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Up until about the mid 1850s, debtor's prisons were a common sight in the United States,

and all across Europe.

The basic concept allowed governments to take a debtor to court, and if the indebted person

couldn't pay, they were put into a work camp to pay off their debts.

Once the debt was paid, the individual was allowed to go free.

These debtor's prisons allowed for slightly more freedom than a typical prison, there

were no armed guards and the prisoners were often allowed to leave to go to work their

regular jobs during the day.

The practice was ended after it was decided that private debt shouldn't land someone in

a forced labor camp.

And as bankruptcy were modernized, it became easier for people to stay out of these debtor's

prison, leading to their eventual demise.

Then things changed in the United States.

Starting in the late 1970s, when more and more American citizens began going to prison

over unpaid fines to either the courts of the state, and the term debtor's prison was

once again entered into the American lexicon.

Owing money to the government is one thing, and what about private debt owed to corporations

though?

After all, private debt's a civil matter, not a criminal matter.

So it'd be almost impossible to be sent to prison for debt owed on medical bills, or

credit cards, or student loans.

There was a time when that would seem impossible, but those days are far behind us.

According to a recent report by the ACLU, more and more citizens are being thrown into

prison by judges who say that private debt held by collections agencies is now a criminal

offense.

Which most legal experts agree is a clear violation of the Equal Protection Clauses

of the 14th Amendment.

But as the corporate stranglehold on American life gets tighter, it's becoming increasingly

clear that corporations always get what they want.

And right now, they want Americans put in jail if they aren't paying their bills.

Joining me now to talk about this is Farron Cousins, editor of the Trial Lawyer Magazine.

Farron, tell us exactly what's happening with these modern debtor's prisons?

Well what's happening is that collections agencies here in the United States are trying

to use the court system not just to force people to pay their bills, that's one thing,

but their big deal right now is they want to punish people.

They want them to go to prison, so what they're doing is they're going to court, they're saying,

"Look, I have this person, they're not responding to my letters, they owe a lot of money that

I have bought the debt for from this company, lets bring them to court, and when they can't

pay, or more importantly, when they don't show up to court because we didn't tell them

they have a court date, then you go ahead, judge, and slap an arrest out there for them."

And then the person gets arrested, they have no idea that they had a court date, they're

not able to leave until they pay their bail, which many of them, since they're already

in severe debt, aren't able to do anyway, the city or state gets some free labor from

this person being in prison.

The corporation or the debtor agency gets a lien placed against this person, they take

their home, their car, part of their paycheck, if they have a job, and the person's life

is essentially ruined, because it's very hard to come back from being put in prison-

Yeah.

For owing two, three hundred dollars on a medical bill.

Farron, we've covered stories on this show where we've seen issues where, for example,

a judge has this kickback scheme, where the judge throws children into children's detention

facilities, and what that does is makes money for the detention facilities, and the judge

gets paid back, because it's all run privately.

I'm wondering as I listen to this, has this been investigated?

Because it's not even legal, really, this is really, if you look at the face of this,

this really wouldn't be constitutionally legal for judges to issue arrest warrants in civil

cases.

If we find out that there's some scheme behind this entire thing, what's your take?

Well, there absolutely is a scheme behind it.

We know from this massive new ACLU report that these debt collection agencies are actually

making deals with district attorneys all throughout this country.

And the deal is this, you, district attorney, let us use your letterhead and send out official

looking letters from the debt agency, looking like they're coming from the district attorney's

office, we're going to send those to the people that owe us money in an attempt to force them

to pay, and we're going to threaten them illegally with jail time.

We're going to threaten them with taking their home, we're going to threaten them with garnishing

their paychecks, even though we technically shouldn't be able to do that.

And in return, districts attorneys office, we're going to give you a portion of the money

that we recover.

Farron, let me just say this, if you listen to this program, and you know that this is

going on somewhere in your community, I'd recommend you get in touch with us, we'll

get you to a lawyer in that community that can handle this.

Look, this type of operation doesn't work unless there is cooperation that usually is

going to be illegal conduct.

Debt collection agencies have been able to manipulate the court system to the point that

people are now thrown in jail.

That is unheard of.

First of all, on its very face is unconstitutional, unless you have what you described, Farron,

which is a failure for a person to meet a court appointed date or time.

So you're saying that's where they're really grabbing them.

The person's not showing up, so the judge then has a warrant for their arrest, they're

thrown in jail for that.

Is that kind of how this whole scheme is put together?

Absolutely.

And most of the time, the majority of people that they ACLU found who have gone to prison

for these debts, they didn't even know that they had a court date.

Because what happens is that they do sometimes send them on this DA letterhead, but they're

in envelopes that come from the debt collection agency.

And people who are in these massive debts, they tend to, unfortunately, overlook those.

They don't want to open them, or it's buried in fine print.

Or they didn't get the email or voicemail that the company left, because sometimes oops,

they forgot to just let them know altogether.

They're scamming these people, because they make money off it, the DA's offices are making

money off it, the city or state now gets a new prisoner to go out there and pick up garbage

on the side of the highway, everybody wins, except for the person's whose like is already

on the rocks because they can't afford to pay their bills, and now they're just going

to make it harder for them to get a job in the future-

Right.

Or rent an apartment, or buy a home.

Farron, we know that our elected officials, because of Citizens United, you've got state

and federal levels, are always beholden to corporate donors.

You understand, judges run for office just like everybody else.

And now it looks like the same is really true for the judiciary.

Now this money is flowing into the judiciary, at any given time in your backyard, you're

going to have, every several years, a new judge running for office.

It's interesting to know where that money comes from.

Don't you think the ACLU's kind of looking into that part of it?

Isn't that something they should look into?

Oh absolutely.

The ACLU knows exactly what you and I know.

We did a massive spread on it in the Trial Lawyer Magazine about two years ago, talking

about the tens of millions of dollars that are flowing to judicial races all across the

country.

And it's not for these massively powerful judgeships, it's for the little ones.

The little towns that most people have never heard of.

You have people like the Koch brothers swooping in and funding these judges in quote, "non

partisan races", where the judges running for the bench don't have to declare whether

they're a Republican or a Democrat.

But they're getting funded by massive corporations, by some of these big monied interests, and

they're doing it because that's how they shape policy.

You can't always do it at the-

Okay.

National level, so you come in at the local level, and you buy a little judge here and

a little judge there, and it adds up pretty quick.

So this is easy to follow.

You have somebody that owes bills, the debt collection agency shows up in civil court,

they usually don't even give notice to the person that owes the bills, but that person

doesn't show up.

The court then issues a warrant on grounds of a failure to show, something as basic as

a failure to show.

So when they don't show, then the court has criminal authority to do something about that.

And so in order for this to work though, you have to have DA's office working with you,

you have to have judges who are either total buffoons that are just so stupid that they're

getting sucked into this, or they're part of the problem.

And then you have to have the person that owes the money, who simply isn't all that

diligent in what they're looking at as far as their mail.

If you add all that, you kind of have this scam working anywhere in American, don't you?

Absolutely.

There's hundreds of areas across the country that the ACLU found, 26 states, possibly as

many as 44 states, where this very scam is playing out.

And once these debt collection agencies get you in court, whether you show up or not,

that's what then gives them the authority to garnish your wages, to take your paycheck

away.

And if you happen to be one of the unlucky people that gets thrown into prison because

they didn't tell you you had to come to court, as I said, that basically destroys somebody's

credit rating.

It destroys their ability to get a job in the future.

These are life changing, life altering events that these debt collection agencies know full

well is happening to these people, they know they're running this scam, that they've paid

off the DA's office-

Right.

That they may have helped buy some judges here and there.

But they don't care, because all they see is money.

How can consumers protect themselves in these situations, Farron, what's the best thing

they can do?

Well, if you find yourself in this situation, make sure you open up any letter, even if

it is from a debt collection agency.

Call an attorney immediately, find someone that can help you through this.

And if you have some debts that are out there outstanding, never throw away a bill, whether

it's from a hospital or something like that.

And always try to make a small payment if you have, make a $5 payment, whatever you

can do is going to keep that account active, and it will prevent that organization, that

company, from selling it to a debt collection agency.

Because that's the difference, these aren't the massive corporations, the hospitals taking

people to court, it's the debt collection agency.

So avoid going in there by making a three or $5 payment, if you can, and it will prevent

that company from selling off that debt if they see that there's an active attempt to

make a payment on that particular account.

Farron Cousins, thank you for joining me, okay, lets stay on this story.

It sounds like it's just getting started.

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Talking Shop Episode 2 - Duration: 25:32.

- Talking Shop take one.

- Talking shop take, yeah sure.

Talking Shop episode two take one.

- Are you ready? (Claps)

- Yeah, go on for it.

(upbeat instrumental music)

- Hi everyone, I'm Marc from EKM.

- And I'm Antony.

- Welcome to episode two of Talking Shop.

It's a little while since episode one.

However, I think that's been,

there's been a few things.

I think the first one was a pile up.

- It was.

- And we wanted to see what sort of

response we got from you guys.

And the response, invariably was really, really good.

We got some good interaction from the comments

on YouTube and that sort of stuff.

- Someone did say to me it was like talking, what is it?

Let's talk flags or whatever, you know?

(laughing)

You know like on Big Bang Theory.

- Okay, yeah yeah, let's talk about flags.

- Let's talk about flags or whatever.

- Okay, who told you you said that?

- One of my friends.

- Really? - Yeah.

- Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

- I don't know.

- Yeah, but the way it's gonna run now is I don't know

if you guys have seen what Shannon's been doing,

who's looking after our social media side of things at EKM.

So Shannon, every two weeks, is releasing ecommerce News

which will be a couple minutes long.

I guess the idea is after that Antony and I are going to go

into a little bit more detail so we've got some topics

to talk about today.

So should we go straight into the first one?

- Yeah, the first one.

- So, it's the option to mute ads on Google.

Now I think it's a pretty neat feature; however, I think

is a bit of a bold move by Google who are--

- Why do you think it's a bold move?

First of all if you've not watched Shannon's previous

news things, so this is when you're browsing the Internet

it's about Google remarketing.

So when you go on a website, you might go on

the EKM website, then as you browse the Internet

you keep seeing adverts for EKM

because it's basically remarketing at ya.

Now, that's really good as an advertiser, but as an end-user

it can get to the point about I'm fed up with seeing these

adverts now.

They're tracking me round, especially if it's a website

that you maybe don't want tracking you around the Internet.

- Yeah (laughs).

- It's a bit annoying everywhere you go,

seeing these adverts.

I remember I once did it years ago for my friend, Paul's,

stag do, we dressed him up as a woman on the stag do.

- Okay, I can see where this is going.

- We went to Iceland and dressed up as a woman.

So obviously so I bought some fake breasts, a dress,

and a wig, and then for months afterwards it was

marketing at me, cross dressing stuff.

- We're gonna have to get a photo of that up.

- Yeah, yeah, but that was one of those things where

in an ideal world I would have like to have muted

those adverts because I bought those products,

I'd moved on.

- Yeah, sure.

- I wasn't planning on coming back to that.

- And the reason I say bold, or not bold, but a bit of

a strange way, because obviously Google they make money

from advertising, that's invariably what they do.

- Yeah.

- And essentially what they're doing is allowing people

to turn off those ads, but when you look into it

a little bit more, I guess it's a smart move really

because advertising things to people who that no longer

want to see that thing is no good for the business

that's advertising because they're getting--

- Well, no, it's a waste. - Yeah it's a total waste.

- That is our post, it's a waste.

That we don't want to see those adverts anymore

and it can get annoying.

It's like if you're in the market for a car.

If Google knows you're in the market for a car,

because of sites you've been looking at.

Yeah, it's great to market a car, but once you've bought

that car, you want to be able to mute those adverts.

- Yeah.

- So it's wasted advert...

If someone wants to mute your advert, you continuing

to market at them is wasting advertising money to a

certain extent.

- And it saves you money as well because of upkeep.

One neat thing with this as well if you mute it,

let's just say on mobile, it'll mute it across everything.

So your tablet devices, your desktop and that sort of thing

as well.

So once you do it once on one device, I guess it's blanket

across your Google accounts.

- I mean as a advertiser remarketing is probably the most

cost effective way of reaching your customers.

- Yeah certainly it is.

- I adamantly say that.

Anyone watching this now, if you do have an online business

and you are not using Facebook remarketing or Google

remarketing.

- You should be.

- You should be doing because it is so cost effective

and the way it works from an advertiser's prospective

is you basically put a little bit of tracking code on

your website.

- And you can see the result.

- Yeah, and then when anyone visits your website,

it can then remarket at them.

And you can even segment that to I want to remarket

this to people who've already bought for me,

this to something else.

So it might be that if you know they've bought

the red version of a product, you might advertise

the blue version of a product.

- Yeah.

- As a advertiser, it is honestly it's so important

you're doing this.

- And from a merchant's point of view as well,

it's good because if the consumer doesn't want to see that

particular product and they mute that particular product

you then just fill it with something that potentially

they might want.

- Yeah, exactly.

Maybe algorithm's got it wrong.

- Exactly.

- Exactly.

- Now this is, they are looking at rolling this out across

YouTube and more in the display network as well.

One thing for me that I really, really wish.

Well it really annoys me, and it would be interesting to

get comments on this and your thoughts as well.

I don't know if you've noticed if you're scrolling through

maybe a news website or something like that,

there's a video half-way down for an advert,

it'll start playing that.

That really winds me up, and sometimes you can't skip it

until it says 29, 28, 27.

- Oh yeah, them sort of our adverts yeah.

The pre-roll stuff.

- Yeah, I think that's something they need to address

as well.

- The fundamental problem though with things like that

is people don't like watching adverts anymore.

We've got accustomed to things like Sky Plus

and things like that in our living rooms.

- Yeah.

- Nobody watches television adverts anymore.

So the one place where they can force you to watch

is that on-demand stuff.

If you try to watch anything on Channel Five on-demand,

they have these pre-roll adverts and it's the same on there,

but they should give you the ability to skip it.

Because it's actually wasting everyone's time.

- It is.

Of course, it is, absolutely.

- You're forced to watch or see an advert that you are not

interested in is a waste of the advertiser's time

and money and your time, and it frustrates ya.

- Yeah, it does.

Certainly I would find it quite handy 'cause I don't mind,

I'm one of those people, apart from the videos,

I don't mind being marketed to as long as it's relevant.

As long as it's relevant I have no issue with it.

- If it's relevant everyone's happy to be marketed to.

If you genuinely are in the market for like a dog

or something, and you're seeing adverts for dogs,

you want to see adverts.

And that's when marketing and advertising gets it

perfectly right when you're actually marketing a product

to someone who wants your product.

That's when it's amazing.

- Yeah, it is.

- You only get annoyed when it's something wrong.

- Yeah, you're right.

It's rubbish to you.

- You want to be marketed at it.

If I'm in the market for a new car, I want to see adverts

for cars and I will engage with it and interact with it,

but if I'm not in the market for a car, I don't want

to see that, and that's when it annoys ya.

- Yeah, of course.

Obviously Instagram have released as well their

shopping ads on Instagram.

So it will be interesting to see if they follow suit

because Facebook or Instagram haven't done anything

like that yet.

So you can't mute ads there.

- But as usual what do you think?

- Yeah, what do you think?

Comments below.

- Let us know in the comments below somewhere below us

and let us know what you think.

- Yeah which brings us on to topic two.

And interesting this, researching this, and I know

it's something internal at EKM that we're looking to do

to sort of refine the whole experience, but many retailers

fail to communicate with their customers post-sale.

And we're just talking about remarketing so I guess

it leads us nicely onto this little bit.

A recent study does so that many people miss that

second sale, that up sale opportunity,

that remarketing opportunity just because they're not

communicating with the customers post the sale.

They put all this effort into getting them to the front door

and then getting them through the front door and

ordering that particular products.

- Yeah, and then they forget.

- And afterwards there's nothing.

I guess there's so much you can be doing, sort of post-sale,

whether it be related products, remarketing.

- But it's like business studies 101 though.

I think it's very easy to forgot

the fundamentals of business especially when you're doing

online and stuff and you get mesmerized with Google

and Facebook and building these fancy whizz-bang websites.

You forget the fundamentals and the easy way to ever to

make a sale is to sell an existing product to an existing

customer.

- Exactly.

- That's like the easy thing to ever do.

And then it gets progressively harder if you're selling

an existing product to a new customer.

Or a new product to a new customer is obviously

the hardest one.

- So other things as well, it's not just the selling.

And this is, certainly with companies like ours,

is the brand loyalty.

And even just putting something out that might be

an information piece with a white label on.

Move away from clothes or other products like

say you sell a laptop.

Other things that can go with that laptop whether it be

antivirus software or whatever you know

and that sort of thing.

- But you want to build that brand advocacy,

that brand loyalty.

- Exactly.

- And so the only way, if you've got--

I mean fair enough if you only have one product that

you sell and when it's sold, it's sold, that's it.

I don't think many companies do.

- No.

- Most companies have a set of products or service

and they want to keep that brand advocacy going because

the customers love everything that they're doing.

And the only way to do that is to keep communicating

with them.

- Exactly.

- Keep them in that ecosystem.

- Whether that be video content.

We know how powerful video content is.

Blogs and that sort of thing.

It's just so vitally important.

I read this recent study sort of, so as I said I don't have

any stats unfortunately, I did struggle finding the recent

study, but it's vitally important that you remarketing.

- It's common sense.

- It's common sense.

- It's common sense.

I mean you see so many times where these companies

that are really successful what they actually do is,

you don't just buy the product or the service,

you buy into a community.

You buy into a lifestyle, don't ya?

You only have to look at Apple and things like that,

but you're buying into a lifestyle.

You're buying into a brand then because they permanently

remarketing at ya.

You buy into it.

How can you buy into it if they're not sending you anything?

- Exactly.

It's just vitally important.

And you should have a schedule of what you're gonna send

when somebody buys something.

Obviously you've got your regular post-sale email.

So, thanks for your order.

Your item's been dispatched.

It will be with you in so many days or it might be

out of stock, or something like that.

That's a basic schedule you should have,

but you should have a bit of a marketing schedule

sort of four weeks after the initial sale,

and then six weeks to make them come back.

- And it's the ecosystem as well that you can build

by doing this.

So what we always say to everyone is yes, you should have

an online shop.

Of course we're gonna say that we're EKM.

But, of course, you should be on other marketplaces.

You should be on Ebay, you should be on Amazon, Etsy,

all of them.

But by having this communication strategy,

this is where people go wrong, they think well I don't need

my own website, I don't need my own online shop because

I sell on Ebay.

But it's like, yeah, but by again messaging these customers

that have bought from ya and getting them to buy into you

as a brand, you can then funnel those sales through

your website.

- Absolutely.

- And save the Ebay fees and things like that.

- Exactly.

- But you building a bit of an ecosystem.

So, again, I don't want to keep using Apple as an example,

but you can buy an Apple product at Dicksons, PC World,

or whatever, Apple, you can buy it from all different places

but you're still buying into that main thing.

And you might then buy from one retailer, or one marketplace

and then go by the other products from direct.

That what it's about.

- One great thing as well.

I think Ebay and PayPal fees now equate to I think it's

11 percent of the sale value, don't quote me on

those figures, I'll double check.

I think it's about that.

But you think about it, somebody buys a product off Ebay.

You are paying those fees.

Ebay's great, it's a ready-made marketplace,

but to funnel traffic through your own website,

why not in a post-sale email send them a five percent off

voucher or something like that if you come and buy from

the website.

Think about things like that and I would also say

make sure you personalize that content as well.

- 100 percent.

- You have to personalize that content.

- I was talking to a customer the other day

and they were worried about this fact that when

they send emails it comes from them and the wife.

I don't know if it's...

That's exactly what you should be doing.

- Yeah, that's right yeah.

- People want the personal brand.

The world is changed.

I think I've say this before on other things,

but it used to be back in the day you'd have companies

like say Coca-Cola, where Coca-Cola was the product,

it was the brand, it was everything.

And even now it's all you ever know about Coca-Cola.

You just know it's Coca-Cola, you don't know nothing else

about them.

- No.

- Then the next evolution was in McDonald's where you knew

about the company and you knew about the products,

Big Mac, Chicken Nuggets, da da da.

And then next evolution that we're in now is this idea like

keeping back to Apple, but let's use Facebook as example,

where you've got Mark Zuckerberg the guy that runs it,

then you've got the company Facebook, and then you've got

all the products that they run like Facebook, Instagram,

WhatsApp, and you buy into the full circle of it.

If you dislike Steve Jobs or Bill Gates

you probably wouldn't use their products and services.

- Yeah, no.

- And that's the way it is with small business now.

The actual way that you can separate yourself more so

than ever from these big multi-

Yeah, everyone's up against Amazon.

- Yeah they are.

- If you're in the online retail, you're up against Amazon.

The way that you can distinguish yourself is

use your one thing that you can do better than anyone else

which is be yourself.

- Yeah.

- No one can be you, better than you can be you.

- People buy from people.

- Yeah, they do.

- People buy from people.

- They really do.

And people don't play on that.

They try to be a generic me too business.

Let's look exactly like all the big ones look faceless,

and you're missing out on the thing that makes you unique.

- Yeah, yeah.

- No one could be you better than you can be you.

- Very true, very true.

- People may try.

- Yeah, people may try which again that leads us nicely into

the next point.

- What you think about that one.

- Give us some tips.

If you're selling online and if you're watching this,

we assume you are.

Hopefully you're an EKM customer and even if you're not,

put some tips and tricks in the comments below.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Get a conversation going 'cause we'll read the comments

and the comments we got on the last one were really, really

good.

So if you can put some comments below, tips and tricks

for the community to look at, that would be awesome.

That'll be really cool.

- Yeah, yeah.

Let us know.

- And maybe we'll mention some of them in the next

Talking Shop.

- Who knows, in about six months' time.

- Hopefully not six months' time (laughs).

- Yeah.

- Which leads us onto our next topic.

So JD.com, not be confused with JD Sports.

- That's what I thought it was when I first heard the

JD.com, that's what I thought it was.

- Plainly speaking JD.com are

the Amazon of sort-of the Eastern part of the world.

They've pledged to sort of move into the UK.

I think it's by 2019 they're hoping to be here.

Direct challenge to Amazon.

That's going to be interesting.

- It needs one, it needs one.

- It does need one.

- I mean competitors are always a good thing.

- They are.

We were having this conversation earlier on when we were

going through some of the notes for this.

And on the chat with one of the guys in the office

and Ebay and Amazon, are they direct competitor?

They're a marketplace, but are they a direct competitor?

- Well it's funny because Ebay used to be, and I don't know

if they've lost the way and maybe should have separated

at some point, but Ebay used to be known for the auctions.

- Yeah, the auction site.

- The auction stuff.

- But you can just buy it now, can't ya.

- Well, yeah.

Everyone knew Ebay as the auction place.

That's where you go and buy second-hand stuff, auctiony type

stuff, and at that it did a really good job.

They then saw Amazon becoming this massive retailer where

everybody buys everything from them and thought we want

a piece of that, and I think Ebay have actually

they've muddied the waters a little bit because

you don't really know what Ebay is these days.

- No, you're right.

I never thought of it like that.

Because it is a marketplace, but I agree with you.

Everyone knows what Amazon is.

Amazon is Amazon.

I guess Amazon now is if you need to buy something,

like a generic thing, you look on Amazon.

I don't know I mean I do.

- Yeah, oh yeah.

- Whereas you're not looking at Ebay.

So if I wanted to buy--

- Depends what you're buying.

If you're buying something cheap.

- Yeah, I suppose, yeah.

- If I were buying say like a tripod for a camera

or something you know is coming potentially from

where JD comes from, or something from China.

I would probably go onto Ebay because I know it'll be

cheaper than probably Amazon.

- Because of? Right, okay, that's interesting.

But is it invariably or is it always cheaper?

- I don't know, but I suppose this why they've tried to

reposition because they probably positioned as a lower end

marketplace.

The auction business is a good business.

- It is, yeah it is.

- And they're muddying it by I don't know if they're being

true to what they are.

I don't know, to be they're better separating it.

- Yeah, right, interesting.

So JD.com, the Chinese, we'll call them the Chinese Amazon,

are investing one billion to move into the EU market

and that sends a clear signal to me.

That there's growth there in the EU ecommerce market.

If these guys are willing to sort of invest one billion

dollars I think it is, one billion dollars into the market

it's big money.

That's big money and it just highlights that if you're not

already selling online, thinking of selling online,

you're not quite sure if there's space in the marketplace

for you and your product.

There is.

Because if these guys are willing to invest the money.

- It's tiny though.

Ecommerce even now is a tiny percentage of the overall

commerce.

It's only going to get bigger and bigger and bigger

and bigger.

And probably actually a billion dollars there is probably

a tiny little investing compared to what could be.

- What could be.

Yeah.

And the other interesting thing as well is looking to

move into the EU, the first place to launch is France.

Now I was thinking why France?

Because obviously you've got the UK which would be the most

I would think natural place to go if you relaunch a product

in Europe.

- Yeah well it's normally UK and then Germany.

They're the biggest two in Europe.

- UK and Germany.

The only thing I could think of France, and again,

I'm speculating at this point.

I don't know, this is my own opinion and it will be

interesting to see what you say as well,

but don't know if you guys know, I used to work in logistics

and Charles De Gaulle Airport in France is sort of the

main European hub for all freight coming into Europe

which makes me wonder is that why they decided to launch

in France first.

- Could it be Brexit as well?

- Could it be Brexit?

But then following the launch in France, they're opening

head office in London and a research center in Cambridge

which will be interesting, and then they're looking to

move into Germany.

One other thing they said they're gonna do as well is,

which is great news for our UK exporters, is a pledge

to sell two billion pounds worth of export into

the Chinese market.

- To me that's more interesting actually than them coming

over here.

- Exactly.

- Because them, yeah, it's great for Amazon to have

a bit of a competitor.

- But it's the opportunity to--

- And an extra marketplace for people's online shops to

push their products onto.

It's this push now that we're seeing in the industry that

China and that part of the market actually wants UK and

English products.

- Yeah, that's right.

- They want our products whereas we've always traditionally

thought of it as well everyone goes and sources the products

from them and sells them into Europe.

They want these products now.

- Yeah they do.

And it'll be interesting to see.

So as you guys know, and a lot of you guys probably

do it yourself, is a lot of people buy more cost effective

electronics products in China and then import them into

the UK.

You just said things like tripods, you go to Amazon and Ebay

and you buy them because they're generally that little bit

more cost effective.

What this is essentially is gonna do is enable

the Chinese guys to sell directly to the UK market.

So I think that might shape things up a little bit.

It might be interesting to see how that goes.

I mean it's a gamble.

I think it's a gamble taking on Amazon.

We'll see how it pans out I guess.

Comments below.

Let us know what you think.

- Yeah, what you think.

- And that sort of thing.

Smart phones and voice assistance driving ecommerce growth.

Interesting one.

So studies show 40 percent of millennials are using

voice assistance and it's set to be the next big device

to influence buying habits and things like that.

Now I know you and I have discussed this before.

And I think a lot of people in general at EKM have discussed

this to sort of see how it's gonna go.

So if you asked to buy a bar of soap, is it gonna go to

the highest bidder type of thing?

How is that gonna work?

- Well this is it.

Say you're like Amazon Alexa and stuff.

It's just gonna just...

You tell it to buy something, it will do it.

I mean we've got one in here, so if I was like--

- Try it.

- Alexa?

Buy some soap.

- [Alexa] The top search result for soap is

Aromas Artisanales De Antigua Floral Orange Blossom

soap 200 grams.

It's three pounds and 95 pence total including tax.

Would you like to buy it?

- No.

- [Alexa] I also found Dettol bath soap.

- She's actually trying to up sell us something else.

- Yeah.

- [Alexa] It's 4 pounds and 14 pence total including tax.

Would you like to buy it?

- No.

- [Alex] That's all I could find for soap right now.

- So to do a demonstration I could have bought something.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- But I don't really want to buy some soap.

But the question is is when Alexa then recommended

those soaps, what's decided which ones she's recommended?

Is it based on my buying habits?

- That's what, yeah.

- I don't think I've ever bought any soap on Amazon.

Or is it based on who's paying the most money to be there?

Is it the most profitable products for Amazon?

What is it?

- Well, that's a good point actually.

A would it be the most profitable product for Amazon?

- In the business sense it would.

- So Google Home for example, I use Google Home.

I know you use Alexa and I use the Google Home device.

You can't actually buy anything off the Google Home device

yet.

- You can't buy anything?

- No, which is very, very--

- Oh, because they don't have their own ecom channel line.

- Because they don't have their own ecom channel.

So I'm interested to see how that pans out.

I don't yet know if they're gonna partner with anybody or

anything like that.

- You would hope that Google would link in with

Google Shopping and then any retailers could use it.

Because that is always the funny thing, and I know it's like

jumping back a little bit on the JD thing,

but the funny thing with Amazon and why Amazon are such

a concern for people is they're a retailer themselves.

- Yeah.

- But that's the problem. (coughs)

You know what I mean?

You start selling something on Amazon's marketplace.

You can use it for soap shops, selling soap.

Amazon at any point can look at that and say

we're going to start selling soap.

- That's interesting.

Sorry I'm just reading an article here,

just looking through.

This article here on Business Insider is saying,

just what we're talking about.

You might think Alexa when you ask it to buy something

it would go to Amazon branded products by default.

That's not the case.

It figures out, using a similar algorithm to one Amazon

using on its website when you search for a product.

- Yeah the product relevant.

- So the most relevant thing I guess.

Do you think it's gonna get to a stage where Amazon

are gonna go okay we'll sell to the highest bidder?

Is that gonna be the next sort of advertising thing or?

- Like I said, the Amazon's a funny one because they sell

their own stuff.

And I've used it a few times I needed to buy things.

Very specific things, I've genuinely used it,

and I think a lot of people have now.

So that is happening now.

Now the more exciting one for most retailers is probably

the Google side of it.

- Yeah.

- Where they could be on there and I think yeah,

it's going to go the same as paid advertising.

- It would have to be wouldn't it?

- It's pay to play these days.

I say it time and time and time again.

These days of organic SEO and all this sort of stuff,

yes it's important, but you can't run your business

based on it anymore.

- No.

- Because, again, if it does go to all voice and I think

that is the way it's gonna go.

- I think it is gonna go that way.

- You're gonna have to pay to make sure you're that one.

So if you are selling dog toys, you want to make sure

if someone's asking for I want a dog toy suitable for

a boxer, that you are there.

And you are gonna have to pay for that.

- Yeah, I guess so.

- You're gonna have to pay for it.

You're gonna have to invest in marketing and this is just

another channel in the same way that you've got

Google, you've got Bing, you've got Amazon, you've got Ebay.

- It's going to get more and more popular though, isn't it?

I think, you know, and Forbes have said.

So have you, I'm assuming you've used Alexa to buy things

before, of course.

- Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

- As I said I use the Google devices for

no particular reason, they were just the ones that I decided

to buy, and to be honest I was quite disappointed when

you couldn't buy anything from it.

You can add things to a shopping list obviously.

- You can do that with that.

- You can do that with that, but you can't actually

buy things.

I think I was going to tell you a funny story earlier on

with regards to the Google Home device.

So me and my partner Sadie.

I'm very obviously tech savvy working EKM, I'm a tech lover,

Sadie not so tech loverish, even to the point whereas

every time she wants a private conversation in the house

she will throw a tea towel over the Google Home device

thinking he's recording.

- Because Big Brother's watching?

- Because Big Brother's watching. (laughs)

obviously I don't think that.

You don't know do you, but it's an interesting one.

So there's no point.

I don't think there's any chance of her using it

any time soon.

But certainly I will as soon as it's ready

and I'm looking forward to sort of seeing how that pans out.

Let us know what you guys think in the comments below.

It would be great to get every EKM merchant on Google Home

when somebody wants to buy something, but I think that--

- I think it's coming. - But I think that will come.

- I think it will be coming.

I think it will be coming.

- Cool.

- Cool stuff.

So if you've enjoyed watching this episode again

keep saying, but please comment below, like and share

as well if you think there's anyone who might like to

watch this, please do share it with them.

We really do appreciate it and you can subscribe,

if it's on YouTube, you can like and share,

- Yeah, make sure you like.

- Whatever the network is, there's a button for it

somewhere.

- Feel free to leave anything you would like Antony or I

to talk about in the comments below.

These are things, as I've said, that we've covered in

the ecommerce News over the last two to three weeks.

If there is anything specific that you would like us

to discuss, leave it in the comments and we certainly

will do.

Thanks very much for watching this one.

- Good bye.

- See you next time.

Bye-bye.

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Master Baggins Saw His Chance & He Took It | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Movie CLIP HD - Duration: 5:00.

Wait!

My precious. Wait!

Gollum, gollum!

Quick, quick!

This way.

Come on. Come on, come on. Quickly.

Right, good!

Baggins!

Thief!

Curse it and crush it! We hates it forever!

Five, six, seven, eight.

Bifur. Bofur. That's 10.

Fili, Kili! That's 12.

And Bombur. That makes 13.

Where's Bilbo?

Where is our Hobbit?

Where is our Hobbit?

Curse that Half ling!

Now he's lost?

I thought he was with Dori!

Don't blame me!

Where did you last see him?

I think I saw him...

...slip away...

...when they first collared us.

And what happened, exactly?

- Tell me! - I'll tell you what happened.

Master Baggins saw his chance...

...and he took it.

He has thought of nothing but his soft bed and his warm hearth...

...since first he stepped out of his door.

We will not be seeing our Hobbit again.

He is long gone.

No.

He isn't.

Bilbo Baggins.

I have never been so glad...

...to see anyone in my life.

Bilbo.

We'd given you up.

How on earth did you get past the Goblins?

How, indeed.

Well, what does it matter? He's back.

It matters.

I want to know.

Why did you come back?

Look, I know you doubt me. I know you always have.

And you're right. I often think of Bag-end.

I miss my books.

And my armchair and my garden.

See, that's where I belong.

That's home.

And that's why I came back. Because...

...you don't have one. A home.

It was taken from you.

But I will help you take it back if I can.

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Sync Tab Groups - Browser extension for managing lots of tab - Duration: 5:39.

Have you already been lost in your window with many tabs ?

Looking for the good one by clicking on each one after the other one and wasting time.

And finally, you ended on a tab you use regularly but totally not related to the previous ones...

Sync Tab Groups help you to organize your session, keep your browsing flow fast and clean.

You can sort your groups depending on a topic: study something, buy something, a specific project and so on...

By clicking on the "Chevron", you can see all the tabs in the specific group.

Once in a group, you access all the tabs related to it.

All the tabs in the opened group are in the window, and the group title is visible in the window title (Firefox Only)

While the other groups, closed, are slightly waiting you open them again later!

Even the groups can grow quickly, but with Sync Tab Groups you can search among the tabs: just write what you want, and next activate it by clicking on it.

It is also possible to open the menu with `Ctrl+Shift+Space`. Next search your tabs, and select the one you want with the `Arrow Keys` and press `Enter`.

See the Shortcuts Preferences for discovering more shortcuts.

But what happens if your group is not opened... Sync Tab Groups opens it.

Changing from one group to another one is really simple, just a click on the group in the interface.

Opened tabs are not activated and not loaded until you go on it so that it is faster and lighter!

As you can see, we changed the group.

Just opened groups contain all the tabs left when closed, while the closed ones keep their states when opened.

When you click directly on a tab, the group will open with this tab activated.

Opening a group by default replace the previous one...

Sometimes you might want to keep a group while just using another one.

In this case, just open the group in a new window [Click on the "Window" icon or `Mouse Middle` click on a group/tab]

The focused group in the current window is the darker one, light blue groups are the ones opened in other windows.

If you click on an opened group, you get the focus on the window, logic!

Or click directly on a tab in an opened group to focus this tab in the window.

You can close a group (and the related window) by clicking on the cross button.

As this operation is critical, the group enters in the deleting mode, it is really deleted only a few seconds after.

You can force the deletion by clicking on the "Cross" again, else you can undo it by clicking on the "Round Arrow".

If the group is in the focused window, the tabs are closed (and saved) and the window stays open with only a new tab in it.

Of course, you can search among your groups by typing `g/your search`.

Again, you can use the `Arrow Keys`, the selected group/tab is in bold.

The shorcut for opening a tab/group in a new window is `Shift+Enter`.

Well, you can still use the normal cross for closing a window with a group.

The group is closed and of course, saved. :)

Now, we will create a group.

You can click on the button "Create New Group"...

... enter a title and select the "Check" icon (or press `Enter`)

The group is created with one New Tab inside.

For managing your tabs and groups, you can either use this menu...

Or you can use the group manager, it has 3 advantages:

1. It is bigger and permanent

2. A click on a group/tab doesn't switch to it

3. You can have 2 independent columns

It is time to fill the new group with tabs.

Drag & Drop a tab on a group for putting it at the end (the targeted group is colored in light blue).

As there is another tab in the group we can remove the "New Tab".

Click on the cross on the tab.

You can also move a tab directly from the tab bar (Firefox Only).

It works on tabs both in groups or in ungrouped windows!

Right-click on the targeted tab and select the desired group.

Finally, a last method is available...

... in the group interface, you can open an action menu for each tab ("Double Arrows" icon).

Next, you find again a move menu where you can choose the wanted group.

To give a specific position to a tab in any groups, you can Drag and Drop it on a tab directly.

A blue line shows you if the tab will be put before or after the tab below the cursor.

Still, with tab, you can drop it on the "Create New Group" button.

It will create a new group with this tab inside.

A group can be removed if you click on the "Bin" icon.

A group removed is also closed if it was opened.

For security reasons, a group is not removed immediately but after a timeout of a few seconds.

Thus, you have still time to Undo the action by clicking on the "Round Arrow" icon...

...or, if you don't want to wait, to click on the "Bin" icon again to remove it directly.

Not only tabs, groups can also be moved.

(Only if groups sorting type is set to "Custom" in the Preferences...

...Other sorting types are available: Alphabetical, Last Accessed...)

Again, the blue line shows you where the group will be put.

A right-click on the Sync Tab Groups icon opened a menu with useful shortcuts.

If you want to open temporally a tab without opening the group, you can clone it in your current window, let's see...

The cloning tab doesn't interfere with the one from the original group, thus you can check what you want, continue your browsing and close it without carrying about losing the original one.

Don't forget to check the preferences as you can custom the behaviors of your groups and the interface.

The Preferences are filled with helpers to give you information about the different behaviors and actions.

Preferences come in handy to discover new features like Sorting, Shortcuts, Back up...

Finally, a guide is available on the website. It contains useful information to master the full potential of Sync Tab Groups.

Now, with Sync Tab Groups, browsing is going to be a pleasure every day!

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Oppo A83 Full Review - The budget iPhone X - Duration: 5:47.

OPO has become a household name in the indian smartphone market with a lot of

great budget options to offer today we talk about one such device hey this is Sreehari

from mr. phone and this is our full review of the Oppo a83 before jumping

into the video if you haven't subscribed to our channel yet please do that and

also click that Bell I can write next to it so that you get notified for all the

cool tech videos that we put out the Oppo a 83 is actually a very well built

phone it has really an ergonomic curves but other bones of this price range are

not exactly caring much about design it's also being pretty well and the

weight makes it feel very premium we've got the black unit and it really looks

tell thing in this the buttons are also fairly well bend with the power button

on the right - warning rockers on the left now on the bottom you have a micro

USB port and all with a single speakers and on the top since a headphone jack

the display on the Oppo a degree looks like a really high quality panel the

color is also look very good the glass on top is not the smoothest to use I

remove the protective layer on day one but it did not with the smoothness the

tall aspect ratio of eating banner lets you view movies in ultra wide with less

you leave also gives you the option to pinch out to stretch the video to

anything by 9 aspect ratio other than that the display is really good and I

have no complaints here going on to the software although there are a lot of

Android skins that try to look like iOS I think Oppo wins that battle I have

used Chinese us before like emotion UI mi you and a lot of others but this one

was truly unusable for me from the home screen which had apps all over it to the

swipe up from the bottom which brings up the Action Center all exactly mimic iOS

even the notifications are dismissed in an iOS way and not the Android way even

a task as simple as changing the wallpaper was buried in the settings and

it was very annoying for someone mu is never used iOS before now if

you're not so much of an ardent Android fan then you might just enjoy using it

icons are pretty colorful and funky loop in the settings also has a lot of cool

features like a special security tab for a lot of permissions app blocks payment

a protections floating windows whatever you ask

you also get gesture controls and a lot of options in that where you can

customize the gestures you also have a gaming do not disturb mode for those

uninterrupted gaming hours you also get a clone app it supports

apps like whatsapp light and bbm only one of it is widely used in India let's

hope that they bring a support for Facebook and Instagram very soon and in

the back seats are very perfectly placed fingerprint scanner oh I'm sorry

and at the front sense of very comfortably placed fingerprint scanner

wait what the operator 3 does not have a

fingerprint scanner I think they succeeded in their attempt to make an

iPhone 10 kilo and because just like the iPhone 10 the you go 83 does not have a

fingerprint scanner it has face unlock which works quite well it's not accurate

all the time and it fails to unlock and a lot of moments but that's all you get

you don't get a favorite now now let's talk about the performance of your

poetry the AAA degree has a mediatek helio b23 chip said this is an octopus

himself dropped in 2.3 gigahertz having a cortex a53 for now what all this

gibberish translates to is smooth day-to-day performance now you won't be

able to play heavy games on this thing but everyday performance is not going to

be a problem the ant reduce code for all those who want to know is 85,000 which

is pretty high it's right amount the order nine lights here in 659

now everyday use is supposed to be smooth enough and it is at some places

but it's still a mixed bag so apps open very quickly due to the relatively high

clock speed but everyday performance isn't as smooth and there is a bit of

lag when you what this basically means is that if you

are a heavy gamer then please don't buy the oboe III it's not meant to play a

lot of games but yes everyday life will be pretty smooth with this thing talking

about the camera the Oppo 83 has a single 13 megapixel sensor at the back

and an 8 megapixel sensor on the front the camera performance is really good

and it takes great looking daylight shots with a good amount of detail and

colors the nine shots to look very plausible you can learn more about the

camera performance in a camera comparison with the on a 9 light which

is linked up here in general the over 83 shots have a lot of contrast and colors

look very natural selfies also are really good looking and you do get a

background blur mode all the results are not very desirable the layout of the

camera app is again many iPhone II it has time-lapse auto mode of duty mode

for both front and back and an expert mode for the pro photographer on you at

the end we come to the battery of the oh boy d3 which is an average 3180 and the

excellent sights the battery life is actually quite good

not once has it died on me but yes charging is a bit slow I watched a few

movies on this thing and it handles them quite well by conserving a lot of

battery long hours of gaming obviously throttles the phone a bit and uses

battery a lot but I guess that's normal and of course espares

so in a nutshell you get a great design a good-looking phone a gorgeous display

up front and average performance a mixed bag of UI some of you might like it some

of you might not and a very good battery life that's it for this one let me know

what you thought of this review in the comment section down below if you don't

want to buy an oppo a degree you'll find the links for that in the description

thank you so much for watching this is SreeHari from Mr. phone

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Pronunciation: /I/ vs /i:/ (STUDENTS) - Duration: 4:18.

Hey man! What's up? What are you up to?

I'm just having a cup of tea

Oh Ana, you sound so natural with your British accent!

You too, with your American accent!

Do we need to sound like a native speaker to have good pronunciation?

In other words, do we have to imitate a British or an American person to have a good English?

Let me ask another question

When a foreigner comes to Brazil and speaks Portuguese with an accent

Isn't it nice they are at least trying trying to speak Portuguese?

The same happens when we talk to an English-speaking person.

They are just happy they found someone who speaks their language.

They are not gonna judge our accent

At the same time, thought, when we make mistakes in pronunciation we might be misunderstood

Or even get into trouble

Ana, look at that b****

Wow, Cris, that woman has never done anything to you. Why are you calling her a b****?

I'm just talking about the BEACH.

Beach! Not b****!

Ai!

Pretty bad, girl…

See what we mean?

So that is what we're gonna work on today:

The difference between /I/ and /i:/.

So let's practice.

Repeat after me.

/i:/

When you say this sound, you smile.

/i:/

sheep

peak

deep

sleep

leave

seat

feet

heat

steal

beat

cheap

sheet

beach

Now let's practice the /I/ sound.

Don't smile for this sound.

Repeat

/I/

/I/

ship

pick

dip

slip

live

sit

fit

hit

still

bit

chip

shit

bitch

Now let's compare the two sounds:

/i:/ - /I/

sheep - ship

peak - pick

deep - dip

sleep - slip

leave - live

seat - sit

feet - fit

heat - hit

steal - still

beat - bit

cheap - chip

sheet - shit

beach - bitch

Each pair of words has different meanings.

So be careful, because if you make a mistake in pronunciation you can be misunderstood.

If you wanna use these cards, they are available in the description down below.

So if you like our video, please give a like.

Don't forget to subscribe to our channel down below.

And share with your friends.

And follow us on social media (description)

Goodbye!

See you next week!