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Lynette Kaylor's background does not mirror that of a traditional TV ad sales boss. But her history in data and identity technology does indicate the makeup of a modern TV ad sales boss. Before joining Fubo as the streaming pay-TV service's svp of advertising sales last August, Kaylor worked at Dentsu's data arm Merkle where she worked on identity tech partnerships with publishers and platforms — which is kind of a perfect pedigree for someone overseeing a streaming ad business today. “Data is only going to become more and more important. And given my background, obviously I feel that way. But it makes sense to me from a buyer and seller [perspective],” Kaylor said in the latest Digiday Podcast episode. “From a seller perspective, let me show you why you want to buy my audience, look at what makes them unique and great. From the buy side, it's like, 'Oh yeah, I want to stop wasting money,'” she added. Among Kaylor's most immediate tasks is building Fubo's first-party data strategy as advertisers seek to make their streaming campaigns more targeted and more measurable. That includes developing the company's data clean room strategy, which has become more of a focal point among TV and streaming ad businesses over the past few years. “A big conversation right now is clean rooms and where do those fit in. When I was at Merkle, those were kind of just starting out, and now they seem to be in every conversation,” said Kaylor.

Merkle B2B's Global CEO, Michael McLaren, wraps up discussions on B2B marketing in 2022. Similar to the evolving nature of B2C customer experience, B2B customer experiences are also evolving rapidly. B2B marketers must keep up or risk being left behind in this digitally-driven, competitive space. Today, Michael explores the evolution of B2B customer experiences. Show NotesConnect With: Michael McLaren: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Michael McLaren, Merkle B2B's Global CEO, discusses B2B marketing in 2022. We're moving into an age of millennial influenced marketing departments. We're also seeing an increase in their buying power, which brings with it new expectations. Today, Michael talks about the rise of the millennial B2B decision-maker. Show NotesConnect With: Michael McLaren: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. If you don’t teach your kids the Lord’s songs, the world will teach them its songs. The brand-new Hi-Contrast Hymn Book is designed to help you teach your children the most beloved songs of the Christian faith. Its captivating illustrations will create special moments of truth, goodness, and beauty in your home every day. To get a copy for your family, go to www.hicontrasthymnbooks.com/FLF. That’s www. “H” “I” contrasthymnbooks.com/FLF. https://rumble.com/v2c13x8-tucker-releases-bombshell-jan-6-footage-showing-everything-the-media-and-de.html Tucker Releases Bombshell Jan 6 Footage Showing EVERYTHING the Media and Dems Said Was a LIE New video released by Tucker Carlson has revealed that once again, the liberal media and Democrat establishment lied about everything when it came to the events on January 6, 2021. Among the revelations from Carlson’s reporting was that the man that has become the face of January 6, the so-called “QAnon Shaman,” was led through the Capitol building by police the entire time he was in the building, including them escorting him to the Senate floor. This is contrary to the media portrayal of him as a “violent insurrectionist.” https://rumble.com/v2c13x8-tucker-releases-bombshell-jan-6-footage-showing-everything-the-media-and-de.html - Play Video In perhaps the damning revelation, the extent to which Democrats lied about the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was worse than initially thought. Not only did they lie about him being beaten to death by protesters (when in fact he died of natural causes), he was captured on video alive after he was supposedly “murdered.” He was also seen wearing a helmet, making it even more unlikely that he died of a head injury as some falsely reported https://rumble.com/v2c3bkg-new-jan-6-footage-proves-dems-lied-about-death-of-officer-brian-sicknick.html - Play Video The new footage also proved that Ray Epps, who is widely suspected to be a federal informant who helped instigate January 6, lied to the January 6 Committee about when he left the Capitol that day - though the Committee didn’t seem to care much about being lied to when it came from Epps. https://rumble.com/v2c39rc-new-footage-proves-ray-epps-lied-to-jan-6-committee.html - Play Video https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/03/06/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-business-require-customers-unmask-fight-crime/’ NYC Mayor Eric Adams: Business Should Require Customers to Unmask Upon Entering to Help Fight Crime New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called on the city’s businesses to require unmasking upon entry. The move comes as authorities have noted mask-wearing in public places has made it easier for criminals to obscure their identities. “We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops, do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask,” Adams said in a recent radio interview with 1010 WINS. “And then once they’re inside, they can continue to wear if they so desire to do so. But we need to use the technology we have available to identify those shoplifters and those who are committing serious crimes.” At a February 28 press conference concerning a jewelry store robbery in which police say a 78-year-old worker was brutally beaten by the suspects — one of them masked — New York City Police Chief Jeffrey Maddrey called on the city’s business community to require unmasking as a “condition of entry”: The NYPD is here to work with our businesses, but I have to ask our businesses to be just as proactive as well. We’re seeing far too often where people are coming up to our businesses, sometimes with masks, sometimes with masks, hoods, and latex gloves… and then we have a robbery or some kind of property being stolen. Maddrey explained that unmasking could serve as a “peace offering” to workers. Fox 5 reported Monday that police had linked the murder of a 67-year-old bodega worker during a robbery to three other robberies. Police say that in each case the suspect was masked. Staying in NYC… https://thepostmillennial.com/nyc-spends-10-million-per-day-to-house-feed-illegal-immigrants-report?utm_campaign=64487 NYC spends $10 MILLION per day to house, feed illegal immigrants New York City is having to deal with an immense financial burden as it continues to spend millions per day to provide housing and food for thousands of illegal immigrants, with the city having received minimal aid from President Joe Biden and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul. The city's Emergency Management Commissioner, Zach Iscol, disclosed the high cost during a City Council panel meeting, where he said that the Department of Homeless Services and Health & Hospital spent, on average, reports the New York Post, $363 per day for a single illegal migrant's shelter and food. Over 30,000 illegal migrants are currently housed in the city's taxpayer-funded facilities, the Post reported, with that bill amounting to over $10 million, per day. City Hall told the Post "there are 12,700 households currently in our care," with the minimum daily cost of taking care of the illegal immigrants being placed at $4,622,800. Iscol warned the City Council's Committee on Contracts that the city is at the end of its resources, and the situation is not sustainable. The temporary Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers set up by the city to deal with the influx are not viable solutions, he said, emphasizing that the city has reached out for help from both state and federal governments. Very little has been provided by the state or the Biden regime in terms of financial aid. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided the city with a mere $8 million in December, which is not even enough to cover two current days' costs. City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli expressed frustration, with Borelli stating that the Biden administration should take responsibility for the situation and provide financial aid to the city. The New York National Guard has been deployed to a minor degree to aid with the influx of illegal immigrants. Hochul has promised $1 billion in aid to the city for the crisis in her state budget, though the city will have to pay a third of the amount. The federal government has yet to commit to funding any amount of aid. https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/06/iowa-bill-college-diversity-efforts/ Iowa Bill Would Bankrupt All College Diversity Programs An Iowa bill introduced Sunday would end higher education institutions’ diversity programs, prohibiting colleges from spending money on such efforts. House File 616 would prohibit public higher education institutions governed by the Iowa Board of Regents from funding diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts and would bar the universities from hiring DEI officers. The bill, introduced by the Iowa Committee on Education, would require the money that would have been spent on DEI efforts go towards merit scholarships for lower-income and middle-income students. Universities are not permitted to spend any grants, tuition, endowments and gifts on DEI policies, programming, training, activities and positions, the bill stated. Under the legislation, the state’s attorney general can oversee the universities efforts to axe diversity efforts and punish the schools if they fail to do so. The legislation comes among other education efforts within the state; the legislature is considering an Iowa bill that would prohibit teachers from giving lessons “relating to gender identity” in K-8 public and charter school classrooms. In January, Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed House Study Bill 1 into law, creating a school choice program that gives vouchers to students outside of the public school system. “The Board of Regents opposes the bill,” Josh Lehman, Iowa Board of Regents senior communications director, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We have concerns with the bill’s language and impact, and will work with legislators directly to address them. We will continue to track the bill as it makes its way through the legislative process.” The Iowa Committee on Education did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. CrossPolination Ad Did you guys know that you can sign up for a club membership, a magazine subscription, AND tickets to the Ark Encounter all in one place?! That’s some crosspollination right there! Fightlaughfeast.com is your one-stop-shop for everything CrossPolitic. Here’s what you should do. You should sign up for a club membership, then sign up for the Ark Encounter for a $100 discount off of your purchase, and then sign up for a magazine subscription. We’ve even got our own social media platform built into our website now for our club members… once you’re a club member, you’ll get access to exclusive content like a Bible Study series with Pastor Toby, a special series with New Saint Andrews President, Dr. ben Merkle, all of our back-stage content, and all of our conference talks, with more to come! There really hasn’t been a better time to be a CrossPolitic Club Member. Sign up today, at fightlaughfeast.com. That’s fightlaughfeast.com. Before we go, let’s see how Canada’s doing! https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trudeau-pledges-5-5-million-to-fight-disinformation-after-accusations-ccp-infiltrated-canadian-elections?utm_campaign=64487 Trudeau pledges $5.5 million to fight 'disinformation' after accusations CCP infiltrated Canadian elections Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will appoint an "Independent special rapporteur," who he says will have a "wide mandate and will make expert recommendations on combating interference and strengthening our democracy" amid allegations that his government ignored recommendations from CSIS noting concerns about candidates' connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Trudeau said that foreign interference was felt in US and France's elections in 2016 and 2017, respectively. https://twitter.com/i/status/1632880023743889408 - Play Video Trudeau then announced that $5.5 million would be invested to "build capacity of civil society organizations to combat disinformation," adding that "disinformation often generated abroad can be a real threat to our elections, and it's a threat that the federal government cannot combat alone." https://twitter.com/i/status/1632883311151398919 - Play Video

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. If you don’t teach your kids the Lord’s songs, the world will teach them its songs. The brand-new Hi-Contrast Hymn Book is designed to help you teach your children the most beloved songs of the Christian faith. Its captivating illustrations will create special moments of truth, goodness, and beauty in your home every day. To get a copy for your family, go to www.hicontrasthymnbooks.com/FLF. That’s www. “H” “I” contrasthymnbooks.com/FLF. https://rumble.com/v2c13x8-tucker-releases-bombshell-jan-6-footage-showing-everything-the-media-and-de.html Tucker Releases Bombshell Jan 6 Footage Showing EVERYTHING the Media and Dems Said Was a LIE New video released by Tucker Carlson has revealed that once again, the liberal media and Democrat establishment lied about everything when it came to the events on January 6, 2021. Among the revelations from Carlson’s reporting was that the man that has become the face of January 6, the so-called “QAnon Shaman,” was led through the Capitol building by police the entire time he was in the building, including them escorting him to the Senate floor. This is contrary to the media portrayal of him as a “violent insurrectionist.” https://rumble.com/v2c13x8-tucker-releases-bombshell-jan-6-footage-showing-everything-the-media-and-de.html - Play Video In perhaps the damning revelation, the extent to which Democrats lied about the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was worse than initially thought. Not only did they lie about him being beaten to death by protesters (when in fact he died of natural causes), he was captured on video alive after he was supposedly “murdered.” He was also seen wearing a helmet, making it even more unlikely that he died of a head injury as some falsely reported https://rumble.com/v2c3bkg-new-jan-6-footage-proves-dems-lied-about-death-of-officer-brian-sicknick.html - Play Video The new footage also proved that Ray Epps, who is widely suspected to be a federal informant who helped instigate January 6, lied to the January 6 Committee about when he left the Capitol that day - though the Committee didn’t seem to care much about being lied to when it came from Epps. https://rumble.com/v2c39rc-new-footage-proves-ray-epps-lied-to-jan-6-committee.html - Play Video https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/03/06/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-business-require-customers-unmask-fight-crime/’ NYC Mayor Eric Adams: Business Should Require Customers to Unmask Upon Entering to Help Fight Crime New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called on the city’s businesses to require unmasking upon entry. The move comes as authorities have noted mask-wearing in public places has made it easier for criminals to obscure their identities. “We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops, do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask,” Adams said in a recent radio interview with 1010 WINS. “And then once they’re inside, they can continue to wear if they so desire to do so. But we need to use the technology we have available to identify those shoplifters and those who are committing serious crimes.” At a February 28 press conference concerning a jewelry store robbery in which police say a 78-year-old worker was brutally beaten by the suspects — one of them masked — New York City Police Chief Jeffrey Maddrey called on the city’s business community to require unmasking as a “condition of entry”: The NYPD is here to work with our businesses, but I have to ask our businesses to be just as proactive as well. We’re seeing far too often where people are coming up to our businesses, sometimes with masks, sometimes with masks, hoods, and latex gloves… and then we have a robbery or some kind of property being stolen. Maddrey explained that unmasking could serve as a “peace offering” to workers. Fox 5 reported Monday that police had linked the murder of a 67-year-old bodega worker during a robbery to three other robberies. Police say that in each case the suspect was masked. Staying in NYC… https://thepostmillennial.com/nyc-spends-10-million-per-day-to-house-feed-illegal-immigrants-report?utm_campaign=64487 NYC spends $10 MILLION per day to house, feed illegal immigrants New York City is having to deal with an immense financial burden as it continues to spend millions per day to provide housing and food for thousands of illegal immigrants, with the city having received minimal aid from President Joe Biden and New York State Governor Kathy Hochul. The city's Emergency Management Commissioner, Zach Iscol, disclosed the high cost during a City Council panel meeting, where he said that the Department of Homeless Services and Health & Hospital spent, on average, reports the New York Post, $363 per day for a single illegal migrant's shelter and food. Over 30,000 illegal migrants are currently housed in the city's taxpayer-funded facilities, the Post reported, with that bill amounting to over $10 million, per day. City Hall told the Post "there are 12,700 households currently in our care," with the minimum daily cost of taking care of the illegal immigrants being placed at $4,622,800. Iscol warned the City Council's Committee on Contracts that the city is at the end of its resources, and the situation is not sustainable. The temporary Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers set up by the city to deal with the influx are not viable solutions, he said, emphasizing that the city has reached out for help from both state and federal governments. Very little has been provided by the state or the Biden regime in terms of financial aid. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided the city with a mere $8 million in December, which is not even enough to cover two current days' costs. City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli expressed frustration, with Borelli stating that the Biden administration should take responsibility for the situation and provide financial aid to the city. The New York National Guard has been deployed to a minor degree to aid with the influx of illegal immigrants. Hochul has promised $1 billion in aid to the city for the crisis in her state budget, though the city will have to pay a third of the amount. The federal government has yet to commit to funding any amount of aid. https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/06/iowa-bill-college-diversity-efforts/ Iowa Bill Would Bankrupt All College Diversity Programs An Iowa bill introduced Sunday would end higher education institutions’ diversity programs, prohibiting colleges from spending money on such efforts. House File 616 would prohibit public higher education institutions governed by the Iowa Board of Regents from funding diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts and would bar the universities from hiring DEI officers. The bill, introduced by the Iowa Committee on Education, would require the money that would have been spent on DEI efforts go towards merit scholarships for lower-income and middle-income students. Universities are not permitted to spend any grants, tuition, endowments and gifts on DEI policies, programming, training, activities and positions, the bill stated. Under the legislation, the state’s attorney general can oversee the universities efforts to axe diversity efforts and punish the schools if they fail to do so. The legislation comes among other education efforts within the state; the legislature is considering an Iowa bill that would prohibit teachers from giving lessons “relating to gender identity” in K-8 public and charter school classrooms. In January, Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed House Study Bill 1 into law, creating a school choice program that gives vouchers to students outside of the public school system. “The Board of Regents opposes the bill,” Josh Lehman, Iowa Board of Regents senior communications director, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We have concerns with the bill’s language and impact, and will work with legislators directly to address them. We will continue to track the bill as it makes its way through the legislative process.” The Iowa Committee on Education did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. CrossPolination Ad Did you guys know that you can sign up for a club membership, a magazine subscription, AND tickets to the Ark Encounter all in one place?! That’s some crosspollination right there! Fightlaughfeast.com is your one-stop-shop for everything CrossPolitic. Here’s what you should do. You should sign up for a club membership, then sign up for the Ark Encounter for a $100 discount off of your purchase, and then sign up for a magazine subscription. We’ve even got our own social media platform built into our website now for our club members… once you’re a club member, you’ll get access to exclusive content like a Bible Study series with Pastor Toby, a special series with New Saint Andrews President, Dr. ben Merkle, all of our back-stage content, and all of our conference talks, with more to come! There really hasn’t been a better time to be a CrossPolitic Club Member. Sign up today, at fightlaughfeast.com. That’s fightlaughfeast.com. Before we go, let’s see how Canada’s doing! https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trudeau-pledges-5-5-million-to-fight-disinformation-after-accusations-ccp-infiltrated-canadian-elections?utm_campaign=64487 Trudeau pledges $5.5 million to fight 'disinformation' after accusations CCP infiltrated Canadian elections Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will appoint an "Independent special rapporteur," who he says will have a "wide mandate and will make expert recommendations on combating interference and strengthening our democracy" amid allegations that his government ignored recommendations from CSIS noting concerns about candidates' connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Trudeau said that foreign interference was felt in US and France's elections in 2016 and 2017, respectively. https://twitter.com/i/status/1632880023743889408 - Play Video Trudeau then announced that $5.5 million would be invested to "build capacity of civil society organizations to combat disinformation," adding that "disinformation often generated abroad can be a real threat to our elections, and it's a threat that the federal government cannot combat alone." https://twitter.com/i/status/1632883311151398919 - Play Video

Pleb Miner Monthly  Episode 3  Show Notes   A Bitcoin mining podcast focused on the Pleb Miner, the stalwart that defends the Bitcoin Network. Listen and Boost the show on Fountain App    Statistics by Lincoin Pool and Lincoin Lens Jon M30s+ Tweet   Miners have a lot of choices in pools, payout schemes, monitoring, tools, UX, ease of use, etc. Pleb Miner Monthly chose to partner with Lincoin Pool because we liked the cut of their jib. There's a family kind of atmosphere at Lincoin pool.    What do you call a Hot Dog on wheels? Fast Food.   Bitesize Bitcoin by FixRigs Hash Rate is going up, the Hash value is going up, and the Hal Finning is coming up in a year. You want to have your machines ready to go for when the price pumps and you're transitioning from low power mode to ludicrous speed. Be sure to keep your machines in tip-top, ready-to-deploy shape, by sending them to FixRigs. FixRigs is a premium repair facility located in Miami Florida. They are staffed with highly trained, technicians who are ready to diagnose, repair and clean your machine and get it sent back ASAP so you can get back to hashing.   Fix Rigs not only has highly qualified technicians and a state-of-the-art facility, but they are masters of logistics. They have you covered in all aspects of the repair process.    Bitesize Bitcoin on Block Creation   The candidate block header fields are version number, previous block hash, the Merkle root of proposed transactions, timestamp, target for Proof of Work, and a nonce.   Action News! by Kaboomracks Kaboomracks Alex is a great friend of the show and a Pleb Miner Month Founding Father, he's also a great friend IRL. If you need mining gear or just have questions, he is the perfect person to reach. out to  Nico Smid's Bitcoin Mining Block Post Ordinals, OOB transaction, and pools by Medi Naseri Bitcoin Bassload's Energy Market Update Bitcoin Bugle Crypto-Cloaks launches new sex toy called the HashLight   Pleb Miner in the Wild by Peach Bitcoin Peach Bitcoin launches open Beta March 6th  Dirty Shotya Dirty Shotya's Geyser fund: One S9 running in the middle of NOWHERE   Special Thanks to Bitcoin Hat Guy for the limited edition Pleb Miner Skull hats visit him on his website to see his many other offerings. Bitcoin Hat Guy   Also, get your Ungovernable asses over to the new and improved Ungovernable Misfits YouTube channel and subscribe. Go through every video, like them, and comment, every single one, do it now, do it! Do it!        

Join us for this episode featuring Zach Merkle who is in the Air Force Reserve as a Firefighter and also is on Van Wert. We talk multiple subjects such as some things burned into his mind and a massive water fight in Kuwait. We also talk current events such as Saudi Arabia's newest skyscraper prototype, Meta verified, I Am Legend sequel, The 1st iPhone sells at auction and so much more.

This episode dives into the dos and don'ts of email deliverability. Gaia and Andreah are joined by Merkle's Tracy Davis, Director of Engineering for Marketing Campaign Platforms, and Philip Nawrocki, Manager of Non-Profit Digital Technology. Highlights include: • What is Apple's mail privacy protection? • How can you make sure your email ends up in the inbox, not spam? • Why should you never use image-only emails? • How can you practice good data hygiene? • Why should you work with your network team? Resources: • 4 Ways to Improve Email Deliverability (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/email-deliverability) • Top Email Marketing Trends for 2023 (https://email.uplers.com/infographics/email-marketing-trends/) • The Dynamic Duo: How Data and Technology are Transforming Personalization (https://www.merkle.com/blog/dynamic-duo-how-data-and-technology-are-transforming-personalization) • What's Holding Brands Back from Personalization? (https://www.merkle.com/blog/whats-holding-back-brands-personalization) • Implications of Apple's Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) (https://www.merkle.com/blog/implications-apples-mail-privacy-protection-mpp)

In this episode, Gaia and Andreah chat with Matt Bond, Senior VP of Print Production & Global Studio at Merkle about the future of direct mail. Highlights include: • Is direct mail dying? • What are the benefits and drawbacks of direct mail? • Why are creative and copy crucial to the direct mail experience? • How can brands ditch the siloed approach to digital and print engagement? • What's the difference between using traditional acquisition tactics and digital printing equipment? • Why should direct mail be a part of value touchpoints across the entire customer journey? Resources: • How a Modern Twist on Direct Mail Can Better Engage Customers (https://www.thedrum.com/profile/merkle/news/how-a-modern-twist-on-direct-mail-can-better-engage-customers) • The Forgotten Enabler of Online Personalization & Identity: Direct Mail (https://advertisingweek.com/the-forgotten-enabler-of-online-personalization-identity-direct-mail/) • A Direct Mail Fundraiser's Best Friend Just Might Be Digital (https://www.nonprofitpro.com/article/a-direct-mail-fundraisers-best-friend-just-might-be-digital/#ne=b30638c314425bd24582e8e03d188600&utm_source=nonprofit-pro-today&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2021-06-22) • Why Direct Mail Still Matters in the Digital Age (https://thefinancialbrand.com/news/bank-onboarding/direct-mail-financial-marketer-digital-geo-targeting-millennial-93072/) • Infographic: Solving the CX Disconnect (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/infographic-solving-cx-disconnect)

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Thursday, February 16th, 2023. CrossPolination Ad Did you guys know that you can sign up for a club membership, a magazine subscription, AND tickets to the Ark Encounter all in one place?! That’s some crosspollination right there! Fightlaughfeast.com is your one-stop-shop for everything CrossPolitic. Here’s what you should do. You should sign up for a club membership, then sign up for the Ark Encounter for a $100 discount off of your purchase, and then sign up for a magazine subscription. We’ve even got our own social media platform built into our website now for our club members… once you’re a club member, you’ll get access to exclusive content like a Bible Study series with Pastor Toby, a special series with New Saint Andrews President, Dr. ben Merkle, all of our back-stage content, and all of our conference talks, with more to come! There really hasn’t been a better time to be a CrossPolitic Club Member. Sign up today, at fightlaughfeast.com. That’s fightlaughfeast.com. https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-buffalo-supermarket-shooter-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-parole?utm_campaign=64487 Buffalo supermarket shooter sentenced to life in prison without parole Buffalo supermarket mass shooter Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and domestic terrorism, among other charges. Gendron killed 10 people in a racially motivated massacre in Buffalo, New York last year. He pleaded guilty to all 15 counts brought by Buffalo prosecutors. https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/first-amendment-court-blocks/2023/02/15/id/1108781/ Federal Judge Blocks N.Y. Law Mandating Social Media 'Hateful Conduct' Policies A federal judge has blocked New York's new law that prohibits hate speech on social media, ruling the measure violates the Constitution's protection of free speech. U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. on Tuesday, in Volokh v. James, sided with the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog and Peter Thiel-backed video site Rumble Inc., which claimed the law will hurt online services and silence disfavored viewpoints. New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul in June signed a legislative package that included new regulations governing how social media platforms police what the law calls "hateful conduct." The "Hateful Conduct Law" required that social media websites make it easy for users to report "incidents of hateful conduct," and to respond to complaints explaining how the matter is being handled. Carter began his ruling by citing the Supreme Court's 2017 Matal v. Tam decision in which the justices unanimously ruled that a federal law prohibiting trademark names that disparage others was unconstitutional because "speech may not be banned on the grounds that it expresses ideas that offend." After calling the law "well-intentioned," Carter explained his decision. "Yet, the First Amendment protects from state regulation speech that may be deemed 'hateful' and generally disfavors regulation of speech based on its content unless it is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest," Carter wrote in his decision. "The Hateful Conduct Law both compels social media networks to speak about the contours of hate speech and chills the constitutionally protected speech of social media users, without articulating a compelling governmental interest or ensuring that the law is narrowly tailored to that goal. "In the face of our national commitment to the free expression of speech, even where that speech is offensive or repugnant, Plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction, prohibiting enforcement of the law, is GRANTED." Carter said the law overreached. "The Hateful Conduct Law does not merely require that a social media network provide its users with a mechanism to complain about instances of 'hateful conduct,'" Carter wrote. "The law also requires that a social media network must make a ‘policy’ available on its website which details how the network will respond to a complaint of hateful content. "In other words, the law requires that social media networks devise and implement a written policy — i.e., speech." https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/14/exclusive-secret-china-donations-to-university-of-delaware-soared-after-the-opening-of-the-biden-institute/ Secret China Donations to University of Delaware Soared After the Opening of the Biden Institute A second university has been found to have received more than $6.7 million in anonymous donations from China, including direct funding from the Chinese government, after Joe Biden set up a program there in his name, according to a Government Accountability Institute analysis. The revelation comes following reporting that anonymous China-linked funds flowing to the University of Pennsylvania almost tripled after the inauguration of the Penn-Biden Center, which illegally housed classified documents. On March 13, 2017, less than seven weeks after concluding his second term as vice president, Joe Biden announced the founding of the Biden Institute at his home state’s University of Delaware (UD). According to the announcement, part of Biden’s “vision for the institute is an annual conference at UD, similar to the World Economic Forum or the Aspen Institute.” At the time of Biden’s announcement at UD, multiple members of the Biden family were working on deals worth millions of dollars with foreign businessmen linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. And Biden’s other university program at the University of Pennsylvania was apparently housing classified documents from the Obama-Biden administration in an improper way. Prior to hosting the Biden Institute, UD had never disclosed any funding from China. One year later (and just two months after the Penn Biden center opened its D.C. office), anonymous donations from China to UD skyrocketed. The first payment came in April 2018 in the amount of $3,204,070 from an anonymous donor in China. In December 2018, another anonymous donation from China arrived for $1,869,515. A third anonymous China-linked payment, for $624,904, arrived in December 2019. In 2020, the year that Biden was campaigning for president, anonymous Chinese state-linked entities sent three more payments totaling $1,005,761 to UD, the bulk of which arrived after Biden had been declared the president-elect. Three of these donations from China—with a combined total of $1,005,761—were reported as coming from a “Foreign Government Source,” according to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) records assembled from information reported to the DOE by the University of Delaware. It should be noted that, according to the available records, none the donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania following the creation of the Penn Biden Center appear to have been reported to the DOE as coming from a “Foreign Government Source” — a fact which led at least one fact-checker to conclude that the Penn Biden Center was being unfairly labeled as “China-funded” because the influx of funding from China to UPenn following its establishment was not given this DOE identifier. However, three donations originating from China to the University of Delaware in the years following the launch of the Biden Institute clearly bear the “Foreign Government Source” identifier. The actual DOE record field for this identifier asks, “Is this funding from a government?” For these three donations, the answer supplied by the University of Delaware is “Yes,” as seen in the three images below taken from the DOE website (highlight added for emphasis). Neither the Biden Institute nor the UD have responded to requests to identify the Chinese donors or explain why the Chinese government decided to fund UD after the Biden Institute was created. Perhaps the most mysterious aspect of the Biden Institute is how it was conceived. The initial idea for Biden Institute at UD was apparently hatched by Joe’s son, Hunter Biden, while the elder Biden was still the vice president. In March 2016, Hunter Biden met with UD’s incoming president, Dr. Dennis Assanis, as Hunter and his business associates were making plans to create a “stage” to promote the “Biden brand,” emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show. Other emails on the laptop indicate that Hunter and his business associates were concerned about boosting Joe’s “future earnings potential,” while Joe was still the vice president. New Saint Andrews: Today’s culture shifts like sand, but New Saint Andrews College is established on Christ, the immovable rock. The college is a premier institution that forges evangelical leaders who don’t fear or hate the world. Guided by God’s word, equipped with the genius of classical liberal arts and God-honoring wisdom, with a faculty dedicated to academic rigor and to God’s kingdom, New Saint Andrews College offers an education that frees people. Logic and language, hard work and joyful courage, old books and godly professors — New Saint Andrews Colleges provides time-tested resources that can equip your student for any vocation. To find out more, visit: nsa.edu https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/14/south-dakota-bans-child-sex-changes-kristi-noem-transgender/ South Dakota Bans Child Sex Changes Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed legislation Monday banning both surgical and nonsurgical sex change procedures for minors. The “Help Not Harm” bill bars health care providers from prescribing minors puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or performing cross-sex surgeries on minors. Doctors found violating the law will have their medical licenses revoked. The move comes amid a broader push from red states to crack down on the procedures. Patients harmed by violations of the new law have three years, or until they turn 25, to seek civil damages; whichever date is later, according to the bill. The legislation takes effect July 1, and health care professionals may keep patients on cross-sex drug regimens through the end of the year if they determine it’s necessary to gradually wean them off the drugs for the sake of their health. While cross-sex genital surgeries are rare for minors, numerous clinics and hospitals offer puberty blockers, hormones and mastectomies to minors as part of the gender transition process; the procedures are still legal at the federal level and in most states.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Thursday, February 16th, 2023. CrossPolination Ad Did you guys know that you can sign up for a club membership, a magazine subscription, AND tickets to the Ark Encounter all in one place?! That’s some crosspollination right there! Fightlaughfeast.com is your one-stop-shop for everything CrossPolitic. Here’s what you should do. You should sign up for a club membership, then sign up for the Ark Encounter for a $100 discount off of your purchase, and then sign up for a magazine subscription. We’ve even got our own social media platform built into our website now for our club members… once you’re a club member, you’ll get access to exclusive content like a Bible Study series with Pastor Toby, a special series with New Saint Andrews President, Dr. ben Merkle, all of our back-stage content, and all of our conference talks, with more to come! There really hasn’t been a better time to be a CrossPolitic Club Member. Sign up today, at fightlaughfeast.com. That’s fightlaughfeast.com. https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-buffalo-supermarket-shooter-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-parole?utm_campaign=64487 Buffalo supermarket shooter sentenced to life in prison without parole Buffalo supermarket mass shooter Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and domestic terrorism, among other charges. Gendron killed 10 people in a racially motivated massacre in Buffalo, New York last year. He pleaded guilty to all 15 counts brought by Buffalo prosecutors. https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/first-amendment-court-blocks/2023/02/15/id/1108781/ Federal Judge Blocks N.Y. Law Mandating Social Media 'Hateful Conduct' Policies A federal judge has blocked New York's new law that prohibits hate speech on social media, ruling the measure violates the Constitution's protection of free speech. U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. on Tuesday, in Volokh v. James, sided with the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog and Peter Thiel-backed video site Rumble Inc., which claimed the law will hurt online services and silence disfavored viewpoints. New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul in June signed a legislative package that included new regulations governing how social media platforms police what the law calls "hateful conduct." The "Hateful Conduct Law" required that social media websites make it easy for users to report "incidents of hateful conduct," and to respond to complaints explaining how the matter is being handled. Carter began his ruling by citing the Supreme Court's 2017 Matal v. Tam decision in which the justices unanimously ruled that a federal law prohibiting trademark names that disparage others was unconstitutional because "speech may not be banned on the grounds that it expresses ideas that offend." After calling the law "well-intentioned," Carter explained his decision. "Yet, the First Amendment protects from state regulation speech that may be deemed 'hateful' and generally disfavors regulation of speech based on its content unless it is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest," Carter wrote in his decision. "The Hateful Conduct Law both compels social media networks to speak about the contours of hate speech and chills the constitutionally protected speech of social media users, without articulating a compelling governmental interest or ensuring that the law is narrowly tailored to that goal. "In the face of our national commitment to the free expression of speech, even where that speech is offensive or repugnant, Plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction, prohibiting enforcement of the law, is GRANTED." Carter said the law overreached. "The Hateful Conduct Law does not merely require that a social media network provide its users with a mechanism to complain about instances of 'hateful conduct,'" Carter wrote. "The law also requires that a social media network must make a ‘policy’ available on its website which details how the network will respond to a complaint of hateful content. "In other words, the law requires that social media networks devise and implement a written policy — i.e., speech." https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/14/exclusive-secret-china-donations-to-university-of-delaware-soared-after-the-opening-of-the-biden-institute/ Secret China Donations to University of Delaware Soared After the Opening of the Biden Institute A second university has been found to have received more than $6.7 million in anonymous donations from China, including direct funding from the Chinese government, after Joe Biden set up a program there in his name, according to a Government Accountability Institute analysis. The revelation comes following reporting that anonymous China-linked funds flowing to the University of Pennsylvania almost tripled after the inauguration of the Penn-Biden Center, which illegally housed classified documents. On March 13, 2017, less than seven weeks after concluding his second term as vice president, Joe Biden announced the founding of the Biden Institute at his home state’s University of Delaware (UD). According to the announcement, part of Biden’s “vision for the institute is an annual conference at UD, similar to the World Economic Forum or the Aspen Institute.” At the time of Biden’s announcement at UD, multiple members of the Biden family were working on deals worth millions of dollars with foreign businessmen linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. And Biden’s other university program at the University of Pennsylvania was apparently housing classified documents from the Obama-Biden administration in an improper way. Prior to hosting the Biden Institute, UD had never disclosed any funding from China. One year later (and just two months after the Penn Biden center opened its D.C. office), anonymous donations from China to UD skyrocketed. The first payment came in April 2018 in the amount of $3,204,070 from an anonymous donor in China. In December 2018, another anonymous donation from China arrived for $1,869,515. A third anonymous China-linked payment, for $624,904, arrived in December 2019. In 2020, the year that Biden was campaigning for president, anonymous Chinese state-linked entities sent three more payments totaling $1,005,761 to UD, the bulk of which arrived after Biden had been declared the president-elect. Three of these donations from China—with a combined total of $1,005,761—were reported as coming from a “Foreign Government Source,” according to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) records assembled from information reported to the DOE by the University of Delaware. It should be noted that, according to the available records, none the donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania following the creation of the Penn Biden Center appear to have been reported to the DOE as coming from a “Foreign Government Source” — a fact which led at least one fact-checker to conclude that the Penn Biden Center was being unfairly labeled as “China-funded” because the influx of funding from China to UPenn following its establishment was not given this DOE identifier. However, three donations originating from China to the University of Delaware in the years following the launch of the Biden Institute clearly bear the “Foreign Government Source” identifier. The actual DOE record field for this identifier asks, “Is this funding from a government?” For these three donations, the answer supplied by the University of Delaware is “Yes,” as seen in the three images below taken from the DOE website (highlight added for emphasis). Neither the Biden Institute nor the UD have responded to requests to identify the Chinese donors or explain why the Chinese government decided to fund UD after the Biden Institute was created. Perhaps the most mysterious aspect of the Biden Institute is how it was conceived. The initial idea for Biden Institute at UD was apparently hatched by Joe’s son, Hunter Biden, while the elder Biden was still the vice president. In March 2016, Hunter Biden met with UD’s incoming president, Dr. Dennis Assanis, as Hunter and his business associates were making plans to create a “stage” to promote the “Biden brand,” emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show. Other emails on the laptop indicate that Hunter and his business associates were concerned about boosting Joe’s “future earnings potential,” while Joe was still the vice president. New Saint Andrews: Today’s culture shifts like sand, but New Saint Andrews College is established on Christ, the immovable rock. The college is a premier institution that forges evangelical leaders who don’t fear or hate the world. Guided by God’s word, equipped with the genius of classical liberal arts and God-honoring wisdom, with a faculty dedicated to academic rigor and to God’s kingdom, New Saint Andrews College offers an education that frees people. Logic and language, hard work and joyful courage, old books and godly professors — New Saint Andrews Colleges provides time-tested resources that can equip your student for any vocation. To find out more, visit: nsa.edu https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/14/south-dakota-bans-child-sex-changes-kristi-noem-transgender/ South Dakota Bans Child Sex Changes Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed legislation Monday banning both surgical and nonsurgical sex change procedures for minors. The “Help Not Harm” bill bars health care providers from prescribing minors puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones or performing cross-sex surgeries on minors. Doctors found violating the law will have their medical licenses revoked. The move comes amid a broader push from red states to crack down on the procedures. Patients harmed by violations of the new law have three years, or until they turn 25, to seek civil damages; whichever date is later, according to the bill. The legislation takes effect July 1, and health care professionals may keep patients on cross-sex drug regimens through the end of the year if they determine it’s necessary to gradually wean them off the drugs for the sake of their health. While cross-sex genital surgeries are rare for minors, numerous clinics and hospitals offer puberty blockers, hormones and mastectomies to minors as part of the gender transition process; the procedures are still legal at the federal level and in most states.

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Welcome to Season 3 of Digital Marketing Musings! Gaia and Andreah are joined by Merkle guest Gary Kagawa, VP Media Strategy. This first episode of the season discusses what trends are following us into 2023, and where digital marketing is headed this year. Highlights include: • How will economic uncertainty affect market spend? • What does the future of social commerce look like? • How are brands jumping into video? • Will TikTok be banned in the US? • Why is DEI and corporate responsibility more important than ever? Resources: • How to Maximize Tech Investments in an Inflation Economy (https://www.merkle.com/blog/how-maximize-tech-investments-inflation-economy) • Build Your Data-Led Inflation Strategy (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/build-your-data-led-inflation-strategy) • Performance Media Report, Q4 2022 (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/performance-media-report-q4-2022) • 2022 Retail Media Research Report (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/2022-retail-media-research-report) • Gaming Creative, Part 1 (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/podcasts/digital-marketing-musings/creative-gaming-part-1) • The Dynamic Duo: How Data and Technology Are Transforming Personalization (https://www.merkle.com/blog/dynamic-duo-how-data-and-technology-are-transforming-personalization) • Could Generative AI Be the Answer to Making Content at Scale Possible? (https://www.merkle.com/blog/could-generative-ai-be-answer-making-content-scale-possible)

Adam Weiss is the founder and creator of plant-based QSR Honeybee Burger based in Los Angeles. Adam is a 20-year veteran of Wall Street and has been a principal, co-founder and consultant to multiple businesses across several market cycles and asset classes. Industries and projects he's been involved with include traditional liquid market funds, digital assets, film financing, food /ag tech, CPG, consumer finance and real estate. Adam established Merkle Tree, his consulting practice, 5 years ago to manage various consulting engagements with a broad range of companies including Coinbase, the cryptocurrency trading company. Adam has built Merkle tree into one of the leading ERTC consulting firms in the country. His specialty expands beyond food and beverage and CPG, though he is especially experienced in those sectors. In this episode, we'll dive into the details of Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) and how it can help restaurants stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss the eligibility requirements, how to apply, and the potential benefits for employers and employees. If you're a restaurant owner or manager, don't miss out on this valuable resource for keeping your staff on board. Tune in to learn more about the ERTC and how it can help your restaurant weather the current crisis.

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One of the barriers I often see to entrepreneurs unlocking their next level of success and confidence is embracing sales. Don't look at it as an obligation or something you HAVE to do. That's why I've brought Ashley Frank on the show today, to share how you can step into sales with a whole new mindset; without feeling sleazy or manipulative.   For over 15 years, Ashley has partnered with innovative global technology companies, including Salesforce, Google, and Merkle, helping them build and scale growth-focused organizations. Now his focus is helping entrepreneurs and business leaders develop high-growth cultures focused on the fundamental principles of selling, taking consistent action, and building meaningful relationships rather than quick wins.   When you're going into a conversation that has the potential to end in a sale, you shouldn't be going in solely with that intent. The goal is to help and serve and each conversation is an opportunity to do that. If you go into the day thinking "I just have to make a sale today," people will feel that and pick up on it. We're also talking about when to hire someone or outsource sales, and more importantly, when not to.   * Related episodes: 181. What Problem Do You REALLY Solve? 186. Out-value Your Competition 189. Can't Find Clients? You May Be Looking in the Wrong Places   * Find everything you need at www.keepwhatyouearn.com! https://www.keepwhatyouearn.com/ * Questions about this episode? Text me!: https://my.community.com/shannonweinsteincpa * Chat about this episode in the Keep What You Earn Community – http://keepwhatyouearn.circle.so * Hire us: https://www.fitnancialsolutions.com/accounting * See how much you can save with an S Corp: https://www.keepwhatyouearn.com/keep-what-you-earn-s-corp-calculator * Find me on IG @shannonkweinstein * Meet me face-to-face on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlIuZsrllp1Uc_MlhriLvQ * Featured in Yahoo Finance! Read more here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-bookkeepers-accountants-watch-2021-113800161.html   The information contained in this podcast is intended for educational purposes only and is not individual tax advice. Please consult a qualified professional before implementing anything you learn.

This is Part 2 of our two attribution episodes and the final installment of season 2! Gaia and Andreah continue to chat with Merkle's Ilon Weeldreyer, Director, Performance Media, Steve Pomeroy, VP, Analytics, and Jason Meek, Marketing Analytics Professional about all things attribution. Highlights include: • What's the difference between deterministic and probabilistic reporting? • Why does Merkle value aggregate-level data modeling? • What is Merkle's Merkury identity resolution? • How do marketers know what attribution methods to apply when? • How should we optimize performance? • Why should you be strategic when you look at success KPIs? Resources: • Centralize Your Analytics and Get Solid Insights, Fast. (https://www.merkle.com/news-and-events/webinars/centralize-your-analytics-and-get-solid-insights-fast) • Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) for B2B – A Primer (https://www.merkle.com/blog/marketing-mix-modeling-mmm-b2b-primer) • Information Design for Marketers: Making Your Data Stand Out with Preattentive Attributes (https://www.merkle.com/blog/information-design-marketers-making-your-data-stand-out-preattentive-attributes) • Digital Marketing Musings: Attribution Best Practices in 2023, Part 1 (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/podcasts/digital-marketing-musings/attribution-best-practices-2023-part-1) • Merkury – Powered by Merkle (https://merkury.merkleinc.com/)

This week on The Jackie and Laurie Show, it's not Merkle, Christ's alleged birth, and Are there? Comic of the Week: VonDecarlo @VonDecarlo  Places to get Jackie's album “Stay Kashian”https://800pgr.lnk.to/StayKashianTW Places to get Laurie's album “Corset”https://800pgr.lnk.to/CorsetTW Buy Laurie's books: https://www.amazon.com/Laurie-Kilmartin/e/B0096S2CLM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Laurie has T-shirts!https://www.teepublic.com/user/laurie-kilmartin Buy anything from Jackie: http://jackiekashian.com/store Follow Jackie @jackiekashian and @anylaurie16 on Twitter! Here's all the websites you've ever wanted to ignore www.jackieandlaurieshow.com https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/jackie-and-laurie-show Released here on Monday's: https://www.patreon.com/JackieandLauriehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jackie-and-laurie-show/id1071731361

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This brand-new podcast series explores how technology powers B2B experiences both now and in the future. From customer experience to brand experience, from user experience to employee experience, technology should now be at the forefront to ensure you remain successful in the B2B arena.   In this third episode, Nick Hague is joined by Benoit Soucaret, CXO at Merkle. Benoit is a true expert when it comes to creating user experiences, customer experiences and brand experiences that drive positive transformation for Merkle's clients. In this podcast episode, Benoit discusses how to create insight-driven, customer-centric experiences to bridge the gap between the expectations of B2B buyers throughout the purchase journey and the experiences that suppliers are providing.

Pops battles some texters regarding UofL hoops and takes questions in a mock presser. We play a call from Ennis' show, I had a prostate exam once, The Black Widow and we learn of Merkle's Boner for WWKW.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is our Year In Review: 2022 Greatest Hits Part 1! We've put together some of our favourite clips and moments for you to enjoy over the holidays, and look forward to seeing you again in 2023 for some of our best guests to date! The 2022 guests featured in this episode are:#1 Patrick Deloy, E146 & E147, September 7th & 14th, 2022Our first feature comes from episodes 146 and 147 on September 7th and 14th with Patrick Deloy, Managing Director at Merkle, an award-winning e-commerce solutions provider which supports medium to large B2C and B2B companies with the planning, development, localization and long-term support of multi-country e-commerce website deployments in the APAC region. I had asked Patrick ‘what is the omni-channel retail ecosystem and environment today in the APAC region?#2Liam Mather, E134, March 15, 2022Our second clip features Liam Mather, Head of Public Affairs and Communications at WPIC Marketing + Technologies. Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, Liam helps guide WPIC's public and government affairs, strategic communications, media engagement, corporate branding, and sales enablement. Liam previously worked in BCW's Corporate and Public Affairs practice in Beijing, where he helped clients manage reputations, respond to crises, and navigate policy issues. This was from episode 134 released on March 15th, and for those who didn't get to hear the full episode, it's quite unique as we had the opportunity to talk to Liam about his time covering the Winter Olympics from within the Olympic bubble. Specifically, Liam was able to cover the hockey event, so we asked him about the state of hockey in China, specifically women's hockey, and here's what he had to say.#3William Bao Bean, E152 & E153, October 19th & 26th, 2022Up next is a clip from episode 152 on October 19th, the first of two episodes with an old friend of mine and an old friend of the podcast, William Bao Bean. William is a General Partner at SOSV and Managing Director of Orbit Startups. Orbit Startups helps companies scale breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth. William is a senior advisor at SOSV who has been a pioneer in the tech and telecommunications space in Asia. During his time with SoftBank China & India Holdings, he led investments in companies such as Yodo1, DemystData, Lekan, and Massive Impact. He was also an equity research analyst at Deutsche Bank covering the Internet and Telecom Equipment sector in Asia for 11 years before joining Innov8 Ventures as Managing Director where he is focused on supporting China investments. He is definitely one of the foremost experts on early-stage startups and investing in Asia Pacific, and in this particular clip I asked him ‘what are the strengths and differences of the teams you invest in and work with within Asia versus outside Asia?'#4Zarina Kanji, E133, March 7th, 2022On March 7th we released episode 133 with Zarina Kanji. Based in London, Zarina is the Head of Business Development for Health & Wellness and Food & Beverage Brands at Alibaba. She previously served as VP of Global Fashion Brand Partnerships at Lazada in Singapore. Zarina spoke with us about Tmall's upcoming International Women's Day—a key event tied to the company's Super Brand Day—on March 8, 2022. It has proven in previous years to be the third-largest shopping festival in the nation, behind 11.11 and 6.18, and is a unique opportunity for brands to engage with women across China. So, for this clip, we chose her response to my question ‘Can you tell us a little bit about what the Gen Z female consumers really care about in China right now, and how does that differ from their elder counterparts?'#5Alvin Wang Graylin, E125, January 12th, 2022On January 12th we were blessed to be able to interview Alvin Wang Graylin, China President at HTC. For anyone unfamiliar, HTC is an award-winning developer of smart mobile, connected technology, and virtual reality products. Alvin is also the Vice President of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA) and the President of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance. He has almost three decades of business management experience in the tech industry, including 20 years in Greater China beginning with a Senior Management position at Intel in 1993. Prior to HTC, Alvin was a serial entrepreneur, having founded four venture-backed startups in the mobile and internet spaces, covering mobile social, "ad tech", search, AI, big data and digital media. I asked Alvin to tell us about some of the coolest & most innovative examples of VR that are heading our way in 2022 and beyond.#6Charles Lavoie, E154 & E156, November 2nd & 16th, 2022Our last clip for Part 1 of our Year in Review is from our conversation with Charles Lavoie on November 16th, episode number 156. Charles is the VP of Creative & Head of Creative Labs at WPIC Marketing & Technologies. A creative strategy & data analytics leader, Charles has incredibly strong cross-cultural backgrounds in international growth, go-to-market strategy, growth marketing, data analytics, creative planning, storytelling, sales, e-commerce, design and retail in the APAC region with projects focused in China, Hong Kong, Japan & Singapore. I asked Charles a very nuanced question at one point, probably one of the most granular questions I've asked anyone about brand entry into the APAC region, specifically “if a brand wants to take a multi-market strategy, how do you advise them, especially if they are also trying to stay ahead of an aggressive market competitor who might be going after the same regions for expansion themselves and may not have time to take a step by step approach?'

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In Part 1 of our two Attribution episodes, Gaia and Andreah are joined by Merkle experts Ilon Weeldreyer, Director, Performance Media, Steve Pomeroy, VP, Analytics, and Jason Meek, Marketing Analytics Professional. The guests discuss the age-old problem of attribution and what it looks like today. Highlights include: • What is last-touch attribution? • What goes into choosing an attribution model? • How does attribution account for how long media is effective in the market? • Why do we work with all layers of attribution? • How can marketing and finance teams work better together? Resources: • Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) for B2B – A Primer (https://www.merkle.com/blog/marketing-mix-modeling-mmm-b2b-primer) • What is the Real ROI of Attribution? (https://www.merkle.com/blog/what-real-roi-attribution) • How to Measure Digital Audiences and Media in the Cookieless Future (https://www.merkle.com/blog/how-measure-campaigns-cookieless-future) • The Inside Scoop: What We're Thinking About as MediaPost's Search/Performance Marketing Agency of the Year (https://www.merkle.com/blog/inside-scoop-what-were-thinking-about-mediaposts-searchperformance-marketing-agency-year) • How to Win at Customer Experience – Infographic (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/adobe-journey-customer-experience-infographic) • Powering Personalization at Scale with Adobe Customer Journey Analytics (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/powering-personalization-scale-adobe-customer-journey-analytics)

Gaia and Andreah are joined by Trevor Hadick, Director, Performance Media at Merkle, to discuss how the healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry plays into current market challenges and trends. Highlights include: • What is the healthcare “product”? • Who is the healthcare customer? • Why must healthcare brands measure and connect online and offline components? • Where do healthcare and nonprofit brands overlap? • How does HIPPA affect healthcare marketers? Resources: • Cancer Treatment Center of America Used Addressable TV to Deliver Critical Messaging to Patients (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/case-studies/cancer-treatment-centers-americar-used-addressable-tv-deliver) • Performance Media Report, Q4 2022 (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/performance-media-report-q4-2022) • Healthcare Marketing Takeaways from DTC National (https://www.merkle.com/blog/healthcare-marketing-takeaways-dtc-national) • Meeting the Insurance Needs of Audiences Impacted by Inflation (https://www.merkle.com/blog/meeting-insurance-needs-audiences-impacted-inflation) • Ignite Your ABX (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/ignite-your-abx)

This brand-new podcast series explores how technology powers B2B experiences both now and in the future. From customer experience to brand experience, from user experience to employee experience, technology should now be at the forefront to ensure you remain successful in the B2B arena.   To kick off the series, our Vice President in North America, Matthew Powell, is joined by Sylvain Panzani, Executive Vice President of High Tech at Merkle.

Join Matt and Karan as we break down Proof of Reserves! This is a hot topic with the FTX fallout, and we break down the history and mechanics like merkles trees that make this possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Be sure to like and subscribe if you like our content! Follow us on Twitter and everywhere you get your podcasts below: Twitter: https://twitter.com/decentcryptopod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQQ... Matthew Blumberg: https://mobile.twitter.com/matt_blumberg Karan Karia: https://mobile.twitter.com/karankaria_ Podcast Links: https://linktr.ee/DecentCryptoPodcast ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:00) The Core Problem: Centralized Exchange Custody & Trust (09:06) Proof of Reserves (12:54) Merkle Trees (18:45) The Auditor's Role (25:34) Would it Have Helped in the FTX Case? (29:20) What Should Users do with Centralized Exchanges? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/decentcryptopodcast/message

This episode explores user intent and digs into what matters most in moments of search. Gaia and Andreah are joined by Merkle experts Kacie Gaudiose, SEO Content Strategy Lead and Matt Mierzejewski, SVP Search Capability Lead. Highlights include: • What is the current state of SEO, SEM, and content strategy? • How is Merkle approaching user intent to inform content strategy? • What is Merkle Matrix? • How does Merkle Matrix identify the deeper meaning behind user data? • How can marketers put a face to the user behind the search bar? • Why is it important to understand how Google is responding to users? Resources: • Google's Helpful Content Update for SEO (https://www.merkle.com/blog/googles-helpful-content-update-seo) • How You Can Embrace Paid Search Automation to Maximize Outcomes (C:UsersmlrowlandDownloadsHow you can embrace paid search automation to maximize outcomes) • Advanced RSA Optimization and Why It's Necessary for Search Marketers (https://www.merkle.com/blog/advanced-rsa-optimization-and-why-its-necessary-search-marketers) • Q3 2022 Customer Engagement Report (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/customer-engagement-report-q3-2022) • Embracing Ethical AI (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/embracing-ethical-ai) • Q4 Performance Media Report (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/performance-media-report) • Unlocking Customer Data: Important Lessons from Ecommerce Innovators (https://www.merkle.com/news-and-events/webinars/unlocking-customer-data-important-lessons-ecommerce-innovators)

In a constantly shifting business landscape, only those who can grow and evolve will survive. For Prantik Mazumdar the innate drive for learning and experimentation was integral to his success. Prantik is an entrepreneur and venture investor. He acts as a digital transformation catalyst in organizations to drive sustainable impact and change. Prantik started his entrepreneurial journey with Happy Marketer in 2011 where he spent a decade building and scaling up one of the most awarded independent digital marketing firms in the region. In 2019, he had a successful exit when Happy Marketer was sold to an American digital enterprise called Merkle, which is part of Dentsu International, the largest Japanese advertising conglomerate. He is currently serving as the Managing Director of the CXM Group at Dentsu Singapore. Today, Prantik joins us to discuss the ways that businesses must constantly transform and pivot to stay relevant and competitive. He shares his own journey from scaling up a business to the eventual sale and the lessons learned along the way. FULL SHOW NOTES CONNECT WITH US Twitter LinkedIn Our Website  

Lisa Merkle: “I needed to calm my nervous system in order to heal.”  Lisa, the co-founder of Imagine Farms, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the marriage of technology and nature, plus: - Lisa's personal approach to well-being (~00:36) - What inspired Lisa to start Imagine Farms (~05:23) - What a vertical hydroponic farm looks like (~09:10) - How you can farm more crops with less land (~13:06) - How precision growing can make your food healthier (~14:53) - Why vertical hydroponic farms are the future of agriculture (~17:16) - How re-localizing the food system can help with food insecurity (~20:38) - Why vertical hydroponic farming is the new & healthier “fast” food (~23:53) - The most nutritious & underrated vegetables grown at Imagine Farms (~25:18) - Daily practices to live a more environmentally conscious life (~31:28) - How Imagine Farms produce entered Miami markets & restaurants (~36:46) - The future of our food system (~40:43) Referenced in the episode: - Check out Imagine Farms. - Watch the Imagine Farms short film. - Watch Lisa at mbg revitalize 2017. - Learn more about Zak The Baker. - Learn more about Food Rescue South Florida. - mbg Podcast episode #434, with Amy Sapola, PharmD. - mbg Podcast episodes #331 and #39, with Paul Hawken. - mbg Podcast episode #243, with Jesse Daystar, Ph.D. We hope you enjoy this episode sponsored by Cotton, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com.

Gaia and Andreah are joined by Merkle's Melissa Reilly, Associate Director, Marketing Communications, and Jane Yeo, Media Strategy Manger. The guests discuss insights and trends from the Q4 2022 Performance Media Report which surveyed 250 marketing decision-makers. Highlights include: • Why did CPC and CPM see less YoY growth this quarter? • How are ongoing trends going to impact brands in Q4? • Why are customers craving a frictionless holiday shopping experience? • What are the benefits of the shopping ad format? • What is out-of-home marketing? • Why should brands tighten up tech and data integrations? Resources: • Q4 2022 Performance Media Report (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/performance-media-report) • 2022 Retail Media Research Report (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/2022-retail-media-research-report) • Meeting the Insurance Needs of Audiences Impacted by Inflation (https://www.merkle.com/blog/meeting-insurance-needs-audiences-impacted-inflation) • Last-Minute Engagement Promotions for the Holidays (https://www.merkle.com/blog/last-minute-engagement-promotions-holidays) • 2022 Holiday Preparation: Meeting Consumer Needs in an Uncertain World (https://www.merkle.com/blog/2022-holiday-preparation-meeting-customer-needs-uncertain-world) • Understand How Inflation Impacts Your Shoppers: Use Data to Customize Your Offers and Messaging (https://www.merkle.com/news-and-events/webinars/inflation-isnt-one-size-fits-all-using-data-speak-your-customers-language)

Dr. Ben Merkle is the president of New Saint Andrews College in Moscow Idaho, a private liberal arts college that graduates leaders who shape culture by living faithfully under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. In this episode, Nathan and Dr. Merkle discuss how fathers can take responsibility for their their children's education, why higher education is a fraud, the reasons why college is so expensive, and how parents can equip their children for the complexity and rigor of the real world. Relevant Links Show Notes | Spearing.co Dr. Ben Merkle on LinkedIn New Saint Andrews College Christ Church | Moscow, ID Meet Big Ed | New Saint Andrews Logos School | Moscow, ID Books by Rebekah Merkle Title IV Overview Title IX Overview Sandhills Presbyterian Church | Southern Pines, NC Recommended Episodes Wielding Art to Build and Defend True Culture with Arthur Kwon Lee | Life on Target Podcast Interview with Rory Groves: How Family-Centric Are You? | Life on Target Podcast Follow Nathan Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Gab Website  

#bitcoin (27-10-2022) Today I talk with a relative noob to the Bitcoin scene Tom Merkle about his intro to Bitcoin, his personal rabbit hole, his Hashbranch business... and ultimately where HE sees the future in a Bitcoin world! MY VIEWS ARE MY OWN AND I MAKE NO PREDICTIONS SO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING ANYTHING... & ONLY INVEST WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE! Follow Tom: @Tommerkle Hashbranch: https://www.hashbranch.com Subscribe to my 'UK Bitcoiner' Backup Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3p4A_VqohTmbm44z4lgokg Mondays Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnzMPYdnYP4 Video Archive: Full Video Archive: http://www.UKBitcoinMaster.com Bitcoin Interviews: http://www.BitcoinInterviews.com UKBM Podcast: UKBitcoinMasterPodcasts.com Follow on Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/UKBitcoinMaster1 Follow on Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/d2EXscaK1oC6/ Follow On Odysee: https://odysee.com/@UKBitcoinMaster:f?&sunset=lbrytv Follow On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UKBitcoinMaster/ Follow On Twitter: https://twitter.com/UKBitcoinMaster The Bitcoin Book: https://amzn.to/3glAyBN BitcoinToTheMoon Asset Portfolio Sale: https://www.bitcointothemoon.com/news... Edinburgh Tickets: https://bit.ly/3yVYEOC Hardware Wallet: Buy Trezor: trezor.io UK Bitcoin Exchange: CoinCorner UK: https://www.coincorner.com?AffiliateId=431027 Support The Show: If you enjoy my content, please drop me a few sats: UKBitcoinMaster@coincorner.io https://tippin.me/@UKBitcoinMaster edgyslice23@walletofsatoshi.com or Buy me a coffee in crappy fiat: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ukbm Book a Bitcoin 1-1 with me: 30mins (90,000 Sats): Booking Calendar - https://ukbitcoinmaster30.youcanbook.me 60mins (180,000 Sats): Booking Calendar - https://ukbitcoinmaster60.youcanbook.me The UK Bitcoin Master DOES NOT talk Trading, TA, Mining, or Alt Coins!

For episode 92 of Tendy Talk presented by the BLPA Podcast Network and The Hockey Podcast Network, I chat with my old Brother Rice High School Chicago goalie partner from my freshman through junior year Don Merkle. Don and I saw a lot of shots in those first two years and we talk about that, we also talk about his Ice Geat equipment he still has.  As noted in last week's episode, I am participating in this year's challenge in honor of my Mom who lost her battle to breast cancer on Mother's Day of this year. If you're in a position to donate, visit my page. I'm logging each beer league game's saves and providing proof of saves with game highlight videos. Don isn't really on social media, but be sure to enjoy this episode. The music on this podcast is courtesy of The Zambonis. (http://thezambonis.com) Want to be on the podcast, or know somebody I should talk to? Reach out to me at WashedUpGoalie39@gmail.com, or contact me through the Contact page. Draftkings.com PROMO Code THPN for SIGNUP Bonus & Weekly Deals. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/LA/MI/NJ/P/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA(select parishes)/MI/NH/NJ/ NY/OR/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. New customer offer void in NH/OR/ONT-CA. New customers only. Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 wager. $200 issued as eight (8) $25 free bets. Opt in req. 1 Stepped Up Same Game Parlay Token issued per eligible game. Min $1 bet. Max bet limits apply. Min. 3-leg. Each leg min. -300 odds, total bet +100 odds or longer. Profit boosted up to 100% (10+ legs for 100% boost). See T&C at sportsbook.draftkings.com/footballterms. Find me on social media Instagram: @Washed_Up_Goalie Twitter: @WashedUpGoalie Facebook YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LA-based friends of the pod Bruce and Clayton join the Slipperhood to gab all about Judy's 100th Birthday Gala at the Ebell of Los Angeles earlier this year! The quartet met in the courtyard of the Ebell during the event and proceeded to become fast friends thanks to their shared love of Oz and Judy. Bruce and Clayton discuss how they got to the event, highlights of the night (shout out Ruta Lee), celebrate Judy: A Garland Fragrance and share what Judy means to them. Stay tuned for a special bonus episode dropping Wednesday where Tara and EmKay share all about their red carpet looks from the event, some instagram influencer hilarity and shipping drama!Show Notes:@brucemerkle@OzHistory@WizardOfOzHistoryJudy: A Garland FragranceGet Happy! ExhibitHouse of RacanelliTony Awards: Liza Minnelli & Lorna Luft MedleyTiffany @followtheyellowbrickgirlTori @theozvlogDown the YBP Etsy ShopPatreon - DTYBPInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: @emshray

On this episode of the Corpus Animus Podcast we interview our recent TTT Intern Brooks Merkle. We learn what HE learned training alongside Sara Sigmundsdottir, Noah Ohlsen, Alexis Raptis, and Travis Mayer. We also "dive" into his college swimming career where he was teammates with future USA gold medalist swimmers.

Eds toes the rubber for back to back outings and starts off Postseason month with the story of 1908's controversial pennant race between the Pirates, Giants, and Cubs, and of the bonehead play that unceremoniously and undeservedly cemented poor Fred Merkle into the annals of oddball baseball history.

Our guest this week is Ivonne Kinser, VP of Marketing & Innovation for Avocados from Mexico, the innovative marketing organization that has delivered some truly remarkable results. In our fourth episode recorded live at last month's GroceryShop event in Las Vegas, we get the inside story of how AFM went from start-up to advertising on the Super Bowl. We then dig into the details of how Ivonne and her team have elevated what could be seen as a commodity product to a highly in demand, powerful consumer brand. We also get Ivonne's perspective on how consumer and technology trends are intertwining, what it means to be channel agnostic, and how "learning agility" is key to career success. But first we share our hot-takes on the past week in retail news, including what a tight labor market portends for interest rates and inflation, why the holidays seem to come earlier and earlier every year, and what to make of Prat Vemana joining Target as their new Chief Digital & Product Officer. We also discuss Poshmark going from from Wobbly Unicorn to Prized Possession, yet more layoffs at Peloton, and how Allbirds continues to take the D out of DTC. We wrap up with REI's decision to opt out of Black Friday and a trifecta of news from a little outfit called Amazon.About IvonneIvonne is the Vice President of Marketing and Innovation for Avocados From Mexico. Her chief responsibility is to lead a high-performance team and the innovation agenda that put Avocados From Mexico on the Fast Company 2021 list of “Most Innovative Companies in the World,” and top in the branding category. In 2022 Ivonne became the first Latina to be awarded with the American Marketing Association's highest honor bestowed upon a deserving recipe, the Lifetime Achievement Award.She has also been included in the list of “100 Most Influential Latinas in the U.S.” for two consecutive years, in 2021 and in 2022. In 2018, she became one of the five women honored with the Changing the Game Award in the Brainwave category, an award given by the prestigious She Runs It organization which recognizes women within the marketing industry who are true catalysts of innovation by fearlessly making bold moves and reinventing the rules of marketing to transform their brands and their organizations.The previous year, the American Advertising Federation had included her in the list of “20 Women to Watch in Dallas Advertising” and awarded her the Shining Star Award, which recognizes women in the Dallas advertising industry who are breaking glass ceilings.Over the span of more than 20 years in marketing, Ivonne has played leadership roles in multiple corporations representing multibillion brands, as well as in top advertising agencies such as Lintas, McCann Erickson Worldwide, and The Richards Group, working with well-known brands in almost every category. In 2014, she joined Avocados From Mexico as the Head of Digital Marketing, and in seven years she built the organization's digital practice which became one of the most successful digital groups in terms of performance and innovation. Under her leadership, AFM's digital work won dozens of accolades and recognitions, including the only brand to be among the top two position on Merkle's list of “Best Digital Super Bowl Campaigns” for five consecutive years, from 2016 through 2020; an ANA REGGIE Award in 2020 for Disrupted Use of Digital Technology; and a Gold (Sol De Oro) for AFM's 2017 Super Bowl digital campaign in the category of Real-Time Content at the FIAP competition in Buenos Aires. This festival is recognized in the Latin American region as one of the two most important festivals, together with Cannes. She has addressed hundreds of keynotes — across the nation and internationally — about Avocados From Mexico's digital marketing successes, and she is a regular guest speaker at the IPADE, the top business school in Mexico.Innovation, disruptive creativity, and a nontraditional approach to marketing are the hallmarks of Ivonne's work. About UsSteve Dennis is an advisor, keynote speaker and author on strategic growth and business innovation. You can learn more about Steve on his       website.    The expanded and revised edition of his bestselling book  Remarkable Retail: How To Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption is now available at  Amazon or just about anywhere else books are sold. Steve regularly shares his insights in his role as a      Forbes senior contributor and on       Twitter and       LinkedIn. You can also check out his speaker "sizzle" reel      here.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus  Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  ,      The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and now in its second season, Conversations with CommerceNext!  You can learn more about Michael   here  or on     LinkedIn. Be sure and check out Michael's latest venture for fun and influencer riches - Last Request Barbecue,  his YouTube BBQ cooking channel!

Have you started a small business? Do you know someone who has? The challenges of starting out from scratch are well known, but what you may not know is that CareerTech has resources to help make growing a small business easier. Carter Merkle of Oklahoma's Procurement Technical Assistance Center sat down with us to talk about the ways in which OkPTAC connects small businesses in the state with government agencies. You can view a video of our conversation with Carter Merkle here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afgk_j44IOc You can view videos of the business leaders we talked to at ICBSSHOW here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utqBxXJhr4U Additional links: ICBSSHOW OkPTAC  

In this episode, Gaia and Andreah are joined by two Merkle experts in telecommunication marketing, Suzy Jackson, Creative Director and Kristina Easter, Senior Creative Strategist. Listen in for insight into this innovative and evolving industry. Highlights include: • What is the telecom product? • Which wider market trends are impacting the industry? • How can telecom brands sell consumers on the idea of switching carriers? • What is the value in looking at loyalty from pre-pay and post-pay perspectives? • How are brands providing equity in the space? • Where do marketers draw the line in being responsible marketers, delivering relevant messages to consumer while respecting privacy? Resources: • Consumer Loyalty Trends to Watch that Make or Break Brand Relationships Webinar (https://www.merkle.com/news-and-events/webinars/consumer-loyalty-trends-watch-make-or-break-brand-relationships-webinar) • 2022 Performance Creative Storytelling Ebook (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/2022-performance-creative-storytelling-ebook) • Embracing Ethical AI (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/embracing-ethical-ai) • Break the Barriers to Connected CX: Five ways to close the gap between data and experience (https://www.merkle.com/thought-leadership/white-papers/break-barriers-connected-cx-five-ways-close-gap-between-data-and) • How to Inject Humanity into B2B Marketing (https://www.merkle.com/blog/how-inject-humanity-b2b-marketing)

FLF Conference Plug In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word didn’t stay in Heaven. The Word became flesh. The story of God’s grace became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory. It is that Word, that truth, that story that will fill the world. That is why this year’s Fight Laugh Feast Conference in Knoxville Tennessee is on Lies, Propaganda, storytelling, and the serrated edge. The Word is a sword. The Word is our glory. So join us, October 6-8, as we fight, laugh, and feast, with beer & psalms, speakers including Pastor Doug Wilson, George Gilder, Ben Merkle, Jared Longshore, and Pastor Toby Sumpter, Chocolate Knox will be doing a round table with the Wilsons and Merkles on why stories are so potent for building family cultures that wine, all culminating in a live show with Megan Basham and Jason Whitlock talking Lies and Journalism. And we just announced a one day Saturday-only pass for 99$. Find out more and register or become a vendor at fightlaughfeast.com. This is Toby Sumpter, and today is Friday, September 16th, and this is your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-declassification-defense-draws-skepticism-from-judges-11663868282 Former President Donald Trump’s assertion that he declassified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago has come under judicial scrutiny this week, as judges highlighted the limits of that defense and noted a lack of courtroom evidence substantiating it. Mr. Trump has for weeks said he declassified materials taken to Mar-a-Lago, his home in Florida. In a Fox News interview that aired on Wednesday night, he said a sitting president doesn’t need to have a formal process for declassifying documents, and can carry out such an order “even by thinking about it.” Mr. Trump’s lawyers have been more circumspect in their courtroom statements. They have said declassification is a potential defense they may raise later on, once they have a better understanding of what was seized, but haven’t asserted that any specific documents were declassified. Even those lawyers’ carefully worded statements drew scrutiny this week, both from an appeals court and the court-appointed arbiter tasked with reviewing the approximately 11,000 documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, the semiretired jurist serving as special master, has pressed for specific evidence of a declassification order, telling Mr. Trump’s lawyers at a hearing this week: “You can’t have your cake and eat it.” And in a written order on Wednesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals noted the lack of evidence at this point validating Mr. Trump’s declassification defense. “Plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was President,” the unanimous three-judge panel said. “But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. And before the special master, Plaintiff resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents.” The three-judge panel, which included two Trump-appointed judges, also called the declassification argument a “red herring.” Even if Mr. Trump had declassified the documents, the appeals court said, that wouldn’t convert them from government records into his personal property or establish a reason for him to have retained them. Classical Conversations Classical Conversations supports homeschooling parents by cultivating the love of learning through a Christian worldview in fellowship with other families. They provide a classical Christ-centered curriculum, local like-minded communities across the United States and in several countries, and they train parents who are striving to be great classical educators in the home. For more information and to get connected, please visit their website at ClassicalConversations.com. Again that’s ClassicalConversations.com. https://nsa.edu/posts/liberal-arts-college-oppose-bidens-student-loan-relief Moscow, Idaho–New Saint Andrews College, one of only a handful of colleges across the US to refuse federal money, is taking a stand against the White House’s attempt to cancel federal student loans and is calling on more schools to speak out against Biden’s plan. “Redistributing federal student loan debt to taxpayers reinforces poor financial decisions, ruins the public’s trust in higher ed, exacerbates our current inflationary economy, penalizes colleges that decline to take federal funding, and prolongs higher education’s game of hide and seek with financial realities,” said Dr. Benjamin Merkle, president of the Idaho-based Christian liberal arts college. “I’ve been referring to this as our ‘Big Ed’ problem,” Dr. Merkle said. “I believe more and more parents and students have added higher ed to a growing list of other “big” businesses that abuse power to get easy money.” Dr. Merkle added that many political leaders on both sides of the aisle can see the road this is taking us down and how it drives higher ed to an even more precarious position than it's already in. Dr. Merkle gave three reasons why more colleges should oppose this new program. First, Biden’s plan doesn’t really cancel student loan debt. It just redistributes it to other taxpayers – many of whom did not attend college or have already paid back their debt. Adding more taxes to already over-taxed households to cover someone else’s bad debt is not equitable, fair, or right. Second, moving the debt from the students who signed up for the student loan payments in the first place to the taxpayers who didn’t will create a series of ripple effects that will be hard to reign in. Our nation’s young people will learn that loans don’t need to be paid back and taxpayers will grow more skeptical and bitter toward higher ed. Further, each successive generation will expect the federal government to bail them out of their higher ed debt. Third, the more that higher education participates in these federal loan programs the more it becomes dependent on federal handouts. If the federal government is the primary funder of postsecondary education in America, then colleges and universities are disincentivized to perform better or to offer improved services to their primary consumers: students and parents. Essentially, we are fostering yet another industrial-complex where American industry and the government are embroiled in a “too big to fail” mindset that fosters highly irresponsible financial behaviors. Meanwhile, colleges that decline to take federal funding must work even harder to compete for students against institutions that are artificially propped up by the government and where the true cost of education is obscured by a loan cancellation program. https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/21/josh-hawley-introduce-legislation-student-debt-make-universities-pay-act/ Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley will introduce legislation Wednesday that puts colleges and universities on the hook for student debt. The bill was first obtained by the Daily Caller and is titled the Make the Universities Pay Act. The Legislation would require institutions of higher education participating in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program to pay 50% of any student loan balance that is in default. The Make the Universities Pay Act would also allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy and allow undergraduate student loan debt to be discharged five years after the first payment is due, while graduate student loan can be discharged 15 years after the first payment is due. In addition, the bill requires each institution of higher education participating in federal financial aid programs to publish post-graduate outcomes, including mean and median earnings of graduates and student loan default rates, disaggregated by each degree or program of study. The Biden administration is taking executive action to forgive $10,000 per borrower. The move would clear $321 billion of federal student loans and clear the student debt for almost 12 million people, according to CNBC. “For decades, universities have amassed billion-dollar endowments while teaching nonsense like men can get pregnant. All while charging extortionary tuition. Now Joe Biden wants to give away another $1 trillion to prop up the system. That’s wrong. Instead, it’s time to put universities on the hook and give students the information they need to make informed decisions,” Hawley told the Caller before introducing the legislation. Hawley plans on introducing the legislation later Wednesday afternoon. The Psalm of the Day: Psalm 115 https://open.spotify.com/track/2qvDdOEbYxRinuuarNVBCA?si=64917b6789fd4427 0:37-1:33 Amen! This is Toby Sumpter with CrossPolitic News. Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. Or find them on our App: just search “Fight Laugh Feast” in your favorite app store and never miss a show. We are now doing a daily show, with daily backstage content for Fight Laugh Feast Club Member. Join today and get access as well as a $100 discount at the Fight Laugh Feast conference in Knoxville, TN Oct. 6-8, and have a great day.

FLF Conference Plug In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word didn’t stay in Heaven. The Word became flesh. The story of God’s grace became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory. It is that Word, that truth, that story that will fill the world. That is why this year’s Fight Laugh Feast Conference in Knoxville Tennessee is on Lies, Propaganda, storytelling, and the serrated edge. The Word is a sword. The Word is our glory. So join us, October 6-8, as we fight, laugh, and feast, with beer & psalms, speakers including Pastor Doug Wilson, George Gilder, Ben Merkle, Jared Longshore, and Pastor Toby Sumpter, Chocolate Knox will be doing a round table with the Wilsons and Merkles on why stories are so potent for building family cultures that wine, all culminating in a live show with Megan Basham and Jason Whitlock talking Lies and Journalism. And we just announced a one day Saturday-only pass for 99$. Find out more and register or become a vendor at fightlaughfeast.com. This is Toby Sumpter, and today is Friday, September 16th, and this is your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-declassification-defense-draws-skepticism-from-judges-11663868282 Former President Donald Trump’s assertion that he declassified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago has come under judicial scrutiny this week, as judges highlighted the limits of that defense and noted a lack of courtroom evidence substantiating it. Mr. Trump has for weeks said he declassified materials taken to Mar-a-Lago, his home in Florida. In a Fox News interview that aired on Wednesday night, he said a sitting president doesn’t need to have a formal process for declassifying documents, and can carry out such an order “even by thinking about it.” Mr. Trump’s lawyers have been more circumspect in their courtroom statements. They have said declassification is a potential defense they may raise later on, once they have a better understanding of what was seized, but haven’t asserted that any specific documents were declassified. Even those lawyers’ carefully worded statements drew scrutiny this week, both from an appeals court and the court-appointed arbiter tasked with reviewing the approximately 11,000 documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, the semiretired jurist serving as special master, has pressed for specific evidence of a declassification order, telling Mr. Trump’s lawyers at a hearing this week: “You can’t have your cake and eat it.” And in a written order on Wednesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals noted the lack of evidence at this point validating Mr. Trump’s declassification defense. “Plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was President,” the unanimous three-judge panel said. “But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. And before the special master, Plaintiff resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents.” The three-judge panel, which included two Trump-appointed judges, also called the declassification argument a “red herring.” Even if Mr. Trump had declassified the documents, the appeals court said, that wouldn’t convert them from government records into his personal property or establish a reason for him to have retained them. Classical Conversations Classical Conversations supports homeschooling parents by cultivating the love of learning through a Christian worldview in fellowship with other families. They provide a classical Christ-centered curriculum, local like-minded communities across the United States and in several countries, and they train parents who are striving to be great classical educators in the home. For more information and to get connected, please visit their website at ClassicalConversations.com. Again that’s ClassicalConversations.com. https://nsa.edu/posts/liberal-arts-college-oppose-bidens-student-loan-relief Moscow, Idaho–New Saint Andrews College, one of only a handful of colleges across the US to refuse federal money, is taking a stand against the White House’s attempt to cancel federal student loans and is calling on more schools to speak out against Biden’s plan. “Redistributing federal student loan debt to taxpayers reinforces poor financial decisions, ruins the public’s trust in higher ed, exacerbates our current inflationary economy, penalizes colleges that decline to take federal funding, and prolongs higher education’s game of hide and seek with financial realities,” said Dr. Benjamin Merkle, president of the Idaho-based Christian liberal arts college. “I’ve been referring to this as our ‘Big Ed’ problem,” Dr. Merkle said. “I believe more and more parents and students have added higher ed to a growing list of other “big” businesses that abuse power to get easy money.” Dr. Merkle added that many political leaders on both sides of the aisle can see the road this is taking us down and how it drives higher ed to an even more precarious position than it's already in. Dr. Merkle gave three reasons why more colleges should oppose this new program. First, Biden’s plan doesn’t really cancel student loan debt. It just redistributes it to other taxpayers – many of whom did not attend college or have already paid back their debt. Adding more taxes to already over-taxed households to cover someone else’s bad debt is not equitable, fair, or right. Second, moving the debt from the students who signed up for the student loan payments in the first place to the taxpayers who didn’t will create a series of ripple effects that will be hard to reign in. Our nation’s young people will learn that loans don’t need to be paid back and taxpayers will grow more skeptical and bitter toward higher ed. Further, each successive generation will expect the federal government to bail them out of their higher ed debt. Third, the more that higher education participates in these federal loan programs the more it becomes dependent on federal handouts. If the federal government is the primary funder of postsecondary education in America, then colleges and universities are disincentivized to perform better or to offer improved services to their primary consumers: students and parents. Essentially, we are fostering yet another industrial-complex where American industry and the government are embroiled in a “too big to fail” mindset that fosters highly irresponsible financial behaviors. Meanwhile, colleges that decline to take federal funding must work even harder to compete for students against institutions that are artificially propped up by the government and where the true cost of education is obscured by a loan cancellation program. https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/21/josh-hawley-introduce-legislation-student-debt-make-universities-pay-act/ Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley will introduce legislation Wednesday that puts colleges and universities on the hook for student debt. The bill was first obtained by the Daily Caller and is titled the Make the Universities Pay Act. The Legislation would require institutions of higher education participating in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program to pay 50% of any student loan balance that is in default. The Make the Universities Pay Act would also allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy and allow undergraduate student loan debt to be discharged five years after the first payment is due, while graduate student loan can be discharged 15 years after the first payment is due. In addition, the bill requires each institution of higher education participating in federal financial aid programs to publish post-graduate outcomes, including mean and median earnings of graduates and student loan default rates, disaggregated by each degree or program of study. The Biden administration is taking executive action to forgive $10,000 per borrower. The move would clear $321 billion of federal student loans and clear the student debt for almost 12 million people, according to CNBC. “For decades, universities have amassed billion-dollar endowments while teaching nonsense like men can get pregnant. All while charging extortionary tuition. Now Joe Biden wants to give away another $1 trillion to prop up the system. That’s wrong. Instead, it’s time to put universities on the hook and give students the information they need to make informed decisions,” Hawley told the Caller before introducing the legislation. Hawley plans on introducing the legislation later Wednesday afternoon. The Psalm of the Day: Psalm 115 https://open.spotify.com/track/2qvDdOEbYxRinuuarNVBCA?si=64917b6789fd4427 0:37-1:33 Amen! This is Toby Sumpter with CrossPolitic News. Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. Or find them on our App: just search “Fight Laugh Feast” in your favorite app store and never miss a show. We are now doing a daily show, with daily backstage content for Fight Laugh Feast Club Member. Join today and get access as well as a $100 discount at the Fight Laugh Feast conference in Knoxville, TN Oct. 6-8, and have a great day.

Braves in a rut, Soroka's season over, LSU gets slap on the wrist, Utah nuke bomb threat, Herbstreit a humorless d-nozzle at times, Brownie the Elf rules, Celtics suspend horndog coach so of course Stevie A. says it's racism, did Boston also suspend the woman? John Wooden's point guard dies, Draft Kings hires goons to break players knees, Pete's Tweets, This Day in Sports History. Come for update on nose-biter, stay for total breakdown of 2017's disastrous CFB coaching hires (only 3 of the 13 hired still have the job). Plus any chance to mention Tunch Ilkin & Merkle's Boner & Ron Santo's classic "OH NOOOOOO!" call 

FLF Conference Plug In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word didn’t stay in Heaven. The Word became flesh. The story of God’s grace became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory. It is that Word, that truth, that story that will fill the world. That is why this year’s Fight Laugh Feast Conference in Knoxville Tennessee is on Lies, Propaganda, storytelling, and the serrated edge. The Word is a sword. The Word is our glory. So join us, October 6-8, as we fight, laugh, and feast, with beer & psalms, speakers including Pastor Doug Wilson, George Gilder, Ben Merkle, Jared Longshore, and Pastor Toby Sumpter, Chocolate Knox will be doing a round table with the Wilsons and Merkles on why stories are so potent for building family cultures that wine, all culminating in a live show with Megan Basham and Jason Whitlock talking Lies and Journalism. And we just announced a one day Saturday-only pass for 99$. Find out more and register or become a vendor at fightlaughfeast.com. This is Toby Sumpter, and today is Friday, September 16th, and this is your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-declassification-defense-draws-skepticism-from-judges-11663868282 Former President Donald Trump’s assertion that he declassified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago has come under judicial scrutiny this week, as judges highlighted the limits of that defense and noted a lack of courtroom evidence substantiating it. Mr. Trump has for weeks said he declassified materials taken to Mar-a-Lago, his home in Florida. In a Fox News interview that aired on Wednesday night, he said a sitting president doesn’t need to have a formal process for declassifying documents, and can carry out such an order “even by thinking about it.” Mr. Trump’s lawyers have been more circumspect in their courtroom statements. They have said declassification is a potential defense they may raise later on, once they have a better understanding of what was seized, but haven’t asserted that any specific documents were declassified. Even those lawyers’ carefully worded statements drew scrutiny this week, both from an appeals court and the court-appointed arbiter tasked with reviewing the approximately 11,000 documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, the semiretired jurist serving as special master, has pressed for specific evidence of a declassification order, telling Mr. Trump’s lawyers at a hearing this week: “You can’t have your cake and eat it.” And in a written order on Wednesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals noted the lack of evidence at this point validating Mr. Trump’s declassification defense. “Plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was President,” the unanimous three-judge panel said. “But the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. And before the special master, Plaintiff resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents.” The three-judge panel, which included two Trump-appointed judges, also called the declassification argument a “red herring.” Even if Mr. Trump had declassified the documents, the appeals court said, that wouldn’t convert them from government records into his personal property or establish a reason for him to have retained them. Classical Conversations Classical Conversations supports homeschooling parents by cultivating the love of learning through a Christian worldview in fellowship with other families. They provide a classical Christ-centered curriculum, local like-minded communities across the United States and in several countries, and they train parents who are striving to be great classical educators in the home. For more information and to get connected, please visit their website at ClassicalConversations.com. Again that’s ClassicalConversations.com. https://nsa.edu/posts/liberal-arts-college-oppose-bidens-student-loan-relief Moscow, Idaho–New Saint Andrews College, one of only a handful of colleges across the US to refuse federal money, is taking a stand against the White House’s attempt to cancel federal student loans and is calling on more schools to speak out against Biden’s plan. “Redistributing federal student loan debt to taxpayers reinforces poor financial decisions, ruins the public’s trust in higher ed, exacerbates our current inflationary economy, penalizes colleges that decline to take federal funding, and prolongs higher education’s game of hide and seek with financial realities,” said Dr. Benjamin Merkle, president of the Idaho-based Christian liberal arts college. “I’ve been referring to this as our ‘Big Ed’ problem,” Dr. Merkle said. “I believe more and more parents and students have added higher ed to a growing list of other “big” businesses that abuse power to get easy money.” Dr. Merkle added that many political leaders on both sides of the aisle can see the road this is taking us down and how it drives higher ed to an even more precarious position than it's already in. Dr. Merkle gave three reasons why more colleges should oppose this new program. First, Biden’s plan doesn’t really cancel student loan debt. It just redistributes it to other taxpayers – many of whom did not attend college or have already paid back their debt. Adding more taxes to already over-taxed households to cover someone else’s bad debt is not equitable, fair, or right. Second, moving the debt from the students who signed up for the student loan payments in the first place to the taxpayers who didn’t will create a series of ripple effects that will be hard to reign in. Our nation’s young people will learn that loans don’t need to be paid back and taxpayers will grow more skeptical and bitter toward higher ed. Further, each successive generation will expect the federal government to bail them out of their higher ed debt. Third, the more that higher education participates in these federal loan programs the more it becomes dependent on federal handouts. If the federal government is the primary funder of postsecondary education in America, then colleges and universities are disincentivized to perform better or to offer improved services to their primary consumers: students and parents. Essentially, we are fostering yet another industrial-complex where American industry and the government are embroiled in a “too big to fail” mindset that fosters highly irresponsible financial behaviors. Meanwhile, colleges that decline to take federal funding must work even harder to compete for students against institutions that are artificially propped up by the government and where the true cost of education is obscured by a loan cancellation program. https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/21/josh-hawley-introduce-legislation-student-debt-make-universities-pay-act/ Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley will introduce legislation Wednesday that puts colleges and universities on the hook for student debt. The bill was first obtained by the Daily Caller and is titled the Make the Universities Pay Act. The Legislation would require institutions of higher education participating in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program to pay 50% of any student loan balance that is in default. The Make the Universities Pay Act would also allow student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy and allow undergraduate student loan debt to be discharged five years after the first payment is due, while graduate student loan can be discharged 15 years after the first payment is due. In addition, the bill requires each institution of higher education participating in federal financial aid programs to publish post-graduate outcomes, including mean and median earnings of graduates and student loan default rates, disaggregated by each degree or program of study. The Biden administration is taking executive action to forgive $10,000 per borrower. The move would clear $321 billion of federal student loans and clear the student debt for almost 12 million people, according to CNBC. “For decades, universities have amassed billion-dollar endowments while teaching nonsense like men can get pregnant. All while charging extortionary tuition. Now Joe Biden wants to give away another $1 trillion to prop up the system. That’s wrong. Instead, it’s time to put universities on the hook and give students the information they need to make informed decisions,” Hawley told the Caller before introducing the legislation. Hawley plans on introducing the legislation later Wednesday afternoon. The Psalm of the Day: Psalm 115 https://open.spotify.com/track/2qvDdOEbYxRinuuarNVBCA?si=64917b6789fd4427 0:37-1:33 Amen! This is Toby Sumpter with CrossPolitic News. Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. Or find them on our App: just search “Fight Laugh Feast” in your favorite app store and never miss a show. We are now doing a daily show, with daily backstage content for Fight Laugh Feast Club Member. Join today and get access as well as a $100 discount at the Fight Laugh Feast conference in Knoxville, TN Oct. 6-8, and have a great day.

A lecture by Dr. Ben Merkle at the 2022 Florida Regional Convivium entitled "Education and Vocation." Dr. Merkle contrasts the concepts of education versus vocational certification, arguing that vocational certification has displaced an older and superior understanding of what education was intended to accomplish. Dr. Ben Merkle is the president of New Saint Andrews College in Moscow Idaho. He holds a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies from Oxford University. He is a teaching elder at Christ Church, in Moscow, preaching regularly at their downtown service. He is the author of The White Horse King and Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate. He and wife Bekah have five children.

The future of omnichannel retail in Asia is inspiring. With the barriers to omnichannel integration falling, consumers are more comfortable switching channels and purchasing goods online, while retailers are evolving beyond physical retail stores to become full-service providers of products, services and experiences. Today on The Negotiation, we continue our conversation with Patrick Deloy, who is a Managing Director at Merkle, an award-winning e-commerce solutions provider which supports medium to large B2C and B2B companies with the planning, development, localization and long-term support of multi-country e-commerce website deployments in the APAC region.  Patrick's insights on the future of omnichannel retail in Asia and beyond are a must-listen for all retailers, e-commerce businesses and product owners. He shares his thoughts from the perspective of both a storeowner and an e-commerce entrepreneur trying to figure out how online and offline retail will coexist in the future. Please enjoy! Topics Discussed and Key Points:  The merging of omnichannel retail consumers in Asia and the metaverse. Prominent trends following COVID's emergence. How curbside pickup became popular. Why there's still plenty of room for growth in omnichannel retail in Asia. The fractured ecosystem across APAC. The concept of total commerce The partner ecosystem and why it is critical Why customer experience is everything and how to enable superior customer experience. The future of offline retail and what customers expect from offline retail. Notable Quotes“A lot of people, you know, had an interest in the metaverse, even though they did not know what it really was.”“South Korea itself is not, you know, a huge country, but it's one of the largest, you know, crypto markets.”“The response, obviously, to the emergence of COVID in countries across APAC has been very varied.”“There's still a big pool of, you know, consumers that have not, you know, done a lot of, you know, online commerce transactions, yet, you know, have not ordered a lot on DTC channels online.”“Consumers will more and more expect that whatever they do offline is reflected online, whatever they do online is recognized offline.”“Asian markets have become so important for most international brands that they know, you know, they can't screw it up, right, they have to get it right.”“There has to be a layer of, you know, centralization, and, you know, enough room for localization as well.”“Well for us Customer Experience is everything, really, the way we look at it, really only a superior customer experience will make consumers real and loyal advocates for the brand. So only, you know, superior customer experience can help brands as well to outgrow their competition.”