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The Dan Bongino Show
Isabel Bongino: Fundraising for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
"It's crazy to think and I know I've told you this story is your dad a lot that I brought you home and used to throw you up in the air at one hand and you used to love it and I used to carry you with the onesie like a kitten carries or cats by the nape and used to love it and now you're a big kid and I wonder where all the time went But you and I and primarily you You've been raising money for the last two years for the leukemia and lymphoma society I had lymphoma and as you can attest to to the audience is about when someone in your family has cancer you all have to live with it right Yeah Keep them down Two thumbs Oh you gave it two thumbs down too So that's now four I just want that on the record Jim on Yelp four thumbs down for cancer So you would agree with the assertion that cancer probably sucks right It's probably not a good thing You're not cool with that Okay good Good Thank you to the audience last year for helping me to raise so much money and it was used to help LLS with research and aid in co pay assistance for patients and urgent need programs and help with transportation costs And this year we are trying to expand on the children's initiative that dare to dream project so raising money just really means so much to me because I started participating in this program to honor my dad And his battle with cancer really changed all of our lives And we're so fortunate today that you are cancer free but there's so many people out there who are still battling leukemia and lymphoma and I just want to be able to do my part to help them
The Dan Bongino Show
Isabel Bongino: Fundraising for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
"But you and I and primarily you you've been raising money for the last two years for the leukemia and lymphoma society I had lymphoma and as you can attest to to the audience Isabelle When someone in your family has cancer you all have to live with it right Yeah Two thumbs down Two thumbs down You gave it two thumbs down too So that's now four I just want that on the record Jim on Yelp four thumbs down for cancer So you would agree with the assertion that cancer probably sucks right It's probably not a good thing You're not cool with that Okay good Good Thank you to the audience last year for helping me to raise so much money and it was used to help LLS with research and aid in co pay assistance for patients and urgent need programs and help with transportation costs And this year we are trying to expand on the children's initiative that dare to dream project so raising money just really means so much to me because I started participating in this program to honor my dad And his battle with cancer really changed all of our lives And we're so fortunate today that you are cancer free but there's so many people out there who are still battling leukemia and lymphoma and I just want to be able to do my part to help them
The Dan Bongino Show
FBI Almost Deployed Controversial Pegasus Spyware
"So a little inside baseball So I had to record this show to speak because it was a lot going on okay So I recorded it from a parking lot at the Patriots and a big truck in the back Well maybe a smaller truck You would never know of You go back and watch the show You'd be like man that looks like a really big studio It's kind of small but the show was good It was one of the best I think I've done I really love that I know sell price things I wasn't me it was the guests okay It's more praise than a guest than anything else But Kyle was on the FBI agent And I had spoken to him before he came on the air Obviously I asked him to come on the show and I wanted to talk to him about Pegasus What is Pegasus Pegasus is a no click spyware programmer If you don't know what Pegasus is you don't well better look it up It is a malware program It's spyware program where you've been told a lot Don't click on stuff Well what if not clicking what if the click didn't matter In other words what if I just send you a link and whether you open it or not is irrelevant I still own your phone after that and have hacked into it That's possible Yes it's possible So supposedly the FBI was taken a Gander taking a quick look see at this Pegasus program for potentially using it within the United States That sounds very dangerous to me Call me crazy but I don't like that idea That's a big no for me Two thumbs down on Yelp on that idea That's a stupid one So I said to Kyle he used to work at the FBI and knows a lot and he's a real patriot I said hey daddy oh you want to come on my show I need you to talk about this Pegasus thing But because I had so much going on at the patriot awards I worked from four in the morning till two 30 at night Well four to one one to one 30 was an after party We'll have to cover that with Paula on a non family friendly show
Entrepreneur on FIRE
"yelp" Discussed on Entrepreneur on FIRE
"Yourself that extra hour or two and you have a fresh start to your day, it's fine to work a little later or especially if you have the actions, the activities going on towards the end of the day. I've had great success getting up when I feel like my clock is ready. And a lot of people might not agree with that. Well, fire nation today we're talking about circles, the social recommendations app designed to take out Yelp. And I want to talk about the moment, John, the you knew you had to create circles. Take us there. Yeah, it goes back a few years ago. My good friend and business partner in a company that started in California came in with this idea, why is there not a place where I can get recommendations from people I know? Why do I have to go on Yelp or read online reviews? I trust my Friends. And we all trust each other. I trust their recommendations. And as he's describing this to me, I'm like, oh, it makes a lot of sense. Why is there not a place like that? We have a really tight circle. Maybe we should start something. Let's call it circles. He's like, that's a great idea. And so that was where the idea got born. And of course, we've been in small business for a while now. We have several locations now started from nothing just the two of us, but with our 12 locations. Over a hundred employees, we've had to deal with Yelp and online reviews and we have not had a good experience. So it just really solidified that there should be a much better alternative. Well, one thing that I love about your app when I was doing some deep diving into it is that you specifically engineered this app to avoid negativity and to promote positive interactions. Let's get specific. How have you accomplished this? Because we decided this should be strictly recommendations from people you know. We don't need reviews. These are people you trust. If you ask me for a risk recommendation for a really good restaurant, you're not asking me how many stars it is. So we're not giving reviews. There's no need for getting into all that. So there's nothing negative. It's just recommendations. So the way we built it is you simply favorite the places you go to and you enjoy every day. You don't have to type in anything the app tracks you if you allow the.
AP News Radio
Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter in Daunte Wright's death
"A a suburban suburban Minneapolis Minneapolis police police officer officer was was convicted convicted of of two two counts counts of of manslaughter manslaughter in in the the death death of of Dante Dante right right Kim Kim potter potter said said she she confused confused her her hand hand gun gun for for her her taser taser as as an an officer officer tried tried to to handcuff handcuff right right during during a a traffic traffic stop stop rights rights mother mother Katie Katie says says she she let let out out a a yelp yelp when when she she heard heard the the verdict verdict we we want want to to thank thank the the community community support support everybody everybody who's who's been been out out there there that that has has supported supported us us in in this this this this long long fight fight for for accountability accountability outside outside the the court court room room he he was was in in jubilant jubilant celebration celebration some some hill hill yellow yellow signs signs that that said said guilty guilty in in large large block block letters letters Minnesota Minnesota Attorney Attorney General General Keith Keith Ellison Ellison says says to to law law enforcement enforcement this this conviction conviction does does not not diminish diminish them them it it shows shows the the whole whole world world that that those those of of you you who who enforce enforce the the law law are are also also willing willing to to live live by by it it prosecutors prosecutors say say potter potter faces faces about about seven seven years years in in prison prison but but they they will will ask ask for for a a longer longer term term I'm I'm a a Donahue Donahue
The Skinny Confidential Him And Her Podcast
"yelp" Discussed on The Skinny Confidential Him And Her Podcast
"Making bank yelp was was crushing it and now it just it just got to a really weird sticky place. Where hey you know. Can you pay to remove posts and that's words and now we're in this like weird gray area that yelp is taking advantage of where you know. If there's a bad review you know just pay us..
Shop Vocal - Small Business Stories
"yelp" Discussed on Shop Vocal - Small Business Stories
"Welcome to the shop. Vocal blog cast this one's entitled my yelp business directory experience before the yelp business directory. Angie's list and the yellow pages they were city directories they listed mundane things such as postage street. Layouts sunrise and sunset. They even listed oddities such as if a woman was widowed. In new york city city directories were published between seventeen eighty six and nineteen thirty. Four with the rise of telephone directories. These became obsolete then came the internet and the yellow pages went away as a customer or a small business owner. You have to decide which solution will meet your needs. Of course i'm biased. But shaab vocal will provide a better option for both the customer and small business owner. I ran a test recently with the yelp business directory. by signing up shop vogel overall. The process wasn't bad. But what i didn't expect was the outcome. My yelp experience august eighteen one. I cracked open my laptop and got ready to get shop vocal on yelp to. I could not find our business. Directory voice technology. And i wasn't allowed to add it. Guess we are in professional services. Maybe we're absorbing three. I use the location on my laptop which put me in medford which is wrong. I did however notice it in time to change it. Four sign in with a social log. In why wouldn't i use my business email. I roll five. Confirmation email went into my notification folder. More i roll six after confirmation. Yelp try to sell me three hundred dollars worth of ads Shop focal hasn't been approved. But you may want my money right now seven then i got another offer for reputation management at fifty percent off. If i act now seriously i had to act in five minutes with discounted pricing from sixty dollars. Down to thirty per month as this an infomercial. No thanks we can wait eight. Finally i get set up on my yell. Page yay nine. I got asked about what we're doing right now. Virtual consultations and cova precautions cool. Those things are important ten at hours in fifteen minute increments interesting. I'll make a note of that. Eleven add more categories section. It didn't help me. The first time is none of these categories work for our company. So why is it going to work this time. Twelve mobile business app excellent. Let me download that now. Thirteen danielle said. I wasn't finished. What what's missing. It was hard to tell. Supposedly my code stuff said it wasn't complete. It was seamless services. Offered it was. I don't know maybe. I'll get a confirmation email saying i can update these fourteen mobile app more ads seriously. The businesses in verified. And you're trying to sell me more stuff fifteen then. Our photo looked horrible with weird compression of png file. I added a new picture that works but could only delete the image from the app that was in very clear sixteen and then i could remove competitor ads for five dollars a day. Okay little shady. The small business community doesn't shy away from the competition. I've rarely heard a small business owner. Put down a fellow owner. Why because they know it's hard work also a good business owner will refer you if they don't have the bandwidth or product in stock. Seventeen then. I can adamant he's through the app odd. Why not on the website eighteen. You can mark the business as closed. That's helpful but can i remove it from the yelp business directory entirely. I couldn't tell nineteen. We could also add our logo for one dollar a day. Great wait what three hundred sixty five dollars to. Add our logo to our yell page. No thanks i'll add it as a photo instead. Hack achieved twenty. And then i waited to get approved and waited and waited more days twenty one but i got a few emails trying to up some in some cool features sweet. It must be approved. Nope couldn't find shop vocal on yelp. What gives on august twenty third. Remember i started this journey on august. Eighteenth i received another email saying that. I should update my yell pige. Well that's annoying shop. Vocal cannot be on yelp yet. I am still in their email system. So i made another call and i asked about removing us from the yelp business directory. They couldn't it's forever part of their. Crm they own the data true. It won't be visible. But i didn't particularly appreciate that. I could not remove shop. Vocal from the database at shaw vocal. If you contact.
Entrepreneur on FIRE
Building Systems and Processes to Scale Your Business with Chris Ronzio
"So if you want a playbook for your business then. This is the episode for you. I know we've had a couple of other episodes talking about training and different elements of the playbook. But we're going to do right now. Is breakdown why you want to write one of these. Whether you're ready to write one of these how you can get started how you can leave your team in. It'll be a lot of fun so let's get started all right first part is. Are you ready for this. We talked about in past episode. That an entrepreneur has to be at a certain stage before. They're really ready to start delegating in their business. They have to have some consistency some maturity to their business on day one. You're really not ready to delegate because you don't know how to do anything you're still experimenting you're still figuring it out we talked about. I think on a pastime that we chatted my framework do it documented delegate delegated because in a business you do things. I you learn to do things and you keep doing them over. And over until you refine it until you get it right and once you're doing something consistently that's when you're ready to document it to write it down and to delegate it to share it with someone else so my gut check for everyone coming into this episode is. Please make sure you're doing things consistently you've done it the same way at least a few times. Because i don't want you to write everything down to create this playbook and then a couple of weeks from now a couple of months from now you're like all of that is irrelevant. I do at totally different. Now you'll feel like you wasted your time so please be in a place where at least doing things consistently all right so next step is you need to understand why you're going about doing this for your business. So in in some businesses you may deal with bad yelp reviews. You may have turnover issues. You may be working a hundred hours a week and it's just totally unsustainable and so your y may be correcting some of those things may be just formalizing. How do we do it here so that we don't have to deal with those bad yelp reviews so that every service we offer is the best service is the best version of what we do here. Maybe it's something more positive. Maybe why you on a playbook is that you want to expand you wanna open more locations you want to really grow your business around the world and and that's a great reason to or maybe you're just about to hire a ton of people. Maybe it's a seasonal business and you've got this busy part of the year that you're coming up to and you're just trying to put the building blocks in place but everyone should have a why for doing this because if you don't have a why then you won't have motivation for you and for your team to get involved
Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
"What's lick a tip. You can give somebody if they're looking to get into sex work. Find someone that is like similar to the niche that you want to start in and pay them money to talk to you you know and there's so many different kinds of sex work which is about fats ex-workers workers there are whole whole whole whole lot of fat sex workers doing online content. Doing cam work And they're doing a great job and that experience is really different than fat sex worker who sees clients in person like offense stripper. Which why aren't there more of those or fat escort so there's whole different kinds of sex work decide. What kind do you want to get in to find. Somebody asks give them some money. Ask some questions because in any other profession for me to train someone on all of the skills and the knowledge that i have would cost money. You know like. I would hate to train someone and so i think that you know people a lotta times. People are like teach fana getting a sex work. and i'm like Just give me the money for it like you know. I have a lot of information on good at what i do. I've learned a lot of stuff. And i should be compensated for that whizzed. But caveat if you're starting sex work and your worried about like you want safety information. I will give out safety information every day of the week for free all the time and anybody worth their salt will do the same but if you want to talk to me about marketing and like how to start up only fans and like the real info on only fans because youtube videos that are bullshit about only fans that stuff. There's a fee there. I mean. I mean i really don't understand it only fads other than like you said if the account but then i'm like how do you get people to see it. Yeah there's a lot of marketing. A lot of yeah. It seems like a lot of work to market yourself as a lot of work. The parallels are very similar with like acting or comedy where it's like. How do you fucking get people to see you. How do you get people come your shows. How do you get an agent manager a little a lot of fucking work especially before you're like a big name you know like there's a lot of sites only fans has no or has like some internal search but not really versus places like many bids that like i can search through the bwi w. category But yeah i mean if you if you're not a big name sites don't wanna promote only vans as want to promote you if you're a sex worker period they like to pretend that sex workers exists on that platform and haven't built from nothing. Go wild because like the only reason i know about only fans is because of the sex workers. I have followed on. Instagram led me there. Yeah totally there's so many only fans ads. i got only add on instagram. And i was like if i type only fans on exer- on instagram. The scene how instagram has like the coverted alert box bubble yang so that artificial intelligence or whatever reads text on images and because it reads cove it puts the bubble that is now being used to read and if it sees only fans or even link in bio it flag that as spam or like adult content artificial algorithm is while. We're ruining our. Yeah so. I think there was a question there you answered. I don't know if i got to it but anyhow well we've come to the end. I ask all my guests this. Would you date me nicole. Buyer here's hot. take which is that in providence. A couple of years ago. I swiped right. I'm you ontario. And i'm sure lots of people swipe right on you. You didn't get to me and your time in providence. So yeah i probably would. I mean i honestly don't swipe out of town. Sometimes they there. Yeah lately. I've been trying to swipe before i had somewhere and It doesn't work out so you know she's back to giving ono. Yeah i mean. Yes i would date you or at least a cup with you thank you. That's what i liked to here. Yeah any time Do you have anything that you wanna plug. Yes so my only fans is incredible. I'm really good at that. You should watch me both my butthole I'm traveling a lot. Coming up this fall. I'll be in san francisco. September eighth through eleventh. i'll be minneapolis. September twenty third through twenty fifth. I'll be in detroit October seventh through ninth and la. October eighteenth through twenty first. she's traveling. I love it. Thank you if you like this episode of. Why won't you day me. You can like it. You can read it. You can subscribe Gimme five stars. If you write something nasty. I will read it. But this isn't something nasty. But this person said i was listening to why when jamie with war day and she was trying to And i was trinity which she said. And i saw you with a man. You're on a red carpet. He was wearing a burgundy suit with a navy. China pocket square. 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Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
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Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
"And money that instagram can like leach from your content. How nightmare what a hellish fucking nightmare. We're all fucking yes. It's alright. Let this fatty be kind of naked. Because i've had. Yeah it's like eliza. Liz oh shutout liz oh great. Oh can post all kinds of pictures like any long ass out titties out. Wearing pasties looks great. But like i do that. Shit am i. I mean this is. I'm on my third instagram. I think so. You know if i post a thong. I pretty much should say goodbye to my account. Like damn yeah and it happens to everybody mike. So many people across the board generally fat people or sex workers boy boy. Oh boy yeah. One of my favorite sex workers. Xm mary. she got her account deleted and she had like a backup and she was like. Please send me videos. And and i was like this sucks getting pretty decent following and i think it was like six hundred thousand or something and then it got deleted yep and it was like you have to start over again. People have to find you. Yeah it's really fucked up. Yeah it's awful and it you know it's back that's clammy what can you do. I don't know how do you like do you like other fat sex workers Not as much as i'd like to I could say i wonder. How many fat sex work full-service ex-workers there are. I'm sure there's a ton but not a lot not a lot or in my experience. Not a lot which you know. There are lots of people who don't use the internet for advertising or don't use social media and so because that is like a big part of my sex work experience that's who i see so there's probably a lot of people that i don't even know exists. Sorry for saying that. You don't existing us but i mean nine year fucking. It's not in your world. Yeah totally are you force. Sex work being legalized or decriminalized sex. Work should be decriminalized and not legalized. Why what is the difference. Oh my i've asked this before. But i don't know yeah i don't know it's worth hearing again and everybody is different answers but i think that sex work should be decriminalized because legalizing sex work gives the state control over my body. And what i do with it. And he criminalising sex work more just like makes my job safer and protects me a little bit more. Not that i think that the state always protects people asli but But it for you know for legal purposes. Decriminalization is a lot safer in his octuplets. Sex workers mark may see. Okay real quick. We gotta take a break. Do getting rips and tears in your tights do you wonder how in this day and age tights can be so. Disposable on reliable sheared tax. Set out to change tights forever by creating the world's most resilient tights your taxes the only hosiery company that uses the strongest fibers in the world tights of fiber that is traditionally using climbing and sailing equipment. The result is a pair of tights. You can actually rely on. Ultra durable rippin terrorism and extremely comfortable available. No variety of colors patterns and denise from ultra sheer two semi opaque inclusive size range. Extra small through three. Xl every pair of tights comes with his own miniature testing kit. So you can put the fabric through its paces as aggressively as you want. So i love sheer techs. I tried to rip them. I tried to scratch with rings and nails and they would not tear had a fun time doing it. I said i will rip these tights and they did not rip and guess what they're super comfortable..
Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
"I don't think it got knocked off the table like because of covad but it was about cash deposits People making cash deposits were going to be taxed on that cash deposit like you were just going to pay a fee and it was of the irs or something like that Which was going to be so sad to me. Yeah that's fully fucking insane truly truly insane but people you know i feel like sex. Workers are often times the guinea pigs for all bullshit. Because you know across the board you can have incredibly radical political thinkers and they will hate sex workers. You know. I've run into so many communists and socialists and anarchists that hate sex workers like me for any other worker but sex workers. So it's really easy to make us the guinea pig because by and large people don't give a shit about sex work. Yeah that fucking sucks and it's so weird and puritanical that it's just like i looked down on this person who has a profession that like i don't see as like viable or like good. Yeah put it. It's like what i just if it doesn't affect you. Why the fuck do you have an opinion about it. God only knows yeah. I don't like bananas. But i'm not mad at banana farmers. Yeah going around being like he's banana farmers are now. I don't fucking care about them. I'm just not gonna eat bananas like sex work then like go home and fuck your ugly wave kidding. I'm just kidding i just. I don't understand why people have any sort of a truly boggles and blows my mind. Also it's fucked up. Like comics will sell merchant stuff in you get cash so late when i was telling my merge before i was like i can't do this i had like the little card reader and and i would have like hundreds of i would have like a thousand dollars in cash on me that i would take to the bank and then like if you're going to tax me on that how truly well that's the thing is that it always comes out sideways and ends up fucking general people or even like fucking over sex workers and unexpected ways for example foster susta which was a law that trump signed into effect younger years ago. In this to me. Because i actually don't i've seen it a lot because they follow of sex workers on like instagram and stuff. But i don't fully understand it because you know your girl likes to skim shit. It's nice with someone tells me yet. Totally tell you. I definitely don't think that i am expert so i can tell you what i know and somebody out there might fact checked me on it and that's okay because i want to know when i'm wrong. It's tough but so far successor. The intention was to protect trafficking victims and side note so many people wanna talk about sex trafficked people. I don't deny that there are people who are sex trafficked. But i think that the number of trafficked victims are largely in agriculture or domestic. Work i don't think that the large number of traffic victims are sex trafficked victims And we miss that conversation so much we do. We don't we. Don't do right by those people by ignoring them anyways. So sesa foucault intended to protect sex trafficking victims and to stop trafficking so it made websites responsible four things that are on the website. So used to be will say. Tumbler at tumbler actually changed all of their policies. Based on esta. So you speak. Be post all kinds of wild porn on tumbler. It was a porn. I liked porn. Tumbler like nice pohan. That people put thought into hunt for that stuff usually So yeah used to be. Post anything on tumbler. It was incredible and now sesa foster was pretty much like well. You can't guarantee that those people aren't being trafficked so you're responsible for any content that goes up and we can prosecute you the website this porn information people. Okay whatever. I doing a really bad job at this but hey listen up making a little bit of sense to me. Yeah this is how. I don't know if you know about backpage. Yeah so back. Page used to be a an incredible ads platform so many like high class or like elite. Sex workers will be like i never used back paid and i'm like okay. Well sucks for you. Because i started and i have great clients from it and i'm like financially stable away of never been before so Have fun but back pages. Incredible sight foster sesa destroyed it because they were saying that back page was being used to traffic people. Were there people on backstage. Being exploited probably But the research that they have now since says alec a couple of years old the research they have now is that it is so much harder to find those people you know removing them from the internet. You can't see them anymore. Like pushing them even further into the dark where you don't know where they are. You can't get to them. You can't help them. As opposed to just having the website and monitoring it totally am being like. Oh this person looks like this situation looks kind of scary or whatever. Yeah totally and so now. And all those sex workers that are being being exploited on backpage is not good but they were probably working indoors And it seems that the research is showing now that sex workers who were able to work indoors because back page existed now. They are being pushed to the streets. Because there's nowhere online for them to get clients so now they're in even more dangerous situations where no one can find them. No one can help no one's monitoring and they're outside on the streets which is like so much more dangerous So in a nutshell. I guess a poorly in case nutshell. That is what fos assesses. It changed how websites are responsible for the content on them and that destroyed a lot of things and fucked up a lot of shit. That's why instagram has started cracking down on bodies period. Like fat bodies. Forget it even if you're not like a sex worker. If you're fat you have too much cleavage. You can't post on instagram. Like it'll get taken down we really. Oh yeah oh yeah. There's a whole there's a whole thing about this. A lot of people are trying to organize around it because a thin person will post a picture in a bikini fine. Instagram doesn't care but a fat person will do the exact same thing instagram. The like algorithm that reads the whatever. I don't know how it works will pick up that it's more skin and will flag that picture and the picture will get deleted and if it happens enough your count gets deleted. Do the algorithm like several naked people. I don't want it. Thinks he'd have to ask how wild. I don't think that hasn't happened to me yet. You waiting for it. It doesn't have so you have a really large account. Congrats uh-huh the contents incredible. It's a nice time video you really. I was like helio nicole. So because your account so large because lots of people watch your account that means that. There's more ad time.
Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
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Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
"Around. Yeah totally. I think that blood is like a really beautiful fluid which maybe tells you how weird i am weird. I think everybody has their own preferences just because something. That's not my preference. It's yours doesn't mean you're the weirdo amazon. Because i'm looking to be poked. Yet i mean. I'm not looking to be poked. either. I don't wanna be poked but i want to be the polk i see okay so we got needles. We got pizza cutter. What else then. you have. All kinds of impact implements like f- loggers and crops and whips canes and different kinds of things like that all of which give different sensations And then get a spectrum sensations on how you use them and wear you use them. I mean and then you can get into rope bondage bari chiffon should bari. Bari is traditional. Japanese rope bondage. Okay that i think is often watered down a whole lot. I don't i personally. Don't have a lot of experience in that particular skill habitat of information. But i think it is often really watered down in western media sam. And there's a whole lot more to it that we don't talk about. So all that. Seth rope act. Then there's just things you don't actually need tools for. It's just like a piece of mind. I think there's a lot you can do with like controlling people's senses you know and they see can they hear can i touch can smell. What are they tasting. You can control all of those things and it can really affect. Someone's experience of something and you can do those things without a whole lot of choice. Yeah get covert tastes smells maybe all these republicans are just into be sm. And they're like i want to again. Tasters kidding but that's so. Yeah that makes sense. Jill like yeah. I can't see anything that would have never really. I've never been blindfolded. And i don't know if they'd be into it. I feel like i would just be like wouldn't just not know how to stop giggling. I can't and i love to laugh during sex. I i mean i i am like a really imagine i laugh at nearly everything and so i love laughing at sex. I think sex is like a really funny thing that we do with our bodies and it's fun to do and sometimes people will be like. Why are you laughing. are you laughing at me. And i'm like no. I'm just like having a nice time You know it's fun. it's enjoyable. I'm like really. I like fuel out of joy connecting with people that way. So yeah i laugh as a result i mean i guess. They laughed too sometimes. Yeah it's been so long since i've had sex. Hell yeah it.
Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
"On who it is depends tend not i think when i was like newer to the industry i would tell people kind of willy nilly and i have stopped doing that. Because there's so much risk career And i i've gotten burned a couple of times people that i thought were friends so yeah i keep it. I usually like try to know a person a little more before. I give him the whole spiel fair. Like when you're dating or do you mean like just like friendship wise across the board. If somebody is like not already. I tend to most of my friends are sex workers this Or have been are retired. So if some if i don't know what somebody whether or not they've been in the industry. I keep it pretty under wraps until. I decide whether or not i can trust them. Pretty much That makes sense. I mean because people have preconceived notions and they're fucking judgmental like people are just. The general public is honestly very poorly behaved and bad want. Yeah they could use some manners a lot of the times. Have you ever dated anyone. Who had an issue with what you do. Not very okay. I mean honestly. That sounds great. Yeah it's really show. Yeah like truly like really. You've never dated a single person who is like by eight best. I'm jealous. I tend to date people that i already know. I don't usually like you know we're like already friends or have friends and commoner were like connected in this like wacky poly-amorous web of people. So i kind of already have an idea of what they're like. Though some people can surprise you and suddenly they're pissed that yours ex-worker worker but by and large i've talked to or dated or hooked up with an talked to later friends. Everybody's been very chill. What a dream. Yeah so do you like a combination of like out calls in in calls or is it only out calls like what what is what is the situation like i would say that it's my primarily in calls And i rent an apartment that i use for an calls. Yeah okay Yeah i mean. Oh inca alcohol. If you don't know listeners in called literally just means like in your house out call me and you're going out somewhere and then bb. W i didn't explain big beautiful woman. It is like a porn term. It's you know it's just a bigger woman on screen and we get pushed to one little category in in very rarely do you get to dip in the other ones. It is wild like fat woman in like the p. category. Yeah i could see two pretty good. You know not just having me. There is virtually sealed. Appear anywhere anywhere. You wanna piece of where. You'd be surprised that that. I have definitely gotten pee shy when requested for that in my early years now Now i have. Everything's so easy at this point but Jahmai early years. I got a couple of different times and had to be like well. Sorry can't perform right now. Have people tell you exactly what they want before the appointment or is it like you make an appointment and then once you get there. They're like this is what i'm into in. This is what i want. So i try to keep all of my like the all the talking beforehand camera. That is like emails text messages. All that stuff trying to keep it really g. rated primarily for safety i use encrypted texting and encrypted e-mail safety why does it keep why does keeping something g. rated factor into safety and on it. I think it's more for my peace of mind than it is. Actually i think in my head. It's like legal ramifications and like hara evidence like y- stuff like that though. I think if the vice squad wanted information they could find it regardless of how hard i try to keep it chill So it's probably more for my peace of mind than anything else also. I don't sexed for free. There are sometimes people will get really excited and they wanna like write me a whole novel about how they want our date to go and while i would love to do that and actually love sexting. It's one of my very favorite things. I don't do it for free. Because i'm incredibly talented at it. So i mean you could just give them an item in itemize as fifty dollars more depending on how long my belove more so yeah usually emails and everything really g. rated. It's like where we're gonna meet. You know i have other screening information like a lot of personal information about them usually and then when we get there i try to have like a little especially bit's gonna be like bedia samra fetish. I try to have like a more in depth discussion face to face about you know consent and boundaries and what they like they don't like it's really funny because a lot of people will be like i don't do anything to me and i'm like okay will be careful because i might pull out like a cactus spine or something better peaking epoch depending again. Yeah sometimes yeah do you do you be. Dsm how okay. So i'm not well versed in the bedia world. I mean what i know is like the basics we got our dominant we got our sub sub sometimes likes to be humiliated or you know put in pain or whatever and then there's a lot of like rubber and patent leather. I'm a mask or two. He'll step. I'm bitches like walk me through. I'm sure some listeners. Know but like i don't know it's it's a king that i don't think is like really explored beyond like bondage. Yeah totally yeah..
Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
"I think it's just because i liked truly i'm like titties out pussy on and i'm like does but i think a lot of bigger gals tend to be a little shy in the bedroom so then i think people like to be like. Oh it's okay the first big role i've been with. This is exciting for me so he pull do that when they're with you. I haven't had very many people say that to me. Actually which is pretty wacky. 'cause i i suspect that which i think. This is also a civilian civilians. Like non adult industry person I suspect that most civilians who are fat their experience is like being a secret Men don't want to like tell their friends they don't want to date you because they don't want people know they like fat people or whatever so i suspect that sometimes clients want to see me because there is nothing attached to it. You know which is none. Great thing you know. It's really fun and also maybe they're embarrassed by their attraction of fat people. So i suspect that's their reasoning their like purpose for seeing me but they don't usually say to me you the fakher. You're the girl i've ever seen. Okay yeah oh shit. What was i gonna say on not case the adhd brain cars and. Oh okay Do you have Like consistent clients. Yeah Yeah i have a couple of regulars that are there that are incredibly consistent and who are like i would call friends like good friends Yeah that's good. I like that you have like a friendship based relationship with these people because it makes it feel better not better but just like there's like another level to it. It's just someone that you're seeing consistently. Yeah i like that. This is the question that i wanted to ask. Boy boy is hard to be this person so i like skimmed in article. I can't read anything. fullest. I skimmed article about how women or people assigned female at birth ten to attach when they have sex. Whether it's a one night sanur anything and it takes time to like get over that attachment that has been created from the shit. That's released during sex. Do you find that sometimes even though you understand that it's an exchange of services do you find sometimes that you like attached to people I mean that was a good question. It's almost as if i. I don't know i guess not. Unlike not maybe not in the way. That article is saying attached. Like i mean. I really appreciate the beauty of sex work in like these relationships you know. Most of my clients come back. It's pretty. It's pretty wacky to me if i don't see them again But i don't know if i'm like i'm not like i want you to be my boyfriend. You know. I really like the like you know. We share this great experience. We have really nice time. We like joke and laugh and have great sex. And then you like continue on with your life you know. We're not like bound to each other because he had intercourse or something. I don't know it's like bound to each other. I think it's i think articles implying that sometimes i don't i think it's like a chemical that's released or whatever's in your body where you're like. Oh i feel like a little like oh wouldn't wouldn't it be nice if not like i need you to so you don't have any of that going on. I mean not really no. I don't like remand to cise. i don't well. I only dating people usually and lou want to be married And i am like a very poly-amorous person you know. i like. we'll hook up with people in my like everyday life and it can just be a hookup and then maybe we're friends or maybe we don't see each other again like maybe i took my home from the bar or whatever pre pandemic but Yeah i mean i will. I definitely develops feelings for people as our relationship. Grows you know like some people. I've been seeing for years like And i mean i just moved from providence island to philadelphia and i was. I like cried a couple of times because clients that i had had for years. I was not going to see them that often anymore. And like you know i. Do you know we learned things about each other and they remember that. I how i like my coffee in like sweet little things like that. Remember bring me a doughnut in the morning and things are really nice. You know they anyway. So i develop like sweep feelings for sure fair okay. sutri was telling me that when he engaged with the client all financial expenses. If they want to go out to dinner they wanna go to a movie. The anything may want falls on them. Same with you. Same okay cool. What's like the most glamorous date you've been on Most glamorous date. I've been on while i'm hoping that it will be coming up in san francisco but the most glamour state of ever been on probably was in boston. I can't even remember. Oh it might have been like the capital grill or something which is just a steak house but it was just really beautiful. Oh we went to dinner. We spent a lot of time together. We took a walk by the park. It was nice and the hotel room was beautiful. I had no idea if somebody had told me a couple of years ago that i'd be like a connoisseur of hotel rooms. He wouldn't none believed them. But i have so many opinions about hotels now. Yeah i mean it. Sounds i guess i'm almost. I almost feel a bad for not having more. Glamorous story i liked. They got a great pepper. Corns stake and the off off sauce yet. Seek ass when you're not like in la or new york. Yes your opinions on hotel rooms. I'm so caring okay. There's obviously a wide range of hotel rooms. I have stayed in almost all of them. I do not have super classes. Opinions about hotel rooms espec- auditor and kinds of people and like You know like. Do i see like incredibly wealthy people. Yes i see like working class folks. Yes like you know. It's like a really broad range and so qualifications for a good hotel room. I really think that some toiletries are better than others. i appreciate if there is a makeup remover. Wipe in there. There's a brand. That's like me me and go through something. Yeah it's like in my brain. But like i know what you're talking about but cannot earn the name again either but anyway enough And those are really great. Does it a couple of hotels love that. I appreciate really nice lighting a tub big enough for my fat bottom line. I mean i am. Classes with hotels knows it. I like a room to smell fucking good good. Toiletries like lotion. That doesn't feel fucking watery. Yeah like a good da- bath fucking gel doesn't how to like masculine. That's like a pretty like ambiguous. Smell like a comfy fucking bed and then i liked the beds that have like a block under it because when i have to look under the bed to make sure there's not like a dead body under there. There was a terrible word story about this room. That smell stinky. Finally one of the The oh my god. Cleaning people looked under the bed. And there's a rotting fucking body in nine. Something i want honestly i would rally hop on yelp if i founded body but ho-tai but guys is awarded i would be deeply probably wouldn't go to dole's anymore honestly. Just yarn me off a whole pink. I think so. I mean moving like fancy aesthetic beautiful aesthetic like beautiful like fixtures love fixture a beautiful lamp. You got a beautiful -sconsin love scott's i also love as well yeah. I secretly love theme hotels. Also which sometimes care really weird and gross but can also be incredibly cool. I've ever been to a theme hotel. If you're ever in new york good the grammercy park hotel one of the doorman there. I won't say his name. He wants it out there like that. But like i loved him. We became friends. We follow the instagram. It's been years he had a baby. I'm so happy for you. I love that hotel. The creepy so well out goodell guy good lady and mel and young and oh nice towels towels that don't feel scratchy like they're like really fluffy and nice. Ooh i also recently stayed in a hotel where there was a towel warmer in the math room. That place way to go. That's nice and open land to those. Yeah yes So you said earlier that you're more poly-amorous than monogamous right. That's one person manatt. yes mono monogamous. Do you tell. Oh yeah are you like. Do you tell people what you do. It depends it.
Why Won't You Date Me?
"yelp" Discussed on Why Won't You Date Me?
"Why would you -demia podcast remedial go bar tries to figure out how i'm still single even though you could tell me you packed my suitcase for a trip. And then we get there and open and it's filled with potatoes. Today is a pb w full-service sex worker contact creator. It's alexi stan. Hello nicole hi alexa. Thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for reaching out to may. Oh yeah totally. Thank you for having me. I'm incredibly flattered so you reached out. I feel like almost immediately. After i had troy on who is also well is a is an escort was also a sex worker who i found on the agony documentary. Oh my god what is it called. I think it's called sex for sale. Also it might not be called that. I'm a known liar who doesn't write anything down so alexa. How did you get into sex work. Wow so then. Sex work for like over five years at this point and well in a serious way been providing and i got into sex work because i wanted to be my own boss. I wanted to like make my own schedule. Have my own time. And i love meeting people and i like having sex and i'm incredibly charming. I mean i don't know what i thought the answer was gonna be like. Yes that sound like. Obviously the obvious. Fuck totally also. Do they ask you how you were or did i just ask like a question. You just question but it's okay. i'm good can i. Well i made no. i'm fine. i guess. I'm just like a little scatterbrains started a new job. So i'm like just a little long but you know that's just however all most of the time just a little scattered brambilla with doing a great job at it. I'm so okay. So yeah you're okay. Do you prefer bb. W or do you prefer fat. Like what are. What is the adjective. So i honestly prefer fat over anything else. But w is such like an adult industry word. Threes identifier that. I use that for everything. Because when men i mean sometimes when men like google type like fat escort they might tie Fat sex worker but usually they will use like porn words which vw is the porn identifier. So that's why. It's all my stuff. But i prefer fat. I also prefer fat. Steve harvey show and he was like years ago. He was the amazon with like to like a fat fitness lady and then plus size model and they were like fluffy plus size and us was like you call me fat. It'll give shit. Yeah i mean it doesn't define me. Only i walk around ono. She's looking at me. And i go bigger than oo movement. I don't care so how i mean. I don't wanna like sex work. Is you know kind of dangerous. So i don't wanna like holy give away like how you operate but like how do you go about getting clients. Is that an okay question. I'll let you know not perked up great great so there are lots of ads sites which i didn't know i had a lot of friends who were sex workers an end like the full sex work in full service sex industry before i got into it and i had no idea that that kind of there's just tons and tons and tons of websites for it so there's add sides with varying humanity. I would say okay. There's review boards. So there's like the yelp for escorts which is as awful as you could imagine it to be cooking why some of them are worse than others. I won't name names but people will know what i'm talking about. Wait that is so fucking wild. I cannot wrap my mind around someone hiring somebody for sex and then raiding in review and not only do they rate the experience they rate on a one to ten scale. What i look like what my titties are like one. The atmosphere of my place was like all that stuff like. I've had friends get really poor views because somebody was like oh. I thought my car was broken into while i was inside of just like why because you like saw black person on the street like what like third. It's yeah it's really bad. It's funny because specifically. I never leave a place and i'm like oh i need to get on that yelp review or like or whatever so it's just like to like leave sex an nba. Like who i'm steamed. I'm gonna get my car a piece of my mind. That's us special fucking type of person yet totally and it you know. I have had fine reviews. I've had. I've never had anyone to review me vindictively But people have that all the time. And it's really it's really upsetting. Because then people read that stuff and you know i feel like most people can be like okay. One bad review must have been his problem but not always unlike it there are rankings like people are ranked and it's bullard. It is wild wild type. It's really strange to like. I got into this like my own boston to like. Be in charge of how do things and then to still have. Men like be kind of in charge of like where i rank. I mean it truly fucking feels that most sex work. Yes you're your own boss. But it does feel like i mean if you are catering to men men filter your experience you stripping usually an owners a man i i mean usually there's man he's the one who's dictating. How much you pay into the club. How much you get to keep. Its like it's really make they get to choose the aesthetic of everything really. It's fucking wild. It's a it is interesting. I wish there was more female. You know or female identifying people who own clubs or whatever. I was talking to count hollis and she was talking about lake. Strippers owning their own clubs. And i was like yes. That's fucking race to be one in the pacific northwest. Yeah yeah in portland right. Yeah but it's no more. It's no more it hasn't been it's been gone for many years. I oh i see. Yeah so when. You are meeting with clientele so i don't really have this experience people hook up with where they're like. You're my first fatty. You're my first big girl or like west is wild..
WSJ What's News
"yelp" Discussed on WSJ What's News
"Now more than ever. It's important that we protect our hearts and the hearts of those we love monitor your blood pressure daily and each other stay motivated. Rally your squad to take the online pledge at release the pressure dot org brought to you by the release the pressure coalition and the ad council the debate over proof of vaccination is being discussed at workplaces on college campuses. And even where we go out to eat in early august the popular online site yelp added features allowing businesses to list their vaccine policies on their pages just like if they deliver or accept credit cards. Yet it's a change. that's thrusted. Yelp in the small businesses listed on its pages into the broader debate over vaccine requirements. There is much to discuss joining me from new york. Is my colleague charity scott. She covers online shopping. High charity. welcome thanks mark. Thanks for having me so charity. You've been talking to businesses across the country. How is this move being received. This is on. His are generally happy with the move by yup allowing them to clarify their vaccination policies before patrons get to the door the last thing any business owner wants to deal with is having to turn somebody away who's interested in giving them money so businesses are generally making lots of efforts to ensure that their potential patrons are well informed of their policies before they get to the door. The downside of this is that publicizing their policies is that it's really thrust some of these restaurants into the spotlight and made them a target for people who disagree with the concept of vaccine mandates or vaccine requirements to eat at a restaurant or patronize. Any business i spoke with katherine cole. Chick she's the of the olympic a cocktail bar and restaurant in san francisco. Her restaurant was one of the first businesses to require workers and patrons to be vaccinated against kobe. Nineteen when the business restarted indoor dining in june. We've had people just basically say that. We're we've had people threatened to coffer. Spit on us at the door. People have called and told me that they're going to get people to rally around getting my business shutdown. They're trying to get people to boycott coming in. They're saying that we're abolishing freedom. It's just it's it's a bunch of like nonsense basically charity. These angry words can carry a lot of weight. Yes and if you're a business owner who has gotten enough publicity. Whether through news or social media you can experience something called by yup a review bombing in which you get just a deluge of one star reviews from people who more than likely have never actually patronized your restaurant and those one-star reviews if yoke doesn't come back and clean them up can have real world consequences if they lower the businesses rating which has shown to lead to actually fewer cells. What is joke. Do about this. So yelp has a lot of futures that are trying to kind of combat these review bombing instances in the case of vaccination requirements specifically they are proactively monitoring the pages of any business that option to using the features and basically making sure that a human being is reviewing every review before it gets posted to the businesses page and do businesses feel. That's enough businesses are generally very happy with. Y'all yobs. Proactive moderation policy. They think that's really useful but on the other hand a lot of businesses would like to see more human moderation us across the site. More broadly now yelp says that they do use human moderation in combination with their recommendation engine and their algorithm but most of the small business owners. I spoke with either. Didn't have a clear understanding of how the things worked or felt like they didn't have a much of a way to appeal a decision to a real human being. They disagree with it here. Again is katharine. People are more inclined to leave negative reviews than positive reviews at this point. So that for me is my biggest. Gripe with yelp. That is a very one way street. You don't really hear a lot of the other side jerry. Yup is certainly not the only platform in this arena. Are others offering this type of information about vaccination yes so a lot of small businesses. These days have their own websites and restaurants have been pretty good about updating those first with the latest information regarding their vaccination policies the reservations app open table also created some new features giving small business owners away to notify users of their vaccination policies before they actually make a reservation using the platform..
WSJ What's News
House Passes $3.5T Biden Blueprint After Deal With Moderates
"On this vote on this vote. The as two hundred twenty the nays are two hundred twelve. The resolution is adopted. The house narrowly passed a measure approving a three point five trillion dollar budget blueprint. It also locked in late. September vote on a roughly one trillion dollar infrastructure bill and a standoff between centrist democrats and party leaders over their legislative agenda. Here's house speaker. Nancy pelosi nancy quiz. You know a budget should be state. A national budget should be a statement of our national values. What is important to us. As a nation should be reflected in our budget and this will be the case.
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
Businesses Are Reopening Across the U.S., Especially Where Vaccine Rates Are Higher
"It's pretty clear. The bigger businesses in this economy are doing alright. Earning season has been proof enough of that but consumers feeling good as we are and having cash as we do and being vaccinated as many but not enough of us are is especially good news for small and medium sized businesses. That got hammered last year and a lot of them are coming back. That's according to new data from yelp. The company reports the second quarter of the year april through june had the fastest paced of business reopening since last spring. Lead as you might imagine by restaurants and retailers with home improvement and auto repair not far behind then also as marketplace's mitchell hartman reports a record number of new businesses opening up something like fifteen to twenty percent of small businesses likely didn't survive the pandemic but those that did are reopening at a frenetic pace says justin norman head of data science at yelp over sixty thousand businesses reopened which is the highest volume reopenings in the last year. And yelp find something interesting about where the business buzz. Strongest distinct correlation between the vaccination rate and vaccination completion in an area and the number reopenings and consumer interest so more yelp searches and pictures and reviews of stores and restaurants in places like maine vermont. Connecticut. new york where there's less vaccination. There's less consumer interest so places like tennessee alabama mississippi but also some places in the west such as arizona. Vaccination rates are unfortunately low.
Inside Intercom Podcast
"yelp" Discussed on Inside Intercom Podcast
"So we talk a lot about customers centrists city how to bring that into your strategy how to implemented at the executive level all the way down. How have you worked to bring this. Customer centric mindset to the leadership team Yelp and You know as a means to drive the type of outcomes that you're looking for in your role So it's interesting. Yelp is a two sided marketplace. So we have to customers one customer for many years got a lot more of the attention from us internally and that is the consumer customer the actual folks who are going to. Y'all been saying feel like a great cup coffee nearby Door i need a plumber. Or whatever it might be and i would say We always have had a very strong. Dna internally of making sure that that customer need need is met with strong advocacy for that customer across the board. I would say we are making massive improvements in the last couple of years in really thinking through and prioritizing our other customer which is small business customer and these people that run those coffee shops or the plumbers that operate those businesses. And i think that internally. I've always been a pretty strong advocate for those customers in part. Because that's just the world i came up yelp. I've been talking to our customers since the day i started. And so you know there's lots of ways you can go about this. I think there's some really really cool structural ways to coach within a company. For example i e bay was always there with a lot of ex bears at yelp was always well respected for having what's called ebay live which is an annual or bi annual event. Where the top sellers would come in to h q. They would spotlight They were like movie stars internally. Be like oh my gosh caitlin p. You're the one. He sells all the reusable cups. In spoons we love you. We love your work. We love your the marketplace. You've created and so i think that some of those types of things we are starting a program called yelp voices which is very similar. So i think having these types of structural things that really celebrate. Your customer are really important. I also think a lot of beta feedback from our guest feedback on beta products from customers and having beta communities and a square has done a really nice job of that a And make sure you're getting really tight feedback loops. Having things like user research teams that actually go out and bring you statistical research and marketing survey data. those are really nice structure always to do it But i also think it's a internally about just championing your customer. I mean if you sit in their meeting with me and in in a conference room at our headquarters you'll definitely hear me use phrases repeatedly like based on my intuition of our customers. I think blah blah blah blah blah or If i can be an advocate for our small business customers in this conversation i would say blah blah blah blah blah. So just making sure people understand with these customers. Are i think in our case. The first part of our marketplace that i was talking about the consumer. Everybody can sympathize with that because everybody is consumer but not everybody is a small business owner and not. Everybody has spent a lot of time talking to our small business owners. So it's really important that you have advocates who are well respected who can go out and kind of spread the customer gospel as it were. It's great we had mike. Read board from hub spot on a previous podcast and he talked about making intentional decisions about the expensive things. You're going to continue to do. And i think some of these activities or actions is a great example of the the one or two places to continue to go big and perhaps be expensive to bring that customer voice. Yeah um we're to the forefront alright so katie going back to yelp and its journey over So many years you know the business expanded into new markets across the us and really had its sights on international domination and has since changed course so it'd be great to get your perspective on what drove that decision and why you'll ultimately decided to stop pursuing that yeah So we like many companies especially consumer internet companies had our sights set on international growth. I think for many companies. It's a great way to pretty immediately. Expand your tam. And that's always great For investors and shareholders and like most ambitious consumer internet companies. We absolutely wanted to fulfill big dreams of Being an international brand and still do so. We launched the user side so the actual just functionality of yelp and writing reviews inc as early as twenty ten was when we initially went to ireland and then the k. And then sure enough kind of every quarter or so. We're adding on new countries. Yelp today exists in believe it's fourteen countries and you can help in any of those countries in twenty twelve. We decided to open up a business operations and actually start monetize ing and some of those countries and then in twenty sixteen. We decided to pull back on. Monetize just pullback sales and marketing but we've kept the actual user site open and what led us to kind of halt investing in Some of those areas this very complicated. We've probably spent like To our podcast session talking about that and we can get jeremy in here. But if i were to kind of try to summarize it you know. I would start with accountability for some of the things that we didn't do quite right when we went international. The i was probably a pretty common refrain if you talk to most american companies who tried to go international. Which is we tried to fit. In american shaped peg into a european shaped hall we basically said we just translate the materials into italian and french and spanish and change to the british spelling and then convert from dollars two pounds dollars to euros and everybody go at it and turns out. It's a lot more complicated than that. A and you know. We did learn fairly quickly that that was happening. But i think we probably didn't course correct as quickly as we should have no. In addition to that we didn't have a lot of time to course correct in part because we had some headwinds long against us on the sort of macro level at the time. Our model for growth was extraordinarily reliant on google for seo distributions the users could find out about yelp and there were some pretty anticompetitive behaviour is taking place on google search algorithm for which the european trade commission has continued to keep an investigation. Open almost single-handedly due to some of the government outreach efforts that we've sort of mounted abroad and some of that actually has translated back to the us to reopening up the ftc. Investigation against google so What that means in sort of less jargonese terms is google is making it really hard for us to get our name in front of users and to get users to learn about yelp and because that was so much a part of our user acquisition model with that being inhibitory. It was really difficult with the top of funnel being kind of narrowed. So i often like to describe us as medium-tech you know yelp is a well-known name. But we do not print money the way that some of the big tech companies do were not facebook were not and so we oftentimes a get hurt just like the little guys in some of the anticompetitive behaviour and be have to really thoughtful about how we're spending our money in time so what. We decided after about four years or so in europe was to stay focused on. Us in terms of monetization marketing. All that kind of stuff in part you have the largest consumer economy in the world under a single language and a single currency. So why wouldn't you make.
Inside Intercom Podcast
"yelp" Discussed on Inside Intercom Podcast
"I sort of run the gamut. I've got sales customer. Success support revenue operations and sales training in able -ment so that is twelve years of career packed into. I don't know what was that three minutes. Well done yes well done. It's such an exciting journey and it's so interesting. Because in many ways it has these parallels to yelps explosive growth and going into these new markets which we will touch on As you kind of adventured into new markets Yourself along with that boyfriend now husband to refer to. As my ex-boyfriend was cookie is in fact my husband. Here you go perfect okay. Great well you know. I think it's interesting to dive into this sort of new business than over to customer success and back so let's dive in there so you know at yelp like many of our listeners. You are really responsible. For figuring out how to accelerate revenue and as mentioned you've moved from new business local and up over to existing and now back in this kinda head of local space alongside customer success so zooming out. It would be great ticket. Your take on really. The value that you see is added to accompany by a customer success. Team A great question. I would say at an incredibly high level like the highest of fifty thousand foot level people by relationships and they continue to buy relationships even in self service models There's a relationship that they're feeling with your product and so relationships with our customers are really kind of the gasoline. That can drive the corporate engine. I mean that's what brings feedback to our product team. That's what drives big decisions on road maps and how to plan for different customer segments all that type of stuff i would say on a on a really tactical when i think about it at yelp. I think the customer success team drives education to our customer base feedback from our customer base and product adoption and doesn't matter what form that comes in if somebody's calling in because they're really upset. They submitted ticket because they're frustrated or are experiencing a bug or something like that. You sort of do the same thing that A sales team would do or any customer facing employees would do which is listen. Understand what's happening with your customers. Educate your customers drive product adoption and then share feedback That's the same thing you do on an outbound call into a customer..
Inside Intercom Podcast
"yelp" Discussed on Inside Intercom Podcast
"Katie were delighted to have you as a guest here on inside entercom. Can you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself and your background indeed and thank you so much for having me. I am delighted to be here at intercom. So i'll take you way way back. I studied art. History at uc. Santa barbara and i pursued a master's degree abroad after graduating and got my master's degree in ancient european art. So i lived in london. I actually wrote my master's thesis on the fine and decorative arts of the burgundian. Duke's can imagine it's not a lot of transferable knowledge And i moved back to the bay area area where i grew up after finishing my degree and i sorta just didn't know what i wanted to do with my life. I knew that. I didn't want to work in the field of art history After taking a couple interviews and a couple different career opportunities in that space it seemed pretty evident to me that that was not going to be the right path. And i remember my mom. Who's a scientist said. Would about technology you grew up in this area and you could go get a job at one of these startups and so she actually has an excellent motivator. She sat down and said katie. You can live with dad and me as long as you want. Which is the perfect motivator to get me off the couch. white my ears and go put my Resume online and got a phone call from a recruiter who was recruiting for entry level sales positions. She sent me on the interview to yelp a walked in the door. And i thought oh. This looks like a youth hostel. There's a dog running around. People are casual open floor plan. This is back in two thousand seven. Yelp was probably about thirty or so people. And i decided i would take this sales job that i interviewed for a hands. I started as an entry level salesperson and is a pretty steep learning curve having to scientists for parents and then studying art history. There was a lot. I did not know around startups around being in business but i did see some early success and the company was growing and we had decided to open up a new york office so although i had only recently relocated back to the bay area. I decided i'm in my early twenties. Of course if the company asked me to move to new york i would definitely go. Lo and behold. The company asked me to move to new york Was about eight months in. And i called my Boyfriend and i said we got break up. I'm moving to new york. I would later marry that boyfriend. So in two thousand and eight. I moved into sales management. And we were doing some what i would call. Small scaling of the New york office at that point in time at yelp and in early two thousand ten. We took on a series. I think we'd take on about twenty five million dollars and we decided to go out and really scale up the business at that point. We learned that we could really scale revenues headcount and we decided we would open up an office in Phoenix arizona to do that. So i packed up from new york and again left that same boyfriend instead of moving to phoenix to go scale out yelp and i did just that i think in two thousand ten. We went from zero till about three hundred people in. I think ten months. So i would consider that sort of chapter of my career of just rapid scale and expanding figuring out play books and you know figuring out when technologies and systems break and towards the end of two thousand ten. I moved back to new york Because we decided we're gonna go ahead and scale or office there originally. We only opened up a small office in new york because we used to have a large part of our business that was a display advertising business and we realized that sales was actually going really well for our local sales playbook in new york so i moved back there to scale that business out so from twenty ten to two thousand. Fourteen did washrooms and repeat scaled up new york. You know new office space. All the things that anybody who's lived through rapid growth that has experienced and we went from about thirty people to about four hundred and fifty from twenty ten to twenty four team and around that time period. I was really looking for my next challenge having a lot of conversations with my boss at the time and he said hey we opened up this european business about two years ago and it's really struggling any desire to go figure that out now. I was married to that. Then boyfriend who. I kept moving away from Convinced him to move to europe with me. So after two years in europe my husband needed to move back to san francisco because he is a startup founder. He had finally kind of patched up and started baking out his next idea. So it was time to move back to san francisco and i knew at that point in my career. I really wanted to improve some of my operational and financial literacy. So i talked to my then. Boss about Maybe it was time to move on and pursue a different opportunity had been with the company a really long time but it turned out this opportunity to run our post sale organization. Customer success and customer experience emerged. And we're in this really interesting places of business where we were billing out about. Forty million dollars of monthly revenue. And that meant that. Ten basis points of churn was actually more important than ten percentage points of new revenue on the In sales so had a couple of incredible years running. Our customer success team did a lot of operational changes which we can talk more about if you want now..
Snacks Daily
"yelp" Discussed on Snacks Daily
"This is jack and this is snacks. Daily is wednesday june sixteenth. jack. Nick you look terrific today. Are you using. Harry's razors isn't i actually am still using. Nick asked me to be as he said. Yeah harry's razors at said room your side got down on one knee razors in the mailbox. Snappers this happens to the best one. Gb jack when we got our first store she it just surpassed amazon as the number one downloaded shopping app in the united states. Let that sink in by the way. It's not fast fashion new thing real time fashion for such story yelp. Yes said that dining out in this country is up. Forty eight percent forty eight percent higher than before the pandemic. But here's what jack. And i are thinking that tells us less about restaurants more about yelp or third and final story sinclair whip the first true live sports streaming at live sports are the ranch in the streaming worst. They've just been thrown in there but snacks before we hit those three wonderful. Start such an extent geographical debate about what to call a long skinny. Sam jack is in a sub or is it a hero. Is it a grinder or is it. a hoagie. depends to each his or her out. Jack i noticed. There's a far more heated debate than the meatball sandwich in that. Debate is the plant based milk by relent based built is the most diverse cheated geographical debate in the united states. Yeah we got this from snacker. Tiffany's schmidt get this instacart. Delivery data shows us where people are buying what non milk milk's different region. Yes different non-milk. Bill craving so jack flies over to the midwest in the midwest. They're not drinking from the cow. What kind of milk are they drinking in the mid west. They do soya. Apparently jack mid atlantic were drinking now rocking the boat. They like almond milk pacific northwest okay. There are close ish to hawaii so they go with coconut milk. New england oatmeal for sure. New york also now the south. I didn't know you could milk. Didn't but apparently you can cause that's what they drink in this is you can milk anything and the exceptions jack while texas new mexico and utah. That is cashew countries. So it's here's our take really. It's advice for starbucks. Don't ask someone what milk they want in their van de la instead. Just ask where they're frahm and then pour that milk milk into their cop. College geographic chino. Jack next daily we gotta get some rain. Food is candy. They don't reflect the views of her family informational. Just so that made any securities. It's not a research report or investment advice to offer or sale of us security next digestible business. News rapper financial. Llc member finra sipc. chinese app. She and just officially or unofficially. Technically became the go-to shopping app for gen z and the world s h. Yeh it's not fast fashion. Let's not hand fashion either hot. She an entirely new thin tirelesly new. Jack jack. I'm checking out the guinness book over here here. We go for one hundred and fifty. Two straight days amazon had a streak the guinness book of records. It's the voest downloaded shopping app in the. Us eight was. It should be years right not. Yeah yeah i feel like amazon has one hundred fifty two years. Yes yes they do blue origin years. Anyway the streak is over and the notre dame here breaking the streak she she and the chinese apps just hit number one shopping app on apple on android in the united states in a big way. It's the tiktok a flip flops. An endless newsfeed of fast cheap frequent fabrics. You can buy on your phone. Agonized snacked out. We spent a good. I don't want to say a half hour but in may have been forty five minutes on this app. Do you have a burner phone nick for the apps download just for jumping. Its next is white bright. We've got an entire section of my iphone right here jack and if you go to she and i'm on the new section. They've got a big new tap they have according to them. Five thousand one hundred eighty six brand new clothing items. They released yesterday. They tell you that one day. Five thousand nine for instance. A six dollar blue ocean halter top of fourteen dollar. New york never sleeps teach. I mean we could pull this off jack. The audience so the audience for sheehan is teen so low on cash. They're high on swiping s even gen z. We like to call us jack. This is gen. Thi this is jen tiktok. Because shopping she can go. Viral one blogger got into famous for buying thirty bikinis for a hundred forty bucks on. Cheer again a cheap price and then maximum utility on instagram. Because you can wear each of the becames. Now we looked into sheen's backstory was hard to find details on. There's not that much information out. There in any event became a monster. Globally and ecommerce by loophole. This is wildly ironic back in twenty eighteen smackers. The us began the trade war with china and we imposed tariffs on chinese goods coming to the us but those tariffs were only imposed on packages worth over eight hundred dollars sought evenings knackers since she and only ships to individuals not stores just about all the packages they send are under eight hundred dollars and that allowed she ends business to boom sales doubled from twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen and during the pandemic. They doubled every single month to sit down and back when we heard that jack that led to ten billion dollars in revenues last year in. How does that stack up against zara. That's more than czars entire online business. So jack what's the takeaway for our buddies over. She and this isn't fast fashion. It's real time fashion house knackers. We've talked with you before about the end of fast fashion house zara their struggle. They're struggling right now because the lentils are enjoying secondhand clothing yes we ever whatever forever. Twenty one factories are pumping out right. She is catering to the youngest consumers. With what some call real time fashion. This is unprecedented. That's because she looks at what. Its users are searching for the app yet. Then they share that data. What searched for right now with the suppliers. Actually making the clothing. Suzy can react n even more real time than fast fashion was ever able to. Here's how it goes down in practice on monday. Let's say peacock patterns are trending on the sheehan app. Lovely then on tuesday. She had shares that data with the chinese factories. And then jack on wednesday. She and his starts selling peacock peacock boxers peacock fleeces. And then what happens. Thursday and on thursday. They're shipping to. Us custom smackers real time. Fashion shares the exact same downsides fast fashion tons of waste for really fast wardrobe turnover. it's unsustainable. That doesn't seem to be a problem for she ends genteel audience for our second story. Yelp data just gave us a nationwide glimpse on the state of the reopening. Jack or did it. Just tell us about the state of. Yeah finally jack. Yeah it's become way more than the amateur three and a half star review of some random chicken parm down the street situation. Yup actually collect some cool data and publishes that data on what we're all eating ordering and buying in this country or is that jack. I'm looking tom k. From i don't know where says the ambience is pretty. Okay best out of to now. I've talking about their big data sets. That's the valuable stuff some free pr. When jack and i jump into that data and turn into a store for this pot so you're woke me up. That's what's happening right now. In a quick read of the headline from yelp last week is that restaurants in this country sat forty eight percent more diners in may of this year then in may of twenty nineteen. I mean sit down. Stand back up again. Jack restaurants are doing that incredibly that they did forty eight percent more business than they did a year before the pandemic okay so before the pandemic before we knew what corona virus even was. Let's say a restaurant was making a hundred million. Now they're making a hundred and forty eight million. according to the state that seems a little wild. It seems insane but we were happy about well. Maybe it makes sense. Because you know the economy's reopening yeah diners. Have some revenge. Spending going on very nice restaurants added you.
AP News Radio
Suspect Arrested in Attack on Chinese American Man in NYC
"Police in New York City arrested man in an attack on a Chinese American who was kicked repeatedly after being knocked to the ground the NYPD says Jared Powell was charged with two counts of felony assault in Friday's attack on yelp town mall the sixty one year old had lost his job and was out on the street in Harlem collecting cans to get by when police say how old viciously attacked him including kicking him in the head and act caught on surveillance camera the police department's hate crimes task force is investigating the attack which appeared to be among the latest in a troubling rise in anti Asian hate crimes Julie Walker New York
Forever35
Can We Talk More About Eyebrows?
"We got a text that said. Can we talk more about eyebrows please. I've been growing mine out during core and now they are really needing some attention. I was plugger in before times and they are thin to begin with glossy boy brow is gut ten. Heard dorey was getting her brows done on the pod. But what does that mean. Where should i go to get them done. And what should be done. I am clueless. Help love you too. Thank you well. Let's what did you do when you got your browse done recently. So the place. I went to does not wax. They just tweeted his and eram. Oh i need their tweezers tweeting like they tweet like the little hairs. You can't even see supposedly. That looks stimulates hair growth because my eyebrows are thin from over plucking on measly we got. I forgot to mention this. I said something about how. I had over plucked my eyebrows in the in the late nineties and the woman doing my eyebrows was like oh on your like nine now more nine teen seriously like i realized she was like twenty seven or something so she was nine in the nineties. And i think it's one of those things where like you just assume everyone is your age unless much older or much younger especially with the mask on. It's like hard to tell sure. And i was just like yeah when i was nine. Nine plus ten Yeah so. I don't know where you are listener but i would ask any friends of yours in your city or town where they have gotten their eyebrows done you. Can you know look on the old yelp for some suggestions Usually you can get your eyebrows. Waxed threaded plucked. Am i missing anything. I don't think so. I've never gotten them threaded. So i had to that i have gotten them waxed and have clearly gotten unplugged. So it's kind of up to you.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Yelp data shows almost half a million new businesses opened during the pandemic
"New businesses have opened in the U. S. During the pandemic that is based on Yelp data. It is now just 14% compared to a year earlier. 260,000 businesses that closed temporarily has been able to reopen. Jeff play ball. W T o P News Money news is
Bob Sirott
Yelp data shows almost half a million new businesses opened during the pandemic
"Yelp report shows that nearly 500,000 new businesses have opened in the U. S. Since the cove it 19 pandemic was declared. That's down on Lee 15% compared to the year before the data shows 15% of the new entities were food related businesses. Yelp official Justin Norman says the numbers are promising, adding that businesses hit hard will start to bounce back. As vaccinations accelerate and relief money starts to land in bank accounts.
Bloomberg Law
Yelp data shows almost half a million new businesses opened during the pandemic
"Taylor was booked overnight and released on bond. A new Yelp report shows that nearly 500,000 new businesses have opened in the U. S. Since the covert 19 pandemic was declared mad. Madison has more. That's only down 15% compared to the full year prior. The data shows 15% of the new entities were food related businesses. Yup. Official Justin Norman says the numbers are promising, adding that businesses hit hard will start to bounce back as vaccinations accelerate and relief money starts hitting bank accounts. The Corona virus was declared a
The Virtual Couch
How To Get Unstuck
"I'm i'm really excited to talk about the topic. We're talking about today of just being stuck. I'm going to be referring to a book that never referred to it steven hayes book. Get out of your mind and into your life. It is an acceptance and commitment therapy book and this is one of those feel like it's just one of the fundamentals of the virtual couch where i can just rip a little bit on the concepts around acceptance and commitment therapy and i think it's going to speak to a lot of people because i insert twenty twenty joke here or hard situation here but we a lot of people are coming out of a time where they feel a little bit stuck and man. I'm doing a lot of research around a podcast that i want to release so bad. I interviewed my wonderful friend. Dr laura sparrow months and months ago because she had an amazing article about covert and conspiracy theories and i recorded it and then then it kind of world got weird and wonky and i never ran the episode. But i have it. I've been editing. It and she just makes so much sense around why we will find ourselves turning to things like conspiracy theories when we never had before and it really is around the sometimes feeling stuck the the brain likes patterns. The brain likes knowing. The brain doesn't like uncertainty. It doesn't like ambiguity. And his doctor sparrow pointed out and i will release this episode. But i want it to be so good that i find myself over researching this one in particular but in talking about the way that the brain works and liking these patterns and doesn't like uncertainty. Your brain will kind of turn toward what's called a cognitive bias. Which means you're going to try to find something that makes a little bit of sense to you. Something that's in your wheelhouse and then once you're within that cognitive bias then you then your brain really wants to be certain of itself so it does the old confirmation biased thing where it starts looking for any bit of data to back itself up. I did a episode on confirmation bias a long time ago. I think it was called. Why are there so many tesla's and it was once somebody. One of my clients had talked about wanting tesla all of a sudden. I just felt like everywhere i looked. There was a tesla nation by rank. And do the same thing with thoughts and ideas that sort of thing but once you think something all the sudden you see it everywhere. I've been i've worked in my abandonment and attachment Things into about three or four of my last few episodes. Because it's something that i just feel passionate about and now i find these abandoned an attachment things from childhood everywhere i look. I'll probably work that into the episode today but but acceptance and commitment therapy really is it's the fundamentals of therapy here on the virtual couch and i have seen a lot of people that feel stuck in so i have. I haven't talked about this book before. And i really like it so the chapter that. I'm going to start with his doctor. Hayes talks about the concept of human suffering as universal summit. Read fairmount today giving him all the credit. And then i will give my commentary as as i love to do on the virtual couch so dr. Hey says it often. Many people we meet in our daily life seemed to have it all. They seem happy. They look satisfied with their lives. You probably had that experience of walking down the street when you're having a particularly bad day and you look around and you thought why can't it just be happy like everybody else around me. They don't suffer from chronic panic or depression or substance abuse problem. They probably don't feel as if a dark cloud is always looming over their heads. They probably don't suffer the way i suffer. Why can't i be like them. And get to hear this all the time every day in therapy and i go through it myself as well and dr. Hey says here's the secret they do and you are meaning they do suffer the way you suffer and you are more like them than you think he talks about that. We all have paid all human beings if they live long enough felt or will feel the devastation of losing. Somebody they loved. Every single person has felt will feel physical pain. Everybody has felt sadness. Every felt shame or anxiety fear and loss and we all have these memories. That are embarrassing or humiliating or their shameful and we all carry these painful hidden secrets and we tend to put on the shiny happy faces pretending that everything is okay and that life is all good. As a matter of fact. And i'm not gonna pull the old man get off my lawn on the porch moment here although yes i kind of am and then we have social media which has some amazing things in social media but we also typically put out the. Everything's all good. This is how you do it. This is how easy it is. You just you're happy. Just be happy and and beautiful and well well lit nice filters and then it just looks amazing but people everybody else's kind of not everybody there's an all or nothing statement but many of us are saying they they look like they've got it all figured out it's pretty easy but but it isn't it isn't they can't always be easy or it can't always everything can't always be all good to be human. Is the feel pain in ways that are orders of magnitude more pervasive than what the other creatures on the planet earth feel Dr hey says if you if you kick a dog it'll yelping run away if you kick it regularly. Any sign of your rival eventually will produce fear and avoidance behavior in the dog by means of the process called conditioning. But so long as you are out of the pitcher and are not likely to arrive. Dog is unlikely to feel or show significant anxiety. People however are quite different. He said as young as sixteen months or even earlier human infants learned that if an object has a name the name refers to that object so relations that verbal humans learn in one direction. They derive in two directions so over the past twenty five years. Researchers have tried to demonstrate that same behavior another animal species with very limited in questionable success so far so this makes a huge difference in the lives of people That the lives of people live as compared to animals. He says that the capacity for language put human beings in a special position. Simply saying a word invokes the object that it's named and he says tried out umbrella. You know when you think about when you read that word callan's pretty harmless but consider what this means if the named object was fearful anything that reminded. The person of its name would invoke fear. It would be as if all the dog needed to feel. Fear is not an actual kick but the thought of being kicked. So you see where we're going here that that relationship with words we're one of the only animal on the planet that does that. So that's exactly the situation that you're in and this is exactly the situation that all humans in with language. So here's an example doctorate said take a moment now to think of the most shameful thing that you've ever done and he encourages really take a moment and actually do this. You can pause if you want to but so if you give that thought what did you just feel. He said it's very likely as soon as you read the sentence you felt some sense of either fear or resistance
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
The future of migrant caravans
"More grand caravan is one of those phrases which feels intractable associated with the recently elapsed donald trump era a term which decade sense will like coffee or very stateful genius or four seasons total landscaping separate. Those who can recall this benighted epoch. From those born too late or those who not altogether unreasonably drank too much the migrant caravan. You may recall was one of the vast menagerie of bogeymen and hobgoblins which trump and his media cheerleaders deployed to profitably inflame. The voters and viewers the caravan was telling a marauding horde of insurgents bent on taking your jobs stealing your women perpetrating terrorism proselytizing communism or whatever paranoid fantasy. You were having yourself. The migrant caravan was reason to build that wall. Lock up your daughters stay tuned to fox. Welcome the tucker. Carlson vote republican and generally run around yelping to set by angry wasps. Shortly after having set fire to your own trousers another migrant caravan is on the move now it will be instructive and hopefully at least somewhat heartening to see how the administration of donald trump successor response before we get into that however it's probably proper to be clear about what we mean when we say migrant caravan as outlined above it has been repeatedly slammed up into something other than what it is by various people and organizations whose good faith cannot alas always be taken for granted. Thousands of central american migrants are vowing to continue their march to the us border even though president trump wants to turn them away the migrant caravans about which donald trump became agitated where a phenomenon which pete in late two thousand and eighteen. They were mass trudges of several thousand migrants setting out from central america and plotting doggedly towards the united states where they hope to find safety perchance prosperity. The constituents off the caravans were from honduras. Guatemala nicaragua el salvador and mexico. All countries offering the less fortunate citizens plentiful reasons for leaving political instability gangs crop failure crime drugs poverty etc. The caravan on the move right now is estimated at some eight thousand strong and appears to have originated in the honduran city of san pedro. Soula as off this broadcast. Its chances of reaching its goal. Mexico's border with the united states appears slender early this week. The caravan was intercepted as it crossed. Guatemala guatemalan military and police who detained hundreds of migrants and scattered others with teargas. Nearly a thousand people have already been sent back to honduras and guatemala's chief immigration official modena's has laid down a hardline declaring that you cannot and will not get through president joe. Biden's rhetorical response will be more humane and compassionate the president donald trump's low though that represents but the outcome might not be much different biden's domestic policy advisor. Susan rice has already pointedly given interviews to spanish language media emphasizing that nobody should assume that the us mexico border will be flung. Open on day one. The administration biden previously. Served that of president. Barrack obama deported more than three million people. This latest caravan is obviously not the first large scale migrant and refugee x. flow of times and it won't be the lost. It seems reasonable to assume indeed that any noteworthy disparity in covid nineteen vaccinations between rich countries and poor ones will lead to still further people hitting the road and given what would be reasonable concerns about spreading the virus. Prompt even less compromising responses from destination countries than some. We have already seen what will likely not happen. Regrettably will be the large scale descent of any com- clear-headed logic on the subject in the united states or anywhere else. Those who are furiously against immigration will continue to insist that imigrants ra menace that asylum seekers. Bogus that we should build walls and turn around boats. Those who are passionately in favour of immigration will continue refusing to countenance the idea that countries are entitled to make decisions about who comes and who goes and indeed that it's better that countries do as transparent legal process around migration and asylum lynn's immigrants and refugees va legitimacy they need and deserve and deprives shrieking xenophobes of oxygen as is the case with this and far too many other issues however the loudest voices on both sides will be largely motivated not by their actual opinions on the issue by the visceral loathing of their domestic political opponents and the caravans and the boats will keep coming
Equity
The end of Plaid-Visa
"Want to lead us into plot. Alex as you alluded. This was the story of the week for anyone and everyone who cares about startups in vc. The five point three billion deal that would have merged loud and visa officially didn't go through for those following along that deal had been under investigation and ran into that regulatory wall. And now there's not going through. There's a lot to talk about what we're both of your first. Take alex and then danny by i take was holy crap followed by. Oh and i'm not surprised. The news event happened caught. me off. Guard didn't know it was coming but my second thought was like oh the doj was against this. Not a huge surprise. That was my take denny. I think there's a huge amount of concern around financial services more than other forms of tech companies when you look at financial services the so well integrated in the economy. Everything else is built on top of finance right and so i think for the antichrist authorities looking at tech deals. They're seeing this and they're saying look if visas able to corner the banking data market in own the infrastructure both at payments and with banking. That's an immensely powerful and highly leveraged place to be and i think the authorities have just gotten a lot smarter about preventing that from happening in the first place. I think they've woken up. I'm amazed at what was allowed to go through before versus. What now seems to be suddenly verboten. Why wasn't this. The case in the last five ten years finances not new whereas i think ad markets were new. Obviously we've talked a lot about antitrust ad networks with google buying doubleclick and buying a novel and a bunch of other companies. But those were new markets and said the regulators are. Just don't think new potential network effects that we're going to come out of those markets whereas in finance the regulators very admittedly familiar with the leverage points and frankly other competitors know what's going on as well. So my guess is mastercard went to the regulators and said whoa. Whoa whoa you got to do something here to stop this. This is really really bad. Yelp did this against google. But yelp didn't have the leverage. I think mastercard or other companies have been around a long time have
Side Hustle School
Reddit Post Inspires Airbnb Cleaning Service
"For. Neil patrick the decision to start a side. Business wasn't just so he could quit his day job and travel the world while still having an income and that was part of it but it was also a decision guided by his desire to provide for his parents. You see for thirty two years. His parents owned video rental stores. Do you remember those. But of course the industry was on its way out in this was the mid two thousand. Ten's whatever you call that decade the mid two thousand ten's. I'm not sure but those doors weren't doing well around this time. Neil who was working fifty to sixty hours a week decided. He wanted to start a service to help parents as well as himself. He tried a number of paths as he tried different side. Hustles creating an ecommerce. Site blogging about pet hair vacuums and more before stumbling across a post on. Read it from someone who started cleaning company in that post the author laid out the detailed steps taken to get going after reading through the post carefully. Neil decided to give it a try himself in early two thousand thirteen. He established made this in los angeles cleaning. Service that specializes in airbnb and residential. Cleanings his first step in doing so was creating a website tall task because he had no technical background. You'll bought a template for about one hundred dollars researched how to host a website and published. What he said was initially pretty crappy looking site. Hey we've all been there. Y'all needed to determine how much to charge for cleaning services and find a cleaners themselves. He started by contacting local people with existing companies and asking them how much they charged and with their cleaning packages. Were looking at the competition. He was able to make sure there was enough margin built into his service to ensure he could operate successfully he puts it from the reddit post to the pricing scale. He essentially started made this by copying what other companies were doing at least as a way of getting things up and running although he had software to charge customers. You'll didn't know how to pay the cleaners at first. So after they got done with an appointment he would have them come to his office where he'd run downstairs. Get cash out of an atm and hand it to them eventually. He figured out a better way. Overall it took two months to get up and running to find customers. Neil focused on digital marketing. He says local marketing a gem because you're competing against local businesses only not the entire world. So it's a bit easier to manage. And it also cost less as i customer came about july twenty thirteen which he remembers because he snuck outside from his full time job and started dancing. Another advantage to local markets is that there are many third party platforms. Like angie's list or thumb tack and neil would charge a low price at first to attract initial customers. You also tried posting flyers and using social media although he says that wasn't an especially useful marketing tool for him since people don't usually by cleaning services that way. These days made this mostly generate sales from a combination of sco yelp and paid digital ads. Because he wanted to eventually quit his full time. Job and travel. You'll established made this so they could be operated by a fully remote team of employees which includes his parents. Total investment cost was around two thousand dollars which included his website. Those digital marketing ads and advertising for cleaners operated the business part time gig for two years by two thousand fifteen. The business was doing around thirty thousand dollars in monthly sales with twenty percent profit margin so six thousand dollars in monthly profit with a success. Quit his job and booked one way flight to colombia. The business doubled that year and he's since traveled to more than thirty five countries while scaling. What was once his side. Hustle looking to the future neal is aiming to be the millennial franchise disrupting the old school cleaning franchise industry.
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Tech CEOs To Testify Before Senate Panel On Platforms' Legal Shield
"Americans you, have six days left to cast their votes in this most unusual presidential election never before has an election been. So influenced by social media back in May twitter added labels to tweets at the company felt were potentially misleading and that included tweets by President, trump facebook has now banned all new political ads between now and the election though ads that have already been published are still visible, Google. Will stop all political ads from running after the polls close election day that's something facebook has pledged to do as well. So now the CEO's of twitter facebook and Google are all being made to defend those policies they're set to testify today before the Senate Commerce Committee senators are weighing whether to reconsider the legal shield that has long protected. The TECH INDUSTRY NPR's Allen is here to explain hey bobby. Good Morning. Rachel. Let's just start off with the timing of all this. Why why is this happening now? So it's happening now because the calls as you mentioned have been coming for some time from trump and from even from Democrats in Congress to do something about this law section to thirty. Now. Like you said at the top twitter for the first time, placed a label on one of trump's tweets that one. He made a false claim about mail in voting, and this is really irritated trump and it really amped his crusade to have the platforms reigned in Here's the president after twitter flag that tweet they've had unchecked power to censor, restrict, edit shape hide alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens. So trump. There was signing an executive order aimed at a law that protects the tech industry like I said, it's known as section two thirty, and that is why Senate Republicans have today called this hearing. Okay. So this is the legal shield section to thirty. Explain what this law does. Yes. So it was passed in the mid nineties during the early days of the Internet if you can recall them. Back. Yeah back then facebook and twitter we're not yet around but. Names like compuserve and prodigy were. Services people talked a lot about and back then and now the law gave tech platforms. He's shield that made their future growth possible and in basically what it says Rachel is that they cannot be sued for what posted to their sites. But now this law is in peril because for once Democrats Republicans can actually agree on something and it's that this law is no good and it's got to go I imagine they. They may come to the same conclusion but different ways, right? I mean do Democrats and Republicans agree on why section thirty so bad. So the short answer is no a Democrats, say it has let facebook. And twitter for years have a hands off approach to misinformation and hate speech Republicans on the other hand say, Hey, these platforms are hiding behind this law to suppress conservative views. Even facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says, this law should be updated but he and many other tech leaders say repealing it completely would be a disaster because that would open the floodgates to endless lawsuits and Rachel, and we're not just talking about facebook here. I mean we CA-. Pedia yelp read it and so many other corners of the Internet that relies. So heavily on this law could be subject to lots and lots of lawsuits if this law is repealed. So, really this is about are these just platforms or do they have some kind editorial influence on the content? The they allow on their platforms as part of this Republicans today are expected to air grievances about what they perceive as a liberal bias on on these platforms right? What does the data say about that, right? So Republicans point to twitter's decision to remove links on its platform of recently the New York Post story about Hunter Biden that had some very questionable sourcing facebook also reduced the the spread of. That story. So there are lots of anecdotal one offs like this, and then there's the data as you mentioned, which presents a much different story and the data says that conservative us and conservative stories actually are amplified on facebook at some of the most engaged with content and the facebook algorithm rewards engagement. So it's actually the opposite of what the some conservatives are saying that facebook and twitter are helping conservative us and helping conservative store stories reach bigger audiences than they ever could have imagined before the social networks.
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Best Of Reputation, Reviews, Recommendations & Referrals with Mark S.A. Smith
"Welcome Mark sa Smith back for the third time and I do believe that essay stands for super awesome. Is that correct or something? The adapter smart-ass depending on how you doing. Actually it actually stands for Steven antin with a name like Smith, you know, you need to have extra names and for me, it's my brand. Right, right. You're Brian Bacon off of the three big I Delight to be with you and I love our conversations and I'm honored to be a three-peat with you. And let's Dive Right In cuz we've got some hot stuff off and only yeah, we do. So as I was telling you in the precursor and earlier this week, I did a podcast and blog on managing your reputation. And today I gave a presentation about managing your reputation. So what I wanted to talk to you about because I mean you work in the the corporate world. I mean you're in the big you're in the big pond and you know, damn fortune five hundred companies. Yeah. Yeah. So you're playing with some big fish and we talked about I mean the two things that we did before was managing disruption. And then how do you catch a whale so yep Working with these whales the question that you know, we're going to get into today is about getting reviews in managing your reputation. So let's let's start off by talking about wage. You know, how do you get people to give good reviews? What's your what's your process or what your thoughts on that? I love this. Well, I want to frame this up just a little bit. You know, I'm a small business doing business with big business and that has benefits and has distractions and attractions, you know, the benefit is that the checks tend to be large the distractions is that as you pointed out constipation compensation constipation. They tend to be slow payers. So you just have to manage all that and that said today we are all driven by reviews. So consider this listener a.m. The last time you bought something from Amazon that you had never bought before without checking out the reviews. How about you Brian? I'm just joined Amazon Prime this year and I can honestly say yo, Coolest thing ever you get something delivered on a Sunday. But hey always check the reviews. I mean, that's every time it's price and reviews. Those are the two most important things to me and you know, we look for a couple thoughts and reviews number one is we look for you know, how many five-star reviews and we look for people that are having genuine problems. And for me. I also look for the negative reviews because I want to find out what kind of problems people have so I can say no that's not a true problem or I don't expect that problem or or to say, you know that I appreciate that Insight. I think I'm going to choose something else. I'm sure it's the same for you know, absolutely. Yeah. I mean that's you know, I'll definitely look at the negative reviews and if it's if it's something, you know, if there's enough of the same thing that's usually because there's always a troll or somebody out there that's going to be something negative cuz they just were not happy that day, you know competitors do it all the time competitors frequently troll products and so in the world of Amazon you look for a job. Flight purchased it they really buy it if they didn't really bite. Forget it. I'm going to ignore that. So the point that is that we do we're we become we become a review page driven society and the second example of that is Yelp know when do we go to restaurants without reviewing them on Yelp or without having somebody say, oh, you gotta go try it out right now with have to have reviews and it's built into our DNA now. So with that it means that we have to collect reviews we have to ask for reviews. We have to post reviews we have to manage reviews and the best way to do that is to actively ask for them. So, how do you go about it getting reviews Brian see now? This is a place where I disagree with you because when you ask for a review page, you ask for a testimonial what most people say they say, yeah sure. No problem. I'll get through and then it just sits and sits and sits and then you remind him a second time you think about it a week or two later and say hey, can I get a name? Review. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry I forgot about it. And then you ask him a third time and then they started getting annoyed cuz you're bugging them. So the way that I do it and the way that I found the most success and this is actually based on a book that I read called The Hundred zero principle and it's buy one of my mentors is name is Al Ritter and you can actually get it on Amazon. It's written by it's a by company called Simple truths and his principal is not give a hundred percent of yourself a hundred percent of the time expect nothing in return and Watch What Happens the way that I get reviews so ask for I give them a lot of used to people that I work with. I'll go on LinkedIn and I'll write them a review. What is LinkedIn do that? LinkedIn actually says, hey you got a review from Brian Basilico. Do you want to return the favor of nine times out of ten? We are competitive we as we get a review we're going to say, well, he wrote a really nice review. I'm going to do a better one and I'm going to put more thought process into it and I'm going to do it now because Want to return the favor at this moment and I would owe you right about 70% of the time. You not only get the review a lot faster or the testimonial lot faster. But what you end up getting a much more glowing heartfelt thought-out review beautiful. I love the idea of give a review to get a review another strategy that I suggest is to ask for a review when somebody compliments, you know these days when people say thanks a lot of really appreciate what you did for me. Most people say no problem don't ever say that you're wasting an opportunity. No problem. Lies that what you did has no value and the world was sales as in politics is run on a favor bank. So if somebody says thank you put a favor in your favor Bank. You're welcome. I wage you do the same for me. Would you do me a favor and which case they're going to say sure. Would you mind just typing that up that those same things and I know you also record it when people are dead. Online and so you just asked me if you can transcribe it. That's a brilliant strategy. Yeah,