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Finding connection with others is one of our most basic needs as humans but in today's digital, it is sometimes harder than ever.   Lori Harder has become a master at finding her vibe tribe, both professionally and personally.   From her humble beginnings to her big, beautiful life, authentic connections have been her heartplace.  How does she do it?   In this episode, she discusses: - the importance of connection  - how to start finding your people  - how to know when people around you aren't your people  - how to create authentic connections in business and your personal life  - how to make sure the connections are authentic  - how to make sure your relationships will last Are you dealing with narcissists in your business or personal life?  Trying to navigate or negotiate how to break free?  Grab some coffee and come listen in on our convo.  Get the support you need here.  More About Lori Harder Lori Harder is a proven entrepreneur having built 3 separate seven-figure businesses. She is currently the founder and CEO of Lite Pink, a new light rosé flavored wine seltzer that helps women connect, collaborate, and celebrate. Lori is a best-selling author of A Tribe Called Bliss and runs a Forbes Top 18 female-led podcast called Earn Your Happy with over 27 million downloads. Her career started in the fitness industry as a former 3X fitness world champion, 11X fitness cover model, and also owned and operated her own gym. This experience quickly transitioned into a passion for business, where she helps women make money and is a leader in personal development. Her proven success led her to create her own online courses, educational entrepreneur events, and became a top earner, alongside her husband, Chris, in network marketing. Lori is the founder of the Bliss Project women’s event where thousands of women from around the world have attended each year for the past nine years. Lori and her husband currently reside in Scottsdale, AZ with their dog Bananas. _______________________________________________________________________________________ THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR INFORMATION:   Soberlink is a comprehensive alcohol monitoring system. Combining a breathalyzer with wireless connectivity, Soberlink automatically documents proof of sobriety in real-time, which gives clients a sense of accomplishment while rebuilding trust with others. Features Adaptive Facial Recognition technology Technology to detect physical tampers Real-time text message reminders and Alerts Customizable scheduling Automated reporting options Get an exclusive $50 off your device by emailing info@soberlink.com and mentioning Negotiate Your Best Life ____________________________________________________________________ For more information on REBECCA ZUNG, ESQ. visit her website www.rebeccazung.com and follow her on Instagram: @rebeccazung and YouTube! GRAB YOUR FREE CRUSH MY NEGOTIATION PREP WORKSHEET RIGHT HERE!  SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL RIGHT HERE.  Grab a copy of Rebecca's book, Negotiate Like You M.A.T.T.E.R.: The Sure Fire Method to Step Up and Win (foreword written by Robert Shapiro).   It went straight to being a #1 bestseller the first day it was launched!  Find out what everyone is so excited about - get the book RIGHT HERE!  To get your copy of Rebecca's bestselling book, Breaking Free: A Step by Step Guide to Achieving Emotional, Physical and Spiritual Freedom, please visit the Amazon website to order it RIGHT HERE.    _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONTACT US:  rebecca@rebeccazung.com WEBSITE:   www.rebeccazung.com ........................................................................................................................ Remember to follow THE NEGOTIATE YOUR BEST LIFE PODCAST on social media for updates and inside tips and information: Instagram Finally, we'd really appreciate it if you would visit iTunes and give us a 5 Star Rating and tell us what you like about the show - your feedback really matters  DISCLAIMER:  THE COMMENTARY AND OPINIONS AVAILABLE ON THIS PODCAST ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE.  YOU SHOULD CONTACT AN ATTORNEY IN YOUR STATE TO OBTAIN LEGAL ADVICE WITH RESPECT TO ANY PARTICULAR ISSUE OR PROBLEM.

Jenny speaks to Lori Harder, founder and CEO of Drink Lite Pink, best-selling author of “A Tribe Called Bliss”, and host of the “Earn Your Happy” Podcast. Lori shares her story of breaking the pattern of staying in relationships that no longer served her, and her realization that true growth happens when you surround yourself with like-minded people. She speaks about failure as an experiment that gives us data- and from this data we can learn what serves us in life, and what doesn’t. Lori’s powerful message tells us that being strong, means facing your fears, even when you’re scared. True strength is being willing to put everything on the line and just go for it, because this is where we truly evolve and grow.  Lori Harder Bio:Lori Harder is a proven entrepreneur having built 3 separate seven-figure businesses. She is currently the founder and CEO of Lite Pink, a new light rosé flavored wine seltzer that helps women connect, collaborate, and celebrate. Lori is a best-selling author of A Tribe Called Bliss and runs a Forbes Top 18 female-led podcast called Earn Your Happy with over 25 million downloads. Her career started in the fitness industry as a former 3X fitness world champion, 11X fitness cover model, and also owned and operated her own gym. This experience quickly transitioned into a passion for business, where she helps women make money and is a leader in personal development. Her proven success led her to create her own online courses, educational entrepreneur events, and became a top earner, alongside her husband, Chris, in network marketing. Lori is the founder of the Bliss Project women’s event where thousands of women from around the world have attended each year for the past nine years. Lori and her husband currently reside in Scottsdale, Arizona with their dog Bananas. Lori Harder Resources:Lori Harder WebsiteLori on IGLori on FacebookEarn Your Happy on IGLori's TweetsLite Pink Rose SeltzerLite Pink Rose Seltzer on IGGirlfriends and Business on IG If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating  and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser and Castbox. STRONG Fitness Magazine Subscription Use discount code STRONGGIRLResourcesSTRONG Fitness MagazineSTRONG Fitness Magazine on IGTeam Strong GirlsCoach JVBFollow Jenny on social mediaInstagramFacebookYouTube

Stripping down Lori Harder was SO much fun!!! Lori Harder is a proven entrepreneur having built 3 separate seven-figure businesses. She is currently the founder and CEO of Lite Pink, a new light rosé flavored wine seltzer that helps women connect, collaborate, and celebrate. Lori is a best-selling author of A Tribe Called Bliss and runs a Forbes Top 18 female-led podcast called Earn Your Happy with over 25 million downloads. Her career started in the fitness industry as a former 3X fitness world champion, 11X fitness cover model, and also owned and operated her own gym. This experience quickly transitioned into a passion for business, where she helps women make money and is a leader in personal development. Her proven success led her to create her own online courses, educational entrepreneur events, and became a top earner, alongside her husband, Chris, in network marketing. Lori is the founder of the Bliss Project women’s event where thousands of women from around the world have attended each year for the past nine years. Lori and her husband currently reside in Scottsdale, Arizona with their dog Bananas. For behind the scene looks, go to our IG @undressedpodcast. We feature pictures of Lori and her favorite looks. IG @loriharder https://www.loriharder.com/ Have a question? Call in and leave us a message. Your question might be answered on an upcoming show! (323) 212-5905. Want a revamp in your closet and style? You can sign up for the BREE JACOBY service by going to our website breejacoby.com and a stylist will reach out to you ASAP.

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Episode 136 features Luke Cooper, Founder, and CEO of Fixt and we highlight a lot of great lessons from his journey and provide key insights to help people get started on their own.Find Luke Online:Website: nomudnomagic.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukecooperbaltimore/Twitter: @readysetgrindMedium: https://medium.com/@Coop22/when-all-we-have-is-each-other-b0eeed3168caAbout Luke:Coop is the Founder and CEO of Fixt, a venture capital-backed technology startup (acquired in 2020 by Assurant, AIZ:NYSE) focused on providing on-demand smartphone repair services to large enterprises. As Founder of Fixt, Cooper guided the company to 400% year-over-year growth, raised a $7 million Series A, earned enterprise clients such as Home Depot, New York Police Department, The Carlyle Group, and IBM. In 2020, the Company was purchased for 11X revenue by Assurant, a $10B Fortune 500 leader in mobility protection.Before moving into entrepreneurship, Cooper started his career as an attorney at DLA Piper and then as In-House Counsel at State Farm. His first entrepreneurial experience was joining CTS, a cybersecurity software startup, as employee No. 1. On a single round of funding of $180,000, Cooper guided CTS to a $60 million exit to CACI within two years.His diverse trench experience as both a leader and entrepreneur has earned him a place on the TEDCO board of directors and as a trustee of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). In addition to a JD from Syracuse University, he holds an MBA from Babson College and was a scholarship basketball player at Adelphi University.........Follow the Just Get Started Podcast on Instagram at @justgetstartedpodcast or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/justgetstartedpodcast and to learn more about me and what’s going on in my world check out https://www.brianondrako.com/now/ or find me on Instagram at @brianondrako or twitter @brianondrako As always, I’d appreciate a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts if you believe I’ve earned it. -> Leave a Review See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Learn the basics of creating a predictable revenue with Aaron Ross as he talks about lead generation and building your first sales team. Lead generation in creating a predictable revenue What drives growth? What causes growth to stall? This is Aaron’s main lesson from Salesforce.com which was around $25M revenue and mostly in small companies when he joined; whereas they wanted to go up towards larger companies. They hired a lot of salespeople but it wasn’t bringing in qualified leads. So Aaron created a pipeline for this because you have to have a predictable leads creation system. Product-led growth is an interesting term. 3 types of leads - Seeds, Nets & Spears Seeds This is word of mouth - friends, family, customer referrals - organic growth. These are mostly free, have fast sales cycles and tend to be easier. These are however hard to grow Nets Marketing - one-to-many broadcasts, advertising, etc. It’s more about the number of leads rather than quality. Whether in e-commerce or B2B. Spears Outbound selling, - typically a targeted list and reaching out directly to see if it’s a fit. Eg distribution partner for e-commerce Or brand owners for agency owners These are harder to find but much more valuable potentially. How to decide which to focus on creating a predictable revenue Pick one or two things vs. Doing 20 things. What’s worked best for you? Content marketing? Google? Amazon Ads? Most people don’t invest in their strength enough before they plateau. They assume a marketing channel has plateaued much earlier than it has in fact. Look at your calling Look at your natural interest. Some people are just more into writing, social media, video or outbound selling. It could be a book or a webinar. Aaron is a book person. Any passion or enthusiasm helps because it takes a lot of work and time. This could take 6-18 months to grow. Get good at selling! A lot of people aren’t comfortable with the word “sales” - but it’s a skill you must have. It’s just a skill - helping people make decisions. Salespeople include Mother Theresa, JFK; Elon Musk. B2B Sales / Building Your First Sales Team  A lot of people won’t be a good fit for a sales team. It can take months or longer to begin to build a team. Phase Zero - CEO salesperson In Silicon Valley, a lot of founders don’t want to be part of selling. This is a huge mistake. The right ones try to be part of the first 20-30 sales. Then they get tired and hire a salesperson. Phase 1 - Business Development Rep Junior person who is there to take inbound calls or outbound prospecting So you have a junior person who is prospecting and one senior who closes. Of course, they will often fail -  you’ll normally know within 30-60 days. Phase 2 - Promote that person or hire Once you’ve got that rep in place, you can promote that person or hire another. So you now have a junior and two senior people Phase 3 - Hire a team leader  They are normally best at optimizing what is working. It’s a different skill set and personality to build from scratch. Do the time Building a sales team can be 2-3 years long! We hear so much about “overnight successes” but we don’t see the 10 years before that. Forcing Functions (e.g., speak & publish to crystallize value)  We all have resistance. Some people deal with stress by freezing like a rabbit in the headlights. Others are like a rabid dog! Forcing functions create situations that mean you can’t get away with this! Making public declarations with deadlines help For example: Aaron put a post on Facebook that he was going to run a workshop. If you take investor money, you can’t just have a relaxed lifestyle business now. That’s another classic forcing function in business. Having kids was another one for Aaron - he was forced to increase revenue and he upped his income 11X. If you want to get fit,

Learn the basics of creating a predictable revenue with Aaron Ross as he talks about lead generation and building your first sales team. Lead generation in creating a predictable revenue What drives growth? What causes growth to stall? This is Aaron's main lesson from Salesforce.com which was around $25M revenue and mostly in small companies when he joined; whereas they wanted to go up towards larger companies. They hired a lot of salespeople but it wasn't bringing in qualified leads. So Aaron created a pipeline for this because you have to have a predictable leads creation system. Product-led growth is an interesting term. 3 types of leads - Seeds, Nets & Spears Seeds This is word of mouth - friends, family, customer referrals - organic growth. These are mostly free, have fast sales cycles and tend to be easier. These are however hard to grow Nets Marketing - one-to-many broadcasts, advertising, etc. It's more about the number of leads rather than quality. Whether in e-commerce or B2B. Spears Outbound selling, - typically a targeted list and reaching out directly to see if it's a fit. Eg distribution partner for e-commerce Or brand owners for agency owners These are harder to find but much more valuable potentially. How to decide which to focus on creating a predictable revenue Pick one or two things vs. Doing 20 things. What's worked best for you? Content marketing? Google? Amazon Ads? Most people don't invest in their strength enough before they plateau. They assume a marketing channel has plateaued much earlier than it has in fact. Look at your calling Look at your natural interest. Some people are just more into writing, social media, video or outbound selling. It could be a book or a webinar. Aaron is a book person. Any passion or enthusiasm helps because it takes a lot of work and time. This could take 6-18 months to grow. Get good at selling! A lot of people aren't comfortable with the word “sales” - but it's a skill you must have. It's just a skill - helping people make decisions. Salespeople include Mother Theresa, JFK; Elon Musk. B2B Sales / Building Your First Sales Team  A lot of people won't be a good fit for a sales team. It can take months or longer to begin to build a team. Phase Zero - CEO salesperson In Silicon Valley, a lot of founders don't want to be part of selling. This is a huge mistake. The right ones try to be part of the first 20-30 sales. Then they get tired and hire a salesperson. Phase 1 - Business Development Rep Junior person who is there to take inbound calls or outbound prospecting So you have a junior person who is prospecting and one senior who closes. Of course, they will often fail -  you'll normally know within 30-60 days. Phase 2 - Promote that person or hire Once you've got that rep in place, you can promote that person or hire another. So you now have a junior and two senior people Phase 3 - Hire a team leader  They are normally best at optimizing what is working. It's a different skill set and personality to build from scratch. Do the time Building a sales team can be 2-3 years long! We hear so much about “overnight successes” but we don't see the 10 years before that. Forcing Functions (e.g., speak & publish to crystallize value)  We all have resistance. Some people deal with stress by freezing like a rabbit in the headlights. Others are like a rabid dog! Forcing functions create situations that mean you can't get away with this! Making public declarations with deadlines help For example: Aaron put a post on Facebook that he was going to run a workshop. If you take investor money, you can't just have a relaxed lifestyle business now. That's another classic forcing function in business. Having kids was another one for Aaron - he was forced to increase revenue and he upped his income 11X. If you want to get fit,

This week we welcome special guest Lee Rozins to the Sales IQ Podcast. Born and raised in New York Lee now lives in San Fransico working as the head of sales for Cheetah, the leading e-commerce solution for Small-Medium Business supplies. Lee has an astounding sales career and has done some incredible things ranging from being the #1 highest performing salesperson company-wide at Singleplatform to scaling his sales to by 11X from 4 to 45 people and their revenue by 10X to about 170 million in annualised sales. This week we talk about the mindset and the mentality that Lee discovered enabling him to become a master of his craft and how you can go about implementing this mentality in your own life to achieve success and take the next step in your career. Where you can find Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-rozins-40275723/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-rozins-40275723/)  Timestamps: [04:30] - How Lee entered into the world of sales [08:20] - Understanding the need for self improvement [10:10] - The struggle of not meeting personal expectations [11:45] - Lee's current role at Cheetah [14:50] - The mindset you should implement in your life to achieve success [18:20] - What Lee looks for in an employee [23:30] - The data behind why you should be calling people more than once [28:20] - The biggest influence in Lee's career

Support your association with EyeCode Clinical Update! Show Notes: Below is a (non-exhaustive) list of commonly used codes in optometry that if appropriate should be included on the claim form once per year even if it is a secondary diagnosis:   H40.10X(0,1,2,3,4) - Unspecified open-angle glaucoma H40.11X(0,1,2,3,4) - Primary open-angle glaucoma H40.121(0,1,2,3,4) - Low-tension glaucoma, right eye H40.122(0,1,2,3,4) - Low-tension glaucoma, left eye H40.123(0,1,2,3,4) - Low-tension glaucoma, bilateral H40.129(0,1,2,3,4) - Low-tension glaucoma, unspecified eye H40.131(0,1,2,3,4) - Pigmentary glaucoma, right eye H40.132(0,1,2,3,4) - Pigmentary glaucoma, left eye H40.133(0,1,2,3,4) - Pigmentary glaucoma, bilateral H40.139(0,1,2,3,4) - Pigmentary glaucoma, unspecified eye H40.15(1,2,3,9)      - Residual stage of open-angle glaucoma H43.1(0,1,2,3)        - Vitreous hemorrhage I10                          - Essential (primary) hypertension

Exodus 7:10-12 The serpent symbolized the beginning and end of time and fertility. (Genesis 3:1) The golden cobra on Pharaoh’s headdress was a symbol of the supreme ruler and of his power. Uroborus, a circular symbol of a serpent swallowing its own tail, was a symbol of rejuvenation and eternity, an endless cycle of beginning and ending. “Pharaoh hardened his heart” 4:21; 7:3,13,14 (stubborn), 22; 8:15, 19, 32; 9:7, 12, 34, 35; 10:1, 20, 27; 11:10; 14:4, 8 (18X). See Romans 9:17-23. Exodus 5:1-8 Pharaoh did not know who Yahweh was; it seems no one knew. This event revealed that Yahweh is the only one true God: 3:13-15 Moses 6:6-7 Israel 7:4-5 Egyptians 7:17; 8:9, 10, 21, 22; 9:13-14, 29 and 30 Pharaoh 9:16; Romans 9:17 The earth “I am Yahweh” 6:2, 6, 7, 8, 29; 7:5, 17; 10:2; 12:12; 14:4, 8 (11X) Exodus 7:13-17 “Let My people go” 5:1; 7:16; 8:1, 20, 21; 9:1, 13; 10:3, 4 (9X) “Sacrifice” 3:18; 5:3, 8, 17; 8:8, 25, 26 (2), 27, 28, 29; 10:25; 12:27: 13:15 (14X) 18-25 Let My people go so that they may worship and serve Me; Pharaoh refused; plague came. This is the pattern with all the plagues. 8:1-8 Each of the plagues attacked a false god in Egypt. This one was against Heket, the goddess of fertility, water, and renewal. Heket had a frog head. 8:9-15 Yahweh, not Heket, commanded the frogs. 8:16-19 Lice; 20-32 flies - god Khepri with head of a fly 9:1-12 Cattle die; 8-17 boils; 18-35 hail 10:1-20 Locusts; 21-29 darkness 11:1-12:32 First born died. Conclusion: God’s awesome power can eliminate anyone or anything that tries to prevent you from serving Him.

This week Ian, Gavin, Tim, and Andrew form the panel. They cover special forces recruiting, that RCMP losing another gun, $11M federal dollars to help Toronto’s guns and Gangs task force, Brad Blair being released from his position with the OPP, and Ontario banning cell phones in classrooms. The lugenpresse is also up to their usual hijinks with vaccine exemptions for students and increased costs for Toronto’s new smaller city council, at least until you read the details of both stories. Intro Andrew - Hello to all you patriots out there in podcast land and welcome to Episode 174 of Canadian Patriot Podcast, the number 2 engineering firm in Montreal podcast in Canada. Recorded March 18, 2019. Ian - Sport shooter, reloader, hobby farmer, and the token westerner on the panel.   Gavin - business owner, gun owner, hunter, atheist, volunteer first responder and CCFR field officer for the GTA Liberal Tim - husband father of Andrew - I’m  a recovering libertarian, competitive shooter, and firearms instructor at Ragnarok `Tactical We’d love to hear your feedback about the show. Please visit  canadianpatriotpodcast.com/feedback/ or email us at feedback@canadianpatriotpodcast.com A version of the show is Available on Stitcher at and iTunes http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=77508&refid=stpr and iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/canadian-patriot-podcast/id1067964521?mt=2 Check the podcast out on http://facebook.com/canadianpatriotpodcast and Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/canadianpatriotpodcast/ We need your help! To support the show visit patreon.com/cpp and become a patreon. You can get a better quality version of the show for just $1 per episode. 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Gavin - American Barrels Bourbon & Coke Zero Tim - Forty Creek Copper Pot and reverse osmosis water Andrew - Coors Banquet News Canadian Forces looking at recruiting elite, special-forces soldiers right off the street https://globalnews.ca/news/5029229/canada-special-forces-soldiers-recruit-street/?fbclid=IwAR1FnphB5Oo-WEO6gAM_tem5fJ2YFwoKRYy0yiL7GR_IwlriEvj4H9Pbo7k -compare to 18X and 11X option 40 contracts in US   RCMP officer's vehicle, badge and handgun stolen from northeast Calgary parking lot https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-rcmp-vehicle-badge-gun-stolen-police-1.5055146?fbclid=IwAR0HvGbKwSFdJpq7-7fo_70A7cBjPNPxDONO2cjJMwnNZ8dSvINNm0xzIz8   Minister Bill Blair announces $11 million to support Ontario’s guns-and-gang reduction strategy https://globalnews.ca/news/5046847/minister-blair-makes-funding-announcement-to-ontarios-action-against-guns-and-gangs/?fbclid=IwAR2RMgnEqan6bNp_Ova3AI66Toj3qLFjTapCJWK6ul9C-xJp7hmKkPhc-iI   Ford government fires OPP deputy Brad Blair, critic of Taverner appointment https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-deputy-commissioner-fired-1.5041873?fbclid=IwAR3CfF_uU2K5op5fYtXcgEJgFprjMxF-nuePUmzjNKQvPaT7qJJhzMf-VIc   Ontario to ban cellphones in classrooms next school year https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-school-classroom-cellphone-ban-1.5052564?fbclid=IwAR3Ic_UQOTo8tkpW-rtJVr_7GXfR5qUFf3uPQt1JUD9YkeIjSuzNlRxftU8 https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1350.pdf   Ontario's mandatory class for parents seeking vaccine exemptions has ‘zero conversions' https://nationalpost.com/news/ontarios-mandatory-class-for-parents-seeking-vaccine-exemptions-has-zero-conversions?fbclid=IwAR2jtz72_GYo75apTv4-PCJgKBYvSooYQJgqGn-n0Cp71nvTIThjMG2xqvc   New smaller Toronto City council costing more than the previous one https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/03/new-smaller-toronto-city-council-costing-more-previous-one/   PHOTOS: Wild Turkey Chases Postal Worker Every Day in Mississauga https://www.insauga.com/photos-wild-turkey-chases-postal-worker-every-day-in-mississauga?fbclid=IwAR1JR0Ez8Bn1wm48LAy_RizoDb_bTJ9xAShP9jZ5-Vob-OskUCrmgPm03no   Rapid Fire Feedback Subject: No updates on iTunes Gentlemen (and Eric), I have been going into withdrawal during my boring commute to and from work, as your podcast episodes have not been making it to iTunes since the end of February. I became so desperate for inebriated criticisim of socialism, and other fine discussions, that I checked utube. Then I became depressed when I saw that you have been sharing your collective wisdom there, but not on iTunes. What’s going on? Did some libtard at Apple piss in your whiskey? Are commie bastards censoring your freedom to speak? I hope you can resolve this soon, before I have to resort to watching utube videos while driving. Thanks, Despondent in Drumbo   Subject: Review iTunes doesn’t make it easy to write reviews. Listen to the podcast frequently, if you find a way to leave reviews on iTunes, let’s everyone know. Outro Andrew - https://ragnaroktactical.ca/ Visit us at www.canadianpatriotpodcast.com like us on Facebook at www.facebook.comcanadianpatriotpodcast We value your opinions so please visit www.canadianpatriotpodcast.com/feedback/ or email us at feedback@canadianpatriotpodcast.com and let us know what you think. 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Dr. Ziya Ma, vice president of Intel® Software and Services Group and director of Data Analytics Technologies, gives Chip Chat listeners a look at data center optimization along with a preview of advancements well underway. In their work with the broad industry, Dr. Ma and her team have found that taming the data deluge calls for IT data center managers to unify their big data analytics and AI workflows. As they’ve helped customers overcome the memory constraints involved in data caching, Apache Spark*, which supports the convergence of AI on big data, has proven to be a highly effective platform. Dr. Ma and her team have already provided the community a steady stream of source code contributions and optimizations for Spark. In this interview she reveals that more – and even more exciting work – is underway. Spark depends on memory to perform and scale. That means optimizing Spark for the revolutionary new Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory offers performance improvement for the data center. In one example, Dr. Ma describes benchmark testing where Spark SQL performs eight times faster at a 2.6TB data scale using Intel Optane DC persistent memory than a comparable system using DRAM DIMMs. With Intel Optane DC persistent memory announced and broadly available in 2019, data centers have the chance to achieve workflow unification along with performance gains and system resilience starting now. For more information about Intel’s work in this space, go to software.intel.com/ai. For more about how Intel is driving advances in the ecosystem, visit intel.com/analytics. Performance results are based on Intel internal testing: 8X faster insights (8/2/2018) based on Apache Spark* SQL IO intensive queries for Analytics vs. DRAM+HDD at 2.6TB data scale; 9X read transactions and 11X users per system (5/29/2018) based on Apache* Cassandra-4.0 workload doing 100% reads vs. comparable server system with DRAM & NAND NVME Drives; 12.5X faster restart times (5/30/2018) based on running SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03, and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. No product can be absolutely secure. Configurations: Results have been estimated based on tests conducted on pre-production systems, and provided to you for informational purposes. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to www.intel.com/benchmarks. Intel, the Intel logo, and Optane are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. © Intel Corporation.

EP133 - Hot Take: Adobe acquires Magento  Adobe announced that they are acquiring Magento commerce for $1.68b.  It was disclosed as part of the deal that last year magento’s revenues were $150m, so that’s a 11X multiple which is pretty awesome.  Adobe’s largest deal in decade. Adobe announcement Magento Blog Mark Lavelle, CEO, and Peter Sheldon VP Strategy at Magento Commerce were on Episode 50 of the Jason & Scot Show. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 133 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, May 21st 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 133 being recorded on Monday May 21st 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your hoes Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason are welcome back Jason Scott show listeners this is one of those unusual times. You're actually recording back-to-back shows and Publishing them simultaneously that's because we had previously planned put out our. NPD idea show recap which you should be able to find right there in your favorite podcast listener, device select / technology, and then the universe was curveball there was a big announcement after the market today and that announcement was that a Doe B is acquiring which into Commerce for 1.6. Billion dollars that's billion with a B it was. Disclosed as part of the deal that last year magenta revenues were a hundred fifty million that's already some analysts notes that are saying they would expect that to be about 180 million this year that's 11% multiple witches. Pretty awesome for Magento and also adobe's largest deal in over a decade. So what we're going to do here is a pretty short show because it is very timely and, just got to get share some background on these two companies and their aspirations and some of the things that have happened to them before and then. Jason is our resident. [1:58] E-commerce platform Guru I'm going to send him some lightning around rapid fire questions to kind of get some analysis what that means for both Adobe Magento and then some other. [2:11] Books out there so we can kick it off with a brief history of Magento. [2:16] And I'll cover that and then Jason oil run you run us through adobe's e-commerce history. So would you do was born in 2007 it's an open source project which means you have this collaboration of people, they got together and there was a commercial company and Roy Rubin and you've cut his eyes at you. Jason: [2:38] Aren't you don't know a Metroid but I never met you oh so I'm going to assume that's you got a ride. Scot: [2:46] Listening you can write in and I would have better phonetic. We have six new they released this isn't what they were planning on doing was taking a. You know I previously open sourcing in making improvements but they did so much changes they came up with the whole new offering and so. That started as a community project and then they monetize it to an Enterprise offering that initially just had some support and then later on had, kind of different feature set than the community offering Bob Schwartz join in 2009 he is a guy that I think pretty much everyone in the world e-commerce is met several times he still out and about, a great guy has enterprise software background really ramped them up and. Jason: [3:27] Side note is a Jason and Scott show Wisner as well so shut out to Bob and Bob used to run e-commerce at Nordstrom. Scot: [3:34] Hey Bob Hope you had still had some more options in here somewhere I'm not sure if that's possible but hopefully did he so then they sold Magento to eBay for $180 which was a great eggs. Because we didn't raise a ton of capital of my recollection is maybe 20 to 30 million. [3:53] Pair to today's companies you know, 6 x 2 money raised so that was good eggs. Jason: [3:58] And by the way I think a bunch of that raise was from eBay. Scot: [4:03] Yeah yeah eBay wasn't investor through the PayPal site but they. A combined company at that point and it's part of that deal they got PayPal integrative Magento that was kind of what they were after there, oxa 2011 eBay acquired the whole entity and owned it until 2015 eBay had bought both GSI and Magento and then, put them out in 2015 along with the PayPal split so eBay sold the Magento asset to a private Equity Firm called permira. And that was for about 200 million so kind of sideways kind of a deal I don't know the specifics that I've heard mentioned took kind of went sideways while I was in the in the eBay ownership Cyril the key people left. [4:48] Then once it was free from eBay in 2017 the private Equity Firm raise an additional 250 million from a large Chinese investor called Hillhouse capital. And. We actually had the CEO of Mark Lavelle here on episode 50 of the Jason Scott show so that was exciting to have him on a side note we do have a 10% finders fee so when there's an exit, I at we and you put on the show we would like a 10% finders fee it's just a small thing of it is like that it's just a very small thank you to the podcast doomed. Look at you that exit it's hard to nail down exactly how big Magento is because unlike a sass platform you no one there. Publishing the source code out there they don't have many people are licensing dinner price version they don't really know how many people are using the Community Edition. There are companies that spider the web and they'll kind of show tell you there's this many websites that they don't know how big they are from a sales perspective so it is hard to know how many active users there are over gento. I've seen kind of numbers in the 300,000 range for both Community Enterprise I think Enterprises in the low thousands so like 1 to 3000. And that is a brief history of magenta. Jason: [6:09] Yep and I just one other side note on how hard it is to know what size they are like also because it's it can be at one time. License or or download a free version like you don't know where there's someone that that got your software is still using your software a year later and so there's actually a lot of sort of. Orphan sites out there that might still be turned on but aren't actively selling stuff that are running running Magento so it makes it even harder to know how many how many active sites you know with meaningful volume Iran on the planet. Scot: [6:41] Yeah a lot of times you'll see this announcement you know like he was Pottery Barn Pottery Barn. That's a huge win the you dig around you look around and they find it's like. The kids furniture couch category in Australia. So it's really tricky. These things can pretty seamlessly be integrated with each other and and you'll find a lot of times, I see Magento used by larger players as a cross-border trade kind of thing of increasingly that's going over to different platforms like Shopify because just the ease of use of spending those up is a lot lower than the on the SAS guys can spend up a new store pretty quickly compared to the open-source guns. Jason: [7:25] Yep for sure Magento for some smaller Brands it's their primary platform but for many bigger Brands it's a. A utility platform that use for particular use cases in and you know smaller markets would definitely be one of those, I was in a side note it's mainly an on-premise solution but there have been a couple efforts over the history of Magento to sell it is SAS so I think even during the eBay ear or maybe right after that you bet your other was this product Magento go, that was sort of intended to be a low in SAS solution that might have competed more directly it was low but now Shopify. But yeah it's you know it's it's a mix of of implementation patterns for for Magento and as we talked about with Mark. [8:15] The bulk of users are on this first generation platform that the Troy and you are put together magenta one when Mark was on the show they had just released a major, re architecture Magento this called Magento to but you know obviously. He a significant number of those the small clients did not immediately move over to to Magento 2 and so you know there's. When you're talking about the Magento installed base right you know one of the questions that you're you want to know is like what percentage of the users are even on the the current. [8:49] The newest iteration of the platform review off. Scot: [8:54] Yeah so then why would a Dobby care about this day how's the Titan with Photoshop. Jason: [9:00] Adobe has a very popular product that we are all from there with Call of the Adobe Creative Suite which is like a Photoshop and Premiere and the the audio editing software we use for this podcast called in addition, but they have another Suite of products that they call the Adobe experience cloud. And this is a sweet of sort of Enterprise products that are used to host a lot of commercial websites so the. To my way of thinking the disorder, Cornerstone of the experience cloud is Adobe AEM which is there big CMS I think it's the most popular most successful CMS in the world it hosts, tons of Big Brand websites like Mercedes-Benz and all these different. Brands that you don't have non transactional websites would use Adobe AEM it's hosted SAS solution for for those kinds of. [10:01] Use cases you actually can also buying on on Prime version of am still but then there's a bunch of other app. Pieces of the experience Cloud that are pure SASS and so the one that comes up the most often in the Commerce world is. A product they bought a number of years ago called omniture which is a web analytics platform that competes with like Google Analytics. That's been rebranded Adobe analytics over the years and it's a very popular e-commerce analytics sweet that used by a lot of commercial websites we've had Tamara on number of times, change some of the data from. From that platform and they have a bunch of other e-commerce tools that they bought ATM was originally from a company called a software. They bought an image technology called seeing seven that that a lot of website you use to resize images on the Fly four different sides. They now have a other marketing tools I got DMP campaign manager. [11:09] Sort of a next-generation ESP personalization engine they have a a b testing platform that used to be called the Adobe test and Target. Insa Dave Dave sort of in the same way that they put together all of their their creative software for end-users together. [11:27] They put this whole sweet of Enterprise packages together that are used by big companies to host websites and the one big glaring hole in that sweet is an increasing number of those, does companies that are relying on the Adobe experience stack to create their web experience. Want to sell stuff online and Adobe did not have an e-commerce platform so you know what Adobe historically has had is a. Integration framework to let you use the Adobe experience sweet alongside someone else's e-commerce platform like. [12:02] IBM Oracle sap or Magento elasta path and I think digital River or the big ones. So for a long time we suspected that adobe did want to own a platform. You know obviously I mention IBM has has their their big platform and they're trying to grow out a full marketing Suite to compete with the Adobe experience platform. Oracle you know bought a number of companies and is put together a marketing Suite that competes with Adobe in or colognes. Several e-commerce platforms but I think the the one we think of most for e-commerce is used to be called atg. [12:43] And then back in 2013 sap bot hybris. A lot of people were using hybris and Adobe together at that time and they were you know they were rumors that adobe was one of the. The bitters on hybris and lost out to sap in 2013 I'm not sure that deal size was disclosed but like all the estimates were over a billion dollars back then. Then we know in June of 2016 like the most successful. SAS base in a B2B Cloud out there salesforce.com bought demandware and I think that was 2.8 billion dollars. And I think it was fully disclosed that adobe was one of the bidders. Fordham and where and so we seen Adobe out there trying to acquire a Commerce platform and seems like today's the day they got it done. Scot: [13:37] Cool so that gives us the background let's do kind of a little lightning around here what's this mean for Adobe so they've got this content peas that got this experience Cloud why, yeah you know why does Adobe need an e-commerce platform. Jason: [13:54] Hot tub, again like most of the brands that are hosting websites on AEM and that are tracking analytics on Adobe Analytics. [14:05] Either already are selling Goods or want to sell goods and so historically adobe's had to partner with someone that provided an e-commerce platform and the functionality of that e-commerce platform competed with the functionality of the Adobe experience Cloud so. Adobe would want you to save the data and they experience the customer data in the experience cloud and I would want you to say the customer data. And in Webster Commerce and promotion engines and all these different things and so. [14:34] Now Adobe has the potential to have a seamless solution that allows all these brands that are hosting websites on AEM to sell Goods, and you know they can have a very homogeneous solution that shares data across all these these different pieces of the solution. Scot: [14:54] Got it, and then so most of the Magento customers are kind of SM he's so small medium size Enterprises it sounds like the Adobe customer service trying to make transactional you mention Mercedes-Benz that's obviously you know very large company. Probably I don't know how big this Adobe content management thing is but it's probably pretty expensive so it feels like adobe's going to want to take Magento upmarket does that is going to create a problem for existing users. Jason: [15:22] Potentially you registered it on paper this is not a perfect match up right it's a well-known popular e-commerce platform and a well-known popular experience platform so that you know that superficial level it makes sense, but the, right below that you're exactly right like the the bulk of the Magento customers are long tail smbs or you know mid-market at best and that the core Adobe customer is an Enterprise client you know there are you likely spent several million dollars on their implementation of the rest of the the, the Adobe experience Cloud Adobe is a pierce a solution, you know it the moment you know most of the magenta stuff is not sass add Adobe stack is mostly based on Java the Magento stack is based on on lamp or PHP so, like they're they're definitely going to be some, some challenges I got you know it's super early I haven't seen a Doe B come out with the message yet but hopefully in the in the next you know several days they should really put out a message to put the Magento customer base at ease, because if I was in Magento customer I might be nervous that adobe is going to move them up Market going to want to move it to a SAS illusion, and a lot of in a small businesses pick magenta because they could own it they could, you know customize it and have access to the code themselves and they could host it themselves and so you know I think, on the one hand I'm sure those customers are excited that there's some deeper pockets and you know potential for bigger Investments to kind of accelerate the Magento road map. [17:01] But you could also imagine that the Adobe is going to shift the Magento roadmap in a way that isn't particularly advantageous to a lot of those SM Beats. Scot: [17:11] Cool so another Domino has fallen or I like the musical chair metaphor so so now we've got to know the Discover the marriage here between Magento in Adobe one of the companies that's kind of always mentioned that doesn't have any Commerce platform now on the large software Cloud side, is Microsoft you can make a stretch and say. Google does Charlie have one you can even straight to say Amazon doesn't have one but but Amazon was in that business and kind of got out of it I think they pretty squirrely believe though. [17:44] The marketplace is coming to the Future there I guess eBay doesn't have one but they don't wanted and didn't really suggest it very well so it's a. Now that's that's one side of the equation then you have Shopify and Bigcommerce shopify's a public company with about a 20 billion market cap. That's a really big bite for someone to take there and then Bigcommerce is private but they've raised three or four hundred million so that's going to be probably a bigger lift than. Magento what what do you think is the next Domino toppling in this platform world. Jason: [18:18] Yep I don't know that there's going to be an immediate counter-reaction here so the. The other you know the Enterprise company that you mentioned that has a lot of the other elements of a quote-unquote marketing cloud like you can really think of. Sap IBM Oracle salesforce.com and now Adobe, really competing for the same core Enterprise customer right and in today I'll even need complete offering skin to compete with each other the the other company that competes with the awful lot of those Stacks is Microsoft, and so you know you on the one hand you'd say hey they would be a really interesting acquire now Microsoft at the moment doesn't have a CMS or a e-commerce sweet but they do have a very robust Erp system, Microsoft dynamics that includes a CRM that competes with. Salesforce.com they of course have the the web hosting Services through azure, so you on the one hand you could imagine Microsoft wanting to more directly compete with IBM Oracle sap and Salesforce in Adobe but on the other hand, Adobe actually I think is moving most of their SAS hosting services to azure, and they're actually several a cms's I know a sitecore and episerver that RT run on the Microsoft stack so there is a. A counter argument that that Microsoft is doing well by supporting. [19:52] Multiple players and that you know if they were to acquire a single CMS in a single Commerce platform. Did they would potentially alienate some other partner so you know I don't know whether the calculus is there for Microsoft. Show choir and I would say Microsoft in the distant past did on a Commerce platform and didn't do very well with it it's actually. It changed hands a number of times and is I think now part of the sitecore solution. So you know maybe they they eat are a little tainted from their their previous unsuccessful Commerce ownership that they don't make that play again. There are a bunch of smaller Converse platforms that don't have the kind of traction that Magento has from a customer base that are much more. [20:40] Are arguably more modern architecture there's folks like Commerce tools and Symphony Commerce mahzu there's a host of these other you know. Companies that probably hoped to be acquired but never you know don't have the customer base yet that the Magento does. I'm so will they continue to go out alone is it going to be harder for them in this world where you know that their competitors are owned by these big Deep Pockets. That's going to be interesting play and a dark horse to buy a Converse platform to me would be some of these social networks so could you imagine Facebook, buying a Commerce platform either to make available to their their customers or enable better at Commerce, functionality and their echo system could you imagine Pinterest. Or you know Instagram or SnapChat you know having more robust Commerce features to integrate into their platform would be another. [21:37] Potential play like that there's some problems with that but you know there will be guys that you might you might see sniffing the tires on some of these these e-commerce platforms. Scot: [21:47] Sniffing the tears I never heard that usually you sniff around or you kick tires at yes. Jason: [21:51] The tires or sniff around yes I don't know if I mentioned this or not but this is the second show we recorded in a way. In a row so I'm I'm mixing some metaphors sorry. [22:04] I'm not the brightest bulb in the in the knife drawer away. Scot: [22:06] Any last thoughts on the platform Wars as it were before we close up. Jason: [22:18] No I mean from my perspective I'm excited to wear a big Adobe partner I should say and I'm excited to see them making a bigger investment in Commerce oh that is exciting it again. Yeah I don't think Magento is a plug-and-play Panacea for Adobe and so it's going to be interesting. Adobe has done a really good job of integrating all their other Acquisitions but they they were not in a particular hurry to do it they took a long time, and slowly evolved all these Acquisitions into this this more homogeneous Cloud so you know where they going to do the same slope play with Magento, that would be good for the existing Magento users but it would take a long time for Doby to get value out of this acquisition or you know will they do something on a more accelerated Pace to build Magento into the kind of. Enterprise solution that fits the rest of the Adobe stacked like I'm going to be really, eager to follow that and I would argue that we're still having those same conversations around demandware and Salesforce in that like Salesforce with predominantly of B2B play, demandware you know Excel to be to see you and wasn't very good at B2B. You know they were not on the on the same stack and so you know along while we're watching Adobe in and Magento figure out their negation plan I think we're still closely watching. The the demandware which is now called Salesforce Commerce cloud and Salesforce integration play out and then I think we mention this. [23:53] This is maybe a couple weeks old news but the Salesforce actually bought another Commerce platform called Commerce cloudcraze, that is a pure B2B e-commerce platform that was actually built on top of the. The Salesforce tax so so so sources continuing to evolve there there, strategy in some really interesting ways as well so this. [24:16] We kind of been static in the Commerce platform Wars for a little while and this is you know where this this month we're seeing some pretty exciting disruption so I'm I'm eager to see how it all plays out. Scot: [24:27] Yeah who knows maybe sap and Oracle decide they could always use one more platform. Jason: [24:32] Yes I do like. [24:36] Clearly these platforms are all have a significant amount of volume through it and you know a lot of the Legacy sites are on them I think it's an open question whether these any of these Legacy platforms are the future of the business like there's, there's an argument that we're at the the most recent trend is I'll call it done platforming is actually moving off of these like shrink wrap full-featured e-commerce platforms. And moving to a lighter-weight set of apis and microservices you know you talked to a lot of cio's and that's the. The the kind of stacked that they're more interested in but we don't have a ton of great examples of big retailers like embracing that model just yet so it'll it'll be interesting to see if. Any of these big Legacy platforms kind of transform in that direction or whether they. They continue to win out against that there's newer architectures or whether some of these up-and-coming architectures can can kind of disrupt the market. [25:34] But that's a great place to retrieve the quick-hit cuz I know we wanted to get it a short quick read out for a listeners in as things evolve what will you know. Potentially do a deeper dive on some of these platforms down the road but if you have any questions about the platforms or would like to discuss this and more length. We certainly encourage you to jump on our Facebook page and the post a question and will, will get back to you as always if you found any value in this heartache we would love it if you jump over to iTunes and give us a a 5-star review. Scot: [26:07] Thanks for joining us everyone and remember if you're going to sniff the tires make sure the car is not running. Jason: [26:14] And while you're doing that have a happy commercing.

The Secrets to Get Up To 15 X’s More Views of Your LinkedIn Profile - Part 1: I have always thought of your LinkedIn Profile as your personal billboard to sell yourself, yet I see so many people making the mistake of not filling out their profile correctly. There are a few reasons why you want to fill out your profile 100%: 49% of B2B Buyers use LinkedIn to find products and services 84% of C Level Buyers use LinkedIn to find products and services 50% of buyers will ignore a profile that is not complete So with these facts, by not having a complete profile, you are being passed over for potential opportunities in 50% of the time. First 3 Profile Tips: Below are the first 3 LinkedIn Profile Tips that you can use to clean up your profile and make it work to your advantage: How to Update Your LinkedIn Profile: Go to your name or picture on the main page on the left hand side or go to “Me” on the menu bar and click “View Profile”. On your LinkedIn profile, you can click the pencil icon on the upper right hand side on each section. How to Create a Background Profile Photo with Canva: If you want to create a great looking background photo that is personalized for you, I would suggest using Canva.com.  You can see an example if you go to my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishamiltonca. How Create a Profile Backdrop in Canva: Go to Canva.com Under “Create a Design” click “More” on the right hand side Scroll down to “Social Media & Email Headers” Select LinkedIn Banner and you will be directed to a new page where you can start your picture Select Layouts and pick a layout that you might want to use Then you can change or add different elements such as adding photos, shapes, lines, icons and more In the text section you can add text, change the test styles and more In the background section you can add different colors or pictures In the uploads section you can add your own pictures Once you are happy with the results you can download your picture and then add it to your LInkedIn profile. How to Add your Canva LinkedIn Banner to your LinkedIn Profile: Go to LinkedIn On the left hand side you will see your profile - Click your name and you will be directed to your profile page In your profile page you will see a link “Update background photo” - Click it You will be prompted to select a photo - Select the Canva LinkedIn Profile Backdrop image you created You can drag the photo to reposition it if you need to Click Save and you are done Canva is pretty intuitive to use and the nice thing is that it is free to use too.  It may take some time to create your backdrop, but it is well worth it. Tips: Try to include your contact information on your Canva LinkedIn profile backdrop.  This way people can find your contact information and reach out to you. Also if you might want to think about adding any tag lines, value prop or call to action in the picture. Add a Profile Picture and get 11X’s More Views: A picture is worth a thousand words.  Your LinkedIn picture is worth a lot of money. The number one rule is to have a professional photo done for your LinkedIn profile. This is one of the first things that people look at on your LinkedIn profile. In fact, 50% of B2B buyers use LinkedIn to source suppliers. 50% of those buyers will avoid an incomplete profile and the first thing that usually see on a profile is the picture, so make it count. In addition, profiles with a picture get viewed 11 X’s more often. There is a great service that you can use called PhotoFeeler, that will tell you how likeable, competent and influential your LinkedIn profile photo is.  PhotoFeeler has a free account or you can pay for the service. What Photofeeler does is have 10+ people rate your photo on 3 characteristics; Competence, Likability and Influence.  What they also found is that the two strongest traits fro LinkedIn are Competence and Influence. Here are some do not’s for your LinkedIn profile photo: No selfies Don’t have your pet in your picture How to Use Your Headline To Generate Sales Leads: Your LinkedIn Profile headline is one of the first things that people see on your profile. What LinkedIn does is pull in your most current job title.  So you may see something like “Territory Sales Representative for XYZ Company”.  Honestly, that is not very compelling. What you have to do is give a reason for someone to reach out to you. I use the following formula for a LinkedIn headline: Who you are + results you get + a call to action For example, my headline is: Your SMB Sales and Marketing Go To Person Who Can Generate Up To 10 X’s More Sales Leads - Ask me how. So following my rule, here are the components: Who your are - “Your SMB Sales and Marketing Go To Person” Results you get - “Who Can Generate Up To 10 X’s More Sales Leads” Call to action - “Ask me how” Tip: Do not use your phone number or your email address in the headline, this breaches LinkedIn’s terms and conditions and you can have your account shut down. In the next post I will give you even more LinkedIn Profile post tips and tricks that you can use to generate more views of your profile and potentially more sales leads.

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