Joy and Clifford (album, very short)

Ok here we go. At least it's starting! Joy and Clifford's album is under way and in the design process. My engineers have been working diligently over the past few days to get up at least 8 pages here. This is no where near completion but I wanted to put up the first few pages (a teaser if you will). Hope you enjoy! Click on the image to start the show.

2 Minute Infomercial

Here is our two minute spot expected to air on Lifetime in the next few weeks. It is a significant change from our 30 minute in that it is all new footage. Another two minute targeted towards the "money" audience is expected to be completed today and released soon after the two minute designated for Lifetime.

One Great Commercial

I remember watching this commercial with Jag at Michaels 10 years ago. I was like, "Man, this kid has got some balls saying what he's saying!" The last line reads, "I heard you're not ready for me? I am ready for you!" And so he was!

New Home Sales

I was checking out some of the economic numbers that were released today. I must say new home sales didn't surprise me at all. A record number of "for sale" signs through out the country. If your house doesn't sell in 30-45 days then reduce the price by thousands (like 10 or 20k) below the next comparable home. Can anyone remember CSCO when it was in the $70's?

New Home Sales, Durable Goods Orders Dip

WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes dropped in July by the largest amount since February while the inventory of unsold homes climbed to a record high. Piling on more proof that the housing boom is over, the
Commerce Department reported Thursday that new home sales fell by 4.3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 1.072 million units. The decline was the largest since an 11.5 percent plunge in February.

Sales of both new and existing homes set records for five consecutive years as the housing industry enjoyed a boom powered by the lowest mortgage rates in four decades. But rates have been steadily rising this year as the Federal Reserve tightens credit conditions as a way to slow the economy and keep inflation under control.

Analysts expect home sales to drop by some 10 percent this year.

New Idea

Well maybe not. Video blogs will become a new thing very soon. Instead of writing you can show your thoughts, feelings, and/or whatever. There is no question that at one point everyone can consider themselves a cinematographer/producer/director/actor/screen writer/editor. It's right around the corner. Sites like www.metacafe.com are pioneers with more streaming video content sent up than no other site. But the market is still very new and open for expoitation. I believe partnering up will be key but in the end it'll be who ya know!

E5's new communities will be able to host all content and will provide consumers and businesses a unique, totally fresh, and eye opening means to how fun and business will be done.

Count down.

Vodafone

I heard the other day that the conglomerate Vodafone isn't making any money. I was like, huh? Some newspaper suggested that VOD was not positioned to make any money going forward or something to that nature. I have been analyzing and discovering strengths and weaknesses in company's for over 13 years now, before as a broker and today as an interested capitalist. I decided to take a look at VOD and brush up on it. Firstly, VOD isn't well known here in the U.S. that's because it's primary presence is in the form of Verizon (it owns 45% of VZ). Secondly, VOD is a European play known for owning one of Europe's largest cell carrier in Orange.

What I want to do is focus on VZ first. VOD, as mentioned earlier is a 45% owner in VZ. VZ made over $7.1 billion and reported eps of $2.54 (click report above). Analysts expect that VZ will beat last years numbers by $500 million and $.02/share this year. As of August 1st VZ had a market capitalization of close to $94 billion. In essence this company isn't a tadpole looking to grow a tail. It's a beast already, a mature one at that.

Now VOD. This company has a market cap of $134 billion and has completed it's 2006 year with net income of $6.3 billion and eps of $10.11/share. Analysts predict that VOD will report net income of $5.7 billion (down from 06) and eps of $10.41 (an increase). Looks like the increase is based on a fewer amount of shares available (maybe from a company stock buyback).

Altogether, it's was an interesting exercise. It's been a while since I have looked at research in this space and I must say it's still intriguing to me. To really get down and dirty with what the future VOD potentially has will take me a few days to analyze and compare analysts opinions. There is one thing I will say, however, VOD is a very capable and formidable company with an impressive growth rate considering the size ($134 billion market cap). Albeit net income is expected to decrease for VOD eps is expected to rise nicely.

Ah the market...great money, never a full days work, and the money (said that already)!

By the way this blog wasn't written to intentionally discredit and/or upset anyone. Just wanted to see for myself if VOD was not slated to make money in the future...that's the case...SHORT! Maybe not.

Another Long Gap Between Posts

Well what have I been doing that I haven't posted in such a long time? Nothing too out of the ordinary. Let' s see...what has happened since the last post? Working on a joint venture with two business partners, put Paparazzi as the new focus for E5, fought with Ron, found out that our partnership with Exclaim can yield us more than 72 million users to market to, Jiren loves the tips idea, working on a consultation contract, moved into our new offices in HB, met with the company powering our product, met with Google, found out some people just don't understand, filmed twice for the 2 minute spot, reworked the cover, changed the dvd price twice (up then down), spoke with CBS radio, and for the first time in over a year I played golf...I still suck. Sounds like a lot happened, huh? A lot did but it probably only took all but a couple days to do if that. So why such the long gap? Dunno!