a reference video or combine multiple video elements from different sources [/su_list] [su_list icon=”icon: group”] Work with a company that can understand your video production requirement easily [/su_list]With the above flat animation video examples for website it’s evident that companies are fast integrating videos in their marketing campaigns and various other touchpoints. If you planning to develop these videos a good start is to develop a brief of what can be the tone and style for your videos. We advise you to be different and unique while you create your messaging through the videos.
We at Advids, create custom flat animation video based on your brief. With a complete video production services plan at a fixed price,our design team works right from concept development, to art design and animation. Having created 1200 plus explainers for businesses, our Creative team can help you come up with the right fit. Do talk to us or send us a note on what your company plans to create with for the next video requirement.
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