Following St George shareholders approval last 13 November to merge with Westpac, management of St George has started sending letters to its customers to say that the bank will continue with its current number of branches even if a Westpac and St George branch are side by side.

The letter also states that St George customers will not be levied an ATM fee should they use Westpac’s ATMs, and vice versa.

That’s nice.

But what the letter of course did not mention is that this arrangement is part of the conditions on which Treasurer Wayne Swan on behalf of the Commonwealth approved last 23 October the acquisition of St George by Westpac.

In fact, it is not only branches that had been mandated to be maintained in their existing numbers but remain but ATMs as well.

We understand of course that the conditions which apply for three years from approval date have been adopted to prevent the current economic crisis getting any worse.

From a strictly business viewpoint however, allowing the existing retail branches configuration network of the combined bank does not make sense.

If the intention of the merger is to strike “the right balance between enhancing the competitiveness and the strength of our banking system” as Treasurer Swan said, then I doubt very much if the merger would produce the desired effect.

Not that I like to see people in retail branches losing their job.

But over time, the merged entity would feel the burden of maintaining redundant branch network.

There may be cost savings from redundancy in back office operations and technology-based infrastructure, but all in all, the merged unit may not be able to produce the level of efficiency which in the first place is a primary reason in any merger scenario.

I would not be surprised if Westpac and St George will return to the negotiating table, this time with Commonwealth Treasury, and start looking at the economics of the merger.

In 2007, 11.6 million Australians are covered by superannuation, reports the Aust Bureau of Statistics. The government statistician also reports that of the 3.9 million people aged 45 or over who were employed when surveyed in 2007, 3.3 million said they intended to retired mostly over the next 20 years.

An Australian small technology company will soon pilot a battery-powered supercard which promises to stop up to $1 billion a year in credit card frauds, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today.

The company is EMUE Technologies.

According to the report written by Asher Moses, the new supercard has been developed over 2-1/2 years.

Trials for the supercard would begin in quarter one 2009 with an Australian bank in conjunction with one bank each in Britain, Israel, Switzerland and Italy.

There would be no major changes in merchants systems, according to the report.

The new technology replaces the static three-digit security code found on the back of a credit card which is given out to the merchant together with card number and expiry date.

There will still be a security code. But instead of having it printed on the card itself, the code will be generated by entering onto card’s keypad a PIN selected by the user when the card was created. The code according to the report is a one-time number generated by the card using the PIN and a unique seed which is also generated when the card is created. Both PIN and the unique seed are stored with the bank.

If the PIN and the unique seed are not embedded onto the card but are stored with the bank, how is the security code generated? And validated?

The supercard automatically connecting to the bank’s system each time the cardholder uses the card?

Wow! This is one super credit card that I don’t mind having one. According to the report the technology could also be used for logging into online banking and for verifying a bank’s identity during phone calls from the bank.

I am sure more coverage will be written about this supercard. It is one technology we will include in our watchlist.

This is where you can find the SMH story: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/11/12/1226318724466.html

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You have finished your manuscript. Congratulations! Wait; before you take the next step. Is your non-fiction book title a sizzler or a dud? Remember, your title may be 90% of the pulling power for your book. It would be worth your effort to create a sizzling title for your message. Researchers say you have 4 seconds to hook your potential buyer.

An excellent title is short. The top titles are benefit driven. Don’t forget to heat your title up with emotion. Use terms your audience can relate to. Use action words and verbs. Quantify change with ways and time limits. Use one or two word ideas to tell a story. Pledge change. Spark interest.

Instead of choosing to bore her readers with “How to Write an E-book” an author friend after brainstorming chose the title “Seven Secrets to Write Your E-book Like a Winner.” She quantified change, sparked interest and branded her title.

Here are 5 common ways anyone can use to get uncommon book titles:

1. Best Seller List
Use the Best Seller list to brainstorm ideas for your non-fiction book title. Start by looking at the Best Seller list at Barnes and Nobles or Amazon. When Jason Oman and Mike Litman wanted to title their book, they modeled a popular book called “Conversations with God” and came up with “Conversations with Millionaires.” Their book achieved #1 on Amazon. Now it’s your turn; go be inspired by your favorite best sellers list.

2. Tabloids
Have you stood in line at checkout, recently? I know I have. But did you read the tabloid cover pages or picked one up to browse while you waited? The compelling headline on each tabloid is designed to reach out and grab your attention. We all know the tabloid magazines don’t sell because they’re filled with wholesome content. They sell because they’ve mastered the titling aspect of their papers. Next time you’re reading the tabloid cover, examine the titles and begin to brainstorm titles for your non-fiction book.

3. Newspapers
Newspaper headlines are designed to capture your attention. Model and compare your book title with the parts of a newspaper headline. Is your book title short and to the point? Will it capture the attention of your potential reader? When you’re reading your next newspaper, take a look at all the headlines and sub headlines. Notice how the journalist captured your attention or not.

4. Magazines
Magazine cover page article titles are my favorite example of great titles at work. Like newspapers and tabloids they must have titles that entice and pull at your interest to sell magazines. For example, which would capture your attention quicker, “7 Easy Ways to Lose Inches Off Your Waist” or “How to Lose Weight In Your Waist?” Most people are drawn to the specific results in the first title. Go get your favorite magazine and notice the article titles that captivate your attention.

5. Memes
Department stores are great places to visit and brainstorm using memes. Memes are words or visual images that tell a story at a glance. For example, visit Sears and look at the brand names of their proprietary products. The short names of these products are concepts; that tell a story in an instant. At a glance you get it.

You understand the message. Examples include Diehard batteries, Weather-Beater paints and Craftsman tools. Each products name is a concept. Think about it, which product would you be attracted to “Diehard” or “Stop Slow”. Many successful books are based on concepts or memes. For example, “A Happy Pocket Full of Money” by David Cameron tells a story of happiness and money. From the title you know this book is going to be about getting more money in your pocket.

No matter how good your book is, if you don’t title it well you may never sell as many copies as your message deserves. Now go create a book title that stirs your book reader’s interest to read

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Can your visitors find what they are looking for on your web site with one or two clicks? Easy navigation is essential to keep visitors at your site and turn them into buyers. Follow these 13 steps to make your web pages easy to navigate and compel prospective buyers to explore your web site.

1. Provide plenty of links on your web site’s home page, giving an overview of your web site’s content and providing choices for your visitors.
2. Put clear navigation options at the top or left of your web pages, so visitors see them right away. Users may not scroll through lengthy pages. In addition, add a “Go Back to Top” button at the end of long pages.
3. Provide navigation links to your home page, main sections, order page, contact page, and product pages on every page. Potential buyers may not read your pages in the sequence you would like them to.
4. Make navigation simple and consistent throughout your web site. Keep the style and location of your navigation buttons and links the same on every page.
5. Use simple terms for your navigation buttons and links that your visitors will recognize such as “home,” “order,” and “contact.”
6. Use standard underlined hyperlinks for instant recognition. The standard color for non-visited links is blue. Use a different link color for visited links.
7. Include a sitemap (table of contents) if your site has more than 20 pages. Creating a sitemap may also improve your search engine ranking.
8. Put your URL and email address on every page.
9. Turn links into benefit-oriented headlines and include action verbs to motivate potential buyers to click on your links. For example, “Want to get your hands on these powerful copy enhancers? Enter your email address here and receive free Copy Doodles that are guaranteed to enhance your sales letters and boost response.
10. Describe your graphics and navigation buttons in ALT tags (alternative text describing your images for visitors who browse your site with the images turned off).
11. Avoid “entry” pages (home pages with animation) visitors have to click on to enter the site because they don’t indicate what your site is about.
12. Avoid frames, drop-down menus, and pop-up windows. They may confuse visitors.
13. Make sure all links work.

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When you decide to commence with your article writing activity, do you merely engage in writing what comes into your head or do you give it some thought as to the structure and overall composition of the article? Surely you have come across some articles that have merely been thrown together just to provide a mass of words, sentences and no actual coherent concept behind the writing itself. This coupled with the fact that article writing techniques, specifically for the internet, need to embrace the keyword rich content that is required to effectively attain the goals you are seeking to achieve with this process.

The use of article writing software has demonstrated that the actual end article is exactly that of a machine produced structure, which many people realize when they try to read it. Therefore the value of the article is missing from the context of the article itself, not providing any real benefit to anyone, but merely generating keywords to establish themselves within the higher ranks of a search engine. This in turn results in a negative influence on the human readers of your article that you have artificially generated and reduces the desired effect of that person clicking through to your website, and generating that much needed sale that you are trying to encourage.

There are various topics and tips that are available via the internet to assist you in composing correctly compiled and coherent articles that you can use for the purpose of establishing a qualified customer, who will in turn click through to your site. The majority of these tips and suggestions include that you utilise the first paragraph to provide a clear and concise argument or theory about what your article contains and this initial communication to your reader is perhaps your one and only chance of establishing a meaningful rapport with this potential customer. In short you want to provide a concise, attention grabbing narrative that will encourage the reader to read the entire article and then come and visit your website.

Your following points must then follow in a structured and organized manner, addressing each and every point you intend raising in your article. Structure should follow smoothly and your article writing style should encourage the reader to be able to easily read your content, without making it a belaboring task to work through the information.

With your article writing efforts, always keep in mind that the editors of the article directory will reject your article if you try to market within the article. Keep all marketing activities for your resource box, as well as your website. Your article must address a fill a need for the reader and your showroom, being your website, can do the selling and conversion of visitor to customer.

Chris Kennelly writes for Talkinmince.com, to find more resources go to http://www.talkinmince.com

Writing good articles is neither an impossible nor difficult task. It simply takes time to learn and become skilled at performing it well.

You’ll be surprised how easy it becomes and how much quicker you accomplish it with time. This article addresses issues for both the DYI article marketer and those looking to outsource the work.

The Do-It-Yourself Group:

I would recommend that all newbies to the world of internet marketing write their own articles at the onset of their business. I say this for two reasons:

* You learn early on what makes a good article; whether you write it or hire it done for you. You will do more harm for your business than good if you distribute sub-standard content across the Internet. It also defrays start-up expenses at a crucial time in most cases.

* You learn everything there is to know about your niche through the research you must do. You grow into a legitimate expert in your field and not just a parrot of what the product producer says.

Before you write the first word, go to the major players in the field and see HOW you must write to be accepted on their sites. Every directory or submissions service has their own set of rules for accepting content for publication.

I do an end-run around all of that and use a submissions service that submits articles to over 5,000 publishers with one click of the mouse. Articles are not distributed until they meet the criteria required by all publishers for acceptance. It makes life easier and it’s free to boot.

Here are some key factors to make permanent habits in your article writing program:

* People read about 20% slower online than in print. If you make it hard for them, expect to lose them early on. Write in bursts of 8-14 words per sentence in paragraphs of 3-5 sentences maximum. Use sub-titles often.

* Write article between 550-800 words long. Shorter will not be published on many directories and longer tends to bore readers.

* Internet surfers are scanners first, readers second. They arrive at your article page while following the “information scent” they sniffed out through their search criteria. They scan the page in an “F” pattern looking for hints of the scent that brought them there. If they don’t find it on the scan-zoom-they’re gone. You have about 5-15 seconds to catch their interest.

* Use your main keywords in your titles and sub-headings when possible. Use keywords at or near the beginning of the first sentence in paragraphs. This makes it easier to “sniff” them out in a quick scan for the “information scent.”

* The rules for numbers are different online than offline. It’s “ok” to use numerals instead of spelling our numbers less than 10. It enhances the scanability of the piece by offering a quick glimpse at the statistical content in the piece.

* Bulleted/numbered lists are your friend. Use them often. It is not recommended, however, that you mix them up – use either/or per piece you write.

* Avoid the passive voice. It drags your content out and slows the readers progress; often causing them to leave. You will usually find the passive voice around verbs that end in “ing.”

* For Pete’s sake, use a word processor to write on that uses a good spell/grammar checker. I run an article directory and will tell you firsthand: spelling and grammar count. Publishers are building a reputation with their sites and simply won’t publish the “also rans.”

The Outsourcing Crew:

Not too much to say here other than you get what you pay for in most cases. A motocross friend of mine told me something years ago I have
found useful in numerous situations: “If you have a $10.00 head, buy a $10.00 helmet.” If you want professionally written content that captures your target audience and sells the click on your link in the author’s box expect to pay more than $5-10.00 per article.

I hire and fire writers all day long. My rule of thumb is this: if it takes me longer than 5 minutes to edit a piece, I kick it back to the writer or fix it myself and don’t use that writer again.

If you use a provider that sends you work you must edit heavily, replace them. Your time is too valuable to do work you already paid to have done. Find a professional writing service that gets the bulldog fed.

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Millions of people access the internet everyday, looking for several things online like answers to their homework, movie reviews, book plots, political news, celebrity gossips, travel suggestions. And when they enter their queries to the search engines, most of the web pages that are pulled up have contents written in English.

However, not all internet users are that well-versed in English despite the fact that it is the universal language. For example, users from China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Germany; which are just some of the countries that are in the past were not influenced by the English-speaking population. Hence, a lot of resourceful websites become incomprehensible or become less valuable to users from these parts of the world.

There are also web pages though from non-English speakers that could also be valuable resources to users that don’t speak the language. For example, web pages in that contains the latest news from South East Asian countries, Middle Eastern countries, or South American countries. Most of these current event web pages are published in the local language, unless written by reporters from international news wire agencies.

Because of this language barrier, search engines were inspired to offer free language translation services to their users. Yahoo! Search has Babel Fish; Live Search has Windows Live Translator; and Google has Google Translate.

Babel Fish and Windows Live use the translation paradigm from SYSTRANS, one of the oldest machine translation companies. Babel Fish and Windows Live can translate English texts to up to 12 languages including: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Then some of these languages can be translated back to English.

Google Translate on the other hand uses their own statistical translation. They store billions of words, phrases, and sentences to their computers. These texts are aligned with human translations. Once stored in their computer, Google applies statistical learning techniques to build a translation style.

Google can translate English to 33 languages including those that are already mentioned above and these languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Filipino, Finish, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Translation between any of these languages is also possible, but the accuracy depends on the stored data in Google’s computers.

In using these translation tools, users just have to copy a foreign text from a web page or a document and paste it inside the translation box. He will then choose from what language the text is written, and to what language it will be translated. In just a few seconds, the translated text will be provided. Users can also provide the URL of the web page, and the whole page will be translated.

Because of these machine translation applications, users worldwide can easily browse web pages and grasp ideas of the incomprehensible contents from the translated texts. However, even if these web-based translation services are free and provides convenience to internet users, the translated texts that are produced by these tools are not perfect. It is still best to get professional human translation services.

Chris is the editor of http://gfanatic.com, a Google fan blog that features tips and updates on different Google products and services.

This is more targeted at those who utilize the article submission process on a daily basis, normally submitting hundreds of articles on a regular basis.

Article submission is a very important issue if you are serious about getting people to read your articles. This may be your chance to realize you potential as a writer or internet marketer. Article submission should normally be relatively easy if you are submitting single articles every so often, as long as one remains within the predefined rules of the editor of that article directory. The moment you stray off the rules and desired format will result in the article being returned and unpublished.

One has the opportunity of utilizing an article submission service whereby the service provider will submit your articles on your behalf, which would most likely involve thousands of submissions. This would be predominantly applicable to those seeking a large amount of exposure for their product or service. The benefit of article submission to multiple directories is a form of marketing for professional link builders, which provides exposure to the products and services that they are promoting, via a process of exposure known as back linking.

As a professional article writer there are numerous websites that provide this article submission service, what one needs to be aware of is the level of popularity as well as the success rate of that website, you would obviously want the maximum exposure in your article submission efforts. Essentially increasing your chance of success through this marketing activity requires careful consideration of a service provider in terms of this distribution and ultimate resulting exposure.

Be sure to draft and write your article correctly, bearing in mind that even the distribution service are bound by the same rules and format that you as an article writer is. You really do not want the article to be rejected whilst you have moved on to your next project, which will cause unnecessary delays and perhaps create backlogs in your marketing and article writing activities.

If you are merely writing articles for your own personal sharing of expertise or information, the article submission purpose is to allow yourself the chance of your article being read. This is the point of you writing the article in the first place, allowing you this chance of being viewed and possibly leading to greater things. As stated earlier, you will be required to familiarize yourself with the rules and regulations specific to your article directory.

Article submission and format affects both the professional, as well as the part time article writer. Whether one uses the services of an article submission service or not, the required rules, when followed, will prevent any frustration and most likely ensure publication of ones articles.

Author: Chris Kennelly writes for Talkinmince.com, to find more resources go to http://www.talkinmince.com

The article directory is used by people wishing to share their insight into a variety of subjects, this can be from their pets and training them to sewing. The list of subjects in an article directory is literally never ending. As long as there is a subject and a writer you will most likely find an article on whichever subject you are interested in, in an article directory.

The function of the article directory has a multidimensional role, in that it can be used to host the regular article writers works for people to use and refer to when required. Or it can even be used as a platform for a budding writer wanting to be published in journals or even within the print media.

The article directory can also be used as a marketing tool when one is looking to promote their companys products and services, it forms the basis of a type of information brochure. Although it is not allowed to market your products directly through an article directory, the option of submitting an article to a directory allows one the exposure for the reader to then click through to the companys website. It is recommended that if you are going to use an article directory to submit articles to increase awareness that you do it on a basis of an informative and helpful topic, related to your core activities; providing some insight or a solution to a problem, without directly marketing your services to the reader. If you structure and compile your article in the correct and desired format, according to the rules of that article directory, then you have got your foot in the door, so to speak, with that reader. This reader is a potential customer and you would want him to be captivated by the article that was submitted to that specific article directory to entice him or her to follow through to your website, where your sales and conversion skills can be utilised upon that interested or potential buyer.

The article directory offers one a very low cost or even opportunity of exposure, and one should not abuse this by ignoring the rules of that specific article directory. Correct submission and valid articles represent a better chance for publication and exposure to new and interested clients.

Using an article directory to host articles that you have written on a personal level also allow the writer to offer insight into their various life experiences and, at times, the emotional descriptions in certain situations. It can be used as a valuable how to guide to people that have not experienced that specific event or situation. This in turn has gone a long way in helping someone else and was merely conducted by submitting an article to an article directory.

Author Chris Kennelly writes for Talkinmince.com, to find more resources go to http://www.talkinmince.com

Since the beginning of Radio’s inception, no one has dared to arrest people who copy songs from the radio.

RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America, now dares. They have banned Sirius from allowing more than one downloadable song per download. The only reason for this is because the Satellite radio songs are just as good quality as MP3, thereby eliminating the need to buy the MP3’s.

RIAA has now pushed legislation through the house “to protect content delivered through high-definition (HD) radio receivers”. What that means, is anyone using a HIGH QUALITY method to copy a song is in violation of the law. But if you use a low-quality method; say, a cassette, then it’s okay.

Where is the logic in that? Aren’t laws a reflection of moral values? So it’s moral to copy a song onto cassette, but immoral to copy it onto a MP3 player?

Something is insanely illogical about that concept. RIAA claims musicians can’t make money if their songs are all downloaded illegally.

Only a century ago, there wasn’t a police force that prevented anyone but the original composer from playing their music in the streets. If Beethoven wanted to make money, he had to play in a concert for the people. He couldn’t just kick back and earn money every time a fiddler in the street played a tune from his concerto.

So what holds water about the RIAA argument? Very little in terms of historical legitimacy, and even in modern times, musicians are pulling in record numbers from concerts. The Rolling Stones pulled in over $162 million in 2005 from tours. Green Day pulled in $39 million, and Dave Matthews raked $31 million, with significantly less touring than the Stones. Is that not enough?

Even Paul McGuinness the manager of U2 said, “Our recording income is not insignificant, but it’s less than we make from touring. The figures used to be closer together.” U2’s 2005 tour pulled in $139 million.

So with concert income rising grotesquely, does the RIAA even have the right to push its legalistic agenda? Ironically, the spread of free music has encouraged music listening far beyond paid music: the increased availability of music has lead to increased concert-going fans as the record-breaking tours indicate.

With concert rates rising, and the income disparity from concerts and recording sales, perhaps RIAA should consider their nefarious designs at deciding what is Right and Wrong. Like a master teaching his dog manners, RIAA tells the consumers: Record radio on a cassette, good. Record radio onto MP3, bad dog, Sirius gets a time-out, and the critically acclaimed S50 is the first casualty in the war for consumer rights against RIAA.

In so doing, since the Sirius S50 was owned by hundreds of thousands, the RIAA has essentially destroyed the value of a product that did not belong to them. Without a moral basis for doing so, that is where the true immorality lies.

Maybe if the public starts downloading satellite radio music onto CD, then RIAA will help get CD recording of radio will be banned too.

Jonathan Baldwin, is the creator of a XM vs Sirius comparison website, http://www.xmsiriusreview.com

Press release writing is the spontaneous way of getting media attention and increasing the curiosity of your website audience. The SEO services also advocate press release writing as it can get instant visitors.

Online press releases are one of the viral marketing tools used for website promotion in search engine optimization campaigns. They are formal statements about something useful and newsworthy. Press release distribution on the web is a kind of media outlet from which your end users get their news.

Search Engine Crawlers Frequently Visit PR Sites

As search engine crawlers look for new content, they frequent to the press release sites. Hence, it is no secrete that the crawlers pick up the press releases quickly and rank them faster. Apart from that, the press releases are essential to boost online visibility of your website even if you own a new site.

Considering this, the SEO services providers emphasize on press release writing and make it a point that they submit new content to content for this purpose in regular intervals.

Press Releases Obtain Quality Backlinks

SEO services are developed to a large extent, toward link building concept. And, submission of press releases to PR directories is another way of getting links to your website. Your press release writers or the press release writing services that you hire should develop the content with the target keywords of the landing page from which you can link to your website from the PR sites. However, the SEO experts are of the view that you should strategically link to your inner and relevant pages through the important key terms in press releases.

Press Releases Boost Your Keywords in Search Engines

Search engine optimization is the sure fire technique of being found by your targeted visitors. As search engines visit the press releases frequently and they pick the headlines first, placing your important keywords in the headlines and in the beginning emphasizes the relevance of your press release content. However, the trick of online press release writing lies on the use of keywords in a natural way.

Press Release Sites Are Frequented By Web Users

There are many enthusiast web users who love to visit the press release sites to keep themselves updated with the news from other websites. With your interesting and appealing press release writing, you could attract visitors from the PR directories to your website.

Social Media Press Releases, another Techniques Of SEO Services

The ongoing trend of social media press releases is becoming more effective for SEO campaign with the strategic press release writing techniques. Though they perform the same function of distributing news, they have successful approach to specific and target visitors in the communities.

Other functions of press releases in SEO services are increasing online reputation of your site, gaining free visibility, increasing your influence in online business world, promoting your mission online, etc.

These days, the press release directories have been developed with features, technologies and pricing structures allowing organizations of all sizes to increase their visibility in search engines. To sum it up, strategically written and attention grabbing press releases can help your website stand out in your industry.

Rahman Mehraby is the SEO specialist at Site Booster who offers One-Way Link Building package among other affordable organic SEO services to boost website businesses. Visit Site Booster at: http://www.site-booster.com.