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  Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust w/ Alan Payne AZ TRT Flashback - S05 EP33 (249) 8-28-2024   What We Learned This Week: ·         Blockbuster started in 1985, and scaled quickly after Wayne Huizenga purchased it in 1987, 10,000 stores at its height, dominant video rental co. ·         Alan Payne instituted the Video Rental model of HEB to the Blockbuster franchises he ran – segmented movies to rent new ones for more ·         Wayne Huizenga was a stellar Founder who built 3 fortune 500 companies – Waste Mgmt, Blockbuster, and Auto Nation ·         Viacom purchased Blockbuster in 1994 for $8.4 billion, and went on to lose 75% of the value over the next decade + ·         Competition was fierce from Hollywood Video, Redbox and then in 1997 by a new DVD rental by mail company called Netflix ·         Netflix scaled into the internet company it always wanted to be with streaming in 2009   Guest: Alan Payne Alan Payne spent thirty-one years in the movie rental business, the last twenty-five of those as a Blockbuster retail franchisee. He took over a small group of Blockbuster stores in 1993 and grew it into one of the largest and most successful chains in the company. He finally closed his last store in 2018, more than eight years after Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy. Book: Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust     From the Back Cover Blockbuster was phenomenally successful in its early years and made thousands rich beyond their wildest dreams. But it was consistently outsmarted and outmanaged by smaller companies. And the challenges began earlier than you think--long before Netflix was even an idea in the minds of founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Blockbuster became one of the most iconic brands in the history of American business, but it cracked at the first sign of a challenge. From its founding, Blockbuster was a company built to fail. Link: HERE     Alan Payne Bio:   Border Entertainment, LLC - 2000 to 2018 Founded a $34.2M franchise group with 41 independently owned Blockbuster stores. President & Chief Executive Officer Held complete P&L responsibility while managing executive team (CFO, VP of Product Management, VP and GM Alaska Division, VP and GM El Paso Division, VP and GM South Texas Division) with 750 employees. ·         Grew revenue to $34.2M with 41 stores located in Texas and Alaska. ·         Capitalized business with $14M debt and $3M in private equity investment. Investors received over 35% internal rate of return. Fully retired debt in 2012. ·         Grew sales 140% and profitability 190% during industry decline from 2000 to 2007. Expanded through same store sales increases, new store openings, relocations, and acquisitions. ·         Created proprietary management systems by gathering and analyzing data around financial and inventory performance. ·         Developed and implemented an aggressive real estate strategy, identifying heavily trafficked, high-volume locations. ·         Cultivated culture of loyalty, retaining employees during wind down.     Alan Full Bio: HERE       Blockbuster Video[5] was an American video rental store chain. It was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a stand-alone mom-and-pop home video rental shop, but later grew into a national store chain featuring video game rentals, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater.[6] The company expanded internationally throughout the 1990s. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster consisted of 9,094 stores and employed approximately 84,300 people: 58,500 in the United States and 25,800 in other countries.   Blockbuster – c/o Wikipedia: HERE   Harry Wayne Huizenga Sr.[1] (/haɪˈzɛŋɡə/; December 29, 1937 – March 22, 2018) was an American businessman. He founded AutoNation and Waste Management Inc., and was the owner or co-owner of Blockbuster Video, the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL), the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Florida Marlins (now Miami Marlins) of Major League Baseball (MLB).   Wayne Huizenga – c/o Wikipedia: HERE     Notes:   Seg 1   Blockbuster was the premier video rental company in the 1990s. To put it in perspective how big they were, they brought in more revenue than theater ticket sales.   To add to that, if a movie bombed in the theater, it could be saved by video rental. Also with the introduction of DVDs in the late 1990s, movie studios started doing direct to video movies that would be released in rental stores like Blockbuster.   Pre-Internet was a different era for retail sales. In the 1990s you had huge retail companies like Blockbuster for rental movies, Tower records for CDs and music, and Borders for books. In the 2000s with the rise of the Internet, these businesses were all under attack. Netflix was growing with streaming, iTunes add streaming music, and Amazon was out selling borders with book sales.   In the mid-1990s Blockbuster at its height was the dominant video rental store with 40% market share. Hollywood Video is their main competitor with 20% market share.   Per Alan, half the weekly rental business was done on Friday and Saturday night from 7 to 10 PM. Blockbuster on weekends was the place to be, where the community was literally gathering for family night in movie rentals. There were new releases that came out every week and this section of the store was usually the most popular.   With the introduction of the VCR circa 1985 the video rental business took off. There were tons of small mom and pop video rental stores. The business didn't really have to be run that well as the industry was exploding.   Prior to this it was very difficult to see old movies. You had to have seen them in the past in the theater or wait for Network TV to air them. There was no control and very limited choices.   With the onset of Blockbuster in 1985, the video industry became more organized and professional. Blockbuster also had 6000 movie titles to rent, and scaled fast, opening stores by the dozen+.   Cost for Blockbuster to buy a movie was $70 per movie. They needed to rent the movie 20 times just to break even.   Blockbuster stores count were 5500 stores in the US, 1000 were franchisees and then corporate owned 4500. Corporate stores were typically in the larger markets, while the franchises were in the mid and smaller markets.   Seg 2   Alan bio, in the 1980s straight out of school he went to work for HEB grocery, the second largest grocery company in Texas and privately held. It was a $25 billion company run by CEO Charles Burt   In 1986, with the rise of Blockbuster started with just 30 to 40 stores. In 1987 HEB grocery started in the video business using Blockbuster as a model. They would own single location stores that were about 5 to 7000 ft.² in size.   H-E-B eventually opened 35 stores and was beating Blockbuster in sales had to head in the markets in Texas like San Antonio for example. A few years later HEB sold out to Hollywood Video and Hollywood Video went public.   In 1993 Alan got into franchises of Blockbuster working with Prime Cable. The business was struggling as Prime was not a retail company. They had 8 stores in Alaska and 10 stores in El Paso, Texas. Alan instituted the H-E-B model and was able to turn the stores around.   Blockbuster Business Model - Blockbuster legitimized the video business, and made it more professional than the original mom and pop stores that were not run well. Wayne Huizenga had bought Blockbuster early on when it just had 20 stores and he grew it fast.   The formula was simple - all movies regardless of whether they were new or old or rented for three day at $3. The demand for new movies was huge. Blockbuster could've charged more renting new movies.   Alan used the H-E-B grocery video model that was developed. Rent movies by the day and charge more for new releases. Older movie you could charge a $1 a day and people could keep the movie for 3 to 5 days.   There was actually a lot of demand for older movies, and they were 15,000 movie titles of older movies in demand.     Seg 3 Wayne Huizenga is a great CEO and businessman. He was the only man to build three fortune 500 companies, Waste Management, Blockbuster, and Auto Nation. Auto Nation was run by CEO Mark Jackson, and is the premier car dealership.   Wayne admitted he was more interested in building the thing, not running things. He also went on to buy the Miami Dolphins in football in the 1990s, and start the Florida Marlins baseball franchise.   Blockbuster stores were well run, attractive, and demand was high. Their franchise colors of blue black background and yellow Blockbuster writing on the sign were easily visible. They also picked very good real estate locations for their stores.   In 1994, Wayne sold Blockbuster to Viacom for $8.4 billion. In just seven years, built valuation from 1987 to 1994 when built up the business for a return of hundreds of percent. He paid $15 million, and sold it for $8.4 billion.   Viacom rolled the business into its total corporate structure and six years later they spun it off at a $1.5 billion valuation in six years, they lost 75% of the value of the business, it was poorly run.   Viacom was a TV company with major networks like Nickelodeon run by Sumner Redstone. He wanted to get involved in the movie business and use the Blockbuster purchase eventually to get Paramont studios.   Blockbuster when purchased was cash flowing $1 billion a year, it was making lots of money.   Steve Berrard was named the CEO of Blockbuster after the Viacom purchase, and only lasted one year. Then Bill Fields was brought in as the second Viacom CEO of Blockbuster.   Fields had a Walmart background, so he was hired for his experience in retail. He had no clue though how to run the video business. He also lasted less than one year, and the cash flow was starting to go negative.     Seg 4   1997 the DVD was introduced and this would change the movie and rental business. DVDs were created to be sold direct to consumer. 1997 is also the year that Netflix started with their DVD rental business through the mail. In 1999, the video rental business peaked at $10 billion a year in revenues. Post 1999 thru 2006 sales were flat to small growth.   1997 Blockbuster got their 3rd CEO, John Antioco, who served as Blockbuster CEO from 1997 through 2007. He also had a retail background and marketing. He had been at Taco Bell briefly, and prior to that he spent 20 years at 7-Eleven.   7-Eleven is a huge retail store that's really about location and real estate. They sell gas soda beer and cigarettes. They are not known for being great in retail. One thing John did as the new blockbuster CEO which was good, he started to engage with the franchisees.   In the late 1990s you were starting to see technology in the Internet slowly affect new businesses. When Netflix was created they always intended to be an Internet company,  it just took them 10 years to get where they wanted to be.   John running Blockbuster that stable to slow growth. He doubled top line revenue and doubled the amount of stores blockbuster had but the profit margins went down. Had its height in the early 2000s blockbuster at 5500 US stores and 3 to 4000 stores outside the US.   Blockbuster at the typical business fix cost of rent labor and taxes, which were slowly increasing year after year. Gross margin is just the rental revenue minus the cost of the product.   The cost of the DVD product have been cut in half by the early 2000s. DVDs were made cheaper as the movie business was trying to sell direct to consumer, and kill the rental business if possible.   The rental business revenues started flattening out post 2005. Sell through business for DVDs from movie studios was increasing every year, and had tripled in just a few years in sales.   In theory, Blockbusters gross margin should've gone up but instead was declining. They had the Proto typical business math problem of high costs and not enough sales.   The Great Recession of 2008 was really the beginning of the end for Blockbuster. By 2010 blockbuster and filed bankruptcy. It was the end of an era of a very strong stable business at one point for video sales rental.     Seg 5 – Bonus   Netflix started in 1997, with a business model of DVD rental via the mail. Even though Netflix only had a small portion of market share, by 2004 blockbuster felt compelled to compete with Netflix on the video rental via sales but failed.   Netflix originally did not have their subscription model. That model was added a few years in, circa 2007. In 2010, Netflix started adjusting their business model and experimenting heavily with streaming. The streaming business model for Netflix really didn't take off until post 2010.   Netflix created their AI recommendation model. This taught their subscriber base how to enjoy titles. Netflix overall model was customer centric. If a customer liked comedy Netflix could recommend 10 more comedies to them.   Another thing the customers loved was Netflix would release the full season of the TV series at one time. This created the streaming binge watch phenomenon. By contrast Blockbuster had tons of customer data but never did anything with that data. In theory Blockbuster could've been Netflix, and at one point almost bought Netflix.   Netflix original niche was renting older movies with the recommendation model. Netflix also created the queue system. Netflix sent titles in a customer's queue of 20 movies and would control what movies the customer would get sent in the mail.   In 1998, Blockbuster had to start a revenue sharing of profits with movie studios and this really hurt gross margin in the video rental business. Unit volume sales were not stable as time went on. Overall top line volume sounds was inconsistent.   Blockbuster at one point tried the subscription model, but physically in stores. It failed for it did not work in an actual brick and mortar retail store. Blockbuster in the mid-2000s used gimmick solutions which never really addressed the fundamental problems that were happening.   Reed Hastings of Netflix offered to sell the company to Blockbuster in 2000 for $50 million. Netflix wanted to join forces. Reed Hastings goal from day one, was to be an Internet company. Blockbuster was not able to work out the deal, so it never materialized.   Reed Hastings of Netflix was a true founder and original. He had vision. Founders may not be the best operators all the time, but they must have vision. There are some founders though who not only have vision, but also can be an operator. Examples are Reed Hastings of Netflix, Steve Jobs of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook.   Wayne Huizenga was a founder, but not an operator. You go from the founder mentality to the operator mentality, but this never materialized in the history of Blockbuster.   Overall, Blockbuster management never really understood the business they were in. They were in the customer business, but never really focused on the customer. This is how over the long term they were beat out by companies like Netflix, and even Amazon.   Peter Drucker (famous business consultant) would ask the important question: ‘What business are you in?' – to understand who your customers are, what they need, and how to market and sell to your customer   Postscript: Alan Payne closed his last blockbuster store in 2018, and then wrote the Built to Fail Blockbuster book. He does not know what his next endeavor is….         If you enjoyed this show, you may like:  BRT Marketing: HERE BRT Business: HERE    Investing Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Investing-Stocks-Bonds-Retirement     ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT     Thanks for Listening. 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To watch this interview:https://youtu.be/H53ex2WW7jo?si=h4OHk9xey5i6850iHanshi Patrick McCarthy? Where to begin? This is part 1 of an incredible journey that continues to this day. I had an incredible conversation over a period of hours, he pulls no punches and he is passionately frank in his personal observations. But then, who could say he hasn't earned the right to articulate it?Pre-Internet, AI, Social Media meant getting bruised ribs and bloody knuckles, travelling in search of a personal truth, cultures, countries, languages, customs at a time when the world was a lot less accessible.He's run the gamut, more times than he probably cares to mention, changed minds and put a few long held illusions on blast along the way.Fighter, author, researcher, Sensei, student and much moreenjoy part 1 of 3 International Ryukyu Karate-jutsu Research Society ~ est. 1988琉球唐手術国際研究會http://www.koryu-uchinadi.com IRKRS Overview https://tinyurl.com/5xxmm4nbBooks by Patrick McCarthy https://tinyurl.com/5xf5m2sePatrick McCarthy Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Koryu.UchinadiKoryu Uchinadi Facebooktinyurl.com/4yu82323Youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/EastWestFightingArts?feature=mhee Blog http://irkrs.blogspot.com.au/ Something of interesthttps://tinyurl.com/vc7dfjswTransitioning to KU? http://irkrs.blogspot.com/2020/09/what-is-koryu-uchinaditransitioning-to.html?view=magazineBringing together like-minded people in pursuit of common goals and celebrating empowerment, personal achievement & camaraderie through Koryu Uchinadi. A link to the past is your bridge to the future: Koryu Uchinadi's unique system of application practices is a pathway between kata and kumite. KU can also be learned/imparted as a provocative alternative to conventional methods of physical fitness and stress management. Learning how to respond dispassionately to unwarranted aggression requires self-empowerment. Such training promotes an inner-calm and, where conflict exists, helps restore a natural balance to personal and professional relationships.

Trade shows have always played a big role in the production and postproduction industries.  Pre Internet, outside of going to visit a company or reseller directly, a trade show was the only way to get valuable information about products, workflows, and in general, where the industry was headed. In the 1980s through the early 2000s shows like the National Association Of Broadcasters (NAB) or the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) were hosts to hundreds of thousands.  Equally as important as visiting the show floor were the plethora of networking events, parties, and hangouts - some of which are still whispered about in convention center hallways for how epic they were!In this episode of The Offset Podcast, we discuss what shows like NAB mean to us as colorists, educators, and technology-driving guys and why even post-pandemic where the crowds and investments from exhibitors are smaller, trade shows still play a vital role - even if that role is just networking and seeing colleagues you only know virtually or see at trade shows!   While we're a bit heavy on NAB in this episode -  as it's the show we know the best and the one we've gone to the most. The things we discuss in this episode apply to other big trade shows like IBC, BIRTV, Interbee, CabSat, Broadcast India, and othersIn this show some of the things we'll discuss including:Getting time in with software developers of your favorite tools to suggest features, workflows, and bugs.Face time with peers and colleagues that you might not see or speak to regularlyRubbing elbows with industry heroesLeveraging educational sub-conferences and presentationsSurvival tips & techniquesBuilding a contact database and following up post-trade showCost saving tipsEnjoy the episode!

Hannah has absconded to New York City, but no one will go to the Beatrix Potter exhibit with her. Such a shame. No matter! We're fired up about the Newburyport Literary Festival, and ready to talk books, starting with a recap of Leigh Bardugo's brand-new "The Familiar," which Sam has decided he likes quite a bit. Maybe not quite as much as both of us like "The Secret Commonwealth," but not everyone can be Philip Pullman. Dude is just unparalleled in his ability to ask giant questions (religion! fascism!) with effortless storytelling.  Not sure Sam would say the same about Christine Ma-Kellams, whose debut novel, "The Band," is among the strangest books he's ever read and he's not quite sure what to make of it. If you at least know what we mean when we say "K-Pop," you might be into it. But Hannah is super into "I Cheerfully Refuse," the latest from Leif Enger and a novel that offers a bit of hope-punk future along with multiple sentence that just hit you right in the chest. Finally, we wrap with a look at John Le Carre's "Call for the Dead," which is a George Smiley novel, and Sam now knows that Smiley is, indeed, his greatest recurring character. If you haven't read a book from 1961 in a while, give it a shot. It's a good way to get influencer culture off the palate. 

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Episode 1955. Pre-internet. Featuring a cover of Tears of Gold by Violet King. Blunt Talk Podcast is guaranteed TO LIFT. X Fitness is committed to lifting in body, mind, and soul. There is enough depressing news. We won't add to it. Good Inspirational News Only. Free, permanently archived downloads compliments of X Fitness. Blessings & all good things. #peace

I learned the flute before the computer was portable and I'm often asked how I did it. After asking “did what?” and “what are you asking about?”  How I made a career before the ease of information and accessibility. I realize you all want to know how we got by without the internet or computer for gaining wisdom about classical music and how to play it. Sit down and listen. There's a lesson here.  

Owner of the eponymous London-based label, Lele's designs marry her passion for formal draping with casual ease. Her work is rooted in her own cross-cultural background, examining her Indian and British identity all through a feminine lens. A winner of both the 2020 LVMH Prize and 10 Asian Designers to Watch Award, her work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide. In this intimate interview, Lele talks about her path in a post-Covid world and reveals behind-the-scenes details about her collection for The Tour ‘23.   Watch the full-length special of The Tour '23 on Prime Video and follow @amandadecadenet and @victoriassecret to never miss a moment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shaahin Cheyene invented one of the biggest designer drugs of the 90's called Herbal Ecstasy when he was 15 & by the time he was 18 he sold over $350 million per year. Fast Forward a couple of years and by his 20's he sold over $1 Billion worth of product. Herbal Ecstasy was the nootropic pill that sparked the Smart Drug Movement & Shaahin Became King Of The Thrill Pill Cult and a very famous entrepreneur at a very young age. Later, down the line Shaahin invented digital vaporization & was the innovator behind the Vape and Vaporization Wave. Shaahin founded Vapir, the first publicly traded vaporizer company. He has sold over $350 million on Amazon & now he is now a leading eComm and Amazon expert helping people create recurring revenue using the Amazon platform. Shaahin is the author of the new book, ‘BILLION: How I Became King Of THe Thrill Pill Cult'. Chris Voss the former head of International Negotiations for the FBI said this about Shaahin's new book, "Shaahin embodies empathy and he demonstrates it in his approach to life, allowing both sides to experience a true, win-win If you can draw out others' aspirations, hopes and dreams for the future, you can demonstrate how you can affect change in others. In Shaahin's book ‘Billion' he shows you how he did it!"   04:00: Who is Shaahin Cheyene? 08:40: Getting the Idea to Sell Pills at Parties to Drug Dealers 18:00: What Was in These Magical Pills? 25:50: Producing the Magical Pills in the Early Days 28:15: Getting Offers From the Japanese Mafia 34:20: Creating Vaporization to Fix the Human Smoking Problem 37:52: The Early Days of Amazon  47:50: Dedicating 10 Years to Selling on Amazon 51:00: The Value of Becoming an Apprentice 54:10: Shaahin's High-Performance Tips   Contact Info:   BILLION: How I Became King Of THe Thrill Pill Cult https://www.shaahincheyenne.com/billion-how-i-became-king-of-the-thrill-pill-cult    Hack And Grow Rich Podcast:   https://www.shaahincheyenne.com/hack-and-grow-rich-podcast   Website: www.shaahincheyene.com  

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Tune your set to MTV and grab your boombox because this week's songs are all classics of the pre-internet era. This Week's Picks "Orinocco Flow" by Enya "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve "All The Small Things" by Blink-182 Related Links Pure Moods The Playlist No Repeat Playlist on Spotify No Repeat Playlist on Apple Music B-Sides Unofficial B-Sides Playlist Support the Show No Repeat on Patreon Submit a Challenge No Repeat on Twitter Email us: norepeatpod[at]gmail[dot]com Follow Us Follow Tyler on Instagram Follow Shaun on Instagram Follow Taylor on Instagram

Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust w/ Alan Payne BRT S04 EP34 (197) 8-27-2023   What We Learned This Week: ·         Blockbuster started in 1985, and scaled quickly after Wayne Huizenga purchased it in 1987, 10,000 stores at its height, dominant video rental co. ·         Alan Payne instituted the Video Rental model of HEB to the Blockbuster franchises he ran – segmented movies to rent new ones for more ·         Wayne Huizenga was a stellar Founder who built 3 fortune 500 companies – Waste Mgmt, Blockbuster, and Auto Nation ·         Viacom purchased Blockbuster in 1994 for $8.4 billion, and went on to lose 75% of the value over the next decade + ·         Competition was fierce from Hollywood Video, Redbox and then in 1997 by a new DVD rental by mail company called Netflix ·         Netflix scaled into the internet company it always wanted to be with streaming in 2009       Guest: Alan Payne Alan Payne spent thirty-one years in the movie rental business, the last twenty-five of those as a Blockbuster retail franchisee. He took over a small group of Blockbuster stores in 1993 and grew it into one of the largest and most successful chains in the company. He finally closed his last store in 2018, more than eight years after Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy. Book: Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust   From the Back Cover Blockbuster was phenomenally successful in its early years and made thousands rich beyond their wildest dreams. But it was consistently outsmarted and outmanaged by smaller companies. And the challenges began earlier than you think--long before Netflix was even an idea in the minds of founders Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Blockbuster became one of the most iconic brands in the history of American business, but it cracked at the first sign of a challenge. From its founding, Blockbuster was a company built to fail. Link: HERE     Alan Payne Bio:   Border Entertainment, LLC - 2000 to 2018 Founded a $34.2M franchise group with 41 independently owned Blockbuster stores. President & Chief Executive Officer Held complete P&L responsibility while managing executive team (CFO, VP of Product Management, VP and GM Alaska Division, VP and GM El Paso Division, VP and GM South Texas Division) with 750 employees. ·         Grew revenue to $34.2M with 41 stores located in Texas and Alaska. ·         Capitalized business with $14M debt and $3M in private equity investment. Investors received over 35% internal rate of return. Fully retired debt in 2012. ·         Grew sales 140% and profitability 190% during industry decline from 2000 to 2007. Expanded through same store sales increases, new store openings, relocations, and acquisitions. ·         Created proprietary management systems by gathering and analyzing data around financial and inventory performance. ·         Developed and implemented an aggressive real estate strategy, identifying heavily trafficked, high-volume locations. ·         Cultivated culture of loyalty, retaining employees during wind down.     Alan Full Bio: HERE       Blockbuster Video[5] was an American video rental store chain. It was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a stand-alone mom-and-pop home video rental shop, but later grew into a national store chain featuring video game rentals, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater.[6] The company expanded internationally throughout the 1990s. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster consisted of 9,094 stores and employed approximately 84,300 people: 58,500 in the United States and 25,800 in other countries.   Blockbuster – c/o Wikipedia: HERE   Harry Wayne Huizenga Sr.[1] (/haɪˈzɛŋɡə/; December 29, 1937 – March 22, 2018) was an American businessman. He founded AutoNation and Waste Management Inc., and was the owner or co-owner of Blockbuster Video, the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL), the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Florida Marlins (now Miami Marlins) of Major League Baseball (MLB).   Wayne Huizenga – c/o Wikipedia: HERE     Notes:   Seg 1   Blockbuster was the premier video rental company in the 1990s. To put it in perspective how big they were, they brought in more revenue than theater ticket sales.   To add to that, if a movie bombed in the theater, it could be saved by video rental. Also with the introduction of DVDs in the late 1990s, movie studios started doing direct to video movies that would be released in rental stores like Blockbuster.   Pre-Internet was a different era for retail sales. In the 1990s you had huge retail companies like Blockbuster for rental movies, Tower records for CDs and music, and Borders for books. In the 2000s with the rise of the Internet, these businesses were all under attack. Netflix was growing with streaming, iTunes add streaming music, and Amazon was out selling borders with book sales.   In the mid-1990s Blockbuster at its height was the dominant video rental store with 40% market share. Hollywood Video is their main competitor with 20% market share.   Per Alan, half the weekly rental business was done on Friday and Saturday night from 7 to 10 PM. Blockbuster on weekends was the place to be, where the community was literally gathering for family night in movie rentals. There were new releases that came out every week and this section of the store was usually the most popular.   With the introduction of the VCR circa 1985 the video rental business took off. There were tons of small mom and pop video rental stores. The business didn't really have to be run that well as the industry was exploding.   Prior to this it was very difficult to see old movies. You had to have seen them in the past in the theater or wait for Network TV to air them. There was no control and very limited choices.   With the onset of Blockbuster in 1985, the video industry became more organized and professional. Blockbuster also had 6000 movie titles to rent, and scaled fast, opening stores by the dozen+.   Cost for Blockbuster to buy a movie was $70 per movie. They needed to rent the movie 20 times just to break even.   Blockbuster stores count were 5500 stores in the US, 1000 were franchisees and then corporate owned 4500. Corporate stores were typically in the larger markets, while the franchises were in the mid and smaller markets.   Seg 2   Alan bio, in the 1980s straight out of school he went to work for HEB grocery, the second largest grocery company in Texas and privately held. It was a $25 billion company run by CEO Charles Burt   In 1986, with the rise of Blockbuster started with just 30 to 40 stores. In 1987 HEB grocery started in the video business using Blockbuster as a model. They would own single location stores that were about 5 to 7000 ft.² in size.   H-E-B eventually opened 35 stores and was beating Blockbuster in sales had to head in the markets in Texas like San Antonio for example. A few years later HEB sold out to Hollywood Video and Hollywood Video went public.   In 1993 Alan got into franchises of Blockbuster working with Prime Cable. The business was struggling as Prime was not a retail company. They had 8 stores in Alaska and 10 stores in El Paso, Texas. Alan instituted the H-E-B model and was able to turn the stores around.   Blockbuster Business Model - Blockbuster legitimized the video business, and made it more professional than the original mom and pop stores that were not run well. Wayne Huizenga had bought Blockbuster early on when it just had 20 stores and he grew it fast.   The formula was simple - all movies regardless of whether they were new or old or rented for three day at $3. The demand for new movies was huge. Blockbuster could've charged more renting new movies.   Alan used the H-E-B grocery video model that was developed. Rent movies by the day and charge more for new releases. Older movie you could charge a $1 a day and people could keep the movie for 3 to 5 days.   There was actually a lot of demand for older movies, and they were 15,000 movie titles of older movies in demand.     Seg 3 Wayne Huizenga is a great CEO and businessman. He was the only man to build three fortune 500 companies, Waste Management, Blockbuster, and Auto Nation. Auto Nation was run by CEO Mark Jackson, and is the premier car dealership.   Wayne admitted he was more interested in building the thing, not running things. He also went on to buy the Miami Dolphins in football in the 1990s, and start the Florida Marlins baseball franchise.   Blockbuster stores were well run, attractive, and demand was high. Their franchise colors of blue black background and yellow Blockbuster writing on the sign were easily visible. They also picked very good real estate locations for their stores.   In 1994, Wayne sold Blockbuster to Viacom for $8.4 billion. In just seven years, built valuation from 1987 to 1994 when built up the business for a return of hundreds of percent. He paid $15 million, and sold it for $8.4 billion.   Viacom rolled the business into its total corporate structure and six years later they spun it off at a $1.5 billion valuation in six years, they lost 75% of the value of the business, it was poorly run.   Viacom was a TV company with major networks like Nickelodeon run by Sumner Redstone. He wanted to get involved in the movie business and use the Blockbuster purchase eventually to get Paramont studios.   Blockbuster when purchased was cash flowing $1 billion a year, it was making lots of money.   Steve Berrard was named the CEO of Blockbuster after the Viacom purchase, and only lasted one year. Then Bill Fields was brought in as the second Viacom CEO of Blockbuster.   Fields had a Walmart background, so he was hired for his experience in retail. He had no clue though how to run the video business. He also lasted less than one year, and the cash flow was starting to go negative.     Seg 4   1997 the DVD was introduced and this would change the movie and rental business. DVDs were created to be sold direct to consumer. 1997 is also the year that Netflix started with their DVD rental business through the mail. In 1999, the video rental business peaked at $10 billion a year in revenues. Post 1999 thru 2006 sales were flat to small growth.   1997 Blockbuster got their 3rd CEO, John Antioco, who served as Blockbuster CEO from 1997 through 2007. He also had a retail background and marketing. He had been at Taco Bell briefly, and prior to that he spent 20 years at 7-Eleven.   7-Eleven is a huge retail store that's really about location and real estate. They sell gas soda beer and cigarettes. They are not known for being great in retail. One thing John did as the new blockbuster CEO which was good, he started to engage with the franchisees.   In the late 1990s you were starting to see technology in the Internet slowly affect new businesses. When Netflix was created they always intended to be an Internet company,  it just took them 10 years to get where they wanted to be.   John running Blockbuster that stable to slow growth. He doubled top line revenue and doubled the amount of stores blockbuster had but the profit margins went down. Had its height in the early 2000s blockbuster at 5500 US stores and 3 to 4000 stores outside the US.   Blockbuster at the typical business fix cost of rent labor and taxes, which were slowly increasing year after year. Gross margin is just the rental revenue minus the cost of the product.   The cost of the DVD product have been cut in half by the early 2000s. DVDs were made cheaper as the movie business was trying to sell direct to consumer, and kill the rental business if possible.   The rental business revenues started flattening out post 2005. Sell through business for DVDs from movie studios was increasing every year, and had tripled in just a few years in sales.   In theory, Blockbusters gross margin should've gone up but instead was declining. They had the Proto typical business math problem of high costs and not enough sales.   The Great Recession of 2008 was really the beginning of the end for Blockbuster. By 2010 blockbuster and filed bankruptcy. It was the end of an era of a very strong stable business at one point for video sales rental.     Seg 5 – Bonus   Netflix started in 1997, with a business model of DVD rental via the mail. Even though Netflix only had a small portion of market share, by 2004 blockbuster felt compelled to compete with Netflix on the video rental via sales but failed.   Netflix originally did not have their subscription model. That model was added a few years in, circa 2007. In 2010, Netflix started adjusting their business model and experimenting heavily with streaming. The streaming business model for Netflix really didn't take off until post 2010.   Netflix created their AI recommendation model. This taught their subscriber base how to enjoy titles. Netflix overall model was customer centric. If a customer liked comedy Netflix could recommend 10 more comedies to them.   Another thing the customers loved was Netflix would release the full season of the TV series at one time. This created the streaming binge watch phenomenon. By contrast Blockbuster had tons of customer data but never did anything with that data. In theory Blockbuster could've been Netflix, and at one point almost bought Netflix.   Netflix original niche was renting older movies with the recommendation model. Netflix also created the queue system. Netflix sent titles in a customer's queue of 20 movies and would control what movies the customer would get sent in the mail.   In 1998, Blockbuster had to start a revenue sharing of profits with movie studios and this really hurt gross margin in the video rental business. Unit volume sales were not stable as time went on. Overall top line volume sounds was inconsistent.   Blockbuster at one point tried the subscription model, but physically in stores. It failed for it did not work in an actual brick and mortar retail store. Blockbuster in the mid-2000s used gimmick solutions which never really addressed the fundamental problems that were happening.   Reed Hastings of Netflix offered to sell the company to Blockbuster in 2000 for $50 million. Netflix wanted to join forces. Reed Hastings goal from day one, was to be an Internet company. Blockbuster was not able to work out the deal, so it never materialized.   Reed Hastings of Netflix was a true founder and original. He had vision. Founders may not be the best operators all the time, but they must have vision. There are some founders though who not only have vision, but also can be an operator. Examples are Reed Hastings of Netflix, Steve Jobs of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook.   Wayne Huizenga was a founder, but not an operator. You go from the founder mentality to the operator mentality, but this never materialized in the history of Blockbuster.   Overall, Blockbuster management never really understood the business they were in. They were in the customer business, but never really focused on the customer. This is how over the long term they were beat out by companies like Netflix, and even Amazon.   Peter Drucker (famous business consultant) would ask the important question: ‘What business are you in?' – to understand who your customers are, what they need, and how to market and sell to your customer   Postscript: Alan Payne closed his last blockbuster store in 2018, and then wrote the Built to Fail Blockbuster book. He does not know what his next endeavor is….         If you enjoyed this show, you may like:  BRT Marketing: HERE BRT Business: HERE    More - BRT Best of: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+Of     Thanks for Listening. 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Today on Virgin Mornings, Adam and Jax discuss this fake piece of TikTok medical advice that's been going viral (4:25) a new season of "You" is coming soon & we break down Jax's obsession with it (10:17) and does anyone know the actual process of how you booked flights pre internet?? We find someone to answer our question (13:28)   Listen to Virgin Mornings every weekday from 5:30am - 10am on 99.9 Virgin Radio Toronto. Catch Ghosted on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 8am!

In this episode we discuss in detail how the RSS lobby functions. we have referred multiple sources and cross checked every tiny bit of information so that we can factually attack RSS. This episode features Haashiraamaa Senju,Tobirama Senju, Kakashi Hatake & Kisame Hoshigake. Truth will Prevail !! Get Original Udangudi Karupatti from Directly farmers via Karupattikadai.com Use Coupon code SVK to 50 rupees discount on orders (for registered users only) ---------------------------------Support Us---------------------------------------- Support Schumy Vanna Kaviyangal if you feel like it

What are Alison and Tod talking about this week? People are sharing the things they miss about life before the internet. Tips for ending conversations with people who talk too much, and what happened to MTV? Plus, are rival good news podcasts conspiring to ruin the show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The girls discuss how South Africa's videotex network Beltel fell into the hands of an oppressive government during apartheid. Although the police department grew stronger due to data storage accessibility via this videotex network, activists were also using technology for much better motives in opposition to the regime.Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendCompAnd Instagram @ourfriendthecomputerMain research for the episode was done by Ana who also audio edited.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References- http://www.networkmuseum.net/2011/08/beltel.html- https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/26/on-call/- CS Students “The Use of Computers to Support Oppression” Stanford University, http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.comp.html- NARMIC/American Friends Service Committee, “Automating Apartheid - U.S. Computer exports to South Africa and the Arms Embargo” Omega Press, Philadelphia, 1982- Slob, Gert. “Computerizing Apartheid: export of computer hardware to South Africa” Amsterdam, May 1990- Lewis, David Robert. “The Electronic Struggle” Cape Town, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I15TVFl_G_k, https://pt.slideshare.net/ubuntupunk/the-electronic-struggle-63558367- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apartheid-lawsuit-idUKKBN0GS2P120140828

On international World Music day, we pay tribute to this controversial genre that has garnered considerable criticism for being 'white-centric' and lopsided in its narrative recently, to listen to a refreshingly unique and bold one as we re-discover the long-forgotten history of one of India's most cutting edge and respected bands, whose remarkable but short-lived career and success amidst a loyal following of listeners failed to give it the visibility today's Indian artists have access to. D For Brother were the two cousins Amyt and Monojit Datta, based in central Calcutta (now 'Kolkata') whose cutting-edge and path-breaking experiments in the studio and onstage alike were too ahead of their time to have survived the lull of the sleepy and forgotten ex-capital of the Indian republic. Decades before a globalised economy, access to the internet and the online onslaught and digital levelling changed the trajectory of the South-Asian arts landscape permanently.  The remnants of this masterpiece, preserved only through limited-edition cassette tapes amidst a loyal following and an abridged lo-fi bandcamp version (following the tragic and unexpected death of Monojit Datta in 2017), complete with pops and hisses is an unassuming tip of an iceberg that leads to a story of near-unbelievable and era-defying artistic innovation and integrity by two self-taught musicians whose journeys and their implications remain scantily documented and barely understood.  We interview the only surviving member of the band, Amyt Datta to relive the writing, recording process, and the mindset behind an endeavor that remains one of the most unsung but relevant in South Asian independent music history. Read Supplementary Article HERE This episode is brought to you by:  www.holisticmusicianacademy.com Text: www.tlwrites.com Produced by T.L. Mazumdar Recorded on a Zoom Podtrak P4 kindly sponsored by: https://www.sound-service.eu    New FREE mini-course 'The Songwriter Mindset': Enroll Here (Get a 25% discount on all courses as a podcast listener here) Music by: www.everynowheremusic.com & D For Brother   Connect with Amyt Datta: Bandcamp Instagram Connect with T.L: DEBUT SOLO PIANO ALBUM Artist Website: www.everynowheremusic.com Coaching: www.holisticpianoacademy.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everynowheremusic/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/39S0dP5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tlmusician Twitter: https://twitter.com/tlmazumdar  

Back from London, Camila tells Ana about Canada's NABU network which  operated via cable television services. It also could be considered one of the first examples of a 'streaming' subscription model for entertainment! The girls discuss the progression of streaming services, video game development, and their love of computer history museums.  Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendCompAnd Instagram @ourfriendthecomputerMain research for the episode was done by Camila. Ana audio edited.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References:- Barr, Greg. “Nabu Network dream fades” The Citizen, Ottawa, July 29 1986- Duhcharme, Jim. “The NABU Network: The Internet before the Internet.” PC World, December 4, 2005- Lungu, Dov, and Stachniak, Zbigniew. “Following TRACE: The Computer Hobby Movement in Canada.” Scientia Canadensis, vol.34 no. 1, 2011- Sutcliffe, Mark. “NABU Network an idea well ahead of its time.” The Ottawa Citizen, April 25, 2009- https://techpolicyinstitute.org/publications/miscellaneous/the-nabu-network-a-great-lesson-but-not-about-openness/- http://www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/collections/NABU/nabu.htm- https://todayinottawashistory.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/the-nabu-network/- https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/nabu- https://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/telidon/telidon_nabu.html- https://ottawarewind.com/2018/12/02/joystick-the-untold-story-of-ottawas-coke-fueled-1980s-video-game-industry/- https://doughenningproject.com/2021/08/12/nabu-computer-network-doug-article-advertisement/

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West Germany's network videotex system, Bildschirmtext, was largely used for payment services by the Deutsche Bank, while its system was supported by hardware from the UK as West Germany continued to liberalise its society and economy. However its liberal use and basic encryption caused a few issues, irking Europe's biggest hacking community Chaos Computer Club, sparking off it's world-wide fame via the BTX-Hack. The girls talk about the anarchist attitudes in 80s divided Germany, the post-WW2 political and economic splitting that created this videotex system, and reminisce about the nostalgic aesthetics of Deutsche Telekom.Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendCompAnd Instagram @ourfriendthecomputerMain research for the episode was done by Ana, who also audio edited.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)

Camila shares her research on the Japanese videotex system CAPTAIN. The girls discuss competing videotex protocols, how to informatize a country, biased reporting, and if a network can be successful in its aims even if the actual system failed.Camila's film ‘Vecino Vecino' is premiering 6pm Thursday May 5th at Prismatic Ground experimental documentary festival in New York. Tickets and info here: https://www.screenslate.com/events/prismatic-ground-2022 Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendCompAnd Instagram @ourfriendthecomputer Main research for the episode was done by Camila. Ana audio edited. Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References:- Arai, Yoshio. “History of the development of telecommunications infrastructure in Japan.” Netcom 33 (2019)- Baijal, Pradip. “From Nationalisation to Privatisation: UK and Japan.” Economic and Political Weekly 35, no. 13 (March 2000): 1101-1106- “Evolutionary Network Development of Japan's Computer Networking.” Japan - Germany Information Technology Forum, Oita Japan. Nov 8, 1994 - Gabriel, Michael R. “Videotex and Teletex: Waiting for the 21st Century?” Educational Technology 28, no. 3 (March 1988): 27-31- Lehmann, Yves. “Videotex: A Japanese Lesson.” Telecommunications 28, iss. 7 (July 1994): 53-54- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. “Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan.” Kagan Paul International Limited, London. 1988- Ohlin, Tomas. “The Baby Networks: Nordic Positions Before the Internet.” 3rd History of Nordic Computing (Oct 2010): 278-286- Pollack, Andrew. “Technology: The Japanese Challenge; Japan's Drive to Automate.” The New York Times, August 10, 1984. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/10/business/technology-the-japanese-challenge-japan-s-drive-to-automate.html - West, Joel, and Dedrick, Jason, and Kraemer,  Kenneth L. “Reconciling Vision and Reality in Japan's NII Policy.” Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California, Irvine (1996)

It is that time of year again, when the Academy selects one podcast to be deemed the globes favorite podcast of the year and Hevel has won it! Thank you to all the little people who made this possible, fans, editors, and publishers. We will be accepting sponsorships, so line up and let us know your best bid! Also, i guess you can listen to this episode if you want to, but mainly the podcast award thing is what we are hyped about!Talking Points: The Biggest Moments from the Oscars: (Snyder Cut Won an Oscar Somehow, and Will Smith V Chris Rock: Dawn of Justice), Exploring Viper's Discography, The Worst Hip Hop Album Covers, Pre Internet "Memes", Podcast Feud and Analytics, Actual Oscar Talk.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hevel-A-Zillenial-Podcast-100891458536002/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hevelcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/hevelcastTik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hevelcast

Ana chats to Camila about Prestel, a nationwide information network developed by the UK Post Office. The videotex system was developed during the 1970s and for a brief time, the UK was at the forefront of intending to migrate its society online. However, the Conservative's acts halted the development by privatising Telecommunication in 1979 and 1981 by Thatcher. The girls discuss policy loopholes, Prestel's neglect in correlation to the UK's political failures, as well as its significant impact in the global technical blossoming of online communication.Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendComp And Instagram @ourfriendthecomputerMain research for the episode was done by Ana who also edited.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References:- “Prestel: The British Internet That Never Was”, Tom Lean, History Today, 2016, - https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/prestel-british-internet-never-was

Today on the Brain Booster we have with us former European Open winner Andrew Murray and we get the chance to discuss life on tour in the 1980's A wonderful trip down memory lane Andrew played on what many agree was the golden era of the European Tour A period of time that saw the emergence of some of the legends of the game “THE MAGNIFICENT SIX” Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle, Bernhard Langer, Jose Maria Olazabal and Ian Woosnam A period that saw European golf dominate many of the Majors most notably the US Masters Winning the Ryder Cup at the Belfry in 1985 for the first time in numerous decades and then going on to win numerous times over the next decade. Life on tour then was light years away from what we see now Pre Internet, pre mobile phones and the ability to organise all of your travel with one click. Having to get around Europe in camper vans, hitting your own balls to your caddie on the range, persimmon woods and balata balls Literally a different world But a world that shaped the wonderful tour we see now We discussed how many of the great players found ‘their' way. The great fluid swing of Ian Woosnam and how a change of approach allowed it to flourish The wonderful talent of Sandy Lyle and how he won the European Order of merit without hardly ever hitting his driver over a full season The genuine kindness and sincerity of Bernhard Langer and why he has been able to play at such a high level for so long How Seve Ballesteros shared with Andrew some golden nuggets of information about the short game and then tried to steal one of his wedges!! Playing with the great man and how intimidating he was How he was the KING of playing the crowd and utilising their energy How Nick Faldo was able to switch off his analytical mind on the golf course and just play SHOTS The emergence of the great Swedish golfers and their approach to fitness and conditioning that changed the approach to the game The incredible contribution made by John Jacobs as both a player, coach and European Tour ambassador How a swing tip from a car mechanic and whistling helped Andrew himself win the European Open at Walton Heath How he would have worked more on the mental game if he had his time again and what that would have looked like. The wonderful camaraderie on the tour in the 1980's The rivalries and friendships that have stood the test of time Just a wonderful insight into a great period of golf and a conversation that triggered so many good memories To find out more about Andrew Murray His coaching and his experience days go to www.andrewmurraygolf.com   To find out about working with Karl Morris go to https://themindfactor.net/personal-training-2/ To book YOUR Mind Factor workshop go to www.themindfactor.com      

After some hobby chat, Camila tells Ana about the French videotex network ‘Minitel'. Launched in the early 80s, it was the most successful version of an online service before the World Wide Web. While other similar networks struggled, this episode looks at how the specifics of Minitel allowed it to become integrated into everyday life and what happened when France began adopting the Internet.We're on Instagram!And Twitter!Main research for the episode was done by Camila. Ana with the audio editing.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References:- Amougou, Jules, and James S. Larson. “Comparing Implementation of Internet Diffusion in the United States and France: Policies, Beliefs, and Institutions.” Policy Research 25, no. 6 (2008): 563-578.- Arceneaux, Noah. Review of Minitel: Welcome to the Internet, by Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll. Journalism History 44, no. 1 (Spring 2018).- Benghozi, Pierre-Jean, and Christian Licoppe. “Technological National Learning: From Minitel to Internet.” In The Global Internet Economy, edited by Bruce Kogut, 153-189. MIT Press, 2003.- Cats-Baril, William L., and Tawfik Jelassi. “The French Videotex System Minitel: A Successful Implementation of a National Information Technology Infrastructure.” MIS Quarterly 18, no.1 (March 1994): 1-20.- Chrisafis, Angelique. “France says farewell to the Minitel – the little box that connected a country.” The Guardian, June 29, 2012. - Kessler, Jack. “Electronic Networks: A View from Europe.” Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science (April/May 1994): 26-27.- Mailland, Julien. “Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet.” The Atlantic, June 16, 2017.- Mailland, Julien, and Kevin Driscoll. “Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web.”  IEEE Spectrum, June 20, 2017. https://spectrum.ieee.org/minitel-the-online-world-france-built-before-the-web- Schofield, Hugh. “Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web.” BBC News, June 28, 2012.

De Cyberheld van deze week is Jaap van Tuyll. Hij was 24 jaar lang het hoofd van de afdeling cryptoanalyse van de Militaire Inlichtingendienst. We spreken over hoe het was om in een tijd zonder internet toch aan de juiste inlichtingen te geraken.

Ana and Camila chat about the development of a Soviet nationwide information network in the 60s that was meant to run a planned economy for the USSR. Built after Sputnik's launch, it brought about Soviet cybernetics and promised a new era for Soviet sciences, mathematics economics and technology. Discussing the project's termination due to inner-bureaucratic competition, this episode also looks at ARPANET's simultaneous development; its surprisingly socialist structures of funding and collaborative mindsets that led to its success.We're on Instagram!And Twitter!Main research for the episode was done by Ana who also edited.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References:- “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet”, Benjamin Peters, 2016- “Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration”, Ed Catmull, 2014- “The Californian Ideology”, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, 1995

Camila and Ana explore Project Cybersyn – an early 70s socialist cybernetics project connecting factories in Allende's Chile. This is the first episode of our first season which will be focusing on pre-internet networks!We're on Instagram!And Twitter!Main research for the episode was done by Camila. Ana with the audio editing.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)Camila's project 'REDES: bread and justice, peaches and bananas' can be found  at https://externalpages.org/#camila-galaz References:- Beckett, Andy. 'Santiago Dreaming'. The Guardian 8 September 2003- Eaton, George. 'Project Cybersyn: the afterlife of Chile's socialist internet'. New Statesman August 2018- Evgeny, Morozov. 'The Planning Machine'. The New Yorker Vol. 90, Iss. 31 (October 2014)- Fablab Santiago ed. ‘The Counterculture Room'. Pavilion of Chile at the London Design Biennale 2016- Loeber, Katherina. 'Big Data, Algorithmic Regulation, and the History of the Cybersyn Project in Chile, 1971-1973'. Social Sciences 7, no.4:65 (April 2018)- Medina, Eden. 'Computer Memory, Collective Memory: Recovering History through Chilean Computing'. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing October-December 2005- Medina, Eden. 'Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile'. MIT Press, 2011- Medina, Eden. 'Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile '. Journal of Latin American Studies Vol. 38 Iss. 3 (August 2006)

Ben, Vijay and Shane recap the Thanksgiving that was and debate if Boston Market is a pyramid scheme. Plus, what was going on with Brian Kelly's southern accent, and does it get better than being a backup quarterback? Also, Vijay for some reason played solitaire with a real deck of cards.

  Episode 1219. Pre-internet era. Visit on Instagram to watch the video. Blunt Talk Podcast is guaranteed “TO LIFT.” X Fitness is committed to lifting in body, mind, and soul. There's enough depressing news. We won't add to it. Good Inspirational News Only. Free, permanently archived downloads compliments of X Fitness. Blessings & all good things. #peace                                                                                                                        Available NOW at www.GinoArcaro.com  

Brett Newski and The Hatchets analyze Romantic Rejection, Life Pre-Internet, the End of Live Music, and attending Amateur Wrestling events.  Support the pod: https://www.patreon.com/BrettNewski1 More on newski: https://brettnewski.com/ More on the Hatchets: https://www.thehatchetsmusic.com/  

Episode 39 "Pre-Internet Nerds and why you kids have it so easy"  This episode the Old Nerds travel back down to BrickHouse Collectibles to talk with Pat the King of Bricks. We discuss how difficult it was to be a nerd in the pre-internet days. How easy it is for modern nerds to get information and practice their nerdyness. Get off my LAWN!!!!!https://brickhousecollectibles.com/Grab our swag and merch: The Nerdy Old Men Podcast | TeespringGrab our swag and merch: The Nerdy Old Men Podcast | TeespringSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=F9J8TU7HLW88A)

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans’ relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today’s digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/journalism

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans’ relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today’s digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans’ relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today’s digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented virtual forums where readers could debate the most resonant cultural crises of the day with strangers in an anonymous yet public forum. The columns are important—and overlooked—precursors to today's digital culture: forums, social media groups, chat rooms, and other online communities that define how present-day American communicate with each other. This book charts the rise of the advice column and its impact on the newspaper industry. It analyzes the advice given in a diverse sample of columns across several decades, emphasizing the ways that advice columnists framed their counsel as modern, yet upheld the racial and gendered status quo of the day. It shows how advice columnists were forerunners to the modern celebrity journalist, while also serving as educators to audience of millions. This book includes in-depth case studies of specific columns, demonstrating how these forums transformed into active and participatory virtual communities of confession, advice, debate, and empathy. Julie Golia is a Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information, New York Public Library.  Marshall Poe is the founder and editor of the New Books Network. He can be reached at marshallpoe@newbooksnetwork.com.

Gavin Hardkiss, electronic musician, DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, author and artist who has performed under the name "Gavin Hardkiss" and "Hawke", shares his journey as a pioneer of electronic music in San Francisco in the 1990s. Gavin talks about the formation of the Hardkiss Brothers, with partners Scott and Robbie. He shares stories of the underground rave scene from Philadelphia, to Brooklyn to the UK to the San Francisco Bay Area. Pre-Internet raving and getting to San Francisco in the summer of '91 to light a fuse in the dance music scene. Renting San Carlos airport to throw a rave from 10 PM to 8 AM the next morning in a hanger. The formation of the Hardkiss Music label and Sun Burn Recordings. Signing with Sony Music. The importance of retaining the rights to your own music, and how it helped him run a profitable label while under Sony. Gavin talks about producing and releasing his most recent Album: The Dark Art Of Light Work and Greg and Gavin debate Spotify and other streaming platforms. Gavin talks about NFTs and how they could change the future for artists and musicians. Greg and Gavin break down the Ableton session for his newest Hawke track played at the opening and closing of the Podcast, Ping Pong. https://www.hardkiss.org/ https://soundcloud.com/gavin-hardkiss Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We just couldn't stop the recording process so here is an entirely extra chunk of the post show fun we had. Nostalgia and the memories we make in youth. The times of more spontaneous get-togethers. There was even more after this but we didn't record it. I guess it is somewhere in the ethers floating around for someone to hear on a distant star.

Bell & Ramon time travel to the good old days of the pre-internet foot fetishist! How do someone with a foot fetish enjoy feet in 1963? Was there much in the 1972? What the hell did you do in 1985?! Your humble hosts look at all the analog foot stuff they can from old porn to magazines to questionable photography to see where old timers who loved feet could indulge in their foot lust. All this and your listener FEETback! Ramonfacefull.com Album of Images from the episode Twitter - @ramonfacefull Instagram - @bellsoles Reddit - r/FootFetishPodcast https://www.patreon.com/ramonfacefull - Join to watch the EXCLUSIVE video of THIS recording! ramonfacefull@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ramon-facefull/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ramon-facefull/support

We have an extra special treat for you this week - Wendy Mullin from the iconic fashion label Built by Wendy is joining us for this super exciting episode!

In this episode, John and Scott remember the importance of the pre-internet, computer piracy, Apple computer era!  Kids, this was PRE-INTERNET!  Yet, that didn't stop the hosts from breaking the law and hacking long distance codes to download games from all over the country.  From this era, John and Scott made lifelong friends with others of the same teenage computer dork criminal ilk!  

Audio is not new in social. This type of communication has been around since the 80s; when the telephone was the easiest way to talk to others. In this episode, learn about where conversation started and possibilities of where the medium is headed. A source of inspiration for ideas and conversation. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hjw0GXHH8sBeGPOli5XUh?si=PojlS_YuQbuXPZt2_1dOIQ What do you think? https://www.podpage.com/life-is-art-reality-show/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeisartrealityshow/message

Baby C's Grandma talks about buying toys in the 70s and sings a fun song. Baby C's New Toys: The Inspector Kit, Lovevery.com

Believe it or not, we aren't watching the DNC/RNC Its pretty boring stuff, actually Interesting differences between the presentations Parents are protesting in Quebec Most parents want their kids back in school The SAT/ACT should not be studied for - but the educational system is so messed up that kids need tutors just to get by - this is why Kaplan and other tutoring services are rocking Tests are pretty useless now - they are only about memorization - and who needs to use memory anymore Our passion is learning. We talk a bit about how messages flew around between people prior to the internet - here is Chris' BBS listing (BizBase) The modern internet started with the web - if it wasn't for Netscape we wouldn't be here today We used to have paper Yellow Pages of websites to go to We also used to have to pay for long-distance phone calls Reddit is the closest to the old Listservs, and now that's gone too Is there really such a thing as the butterfly effect? Can one person really change the world? Only if they go viral. Facebook is now using concepts similar to the stock market to stop memes before they go viral - why would Facebook wan to do that? Stop-loss is a very different concept. These tech companies really are kind of evil. They only like certain kinds of free speech First time Facebook ban for Dutch - just for sharing a Putin/Vaccine meme We close with some chatter Confidential and cloud computing, in case you are interested...

Ted recaps the historic moment in NBA history.

On today's show, I'm talking with Paul Klein, who has moved through the business world into consulting.  Paul's story is a very common one, he worked in the corporate world for 18 years and around the age of 40, realized how unhappy he had become and decided to make a change.  Although he was experiencing a very successful career, he felt unfulfilled and miserable and just couldn't take it anymore.  Fast forward 9 years and he's started three successful businesses generating well over 6 figure incomes with no debt.   What is the process for someone who wants to price out their products or services? Most people don't value their expertise.  However, what's common to you may be gold to someone else.  And it's not about trying to pull one over on people and charge an exorbitant amount of money.  It's more about finding that win-win so that you have high value for yourself and great value to your client. Another component is determining whether or not you and the client will be a good fit with each other.  If your services are not a good fit – you get so much more credibility by referring them to someone who is.   Once there is a revenue plan in place, how do you coach people on who to invite into the cause? Whether it's in for-profit or nonprofit, the answer is the same.  At the end of the day, donors are seeking outcomes.  If someone is going to make a donation to a cause, they want to know what the end result is.  What is the value?  How many lives are you going to change?  You have to make a tangible connection between the results and the outcomes.    Why do you think people undervalue themselves? It goes back to what's common to us; if you see a really great guitar player, you may think that talent is a rare find but to that guitar player, it's what they do every day, so they see it as common.  In the pre-Internet society (and still today), there was a common belief that the harder, or worse, a job is the more you should get paid.  We associate something that is difficult with charging more or making more money, but this just isn't the case.  As buyers, we buy outcomes not time – we want results and value, not how much time it takes.    When you tell people don't sell your hours, what are trying to get them to understand about the work they are doing? It all comes back to value.  In the nonprofit space, you can't really put a dollar amount on something that is valuable.  And value is so subjective – what's valuable to you is totally different than what's valuable to someone else.  You have to focus on the value and the outcomes of the organization or cause.  It's great if your donors have a good experience, but the deeper meaning is that that we are impacting lives or making a change.    As a businessman, what have you seen nonprofits doing well? The most effective organizations I've seen have adapted to the new knowledge economy and the new environment we're in.  Pre-Internet is over – we can't market through snail mail and phone calls anymore.  The organizations that have effective online marketing, content marketing, and bringing people in through workshops is where's it's at.    Can you help demystify the businessperson for my audience? It's not good to stereotype any group, but the overall majority of businesspeople I know who work in the Fortune 500 companies, are good, loving people who want to help but they are very busy.  Make a connection with them and make it easy – here's our cause, here are the donations needed, here are the lives we're going to affect.  Simple is always better.  Don't overwhelm them with facts and figures – just provide the basics.  And, don't have the stench of desperation.    Tell us more about your podcast. The podcast is called Pricing is Positioning and it's geared toward freelancers and consultants who want to charge more based on value.  I just hit 38 episodes and I've had some great guests – Mike Kim being one of them.  You can find it at pricingispositioning.com or my website paulklein.net.    For more information about Mary Valloni, visit maryvalloni.com and to download our free Fundraising Freedom Roadmap, go to maryvalloni.com/roadmap.    Interested in joining the Nonprofit Executive Club?  Check out nonprofitexecutiveclub.com   

On today’s show, I’m talking with Paul Klein, who has moved through the business world into consulting.  Paul’s story is a very common one, he worked in the corporate world for 18 years and around the age of 40, realized how unhappy he had become and decided to make a change.  Although he was experiencing a very successful career, he felt unfulfilled and miserable and just couldn’t take it anymore.  Fast forward 9 years and he’s started three successful businesses generating well over 6 figure incomes with no debt.   What is the process for someone who wants to price out their products or services? Most people don’t value their expertise.  However, what’s common to you may be gold to someone else.  And it’s not about trying to pull one over on people and charge an exorbitant amount of money.  It’s more about finding that win-win so that you have high value for yourself and great value to your client. Another component is determining whether or not you and the client will be a good fit with each other.  If your services are not a good fit – you get so much more credibility by referring them to someone who is.   Once there is a revenue plan in place, how do you coach people on who to invite into the cause? Whether it’s in for-profit or nonprofit, the answer is the same.  At the end of the day, donors are seeking outcomes.  If someone is going to make a donation to a cause, they want to know what the end result is.  What is the value?  How many lives are you going to change?  You have to make a tangible connection between the results and the outcomes.    Why do you think people undervalue themselves? It goes back to what’s common to us; if you see a really great guitar player, you may think that talent is a rare find but to that guitar player, it’s what they do every day, so they see it as common.  In the pre-Internet society (and still today), there was a common belief that the harder, or worse, a job is the more you should get paid.  We associate something that is difficult with charging more or making more money, but this just isn’t the case.  As buyers, we buy outcomes not time – we want results and value, not how much time it takes.    When you tell people don’t sell your hours, what are trying to get them to understand about the work they are doing? It all comes back to value.  In the nonprofit space, you can’t really put a dollar amount on something that is valuable.  And value is so subjective – what’s valuable to you is totally different than what’s valuable to someone else.  You have to focus on the value and the outcomes of the organization or cause.  It’s great if your donors have a good experience, but the deeper meaning is that that we are impacting lives or making a change.    As a businessman, what have you seen nonprofits doing well? The most effective organizations I’ve seen have adapted to the new knowledge economy and the new environment we’re in.  Pre-Internet is over – we can’t market through snail mail and phone calls anymore.  The organizations that have effective online marketing, content marketing, and bringing people in through workshops is where’s it’s at.    Can you help demystify the businessperson for my audience? It’s not good to stereotype any group, but the overall majority of businesspeople I know who work in the Fortune 500 companies, are good, loving people who want to help but they are very busy.  Make a connection with them and make it easy – here’s our cause, here are the donations needed, here are the lives we’re going to affect.  Simple is always better.  Don’t overwhelm them with facts and figures – just provide the basics.  And, don’t have the stench of desperation.    Tell us more about your podcast. The podcast is called Pricing is Positioning and it’s geared toward freelancers and consultants who want to charge more based on value.  I just hit 38 episodes and I’ve had some great guests – Mike Kim being one of them.  You can find it at pricingispositioning.com or my website paulklein.net.    For more information about Mary Valloni, visit maryvalloni.com and to download our free Fundraising Freedom Roadmap, go to maryvalloni.com/roadmap.    Interested in joining the Nonprofit Executive Club?  Check out nonprofitexecutiveclub.com   

My goal is to show what generalists can do. Common sense has become uncommon. Pre-Internet media (FM radio, network tv, magazines and film) created a viable pop culture that gave us a common symbolic language to represent different aspects within a community. Post Internet we are too seperated and thrown into digital ghettos like Facebook as pawns in a culture war. I stead, we need to wage a digital self publishing revolution replacing consumerism with conscious co-creation using decentralized open source tools outside the corporate control grid. Join me as I learn how to make money providing valuable goods and services on and offline as well as veing the fhange we want to be instead of be divided and conquered. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chadwarren.me/support

Don Roberts, president & CEO Central Alabama Flooring, compares expenditures he has made in traditional media last year versus prior years. Roberts who uses TV, direct mail and radio, notes that his expenditures have remained consistent over time where his competitors appear to not advertise as they once did in traditional media.

Host: Matt HartnettGuests: Chris Akin- The Classic Metal Show Joshua Toomey- Talk Toomey PodcastChris Akin (The Classic Metal Show) & Joshua Toomey (Talk Toomey Podcast) join Matt to give their professional opinions on the pros, cons and challenges that came with being in a hard rock and metal band residing outside of the coastal confines of NY and LA prior to the rise of streaming and the internet. Toomey discusses his personal experiences as a touring musician with his former outfits Primer 55 & 12v Negative Earth while Chris talks about his interactions and dealings with metal artists as a radio figure in the midwestern part of the US during the 90's.

Chris Mairs is an entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Venture Partner at EF. He is the co-founder of MetaSwitch, a communications technology business, where he was CTO for many years including a 2-year stint in Palo Alto working with his investors from Sequoia and their portfolio companies. More recently Chris has become a prominent angel investor, investing in over 70 companies, including many from EF – where he’s been involved from the very first cohort back in 2012. In this episode Chris and I discuss:  - The lessons he learned from building MetaSwitch, including a visit from Microsoft Founder Bill Gates to do due diligence on the company - The red flags that turn him off a co-founding team as an angel investor and the qualities he looks for in portfolio companies - How Chris met EF co founders Matt and Alice and how EF’s Companies have evolved since he got involved on the first cohort We also get into the tech trends that Chris is most excited about, his perspective on AI and blockchain and how he’s overcome the challenges he’s faced along the way. The conversation is filled with great stories and words of wisdom from Chris’ wealth of experience as an entrepreneur and investor.

There were more years without the internet than with them... you think we could fit all that into just one episode? Part 2 of 2

The gang covers some things that people would do before having the internet at their fingertips. Part 1 of 2

Hello again!    We have an amazing guest for you! Diana James, has done a lot in her life, from volunteering at the remarkable British LGBT switchboard hotline to working towards changing the way British police handle LGBT cases, she's given a lot for her community. Pre-Internet era too! She shared with us parts of her life and struggles, and gave us her view of the hopping LGBT scene of London through those times.       This episode does touch on some dark subjects, so we are issuing a trigger warning. Regardless of this these stories are ones of recovery and bring messages of hope.  ((TW: Rape, Domestic abuse-around 1:25:00))     If you enjoyed this please Like,Share, and leave a review so other can find us and share their stories. :) 

This time, Cathi Bond looks at ElliQ a companion robot for older folks who may need a little support. Would aging Baby Boomers who still want autonomy and something tech forward adopt this kind of thing in years to come? (Via IEEE Spectrum) Nora Young mentions this article in the British Library blog, documenting the strange history of Johann Struensee, who brought in freedom of the press to 18th century Denmark, only to be immediately publicly ridiculed in that newly free medium. Well worth a read, as the author describes Struensee's mockers as 'proto-internet trolls' (H/T Hacker News)

In this episode we discuss 2 pop culture phenomenons that occurred pre-internet, and the slow news music and NBA education that ensued.

Join us this week as Joe Darowski from the Protagonist Podcast discusses the comic “The Far Side” with us.  Like usual he brings his in depth knowledge of all things geeky and his fun banter. The Far Side is a single panel newspaper comic that debuted it the San Francisco Chronicle. It features the work of Gary Larson and over the years has been an interesting take on the relationship between humans and Animals.  There are probably just as many... The post The Far Side – Pre Internet Memes appeared first on The Fandom Podcast.

The boys get together and discusses life before 8 gigbit connections and a special guest calls in.

This week John and Brandon talk about Fantasy Football, Arkansas Razorbacks, The Cold, Games, Pre-Internet, and New Years! Star Wars review starts at about 43 mins in to the episode. Join the conversation at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RunningOnE/ Website: www.RunningOnEPodcast.com Be sure to follow us on Twitter with @RunningOnEPod Facebook: www.Facebook.com/RunningOnEPodcast Email us: RunningOnEPodcast@gmail.com  

Welcome to Compound Trading's weekly podcast. New episodes will be released every Friday after market close (4 PM EST or later). In this inaugural episode, our host Mat interviews the lead trader and founder of Compound Trading, Curtis Melonopoly. Learn about the story of our founding, the rationale for our rules-based trading processes, and Curtis's trading journey. Today's topics include: * History of the Markets from the Pre-Internet to Modern Age * Emotional Quotient and Trading Psychology * Algorithmic Trading Main Site: https://www.compoundtrading.com Talk to our Traders (Free Public Chat): http://discord.gg/2HRTk6n If you are interested in being a guest, or have any questions, you can also reach us by: Email: info@compoundtrading.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/CurtMelonopoly (Lead Trader), http://twitter.com/HundalSHS (Engineer), http://twitter.com/CompoundTrading

The crew is joined by Erica Massey, a PhD student studying modern literature and pop culture, to discuss pre-internet Star Trek fanfiction. We discuss the fanzine production process, the culture of the early fanfic community, and debates around "slash" fic. HOSTS Andi, Grace, Jarrah, Sue GUEST Erica Massey EDITOR Andi Send us your feedback! Email:  crew@womenatwarp.com Twitter: @womenatwarp Facebook: http://facebook.com/womenatwarp Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/womenatwarp  

The crew is joined by Erica Massey, a PhD student studying modern literature and pop culture, to discuss pre-internet Star Trek fanfiction. We discuss the fanzine production process, the culture of the early fanfic community, and debates around "slash" fic. HOSTS Andi, Grace, Jarrah, Sue GUEST Erica Massey EDITOR Andi Send us your feedback! Email:  crew@womenatwarp.com Twitter: @womenatwarp Facebook: http://facebook.com/womenatwarp Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/womenatwarp  

The model, presenter and now TV star Jameela Jamil joins Jo and Assistant Editor Natasha Poliszczuk in the podcupboard to talk through all things serious and...less so. This week we ask, hey: is it OK to like domesticity and housework; to really miss the time before the internet; and to not be sexy? "I've been doing it for many years now," says Jo. "It's fine!" Plus, we talk about Jameela's new HBO show, The Good Place, in which she stars alongside Anna from Frozen and Ted Danson. Winning. The GLAMOUR podcast is edited by Kat Brown, with music by Martin Austwick. Find GLAMOUR online at www.glamourmagazine.co.uk, on Facebook and Twitter @glamourmaguk, and on Instagram and Snapchat, @glamouruk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jody Smith of Gridiron Experts joined me to talkfantasy football. We are talking scoring from a newspaper fantasy football. Pre-Internet fantasy football.  Tecmo Super Bowl works its way throughout the conversation as we shared a common obsession with this game growing up.  Jody wrote a great eBOOK, get it here http://gridironexperts.com/welcome-to-the-machine Interact with jody @JodySmithNFL Interact with me @EMPIREFFL Thank you very much Jody for joining as I continue to explore just what drove this community to fantasy football.    

Why “Tell More – Sell More” no longer works. Pre-Internet, a case could be made that if a given sales rep simply made the most calls in the office, chances were that they would end the month on top. There’s many reasons for this, such as, * The “deserve factor” leading to transference of feelings… […]

Why “Tell More – Sell More” no longer works. Pre-Internet, a case could be made that if a given sales rep simply made the most calls in the office, chances were that they would end the month on top. There’s many reasons for this, such as, * The “deserve factor” leading to transference of feelings… * Law of #’s * Experience… whoever makes the most calls fields the most questions, thus, builds up a war chest of perfect responses to questions from the absurd to obvious. * “Making the most calls” is such an important aspect for many of the largest companies in the world that many of the great sales trainers such as Zig Zigler, Brian Tracy and Tom Hopkins have book chapters and seminar sessions centered around the concept that often the best performing sales reps are those that get in early, stay late, and “make one more call.” Today, In our digital age, with decision maker’s distracted with Skype, Text, Voice-Mail, Email, GoToMeeting, and traditional Phone Calls, more calls often lead to nothing but more frustration. Worse yet, depending on the voicemail you leave, many sales people lose the deal immediately when the decision maker “Google’s” them right before they call back the sales rep. In short, they get beaten by their “Present Competition” meaning, (refer to podcast 22 for a detailed explanation) when their name or company is Google’d, the deal is lost due to what does or doesn’t show up. That said, some of today’s best sales reps, some making hundreds of thousands, even millions, each year in commission, are using appointment setting techniques that cut through the clutter and hit their targets with laser precision. How great would it be if with nothing more than a little preparation and a small marketing budget a sales rep could make one phone call and find the gatekeeper enthused to pass them on to the decision maker nearly 100% of the time. Sound too good to be true? Sales reps using “Shock & Awe” boxes don’t think so. As a matter of fact, I don’t know one entrepreneur or sales pro that has tried Shock & Awe boxes that ever went back to cold calling without them… Here’s the key. No matter how skilled a sales person is on the phone it will always be a numbers game. There is no avoiding the fact that the majority of dials have no chance of reaching a live person, let alone a decision maker. With that as the foundation…Let’s consider direct mail for a minute. Regular direct mail falls into a similar fate as cold calling. Most unsolicited mail goes right into the trash. As of Feb. 2015, The CMO Council, a marketing research firm, reports that 44% of direct mail is never opened at all. On the flipside, varying reports show that boxes, or packages, mailed to anyone, including decision makers, are opened almost every time. Let me repeat this…reports show that boxes, or packages, mailed to anyone, including decision makers, are opened almost every time. When it comes to setting appointments this is a game changer. Picture the following scenario: A shoebox sized package arrives at an office labeled with a decision maker’s name on it. We’ll call the decision maker, Bob. The gatekeeper has a choice. They can open it knowing full well it could have personal information inside or they can take the safe route and put it on Bob’s desk. Most of the time it gets placed on the desk. Later that day Bob sits down and says to himself, hmm, what do we have here. With a quick scan at the “From” label, Bob begins to open the box. What’s inside surprises him. When he lifts the lid he finds himself staring at a small tablet or mini iPad. When he looks closer he notices there is only one app on the screen w… Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Why “Tell More – Sell More” no longer works. Pre-Internet, a case could be made that if a given sales rep simply made the most calls in the office, chances were that they would end the month on top. There’s many reasons for this, such as, * The “deserve factor” leading to transference of feelings… […]

Why “Tell More – Sell More” no longer works. Pre-Internet, a case could be made that if a given sales rep simply made the most calls in the office, chances were that they would end the month on top. There’s many reasons for this, such as, * The “deserve factor” leading to transference of feelings… * Law of #’s * Experience… whoever makes the most calls fields the most questions, thus, builds up a war chest of perfect responses to questions from the absurd to obvious. * “Making the most calls” is such an important aspect for many of the largest companies in the world that many of the great sales trainers such as Zig Zigler, Brian Tracy and Tom Hopkins have book chapters and seminar sessions centered around the concept that often the best performing sales reps are those that get in early, stay late, and “make one more call.” Today, In our digital age, with decision maker’s distracted with Skype, Text, Voice-Mail, Email, GoToMeeting, and traditional Phone Calls, more calls often lead to nothing but more frustration. Worse yet, depending on the voicemail you leave, many sales people lose the deal immediately when the decision maker “Google’s” them right before they call back the sales rep. In short, they get beaten by their “Present Competition” meaning, (refer to podcast 22 for a detailed explanation) when their name or company is Google’d, the deal is lost due to what does or doesn’t show up. That said, some of today’s best sales reps, some making hundreds of thousands, even millions, each year in commission, are using appointment setting techniques that cut through the clutter and hit their targets with laser precision. How great would it be if with nothing more than a little preparation and a small marketing budget a sales rep could make one phone call and find the gatekeeper enthused to pass them on to the decision maker nearly 100% of the time. Sound too good to be true? Sales reps using “Shock & Awe” boxes don’t think so. As a matter of fact, I don’t know one entrepreneur or sales pro that has tried Shock & Awe boxes that ever went back to cold calling without them… Here’s the key. No matter how skilled a sales person is on the phone it will always be a numbers game. There is no avoiding the fact that the majority of dials have no chance of reaching a live person, let alone a decision maker. With that as the foundation…Let’s consider direct mail for a minute. Regular direct mail falls into a similar fate as cold calling. Most unsolicited mail goes right into the trash. As of Feb. 2015, The CMO Council, a marketing research firm, reports that 44% of direct mail is never opened at all. On the flipside, varying reports show that boxes, or packages, mailed to anyone, including decision makers, are opened almost every time. Let me repeat this…reports show that boxes, or packages, mailed to anyone, including decision makers, are opened almost every time. When it comes to setting appointments this is a game changer. Picture the following scenario: A shoebox sized package arrives at an office labeled with a decision maker’s name on it. We’ll call the decision maker, Bob. The gatekeeper has a choice. They can open it knowing full well it could have personal information inside or they can take the safe route and put it on Bob’s desk. Most of the time it gets placed on the desk. Later that day Bob sits down and says to himself, hmm, what do we have here. With a quick scan at the “From” label, Bob begins to open the box. What’s inside surprises him. When he lifts the lid he Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Here’s How » Join Today’s Growth community today: kencourtright.com Today’s Growth Twitter Ken Courtright LinkedIn

Episode 167 - Jesse Itzler used to leave funny outgoing messages on his answering machine back in college. They were so good , they went viral, the old school way. Pre-Internet, people would tell friends, who would tell friends, who would tell more friends. This led him to a record deal with Delicious Vinyl. To many people, landing a record deal is THE dream. Like, we got a DEAL, MAN! This, however, was just the beginning for Jesse. Jesse and Matt discuss how landing this deal led a lot of cool business doings in Itzler's life including: Creating music and video content for NBA (and other sports) teams. Co founding Marquis Jets, the first private jet company allowing customers to "rent" versus "own". Becoming part owner of The Atlanta Hawks There is a lot to be learned in this episode from a successful man who doesn't seem to stress about any of it. (They ran out of time before Matt could even ask about co-founding Zico Water or Jesse's new book "Living with a Seal", so hopefully there will be a part two.) Today's episode is sponsored by Rugged Maniac. Code ORM5 saves you $5 off all 2016 locations. It is also sponsored by Udder Mud Run. August 6th, 2016 in Macon, Georgia. Code RUNORM saves you $10.00 Show Notes Jesse's website