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  SALES - HEALTHCARE

LOCATION

San Diego, CA

TYPE

Direct Hire

POSTED

Jan 13, 2020

Growing and great orthopedic home health organization seeking sales and marketing for a growing healthcare organization.  Base + Commission

What you do:

Provide expert knowledge and presentations for Sales

Successfully executes a strategy to increase market share

Articulate competitive advantages, specialty programs, and Medicare guidelines

Educate the medical community about the services of our organization

Qualifications:

1 year experience required - performing sales and marketing  for Home Health, Hospice, Durable Medical Equipment, or Pharmaceuticals

BA/BS Degree

 TERRITORY ACCOUNT MANAGER

LOCATION

Sterling, VA

TYPE

Direct Hire

SALARY

$100,000 - $150,000 / yr

POSTED

Jan 13, 2020

Job Description

Northern Virginia based. Looking for an experienced B2B sales professional that can work remotely from their home office and travel within their territory region ( Loudoun Co, Virginia). $50K-$70K Base, $100K-$120K Potential with Commission, includes company vehicle & full benefits package.

Experience with construction equipment, building materials, durable goods, heavy machinery, trucks, technical products, or other mechanical products and/or other high ticket products is a plus.

 Responsible for generating income by renting equipment and services from their Engine Rental fleet, including power, temperature control, air and pumps and also selling Used Equipment Inventory. Travels through assigned territory to meet customers and prospective customers to provide consultative machine recommendations and solicit rental contracts.

 You must have prior success selling high end durable products to owners of small to large sized businesses in a competitive market. You should be a self-starter, highly motivated and comfortable selling a recognized brand. You’re mechanically inclined and feel at home talking about machinery. You excel at closing new business and would describe your selling style as consultative. You must demonstrate strong relationship building skills, sell value instead of price and enjoy working in a high energy atmosphere. You must have at least two years of sales experience, have the tremendous desire to earn over 100k annually within one to two years and be able to sell.

 Full benefits to include; Company Car, Gas Allowance, Expense Account, 401K, Profit Sharing, Health and Dental Ins.

CLIENT RENEWALS MANAGER- SAAS, WEB BASED PLATFORM

LOCATION

Severn, MD

TYPE

Direct Hire

SALARY

$95,000 - $125,000 / yr

POSTED

Jan 13, 2020

GENERAL SUMMARY:

 Our client is a highly respected and regarded organization that provides industry-leading data, as well as research, analytics and events to operators and investors in the real estate industry.

 The Senior Client Account Manager is responsible for managing and growing an existing account base, through contract renewal, cross-sell and up-sell activities, while building strong client relationships with existing clients of the Data Service, comprised of capital providers, operators, developers and investors. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding sales targets, performance measures and client satisfaction standards and has a passion for delivering an exceptional client experience.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Directly responsible for maintaining and servicing an existing $5+MM book of business, and managing accounts sold by the sales team, surpassing 350+ accounts.

Meet or exceed quarterly and annual renewal sales and retention goals.

 Provide proactive client account management and support to ensure highest level of client satisfaction.

Conduct contract reviews with clients and negotiate annual and multi-year subscription contract terms and pricing.

Influence future lifetime value through higher product adoption, customer satisfaction and overall retention.

Understand the value of Data Service products and pricing, as well as competitive offerings, with the ability to articulate value in a meaningful way to clients.

Actively identify and close upsell opportunities.

Provide product development recommendations based on direct experience with clients.

  TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

Limited, at most four times per year in conjunction with corporate sponsored and industry events.

Full Benefits including Tele-commute. Salary commensurate to experience plus commissions.  

  ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION BID ESTIMATOR

LOCATION

De Pere, WI

TYPE

Direct Hire

SALARY

$1 - $71,200 / yr

POSTED

Jan 12, 2020

This full time, permanent Electrical Construction Bid Estimator is available due to consistent ten percent annual sales growth. Employees are encouraged to grow professionally as there is no limit to employee career growth. Employees are treated very well and really enjoy working at the company. There is a great team environment and employees tend to stay until retirement. The duties and responsibilities of the successful candidate should include the following:

Creating bids to meet customer specifications

Working with a variety of people before bid creation and on through the implementation stage

Reviewing incurred costs verses bids to improve future bid appropriateness

Very limited travel in northern Wisconsin to customer sites

Training in field construction (if lacking that experience)

Successful candidates should have the following attributes:

Bid estimating software experience

National Electric Code knowledge

Labor factor analysis experience

Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook

Ability to interpret plans, specs and bid needs

Preferred but not required attributes may include any of the following:

Field Construction experience could be helpful

Experience as an electrician could be helpful

  ENGINEERING DESIGN MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN

LOCATION

Juneau, WI

TYPE

Direct Hire

SALARY

$1 - $60,000 / yr

POSTED

Jan 12, 2020

This full time, permanent Engineering Design Manufacturing Technician career opportunity at a metal manufacturing company that has doubled sales in the last two years. Sales are expected to double again in the next two years. The employer is employee-friendly and family-friendly. Flexible work schedules are possible. Employees are very team-oriented and work well together. Employees here are never bored as there is a lot of variety in the products produced for a wide variety of customers and industries. Offices are nice and the shop area is clean and up to date.

The successful candidate will be allowed to learn a lot and really grow their skillset. The successful candidate will be involved in a wide variety of activities. Duties and responsibilities of the successful candidate may include the following:

Breaking down customer drawings into manufacturing drawings

Preparing Solidworks and/or AutoCAD drawings

Developing manufacturing methods for each part

Developing various fixtures

Creating packets including work instructions

Programming machines (2D and 5- axis)

Participating in the creation of fixtures

Communicating with the customer and the shop employees

Solving problems

The successful candidates background should include the following:

An engineering or design degree

Solidworks experience

5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment

An understanding of 5-axis machines

  PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLS ENGINEER / ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

LOCATION

Green Bay, WI

TYPE

Direct Hire

SALARY

$1 - $91,000 / yr

POSTED

Jan 12, 2020

This full time, permanent PLC Engineer / Electrical Engineer career opportunity is at a company that services converting machines, web handling machines, coating machines, and multiple process industries. For the next three years, the sales growth rate is 20% to 30%. The average tenure is over 20 years. The environment is collaborative, team-oriented and fun. They have many employee-oriented events. Employees have the ability to have flexible hours. Some start at 6 am and some start at 8:30 am. They also have a 9/80 schedule so those people have off every other Friday. In the next five years, there will be several retirements which will create promotional opportunities. In fact, this position is a result of a retirement. The company promotes from within and the career path depends on the individual.  The career path for this position could be a Project Engineer or Project Manager, if those are of interest.

  The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

 Designing electrical machine hardware products utilizing design methodologies, equipment specs and project management

Creating controls software in Allen-Bradley, RSLogix and HMI

Creating microprocessor-based control systems

Writing machine operator interface software

Incorporating electrical instrumentation in machine design

Meeting product performance, timeline and cost requirements

Working with variable speed and servo drive systems

Start-up and troubleshoot products at the customer location

Overseeing project scheduling, budgets and costs

15% to 20% domestic travel (up to 2 weeks at a time)

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Controls Engineering. Candidates must have four or more years of Electrical Engineering or Controls Engineering experience. It would be preferred if candidates have experience with Allen-Bradley software, RS Logix software, HMI software and/or the paper industry.

  STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGER

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LOCATION

Madison, WI

TYPE

Direct Hire

SALARY

$1 - $91,500 / yr

POSTED

Jan 12, 2020

This full-time, permanent Structural Engineering Project Manager is at a growing structural design company with a great reputation. Projects here are large, complex, challenging and exciting. It is a great place to grow your skills. The company culture has a lot of energy.

Duties and responsibilities include the following:

Planning and managing large scale, complex construction projects

Managing and developing designers and engineers

Creating proposals and budgets

Interacting with clients and team members

Participating in meetings

Negotiating and managing budgets, schedules and resources

The successful candidate will possess the following:

A Professional Engineer (PE) designation

A Bachelors Degree in Engineering

5 or more years of civil or architectural engineering experience

5 or more years of Project Management experience

  JUNIOR OR SENIOR TOOLMAKER

LOCATION

Winnebago, WI

TYPE

Direct Hire

SALARY

$1 - $100,000 / yr

POSTED

Jan 12, 2020

This full time, permanent Junior or Senior Toolmaker career opportunity is at a very community-oriented company. The environment is employee and family friendly.  Employees are treated well and not micro-managed. Employee turnover is very minimal and the average employee tenure is over 20 years. The dress is casual. They are one of the largest manufacturers in their industry and are a preferred supplier to some of the world's largest and most successful companies.

  The successful candidate's duties and responsibilities will encompass:

 Taking part in tool setups, changeovers, and troubleshooting

Performing preventive maintenance for stamping dies and automated machines

Maintaining stamping tools by sharpening, repairing, and/or cleaning

Learning press operation

Using CNC and other machines to manufacture parts

Learning Solidworks 3D to see, engineer, and make tool components

Learning FeatureCAM software to program CNC machine tools

Train others as needed

Candidates will have a minimum background consisting of two years of toolmaking experience.

 CHANNEL ACCOUNT MANAGER - INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

LOCATION

Houston, TX

TYPE

Direct Hire

POSTED

Jan 10, 2020

Our client, a leading global factory automation manufacturer is seeking a Channel Account Manager to be based out of the Houston, TX area. 25-50% travel. Territory to include: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

 The Channel Account Manager is responsible for working closely with Channel Partners to achieve aggressive sales growth within the Sales Region. The CAM objective is to bring close alignment between the company and their channel partners. The Channel Account Manager will focus on the implementation of channel initiatives as well as develop distribution action plans in support of the company's Strategic Objectives. Collaboration with Senior Sales Management, Regional Sales, Strategic Marketing, Product Marketing and Technical Support Group is essential to achieve required sales growth with the company's channel partners.

 Position Duties and Responsibilities  

Work in cooperation with Regional Sales Managers in development of aggressive distribution sales plans

Develop and implement the Distributor Sales Plan (DSP) with channel partners/distributors

Target a minimum baseline sales growth of 15%-20% year over year through distribution (organic growth outside of strategic/project sales)

Focus distributors on expansion of sales at existing key accounts

Focus distributors to capture new target opportunities

Help distributors increase top line sales and return on investment by promoting value with company's Products and Solutions

Administer, manage and continually improve the Diamond Distributor Elite Program.

Plan and lead joint sales calls with partners, per the Distributor Sales Plan (DSP), to expand customer base and maintain Key customer relationships

Conduct Distributor Scorecard and Distributor Sales Plan (DSP) quarterly reviews as directed by management

Conduct partner sales training as required in assigned territory

Represent company in a professional, ethical, and socially responsible manner with channel partners and customers

Document activities in CRM and complete monthly reports as required by management

Complete monthly and annual business forecasts to show projected sales vs. quota

Attain quarterly and yearly sales goals as established by management

Perform other job functions as assigned

 Travel Requirements

25-50% travel primarily within the territory: Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

 Required Skills

Strong sales management skills

Excellent people and relationship building skills

Solid track record of consistent sales and profitability growth

Strong work ethic (leads by example)

Excellent listening and questioning skills

Solid organizational and time management skills

Proven ability with problem analysis and strategic problem solving

Excellent communication skills (oral and written)

Ability to multi task

Solid planning ability

Computer proficiency (CRM, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Map Point, and Outlook)

 Beneficial Skills

Consultative Selling Skills (Wilson CSP methodology)

 Required Experience

BS in an engineering discipline: i.e.; electrical, mechanical or equivalent experience.

3-5 years’ experience in sales and channel management.

3-5 years sales experience in the automation industry (Servo/Motion, PLC/HMI, VFD)

   DIRECTOR, GLOBAL KEY ACCOUNTS (AUTOMOTIVE)

LOCATION

Cincinnati, OH

TYPE

Direct Hire

POSTED

Jan 10, 2020

DIRECTOR, GLOBAL KEY ACCOUNTS (AUTOMOTIVE)

 Working for a leading global factory automation manufacturer, the Director of Global Key Accounts will focus on the Automotive industry and the key accounts that help define the market, including major suppliers to the market (machine builders, system integrators, and tier suppliers). Product sales focus is the company's line of automation products (PLC, HMI, Servo, VFD, CNC, Robot and Services) that support the Automotive Industry.  **Automation product experience is required.**

 Lead and manage a team of Global Key Account Managers to drive specification of automation products for N. American automotive manufacturing. Coordinate End User and Equipment OEM strategy and execution with global counterparts to win Automotive Program specifications and maximize revenue. Develop target accounts and strategic initiatives to be a significant contributor to both local and global revenue growth in the defined markets.

 Position Duties and Responsibilities                

Identify and penetrate target industry accounts, as well as major projects for corporate specification opportunities.

Initiate sales activity with top level management at target industry accounts and coordinate cross functional teams.

Become subject matter expert (SME) for selected industries. Support Regional Sales teams as SME, as needed.

Lead team to drive specification of Automation Solutions from top down.

Discover and validate key differentiators within target industry accounts. Create discovery agreement and secure commitment.

Accelerate Strategic Billable Services business at target accounts.

Understand target market product trends and specifications and communicate requirements to Product and Corporate Marketing groups.

Recommend focused marketing activities for the target industry and accounts.

Work with both End Users and original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s), to coordinate application of products.

Provide global coordination of GKAM Accounts and Equipment OEMs. Work closely with global counterparts around the world to ensure seamless collaboration on various tasks.

Manage partnerships with internal resources to accomplish objectives, including but not limited to Regional Sales, Corporate and Product Marketing, and Technical Support Group.

Develop and maintain relationships with third party alliance partners as needed to grow the business.

Represent company at important industry events and participate in industry specification activities.

Manage sales pipeline using CRM tool.

Create data, budgets and reports to support business.

Monthly report on sales/marketing activity.

Quarterly report on industry trends, competition, activities and budget plan.

Perform other job functions as assigned.

Supervisory / Management Responsibilities

Manage a team of Global Key Account Managers and Specialists in the Automotive Industry group.

Oversee daily activities, and manage the performance of the staff.

Adhere to supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.

Perform interviews, hiring, and training of employees; planning, assigning, and directing work: appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Travel Requirements

50%+ travel within North America. Annual or semi-annual overseas travel.

 Required Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering – Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, Manufacturing or equivalent experience.

12+ years’ experience in the defined market with in-depth knowledge of industry requirements and applications within the Automotive Industry.

12+ years’ experience selling automation solutions (PLC, HMI, Servo, VFD, CNC, Robot and Services) to senior-level contacts at Global Accounts in the defined market.

Minimum of 10 years Application Solution Sales, and/or Strategic Sales and Marketing Experience at Fortune 500 End User, and OEM customers.

Minimum of 5 years Sales Management experience at manufacturer or distributor of Automation products.

Significant network of high level automotive relationships, both domestic and international, and ability to network in the defined market.

Experience working with international teams and customers.

Global Account Management experience.

Demonstrated ability in industry marketing planning and execution.

Excellent interpersonal skills and “presence” to deal effectively with senior-level contacts.

Excellent communication skills, including presentation skills.

Ability to learn company products and recommend technical applications to meet customer needs.

Computer proficiency – Microsoft Office.

 Beneficial Education, Skills and Experience

MBA desirable.

Strategic billable services, systems integration and project management.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).

Customer Relationship Management, Sales Force Automation software.

Previous experience working in a Japanese business culture and/or working with Japanese customers.

PROCESS ENGINEER

LOCATION

Marshall, AR

TYPE

Direct Hire

POSTED

Jan 10, 2020

Sr. Process Engineer

 So many employees enjoy 20+ years with the company. We offer careers.

 Summary

 The Sr. Process Engineer is responsible for meeting standard rates and requirements in the manufacturing process. You will define, develop and provide technical support for policies, processes and continuous improvement of all manufacturing processes. Design and develop processes that meet customer requirements. The Sr. Process Engineer will primarily be focused on the processes but will interface and collaborate with all areas and departments within the Division.

  Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

  Analyze data using statistical processes and recommend improvement measures.

Develop and maintain procedures, policies and manual required.

Provide input on miscellaneous tool quote activity.

Support program management group as necessary.

Provide inputs to die designs to Project Engineers.

Manage the process control, accessories and the electronic display screen for the Injection machines set-up.

Works with the engineering groups and manufactures to plan and to improve capacities, production programs and other issues to improve the productive process

Develop, evaluate and improve the injection methods.

Collaborate with the product design team to assure efficient production methods.

Participate in all design review meetings.

Provide input as to the expected capabilities and output of machinery

Provide feedback and testing of the process end to end.

Develop and train technicians, operators, and others

Troubleshoot processes and equipment which are out of spec or not running to standards.

Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

 A successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field and/or equivalent work experience. 11+ years in die casting or injection molding is preferred. 5+ years related management experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 Must possess the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across multiple departments and present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and employees.

   CUSTOMER QUALITY ENGINEER

LOCATION

Upper Sandusky, OH

TYPE

Direct Hire

POSTED

Jan 10, 2020

My client which is a tier 1 non-union automotive supplier is looking for a customer quality engineer. The responsibilities are as follows: •Work directly with customers to plan, develop, and implement typical quality activities such as PPAP, Control Plans and SIR. •Write and implement quality system standards, procedures and work instructions. •Plan and perform typical quality duties such as Cpk, SPC, 8D, and Corrective Action and Preventive Action activities. •Analyze problems with products, processes or systems and develop and implement timely solutions. Determine disposition material or product that is suspect or nonconforming. •Train quality department and other personnel. •Assist in timely and successful completion of APQP and Launch activities. •Maintain a positive working relationship with customers and departments and groups such as Operations, Product Development, and Launch. •Monitor and report quality function performance as required. •Perform other projects and duties as assigned by the Quality Manager and Vice President of Operations.

MUST COME OUT OF A TIER 1 AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER and Associates degree

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Assignment #1 Moss and Mcadams Accounting Firm Gray Case Moss and Mcadams Accounting Firm - Research Paper Example

We will write a custom essay sample on Gray Case: Moss and Mcadams Accounting Firm specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9 /page. Gray Case: Moss and Mcadams Accounting Firm Paper. Get custom paper sample written according to your requirements. If you were Palmer at the end of the case, how would you respond? If I were in Palmer’s position, I would accept Sands and Olds choice and move on as the bottom line is to work towards accomplishing the organization’s goals. Considering the toll the situation had on Olds, it would be only fair to grant his wish and ensure that things get back right on track. In addition, I would also persuade Sands to find someone who has a skill set close to Olds, so that the slipping schedule can be brought back on track and ensure that the project is completed successfully.I would also convey my message that I did not appreciate a key resource being pulled mid way to work on another project to the senior management so that this situation can be avoided If possible in future. What, if anything, could Palmer have done to avoid losing Olds? Palmer should have engaged In a conversation with the Project Sponsor to explain the importance of having Olds on the Johnsonville Project, which may have encouraged Crosby to look for another suitable employee.Considering the basic nature of the Johnsonville project and the high profile status of Crosby’s project, it akes more sense for Olds to move to Crosby’s project keeping the company’s goals In mind. In addition, Crosby seemed to be relationship oriented, indeed he gave his team some rewards such as lunch at a good restaurant, game of golf, tickets to the baseball games. We will write a custom essay sample on Gray Case: Moss and Mcadams Accounting Firm specifically for you for only $16.38 $13.9/page. We will write a custom essay sample on Gray Case: Moss and Mcadams Accounting Firm specifically for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9 /page. In contrast, Palmer refused to let Olds leave early for a baseball game which might have soured his relationship with Olds.Palmer should have had a dialogue with Olds when he saw that there was tension at home due to Olds’ after hours and tried to come up with a solution. For example, bringing in a junior employee to help Olds in the not so critical tasks so that he did not feel verburdened, try to understand/accept the fact that Auditing was not the area where Olds wanted to work and find someone with comparable skills to replace him. What advantages and disadvantages of a matrix type organization are apparent from this case?Advantages of a matrix organization include: o Efficient utilization of resources: Resources are shared as one account manager managed 8-12 clients and had senior and staff accountants assigned to his,’ her project. Also, Sands took care to assign staff to multiple projects under the same account creates accountability and better coordination amongst team members and elps to keep the team focused on project goals. Easier post-project transition: Once the Johnsonville assignment is complete, Olds can get back to his functional group or continue to work on Crosbys project if it has a longer timeline. Flexibility: Due to the matrix structure of the organization, both Crosby and Palmer could use Olds’ expertise on their projects and the account managers had control over their projects.... View more ...

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The Other Reason Trump Hasn’t Fired Scott Pruitt: His Evangelical Christian Ties

Taking the stage at the glitzy Mayflower Hotel in Washington last November, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt casually quoted the New Testament as he recited his pitch for reimagining the role of the country’s top environmental regulator.

“We as a country have been blessed with tremendous natural resources,” he told the audience gathered for an American Principles Project Foundation gala, according to previously unpublished audio HuffPost obtained. “And to whom much is given, much is required.”

The reference to Luke 12:48 was likely not lost on the crowd gathered that Wednesday night for the conservative religious think tank’s fourth annual Red White and Blue Gala. The event’s brochure, a copy of which HuffPost reviewed, listed the group’s programs on “bioethics and life” and “religious freedom,” and advertised a downloadable white paper responding to the way in which “politics as usual has failed Christian conservatives.”

Rebekah Mercer, the billionaire GOP megadonor and financier of anti-abortion groups, Christian colleges and climate change denial think tanks, bankrolled the confab, according to the brochure.  

Brent Bozell, founder of the right-wing Media Research Center, opened the program as the master of ceremonies before Pruitt gave his roughly four-minute speech in acceptance of an award for “human dignity leadership.” The Rev. Thomas Joseph White, a professor at the Catholic Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, followed him with an invocation.

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This was Pruitt’s hometown crowd. Until 2017, he had served on the board of trustees at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, an institution that called for “a wife is to submit herself graciously” to her husband and formally opposed “all forms of sexual immorality, including … homosexuality.” The bio on Pruitt’s now-defunct official Twitter account as Oklahoma’s attorney general reads: “Husband, Father, Christ Follower.” He been attending Bible studies with Vice President Mike Pence and other Cabinet secretaries since shortly after taking office at the EPA last year.

While Pruitt’s penchant for rolling back environmental regulations and bolstering the fossil fuel industry is widely touted as the reason President Donald Trump has refused to fire the EPA chief amid a four-week whirlwind of ethical and spending scandals, that largely overlooks Pruitt’s other asset: His reputation as a zealous crusader for conservative Christian politics.

For a president dogged by accusations of adultery and sexual impropriety, that sort of reputation has currency. The ostentatiously devout Pruitt gives Trump cred among evangelical Christian power players at a time when five Republican lawmakers and 170 Democrats in Congress are calling for his resignation. On Thursday, the EPA head testified before two House hearings for a total of six hours, during which Republicans leaped to his defense, arguing the administrator was the victim of “Washington politics,” “innuendo and McCarthyism,” and “a shameful attempt to denigrate the work that’s being done at the EPA.”

Neither the White House nor the EPA returned requests for comment.

“Pruitt is clearly part of the Christian right wing of the Republican Party, and it’s possible that these elite Christian right networks are protecting him, or they’ve sent some kind of message that this is our guy,” said Lydia Bean, author of The Politics of Evangelical Identity. “He’s opposed abortion and worked as an attorney for religious liberty cases, so he checks the right boxes for Christian right evangelicals.”

White evangelicals overwhelmingly support Trump’s job performance, at 61 percent in a December Pew survey, compared to just 32 percent of voters overall. Still, that marks a significant decline from the 78 percent approval in February 2017. Among nonwhite evangelicals, his approval rating plummets, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.

Pruitt has played an outsize role in courting leaders on the evangelical right. In September, Trump hosted a dinner with “grassroots leaders,” including evangelical heavyweights such as Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance, Faith & Freedom Coalition Chairman Ralph Reed and Tim Goeglein, a vice president at Focus on the Family. In a photo posted to the White House website, Pruitt appears at the table opposite Trump, the only Cabinet secretary in attendance, though his name is not listed in the caption.

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President Donald Trump hosts a dinner on Sept. 25, 2017, in the Blue Room at the White House with religious grassroots leaders, including Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America; Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition; and Tim Goeglein, vice president of external relations, Focus on the Family. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, visible at the end of the table, was not listed in the White House’s caption.

As Pruitt’s scandals mount, Christian groups have rallied to defend him. On April 6, the Conservative Action Project published an open letter calling for Pruitt’s “continued tenure at the EPA” and thanking him “for the significant actions he has taken to implement President Trump’s deregulatory agenda.” The list of 186 signatories included Christians for a Sustainable Economy Executive Director David Kullberg, Christian educator Lisa Calvert and Faith Wins President Chad Connelly. Some of the religiously affiliated signatories, such as Anne Schlafly Cori, chair of the “pro-family” Eagle Forum, have a history of backing climate change denial efforts, according to research compiled by the nonpartisan Climate Investigations Center.

White evangelical Christians, more than 80 percent of whom supported Trump in 2016, are the least likely of any religious group in the U.S. to understand the science behind climate change, according to 2015 data from the Pew Research Center. Just 28 percent of white evangelicals believed the planet is warming primarily due to human activity, compared to 41 percent of white mainline Protestants and 56 percent of black Protestants. About 37 percent of white evangelicals don’t believe the climate is changing at all.

In 2005, the National Association of Evangelicals was on the cusp of affirming climate science in a new national platform called “For the Health of a Nation.” But, after passing the board unanimously, the proposal tanked in a rank-and-file vote that followed a massive donation spree by oil, gas and coal-linked groups. Since then, the same dark-money donors ― including Mercer ― who sponsor the network of think tanks that provide contrarian (and readily debunked) research contesting the consensus on climate change have also funded conservative Christian groups. The fossil fuel industry made climate change denial, as Splinter’s Brendan O’Connor described it last year, “the word of God.”

Pruitt hasn’t been shy about proselytizing that view. Last October, Pruitt invoked God’s warning to pagans in the book of Joshua to “choose this day whom you will serve” in a speech announcing a new policy barring scientists who receive EPA research funding from serving on the agency’s advisory boards.

In a February interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Pruitt said, “The biblical worldview with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we’ve been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind.”

In March, Politico published tapes from more than decade ago in which Pruitt disputes evolution: “There aren’t sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint.”

The statements have rankled EPA workers.

“It’s terrifying,” said one EPA employee who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. “The impression we are left with is that his faith has led him to counterfactual beliefs.”

The staffer, who identifies as queer, said Pruitt’s past affiliations with groups that take hard-line stances on gender and sexuality “are painful to confront.”

“Knowing that the man I work for every day not only disrespects the agency’s mission but also believes that I, as a pansexual woman, and many other EPA employees … are ‘perversions’ in his belief system, is a heavy weight I feel each day at work,” she said.

Though Pruitt’s reputation for piety may help protect him for now, Bean cautioned that it may not filter down to ordinary evangelical voters.

“He’s not an individual with a mass following, not a household name for the evangelical rank and file,” she said. “I do not think Scott Pruitt has a national brand as an evangelical leader that, by itself, would stop Trump from firing him.”

Pruitt’s legacy could alienate him from moderate evangelicals. Ronald Sider, a professor at the Palmer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, called Pruitt’s lead role in pushing Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate accord one of the administration’s “really big, longer-term negative policies,” and said the administrator’s failure to take climate change seriously will define his tenure for years to come.

“It’s really immoral and tragic,” Sider said. “Unless that can be turned around fairly soon, our grandchildren will pay for it.”

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August 14, 2017

Ethereum News and Links 

Top

Plasma: Scalable Autonomous Smart Contracts by Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon

Scalability effort that will be worked on in parallel with PoS and sharding

tl;dr from Matthew Di Ferrante or Plasma in 10 mins from Anthony Akentiev.  Or a video read-along of the Plasma whitepaper with Jordan Leigh and Ameen Soleimani

Peter Todd started attacking Vitalik on Twitter.  The many Twitter threads make it hard to link to the original source, but Trustnodes had a decent summary, though somewhat Vitalik-friendly. There are plenty of brilliant people in the world, what might be most impressive about Vitalik is his maturity in dealing with trolls. Being a jerk is not tolerated in this community.

Patricia Tree UI by Andreas Olofsson.  Context from Christian Reitwiessner: "this is a way to implement the cross-chain verification mechanisms mentioned in the plasma paper."

Vlad Zamfir is nonplussed by Plasma

Vitalik: "I personally have cut down evangelism precisely because I see that the main bottleneck is now not interest, but tech."

Coinbase raises $100M Series D at a 1.6b valuation, led by IVP.  Check out that hockey stick graph in the TechCrunch article. Volume on track in 2017 to be 10x the 2016 volume.  

Seems clear that Toshi is phase 3 of the Coinbase Master Plan, so with 100m they now have a similar warchest as Status (the sponsor of this newsletter, along with ConsenSys). That's fantastic because both can do great work introducing people into the ecosystem.

Russell Smith on the ease of building a testnet faucet on Toshi

You can also now view your Coinbase balances on Fidelity

Protocol

Video of core dev meeting. Agenda.

Metropolis HF1 (Byzantium) in late September, if not October

If the hard fork is postponed too long, we should make sure miners know to raise the gaslimit

New high for number of daily transactions, no backlog, median wait time just 2 blocks.

Q&A with Vitalik.

ZKSnarks: "a couple more months" after Metropolis.  

Casper: "almost done a PoC implementation in python."

Sharding: "later than Casper, but sooner than we thought."

Diving into the EVM, part 2

Qtum developer on the faults and shortcomings of the EVM

Vitalik confirms that current plan is for ~1000 ETH to be necessary to stake

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.4.15

Christian Lundkvist: Safer simpler multisig

Grid+: 2-of-3 blind multisig

Dividend payments based on MiniMeToken

Using Infura with web3j

Scaling INFURA: Not All API Calls are Equal, especially getLogs

Costs of deployed Ethereum code

Ecosystem

Status v0.9.10 alpha release

Status will have their first fireside chat on August 17th at 16:00 CEST

Trezor support now in Geth

MyEtherWallet is hiring JavaScript devs, hourly or fulltime

OmiseGo and Vitalik meet with Thailand's Central Bank

Paul Vigna on the Ethereum NYC birthday bash (already behind WSJ paywall)

Colony open sources its employee-friendly option plan - 10 year window, cashless exercise, buyback program

Ethereum in the Enterprise

Microsoft announces the Coco framework for enterprise -- using a trusted environment like Intel SGX or Windows VSM, you use Coco to hook up to your "distributed ledger technology."  Code to be open sourced next year.

The EEA Legal Working Group

Case study of using Microsoft tools and Truffle

How the Dubai government is pioneering blockchain with ConsenSys

ISDA: Legal aspects of smart contracts in derivatives

Project Announcements

Cent -- Quora on Ethereum

MoonCatRescue - something like the next level of LarvaLabs' CryptoPunk

Project Demos

Dharma P2P credit live on Kovan using MetaMask

Lendroid loans for ENS names, live on Kovan testnet

RougeProject CouponDemo, on testnet

Project Updates

Augur is 50% done migrating to Solidity

Introducing Iconomi's first asset manager: Columbus Capital

How Melonport protects ecosystem participants

Cofound.it's David Sabo talks building the network of hubs

Video of Agrello MVP release

KyberNetwork smart contract modules explained

LivePeer weekly update - protocol now supports payments

Etherisc discusses its first year since inception

uPort upgrading its code framework, part 1

BAT is building a network of geographical community leaders

How contributors can earn VariabL/StabL during alpha, and why they're avoiding a token sale for now

Video on Golem and Streamr collaboration

Interviews and Talks

Videos of the ENS workshop talks.  I couldn't find a schedule, so I made own schedule so you can find which parts of the workshop you'd like to watch

Dan Finlay: Future of ENS subdomain markets

Epicenter with Loi Luu of KyberNetwork and SmartPool

Videos from Blockstack Summit.  My favorites: Naval Ravikant chat, Albert Wenger talk, Elizabeth Stark on Layer 2

Vitalik and Thomas Greco Q&A in Japan

Status Q&A with the developer of bchat, a bulletin board system live on Swarm. Very cool.

Alex Miller talks Grid+ at SF meetup

Token Sale Projects

Details on the Decentraland token launch

Neufund's "ICO" is a call to commit capital to the Neufund platform in exchange for tokens

How the Digital Asset Power Play trading platform came together

You don't need to do anything to receive OMG airdrop tokens

Cofound.it announces the next 4 Cofound.it sales: Musiconomi, Maecenas, X8 Currency, Digital Asset Power Play (reminder: I advise Cofound.it)

General

Tyler Cowen in Bloomberg: "[Crypto money is] becoming so strange and diverse that the actual practice of money is outracing anything found in economic theory or in the law."

Filecoin raised almost $200m in an hour and then paused their sale for a day or so. It's back open again, but so far has been very frontloaded.

Zeppelin's Demian Brener: private silos to blockchain ledgers — a $2.5 trillion opportunity

Wired: Ethereum Is Coding's New Wild West

Ryan Selkis on the onslaught of cryptofunds.  I agree that I wouldn't put money into many of the new funds. However, Ethereum and tokens are an emerging asset class that many money managers don't understand so it's tougher for them to do manager selection.

Laura Shin on how Bitcoin solved payment issues for a female Afghan entrepreneur.

Oregon finance prof Stephen McKeon on tokenizing traditional assets

Brian Kelly explains Ethereum on CNBC Fast Money

David Sacks: Cryptocurrency fulfills the original vision we tried to build at PayPal

"A Solution of the P versus NP problem."  Hmm.

Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar:

Upcoming token sale start dates:

August 16 – Magos

August 17 – Decentraland

August 20 – SlotnSlot

August 20 – Umbrella Coin

August 23– FoodCoin

August 24 – REAL (Real Estate Asset Ledger)

August 25 – Avalon

August 28 – HelloGold

August 28 – ChronoLogic

August 28 – Grace

August 29 – Kickico

August 30 – LookRev

August 31 – Musiconomi  (Cofound.it Priority Pass presale: Aug 29)

August 31 - Monetha

September 5 – Viberate

September 6 – Aventus

September 7 – Maecenas (Cofound.it Priority Pass presale: Sep 5)

September 11 – Enigma Catalyst

September 12 – Evermarkets

September 13 – Unikoin

September 13 – Eventchain

September 14 – X8 Currency (Cofound.it Priority Pass presale:  Sep 12)

September 18 – Winding Tree

September 18 – Circles

September 21 – Digital Asset Power Play (Cofound.it Priority Passpresale: Sep 19)

October 1 – Hirematch

October 10 – Swap

Ongoing token sales:

Indorse

Fluence

Everex

300 Cubits

Authoreon

Agora

Lampix

Propy

Latium

SmartRE

Macroverse

Blockpass

NeverDie

Atlant

GroceryX

Agrello

RexMLS

Want to be included?  If you are building your project on Ethereum, email weekinethereum @ gmail [period] com with 1) your URL, 2) sale date and 3) a brief but convincing description of how you are using Ethereum, preferably with a link to your Github repo.  Listings are free.  But please make sure to follow those instructions.  If you don’t follow the instructions, you likely won’t get a response.

WARNING: list may include scams.  Do your own research and due diligence before putting value at risk.  Read disclaimer below.

[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice. If you're interested in what I do, you can find my somewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]

New email

If you emailed my Ticketleap email address in the last 5 days or so, then I likely didn't get it.  If you were waiting on a response from an email you sent there, I suggest you re-send to weekinethereum @ gmail [period] com.

I've joined ConsenSys.  Here's a logo to draw your eye in case you were going to skip over this section:

I'm very excited about this move and will have significantly more to say in the future.  The newsletters should become more regular again! In the meantime, I wanted to make it clear so that you can judge whether I favor ConsenSys projects.

My charge from Joe Lubin is pretty similar to what Status has told me: keep telling the truth and covering the space objectively, even if the truth hurts.

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SEO For Recruitment Agencies - Anatomy of an Optimised Page

With hundreds of recruitment agencies throughout the world all contending for the same key phrases, exactly what does it take to rise to the top of the internet search engine results?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is difficult for recruitment firms. It's so difficult that even the specialists seem not able to offer anything past basic advice.

If you look for 'Search Engine Optimization suggestions for employment companies', in the leading 5 Google results you'll discover some rather great ideas from some respectable websites. The methods they suggest are practical enough, but it's the type of guidance that could be related to any type of site from any type of industry. There's very little in there of particular passion for those that run employment sites.

It's also worth remembering that, at the time of composing, this site places in the top five Google results for 'SEO tips for employment agencies'. It's an odd blog article on a Singapore directory website, raging with formatting problems, spelling mistakes, and also recommendations that's so out-of-date it's come to be downright unadvisable. For instance, it actively encourages you to submit to 'short article websites', and also at one point appears to motivate establishing web link ranches. Do not do this.

That such a poor quality page rates so very for a query into SEO for employment agencies recommends that this is a subject that hasn't already yet been commonly or sufficiently researched.

In this article, I will attempt to address the question - Just what does it take for a recruitment agency to place plainly in the search results?

I will certainly do this with analyzing the type of pages that currently rate prominently in Google. I will after that evaluate, in higher depth, the web page that currently inhabits the top place. With seeing just what they've done right, you could be better put to understand exactly what you have actually been doing wrong.

The Obvious Initial step - Keyword phrase Research

Keyword research study is the vital initial step to optimizing any web site in any kind of market. It's a procedure by which you figure out the kind of terms individuals will certainly use when looking for your products as well as services.

The individuals who visit employment sites are trying to find job. So exactly what kind of traits will certainly they search for?

Well, they could browse by location: 'Jobs in Nottingham', 'Jobs in Derby', 'Jobs in Leicester'.

Alternatively, they could look by specific work kinds: 'Search Engine Optimization tasks Nottingham', 'plumber tasks Derby', 'fireman jobs Kettering'.

Some people might also look by the companies they want to help: 'Hallam Internet Jobs', 'McDonalds Openings', 'Google works'.

Your website need to be created and structured with these searches in mind. This means having a specialized page for every single town, industry, as well as industry you offer - as well as ideally, for every work category you provide. Bear in mind that Google values useful content. This implies that, regardless of just how extensive your task database becomes, it must always be structured to be as easy and user-friendly to browse as possible.

We'll talk about the methods in which you could accomplish this listed below. Though, we'll take a look at the kind of websites that place extremely for one of the above search terms.

At the time of composing, below are the top five Google search results for the term 'jobs in Nottingham':

34 million results!

The first 3 outcomes have been paid for. Pay Per Click for recruitment companies can fill up a post by itself. Suffice to say, though, that these people will have bid fairly a great deal of cash to rate so plainly for such a broad term.

In this post, we're a lot more interested in the ways in which an employment firm could rank naturally. Therefore, we'll be concentrating on the latter three outcomes - the leading three natural listings.

Before we explore the top result, consider the second one. It's the task listings web page for the Nottingham Post, the city's local paper.

Google's search algorithm is regularly being refined, as well as the objective is to return the most relevant content for the individual's search term. In this situation, Google has actually plainly identified that Nottingham's most preferred regional paper is highly most likely to include a wealth of relevant material for the 'tasks in Nottingham' search.

That their listing page ranks so very is a valuable lesson for all employment companies: Make your listings as locally-focused as feasible.

Even if you run a global recruitment company, remember the amount of job seekers search for openings by place, and also tailor your listings accordingly.

Now allowed's take a better consider the web page that's currently inhabiting that primary slot.

What Does an Optimised Web page Look Like?

Like this:

You'll see I've accentuated 8 vital locations. Each of these is a feature that makes the website basic and also intuitive to use. Undoubtedly has visited terrific lengths making it easy for task applicants to discover relevant vacancies.

And that's the key takeaway for this whole blog post: This website has actually not simply been optimized for the online search engine. It's been optimized for the users.

How? Let us count the ways:

1. Prominent Search Box

Right on top of the web page are a couple of search boxes, and Undoubtedly has made it clear simply exactly what kind of info they desire you to put in each box. Not just do they specify 'what' and also 'where' - that is, exactly what do you intend to do, and also where do you desire to do it - they likewise specify that job candidates must go into work titles, keyword phrases, as well as firm names in one box, and also cities or postcodes in the other.

We've already reviewed the benefits of consisting of search boxes on your site. Due to the fact that Undoubtedly has actually put theirs so plainly, despite where customers find themselves on the website, they'll always have a means of refining the outcomes to better reflect their needs. There's even an 'innovative work search' choice, for those that really know what they want.

2. Page Content

12 words. That's essentially it for the core material. The words 'works in Nottingham' exist to tell Google what this page is 'concerning' - that's keyword optimization! Then we get a contact us to action - 'Post your CV' - plus reassurance that this 'just takes a couple of secs'.

And that's basically it. It's still common to see web pages consist of reams of material for it - typically with a couple of variants of the target keyword phrase clumsily shoehorned in. Past a token heading and also CTA, Indeed wastes no time at all or area on such ineffective material. Rather, they commit nearly the entirety of the page to the task listings - which is specifically just what people are here to see.

Once once more, user experience has taken concern. And as we'll see below, these job listings offer much a lot more reliable on-page SEO than any kind of basic, generic material can ever before intend to deliver.

3. So Lots of Jobs, So Little Time

Indeed is apparently providing 34, 365 work openings in Nottingham. One possible factor as to why they have actually ranked so extremely for the term 'tasks in Nottingham' is because they're noting more tasks in Nottingham than anywhere else, and also Google has actually hence identified Certainly as the most relevant outcome for such a wide term. Because the listings are so easy to navigate, not just has actually Google acknowledged Without a doubt as the most appropriate outcome, but likewise as the most useful result.

4. Recent Searches

Another beneficial attribute for task seekers - no matter just how several special searches they take on, they can refer back to previous results at the touch of a button. The major trait I desire to point out here is the orange message next to each term - '372 brand-new', '78 new', '151 brand-new'. Google values new content, and Undoubtedly is relatively uploading hundreds of new listings every hour. This could just aid their rankings.

5. Search Refinements

Here task seekers could fine-tune the search engine result to recognize the listings most relevant for them, without needing to begin their search from the ground up. This is an additional factor for user encounter, but with clicking on one of these web links, we see an example of the kind of technological Search Engine Optimization factors to consider that have gone into the building and construction of this site.

Here's the LINK for this standard, raw tasks in Nottingham page:

Look just what occurs to the URL when I fine-tune the search to only display the works that pay ₤ 100,000+ (a man could fantasize):

It adjustments! Because of this, Indeed avoids the various SEO risks of LINK parameters.

When dealing with a database which contains over 34,000 listings for Nottingham alone, technical touches such as this can make a big difference in determining search engine rankings.

6. Sponsored Job Listings

It resembles Certainly's organizing task listings from various other recruitment firms. Along with providing what is likely a rewarding resource of earnings - which probably discusses why they're able to bid on such competitive Pay Per Click keyword phrases - the desire to link to various other websites offers to cement the suggestion that Indeed is THE resource for work seekers. It exists in their slogan: 'One search. All jobs.' Google clearly identifies the value of such a website, which is why it places so extremely for such a wide search term as 'tasks in Nottingham'.

7. Actual Job Listings

Here it is - the meat. This is exactly what individuals are right here for.

Above, I pointed out how this page's 'core content' includes no greater than 12 words. As opposed to squandering the user's time with unnecessary, keyword-stuffed, cookie-cutter content, Indeed rather allows the work listings do all the talking.

The work listings are the factor this site exists. They're the reason the site gets any type of users. The listings ARE the content.

There's a strong SEO advantage to this which, once more, can be a post in itself. Basically, if you intend to tell Google and various other search engines what your website's around, it's no more sufficient to merely pepper your web pages with key words. Rather, you need to compose normally, as well as think about such concepts as entity salience, semantic range, basic synonyms, and also close variants.

Rather compared to resembling the term 'tasks in Nottingham' across the page, Undoubtedly rather fill the web page with job listings, which are naturally filled with such thematically appropriate terms as 'careers', 'training', 'job', 'sales', and 'consumers'.

In one of the most all-natural means possible, these listings offer Google a strong concept of just what the page is about.

For more info, there's an important MoZ blog post concerning these advanced on-page SEO concepts.

8. Sign up for Email Alerts

Any task candidate who wants to obtain e-mail updates for 'tasks in Nottingham' can do so at the touch of a switch. You'll see it states 'obtain brand-new tasks for this search' - so no matter just how much you have actually improved the search, you'll always get emails that pertain to your particular interests.

This is one final point for individual encounter. There's even a nice little reassurance that 'you can terminate e-mail informs at any moment', so customers do not have to fret about obtaining flooded with alerts indefinitely.

We have actually discussed numerous times the advantages of e-mail advertising. Along with being wonderful for the customer, e-mail advertising and marketing can likewise be great for SEO, as it could drive substantial amounts of relevant traffic to your site.

Google will certainly see that thousands after hundreds of task candidates are seeing this website every day. Just what's more, since they'll read and reacting to job listings, these visitors are likely to spend a great deal of time on the site. This sends an additionally solid message to the internet search engine that this site is an important source for work applicants, which supplies a more explanation of why this web page rates so extremely for such a wide search term.

What Can We Learn From Indeed?

This page on Indeed's site has actually been optimized for their target keyword, and also as the LINK parameters recommend, there's a whole lot of careful technical considerations bubbling under the surface, all of which are certainly helping the web page to rank.

The primary takeaway from this web page, though, is that Google is strongly favouring sites that put the needs and preferences of the individual first.

Whether you're an employment agency or a maker of great natural leather coats, you ought to absolutely remain to carry out keyword research as well as carry out on-page as well as technological SEO. As this instance hopefully confirms, your concern needs to be to make your material and also your site as pertinent and as beneficial as possible for your target audience.

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Millennials Might Wreck The usa's Internet

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Millennials Might Wreck The usa's Internet

Suitable information! There is something else we might be able to blame on the ones darn millennials besides killing breakfast cereal and shunning the Olympics. They might also overwhelm our disappointingly fragile digital highways. The U.S. (and the world) is in the midst of a sea change in how we spend our enjoyment time.

                                             USA Internet

Internet Explorer

Younger people are less inclined to indulge in The united states’ favorite activity: zoning out in front of the Tv. On common, human beings ages 18 to 24 spend half off as an awful lot time looking live and recorded tv as 35-to-forty nine-year-vintage Individuals, according to Nielsen.Younger people are absolutely looking video, however, it is more likely something from YouTube or a friend’s Snapchat story on their phone than the episode of “Gray’s Anatomy” their mother and father are looking at the dwelling room Television Living Tired.

Tv Drama Teenagers in the U.S. On average watch one-half of to 1-1/3 as a good deal television as older Individuals

The trend is simplest going to accelerate. Internet hangouts like Facebook and Twitter are delving greater into Tv-like web video. And the Tv-and-film smorgasbords from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu are increasingly more being joined by means of applications of Internet-added Television channels from the likes of DirecTV, YouTube, and shortly Hulu and perhaps Amazon.the ones on-line Tv alternatives along with Dish Network’s Sling Tv picked up 888,000 clients final 12 months, in accordance to investigate company MoffettNathanson. Over the identical length, cable, satellite tv for PC and telecom Tv services lost a cumulative 1.7 million Tv customers, which MoffettNathanson estimates were the industry’s fastest rate of decline on record. It is not (but) the tidal wave of “wire slicing” feared via Tv industry pessimists. however, it is clean the future of domestic entertainment lies over the Net and smartphone networks.As Tv adjustments accelerate, although, now not sufficient people within the generation and enjoyment industries are speak about an essential trouble: Can The USA’s steeply-priced and inferior home and cell Net networks take care of it as greater people shift from looking Tv to having their enjoyment added over the internet?Even now, many domestic Net networks can’t manipulate. Media and tech consulting firm Spark off envisioned simplest 12 percentage of U.S. households have speedy sufficient Net velocity to aid more than one human being watching Tv online thru offerings which include Sling Television. about 34 million People — 10 percent of the populace, and 39 percentage in rural parts of us of a — have no access to rapid home Net, consistent with an analysis by means of the Federal Communications Commissions.It’s actual that tech companies such as Netflix and Google’s YouTube have committed their tremendous resources to ensuring their films can circulate even at pokey speeds.

however few groups have the smarts and monetary firepower of these giants. And broadcast Tv is especially intricate as it hogs greater bandwidth and is a larger technical undertaking than streaming an older episode of “Recreation of Thrones.” Proportion Of American citizens WHO LACK access TO rapid BROADBAND 10%Considers how regularly there are problems whilst popular activities are streamed online. Almost each year people have hiccups while they are attempting to look at the March Madness university basketball event on their computers and phones, and to date, the quantity of humans watching Television online is pretty tame. A Countrywide Soccer League government said at most 3 million humans tuned in to observe Yahoo’s live move of a 2015 Sport. On Tv, NFL video games average tens of tens of millions of viewers straight away.

watching video thru cell networks is also a trouble. Wealthy Greenfield, an analyst with BTIG Research, this week posted an evaluation that located streaming simply 30 minutes a day of (non-high definition) video on AT&T’s cellular Network might upload up to 10.five gigabytes of records every month. This is beyond the monthly allotments for lots humans. Even for telephone customers who have a more and more established “limitless” information plan, the video is slowed to a crawl — if it’s to be had at all — after 20 to 30 gigabytes of month-to-month statistics utilization. I have an addiction of asking executives worried in web video whether or not they’re involved about the Net’s ability to keep pace with an explosion in the call for an increasing number of Net Television, movies, and another video. Nearly none of them admit to such worries, and after they do they generally tend to accept as true with U.S. Cable and telecom groups will hold to spend money on new technology to bulk up broadband and cell networks. I am no longer so sanguine.

Historically, the cable and telecom agencies which are liable for Internet networks don’t have an outstanding tune report of making infrastructure investments, which regularly do not bring about first rate monetary returns. Hopes that new cellular generation will patch holes or replace creaky broadband are not practical for all, however, a handful of occasions.The high-quality desire for our Internet infrastructure is that online video watching by means of those darn millennials will growth slowly and progressively as opposed to surging in coming years. Due to the fact, if it does surge, the Net May have a meltdown.

Corporate America vs Net Advertising and marketing

A conflict that engages in our minds repeatedly… Corporate America or Net Advertising and marketing?

Millennials Age Range

As a child, it becomes embedded in our minds that we can grow up and paintings in Corporate The united states from 9 to 5 and receive the pay our employers offer. we can make the each day go back and forth to and from, put money into our 401k and retire at the age of 65.

From era to era, This is the mindset we have been taught and it has no longer modified. Day in and day trip, we maintain to rise up and prepare ourselves for the pre-organized day that awaits us.

We continue to battle via mounds of paperwork dedicating plenty of our life to getting cash for someone else and thinking it’s miles securing our destiny. An hour after hour we spend our valuable time analyzing, discovering, shopping, promoting, typing, calculating and configuring for the one aspect we name a paycheck and simplest to our melancholy our tough agonizing paintings did not pay out as plenty as we invested.

Corporate us has long gone from being an eight-hour day to a ten-hour day. There no such thing as hour lunches and fifteen minute breaks any extra. You snatch a hot canine from the gasoline station and choke it down to your manner back to paintings so that you can meet the closing date your boss decided to alternate an hour in the past. The longest Destroy you get is the stroll to the restroom and lower back to your cubicle. We are not humans any extra we’re robots. we’re constantly being instructed that this is the manner of existence. If we do not paintings this way we are able to never reach existence, proper?

Incorrect!

through the financial downfall, many human beings panicked, task losses had been inside the masses of thousands and there was no in which to turn but the Net. The internet was crawling with unemployed human beings looking for jobs.

With “work from home” classified ads galore, most of the people had been skeptical and persisted in looking for that “perfect” task or what they had been programmed to suppose changed into ideal. However, going towards all odds a number of the adventures took a bounce and determined it changed into time to be a pacesetter and start their very own business.

You too, can alternate your attitude and come to be a frontrunner. You may begin your journey at the Net, start your private home based enterprise and say 6dcae44b5bb0ed8decf5315a8a4ccfbc to Corporate us. Dedicate all of your precious time analyzing, gaining knowledge of, buying, selling, typing, calculating and configuring to your personal commercial enterprise, and find out it pays out greater than you invested unlike in Corporate The united states.

We all have it in us to be a pacesetter we simply have now not discovered how to overcome the worry of becoming who we absolutely are.

As Mike Dillard with Magnetic Sponsoring said, “with the aid of nature, human beings thrive and live in social businesses. They observe a leader till they benefit sufficient experience and confidence to undertaking for management themselves.”

Wreck Movie

Internet Advertising is an ever-developing community and the brand new manner of making an investment to your destiny. Why make that each day travel to a three 1/2-walled cubicle with mounds of paper paintings, nagging bosses and no lunch hours? Set you own hours, consume lunch whilst you need and be your personal boss.

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The Best Way To Profit From Snapchat’s IPO

Snap Inc. finally went public at $17 and is now worth around $31 billion after a meteoric 45% rise in its first day of trading. With ~1,900 employees almost liquid, funny money capital will inevitably rain down on the Southern California ecosystem!

What’s even more exciting is that Snap Inc. was able to sell stock to the public at a trailing 55X revenue multiple with no profits compared to a 14.5X multiple for Facebook and a 4.5X revenue multiple for Twitter today. In other words, investors either really believe in the growth projections for Snap Inc., and/or the scarcity of big internet/tech deals is forcing investors to pay a premium.

Since most of us do not work at Snap Inc., don’t have spouses who work at Snap Inc., nor were we investors in Snap Inc., we won’t benefit directly from their IPO. However, most of us are logical thinkers who can make observations of how to benefit when the 150-day lock-up period is over and capital is recycled into the community.

The most obvious beneficiary of IPO riches is real estate. We’ve all learned firsthand or from story books how paper multi-millionaires lost everything during the 2000 dotcom crash because they couldn’t sell quickly enough or they didn’t buy hard assets. At least once a week while I was working, the guy who made me a breakfast croissant reminded me how he was once worth $3 million.

Staying wealthy for longer is all about turning funny money into real assets. Money will also flow into cars, fine art, entertainment, and other luxury goods as well. But real estate is where the common person can expect to benefit the most. 

Real Estate Beneficiaries Of Snap IPO

Besides Venice Beach being the biggest beneficiary of the IPO given that’s where Snap Inc. is headquartered, Marina Del Ray, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, and Mar Vista should all benefit as well. Once these markets get sufficiently tight, the benefits continue to fan out across the city.

Folks who hold real estate in these areas should stay put and watch their net worth grow so long as there is no great economic crash. Folks who are waiting to buy should start aggressively hunting for their perfect property in the fringes now before the lock-up period expires in Q3 2017.

If you can find a good deal that cash flows positively after a 20% downpayment, and you plan to own the property for the next 10+ years, then you’re probably going to do OK despite the large property price rally since ~2012. Google and Facebook have moved in, turning industrial lots into campuses in nearby Playa del Rey.

What’s very interesting is that according to Zillow, Venice Beach property is only expected to go up by 0.7% over the next 12 months due to plenty of inventory and a 95% surge in the median home price since 2012 ($815K to $1.585M). In other words, the market is COLD in part because many of the locals have already bought up Venice Beach property in anticipation of a Snap Inc. IPO and a recovering economy. However, the Zillow forecast is before the real-time explosion in value we see in Snap Inc’s shares today, and perhaps now there’s an opportunity to “snap up” properties at a discount before prices march higher again.

Zillow forecasts a slow market for Venice Beach. Opportunity?

For investors who don’t live in Los Angeles, the next best way to profit is to scan for real estate crowdfunding deals in the LA area. I’m still bullish on the heartland, but the Snap IPO could very well be the catalyst for another frenzy in coastal real estate markets.

Due to the strength of the Snap IPO, I’m pretty sure my thesis of buying SF Bay Area real estate during the winter of 2017/2018 ahead of the Airbnb and Uber IPOs will become mainstream now. For SF buyers, we’re experiencing a perfect moment where prices on the high end and in the condo market have softened about 5% – 10% since early 2016 due to a large influx of new condo supply. Weakness will probably last until mid-2018, giving us more time to save up, until either one goes public.

Airbnb generated about $1.7B in revenue in 2016 and is expected to grow revenue to $2.8B for 2017. Airbnb is currently raising a new round of funding based on a ~$30-33B valuation. In other words, its revenue multiple is only 10 – 11X compared to Snap’s 55X revenue multiple. Given a rising tide lifts all boats, I’m sure Airbnb’s valuation just ticked up at least 10%. If you assign Snap’s 55X revenue multiple to Airbnb’s 2016 revenue, Airbnb would be valued at a whopping $93.5B! Not gonna happen due to different growth metrics, but it’s fun to extrapolate.

SF Bay Area prices surged post-FB’s IPO.

Meanwhile, Uber is even larger, with $5.5B in revenue in 2016 and perhaps $7B+ revenue for 2017. Uber is currently valued at roughly $60 – $66B, or ~10 – 12X trailing revenue. Snap’s IPO probably neutralized all of Uber’s recent negative press with regards to valuations. For fun, if we apply Snap’s 55X revenue multiple to Uber’s revenue, you get a market capitalization of $385B, equal to another Facebook.

Bay Area property went ballistic after the Google and Facebook IPOs, but so has most coastal city property since 2012 due to a recovering economy. Southern California property will likely continue to stay strong post-Snap’s IPO. With ~10,000 new millionaires looking for a home after Airbnb and Uber’s IPO, the Bay Area will likely reignite since less than 1% of the housing stock trades at any given moment. The key is to buy ahead of the liquidity events because although the market discounts in advance, it never fully discounts the true value until the event actually happens. For example, even after a proposed company buyout, there is still a spread between the offer price and the trading price.

For those of you who don’t live in LA or SF, that’s OK. Real estate crowdfunding can at least help you get closer to the frenzy. Just looking at RealtyShare’s platform, here are a couple deals in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

San Francisco Example

RealtyShares San Francisco Investment Example

Talk about depressing photography for its featured image! This property is located in Cole Valley, a desirable neighborhood within walking distance to the UCSF campus and a 15-minute subway ride to downtown. I’m surprised by the low $5K minimum and short 12-month term paying a healthy 10.5% interest. But perhaps by the time they’re done rehabbing the place, it’ll be just in time to benefit from a big IPO.

This is a typical two-unit San Francisco property I wanted to buy back in 2003 for under a million bucks. The idea was to live in one unit and rent out the other for five years until I saved up enough money. Then I’d rent out both units, buy a larger two unit building, live in one unit, and repeat until amassing at least six rental units generating $250,000 in gross rent while retiring by age 40 in Hawaii! Oh well. My current life will have to do.

A 14-minute commute from 333 Parnassus Ave to RealtyShares office. Not bad.

I’m intimately familiar with this neighborhood because I live close by and just checked out an amazing rehab several streets down last weekend that is currently pending (picture below). The developer basically did what the current sponsor for the Parnassus property wants to do, and that’s buy a two-unit building, rehab it and sell each unit for a profit.

Check out the comp below. $2,095,000 is for the top unit with a cottage in the rear. The bottom unit is asking $1.79M. Given the unit went into contract after two weeks on the market, it’ll likely sell for more than asking. Once this post is published, I’m off to spend two hours this Sunday looking for more clues as to what’s going on with the property market!

Comp to 333 Parnassus. So much nicer photography.

Los Angeles Example

RealtyShares LA Investment Example

Here’s another short-duration investment of 12 months with an 11% annual interest and a higher $15,000 minimum. Unfortunately, 3124 Rowena Avenue is about a 35-minute drive away from fabulous Venice Beach.

I highly doubt a Snapchat millionaire is going to want to live in this place. But perhaps a forward-thinking Snapchat millionaire might be looking for multi-family rental properties in LA that generate 10%+ annual gross rents to ensure her fortune lasts longer than a fashion trend.

For 13 years, I invested ~80% of every annual bonus into real estate to diversify away from a highly cyclical industry whose profitability was always under attack. I knew from month one that I wouldn’t last much more than 10 years in the business. By the time I couldn’t take working anymore, I found comfort knowing my real estate investments would help keep me afloat due to rental income and appreciation.

3124 Rowena is a 33-minute drive to fabulous Venice Beach… if you’re lucky

Look In Your Own Backyard

Let’s say you have no interest trying to gain exposure to boomtowns through real estate crowdfunding. You might just have a real estate investment opportunity right where you are.

I’d like everybody to do some research on whether there are any impending IPOs from private companies in your city. If there are, please share so we can all profit! You may likely see the same positive effects on your local real estate market as we’ve seen here in SF and LA.

In summary, the success of Snap Inc should:

Embolden more private companies, especially in tech/internet to go public

Raise current valuations of private companies in the same category

Increase investor demand for private companies similar in size and type

Increase the number of people investing in private equity who normally would not

Increase hiring by private companies who now have more funding

Create a larger startup and investor ecosystem in Southern California

Create FOMO in other cities who wonder why can’t they also start their own ecosystem

Embolden more individuals to become entrepreneurs

Create international copycats

Increase the rents and property prices of surrounding areas

Finally, some of you may be wondering whether I’m willing to buy SNAP at a 55X+ revenue multiple? Hell no! And you better believe every single investor and employee is looking to cash out as much of their pre-IPO shares as possible without sounding alarm bells to latecomers.

I want to see at least a quarter of public performance before making any investment decision. Snap Inc. may become the next Facebook or it may become the next Twitter. Who knows. What I do know is that Snap Inc. has $3.4B more on its balance sheet to spend on growth. I’d much rather try and earn a 10% return selling picks and shovels rather than mining for gold.

Related: Why Is US Property So Cheap Compared To The Rest Of The World?

Readers, what are some other ways to profit from the Snap Inc. IPO? Anybody from Venice Beach or the surrounding area want to provide some local color? Where do you think SNAP stock goes from here? Please point out any flaws in my investment thesis and challenge me! I want to thank a personal finance consulting client of mine who inspired me to write this post because he actually lives in Venice Beach and asked about my thoughts on this subject again. 

from http://www.financialsamurai.com/the-best-way-to-profit-from-snapchats-ipo/