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Does it feel like something is missing in your remote work environment? Have you been told to just schedule more virtual meetings to enhance collaboration, only to end up feeling disconnected and unproductive? The pain of trying to foster human connection through endless video calls is real, and it's time to explore alternative ways to achieve meaningful collaboration.Jim Kalbach had always been an advocate for remote work, long before the world was thrust into a virtual environment due to the pandemic. Working with Citrix, makers of GoToMeeting, he had already been navigating the remote collaboration space for over a decade. But, he quickly realised that the conventional etiquette of an in-person office setting didn't translate well into a virtual space. The norms, the rituals, and even the simple act of turn-taking in a meeting required a rethink. It was this realisation that pushed him on a journey to find alternative ways to foster human connection in a remote work environment. He began experimenting with intentional habits and rituals, aiming to create a sense of inclusivity and equity in virtual participation. Introducing microstructures such as popcorning, a method of taking turns in a meeting, proved to be a game changer, fostering a sense of connection among team members. His efforts were guided by a single principle - intentionality. The pandemic may have ripped off the band-aid of conventional norms, but in its wake, it also presented a unique opportunity to reimagine and redefine the remote work experience.In this week's episode, Jim will uncover the untapped potential of remote work and the transformative power of collaboration tools and will walk us through the common pitfalls of virtual meetings and how to turn them into productive engagements.Download and listen to learn more. On today's podcast: Harnessing digital tools for effective team communicationUsing Mural to enhance team collaborationTeam agreements in remote workDiving into the Jobs To Be Done framework Follow Jim Kalbach:WebsiteLinkedIn Jim's books:The Jobs To Be Done PlaybookMapping ExperiencesDesigning Web NavigationKiller Walking Bass  Book recommendations:Playing to WinA New Way To ThinkReinventing Organizations Enjoyed the show? Leave a Review

Kevin Stephens started programming on an Apple II+ at the age of four, which established his love of technology. After earning his degree in computer science at the University of California, San Diego, Kevin spent time as a software engineer at Apple before joining Google in its early days. There, he worked on a variety of products and helped build Google's presence internationally. He later co-founded and led Blink, the first consumer ephemeral text messaging app, which was acquired by Yahoo. Kevin subsequently led product teams at GoToMeeting and Thumbtack before joining Canvas as CEO. Kevin also serves as an angel investor and advisor to multiple early-stage startups. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two daughters. Start listening to Kevin's story now!

Schön, dass du wieder beim Jugendfußball-Podcast für Eltern und Trainer*innen dabei bist! In den letzten drei Jahren haben wir gelernt, wie wir auch online arbeiten, Meetings abhalten, Gespräche führen und Informationen austauschen können. Videokonferenz-Tools wie Zoom, Microsoft Teams, GoToMeeting u. ä. kennt mittlerweile jede(r). Langsam kehren wir wieder mehr zu Präsenzveranstaltungen zurück und ja, es ist schön wieder gemeinsam mit Teilnehmer*innen in einem Raum zu sein und zu arbeiten. Doch gleichzeitig gefällt mir die Flexibilität, die das virtuelle Arbeiten uns bietet, sehr gut. Ich empfinde die Onlinearbeit als eine sehr gelungene Ergänzung zur Präsenzarbeit und bin ein großer Fan davon, beides – offline und online – miteinander zu kombinieren. Vor allem für den Elternabend finde ich beides interessant und gut umsetzbar. In Episode #75 möchte ich dir die wichtigsten Unterschiede zwischen Online- und Offline-Elternabend zeigen, sodass du siehst, welche Vorteile jede Umsetzung hat und du für dich entscheiden kannst, was gut zu dir passt. Wenn du dich weiter mit dem Thema beschäftigen möchtest, Fragen hast oder Anregungen brauchst, dann sprich mich gern an. Dazu kannst du mir eine Mail schicken oder du buchst dir ein Erstgespräch über meinen Kalender. Beide Links findest du ⤵️. *** - [Schreib mir](mailto:info@susanne-amar.de) - [Buche dir ein kostenfreies Erstgespräch](https://calendly.com/coach_susanne_amar/kennenlerngespraech) -[Blogartikel "Diese 3 Tipps helfen dir, deinen Elternabend perfekt zu planen"](https://ins-netz-gegangen.info/mit-diesen-3-tipps-elternabend-perfekt-planen) - [Blogartikel zur Episode](https://ins-netz-gegangen.info/elternabend-online-vs-offline) *** Du findest mich auch auf: - [Newsletter]( https://www.susanne-amar.de/kontakt-zu-mir/newsletter/) - [Website](www.susanne-amar.de) - [Podcast](https://ins-netz-gegangen.info/podcast-2) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/CoachSusanneAmar/) - [LinkedIn](www.linkedin.com/in/SusanneAmar)

Alice Findlay, RNIB Customer Voice Insight Co-ordinator shares the latest opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to get involved in with RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey. Opportunities highlighted this week included: Help RNIB Make our Eye Health Information More Relevant and Engaging The RNIB is looking for blind and partially sighted people who would be willing to help make our eye health information more relevant and engaging. By contributing just 1-2 hours a month of your time; you could support one of our key services teams by reviewing our range of eye health leaflets. We know that as a customer of the RNIB and as a visually impaired person you are best placed to make sure the information we provide is easy to understand and accessible to all. Here are some key details about the role:  We are looking for a small group of people to review information each month. You can provide your feedback by email or telephone. Occasionally we may arrange a group call dependent on what is being reviewed. If so, you would be able to access this by phone, landline, tablet or computer. To find out more, please email eyehealth@rnib.org.uk quoting the words ‘Reader panel role'.  Assistive Technology Users Wanted to Test HMRC Services RNIB was recently contacted by HMRC who are currently carrying out research to ensure that the services they design support people using assistive technology, and they are looking for blind and partially sighted people who would be willing to test one of their services for them.  Specifically, they are looking for people who use JAWS, NVDA, or other assistive technology when using the Internet. The service you would be testing supports people importing goods into the UK. However, no knowledge about importing goods is required. The session is remote using GoToMeeting or Teams, based on your preferences. And it will take no longer than 1.5 hours. The research will start on the 27th of March 2023. As a thank you for your participation, HMRC are offering Love2shop e-vouchers. These vouchers can be used in many High Street shops, including Boots, Argos, Waterstones, and Debenhams.  Those who would like to participate in this research can email involvement@rnib.org.uk. Focus Group Invitation: Customer Stories The RNIB Stories Library team are responsible for gathering and organising all of our customer stories and case studies. The Stories Library would like your help to create powerful customer stories, and so they will be holding a focus group in March to discuss what you feel makes a good story, and where you would expect to find it on the RNIB website.  If this sounds interesting to you, the Stories Library would love to have you involved and to hear your opinions. To get involved please contact Gary and Amanda by emailing storieslibrary@rnib.org.uk To find out more about these Connect Voices opportunities and how you can get involved with RNIB Connect Voices do visit- https://www.rnib.org.uk/connect-community/connect-voices-network/connect-voices-current-opportunities (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

Today we are talking about Tip #11 for helping you to maintain work life balance, which is to Offer Virtual/Remote Services. It may not be necessary to always meet face-to-face with clients and business partners. Explore virtual or remote services that can still be very effective in order to relieve the stress and expense of travel/commute time. There are many web conferencing services available today. A few examples you may want to review are Gotomeeting.com, Zoom, freeconferencesharing.com, WebEx, Skype, and more. Choose the right one for you and your firm. Tune in tomorrow for Tip #12 for helping you to maintain work life balance. Subscribe to my high-value proven business success tips and resources Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/) If you get value from these Accountability Minutes, please take a minute to leave me a short rating and review. I would really appreciate it and always love to hear from you. Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/. Want more from The Accountability Coach™, subscribe to more high-value content by looking for me on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries, or by going to https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573. Subscribe to my YouTube channel with short business success principles (https://www.youtube.com/annebachrach) Connect with me on Linked-In (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annebachrach) Connect with me on Pinterest (https://pinterest.com/resultsrule/) Connect with me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/annebachrach/) Connect with me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheAccountabilityCoach) Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve. As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/. Aim for what you want each and every day! Anne Bachrach The Accountability Coach™ Business professionals and Advisors who utilize Anne Bachrach's proven business-success systems make more money, work less, and enjoy better work life balance. Author of Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule, Live Life with No Regrets, No Excuses, the Work Life Balance Emergency Kit and more. Get your audio copies today.

Heute wird's technisch, denn es geht um Tools, die wir seit mindestens 2,5 Jahren täglich im Einsatz haben: Sogenannte Kollaborationstools wie MS Teams, Trello, Webex und GoToMeeting sind heute wichtige Basis für eine hybride Arbeitswelt, in der wir Kolleg*innen eben nicht mehr täglich im Büro treffen. Viele Features der Software werden aktuell überwiegend für die interne Kommunikation genutzt. Doch wie werden sich diese Tools weiterentwickeln, wie werden wir künftig über Chatbots, VR und Contact Center mit allen Stakeholdern hürdenlos in Kontakt treten - und wird die E-Mail aussterben? Darum geht's in der heutigen Folge von dreikommadrei mit Mario Gerwien von GoTo, einem der größten Software-as-a-Service-Anbieter weltweit.

Rich Fettke has a passion for helping people improve their businesses, grow their wealth, and live more fulfilling lives. He is the author of The Wise Investor, Extreme Success, and the audio program Momentum. Rich is also a co-founder of RealWealth®. Since 2003, the company has helped over 60,000 members improve their financial intelligence and acquire cash-flowing income properties — so they can live life on their own terms. As a licensed real estate broker and an active investor, Rich was selected as a Rich Dad Author for his expertise as a Wealth Mindset Expert.   The real estate industry is not easy for everyone to jump into. If you have just gotten your real estate license and feel you need extra support before getting your feet wet, or if you are an experienced agent looking to take it to the next level, you may decide to get a real estate coach. Rich who is a coaching mentor and investor will discuss the value of having a coach and mentor and what you can expect to find in his new book.   Episode Links: https://realwealth.com/ https://realwealth.com/the-wise-investor-book/ --- Transcript Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael Albaum and today I'm joined by Rich Fettke, who is an author, investor, coaching mentor, surfer, among many other things, and Rich is going to be talking to us today about some of the mistakes he seen investors make the value of having a coach and mentor as well as what you can expect to find in his book, which is soon to be released. So let's get into it.   Rich, what's going on, man? Welcome to the Remote Real Estate Investor. Thanks for hanging out with me.   Rich: Good to be here. Great hanging out with you.   Michael: Super excited. So before we hit record here, you and I were chatting a little bit about some sports where you both share in common, but I would love if you could give our listeners a little bit of insight into who you are, where you come from and what it is that you're doing in real estate today.   Rich: Sure, absolutely. My name is Rich Fettke and yeah, interesting. The way we got into real estate investing, I'm an I'm an investor and my wife and I also have a company that helps investors but that was what really got us into it was despair. It was about it was exactly 20 years ago, I was on top of my game, I had a book deal, just signed with Simon and Schuster. I was a business and personal coach had a thriving coaching practice, I was giving keynote speeches all over the country. It was like I was just crushing it and I felt so good. I was 37 years old and then I was diagnosed with melanoma, which is an advanced skin cancer but that's not the biggest deal is that they thought it spread to my liver.   So they had me do a CT scan and ultrasound and it kept showing these masses on my liver and so I met with an oncologist and he said, you know, it looks like you got about six months to live and we had a 10 year old daughter. Yeah, it just rocked my world, I had a 10 year old daughter, a three year old daughter. My wife is amazing but she was a stay at home mom and so she was freaking in the sense of what am I going to do financially if Rich dies and so she started to she had a as a coach, we were doing things together, she was also a trained coach and so she had this small radio station in San Francisco that she used to do a radio show on about all areas of life being your best self and personal development and all and she said I gotta figure this out. So she started to help people on that were financially successful, and was interviewing them about how do they create wealth and how do they create financial success and most of them turned out to be real estate investors. No surprise, so she came home all excited. One of them was a mortgage broker and he said, if you get your license, you can come become a mortgage broker. This is about 2003. So you know, things were still the mortgage world is pretty easy back then. So she went and did that. In the meantime, we figured out I had a PET scan, which is the most advanced scan for cancer, and it showed me cancer free. So it was just it was a false diagnosis. It was just hemangiomas little clusters of blood vessels on my liver but that was enough for me to go for those three months of not knowing if I was going to be alive, it was enough to give us the kick in the butt to get out and, and make things happen. So Kathy, and I see after that after I was healed, we started to invest together. We bought a bunch of properties in the Dallas, Texas area and it just took off from there and then Kathy started to help other investors with their mortgages. We had a bunch of friends and family saying, tell us how are you doing this? We you know, how are you doing this out of state investing and so we started we formed a group that we thought would be just a small group of family and friends and people that listen to the radio show. We thought it'd be a couple 100 people and today it's over 64,000 members now at real wealth that we're helping invest.   Michael: It's pretty amazing. Richard, good for you guys, so I I'm curious in your coaching business before you got diagnosed, did you ever come across real estate investors?   Rich: That I coached? Yes. Yeah and my mindset was, I want to invest in real estate someday when I have enough money and so and I was thinking I needed, you know, several $100,000 you know, to buy that first rental property or first investment, not realizing the power of leverage and how much banks love to lend money on real estate and so that was that was the eye opener for us.   Michael: Okay, I love it and what made you go remote? I mean, you're in California and your wife live in in San Francisco. Why did you pick to invest outside California?   Rich: Actually Robert Kiyosaki. It was she because Kathy was on the San Francisco radio station she was and it got bigger and bigger or she was able to attract some pretty big names and then this guy who had just written a book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad, not long before that, and he had this cashflow game that he was promoting and we had a friend who was his distributor for crypto cash flow game back in the day and so he was on the radio show, and he warned Kathy's listeners to sell their overpriced California properties and to invest in Texas and so we took his advice. Not we didn't sell all our expensive property, sadly, because 2008 crushed us with our California properties but it was, you know, he just saying for cash flow and what's going to happen, he was currently kind of calling out what was going to happen in 2008-2007. That's what sent us out of state.   Michael: Love it. So you also recently have written a book, haven't you?   Rich: Yeah, I just finished my second book. 20 years later, well, I have an audio program back then, too but yeah, it took me 20 years to write my second book and it's called the wise investor and it's a lot different than my first book that was mostly coaching focused. It was a nonfiction, basically a personal development book and this book is a modern parable. So it's story forum, and it tells a story of creating financial freedom and but also living your best life.   Michael: That's awesome and why did you decide to write it?   Rich: Interesting process, you know, I've had my own coach, to walk the talk to over the last 25 years now, I started coaching 25 years ago, and this coach that I that I still talk to every week, or every other week, now, he kept kind of he had read my first book, so he's always kind of knocking on me saying, when are you going to write your next book? When are you going to write your next book and I was like, I'm too busy running this company, you know, we have 27 employees and but then what we did is we applied story branding to our company. Are you familiar with that story branding?   It's a guy named Don Miller. He wrote a book called Building a story brand and it's all about basically telling the hero's journey, Joseph Campbell's work, using the hero's journey, just like great movies, do great books do weaving a story where your customer is the hero, and you are the guide. So the company is the guide, you help your customers and so we changed everything on our marketing around that, and how we served our members as being the heroes and I just got into this whole storytelling thing. I'm like, this is fascinating the structure of how to write a story, a compelling story that engages people that elicits an emotional change all that and so one day when in a coaching session, I said, you know, if I was going to write a book, I'd probably tell a story and then he heard that and you just like, What do you mean, tell me more and then that was the spark. So then then I get obsessed with it and I'm like, I could write a parable about what I've learned over the last 20 years as an investor, what I've learned in the last 25 years as a coach, yeah, and kind of weave them together into a story.   Michael: How cool and without giving away too much of the book. I mean, what could people what should people expect to find when they when they get a copy?   Rich: Basically, it's about this family, man, his name is Ryan Brooks and he's like a hard worker. He's got a wife, he's got a couple kids, and he's making a decent six figure income maxing out his 401k but he has no time for his wife or his kids or even his life and he's not investing. He's basically what we call today, Henry, right? A high earner, not rich yet. So he's…   Michael: I love it.   Rich: Yeah, they're out there does a lot of people you know, especially in California, where I'm based, and that make a lot of money, make a good income, but they're not rich, they're not wealthy, and they're not investing their money. They're spending it on things and so this guy is, is in that same trap. So he just starts to learn from he meets this new friend and mentor, who takes him out on adventures. Of course, it takes him out climbing takes him out mountain biking in in the sessions, when they're having fun together. He teaches him about investing about how wealthy people think, how rich people operate, and how and how poor people operate and think and he really goes over the difference between, you know, truly wealthy people, and people with a lot of money. He even says, you know, I know some people who are so poor, all they have is money and I see that in Malibu, you know, where I live there's a lot of has a lot of money and some of the people are really stoked and really happy and getting the most out of life and investing their money at some of the people are grumpy and miserable and, you know, that's rich in money but not in life.   So there's a lot of lessons about helping Ryan Brooks and his mentor walks them through this on how to invest how to how to really look at life through a different lens. One of my favorite things a mentor says to his mentor is about assets and he just kind of puts it in a different frame. He's like, you know, assets is are anything that will provide you income, or better health or happiness or two time and liability is anything that detracts from your income, or your health or your happiness or your time. So it's kind of a cool that type of perspective is this mentor is like, he's the me I hope to be in the future. He's that in that wise investor who's you know, he's got it all together, he's got this sage advice. He's very stoic, but he shares these lessons. So it covers the journey of five years of when they first met, and Ryan Brooks is struggling and just doesn't know what to do and it shows five years later, what happens and how he becomes wealthy in more ways than just money. I love it in money, too.   Michael: I love it. I love it enrich. Where can people find the book?   Rich: It's on Amazon, all major booksellers, published through Rich Dad advisors. So Robert Kiyosaki wrote the foreword for me, which I'm very grateful for… Come full, full circle, right.   Michael: Totally.   Rich: Yeah. So it's on Amazon. It's called the wise investor. Subtitle is a modern parable about creating financial freedom and living your best life. I got the cover right here. So it's out on eBook. This is what the cover looks like. Perfect. So it's out on eBook. But the printed version, the hardcover and the audio book won't be out until August and it's because of just like real estate supply chain issues. There's not enough paper at the printers, so it's a long wait six, seven months now to get a book printed.   Michael: Holy smokes…   Rich: Isn't it wild?   Michael: Yeah, okay. Well, I'm interested, get your order in now, because it might be a while.   Rich: Right, yeah. So hopefully it all comes out in August. Hopefully it comes out earlier in August but yeah, and the audio book was, that was a fun challenge for me. Big goal, because, you know, it's a story and there's 10 different characters, females, older people, young kids, so I had to become, I had to learn some voice acting skills over the period of a couple of months and really practice it. Oh, how can I think I pulled it off, we'll see how the reviews are.   Michael: Right on. That's great. Well, Rich, I'm curious to get your opinion on something because you're a coach, I will also work as a coach and there are folks out there that say you can take the horse to water, but you can't make him drink and so thinking about kind of the Henry's out there, and I think a lot of our listeners might find themselves in this boat, too. They have friends, family, folks around them that don't get real estate investing, right? I have a six figure job, I got a great job, why would I bother investing, I can make more money at my job. So what do you say to all those people and really, how do you position investing in general or real estate investing specifically to the people that think they haven't really good as things stand?   Rich: Yeah, I mean, first of all, you know, as a coach, I'm going to help point out what is good first, you know, this is the way I coach, the gratefulness piece and, you know, it's like, well, you know, be stoked on that six figure job, or whatever it is and it's about creating freedom and so many people don't have that freedom and that's what the Henry's don't have. If they have a short runway, if they stopped if they lost their job, which we've seen happen, they don't have many months left of cash flow, to be able to live their lifestyle, or any type of lifestyle. So that's the biggest thing would be that, do you want to create freedom for yourself, and not have the stress of losing your job, or wanting to move to a different job, if you're not loving what you're doing, a lot of people stay trapped, struggling, just trapped in their jobs, because it's like, this is my income, this is the way this is what I need to make ends meet. So that's the biggest thing, it's really about having your money, make money, so you can create freedom in the future freedom of time and everything. I think that's the biggest one and then so then flipping on the other side, there's something too about America, in the world that we are preprogrammed.   When we think invest, we think stock market and you know, I have nothing against it and Kathy and I are and my wife and I are invested in the stock market, but our major focus and the big aha, back through that story is, you know, we were doing that we were contributing to our IRAs and, you know, doing everything we were supposed to do investing in the stock market. But when we learned about leverage the power of leverage and how you can like 5x your money, just through the power of leverage. I mean, that's a standout and that's one of the lessons the mentor goes over in the book. He, he has Ryan compared to say, say you have $200,000 to invest and you invest 200,000, and gold, you put 200,000 and you buy, you buy maybe 400,000 in the stock market on that, you just leverage it and then you invest that same amount into real estate and then he kind of plays it out over five years, and over 10 years, sorry. So he's like 10 years later, and he said, so how much would the gold be worth at the same appreciation that's gold has been at and they look at that outcome and he said, oh, now let's look at your stocks and he looks at that. It's like good, he's got a decent return. Another investment, you know, he's got home and he's like, almost tripled his money but then the real estate, he looks at it, and he's 5x his money and more and then he's like, and that doesn't include the cash flow. It doesn't appreciate all the depreciation write offs and the tax benefits. So it's kind of like an eye opener to be like, oh, wait a minute. Now I see the, you know that the angels sing about investing in real estate and all those amazing, amazing benefits.   Michael: Totally, totally. Yeah, that makes that makes complete sense and curious, rich to get your thoughts on when looking for a coach because I think that that's something that some people have trouble wrapping their head around, it's like, oh, I you know, I don't have a coach in life and so I would never be inclined to go get a coach or pay for coaching and so if people are inclined to do so if people are okay, accepting that, what are some things they should be looking for when selecting a coach, or a mentor or whatever, you'd have someone to help walk them through their journey?   Rich: Yeah and that's a great question. It's like, I'd actually like to start step back a little bit, because you said what if they want to coach I would even go as far as there's a lot of people that I meet who say, Why do I need a coach, you know, I can hold myself accountable. I, I know how to set goals. I know how to go after what I want and everything in so why would I… Yeah, like you said, Why would I even pay someone or do anything like that and it's, you know, it's that age old metaphor or an analogy of an Olympic athlete, right? Did they get to the Olympics without a coach? No, you need someone to point things out. So for me, I know the power of coaching has been incredibly amazing because I have a coach to basically hold up the mirror to ask me the questions that I'm not asking myself, to help me look at myself and be like, you know, asking those tough questions. How are you operating? Are you being your best self? Are you, where are you getting in your own way? What's that inner Gremlin in your head saying to you? What's your limiting beliefs and what are you going to do here, what and look at new perspectives, new ideas. So there's a power in that, that it's called, I'm certified in CO active coaching, which is two people, you know, when you come together, you come up with ideas that you neither would have thought about their own? So that's another powerful piece of coaching. So that's, that's the first part of my answer and then the second part is, when you're looking for a coach, I think it's really what you're looking for.   So are you looking for a mentor, which is I think, different than a coach, a mentor has kind of been there, done that, just like the mentor, and in the book I wrote, he's been there and done that. So he can say, if you just do what I did, you will be where I am, which is awesome, and very valuable and that's a mentor and I think some people are looking for training and consulting, where they sign up for a coaching program. But it's more about teaching to learn a specific skill and that's very valuable to so and then the third one would be looking for a coach who's more like that coactive approach where it's someone who I first shared, and what I've gotten from coaching is someone to ask the most powerful questions, someone who's intuitive, someone who can really help you shift your mindset and be your best self and operate at your best self. So that would be a another type of coach or a peer coach in my eyes and sometimes it comes together, you know, I'll say to my clients, do you mind if I throw on my consulting hat right now or my mentoring hat? So they know that I'm stepping out of that coat peer coaching role and be like, you know, I've invested in real estate for a while I can give you some advice here, I'm not going to have you, you know, go and search it and try to learn it elsewhere when I've got it right here, and I can share it with you. So I think that's it, it's like looking for what is it that you want? What are you looking for and that would be the first thing and when I was interviewing for a coach and looking for I've had several coaches over the past 25 years, when I interview a coach, I'm always coming from the place of like, what's the vibe? What's it feel like to be coached by this person?   Do they? Do they ask powerful questions? Are they really hearing me and are they into my vision? You know, I think the biggest thing would be connecting with that coach, and really, really noticing, like, is this coach, really seeing my vision? Do they really get me who I am and what I want what's going to help me be fulfilled in my life, and in my career, and it's just a sense thing. So you can get that sometimes you you're talking to a coach, it's like, oh, this guy's or gals just coaching for the money, you know, just looking for another client. Sometimes you talk to a coach, it's like, wow, this person is really like, wants to coach me on their ideal client and so you can sense that   Michael: Interesting and how should people be thinking about it for themselves? If maybe they're not sure if someone is just getting started out in this journey, they know they want to invest in real estate, that's the goal but they don't know how to approach it to the to coaching and mentoring a consultant. I mean, what are some questions that they could be asking or things they could be thinking about, as they're starting?   Rich: That process gets great, I mean, experience, I would ask for experience and you know, I think it's great, you can find you can definitely find a coach, you know, or whatever they call themselves. They might call themselves a mentor, but it's like asking those questions. and talking to that person, just you know. So here are some of my goals. I know that you invest in real estate, can you tell me about your real estate background? What's your investment, investment philosophy? What have you invested in and I would even ask the coach, you know, what's been your biggest challenge your biggest failure as a real estate investor, you know, get see how vulnerable and real they are and if they're willing to, you know, to share that, and what's been your biggest, you know, what's been your biggest win as a real estate investor and what's your greatest strength? So I would ask some of those questions of a coach and then also like, what's, where do you I mean, real estate investing so broad, right and so it's like, what do you specialize in? What do you know best? When it comes to real estate investing?   Michael: Yeah, I love that. You mentioned tell me your biggest failure, biggest flop. I had a mentor back in the day, and he said, I don't trust anybody without a limp. Yeah, because like the people that have only had successes don't know how to do save no right to ship when things go sideways, and they will go sideways.   Rich: They will, they will. Yeah, I know that people who got into real estate in 2010-2015, who are just, you know, knock it out of the park, and they think they're, you know, superheroes. Sometimes I'm like, oh, careful, careful   Michael: We are all superheroes in this, you know, the last decade.   Rich: Exactly. Yeah, yeah.   Michael: So Rich, talk to us a little bit about what you've seen. Some of your coaching students or mentees get right and what have they gotten wrong because you really we have the beauty of hindsight now…   Rich: When it comes to investing, specifically?   Michael: When it comes to investing specifically…   Rich: Yeah, wrong and it's the same mistakes that Kathy and I made too. And it's that you try to talk people out of it and it's like buying an overpriced property in a non-landlord friendly state that is maybe slightly negative cashflow, or just breakeven, and they're looking at and say, but look at how this is appreciating in five years, it's going to be worth this much and it's like, no, so honestly, that's the biggest mistake I can see and I can see it in single family all the way up to multifamily. You know, just speaking at these conferences and meeting with a lot of people are doing multifamily. They think they're superheroes. They're doing this short term, short term lending short term loans, and bridge loans and really dangerous stuff at this time in the market because it's what's worked in the past and they think that they just like, Well, yeah, it's like, I know, this is a I know, it's only a you know, 2% cap rate, but that's okay because, yeah, just a one in three years… Yeah, exactly, so there's something there's something about, there's something about that. Yeah, it's just it's fundamentals, I think that's what it is, is comes down to investing fundamentals and that's what we preach at our company. It's how we help our investors, it's just really coming back to the fundamentals. Make sure you're doing it right.   Michael: Yeah, that makes sense and what about the other side of that coin for the folks that you've really just seen knock it out of the park? What are they doing and you can't say the fundamentals, you have to pick a different answer go?   Rich: That's great. I love that. Agreed, yeah, what value is that? Really, it's the people who, what I've seen, it's the people who take the long term game plan to the boring investors, the ones who are not trying to do this rapid growth, and trying to 10x their portfolio or 20, exit, or whatever it is. So it's keeping that long term perspective and just, you know, making sure that you can control the properties through any type of downturn and so the lessons learned that that, you know, being going through the whole recession, the Great Recession, and the whole mortgage meltdown, and all that big lessons came from that and so that it's the people who take out long term, continuously reinvesting to so it's like, you start this small, small portfolio, whether it's passive or active, and then you just start expanding and expanding and expanding it and I would say, it's the people who focus on the overall cash flow, not just I mean, brink weaving into appreciation, but looking at it, like five years from now, this is what my portfolio will most likely be doing based on everything, even if there's a recession, or whatever and then looking out 10 years and looking at it 15 years.   So it's that big picture and then reinvesting. The opposite of that would be someone who's I have some friends who were only flipping, so very transactional, and they had to find the properties either flip it and that's where their income was coming through into constantly flipping it and they adjusted the wise ones and the smart ones adjusted and switch to the bur stead strategy and so they started to find these properties, fix them up, but then they would hold them and rent them out and now they're the ones that have amassed a good amount of wealth, whereas the other people who are flipping are still in the transaction game.   Michael: Yeah. Ah, that makes sense, that makes sense. Okay. We've had a pretty good debate on the show over episodes about something called an alligator, which I don't know if you know Michael Zuber at all he's an author of one rental at a time. He's a good friend of the podcast, but in his definition alligators any property, that's negative cashflow, you have to feed it every month to keep continue owning it. So as you're talking about big picture, are you okay? If you say for instance, take out a cash out refinance a property to make that property a go negative, but to buy property B and now your global cumulative cash flow is greater than that a property a alone.   Rich: I'm in the camp of no, don't, do not no, no negative cashflow and negative cash flow and I'll be completely honest and transparent that the house at Kathy and I were in in Malibu before this, we bought it, we fix it up, we bought it for $747,000 in Malibu, which is rare, hard to find, it's like unheard of. Yeah, it was like it was a one bedroom, one bath built in 1927 and we had to completely gutted it and rehab and we put about 300,000 into it and then we didn't get permits. So we got busted in that process and now there's still a lien on title from LA county building department and so we can't sell that place and we can't even get a refi until we get those liens off title and get it all permanent everything which is a, that's a whole different stories…   Michael: Trying to get us to do an entire podcast series…     Rich: Coastal Commission and all that stuff. So oh my gosh, so we have a tenant in there and it's slightly cash negative cash flow. So that's like 150 to 200 a month negative cash flow.   So being completely honest, we do have a negative cash flow, it drives me crazy and that house has gone up probably $400,000 over the last couple of years in value. So we could look at it that way. But we can beyond that everything that we hold is positive cash flow, even if it's just like $100 a month positive. That's fine and if we're going to do a cash out refi we make sure that it's appreciated enough where we can do that cash out refi and not have the loan payment, PTI go over what we're gonna get for rental income.   Michael: Yeah, makes sense. Well, I appreciate you sharing the misstep and the vulnerability here on the show but it wasn't intentional, that was just a series of consequences. That hadn't be negative. You wouldn't you would intentionally do that.   Rich: Yeah, we did bring it on ourselves and but yeah, wasn't intentional. We didn't want to get caught.   Michael: I've played that game before, too. It's a risky one.   Rich: It is. Yeah, so you're always looking out the window and yeah…   Michael: Who is coming in, roday gonna be the day get caught o maybe tomorrow?   Rich: Exactly. When we were almost done. We were building the final deck in the back and all of a sudden, this building inspector shows I'm investigating you because one of your neighbors called…   Michael: I was gonna say but it's probably one of your neighbors.   Rich: Yeah, because it would make the cut and concrete and it was so loud or for the whole week. I think it just drove this neighbor crazy and so it is what it is.   Michael: As soon as a quick aside one of the other hosts on the show with me, Tom he, one of his neighbors called on him he was adding an offer a small prefab office in the backyard of his property. neighbor called he gets in trouble. Same thing didn't pull permits. So now he's going through that whole rigmarole. But the funny part is the neighbor that called Tom found out that their fence is on Tom's property, it's on the wrong side of the property. He's like, thanks for calling and alerting me to that little fact.   Michael: Unbelievable.   Rich: So he's, he's playing that game. How do I how do I want to you know, play my next hand?   Rich: The revenge game…   Michael: That's it, that's it, best served cold on ice. Okay, Rich. Let's wrap up here. I'm curious to get your thoughts. We are in this very unique time in our economy in our market in this country and I'm just curious to kind of get your thoughts on what are you doing, personally as an investor and what are you doing in your business and what are you telling your students to do, as well?   Rich: Absolutely, yeah. I have the benefit of being married to Kathy Fettke, who has been around for a while she's on the on the market podcast on Bigger Pockets and so she's constantly doing her market updates every year, she does predictions and has done that for the last 15 years and then at the every quarter, she doesn't investor update and at the end of the year, she puts herself on the line says okay, here's what I predicted back in January. Let's see how accurate I am and yeah, and she's been really good. She's like almost 95% on her predictions, which is awesome. So I just listened to her. You know, she's always interviewing experts and she's connected with like John Chang from Marcus and Millichap and so many just, you know, experts, as I said, with Kiyosaki and all that. So what she's saying I'll just speak, you know, because I get to hear through her office door when she's doing all her interviews and everything she think He said interest rates are not going to go up that much more, maybe even dip a tiny bit for mortgages, and then maybe level off.   But even though the Feds gonna keep raising the rate, the lender and great mortgage rates can't kind of withstand that going up too much. So she thinks mortgage rates are going to hold around where they are and then there's such a glut in such a need for properties and not enough inventory. It's like a whole different world than 2008-2009. So yeah, I think we're, it's estimates are between three and 5 million homes shy right now, for housing units. So inventory still low and also, there's that whole thing where people are locked into these amazing interest rates, so they don't want to sell. So they just, it doesn't make sense to sell something and when you got a 3% mortgage or lower and go into a higher mortgage, so the real estate is gonna hold strong is what she's predicting, it's even going to increase a little bit rents are even going to increase a little bit surprisingly, even with, with the economy and inflation, rents are still gonna go up a little bit, that's her prediction and then a recession will hit well, most likely, sometime around late 2023, early 2024 but it will be a mild one, just kind of more of a correction that that's needed.   Michael: Okay. Okay and does either her or you think that there will be any kind of pullback in demand as folks go back into the office or are we going to be seeing remote work kind of indefinitely, which I think was a big driver of that single family rental demand?   Rich: Yeah, that's a big one. Yeah and the cool thing is like, we have teams that are like the boots on the ground. So there's different 15 different property teams in our company that find properties and so and we just did a mastermind with them in Tampa, Florida and we spent two days and we really talked about all this exact same stuff. So it's, it's something around not like a big hit on it. There still will be some availability, but not much different than if you look at today's current market right now is not going to be a lot different than that over the next year and a half.   Michael: So for instance, we don't expect there to be much pullback in terms of demand. Dude, because we're expecting people to continue remote working basically…   Rich: There's definitely a return to the office. There's there are definitely companies that are saying no, it's time to come back now that we want to look over your shoulder, we want to hold you accountable and all that stuff. It's so funny, because it's like the surfing lineups are getting a little bit lighter thinning. So funny. Go Oh, it's like why are so many people surfing? Oh, they're supposed to be orange. They think they're working. Their bosses think they're at work right now. Yeah. So I'm seeing a pullback there. So that's my gauge.   Michael: So funny.   Rich: Yeah, but not as much. There's definitely, with so many people how they've learned to use Zoom and GoTo Meeting and being remote and all that stuff. It's we're in a new world, there's no doubt about it. So I think there's going to be a slight pullback on buyers and transactions and all that. As far as the rate, but it's still not going to it's not going to drop to like dismal levels.   Michael: Okay, sweet. Well, we will definitely have to stay in touch and see how you do how you and your wife do on those percentages. Rich, this has been so much fun, man. Thank you again, if people want to learn more about you want to learn more about real wealth, where can they do that?   Rich: For the book? Like I said, it's on Amazon or if people want to learn more, before they buy it, just go to https://realwealth.com/the-wise-investor-book/  and then our website is just simple, real wealth: https://realwealth.com/   Michael: Perfect. Alright, thank you again and I'm sure we'll be chatting soon.   Rich: All right, man. Thank you, it was fun.   Michael: All right, everyone a big thank you to Rich for coming on. Super, super insightful. I know I learned a ton as a coach myself in what to look for in a coach and mentor going forward as well. So as always, thank you so much for listening, and we look forward to seeing the next one. Happy investing…

About Acceleration Partners : Founded in 2007, Acceleration Partners is the recognized leader in partnership marketing and a five-time International Performance Marketing Award (IPMA) winner in the “Best Performance Marketing Agency” category. Acceleration Partners manages programs in more than 40 countries for more than 170 brands, including Adidas, LinkedIn, Noom, Redbubble, and GoToMeeting. Acceleration Partners' global staff of 270+ maintains a singular focus on delivering exceptional outcomes; and delivers deep and data-driven expertise in all key partnership marketing tactics, including affiliate, influencer, content, mass media, and B2B partnership marketing. In addition, Acceleration Partners has received awards for its exceptional culture, including "Best Workplaces" (Inc.), "Best Places to Work" (Glassdoor), and "Most Committed to Work-Life Balance" (Digiday).About Glazer (Founder & Chairman Of The Board): Robert Glazer is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning executive, bestselling author, and keynote speaker.He has a passion for helping individuals and organizations build their capacity and elevate their performance.Bob is the founder and Board Chairman of global partnership marketing agency Acceleration Partners and was the co-founder and chairman of BrandCycle which was acquired by Stack Commerce and TPG. , Bob has significant experience in digital monetization, affiliate & partner marketing, customer acquisition, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer marketing, including experience with M&A on both the buy and sell side. He has served as a board member and advisor to many high-growth companies in the e-commerce and marketing verticals.www.robertglazer.comAbout Wool: An analytical, creative, and forward-thinking executive with broad experience and a track record of success at every stage. For the last 8 years, I have helped lead Acceleration Partners from infancy to its current position as the world's leading partner marketing agency. Today, oversee day-to-day operations of the company and drive strategy along with the CEO and our leadership team. Early in my career, I also developed and sold film projects for Disney and my own company.Writing with Authors Link with Glazer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgcYZFXtW7IGlazer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glazer/Wool LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-wool-67a3aa5/Episode #205 of That Entrepreneur Show- The podcast where founders of companies and brands share their entrepreneurial journeys, lessons learned, tips for success, and more each Friday since 2019. Listen to all episodes here: https://ThatEntrepreneurShow.Buzzsprout.comWebsite:  https://www.VincentALanci.com/YouTubeShow InstagramHost InstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedInFor Digital Editing Inquiries and Potential Podcast Guests: Email: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenHappy | https://soundcloud.com/morning-kulishow/happy-background-music-no-copyright-fun-roy

Morgens ein Videocall in GoToMeeting, mittags die Präsentation in Microsoft Teams und abends das Webinar in Zoom? So sieht der Alltag bei Unternehmen oder Selbstständigen vielerorts aus. Doch bei der Technik dafür hakt es in den allermeisten Fällen. Abgesehen von der Bild- und Tonqualität sind Webcam und Headset im Alltag keine adäquaten Werkzeuge mehr, wenn es um zeitgemäße und repräsentative Online-Konnuikation geht.

In this episode we speak to Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner of Boldstart, a venture investor specializing in DevTools and software. Ed has invested in developer-focused companies like Snyk, Slim.ai, and Jit Security. We discuss what engineers should think about when working on side projects, when and if they should seek out investors, how to pick the good ones, whether raising money is even needed, and what the role of open source is.About Ed SimEd is the Founder of Boldstart Ventures, a day-one partner and true believer for developer first and SaaS founders. Boldstart is a lead investor and often partners with technical founders at company formation, helping accelerate their path to product market fit.Ed is currently a board member/observer of Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Blockdaemon, Env0, Dooly, and Cape Privacy. Other notable day-one investments include Superhuman, Security Scorecard, and Front. Ed previously co-founded Dawntreader Ventures where he led first round investments in LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), GoToMeeting (acq. By Citrix), and Greenplum (acq. EMC/Pivotal). Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard.Things mentioned:SnykSlim.aiCodeSeeAtomic Jar TestcontainersAkamaiSourceClearNodeRubyGemsDigitalOceanAtlassianTwilioGitLabBitbucketGreenplumEucalyptusCape Privacy Gavin UhmaDropout LabsTensorFlow encryptedMongoDBElasticsearchRed Hat JBossBoldstart.vcWhat's Hot in Enterprise IT/VCLet us know what you think on Twitter:https://twitter.com/consoledotdevhttps://twitter.com/davidmyttonhttps://twitter.com/edsimOr by email: hello@console.devAbout ConsoleConsole is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don't have to. Sign up for free at: https://console.devRecorded: 2021-10-15.

In influencer marketing, and certainly in marketing overall, there are generally two types of focus. The one we talk about more often is consumer marketing, also know as business-to-consumer or B2C. Then there's business-to-business, or B2B. B2B brands sell software, equipment or services to businesses, sometimes for price tags far too high for an individual purchase. So think of complex IT systems, office equipment, construction machinery or even professional services like legal, accounting, human resources or even marketing agencies. B2B sales cycles are longer … sometimes in excess of 12- to 18-months. So there's a lot more for a brand to do to attract prospects, build relationships and trust, educate the prospect about the product and ultimately get them to commit sometimes significant corporate dollars to pay for it.  That relationship building and trust is key. And for many B2B brands, that's where influencers come in. But not Instagrammers and TikTok-ers, per say. B2B influencers are those that have deep knowledge and trust in very specific communities. They're often academics, industry analysts, executives, researchers and more. Often, their influence can't be measured by their number of online followers. As such, B2B influencer marketing is often more difficult.  Justin Levy is the director of social media and influencer marketing for Demandbase. It is a company that provides software to manage the account-based experience. So think of CRM software that also ties your content marketing into the sales process. It keeps your database of prospective customers, a record of all the times and ways you've communicated with them, where they are in the sales process, and what content you should serve them next to move them along to purchase. Justin spent several years at Citrix managing the GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar social and influencer connections, so he has a lot of experience building B2B influencer relations. We caught up with Justin to talk about how he finds influencers for his B2B efforts, what kind of engagements he and the Demandbase team engage them for, and then how his company uses content in an innovative approach to meet the prospect and other stakeholders where they are in the process.  He gives us good insight into how a B2B brand works and thinks of influencers. I'm sure the conversation will inform and inspire you, even if your focus is more B2C. This episode of Winfluence is presented by Tagger. It is a complete influencer marketing solution. You can find out more for yourself at jason.online/tagger.  In this episode, we visit with Alexandra Walsh from 3 Day Blinds, a premium window treatment brand, about how she uses Tagger.  To start building your own experiences with my influencer marketing software of choice, go to jason.online/tagger today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/KevinStephens-scaled.jpg ()Scanning Existing Conditions with the Canvas App Kevin Stephens started programming on an Apple II+ at the age of four, which established his love of technology. After earning his degree in computer science at the University of California, San Diego, Kevin spent time as a software engineer at Apple before joining Google in its early days. There, he worked on a variety of products and helped build Google's presence internationally. He later co-founded and led Blink, the first consumer ephemeral text messaging app, which was acquired by Yahoo. Kevin subsequently led product teams at GoToMeeting and Thumbtack before joining Occipital as CEO. At Occipital, Kevin leads its two business units: Canvas, a mobile app that saves home improvement professionals days of work on every project by turning a simple iPhone or iPad scan into accurate measurements through its Scan To CAD service, and Structure, which brings the power of mobile 3D scanning to medical practices. Kevin also serves as an angel investor and advisor to multiple early-stage startups. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two daughters. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Scanning Existing Conditions with the Canvas App with Kevin Stephens.  Check out https://apps.apple.com/us/app/canvas-lidar-3d-measurements/id1169235377 (Canvas app) for yourself. Learn more about Canvas http://canvas.io (here) and connect with Kevin at Kevin@Occipital.com or on http://linkedin.com/in/kjstephe (LinkedIn). Follow Canvas on https://instagram.com/scannedwithcanvas (Instagram) and https://www.facebook.com/scannedwithcanvas/ (Facebook). Please visit Our Platform Sponsors https://arcat.com (ARCAT) is the online resource delivering quality building material information, CAD details, BIM, Specs, and more… all for free. Visit ARCAT now and subscribe to http://arcat.com (ARCATECT Weekly and ARCATAlert). http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all in one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The post https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/scanning-existing-conditions-with-the-canvas-app/ (EA437: Kevin Stephens – Scanning Existing Conditions with the Canvas App) appeared first on https://entrearchitect.com (EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects).

Change is constant. Especially in tech. Especially over the last 18 months. While transformation is challenging, businesses have to adapt (and fast) if they want to survive. My guest today, Chris Perrotti, VP of Digital Workplace at LogMeIn, was in the trenches for the mind-bogglingly complicated merger with Citrix, and then became a general in the remote work revolution. Join us as we discuss: Staying focused amidst massive changes How immensely crucial it is to have the right team Making the right choices when merging two distinct cultures Pandemic lessons and pivoting to employee safety Embracing a flexible work style for good Craving more? You can find this interview and many more by subscribing to C-Suite Blueprint on Apple Podcasts , on Spotify, or here. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for C-Suite Blueprint in your favorite podcast player. About: LogMeIn, makers of category-defining products, such as GoToConnect, GoToMeeting, LastPass, Rescue, LogMeIn Central, and more, unlock the potential of the modern workforce by making it possible for millions of people and businesses around the globe to do their best work simply and securely—on any device, from any location and at any time. Founded in 2003, they are a pioneer in remote work technology and a driving force behind today's work-from-anywhere movement, LogMeIn has become one of the world's largest SaaS companies with over 3,500 employees, and tens of millions of active users worldwide who use its software as an essential part of their daily lives. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional locations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and thousands of home offices around the globe.

On this episode of The Shape of Work podcast, our guest is Bhagvan Kommadi, Director of Product Engineering at ValueMomentum - a software & solutions firm focused on the Insurance, Banking and Healthcare industries.Having been in the IT industry for over two decades, Bhagvan's experiences range from large-scale enterprise development to helping incubate software product start-ups. In this episode, he shares his thoughts on digital information, communication and rethinking our relationship with work in the new normal. Everything from challenges to opportunities of remote work in this conversation.Bhagvan Kommadi podcast talks about how 10 years back when no one had even anticipated the pandemic, a bank initiated the thought of building a proper content management platform. The thought was greatly criticized by many as they believed that it was not right for a bank, whose functions and requirements are very different, to establish a digital platform for content management. The idea behind this was to create a brand experience, target touchpoints, create intern solutions, collect, organize, and produce digital assets, create digital audio-video, broadcasting, web-publishing, analytics systems, and marketing. Little did anyone know that the thought initiated so long ago would be executed prominently now.Bhagwan compares the lockdown situation to that of a war room scenario, where everyone is stuck at home, but still, need to execute their operations. He terms such a state a “stalled state”,DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONDigitization has enhanced and made efficient all operations, from classrooms at schools to the banks and companies, which has made the lives of people much easier. Bhagwan mentions the various online platforms available such as Zoom, Teams, GoToMeeting, Webex which have various features, such as self-up-gradation, the possibility to share documents, etc.WHERE NEXT?Bhagwan talked about how before the pandemic the organizations followed a system wherein during a meeting everyone would be in one room, with a whiteboard and having brainstorming sessions, jotting down ideas and debating. But the lockdown took the collaboration to the next level. Earlier, IT operations had external office applications in case of any emergency or for future purposes, but it was never expected that it would go full-fledged in a short period. The organizations realized the need to collaborate and work in real-time despite being situated at different locations. This brought in the Cloud systems. Everybody now has all the features available on their laptops and have the access to work from anywhere without the need for a particular office desktop to work.HOW TO HAVE A NORMAL LIFE WHILE WORKING FROM HOME?Bhagwan finally talked about how two years ago, everyone was swaddled to the office, but the lockdown made people realize that interactions were possible around their own house also. He emphasized the balance that is needed while working from home. Before the whole WFH system, everyone had a set routine, from getting up in the morning to going to their workplace, taking lunch breaks, and coming back home. But now, an individual can get up and get started with work.Learning to take breaks is very essential in work life. The touchpoints to interact with the people and environment around and not be confined to the laptop with web meetings and office colleagues. Follow Bhagvan on LinkedInGet the highlights of this episode in our blog.Produced by: Priya BhattPodcast host: Abhash Kumar

Links: How to Make Your Next Third-Party Risk Conversation Less Awkward: https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/how-to-make-your-next-third-party-risk-conversation-less-awkward 5 Vexing Cloud Security Issues: https://www.itprotoday.com/hybrid-cloud/5-vexing-cloud-security-issues Attackers Increasingly Target Linux in the Cloud: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/attackers-increasingly-target-linux-in-the-cloud Top 5 Best Practices for Cloud Security: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/magazine-features/top-5-best-practices-for-cloud/ Zix Releases 2021 Mid-Year Global Threat Report: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/zix-releases-2021-mid-year-global-threat-report The big three innovations transforming cloud security: https://siliconangle.com/2021/08/21/big-three-innovations-transforming-cloud-security/ The Benefits of a Cloud Security Posture Assessment: https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2021/08/benefits-cloud-security-posture-assessment How to Maintain Accountability in a Hybrid Environment: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/how-to-maintain-accountability-in-a-hybrid-environment 6 Cloud Security Must-Haves–with Help from CSPM, CWPP or CNAPP: https://www.eweek.com/security/6-cloud-security-must-haves-with-help-from-cspm-cwpp-or-cnapp/ The hybrid-cloud security road map: https://www.techradar.com/news/the-hybrid-cloud-security-road-map How Biden's Cloud Security Executive Order Stacks Up to Industry Expectations: https://securityintelligence.com/articles/biden-executive-order-industry-expectations/ Cloud Security: Adopting a Structured Approach: https://customerthink.com/cloud-security-adopting-a-structured-approach/ The Overlooked Security Risks of the Cloud: https://threatpost.com/security-risks-cloud/168754/ TranscriptJesse: Welcome to Meanwhile in Security where I, your host Jesse Trucks, guides you to better security in the cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Thinkst Canary. This might take a little bit to explain, so bear with me. I linked against an early version of their tool, canarytokens.org, in the very early days of my newsletter, and what it does is relatively simple and straightforward. It winds up embedding credentials, files, or anything else like that that you can generate in various parts of your environment, wherever you want them to live; it gives you fake AWS API credentials, for example. And the only thing that these things do is alert you whenever someone attempts to use them. It's an awesome approach to detecting breaches. I've used something similar for years myself before I found them. Check them out. But wait, there's more because they also have an enterprise option that you should be very much aware of: canary.tools. You can take a look at this, but what it does is it provides an enterprise approach to drive these things throughout your entire environment and manage them centrally. You can get a physical device that hangs out on your network and impersonates whatever you want to. When it gets Nmap scanned, or someone attempts to log into it, or access files that it presents on a fake file store, you get instant alerts. It's awesome. If you don't do something like this, instead you're likely to find out that you've gotten breached the very hard way. So, check it out. It's one of those few things that I look at and say, “Wow, that is an amazing idea. I am so glad I found them. I love it.” Again, those URLs are canarytokens.org and canary.tools. And the first one is free because of course it is. The second one is enterprise-y. You'll know which one of those you fall into. Take a look. I'm a big fan. More to come from Thinkst Canary weeks ahead.Jesse: It is 2021. Conference calls and remote meetings have the same decade-old problems. Connection drops, asking if anyone can hear us, asking if anyone can see our screen, even though we can clearly see the platform is in sharing mode with our window front and center. Why is this so hard? We live in the golden age of the cloud.Shouldn't we be easily connecting and sharing like we're in the same room rather than across the planet? Yes we should. Sure, there have been improvements, and now we can do high-quality video, connect dozens or hundreds of people from everywhere on a webinar, and usually most of us can manage a video meeting with some screen sharing. I don't understand how we can have Amazon Chime, WebEx, Teams, Zoom, Google Meet—or whatever it's called this month—GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, FaceTime, and other options, and still not have a decent way for multiple people to see and hear one another and share a document, or an application, or screen without routine problems. All of these are cloud-based solutions.Why do they all suck? When I have to use some of these platforms, I dread the coming meeting. The worst I've seen is Amazon Chime—yes, that's you, Amazon—Microsoft Teams—as always—and Adobe Connect. Oof. The rest are largely similar with more or less the same features and quality, except FaceTime, which is still only a personal use platform and not so great for conferences for work. I just want one of these to not suck so much.Meanwhile in the news. How to Make Your Next Third-Party Risk Conversation Less Awkward. You know that moment. Someone asks a question at the networking event. The deafening silence while you stare at the floor trying to find a way to get out of embarrassing yourself. Do your future self a favor and do some work before this happens again. You'll feel better and you'll have better visibility while improving your security posture.5 Vexing Cloud Security Issues. Unlike the tips and best practices list, this one is a ‘don't be stupid' type list. Some of these are foundational basic security steps. Watch out for the zombies.Attackers Increasingly Target Linux in the Cloud. Linux is the most common cloud-hosted OS. It shouldn't be surprising that it's the most common platform to attack, as well. Secure and monitor your cloud hosts closely. This is also a good reason to consider pushing toward a dynamic services model without traditional operating system footprints.Top 5 Best Practices for Cloud Security. Oh, yay. Another top number list for newbs. We all need reminding of the basics of best practices, especially as they evolve. Are you doing these five things? Why not?Announcer: Have you implemented industry best practices for securely accessing SSH servers, databases, or Kubernetes? It takes time and expertise to set up. Teleport makes it easy. It is an identity-aware access proxy that brings automatically expiring credentials for everything you need, including role-based access controls, access requests, and the audit log. It helps prevent data exfiltration and helps implement PCI and FedRAMP compliance. And best of all, teleport is open-source and a pleasure to use. Download teleport at goteleport.com. That's goteleport.com.Jesse: Zix Releases 2021 Mid-Year Global Threat Report. I suggest looking at the whole report, however, know attackers are using email, SMS and text messages, and customizing phishing more than ever before. Your people are going to see more social engineering attacks, so be sure everyone understands the basics of what types of things not to say on the phone and the usual about not following URLs in messages and emails.The big three innovations transforming cloud security. CASB, SASE, and CSPM—pronounced ‘cazzbee' ‘sassy' and, well, nothing fancy for CSPM that rolls off the tongue, so just use the letters—are your new friends. With the three of these used for your cloud environment, you'll have better visibility and control of your risk profile and security posture.The Benefits of a Cloud Security Posture Assessment. Okay, so we've covered CSPM some, but you need a CSPA before you implement your CSPM. I tried to use more acronyms but I ran out of energy. Seriously, an assessment of your risks and security posture are invaluable. Without it, you may be missing vital areas that leave you exposed.How to Maintain Accountability in a Hybrid Environment. If you support delivery of services to mobile apps, you should consider the security of the client end as relates to your application. You could get caught by some nasty surprises, no matter how secure your server environment appears to be.6 Cloud Security Must-Haves–with Help from CSPM, CWPP or CNAPP. Gartner loves making up—I mean defining, new markets so they can invent new acronyms and sell us yet another Magic Quadrant subscription. Sadly, it's the lens through which we must view the industry because media and vendors rely too much on Gartner Magic Quadrants.The hybrid-cloud security road map. Migrating some or all of our services to the cloud can feel like scaling an inverted cliff with butter on our hands, but it's easier than you think. Sometimes we just need some gentle guidance on an approach that might work for us.How Biden's Cloud Security Executive Order Stacks Up to Industry Expectations. US President Biden's Executive Order number 14028, “Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity” is surprisingly relevant to the real problems we face in cybersecurity every day. If you don't have time or energy to read the entirety of the 24-page document, you should understand the impact of it. Hint: it's a good thing for security.Cloud Security: Adopting a Structured Approach. Sure, the basics are largely the same as security in non-cloud environments. However, there are new ways to implement much of these security measures, and if you aren't careful, you will miss all the new ways you must protect your resources and services that either change or are wholly new in the cloud.The Overlooked Security Risks of the Cloud. It's easy to think moving things to the cloud offloads work and lowers our risk profiles. Don't forget there are tradeoffs. We have to do more and different security things to ensure our services, data, and users are protected.And now for the Tip of the Week. Lock down your AMIs. If you have Amazon Machine Images—or AMIs—be sure they aren't available to other people. Even if these don't have your proprietary information in them, they do disclose your foundational EC2 image, so attackers can more easily tailor their approach to get into your real infrastructure. Ensure your AMI permissions are restrictive so the public can't touch them.Go to your AWS Console, EC2, and then AMIs. Select your AMIs, and then Actions, Modify Image Permissions, and then add your accounts. And that it for the week, folks. Securely yours, Jesse Trucks.Jesse: Thanks for listening. Please subscribe and rate us on Apple and Google Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

John Greathouse is a venture capitalist, deploying roughly $100 million into approximately 60 ventures. He has written for Forbes since 2008, as well as The Wall Street Journal Inc., Business Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine, and TechCrunch. He has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups, where he spearheaded transactions and generated more than $350 million worth of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. John is also a CPA and holds an MBA from the Wharton School. Since 2007, he has been a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches entrepreneurship. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews John Greathouse, a venture capitalist, about his background in building tech companies and becoming a venture capitalist. John Greathouse also explains how he helps entrepreneurs evaluate their business ideas and build startups, and he talks about some of the successful companies and entrepreneurs he has worked with. Stay tuned.

This episode is a replay of the Women's Empowerment Workshop which was held in March during Women's History Month. The discussion focused on how women should use all the resources available to them to shorten their job search or advance their career. Two resources are discussed: utilizing the services of a career strategist and a paid recruiter. My guests are Stacey Weissbock of JobssNow, and Ashlie Moseley of Beacon Hill Staffing. To watch the replay of this workshop, please visit our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/Xx4EQ0D8ta4 Important points from the discussion - from Stacey and Ashlie: - Advice to help job seekers in this challenging job market o Consistency matters, don't be inconsistent in your outreach or relationship building, research the company, practicing your messaging – consistency is he first step to success. o Build a schedule create consistent relationships and outreach, research, do the work; make a spreadsheet if that helps. - Virtual interviewing tip o Download all the different types of software: WebEx, Teams, Zoom and GoToMeeting prior to your interview because you don't know what they will be using and you want to be prepared. - Working with recruiters o There are always job postings (open requisitions) on their website o If there is not the right chemistry with one recruiter you can always request another one - Benefits of working with recruiters o Recruiters have strong relationships with clients (hiring companies). o Access to the hidden job market (i.e., companies sometimes have positions that are not posted) o They can advocate for you with the company - Prior to the pandemic, it was a “candidate's world” meaning that there were more jobs than candidates; now it is flipped – there are great candidates in the labor market but not enough jobs. - Hot industries: human resources, legal, finance and pharmaceuticals - Unemployment rate in finance is below 3%; positions in accounting can range from accounts payable/receivable all the way to CFO; you do not always need a CPA to work in accounting. - Onboarding/starting a new position o Majority of onboarding is remote (i.e., offer letter, identification) o When you start new job virtually, it is up to the company to get you what you need to be successful o Let recruiter know if you need any equipment; and they will help you get it. - Contract work o Be open to working on contract for a while, employers like to see that you are working o Contract work can also sharpen your skills or help you learn new ones; shows you are still networking and staying in the game. o Contract work could also turn into a permanent position. Stacey Weissbock, Jobss Now Stacey@jobssnow.com Career Strategist & Change Consultant 833.562.7669 Ashlie Moseley, Beacon Hill Staffing Senior Account Executive | Beacon Hill Financial Direct (617) 326-4094 152 Bowdoin Street, Boston, MA 02108 amoseley@beaconhillstaffing.com A division of Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC | www.beaconhillstaffing.com For more information on Equal Pay: www.equalpaynow.org For assistance with career development visit: www.tailoredforsuccess.org

He is the founder of boldstart ventures, a day one partner, and a true believer in developer first and SaaS founders. boldstart is often the first investor working closely with technical founders at company formation. He is currently a board member/observer of Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Env0, and Cycle. Notable first check investments include Superhuman, Security Scorecard, and Front. He previously co-founded Dawntreader Ventures where he led first-round investments in LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), GoToMeeting (acq. By Citrix), and Greenplum (Pivotal Software). He has a BA in Economics from Harvard. Join David Nour and Randy Seidl on this episode of the #TechSalesInsights podcast with Ed Sim. Three quick points: Ed will be our guest on a livestream Q&A on Linkedin, Facebook, and YouTube - Wed, 3/3 at 2 PM ET - Join Us We turn the show notes from these podcasts into articles, so check them out on SalesCommunity.Com We have some fabulous guests coming up, such as Jennifer Haas, Andrew Ettinger, CRO at Astronomer, Craig Hinkley, CEO at White Hat Security, Mary Beth Vassallo, VP & GM of North America at NextThink, and Keegan Riley, CRO at SysDig. Stay up to date at SalesCommunity.com/Events Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salescommunity/message

DescriptionIt's hard to believe, but it's almost been a full year since we began working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift from in-person to remote work forced us to leverage may useful technologies, the most important being our virtual conference platforms like GoToMeeting and Microsoft Teams. However, as the year has progressed, you may be or already have experienced virtual conference fatigue, better known as “Zoom fatigue”.As we continue to operate in this largely virtual world for the next few months, possibly even after our offices are back to “normal”, it's important to recognize Zoom fatigue and take steps to ease the mental strain that comes from so many virtual meetings.Referenceshttps://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/psychological-exploration-zoom-fatiguehttps://hbr.org/2020/04/how-to-combat-zoom-fatiguehttps://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video-chats-are-so-exhaustinghttps://www.vidyard.com/blog/zoom-fatigue-tips/#what-is-zoom-fatigue

Joe Krebs speaks with Heidi Helfand about Dynamic Re-teaming, team names, re-org's and the 5 patterns for adaptive org-design. Heidi was on the original development team that invented GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar and she wrote the book “Dynamic Re-teaming”.

Zoom, Teams, WebEx, GoToMeeting . . . The platform doesn't matter. What does matter is what people do on it. In this episode Dr. Janel Anderson recaps the seven most annoying habits of your coworkers (and maybe yourself!) and shares strategies for how to turn them around. From dominating the conversation to not turning on their camera to multitasking during the meeting, this episode brings you diplomatic tactics you can use to get your remote meetings back on track.Get full show notes and more information here: https://workingconversations.com/7[3:07] #1 - The person who doesn't know how to use the platform[6:19] #2 - The loud eater who doesn't mute[9:19] To mute or not to mute?[10:35] #3 – The multitasker[12:47] #4 – The person who dominates the conversation[17:47] Dr. Anita Woolley's research on collective intelligence https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/faculty-and-research/faculty-by-area/profiles/williams-woolley-anita.html[17:31] #5 – Not turning on camera[22:06] #6 – Forgetting to take yourself off mute[23:18] #7 – Being unprepared 

Today's guest is Randy Schwantz, author of “The Wedge” and one of the premier sales experts in the Insurance Industry. Randy is also President of The Wedge® Group, a business performance and sales consulting firm. A former salesperson himself, Schwantz has spent more than 10,000 hours talking with people who sell for a living. His unique sales strategy has been embraced by hundreds of companies and thousands of individual sales professionals throughout the United States and Canada.We discuss:• Optimizing your home office for Zoom & GoToMeeting calls• The difference between selling and winning in insurance• Most common new producer mistakes• What keeps producers from closing • Conscious vs subconscious rapportLearn more about Randy and Wedge: https://thewedge.net/Follow Pat on Instagram: @patbcostello https://www.evolvedbrokerpodcast.com/

Welcome to episode 7 of techLGTM In this episode we talk about Zoom - the leader in modern enterprise video communications and their announcement of Zapps. What is Zoom? History of Zoom and its founder - Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan, a former corporate vice president for Cisco Webex. He left Cisco in April 2011 with 40 engineers to start a new company. ~10 year to make it a success and a mature platform. Effect of COVID-19 on the rise of Zoom - By February 2020, Zoom had gained 2.22 million users in 2020. Daily average users rose from about 10 million in December 2019 to more than 300 million daily meeting participants in April 2020. How Zoom compares to it's competitors like Bluejeans, GoToMeeting, Skype, Hangout etc and why Zoom has an edge. New players in the market - Hopin, Airmeet. Zapps - marketplace for 3rd party apps to be integrated into Zoom. Invite only. Why this is a game changer. About techLGTM A technology podcast hosted by Shashank Singh, Preet Raj and Amol Sharma. Here we discuss some latest and pressing topics related to technology. We analyze how technology impacts our day to day life and what the future of technology will look like. Shashank Singh - Startup specialist with over two decades of experience. MBA in entrepreneurship and is an engineer. Amol Sharma - Serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies in the space e-commerce, AR/VR and Blockchain. Amol is an active member of VR AR Association and is an avid angel investor. Preet Raj - Seasoned engineering leader with Big Data. AI/ML and devops chops. MS and BE in Computer Science #zoom #zapps #hangouts #hopin #Airmeet #videocalls #webinars #podcast #technology #tech #techLGTM

< 36:30 > This episode we're turning the mic around for a reverse interview with Nina Sunday by Pip Savaris, one of Nina's inhouse assistants. Talking points include: - Best practice for leading online team meetings - Pro tips to look and sound professional - Tools and functions that make the presentation engaging and interactive - What leaders should NEVER do in a meeting  Nina Sunday says, 'A manager needs to become competent with all the bells and whistles of their platform, whether MS Teams, Zoom, GoToMeeting, Webex, etc. I've used all these platforms, and in this session I'll discuss equipment and setup relevant to all online presenting, while including advanced tips for engagement.' Certified Virtual Presenter, Nina Sunday (CSP, BA, Dip Ed), is an international virtual presenter and face-to-face workshop leader in Australia on productivity, communication and workplace culture. Producer of the business podcast, Manage Self, Lead Others Nina Sunday interviews key experts in self-leadership and leading others, highlighting emerging trends since COVID. Her book, ‘Workplace Wisdom for 9 to thrive; Proven Tactics and Hacks to Get Ahead in Today's Workplace' is a selection of the C-Suite Network Book Club. Founder and Managing Director of training company, Brainpower Training Pty Ltd, www.BrainpowerTraining.com.au, she leads a team of Facilitators Australia-wide. Video version can be viewed here: https://www.brainpowertraining.com/Q&A-10-zoom-tips For more information visit https://ninasunday.com or follow Nina Sunday on LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the past few months, we have been talking about how to navigate this new “normal” as we walk through the season of a pandemic. Over the course of these last several months, you've had to make a shift. You've had to start looking at different ways of running your fundraising efforts. And so today, we're going to continue on that topic. I'm going to give you a list of the industries that are actually doing really, really well right now, and then we'll talk through that and see how it impacts you and your cause. In the last couple of episodes, we've talked about online fundraising and virtual fundraising events. There's no reason why corporations and small businesses would not want to still sponsor your fundraising efforts. How are people marketing right now? How are you engaging donors? How are you engaging customers? Corporations and small businesses are looking to you to get their messages out there in the world and they're looking for creative ways where they can continue to promote and get people engaged in the work that they're doing. It doesn't matter what country you live in. I just want to remind you that humans are humans, it doesn't matter where we live, we all want to be connected to each other. We all want to feel like we're making a difference in the world in some way. We're talking about the people who, in their gut, know that they need to take care of their neighbors. We need to take care of the people that we do life with, and we also have to take care of people who don't have what we have. Whether that's orphans and widows, poor people who don't have food, don't have a shelter, or don't have a place to live. I've been watching these organizations that are feeding tens of millions of people, and the donations are still coming in. And they are seeing growth in ways that we probably would never have understood prior to this. Today as we talk about these corporations and businesses, I want you to just to be reminded that it is natural for them to want to give and to feel like they're connected to the community. So, all we're doing is we're fulfilling the problem. Let's talk through some of these industries and then I will go from there to tell you how we actually engage them and get them to financially support the work that you're doing. Number one on my list is the cleaning industry. People who are in the cleaning and product supplies industry are seeing an uptick because people need to clean their homes. Number two, the health and fitness industry. People are starting to realize that they're packing on a few pounds and maybe it's time that to get that elliptical machine or a few weights should show up at home, or maybe they should walk a little bit more. Maybe they need some new tennis shoes and some workout gear. The health and fitness industry has done very well. Number three, the wellness industry. Mental illness is on the rise and being isolated and not being connected with other people has proven to be something that we all know we need. The next one is the food industry. We all have to eat right? Grocery stores and even restaurants have modified what they do like curbside pickup and delivery. Then you get into the personal safety products like PPE or anybody who's doing masks or any sort of personal protection equipment, those industries have done well. There's the home and garden industry that's booming. People want to make their homes look nice. This is also why the real estate industry is doing well - the supply and demand is just so crazy that homes are selling very well. Then we get into video communications. A lot of people shifted from working from a storefront property or office over to home, and they've obviously had to start using new technology. And so video communications like Zoom and GoTo Meeting are raking in the cash right now because we are all online either working or meeting with our families.  Next are the eCommerce sites like Etsy or people who sell most of their products online who will deliver their products and services to your door. They have done well. Then you get into online education. All of our schools have shifted to online and e-courses are on the rise.  And the list goes on. I just want you to see that there is a whole host of industries that are doing well, and I want to encourage you to be much more strategic than you've been in the past. Let's stop focusing on trying to retain the donors that we've had in the past and let's start looking at what new industries and what new people you can start to engage. If there are certain people that you've been following, or people who you have really felt have impacted your nonprofit, then start having those conversations with them about how they could volunteer with your work and how they could adopt your cause. Everybody's looking for that charity of choice and it doesn't matter what their business looks like. Provide opportunities for them to choose your cause. Remember, a huge reason why companies and small businesses give to charities is that they want to make sure that the community sees that they care. When they donate school supplies or to feed the hungry, they are doing all those things because they know that they've got to take care of their people. And in return, those people are going to trust them back and want to do business with them. It's the same reason for both of us; for whether it's the for-profit or nonprofit industry. We want to show the community that we care, and that we're not just coming with a hand out all the time. Be sure to take a few minutes to realize that you have a lot of influence in your community, in the world, and the space that you work in. As you continue to press onward, I want you to take better control and to see that you have a lot of power in this season so go after new opportunities, and find new and exciting ways to engage people into the work that you're doing. It is in your control to invite people in. You're the gatekeeper, nobody's going to just randomly show up at your doorstep and say, “Gosh, I want to market my product through your organization.” They're not going to do that; you have to be creative. And you have to reach out to them and say, “you know what? You guys have been on our mind for a while. And we have this fundraiser that's coming up. And we believe that there's a way that we can partner together online, to make sure that this thing is a success for our community and a success for you as a business.” I hope that this is helpful today as you continue to press forward. And if you need anything, don't hesitate to reach out. I am just like you and I'm on the other side trying to navigate this myself. I hope you have a wonderful week. Let's go and engage these companies that are booming and let's engage them in a way that they can make a difference in the world through your cause.   Connect with Mary: Mary Valloni Fundraising Freedom Academy Fully Funded Academy Facebook LinkedIn    

Open any online marketing publication, e-book, webinar or YouTube video of a presentation about  app marketing, chances are it will be about doing marketing for B2C (stands for Business Two Customers) apps. In fact, the bulk of available materials cover techniques, hints, tricks, use case of how to market a mobile app to an end user. That's cool but there is the other part of the equation - B2B apps marketing and businesses need information about it as much as for B2C. On this episode we want to fill in the gap for marketers and business owners who need to find users for their B2B apps. Our guest is Philipp Stelzer, who is in an excellent position to talk about both B2C and B2B app marketing and what sets them apart. He spent several years being part of Wooga mobile game studio and was heavily involved with mobile games marketing to end users. Now Philipp is with LogMeIn software company, known to you by such well known brands as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and others, and he's immersed into marketing for B2B apps, in particular SAAs apps. Today's Topics Include:

Open any online marketing publication, e-book, webinar or YouTube video of a presentation about  app marketing, chances are it will be about doing marketing for B2C (stands for Business Two Customers) apps. In fact, the bulk of available materials cover techniques, hints, tricks, use case of how to market a mobile app to an end user. That's cool but there is the other part of the equation - B2B apps marketing and businesses need information about it as much as for B2C. On this episode we want to fill in the gap for marketers and business owners who need to find users for their B2B apps. Our guest is Philipp Stelzer, who is in an excellent position to talk about both B2C and B2B app marketing and what sets them apart. He spent several years being part of Wooga mobile game studio and was heavily involved with mobile games marketing to end users. Now Philipp is with LogMeIn software company, known to you by such well known brands as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and others, and he's immersed into marketing for B2B apps, in particular SAAs apps. Today's Topics Include:

In this episode of The Indie Author Mentor, I go over the uploading process with Ingram Spark and KDP Print, as well as touching on the online stores, like Kobo and KDP (Amazon). I address pricing in various countries (even India).   Show Notes: Hello Indie Authors! This is Episode 14, and it's 6/5//2019 as I record this. Today I'm talking about uploading your files to printers and stores, plus pricing tips. But first a personal update: Revised the chapter on characters this morning in my How to Write a Novel or Memoir book. Met with my architectural team via GoToMeeting this morning and had some technical difficulties. Got me thinking about working from another country and what kind of challenges I might face. Just found out our couch won't be delivered for another two weeks. So, in the meantime, the living room TV watching experience isn't as comfy as it used to be. I'M READING: Just finished Craig Martelle's non-fiction book on Successful Indie Publishing, a great section in the back on running conferences. He does 20Booksto50K. Here's the link for that book: https://craigmartelle.com/books/become-a-successful-indie-author-work-toward-your-writing-dream/ Next, I'll start Wired for Joy as my non-fiction book. In fiction, I finished Cold Comfort Farm and started The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen. No NEW PATRONS this week, but I hope you'll consider becoming a patron and helping me reach my FIRST Patreon goal. To earn $125 in monthly income from Patreon. When that happens...extra bonus Q&A episode for Patrons only. Patreon.com/valerieihsan.  Main topic: uploading your files to distributors and stores, plus pricing tips.           https://craigmartelle.com/books/become-a-successful-indie-author-work-toward-your-writing-dream/

Wendy Breakstone is a seasoned Small Business Coach & Systems Mentor with more than 18 years of experience helping entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses. Wendy has a diverse business management and marketing background that includes working for a best-selling spiritual author, owning and managing a 6-figure web development and marketing consultancy, to expanding her own business knowledge working with companies GoToMeeting.Today Wendy follows her passion for small business systems and focuses on mentoring and training entrepreneurs that need to remove the bottlenecks in their business by guiding them through creating and implementing systems and strategies for long-term, scalable success.QUICK TAKEAWAYS:Wendy talks about how you can turn your perceived weaknesses into your greatest strengths. She also talks about stretching yourself and putting yourself out into the online world in a confident way.One of the main points Wendy talks about is how important it is as Mompreneurs to take care of ourselves first. She shares that making sure you as the center of the household are happy and taken care of, is vitally important for the happiness of your whole family.Wendy's top business productivity tip is to focus on ONE single daily action. She says that anxiety and overwhelm can come from having “squirrel vision” (trying to do too many things, and that focusing in one your single daily action will alleviate a lot of that stress. For those struggling with anxiety, Wendy shared with us how to not let fear/anxiety take the wheel. She had a wonderful mindset shift around anxiety; “You have anxiety, it doesn't have you”.RESOURCES:Download Wendy's Build Success Freebies: www.buildsuccess.co/freebiesFollow Wendy on Instagram: www.instagram.com/wendybreakstone/Find Wendy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/buildsuccesswithwendy/Get signed up for the Clients on Automate Training Series to learn how to attract clients to you through a streamlined, results-driven, heart-centered marketing approach. https://bit.ly/clientsonautopilotCONNECT WITH ME:Join my absolutely FREE Facebook group, The 6-Figure Mompreneur Community: www.facebook.com/groups/themompreneurcommunity Follow me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/allisonhardy2015 Follow me on Instagram (I especially LOVE InstaStories!): www.instagram.com/allison_hardy_/ Find me on Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/allison_hardy_/LOVE THE PODCAST?If you LOVED today's episode, if you're grabbing Wendy's Build Success Freebies today, and you want to pay it forward, please head to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and review the podcast! The more subscriptions and reviews we get, the more likely the podcast will get pushed to more aspiring or established 6-figure mompreneurs, just like you!Music courtesy of www.bensound.com.

The number of conference solutions available out there can be overwhelming.  A large number of them are free or close enough that it can make deciding on a solution a difficult task.  Thus, we want to look at the well-known and well-supported solutions that fit our price range as well as the features we should look for in an application.  Even if you only need to use conference solutions a time or two a quarter, this list will help you find a platform that matches your needs. Amazon Chime Among the AWS services is a conference call solution called Chime.  This has a thirty-day free trial as well as a free option where all members pay call fees.  It is an excellent solution that provides desktop clients across a broad range of platforms.  We use this solution for our mentor sessions, and I have used it for consulting a large portion of the last few years. Free Conference Call As the name says, this is a free conference call solution and works well.  The desktop sharing tools and ability to give attendees a feel of this being a high-end solution are not what one would hope for.  However, the cost is hard to beat, and that makes this a perfect solution for an ad hoc call requirement. Goto Meeting This is arguably the best-known solution on the list.  Goto Meeting has been around for a long time and has developed some very high-quality tools for the desktop and web clients.  It is one of the more expensive solutions ($14/month or $29/mo to get record and transcripts).  However, it is a platform that will give your customers/callers a comfort level with the tool and your professional approach. Skype For Business Skype has been around for years and is a robust VOIP solution.  The "Skype For Business" product was created when Microsoft bought Skype and merged the legacy product with the Lync product.  The result is a pretty good and often used solution.  I have had a lot of headaches with this over the years, but they do seem to be getting fixes in regularly, and stability has improved.  At $2/per user per month, it is practically free and often bundled in with Office 365 subscriptions. Zoom The top conference solutions products often include Zoom in the list.  It is quick and easy to use along with some reasonable pricing (free or $15/mo to add recording).  The free option is another perfect one to use if you have to quickly set up a conference call and do not have a subscription with one of the other providers. Webex Much like Goto meeting, Webex has been around for a long time.  They have made good improvements over the years and created a solution you can trust.  I have not seen it used as much in recent years, but that may just be my experience and not a reflection of the tool itself.  It does the job and should be considered if you are going to step up above a free solution.  It runs $19 per month per user. join.me The name recognition of this product makes it another one you will likely run into for conference solutions.  The pricing and positioning make this a much better solution if you want high-quality communication and sharing for a small number of attendees to your calls.  It starts with $10 per month for up to 5 people on a call or you can step up to $20 to add recording and 50 participants per call. Uberconference I often run into this solution in situations similar to freeconferencecall.  It does provide for recording with a small number of users (free record and up to 10 attendees, $15/mo/user up to 100 attendees) and it scales up to a large number of attendees well.  It is a newer product, but I have no complaints in my experiences with it.

Matt Medeiros continues Season 8 with the third roundtable episode talking to Naomi Bush, Brad Williams, and Rebecca Gill. Matt discusses a recent podcast with Matt Mullenweg and Kara Swisher where he says that he is staying with WordPress for the rest of his life. WordPress powers 31% of the Internet and this panel discusses how there are still so many options for people needing consulting advice and support in the WordPress space. Listen to this episode: Matt Report - A WordPress podcast for digital business owners Finding opportunity while WordPress is changing Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 00:39:03 Subscribe Share RSS Feed Share Link Embed Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:39:03 Watch this episode: Brad Williams – Builds sites with WordPress and runs a company called WebDevStudios.com.  (0:33) Rebecca Gill – Owns a WordPress agency called WebSavvy Marketing that is located in Traverse City MI. Rebecca is an SEO Consultant and provides a lot of education about SEO. (0:50) Naomi Bush –  runs a company called Gravity Plus. She builds products to help people do more with Gravity Forms. (1:03) Changing WordPress Marketspace: Naomi – Has a focused product centered around Gravity Forms in her business. Ninja forms keeps up with the changes and offers an inexpensive forms solution for WordPress users. There are a lot of people that wanted to get into the WordPress “gold rush”. Even though there is a lot of competition in WordPress it still has a broad ecosystem. (2:23) Rebecca– would not consider going back into a market with stock themes. She would consider the plugin market.  You need to think carefully about the saturated theme market and support that comes with Themes. There is not a lot of money in that market anymore. (2:56) Brad  – There is saturation in the WordPress market. There are many agencies and freelancers that build websites using WordPress. (4:05) Future of WordPress: There has to be an effort to simplify the WordPress experience. Brad – WebDevStudios is 100% WordPress. They can have applications that evolve using APIs and integrate with other systems. They are always looking at what is new and interesting but they still plan on building on WordPress. (5:51) Rebecca – Many businesses are coming to agencies after they have flopped on an in-house experience. They are looking for external expertise. People are realizing that they have made a big mistake sometimes after their SEO drops on a redesign and their traffic has changed. (12:15) Naomi – Gravity forms has been waiting for the new editing experience before making a lot of changes. Add-ins will need to integrate with the software. Naomi has seen that different 3rd parties to plugins have had different approaches to blocks. She will wait to see how this changes in newer releases. (17:16) Brad – Automattic is in the business to make money. There is a new verticle for blocks with vendors. Website builders will need to make a decision on what they use. Brad does not feel that Gutenberg WordPress users will have an advantage in the development space of WordPress. You still need a design eye when creating websites so it is nice to be able to use structured themes when you can.  He fears that the impact of Gutenberg may influence the reputation of WordPress. (14:15) Opportunities for Growth in WordPress: Rebecca – a freelancer or small business agency can concentrate on Gutenberg support for users. Many clients will just want somebody to do the work and not want to learn the blocks themselves. There will always be service opportunities for SEO with website audits and training. (21:15) Training: Rebecca uses Learndash and WooCommerce for courses. She uses GoToMeeting for group or one on one training. There are still clients that just want you to do the work and will pay for that. (27:21) Naomi – Pick a space to specialize and find a niche if you can. Understand your customer and provide a solution for what they need. (22:39) Training: Naomi creates field guides and links to relative documentation for her customers. (28:36) Brad – freelancers will need to understand their WordPress product and also the customer. Many WebDevStudio customers have not shown an interest or desire to know what Gutenberg is about. The Gutenberg discussion has brought the conversation to using page builders like Beaver Builder. (23:54) Training: Documentation with screen sharing is provided to clients. There is training provided around user permissions for clients so they can understand how to add a user who can safely navigate the site. The more information you provide to your clients, the better off they will be. (25:56) To Keep in Touch: Brad: Web Dev Studios Brad on Twitter Lunch with Brad Rebecca: emagine Rebecca Gill Rebecca on Twitter Naomi: Naomi C. Bush Naomi on Twitter Episode Resources: Podcast with Matt Mullenweg and Kara Swisher Gutenberg Conductor Plugin Google Meet Google Hangouts WooCommerce Freemius Shopify Magento Beaver Builder REST API To Stay in Touch with Episode Guests: Watch the panel discussion on Matt's YouTube channel. To stay connected with the Matt Report, head on over to mattreport.com/subscribe. If you like the show, please leave a 5 Star review over on the Matt Report on iTunes. ★ Support this podcast ★

https://entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/winnx.jpg ()How to Build a Million Dollar Small Firm Using a Remote Team The future of architecture for small firms is the remote team. Using technology and online tools to acquire new clients, manage projects, and work with a team of top professionals distributed around the world, the virtual studio along with a remote team will allow you the flexiblity, freedom, prosperity and success that many of us are seeking as small firm architects. This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How to Build a Million Dollar Small Firm Using a Remote Team with Winn Wittman of http://selfbuiltarchitect.com (SelfBuiltArchitect.com).  Background Winn Wittman is a contemporary residential architect based in Austin, Texas. His work has been featured in various publications including Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, The Rob Report, Green Building & Design, Hinge, The Discovery Network, and HGTV. He has a BA from Tufts and a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas in Austin. He’s received numerous awards, including best green innovation for his Wittman Panel Designs. He’s also the founder of Self Built Architect, an online community and educational program where Winn shares his knowledge about leveraging technology and using online tools to create personal freedom, prosperity, professional excellence and more. Origin Story Winn’s love for architecture started in his mother’s basement where he woodworked as a kid. From that came a love of art and architecture. As a liberal arts major, he bounced around before discovering art history and falling in love with architecture. A professor suggested that he go to Austin, Texas. Several years later, the recession happened. Winn began to buy homes and fix them up when he discovered an old office building. Him and his ragtag team ran wires, ran equipment, and finished the building. A luxury jet designer then bought the building from him, earning him his first million dollars. After that, going to work for a firm was unappealing. He began developing and building unusual homes that realtors would tell him he had no chance of selling. Surprisingly, he always found a buyer. When the next recession hit, Winn had a trendy office and a bunch of employees. He noticed his expenses were eating up all of his profits. By 2010, all of his work had dried up, he had to let people go and get rid of his office. It was time to do things in a different way. As he began to realize the tools that had recently become available allowing people to work anywhere with an internet connection, he started to do his research. Slowly but surely, he began to build a virtual firm. He had a reputation for high end residential work and needed to figure out how to maintain the same high touch approach to architecture that he had before. He didn’t want the client experience to suffer at all as a result of his remote work. How did you start your remote firm? First, Winn realized he needed a luxury conference room to meet clients in. He rented an apartment in a luxury high rise that a resident could reserve a conference room in. He also sought out other conference rooms he could utilize in a pinch. Now, there are plenty of places that have conference rooms for rent. Many of his tools were the same, but he found them through different channels. Both the internet and GoToMeeting helped him become a laptop architect. When he wasn’t meeting clients, he could work completely remotely. He prepared his clients to know that he was not only very busy, but that he worked in different states. With the technology today, he still has a robust practice with a high degree of client services. His day is now freed up to work on whatever he wants instead of managing a business and office. Have you ever experienced pushback from clients? Only when Winn hasn’t properly prepared them. One client came with him on...

Most law firms pay lots of monthly fees for different services. The lines in our credit card statements flow over to the second page. And those fees add up. Some lawyers are enraged by those fees, but not me. I love them. I see those fees like I see the cost of groceries used to make dinner. They represent ingredients. Over the past several years, many of us have shifted from buying technology products to renting them. We pay monthly instead of making a one-time payment to own it. I pay monthly for our practice management system, document management system, phone system, legal research system, marketing products, and so on. The vendors love this model. In the old model, a server in our office (or in some data center) ran software we owned. Today, we "rent" the whole thing - hardware, software, development, and support. The vendor creates the software and runs it on their servers. We pay monthly for the use. Recurring monthly fees drive some people nuts. They can't stand all those small bills on their statement. There are actually services that analyze your credit card statements, identify the billers, and help you cancel the ones you're not using. Of course, those services bill monthly too. When a company can sell a monthly service designed to cancel other monthly services, you know people are agitated with recurring fees. Some lawyers get so upset by monthly subscriptions they find ways to return to buying instead of renting. Some go to extremes… I know a lawyer who bought and installed an internet server in his office to host his website because he was angry about paying his web host each month. Another lawyer has a hosted wiki for his office procedures because he doesn't want to pay a service specializing in checklists and systems documentation. Many lawyers still own practice management software running on their own server in an office. These lawyers can't stand paying monthly bills so they've found a way to get things done without paying a vendor on a monthly basis. They're buying software, building software, and hosting it themselves in an effort to cut some of those monthly recurring expenses from their budget. Unfortunately, they're being penny wise and pound foolish. They're sliding backward instead of plunging forward. I love the monthly bills I adore the recurring business model. I'll happily pay my monthly bills, month after month, forever. Those monthly bills are a big part of what has freed up my time, given me the opportunity to focus, and facilitated my full-time travel. These services let me work on the business instead of in the business. I can use my limited brain capacity where it has the biggest impact. These services are key to why I'm writing this article as I watch boats sailing by on the Adriatic (where the water, by the way, is incredibly clear.) I'm not bothered by the recurring billing model. I was annoyed at first. But over time, I adapted. Now I'm a fan. I love seeing these on our credit card bill… Salesforce - Our practice management system G Suite - Our email, calendar, contacts system Sharefile - Our document management system Vonage - Our voice system provider Zoom - Video conferencing and webinar provider Expensify - Expense reimbursement provider Front - Group email and customer support provider XpressDox - Document assembly provider SweetProcess - Systems document provider ManageWp - Web host CoSchedule - Marketing calendar Google Adwords, Facebook - Advertising And so much more Why do I love a monthly fee? It's variable, so it's affordable I like the variable expense aspect of it. I'm all about variable expenses. In fact, it's one of the key elements of the Rosen's Rules free course. Whether it's payroll, rent, or a software service, I always want my expenses to be variable. I don't mind paying more when we're booming. I love paying less when we're slow. Most of our monthly bills provide a fair amount of flexibility, either because (1) they charge more or less when we use more or less or (2) they're quick and easy to cancel when we aren't using them. We can ramp up when we're busy and cut back when we're slow. Avoiding fixed expenses has been an important element of remaining profitable during both up and down cycles. In the old days, we were committed to owning servers, meeting payroll for technicians, and making payments on leases and loans for hardware/software purchases. Now we're paying for what we need when we need it. We can walk away if we're not happy We live in a world where better products are just a click away. There's something newer and better coming out each week. When I buy something, I'm locked in. When I rent it without any long-term commitment, I can switch instantly. One day we were using GoToMeeting. The next day we were using Zoom. The switch was painless. We saved money and got more features. If GoToMeeting catches up, we can instantly switch back. It's awesome and puts us in the driver's seat. Rented products get better every month Cancellation is always just a click away. That kind of pressure forces vendors to improve their products. They've got to keep rolling out features, improving performance and optimizing the user experience. We get the benefit of their focus and expertise. I can see it happening right before my eyes. Salesforce rolls out significant improvements quarterly. Many of the products we use get better each month. It's not extraordinary for us to see weekly upgrades and enhancements. These products are built by experts focused solely on the product we're using. They're incorporating user suggestions, borrowing the best ideas from competitors, and dreaming up enhancements we would have never considered. The vendors feel the pressure of ensuring account renewals. That monthly billing cycle is constantly breathing down their necks. They keep rolling out the goodies so that we'll keep paying. There's someone to fix it Technology breaks. It's unavoidable. When that happens, we need someone to fix it - fast. Hosted technology is supported by layer upon layer of expertise, backups, and redundancy. When something breaks, you either never notice or it gets fixed almost immediately. A chill runs through me when I think back to the days of running our own servers. A midnight outage meant calling our guy at home and asking him to drive to the office so the machines would function at 8 AM for work. He'd be up all night tweaking, restarting and testing. Those days are long past. We've certainly bumped into problems over the years. Google has an outage from time to time and our email is down. Salesforce has a glitch and we can't get into our practice management system. Sharefile stumbles and we have to shoot them a message. But when something goes wrong with one of these vendors, they fix it. They've got a tight system and we're surprised if things aren't functioning normally within a moment or two. Those issues are few and far between. And they happen less and less frequently with each passing month. Our clients' data is safe Data security is complicated. Most of us don't even know what we don't know. It's way outside of our expertise. But security of our data and our clients' data is essential. It's not optional. In the old days, we worried whether our in-house IT guy really understood all those boxes he convinced us to buy for our server rack. We weren't certain that our consultants knew much more than the information found in the slick brochure. Now, paying our monthly fees, we're more comfortable. We know that our vendors can spread the cost of security over thousands of customers and afford the best and the brightest personnel. Of course, there is always the risk of a breach, but we're better protected than when we had to make our own security decisions and supervise the work. It's cheaper over time I've spent time supervising our computer guy. At one point we had two in-house computer guys. Truth be told, I had no idea what they did all day. I've spent time managing software projects. It was mostly trial and error. I knew when it worked and when it didn't, although even that was tricky because often I didn't realize it was broken until after we thought it was finished. I've requested changes, tweaks and improvements to our software. As often as not, my requests fixed one thing while breaking others. Every business should focus on what they're good at. We focus on legal work. The vendors should focus on their work. We make more money doing the things we know. So do they. When we're trying to fix a server, we're losing. When we're trying to build a wiki, we're losing. When we're developing a practice management system, we're losing. The first time we have to fix the broken software we own, we lose all of our savings. It's almost always better to rent than to buy when you consider lifetime costs. There is money to be made by law firms. Some of us are good at building relationships and marketing our services. Some are good at thinking through complex problems. And some are good at cranking out the work. That's where we win. If you're the exceptional lawyer who's great at technology, then maybe you should run a technology company. Those folks do pretty well from what I hear. Paying someone to do things for you makes sense when their work gives you time to maximize your value. Optimizing you law practice will make you more money than creating, supervising, managing and repairing technology. We are not alone I used to buy software and have it customized for our use. We had a pretty good system built on Lotus Notes and hosted on an internal server. But we were the only customer. New features only came when we requested customization. We could have anything we could imagine, but our imagination was limited. Basically, we only built solutions to the problems we encountered. We had no idea what might be possible. Now we benefit for everyone's imagination. When we buy a software service, we're part of a group of customers. They're speaking up, complaining, asking questions, making suggestions, and checking on things. The improvements are driven by the group. In total, the customer base drives the vendor at a pace we could never achieve on our own. The other users are demanding improvements that we never knew we needed. When those enhancements and fixes roll out, we benefit too. I like rented products even when the fees are high When we pay a lot, we get a lot. If we aren't satisfied, we leave. We spend a small fortune on Salesforce, but they've got 25,000+ folks working on the product we use 24/7/365. They hire the best and the brightest and deliver for us in every way possible. We're happy to pay when their focus is helping us serve our clients and grow our business. We've learned that they're excited to keep moving us forward by packing in new features, whether it's the latest in artificial intelligence, data security, or enhanced user experience. In the dynamic, fast-paced environment of technology, we nearly always get more when we pay more. It's awesome when great technology comes cheap. But ultimately, technology products are a relatively small expense for most law firms compared to the cost of our team. Having great technology enables us to produce a better product at a lower cost. Spending money on technology is nearly always a good investment. The challenge is finding new technology which improves your offering. The cost of that technology is easy to justify. I'd like more monthly bills Each bill represents one fewer headache, one less late night, one less phone call, and one less hour wasted by employees twirling their thumbs while waiting on slow, buggy software. I want more monthly bills. I used to think I wanted to own it, pay it off, and be done with it. Now I see the opposite. I want to borrow it, use it, and walk away when I'm finished. I love the variable cost of constantly improving products. I love the security of knowing we are grouped with other customers worried about the same issues. I love when vendors feel pressured to deliver because we can switch to something better in an instant. More great technology is exciting to me. I'm always on the lookout for the new thing that'll improve performance, lower costs, improve service, or grow our business. I welcome the opportunity to pay more monthly fees - I'm getting my money's worth. I used to believe that owning things had value. I thought we could build something and milk its value over the long haul. I imagined that technology products had equity I could exploit. Now I know that last cycle's technology is worth very little. Now I know that most tech services evolve at rapid speed. The value of yesterday's technology diminishes quickly. Owning the technology isn't how we increase equity. Building on top of someone else's technology is how we leverage ourselves to fulfill our potential. We need them to do what they do best so we can use their tools. That's how we create value for our clients. The equity we create comes from building our reputation, from optimizing a network of people using systems to satisfy clients, and from constantly incorporating expertise into those systems enabling us to stay at the top of the game. Paying those monthly bills represents an opportunity to create more value for clients, grow more equity in the business and do it in a way that makes your offering more appealing than that of the others in your marketplace. Don't shy away from recurring fees. They are the ingredients for the recipe that cooks up success.

There are more cool tools on the market than most of us will ever have to investigate. If we do invest the time in exploring the latest and greatest thing, we usually follow the same pattern: sign up, get busy, and forget to learn how to use the tool to our fullest advantage. After our experiments, all we have left is a $40/month charge on our Chase Visa card. Sure, we get the Ultimate Rewards points, but we didn't get any benefit from our investment. Eventually, the annoyance of seeing the charge on our credit card statement sufficiently motivates us to cancel our account. With tool-signup regret in mind, I'm running through my list of top tools. These are tools my businesses have been using for a long time and still use today. I don't hesitate to pay their monthly fees because they help my businesses grow. Some of these tools will give you a discount if you use the links on this page. Some will give me some cold, hard cash as an affiliate commission. Here's the good stuff… 1. Search Engine News These folks send a monthly newsletter about capturing business online. They focus on search engine marketing, but they also give other advice. They are a big part of why our website gets more than 1 million visitors each year. It takes me 20 minutes a month to read their publication. (They even send an audio summary if you prefer.) You're probably paying people for search engine optimization services, and you likely don't have a clue whether they know what they're doing. Get educated. We've subscribed to Search Engine News for more than a decade, and their advice has helped us achieve astonishing website traffic from Google. There is nothing you can buy that will deliver more value. It's cheap, easy to read, understandable, and actionable. 2. Ruby Receptionist We once hired a receptionist without doing a criminal background check. It turned out that she had killed a star NFL running back at point-blank range with a shotgun after robbing a bank. Yep. Now we outsource all of our phone answering to Ruby Receptionist. When you call our firm and press zero on the auto attendant, you're talking to Ruby. Oddly, we get more compliments about Ruby than we ever did with our in-house team. Initially, we experimented by using Ruby as a backup service. We went all in when it worked so well. You'll get $100 off your first invoice if you use my link. Ruby doesn't charge a setup fee, so you'll be up and running in an instant. As far as I know, Ruby Receptionist hasn't killed anyone. 3. SweetProcess When your assistant stumbles onto the subway tracks and gets run over by the train, it's curtains for your business if you don't have your systems documented. Your systems are your business. Most of us lack an easy, accessible, comprehensive approach to documenting systems. We've tried it all from Google Docs to hosted wikis, but nothing worked. SweetProcess helps us get things done. We use this tool in our firm to document our systems and procedures. Our entire team has access, so they know how to do whatever needs doing. Turn your 14-day free trial into a 28-day free trial in just two steps: Register for the 14-day free trial. Then send an email to owen@sweetprocess.com and mention our special code “White Oak.” 4. WP Engine This service hosts our North Carolina Divorce site and Rosen Institute. We've tried a bunch of others, but these folks are the best. They cost more, but not too much more, and they're worth it. Saving $20 a month on web hosting is penny wise and pound foolish. The first time you call customer support, you'll realize that your $5/month host is costing more than you thought. WP Engine provides powerful, robust servers with excellent stability and customer service. It doesn't provide all the flexibility of some other providers in an effort to lock things down and prevent issues. We're making tradeoffs in favor of reliability, and we're very satisfied customers. 5. CoSchedule You wouldn't be reading this right now if we didn't have CoSchedule. This tool drives our site and our law firm forward. It brings our team together and imposes discipline. It keeps us on schedule, and it automates production, scheduling, and social media promotion. It works. CoSchedule is a calendar on steroids. We use it to schedule content for our law firm site, including articles, videos, FAQs, and more. It's tightly integrated with WordPress, and it allows for assigning and tracking tasks among multiple team members. It's the secret sauce that keeps us on schedule and productive, which results in fresh material on our sites. Freshness matters in the eyes of Google, so CoSchedule helps us rank well in the search engine results. 6. Stamps.com There are law firms still using postage meters---seriously. Do they still use legal pads, file folders, and dictation equipment too? If that's you, then step into the future. We now have refrigeration, antibiotics, and horseless carriages. It's nice here on earth. Join us. Stamps.com lets you print postage on your computer. There's no need to go to the post office. This system works much better than your old-fashioned postage meter or rolls of stamps. 7. Zoom You know that camera on your phone? You also have one on your computer. Why aren't you using it to make yourself more money by building strong, visual connections with your clients and referral sources? We used to use GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar for group calling and videoconferencing. We switched when we realized those products were crappy and that they cost more than Zoom. Zoom is not crappy. It's slick, smooth and easy. We use it for business meetings and for dirty talk with our side action. (Just kidding---I wanted to see whether anyone was still reading.) It's a great audio- and videoconferencing product that delivers high-quality voice and pictures. 8. Salesforce We use Salesforce as our practice-management system. It runs our business. We couldn't live without it. We've customized it extensively to meet our needs. Salesforce is incredibly powerful. We use it instead of products like Clio, MyCase, or RocketMatter. But it's expensive---very expensive---especially once you factor in the cost of development and add-on products. Should you use Salesforce instead of a simpler, less expensive practice-management system? Probably not. Sure, you'll make compromises when you go with a less complicated, less expensive product, but life is filled with compromise, and a good enough product is probably good enough. Salesforce is probably our most important tool, so I couldn't leave it off the list. But going all in on practice management isn't for everyone, and that's especially true if you're small. 9. LastPass "AWESOME#1" is probably not the best password to use on every site you access. In fact, you should be using passwords with about 15 characters, in random order, mixing upper- and lowercase characters, plus numbers and special characters. And you should use a unique password each time. You already knew that, right? I think someone mentioned the password thing back in 1995. But you're ignoring that advice, so just for fun, I'm going to pay some Russian dude $17 to hack your device, grab those photos (along with your client's secret asset info), and post that picture of your great big… boat… on 4chan. Okay? With LastPass, you can easily set unique passwords, have them auto fill on your laptop and phone, and share them with your team without revealing the password itself. It's ugly, a little clunky, and less convenient than using your middle name for everything. But it gets the job done and prevents embarrassment and bankruptcy when you mistakenly lose control of your client data because you failed to follow basic security best practices. 10. Freedom While I love writing for you, I'd rather browse Facebook and the New York Times. That's why I use Freedom to disable Facebook, Instagram, the New York Times, and other time-wasting sites so I can get work done. I use this product to lock down my web browser and phone to force myself to focus. It's ridiculous that I need this product, but it works like a charm. Get 20% off of any plan if you use the code FREEDOM20OFF. 11. VyperVPN I switch VPNs as often as I change socks (pretty freaking often). That's because switching VPNs is cheap and easy, and it seems necessary when older products slow down or fail to keep up with the latest software developments. Working from coffee shops, courthouses, and other remote locations creates a security risk when you're transmitting data over public Wi-Fi. A virtual private network (VPN) helps keep your private information private. This is the service I chose because it's inexpensive and simple to use. Lately, I've been playing with a packet sniffer and watching traffic in the coffee shops where I work. It's incredible what I can see on the public Wi-Fi. I'm learning things about nearby people that make me hesitate to sit on these shared cushions again. 12. ConvertKit Ready to turn email into money? We do it, and it's our most powerful marketing tool. You can try Infusionsoft or HubSpot, but most lawyers end up spending lots of money on the product plus a consultant, then end up with something unfinished after working on it for a year. ConvertKit is up and running nearly instantly. We use it along with AWeber and GMass (a very cool product tightly integrated into Gmail). It's the easiest product we use, and it's more powerful than either of the other legacy products we employ. Basically, you can send prewritten emails to prospective clients (or others) over time. It's fully automated, and it's easy to customize your emails based on user behavior. Users who visit certain pages on your site can get specific emails. Clients can get emails that are different from other groups' messages. People who open emails frequently can get more emails than others, etc. You can better understand the behavior and interests of your prospects based on link clicks and purchases and then cater campaigns specifically to them. 13. Google Analytics This is Google's free website tracking and analytical tool. It's a must-have for anyone with a website. When you couple Google Analytics with the free Google Tag Manager, you have a powerful combination, allowing you to carefully measure your marketing with detailed specificity. It's valuable to know what's working and what's not working so you can spend your marketing budget wisely. Thankfully, you won't spend any of it on these free Google services. They are the best marketing deal around. It's Time to Move Forward That's my list for now. We use these tools every single day. Each of them adds to our bottom line. I'd have a tough time living without any of them. They are our favorites because they work. If you sign up for any of these services, do yourself a favor and do the following four things: Take note of the date you signed up. Pick a date 90 days from your sign-up date. Make a note on your calendar to cancel the service on that date. When that date arrives, cancel if you're not actively using the product. There are so many amazing products and services with the potential to help you grow your practice. It's awesome, but it's also overwhelming. Move deliberately with a plan in mind. Tackle one thing at a time. Winning is about moving forward a little each day. Sign up, experiment, implement, and keep executing. And if you fail, cancel and move on without regret.

A special re-airing of Resume. Tune in for the premiere of Season 2 on Wednesday August 10th with special guest Adam Carolla.The Wonder Years' lead singer Dan 'Soupy' Campbell recalls working at Chuck E. Cheese and pureeing steaks at a retirement home before his band took off. He also talks about some of his favorite bands, overcoming writer's block, and the creation of The Wonder Years' latest album 'No Closer to Heaven.''No Closer To Heaven' is out September 4th. For tour dates and more information, visit TheWonderYearsBand.comAnd reach out to Dan on Twitter @headabovewaterHost: Chris LaxamanaChrisLaxamana.comSupport The Show:Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial!Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

Matt Fondiler, Gary Smith, Nick Davis, and Caelan Biehn join me at The Watercooler. I talk about my love for pickles and a very thoughtful gift I received. Gary celebrates his birthday with us and is granted his birthday wish of making this week's episode longer. Matt saw the new 'Independence Day: Resurgence' trailer all the way through and thinks he spotted Will Smith. Caelan tells us not to worry about him. And Nick Davis solves the problem of finger herpes and recalls the story of how he may or may not have gotten punched in the face. I hope you enjoy this week's wildly unique episode and stick around at the end for a song I wrote called 'The Hitchhiker.' Beers: Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Heineken Lager Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Upgrade to a Casper Mattress at Casper.com - And use my personal referral code RESUME to get $50 off your mattress! Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes. Matt Fondiler: http://twitter.com/twbspodcast Gary Smith: http://twitter.com/gpatricksmith Nick Davis: http://twitter.com/realnickdavis Caelan Biehn: Don't worry about him.

Matt Fondiler, Gary Smith, Nick Davis, and Caelan Biehn meet me back at the watercooler. We flap our gums about optimum Tinder strategy, Carolla Digital's poker night, and Twitch. Plus, we recall some of our saddest Christmas stories and I explain the #bobobark. WOOF WOOF! Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Go to Wix.com today and get a stunning website that's easy to manage and create yourself. Free sign up, no credit card required. Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes.

Carolla Digital's Matt Fondiler, Gary Smith, Caelan Biehn, and Nick Davis join me for the first episode of The Watercooler, a sideshow of R?sum?. We talk about a weird experience Gary had involving some local kids in his parent's neighborhood, our Thanksgiving plans, and we give advice on how to live out of your car. Support The Show: Go to Wix.com today and get a stunning website that's easy to manage and create yourself. Free sign up, no credit card required. Upgrade to a Casper Mattress at Casper.com - And use my personal referral code RESUME to get $50 off your mattress! Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Find a great new hire with Pro Job Network. Try it free for one week by visiting TryProJob.com/Resume Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes.

JL Cauvin | Comedian JL Cauvin talks about his unexpected journey into stand up comedy from a depressing life in law school. He also discusses making comedic choices in regards to politcal correctness and his hopes for the future. Reach out to JL on Twitter @JLCauvin Subsribe to his YouTube channel http://youtube.com/jlcauvin And visit his website http://JLComedy.com Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Go to Wix.com today and get a stunning website that's easy to manage and create yourself. Free sign up, no credit card required. Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes.

Comedian Tommy Campbell talks about all he's learned throughout his vast array of jobs since age fourteen. He also recalls some of the unique experiences he's had working with Tom Cruise and Jackie Chan before discussing the advantages of taking his comedy career to London. And most of all, Tommy shares thoughtful advice and perspective through his stories because everything in life-- he's "learned the hard way." Reach out to Tommy on Twitter @MrTommyCampbell See him perform LIVE this week with Jim Jefferies in Saskatoon, Calgary, and Vancouver. Read his FREE iBook-- The Slacker Confessions: True Comedic Stories from My Decade of Dumb Jobs https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-slacker-confessions/id441208796?mt=11 And visit his website http://www.tommycampbell.ca/ Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes.

Aaron Fechter invented the Whac-A-Mole and the animatronic band, The Rock-afire Explosion. On this episode of R?sum?, Aaron talks about a few of his incredible inventions and how he survives such a cutthroat industry. Aaron also discusses what keeps him motivated to continue working on his ideas, especially when things don't necessarily go his way. For more with Aaron, visit EngineeringCreative.com Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon. And if you enjoy the show, please leave a rating and review on iTunes.

Dan Crawley talks about creating costumes and make-up effects for some of the biggest movies out today. He recalls his journey moving out to L.A. with practicaly nothing and stresses the importance of never giving up and learning how to problem solve. Also, Carolla Digital's Matt Fondiler joins the show in The Break Room to talk about his experience as a Universal Studios tour guide. Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Upgrade to a Casper Mattress at Casper.com - And use my personal referral code RESUME to get $50 off your mattress! Hurry to DraftKings.com now and use the promo code RESUME to play for free for a shot at $1 million in this week's Millionaire Maker Event. Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

Comedian Jimmy O. Yang recalls some of his past jobs before landing a role as a regular on HBO's Silicon Valley. He talks about excelling as a used car salesman and a strip club DJ while honing his stand-up comedy act. And through these stories, he explains the importance of taking risks and being able to make sacrifices in order to achieve one's goals. Reach out to Jimmy on his appropriately named Twitter and Instagram accounts @FunnyAsianDude. And visit JimmyComedy.com for more information and show dates. Plus, check out his new podcast Surely You're Joking, available now. Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hurry to DraftKings.com now and use the promo code RESUME to play for free for a shot at $1 million in this week's Millionaire Maker Event. Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

Michael Narren tells the story of how he went from living in his parent's basement to becoming an animator for the hit TV show 'Family Guy'. He also talks about how he was able to get the attention of his heroes Howard Stern, Adam Carolla, and David Letterman through his animations. For more with Michael Narren, visit MichaelNarren.com and listen to his sketch album http://FonceFalooda.bandcamp.com And watch 'Family Guy' Sundays at 9/8c on Fox Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hurry to DraftKings.com now and use the promo code RESUME to play for free for a shot at part of $10 million in Sunday's Millionaire Maker Event! Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial! Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

The Wonder Years' lead singer Dan 'Soupy' Campbell talks about working at Chuck E. Cheese and pureeing steaks at a retirement home before his band took off. He also talks about some of his favorite bands, overcoming writer's block, and the creation of The Wonder Years' latest album 'No Closer to Heaven.' 'No Closer To Heaven' is out September 4th. For tour dates and more information, visit TheWonderYearsBand.com And reach out to Dan on Twitter @headabovewater Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial! Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

Rob O'Connell and Tom Pelkey join the show to talk about their lives before working on Adam Carolla's cars. Listen to their old jobs including: plumber, locksmith, roofer, umpire, and more. Plus hear about their current vacation with Adam at the Monterey Historics Race and the mansion that they are staying in. Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial! Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

Hugh Thomas recalls the intense discipline and knowledge he gained while serving in the United States Marine Corps. He also explains why he chose to start his own business and how he created opportunities for himself. For more on Hugh, visit 13thStreetGuitars.com and visit his shop in Huntington Beach, CA. Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial! Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

Singer-Songwriter Kyle M. Terrizzi explains his decision to pursue a career as a songwriter. He also discusses his process crafting songs and even plays a few of them. And of course, he recalls some of the jobs he's worked along the way. Download Kyle's latest album VOLUME ONE at DearPatron.com Host: Chris Laxamana ChrisLaxamana.com Support The Show: Visit Stamps.com, click on the microphone at the top of the homepage, and type the code 'RESUME' for a No-Risk trial and $110 Bonus Offer including a digital scale and free postage! Hold your next meeting online by visiting GoToMeeting.com and clicking the 'Try it Free' button to have your first meeting up and running in minutes. You also get a free 30-day trial! Go to NextIssue.com/Resume and get your free 30-day trial to the best magazines that cover all your interests. Purchase the 'Resume Podcast Theme' song on iTunes and Amazon.

Click the podcast player button above to listen or subscribe to the show on iTunes. https://entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/shutterstock232542199.jpg ()After years of contributing to the profession of small firm architecture through my weekly post here at the blog, http://www.entrearchitect.com/newsletter (my weekly newsletter) and at the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I wanted to make Entrepreneur Architect even more interactive; even more influential. I wanted to create a place where small firm architects could go to learn directly, face to face, from one another. I wanted a place where I could invite experts on specific topics of success in business, leadership and life to meet with us and teach us the fundamentals of success. So… this past summer, I launched http://www.entrearchitect.com/academy (Entrepreneur Architect Academy). Each week, dozens of small firm architects, members of Entrepreneur Architect Academy come together on a private GoToMeeting video conference. We have become fiends and we actively work to help one another become successful. I have learned so much from these people and so much from the experts who join us. Recently, the topic of our weekly meeting was Partnerships and I invited our friend from Episode 12 of the podcast, Rena Klein, to join us. We had a great discussion and we learned what it takes to enjoy a successful small firm partnership. This week on the Entrepreneur Architect Podcast, I want to share what we learned. This week, I share 7 Truths of a Successful Small Firm Partnership.   Please review this podcast on iTunes. Referenced in this Episode http://www.rmklein.com (RM Klein Consulting) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470466480/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0470466480&linkCode=as2&tag=entrearchitect-20&linkId=BX53YELZA3X2A2WB (The Architect’s Guide to Small Firm Management: Making Chaos Work for Your Small Firm) http://www.entrearchitect.com/2013/12/11/ea012-how-business-consultants-will-help-small-firm-architects-build-better-businesses-with-rena-klein-podcast/ (Episode 012: How Business Consultants Will Help Small Firm Architect Build Better Businesses) http://www.entrearchitect.com/academy (Entrepreneur Architect Academy) Share Your Thoughts What are your thoughts on partnerships? Did I forget anything? Do you disagree with my “truths”? What are your “truths” for a successful partnership? *** Photo Credit: Shutterstock / http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-253531p1.html (Greg Epperson) The post https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/ea064-7-truths-successful-small-firm-partnerships-podcast/ (EA064: 7 Truths of Successful Small Firm Partnerships [Podcast]) appeared first on https://entrearchitect.com (EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects).