Podcast appearances and mentions of David Norman

Murder convictions following pleas in recent cases; another arrest made in mass shooting at Conway; firefighters respond to two car fires; Petit Jean Extension Homemakers mark 100th anniversary; we preview governmental meetings; and we visit with David Norman of the Petit Jean Mountain Community Association.

Join me as I chat with Keith Barry, Pat Gallagher, Ken Whelan and David Norman at the Irish Spring Angling Fair, at Ardaire Springs, Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny over the May bank holiday weekend.

Join me as I chat with Marcin Kantor, Pat Gallagher, and David Norman at the Irish Spring Angling Fair, at Ardaire Springs, Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny over the May bank holiday weekend.

As the property management industry continues to evolve, it's important to stay up to date on the latest innovations in technology. In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, property management growth expert Jason Hull sits down with David Normand from Vendoroo to talk about AI's role in the future of property management. You'll Learn [01:29] The AI Revolution [08:47] The Importance of Empathy and Human Touch [22:21] Decreasing the Cost of Maintenance Coordination [32:29] New Features Coming to Vendoroo Quotables “As any property manager believes, we know how to do it the best.” “If you're not reading articles and studying up on this, I think that's going to catch you by surprise pretty quickly.” “Empathy is the magic lubrication that makes everything better.” “Empathetic reflection and empathy is a magical ingredient.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive Transcript [00:00:00] David: If you're not building AI tools from working with your partners, from being on the ground floor with them and using the data and building tools based upon the data and their pain points and their failures, buyer beware. If somebody's coming to you and saying, Hey, we figured this all out in the lab. [00:00:14] David: Come use it. Yeah. Right. Buyer beware. [00:00:18] Jason: All right. Welcome property management entrepreneurs to the DoorGrow Show or the Property Management Growth podcast. I'm Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow, the world's leading and most comprehensive group coaching mastermind for residential property management entrepreneurs. We've been doing this for over a decade and a half. [00:00:39] Jason: I've brought innovative strategies and optimizations to the property management industry. I have spoken to thousands of property management companies. I've coached over 600 businesses. I've rebranded over 300 companies like Bar Rescue for property managers, cleaning up their businesses, and we would love to help coach you and support you and your growth. [00:01:01] Jason: We have innovative strategies for building out growth engines, for building out your operational challenges, for helping you figure out how to get to the next level in your business and one of the cool tools that I'm excited to showcase today with my guest here, David Norman, is Vendoroo. We've had you on the show before. [00:01:19] Jason: Welcome back David.  [00:01:20] David: Yeah. Thank you for having me. It felt like years ago, it was only about, I think eight months ago since we did this, so much has changed over the time, so it's great to be back. Yeah, it's great to be back.  [00:01:29] Jason: Good to have you. I know you're in the middle of this AI revolution, which AI is just innovating and changing so rapidly. It probably does feel like years ago, so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's been crazy. You guys have made a lot of changes too, so, you even changed your brand name from the last time we had you on the show. Yeah. Which was I think Tulu. Yeah. Right. And so, yeah. So why don't you get us caught up on what's going on 'cause, you know, there's been a lot.  [00:01:55] David: Yeah. Yeah. Thank you first of all for having me here today, Jason, and from the entire Vendoroo group of us, which, you know, the team has grown 10 x over the past eight months, which has been awesome. And I just also wanted to start in thanking everybody from what we call our client partners who have jumped in into this great unknown that is AI and is going to be like, how is this going to work in our industry? And so that's really what we've been focusing on the past eight months. You know, it's been a unbelievable journey of both failures, successes learnings and insights. And ultimately we're getting excited here at the NARPM broker owner which is in Denver to unveil Vendoroo. Like this is the coming out party. And so we're super excited if you're going to be there. We have a massive booth that we have set up that we have the ai alliance with other people that are working in the AI space, and I really hope that you guys come over and check it out. I promise this. [00:02:53] David: You'll never see a booth or a display like we have set up. At the NARPM broker owner. So.  [00:02:58] Jason: Now I want to go attend it. Yeah. Just so I can see your booth.  [00:03:01] David: So, let me put it this way. You may see the robot from the Jetsons walking around the booth walking around the NARPM broker owner, so, okay. [00:03:07] David: Yeah. Rosie? Yeah. You may see something like that. So she'll be vacuuming with her apron? Yeah. She'll be doing a little social engagement. It'll be cool. So, okay. Okay.  [00:03:17] Jason: Yeah. Very cool. Yeah, so catch us up on what, like, let's get into the kind of the background and the overview for people that have never heard about Vendoroo and what you guys do and how you got into this. [00:03:29] Jason: Yeah. Give people kind of the backstory. Yeah.  [00:03:31] David: Yeah. Thank you for that. So really the backstory is that, you know, we know of this AI economy that's coming, right? And there was a few of us, you know, I've been in this industry for 18 years. You know, I've managed you know, portfolios of 40,000 doors. [00:03:47] David: I've managed them for governments. You know, I started off with our own property management. Much like you guys. We started off with 80 doors. We grew to 550 doors in four years. So it was exciting to know that technology that was coming that promised duplication because, you know, as any property manager believes, we know how to do it the best, right. [00:04:05] David: And so what we decided to do is to come together and say, Hey, if AI's coming, there's two things that we need to figure out. Number one is how is this going to help us show value in this new industry to this new generation of property owners that is here, that is coming, that has been raised in the technology world too, right? [00:04:25] David: And two, can it actually duplicate our efforts? Can it actually be an employee for us? Right? And I don't care what people are promising about ai, you don't know until you get into what we call like, you know, get into the weeds, you got to get into the trenches. And so that's what we did, right? We went out and we were the guys that grabbed the torch and we said, we are going to take all the risk. [00:04:46] David: We are going to jump into the mix. We're going to ask people to jump onto the bandwagon with us and we're going to figure this out. And oh my gosh, what an unbelievable eight months it has been in learning and insights. And I can't wait to get into all the things that we've learned about the property management industry. [00:05:01] David: But that's really what we've been focusing on here the past eight months, right? So we started off with well hey, can the AI assist the va? Can it turn them into a super va? Is that what it's going to be? And, you know, some people were like, yay. And some people were like nay, you know? And so, and you know, because that human failure still was there, right? [00:05:21] David: And you know, what happens if they left? There was that inconsistency. And then it was like, all right, well what can the AI own? Right? What can it do? What can it perfect? And you know, can AI actually be the last employee that I ever hire? Right. That's really, that's a really cool thing to do. [00:05:39] David: But the property managing community had some really specific demands that they said that if this is going to be the last employee that I've had, it has to do this. And that's what I'm excited about our new technology 'cause it's doing those things. You know? [00:05:52] Jason: Yeah. And now you guys have made some big moves. I know, like I've, I have clients that we've sent over to you and they've shared some incredible stories. Like one client, I think he had 154 units or something like under management, and he said in the first day you're of turning on Vendoroo, like it closed out like 80 something work orders. [00:06:12] Jason: Yeah, like, it was crazy. Another client, they had a little more doors. They said it was like 50 something work orders were closed out in the first day of turning it on. And so, I mean, you're creating some dramatic stuff. Like this is a very different thing than what people are used to in maintenance. [00:06:27] David: Yeah. Yeah. And really what the exciting part about this, Jason, is that maintenance is actually really easy. And I know people laugh when I say that it's managing communications that is extremely difficult. Okay. Okay. Right, because you have, you know what AI told us about our industry over the last eight months is when we dove in with it and it took a step back and it said, whoa, you guys don't have a data problem here. [00:06:51] David: You guys have a emotion problem here. There's very specific categories of emotion that are in this space, right? Like, how do you build a technology that senses something? And I know this relates with property managers, 'cause I know this for myself. A property manager can walk into their office, sit down at their desk, and their spidey senses go off and they know something's wrong. [00:07:15] David: There's no screen that's telling them anything. There's no spreadsheet. They know something's off. Right. And so the AI is like, well, the statuses really don't matter that much to me based upon the feedback that I'm seeing from the property managers. Because the status and the communication all seem to be in order, but there's a disruption somewhere. [00:07:35] David: So I need to know about people's emotions. I need to understand about is the resident happy? Does the owner feel supported? Is the vendor being directed? And does the property manager believe that I can own the outcome for this? And it was really cool to start seeing its learning and understanding and picking up on these cues where, you know, people say that this is a data-driven industry. [00:07:55] David: It's really in an emotion driven industry.  [00:07:57] Jason: Oh yeah. It's a relationship and emotion industry for sure. Yeah. Yeah, big time.  [00:08:01] David: And it's really cool to see, and it's really started happening over this past last 60 days, the amount of residents, I was actually just looking at one before I jumped on here, that are like thanking the system, right? [00:08:15] David: Imagine that, like think of all of us that actually worked with the chat bot at like Verizon. I've never thanked that chatbot at Verizon for being their customer service. Right.  [00:08:25] Jason: And how do I get a representative? Representative. Representative!  [00:08:28] David: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Versus you seeing people, you know, seeing individuals saying to the, you know, saying to the Vendoroo maintenance coordinator, Hey, I really appreciate feeling supported and how fast you acted because you know, there's empathy that's inside of its law and learning. So I don't want to get too much into the details on there. But yeah, these are some of the exciting things that we're working on.  [00:08:47] Jason: I mean, empathy is the magic lubrication that makes everything better. [00:08:52] David: Yeah,  [00:08:52] Jason: I mean they, they've done studies. Teams, even in working in warehouses, are more productive if the team has a higher level of empathy. Yeah. And doctors perform better. Yeah. If there's a higher level of empathy, there's less malpractice suits, like empathetic reflection and empathy is a magical ingredient. [00:09:10] Jason: I coach clients to add that in during sales. Yeah. 'cause their close rate goes up dramatically. Yeah. Right. So yeah. So leveraging and like getting the AI to actually be empathetic in its communication. Yeah. When that's probably not a natural skill for a lot of maintenance coordinators to be empathetic. [00:09:26] David: It's not, it's not a natural skill for a lot of people in the maintenance industry. Right? Yes. Especially when you talk about burnout. People begin developing views of the rental community, right? Like, oh my gosh, they're calling again, and that empathy meter goes lower and lower and lower. [00:09:41] David: Yeah. As people have been in the industry longer. But isn't it great that you have an employee now that knows that, yeah, it's my duty, rain or shine, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 a year to always operate at the highest level of empathy? I never have a bad day. I never take a day off. [00:09:57] David: I'm never upset. I'm never short with somebody on the phone, never tired, never like, oh my gosh, Susan is calling me again. I'm going to let the phone just ring because I'm annoyed of talking to her. And it just is constantly hitting that same level of standard. And this is what's exciting to me, is that there are people that that have played around with this and have been a part of what I call the pain phase, right? [00:10:20] David: The pain phase is that understanding the way that agentic AI works, right? It's input in output. Input, output, right? The more that you're putting into it, the better the results are that you're going to get out of it, okay? Right. It's just like training an employee. So over the last eight months, what we've seen is that the community has trained this to be the level of a person that has now been working in the industry for five years. [00:10:46] David: In eight months. It's got five years of learning in eight months. Okay. Wow. In the next six to 12 months, we're probably looking at somebody that has 10 to 15 years understanding in the next six to 12 months and understand the level of type of tasks that it can do, especially getting into estimates and getting some other work. [00:11:04] David: And again, just you know, having empathy in my own life towards the people that jumped in that are like, what is this all about? Like, how does AI fail? Like, you know, there's still people that are involved and it was like this big like momentous train of like, you know, all these people were jumping on and giving ideas and people are in the loop and now it's weeding everything out and the AI stepping in and saying. [00:11:27] David: Hey, I appreciate all the input that you've given me. Thank you for all your effort. I'm now ready to step up to the plate and to own the outcome. Right. And that's what we're seeing at the NARPM show that's coming out. There's five AI tools. There's a master agent, five AI tools. And you know, I'll give you a couple of pieces here that, you know, we had feedback from our property managers like number one across the board. [00:11:50] David: A property manager said, if I'm hiring AI as my last employee, that has to work in my system. Yeah. Okay. Right. Like I don't want another, I don't want another technology. Yeah.  [00:11:59] Jason: I don't want a new system I got to get every vendor to use or a new system I got to get my team to use or figure out. We don't need another tool to make our lives more difficult. [00:12:08] Jason: No. They've got to use our stuff.  [00:12:09] David: They got to use, we have our existing stack. Yeah. So now the AI is fully integrated into all the most common PMS systems. You know, you have a cool chrome extension that you can download and there's a little yellow kangaroo right right there. And it's actually reading the work order that you're working on, and you can literally just ask it a question now and just being like, Hey, did anybody express frustration or concern on this work order? [00:12:32] David: Right? Because that's the emotion behind the status that you need to know. And it's like, yeah, two days ago Sally said that, you know, she was actually really frustrated about the multiple reschedules by this vendor. And it's like, great, that's a person I should be reaching out to and that's what I should be knowing that a status is never going to tell you. [00:12:47] David: Right? Yeah. It's in your slack, right? So if I have, if I'm on my phone, I'm talking to my employee and I'm laying in bed and I have a panic attack as a property manager, and I'm like, oh my gosh, did we take care of John's refrigerator and the office is closed? I can't get ahold of my employee. Yeah, you can. [00:13:03] David: Your employee works 24 7 now. Hey, can you give me an update on the refrigerator replacement at John's place? Yeah, it was scheduled this day. I contacted John. Everything's good to go. You know, go to sleep. You know, like, like that's the power. Full audit. Full syncing. So it's in your platform. That's really cool. [00:13:21] David: The other thing, it's got to be branded, right? This is a thing that we really learned about, like how important branding is to the community of property managers, right? Yeah. So the communications that go out have to be from your area code that's done. The emails that go out have to have like, you know, your company name and your logo on it. [00:13:39] David: The AI is doing that as well too. So that's being sent out, which is really cool. So people are feeling like, you know, that loyalty to brand is super important. And also do you know now that the AI can ask the residents to give a Google Review and we can link to the Google reviews and give you instant Google reviews to your page through the ai, which is cool, like how it's, it will know that if the success of a Google review is high on the way that the work order was done, that it's probably best to ask this person and it will send them a little thing. [00:14:11] David: Hey, can we get a feedback from you? And we link up to your Google review. And it posts that Google review to generate those 'cause we know those are super, super valuable to property managers. So that's actually going out today. That's kind of a little teaser there. That's the emails out now. [00:14:23] Jason: Nice. We'll have to get you to also connect it to our gather kudos links for clients 'cause then people can pick which review sites. So it diversifies the review profile.  [00:14:32] David: Love it. Love that. I'm going to hook you up with our guy Dotan. He's running that. He's one of our head of product. He's, actually out of Israel. [00:14:39] David: He's a amazing guy. I'd love to get you connected with him. Yeah. Cool. Let's do it. Cool. And then the biggest one too is like, I need a single point of contact. Right. And we knew that before there was a lot of people were still involved. There was a lot of oversight that was going on there, having that confusion and single point of contact. [00:14:56] David: Now it's in your phone, it's in your Slack, it's in your phone extension. It doesn't matter what's going on. You have one point of contact. It's your employee. You ask the question, get the answer, Jason, you can even ask for a change. You can even say, Hey, I want to change a vendor on a job and you'll see that the vendor gets changed for you in the system. [00:15:17] David: You can even say to your ai, and this is the big one: hey how do you triage this work order? And I want you to do this, or I want you to do that. And you just do it right through Slack or right through your PM chat and it makes the change for you. And now you have custom triage and all property managers have the ability to train their own AI for their company. [00:15:36] David: Think how cool that is. A person with 75 doors now, and the product that's being released has their own AI agent customized for their company, right? Yeah. Like, that's what happened over the last eight months, so you can see my excitement. There's been a lot of hard work in this. [00:15:54] David: Yeah, that's amazing. But this has been all the effort and a huge thank you out to everybody who's tried us, you know, even said that this wasn't for them at that point in time because those learnings went into what's going to make this product the best product in the property management space and is going to help people leverage sales and leverage efficiencies and blow their owners' minds away in ways that, that we have never thought about. [00:16:15] David: Oh yeah.  [00:16:16] Jason: Yeah. So I know like initially when you rolled this out, a lot of people were nervous about AI and you guys had kind of a human layer in between the AI and any communication Yeah, initially. Yeah. And so there was like, they had like a reps and a lot of people associated, oh, I've got this rep. [00:16:33] Jason: Yeah. You know, Steven or whatever is my rep or Pedro and I've got Pedro and like, oh no, what if Pedro leaves? And they were associating with that while the AI is really doing the crux of the work. Right. And so you guys have shifted away from even that now the AI is directly communicating with people. [00:16:52] Jason: Correct? Yeah.  [00:16:53] David: Yeah. So let's talk about that. So, definitely, so in the beginning there was like, we all had like lack of trust. We believed what it was going to do, but it was like we had a ton of people still trying, like, you know, using qualified VAs, training them. Like, you know, like, you know, if it fails, like, you know, you have to have a person stepped in and so let's talk about that. [00:17:12] David: So, you know, it was definitely that human layer. And let's talk about where we're at today. It is very clear to us, and the one thing that separates us from everybody is we still believe that humans are super important in this process. Okay? Yeah. And where humans are very important in this process are going to be when the AI says, Hey, I need you to make a phone call to this person for me, right? [00:17:35] David: Hey, I've reached out to this vendor three times and they haven't responded yet. I need you to give a phone call to see what's going on. Right? Hey, I need you to recruit a vendor for me. I need you to reach out and do a recruitment for the vendor. For me. Hey, this owner is asking questions about this estimate. [00:17:51] David: I need you to give a call for me. So the AI is basically able, on a standard work order, the AI can handle 95% of the workflow, no problem. Work order comes in, gets assigned to the resident. It gets out to the vendor. It's under the NTE not to exceed. It's great. The work gets done, the resident uploads its photos, the AI says to the resident, are you happy? [00:18:14] David: Everyone's good. It closes the work order out. Cool. Right. And then if a human...  [00:18:19] Jason: and how is it communicating with the tenant and with the vendor typically? [00:18:24] David: Yep. So, it's very clear that and this isn't a surprise to anybody. Everybody loves text messages, right? Yeah. I mean, that's just, it's just what it is. [00:18:32] David: You literally, like, people will get a phone call and they won't pick up and the text will come back and like text back. Yeah, text me. What do you need? Yeah. Text me here. But, so here's the things that people don't see behind the scenes that we'll talk about. So the complexity that went into. [00:18:51] David: Mapping out how to allow vendors... so a vendor could have like 20 jobs, right? And we don't want to send him like a code that he has to text for every work order so that it links to the right work order. Like what guy wants to do that? Okay. Like that's not how he works. So we figured out how to allow a vendor through AI just to use his regular phone and text anything about this thing. And it's understanding it and it's mapping it, it's routing it to all those work orders because we knew that in order for this to be the last employee somebody would have to handle, it also means that the vendor has to be happy and the same for the resident. [00:19:30] David: They can just text that they have multiple work orders. It understands what work order it's going to. If it's not quite sure, I would ask them, Hey, is this question about this work order? And they say, yeah. And so there's not like, again, codes and links and things that they have to do. It has to be seamless if they're working with a person. [00:19:46] David: So yeah, text message is massive. Email is second, and then phone is third for sure.  [00:19:51] Jason: Got it. So is your AI system calling people yet or you or telling the property manager to make the phone call?  [00:19:58] David: Yeah. People are okay with. If they're calling in like our new front desk agent, which if a person calls in and they want to get information about a listing or if they want to get information about a work order or something like that, or, you know, they're okay with getting that type of information. [00:20:13] David: Yeah. But they are, it is very clear that they are not okay with AI calling them when they're asking for an update on a work order like that. Like that line in the sand very clear. Yeah. And so we have people on on the team. That are constantly monitoring into ai, giving feedback, hitting improvement. [00:20:31] David: I want everybody to know there is not a work order that is taking place that is not touched by a human at least twice.  [00:20:38] Jason: Okay.  [00:20:39] David: Okay. Right.  [00:20:40] Jason: So there's a little, there's some oversight there. There there's, you're watching this, there are humans involved  [00:20:45] David: And then the ai will when it hits certain fail points, right? [00:20:51] David: It then escalates those things up to what we call the human in the loop, right? So there's an AI assistant, we there's people now that we're training a whole new generation of people that are no longer going to be maintenance coordinators. They're AI assistants now, right? And so when the AI says, Hey, this work order is not going down the path that I think it should go to be successful. [00:21:12] David: I'm escalating this up to a human, and so now as a property manager, not only am I getting this AI agent workflow that's standardizing the empathy and the workflows and all the stuff that we talked about in the communications, I also now get a fractional employee that when the AI says, Hey, I need help, I already have an employee that it can reach out to that can make that phone call or call the vendor. [00:21:36] David: But it's also monitoring the AI for me on top of it. So yes, there is, and that's one of the big thing that separates us apart is that the platform comes with what we call a human in the loop, an expert in the loop and so we're training the first generation of AI assistants in the property management industry. [00:21:55] David: Yep.  [00:21:56] Jason: Got it. So the AI maintenance coordinator. Has human assistance. Yep. Underneath it.  [00:22:02] David: And before it was the other way around where Yeah. The AI was assisting the human right. And now the humans are assisting the ai. That's what's happened in the last...  [00:22:11] Jason: that may be the future of all of our roles. [00:22:12] Jason: So,  [00:22:13] David: If you're not reading articles and studying up on this I think that's going to catch you by surprise pretty quickly. Yeah. Learn how to write prompts. I'll tell everybody right now. Yes.  [00:22:21] Jason: Yeah. Interesting. So, now what about this, you know, there's the uncanny, you know, sort of stage where people get a little bit nervous about AI and what do they call it? The uncanny valley or something like this, or right where it gets, it's so close to human that it becomes creepy. And there's some people that have fear about this, that are concerned. You're going to have a lot of late, you know, adopters that are like resistant. "I'll never do ai." [00:22:49] Jason: What would you say to somebody when you get on a sales call and they're like, well, I'm really nervous about this AI stuff, you know, and they just, they don't get it.  [00:22:57] David: Yeah.  [00:22:58] Jason: I'm sure there's people listening right now. They're like, oh man, AI is going to kill us all and it's going to take over the world and it's going to take our jobs. [00:23:05] Jason: And they think it's evil.  [00:23:06] David: Yeah. Yeah. I, and you know, I really want to hear that fear and I want to like, again, have empathy towards that. 'cause I do understand that fear of change causes people to get... Change in general. Yes. Right. It's like, whoa, I like everything the way it's going to be. Right. And we are historically in one of those phases of like, you know, the industrial revolution, the renaissance, like the automobile from horse. [00:23:34] David: Like, this is what is taking place. This is, this will be written down in history. It's massive change. It's a massive change. Massive. So what I would say to them, and not to, not from a way of fear. But to inspire them is there are a lot of hungry entrepreneurs out there that are embracing this head on. [00:23:57] David: Yeah. That are pushing the boundaries and the limits to be able to bring insights and customer service to their clients at a much higher level. And if you want to compete in this new AI economy. I would definitely encourage you to understand and get in and start investing in yourself now. But understand that investing in AI means having some pain threshold. [00:24:21] David: Like you got to get in, like you, you need to be able to give the feedback. You need to understand that if it falls short, do you have to be able to give it the time and the energy and the reward and the payoff of what I'm seeing for property managers who've embraced that when they're sitting there and they're going, I don't touch maintenance at all anymore. Yeah, it's wild. Right? And those are the people that in the beginning of this relationship, and there's a few that come to my head, are the ones that were sending me emails constantly saying, David, this is failing me. I believe in this, but this is failing me. And as my technology partner, I know that you're going to help us get this better. [00:24:58] David: And there is, you know, I have this word down that struggle equals great con conversation, right? Like, and so they had a struggle and that opened up a great conversation and because of that, their technology and the technology is getting better. So yeah, I think that from a personal point of view in this industry, one thing that I want to solve with AI is I think that we can all say that over the past 15 years, we've probably yelled at a lot of vendors or yelled at a lot of VAs or yelled at a lot of people. Let's start yelling at the ai. And then hopefully that the AI will actually eliminate the need for us to ever have to yell at anybody again because it knows us. [00:25:36] David: Yeah. It never fails us.  [00:25:38] Jason: You know? It really is amazing. I mean, your company is creating freedom for the business owner from being involved in maintenance. Yeah. Really?  [00:25:46] David: Yeah.  [00:25:47] Jason: And it just, and they get used to that pretty quickly. Like maintenance is just running and they're like, yeah. It frees up so much head space for them to focus on growth. [00:25:56] Jason: It gives them a whole bunch of like just greater capacity. Yeah. So they feel like, yeah, we could handle adding any number of doors now and we know we can still fulfill and do a good job.  [00:26:07] David: Yeah. Fixed cost scaling. Right? That's a term that we came up with is now that you know that I have a price per door that will cover all my maintenance. So if I went in and brought on 75 doors, I know that I don't have to go out and hire another employee. The system just grows with it and I know exactly what my margin is for all those doors. Right. And as we know previous, before fixed cost scaling a property managers is like, I have enough people. [00:26:32] David: I don't have enough people. Someone quit, someone didn't quit. My profit margins are good. My profit margins are bad. Yeah. And now with these AI tools. You know, you have your front desk employee, you have your maintenance coordinator, you have these fixed cost scales, and now somebody calls you up and says, Hey, I want you to take on 25 doors, and you're like, I have the resource resources for maintenance, which is, we know is 80% of the workload already. I don't have to go out and hire another maintenance coordinator 'cause the system just grows with me, which is cool.  [00:27:00] Jason: So one of the things you shared at DoorGrow Live and you're our top sponsor for the upcoming... Can't wait for DoorGrow Live, can't wait to, so we're really excited to have you back so. [00:27:10] Jason: Everybody make sure you're at DoorGrow Live if you want. Our theme this year is innovating the future of property management. And we're bringing, we're going to be showcasing, innovating pricing structures that are different than how property managers have typically historically priced, that allow you to lower your operational costs and close more deals more easily at a higher price point. [00:27:30] Jason: We're, we'll be showcasing a three tier hybrid pricing model that we've innovated here at DoorGrow, and we've got clients using it. It's been a game changer. We're going to be sharing other cool things about the future hiring systems, et cetera. Right. So you guys will also be there showcasing the future. [00:27:46] Jason: One of the things you shared previously that really kind of struck me as you showed, you did some research and you showed the typical cost. Per unit that most companies had just to cover and deal with maintenance. Yeah. And and then what you were able to get it down to.  [00:28:03] David: Yeah.  [00:28:04] Jason: And that alone was just like a bit of a mind blowing. [00:28:07] Jason: Could you just share a little bit of numbers here?  [00:28:09] David: Yeah. So one of the first things that we had to do when we started way back in the day is figure out well. Like, like what's the impact of AI going to be us from like a cost perspective, right? Is it a huge change? And so we went out on a big survey mission and we were surveying property managers and asking them, what's your cost per door for managing maintenance? [00:28:30] David: How much do you spend every door to manage maintenance? Now the first thing is less than 1% of property managers knew what that cost was. Sure.  [00:28:37] Jason: Oh, sure. Right. Because, but then they got to figure out, oh, we got a maintenance coordinator and we've got these people doing phone calls and they cost this, and yeah, it's complicated. [00:28:45] David: It's complicated. So we built a calculator. Okay. And then people could start adding in that information out into the calculator, and the average person was around $13 and 50 cents a door.  [00:28:56] Jason: Okay. Okay.  [00:28:57] David: Wow. Right, right. So that was where the average person was, somewhere in the low twenties. Yeah. [00:29:01] David: And others were actually pretty good. Like, I'd say like, you know, some of the good ones that we saw were maybe around like, you know, 10, $11 a door or something along that line.  [00:29:09] Jason: They probably had a large portfolio would be my guess.  [00:29:12] David: Yeah. And also I think a lot of it's just like, you know, I don't know if they were still accounting for all their software and everything that they had. [00:29:19] David: Maybe they're not factoring everything. Yeah. No, I think if we really dug in, it'd be different. So now we know that, you know, the base package of what people are getting in. The average cost of what people are paying for 24 7 services that's emergencies around the clock is about $7 and 50 cents a door, right? [00:29:37] David: So right off the bat in AI's first swing, it said we cut the cost in half. Yeah. Okay. Right. So 50% reduction. I mean, to me as an owner, a 50% reduction in cost. That's like. You know, alarms and celebration going off, you know? For sure. And then, yeah.  [00:29:55] Jason: And that's, if everything just stayed the same, like it was still the same level of quality, cutting in half would be a solid win right there. [00:30:03] Jason: Yeah.  [00:30:03] David: Yeah. That's just like status quo stuff. And now what, with the release of the new Vendoroo product that, that's actually being announced here today. The email's going out to all of our existing clients of all the new features that are coming out now, we're starting to see that. You know that quality is now increasing to where if you were to go out and hire that person, you may have to be spending, you know, 55,000 or $65,000 a year. [00:30:29] David: Right? So now it's like saying, okay, if we can get as good as what these people are using for their VAs right, and we know what that cost is, and they're saying that's, you know, that's what their factors is. Well, what happens in the next six to 12 months when this is a seasoned person that you would've to pay $85,000 a year to? [00:30:45] David: Right. Yeah. And right, because they have knowledge of. Estimates and knowledge of vendor routing and knowledge of, you know, it can handle...  [00:30:53] Jason: you've invested so much time into them, so much attention. They know your properties and know your portfolio. They know the vendors. Like you've invested so much into this person that now they sort of have you by the balls so that they're like, Hey, I want 80 k or I walk.  [00:31:06] David: Yeah.  [00:31:06] Jason: You're like, you've got to come up with it.  [00:31:08] David: Yeah.  [00:31:09] Jason: Right. You've got to do it.  [00:31:10] David: Yeah.  [00:31:10] Jason: And you know, because that's not easy to create. And a lot of people, in order to have a good maintenance coordinator, they need a veteran of the industry. Veteran of industry. [00:31:19] Jason: They need somebody that's been doing this a long time.  [00:31:21] David: Yeah.  [00:31:22] Jason: And that's really hard to find.  [00:31:24] David: Yes. It's extremely hard to find as we know. One of the things that I think that we're doing for this industry is we're actually preserving knowledge that I don't think is necessary getting passed down. [00:31:33] David: Yeah. You know, there's a lot less people that I think are as handy as they once were in the Americas and so we have a lot of that knowledge. Like, you know, we know that the average age of an electrician is in the sixties, the average age of a plumber's in the sixties. And these guys, you know, they have wealth of knowledge that it can troubleshoot anything that's going on in a house. [00:31:54] David: And so to be able to try to preserve some of that, so maybe if a person does come in, you know, maybe there's some knowledge sharing along the lines. But let's take it even in another step forward Jason that in the future, you know, the AI is going to know the location of the hot water tank in that house. [00:32:10] David: It's going to then add it automatically to the system, like. It's going to know more knowledge than they will because it's going to have maps of every single property that's all currently sitting inside of, you know, that maintenance coordinator's head, right? And so it's going to, it's going to actually know more than them, you know. [00:32:26] Jason: Yeah. That's wild. Yeah, it is. Absolutely. It's the future. Cool. Well, you're rolling out a bunch of new features. You're announcing these today. You've told me a little bit, but why don't you tell the listeners what's changing, what's new, what innovations have come out? What are you guys launching? [00:32:41] David: Yeah. Exciting. Yeah. So, the biggest one I think is, which is the most exciting is, is Resiroo, which is the first one that actually handles all the communications with the resident and does the triage and troubleshooting. First one of what are you talking about? So we have our products. [00:32:57] David: So you have these AI tools, right? These agents. Right.  [00:33:00] Jason: And so, you know, every, so think of them like different sort of people?  [00:33:04] David: Skill sets. Yeah. Different person. Okay. Exactly. And so that's when you come and see our display at the NARPM conference, you'll actually will see these five agents kind of in their work desk and in their environments, kind of cool. [00:33:15] David: Okay. Able to see them right. So the coolest part about that one is we're doing a major product you know, update on that for not only the knowledge base, but we're actually turning that over to the company. We were talking about this a little bit before, and now they own their own AI agent and they can customize it into how they want it to ask questions or the type of questions and the mindsets when it's triaging stuff. [00:33:41] David: Triaging work orders for their portfolio. Like super cool. So fully customizable to your company, right?  [00:33:49] Jason: So now sometimes the more humans get involved, the more they mess stuff up.  [00:33:54] David: Yes. We make sure they don't mess it up. So everyone's going to learn how to write prompts and they'll submit it into us. [00:33:59] David: And we have a great team of AI engineers that when that knowledge base is written or what they're doing. We will ensure that it is put in so that it actually produces the desire outcome, right? Yeah. Yeah. So that's a very exciting one. The second one that I'm that I think is so cool, do you know that only 10% of all estimates get approved by the owner without one or multiple questions? [00:34:23] David: Because owners really struggle with trust when it comes to estimates. Like 10%. Like, that's a really bad number, I felt as the industry that owners only believe us one out of 10 times. Like that's the way I took that. Yeah. Right. And so, Owneroo is what I coined inside, is the estimate of the future. [00:34:41] David: That really was looking in understanding like what was, what questions was the owner asking when they were rejecting a bid that that we could proactively ask the answer for them to help guide them to understanding the value in this estimate that they're looking at in historical context of the property. [00:35:00] David: How many other people have experienced this issue? Like, like there's a whole bunch of factors that should go into an estimate and an estimate should no longer be like, here's a cost from Frank. Right? Like, like that was like, like that was...  [00:35:14] Jason: here's what Frank said it is. Yeah. Like that was like from the 1940s. [00:35:17] Jason: That's good. How do I trust that?  [00:35:18] David: How do I trust that? That was from the forties and we're still...  [00:35:21] Jason: how much went into this decision? Was this just out of the blue, like pulled out of your ass or is this like legit?  [00:35:27] David: Yeah. Yeah. What's the, you know, we live in a data-driven world, so what's the intellect behind this estimate? [00:35:33] David: And so I'm really excited about Owneroo, which is going to be the new standard for the way the estimates are created. We have the front desk agent which is coming out. So, that one is going to handle phone calls that are coming in, be able to talk about available listings, actual general questions about leases route phone calls over to property managers for you. [00:35:54] David: So again. Very human-like interaction, great AI voice. Actually. We feel it's going to be the best in the industry. So a person's calling in, just like they're calling your office able to handle all those front desk things. We, we have the PM chat, which is now the employee which is fully integrated into all of your systems. [00:36:14] David: It's in Slack. That's your employee that you get to talk to. We believe that if you're going to hire somebody, they should be inside of your communication channels. You have the Google Chrome extension that it's on right inside your AppFolio or your buildium or your Rentvine software that you can ask and talk to it. [00:36:31] David: So, yeah, so we have a lot of exciting products that have come out. And then of course the backbone of all of them in the middle is Vendoroo, which handles all the scheduling, all the communications. You know, a resident asks for an update, responds to them, an owner asks for an update, it responds to them. [00:36:48] David: And you know, it handles actually the body of the work order. So you have those five tools, we believe are what the property management industry said. If you are going to give me an employee, this is what the employee has to be. This is what makes up that employee. So we say that these tools, these agents were actually built by the property management industry. [00:37:08] David: And that excites me because if you're not building AI tools from working with your partners, from being on the ground floor with them and using the data and building tools based upon the data and their pain points and their failures, buyer beware. If somebody's coming to you and saying, Hey, we figured this all out in the lab. [00:37:25] David: Come use it. Yeah. Right. Buyer beware.  [00:37:29] Jason: Yeah. So you guys connect with Slack. They can communicate through Slack, but it slack's a paid tool. Have you guys considered Telegram? I love Telegram Messenger.  [00:37:37] Jason: Alright. Could you do that? Write it down. Telegram Messenger is like the iMessage tool that works on every device. [00:37:44] Jason: It's free. It's one of the most secure, it's not owned or controlled by Facebook. Like, WhatsApp, like, yeah. But WhatsApp might be a close second, but we use Telegram internally, so I love Telegram.  [00:37:58] David: We'll definitely take that into, into consideration for sure. Yeah, check it  [00:38:02] Jason: out. Because I, what I love is the voice message feature and I can just listen to my team and others at like high speed, but internal communications and it's free for everybody, which is great. [00:38:12] Jason: So, yeah.  [00:38:13] David: Yeah. I think a lot, for a lot of people it was like you know, who was Vendoroo in the beginning and Vendoroo was like the team of like people that were trying to figure out like how is AI going to work in this industry? [00:38:26] David: How is it going to solve the needs of our property management partners? And this is why I say to everybody, if you thought about Vendoroo, if you came in and the experience wasn't great with Vendoroo, if you're one of our existing clients that has been with us and you're and you're still moving forward, and we thank you so much for your dedication to this, the Vendoroo product, everything that we've done, everything that we worked at is being showcased at the NARPM broker owner. The email's going out today. This is who Vendoroo is. We are a team that is a technology partner for the property management industry that is helping building meaningful AI tools, specifically by demand, by our industry to help us show value and to preserve this great industry. [00:39:09] David: For the future in this new AI economy, right? Like we need to step up. We have clients that are adding doors left and right because they're showing their clients that they use an AI maintenance system and their clients are like, this is what I expect from a property management in this community. [00:39:24] David: Right? And again, Owneroo, that estimate, we believe that in the future. Like, like owners are going to say like, I'm not approving an estimate unless it's like the estimate of the future, right? Like, like that's the new standard. So you got to know what the new standards are and you got to get technology that are going to help you compete with those new standards that will be in your community and are will be in your community in the next week, the next two weeks. [00:39:46] David: And definitely some really cool products in the next six months.  [00:39:49] Jason: All right. Well, yeah, I'm really excited to see what you guys have been able to create so far. So yeah, it's pretty awesome. Yeah. All right. Well David, it's been awesome having you on the show. Sounds like you guys are really innovating the future. Everybody come to DoorGrow Live. David, are you going to be at that one? I will be there. All right, so you can come meet David in person. [00:40:08] Jason: We've got some amazing people that are going to be at this. We've got technology people. There's a gentleman there, one of the vendors they created another really cool tool, but he had a hundred million dollars exit, you know, in a previous business, like there's really amazing entrepreneurs and people at this event, so come to DoorGrow Live, get your tickets, and if you do, we have just decided that we're going to give out to anybody that registers. [00:40:34] Jason: You can pick from one of our free bonuses that are well worth the price of the ticket. Or coming or anything in and of itself, including our pricing secrets training that goes over a three tier hybrid pricing model or our sales secrets training, which goes over how we're helping property managers crush it and closing more deals more easily at a higher price point. [00:40:55] Jason: And reputation secrets, which are helping our clients get way more positive reviews by leveraging the psychology and the law of reciprocity and getting the majority of their tenants in order to give them positive feedback online. Maybe some others. So you'll be able to pick from these bonuses one of these that you might like and that's our free, most incredible free gift ever that we'll give to each person that registers for DoorGrow Live. [00:41:19] Jason: So.  [00:41:20] David: Cool. Awesome man. Always great to see you. Looking forward to seeing you at DoorGrow Live and love that you guys are working on pricing because AI is going to make people think different about pricing. It's going to be way more efficient, so you guys are ahead of the curve on that. Great job, Jason. [00:41:33] Jason: Awesome. All right, so how can they check out Vendoroo, David?  [00:41:36] David: Just visit, Vendoroo.ai, go to the website, request a demo with one of our great sales reps, and yeah they'd love to help you out. See all the new products, see how far it's come. And again, we thank everybody from the bottom of our hearts for all their effort, people who've tried us out. [00:41:52] David: Come back and see what you built and yeah. Come check us out at Vendoroo.  [00:41:57] Jason: Got it. Go check out Vendoroo, it's vendor. If you know how to spell that, V-E-N-D-O-R-O-O dot A-I, go check it out. All right? And if you're a property management entrepreneur, you want to add doors, you want to make your business scalable, you want to get out of the day to day, you want to increase the capacity so your company could easily handle another 200 plus doors without having to make any significant systems changes, reach out to us at DoorGrow. We will help you figure it out. So until next time to our mutual growth. Bye everyone. 

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Trái ngược năm 2023, thị trường âm nhạc biểu diễn trở nên bão hòa và phân cực rõ nét trong năm 2024. Hãy cùng điểm lại các nguyên nhân phía sau bức tranh ảm đạm các tour lưu diễn năm 2024. Bức tranh live concert tương phản rõ nétTheo thống kê của Live Nation, công ty sở hữu kênh bán vé điện tử Ticketmaster, năm 2023 ghi nhận kết quả kinh doanh xuất sắc : Hơn 145 triệu fan hâm mộ tham dự 50.000 sự kiện âm nhạc trực tiếp. Sang 2024, doanh thu Live Nation trong quý I/2024 đạt 3,8 tỷ đô la Mỹ, tăng 21% so với cùng kỳ năm ngoái và thu hút 23 triệu người hâm mộ. Tuy nhiên, không phải nghệ sỹ nào cũng thành công, có khá nhiều concert phải hủy bỏ. Thị trường biểu diễn âm nhạc đã phân hóa rõ nét năm 2024. Về mặt tích cực, Taylor Swift hay Beyonce vẫn là “cơn lốc xoáy” khổng lồ thu hút fan trên khắp toàn cầu tới concert. 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Hơn thế, với ngân sách có hạn, khán giả sẽ chọn một, chứ không phải tất cả các concert để thưởng thức.Chất lượng sản phẩm Trong số các nghệ sỹ hủy tour, Jennifer Lopez (JLo) sẽ khiến các nghệ sỹ phải suy nghĩ thận trọng trước khi lên kế hoạch. Tour lưu diễn của Jennifer nhằm quảng bá album mới This is me…now(Đây là tôi hiện tại) sau gần 10 năm vắng bóng tại phòng thu. Tuy nhiên, album này không mấy thành công về thương mại, chỉ đứng hạng 38 trên bảng xếp hạng Billboard 200. Đây có thể là nguyên nhân chính khiến doanh số bán vé concert thê thảm. Jennifer buộc phải hủy tour một số địa điểm trên toàn nước Mỹ.Nữ ca sỹ vẫn quyết tâm vực dậy tour diễn bằng việc đổi tên thành This is me.. now Greatest hits. Nỗ lực níu kéo khán giả đến với concert gồm tuyển tập bài hát đa dạng hơn, gồm cả cũ và mới. Cuối tháng 5, kết quả thương mại không cải thiện khiến nữ ca sỹ Latinh quyết định hủy toàn bộ tour diễn với lý do cá nhân, dành thời gian cho gia đình sau tin đồn trục trặc chuyện tình cảm với chồng, tài tử Ben Affleck. Trường hợp JLo cho thấy khán giả khắt khe hơn với chất lượng sản phẩm, nhất là thị hiếu nghe nhìn, lượng fan liên tục thay đổi.Yếu tố mới lạỞ góc độ đối lập, bà hoàng nhạc pop Madonna gặt hái thành công thương mại xuất sắc với tour lưu diễn Celebration mà không có sản phẩm thu âm mới. Thành công của Madonna dựa trên nhiều yếu tố. Thứ nhất, sự nghiệp Madonna trải dài hơn bốn thập niên với số lượng và chất lượng sản phẩm vượt trội. Khác với Jennifer Lopez, độ phủ âm nhạc của Madonna dày đặc nhờ tần suất ra album 2-3 năm/lần cùng nhiều ý tưởng táo bạo. Thứ hai, lịch diễn của Madonna được dịch chuyển từ tháng 6 tới cuối tháng 10 năm 2023 do biến cố sức khỏe nghiêm trọng. Do vậy, kết quả thương mại năm 2024 có thể coi là thừa hưởng của năm 2023 do nắm bắt kịp thời xu thế. Thứ ba, Madonna biết cách tạo yếu tố mới cho những sản phẩm tên tuổi bằng các khách mời danh tiếng như Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Donatella Versace, Stella McCartney. Đây là yếu tố gây bất ngờ cho khán giả tới xem concert tại mỗi địa điểm khác nhau.Vị trí địa lý và mật độ của lượng người hâm mộJarred Arfa, chủ tịch âm nhạc toàn cầu của Independent Artist Group, chia sẻ “kinh doanh concert là nghề cá cược. Không phải lúc nào bạn là người thắng cuộc, bạn phải trở nên khiêm nhường hơn”. Arfa đã phục vụ khách hàng tiếng tăm như nhóm metal rock Metallica, 50 Cent hay Billy Joel. Thực tế, quyết định tổ chức tour lưu diễn là trò chơi “cá cược” dựa trên nhiều yếu tố như lịch sử bản vé, số lượt nghe trực tuyến, số lượng email trực tuyến, mức độ thu hút trên phương tiện digital. Sở hữu các bản hit trên Tiktok hay Spotify chưa chắc là họ sẽ bán được vé xem concert tại các sân vận động. Chính vì thế, các nghệ sỹ và quản lý quan tâm tới vị trí địa lý, mật độ của lượng fan trung thành.Ví dụ Bad Bunny rất khó khăn bán vé concert giá cao tại bang Minneapolis nhưng lại tiêu thụ hết lượng vé đắt đỏ tại các bang khác. Thú vị hơn, các nhóm rock kết hợp cùng nhau để cộng dồn lượng fan phân bổ rải rác tới xem concert, tỏ ra khá thuận lợi. Nhóm rock lừng lẫy Def Leppard là trường hợp điển hình. Năm 2023, họ đi tour cùng nhóm hard rock Motley Crue, năm 2024 họ lại song hành cùng nhóm rock cựu trào Journey. Đây là chiến lược thông minh, vừa tạo yếu tố mới lạ, vừa khắc phục được sự phân mảnh của fan hâm mộ về địa lý.Đối mặt với nhu cầu sụt giảm, Live Nation đã tung ra sản phẩm vé xem concert theo tuần, trị giá 25 đô la Mỹ. Nhờ sản phẩm mới này, công ty hy vọng sẽ kích thích số lượng khán giả xem biểu diễn tại những địa điểm thưa thớt hay doanh thu kém. Ngoài ra, Live Nation cũng bắt tay với các Tiktoker để khuếch trương và marketing cho các tour diễn.Sự bão hòa của thị trường concert hậu Covid khiến các nghệ sỹ và quản lý phải đau đầu hơn. Để giành được lượng fan, nghệ sỹ phải thật xuất sắc. Để thành công thương mại, họ không thể bỏ qua mạng xã hội.(Theo Live Nation, Business Insider, Variety, Billboard, Bloomberg Business)

Trái ngược năm 2023, thị trường âm nhạc biểu diễn trở nên bão hòa và phân cực rõ nét trong năm 2024. Hãy cùng điểm lại các nguyên nhân phía sau bức tranh ảm đạm các tour lưu diễn năm 2024. Bức tranh live concert tương phản rõ nétTheo thống kê của Live Nation, công ty sở hữu kênh bán vé điện tử Ticketmaster, năm 2023 ghi nhận kết quả kinh doanh xuất sắc : Hơn 145 triệu fan hâm mộ tham dự 50.000 sự kiện âm nhạc trực tiếp. Sang 2024, doanh thu Live Nation trong quý I/2024 đạt 3,8 tỷ đô la Mỹ, tăng 21% so với cùng kỳ năm ngoái và thu hút 23 triệu người hâm mộ. Tuy nhiên, không phải nghệ sỹ nào cũng thành công, có khá nhiều concert phải hủy bỏ. Thị trường biểu diễn âm nhạc đã phân hóa rõ nét năm 2024. Về mặt tích cực, Taylor Swift hay Beyonce vẫn là “cơn lốc xoáy” khổng lồ thu hút fan trên khắp toàn cầu tới concert. Ở góc độ đối lập, Jennifer Lopez và nhóm rock Black Keys trầy trật bán vé và phải hủy tour diễn phút chót.Thực tế, đã xuất hiện sự lệch pha nổi tiếng trên nền tảng số và ca sỹ trình diễn thực thụ. Nói một cách khác, nghệ sỹ có một vài bản hit thành công trên nền tảng số như Spotify, YouTube không có nghĩa thu hút lượng khán giả đến sân vận động để xem trực tiếp. Thị hiếu khán giả sẵn sàng bỏ tiền xem concert cũng thay đổi. Trường hợp công chúa nhạc pop Taylor Swift thành công không chỉ nhờ cỗ máy sản xuất các bản hit. Ca sỹ sinh năm 1989 có thể lực sung mãn có thể hát, nhảy, trò chuyện xuyên suốt hai giờ liên tục. Kỹ năng trình diễn và giọng hát có độ bền màu mới thực sự là yếu tố chủ chốt thu hút lượng fan hùng hậu xem tour lưu diễn. Kinh doanh biểu diễn âm nhạc ngày càng rủi ro vì nghệ sỹ phải đặc cược vào yếu tố chủ quan và khách quan.Giá vé concert đã quá cao ?Phần lớn khán giả đều cho rằng giá vé nghe concert đang ở mức quá cao khi cơn sốt giải trí hậu Covid bắt đầu hạ nhiệt. Theo thống kê của Pollstar, giá vé bình quân của 100 tour diễn quý I/2024 là 123 đô la Mỹ. Ngược lại, giá vé trung bình các tour diễn của siêu sao pop, hip hop gấp đôi con số đó, cụ thể Justin Timberlake bán với giá 216 đô la, Bad Bunny là 290 đô la.Phần lớn khán giả phải móc hầu bao chi tiêu quá nhiều trong thời buổi lạm phát, nhất là phục vụ giải trí. Theo chia sẻ của David Norman 5-1, chuyên gia tổ chức tour cho các nghệ sỹ danh tiếng như Prince, Greenday, Alicia Keys, “nếu cả gia đình đi xem hòa nhạc, họ cần ở qua đêm, chi phí đi lại, tiền ăn uống. Lạm phát cao ở Mỹ khiến cho các gia đình thắt chặt chi tiêu hơn. Do đó, giá vé xem concert phải rất hợp lý thì người hâm mộ quyết định xuống tiền”.Ở bình diện rộng hơn, quá nhiều nghệ sỹ công bố chương trình concert trong năm 2024 nên khán giả có vô vàn lựa chọn, trái ngược hẳn với năm 2023. Do vậy, khán giả không mặn mà với việc xem một nghệ sỹ ưa thích nhiều lần. Hơn thế, với ngân sách có hạn, khán giả sẽ chọn một, chứ không phải tất cả các concert để thưởng thức.Chất lượng sản phẩm Trong số các nghệ sỹ hủy tour, Jennifer Lopez (JLo) sẽ khiến các nghệ sỹ phải suy nghĩ thận trọng trước khi lên kế hoạch. Tour lưu diễn của Jennifer nhằm quảng bá album mới This is me…now(Đây là tôi hiện tại) sau gần 10 năm vắng bóng tại phòng thu. Tuy nhiên, album này không mấy thành công về thương mại, chỉ đứng hạng 38 trên bảng xếp hạng Billboard 200. Đây có thể là nguyên nhân chính khiến doanh số bán vé concert thê thảm. Jennifer buộc phải hủy tour một số địa điểm trên toàn nước Mỹ.Nữ ca sỹ vẫn quyết tâm vực dậy tour diễn bằng việc đổi tên thành This is me.. now Greatest hits. Nỗ lực níu kéo khán giả đến với concert gồm tuyển tập bài hát đa dạng hơn, gồm cả cũ và mới. Cuối tháng 5, kết quả thương mại không cải thiện khiến nữ ca sỹ Latinh quyết định hủy toàn bộ tour diễn với lý do cá nhân, dành thời gian cho gia đình sau tin đồn trục trặc chuyện tình cảm với chồng, tài tử Ben Affleck. Trường hợp JLo cho thấy khán giả khắt khe hơn với chất lượng sản phẩm, nhất là thị hiếu nghe nhìn, lượng fan liên tục thay đổi.Yếu tố mới lạỞ góc độ đối lập, bà hoàng nhạc pop Madonna gặt hái thành công thương mại xuất sắc với tour lưu diễn Celebration mà không có sản phẩm thu âm mới. Thành công của Madonna dựa trên nhiều yếu tố. Thứ nhất, sự nghiệp Madonna trải dài hơn bốn thập niên với số lượng và chất lượng sản phẩm vượt trội. Khác với Jennifer Lopez, độ phủ âm nhạc của Madonna dày đặc nhờ tần suất ra album 2-3 năm/lần cùng nhiều ý tưởng táo bạo. Thứ hai, lịch diễn của Madonna được dịch chuyển từ tháng 6 tới cuối tháng 10 năm 2023 do biến cố sức khỏe nghiêm trọng. Do vậy, kết quả thương mại năm 2024 có thể coi là thừa hưởng của năm 2023 do nắm bắt kịp thời xu thế. Thứ ba, Madonna biết cách tạo yếu tố mới cho những sản phẩm tên tuổi bằng các khách mời danh tiếng như Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Donatella Versace, Stella McCartney. Đây là yếu tố gây bất ngờ cho khán giả tới xem concert tại mỗi địa điểm khác nhau.Vị trí địa lý và mật độ của lượng người hâm mộJarred Arfa, chủ tịch âm nhạc toàn cầu của Independent Artist Group, chia sẻ “kinh doanh concert là nghề cá cược. Không phải lúc nào bạn là người thắng cuộc, bạn phải trở nên khiêm nhường hơn”. Arfa đã phục vụ khách hàng tiếng tăm như nhóm metal rock Metallica, 50 Cent hay Billy Joel. Thực tế, quyết định tổ chức tour lưu diễn là trò chơi “cá cược” dựa trên nhiều yếu tố như lịch sử bản vé, số lượt nghe trực tuyến, số lượng email trực tuyến, mức độ thu hút trên phương tiện digital. Sở hữu các bản hit trên Tiktok hay Spotify chưa chắc là họ sẽ bán được vé xem concert tại các sân vận động. Chính vì thế, các nghệ sỹ và quản lý quan tâm tới vị trí địa lý, mật độ của lượng fan trung thành.Ví dụ Bad Bunny rất khó khăn bán vé concert giá cao tại bang Minneapolis nhưng lại tiêu thụ hết lượng vé đắt đỏ tại các bang khác. Thú vị hơn, các nhóm rock kết hợp cùng nhau để cộng dồn lượng fan phân bổ rải rác tới xem concert, tỏ ra khá thuận lợi. Nhóm rock lừng lẫy Def Leppard là trường hợp điển hình. Năm 2023, họ đi tour cùng nhóm hard rock Motley Crue, năm 2024 họ lại song hành cùng nhóm rock cựu trào Journey. Đây là chiến lược thông minh, vừa tạo yếu tố mới lạ, vừa khắc phục được sự phân mảnh của fan hâm mộ về địa lý.Đối mặt với nhu cầu sụt giảm, Live Nation đã tung ra sản phẩm vé xem concert theo tuần, trị giá 25 đô la Mỹ. Nhờ sản phẩm mới này, công ty hy vọng sẽ kích thích số lượng khán giả xem biểu diễn tại những địa điểm thưa thớt hay doanh thu kém. Ngoài ra, Live Nation cũng bắt tay với các Tiktoker để khuếch trương và marketing cho các tour diễn.Sự bão hòa của thị trường concert hậu Covid khiến các nghệ sỹ và quản lý phải đau đầu hơn. Để giành được lượng fan, nghệ sỹ phải thật xuất sắc. Để thành công thương mại, họ không thể bỏ qua mạng xã hội.(Theo Live Nation, Business Insider, Variety, Billboard, Bloomberg Business)

We're back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of Vancouver Whitecaps, Vancouver FC, Major League Soccer, Canadian Premier League, and FIFA World Cup chat. It's been another crazy week with so much to cover! We start off with the Whitecaps News of the Week as they get set to kick off their 2024 season with a Champions Cup match against Mexican giants Tigres. We look ahead to the game and hear from Vanni Sartini as he chats about the task ahead and what he's seen from the team in preseason so far. Plus we look at the latest additions to the squad, Tristan Blackmon's contract extension, the announced TV schedule on TSN, and a disappointing Leagues Cup draw. Our feature interview this week is with a former Whitecaps player who has returned to play in his hometown with CPL side Vancouver FC - David Norman. We chat with David about his time away, his career year in 2023 that saw him win promotion with Northampton Town and an Irish Cup with St Patrick's Athletic, his decision to return to Vancouver, and more in an entertaining half hour chat. But we've saved the best till last and the biggest news of the week as the schedule for the FIFA 2026 World Cup was announced and Vancouver will be hosting seven matches and two of Canada's group games. We break down the highs and lows of the schedule and chat about the excitement this news will bring to football lovers in the city. All of this, plus Hot Chocolate Boy, a look back at this week for the Whitecaps in 1974, and there's a fine splattering of music to boot including our new Album of the Month. This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Recovery Family Law, family law lawyers in Surrey, working with clients to get excellent results. They support AFTN, go and support them for all your family legal needs. Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode: 02.09: Intro - CiTR fundrive, this week in football 11.36: Hot Chocolate Boy - 49th Parallel Coffee 16.05: Whitecaps News of the Week - building for the future, TV games, Leagues Cup 39.12: The season begins! Ours and Vanni's thoughts on the 'Caps facing Tigres 62.40: David Norman interview and VFC discusssion 102.05: This week in 1974 107.54: Vancouver hosts 7 matches as FIFA 2026 schedule revealed 132.30: Wavelength - Sidiku Buari - Disco Soccer

As we make our approach to 100 episodes we begin our tribute series to the coaches who made a difference in Kovo's life as a young man. What better place to start than the man who so impacted Coach Kovo's while serving as the Head Football Coach of the Austin College Kangaroos in Sherman, TX. He never left his beloved Austin College and is now the Director of Athletics and Kinesiology Department Chair - welcome David Norman to the show! - Growing up in the East Texas town of Big Sandy as the Head Coach's son and bearing witness to his father leading the 1st ever integrated football team in Big Sandy history. A job he did so well that not only did it lead to state championship rings, but an eventual run to the town mayorship! - Coach is our 1st ever alumnus to win championships in THREE different capacities! 1st as a football player at Big Sandy, then our 1st collegiate champion as he was a member of the iconic 1981 NAIA National Championship football team at Austin College, and finally he even won one as a coach when he was a part of the Denison Yellowjacket 1984 State Championship team!!  - Save for the stint at Denison and very early coaching experience at the current State Champion Gunter Tigers, it's been all AC since 1989! Most people think of David Norman, Head Football Coach, but what not a lot of people may know is he was also one heck of a baseball coach for the Kangaroos! - Coach Norman beautifully puts things in perspective about the power of athletics when he shared the story of how at the 10-year reunion of the 1981 National Championship team they put the game film on and were hanging on every play reliving the memory of that game. By 20 years, the game was going in the background but the players were more focused on remembering the funny things like the long bus trip to Sul Ross University, all things that happen to all teams and that would have happened even without that championship. By the 40th reunion they didn't even talk about the game at all! The games fade away, but you are always left with the power of that brotherhood. POWERFUL. - Finally as the ultimate Kangaroo who first arrived on campus in 1979 and essentially never left, we are treated to David Norman's Austin College Kangaroo Mt. Rushmore!! Join the Team Player Revolution! The biggest help is to leave a 5-star rating. This is what moves us up the rankings so more people can hear the stories of coaches changing lives Follow on Twitter @coach_kovo Hit us up at teamplayerpodcast@gmail.com - we lift up our own inside Team Player Nation, all guest suggestions/feedback is welcome! Art for the Team Player Podcast was created by Kaiser St. Cyr Music for the Team Player Podcast is from the single One More/Good Enough by Avrion - available on all platforms

Melbourne Water's David Norman joined Tom Elliott to discuss why Melbourne has such good water! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This time we read The Golden Basement by David Norman Lewis, self-published in March of 2023. This was recommended by long-time listener, first-time caller Max who sent us a wonderful email recommending that we read this saying, "A few months ago you might have noticed a poem titled "$Reward$If$Found$" stapled up all over Cambridge, there were a couple reddit threads about it. On going back to my hometown of Seattle, WA I found out the poem is from a local self-published book...The author has been stapling the same poem everywhere. The novel is a "kids' book" about underground monsters controlling people's thoughts during the 1990 Goodwill Games...There's a YouTube video where the author is trying to sell it with donuts. You have to check it out. I so want to hear your takes on it…I emailed the author and he told me the baker is a friend of his. They once worked together on trying to make a new religion for Seattle but nobody showed up." Thank you so very much, Max, for your longtime support and for recommending this book. It was very different from anything we've read before and we actually didn't hate it! Today's show includes our usual barnyard language plus discussion or mention of: emotional abuse, enslavement, murder, parental neglect and abuse, sexual assault, and suicide. Random Band/Album Reference from this Episode: Swan Christy - One with the Swan

In this episode of the lure fishing podcast I chat with David Norman of Angling Adventures West Cork. David is based in Clonakilty West Cork and provides guided Saltwater fishing with lure and fly, from the shore or kayak as well as coaching and workshops. David is a very accomplished angler who is extremely knowledgeable about angling he has fished all around the coast of Ireland and has made many trips to the USA fishing for striped bass. David is an extremely skilled angler specialising in mullet, pollock and bass fishing and is probably best known for his epic Kayak Fishing, so if Kayak fishing is something you have thought about then David is your man. You can also check out some of his wonderful fish art at Atlantic fish art where he can make peronalised drawings of your most memorable catches.

A heavily depleted Cobblers battled hard to all three points against Gillingham on Easter Monday. Charles and Chessie are incredibly happy and proud of how Cobblers have been able to come through so many injuries to still be up there, going for promotion. We chat about: 3️⃣ A massive 3 points

The team debate remote control car strategies; Illustrator Oslo Davis chats about picture books for grown-ups; Australian Dingo Foundation volunteer Mel Browning tells us all we need to know about dingoes; Foodie Michael Harden gushes about custard; Writer Zoya Patel talks about her new novel Once A Stranger; Tech Expert Dan Salmon describes how the google doodle came to be; Nat's mum loves to renovate in her own way; David Norman from Melbourne Water helps celebrate World Water Day; and film lover Simone Ubaldi reviews Laura Poitras' new movie All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. With presenters Simon Winkler, Daniel Burt & Nat Harris.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakfasters

It's a first for us this week on Ireland on the Fly as we find out about catching mullet on the fly in early season. It's a fish known as the Irish bonefish and not one that has been targeted a great deal but maybe that's about to change. After all, if you're like our guest, West Cork guide and angler, David Norman, you could be landing five mullet on the fly in a single session in February on your five weight. If you're interested, then stay tuned as David explains how and where to target the mullet in Irish waters.We also speak to David about his plans for the coming season with high hopes for double-figure pollock and bass and to find out more, you can contact David at https://www.anglingadventureswestcork.ie.Rate, review and follow the show to keep up to date with all the latest Ireland on the Fly episodes on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.   Plus you can sign up for our newsletter on IrelandontheFly.com and get regular updates on Instagram.com/IrelandontheFly. 

Brian Curtice – Fossil Crates, Dinosaurs and Digging - Paleontologist Dr Brian Curtice was in the news recently discussing title of the longest dinosaur after analyzing Supersaurus bones in Colorado. Brian works the Arizona Natural History Museum and is currently focused on the Shellenberger Canyon Paleontological Project examining the only terrestrial community of organisms known from the early Cretaceous of Arizona. COVID created a neat idea for Brian. His business is called Fossil Crates. Since museums etc were closed during the height of the pandemic, he realized it was possible to bring the museum to the masses. Most of a collection is never, or rarely, seen; Fossil Crates seeks to change that. Brian is going to talk dinosaurs and join the ranks of David Norman and Thomas Demere as our Break It Down Show dudes that dig up the coolest things on earth...dinosaurs. Pete A Turner loves to talk with Paleontologists because they are fascinating. Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show!   For the  of this episode head to  Haiku Women dig the past But Brian digs up fossils Visit Fossil Crates   ​Similar episodes: Erik Kleinsmith  Taylor Greiger  Mike Guardia  Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  Writer: Dragan Petrovski  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

David Norman began his career in 1985 as a specialist in the field of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's.  He became director of the department in 1999, a World-wide Chairman for the division in 2008, and then a Vice Chairman of Sotheby's North American.  From 2019-2022, he was Chairman of the Phillips auction house in America. David directed sales of art works from such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum as well as numerous other public and private foundations.   In the early 1990s, David pioneered and directed Sotheby's first sales of 20th Century German art, staging the first international auction in the then unified city of Berlin.  In 2004, David oversaw the auction of the first painting to ever break the $100 million barrier, Pablo Picasso's Garçon a la Pipe.   In 2010, he curated Sotheby's first private selling exhibition of Modern Art in Hong Kong and Beijing.   Under his leadership and tenure, Sotheby's not only sold the first $100 million painting, but also the first sculpture to exceed $100 million (Giacometti's Walking Man) and the first work on paper to pass that same mark (Edvard Munch's, The Scream).   In 2017, David acquired an early pointillist painting for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. As a leading industry expert, David has been frequently quoted in publications such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, ArtNews and Art at Auction magazine.   He has appeared on television networks such as CNBC and foreign outlets including CNN Asia, podcasts interviews for the Financial Times, China, and is a frequent contributor of articles for several online journals. One of the most recognized auction experts in the field of Impressionist & Modern Art and a trusted advisor to private collectors for over 35 years, Mr. Norman launched David Norman Fine Art, llc, to continue to advise and assist individuals and institutions worldwide. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noah-becker4/support

We've heard warnings, seen gruesome images of the blisters and lesions, and now we hear firsthand what it's like living with the debilitating symptoms of monkeypox. Thirty-six year old San Francisco resident David Norman bravely shares his journey with Kathy Novak in a KCBS Radio exclusive.

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Before entering the toy industry, David had the hardest job in the world. He was selling Exxon oil to Alaskan fishermen after the Valdez spill and he wasn't very successful. He escaped that and broke into the toy industry with University Games eventually rising to become their Vice President of Sales. After 12 years, he left University Games to co-found Goliath's North American office in 2008 with his soon-to-be friend, Adi Golad. During his time at Goliath, the company has grown from under $40,000 in annual sales to become one of the top 3 toy companies in North America.  In his role, David oversees global product development for gaming and strategic and day to day management of Goliath's business in North America.  He holds a Master's in Business Degree from Duke's Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University. His hobbies include board games, paddle boarding, tennis and very short triathlons.   Check out Goliath here: https://www.goliathgames.us/ FOLLOW US ON:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boardgamebinge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boardgamebingepodcast/  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/boardgamebinge WHERE TO FIND OUR PODCAST: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5RJbdkguebb3MSLAatZr7r iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-board-game-binge-72500104/ Tune In: https://tunein.com/embed/player/p1344218/ Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vYm9hcmRnYW1lYmluZ2U= Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/board-game-binge/id1522623033 Visit Our Websites:  Board Game Binge: https://boardgamebinge.com/ Tin Robot Games: https://tinrobotgames.com Elixir Board Games: https://www.elixirboardgames.com/our-games

E130:   After speaking with so many people from so many places it's great to speak to another creative near my home again but when you hear his story you'll hear many places far away from it. On this episode we speak with author, hasher, and paintball aficionado Dave Norman. We speak on creating an income from what you love starting as kid by adding value and understanding where and how the money moves in the business to place yourself in it. We talk on traveling and taking an opportunity when it comes to you instead of letting it pass by. How cities become really cool from art then because of that exact creation become too expensive for artists to live in like many other unfortunate cycles. Great episode for authors, writers, travelers, and of course creatives trying to make a living doing what they love.     In This Episode We Cover Getting into writing as a job How to pitch articles Figuring out how to make a living off your craft Creating the gig Add value Seeing how it works and finding a way to get involved Wear a cup Take the ride Taking the opportunity as it happens City gentrification and population movements in the art community Say yes   Quotes   “What's happening here, you have these mentors, they say this where money is moving, this is what's adding value, these are the dollar signs of what's happening. You saw this is how it works, this is where they are adding value. These are what I'll do to join those and bring something to the community as well!” - Host Dave Swillum   “There's a clear but not easily defined line between being stubborn and good self advocacy.” - David Norman   “If you bought the ticket, take the ride, ride it till the end as long as it's ethical to others, who cares what others think.” - David Norman   Resources Noted In This Podcast   Find a mentor anywhere you have done a lot of growth and learning and ask them to hang out then learn from them.   Dave Norman's Links   Website www.DaveThinksTooMuch.com   Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theauthordavenorman/   Dave's Books   Following Josh https://amzn.to/3BDtvOM   White River Junctions https://amzn.to/3Fx4KpX   Email: dave@davethinkstoomuch.com     Waking Up From Work Podcast Links    IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me! @davewakeup   Merch To Support Us! https://wakeup.itemorder.com/sale?fbclid=IwAR30nyVXdpFaax0mN0CRcC_mVjNzafbMo0spds82eoG-GMo01HG6Uq0dvzw   Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you) https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork   Facebook Community to connect to creatives https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/   Email wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com   Youtube Channel & Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber   For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave www.crawlspaceaudio.com   Dave's Indie Band Broadwing https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee

Eric from Larry Records joins us for a great convo, co hosted by David Norman. Larry talks about rap, cats, death metal and label insider info. Packaging pros, history, leisure suits and of course Screamo.

Joey Kenward and Adam Forsythe talk about tonight's World Cup Qualifying match for Canada as they take on Honduras. They are also joined by former Vancouver Whitecap and Team Canada Soccer player David Norman. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media […]

Today we're chatting with in Chief Operating Officer, Chief Product Officer, and Co-Founder at Arryved, David Norman. Arryved is your secret weapon to unite front of house, back of house, and guest experience. We talk about their origin story, giving away data, value and content for free, without contracts! We discuss Arryved's capabilities for consumers, staff and business owners. We dive into David's time at Google, his influences, the process of raising $20 million Series B capital, the importance of culture, hiring the right people, keeping them, and incentivizing them. Follow @arryved and visit their very useful blog: www.arryved.com

Frank Agin - AmSpirit Business Connections - Frank Agin is the founder and president of AmSpirit Business Connections, where he works to empower entrepreneurs, sales representatives and professionals around the country to become more successful through networking. In addition, he is a "sought after" speaker and consultant to companies and organizations on topics related to professional networking and business relationship development. Get more on Frank at: Get more on amspirit on Being a fellow podcaster himself, Frank talks about why he brings 5 business cards to a 100-person meeting, how he sorts out who's worthy of his time, where does he go next with his podcast and more. ​For the  of this episode head to Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! ​Haiku Five cards to meetings Those are real connections That's the AmSpirit! Similar episodes: Richard Titus  David Norman  Kris Duggan    Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  Writer: Dragan Petrovski  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Dr. Ian Jenkins - Three Men and a Family, Polyamory Throuple Thrives - As a closeted teen, Ian wondered if he would ever be able to live openly with a male partner. Years later, he had not one but two partners in a polyamorous Throuple—what more could he ask for? But something was still missing. Get Ian's memoir on Amazon: Join Ian and his partners, Alan and Jeremy, as they embark on a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tearful quest to become parents. They run the gauntlet: IVF failures, the threat of Zika virus, the urgent hunt for a new doctor, pregnancy-threatening bleeds, costly legal battles and a reluctant superior court judge. Ultimately the grace of women—embryo donors, their egg donor, their surrogate, even a surprise milk donor—allow them to complete their family with one perfect girl, and become the first polyamorous family ever named as the legal parents of a child. For the  of this episode head to  Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription to the show  All of the money you invest goes directly to supporting the show! ​Haiku A throuple you say? They probably want just sex Nope, it's family! Similar episodes: Gregg Hurwitz  David Norman  Dr. Thomas Jordan   Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner  Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  Writer: Dragan Petrovski  The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

David Norman co hosts Not Just A Phase to talk with Milwaukees' finest Screamo tree-o SNAG. We discuss their new album Death Doula as well as fires, fungi, ABBA and of course child sacrifices.

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Growing up in the streets of Harlem, David Norman faced childhood trauma, drug addiction, and incarceration. He dealt heroin and even killed a man. After years of imprisonment, David never thought he would be challenging his mind and graduating from one of the world’s most prestigious universities -- until he did. David kicks off part two of our Drug Dealer series—a compilation of stories about a different kind of entrepreneur—one who demonstrates the same independence, hustle, and perseverance of our previous founders, but whose attributes evolved under different circumstances. Sonia Sanchez poem: https://poets.org/poem/not-small-voice Columbia Article: https://gs.columbia.edu/news/david-normans-journey-incarceration-ivy-league Learned Helplessness: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/learned-helplessness Harlem in the 60s and 70s (in pictures): https://medium.com/the-cool/forever-beautiful-harlem-in-the-1970s-d45523262a09

The co-hosts continue their interview with David Norman Smith (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/episode-36-trumps-base-interview-with-david-norman-smith-part-1), a sociologist at the University of Kansas, about his research into the characteristics of Trump supporters and why they support Trump. Smith discusses questions about authoritarian attitudes that he contributed to a major voter survey, links between prejudice and desire for authoritarian leadership, and how Trump supporters’ attitudes compare to those of other voters. He and the co-costs also explore different views of economic policy within Trump’s base and whether support for Trump is due to “economic anxiety.” Much of the discussion deals with the “74.2 Million Question”––why is support for Trump so unshakeable?––and what to do in light of that. Smith criticizes as utopian the presumption that mass support for Trump is rooted in ignorance and can thus be countered by fact-based appeals. The episode’s current-events segment is about Tommy Craggs’ recent discussion (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/whats-the-matter-with-cultural-politics/) of Stanley Greenberg’s famous focus groups (https://democracycorps.com/wp-content/uploads/1996/03/Middle-Class-Dreams-Chapter-2-Macomb-in-the-American-Mind.pdf) of “ Reagan Democrats” in Macomb County, Michigan, which offers further evidence that Trumpism was a pre-existing condition. * ~ * ~ * ~ * Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI. We welcome and encourage listeners’ comments, posted on this episode’s page of the MHI website. Please visit MHI’s website for information on philosophy & organization, Marxist-Humanist archives, and its online publication, “With Sober Senses”: https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/

Shownotes Podcasting 2.0 for February 12th 2021 Episode 24: Value Economics And In Alabama The man who can calculate 100% of any value split - My Friend on the other end - Dave Jones! Crank those value sliders up everyone! Download the mp3 Preservepodcasting.com Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure Shownotes Adam & Dave discuss the week's developments on podcastindex.org The genius behind in-app community chapters of Hypercatcher ... David Norman Hypercatcher Hypercatcher Studio Notater Keywords

The co-hosts interview David Norman Smith, a sociologist at the University of Kansas, about his research into the characteristics of Trump supporters and why they support Trump. Smith discusses questions about authoritarian attitudes that he contributed to a major voter survey, links between prejudice and desire for authoritarian leadership, and how Trump supporters’ attitudes compare to those of other voters. He and the co-costs also explore different views of economic policy within Trump’s base and whether support for Trump is due to “economic anxiety.” Much of the discussion deals with the “74.2 Million Question”––why is support for Trump so unshakeable?––and what to do in light of that. Smith criticizes as utopian the presumption that mass support for Trump is rooted in ignorance and can thus be countered by fact-based appeals. Owing to the length and wide-ranging nature of the interview, we have split it into two parts. Part 2 will air in the near future. The episode’s current-events segment is about how racial and social inequality are distorting access to COVID-19 vaccinations, nationally and internationally, and how this hinders the fight against the virus. * ~ * ~ * ~ * Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI. We welcome and encourage listeners’ comments, posted on this episode’s page of the MHI website. Please visit MHI’s website for information on philosophy & organization, Marxist-Humanist archives, and its online publication, “With Sober Senses”: https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/

David Norman, CEO, Founder at Arryved | Riderflex Podcast | ~Let your excellence shine. The craft industry is leading a customer experience revolution. Arryved POS is designed with that experience in mind—providing your team with the flexible, mobile service tools they need to lead the charge. Give your staff the freedom to wow your guests with the exceptional service and remarkable hospitality that turns first-time guests into lifelong fans. Arryved is your secret weapon. Born in a brewery, and raised to meet the needs of the craft beverage industry. It provides the tools, services, and support to unite front of house, back of house, and guest experience. Wow every guest, every time. www.arryved.com Riderflex is a national, Colorado based, premier headhunter, RPO and employment agency; recruiting and searching the top talent for staffing your teams. We give Career Advice & Job Interviewing Tips on this podcast. In addition, we interview the most successful entrepreneurs, CEO's, and business leaders. Hear them tell the "REAL" stories of what it's like to start and lead businesses. www.riderflex.com #DavidNorman #Arryved #PointOfSale #POS #Craftbeer #Brewery #Technology #contactless #payment #ordering #CEO #Founder #Career #CareerAdvice #advice #Riderflex #Recruiting #talent #podcast #interview #recruitingfirm #employmentagency --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/riderflex/support

A charity has made new claims of misuse over the Covid wage subsidy scheme, this time targeting the rich-list owners of retail empire, James Pascoe Group.Christchurch philanthropists Grant and Marilyn Nelson run the GAMA Foundation, and they've been researching the scheme for months.They are now taking aim at the couple which own Farmers, Pascoes and Whitcoulls - Anne and David Norman - with claims their businesses have pocketed $35 million in wage subsidies.The GAMA Foundation says those businesses are likely to have bounced back strongly from Covid, like their retail counterparts Briscoes, The Warehouse and Michael Hill.Grant Nelson told Heather du Plessis-Allan that they applied for the wage subsidy for 12 weeks but their stores were only closed for five weeks. "In addition for that, all of their stores applied for the Auckland resurgence wage subsidy, and they were paid that for their employees right around the country, even though those employees in other areas weren't affected by the Auckland lockdown at all."Nelson says that the rules were quite loose and it was easy to abuse the scheme during the first lockdown. He wants them to pay back that money. LISTEN ABOVE

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Arryved was founded by David Norman, in partnership with local craft brewery GM's Ray Decker of Avery and Natalie Gula of Left Hand Brewing Company This conversation features: David Norman Natalie Gula Ray Decker www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

David Norman - Cambridge's Paleontologist Brings Home a Scelidosaurus - Cambridge University's David Norman has spent his career examining and explaining the world of paleontology. If the dinosaur Equijubus normani appears to have Norman for its last name, there's a reason for that.  Get David's book Now David's reach the peak of his profession again taking a 160-year-old discovery that goes all the way back to the beginning of paleontology and completing a work that culminates in the discovery of a new dinosaur called the . Pete A Turner guides us through this fascinating and fun conversation.  -  Haiku Scelidosaurus Was brought to life by David Discovered 2 times    Similar episodes:      ​Join us in supporting Save the Brave as we battle PTSD.  ​ ​ Executive Producer/Host: Pete A Turner    Producer: Damjan Gjorgjiev  ​ ​ ​​ ​​ ​​The Break It Down Show is your favorite best, new podcast, featuring 5 episodes a week with great interviews highlighting world-class guests from a wide array of shows.

Listen in as David Norman, president of Goliath Games, talks with Richard and Chris about his career, Goliath Games and its history, and some very topical insights about 2020 and looking forward to 2021. From development of product to dealing with dynamic supply chain issues, David talks about it all. Currently in more than 75 countries, Goliath is the third largest game manufacturer in the U.S., and a powerhouse for making kids laugh. In The Endcap, Chris and Richard talk about international changes from the implications of the new lockdowns in the UK and Europe to what the growth of the Shenzhen region may mean for the future, international toy business. This week, we welcome new supporter Chizcomm, as well as ongoing support from Global Toy Experts and The Toy Guy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-playground-podcast/support

Tearfund's annual ethical fashion report is out today, showing how large local fashion looked out for workers in their supply chains during the pandemic. Each year the charity compiles a list of brands and grades them - this time the A to F grades are gone and companies are ranked for their actions protecting vulnerable workers during Covid-19. Of the 11 New Zealand fashion brands, top marks go to AS Colour, Hallensteins, Glassons, Icebreaker, Kathmandu, Macpac. Four household-name retailers - Barkers, Max, Farmers and The Warehouse - chose not to provide information for the Covid-19 Fashion Report. Department store Farmers was ranked lowest alongside Barkers and Max - with no evidence they supported vulnerable workers in their supply chains. Its managing director David Norman told Amy Williams he did not see the need to participate and questioned the report's merit.

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District 65 State Representative David Norman is interviewed(paid political podcast).

With summer upon us and the next phase of Covid restrictions being lifted, I thought what better time to get some tips and advice on fishing for bass. With some justification Ireland has become known as the bass Mecca of Europe and has regularly seen visitors from the UK, France and further afield visit these shores to fish for Irish bass. But, are we in danger of exploiting these fish too much and just why is it getting harder to catch them? For this week’s episode I speak to David Norman, a west Cork-based guide who has vast experience catching bass on fly and lure. With a background in windsurfing and the navy, the call of the ocean has always been central to David’s life as I find out. Ireland on the Fly is the podcast about the people and places of fly fishing in Ireland. Don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe so you’ll never miss a show and join Ireland on the Fly each week for all your fly fishing news and interviews. Keep up to date on https://medium.com/ireland-on-the-fly and on Instagram @IrelandontheFly. Ireland on the Fly is produced by LastCastMedia.

See more here.. https://karenswain.com/david-norman/ David Norman was born and raised in London in 1963, is the CEO of Aquarian Pearls Co. he is fifth in line within a family dedicated to the pearl trade. At 22 , David had a Spiritually awakening, and has been on a continuous journey of self discovery and spiritual study ever since. David is a light worker and perpetual student with special affinity with Whales, Dolphins, Crystals, Planetary Energy Healing and understanding and development of Galactic Consciousness. THANK YOU for sharing the shows Appreciate KAren Swain's work on ATP Media Awakening Consciousness? Please support us, you can share your love on this link https://www.paypal.me/KArenASwain. THANK YOU

Learn more about David Norman at https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-norman-a8782b/ Learn more about Arryved at https://www.arryved.com/ This episode of the Riderflex Podcast is sponsored by our friends at Marketing360, the #1 marketing platform for small business. It’s everything you need to grow your business. Visit https://marketing360.com/riderflex --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/riderflex/support

Head Dough Puncher Chef David Norman of Easy Tiger joins the Austin All Day podcast. His cookbook titled Bread On The Table is available everywhere. https://www.easytigerusa.com/https://www.easytigerusa.com/bread-on-the-tableSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/join/Austinallday)

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The year is fast coming to a close and so is the decade. So far it's all players on their way out at the Whitecaps, but could that change in the coming week as the MLS end of season draft mechanisms get into full swing? We take a look at some of the players available and the Whitecaps news of the week, plus we hear from former 'Cap David Norman Jr about his departure from Vancouver and the new challenge awaiting him in Miami. But it's also the time of year for reflection and we kick off a new section to pick our Whitecaps of the decade, starting with selecting the manager and goalkeeper for the team. There's also some Canadian Premier League chat as we look at the award nominees for this week's trophy presentations and hear from Forge FC owner Bob Young. Plus does Derek Cornelius fancy a chocolate digestive? And there's a song about George Best in this week's Wavelength, Goldie Lookin' Chain finish up their residency as our artists of the month for November, and there's BC Soccerweb headlines. Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode:04.15: Whitecaps departures08.16: Anyone Fancy A Chocolate Digestive - Derek Cornelius09.18: More Whitecaps chat27.53: MLS end of year drafts discussion38.04: David Norman Jr interview and discussion47.51: Whitecaps of the Decade - Part 1 Manager and Goalkeeper77.44: Bob Young audio and Forge FC and CPL awards chat103.12: Wavelength - Don Fardon - Belfast Boy108.19: BC Soccerweb headlines - news stories from around the world of football

Football in the snow conjures up some fantastic images. Orange balls. Sliding tackles. Cleared lines marked on pitches. A football show in the snow isn't quite as magical but we try our best to keep you all cozy again this week as Snowmageddon 2019 hits Vancouver. Thankfully for the Whitecaps, they've been in the tropical climes of Hawaii. Unfortunately for them, they're flying home! That'll be a shock to their system, as was some of the Whitecaps news of the week. We delve into it all looking at the arrivals of Erik Godoy and Joaquin Ardaiz, the rumoured additions of Fredy Montero and Brian Ruiz, the departure of Marcel de Jong, and, of course, the 'Caps two preseason matches in Hawaii. Not that you can glean too much from those. We also sit down for chats with Whitecaps midfielders Andy Rose and David Norman about returning to MLS, the season ahead, and their respective times in Scotland with Motherwell and Queen of the South. Plus some MLS and CPL news from the past week and Soccer Hooligans feature in this week's Wavelength section. Here's the rundown for the main segments from the episode:06.39:: Whitecaps News of the Week - Hawaii preseason matches, Godoy and Ardaiz arrive, de Jong departs, Montero and Ruiz rumours40.50: David Norman interview and discussion52.22: More Whitecaps discussion64.35: Andy Rose interview and midfield discussion81.24: MLS News of the Week87.18: Canadian Premier League News of the Week97.18: Wavelength - Soccer Hooligans - Football In The Snow108.39: BC Soccerweb headlines - football news from around the world

David Norman fell in love with bread during a trip to northern Europe.  So much so that it baking became his passion and career for over 30 years.  After baking all over the USA he settled in Austin and opened Easy Tiger Bake Shop and Beer Garden, which has just opened its second location.   In this episode David shares what triggered his bread obsession, the many mentors he's had over the years, the difference between training and teaching and what it's like working with talented business partners.   Some links: Easy Tiger website David Norman (@doughpuncher) on Instagram Rise Up! The Baker Podcast website Mark on Instagram Credits: Produced and hosted by Mark Dyck Theme song and music by Robyn Dyck Orange Boot Human logo by Fred Reibin

David Norman discusses the November Impressionist and Modern sales in New York. In particular, Norman looks at the Picasso and Monet markets, the participation of Asian buyers, the bidding patterns on top lots like Edvard Munch's Scream, Alberto Giacometti's Chariot and Pointing Man, the role of guarantees and the right strategy for bringing lots to market in today's guarantee-supported auction environment.

David Norman applies his 30+ years experience in the Impressionist and Modern category to the results from this May's sales in New York where $1.5bn in Modern and Impressionist art was sold. As a result, this season the Impressionist and Modern category returns to a pride of place as the biggest market, a stature it has not held for a decade. The season was packed with stories from the Rockefeller Estate which featured an extraordinary concentration of Impressionist pictures from artists like Monet, Picasso, Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, Ferdnand Léger, and Georges Seurat. The biggest, and some of the most impressive, sales came from the Impressionist and Modern Evening sales where works by Modigliani, Kazimir Malevich and Constantin Brancusi set new benchmarks. Even with those successes and the stratospheric sales totals, the sales results do show that nearly a decade of uninterrupted growth in art prices may be beginning to have an effect on the market. Buyers and sellers are increasingly having a standoff over estimates and expectations. The Impressionist and Modern market is strong but picky. David Norman explains why.

Vancouver Whitecaps may be soaking up the sun in Waikiki for 11 days and three preseason matches, but we don't want to miss out, so we're going to have a bit of a Hawaiian theme throughout this week's show. We look at all the big talking points from this past week in Whitecapsland and the world of Major League Soccer, and we sit down for a chat with two of the Whitecaps' defensive midfielders, Efrain Juarez and David Norman Jr. We have a fascinating chat with Juarez about his career in the game so far, covering his time in Mexico, Scotland, Spain, and at World Cups, plus what's still motivating him and what's brought him to Vancouver and MLS. Norman is another new face on the 'Caps MLS roster, but he's been at the club for so many years, it doesn't feel that way, as tries to make the breakthrough at this next level. And there's still time for Stefan Marinovic to talk Take Out Food, play some trivia, look at some other football news from around world, play some Morrissey in our Wavelength section, and does David Edgar fancy a chocolate digestive? Here's the full episode rundown of the main segments. Advanced notice that there is some swearing featured in this week's show:04.45: Whitecaps News of the Week - preseason in Hawaii, Bloom, Franklin, Mollo13.50: Flash Five - Hawaiian born footballers17.53: More Whitecaps News of the Week - Jordon Mutch, Earnshaw to Fresno, new away kit28.31: Efrain Juarez interview and discussion44.03: Trivia Time - Round One51.49: Wavelength - Morrissey - Munich Air Disaster 195855.10: David Norman Jr interview and discussion63.12: Trivia Time - Round Two69.59: Anyone Fancy A Chocolate Digestive - David Edgar72.09: MLS News of the Week - Miami 2020, Orlando busy, lots of new additions84.09: Take Me Out - Stefan Marinovic86.08: BC Soccerweb headlines98.05: Trivia Draft Results The AFTN Soccer Show is brought to you in partnership with BCsoccerweb.com, your one stop site for all your BC, Canadian, and North American soccer news and links. Have a listen!

David Norman talks through the results from November's Impressionist and Modern auctions in New York. Norman discusses the use of guarantees, the differences between the public and private markets, the relative strength of different types of work by Pablo Picasso, the tastes of Asian buyers and the impact of private museums on that Modern market.

Carl Robinson says David Norman jr was the best player on the USL squad this past season and deserves his MLS contract. Robbo says it's a very good story for the club. Robbo also says Anthony Blondell can score, and the Whitecaps need more of that

David Norman is the Senior Vice President of Investments Programs at Heifer International, a company that promotes a “pay it forward” approach to sustainable agriculture. Their mission is to end world hunger and poverty while also taking care of the planet by working with communities. This approach seems to be a great answer to the issue of food security and sustainability, as Heifer is driven by the “teach a man to fish” philosophy which ensures the families they help are all able to contribute to eradicating world hunger.   In this episode, David explains what Heifer International is all about, it’s humble beginnings, and its mission. He also shares the different challenges they face with every program as well as some of the successes that made it all worthwhile.     “You basically want markets to compete for your products.”  – David Norman     This Week on The Future of Agriculture Podcast:    An example of a market that is not dependable or fair. How they structure their business and programs. How the company selects which communities to target. Will the communities know Heifer International is involved or do they operate behind the scenes? Is there a difference between social capital and trust? Challenges that prevent or delay communities prospering as a result of Heifer's work. What is the value chain? How do they know if their programs are working? What are the logistics behind their programs? What are their considerations when it comes to where they invest their money? The big challenges we as a society need to overcome for their company to realize their mission.     Connect with David Norman:   Heifer International           We Are a Part of a Bigger Family!  The Future of Agriculture Podcast is now part of the Farm and Rural Ag Network. Listen to more ag-related podcasts by subscribing on iTunes or on the Farm and Rural Ag Network Website today.      Share the Ag-Love!  Thanks for joining us on the Future of Agriculture Podcast – your spot for valuable information, content, and interviews with industry leaders throughout the agricultural space! If you enjoyed this week’s episode, please subscribe on iTunes and leave your honest feedback. Don’t forget to share it with your friends on your favorite social media spots!    Learn more about AgGrad by visiting:  Future of Agriculture Website AgGrad Website AgGrad on Twitter  AgGrad on Facebook  AgGrad on LinkedIn  AgGrad on Instagram 

David Norman, formerly head of the Impressionist and Modern department at Sotheby's, and Brooke Lampley, formerly the head of the same department at Christie's (and scheduled to join Sotheby's in 2018,) get together to discuss the results of the Impressionist and Modern art auctions in May of 2017. From the stunning performance of a number of sculptures to the quandary of Monet's results to the use of guarantees and mix of lots in the Evening sales, Norman and Lampley offer their insights into the sometimes opaque bidding. The buyers of Impressionist and Modern art are changing. Their approach and objectives are different from the way in which buyers in the category used to see Impressionist and Modern art. Lampley and Norman illuminate these shifting trends.

Jay DeMerit and David Norman joined the show.

David Norman looks at the results of the March 2017 auctions of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby's and Christie's. The surprisingly strong sales came in the context of a nervous art market wondering what the future might hold. In part because of that uncertainty, few of the works on offer were considered the kinds of trophies that would motivate bidders to aggressively pursue these works. Nonetheless, they did. Buyers, especially from Asia, were out in force. Although, as Norman points out, the bidding was tactical and sober. Buyers are keen on acquiring works of art but not at any price. With that in mind, Norman follows up on the previous sales of many of the works and points out that very few of the works auctioned in this March cycle lacked market exposure. Some did well against previous prices; others fared poorly. But the market showed that it could distribute familiar material efficiently and with strong prices even if the sales lacked an estate or other fresh material that might excite "animal spirits."

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David Norman delves into his 30 years experience as a top specialist in Impressionist and Modern art to discuss in this podcast sponsored by Christie's Education New York the results of the November sales in New York. *Norman explains the backstory behind Wassily Kandinksy's Rigide et courbé and the not-easy decision to guarantee a post-Bauhaus Kandinsky at that level. * Norman offers some of the market history behind Edvard Munch's Girls on the Bridge. *We learn more about how the changing tastes have effected the prices for Monet's gainstacks. *Also discussed here are many works that were previously offered nearly a generation ago that failed to find buyers but now achieved major prices, as well as surprises for Miro, Chagall, Picasso and others.

Peter Schaad & David Norman break down the Whitecaps 3-2 loss in New York.

Peter Schaad and David Norman have the call of the Whitecaps and NYC FC.

Peter Schaad and David Norman have the call of the Whitecaps and Sporting KC from BC Place.

Peter Schaad, David Norman and Scott Rintoul break down the Imapct 3-2 win over the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Peter Schaad and David Norman have the call of the Whitecaps and Impact in the 2016 MLS season opener.

Peter Schaad and David Norman have the call of the Whitecaps and Sounders in COCACAF Champions League play from BC Place.

Peter Schaad and David Norman have the call of the Whitecaps and Earthquakes from BC Place in Vancouver.

The second game of the semi final of the Amway Canadian championship between Vancouver and Edmonton. Peter Schaad and David Norman on the call.

Peter Schaad and David Norman break down the Whitecaps 2-1 win over Edmonton in the second leg of the semi final of the Amway Canadian Championship.

Peter Schaad and David Norman with the call of the Whitecaps exhibition game vs. Staebaek.

David Norman from Melbourne Water describes what employers look for in University graduates. This keynote was presented at the Professional Skills forum held at Swinburne University of Technology in December 2008.

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, Melvyn Bragg presents a series about Darwin's life and work.Darwin's expedition aboard the Beagle in December 1831 and how his work during the voyage influenced and provided evidence for his theories.Featuring contributions from Darwin biographer Jim Moore, Steve Jones, geneticist at University College London, David Norman, Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge and Jenny Clack, curator of the University.

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, Melvyn Bragg presents a series about Darwin's life and work.Darwin's expedition aboard the Beagle in December 1831 and how his work during the voyage influenced and provided evidence for his theories.Featuring contributions from Darwin biographer Jim Moore, Steve Jones, geneticist at University College London, David Norman, Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge and Jenny Clack, curator of the University.