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2 episodes with nick barrett
2 episodes with nick barrett
2 episodes with nick barrett
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✨ What if your next big idea could change everything? ✨ Nick Barrett, creator of CordBrick and founder of CordBrick LLC, joins Vicki Noethling on the *Find Your Leadership Confidence Podcast to share his inspiring journey. From overcoming addiction to building a game-changing product featured on the TODAY Show, Nick's story is proof that anyone can "BUILD Something" and make an impact.
In this week's episode, Nick Barrett, the founder of CordBrick LLC, joins us to peel back the curtain on the whole production and manufacturing process. From idea to implementation, Nick walks us through the steps of getting his product from pipedream to profitable reality. From outsourcing, choosing a manufacturer, trademarks, funding, and more, we get a peak behind the curtains of the process of what it takes to make something in 2024. Key Takeaways: The significance of building a brand that transcends the product itself and builds customer trust and loyalty. Learn how Nick's decision to introduce a second product, DeskBrick, driven by customer feedback, aims to expand his brand's offerings while maintaining each product's uniqueness. Explore Nick's experience with freelancers from platforms like Fiverr and Upwork, highlighting the benefits of cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and access to a diverse talent pool. Understand the crucial role of protecting intellectual property through patents and trademarks as Nick shares his proactive approach to safeguarding CordBrick's brand identity. Nick's journey shows how important it is to make smart decisions, protect your brand, and take action to stay ahead of the competition. Favorite Quote: I realized early on it's important to build your brand because someone can copy this product quite easily. I want to give them things they know they can rely on. I think that's part of building a brand. Connect with Nick: https://cordbrick.com/ https://www.facebook.com/CordBrick https://www.instagram.com/cordbrick/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-barrett-0781491a/ https://www.pinterest.com/CordBrick/ https://www.youtube.com/@cordbrick Stay Connected: Connect with Matt and Luigi on Instagram: @matthew.r.meehan @luigi_rosabianca @theLiquidLunchProject @ShieldAdvisoryGroup Visit The Liquid Lunch Project website and subscribe to The Weekly, our Friday morning newsletter, for all the latest in the world of finance, tech, small business, and more. www.theliquidlunchproject.com Make sure you never miss an episode — check out The Liquid Lunch Project on Apple Podcasts, and don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review.
Listen to Nick Barrett return on the show! Nick is an entrepreneur and the founder of Cordbrick. Cordbrick is a simple product that has many uses. Nick has recently launched the Deskbrick which is a heavier and built to stay in one place. Nick is creating a brand around "brick" and we dive into the importance of designing a great product. Tune in now to learn even more from Nick! Hosted By: Josh Baker Guest(s): Nick Barrett You can connect with Nick on LinkedIn! Stay updated with Cordbrick on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or visit https://cordbrick.com/ Follow the Intelligent Conversations on Social Media to stay updated! Instagram Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Facebook Subscribe to Intelligent Conversations on Your Favorite Place to Listen! YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Audible Amazon Music
In this eye-opening episode of "The United States of Small Business," host John Quick dives into the remarkable world of Nick Barrett, the visionary behind CordBrick LLC. Discover how a personal struggle transformed into groundbreaking innovation, taking Nick from the brink of despair to the heights of entrepreneurial success. From CordBrick's feature on the TODAY Show to the inception of the "BUILD Something Initiative," this conversation covers the full spectrum of inspiration, determination, and tangible impact. Nick reflects on the figures that inspire him, from personal heroes to his encounter with Daymond John from "Shark Tank," offering insights and advice to fellow entrepreneurs and dreamers. Tune in for an episode that not only tells the story of a man who turned his life around but also showcases the potential within all of us to overcome adversity and make a lasting mark on the world. This is "The United States of Small Business," where every entrepreneur's journey is a roadmap to success. Check out Nick and CorBrick here: https://cordbrick.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/usofsmallbusiness/message
In this episode, we sat down with Nick Barrett, the founder of CordBrick, a company that provides a simple yet innovative solution for managing phone cords. Nick shares his journey from struggling with alcoholism and legal troubles to finding his purpose through entrepreneurship. He explains how the idea for Cordbrick - a weighted brick that keeps phone cords from falling off surfaces - came from his personal annoyance with his phone cord always dropping to the floor. Throughout the conversation, Nick discusses the importance of starting with your entrepreneurial idea, the value of sharing that idea, and the challenges he faced in turning his concept into a viable product. Nick also delves into his sober journey, describing it as a turning point that led to a broader personal transformation and commitment to help others. Listen through to the end for Nick's latest CordBrick product and the exciting future of CordBrick. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/wKYIxxyefwM (skip to 25:27 for the CordBrick demo) Learn more: https://cordbrick.com/ Follow CordBrick on social media @cordbrick More show links: Join the Launch Your Podcast Challenge: www.teriholland.ca/5daypodast Chapters: 00:00 Kickstarting Your Idea: The Journey Begins 00:18 Introduction to Nick Barrett 02:10 From Concept to Market: The Birth of Cordbrick 04:33 Entrepreneurial Insights: Navigating Challenges and Success 07:54 The Power of Sobriety: A Personal and Professional Rebirth 09:40 Imposter Syndrome and Overcoming Self-Doubt 18:21 The Build Something Initiative: Giving Back and Moving Forward 20:51 Rapid Fire Questions: Getting Personal with Nick 23:40 Final Thoughts 24:28 The Exciting Future of Cordbrick: A Sneak Peek
“Promise to Presence” Advent Series - (Isaiah 11:1-5) - Nick Barrett
“Promise to Presence” Advent Series - (Isaiah 11:1-5) - Nick Barrett
Ever drop your phone cord by your nightstand? Need to manage cords better around your desk, or while traveling? Enter CordBrick, a patented device and cord solution created by serial entrepreneur Nick Barrett, AKA "CordBrick Nick." Made of silicone and weighted with steel, its unique design allows it to adapt to ANY charging situation and since there's no adhesive, it can be used multiple times. It comes in several colors, including glow-in-the-dark (limited availability), making it the perfect stocking stuffer for anyone with a phone. How does it work? It weighs down and gathers cord ends with a weighted, specially designed BRICK of silicone and can wrap cords for travel, with easy unwrapping too. Its 6 special channels are designed for holding: 4 cords and wrapping/grabbing 2 cords and phones. All 6 channels can fit Apple AirPods, and things like pens, too. From DUIs & jail to a winning product, Nick's invention was recently awarded the "Coolest Product" at NRF 2023 (10K prize) and is currently an Amazon Launchpad Product. He says, “My cord was always falling off the side of my bed when I was about to go to sleep. I started trying to create something to solve the problem since I didn't see any good solutions available. Keep your focus on work or sleep instead of digging behind a desk for cord ends. Elderly customers have claimed injuries from falls from picking up fallen cords. Phones stay charged too - more reliably. You can keep a cord in reach in many areas and keep the surface clear.” Web: https://cordbrick.com ► Luxury Women Handbag Discounts: https://www.theofficialathena.... ► Become an Equus Coach®: https://equuscoach.com/?rfsn=7... ► For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH58... ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/po... ► Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSa... ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1lov... ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsa... ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog
Inventor of CordBrick, Nick Barrett shares his story from alcoholism to entrepreneurship. If needing a reminder of hope, or need a little extra motivation to pursue your own invention, then welcome home friend!UNLEASH Your Purpose-Driven Business!SIGN-UP TODAY! It's FREE!Nick Barrett shares his personal journey of overcoming alcoholism and finding sobriety. He discusses the challenges he faced and the support he received from his family and the recovery community. Nick also shares with us his too cool invention, CordBrick, which is a weighted cord holder that keeps phone cords organized and prevents them from falling to the floor. Trust me, this thing is just too cool! Nick's mission is not only wrapped up in CordBrick, but also to inspire others to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams and give back to their communities.LINKS & RESOURCESMENTIONED IN THE EPISODEpurchase cordbrick: www.CordBrick.comENROLL TODAY for the Unleash Your Purpose-Driven Business FREE Training!BE IN THE KNOW!CLICK HERE to Get on The OFFICIAL Email List for the Podcast!ALL THE WAYS WE CAN CONNECTGET IN TOUCHPODCAST HOST: KEVIN LOWESchedule a Call with KevinVisit Our WebsiteBecome a Grit, Grace, & Inspiration InsiderFollow Kevin's LinkedIn NewsletterSEND KEVIN A VOICE MESSAGEGuided by Faith. Inspired by life itself.© 2023 Grit, Grace, & Inspiration
Three years ago, Nick Barrett had an idea — and little else. He envisioned a new, weighted, portable gadget that could keep cords and wires from getting entangled. Nick's CordBrick is only a tad longer than a large paperclip and about as thick as a quarter. At this year's National Retail Federation trade show in New York, one of the largest consumer products showcases in the nation, CordBrick was named “coolest product,” nabbing a $10,000 prize. Nick's experience launching CordBrick mirrors that of many first-time entrepreneurs. He's made mistakes, learned from them, had the support of friends and mentors, and is now steadily growing his business. Other inventors and entrepreneurs can learn a lot — and save themselves big headaches — by discovering how Nick went from pitching his innovative home and office gadget at flea markets to being a major Amazon and retail success story. You don't have to be an entrepreneurial rookie to benefit from Nick's inspirational story and to relive the magic of starting your first business. Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son team of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart. To show your appreciation for Monday Morning Radio and keep it commercial-free, we encourage you to contribute using this link. Donations of all sizes are welcome. Photo: Nick Barrett, CordBrickPosted: November 6, 2023Monday Morning Run Time: 40:23Episode: 12.18
Listen to Nick Barrett share about how he brought Cordbrick to life! Nick is the founder of Cordbrick. Cordbrick is a product that helps you keep your phone chargers where you want. After having zero experience in product development, Nick went on a three plus year learning experience to eventually win the coolest product at NRF 2023, which is a retailer conference. Tune in now to learn more about Nick Barrett! Hosted By: Josh Baker Guest(s): Nick Barrett You can connect with Nick on LinkedIn! Stay updated with Cordbrick on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest or visit https://cordbrick.com/ Follow the Intelligent Conversations on Social Media to stay updated! Instagram Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Facebook Subscribe to Intelligent Conversations on Your Favorite Place to Listen! YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Audible Amazon Music
Return & Rebuild - (Zechariah 9:9-10) - Nick Barrett
Return & Rebuild - (Zechariah 9:9-10) - Nick Barrett
NICK BARRETT FRONTMAN FOR BRITISH PROG ROCK GROUP ‘PENDRAGON' CHATS ABOUT LATEST RELEASE ‘NORTH STAR' ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS WITH RAY SHASHO! Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I'm your host Ray Shasho. Pendragon are an English neo-progressive rock band established in 1978 in Stroud, Glouce-ster-sher, England, as Zeus Pendragon by guitarist and vocalist Nick Barrett. The word Zeus was dropped before the band started recording, as the members decided it was too long to look good on a T-shirt. There were a few personnel changes in the early days, but since 1986 the lineup has remained relatively stable (with only the drummer changing several times since then). The band were active in the progressive rock revival spearheaded by the likes of Marillion, Pallas, Solstice and Twelfth Night in the early 1980s and often appeared as support acts to Marillion and other major prog bands, both on tours and at the Marquee venue which hosted many regular prog evenings. In September 2019 the band released a 40th Anniversary boxed set containing five compact discs. The first three represent a complete live concert recording made in London during 2018. The remaining two discs are re-mixed and remastered versions of the albums The World and Men Who Climb Mountains. In February 2020, a new album called Love Over Fear was released. Most recently this year an EP entitled North Star was released. PLEASE WELCOME GUITARIST, SINGER, SONGWRITER AND COMPOSER OF THE BRITISH PROG ROCK GROUP PENDRAGON NICK BARRETT TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS … PURCHASE NORTH STAR BY PENDRAGON Available at https://pendragon3.bandcamp.com/ and amazon.com Also THE MOST RECENT ALBUM BY PENDRAGON entitled LOVE OVER FEAR amazon.com FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NICK BARRETT AND PENDRAGON VISIT www.pendragon.mu Official website https://twitter.com/PendieHQ Twitter www.facebook.com/PendragonHQ Facebook https://pendragon3.bandcamp.com/album/north-star Bandcamp www.lizsaddington.com Liz Saddington artwork PENDRAGON DISCOGRAPHY Studio albums The Jewel (1985) Kowtow (1988) The World (1991) The Window of Life (1993) The Masquerade Overture (1996) Not of This World (2001) Believe (2005) Pure (2008) Passion (2011) Men Who Climb Mountains (2014) Love Over Fear (2020) Live Album's 1 9:15 Live 1986 2 Around the World in 80 Minutes Vol 2 1992 3 The Very, Very Bootleg: Live in Lille 1993 4 Utrecht...The Final Frontier 1995 5 Live in Kraków 96 1997 6 Acoustically Challenged 2002 7 Live at Last ...And More 2004 8 Concerto Maximo 2009 9 Out of Order Comes Chaos 2013 10 Masquerade 20 2017 EP's 1 Pendragon (aka The Armageddon Tape) 1982 2 Pendragon (aka The Excalibur Tape) 1983 3 The Friday Rock Show 1983 4 Fly High Fall Far 1984 5 Saved by You 1989 6 Fallen Dreams & Angels 1994 7 As Good as Gold 1996 8 North Star 2023 NICK BARRETT SOLO Nick Barrett & Clive Nolan – A Rush Of Adrenaline 2006 UPCOMING SHOWS Friday Nov 3rd – The Wharf, Tavistock, Devon Saturday Nov 4th – Trading Boundaries, Fletching, East Sussex We're heading out on tour in the spring of 2024, and here's where we'll be… May 2024 11th – Saturday & 12th Sunday – VIP'24 Weekend – Key Theatre – Peterborough – UK 13th – Monday – Zentrum Altenberg – Oberhausen – DE 14th – Tuesday – Paris – FR – TBC 15th – Wednesday – Z7 – Pratteln – CH 16th – Thursday – Lyon – FR – TBC 17th – Friday – Chez Paulette – Pagney-derrière-Barine- FR 18th – Saturday – De Boerderij – Zoetermeer – NL 19th – Sunday – Das Rind – Russelshiem – DE 20th – Monday – Zik-Zak – Ittre – BE 21st – Tuesday – Logo – Hamburg – DE 22nd – Wednesday – Beta – Copenhagen – DK 23rd – Thursday – Galej – Gothenburg – SE 25th Saturday & 26th Sunday – VIP '24 Weekend- CK Wiatrak – Zabrze – PL Support us on PayPal!
Locked On Gamecocks - Daily Podcast On South Carolina Gamecocks Football & Basketball
Heading into the 2023 football season, there's plenty of veterans on South Carolina's Football team that could breakout for the Gamecocks. Could Xavier Legette finally become a consistent receiving option for Spencer Rattler? How much could the rest of the secondary help O'Donnell Fortune in his transition into a starting role? What could scheme continuity in Clayton White's defensive scheme do for David Spaulding, TJ Sanders, and Nick Barrett? Andrew dives into those breakout candidates and more on today's edition of Locked On Gamecocks!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!NutrafolTake the first step to visibly thicker, healthier hair. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month's subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com/men and enter the promo code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply.eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Right now, when you bet on a Super Bowl Winner, you can GET BONUS BETS EVERY TIME THEY WIN IN THE REGULAR SEASON! FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Locked On Gamecocks - Daily Podcast On South Carolina Gamecocks Football & Basketball
Heading into the 2023 football season, there's plenty of veterans on South Carolina's Football team that could breakout for the Gamecocks. Could Xavier Legette finally become a consistent receiving option for Spencer Rattler? How much could the rest of the secondary help O'Donnell Fortune in his transition into a starting role? What could scheme continuity in Clayton White's defensive scheme do for David Spaulding, TJ Sanders, and Nick Barrett? Andrew dives into those breakout candidates and more on today's edition of Locked On Gamecocks! Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Nutrafol Take the first step to visibly thicker, healthier hair. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month's subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com/men and enter the promo code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. LinkedIn LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE. Terms and conditions apply. eBay Motors For parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. FanDuel Make Every Moment More. Right now, when you bet on a Super Bowl Winner, you can GET BONUS BETS EVERY TIME THEY WIN IN THE REGULAR SEASON! FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Special Sermons - 97 (Jeremiah 1:11-12) - Dr. Nick Barrett
Special Sermons - 97 (Jeremiah 1:11-12) - Dr. Nick Barrett
Episode #152. If you have read of the show notes from the last few episodes you know that May 6 to 9, 2013 was a very serious time in my story. Nick was the first person to come to the hospital to sit with my mom when I was in a coma. What brought on such a hard time was a 9 month episode. It was by far the worst time in my life but with the help of many friends and community I was able to get through this hard time. I met Nick in Northern Colorado over 20 years ago. We have been having deep theological talks and also laughing and having fun for more than two decades. Having him on the podcast was a huge honor. We explore some stories from the Gospels and other parts of Scripture. We touch on stories of healing, miracles and even spiritual warfare. Nick's BIO: Nick Barrett P.h.D (Theology) has served in both church and academic environments for the last 15 years. He is currently working as a ministry consultant at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena Ca. He has been married to his wife, Rita, for 18 years. He is an ardent lover of tacos, literature, film, and spending time at the beach. Follow Nick on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theologyface/ SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH A DONATION: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lnowpodcast End Of Show Notes: Please email jared.diehl@gmail.com if you would like to be a guest on the podcast. Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jared-diehl-the-louder-now-podcast/id1454818946 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jareddiehl8/ *** call 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. TO CALL THE HOTLINE: 800-273-8255
This week we have an update from director James Wakefield, before Freez and Joel are joined by Morecambe FC Women founder Nick Barrett, manager Ben Anderson and midfielder Hannah Paling following their superb win at the Mazuma.
This week Freez and Joel are joined by director James Wakefield from the boardroom as well as Morecambe FC Women's founder Sophie Fish, chairman Nick Barrett and captain Becca Baldwin to shine a light on the excellent work being done by the team.
Lots of technical talk in this episode as your nice hosts wade into these two large topics! Flappy Dragon - Google Play Store Cameras 0:09:27 Stephen McGregorGame DesignProgrammingLinear Interpolation - WikipediaSuper Mario World Camera Logic Review - Shaun Inman, YouTubeCamera Movements for 2D Platformers: How Do I Know Which One to Choose - Sam Hu, Sam J H HuPro Camera 2D - Luís Pedro Fonseca, Unity Asset Store Bug Tracking and Triage 0:31:52 Ellen Burns-JohnsonProductionProgrammingParkinson's Law - WikipediaResponsible Bug Reporting and Triage - SmartbearAuction-based serious game for bug tracking - """Çağdaş Üsfekes,Eray Tüzün,Murat Yılmaz,Yagup Macit,Paul Clarke""", The Institution of Engineering and TechnologyBug Triaging Principles - BugsnagGame Development Essentials: Bugtracking (or how we ended up writing our own bu… - Andre Weissflog, The Brain DumpProduction Testing and Bug Tracking - Jamie Fristrom, Game DeveloperWhat makes a good bug report? - Nick Barrett, GamesIndustry.bizAzure DevOps - MIcrosoft Ellen mentioned Agile Development in this episode. Agile Development We also talked about Bugs in one of our first episodes. "Bananas, from here to eternity."
Welcome back to Emerge. Evolve. Lead. My guest today is Nick Barrett, an entrepreneur who got into recovery five years ago and has started his own business. I'll let him tell you more about it and his journey along the way. Nick shares with us so many pearls of wisdom learned in sobriety that can translate to being a successful entrepreneur such as acceptance, action & authenticity. And It's self-discipline and consistency that can bring us more fully into a rhythm of life that helps exponentially.Sober since March 11, 2017, Nick Barrett says he was pretty unlikable before 30. Now at 35, he is not only likable but healthy, self-aware and very much a leader in his own company. Nick created CordBrick LLC. See the links below for more information on this super useful and versatile product at Cordbrick.com.Offer: Buy 4 CordBricks, get a 5th FREE. Shipping is free on any order of $30 or more. Enter code FREECB and we'll toss in an extra one of your choice or click here and add 5 to your cart to get the 5th CordBrick free. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-barrett-0781491a/Nick@cordbrick.comHandle on social platforms is @cordbrick *************************************************************************Ready to make changes in your career and personal life? Learn more about Recovery@Work, by clicking HERE.Thank you for listening and being a part of a supportive community to help people with solid recovery step into leadership. If you liked this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show HERE through Apple Podcasts, or HERE if you're an Android user, and help us spread the word about this inspiring free content. Take the Quiz HERE to find out what animal best represents your leadership style and get on the mailing list so you don't miss a single episode. Check out our FREE resources at Emerge Leadership Academy Do you manage a team and want less turnover, more cooperation, and higher productivity levels? Schedule a free consultation with me today to discuss team training: https://Maureenrg.youcanbook.me
Graniterock aggregates, concrete and trucking will play a major role on two historic water safety projects for Flatiron Construction in 2022.Graniterock will supply the materials and trucking services for Flatiron's Anderson Dam Tunnel Project and second phase of the Upper Llagas Creek Flood Protection Project.Both projects are under the ownership of Valley Water and located in Morgan Hill.Don Barrett, aggregate sales manager, Zack Booth, concrete sales manager and Nick Barrett, transportation manager, join the podcast to talk about the scope of the work and how their teams plan to deliver the quantity and quality Valley Water and Flatiron expect for these historic projects.
In our first collaborative project, KCSB and the Daily Nexus have worked together to document the ways in which our community has changed over the past 18 months. As a result, we are proud to bring you the first episode of Unmasking Isla Vista: A COVID-19 Community Archive, highlighting human struggle. KCSB's Jennifer Yoshikoshi and Daily Nexus reporter Asumi Shuda focus on two critical components of human struggle throughout the pandemic: mental health and houselessness. The two speak with 3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann and Gina Fischer, district representative for Hartmann's office, concerning the social isolation among students in Isla Vista, and Dr. Janet Osimo, psychologist and assistant clinical director of UCSB's Counseling and Psychological Services, regarding student mental health. Additionally, Yoshikoshi and Shuda address the impact of COVID-19 on the houseless community here in Isla Vista, with Food Not Bombs volunteer Gina Sawaya and Nick Barrett of the Good Samaritan Shelter. Unmasking Isla Vista: A COVID-19 Community Archive is accessible as both a Daily Nexus article and a KCSB newsletter. You can find new articles and podcast episodes at dailynexus.com/unmasking-isla-vista/ Stay tuned for episode two of our series! Next week, KCSB's Ashley Rusch and the Daily Nexus' Sindhu Ananthavel discuss University & Students, exploring a variety of topics, from academic dishonesty to student housing. An enormous thank you to those who contributed to Unmasking Isla Vista: A COVID-19 Community Archive. KCSB Journalists: Alexandra Goldberg, Daniel Huecias, Pia Ramos, Ashley Rusch, Yulene Teagle, and Jennifer Yoshikoshi Daily Nexus Journalists: Sindhu Ananthavel, Atmika Iyer, Holly Rusch, Asumi Shuda, and Katherine Swartz Daily Nexus Videographers: Evan Cacatian and Juliana Zappitell Daily Nexus Artists and Graphic Creators: Hannah Appel, Noelle Chan, Luca Disbrow, Emerson Domingo, Natalie Fiorindo, Daniella Gomez, Alex Rudolph, and Kelly Yan KCSB Artists: Madeline Miller and Shirley Wang Daily Nexus Photographers: Pia Ramos and Kaiyi Yang
Todays episode we are joined by a great friend of ours Nick Barrett to discuss our favourite Theme Parks!
Building and managing servers is a challenging task. Configuration management tools provide a framework for handling the various tasks involved, but many of them require learning a specific syntax and toolchain. PyInfra is a configuration management framework that embraces the familiarity of Pure Python, allowing you to build your own integrations easily and package it all up using the same tools that you rely on for your applications. In this episode Nick Barrett explains why he built it, how it is implemented, and the ways that you can start using it today. He also shares his vision for the future of the project and you can get involved. If you are tired of writing mountains of YAML to set up your servers then give PyInfra a try today.
Im Zuge der Corona bedingten Schließung von Schulen sehen sich vielerorts Schüler und Lehrer gleichermaßen vor dem Problem, dass Unterricht neu gedacht und gestaltet werden muss. Über den Einsatz von digitale Spielen im Online-Unterricht sprechen wir mit Thomas Kunze und Marina Wallner von woop.tv.Außerdem geht es um The Last of Us Part II, die Gemeinnützigkeit von eSport und die Corona-Warn-App.Unterstützt uns auf Steady!Shownotes00:00:00 Intro00:11:57 Animal Crossing: New Horizons00:15:01 The Last of Us Part II00:37:53 The Last of Us 2 auf Metacritic: Darum hat das Spiel so schlechte User-Wertungen (David Molke)00:56:47 Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (itch.io)00:58:03 Lesetipp: What makes a good bug report? (Nick Barrett)00:59:11 Vorstoß von CDU/CSU: Aus für „League of Legends“ im Sportverein? (gameswirtschaft)Was ist eine Sportart? Und was nicht? (Christian Spiller)01:29:10 Das spielende Klassenzimmer (mit Marina Wallner & Thomas Kunze)
Have you ever had your heartbroken? How did you handle? Sit back and get a good laugh. Share your experiences. Send in a voice message https://anchor.fm/brooklyn-tingz/message also check out YouTube artist Nick Barrett singing in the beginning and end of our episode. Ladies!! He is FINE FINE!! https://youtu.be/YiAbcUecRX4 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brooklyn-tingz/support
With over 40 years of Pendragon under his belt, Nick Barrett has guided the band as its principle songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. Often considered part of progressive rock’s second wave that built a following through the 80s along with the likes of Marillion, IQ and many others, Pendragon’s star began rising in earnest in the [...] The post PENDRAGON’s Guitarist NICK BARRETT Reflects On New Album: “I’m Still In a Bit of a State of Shock About It. It’s Kind Of Nothing Like I’ve Ever Done Before.” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
EP178 - Chewy IPO and Listener Questions Part 2 Recap of Chewy IPO (Chewy S1) Listener Questions Part 2: Q5: Nick Barrett Would be really interested to hear your guys thoughts on how an established e-commerce store should expand into new product categories. Is it a good idea to launch new niche websites through Shopify to do this, or is it better to keep focus within a single e-commerce site and expand within that? Q6 Rebecca Saunders Have you seen any recent data on the costs of customer acquisition online via the various channels, and how these have changed over time? I hear a lot anecdotally but haven’t managed to access any reliable data. Thanks in advance! Love the show btw (all the way from rainy London). Q7 Amit Agarwal Have you ever done some research on e-commerce subscriptions such as amazon subscribe and save or autoship? Also, what is the industry trends for bark box, hello fresh and other bundle subscriptions? Q8: Parker Block Hey Scot, What do you see as likely business implications of rising appetite for anti-trust action (see FTC/DOJ announcement , Lina Khan joining Congress staff, etc ) on platforms which monetize consumer data ? Q9: Baxter Overman How do you put consumers at ease with in-home delivery services? (i.e. Walmart grocery). Wouldn’t drop-off when the customer is home for certain items (or lockers) be easier to sell? Q10 Aakash Gupta What’s your favorite app that you’ve downloaded in the last few months? Q11 Twitter: Natalie Dillon mentioned us as one of her top podcasts – thanks Natalie! Q12 Ted: Mixed use retail entertainment? Q 13 Michelle Grant Thoughts on pricing strategy in an omnichannel world where price transparency is high and filled with bots to find the lowest price Q15 Melissa Burdick The advertising race to the wallet – We’ve seen some big news lately: Target in talks to buy Triad, Walmart who is bringing advertising in house and just made a key hire Suresh as their CTO….where is this going for ads? Is it going to be a war for brands wallet? Is everyone going to take a page from the Amazon playbook, bring ads in house, and move to a self-service performance advertising, PPC world? Where is the $ coming/going to come from? In the chart below, it looks like Amazon is taking from Google. (I asked a big CPG this question and I asked where is this coming from – or are you just getting more $$? Their answer – more $$). How should brands prepare? Q16 Melissa Burdick Is Amazon going to do to walgreens/bartells/CVS what they did to the bookstore (kill the bookstore to build a bookstore) with the acquisition of pill pack + private label (aspirin, etc) and enable the ability to sell mass CPG profitably? Q17 Melissa Burdick Can Scot please update his Amazon Scape – how has it changed? Q18 Melissa Burdick When is Spiffy coming to Seattle? Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 178 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday, June 18th, 2019. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 178 being recorded on Tuesday June 18th 2019 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here to host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:38] He Jason and welcome back Jason Scott your listeners well we if you listen to good ol episode 177 we had so many listener questions we could not get to the mall. So this is kind of a episode 2 or continuation of that episode before we jump into a star questions though we a while ago on a new show about 30 days ago now we talked about the chewy S1 and since then she has gone Publix we wanted to give you a quick update on what’s going on with you once you take us to the Jason. Jason: [1:14] So they did their IP aware According to some Tuesday it was Friday do I have that right. And you’ll tell me if this is good or not I think it is the day they had announced a rainy a price range for the offering at like 19 and 21 bucks and they actually came out at $22. That’s a little higher than the range they have a lot of good activity and they closed closed event on Friday it was at 35 bucks which is like 80%. So That seems like a pretty successful offering at least compared with like all the the Uber news or the with news. Scot: [2:07] This is the only been one to one IPO process and you know what would they tell you you’re so far. Knock on wood so what they what they tell you is that the Brain Trust at Goldman Sachs these kind of place is you want to go to one school of thought and this is not with the bankers agree with so you have to kind of navigate your way through all this obviously you got a fox and how so she was here once thought is you price your I get the maximum because that’s what’s best for the company the bankers would tell you to look your building long-term shareholder relationships so you want to give these shareholders that take a risk in your company a little bit of a benefit so you price a little bit lower than kind of where you can look at Newburgh lift they both would be kind of what’s the bankers would say kind of broken IPOs where they traded below their IPO price therefore now if you’re someone that participate in IPO you feel sheepish because you came in it what was a $20 now it’s trading at 18 where is this true IPO performed a lot better in a bottle the bankers would recommend I said if you want to come to clear range up there can a price above that range slightly and then have kind of a good pop and then stay there and then come out with your results and then kind of beet raisin your off the races did you could do. [3:30] Secondary offerings happy happy shareholders by wear stockings all kinds of good things happen at kind of tend to think this is the way to do it and they did really well. Jason: [3:43] Yeah now a couple of things that make it particularly interesting in the the sort of Commerce retail world so folks may remember. Chewy was acquired by PetSmart a couple years ago and it was a big deal at the time I was over three billion dollar. Acquisition. And so a incident PetSmart is now spinning off chewy as a separate public company and so I Like You by. And read my notes correctly that that close kind of values the company at that north of 4 billion dollars. Weather so acquire company for 3 billion ticket public at 14 billion sounds like. Pretty exciting acquisition for acquisition and transaction for PetSmart do I have that right. Scot: [4:42] I guess yeah they’re kind of Phoenix it’s almost like a private Equity, think it’s unusual for a company to do what they did cuz usually you fold it in you. You get rid of the brand overtime you make it your eCommerce brand so so young to the degree they have integrated it you could argue it Kris Russell because you know now I’m Siri chewy could be acquired maybe I do think that they sell and over half so I think they can control that but let’s say they do a secondary in overtime their ownership get step know maybe they need to sell some swimming in debts and then let’s say doomsday scenario Amazon acquires chewy and your PetSmart that’s what’s running your e-commerce site then you can kind of have a you know really bad day for someone at PetSmart to listen to see what happens with that integration now that you have these kind of. The amoeba is being pulled apart here and and how does that work for PetSmart. Jason: [5:42] Yeah so that’s kind of what I was going was like from a pure Financial standpoint if we look at it as a banker like it’s it’s hard not to see this as a win but but for your point. [5:55] PetSmart was not a particularly digitally Savvy brick and mortar retailer prior to this acquisition so I can the time part of this acquisition was to bring more digital competency to PetSmart and once pain the PetSmart team arrived PetSmart like really abdicated digital responsibility to that team so like as far as I understand it. There are fewer. Digital people at PetSmart today than there were before the acquisition so they’ve they’ve essentially made themselves extra dependent on chewy and it’s now not clear. What. [6:36] Responsibility going forward she will have for PetSmart digital footprint like you can imagine they have a deal to run petsmart.com. I haven’t explicitly seen that but that that seems like a logical assumption but you know what happens with all the. The start of omni-channel things and you know when PetSmart wants to launch new services or they want to like Market the Veterinary Service veterinarian services that she doesn’t sell but PetSmart does through their stores. Like they’re certainly isn’t like a really strong digital team at PetSmart to be solving the. The start of Digital customer experiences for PetSmart so it it it does it feels to me like it definitely create some risk. For PetSmart and I’ll be interesting whether they they have like. Chewy braintrust walked up some how or whether they’re going to try to rebuild their own their own capability there I guess I just it’s an interesting. [7:36] I think to follow so I found that interesting and then my assumption is that the kind of felt like they had to do it because. The the one interesting thing about the chewy idea that we haven’t mentioned is that that chewy is losing money, and like despite some like phenomenal hockey stick. Customer acquisition growth and sales growth and they have over three years they went from under a billion dollars to 3.5 billion dollars on sales they still haven’t found their way to profitability so your PetSmart you own this fast-growing money-losing venture. And you used a lot of debt to buy them so like. That they’re not helping you pay down the debt you used to buy them because they’re losing money by doing that idea o u stand up a bunch of cash in my understanding is the whole IPO like. Like tried to raise about a billion dollars and 900 million of that went straight to death from the PetSmart acquisition so for your point like it sounds like going public makes it easier to do subsequent raises. So maybe that. The way to bring more operating cash. Chewy but like there’s not a billion dollars in the bank as a result of this IPO that you can have spend on marketing that they didn’t have last year. [8:58] It’s all very interesting is going to be interesting to watch watch how it all plays out and then I guess the other thing is fun for me and you cover this on a previous show a little bit but like. In the process of going public May disclose a bunch of details that we don’t normally get to see and so I know there’s some interesting metrics that came out. They they do a really good cohort analysis of a evaluate. How sticky their customers are from each year that they acquire them and how valuable those customers are in so they have a like in their filings they have a nice what we call a wedding cake kind of showing. Each of those previous years cohorts. Growing in value over time and have some really favorable long-term metrics our customer retention is amazing a big chunk of their customers are on subscriptions are longer-term customers are continuing to spend more and so like. In general they’re having to spend a lot of money to acquire each new customer but the the lifetime value of those customers like is a significant multiple of that customer acquisition cost, so it just spend together inside peek at a pretty big size e-commerce business. Scot: [10:14] Yeah you know the history of e-commerce is littered with companies that they do all this math off of cackle TV and they’re using kind of known LTV, acquire new customers off that no nail TV and then at some point you get through your lines cut across and that LTD of that new customer surprisingly goes down over time because the early days you’re you’re bring in these these early adopters their Advocates they stick around and then the Slater customers you acquire you know maybe they’re just sampling and that kind of thing so it’ll be interesting to see. At the same time Irwin size applying data science and machine learning all his new technologies to try to fight all this in the sea. How to do another big thing when you go public as you have to decide. Which of these metrics are going to publish Schnitzer it’s pretty tricky thing cuz you kind of you know you kind of have to think well metric out there instructions down that’s bad so you can you can actually have a much different and you should have different kind of TV is you put out this one versus on your quarterly so will cover the first quarterly and no be interesting to see if they if they continue with a really transparent Buick faculty because that’s one they had some really good date on them. Jason: [11:31] Yeah it’ll be fun to see. Scot: [11:33] Cool swell I’m springing this on you but did you have a chance to look at the big Facebook crypto announcement today Libra new crypto-currency. Jason: [11:45] Yeah you should have spring stuff on me cuz you know I did all day so I just rushed to the hotel room to get to chat with you so tell us about. Scot: [11:57] Well I’ll just point point listeners to it the immediate reaction from Regulators was oh heck no so the other side quotes from the EU and both parties in the US saying we’re not really sure we trust Facebook with this so that that’s kind of I’m still adjusting it and it looks like they had a big team here the guy that got from PayPal but they put on chats Dave music. He’s leading this so it’s a big pretty big initiative at Facebook it’s what’s called a constant. Constant coin so it it’s kind of going to an individual value versus versus the US dollar does versus floating around the reason the white paper it looks like it’s going. It’s going after being a payment mechanism, like miles and that kind of thing for people. Within the Facebook Network they do have several people that have signed on to this kind of governing body eBay was announced today is also looking at it location being that the company Side dance this governing body will ultimately takes this currency along with the u.s. dollar other payments down the road so it just feels like it’s the payment thing to watch to see how it goes. Jason: [13:23] So do you think the the Winklevoss twins will be all in in this will be the Zuckerberg Winklevoss reunions. Scot: [13:29] That direction was an article where they have had something to do with it I know that’s compliment you can find them. [13:45] I think that they were asked to apine on it because they they have put a lot of stuff into the crypto thing. Jason: [13:53] I don’t know what we’ll see how it all plays out like superficially. I I simultaneously and surprise and admire Facebook’s ability to sort of ignore their currents. Situation and launching new products so I do I do feel like. Visa V the other big technology giants like Facebook is it the biggest sort of trust deficit of all of them and yet they continue to launch products that like. At the core require like this really strong level of consumer trust for adoption so launching portal and putting like on microphone and camera and everyone’s living room and the launching of cryptocurrencies likes that there’s some hotspot doing those kind of launches when it it it feels like you’re you’re not exactly killing it in terms of earning your user stress. Scot: [14:44] Okay one of our one of our many interns just look this up and they actually it so Facebook had talked to the Zuckerberg they have an exchange called Gemini and they’re not sure they’re to work together but the Winklevoss folks said you know it’s time to let bygones be bygones and waste will probably be Frenemies so if you’re very Millennial wait till dresses. Jason: [15:07] Let’s jump into listener questions. [15:19] Questionnaire questionnaire questionnaire questions. Scot: [15:24] Yes sir we are so we covered for last time so I can start out here with number 5 this was from Nick Barrett and it came through Facebook I believe Nick is from Australia or New Zealand so I don’t know if that puts it in context but there you go I think he works for this company called Mighty ape which is kind of like GameStop it’s like an FYE but an American kind of context to hear your guys thoughts and I’ll and established e-commerce store could expand in a new product categories is it a good idea to launch new Niche websites to Shopify to do this or is it better to keep Focus within a single e-commerce site and expand with a nut I’ll take a stab at this kind of depends so I’ll use a I use a metaphor here of orbits right so so at the at the at the center of this orbit is your existing customer in your existing e-commerce experience I think customers will. Pretty easily let you go one or two orbits out you start to go three or four orbits out then you really need to start thinking about that customers buying experience and the messaging it doesn’t make sense to have it going to tie it to something on a closer orbit to what you’re doing today so use example it looks like a Mighty Eighth the selling games Collectibles those kinds of things so. [16:50] You know another example of a store like yours is ThinkGeek here in the US and you’ll think he did a really good job of starting with your muesli. [17:00] Kind of collectible stuff and then bringing in toys stand life-size figures and then they going deep into categories so then in the store are they and the lion to have a pretty, deep Star Wars category a Harry Potter category Etc and then online and license the brands and then there’s there’s actually extra deep in this category So within the Star Wars world. They did, cleverly came up with a sleeping bag that looks like a tan tan and so they they kind of got so deep into this vertical they’re actually kind of able to come up with their own products around that. But you wouldn’t go in there expecting to find a non geechie pizza oven or something strange like that so so you know. [17:49] Two to the same argument if if you guys wanted to add kind of your you know you’re on private label Collectibles I’ll keep that in the main side what say you wanted to get into something totally out of what you’re doing today like I don’t know Sporting Goods or hammocks or something like that then I do think you know having another e-commerce site is the way to do it you know what. Yeah what you didn’t necessarily but all all kind of kind of keep replying to thread is how do you find what to add in this is where it’s really interesting set a channel advisor we have 3000 customers and the overwhelming majority of them are Supernatural and it’s always fascinating to me to find out how they. Figure out what products to sell a lot of them spend a lot of time date of money so don’t go through comments feedback on products they look at no search results that’s a cool place on your own website to go find things you’re what are people searching for on your website and not fighting that’s really interesting kind of area to learn a lot about consumer Behavior a lot of them use tools like camelcamelcamel this one called jungle Scout and then there you can go look at Amazon’s data my favorite example it won’t surprise listeners is a Star Wars example so these guys are our customer and they like. [19:10] Like kind of a GameStop in FYE Etc solo Star Wars stuff and they’re trying to look for new products they had a license with Lucas sounds do what do they had the image of Han Solo Carbonite that they put on almost everything they did a phone case but it started poking around and using some his tools they win the Star Wars category of Amazon Founders All these people looking for Star Wars beach towels yo when you’re out in your bathing suits on the beach you’re always so obviously want to Star Wars down so they came out with Han Solo in carbonite on a beach towel you are really big one so it looks like it’s on the beach cuz she’s there. And that became a top selling product on Amazon very quickly and they should develop that product by looking at null search results in finding those little imbalances between supply and demand that people are looking for a date use that create a product extension anchor so ankers electronics company in there is. Picture in China or Taiwan they started mining the Amazon feedback and people would buy. [20:23] Chargers and accessories and Illinois say one glad this has two USB ports but I have 6 devices looking at you Jason and you know I really wish you had a a charge faster and be it had reports. I think a lot of the anchor kind of lease early products were developed off skimming and parsing and really understanding the Amazon product feedback and then saying alright this product at 3 stars why can we develop a product. Our own just got five stars in address to Consumers. Jason: [20:58] Yeah and I mostly agree a side note on anchor like I literally have to have anchor products delivered to a email stop because my wife has banned me from buying Morty. Totally has my number. And one piece of bad news for you Scott I don’t know if you’re aware of this but I think was purchased by GameStop and effective July 2nd they’re shutting it down. Scot: [21:23] Oh man I didn’t know that. Jason: [21:25] Yeah so it’s not going to be a a section of a GameStop versus a separate site so. Scot: [21:32] Mulligan artist closes stores. Jason: [21:35] I don’t know maybe per your point and M4 Next original question again GameStops hoping to. Aggregate that traffic from their side and Think Geek and do more effective cross-selling because they. Basically I agree with your answer but I would almost come to it from the opposite and I would just say, it’s extremely hard there very few businesses that can be very profitable by selling a single item in a car and there are very few businesses that can be profitable by only selling an item once to a customer and so in general you’re looking for businesses where you have multiple products for the customer put in in your reason for the test come back and shot from you multiple times and so to me that means. Looking at your existing existing customer base as you suggested and finding adjacent products that might also appeal to those those customers. In the early days of e-commerce there was this artificial thing. SEO from Google search engine optimization bring much favored keyword stuffing in the URL and so you saw a lot of. [22:48] Individual sites that were selling one item in the name that URL after the item they were selling and that him for a while that that could be very effective Google’s dramatically depreciated the the effect of keywords in the URL so you know it now makes more sense to aggregate as much traffic you as you can on a single URL and sell a bunch of stuff but what I would suggest is having a lot of different content for that different stuff in different landing pages for that different stuff so for your point you’re selling Video Star Wars video games over here at Star Wars beach towels over there you might have separate landing pages for those two and you might have separate like digital marketing campaigns for those two so it kind of feels like a separate site in that sense but once you get there and get that beach towel I can I can try to cross sell you the video games and try to make you up a bigger more valuable. Does I guess that’s that’s the way I would think of. Scot: [23:43] Yeah it’s kind of fun fact two big companies were created off that crazed were you just putting one product on a domain name hayneedle and Wayfair Wayfair had like coffee tables kitchen tables dining chairs that all these Furniture things and you go to dining chairs if you like just dining chairs slice of the things they ended up ruling all that stuff up both of them did and and getting rid of that strategy one. Question number 6 is from Rebecca Saunders have you seen any recent data on the cost of customer acquisition so this is a question which we just kind of chewy online via the various channels and how these are changed over time I hear a lot and it totally but haven’t managed to access any reliable data thanks in advance love the show by the way all the way from rainy London. Jason: [24:34] Well thanks for the question Rebecca on answering from rainy Seattle today good night my SAT answer is. Generally know why there are people that publish short of some industry data on customer acquisition that I would submit to you that it’s almost completely useless because. The variance depending on the specific industry in the specific customer circumstances are so great that looking at these. Averages are are somewhat meaningless and so you know you both have like. Companies that are selling individual packs of Band-Aids you know for $3 online and guess what your customer acquisition cost has to be extremely low when you’re selling a $3 item with free shipping. And you have customer selling $10,000 diamond rings and. Not surprisingly that the customer acquisition cost can be much higher for that if you’re a company that’s already doing billions of dollars in sales right you. To get meaningful growth you have to reach a really broad audience and that tends to be more expensive per user for customer acquisition if you’re a small startup. You can very cost-effectively acquire some really valuable customer so your customer acquisition ends up being a lot lower so. [26:03] As much as I’d love to point you in a particular resource and say hey just check out these numbers. I guess I really don’t feel like other companies numbers are in less than a direct competitor of yours somehow are likely to be that useful to you I will tell you you know what I was digging into that chewy S1 a little bit and for example in 2017 chewy added about 3.7 million new customers in the matted 3.8 million new customers in 2018 but that’s 2017 customers they spent about 60 bucks a customer to acquire around and for this 2018 customers they spent $101 a customer. So there are not a lot of businesses that are much smaller in scale than chewy that could afford that kind of. Customer acquisition cost but if you look at Chuy’s lifetime value and the dispenza previous cohorts if these new cohorts Behavior chewy the way the previous ones that has a Scott sort of alluded to earlier then like even spending $100 a customer could be. A tapered an investment like a it’s a risky one so so we’re going to have to wait and see but I would definitely not look at Chuy’s numbers and go oh gosh for my business I should spend a hundred bucks a customer because it works. Scot: [27:22] Yeah and dumb ass gets in dead to your point the reason it’s hard to compare your business when Elsa’s you’re not only are you different categories you know Supernatural businesses where they essentially say look if I can spend a dollar and make 3 I will I will consider it almost cogs and I will have an unlimited budget. Other people kind of say you’re the kind of come from an advertising View and they took people to come from marketplaces they tend to have that cogs kind of totality cuz they’re looking at it as a percentage of sales people that come at it from the ADI to SeaWorld they’re looking at a return on ad spend the inverse of a Crepes and they’ll say look I’m going to have a budget and demands that budget to a 4X or whatever it is returned my dad stood socially really part of its Theology and and and some of it is other times I’ve seen really big companies for the CEO says I want to be number one to strollers and then you say well that’s insanely. Expensive in your money I want to be number one in strollers and. [28:37] It doesn’t matter cuz when the boss looks at strollers and your shoulders not there you’re going to get fired so you don’t really care what he’s done or you know they are building a Brandt and they don’t really care about a transactional kind of a Roi on on the stent there so it’s a hard hard to nail down. And it does kind of depend in my experience where people come from if they come from that ad world of that Marketplace Road. [29:06] What’s your view on return on that seventies. Jason: [29:10] Yeah I mean I tend to be sort of green eyeshade out of about it I I like to have a pretty short return on ad spend to make the investment the. Because frankly like the more expensive the customer is to acquire the least likely the customer is to be very loyal so in general I like those customers I can earn organically and cultivate a lot more than the customers that I have to go out and by so like you know for sure Mary meters suggestion I’d way rather have some sort of freemium model what I have customers coming to me and find the use my product for free on a limited basis and then turn them into paid customers and and sort of do growth hacking then spend a fortune buying a customer and trying to monetize those that being said I work for a giant ad company and that’s mostly what we. What we do. [30:13] Spend a bunch of money to to acquire customers and it absolutely can work. It’s not again it it’s somewhat related to your risk profile and. And comfort level I will say the one thing one nice thing about being a small company a lot of my clients are very large and and they have to acquire huge audiences and. The markets that have huge audiences that have inventory or tend to be pretty efficient so it’s really hard to get a good deal but one of the nice things about being a small company is you can play in a lot of small customer acquisition formats where the market isn’t very efficient yet and you can. I often get outside return so no being a in early player on Instagram when people weren’t advertising on Instagram was a great way to make money or being a you know a really excellent executor on Pinterest or even like fractional television versus heading to buy Super Bowl spots or different things like that like there are definitely ways to sort of piecemeal together audiences to get an outside return as long as you can get by with a a relatively modest audience size but you know as soon as you get into having a choir or million new customers a year to hit your numbers. You’re you’re pretty much stuck thing the market rate for customer acquisition. Scot: [31:42] Yeah where it where I’ve seen small businesses get upside down on this is day they take care of an Amazon eBay way of looking at things the applied to Google and they kind of think all right eye I just spent 20% took Wireless customer and then what they don’t realize is the next time that customer comes to they’re going to probably come through Google so now and then now you had another drink song that one in so I know what you’re saying is if you think you’re acquiring a customer for a hundred Google and you’re getting a $300 kind of LTD with them they’re heading Google twice more and you’re paying another couple hundred bucks. Upside down you really look like to have to get especially with the CPC stuff and and you have to be real careful with with how your measure know that. [32:28] Question number 7 this is from a bit Agarwal have you ever done some research on e-commerce subscription such as Amazon subscribe and save our auto-ship also what is industry trends for BarkBox hellofresh and other subscriptions. Jason: [32:42] Great question I’ll be curious what Scott’s answer is because I’m always looking for better data in this category than I have in general I would say like there is not a lot of traffic data it’s it’s the usual story like they’re these. Third-party data aggregators that do things that customer surveys and things to try to give us some data or there’s the universe Creek receipt scrapers like 1010data or slice a rocket and they can give us some insight into like. Amazon subscribe and save is performing versus individual products but. Those are like directional it best I haven’t seen awesome data there there’s one of the reasons that you yes one was kind of fun Chuy’s and I ever get with their trade name is for their subscription program. [33:38] 67% of all Chuy’s Revenue comes from the subscription program in as we talked about in one of the previous answers you know the real key to to profitability in an e-commerce business is about. Repeat purchases and customer retention and like there’s no better flavor of customer retention then auto-ship and so like. I’m a big fan of the tactic I haven’t always had the best third-party data to validate that tactic. The second half of your question I will I will say, yeah you asked about some of the the well-known subscription offers out there like BarkBox and hellofresh. [34:21] There’s a general sense. It’s been hard to scale those subscription services and that customer retention hasn’t been awesome and so there’s this phenomenon called subscription fatigue and in general the subscription Services tend to have a lot of churn so they don’t maintain all of last year’s subscriptions and a bunch of new ones and so there’s kind of a dirty little secret amongst the. The companies we tend to think of as subscription companies that are successful and that dirty little secret is most of them have an offering that’s not subscription-based that’s on the man ordering. And the bulk of the revenue tends to come from that on demand order so you know Stitch fix the bulk of their revenue is from. Young people that are ordering a fixes on demand rather than have a a a recurring a box coming all the time and in the. [35:22] My understanding is the BarkBox and Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s have all had like three big turn on their subscription list I think when the hair is got a choir that came to light that 80% of Harry’s Revenue was from there. Their retail deals are people walking in at Target and buying Harry’s Razors rather than being on the the the subscription program so I would say like subscriptions are really valuable thing to try to achieve and there definitely is evidence that Amazon’s program is really potent seems like chewy has a really potent program but you know you probably need to be careful about assuming it’s easy or that you’ll have great great customer retention from doing. Scot: [36:05] Yeah. I think that spot on a couple editions it it seems to work well in anything that’s replenishable I do think it’s kind of jumped the shark like I I see tons of News subscription programs for coffee and beer and wine just feels like we’re probably Pastor the subscription craze. If you’re interested in the topic that you know again one of the nerdy things I recommend is when companies go public and they file that S1. [36:36] That that is like a gold mine of data and it’s if you’re interested in these topics if you can find a company that has Nest one out there it’s really a good read because you’re you’re dealing with these companies that have managed a business cycle were talking about up to the point where it’s at a pretty good scale so so so they’re kind of on Generation 8 thinking and yeah that’s the guy you got started on Generation 1 thinking right live red and really enjoyed Stitch fix I would say you know there is a lot of negative cinnamon around Stitch fix prove the critics pretty wrong with the success they’ve had there is one is a really really good read and then when I when you read an s-1. [37:22] It’s kind of like a poop sandwich so so you know the where the bread is the poop in the good stuff’s on inside you have kind of dig in and find it the the part you want to read on this one and Skip all the way to Management’s discussion and and they’re in the Stitch fix one it’s a textbook on how they think about their cohorts and and how they fight this Trends Jason’s talking about how do you know how do you make the algorithm better and how do you also scale it with with computers instead of just people so I recommend that a good Counterpoint is Blue Apron went public and has not been successful so in a reading their ass one it’s really interesting because you know. [38:08] It’s not as strong and it’s not as clear that they’re actually getting in front of the sky turn problems so that’s a good one and then if you’re interested in the food deliveries area GrubHub is public and I find their public stuff to be very interesting as well. A good reading it going back to this one in either Coeur d’Alene updates her are so it’s hopefully that gives you something to chew on a it is hard to find a lot of like the previous couple folks asked about CAC LTV out there I like reading a case of a prospective cuz it really. Gives you an idea of how these teams are thinking about things and and I learned like a thousand things from repossessed one so I think that’s one of the best areas to go research the subscription program if you’re interested. Jason: [38:59] Yep and it just occurred to me there’s one other point we kind of touched on I’m the last person to call episode that I’ll just reiterate there’s certain segments that are much more mature and subscriptions and so that’s Professional Services and digital subscriptions Regza think Netflix Amazon Prime you know subscriptions to publishing companies Wall Street Journal newspaper all those sorts of things and if you look at how those industry of olives a couple of interesting things have happened. These aggregators have emerged because customers have subscription fatigue and their subscriptions are fragmented everywhere and it’s really annoying so you now have Amazon with a service where you do all your media subscriptions through them and they give you a single dashboard to turn on and off subscriptions and control them. [39:54] Apple just wants to be similar offering the financial institutions have noticed that people locking all the subscriptions they spend a fortune and they don’t tend to use a lot of the subscription so every budgeting tool out there like mint like a big feature that they offer is identifying all these recurring. Cost and continue to turn off all the ones that you probably aren’t using and I think that’s now a national television campaign for. Wells Fargo is they have a feature in their mobile app called control tower which is all about helping people like turn off the. [40:29] The dearth of subscriptions they signed up for not getting value from so like give you. [40:36] Use that as sort of a time machine and you let you know it’s it’s probably unlikely in the future you want a copy subscription with one vendor and a water filter subscription with another vendor and you know and have all these things coming on different schedules and on different payment periods and you know it. To me that’s one of my Amazon subscribe and save the big advantages is there started the de facto everything subscription aggregator for physical Goods. Scot: [41:04] How many active subscriptions do you have Jason. Jason: [41:08] So I’ll be honest I am not the biggest personal fan of that there is huge convenience but I do find that I waste a lot of money when I do their subscriptions and stuff tends to pile up so I’m not a huge fan my my wife does a lot of our household management and she’s way more organized than me so she uses a bunch and I I couldn’t tell you how many she has. Scot: [41:31] Is that work that has like around 20 and he has an Amazon credit card and it says so they’ve gotten every kind of replenishable thing in their house that like kids can I come from Amazon if he’s done some calculus on it and it’s like the optimal savings for a little leverage on the on the Amazon Prime card. Jason: [41:50] Side note taking a deeper dive in this answer than we intended to but the today most of these subscriptions and most Auto replenishment is what I call explicit like you go and sign up for something and you have to ask for it and pull it. And it starts coming until you get around and turning it off but I do think the future for a lot of this physical goods are implicit replenishment where. If if you do most of your spending on Amazon or you do most of your purchases on Walmart like they they just get enough. Data about your habits you proactively. Send you the stuff when you need it without you even having to ask and both Walmart and Amazon have had various packet patents on this this idea of predictive shipping in that it does seem to me that like combination of big data and artificial intelligence in this face that like their there’s going to be in near future when a lot more of this purchasing is autonomous and the reason that’s interesting to me is. You know when you never have to think about ordering toilet paper again or buying toilet paper because your your house just always has the right amount for the paper what do all the physical stores that today have an entire aisle of the grocery store dedicated to toilet paper do that space so it’s like there’s an interesting challenge for brick-and-mortar retailers in the future as Auto replenishment gets more dominant. Scot: [43:16] All right question to break comes from Parker block he always throws curve balls we appreciate that Parker this one came from LinkedIn hey Jason Scott what do you see as likely business implications of rising a Type 4 antitrust action on platforms which monetize consumer data. I think she’s just a little bit in the last episode but a lot of the platform’s especially ones with user-generated content like Facebook Twitter Google search YouTube they rely on the section of law code section 230 which essentially makes thumb the same as a utility like like a phone line if you if you say something on the phone line that could be sheet Suites or something like that you know it’s not AT&T job to monitor that so say since we say we are not a newspaper where I your you have liability around what is it libel in was written once. [44:20] Slander libel and slander you can be sued if you say the wrong thing she actually very careful with what you say that’s why they have fact-checkers they say look this is just a platform we’re just kind of here I am so happens but as they increasingly are kind of changing and and. People offer what they say it is interesting to see should they still be within section 230 so that’s one interesting area another one is Noah senior up get really aggressive with these do not follow laws gdpr and you know all these kinds of things I I do think there’s going to be increasing appetite I’m not hugely political and. The times I had to kind of watch that stuff you always shake your head like when Zuckerberg was in front of Congress and they had like no idea you know the problem is our Representatives have no idea how this stuff works so slow. Do anything that I just I’m not optimistic that it makes any sense what I shall do so I have to see. The other thing I will say is there’s a lot of people Scott Galloway is really big on this on kind of breaking up Amazon and it a lot of people kind of gunning for Amazon it’s not really in the spirit of your question which surround customer day. [45:38] I’m sure Jason has deeper thoughts on that everything about Amazon is a monopoly there has to be someone the consumer being hurt you know usually have Rising prices when you have a monopoly with like the power company or something Amazon is lowered prices so and you know if you look at it. Their ownership of retail it’s very small e-commerce store at 50% so yeah that’s pretty big but you know you have Walmart got to swing an atom if if you if you took antitrust action at Amazon you know most certainly have to Walmart because Walmart has such a big share of much bigger share of offline and I feel like Amazon’s probably be okay and I think Facebook Google Twitter are prime or in the crosshairs because of the section 230 stuff and then the fact he’s ad models are built off of tracking across internet I think they going to have double risk there that will be nurse to watch. Jason: [46:33] Yep this is the way I sort of think of it there’s a couple categories of Regulation like they’re there are business models that various government entities. [46:46] Might want to influence by writing new laws and so that’s what all this privacy stuff is right like they’re you know you’re up isn’t trying to in for some some fifty-year-old privacy law. Against Google and Facebook they wrote a new I called gdpr specifically to change the behavior about how companies collect consumer data and use it the. You know there’s lots of new laws that get proposed for you know regulating energy companies and and how they influence the Earth and all these various things so a lot of these companies have risk that that dries, countries will pass new laws so you’re up obviously passed a Big Lot in the gdpr that as meaningful impact on how I’m we all do data collection for people and personalization there is a proposed law in California called the California consumer privacy act on which is very similar to gdpr and that goes into effect, you know it it’s sort of difficult to treat customers in California wildly different than the rest of the United States in California such a big Market that it could potentially have the effect of having companies serving us consumers behaving very similar to companies that are serving. [48:07] European consumers because they they just won’t want to risk getting Sideways from the the CCPA so. I do think that the biggest impact of those kinds of regulations is companies chains self moderating the their behaviors to not make it a necessity for a legislator to pass these laws and it’s. [48:29] In a legislative bodies aren’t super efficient it’s really hard. That’s why I was frankly and so you know you wouldn’t you wouldn’t have big expectation that like the US Congress is going to you know suddenly the House and Senate are going to agree on a bunch of stuff and pass a bunch of new new regulation and so it’s it’s more that they’re going to threaten regulation in that causes companies to like somewhat moderate their behavior. It is absolutely true that Europe is more aggressive than this right in regulation right now and so like it’s more likely that you that European regulation affects us companies then. Then you know that we’re going to see a huge wave of new u.s. regulation so that’s my long-winded answer on writing new laws and then purr. Scott’s point in the case of companies that whose primary business model is selling stuff that consumers there are t. Is regulation in prokaryotes that’s called the antitrust laws at the Sherman Act and so it’s it’s a less about Congress writing a new law that would have some negative impact on Amazon and more about how the US antitrust laws affect Amazon in first God’s point but the laws are. Like arguably someone outdated you both have to be in Monopoly and despite how big amazon is there really not. [49:53] The majority of very many markets right like they might be that the largest Bookseller in the u.s. I’m so so digital books could be a potential Market. If you could get a court to agree that e-commerce is a market separate from retail then you know you could argue that they’re up for ality even then there be arguments that they really aren’t cuz even though we say they’re 50% of e-commerce that doesn’t include some. Some huge businesses like marketplaces and pouring and all these other things the and in the second prompt per Scott’s point is once you’re a monopolist you you have to do behavior that negatively affects consumers in an amp us antitrust law that behavior is you have to raise prices and so you can’t just make the argument that oh my gosh Amazon’s reducing choice and that is fundamentally bad for consumers in Europe they have antitrust laws like that and so it’s it’s frankly at the moment a lot more likely that. European Regulators like impact how Amazon can grow as they get as big in Europe as they are here than it is that us antitrust law is going to be very effective against Amazon because they just don’t look like a a monopolist and then they they don’t sort of trigger any of the hot atoms of of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Scot: [51:19] Alrighty number 9 this comes from Baxter Overman how do you put super cities within Home Delivery Services IE Walmart grocery wouldn’t drop off when the consumer is home for certain items are lockers be easier to sell. Jason: [51:36] Yeah it was so one service that just got an ounce in the last couple weeks. Involved in last couple weeks is this Walmart delivered a fridge door and that’s kind of what I think of when you asked this question and so that the principle here is hey you order milk from Walmart you don’t want that like sitting on the curb for 8 hours while you’re at work. It’s a Walmart has this offering where we’re like using an electronic lock they have permission to go in your house they go in your kitchen and they have employees that are trained. Put away your groceries for you including putting the perishables in the fridge in the. This was a big deal they made it their shareholders meeting a couple weeks ago and they had a video of Mark Lori doing the first delivery and when they first proposed this service like a year ago the idea was that they would install cameras in the customer’s home in the customer would be able to monitor the delivery guy on the camera this year what the evolution is the delivery guys wear a body Cam and so you can watch everything the delivery guys doing while he’s in your house so they had Mark Lori wearing a body body cam. [52:44] Delivering groceries to Consumers house and I do think some of those tactics like the body can can help. Instill trust like I do think there’s a major trust issue here like I don’t think the Walmart service is going to be a. A huge mainstream service I think there’s some niches where it might appeal to but I always chuckle because. In this Walmart video I’d be intent is seeing marks wearing a body cam so you can trust him so you have nothing to worry about and in my head I’m thinking Mark what is worth like two billion dollars the one guy that’s not likely to steal any of my students. [53:23] He probably didn’t need a camera at like there’s probably nothing in my house that he wants that he doesn’t already have so that that’s my my sarcastic answer. Scot: [53:33] If you hard boil a nurse problem-solve. Jason: [53:36] Yeah yeah so when it’s the. Scot: [53:38] Not enough of them. Jason: [53:39] Exactly I buy Cuban would do some deliveries. Like trust is the big impediment here in in you so you see lots of interim step so I Amazon has this very robust program called Amazon key and it both. As a version where guys can open the Smart Lock and put stuff just inside your door they put stuff inside your door as opposed to all the way in your kitchen so there it’s slightly less invasive and so maybe you press them more but the I’ve been told that the big version of chi that’s really popular is customers aren’t willing to give give Amazon delivery drivers access to their home but they’re willing to give them access to the garage so in a lot more customers have an electronic garage door opener and then have an electronic lock on the front door so there’s a lots of places where the Amazon delivery guy can deliver the packages inside your garage and that’s easier to have trust in there’s also a business-to-business component to key where Amazon installs the Lockers in. [54:42] Commercial buildings and obviously you have a lot more trust giving giving a delivery guy access to your secure Lobby than you do your individual house so I feel like they’re all these different tiers of trust but the one thing I would say is overtime as the services get more popular and more people use them and have good experiences There’s an opportunity for trust to grow and so when. Uber and Lyft first launch trust was a huge impediment I’m I going to get in some random strangers car today we all no lots of other people that successfully use Uber and so it seems less scary and and you know even more so with Airbnb as we have more people in our networks that. Regular use Airbnb and have good outcomes it feels safer to me and so in the same way if Walmart is able to find. A decent-sized niche that’s willing to do this refrigerator delivery service and I have to get out. He’ll probably share that experience with their neighbors and friends and you could see the service grow and get more trustworthy over. Scot: [55:49] Yes I don’t have a beautiful answer. Number 10 also from LinkedIn this Crumbs from Akash Gupta and what’s your favorite app that you downloaded in the last few months. Jason. Jason: [56:10] So my can’t rain answers I don’t like apps that there’s all kinds of data that we like apps have huge abandonment rate and so for most clients I’m actually advocating they build really good mobile websites that replace the functionality of a nap and that’s using a technology called Progressive web app so that’s my sort of boring work answer in my personal life the app that I recently downloaded that I had no idea existed that’s been really useful for me is it’s actually a plug-in for the mobile browsers so it’s a plug-in called screenshots and essentially What it lets me do is when I’m on a mobile web page it lets me take a screenshot of the entire webpage not just the the part that’s visible above the full and so it for work a lot I need. Screenshots of an entire entire page and sewed this was a new fine for me that I tend to be using a lot but. I’m not that can be pretty itchy. Scot: [57:12] It’s good I would say at at spiffy we use this thing called geckoboard and they just updated their app. And up so gives me all my kpi is in one what kind of screen which is nice. Jason: [57:29] What’s the app for the Star Wars experience in Disney if you like that should be our favorite app. Scot: [57:36] Play Galaxy’s Edge I don’t I don’t know if it’s a blister not you so I didn’t download the Amazon go Store app. Okay this is just a comment over on Twitter Natalie Dylan and she is at Maverick witch you like this Jason that’s the VC firm started by Howard Schultz founder of Starbucks to invest in consumer-oriented companies she mentioned just as one of her top podcast that was a typo at first but I’m pretty sure she actually meant us so wow I was speechless. Jason: [58:11] That’s very cool Natalie if you’re listening I’d like to think that I have some partially funded your child’s college education so thank you very much for that. Scot: [58:20] Did the Starbucks usage. Jason: [58:22] Exactly. Scot: [58:22] I think we’re now Pisco effectively at this question number 12 this comes from our friend Ted down in Austin he said make sure Jason talks about mixed-use retail entertainment I don’t know what that is but I’m glad you get to answer. Jason: [58:38] Yeah I mean. In general like in the 1960s when the mall was first invented the the appeal of the mall was there a bunch of sores aggregated that you all wanted to get get tune so you know we built a big building and surrounded it with a giant parking lot and and put a bunch of stores together in overtime we added things to that mall that made it even the game customers another reason to go and spend more time there so for those indoor malls that was things like ice rinks and movie theaters in food courts and as. [59:16] That the collection of the stores has become less and less appealing and it’s been less and less valuable that drive traffic just buy this assortment of stores a lot of these venues have had to get more persuasive with the non-retail things that they put them all so you know the food courts have have often been replaced or augmented with more significant fine dining and today like a mixed-use small almost certainly means like in addition to shopping and entertainment that there’s probably a residential component to and so you know you can live in an apartment building that’s like upstairs from the stores or adjacent to the stores and like I would argue even Hudson yard is a classic example of a mix you space there’s both a significant residential component of these various condo Towers that are adjacent to it like and there’s these entertainment features in it like the Skydeck in the that the stairway installation is named I’m forgetting at the moment and so in general. [1:00:28] New successful shopping destinations 10 to have the this this multi-use component and let’s focus on shopping meme only reason that you’d go visit at so I assume that’s what that’s talking about. You won’t see many new balls built that aren’t like very focused on the the other traffic generation activities on the other revenue streams besides. Scot: [1:00:53] That’s not sorry. Jason: [1:00:55] Well but we haven’t what’s the name of the. Scot: [1:00:57] The Vessel. Jason: [1:00:58] That’s all thank you. Scot: [1:00:59] Yes take a walk in the vessel okay alright Michelle Grant has a twofer one is should Amazon be worried about broken up I feel like we asked and answered that one did you want to comment on that. Jason: [1:01:14] I think we covered it pretty well right based on current US antitrust I think Amazon has very little risk like they I think potentially digital books could be in area where you can see some enforcement or like I might have said like Amazon web services is it greater risk lucky I feel I can Google and Microsoft have made enough action lately that that you know that that probably isn’t immediate in Amazon where to get as big in Europe as they are in the US it would be more interesting question. But I like I’m defending companies in the US I think Amazon has a lot less to worry about from regulation then does a Facebook or do. Scot: [1:01:57] Cool and then this is clearly in your wheelhouse cuz it’s got the O word you’re Jason what are your thoughts on pricing strategy in an omni-channel world where price transparency is high and filled with Bots to find the lowest price. Jason: [1:02:15] Yeah so there is a bunch of controversy about pricing right now like lots of omni-channel retailers don’t have Universal pricing so they might have a different price in every store the online price might be different than the store price you know a complicated retailer like Walmart there could be five prices for every item there to be a store price there to be a ship to home price there could be a ship-to-store price there could be a pickup in-store price and online grocery pick-up price and you know Walmart slogan is is everyday low prices well if they’re 5 prices for everything spoiler alert for them are not alone. [1:03:02] Inside you know most retailers today like have these fragmented pricing models and I believe that trust is such a big deal moving forward and there’s so much information and transparency available as a result of digital in the web that I feel like it’s inevitable that all retailers are going to get forced. To adopt a much more transparent pricing model which generally means so much more Universal pricing model so you’re not going to get away with. Having a different price in the stores then you do online and hoping the customer just doesn’t catch you so in general will see more Universal pricing. But you probably at the same time will see that price change a lot more based on Real World Market circumstances and so you’ll see a lot more Dynamic pricing but it won’t be secret prices that are changing without you knowing it like I think retarded you know tend to be transparent about that and into me the best example today is is Amazon they have a super Dynamic pricing model that changes all the time but if you put something in your cart and the price goes down they don’t just take that extra margin they tell you. And they lower the price of the item in your cart and when you you don’t go to their stores they now have digital prices and all the store so they can show you the same price online that they have in the store so I you know it’s. [1:04:27] It’s very difficult for retailers to make changes like this and break down silos so we’re not going to see it happen overnight but I think we’re we’re already starting to see retail shift in that direction so to me the future is. Universal transparent Dynamic pricing. Scot: [1:04:42] All right most sybaritic had a whole bunch of questions I’m going to lightning around a couple of them when is spiffy coming to Seattle. Stay tuned Ken Scott please update is Amazon scape and how has it changed unfortunately there is an inverse correlation between my time to work on the Amazon scape and your first questions to come to Seattle so position where I don’t have a ton of time to work on that it’s changed a lot so I think Amazon’s probably launched. It’s been a year old I would say two programs a month 24 to 30 programs since I did that so like the Amazon Prime wardrobe isn’t on there 4-star store is not on there there’s a lot not on there one day delivery yes those are not on there. Jason: [1:05:39] Scot I have no cars in Seattle so between those two I’m going to vote for the Amazon scape. Scot: [1:05:44] Maybe maybe I’ll find an internship this one of our many interns can help with this this should be an interesting one is Amazon going to do to Walgreens drug stores what they did to the bookstore with the axis of pill pack and private label enable the ability to sell Massey pg-propyl probably you think there’s one for the drug source. Jason: [1:06:11] I think it is I mean they’re going for everything so it is a market like that they made some Investments and they’ve already like I think had some material effects on valuations for the national companies. [1:06:25] I’m not sure like I mean there’s that Jeff has a equip that I kind of like and agree with Amazon denim put book stores out of business the internet put book stores out of business and I think the same made partly be true for retail pharmacies like I’m sure Amazon’s going to take a go after and take a chunk of the pharmacy business and that will be derogatory to traditional pharmacies but the bigger deal is we’re shifting from picking up prescriptions in store to having prescriptions delivered to our home so increasingly the old wanting majority of all the prescriptions we take R tronic, Africana conditions and returning things and the insurance companies are basically mandating that we all get shipped these bigger quantities of those prescriptions at home so as a smaller percentage of prescriptions get picked up in-store there’s less traffic in those doors the only reason people go to the stores his prescriptions they’re not good retailers if they don’t have prescriptions and so like I feel like that friends that macro-trends. Is really going to dramatically affect the retail pharmacy space now most of the retail pharmacies have already pivoted they own insurance companies and mail-order prescription services so that seems like where they’re putting their big bats well I’m sure Amazon will have some success in Pharmacy in and probably some Innovative products. [1:07:55] I’m not sure that’s why I’m wearing they’re going to capture. Huge market share super fast because there is a bunch of Regulation and Power in the hands of individual insurance companies that that you know are some institutional impediments that make it a harder Market to dominate them say books was not saying they won’t get there but it would take long. Scot: [1:08:19] Yep Mike my take on that is when I go to a drugstore I stand in line and there’s usually. More helpers than customers but there’s only one person to check out the person five people in front of me has a thousand questions and it takes me an hour to get something but she took me 5 minutes so I feel like there’s a huge customer service kind of customer experience got there that the Amazon could definitely fill in in his going to go at it because it’s very clearly something that they can make a huge Improvement. This is a good one Jason how we doing on time. Jason: [1:09:02] I think we are coming up to the end. Scot: [1:09:06] Listen to all your questions about sitting on a big one can you talk about the advertising race to grab the wallet we seen some big news lately Target in talks to buy Triad Walmart Spring advertising and house and made a key hire there where is ever
This week on Prog-Watch we're celebrating 40 years of Pendragon with the second of two Nick Barrett interview programs! Nick and I had an epic chat and you can hear some more of that PLUS a whole lot of great Pendragon music in this week's program!If you missed the first show (or just want to refresh your memory so you can get the full-on Nick and Pendragon experience) you can find it here: http://progwatch.com/511/
This week on Prog-Watch my special guest is none other than Nick Barrett...founder, composer, guitarist and vocalist for the classic UK band Pendragon! The band is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, so Nick and I had plenty to talk about! With such a vast back catalog of great music from which to choose, I also had no problem selecting great tunes to spin along the way!
artisantree.org Last week I shared some of my thoughts on storytelling and how Christian writers can convey a hope that is both miraculous and true to our human experience. This week I invited Nick Barrett, PhD student in theology and literature, to join in on the conversation. Listen in as Nick shares with us how Christian artists and writers have an opportunity to help a disenchanted generation see the world in a whole new way. As Nick states, one hopes that what literary art can and will do is invite people to rethink the world in different terms.
En Subterranea hemos vivido una gran fiesta con la visita a España de Pendragon, el concierto de Madrid fue una experiencia inolvidable para los que allí estuvimos, una noche que quedará para siempre entre nuestros mejores recuerdos. En el programa podéis escuchar nuestro extenso análisis de su reciente álbum, así como la entrevista que mantuvimos con Nick Barrett tras el concierto, junto con las mpresiones recogidas a pié de escenario de muchos de los que allí estuvisteis. Pero el programa además viene cargadísimo de música muy novedosa de primerísima calidad. Os presentamos los nuevos álbumes surgidos en este 2014 de Nodo Gordiano, Alex Carpani, Phi, Aszension, Quantum Fantay, Adventure, Amplifier, Liquid Shades y Palefeather. En el capítulo nacional os tremos el álbum debut de una prometedora banda de Barcelona llamada Captains of Sea and War, y la máquina del tiempo nos llevará a un lejano 1984 para descubrir que no todo quedó sepultado bajo toneladas de espesa 'movida'. Un programa algo más largo de lo habitual, pero es que con semejante contenido resultaba imposible dejarse algo fuera. Intensidad, calidad, pasión y buen rollo, los ingredientes habituales de Subterranea bien esparcidos a lo largo de cuatro horas y cuarto. ¡Ah! Y no os podéis perder el debut de Il Premiato como presentador del programa. Un dia que a buen seguro pasará a los anales de la historia Subterranea. :)
En Subterranea hemos vivido una gran fiesta con la visita a España de Pendragon, el concierto de Madrid fue una experiencia inolvidable para los que allí estuvimos, una noche que quedará para siempre entre nuestros mejores recuerdos. En el programa podéis escuchar nuestro extenso análisis de su reciente álbum, así como la entrevista que mantuvimos con Nick Barrett tras el concierto, junto con las mpresiones recogidas a pié de escenario de muchos de los que allí estuvisteis. Pero el programa además viene cargadísimo de música muy novedosa de primerísima calidad. Os presentamos los nuevos álbumes surgidos en este 2014 de Nodo Gordiano, Alex Carpani, Phi, Aszension, Quantum Fantay, Adventure, Amplifier, Liquid Shades y Palefeather. En el capítulo nacional os tremos el álbum debut de una prometedora banda de Barcelona llamada Captains of Sea and War, y la máquina del tiempo nos llevará a un lejano 1984 para descubrir que no todo quedó sepultado bajo toneladas de espesa 'movida'. Un programa algo más largo de lo habitual, pero es que con semejante contenido resultaba imposible dejarse algo fuera. Intensidad, calidad, pasión y buen rollo, los ingredientes habituales de Subterranea bien esparcidos a lo largo de cuatro horas y cuarto. ¡Ah! Y no os podéis perder el debut de Il Premiato como presentador del programa. Un dia que a buen seguro pasará a los anales de la historia Subterranea. :)
Segunda parte del monográfico dedicado a recorrer la historia y discografía de Pendragon, una de las bandas más emblemáticas del Rock Progresivo surgidas en los años 80. Con el mismo equipo de la primera parte: David Pintos, Ricardo Hernández y Fernando Medina, acompañados por Álvaro Morales, teclista de The Moon, banda tributo a Pink Floyd y gran especialista en Pendragon. En esta segunda parte retomamos la historia de la banda de Nick Barrett, situada en el apogeo de su ya larga carrera, a partir del año 1997 hasta la actualidad.
Segunda parte del monográfico dedicado a recorrer la historia y discografía de Pendragon, una de las bandas más emblemáticas del Rock Progresivo surgidas en los años 80. Con el mismo equipo de la primera parte: David Pintos, Ricardo Hernández y Fernando Medina, acompañados por Álvaro Morales, teclista de The Moon, banda tributo a Pink Floyd y gran especialista en Pendragon. En esta segunda parte retomamos la historia de la banda de Nick Barrett, situada en el apogeo de su ya larga carrera, a partir del año 1997 hasta la actualidad.
Volvemos con otro de nuestros programas monográficos especiales dedicados recorrer la historia y discografía de una banda emblemática del género. Tras haber dedicado en las dos anteriores temporadas sendos especiales a dos de las bandas más importantes del llamado "neoprogresivo", aquellos que resucitaron el género en los lejanos años 80, yendo a contracorriente de las marcadas tendencias comerciales en lo musical que imperaban en la época: Marillion e IQ, no podíamos dejarnos atrás a la tercera banda que más hizo por mantener viva la llama del rock progresivo durante aquellos difíciles años: Pendragon. Al equipo formado por David Pintos, Ricardo Hernández, y Fernando Medina, se une para la ocasión Álvaro Morales, teclista de The Moon, banda tributo a Pink Floyd, gran especialista en Pendragon, que nos acompañará a lo largo de estos dos especiales. En esta primera parte recorreremos la historia de la banda de Nick Barrett desde su fundación en 1977 y sus primeras grabaciones en 1984, hasta 1996, año en el que publicaron una de sus más emblemáticas obras: 'The Masquerade Overture'.
Volvemos con otro de nuestros programas monográficos especiales dedicados recorrer la historia y discografía de una banda emblemática del género. Tras haber dedicado en las dos anteriores temporadas sendos especiales a dos de las bandas más importantes del llamado "neoprogresivo", aquellos que resucitaron el género en los lejanos años 80, yendo a contracorriente de las marcadas tendencias comerciales en lo musical que imperaban en la época: Marillion e IQ, no podíamos dejarnos atrás a la tercera banda que más hizo por mantener viva la llama del rock progresivo durante aquellos difíciles años: Pendragon. Al equipo formado por David Pintos, Ricardo Hernández, y Fernando Medina, se une para la ocasión Álvaro Morales, teclista de The Moon, banda tributo a Pink Floyd, gran especialista en Pendragon, que nos acompañará a lo largo de estos dos especiales. En esta primera parte recorreremos la historia de la banda de Nick Barrett desde su fundación en 1977 y sus primeras grabaciones en 1984, hasta 1996, año en el que publicaron una de sus más emblemáticas obras: 'The Masquerade Overture'.
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