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WTOP
"grech" Discussed on WTOP
". Apply today at RTX dot com slash cyber careers. Three 38. Traffic and weather on the 8s, here's Rick McClure in the WTO traffic center. This started Maryland I two 70 still traveling well to and from Frederick I 95, little volumes headed south through el grech. That's it for I 95 on the Maryland side. PW Parkway had some volume after four 50 to the beltway north and continuing through green belt in parts of Laurel, route 50 looking a little better headed east towards bay bridge still with volume slowest from cape saint Clair to the eastbound span, had a crash and one broken down that were cleared last hour. Three lanes west and two lanes east across the bay. Over in Virginia 66, you're moving nicely. Three 95, looking a lot better now, headed north, leaving Virginia toward the inbound 14th street bridge to crash clean up near boundary channel happened last hour is now gone, all lanes are available to you now, delays were back to route 27. I 95, Virginia scientifical weekend volume slowdowns, no change south after newington toward the toward route one 23 in the aka Kwan, north with volume off and on two and three Fredericksburg and falmouth, farther south near das will no change with the crash clean up from earlier this morning, huge delays had a south after king's dominion, cruiser is still dealing with the debris spill from the mishap. GW Parkway, big weekend work zone between route one 23 and the beltway has a single lane getting by, alternate routes, Clara Barton Parkway, good choice. And through the district cut on the freeway and the two 95s seeing a little volume south from eastern avenue toward east capitol street. Grab a Wendy's biggie bag today with your choice of JBC double stack or crispy chicken sandwich, plus four piece nugs, junior fries, and a small soft drink. Biggie hits every time. U.S. price and participation may vary. Rick McClure WTO traffic. To 7 news first alert meteorologist Jordan Evans. We'll be tracking just a few afternoon showers out there very isolated and not everyone's going to get The Rain and with the air being
WTOP
"grech" Discussed on WTOP
"The most popular candy in Delaware is starburst and in Pennsylvania. We're back to Reese's Peanut Butter cups. 8 48. Traffic and weather on the 8s and when it breaks, let's check in with Rick McClure in the traffic's house. All right, the bellway still rolling nicely all the way around the crash cleanup on near river road on the envelope is done. I'll link to your available to you now, so you're back on the moon. All the way around the capitol beltway through Maryland to end Virginia. Merrill and I two 70 north after democracy boulevard. In fact, on the spur. Watch for one broken down in the last check, it was in the right lane. I 95, no problems there. We had a crash near a route 100 on the northbound side through el grech, but that was clear from the right lane. There's a lathe is starting to ease up as we speak. BW Parkway, no problems there. Route 50 still rolling nicely both inside and outside the beltway. Had some fog across the bay bridge that was causing some cautious driving conditions, but everything is good. Three lanes west and two lanes east across the bay at the moment. We're checking on a work zone that may have set up near the D.C. line along kilmore avenue in the northbound side at route 50 takes two northbound lanes. Over in Virginia 66, no problems there through 95, you're good, 95 as well, had crash cleanup activity still in fairfax and involved a motorcycle that brought down some wires and it was affecting west dox road near Pinto brook drive, follow police direction through for the time being. And through the district, still lots of volume on the eastbound freeway through southeast from the navy yard had a tune across the outbound 11th. There's a crash in northbound, Pennsylvania avenue near Pennsylvania avenue on D.C. two 95 that had a single lane getting by. Rick McClure, WTO P traffic, storm team fours Amelia Draper. Cloudy skies tonight with areas of fog and lows in the 50s mid 60s to low 70s for highs tomorrow,
Drive with Us Podcast
"grech" Discussed on Drive with Us Podcast
"To that light for. Everyone a dance to guys like him. Put your song tao. That'd be cool. It's like pick your song but you better dance. Otherwise you're not going anywhere it's like. Oh this car can pass. A veselin cannot pass the first person in line. Because i don't think the signal can go that far back like the first person in line that would have to do it. Nobody would never want to be The first person ever again a gun at making or how does the weight here behind five cars. Yeah that'd be funny well. We hope enjoyed listening to chris's driving stories. Be sure to stay tuned until the end of this episode. To hear a sneak. Peek of next week's driver. Dan grech from and he shares about the time that his jeep rolled down a hill into a rockwall pleased by and much more. Thank you for tuning in this week. And if you enjoy this podcast you can help support the show by sharing it with your friends or leaving us. A review truly does help us get discovered and thank you for shielding to drive again this week. And we'll see you next week. It's quite an embarrassing story. Actually because i wasn't even in the driver's seat at the time so my jeep. I drove it all the way around africa. So dumb. A lot of miles and the handbrake. The emergency brake. Didn't work very well. So i was in uganda. Really remote spot came over a hill. And i was like albert in front of me these beautiful like and i really wanted to get a photo. So i parked the jeep. It was on a little bit of a hill. And i got out to take a photo and walked maybe like twenty yards away from the jeep and it started to roll down the hill by itself..
The Official SaaStr Podcast
"grech" Discussed on The Official SaaStr Podcast
"The buyer of this specific product of your product and sales marketing Partner to go really deep on this so for each segment size there are very different buyers of your product and i think you would all know that in terms of like who's the ideal customer profile but not just a who's the ideal has a profile in terms of your end customer but like who who literally is making the decision for example the buyer or business of a small specialty store is probably going to be a business owner right a small store. The decision maker is a business owner but a buyer of a national retail store. Chain may be the head of retail experience or the chief experience officer or whatever that looks like but if you can map out the who who are the buyers in each of the segments that uc target then you can start to map out one of these buyers care about. What are their jobs to be done. What are they solving for. And how do they make those decisions. That's the second question bright who the buyers and what do they care about. The final question is hettie reach them. So how do you get your message across in the channels that matter the most to these customers to these new customers target continuation on the go to market front structuring. Your team so now that you've figured out who your customers are. What are the care about how you're gonna reach them. You structure your team that way. You assess whether or not you need to add experience to your team specific knowledge sets at new or different processes to empower your team with colleagues that. No your face that you're trying to move into. They're familiar with the pain points that you're trying to solve for and can speak lingo and reach those customers. So one thing that we think about a lot is like what can be generalist and what needs to be highly specialized and that. That's it's an ever evolving structural question all right so now that i've just described Largely encompasses like expanding your customer base. Which which can be useful for expanding into a new industry vertical. I want to touch on a few specific callouts about moving upmarket in your sass product offering and target so assuming your products does doesn't require a massive overhaul and huge changes to address larger customers this becomes somewhat of a packaging play. If you think about it it really requires close. Collaboration between product marketing and sales. But what i mean by packaging is the wrapping. So how are the features assembled together. Do you have to sort of reassemble them in different packages in order for it to be relevant to a larger customer are you repurposing the same product infrastructure in new combinations at any. So how do you talk about this user experience. that's also part of the packaging in iraq and paper. Right how do you do. You need to brandit differently. Similarly in terms of partnerships would sales marketing. It is critical to identify those news jobs to be done and then to work with marketing to shape the most connective messaging with this new customers to outline a plan to to raise awareness amongst your new prospects through the channels matter that something that is is near and dear to my heart and i think every good go to market effort keeps your eyes on this is as it relates to prod is related to product collaboration. So there are two key things to remember here. Number one is like as i mentioned before determine if you need to repackage or bundle the offerings that have more meaning or utility to the customers. You're trying to serve to your new prospect based and you'll rely on product to create that packaging Second is make sure that you have built a regular structure in canes to collaborate between frontline teams zero sales market teams and your product teams. So that you may regularly track and communicate product feedback insights from the front lines. Why is that second heart so important. Because even with the absolute best laid plans and well thought out strategy and research assumptions. You will learn things that your you hadn't anticipated. You will learn new jobs to be done of certain customers along the way and you will need to adjust. We've done this countless times every year. And it's really part of the fun like it's it's an adventure to learn a little bit more about something you the cash. So that like voice of your customer cycle is so critical. I cannot emphasize it enough. And i cannot celebrate all right so on the thread of powerful feedback loops as we serve larger and larger customers. Here are some of the key themes that emerged from our customer base as we grow with them and as we bring on new clients. So i wanna share those with you here. What are the best practices for single job sas providers. Looking to move upmarket right. That was the question he to answer. Number one is. We've learned that customers are looking for consolidation es and a seamless integration in their technology partnerships. So while their business is growing and getting larger they don't want complexity fragmentation to roll with it and that often happens and so like the winners in the spacer or those that have consolidation. And seamless integrations. Second key learning. We learned that customers want real advice from our sales teams and our account managers. They want advice. they don't want features. This also speaks to a integrations advice and partnership advice is just like i mean. I feel very strongly about that as a sales leader. And we've seen it come through at every single call and then finally moving upmarket market is unlocked by power partnerships. A strong part goes system built early on even with tangentially. Perceived competitors to your product is a powerful differentiator. And it will serve you well overtime key takeaways. I good product design approaches can be extended to good growth design and expansion design approaches. Well second is built for scale and flexibility so future-proof year technology by making sure. It's flexible and can integrate. With with other business critical technologies. the third is people create a strong people foundation ensure that your team has the people in the tools they need to be effective in serving new markets. So what got you here won't get you there so so balanced building off your building off of your existing market engine and then of course intelligently designing the next team that you need to serve your next target customers and finally have a fast clear and regular feedback loop around the voice of your customers so established efficient and organized with frequent channels.
The Official SaaStr Podcast
"grech" Discussed on The Official SaaStr Podcast
"To work for breakfast. And so further interviews uncovered that as far driving while eating goes a bagel and cream. Cheese was fine. it's delicious but messy so you can eat it with your hands but it's it's kinda messy and it's filling a banana also. You can eat it with your hands. It's quick and easy not particularly messy but not filling and definitely not filling enough to get you through till lunch time but a milkshake was filling not messy and had to be consumed slowly over the commute time because it how thickness and so while a milkshake as product is desert -i creamy and delicious and i saved deserting because i think we think of it as a dessert. The most in demand job for the job to be done was not desert. The job was a relief from hunger and boredom during a commute hour. So i promise. I won't talk about milkshakes anymore but now turn that to like fintech or assassin. Example banking is a product. It's not a job. It's just the product so the job that a customer is hiring for. Maybe that they wanna Improve availability of funds or immediate access to funds. Or that they wanna save funds seamlessly without really thinking about it so it's important to use the foundation of what the products are and what the jobs are as you're thinking about your additional growth levers for your own company. So how do we apply jobs. Be onto to your own offers. I ask you before. I talked about square's original tna of ease of commerce for everyone anywhere. That's what the very first product was built off of very first but that same dna. If you sort of split you can see it every offering beyond that. And so. I ask you to challenge yourself as you're thinking about your own plans like to really identify what your core product is what it stands for and what it seeks to solve for. And that's that's your dna of your product in your offering. It should be just super powerful applicable to the broadest audience. What is the core dna. There and i'm sure that's that's how the current iteration of your product was created right to solve a need. But if you're thinking about trying to expand or broaden your customer base you should begin to assess whether or not your current offering conserve jobs to be done a different segment different size segment or indifferent industry and hopefully that is true. I'll give you another financial services example of a single product that solves different jobs to be done in a different segment or industry ryan banking. We talked about before it is banking product is most often thought of as a transaction account or a savings account right so checking and savings and for a sole proprietor business. Their financial services job to be done may be related to just immediate access to their earned. Income in other words cash flow right. They do a job. They received payment for it and they immediately can can spend those those dollars for a small medium sized business. This may evolve into the need for capital like what does banking mean to them. It means access to capital or financing for growth plants or buying new equipment and for medium-sized business. A banking job to be done. Maybe about funds control so money movements money tracking across multiple store locations or more from multiple sources. So you can start to see the same product without much. Change has relevant jobs. We done for multiple sized segments. So if you have the right product structure and you have a strong focus on jobs at the core of it you can actually maximize the total number of jobs served by your single products. And i know. I'm really hurting out on this jobs to be done framework but like it is the lifeblood of how i believe how you can expand dramatically if you can just think about like what is by audience and what if you care about so. I'll talk a little bit about supporting multiple customer segments and expanding your surfable market. So now that you've thought about what your core product. Dna is and how you'd like to expand to new customer segments. We can talk about how to go about serving multiple customer segments at the same time. So i'll start with product and then moved to go to market on the product side. As i mentioned before it start by understanding the jobs to be done for your new segments or the new customer base that you're looking to tap into and so here's some questions that you might ask. What does this new segment need. What needs to change about your product experience in order to serve this larger customer or this new industry. And then once you've thought about that and really create intentionally targeting so now you can determine what are the adjacent markets that you can feasibly sell to or built for. Ideally you're able to sell to the broadest addressable market with the least amount of additional development work. That's the ideal right. Mr dream for all of us but if you wanna make them go big just just do it with with the full knowledge of what your new segments deeply care about without reinventing the wheel so spe- then we we move onto go to market. So i is is really like the why and the what. And then it's the how so on the go to market front. I'd ongoing really basics here. But i wanna make this as broad as possible for you all in this audience. So how. I approach go to market is is for any new segment a new country that we enter any industry vertical fundamentally boys down to three simple questions. One is who are your customers to is. What do they care about and three is. How're you gonna reach that. Have you reached that. So the who. The first question should be nuanced. It's not like we serve large businesses. That's not a good enough who it is. Who is.
Mueller, She Wrote
"grech" Discussed on Mueller, She Wrote
"Mental suffering an injury to his reputation noon as you do not need another person for all that and we have an update on the two year long plus battle between trump and ritchie. Neil the house ways and means committee over his taxes so This week I think this happened since the last time. More she wrote came out the office of legal counsel at department of justice. Garland's office illegal council. I know doesn't belong to him. It belongs to the people. But you know what i mean. This particular department of justice issued a memo saying the treasury department has to handle trump taxes to the house ways and means committee. We we read the law. It says you shall hand over the taxes so you shall hand over the taxes. Were no longer fighting. This in court on behalf of trump like the last department of justice was right and so that that was news and then we heard inklings than trump was gonna fight. He had until wednesday to file and he did ronald fischetti. Trump's lawyers said in a statement. There's no evidence of any wrongdoing here. Nobody accused him of wrongdoing. The whole premise besides handing over these behind handing over taxes is so that ritchie neil in the house ways and means committee can review the effectiveness of the automatic presidential tax audit program. Right that's it. They aren't going to release them to the public. They've told the courts they won't aren't going after crimes but trump slayer. There's no evidence wrongdoing here will me thinks thou doth protest too much. I object to the release of all the returns not only on behalf of my client but may have all future holders of the office of the president united states. Not trump is the only one of the only presence in the last fifty years to not release his returns. Other candidates will presumably follow the precedent set by those with nothing to hide. Right fischetti also called the opinion from the department of justice absolutely ridiculous. The opinion of the law that says the shall furnish the taxes. They didn't even need a legislative reason but regina gave him one. We're going to fight this tooth and nail okay. Best of luck. They're going to lose. Trump filed in court tuesday. The requests are tailored to and in practical operation will affect only president trump. The request doubt that is first of all that's untrue. Let's just break this down. So this is what this is what they're filing. The request are tailored to an impractical. Operation will affect only president trump. Not true they are assessing the effectiveness of the presidential tax audit program based on what they find in trump's taxes and what made it through that audit program and if there were any federal crimes committed the the that will impact every single a future presidential tax audit and presidential tax audit program. So it's not only president trump to go on the requests single out president trump because he's a republican and a political opponent. No that isn't the case again. They're not single. Singling trump out quote. They were made to retaliate against the president Because it was policy. Positions political believes is protected speech including the positions. He took during twenty sixteen in twenty twenty campaigns no retaliation this is a determining and studying the effectiveness of a program it would be hard to assess the presidential tax audit program without reviewing the president's taxes. Trump's lawyers disagree with richie neal's reasons saying that's not why he wants taxes. He wants them for political purposes without providing any evidence to saying it thing. Is this request filed with trevor. You we you and i. We've talked about trevor mcfadden. He's a trump appointee. But we've always got the appellate court and on bank. I don't know how surpreme court will rule but the laws pretty clear next up from ryan barbara insider. He writes an article called trump. world is being tormented by this tiny legal office that no one's ever heard of unquote first of all. I'd like to congratulate all of you. Who are listening to this. Who are not only familiar with this tiny legal office and know what it's called though you know ryan. Barbara's no one's ever heard of it. You have not only have you heard of it but you can probably tell us who runs it or at least who did up until recently and what that person used to do. The tiny legal offices called the fair unit and the department of justice foreign agents registration act. I'll give you a moment to yell into the universe who runs that office and where they came from if you yelled brendan van. Grech from muller's team congratulations and lulls to. Who who whoever may have heard you scream out. That name for no reason but van grant went bye. Bye listen let me quote from this article. When brandon van left the justice department in january stepping down from atop role policing four influence his government colleagues sent him off with a curious going away. Present a pink cat pinata before becoming a gag gift. The panetta sat in the office is a mascot of sorts for the justice department unit tasked with enforcing a decades-old federal law requiring the disclosure of foreign lobbying. It was a tongue in cheek. Tone them a nod to what the unit saw as the unfair notion that it took a lax approach to enforcing faira until the special counsel robert mueller's team returned the pre world war two law to prominence with high profile prosecutions of paul manafort and other mega acolytes since parting ways with paper. Mouche party prop. The ferry unit has only continued to shed its reputation as a feeble and flimsy justice department backwater more. Broadly the justice department has in recent months escalated. Its enforcement efforts. Most notably with investigations and prosecutions of prominent trump world figures suspected of monitoring their access to trump administration to the trump administration by working illegally for foreign governments and other overseas powers quote the justice department and farah unit. Haven't skipped a beat in the last six months if anything. They've continued the historic ramp up affair enforcement. That's van graph speaking again. Who served in mueller special counsel office before becoming the fair unit chief in two thousand nineteen jennifer galley a federal prosecutor with experience in espionage replaced. Van back in january as the chief of the fair unit jennifer van back now a partner at the law firm morrison and foerster told insider that the justice department approach to foreign influence head featured a little bit of everything quote. There are prominent criminal cases. Moving forward significant criminal cases being charged an unprecedented resources and personnel being dedicated to it. Yes from all directions. Fair is being enforced like never before. Yes the justice department. Scrutiny of foreign influence has bedevilled trump associates in the face of criminal prosecution. They've admitted to lobbying for foreign interests. Without disclosing their activities as federal law requires and that criminal investigations. Brad says have captivated the nation in april federal agents raided the manhattan home. Rudy giuliani escalating. An investigation that is focused in part on whether the former new york city mayor and trump lawyer illegally lobby the trump administration on behalf of ukrainian interests. Oh and probably venezuelan to oh and hawk bank issues. Giuliani recently called the investigation. Wallis said that he was more than willing to go jail if they wanna put me in jail good and if they do they're going to suffer the consequences in heaven. Yeah no that's not how having works in july. Prosecutors accused tom barrack chairman of trump's inaugural committee of secretly acting as agent of the uae. Then they talk about brady. They talk about flynn. They didn't mention gregory craig. The one democrat who was charged but then those charges got thrown out. They didn't mention bijon kion but of note. They mentioned why faira came about in the first place quote in the decades before the russian investigation. The justice department had brought only about a half a dozen pharaoh prosecutions which prompted the department's inspector general to criticize the enforcement record in two thousand sixteen report. Then came the mueller investigation which found significant foreign interference in the two thousand sixteen election. Faira an eighty year old statute originally enacted to combat nazi propaganda suddenly transformed from a wet noodle to a bull whip. Manafort plead guilty to fair related charges tied to his unregister. Lobbying for the russia backed government of ukraine only to be later pardoned by trump in the waning weeks of his presidency.
Brothers of the Serpent Podcast
"grech" Discussed on Brothers of the Serpent Podcast
"One hundred thirty. Oh wow for small community Will run six thousand people on reserve and you also served in the in the us military. Grech yeah i did. Six years active duty into the marine corps and and i did a five years into new york army national guard song. Thank you very service. Yeah well served in one is in the marines. I was in desert storm right very. The war was already over by the time we got. The funding was already over. We're just there in case it went again but actually on my way there we just did a an operation iwo jima. I'm heading down to our first a protocol which is going to be hong kong and just before we got there. Mount pinatubo erupted so we had to go down to calling and we pulled into. Subic bay The day after tube. Oh you're up to and we had to evacuate and it was. I think the one considered one of the largest evacuations that we did. But i got to see the ashes among the distance. And everything else like that. So that was interesting and then we ended up going to the persian gulf after that. So what was the full like. Give us the what was the full extent of the of the confederacy. When it was at its largest life farther south farthest north Pretty much around upstate. New york is where we were but we had a lot of influence. Because we would records of us doing rate as far south as carolina's under turkey's so and i read somewhere as well. One of the big influences on all the other tribes in north america really happened because we were under. I want to to meet the french. And the british as they came came into north america with the sellers so we were wondering i wants to get firearms and once we got that we pushed everybody basically westward from there so some some tribes are. I think like could be wrong on this one by believe. It's the apaches were normally associated with the desert..
CATS Roundtable
"grech" Discussed on CATS Roundtable
"Good morning new york. This is the cash able turn cats matija here. What's going on in new york is new york opening up well. One of the smartest guys i know is tom. Tom is the president and ceo. Means chamber of commerce represents thousands of businesses. How'd you sa- thousands of employees knows businesses the morning time gresh. How are you this morning. Good morning john. Hope you're well. Thanks so much for having me on the program today all is well. Give us an update. Winner-take-all we in opening a citibank will. I'm really happy to to know that the The election for the for the mayor and for The borough presidents and lots of the city council races are behind us I'm excited about the prospect of a mayor elect Eric adams and now he's gonna be going toe to toe against Curtis lihua but At the end of the day heaven knows we need somebody. Business savvy to charge. I liked both of them. Because i think that both the law and order. And i think that's the most important thing you know city right now john. I think you're right. I think safety has to be a primary primary goal. But i'll tell you something interesting. You know how much i love stats. i was in manhattan recently. I had a nice tour of the new javid center. The extensions of the javid center with the folks over there Having a conversation about potentially having a smaller size convention center much smaller in queens county. I was happy to learn that the calendar is quickly filling up for the end of twenty twenty one and part part of twenty two when it comes to conventions and conferences so on at the javits and it's important to note too that thirty six percent of our two point three million residents that work outside of queens county. So i'm a big believer in a rising tide lifts all boats. We wanna make sure that new york city all five boroughs are running all five cylinders to make sure the economy comes back or restaurants are broadway shows or bowed acres. You name it. We need them to come back in a big big way understood. I understood we all love me off and we want new york to make a big comeback and a lot of concerns. I've talked to the governor. Even governor has concerns about the socialists trying to invade our city council speaking to one of our city council immunity one of our common sense city councilman democratic consummate. And he said that like only four out of sixteen one in the Party socialist party. That's correct there was there was a small increase in those folks that one but listen at the end of the day myself and the queen's chamber of commerce are very very proud capitalists. Someday we're a capitalist with a capital c and some days it's a small see. No system is perfect. But we kind of feel like this is one of the more Enduring systems that we have in place. And i think one of the things that the new mayor does whoever it might be and the city council no matter their political background or aspirations is have a fair balance recovery for all people but get people back to work right now. We're having a huge problem. Getting people back to work because a lot of folks depending upon the federal subsidy On a weekly basis to prevent them from coming. Back to work i have. I have a perspective that folks have a moral obligation not only to themselves to their these businesses. But the fellow tax payers in america to go back to work if you can go back if it's safe if you're vaccinated and businesses back up and running by all means go back to work and and help get the economy going back in full force. I agree with you. One hundred ten percent Let me ask you a question. Do we have to worry about your new Your borough president greens. No i think i think President donovan richards is a fair minded. Sharp young man. There's a lot of things we have to do to get the economy going. You know the queen's chamber form to queens tech council the ring. Tech companies back to queens. Let him know that. We're it's a great place to do business. He's been instrumental in that. It helped get off the ground. We also have He's not attack. That's gonna be an amazon type of business right now. i think i think donald is don. Richards is very very much a pro business where he also wants to balance it would fairness like i think every every pragmatic person wants to do. But we did a groundbreaking. We can half ago in the shadow of city field for the eleven hundred a a lower income units at willets point he was there doing the groundbreaking i was there. The mayor was there. It's time to build back new york. And i think a guy like borough president donovan richards with his background in southeast queens. He's a he's a good guy for the position. That of very very important time. I look we want commonsense in new york city and and i. I've said it many times on my radio station and my radio show that People don't have common sense and in my books not weapon you know. I just don't like them. We want america the way you grew up. Absolutely we got so much going for not only in the city of new york but of course in particular in queens I think my son to the met game last week and i was. I was watching the game. I counted every three or four minutes. A plane took off from laguardia. We're so happy. To have steve cohen in there as new owner of the mets. This man is a visionary guy he wants to help grow the area he wants to help. Give back to the community. He's already demonstrated that giving out millions and millions of dollars for the small businesses at queen's county. We were lucky enough to help. I'll give money. But we're doing on wednesday In the minor league team. The steve cohen owns and in coney island. My wife is throwing out the pitch next wednesday. Oh that's terrific terrific. I also want to end with this john. You know you on me by allowing me to be on the board of the police athletic league the pal and just want you to know just this week. We connected the queens borough president's office and their staff to the folks at the pal down in southeast queens. So we're looking to have some good stuff happened down there. Make sure the kids down. There have good after school programs. Get the guns off the street and make all of all of new york city but especially little neck of the woods and southeast queens. A great place to live work and play. So i i was i welcome You're helping the inner cities and espen my prior. I already thirty seven years with the bob wilton absolutely so. I'm happy to be on that. Pal board we're gonna be doing some great things. I'm joining a very very important board. I'm humbled and honored to be on that board. But i'm hitting the ground running and trying to get some stuff going for the for the kids to queens and the pal along with the queens borough president of queens borough president. Our elections will slot near future. He'll be there. i promise. This is the cats roundtable. We'll be right back..
Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
"grech" Discussed on Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
"What was really happening. You know what. I'm saying like you're not doing it in full context but the one thing i will say that Skied he's really chirpy right. Now he is and some of the chirping. He's he's chirping is inaccurate chirps. So while it's okay to seeing 'cause you certainly earned the right to seeing You need to be singing onto because what you said about bron in two thousand sixteen when he a championship without any help. That ain't cool man that ain't and more importantly in eight right literate and i love scotty. Okay i love scotty. I love scotty. But you're look and we don't. We haven't been huge advocates of kyrie this season or previous seasons ball to hell. Did he had a huge shot and particularly in that was series. Shot game seven. If don't ball out right heyman. Lebron had forty points together. Forty one. but i'm saying forty points. Yeah yeah so. I i would disagree with that. I push back on that too. I want more. Greg get to the calls all right l. z. Disneyland paris has opened. Its new hotel hotel. New york the art of marvel. The hotel will completely immerse you in the marvel universe as soon as you walk in the door underrated. I man product rated sammy which game we plan. Underrated overrated underrated underrated. Even the underrate is not too highly rated. What's under under subterranean rated. Yes there you go thank you just means. That sounds awesome. And that's gonna make a lot of money good because you know what the hell you know. Whatever the parent company needs. Let's go i. What speaking one more greg Got one of your bad ones though right. It's like it's a real one right like you had to prepare ahead of time. Yes sir no sir. Lots of game of thrones news. Recently george are martin is in year ten of trying to finish the sixth book in the series but he does say that he was disappointed with the ending of the show and his ending is going to be in his ending in. The book is going to be different. Is martin coming out. Two years later to say this. After the show ended overrated or underrated. While you waited two years to tell you you were married. And that was underrated. I'm going to say this is underrated too. Yeah i'm going to say overrated like you know. Speak up when you get a chance. That's clearly i gotta stick to my parameters for the conversation. So that is overrated underrated. Let's get to the phones so we asked earlier. We we still move on this conversation yesterday. Where greg didn't tell me he was married for two years So and then it's stumbled into this conversation of if you know your friends. Marriage is doomed for is doomed. Do you tell them or do you mind your own. Business byron isn't torrance. what's up byron can. Are you doing this. This happened between me and my dad years ago. there's a housing. Would i think it's called the ivy house so you get married guy. Because he in the banker. What happened was my dad walked into the shed which happens to be the room where all the groom state is. I'd like to talk to my son. They left he said. Why are you marrying this woman on dad. Now mind you. It's one of those fathers that when you ask you a question he stays there and listen to you. I start telling you know. She's got a nice body. She can cook. She couldn't bed. He starts to walk away from the opens the door back to where the crowd is at and i asked him. Where are you going. He said out loud asked me. Why marriage your mother. And i said why 'cause i loved her and that's the first thing that came out of your mouth. Your marriage is doomed. Everybody in wedding procession heard it except for the a because they were back in the house where hadn't come down yet. And i had to call them make up about three years later until he was right. Wow wow look down what my question is. Why didn't he ask you when you announced that you were getting married. Why wait to the day of because he got he was. My mom told me that he was upset that i never went to him. I for guidance or whatever. He's been waiting for that moment. Basically i think so yeah. He is a g. As gangsta move never call him back up to tell him that he was right. Of course. of course. It ain't easy way to two years greg i see. Let's go to jason downey. Jason what do you got. But i gotta address bernard. but he doesn't speak honus pairs. He got married before. Because i two weeks from getting married and if i feel my mother got married without her dealer only voice she would kill me but i agree with you. Gloria sodano you. Just if it's not gonna work. You gotta tom because your you said your friends got married in eighteen doug on in eighteen months they could have had a kid in eighteen and it just would have been one big right. That's the one fear he's just you know especially once the kids involved. Then it's like you just never know what's going to happen so you definitely got some question. Are you still there. Okay all right. Here's my first but why wait before the wedding. Why wait to tell them just before the wedding you're saying no when they fall in love with my. Why won't you step away before then. I'm assuming it wasn't a shotgun bam. We got mad at the meeting. So that the weaker early. I'm assuming they were together for months if not years. Why not say something earlier. I think you've gotta town 'cause like i told my boys and my friends that are girls like i'm thinking i'm gonna propose have the ring and you got nothing but love somewhere to tell me that like man. I'm thinking about popping the question. That's what brings the pay. That's when you do like sedona do great time. I mean personally like paid for by them but that was months it was turns out at least two months. You know it so. I wanted to do it in person and he was living in the bahamas. So unless you want me to fly to the bahamas crazy cell phone bill to so you're back. I thank you buddy i. We'll keep them coming robert. I know mike is. There's a bunch of people on hold eight seven seven ten. Espn will keep that going. Plus coming up next. Greg did something that was super accurate yesterday. But also something that led to his own misery and it wasn't this conversation about weddings. It's about sports. We'll get to that coming out. Today's anniversary prints released the purple rain album thirty seven years ago today. The why are we playing this song because this was not on the album exactly. Yeah so here's my question for you george Purple rain was the sixth studio album by prince right which means he had five before. Which was the best album before purple rain. Versi you got dirty mind. Got nineteen ninety nine. Okay so i would say sign of the times is number one right after this after this after those after so before nineteen ninety nine. Okay dirty mind thirty mine. Look at you freak under your freak. Now you finally finally got it out of you took a while. It's a few years but now it's out around the world today. That was after that was eighty five. You're right on my bed. Prince the prince one. That was the original. No prince was. I right prints right. The original prints Trying to think. I've got three there around the world. The dirty. my favorite one is warning. You said he was nineteen ninety nine. Nine yeah yeah. yeah yeah. that's not a bad one. Yeah but i. The times is really my favorite one but nineteen ninety nine of its pre pro bowl of his preparation. Yeah i'm. I'm a big fan of controversy. Really well if that's shouldn't be shocking. Actually nabi talking. But it was like it was so funky unapologetically funky like every track. You've just like undis- funk in your face actually that's a great name for an album right there funk in your face your face who were. Who was that that like it in the face grech. That was sleep. Sleep with love. Okay wait is that dropping news yet. Do we have a need that in my life we do need that new line. I'd actually actually forgot the context. George know who don't need it but he was simply sleep the face you want the context..
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"So that's what i started to do in your to is i just. I focused on marketing. My course and less teaching lots of fun courses. It felt good. But didn't bring me money. And i was able to result to increase my revenue. Not the double. But fifty percent solely by reducing the number of products. I was selling doubling down on the one that was most profitable and doing a better job of marketing. It so that was year to right year. Three was about covid and cova did forced me to do something that i was planning on before his up. Until that point. Had been doing in person classes and i had a roadmap planned out for converting this to an online course but what basically was planning on doing over six months i did in three weeks as a result of cohen. Because we were out of business with we really ending academy so so we pivoted or i mean another way to say it is. I accelerated a pivot. I was planning and we went from selling locally here in south florida to globally. And now we've had more than twenty different countries including africa asia You know we've had folks ghana in taiwan and new zealand. It's kind of an extraordinary journey pakistan with a two pakistani students. London six countries in latin america. So so we've gone international By teaching online. And so all last year Your three of the business was about pivoting to online In response to market conditions and beginning to scale the company nationally and internationally and then year four which is what i'm in now has been all about a so. We doubled revenue in year three so year. One two we went fifty percent increase by focusing on our core product. And just doing a better job of selling that than year. Three we took that core product online. And we're able to double revenue and now you're four brought on to new team members so we doubled in size is a team. I have a new head of operations and right now we are basically positioning ourselves to scale. We have kind of a proven product. A proven methodology the building system. And what we're looking to do is now take this and spread it to the four winds and it's a little bit of a freaky moment right now for me as a business owner. Because i'm i'm actually My net revenue might my net. Income is is in the in the red. Because i'm investing in building a scalable platform but i know i really believe that once these investments because plateau than grow once these investments have been made in in scaling this We're going to see rapid growth in our in our in our revenue so that's year for israeli plateau grow and then your five year. Six is rapid scaling. Well i think. I mean from what i've seen you know working with us. You're very laser focused And anytime. I see an entrepreneur who's laser focused. It's like whether there's a lack of funds everyone wants more funds whether it's from investors were from cash positive cash flow right. But what i'm seeing is. And i tell this to a lot of entrepreneurs who i- i mentor you. You need good people around you. And so what i've seen. Kind of tying in the coaches the quality of the people that are around you in the program are very high quality. And there's a cost for that. And so i made those mistakes early on. I think i've shared it with you before where In two thousand eleven when i launched predict. Let's just get somebody's in here and then three four years later i still had my. My tina had grown to forty people. And i looked back in more than half of them. Were no longer fit. What do you do you. Just walk in and fire everybody. No you can't do that so you got what i did was i. Pose the question to everyone. Do you wanna learn more and grow..
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"I don't want you know. Finish the podcast without asking. You a couple questions about your entrepreneurship journey because in this podcast with the listeners. There's yes we're talking. Marketing lead gen trying to pass on the best recommendations out there for businesses dry but the entrepreneur in every one of us is. I always learn from entrepreneurs right so my question for you as it pertains to entrepreneurship is like what is in your journey over the last seven or eight years here as an entrepreneur and we can say that we're all entrepreneurs and have always been i suppose right because we're creative were and whatnot but for you like. What's if you were talking to a new entrepreneur young entrepreneur starting out. What advice would you give them. All right and i know that's loaded huge question. It's a big question. I think where. I'll start is i'm gonna talk about by entrepreneurial journey from starting my business to today which is roughly four years and i like to think of it in one year tranches like it doesn't kind of neatly fit Folds into an of year one year two year three so year one was just getting some revenue in the door. Kinda proving out that there really was a model here. I have been teaching a course at my college and while working full-time so it's kind of like a like a side gig. And i was just getting encouraged by cohort. Four and five by my students to say they're like god. This is amazing. You should really don't just do this for someone else. Start you know making your own business. And so You know i launched biz hack And started teaching courses in independent course immediately tripled the cost and could get a single sale and so i actually discovered my price by overcharging and then working backwards and i remember i did all this analysis and it was like twenty eight.
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"Your irresistible offer. You need a video videos of an accurate or the web. Video is what moves people. Video is white. People look at on mobile and whenever you have an option between a still image and video you gotta use video even in emails. You can have a click to video Screengrabbed then clicks to video. That will improve your results. Then compelling messaging is. The video itself is often six to twelve seconds. It's really short. It needs surrounding text. That helps contextualize. It and motivates people to watch the video and the click the call to action by which is the last step in the process which is tiller sixes the call to action which kicks them to the next step in their customer journey. And you can see. It's a circle right. The call to action leads after the. Let's say let's say it's a facebook ad clicking to a landing page. The call to action is to click to go to the landing page and then the landing page needs to have solid six pillars. What the objective of the landing page to get them to fill out the form. Who's the target audience. It's that same customer. What's the irresistible offer. How what is the video to explain it in the compelling texts once they fill out the form. What's the next step in the process. It's an email most likely an email nurture campaign so what's the campaign objective of the email nurture campaign in each email in that campaign. So it's a it's a six pillar process that's interactive set on a solid foundation of your core purpose in your why that is the biz hackley building system. That's what we teach people in our course. That's what the nine step process systematically implements for a facebook ad and that's really the methodology we've developed now..
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"And you know Andrea you know who is Overseas a a series of pilates studios was able to dramatically increase all of the key metrics of her pilates studio by using the tactics techniques. In the what we call the Lee building system that we teach. And there's nothing more powerful than getting a business owner to be coached by another business owner. Who had success so Many of our coaches are not professional marketers but actually business owners themselves and the the class is it goes pretty fast means almost like this whole new concept of like agile marketing that i'm been hearing about for a couple years now. these sprints and whatnot and when i looked the way we're doing it i had done a lot of these courses that are like weekend boot camps Two three days maybe a couple of weeks. But you're spreading a ton of information really good information and doing the learning by doing rights. They're running the campaigns and all of that over the course of ten ten classes at right. Yeah right so what's the feedback like from business owners. Dan is it. Gosh this is really going to fast. 'cause twice a week. They're in class that they're doing the labs they're doing the coaching. They have assignments. It feels like a ton of work for a business owner. So how does that differ from being a business owner. Who's doing operations and then being a marketer. Yeah so it's it's twelve classes over seven weeks moving forward and what we've done. Is we segment the learnings into a nine step process and we walk them very systematically through those nine steps and the it is a lot of work but it is the minimum amount of work that they need to do to successfully run a marketing campaign or actually to marketing campaigns because we do a awareness ad followed up by lee janette in our average participant. Actually in the course of those seven weeks is running more than two ads on average. So what we're showing. Them is all the thought that needs to go into running a single campaign versus random acts of marketing versus throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks and we prefer to work with business owners even though the really short on time because we've found that business owners who engage in their own marketing tend to get the best results are average participant in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty at twenty nine to one return on investment within three months of completing the course so twenty nine dollars in.
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"Way of getting you to the specific insights that you need in order to be able to market your business so we start out with course material classes that give you the eighty percent baseline that no matter what business you are b to b b to c b two g. These are basic marketing principles. You need to know then we say okay now go apply this to your business in a real life campaign go run a facebook ad for your campaign for your business and then we have group labs where we workshop and that gets us like ten percent more that last ten percent that last mile and has to be done one on one. So that's the big insight is that you cannot personalise. These realized campaigns without doing one on one coaching. Because everybody's specific issues are different. Whatever hurdles or mental blocks or challenges they need to be done in a one on one setting And so that was the key. Insight is a re. I really believe that our coaches get such high marks because they're designed to solve the hardest problems that last ten percent that last mile right there like the mail delivery guy right. you know. They're they're they're getting they're taking it home for you and so emotionally you're like oh my god you saved me you help me get that last mile. But honestly we took that ninety percent of the way there and they just lead them by hand over the finish line so emotionally. That's part of the reason. But the other thing is i mean i'll just be a little immodest here i'm so passionate about this. I treat my people really well. We have incredible core values as a company. And i just attract amazing talent and these are people who we hand pick and the number one thing we look for is a history of volunteerism. I wanna make sure that these are people who are dedicated to serving others ahead of themselves. And so ricardo one of our amazing coaches. He sings in his church choir and he. Volunteers for organizations cheryl. Another one of our amazing coaches Founded the south florida integrated marketing association local association. Alex occur value one of our former instructors. He has been a major contributor to the south florida social media ecosystem for two decades. You alex you know who. I recruited a handpicked frankly to be lead instructor Have a long history of giving back and teaching classes and god knows you don't do it for the money. So every single one of our instructors. I inform us cleaned for a history of volunteerism number too. Many of them have gone through the program itself in their graduates alumni of the program and so they are believers in our system. Is they apply the in their own small business and it worked so yoel. Mosquito joe franchise owner Was able to Get a thirty times return on investment on the ads that he ran while in the course nathan who runs a pest control franchise in las vegas increased his residential sales by twenty five percent year-over-year because of these techniques..
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"But you've created your own sort of college university level in your teaching businesses. So is that something that you're going to continue to do dan or are you thinking that you get back to the face to face because i know of universities are dealing with this challenge. Right now to yeah. We believe that we've created in a space. It's very crowded. Pretty unique offering. And when i talk about what are our three unique biz. Hack it's content where we take difficult concepts and make them simpler amazing coaches who are working professionals who are everyday spending millions of dollars in these platforms and then can give you kind of up to the minute. Real life earned experience shares and then a community of other similar folks who are equally dedicated to growing their business and we really believed that this combination of cutting edge content top level coaching and really powerful community of business owners is unique. Talk about two coaches dan. 'cause i i know the other three are everything is great. But the coach in my opinion just looking at it from an outsider. I in an insider and hearing from your participants to students what i keep hearing is that that is aside from the lead instructors. Being they're teaching them week in week out. Great curriculum is good. And you're right. It's been simplified for business owners to learn it and run with it. But what i keep hearing from a lot of these guys the coaches and so. I don't think that it's just a coach. Because by the way i've done that in my business in the past where we did corporate training and higher right contractors to come in in coach and i never got it to the point where i got that kind of feedback that hey alex. Your coaches are so amazing. What i would here is like. Yeah the coaches are okay. But we really like working with you or petro or whoever else is on our team. And what i've heard as far as feedback from the participants this semester is that they're just raving about all the coaches. So we're talk to us about how you came up with that strategy of using coaches. Yeah there's a lot to unpack there obviously. let me start by saying one other thing which is the key to our methodology is a learn by doing methodology where you actually run through a real life campaign and what we found when we started because adults only learned by doing it all the study say and frankly seven years of doing this have shown me if you explain marketing someone remember ten percent of what you said no matter how entertaining and how good you are explaining it but if you force them to actually implemented for their business though retain ninety percent and that's when the life transformation happens is when they you know imbibed ninety percent of the information they need now every business is unique and his marketed specifically to its business needs and what we developed is a very cost effective.
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"I'll just quickly say is the first part of my life in career felt disconnected from the more recent part. The journalism felt very disconnected from the marketing. But it's only really in the last year or so that i realized that they all combine into this one beautiful package which is simple storytelling which is making complex topics simpler and i realized that god. I have been doing that for my entire adult life. Whether was as a journalist covering complex you know market issues for marketplace and trying to explain them in forty five seconds or now it's trying to explain re targeting in language of human being can understand. That's my superpower. That's my gift. And that's the impact. I wanna make in the world. If you as a small business understand how to market. You've unlocked the potential to do something bigger to grow your business to create the life for you and your family that you wanted and boy am. I charged up by about the idea of making the simpler for folks. Because i know for me it was hard as hell the learn it. Yeah and i've and i've heard that so often from business owners. They have the desire to learn like they would accounting. Hr sales all the different pillars within the business but digital marketing is really difficult one because if you think about it the the browsers devices the algorithms all those chain all those things are changing and evolving every day. I always say when people ask me about seal say look. Here's the thing about us know. There are thousands of engineers as we speak working on changing that algorithm. Plus the ai. Right so how could i know. Exactly what the secret is. All i can do is educate myself test test test and learn so i think that is the challenge for small businesses. But i know from working with you on your program that there is part of that journalists in you where you're trying to uncover things and be accurate that lends itself to creating such beautiful program with biz. Can you talk about that. Yeah so i mean. One thing that i think you really picked up on his that The integrity of the information is really important to me and also not being beholden to moneyed interests. One of the things the frankly drives me nuts about marketers is that they're willing to present. What looks like you know unbiased. Information really in the service is just selling themselves. And i think that this is Problematic when you're in the education space like you really want to be able to trust that your the company you're working with is working for you not for someone else and not telling you telling you but still you know my favorite example..
Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"grech" Discussed on Dadpreneur - Business & Digital Marketing Talk
"Dan helps businesses and marketers. Elevate their digital marketing game in a multitude of ways. And we're going to talk about that today. And i've been working with dan for a while now and i can tell you that he is not only an amazing inspiring leader but he's also very meticulous about his work. He beats himself up because he's a perfectionist. But i'm telling you when you get to know. Dan and the work that he's doing with biz hack. You'll understand well. Dan introduce yourself to our listeners. Tell us about dan what you're doing these days. How you started absolutely well you know. My name is dan. Gretch and i started my career as journalists in fact Some of you who are longtime. Npr listeners might remember this line. I'm dan gretch for marketplace. And i used to say that. I said that. Eight hundred fifty one times over five years as a foreign correspondent for marketplace worked with p. b. s. harold washington post and Really fashioned myself a journalist in storyteller. I even got a master's degree in storytelling. When in in twenty thirteen suddenly unexpectedly lost my job and had to reinvent and decided to reinvent myself as business storyteller and i realized that business storytelling is Is really another way of saying marketing. And so i said okay marketing. That's what i wanted to learn and You know arrogant guy that i was. I'm like. I'm a smart guy. I went to princeton. Got a fulbright scholarship. I was part of a pulitzer prize at two masters degrees. How hard can marketing day. You know i. It'll take me a few searches on youtube in a couple weeks of effort. Now figure it out and well long story short is here. I am eight years later. I'm still on that. Learning journey still learning about how to be better business storyteller One of the things. That i've been dedicating myself to doing We can talk about. Why if you're interested is is teaching others how to learn how to market their business themselves online In a simpler way. Yeah no that's perfect and that was my the segue to the next question is how did you get into the education side. Because i love that story about your mom. Yeah well it turns out that. I come from a long line of coaches and teachers. A father's side of the family are all coaches and instructors my great great. My grandfather was the head coach of several teams in laliga. Which is the spanish soccer league. And he was so well known in spain that when people walk past him in the street they would tip their hat at him That was sort of the old fashioned way of acknowledging. My grandfather. And i remember seeing that as a kid growing up visiting him. There and seeing people treated with such a celebrity. My sister's now soccer coach mike. Dad was my soccer coach. And my aunt and uncle started a the top gymnastics academy and saw in all of spain and so sort of sports..
Popcorn with Peter Travers
An Interview With Nicholas Braun of HBO's "Succession"
"Peter travers is this is popcorn where i tell you what is popping in the culture and h._b._o. Has a show called succession which i love. I love every minute of it. I'd even seen the i five episodes of season two how you know things and my guest today nicholas braun place cousin greg makes him a fan favorite and one of the great things about succession. That's rare and television is that season two is better than season one. It's even more decadent than delicious a what do to you. Nick thank you so. Our work is done here all right. That's it. Well yeah thank you well. Let's start by saying the poor benighted souls that had had yet to watch it. They need to know cousin. Greg is yeah yeah yeah. Is this dude cousin greg so the shows about a very very wealthy family billionaire family the movie studios news networks newspapers and amusement parks cruises and cousin greg greg comes in luckily at the right time when the patriots of the family is giving his company to his next to the two one of his children altern and the other kids. Maybe want the job too but this kid kendall's gotten in the pilot. He's gotten chosen and greg comes in. He was working working in the amusement parks. He got a little bit too high. One day ended up throwing throwing up a publicly through his mascot costume through the eye. Holes has one you you know one of those bad trips <hes> we'd can do that. You know he hasn't seen the family and a while and he comes in and <hes> something about him. Strike slogan gene is appealing logan's play by brian cox the hidden in the headman turning eighty and at the end of the pilot everyone's thrown into flux and for whatever reason greg is still in the mix and so i guess that my my arc is sort of finding out. Can i stay in here get in deeper than she does because i think it's great that he can play dumb really well yeah. Is he playing window. You know well. No i mean there's calculation like no tomorrow to do that. So i was gonna say. Why did whoever said we. We want nick braun to play cousin greg. Was it about you that made them say. Nick must play cousin grech. What was that audition like. I got to use my nerves in the in the in the room with adam mckay and i got to be sort of. I got to transfer my nerves about out this thing wrong. This big audition into what greg is i think he's nervous in a room but i think he's also ambitious highly ambitious and and so the audition it was like i don't know i was i kind of let whatever comes out of greg's mouth whatever wants to come out and hung out an an atom gave me permission to and and so it was a lot of writers think that they should. They like <hes> improv going on. They do that then that's heaven to do that. Yeah they do like it. I do get recognized now as cousin greg. Are you walking around the city or and people say there. He is because we look at it. They love him yeah but nobody is really marley a model for anybody on this whole show. I don't know anybody anybody that you aren't suspicious too but yeah yeah do they come up and say cousin grad. They do yeah they shout cousin greg the show greg deeg so yeah i gotta the law. You're going to get the whole thing. You know. You're going to get the company you know. I think it should happen. I wonder if they even know 'cause you just been renewed for season season three. We have indeed yeah. Congratulations thank you. That's kinda great yeah. I've never been a part of some kind of is the new game of thrones just with people wearing suits and you know dragging insulator slogan. They're they're dragging unconcern. That's what kind of show is happening. It looks like everybody's having a fun time. Are they definitely yeah because it's a lot of improv. It's you know it's it's a lot of different personalities in a room <hes> different styles of acting. You know you're you're curious. Got one style and jeremy's army's got another and and brian is always ferocious in a room and every scene i get to do with matthew is just pleasure right yeah. I hear so you know there's a whole thing online that there should be a spin off with tom and greg yeah yeah. It's too premature. You know we still have now. Come out of romance left to well well. There's a lot of people think in the future. All the time. It's t big area is working. It can work again. Spend it all do that. Let's let's look at a clip from succession so that those people who have been because they'll look at it and they'll say i'm watching. What's it over. You can all watch it you okay. What's
Science Magazine Podcast
A wave of graduate programs drops the GRE application requirement
"Now we have Katie Lincoln a staff writer at science. She's been trying to quantify the perception, that graduate programs have begun the great Greg's, sit or the GRE exodus. Hi, katie. Hi. Okay. Just a background question here. Did you take the GRE? I did take the Jerry way back in two thousand and five. I took the GRE end went through the process of studying for this standardized test to get into grad school me, too. Took the general or was it? The biology one. I just took the general test me, too. If you know, people in the sciences, these days, oh, you've probably heard at least anecdotally that grad schools aren't really asking for the GRE as much anymore. But that's kind of been a, you know, something, a school will announce or people start talking about about. How did you go about finding out that this was more than, you know, a case here or there, how that was more than anecdote? Yes, there's been this chatter on Twitter in particular, that the so-called Brexit movement has been gaining steam in number of programs have been announcing that they've dropped the GRE, but I was really curious to quantify how many programs have actually dropped it. And how that differs between scientific disciplines. And so what I did is I sampled peachy programs at fifty of the top ranked research, universities in the US, and looked at whether they required, the General Jerry tests in eight different disciplines, so molecular biology, neuroscience ecology. Chemistry computer science psychology physics, and geology. And when you say top ranked where those rankings come from bay came from the times, higher education ranking system. Okay. When you looked at all these schools at all these different disciplines, did you were you able to say? Yeah. Something's happening here. The GRE is starting to go away in a big way. Yes. So is interesting going into this. I knew that there had been a shift in recent years, but I didn't realize how dramatic it had been and what I found is that if I had collected these data just a few years ago, the vast majority of peachy programs would have required that year general test, but the changes been really dramatic in the life sciences, in particular. So in two thousand eighteen forty four percent of molecular biology. Peachy program stopped requiring joss force end just the year before one hundred percent of programs. At least. In my sample require the jury that is a big change. And, and you saw some decrease across the board. Yes. So Euroscience in college about a third of programs, did not require General Jerry scores in two thousand eighteen and a lot of them are actually going to move to not require the jury to nine. So these numbers are on the rise for sure. In two thousand nineteen. Yeah. Were there any of these categories that we're not doing this? When I looked at chemistry computer science psychology physics, geology more than ninety percent of programs required the Jiri, but in a number of those disciplines, there does seem to be a movement as well. So so chemistry, they're supposed to drop the GRE geology, actually hundred percent of programs in two thousand eighteen that I survey require the jury, but there are a couple of programs already this year, that have announced that they're gonna drop the Jerry. And so there seems. To movement in those areas as well. It just seems to be a little bit slower or not as dramatic as what I found in the life sciences, while, I'm not gonna make a Brexit, joke because I don't really understand what is happening there. But what, what do we know about why these institutions are stopping requiring Jerry? Do you talk to people, and ask them what, what was the main driver of this? Yes, they're number of different reasons. One, one reason, is that a number of studies have come out in the last few years questioning whether GRE scores are predictive of success in grad school. So admissions officers look at the jury scores and a lot of people think that they are indicative of someone's in the intelligence their ability to succeed. But when you actually look at the data in a number of programs studies found that they aren't predictive of things like the number of for southern publications Umbro, fellowships, students, receive their time in grad school, whether they graduate, some of them have. Found that the jury scores are predictive of for semester grades but for for research base PHD programs. I think a lot of people view that as not a particularly important thing to predict. Yup. Another reason is that especially in the current climate of wanting to increase diversity in science. There's concern that the use of the GRE actually disadvantages underrepresented groups. So women and underrepresented racial ethnic minorities tend to score lower on the jury end. It's kind of expensive tests for a lot of people that puts people from lower socio economic backgrounds at a disadvantage. So the test costs to engine five dollars, it costs extra money. If you want to retake it to up your scores in. That's a fairly common thing on for grad school applicants to take the test multiple times to get a better score. It also costs money to travel to take the test, and it costs extra money to suppress. Jiri score so you can take off multiple times. And then suppress the scores that you don't want schools to see for an undergraduate student, who's may be working one or two side jobs to pay for their education. It can be a financial burden to pay for this test, but it also can be a time burden so they have to spend a lot of time studying in some cases, people who have the means to do. So actually pay upwards of thousand dollars or more for GRE prep. Course and so it really advantages people who have the time in the money to study in pay for this test. The sounds like there's a few categories of reasons that the universities are thinking about dropping the GRE as requirement, but let's talk about the testing company that runs this test. What do they say to the fact that the studies are saying, you know, this isn't correlating with things that departments, particularly care about in might be a barrier? What, what is there? Argument for continuing use of this test from their perspective. The juries are another piece of data and they're a rare, part of that -plication is actually standardized across applicants. They also say that, you know, the other parts of application, reference letters, educational background. They're also subject to bias. And so, you know, it's hard to drop the Jiri think that there is, no bias remaining in the admissions procedures in so, so they argue that it's another piece of information, it shouldn't be used to make emissions decisions alone. But it should be part part of the package. They also take issue with some of the recent studies. So one of the drawbacks of these recent study says that they're looking at admitted students than for the most part of students have fairly Hijiri scores to begin once in the students who have lower Jiri, scores probably really stand out in other parts of their application. So maybe they just. Had a bad day that day they happen to get a low Jerry scored. They didn't quite steady enough. And so what they say is that we really don't have the best experimental design in the studies, and that they're not really designed to find a correlation between Jerry scores in these measures of success in grad school in so ideally, what you would have is basically study that randomly admit students across the range of Jerry scores. And then look at success in grad school, it's hard. It's hard to imagine a study like that ever happening. So the testing company feels that they provide enough of a service that institutions should continue to use this, but it does look like the trend in the science and the sciences that they're saying there's not enough science there for this to be a test that we use. And it also seems to create a barrier. So if this test is dropped more broadly, do you think it'll change not only who's accepted, but also who applies to graduate school? Yeah. That's. Great question. So they're actually some people looking at this right now and looking to take advantage of the so-called Grech set movement. Some researchers at the university of Minnesota sent out a survey last month to biomedical peach programs that have dropped the Jiri also ones that have maintained the requirements and what they're interested in trying to figure out whether dropping the Jerry requirement will diversify applicant pool. And there's some argument that, that might be the case some students might do poorly on the Jerry. Maybe they can't afford to retake tests, and their teary scores in so they just decided not to apply to grad school. Others might not be able to Ford the tests to begin with. What about the idea of making the GRE optional, so not making a requirement but adding it as an extra data point to your application. They're proponents of that. And so one reason that might be a good thing is because there can be some difficulty for applicant. Aunts that come from less well-known schools, or maybe had some sort of disadvantage in their past that hinder application, who could benefit from having Hijiri scores, so can help them get noticed in application process. And so, so people say, well, you should give them the option of submitting their cheery score through other people who I spoke to who think that's not a very good idea. Because basically, when you give applicants option of submitting, Jerry scores, they actually look at that and think that, that is a requirement in one person. I spoke to said that in his experience, working with underrepresented minorities, they in particular see that as a requirement because they bet that's the only way they can really compete with other applicants, as if they have a strong. Jiri scored another drawback is that faculty members may look at applicants who don't cement, Jerry scores in a bad light. They might be biased against them. Because the applicants who do summit, Jerry scores. More likely than not have Hijiri scores. Right. And so it could lead to a question in the faculty members mind, even if it's not conscious even if it's at an unconscious level that could be thinking what about the student who didn't Smith? Jerry scores is it because their scores were very strong.