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This Week: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has set two deadlines for infrastructure legislation next week. By Wednesday, a bipartisan group of Senators will need a legislative text to back up their proposed $1.2 trillion bipartisan "hard infrastructure" framework. Senate Democrats also need to agree on a $3.5 trillion budget proposal that would include medicare expansion, paid family leave, universal pre-k, and other forms of "human infrastructure." Fox News Congressional Correspondent, Chad Pergram, joins the podcast to discuss these two paths to infrastructure legislation. As the United States faces the COVID-19 Delta variant, as many as 19 states have reported a 50% increase in Coronavirus cases; this increase comes as vaccinations are stalling across the country. Also, this week, the FDA issued a warning for links between Guillain-Barre Syndrome and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Former CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, joins FOX News Washington Correspondent Rachel Sutherland to discuss.  United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has agreed to a global minimum tax rate on corporations, a move she says would end the 'race to the bottom' that encourages corporations to move out of the United States for tax reasons. And while negotiations on the specific of this minimum tax continue, most experts estimate corporations would pace a 15% corporate tax. Bipartisan Policy Center Vice President and Chief Economist, Jason J. Fichtner, discusses what this global minimum tax rate would mean for Americans and American corporations.  Two islands in the Caribbean are reeling following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and widespread Cuban protests in response to food shortages, rolling blackouts, and healthcare failures linked to the Communist government. Fox News State State Department Correspondent, Rich Edson, discusses the challenges that face Cuba and Haiti, calls for the United States to roll back sanctions against Cuba, and the management of Cuban emigration. 

Podcast 178 This week, what can you do when your plan for the week is destroyed and your waiting for list get out of control.   You can subscribe to this podcast on: Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | TUNEIN   Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin The Ultimate Productivity Bundle Download the FREE Areas of Focus Workbook More about the Time Sector System The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Episode 178 Hello and welcome to episode 178 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein and I am your host for this show. So, you're finally doing your weekly planning session, you have your focused work times blocked on your calendar and you are confident you will be able to get all your important work done that week.  Then, one email from your boss late Monday afternoon throws everything out. You have to ditch the plan and all the things you have been waiting for are required right now.  How do you manage that? Well, hopefully, in this episode I will give you some strategies to help you stay in control. Now before I do that… Don't forget, you can save yourself over $200 when you buy The Ultimate Productivity course bundle. This bundle gives you six courses for just $175 including the Time Sector System, Your Digital Life 3.0 and Time and Life Mastery.  With this bundle you get everything you need to build your personalised productivity system at your own pace. And that is important. It takes time to piece together a system that works seamlessly for you and that's what this bundle of courses will enable you to do. Taking one course each weekend over the next six weeks will give you the knowledge, the know-how and the tools to put together a system that will stick.  So, if you want to finally nail down your time management, goal planning and productivity so you have every part of your life in balance, start today and get yourself the Ultimate Productivity bundle.  Full details and more information are in the show notes.  Okay, it's time for me to hand you over to the mystery podcast voice for this week's question.  This week's question comes from Melissa. Melissa asks: Hi Carl, This year I have done really well on doing a weekly review every Saturday morning and I get my week planned and organised. But, I find most weeks, by the time I get to Wednesday, I am far behind on my plan because I get given other work from my boss, I am waiting for my colleagues to get back to me with important information and my customers are always contacting me asking for help. How do you stay with your plan when so many things keep forcing you to change everything? Hi Melissa, great question and I am sure a lot of people find themselves in the same situation as you do. I know it happens to me more often than I like. So, firstly, it's fantastic to hear you are consistently doing the weekly planning session. That's important because it keeps you on top of your bigger picture direction and helps to avoid missing anything important. A lot of the reasons why people find themselves overwhelmed and directionless is because they don't spend any time stepping away and reviewing where they are with their projects and goals.  If you don't know where you are, how will you ever know what you need to do next to get the project or goal completed?  And let's be honest here, a weekly planning session takes no more than thirty minutes if you are doing it consistently every week. If you are not doing it consistently, then, sure, it's going to take you a lot longer because you will inevitably have a lot more to review.  Now, no matter how well you plan the week, unless you are hidden away in a log cabin high up in the mountains with no connection to the outside world, things are going to change your plan. When your plan for the week comes face to face with the week, sparks are going to fly. It's as Mike Tyson put it: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” However, understanding that things are going to change—you just don't know what is going to change—is a great place to start.  The key here is to build in flexibility. It's no good trying to meticulously plan out your week based on what your next week calendar looks like on Saturday morning with time blocks for every hour of the day. That will never work. There are too many variables.  Instead, establish what your important work for the week is. What are your “must dos”? These are your non-negotiable tasks—if you like, they are your red-lines. No matter what, these tasks, meetings and appointments must take place.  It is these that go on your calendar—after all, you have decided they are your non-negotiable tasks.  Your non-negotiable tasks are not just about your work either. Your family and friendships, time for exercise, rest and personal development should form part of your non-negotiable plans for the week.  For instance, if making time to have dinner with your family every day is part of your areas of focus, then you make sure that happens and never schedule work related calls at those times. It's the same with your exercise time. We all know by now you need to move. You body was not designed to spend all day sat down. You need movement. So, make sure that some form of exercise each day is scheduled. That could be a twenty minute walk after lunch and a thirty minute walk after dinner. Exercise is a personal choice. You do not have to go to a gym. Just make sure you have time for movement every day.  Now, hopefully, once you have your non-negotiable, must do tasks in your task manager and the required time to complete these are blocked out on your calendar there should be enough blank space for you to manage any emergencies that will inevitably come your way.  Now, here's a tip. Start the week as if you expect the week to turn crazy.  What I mean here is front load your week with your most important work. If a crisis or an emergency is going to happen, you want to know that you have already completed your most important work for the week—or at the very least started doing the work.  There's no way any of us can predict when things will go wrong. The only thing we can predict is that at sometime in the week something is going to happen that will require us to find some unplanned for time.  Knowing this, if you can, block out Monday for your most important work.  In my experience, Monday's are the least likely days for sudden emergencies to happen. Most people spend Monday catching up with what they need to do that week, gossiping about what they did last weekend and telling anyone who will listen how much they hate Mondays.  Take advantage of this. Make Monday mornings your deepest focus work time.  Getting your most important work done early in the week, means you have the time and space to deal with all those unexpected requests, crises and emergencies later in the week, safe in the knowledge your most important tasks for the week have already been done.  I actually, block both Monday and Tuesday morning for my most important work. Monday is the day I try to get all my writing for the week done, and Tuesday is when I plan out the content I need to create later in the week—it's the content planning time that takes up a lot of my time when creating content. So, I want that done early in the week so no matter what happens later, the hardest part of the creation process is done.  The rest of your week needs to be kept as flexible as you can make it. If you can, try to make Wednesday or Thursday your flexible day. By that I mean keep your work time blocks to a minimum.  Knowing you have space on a Wednesday or Thursday to deal with any unknowns that come up earlier in the week, takes the pressure off from worrying about finding time to work on whatever needs working on. It also means you have the space to catch up with anything that has fallen behind.  It also helps to review your plan for the week on Wednesday too. This acts as a method to refocus you on what your objectives for the week are. It also means you can reschedule less critical work if necessary.  Last week, for instance, I had a few unexpected emergencies come up with a seminar I was doing for a company on Thursday. This meant, Tuesday was spend dealing with tech issues to make sure I could connect to the company's Microsoft Teams system—I understand security is important, but perhaps IT departments need to understand that no company is an island. Employees do need work with people outside the organisation from time to time—anyway just a thought. These issues thew me out of my plans for the week. However, I always have Wednesday morning free so I can catch up if necessary and that is exactly what I did. By Wednesday afternoon I was back on track and I made the necessary adjustments to my planned tasks for the week.  Now what about all those waiting for tasks? Here's the thing about waiting for lists. What is the outcome here? I'm pretty sure the outcome you wanted when you requested whatever you requested was not to sit and wait for something to happen. That objective would be bizarre. No, the outcome you wanted was to receive whatever you requested.  So, anything in a waiting for list is an uncompleted task. You have not got what you requested, therefore the task is not complete. Moving a task to a waiting for list after you sent the request is just shuffling tasks from one list to another. It's not completing the task. The task is only complete once you receive the information you wanted.  So, if you want to complete that task, you need to do whatever it takes to get the information you are waiting for. Whether that means you pick up the phone and scream and shout at the person not supplying you with the information or you send a polite, but firm email. Remember the objective is to get the information, not necessarily to build friendships or popularity.  You want to reduce your waiting for list? Get tough, get nasty and do whatever it takes to complete the task. And yes, that means you need to get tough and nasty with your bosses if it is they who are not giving you the information.  Look, when it comes to your annual evaluation and the person doing the evaluation gives you a poor score because you are not completing your targets and KPIs, it will sound pretty pathetic if you try to justify yourself by blaming others for not sending you the information you needed to complete your KPIs. So stop seeing waiting for tasks as somehow being different from the original task. If the original task has not been completed then it's not complete and you just have to reschedule whatever it is to another day when you do have the information in order to complete the task. Focus on the right outcome and do whatever you need to do to clear you waiting for lists. There should be almost nothing in there.  Hopefully, that helps you, Melissa. Try to front load your week where possible and keep the mid-week as flexible as possible for dealing with the emergencies and crises and review your plan too.  There's nothing wrong is rescheduling tasks. We all have to do that a lot more than we would care to admit. But life will always throw you off track, that's just life. Ships are constantly battling winds and seas pulling them in different directions. But as long as you know where you are going you will always find the right port. That's the same in life. There are constant pulls and distractions trying to pull you away from your planned course.  Just make sure you have a little time each week to review your plan, and readjust where necessary.  Thank you, Melissa for your question and thank you to you for listening. It just remains for me know to wish you all a very very productive week.   

The night sky offers some especially beautiful sights this week. Mars is shining at its best for the entire year. And over the next couple of mornings, the crescent Moon slips past the star Regulus and the planet Venus. Venus is the brilliant “morning star.” It’ll stand below the Moon at first light tomorrow. At the same time, Regulus — the heart of the lion — will be roughly the same distance to the upper right of the Moon. By Wednesday morning, the Moon will have dropped past Venus. The Moon will be an even thinner crescent then. So if you look before dawn, you’ll see a brighter glow on the dark portion of the Moon, illuminated by “earthshine” — sunlight reflected from our own Earth. Mars is in view all night. It’s at a point called opposition. That means it lines up opposite the Sun in our sky. It rises around sunset and remains in the sky all night. And it shines at its brightest — like a brilliant orange star. In fact, this month it outshines everything else in the night except the Moon and Venus. This is an especially good opposition for Mars. The planet’s distance from the Sun varies by quite a bit. Right now, Mars is fairly close to the Sun. So as Earth moves past Mars in our smaller, faster orbit, the Red Planet is fairly close to us as well — less than 40 million miles. That’s just about as close as it ever gets, so it shines especially bright — all night long. More about Mars tomorrow. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Need more evidence to defund the police? Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, is shot in the back seven times by a Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer. Amazingly, survived the initial shooting. Then get this...Blake gets taken to the hospital where he is handcuffed to his hospital bed, even though he is paralyzed because one of the shots severed his spinal cord. You heard his sister, Letetra Wideman, in today’s intro. And do you need more evidence that white supremacists are the biggest domestic terrorist group in the U.S. aided and abetted by the police? Late Tuesday night a 17-year-old MAGA-loving, a white nationalist from Illinois drove to Wisconsin with a long gun and ended up killing two people, injuring several more. New court documents show that the little fascist killed the first protester because the protester threw a plastic bag at him. Earlier that day, Kenosha police thanked the white nationalist militia members for their service and handed out water bottles to them. Nancy Pelosi says the Democrats will release Trump’s tax return...only if and when Biden wins the election. What? Republicans did their best to gaslight the nation this week. Yup, it was their convention.  Chris Brennan from the Inquirer published an expose this week on the Commonwealth Leaders Fund and their connections to the Commonwealth Foundation and the charter school movement.  It’s a preview of what’s to come in 2020.   The grand experience continues. After a week and a half of classes, Bloomsburg University reverses course and goes all online. Why? Well, because cases of COVID-19 on campus started to double every two days. At the beginning of the week, the university had almost 50 cases. By Wednesday, that number jumped to at least 90.  Kutztown University announces its first case. Wonder what will happen now? Speaking of Kutztown, Lehigh Valley Live reports that a professor told students to go out and get infected with the virus.“I think the sooner you guys get it, the better. Because none of you are gonna die from this and we need to have, you know, everybody be immune. And so the sooner that people are immune the better. And so you all should be going to Shorty’s every night, you know, interacting, getting this thing, get it over with.” Free Will Brewing recs for the week.

On August 17, 2020, Elder Fernandes was released from a hospital. He had spent 6 days hospitalized for unknown reasons. One of his military coworkers picked him up and dropped Elder off at his home on the 2700 block of Woodlands Drive in Killeen, Texas. Elder was then never seen again. On August 18, 2020, Elder failed to report to work, although his car was found in the parking lot of his work place on Fort Hood. By Wednesday, August 19, 2020, after not hearing from Elder since Sunday, Elder’s family was very concerned and his mother flew from Massachusetts to Texas to search for Elder. Since his disappearance, Fort Hood officials have released 4 press releases informing the public that they are doing everything in their power to find Elder. However, they do not suspect foul play in his disappearance. They have allegedly spoken to various soldiers that make it seem as though Elder left of his own accord. However, according to his family, immediately before his disappearance, Elder had been the victim of abusive sexual touching. He had filed an unrestricted report with the SHARP and his leadership even moved Elder to a new unit because Elder had been complaining of bullying and being belittled. It’s unclear if Elder’s disappearance is related to his sexual abuse allegation, or if it’s connected with his hospitalization, but his family and the Army and Killeen PD need YOUR help. Dig in with Margot as she discusses the most recent disappearance at Fort Hood – that of Sergeant Elder Fernandes. ----- If you have any information, however small, pertaining to Elder’s case or pertaining to someone Elder knew who is now acting weird, please reach out to the Killeen PD at 254-526-8477. You can also contact Army CID at 254-28702722. You can also submit an anonymous tip at Bell County Crime Stoppers. -----Get your 2 free Bonus Episodes here! All sources for this episode can be found here. -----Follow on social:Instagram Twitter Facebook Email: militarymurderpodcast@gmail.com Support the show (https://www.militarymurderpodcast.com/donate-2)

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We're back with another exciting episode of CoCoTALK! this week brings us episode 161. What can you expect this week? Hearing from CoCo enthusiasts from around the world, get updates on projects and any acquisitions, we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, have our GameON! segment where we'll review the results of all who played Downland this week, we may have a sneak peek or announcement from Boyson technologies, and so much more!   Take part in CoCo discussions 24/7 on our CoCo Discord server http://discord.cocotalk.live Learn more about CoCoTALK! at http://cocotalk.live Send feedback to cocotalk@cocotalk.live   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:57 Panel Introductions 00:07:32 News from around the retro world 00:57:42 Boysen Tech - Making the CoCoSDC 01:30:47 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal 01:55:46 GameON! news 02:17:12 Project updates and acquisitions 03:19:35 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions News stories for Episode #161, May 23, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) Frank Hogg published on Facebook, his remembered history of creating the Tomcat computer (TC-9 & TC-70):   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274266977641/   2) Stevie put up a couple of videos for the CocoPi3:    How to set up the CocoPi3:   https://youtu.be/nQlnXzExOqQ   Setting up a CocoPi3 to become a full game console:   https://youtu.be/sPvzXV0HqoQ   3) Carlos Camacho put up a scan of an article that Frank Hogg wrote back around 1983/1984, about the Deluxe Coco   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274975512641/   4) Eric Canales running MAME in it's debug mode for the Coco, that lets you merge in your own assembly source code into the debugger   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158270853957641/   5) David O'Connor has started setting up a website of all of his 6809 related projects (Coco's, synthesizers, etc.):    https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158275986067641/   6) Brian Wieseler posted some photos of Coco Kraft Joysticks   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274553217641/   7) Alison Denu posted an encrypted file done on the Coco, and invited other Coco users to try and crack it:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158263393342641/   By Wednesday, Paul Fiscarelli had done it, and made a video about it:   https://youtu.be/90ly9oQ9Uvg   ADDENDUM - Alison has changed her code a bit, and has issued the challenge anew.   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158278601702641/   8) David Brenneman shows a completed cartridge interface for the CocoPi3   https://www.facebook.com/groups/748644118674047/permalink/1292324787639308/   9) Allen Huffman has posted another blog about BASIC, and ELSE/GOTO optimizations:    https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/21/basic-and-else-and-goto-and-work-part-2/   10) A Youtube channel that I have not seen before called "Take it Apart"    https://youtu.be/RGqTCrq6f-0   11) Canadian Retro things posted a video showing using a stereo to load programs on an MC-10:   https://youtu.be/tcK5mJbfTL0   12) Curtis Posted updated the Ease of Use page   http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9_docs.html   VED 2.9 manual (From Bob van der Poel with permission):   http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/VED2.9_manual.pdf   WINDOWS part of the full NitrOS-9 Level II manual (we are formatting it fairly close to the original manuals):   http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/NitrOS-9_EOU_Level_2_Windowing_System_Manual.pdf   Game On News stories =========================================== 1) Marlin Lee has a video of Avenger (a somewhat Defender clone)   https://youtu.be/_ej6IFysjps   2) Paul Thayer has Timber Man back on sale again through PayPal:   https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/WS823RPSY22YW   3) Pere Serrat has a full gameplay video now of his Coco 1/2/Dragon port of the AGD game   https://youtu.be/XITAVNvrf0Q   4) Jim Gerrie has his final version of Mahjong for the MC-10   https://youtu.be/-w9fUJkXNqQ   5) Noriko Miyagami has put up a video playthrough of the Adventure International Coco port of "Dog Star Adventure"   https://youtu.be/Rocjx7kTt9w  

We're back with another exciting episode of CoCoTALK! this week brings us episode 161. What can you expect this week? Hearing from CoCo enthusiasts from around the world, get updates on projects and any acquisitions, we'll cover CoCo and retro news from around the world, have our GameON! segment where we'll review the results of all who played Downland this week, we may have a sneak peek or announcement from Boyson technologies, and so much more!   Take part in CoCo discussions 24/7 on our CoCo Discord server http://discord.cocotalk.live Learn more about CoCoTALK! at http://cocotalk.live Send feedback to cocotalk@cocotalk.live   General segments with time stamps you can quick link to: 00:02:57 Panel Introductions 00:07:32 News from around the retro world 00:57:42 Boyson Tech - Making the CoCoSDC 01:30:47 GameON! challenge results and next week's game reveal 01:55:46 GameON! news 02:17:12 Project updates and acquisitions 03:19:35 CoCo Caboose - after show & wrap-up discussions  News stories for Episode #161, May 23, 2020 show: ================================================= 1) Frank Hogg published on Facebook, his remembered history of creating the Tomcat computer (TC-9 & TC-70):   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274266977641/   2) Stevie put up a couple of videos for the CocoPi3:    How to set up the CocoPi3:   https://youtu.be/nQlnXzExOqQ   Setting up a CocoPi3 to become a full game console:   https://youtu.be/sPvzXV0HqoQ   3) Carlos Camacho put up a scan of an article that Frank Hogg wrote back around 1983/1984, about the Deluxe Coco   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274975512641/   4) Eric Canales running MAME in it's debug mode for the Coco, that lets you merge in your own assembly source code into the debugger   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158270853957641/   5) David O'Connor has started setting up a website of all of his 6809 related projects (Coco's, synthesizers, etc.):    https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158275986067641/   6) Brian Wieseler posted some photos of Coco Kraft Joysticks   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158274553217641/   7) Alison Denu posted an encrypted file done on the Coco, and invited other Coco users to try and crack it:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158263393342641/   By Wednesday, Paul Fiscarelli had done it, and made a video about it:   https://youtu.be/90ly9oQ9Uvg   ADDENDUM - Alison has changed her code a bit, and has issued the challenge anew.   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/permalink/10158278601702641/   8) David Brenneman shows a completed cartridge interface for the CocoPi3   https://www.facebook.com/groups/748644118674047/permalink/1292324787639308/   9) Allen Huffman has posted another blog about BASIC, and ELSE/GOTO optimizations:    https://subethasoftware.com/2020/05/21/basic-and-else-and-goto-and-work-part-2/   10) A Youtube channel that I have not seen before called "Take it Apart"    https://youtu.be/RGqTCrq6f-0   11) Canadian Retro things posted a video showing using a stereo to load programs on an MC-10:   https://youtu.be/tcK5mJbfTL0   12) Curtis Posted updated the Ease of Use page   http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/nitros9_docs.html   VED 2.9 manual (From Bob van der Poel with permission):   http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/VED2.9_manual.pdf   WINDOWS part of the full NitrOS-9 Level II manual (we are formatting it fairly close to the original manuals):   http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/EOUDOCS/NitrOS-9_EOU_Level_2_Windowing_System_Manual.pdf   Game On News stories =========================================== 1) Marlin Lee has a video of Avenger (a somewhat Defender clone)   https://youtu.be/_ej6IFysjps   2) Paul Thayer has Timber Man back on sale again through PayPal:   https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/WS823RPSY22YW   3) Pere Serrat has a full gameplay video now of his Coco 1/2/Dragon port of the AGD game   https://youtu.be/XITAVNvrf0Q   4) Jim Gerrie has his final version of Mahjong for the MC-10   https://youtu.be/-w9fUJkXNqQ   5) Noriko Miyagami has put up a video playthrough of the Adventure International Coco port of "Dog Star Adventure"   https://youtu.be/Rocjx7kTt9w  

Over the weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to voice his frustrations about the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown in Alameda County, California. The billionaire entrepreneur threatened that he would take his auto factory to another state if it was not allowed to reopen immediately. On Monday he announced that he would be resuming production at the facility in contravention of the lockdown. By Wednesday morning, the county had caved to Musk, announcing that his factory would be allowed to resume production under government supervision. After Musk’s initial tweet threatening to leave the state, California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez took to Twitter herself, saying succinctly, “F*ck Elon Musk.” She added: “So much of the clash our state is experiencing with the tech/Silicon Valley companies is of our own making. We let gig companies violate labor laws for over a decade. We subsidized Tesla as they operated with severe safety issues & actively union busted. They got used to it… It’s time that all companies, no matter how cool, abide by the same laws.” Lorena Gonzalez discusses the situation with Musk and Tesla. Then, tech and labor reporter Jack Crosbie joins Mehdi to give the backstory on the cultish billionaire.

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Big data sounds great, but how can marketers extract insights and put together reports without spending all of their time crunching numbers? This week on The Inbound Success Podcast, Anna Shutko of Supermetrics talks about how marketers today are dealing with data. From juggling data from 5+ sources, to wrangling spreadsheets and figuring out how to continuously monitor your data pipeline, Anna shares how Supermetrics clients are taking on these challenges while saving themselves considerable time - and how you can, too. Highlights from my conversation with Anna include: Supermetrics is a marketing automation tool that transfers data from a variety of sources to the marketer's destination of choice. In addition, Supermetrics offers data warehousing through Supermetrics for BigQuery. Supermetrics' goal is to make marketers' lives better and easier so they can focus on what actually matters. Anna says that marketers today need to be technologists who know their business, know their platforms, know at which stage of the funnel they want to use the platforms, and know how to use data from all those platforms together to create a comprehensive narrative from their data. According to Anna, the best KPI for any marketer is revenue. If revenue is growing, then marketing is doing its job. One of Supermetrics' customers was able to cut the time they spend on reporting down from three to four days a week to a few hours. With a platform like Supermetrics, which allows you to continuously keep your data updated in real time, you can simply check the data once a day, knowing that its up to date, and then go about your business. You can also simply provide your stakeholders (ex. board) with a link to view your data at their convenience. Anna says that the biggest mistake marketers make is to focus on vanity metrics like impressions. Resources from this episode: Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic  Supermetrics Reporting Template Gallery  Supermetrics Customer Success Stories Sleeping Giant Media Success Story Supermetrics HubSpot connector Supermetrics for BigQuery  Inbound Success Podcast episode 111 with Jake Neill  This Won't Scale playbook by Drift SaaStr Podcast for all things SaaS The Growth Hub Podcast for marketing topics Julian Shapiro's guides Listen to the podcast to learn more about how marketers are cutting their time spent on reporting using Supermetrics. Transcript Kathleen Booth (Host): Welcome back to the Inbound Success Podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Booth. And Today my guest is Anna Shutko, who is a product marketing manager with Supermetrics. Welcome, Anna. Anna: Hey, Kathleen, and thank you so much for having me on the show. It's such a pleasure to be here. Kathleen: Yeah. And I think you might actually qualify as my guest, one of the guests who is coming from the furthest away because you are in Finland right now. Correct? Anna: Correct. Yes, we are based in Helsinki, Finland. And yeah, so originally from Russia, and I moved to Finland and I've been living here for about seven years now. Kathleen: All right, and how -- just because the weather is changing here, so I'm currently kind of obsessed with weather -- how cold is it where you are? Anna: Basically, it's plus seven degrees Celsius. I'm sorry, I don't know what it's like in Fahrenheit. Kathleen: Cold, cold. I know that's cold. Anna: Kind of cold yeah. It usually drops to minus 20. So it's- Kathleen: Oh my gosh. I don't know how you do it, I would not survive in that climate. Well, it is getting colder here and the seasons are changing. But I'm so excited to have you on and to pick your brain because we're going to talk a little bit about analytics, which is something that's very near and dear to my heart. But it's one of those topics I think people talk a lot about, but they don't get very specific on and so I am actually really excited to get specific with you. Anna: Yes please. About Anna and Supermetrics Kathleen: So before we dive into this, though, can you just talk a little bit about, first of all, yourself and what you do and also what Supermetrics does? Anna: Yeah, sure. So I'm Anna Shutko and I've been working in Supermetrics for three years now. So I am one of the first employees of the company, I joined as employee number seven in 2016. And since then we've had a really, really rapid growth. So it's indeed an exciting journey. And I'm still continuing as you can imagine, the company is not the same as it was, not the same at all. Now we're hitting 70 like headcount. So it's been quite a wild ride. And I started as a marketing generalist, because as you can imagine, we're a team of seven, and everybody was doing everything, I was the second employee on the marketing team. And as the company grew I realized that product that's Supermetrics does is my passion and I want to devote more and more time to it. Now as we are hiring more people, I'm actually able to concentrate in product more and more as we go so I'm very excited about it. And in the future, I will be leading integrations marketing, which means, and I will explain everything how Supermetrics works and what integrations are in a minute, like integrations as their own stream as their own branch of marketing, so to say, so yeah, pretty excited about it. And like I mentioned, I fell in love with the product from day one. I remember how I was applying to Supermetrics, and I opened the website, and I saw this amazing product in the website was look really, really bad, but the idea was there. And yeah, since then, we changed the website and we added many more new and far more amazing products but I'm continuously in love with the company and products that we do so this is where my passion as a product marketing comes from. Kathleen: I have to just say, as a marketer, I have to laugh when I hear you say that you came in and you had a bad website because this -- I have experienced that in my career. And I never know whether to be excited or sad, because sad that you're coming in and the website stinks but excited that you get to come in and like change it and immediately show such big results of your marketing efforts. Like a website redesign is an awesome opportunity to just make a huge impact on a company's marketing so there's great opportunity there as a marketer, but it's also like "aargh." Anna: Yeah, I totally feel you on that we had a huge redesign project, but actually now the website really matches the company's identity of the company's products and shows how amazing they are. So I would prefer to see it as an opportunity. Kathleen: Yeah, you guys have a great website. So if you're listening and you have not checked out the Supermetrics site, definitely take a look at it. It's really well done and very cohesive from a visual branding standpoint. I've always liked your site. Anna: Thank you so much. Yeah, so a couple of words on what is Supermetrics and what do we actually do in this little red box. So, Supermetrics is a marketing automation tool and we started by developing a tool, which transfers data from different data sources, or as we call them "Integrations", those things, which transfer data from different APIs to different data destinations. So we transfer data from platforms like Google Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook ads, Twitter Ads, and now new ones for example Quora Ads, name it to spreadsheet tools and we started from transferring all this data to Excel then we move into G Suite. So next product was Supermetrics for Google Sheets aka transferring data from now it's 50 plus sources to Google Sheets. Then as Data Studio got rolled out, we partnered up with Google and we're actually the first ones to develop Connectors, which work entirely in Google Data Studios UI. So transferring all these different data to Google Data Studio. And now we enter the data warehousing space with our newest product Supermetrics for BigQuery and this is a completely new product game changer. So marketers can take advantage of BigQuery and store a lot of historical data there without necessarily learning how to code, really like hardcore, so everything is pretty intuitive. You can set transfers, and then visualize the data in big powerhouses that we're calling Tableau, Power BI for example. So that's the evolution of Supermetrics. In short, I love to describe it as a data pipeline, just easy to imagine, right, pipeline, we transfer data as if it's like water, for example, to all those different data destinations, and keep the work flowing. So previously, without Supermetrics marketers had to copy, paste, or download CSVs. So imagine, if you need a report for your client tomorrow, you have to go to every single platform like Facebook ads, Google Ads like I mentioned, ecetera, copy, paste, or then download all those different CSVs and compile them into one file. Edit every single data type and make sense out of the data and it was nightmare. I cannot even imagine how people did it without Supermetrics before. So we basically automate the whole thing so there is a really smooth sidebar or engage Google Data Studio there is this selection tool where you can very easily connect to all the sources you need. And you can select, which data do I want. For example, I want clicks from yesterday's clicked by campaigning for example, I want Facebook ads campaigns. And boom, this data just appears in your spreadsheet. It's really easy. I think it's the easiest if you watch the video, and I will add all the links to the video. So then people can pause the podcast, follow along or check our site out if they want to. So yeah, you will just really see how easy it is to create a marketing report and our motto, so our idea is to make marketers' life better and easier so they can focus on what actually matters like talking to the client, analyzing this data, spotting trends, sharing this report with their colleagues. If it's a collaborative tool, like Data Studio, it's super easy to do. And because we're a data pipeline, it gives us this flexibility. So we don't really have a fixed data destination where we transfer everything. People already know how to use Excel, so they can just transfer their data there and just go ahead and continue their work. So that's who we are. How marketers are taking on big data Kathleen: I love that. This whole topic is so interesting to me, and I was just having this conversation with somebody the other day, because my company is also in the data space, but we just happened to be in cyber security but there's a similar problem with marketing and with cyber security, namely that, there's all this sort of excitement around the availability of big data. And data is wonderful but what winds up happening I think, a lot of the time is there's a lot of noise and not a lot of signal. And meaning there's a ton of data, but you don't necessarily need to look at all data, right? You need to get to the data that matters the most. And the most important thing isn't the data itself it's the insights you source from it. And so, I would love to just kind of get your thoughts on especially for marketers. Do you see marketers successfully dealing with that challenge right now and how do they do that? It is such a big, hairy kind of area of I could be measuring all the things and tracking all the things. I guess this is like 10 questions in one I want to ask you so many things, like what are the most important metrics? How are marketers winnowing it down to what matters the most? Like, you guys work with a lot of companies, how many exactly is it? Anna: So yeah, indeed we do and I think I already previously mentioned to you, so it's 400k, 400,000 people who've tried or are using Supermetrics across all the different products, so huge numbers. Kathleen: That's interesting, it must give you some pretty fascinating insight into what information marketers are tracking and what they're looking at and what sources they're drawing data from. So let's start out actually by a lot of the people who are listening to this podcast, a lot of them tend to be practicing marketers and they're senior enough that they deal with strategy, but they're also kind of deep in the weeds with some tactical execution. And if somebody is listening and thinking I need to set up a reporting framework and I need to decide what are the most important KPIs to track? Can you share a little bit of, through what you see in the platform, like, what are those top KPIs that you tend to see marketers looking at? Anna: Yeah, so of course every single marketing reporting framework is unique and it depends on the company, there is no right or wrong, there is no one framework or one approach I could share and then everybody would apply it and then I would be in a very happy place. I wish that would be possible. But it's an art, it's science and everybody has to use their own judgment. Of course, I can pinpoint some things for example, nowadays you're completely right -- marketing is becoming more and more and more data driven. And marketing is actually becoming more and more technical. So there was this one chart I love referring to which is called the MarTech 5000. Not sure if you've heard of it. And it just shows on a larger scale, how the MarTech space has transformed over the years. So in 2011, there were something about, if I remember correctly, 150 solutions. And right now there are over 7,000 solutions. So imagine all those platforms and every single marketer is using maybe in their own platform, or some unique custom setups in the same HubSpot or Salesforce in the same platform everybody's using. So like I mentioned, is becoming more data driven, it's becoming more unique and is becoming increasingly complex. And what I see is that the profession is changing so we're not just more curious anymore, we have to be marketing technologists to successfully implement all those strategies. So knowing the platform and knowing at which stages of your funnel, you should use a particular platform, maybe it's a new platform, like Quora Ads for example. And it's an entirely new set of metrics because the nature of platform is different. You also have to take that into consideration. So basically to sum it up, knowing your business, knowing the platform, knowing at which stage of the funnel you want to use this platform, and knowing -- and this is where Supermetrics comes into play very nicely -- how we can use data from all those platforms together to create a comprehensive narrative from your data. Say you want to use, for example, Search Ads as top of the funnel, this is what we see commonly happening, people using Search Ads, maybe display ads to attract attention so they will be metrics like impressions, to impact your further questions like impressions clicks, in a way micro conversions or conversions as in their positioning to the website or going into down the funnel. Then in the bottom of the funnel, people are already more familiar with the company. So there can be many different other platforms coming into play that continue handling data so they can go on the website track. So then there is Google Analytics. They continue with another platform. Quora Ads again is a very good example because there you can have different targeting levels and you can target different questions now that people have already got their food for thought about your company. And in the end, you can, again, hammer them with more maybe brand-related content now that they're already familiar with your brand and then lead them gradually to closure. And again, this is where understanding of the product comes in handy. I will give our own Supermetrics example. So we have Supermetrics templates, basically, those are free to use files, which people can use and they work with our Connectors. So it works like this, you get this file, you click three buttons, and it all happens in Data Studio UI or, for example, Google Sheets UI and this is gets populated with your data as you use Supermetrics Connectors. But the trick is that you have to use Supermetrics Connectors to automate this dashboard. Of course, you can put your own numbers and the formulas would work, there is no problem with that you can also use it manually. But the beauty of those templates is to use them in an automated manner. So by knowing that those templates, activate trials, again, if we talking about SaaS, you know that in the bottom of your funnel, you can put this specific lead magnet, like in our case, this is the Landscape, there can be some our tool and then usually tracking through Custom Code or through Google Analytics, how those things convert and then afterwards I think that at this point, people start using more and more complicated platforms to track this post-purchase journey to accurately predict what kind of people convert? How do those people behave? And are there any like rookie purchases? So this is, again, where HubSpot comes in very handy. The platform has expanded a lot. Or Salesforce, then you can connect this data from Salesforce to top of the funnel, or middle of the funnel content data and then see how people who click on your ads and search literally through the whole journey have converted and what kind of people are there and based on that data, then you craft an improved marketing journey. Now that was a really long explanation but yeah, just hope to get the general idea out there so that you should know the business you're in. You should know the tool, you should know how to use those tools together, how to use this data together. And yeah, just focus on metrics like ROI that's my personal belief because marketing cannot function separately or completely separately from overall business, it has to bring results, it has to bring insights. So I think revenue is a very solid indicator of whether something working or not working, and in our case, this will be ROIs. Marketing tool sprawl Kathleen: Yeah, that makes sense and you touched upon something I wanted to ask further about, which is you have to know your platforms and I think you said you need to be a technologist these days, which I think is really so accurate. There are so many different platforms and you can't just be a strategist anymore you have to know how to get in and make these software tools sing for you, because that's where a lot of the value gets unlocked. Do you have a sense? Well, let me back up how many different data sources or platforms does Supermetrics integrate with right now? Anna: It depends on the data destination. So for example, for BigQuery, it's far more complex to add a data source, so we have less of them there. But I would say that more than 50 if we don't count those in detail, or like early access, fully integrated, fully developed platforms, there are around 50 and I have to say that our engineers did a great job because not only do we provide the basic of I call them the basic metrics for some platforms like HubSpot, for example, or Adobe analytics, we also provide the Custom metrics. So if people have created their own metrics, they are also able to fish them out with our tool and like visualize them. Kathleen: So there's about 50 different fully integrated platforms and plenty more kind of in development. Do you have any sense from the way that you all have seen customers using Supermetrics of, on average, how many different sources the typical marketer is pulling in? I'm just curious. Anna: Yeah, of course, I will give you a very, very rough number because there is no generalization to be made. Some people prefer to use one platform very heavily others prefer to use a bundle. But I would say that around maybe like five would be something like an accurate number. Kathleen: Yeah, it's so interesting, because just from my own experience even in small organizations, like, my company is small and in early stage, hopefully will be very big in a year. But, we still, I feel like we have a lot of different platforms. We have marketing automation, we have our website, we have Google Analytics, we have our CRM, like our video marketing platform, our SEO add-ons, there's just so much and pulling it all together is a little bit of a nightmare. And I imagine without a tool like this is super time consuming, and I think that that's probably one of the biggest pain points marketers have, is the amount of time they spend on reporting. Like you said, you work with a lot of different companies I know you and I talked and you have some examples of companies that have used the platform and some stories about how it's helped them save time. Can you maybe share some of that with us? Supermetrics customer stories Anna: Yeah, definitely, and I love sharing those stories because the clients are amazing and some of them have been with us through like absolutely everything. So they started using Grabber, which is now our legacy product so the tool pulls data into Excel. And now they want to try or are already trying Supermetrics for BigQuery you can imagine some of them have used all five of our products, so definitely an evolution there. But coming back to your question one of my favorite client success stories is Sleeping Giant Media. These guys- Kathleen: It's a great name, side note, I just like the company name. Anna: Yeah, they're great and the people they're amazing. So the team is based in Britain, and they've been using Supermetrics like I mentioned for a while. They started with Supermetrics for Google Sheets and now they're looking into Supermetrics for BigQuery. So Sam, big shout out to Sam is our one big Supermetrics fan and he even talked about us at Brighton SEO, which was just amazing we never asked him to but he just went out there and spoke about us. It was really heartwarming. So he told a story that they used to spend around three to four days just on marketing reporting, aka copy, pasting numbers, collecting- Kathleen: Three to four days a month, right? Anna: Three to four days a week. Kathleen: Ah, oh my goodness. Anna: Imagine well, I guess they were not doing it exactly like every week, but maybe like every other week let's say. They are a fully functioning marketing agency providing a wide range of services. So he would get in Monday morning and start collecting data and then they're emailing all the cc's. By Wednesday evening, he would finish all reporting for one maybe two clients, depending on the scope of the project, of course. And then he had Thursday and Friday. So Thursday the client meeting to discuss how campaigns are going, whether there is some adjustments have to be made, et cetera, et cetera. And then it would just leave basically Friday and well, if he's not doing reporting next week, then the next week to implement all the changes. Which to me sounds crazy, because this is something you should not be spending that much time on. This is not a very highly intellectual job like copy, pasting numbers feels so basic -  people doing this and he's started using Supermetrics so he's time basically time he spent on reporting cut down to something like an hour or maybe like an hour and a half and if he needed to do a reporting for absolutely all the clients in the agency that would be in one day. Kathleen: So what does he do with all his newfound free time? Anna: Great question. So he's already talking, well, obviously you started sharing those results with the clients. So he started talking to the clients more and this I think even further reinforces the idea that we help inbound marketers because then we encourage with this free time you can have more human connection. You can ask more relevant questions, you have more time to even think or like process the client's needs. And, in addition to this, he was able to make more relevant analysis now that he had more time. So he could actually process the numbers in his head and think, "Aha, what would our next steps be?" And then react accordingly? So we usually have two types of reports people are doing with Supermetrics. So one type of reporting is this for example, monthly reports where people pull together numbers from all those different sources to assess their monthly progress to see what kind of plans do they have to make for the next month, and then so on and so forth. And the second type of reporting that we commonly see is the ad hoc reporting. So say, okay, this campaign, this bid is acting wild I did not know what happened. Some numbers are going down they're not normal compared to the benchmark or this is someone unusual behavior. Let me just quickly pull out a few numbers and compare them and figure out what's the root cause? Is it something seasonal or is some competitor in the picture, like to understand what's happening. And I really loved one comment, this is from a different client the agency is also based in the UK, they said that it's much, much faster and much easier to pull those numbers with Supermetrics rather than going through the whole Facebook ads UI trying to dig into campaigns and figure out what exactly went wrong. So there you go. So you can also do this ad hoc kind of very quick analysis to see whether some immediate action has to take it and I think this makes you very, very proactive versus being a reactive reporter. You look at the numbers, it's like, "Oh, my God." The moment is gone, things have already happened. But this way, you can very quickly act upon those changes and as a result make your clients happy and avoid some potential setbacks. If you for example, have Black Friday and say something's going wrong then you don't have much time to react. You're losing money basically. So yeah, it really is- Kathleen: Do you have any sense for how often, because Supermetrics really gives a continuous flow of data, correct? Anna: Yeah. How often are marketers reviewing data? Kathleen: And so you could theoretically be checking it all the time. But do you have a sense for how often at least in best practice cases, marketers are looking at that data? Anna: Yeah, so they can set triggers that would refresh data automatically. So I would say that people do so that they set up a reporting dashboard, then they set it up to refresh, so that the data is there for the next day, usually. Of course, they can do like hourly refresh again, if it's a fast pacing, budget campaign, but usually they you do this, I come in to the office, I see fresh data in my dashboard. So every morning, we can do a quick catch up with my colleagues, look at this internal report and see how all of our different clients are doing. If it's an agency, if it's an internal team, then just see how campaigns are performing and then see what we're doing during the day. So that's the usual, I would say, very typical scenario, or according to my experience. Kathleen: And then it seems like, for reporting, like if you're somebody like me, who has to put together a report once a month for your board of directors, you could just really kind of screenshot and paste the graphs into a PowerPoint or something along those lines if you wanted to, or you could distill the data in some other way for like a monthly report. Anna: Yeah, definitely, you can do this. What I would do personally, if I was the one doing this, I would use Google Data Studio because this way you don't have to copy paste anything and you can share this file with really nice dashboards they've updated their design and they're rolling out as far as I know, more comprehensive and even better looking design soon. So you can just connect all the sources put all the numbers and like I mentioned also provide those templates so you can get some inspiration from there. Our designers also do a very nice job creating those lovely designs. For example, we have some Supermetrics for HubSpot templates there in our gallery and I will also give the link to all the materials and the gallery so people can check them out or if they listen to the episodes and try everything themselves. Check out the Supermetrics reporting template gallery But yeah, I would do something like this. And then at the same time, you would not need to refresh the data because the data will be refreshed automatically there. And the board of directors can see new numbers and in addition, you can also connect your custom data source, aka if you have revenue numbers in a database, many companies do have those. So especially if it's a board of directors, they would be very interested in the impact marketing has made on their revenue and other business metrics. So you can pull this data from the database and you can show it side by side with the marketing spend, for example, to give them an even bigger picture. The biggest mistakes marketers are making with data Kathleen: That's great. So any thoughts on, you know, what you see the marketers doing as far as the biggest mistakes they're making with tracking data reporting on it, et cetera? Anna: That's an interesting one. I actually have never thought about this. Mistakes. Well, maybe one thing that comes to my mind is maybe like focusing too much on the vanity metrics as I call them, aka like a lot of clicks or like impressions or worse like it's a impressions. Metrics that give you ... I would say these are maybe like unrelated metrics in a way that they're not very directly related to the business metrics, because for example, in some cases, sales cycle can be quite long. So you cannot accurately assess how much the campaign will generate in the future just simply because people have to go through multiple steps and multiple touch points to even get to the discussion about purchasing your product or tool or license. And so yeah, focusing too much on impressions, focusing too much on metrics then, like I said, not maybe necessarily related. This comes back to the product. You should know your sales cycle and I would suggest breaking it down into different steps and basically monitoring and benchmarking each step and see the conversion rates. I don't exactly remember, a gentleman did an episode with you and he suggested a very good framework for this. There was even Excel spreadsheet. So this is maybe something we could also pulling back to this episode in the comments. Kathleen: I'll have to figure out which one that was. Anna: Yeah, unfortunately, I don't remember. Kathleen: We'll figure it out. Anna: We'll figure it out. Check out the episode Anna references here Kathleen: I know we can do it and we'll put the link in the show notes. Yeah, I know that I've had so many great guests it's interesting who've contributed so many great ideas that oftentimes I was thinking and in fact as I listened to you talk, that I need to go back and listen to some of my earlier episodes, because now I'm on I think I just published Episode Number 117 when we're talking about this, and there's so many earlier ones that are still great in terms of the information they deliver. Who is Supermetrics right for? Kathleen: I imagine that this type of reporting isn't right for everybody because some marketers might have much simpler platforms or maybe not. Maybe it is for everyone can you talk through who do you generally see using a solution like this? Anna: So our most common user personas, so to say, are marketing agencies, so somebody who is doing marketing reporting consecutively and then they have to do it almost every day or at least monthly to put together those good looking reports for their clients. But of course, those marketing agencies can be of different size. There can be a five person as we are now seeing with required there can be a five person very tech savvy small team, which focus on marketing technology and purely some maybe hardcore analytics with the elements of normal distribution and some predictive analytics even or they can be a very big marketing agency like TBWA who want to work client success stories. So yeah, agencies are very typical for us. Then we have internal teams so basically marketing departments, which want to monitor their own campaign, how they're progressing. Then even if they don't have a client, like you just mentioned, reporting to their board of directors and showing what impact marketing has made on their sales et cetera. And also, we've added HubSpot Connector, which is not only marketing, but it's also CRM. So then they connect their marketing data together with the CRM data to give more background information and make a 360 degree analysis. So these are very, very diverse I have to say. Kathleen: Great. So really it sounds like anybody, regardless of size, who has a strong focus on data, tracking data, analyzing data and reporting on data? Anna: Yeah, I would say so. Well maybe there is some categorization, I would say that smaller teams tend to use Google Sheets and Excel aka Spreadsheet tools. If the team is very tech savvy, or they have a lot of historical data, then I would straightaway advise them to use Google BigQuery because they would immediately otherwise hit that cell limit and the reports will be bulky, the reports will be slow. This is just not the right data destination, if you want to store terabytes and even more like 2, 3, 4 years of historical data to see different trends. So to summarize, bigger marketing agencies who have many clients, many big clients like big brands want to own their data because imagine those big brands spend a lot of dollars collecting this data, cleaning this data up. And they want a place where they can successfully store the older data so they can store data in BigQuery as their database and then they can instantly connect data from their Facebook ads, et cetera, to BigQuery through Supermetrics, and then visualize it, for example, in Tableau or Power BI to get the full picture of their marketing reporting. And yeah, smaller teams tend to use Data Studio, Google Sheets, which are completely free tools, so they are not paying per usage for them. So for them that would be cheaper and therefore more suitable option. How to learn more about marketing analytics Kathleen: Okay. Now I'm going to spring a question on you that I didn't tell you I was going to ask you and you may not have the answer because this is totally off the cuff. But as you spoke about this, you talked about, like, when you start to do more, you should move over to BigQuery. And I imagine for some marketers that could seem kind of intimidating, especially if they don't come from a highly analytical background. So are there certain places that you know of, or can recommend if somebody's listening, and they're thinking, "Oh, my God, that sounds really complicated." I need to get up to speed and learn more about analytics and how to use something like BigQuery. Is there somewhere online they can go to learn and become better at analytics? Anna: Yes, and I actually do have to say that we're working on this. We're very well aware of this worry that people have that, oh, I've been using maybe more simple UIs for my whole life. And now there was this whole like jobs and transfers and the whole different environment, which is coming with this BigQuery. So first of all, I do have to say that we're working on creating a bunch of materials for BigQuery specifically that will show how can use Supermetrics products if you're a marketer like videos, where do you click? How do you create different kind of transfers? How to use different kind of joins? So this is something that we're really hoping to provide and also we do have natively build Data Studio Connectors so after a marketer has gathered all the data in BigQuery, they can use our connector to visualize their data in just a few clicks. And, again, as we publish a video you'll see it's very, very simple and what I really love about BigQuery, although it does sound intimidating, but Google does provide learning resources for that as well. And if you look at the UI, you will notice that it's very, very intuitive. So to say, well at first it's maybe a little bit challenging, but once you get a hang of it, it's actually pretty nice, it's quite clear. From our side, we also provide this monitoring suite where you can see how your transfers are performing. Is your data flowing all in nicely? Is there something to worry about or not? Usually all our transfers are fine. So people have mentioned and you can also see from the client success stories that data flowing in nicely and we haven't experienced that much challenges with Supermetrics for BigQuery. But yeah, more resources coming up. Google does provide their own resources and I think it's important for marketers to at least look into this if it's relevant for them, because this is the general trend. This is where the world is going and you want to be ahead. You definitely want to at least understand what kind of technologies are there. I really liked the quote one of our clients have mentioned. So they said, "It feels like Google BigQuery compared with other providers is built with agencies and with marketers in mind." So that sounds reassuring to me at least that people do say that it's actually feels like it's built for marketers. So I would say, yeah, wait for ours resources and then go and explore on your own and try not to be intimidated by this very techie sounding word. Kathleen's two questions Kathleen: Yeah it can be a lot to think about. But that's great that you guys are working on creating some resources. All right, we can talk about data forever but I have two questions I always ask all of my guests at the end of my interviews, and I would love to get your answers. The first one is, we talked about how the focus on this podcast is about inbound marketing. Who can you think of that whether it's a company or an individual who's just doing inbound marketing really well right now? Anna: Yeah, I will say quite a common answer and I'm pretty sure other guests have already mentioned this company. I think Drift is doing a fantastic job when it comes to inbound marketing, so they have not only created their own category, but when they interact with the people, with their clients, it feels very, very human, which I think they got this trend. This is something many of us need as marketing is becoming more and more techie. We need this kind of catalyst, we need this human connection to feel welcomed. And like I mentioned, they're doing a fantastic job there and one very good example is this one scale playbook, those 41 or 42 plays. As you read through this playbook, you can literally see that the company's trying show their best and make people feel welcomed and warm if they're using their product. Kathleen: Now, that's great. A lot of people have mentioned them, but that's because they're doing great things. Anna: Exactly. Kathleen: Second question is where do you personally go to learn and keep up so that you are able to stay abreast of the cutting edge developments in marketing? Anna: Yeah, so I prefer not to have a one stop shop. So depending on the topic I want to learn more about I go to a variety of different resources. So if I want to learn something more general about what's going on in the world of SaaS marketing, I listen to the SaaStr Podcast. Another amazing podcast I can recommend is the Growth Hub Podcast, and my colleague Edward is a proud host of this podcast. I really love his interviewing style and the guests, which have been on this podcast are simply amazing. So go check it out the Growth Hub Podcast, by Advanced B2B. A couple of other things. So of course I go to MarTech Today and SEJ if I want to learn about news and recent updates, and for us it's especially relevant, because we need to keep up what's going on with all the data source companies. Julian Shapiro, I'm not exactly sure if I'm pronouncing his name correctly, has a couple of fantastic guides on how to write a great copy, how to build a really nice landing page, how to A/B test. So one really good resource there as well and yeah. How to connect with Anna Kathleen: There's a couple new ones there that I haven't heard about. So we'll definitely check those out and put the links in the show notes. If someone wants to reach out to you, if they have a question about what you've talked about, or they want to learn more about Supermetrics, what is the best way for them to connect with you? Anna: Yeah, so definitely the best way is to reach out to me directly, maybe not through the company Twitter, but I'm @superpoweranna on Twitter. Kathleen: That's such a great handle. Anna: I love it as well. It's like Supermetrics plus me. So yeah, @superpoweranna on Twitter, and yeah, just hit me up with anything. And I also am very actively checking LinkedIn messages so Anna Shutko on LinkedIn, please don't hesitate to connect and I'm very happy to have discussions, answer the questions about anything there. So yeah, LinkedIn and Twitter, I would say, are the two go places. You know what to do next... Kathleen: Great. Well, I will put links to all of your various social accounts in the show notes so people can reach out to you and thank you so much for joining me. This was really fun just to talk about analytics and to geek out for a little bit. If you are listening and you liked what you heard or you learned something new as always, I would love it if you would leave the podcast a five star review on Apple Podcasts. That is how people find us and hear about us. And of course if you know someone else who's doing kick ass in non-marketing work, tweet me @WorkMommyWork and I would love to make them my next interview. Thanks, Anna. Anna: Thank you so much Kathleen. Kathleen: So fun.

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 In today’s update, Jim covers the companies he is interested in and what is catching his attention this week. It was a quieter second half of the week, but still a few pieces of news worth mentioning. I3 Energy announced the spud of the Serenity SA-1. This is now stated to be an appraisal well and is expected to take four weeks. Petro Matad announced the commencement of testing of Heron-1. Operations are expected to be completed this month. Coro Energy and Empyrean Energy announced the Tambak-2 well spud. Total time to drill, core, log and test is estimated to be approximately 33 days, after which the rig is planned to move to the Tambak-1 location. The Tambak-2 well is primarily designed as an appraisal of the southern area of the Mako gas field and is a very large step out (over 13 km) south of the Mako South-1 location. It sounds more like an exploration well. Anyway, all four companies should offer trading opportunities over the next month or so. Zenith Energy announced results of its C-37 well. It came in at a maximum of 50 barrels of oil per day after a significant water cut, exactly the same as Block Energy's recent well next door in Georgia. Bahamas Petroleum Company had a turbulent week. By Wednesday, it had collapsed to half of the price of two weeks ago when I said it looked overvalued. Thursday it issued a statement regarding potential fundraising denying any immediate intentions of undertaking an equity placing. Shorts panicked and pushed the share price back up over 2p. Reality is it's very unlikely that they will be able to arrange a farm-out and in my opinion, it's only going to be possible to raise the funds for the well they have to drill with a very substantial equity placing. I think this will happen and at a much lower price, at which point I believe it's worth looking at. Another company which is going to need a large placing is Tower Resources, which issued non-news last week I guess to excuse a price move up. TRP is another one that will be interesting post-placing. Still, on the subject of placings, Reabold Resources also issued a statement regarding potential fundraising. It's in the process of taking indications of interest from investors with regard to an equity placing of between £20 - 24 million. The same group that runs Coro Energy, Echo Energy and Sound Energy have taken Nu-oil & Gas as their next shell. There's undoubtedly a deal coming up, but with the group controlling a billion 0.05p placing shares and 5 billion more shares coming from a £2.5 million loan converting at the same 0.05p price, there's going to be a huge amount of stock coming out. It all comes down to the strength of the deal coming in, but confidence in the group has been weakened by a poor choice of deals leading to large investor losses at Sound and Echo and NUOG is a pure bet on how high they can ramp it. I'll be back mid-week with more on the podcast. In the meantime, all the small-cap oil companies are covered in the Sunday blog and daily on Twitter. 

The ground crunched under Greg Alem's feet on Wednesday as he walked over the ruins of his home, laid waste by Hurricane Dorian. He touched a splintered beam of wood and pointed to the fallen trees, overcome by memories."We planted those trees ourselves. Everything has a memory, you know," he said. "It's so, so sad. ... In the Bible there is a person called Job, and I feel like Job right now. He's lost everything, but his faith kept him strong."The devastation wrought by Dorian — and the terror it inflicted during its day-and-a-half mauling of the Bahamas — came into focus Wednesday as the passing of the storm revealed a muddy, debris-strewn landscape of smashed and flooded-out homes on Abaco and Grand Bahama islands. Officially the death toll from the strongest hurricane on record ever to hit the country stood at seven, but there was little doubt it would rise.With a now-distant Dorian pushing its way up the Southeastern U.S. coast, menacing Georgia and the Carolinas, many people living in the Bahamas were in shock as they slowly came out of shelters and checked on their homes.In one community, George Bolter stood in the bright sunshine and surveyed the ruins of what was once his home. He picked at the debris, trying to find something, anything, salvageable. A couple of walls were the only thing left."I have lost everything," he said. "I have lost all my baby's clothes, my son's clothes. We have nowhere to stay, nowhere to live. Everything is gone."The Bahamian government sent hundreds of police officers and marines into the stricken islands, along with doctors, nurses and other health care workers, in an effort to reach drenched and stunned victims and take the full measure of the disaster."Right now there are just a lot of unknowns," Parliament member Iram Lewis said. "We need help."The U.S. Coast Guard, Britain's Royal Navy and relief organizations including the United Nations and the Red Cross joined the burgeoning effort to rush food and medicine to survivors and lift the most desperate people to safety by helicopter. The U.S. government also dispatched urban search-and-rescue teams.Londa Sawyer stepped off a helicopter in Nassau, the capital, with her two children and two dogs after being rescued from Marsh Harbor in the Abaco islands."I'm just thankful I'm alive," she said. "The Lord saved me."Sawyer said that her home was completely flooded and that she and her family fled to a friend's home, where the water came up to the second floor and carried them up to within a few feet of the roof. She said she and her children and the dogs were floating on a mattress for about half an hour until the water began receding.Sandra Cooke, who lives in Nassau, said her sister-in-law was trapped under her roof for 17 hours in the Abaco islands and wrapped herself in a shower curtain as she waited."The dog laid on top of her to keep her warm until the neighbors could come to help," she said. "All of my family lives in Marsh Harbor, and everybody lost everything. Not one of them have a home to live anymore."The storm pounded the Bahamas with Category 5 winds up to 185 mph (295 kph) and torrential rains, swamping neighborhoods in brown floodwaters and destroying or severely damaging, by one estimate, nearly half the homes in Abaco and Grand Bahama, which have 70,000 residents and are known for their marinas, golf courses and all-inclusive resorts.By Wednesday, Dorian was pushing northward a relatively safe distance off the Florida coastline with reduced but still-dangerous 105 mph (165 kph) winds. An estimated 3 million people in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina were warned to clear out, and highways leading inland were turned into one-way evacuation routes.At 5 p.m. EDT, Dorian was centered about 150 miles (245 kilometers) south of Charleston, South Carolina, moving northwest at 8 mph (15 kph). Hurricane-force winds extended up to 70 miles (110 kilometers) from its center.Dorian was expected to pas...

Life comes at you fast: Steven Romalewski of the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research at CUNY'S Graduate Center joined Harry Wednesday morning — when Trump's citizenship question was dead and Tiffany Cabán appeared to have won the district attorney primary in Queens — to talk about the Census, who's likely to be undercounted and what’s at stake for New York, as well as the state of Queens politics. By Wednesday night, the citizenship question was back in play and Cabán was down 20 votes after absentee ballots were finally counted. Plus, Victoria Bekiempis returns to go In the Courts, with Alex Brook Lynn.

Fellow crisis communicator Dan Keeney joins Tim  to talk about the time when two Domino’s Pizza employees created a viral YouTube video that helped usher in a new era for crisis management – the age of the social media crisis. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/Dominos_Auphonic.mp3   It was on an Easter Sunday in Conover, North Carolina, business was slow at the local Domino’s pizza restaurant. In order to entertain themselves, two Domino’s employees – one male and the other female - came up with an idea that involved their kitchen, a video camera, and YouTube.   That’s when the two decided to create videos of themselves tampering with food that allegedly was to be delivered to customers. Kristy Hammonds captured video of Michael Setzer sticking cheese up his nose and then putting it on a sandwich.  He was also captured performing other health code violations. Then they decided to upload the videos to YouTube for the world to see. It didn’t take long. By Wednesday of that week, the video had been seen more than one million times on YouTube. The Domino’s brand name was dominating Google search results for all the wrong reasons. Domino’s would fire the two on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, they were facing felony charges on grounds of delivering prohibited foods. Later that year, the New York Times talked to Domino’s spokesperson Tim McIntyre.  Here’s what he said at that time - quote: “We got blindsided by two idiots with a video camera and an awful idea. Even People who’ve been with us as loyal customers for 10, 15, 20 years, people are second-guessing their relationship with Domino’s and that’s not fair.” In 2019, it’s no longer uncommon for someone to behave badly on video or social media and a brand has to defend itself, but this case was – if not the first – the biggest of its kind to usher in the era of the social media crisis. The Situation We know that Domino’s employees Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer got themselves into trouble thanks to a video camera and YouTube.  I recapped this in the intro to this episode. Now we start to look at the PR disaster aspect of this. Their video was seen over one million times on YouTube in those first few days. The head of PR at Domino’s Tim McIntyre said at the time that their brand suffered damage. The research firm YouGov conducts online surveys of 1,000 consumers every day on perceptions around hundreds of brands.  According to YouGov’s BrandIndex, the YouTube video did some damage. How it Played out on the PR Side   McIntyre was alerted to the videos Monday evening, the day after Easter. Kristy Hammonds is heard in one of the videos, “In about five minutes it’ll be sent out on delivery where somebody will be eating these, yes, eating them, and little did they know that cheese was in his nose and that there was some lethal gas that ended up on their salami.  Now that’s how we roll at Domino’s.” There was a site called Consumerist.com that was instrumental in identifying the offenders.  Visitors to the site used clues in the video to find the franchise location in Conover, North Carolina and McIntyre was alerted. A site visitor was the one who identified the offenders.  Amy Wilson, a grad student at Georgetown University, worked with boyfriend Jonathan Drake to identify the two people after spotting the story, which was then on Consumerist. They noticed a Jack in the Box sign visible from a window in the video. She and Drake (who analyzes satellite images for a nonprofit) used that and other clues to assemble a street view. Then they started to search Google satellite images for locations that matched. Then Paris Miller, a Northern Kentucky computer consultant, traced one of Hammonds’ friends to Conover, NC.   There he was able to find a Domino’s near a Jack in the Box.  The three put it all together and contacted Tim McIntyre at Domino’s. Tuesday, the Domino’s franchise owner in Conover fired Hammonds an...

HELP OUT WITH A 5 STAR REVIEW ON ITUNES DIRECT PAYPAL CONTRIBUTION WINE CELLAR PATREON MONTHLY CONTRIBUTION WINE CELLAR STUDIO AMAZON WISH LIST North Carolina sheriff's deputy is accused of planting drugs in someone’s vehicle as part of a revenge plot. Anson County Sheriff Landric Reid said he's grateful his detectives were able to uncover the alleged scheme before anyone's life was ruined. "This was a revenge case where he planted drugs in this male's car,” Reid said. “This male was dating his ex, and he wanted revenge, and he wanted his ex-girlfriend back." Reid said that in March of 2018, former Deputy David Scott Burroughs bought drugs, such as heroin and meth, and planted them in the car.   Reid said Burroughs told his fellow officers about tips from the public that indicated the man was dealing out of his car. “This started on a Sunday afternoon,” Reid said. “By Wednesday, when we made the stop, drugs were at the same place in the car. That was a red flag because anyone selling drugs wouldn't have them Sunday to Wednesday in the same place."  

On Monday Jim Goetz woke up a healthy young man. He trained to be in the best shape of his life and preparing for an upcoming elite Spartan race. He was not training to finish, he was training to win. By Wednesday, Jim was fatigued and Thursday was exhausted with a high fever and darkness around his elbow. By Friday the darkness had spread to his hand and shoulder.  Jim Goetz was admitted to Bayshore Community Hospital and found himself in a race now for time to keep his arm and life. Over the next few days, Jim underwent extensive testing and high doses of antibiotics. This podcast encapsulates the true story of racing for fun to racing for life.    Functionised Podcast Show Notes  Instagram Facebook Do you have questions or comments? Leave your reply below and we will reply.   Functionised Integrative Therapeutics is located in Colts Neck, NJ. It is a fully integrative health practice with services ranging from chiropractic, wellness coaching, functional nutrition, body fat loss, sports performance, baseline concussion testing, concussion treatment, balance testing and treatment, laser therapy, soft tissue treatment, massage therapy and home of the ARX Fit (Give us 15 minutes and we will give you a lifetime of health).

☰ Matcha 抹茶 drunk au naturel with a straw and iced.  A Russian Spy in Ginza, matcha 抹茶 with vodka 伏特加酒. Great drinks to have while out partying late on a Friday night with friends. Life can sometimes be totally sweet. ☷ On the weekend it is about recovering from the hangover, taking it easy and/or making amends with the Big Boss upstairs about the sinning. All-in-all, weekends can be just as good as Friday. ☳ And then there's Monday: The alarm clock goes off (the first shock). Got to get out of bed (the second shock). The news is always bad on a Monday morning (the third shock). Have a triple caffeine hit on the way to work (the fourth shock). Start work (the fifth shock and possibly more shocks following)! ☵ This is how most city-folk live their lives. And the only differences between people in different cities is language, food, custom, and population density. Otherwise it's all the same. ☶ By Wednesday, we are feeling jaded with it all and want out of the system. Most don't make it past the wanting. Our habits and routines are just too strong. ☴ So when a person like me turns up out of the blue with tea 茶, and starts preaching Tea Time equals Me Time. You're wondering if this guy is just a bit off? ☲ Yes. I tell you without batting an eyelid. I went off a long time ago. Being jaded is one of the first signs that something is wrong with the life a person is living - the real price being paid for the acquired lifestyle now exceeds the benefits of it. ☱ The second sign that something is wrong, is the subtle chronic feeling of being under pressure. And you can't blame the work for it, no matter how much you want to. So I would ask, if you could just for 5 minutes take time out from all this, would you take it, even if it was to give Tea Time equals Me Time a try? Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

Last Thursday, a Prince George's County police officer stopped an undocumented woman and allegedly raped her. By this past Monday, the officer was arrested and suspended. By Wednesday, there was a court hearing. We talk with Ingrid Zelaya of CASA Maryland about the case and what it all means.

At the beginning of this week, it seemed as though Pennsylvania’s three-months-late, unbalanced budget was finally heading toward a resolution. But then, one after another, various plans to close the gap sputtered out. By Wednesday afternoon, negotiations had suffered their worst collapse yet. Governor Tom Wolf called a surprise press conference to draw a “line … Continue reading "Episode 26: Meltdown"

Having a productive day Applying for a campaign through Freestak (ISPO, Stance, Fori bars etc) Creating my video…. 4 more podcasts uploaded 3 more to go!! By Wednesday all the podcasts will be recorded The final push… trying to stay focused and not get distracted Completing this project first Working with my PT - Chris Thomas Box jumps, hops, calf raises, hanging knee tuck, kettle bell swings, reverse prowlers Leg burn… brutal I need to share my new strength and conditioning program Patreon goal for April 104 patrons - $444 per month Goal for May $500 before I start the trail Food budget $100 a week for food? Re evaluation on millage at the start.. starting off with lower millage and building up to it gradually I like being in control I like being ahead of the game My personal development goals Training to failure Mastermind May Call - why I started the group Levelling up - why you need to surround yourself with people who can do that 2nd May - 100th episode - Cheryl Strayed Boosting the episode through Facebook - £10… £15 285,000 downloads… I need to average 27,000 each month to hit 500,000 by the end of the year Plans for my week - everything is scheduled in… What have I forgotten? Putting on weight…. love handles… Future blog posts - body, team, plans for while I’m away, how people can support me on the trail, what if, favourite podcasts Financial support - how to say it? how to ask for it? Don’t create - Document Have an amazing week - know what you want to achieve, be specific, add in breaks Watching - Losing site of shore - with Natalia Cohen - watch on Netflicks Julia Williams will be coming on the Tough Girl Daily Podcast! Getting to meet members of the Williams Family!! Only 30 more days of the daily podcast!! xx 

Things begin to shift in the week ahead. The Sun and Mercury move into Aries and we all become more focused on our own needs. By Wednesday the 23rd we find ourselves at the apex of an event involving a partner, client, specialist, attorney, opponent, competitor, or other key relationship as the FULL MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE brings a major ending, achievement or celebration to bear. For some this may focus on justice, higher esthetics or balance peaking in some way in your life. In the midst of these major movements we have Jupiter squaring Saturn just 2 days before Saturn is set to Retrograde and all that growth must come face to face with any limits, endings, commitments, or authority types in the mix. Venus meets Neptune to embark on a new chapter together in love, with women, over income, or beauty. The Spring Equinox arrives ushering us into that refreshing time of year when things begin to grow again. And the Sun and Mercury get together for some important news, talks or decisions that involve us on a personal or physical level. It's another week for the books! Tune in to hear how your sign can best navigate the stream!

More at: preliminaryhealthcare.com This article is not about clever means of being thrifty at the supermarket. No. Instead, I want to discuss a subject that few probably think about—how our natural eating-behaviors impact our grocery bill. Home-Ec 101: When buying groceries, you should find bargains. You normally prepare a few eggs for breakfas, but egg prices have been going up and your local grocery store has bulk breakfast cereal on sale; $3.74 would feed you an egg breakfast for four days, but you can get 7 days of cereal for only 2.75. This seems like a no-brainer. You buy the cereal instead of the eggs, and have a bowl the next morning before going to work. You hadn’t really noticed it until now, but you usually feel pretty good in the mornings—you probably wouldn’t notice you if it weren’t for the fact that now, at only 9:30 am, you’re sluggish and getting kind of hungry. Hungry? You’re never hungry this soon after breakfast. In fact, many days you even forget to eat lunch. How could you be hungry? Unprepared, you droop into the break-room and find a wrapped pastry from the vending machine. Ahhh… that did it. Back to normal. Or so you thought, but already before lunch you’re feeling like you did earlier. And again at 2:30 after your lunch. By the time you get home, it’s all you can do to drop the day inside the front door and find something to eat. But with nothing prepared—oh yes, you can have a bowl of the cereal you had for breakfast. Maybe another. The next morning, you eat a two bowls before getting to work to prevent the same thing from happening again. But it does happen again. In fact, it’s happening worse than yesterday. By Wednesday, you’ve trudged through 3 days of lethargy, gained 5 pounds, and eaten 1 box of cereal and 7 vending-machine snacks. You think, “Why have I been so tired lately? Where did this weight come from? Wasn’t that cereal supposed to last me the whole week?” Actually, these questions all have related answers. Eating to Maintain Fuel-Availability Your eating-behavior is influenced by many things—some are consciously controllable, but most are not. One of these controlling factors is “fuel-availability.” Fuel-availability refers to the amount of fuel (generally blood-sugar or free-floating fat) is in your blood stream. When this level begins to drop, your brain senses this and compels you to eat something, and may make you feel sluggish so you conserve what fuel you do have available. Insulin Sequesters Fuel Food has 3 types of fuel: • Carbohydrate (which becomes blood-sugar) • Fat • Protein When you eat carbohydrate (and protein to a certain extent), your body releases a hormone called “insulin,” which pulls fuel out of your blood-stream and pushes it into the cells of your body. This is important because, just as low fuel-availability is dangerous, so too is too much. However, insulin is a storage-hormone—cells are inhibited from using fuel as long as insulin is elevated. Also, because insulin clears your blood of fuel, it reduces fuel-availability…triggering the urge to eat a few hours later. If you satisfy that urge with carbohydrate, (which is likely because carbohydrate has an inherent degree of likeability, making your selection of it more likely) the cycle will repeat yet again and again. Lastly, though insulin can push fuel into many cells, fat-cells tend to take more than their fair share. You can see how your morning breakfast with carbohydrate, then, can set you on a cycle of eating all day long. You can also see where the fatigue and weight-gain came from. The fuel you should be using to provide energy is getting stuck in your fat-cells instead, leaving you tired and making you fatter. Without Carbohydrate… Without carbohydrate, though, your body can rely on a virtually unlimited supply of fuel—BODY-FAT! Think about how much different this is: by withholding carbohydrate from your breakfast, your body automatically begins chewing through body-fat—so much so, that the fuel-availability remains steadily adequate. Not only are you able to reduce body-fat, your energy-levels also remain steady. But back to the original topic. Even though carbohydrate foods tend to be cheaper, notice that they actually dig deeper into your budget because they encourage you to consume more food more often. Conversely, though high-quality meats and vegetables tend to be more expensive, you’ll end up eating far less. In other words, not only can weight-loss be healthy, but also financially responsible. Thank you for reading. Be well, NICKLAUS MILLICAN