• Week In Review … Bumpy Ride, Yottabyte, Noise, Rich Dad, All In, Stuck
    9 mins
  • Feeling Stuck? ... Leverage Your Swipe File To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
    8 mins
  • How To Determine If A Cutting Edge Technology Is A Good Bet Before Pushing All Your Chips In
    11 mins
  • Robert Kiyosaki ... If You Want To Be Wealthy Don't Work For Money And Mind Your Own Business
    15 mins
  • Noise Is All Around You ... Even When It's Quiet ... And It's Leading To Bad Decisions
    12 mins
  • If You’ve Never Heard of a Yottabyte … the Smart Money is on You Will Be Soon
    Jan 17 2022

    Volume of data mind boggling


    Beginning of 2020 … global data created est. 44 zettabytes


    If this number is correct, it will mean there are 40 times more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe.

    By 2025, it’s estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally – that’s the equivalent of 212,765,957 DVDs per day!


    Key daily statistics:

    • 500 million tweets are sent
    • 294 billion emails are sent
    • 4 petabytes of data are created on Facebook
    • 4 terabytes of data are created from each connected car
    • 65 billion messages are sent on WhatsApp
    • 5 billion searches are made


    Need to understand:

    • Architecture
    • Relevance vs. clutter


    What to do?

    • Take the lead
    • Educate yourself
    • Right Internal and external partnerships
    • Numbers not words … diligently measure
      • Sales contribution
      • Revenue
      • Business
    • Balance data with creativity
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    7 mins
  • You Better Buckle Up … The Future Of Marketing Is Here And It's Going To Get Bumpy
    Jan 17 2022

    Marketing’s 4 Ps:

    1. Price
    2. Product
    3. Promotion
    4. Place


    Impact of New Technologies:

    • artificial intelligence
    • augmented reality
    • 5G connectivity
    • Internet of Things
    • Smart speakers
    • Wearables
    • Blockchains


    Leading to increased levels of:

    • Consumer insights
    • Real-time interactions
    • Hyper-targeted, hyper-relevant consumer engagement

    Marketing’s History

    • Better product … tell consumers
    • Consumer psychology
      • Relationship
      • Affinity
      • Status
      • Attractiveness
      • Joy
      • Success
    • Internet & data driven
      • Not just online
        • Direct mail
        • Direct response ads
      • One-to-one … individualized messaging
    • Social Media & mobile
    • New technologies
      • Exponential increase in data
      • Real-time interactions
      • Decline of sales funnels
      • Expectation of great products and experiences
      • Positive impact on society

    Success factors

    • Authenticity
    • Immersive
    • Real-time
    • Sensible and sensitive
    • Remote delivery and management
      • Logistics
      • Experiences
      • Demos
      • Training


    Marketers’ needs

    • Open-minded
    • Technology savvy


    Content

    Messaging

    Imaging

    New devices

    Complexity


    Collect, analyze, and leverage data


    Mission

    • Brand building
    • Reputation management
    • Drive business growth
    • Create platforms for sustained competitive advantage
      • Platform
      • Partnerships
      • intellectual property
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    12 mins
  • Week In Review … Habits, Succession, Perfection, Category King, Meetings, Remote Work
    8 mins