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In this episode, Patrick is speaking with Bettina Schneider about overcoming the pandemic. They discuss: •The current state of the pandemic. •The safety and effectiveness of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. •The new SARS-CoV-2 variants, their increased infectivity, and what that means when it comes to controlling the pandemic. •Misinformation, vaccine hesitancy, and how to encourage the public to get the new vaccine. •The Astrazeneca vaccine debacle. •How public health precautions still need to be adhered to even after you receive the vaccine. •The protective differences between mask types and why it's so important that the public mask up. •And other topics. Bettina Schneider, MPH, is a PHI/CDC Global Health Epidemiology Fellow working with CDC South Africa within the Prevention Branch of the Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT). She holds a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the New York University School of Global Public Health where she graduated spring of this year. Prior international experience includes academic collaboration in Beirut, Lebanon with UNICEF and American University of Beirut to increase measles immunization coverage and cholera prevention efforts in Syrian UNIDP refugee camps during spring of 2019. During January of 2020, she collaborated with NYU Shanghai in Shanghai, China researching the affects of climate change on communicable respiratory illness. Bettina is familiar with working in the public sector of public health. She has previously worked for the Minnesota Department of Health in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control (IDEPC) Division with a primary focus on zoonotic surveillance. More recently, she has worked for New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Bureau of Communicable Disease with the surveillance of critical threat antimicrobial-resistance, where she conducted a city-wide surveillance evaluation of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections. You can connect with Bettina on her social media here: TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJ9GNhmQ/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Be_Sc_Ience LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettina-schneider/ You can find this episode on our YouTube channel as well: https://bit.ly/3umFtZW This show is supported and produced by Final Stretch Media. Final Stretch believes in creating something that disrupts attention spans and challenges the marketing status quo. They do this by creating high quality visual content that captivates your audience. You can find them on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fsmedia2020 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/finalstretch_media/ This show is also supported by QuikLee; the creators of Brain Racers. The world's first ever live racing competition for the brain. Download their app and play live on the weekends on an iOS device against the world. We have raced and it's a blast! App Download: https://apple.co/33n8aJs Our last sponsor creates survival technology as well as camping and other outdoor gear. Outer Wild's ultimate goal is to provide clean technologies for everyday devices as they are driven to create a more sustainable world. Use the code IS on your next purchase and receive an additional 10% off! Website: https://www.outer-wild.com/

Let's thrive and shine, get fit and healthy! Why not take control of our own health and wellbeing? On this week’s podcast Glenn discusses weight loss, conscious eating and how to get fit for the New Year. During January, motivation can be high, but often momentum fades. Our goals can be simple such as exercising more and eating healthily, but why do so many of us fail? Hypnosis and meditation can help us achieve whatever goals we set ourselves.This episode finishes off with Glenn's weight loss hypnotherapy session which is designed to help you get motivated, eat more healthily and exercise more.

In this episode, Patrick is talking with Bettina Schneider about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss: •Her recent viral TikTok video where she briefly discusses how she first knew that COVID-19 was very serious. •How Bettina was working in China at the time when COVID-19 first started to be taken seriously as a novel pathogen that had pandemic potential. •The stark differences between how the Government handled the Ebola outbreak versus COVID-19. •How the scientific community still doesn't know what the long-term effects are for those afflicted by the disease. •How the severity of the disease was not taken seriously enough initially by the U.S. Government as well as by many of its citizens. •Bettina's experience as she lived through the worst part of New York City's COVID-19 health crisis. •How this is going to be a tough winter for the United States and that it's incredibly important everyone wear a mask, practice social distancing, and monitor their health closely. •And other topics. Bettina Schneider, MPH, is a PHI/CDC Global Health Epidemiology Fellow working with CDC South Africa within the Prevention Branch of the Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT). Bettina holds a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the New York University School of Global Public Health where she graduated spring of this year. Prior international experience includes academic collaboration in Beirut, Lebanon with UNICEF and American University of Beirut to increase measles immunization coverage and cholera prevention efforts in Syrian UNIDP refugee camps during spring of 2019. During January of 2020, she collaborated with NYU Shanghai in Shanghai, China researching the affects of climate change on communicable respiratory illness. Bettina is familiar with working in the public sector of public health. She has previously worked for the Minnesota Department of Health in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control (IDEPC) Division with a primary focus on zoonotic surveillance. More recently, she has worked for New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Bureau of Communicable Disease with the surveillance of critical threat antimicrobial-resistance, where she conducted a city-wide surveillance evaluation of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections. You can connect with Bettina on her social media here: TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJ9GNhmQ/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Be_Sc_Ience LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettina-schneider/ This channel is supported and produced by Final Stretch Media. Final Stretch believes in creating something that disrupts attention spans and challenges the marketing status quo. They do this by creating high quality visual content that captivates your audience. You can find them on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fsmedia2020 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/finalstretch_media/ This show is also supported by QuikLee; the creators of Brain Racers. The world's first ever live racing competition for the brain. Download their app and play live on the weekends on an iOS device against the world. I have raced and it's a blast! App Download: https://apple.co/33n8aJs

We are nearing the end of February and with it our study on attitude. During January and February we have examined how attitude extends from the choices that we make. Looking back to the quotes of Ghandi where choices, values and attitude become your destiny and Roy T Bennet stating that what ever you choose becomes you, and to choose wisely. Today's quote by George Bernard Shaw offers a short and sweet summary to take forward from this study of attitude. Support this podcast

I’m offering you the choice of life or death. You can choose either blessings or curses. But I wantyou to choose life. Deuteronomy 30:19 We are the result of the choices we make and while we agonize over little things like what to eat andwhat to wear, we often ignore the big choices that really shape our lives. During January we’ll look atfour important choices we need to make in 2020 to live life to the fullest and develop a deeper faithand trust in God. January 5th – iChoose - Purpose Over Popularity - Hebrews 11:24-26 January 12th - iChoose - Surrender Over Control - Proverbs 3:5-6 January 19nd - iChoose - Discipline Over Regret - 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 January 26th - iChoose - Important Over Urgent - Luke 10:38-42

During January, we’re learning how God wants to talk to us, so we should talk to him! Let’s get our prayer lives focused. Connect with us on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at our North Campus for BIG Night, or on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th weeks at both North and South Campuses for City Groups! Doors open at 6 and the service is at 7pm. Visit wearecov.com/big for more info.

Show #384.   Can You Help Me Fight The Fossils? Read More About Patreon here EVne.ws/patreon   Read today’s show notes on https://www.evnewsdaily.com   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Sunday 10th February 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I’ve been through every EV story I can find today, and picked out the ones I think you need to know about.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   KIA ENIRO UPDATE I am a Norwegian reservation holder, currently #5605 !! They had previously said (Bjørn Nyland has confirmed):- "Norway is allocated 2000 Kia E-Nero's for delivery during 2019. But this may change?" They stopped the reservation program when it reached 6000. I think Nov.2018 and have refunded all deposits made ( 7,777 NOK)   I got a text from Kia Norway on 16.Jan.2019:-   It states they will deliver 356 Cars by 23 Feb.2019. So for me at 5605, well when then, 2020 if I'm lucky?   Translated to English:- "Delivery of the first e-Niro will soon start. The first customers on the reservation list have now signed a contract, and the delivery of these cars starts at the end of January / February, and beyond in February. We are pleased to announce that we have managed to get a good allocation of e-Niro at the beginning of the year. Here are the next shipments we have an overview of with arrival Drammen: (From arrival it takes from 1-3 weeks until the cars are out at the dealer, depending on where in the country they are sent) January 29, 83 cars arrive. On February 9, 24 cars arrive. On February 23, 249 cars arrive In these shipments there are cars with a total of 9 exterior colors and 2 interior colors. This differs from the colors we have initially set up for "First Edition". During January, we will contact the next customers on the list, 50-100 at a time, for car allocation. They choose a car and sign a contract with their dealer. If color originally selected is not on this delivery, one will be able to choose a different color, or wait for the next shipment."     AUDI TO UNVEIL NEW PLUG-IN HYBRIDS IN GENEVA Audi announced that at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March, the company will unveil new plug-in hybrid models. The plural form indicates that there will be at least two new PHEVs. Martin Sander, currently in charge of operations at the Marketing and Sales division of AUDI AG, said that the expansion into PHEVs will be substantial" reports Mark Kane for InsideEVs.com: "Audi BEV models: Audi e-tron (already in production, deliveries in early 2019), Audi e-tron Sportback (to debut in 2019), Audi e-tron GT concept (from late 2020), Audi A3-sized EV concept (to be unveiled soon), Audi SUV BEV based on MEB platform (from late 2020) (to be unveiled soon), 5 more SUVs"   https://insideevs.com/audi-new-plug-in-hybrids-geneva/   REPORT: AUDI E-TRON FACES BATTERY-RELATED DELAY IN EUROPE "Audi's e-tron SUV was scheduled to go on sale in Europe by now, but its rollout in Europe has been delayed to next month, according to a report today from Automotive News Europe. Back in October, Audi told the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag that it was working on "improvements in the interests of the buyer." Sources then told Bild that it had to do with battery software." according to Eric at Green Car Reports: "The newspaper had reported a bottleneck in battery supplies as battery supplier LG Chem is seeking a 10-percent price hike for the car's 95-kilowatt-hour battery. Citing sources close to Audi and/or its suppliers, it anticipated the software and battery pricing issues could delay the car for months. Audi spokesman Mark Dahnke said in an emailed statement that the launch schedule in the U.S. remains in the second quarter (of 2019) "as we have been targeting from the beginning."   https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1121399_audi-e-tron-faces-battery-related-delay-in-europe   HUBJECT AND GREENLOTS COLLABORATE TO BRING APP-FREE AND CARD-FREE CHARGING TO EV DRIVERS "Hubject is collaborating with Greenlots to deploy its ISO 15118 Plug&Charge technology (earlier post) in North America. Customers with new, Plug&Charge-enabled vehicles will no longer need to worry about using an app or card to pay for their charge."This achievement is the result of a partnership between Hubject and Greenlots, a US-based provider of EV charging and energy management software and solutions and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell New Energies."   https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/02/20190208-hubject.html   EVGO SWITCHES UP ITS DC FAST CHARGING PRICES: LOWER MONTHLY PAYMENTS BUT HIGHER PER MINUTE Seth Weintraub at Electrek brings us the next story "US fast charging network EVgo has again decided to switch up its charging prices. The DC fast charger network that operates in 34 states charges its users on two tiers: Pay-as-you-go and Membership. EVgo charges based on time rather than electricity transfer and as of next week, prices are about to change. This week’s pricing update, called the ‘2019 prices‘ seems to affect membership prices, upping the costs significantly, almost to non-member prices. EVgo however, lowers the membership fee to $8 from $10/month but now includes few free minutes (only 29 minutes of free charging per month from 52 in New York for instance)."   https://electrek.co/2019/02/08/evgo-switches-charging-prices/   TESLA SHOWCASES MODEL 3 AT ONE OF EUROPE’S BUSIEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS Tesla is making its Model 3 presence in Europe known with the latest display of its all-electric sedan in one of the world’s busiest airports for international passenger traffic." reports Teslarati today: "In an appeal to potential customers in the European region, Tesla proudly displayed its newest vehicle in Lounge 1 of the Schengen area of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. A photo posted of the Model 3 in the airport showed the car covered from view by a cloth; however, according to observations noted by other users on the site, the cover was being removed periodically and concealing a red Model 3."   https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-europe-amsterdam-airport-display/   COMMUNITY And thanks to MYEV.com they’ve set us another Question Of The Week. Keep your comments coming in on email and YouTube…   Are you part of a EV club or association online or physically? Do you think there’s more reason for electric car owners to be part of community compared to gas cars? Or not at all?   I want to say a heartfelt thank you to the 178 patrons of this podcast whose generosity means I get to keep making this show, which aims to entertain and inform thousands of listeners every day about a brighter future. 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In our weekly podcast, Macro Strategy Views, we discuss why elevated political uncertainty is not translating into higher financial market volatility and what the future might look like. Thomas Harr, Global Head of FI&C Research, chairs today’s podcast while our UK and US economist, Mikael Olai Milhøj, joins him. During January, most market-based measures of financial market volatility collapsed, while estimates of political uncertainty were at record levels. Since 2011/12, market volatility has decoupled from estimates of global political uncertainty. We discuss why this is the case and whether market volatility is likely to recouple with political uncertainty.

During January we focused on some of the emerging technology trends within CPaaS platforms and now we hear about another potential development from TeleSign. Telesign are one of the world's leading providers of global customer identity and engagement solutions and they have been pioneering work around mobile, or phone, number identification. The premise of being recognised by a brand by your phone number rather than a username, or other detail, has various advantages and we explore some of the potential applications within business in this episode.

If you ever sat down to create a sales message, you’ve probably gone through a process to discover a few vital things about your target audience.   You’ll want to know:   Vehicle-Based False Beliefs   Internal False Beliefs   External False Beliefs   Which Stories to Craft   The Source of their Current False Stories   ...there's a lot of things that go on behind the scenes in the pursuit of a message that sells.   All of which is great! HOWEVER, (all caps for emphasis) a lot of times marketers skip over one VITAL area along the way, and that is…   Who's already highly likely to give you money?   *THIS IS SO IMPORTANT*   If you ignore this question you’re going to create a customer who:   Takes a lot of convincing to buy   May not be ready to buy   Is high maintenance   I'm not saying you're NOT in the right market, I'm saying, you're selling the wrong person in that market.   CHANGING MY TARGET AUDIENCE   I actually went through this situation at the beginning of this year... During January, February, and March of 2018,  I was selling in the wrong zone. I was like, “Crap, I’m selling the wrong customer. I'm selling a more challenging customer.”   It's not that I'm NOT willing to help those people...   But I'm here to make a change in Steve Larsen's world before I make a change the world business, and you should be doing the same.   Before you focus on ‘changing the world’ you need to cash out hard and make a lot of money. Capitalist Pig, Baby!     So now before I even decide to start selling a product, I run through this brief checklist so I know if it's even worth pursuing… and that’s what I’m going to share with you today…   BUT FIRST, how’d you like to join me for a mud run?   MY MUD RUN FUNNEL   You may not know, but probably the third funnel I ever built was for a charity 5K warrior mud run.   We had fire pits, mud pits, and crazy obstacles where you put on armor to tackle them. All the money went to the charity for the Fisher House Foundation which helps support bring family members to the bedside of injured service members.   I was still in college, and it was my first event funnel. The funnel worked and the way we promoted it worked very well. We got on the news several times, and 650 people show up for the event. Then we used the funnel after the event to raffle off some cool items too. I enjoyed it a lot. It was very validating for me to sit back and be like, “Oh crap. I knew this would work, but man this funnel stuff really works.”   Looking back, it's funny how long it took me to build a simple two-page event funnel. I remember finding random places on campus with fast, free internet. I think it took me 40 hours to build!   SELLING MUD RUNS TO COUCH POTATOES     I have a question for you:   Q: If I'm selling a mud run, who is the easiest person to sell?   A: Somebody who already does mud runs, right?   If you’re thinking, “Yeah, Stephen, No Duh!”  You’re right, it is, “No Duh!” But a lot of the time, people don't have that approach with the products they sell.   Now let's flip this a little bit…   Q: Who would be the most challenging person to sell a 5K warrior mud run to?   A: Someone who’s never run a race in their life:   They like being clean all the time   They don't own a pair of running shoes   They don’t like being outside   That person is gonna be a hard sell - they don’t even WANT to do a mud run.   Let's talk cookbooks:   Q: Who would be the best person for me to target if I'm going to sell cookbooks?   Yep, you’ve guessed it…   A: Somebody who already buys cookbooks.   ...BUT there's a lot of marketers out there who create their product, and it's a freaking 5K warrior mud run, they're like, “I want to change the world.”   So they focus on selling to somebody who has literally lived their entire life on the couch...  Because it means they’re changing the world while they do business.   I'm NOT saying you shouldn't try to change the world. I want to change the world too. BUT as far as a product goes, that's a sucky way to do your marketing. I'm trying to get you to think about how you do your targeting.   There seems to be this theme going on, especially for a lot of new marketers, but even for experienced ones…   They find the vehicle, internal, and external related false beliefs   Craft stories.   Set up all these campaigns and sequences.   Make ads and creative   Create content.   ...They make all this cool stuff,  but it's targeted at the person on the couch rather than the person who's already in motion doing the thing.   I see this often. I wouldn’t bring this up if it wasn’t true.   A CONFESSION…   Probably once every other week, I’ll start looking for NEW books to buy on Amazon. I’m looking for ways to spend money because I need a dopamine hit. I know that's what I'm doing...   Check out the episode where I talked about emotional buying  and D.O.S.E. (it’ll change the way you market ;-) )     I'm like, “Huh, I haven't read those hundreds of books on my shelves... What if I go buy more books? Oh yeah, that makes sense.”   I love books, so I spend $200 on more books. and I do that routinely.   Here’s a couple of the latest books that I'm really excited to read I don't know these authors, I've not been asked to say this, I'm just stoked... I mean, look at these titles:     #1: Marketing to Mindstates: the practical guide to applying behavior design research in marketing.   “Oh, baby! Can you imagine the mental ecstasy? Woo! That's going to be a good one, right?”   #2: Changing Minds: the art and science of changing ours and other people's minds.   “Wow, that’s some tiny, tiny font, but that's really cool stuff, I'm excited about it.”   I'm excited to read the book Changing MInds, I'm not dropping on the book at all, but if you're focusing on changing the minds of your customers, it's highly likely that you're skipping over the easy buyers. It’s NOT gonna be an easy sell.   If you wanna sell books, then your target audience should be book buyers IN MOTION MARKET ANALYSIS   I know without a doubt, one of the reasons all my stuff has done so well this year, is because I'm targeting people who are already in motion, doing the things that I'm selling.   I'm NOT trying to convince somebody, “Hey, come do a mud run, I know you've never put on running shoes.”   I'm convincing the person who is running:  “Hey, you like that run? Why don't you come over and do this run? Super cool!  I'll give you X, Y, and Z.”     The length of the bridge to the sale is super tiny! GETTING HOT? Let’s talk about hot, warm or cold traffic… Check out Eugene Schwartz, baby...     When you hear people say, “Oh, you've got to create a bridge...”  You need to remember that NOT all bridges are the same length.   I think of it as an education bridge  and the education bridge required for hot traffic is very short. Why? Because they're already in motion.     The education bridge required for cold traffic is freaking huge.   In fact, there are NOT many products that ever really hit true cold mainstream traffic. It's usually the hot and the warm traffic that’s sold to... that's it!   If I'm going to sell anything, I'm looking to sell it to people who are already taking active steps in their life -  because it means I don't have to work on rebuilding dumb false beliefs.   I'm still going to rebuild false beliefs, but it's way easier to knock down the false belief for HOT or WARM TRAFFIC. COLD TRAFFIC; it's like freaking Fort Knox. It's super hard for me to break down those kinds of walls. Cold traffic doesn’t even want those walls broken, a lot of them don't care:   “You mean I didn't have a problem before and you're trying to educate me that a problem exists? Oh, I don't want MORE problems in my life!”   Cold traffic is really challenging. WHY MLM?When I left ClickFunnels, the product I started selling was an MLM product. Why did I choose that?   The reason I chose MLM was that I knew people in that space were already trying to do funnels, but there wasn't anybody who had stepped up and said: "Hey, here's where you can come learn about MLM funnels.”   That's partly what I mean when I say: listen to what the market's telling you. The market is telling you how it wants to be sold.   The market said, “Stephen, would you please make cool funnel education in the MLM space.” Well, it didn't actually say that…  but I was looking, and I was like:   “Crap! Y'all are trying to do this stuff. Why don't I just set something up? Here's the training. Here's the pre-built stuff. Here’s Q&A sessions. Here's the bam, bam, bam, boom. Done!”   It was a big success out the gate because, metaphorically, I was selling people who were already doing mud runs.   I was selling people who already owned running shoes…   A lot of them were already trying to build MLM funnels - they were just sucky... Does that make sense? COLLECTING CUSTOMERS   It's so much easier to do what I call customer collection.   Selling Hot Traffic = Customer Collection     Cold Traffic = Customer Creation     I know I've talked about this before, but customer creation is really, really challenging. Not many markets ever survive that area.   Customer creation, that’s a different beast.   Y’all know I'm a ClickFunnels fanatic, and I will be forever... call me minion or whatever…   If you think about what Russell did, that man's a genius because when he first started ClickFunnels he sold to hot traffic.   He took ClickFunnels and put it into the website space; he threw rocks at websites. He said, "Hey, websites suck, why don't you come over here and start doing this funnel game?".   Q: Now who does that attract?   A: The people who are already likely customers.   ClickFunnels didn’t create customers, it collected customers.   Think about that... and think about how you're marketing right now.   When you think about the length of the education bridge you require your customers to cross before they're able to purchase... make sure you're not trying to build a MASSIVE educational bridge just for prestige. THE WRONG SALES MESSAGEI'm super psyched guys, I’m getting to do some really fun consulting soon. I can’t tell you yet because the contract's still going down, but it's a cool place that makes a lot of movies that you’d know.   However, I’d make a BIG mistake if I went in and said: "Hey, let's sell to the people who DON’T watch movies already".   That'd be stupid… don’t do that!   When I start building a marketing message...   I'm gonna to sell mud runs to the people who already running races.   I'm gonna to sell cookbooks to people already buying cookbooks.   I'm going to go sell software to people who’ve already bought software.   I’m gonna sell movies to people who already watch movies   BECAUSE it means I don't have to go in and say: "Hey, you should buy this thing.”   Super fast, easy way to sell.   Otherwise, you’ve gotta go through this massive convincing game and the convincing game sucks. I HATE it.   You get into a feature war...   If you feel that you've been in a feature war with your customers, you're selling the wrong person. I'm not saying you're NOT in the right market, I'm saying you're selling the wrong person in the market. THE SHORT BRIDGE TO A FAT WALLET   If you watch the way ClickFunnels is run and other successful companies that blow up fast, one of the things they're really good at is grabbing the super easy hot traffic who need a short education bridge, from other markets.   Then when they can feel that the market's starting to dry up, they DON’T turn to warm traffic, they just go grab the next market… and the next market.   Russell's like, “Let's go sell the B2B space. There's a group inside of that B2B space that would love to build funnels. Now let's go to the supplement space. Yeah, let's show them how it works for supplements. Let's build a few supplement funnels and do a few episodes about it.”   BOOM!  Easy buyers to pick up.   That’s how a company without any VC funding, any of their own money, or any kind of debt, in general, gathers hundreds of millions of dollars!   They're NOT getting distracted by trying to create new customers... they didn't focus on Customer Creation for the first three or four years. It's only been in the last like six months when ClickFunnels started doing things like the One Funnel Way Challenge, which I help run…   ONE FUNNEL AWAY   My explicit role in the One Funnel Away Challenge is to help create a customer.   I'm there to groom, I'm there to sift and sort, I'm there to get people out who shouldn't be in there;  the people who are going to be the most challenge customers.   Sure, they could buy but they're NOT dream customers.   Dream Customers:   Want the short education bridge.   Are fast purchases.   Have faster success stories.   Don't fight me along the way.   If I'm going to sell a mud run, I'm NOT going to sell to people who've never run ever because they're going to ask me dumb questions like:   Should I warm up?   Should I tie my shoes?   Should I bring a water bottle?   Should I get good sleep the night before?   ...You know what I mean?   I'm not making fun of anybody, but you gotta understand...     DUMB QUESTIONS?   If you want to see if you're selling the right person, look at your support tickets.   Look at the questions coming in after customers buy from you to see if they’re short education bridge style questions?   I'm not going to give you a parameter here, but you'll start to see, “Oh sweet, I'm getting a lot of good questions there…” or, “Oh man, I'm getting a lot of dumb questions.”   They’re not dumb questions in themselves, but they represent:   I did not create the right marketing. I created the wrong bridge. I'm selling a more challenging customer.   Millions and millions of dollars are created just by soaking up the easy buyers who are already in momentum and want to purchase things that you place in front of them.   Every time I see somebody on Facebook saying, “We just turned on ads for cold traffic.”   I want to reach through my screen, give them a hug and then slap them. I'm like, “No! why?” Don't ever create ads to cold traffic,  especially out of the gate.   People create brand new products and the first thing they go do is create cold traffic massive bridge marketing. *Rough* That spells somebody who's gonna fail and call funnels a scam later on:   “I put all this money in and it didn't work!”   Yeah, duh! You're trying to sell a mud run to somebody who's never got off the couch. They're NOT gonna do a mud run for fun.   So, to help you avoid making this mistake, I want to walk you through my quick Target Audience Checklist. THE TARGET AUDIENCE CHECKLIST I'm part of a cool project that I can't tell you about yet, but I just spent three days writing an EPIC 25 page project. I've got legal pads and paper all over the place, filled with ideas...   One of the things created was a CHECKLIST to help people briefly identify if they're targeting the right person.     So before you even move on to creating a marketing message, finding false beliefs, and telling new stories. All that stuff that we do…   You need to ask the questions:   Am I even talking to the right person?   Is this the easiest sell?   Is this the sale have the smallest education bridge?   You want to be able to say, just, “Oh, hey, there's a mud run in your area. Here's the date, and the cool offer that comes with it.”  AND Sweet! It’s sold.   Let’s think about this in terms of business-building...   If I'm going to sell a business building education program, business-building events, business-building information products, or coaching, whatever...   #1: I would expect to sell people who already have a business.   Okay, feel me when I'm saying that.   If I'm going to sell something called, "How to build your business”  it’d be a drastic mistake for me to sell people who don't have a business yet.   This can feel counter-intuitive… but it’s true!   If I'm selling business building education, the best purchaser will be somebody who already has a business and who's just looking improve.   It's going to be a much larger bridge for someone if they're building a business for the first time. They’ve got to deal with all the mental crap besides all the strategy stuff.   The mental junk that goes down inside someone's brain the first time they build a business is huge.   I deal with that all the time; thousands of people saying things like:   "Well, I know you said to publish, Stephen, but what if someone reads what I’ve written?”   People have asked that! I'm like, “Isn't that the point? Yeah, hopefully, they do. Then you can ask them if they liked it?”   There's a lot of mental stuff that goes down…   So if we're going to sell business building education and programs, you should sell people who already have a business. *Easy Sale*   #2:  I'm going to sell to somebody who's already been list building.   If they know enough to build lists, we're talking easy drop in the hat sale.   #3: I'm going to sell to somebody who has a product that's at a similar price point to mine.   It’s soooo easy that to sell a $15,000 product to a person who also sells something around 15 grand - in their mind, the can easily justify the purchase. They're like, “Oh man, that's one sale for me.”   BUT if I target somebody who's still at a nine to five, they're like, “15 grand! Holy crap, that's like two or three months of work.”   You know what I'm saying?   It’s gonna be really hard to get that individual to say, “yes!” So I'm going to target somebody who already has a business, and who sells an expensive product... because they can justify it:   “Oh yeah, you're right! Hey, that sale we just got let's just take that cash over to Stephen.”   #4: I'm going to sell to people who already have an internet presence.   They don't ask questions like, "But how do I build a social media profile?" They’ve already solved that problem.   The length of the education bridge needed is represented by the number of problems they've already solved in order to use your product.   If a bridge is super freaking long it means they have a lot of problems to solve.   They haven't walked through a lot of things that are required in order to be successful with your product. They’ve far more problems than the person who’s hot traffic.   I'm NOT saying you shouldn't help them, but gosh, just freaking sell somebody who’s already:   Likely to buy   Highly likely to be successful   Highly likely to do exactly what you say   When I sell somebody that's hot traffic versus somebody who's cold traffic, my business and my personal happiness increase by leap and bounds. Personally and emotionally, I feel better.   #5: If I'm going to sell to people on how to publish, the easiest sale is to somebody who's already publishing.   Are there as many people? No, but they're fast sales.   There are still MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to be made before you have to throw in the towel and start selling warm traffic.   I'm super pumped, I just bought mycontentmachine.com…   Nothing is there yet, so you can’t check it out yet, but I'm super stoked because I want to teach you how I created my content publishing machine. WARNING SIGNS   So, to wrap up; think about this…   If you have to defend your product like it's a dissertation for your Ph.D., it's highly likely that you’re NOT selling to, or haven’t figured out how to speak to, hot traffic.   Mega Hot Traffic is:   Problem-Aware   Solution-Aware   Educated Already   They just need to see your solution - which makes it really simple to sell to them.   Take a look at who you're selling to see if you’ve picked hot traffic; the easiest sale with the shortest education bridge?   If you're not selling anybody yet, when you build your product, (or if you do affiliate marketing), make sure that who you're targeting is already massively dispositioned to purchase.   This usually means your customer is already purchasing something similar to your product, and they just need something new to buy to scratch the itch.   Then all you have to do is…   *Just stand in front of them*   Until Next Time - Keep Crushing It!   Hey, just real quick:   A few months ago Russell asked me to write a chapter for a secret project he was doing. I had to write a chapter for a book, this was the letter I got from him.   He said:   "Hey Stephen, let me ask you a quick question...   You suddenly lose all your money, along with your name and your reputation, and only have your marketing know-how left.     You have bills piled high and people harassing you for money over the phone.   You have a guaranteed roof over your head, a phone line, an internet connection, and a ClickFunnels account for only one month.   You no longer have your big guru name, your following, your JV partners. Other than your vast marketing experience, you're an unknown newbie...   What would you do from day #1 to day #30 to save yourself?   Russell Brunson   Hey, if you want to see my answer and a bunch of other marketers who also answered that in this amazing book and summit, just go to 30days.com/stephen.   You can see the entire summit, you can see the book, you can see what we wrote in there and each of our detailed plans. Just go to 30days.com/stephen.

Today we’re talking about confidence. With some Hallmark-inspired conspiracy theories sprinkled in, no less. February is a month that preys on bringing us down. During January, we start a new year by pursuing outlandish resolutions. We literally pick out something about ourselves that we believe needs improving, dedicate our time and efforts and sanity into fixing these perceived weaknesses, and, as statistics show, we fail by the time February comes around. Then we’re hit with Valentine’s Day, and before you know it you’re crying on your couch with a bento box and a personal bottle of wine. Can I get an amen, ladies? But that’s not what we’re here for. Today, our Muse inspires confidence in the face of that devilish little voice inside your head. Minus the oversized teddy bears, of course.

Many important developments are taking place in our market as we head into 2017. Today, I want to talk about how you can take advantage of them. Buying a home? Click here to perform a full home search Selling a home? Click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation Call me at 215-576-8666 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation Welcome back to the hot real estate market! What kind of news and updates are happening out there right now? As you know, I’ve been telling you to take advantage of the low mortgage rates we’ve seen the last few months because they would eventually rise again. Sure enough, in the last couple of weeks, they’ve risen above 4%. You shouldn’t worry too much about it, though, because that percentage is about where they began in 2016. Even if interest rates rise all the way up to 5% in 2017, that’s still nothing to fret over. I remember that during most of the 1990s they were regularly as high as 8%. Many experts such as myself predict that by 2020, homes will increase in value between 10% and 21%. That’s a nice return on your investment. As you can see from my home price expectation survey slide in the video above, if you bought a house right now and closed next month at $250,000, in five years, that house will appreciate in value by $43,201. By January of 2022, then, it will be worth $293,201. That’s what you can expect in terms of potential growth in your family’s wealth over the next several years. For my next slide—the state-by-state forecasted year-over-year percentage change in home price—we see that there is no state where prices are predicted to be negative. Here in Pennsylvania, we have a 4% appreciation rate, which is great. If you can’t wait until spring to sell your home, hold that train of thought. The number of listings will increase substantially as the new year begins, including new construction homes. This will lower the demand for your house. You’re much better off putting your home on the market now. “Don’t wait until spring to list your home.” My next slide detailing the inventory levels of the first five months of 2016 confirms this strategy. During January and February, the number of homes on the market was very low, which meant that competition was also low. Starting in March, inventory levels started to pick up because everyone thought of spring as the perfect buying season. By April and May, they had skyrocketed. Typically, as a year gets older, more and more homes will be built. Why wait for that? Don’t follow fake news headlines on social media or on television. Those outlets like to scare people, and they don’t understand the market as well as us experts. If you decide to list your home now, there are two points I want you to consider. The first is to never list it with an agent who tells you a price you want to hear. Experience shows that a common mistake that sellers make is overpricing their home with an agent who is the least competent person to actually get that price. Instead, hire an agent who’s going to consult with you with integrity, negotiate for you as though it was their own home, have systems in place to organize all the details, and, most importantly, have high-tech marketing that will attract buyers before the home even goes on the market. The second point is don’t get duped when selling your home. I get calls all the time from sellers who failed in their previous attempt at selling their house because they felt obligated to list with a friend or family member. Never do something like that with an asset as important as your house. Instead, hire and expert marketer and negotiator. Find someone who has sold hundreds of homes throughout their career rather than dozens. Keep in mind that my next home seller seminar is coming up on Saturday, January 21st at the Hilton Garden Inn. We’re starting at 9:30 a.m., and you’re also invited to breakfast at 8:30 a.m. For more details, visit homesharkseminar.com If you have any questions about what’s happening in the market, please feel free to give me a call. Also, stay tuned for my next video where I will share some awesome staging techniques to help your home sell quickly and for top dollar. Talk to you soon!

During January, we will study the beatitudes in a new mini series called 'The Disciple's Heart'. Today, Rev Jonathan Currie examines what it means to be 'poor in spirit' v 3. Matthew 5 vs 1 - 12

Why did God draw us savingly to Jesus Christ, adopt us into his family, and then leave us here in this broken world? Can it be that he expects us to bask in his blessings, selfishly enjoying forgiveness of sin and the fellowship of the church? It must be that he has enlisted us as his delivery system to bring the Gospel message to those with whom we cross paths everyday! During January we are exploring the dangerous subject of making our Christianity obvious. So fasten your seat belt and prepare your heart to come face to face with the privilege of partnering with Jesus himself – in the everyday rhythms of your life – in the greatest rescue mission ever!

It's that time of year, and once again Akis, aka http://soundcloud.com/vinyladdicted/ and I have pulled together a fourth collaborative mix. Two hours of records that we each have acquired and added to our collections this year. Like our past collaborations, this set was first presented on my this set was first presented on my radio show My Ain't No Big Thing radio show (http://djshmeejay.com/aint-no-big-thing-radio-show/), broadcast on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month from 9pm - 11pm (GMT) / 4pm - 6pm (EST) / 1pm - 3pm (PST) at http://boxfrequency.fm. Unfortunately, the first song on the mix was blocked due to copyright issues, so we cut that track out. To get the full mix, as intended by us, hit the 'Full DL' link above and grab it there. No sense in getting upset over something we can't control, but it really is to the loss of the copyright holder. VinylAddicted of course, is among many other things, the curator of you the Editor's Kutz series of releases. During January of next year keep an eye out for a couple of releases featuring VinylAddicted on a couple of the hottest disco labels around. Not to mention the launch of his sub label to Editor's Kutz, Diggin' Disco Deep with with it's first EP out during the early part of 2015. Follow the links below, and get your notifications set! http://www.juno.co.uk/products/the-silver-rider-falcon-punch-smokecloud-blend/556693-01/ http://www.juno.co.uk/products/disco-meze-ep/558037-01/ You can find more of VinylAddicted here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vinyl-Addicted/414062548682947 https://twitter.com/VinylAddicted http://justlovevinyls.blogspot.com/ http://vinyladdicted.me/ If you are interested in the track list you can find it, fully hyper-linked and ready, over on my blog: http://djshmeejay.com/2014/12/22/vinyladdicted-and-dj-shmeejay-present-winter-wonder-disco-land/ Here's to another great musical year in 2015! Hiems mirari musica terrae, folO Olof

FeedBack w. Wes Nyle. EP24. Givers. 08.17.12When you hear stories of the modern music era success, stories of youtube, iTunes, and social networking seem to be a centralized theme. It’s refreshing to know that bands still create buzz and build a fan base the old fashion way. By playing what they love, being recognized by local clubs, and expanding through traditional word of mouth outlets.During January of 2009 in Lafayette, LA a quintet was developing from the idea that traditional African, Cajun and Zydeco elements, can be held together with an experimental glue. Taylor Guarisco and Tiffany Lamson were home from the University of New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. The two had been playing since 2005 and were now experimenting with, Kirby Campbell on drums, and Josh LeBlanc who then was known as one of the most impressive trumpet players in the area, but now on bass.Kirby was attending Berklee College of Music but after a late night jam, Guarisco posed the question that they should start a band. The chemistry must have been magic that night, because Kirby decided to stay, and a few months later Taylor received a call from a local venue looking to fill a last minute opening. At that point the band had found their six-pieces, with Will Henderson on keys, sax and whatever else he could blow into, alongside him multi-instrumentalist Nick Stephan. The groups years of improvisational practice had finally paid off, the band would play two hours that night, and forced them to come up with a name. They decided on Givers a track from the band Lucky Dragons.As time has marched on the group has lost Will as a member but this band is steamrolling their way into notoriety. Finding their debut full length In Light on Glassnote Records: a label that houses acts like Childish Gambino, The Temper Trap, and Mumford and Sons.This is Givers.Download Givers first full length effort In Light for five buck on Amazon.Tracks Heard In This Podcast: Saw You First Up Up Up Ceiling of Plankton Givers – Lucky Dragon Meantime

Thirsty? Hungry? Want to Make a Difference this year? During January our messages focus on the spiritual basics that will help you make the most of 2010.

Thirsty? Hungry? Want to Make a Difference this year? During January our messages focus on the spiritual basics that will help you make the most of 2010.

Thirsty? Hungry? Want to Make a Difference this year? During January our messages focus on the spiritual basics that will help you make the most of 2010.

Thirsty? Hungry? Want to Make a Difference this year? During January our messages focus on the spiritual basics that will help you make the most of 2010.

Fork in the RoadIt's one thing to sing about electric cars like Neil Young is doing on his new concept album (Fork in the Road), it's another to actually design, build and sell them like Tesla motors is doing.Started from scratch six years ago, this small California startup is producing one of the few road-ready electric car currently available to the public -- its luxury two-seater roadster. That car will soon be joined by not only a sport version roadster but also a new more affordable sedan called the model S.This week on Autoline Detroit meet the team behind Tesla.During January’s North American International Auto Show John McElroy sat down with the braintrust of this electric car company to find out what it was like to create a car company, especially one with such a specialized and dare we say "expensive" product.Joining John from the Tesla stand at N.A.I.A.S. are Chairman & CEO Elon Musk, Executive Vice President and former Chrysler honcho Mike Donoughe, Senior VP of Global Sales/Marketing Michael van der Sande, as well as Chief Designer -- by way of GM & Mazda -- Franz von Holzhausen. Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla’s VP of Business Development joins John on Autoline Extra.Meanwhile, for an insider's tour of Tesla’s Northern California campus including its headquarters, sales showroom as well as the final assembly point of its luxury roadster, join Isaac Bouchard on Autoline Extra as he reports from Menlo Park, California.

Fork in the Road It's one thing to sing about electric cars like Neil Young is doing on his new concept album (Fork in the Road), it's another to actually design, build and sell them like Tesla motors is doing. Started from scratch six years ago, this small California startup is producing one of the few road-ready electric car currently available to the public -- its luxury two-seater roadster. That car will soon be joined by not only a sport version roadster but also a new more affordable sedan called the model S. This week on Autoline Detroit meet the team behind Tesla. During January’s North American International Auto Show John McElroy sat down with the braintrust of this electric car company to find out what it was like to create a car company, especially one with such a specialized and dare we say "expensive" product. Joining John from the Tesla stand at N.A.I.A.S. are Chairman & CEO Elon Musk, Executive Vice President and former Chrysler honcho Mike Donoughe, Senior VP of Global Sales/Marketing Michael van der Sande, as well as Chief Designer -- by way of GM & Mazda -- Franz von Holzhausen. Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla’s VP of Business Development joins John on Autoline Extra. Meanwhile, for an insider's tour of Tesla’s Northern California campus including its headquarters, sales showroom as well as the final assembly point of its luxury roadster, join Isaac Bouchard on Autoline Extra as he reports from Menlo Park, California.