Yahoo! & Microsoft finally walk down the isle together
Posted by Reggie James | July 29th, 2009 | Filed under Reggie James Digital Clarity, Search Advertising
Yahoo! & Microsoft finally walk down the isle together – a marriage made in search heaven?
If I could be anywhere tonight– a fly on the wall with newly weds, Bartz and Balmer would be my first choice….watch this space.
Tags: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!
On Twitter
Posted by Reggie James | July 24th, 2009 | Filed under twitter
I’ve just created a twitter page….follow me…:)
http://twitter.com/lordreginald99
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How Will Yahoo’s results affect the potential Microsoft deal?
Posted by Reggie James | July 21st, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized
Yahoo! has released it results today. Profits rose to $143 million or 10 cents a share, from $132.4 million, or 9 cents a share a year ago. Net revenues fell to $1.14 billion from $1.35 billion a year ago, and gross revenues were down 13% to $1.57 billion.
Operating profit for the quarter fell 25% from a year ago, to $101 million and display ad revenues on Yahoo’s own sites fell 14% from a year ago, a little worse than the 13% drop in the first quarter
For Yahoo! shareholders the result will be another disappointment in trying to recoup return from an already trying stock performance by the former darling of the tech market.
To ad to further woes to the search portal, it was reported earlier in Business Week that forecasts for the third quarter came in somewhat below what Wall Street had hoped: $1.45 billion to $1.55 billion in revenues.
All this as the company is about to unveil a company wide rebrand. The ‘I told you so’ from the Carl Icahn camp will be audible on the street tomorrow.
Tags: Carl Icahn, Yahoo & Microsoft, Yahoo reults, Yahoo!
Make a Payment – improved payment control for Google AdWords
Posted by Reggie James | July 16th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized
Google is adding a new feature to ease the way it currently charges for credit card advertisers. The arrestingly titled Make a Payment allows advertisers to initiate a credit card payment for any amount they want. The advertiser can even overpay the balance to cover future advertising costs. You can still be automatically billed according to your regular billing cycle, and the plan is designed to give a more improved and convenient method of payment as posted on the company’s blog today.
When initiating a payment, you can choose to pay off your entire balance or just a portion of it, which is particularly useful if you’d like to divide your balance among several forms of payment. You can also make a payment for an amount larger than your balance if you’d like to prepay for a certain amount of advertising costs.
For further information about Make a Payment please contact the Account Management team at Digital Clarity
Tags: Google AdWords, Paid Search, PPC
Bye Dawn – you are at peace because Death is nothing at all
Posted by Reggie James | July 13th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized
I sadly attended the funeral of my wife’s Aunt who sadly passed away last on Friday 6th July at the Trinity Hospice in Clapham, South West London.
The funeral was on the following Wednesday and I was asked by the family to read a few words as they were understandably too distraught with the death of this fine, caring and beautiful woman.
Dawn was a meticulous planner and in typical fashion had arranged all the funeral service so as not to be a burden to us in mourning her passing.
She had requested that the poem Death is nothing at all by Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral be read out at her service and this is what I read to the few that had gathered to see her on her final journey.
It was a moving experience and I thought I would share the poem with you.
Reggie
Death is nothing at all
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral
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