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The Storage Group (TSG), an Internet-marketing company serving the self-storage industry, has added a rental-rate tracking tool to its platform. The Market Intel service provides customers with rate-comparison information and average price differences from competing storage operators within local markets. Rates can be viewed by unit size, type and other metrics, and a map displays the facilities used in the comparison, according to a press release.

Facilities will be able to gain a competitive advantage over other self-storage facilities in their local target market with the information that is displayed in Market Intel, the release stated. Facility owners and management can then use this data to make data-driven strategic decisions, such as adjusting prices to make sure they are in line with the local market and deciding which storage unit sizes to build during expansions.

Customers can access Market Intel within the Performance Dashboard of the TSG platform. We are excited to launch this tool and see the success that it will bring to self-storage facilities across the country, said Steve Lucas, chief operating officer.

Based in Maitland, Fla., TSG provides online tools and marketing solutions to the self-storage industry. The company's services include local-listing management, mobile websites, online rentals, pay-per-click advertising, search engine optimization, social media marketing and website development.

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A Swedish law adopted in 2014 allows the country's courts to judge cases of alleged crimes against humanity regardless of where they have been committed or by whom.

The law stipulates that "anyone, who in order to completely or partially destroy a national or ethnic group of people" kills, causes serious pain or injury is "guilty of genocide".

The Public Prosecution Offices said it would now decide whether to initiate a preliminary investigation, adding that "it may take a while".

If prosecutors decide to launch an investigation, Erdogan could risk an arrest warrant in Sweden, the lawmakers said.

Carl Schlyter, an MP for the Greens, said he hoped other lawmakers in European countries would follow their move.

"If (Erdogan) is hindered from roaming around in Europe and influencing European countries the way he wants, then I hope that this will affect his politics," he said.

The UN Human Rights Office in March released a report on allegations of "massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations committed" between July 2015 and December 2016 in Turkey's southeast.

Hundreds of members of the Turkish security forces have been killed since the collapse of the ceasefire, and the army has claimed killing thousands of militants.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), classified as a terror group by Turkey, the EU and the US, has waged an insurgency in the country since 1984 -- initially focusing on independence demands then greater rights -- that has left at least 40,000 people dead.

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Another symbolic aspect of the march is the comparison of its leader K?l?daro?lu to Gandhi

If were going to have a true democracy, we have to start with justice, said Turkish Republican Peoples Party (CHP) member of parliament Selin Sayek-Bke.

Sayek-Bke was speaking to an interviewer from the BBC while participating in the 432-kilometre Justice March from Ankara to Istanbul called by the CHPs leader Kemal K?l?daro?lu in response to the jailing of one of the partys MPs, Enis Berbero?lu. Berbero?lu was jailed for 25 years for leaking footage of Turkeys MIT security agency sending trucks full of weapons over the border to Syria. The March, which, according to K?l?daro?lu, has attracted around 40,000 protesters, is due to end on Sunday, July 9 at the Istanbul prison where the lawmaker is being held.

I talked about our #JusticeMarch to @BBCNews. It was literally a breathtaking interview.

The accusation that Turkeys government lent material support to terrorist groups in Syria is one about which the ruling Erdogan administration is particularly sensitive. It is one of the main reasons the administration decided to block Wikipedia entirely in May, after two articles appeared on the site mentioned Berbero?lus leaks while he was the editor of Hurriyet newspaper in 2014.

President Erdogans ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would appear to be in an unassailable position, having won every election since coming to power in 2002, including the constitutional referendum in April 2017 to change Turkeys politics to a Presidential system that would allow Erdogan to remain in charge until 2029.

Yet the CHPs Justice March and its obvious symbolism have rattled leading figures in Erdogans party. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it is starting to taste sour. It is time to end it, while Erdogan himself accused the marchers of being allied to the Kurdish PKK militia and Fethullah Glens religious movementthe group the AKP accuses of instigating last years 15 July coup attempt. Erdogan has frequently associated his political opponents with terrorism in the past.

Perhaps a key objection is the appropriation of the word JusticeAdalet, a core element of Erdogans party nameto indicate that the perceived injustice is now coming from Erdogans religious conservative movement itself. The AKP was founded as a moderate Islamic party seeking greater freedom of religion for the large number of conservative Muslims who were previously discriminated against in areas of public life such as courts and universities. But now these restrictions no longer exist, this aspect of the conservative platform has lost its meaning. The party itself has become less moderate, as it seeks to expand the influence of political Islam into education, the courts, and the military.

The Justice March approaching Istanbul Image by Ziya Kseo?lu. Used with permission.

Another symbolic aspect of the march is the comparison of its leader K?l?daro?lu to Gandhi. K?l?daro?lu is often physically compared to Gandhi, and the latters 1930 Salt March against unfair taxes imposed by the British eventually led to Indias independence from British colonialism. For many, the Justice March represents new and exciting shift in tactics by the CHP, who have previously been cautious about overt displays of direct action to challenge the government.

But as the political situation in Turkey has worsened, few other groups besides the CHP are in any position to resist. In recent months, MPs from the pro-Kurdish HDP party have been imprisoned, along with hunger-striking teachers, journalists and hundreds of others accused of participation in banned organisations, sometimes for offences as minor as opening an account at a bank affiliated with Glens Cemaat movement. Even members of Turkeys local Amnesty International branch were arrested in the middle of a human rights training session they were holding. This is especially ironic, as Erdogan had once been adopted by Amnesty as a Prisoner of Conscience in 1998, when he was briefly arrested by the Turkish government on accusations of stoking religious violence by reading a poem at a rally.

The CHPs previous inaction had led to criticism that K?l?daro?lu was weak and ineffective, a charge that seems less credible the more AKP criticises the Justice March, which will end in Istanbul on Sunday with a large rally.

So far, a number of people have had heart attacks while participating in the 432-kilometre journey from Ankara to Istanbul, and AKP supporters have tried to disrupt the protest, one going as far as to dump a truckload of manure in front of the march.

However, as the number of participants has increased to the tens of thousands, the March seems to have taken on greater momentum. Among the protesters is a man who looks surprisingly like a shorter double of K?l?daro?lu, who one Twitter user jokingly referred to as his powerbank.

K?l?daro?lu carrying his powerbank with him

The marchers were even joined by members of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, with whom the CHP has historically had a less than friendly relationship. In May 2016, CHP representatives voted with the government to support a bill that would allow MPs to be stripped of immunity and allow the government to prosecute them. As a result, 13 HDP MPs and countless other officials have been jailed.

The CHP is a nationalist party that would not easily speak out against the jailing of Kurdish politicians; but now that the prosecutions have reached its own MPs, it has found that many other groups are willing to follow its critical lead. The challenge now is to keep that opposition unified.

The march reached Istanbul on Friday, 7 July and will culminate in a big protest rally over the weekend. At the moment, there do not appear to be any specific proposals from the CHP about what its next steps will be. CHP MP Selin Sayek-Bke has said that We need to achieve what we couldn't do following Gezi and 16 April [the date of the constitutional referendum], we need to show the decisiveness that would bring the energy of the social opposition to politics.

In an interview with CNN Turk, K?l?daro?lu said that the result of the march is that people have overcome their fear of speaking out against the government. What remains uncertain is how the AKP government responds to the voices raised against it. But if the CHP can galvanise the anger of many groups who feel marginalised and fearful of the state, it could lead to greater success for the party in the Parliamentary and Presidential elections which are both due to be held in 2019.

This article was written by John Lubbock and published by Global Voices on 8July, 2017.

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Email marketing is still king of the digital marketing and advertising space. However, given the great strides that the affiliate-marketing sector has taken over the past two decades, it could soon usurp email's coveted position at the top of the heap.

Related:What Makes An Affiliate Site Profitable?

Affiliate marketing-- in which online retailers pay commissions to other sitesfor traffic or sales prompted by those others' referrals--has come a long way from its humble beginnings.

Before Amazon popularized the concept in 1996, William J. Topin, founder of PC Flowers & Gifts, had already set himself up nicely by starting his own affiliate-marketing campaign.

By 1993, PC Flowers & Gifts was bringing in annual revenue north of $6 million dollars.

Since J. Topin and Amazon, this performance-based marketing strategy has spread and evolved into an industry of its own. Over the years, we have witnessed many marketing models, such as CPM (cost per impression), CPC (cost per click), CPA (cost per action) and pay per sale. Programs like Google AdSense, Clickbank andAmazon Associates, meanwhile, have come on the scene as affiliate marketers leveraging big-data analytics to optimize their marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing, in fact, is now a mainstay in the world of online marketing and advertising. Advertisers increasingly prefer using itto running ads themselves; the fact that many people now use ad blockers only serves to establish affiliate marketing's importance.

Indeed, using this strategy helps advertisers cut costs on their marketing budgetswhile leveraging the promotional channels of marketers (publishers) to ring in conversions and sales.

One of the most important victories of the affiliate marketing industry came in the form of the introduction of affiliate networks. This affiliate marketing structure is simple in its aim:It acts as a bridge, a meeting point for publishers and advertisers to meet and conduct business as seamlessly as possible. It'ssort of like a Fiverr for internet marketers and advertisers.

Before, affiliate networks, advertisers and publishers had to find one other on their own --a tiresome and costytask compared to how affiliate networks today broker these relationships. Affiliate networks are virtual marketplaces that offer advertisers access to a pool of publishers (or potential affiliates) to choose from, and vice versa.

Affiliate networks work: The vast majority of advertisers today --a whopping 83 percent ,according to a survey by the Forrester Group--use them to secure deals with publishers, and there are many reasons why.

One reason is that online consumers have become more critical of online content, which means that they've increasingly come to value content offering what they perceive gives them the greatest relevance and engagement.

Advertisers know what contenttheir audience needs and can create it themselves. However, they have quickly discovered that trying to create and distribute such content on their own can seriously deplete their resources without having the desired return on investment.

Affiliate networks, therefore, make it easy for these advertisers to link up with relevant publishers. Advertisers can outsource the bulk of their content-marketing responsibilities to these publisherswhile gaining a larger targeted audience that would have been inaccessible without that publisher relationship.

What'sin it for the publishers? The simpleanswer is revenue. According to this Business Insider report, commissions from affiliate marketing endeavors are the fastest avenue of revenue growth for publishers, making up 15 percentof their revenue --thanks to those affiliate networks making access to deals easier.

So, how are affiliate networks positioning themselves for the future? In our fast-paced and constantly evolving digital world, it's suicide for any business to sit and bask in its previous success. Affiliate networks understand this and are constantly tweaking their offerings to remain relevant and enticing to publishers and advertisers alike.

According to the above-mentioned Forrester Group survey, publishers particularly love to seek affiliate deals through networks that are global in their perspective. Affiliate networks are responding by seeking to broker exclusive deals with global brands in order to sweeten the deal for publishers and to stand out.

The need for networks to constantly adjust and tweak their offerings has left the door wide open for newcomers to the industry to establish and perhaps gain some market share from industry heavy-weights, likeShareASale and CJ Affiliate.

A recent example is Alexander Bachmanns admitad, a known European affiliate network that has recently expanded aggressively into North America and Asia. The company is obviously seeking to position itself as a technologically preferred option, as itworks on developing technological priorities in the area of fraud prevention, fingerprint and cross-device tracking, ad-block technology and more.

Publishers and advertisers still have to be wary, though, of these networks, both new and old, as they experiment with new technology and features to improve what they have to sell.

Related:The Affiliate Marketing Model: A Blueprint for Success in the Gig Economy

One thing, however, is sure: Affiliate networks are here to stay and will only get bigger as they improve their offerings and assume more marketing responsibilities and market share from other affiliate programs.

Toby Nwazor is an consumer-goods entrepreneur andfreelance writer.Get in touch with him for ghost writing, website content creationand otherprofessional writing services.

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Dave Bald Eagle in "Neither Wolf Nor Dog"

It feels like a full circle to be reviewing a movie in which a fellow Oklahoman, friend, and tribal member stars. Knowing some of the back-door story to an amazing journey for Richard Ray Whitman (Yuchi, Muscogee), I was pleased to see the actor in the recently released Neither Wolf Nor Dog.

The crowdfunded 110-minute film was shot in just 18 days in South Dakota. It is a perfect example of community-based support and internet marketing, which is indicative of the Native ways, using community.

The guerrilla film-making technique works for Scottish director Steven Lewis Simpson, and is a fine artistic vehicle for Richard Ray Whitman. Depicting the authors eccentric journey into the Lakota lands and spirituality, it is based on the book by Kent Nerburn, and adapted by both author and director.

Nerburn (Christopher Sweeney) is called in by Dan, a Lakota elder, who wants him to write about his life and that of his people. Nerburns bumbling false start opens up a dialogue on how a non-Native sees Native culture. You must first listen before you can see, Dan tells the white writer. Grover (Richard Ray Whitman) plays the oft believable Native cynic, and Nerburns antagonist.

Nerburn is forced reluctantly into a road trip, in an authentic Ndna jalopy normally held together by bailing wireall the while learning to hear first. Dan and Grover try their best to embolden Nerburn to see and write the story in his own way. And to do so without falling prey to white mens guilt-ridden clichs of glorifying an indigenous race.

Dan is played by veteran actor Chief Dave Bald Eagle in an honest but very traditional way. At times a viewer gets lost in his portrayal as if we are there in the scene with him. Many of Dans and Grovers lines are hidden gems of truth embedded within their dialogue. Such as: Welcome to our land, promises made to the dead. Just ghosts of broken dreams, or Just cuz its written doesnt make it truth.

Unfurling before you is the majesty of the Lakota land, with an unvarnished portrayal of Native people. During this journey, we see Nerburns awakening. In the cafe scene with folks drinking coffee, a modern tragic scene is believably played. Amidst the truth that sometimes addiction robs so much from so many, the solidarity of family is also seen.

Richard Ray Whitman delivers his best, solidly conveying authority in a leading role. The rawness of his anger plays well upon Sweeneys Nerburn. The unity of actors and script, with an able director, is skillfully realized.

For me personally, seeing Richard up on the screen revealed a migration in his cumulative art and life. He studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., and was at Wounded Knee in 1973. His Street Chiefs series is internationally known. I remember sitting in his house during my college days and can still hear him say, Man, why cant I get roles like that? He has now!

The climax of the film, shot at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, is most poignant. The scene lingers long after in both heart and mind. It was rumored that, tossing the script aside, Chief Dave Bald Eagle extemporized this scene. Sadly, he died not long after filming this movie.

This low-budget yet esthetic film must be seen and heard. Its a gate that swings open to a splendid human vista. The trailer can be viewed here.

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