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30%of investors never

read their prospectus.

Source Investment Company Institute.

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80% think reading aprospectus is like eatingtheir vegetables.

Source ICI – 80% of investors read some, verylittle or do not read the prospectus.

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92% of Vegetables findthat insulting .

Recent survey of legumes and leafygreens.

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Radishes don’t

mind.

Source: International Radish Council.

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Shareholder

Communications arenot as tasty asvegetables.Have you ever tasted a proxy?

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They taste more likecarbon spread on

dead trees.According to Pat McGrew, Kodak’s Director of IndustryMarketing who apparently tests that sort of thing.

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Because that’s

what they are.

Yuck!

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If you were a Forest youwould be afraid of Shareholder

Communications.

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Not that kind of Forest!

This kindof Forest!

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98.5% of trees object

to being turned into pulp .Research margin of error plus or minus

1.5%

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Run Forest.

Run!

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It’s time to think about the

environment, the

bottom line andyour shareholders.And perhaps, occasionally, radishes.

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‘Cause there’s arevolutioncoming. . .Revenge of the

Trees? No!

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A Revolution .. .In how companies

communicatewith

Shareholders.

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Shareholdercommunications used to

be a monologue .A very BORING monologue…

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It should be a

conversation.

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A highlyregulated conversation.

No, our lawyers didn’t make us saythat.

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There’s a lot to talkabout.

Say on Pay. Sustainability. CorporatePerformance. Majority Voting. ProxyAccess. Your brand. P8 Group. InvestorRelations. Governance. Election of

Officers. Voting Records. Fund Expenses.Reputation Risk. What’s with that hairstyle?

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People are talking.

Even people atpublic companies.

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Best Buy, CGI, Chevron, Cisco, Dell, EMCCorp, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson &

Johnson, Oracle, Microsoft, NASDAQ QMX,Novartis, Pitney Bowes, Proctor & Gamble,Putnam Funds, Rio Tinto, Royal DutchShell, Sun, Time Warner, UPS all havesenior executives on Twitter.

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Companies are using

websites, social media, e-presentment, virtual

meetings, mobile data, XBRLand sustainable print toimprove theirshareholdercommunications.

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It’sRevolutionary!

And highly effective.

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Learn to revolutionize your shareholdercommunications bymaking them moreEffective, Efficient

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