With the acquisition of the Kudamm Karree in a prominent location of West Berlins famous shopping street Kurfürstendamm (called Ku’damm by the locals) the Irish Ballymore Group has taken on one of the biggest town planning challenges in the heart of Berlin. Based on a design by the British architect David Chipperfield the investment volume will be around 500 M Euro.

In a central location on Kurfürstendamm the complex is redevelopped and revived. The new Kudamm Karree will offer an exclusive mixture of apartments and business premises, hotels, cafés and restaurants, shops and leisure facilities. And not to forget: In a time in which otherwise also in Berlin many theatres and cultural facilities must be closed an entertainment theatre will be opened in the new Kudamm Karree in historical style. The total area will be approximately 63,000 sqm. Completion is planned for 2013.

This will pose another threat to the “Haus Cumberland” development by ORCO which is situated nearby and seems to currently be on hold.

For more information visit the project website please http://www.das-neue-kudammkarree.de/

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The first is to never buy into the millions you could make while you sleep. If you are truly interested in making money on line, know that it will take time and you will not get rich over night. It is sad to say that many people give up trying to make money; in fact about 99% of the people who try to make money on the internet throw in the towel. This is most often because they have bought into some bogus scam and have lost faith in their abilities. Don’t let this happen to you.

Second, know that there actually are programs and legit business opportunities available to you. If you are in the market to truly put forth some effort and make money on the internet, you should research and find a program to purchase that will actually assist you in generating an income.

There are some key things that you should look for in such a program. You will want to make sure that whatever your purchase will give you step by step ins and outs of building a successful business. Make sure the program guides you on how to grow your business, and how to build your profit margin.

Once you have found a money making program that you think might be right for you, don’t purchase it just yet. First, find others who have tried it. Find out if they were successful. Find out what their pitfalls were and how to avoid them. Make sure that you have found numerous successful individuals, not just a couple.

Finally, before purchasing such a program make sure it has a money back guarantee. If it doesn’t, then look elsewhere. If the company does not believe in their product enough to offer customers this simple assurance, then you should not believe in it either. It is really that simple. When it comes right down to it one product does not fit all. What works great for some people, simply will not work for others. Always make sure you have the security of a refund just in case you find the money making program is not right for you.

In conclusion there are a number of great ways to make money on the internet; you just need to be cautious about the one you chose. To get even more information that will guide you to success you will want to read this free report.

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Inevitably the question of money arises, as with everything in life. Can you Make Money Blogging? Yes, you can but it won’t come easily. A blog isn’t something you can make on the Sunday and have a steady profit on the Wednesday like everything it takes time and effort. However this is not to discourage you from joining the blog revolution, it just to paint a realistic picture of this craze and to make sure new bloggers do not get carried away.

It is estimated that a new blog is created every second however many of these are created by individuals thinking that they can earn a quick buck through it, in reality these users have little or no concept of the skills it takes to optimize your blog.

Making money from a blog is not just as simple as posting your views, rants and commenting on issues that are personal to you, it is much more than that. Your blog needs to be optimized for search engines (SEO  Search Engine Optimization) so that it reaches the widest possible audience, it also has to be marketed correctly on blog directories. Your blog itself has to be designed so that it is appealing to general internet users as have features such as an RSS feed.

It is only after your blog has been sufficiently optimized that you can even think about generating some income. This should not put you off however because a blog should contain something you enjoy writing about and then once you have a stable level of traffic, you can begin to make money. The free report is highly recommended because it will tell you all the basics you need to set up your blog, optimize it and then finally to monetize it so that it reaches its full potential. If you have a blog or are thinking of joining the blog revolution then the Secret Blogging Blueprint below should be read first.

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The differences between various regions, however, are significant: In eastern Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia, rent increases are below average, at 0.4% whereas in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria saw increases at 1.5%, they are more than double the nationwide average. The City of Munich and a few of its suburbs are in the lead by far. In Munich, tenants pay 71% more than the national average for their apartments. Berlin, at the low end of the scale, is a bargain. In the western districts of the capital, the rent level is currently 7% below the German national average; in the eastern part, it is even 12% less.

For investors the latter indicates a significant development potential in Berlin residential market for mid to long term investments. Here is some catching up to be expected.

For support in the identification of the right investment targets please visit the pre acquisition section of our website at www.berlin-portfolio.com. Especially for international Private Investors and Property Funds we provide a task force service for quick reaction to interesting opportunities.

We provide independent support for the property search including foreclosure or auction properties and their valuation or appraisal. (Also see our free property market Research Service)

Please use this link to the contact facilities provided there to place any requests .

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Building a niche store online is easy. First of all, a niche for those who don’t know, is a particular market that people look for. An example of this is tomatoes, tomatoes are a vegetable that people garden. Rather than covering the entire market of gardening, breaking it down to one thing will help you find customers that are looking for that niche and make it simpler to run a store based on this. Running the store online makes running a niche market easy and profitable.

Setting up your BANS online is a quick and easy process that will allow you to start making money soon after you use the program. The first thing to do is pick the country that you live in so that you can find products that your country uses.

Next, choosing a niche market from thousands will get you started. You need to think about what people like, will buy, or will use even with the downturn of the economy. Find a niche that is useful and make sure it is something that you would purchase. If you don’t believe in your niche, no one else will.

Once you decide the type of online store you would like to use, it will be time to build your basic site. This will house your product for people to purchase based on the niche that you chose. You will be able to choose many things for the site, and if you so choose, make it customizable. If you want to have a successful niche store, it is important to make your website as personable as possible. Adding a blog where people can ask questions for you to answer about the product and posting useful ways to use the product is a great way to get people interested in your niche store via BANS.

The last step to have a successful BANS site is marketing. There are lots of ways to market your BANS site. You can add videos to your site to explain your product, then list videos other places on the internet, leaving a link to your BANS site. People love video because they don’t have to read anything, no effort, so it’s a very effective tool. If you want to do some link building, you will be successful at getting hits to your BANS site, however; link building does require some work. In order to do this, you must go to many different blogs and forums, leaving posts and links to your BANS site. While this method isn’t difficult, it can be quite time consuming. However, a particularly powerful method of marketing your BANS site is through pay per click ads. This will cost you a little bit of money, but you can have your ads placed on other sites and every time that someone clicks on it, you will get a person on your site.

Beyond all of this, the best way to make money on your BANS site is to be knowledgeable about your product. Whatever niche you go into will require you to do some research in order to know your topic. You should know everything there is to know about your niche and be able to answer any questions that your customers have.

Running a BANS site does require a little knowledge and work, but if you are willing to put in the effort, BANS sites can be extremely profitable. Sign up, pick a niche, personalize your site, do your research, and market your site. If you can follow these simple steps, making your money will be a cinch for you.

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So, how should you use this situation to your advantage? If you’re a niche business owner, or internet marketer, the most important currency you have on-hand is speed. When you’re the first to dominate an online niche through you specific niche marketing, you’ll get a massive advantage over your competitors. This means finding and dominating niches before your competition can get there. How can you do this?

A couple of years ago, you could just fire up Google and search for poorly satisfied niches on your own time. Find something with few search results and create a website that absolutely dominates the field, and you were good to go. Unfortunately, that’s not the way things are today. Due to the different methods that search engines use to calculate results, it’s possible to find a market that appears to be empty, and ends up being massively over-saturated, despite the evidence to the contrary from its search results. Don’t let those results fool you — it’s entirely possible that the niche is being dominated by other people already.

So, what are three things you can do to make sure you get to niches first, and dominate them once you get there?

1. Use niche-finding software (such as Micro Niche Finder) to search out profitable niches for internet marketers.

2. Create a website and sales page that provides information that is both more relevant to searchers, and more enticing to buyers than your competitors can offer.

3. Acively study your niche to figure out it’s dynamics and characteristics, allowing you to predict where it will head in the future.

It’s really as easy as that, in terms of method. Don’t let the three steps fool you, it’s a lot of work to dominate any niche, but it can pay off big time if you let yourself rise to the top and master every niche market you enter. Don’t be put off by the gurus and forum members telling you that it isn’t possible, it’s something that is achievable with the right combination of method and discipline. By making the most of software, you can allow yourself to focus primarily on the bigger picture and less on the small time decisions, creating a work and lifestyle that will lead to long term online success.

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Is it possible to make a better living from a dominating popular niche website than by dominating ultra-specific ones? It’s certainly a bigger market to play in, but on the whole the answer is most likely no. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, the amount of effort and work required to dominate an ultra-competitive niche is massive, and the time dedication can prevent you from working on other projects. Secondly, with the massive amount of competition, you’re constantly worrying about your competitors and trying to anticipate their moves. This isn’t the mark of a happy business, so unless you can remake the market in your image, you’ll ultimately spend equal amounts of time looking backwards as you do looking forwards.

If you think you can handle this, then go ahead and give it a shot. If you’ve got the dedication (and most importantly, the passion) then you may well end up near the top of the pile. However, there are other avenues to online success, mostly through the use of ultra-specific and specialised niches that can yield massive rewards to those that research them before entering the marketplace. These niches aren’t ultra-competitive like their more general counterparts, and the audience size isn’t as wide, however they can offer massive payouts for those that are smart enough, and dedicated enough, to master their dynamics and market possibilities with a clever niche marketing.

So, which one is for you? The ultra-profitable and hugely time consuming passion project, or the more refined and calculated ultra-niche idea? In the end, most online empires seem to be built on a combination of the two — years of hard work and research in a field that the entrepreneur is passionate about, combined with the calculations and hard data that come with a large amount of research into markets and commercial viability. In the end, this is where you want to be. There’s nothing worse than being involved in something with no idea of where you’re moving and how you’re going to get there, and you can’t ride the market forever. Invest some time into planning what niches your project will excel in, and it’ll pay off big in the long run.

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The 80/20 rule is fundamental to affiliate marketing optimisation. When you’re creating an online business that scales to your lifestyle, you really need to make sure that your inputs aren’t always defining the output. The best way to make sure that your business is output-specific is by applying the 80/20 rule to how you spend your time. After determining what parts of your business offer the best hourly pay rate for you, it’s best to eliminate the 80% of activities that result in only 20% of your income, and focus your energy on the most important and optimised parts. From here, you can use several strategies.

Firstly, you can automate as much of your online work as possible. For affiliate marketers, the primary time-costs are in finding and investigating products to market, monitoring their marketing programs, and analysing customer behaviour on their websites. Thankfully, all three of these activities can be optimised and automated to a specific point, the income autopilot can be set.

For finding and investigating products, your best bet is to look for products that are popular, but not ultra-competitive. With the massive range of niche-finding software out there today, this step is about as simple as it can be. Simply invest in a program to take care of your niches for you, and cut those hours out of your timetable.

The second is slightly more difficult. Although computer programs can easily analyse click-through rates and bounce rates, checking out real time marketing performance is slightly more difficult. With numbers alone such false metrics, especially in a world as subjective and human as PR and marketing, you may need to invest some time yourself in seeing which of your marketing and advertising efforts work, and which don’t.

Finally, monitoring and analysing customer behaviour is something that every affiliate marketer will need to put some time into, at least in the initial stages of a campaign. Over time, customer behaviour will lead to long term trends and behavioural patterns for your websites, which can make it significantly easier to optimise and automate this part of your work. Best suggestion: spend the first months of any campaign monitoring customer browsing habits and clicking behaviour, and after it’s reached a steady point, leave it alone. Only investigate when things are falling, not when they’re simply moving as part of a larger trend.

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There are hundreds of money-making products out there promising an online income with zero upkeep and input, all competing with each other. While many can definitely offer this possibility, it’s still easy for online entrepreneurs and marketers to fall for the same old traps. Whether you make your emails an absolute priority, or focus on metrics that aren’t fundamentally important to your income, it’s easy to fall back into the habit of creating work for works sake. This should be avoided for anyone looking to create an autopilot income, as the small tasks that suck time away are often the least important in the long run.

Do an 80/20 analysis on your businesses profit centres. These questions can help you cut the poorly performing parts of your business loose, and let you focus on the most important uber-profitable aspects:

- Wat are you selling most?
- Who are you selling to?
- How are you selling to them?

When you’ve identified what’s selling, it’s a lot easier to elimate the things that aren’t selling. Identify the affiliate products that are responsible for 80% of your online income, and eliminate the others. When you free yourself from the work that the others produce, you can maximise the amount of time you spend on the more profitable ones.

Still worried about losing that extra revenue? Think about things this way: How many hours worth of work do the other products produce, and how much extra revenue do they bring in?

When you actually calculate the hourly value of each product, you can make more informed decisions on whether or not they’re worth keeping. For example, an affiliate product that requires only two hours of work per week and brings in $260 in commissions, is paying you a total of $130 per hour. In contrast, an affiliate product that brings in $440 per week, and requires around 20 hours of work per week, is only bringing you $22 per hour.

If the above example proves anything to you, it’s that revenue alone can be a distracting and false metric for measuring affiliate progress. When you measure by revenue alone, you lose a massive amount of potential analysis, and often fool yourself into thinking that you’re earning more than you really are.

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Hemorrhoids or piles are round swellings on the inside of the anal canal – the short, muscular tube that connects your rectum (back passage) with your anus – in areas known as the anal cushions.

Many people with piles don’t consult a GP so it’s difficult to know exactly how many people in the UK get them. However, estimates range from between four and 25 in 100 people.

Types of Hemorrhoids

Although piles develop from inside your anal canal, they can hang down out of your rectum. They are graded as follows.

• First degree hemorrhoids are swellings on the inside lining of your anal canal. They may bleed but can’t be seen from outside the anus.
• Second degree hemorrhoids are larger and stick out (prolapse) from the anus when you have a bowel movement, but return on their own afterwards.
• Third degree hemorrhoids are similar, but hang out from your anus and only return inside when pushed back in.
• Fourth degree hemorrhoids permanently hang down from your anus and you can’t push them back inside. They may become extremely swollen and painful if the blood in them clots.
• External piles are swellings that develop from below the anal cushions. They can be more painful than the other types of piles.

Other causes of lumps around the anus can include a sentinel pile, which is the painless skin tag that develops when a crack in the anus (an anal fissure) heals up.

Symptoms of Hemorrhoids

Common symptoms of hemorrhoids include:

• painless bleeding from your anus, which you may notice in the toilet bowl or when you use toilet paper, or from soiled underwear
• a lump on your anus
• a slimy discharge of mucus
• a feeling that your bowels haven’t emptied completely
• itchy skin around your anus
• swelling around your anus
• pain and discomfort after a bowel movement if you have external piles

These symptoms may be caused by problems other than hemorrhoids. You should visit your GP for advice.

Causes of Hemorrhoids

The exact cause of hemorrhoids or piles isn’t known.

One theory is that hemorrhoids are a result of a weakness of the tissue that connects the anal cushions to the muscle layers underneath. In combination with frequently straining while passing hard bowel movements, this can cause the anal cushions to slide out of their usual place and down the rectum.

You’re more likely to develop piles:

• if you eat a low-fibre diet
• if you strain to empty your bowels (for example, if you have constipation)
• as you age because the support structures in your rectum weaken
• if you’re pregnant
• if you’re born with a weakness in your rectum or have a family history of hemorrhoids

Diagnosis of Hemorrhoids

Visit your GP if you notice any signs of bleeding from your rectum.

Your GP will ask about your symptoms and examine you. This may involve a rectal examination, where he or she will gently insert a gloved finger into your rectum. Your GP may also ask you about your medical history.

Your GP may use a proctoscope to look inside your rectum. A proctoscope is a narrow, tube-like telescopic camera. Air can be blown through the tube to open up the bowel so it can be seen more clearly. This test can help to rule out problems in your rectum.

Alternatively, your GP may refer you for a flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy test that will need to be done in hospital. This allows your doctor to look inside your large bowel. These tests are sometimes done to check that your condition isn’t caused by something more serious.

Treatment of Hemorrhoids

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Medicines

There are a range of medicines that can help relieve the symptoms of piles.

• If you’re passing hard or infrequent faeces, you could try a fibre supplement such as ispaghula husk (eg Fybogel) or mild laxatives such as lactulose, which will soften your faeces. Don’t use laxatives that stimulate the bowel, such as senna, unless your doctor advises you to.
• Soothing creams, ointments and suppositories may ease any pain and itchiness. There are many different products available. Some contain a local anaesthetic such as lidocaine.
• Products containing corticosteroids, such as Anugesic-HC and Proctosedyl, may reduce inflammation and pain.

Always read the patient information leaflet that comes with your medicine and if you have any questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice.

If these self-help measures and medicines don’t work, or you have a higher grade of piles, you may need to go into hospital for one of the following procedures.

Non-surgical treatments

These are treatments that you can have in hospital, but you won’t need to stay overnight.

Banding

This is used mostly to treat second degree hemorrhoids, but you can also have it with first degree piles if medicines haven’t worked for you.

This procedure needs to be done using an endoscope. Your doctor will place a small elastic band just above the pile. This will cut off the blood supply to the hemorrhoids, causing it to die and fall off after a few days. The area left behind will heal up naturally.

Sclerotherapy

In sclerotherapy your piles will be injected with an oily solution, which makes them shrivel up. It’s used for first or second degree hemorrhoids.

Other treatments include:

• infrared coagulation or laser, where infrared light is used to seal the veins above the pile causing it to shrink
• cryosurgery, which destroys the pile by freezing it – the pile will later shrink and fall off
• bipolar diathermy and direct current electrotherapy, where an electrical current is used to burn the hemorrhoids off

However, there is little scientific evidence to support the use of these treatments. More research is needed.

Hemorrhoid Surgery

There are various surgical treatments for hemorrhoids.

Conventional haemorrhoidectomy

This is the surgical removal of hemorrhoids and is only used if you have severe hemorrhoids and other treatments – such as banding and sclerotherapy – haven’t worked.

Conventional haemorrhoidectomy is done under general anaesthetic. This means you will be asleep during the operation. Your surgeon will cut the pile away from the muscle underneath and tie off the blood vessels to prevent bleeding. The exposed wound area will then heal naturally. Your surgeon may use stitches to close the wound.

Stapled haemorrhoidopexy

This is an alternative surgical technique that uses a specially-designed circular stapler. The stapler is inserted into the rectum and used to remove a doughnut-shaped piece of tissue above the hemorrhoids. This pulls the haemorrhoids back up the anal canal and also reduces the blood supply to the piles, which shrink as a result. Recently a review of the value of this operation showed that compared with conventional haemorrhoidopexy, stapled haemorrhoidopexy led to less pain afterwards, a shorter stay in hospital and a shorter recovery time. However, there was a greater risk of hemorrhoids returning and hanging down from your anus.

Haemorrhoidal artery ligation

In this procedure the small arteries that supply blood to the piles are tied with sutures. This causes the piles to shrink. It’s sometimes referred to as HALO (haemorrhoidal artery ligation operation) or rubber band ligation.

Special considerations

Very common are hemorrhoids in pregnant women. However, surgery is rarely considered an appropriate treatment since piles should get better after giving birth.

If you’re pregnant, it’s important to modify your diet to include more fibre as this will help to soften your bowel movements. If this doesn’t help, ask your GP about mild creams and ointments.

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