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Outsider and Blue Wire's Chase Thomas is joined by 49ers Hub's Evan Sowards to recap Week 12 in the NFL season, the Giants firing Jason Garrett, the Panthers losing Christian McCaffrey, Leonard Fournette's halftime speech for the Bucs, the Bengals blowing out the Steelers, Hill starting against the Cowboys, the Chargers imploding against Denver, the Pats in the AFC, and their NFL Week 13 Forget The Lines picks. Host: Chase Thomas Guests: Evan Sowards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's quick tip is all about the Boutique Hub! Ashley covers what resources and tools are inside the Hub and what the community is all about. Boutique Chat is on a season break, but Ashley won't leave you hanging during the busiest time of the year! Ashley will be dropping quick tips of the week until season 4 relaunches on December 28th.  Resources: Learn More About the Boutique Hub Here: https://theboutiquehub.com/join/boutique/

Fantasy Premier League live stream and podcast by FPL guru Adam Hopcroft and fantasy football all-rounder Fergi.In this episode the lads look ahead to FPL Gameweeks 14 and 15 including the best picks for the coming weeks.

If you like what you hear, don't forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe, click the bell, and visit the links below! Contact TheeSherm/Site-42 at  SCPSite42@Gmail.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheeSherm Support the show, become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/site42 Support the show, but more casually on Ko-Fi or Streamelements! https://www.ko-fi.com/theesherm https://streamelements.com/theesherm42/tip Want some Site-42 swag? Check out the store here! https://teespring.com/stores/site-42 Join the Site-42 Discord Server here: https://discord.gg/NWwFMwFuGp Check out TheeSherm's Author Page & Site-42 Hub on the wiki! http://www.scp-wiki.net/theesherm-site-42 SCP-6572: Sword That Cuts Everything Written by user LORDXVNV, original text can be found here: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-6572 Check out LORDXVNV's Author Page here: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/lordxvnv Content relating to the SCP Foundation, including the SCP Foundation logo, is licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 and all concepts originate from http://www.scp-wiki.net. This page's art and graphic design is the work of John Maddocks, and is released under the same license. Sound Effects Attributions Music by Adrian von Ziegle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifQ3JRS4gqc&ab_channel=AdrianvonZiegler This Audio Reading was edited by Charles Cardot.

Dr. Greg Carr weaves a discussion around #AhmaudArbery and his trip home to Nashville, TN all the way through Lou Rawls' version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." JOIN KNUBIA! www.knarrative.com

Tinwkly updates to support HomeKit, Aqara launches its G3 camera hub in the US, and we begin a roundup of the best HomeKit devices across every category! This week we cover smart plugs, Home hubs, and garage door openers. Send us your HomeKit questions and recommendations with the hashtag homekitinsider. Tweet and follow our hosts at @andrew_osu and @stephenrobles or email us here. Find us in your favorite podcast player by searching for "HomeKit Insider" and support the show by leaving a 5-Star rating and comment in Apple Podcasts. Sponsored by: Hunter Douglas: Take advantage of the Season of Style rebate savings event at: hunterdouglas.com/homekit HomeKit Insider YouTube Channel Subscribe to the HomeKit Insider YouTube Channel and watch our episodes every week! Click here to subscribe. Links from the show Twinkly - Lights Govee Thermometer ‎Hub for HomeKit App ‎Samsung Remote: ControlMeister Black Friday: Expand your HomeKit smart home with these deals Eve Energy Smart Plug Wemo Smart Plug Eve Energy Strip Lutron Outdoor Smart Plug WeMo WiFi Smart Outdoor Plug ConnectSense Smart In-Wall Outlet 2021 Apple TV HD (32GB, 5th Generation) Eve Aqua HomePod mini meross Smart Garage Door Opener myQ Chamberlain Smart Garage Control Chamberlain Smart myQ LiftMaster MyQ Home Bridge Subscribe and listen to our AppleInsider Daily podcast for the latest Apple news Monday through Friday. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Those interested in sponsoring the show can reach out to us at: andrew@appleinsider.com

The Bears and Lions put America through an unwatchable slog in the early game on Thanksgiving and Mike P. and Andy are here to talk about it, about the weird week that preceded it (even by Bears' standards), and about where the Bears go from here. They have theories on whether the McCaskeys were really going to fire Nagy, about who leaked the news and about the new feud between Hub and Nagy. They also try to figure out just how much this week of public disfunction is going to scare off the few competent coaches who might be interested in the job in the first place. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/desipio/message

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Changes in technical breakthroughs and evolving skill needs are shaping the nature of the workplace of the future. While the pandemic did not fundamentally alter the way people cooperated, it did speed up the pace of change. This resulted in a faster adoption of the concept of remote work.   With the world adjusting to a new life after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we best utilize the tools that we have so that we can continue our levels of productivity even in remote working situations?   In this episode, Alexander McCaig discusses this issue with Phil Simon, a keynote speaker, adviser, and Zoom and Slack educator. He is also the author of eleven non-fiction works, the most recent of which is Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-Covid World of Work.   Adjustments in the Workplace   According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of Americans working remotely more than doubled from around 30 percent to 60 percent in March 2020, and organizations began embracing new collaboration platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom as part of the adjustment process as a result of this increase.    At the start of 2020, few people would be familiar with the names of even one of these tools, much alone all of them. Several of us are now working remotely as a consequence of COVID-19, and Zoom has been so widely used that it has become a verb: to "Zoom" means to communicate using video conferencing technology.   When businesses were forced to close and employees were required to wear masks, just a few businesses were allowed to continue operations as usual. The vast majority of people were entirely unprepared for the enormous changes that were about to take place in their lives. When it came to internal communication, they continued to rely on email as well as on typical corporate processes and attitudes.   A New Age of Productivity   To cope with COVID-19's repercussions on corporate organizations, employers, human resource managers, and consultants were obliged to think creatively about how they might implement a remote work strategy. Businesses had an urgent need to alter these barriers in dealing with the international economic instability caused by the virus.   If a shift to a new system is the path moving forward, what possible methods can businesses use to better utilize the tools that we currently have in this day and age?   Phil Simon suggests that companies should start embracing the Hub-Spoke model of collaboration. This model is a technique of distribution wherein a centralized "hub" operates. From the hub, products are sent outward to smaller groups known as spokes for further storage and delivery.   With this model, it aims to help firms significantly increase staff productivity, simplify current business procedures, and provide the basis for subsequent machine-learning and artificial intelligence advances.   The hub may be thought of as a meta-organization that functions in parallel to established innovation laboratories. Employees at the innovation-hub can connect informally over the web and work freely on innovation to bolster the firm's performance.   Out with the Old, In the New?   Efficiency should not be dependent on one factor alone. While the hub-spokes model creates a more systematic approach in revamping business models to fit the current situation, it is best to have it hand-in-hand with tried and tested organizational techniques.   By adopting particular initiatives and establishing a culture that supports their virtual workforce, executives may boost their teams' performance output and engagement. They must build and sustain a culture of trust, as well as modernize leadership communication methods and procedures in order to properly educate virtual personnel.    Additionally, team members must be encouraged to share leadership. Finally, executives must establish and conduct frequent alignment checks to ensure that virtual workers adhere to the organization's cultural values, including their commitment to its goals.   All of these procedures begin with the realization that team formation will be significantly different with remote members, demanding the creation of new leadership strategies, communication routines, and tools.   Final Thoughts   In a world where social distancing and remote work has become the new normal, it is now more important than ever to make good use of the current technologies we have to be just as productive as before the pandemic hit the globe.In Simon's concluding statements, he deems it important that for a collaborative system to work, employees must be willing to commit to the shift fully. Problems will surely arise when employees refuse to use certain technologies because they either find it too complicated or too time-consuming to actually learn new things instead of going the more traditional route of working.   The willingness to change is always the first step towards growth. Just as the world has changed, we must also be willing to adapt to this change. Resistance will always be a hindrance to progress, just as the refusal to learn denies a person the chance to be more efficient and productive.   It is part of TARTLE's vision to create a world where knowledge is shared and problems are solved through a collective and collaborative effort. We believe that teamwork is power, and collaboration is the key to progress. The power is back in your hands.   What's your data worth? www.tartle.co   TCAST is brought to you by TARTLE. A global personal data marketplace that allows users to sell their personal information anonymously when they want to, while allowing buyers to access clean ready to analyze data sets on digital identities from all across the globe.   The show is hosted by Co-Founder and Source Data Pioneer Alexander McCaig and Head of Conscious Marketing Jason Rigby.   What's your data worth?   Find out at: https://tartle.co/   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TARTLE   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TARTLEofficial/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tartle_official/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/TARTLEofficial   Spread the word!

Ooops! Hub screwed up and accidentally erased the episode about New Titans #51 that he and Cory had recorded. So he scrambled and cobbled together this episode by himself. Hope you like it! And Sorry bout that.

Cam and BAM excitedly get to spend time chargin' and blastin' away after the long awaited return to the Metroid series! No time to waste! Let's go! Our Flipped Script: What if Samus was infected with a lethal virus (forcing a time limit on the player) Suggested Topics: What DJ stands for, No Place for Smash in Smash Bros, Where's the Dread?,Yuyu Hakusho Does it Better, Close to Completion, Give Players the Choice, Influenced by Speedruns, The Hub and Spoke 

Meet John Hollis. His blood kills COVID-19. Find out how it happened. #JohnHollis #WellnessWednesday #KarenHunterShow

Fantasy Premier League live stream and podcast by FPL guru Adam Hopcroft and fantasy football all-rounder Fergi.In this episode the lads look ahead to FPL Gameweek 13 including the best picks for the coming weeks and have a chat on dealing with bad Gameweeks and how to get into the right mindset to push on.

Arif and James are back for a double episode this week! Due to the Thanksgiving holiday you're getting both the review of the win over the injury-depleted and helpless Packers and the preview of the 49ers game with Ewan Swords of 49ers Hub at the same time!   We go over over the calls from the refs, the Jefferson catches, and how things can be the right thing to do and also the terrifying thing to do. And in the mailbag we pick apart the conservatism of the offense, compare Jefferson and Moss, and discuss the POG squad.    You can become a sustaining member of the show and access exclusive content at    Arif - @Arifhasannfl   James - @bigmono   Evan - @Burner_Sowards     Please send any questions or feedback to    or tweet to @norsecodeDN.   If you like our show please donate to  .   We have merch! You can visit our shop at:   Also we've launched a new merch line just in time for Christmas!    Also a special thank you to DrawPlayDave for our new logo and merchandise design! You can follow him @drawplaydave and visit his main comic page here:  

This week is all about shaking sh*t up and pushing the boundaries of what we're "supposed" to do. BUT FIRST Taylor Swift Boss'd the world and Gem has to talk about it, extensively, or she may burst. Then we hear about Gem's mate who quote unquote "saved her marriage" by living like she's divorced, but staying married... HEAR US OUT... we have a lots of questions but are all for the shake up. Speaking of a shake up, Revz is changing up her parenting week and she's pumped and out of NO WHERE Gem tells us all about her Hub's little shopping trip and shit gets spicy. If you're in a good mood, we'll match it, it's Tuesday and its high vibes, Besties, come on in and hang with us. WE ARE UP FOR AN AWARD

EP280 - Anker Innovations Head of Global Communications Eric Villines Eric Villines is the Global Head of Communications for Anker Innovations. Anker is one of the most successful brands to be started on the Amazon platform. In this broad ranging interview, we discuss the origin story of Anker, their evolution from early Amazon FBA seller to Global Omni-channel brand. Eric covers their incubator, Anker Innovation, and their Amazon FBA consulting service OceanWing. We also discuss his recent book, Get Funded!: The Startup Entrepreneur's Guide to Seriously Successful Fundraising. Episode 280 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday. November 17th, 2021. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:00] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 280 being recorded on Wednesday November 17th 2021 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:15] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason is a fellow Gadget addict one of our favorite brands that we love from consumer perspective is Anchor and then we also spend a lot of time here on the show talking about anchor because it's a very interesting brand that is one of the few that we call kind of digitally native Amazon born so today on the show we are very excited to welcome Eric villines he is the head of Global Communications at anchor and is based out of Sunny Seattle Eric welcome to the show. Eric: [0:50] Thanks for having me we've also been having about two months of rain so we're living up to our our cliche. Jason: [0:59] That for the last two months that might have sounded bad but being here in Chicago I have a feeling that rain is about to start looking pretty good to me. Eric: [1:07] Yeah means known cold and wind. Jason: [1:09] Exactly all of the above although it's been pretty mild so far. Eric before we jump into all the anchor discussions we always like to get sort of a brief background about our guests and maybe you could tell us what your role is an anchor. Eric: [1:25] Sure so I run Global Communications at anchor Innovations which is essentially a fancy way of saying public relations. Which in time it's sort of corporate Communications you could be crisis Corporate social responsibility and then obviously the most exciting part of what I do which would be product PR dealing with the media on reviews and, I'm getting the word out of on the cool gadgets we. Jason: [1:51] That's awesome so does that mean you have one of everything. Eric: [1:55] I have two of everything. It's a funny story I've worked in consumer electronics for a long time and I remember Steven Yang who hired me personally for the role, I remember I was in China and I said I want to make sure that I've got budget to give everyone on my team, you know one of the products and he giggled and I'm absolutely serious, we all have to you know live it and breathe it and love it and know the good and the bad aspects of all of our products because we're talking with the media all the time so I kind of. I'm kind of insistent that everyone on my team has the products and then the other part is we all we can never run out of battery that's like that's like a major faux pas here, if I ever hear the words even coming out of my own mouth that my phone is almost out of juice that's super bad as a charging company. Jason: [2:45] That does seem off brand I am I have a little bit of a fetish for your products and the thing I've noticed is every time I have a family gathering I get completely cleaned out. Eric: [2:57] Oh yeah there is. Jason: [2:58] So I yeah I didn't realize you were in such a replenishment category but it's ended up being one for me. Eric: [3:04] It's funny because I started out an entertainment before I came into consumer electronics and one of the first things I did here because I'm just using my own family Dynamics as I have three children. And my wife of course is involved in this as well and we steal each other's cables constantly and then we lie to each other, about you know and it's gotten so bad that people take you know colored Sharpies and all sorts of things but we had done a survey, on you know what are some of the most irritating things that happen in the family and this came in like is a top four. People stealing each other's charging components and then lying about it so it's a national issue that we just haven't spent enough time talking about. Jason: [3:48] Yeah we'll have to dedicate a whole nother show to solving that problem one last product related question do you have a favorite anchor products. Eric: [3:57] Well gosh I so we have these new cables that you said fetish I don't want to take it too far but it's. It's the material that's made out of is reminds me of certain things and that Dominion but it's a super soft latex like, cable that seems to never because of the material it seems to never not up. And that's one of my favorite things and they come in all these super cool colors and that's really new for us we've always offered two colors a beautiful white and the Beautiful Black Version, and so this year we started getting into more colors and that's been really exciting because that's a really easy way to distinguish your product from say your son's because you can have different colors but the material it's really nice I keep them in my bag I've got him for all my products. Those are really cool we launched a new line of Mag go products which we have a desk version which allows you to, put your phone against and it'll you know magnetically charged it but the battery is removable so you can actually bring it with you, so it serves two purposes and I keep that like in the kitchen so when I'm cooking and I have my recipes but then I can grab it and go. So those are really cool but I mean man we launch new products every day so you ask me next week I'm going to tell you something completely different. Scot: [5:23] Yeah this is an unsolicited but my favorite is there's a little Hub you guys have for the Macbook so I can just plug in one USB C and I've got this thing I'm looking at it now it looks like a mutated octopus with with 800 things, poking out of it that I no longer have to plug into my MacBook so you're you're saving me a lot of ports which I really appreciate. Eric: [5:40] Yeah as they move to usb-c only but you still had a myriad of other things you needed to connect to it. Scot: [5:47] Yeah well now the magsafe is a now they're back yeah they decided they're giving you guys too much Martin said so now they now they have like they're like oh man when you need to add more stuff you know. Eric: [5:57] Well I've talked to a lot of pro users and they're really excited to see the HDMI cable come back it's just a you know it's a strong connection that cables is still different. And sometimes it's a huge hassle putting a hub attached to the computer and then attaching your HDMI cable and everything else to it. Scot: [6:16] Yeah absolutely especially when you're traveling and you're popping into someone else's conference room you'd never have that one little cable, so we obviously we talked a lot about anchor on the show and we can just kind of stopped fan blowing on the on the user side would love to hear kind of your view of the founding story of anchor, you know we kind of classify it as you heard is this kind of like Amazon born would love to know how you guys tell that story. Eric: [6:43] Yeah I mean it's you know I had relatives that move during the Dust Bowl and move to Pasadena and built. You know a chain of gas stations and it's this true Americana story but he what's interesting is I think Steven Yang story is very similar it is that that's story of an idea and perseverance and building and Global brand that. People have in their purses and backpacks even if they don't know it's anchor there's a strong probability that it is and that's that's one is exciting the others a branding dilemma. But Stephen was a senior engineer in California at Google and he had he was trying to find a new battery for his Toshiba laptop. [7:32] And as he was looking online including Amazon and the Toshiba websites he realized he had sort of two choices you either going to buy the one from Toshiba that was super expensive, for take a chance, on all of these other versions white-label versions and unknown brands on Amazon and and purchase one from their sort of buyer beware. And he kind of had a light bulb moment and thought you know this is this is ridiculous like who are the people that are putting these online how they've been tested how can I know that, what I'm buying is going to work with my laptop and you know give me a year of battery life. Long story short he moved back to China with his wife who was then his fiance he took a small loan from his mom. And he started anchor and in the beginning what Stephen did was go around to different factories and and Developers, and with his engineers and they went and tested all these batteries so in the beginning it was a white label play was him finding and filtering through. [8:38] I'll just say it a lot of garbage and trying to find the absolute best, alternatives to all of these laptop batteries and they started selling those through Amazon and that was the first point was the easiest place for them and selling specifically and exclusively to the United States. A year later it was a massive success beyond anything that he had ever imagined, and the next logical step was to take that concept and move it into mobility and start looking at mobile phones and chargers and portable batteries and all these things that were at the time, really starting to come out but the big difference when he went into Mobility is the idea was we need to get as fast out of, the white labeling as we can because we have some ideas that even these these smaller factories and people that were producing, can are doing that we can find ways to make it better, so that sort of unearth the world of you know contract manufacturing where they're Engineers were developing and designing, you know the specifics and then Contracting manufacturers to develop those products and the rest as they say is history. Ironically today we are celebrating our 10-year anniversary actually last month. [9:58] And that's a pretty big deal so we went from a guy and his wife. And a little mama money from his mom to a you know a multibillion-dollar company. With multiple Brands and over 3,000 employees all around the world. So in addition to charging which is still a huge huge part of our, DNA we've developed a number of Brands subsequently over the last three to four years everything from robotic vacuums and future robotic products, to home security high-end true wireless headsets. Smart Home Entertainment pet products baby socks I mean like you know smart baby socks I mean just like the whole gamut. [10:45] And the sort of the common line through all of this is that Steven and his team are constantly looking for areas within an emerging or establish consumer electronics area where they can bring value. And you know usually we might come in and the play might be okay we're going to come up with a really great product that's going to be, a little lower cost and that gets our foothold and then the the long-term strategy is then to LeapFrog over the competitors with something truly innovative. And this is kind of a phenomenon that's worked really really well. For Stephen and his engineers and the marketing teams and all of our sales people around the world. Scot: [11:28] Did he have an industrial design background hurry just had the pain and kind of cheeses and created the company from there. Eric: [11:37] Well he's a Hitman he's a True Blood engineer so I mean he's he's right at that right at the hardware level and into coding and all of that so the industrial design. Was not his core competency so bringing in people that that could fill in, those areas and ultimately well they say 10 years later we brought color right but of course then we had great devices that worked really well but we're but when we look at industrial design, I would say that you know that's what's going to propel us over the next 10 years with with the Thinker charging. Scot: [12:14] Yeah it's been the you know I really like kind of the functional but still kind of modern kind of vibe you guys have with your products it's really nice is he still with the company is you still still involved. Eric: [12:27] Yeah yeah I mean I talked to him regularly he is very approachable. It's interesting because he shares his office with two other people at the company and it's kind of this kitchen table set up he doesn't have a private office, because there's so much collaboration and you look around the company we're all like that even though I'm in Seattle, and in my office I do the same thing with my team we just take some long tables and we connect them up and everyone just sits on them because it's like jazz we're just constantly. You know coming up with ideas and talking and it's just more efficient. Jason: [13:06] I do want a Lobby by the way I feel like you have some cool colors now you have like a like a lavender and a mint but what you really need is like a retailgeek blue I think would be. Eric: [13:18] Retailgeek blue yeah. Jason: [13:20] Yeah I could send you the PMS colors at that. Eric: [13:22] Okay yeah send me the Pantone colors yeah the, yeah I mean we I would think the colors are sort of muted so they're they're a joke they don't offend anyone so they're not they're not super striking their kind of muted across the color spectrum but so far they've been. They've been received really really well there's there's an old joke and consumer electronics that people are always screaming for color. And then when you look at the sales and you find it's the white and black that sell the most. So it's like you need to have the color but in the end most people end up choosing the the kind of safer black and white. Jason: [14:05] Yeah now I actually I'll be honest the style of the colors fine and actually think they are attractive kind of pastel colors but the it's just nice to have a diversity because I actually have a system like I have one color for my USBC cables. Eric: [14:19] Mmm. Jason: [14:20] One color for my lightning cables so that I can you know quickly distinguish them in my back. Eric: [14:24] You're not messing around man. Jason: [14:27] I have a little I have a problem. So I it's funny in the early days of these kind of digitally native direct to Consumer Brands there used to be this religious battle there were companies that were like. And the path to the customer through Amazon we're going to sell this stuff on Amazon and I would characterize anchor as the poster child for the most successful brand that was born. By primarily making themselves available on Amazon and selling through Amazon's traffic. But for every company like that there was another company that's like that's crazy Amazon is going to steal your customer and knock you off and they're all these you know potential, downfalls to Amazon and you know we should own the customer ourselves and we should have our own website and so increasingly that became the Shopify contingency and so it used to be, you know a company was either an Amazon company or a Shopify company. And more recently I feel like the increasingly the answer is not or it's and that. You know the consumers on Amazon so you need to be on Amazon but you also do have consumers that want to buy direct and you should have your own website and. My proof point for that is I want to say in the last year or so anchor has launched its own Shopify site so I now can shop anchor on Amazon but also on your own direct website is that like. [15:54] Like you got did you guys have debates and conversations about that and was that a very overt decision or is it just something where you just swept up a Shopify side at some point and you really still think of yourself as an Amazon only company. Eric: [16:07] Well there's a lot to unpack I'm going to I'm going to try to I'm going to try to find the question in that statement, the first of all we started definitely start on Amazon and one of the things I would argue about Amazon is that it is direct, so whether you're selling on your website you know or you're selling on Amazon you're ultimately. [16:29] Selling direct through the Amazon platform and you're engaging with your customers and your you know you're dealing with customer service and all the things you would normally do so I think Amazon has been a great partner and it is it continues to be definitely a big part of our DNA. But as we evolved into different regions around the world you know that there are different channels, that in our sort of different stages of development but the omni-channel approach meaning, you know in our case Amazon which is always a big part of us our own website which is great for Branding and direct connection and through our Retail Partners because in the United States were sold everywhere we're sold at you know Best Buy Walmart Target, Etc you can go to medium art overseas, so we don't see ourselves as just a single Channel we definitely are see ourselves is an omni-channel but I think you know Amazon is provide us an incredible platform to launch on, the ability the ability I think for a person that has a great product looking to sell something and any part of the world where Amazon is is so convenient and so easy. [17:41] And you know the financial Commitment if you're just starting out and you're Distributing your products the platform has evolved its improved. And it's ultimately pretty easy to get going on the platform without you know a tremendous amount of financial backing. Jason: [18:02] Yep and it is interesting because you have you know been a heavy practitioner on the platform from the early days in it does feel like it's evolved a lot. From your guys's perspective do you still feel like there's a. Competitive advantage in knowing the platform better than other sellers like it feels like there's a lot of levers to pull now and I mean you know different companies with different levels of sophistication in their Amazon presents. Why does everybody learning all the best practices now and they're sort of parody or do you feel like you guys can still kind of win more than your fair share of eyeballs on Amazon. Eric: [18:38] I mean we we've been doing this for you know for 10 years now and so they're the they're the tools and there's the Instinct and then there's the the lessons learned from the billions of mistakes that we've made, along the way and I don't know those things are those things are harder to I think grass for people that are just coming into the space so I think we absolutely have an advantage, but you know I mean I think it's not magic it takes a lot of work and a lot of patience, and a lot of observation, you know if you're putting a listing on Amazon and you're putting that listing in Italy or France or the UK or whatever, you know simply Translating that listing into the local language is just the bare minimum I mean you're dealing with customer service and being able to communicate. With customers being able to deliver products on time being able to answer their questions be able to take returns and then that's you know even before you've really thought about marketing because there are. [19:44] Something like nine million sellers on Amazon right now and that is a huge ocean, just filled and filled with Fish And you are you're battling against the the those eyeballs every day. Organic search or even direct search you're going to you know if you go up and look for toothpaste I mean you know, in the search engine you're going to see a myriad of players in there including you know ones that are common Brands to others that seem interesting and what's going to draw the eyeball away from the common brand that everyone knows too, the new brand what's going to make the consumer just try and reach out a discover you and take that extra effort so everyone going on to any platform, that may deal with a bunch of Brands is dealing with you know millions of competitors and it stopped. [20:39] I think getting set up on the platform and getting started is easy but that's that's you know that's step one, but then you got to get people seeing your listings and you got to get people reading your listings and you got to get people putting stuff in their shopping cart and clicking the shopping cart and, fulfilling and then you know being there at the end of that process to give them great customer service in every language, where you're selling that product because if you can't do that and that last part is critical, you're going to get bad reviews and people don't buy products with two and sometimes even three star ratings when you're dealing with you know consumer electronics they're looking for four and five. So you could have the greatest product in the world but you could have a lot of mad consumers out there where you haven't done right by them and they're not going to give you some great star ratings and you can pretty much. You know kiss your Prosperity goodbye. Jason: [21:33] Yeah I sometimes describe it as a. A darwinian meritocracy that like you know if you think about old school if you sell a product to Walmart and they give you shelf space and you screw up and run out of stock, you lose all the sales while you're out of stock but the day you restock your back on the Shelf your kind of entitled to that that shelf position. The duration of a program but you have to earn that visibility in the front of the Amazon shelf what every minute through a wide variety of best practices and if you screw up, you fall off that shelf and when you get back in stock you don't get your spot back you got to climb back up the hill. Eric: [22:10] Yeah yeah I mean especially now in today's climate there's a lot of. Material shortages and other things and that's been you know super painful for four people across every, line of business not just consumer electronics and that very same thing you know you're working hard to develop customer base and then, you don't have the materials to produce the products or the factories that you're working with and then you can't fulfill you been all this great marketing you brought everyone to your front door and then, grab we don't have any products, and that's it's painful to see for especially you know entrepreneurs and people new to the game because they have brilliant ideas and great products and. You know they've done an amazing job building word-of-mouth and it's super sad to see that fail at that last step. Jason: [23:03] For sure that actually is a great segue we're recording this in mid-november double 11 day just happened Black Friday is next week. As we sit here I think there's something like ninety one container ships off the coast of Long Beach either a bunch of cool new anchor products like trapped in those boats what's holiday looking like for you are you guys well well stocked and well positioned. Eric: [23:30] I think we are with some things and we could be better and other things I mean again we have the advantage of having a lot of skus so we I would say it's easier for us, to adapt, then than others and you know I can say from my perspective if I go out on a media to and September and I show a lot of really cool gadgets. And then we reach the end of October and I'm like well crap so that isn't coming we're going to we're going to delay that because of something it is what it is what we're used to it. But we have so many skus that you know we were Prime day or Black Friday or Cyber Monday or just basic Christmas shopping or Hanukkah shopping we've got something, so we can adapt it will get past it. Jason: [24:23] Yeah speaking of which I given that you're in the consumer at Rackspace is CES ordinarily a big part of your marketing mix. Eric: [24:32] I would say it is I think in the new world order it isn't as important for us. But we you know we've done Big Boost and we've done stuff and you know our sales teams of gone out there I think it's wait and see. This January we've done some some interviews with with media and I think we found that maybe forty percent of those that normally attend are coming, the rest are waiting and seeing we didn't do a booth this year I've also heard from our sales team that their counterparts at some of the retailers may not be coming in January as well. So I don't know is it going to be like a bad prom or nobody dances. I think we're going to have to wait and see I think maybe for many it's going to be a real last minute decision. Jason: [25:25] Yeah it's interesting I've attended like 28 CES has and I'm not going and, talking which I used to catch a flu at CES every single year so it's the I'm not care. I think Tom Clancy wrote a book where like the terrorist likes bedspread the biological Weapon by disseminating it at CES just for. Eric: [25:47] Perfect yeah I think it's you know I think people I think you have to have a vaccination card this time around to get in I think that's what I've heard but yeah I mean from point A to Z you know your. There's a lot of airplanes. Jason: [26:02] I'm kind of curious I think less people are going to but then the magic question is. Does that kind of will they discover that the world didn't end when they didn't go and put your point like does that accelerate the changing World Order and CES becomes less important or you know is this just going to be a down year and next year they'll be back to normal I think, that's going to be interesting to watch. Eric: [26:22] Yeah I mean there's CS is just the beginning you've got Mobile World Congress you've got aoife you've got you know as we move into next year and all of them are going to have to be making those tough decisions. And then I think that the repercussions of companies that didn't go in the world didn't sink either going to be wondering you know what are these what's the value of these trade shows. To us as a business you know I think for us they're valuable you know on the one end of the communication Spectrum it's super beneficial to scale our pitching by having an enormous number of people from all around the world in ones. But it's also very noisy so you know you're competing with a lot of large names. And we've always been very Scrappy so we tend to do a lot of are moving and communication before CES. And after CES or even entirely outside of the you know the wake of any of these trade shows. So and that's that's generally how we've been successful. Scot: [27:27] Brickell any other interesting holiday Trends or anything you guys noticed as we've kind of gone through covid and or kind of hopefully coming out the back side. Eric: [27:37] Yeah I mean I you know not to sound boring but charging is always a big thing during the holidays people bought their new iPhones people are buying new MacBooks people are buying peripherals. And you know around that time usually you know a couple of weeks later when they lost their cables already or you know they realize they won't one for travel and they wanted to stay home and they want one in their home office and they want one in the kitchen, so it's always a good time for us in that category, so charging definitely the other big part of our business right now is audio so our sound Core Audio brand, we develop a super popular line of true wireless headphones the Liberty series, and one of the things that makes it unique is we work with a bunch of grammy award-winning Engineers to help us tune them, so they would come out of the box sounding like the mix that the engineers originally in planned versus over based or over traveled, that's been really really popular for us all around the world I mean as far as India hugely popular in the United States the UK Germany, Emerging Markets that's a big thing and then I'd say home security that's been a big a big Boon for us we launched our home security brand yuffie about three years ago. [28:59] And you know we're developing a lot of unique products in that space that separate us from the rest for one we don't we don't use the cloud when you buy the product at your. [29:12] All of the footage is captured on a secure SD card that's integrated either into the base station or the independent products that you put outside the house. Which is really cool and we have millions of users around the world right now, using that product because they see it not only is protecting your security but also their privacy. [29:32] You'll see a lot of people do personal gifts to themselves during the holiday so a lot of those those big, tend to be you know people in a house saying hey how about we get this for ourselves for Christmas, and and we recently launched a super-smart robotic vacuum called the X8 it's are you fee robotic vacuum. That's super smart so instead of bumping into walls and trying to figure things out at uses both Visual and Laser mapping. And will actually draw up a map of your house that you can look at on your phone, and see it's how it's found the most ingenious way of cleaning around chairs and couches and other things and making sure that it can do everything and then you can create zones, I didn't say well I just want to let stay away from the baby room because the baby's sleeping but you can clean this Zone and that zone and this Zone. That's been really popular and we had been doing kind of lower in robotic vacuums until that point. Entry level and this was one of our first push and super-premium summarize forleo some but that LeapFrog, so in the beginning we might find Our Place coming in as as a lower-cost alternative that still is super quality, and then with the X8 we're doing the LeapFrog moment and trying to jump past the competition with the technology. Scot: [30:59] Frankel, so one of the things we want to do is Pivot you guys have some other innovations that are not gadgets or charging or anything like that, you guys launched a new division that both Jason and I were excited to learn more about called ocean wing. My guess was it was drones but I think that's wrong tell you tell us more about what ocean when you. Eric: [31:24] Yeah so I say first with the title but when I first started working with anchor Innovations in the United States over four years now, I was actually working for ocean Lee that was our that was how we presented our Corporation, and the the story is that it was ocean Wing to essentially take our technology and fly across the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean and bring it to the United States. So when the idea came up of developing a Consulting business, under anchor Innovations the ocean Wing name came up again and simple it's actually makes a hell of a lot more sense for this than it may have Hazard LLC in the United States when we were bringing anchored to the United States. [32:14] But long story short we established in 2019 so we've been around awhile we have about 200 employees around the world. And the long and the short of it is that we're trying to take the the decade of experience that we've developed. Again with all those mistakes along the way to become you know the 7 billion dollar, consumer electronics company and give people an option to improve their business lines, so that's from the beginning to the end of the process and what we're looking for is companies that have already gone in and let's just say made their first 10 million, and they've hit a wall. [32:55] Because they haven't been able to expand the business or scale either through supply chain issues through fulfillment customer service maybe the advertising has become, complicated and convoluted because they've developed so many skus there's just so many problems that when someone reaches a certain point and they want to get to that next 10 or 20 million dollars when they're doing business, it's a different skill set, you know what they've done is worked it to a certain point and they is try as they might they can't get past that threshold and that's where we come in, so we're developing essential overall Amazon selling and operations processes that could be digital marketing marketing insights, advertising management helping them develop their Brand store and their product pages to customer service and relationship management which I mentioned earlier is. Reticle to get those star ratings in a good place through good authentic communication with your customers in a great experience with the products. [33:59] Obviously e-commerce and all the financial systems, and then what we're dealing with a lot these days is supply chain and Logistics management so you get yourself to a certain point and there's a lot of people that are coming to us and that is the area, where they're really hurting the most and they need help they need help developing new contacts new supply chain partners, for how do I deal with the issue if you're dealing with something that might spoil like we're dealing with a company that, deals in collagen and when something spits on one of those tankers out in the middle of the ocean for too long when it arrives in the warehouse, it's past its fresh state so you've just lost all that inventory so each client is unique, but with this kind of broad scope of things that we can help them with and we can help audit the business and hopefully help them transcend whatever's keeping them from moving to that next 10 and 20 and 30 million dollars. Jason: [34:59] Very interesting so going back to our earlier conversation this is sort of a way for other young young Brands to leverage all the expertise and skills you guys have have built-in staying on top of this ecosystem. Eric: [35:14] Exactly it's an opportunity for us to take what we've learned and apply it to that young brand I couldn't have said it better myself. Jason: [35:22] Yeah and it at this point is ocean Wing primarily focused with Amazon distribution or would they also leverage all the other distribution channels that you guys have expanded into. Eric: [35:36] Yeah I mean I think I think our sweet spot is definitely FBA so specifically Amazon. That is not to say that we can't help them with other things like supply chain and Logistics but for us, it's a recipe and you know where we've had our success with the clients have come in or people that have been focused on Amazon and then we can kind of look at what they're doing and we can evolve the recipe a little bit, and and get it all the ingredients in place and help them be successful because they all work together, so but I would say Amazon is definitely our primary focus right now at least dealing with businesses that are on Amazon that isn't to say that these businesses are you solely focused Amazon because they're not but Amazon is a key Channel especially if they're going globally and that's where we come in. Jason: [36:31] Got it and obviously over the last year there's kind of been a lot of Buzz around these I'll call them FB a roll ups where you know these, these companies have raised a bunch of money and they go out and acquire Brands and aggregate them and try to help them with their Amazon presents and we you know we've followed thrash Co and perch and, and all of those is, is this kind of your version of that do you see your value prop being different than those other companies or is it just that you have. Sort of more experience and and product scale than some of these companies. Eric: [37:05] How to say this without sounding like it like it's not a jerk but the again we this is what we do, this is how we built our business so we can take. The lessons learned the hard ones too and we can apply it to our clients and I think that alone is super unique that we're a company that's already done this and you know in spades, and now we can apply those learnings to irregular company the other part of it is that most consultancies are focused on Consulting, and but we're a consultant that actually you know rolls up our sleeves and gets into the nitty-gritty of the business and helps and and and that's really depending on the level of the contract or the engagement but you're not only dealing company that can come in and, say some pretty words and show you a powerpoint of what you should be doing, but you know we've already done it and we can roll up our sleeves and get deep in there with you and help you do it or do it. And then that last part in terms of supply chain and and Logistics and you know dealing with manufacturers around the world or suppliers and stuff I think that's a definitely a secret sauce because of our relationships. In China and around the world that we can bring to bear that others can't. Scot: [38:23] So I'd be remiss as the entrepreneur on the show if I noticed in your bio on LinkedIn you have written a book and it's very much in my wheelhouse it's called get funded the startup entrepreneurs guide to seriously successful fundraising I wish I'd had this 20 years ago but I'm glad it exists now tell us tell us about this book and how it came to be. Eric: [38:46] Well my writing partner John Biggs is a little bit of a media icon we've known each other for I think I took them on a media tour maybe 12 13 years ago and. [38:58] We just became very good friends and our families have subsequently traveled the world with each other and we just kind of dig each other and we both have the same kind of sense of humor and sensibilities. [39:10] A couple of years ago he reached out to me that he had been approached by McGraw-Hill to write this book, and thought that I could help provide sort of the second part of the book so the book is broken out into two parts one is is about financing but written in such a way that whether you're trying to develop a taco truck, or you know a retail store or something else what are the different options out there from let's say SBA Loans to even using cryptocurrency, 22 you know set up fundraising all the way down to the meetings and how you value the company how do you pitch people, how do you put presentations together, so very very very this is not this is for the person that was really starting out with very limited knowledge, on the fundraising process and how do you present yourself at the end of the day so John really focus more on the fundraising side and I focus more on the presentation skills, how to pitch how to talk how to prepare how to answer questions the technical aspects of doing a presentation when everything goes wrong. Obviously if I could if I could rewrite a whole section on this now since the book was published last year in September I probably be a whole section on how to pitch during covid because that was. [40:35] That was definitely not it was not a reality when we were writing the book but it was definitely a reality by the time the book was published and I hope and we've heard, the people the industry has adapted that investors and seed funders and people are hard at work and investing but, for the person that might not have the background in this I still think the book for evaluating your company, getting all your ducks in a row building your presentations and how to pitch is still very valuable. Scot: [41:12] Very cool yet this kind of books I think they're kind of Evergreen and it's kind of a little snowball kind of effort so be patient it'll it'll catch up. Jason: [41:22] I am curious it does feel like there's a little bit of a disruption in the fundraising World why you know there for a long time there's this kind of traditional VC path, and obviously there's still a lot of money that flows through that path but I feel like the the role of Angel Investors and sort of other untraditional fundraising. Is becoming more common than it used to be like you guys try to cover that those kind of approaches in the book as well or is it mostly focused on on moving through Sandhill Road. Eric: [41:52] Well it's we wanted it in some ways to be the antithesis of Silicon Valley so for those people that are going down that road you know inevitably they're going to partner up. Let's say at the app generation. They're going to partner up and kind of go down that road our book really tries to focus everything from the pros and cons of using your own credit card friends and family, crowdfunding as I said SBA Loans if you're a minority or women owned business looking at options they're looking at. Prices and options like through FedEx has a great program for entrepreneurs and trying to cover the whole gamut, so we could make fundraising more reasonable and open to the entrepreneur is opposed to. Yeah the tech bro going to Silicon Valley and looking for for someone's bill. Scot: [42:45] Awesome I had one follow-up on Ocean we just took kind of clarify it for listeners you guys are your kind of more in the agency side of things you're not going out there and finding, new brands that are also born on Amazon and acquiring of in kind of rolling them up like the thrashes of the world is do I have that right. Eric: [43:04] We're talking about anchor Innovations right. Scot: [43:07] Yeah the ocean Wing synchronization set. Eric: [43:12] Well on the ocean on the ocean Wing side it's definitely consultative but I mean those things are going to evolve as the business comes in and I don't know if you mean like Financial stakes and the business and stuff but. I mean who knows right if if something came along that looked amazing and a great partnership I'm sure we would consider that. On the anchor Innovation side I think you'll be seeing and you know in the future probably incubator initiatives and things like that, it would be to me it would be a personally exciting to get involved in as seeking out and finding you know exciting. Developers all around the world we tend to be very myopic here and look at the United States as being, where everything's happening and I'd say you know maybe from apps and things like that might be true but when you're looking at Innovation and medicine or innovation and Robotics or innovation and Farm Technology or whatever, you really have to look outside and around the world and you're going to find that Innovation and really unique an unassuming places. So is is if we do get into more ink you know becoming more of a global incubator, I would imagine in our direction would be all over the place and looking in places like India and Africa and you know wherever cool things are being developed. Scot: [44:34] Cool so no almost boundless growth opportunities for you guys it sounds like an exciting time. Jason: [44:44] Well this is certainly going to be a exciting and different holiday season and this is going to be a great place to leave this conversation because it is happen again we've Perfectly Used up our allotted time, But Eric we really appreciate your time and enjoyed hearing about anchoring some of the exciting new initiatives there. Eric: [45:05] Thanks God and thanks Jason. Scot: [45:07] Yeah if anyone wanted to follow you or you are you big on Tick-Tock or I said it's usually or Twitter or LinkedIn or you publish their and then where should they go for some good the latest Anchor Information. Eric: [45:22] Someone can connect with me on LinkedIn my focus to be quite Frank with you as I'm So Married to my work as I tend to focus my communication through work as opposed to myself. I think it's one of those things when you work in Communications you got to be careful about what use you say. So mostly I'm just talking about my company in the things that we do. Jason: [45:49] Awesome well we will put a link to your LinkedIn profile in there and certainly some links to Anchor and until next time happy commercing!

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Welcome to this special podcast series, Series Spotlight: Revolutionizing GRC with 6clicks, sponsored by 6clicks. This week I have visited with Joe Schorr, Vice President (VP) of Global Channel Sales, Andrew Robinson, co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer, Stephen Walter, head of Marketing, Dr. Heather Buker, Chief Technology Officer, and Ant Stevens, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Over the series, we broke down 6ckicks Hub and Spoke approach, utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in governance, risk and compliance (GRC), curating and maintaining a robust GRC content, producing audit ready reports. Today, in our concluding episode, Part 5, I am joined by 6clicks co-founder Ant Stevens, as we look down the road for what will be next for 6clicks.  Stevens said that 6clicks was founded some two and half years ago to bring an affordable, accessible and easy to use, GRC capability to lots of businesses around the world. The second related mission “was to ensure that the platform was effective in driving productivity gains for both businesses and advisors and by advisors such as lawyers, accountants, general business management consultants and business advisors. These goals were achieved through a platform built from the ground up. We thought about GRC, we identified some things that were necessary for us to have in place to compete effectively in the market.”  We turned specifically to AI. Here Stevens sees the application of AI into two buckets. The first is to help businesses automate or streamline what otherwise would be a complex and time-consuming activity. The second is to identify things in data that even a professional would struggle to do effectively, without the use of some sort of technology. That is what I have called ‘finding patterns in raked leaves.' Here Stevens turned to Haley, the 6clicks AI intelligence engine. Now “Haley helps companies with two major challenges. One is to identify similarity across standards, laws, or regulations that they need to comply with. Most are still doing this using manually spreadsheets, multiple tabs and feed lookups. There is overlap across multiple jurisdictions around the world which are generally seeking to do similar things. Businesses need to think about that in a unified way. Haley's first application is identifying similarity across standards, laws or regulations. The second challenge is to take an existing control framework within a company and quickly identify where the gaps are relative to a standard law regulation.” I asked Stevens if he could look down the road a bit and perhaps give us a teaser about what 6clicks might be developing. He said, “it is around our mission focusing on making GRC affordable and accessible for businesses. In the long-term, I think there is much to further automate processes for advisors, and we're going to focus on that. To me that represents huge opportunity for innovation. We are going to look at tools, techniques to enable GRC professionals make all of this more of a reality.” Another initiative is what Stevens termed “a marketplace” which can be “be tailored by advisors for their clients. What we want to do is take this concept to the next level and allow individuals to seamlessly share, as part of their community, in a crowdsource context, both content and best practices that they have identified within the 6clicks platform and make that available to all the 6clicks users around the world.” Most excitingly for me Stevens added, “we want to bring that same sort of capability into the world of risk and compliance.” For more information on 6clicks, check out their website here. 

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Welcome to this special podcast series, Series Spotlight: Revolutionizing GRC with 6clicks, sponsored by 6clicks. This week I visit with Joe Schorr, Vice President (VP) of Global Channel Sales, Andrew Robinson, co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer, Stephen Walter, head of Marketing, Dr. Heather Buker, Chief Technology Officer, and Ant Stephens, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Over the series, we will break down 6ckicks Hub and Spoke approach, utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in governance, risk and compliance (GRC), curating and maintaining a robust GRC content, producing audit ready reports, and look at what's next for 6clicks down the road. In Part 4, I am joined by 6clicks Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Heather Buker and we take up producing an audit-ready report with 6clicks Pixel Perfect™.  Buker is the transitional resource who takes the engineering and tech part of the 6clicks solution and puts it into a workable solution for customers. She says of herself, “you can see me, affectionately, as a translator if you will of the product and functionality and how that translates to business use cases, value propositions and things that clients really care about.” She went on to note, “functionality is only as good as the value proposition that it serves. I am here to make sure that those two things meet. I'm kind of the bridge.” The problem that the 6clicks Pixel Perfect™ helps solve is repeatability. As Buker explained, “The more we can make GRC processes repeatable, even when it comes to reporting, the easier our platform will be to use and the more widely adopted we can become. To solve for this in the reporting world, we decided to automate report generation.” I asked her for an example, and she said, “6clicks Pixel Perfect™ can take a completed PCI DSS assessment and return Section Six of the report on compliance, filled out an audit ready.” This means a template mandated by the Security Standards Council to drive this functionality and ensure the report is ready to be submitted and properly formatted when generated. All an organization has to do is complete their PCI assessment and the platform will perform our “6clicks magic on the other side and deliver the PCI form from those assessment results minus all of the hassle. We are talking hours upon hours of time savings for QSAs merchants and others on their engagements.” We concluded with some of Buker's thoughts on how multiple stakeholders can use the information that 6clicks Pixel Perfect™ solution creates, up and down the chain in an organization, literally from the technical folks on the front lines up to the Board of Directors. She emphasized “what this functionality has to be, has to be up and down, high level, low level, right to Board members who have their monthly meeting or senior management that maybe, managing multiple projects across various lines of business. They don't always know what they're looking at when they look at some of these low-level risk, detailed reports or even data in general. We must make it digestible for them. We have to make it meaningful for them. We have to be able to produce reports and analytics at a really high level.”   Join us tomorrow where we conclude our series by visiting with company co-founder Ant Stephens as we explore what's next for 6clicks. For more information on 6clicks, check out their website here. 

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Welcome to this special podcast series, Series Spotlight: Revolutionizing GRC with 6clicks, sponsored by 6clicks. This week I visit with Joe Schorr, Vice President (VP) of Global Channel Sales, Andrew Robinson, co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer, Stephen Walter, head of Marketing, Dr. Heather Buker, Chief Technology Officer, and Ant Stephens, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Over the series, we will break down 6ckicks Hub and Spoke approach, utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in governance, risk and compliance (GRC), curating and maintaining a robust GRC content, producing audit ready reports, and look at what's next for 6clicks down the road. In Part 3, I am joined Stephen Walter to discuss curating and maintaining robust GRC content. Walter said that for someone just starting out at a budding GRC program “navigating the complexities of achieving and maintaining, compliance within a number of regulations and or authorities can be quite daunting.” With all these regulatory compliance requirements, comes content needs. Curating the needed content which could be regulatory or compliance content or it could be as wide and as varied as “content assessments, audits, frameworks, best practice, risk libraries, policies, and control sets.” Providing and housing all of these can present some serious challenges. Next, overlay that content spread through different management systems like Google or SharePoint; together with mailboxes and, as Walter notes, “it really creates chaos. Next consider outdated regulations, leading to outdated risk management policies and other required internal content materials, can all equal noncompliance with the legislations.” One interesting observation was that because risk and compliance has been elevated in organizations, right up to the Board agenda, these conversations are resonating with companies. This allows smaller companies to have more robust risk and compliance functions through the use of GRC tools and advisors. Walter is seeing much less of a top-down approach where unilateral decisions are made the top. It can now be a more bottom-up approach, democratizing the approach to risk and compliance and bringing in the people that are actually in the trenches to convey their message upward in the company as well. This can make the job of a GRC professional much easier with the wide variety of stakeholders involved, there is something for everyone. A GRC tool allows for the jettisoning of outdated methods and processes so a company can innovate itself into a better system. Walter concluded with a few thoughts on the 6clicks content library, which he termed “massively rich.” It all begins with authority documents which are the standards, laws, and regulations. From there you move down to policies, which are the measures you put in place to mitigate risk or demonstrate compliance with the controls within them. Next these controls have responsibilities, such as “who does what, how often and when the control measures, which those responsibilities are maintain the effectiveness of that control.” Those are all there already inside the 6clicks content library and you can create your own. Join us tomorrow where we take up the topic of producing audit-ready reports with 6clicks Pixel Perfect™, with 6clicks Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Heather Buker. For more information on 6clicks, check out their website here.

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Welcome to this special podcast series, Series Spotlight: Revolutionizing GRC with 6clicks, sponsored by 6clicks. This week I visit with Joe Schorr, Vice President (VP) of Global Channel Sales, Andrew Robinson, co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer, Stephen Walter, head of Marketing, Dr. Heather Buker, Chief Technology Officer, and Ant Stephens, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Over the series, we will break down 6ckicks Hub and Spoke approach, utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in governance, risk and compliance (GRC), curating and maintaining a robust GRC content, producing audit ready reports, and look at what's next for 6clicks down the road. In Part 2, I am joined by Andrew Robinson to discuss utilizing ML and AI into your GRC practice.  For GRC professionals working internationally, Robinson said they must “maintain mappings or what you commonly call in the US ‘crosswalks of compliance' frameworks.” He went on to explain these frameworks are “useful because it can allow a consultant to help a client understand how they might stack up against a particular standard. Robinson provided the example that if an organization is already complying with ISO 27,001, through these mappings, it might be able to give them an idea about what that level of compliance they have through the lens of a different framework or standard that may be relevant like the NIST cybersecurity framework.”  This productivity increase and potential cost saving does not remove the human element. This final concept is critical in moving forward. Robinson said, “I'm of the view that humans have a very important role to play. This role is supervising the machine learning models to make sure that what they are producing and the results that they are coming out with are accurate and reliable.” If they are using spreadsheets and word documents; they should, come to terms with the fact that companies and clients no longer want spreadsheets and word documents as a deliverable. GRC professionals and consultants need to need to start using similar tools and improving the way that they service their clients. Clients, both in-house and external, are starting to demand and look for this approach. Robinson noted, “the reality is that if you are doing anything else it will be seen as subpar, and no one wants to be delivering sort of subpar products. I look for a solution that can meet your customer expectations and help you deliver your services long into the future.” We concluded by looking at GRC tools with ML and AI at a strategic level, at the senior executive level and even at the Board of Director level. Robinson feels that management at this level “understands the benefits because they understand the problem.” Their goals are to simplify compliance while understanding risk exposure. From this point, management can move to create a risk-based solution. Robinson believes, these are the types of “business problems that executives are dealing with on a daily basis. Having awareness of the machine learning model can help them navigate that complexity.” From where I sit, when you can take a tool that improves business process efficiency and use it to increase profitability through more effectual risk management it is a win for everyone.  Join us tomorrow where we take up the topic of curating and maintaining robust GRC content. With 6clicks Head of Marketing, Stephen Walter. For more information on 6clicks, check out their website here. 

Today - Groundbreaking of the HUB at Montrose Crossing, a proposed 500-unit multi-family and senior living housing development, is expected to start in February 2022. Also, following the increased public demand for boosters, Montrose County Public Health and Peak Professionals are partnering to temporarily open a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic. Go to montrosepress.com to subscribe for just $1.99 per week for our digital edition. Support the show: https://www.montrosepress.com/site/forms/subscription_services/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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    Are you feeling stuck these days? At some point in all of our businesses, we all hit a plateau where we just don't seem to move past a certain level of success. I can tell you it's definitely happened to me over the course of my career and I've picked up some wisdom along the way that I want to share with you all. On today's episode, let's take a look at these plateaus that are simply a fact of doing business, and explore the ways we can bust right through them to reach that next level of success.   First things first, though, I want to remind you all of the workshop coming up in January that we're all so excited about. Then we'll dive into this common experience of plateauing, and I'll share some of my valuable tips for busting through them. Along the way, I'll discuss such aspects as looking for holes in your bucket, establishing processes, my true feelings about wholesale products and retail arbitrage, and the value of using Merchant Words. We'll also review some of the lessons you can learn through our Hub training, and finish up with a look at both dealing with debt and AccrueMe, an Amazon funding method. Plateaus are a fact of life – we're all going to experience them – so let's work together to identify and break right on through the other side of them.   One surefire way to work your way through plateaus is to join our Facebook group with today's codeword BUSTED, where you can learn more about bundling, ask questions, and participate in the conversation with other sellers. And if you're ready to take your business to a whole new level, visit MommyIncome.com/Coach to schedule your one-on-one coaching call today.   This week on the Amazon Files:        The upcoming workshop in January   The common experience of plateauing   Tips for plateau busting   Holes in your bucket   Establishing processes   My perspective on straight up wholesale products and retail arbitrage   Merchant Words   Hub Training   Dealing with debt   AccrueMe   “We're all in this together. We're all doing this together. We're all suffering together in some way or another but we're also profiting in some way. So, I want to just have more profit, more money, in your pocket.“ - Kristin Ostrander   Quotes:   “Everyone who has come to a January workshop really has loved how it's given them the positive momentum to start their business off right in that year, and just hit the ground running.”   “Whatever it is you're trying to manage right now, your persistence and your ability to change is going to get you a desired result.”   “In order to get what we've never had, we've got to do something we've never done.”   “Examine what your sourcing guidelines are.”   “Just try to move your parameters just a little bit and see if that helps you kick start into a little bit more of sales.”   “Pick up your calendar right now and plug in ‘Examine my numbers' on the calendar somewhere, even if it's like one hour three weeks from now.”   “Many times businesses fail because people only do the stuff that's fun and exciting.”   “Processes simplify things.”   “It's really easy to let some of these things slide and then kind of wonder why your business isn't doing what you want it to do. Chances are, it's our fault, and we just have to own that.”   “If you're doing one method of sourcing right now, maybe pepper in a little bit of other things to see what's really going to work for you.”   “There's still nothing instantaneous about business.”   “You've got to be willing to be patient. You've got to be willing to be persistent. You've got to be consistent and keep going after what you want.”   “I am not against straight up wholesale products, like, at all. I'm not against retail arbitrage, although I think it has many risks in different categories we need to be aware of, but I'm not against these things.”   “I'm pro protection of your account, protection of your hard work, pro working smarter, not harder.”   “Are you utilizing all of the resources that you're already paying for?”   “Use your business to pay off your debt, and then start talking about bootstrapping your business because you'll take it a lot more seriously.”   “Everything that you are working for and deserve is on the other side of your procrastination and your overthinking and maybe just your busyness. So let's get accountable, and let's move the needle.”   Related Content:   2022 Workshops - Coupon code: workshop50 Wholesale Bundle System Email questions Learn With Us Coaching The Amazon Files Hub   mommyincome.com/money?   Small Business Administration Homepage AccrueMe Homepage    Grow Your Amazon Business!   Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of The Amazon Files, the show to help Amazon sellers along their business journey one step at a time with Amazon expert and your host, Kristin Ostrander. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to the show and leave us your honest review. Don't forget to share your favorite episodes with your friends on social media! Use the codeword BUSTED to join us on Facebook. Each week, Kristin hosts a live discussion on how to grow your Amazon business. Don't forget to check out our website and subscribe to our mailing list for even more resources.    

Welcome to this special podcast series, Series Spotlight: Revolutionizing GRC with 6clicks, sponsored by 6clicks. This week I visit with Joe Schorr, Vice President (VP) of Global Channel Sales, Andrew Robinson, co-founder and Chief Information Security Officer, Stephen Walter, head of Marketing, Dr. Heather Buker, Chief Technology Officer, and Ant Stephens, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Over the series, we will break down 6ckicks Hub and Spoke approach, utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in governance, risk and compliance (GRC), curating and maintaining a robust GRC content, producing audit ready reports, and look at what's next for 6clicks down the road. In Part 1, I am joined by Joe Schorr on Managing a Multi-Entity GRC Architecture with 6clicks Hub and Spoke. Schorr handles global channels, which encompasses service provider partners and technology partners and the traditional channel resale role. We turned to the ‘hub and spoke' model which 6clicks advocates. He said that 6clicks pioneered the evolution from a multi-tenant or federated approach of GRC architecture to hub and spoke model. The difference is that in a multi-tenant or federated approach it is seen as much more vertical or up and down the chain. But the hub and spoke is “just like with airline travel, back in the old days of networking, where we had hubs, routers and switches and the computers all hooked to a hub.” Moreover, the hub and spoke approach facilitates a GRC conversation with a wide variety of people. This could include compliance professionals, lawyers, other non-technical folks at the C-suite or executive level and certainly in the Board level and everywhere in between. It helps to define everyone's role in the GRC and broader risk management process. Schorr said, “That's beauty of it because you can craft it. For instance, in a Private Equity company with multiple portfolio companies, there is much sensitive information and, not everybody in every portfolio company needs to see what's going on in every other portfolio company. This approach allows an organization to segregate all that data yet allows you the freedom to utilize the information you want to as access control is built into the architecture.”   We continued on the example of the private equity firm with multiple portfolio companies, which are sometimes in the same industry, but sometimes not. There is always a wide variety of data and disparate sources of data that you have to pull in. This disparate data has to be collected, in a manner that can be utilized by the private equity firm, the corporate office, whatever the hub might be. However, the stakeholders, corporate subsidiaries or portfolio companies at the end of the spoke might need that data to make tactical if not strategic decisions. Next, overlay reporting to senior management and then a Board of Directors, all in a changing regulatory environment. This hub and spoke architecture can be an incredibly powerful way to collect and utilize data. Schorr explained, “if you are hired to do a risk assessment against 200 portfolio companies, you have a massive set of risk data in all kinds of different things. You have collected data; you have interviews, you have done vulnerability scanning, you've done risk assessments, third party risk assessments, vendor assessments, everything you could possibly imagine. That is all rolled up collected somewhere and a bunch of smart people look at it and we're all trying to grade it and do things manually and push it around. And at the end of the day, just like you said, this is really important.”   Join us tomorrow where we take up utilizing machine learning and AI in your GRC practice with Andrew Robinson, 6clicks co-founder and Chief Information and Security Officer.  For more information on 6clicks, check out their website here. 

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I am more than excited to see Hamilton, Ohio growing in the ways that it has been. If you're a regular listener of Cincy Brewcast,… The post Volume 7, Episode 33 – The Hub, Hamilton Ohio, and How It All Works appeared first on The Gnarly Gnome.

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Fantasy Premier League live stream and podcast by FPL guru Adam Hopcroft and fantasy football all-rounder Fergi.In this episode the lads look ahead to FPL Gameweek 11 including how we approach Spurs' assets under Antonio Conte. 

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Are you prepared for the biggest weekend of the year? Here in America, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday form a huge weekend for us as resellers, and this year, it's going to be record breaking. Now, this is all great if you're prepared for it, and, given the supply chain issues we're experiencing this year, preparation is more important than ever, so listen in today to learn exactly what you need to do to make this crucial weekend a success.   I'll begin by reviewing just how important it is to be ready for business at all times, and especially for this Q4 holiday season, and how The Reseller's Guide to Black Friday is the perfect resource to show you how to make the most out of this special weekend. I'll share with you some tips that will guide you to success, especially this year, and we'll finish by looking at some current trends, and the role that merchant fulfill can play this year. A lot of factors have combined to make this a year like no other, but that doesn't mean you can't still make it as profitable as ever. Now is the time to buckle down, get scrappy, and make sure you are ready for this biggest weekend of the year, and today I show you how to do just that.   Even more valuable information is available if you choose to join our Facebook group with today's codeword word BLACKFRIDAY, where you can learn more about bundling, ask questions, and participate in the conversation with other sellers. And if you're ready to take your business to a whole new level, visit MommyIncome.com/Coach to schedule your one-on-one coaching call today.   This week on the Amazon Files:        Being ready for the Q4 holiday season, especially this year   The Reseller's Guide to Black Friday   Black Friday, Cyber Monday, 2021 holiday tips for resellers   Some current trends in purchasing   Merchant fulfill “I want you to go out and take some of these tips and use them because you will be rewarded when you do the work. Because, you know what? You can finish this year with results and good sales and pat yourself on the back for doing the work and working hard and putting in the time.” - Kristin Ostrander   Quotes:   “You have to stay ready, so you don't have to get ready. That's the whole point.”   “Even though I don't love doing arbitrage, I do it now because it's supplementing the stuff that I have not received from my suppliers that I ordered.”                                  “The supply chain issues are a real problem.”   “Anything that has a computer chip in it, you're going to struggle to get any quantities of.”   “What we need to look for as resellers is stuff that's already available.”   “Sign up for the email list for your favorite retailers.”   “Another thing that you want to pay attention to is shipping stuff in immediately.”   “Join their rewards programs and get every and all discounts that you can possibly get.”   “If that store doesn't have that anymore, then all of a sudden, your item becomes more valuable, and you can raise the price a little bit because the supply and demand are not meeting up.”   “Outdoor stuff is still extremely popular.”   “The time to get it and list it is right now because the world is kind of in a panic about this whole supply chain issue.”   “I would look at some of the close out companies and see if they have any last year goods that you can buy if they don't have any sitting around.”   “If you're a Hub member, review the q4 class.”   “Just keep your finger on the pulse of the supply chain issues and things like that, because those things are going to come up regularly.”   “I'm going to be doing some merchant fulfill because there are things that just won't get to Amazon on time.”   “Get your stuff in early, ship it out early. The faster you list it, the more it can sell.”   “Everything's kind of wackadoodle right now. So just try all the things.”   “I have listed things on Black Friday standing in line to check out the things that are in my cart, and have sold them on Amazon before I even hit the checkout.”   “You can make a boatload of money between Thanksgiving and Christmas - that's, like probably, the biggest 30 days of the year for a lot of us as far as sales and things like that. But you've got to have the stuff ready to sell.”    Related Content:   2022 Workshops - Coupon code: workshop50 Wholesale Bundle System Email questions Learn With Us Coaching The Amazon Files Hub The Reseller's Guide to Black Friday - Coupon code: bfsale Full-Time FBA Homepage     Grow Your Amazon Business!   Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of The Amazon Files, the show to help Amazon sellers along their business journey one step at a time with Amazon expert and your host, Kristin Ostrander. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to the show and leave us your honest review. Don't forget to share your favorite episodes with your friends on social media! Use the codeword BLACKFRIDAY to join us on Facebook. Each week, Kristin hosts a live discussion on how to grow your Amazon business. Don't forget to check out our website and subscribe to our mailing list for even more resources.      

While Stephen is away, Andrew's wife Faith O'Hara joins the show. As always we start with the news including more than 200 playlists coming to Apple Music to suit your mood, Matter support coming to Eero routers, and more. Then we have a Q&A session with Faith on all things smart home including several listener questions from you all. HomeKit Insider YouTube Channel Subscribe to the HomeKit Insider YouTube Channel and watch our episodes every week! Click here to subscribe. Sponsored by: Nebia by Moen: The Nebia by Moen Spa Shower is Nebia's most advanced shower yet. The first 50 listeners to use code HomeKit will receive 10% off ALL Nebia products! Visit nebia.com/homekit to learn more. Wealthfront: Get your first $5,000 managed for free, for life, by visiting wealthfront.com/HOMEKIT. Get started today! Links from the Show Faith's Instagram Signals comes to the Mac Everything new in iOS 15.1 All of the new Apple Music playlists Eero is getting Matter support Send us your HomeKit questions and recommendations with the hashtag #homekitinsider Tweet and follow our hosts at Stephen Robles and Andrew O'Hara, or email us here. Find us in your favorite podcast player by searching for "HomeKit Insider" and support the show by leaving a 5-Star rating and comment in Apple Podcasts.

Canary Cry News Talk #403 - 10.27.2021  GOOD INFO INC: Soros, Zombies, AI ghost, Pope and Knights of Malta - CCNT 403 WEBSITE/SHOW NOTES: CanaryCryNewsTalk.com LINKTREE: CanaryCry.Party SUPPORT: CanaryCryRadio.com/Support MEET UPS: CanaryCryMeetUps.com ravel Podcast (Basil's other podcast) Facelikethesun Resurrection (Gonz' new YouTube channel) Truther Dating experiment   INTRO YouTube takes down episode 402   FLIPPY UPDATE How robots can streamline breeder, cage free layer management (Wattagnet)   NEW WORLD ORDER Reid Hoffman and George Soros start Good Information Inc (Axios/Yahoo) Getting ready for COP26, how to dispel ESG confusion (WEF)   CYBERPANDEMIC US Government eyes export controls for BCI technology (Federal Register)   COVID19/I AM WACCINE US to mandate shots for all foreign arrivals (OPS Group) Mention: Thoughts about Waccine and Zombies blames hesitancy (5280)   BREAK 1: Executive Producers, Paypal, Patrons   POLYTICK Raytheon CEO says US behind China Russia on Hypersonic Weapons (Bloomberg) Judge Kyle Rittenhouse case says those shot and dead cannot be “victims” (Wapo) Clip: Biden getting ready to meet Pope on Friday   SPACE POPE REPTILIAN Pope Francis encourages Order of Malta process of renewal (Vatican News) (Knights of Malta article)   BREAK 2: Art, Reviews, Jingles, Meet Ups   AI AI finds ghost ancestor in human genome (Science Alert) Apple co-founder Wozniak says humans intuition will trump AI (Your Story)   BEAST SYSTEM This AR game makes ghosts appear in the room (Buzzfeed)   ADDITIONAL STORIES: Tiny crab trapped in tree sap “100 million yrs old” solves crab evolution (Weather Channel) We need to keep an eye on home surveillance (FT) Retail chains remove Chinese surveillance tech off shelves (Wa. Ex) Mammoth CRISPR projects gets hundreds of millions more (Fierce BioTech) Should we build a new human? (Providence Journal) New AI system deciphers how language is processed in the brain (MIT) What this lady learned from giving first VR keynote (INC) UN sounds alarm on missing climate pledges (Reuters) Single neurons responsible for social interaction, new study finds (Singularity Net) The Belly of the Beast (The Ecologist) Automatic Robotics engineers prototype hydraulic arm with tendons and muscles (Hub)   PRODUCER'S 403: Sir Igor Knight of the Squatting Slavs** Aaron J** Jackie U** Benjamin S, Morv, HeatheRuss, Juan A, Gail M, JC, Child of God, Scott K, Sir Sammons Knight of the Fishes, Sir Casey the Shield Knight, Ciara, DrWhoDunDat, Veronica D, Brandt W, Runksmash, Joe   ART: Dame Allie of the Skillet Nation Sir Dove, Knight of Rustbeltia Ryan N Mark A   JINGLES: LeirBag3000 Lloyd V   MICRO FICTION: Runksmash - BASIL and NFG appear in a basement, a shadowy figure is backlit by a monitor with a confused old man on the screen, without warning BASIL's kicks into action and tazes the puppeteer. Seeing the president needs driven NFG woodenly controls his arms.   TIMESTAMPS: Jade Bouncerson

Tracy Sherrod, editorial director of Amistad at Penguin Group, talks about the books she has greenly and the importance of Black voices in publishing. #Amistad #TracySherrod #MondayMover #KarenHunterShow