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Bloomberg Radio New York
"forrester" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
". So that New York fed survey indicating that inflation expectations at the one year horizon up in the month of June at a rate of 6.8%. So the American consumer, at least in the near term, is still very much concerned about the inflationary pressures building which then takes us to the fed, and the assumption that we're making, which is 75 basis points is very much on the table that this month's meeting. But talk to me a little bit about how your allocating capital right now and whether you're seeing opportunities, forget the U.S. for a moment. I'm an interested in your assessment of offshore markets at the moment. Sure. Well, I always play offshore markets through U.S. companies for the most part because I understand the accounting and that's essentially it. I understand the U.S. accounting. But that being said, I do think that there are going to be growth areas out there. And there are going to be targeted, but it's probably where populations are growing as well. So I think you can do that by again, looking at companies where they work in the world. And even something like a Coca-Cola, they're global. And they're able to ramp up and ramp down their marketing spend based on what they see in the short term and they can take advantage of that. And things are priced to the most part. If they're making beverages in those home markets, in the home sort of currency. So yes, it gets translated back into U.S. dollars and diminishes somewhat. But they can be more reactive. So it's companies like that that you might want to look at if you believe that growth outside the U.S. is going to outpace the U.S.. And also Kim, what about ultimately tech? What's your view long term? Long-term. It's the thing that's going to save us. Because it provides productivity. And if we can't get workers, we're going to have to make the workers we can get more productive. So I am a long-term tech bowl because of that. And I'm not really a tech bowl because of Twitter and Netflix and any of the consumer time wasting applications. I'm all about productivity. Which sounds boring until you try to make money. And then maybe you want to be in productivity, enhancing businesses. All right, Kim, thank you so much for joining us today. Forrester, having a look at markets, her take on them, she says, founder and dead chief investment officer at bokeh Capital Partners. Just to tell you that we got a near parity for the Euro trading on exactly a $1
B2B Marketing Now
"forrester" Discussed on B2B Marketing Now
"More than a customer testimonial. But as you shared, it's not really something that people are outright saying, hey, let me give you my entire customer story, so we talked about the surveys, but how besides the survey, what are some of the tactics you are using to tell great stories? Or is it more of like one to one marketing approach or what does that look like and how you're working with your sales team, maybe is it more of like a personal throughout the sales cycle? Could you kind of dive in a little bit on how marketing and sales are working together and then how you're able to capture the stories of your customer without giving away for them their vulnerabilities? Right, yeah. Definitely accomplished marketing more one to few in one of the many excuse me, one to few and one to one efforts are really important. Now, you have to enable sales with the right information to share what their buyers and certainly if you're in a one to one conversation, you can have deeper conversations about things and you kind of are doing a broad marketing effort. There's a lot of ways to go about that. So we have to make sure that they have those really good data points and storing ones to share with our customers as they get deeper into the sales conversation. So that is definitely absolutely important. I would say if I step up about. A broader marketing level to help tell those stores, certainly this third party service and research is one way. Let's say another way and this is something that we are really strong believers in building really good relationships with industry analysts. Of course we absolutely have influence over buyers. It is almost impossible to navigate the cybersecurity space on your own, right? There are way too many competitors. We all sound very similar. It's very hard to differentiate in space and so people have to rely on trusted parties, whether those are advisers technical advisers or industry analysts. So if you can create that mindshare with an industry analyst and have them truly understand how you're different your product solves real problems, then they become an advocate for you to their clients who hopefully become your clients and share the story in that manner and not provide you with a lot of credibility just coming from an industry expert. Absolutely. And congratulations again when I was doing my research and I saw you had been named by Forrester research as a leader among zero trust network providers, that's pretty big and I was going through the report and seeing app date. You guys are really in a category of your own. Which is phenomenal. So I congratulations. I'll just throw that out there. I have two more questions for you. And the kind of shift away from the marketing sphere a bit. But the next question is more about I know we're speaking, we're both currently in our homes. And as a marketing leader, is quite challenging, I think, to be balancing this new hybrid way of work, whether, you know, cybersecurity aside, as a human, as a professional, how are you navigating or what are some of the things that you do on a day to day to just stay sane or what does your workday look like because I can imagine if it's anything like what it looks like here at octopus, you've got memos and slacks in all different sorts of technologies coming at you with action items all throughout the day. So what are some of what is your morning routine look like or is there anything that you could share with us that perhaps we could learn ourselves to make our day as more sane? I wish I had that deeper wisdom to another. It is challenging, right? I mean, I really miss people and just being with team members. And there's no replacement for the energy you've got when you've got people in a room. I mean, it's great to have virtual meetings to be able to communicate with people in a variety of ways like you mentioned there's no all kinds of ways we communicate today, but nothing to me replaces the energy you get face to face. So that's kind of a given. But I think some things that I use to stay seeing as I try to take a piece of every day to actually learn something. So I love to read blogs. I love to read third party content, both marketing profession and also cybersecurity. So just consuming content outside of our company and our bubble of what we're doing right now helps keep me grounded in a lot of ways. I feel like, okay, I'm learning something new. I'm helping advance my own education and whatever area I happen to be looking at. I always try to set aside time to do that every day. I definitely feel like it's important that at some point you get up and walk around. But, you know, sometimes over your desk for hours and hours and get up, walk around if you need to take a walk around the block if you just take a 15 minute quick cardio whatever it is because it refreshes you in every way possible. The research your mind gets your endorsements going in more energy to get through the day. Those are just a couple of simple things, but I'm certainly open to any other suggestions. Absolutely. We'll try to get a conversation going, you know, when we have this go live. But I think what's fun about what you said, first of all, about the getting up and walking around, it's so true. I mean, you're literally sitting at your desk all day, and I don't know why. When I was in the office, I felt like I took more breaks. And when I was sitting at home, I have no I start earlier, and I just plow through. I don't move. And then I look at the clock and it's 3 o'clock, and I'm thinking, I haven't even eaten lunch yet. How did this dig go so fast? So I'm not sure what the work from home does. And then in terms of your always be learning advice, I think that's great advice to stay sane to keep your mind fresh and just always really stay on top of what's going on in the industry. For anyone for marketers, especially and we've got a lot of marketers who tune in, what are some of the blogs or the publications or other podcasts that you're listening to or reading that you feel would be worthwhile to give a shout out to? Yeah, absolutely. There's a lot of great blog material out there from CRM companies. And so I don't know if I'll name a specifically. But, you know, there's a number of really good CRM platforms and almost all of them have very good blogs associated with them. So go to your favorite ceremony. I promise you, you'll find a blog that they put in when I find that to be super helpful and enlightening. Also, you know, look through my seat on LinkedIn and a lot of times obviously there's targeting to be buy more in the title and I'll get I'll see various pieces of content that'll come up and even if I've got a form, if it sounds like a countdown to it, right? I want to do it. And then just in terms of the industry, there are so many great media outlets that cover cybersecurity from business publications that are everyday names now have cybersecurity sections to them to very specific dark reading custom media the ones that cater specifically to cyber. They've all got really great content that they're putting out there on a daily basis. And so just take a run through it and see what catches your opportunity to find something of value. Phenomenal, thanks, Julie. My last question. So we know that you like to read some CRM blogs and get some information there. We know you like to take walks around the block. And that you are a master marketer in cybersecurity. All of that, I learned on this podcast, but also through LinkedIn. And I was hoping on the last question that you perhaps could share with us something that if someone were to go to your LinkedIn profile that they wouldn't necessarily know from just understanding your professional journey on LinkedIn or if you want something a little known fact of something like hidden talent or something. You know, we could do a little bit.
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Joe senate yet and what on yeah. He's a great. he really is man like i. I met him one. Live is due. I met him one. Time over over. This the previous podcast. And since then he has been so supportive. He's been such an inch in. He's he's such a great genuine person who gets relationships who gets helping people and who is who is just there to help people and i respect that about him and so you got a nice japanese with i did i got a i got a bottle of nico which i've had. I've had any kind of bring that today. i know right. Yeah we got the cheapie. What do you think of this by the way it's good. It's pretty good. Nice interesting is pretty robust. Little smokey smokey in his pd pd guy. Yeah yeah or an all. You know all of our bags They're like that. I mean our bag is heavy. Smoke heavy pete. Lots a soot various very. Yeah like this one. Take a peek here but this one forty seven point four percent alcohol by volume like the the supernova was mentioning at the house. I think about fifty four fifty six percent so they have some pretty high high stuff to which for single pretty pretty pretty up there. You got a few high bourbons that are like you know in the fifty five sixty range but Yeah that's pretty pretty high for a single malt. So did you try you. Try that The when you got no not yet. No i put it up on the shelf and sign up there when he He got me The horse horse horse hoist. The lola horror are beautiful horse or something like that and we find it right now. It was so damn good Horse soldier now. Yeah yeah it was legit. No he's awesome. You know when. I when i kind of came into contact with with joe was i reached out i. I came across energy detox guy who knows how i came across it and listened to one of the episodes and i was like i dig it. I i like this a lot menu. Thank you how we're talking about people that are decent writers and speakers and stuff. The sky doesn't he every word that comes out of his mouth is just i. It's like he has no verbal did hit me and it's like it's like this is a press release every like the most smooth. Dm got my and everything so good. And so i was like. Hey you know i want. I was wondering if you'd have a jar. My usual pitch was like hey you know we have maybe guess from our on whoever it is i don't care and he's like well you know maybe you're the guy was like and this was kind of early in my little podcast metal shows yet actually. Okay yeah. This was prettier. As i think it may be done one or two. I'm still pretty nervous about it. And also i don't i'm like i don't know we decided that this would be about like writing the oil and gas industry and kind of that different side of and stuff and when we were you know i was talking to him..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Night and have a drink with my friends and then on saturday and will go watch horror movie and have a cigar with this guy on tuesday night only go woodrow's and ones it's like you have to find you could be unemployed or like writing is your thing and you're like riding novel this is my thing and then you can have time all day and you can do it when you do experience that p creativity which for me is probably usually like lennox night and like there's spots in the day it's like maybe a little like early and then it'll just like it'll peak right then and then we'll be like pulling off a cliff like four and then like eight nine ten eleven at night depending on what i've eaten and kind of what i'm feeling let's do it again you know but typically like after launch there's like a little law Very one yeah you got you got you got you tomtoms fall. It's like i'm don boys. But i don't know it would be tough because you have to that. That's the to dedicate you really dedicate yourself to that if you're going to be like a writer largest senior challenging. I've known i mean when i was doing my masters and i actually know people from my master's program that went on and they wrote like they've tried to get books published and stuff and that's also very painful and challenging now because like okay at amazon published. Or you actually. I mean. there's seems like there's so many different avenues it with you know. Simon and chester with harpercollins. These big boys or penguin or whatever. They're not going to publish something. Samba be commercially successful. And you end up with a tiny little like company. And yeah i. I used to think about this locks era poetry when i was in college and And i love poetry. Lake special. French poetry no postmodernism and stuff But those poetry books man. There's like one copy on a shelf at a bookstore You'll find that you get you. You ain't ever make money with this thing..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Need come across this young woman and their traveling and seventy kind of get relationship whatever but then she gets kidnapped and she gets sold into slavery sexual slavery ring and so like has read. 'em David so that so the journey becomes but he but he he's trying to find her to save her and then take her overseas and then he meets other people and stuff. So i got about fifty pages and but what i was trying to do and because my writing style which i don't really use professionally. Much was very long winded. I'm like folk ner. I'm like a cormac mccarthy. Unlike like approved by like. I want like long sentences and lots of clauses and lots of metaphors and that's not really what people consume commercially these days. You know you want like stephen king. Clive hustler john grisham. Like i just want some. That's fun to read and got a good story so it's not really literary quote unquote in that sense. It's just good writing. I not saying. John grisham's not a good writer but my style was very different. Yeah like if you've ever read like isn't all that all the pretty horses by corner mccarthy or the road of his blood meridian stuff like that were and this is art. You know it gets incredible and in you as as more of a symphony jane you have. Yeah you have to think about it like you're reading because like mccarthy for example..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Be helping to kind of write and edit these technical reports make really more on the technical side but especially with like these inspections because they were going to be. Se ian regulatory bodies. Like this stuff to be perfect and it'd be like they've never seen in real life in the they've never been in the field. Yeah so it's like. I might not have an advanced degree but i was in the field for twenty years. I've i've seen every tide you can imagine to it. i can take it apart build. I know or cellular doesn't work is a difference between knowledge and experience or experiential learning. Where like there's really no substitute for the ladder. Where like you can't you know. How do you get something. If you haven't ever experienced touched her tactile thing and it's funny. I mean i was just talking with the guy. He's he's a cart president of ad you h nak-kyun a really great guy on the show on he. He mentioned that eastern. You know some happen here sitting here today so pump. The brakes the yeah. You gotta get them quick. 'cause he's about to go bye bye. He's he's moving on to greener pastures when you mean he's going to colorado and the and midland life took a turn and so he He got going. i'll suit. he has gone. Yeah he's He got He got a great Offer and Long for him. One of very few that did so you know rock on just took him to launch Earlier this week Just kind of a little last hurrah had a little lunch blanco in the galleria and get and he but he's basically going out to be a field engineer for their for activision for liberties in for him. Liberties frac division. Like i like. I kind of alluded to earlier. And so you know he's gonna get so he's a put a degree petroleum engineer. You've age so the dude. Can you know do a little more math than i can..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"I mean we we we. I mean obviously still do that but like now have a dude out on the how have have a dude out in the field not ajar data hand but just some guy put it do his thing. And he's guided by a guy in a remote operating centers so taking people out of the field and indoor mode op center remote monitoring centre. Whatever you call it. And i feel that of says tune guys and it's like no. The jobs aren't going away. Boys like the jobs are are changing transitioning and a half the chain and they have to. We're not going to have a dude slinging chains anymore. I was just talking to my mom. My dad was just on a podcast Recently that i was really excited about What you didn't see on lincoln i. There's so much dude. This past month has been. Come off. freaking come buddy. Yeah he He recorded a podcast with world. Oil actually almost two years ago if you can believe that and it never saw the light of day because they just never got a sponsor and things happen in covert and this and that but i kept asking are sales guys. Good friend of mine. You know like what happened to that audio file buddies today. Now watch out. I might i might see. He's retired now but give a shit he'd drink some whisky. But that's all you the carmen on the show. That's all you need. Are we go but he. We brought it back to life. Finally my you know my friend. Jim watkins that were loyal. He brought back to life and put it out there and it was like engineering your oil and gas career basically. How do you talk with talk. Some some old dogs. You know some some real veterans and find out there kind of perspective and advice and their story or whatever and i loved. I loved his take of like how things have changed. Never lucien because you know secret. Secret sauce right..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Stop virtue saying this is stupid like all these things that you think are smell their own farts. Who all these things that you think are elevating you or not so just just. Let's just let's just for the. Let's put the. Let's put the brakes on that stuff but because we were being approached the way it is it's like the people probably get back into that and go man. This is kind of like this kind of childish. I don't like how the industry rely on divided the wire. Like i mean i think that would probably be the perception. It's kind of like childish or That's not that's not really the right word but basically like it's it's a very very simple response. It's very like i don't want to simple-minded either but it's like what could the response be. I mean so so okay so so so year. Great points people. People are probably retreat in an homerun the beliefs more. Whether it's educator not right retreat hold on please morin changes ours. Probably that educate it's not educated understanding of what goes on into the product or or or to the daily lives. So how can we as an industry like first off. How do we. How could we have tacked this This issue better or more efficiently. Well i loved the co than evac. So i just think it's at adam at shawn's oh no no. No no but you know. I did like his response because it was a very very You know well. Written anderson anderson was close close enough. Okay j. a. okay there within you know several Ten letters of each other. whatever. But i mean. I liked the letter that he wrote because it was very simple. It was to the point. It explained things rationally and clearly without being like you guys are dumb. Yeah you guys are stupid. You know. I'm just going to call you stupid. It was like hey these are just the facts. I just i just want to provide you with some facts. What i mean what i might have done or you know in in imaginary world where i have the power to do such a thing. I mean i would have possibly reached out to north face with a kind of comparable like letter whatever via for whatever and said. Hey you know this is This isn't a good look right. How can we collaborate. You have a supply chain and in a very anna product development process and all that that's hydrocarbon tentative You know what even if you do make jackets or whatever. That aren't all hydrocarbon. Based or petroleum product based. You still have to get it there on the trucks and that can we collaborate to like. Make that more sustainable. More sustainable you know supply chain processes or more sustainable development processes for your clothing items. I think that would have been cool right like and and even getting other companies while nino the big boys. The operators love something. Like that where it's like. How can be get involved in just as sang a random one but like a bp or an acronym for one of the ones that are at the forefront of this it..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"I'm one hundred ten percent on board with the concept of educating the average per center the or the citizenry that yeah we what we do is in every aspect of your life and definitely not just north stuff but like anything probably the table. You're sitting at the car you drive the tv. You're watching if you you know. Idc had an old game. You could play on their website and it was like basically where you you'd a flyer on this little spaceship and delete all petroleum products from a house and that the end. It's like nothing or not really much left in there. You know but but it's like that wrote you know look around you and what what we have and the source of that so i i one hundred percent and i've talked about that many times where it's like. Yeah we need to help. Educate yeah Back to my kind of measured approach though you know and i mean trained as a teacher right and with pedagogical training and whatnot. I mean the way to educate and hopefully shift opinion which only happened very slowly. I mean this going on a long time right. you're not gonna have a campaign like doesn't change. Public opinion thrust no way. But you have to make these very kind of small incremental gains in how society views something whether it's only gas or anything right. Nobody's gonna change quickly. Change happens very slowly at that level and at that scale so by. Trolling them and doing this. This and this goes back to where we're talking about earlier. I i think that yes with an oil and gas. We you know. Most people look at that. And they're like hell. Yeah you know like it's such a north face a stupid. And i and i get it. What north as dead by denying nor the order is was hypocritical. Absolute hundred percents. I'm on board. It was ridiculous you know. I want to innovate his website. Later i bought a jacket of theirs. Eddie bauer made. Because eddie bauer send our cool will make jackson. I bought one life. One hundred twenty bucks for this thing just to show support. So i'm i'm on board this things in my closet. I love this beautiful jacket. But why are we talking about six months after the fact and what does this accomplish now especially like maybe if he'd been kind of pseudo crisis comms type of thing where you know crisis. Communications were yeah. I mean i'm talking like a week after it happened. If you you know crisis communications is like you respond very quickly and with a very direct message exactly to it to you. Know nevada perceived threat or something bad happened or whatever. So it's like maybe it happened extremely quickly. I could have been a little more on board with it but this is so far away. What's going on that. I question what it will accomplish right. And maybe maybe it will accomplish something. Maybe it won't i don't know what do you see the damage of of a campaign like this. Oh i think that the average probably the average consumer toward about earlier they'll see that in retreat further into an existing opinion. I don't think anybody and that's a shame right because the message is solid. The message is that north face jacket. You have on that you think you're virtuous for wearing that you're not virtuous buddy is made by it. Made a petroleum joined by product. That too and i'm in by by association. Anything right at a test. That tesla percent. I it doesn't make you virtuous to drive a tesla right. Stop stop..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"You know drill baby drill only at the same time. I've realized i don't know if whether it's through self reflection or whether it's realizing like these people that disagree with i'm not gonna go there camp from their be there chess. Oh my doing the same thing. Am i doing the same thing. Keeping other people out of our camp and all that stuff so you. You've done which i appreciate. You have had a very pro industry of approach but a very. Hey look. I'm pro industry but man we're already entered. Let's let's let's have actual conversations about this versus. Were right there. All an anti. That's what i love about like reading your stuff. It's just very i opening. It's very like that's kind of like look. We can be this pro. We'd be pro only gas all we want. Let which we are what. Yeah and let. Let's be. I mean it's okay you know one of i mean and maybe this this was definitely somewhat informed by your oregon with like klay williamson avi and the cfo jose by arto where no working on earnings releases and press releases. Things like that to where in one of clay's big things in our member. When i was helping him write a speech for the fiftieth anniversary of otc. Using to give keynote and probably the most den. The most exciting thing that happened in my career was receiving an email directly from him. So you know a writer. An individual contributor at though probably look about the lowest level company getting an email directly from the ceo and saying hey You help me write the speech. I need to deliver and by help me. I mean just write it. I swear to god i still have the email printed out on like attack board at my in my room because i trust i loved it. You know and when one of his big things and one of his things he talks about a lot of different speeches not clay was what we do matters. That was his thing..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"He can't do that shit anymore. It's like it's you're not going anywhere. It just sets it back and make people retreat and you made a good point the other day only then you made a point where it's like if you start attacking or few start beating your chest or doing this mountaintop yelling of you know whether it's boss fuels where there's this dr bennett knows. Listen if you start doing that you know you know drill baby drill drill baby drill all this stuff you literally gonna just push the other people into their own just like if you post a of a political article on facebook. Oh yeah it's not. You're not convincing anyone if anything. You're drawing those people that against that into the tighter into their own. The you're just drawing the lines. Closer together and boxing people in i mean i feel like whatever side of the aisle. You're on whether like you said whether it's politically or with the energy arguments. I mean when people are wrong about something or they're prove that they're ignorant or they don't know something the way to change their mind is not by saying they're dumb right. I mean that that's most hume. I would hazard that. Probably most human beings will not respond to that right. If i look at you. And i say you're so how could you not know this thing. That's so stupid. Everybody knows that i'll be defensive. And amino wouldn't listen. What would that accomplish right. And so that. That's kind of. I think i've said it may be here and there about why you know kind of a etiquettes. Not the right word. But i- i approach things a very measured way like i don't i try not to get political. I try not to get to leave the hyperbolic with my statements. I mean sometimes you you just need to take the middle road and and that's okay sometimes used to listen. Yeah because there's people that will express their opinion and you can't change your mind you wanna change your mind..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"I think it's extremely important for industry right now during these times and to have multiple places that that is why gee kind of you know. Mark reached out to me and i ended up helping them out or working with them. Because you know. Jud jan as a lot of podcasts. I mean kind of all you know. Obviously the the biggest network of podcasts and they just launch a united clubhouse up house. Yeah that's i love that to snap not as other industry and it's also supports i mean yes is a united at the same time it's still local and that stuff again. I mean it all ties back into what you know what people talk about and the guy that was on there from united i was in the room for a little while and oh you were there. i called in show. Show love now that it now the clubhouse on android you know i. I made my us lesser life forms on any clubhouse chet. Yeah yeah i think over clubhouse yeah i mean i it's like i feel like everyone is so serious on there i it's like i like it but i'm also just have so much other stuff to do. It's nine pm dude. I don't wanna talk about the future. Only gas a man. I'm seeing my little handy in a little hand raised icon on my phone. And it's like damn. It's eleven pm like you. Boys go to sleep over here. I don't. I don't wanna talk about some raw stuff. Only gas right now but that one was cool. Being the guy from united he wasn't really sales e that was very fun and per. You know it was pretty professional but also like informative. I mean he was talking about some great really out there. Stuff like united is invested in his Basically like helicopter company. That bought okay. But they're like vertical lift off helicopters and I the avengers but so they invested in some. I forgot the name of the company. But basically like they're going to have these centers where the big thing with transporter with flight a lot of times. It's like i don't want to drive to the airport. Yeah and if. I don't wanna drive airport and then park my car there and leave it to offer you know. God knows what's going to happen dollars. Or i don't want to get my uber to and from and there's one hundred fifty bucks and and it's like so there's all these things and then if everybody's talking about sustainability in you know united..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"So that kind of stuff is i. Don't wanna put it somewhere. Where i have any trouble accessing or where it can go away quickly or just like maoist. Leave it there. Because i'm not. I'm not rich and i feel like the people that you know. I feel like sixty two of us. I mean i'm a writer. Noel gasman what are we talking about here. But well after coves richie. But i feel like you know people that play with all that kind of stuff you have that disposable income to where if that goes away there's no impact on your life right. It's you know. I'm trying to save x. Dollars to buy a townhouse. And i want to have a just a big huge s. That's what i'm looking for. The heights area. I'm looking for the bel air. bel air. okay. Bama belair boy. I always had had the the kind of dream or thought that i would stay in bel air which is where my parents are. You know live up to my little a arberg we beast in the web best best buy please so belair belair. Tom and you can find reasonable ones in there..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"I mean i actually ended up opening a bag of texas account because i would get a percentage discount rate on my advisory fee. They really pull you into this stuff you know so did i always feel like and i'm not sure about you but i mean i'm a little bit more forty one years old. I really feel like. I'm way behind the times when it comes. Like talk and financials like you know financial health or whatever you know personal financial goals and you know tenure outlook yoda of emergency fund of this like i really feel like i'm so far behind on it and i'm curious if it's like something that's needed that any actually think about or if it's just one of those things where it's like okay. Well you have you have you have. I guess i need to do it too. Because that's what this guys told me. From merrill lynch. Or wherever. Yeah and i don't i mean and you know i'm a kind of a chronic saver so i have audit but it's not. It's not in that kind of stuff. Like if you were to splurge where would it be Scotch is something. I'm i'll usually like if i make a little extra money. I'll go and buy a bottle of booze Do you save that boozers. With the saints you go home and like you enjoy it. I actually put it on the shelf to like sit. It depends which one it is. I mean there are some that You know i'll buy like a actually the one we have here recalled art. Beg so eight so talk about this one. Sieges broad actually just kicked off the tradition again. I off which is legit right. Now yeah we got keep you know. Let's keep this thing going. It was working on the previous. Why why why stop don't don't Don't don't mess with this broken. So you brought the art. Abegg a wee beastie Guaranteed five year old I i lay single. Malt scotch whisky. I'm pretty excited. Try this probably this during the podcast. Yeah me too and you know..
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"Your hand out business cards given everybody those and it's like well let's do lunch. I'll probably never Never see his people in the next. You know it's a financial advisor you're like oh to our talking. This cat like. I need to set up a word document. That has all these template responses. I can just copy and paste. Not because i'm not even averse to connecting with people you know the financial i'm not either is fine but then the for i messages. Hey you know. I i've connected with people like you and oil and gas. Who are doing blah blah blah. I'd love to talk more to really get a sense. You're and i'm always like i. I have a financial adviser. But you know i'm always like buddy. It's it's it's kobe tom. I i don't need a financial guys going into hard on this man like we don't even know each other yet but i i want to end it there but then we'll be like well. If you want a second opinion this is like no no i. I trust the trust. The first one like i'm good i you know i i'm okay and let me just put some stuff together for yeah. Yeah it's free. I swear all you have to do is your social security number your bank account number and the name of your potential firstborn child inhale.
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"forrester" Discussed on Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
"The temple welcome to one of the first energy crew podcasts. That we've had out there in this podcast over about a month now and a pump to be doing this. The the troll clue of houston and i'm pumped to be sitting next to a good buddy of mine once you give yourself a little I mean i don't even have your title front of me aren't they. Were just legitimately winging this right now i no. It's great to be here. Stephen forrester You know podcast Angel trying to get people on podcasts. And now it's my time to always do job of like i remember like at my previous podcast. I mean you always do a good job of like And that's why. That's one thing that i like about you a lot like you're always and this is what i enjoy as well. You like connecting people. You like connecting. Good people are industry to tell our story you know. I mean you sent me. Probably about five or six people of for podcasts. Maybe followed up with. Maybe three or four and jessica's it kinda lost in the mix plus the shifting of the new podcast. But i'm glad you're here. Yeah me too. Yeah my pleasure led you here. Here's the petroleum club are digging it..
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
Chip Crisis in 'Danger Zone' as Wait Times Reach New Record
"Our lead story today is one of demand and supply in that order. The commodity in question is semiconductors. The demand as we'll explain is nearly universal the supply well it's lagging and more so every day bloomberg got its hands on some data from the susquehanna financial group that says if you order a chip today the aforementioned semiconductors you're going to have to wait seventeen weeks for it to be delivered. Four plus months that is to put it mildly no way to run a supply chain. And as marketplace's samantha field reports. It is doing damage to way more than cars or computers or smartphones. These days almost everything has a chip whether we think of it as high tech or not. If it has a plug or battery probably has chips in it glenn. O'donnell research director at forrester says that includes refrigerators video. Doorbells and light bulbs you can turn on with your phone and even lower tech things like kids toys because all the toys gotta talk now and they got to react and they have little motors right. Now there's a shortage of all kinds of chips. Even the most basic ones says china vasan an analyst at bloomberg intelligence for. It doesn't matter if it's one hundred dollars or fifty cent part. There's just not enough capacity at factories around the world to meet the demand from all of the industries. That need chips because there's such a shortage. The semiconductor industry is having to pick and choose what to prioritize says. Mario morales at market research company. Idc it's for prioritizes. The large scale lear is like computing. Mobile phones is the largest market so though supply chains are always going to get priority and other companies especially smaller are going to have to wait longer for chips so shrine of austin at bloomberg says if you need something like a new appliance anytime soon even if you don't care about it being smart all of those products will be in. Short supplies are investigating line and shrim- boston says the shortage is likely to get worse before it gets better
WTOP 24 Hour News
Subaru Recalls 875,000 Vehicles Over Engine and Suspension Issues
"Subaru was recalling nearly 875,000 vehicles because the two separate issues the engines can stall or a rear suspension part can fall off. The automaker says that the engine recalls cover 466,000 cross tree. SUVs from 2018 and 2019 and impressive cars from 2017 through 2019. Now the suspension recall effects about 408,000 from 2018 to 2019, the cross tracks and the 2019. Forrester's recall notices a glad to owners next month. If you'd like more information on this, go to w t o p dot com and search recalls
WTOP 24 Hour News
Subaru Recalls Vehicles to Fix Engine and Suspension Problems
"Subaru was recalling nearly 875,000 vehicles because the two separate issues the engines can stall or a rear suspension part can fall off. The automaker says that the engine recalls cover 466,000 cross tree. SUVs from 2018 and 2019 and impressive cars from 2017 through 2019. Now the suspension recall effects about 408,000 from 2018 to 2019, the cross tracks and the 2019. Forrester's recall notices a glad to owners next month. If you'd like more information on this, go to w t o p dot com and search recalls
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021
"Our guest today and greece pay attention. This is important is junkin the rug at onto it formerly at forrester fame and palo alto networks who was the first to define the concept of zero trust in two thousand ten. Think about it. Two thousand ten eleven years ago paper so we have a few questions mostly focuses their trust. And of course it's past and the future so let's start from a somewhat painful but necessary question. Let's defines zero. Trust perhaps contrast how you define it then and how you think about it today. So zero hasn't changed right. It was still a fight against the old trust model. Where we had trusted parts of the network and untrusted parts of the network as we would see implemented in say an old cisco pix and so you had to define policy based upon a trust level so the internal interface of a picks was trust level. One hundred the highest level and the external interface was trust level zero the lowest trust levels. So you could go from a high too low trust level without any policy and i thought having that variable is painful and it means that. There's no album rules and it's highly insecure and we allow people to have access because of this trust model and so trust is just a human emotion that we've injected into digital systems for no reason at all and people confuse all the time human trust digital trust. I mean going back to nineteen eighty-four can thompson who we all know is the co creator of unix in his turing award speech. That year talked about the problem trusting. Trust so trust is something that shouldn't be in digital systems and that was the main thesis of the report and then it led to. How do you build systems like that. But mostly it was about thinking that this concept of trust actually incentivized bad behavior because all data breaches and almost all negative security events. That have ever happened. The root cause is the trust model. You'd think it was a spam email but it exploited the trust me think it was ransomware it exploited the trust model snowden and manning were insider attacks who exploited the trust model. So that was my fight. And then it's led to a lot more stuff.
The Voicebot Podcast
Social Audio "The Goldilocks Medium" Jeremiah Owyang Analyzes the Rise of Social Audio on Clubhouse, Twitter and More - Voicebot Podcast 195 - burst 02
"I m a technology analyst. I've been doing this for almost twenty years. Attract the new trends. I make sense of what they are. I find the patterns. And i make a prediction about what's going to happen and i did this with a social media era. I did this with the sharing economy era. I did this with the tech wellness space. And i'm doing it again for the social you market. Yeah great all right. So i liked that background. Yo you and. I talked about the fact that you were forced to at one point. And you've been you've been in this game for a long time and people check out your website. We'll have it on the show notes really some interesting graphics you have as well as Materials to understand some of the different trends that are going on today. That are still in full force. But today we're gonna focus on social audio. And i thought maybe an place to start as i as i recall it. You have a couple of hundred thousand twitter followers. So you've you've had a you have a pretty big following already in one social channel maybe multiple. How is clubhouse different from the the preceding social media platforms well Clubhouse is a small and fast growing. It is a walled garden. You know it sucks people in and you don't really come out People spend ninety minutes in there but it is a social network. You have profiles you have a social graph which means people that you talk to and it also means there's a transmission in a A exchange of information in this case. It's real time audio so for you. How is that different from the way. You're engaging on twitter for example. How are you looking at. This is different and What i like to say is that it is the the goldilocks medium for what's needed in. Twenty twenty one and twenty twenty while people are stuck at home In the past we've relied on text messaging And this could be writing and text and our emojis but it really lacks the emotion and the nuance of the human connection. And now that we're stuck separated from each other craving more interaction now on the other end of the spectrum is video ad you might have heard people having zoom fatigue. It's just too much. They have to look good. Does her background look good or the clothes matching. They just don't feel good. People aren't happy in this last year. This has been a rough time so it's just a lot of effort to start a screen camera. That's not even really looking back at. She were that faces. So i press. Flooring is stressful. It's fatiguing it's artificial so in between that is the goldilocks medium and that is social audio and social audio is like what we're doing right now are real time conversation. The key differences. It's just you and me in here and we could do that on a social audio network. We could do that and twitter spaces right now. We can do that potentially on clubhouse well we also there would have the opportunity people would see were in there and we could open up. The room and people could just join and listening to our conversation. We could adam into the conversation. Yes that's right so in social audio versus just a conversation on the phone with two people People you know where people you don't know yet are coming in out of that conversation other conversation. 'cause you know sh spread and share rooms could split off In some cases on some of these social audio apps even conversation goes a synchronous where it's recorded.
IT Visionaries
Interview With Mayank Mehta
"Welcome everyone to another episode of it visionaries and today we have a special guest. The ceo of pulse qa. Mehta mayak. Welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me appreciate it all right so right out the gate. We always allow all of our guests. Tell our audience. What the product that you bill does. What is pulse. Qa the best way to describe pulses What google is to search. Pulse is to research people have gotten really used to being able to do a search and come up with fast accurate and free results and use that to sort of informed their decisions and research on the other hand is extremely hard. Where you've to set up an account become a master and how to do surveys figure out how to contact the right people especially on the bbc this is even more challenging and wait a few weeks if not months pay tens of thousands of dollars for as incentives and then come back with poor quality data. And if you just juxtaposed the search experience with the research experience just a massive gap to be had our mission at pulse is to close that gap so ideally make pulse to a point where research becomes is easy as search where you can pick up your phone hoste question to the right audience get back results in real time and use that to better inform your decision so tell. Our audience. Wind is materially different. From let's say relying on a forrester or gartner to produce a report data on if i have like b. two b. application questions. Yeah a great question so we got started As you mentioned in the b. two b. world and specifically within that with technology decision makers reason being no technology decision makers spend hundreds of billions of dollars on technology every year some cases a trillion plus have been also cited. And there's lots of research that goes into making these decisions. There are three things that are happening. that are changing the traditional world of research in the landscape and why we think pulse is a good fit within this chain landscape number one. Is it used to be forty companies. That ruled the world. And now they're forty thousand. Would hundreds more coming out every your with accelerator wycombe. Or another almost just chugging out and you know it used to be okay for a centralized authority to cover. All of this is now increasingly difficult to cover those forty thousand companies but the power of the crowd and the platform that his pulse can actually enable that because on pulse it's not analysts that you're learning from. It's actually your appears that have been verified and brought into the network so you when you ask question and when you want to know detail about something that actually goes out to the right people they come in and the answer you get data back in real time.
The Indicator from Planet Money
Why Consumer Confidence Is So High
"Cerita dolly is a retail analyst at forrester surgery. I am so glad that you're with us. And i wanted to ask you about feelings. And the economy specifically the consumer confidence index was up this week and like. What does that help predict. What do we expect to see happen win. Consumer confidence goes up or down when people are confidence They tend to spend more and that tends to to generally fuel the economy. If you are less confidence that could mean things like cutting back on what you're spending on or either not buying anything discretionary or buying cheaper versions of what's discretionary and you know it's funny because consumer confidence right now is not that terrible. It's down. I mean certainly but it's nowhere near as bad as it was like in two thousand eight two thousand nine so it's it's relatively good for where we are relatively strong. They're certainly a sector of the economy consumers who have fallen on hard times of which there are millions and I think those are consumers that that are weighing down that confidence number but a significant portion of consumers especially affluent consumers have actually done very well through the pandemic for the most part they have remained employed at their their pre pandemic salaries and they don't have as many places to spend their money because they don't have the restaurants to eat out at have the leisure travel that they would have done normally on top of that many of them have their wealth tied up in stock portfolios and the stock market has been on fire. It is sort of a weird time. It's like our economies almost split into maybe even more so than was already happening and there are some people who are just in a desperate situation and then people who are doing maybe relatively better than they were a year ago. Because like you said. They're earning the same salary in their expenses have gone down. Yeah there's definitely bifurcation. It was the case even before the pandemic but i think it's been even more pronounced now so consumer confidence is a lot lower than it was this time last year. But it sounds like you are surprised that it's not maybe like lower than it is right now. Oh yeah when we were going into the pandemic we the thinking. The general consensus kind of in march was that this is going to probably be as bad as the great depression if not worse than the great depression that was the prevailing wisdom before because we were shutting down the entire economy and thinking was everything is going to halt. But that actually didn't turn out to be the case and how is that translating it retail are people buying a lot of stuff right now or some stuff for you know that is a fascinating fascinating question and in all of the things that we have been looking at the the most interesting part is retail spending in aggregate which very few people realize is at record high levels yet if you look at the whole. Us we're buying more than we were earlier. Or we're buying more than i think in the last twenty years you know in the last month and oh wow you don't think of that right. There are some sectors that have been suffering tremendously in the chew sectors. That have been suffering. The most are the apparel sector Which is heavily tied to malls. And that's why you hear a lot about the mall suffering and the other is the restaurant sector but on the other hand we are seeing record high levels of spend with mass merchants. We are laying targeted and stuff target walmart. You're seeing record high levels of span with the grocery stores and you're actually seeing growth in some companies like burns and noble. You know kind of come back from being on life support. People just need more things to do at home or ways to entertain their kids so correct me if i'm wrong but even taking into account restaurants which have just been like totally decimated and places that count on foot traffic and all of that on the whole we're buying more there's been like a net gain even with that big drag coming. Yeah yeah it has. It has been amazing to me. I mean that's almost unbelievable to me. Because yeah i walk around new york city and it's like a ghost town for signs everywhere it's shocking and My numbers are coming from the census. Every month they released data around how much people have spent and we saw that decline that precipitous decline in the months of march and april. But those that was the worst of it you know you saw the economy starting to to reopen and some of the spend rebounding or in some of the spenders being replaced. So you know. Instead of people going to the malls they would spend money at target and walmart or you know. Instead of people spending money at restaurants they were buying food for for cooking at home or they were buying different products online on amazon. Right like furniture
KCRW
"forrester" Discussed on KCRW
"Listening to greater L A on KCRW, The show that connects you to the people and places of Southern California and Steve to take us. Thanks for being with us today, there are millions of California workers. Perhaps you Out of a job because of this pandemic. First stop. For many people who lose their job is to apply for unemployment money from the state of California. But right now for a lot of folks The money just isn't coming. It was such a mess. Um, I applied for unemployment. In the beginning of April. My claim was going through and no one could tell me why. When you're sitting there every single day, five days a week on hold For hours on end. It definitely got stressful it zip it makes you wanna give up. That's Nick Forster, Jack Heuser and then all of for sharing their experiences dealing with California's employment development department or, as it's better known, the E. D. D. So many people in L A right now are dealing with this last month. In December, the state reported some 683,000 workers were waiting for their jobless benefits. All of this is the state deals with an unemployment fraud case in the billions of dollars So the question is, Why aren't people who need unemployment checks getting those checks and what's being done about it for answers, we turn to KCRW's Benjamin Gottlieb, who covers the business of Southern California. Happy New Year, Benjamin. And see you, Steve. Happy New Year. This is an agency in pretty deep dysfunction. I mean, we have seen inmates in prison receive unemployment benefits of fraud case. North of $2 billion. We've seen legitimate payments that have been frozen. The head of the agency actually retired last week. What is that meant for those who pay into the system and who need their money right now. Well, first of all, Steve. There are a lot of people getting unemployment checks right now. In California, 80 D says it's more than four million people, so a good sizable chunk of the state's population. But there are hundreds of thousands more who are still waiting for their money. And that includes Vignola for I'm a full time student right now it Cal State Long Beach Before the pandemic. I was working at Berlin bistro, little like restaurant and downtown Long Beach. Cola for who uses they and then pronounced says they didn't apply for unemployment. Initially, it's because they didn't think they qualified. But after some convincing from family and friends, they gave it a go back in August. That's when l A for encountered a convoluted system. Steve. They spent hours on the phone, trying to get ahold of an A T V worker to no avail. And eventually Oliver did connect and found out their application. Needed to be verified before it could be processed. So I got on. It was able to like certify the 14 weeks. I'd had a week after that. I got this big stack of mail there like 14 letters here that all came at once. There were all of the information all of the certification, no postmarks. So I certified everything and nothing ever happened. So even after certifying their identity, Olafur has not been paid yet Now. Part of the reason, at least, is tied to the fraud case that you just outlined. And that was reported on here for weeks. A case here W. It's also brought the process to a snail's pace. This fraud case, leaving folks with legitimate claims like old for waiting to be paid. Olafur is luckier than many workers who are out of a job. Have support from parents and can live at home. But of course not. Everyone has that luxury and we're seeing that play out all across Southern California. Ola for Benjamin is one of those California workers still waiting for the benefits. Do we know How long they'll have to wait. Well, it's a moving goalpost. I mean, Et de says it's hoping to get through the backlog by the end of this month by the end of January. Sometimes people have very frustrating experiences, though just kind of dealing with this, but their money does eventually come through eventually. That's true for Nick Forrester, who still isn't working hasn't worked since March, lost the job and a dim sum spots and Beverly Hills Now Forrester tells me they waited six months to receive benefits, but a big problem was getting ahold of someone over the phone. It was such a mess. Um, I couldn't get anyone on the phone to like, Probably July and my claim was going through and no one could tell me why so Being able to speak to someone When you have a question or an issue would be immensely helpful. You really can't talk to anyone. It's like it's such a hard process just to speak to anyone on the phone, so it almost seems like no one's really willing to help you. But I imagine it's just they have too much work to do and not enough people. And indeed, he has confirmed that to me in an interview, the department says that they've had a hard time hiring people and really getting up to speed to deal with this huge influx in unemployment case is now in the meantime, while Forrester waited Buying food was a big source of anxiety. Forster told me that they watch with the eights and also we're lying on their school, Santa Monica College to send meals now another person, Jack Heizer, who I spoke to is back at work, but he was out of a job from March all the way to September and had a very similar frustrating experience..
eBay for Business
More people are doing their holiday shopping online and this trend is here to stay
"Vice president. And principal analyst at forrester suture data could ali is a leading expert on ecommerce multichannel retail consumer behavior and trends in the online shopping space in her research. Sereda covers such consumer-oriented topics as e commerce forecasting in trends merchandising best practices conversion optimization and social computing in the retail world. Cerita joins us now to share her insights about this holiday retail shopping season. Welcome cerita thanks for having me rebecca. It's great to be here. We're really thrilled to have you. And we're excited that we can bring you and your insights in the information that you have to sellers. Help them anticipate what's happened this year. And what's up next for twenty twenty one after admit that. I definitely shopped early this year and pretty much everything online. Yeah yeah it's It's funny that you say that i that. A lot of retailers and merchants may have hoped that october would have been stronger. unfortunately many shoppers were still holding off and they continued to hold off and in spite of even all of the shipping delays all of the media reports about the challenges with shipping. I think that consumers are are still a little behind relative to where we would expect them to be at this point in in the holiday shopping cycle interesting so we know that ecommerce was essential throughout the pandemic and retailers. Small businesses had to quickly adapt. Can you tell us some of the top trends you've seen in the evolution of e commerce and online retail experiences this year. I think we're also really interested in what product line. Shoppers are buying online things that normally people would have gone to brick and mortar retailers. But they're now buying online warren of the biggest thing that we've of course seen is a shift to digital and in particular. I mean ebays been really great about being ahead of that curve and enabling a lot of the small local merchants with up and coming and a lot of the programs that have really been about supporting those local businesses because those companies have been the hardest hit and need to pivot the hardest and the fastest some of that of course is digital. Some of it is just enabling things like curbside pickup wherever possible digital payments. If you happen to have that physical infrastructure those are important. And that's been a big change in a big shift and i think that that's reflected in some of that cyber five data that we saw earlier is that the marketplaces have gained disproportionately. I think part of that has been because the consumer expects choice and they do expect the selection when they can't find it elsewhere. That's what's top of mind. It's been top of mind for a while and it's certainly top of mind during the pandemic as well as far as categories are concerned electronics. And some of those categories about keeping families busy other categories. That i would say that. We're seeing certainly anything that supports warmth. Fleece is doing very well right now. We're seeing socks and pj's and anything that is about comfort like blankets doing well. Anything that's outdoor. do it yourself home. We're still seeing things like heat. Lamps and fire pits being sold out and we still see huge uptake on anything. That's workout related. So exercise related. You know leggings at home exercise equipment. So from a subcategory standpoint. Those are some of the small trance to interesting. I know i bought a table. Top patio heater this year. Myself good for you. Hopefully you got it ahead of the sellouts. I did never mind the toilet paper. Bring us heaters rate right so this year there has been really noticeable change in shopper behavior. Let's talk about some of those behavioral changes like mobile payments or shopping or are people at home with their desktops and shopping more on desktop. Maybe they're on their phones. Tell us more about that. Yeah we see a tremendous amount of multi device usage within households. So what that means is you will have like you know the people who are on their zoom calls like shopping on the side you know. But they're not shopping necessarily on the desktop. It's on an ipad or it's on a on a phone on the side so there's definitely a lot of pre shopping a lot of inventory checking or a lot of investigating who they're going to kind of consider in the course of that transaction that's definitely A big part of that experience now see just want to be conscious as a seller of things like making sure that the imagery that you portray is going to be reflected well on different device sizes and we are seeing a lot of Video customer service calls to so just responding quickly to questions that consumers may have. That's an expectation of customers. We've seen video certainly provide Greater boosts to conversion whenever we see that offered it's essentially an extension of imagery so and we know that the more images you share that more likely that there is to be a sale ultimately that's a great reminder and it certainly reflects what we see here at ebay as well for holiday for many people. It's actually about those post holiday sales that they get excited about whether you're a buyer seller that last week of the year can be a big deal. Can you tell us what to anticipate this year with those post holiday sales and what to look forward to i think the pandemic essentially forced a lot of companies to cut their orders pretty early. And they didn't go back and revisit cancellations and what you had as a result is even through thanksgiving weekend you add less compelling offers like to merchant than you did in the past. It was completely common in the past that you would on a cyber monday. Have forty percent off of everything on a website plus free shipping and that was far less common. This year was more likely that you would have thirty percent off of select items with a shipping threshold. It just the richness of those offers was substantially less than in years past and part of the reason for that is that there just wasn't as much inventory that retailers had to discount. And they're trying to make that inventory that they have last as long as possible. What that potentially means is that there's not going to be as much in the way of sales post-holiday and that could be to the advantage of ebay sellers and the reason for that is that if there's less competition out there that's a good thing for you because you would be able to jump on the consumers that are expecting sales or offers and they're not finding them you wanna be able to take advantage of that if possible. I mean people will buy after christmas if there are sales it's entirely promotional driven like that's sort of the big driver of that between christmas and new year's rush whether it's e commerce or in stores it's what's on sale. What can i get. That didn't get sold already. That i may be able to take advantage of and if there isn't going to be much of that and we don't expect as much this year if you have anything access you know take advantage of that timeframe promoted you know in really kind of jump on anything you can get your hands on right. It's a good time to move some of that inventory. That's been hanging around for a lot of the year. So i hear that online shopping and cova shopping habits are likely to continue post pandemic in throughout the year. What are those predictions. You're looking for in the year to come. The single biggest challenge i think is just the amount of internet research that has been happening and certainly the pandemic has accelerated in every product category. And where that makes a difference for sellers is that your ability to show up and be present when consumers are in that search process because if their first touch point is digital you know in in the past maybe their first touch point was walmart stores. It just gives you more of an opportunity to be apparent in the course of that chopping funnel for all kinds of different categories that you may not have been considered for in the past. So that's definitely just something that's a subtle change but it's an important one because it gives small merchants so much more opportunity than what they had in the past. We also expect to see more distributed commerce. It's been a term that's been around for a long time but the idea of you know. Kind of completing transactions on social networks or completing transactions offer merchants site or enabling. Things like shop -able video that will be ways for emergent to connect directly to their audience. Like these are all things that we expect to continue to see. They have a tremendous amount of potential. I think a lot of the playbook in the us is still being shaped informed but we've known for decades that businesses like qvc nhl. San are incredibly powerful and incredibly lucrative and they resonate with so many people. There issues have always been that. You know it's a medium which is highly dependent on television. Adjacency is in how low the channel number was what they were next to so people would just happen to stumble upon up there can network and stop and watch it. And what's different in really powerful about chargeable video is there's a live component which takes elements of that experience. But there's also the ability to have an on demand experience to and and that expands the universe of of who can be exposed to and who can be seduced by kind of great selling so that's really some of the the big change that we expect through twenty twenty one especially if there is less of an opportunity to sell in the physical store. There's not the ability to touch and feel merchandise physical environment if we have more lockdowns In the coming months hopefully we won't because we'll be able to get vaccines but if things even get harder or in the next few months something to offset that can be more video selling interesting.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Retail therapy is great, but returns can take the fun out of it
"In this pandemic shopping online way way more than we ever have. And sometimes we want to return things. We by which can be a hassle with shipping and restocking fees and printing out. Return labels with the printers. Definitely all have at home. This holiday season some retailers are trying to make returns easier like employees at simon malls will process returns for brands like levi's gap. So all you have to do is go to a mall. Kiosk with your item and qr code but as annoying as online returns can be for us. They might be worse for the retailers. Cerita dali is a retail analyst at forrester. She says when you return something you bought online it usually goes back to a warehouse and then the retailer has to decide what to do with it and either it will go to potentially what we call jobbers who buy the merchandise for cents on the dollar or it could get destroyed. If it's not in re salable condition out the other scenario. Is that if it actually is in resale condition. They need to think about whether they're going to mark it down or whether they're going to sell it. Put it back on the shelf at full price. It sounds like a lot of decisions to make a lot of decisions and that's why over the years. There's been a lot of return software. That's been created to try to keep track of all this stuff and try to create some consistency around the process. And does that software work. It can software make these kinds of decisions about. Should we accept this sweater back and should we resell it or destroyed or whatever to some degree. I mean there's some information that software can provide. It can let you know how much of the inventory is actually still being sold. It can tell you. is it a really hot item. And it's highly likely that there's a good chance that it could sell again at full price if you were to put it on the shelf but there's still a level of human interaction that's necessary. I mean somebody has to inspect the merchandise and assess whether it's been warning or you know. Is there a stain on it. Or is the tag missing because all of that can impact things like the sale ability and the salvage ability of that merchandise so it sounds like getting online returns that are mailed back to you as a retailer. That sounds like a pretty expensive process. Oh yeah i mean it's expensive to ship and then it's kind of equally more expensive to return because you could not only do you have to pay for the shipping back which many retailers often do but then kind of you could be losing the salvage ability if it's not in resale lable condition. So that's why some of the i would say. The stingiest retailers often don't pay return shipping. Because they are trying to dissuade you from returning altogether and others may even charge a restocking fee in addition to you know kind of making you pay return shipping to really really discourage you from returning that merchandise. I mean it sounds like retailers are really been trying to figure this out to hack this process right and make returns easier for them and for us And also cheaper for them. Are there any other ways. They're doing that are weezer using technology to do it. Well i mean the the cheapest return is the return. That never happens right. So having more accurate sizing charts having more accurate photography. The closer that you can be to. The actual product is and simulate the lighting and the coloring so that it actually looks like what ship that's the ideal And that can reduce returns to one of the number one reasons that people return either clothing or homegoods anything kind of aesthetic is typically because the item was not pictured as what was ultimately sent. The things that you mentioned retailers are doing on their websites to try to give customers a better sense of a product before they buy. Do you think that that'll work this year that it'll at least help. Keep the number of returns down one. The type of merchandise has changed. It's too much more casual. Wear to start with so that kind of merchandise is kind of. It's easier to fit than you know kind of work. Wear or kind of dress shoes. So that's something that is in favor of apparel merchants in particular to start with and then on top of that if you do put in more photographs more accurate photography you focus on your sizing charts and the accuracy of your sizing charts. You're collecting ratings and reviews from customers that are giving their comments on the size and fit of of the merchandise. All of that is good and it doesn't hurt sales and it doesn't hurt the the accuracy of the information that you're you're providing so i do think that it should help managing returns even though e commerce is grown.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Back-to-school season kicks off this week, but laptops are sold out
"Looking at the challenges of distance learning as the pandemic rolls on, and this week is kind of the official back to school kickoff for families and school districts getting ready for school has meant scrambling to find laptops kids to use at home, and there is a major shortage of low-cost laptops like chromebooks. It's a combination of the trade war with China and supply chains that have been disrupted by the pandemic but with millions of students starting school without the tech, they need to learn at home an education system that was already unequal is even more. So Jay Ganders, an analyst at Forrester. Here's for now it has been a case of delays especially for educational institutions right who have been told in some cases that they were going to receive models. And we're talking about thousands of laptops. By the beginning of the school at home period, and now they're saying, well, you may not get these until later in the school year and that's very problematic if the school district is expecting to supply the laptops to their students because then you're kind of stuck with what you have at home and not all students can afford or have access to a computer, and so when do we think this shortage might end if at all wonders? Well, what will happen next year you know is, is it? Going to go back and return to normal levels. So I think there's GonNa be trouble on the horizon as the companies that produce this try to reevaluate their Chinese supply chain can they relocate to other places or will there be new administration? For example, that makes that easier figuring out what they expect for demand what the budgets look like for schools there's so many variables at play and I would just say much like with toilet paper, right it was took some time to sort out the supply chain. A much more complicated supply chain well, and I want to get back to this idea of future demand because if we really do see a scenario where education changes in the long term. Then, all of a sudden schools become an even bigger market for portable devices. Right? Then they have been before. I. Think that's right. I mean I think The the proliferation of these devices on an individual basis for every child is not universal. We have a lot of classrooms where students actually share devices, which makes sense but when you have to send them home with the child, then that becomes a larger market. A. Lot depends on the course of the pandemic and how safety goes and how the numbers look, and of course, I'm not an epidemiologist. So I won't even try to figure that out. But let's say if we're persisting in a high state of pandemic. It means that there would be increased demand even into next year for new laptops because the schools simply don't have individual devices for every student, we've sort of honed in on laptops for the purposes of this conversation. If we start to see sort of like permanent remote become a reality will other form factors all in one PC's or just even desktops start to make a return. I think they could. Part of the issue though is that our houses have been filled with lots of remote people, right? So maybe parents. Maybe. Grandparents others simply a surplus of people in the household, and that means that a laptop has the advantage of flexibility being able to move to a different room I. Know a lot of the business meetings I have. You'll see someone's bed at background because they've been sort of banished to a bedroom. And the other problem here is that schools aren't going to be providing something like a desktop, right they need to provide something that's all in one very reportable and very easy. To use. Getting back to this idea of the inequality and that you know lower income students who can't afford a more expensive last because that might be available are being left out. What are the other devices if any are are filling the void? SMARTPHONES can fill part of the GAP certainly in Asia, we find a lot going on in this space where Chinese school children will get certain lessons over mobile. You can certainly do a zoom meeting over a mobile phone so you could participate in the classroom creation of content however, as opposed to consumption is going to be more challenging on a phone. There are schools that use tablets particularly ipads, but they will then require in cases for older kids an external keyboard and a stand, and that sort of thing. So the economics are not that easy. The bottom line is I think. For children who have less income in their families. The schools need to try to equip them with everything that they need on a turnkey basis.
Thank God I'm Atheist
Texas Mayor Believes Women Should Be Silent In Churches
"Down in Town called Wiley Texas. I'M GONNA say it's how you would say that. Why are you It's kind of in the dfw sort of metroplex whatever somewhere in that somewhere in that area. Somewhere I sense of it. I didn't really look closely tech. Most of Texas is in the The Dallas Fort Brawl. As far as you can get it is amazing like it is honestly truly amazing. Any who their mayor Who is described in this article that I found as a magician Minnesota wild this is a triple. He's got all of them. That's that's the dream you guys. I don't know what what you guys wanted to be as kids but I'm pretty sure we all wanted to be magician. Minister Mayor just seemed impossible and this man has done it so Kudos to him. Well they one of his city council members a man by the name of Jeff Forester And the mayor's name is Eric Hogue should he be wondering He he emails him and says mayor over the past five weeks members of youth with a mission have been walking through Wiley and praying over our city and citizens. I believe this is a great testament to the youth in our city and devotion to God with your permission. I would like to ask a couple of the young men to come to our next meeting and lead us in prayer before. Let me know your thoughts and I will arrange to have them come. Jeff Okay. Youth mission all right. Yeah walking around praying what what good. What a good thing for young people to be doing what what productive work? Yeah and so the mayor response he says. Hey Jeff sounds good. I would like that all I ask. Is Those leading the public prayer? Be Young men. Here's why I make that request as a preacher for the Cottonwood Church of Christ we take the the two versus below literally the puts them in here I Corinthians Fourteen thirty four to thirty five a let your women be silence. Silence in the churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under obedience as also Sayeth the law. And if they will learn anything let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the Church. And then yeah. That's that's one of those ones. Where like when Christian started to like I I would like when I hear about a church that follows that even though I think it's a horrific stupid right because at least you know that's one more that they're not being hypocrites about right so so there you go mayor with me. Yeah then then I Timothy two eleven. Twelve let the women learn in silence with all sub subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence and so there says so. I have always requested that. A man lead the invocation. I understand. Not everyone may agree with me. But I can't go against my conscience but I would love to have the group count and visit with them and then let a couple of guys leader. They're just just. Don't let any of those lady you come in and pray ruin everybody's doing well first of all. Here's the deal. Does he understand the word? Literally we'd be starts off. He says that we take these two verses below literally and the nurses are talking about church. Yeah and well as teaching everything that's literal about. These says absolutely nothing about a prayer at a city council meeting he. I I think I think he's. He's also looking at the spirit of the law which just women shut up no matter what you know. There's the letter of the law. But if you're really GONNA hold to the word of God shut the hell up ladies than don't talk about liberalness right anyway. So this is all leaked out And I WANNA know who leaked it. Do Okay who leaked it? Oh No oh it's gotta be somebody's wife. Right I the other Jeff Forrester the city council member. I my is He. He thought that was kind of weird right and laughed and chuckled about it. And you're right but I mean this is like will here's the deal. Wiley Texas DOT GOV. It would have been easy this public record. They were using both of them. Were using their official government email and so I mean if somebody wanted to just request them get their hands on them that you're not doing if you've got a a pastor or priest or you know a minister of some sort in an in an official position in your local government. Somebody needs to be doing. You know FAFSA requests of their up all of their documents at all times for reasons. Because you're going to get you're GonNa Stumble on Shit like this all the damn time. Yeah again I don't know how it came out but it's really really remarkable. I mean first of all you know. We both clearly object to the idea of there being a prayer at the beginning of the meeting and all right. This absolute douchebag Maher who also I guess because of Cova There may there may election was postponed to November because the pandemic so the guys getting like some extra time in office. I think it's people who kind of pissed about that too so I love it here. Here's the other thing that I love. I love the idea that like 'cause we talk all the time about how in this country is unconstitutional. If you're at very least if you're going to allow anyone to give a prayer you kind of have to allow everyone to be able to give that prayer and that's the basis of many many for Lawsuits and whatever but does it say anything about the gender of the person. Because I don't know I think there may be something beautiful in will allow anyone to pray but you have to go by the letter of law you have to. If we can find something in your life we get to police your religion and it's An and you have to obey your religion. Exactly that'd be something great about
The Kindle Chronicles
James Mcquivey - Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
"Well I'll be honest For reasons that will become pretty clear early in our conversation here I've been following this longer than most and was looking at this in January and trying to estimate the impact on our work In January. Now that doesn't take a a magician because it was already clearly a happening in China and Asia but We started modeling out in January. What that would look like for the area that I cover and then in February started to say it's not just a question of adjusting our coverage. There we we actually have to decide what new coverage needs to come into place and you know my expertise just personally over twenty five years of doing what I do is in Survey Research and I thought well survey is about as good a way to track this as we can and you know when we look at all the resources that were becoming available into late. February there are good sources public sources that survey how people feel about things on an ongoing basis from Pew to Even the the national news outlets but nobody was focused on specifically the E. X. Where the employee experience of the pandemic and we thought well. This is an area that we care a lot about. We put a lot into this research anyway. Now let's see if we can use this as an opportunity to go sir rape people who are working an ask them how this is affecting their work life now. We put that plan into motion in mid to late February. Little bit of time You know hats off to the team to turn that around so that by March second we were ready with the survey instrument that had been designed and program rammed and was ready to go and we started fielding The survey on the second and I'll just give you the background that our approach was. Let's see if we just go out to the world and say give us your thoughts about what's happening and we did. Collected hundreds of data points from about a dozen countries. Were in that first week. And but at the same time we knew and I knew as a survey researcher that I needed to have a comprehensive generalize -able data source then so I persuaded some people here to invest in a parallel fashion in a panel survey like we would use for any other traditional survey Got The budget to do that. Had that launched on March third so the same time we're paying the general population were also surveying the The panel and developing a panel of about four hundred seventy people in a three day period. That we were able to ask him questions of and Boy was amazing already in that week between the first day of survey versus the third day of survey. That's the moment Americans. Were starting to pay attention in. That's we're seeing differences in the results even between day one day through And so we knew this is something we're going to have to keep tracking and we have been and you've been in the field twice with it now. We have. We went back in the field. Two weeks later so march seventeenth to nineteenth and we go into the field today for the third wave so we're trying to maintain a cadence of every two weeks with that panel version of the survey at the same time. The Open Public Internet version of the survey is still open. Still collecting results But we're finding that the reliability we get from these panel survey is Is So valuable that we're continuing to make that investment in parallel. Well I I bet what? You've learned So far would give you the ability to help employers figure out how should they be talking to their employees about the pandemic given that? There's so much information elsewhere. Is there a specific kind of communication you're recommending for employers? You know one of the reasons we care so much about employee experience is there is a tendency in the world of HR to see employees as potential liabilities. This it's a get something on the balance sheet. Sure that you have to manage the risk around it. You have to treat them as things that you might have to discipline or let go or try to push them to increase productivity and that goes probably goes way back to the early military origins of a lot of corporate culture certainly in America but also elsewhere in the world of you know you have these recruits and you got to whip them in shape and get them ready to perform and keep them alert and so on That's not really a healthy attitude. Certainly as a culture we've evolved past been in the military itself But it still persists because a lot of the systems and policies in place are designed to approach the employees that way so for the years that we've been covering employee experience. Our whole approach has been invert that process and say let's start with the employees so when we designed the survey. We designed it from that perspective. How are they feeling about this? Their own personal safety their own concerns for their family. They're the viability of their profession. Their career how do they feel? Let's start there then. We'll expand out there and Sarah. How do they perceive that your organization is handling this are is there direct manager speaking to the added confidence in the leaders at the head of the organization to they have evidence that the that the company has a plan much less executing that plan. Well and then of course we into the specifics. Alright what is INAP- plant? What are you doing as a company? Are they providing early days? Hand sanitizer face masks. If necessary. For certain types of jobs are they mandate mandating work from home and then providing the technology support? You need to work from home for those shops where you can work from home and of course we've all seen this play out over the last month but remember we were in the field on. March second when none of this was really happening yet in the United States we were consulting with our experts are expert colleagues in Asia in Hong Kong and Singapore. Who'd been in lockdown for a month at that point? And so they they were feeding indoor survey helping us understand what what were the likely things to come next And I'll tell you we've measured exactly what you'd expect. All of those concerns have increased Everyone's concerned about their own safety. We went from for example in the first week of March. Twenty nine percent of people saying they were afraid to go to work because of the fear of exposure nanosecond two weeks later that went up to forty one percent approving afraid to go to work. And we'll tell you tomorrow that would expect to be well over sixty percents to space on what's been happening around the country With headlines coming out of New York like they are so you know knowing that that is the environment in which your employees are are making decisions about their work. That's that's important for employers to know not so that the employer can manage that liability which are that employer can partner with the employees to meet them where they are. We described sometimes as the personalization of work. You know you think of as consumers we've been able with a personalized so much you know we personalized when we When we interact with a retailer because we can do it at midnight in our pajamas. We we personalise what information we get. What PRODUCTS WE REVIEWS? We respond to well. The personalization of work is the next thing that needs to happen. And it's a very similar
BTV Simulcast
Apple's Earnings Top Last quarter and Next Quarter's Projected Earnings
"Apple has be across the board topping estimates for both the last quarter's results and next quarter's forecast this is a significant accomplishment for apple despite some sputtering iPhone sales to break down the report I'm joined by Forrester analyst Julie Oscar also with us in New York as to my CEO and founder Lee drug and Lee let me start with you broad based beat what is your take away from this look we have been seeing a Porter visions to basically all of the numbers throughout the quarter so it's not a surprise that the stock and perform pretty well coming in the report that said you know the the specially on the services side this was a really large beat dad and the gross margins number were very on expected and then obviously the guidance for the holiday quarter was was very good now I want to put that in context though because when you look at the I phone numbers and when you look at the expected revenue numbers the mid point of that guidance summer for the holiday quarter is about five billion dollars below the all time high which was last year so in terms of you know apples business they can be smaller business the financial Zetian though of the business itself has led to a higher EPS and higher stock price Julie as we know the company fifty two percent of the revenue still comes from the I. phones that we does it still all come down to those iPhone sales I'm sure we need her here in my terminology TV go talking about the average sale price as the flow with that actual leave the number of phones are slowly starting to pick up how much of this demand are you seen particularly perhaps around the iPhone eleven yes I think certainly you know lowering the prices can either bring more consumers into the market or it can speed up replacement cycles you know as the phones of got more expensive and certainly the rival and sometimes are higher price than even laptops that are in the market consumers have slowed down you know if we were to look back five six years ago the replacement cycle was much closer to two years and now it's up beyond that we did we see in this quarter people replace their older phones faster than we thought and is that also what's driving next quarter's forecast for iPhone sales as well it doesn't look like that actually thing too is you know got it here that that replacement cycle is expanding and I I think I sell for my wife for good examples here where you know I have the ten and she's got the seven and neither of us upgraded this year because we're we're looking forward to something new you know something that's actually a game changer in terms of the hardware and there's really nothing there no the next cycle looks like we're gonna get five G. and that's where both of us will obviously upgraded I think you will see that upgrade cycle take off again I think the market basically baked this saying that you're going to get you know though Laura critic of the other issues that out in China that upgrade cycle is also slowing significantly because they're working off of comics from the last year where that upgrade cycle is very high when apple didn't really have a large phone to sell into China than it did and now we're on the back end of those tough com's so it's gonna take a little while for that to kind of burn off and then again that five G. upgrade cycle you might see pick up again eventually we were talking a little bit before the show and as we want to focus on iPhone more and more we just want to talk about services as well because that is the higher margin business of the company I'm showing another chart here my terminal showing the growth of that services business which is rebounded up eighteen percent here and how much of that services business do you see really pushing growth going forward for the company yes I think it's absolutely essential tough to apple as we look forward on one hand you they've got more services in the market with bringing the TV service in the arcade service in and if you were to look at somebody opting in to buy all of their subscription services you know you could be up over five hundred dollars a month per consumer on an annualized basis and services because they are subscription tend to be sticky I think the other vantage that apple has here the market is they have a lot of building relationships and do have billing relationship with almost all of their customers and then also just makes it easier to convert customers and to keep them clean do you need to see apple sooner transition more of their revenue to stable services from cyclical iPhones when does that happen yes we discuss this well it's going to be a year and a half two years now I'm going in I think the the you know that the conversation always is built around well why doesn't apple get a higher multiple because more of its revenue is trending toward services and here's my problem with that is that the services revenue really is dependent on the hardware revenue and so if people leave the hardware platforms that services revenue was gonna move apparate so I don't think the question itself me not necessarily matter in the sense that it's one really leads to the other and that's why they're not going to get the higher multiple yes it's great that they have more services revenue but if for some reason a competitor comes in in the next cycle or two and puts out a piece of hardware that really blows the I phone out of the water I think they're gonna have problems either way whether the services revenue was a lot or a little relative you know that hardware revenue at that point and we're hearing Tim cook on the call coming out and saying that he was calling for nine percent decline in the I phone and that's an improvement over fifteen percent decline in the prior quarter and that the I phone eleven is their best selling I phones we will continue to bring you those Tim cook headlines as
Marketplace Morning Report with David Brancaccio
Amazon stock drops on slim holiday-profit forecast
"Has issued a decidedly downbeat sales and profit forecast for the quarter that includes the coming holiday shopping season. The stock is down five and a half percent in pre-market trading now turns out the thing stuff to customers quickly to thwart the competition is an expensive proposition James mcreavy is a principal analyst at Forrester Research the fact is the companies investing in a long term strategic advantage which will be one day shipping. This is a dramatic advantage not just against other ECOMMERCE players but also against Trudeau national brick and mortar retailers who are still the majority of retail Amazon also makes good money providing remote computing to other businesses via the cloud as it's called inquiry suggests this is a maturing business that may not grow quite as fast in the future still Amazon not going anywhere because the fundamentals in the market aren't necessary early working against the company there's no reason to expect that this will be a portend of dramatic reversal of fortune for the company true there can be External Global Shocks trade wars all of these things which could diminish the retail sector overall all the more reason for Amazon to invest in making or it comes out with whatever gains there are to be had just last quarter Amazon hired a hundred thousand pardoned fulltime employees to get ready for the holiday rush
The Opening Bell
Subaru Forester And Forresters discussed on The Opening Bell
"Federal regulators are investigating complaints about functions with the airbag sensors in more than half a billion Subaru forester is from the twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen model years they received fifty one complaints about the Forresters passenger seat occupant detection
Climate Cast
Minn. leaders meet to address threats to lakes, rivers
"Support for climate cast comes from Bank of America financing, clean energy initiatives, and advancements in renewable energy and spurring innovation in and the growth of environmentally focused companies markets and jobs, Bank of America, NA, member FDIC. I'm in Walker Minnesota at an annual meeting of rivers and lakes advocates and lakeshore. Homeowners associations and one thing they're seeing is the data is clear. Minnesota is getting wetter overall and as our climate shifts. That's presenting challenges for these folks. Jeff Forrester is the executive director of Minnesota lakes and rivers advocates. Well, I hear from people across the state and, you know, obviously water levels are changing, you know, some areas dryer. So there's drought other areas are over the shoreline and then we're also getting plants native plants there, didn't used to be plants people are saying, well, you know, we've got this northern mille-feuille which is native. And now it's growing right to the surface, and it's in places that never was before we can't get boats through my guess is that warmers having an impact, and then the cloudbursts events are flushing more nutrients cynical ex. And I'm just thinking, you know. No, it's really time to focus, some science, some energy on. What are the impacts going to be? How do we mitigate? How do we build resilience into our systems? The changes that we're seeing in the lakes. How much science is there in terms of linking that to climate? Well, my sense is, there's some, but there's not a great deal with agriculture. They've, you know, the farmers and farm groups have done a pretty good job of looking at the impacts on farms, and did oh with the timber industry and did o with people who deal with the infrastructure of our cities. But there hasn't been a real focused effort on what's going to happen to our lakes and rivers because there isn't the same kind of constituency. And that's really what this event is about is bringing in people who are focused on water and one part of the state one week or one, watershed and bring them together to kind of start talking about these larger issues. We we've seen a couple of recent records that have really jumped out at climate watchers with regard to precipitation, Minnesota, one was the, the twin cities record for all time annual precipitation of forty inches in two thousand sixteen. And then just last year, we had harmony that came in. With sixty inches of precipitation, that's the all time state record. That's closer to a New Orleans level average annual rainfall this spring. We're seeing many lakes, over Bank full are people noticing those changes on their local legs, people are definitely noticing, and I'm getting emails about it from across the state, and I think some are starting to connect the dots. Some maybe not so much. They're wondering what they can do about it. Because it's a climate impact and the climate is changing, and it's going to continue to change. That's why I'm thinking about resilience. What can we do to build resilience into the systems? What, what, what can we do to begin to manage our likes a in adaptive management holistic way, rather than just focusing on the walleye while we're gonna stock while focus on we? It's all well we're going to treat the weights here. We're going to do this, or that, discreet activity isn't going to get us. What we need. We need kind of a bigger vision. That's climate cast from Walker. Minnesota at a water conference. I'm NPR chief meteorologist Paul Hutton there.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Could a challenger to iOS and Android come from China?
"This marketplace podcast is brought to you by the Michigan economic Development Corporation, Evan Lyle of rush enterprises, is a big fan of Michigan as he put it the future of mobility, is going to be decided right here in the state, visit planet dot com to find out why. That's P. L. A. N. E T, M dot com. Could the mobile operating system to challenge? I o s an Android come from China from American public media. This is marketplace. Tech demystifying the digital economy, I'm Ali would. The Chinese electronics guy in while way is the world's second biggest smartphone manufacturer. And it suddenly finds itself without an official mobile operating system. Google is scheduled to cut off while ways access to its official version of Android as of August that follows a US ban on doing business with w-way while we says it's been working on its own mobile operating system. And meanwhile, the Chinese company bite dance, which owns the hit social network, tick tock, said it would explore launching its own custom phone with preloaded by dance apps, but many have tried to build alternatives to either Android or Apple's. I o s and so far all have failed Julius gets a principal analyst at Forrester research. She said the reason is any new mobile operating system, just doesn't have enough apps. It just takes a lot of momentum to build out an ecosystem with a developer community that's going to build enough services and apps. For your platform, or for your operating system to make the device compelling to consumers. Do you think that the way to success for a third party mobile OS developer is to sort of re imagine the ecosystem, like, for example, where we're talking about to Chinese companies. We know that integrated messaging is already huge in China, like, is it possible that, that a company could come along, and say, we're going to build a new mobile operating system. That is that's one hundred percent dependent on messaging and mobile web. So I think a company could come along and do that. And that would fit a slice of the market, and that would be a good plan. That might carry a company for the next three to five to eight years. We haven't seen that success replicated though outside of China. So it may be the right strategy for China, but I think you have to also be willing to look beyond and say, what about voice and immersive experiences. And what's next either things that are more ambient? So you think we're. For the duopoly is likely to continue until we actually transcend. Let's say smartphones completely. I think Molly. I mean we've both been in mobile long enough to remember when the center of power was in Europe and Nokia dominated the world with their Symbian operating system. So I don't think there's ever like a forever in this picture. I think absolutely. We could see the center of gravity shifts west and into Asia. And then who knows what's next this gets to my theory about the parallel tech economy in China that it could the only place that could incubate competition at that level. Really is China. And then it could depending on, you know, global relations sort of come screaming out of there like real competition to apple and Google hasn't happened yet. But could. Right. But I tell you Marley ever pretty limited perspective. Right. We've watched ten cent tried to come to the US. We've watched by do and we've watched them put beachheads out in Silicon Valley. But I haven't seen much of it yet Julie, ask as a principal. Analyst at Forrester research, while way has said it's mobile operating system should be ready to launch by twenty twenty. And now for some related links now Julius was diplomatic about whether Asia could end up producing the next great mobile operating system business insider, not so much. It's got a story with two charts showing how back in two thousand ten there were six or seven mobile operating systems, and, yes, Nokia's Symbian was by far, the most popular and nine years later, there are two and that is it. I mean, the poor windows phone didn't even make it onto either chart. That's how fast it came and went. Samsung tried to build its own s twice. Blackberry would not give up Mozilla tried with fire, FOX us, I mean, even Amazon had a go at it and jerks like me would review those phones ago. Yeah. But there's no official Instagram hap and now the thirty percent cut that apple takes from abseiled the amount of money that developers can make selling absence services on these phones pretty much. Means the app economy is here to stay as long as that's the experience. We expect on our smartphones. It's beyond an uphill climb for Weiwei way or by dance or anyone else. Now that said the economist has a story from April about yet another challenger rising in India, based on Mozilla Firefox. So s it's on fifty million or so lower. End phones in India, and Indonesia and raised all over there will appreciate this. It's called high. Oh, S. I'm Molly would. And that's marketplace tech. This is a PM.