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2008 Mercedes-Benz SL550 ProblemsActive Body Control System Can Leak Hydraulic Fluid
The active body control system can leak fluid from numerous areas, including the tandem pump, hydraulic lines, struts, and/or seals. If it is not repaired, the vehicle ride height could drop too low and cause damage to the undercarriage.
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2008 Mercedes-Benz SL550 Questionshave a squeak when driving (1 answer)
squeak appears to be behind me when driving, louder on rough roads and almost silent on smooth roads. squeak with top down or up; not as loud with top down.
I left a store and the car was very slow and the RPM's were up to 4000 plus and going nowhere. i shifted to N and back to D and it then started acting normal. I drove it back home next day about 200 plus miles and had no issues. Would it be a fluke or bite me later?
We have a 2008 SL550 with less than 19,000 miles and the convertible top stop working. The service dept found that the brackets were bad. The mechanic stated they have replaced them on several other cars.
2008 Mercedes-Benz SL550 RecallsInternal Failure of Front Interior Control Module
Transistors used in the front signal acquisition and actuation module (SAM-F) may have been damaged during module assembly. As a result, the module could fail without warning, increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will inspect and replace the affected modules as necessary. This recall is scheduled to begin on May 2, 2008. The Mercedes-Benz recall number is 2008 030005.


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Chicken Pot Pie
|Pie crust/1 package frozen puff pastry
|1 (1 Recipe, Basic Variety)
|4 Cup (64 tbs)
|3 1⁄2 Pound, cut up (1 Chicken, 2 1/2 To 3 1/2 Pound)
|4 Medium, peeled, cut in 1 -inch chunks (Or 2 Extra Large, Horse)
|Pearl onions
|1 Pint, peeled
|Celery ribs
|2 , cut in 1-inch chunks
|8 , halved or quartered
|Red potatoes
|2 Medium, cut in 1 -inch chunks to make about 2 cups
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Chopped fresh herbs
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Such As Dill Or Parsley)
|1 , beaten, mixed with 2 tablespoon cold water
|Cold water
|2 Tablespoon, mixed with beaten egg
1. Roll out dough to fit the top of a baking dish large enough to hold all ingredients (about 9- x 13-inch). Bring the stock or water to a boil in a large soup pot. Season the chicken well with salt and pepper.
2. Add chicken to broth and bring back to a boil. Simmer 5 minutes, then turn off, cover, and set aside 15 minutes. Spoon chicken out and set aside to cool. Add all vegetables to the broth, bring back to a boil, and then lower heat and simmer until the potatoes and carrots are tender, about 20 minutes. Remove all bones from chicken. Combine flour and oil in a small skillet and cook 3 minutes until they form a smooth paste and smell slightly nutty— do not brown.
3. Heat oven to 400°. Ladle a cup of the broth into the flour mixture, and whisk until it thickens. Transfer this mixture back into the rest of the broth, and stir until mixture is thick and smooth. Add chicken meat and fresh herbs. Taste and adjust salt and pepper. Transfer mixture to baking dish; cover with dough, and brush with egg mixture. Cut a few holes to vent steam. Bake 30 to 45 minutes on a pan to catch the drippings, until top is golden brown and sauce is bubbly.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 5799 Calories from Fat 2910
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 324 g499.1%
Saturated Fat 86.2 g431.1%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1284.5 mg428.2%
Sodium 3839.8 mg160%
Total Carbohydrates 327 g109.1%
Dietary Fiber 18.9 g75.7%
Sugars 35.3 g
Protein 383 g765.4%
Vitamin A 866.6% Vitamin C 164.9%
Calcium 54.5% Iron 127.2%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet

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Herefordshire to Zanzibar is not a journey made every day of the week, unless something keeps going drastically wrong in those confusing roadworks just outside Leominster. But I do know someone who has made the journey from Zanzibar to Herefordshire. His name is Rupert Woods and with his wife Pru he runs a reclamation yard on the old road from Leominster to Ludlow. He used to work in Africa for the World Bank, helping smallholders develop their livelihoods. Now he wanders the Welsh Marches looking for stone carvings and weathered troughs and cider presses, not to mention old apple boxes, 60 of which he bought at auction for £1, then sold for £8 each.
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Should you happen to be in the north Herefordshire area on 11 and 12 September, I can tell you that the privately owned former branch line stations of Fencote and Rowden Mill, between Bromyard and Leominster, are being opened to the public. I have written before about Fencote, which has been lovingly restored by Ken Matthews, a retired signalman who has made a comfortable home out of the old waiting-room. Ironically, it is the only station waiting-room I know with a functioning toilet, yet the only one that doesn't smell of wee.
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Keyword data seems to be disappearing from Google Analytics. So. How do we know what to optimize our websites towards? How will we be able to know what supporting keywords to use in our texts? How will we be able to run keyword targeted conversion optimization on the organic traffic we have earned.
No worries. We'll get to that. Obviously Google says they want you to work with your website, to increase your quality and better serve users with better content. However, you will now have to resort to paying some in order to get the juicy stuff.
Below is a set of tools that you can use in order to know.
1. Wordstream is the best keyword tool out there – use it
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March 6, 2013
A/B-testing – A post Explaining The challenge and Solution for Marketing Managers
A/B-testing is something that is quite frequently discussed as something you should do. Yet, most marketing managers and online communicators still don't. In fact. They dread the mere notion of having to test and change their digital campaigns.
I will get to the solution and how to easily do an A/B-test. But in order to fully understand the notion that there is a problem to be solved here. I first need to explain the essence of the challenge of starting using A/B-testing as a methodology for constant improvements.
The challenge is threefold.
1st Challenge
First off there is a problem with the relationship between marketing and IT. Marketing wants things to move along fast, whilst IT wants things to be done the right way. This has been a problem ever since IT became a part of the communication process.
There is a vast difference between building solid systems and supporting quick communication. This has bearing on the split testing as any such functionality has to be planned when building the architecture of the system according to IT, whilst Marketing gets frustrated by slow development causing revenue, participation and results to diminish.
This problem can now be solved.
2nd Challenge
The second problem is that the wish to test something has been seen as weakness. "What, you don't believe in your idea enough… why test it if you believe in it..".
This is something that has come out of traditional marketing structures where your idea went of to print or went out on air. There was no way that you could split test your campaigns during a campaign. The mere fabric of digital gives you an opportunity to change and fine tune your campaign, website and online presence so that it improves over time.
I like to view the A/B-split testing as a Formula 1 race, where I am the engineer standing in the pit stop ready to adjust any small detail to make perfection out of good. No one can say that any Formula 1 car (read creative) is slow (bad). But the conditions might be such for the day, that things need to be adjusted for it to work at full capacity. (Love that metaphor… WhOOt… you don't like it.. well.. then.. then… pfff…)
Companies love to discuss 360 approaches to advertising. And yes. Different medias can support each other. But without using them properly, if applying the same methodology to digital as you do print, you are doomed to end up with less than the maximum effect of the campaign. With A/B-testing you can increase conversion rates, e-mail opening rates, click through rates etc, constantly giving you more for every dollar you spend.
And as I promised above. The challenge of time to market – from idea to implementation is solved. It doesn't exist anymore.
Thus. This second problem can be overcome.
3rd Challenge
The third problem is that most marketing managers – clients – do not consider growth when considering the creative of an advertising campaign. They do not see it as a part of building a brand over time, but they rather see it as an instance to push a new product or meet a seasonal increase/decrease in demand. Advertising campaigns can have great success whilst the product they are meant to support doesn't grow its default revenue streams. Meaning, in order to maintain your sales volumes at the hight of the top of the campaign, you have to campaign all the time which, in many cases, is a very expensive affair.
This is a much more difficult thing to overcome as it has to do with behavior and moreover habits. It is not a problem of lack of knowledge. It is quite easy to rack up the numbers. But still this seems to be a very difficult task for some (would really like to write most) marketing managers to wrap their arms around. Creativity is a lot more fun to purchase than growth, as you actually have to think and not only feel. However, as I will come to, A/B-testing is ALL about feeling, however, it doesn't give you the power to choose as the data does that for you. Ie. you can still feel, but you need to be able to disregard taste.
To illustrate this I will show you the difference in growth and in simply having campaign success by studying two graphs of search queries made in Google. I use this measure as it is a great tool to estimate brand demand amongst consumers.
This is the search graph for Kodak – Successful campaigns, yet no gained growth. You can see that regardless of their marketing efforts. Their growth is negative.
This is the search graph for "Mitt Romney" and as you can see… no one cares about Mitt Romney if he doesn't buy a shit load of media to get elected
Now. In comparison to growth which looks like this. First off is iPhone.
Secondly we'll have a look at McDonalds.
There is a very strong difference in the way these brands have worked with campaigning. One uses the campaign to promote innovation in the product whilst the other use it as a way to promote more of the same.
By focusing on creating campaigns that allow for A/B-testing, we also allow users to respond to the way we market our products better. I believe that this is one great way to overcome the hurdle of taste, and "internal protectionists" that seem blinded by previous success. It is also a methodology to use data to implement a process of change and improvement in an organization without threatening anyones position. It is the data that says so. Not anyone smarter. Just the data.
Another way to overcome this challenge, is if we as analysts, developers and optimizers become as cool as the advertisers. That's why I love the emergence of the infographic hype, growth hackers and the concept that everyone is a nerd. This actually helps us get through as they want to be like us, dress like us yet, they are too socially skilled to ever be like us.
So. Finally. What is A/B-split testing
Well, basically it is looking at some data and seeing that traffic doesn't flow the way you want it to flow. It can be that they do not click on a website the way we want them too. It can be that they do not sign up to the newsletter, or simply that they do not fill in a specific form or find a specific document. As a result you get either lower conversion rates or more calls to your customer service.
STEP1 – The Hypothesis Gut
In order to improve this, you start out with listening to your own to gut.
First off. You try to do whatever it is that you want your users to do. Ie. Sign up, buy, click or find. Somewhere along the way you may realize that there might be a few other ways in which a user complete a task a lot faster. This gut feeling is what we optimizers like to call – Hypothesis. Not only does it sound a lot more valuable than "gut feeling", but it also gives the client a honest hint that it is simply an educated guess.
The more experience the optimizer – or you – has, the better the hypothesis and probably the fewer tests needed.
STEP 2 – Setting up your test
Once you have your hypothesis in your head. You should start testing the changes. It might be a larger text, a variation in navigation or a change in a background color.
In essence a change to the copy, page or design in order to change the way the user uses it. Ok. So once you have that ready in your head, you should get to the nitty gritty of creating these variations.
Now. This has previously been extremely time consuming and problematic as you have had to create all these variations in code – meaning you have had to contact IT to do these variations for you.
This problem is now a segment of the past.
Several great tools such as Optimizely – which I can honestly say that I love (video embedded below this section) and Visual Website optimizer have given us simple drag and drop possibilities to make variations quick.
This means you do not have to implement 6 different versions of a design. No more waiting for coding. No more waiting for design templates. YOU can do this.
Step 3 – The implementation
You run the test. Get the numbers and see which one of your hypotheses actually created an improvement.
Now you have all the data. You can call IT and say with 100% accuracy (perhaps 95% or some confidence interval) that sales will increase with 40% by making these changes. It is thus a priority project. NO IT-person… no matter how big, rough skinned or flanell shirt pansared, can object to that. You won't have to ask for resources as you can do the testing yourself. You are not there with a problem. You are there with a solution!
Regardless if you run A/B-testing on a website or if you do it on a campaign, or some e-mail copy or whatever you are testing, it is worth it. There are tools simple enough for you to be able to do this on your own. You can relax and go with your gut whilst the data takes care of the decision making.
You then send the solution rather than another problem to the IT department. You become the true hero of your organization as you just increased the bottom line result with 40%. Congratulations! You're it!
March 5, 2013
Does your QR-Campaign endure the Toilet test?
A lot of people disregard QR-campaigns as yesterdays fad. The mockery of the little black dotted squares seems to be endless. I don't blame them. Most people in advertising suck at digital marketing. Billions are spent every year and only a few good examples can be produced as "success cases". Thus. I was not surprised when I managed to get excellent results using QR-codes for a client last year.
I am not saying that QR-codes work everywhere. I am just saying that they work if you use them correctly.
It was a long time since I published a tutorial blog post. So for that sake, I will explain how you can test your QR-campaign before you launch it, and almost guarantee that it works.
Each step in the test tutorial below should be passed with a YES answer in order for you to move onto the next step. If it fails somewhere along the line of steps, it will not be a successful QR-campaign.
The QR-Toilet test
STEP 1 – Put your QR code on a product. Is your code on a product YES/NO?
STEP 2 – Lift the product in one hand. Does it fit YES/NO?
STEP 3 – Take your mobile phone in your other hand. Can you hold your mobile in one hand and the product in the other YES/NO?
STEP 4 – Now go to the toilet. Can you open the door holding product and mobile without drawing too much attention to yourself YES/NO?
STEP 5 – Lift the lid to the toilet and sit down. Was the procedure easy YES/NO?
If you have reached this far in the QR-Toilet test it is highly likely that your QR-campaign will be successful.
Call to action on product
The call to action should not be direct. It should rather induce curiosity. The difference between a direct and a curiosity inducing call to action is quite simple to distinct. Users sitting on the bus, or on the toilet, or waiting in a shed whilst the rain blows by are in their research driven mindset. They are willing to explore. Using a call to action that is too direct/that explains what will happen on the landing page, might scare some people away.
Whilst "Compete and win" is a direct call to action. Something like "Open me" is a more curiosity inducing call to action. User thinks through their research driven mind – "what am I really getting here"… "what does open me really mean"… And as a result, they do not mind the friction of having to download a QR-scanner in order to scan the code. However, if they already know that it is a competition, the friction might be too extensive for them to go through with it.
QR-code scanning people do not do this to compete, but they might as well if this is what they end up with when having scanned a code.
Constructing the landing page
The prerequisites of your target page or content the viewer gets to when they scan the code are the following:
- Easy form sign up – max 3 forms of which one is the e-mail or telephone number
- Same Call to action on top of the landing page or content as you had on the product
- Simple design, NO flash or moving graphics, no instructional video or sound (might change when 4G becomes broadly adopted)
Guaranteed results from this
I can almost guarantee results from this. The last campaign I used this for got the QR codes as the third largest traffic generator, only surpassed by Google organic traffic and Facebook traffic. This was for a website with above 20.000 monthly unique users on a regular basis, so we are not talking about chicken wings.
Ok. To be fair. All paid traffic combined surpassed the QR-codes as well, but if you looked at each individual source, the QR- codes killed them all by a landslide.
What was even more astonishing was that we managed to get 23% of the QR-visitors to convert to the member goal we had setup for the campaign.
What conclusions can we draw from this post
If you put your QR-code on something which is too big to scan in the privacy of the toilet. You are destined to fail.
Use mystery as the call to action as the behavior of a QR-scanner-person is not purpose driven. It is research driven. They do not want to do what you want them to do, they just might as well to keep busy.
Make landing page simple and keep scent – the call to action, look and feel – of the scanned product.
Have fun and stop hating.
November 30, 2012
23 Video Launch in Sweden – Product Review
I generally do not do product reviews in my blog. Primarily because I am almost always disappointed due to "over sell, and under deliver" situations caused by lack of communication between PR and development. I don't like to complain, if I don't have anything of my own to bring. This time, however, I will make an exception. First, because I took some time off work yesterday to meet up with some people who were going to present a "revolution" in online video. Secondly, because I still think this product is worth noting.
So. To begin.
The invite e-mails were really good, the count down website hinted that great stuff was to be revealed. I got excited. Cool, I thought. Someone who MUST have something unique to say. Felt the little tingle in my groin. Perhaps I could get a Thursday treat? Perhaps someone had solved the problem of video production? Perhaps someone, perhaps 23 Video, would deem to be the product I brought to clients, and challenged them on their stale text pages.
To keep a long story short. I was disappointed. Not because the product sucked. It actually didn't. But because it solves a problem which does not exist, with a solution I don't need. If you say that you are going to revolutionize an online medium, then you'd better bring it. Otherwise people take time off work, only to get disappointed.
Although I was disappointed. I still think there are a few reasons you should consider buying.
What USPs do 23 Video have?
23 Videos own USPs were quite unclear. I heard the two words Simple and Control. Meaning it is simple to setup and it is easy to control. If you are a corporation looking for a good skin to a video website. Then this is one out of a dozen such services which will provide you with an easy to use video interface. Thus. Neither Simple, nor Control, should be anything new to you.
For me, the true USPs are in the back end. The videos are search engine friendly and you can easily setup scrapers to re-publish them on other websites. Perhaps a more difficult thing to sell to marketeers, but it breaths quality of some sort. I still lack the simple transcript possibilities and annotations that YouTube offers, but other than that it is quite a nice technical solution.
However. The problem with building your own video website is that no one will visit it unless you market it. Marketing your video website requires resources and you will never beat YouTube in distribution capabilities. Thus, for me, unless you offer a skinned version of YouTube, cheaper than the custom channels of they sell themselves, then you are not going to convince me that this is a good solution for distribution of video. If you are going to use video for communication purposes, distribution, and not storage, is the main concern.
Why does not 23 video solve THE problem?
23 Video seems to be an easily customizable platform. But I have never heard that customization, nor development costs is what holds corporations willing to do video, back. What holds them back is the video production. 23 Video, regardless of ease of use, does not solve this problem. No matter how many upload possibilities there are, people still have to consider what to do the video of.
In relation to images, tweets and comments – that are spontaneous events. Video, blog posts, campaigns are objects that trigger consideration. A product that is truly going to revolutionize video, needs to help the user take care of the consideration aspect. We have seen attempts of doing this by offering video templates in iMovie, JayCut and other such products. However, the area still needs further innovation to really take off. 23 video does not even aim at solving this problem and thus video production will remain an issue.
The pricing model is not that great either. 1. You still have to bring in a developer to setup your service. 2. You then pay a subscription fee which is more than the monthly fee for Panda and Amazon hosting. Thus it doesn't save you money.
Why do I think you should buy it although I don't like it?
So. Why should you buy 23 Video. Well, because it is easy to buy. You pay, setup and go. It is probably one of the better "out of the box" experiences I have seen for setting up a video website. You don't even have to consult the IT-department. Nor have you got to talk to the security guys of your large corporation.
If you got the 500 bucks per month, you can make this happen from the Marketing or Communications department.Thus!!! And a very important THUS!! You don't have to wait, which in the end might save you money as a result of not having to care about what IT believes is right or wrong.
Secondly, their 100% Human – customer service – looks really promising. This means you have a personal contact within the company that will help you setup and get going with your installation of the service.
I got pissed by the haussed PR preceding the launch, in contrast to what was offered. I didn't like the way the product was displayed, and I didn't think they brought anything new to the table. Thus, they didn't revolutionize anything yesterday.
However, they have managed to package video websites in a format which is easy to buy for the client. Given that their 100% Human approach is actually what you get, I think it is worth while to have a look at.
November 26, 2012
What you eat don't make me shit
So. I read this blog post. It made me remember what I sometimes forget. People are idiots. Or moreover, some people are idiots. This guy, or girl, seems to have lost what that is the reasonable digital equivalent of Newtons second principle – namely relevance. Relevance is the air that we all breath, the blood that makes our limbs warm up and the reason people pay us to do our job.
Oh… did I mention what I do for a living… I am a digital dude! The rest of this blog post is directed to the author of the post I read today. My take on what he says. I hope my disbelief in his words, not only shine through or can be read between the line, but is so evident, that it leaves no one confused on where I stand.
A word on relevance and targeting
You seem to oppose targeting. Relevance is targeting. And although I understand, that you do not get how targeting, can equal relevance, it does. You most likely base your targeting assumptions on demographics, rather than behavior. You oppose targeting, because you say it limits reach. I never look for reach. I look for buyers. I look for buying patterns and behaviors and market, through targeted ads, towards those who display this behavior.
You write: "Marketers always overestimate the attraction of new things and underestimate the power of traditional consumer behavior." But, however, it strikes me after reading a few more of your posts, that you lack the understanding of how to analyze behavior in a digital setting. it is evident that you are an old school advertiser, blinded by your belief in universal creativity solutions. Scared by change, and diminishing client lists, you attempt to talk the talk, but do not know what the words coming out of your mouth means in practice. You yell "strategy", whilst all that is proven to work, can be tied to tactics. It doesn't matter how many times you fonies tell me that ideas are valuable. If you don't know how to execute them, you should shut up about how to best perform them.
Admit it. You have never run an advertising campaign on Facebook ever in your life. You have never administered a Facebook page, nor have you created a viral campaign that is shared amongst thousands of visitors. You haven't experienced the wonders of social. In fact, you have never even tried. Yet, you are determined that they do not work.
And if. But only if. You had successfully targeted an ad-campaign on Facebook. You would know that your targeting can induce real relevance by using a persons network in order to tie a story to a social capital – such as a friendship. "Person x likes y, thus you like it too.". Considering 92% of all online consumers trust this type of advertising, I guess you neither have a belief in research. Actually, you say you don't when you say that: "Brand studies last for months, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and generally have less impact on business than cleaning the drapes".
So. You evidently haven't tried to run a campaign on Facebook, and you do not trust market insights about it. Perhaps someone should try to create a catchy one liner and you'll be able to catch on, what so many have already learned.
If you deliver an irrelevant ad, people will hate you for it. They will use their chance of interactivity, to distance themselves from you. This is the case with traditional advertising. You simply lack the relevance needed to make use of targeting. People are not the same, just cause they share a demographic. Their behavior and how they are connected to one another, however, does.
A word on facts and value
Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps you aren't an old school advertiser, considering the lack of efficiency in online advertising. Perhaps you are an SEO, scared of understanding the process of a pre purchase click chain. Not willing to see the importance of social media in the mix of a final purchase. Perhaps you are simply ignorant. Cause at the same time as you are writing "In fact, online advertising's record of motivating consumers is alarmingly terrible. With all their clouds full of data, Facebook ads attract 5 clicks for every 10,000 views. This is mindblowingly ineffective." You are providing your own visitors with neat little clickable ads to the right. I don't know. Perhaps thinking they alone will sell your books. Or perhaps your lack of otherwise "valuable", epic content motivates your placement of these ads in the same place as Facebook puts theirs. Yet. I don't know. Just speculating.
Regardless, your numbers are wrong. Never had a CTR from Facebook lower than 1%. Never seen one under 0.25%. More importantly you seem, in line with my very limited knowledge of business, to display a stunning misconception of what value is, and perhaps less importantly, how to generate it online. In terms of direct value, a metric measuring success should never be a click, but a purchase. It should be money. It should be conversion to some pre determined goal. Not visitors. Not impressions. Not reach, nor impact. But sales.
For online sales, the traceability is simple as you can follow a person, using cookies, from first click to last click in a purchase funnel. For offline purchases, you need to tie this into something, I like to call redemption. Redemption is closely related to interactivity, something I will debug below, as you seem to believe that interactivity is bad. Either way, you need to understand that any analysis of consumer behavior online, and offline, includes a portion of research. Customers do research, before they buy.
Display probably isn't the sole solution for driving brand awareness. However, it is a great and profitable way for driving sales. And if you agree with your own statement that "We don't get them to try our product by convincing them to love our brand. We get them to love our brand by convincing them to try our product", then sales are needed in order to build a strong brand. But if you believe that CTR equal sales, then you are off by a mile and a half… perhaps two… at least. And if you believe that you can generate sales without interactivity, then … well…
A few notations on Interactivity as a friend
Let's take it one step at a time. You write about your two principles for online advertising.
1. "The first is that interactivity is the enemy of advertising. Whether the interactivity takes the form of clicking a tv remote, pushing a radio push-button, clicking a mouse or swiping a page, we believe that people are far more likely to interact with a medium to avoid advertising than toengage with it."
2. "Second, we believe that online advertising has turned out to be far better at fulfilling demand than at creating demand. This accounts for the success of advertising on sites like Google and Craig's List, where people are searching for something. It also accounts for the failure of most display advertising."
So, what is wrong with this?
Well. First off. I don't think any DR marketeer would ever agree with you that interactivity is any kind of advertising enemy. Rather. Interactivity is, and must be, advertisings best friend. That is why we watch the super bowl commercials (by the way, Coke and Doritos have ads running on my FB right now..) willingly on YouTube as well as willingly hit the like button on brands we tend to associate with. That is why we redeem the coupon we get to our cellphone and that is why we purchase the deal being offered in the banner ad. I for god sakes make money – and loads of it – running a website completely filled up with deals and coupons. Demand fulfilling you might say…
That would be true, if I didn't make some of the money from the website, but most of my money I from the e-mails I send and the posts I share on Facebook. JESUS!! I must be doing something odd, or marketing towards some really special group, cause these purpose driven people MUST be there waiting for me to fullfil them with my feed stories and e-mails. No. I build demand. Using digital channels. Leading to direct conversion. Using the one skill you cannot live without, or earn without in the digital space – namely the skill of writing selling and compelling copy.
You might still be living in the world of eyeballs. Where demand is created by repetition. But in the world of 2012, we need to create advertising that sells. Not tomorrow but today. We need to give our consumers an offer they cannot refuse to try out. We then need to give them reason to tell the story about what they experienced – through our product. We need to create traceable campaigns which you can visualize the results from, using Excel. ROI. This word you TV-praising advertisers hate. How can you prove ROI on a TV ad. Estimate it, yes. But prove it. No. Darn. Damn it. Bullocks. However I can. But I need interaction in order to be able to calculate it.
Interactions are our friends. Not our enemies. They guide us when we do something right and they help us improve what we do. But I guess you are too damn good to learn from the data. You'd rather create a TV-ad and hope and pray that it sits with your "audience". Cause you are not able to change your stuff until it works. Something which is a privilege for those of us working with digital media. Online. But I suppose you have never heard of iterative marketing campaigns nor have you paid any notice to optimization and don't give a damn about growth over time. You merely find it interesting to look at estimates of "impact" that you see as a result of your offline campaigns. Hmm… aren't those estimates based on interview studies by the way… rather than behavioral studies… nrrr mind.
With all of that said. Your kind will diminish, my kind will prevail. Regardless of how good your kind is at telling a story, the story you sell will remain a lie as long as it cannot be backed by facts. Sadly, facts are nothing you will ever understand.
October 23, 2012
Google's Real time Reading Abilities
As I was about to send an e-mail to a client, I got the prompt "We can see that you wrote "I enclose" in your message, but there are no files attached to your message. Want to send it anyway?".
At first I thought: "Wow, thanxkxxks Google for helping me remember". Then came the Big Brother sensation. WTF. Google, what are you doing reading my e-mail before I send them. Seriously. I can sort of accept that the e-mails go through your servers and that you read them when I post them. But before I post them… seriously…?
I won't be a hater though. This sort of plays in to the already known facts that Google can understand a lot more of what we write and do. Not only read it an process it in their indexes, but also understand the context of what we are writing and its purpose.
Should be interesting to see if I could use this for SEO purposes somehow. But more on that later 😉
October 21, 2012
Mobile Cloaking in the coming years
Do you have a mobile CSS on your website? I think it is time you'd better get one. Especially if you work with lead generation, sales or any type of transaction on your website. Mobile traffic is increasing like a mother fucker and you need to be prepared for it. Are you still asking the question of whether or not to build a native app or build a mobile website? Don't. Build a website. First. Then see if you have the need for an app.
What is cloaking?
Going back a few years in time, a practice was used to deliver one content type to the visitor and another to the Google bot. This would make Google believe that your web pages were filled with valuable text and image content that was highly relevant for some keyword. Whilst, in fact, your page, when served to a normal user, had all but copy on it. It was simply a cluster of your most converting content put into a structure where it would convert the most possible visitors.
Webmasters did this so that they would rank for stuff their pages didn't really deserve to rank for. This practice was called cloaking.
Google solved the problem by further developing their algorithm so that it would detect this practice. They also added manual checks of websites in order to rule out any sneaky bastards who had been able to reverse engineer the new changes to the algo. In a sense, cloaking is a part of the past, at least when it comes to PC/Mac to web interaction.
Mobile cloaking is here
However, as the web has expanded to also include delivering access to mobile devices our cloaking skills are experiencing somewhat of a renaissance. People are to a greater extent picking up their mobile to search for whatever they want to find. From our analytics we have seen mobile usage, of the websites we monitor, increase gradually. For the past few months, this traffic increase has started to accelerate.
So, what should you do with this traffic when it comes to your website? My suggestion is that you cloak the living shit out of it.
So what do I mean when I say "cloak the living shit out of it". Well, basically I am talking about offering another interface for your mobile visitors than you serve your computer browser users. Fair enough. But I mean seriously change the way it looks in the mobile. Users are lazy. Remove the unnecessary stuff. Give them only the essential for conversion. Either to a lead with an e-mail form, or through a simple one click to phone number purchase. Google doesn't seem to penalize you for this. Perhaps, because you are actually delivering a better page experience than the one with all the text on it.
What is your Mobile cloaking opportunity?
This will not only improve your conversion rates, but it will also improve your usability for the visitor through the mobile phone.
And it is here that Google's dilemma becomes escalated. They will probably never be able to penalize you for these differences in delivery. Users will not like pages with loads of text on them in their mobile phone. Thus, as Google has the ambition to deliver great content, they will have to adapt to finding a way to rank good mobile pages. The only way they can do that today is to use the web css delivery, regardless if you serve your visitors with something else through the mobile phone.
From all I can derive from the numbers, Google will rank you in the cellphone based on how your webpage is behaving to a "non-mobile" visitor. It will give you some advantage for localized content as well as for mobile CSS. HOW this mobile CSS displays the content on the other hand, seems to be of lesser significance.
People are searching the web through the phone. Ok. The search behavior is a bit different. It pays to keep an eye out for what Google suggest is giving the users as options for your specific niche keywords. Use it. People are lazy and more prone to use what is offered to them. Either way. You should be seeing more traffic from the cellphone. Both social as well as search traffic.
So. That's an opportunity for you.
October 8, 2012
Can 41 Digital Data Strategists play themselves to Data Wisdom?
About 7 months or so ago, I got involved in Hyper Islands Digital Data Strategist programme. The industry, actually regardless of which one we were talking to, was screaming for people with knowledge in how to use digital and data, to produce nice juicy output. They didn't necessarily know what kind of output. All they knew was that digital was here to stay, and they needed to hire all talent out there, able to interpret it and turn its benefits into profit in one shape or another.
I got assigned a four week module. I wanted to make it into something unheard of. Something exciting for the students as well as something that was easily communicated. I wanted it to help the students define themselves as individuals as much as I wanted it to benefit them in their life and improve their wellbeing.
Now. 7 months later. I held my first session during the 3rd module called ME. The sole purpose of the four week module is to give the students tools that help them with the boundaries and possibilities of working with data for business purposes. Not only how to collect the right kind of data, but also how to present it, how to interpret it and how to do this without breaking any laws or ethical barriers out there.
Creating "The game of ME"
Five months ago I started planning the module, and it has changed a million times since. The final design. Well. How shall I put it. If you wanted people to, not only, learn about data, but also experience its impact on behavior and performance, what would you do? Yes. You thought right. You should have them make the experience about themselves. And what better way to do it, than to make it into a game.
Said and done. Hyper Island currently have 41 students creating their own version of "The game of ME". A game of self description/improvement/management. Life Hacking in a box. Turning the students into the subjects of their own experiments. "The game of Me" is really a game about the students themselves. They make the incentives, feedback loops, objectives, rewards themselves. They decide what behaviors they want to induce within themselves, making them improve or grow, becoming their own Growth Hackers in a sense.
They shall then turn this game into a visualization of themselves, in terms of data, touching on everything from integrity (cause yes, some of the data is of such kind that you might not want to share it), data collection (both analogue, behavioral and in quantity through APIs and databases), into business or self growth… …and naturally also the regular metrics tools out there. We are no longer talking about a bunch of students that will present themselves with a name and an occupation. These guys will say: "Hi, 6% of my friends call me Jupiter and the 94 other percent of me is influenced by New York." (…I know… bad example… but I think you get the idea…). They shall learn to present anything based on the actual facts, rather than based on a hunch or a feeling.
Through the process of analyzing themselves, and their behavioral change, through data, they will gain key insights on how to interpret data, and make it useful and exciting. This knowledge and set of skills will then be up for grabs, by you as a employer. I am telling you. These students are sharp. And there are only 41 of them.
Today's session – find a theme, start collecting data
The day started out with a presentation of the module. Secondly we held a small KPI workshop helping the students derive themes that could be used for their games. We then broke the themes down into measurable metrics and tools that can be used to measure these metrics. The end result? I have no freaking idea. All I know is that most of the students walked away from today's session with the kind of satisfied panic look on their face that all Hyper Island students do after the first day of any something they have begun.
Please get in touch with me if you want to join this module in any way. The best thing with Hyper Island is that we work towards completing goals. We have a Hyper Island way of doing that. The great thing with the methodology is that it is open to change and thus it allows for constant improvement! If you believe you can add to the module in any way in terms of ethics, developer skills/apis, legal, data integrations, game development, hacking, spam, marketing, branding, business intelligence etc. Please don't think twice about connecting with me on LinkedIn.
My question for the coming four weeks is: Can 41 Digital Data Strategists play themselves to Data Wisdom?
May 8, 2012
In-line sharing optimization, SEO and conversion rate
Thinking in terms of goal completion is essential when working with all types of SEO, social media and more specifically, the conversion of traffic in any shape or form from these channels. In this blog post I will present a way of working, you can use when you optimize your conversion funnel for 1. primary goal completion (usually some kind of purchase, download, signup etc.) and 2. secondary goal completion (such as sharing, linking, commenting). It will be tilted towards the secondary purpose as this article really came about when talking about the updates in Google Penguin.
So what's to consider in terms of SEO, conversion and sharing?
When selling a product online you need to think in terms of two significant frameworks. First you need to consider landing pages, and secondly you need to consider user paths/user journeys/conversion funnels (virtually the same thing as they all should lead to a completion of a transaction you have determined).
Landing pages need to be optimized for two things. They need to be optimized for visibility and they need to be optimized to build desire to complete your proposed action. Ie. your visibility creates traffic that is essential, your USP and way of meeting your visitor makes them want to buy from you. User paths need to be optimized for ease. Ie. you need to decrease the friction the user experiences when they are attempting to convert.
There are several thousands of articles written about landing page optimization. Most of them focus on how you can increase the lust or desire to complete some form of task. To convert. There are quite few however that consider full user paths. This blog post aims at discussing user paths with the goal of adding some sharing to the conversion funnel. I don't know what it is formally called, but I choose to call it "in-line conversion rate optimization".
Why is it important to optimize for sharing?
Recent events within SEO have made it ever so clear that you need a wide range of different types of links to your website. One of my tweeps wrote a blog post that inspired me to write this one. It is a short summary of how the Google Penguin update is effecting you and what you should think about when working with on page SEO.
In terms of conversion rate optimization and SEO, you prioritize getting traffic to those pages that convert well for you. The best way of doing so is to increase the ranking of that page for the desired search terms in the search engine result pages. When we have Penguin in fresh mind, we know that the old facts about links have been turned on their head. Links are still needed to beat the competition, however, it has become increasingly important that these are contextual, next to semantic, and more natural than before. The easiest way of creating such links is through user interaction – sharing.
Thus, users and not machines have to start building a big chunk of your link juice. Besides improving the actual content on your pages, you should also focus on when you ask the user to link to you or to share your content (which means that they put a link to your web content on another page – ie. link to you.) As I wrote on Tribaling, it really doesn't matter how good your content is, as long as it uses mechanisms that make people share.
People share what they want to share and what they are convinced to share. As I discuss in my guest blog post on Tribaling, you really need to start understanding what and why people share in order to improve your content. Once you do understand these patterns, it will become a part of your natural content creation. Then you can focus on how to boost the results by using different tactics.
So what the heck is in-line sharing?
In meetings with clients that sell stuff through online channels, I often get into the discussion of "how to increase sharing without taking the eyes of the prize". Ie. they do not want to ask too many things of their website visitor, as they want to optimize for the ultimate conversion goal. In terms of in-line we are going to add one or several calls to share throughout the conversion funnel or user path.
What makes this in-line is the way that we do it. We make the sharing a part of the product rather than make it another step. Think about it. If you are selling shoes, your buyers might need advice when choosing between two options. Add a create image – post to wall for advice call to action. If you are selling a subscription you can put a matching functionality on your thank you page saying – Increase your knowledge, compare your preferences with someone you trust – connect to facebook/G+ whatever.
If you have a service that require contacts – ask people to make their first additon or call or whatever by syncing with who else has the service. Even before someone has started the conversion funnel, ask them to check out who else of their friends are using the service – connect to facebook and match with your friends. If no one has done this before, then use the call to action – "Ask for matching access from MAX 5 of your friends" or something like that. They need to think that it is their fault that there aren't any users who have used the service before… getting side tracked… however… one more thing…
Let me elaborate on the shoe example. Let's say your visitor is selecting between buying two different types of shoes. When browsing your website they have added both of them their checkout basket. Once ready to select they click their basket icon and see all the stuff they have selected. They now feel really anxious that they are about to make a poor mistake. This is a perfect time for you to prompt them with a call to action – "Create a moodboard and ask your friends on Facebook" or G+ or Pinterest or whatever. You get the point. The user gets to post it to the wall with a pre written question they can change – "Please help me select what shoes to buy – tag yourself on the one you vouch for". Doubble time sharing as this is posted to their walls as well. Sweet.
Getting back to it. If they select get their friends opinion – share – then great. You feed them with a message – "Great, we will send you an e-mail with feedback once your friends have replied". Or, buy now and have the option to change your mind when your friends have had their say. Or, woops your friends couldn't decide, buy both with free 1 day delivery and 10% off your second item. Or something like that.
You start getting it I guess. You make sharing a part of your conversion funnel, rather than making it something people do statically. You give them a reason to share whilst making their decision, or to be able to boast, or for whatever other reason you can find when analyzing your website personas. DON'T put a share button on the page unless the page itself is a shareable object. Rather make sharing a part of the purchasing process. Wow… that paragraph became a blog post in its own right. LOL… getting back to it….
How do you optimize for sharing in terms of in-line conversion?
I have written about Biconic conversion models before, but that blog post still didn't take into account the challenge of time, which is one of the greatest friction moments of any type of user path. If it takes to much time, they have time to think, and thus they are less likely to convert as their level of arousal that was created by the landing page, decreases as time goes by.
You cannot simply add steps between the user and their completion of the goal. You need to optimize some away first. This is really the focus for in-line conversion optimization. If you add something you have to optimize something so that it runs more smoothly.
So. To get to it. What should you do? Well, I usually do the following, if I don't have the luxury of fancy fancy analytics tools:
- I look at the average time a user spends from landing page to completing a preferred goal
- That average time I assume to be the time a person is willing to spend to purchase anything from me
- This average time thus works as a comparative, or an anchor for myself
- If I manage to decrease that time spent, then 1. either more people will convert or 2. I can increase the value of their purchase given that they can perform these tasks within the same time period
- I then use all my time optimizing to shorten the time spent by the user
What types of call to action should you use?
So. We have now defined that your main KPI is the average time spent and you should try to decrease this. The purpose of decreasing the time is so that you can start completing your secondary conversion goal – ie. increasing the value of the page in terms of visibility. In terms of Google Penguin update, this is done by getting contextual placements of links back to your web content (plus a variety of contextual stuff on your pages).
In order to make someone share your content on their way to conversion, you really need to have your sharing call to action make sense. I mean. You cannot just write "share this" somewhere on the page and expect users to do all the work. You have to stick it into their face and describe to them why "sharing is caring" or why "sharing is valuable to you", as described above. Just as on the landing page, you need to build arousal or desire to actually perform this task.
And you DO need to do it in-line of the user path. This is an important statement. This basically means that you should use
Calculate the ROI of sharing
In the end it all comes down to ROI calculations. If you believe that an improved ranking will increase your traffic by let's say 1000 visitors. You know you convert 15% of these. Then you know that you will earn your price times 15% times 1000 by increasing your pages ranking.
If for example you increase your conversion rate by lowering time spent to convert by more than that, you probably shouldn't add any in-line linking mechanisms to improve your rankings. Especially not if your page is already ranking well.
However, if you find that an improved ranking would surpass the decrease in conversion rate due to the in-line linking mechanism. You should probably consider adding it. Or in other words. If you find that you have optimized your conversion rate to a place you feel comfortable, then you should try to increase traffic, if the trafic increase doesn't mean you decrease your net revenue.
Or in bullets.
- Conversion rate is a function of time (and some other factors)
- Traffic is a function of links
- In order to make someone link to you, this will take time from them
- If you increase time, conversion rates will drop
- In order to find your optimum you need to consider both what a ranking increase would mean in terms of traffic and you need to consider how the extra time spent by a user when converting is effecting how many of them convert
- If the traffic increase produces more money than the decrease in conversion rate takes away – it is a rational and good thing to do
So many words for saying so little. But I truly hope that this has given you some insight into how I think in terms of sharing, SEO value and conversion. Ie. when not only taking any of the important steps out of the equation.
So in terms of Google Penguin, your rankings and thus also traffic for relevant keywords is increasingly needed to be natural and contextual. It needs to be the result of natural sharing. Thus you need to focus your work on creating content that is shareable, and create mechanisms that actually help people share. I suggest in this blogpost how you can do this by putting the call to action for sharing in-line with the user journey to the primary conversion goal.
I hope you enjoyed it!


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Quite what went on between the two men must remain, for the most part, a secret. They had lunch, where the talk was of footballing and equine athletes. Ferguson, new to the racing game as an owner, has become nearly as passionate about the equine turf as he is about the footballing one. His best horse, Heritage Hall, is trained at Magnier's Ballydoyle Stables in Co Tipperary, and Magnier has acted as an unofficial adviser to Ferguson over his bloodstock purchases. All the evidence looks to the favour having been returned.
There is little doubt that Ferguson would rather do business with the Magnier consortium than either Edwards or Rupert Murdoch, whose ultimately abortive bid for United was being examined by the Department of Trade and Industry at the time of the intriguing lunch.
It has been said that Magnier - almost no one refers to him by his first name - is the most powerful man in Ireland. That may be stretching it, but he is certainly one of the richest and most powerful men in the high- stakes world of international thoroughbred racing and breeding.
A devout Catholic whose family has been in the horse-trading business since the 1850s, Magnier attended Ireland's premier Catholic school, Glenstal Abbey in Co Limerick, leaving at 15 on the death of his father to run the family farm.
His fortune was made - and continues to be partially generated - by spotting trends and controlling markets in the international bloodstock world. The Coolmore stud in Co Tipperary is the engine room of a business that operates on five continents and employs more than 600 people.
Coolmore is now Europe's premier stallion farm, and anyone who is serious about breeding a winning racehorse has to do business with Magnier. From the Aga Khan to the Queen through to the hugely wealthy ruling family of Dubai, the Maktoums, at one time or another all have sent mares to stallions owned by Coolmore in the hope of breeding that elusive commodity - a Classic-winning racehorse.
Magnier purchased Coolmore in 1974 in partnership with his father-in- law, the legendary trainer, Vincent O'Brien (with whose daughter, Susan, he has five children) and the pools magnate-turned-racehorse-owner, Robert Sangster.
Today the operation is owned entirely by O'Brien and Magnier, although precise financial details are difficult to come by. Coolmore operates as an unlimited partnership and as such has no need to publish accounts. And that is just the way Magnier likes it. Although a man with little public ego, he has private vanity as his well-publicised houses dotted around the world testify. He enjoys his success.
Home away from home is a golf- course villa near Marbella in Spain (naturally Sean Connery is a friend) and a mansion in Barbados, known as Gatwick because of its size and a constant stream of traffic going in and out. He keeps a permanent staff of 35 at the property, which has its own cinema, gym and chapel.
The jewel in the Coolmore crown is a horse called Sadler's Wells from which the Coolmore operation earns on average pounds 15m per year - some years a great deal more. There are 50 other stallions at Coolmore, but Sadler's Wells dominates the worldwide horse-racing industry like no other. He is the greatest sire of his generation and the cornerstone of Magnier's fortune.
But it really could have been any commodity for Magnier. "If potatoes were a cash crop with tax exemptions and potential for global domination he would own the potato exchange," says one who knows him well.
As it is, horses are his business but - like the Barclay twins - it could have been anything. He was always going to be a successful businessman.
Ireland holds particular attractions for Magnier, whose fortunes are so heavily vested in the ability of a stallion to fornicate and produce racehorses that will turn into champions and become prize stallions themselves.
In 1969, his friend the former Irish Premier, Charles Haughey, pushed legislation through the Dail that saw all earnings from stallions given tax-free status. But his friendship with Haughey came back to plague the intensely private Magnier when it was revealed earlier this year at a tribunal of inquiry that a cheque for pounds 10,000 issued by Magnier to a third party ended up being used to fund the establishment of a Haughey family business. To understand a little more about Magnier, it helps to look at the company he keeps. He socialises and does business with a tight coterie of self-made men.
Bahamas-based billionaire Joe Lewis is a close associate (although Lewis has denied any involvement in the United deal), having bred the Coolmore- based stallion Lake Coniston. But that is a deal Lewis would rather forget. He sold the horse for 22,000 guineas (pounds 23,100), but it went on to be-come a champion and now makes that during a day at stud.
Others close to Magnier include gambler JP McManus, stockbroker Dermot Des- mond and former bookmaker Michael Tabor, who owns horses in partnership with Magnier. With sunglasses glued to the top of his head, his face in an almost perpetual scowl, Magnier strides around the world's racecourses on first-name terms with everyone. But for someone so open about his presence, he remains secretive about what he actually does - and what, outside bloodstock, has added to his considerable fortune.
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That is not true. Why would you ask if I ever used the bus or train? You're the one sounding harsh and quoting and replying to my post three times. Have you ever tried a high-end IEM, or a CIEM or a high-end IEM with custom molded ear tips? I assure you the results do not sound like rubbish on trains, busses, or airplanes. I am not judging you for your setup, just explain to me the fact that you use it in other rooms and etc. and I'll get it. No need for the consecutive quoting and attacks.
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Many questions and concerns have arisen as a result of the Jan. 27 Executive Order that temporarily impacts citizens, including visa and green card holders, of seven countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen – from entering the United States. The order also directed the U.S. Secretary of State to suspend the refugee admission program for 120 days and to suspend all refugee processing of Syrian nationals.
As a large, research university with students and faculty members from around the world on our campus, we know the value of having fellow citizens of the world beside us in our classroom and in our labs and clinics. They are an essential part of our campus, and our university is enriched by having them here. I want to offer my personal support for all of our international students and colleagues.
While the exact impact of the Executive Order on our campus is still being evaluated today, our review indicates that fewer than 20 members of the ECU community (faculty/staff/students) could be directly affected. At this time, we would advise students and employees who are nationals of the countries identified in the order to refrain from traveling outside the United States.
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Moto G refuses to boot
Hello, im sorry if this isnt the right place for this im kinda a noob at posting :P
anyway down to business so i tried to unlock my bootloader i had everything, i did the command prompt got the codes put them on motos website and it said my phone wasn't qualified of something of that nature so i just said forget it and closed it never got the unlock code or anything
now i plan to take the phone back tomorrow (i just got it yesterday) so its still in warranty now my question is did i somehow void the warranty? i didn't root or even unlock the thing and now it wont even turn on and to my knowledge they have to turn it on to run diagnostics on it so is it in warranty? and if not could i get away with taking it back anyway?
any help woudl be much appreciated
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Walking 3 feet off the ground
Walking on the pier head the other day, I began to pray for the catch of the day.
I caught one with my simple prayer, with the sun shinning down was like God smiling down to
make me feel like walking 3 feet off the ground from morning to night I felt it that day.
Without any drugs or alcohol to be found this is genuine walking 3 feet off the ground.
Where your soul soars above yourself, and you know what's important, your spiritual wealth.
It's something no money can buy, only through the holy trinity will it flow, and make me walk 3
feet off the ground.
Where God let's you know he's out there and lifts your spirit 3 feet in the air and, if I died just
then it couldn't have been any better my friends.
I think back in a time in my life when I said," I do", to my wife a love so true that made me walk
1,2,3 feet off the ground.
With my children being born made me walk 3 feet off the ground, because of seeing the miracle
of birth from God above.
So when I've got the blues and feeling down I think of the days I walked 3 feet off the ground,
where my feet don't even make a sound.
There would be no crime if people would sip of the divine wine called God's Love that made me
walk 3 feet above.
The evil that people do would all fall through if they felt that feeling of walking 3 feet above.
The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost is what people sometimes forget the most that they're
watching from shore to shore.
Why are we here and what do we fear the most?? I wish you peace and love and try walking 3
feet above.
It felt so special that I don't feel worthy to feel it again, so when it hits you like a spiritual freight
train you'll know you're walking 3 feet in the air.
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Genre: Religion and Spirituality
I enjoyed reading your poem because I can relate. I've experienced it many times. I am thinking of one of those times right now. There is nothing quite like the moments when God's presence is so strong that it lifts you up. Thank you for reminding me.
I'm glad you enjoyed the poem, and have painted this feeling. See the view is birds-eye the spirit lifted that much weeeeee. Everything happens for a reason and when God lifted me and my spirit I said I wasn't worthy to go any higher. Sip of the divine wine. Peace Love Harmony and God Bless you. nos
enjoyed it...
Keep up the good work
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i don't wanna know what yo name is
if you think i love ya
then you must have lost yo mind
where is all this crap coming from
what happened to honesty?
what do you mean
by we are over
you look at me and i know you still
but my heart is as black as coal
and as heartless as ever
so i don't care
stop stalkin' my life
hauntin' me won't do you any good
what happened to being friends?
ya,ya,ya ,the new girl got you in love,right
stop talkin' sh*t
i know you love me
just say it
i see you stare at her
then at me
comparin' us both ,
you can't have both
pick me,pick her
i dont care
just have fun cause its almost over
shut up boy and stop teasing
pick her cause i dont care
pick her cause she is a slut
pick her cause your heartbreaker
pick her cause she got you hypnotized
pick her cause i don't matter
pick her cause im your slave for love
pick her cause she don't care
stop your BLAHH,BLAHH,BLAHH
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