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Founded in 1996 in Dallas, where the conference was held this year, FSTEC was founded by Accelerate host Rob Grimes with the support of 5 suppliers at the time - PAR, NCR, Micros (Oracle) ReMACS, and IBM. Fast forward to present day, and Rob reflects on his recent attendance of the conference from September 15-17th.So what were the major subjects and themes this year? Artificial Intelligence could not be avoided, but the underlying conversations really surrounded the ability to do more with data and AI. Generation gaps was also a buzz topic, about how different demographics are using technology and being able to speak to all of them.There's also the idea that nuanced technologies in the marketplace will eventually be able to engage cross-industry. Rob notes “I've gone to many shows where the coffee, pizza, beverage and equipment areas, are separate from the restaurant section, and we find technology in each. I think moving forward we'll see more technology that will cut across the board” If you want to hear about more the macro and micro conversations that took place at FSTEC, and what the role of the technologist is moving forward, you won't want to miss this episode of Accelerate.

Anika Costa and Dr. Paulie Gavoni joined me in Session 239 to discuss their latest book, Quick Wins: Using Behavior Science to Accelerate and Sustain School Improvement. In our conversation we talk about why they felt this book was necessary, who represents their ideal reader, and whether we ask too much of school leaders. That last point is something I've been thinking about a lot recently, as we oftentimes ask people with no background in behavior analysis to engage in complex activities like pinpointing performance indicators, diagnosing performance problems, and so on. We also talk about the distinction between leading and lagging indicators, viewing relationships as accomplishments, their Quick Walk protocol, and what things leaders should do before providing corrective feedback to staff members. Paulie and Anika are presenting what sounds like a great talk at this year's Stone Soup Conference, which by the way, if you decide to attend, you can save on your registration by using the promo code, PODCAST. Lastly, the three of us engaged in a little shameless self-promotion by talking about the project we've been working on called The Behavioral Toolbox, which is essentially an e-learning site we built for school-based professionals who are interested in learning how to improve student behavior in educational settings.  We just launched our first course, Ready, Set, Consult! and we have many more in various stages of development. If you work in these types of settings, please check it out. I should also note that the courses we're designing aren't just for Behavior Analysts. We've done our best to communicate in plain English rather than behavioral jargon so that the content is as accessible as possible. To stay up to date on all things toolbox related, be sure to sign up for The Behavioral Toolbox's newsletter on LinkedIn.   

Going Long Podcast SERIES HIGHLIGHT Episode 353: Jump from Wall St. to Main St. to Accelerate your R.E.I. To see the Video Version of today's conversation just CLICK HERE. In the conversation with today's guest, Josh Plave, you'll learn the following:   [00:20 - 04:36] Show introduction with comments from Billy. [04:36 - 07:40] Guest introduction and first questions. [07:40 - 12:06] The backstory and decisions made that led Josh to this point in his journey.  [12:06 -14:47] Why Josh decided to invest long distance and out of state in Real Assets rather than only investing in his home market locations. [14:47 - 18:22] The importance of teams in the ability to create success, and how Josh goes about creating those teams. [18:22 - 23:24] The lowdown on Self Directed I.R.As.  [23:24 - 26:29] Some of the things you are able and not able to do with regards to taxes and retirement funds.  [26:29 - 28:24] All about accessing large amounts of capital that you may have in a retirement fund, and how you are able / allowed to move and use this capital. [28:24 - 32:40] Josh explains about the idea behind his reinvestment system ‘Wall to Main', and the kinds of people that they are helping to benefit from taking this action. Here's what Josh shared with us during today's conversation:    Where in the world Josh is based currently: Charlotte, North Carolina. The most positive thing to happen in the past 24 hours: His 6 month old daughter has just learned how to wave!  Favourite European City: Copenhagen, Denmark. A mistake that Josh would like you to learn from so that you don't have to pay full price: Work out the best way to communicate properly with those that you work with and go into deals with, and do it upfront rather than waiting until after the fact! Book Recommendations: Blue Ocean Strategy. by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim.   Be sure to reach out and connect with Josh Plave by using the info below: Website: https://www.walltomain.com/    Start taking action TODAY so that you can gain more Education and Control over your financial life.   To see the Video Version of today's conversation just CLICK HERE.   How to leave a review for The Going Long Podcast: https://youtu.be/qfRqLVcf8UI    Are you an Accredited Investor that's tired of getting crushed by paying so much in income tax? Find out how we're helping others like you keep Uncle Sam out of your pocket. Go to https://www.firstgencp.com/goinglong   Be sure to connect with Billy!  He's made it easy for you to do…Just go to any of these sites:   Website: www.billykeels.com Youtube: billykeels Facebook: Billy Keels Fan Page Instagram: @billykeels Twitter: @billykeels LinkedIn: Billy Keels

In this episode, hosts Jessica Flint and Andrea Wells delve into the power of analogies for overcoming fear in eating disorder recovery, before sharing a new analogy in today's lesson designed to help you make courageous changes when faced with fear. Join Jessica and Andrea as they discuss the importance of trust, the concept of confidence, and the deep knowing that comes from lived experience with an eating disorder.Key Lessons: Analogies and metaphors provide visual representations that can change our perspective on fear. Confidence is rooted in trust - a full, all-in trust in ourselves and our abilities to handle fear. Lived experience fosters confidence and allows us to guide others on their recovery journey. Overcoming fear requires letting go of micromanaging and embracing trust to move forward towards our desired outcomes. SHOW NOTES -  Have you hit the brakes in recovery? Use THIS to accelerate forward JOIN THE COURAGE CLUB WAITLISTVisit jointhecourageclub.comCONNECT WITH RECOVERY WARRIORS Check out articles on the Website  Follow on Instagram Like us on Facebook Learn more about the Podcast

In an era where we need to build green energy system rapidly, ‘permitting reform' has become a confusing and divisive buzzword. In fact, the permitting process is not the source of delays in developing clean energy, nor should it be used as an excuse to rescue failing oil projects like the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We speak with an expert who knows what it takes to bring new clean energy into the system and has ideas about how to do it quickly.  Check our showpage at massclimateactiondotorg/blog for the hot links.

Terry Sawchuk is the Founder Sawchuk Wealth. The UAW strike if it lasts could accelerate the recession. Air BNB (Short Term Rentals) on housing. Chinese Yuan has been falling versus dollar indicating some pretty serious economic stress. Fed Meeting.

“I think that the future of bookkeeping really lies in the advisory portion of bookkeeping. I think that we are at the point in technology where we no longer necessarily need a person to do the data entry.” -Jennifer Hume It is hard to know our own value. We often undervalue ourselves while overvaluing the skills and abilities of others. Shifting our mindset to one that balances these opposing points of view is the first step in building the kind of future in our businesses that we often covet in others. Technology is progressing ever faster, and it can make us feel like we can't keep up and that our skills aren't as valuable in the face of AI. But AI is sourced from us, and while it may be the future of our systems and processes, we are a very long way away from it being able to convert all that information into truly nuanced and helpful advice. Jennifer Hume, owner of Coronation Bookkeeping & Tax Services, is this episode's featured guest. She has spent her career helping businesses manage their finances and taxes effectively. In this episode, she speaks powerfully about the power of mindset in business success, what the world looks like when we get out of our way, and how our human experience and advice will always trump AI.  If you are struggling in your bookkeeping business, not sure how to move up, feeling lost and alone, then this episode will get you thinking about the future differently. One that sets technology to work for you, so you can do more of the work you love.  During this interview, you'll learn... The value of planning for the future you want How to get out of our own way The importance of our experience in advisory work To find out more about Jennifer, click here. Connect with her on LinkedIn. Time Stamps 01:42 - Jennifer discusses her career journey  03:34 - Getting out of our own heads 06:44 - The power of the Accelerate 2 Advisor program 08:44 - Blood, Sweat & Tears 19:55 - Planning for the future you want  23:28 - How AI will change bookkeeping  26:41 - Thinking differently about challenges

PRO TIP – Send your New employees to your next Trade ShowThis secret will help your brand new employees and team members get up to speed quicker than ever! Shorten the learning curve! You'll hear this only on Trade Show University!*** WATCH this episode on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFivUR63ITg&t=173sIn this episode, I give you 4 reasons why you need to send your brand new employees to visit and even work at your next trade show, and 5 tips to get your new people as effective and efficient as possible at the event! Let's go!The 4 Reasons Why... Allows them to learn all about your industry and get up to speed quickly. If they are brand new to the industry there's nothing better! Seeing all the types of companies that are involved, learning about trends, and seeing how your company is positioned. If they're familiar with the industry, gets them to see things from a new vantage point!Allows them to do amazing market research by talking one on one with customers, prospects and vendors. Nothing like a new person to ask great questions!Breaks up the routines for that new person. We've all been there – like drinking out of a firehose trying to get our bearings in a new job. Getting out of the office or the usual workplace can be such a great thing for a new person.Accelerate the bonding and brings them into your team quickly. Nothing like spending a couple of days together to allow them to get to know you and you get to know them.5 TIPS to get New Team Members as effective and efficient as possible at the event:Give them specific tasks to do, set meetings for them with customers or vendors especially those they'll be interacting with in the position.When they're in the booth, have them observe conversations with your team to learn.Get them outside the booth to walk the show and gather info. And go have them do some research on the competition!Have them attend workshops and breakout sessions on your behalf to take notes. Duplicate your time!Make sure you take the time to watch them as well – how are they talking with prospects? How are they blending with your team? How are they socially? Mentioned in this episode:Exhibitor Expert Review - exclusively from Trade Show UniversityReady to exhibit at your next Show? Don't make the mistake of waiting until you get to the show to learn lessons on what you can do better and tweaks you can make for next time. You can do that BEFORE this next show and accelerate your results! I can help you get locked in for Success with an Expert Review! • Having a professional set of outside "eyes" is important because You Don't Know what You Don't Know! • 30+ year Trade Show expert will review: o Design o Messaging o Goals & Metrics o Engagement Questions o Attendee journey • Identify the Gaps and Opportunities you don't even know exist! • And get you capturing more Qualified Leads than ever before • Visit Tradeshowu.biz/services

In this episode, we've got all the inside scoop on Amazon Accelerate 2023 that you might have missed! Our host, Bradley Sutton, dives deep into the exciting announcements and their implications for Amazon FBA sellers. From the eagerly awaited dates for the next Prime Deal Days to cutting-edge AI features like Generative AI for building your listings inside Amazon and the AI-backed Seller Messaging Assistant, we've got you covered. Plus, we explore game-changing updates, new tools, and features like the  Amazon Shipping ground package delivery service, Amazon Supply Chain updates with inventory management, customer loyalty analytics dashboard, and sustainability solutions that are set to reshape the Amazon seller landscape. We also talked about the Buy with Prime integration inside Shopify and shared relevant numbers on how D2C E-commerce businesses are crushing it with this new feature. Tune in to discover how these developments could impact your Amazon business and stay ahead of your competitors. It's a must-listen episode for anyone in the world of Amazon selling and don't forget to let us know what you think of these announcements! Also, don't forget to catch Bradley, Helium 10, and Pacvue in the Amazon unBoxed Event in New York this October 24th to up-level and up-skill your Amazon advertising knowledge.  In episode 493 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley talks about: 02:05 - Dates For The Next Prime Deal Days Released! 02:40 - Featuring A Seller Success Story From A Helium 10 User 03:45 - Enterprise Solutions Integrated In Partner Seller App 04:09 - Emerald Notifications 05:23 - AI-backed Seller Messaging Assistant 06:35 - Generative AI For Listing Building 07:54 - Bradley's Feedback On This AI Feature After Tests 13:22 - A New Seller Homepage 13:40 - One Page Listing Management Page 14:23 - Buyer Abuse Protection 16:05 - Veeqo Multi-Channel Shipping 17:01 - Amazon Shipping Ground Package Delivery Service 18:44 - Supply Chain By Amazon (More Than Amazon Global Logistics) 20:54 - Automatic Inventory Replenishment with FBA 23:48 - Let's Get Into Day 2 Announcements 24:43 - Customer Loyalty Analytics Dashboard 26:26 - Fit Insights Tool 28:45 - Voice Of The Customer Dashboard 30:16 - Two-Tap Ratings 31:50 - New Seller Wallets 32:10 - Buy with Prime with Shopify 33:28 - Interesting Stats From Buy with Prime integration with Shopify 35:18 - Potential Sales Lift 37:16 - View In Your Room Feature Improvements 38:42 - Ships On Product Packaging Program 40:46 - Sustainability Solutions Hub 41:24 - What Do You Think Of All These Announcements? 42:29 - Catch Bradley, Helium 10, and Pacvue In The Amazon Unboxed Event ► Instagram: instagram.com/serioussellerspodcast ► Free Amazon Seller Chrome Extension: https://h10.me/extension ► Sign Up For Helium 10: https://h10.me/signup  (Use SSP10 To Save 10% For Life) ► Learn How To Sell on Amazon: https://h10.me/ft ► Watch The Podcasts On Youtube: youtube.com/@Helium10/videos Transcript Bradley Sutton: Did you miss Amazon Accelerate? Don't worry. In this episode I'm giving you guys everything that you missed out on all the announcements and how it affects US sellers. How cool is that? Pretty cool. I think. We know that getting to page one on keyword search results is one of the most important goals that an Amazon seller might have. So track your progress on the way to page one and even get historical keyword ranking information and even see sponsored ad rank placement with keyword tracker by Helium 10. For more information, go to h10.me forward slash keyword tracker.   Bradley Sutton: Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Serious Sellers podcast by Helium 10. I am Your host Bradley Sutton, and this is the show. That's a completely BS free, unscripted and unrehearsed organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world, and I'm going to be going over everything that happened at Amazon Accelerate. Well, maybe not everything, but all the key points. There might be a couple things I missed, but there's a lot of interesting things that were announced at Amazon Accelerate. I'm going to keep it real. Like I say, this is BS free. No, there might be a couple things I think is not that exciting. I'm going to keep it real. Let you guys know, it's just my opinions here. So I wanted to give you guys kind of like a rundown of all the like I don't know Like 25 different announcements or 30, or even more than that. As you notice, I'm wearing my old school Helium 10 shirt here and the reason is because back when Helium 10 used to use this logo, you never would have gotten me to say, like in a million years, that Amazon would be announcing the kind of things that they have been at Amazon Accelerate the last couple years. I mean like the things that they're dropping, that I'm going to talk about today, and the things that they talked about last year. It was, you know, I would have bet a million dollars if I was a betting person that no, the Amazon would never give this kind of analytics or Amazon would never do this or that. But, man, you know, hats off to Amazon because they're really trying to come through for the sellers.   Bradley Sutton: So before I get started here, real quick kind of breaking news. If you didn't, you know here last week it's not Amazon Prime Day, but what is it called like? Prime Deal, that Prime Deal days prime something or other? Anyways, the second Prime Day, what a lot of people are calling the second Prime Day. They dropped the dates, for it's actually going to be October 10th and 11th. So mark your calendars. If you guys were preparing for deals or things like that, October 10th and 11th is, I think it's called deal day, something like that. So you know, normally I drop that in the weekly buzz, but I'll give you guys that information a couple days early.   Bradley Sutton: Alright, let's go ahead and hop into Amazon Accelerate. I was there. It was my first time at Amazon Accelerate and it was actually cool. They actually started off with like the whole entire event was started off with a Helium 10 customer. Alright, so Hemlock Park is a customer that you know we've talked about. He's actually been on the podcast Mikey from there and they did this like full profile in front of everybody about how his business is and you know how he makes these candles and you know, really, really cool to see you know Helium 10 customer front and center, like that. But you know, let me know what do you guys think? Like what if Amazon would ask you to, like you know, show your brand, you know, would you be down to do that? You know, so many sellers, I think, are afraid of showing their brand to the whole entire world, literally like now, everybody knows what, what Mikey's products are, right. So just something to think about. You know what? Would you take the publicity that you know coming on full stage from Amazon, or would you be like now, I'm good, amazon, you go pick somebody else, alright?   Bradley Sutton: First, couple of announcements you know wanted to talk about for Accelerate nothing that exciting. One of them is was Enterprise Solutions. They announced that they had 15 more software companies and solutions that are integrated into their seller partner App Store. That the seller partner App Store is like what Helium 10 and other tools like it are connected to you, but now they're connecting with like enterprise level, you know once, like QuickBooks even so, if you use QuickBooks for accounting, that's actually now integrated into the seller partner App Store. Another announcement was Emerald Notifications. Alright, so Emerald is this beta program that are doing, where some of these seller apps like you know Helium 10 can deliver notifications about things that are happening in our software in your seller central dashboard. Some of you guys might have gotten an email about that a little while ago and you guys thought it was spam or something like that. So it's real. You know Helium 10 is part of that program amongst many others.   Bradley Sutton: That's what they announced at Amazon Accelerate, and basically the way that they described is they said hey, we're trying to make it easier for you to manage and act on key business updates from your third party apps. That was word for word, verbatim from their announcement. Now, if you're wondering how do you activate it in your account, let me just show you how. Go to your seller central account and then you are going to want to go to apps and services and then manage your apps. Alright, once you do that, you're going to get to the other page here and it'll have all your you know software that you're connected with, and you're going to have to find Helium 10 and hit reauthorize alright. So you're going to want to hit reauthorize after doing that or whatever other apps that you have that you can connect to, and then what's going to happen is you'll now start being eligible for those notifications, alright.   Bradley Sutton: The next announcement was an AI back seller messaging assistant, and what this is is for customer service. Basically, you know how customers, if they have a question about their shipping or a question about the product you know those kind of questions go directly to Amazon. That's not anything new. That's always been the case, one of the advantages of Amazon. You don't have to take care of a lot of your customer service, like hey, where's my shipment? Like I don't know, amazon's one who shipped it right, you don't have to worry about those kind of things. But anyways, amazon is integrating AI into there in order to save even more of the questions and so, like now, it's going to be almost instantaneous, like somebody says, hey, where's my shipment? And AI is instantly answering them, saying, hey, here's the shipping and here's where it's going to go, or here's, you know, if you're eligible for a refund, all kinds of generic questions they are. Now have an AI that powers, instead of having to wait for a person you know might take some time to answer the questions and you know, theoretically speaking, this might help because you know, maybe in that time that a buyer is having to wait for the answer. Maybe they just decided to cancel their order or like it right. So hopefully, hopefully, this will, you know, kind of lessen those.   Bradley Sutton: Now, the first big announcement of the day that got, you know, people kind of excited was about AI and listing billing. It was kind of funny when they first were announcing that they were going to announce that they were bringing it on the stage. And I won't forget, like they had the like the product manager for there. It's like this Amazonian, like his 50s and 60s, and he's like running out there like he's you saying, bolt to the stage. And he was like super excited. Like I was sitting there in the front row, I thought he was going to do like a crowd dive or something he was running so fast, but hey, he was excited. The crowd got excited because they really hyped up this AI tool that you know we talked about on the weekly buzz a while back.   Bradley Sutton: So what does this consist of? This announcement of their AI listing builder tool? Well, they announced a press release also. It says Amazon launches generative AI to help sellers write product descriptions. And so, basically, it's going to, you know, very similar to what, you know, helium 10 has has had for a while in listing builder. Basically, what they're saying is hey, right here, word for word, says to get started, sellers only need to provide a brief description of their product, in a few words or sentences, and then Amazon will generate high quality content for the review. Sellers can refine these if they want to, or they can directly submit the automatically generated content to the Amazon catalog.   Bradley Sutton: Now you know, I'm going to raise my Bradley Sutton flag, my BS flag, a little bit here, especially when they say you know, really high quality. I don't think it's there yet. I'm not trying to throw Amazon under the bus. I have very strong faith that it's going to get there. You know, remember, this is not Amazon like creating their own. You know their own. You know magic system here they're probably using. You know AI tools out there, just like you know helium 10 uses. You know chat, gpt.   Bradley Sutton: But they tried to make it seem like, you know, for example, they gave a, an example here where you can just enter mouse pad with gel wrist right and then you'd be able to get like this, full, full listing. No, that's not the case Now. I tested it like we had this custom or this, this kind of case study I'm doing where I've made at least coffin shaped bath tray and I actually just, you know, actually threw in, you know, a description that was not just like five or six words, you know, just about four or five sentences and the output that it gave me. It just copied the input that I said in the description and that was the product description and then it copied it again and that was the bullet point number one and there was only one more bullet point and then there was no more bullet points in the title. Let me see if I could show it to you guys here. In the title it called it 32 inch black plastic coffin bathtub tray. All right, now the cool thing is hey, it adds spooky decor. I actually know that that is one of the main keywords here, spooky decor, but it called it plastic. I didn't say it was plastic. And then, even though that was the title, when you go to the description, the second bullet point or the first bullet point somewhere here it says hey, this is made with wood, so you got it right once. But in the title.   Bradley Sutton: So, guys, this is not, do not expect this yet yet to be. You know some all encompassing thing that's going to. You know, allow you to just snap your fingers and create listings. It obviously needs a lot of work If you're interested in using AI. For now I would stick with listing builder. You know that exact same listing of a test for the coffin tray. I actually created it in listing builder and I put that. You know, very similar, prompt. But obviously the difference is, you know, in listing builder I can add all of my keywords that I had found from Cerebro you know that are relevant to that niche, and then you know, listing builders try to incorporate those keywords, which is still very important. You know, for the Amazon algorithm that you, so you can get searchable. So I'm curious, you know, maybe the reason why it made such a terrible listing is because there's not that much data, you know, on coffin bath trays, and so it was kind of struggling. But maybe if I tried to do like collagen peptides, who knows, maybe I could just write collagen powder and it would make this amazing, amazing listing for me. Now, that being said, that tool might not be at its peak yet.   Bradley Sutton: However, they were giving a sneak peek at some pretty exciting announcements. They said coming soon, sellers are going to be able to submit a URL or a photo of a product and then the AI can generate reviews somehow. So you know, in my mind they were kind of saying, without really saying it maybe you have a dot com business and you've got this Shopify listing or maybe even, who knows, maybe a listing on another website like Walmart. You enter that in and then it could create an actual Amazon listing. You know that'd be pretty cool If that happened, even just like an image of a product and it would create a listing. That is pretty cool. And another thing that they said is is it's going to be available for existing listings to edit it. You know, right now it's if you want to test this out. It's only available to be done with a brand new listing if you're going to start it. But they do say that it's going to come in the future.   Bradley Sutton: Now this is something that had me a little bit worried. All right, let me read this next announcement that they said. They said hey, we'll also enrich your existing listings to ensure your products have all the details that customers want to help you drive more sales. We'll use AI to automatically generate missing attributes. First of all, that's excellent. I'm not worried about that at all. You know like that would be great for those attributes. You know, sometimes we don't know all the attributes that are needed in the back end and then we have the missing and we could be suppressed and stuff. So if Amazon AI can do that, beautiful, we'd love. We'd love to see that. But here, check this out.   Bradley Sutton: The second part We'll also use AI to automatically generate and improve titles, bullet points and descriptions based on data in Amazon's catalog. You'll be able to review any changes and make edits if desired. Now, that part has me worried because we all know that. You know, sometimes when Amazon kind of changes your title, it's not always great and you got you know like what if, all of a sudden, for my product, amazon use that AI thing that I just showed you guys and it wants to call my coffin bath tray, which is made of wood, a plastic coffin tray? And just terrible listing. So hopefully these things are not going to happen until their AI is a little bit more robust, which I'm sure it is, you know. But the second part is I definitely want to be able to click a button that says no, I do not want to implement those changes because you know all you helium 10 users out there, 99% of you are going to be better at making the listing than any AI. I'll just tell you that right now, ai, as far as if you're talking about optimizing your listing, for you know the algorithm and things like that All right, like, like you know, you've got all the data. You know even more data than the AI is going to have. You know, I know that sounds kind of like a audacious thing to say, but you know, those of you guys who know, know, know what's up. You know, like you guys can, can, you know, look across different categories of different keywords? And I think the technology for AI to do that is still too far off yet. But anyways, hopefully they're not going to be automatically just changing our listings without letting us know. I don't think they're going to do that.   Bradley Sutton: Another minor announcement that they did was about the seller homepage. You know most of you guys were opted into that new seller homepage and one of the benefits they said of this new homepage is that you can take away those widgets. You know, sometimes the seller central homepage had all kinds of like little things that you know just cluttered the screen. But now you can, you can hide those. So they talked about that in case you guys didn't know. Another thing that kind of teased it's not ready yet they talked about how you know we have all kinds of different listing dashboards in order to. You know, there's one for fixing inactive listings, there's one for managing listings. There's a dashboard to improve your listing. So what they're working on is a new one page, you know, catch all everything that has to do with your listings in seller central and it's going to have the actions that you need to take and everything's basically beyond that page. And I guess they have the beta program going right now and it said that, you know, with this beta group, sellers are being able to take actions 40% faster than the current way of having to go to all these different listing management pages.   Bradley Sutton: Another announcement they made was buyer abuse protections. You know we definitely like that. We know, although we always know that there's there's some bad players out there on the customer side and so they're implementing AI and other things in order to help kind of detect that. They quote seller selling partners can leverage Amazon's machine learning based buyer risk evaluations and specialized abuse risk investigations to protect your business. All right, so that's a bunch of fancy. You know press release kind of words there. But in a nutshell, the way they explained it is this is gonna help protect you against fraudulent orders, fraudulent claims. It says it's gonna potentially save millions of dollars on refunds and actually probably the point that I think got some applause from people, that says they announced that to address the issue of reviews, amazon has worked to automate and sanitize the sanitize I love that word, that's literally their word, that they said on stage to sanitize the process of suppressing reviews for abusive accounts in real time. All right, so we don't know exactly in the past how the Amazon kind of policed reviews, but you could see it happening, like, if you're using the Helium 10 Chrome extension, you ever look at the review history of a product and then you'll notice that all of a sudden 3,000 reviews got lost and then 2,000 reviews got added back. You probably seen that and were thinking that was a Helium 10 mistake or something. No, what was happening was Amazon would just like quarantine thousands of reviews or hundreds of reviews at a time and I guess, like you know, do some kind of audit on it and then just put back the ones that were okay. So if this, if I'm understanding this correctly, that process in the future might be now in kind of like a real time.   Bradley Sutton: Another announcement that you know may not affect a lot of you guys there's this Amazon company called I think it's called VCO, v-e-e-q-o and it's like a multi-channel shipping software. So kind of like you know me, I don't use that, I use like Snapscom, but it's very similar to that where it integrates with your seller central and then you could, you know, print shipping labels and things like that. And so they made an announcement that you know they've negotiated the cheapest shipping rates in the business and usually you can only get like the same price, no matter, you know, if I use Snapscom or if I'm using I don't know like ShipStation or something like that. Right, it's almost always the same exact price, like even my Snapscom price is the same as if I buy postage or UPS ground from Amazon. But if you use VCO, you can actually save an additional 5% off by getting credit. So that's like another announcement that they made. So if you use VCO or if you're interested in that, make sure to check that out.   Bradley Sutton: Now the next big announcement was a launch of Amazon shipping. All right, so Amazon shipping is basically a new program where they're kind of gonna be be, you know, competing with FedEx and UPS. Now this I found very interesting because you know it's been, it's been rumored to happen for a long time and now it is happening. You know, in some cities there's only like 15 cities and basically this is gonna be just just what you think is a UPS and FedEx. You know like it's a package delivery service to to fulfill not only just your Amazon like fulfilled by merchant orders, but you can technically fulfill anything. You know like you've got a dot com website and you wanna have Amazon actually pick up the shipment and then deliver it in like two to five days, including Saturdays and Sundays, at a low cost and then no extra fees for residential or weekend delivery. You wanna be able to track the packages in real time, get photo on delivery when the order is delivered. This is now coming. You know you're gonna be able to do that. So again, you don't even have to like be a you know Amazon Prime seller, fba seller to take advantage of this.   Bradley Sutton: Now a couple of things I'm wondering about is you know how you can't do like drop shipping or shipping from Amazon for Walmart? You know I used to. I used to make oh my goodness, I made hundreds of thousands of dollars drop shipping like Walmart to Amazon and vice versa. I mean it's curious, like would you be able to use Amazon shipping as a shipper and fulfill stuff you're selling Walmart? I would assume. No, I would assume Walmart would not want that. But anyways, you know if you sell on other platforms. You know this could be something that you can use.   Bradley Sutton: Another big announcement was Amazon supply chain, or they called it supply chain by Amazon, and automated solution to help so it was quickly and reliably ship products around the world. So this is kind of like they were talked about this as being an end to end system of shipping where it goes all the way from your you know factory you know picking up at the factory, you know getting it out of the country wherever it's gonna be importing through customs, you know all the way to Amazon and it takes it to another level. This is like more. We're talking about more than just through what Amazon global logistics was. Some of the things that they talked about in their press release was that these new prices for this new system are gonna reflect this counts of up to 25% on cross-border transportation that it said. You're also gonna have a streamlined domestic inbound transportation to AWD. All right.   Bradley Sutton: Awd is the Amazon warehousing they're through with their partnered carrier program. All right, so you can be able to save 25% on the already lower cost that you might have been having. So you're gonna have an expanded AWD offering with reduced prices. Those of you who are already using it, the AWD rates are gonna be now 80% lower than FBA storage fee, so that AWD is kind of like using Amazon as a 3PL, if I were to try and oversimplify it. But if you're doing AWD, compared to maybe you were just storing things in FBA and getting long-term fees, you're gonna save 80%, which is kind of a pretty impressive right.   Bradley Sutton: They're gonna have new multi-channel distribution capability and what that means is that Amazon selling partners will sell across multiple who sell across multiple sales channels, including online and brick and mortar. Keeping everything in stock is a challenge, so this is going to be able to move your inventory in bulk from AWD Amazon's warehousing to any sales channel so that you can replenish across the board, not just Amazon. So that's gonna be something coming. And something that I found interesting was automatic inventory replenishment with FBA all right. So if you're using this whole supply chain system, they're gonna be like replenishing inventory into the fulfillment centers, like from AWD, without you having to forecast.   Bradley Sutton: So, again, color me skeptical at first, just because I'm like, hey, I've seen some of Amazon's inventory forecasting recommendations and in the past it's been kind of trash in my opinion. Sorry, you know Amazon, but Amazon's definitely improving in that and so. But this would be interesting. Like I'd be curious as to what the algorithm that they're gonna use, how it's gonna work. But imagine a world where you don't even have to like worry about sending your inventory to Amazon Prime. You used to have like, hey, I'm ordering 10,000 units from my factory in China. It's going to Amazon's warehouses and I can just gonna trust Amazon to put them into FBA. You don't fulfill your orders from. You don't fulfill your orders directly from AWD to the customer. It has to go to FBA warehouses first. But imagine a world where you're not going to have to worry about that anymore. So that would be kind of interesting as well.   Bradley Sutton: So there's another you know interesting announcement that happened on day one. I mean, I can't believe we're still on day one here. Couple other things from day one. There was escalate. My case was something that was in beta where you know there's gonna be like a button in seller essential where you can like escalate if you're having trouble with support. That's coming soon and that includes talking to a live support agent. It's something funny.   Bradley Sutton: Seller poll you guys ever see those seller polls in your seller essential dashboard? Well, you know, they ask it. Hey, guys, please keep providing feedback. Now I'll keep it real here. Most of those polls have been pretty, pretty good lately, but sometimes we get a kick out of the ones Like I actually saved one of my all time favorites.   Bradley Sutton: This was, you know, a while back. It says my account is safe from being suspended unexpectedly. Strongly agree, agree, neither agree or disagree. So, like you know, we all made fun of some of these polls like this that people would get back in a day because I don't think any of us thought that we were safe from being suspended. But you know, honestly, if I were to be honest, I have been suspended unexpectedly. That was like a good four or five years ago. I think was the last time that happened. You know, if I were to get my sentiment here, you know I put probably strongly disagree. You know three years ago when I took this screenshot, but maybe now I'd be like I neither agree or disagree, like I still see. You know horror stories out there, but you know I haven't been suspended in a while and now Amazon has new systems in place that actually, where they would call you before they suspend you. So that didn't exist three or four years ago. So you know they're getting better. But anyways, the point being, don't just laugh at these polls. These are important. Most of them are important for you to get some to give Amazon your feedback.   Bradley Sutton: All right now, going to day two, a couple again minor announcements that I'm not sure affect much of you. One was called flexible customer financing, aka FCF program. You're gonna be able to enable your customers to purchase your eligible product's interest fee using installment options. So, like you know, maybe like you got a $200 product or $300 product, you can. It sounds like you're gonna be able to activate this like, hey, buy now, pay later, kind of thing sounds like. But the important part of this is that if customers opt into that, they don't have to pay right away. But guess what? You get the funds right away, if I understand this correctly. So that would be pretty cool, you know, because that would kind of suck if, yeah, let people buy this $1,000 thing and paid off over six months and you're getting, like, payments for it over six months. That would not fly right. So that would be kind of cool if this can help your sales.   Bradley Sutton: Another announcement is that there's now a customer loyalty analytics, or there's going to be a customer loyalty analytics dashboard, so it allows you to segment customers based on loyalty and analyze, segment purchase patterns and perform targeted engagement to increase your overall lifetime customer value. So they put out a press release on this and it's pretty interesting because it says, hey, new features will give sellers a comprehensive understanding of the customer sentiment for existing products from reviews and also returns. And it gave an example like hey, there's an outdoor recreation brand, they're trying to design a new tent. They'll easily be able to understand what drives customer complaints and satisfaction with the tents today. Like so it might give you like a niche kind of analysis. And it says upcoming enhancement to the tool will provide the ability to select different time periods, analyze trends over time, benchmark customer sentiment against best sellers in the category. You know that benchmarking thing sounds pretty cool and so this is something to look out for that's going to be available later this year in the US, uk, germany, france, italy and Spain, and then Japan to follow, and, instead of localized insights, will also provide a deeper understanding of customer preferences in the country. So it's not just like looking at, you know a category across all of Amazon, but you're looking at a country basis. So again, something interesting, cool announcement to look forward to.   Bradley Sutton: Another thing that Amazon release is something called fit insights tool. It's going to be backed by AI and this is for those of you who are mainly like in the apparel category, you know, which is historically one of the, you know, the one that has the most returns and issues and with reviews and things like that. But it's going to be analyzing the reviews and the size charts and kind of like how people identify themselves as what size they are and then compare it to like what size you're saying the product is, or, yeah, your shirt or socks or whatever, and then it's going to give you like suggestions, like you know what you know you probably should move your size tier up a little bit, because people who say that they're waist 38, you know they're complaining about your product because they say it's too big. So you might want to, you know, put it, call this a size 36 instead of a 38 or whatever the case may be. So you know I don't sell in the apparel, so this doesn't affect me at all. But what about you? You know you guys who are selling leggings or shirts or pants or things like that. You know, I'm sure you guys have all kinds of crazy horror stories about return. So if AI can help with that process you know it's called again, it's called fit insights. It's going to be available a beginning in October. Look out for more announcement on that. We'll probably have that in the weekly buzz.   Bradley Sutton: Another minor announcement that has to do with Amazon warehouses, called computer vision based detection. All right, so they gave this demo where they're showing like vision technology where things are going on the conveyor belts, going to you know orders and stuff, and then this AI is going to like see if there's a problem with, like, an expiration date, somehow, like on the package, or maybe the box is damaged, right, and then it's going to stop it from going to the customer. So I have, you know, face value seems okay. I'm just not fully convinced this is going to make a huge impact. I think the thing that all of us are more concerned about is when products go back to Amazon. You know it's like can we please take a look at these boxes and obviously realize that the customer didn't put the pack back in the box or it's used or things like that. Please don't put it back in inventory. This is a start. This is a start, though, you know, because you know, sometimes maybe like a forklift runs over a package, but it's still somehow it gets on the conveyor belt and then gets to the customer and they get upset because they get a super damaged box and then they return it. So in that situation, this will probably kind of like help, help with that, with that kind of stuff, and then, starting in 2024, you'll actually get a report on all the packages that Amazon kind of like stopped, you know, thanks to this new robotic vision thing that it has.   Bradley Sutton: Voice of the customer dashboard was their next announcement. That's actually something that exists now, but it talked about what is coming to this dashboard. Basically, they said they're going to launch three new, improved features that will give you more insights into what's going on to help you build customer loyalty, and these include key phrases from customer feedback. I'm not sure if that means reviews, because you know customer feedback is something different than reviews, so I'm not completely sure about that. Number two, category benchmarking and trend analysis to give you the tools to compare your performance against similar products. And then, number three, deeper key performance metrics broken down by customer feedback score. Quote unquote was part of their announcement for that. So if you're using that VOC, or voice of the customer dashboard. Look out for those three enhancements soon.   Bradley Sutton: Add to cart seller profile pages. That was another announcement. You guys know what the seller profile page is. That's where you click on the storefront, you know from a listing, and then it takes you to the page where the feedback is and the address of the seller and stuff. Well, there's nothing that allow you to necessarily buy the product before, but now, as you can see, they have an add to cart button Now for the product that maybe they were clicking on. So that's something that's already new. And then they talked about potentially, you know, maybe even having some other cross-selling where it has other products right there on this page that somebody could add to cart.   Bradley Sutton: Another announcement I really didn't understand. I wish I could have followed up on this, but it was called two tap ratings and in this session or not session, but in this announcement they were talking about how two tap ratings simplifies the seller rating process and customers have indicated that seller ratings are a critical data point in their shopping journey. So two tap ratings eliminates the written feedback requirement, simplifying the end to end review experience. So that's what the announcement was, but I'm like, wait a minute. Hasn't there just been this two tap rating for like a couple of years now, which is why the number of ratings is so much higher than the number of written reviews?   Bradley Sutton: So I'm not exactly sure what this announcement was. Maybe it's about from the actual write a customer review button on orders, like if you were to open up your mobile app right now, your Amazon buyer app, and then you know, hit an order and says write a review, you kind of do there have to leave a written review, I think. So maybe that part is gonna be changed. But I know there's like a page where you can go where Amazon just gives you these messages like hey, rate this product, you don't have to write nothing, you just like click the rating right there and that's it. So I'm not exactly sure what this announcement is, but my speculation is that from the write a review button there, you can just start leaving ratings there, but this might increase the number of ratings you know you get, which is, you know, for some customers or for some of you guys. You guys would love that. Some others were like man, this kind of sucks, I barely get any written reviews now and I really want written reviews. So maybe some of you think that's a negative. Another day.   Bradley Sutton: Two announcement was that a seller wallet where it's this is coming, where you can take your funds you know, your before you get, actually get dispersed and then you can use it to, like you know, make a wire transfer to your, to your vendors or your suppliers, things like that. You know we've had that with a group Alta, helium, 10, alta for a while, but now it's coming to a seller central. Next announcement was a little bit bigger, so it was kind of like there's a little bit of thunder being stolen because they announced it, the, you know, a couple of weeks ago about the Shopify and buy with Prime. But they talked a lot about buy with Prime. The thing that was like shock, shocking was they actually brought out the VP, or a VP of Shopify to the Amazon accelerate stage. So he actually came right on stage and even the, even the Amazonian who introduced him, was like hey, you know, a year ago I wouldn't probably not have imagined bringing this person on stage. And that was because, as we've talked about in the weekly buzz before, they had all kinds of beef. You know, in the old days, you know, shopify wanted all that smoke. They were. They were like saying, hey, if you use buy with prime on Shopify, you're against our terms of service and this and that. So, yeah, that's kind of like nobody would have ever guessed that a VP of Shopify would be on stage at Amazon accelerate, but they were talking about buy with prime. And so, in general, you know, regardless of it was Shopify or not, buy with prime has been out, you know, for a year now. They talked about how some of the stats for buy with prime, you know what kind of stats it's had for for sellers. For example, one brand said that nine out of every 10 buy with prime orders were from customers new to their brand. A newer feature was buy with prime cart is starting to see early success. So before it was kind of like if you had buy with prime, it was just for one product. But now they're rolling this out where you can, like you know, have multiple Amazon or, you know, fba supplied products and then you can actually add them to the cart and then the customer on Shopify or whatever, woocommerce or whatever, can go ahead and check out instead of just having to buy them one by one and the this, this, this feature the merchants who use it say that they increased a 15% increase in buy with prime units per order. Another announcement from the buy with prime is that they introduced you know, or they talked how they introduced reviews from Amazon so that you can display your Amazon reviews on your website at no additional costs, and they said that early results show that merchants who who added the Amazon reviews to their website have 38% increase in shopper conversion. So this is especially probably for those who are newer, have new websites and have zero reviews on there. And then another thing that they announced was buy with prime assist, which gives merchants the option to offer 24, seven cost post order customer service through Amazon at no additional costs, using a real time chat feature. So, yeah, this was definitely interesting to see.   Bradley Sutton: You know, I've never used by with prime and never even had a my own. I mean like not in like 20 years I haven't had my own website as far as my Amazon, my Amazon products go. So what about the rest of you? Has anybody of you guys out there use by with primer ready for, like, maybe WooCommerce or another website? Be curious to see. You know what you guys, you know how that's worked out for you.   Bradley Sutton: Another couple announcements, just really quick. Let me just speed through these last few ones here. There's the potential sales lift. You guys ever seen that from the dashboard? It's like where, where Amazon will tell you hey, you know, if you use a plus content, you know you can make a gazillion dollars. You know, I kind of like make light of that. But yeah, I think a lot of us were like this is such nonsense. You know, like I remember one time it was something yeah, put a plus content in your pink coffin shelf and you'll increase sales by $2,000 a month. I'm like, what are you talking about, bro? Like there's, there's not even $2,000 of pink coffin shelves sold in a year. That's like wrong. So that's probably why a lot of us wanted to even hide some of those widgets on the seller central dashboard back in the day, which is what they you know they we talked about earlier today.   Bradley Sutton: But let me tell you guys it's improved. You know I'm not. I'm not again, I'm not trying to throw Amazon on the bus. I just want to show you guys that Amazon actually gets better. I actually haven't looked at those in a long time and I'm looking at it live right now where it says under growth opportunities. Hey, this coffin egg tray says if you increase improved conversion by create, creating a plus content, you could have an $88 sales lift over 90 days. That sounds reasonable. That's like four egg trays. You know, if I put a plus content could I increase sales by four, eight trays. That sounds very reasonable, but then again it's not fully completely working. That coffin bath tray test I said if I put a plus content I'm going to get an $8 and 66 cents sales lift. I'm like this is a $4 product. How am I going to get an $8 sales lift? It's not perfect, but, guys, it is getting better. Don't just overlook it. If you're like me, who are just like, oh, I'm just going to ignore all of those because they're so far off, I think their algorithms that they have working on it is definitely a lot better. So so make sure to check that out. And anyways, the announcement that they had was this potential sales lift is going to be available for a lot other kind of things like manager experiments and 20 other catalog attributes. So 20 other things they're going to be. They're going to give you a little thing that says, hey, if you do this to each of those 20 things, you could get this kind of sales lift.   Bradley Sutton: Another cool feature they talked about was view in your room table top. So you guys ever seen the helium 10 coffin shelf or other products like furniture? And then it has a button where it says view in your room, but it puts it on the floor right, like it's mainly for like chairs and tables and stuff, and then you can kind of it's using augmented reality for your product and then you can just kind of like with your mobile app see how that product looks in the room. Well, now they said, hey, this is going to, we're rolling out the room table top feature. So instead of just looking how it would look on the floor, you're like who's going to put a coffin shelf on the floor? You know it's going to be like hey, put it on this countertop or this egg tray, how does it look in your kitchen island, and things like that. So this is coming soon.   Bradley Sutton: So in the past it wasn't something you opted into or or could ask Amazon to give you, like the helium 10 coffin shelf. We didn't do anything special. It just all of a sudden started showing up with that augmented reality. So I have a feeling based on what they were saying at Accelerate that there's now going to be some kind of controllability you're going to have where you can potentially opt into the program or send them like 3D images or something and get into there. So we actually have some follow up meetings with that department to try and see, you know, how maybe helium 10 can can help in this. But that would be pretty cool for those of you who have products that go on table tops or counter tops or things like that, being able to integrate augmented reality for your customers who have the mobile app.   Bradley Sutton: Another thing honestly I was not excited about it all, it's actually kind of scared a little bit was ships in product packaging program. All right, so it's allowing you the opportunity, it says, to ship customer orders in your own custom branded packaging without additional Amazon boxes. All right, now this could go both ways. Already, this happens sometimes and actually, you know, some of us are kind of upset when it might happen, like if you guys have like some super fancy gift box or like some nice, really nice packaging, you don't want Amazon just taking that and then slapping all their logos and and or their logos, but they're they're, you know, slapping their shipping labels and stuff on it and then having that really nice package getting all scuffed up and then it's like all torn up by the time it gets the customer. And so you know like right now I'm actually doing a brand new coffin shelf package where it's like a box, shape like a coffin and it's going to be like a super nice giftable thing. But if Amazon ships in that box, you know that kind of sucks. Now, where this is better is you know Amazon might be charging you extra shipping because it has to use extra packaging.   Bradley Sutton: So this, this article or this announcement where they talk about how, because of the ability now to ship in your own packaging in the future, maybe it's going to save you in the fulfillment costs. But I don't know for me. I most of my products. I don't want that. There's a couple of products I have that that I don't really care about the packaging much, and you know they could go ahead and slap a shipping label on there. I don't care, especially if it's safe. Saves me some money. But I'm I'm curious what you, which boat are you guys in? You know would you say, yes, I want to save, you know, a few cents on packaging and you know it also saves the environment too, you know, because you're not having to to have all this cardboard you know around, or are you like, do you have fancy packaging and you and you want that put into an outside box? Anyways, this new feature is going to have enrollment in January of 2024. So you got a couple of months to think about which which boat you would be in. They also announced the sustainability solutions hub. You can look up there. You know, on seller central, if you want more news I'm running out of time here and the last one that they announced, again that you can check in seller central, was a climate some new climate pledge friendly badges that are coming, and it's interesting. Their data shows that if you have that climate pledge friendly badge, it actually drives 10% more page views than if you didn't have it. So it might be something you might want to get onto your listing, and they're going to have three new ways in order to, you know, to have that. So there you have it, guys.   Bradley Sutton: I'm sure I missed a couple of things here, but but that was probably the majority of what they talked about that this year's Amazon Accelerate it was my first time there had a blast. I couldn't even go to all the parties because I was working in the nights. I had a whole bunch of like webinars I was doing in China and things like that. So I got I missed all the parties but I heard it was really great. There was like two, 3000 people, you know, really high quality. They had the DJ from the Beastie Boys was like the DJ for the events and and they had Tracy Ross there as a celebrity, you know speaker. Really really cool event, really well organized. You know what, what you would expect from Amazon. So, guys, next year I'm sure it's going to be back again Highly, highly, highly recommend going there because you know Amazon, there's nothing like it, you know where. I mean, I didn't even do all of it and I probably would drop 30 different news items there that they launched. So it's a one set, once a year event and definitely go.   Bradley Sutton: It's not the only event that Amazon does. Amazon does a little bit higher end kind of more advertising. So it's really the event that's happening in October, october 20, I want to say 25th and 26th or 24th to 26th in New York City. It's called Amazon Unboxed. So you want a similar event but more focused maybe on on advertising and if you're you know bigger sellers, make sure to register for that one. Amazon Unboxed, ilium 10 and Pacview definitely will have teams there, so be great to to meet you guys in person at that one. I hope you enjoyed this recap. If you guys want follow-ups for me to talk about any of these announcements a little bit more in depth, make sure to reach out. Don't forget to follow on Instagram Sirius Sellers podcast. See you guys in the next episode.

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We're back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10's Brand Evangelist, Shivali Patel. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, Walmart, and E-commerce space, interview someone you need to hear from, and provide a training tip for the week. Amazon Accelerate Releases https://event.amazonaccelerate.com/general-information/?page=marquee-announcements SmartKargo, a leader in providing technology and logistics solutions to airlines globally, announced it is teaming up with Walmart GoLocal, Walmart's white-label, delivery-as-a-service platform, to expand next- and two-day delivery offerings for retailers and e-commerce companies. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230913979238/en/SmartKargo-Expands-Next--and-Two-Day-Delivery-Offerings-with-Walmart-GoLocal Etsy seeks to drive more organic traffic through “Share & Save” program https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/etsy-seeks-to-drive-more-organic-traffic-through-share-save-program/ Amazon Marketing Stream is expanding to include new Amazon DSP campaign datasets. This includes information on Amazon DSP campaigns, flights, ad groups, and ad group targets. https://advertising.amazon.com/API/docs/en-us/release-notes/index#original-video-download-is-now-available-on-sponsored-brands-media-api Around the Clock Convenience: Walmart Now Offers Customers Late-Night Delivery https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2023/09/12/around-the-clock-convenience-walmart-now-offers-customers-late-night-delivery Flowspace, the software platform and distribution network powering independent fulfillment, announced today that it has partnered with TikTok to provide fulfillment services for TikTok Shop sellers in the U.S. https://www.retaildive.com/press-release/20230912-flowspace-powers-us-fulfillment-for-tiktok-shop/ We wrap up with a must-hear insight from our brand evangelist, Carrie Miller, on how to use Helium 10's Audience tool to gather real data about your product. Join us for this engaging episode with crucial e-commerce updates and strategies. In this episode of the Weekly Buzz by Helium 10, Shivali covers: 00:41 - Amazon Accelerate Releases 03:30 - Walmart GoLocal 04:08 - Etsy Share & Save 05:23 - Stream For Amazon DSP 05:50 - Walmart Late Delivery 06:55 - TikTok Shop Fulfillment 08:11 - Look Out For This Saturday's SSP Episode! 08:25 - Follow Bradley And Helium 10 On LinkedIn 09:15 - Pro Training Tip: Split Testing Using Helium 10 Audience ► Instagram: instagram.com/serioussellerspodcast ► Free Amazon Seller Chrome Extension: https://h10.me/extension ► Sign Up For Helium 10: https://h10.me/signup  (Use SSP10 To Save 10% For Life) ► Learn How To Sell on Amazon: https://h10.me/ft ► Watch The Podcasts On Youtube: youtube.com/@Helium10/videos Transcript Shivali Patel Amazon Accelerate announcements, TikTok shop fulfillment, Walmart shipping expansion and Etsy promotions for sellers. This and more on this week's Weekly Buzz. Bradley Sutton How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think. Shivali Patel Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Serious Sellers podcast by Helium 10. I'm your host, Shivali Patel, and this is the show that is our Weekly Buzz, where we give you all the latest news in the Amazon, Walmart and e-commerce space. We also provide you with a training tip of the week where you get insights into serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. Let's see what's buzzing this week. So the first article we really have is from Amazon Accelerate. It's hot off the press and it's happening right now. So Bradley on Saturday is going to give you a full rundown of all the announcements that happen, but for now, let's just talk a little bit about what's happening on day one. So we have a little bit about some new enterprise solutions. We have emerald notifications, which makes it easier for you to just act on your business updates. In fact, helium 10 is one of those included notifications, so make sure that you have this on. We also have the AI backed seller messaging assistant, which is just telling you that basically any time a customer messages, you might end up having artificial intelligence responding to them on either that order status or shipping information, returns, refunds, that kind of thing, which is great because artificial intelligence is all the way right now. You also have quick list, and this is referencing the generative AI which can help you simplify your listing creation process. Now, if you are a Helium 10 user, then you know that we already have some of this incorporated into our listing builder. If you have access to a diamond plan, then maybe you're already utilizing a version of this, but now it's there for Amazon directly there as well. Then you have some regulatory compliance information, and we did also have an announcement about the Smarter Seller Central homepage for sellers worldwide. So this is talking about the dashboard itself. There was some announcements on the simplified listing management. And then you have enhanced buyer abuse protections, which actually got some applause at Amazon Accelerate. Shivali Patel You have Veeco, which, if you don't know, that's a company for printing shipping labels and they had some announcements for reducing rates. You have Amazon's shipping service. Now this is particularly cool because it's just telling you a little bit about what new changes are coming to the actual logistics side of things. Now, if you don't know about Veeco, Veeco is just a company for printing shipping labels, so they had some announcements. Then you have Amazon shipping services, so you can actually end up shipping non Amazon orders. With Amazon it's sort of a rival to UPS or FedEx you can kind of think of it like that but it's really helpful for the logistics side of things. And then you also have supply chain by Amazon integrated and that's really cool because it offers you the end to end fully automated, basically logistics for supply chain. So picking up your product from your actual manufacturing factories, getting it over through customs all the way to the warehouses. It just helps simplify the process. Of course, with FBA they were already kind of doing that with helping with picking, packing and shipping out that product. But now, when you really have to get out new orders or a new batch of inventory, now they can help you with actually picking up those products and then getting it all the way into the warehouses. Shivali Patel Let's jump into the next news article, which is smart cargo expands next and two day delivery offerings with Walmart go local. Now this comes hot from the business wire and as we go down you can end up seeing that this is sort of similar to what Amazon announced actually today. So if this is a coincidence or not, you let us know in the chat. But as you can see here, they're just working with some airlines to enable an alternative delivery network to establish carriers. So, again, you can end up shipping out non Walmart orders with Walmart. Shivali Patel Okay, let's jump over to Etsy. So, from modern retail, etsy seeks to drive more organic traffic through their share and save program. So if you are someone who sells on Etsy, then you might have been dealing with about a 6.5% transaction fee, but now you can kind of be your own affiliate and it's going to reward you for that work that you are already doing, ending up to a 4% of the order total off of that bill. So maybe you are one of those sellers who has been trying to hike your prices a little bit to kind of combat with the inflation and make up for any costs that you have, but this can be one of those things that might be something that will add value to your business. Now, something to be mindful of here is Etsy does have some rules, and one of those rules is you are prohibited from directly linking pay-per-click activities to Etsy. So this implies that you might need to actually end up investing and advertising in maybe creating a landing page and then driving those users to your product through that method. But again, if you are selling on Etsy, then this is something that you might want to consider utilizing in your own business. Shivali Patel Next up, we have Amazon DSP campaign signals now available on Amazon Marketing Stream. This is directly from advertising with Amazon, so Amazon Marketing Stream is something that helps us have hourly information for PPC, even with Atomic at Helium 10. And now it's expanding to DSP campaign data sets, so this is super cool. If you are somebody who does utilize DSP, then make sure that this is something you look into. Next up, we have around the clock convenience. Now, this is one of the things I'm really excited to share because I find that there's a little bit of a funny component to it, but Walmart does offer customers late night delivery. So, if you are, this is a little bit more on the consumer side of things, the storefront side of things, but I'm sure that this will end up, long-term, be something that can help the three P sellers as well. A couple of weeks ago, Bradley mentioned that you can now end up delivering into the garage for Amazon, while Walmart said let me raise you one, because they now end up having an option right here, but you can have items delivered directly to your fridge, you guys, or your countertop. So if you are someone who you feel like coming home to something from Walmart is gonna make you happy if it's directly on your countertop, you now have that option. So, just so you know, this is now something that Walmart Plus members have the capability of making use of. Shivali Patel Then you have FlowSpace. This comes from RetailDive, and FlowSpace is the software platform and distribution network which is actually partnering with TikTok Shop. Now TikTok Shop has had all the hype in recent weeks. A lot of Amazon sellers have expanded into TikTok Shop just to use the external traffic with Amazon attribution links to generate even more revenue. We've had conversations with some Helium 10 elite members as well who end up using fulfillment by TikTok and, though I'm not sure if they're using FlowSpace. Flowspace is something that is directly integrated with TikTok Shop. So if you are a TikTok user, maybe you've been going through and you've noticed that there's some videos coming up with content creators maybe pitching a product, and you'll have a little bit of a shopping cart that you can click on and directly purchase. So not only are they now picking up on trends and popularizing different items, you can also enable those sales directly from the platform itself, which is super, super cool. Shivali Patel So, with that, those are our news pieces for this week. If you want more information about any of these announcements, or you're super excited about some of them, make sure you tune into this Saturday's Serious Sellers podcast episode, where Bradley will discuss not only these updates, but also updates from day two of Amazon Accelerate, and, trust me, you don't want to miss out. So, after we've talked about news, what's next? Well, before I get to what's next, make sure that you are following our LinkedIn, because not only is Bradley gonna be sharing those details on our podcast episode, but if you are more of a reader or you are active on LinkedIn, you won't want to miss those updates there as well. So make sure you're following our LinkedIn page. Just go to Helium 10 and you'll be able to click, follow and get all of our updates that we post. Shivali Patel Next we have Carrie Miller, our brand evangelist, who is going to talk to you about audiences. Now, audience is great for just pulling real people about your product. So, as opposed to maybe split testing directly on your Amazon listings and having potential headaches of underperforming variance, you can now go directly to audience and get real data on understanding what will work better. But I'm not going to get too deep into it. I'm going to pass it over to Kerry and let her show you Today. Carrie Miller I want to talk with you a little bit about split testing. Now, most of the time when you're doing split testing, you're actually split testing things like your title or your images on Amazon. But we actually have a way that you can do some split testing with your target audience before you even listen to anything on Amazon, and there's actually a lot of other capabilities of this tool. So I want to go ahead and show you how to do this. So the first thing you're going to want to do is you want to log into Helium 10 and you're going to go up to the tools menu and you're going to click on this audience tool, and this is where you're going to be able to create a poll of your target audience. So you get feedback on a variety of different things. So the first thing you want to do is click on create poll, okay. So once you click on create poll, it's going to actually ask you what type of poll you want to do, okay, so in this situation, maybe I want to do, you know, a main image, but you can also do like a general idea of listing, title or really anything that you want. A lot of times I use kind of general idea for just kind of like product ideas and things like that, maybe different colors and things like that. So once you choose that I'm going to just choose main image and you go to the next step. You are going to be able to write a question. So you could either choose one of these questions like how does this image make you feel? Which product would you rather buy? Based on the image, which product would you rather buy? I'll probably choose something like that. Then you're going to go to the next step and this is where you're going to actually add your images. So if you have, for example, our coffin shelves, maybe we want to know what is the best coffin shelf main image. You can put upload up to eight options here, but I'm going to skip that just to show you all the rest. Carrie Miller Here you can choose a general audience or you can do a custom audience. Now, it is a little bit more of a charge to do one of these polls. It's about $50 because you're going to pull 50 different people. But you can actually choose an age range specifically. If your product is specific age range, you can do a different target audience in general. Are they a prime member? There's a lot of different options in here so you can really personalize this and hone down into your target audience and get the best feedback possible for your product. So highly recommend utilizing these. It's a really good investment to get that really targeted feedback from your exact target audience. Carrie Miller Then you're going to choose your audience size and I just I'm going to leave it at the 50 here, and then you can also, you know, know more about who is responding, so you can, you know, find out their personal or all this different information about them. You can check whatever it is that you want and then you can confirm your poll and that is what is going to generate your poll and within you know, 24 hours you should see all of your results. Now, this is what it looks like when you do have results. So you can see. Carrie Miller On our poll we were looking for a main image and so we asked you know we have a coffin shaped egg tray. If you saw this in the search results, which picture would you would make you want to click on the most? So the winner here was this B image and if you go down here, you can actually see an explanation of why that person chose this particular image. So it's really, really helpful feedback because it's not just you know a poll, but it's actually you know, qualitative information that really can help you in deciding which image to go with and why. And then it gives you some more insights into your actual audience, that is, you know that you're pulling. Carrie Miller You can also see their demographics here, their education level, their gender identity all this great information about who you polled so that you can make a better informed decision about whatever it is that you're testing on Amazon whether it's your main images copy, maybe you're testing a new product all those different options you have there. It is an incredible tool, a really good investment, especially during product research. I love using this to you know, decide colors and also just design in general. Like which design do you like best? If you are having a problem, you know asking your family members. This is actually a better way to do it because you can target your specific audience and get some really great feedback. So if you haven't checked out our audience's tool, go ahead and check it out and you will be happy that you did. Shivali Patel All right, thank you so much, Carrie. That was fantastic. So I hope you don't just listen to this. You also implement. So make sure you go check out audience. If you are somebody who needs to split test, who should be split testing, or you want to optimize that listing, then this is great for you. So that is it for this week. I hope you learned something and we'll catch you next time to see what's buzzing.

Amazon's yearly big Seller Central conference, Accelerate came to Seattle and Scott went downtown to get some interviews with some friends of the program, Wendi Mathis Held, Founder/CEO of True Hero and Laura Meyer, Founder/CEO of Envision Horizons. Also, two of the Senior Account managers,Taylar Allan & Matthew Koski. We cover so much cool stuff with Wendi on Vendor Central and what is going on and how to make sure your brand is winning! With Laura, Matthew and Taylar we talk big picture forecasting holiday sales and even next year. Along with certain big moves Amazon and TikTok are making to capture all the ecommerce sales. Always Off Brand is Ecommerce Simplified, Learn & Laugh!    QUICKFIRE Info:   Website: https://www.quickfirenow.com/ Email the Show: info@quickfirenow.com  Talk to us on Social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quickfireproductions Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quickfire__/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@quickfiremarketing LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/quickfire-productions-llc/about/ HOSTS: Summer Jubelirer has been in digital commerce and marketing for over 16 years. After spending many years working for digital and ecommerce agencies working with multi-million dollar brands and running teams of Account Managers, she is now the Amazon Manager at OLLY PBC.   LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/summerjubelirer/   Scott Ohsman has been working with brands for over 28 years in retail, online and has launched over 200 brands on Amazon. Owning his own sales and marketing agency in the Pacific NW, is now VP of Digital Commerce for Quickfire LLC. Scott has been a featured speaker at national trade shows and has developed distribution strategies for many top brands. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-ohsman-861196a6/   Hayley Brucker has been working in retail and with Amazon for years. She is currently a Brand Manager at Channel Key LLC. Hayley has extensive experience in digital advertising, both seller and vendor central on Amazon. Hayley is based out of North Carolina and has worked in multiple product categories and has also worked on the brand side and started with Nordstrom on the retail floor.  LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-brucker-1945bb229/   Huge thanks to Cytrus our show theme music “Office Party” available wherever you get your music. Check them out here: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cytrusmusic Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cytrusmusic/ Twitter https://twitter.com/cytrusmusic SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6VrNLN6Thj1iUMsiL4Yt5q?si=MeRsjqYfQiafl0f021kHwg APPLE MUSIC https://music.apple.com/us/artist/cytrus/1462321449   “Always Off Brand” is part of the Quickfire Podcast Network and produced by Quickfire LLC.  

Has exhaustion and uncertainty become your constant companions in the business world? Fear not, because our special guest, Richard Flynn, a distinguished speaker from the National Speakers Association, has got your back! He sheds light on the pervasive epidemic of fatigue in the business realm, and introduces the three A's: Adapt, Accelerate, and Activate to combat this lethargy and restore dynamism in your venture.The conversation then takes a sharp turn towards the essence of discipline in business and personal growth. Together, we unearth the challenges posed by change and the necessity to adapt, adjust, and align to overcome these hurdles. We delve into the quintessential role of leaders in providing clear direction, the debilitating effects of confusion, lack of passion, and life clutter leading to inaction, and an intriguing concept – anything unchallenged is validated. As we wind down, Richard will unveil his exclusive eight-module, 16-week program, designed to pivot your perspective from past-to-present to present-to-future living. We navigate through the four rooms of life - business, family, social, and personal - and strategies to strike a balance among them. We also scrutinize the top ten business destroyers and the four triggers of dysfunction in a business. This journey concludes with a moment of reflection on the power of prayer, especially for our first responders, and a heartfelt thank you to our dedicated listeners. Tune in for these enlightening discussions and transform your approach to business and life!

The choices you make every minute of every day influence the life you live and the person you are. So, you want to Make them wisely. A choice might be… “Hmmmm, will I have that bowl of almond mocha ice cream, or not?” Almond mocha ice cream is my all-time favorite, so the choice is harrowing.  I can choose to eat the bowl of ice cream, knowing I'll have to spend an extra 30 minutes or more on the treadmill tomorrow, or I can choose to forego the ice cream and feel sorry for myself for at least the next hour or so. Heck! I choose to eat the ice cream anyway, knowing that I may as well have rubbed the entire bowl straight on my belly, but also accepting the fact that the price I will pay for 2 minutes of glorious ice cream today is 30 minutes or more of hard push on the treadmill tomorrow. Nevertheless, I made the choice and I take full responsibility for making a choice that may not have necessarily been the right one. That's what making choices is all about – taking full responsibility for our actions. The more choices you make, and the more you realize the world won't fall apart either way, the more control you gain over your life. Subscribe to my high-value proven business success tips and resources Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/)  Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/.  Want more from The Accountability Coach™, subscribe to more high-value content by looking for me on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries, or by going to https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573.  Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve.  I'm the author of many books, including, Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, The Guide to Stopping Procrastination, and the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit, The Roadmap To Success with Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, and more.   Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.  Aim for what you want each and every day!  Anne BachrachThe Accountability Coach™

Today, you will meet a dynamic father-daughter investing team, Benjamin Mayo and Cheryl White, who have successfully raised $200,000 in Private Money for their real estate deals!Private Money lending is a game-changer when it comes to real estate investing. It provides unlimited funds for purchasing properties, allows for quicker closing times compared to bank financing, and opens doors to unique opportunities, such as acquiring REO properties listed by banks and closing within a matter of days.What makes Private Money lending even more exciting is the level of flexibility it offers for real estate investors. Instead of solely relying on traditional financing methods, investors have the opportunity to work with individual private lenders, who receive a higher rate of return on their investment. This means that investors can focus on finding properties and securing deals while the private lenders enjoy a passive income stream.During the episode, Jay, Ben, and Cheryl delve into the specifics of Private Money lending, the benefits it brings to investors, and the steps to successfully raise Private Money. They will discuss the level of protection for private lenders, emphasizing that they receive the same safeguards as a bank. The benefits of Private Money for property purchases, the challenges of finding buyers for owner financing deals, and the speed and efficiency of closing deals with Private Money compared to traditional bank financing. We'll also learn about the personal experiences and success stories of our guests and how they have built a network of private lenders.So, if you're a real estate investor looking to level up your game with Private Money, this episode is a must-listen! Gain valuable insights from industry experts, and you too shall achieve financial freedom!Join Jay Conner's Private Money Academy Conference: https://jaysliveevent.com/ On October 25 - 27, 2023 at Atlantic Beach, NCTimestamps:0:01 - Raising Private Money with Jay Conner0:02 - Today's Guests: Benjamin Mayo & Cheryl White05:23 - The Bank shut down funding, leading to private lenders.07:22 - Discover Jay's Private Money Lending Program10:25 - Passive Private Money Lenders Love Real Estate13:30 - Ben Mayo, author of "Lend Smart and Grow Rich" - www.Amazon.com/Lend-Smart-Grow-Step-Step/dp/B0C1J6PYLD 18:28 - You Need Private Money In Your RE Business20:49 - Why Jay Loves Working With Private Money Lenders21:51 - Jay's Free Money Guide: https://www.JayConner.com/Book23:53 -  What Is Private Money?27:08 - Connect With Ben & Cheryl - https://www.BMNCHomeBuyers.com Connect With Jay Conner: Private Money Academy Conference: https://www.JaysLiveEvent.comFree Report:https://www.jayconner.com/MoneyReportJoin the Private Money Academy: https://www.JayConner.com/trial/Have you read Jay's new book: Where to Get The Money Now?It is available FREE (all you pay is the shipping and handling) at https://www.JayConner.com/Book What is Private Money? Real Estate Investing with Jay Connerhttp://www.JayConner.com/MoneyPodcast #RealEstate #PrivateMoney #FlipYourHouse #RealEstateInvestor

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Welcome to Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, where we connect you with the brightest minds in business and entrepreneurship.Today, we have a truly exceptional guest with us—Steven H. Weigler, founder and managing partner of Emerge Counsel.   If you're an entrepreneur, you understand that building a successful business is like embarking on a thrilling journey. It's a journey filled with exhilarating highs, daunting challenges, and, above all, the need for expert guidance. That's where Emerge Counsel steps in.   Steven Weigler has spent his career dedicated to understanding the intricate relationship between law and entrepreneurship. His mission is clear: to provide entrepreneurs worldwide with top-tier legal counsel, specifically tailored to protect their intellectual property and business assets. But Steven offers more than just legal expertise; he offers a holistic approach to business growth and protection.   In today's episode, we delve deep into Steven's unique journey—from his early days as a prosecutor in Miami, Florida, to his pivotal role at AT&T as legal counsel, and ultimately, his transition into the world of entrepreneurship. Steven shares invaluable insights, drawn from his experiences in growing a multi-million-dollar predictive analytics company, making mistakes, and learning from them. His journey culminated in the creation of Emerge Counsel, where he's helping entrepreneurs thrive by building strategic relationships, ensuring legal protection, and fostering exponential growth.   Chapter Stamps:   Introduction to Steven Weigler's holistic approach to legal counsel - [00:00:00] Getting to know the client and their business needs - [00:01:00] The mission of Emerge Council and its focus on intellectual property and business assets - [00:01:30] Steven Weigler's unique career journey from prosecutor to entrepreneur - [00:02:00] Lessons learned from working for AT&T and building a predictive analytics company - [00:03:00] Key skills for entrepreneurs: managing cash flow, building a C-suite team, and managing investors - [00:03:30] The importance of building a strategic relationship with an attorney - [00:04:30] Helping entrepreneurs enhance their businesses through legal and IP processes - [00:05:00] The significance of protecting the customer experience and brand - [00:05:30] Strategic use of intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets - [00:06:30] Building a strong team and organizational structure for scalability - [00:07:00] Common myths about IP for business owners - [00:09:00] The importance of seeking legal counsel for IP protection - [00:09:30] Closing remarks and contact information - [00:19:00]   Pullout Quotes:   "Entrepreneurs are conditioned for growth. What's your motivators? What's your stressors? What's in the way of your growth?"   "Every company has a brand experience. Protecting that brand is crucial because you don't want anyone to rip it off."   "More is not always better when it comes to intellectual property. It's about being strategic."   "Your journey as an entrepreneur is like a thrilling adventure. We're here to provide expert guidance and protection along the way."   "Understanding the client is the first step. No question is too complicated for an initial consultation."   "Think of us as the 'dentist for your business.' Necessary, maybe not always enjoyable, but crucial for long-term health."   "Your business's success story is like a unique experiment. Protect it with the right parameters."   "Intellectual property is not just about patents. Often, it's the customer experience that matters most."   Socials:   Website: www.emergecounsel.com     ----more---- Notice to the Super Entrepreneurs community:   Before we part, remember to join our Private Facebook group, 'Mindset for Business Success.' Here we share mindset wisdom to elevate your life and business, ready for a transformative journey? This group is your key to unlocking potential and achieving business growth. Don't miss out on this incredible free resource. Join us in 'Mindset for Business Success' today!   https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindsetforbusinesssuccess/   Shahid's Links:   https://zez.am/officialshahiddurrani   ----more---- Affiliate Disclaimer: If you buy through one of the links provided, I may receive a commission (without any additional charge to you).   Disclaimer: Please be aware that the opinions and perspectives conveyed in this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent the views, ideologies, or principles of Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, its associated entities, or any organizations they represent or are affiliated with. We provide a platform for discussion and exploration, and the content of each episode is understood to be independent expressions from our guests, rather than a reflection of the beliefs held by the podcast or its hosts.

Welcome to Life in the Leadership Lane where I am talking to leaders making a difference in the workplace and in our communities. How did they get to where they are and what are they doing to stay there! Buckle up and get ready to accelerate in the leadership lane! This week, I am talking with Christie Engler, MHRM, SPHR, SHRM-CP, Director of People Operations and Culture at Willory... How did Christie get started in her career? What led her to the world of HR and Leadership? When did Christie “find her lane” in her career? What does Christie share about wanting to be the President? What does Christie share about leadership? What does Christie share about approaching difficult leaders? What does Christie share about “living in the gray”? What does Christie share about being a transformational leader? What does Christie share about “finding your people”? What advice does Christie share to help us in our every day? …and more as we spend “Time to Accelerate” with a few more questions.  Interview resources: Favorite quote(s) from Christie: “Don't make it a bigger deal than it needs to be” “To me, the best HR professionals are the ones that can live in the gray.” Connect with Christie on LinkedIn Visit Christie's blog - Living in the Gray Visit Willory to learn more Learn more about Twitter Chat HR Social Hour Check out Bruce's books Life in the Leadership Lane; Moving Leaders to Inspire and Change the Workplace Find Your Lane; Change your GPS, Change your Career (“Book Authority” Best Books) Milemarkers; A 5 Year Journey …helping you record daily highlights to keep you on track. Subscribe to Bruce's Blog “Move to Inspire” Connect with Bruce on LinkedIn Connect with Bruce on Twitter Connect with Bruce on Instagram Connect with Bruce on Facebook Get relocation support for your next household goods or commercial office move across the US by reaching out to Bruce at bwaller@goarmstrong.com or visit The Armstrong Company

Accelerate HER is a special episode replay of an earlier interview with Jen Pestikas. When this airs, we are kicking off a webinar How to Win Leadership Buy-In and it all starts with how you need to leverage and bold your strengths.Jen invites us to learn her story as an senior executive leader, coach, podcast host, and mother. She has over 20 years of experience in financial services and shares her insights and strategies about how she landed a new job while she was 8 months pregnant…and what happened next.Accelerate YouMake time for staying in touch with your network.Be courageous and put yourself out there.Communicate clearly to your boss and organization your career goals and where you want to go in the organization.The Winning Combination Networking + Making your Intention Known + Confidence = SuccessYour Personal CareBelieving in yourself, in your abilities is crucial.Embrace a positive mindset.Look for opportunities to be brave and expand your career.Accelerate Your MindsetRemove Limiting Beliefs: Identify the words and phrases like “I can't get a promotion” or “I can't get to the next level.”Separate the fearful limiting belief from yourself so you can move forward.It takes practice to get past those limiting beliefs ingrained in our heads.“When you hear that voice- hear it and acknowledge it then counter it by saying something like, “thank you for being concerned, but I'm okay.” -Jen PestikasJennifer Pestikas is a HerCsuite® Coach for Accelerate, Speaker and Member. Since this podcast she has written two bestselling books and continues to shine her light out in the world.ResourcesJen PestikasBrave Women at Work10 Strategies to Win Buy-In RegistrationHerCsuite® AccelerateHerCsuite®HerCsuite® on LinkedInNatalie Benamou on LinkedIn

Having grown up in the restaurant tech industry together, longtime friends Alan Hayman, Paul Armstrong, and Kelly MacPherson and Accelerate host Rob Grimes reflect on what they've seen over the last 40 years (they started in Elementary School). From their individual experiences, they discuss their perspectives on what's happening now, and where they think things are headed for tech within the restaurant industries.In this candid chat, they begin by agreeing that the omnichannel approach operators must keep up with has made it even more complicated for independents to run their business. On the flip side, operators also don't have to settle with technology either now that there are more choices.The group touches on technologies like dynamic pricing and handheld devices that existed long before they were implemented and became popular for restaurants. Even AI, the hot topic of today, is like the rules-based systems that appeared 20+ years ago. And what about the “non-resettable grand total?”If you want to hear how tech has impacted and changed within operations over the years, and which innovations may take the lead looking forward - listen to this episode of Accelerate.

Karrie Sanderson is an executive marketing leader with deep expertise in GTM strategy, brand development and growth, communications, creative studio leadership, leading high-performing teams, and building strong cross-functional partnerships. Karrie's most recent SaaS marketing leadership experience was with Typeform and Smartsheet, with a strong prior foundation in marketing roles Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and Pfizer. She also founded and ran her own marketing agency for seven years.Learn more about ChangeEngine:https://www.changeengine.comConnect with Karrie Sanderson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karrie-sanderson/Connect with the host, Connor Dube, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/socialsellingexpert/Brought to you by the B2B content marketing experts at www.ProvenContent.comGet access to free content marketing courses, no email opt in required, at www.ProvenContent.com/Free

Alison addresses the fears of hiring in a shift from discussing online selling to exploring effective hiring practices. She shares insights on hiring someone who not only contributes to the business but also fosters a positive work environment.  Alison introduces James Bake, a successful addition to her team.  He shares his hiring process, which happens to align with Alison's.  Together, they provide a practical guide on when and how to hire, what qualities to seek in potential hires and offer a free downloadable worksheet for listeners.  This episode empowers entrepreneurs to make informed hiring decisions, allowing business growth to be streamlined and allowing business owners to focus on revenue-generating tasks. Help from James: Free Hiring WorksheetConnect with Alison:On Facebook: @alisonjprinceOn Instagram: @alisonjprinceLearn about the 0-100K System and how you can launch and grow your own online business here.Join the Print Sprint here.

“Your business can only grow at the pace of your team, leadership, planning and implementation  .” – Darnyelle Jervey Harmon Episode Summary This episode is powered by the Move to Millions Book One of my favorite best demonstrated practices is spending time in the third quarter to prepare and define the strategic plan for the next year.  To help me do this, I get my team together for a week and we plan, play and prepare for all the possible scenarios that could happen in the coming year in the company. During our retreat, we always focus on the next year in our 3-year strategic plan. We poke and prod the plan to make sure that we are looking at it from every angle. We perform a SWOT Analysis on the company, our programs, everything. We map the calendar of all the things that are centrifugal to the following year's goals. We highlight who we need to add to the team to achieve our core goals and objections. We reimagine. We challenge. We push limits. We refine. We confirm. We commit. I have always believed that people support what they help to create so we also make personal commitments to the role we will play in achieving the plan. Regardless of the size of your team, taking the time to clarify, confirm and commit to a plan will serve your business well in the coming year.  If you want to make next year your best year yet, this episode is for you and it's the perfect time to plan a virtual or live retreat as soon as possible with your team. Grab your pen and paper and listen in now to discover: How to plan and prepare for a team retreat The importance of running your company on a 3-year strategic plan What activities to conduct during your team retreat and so much more And so much more Important Links: MovetoMillionsLive Incredible One Enterprises Darnyelle's Personal Website Move to Millions Planner Move to Millions Book  Want more of Darnyelle? Social Media Links: http://www.instagram.com/darnyellejerveyharmon http://www.facebook.com/darnyellejerveyharmon http://www.twitter.com/darnyellejervey http://www.linkedin.com/in/darnyellejerveyharmon Subscribe to the Move to Millions Business Podcast: Listen on iTunes Listen on Google Play Listen on Stitcher Listen on iHeartRadio Listen on Pandora Leave us a review Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you're not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don't want you to miss an episode. I'm adding a bunch of bonus episodes to the mix and if you're not subscribed there's a good chance you'll miss out on those. Now if you're feeling extra loving, I would be really grateful if you left me a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find my podcast and they're also fun for me to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let me know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you

Tim Jones aka That B Corp Bloke: Using B-Corps to Accelerate Your Business Tim Jones aka That B Corp Bloke is New Zealand's 1st qualified B Consultant who has helped more than close to 100 companies from around the world successfully navigate the B Corp Impact Assessment. He delivers inspirational, and impactful consulting, training and coaching to individuals and organizations. Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs, who want to achieve high sales and positively impact humanity! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of conscious guests such as Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 3,800 episodes that have been heard by over 100 million in 190 countries.

Tim Jones aka That B Corp Bloke: Using B-Corps to Accelerate Your Business Tim Jones aka That B Corp Bloke is New Zealand's 1st qualified B Consultant who has helped more than close to 100 companies from around the world successfully navigate the B Corp Impact Assessment. He delivers inspirational, and impactful consulting, training and coaching to individuals and organizations. Welcome to the Conscious Millionaire Show for entrepreneurs, who want to achieve high sales and positively impact humanity! Join host, JV Crum III, as he goes inside the minds of conscious guests such as Millionaire Entrepreneurs and World-Class Business Experts. Like this Podcast? Get every episode delivered to you free!  Subscribe in iTunes Download Your Free Money-Making Gift Now... "Born to Make Millions" Hypnotic Audio - Click Here Now! Please help spread the word. Subscribing and leaving a review helps others find our podcast. Thanks so much! Inc Magazine "Top 13 Business Podcasts." Conscious Millionaire Network has over 3,800 episodes that have been heard by over 100 million in 190 countries.

Welcome to Life in the Leadership Lane where I am talking to leaders making a difference in the workplace and in our communities. How did they get to where they are and what are they doing to stay there! Buckle up and get ready to accelerate in the Leadership Lane! This week, I am talking with Megan Baeza, SHRM-SCP, Director of Internships and Employee Relations at University of Texas Permian Basin and 2023 President – Permian Basin SHRM How did Megan get started in her career? What led her to the world of HR and Leadership? When did Megan “find her lane” in her career? What does Megan share about her career in law enforcement? What does Megan share about leadership? What does Megan share about helping people find jobs? What tips does Megan share to help you standout for a job? What does Megan share about “Energizing HR” conference takeaways? What does Megan share about joining your local SHRM chapter? What advice does Megan share to help us in our every day? …and more as we spend “Time to Accelerate” with a few more questions. Interview resources: Favorite quote(s) from Megan: “Working hard, valuing other people, and having a good attitude can get you a long way.” “I'm really not going to be one to criticize and say anything if I'm not willing to step up and do something about it.” Connect with Megan on LinkedIn Visit Permian Basin SHRM Chapter to learn more Visit University of Texas Permian Basin Check out Bruce's books Life in the Leadership Lane; Moving Leaders to Inspire and Change the Workplace Find Your Lane; Change your GPS, Change your Career (“Book Authority” Best Books) Milemarkers; A 5 Year Journey …helping you record daily highlights to keep you on track. Subscribe to Bruce's Blog “Move to Inspire” Connect with Bruce on LinkedIn Connect with Bruce on Twitter Connect with Bruce on Instagram Connect with Bruce on Facebook Get relocation support for your next household goods or commercial office move across the US by reaching out to Bruce at bwaller@goarmstrong.com or visit The Armstrong Company

Hello beautiful human,   Today's episode is with Andrea Parker -  a former police detective turned Conscious Leadership Coach and Speaker.   Andrea helps Influential Leaders to play better, create a lasting impact and enjoy their experience. She believes that life and business are meant to be fun and fulfilling ... and led from the heart.   She is an accredited International Professional Certified Coach and holds certifications in leading-edge mind-body techniques, specializing in the subconscious mind.    This episode is all about having the courage to let go of conventional "success" metrics and cultivating joy in life, love and business. Andrea helps leaders find fulfillment by living from their heart.   Is there any other way? Well ....   Things we touch on in this episode:    The importance of courage and living from the heart Aligning heart, head, and senses Andrea's journey from police detective to Coach + Speaker. Trusting the Universe. Increasing revenue through joy and fun Working with leaders and making a lasting impact along the way Dr. Lise Janelle + the Heart Freedom Method Vesica Institute for Holistic Studies Dr. Robert Gilbert, PhD. Bridging spirituality and enjoyment Making human development accessible and fun [transformation doesn't take years!] Uncovering one's values through self-discovery Explaining yin and yang aspects The power of admitting desires and taking inspired action Difficulty staying connected to one's truth Importance of daily practices for support and of knowing one's values. Importance of play and consciousness in leadership Accelerate Your Growth Workshop and client example Making an exit plan and trusting the heart's guidance   [00:05:17] From shepherd to police officer to coach [00:12:46] Living from your heart takes courage. [00:21:47] Courage is heart, challenge, and continuous growth. [00:26:12] Leaders seeking impact find joy, create success. [00:30:47] Living from the heart: yin and yang. [00:32:42] Accelerate growth, align goals with heart. Trust. [00:37:54] Heart Freedom Method, Vesica Institute, and biogeometry [00:41:59] Understanding values enhances relationships and personal growth. [00:44:45] Uncover your values; follow your own path. [00:47:58] Thriving in the heart era, embracing creators. [00:51:36] "Upcoming event, visit Show Notes for details"   Notable quotes within the episode:   On Living from the Heart: "I think living from your heart, it takes courage and it's very simple to do, but it's also one of the most challenging things for many different reasons."— Andrea Parker   On Courage: "And it sounds so simple, but it's not, because what your heart wants and what your head wants, what your senses wants, are usually very different things."— Andrea Parker    On The Power of Self Love: "At the root of every single one of our fears is the illusion that we're unworthy, that we're not enough, that we're unlovable."— Andrea Parker   On Living from Your Heart: "Living from your heart is a simultaneous process of continuously tuning in to what's coming through. What is it that you want? Continuously admitting it, having the courage to take action and to also trust. Like, trust that you do your best and you let it go."— Andrea Parker    On Bridging the Gap Between Spirituality and Fun: "I think that's the missing link is bridging the gap between spirituality and fun. It can be fun. You don't have to sit and meditate for Eons in order to get a transformation."— Andrea Parker   On The Era of the Heart: "If we think of a truly successful person, and to me, success is just living from your heart. But some people who are, if we think back to ancient Egypt, like the true successful people who are very wise, heart centered, they're very humble. And they're humble because they knew that thriving is our natural state."— Andrea Parker    On Practical Steps for Creating an Exit Strategy: "I think there's just so much goodness in hearing how F'n hard it can be sometimes, and yet also to hear what sometimes the most practical steps can be."— Laura Foster    More About Andrea Parker: Andrea is a former police detective turned Conscious Leadership Coach and Speaker.   As the Founder of AP Coaching, she helps Influential Leaders to play better, create a lasting impact and enjoy their experience. She believes that life and business are meant to be fun!   She is an accredited International Professional Certified Coach and holds certifications in leading-edge mind-body techniques, specializing in the subconscious mind.   Andrea has worked with multi-million dollar business leaders, transformational speakers, holistic doctors, musicians, professional athletes, and Emmy-award-winning producers.   INSTAGRAM   / WEBSITE    Gift from Andrea: Free 5-Minute Heart Connection Meditation Andrea's Accelerate Your Growth 2-Day Workshop: Sept 29 + 30, 2023 [+ more future dates] and Business Blueprint.    More About Dr. Laura Foster: WEBSITE INSTAGRAM I have recently opened up some opportunities for women to work 1:1 with me in personal leadership coaching. This year my group program (ROOTS) is on pause … I can feel a deep level of 1:1 work that's emerging for me and I'm creating as much space as possible for what's coming through. I have three upcoming group retreats: Feb 2024 Costa Rica, April 2024 Mexico, July 2024 Ontario, Canada.  I also curate 1:1 personal, deep-dive retreats that are intimate and powerful – here in Costa Rica. Contact me for more info on this. Coach with me and step into yours, fully and completely. You can book a free discovery call right here. You can also reach out to me through private direct message on INSTAGRAM and we can take the next step. Please share, rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts. It makes a massive difference in supporting this work and we deeply appreciate it. Blessings, L

In this live session, we break down the nitty-gritty of what it takes to skyrocket your growth using the Agency Growth Model. I'm talking about those key moves you need to make in different areas to get that growth engine revving. Watch the video below: Outline of this video: Accelerating Growth (07:56): [...] The post How to Accelerate the Growth of Your Digital Marketing Agency appeared first on Seven Figure Agency.

Our lives contain a database of information that tell us what operating in our full potential looks like. The problem is that many of us don't take time to access this data. In today's episode, I talk about a framework I've created to help you do just that. I call it the QXR. This fall, my QXR Intensive kicks off so I wanted to take some time to share research that proves the power of capturing and reflecting upon our past experiences like we do in the QXR Intensive and how you can implement this habit into your life.

August Acceleration Series – Episode Four: Quantum tools to accelerate your potential by ANH International

In this episode, I'm joined by Allison Pinkham, Chief Human Resources Officer at Galderma to discuss how she led a transformation of HR into an outcome-focused function aligned to business goals.

Welcome to Max Tax Advantage with Nisla Love where we supply you with knowledge to maximize your tax returns and minimize your tax payments legally. In this episode, join Nisla Love and business coach Dan Adkins, MBA, Certified Personal and Business Coach, Author, Speaker as they explore how small business coaching can supercharge your journey towards achieving your business vision. Gain insight, strategy, and direction to propel your business forward. NOTE: The information contained in this podcast is intended for educational purposes only and is not individual tax advice. Please consult a qualified professional before implementing anything you learn.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -- Nisla's mission as an IRS Enrolled Agent at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Choose Love Solutions⁠⁠⁠⁠, a veteran-owned and operated online tax firm based in North Carolina, is to educate, empower, and help our clients create lasting financial legacies. With over 15 years of experience specializing in tax preparation and planning for small businesses and individuals, especially those in the real estate investment sector, we are committed to providing top-quality service nationwide. Our team, led by our passionate CEO and IRS Enrolled Agent, Nisla Love, is dedicated to helping small business owners build wealth while staying IRS compliant. In this video, we will be sharing the latest updates on tax laws and strategies to promote your financial wellness. We believe in teaching our clients how to build wealth through effective tax planning, ultimately leading to a better financial life. If you're a new customer, don't forget to schedule your initial consultation with us. We'll review your tax needs, discuss our services in detail, and establish the best course of action for you. We pride ourselves on clear communication, personalized service, and setting affordable fees that are agreed upon after receiving all relevant information. So, join us on this journey and let's succeed together in reaching your financial goals. Subscribe, like, and share for more content on building wealth through tax planning. Contact Nisla Love now at ⁠⁠⁠⁠chooselovesolutions.com⁠⁠⁠ Season 1 of Max Tax Advantage is sponsored by ⁠⁠⁠⁠W.E.B.S. Tax Prep⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow and subscribe now to United States Real Estate Investor on all the socials and on your favorite podcast app. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠unitedstatesrealestateinvestor.com⁠⁠⁠ This podcast is a United States Real Estate Investor Joint Venture. If you'd like to produce your podcast with United States Real Estate Investor, contact us now at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.unitedstatesrealestateinvestor.com/contact/

While we prepare Season 11 of the podcast, Tim will be giving weekly rapid reactions to audio articles from our industry publications. In this final Fire Time Magazine Rapid Reaction episode, Tim reacts to an article by Tyler Anderson titled “Let's Get Personal: 4 Ways to Accelerate Advocacy for Your Business”. Published in the February 2023 issue of The Fire Time Magazine, this article highlights the importance of improving the customer experience for your business. Listen today to better how you interact with your customers! To hear more audio articles from our magazine, subscribe to the Fire Time Magazine Podcast: https://www.itsfiretime.com/magazine. Read The Fire Time Magazine Reader Edition online: https://magazine.itsfiretime.com. Download The Fire Time Magazine app to get full access to the magazine (for free): https://www.itsfiretime.com/app. Pick up a copy of the 2023 Fire Time Journal: https://www.itsfiretime.com/journal. Support The Fire Time Podcast financially: https://www.patreon.com/itsfiretime.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about monitoring network and application performance. Our sponsor is Catchpoint, and they've sent a customer, StackPath, to talk about using Catchpoint in production. This includes real-time BGP monitoring and Catchpoint's observability network that lets you test networks and applications from multiple vantage points, and instant tests when you need immediate data. The post Tech Bytes: How StackPath Uses Catchpoint's Internet Performance Monitoring To Accelerate MTTI (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

New innovation across the board within the food and beverage industry often occurs within the entrepreneurial Independent and small-to-medium business (SMB) growth space. These businesses are operating with less resources, and business owners often have to make agile decisions on things they may not 100% understand, sometimes even building their own solutions.Join host Rob Grimes as he dives into his experience working with the independent operators as they consider their investment in technology. First, he expresses a common misconception around the technology environment, that what works for one restaurant or business that is similar to yours, will work for you. “No two operations are 100% alike. If you're a pizza restaurant, you aren't going to operate like every other one. So while it is good to know what they use and recommend, simply comparing yourself to them may not get you the solutions that work for you. Without knowing their TechStack holistically, you won't know what other systems they're using outside of the POS. For instance, what applications are in the back office, what do they use for payroll, time & attendance, and food costing? And then, what are they (and you) doing manually through spreadsheets that could be automated?.”If you're considering how to upgrade, grow, and enhance your service and offerings through new technology as an independent or SMB, Rob gives his tips to lessen your risk, find what you need, be able to grow and of course provide the best ROI to your operations. Involve the entrepreneur, always think holistically, and understand the full scope of your current operations.To start the process of developing and implementing a tech strategy & roadmap for your business, listen to this episode of Accelerate.

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk about monitoring network and application performance. Our sponsor is Catchpoint, and they've sent a customer, StackPath, to talk about using Catchpoint in production. This includes real-time BGP monitoring and Catchpoint's observability network that lets you test networks and applications from multiple vantage points, and instant tests when you need immediate data. The post Tech Bytes: How StackPath Uses Catchpoint's Internet Performance Monitoring To Accelerate MTTI (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Craig Stephens of Retire Before Dad talks about how to accelerate your wealth trajectory. Episode 2427: The Creation Mindset - Accelerate Your Wealth Trajectory by Craig Stephens of Retire Before Dad Craig Stephens of Retire Before Dad is a 43-year-old IT professional, investor, and blogger based in the Washington, DC metro area. His primary financial goal is to retire at age 55, one year before his Dad retired. He writes about how to build income streams so you can explore the unusual. His first love is his beautiful wife and three kids. His second love is travel. Combining both in early retirement is the ultimate goal and his primary motivation for financial independence. The original post is located here: https://www.retirebeforedad.com/creation-mindset-wealth-trajectory/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com  Interested in advertising on the show? https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalFinanceDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Life in the Leadership Lane where I am talking to leaders making a difference in the workplace and in our communities. How did they get to where they are and what are they doing to stay there! Buckle up and get ready to accelerate in the Leadership Lane! This week, I am talking with Michele Harris, SHRM-CP, HR Benefits Administrator, Brazos River Authority and 2023 President, Heart of Texas SHRM. How did Michele get started in her career? What led her to the world of HR and Leadership? When did Michele “find her lane” in her career? What does Michele share about mentorship? What does Michele share about leadership? What does Michele share about STIP? What tips does Michele share about employee benefits? What does Michele share about transition from military to civilian workplace? What does Michele share about asking? What advice does Michele share to help us in our every day? …and more as we spend “Time to Accelerate” with a few more questions. Interview resources: Favorite quote(s) from Michele: “My leadership style is to lead by example.” “I just want to see where it goes.” Connect with Michele on LinkedIn Visit Heart of Texas SHRM to learn more Check out Bruce's books Life in the Leadership Lane; Moving Leaders to Inspire and Change the Workplace Find Your Lane; Change your GPS, Change your Career (“Book Authority” Best Books) Milemarkers; A 5 Year Journey …helping you record daily highlights to keep you on track. Subscribe to Bruce's Blog “Move to Inspire” Connect with Bruce on LinkedIn Connect with Bruce on Twitter Connect with Bruce on Instagram Connect with Bruce on Facebook Get relocation support for your next household goods or commercial office move across the US by reaching out to Bruce at mailto:bwaller@goarmstrong.com or visit The Armstrong Company

Ever wondered what it's like to be a VP or Director of Engineering? Kendra chats with Alex Robson about leadership in technology, what you can get out of coaching or an MBA program (should you be interested), and what makes a high performing team. We'll also chat about recommended content to hone your tech leadership skills. Alex Robson's site and blog: https://robsonconsulting.services Alex's content recommendations for folks who want to think more about technical leadership: "I believe Camille Fournier and Will Larson are wonderful writers with invaluable insights and advice. For product thinking, I recommend folks read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Principles of Lean Product Development Flow by Don Reinertsen, Safer Sooner Happier by Jonathan Smart, and Accelerate by Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Be sure to read books on leadership that are outside of engineering. Dan Pink's Drive and Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal are two of my usual recommendations. Last but not least - read books that are about human behavior. Both economists and psychologists ask important questions that may help you unlock better ways to relate to and understand others. I love Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, and highly recommend Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavins and Elliot Aronson."

***THIS EPISODE HAS A-LOT OF SUPPORTING VISUALS. HEAD OVER TO YOUTUBE.COM/OURBMX FOR THE FULL EXPERIENCE***Retaliate, Accelerate, and Incinerate…Three amazing video parts and we have the person responsible for them all, Broc Raiford in the unclicked studio today for a special video breakdown episode. Broc's Long-time friends, Professional BMX rider Demarcus Paul, and Videographer Zach Krejmas are also sitting in with us today to help break down the ins and outs of Broc's recent trifecta. Don't let me keep you, head over to the play button and enjoy.Shout out to Oskar Blue for supporting the Unclicked Podcast: https://oskarblues.com0:00 - Broc Raiford and Zach Krejmas18:12 - RETALIATE53:19 - ACCELERATE1:33:08 - Your favorite?1:43:40 - INCINERATE2:26:00 - Wrap upGuests:Broc Raiford: https://www.instagram.com/brocraiford/Zach Krejmas: https://www.instagram.com/zachkrejmas/Hosts:Ryan Fudger: https://www.instagram.com/fyanrudger/Demarcus Paul: https://www.instagram.com/demarcuspaul/Support the show

In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast I'm joined by Cheryl DeSantis, Chief People Officer at National Veterinary Associates.Cheryl offers thoughtful insights on overcoming limiting beliefs, leading with curiosity, creating psychological safety, and helping teams thrive. She explains the meaning behind "steel backbone, soft heart" and gives practical tips for developing empathy and resilience.Tune in for an uplifting and empowering conversation about the future of leadership.

There are many reasons why people choose to take a career break. We share how leaders can re-enter the executive world with confidence.  Did you know that 62% of all employees worldwide have taken a career break at some point?  Career breaks have become far more commonplace, likely caused by the period of deep reflection that the pandemic sparked.   Often we associate career breaks with being on maternity leave or taking time out to look after children. But in reality, there are lots of reasons why men and women choose to take a break from the typical 9-5—whether that be for mental health reasons, to care for elderly or sick relatives, or to go on a sabbatical.   Even though career breaks have become more common, a stigma remains associated with taking time away. And that means many people still brush their career breaks under the carpet during executive interviews.   In our Leadership Lounge podcast, we invited four of our leadership advisors; Sarah Galloway, Shoon Lim, David Lange, and Stephanie Tomasso, into the conversation, who share their advice for those looking to re-enter the executive world with confidence.   Tune in to discover why taking time away can help you hone different, desirable leadership skills, the importance of leveraging your network when you choose to re-enter the job market, and why honesty is the best policy when it comes to talking about your career break.