Podcasts about uberization

Introduction:Meet Keri Higgins Bigelow, Founder and CEO of Living HR. Since 2009, she has been dedicated to humanizing workplaces by aligning business strategies with talent and culture. Keri is also an advocate for advancing women in corporate roles through her co-founded group, Fair League, and she frequently speaks at HR and business events.Key Achievements:Co-founded Fair League to promote women in leadership.Hosts "Work Now Plus in the Future" series and Disrupt HR events.Member of Forbes Human Resources Council, recognized by various business journals and HR accolades.Main Discussion Points:The New Employee-Employer Contract:Post-pandemic, traditional contracts are outdated. Employees now seek autonomy, flexibility, and a greater sense of purpose in their work.Systemic Workplace Issues:Keri highlights the disconnect between the traditional 9-to-5 workday and modern life demands, leading to inefficiency and employee dissatisfaction.Outcome-Based Work:Moving away from time-based work models to focus on results and performance. Advances in AI make it possible to complete tasks faster, pushing for a shift in how work is measured.Challenges Across Industries:Time-based models still dominate industries like retail. Keri proposes an "Uberization" of work schedules, giving employees flexibility to choose shifts with varied pay structures.Loneliness in Remote Work:Remote work can lead to isolation. Keri stresses the need for intentional efforts to foster community through virtual tools and social channels, as implemented at Living HR.Employee Accountability:Employees should take ownership of their career growth. While employers provide resources, it's up to the individual to invest in their development.Flexibility for Performance:Flexibility at work should be earned based on performance. Transparency and mutual accountability form the foundation of the new employee-employer contract.Leveraging Technology:Companies should use data-driven tools to objectively track engagement and performance, moving beyond subjective evaluations.Closing Thoughts:Keri envisions a new, healthier workplace culture focused on outcomes. She invites listeners to connect with her on Living HR's LinkedIn and join their Chief People Officer collective.

Get subscriber-only episodes and email-exclusive insights at RealEstateTeamOS.com/subscribeAs we've heard on episodes of Real Estate Team OS with guests like Tom Ferry and Chris Heller, the roots of the real estate team business model are more than 30 years deep.  But we're still just getting started!  Spend time with seven pioneers of teams and teamerages from New Jersey, Virginia, and Florida to Colorado, Arizona, and Texas.  Each answers these three questions:  1 When did the team model come onto your radar? When did you first learn about it?  2 Why did you commit to the model as a team leader or brokerage owner?  3 What's the future of teams? Will they continue to play a bigger or more dominant role in the industry?Watch or listen to Episode 033 of Real Estate Team OS with: Micah Harper, CEO of Exquisite Properties, an independent teamerage in San Antonio, TexasCreating a team by solving his own challenges as a high-performing solo agentWhy traditional brokerages are losing valueAsking important questions about the future of teamsDave Ness, Founder of Thrive Real Estate Group, an independent teamerage in Denver, ColoradoWhy he started a teamerage, homegrown from day one, a decade agoWhy they're so prescriptive for the first 3 years with team agentsWhat level of production is required to be a true real estate advisorMercy Lugo-Struthers, CEO and Principal Broker at Casals, Realtors, in Northern VirginiaHow an “awakening of possibilities” occurred and drove her teamTwo takeaways from the Workman Success Systems research on teams (download it here: https://workmansuccess.com/teams-report/)How the team helps agents manage one of their biggest challengesAbel Gilbert, Broker/Owner of ONEPATH Realty, an independent teamerage in Miami, FloridaWhat role human experience plays in the real estate industryWhy agent count is a superficial numberWhy independent teamerages with great culture and optimized per-agent productivity will dominate the futureBecky Garcia, Founder and CEO of The Garcia Group, a 99% female real estate organization in Phoenix, ArizonaHow she grew her team to 30 agents and 9 staff membersHow she transitioned a team started in an REO market through a major shiftWhich signs and trends suggest that teams will continue to grow in importance Joe Oz, remote Team Leader of Joe Oz Real Estate Group in Montclair, New JerseyThe role of Gary Keller's The Millionaire Real Estate Agent and mega agent modelThe spark for starting his own teamHow he's transitioned to a remote team (operating a NJ-based team from Orange County, CA)Marcus Larrea, Founder and Team Lead at Palm Paradise Realty Group, an independent teamerage in southwest FloridaWhy the need for a team became immediately clear to him when he entered the industryWhat the consequences are of the “Uberization” of societyWhy team production will continue to grow in the years aheadConnect with Micah Harper:- https://www.instagram.com/micahharper/- https://www.instagram.com/exquisitepropertiessa/Connect with Dave Ness:- https://www.instagram.com/thrivedenver/ Connect with Mercy Lugo-Struthers:- https://www.instagram.com/mercylugostruthersteam/- https://www.instagram.com/mercylugostruthers/Connect with Abel Gilbert:- https://www.instagram.com/growwithabel/- https://www.instagram.com/onepathrealty/Connect with Becky Garcia:- https://www.instagram.com/garciagroupaz/Connect with Joe Oz:- https://www.instagram.com/joeozrealestate/Connect with Marcus Larrea:- https://www.instagram.com/marcuslarrea/- https://www.instagram.com/palmparadisegroupfl/Connect with Real Estate Team OS:- https://www.realestateteamos.com/subscribe- https://linktr.ee/realestateteamos- https://www.instagram.com/realestateteamos/

Caleb and Adriele go through the week's news, focusing on the economy, the college presidents who went in front of Congress to talk about free speech on campus, a startling abortion decision coming out of Texas, Google losing an antitrust case to Epic, Google's Gemini demo, and labor news featuring very different union talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks. Next, they dive into practical ways to navigate workplace tension and conflict, including a discussion of policies, boundaries, workplace culture, psychological safety, and conflict resolution. [33:02] Then, they unpack how decisions are made around corporate pricing, especially retail pricing, and how it's affecting consumers. [49:58] All that, plus Edward Blum announces he's done suing law firms, new sickle cell treatments, and how a group of nuns are taking on the NRA by becoming shareholders. That's right, just in time for the holidays it's a story about nuns with guns! Discussed today: Corporate America Is Testing the Limits of Its Pricing Power | The New York Times

What does the future of healthcare look like? This podcast is an exploration of the effects of uberization on healthcare. Will the healthcare industry transform in the next few decades to reflect the kind of experiences we expect from companies like Uber and Airbnb?

Dr. Arash Hakhamian DDS is the owner of Dentulu Inc. He is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of excelling in the technology in the health care industry. Skilled in Business development, sales, merger and acquisition. Lecturer on dental surgery, social media/marketing, teledentistry, and practice management. Owner and operator of multiple associate run dental practices and an emerging telemedicine company. Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from USC and B.S in Anthropology (UCLA). Focused in Creating industry changing solutions through software and product development. International medical volunteer and philanthropist. Fluent in English, Spanish, Farsi and compassion.

Dr. Arash Hakhamian DDS is the owner of Dentulu Inc. He is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of excelling in the technology in the health care industry. Skilled in Business development, sales, merger and acquisition. Lecturer on dental surgery, social media/marketing, teledentistry, and practice management. Owner and operator of multiple associate run dental practices and an emerging telemedicine company. Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from USC and B.S in Anthropology (UCLA). Focused in Creating industry changing solutions through software and product development. International medical volunteer and philanthropist. Fluent in English, Spanish, Farsi and compassion.

Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, workers' organization, platform labour, communication/media and work. His research appeared in academic outlets such as New Media & Society and International Journal of Communication, and media outlets such as BBC UK, Wired, The Verge and VICE. He is currently working on a book manuscript on worker-owned platforms in Latin America.Brazil is going through challenging times. There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

How many times have you heard someone explain why they haven't been able to get a job, go to college, make money to get them beyond their basic needs, start a business, or buy the car of their dreams. And it typically then includes blaming, criticizing, pointing fingers, and explaining why it's not their fault. I'm going to tell you about a little boy who defied the odds against him. Episode #869, February 10, 2023 Questions: 1. Are we going to see a shift toward the "Uberization" of the U.S. workforce? 2. My wife and I are former teen parents who want to start a podcast around our journey and what we have learned along the way. 3. I don't see opportunities in my area of interest but I'd love to dig in. 4. I have a dream, an impossible dream! A dream so foolish that I'd be an idiot to try it—and so glorious that I'd be stupid not to go for it! Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including our upcoming 48 Days Live Events, my recent interview with my son Kevin on the soft skills that will make us irreplaceable in the future and Pat Flynn's Tutorial on Starting a Podcast, in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/impossible-dream/

Excitel is the David facing Goliaths like Reliance Jio and Airtel in the battle for getting internet to our homes. And despite such large competitors, Excitel has continued to scale up rapidly. Vivek talks about the nuts and bolts of bringing the internet to our homes, and how he found a niche in a competitive market and managed to thrive in a highly capital-efficient manner.Know about:- Fair use policy Uberization of broadband Marketing strategy; hyper-local effort Flywheel of growth

#TheFreightCoach Morning Show is The TOP Transportation Morning Show is LIVE every weekday at 10:30 AM CST to breakdown THREE transportation industry headlines! Mark your calendars! https://www.joc.com/technology/logistics-technology-providers/major-us-freight-brokers-unveil-appointment-scheduling-standards_20221205.html https://www.seattletimes.com/business/the-uber-ization-of-u-s-trucking-is-only-speeding-up/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_tw_m&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1670252254-1   Check out my YouTube Channel for further industry insights! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjrL70IEnCfDkNaiYMar3jw Make sure to subscribe and share! Thank you to my sponsor: https://www.vhubapp.com/ They are the new wave for freight brokers and freight brokerages to separate themselves from the competition! Ditch your carrier packet, Drive more carrier sales and get better load coverage with seamless digital onboarding, TMS integration, and smart load coverage, visit: https://brokercarrier.com/

Friends, Many of us think of Uber as simply a much more convenient and comfortable alternative to taxi cabs, or as another great app on our smartphones. Underlying that reality ...

Rodrigo Martinez, Founder and CEO of Kolors, discusses why he believes that LATAM intercity busing is ripe for digitization. Rodrigo breaks down why intercity busing in Mexico and other emerging markets serves the role of domestic flights in the US and Western Europe, and explains how Kolors aims to improve the passenger experience with ancillary products and services. He argues that the industry can learn much from successful airline business models, and suggests that the “Uberization” of transportation has changed how mobility companies approach customer acquisition. For more information on Kolors, see https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/03/mexico-citys-kolors-wants-to-disrupt-intercity-busing-in-latin-america/

Welcome to Episode 223 of Building My Legacy.In this podcast we talk with the founders of SharedChain, an efficient and fast e-commerce and fulfillment platform that can help brick and mortar retails stores easily develop their own profitable e-commerce business. Luke Ho-Hyung Lee and Nikhil Sathe, who have extensive experience in supply chain management believe all businesses should be able to participate in the rapidly growing e-commerce market without paying the exorbitant fees existing e-commerce and fulfillment platforms charge. They explain the advantages of SharedChain and how they're using crowdfunding to raise pre-seed funds. Anyone who is looking for a more affordable away to enter the e-commerce market or who would like to know more about what could be a supply chain revolution will find this discussion fascinating. So if you want to know:– Why these entrepreneurs chose crowdfunding as a way to raise capital– Why a mega, holistic platform for marketing and fulfillment could be the disruptor in the e-commerce ecosystem– About the role “Uberization” — a functional, on-demand process system — could play in the warehousing process– Why now is the time to create a more lean distribution model that's a win-win for all stakeholders About the Co-Founders of SharedChainLuke Ho-Hyung Lee, a serial international entrepreneur, is the Visionary and CEO of SharedChain. Recognized as the original developer of the 3D Supply Chain Process system, he founded and operated two manufacturing companies in Asia and is a contributor to CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly and The Huffington Post.Nikhil Sathe, in charge of strategy and finance at SharedChain, has an extensive background in logistics and supply chain management, including more than 25 years of experience at the C-suite level. He has also been involved in financial stewardship and M&A, helping develop growth strategies and transforming how we approach logistics and supply chain.You can learn more about SharedChain at sharedchain.io. SharedChain has an equity crowdfunding campaign on NetCapital — Go to www.NetCapital.com/companies/SharedChain to find out more. The first 100 investors will get a one percent credit of their investment that they can use to buy products on SharedChain Market. About Lois Sonstegard, PhDWorking with business leaders for more than 30 years, Lois has learned that successful leaders have a passion to leave a meaningful legacy. Leaders often ask: When does one begin to think about legacy? Is there a “best” approach? Is there a process or steps one should follow?Lois is dedicated not only to developing leaders but to helping them build a meaningful legacy. Learn more about how Lois can help your organization with Leadership Consulting and Executive Coaching:https://build2morrow.com/Thanks for Tuning In!Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates.And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.Please leave a review right now. Thanks for listening!Building My Legacyhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/building-my-legacy/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/episode-223-collaboration-9-luke-ho-hyung-lee-nikhil-sathe-introduce-a-new-more-efficient-e-commerce-platform-with-lois-sonstegardphd

Welcome to Episode 223 of Building My Legacy.In this podcast we talk with the founders of SharedChain, an efficient and fast e-commerce and fulfillment platform that can help brick and mortar retails stores easily develop their own profitable e-commerce business. Luke Ho-Hyung Lee and Nikhil Sathe, who have extensive experience in supply chain management believe all businesses should be able to participate in the rapidly growing e-commerce market without paying the exorbitant fees existing e-commerce and fulfillment platforms charge. They explain the advantages of SharedChain and how they're using crowdfunding to raise pre-seed funds. Anyone who is looking for a more affordable away to enter the e-commerce market or who would like to know more about what could be a supply chain revolution will find this discussion fascinating. So if you want to know:– Why these entrepreneurs chose crowdfunding as a way to raise capital– Why a mega, holistic platform for marketing and fulfillment could be the disruptor in the e-commerce ecosystem– About the role “Uberization” — a functional, on-demand process system — could play in the warehousing process– Why now is the time to create a more lean distribution model that's a win-win for all stakeholders About the Co-Founders of SharedChainLuke Ho-Hyung Lee, a serial international entrepreneur, is the Visionary and CEO of SharedChain. Recognized as the original developer of the 3D Supply Chain Process system, he founded and operated two manufacturing companies in Asia and is a contributor to CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly and The Huffington Post.Nikhil Sathe, in charge of strategy and finance at SharedChain, has an extensive background in logistics and supply chain management, including more than 25 years of experience at the C-suite level. He has also been involved in financial stewardship and M&A, helping develop growth strategies and transforming how we approach logistics and supply chain.You can learn more about SharedChain at sharedchain.io. SharedChain has an equity crowdfunding campaign on NetCapital — Go to www.NetCapital.com/companies/SharedChain to find out more. The first 100 investors will get a one percent credit of their investment that they can use to buy products on SharedChain Market. About Lois Sonstegard, PhDWorking with business leaders for more than 30 years, Lois has learned that successful leaders have a passion to leave a meaningful legacy. Leaders often ask: When does one begin to think about legacy? Is there a “best” approach? Is there a process or steps one should follow?Lois is dedicated not only to developing leaders but to helping them build a meaningful legacy. Learn more about how Lois can help your organization with Leadership Consulting and Executive Coaching:https://build2morrow.com/Thanks for Tuning In!Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates.And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show, and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get.Please leave a review right now. Thanks for listening!Building My Legacyhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/building-my-legacy/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/episode-223-collaboration-9-luke-ho-hyung-lee-nikhil-sathe-introduce-a-new-more-efficient-e-commerce-platform-with-lois-sonstegardphd

Jeff Young spoke with Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He recently published the book The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance, where he looks at Bitcoin and the transformative potential of the blockchain, the pros and cons of central bank digital currencies, and the international nature of and adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Uberizing Church. Yeah, at this point we're just making up words here. That's a good thing, though, cause we get to define each word. Ulitmately, with each new word comes a new standard. Uberization of Church brings this idea of platforming a concept, crowdsourcing it, and releasing it to others. In many ways, it's the opposite mindset than what we typically think in church today. It's not controlled growth, it's releasing control, allowing multiplication. How do we get there? Jump in this conversation as Jeff, along with Gloo's Matt Engel, explore the idea of Uberizing Church. Complete Show Notes and Online Video Available at THECHURCH.DIGITAL --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thechurchdigital/message

Octopus Energy is on a mission to make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally – by making power greener, smarter, and more affordable for everyone. I had a great time catching up with Greg Jackson, CEO and Founder of Octopus Energy, to find out more about how they've been democratising green energy. In this discussion we explore Greg's values-based leadership style, the impact of economic theory versus reality, his mission to clean up the energy sector, and the future of the smart grid. Talking PointsThe impact of having studied a degree in Economics (5:58)His time working at Procter & Gamble and leaving the corporate world (9:38)Greg's values-based leadership style (13:31)On supporting local communities, social justice and mobility (22:28)How Octopus Energy fosters diversity and inclusion during they're hiring process (24:46)Why they don't have an HR department (27:16)Lessons learned from the 2020 pandemic (29:09)Remote vs office-based work (31:24)The impact of eliminating carbon emissions (33:00)How the UK is doing with tackling climate change (37:21)Cryptocurrency and green energy (39:53)The ‘Uberization' of the grid (42:22)LinksThe Octopus GroupOctopus EnergyGreg's TwitterThe Octopus Energy Podcast

EPISODE SUMMARYWe sat down with Kamarul Muhamed, founder and CEO of Aerodyne Group, a world-leading drone-based enterprise solutions provider, to talk all things drones, the Uberization of agritech, how drone tech has created a new market for technology talents. We also discussed why Southeast Asia, once dominated by traditional agriculture, is so bullish on new technologies, and the wonderful future of the region's home-grown unicorns.EPISODE NOTES“Drones, in itself, is just a dumb flying platform. What makes it intelligent is the analytics and smart sensors; and how that can be disruptive in providing real value to our enterprise clients,” said Kamarul Muhamed, who founded Aerodyne in 2014 and has grown the company into a world-leading drone-based enterprise solutions provider and, more importantly, a pioneer in the use of AI for large-scale data operations and process optimization. Today, we sat down with Kamarul to talk all things drones, the Uberization of agritech, how drone tech has created a new market for technology talents. We also discussed why Southeast Asia, once dominated by traditional agriculture, is so bullish on new technologies, and the wonderful future of the region's home-grown unicorns. About the speaker:Kamarul Muhamed left the corporate world to pursue his passion in technology and digital innovation, founding Aerodyne in 2014 with a specialty in aerial imagery. The company has since pivoted to data intelligence, integrated solutions and now, Drone Tech, Data Tech and Digital Transformation (DT3). Ranked second in the world by Drone Industry Insights of Germany, Aerodyne has over 400 drone professionals operating in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAS) services sector, managing more than 300,000 infrastructure assets with 110,000 flight operations across 35 countries globally. Show notes:01:39 Introduction to Kamarul Muhamed and Aerodyne Group02:29 How the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of agritech05:52 Contactless technologies to automate infrastructure operations for powerlining and solar farms07:15 Transforming traditional labor-intensive agriculture jobs into tech talents10:15 How the Uberization of agritech has created a new micro-economy13:05 Southeast Asia's governments are already channeling agriculture subsidy into the adoption of technology18:36 How Aerodyne tackled the challenges of adoption and scaling a cross-border team22:00 The future of aerial robotics and AI's pivotal role in the ecosystem26:40 Entering the bigger B2C market with the super-app model for agriculture32:35 What the world can learn from China's speed of innovation and Southeast Asia's massive opportunitiesMany thanks to our guests Kamarul Muhamed; host Oscar Ramos; producers Sagar Chaudhary and Lace Nguyen; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com.To join our listener group on WeChat, please add SOSV Helper (WeChat ID: sosvhero) and ask for the group invitation.Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-startup-pulseEmail us: asp-team@asiastartuppulse.com

“Drones, in itself, is just a dumb flying platform. What makes it intelligent is the analytics and smart sensors; and how that can be disruptive in providing real value to our enterprise clients,” said Kamarul Muhamed, who founded Aerodyne in 2014 and has grown the company into a world-leading drone-based enterprise solutions provider and, more importantly, a pioneer in the use of AI for large-scale data operations and process optimization. Today, we sat down with Kamarul to talk all things drones, the Uberization of agritech, how drone tech has created a new market for technology talents. We also discussed why Southeast Asia, once dominated by traditional agriculture, is so bullish on new technologies, and the wonderful future of the region's home-grown unicorns. About the speaker:Kamarul Muhamed left the corporate world to pursue his passion in technology and digital innovation, founding Aerodyne in 2014 with a specialty in aerial imagery. The company has since pivoted to data intelligence, integrated solutions and now, Drone Tech, Data Tech and Digital Transformation (DT3). Ranked second in the world by Drone Industry Insights of Germany, Aerodyne has over 400 drone professionals operating in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAS) services sector, managing more than 300,000 infrastructure assets with 110,000 flight operations across 35 countries globally. Show notes:01:39 Introduction to Kamarul Muhamed and Aerodyne Group02:29 How the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of agritech05:52 Contactless technologies to automate infrastructure operations for powerlining and solar farms07:15 Transforming traditional labor-intensive agriculture jobs into tech talents10:15 How the Uberization of agritech has created a new micro-economy13:05 Southeast Asia's governments are already channeling agriculture subsidy into the adoption of technology18:36 How Aerodyne tackled the challenges of adoption and scaling a cross-border team22:00 The future of aerial robotics and AI's pivotal role in the ecosystem26:40 Entering the bigger B2C market with the super-app model for agriculture32:35 What the world can learn from China's speed of innovation and Southeast Asia's massive opportunitiesMany thanks to our guests Kamarul Muhamed; host Oscar Ramos; producers Sagar Chaudhary and Lace Nguyen; editor David; organizer Chinaccelerator; and sponsor People Squared. Be sure to check out our website www.chinaccelerator.com.To join our listener group on WeChat, please add SOSV Helper (WeChat ID: sosvhero) and ask for the group invitation.Follow us on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-startup-pulseEmail us: asp-team@asiastartuppulse.com

Jan Jedlinski, CEO and Co-Founder of Gustav, Candidate.ly, and the World Staffing Organization joins the Hiring University podcast to discuss new technology trends in the staffing industry today and what we should expect in the near future. “There is a huge opportunity in the staffing market right now to adopt technology that doesn't necessarily mean the death of recruiters.  AI and automation, the Uberization of staffing, and other technology adoption should improve the user experience for the employer and candidate even though it will look different.”            -Jan Jedlinski 

Industria 4.0 e big data sono solo le ultime frontiere di una esplosione di dati e informazioni che con la rivoluzione digitale abbiamo sempre più a disposizione, sia sul fronte interno che su quello esterno alle nostre aziende.Come raccogliere, organizzare ma soprattutto dare senso e condividere la massa di informazioni che possediamo e che sempre più sono elemento fondamentale del patrimonio aziendale? Come costruire scenari che guidino le scelte e le azioni aziendali? Lo approfondiamo con Antonio Belloni, consulente strategico e saggista, autore di Uberization, Esportare l'Italia e Food Economy. Il profilo LinkedIn di Antoniohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniobelloni/Il suo sitohttp://www.companynote.it/I suoi libriE per tenerti aggiornato su FBUIl sitohttps://familybusinessunit.com/La nostra newsletterhttps://familybusinessunit.com/comincia-subito/E il canale telegramhttps://t.me/fbuclub

Episode 37 is another Gigging News episode. My cohost (Elle Tucker) and I discuss the Top News UK SUPREME COURT RULES ON UBER https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56123668By Mary-Ann Russon 19 Feb 2021THE UBERIZATION OF PRIVATE JETS MIGHT BE HERE TO STAYhttps://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/business-general-aviation/news/21210584/the-uberization-of-private-jets-might-be-here-to-stayFeb 17th, 2021 By Jon SindreuRECAST MONETIZES SOCCER MEDIA CONTENThttps://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemccaskill/2021/02/26/hibernian-fans-can-earn-their-club-money-by-watching-videos-on-recast/?sh=35de8f3420bcSteve McCaskil 26 Feb 2021FILMPLACE, THE AIRBNB OF MOVIE LOCATIONS https://www.techinasia.com/this-airbnb-like-startup-film-production-firms-nets-220k-fundingMiguel Cordon · 23 Feb 2021HOW THE SENIOR CARE INDUSTRY STANDS TO BENEFIT FROM THE GIG ECONOMYhttps://www.iadvanceseniorcare.com/how-the-senior-care-industry-stands-to-benefit-from-the-gig-economy/February 25, 2021, By PAIGE CERULLIFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS WILL INCREASE USE OF GIG ECONOMY WORKERS IN NEAR FUTUREhttps://www.monitordaily.com/news-posts/financial-institutions-will-increase-use-of-gig-economy-workers-in-near-future/FEB 26, 2021 - 6:52 am***We are looking forward to discussing the next Big Six News stories with you!Do you like Gigging: Everything and the Sharing Economy? If YES, you might also like my other podcasts, Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare and Career Coaching Xs and Os. Use the links below to give them a listen:Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare - Interviews with Startup Executives and Influencers. https://www.spreaker.com/show/guerrillapreneur-podcast Remember to get your Guerrillapreneur “Disrupt or Die” merchandise. Use this link to buy your hat or t-shirt - https://www.facebook.com/pg/Guerrillapreneur/shop/?ref=page_internal. Career Coaching Xs and Os - Career Advice for Executives who want the corner office. https://www.spreaker.com/show/careercoaching-xs-and-os. https://blog.feedspot.com/career_coach_podcasts/Do me a favor, please. Help me with customer discovery for my startup, Ziscuit. Ziscuit is a 2-sided marketplace where grocery stores bid to fulfill your shopping list. Please visit our website at https://www.ziscuit.shop and take our survey. Need help turning your Gig idea into a Sharing Economy business? Book a FREE one-hour consultation with our sponsor at https://www.ceyero.com/. Ceyero Consulting is a leading business management and technology consulting firm. Let’s continue the conversation. Follow the show on Twitter @GiggingAnd. REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE SHOW. Like, subscribe, comment, about show on your favorite podcast listening platform. It will make me happy.Make sure to follow Gigging: Everything and the Sharing Economy on Twitter at www.twitter.com/GiggingAnd and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/35592852/admin/ HOST INFORMATION: Eleanor “Elle” TuckerTwitter – https://twitter.com/ElleTucker LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanortucker/ mark anthony petersonTwitter – https://twitter.com/guerillapreneur LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-peterson-guerrillapreneur/

The more agile companies can be in the current volatile landscape, the better. Smartsheet is a collaboration software platform that helps companies optimize functionality and one of the things that makes it different is that it is not purpose-built. With 2572 documented use cases to date, Smartsheet possesses the kind of wide applicability that companies need to stay light-footed enough to keep up, and all without having to write a line of code! Today we have its CMO, Anna Griffin, join us on the show to talk more about how the software works as well as speak to the things that make her tick and how she got to be where she is today. Anna gets into her journey into the B2B space and what feeds into her out of the box approach to marketing. We turn our attention to Smartsheet next and hear from Anna about the platform’s fluidity and how they approach marketing it when the product does so many different things. She makes a case for how well the software lends itself to bottom-up adoption, and then we hear a few metrics that prove many larger firms are taking to it in a top-down way too. Anna gets into some of her unusual strategies for winning over these big enterprise clients next, and from there we dive a bit more into the places she finds her inspiration. For all this and more from a unique CMO with a flair for marketing and an equally outstanding product that is here to stay, be sure to tune in! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:21] Before we jump into today’s interview, please rate, review, and subscribe to the Leveling Up Podcast! [00:50] How Anna arrived in the B2B space bringing an emotional approach to marketing. [02:20] The range of uses for Smartsheet – its agility – and why this means they need a CMO. [04:57] Competitors of Smartsheet like AirTable that give an idea of what the platform does. [05:36] How Smartsheet makes money and spreads due to its wide applicability. [07:48] That Smartsheet is built for scale and is adopted in bottom-up and top-down ways. [09:05] How valuable such a flexible product like Smartsheet is in an agile environment. [09:38] Metrics that show how Smartsheet is attacking top-down marketing. [10:27] How Smartsheet markets itself when it’s capabilities are so wide. [11:44] The success of community and traditional marketing for Smartsheet. [13:30] Anna’s mashup mindset: How she combines pep talks and more into marketing.  [15:35] Where Anna gets her inspiration, from country music to her favorite books. [16:53] The ‘Uberization’ of customer service that has upped customer expectations. [17:26] Anna’s favorite business tool and some of the podcasts she listens to regularly. [19:05] Why Anna’s favorite business book is Pretty Good Advice.   Resources From The Interview:   Anna Griffin on LinkedIn Smartsheet NoCode AirTable Microsoft Google Monday Asana Apple Steve Wozniak Wall Street Journal The Last Dance Jeff Rosenblum Uber Instagram OZY Shelley Zalis on Twitter The Female Quotient Leslie Blodgett on Instagram Bare Escentuals Must read book: The Great Gatsby, Friction, Pretty Good Advice   Leave Some Feedback:   What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed   Connect with Eric Siu:    Growth Everywhere Single Grain Eric Siu on Twitter

In 2019, I interviewed Joel Salatin, advocate of alternate farming. Our conversation prompted me to predict for the decade 2020 - 2029 that laws would be overturned making local food production and distribution a rising economic force. I didn't know then that COVID was about to speed that process up 10X. Here's what's happened since then. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rob Saik calls AGvisorPro the Uberization of agricultural knowledge.

How the Uberization of freight is transforming logistics - From FreightWaves LIVE: Chicago Day 1 Bill Driegert, Senior Director Uber Freight.Apple PodcastsSpotifyRewatch the LIVE streams on YouTubeMore FreightWaves Podcasts

How the Uberization of freight is transforming logistics - From FreightWaves LIVE: Chicago Day 1 Bill Driegert, Senior Director Uber Freight.Apple PodcastsSpotifyRewatch the LIVE streams on YouTubeMore FreightWaves Podcasts

Joel Salatin is a "Christian Libertarian Environmentalist Capitalist Lunatic" who is re-inventing the way food is grown, distributed and consumed. Here we examine how current legislation is based on 1906 technology, and the new culinary entrepreneurship that is expanding as we break the shackles of 19th century "Darwinian" agriculture. Discover Joel at https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The adage “the customer is always right” is not new. But never has it been truer than this year. The “Uberization” of retail—give me what I want when and how I want it—has shifted the way customers expect to interact with brands and retailers and it’s not going to change anytime soon. This week Alison Embrey Medina, Director of Content at Retail X, joins Lee Peterson to discuss this exact notion including what brands need to do to evolve and which brands are already revolving around their customer.

 In this episode, freight innovator Bill Driegert joins Chris Caplice to discuss how digital freight matchers like Uber Freight are shifting the traditional relationship between shippers, carriers, and drivers. Bill also explains the impact of increased visibility a la driver ratings and reviews as well as the benefits of a shared trailer pool like UberFreight’s Powerloop. Inam Iyoob then joins Chris to provide this week’s market update and rate forecast.[02:47] In case you’re interested, here’s the 2016 Armstrong report about digital freight matching that Chris mentioned: https://www.3plogistics.com/product/digital-freight-matching-capturing-technology-based-efficiencies-trucking-industry/.[10:51] To access Uber Freight’s 2019 Facility Insights Report, click here: https://businesses.uber.com/Facility-Ratings-Insight-Report-2019_Access.html.[23:07] Learn more about Powerloop at Uber Freight here: https://www.uberfreight.com/blog/how-powerloop-helps-unlock-access-to-power-only-loads. 

Francis McInerney fills us in on why Elliot's acquisition of a portion of ATT is doomed to fail. Will their old fashioned tactics be successful or will ATT restructure itself? Learn more about their struggles.

Zach Hilliard always loved cars and started his career as a diesel mechanic. Today he’s senior director of site reliability engineering for Cyxtera Technologies, a Texas-based provider of data centers around the globe. He sees the Uberization of data centers, where companies tap unused computing resources much like how Uber puts ride hailers into empty […]

Zach Hilliard always loved cars and started his career as a diesel mechanic. Today he’s senior director of site reliability engineering for Cyxtera Technologies, a Texas-based provider of data centers around the globe. He sees the Uberization of data centers, where companies tap unused computing resources much like how Uber puts ride hailers into empty […]

Zach Hilliard always loved cars and started his career as a diesel mechanic. Today he’s senior director of site reliability engineering for Cyxtera Technologies, a Texas-based provider of data centers around the globe. He sees the Uberization of data centers, where companies tap unused computing resources much like how Uber puts ride hailers into empty […]

Gig economy jobs have soared in recent years, but as the consumer receives a quick service or a same-day delivery product, what are the workers getting? When this type of work, including ride-hailing services and ice cream delivery came along, some thought women would benefit greatly. But data shows that this hasn't occurred yet, as inequality is a growing component of the global workforce. There has been an "Uberization" of what the gig economy is today, and those jobs are mainly done by men which has left the discussion about women in this sector primarily on the side. Professor Julia Ticona joined host Dan Loney in the Knowledge@Wharton Business Radio studio to discuss her research into the inequalities of the gig economy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What happens when financial markets take over, when Uberization replaces traditional employment, and when credit ratings become crucial to the well-being of people and governments? According to Michel Feher, these transformations have affected labor markets, the promises governments make to their citizens, and opportunities and arenas for social struggle. (Encore presentation.) Michel Feher, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age Zone Books, 2018 The post Credit-Seeking, Ratings-Obsessed appeared first on KPFA.

What happens when financial markets take over, when Uberization replaces traditional employment, and when credit ratings become crucial to the well-being of people and governments? According to Michel Feher, these transformations have affected labor markets, the promises governments make to their citizens, and opportunities and arenas for social struggle. Michel Feher, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age Zone Books, 2018 The post Credit-Seeking, Ratings-Obsessed appeared first on KPFA.

Are you prepared to face the potential disruptors to your learning business? Or – even better – are you positioning your organization to be the next big disruptor of your market? Return guest Tom Morrison, CEO of Metal Treating Institute (MTI), is a highly-sought after keynote speaker, and author of multiple books, including most recently, The Dash: Making Sure Your Obituary Won’t Suck. And a key concept that he speaks about is around the idea of “uberization” – a term based on the highly successful market disruptor that we all know, Uber. In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Jeff talks with Tom about the concept of uberization including how it applies to learning businesses and how to avoid being “uberized”. He also talks about what MTI is doing with their highly successful e-learning and certificate programs to solidify their niche in the market. Full show notes available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode161.  Our sponsor for this episode is Learning • Technology • Design™ (LTD), our annual virtual conference designed specifically for those who work in the business of lifelong learning, continuing education, and professional development. This will be our fourth time offering LTD, and we know from all the feedback we have received that past attendees have found it a unique and highly valuable experience. Registration is open at ltd.tagoras.com, and through the month of November we are offering reduced pricing as well as the opportunity to extend a complimentary invitation to a colleague or friend who has not attended LTD before.   We are also offering the opportunity to be a Patron for the event, an option that may be of interest to companies that serve learning businesses. You can find out about that by going to ltd.tagoras.com/patron. And we would like to spotlight some of our current patrons including Web Courseworks, makers of the Course Stage LMS, and Event Garde, a professional development consulting firm committed to lifelong learning.

This week on Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam is joined by guest host Bruce. Sam and Bruce go lightning round format and hit a lot of different topics including the "uberization" of all sorts of things, a couple movies Sam watched, preliminary thoughts on the 2020 Presidential election, whether Trump is being bashed for the wrong things, jury nullification... and more! Show Details: Recorded 2018-08-30 Length this week - 1:27:39 (0:00:20-0:40:25) Lightning One Bruce: Sam's shifting politics Bruce: Bashing Trump for the wrong things? Sam: Movie: The Incredibles (2004) Sam: Movie: The Incredibles 2 (2018) Bruce: Manafort trial and jury nullification Sam: John McCain (0:41:04-1:27:19) Lightning Two Bruce: Uberization of everything Sam: Democratic superdelegate rules Sam: Democratic caucus and primary rules Bruce: Smoke detector batteries Sam: Bruce and local politics Sam: Election 2020 The Curmudgeon's Corner theme music is generously provided by Ray Lynch. Our intro is "The Oh of Pleasure" (Amazon MP3 link) Our outro is "Celestial Soda Pop" (Amazon MP3 link) Both are from the album "Deep Breakfast" (iTunes link) Please buy his music and support his GoFundMe.

In this episode of Big Rig Banter, Troy takes the wheel and gears the show towards the uberization of trucking. He chats with Daniel Serowicz of Dock411 as well as Dakota Semler of the Thor Trucking Company. Listen in to find out how technology continues to shape and enhance the trucking industry! List of Interviewees: Daniel Serowicz, Dock411 – https://dock411.com/ Dakota Semler, Thor Trucking Company – https://www.thortrucks.com/ Related blogs on AllTruckJobs: https://www.alltruckjobs.com/blog/uberization-trucking-amazons-big-plans/ https://www.alltruckjobs.com/blog/drones-in-the-trucking-industry-flying-into-the-future/ https://www.alltruckjobs.com/blog/self-driving-trucks-uber-latest-outlook/ https://www.alltruckjobs.com/blog/autonomous-trucking-technology/ Connect with us! https://alltruckjobs.com/podcast/ https://www.alltruckjobs.com/

For the past decade, telecommunications companies around the globe have been grappling with falling average revenues per user equaling stagnant growth rates. While particularly mobile operators have enabled increasing prosperity in third-world countries, new ways of working and fueled entirely new markets, much of the wealth created has landed on the books of companies that we look upon with increasing discomfort: Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent and others.

A conversation with entrepreneur Graeme Blake about teaching law school applicants how to game the LSAT, the strategies and challenges of starting and running a business, and the future of education.

A conversation with entrepreneur Graeme Blake about teaching law school applicants how to game the LSAT, the strategies and challenges of starting and running a business, and the future of education.

Andrea Giuricin, economista dei trasporti Uni Bicocca Milano; Antonio Belloni, consulente di azienda in comunicazione e autore di "Uberization".

Now that Peter Fleming has made his points, where do we go from here? That is the subject of Part 3 on "The Human Capital Hoax." The podcasters synthesize the text and offer ideas for future research and practice. An exciting debate you will not want to miss!

In part 2 we continue to discuss “The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt, and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization,” by Peter Fleming. The article raised a number of pressing issues, such as the nature and character of modern workplace resistance and the implications of Fleming's thesis on managers and leaders.

Please join us as the podcasters engage on a timely and relevant article, “The Human Capital Hoax: Work, Debt, and Insecurity in the Era of Uberization,” by Peter Fleming. The article is a treatise and pointed critique of the emergence, development, implementation, and negative effects of Human Capital theory, which Fleming presents as having created numerous professional, economic, and social problems in the workforce. Part 1 focuses on the arguments in the article: Why did the author write it, and what are the key points?

There is currently no way of escaping around the digital transformation revolution in service and indeed everything at the moment. But, to dismiss it as hype or just another fad would be incredibly foolish in an age where disrupt or be disrupted is the new currency. Michael R. Blumberg is the President of Blumberg Advisory Group, Inc. He is a recognized expert in Field Service and Reverse Logistics in High-Technology industry. I invited Michael onto the show to talk about how he is helping businesses overcome the increasing number of digital challenges and opportunities that are facing multiple industries. Growing top line service revenue Marketing & Selling Extended Service Programs Servitization of Manufacturing Uberization of Service We also discuss the importance of valid market data and intelligence, knowledge of best practices and industry benchmarks along with a clear road Map or strategic plan forward. Equally, It's also important to remember that you can accelerate growth rate in a shorter period by working with a strategic advisor or business coach who possesses the skills you are missing. Michael Blumberg is a Certified Management Consultant with considerable experience in strategic & business planning, market research, mergers & acquisitions, benchmarking, systems analysis, and productivity & efficiency improvement. Michael Blumberg is a well-known author and speaker. His thought leadership, service system planning, and strategy formulation have positively enhanced the profitability of many organizations across varied industries such as IT, Energy & Automation, Telecommunication, Medical Electronics, Banking, Retail and Consumer Electronics.

Roland, Steve Albini, and Joe discuss: Big Black, Shellac, the "Uberization" of the workforce, the Jungle of Life, and the one true God above.

Episode 224: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending May 7, 2017 features interviews with Leroy Walden, President and Chief Consultant, Highrose Consultants; Fred Gordy, Director of Cyber Security, Intelligent Buildings; and Ken Sinclair, owner and editor of Automated Buildings. Also in Episode 224: 2017 CGNA Synergy Conference highlights; EasyIO’s Global Event update and the 9-video EasyIO Training Video series is now available; 2017 Haystack Connect starts May 8th; and much more! A Note to the Smart Buildings Controls Industry. This just in from Lynxspring’s Marc Petock: Lynxspring is pleased to announce that we will be demonstrating our latest edge-to-enterprise and IoT solutions at Haystack Connect 2017. The biennial Conference of the Project Haystack Organization is being held this year at the Saddlebrook Resort Tampa, May 8 through May 10, 2017. These solutions will be demonstrated in Lynxspring’s Booth # E11. Lynxspring is a founding member and holds a seat on the Board of Directors of Project Haystack, and is a Sponsor of the Haystack Connect 2017 Conference. ControlTrends takes a deep-dive into CyberSecurity with our interview with two top industry experts, Leroy Walden, President and Chief Consultant, Highrose Consultants and Fred Gordy, Director of Cyber Security, Intelligent Buildings. Listen in, as Leroy and Fred advise the ControlTrends Community about attending industry events that are real opportunities to get up-to-speed with threat assessment, risks, and best practices — to deal effectively with the cyber terrorism. Both experts caution that the liability to safeguard networks is being shifted onto the shoulders of the system integrator integrating the building automation system into the network. Be sure to contact Leroy Walden at (lcwalden256@gmail.com) — to take advantage of Leroy’s $100.00 discount for the 2017 Realcomm|IBcon Conference and Smart Buildings Integrator Summit, June 13th-15th in San Diego, CA. Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings May, 2017 Theme: Our second interview is with Automated Buildings owner and editor, Ken Sinclair, who discusses the many IoT challenges and trends facing our industry along with his May theme, “The Uberization of Comfort, Satisfaction, and Wellbeing.” “Occupant self-love” continues to improve its presence and functionality — integrating itself more readily into our building automation industry with a host of IoT applications that input the human whereabouts — and its condition, into the building network of things. Click here to read another great edition of Automated Buildings. ControlTrends Interview with ACI’s Barry Gordon at the 2017 CGNA Synergy Conference. ControlTrends had the opportunity to visit with Barry Gordon, Senior Sales Engineer at ACI, who was excited to tell us about ACI’s new DLP Low Pressure Transmitter. The DLP Series is based on a piezoresistive, silicon sensing element which senses Differential Pressure and provides an analog output. The hinged cover on the DLP can be easily opened using the integrated locking tab on the side of the enclosure. This allows for easy access to the zero function and field selectable ranges and outputs. 2016 ControlTrends Awards Highlight: Catch all the excitement as the global ControlTrends Community crowns the 2016 Light Commercial Controls Solution of of the Year Award winner. In this case, it will take two crowns as both KMC Controls and Proton Optergy get recognized for their outstanding solutions. KMC’s mission is to “provide innovative, intuitive building automation and Smart Buildings Controls solutions from responsive and supportive people,” and the KMC Commander delivers as an open building automation and Smart Buildings control system that is open, secure, and scaleable. “Proton by Optergy became the first true open supervisor and controller that can interoperate with any BACnet unitary controller and is 100% web based. It has all the needed tools to setup, operate and maintain the system, and has all of this at economical price points.” The Complete EASYIO FG Training Series. In this 9 part video training course, Mike Marston shows you everything you need to know to get up and running with one of the most powerful controllers in Smart Building controls — the EASYIO FG controller. Learn how to program the controller, and create graphics and analytics. Click here to go to the EASYIO FG Training Course.Great job Mike! The EasyIO Global Partner Event agenda has been set with the following speakers: David Kipling, vice president of Jabil Circuit Inc. (US), Andrius Jasiulionis, automation engineer of Helgevold Electro (Norway), Jason Briggs, CEO of J2 Innovations (US). And of course, key people from EasyIO will tell you all about where we are going as a company: Johan Schakenraad, President & CEO of EasyIO Europe B.V., Mike Marston, vice president of EasyIO Holdings Pte Ltd., Lim Hoon Chiat, CTO/R&D EasyIO Holdings Pte Ltd., and EasyIO Tech Team. But there’s more than just the conference: an informal pre-event gathering at the Hard Rock Café on Sunday evening May 21, dinner and awesome entertainment on Monday evening, May 22, and an exclusive VIP training for CPT Tools and EasyStack on Tuesday, May 23. Check out the full program. The post Episode 224: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending May 7, 2017 appeared first on ControlTrends.

It's easy to get passed over and completely left behind in today's fast-moving market and technology climate. Joe Welu offers insight on how Mortgage Loan Officers and Realtors can take their brand and service to the next level by taking cues from companies that have rendered their predecessors and competition nearly irrelevant.

It's easy to get passed over and completely left behind in today's fast-moving market and technology climate. Joe Welu offers insight on how Mortgage Loan Officers and Realtors can take their brand and service to the next level by taking cues from companies that have rendered their predecessors and competition nearly irrelevant.

Michael Howley, faculty coordinator in LeBow's MBA healthcare concentration, shares his thoughts on the Uberization of healthcare. He explains how on-demand medicine might work (or not), and how it may change the way we interact with healthcare.

The ride-sharing service Uber is threatening to disrupt, if not dismantle, the taxi business. Will it do the same to the package-delivery sector? Uber, Lyft and similar ride-sharing services fully deserve that already overused word, ''disruption.'' Their success is due in large part to their founders' ability to perceive a failure in the way that traditional taxis have operated. Now, there's talk that the Uber model could be similarly applied to freight transportation. In theory, Uber drivers can just as easily carry packages from retailers to the consumer's door. Perhaps they could even skirt many of the regulations that hamper that business. On this episode, we talk to Scott Nelson, vice chairman and founder of Trax Technologies. He explains why an Uber-like service can't necessarily work for logistics. It's all about the need for ''perfect information,'' he says. At the same time, Nelson offers his view on the real transformation that logistics is undergoing today – and how the business can be reshaped to create a ''win-win'' model for buyers and sellers alike.

Julius Grey, a prominent Montreal human rights lawyer, explains the problems facing Canadians with what he calls the increasing "Uberization" of society.

This is one of my favorite episodes we've ever done - my conversation with Digit founder and CEO, Ethan Bloch. Digit has set out to solve one of the core problems in consumers' financial lives - how to save. Their solution is to make savings effortless, using an intelligent algorithm that analyzes your spending and income patterns and automatically moves funds into savings. I had dinner with Ethan last summer and suddenly realized he was describing an "Uberization" of savings, paralleling the financial industry's efforts to "uberize" payments, in the sense of making the mechanics disappear, like the non-exchange of money at the end of an Uber ride.  Out of sight, out of mind. With Digit, you sign up, and you automatically start to save. I had always assumed that getting people to save requires fostering mindfulness - getting people to think long term instead of short term. Digit is going in the opposite direction - not mindfulness, but mindlessness. Again, effortlessness. Instead of hoping people will form habits that keep them focused all the time, on saving Digit just lets them decide to save one time. After that, they save. He's trying to drive the "minutes per year" spent on saving to nearly zero. No more budgets, expense tracking, figuring how much you should save and can save and did save. They're breaking all those practical barriers that keep most people stuck. I know it bothers some people to have consumers saving without thinking. We wish, instead, that everyone would become financially educated and focus on their life goals - you could call it developing the financial virtues. There are innovators working on that approach, too, using behavioral economics to get people motivated. Still, if the eat-your-spinach approach was going to work, it probably would have by now. It's time to try new tools. I know other companies working from the same logic. And here's an interesting twist. After Digit gets people started on effortless saving, they actually do switch over to mindfulness. They start texting their customers about daily savings progress. And they do it with humor which, as I've been saying, is a secret weapons of many fintech innovators. They are blowing up the boredom factor that keeps so many people from focusing on their finances. I asked Ethan for examples of this. Unfortunately I didn't get the jokes because they're aimed at millennials, but if you -- unlike me -- happen to know what's cooler than cool, Digit will send you this fun GIF.   Speaking of millennials, Digit's average user is 27 years old. Some people want to dismiss fintech solutions for this group, because so many other consumers need tools too My answer to that is, the millennials are the early adopters of new technology. It makes sense to start with them. As these products get traction, they will broaden.  Listen to Ethan, and many of our other guests, and you hear a big vision about remaking the financial lives of everyone. (And by the way, we do have a show coming up with Bee, which is reaching for a very different market.) At the age of 30, Ethan is at the forefront of the fintech revolution. Digit is a winner of the Financial Solutions Lab competition sponsored by CFSI and JPMorgan Chase, which focused its first year on solutions for the more than one-third of Americans who struggle with managing cash flow management. (Recall that another winner was Ascend - we talked with its founder, Steve Carlson, in Episode 9). Ethan explains how much money Digit has saved people so far (by the way, we recorded this discussion late last year, so his progress data are for 2015, not 2016). He explains how customers are using the savings they build up. He describes their investors and business model and plans. And he talks about how to design great financial tools, that are like smart phones - that people can just pick up and use, without needing manuals, much less lengthy federal disclosure documents. Speaking of those, Ethan really calls out the failures of disclosures. He also discusses the shift underway toward a more principles-based approach (echoing our episodes with other guests, including Thomas Curry). He describes, too, the huge obstacles to innovation that arise from well-intentioned government efforts, including the difficulties innovators face in working with banks. Ethan also had the most surprising answer I've gotten yet to my standard question on how he keeps up with technology change. Finally, for our many listeners who play Barefoot Innovation while you're carpooling to school in hopes it will inspire your kids to grow up and found the next PayPal, I should say I'm rating this episode PG-13, for language. Ethan uses a few words in our conversation that...let's put this way, you hardly ever hear them on National Public Radio. Learn more at www.digit.co and @hellodigit and @ebloch and find further links below: On banks opening up their APIs The book "Rainbow's End" CFSI's research on the U.S. Financial Diaries Note to Our Listeners: If you're enjoying Barefoot Innovation, please be sure write a review on ITunes and also click the Donate button, to help us can keep it growing! Last but not least, I am finally launching my long-in-the-making video series, Regulation Innovation. It's for people in the financial world contending with the top two disruptive challenges - regulation and technology innovation. It for both business and regulatory people, and for both traditional companies and innovators. I'll have much more information coming on this, but please come to www.jsbarefoot.com in March, and check it out!  I promise, there is nothing else remotely like it. 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As the interest in fintech and financial services in general continues to grow, there’s been chatter of an Uber-like disruption by the startups in the space. Our next guest, Vince Passione would beg to differ. He’s the CEO of LendKey which provides the incumbent banking system the digital tools it needs to sufficiently compete in marketplace lending. The issue right now isn’t whether marketplace lending is going to grow, it’s more of who takes the lead in this space. It’s worth listening to Vince because he’s been a major part of the move to digitize financial services, leading Citi’s move online and Ameritrade’s Institutional Client group. This move to online lending started with pure play disrupters like Lending Club and Propser and is moving to a more collaborative environment with traditional institutions following quickly with their own offerings powered by companies like LendKey. The company has 320 clients and has helped originate over $1 billion in loans with its banking clients. In Vince’s opinion, there will never be an Uberization of finance because banks and credit unions do eventually adopt technology. They survive. Same thing happened in Internet banking. There is an entire system of trust and regulatory framework built around banks making them very hard to disintermediate. In this sense, LendKey is providing the shovels and pickaxes for the marketplace lending goldrush and it’s selling them to the big boys. *****Sponsors***** This week's episode of the Tradestreaming Podcast was sponsored by Collective2 -- automated trading for humans. Choose one of the thousands of automated trading strategies at Collective2, and trade it in your brokerage account. To learn more, go to http://www.collective2.com/tradestreaming and as a Tradestreaming listener, you will get $55 off the first strategy you publish to Collective2.

53 million Americans--one out of three workers--can be classified as freelance entrepreneurs. A career as a freelancer offers lots of advantages. You work when and where you want. You set your own prices and keep the profits. You choose your clients and your coworkers. (And yes, you can work at home in your pajamas!) A career as a freelancer has its challenges, too. You have sole responsibility for finding clients, project management, business operations, contracts, taxes, marketing, scheduling, and everything else in what is, essentially, your own small business. This week on Find Your Dream Job Mac chats with Rebecca Shapiro, an artist, illustrator, and career freelancer. Rebecca has worked with the Portland Freelancers Union and is the author of Work Independently & Live Connectedly: 52 Steps to Freelancing Freedom. She shares her experience in the gig economy and offers advice for starting and maintaining a successful career as a freelancer. In this 32-minute episode you will learn: The importance of community, relationships, and collaboration in freelancing The mindset and technical skills you need to thrive as a freelancer How to shift out of the “worker” mentality, into the “freelancer” mentality Why you need to set healthy boundaries with clients How to find customers for your freelance services Income expectations when you become a career freelancer This Week's Guest: Rebecca Shapiro (@rebeccashapiro)Principal, Rebecca Shapiro Art and Rebecca Shapiro IllustrationAuthor, Work Independently & Live Connectedly: 52 Steps to Freelancing FreedomPortland, Ore.You can also connect with Rebecca on LinkedIn and Instagram. Listener question of the week:  Do I need both an e-portfolio and an actual (physical) portfolio? Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on a future episode? Please send your questions to Cecilia Bianco, Mac’s List Community Manager at cecilia@macslist.org. Resources referenced on this week’s show: DoubleYourFreelancing.com The Business of Freelancing Podcast Wordpress SquareSpace Rebecca Shapiro Illustration Rebecca Shapiro Art Portland Freelancers Union CreativeLive SkillShare Work Independently & Live Connectedly: 52 Steps to Freelancing Freedom Land Your Dream Job in Portland (and Beyond): The Complete Mac’s List Guide If you have a job-hunting or career development resource resource you’d like to share, please contact Ben Forstag, Mac’s List Managing Director at ben@macslist.org. -- Thank you for listening to Find Your Dream Job. If you like this show, please help us by rating and reviewing our podcast on iTunes. We appreciate your support!Opening and closing music for Find Your Dream Job provided by Freddy Trujillo, www.freddytrujillo.com -- Full Transcript Mac Prichard:    This is find your dream job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want and make a difference in life. I'm Mac Prichard, your host and publisher of Mac's List. Our show is brought to you by Mac's List. Your best online source for rewarding, creative and meaningful work. Visit macslist.org to learn more. You'll find hundreds of great jobs, a blog with practical career advice and our new book, "Land Your Dream Job in Portland and Beyond". Thanks for joining us today. This week on Find Your Dream Job we're talking about freelance work. If you see three random people walking down a street in the United States, one of them likely does freelance work. Thirty-four percent of Americans, 53 million people in all, are freelancers according to a 2014 survey. Now, a career as a freelance worker offers lots of advantages. You work where and when you want. You set your own prices and you keep the profits. You choose your clients and your coworkers and, yes, you can work at home in your pajamas. A career as a freelancers has its challenges too. You do all the administration and marketing for your business and this could take up to 25% or more of your time. You can't bill those hours to your clients. You also have to produce more revenue. Charging an hourly rate that equals your old annual salary won't cut it because now you have to cover your own sick leave, vacation, benefits, and payroll taxes. This may mean that you have to earn two to two and a half times the amount of your former salary. In the next thirty minutes we'll address these and other important issues for freelance workers. Whether you're about to strike out on your own or you've been working for yourself since the Carter administration, Ben Forstag has found a website with ideas you can use to make any freelance business more efficient and profitable. If you're a freelance worker who is an artist, designer or film maker I don't have to tell you the difference a portfolio can make in landing your next gig. One reader asked us however, "Can I just present my work online or do I need a printed portfolio?" Cecilia Bianco has the answer. Let's start as we do every week by checking with Mac's List team; Ben Forstag and Cecilia Bianco. Cecilia, Ben how are you two doing this week? Ben Forstag:   I'm doing awesome. Cecilia Bianco:  Doing good Mac. Mac Prichard:    Good. Well, it's a pleasure to see you here in the studio. This week we're talking about freelancing and I have to ask you both, have either one of you worked as a freelancer? Cecilia? Cecilia Bianco: No, I haven't but I've definitely considered it and I know a lot of people who have. Mac Prichard:    There are no freelance babysitting jobs in your past? Cecilia Bianco:  No. Mac Prichard:    Okay. I haven't worked as a freelancer myself. I have taken the odd contract job while I look for a permanent position. Like you, I haven't worked as a freelancer. How about you Ben? Ben Forstag:   I've taken odd contract jobs between permanent positions, but when I think of freelancing I think of the folks who are doing this as an ongoing career. I've never done that. Actually, my wife is a freelancer and she has a rule in our house that one of us has to have a full-time, permanent stable job. Since she's already got the freelancing gig that leaves me to come into work everyday. Mac Prichard:   Yeah. Well, we're glad to have you. My wife, too, is a freelancer and we have the same arrangement. I imagine when we talk to our guest expert this week we'll hear more about how that can help a couple because often when one member of the couple has a permanent job they bring benefits, health insurance and other advantages to the table that help freelancers get going. Let's turn to our regular feature with Ben, who every week is exploring the internet looking for podcasts, books and other tools you can use in your job search. Ben Forstag:    Let me say up front that I don't know a whole lot about freelancing as a permanent career. In preparing for today's show, I reach out to some of my friends who are freelancers and asked them for suggestions about what blogs they read, what podcasts they listen to and so forth. Today, I want to recommend a blog and an accompanying podcast that are designed to help people address some of the challenges that are inherent when they're running a freelancing business. The blog is called doubleyourfreelancing.com and it's written by Brennan Dunn, a long-time freelance software designer. The blog tackles questions like how to find clients, how to market yourself, how to price your services, how to manage projects and workflow, how to do your estimated quarterly taxes which I know is a challenge for my wife, and other basic tips on how to improve the efficiency of your freelancing business. Brennan only posts a handful of times each month, but each entry is really nicely written, well thought out and comprehensive. Some of the posts are almost long form in their length. You could spend fifteen, twenty minutes going through some of these posts. I particularly like the post entitled, "The best networking hack I've ever used." I'm not going to share with you what that hack is. You'll have to go and read the blog, but I thought it was a really interesting approach in how to make lasting connections with professional contacts. In his case, this is how to make connections that will turn into future business. Brennan's blog has an affiliated podcast called, "The Business of Freelancing" which is available on iTunes. The focus here is on interviews with fellow freelancers and the discussions surround how to improve clients relations and business practices. It's a well produced podcast and they release episodes every two weeks or so. I suggest you check out these two resources. The blog is doubleyourfreelancing.com and the podcast, available on iTunes, is "The Business of Freelancing". Mac Prichard:    Thanks Ben. I had a chance to look at that website this week when you flagged it for us. I was impressed by the quality of the information and the large number of articles. I know people like to get content in different ways, so not only are there articles but there's a podcast. For those who like structure, there's also a course with a curriculum that looked very useful as well. Now it's time to hear from you, our listeners. Let's turn to Cecilia Bianco our community manager. It's time for her to answer one of your questions. Cecilia, what do you have for us this week? Cecilia Bianco:  Our question this week is, "Do I actually need an e-portfolio and a printed portfolio?" Personally, I think everyone should have an online portfolio. It's a more in depth and visual version of LinkedIn where you can expand on your skills, your past work and your personality. It's a great tool to show a potential employer why they want to interview you before they actually meet you. It's a brief look into who you are as a professional and it can be really important in securing an interview. Ben Forstag:   Cecilia, let me interrupt here. I know LinkedIn has a projects section, can you do most of what you're talking about on that tool? Cecilia Bianco:  Yeah, you definitely can do most of this on LinkedIn but an online portfolio is more of a personal website where you can showcase your brand and your personality in a more creative way. There's easy ways to do this using WordPress or Squarespace. Both platforms are super easy and low-cost. I think I pay $30 a year for my customized site. I think that being able to create a well put together personal website shows your skills as far as creativity and visual storytelling, which is another bonus to it. It's another thing for when employers Google you, because we know they all do, it adds something to Google when your name's searched and it's a great tactic to control your online reputation. Mac Prichard:    What about printed portfolios, Cecilia? I know most employers are going to Google people and look at their LinkedIn profile, but when you have a meeting with an employer do you think it makes sense to bring one in? Cecilia Bianco:  I think it depends on what field your in. Printed portfolios are really only necessary, in my opinion, for people in a visual field like photography or graphic design. Otherwise, it's really challenging to make it appealing to an employer. To bring in a portfolio full of written content is not that fun to look through and it's not that fun to create. In my senior year, we were required to make one and I majored in public relations, so a lot of my work was news releases and written content. Printing that out and arranging it nicely in a portfolio was pretty difficult and it just doesn't seem necessary in a written field when you can display that information online in a more appealing way. I think printed portfolios are necessary for some fields and not for others. Well, what do you think about that actually Mac because you run Prichard. Are you impressed when someone brings in a printed portfolio? Mac Prichard:   Generally, it's someone who is a designer and they will have a book with samples of their work. I do enjoy going through the book with them. The advantage of that is they're telling a story and they're sharing examples of their work to make their points about that story. I have seen those portfolios at a university that writers have used and I think there is some advantage in, again telling that story, it's a way of doing it but it's not the only way. The short answer to your question, Cecilia ,is I think it's a must for designers and photographers. There could be some value for writers, but I think there's so many opportunities to do that online and there's only so many hours in the day. I agree with you. I would give precedence to an online portfolio. Cecilia Bianco:  Yeah. I agree. Mac Prichard:    Thank you, Cecilia, and if you have a question for Cecilia you can email her day or night. Her email address is cecilia@macslists.org. The segments by Ben and Cecilia are sponsored by the Mac's Lists Guides, publisher of our new book, "Land Your Dream Job in Portland and Beyond". The Mac's Lists Guide can be the tools you need to get the job you want. We show you how to crack the hidden job markets, stand out in a competitive field and how you can manage your career. The book has eight chapters and in each one experts share job hunting secrets like how to hear about jobs that are never posted and what you can do to interview and negotiate like a pro. To download the first chapter of the book for free visit macslists.org/macslistsguides. Now, let's turn to this week's expert. Rebecca Shapiro is the author of, "Work Independently and Live Connectedly: 52 Steps to Freelancing Freedom". She's also a former regional organizer for the Freelancers Union and a fine artist, illustrator and community manager. Rebecca offers experiential art in public spaces and for events and she also makes custom illustrations for medical textbooks, e-books, murals and cards. Rebecca, thank you for joining us here today. Rebecca Shapiro:   Thank you. Thank you for having me. Mac Prichard:    Yeah, it a pleasure to and thank you for coming to the Mac's List studio. Let's start with freelancers in general. Is there a typical freelance worker out there in America today? Rebecca Shapiro:  Well, actually there's 53 million of us in the United States right now. One out of three workers is an independent worker, so they're a freelancer whether they're working part-time or full-time. There is a typical freelancer out there and I think there's a bunch of us because we are finding ways to create livelihood for ourselves. Mac Prichard:    Okay. I think when people hear freelance they think a writer, someone in the creative field. What other kinds of careers might lend themselves to freelance work? Rebecca Shapiro: Well, that's a really good point because when I first started working with Freelancers Union I always considered myself an entrepreneur because I couldn't find any other word to describe what I was doing. I thought freelancers applied to copywriters and maybe a graphic designer, but really it's anybody who's working independently for themselves, like I said full-time or part-time, so it could be taxi drivers, babysitters. It could be somebody who is a copywriter, I've worked with a lot of copywriters, illustrators, web programmers. It's everybody. Anybody who is creating income for themselves is considered a freelancer. Mac Prichard:    Now, you're the author of a book about freelancing and you have practical tips in that book about what freelancers can do, in fact, one for every week of the year. What's striking about your book is its emphasis on community, relationships and collaboration. Can you tell us more about why you focus on those themes? Rebecca Shapiro:  Probably because if you don't have relationships you basically have yourself and you're unemployed. You need those relationships to have partnerships with other people so that you can work on projects together, to have clients and healthy robust relationships with those clients so they keep coming back. Then, the other relationship that I think is really important is the relationship with yourself. You really have to know yourself. I joke sometimes that working for yourself is almost like a spiritual path because you have to have so much awareness about who you are, the way that you work and what you like and what you don't like in order to have a healthy freelancing business. Mac Prichard:   Now, every time there's a recession I think when people lose work they think, "Well, maybe this is the time to strike out on my own." Is there a particular kind of mindset you need to be successful as a freelancer? Rebecca Shapiro:    Absolutely. You and I spoke about this earlier, I really have a soft spot for the people that have been laid off and have either been so discouraged that they can't find work or just kind of give up and they decide to go into freelancing. I think it's really important when you find yourself in that position, or if you're just choosing to go out on your own, that you find a community of freelancers in which to participate because you can have conversation with people and find out what's working and what isn't for them and build experience for yourself and figure out like, "Okay, this piece might work well for me. This piece isn't going to work so hot." You can put together, cobble together, this business for yourself so that you're successful. Mac Prichard:    Learning how to be a freelancer it's not only a mindset, but it requires a set of skills. I run two small businesses, Mac's List as well as a public relations company, and I had worked for large organizations for many years; non-profits and public agencies. I needed to learn how to create and run a business and that was different from the technical skills I had. Do you find that successful freelancers have to go through a similar process? Rebecca Shapiro:     Absolutely. In fact, the learning curve is really pretty big. That again is why the relationship building piece is so important that you sort of find your tribe or your educational group or your mentors that are going to help you be successful with your freelance business. Part of that is also finding your support team. For example, taxes is something I'm not interested in nor am I very good at so I see my relationship with my CPA as a collaboration. It's a very good one and he makes sure that I don't get into trouble and that I save a lot of money on my taxes. That's one example. If you can find ... I think it's really important for you to to be able to realize if you're going out and becoming a freelancer or starting out look for communities that you can jump into and then definitely look for ways that you educate yourself on as many things as possible. Some good places to look would be the classes at CreativeLive or on Skillshare. They have a lot of entrepreneurial business freelancing type classes that they teach as well as specific skills that you might need. Let's say that you wanted to go into graphic design but you were kind of wobbly in one area of it. You could look for some specific classes that would help you build up your skillset. Mac Prichard:  Okay. There are resources out there to help you with your technical skills, whatever service you might be offering to clients, but you also need to connect with others in the community to work on your business as well. Rebecca Shapiro:   Absolutely. I think the more support that you can get for setting up a healthy structure for your business the better. If you can learn how to do things like time management ... At lot of times when people ... And this is a key point, a lot of times when people are leaving their desk job they try and recreate that environment working on their own and it's not a very efficient way to work. Learning how to shift out of the worker mindset into "I actually run my own business mindset", there's a difference between those two. When you can go to groups, for example Freelancers Union has I think sixteen cities around the country where freelancers of all different types get together and they communicate and talk about their businesses. Then, you can learn from those people that are doing it well. Also, a lot of them are very honest about the mistakes that they make. I think that's really valuable. These conversations are part of having a healthy freelance economy in each of our cities so when we can have these honest conversations about what works well, but also what kind of mistakes to avoid and personal stories about what went wrong can really help you figure out how to run your business better. Mac Prichard:  As you talk about learning those skills, I'm reminded that old habits die hard. When I was in my early thirties I had the good fortune to go to graduate school full-time and I worked in government for almost ten years. It was a masters in public administration program. It took about a month, there were a group of us who had worked in government, even though classes didn't start until 9:30 we all showed up at school at 8:00. We just were trained to do that and it took us a while to get into the student mindset. I imagine it's challenging for people to get into that freelance mindset if they treat it, as you say, just like a job. Rebecca Shapiro:  It is. The more that you can read ... There's so many great blogs out there including Freelancers Union. If you just Goggle freelancing resources there's a lot of great information out there that will help you start to think about running your freelance business differently. It helps you start to shift your mindset so my recommendation is read as much as you can and talk to as many freelancers as you can and it'll start to get you changing those habits that you talked about. Mac Prichard:    You have a book and it has actionable steps, and we'll be sure to mention it in the show notes, but Rebecca of those fifty-two steps are there two or three that you always recommend that people can use if they are starting out as freelancers or maybe they're experienced freelancers and they just want to take their business up a notch. Rebecca Shapiro:   One that I frequently run into, especially when I was working with freelancers, is to set healthy boundaries. That's part of taking care of yourself, but also it's also part of taking care of your business. When you can set healthy boundaries and let your clients know that you are not available 24/7 every single day of the week, you don't end up resenting them and you end up being able to take care of your time so that you have time away from your clients and doing actual work. It also helps your clients know that you value them and that you also take your business seriously. Setting up those healthy boundaries is really important and an easy way to do it is just to have a policy where you talk about your payment policy and when you're available and all that sort of stuff. You can put that on your website. You can put it in your contracts. You can have it in your face to face conversation when you're talking with a client before you get started because so many freelancers make the mistake of bending over backwards. Especially when they're starting out, they'll do everything for their client. What you've done is you've successfully trained your client to realize that you're going to go two hundred extra miles for them. You can't sustain that and then you end up screwing up later on down the road. Everyone gets really frustrated and disappointed so it's better to just set healthy boundaries right in the beginning. Mac Prichard:  I think that's excellent advice. I work with other public relations agency owners and small business owners and they all tell me that they expect vendors, whether they are freelancers or small businesses to have contracts and scopes of work and to send out invoices at a certain time. I would say to freelancers or people who are thinking about doing this who are listening, this is how business is done. It's normal. Your customers won't be surprised when you do set those boundaries or set those expectations. Rebecca Shapiro:  One of my boundaries, and I've had to turn away work, is I use a contract. I always use a contract. There have been some high profile people that have said, "I don't want to sign a contract." I've actually stepped away from the work. It's a hard decision but it's a policy that I have because I know that the contract ... So many things change over time of the project, it's hard to remember where you started and the contract is a way to protect yourself as well as the relationship with your client. I'm really glad you brought that up. Mac Prichard:   I, running my own small business, made the mistake once of not having a contract and we can share horror stories about that after the show. Rebecca Shapiro:  Yeah. All it takes is one time. Mac Prichard:   Yeah, you learn. I'm conscious of the fact that our time has come to a close and just thinking about our listeners who are thinking about doing this and they may have very practical questions. Why don't we just go through a short list? Rebecca Shapiro:   Okay. Mac Prichard:    Your best advice for people who are thinking about getting started, what are one or two things they could do right away or they should address? Rebecca Shapiro:   Okay. The first thing that they should do is they should go find a group. Go find their tribe. Whether it's Freelancers Union or maybe it's a co-working space, there's a lot of co-working spaces that have a community component and an educational piece to it. Get online and in person and look for those types of communities. That would be the first thing that I would absolutely do. Then, the second thing I would do is get really clear on what it is, what is the product or service that you want to provide for somebody? Then, look for other people that are doing something similar in your community that you could actually sit down and just talk to them. Find out how their doing it. You know, it's funny it's really hard for us to ask for help, but I've found that almost everybody wants to help. It's kind of a nice way for people to realize that you're not invincible and that you're accessible. Ask for help and people ... I've actually have never found somebody who's said, "No". Mac Prichard:  That's been my experience too, but I'm glad you're bringing that up because I think a lot of people hear that advice and think, "Well, why would a potential competitor give me advice? Why would they be helpful?" What's been your experience there, Rebecca? Rebecca Shapiro:    I'm a big advocate of collaboration versus competition. In the traditional business realm it's more like you have to be bigger, better, faster, badder than your competitor. When you're a freelancer you're both a person and a business and so this can feel contradictory. I find that going to your competitors, even when they're working in the same field you each have different strengths, and you may find that you can create a relationship where you can work together. I've had that happen to me several times and they've turned out to be really satisfying working relationships and even a couple of them have turned into personal friendships. Don't be afraid to go talk to people that are in your field. Conversely, I encourage freelancers, because we like to hang out in our field especially when we are networking, to step out of that comfort zone and look in different fields and pick one person every once in a while that you can work with that's vastly different that you are. What you can do is look for strengths in that person and strengths in yourself and see where you can meet up. Mac Prichard:   That's how you get started and collaboration is very important. Don't be afraid to reach out to competitors for advice. What about finding customers? How do people find customers who've never done this before? Rebecca Shapiro:  Gosh, that is such a good question. There's a couple ways. One, of course, is to have an online presence. You guys have talked about this actually in some of the past podcasts that you've listed that I found was really a great resource. Also, again when you go to these networking events ... Don't let the word networking make you blanch and kind of shy away, just reframe it as an opportunity to make friends and meet interesting people. Most of my work has been through word of mouth and so going to these events, going to conferences, meeting up with people for coffee it gives you a chance to get to know one another. You never know. It's what I call building a reciprocal network. You never know where that relationship is going to lead. Again, I've found most of my clients through word of mouth and through other people, so that relationship piece is one of the key ways that I find my work. Mac Prichard:    What about people who have had a traditional job and they want to match their old salary. Is that realistic in the first year? How do you do it? Is it something that you have to invest time in? What do you see out there? Rebecca Shapiro:   That's a really good question. I see both. Every once in a while there's that unusual person who just, they do fabulously well. When I was at the Ted conference earlier this year, there was a gentleman who was talking about businesses and whether they flew or didn't fly. It was all about timing. The ones that really took off, it was just perfect timing. It didn't matter if their brand was spot on or anything, it was just timing. I think sometimes that plays a really huge part in somebody being massively successful. I would encourage, this has been my experience as well, it takes a while. Be patient and definitely plan for unexpected contingencies like new relationships or maybe you have kids or maybe there's unexpected events that happen, people die, or there's accidents or things like that that may have an impact on your work. You want to plan ahead for those, but I think it's really important to look at this as like this is a long term relationship that you're having with yourself and what kind of things you want to put out in the world and your business. It takes a while to build that up. Especially if you're just starting out. Mac Prichard:    Okay. Well, thank you Rebecca. Anything else you'd like to add? Rebecca Shapiro:  Just that I am really pleased that you all are doing this. I think it's a really great resource. One of my favorite things to do is to look at other business models and ideas and lift them and apply them to my own life, and so even though some of the former podcasts have been about more traditional job finding, there's been some really terrific suggestions and tips in there that I've been able to apply to my freelancing work. I really appreciate the resource that you guys offer. Mac Prichard:   Thank you. I appreciate you being here and sharing your wisdom with our listeners. You can learn more about Rebecca at her website, it's rebeccashapiroart.com. You can find her book on Amazon. The title again is, "Work Independently and Live Connectedly: 52 Steps to Freelancing Freedom". We'll also include links to these two resources as well as Rebecca's LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter accounts in this week's show notes. We're back with Ben and Cecilia, so what did you two think? What were the most important points you hear Rebecca make? Cecilia Bianco:  I really liked her points about networking and having the mindset that you're just going to a party to make some new friends and not looking at it as an awkward business gathering. I thought her points about that were really great. Mac Prichard: I agree Cecilia. When people hear networking I think they break into a cold sweat sometimes. It's about relationships. We're all human beings and we all enjoy and get energy from connecting with others and that's what happens when you network effectively. Ben Forstag:      I think the key point was that when you're freelancing you're essentially running your own small business. When you're making the decision of whether you want to go in the freelance direction or not, thinking about all the other pieces that have to be wrapped around that; the accounting, the business practices, the invoicing, the contracts. All of that. It's kind of the whole small business package so it's a big task. Mac Prichard:    It is. I do find in large organizations there are people who have spent their careers in jobs but they have an entrepreneurial bent. They know how to set goals, build teams, collect resources. I say that because if there are listeners out there who are thinking to themselves, "I don't have the skills it takes to run a small business." Take a second look at your experiences and your background and what you're doing, even if you're in a large organization. You may surprise yourself. Probably, if you are successful, have many of those entrepreneurial skills. Ben Forstag:    Definitely, and I think it has to be said that this is a direction the labor market is going in in general. You hear people talk about the Uberization of the economy, that we're all turning into essentially gig workers where we kind of do the patchwork, DIY career thing. Having these skills and having the backbone to engage in that "I'm going to do it on my own approach." I think that's a real asset you could have. Mac Prichard:   Okay. Well, thanks. Well, thank you all for listening. We're grateful to the scores of people who've left ratings and reviews for our show on iTunes. This helps others discover the show and helps us help other job seekers. If you have a moment, please visit us on iTunes and leave a rating and comment. We'll be back next Wednesday with more tips and tools you can use to find your dream job. 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On the show today: Shazam starts tagging in the background; Domino’s delivers Pizza-smelling DVDs; Dunkin’ Donuts gets you out of bed and eating breakfast; UberMedia changes the rules in targeted ads with UberAds; Aruba Networks purchases Meridian Apps to bring indoor location to their hardware; LevelUp partners with NCR; The importance of customer feedback and engagement plus special guest Martin Shen, co-founder of UpOut.   Featured Guest Martin Shen, co-founder UpOut. (26:00) App fascination of the week: MyTime.com – the Uberization of every service (6:50) Top news of the week 1. Shazam launches new iPad app with background tagging (10:00) 2. UberMedia launches UberAds (15:48) 3. Domino’s delivers DVDs that smell like pizza in Brazil (22:10) 4. Aruba acquires Meridian (36:40) 5. Dunkin’ Donuts launches ultrasound coupons in South Korea to get more breakfast business (41:20) 6. LevelUp partners with NRC (47:05) Resource of the Week The importance of customer feedback and engagement in a smartphone enabled world (51:25)