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Στο 129ο podcast της στήλης Business & Marketing Tips της Athens Voice με τίτλο «5 λόγοι που κάνουν το marketing στα ψηφιακά μέσα να μην αποδίδει» θα ακούσετε γιατί το μάρκετινγκ στα ψηφιακά μέσα δεν  λειτουργεί όσο θα έπρεπε. Πιστεύετε όμως στο ψηφιακό μάρκετινγκ. Ξοδεύετε ένα σημαντικό κομμάτι του budget σας σε αυτό. Η σελίδα σας είναι ενημερωμένη και η πολιτική σας cookies επικαιροποιημένη. Το e-shop σας είναι φτιαγμένο με σύγχρονα εργαλεία και η διαδικασία πώλησης είναι σχετικά γρήγορη και φιλική προς τον χρήστη. Κάνετε κάποια Google Ads και παίρνετε συμβουλές από τον φοιτητή ανιψιό σας που γνωρίζει κάποια πράγματα από SEO. Και όμως, παρά τις προσπάθειές σας, το ROI σας (Return On Investment) είναι μέτριο, μικρό, ασήμαντο ή και μηδαμινό. Τι μπορεί να συμβαίνει; Ακούστε στο σημερινό podcast!

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Hey Friend!  Have you ever made a bad business investment? Like, a really expensive one with no ROI (Return On Investment)? Unfortunately, I have. It took me a long time to get to the point where I could share this from a God-centered space. Today, I'm sharing from a very personal place the lessons I learned through this experience because I believe it's important to make decisions that are aligned with Scripture and glorify God. I want us to understand not only how to discern and be wise with our money but also how to move forward with integrity as we grow in our businesses. Whether you have made your own bad business investment or are looking into opportunities to invest, I hope you gain insight and clarity through my story and remember that God uses even our mistakes to fulfill His purpose in our lives. I pray this blesses you! Xo, Stef   Next Steps: Watch the Free Podcast Workshop: http://podcastforgrowth.com Watch the Free Clarity Workshop: http://freeclarityworkshop.com Join the Stefanie Gass School: https://stefaniegass.com/school Grab Your Freebies: https://stefaniegass.com/ Join the FB Community: http://stefgasscommunity.com  

Bio Luke Hohmann is Chief Innovation Officer of Applied Frameworks. Applied Frameworks helps companies create more profitable software-enabled solutions. A serial entrepreneur, Luke founded, bootstrapped, and sold the SaaS B2B collaboration software company Conteneo to Scaled Agile, Inc. Conteneo's Weave platform is now part of SAFe Studio. A SAFe® Fellow, prolific author, and trailblazing innovator, Luke's contributions to the global agile community include contributing to SAFe, five books, Profit Streams™, Innovation Games®, Participatory Budgeting at enterprise scale, and a pattern language for market-driven roadmapping. Luke is also co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation, where he partnered with The Kettering Foundation to create Common Ground for Action, the world's first scalable platform for deliberative decision-making. Luke is a former National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion and has an M.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. Luke loves his wife and four kids, his wife's cooking, and long runs in the California sunshine and Santa Cruz mountains.    Interview Highlights 01:30 Organisational Behaviour & Cognitive Psychology 06:10 Serendipity 09:30 Entrepreneurship 16:15 Applied Frameworks 20:00 Sustainability 20:45 Software Profit Streams 23:00 Business Model Canvas 24:00 Value Proposition Canvas 24:45 Setting the Price 28:45 Customer Benefit Analysis 34:00 Participatory Budgeting 36:00 Value Stream Funding 37:30 The Color of Money 42:00 Private v Public Sector 49:00 ROI Analysis 51:00 Innovation Accounting    Connecting   LinkedIn: Luke Hohmann on LinkedIn Company Website: Applied Frameworks    Books & Resources   ·         Software Profit Streams(TM): A Guide to Designing a Sustainably Profitable Business: Jason Tanner, Luke Hohmann, Federico González ·         Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer series): Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur ·         Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series): Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith, Trish Papadakos ·         Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play: Luke Hohmann ·         The ‘Color of Money' Problem: Additional Guidance on Participatory Budgeting - Scaled Agile Framework ·         The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries ·         Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2, Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres ·         The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering: Brooks, Frederick Phillips ·         Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud ·         Ponyboy: A Novel, Eliot Duncan ·         Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel, Bonnie Garmus, Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes ·         What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry ·         Training | Applied Frameworks   Episode Transcript Intro: Hello and welcome to the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. I'm Ula Ojiaku. On this podcast I speak with world-class leaders and doers about themselves and a variety of topics spanning Agile, Lean Innovation, Business, Leadership and much more – with actionable takeaways for you the listener.  Ula Ojiaku   So I have with me Luke Hohmann, who is a four time author, three time founder, serial entrepreneur if I say, a SAFe fellow, so that's a Skilled Agile Framework fellow, keynote speaker and an internationally recognised expert in Agile software development. He is also a proud husband and a father of four. So, Luke, I am very honoured to have you on the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. Thank you for making the time. Luke Hohmann Thank you so much for having me, I'm very happy to be here, and hi everyone who's listening. Ula Ojiaku Yes, I'm sure they're waving back at you as well. I always start my conversations with my guests to find out about them as individuals, you know, so who is Luke? You have a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, but you also studied Cognitive Psychology and Organisational Behaviour in addition to Data Structures and Artificial Intelligence. AI is now making waves and is kind of at the forefront, which is interesting, you had the foresight to also look into these. So my question is, what took you down this path? Luke Hohmann Sure. I had a humble beginning in the world of technology. I worked for a large company, Electronic Data Systems, and it was founded in the mid 60s by a gentleman named Ross Perot, and it became a very, very large company. So my first job at Electronic Data Systems was working in a data centre, and we know what data centres are, but back then, data centres were different because they were predominantly mainframe-based data centres, and I would crawl underneath the floor, cabling the computers and cabling networking equipment. Now, when we think networking, we're really thinking one of two kinds of networking. We think of wireless networking or we think of some form of internet networking, but back in those days, there were varieties of network protocols, literally the standards that we use now weren't invented yet. So it was mainframe networking protocols and dial ups and other forms of networking protocols. From there, I worked my way from beneath the ground up. I had some great managers who saw someone who was worthy of opportunity and they gave me opportunity and it was great. And then eventually I started working in electronic data systems and there was, the first wave of AI came in the mid 80s and that's when we were doing things like building expert systems, and I managed to create with a colleague of mine, who's emerged as my best friend, a very successful implementation of an expert system, an AI-based expert system at EDS, and that motivated me to finish off my college degree, I didn't have my college degree at the time. So EDS supported me in going to the University of Michigan, where as you said, I picked up my Bachelor's and Master's degree, and my advisor at the time was Elliot Soloway, and he was doing research in how programmers program, what are the knowledge structures, what are the ways in which we think when we're programming, and I picked up that research and built programming environments, along with educational material, trying to understand how programmers program and trying to build educational material to teach programming more effectively. That's important because it ignited a lifelong passion for developing education materials, etc. Now the cognitive psychology part was handled through that vein of work, the organisational behaviour work came as I was a student at Michigan. As many of us are when we're in college, we don't make a lot of money, or at university we're not wealthy and I needed a job and so the School of Organisational Behaviour had published some job postings and they needed programmers to program software for their organisational behaviour research, and I answered those ads and I became friends and did the research for many ground-breaking aspects of organisational behaviour and I programmed, and in the process of programming for the professors who were in the School of Organisational Behaviour they would teach me about organisational behaviour and I learned many things that at the time were not entirely clear to me, but then when I graduated from university and I became a manager and I also became more involved in the Agile movement, I had a very deep foundation that has served me very well in terms of what do we mean when we say culture, or what do we mean when we talk about organisational structures, both in the small and in the large, how do we organise effectively, when should we scale, when should we not scale, etc. So that's a bit about my history that I think in terms of the early days helped inform who I am today. Ula Ojiaku Wow, who would have thought, it just reminds me of the word serendipity, you know, I guess a happy coincidence, quote unquote, and would there be examples of where the cognitive psychology part of it also helped you work-wise? Luke Hohmann Yeah, a way to think about cognitive psychology and the branch that, I mean there's, psychology is a huge branch of study, right? So cognitive psychology tends to relate to how do we solve problems, and it tends to focus on problem solving where n = 1 and what I mean by n is the number of participants, and where n is just me as an individual, how do I solve the problems that I'm facing? How do I engage in de-compositional activities or refinement or sense making? Organisational behaviour deals with n > 1. So it can deal with a team of, a para-bond, two people solving problems. It can deal with a small team, and we know through many, many, many decades of research that optimal team structures are eight people or less. I mean, we've known this for, when I say decades I mean millennia. When you look at military structure and military strategy, we know that people need to be organised into much smaller groups to be effective in problem solving and to move quickly. And then in any organisational structure, there's some notion of a team of teams or team engagement. So cognitive psychology, I think, helps leaders understand individuals and their place within the team. And now we talk about, you know, in the Agile community, we talk about things like, I want T-shaped people, I want people with common skills and their area of expertise and by organising enough of the T's, I can create a whole and complete team. I often say I don't want my database designer designing my user interface and I don't want my user interface designer optimising my back end database queries, they're different skills. They're very educated people, they're very sophisticated, but there's also the natural feeling that you and I have about how do I gain a sense of self, how do I gain a sense of accomplishment, a sense of mastery? Part of gaining a sense of mastery is understanding who you are as a person, what you're good at. In Japanese, they would call that Ikigai, right, what are the intersections of, you know, what do I love, what am I good at, what can I make a living at and what do people need, right? All of these intersections occur on an individual level, and then by understanding that we can create more effective teams. Ula Ojiaku Thank you. I've really learned something key here, the relationship between cognitive psychology and organisational behaviour, so thanks for breaking it down. Now, can we go quickly to your entrepreneurship? So there must be three times you started three times a company and you've been successful in that area. What exactly drives you when it comes to establishing businesses and then knowing when to move on? Luke Hohmann Sure. I think it's a combination of reflecting on my childhood and then looking at how that informs someone when they're older, and then opportunities, like you said, serendipity, I think that's a really powerful word that you introduced and it's a really powerful concept because sometimes the serendipity is associated with just allowing yourself to pursue something that presents itself. But when I was young, my father died and my mum had to raise six kids on her own, so my dad died when I was four, my mum raised six kids on her own. We were not a wealthy family, and she was a school teacher and one of the things that happened was, even though she was a very skilled school teacher, there were budget cuts and it was a unionised structure, and even though she was ranked very highly, she lost her job because she was low on the hiring totem pole in terms of how the union worked. It was very hard and of course, it's always hard to make budget cuts and firing but I remember when I was very young making one of those choices saying, I want to work in a field where we are more oriented towards someone's performance and not oriented on when they were hired, or the colour of their skin, or their gender or other things that to me didn't make sense that people were making decisions against. And while it's not a perfect field for sure, and we've got lots of improvement, engineering in general, and of course software engineering and software development spoke to me because I could meet people who were diverse or more diverse than in other fields and I thought that was really good. In terms of being an entrepreneur, that happened serendipitously. I was at the time, before I became an entrepreneur in my last job, was working for an Israeli security firm, and years and years ago, I used to do software anti-piracy and software security through physical dongles. This was made by a company called Aladdin Knowledge Systems in Israel, and I was the head of Engineering and Product Management for the dongle group and then I moved into a role of Business Development for the company. I had a couple of great bosses, but I also learned how to do international management because I had development teams in Israel, I had development teams in Munich, I had development teams in Portland, Oregon, and in the Bay Area, and this was in the 2000s. This is kind of pre-Agile, pre-Salt Lake City, pre-Agile Manifesto, but we were figuring things out and blending and working together. I thought things were going pretty well and I enjoyed working for the Israelis and what we were doing, but then we had the first Gulf War and my wife and I felt that maybe traveling as I was, we weren't sure what was going to happen in the war, I should choose something different. Unfortunately, by that time, we had been through the dot-bomb crisis in Silicon Valley. So it's about 2002 at the time that this was going on, and there really weren't jobs, it was a very weird time in Silicon Valley. So in late 2002, I sent an email to a bunch of friends and I said, hey, I'm going to be a consultant, who wants to hire me, that was my marketing plan, not very clever, and someone called me and said, hey, I've got a problem and this is the kind of thing that you can fix, come consult with us. And I said, great. So I did that, and that started the cleverly named Luke Hohmann Consulting, but then one thing led to another and consulting led to opportunities and growth and I've never looked back. So I think that there is a myth about people who start companies where sometimes you have a plan and you go execute your plan. Sometimes you find the problem and you're solving a problem. Sometimes the problem is your own problem, as in my case I had two small kids and a mortgage and I needed to provide for my family, and so the best way to do that at the time was to become a consultant. Since then I have engaged in building companies, sometimes some with more planning, some with more business tools and of course as you grow as an entrepreneur you learn skills that they didn't teach you in school, like marketing and pricing and business planning etc. And so that's kind of how I got started, and now I have kind of come full circle. The last company, the second last company I started was Conteneo and we ended up selling that to Scaled Agile, and that's how I joined the Scaled Agile team and that was lovely, moving from a position of being a CEO and being responsible for certain things, to being able to be part of a team again, joining the framework team, working with Dean Leffingwell and other members of the framework team to evolve the SAFe framework, that was really lovely. And then of course you get this entrepreneurial itch and you want to do something else, and so I think it comes and goes and you kind of allow yourself those opportunities. Ula Ojiaku Wow, yours is an inspiring story. And so what are you now, so you've talked about your first two Startups which you sold, what are you doing now? Luke Hohmann Yeah, so where I'm at right now is I am the Chief Innovation Officer for a company, Applied Frameworks. Applied Frameworks is a boutique consulting firm that's in a transition to a product company. So if this arm represents our product revenue and this arm represents our services revenue, we're expanding our product and eventually we'll become a product company. And so then the question is, well, what is the product that we're working on? Well, if you look at the Agile community, we've spent a lot of time creating and delivering value, and that's really great. We have had, if you look at the Agile community, we've had amazing support from our business counterparts. They've shovelled literally millions and millions of dollars into Agile training and Agile tooling and Agile transformations, and we've seen a lot of benefit from the Agile community. And when I say Agile, I don't mean SAFe or Scrum or some particular flavour of Agile, I just mean Agile in general. There's been hundreds of millions of dollars to billions of dollars shoved into Agile and we've created a lot of value for that investment. We've got fewer bugs in our software because we've got so many teams doing XP driven practices like Test Driven Development, we've got faster response times because we've learned that we can create smaller releases and we've created infrastructure that lets us do deployments automatically, even if you're doing embedded systems, we figured out how to do over the air updates, we've figured out how to create infrastructure where the cars we're driving are now getting software updates. So we've created for our business leaders lots of value, but there's a problem in that value. Our business leaders now need us to create a profit, and creating value and creating a profit are two different things. And so in the pursuit of value, we have allowed our Agile community to avoid and or atrophy on skills that are vital to product management, and I'm a classically trained Product Manager, so I've done market segmentation and market valuation and market sizing, I've done pricing, I've done licensing, I've done acquisitions, I've done compliance. But when you look at the traditional definition of a Product Owner, it's a very small subset of that, especially in certain Agile methods where Product Owners are team centric, they're internal centric. That's okay, I'm not criticising that structure, but what's happened is we've got people who no longer know how to price, how to package, how to license products, and we're seeing companies fail, investor money wasted, too much time trying to figure things out when if we had simply approached the problem with an analysis of not just what am I providing to you in terms of value, but what is that value worth, and how do I structure an exchange where I give you value and you give me money? And that's how businesses survive, and I think what's really interesting about this in terms of Agile is Agile is very intimately tied to sustainability. One of the drivers of the Agile Movement was way back in the 2000s, we were having very unsustainable practices. People would be working 60, 80, death march weeks of grinding out programmers and grinding out people, and part of the Agile Movement was saying, wait a minute, this isn't sustainable, and even the notion of what is a sustainable pace is really vital, but a company cannot sustain itself without a profit, and if we don't actually evolve the Agile community from value streams into profit streams, we can't help our businesses survive. I sometimes ask developers, I say, raise your hand if you're really embracing the idea that your job is to make more money for your company than they pay you, that's called a profit, and if that's not happening, your company's going to fail. Ula Ojiaku They'll be out of a job. Luke Hohmann You'll be out of a job. So if you want to be self-interested about your future, help your company be successful, help them make a profit, and so where I'm at right now is Applied Frameworks has, with my co-author, Jason Tanner, we have published a bold and breakthrough new book called Software Profit Streams, and it's a book that describes how to do pricing and packaging for software enabled solutions. When we say software enabled solution, we mean a solution that has software in it somehow, could be embedded software in your microwave oven, it could be a hosted solution, it could be an API for a payment processor, it could be the software in your car that I talked about earlier. So software enabled solutions are the foundation, the fabric of our modern lives. As Mark Andreessen says software is eating the world, software is going to be in everything, and we need to know how to take the value that we are creating as engineers, as developers, and convert that into pricing and licensing choices that create sustainable profits. Ula Ojiaku Wow. It's as if you read my mind because I was going to ask you about your book, Software Profit Streams, A Guide to Designing a Sustainably Profitable Business. I also noticed that, you know, there is the Profit Stream Canvas that you and your co-author created. So let's assume I am a Product Manager and I've used this, let's assume I went down the path of using the Business Model Canvas and there is the Customer Value Proposition. So how do they complement? Luke Hohmann How do they all work together? I'm glad you asked that, I think that's a very insightful question and the reason it's so helpful is because, well partly because I'm also friends with Alex Osterwalder, I think he's a dear, he's a wonderful human, he's a dear friend. So let's look at the different elements of the different canvases, if you will, and why we think that this is needed. The Business Model Canvas is kind of how am I structuring my business itself, like what are my partners, my suppliers, my relationships, my channel strategy, my brand strategy with respect to my customer segments, and it includes elements of cost, which we're pretty good at. We're pretty good at knowing our costs and elements of revenue, but the key assumption of revenue, of course, is the selling price and the number of units sold. So, but if you look at the book, Business Model Generation, where the Business Model Canvas comes from, it doesn't actually talk about how to set the price. Is the video game going to be $49? Is it going to be $59, or £49 or £59? Well, there's a lot of thought that goes into that. Then we have the Value Proposition Canvas, which highlights what are the pains the customer is facing? What are the gains that the customer is facing? What are the jobs to be done of the customer? How does my solution relate to the jobs? How does it help solve the pain the customer is feeling? How does it create gain for the customer? But if you read those books, and both of those books are on my shelf because they're fantastic books, it doesn't talk about pricing. So let's say I create a gain for you. Well, how much can I charge you for the gain that I've created? How do I structure that relationship? And how do I know, going back to my Business Model Canvas, that I've got the right market segment, I've got the right investment strategy, I might need to make an investment in the first one or two releases of my software or my product before I start to make a per unit profit because I'm evolving, it's called the J curve and the J curve is how much money am I investing before I well, I have to be able to forecast that, I have to be able to model that, but the key input to that is what is the price, what is the mechanism of packaging that you're using, is it, for example, is it per user in a SAS environment or is it per company in a SAS environment? Is it a meter? Is it like an API transaction using Stripe or a payment processor, Adyen or Stripe or Paypal or any of the others that are out there? Or is it an API call where I'm charging a fraction of a penny for any API call? All of those elements have to be put into an economic model and a forecast has to be created. Now, what's missing about this is that the Business Model Canvas and the Value Proposition Canvas don't give you the insight on how to set the price, they just say there is a price and we're going to use it in our equations. So what we've done is we've said, look, setting the price is itself a complex system, and what I mean by a complex system is that, let's say that I wanted to do an annual license for a new SAS offering, but I offer that in Europe and now my solution is influenced or governed by GDPR compliance, where I have data retention and data privacy laws. So my technical architecture that has to enforce the license, also has to comply with something in terms of the market in which I'm selling. This complex system needs to be organised, and so what canvases do is in all of these cases, they let us take a complex system and put some structure behind the choices that we're making in that complex system so that we can make better choices in terms of system design. I know how I want this to work, I know how I want this to be structured, and therefore I can make system choices so the system is working in a way that benefits the stakeholders. Not just me, right, I'm not the only stakeholder, my customers are in this system, my suppliers are in this system, society itself might be in the system, depending on the system I'm building or the solution I'm building. So the canvases enable us to make system level choices that are hopefully more effective in achieving our goals. And like I said, the Business Model Canvas, the Value Proposition Canvas are fantastic, highly recommended, but they don't cover pricing. So we needed something to cover the actual pricing and packaging and licensing. Ula Ojiaku Well, that's awesome. So it's really more about going, taking a deeper dive into thoughtfully and structurally, if I may use that word, assessing the pricing. Luke Hohmann Yeah, absolutely. Ula Ojiaku Would you say that in doing this there would be some elements of, you know, testing and getting feedback from actual customers to know what price point makes sense? Luke Hohmann Absolutely. There's a number of ways in which customer engagement or customer testing is involved. The very first step that we advocate is a Customer Benefit Analysis, which is what are the actual benefits you're creating and how are your customers experiencing those benefits. Those experiences are both tangible and intangible and that's another one of the challenges that we face in the Agile community. In general, the Agile community spends a little bit more time on tangible or functional value than intangible value. So we, in terms of if I were to look at it in terms of a computer, we used to say speeds and feeds. How fast is the processor? How fast is the network? How much storage is on my disk space? Those are all functional elements. Over time as our computers have become plenty fast or plenty storage wise for most of our personal computing needs, we see elements of design come into play, elements of usability, elements of brand, and we see this in other areas. Cars have improved in quality so much that many of us, the durability of the car is no longer a significant attribute because all cars are pretty durable, they're pretty good, they're pretty well made. So now we look at brand, we look at style, we look at aesthetics, we look at even paying more for a car that aligns with our values in terms of the environment. I want to get an EV, why, because I want to be more environmentally conscious. That's a value driven, that's an intangible factor. And so our first step starts with Customer Benefit Analysis looking at both functional or tangible value and intangible value, and you can't do that, as you can imagine, you can't do that without having customer interaction and awareness with your stakeholders and your customers, and that also feeds throughout the whole pricing process. Eventually, you're going to put your product in a market, and that's a form itself of market research. Did customers buy, and if they didn't buy, why did they not buy? Is it poorly packaged or is it poorly priced? These are all elements that involve customers throughout the process. Ula Ojiaku If I may, I know we've been on the topic of your latest book Software Profit Streams. I'm just wondering, because I can't help but try to connect the dots and I'm wondering if there might be a connection to one of your books, Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, something like buy a feature in your book, that kind of came to mind, could there be a way of using that as part of the engagement with customers in setting a pricing strategy? I may be wrong, I'm just asking a question. Luke Hohmann I think you're making a great connection. There's two forms of relationship that Innovation Games and the Innovation Games book have with Software Profit Streams. One is, as you correctly noted, just the basics of market research, where do key people have pains or gains and what it might be worth. That work is also included in Alex Osterwalder's books, Value Proposition Design for example, when I've been doing Value Proposition Design and I'm trying to figure out the customer pains, you can use the Innovation Games Speed Boat. And when I want to figure out the gains, I can use the Innovation Game Product Box. Similarly, when I'm figuring out pricing and licensing, a way, and it's a very astute idea, a way to understand price points of individual features is to do certain kinds of market research. One form of market research you can do is Buy-a-Feature, which gives a gauge of what people are willing or might be willing to pay for a feature. It can be a little tricky because the normal construction of Buy-a-Feature is based on cost. However, your insight is correct, you can extend Buy-a-Feature such that you're testing value as opposed to cost, and seeing what, if you take a feature that costs X, but inflate that cost by Y and a Buy-a-Feature game, if people still buy it, it's a strong signal strength that first they want it, and second it may be a feature that you can, when delivered, would motivate you to raise the price of your offering and create a better profit for your company. Ula Ojiaku Okay, well, thank you. I wasn't sure if I was on the right lines. Luke Hohmann It's a great connection. Ula Ojiaku Thanks again. I mean, it's not original. I'm just piggybacking on your ideas. So with respect to, if we, if you don't mind, let's shift gears a bit because I know that, or I'm aware that whilst you were with Scaled Agile Incorporated, you know, you played a key part in developing some of their courses, like the Product POPM, and I think the Portfolio Management, and there was the concept about Participatory Budgeting. Can we talk about that, please? Luke Hohmann I'd love to talk about that, I mean it's a huge passion of mine, absolutely. So in February of 2018, I started working with the framework team and in December of 2018, we talked about the possibility of what an acquisition might look like and the benefits it would create, which would be many. That closed in May of 2019, and in that timeframe, we were working on SAFe 5.0 and so there were a couple of areas in which I was able to make some contributions. One was in Agile product delivery competency, the other was in lean portfolio management. I had a significant hand in restructuring or adding the POPM, APM, and LPM courses, adding things like solutions by horizons to SAFe, taking the existing content on guardrails, expanding it a little bit, and of course, adding Participatory Budgeting, which is just a huge passion of mine. I've done Participatory Budgeting now for 20 years, I've helped organisations make more than five billions of dollars of investment spending choices at all levels of companies, myself and my colleagues at Applied Frameworks, and it just is a better way to make a shared decision. If you think about one of the examples they use about Participatory Budgeting, is my preferred form of fitness is I'm a runner and so, and my wife is also a fit person. So if she goes and buys a new pair of shoes or trainers and I go and buy a new pair of trainers, we don't care, because it's a small purchase. It's frequently made and it's within the pattern of our normal behaviour. However, if I were to go out and buy a new car without involving her, that feels different, right, it's a significant purchase, it requires budgeting and care, and is this car going to meet our needs? Our kids are older than your kids, so we have different needs and different requirements, and so I would be losing trust in my pair bond with my wife if I made a substantial purchase without her involvement. Well, corporations work the same way, because we're still people. So if I'm funding a value stream, I'm funding the consistent and reliable flow of valuable items, that's what value stream funding is supposed to do. However, if there is a significant investment to be made, even if the value stream can afford it, it should be introduced to the portfolio for no other reason than the social structure of healthy organisations says that we do better when we're talking about these things, that we don't go off on our own and make significant decisions without the input of others. That lowers transparency, that lowers trust. So I am a huge advocate of Participatory Budgeting, I'm very happy that it's included in SAFe as a recommended practice, both for market research and Buy-a-Feature in APM, but also more significantly, if you will, at the portfolio level for making investment decisions. And I'm really excited to share that we've just published an article a few weeks ago about Participatory Budgeting and what's called The Color of Money, and The Color of Money is sometimes when you have constraints on how you can spend money, and an example of a constraint is let's say that a government raised taxes to improve transportation infrastructure. Well, the money that they took in is constrained in a certain way. You can't spend it, for example, on education, and so we have to show how Participatory Budgeting can be adapted to have relationships between items like this item requires this item as a precedent or The Color of Money, constraints of funding items, but I'm a big believer, we just published that article and you can get that at the Scaled Agile website, I'm a big believer in the social power of making these financial decisions and the benefits that accrue to people and organisations when they collaborate in this manner. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for going into that, Luke. So, would there be, in your experience, any type of organisation that's participatory? It's not a leading question, it's just genuine, there are typically outliers and I'm wondering in your experience, and in your opinion, if there would be organisations that it might not work for? Luke Hohmann Surprisingly, no, but I want to add a few qualifications to the effective design of a Participatory Budgeting session. When people hear Participatory Budgeting, there's different ways that you would apply Participatory Budgeting in the public and private sector. So I've done citywide Participatory Budgeting in cities and if you're a citizen of a city and you meet the qualifications for voting within that jurisdiction, in the United States, it's typically that you're 18 years old, in some places you have to be a little older, in some places you might have other qualifications, but if you're qualified to participate as a citizen in democratic processes, then you should be able to participate in Participatory Budgeting sessions that are associated with things like how do we spend taxes or how do we make certain investments. In corporations it's not quite the same way. Just because you work at a company doesn't mean you should be included in portfolio management decisions that affect the entire company. You may not have the background, you may not have the training, you may be what my friends sometimes call a fresher. So I do a lot of work overseas, so freshers, they just may not have the experience to participate. So one thing that we look at in Participatory Budgeting and SAFe is who should be involved in the sessions, and that doesn't mean that every single employee should always be included, because their background, I mean, they may be a technical topic and maybe they don't have the right technical background. So we work a little bit harder in corporations to make sure the right people are there. Now, of course, if we're going to make a mistake, we tend to make the mistake of including more people than excluding, partly because in SAFe Participatory Budgeting, it's a group of people who are making a decision, not a one person, one vote, and that's really profoundly important because in a corporation, just like in a para-bond, your opinion matters to me, I want to know what you're thinking. If I'm looking in, I'll use SAFe terminology, if I'm looking at three epics that could advance our portfolio, and I'm a little unsure about two of those epics, like one of those epics, I'm like, yeah, this is a really good thing, I know a little bit about it, this matters, I'm going to fund this, but the other two I'm not so sure about, well, there's no way I can learn through reading alone what the opinions of other people are, because, again, there's these intangible factors. There's these elements that may not be included in an ROI analysis, it's kind of hard to talk about brand and an ROI analysis - we can, but it's hard, so I want to listen to how other people are talking about things, and through that, I can go, yeah, I can see the value, I didn't see it before, I'm going to join you in funding this. So that's among the ways in which Participatory Budgeting is a little different within the private sector and the public sector and within a company. The only other element that I would add is that Participatory Budgeting gives people the permission to stop funding items that are no longer likely to meet the investment or objectives of the company, or to change minds, and so one of the, again, this is a bit of an overhang in the Agile community, Agile teams are optimised for doing things that are small, things that can fit within a two or three week Sprint. That's great, no criticism there, but our customers and our stakeholders want big things that move the market needle, and the big things that move the market needle don't get done in two or three weeks, in general, and they rarely, like they require multiple teams working multiple weeks to create a really profoundly new important thing. And so what happens though, is that we need to make in a sense funding commitments for these big things, but we also have to have a way to change our mind, and so traditional funding processes, they let us make this big commitment, but they're not good at letting us change our mind, meaning they're not Agile. Participatory Budgeting gives us the best of both worlds. I can sit at the table with you and with our colleagues, we can commit to funding something that's big, but six months later, which is the recommended cadence from SAFe, I can come back to that table and reassess and we can all look at each other, because you know those moments, right, you've had that experience in visiting, because you're like looking around the table and you're like, yeah, this isn't working. And then in traditional funding, we keep funding what's not working because there's no built-in mechanism to easily change it, but in SAFe Participatory Budgeting, you and I can sit at the table and we can look at each other with our colleagues and say, yeah, you know, that initiative just, it's not working, well, let's change our mind, okay, what is the new thing that we can fund? What is the new epic? And that permission is so powerful within a corporation. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for sharing that, and whilst you were speaking, because again, me trying to connect the dots and thinking, for an organisation that has adopted SAFe or it's trying to scale Agility, because like you mentioned, Agile teams are optimised to iteratively develop or deliver, you know, small chunks over time, usually two to three weeks, but, like you said, there is a longer time horizon spanning months, even years into the future, sometimes for those worthwhile, meaty things to be delivered that moves the strategic needle if I may use that buzzword. So, let's say we at that lean portfolio level, we're looking at epics, right, and Participatory Budgeting, we are looking at initiatives on an epic to epic basis per se, where would the Lean Startup Cycle come in here? So is it that Participatory Budgeting could be a mechanism that is used for assessing, okay, this is the MVP features that have been developed and all that, the leading indicators we've gotten, that's presented to the group, and on that basis, we make that pivot or persevere or stop decision, would that fit in? Luke Hohmann Yeah, so let's, I mean, you're close, but let me make a few turns and then it'll click better. First, let's acknowledge that the SAFe approach to the Lean Startup Cycle is not the Eric Ries approach, there are some differences, but let's separate how I fund something from how I evaluate something. So if I'm going to engage in the SAFe Lean Startup Cycle, part of that engagement is to fund an MVP, which is going to prove or disprove a given hypothesis. So that's an expenditure of money. Now there's, if you think about the expenditure of money, there's minimally two steps in this process - there's spending enough money to conduct the experiments, and if those experiments are true, making another commitment to spend money again, that I want to spend it. The reason this is important is, let's say I had three experiments running in parallel and I'm going to use easy round numbers for a large corporation. Let's say I want to run three experiments in parallel, and each experiment costs me a million pounds. Okay. So now let's say that the commercialisation of each of those is an additional amount of money. So the portfolio team sits around the table and says, we have the money, we're going to fund all three. Okay, great. Well, it's an unlikely circumstance, but let's say all three are successful. Well, this is like a venture capitalist, and I have a talk that I give that relates the funding cycle of a venture capitalist to the funding cycle of an LPM team. While it's unlikely, you could have all three become successful, and this is what I call an oversubscribed portfolio. I've got three great initiatives, but I can still only fund one or two of them, I still have to make the choice. Now, of course, I'm going to look at my economics and let's say out of the three initiatives that were successfully proven through their hypothesis, let's say one of them is just clearly not as economically attractive, for whatever reason. Okay, we get rid of that one, now, I've got two, and if I can only fund one of them, and the ROI, the hard ROI is roughly the same, that's when Participatory Budgeting really shines, because we can have those leaders come back into the room, and they can say, which choice do we want to make now? So the evaluative aspect of the MVP is the leading indicators and the results of the proving or disproving of the hypotheses. We separate that from the funding choices, which is where Participatory Budgeting and LPM kick in. Ula Ojiaku Okay. So you've separated the proving or disproving the hypothesis of the feature, some of the features that will probably make up an epic. And you're saying the funding, the decision to fund the epic in the first place is a different conversation. And you've likened it to Venture Capital funding rounds. Where do they connect? Because if they're separate, what's the connecting thread between the two? Luke Hohmann The connected thread is the portfolio process, right? The actual process is the mechanism where we're connecting these things. Ula Ojiaku OK, no, thanks for the portfolio process. But there is something you mentioned, ROI - Return On Investment. And sometimes when you're developing new products, you don't know, you have assumptions. And any ROI, sorry to put it this way, but you're really plucking figures from the air, you know, you're modelling, but there is no certainty because you could hit the mark or you could go way off the mark. So where does that innovation accounting coming into place, especially if it's a product that's yet to make contact with, you know, real life users, the customers. Luke Hohmann Well, let's go back to something you said earlier, and what you talked earlier about was the relationship that you have in market researching customer interaction. In making a forecast, let's go ahead and look at the notion of building a new product within a company, and this is again where the Agile community sometimes doesn't want to look at numbers or quote, unquote get dirty, but we have to, because if I'm going to look at building a new idea, or taking a new idea into a product, I have to have a forecast of its viability. Is it economically viable? Is it a good choice? So innovation accounting is a way to look at certain data, but before, I'm going to steal a page, a quote, from one of my friends, Jeff Patton. The most expensive way to figure this out is to actually build the product. So what can I do that's less expensive than building the product itself? I can still do market research, but maybe I wouldn't do an innovation game, maybe I'd do a formal survey and I use a price point testing mechanism like Van Westendorp Price Point Analysis, which is a series of questions that you ask to triangulate on acceptable price ranges. I can do competitive benchmarking for similar products and services. What are people offering right now in the market? Now that again, if the product is completely novel, doing competitive benchmarking can be really hard. Right now, there's so many people doing streaming that we look at the competitive market, but when Netflix first offered streaming and it was the first one, their best approach was what we call reference pricing, which is, I have a reference price for how much I pay for my DVDs that I'm getting in the mail, I'm going to base my streaming service kind of on the reference pricing of entertainment, although that's not entirely clear that that was the best way to go, because you could also base the reference price on what you're paying for a movie ticket and how many, but then you look at consumption, right, because movie tickets are expensive, so I only go to a movie maybe once every other month, whereas streaming is cheap and so I can change my demand curve by lowering my price. But this is why it's such a hard science is because we have this notion of these swirling factors. Getting specifically back to your question about the price point, I do have to do some market research before I go into the market to get some forecasting and some confidence, and research gives me more confidence, and of course, once I'm in the market, I'll know how effective my research matched the market reality. Maybe my research was misleading, and of course, there's some skill in designing research, as you know, to get answers that have high quality signal strength. Ula Ojiaku Thanks for clarifying. That makes perfect sense to me. Luke Hohmann It's kind of like a forecast saying, like there's a group of Agile people who will say, like, you shouldn't make forecasts. Well, I don't understand that because that's like saying, and people will say, well, I can't predict the future. Well, okay, I can't predict when I'm going to retire, but I'm planning to retire. I don't know the date of my exact retirement, but my wife and I are planning our retirement, and we're saving, we're making certain investment choices for our future, because we expect to have a future together. Now our kids are older than yours. My kids are now in university, and so we're closer to retirement. So what I dislike about the Agile community is people will sometimes say, well, I don't know the certainty of the event, therefore, I can't plan for it. But that's really daft, because there are many places in like, you may not for the listeners, her daughter is a little younger than my kids, but they will be going to university one day, and depending on where they go, that's a financial choice. So you could say, well, I don't know when she's going to university, and I can't predict what university she's going to go to, therefore I'm not going to save any money. Really? That doesn't make no sense. So I really get very upset when you have people in the agile community will say things like road mapping or forecasting is not Agile. It's entirely Agile. How you treat it is Agile or not Agile. Like when my child comes up to me and says, hey, you know about that going to university thing, I was thinking of taking a gap year. Okay, wait a minute, that's a change. That doesn't mean no, it means you're laughing, right? But that's a change. And so we respond to change, but we still have a plan. Ula Ojiaku It makes sense. So the reason, and I completely resonate with everything you said, the reason I raised that ROI and it not being known is that in some situations, people might be tempted to use it to game the budget allocation decision making process. That's why I said you would pluck the ROI. Luke Hohmann Okay, let's talk about that. We actually address this in our recent paper, but I'll give you my personal experience. You are vastly more likely to get bad behaviour on ROI analysis when you do not do Participatory Budgeting, because there's no social construct to prevent bad behaviour. If I'm sitting down at a table and that's virtual or physical, it doesn't matter, but let's take a perfect optimum size for a Participatory Budgeting group. Six people, let's say I'm a Director or a Senior Director in a company, and I'm sitting at a table and there's another Senior Director who's a peer, maybe there's a VP, maybe there's a person from engineering, maybe there's a person from sales and we've got this mix of people and I'm sitting at that table. I am not incented to come in with an inflated ROI because those people are really intelligent and given enough time, they're not going to support my initiative because I'm fibbing, I'm lying. And I have a phrase for this, it's when ROI becomes RO-lie that it's dangerous. And so when I'm sitting at that table, what we find consistently, and one of the clients that we did a fair amount of Participatory Budgeting for years ago with Cisco, what we found was the leaders at Cisco were creating tighter, more believable, and more defensible economic projections, precisely because they knew that they were going to be sitting with their peers, and it didn't matter. It can go both ways. Sometimes people will overestimate the ROI or they underestimate the cost. Same outcome, right? I'm going to overestimate the benefit, and people would be like, yeah, I don't think you can build that product with three teams. You're going to need five or six teams and people go, oh, I can get it done with, you know, 20 people. Yeah, I don't think so, because two years ago, we built this product. It's very similar, and, you know, we thought we could get it done with 20 people and we couldn't. We really needed, you know, a bigger group. So you see the social construct creating a more believable set of results because people come to the Participatory Budgeting session knowing that their peers are in the room. And of course, we think we're smart, so our peers are as smart as we are, we're all smart people, and therefore, the social construct of Participatory Budgeting quite literally creates a better input, which creates a better output. Ula Ojiaku That makes sense, definitely. Thanks for sharing that. I've found that very, very insightful and something I can easily apply. The reasoning behind it, the social pressure, quote unquote, knowing that you're not just going to put the paper forward but you'd have to defend it in a credible, believable way make sense. So just to wrap up now, what books have you found yourself recommending to people the most, and why? Luke Hohmann It's so funny, I get yelled at by my wife for how many books I buy. She'll go like “It's Amazon again. Another book. You know, there's this thing called the library.” Ula Ojiaku You should do Participatory Budgeting for your books then sounds like, sorry. Luke Hohmann No, no, I don't, I'd lose. Gosh, I love so many books. So there's a few books that I consider to be my go-to references and my go-to classics, but I also recommend that people re-read books and sometimes I recommend re-reading books is because you're a different person, and as you age and as you grow and you see things differently and in fact, I'm right now re-reading and of course it goes faster, but I'm re-reading the original Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck, a fantastic book. I just finished reading a few new books, but let me let me give you a couple of classics that I think everyone in our field should read and why they should read them. I think everyone should read The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks because he really covers some very profound truths that haven't changed, things like Brooks Law, which is adding programmers to a late project, makes it later. He talks about the structure of teams and how to scale before scaling was big and important and cool. He talks about communication and conceptual integrity and the role of the architect. The other book that I'm going to give, which I hope is different than any book that anyone has ever given you, because it's one of my absolute favourite books and I give them away, is a book called Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. Comics or graphic novels are an important medium for communication, and when we talk about storytelling and we talk about how to frame information and how to present information, understanding comics is profoundly insightful in terms of how to present, share, show information. A lot of times I think we make things harder than they should be. So when I'm working with executives and some of the clients that I work with personally, when we talk about our epics, we actually will tell stories about the hero's journey and we actually hire comic book artists to help the executives tell their story in a comic form or in a graphic novel form. So I absolutely love understanding comics. I think that that's really a profound book. Of course you mentioned Alex Osterwalder's books, Business Model Generation, Business Model Canvas. Those are fantastic books for Product Managers. I also, just looking at my own bookshelves, of course, Innovation Games for PMs, of course Software Profit Streams because we have to figure out how to create sustainability, but in reality there's so many books that we love and that we share and that we grow together when we're sharing books and I'll add one thing. Please don't only limit your books to technical books. We're humans too. I recently, this week and what I mean recent I mean literally this weekend I was visiting one of my kids in Vermont all the way across the country, and so on the plane ride I finished two books, one was a very profound and deeply written book called Ponyboy. And then another one was a very famous book on a woman protagonist who's successful in the 60s, Lessons in Chemistry, which is a new book that's out, and it was a super fun light read, some interesting lessons of course, because there's always lessons in books, and now if it's okay if I'm not overstepping my boundaries, what would be a book that you'd like me to read? I love to add books to my list. Ula Ojiaku Oh my gosh, I didn't know. You are the first guest ever who's twisted this on me, but I tend to read multiple books at a time. Luke Hohmann Only two. Ula Ojiaku Yeah, so, and I kind of switch, maybe put some on my bedside and you know there's some on my Kindle and in the car, just depending. So I'm reading multiple books at a time, but based on what you've said the one that comes to mind is the new book by Oprah Winfrey and it's titled What Happened to You? Understanding Trauma, because like you said, it's not just about reading technical books and we're human beings and we find out that people behave probably sometimes in ways that are different to us, and it's not about saying what's wrong with you, because there is a story that we might not have been privy to, you know, in terms of their childhood, how they grew up, which affected their worldview and how they are acting, so things don't just suddenly happen. And the question that we have been asked and we sometimes ask of people, and for me, I'm reading it from a parent's perspective because I understand that even more so that my actions, my choices, they play a huge, you know, part in shaping my children. So it's not saying what's wrong with you? You say, you know, what happened to you? And it traces back to, based on research, because she wrote it with a renowned psychologist, I don't know his field but a renowned psychologist, so neuroscience-based psychological research on human beings, attachment theory and all that, just showing how early childhood experiences, even as early as maybe a few months old, tend to affect people well into adulthood. So that would be my recommendation. Luke Hohmann Thank you so much. That's a gift. Ula Ojiaku Thank you. You're the first person to ask me. So, my pleasure. So, before we go to the final words, where can the audience find you, because you have a wealth of knowledge, a wealth of experience, and I am sure that people would want to get in touch with you, so how can they do this please? Luke Hohmann Yeah, well, they can get me on LinkedIn and they can find me at Applied Frameworks. I tell you, I teach classes that are known to be very profound because we always reserve, myself and the instructors at Applied Frameworks, we have very strong commitments to reserving class time for what we call the parking lot or the ask me anything question, which are many times after I've covered the core material in the class, having the opportunity to really frame how to apply something is really important. So I would definitely encourage people to take one of my classes because you'll not get the material, you'll get the reasons behind the material, which means you can apply it, but you'll also be able to ask us questions and our commitment as a company is you can ask us anything and if we don't know the answer, we'll help you find it. We'll help you find the expert or the person that you need talk to, to help you out and be successful. And then, and I think in terms of final words, I will simply ask people to remember that we get to work in the most amazing field building things for other people and it's joyful work, and we, one of my phrases is you're not doing Agile, if you're not having fun at work, there's something really wrong, there's something missing, yeah we need to retrospect and we need to improve and we need to reflect and all those important things, absolutely, but we should allow ourselves to experience the joy of serving others and being of service and building things that matter. Ula Ojiaku I love the concept of joyful Agile and getting joy in building things that matter, serving people and may I add also working together with amazing people, and for me it's been a joyful conversation with you, Luke, I really appreciate you making the time, I am definitely richer and more enlightened as a result of this conversation, so thank you so much once more. Luke Hohmann Thank you so much for having me here, thank you everyone for listening with us. Ula Ojiaku  My pleasure. That's all we have for now. Thanks for listening. If you liked this show, do subscribe at www.agileinnovationleaders.com or your favourite podcast provider. Also share with friends and do leave a review on iTunes. This would help others find this show. I'd also love to hear from you, so please drop me an email at ula@agileinnovationleaders.com Take care and God bless!   

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The acronym ROI (Return on Investment) is typically used in the business world, and the process of examining whether or not your investments are providing the return you hoped for is a wise business practice. We all want to aim to make investments that will compound in future returns, but I believe this concept extends beyond the financial realm. It's about getting a return on your energy (ROE). And this week, I'm inviting you to consider how ROE is the new ROI and how maximizing your ROE has the potential to transform your interior design business.   I show you why ROE is the new ROI and how examining your ROE could provide better returns and value for you, your business, and your clients. I'm sharing examples of how this practice applies to anything in your business, whether client-facing or on the back end, and how to become cognizant of where your energy is currently being spent so you can assess if it's worth the return.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.desicreswell.com/74

-La importancia de realizar una inversión inmobiliaria y el retorno de inversión que se puede obtener en diferentes situaciones. Se menciona que cualquier bien inmueble puede generar ganancias, ya sea alquilándolo como vivienda, renta vacacional, para oficinas o para local comercial, dependiendo del tipo de inmueble y el uso de suelo permitido. Sin embargo, se deben considerar factores como los gastos de mantenimiento, la urbanización de la zona, el pago de impuestos y las condiciones del inmueble al momento de adquirirlo. Además, se explica cómo se calcula el ROI (Return On Investment), como parámetro para determinar cuánto tiempo tomará recuperar la inversión inicial al comprar un inmueble. También se destaca la importancia de considerar los gastos adicionales ligados a la adquisición de inmuebles.

In today's episode, I'm joined by my colleague, Dr. Andrea Gri, who is one of the NDs in my office in Ontario. We started this conversation one day in the hallway of the office (where so many magical conversations happen).   If we asked you to invest money that had a guaranteed return on investment, it would probably feel like a no-brainer.   Why? Partly because we value money.   So do you value your health the same way?   In today's episode, we talk about the small investments you can make in yourself to take steps forward in your health journey. We share the things that our most successful patients have in common and what the research says about the disconnect between "knowing" and "doing". Andrea and I share our personal choices to help ourselves stay well as working moms and give you some ideas for how you can get started.   Andrea is running a free community event Thursday, November 23 at 7 pm on hormonal health and metabolism. The event requires registration. You can register here to get access to both the workbook and the live event (or recording if you can't make it). Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_8d1YG2RISqGkTUj07e1owQ   Andrea also works at our office in Burlington and you can reach out to her at www.clarityhealthburlington.ca if you're ready to start your health journey.

What are you willing to invest... in order to get what you want? In today's episode, I talk about the value of investing in your own skating success. Yes, it's about money - and it's also about way more! Time, value, intention, effort, consistency... What do you actually want to reap as your reward? What kind of ROI (Return On Investment) do you want to see from your involvement in this sport? (Whether you're a Coach, Skater, or Parent!) It's worth asking yourself and it's worth evaluating for yourself. Listen in for some real talk about how to win on your own terms and take your skating success into your own hands.

Discover 3 top tips for networking: What Networking is and what it isn't. Building relationships and the importance of the Follow Up. Brief overview of how to create an exciting and engaging 60 Second Pitch - why it's important to talk about the benefits of what you do rather than the services/products you offer - what problem do you solve for your customers /clients? Find out how to Network well! Get real ROI (Return On Investment) in your networking efforts and get potential clients coming to talk with YOU and not the competition. Join us while MēL and PāT talk all these things and more through with Pam Edwards. You can find more about CASE via our website where you will be able to link to our video and podcast channels, social media groups, our open regular monthly brainstorming meetings and also membership of CASE and a free trial of being part of your very own closed private Mastermind Group where you can brainstorm your ideas and challenges with other business owners. If you are really looking to succeed in business or your career you need to be asking yourself the question, "Why wouldn't I listen to the CASE Broadcast?" Join us: Website: https://casemastermind.co.uk/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW0rA_8xhXgFZZApcG4QXsw CASE Broadcast: https://anchor.fm/case-mastermind To your success, Patrick and the Team at CASEMastermind. team@casemastermind.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/case-mastermind/message

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESUkraine — reports of drones grabbing wounded soldiers with claw-like appendage. Ukrainian government doesn't record or care where they're shooting cluster bombs as the USA doesn't care whether the war comes to USA. The war HAS come to Russia with daily suicide drone attacks (2:18)Govt Arson in Canada: People Steal Equipment to Fight Fires ThemselvesBack burns on a windy day done by government that then refuses to fight fires. Residents then steal government equipment and use it to fight fires themselves. You won't believe what government does NEXT to escalate… (21:00) Hawaiian Electric may go bankrupt as PG&E in California did after the Paradise fire. But it is RENEWABLE MANDATES that's driving the neglect of infrastructure and destroying reliability and affordability at the same time. (54:41)The first GOP debate is tonight and Larry Elder has a VERY LEGIT BEEF about being excluded at the last minute (1:15:26)Neither Trump NOR Biden want ANY debates. Imagine our surprise (1:32:06)So, how do the candidates stack up against each other for tonight's GOP debate?Why are they running, what do they appear to want? (1:39:08)What should Tucker ask Trump (that he won't ask) (1:52:23)Make America Gulag Again? Questions That DEMAND Answers "Pandemic" questions we should demand be answered will NOT be asked by Tucker, mainstream media, other candidates, or alt-right media. Jeffrey Tucker looks at the timeline of the plandemic to understand who was in charge (2:00:45) Trump is not going to pay legal bills of 18 co-defendants in Georgia. This is a VERY BAD idea. Here's why it plays into the hands of the prosecutor (2:26:33)Listener emails: Nursing homes & the TrumpShot, miscarriages, brith rates & the TrumpShot, and AI chat's take on Constitutional Sheriffs (2:37:40)Big Pharma's Candidates in the GOPThere's no better ROI (Return On Investment) than buying a politician. So who does BigPharma own that's running for President? (2:48:16) Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESUkraine — reports of drones grabbing wounded soldiers with claw-like appendage. Ukrainian government doesn't record or care where they're shooting cluster bombs as the USA doesn't care whether the war comes to USA. The war HAS come to Russia with daily suicide drone attacks (2:18)Govt Arson in Canada: People Steal Equipment to Fight Fires ThemselvesBack burns on a windy day done by government that then refuses to fight fires. Residents then steal government equipment and use it to fight fires themselves. You won't believe what government does NEXT to escalate… (21:00) Hawaiian Electric may go bankrupt as PG&E in California did after the Paradise fire. But it is RENEWABLE MANDATES that's driving the neglect of infrastructure and destroying reliability and affordability at the same time. (54:41)The first GOP debate is tonight and Larry Elder has a VERY LEGIT BEEF about being excluded at the last minute (1:15:26)Neither Trump NOR Biden want ANY debates. Imagine our surprise (1:32:06)So, how do the candidates stack up against each other for tonight's GOP debate?Why are they running, what do they appear to want? (1:39:08)What should Tucker ask Trump (that he won't ask) (1:52:23)Make America Gulag Again? Questions That DEMAND Answers "Pandemic" questions we should demand be answered will NOT be asked by Tucker, mainstream media, other candidates, or alt-right media. Jeffrey Tucker looks at the timeline of the plandemic to understand who was in charge (2:00:45) Trump is not going to pay legal bills of 18 co-defendants in Georgia. This is a VERY BAD idea. Here's why it plays into the hands of the prosecutor (2:26:33)Listener emails: Nursing homes & the TrumpShot, miscarriages, brith rates & the TrumpShot, and AI chat's take on Constitutional Sheriffs (2:37:40)Big Pharma's Candidates in the GOPThere's no better ROI (Return On Investment) than buying a politician. So who does BigPharma own that's running for President? (2:48:16) Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

How to Convert your Leads to Appointments in an ISA perspective | Sam Khangura Sam Khangura, Broker of Record of Royal LePage Platinum Realty, based in Brampton is a full-time Real Estate Agent/Broker since the year 2000. He has lived in Brampton for over 20 years. During that time, he has worked with buyers, sellers, and investors throughout the Peel Region (Brampton, Mississauga, Caledon) and also served areas all over the GTA and beyond. For the first-time buyers, he plans to make their entry into the real estate market as smooth as possible. For sellers, he is always helping them to sell their property fast, for top dollar, and with the least hassle. For investors, he makes their ROI (Return On Investment) the most important thing based upon their investing goals. Negotiating real estate deals is an art form. Sam is a naturally gifted Negotiator. And also with his team of experts, he works in a prompt, professional manner to get you the property of your dreams. He has helped more than 500 families to get their real estate deals done smoothly and profitably. Leave a comment if you have any questions and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel. Click the Bell Icon so you'll receive notifications for new informative Craig Proctor videos, Real Estate Coaching!

We brought out the big guns again in Burrow Canyon for this one with the crew from California Range Weekend (CRW). To close out an action packed weekend of interviews and range time, I sat down with Tony Molina & Jesse AKA @figmant_shoots to chop it up over cigars in preparation for the event of the year - California Range Weekend. We get into West Coast Gun culture, last years event and what to expect this year at CRW. Another thing I love is Iron Sights exclusives. In this episode, you'll know when tickets go on sale for November's event and hear about the special guest who's planning to attend. If you missed out last year get ready for an even bigger event. Listen in for an overview of the instructors, community and what to expect - we look forward to seeing you there!Purchase Tickets: California Range Weekendhttps://axiomtg.com/Episode Sponsor:BioProtein Technology: https://bioproteintech.com/For $30 off your order use code "IRONSIGHTS" at checkout.BioPro+ can potentially help to improve balance hormones, increase sex drive, improves insulin sensitivity, and produce increases of mitochondria and nucleic acids to create a total system modulator. BioPro+ regulates, rebuilds, and regenerates at the cellular level to help you look, feel, and perform your best.Episode Sponsor:SLNT: https://slnt.com/Use the code "IRONSIGHTS" at checkout for an exclusive discount SLNT offers a range of sleek RFID blocking wallets, EDC Faraday bags, travel gear, laptop sleeves, and key-fob cases with the added protection of their patented Silent Pocket® Faraday cage technology, which turns your devices invisible, and safe, from the outside world by instantly blocking Cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, RFID/NFC, EMP, and EMF. This elite signal blocking technology is the easiest way to instantly enhance your peace of mind around how your mobile devices are screwing your digital life up.Timestamps00:00 Intro08:00 CRW (California Range Weekend)08:49 CRW 2022 Recap14:16 CRW 2023 What's In The Books For This Year19:46 CRW Vendors27:14 CRW Instructors35:07 ROI (Return On Investment)40:53 Networking & Growing The Community42:01 Why You Should Go To CRW This Year49:33 CRW Schedule53:27 Community Building01:02:09 Cali In The Shooting Community01:07:55 Breaking The Barrier Of Entry For New Attendees01:13:46 Reach Out To Our Community01:20:42 Where To Buy The Tickets For CRW01:24:14 Social Edition To The Event01:32:44 CRW Social Media01:33:35 How Does CRW Work? (Overview)Red Dot Fitness Training Programs:https://www.rdftrainonline.comOnline Membership (Full Access To All Programs & Virtual Coaching):https://www.reddotfitness.net/online-membershipVirtual Coaching:https://www.reddotfitness.net/virtual-coachingSelf-Guided Programs:https://www.reddotfitness.net/Self-Guided-Programs1Connect With Us:Website - https://ironsightspodcast.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ironsightspodcast/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ironsightspodcast/

Are you wondering if working with a business coach will deliver a return on investment (ROI) for your business? It's a valid concern and in this Ask Ange episode, I share with you a mulititude of ways business coaching can impact your success. We'll uncover the tangible and intangible ways a coach can help you achieve exceptional results - not just financially, but in other areas of your business and life as well. If you're ready to discover how you can achieve ROI with a business coach, this is an episode you won't want to miss. The Angela Henderson Online Business Show Podcast Links: Action Takers MastermindAustralian Business Collaborative Facebook GroupAngela Henderson WebsiteAngela Henderson Active Business Facebook GroupAngela Henderson Facebook Business PageAngela Henderson Consulting InstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today Jonny speaks with Real Estate Investor, Keynote Educator, and Founder of My Panama Vacation Realty, Evie Brooks. She is also a former Advanced Trainer for Rich Dad Poor Dad Education.They discuss:1. How she started in real estate2. The Rich Dad Poor Dad Education3. Why Panama?Evie Brooks is a Real Estate Educator/Investor and My Panama Vacation Realty Founder. Brooks has guided thousands of investors for 24+ years through the process of locating, evaluating, and analyzing transactions for cash flow and ROI (Return On Investment). Evie has been a keynote speaker and trainer in 13+ countries and 30+ states in the United States. Today, she specializes in real estate and agriculture investments in Panama. She does regular VIP/Boots on the Ground education tours for investors where they visit hard-to-find deals and smart greenhouse farms. Brooks' work has been featured on Joe Fairless: Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, ESPN Cover Your Assets, Think Realty, The Real Estate Syndication Show, Women Investing Network, VoiceAmerica, Moving Abroad Podcast, Atlanta Business Radio, and many more real estate investing podcasts.Learn more about Evie:Website: https://mypanamavacationrealty.com/Access her quick 10-minute video training: https://eviebrookspanama.com/Connect with Jonny!Cattani Capital Group: https://cattanicapitalgroup.com/Invest with us: invest@cattanicapitalgroup.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-cattani-53159b179/Jonny's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonnycattani/IRR Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theirrpodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jonnycattaniYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCljEz4pq_paQ9keABhJzt0AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.cattani.1

Welcome back to BizQuik! In this week's episode, Julie skillfully breaks down the definition of ROI (Return On Investment), its function as a data-driven metric that's essential to you, your business, and its investors, and the functionality of how to determine the success of your business. She even does a little 5th grade math (PEMDAS) to demonstrate how (easy it is) to measure your ROI correctly.   Themes: Data-driven decisions. Performance. Internal and external funding.   Support our show by visiting our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/BizQuik)   Shout out to FeedSpot (https://blog.feedspot.com/small_business_podcasts/) - The internet's largest human curated database of blogs and podcasts.   Need some help with customer service or social media management?  Check out Certivium (https://www.certivium.com/)   Find out everything you want to know about us and our businesses on our website SBPACE.com.  You can also find us on the following social media platforms:   Facebook (SB PACE) Instagram (@sb.pace) LinkedIn (@sb-pace) TikTok (@sb.pace) YouTube  (SB PACE)   If you like our intro, hit up Pat Hilton on Instagram (@pathiltonlive)   You can buy our book, Seriously?  Now What?!  A Small Business Guide to Disaster Preparedness, on Amazon.   BizQuik is a Traxler-Harris production. #Podcast #entrepreneurship #startup #businessowners #businesscoach   

This week, Hunt talks about ROI (return on investment) and how to use it in your day-to-day decisions.• What is ROI, and how can you calculate it?• How does time relate to ROI and can your decision be changed based on time even if ROI is the same?• How does your involvement in an investment dictate what the ROI has to be to make it a prudent choice?• How can you use ROI to make day-to-day decisions in your business and personal life?The Show is sponsored by:Shop-Ware on the web at getshopware.comNAPA Auto Care Repair Shop of Tomorrow at https://repairshopoftomorrow.comHunt Demarest, CPAPaar Melis and Associates – Accountants Specializing in Automotive RepairVisit us Online : www.paarmelis.comEmail Hunt: podcast@paarmelis.comGet a copy of my Book : Download Here

This week, Hunt talks about ROI (return on investment) and how to use it in your day-to-day decisions.• What is ROI, and how can you calculate it?• How does time relate to ROI and can your decision be changed based on time even if ROI is the same?• How does your involvement in an investment dictate what the ROI has to be to make it a prudent choice?• How can you use ROI to make day-to-day decisions in your business and personal life?The Show is sponsored by:Shop-Ware on the web at getshopware.comNAPA Auto Care Repair Shop of Tomorrow at https://repairshopoftomorrow.comHunt Demarest, CPAPaar Melis and Associates – Accountants Specializing in Automotive RepairVisit us Online : www.paarmelis.comEmail Hunt: podcast@paarmelis.comGet a copy of my Book : Download Here

Starting or managing a successful business requires two things that seem in conflict: Understanding your "numbers" (cost, revenue, profit margins, conversion rate, churn, market share, ROI, etc...) to correctly manage the day-to-day operations of your business vs. guiding your business with long-term vision (value proposition, position, passion, customer first attitudes, doing the right thing regardless of return, ethical decision making, investment, etc...) not based on daily economics but the long game of brand, reputation, customer loyalty and sustainability. How do you balance understanding and activating specific ROI vs. steady, big-picture dedication to mission guided by well-developed strategy, processes and protocols for achieving goals and objectives? What's more important: ROI - Return On Investment or ROIA - the Reality Of It All? When do you follow the numbers, and when do you rely on something more significant for direction? Let's talk about it. This long-form audio-only podcast, posted on the last Monday of every month, is an opportunity to dive deep into the issues that challenge all entrepreneurs, business owners, career builders and decision-makers. "How to balance what seems to be contradictory viewpoints" in business and personal life. More than just work/life balance, we examine a variety of "this or that" scenarios. Thanks for listening to episode 23 of 24 in the “Professional Balance” bonus content series of the Saturday Morning Hustle podcast. I will be back next month with a new topic and a new podcast every Saturday with Hustle and Motivation advice from the office while the competition is still sleeping. Please subscribe, leave a review and comment on social media about what balance issues you would like to hear discussed on this series. www.SaturdayMorningHustle.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/satmorninghustle/message

“I was not that interested in coding but more in understanding the impact of software on human beings” says Diana Najda, SRE & Monitoring Lead, when we asked her how she ended up leading the efforts around Site Reliability Engineering.Tune in to our conversation and learn how Diana is bridging the gap between Dev, Ops and Business by ensuring that the right people get the right telemetry data from their observability platform. She gives us insights into her definition of DevOps and SRE, how she helps teams setting up SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and how she proves the ROI (Return On Investment) into the SRE practices!Last piece of advice Diana gives everyone interested: “SRE might be buzzword it loses the buzz the more you hear it – BUT - its really cool because SREs make the life of Dev and Ops easier every day”If you want to connect with Diana reach her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diannajda/

Red Marbles - A Special Story Time with Mr. Black. On Today's Podcast of Living Life Like It Matters, it is ‘Story time with Mr. Black'. Today Mr. Black sharing a story he calls ‘Red Marbles”.  The story is really about discernment.  Life can be busy, hectic, and confusing.  We must be able to differentiate between what is urgent and what is important.  Time is a fixed commodity, we only have so much time and it can never be replaced.  We need to make sure we are making the most of our time and that means knowing the existential questions of live: Who am I, why am I here, whose am I, and why do I get up each day, do what I do, go home at night, go to bed, and get up the next day…over and over again?  When we know those existential questions of life, then we can spend our time to get the greatest ROI (Return On Investment). Tune into our new Podcasts every Monday and Thursday, and build the pattern for; Living Life Like It Matters.  If you enjoy the show, please tell a friend or two, or three about it. If you are able to leave an honest rating and, or, review it would be appreciated. Check out our website www.LikeItMatters.Net. And be sure to Like and Follow us on our facebook page.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Instagram: @Skipthesmalltalk_podcastWhen you think about the term ROI, most people will know what this means from a financial perspective. I don't think you need to be an expert in finances to understand that we always want the highest and most positive return on the money we invest, or at the very least we want to make sure that we get back what we put in, to break even. Obviously we never want to lose money or get back a negative return. Think about how frustrating it is or what inconveniences it costs us, when we lose money or we waste money.Now take that some exact concept and scenario and apply it to your time and energy. Why not place your time and energy with just as high of a value as the money you have in the bank. Why not be careful and intentional with it? Why do we give it away or waste it so freely.You can't see time, but I'll tell you something, the quality of our lives eventually becomes what we have to show for how we chose to spend our time, and if we are not intentional enough with how we spend our time, our life will eventually reflect it.If we continue to feed the narrative in our mind that tells us we "don't have time", then we never will, but if we begin to analyze and readjust how we invest our time & energy, we will have a better return.Guest Speaker: Matt GottesmanWebsite: mattgottesman.comWebsite: systemsoverhustle.comEmail: matt@mattgottesman.comPodcast: Hustle Sold SeparatelyInstagram: @mattgottesmanInstagram: @hdfmagazineMore Social: LinkedIn + FacebookLinks Mentioned:Parkinson's law:https://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/how-to-use-parkinsons-law-to-your-advantage.htmlhttps://weje.io/blog/parkinsons-law

In this week's episode of The Alcohol ReThink Podcast, Patrick shares a concept that one of his awesome clients shared with him. The ROI of drinking alcohol. He talks about the ROI (Return on Investment) of alcohol and asks you to consider your reasons for wanting to drink and see if the return on investment matches up. Some of the other topics he covers in this episode are: - We are creatures of habit. - How to start questioning the reasons you choose to drink - Creating space to speak with yourself (It doesn't make you mad) - 6 questions to challenge your current beliefs around alcohol - Identifying the ROI on choosing to drink - Break the spell of your mind by asking yourself questions - Make other options available on how to manage your emotional life - Break your life up into categories and see what the impact of drinking alcohol is on each of them Resources mentioned Huberman Labs Podcast Episode 15. Being Wrong 6 Questions to Ask Yourself: 1. What do you get from drinking alcohol? 2. What do you lose from drinking alcohol? 3. What do you get from not drinking alcohol? 4. What do you lose from not drinking alcohol? 5. What are you denying to yourself about alcohol? 6. What is alcohol denying you? Connect with Patrick: To find out how Patrick can help you stop drinking and create an awesome life without alcohol, book a free one hour consultation to discover how his 6 month 1-1 coaching program will take you from feeling out of control and self hating, to sober, clear-headed, full of energy, looking good and doing more of what you love in life. Whether you decide to work with him or not, the consult alone will help you understand where you are and why you do what you do. It's a no-brainer. Get yourself booked in here. You can also join The Alcohol ReThink Project, a free 30 day email mindset-reset series to support you in stopping drinking Website: https://www.patrickjfox.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thealcoholrethinkproject/ Facebook Group: Alcohol ReThink Project & Sober Men

Sam Khangura, Broker of Record of Royal LePage Platinum Realty, based in Brampton is a full-time Real Estate Agent/Broker since the year 2000. He has lived in Brampton for over 20 years. During that time, he has worked with buyers, sellers, and investors throughout the Peel Region (Brampton, Mississauga, Caledon) and also served areas all over the GTA and beyond. For the first-time buyers, he plans to make their entry into the real estate market as smooth as possible. For sellers, he is always helping them to sell their property fast, for top dollar, and with the least hassle. For investors, he makes their ROI (Return On Investment) the most important thing based upon their investing goals. Negotiating real estate deals is an art form. Sam is a naturally gifted Negotiator. And also with his team of experts, he works in a prompt, professional manner to get you the property of your dreams. He has helped more than 500 families to get their real estate deals done smoothly and profitably. Leave a comment if you have any questions and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel. Click the Bell Icon so you'll receive notifications for new informative Craig Proctor videos, Real Estate Coaching!

Tim and John walk you through calculating simple ROI (Return on Investment) for a vacation rental or Airbnb investment. This is simple ROI, note there are other ways to calculate ROI for an airbnb property.Calculating simple Airbnb ROI (Return on Investment): Monthly expenses - tally up your monthly expenses (electric, water, pool, maintenance, streaming, cable, etc.) Divide annual fees by 12 to get the monthly number Calculate per rental day expense by dividing monthly expense by number of days in the monthIf you are charging $500 per night subtract commissions paid to OTA and to property manager Subtract daily cost of rental (For example $238) to get net income Annualize this number and divide by the cost of your airbnb investment. With historical data, take your annual gross rents and subtract all commissions, OTA fees, operating fees and divide by the cost of the airbnb investmentPlease be very careful to not exclude any operating costs or it will inflate your ROIDo your own ROI and do not rely on advice from a salespersonWant to know more, need more help or have an idea for a podcast episode? Reach out to us at john@vacationhomhelp.com. Join our owner community on facebook (we love to connect with other hosts!)Listen to our latest podcast and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, and RSS. Please rate, review, and subscribe - all support helps us grow our community.Are you in Florida and need a new airbnb cleaning service? Try vacationhomehelp.com so we can refer you to your new rockstar cleaning team and earn more 5-star reviews for cleanliness.

Today's episode I share 7 tactics to help you increase profitability and productize your business.Let's ConnectWebsite: TheJoeLemonShow.comLinkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/joealexlemon/InstaGram: https://www.instagram.com/joealexlemon/

Today we look at the parable of the Good Steward but then we take a very practical approach to HOW to be effective for King Jesus. I want to humbly suggest what I've done over the years that has helped me do what I believe God wants me to do and reach the destination God wants me to reach. I don't know about you but I don't want to be the wicked servant! I don't want to live in fear and accuse the Master (GOD) of being harsh or of being a thief. I want to be thankful for what He's given and give Him a good ROI Return On Investment!  4 Habits For Reaching Your Destinations (and fulfilling the will of God on your life)  1. Prayer (DREAM with God)  Why waste time doing what GOD hasn't called you to do. No man can tell you that - only God can and He does that when we take time to pray.  2. Commit to Learn  (DISCERN) What books do you need to read and Who do you need to spend time with that can teach you what you need to know to go where you feel called to go?  3. Focus on Team (DELEGATE) You'll need others for this!  4. Say Yes to Faithfulness (DECIDE) Many great ideas lie dead in the Valley of Indecision.  Faithfulness is being reliably excellent with what you have wherever you are. #FollowJesusTogether  Give.RockofGrace.org 

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More on YouTube? Check the video version on YoutubeWho is the Guest?EVIE BROOKS (Atlanta, GA, and Veracruz, Panama) is a former Advanced “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Trainer, Real Estate Educator/Investor, and My Panama Vacation Realty Founder. Brooks has guided thousands of investors for 24+ years through the process of locating, evaluating, and analyzing transactions for cash flow and ROI (Return On Investment) in 13+ countries and 30+ states in the United States. Today, she specializes in real estate and agriculture investments in Panama and does regular VIP Tours for investors (14 maximum at a time) where they visit hard-to-find deals and smart greenhouse farms. As a disclaimer, Brooks and her employees and affiliates are not investment or tax advisors and do not offer investment advice. To learn more, visit https://mypanamavacationrealty.com/ and https://eviebrookspanama.com.Start taking action right NOW!Goal-setting the right way! Hesitant to make the first step towards real estate investing? Axel learned the hard way- but you DON'T have to start that way. Feel free to talk to him :)Connect with us through social! We'd love to build a community of like-minded people like YOU!Want to be a guest? Email nadine@idealwealthgrower.com

Today's guest is Jesus Vargas (@eltintero) who is the Founder & CEO of LowCode Agency. LowCode Agency works with small and medium businesses and entrepreneurs by building custom apps without breaking the bank. Jesus's agency uses no-code and low-code tools to start, grow or scale your business and get you the best ROI (“Return On Investment”). As you'll hear in this episode, LowCode Agency mostly works with a tool called Glide (formerly “Glideapps”) and have built over 230 custom apps in only a couple of years. In this episode, Jesus Vargas, Founder & CEO of LowCode Agency tells all: from his personal journey, what it's like to be a serial entrepreneur, and how you can build a services businesses with no code. Jesus is a purebred entrepreneur who has built one of the largest no-code agencies in the world. LowCode Agency has been helping businesses optimize their processes and streamline operations by building custom-made apps; becoming one of the top No-Code Makers — and Glide Experts — in the world!  Press that play button and learn more about his story on how he built such a massive business that has built more than 230 apps for small businesses and startups to the largest Fortune 500 companies — all with no-code! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jsk/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jsk/support ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Today's guest is Jesus Vargas (@eltintero) who is the Founder & CEO of LowCode Agency. LowCode Agency works with small and medium businesses and entrepreneurs by building custom apps without breaking the bank. Jesus's agency uses no-code and low-code tools to start, grow or scale your business and get you the best ROI (“Return On Investment”). As you'll hear in this episode, LowCode Agency mostly works with a tool called Glide (formerly “Glideapps”) and have built over 230 custom apps in only a couple of years. In this episode, Jesus Vargas, Founder & CEO of LowCode Agency tells all: from his personal journey, what it's like to be a serial entrepreneur, and how you can build a services businesses with no code. Jesus is a purebred entrepreneur who has built one of the largest no-code agencies in the world. LowCode Agency has been helping businesses optimize their processes and streamline operations by building custom-made apps; becoming one of the top No-Code Makers — and Glide Experts — in the world!  Press that play button and learn more about his story on how he built such a massive business that has built more than 230 apps for small businesses and startups to the largest Fortune 500 companies — all with no-code! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jsk/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jsk/support ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

There are several alternative investment strategies within the realm of real estate that will enable you to diversify and expand your portfolio. In today's show, I'll be talking about one that can bring along amazing benefits in your business journey. Our guest, Evie Brooks, shares the advantages of investing internationally, specifically in Panama, and breaks down seven reasons why people would want to invest in this country.   Evie is a former Advanced “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Trainer, Real Estate Educator/Investor, and My Panama Vacation Realty Founder. She has guided thousands of investors for 24+ years through the process of locating, evaluating, and analyzing transactions for cash flow and ROI (Return On Investment) in 13+ countries and 30+ states in the United States. Evie currently specializes in real estate and agriculture investments in Panama and does regular VIP Tours for investors (14 maximum at a time) where they visit hard-to-find deals and smart greenhouse farms. If you want to gain a deep understanding of the seven reasons why you should invest in Panama, this episode is for you! Getting to know Evie - [00:01 – 04:31] Evie shares her background and work Her passion for being a real estate investor educator Her experience working with the Rich Dad, Poor Dad organization Why she decided to start investing in Panama 7 Reasons Why You Should Invest in Panama   [04:32 – 22:56] Evie breaks down seven reasons to invest in Panama US real estate prices are out of control vs Panana Panama is more of a business vs a vacation It is a growing economy with tax breaks There are great off-market deals  You can make your money when you buy a property Affordable plan B home opportunities Affordable agriculture investments  The Quattro Trio - [22:57 - 29:06] What is your superpower? Being an educator What is your biggest failure?  Costa Rica when the market crashed in 2008 Evie encourages you to support St. Jude's Hospital and Tower for Tunnels Want to can connect with Evie? Follow her on LinkedIn, and Instagram. Go and check out Evie Brooks, have a 30-minute free consultation, and learn the three simple steps to build a real estate portfolio without stress, fear, or sweat equity! Don't forget to visit  My Panama Vacation Realty.  LEAVE A 5 STAR REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode. Find out how team Quattro can help you by visiting www.TheQuattroWay.com.  Real Estate Runway Podcast is all about alternative business and investment strategies to help you amplify life, and maximize wealth! Click here to find out more about the host, Chad Sutton. Tweetable Quotes: “[In Panama] you've got a lot of economic growth based on the economy as far as different industries. It's not just like you said, a one-horse town. So there's just a lot of opportunity.” -   Evie Brooks “The money is made in the buy, not for sale” -  Evie Brooks “One project and one developer is not going to fit everybody's needs, you're going to have different desires, geographic locations, types of strategies. You have to have multiple exit strategies when you're looking at real estate investing.” - Evie Brooks

We all know about ROI - Return On Investment, but in this episode I want to talk about your “Return On Inaction”, and the consequences of not following that still small voice of your intuition and what's the return on that inaction. info@dougbeitz.com dougbeitz.com facebook.com/dougbeitz instagram.com/dougbeitz

Why do coaches use SEO and does SEO for Coaches work?SEO is a great option for coaches who are already creating content. All content can be SEO-ed. Once you SEO a piece of content like a blog, a video, a transcript, podcast show notes etc. you'll get recurring ROI (Return On Investment) for the long term. This means that the more content you SEO the more results you'll see because the results accumulate over time.In this episode...We talk about all the aspects of SEO that make it ideal for coaches to use as a strategy. Whether you're starting from scratch as a newly qualified coach or are an experienced coach looking to align a new form of lead generation, you're gonna find this episode and the remaining 3 episodes in this 4-part series very interesting and useful.We talked about…- Why coaches should use SEO- How SEO benefits coaching businesses- How it builds Authority and Credibility- How SEO helps coaches get more leads , discovery calls and clients Episode Links and Mentions:>> Free Guide: 10 Steps to Get More Leads from Your Website and Bloghttps://my.stephaniefiteni.com/10-steps-more-leadspodcst Did you Enjoy this Episode?Subscribe to this Podcast Here NEXT STEP Are you setting up your online coaching business?Need support deciding which tools are best to get payment, book calls, onboard clients, and market yourself? and help to set them up? Then check out 'The Online Coaching Business Bootcamp' https://my.stephaniefiteni.com/online_business_success_toolkit ORAre you already set up and want help booking more discovery calls and marketing your coaching services? Let's talk - Book a Free Call at meetme.so/stephaniefiteni

At WEB ROI we created the Website ROI Pyramid, which illustrates where you should focus your marketing resources first, to get the best Return On Investment from your online presence. This week's podcast takes you through the Website ROI Pyramid and gives you more insight into digital marketing and how you can use this structure to accelerate your business online.Learn more about the Website ROI Pyramid in our blog.For more information about how WEB ROI can help you with your digital marketing visit our website.

Evie Brooks (Atlanta, GA, and Veracruz, Panama) is a former Advanced “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Trainer, Real Estate Educator/Investor, and My Panama Vacation Realty Founder. Brooks has guided thousands of investors for 24+ years through the process of locating, evaluating, and analyzing transactions for cash flow and ROI (Return On Investment) in 13+ countries and 30+ states in the United States. Today, she specializes in real estate and agriculture investments in Panama and does regular VIP Tours for investors (14 maximum at a time) where they visit hard-to-find deals and smart greenhouse farms. Brooks' work has been featured on Joe Fairless: Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, ESPN Cover Your Assets, Think Realty, The Real Estate Syndication Show, Women Investing Network, VoiceAmerica, Moving Abroad Podcast, Atlanta Business Radio, and many more real estate investing podcasts. As a disclaimer, Brooks and her employees and affiliates are not investment or tax advisors and do not offer investment advice. Website: mypanamavacationrealty.com eviebrookspanama.com Links: LinkedIn: Evie Speaks Instagram: MyPanamaVacationRealty Twitter: EvieSpeaks2

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:05:00 +0000 https://omt-magazin.podigee.io/9037-neue-episode 1ed90a6a59f5aaa93dc598c62f0cbb4d ℹ️ Elisabeth Pester beim OMT ℹ️ OMT Webinare ℹ️ OMT Konferenz 2022 9037 full no OMT,Online Marketing,Return on Investment,ROI,Online Marketer Mario Jung, Elisabeth Pester

Jeff Petsche of NextHome Solutions in Southern California has mastered the art of building relationships with clients and agents. In this fast-paced episode, Imran and Jeff talk about his methods of how he has not only created a tremendous referral-based business but has shifted his mindset from ROI (Return On Investment) into ROR (Return On Relationship). This pod is perfect for anyone who is looking to develop their business and doesn't want to break the bank to do it. Instagram: @petscherealestategroup Facebook: PetscheRealEstateGroup-NextHome Solutions Twitter: @nhsolutionsca Website: www.nexthomesolutionsca.com

On Today's Podcast of Living Life Like It Matters, it is ‘Story time with Mr. Black’. Today Mr. Black sharing a story he calls ‘Red Marbles”. The story is really about discernment. Life can be busy, hectic, and confusing. We must be able to differentiate between what is urgent and what is important. Times is a fixed commodity, we only have so much time and it can never be replaced. We need to make sure we are making the most of our time and that means knowing the existential questions of live: Who am I, why am I here, whose am I, and why do I get up each day, do what I do, go home at night, go to bed, and get up the next day…over and over again? When we know those existential questions of life, then we can spend our time to get the greatest ROI (Return On Investment). Tune into our new Podcasts every Monday and Thursday, and build the pattern for; Living Life Like It Matters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We uncover the real roots of Marketing ROI in #005 with Jim Lenskold, author of Marketing ROI: The Path to Campaign, Customer, and Corporate Profitability! Dive into this show as we rip open the real way to measure marketing ROI, crush marketing myths, and diagnose strategy leakage. Awesome takeaways from this show: Understand what is marketing ROI (Return On Investment)? Use a feedback loop to be better & smarter Marketing ROI is not pass/fail Target segments you can win Every piece of info gets you closer to being more accurate! The 4 categories of measurement Results Tracking Pre/Post Trend (Look at the before & after) Marketing Testing Modeling Links Company site: http://www.lenskold.com/ Jim's book: Marketing ROI: The Path to Campaign, Customer, & Corporate Profitability https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-ROI-Campaign-Corporate-Profitability-ebook/dp/B000P2A3NM Jim Lenskold LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenskold/ Lenskold Group helpful content: http://www.lenskold.com/roi_content Asbury Park Music Foundation: http://asburyparkmusiclives.org/