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Plus, pressure mounts on Ukraine ahead of Euro 2012 tournament and the case of the vanished Czech bridge.by Ky Krauthamer, Ryan Isakow, and Stanislav Maselnik 1 May 2012
1. European leaders threaten Euro 2012 boycott
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said 30 April he would not go to Ukraine during the tournament unless there is significant improvement in the human rights situation, according to AP. Earlier, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said she would skip the 8 June opening ceremony.
Spiegel Online speculates that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will follow suit unless Tymoshenko is released soon, and Czech President Vaclav Klaus on 30 April pulled out of an upcoming summit of Central European leaders in Ukraine over Tymoshenko's treatment.
Tymoshenko's husband, Oleksandr, and former Ukrainian government minister Bohdan Danylyshyn have been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic.
Meanwhile, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski expressed concern the Dnipropetrovsk bomb blasts might mar the tournament.
2. Slovak government mulls wealth taxes
Slovakia's new center-left government is drafting a plan that would replace the current 19 percent flat tax with a progressive tax system, with the goal of getting the budget deficit below 3 percent of GDP by 2013. The government has ruled out increasing consumption taxes, opting instead to add a second income tax bracket of 25 percent on incomes above 33,000 euros ($43,800) annually. The average gross salary in 2009 was about 10,000 euros, according to the Slovak statistics agency. The government is also looking into a financial transaction tax and a 22 percent tax on "lucrative companies" including banks and telecoms, AFP reports.
3. Breakthrough ruling finds discrimination in Bosnian schools
A court has overturned the "two schools under one roof" system in one Bosnian city.
A Mostar court ruling on 27 April upheld a lawsuit filed by the Vasa Prava legal-aid group, finding that the system used in a number of Bosnian schools, where children from the country's main ethnic groups are educated separately in the same building, amounts to discrimination.
"Two schools under one roof" is most common in the Bosnian-Croat Federation, where Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslim) and Croats are the dominant groups. During the Bosnian War in the 1990s, the two communities fought a fierce battle for Mostar that left the city's famous stone bridge in ruins, and the city remains sharply divided along ethnic lines.
The court ordered Mostar schools to end the separate-but-equal policy by the beginning of the next school year in September, a Vasa Prava spokesman said, according to the Swiss SDA news agency and AFP.
4. Medvedev fires two more provincial governors
In one of his final acts in office, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the heads of Yaroslavl and Perm regions late last week. They joined nearly a dozen regional chiefs who have been relieved of their duties since December.
Medvedev said he was displeased by Yaroslavl region Governor Sergei Vakhrukov's handling of the recent Yaroslavl mayoral election, The Moscow Times reports. Vakhrukov's hand-picked candidate ended up losing to an opposition-backed candidate. Although former deputy mayor of Yaroslavl Sergei Yastrebov won the ruling United Russia party's mayoral primary, Vakhrukov ignored the result and personally decided on a different candidate. Medvedev has now appointed Yastrebov to be acting governor.
Medvedev also accepted the resignation of Perm Governor Oleg Chirkonov, who will be temporarily replaced by Regional Development Minister Viktor Basargin, according to Gazeta.ru.
In a televised interview last week cited by The Moscow Times, Medvedev said he had replaced more than half the country's governors during his tenure and suggested corruption had motivated several of the sackings.
5. Baffling reports of daring Czech bridge caper
A gang of thieves made off with a 10-ton railway bridge and 200 meters of track last week in the western Czech Republic, Mlada fronta Dnes reports.
The thieves pretended to be bona fide workers and had a fake contract authorizing them to remove the disused track and bridge to make way for a cycle path, Railway Infrastructure Administration spokesman Pavel Halla said. The fake document apparently satisfied police who dropped by to question the thieves.
The bridge theft made little impact in the Czech media, where stories of metal theft are common, but Mlada fronta's website ran a follow up story 30 April, highlighting that Britain's Daily Telegraph had picked up the story. Mlada fronta chided the Telegraph for placing the scene of the crime at the opposite end of the country, but there appears to be some geopolitical confusion in the newsroom of the largest Czech daily as well. The map accompanying the original story labeled the largest city in the area "Carlsbad," the old German name for Karlovy Vary.
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Sky's shareholding reinforces Synamedia's position as a strategic long-term technology partner to a growing roster of market-leading pay-TV operators and media companies worldwide.
Both Sky and its parent company Comcast are long-time Synamedia customers as well as strategic development partners.
Sky Group COO Andrew Griffith said, "We've long collaborated with the team at Synamedia to help bring great content, products, and entertainment to millions of customers across Europe and this investment will help deepen our innovative partnership."
Synamedia CEO Yves Padrines said, "At a time of accelerated evolution in the pay-TV industry, this investment is a fantastic endorsement of our product vision, R&D roadmap and service portfolio from Sky, Europe's leading media and entertainment company."
As an independent firm backed by both the Permira funds and Sky, Synamedia's mission is to help customers maximise the return on their existing infrastructure while laying the foundations for a blended broadcast/OTT multi-screen model that will deliver improved consumer choice and convenience while protecting income and opening up new revenue streams.
Synamedia has over 200 pay-TV and media customers including AT&T, Astro, beIN, Bharti Airtel, Charter, China DTH, Comcast, Cox, Disney, Foxtel, Get, Liberty Global, Oi, OSN, Rogers, Sky, Shaw, Tata Sky, Verizon, Viasat, and Vodafone.
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Phillip helps companies convert their static websites into lead-generating marketing platforms.
In 2005, knowing little about web development, Phillip made a promise to a business owner that he wasn't sure I could keep – to build a website.
Phillip self-studied and painstakingly created a simple one-page site for him. Two months later, the site achieved top search engine rankings and leads starting pouring in for his business.
Soon after, he called and said "you've not only changed my business, you've changed my life."
It was the most rewarding moment of my professional career and ignited a fire in me that rages to this very day.
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That ugly little Microsoft Front Page website has snowballed into a thriving digital agency that has partnered with hundreds of businesses.
Phillip have since written several award winning and best-selling books on lead generation, search engine optimization and web design. Forbes named my book SEO for Growth (seoforgrowth.com) as the #1 SEO book to read for entrepreneurs. It's been endorsed by over 50 of the world's top marketing experts, and listed as a top marketing book by Inc., Mashable, Oracle and The Huffington Post.
Here's A Full Transcript of Our Interview With Philip Plus Links
Jonathan: Welcome back folks to the WP-Tonic Show. It's our Wednesday episode, our interview show and it's episode 309. I've got my great co-host Kim with me. Would you like to quickly introduce yourself, Kim?
Kim: Absolutely. I'm Kim Shivler. I'm a Communications Strategist and Instructional Design Consultant and on Wednesdays, I help Jonathan with this show.
Jonathan: That's great. And we've got Phil Singleton. Oh, I apologize Phil and he's the publisher of a great book SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. Would you like to introduce yourself a bit more Phil to the audience and viewers?
Phil: Sure. My name's Phil Singleton as Jonathan was saying. I run a Web Design here in Kansas City called Kansas City Web Design. Imagine that an SEO guy who named his company after a keyword. But yeah, that's kind of how I got into the business and what kind of still ultimately pays the bills to this day. Just a little bit of background. I kind of feel like I'm the poster boy for if he can do it, anybody can do it because I didn't build my first website until I was 35 years old and it was a struggle doing that piece of it and I actually like telling people that I got a D in Computer Science in College. So, again, I'm like the last person you would think that would be able to have like a thriving Digital Agency. And it still to this day kind of gives me a little bit of an outsider mentality even though I think I'm pretty deep into it now.
I went to school for Finance. I got out of school and had a job in insurance that I hated. I ended up moving overseas and living in Taiwan for 10 years. An opportunity fell into my lap. It was basically a software company that opened my eyes up into Google and Affiliate Marketing and basically Digital Marketing. At that point, I figured there was no turning back. And in 2005, when I was 35 years old, I did my first one-page website where I made a promise to an Auto Detailer here in Kansas City that I wasn't sure I could keep. And I said, "Hey man. I'm going to build you a website because you don't have one and you're going to start selling Auto Details for $200 a car instead of $25 a car to dealerships who were paying basically nothing."
I ended up rolling up my sleeves and doing their website. I tried to do it in Dreamweaver and I couldn't do it and I ended up doing it in FrontPage which is now gone. But I ended up being able to push up one ugly little one-page purple and yellow small business website for this guy and 60 days later, it started to rank and his phone started ringing and he called me up and told me I changed his business and I changed his life and boom, 35 years old, I finally know what I want to do when I grow up. I want to be a small business Marketer/Web Designer and that one barter turned into a couple more barters that's rolled into kind of the career that I have now.
Jonathan: That's great, Phil. What we're going to be discussing in general folks is an emphasis on SEO around if you're building a Membership or a Learning Management platform and you're selling your course online. And Phil's got a really great view on that because he's in the process of doing that himself so I think it's going to be an interesting conversation. But before we go deep into the subject, I just want to quickly mention our main sponsor which is Kinsta Hosting. And what can I say about Kinsta. I host the WP-Tonic website with Kinsta and I have some of my clients on Kinsta and they're just a great hosting company with all the bells and whistles that you're looking for as a Developer or somebody's that got a Membership, Learning Management System or E-Commerce website using WordPress. They've got a great staging site, a great backup system. You get the latest versions of PHP and the UX Design, the interface design,
when you log into Kinsta, is one of the best I have encountered. And I haven't mentioned something really important. Their support is superb and when you use their ticketing system or live messaging, you talk to somebody that is a really high caliber who can really effectively deal with any problem you've got there and then. And I also haven't mentioned their starter plan starts at $30 per month and the speed of their service is fantastic. So, if that sounds interesting, go to the WP-Tonic website. There's banners all over there for Kinsta. They are affiliate links. If you click on of those, you'll be helping the show and Kinsta and just tell people, in general, they should look at Kinsta if they're looking to change their hosting company. So, straight into it. So, Phil, you're building your own Membership site so you're in the right mindset. So, what are some of the things do you think people have got to consider when it comes to SEO when they're building this Membership website?
Phil: Well, it's an interesting thing to think about because I've done a couple Membership sites for clients and I'm actually in the process of trying to do two right now, one, where we've had for a long time. John Jantsch and I, who co-wrote SEO for Growth with me, we've been trying to build a certification program that's basically based on courses and a quiz at the end which we actually haven't put in fully into motion right now. So I've got that project that we're putting together and then, actually, for myself, as a kind of way of, I've been out there doing my own Content Marketing, having a podcast, being on podcasts.
I get more and more people asking how I've done stuff that I've done, one. And two is I've been marketing myself as Kansas City Web Design for a long time but when you have a book that's a global best-seller and where I'm getting out there and reaching people in other audiences and then you market yourself as Kansas City Web Design, it gets kind of tough to be able to get people to do work with you, I guess, when you're so tied to a certain Geography. So, I'm actually coming up with a separate brand called Bare Knuckle Marketing and part of that really is to try and layout like a kind of DIY, DWI, done with you and done for you type services and part of the done with you is this course thing that we're trying to put together. But one of the things with a course is we're all out there trying to do the best that we can with Content Marketing, making our website a referral source for all of our best content so that we can grow it out and get more SEO equity on it. But one of the things with course plugins, for one, is most of that content, at least the way that we've done it, is you typically kind of gated, right? So, a lot of that, you're not going to get a whole lot of benefit from the course itself and the course material itself inside of the program.
Jonathan: That is the key problem, isn't it?
Phil: It is. I look in terms of a Membership plugin almost the same way I would in terms of E-Commerce. There are certain things you would do with courses in terms of maybe how you market them or even sell them on your site where there are SEO implications. And I'm going to take a step back and say about a year and a half ago or so I developed my own plugin for adding schema and structured data to your website. And I did so because at the time, there weren't a lot of really easy to use plugins and I figured I've got to make one just for myself and my own clients and I did that. Schema markup, adding this additional code to your website so that Google can know what it is and add more context to it is becoming really important for voice search and getting more rich information in the search results, right?
So when you see star ratings and all these kinds of stuff. Well, another schema markup that they have in there that's actually part of my plugin too is for books and courses so that when you have a course on your website, you would definitely have a public facing version where people would go, I guess in some cases. In my case, it's going to be almost more like a shopping cart. My courses are going to be presented almost as kind of products on a site and then they're also going to have additional schema markup on them so that I've got a chance to have better SEO markup and on page SEO for each one of my courses. And I think that could potentially be something that everybody should consider.
There's a lot of good schema plugins out there but I think this is one of those very wide open spaces out in the Internet right now. When I see companies come to us, very few of them have even like the basics of on page SEO done and they've got Yoast installed. They've still got Home up in the page title. Just because you have Yoast installed on your website doesn't mean the SEO is done on it and a lot of people haven't gone to the step of optimizing even just the basic stuff on the basic plugin. So, when it gets to schema, it's like wide open because almost nobody's doing it. Yet, Google is getting very aggressive in showing all sorts of additional information in the search results.
Jonathan: Yeah. Before I throw it over to Kim to ask a question Phil, can you just give a quick outline what schema is? Can you just give a quick 101 of what schema is?
Phil: Sure. So, schema and structured data is basically an extra level of like under the hood code that you use to tag information on your website so that search engines, and when we say search engines, we're talking about Google because that's like 90 percent of the market, can go in there and know what the content is instead of having to take a guess at it. A good example of this would be having, let's say a blog post that within the blog post might have a review from somebody. Well, Google is not going to have their crawler go in and say, "Hey. That's a review from this guy on this date and he gave it this many stars," and put that information in the search results. But there's this extra little level of code you can put in if you fill in the blanks and add the code the way the standard is.
Then, you have a much better chance of that information, maybe that review, showing up right in the search results versus if you don't have that extra layer of coding in your website. So, the easy way to think about schema is actually how you're seeing it in the search results now. So, things like the knowledge box at the top where you get position zero, extra information about your company and branded searches is as a result of schema. Actually, inside the organic results, you'll see star ratings, aggregate ratings, event times, things like this that are coming in there. A lot of that is the result of people putting in this extra code into their website so that it help Google take the guesswork out of what the content is.
So, for me, I look at it as, you just look at Google looking at your website as, you would be going to an alien planet and trying to figure out what the anatomy of a page is. Well, schema enables you to go in and put these little tags and says, "Here's the head. Here's the legs," and it gives you kind of the anatomy of the page and enables you to kind of mark it up. It's really a lot like, if people are familiar with Yoast. To me, it's kind of just a more detailed version of like a Yoast plugin where you're putting the page title, maybe the meta description. Well, this just enables you to go through the rest of the page and say, "Hey. This is a video. Hey. This is a blog post. Hey. This is a review," and you can actually kind of tag it piece by piece and then you're giving Google a lot more extra confidence and context to what the information on the page is. And the more you can do that, one, people think in the industry that it's an on page SEO factor that will help your rankings go up just by having it on the site. And secondly, it gives you a much better chance of getting extra information into the search results so that's golden for a couple of reasons.
One is, it's real shiny and it's got like search engine bling but having this extra like rich information in the search results increases your click-through rates by many percent points, 10, 20 plus some people say and that extra click-through rate actually help you lift yourself up through the rankings. So, coming up at bottom of the page and people see that extra information and they keep clicking because they like that one, it's more shiny. The more they click it, the higher your click-through rates go in. A lot of folks in SEO or Google world is kind grey or denies it, the click-through rate on a search result will actually. So all these things, you know, schema has a role to play in and it is important. And all it really is, is it sounds, you know, schema, structured data, all it is, is simply putting a little bit of extra code on your website through a plugin that basically tells Google what it is so they can take the guesswork out of the type of content that you're trying to show.
Jonathan: I think that's great. I'm surprised at how time's going. I'm going to let Kim take over in the second half. We're getting close to the break actually Phil.
Phil: Sorry.
Jonathan: No, no. It's just surprising. It's fascinating what you're talking about. So, let's just continue for a couple of minutes about schema and then we'll go for the break and then Kim can take over. So, you've got this plugin. Is it a bit like, you know, obviously, we don't want to be too blatant about plugging our products but it sounds an interesting plugin. So, does it come with a nice interface and does it work with something like Yoast hand in hand?
Phil: Well, there's good schema plugins out there and I'm going to give you the difference on some of them. The one I have is more suited I think for smaller websites where people want to get in and are familiar with the Yoast interface and you have to go in and basically manually do stuff. There's an option to autofill some of the things once you select it. Oh, the is a blog post. If you click autofill on the Pro version of ours, it will take the information from the page and help you pre-fill. Now, some of the other great plugins that are out there and there are several. They're some really good ones out there. They want to automate schema for you. So it's literally like adding a plugin in the background, creating rules so that you don't have to go too far into adding schema for every page. And if you've got a big website with thousands of pages, then that's probably your only option. For an SEO tweaker or somebody like me, I have to be able to manually tweak stuff. I don't want a plugin coming in and like applying broad rules across pages.
Jonathan: What is the name of your plugin? Is it on the directory?
Phil: Yeah. If you do WP SEO Schema, if you Google that, it will come up. But there's other ones. There's one called Schema that's automated. There's another one called Schema App that's another good one.
Jonathan: I actually think your plugin for our audience is probably a good start and something they should really look. We're going to make sure it's in the show notes folks. What we're going to do folks is we're going to go for our break. We'll be back in a few moments and then I'm going to let Kim take over. Be back in a few moments.
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Jonathan: We're coming back from our break. We've had a fascinating discussion with Phil about schema, SEO. Kim, I'm going to throw it over to you for the second half of the show. Off you go dear.
Kim: Okay. You asked a lot of my questions already. We've talked about schema and SEO. Let's move over and talk a little bit more, let's talk a little bit more about the online course situation and you've built them for clients as well as now building one for yourself. Have you decided yet on what platform you're going to use for your course or are you still in that process?
Phil: I have not. The one I've used in the past a couple times is MemberPress and there's another one that I've bought but we haven't installed yet for SEO for Growth called, I think it's called, I'll have to send that one to you separately. But there's another one we looked at that's got, I think it's got two versions. It's got one basically where you're kind of up on their platform like a Shopify almost but there's a WordPress integration on it where you can put it on to their website and I can't believe it's escaping my name right now because I'm sure you guys have heard of this one but I can't think about it off the top of my head. And my other one right now for the new website that I'm creating for myself, I'm going to look into a little bit more closely.
Because we talked about schema before, I don't want to rehash any of that but one thing to remember about course plugins or E-Commerce plugins or any plugin right now is that a lot of them are adding schema as part of their plugin. So if you're not careful, you can junk up your website with schema. So you have to pay attention and use the structured data. So one of the things I'm looking at with a course plugin is my plugin has an ability to add course schema on it but there's another one that does it cleaner and automatically in a way I like that I might use that. I actually haven't gotten to the stage yet where I've actually chosen it because I think anybody that's done course plugin work, you know, especially when you're doing your own site or a custom site, it can get in there and you can get in the weeds pretty quickly with stuff that you want to do and with the things you want to add and features you want to add and extensions and that kind of stuff. I feel like we've got a little bit of experience with MemberPress but I almost kind of want to roll up my sleeves and maybe look at a couple other ones just to see if there's something better out there because every one that you go into, there's probably something missing where you would like the other one a little bit better. But my coursework, we're getting the coursework material together. I haven't quite even gotten to the point yet where we've installed it on the new website that I'm making but we're getting there. A bit consideration for me is how it lays out of the site and what kind of schema they're going to add as part of the courses.
Kim: Just so you know, I do a lot of combination MemberPress with other Learning Management plugins to combine membership and LMS. For example, I'm about to launch one that's a combination of MemberPress and LearnDash.
Phil: Okay.
Kim: For somebody who's not really in the on the SEO like you are, we don't know, how do I look at a plugin since documentation is not usually there for this and see what schema they're adding? How could I tell that?
Phil: Well, one would be to ask the Developer and see if they just ask. Another one, if they've got like maybe a showcase or somebody's using it. If you Google, Google structure data test, they've got a really cool little nifty online thing where you can take a product page, plug it in there and see if there's actually schema being generated but you would have to look to see or maybe that's when you ask the Developer, "Is this coming as a result of the plugin or did somebody add it as a result of an additional schema plugin like I have?" But if you looked at a couple showcases and saw that it was happening over and over again, you could assume that it's the plugin that's generating the schema for. For courses, in particular, that's one of the things I would definitely put. I'd want to make sure that it is in the plugin. I'm sure there is. And if you're not, that you find some way to add it. Because if you do your SEO on as a popular course, the rich results that come up, I think if I remember correctly, look pretty cool. That's some nice real estate to get.
Kim: Excellent. Thank you. Well, let's make sure we get the link to that tool in the show notes Jonathan because I sure want to go check that out. My idea when you said looking at the showcase as another way to do it would possibly be to install the plugin and run it. You could see what was done. For example, I know I don't have that other structured data plugin that you were talking about, schema plugin. Although after today's show, I probably will. I'm your worst nightmare for SEO, believe me. I have a really good friend who's a great SEO person also. She just cringes when she thinks of me.
Phil: I doubt that. I mean most people who are in it know a lot more than they think that they do. Actually, to me, as long as people have it on their mind, that's really the big thing because most people just leave it out of their mind and they lose a lot of, I think, benefit that they could be doing if it was kind of always kind of sit back there.
Kim: So, you haven't quite decided on the plugin yet but you did mention initially that you definitely wanted to have some quizzes, that type of thing.
Phil: On the SEO site, SEO for Growth, at the end of the course, the idea was to have like a quiz so they could get like a certification badge on it but yes.
Kim: Nice. What have you found so far? You said that you are still dealing with the content piece of the course. Is this the first extended course you've ever built and if so, what struck you as far as maybe where were challenges you didn't expect in building out course content as opposed to blog post content? Because it's different.
Phil: I think that's the biggest hurdle that we're having right now. I'm not so worried about finding a way to deliver the course material through a plugin because we'll get there and we'll figure that one out. But getting the course material has been a little bit harder and part of it I think is just because, let's say for the SEO for Growth piece, I'm literally doing this with John Jantsch right now where we said, "Okay. We've got 15 chapters of the book SEO for Growth. Let's create a course based on it. We'll go through and create a series for each chapter where we've got 5 or 10 minutes of each one and pull that into a course. We divvy them up." At the beginning of this year, nobody's really got done their pieces yet. I started to do a little bit. I was trying to do it the easy way on something like Loom, going through a screen share, saving it on there and probably not the greatest quality for video and stuff but clean enough to get the information out. The hard part for me is really getting comfortable with talking through the course pieces and it's been a little bit of a procrastination on that piece of it. And then, we've also thought about going the other direction.
There's a local video production house here that will enable us to have the place for like 2 hours a morning or whatever and really do some really nice upper-end stuff for coursework but I think that might be overkill as well. But I do think getting the content together, even for somebody who's a professional content creator and does this for a living, it just feels like the stakes are a little bit higher with coursework you're going to be charging money on. So that part of it, I think, has kind of held us back in terms of making sure that we're delivering the quality of it and getting it all together. Maybe that's a challenge for everybody but it's certainly been for me because this is the first one. We've gotten books and stuff and able to execute other projects where you're putting content together. But for some reason, creating the video content on this has been a little bit of a challenge and lends itself more a little bit to more procrastination, I guess and that's been the hardest thing I think about getting it off the ground. Does that sound familiar?
Kim: It does. In my experience, I've been a course designer for over 20 years, when I work with people, if they care about the quality, that's when they start realizing creating a course is different than just writing a blog post, etcetera, when you really want to teach something to somebody. And so, yes. It's the same thing I hear from most people.
Phil: Ironically there's stuff in there. I've got one like I did for an hour and a half on the benefits of podcast guesting that we use for this other company to train people to come on as clients for guesting. Well, that just came out in like 90 minutes. So it's all in there for everybody that's got some expertises. But then again, it's like you're organizing, you're procrastinating, being comfortable for yourself if you're, I guess, maybe a little bit more of a perfection. You want it to be good and you're saying, "Hey. This is the stuff that I want to grade you one," type of a deal. It just feels like the stakes are a little bit higher and it's been a great excuse to procrastinate on anyway.
Kim: I love that. I know we're getting ready to come up to the wrap-up.
Jonathan: We've still got about 3 to 4 minutes actually Kim.
Kim: So, I wanted to ask one more question on that because you just mentioned the podcast guesting and that's one of my favorite things to do is to be a guest on podcasts. You have an article you've written about how podcast guesting can be really good for SEO. Would you explain a little bit more about that? Because as people are launching courses, of course, if it's good for SEO, that might help drive people to their course.
Phil: To me, I've been in this for 12 or 13 years, never have I had a content marketing tactic that's delivered as much benefit as podcast guesting. I actually did it originally. I wanted to set up my own my podcast. I was a little bit too scared or lazy to do it. Came back and said, "Okay. Maybe I'll try something else and I started doing a little research and I saw guesting. Oh, this might be a cool thing." And I did the first one actually on a WordPress podcast, The WordPress Chick with Kim Doyal, I did early last year and I was just absolutely blown away with the benefits of getting out there. You do a guest blog post. It's like one link out somewhere that's but you get guests on somebody else's website. It's about you.
There's a whole blog post about you. There's backlinks you're getting to share with an audience and that kind of stuff. There's tons and tons of benefits. Just the SEO benefits alone are remarkable but you can work it into your review, sorry, your online reputation management strategy like I have and get tons and tons of benefits. But one of the things that I think I missed, in the beginning, was not having a clear enough call to action at the end where I had something good enough or even to promote. So a course is one of those things where I'm like, "Gezz. If somebody liked what I had to say on this show, if at the end of it, I had a course ready to go that was free or the initial one, what a great funnel to bring somebody back to say, "Oh, I really liked what Phil had to say. Let me go start consuming this piece of content." Some of it, I've gotten better at. Like I say, "There's a lot of podcast listeners on a show, like say this one." Well, I say, "I've got a podcast." So, you start picking up subscribers. That's a great way to leverage it too. You get nice backlinks. You get traffic. You get stuff from social media in the shared amplification of it. But certainly, the biggest thing I think is having a clear call to action where the people that hear and that your message resonated with had some way to enter into your kind of sales or education funnel and I think courses are probably the very, very best thing to pair up with a guesting strategy.
For somebody that's trying to build up their personal branding and authority and get out there, there's nothing that beats this medium of guesting because you get out there and just by definition, you're building upon your expertise and authority and some of your trust on stuff and you're reaching people that, if you thought about going out and speaking in front of like a physical workshop or a meeting, a room of 50 or 100 people is a lot of people, right? Well, an established podcast might have hundreds, even thousands. So, it's basically like a virtual speaking tour. Well, if you have that course or something to draw people back on the end, huge benefit where you're getting that traffic, you're getting that backlink. But you're also being able to kind of funnel that real traffic maybe into real sales and real followers, that can turn into a way to monetize that effort later and that's one of my big motivators. So, when you said that, I totally lit up because I was like, "This is the one piece that I'm missing." To get people that will maybe do the free plugin on WordPress. I've got people that will maybe listen to the Local Business Leaders podcast. I've got people that might come to the site, buy the book, download an e-book, that type of thing. But I think the course is a really great way to get people that are really serious about listening and learning more about you to get started and this is a perfect way. Like I said, I've been doing this for 13 years. I've never had one single tactic give as much bang for the buck as getting on somebody else's podcast and I've been on over like 70 now and it's just totally changed my business.
Jonathan: That's great. We're going to close our audio part of the podcast. Phil's agreed to stay on for another 10, 12 minutes which is bonus content folks which you'll be able to hear and watch on the WP-Tonic website. I can't talk today. I don't know what's going on. Phil, how can people get a hold of you and learn more about what you're up to?
Phil: Check out kcwebdesigner.com. That's kind of the little website that could. Pays the bills still to this day for the most part. SEO for Growth, that's the book and everything that we do for ourselves and our clients basically in there. And we talked podcast guesting. Podcast Bookers is something I started with John last year, really based on the success that I've had on myself and that's been a big part of my business. I just do stuff for myself and that works for me. I try and like bundle that into my own thing. But you can check that out. Podcast guesting is really cool because you can hire a service like mine. There's other ones out there. But really, if you wanted to bootstrap, you can do it yourself. You can wrap yourself up in a nice little one sheet and pitch yourself to a lot of different audiences and it's definitely a way somebody could go do that. But check out Podcast Bookers if you want to learn about a service like that or get some tips on how to do it and that's really it.
Jonathan: And Kim, how can people find more about you and what you're up to Kim?
Kim: They can find all about me at kimshivler.com.
Jonathan: That's great. And if you want to learn more about WP-Tonic, go to the WP-Tonic website, we've got some very extensive posts that we're writing this month that should be really good stuff and we've got some great interviews like with Phil around experts that will really give you some great insights about how you should run your online course membership site and anything to do with Online Marketing. And we do our Round Table shows on Friday which are enormous fun and we've got Matt from the Matt Report joining us this Friday. It should be a lively conversation. We're going to wrap up the audio part of the show folks and we'll see you next week. Bye.
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Sapporo Symphony Orchestra (Sakkyo) was founded in 1961 with a strong vision of local companies and organizations to establish a professional orchestra on the island of Hokkaido. The orchestra was led by Masao Araya (1961-1968), Peter Schwarz (1969-1975), Hiroyuki Iwaki (1975-1988), Kazuyoshi Akiyama (1988-1998), Tadaaki Otaka (1998-2015) and Max Pommer (2015-2018). The current Chief Conductor Matthias Bamert was inaugurated in April 2018.
The orchestra made its first overseas tour to the U. S. and Germany with Schwarz, and Iwaki expanded the orchestra's repertoire to introduce works by Japanese composers, including Toru Takemitsu's "RAN" soundtrack. During Akiyama's tenure, the orchestra visited South Asia twice and performed with a clear sound and a dynamic, powerful expression which represented the vast land of Hokkaido.
Otaka has worked more than 25 years with the orchestra and has been its Music Director from 2004 until March 2015. The orchestra made successful tours to the U. K. (2001), South Korea (2005), Europe - Germany, U. K. and Italy (2011) and Taiwan (2015). The repertoire became more diverse during his tenure with newly started Sakkyo Chorus. Moreover, new programs started, including "The Sakkyo POPS" and "Modern Concert" for wider audiences, "Discovery Concert" for younger children, and "Junior Classics" for school students, and more people could enjoy the fullness of classic music.
Sakkyo is also actively presenting recordings for general sales and private commissions which now total nearly 55 CDs.
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Originally founded as the Sapporo Citizen Symphony on July 1, 1961 , it was renamed the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra in 1962. In 2009, the orchestra became the first public interest incorporated foundation in Hokkaido. The founding principal conductor is Masao Araya (1914-1996), and from 1961 to 1968, he worked to establish a firm basis of the orchestra. The very first Sapporo Symphony Orchestra concert was held on September 6, 1961, "1st Subscription Concert" conducted by Araya. Sapporo Symphony Orchestra bestowed "Honorary Founding Conductor" to Araya in 1997. Peter Schwarz became the 2nd Principal Conductor from 1969 to 1975 and during his time, the orchestra sound was refined further. The orchestra's first oversea tour was with Schwarz, visiting U.S.A. and Germany. Hiroyuki Iwaki (1932-2006) then became Resident Conductor from 1975, Music Director/Resident Conductor from 1978 and from 1988 to 2006, assumed Conductor Laureate. Iwaki put more emphasis on works by Japanese composers, namely Toru Takemitsu. His music "Ran" a film directed by Akira Kurosawa made the orchestra known as one of the best orchestras in Japan. After Iwaki, Kazuyoshi Akiyama was named Music Advisor/Principal Conductor from 1988 to 1998, and he expanded the orchestra's repertoire. Ken Takaseki was the conductor from 1988, later became Resident Conductor (2003 to 2012 March). Takaseki supported further development of the orchestra.
Tadaaki Otaka who was the Music Director until March 2015 (Honorary Music Director from April 2015) assumed the position of Resident Conductor from 1981 to 1986, Music Advisor/Principal Conductor from 1998 and the 2nd Music Director from 2004. He was with the orchestra for years summed up to 22, till end of his tenure of the Music Director. There are many highlights with Otaka; the subscription concert became doubled; 2 consecutive concerts for one subscription, establishment of the exclusive Sakkyo Chorus (2005), the 500th celebrative subscription concert (June, 2007) presenting Mahler Symphony No. 2, and Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" (concert version- September, 2008). Radomil Eliska, the maestro from Czech joined as the Guest Principal Conductor from April 2008, who became Honorary Conductor in April 2015.
The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra is making numbers of recordings in the Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara, one of the best acoustic halls admired internationally. With Otaka, the orchestra made recordings of Sibelius, Grieg, Dvorak, Elgar and Japanese composers, all drawing much attention. Following a recording of Beethoven Cycle, the orchestra and Otaka made 4 CDs of Sibelius Cycle starting from 2013 which took 3 years. Eliska's popularity grew very rapidly nationwide and his CDs, especially on Czech music, were selected as the best album by music magazines. Max Pommer, Chief Conductor from 2015 to March 2018, made recordings of Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" and Bach Orchestral Suite, and his unique production gathered much attention.
With Otaka, the orchestra visited United Kingdom in 2001, South Korea in 2005, the 50th Anniversary Europe Tour to London (U.K.), Munich and Dusseldorf (Germany), Salerno and Milan (Italy), and Taiwan in 2015. The orchestra was highly praised with its European Tour in 2011. The orchestra took an active role in cultural exchange between Taiwan and Hokkaido by visiting Taiwan in 2015.
In April 2018, Swiss born conductor, Matthias Bamert inaugurated as the Chief Conductor. The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra seeks for another summit with Matthias Bamert, Chief Conductor, Tadaaki Otaka, Honorary Music Director, Radomil Eliska, Honorary Conductor, Junichi Hirokami, Friendship Guest Conductor and Schuricht Matsumoto, the Conductor.
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With five S as a motif, music notation expesses musical rhythm and active orchestra. Its form is in a diamond shape, a land of Hokkaido. The colors, ocean blue leads to Hokkaido, orange to unity and red to passion.
Etupirka (in Ainu language:binominal Fratercula cirrhata) is a rare bird inhabit in Hokkaido. Pirika in Ainu means a beautiful beak, and the name Pricky came from this Pirika. We hope to be a beak of sending beautiful sound.
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Gerada: Removal of practice boundaries will break link between GPs and their communities
Removing practice boundaries will break the link between GPs and their local population and undermine patient care, says former RCGP chair Professor Clare Gerada in a strongly worded attack on the Government's plans to boost patient choice.break
In an exclusive interview with Pulse, Professor Gerada warned that the controversial initiative to allow patients to register with practices outside their locality would impair the ability of GPs and CCGs to plan care.
Professor Gerada also participated in a outspoken Q&A session with Pulse readers today and spoke to Pulse about her plans for primary care in London.
The former RCGP chair - who moved on from the college last month to become chair of NHS England's Primary Care Clinical Board in London - expanded on the ideas raised in a 'call to action' consultation she helped to launch last week on primary care in the capital.
She suggested that the profession considered the possibility of co-locating primary care services in hospitals and giving patients a four-hour guarantee of an appointment, if resources were put in place.
In the interview, Professor Gerada also:
- criticised the BMA and other medical leaders for failing to speak out against the Health and Social Care Act
- said professional bodies – including the RCGP - should take a uniform neutral stance on ethical issues such as assisted dying;
- reaffirmed her belief that the independent contractor status of GPs should be reconsidered.
But she reserved her harshest words for the plans in the recently released GP contract deal for 2014/15 for the pilots of removing practice boundaries for out-of-area patients to be rolled out across England.
The controversial pilots have suffered from delays and a lack of patients and practices signing up. All GP practices in two out of six PCT areas chosen for the study refused to participate and earlier this year, a Pulse investigation revealed that just 514 patients had registered with an out-of-area practice and 129 people had made use of being treated as a 'day patient'.
Professor Gerada told Pulse: 'Removing boundaries is wrong for a [number of reasons]. It removes the relationship between the patient and their local community, and the GP and their local community, which has been there for time immemorial. It makes planning difficult – how on earth will a GP know how many patients will be on their list in the next year, or the year after? And it is not good for patients.'
Patients will not be given more choice through this initiative, Dr Gerada warned. She said: 'Patients seem to think they will be choosing their GP, but in fact it will be their GP choosing them. If you have a choice from 60 million people, why would you choose the very sick? The ones with mental illness, those that are homeless, those with complex comorbidities.'
'I will attract [healthy patients] by offering free membership for a gym, or at the bottom of the swimming pool because they will be fit.'
Practices are already offering patients 'solutions for their access', she added.
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'For years, my furthest patient lived in Portsmouth, because they could not access the sort of care they needed. But that was a drug user who I needed to provide continuity for. I think federations are the answer – federations give choice that are beyond just that practice to a much wider geographical area.'
Dr Gerada said that NHS England's call to action in London would allow the profession to consider a number of options for transforming primary care, including co-locating GPs to help them address the needs of hard-to-reach patients.
She said: 'If we start designing services around the patient, we will stop getting in to this territorial argument and we will start to make things better… what I am against is the idea we should move GPs lock stock and barrel into hospitals for some pragmatic reason – eg, space.'
An 'aspiration' to see patients within four hours would be' good news – good news for patients, good news for general practice', but will only be done with more resources, she added.
She criticised other medical leaders for being 'fearful' over opposing the Health and Social Care Act: 'I think the Act was quite an eye-opener about how those in leadership positions were fearful of being leaders and putting their views forward in case they said the wrong thing, or upset somebody.'
She added: 'I think the BMA were slow. When they started to be lobbied and forced to act, they did well. But they were slow to act. They didn't inform the public and the profession what lay behind the HSCA, which is now being played out as predicted as too much, too soon and the wrong changes.'
Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chair of the GPC, said the GPC 'shared her concerns' about practice boundaries. He said: 'We made our concerns very clear in the reponse to the consultation when the Government first announced the initiative.
'If you look at the evaluation of the limited pilot that has taken place, many of the concerns are also expressed by the PCT managers. There are lots of potential consequences of what superficially might seem like an attractive scheme.'
In terms of the contract agreement, Dr Vautrey added: 'The agreement was that we acknowledged the Government's intention to roll out… there wasn't negotiation about it, it was part of the Government's intent. It was a recognition that this was going to happen.'
However, he said that Dr Gerada's suggestion that the BMA was slow to oppose the Health and Social Care Act was 'complete nonsense.' He said: 'If we look back in history, we will find that the BMA was the first organisation to come out against the bill, even before the RCGP.'
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Can the government's intention to privatise the health service be more blatant than scrapping practice boundaries ?. Private firms are going to hoover up well , cheap to run patients leaving chronic complex care to the NHS .We need to block this change now or there will be no effective NHS general practice left .
GPs and practices have to be part of CCGs.
Independent MPs have no long term role in politics and last less than one term..
If I am correct Claire, you said that the CCGs should be the vehicle to help formation of Federations.
What Vince may be saying is that there is no room for any alternative model or true independence for the profession by being part of CCGs. Not funny but true.
Have a good Christmas and Happy New Year Vince, Clair and other GPs.
"If you have a choice from 60 million people, why would you choose the very sick? The ones with mental illness, those that are homeless, those with complex comorbidities.'
'I will attract [healthy patients] by offering free membership for a gym, or at the bottom of the swimming pool because they will be fit."
Interesting to see CG confirms the media stereotype of GPs as lazy, moneygrabbing types.
If this is a known tendency, can the government not just legislate that anyone (regardless of health status) must be registered until the point that the list is full?
The policy to abolish GP practice boundaries is grotesquely stupid. The proponents of this policy simply ignore the importance of geography in providing good quality general practice. Our experience over the years has been that patients living at a distance from the practice receive poorer care; at times it is unsafe. It is inefficient, and is a drag on resources.
Another important factor is that of capacity: most practices, especially popular ones, simply do not have capacity to register patients from outside their areas.
A limited number of healthy patients might benefit from a boundary-free system, but it will usher in numerous unintended consequences. This is an extreme example of the inverse care law.
The politicians & policy makers behind this have simply not thought it through. I would go further: they have wilfully ignored the risks.
My conviction is that this policy is in reality a scam. The true aim of the policy is to deregulate English general practice. The real winners will be for-profit organisations like Virgin Care. I think it is very likely that there has been behind the scenes lobbying for this for several years.
For my submission to Parliament's Health Select Committee on this issue see http://bit.ly/HRL4iw
I think the GPC needs to be more forthright about this: they should make it plain that they think the policy is wrong-headed. If the Government wants to impose the policy, it is entirely their responsibility when things do not work and problems arise. Otherwise it looks as though the GPC agreed to the policy in their contract negotiations.
Many hard working tax payers cannot see a GP when it suits them as they work away from home. Hopefully on a practical level this system will help these people access care more easily. Dentist's have been able to do this for years to no apparent detriment to their patients. It is a different world to when the NHS was started and we need to change or surgeries need to meet the demands of their "communities".


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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Cecil Stedman
- Elder Brood (flashback only)
Other Characters
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- Chloe Hampton
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- Nathan Singleton (flashback only)
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An angry Gary demands to know why Agent Hunter came there. Hunter argues that it was a killer's style to go back to the crime scene. Believing that Gary can't do much about fighting in human form, he prepares to arrest him. Gary remembers the training he received from Elder Brood and was trained in case he had to fight in daytime. He disarms Hunter and attempts to run. Hunter easily catches up to him and he fires a bullet at him. Hunter dodges it and manages to subdue Gary. Hunter remarks that a jury will find him guilty and comments that "he'll be joining" Rebecca soon. In Montana, Construct, Thrill Kill, and Eruptor were easily defeated by Elder Brood, showcasing his superior strength and fighting skills.
At the Hampton Estate, Dunford wakes up Chloe. He notices that Chloe has been sneaking out and has scars on her arm. An angry Chloe tells him to shut up and says that she doesn't have a father. An angry Dunford defends Gary and Chloe slaps him. Dunford reveals part of Gary's origin.
At age 19, Gary owned a small record store and turned it into a record company from two artists that were turned down by others. Their song would be a hit and appear in a famous movie. Around that time, he would start dating Rebecca. From there, he would make millions of dollars.
An angry Chloe demands to know why he's telling her about it. Dunford argues that she has been treating him strangely over time. She lets him continues.
The two artists decide to retire while Gary decided to go bigger. He invested in a software company and in telecommunications as he expanded. With his knowledge on economics, he would be a billionaire in just six years. Around that time, he married Rebecca and had Chloe. As he started growing wealthier, he would be more charitable with building hospitals, schools, shelters, and other establishments. Dunford goes to say that Gary saved his life by buying his company as Gary's company was putting him out of business. He offered him a position, but Dunford would retire instead. After Dunford's wife died, Gary would offer him a position as a manager of the estate.
Though Gary and Rebecca were married, Gary would spend many nights away from work. The lonileness overwhelmed her and she had an affair with a company competitor, Nathan Singleton. While the affair happened, she had revealed company plans to Singleton, but Gary was more upset at her betrayal than her exposing secrets. In order to help through it, Gary would take the family to Montana where the Elder Brood would be watching him.
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At Zechariah's house, Zechariah and Chloe train with one another. Zechariah notes that Chloe has improved and that they can kill Gary as Stronghold Penitentiary. He notices that Chloe gets tired easily and she begins to start drinking Zechariah's blood from a flesh wound.
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Batch Size 1 and Industry 4.0 may seem like the aspirations of cutting-edge high-tech industry, but according to Richard Shaw, managing director of world leading cable cleat company Ellis, they are both very much of the here and now
To appreciate where manufacturing currently stands, it's worth looking back at the way in which it has developed over the years. Pre-1760, all manufacturing was carried out by hand and was long and labour intensive.
The Industrial Revolution saw machines and processes invented, factories built and output per man hour increase exponentially. Interestingly, a host of manufacturing processes and practices dating back to that period are still easily recognisable today.
The electrification of factories in the 1890s took things a step further. Although the term 'mass production' had been used as far back as the early 19th century, most notably at Portsmouth Block Mills where perhaps the greatest team of engineers ever assembled – Brunel, Maudslay and Bentham – produced ships' pulley blocks for use by the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, it wasn't until the 1920s when Henry Ford began producing the Ford Model T on lines that used 32,000 tools that it really came of age.
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From there it took almost 60 years for the next great leap forward, with the harnessing of rapidly developing computer technology leading to computer aided design and control systems for machine tools evolving hand-in-hand.
Manufacturing resource planning software and lean manufacturing principles then streamlined the process: taking manufacturing and mass production into a whole new realm. Customers soon had access to a level of customisation inconceivable a few years before, meaning an end to the days of cars being available in 'any colour as long as it's black'.
Today, it's fair to say that we've come full circle and live in a world where things are produced one at a time to a unique specification. This time, though, production is not by hand, but by machine.
Some would have us believe that soon everything will be produced by 3D printing. And while it's true that additive manufacturing has already overtaken traditional manufacturing in certain cases, and that the process can make some items that cannot be produced by any other means, we are still some way off it being the solution to all forms of production.
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Additive manufacturing is constrained by cost, range of materials and the required physical characteristics of finished products. That said, it does have its obvious advantages:
But what if the customer wants 1000, 10,000 or even 100,000 units? That is where additive manufacturing fails to make the grade. There can be little argument made against it not being the best choice for a one-off, Batch Size 1 product, but when that one-off product is required in larger batch sizes then it is still far from a commercially viable manufacturing solution.
But does that mean that an engineer designing, for example, a significant cable management system, is condemned to select standard products from a catalogue? The simple answer is no.
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Manufacturing has evolved sufficiently to allow for the design of one-off products specific to purpose. At Ellis we do the design; guarantee the product's performance characteristics through a combination of finite element analysis, 3D printing and physical testing; produce tooling and then manufacture the product. All of this is done within a lead-time that can be measured in weeks rather than months, and at cost that is not just affordable, but comparable to any viable off-the-shelf solution.
This is achieved through total vertical integration, which combines our in-house design skills, in-house toolmaking and in-house manufacturing, in a process that means we control everything from beginning to end. And because we use the latest machinery in our fully equipped toolroom, we can produce tools significantly cheaper and faster than if we outsourced from China.
Yes, the unit cost of one of our one-off products may well be higher than an off-the-shelf one, but the installed cost will always be less, as a bespoke solution is generally quicker to install, easier to maintain and takes up less space – all of which delivers a net project saving every single time.
How can I be so sure? Because we are asked, with ever-increasing regularity, to develop project specific solutions for major building, power and infrastructure projects.
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Over at The Heart of the Matter, they are featuring their weekly Meme. This week's (well, actually last weeks) Meme is: Where do you homeschool?
On Tuesday's we have started going to a homeschool group. However, when we are home, we use the whole house – – but, we spend the majority of our time in the dining room.
Most of the time, when we read together, we do so on the living room couch. When we listen to online stories, we will snuggle together on my bed.
Lifeskills, cooking and science experiments are done in the kitchen.
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