Podcasts about competitively

113 Rarely do grandmasters focus on helping club players and beginners. But when they do it's rare and exciting. Their extra skill and understanding of the game deliver insights that even other titled players may not possess. That's what GM Josh Friedel offers as a course creator and coach. And it can be heard throughout this interview.Of course, Josh has had an impressive chess career. Competitively, he tied for 6th place at the US Chess Championship in 2009 and competed at the World Cup.He has passed along this hard-earned chess knowledge for decades by coaching club players.And for nearly as long, he's been creating courses, most recently for Chessable on common mistakes in the opening and middlegame.In this episode, we chat:Common middle-game mistakes and how to avoid them.Josh's unique qualities as a coach that separate him from the pack.Why is it so difficult to convert a won position - and how to get better at it.GIVEAWAY: To win Josh's Chessable course on avoiding middlegame mistakes, follow Daniel Lona on Twitter for details and updates (for the week of 1/21/25 only.)More From Josh:Chessable coursesTwitterYouTubeHow You Can Support the Pod:Patreon: Support this pod by signing up for my Patreon called, “Podcast Perks.” Get exclusive voting on guests, a shout-out of your name on the pod, a DM convo w/ me each month about chess or episodes, and more!Or you can…>>Support this pod by grabbing a chess.com membership which will help you improve your chess & defeat your enemies. A small portion will fund this pod - and every bit helps! Just click this link.>> Neither? How about checking out Daniel's chess.com profile? Witness his countless, embarrassing blitz losses. He even accepts some friend requests. (Ad)

In this week's episode of the KCREatingwealth Podcast, we had the great pleasure of chatting with an incredibly inspiring investor & entrepreneur that is a co-founder of the Archer Acquisitions investor team that is rocking new england named Ben Simon! Ben has been a natural entrepreneur since his very early days, and eventually discovered the real estate space and has been a force to be reckoned with for quite a few years! I can't wait until you get to hear Ben's story, and he gives so much amazing advice during the show! Check Ben out here! Linkedin: Ben Simon Cell #: 617-233-7576 ***Fill out our investor application below for us to learn how to collaborate on deals together in the future!*** https://tinyurl.com/2x9r6y59 ***Join our “KCREatingwealth Together” Facebook group to collaborate with tons of likeminded investors from all over and help each other change our lives for generations!*** https://tinyurl.com/ycerv4ra Follow me on social! Instagram: @Kyle.kcreatingwealth, @KCREatingwealth Facebook: @Kyle Curtin Linkedin: Kyle Curtin Biggerpockets: Kyle Curtin What equipment do I use? Blue Yeti USB Microphone: https://tinyurl.com/5n966aty DISCLAIMER: I or any guests being interviewed on “The KCREatingwealth Podcast” are not responsible for any investment decisions that you make or capital losses incurred. We are not licensed tax professionals or any form of wealth advisors unless particular guest happens to be as such, and all investment decisions should not be made without receiving advice from a licensed professional.

On this episode, Seth is joined by World Champion Shooters, Jessie Harrison and KC Eusebio. The group discusses what it takes to get started in competitive handgun shooting. From the first bit of gear you need to drills and training, the pros dive deep into the topic to provide you with a fast track to competition. We hope you enjoy the show with some of the best handgun shooters in the world!

Curtis McGrath has won his 4th Paralympic Gold medal by completing a third straight win in the K200m Kayak in Paris. He dominated the field in the KL2 but he's expecting a tougher challenge as he tries to double up in the Va'a VL3 class on the final day of competition of the Games. He told Ned Hall how great it was to have some of his former military colleagues cheering him on from the stands and how happy he is to see his Para Canoe colleagues Susan Seipel and Dylan Littlehales also collect medals

In this episode of 'Creation's Paths,' non-binary sci-fi fantasy writer Charlie and their husband Brian discuss the complexities surrounding competition and its effects on community and unity. Using examples from sports, art, and politics, they explore how competition can bring people together or foster division and strife. The conversation highlights the importance of evaluating the outcomes of competitive events and finding ways to build a healthier community through constructive competition. The episode also delves into cultural aspects, using both historical and modern contexts to illustrate these ideas.Tips or Donations here: https://ko-fi.com/cedorsett patreon.com/cedorsett Substack: https://www.creationspaths.com/ For Educational Resource: https://wisdomscry.com For all of the things we are doing at The Seraphic Grove go to Creation's Paths https://www.creationspaths.com/ Social Connections: BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/creationspaths.com Threads https://www.threads.net/@creationspaths Instagram https://www.instagram.com/creationspaths/Transcript:Charlie- New: [00:00:00] In this season of competition and games especially with the certain one that just happened over in France. There are a lot of ramifications for community and bringing people together. While good sportsmanship can bring people together. It can also tear people apart when factionalization and too much, shall we say team spirit gets brought in. So let's talk about competition, strife and community. On today's Creation's Paths. Intro . Hello everyone. My name is Charlie. I'm a non-binary scifi fantasy writer. I'm joined today by my wonderful husband, Brian. Brian - New: Hello. Charlie- New: I've been working a lot on a not so super secret [00:01:00] project. For https://wisdomscry.com, a whole bunch of stuff about Brigid is getting written up and copied in. I've also decided to grab a bunch of the prayers. From the Carmina Gadelica and put them in there. It's been quite a project. So I'm a little toasty. Today, we're going to be talking about competition, strife and community. These really good together, especially when we're thinking about this season of Lúnasa. It is so traditional to have games. And back in the old times, they actually had like full on like chariot, races and stuff. And games, that happened during this time of year. It's my understanding that there are still places in Ireland, where they have fun fairs and competitions and stuff still to this day, which is awesome. But on a larger note. Competition it's not a bad thing. I feel like we need to start there. Competition in and of itself is not a bad thing. It can. Lead. To all manner of bad things, it can [00:02:00] really get out of hand really easily. If not kept in check. Brian - New: It is a tool. And like all tools. There is no moral attribution to it. It serves a function it is a social tool used for individuals to come together around what they're competing over. To test themselves to grow, to learn. It's also one of the ways that children learn skills later in life. It is a tool. There is no moral attribution to it and of itself. But like you said, in today's society, a lot of the bad that comes into it is when people have those attachments. Charlie- New: I want to disagree. Okay. But only slightly. do have a very moral listic view of competition, mainly because I feel that competition often comes into fields where it does not belong. That is a big problem. Now I don't have a problem with poets battling each other. [00:03:00] there's a long tradition of the filí doing their poetic battles against each other. I have no problems with things like that. But when I see like an art show, how do you determine the best art? Brian - New: Yeah. That's not the place for that kind of competition. An art show itself wouldn't be a competition. If you were to have a competitive art event like a person creating new culinary dish and then call that. a, competition. That's not using the tool. Appropriately. It's like trying to use a screwdriver as a, saw to cut a tree down. Like, you know, let's screwdriver we'll do it, but it's going to be terrible for everybody Charlie- New: because the actual competition in a cooking competition is actually who made the favorite. D not the best. isn't the best dish. Brian - New: The point of the competition is these individuals coming together in good spirit. Pushing themselves, pushing their boundaries. Testing and challenging [00:04:00] their proficiency in the thing and having fun doing it. And so technically win or not is not the end game. That's not the end point. Yes, it's nice to be like, Hey, I won this award or whatever, back to the art example of the culinary example, those chefs that are doing that. You using the tool properly, grow and develop their craft so much more. A lot of people do from proper competitive events, but so much of it's done for the wrong reasons. And I think that's where the problem comes in. Charlie- New: Let's see, that's the problem in framing. They're not competitive events. And competitive racing is a competitive event. You are all doing the exact same thing. There is a measurable standard as to who wins. We can try to be as objective as we want to be about art music, food. Any of these kinds of things, movies, right. We can try to be. As objective as we want to be, but there is no actual objective standard. True. [00:05:00] That can be applied there. It's always going to be a subjective standard. There are movies that I love that are arguably not great movies. I love the Godzilla movies, for example, and with a few rare exceptions that I would say our art, like our actual really good. Objectives really. Well shot. Masterpieces that have a lot of depth and meaning and things to say. Those are few and far between. And it wasn't likely Godzilla versus Kong, which is. A guy in an ape suit, fighting a guy in a lizard suit. And there's, it's just, it's silly. It's funny. It's fun. And if you don't groove on that kind of silliness. You're not going to enjoy that movie and you're going to rate it badly and it's not objectively worse. Of a film. Do you get what I'm saying? Yeah. I've seen a lot of movies that are technically proficient. I'm not going to say the name of the filmmaker that I want to say, but there's a particular filmmaker that for anybody who [00:06:00] knows my film reviews will immediately. Know who I'm talking about. Who makes breathtakingly, stunningly beautiful movies. Almost every frame is a piece of art. They're gorgeous, gorgeous films that have no story, no characters. Just stuff happening. They're empty, vacant shells. That. Don't really do anything for me. But a lot of people like. This particular person. And like the movies that he makes. And this is where I think competition becomes problematic. Because. For example politics weren't in an election year in the United States. Politics is not a competitive sport. No. It is supposed to be a debate over whether or not we want to do what this person is wanting or that person, or this party or that party, or what have you. We're supposed to be debating the merits of the positions put forward. But way too many people on every side. And I do mean every side, because while we live in a two [00:07:00] party state, there are more than. Two factions. They're playing for their team. They're not actually looking at any of the broader questions. They're not looking at. Any of the bigger things. This is where competition really becomes a problem. I don't care if my team wins in a situation like that. I care if. We make the country actually a better place. will, this actually make improvements who has the better plan for improvement. We see this a lot in church politics, especially, which is one of the things that. Frustrates me to no end with church politics. I don't care what your side is. We really shouldn't have sides. We're all in name, at least worshiping the same God, even though that gets argued about in a way that is frustratingly common. We're all technically working towards the same end goals. But factionalism comes in and this is the unhealthy side of. Sport [00:08:00] of competition. Is factionalism. I have no problems with somebody who really likes a certain sports ball team. And wants to root for that sports ball team. I do have a problem. When. Language like, and I hate the supporters of the other team, or I hate the city of the opposing team or the rival team. Or anything like that comes up. Why? That is unhealthy. Competition. There's nothing wrong with supporting your team. Brian - New: Part of that, I guess is when looking at the fruits. That result from the competition. You can really tell if it's a good competition or bad competition. Is it a good fruit or a bad fruit? Is the end result Unity or separation. You can have sides in the structured frame of the competition, but in the end, the whole point is building community. If division, separation, factionalism is the end result. Then the competition has gone bad. It is sour. [00:09:00] Something is tainted in that fruit. That has resulted from it. And should be quickly evaluated reflecting upon discerned. To see what needs to be corrected so that it can result in unity and bringing people together in community building. If people are coming together as a community, that's great. But if it's this community versus that community in the end, it's still not good. It's like the whole point of the Olympics will play Olympics was to get these separate nationalistic states. Before even nationalism was around his, as he states were rising in self identifying and us versus them, it was to bring them together. So that there could be community. So there could be piece of healing amongst these two separate communities. So they could. Have Intercommunity interaction, healthy interaction. Charlie- New: You keep using the word unity. I think unity is one of the many misunderstood concepts in the world today. I particularly like what Hagle had to say about. Unity. It's [00:10:00] something that I go to and it's become almost a mantra for me though. This is my wording of what he said, because if you've ever read Hagle, Hey, you'll never said anything simply that he could say in a lot of words, Hagle. Argues. That you cannot have unity. Between similar or identical things. There is no such thing as unity. Between similar and identical things, you can only have unity in diversity. If everything is the same, if everything is too similar. Well, you actually have is conformity. Not unity. And the conformity and unity are not the same thing. Very different. And. While Hagle. It is. Not as accessible as some of his ideas should be for. The. General conversation. He's right here. The biggest problem with all of this is. We tend to choose conformity and label it unity. Very true. And this is [00:11:00] where competition. Can really be a problem because we are using. Very arbitrary things. You know, I remember when I was a kid and my dad was trying to get me into baseball. He was a big fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was trying to get me to be a big fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. I started asking questions like, Oh, so this is the Missouri team, like yeah. Yeah. This is the Missouri team. So the players are from Missouri. No. So the players are all from the St. Louis area. So some are, some of them are from Illinois and some of them are from Missouri. No, they're from all over the country. Some of them are even international players. Why is it a Missouri team then? Oh, because it's in the city of St. Louis. Well, you could put anything in this city of St. Louis and say it's local. What makes it like, I couldn't understand this idea. Because if I'm supposed to have this regional affiliation, With this. Event this team. Shouldn't it reflect the region. I remember [00:12:00] saying to him once. If a college could field players from other schools, that doesn't make sense to me. They're not. Playing for their school, then they're just playing the game. I still, have a bit of a problem, understanding this idea of, Not having more localized player bases for sports ball teams. The problem that comes in and what I didn't understand as a child that I was trying to get at is this factionalism of this is the local team. When absolutely nothing about it made it local. The owners were not from the region. Most of the players were not from the region. The only thing that made it from the region is they played at a stadium. In the region. Technically. That didn't make sense. When you start thinking about. How competition often works. Unjust. Rivalries, if you will. And unjust factionalism often has some weird lie at the heart of it. Some weird distortion in there. So that you have [00:13:00] to believe some cognitive dissonance. That you have to accept two. Get into it. Now, I'm not saying that you can't love your local team because not all the players come from your local region. I was just as a child, trying to understand, well, what made them local? Because of all these things are not local. What does that mean? That they're our team. What does it mean? For any of the things that we have this factionalism about. A political party. We say shares ideas. But does it. When you actually look at the political parties as they exist in the United States. You start looking at. What people who are registered to that party think and believe on various subjects and what the policy proposals are of that party. And this goes for all of the parties in the United States, Brian - New: all two of them, we only have two major. This is also a winner. Take all greens in the libertarians and yeah. Charlie- New: it's true for all of the political parties that we have here. They're a banner that people are rallying behind that aren't necessarily reflective of [00:14:00] the beliefs of the people that are even within the group itself, which is strange to me, especially for the smaller groups. I can understand there being different than a larger group, because consensus has to be arrived at. But even for the smaller parties that we have, we, we see this kind of disconnect. In there. We also see it from. A religious standpoint in what to. Members of various churches and religious communities believe. What do their creeds profess. What are they told what they have to believe. The most obvious example of this is especially in the United States. The majority of Roman Catholics in the United States are a pro-choice. And the Catholic church has staunchly pro-life. That's , dissonance there. And I get that they're coming from a top-down model and I'm not wanting to get into all that. This ride or, die that we have for. Groups and organizations that. May or may not actually represent us. That we may or may not actually be a [00:15:00] part of. Is a strange thing and it's something we need to watch out for. I do not like attending sports ball games. I find them dull. I find them boring. Over the years, I've had friends that have competed in various leagues. And I love going to their games. Why because I'm there to root for my friend. I don't care about this amalgamated team of whatever. Right because I don't know them. I have no connection to them. I do care about. My friend, who's playing on the team. And so I have a connection there. And that's where I think we really need to start asking ourselves. And interrogating our connection with competition. What is our connection to this competition? And how is it breeding? Strife potentially in our communities. I am a member of several religious groups. And orders. All of which allow you to be members of multiple. Works. So there's no strife there. I have noticed in some groups I am treated differently because of my [00:16:00] association with other groups. That share 99% of their beliefs in common. One or 2% are different. And even those are just worded differently. They're not even really different. They're just different words are chosen. They come at it from a different angle or perspective. That is an unfair. An unjust. Competition. You can be a member of both of these groups, all three of these groups. You don't have to choose. One. That gets to the real issue here in how competition breeds strife. When we pretend and often we are pretending. That we're engaged in a zero sum game. When in reality. There are very few zero sum game. Now, I'm sure you've heard this phrase and. Just to make sure that we're all on the same page. Checkers is a very good example of a zero sum game. There are a set number of pieces on the board. Who wins the person who captures the most of their [00:17:00] opponents. Pieces. Yes. Yes. This is how it works. That's a zero sum game. There are only so many checkers on the board and yes, there are some versions of the rules where there are ways to get pieces back that have been lost and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But there are only so many there. You are fighting over a finite resource. Most games are not struggling over a finite resource. There is no. Score cap. And when there is there's. An agreement on it. We're going to play Rummy to 500 plants. You negotiated ahead of time. Most things are not zero sum games. Though they're often treated. Not only is if there are zero sum games. But that all games are winner. Take all games. What is the winner? Take all game. It's a game where you guess what? I wonder it takes all, nothing is left over for anybody else. The economy is often treated. As both a zero sum game. And. A winner take all game. Politics is often treated the same way. The problem is neither of these [00:18:00] actually are. When you're having an argument with someone. Which is a form of competition. There's not always a zero sum. In there. Sometimes there is. Where are we going to go for dinner? that is a winner take all game. Unless you decide to go your separate ways and not have dinner together, which is both sides losing from my point of view. Somebody is going to have to get up and give up their favorite choice or both people are, and you're gonna have to compromise on a middle ground place to go eat for dinner. What movie are we going to watch tonight? There are compromises that can be had here. A tie or a compromise is not a loss. And this is the poison. That an over competitive. Environment puts into people's minds. Brian - New: Competition used. To create derision. It's bad competition. It's something that is, especially, in the states. Because the whole, like ties being a bad thing or being viewed as a loss, being taught to generation after generation after generation. It has poisoned a lot of the [00:19:00] minds into causing division and strife when it's not necessary. It's why discourse or arguments? Competitively done amongst two individuals. Oftentimes nowadays are so tainted and become so poisoned. Filled. Because of this fact that they think it's zero sum. When in reality, no, it's a discourse. It's challenging ideas and sharing ideas and challenging. The shared ideas amongst each other, amongst the parties involved in that competition. Charlie- New: If a good game is had by all. Everybody wins. Yeah. Yes, the score may show something else, right? But, and there may be a trophy or a prize or something like that. And. I'm not saying that those wins don't count and I'm not someone who. Though I'm going to be characterized as somebody saying, just hand out participation, trophies, trophies for everything.Brian - New: A great example of this in pop culture. Is great British baking show. I think this is part of why it was so popular [00:20:00] because. It was a competition baking show. Yes, they were competing. There is a winner at the end. When in reality, all of the bakers, when they have all grown, they've all gotten stronger, a lot of community and comradery has formed amongst the members. Fostering. Stronger community. That's a win it doesn't win. And that's where all parties win. Charlie- New: That's really the struggle that we're having right now. This is really the issue that faces our country and our world more than anything else we're competing. Over things that don't matter. We're still competing over oil resources. When we need to be moving away from that. We're competing over whether or not settled science is settled. Science. I'm not one of those people that says, I believe authority figures because they're authority figures, but. If the data is in the data is in. Like when enough people have checked and checked and double checked and triple checked. The idea that everyone else is lying and only a [00:21:00] few people know the truth at a certain point. You have to realize that you're dipping into the well of conspiracy theory. But science is a competitive sport. It is. I have a theory. Here's my evidence. And then there's this thing called peer review, which a lot of people don't understand what that is. But peer review is literally prove me wrong. And people tear through the data they tear through the methodology that was used to not only collect the data. But to compile it and to figure out the results from it. Even after it passes peer review, that still doesn't mean it's true. That just means, okay. We haven't found any faults in it. If you really want to see how peer review and science works. Go to your favorite. App of finding information, whether that's a search engine or YouTube or something. And just search the phrase spinosaurus. You'll see how science actually works. It is a long protracted debate. [00:22:00] Where evidence mounts. Over time. What spinosaurus and aquatic dinosaur. Here's a paper pass. Peer review says yes. Here's paper pass. Peer review says no. Here's a paper comparing the two and found all kinds of flaws with both of them. Here's another paper that says this there's another paper that says that. And this argumentation is the point of it. Here's my data. Here's how I'm. You using the data? Here's how I'm looking through the data and when there's a rich, robust argument, you can see it. It's there. People even who say I can't question there. Data. They seem to have collected their data, find their methodology through three, five. But this doesn't seem to work for me. I don't know why, but it just doesn't you still see those dissents in there even when they can't find a exact flaw to point their finger at. That's how real competition works. It's all real competition should work. They don't have to be [00:23:00] wrong because I disagree. They could be wrong. But. Now the ball is in my court. And I have to prove them wrong. I have to prove. That's something else is going on here. Something else is happening. That the data. It's not actually showing what they think the data is showing. That's how argumentation works. That's should be how a lot of our political debates. Get answered. I have a theory. This is how things work. Then we put those theories into practice called laws. Bill's what have you. And we test them out. Did tax policy a. Affect the economy. Go well or not. There is a data. We have to be honest about what the data says. Because some of my favorite theories have been found. Some of my favorite theories have been found wrong. Brian - New: Oftentimes for me, a lot of my theories have been found. You know what. There's definitely good things here, there were huge glaring flaws. And then. Further studies. Study needs adjusting and like [00:24:00] loopholes needed to be closed up. Because giant loopholes. Charlie- New: These are the things that we need to be bearing in mind and considering anytime we're entering competition, it's not life or death. We're not fighting in gladiatorial arenas, even though we'd like to use that wording. This isn't war. I'm sorry. Your sports ball game is not war. And especially right now hearing that language is very grading on me. You want to help keep me from caring about your sports ball. Keep using more analogies. With everything that's going on around the world right now. No. This is not warfare. It was never a good analogy. It could be a good analogy. We know of several groups that have staged games. To settle conflicts. So that nobody has to die. I'm all for let's have a cricket match or a soccer match, or some mutually agreed upon sports match. Instead of. Bombing a city to rubble. If we want to do that to solve conflict, but we're not doing that. That those stakes are not that [00:25:00] high. And especially in our local communities and our families amongst our friends, friend groups. It's not that high. And with the advent of streaming and the competition that is supposedly there. It just keeps getting ratcheted up and up and up. Instead of building community. Instead of building us up. As we're all leveling up our skill. We're breeding more and more dissension. Except for where we aren't. And there are beautiful places. Where we're not where people are. Sharing what they've learned and here's how I did this. Here's how I may made this happen. And there's a whole vibrant community of people doing that as well. But we need less strife. We just do. We have enough of it. Most of it that we do have is unnecessary to begin with, but that's a whole other. Argument for a whole other day. Brian - New: To go back and summarize all of this. The secret to competition. As we are all secretly competing. For Ki [00:26:00] tov. To make. Good. And to make it better. make good. Better. That is actually it. That is the secret of competition. Two different opposing sides or more. Or groups. To make. The whole thing better. Yeah. Charlie- New: That's what I actually loved about the. Apple. Top 100 albums of all time list. And that's in the way they phrased it. These aren't the best. Albums of all time. They're the most influential. There are people's most favorite? They did not put forward a criteria when they sent the ballots out. However you want to rake these. This could just be your personal favorite, the ones you just load up your library and see which ones you've listened to most over time and put them down on the list. They put four. No. Objective criteria. Anybody could put their own things on the list. And while I could argue for things that I love, that I would definitely have had on the list. Or things that were on the list that I felt. Should have been higher for various [00:27:00] reasons. Even the album's on there that I don't like. I can't argue with them being on there. It's because they're not trying to instill a false dichotomy onto those. It's not, these are the greatest albums of all time. No. W what is the greatest album of all time? I have no idea. I don't even know how to even start. Contemplating that subjective art again. Yeah. Brian - New: The beauty of the competition was in participating in it. As I had certain. Biased beliefs challenged. I was able to make those better. Charlie- New: It wasn't put forward as a competition. , they're top 10 are not the greatest ever. A lot of what the conversation was around it because they put out. A really lovely podcast to go along with it. Was, why is this here? Why did this show up here? And I kind of think it would be fascinating to do a ballot like that every 10 years or so. To see how it changes over time. Do things go up. Go down. What new things get added. Over [00:28:00] time. As new music's being made. What things get lost? What old things get rediscovered and get brought back up to the top. That's an interesting. use for something like that. But most of us like that are just a vanity project that a bunch of people get into a room and just pick things. Put him into an arbitrary order. And again, I'm not saying their methodology was perfect. I'm just saying it's a very interesting. Way to do this in a non-competitive way. It actually did create a very competitive list. I didn't actually see a lot of strife about it. Usually when a top 100 lists like that comes out, there's a lot of arguing. Yeah. I didn't actually see a lot of arguing this time. I find that fascinating. I hope you got something out of this. This is something we wanted to talk about and. It's not an easy topic to get into. And it's one that we might revisit again next year at Lúnasa, and maybe find a better way in, or a different way in. Let me know what you think. How do competitions strife in community work? How should they work and how can we. Eliminate more [00:29:00] strife from our lives. Until next time. Maybe blessing sunlight, fill your life. Amen. Amen. Get full access to Creation's Paths at www.creationspaths.com/subscribe

In the ever-evolving world of digital marketing, mastering SEO is crucial for enhancing your online presence. The SEO Quadrant provides a structured approach to understanding and implementing effective SEO strategies (read article). Listen to ⭐️ The SEO Quadrant: How To Establish your Business Online

Ken Carman and Anthony Lima react to the Boston Celtics NBA championship-clinching Game 5 against the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night.

Adam is based in the county of Staffordshire in the United Kingdom where he operates his down-to-earth wedding photography business. Adam has lofty dreams of where he wants to take his business but unlike most, they don't involve working too far from his hometown. He values connections with everyone he meets and even more so his friends and family hence the local focus of his brand/business. With the help of his vast array of Insta360 cameras and his super likeable personality Adam has become widely known as "Mr Behind the Scenes". A business niche which was nurtured by his love for organic growth within his Instagram and now TikTok. If you haven't seen one of Adam's Behind the Scenes videos then check out this one.If you'd like to hear more about Adam and his passion for Behind the Scenes content then you can actually go and see him talk in person at this year's Click Live Expo in Coventry, UK on Sunday, June the 23rd at 12:00. You can read more about Adam's appearance at Click Live and the multitude of other educational offerings Adam is working on via dropping by his Education side of his website.

The game of blind golf is growing around the world and there are many charities that will help you to play for fun, or even play in national and international competitions.  RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell spoke to Jim Gales and Glen Babcock to find out more about the game and how to start.  If you'd like to find out more, go to www.scottishdgc.org.uk  #RNIBConnect  Image Shows  Jim Gales With A Club Resting On His Left Shoulder

In this conversation, Matt and The Professor discuss their love-hate relationship with tournament golf. They reflect on teammates' importance and impact on the overall experience. They also explore why they are drawn to competitive golf, such as the thrill of competing, measuring themselves against other golfers, and the opportunity to prove themselves under pressure. NewClub > https://www.newclub.golf Golf Blueprint > https://www.golfblueprint.com/ In partnership with Titleist > https://www.titleist.com

Yep, you read that right. One of us used to competitively ride sheep as a kid...and it's called mutton bustin'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Confused about competitive bidding in Amazon PPC? My Amazon Guy explains why conversion rate is king & how to use high bids strategically to gather data & optimize campaigns. Learn to monitor organic ranking alongside PPC performance for peak results. #amazonppc #amazonadvertising #biddingstrategies #conversionrate → Use code STEVENPOPE6M20 and save 20% on your first 6 months of Helium 10!↳ https://bit.ly/3RTm5id→ Already have Helium 10? Get a special discount for upgrading your account!↳ https://myamazonguy.com/h10upgrade→ More reason to invest in Helium 10! ↳ https://myamazonguy.com/helium-10-service/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Join My Amazon Guy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28605816/Follow us:Twitter: https://twitter.com/myamazonguyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenpopemag/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/myamazonguys/Please subscribe to the podcast at: https://podcast.myamazonguy.comApple Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-amazon-guy/id1501974229Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4A5ASHGGfr6s4wWNQIqyVwTimestamps:00:00 - Intro: Bidding Strategies for Amazon PPC Success00:09 - Suggested Bids vs. Competitive Bidding00:31 - High Bids for Data & Conversion Rate Optimization01:12 - Bidding for Relevance, Not Just Ranking01:27 - Conversion Rate & Campaign Performance Monitoring01:34 - Analyzing Dips in Campaign Performance01:39 - Organic Ranking & PPC Sales Relationship01:48 - Maintaining PPC Performance During Organic Fluctuations01:58 - Conclusion: Conversion Rate Matters Most!Support the Show.

Fiona Elizabeth, Founder of Wedding Photography Mentor, has been in the industry for over a decade. Her recent accolade at the Icon International Photography Awards as a Category winner in the Boudoir & Fine Art Nude portrait division is another feather in her cap, placing Fiona among some of the world's leading photographers.With six professional photography qualifications in Documentary, Wedding, and Creative Portrait, including a Fellowship and multiple awards in the UK, Fiona has been judging photography and mentoring photographers for over four years.Her mentoring and membership program is designed for beginner and intermediate photographers who want to grow, scale, and refine their craft in wedding photography, creating signature work that appeals to high-paying clients.Fiona is passionate about helping other photographers succeed. Her nurturing demeanour, passion, and professionalism provide a safe space for photographers to be part of a motivational and inspiring community, resulting in fast-paced growth and development!www.theweddingphotographymentor.com

The whole gang's back! Anthony returns to the show triumphant at Pyra Cup along with the rest of Team USA, while Team Scotland's Innes is nursing his wounds. Jeremy and Nathan come by to share the latest in competitive 40k stats, and the gang tackle a backlog of show questions from listeners.

Today we are joined by Dr. Jamie Levine Daniel. Dr. Levine Daniel is an Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management and Public Service at the New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her research focuses on nonprofit resource acquisition and service delivery within a context of power, policy, process, and practice. Not only is Dr. Levine Daniel involved in teaching and research but she is also the winner of several prestigious research awards. During our conversation, we talk about why it's important for nonprofits to think competitively, not just collaboratively. We delve into earned income, specifically how nonprofits can avoid the pitfalls of earned income. And, we get into organizational sense giving- what it is and why nonprofits need to think strategically about it.

Garage Night with Craig and Corey Bentley: Craig's Vegas Recap, Getting Competitively Deep with the Boys, Door Dash Stories, Worst UBER Ever, Shout Outs  

This is Episode 5 of the ThinkData Podcast, brought to you in partnership with Dataworks.In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Cal Al-Dhubaib, the CEO & Founder of Pandata.Pandata designs and develops AI and machine learning solutions for high-risk industries, focusing on responsible and ethical development. Cal is a highly regarded speaker and consultant in the world of AI, and there isn't much he and his team don't know about the world of AI.We covered a lot: Cal's background and what brought him to launch PandataWho are Pandata, and what type of problems are they brought in to solveThe steps companies should be taking to ensure AI is being built and used for goodWhy responsible and ethical AI development is so importantHow companies can attract, engage, retain, and upskill their AI & Data TeamWhat does Cal expect to see from the AI world over the coming months?

G'day, I'm Pete Seligman. There are a growing number of people thinking about buying a business in this region, but it can be hard to see what that actually looks like. So to help bring one part of that process to life, I've teamed up with my mates Jason Andrew and James Frank to throw some businesses on the table and share our raw thoughts on each. This is 'Eta Down Under'. We hope you enjoy it! In our inaugural episode, Jason introduces a diverse range of businesses, from a vertically integrated pallets venture to a high-end home and gift business. We delve into opportunities, exploring a 4-million-dollar rental solutions business and a 7-million-dollar engineering gem in southeast Queensland. The spotlight turns to the pallets business, dissecting its manufacturing dynamics, selling strategies, and the challenges of the rental model. Jason's insights spark a spirited conversation on potential innovations, regional significance, pricing strategies, and operational intricacies. Pallet Manufacturer Regional NSW (within 2 hrs of Sydney): Pallet Manufacturer EBITDA: $1.7-1.9m Under Mgt Link to enquire: https://resolve.com.au/business/manufacturing/vertically-integrated-pallet-business Pallet manufacturing business with "mill on wheels" and commercial agreement for wood supply. Competitively advantaged with supply of wood (very valuable after bushfires has restricted competitors ability to supply their clients). The owner has invested heavily and this business is growing on the back of blue chip clients, both of which are growing. A trailer-mill allows the business to cut wood to size, reducing offcuts and stock wastage. Production/General manager runs the daily operations with non-exec owner living interstate. This episode lays the foundation for an exciting season, promising deeper insights into the world of business acquisitions down under. Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoyed it. If you want to learn more, please hit us up on LinkedIn. You can find all three of our profiles below and stay tuned. For the next episode. Subscribe to Pete's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/@PeteSeligman Connect with Pete: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteseligman/ Connect with James: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-frank-905b2155/ Connect with Jason: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-andrew/

Reddit Stories | OP has been facing relationship conflicts with her boyfriend regarding her passion for ballroom dancing. Despite resolving previous issues about dancing with a male partner while on her college dance team, the situation escalated when she sought a new partner in their new city. Her boyfriend became upset, believing she would stop dancing after college, and demanded she find a female partner instead. A heated argument ensued, and OP reluctantly agreed to let her boyfriend try ballroom dancing. They attended social dances together, but when he suggested competing and wanted her as a partner, OP declined due to their differing skill levels. This sparked another dispute, with her boyfriend feeling deceived. OP is torn between her love for dancing and her relationship, as her boyfriend is not yet at her dance level, and she took a break fr

Creator and host Andy Bargh welcomes Gordon Sheach (The Tartan Scarf) & Barry Anderson (The Scotsman) to chat about Scotland's magnificent season of 22/23. Unbeaten competitively, promoted in the Nations League and flying in the Euros group! Who was our Player of the Season? What was our Goal of the Season? Can there be any discussion for Game of the Season? The lads chat through the season chronologically and re-live what's been a superb year for the Tartan Army. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What foods would make you get your Joey Chestnut on? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the podcast, Alex and Johnny are in the middle of AT Tournament season! In this episode we discuss some tips and considerations for competitive or matched play Check our next Tournament in Poole on the 8th July here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maximal-fire-iv-tournament-tickets-618402868627 Please consider checking out our friends at Lune Constructs for all your Grim Dark terrain needs!: https://luneconstructs.com/ Please consider supporting the cast through our Patreon including access to a Private Discord Channel and 10% off Battle Bling products! http://maximalfire.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/maximalfire Discord: https://discord.gg/5ruErzhsHa Facebook: www.facebook.com/maximalfire Instagram: @maximal.fire Sponsored by Entoyment, Battle Bling and Grim Dark terrain! Princeps Seniores Patrons: Andy Devlin, Branson Saalinger, Callum Dickie, Clive Griffiths, Dan@AnyReasonToRollDice, Des Brennan, Diredrin, Doug Chamberlain, emad al-harthy, Erik Salazar, , Grimbarian Phil, HairyBob_Submariner, Honoris Rex, Ian Beal, Jim - Twisted Titanicus, Jon Horsham, Matt Button, Matthew Derbyshire, Nathan Addison, Roland Lucas, Simon - @EssexWargamer, Simon Simpkins, Stewart Mccoll, Will Robinson All artwork, original source material and audio (with the exception of the maximal fire logo, licensed BGM and audio commentary) belong to their respective owners

In this episode of the Subscription Web Design podcast, we tackle a burning question from Amir, one of our audience members, on how to price web design services competitively in a niche market. Pricing services can be a complex issue, especially when balancing the need to stay affordable for smaller clients while not undercutting fellow web designers. We delve into strategies such as leveraging fulfillment partners to handle larger clients, identifying the specific areas where you might need support, and how to focus on what you excel at, while outsourcing other tasks. We also discuss how platforms like Upwork can be a resource to get defined tasks done affordably, allowing you to serve more clients effectively. For those interested in a deeper dive into pricing strategies, we highlight our Subscription Web Design group coaching program and the resources it offers. This episode promises to deliver valuable insights into pricing services and navigating the web design market. Tune in! -- Make sure to go to https://subscriptionwebdesign.com right now and enter your best email address to get my contract template (and more!) for FREE. This is a limited time promo that WILL go away. 

Jason is a leading energy entrepreneur and a pioneer in energy cost reduction for commercial property owners. He co-founded MD Energy Advisors after identifying the need for an energy company that could help the real estate community reduce energy spend to maximize profitability. In 2010, Jason also co-founded PointClickSwitch, a proprietary online platform powered by MD Energy Advisors that helps residential customers in deregulated energy markets save on utility costs through comparison shopping. Today, much of his focus is on the financial solution focus of MD Energy Advisors and Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) Financing.    In our conversation with Jason we talked about how commercial real estate owners can reduce operating expenses and increase NOI, brokering energy, and everything about C-PACE financing.   Announcement: Click here to join me and other top real estate investors for the Midwest Real Estate Networking Summit! - Use Promo Code: PODCAST   C-PACE Financing 00:00 Jason's background 05:24 Reducing operating expenses and increasing NOI for commercial real estate owners; 08:32 Brokering energy; 10:41 Competitively buying energy ~ Budget certainty; 12:41 Traditional energy VS. Rub structure; 15:06 C-PACE financing 101     Round of Insights: Apparent Failure: Getting downsized in a company where he was supposed to be an equity partner; Digital Resource: LinkedIn Most Recommended Book: Shoe Dog Daily Habit: Walking his dog every morning. #1 Insight for Investing with Energy in Mind: Play the long game     Announcement: Download Our Sample Deal and Join Our Mailing List    Contact Jason: To learn more go to mdenergyadvisors.com.  Lots of C-PACE references on MDEA website (incl map recognizing where C-PACE if offered if you scroll down): https://www.mdenergyadvisors.com/c-pacefaq Map of deregulated states: https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/   Thank you for joining us for another great episode! If you're enjoying the show, please LEAVE A RATING OR REVIEW,  and be sure to hit that subscribe button so you do not miss an episode.  

We are back after a much needed break with a general discussion around how you can play the British in Bolt Action both historically and competitively in Bolt Action. And while we do spend a lot of time talking about the British, we also spend a lot of time talking about Bolt Action in general. We have not had an analysis episode of the show in a while and I think this is an interesting one. We hope you like it!

Josh Rawitch, President of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and Malcom Reed from the How To BBQ Right YouTube Channel and Podcast   The quote, "If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life." fits both our guests perfectly. Josh Rawitch has taken his love of baseball and made it his career.  In 1995 Rawitch joined the Los Angeles Dodgers and worked his way from the marketing department, taking a break to serve as a beat reporter for Major League Baseball Advanced Media from 2001-02, and then returning to the Dodgers and eventually rising to the position of Vice President of Communications.  Before assuming his role as National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum President in 2021 Rawitch spent a decade with the Arizona Diamondbacks, serving as the team's Senior Vice President of Content and Communications.  Josh fully understands his role which is to oversee the daily operation of the non-profit, educational institution, whose mission is to preserve history, honor excellence and connect generations.  For more information on Josh and the Baseball Hall of Fame go to https://baseballhall.org/ Malcom Reed has taken his love of cooking barbecue and his skill as a pitmaster and made it his career.  Competitively cooking with his Killer Hogs BBQ team and selling highly rated Killer Hogs BBQ rubs and sauces are just two of the barbecue activities which are helping to build his cooking empire.  With over 1.5 million subscribers on his How To BBQ Right YouTube channel, he produces informative and entertaining weekly videos which serve to make all of us better cooks.  As if all the preceding was not enough, Malcom, along with his wife Rachelle are the hosts of the How To BBQ Right Podcast on which they talk about their weekly YouTube recipes, what they are grilling at the house, tips and tricks for grilling and their competition BBQ contests.  Even TikTok now has Malcom Reed videos.  For more information on Malcom and How To BBQ Right, go to https://howtobbqright.com/ We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home by the musician, Dave Dresser, and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef, https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/ We truly appreciate our listeners and hope that all of you are staying safe. If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you.   Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  baseballandbbq@gmail.comTwitter:  @baseballandbbqInstagram:  baseballandbarbecueYouTube:  baseball and bbqWebsite:  https//baseballandbbq.weebly.com Facebook:  baseball and bbq    

Welcome back to the show!! This week we are talking all about how fighting is great (Competitively), Jake Paul trying to win the world, and so much more!! Disclaimer: All content created for this episode is for comedic purposes only and is not intended to offend seriously. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mymindwithstefan/support

Bricks and Clicks is hosted by Johnny Valeriote and Colin Davidson, two of the three managing partners at Omnium. Produced by Rolled Up, submit your comments and questions to us on Twitter.In this episode of Bricks and Clicks, Vasa Martinez, CEO of Perfy, shares with us the story of his low-sugar brain soda company that's designed to help fight issues like depression and pre-diabetes. From launching successfully after one year, building customer loyalty, and cutting costs at Expos, to creating a meme account and studying energy drinks, Vasa offers insights into the challenges and successes of starting a beverage company in a highly competitive market.

Wow, learn how to analyze deck structure to better prioritize your budget, wow! Zac and Phil talk through what cards should be given a shot off the ban list in the initiative economy. Wow! Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/phXPA6z8 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EternalDurdles Buy Our Merch: https://my-store-4b44f7.creator-spring.com/listing/EternalDurdles_Shop Eternal Durdles MoxField: https://www.moxfield.com/users/durdlemagus | https://moxfield.com/users/forceofphil Check out our song parodies on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/forceofphil Follow us on Twitter: @EternalDurdles Zac: @durdlemagus Phil: @ForceofPhil

Digital Turbine delivers a mobile growth platform for advertisers, publishers, carriers, and device original equipment manufacturers. The company offers all kinds of publishers the ability to advertise to consumers on mobile devices. Listen as Brett and Ryan ask questions about the company, its business model, and valuation. Enjoy the show! ***************************** Interested in becoming a member of 7investing? Subscribe with code “MONEY” and get $100 off your annual subscription for life: https://7investing.com/checkout/ ***************************** Want updates on future shows and projects? Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chitchatmoney Subscribe to our Substack to receive free show notes and charts that go along with every episode: https://chitchatmoney.substack.com/ Interested to see more of Will's work? Check out their Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FundasyInvestor?s=20&t=yhLXqIW46FcApFMJGP3lgw Contact us: chitchatmoneypodcast@gmail.com Timestamps Digital Turbine | (4:03) Competition | (14:57) Projections | (27:45) Disclosure: Chit Chat Money hosts and guests are not financial advisors, and nothing they say on this show is formal advice or a recommendation. Brett Schafer and Ryan Henderson are general partners and portfolio managers at Arch Capital. Arch Capital and its partners may hold securities discussed on this show.

YYCHD presents "Getting To The Bag Podcast" Season 3 Episode 4, hosted by YYC Artist Ferno! Join us every week with a new local Hiphop talent guest for an interview! This weeks guest is YYC's Vocalist Malaika Hailey! Performing Live, Singing Competitively, Spirituality, Creating First EP & Birth Chart Readings. Hit That Subscribe Button, New Episode Fridays! Produced by Polo Sho & Ferno! Filmed at Solace Studios! Follow us on IG: @m.al.aika @mixedbyferno @poloshoyyc @solacestudiosyyc @yychiphopdaily !

The Ghost Army Podcast, Episode 34 Can Greece Be Played Competitively In Bolt Action Welcome back to the Ghost Army Podcast. WE ARE BACK! In this episode I am joined by an old school Bolt Action legend, Craig Baxter (C-Bax). Craig is an expert in all things Armies Of Greece in Bolt Action... And YES, that is an offical army list! In this episode he breaks down how to build and play a Greek list so that it can compete with any other army list on the Bolt Action tabletop. Yes, this is a little off format, but we had to bring out the old Ghost Army masthead for this special guest. In future episodes of the GAP we look to bring back a bunch of the old gang and talk about what we have been up to in the game. It's been a LOT. Stay tuned!

Ray Loewe's Website: www.TheLuckiestGuyintheWorld.com

This is a recording of a Niche webinar discussing how schools can reveal what makes them one of a kind and position themselves for enrollment success in 2022-23. Show notes are available on the Enrollment Insights Blog at niche.bz/podcast. In the Enrollment Insights Podcast, you'll hear about novel solutions to problems, ways to make processes better for students, and the questions that spark internal reflection and end up changing entire processes.

Wesley Cloud is a local drifter here in middle Tennessee. He just recently finished his first Pro Am season of drifting and he wanted to shed some light on a lot of topics he realized in his first year drifting competitively that most people don't talk about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Guests Wesley Cloud - https://www.instagram.com/cloudmotorsports/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **WE ARE LOOKING FOR A VIDEO EDITOR! If you're interested, please DM @_kulaidman on Instagram!** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Socials Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/circleofdrift/Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@circleofdrift?lang=en ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Audio platforms Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-circle-of-drift/id1641015238 Spodify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4btTffEMtrqFEX4Nh6IlNR?si=afe1fa20906d470f Amazon - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/52e7ddc5-628f-4520-8a5b-8580e4e351fb/the-circle-of-drift iHeart - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-circle-of-drift-101138597/ Podcast Index - https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5645462---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Audio Editor Silas - https://www.instagram.com/podbuilder/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*Still working on getting on the rest of the audio platforms. I will update it when we are live on there!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ScheduleNew Episode every SUNDAY!TikTok's daily!Instagram Reels daily

John and Tim share the 6 building block to start a new airbnb listing. This is a quick overview of steps to take when first listing a property on the OTAs.Leave Some Feedback:What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments belowDid you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. We are new so all feedback helps us improve and grow. We want to help as many hosts as possible in year 1.Want to know more, need more help or have an idea for a podcast episode or blog article? Reach out to us at john@vacationhomhelp.com.Are you in Florida and need a new airbnb cleaning service? Try vacationhomehelp.com so we can refer you to your new rockstar cleaning team and earn more 5-star reviews for cleanliness. Mention podcast and receive $75 off your first turnover cleaning (subject to certain exclusions).

Andrew Nunn is the co-founder, Chairman and Executive Director of JBS&G, one of Australia's largest privately owned environmental consulting companies. Andrew also holds the position of Chief Entrepreneur of South Australia, a role in which he is tasked with providing advice to the South Australian Cabinet and the business community to enable entrepreneurialism across the state. In his conversation with guest host Alex Carpenter, Andrew discusses how his entrepreneurial journey started at the age of thirteen washing the exterior of homes before they went up for sale with his brother, as well as his view that states and territories, including South Australia, should focus on their strengths and work cooperatively as part of “team Australia” rather than focus on interstate competition. See full show notes: https://w2d1.com/andrew-nunn

In this episode, I interview Leah aka @leah_yingling.

Under the U.S. Supreme Court case FTC v. Actavis (2013), antitrust analysis of “reverse settlements” of IP litigations between makers of branded small molecule drugs and generics requires an analysis under the rule of reason. Are there distinct challenges presented by settlements between branded biologics and biosimilars? Sean Sheridan and Archan Ruparel, principals at Charles River Associates, speak with Anora Wang and Christina Ma on the complexities of negotiating patent settlements involving biosimilars. Listen to this episode to learn about pharmaceutical entry, price erosion, and more. With special guests: Sean Sheridan, Principal, Charles River Associates and Archan Ruparel, Principal, Charles River Associates Related Link: Sean Sheridan and Archan Ruparel, FDA Biosimilar Approval Foreshadows IP Litigation Issues (September 15, 2021) Hosted by: Anora Wang, Arnold & Porter and Christina Ma, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Mark Coudray, the 2019 Profit First Professional of the Year, is back with some more of his brilliance and insight. This time we talk about leveraging AI to determine what makes your business competitively unique and what impact having an “Irresistible Offer” can make on your growth, profitability, and cash flow.

Individualization!One of my favorite things to do is educate both my clients and healthcare providers about fitness in the perinatal period. There is so much that needs to change so much about the way we approach this discussion in the clinical setting. Sometimes it doesn't happen at all and often times it is brief, inaccurate, and instills fear in the people who are trying to get moving or who want to stay moving. My guest today is Rachel Mast. She is a Certified Professional Midwife at the New Beginnings Birthing Center in Meridian, Idaho. Rachel is a gymnast, a crossfitter, and also does jujitsu- Competitively! She is a CFL2 and a P&PA coach herself. Note: Rachel and I start off discussing her experience with hyperemesis and a bit about the very special practice that she works in which is a mixed practice of CNMs and CPMs. Guest: Rachel MastResourcesPelvic GuruFor consumers: International Directory of providers and fitness professionalsFor professionals: Amazing continuing ed and resources includingThe Female Athlete Level 1 and level 2 with Antony Lo- who I mention anytime I talk about fitness. Follow him @physiodetective on IGPregnancy & Postpartum Athleticism (Brianna Battles): Education for professionals and pregnant and postpartum people(Article) Morning Chalk up: From pregnancy to podium, the Queen of Iceland returnsBirth It Up By Leisel Teen, Mommy Labor Nurse, check out her podcast, episode #74 to hear our conversationOnline Childbirth Education. Choose the program that is right for you! Pop Up Courses for people with Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) and professionalsSupport the show

Men need more focus today than ever before. In this episode, I share some insight on how to become competitively focused.Do you want to tap into your masculine self? Do you want a place you can go to connect, learn and continue to become a better man?Learn more about "Inner Work For Men Group" click hereMusic credit Music by JuliusH from Pixabay

Well that's a wrap!Series 3 has come to an end. Thank to all our wonderful guests, it's been a blast. We are taking a short break but will be back with series 4 before you know it. If you'd like to catch up with us IRL then head over to our online shop where you can purchase tickets for the TWGGE Christmas Party!!!Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, review and share.--------------------------------This episode is sponsored by Carat London. They're an absolute trailblazer in jewellery. In fact, they've created an environmentally- conscious community that includes some big names like Lady Gaga and Ellie Goulding.The key is lab-grown diamonds. Yes, lab-grown. Growing them in a lab means no mining, no unjust labour, and no guilt. We believe this sustainable way of producing diamonds could be the future of the jewellery industry – because these diamonds don't cost the earth – both literally and figuratively.  Competitively priced compared to a mined stone, their new Gentle Diamond range, aims to be completely carbon neutral.You can find Carat London at their trendy upmarket boutiques in Covent Garden and White City – or go online at Caratlondon.com--------------------------------Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, review and share.Visit our website where you can find out a bit about us, read the blog and even 'purch our merch' via the online shop!Find out more about our courses including  THE PATHWAY TO RECOVERYwhich is designed to support, nuture and empower you following the loss of a baby. Our September course is now sold out but the October PTR is now open for enrolment as is the new Pregnancy After Loss  course. Trying To Conceive course coming soon. Contact us via social media platforms or email info@theworstgirlgangever.co.ukYou'll find us on...FacebookInstagramTwitteror you can join the TWGGE Facebook Support GroupIt's time to break the silence and open up the dialogue around the topics of miscarriage and pregnancy loss. No more shame, no more taboo, lets ditch it for our children; the ones that will come, the ones that are and the ones that never came to be.

In this episode we chat to the legendary Emma Cannon about the work that she does with the infertility/loss communities. We are treated to a gong as we begin recording and her calmness, spirituality and wisdom shine throughout.  Emma is a fertility and women's health expert, registered acupuncturist, founder of the Emma Cannon Clinic, and a mentor and speaker. With over 25 years in clinical practice, from her fertility rooms she has helped countless patients achieve their dream of having a family. She is author of five books including the best-selling The Baby Making Bible and FERTILE.  Bridging the gap between western medicine and the world of complimentary therapies, Emma is an impartial support and guide, helping each individual find the path to healing that's right for themFind out more HERE by heading to her website or follow her on Instagram --------------------------------This episode is sponsored by Carat London. They're an absolute trailblazer in jewellery. In fact, they've created an environmentally- conscious community that includes some big names like Lady Gaga and Ellie Goulding.The key is lab-grown diamonds. Yes, lab-grown. Growing them in a lab means no mining, no unjust labour, and no guilt. We believe this sustainable way of producing diamonds could be the future of the jewellery industry – because these diamonds don't cost the earth – both literally and figuratively.  Competitively priced compared to a mined stone, their new Gentle Diamond range, aims to be completely carbon neutral.You can find Carat London at their trendy upmarket boutiques in Covent Garden and White City – or go online at Caratlondon.com--------------------------------Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, review and share.Visit our website where you can find out a bit about us, read the blog and even 'purch our merch' via the online shop!Find out more about our courses including  THE PATHWAY TO RECOVERYwhich is designed to support, nuture and empower you following the loss of a baby. Our September course is now sold out but the October PTR is now open for enrolment as is the new Pregnancy After Loss  course. Trying To Conceive course coming soon. Contact us via social media platforms or email info@theworstgirlgangever.co.ukYou'll find us on...FacebookInstagramTwitteror you can join the TWGGE Facebook Support GroupIt's time to break the silence and open up the dialogue around the topics of miscarriage and pregnancy loss. No more shame, no more taboo, lets ditch it for our children; the ones that will come, the ones that are and the ones that never came to be.--------------------------------

Frankie's first baby, Esme, was stillborn in September 2013. Having to break the news to youngsters within the family was made harder by the lack of a children's book that she felt could adequately explain what had happened. She also wanted more guidance as to how she could retain Esme's place in the family in positive and special ways. She was inspired to write These Precious Little People, and the safe arrival of Esme's two siblings only cemented her desire to provide a resource to families that would do credit to how precious these little people really are. She connected with @gilliangambleartist, an experienced, incredibly talented & generous illustrator, and had the backing of @joeltcp (a wonderful charity that receives all proceeds from sales of the book); both supported Frankie's dream & helped bring These Precious Little People to life.--------------------------------This episode is sponsored by Carat London. They're an absolute trailblazer in jewellery. In fact, they've created an environmentally- conscious community that includes some big names like Lady Gaga and Ellie Goulding.The key is lab-grown diamonds. Yes, lab-grown. Growing them in a lab means no mining, no unjust labour, and no guilt. We believe this sustainable way of producing diamonds could be the future of the jewellery industry – because these diamonds don't cost the earth – both literally and figuratively.  Competitively priced compared to a mined stone, their new Gentle Diamond range, aims to be completely carbon neutral.You can find Carat London at their trendy upmarket boutiques in Covent Garden and White City – or go online at Caratlondon.com--------------------------------Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, review and share.Visit our website where you can find out a bit about us, read the blog and even 'purch our merch' via the online shop!Find out more about our courses including  THE PATHWAY TO RECOVERYwhich is designed to support, nuture and empower you following the loss of a baby. Our September course is now sold out but keep you eyes peeled for details about the October PTR as well as the new Pregnancy After Loss and Trying To Conceive courses.Contact us via social media platforms or email info@theworstgirlgangever.co.ukYou'll find us on...FacebookInstagramTwitteror you can join the TWGGE Facebook Support GroupIt's time to break the silence and open up the dialogue around the topics of miscarriage and pregnancy loss. No more shame, no more taboo, lets ditch it for our children; the ones that will come, the ones that are and the ones that never came to be.--------------------------------

We have KCdaGoat in the building to drop some credit building and credit hacking tips for being able to consistently securing higher approval rates, w/ lower interest rates! You definitely don't want to miss this one Millionaires! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themdm-pod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/themdm-pod/support

Probably just like you, the exploration for the secret ingredient to running a successful business is a tricky one. Speaking for myself, I can tell you that I'm constantly trying to learn and dissect what some of the most successful brands are in my space. How did she do it? What does the website look like? Productized service or digital product? Smash that like button on a secret formula to generating $5m in Facebook ad sales All of this with our blinders on. Sometimes, the real secret, is just staying in the game. Jason joined us eight years ago, right when he and his wife Kim were making the transition to full-time product sales, leaving custom client work behind. Now, Paid Memberships Pro has over 100,000 active installs according the WordPress.org directory and his business is getting a lot more focused on…doing what works. Has he considered convergent PMP into a hosted solution? What about outside acquisition? You'll have to listen to the episode to find out! Transcription This episode of the Matt report is brought to you by how to market your plug-in dot com a framework for the sleep deprive developer. If you ask yourself, how do I get more downloads for my plugin? What about more sales? Should I do this lifetime license thing? You need to pick up the book, how to market your plugin over app. How to market your plugin.com. Programming is about computer behavior. Marketing is about human behavior. Fortunately for us both a fairly predictable and you can learn more inside the book. How to market your plug-in dot com. This book will help you market while you're building your plugin. Instead of treating your marketing as a last resort. I can't tell you how many times. How many interviews I've had, where the developer has just fallen upon luck and chance that they have a business in front of them. People are downloading their plugin. People are buying their plugin, but they hit a certain point of plateau where they need to scale. They need to get the word out there and this book will help you do it. Check it out@howtomarketyourplugin.com. Thanks for supporting the show. This episode is also brought to you by media, ron.com media ron.com Ronald Ereka he's back. He creates WordPress plugins. In fact, one of his plugins I was searching for the other day. Totally forgot that he made it called highlight and share. He creates a highlight and share plug, and you can highlight sections of texts and share them with your network right on your WordPress website. Event tracking for gravity forms, simple comment editing and custom query blocks. I'm going to click into the event, tracking for gravity forms. Of course you'll need gravity forms, but you can download event tracking for free, right from either his website, media, ron.com or search for it on wordpress.org. It's got 30,000 plus active installs. Well at the time of this recording, it was, it was updated a week ago. But if you're looking to connect Google analytics, Google tag managers, to your gravity forms. Well to do a vent trackings, this plugin will do the trick. Check out media, ron.com for more of his plugins, reach out the Ronald you reca. If you have any other questions about building a WordPress plugin for yourself. Thanks for supporting the show. Probably just like you, the exploration for the secret ingredient to running a successful business is a tricky one. Speaking for myself. I can tell you that I'm constantly trying to learn and dissect what some of the most successful brands are doing in my space. How did she do it? What does the website look like? Product I service or digital product. Smash that like button on a secret formula to generate $5 million in Facebook ad sales. And all of this with our blinders on. Sometimes the real secret is just staying in the game. Today's guest first joined us eight years ago. Right? When he and his wife were making the transition to full-time product sales, leaving custom client work behind. Now paid memberships pro has over 100,000 active installs, according to the wordpress.org directory and his business is getting a lot more focused on doing what works. Has Jason considered converting, paid memberships pro into a hosted solution. What about outside acquisition? You'll have to listen to the episode to find out. You're listening to the Maryport. A podcast for the resilient digital business builders. Subscribe to the newsletter at maryport.com/subscribe or follow the podcast on apple or Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts better yet. Share this episode on your social media. We'd love more listeners around here. Okay. Let's get into today's episode. With Jason. hey, Jason, welcome to the program. Hey, it's great to be here. I'm a big fan, a big listener, and it's good to just get to chat with you again. Um, I'm going to do this every couple of weeks. Like there's a thunderstorm today and I'm going to, you know, the thunder storm is gonna cancel this one too, and I'll have to reschedule for next week. so I last had you on eight years ago, when you were one of the founding. Interviewees of the Maryport podcast, a lot has changed. And a lot hasn't changed. Uh, for paid memberships pro and your business. Uh, and for WordPress. Chris lemma re recently wrote a post about, uh, the future success of WordPress, which we'll get into in a little bit and sort of how he sees hosts playing a role in the adoption of WordPress, uh, streamlining WordPress onboarding, even specific flavors of let's say membership sites, e-commerce sites, that kind of thing. But go back in your time machine and let me know, where were you mentally? Eight years ago with the business. And when we first interviewed. Yeah. Um, so that, that would have been 2013, which would have been a couple of years after paid memberships pro launched. And at that point PM pro was really a loss leader for our consulting business. So it was mostly just Kim and I, and we had a couple of contractors, um, you know, who helped out with random things. But we, you know, we had a membership plugin for WordPress and we parlayed that into, you know, 10 to $30,000, you know, gigs installing WordPress from membership sites and things like that. Um, and we were, we were doing that transition of like, Hey, how do we transition from a consultant company to a products company? We were just starting that around 2013 and, and also like figuring out our first hire. I remember how hard, like the first hire was, um, And now it's kind of like, you know, we're hiring all the time. It's like, it has to be a process where we're constantly, like we have relatively low turnover of employees and we've been like, grateful for that. But even that, like just growing and, you know, people go occasionally that, you know, we have to, as a process now, like hiring people as a process, it was like a huge deal. The biggest thing of the year, you know, in 2013. And now it's just another process. Yeah. Probably one of the most, uh, popular, free membership plugins that are out there. I know there's a lot of plugins out there that sort of skate by semi membership. You know, they're doing like log-in and access control, but certainly not to the degree of integration, ad-ons support general reach that you have memberships a hot space. Uh, when we've chatted a little while ago, I was curious of how do you. Competitively make the distinction between membership LMS. Like how do you fit yourself in the market so that you get the right customers and not the wrong ones? So you're arguably the most popular free memberships plugin. Um, you know, and there's some other plugins out there that are sort of like a third degree from a membership, like they do user profiles and they're also a membership. But a pure membership platform play that is you. How do you make the distinction amongst the third party competitors? The ones that have kind of sorta a membership plugin. And those have like an lms like a lifter lms a full-fledged learning management system where do you make the distinction with your marketing and your messaging? Yeah. So there's a ton of competition. And I remember one of our first, uh, kind of big web ventures for Kim and I was a wine website, like a wine tracking website, and that was another kind of niche. That like every week there was a new competitor and people like, what about this? What about this one here? Like, it's just part of business, like they're here. Um, and I feel like membership plugins are the same way. And maybe that's just because it's what I'm focused on. Any business is the same. Um, but yeah, there's a lot of membership plugins and they specialize, we like to call our homepage. We'll say that, you know, we're the most complete membership solution for WordPress. Um, and we really focus on. Members as like the core unit. And so you mentioned like LMS plugins, we integrate with LMS plugins. Um, you know, a lot of people who run membership sites want to also have courses. A lot of people who run core sites also want to have memberships. And so when we're talking to like a prospective user and trying to figure out if our solution is good for them, you know, we like to ask them like, what's the focal point of your business? Like, if it's. The members are the focal point of your business. Like you're an association or just, you know, in your mind, do you think about your members as like the important component and then how do I sell them things and how do I give them lessons? Like you might want to start with paid memberships. Pro is like the center component of your website and use like our courses add on or use an LMS that integrates with ours, you know, but focus on PM pro. And similarly, if you start with like a course and you really care about all the features that they have, like quizzes and progress, right. Um, you know, certificates and all the things that they do really well, like that's the most important part and you really just want to charge monthly for access to that. You could probably get by just using their membership add on. Um, and there there's so many different ways to like build these things. I really feel like that's, our job is to like find ways. To cut through all the options for the customer. Cause it's like overwhelming, they're overwhelmed with options and they just like, just tell me what I'm supposed to use. And we'd like to be the default choice, but you know, sometimes other solutions are better than ours in cases. So it's really like a conversation has to happen to figure that out. It seems like it's balancing. Being like the core engine I'll call it. I'll call it the engine of a membership for somebodies WordPress website. It's a fine balance to say that we're the engine, but you can also use lifter or you can use our ad-ons. Maybe you can even use another membership plugin, if somebody's crazy enough. So, how do you balance that? Uh, that messaging to say, look, we can act as the core component, almost like the routing. Of the commerce section, maybe even the permissions and access, uh, section. Of your membership site man, it's tough. Like, cause we early on, so like 2013, we would have been just getting into it. We had a plan called like do it for. Uh, so we offered for like $500 at the time, like, Hey, we'll install, paid memberships pro for you and do like a little bit of coding. And a lot of those little bit of coding were kind of these add ons that we've developed like, oh, integrate with, you know, event plugin integrate with BB press. Um, and so we, we built this footprint of integrations that kind of worked if a developer would wire it up for them. And the most popular ones were like, well, everyone keeps asking about this and they say, it's complicated. They don't know how to code, so we try to make it easier. And so, yeah, we kinda have that process of like, it's a platform where a press can do anything. Let's kind of have a, just that does it. Then when the just becomes popular, let's kind of streamline it into a plugin that still has some. Potentially like settings or it needs a developer to set up and then let's try to streamline it into something more user-friendly because as you go up that scale, like, it definitely becomes more and more to develop and maintain and support. Um, and we had ad-ons like our MailChimp add on early on was like more fully featured than the general MailChimp add ons that were out at the time. And we were like, Hey, let's build this in a way that you could use it even without paid memberships. But we didn't really market it that way. Um, but then it was kind of like, so we see this again. And again, like people will build a plugin. That's like one of our ad-ons, but in a general way. And it was like, it was as much work to build it for PM pro in the sense. And now I'm, you know, uh, not giving them credit for everything they have to do. And all the MailChimp solutions are kind of, you know, have surpassed our ads. Now, but at a time it was like, oh, like we could, so it's tempting to like, oh, we should just start an LMS business. Cause our little, you know, courseware plugin is pretty close to what they do, but we're kind of finding our space where like for the courses plugin that we built, we built it's launching soon. And it's um, you know, we tell people who want a course, like maybe you don't need a plugin. Maybe it's just a PDF or a page with content or a video. Like if your course is pretty straight forward, you don't have to conflict. But the, the plug-in that we have, we'll just add CPTs for like the basic structure of a course in the lesson and have a little bit of kind of progress tracking. And we felt like that's the bare minimum and we don't want to get into anything else. So if you want anything more than that, that same plugin will just integrate with learn dash lifter, um, learn, press, and like the most popular LMS. And that way we have kind of one plug and the maintain integration with all those LMS plugins, instead of like a bunch of different integrations went off with each one. So we're hoping that's easier to maintain, I'm just going to speak as a product maker and owner in a very small scale compared to what you're doing. But going back to my days with a conductor. I know one of the challenges is when you try to stay lightweight and you try to have like this modular approach. Like you could get into LMS, but that's another add on. Uh, the ad-ons and extending your core product. It can be another tricky thing because you have both, you have customers that request ad-ons Hey, it'd be great. If we worked with MailChimp convert kids, Salesforce, like all these other add ons that work. That customers are requesting. So you start looking at that as like market opportunity, and then you have the ones that you build and like, oh, wouldn't it be great to again, have that LMS section. Um, Is there a process that you work with internally? To reign that in. Because I know from building conductor. Creating ad-ons is a, is like, It's another micro product that you have to support in the sustain and look longterm. For example, when we were building conductor, we were building out Genesis templates. Um, before it became studio, press. So it was one of those things where. It was. Before, you know, it was like six months to a year to two years and like, oh God, like. This add on, hasn't been touched. It's no longer. Really doing what it was supposed to be doing, but we don't really have that many people using it. Uh do you have a balance to that is there a way to work through that methodically Yeah. Um, we try, I don't know. Yeah, it's a challenge. I don't know if we handle it. Well, a couple things that we do differently that maybe some other companies are coming around to as well. Um, but definitely like we have one big bundle. Um, like one price for everything. And so we don't have a marketplace. Like we have more, there are third party plugins, but they're like outside, you know, we don't have a marketplace where we sell the third already plugins, which is a good thing and a bad thing. So like it's bad in the sense that having a marketplace really does encourage developers to get involved because they're going to get paid. And I remember back in the day of like, I made a Jigoshop plug. Uh, for Braintree integration. And I think it sold like one copy per month, but like it just the fact that there was a marketplace encouraged me to kind of like generalize it and push it out there. Whereas I wouldn't have done that otherwise. So it encourages involvement, but what happens then is it's really hard to manage all these different people. You don't really have control over the add-ons that are important. And we saw companies like EDD and WooCommerce did this too, where they bought up a bunch of the most popular ones to kind of bring them in house. So we started with that. We were like, Hey, we kind of get it. Important to us and we, we bring it in house. Um, and we just try to like tell the developer community like, oh, we're working on, of course this plugin, you probably shouldn't or like, you know, if you want to help, this is what it looks like. It's all open source. Um, the other thing we do with that with integrations is I always try to make those plugins available for free and in the.org repository. So our rule of thumb is if it's an integration with another service or. We're not going to charge for, we're going to make it free and.org. And that incentivizes like both us and the other party to kind of maintain the plugin, the integration plugin, because sometimes it's awkward. Like if they're selling it for $50, but you know, you're not. And so you're like, wait, why am I helping to maintain like the thing you make money on? But I don't, or like, It's open source. So I could take your code or if I really feel like you're not doing it well, I'm going to make my own version. And so that's awkward when like, you know, who's plugged into you buy ours or theirs, or it doesn't encourage us to work together. Whereas like upfront, you know, when I reached out to integration partners, I'm like, Hey, we're going to make it free. We're going to make in.org. And the business model is not to sell this integration. It's, you know, the support, both our platforms. And in some ways that's leaving money on the table because it's a little bit opposite of how. The market has been, you know, how things have been in the past or what they expect. And it feels kind of right where if you're like, Hey, I don't use MailChimp. I use convert kit. So I'll just buy the convert kit one, you know, I don't have, instead of like, I'll pay $300 and I get all of them, but I only need one, one of the ad-ons. So, um, I guess, I mean, if it's free, it's free, but like, so like people are kind of trained to pay. It's it's such a great value. If they're like, Hey, for $50, I solve exactly the problem you have. Like that, like that business transaction is so much better than kind of like supporting the platform and all the crazy things you might do, you know? So it's, so we give up the opportunity to sell something like really direct to just say, but it it's better for the unuser and that, you know, we may we're the incentives are in alignment for everyone to maintain that integration. Yeah. And that's the most important we feel like at the software level is good. Like the business will work its way out. So I'll pull from the hint of Chris Lemon's article and I'll, I'll have that linked up in the show notes. But what is your opinion on web hosts being in the perfect position to. Well, not only own the customer, but be able to own the experience. So if they own. A web hosting customer who maybe isn't even using WordPress right now. No. Oh, okay. I've got the static site. I've got this other thing that I'm using. Uh, and I'm going to launch a WordPress site. I can click a button launch, a WordPress site. And what I feel is like what Chris and many other folks are leaning into in the hosting space is we'll have these ready, built. Websites for you. So in the case of membership sites, Uh, you know, they'll want to click of a button and you'll have all your membership plugins ready to go. Ready to host. Uh, without all of the fuss of going too well, folks like you or searching the directory and knowing which pieces of the puzzle they have to put together as the end user. And, um, you know, controlling that experience for, you know, for the better of the customer, it's less stress for the customer, less head-scratching. Uh, but it could eventually take money out of your pocket from some never having to search for paid memberships pro because they clicked a button. They got. Uh you know uh, another membership plugin powering their website so your thoughts on the hosting market creating these experience for customers I think it makes sense, you know, this kind of, uh, you know, um, what do you, bigger businesses are buying up the smart businesses and consolidation that's happening in the space. Makes sense, because from, uh, from my perspective, um, There's a couple of things. One is like, as our business grows, we kind of need more middle management. We need more kind of structure. Um, you know, I, I sometimes joke like, oh, the next, you know, four hires are like, you know, like a lawyer, an accountant and an HR person. And it's like, not really stuff that like, you see, like, Producing in the company. Um, and so like it's for companies of our size, it's like, oh, instead of doing that, you know, just, you know, sell yourself a bigger company and adopt, you know, their management team. So that's enticing, like from a business perspective. Um, but then also like hosting, like a hosted version of a product makes a lot of sense. Um, we capture all these customers and a lot of them already have a website or they're transitioning, but some of them don't and it's like kind of weird to be like, okay, well, like go build a website and then come back to me. Um, or like, we start to like help them earlier in the process. And we're like, you know, Hey, we could take it's really then tempting the business opportunity of like instead of $300 a year, take like a hundred dollars a month and give them like a standard hosting package. It makes our support a little bit easier in the sense that like we know exactly. You know how they're set up. We kind of cancel a lot of issues. Um, but then we have all these hosts, like hosts have fake. Whenever people say, just do that. I'm like, that's actually really hard. Like, you know, I'd have to like, You know, help support people's email and, uh, you know, cashing on their server and like when they want to do crazy things and if they get hacked and the security, and I was like, we'd have to figure all that out. And the host I've already figured that out. So it makes sense to partner with them. So that's like our perspective. And then I think on the host side, like hosting has become commoditized. So they need things to differentiate themselves from their competition and they need kind of products. People like both the products themselves, but also I think the personnel is important too. Like we need people who can like think from a product perspective, um, to build solutions for the end-users. Like, I think. Some of the hosts. I mean, they had some really great people inside, but they need more of those people, you know, thinking in that, that way. And I'm in alignment with, with Lama that, you know, a lot of end-users don't, they're not buying hosting, they're not buying WordPress or paid memberships pro they're like, you know, build me a, uh, you know, a trade association website or build me, you know, like a website for my business guru business, or build me a newsletter subscription website. And if we can connect with the customer at that experience, you know, It's a, it's a more direct sale. And part of that, like a huge part of that stack is the host and, you know, you know, they fill it with the product. So it all makes sense to me, I guess, So just lots of competition coming at you everywhere you have other free. Plugins competing with you in the WordPress repo. Now you have potentially have web hosts coming with pre-packaged membership plugins. You have standalone membership. Software as a service solutions that are out there already. Tons of competition. Have you ever just thought about like picking up your toys from this playground and going and building your own playground and doing the hosted route? Uh and going that maybe more traditional software as a service model with paid memberships pro Yeah. Uh, so still now committed, like our goal is to be the default membership platform for WordPress sites. Um, like if you are going to do memberships on WordPress, like we should be in the consideration. Like we should be one of the ones that you think about using. Um, and when, like I said, we're not going to always be the perfect fit, but we're good. And we're, we're pretty tied to WordPress. Like it is tempting, but like I said, to kind of, you know, build a hosted solution because. There's like when you do the math in a spreadsheet, there's kind of money there. And then it's kind of a simpler experience for the customers. Um, but to do that, well, we'd have to kind of joint venture with at least joint venture with a hosting company or someone who knows how to handle that. I think, um, which is like a little daunting. And like, whenever we really toy with those ideas, I feel like I'm taking my eye off the ball. You know, it's kind of like the, the core business we have. Is isn't stable enough that, you know, to take all that attention away and try to like build basically competing business. Um, so we're like really focused on WordPress and I feel like we're like, has a spot, like definitely like the competition, you know, like Stripe itself as a competitor. Like when we built Stripe integration, we were like probably the first membership plugins. Um, I almost said like e-commerce player. I don't know. Like we really jumped on strike really early. Um, probably when they were like beta labeled, but we built tripe integration and like Stripe, just handle payments and subscriptions. And like, if you wanted to cancel your subscription, we built a GUI for that. If you wanted to see your invoices, we had to gooey for that and we kind of managed everything, but now Stripe has like, um, it's called like Stripe payments or billing. I forgot how they brand it, but it like, they have more of that UI on the stripes. Um, and you can envision a plugin that kind of is way more bare bones than ours. Um, that just everything's in Stripe. And like, so like a Stripe straight up Stripe, WordPress membership, plugin, um, could compete with us where people just use Stripe. They don't even have to use a WordPress plugin, you know, they just put the button on their site. Um, so there's just, but anyway, yeah, there's, there's competition like that. And there's other competition of like all-in-one solutions, but there's always going to want to be a type of site, especially ones that are being built by agencies. That need more control and need more flexibility, want more ownership of their data and how things work. One, to be able to scale up in a certain way and kind of. We're going to just keep trying to target that user both like on the DIY side, you know, so it's like a lot of stuff is easy to set up, you know, just out of the box and follow our instructions and our videos. Um, and then the beauty of WordPress is, is flexible and you can make it, do whatever you want. So it's like, ah, I got a really cool idea to integrate with this thing and I can get to the code it's open source and we can have a developer do it. So we're always going to be focused on that, that user and. We're tempted and we build proof of concepts and we think about it all the time, but we're kind of focused actually on like the WordPress experience for now. Let's shift gears just a little bit, instead of talking about only the challenges. Uh, assess where you are. With the success of your product. Through the lens of what you've done with marketing, messaging, content, social. What have you done really well there. And I'm also thinking of. I know what it's like to operate a product, not even just with like my own stuff, but what we do at, at Casos is. We're always at that stage, like, man, what? Just one more, one more feature. If we just add this one more feature, we'd have X more sales or X more downloads or many more customers, and then you get that feature built in. You're like, oh, One more feature. I just want to add. One more feature to this list. When a lot of us should take a step back and say, look, I've got a solid product. I mean, you've been proving it now for eight plus years. Uh, maybe we should be focusing more on messaging, marketing, outreach, distribution, that kind of thing. So where are you with that? Uh mental tug of war as a owner and product create. So, I guess like the pat myself on the back, we did do a great job of like content marketing, you know, Kim, myself, you know, Travis and other team members that helped, like, since 2013, we were just constantly blogging. And the method works is like, when we get a question, like we're like, oh, let's answer that question and make a blog post where we answer it and put it out on the website. Um, and there was good tips in that area where like, you know, We would always try to generalize the questions, like solve a very specific problem, but yet don't say like, you know, doing X, Y, Z with paid memberships pro it's just doing XYZ. Um, yeah, it kind of increases the range of people who like one of our best performance. Blog posts is like how to name your membership level. And so if you're not using WordPress or paid members for anything, you just started trying to figure out, do I call them my tribe or my peeps? Or like, you know, like Kim did a bunch of research on like what the most common words are and kind of ways to brainstorm it. Um, so that, I mean, that post gets like, I don't know, like a few dozen, a hundred visits a day. And so it's posted like that, that kind of drove traffic. And we, we played the long game with developers in terms of like, I remember talking with agencies and developers, like our solution is the best you should use it. And they're like, yeah, sure. And then like a year later at a, at a conference, like you're still not using our plugin. And it's like, oh yeah. I mean, to do that. And after a while, you're like, we've kind of, we've kind of survived into our success, you know, but marketing could be better. Like we were focused on it. We're focused kind of on a lot of stuff, but marketing general, we just hired like, uh, Patrick Rolin to help out with marketing and we're hitting, you know, we're going off to a good start. I'm trying to figure out. And there's lots of little things like. We, you know, we struggle with like who our audiences, because like we're a platform and it's like, who uses your website or your, your software? And they're like all kinds of people. And you're like, you know, the marketers and the business people say like, well, just focus on one, you know? And it's like, well, how do I do that while also keeping them, you know, a platform because WordPress did that. Well, automatic did that with WordPress and WooCommerce did that, but full commerce, like they, you know, I was like, we want to still keep a platform. But there are things we could do. Cause I was sitting here just thinking about like, we really are like probably like the easiest way to just charge for access to a post page or category with WordPress and like our homepage we'll get into the technical stuff and the, you know, the kind of important stuff. And I was like, oh, there's a customer that just wants to charge $5 for access to a page. And like our homepage doesn't sell that really well to that customer. So we're figuring it out, both like. How do we take our levels and make them products and know who to target audience of all those products are and kind of sell that better. How do we, we also like there's kinds of all this data collected and we're going to do like, um, you know, tagging and kit or we're, we're switching to convert kit, but MailChimp has tags and other ones too, where it's kind of like, Hey, if you read this blog post, if you kind of click this button on our site, if you read this email, okay, we can guess that, like, you don't even have a WordPress site yet. And we should just send you our affiliate link for liquid web, um, you know, or something like that. They were like, you know, oh, you're, you're importing from something else. So let's kind of show you. Our tools for importing from our competition and stuff like that. Um, so kind of gathering more data so that we can send more specifically targeted messages, uh, is something that we're working on and that that'll probably help us get to the next level in terms of competing with the other membership. How much do you look at the success of your customers? Uh, membership sites. And how does that weigh into the overall success of paid memberships pro. And again, I'll preface this with a couple of things. So at Casos, one of the things I'm always challenged with was, well, if you don't. If you never create a podcast and then you'll never be successful with a podcast because you haven't found the time to commit to the podcast. So I can't help you be successful as a podcaster. If you can't. Manage, uh, the time commitment you, you need to put into creating at least one episode a month. I recently spoke to Dave Rodenbach, recaptured.io, sort of the same thing. If his customers aren't selling. Uh, product through their e-commerce store, largely in his world. If you don't have a good product or you don't have a good price or a good experience, and you're not going to buy in, how can we reclaim and help you reclaim sales? If you're not selling any product? How do you measure that in the marketing world of membership sites, digital products, digital access to content. Um, that seems even. Harder of a uh, of a challenge because of the just the wide breadth of that marketplace Yeah. I mean, that is an issue. I know, um, you know, we get like churn stats and we share some of them and I forget exactly where it is, but it's. W I think we retain like 60% of people who sign up pay this year, or six only 60% will pay next year. And people will be like, oh, SAS industry standards or something is like higher. Um, and it's like, so we've got to, we got to do better. There's stuff we could do better, but I'm like, how many of those just are not in business anymore? Like, you know, like you can't get that customer. Like they don't, they're not making money anymore. They're not, you know, no matter what you're going to do, like, you know, their business failed. Um, so that's definitely an issue. There's a couple of things we could do is like one is like help them. So one thing that's exciting is an update that's coming out for paid memberships pro, which like almost every other e-commerce related WordPress plugin did is how we integrate with Stripe in particular called Stripe connect so that our Stripe account is kind of linked to theirs. Um, so that when we get a percentage of the, you know, it's like a half a percent or something of what comes through, um, we're launching this and, um, so. That aligns you with your customers. So it's like, oh, the more money they make, the more money we make. And it's kind of exciting once it gets to scale is that, oh, we can just like put out a seminar for free that helps people do better and be more successful with their business because it's going to benefit us in the end. Um, so that's exciting. The other thing we try to do is, um, potentially focus on customers where that's less of an issue. Like I never got into the, what do they call it? Kind of like the entrepreneur or the kind of like hustle porn or, um, You know, like I'm not a fan of selling in that way where it's like, I know you don't have a business now, but you know, it's really easy. And like, you can have a business. I think if you, yeah. I mean, I like to joke about, so some of those, like here's a car I bought my mom. Um, but yeah. So I think like not marketing to them is like a first step. And instead, like there's, especially in the membership space, like there's associations that like, yeah, we have 5,000 members. We've had 5,000 members every year for the past 20 years. Like never changes and like, we're just going online. So it's kind of like, you can find those businesses that are already successful. Um, and I was just saying this to him. Another, like a presentation for like GoDaddy's a webinars series that was targeted at agencies. And I think for consulting, it's important to like, I mean, if someone wants to give you money to build a website from scratch that may or may not work, like take their money, set their expectations and try to do a good job. But if you focus on customers that, you know, already have a business already have, um, you know, some kind of a relationship with a potential customer, like to have a mailing list or, you know, um, You know, so, so we will try to focus our marketing on those marketing, on those kinds of customers that already have a business that's working, um, which should help that. Like it's when sometimes when I'm. Uh, when people are. Are are, are complaining and griping because something's difficult about setting up a website, which I, I tell you, I relate to you by the way. Cause it's like, I do this for a living. I wrote a book on WordPress, but like I was helping a friend every once in a while. I don't do it for paid, but I'll help friends set up websites sometimes. And I'll just be surprised at how hard it is for me. It's hard for me. It takes a lot of time. But when people gripe about the effort that's involved, I'm like, did you realize like you're starting a business and it's not easy. Like, I don't know where you got, like, just wait until you, you have your own angry customers or like. Other stuff, you know, you got to deal with taxes and all the random stuff and in part of business. , Speaking of business, not being easy recently talked about this on the WP minute podcast. Uh, WP engine did a report that the WordPress economy is like $600 billion. Uh, right around that, that mark. Lots of talk recently with acquisitions, um, you know, smaller developers picking up even smaller developer plugins, hosting companies like nexus purchasing every plug and that they can get their hands on. I'm sure this is not. Done, uh, automatic acquiring, um, Day one journal, like so much acquisition happening. In this space. Have you ever thought that? Well, maybe we can build a bigger business with PMP. If we went that route, we were able to go. To nexus and joined them with a membership plugin or wp engine that kind of thing what are the cards hold for acquisitions or investments in that space Uh, yeah, we have thought about like acquiring, um, other plugins products and, you know, it's kind of sparing some of that potentially is that the programmers are in demand. Um, and so. It feels, uh, like I feel bad about it, but I see some products that are, yeah, I've actually, I see products that people are side projects that people are doing. And I have a saying that like when they get to a thousand dollars a month, Sometimes it's really tough. And they're like, this isn't enough. You know, I think I'm going to stop. And I'm always like, no, a thousand dollars a month. Like you're halfway to $10,000 a month. Like you're not halfway to $2,000 a month. Like all that work you did to like collect any money whatsoever and build up to a thousand. Like usually if you have a product that's going to fit like your, at the time, it took you to get to a thousand dollars a month. You're going to get the $10,000. Um, so that's me like pumping up other entrepreneurs and trying to push them at the same time. I'm like, man, if it doesn't work out that guy's really sharp. And like, if he he's, he's, he's kind of shown that he can think product minded and build something. And like, if he can't make enough money to make a living, like, Hey, let me like give you a salary and kind of give you a job, you know, and you can build cool stuff for us. So I, yeah, I've kind of had that thought, um, of like, oh, like, Product people, if it's not working out their side gig, like when they look for, you know, a salary job, like, Hey, we get like a really smart developer that proves that they can ship. Um, and so I think there's some of that mindset at every scale, you know, I'm sure like, you know, something, some of the size of automatic would just by people or by business for the people behind it, you know? Um, and that's part of liquid, but like I said, hosting companies want product people, um, and people who can handle that to kind of, you know, maintain things. Um, and then. If you ask me, like any business idea, like, have you considered, like, it's almost funny, like, yeah. I consider everything, man. Like I love the staff. I probably have a spreadsheet that models it. And like, I'm like, I'm always talking and like, um, you know, like I can't wait to get back to like the conference circuit and like, you know, having drinks with Chris lemma late at night. Cooking up schemes of, you know, like, I feel like at one point I said, like, I was like, oh, can I just like sell my company to, and then work on machine learning. I was like nerding out about machine learning. And he was like, I have an idea for a machine learning thing. And it was like, yeah. So like, have I talked to Chris Lama about like quitting my job and like doing machine learning stuff for him? Like that happened once. Um, yeah, but we haven't really ever been serious about it. I did take a month earlier in this year where I was like, Hey, I'm going to have kind of informal talks, you know, with different people that just see. What might happen. And I was like, I gave myself a deadline of a month and made that clear. Um, and at the end of the month where like, no, like the current plan of like, you know, hire really great people, kind of get them handover the responsibilities that Kim and I have so that we don't have to spend as much time on kind of like maintaining what we have and we can push out a new directions. Like I like being my own boss. I like having control and I think we still fit and we it's good to have independent businesses in the WordPress space. Um, Yeah, but like, I mean, this space is valuable and all these companies are valuable. So it's, it's kind of exciting from that sentence. I mean, you know, a market is really growing booming even is when you see. I saw recently a small product that was announced in January of this year. So 2021. Um, already being sold. I mean, it has a nice website, has a nice name, nice brand. You know, it looks good, but it probably has less than a hundred customers. If that may be, I don't know, unless it's really doing much better than I thought it would be. Already for sale. And like in the back of my mind, I already know that somebody's going to buy that. Uh, there was, uh, on startups or the rest of us. Uh, Rob walling. Had I think he tweeted something or somebody sent him an email. I forget where it was, but somebody who was doing like 80,000 ARR in their business sold for one point something million. And it's almost like if you're a product maker, developer, this is almost like your way in. You know, to get acquired. So it's like, it's almost like the absolute best sort of resume. So if you can build like a micro product, get some traction and then turn to a business that you would actually like to work for. And there is some synergy between your little product and their big product. You could even sell that to them. As like a signing bonus, almost like here, I've already proven this. And I've got a customer base that comes with me and I can develop it for you. Uh it's an interesting world for the small product creator uh at the end of the Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, it's analogous to like how not, you know, Programmers and people who can build products on demand, like people who can, you know, build engaging podcasts are in demand. And there's like a big gap between like building it and then making money for it and, you know, running a business. I mean, I'm spoiled that, like I have Kim as a partner who is like COO of the company and like get stuff done and can handle, you know, a lot of the, the business end and the accounting and stuff like that. And like, we get help for a bunch of individual things, but it's like, if I was like, just me by myself as like, I'm, I'm a pretty creative person. I can like build stuff and think strategically and stuff, but like actually like keeping the business running and not falling apart, I would have been lost like years ago without someone like him. So. Um, it's hard. Yeah. To make that leap from building something cool that people can use to like making enough money on it, to make it your data. But it's still really hard to make a compelling podcast. So I'm with you like people and there's demand like, you know yeah. Instead of finding something and hoping they can build a podcast, you know, the resumes they've already, you know, shipped a podcast. Jason Coleman everybody. Jason, where can folks find you to say thanks. Yeah. So I'm on Twitter, Jason underscore Coleman. Um, and my blog is the real Jason coleman.com. And yeah, we got a courses out on that's shipping in a week or two, and we have a big, like a 2.6 update, the paid memberships pro, which is wrapping up some, some features and, um, uh, it's got better Stripe integration, you know, that's going to be good there. Fantastic stuff. Everyone else. matterport.com. airport.com/subscribe. Join the mailing list. Don't forget to tune into your weekly dose of WordPress news in five minutes or less@thewpminute.com. ★ Support this podcast ★

Team Takeover #6 ImJustIsaac | Playing NBA 2k21 MyTEAM Competitively & Growing On 2k Youtube!