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Spring/Summer & Haute Couture Week 2021: Whoops, I’ve Missed a Loooot (Part 2)

Hey to anyone reading,

I’m so sorry for the gap between the last fashion week review post and this one! Argh. I had no idea I posted it as long ago as the beginning of March but I think we can all agree that lockdown has fucked with our perceptions of time completely. I wish I could say the delay in posting was as simple as me being busy but I’ve also started to reflect on whether or not I want to carry on this format of posts for the time being; on the scale of problems, this one is wayyy down there in the very lower quartile of the first world region, but my motivation to carry on this kind of content in the form of long-winded text posts is...meh...not so much there anymore. At first I was thinking the issue was that working on these was my last priority on my daily to-do lists but as I’ve got back into writing fiction, it’s kind of occurred to me that the fact I was putting these posts on my to-do lists in the first place along with things like doing the ironing and contacting student finance speaks volumes. When I’m back from work or winding down, opening up Tumblr and coming back to this draft isn’t something that I think of as a fun stress reliever in the way drafting stories is. It doesn’t feel like I’m using my imagination or my creativity or expressing myself in any way and it’s not much of an escape from day to day life in the way that writing dialogue or exploring characters is. Maybe it’s because I’ve done quite a few of these posts now but I just tend to feel like I’m repeating myself, you know kinda like when you’re writing an essay and trying to fill up a word count; of course there are collections that I do have a lot of opinions on but by and large, sometimes it boils down to THESE CLOTHES ARE JUST FUCKING PRETTY, OKAY?! There’s only so many things you can say about a tulle skirt or an exaggerated collar before you want to strangle yourself with said tulle. I used to think iF VoGUe RuNwaY wRitErs CaN dO iT WhAT's MY exCusE until I realised that 1). Vogue Runway writers actually get paid and 2). for the most part all they do is explain the designer's intentions behind the collections verbatim without giving a critical opinion anyway.

I think a lot of the pressure I feel to justify what are in reality quite simple observations and opinions goes back to some of the feelings I explained in my first ever fashion week review where people who know more about fashion and have a formal education in the subject tend to be kind of gatekeep-y and elitist. It can never be that you appreciate different things about a collection but rather than one of you has taste and the other doesn’t and if it wasn’t obvious, the taste level assigned to you by the powers that be tend to positively correlate with the amount of money you have available to spend on a degree that has a reputation for failing to provide a steady income, which for most makes it an unrealistic avenue to pursue. I know, I know, the pressure is totally self-inflicted and wholly imagined seeing as I have under 500 followers on here and those who do interact with these posts most likely do so for the pictures but I still feel it, and given that I’m going to have enough external pressure to write essays when I return to uni in September, why on earth am I wasting time putting it on myself? When just posting photosets of my favourite looks is not only actually enjoyable for me but is also what other people WANT to see too? Nobody wants to read a self-indulgent paragraph like this when they’re here for the clothes and to be honest, for the most part I don’t want to write them anyway unless it’s something I have strong feelings about or if a collection can only be properly appreciated with analysis. I think I’ve made pretty clear which designers I’m a fan of, do you really need to hear me raving about Gucci or Zimmerman or Miu Miu or Balenciaga again? Is there gonna be anything revolutionary in yet another rant about Maria Grazia? Course not. I mean, if you are reading, you might have to witness those things one last time because I do intend to finish off this season’s review in this format for consistency purposes and because I’ve already got all the notes now but on the whole, I doubt anyone will miss my rambles.

So, with all that in mind, I think after I finish my S/S21 posts I am gonna start just uploading these posts without the written part. I mean, for one, the simplicity of doing this means I’m much less likely to procrastinate making them which in turn means I’ll be able to get them out right after the shows as a kind of summary as opposed to months later when they’re no longer as relevant. This will also give me more time to work on the writing I actually enjoy. Right now I’m going through and editing my 17 year old self’s “grown-up” take on the Pretty Little Liars blackmail murder mystery style plot line which I wrote back when I was completely and utterly obsessed with the show and bitterly disappointed by the last couple of seasons. The writing is pretty mediocre and often hugely cringey to read back now but I am still a fan of the basic plot and I’m genuinely motivated to see if I can make it something actually worth reading, and to get onto that ASAP; this feels especially important right now given that the HBO version of the series’ apparent upcoming release has sent that ever-present writer’s fear of seeing-your-same-storyline-done-better-by-somebody-else-thus-forever-relegating-your-version-to-being-the-poor-imitation-so-you-gotta-get-there-first into overdrive (or maybe that’s just me and my neuroses). Again, it’s a totally unfounded fear based on the fact that the HBO show will probs get millions of viewers whilst I will be doing little more than shouting into the void but anybody who’s used Turnitin to submit an essay that ultimately counts for little more than like 1% of your grade or degree will know that no matter how irrelevant your work is, the concept of failing a plagiarism check, be it via a computer algorithm or one random stranger on the internet’s assessment, is enough to conjure visions of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse galloping towards you screaming “START THE WHOLE THING AGAIN” before releasing a hoarde of 2015 Chanel vs. Walmart style comparison memes.

Now, speaking of Chanel, I should probably get back into the reviewing.

So for the last time for a little while, here’s Christian Siriano:

Siriano’s designs are a great example of work I feel guilty enjoying. I know that when it comes to quality, the high fashion community have a lot of (negative) things to say and I really can’t speak to that because quite honestly, I know very little about textile manufacturing. Solely from my own point of view though, I do like his work a lot. I wouldn’t claim for a minute that he’s a pioneer in terms of his creations but I would 100% love to wear them and I DO hugely admire his commitment to putting women of all sizes on the runway and designing pieces that don’t simply cater to straight up and down types which is more than can be said for most brands. I get that his collections are pretty formulaic, taking what has worked for the likes of Chanel and Alessandra Rich, De La Renta and Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors too (who is kind of guilty of the same thing himself), but that’s not to say his work is bad. Let’s be real, we’ve been on this planet thousands of years, we’re all taking inspiration from someone, and maybe figures like Kors and Siriano could wait a *little* longer before taking said inspiration but their aim at the end of the day is to sell clothes, not break barriers, a task which although often left to the big name brands, they too often fail at. I’m not going to lie, I’m feeling this whimsical mid-century tea party vibe, it’s elegant and it’s cutesy and My Fair Lady-esque, and you bet your arse I would be absolutely thrilled to wear one of these looks on a summer red carpet. I just can’t say no to anything tulle-maybe it’s that I was on Toddlers & Tiaras in a past life or maybe it’s that I watched too many Barbie Princess films growing up, but I like pretty much everything going on here, especially Siriano is giving us matching fedoras too. Plus, can we take a moment to praise Siriano for his COVID relief efforts? Near the beginning of the pandemic, he turned his studio into a mask manufacturing factory in order to send them out as donations, and I think that is very cool.

Then there’s Christopher Kane who once again came through with the most insanely gorgeous prints:

I mean, paint splattering is hardly a new technique but I haven’t seen it done as a print so tastefully before-it eats the Moschino biro scribble print (which apparently was copied too speaking of the tendencies of designers to “borrow” inspiration) for breakfast. It’s shit because there weren’t many looks in this collection and they weren’t really shot in a way that does them any justice but I thought I’d include the few I saved.

Comme Des Garcons is a fave of the high fashion community and one I look forward to seeing at fashion week but can never quite get behind. I appreciate the what-the-fuckery of it all with this show totally being able to pass as a run-through of some kind of nuclear waste themed scare house at one of Thorpe Park’s fright nights. I assume given that and the plastic Mickey Mouse print it’s supposed to be some kind of reference to the part late-stage capitalism has played in the hellish landscape we find ourselves in today? Or something all intellectual? In which case I made my interpretation with farrrr too much confidence. But Anyway! Who knows! I’ll leave the analysis to the fashion students, and give it one word: trippy.

Onto Dion Lee, a brand I truly do get excited to talk about because it’s rare that I don’t LOVE his work.

Without fail, Lee manages to be confidently ahead of the curve without going out of his way to announce it and his genius to everyone with flamboyant shows and exaggerated designs and extortionate prices. He is very much an underdog in the fashion world in terms of big names but you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t love his collections. His S/S21 collection is one of my favourites of the bunch. I love seeing something I’ve never seen before and the palm leaf breast plate is so odd but so cool and so perfectly Dion Lee at the same time; we’ve seen jungle/tropical inspired collections sooo many times *cough cough D&G cough cough* and THIS is how you make them fresh and unique. I mean, never in a million years did I think I’d get behind the resurgence of the gladiator sandal trend but Lee has me changing my mind. This is one of the very rare times you will ever see me using this meme to praise a man but:

I mean, he has Fernanda Ly modelling for him, that the man has taste goes without saying.

Now for a bit of a full circle moment, given that I did actually praise Dior’s haute couture collection in my first ever post; Maria Grazia did GOOD. Well, with haute couture at least.

She’s always pretty hamfisted with her references, there’s no denying, with that Grecian Goddess style RTW collection typifying that statement completely, but luckily she struck gold this time round; as someone who studied the Tudors for A-level history, seeing a modern take on the exaggeratedly feminine renaissance silhouettes with the baroque prints and the deep jewell tones got me super excited especially when you throw in the dreamy tarot theming and the nods to the mystical and arcane. Seeing as the Heavenly Bodies Met Gala (I know, I know, I need to move on) was some time ago now and Cersei Lannister’s *SPOILER* been crushed by a rock (could also be seen as a metaphor for the irrelevancy David Benioff and D.B Wise condemned GoT to when they aired that shitty ending tehe) and so probably won’t be getting a collection based on her costumes any time soon, this is the only fashion take on this kind of period dress I’m going to get…and you know what? I’m okay with that. Thanks Maria, I guess?

Her RTW collection wasn’t absolutely awful either, and slightly better than the past few collections at least. Put a monkey in a room with a typewriter (or show it enough similar well-received collections) and it will eventually write something that makes sense, don’t they say? I like the nomadic feel of a lot of the looks and there’s beautiful layering going on but the aura of exotic opulence unsurprisingly didn’t stick around for long and I found that there was a decline in quality in the midsection of the show that landed a lot of the outfits in either awkward mother of the bride at a beach wedding or The Only Way is Essex Ocean Beach PLT sponsored poolside party territory. The looks picked back up a bit towards the end stretch of the show but I wasn’t a fan of the Gucci style oversized glasses which were so out of place with the rest of the theming that if anything they seemed like a cheap grab at relevancy. So yeah, a middling, subpar Etro-esque collection which is better than usual for Dior I suppose.

Next, Elie Saab, whose S/S21 collection was kinda disappointing, tbh. Oh how the turns have tabled given that positive Dior review and my usual love of Saab’s collections.

I know his dresses lose some of their appeal when we can’t see them in motion but even ON the runway I can’t see myself being dazzled by any of these pieces the way I usually am. They’re lacking the level of detail and craftsmanship I associate with the brand seemingly in favour of block colours and suits and the issue is that the whole Disney Princess fantasy has always been the appeal for me because the silhouettes aren’t interesting enough on their own. They’re not ugly pieces, they’re nice, but does nice really have a place in high fashion when the pieces are so basic in both their design and presentation that the shots could pass as ripped from a catalogue? The strongest parts of the collection were when it did go down the more delicate route with the muted blue suits and the white feather trimmed dresses, the small, ornamental gold details reminding me of a very toned down nod to Schiaparelli’s hardware, but with regards to the bright coloured pieces, I can’t lie-they did look like something you could find in the M&S Per Una holiday section. Then you’ve got the weakest parts, which were just flat out ugly: sheer giraffe print, sweat band style elasticated waits, and long chiffon shirts that I hate to admit read as frumpy. There are times where I’ve not been particularly excited by an Elie Saab collection in the past, but I do think this is the first time I’ve actively disliked parts of it.

Conversely, Erdem’s S/S21 collection was super strong, and solidified the brand’s place in my mind as a dependable source of kooky maximalism, this time round giving us Anya Taylor Joy’s Emma wardrobe on speed. You could tell me Erdem Moralıoğlu had just raided the Bridgerton set’s fitting rooms and put it on a runway and I would 100% believe you and I mean that in a positive way because to give my unpopular opinion, the clothes were the only good thing about that show. The endearingly florid details of exaggerated bows and clashing florals were still there but this time in a way that felt more subtle and self-assured, as if the calming influence of the wooded set’d had a direct hand in the designs, giving the rugged, ethereal feel to the collection I associate with brands like Brock and Simone Rocha, all whilst keeping the parts of Erdem I’m so fond of.

Is it really much of a shock that I included pretty much every look from the Etro S/S21 show? Like, you know that Christian idea of God, like, (the voice in my head is very much taking on the dumb valley girl voice that anybody who reads this is most probably getting too) knowing our souls? I think Veronica Etro knows mine. So no, no surprise. Though there were a few unconventional touches thrown into these looks (the campier prints and nautical theming we see with the 80s beach towel print, for example, reminded me a bit of Versace) the mystical bohemian it girl that Etro designs for would still be highly satisfied. Sure, it might be a wardrobe fit for a holiday less adventurous than backpacking but if she wanted a tropical poolside holiday, this collection is the one, the paisley print chiffon mini and maxi dresses especially. I’m just gonna pretend I don’t see the monstrosity that is leggings worn as trousers-it’s a fashion rule I refuse to abandon-because they are the only stain on an otherwise expectedly gorgeous collection.

Next, an unusually reserved RTW collection from Fendi:

More in line with the wardrobe of a European fashion editor than the glamorous trophy wife (who let’s say uses that facade as a guise to ruthlessly run her husband’s whole business empire from behind the scenes because in this house we do complex female characters only), these pieces are lot “smarter” and more professional looking than Fendi’s typical offerings; where I feel Fendi usually designs for the society girl who wouldn’t mind a front page scandal, these are the kind of outfits a young member of Monaco’s royal family would wear for a positively received but business-as-usual press tour. I know, Fendi is an Italian brand, but this is more Southern France to me. We’re talking some 2nd page shots of a Kate Middleton type on a yacht on the Riviera smiling and waving as her PR team’s ideal scenario. Still, whilst fewer exaggerated silhouettes, animal prints and overtly luxurious fabrics (real leathers, silks and furs for example) mean that the drama’s a little toned down, it’s all still very expensive looking and combines the classically feminine glamour of the past and the minimalism of modernity in the artful manner that we’re used to. Maybe it’s me being a basic bitch but I always love seeing Ashley Graham on the runway too, even if brands to tend to use her as their single token plus size model.

Kim Jones’ debut haute couture collection for Fendi, however, wasn’t a very well received one. I don’t hate it personally but I can see where the criticisms are coming from. Whilst it’s closer to the version of Fendi I’ve come to expect and there were some stunning pieces which completely encapsulated that distinctive aura of luxe and glamour, there were quite a few lazy pieces which could’ve been from any designer. I also felt the collection was a bit upstaged by what seemed to be a who’s who of the modelling world; having Bella, Cara, Kate and Naomi ALL walk in one show was a bit distracting and took the focus off the clothes completely.

Giambattista Valli’s RTW collection was gorgeous as ever; the man has undeniably mastered the art of delivering classic, objective elegance, the kind of designs I feel would make you light on your feet and smell like strawberries and cream the minute you put one on. Whilst as a brand his RTW shows are rarely trendsetting, they reliably produce a plethora of unfailingly graceful and demure pieces, as appealing to your mum and your grandma as they are to young women and little girls, and this collection is another victory lap for Valli when it comes to upholding his signature tea party and artisan cupcake making and rose garden strolling and bottomless rosé brunch appropriate aesthetic. There were a lot of outfits that were bordering on overly juvenile, with structures a little too basic to justify the amount of sequins thrown on, but when it’s good, it’s so sweet that regardless of how to formula it is, I can’t help but fall in love.

Valli’s haute couture collection was stunning too and for sure a more exciting offering than the RTW. There was of course a lot of the signature tulle but it was head-turning, over the top in a way that leant far more towards the experimental than I expected. The photos themselves are 100% believable as a some kind of Vogue behind the scenes editorial shoot on the set of live action Disney princess movie (in between takes of the climactic ball scene if you wanna get specific with the vision); if you are looking for a prettier alternative to the primary colours and disruptive shapes of a Molly Goddard collection, this is the one. It’s giving the themes of excess and abundance I associate with that of the Hunger Games Capitol but through the softer lens of a Sofia Coppola movie, and being the typical cinema loving white girl I am, I’m obviously on board with that vibe.

I did SUCH a 180 on Givency’s S/S21 collection from when I first saw it to writing a review. My initial reaction was one of disappointment, I guess simply because Givenchy has given us so many bold pieces and presentations over the last few years whereas this is more low-key. After properly considering it though as I would any other brand, I came to the conclusion that I do actually really like it. It’s still got the strange, androgynous silhouettes popping up throughout and the futuristic space-age details but with a more down-to-earth, streetwear feel, albeit a very slick, glossy spin on the trends of the rabble (that’s us guys) of course before we go believing it’s achievable. On the one hand, the devil horn accents are a touch Claire’s accessories halloween range but at the same time, done with confidence they’re kind of cool and bring something new and fun to the table in line with the dark theatre of Givenchy’s last few shows.

Now for Gucci, which for the first time I have to say, if I'm attempting objectivity, is not a standout.

Like, can I just start by saying though the format it’s presented in is cute, it’s not ideal as a way of actually showing the collection. I get that the vintage shop bin vibe is a huge part of Gucci’s brand but polaroids make it SO hard to actually see the clothes, and that’s what we’re here for right? I don’t want to give the impression that I don’t like what I see here-the clothes are gorgeous, an idyllic ode to the off-duty wardrobes of Studio 54-ers, bohemian style icons like Charlotte Rampling and young Olivia Newton-John, psychedelic rock guitarists and the inhabitants of San Fransisco’s Haight during the late 60s and early 70s, Alessandro Michele’s favourite period of reference. I can’t pretend otherwise, or act like I wouldn’t want to wear the shit out of this collection. Buut, for Gucci? It’s a little underwhelming. These are the kind of filler looks we get in a typical Gucci show to go alongside the more statement pieces, which this collection is lacking. It’s just that these are designs which usually gets people talking and these pieces don’t do that. It sucks because for most other brands this would be a stand out collection, an immersive, luscious vignette of what people tend to think of as a cultural golden era, but when you’ve had a show that involved models carrying replicas of their own decapitated heads down the runway in the last 5 years, of course something more toned down like this is gonna generate a lot of “is that it?”s.

I owe Hermes an apology. Looking back, I have disliked all their previous collections for the same reason that I now really like this one; maybe it’s in part down to the frustration of still having to whack out the winter coat on occasion in May (fuck British weather and climate change), but suddenly I really appreciate the value of some good quality, versatile outerwear. Hermes is giving us that in spades here and for that, I bow down to them. The pieces on offer are clearly well-made and genuinely practical, and through the minimalist approach manage to retain both an air of timeless sophistication whilst also being youthful and on trend. The leather tactical vest co-ord I can easily see edged up and taking centre stage on one of those insane Seoul street style slow-mo TikToks that were big a couple of months ago and there are several pieces that could tie together a grunge influenced k-style look just as well as they could exist for years on end as the wardrobe staple of a high-powered businesswoman. Designer Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski’s strengths really come through with the simpler looks and it’s the patterned pieces that drag down an otherwise flawless collection; I guess because the aesthetic is very minimalist, the patterns can’t be anything overly decorative but unfortunately this has a bit of a dowdy effect when you pair it with such modest silhouettes. Disregarding those elements of the collection though, it was super good.

It goes without saying that Iris Van Herpen’s haute couture collection was breathtaking; if the fashion community can agree on anything, it’s that this woman’s work is consistently awe-inspiring. She captures the wonder of the universe, the biological structures and kaleidoscopic colours we don’t even register, through fashion in a way that others can only imitate, to mesmerising, truly transcendent effect; I can only assume Van Herpen has mother nature whispering into her ear because how the hell else do you explain her ability to take the kind of microscopic organisms they show you images of in an outdated GCSE science powerpoint and make a dress that resembles one so stunning? Care to explain, Iris? Because if there is some kind of line of communication between the two of you can you please tell the bitch I’m over this weather and that I have cute summer outfits I’m waiting to wear so can she pack this torrential rain shit in? K, thanks xoxo

See it seems shady as fuck to go from IVH to Isabel Marant like this because we are talking 2 designers with totallyyyy different approaches to fashion; Iris Van Herpen is haute couture for starters whereas Marant is commercial, and that’s her thing, but unfair comparisons aside this collection is still a bit of a let down. This is considering I do usually really like Isabel Marant collections based on whether or not I’d wear the pieces, which seems a more appropriate barometer to use to come to a quality verdict. Whilst there were a few of the elegant bohemian pieces my mind goes to when it comes to her brand, the steps outside of that comfort zone didn’t pay off; graffiti print (can be cool if done with some subtlety which apart from a few exceptions was not the case here), cheap looking reflective fabric, and MC Hammer style dungarees, it seems to be an attempt to merge 80s trends with modern urban culture, and an attempt that at times verged on the disastrous. It’s good for a brand to experiment, of course, and appeal to a wider client base than usual, but when it’s bad the unfortunate take away is that the design team don’t have the chops to pull off straying from familiar territory; designers wouldn’t be showing at fashion week if this was truly the case because disregarding the influence of nepotism, fashion is an area you need real talent, perseverance and business smarts to excel in, and so it doesn’t do a team justice when they do fail.

J.W Anderson, on the other hand, really put his best foot forward this season and presented this work in a really cool way too which only added to the positives; whilst the way the shots were edited was funky af, it didn’t detract from the actual outfits, and if we are to see the same limitations when it comes to the F/W collections being released, this is something a lot of designers and editing teams should take note of. The idiosyncratic exaggerated shapes that we see as a recurring feature of Anderon’s collections were still on show but this time round with added femininity, billowing skirts and trailing jewellery that channel the stage looks of Stevie Nicks in a way that’s modern and functional and maybe even fit for the office if you were to work in a more creative industry with a chill boss. Could also work for a coven of witches who practice meditation by bonfires in the moonlight and burn the letters of men who wronged them in some Arizonian desert, so like I said, functional! Who doesn’t like versatility? The only thing I’m not too keen on is the shoes but they’re not so bad that it affects my opinion of the collection and they look comfy I guess.

Lastly, we’ve got to talk about Jacquemus, one of the most influential names in fashion at the moment. And yes, this time round, I’m doing it: I’m buying into the hype.

This collection is gorgeousss! I can see already that a lot of the recurring elements of the show are going to be big summer trends for this year (the cut outs and strappy details on the blouses are everywhere already) even though it isn’t hot enough to have collectively decided the time to start dressing for heat is upon us yet, and that’s always a good indicator of how successful the designer was in their vision and attempts to assess the needs and wants of fashion enthusiasts; whether I’m as big a fan of his work as everyone else seems to be, there’s no denying Simon Porte Jacquemus has always excelled at this practice if the buzz around him is anything to go by. It makes sense given the last year of us all being stuck in and suppressed that a lot of us are already romanticising the summer ahead, anticipating picnics and beach days and general Theresa May running through wheat fields type shenanigans galore, in spite of how dubious an assumption it is to make that British weather will allow for this; Porte Jacquemus has very much catered to this wishful thinking and the popularity of the whole escapist “cottage core” aesthetic, sexing it up a little bit with pieces that hug the body in ways only Mugler knows how whilst being lightweight and relaxed enough to look good with windswept, sandy hair and a little dose of sunburn. I’m talking enough to give you some cutesy freckles and rosy cheeks not PSA on the importance of suncream territory, guys, what is it with those of us on the gen Z/millennial cusp not taking sun damage seriously!? Why do I have to beg so many of my friends to wear it!? Does nobody else remember those photos they’d show you in PSHE in English primary schools of burnt people’s skin under UV lights? Or is that just me being weird and only having such a vivid memory of the images because teachers told us we had to wait until year 6 to see them due they to their “graphic” nature only for my gore-loving self to be extremely underwhelmed when we finally did get that lesson? They showed us a woman giving birth in year 4 for fuck’s sake. THAT was traumatising.

Back to the actual point anyway, with just a couple of negatives, the first of which being that the pieces are very similar to those feminine looks we saw dotted about the Jacquemus menswear collection from last year that were all over fashion Twitter. In Simon Porte Jacquemus’ defence though, it makes sense that those tones and silhouettes would be revisited in a full womenswear collection for that very reason; considering they went down so well and that lockdown gave us a bit of a half-baked summer in 2020, expanding on those elements enough for a whole new collection makes good business sense. We did get some cool additions too, mainly in the form of accessories, with the hardware details on the belts similar to those included in the Givenchy collection and the abstract hair slides being standouts for me. It was all exquisite-the shoes, the jewellery, the styling, everything 10/10. My other nitpick, and I say nitpick not because it’s not important but because it’s an issue that’s hardly restricted to Jacquemus (this casting team are far from the worst offenders, Saint Laurent I’m looking at you), is that I WISH we’d see more diversity with the models. Despite what my body dysmorphia yells at me, I am small, and yet seeing all those fucking minuscule waists made me die a little inside; it’s crazy to me that in 2020 the lack of variety in body types on the runway is still such a problem.

I must have said this a million times but I don’t want to end on a negative note so let me reiterate: this collection was STUN. NING. Plus there were some others I’ve talked about in this post that I’m sure will make it into my top 20 in the final part, Jacquemus, Dion Lee and Etro for sure; we even got some gorgeous pieces from Maria Grazia which I thought was a sentence I’d never type out. Have I said enough to not leave a bad taste in the mouth of anyone who read to the end of this post? I hope so, lol! TBH, it’s impressive given everything that’s going on that the majority of designers did roll out collections in September as usual so serious respect to them and their design teams for that.

In the next post, I’ll fingers crossed be able to include everything from Kim Shui (exciting!) through to at least Off-White (actually pretty good this time?!) and make this whole thing a 4 parter before getting straight on top of the photo posts I’m thinking about doing for the time being for the F/W21 shows. So as usual, if you did read to the end thank you so much and I respect the perseverance you must have to get through all my rambling, lmao. Hope everyone is well and coping okay and again, my inbox is always open for any post suggestions, constructive criticism, or just a chat for anyone who needs a listening ear.

Big love and thank you again!

Lauren x

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sanerontheinside · 5 years

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saner is a tiny bit frazzled, running around putting out a bunch of tiny fires all over the place. saner is drafting a record while all of this is fresh. saner hopes all of this will soon achieve a successful culmination.

saner is well aware that they’re not out of the woods yet.

below the cut is a working draft for a review of experience at a doctor’s office. It’s a wild ride, folks, and goes to show that saner is too tired for shit and also too damn nice.

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tl;dr: spent over 3 weeks trying to get a medical device replaced because of a failure of communication for which the doctor is largely responsible

The item is functional, but loses all saved data every time you change the battery, because the internal battery has run out. This effectively means that removing the external battery for any reason disrupts connection of device to insulin pump, which it controls. Inconveniently, this means needing to change insulin pump (aka “pod”) whenever the batteries run out, regardless of whether pod has run out its 3-day fda-approved period.

(Consider: person drops PDM at work and batteries pop out. Person now needs to change pump. Person should theoretically be carrying spare insulin vial and spare pod in purse. Person is not, for various reasons, carrying spare insulin vial and pod in purse.)

Adventures as follows:

10/14: made call to insurance, was approved for full coverage of item

10/14: called Insulet corp and gave them the green light for re-ordering new device; Insulet calls doctor, submits order paperwork

10/15: Insulet sends email: “subject: reorder delay. Text: We are notifying you that we have attempted to obtain the proper paperwork from your doctor but have yet to receive a response. Unfortunately, without the required paperwork we are unable to move forward with processing your order.”

10/17 call doctor’s office, speak to receptionist, who promises to follow up

10/24: insulet emails again with confidential letter attached, which states they have still received nothing from doctor’s office

10/24: call office again; unable to speak to anyone in person as office closed early and emergency message service does not regard the situation as emergent

10/25: call to office successful, receptionist once again promises to follow up

11/3 (Sunday): call placed to product support line of insulet for update; insulet promises to email ASAP

11/5: insulet email says paperwork still not received

11/5: call placed to doctor’s office. Receptionist now familiar with situation, states that doctor has resubmitted paperwork several times

11/5: place call to insulet corp for clarification. Insulet customer service rep states that exactly one blank on the form remains unfilled, namely the icd-10 code, without which they cannot get approval from insurance. Rep adds that insulet has called and left 3 messages with explanation. Ask rep to once again bring this to attention of office. Rep promises to place call.

11/5: email from rep saying they’ve called the doctor and been shouted at (note that there is no sign the doctor ever let them explain why they were calling). Rep hopes the paperwork will be correctly resubmitted soon.

11/5: place call to doctor’s office, forwarded to voicemail twice. Finally reach doctor’s office, inform receptionist of missing information.

11/7: call insulet to check status; form has not been resubmitted. Rep offers to scan form with arrow indicating space with missing information and send copy to me.

11/7: hand-deliver form to doctor’s office. Doctor not present (at clinic); hand form to receptionist. Point to relevant blank space on form.

Updates to follow, I guess. I really hope not.

Please note: had this device been lost or irreparably damaged 10/14, I would’ve been in the hospital that same day. too damn nice.

also ngl I remember to call them once a week because I’m working 2 part time jobs and have classes to attend. I practically took the better part of this week off to deal with all of this crap (+ dental).

(And this is the second time this doctor had some difficulty filling my prescriptions.) (I’ve scheduled my next appt with a new office.)

#jkfycowofhwi #‘its ridiculous’ the receptionist says to me today ‘how many times weve had to resubmit this paperwork’#me: *clears throat* *says nothing because i still need them to fill prescriptions until i see new doctor*#note additionally that at no point has my office ACTUALLY FOLLOWED UP #WITH ME #HAS NOT CALLED ME TO SAY ‘HEY! WE DID THE THING’#afaik they may as well not even be submitting a n y t h i n g

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I purchased the Medela with my second and have used it full time (3x a day, 5 days a week) for 3 months now and still going strong. I have a LOT to say about these pumps, but the bottom line is Medela is far superior. If you don’t want to read the full review, save yourself time, money, and frustration and purchase a Medela.

My experience with Ameda: I purchased this pump for two main reasons. First, it was a closed system (milk can’t get into tubes) and the cost differential – there was a greater one when I purchased the Ameda in 2011. At first things worked well. I starting pumping at night to build supply before returning to work. After returning to work, things continued well for a few months, then all of a sudden my supply started dropping. I could tell that my pump “wasn’t quite the same” so I read and read online. Ultimately, I determined that I needed to replace the valves. I did, and things improved… for a few weeks. Then, again, my supply dropped, I replaced the valves and things improved for a short time. This repeated several times (those valves are $7 for a pair… that adds up!!!!). I spent more than what I wanted to on replacement valves. This went on until my son was 7 months and then my supply all but dried up. When it got to the point that I could only get 4 oz per day and I was pumping 3x a day for 20 minutes each I decided it was time to switch to formula. Did I blame the pump? Not at the time, but now, absolutely! So, I cleaned everything well and packed it away carefully knowing that I would need it again for the next baby (except for the time when my close friend had her Ameda motor die on her after about 6 months of daily use and she borrowed mine for a week – hers was under the 1 year warranty, so Ameda did send a replacement free of charge). When my second baby came, I pulled it back out and pumped some during maternity leave without issue at first (new valves). Then all of a sudden I felt the pump “wasn’t quite the same” so I took it to a lactation consultant to look it over. We tested just the motor and it was reading the correct suction pressure. We checked the tubing and other connections until we found the root cause; THE VALVES!!!!!! The bad valve was essentially causing the pump to pull less than half the expected vacuum. Bottom line, it was worthless with bad valves. The lactation consultant opened a new package of valves from her own store and one of them was bad right of package. We went through all of mine and the majority of them were bad. No wonder my supply dried up… I was pumping, but with bad valves I wasn’t actually removing milk. If you don’t remove milk your body slows the production. I decided at that point to test until I found a few extra good valves and then anytime I needed more, I would just have to come back and test to 100% verify that the valves I was using were good. I DID NOT want to lose my supply again just because of the bad valves. Well, it didn’t matter, because a week into me pumping at work, my motor started to go out. Yes, it was 2 years old, but the actual working life of the pump was about 5. Either way, I may have only used it for 5 months but it was not under warranty so I purchased a brand new Medela pump. My experience with Medela: I purchased a Medela Pump in Style and what a difference!!! I could tell an immediate difference, but for the sake of not wanting the “new and shiny” aspect to persuade my review, I’ve waited to write this. So, with the Ameda in my first two weeks of work, I already saw a decline in my milk supply. This gem got my supply back up to normal within 3 days. If that’s not enough to persuade you to go with Medela, I don’t know what will. I have no complaints with this pump. In fact, that close friend that I mentioned hers broke on her… when she has a second little one I plan to help her buy a Medela. Yes, I’m that passionate about it. I feel sorry for the mommy that buys the Ameda and then doesn’t have the support system or money to problem solve the Ameda issues and buy all those replacement valves. Here are my opinions on the other aspects of the pumps: Bag: The backpack is tall and forces you to stack things. So, when you need the cooler from the bottom, you have to pull everything out. The tote, while maybe a little bigger is better organized so I don’t end up pulling everything out and readjusting. The Ameda is designed so you can pull the motor out of the bag, the Medela is not. So far that hasn’t presented a problem, but I can understand if you want to tuck it away in a small bag how it might be. The Ameda has no room to spare. If you want to bring a book along, good luck. With my Medela bag, I pack the hands free bra, extra bottles, a book, and extra accessories… with room to spare! Setup/Takedown: I felt like it was a much bigger deal to setup the Ameda to pump. You have to pull everything out of the bag and setup and then take it all back down and put away. With the Medela, the motor stays in the bag and everything stores nicely so you don’t have to pull everything out. I never have to take the cooler out and the tubes stay attached and have a nice little storage bag next to the motor. Flanges/Valves/Fittings: The Ameda accomplishes a “hygienic” closed system, which is a great concept, but comes at a price. I attribute this to my inadequate pumping and ultimately my supply drying up. The silicone diaphragm seemed to always get stuck in the vacuum position and the valves constantly needed replaced. I never did have to clean the tubes though. I also bought a different sized flange, but it was one that slide into the existing one and I never felt it made a good seal. The Medela is an open system and I do get condensation in the tubing. It’s worth it to me though because I know I’m getting great suction. I simply run my pump for a minute or two afterwards and it dries them out. The little white membranes provide the same function as the Ameda valves, but they are much less expensive and are much less likely to need replacing. I also had to buy a different flange size for the Medela, but it is designed so that the flange itself can just simply be a plug and play. It’s not an insert like the Ameda so I don’t have to worry about another joint that could potentially lead to suction loss. Cooler: The coolers are about the same size, but the Medela only has enough room for 4 bottles. The Ameda has room for 6. I only 4 - 5oz bottles so it works perfectly for me. With the Ameda, the ice packs never lasted long enough in my opinion. The Medela icepack is far superior. I even heat my milk to scald (150 deg F) – lipase enzyme issue you can Google if you’re interested in learning about it – and then I stick it in the bag and it is able to cool it and keep it cold until the evening! It’s awesome. Bottles: Ameda is 4 oz, Medela is 5 oz. Other than that, they are essentially the same. I don’t use them. I pump into the Playtex drop-ins pump and store liners and then they pop into the drop-in bottles (less bottle washing!). Motor: The vacuum supposedly is rated the same (lactation consultant shared that with me, but I’m not going to lie I didn’t read into it), but my experience is that the Medela is more reliable (several reviews report motors dying prematurely… which I experienced as well as my close friend). Also, the Ameda has the ability to adjust both speed and suction. At first I thought this would be perfect, but the more I used it, the more I was annoyed that it didn’t just automatically adjust. How am I supposed to know how fast it should go? Haha. So, the fact that the Medela pump does it’s automatic fast speed at first for letdown then adjusts to regular on its own or with the push of a button makes my life much easier. I’ve never once thought how nice it would be to adjust the speed myself. With the Ameda I always had to use full suction. With the Medela I have it at half suction and it works perfectly! Also, the Medela works faster for me than the Ameda did. Cleaning: The flanges are essentially the same. The two things that are different about cleaning is that the Ameda valves are a pain to clean because you really can’t clean them for risk of damaging them… and they are expensive! I gently rinsed them and left it at that. With the Medela, I do have to rinse the tubes once a week and have to do it when I’m certain I won’t need them… because you have to wait for them to dry completely before use again. So far it hasn’t been an issue. Availability of parts: Because Medela is a better known brand, you can find just about any replacement item you need at Target. So, when you need that emergency membrane/valve, you can almost guarantee you’ll find it at a nearby story, whereas, with Ameda I was overnight shipping if I had an emergency. Noise: The Ameda is much louder and more obnoxious sounding the Medela. Mine had a whirring sound when it pumped. Others who heard it thought something was wrong with it and usually asked if everything was okay (they were Medela users). Batteries: If you’re going to pump in the car, even once, buy the car adapter. These things sucks batteries like crazy (both of them). The battery pack is external with the Medela, which is has to be since you can’t remove the motor… but it makes it annoying. Hands free: Do yourself a favor and get a hands free pumping bra! In conclusion, buy Medela and rest assured you’ve made the right decision.

This sucks. Quite literally in fact! I was lucky enough to have a sweet baby that was born 5 weeks premature. She was perfect in every way but had to spend 3 of those extra weeks in the NICU. (I think they just wanted more time with her) One of the many perks that we were provided is the "Pump for Preemie Program". They allow you to take home a hospital grade breast pump (also a Medela) and hold your baby as collateral. It sounds like I am joking but when they were releasing her from the NICU, I had 5 nurses call me to make sure I brought the pump or else they wouldn't let me take her home. Literally 5! That pump was amazing - it has a better suction than the personal use pumps but that is not always a good thing. The main difference is that I had to pump for longer using this pump than with the hospital grade to get the same amount. It was just an extra couple of minutes. The longer pump time is MORE than worth the price difference. The hospital grade ones are insanely expensive ( but you can rent them if you wanna try it out - try Babies-R-Us) On to this pump - It's a great deal. You get a portable pump, ice pack, power plug, bottles and accessories. You will certainly need additional accessories but Medela makes that easy by offering a lot of "gift packs" or "new mom" kits. The breast pump I ended up with had the "On the go tote" that is pictured here but they also offer a backpack or a "Metro" messenger bag. (I suggest you go for the tote and get the CheekyTummy diaper backpack or use it with the Boba 4g baby carrier that has straps on the shoulder to help hold your bags.That keeps arms open to block strangers (and Grandma) from kissing on your baby and waking him up.) This pump can be run on A/C power or 8 AA batteries. They make it significantly heavier, so get to the plug when you can. It is designed to be a double pump but you can always use it on just one breast. The breast shields come in medium- I don't have huge boobs and my nipples didn't grow 3 sizes, like the grinch's heart, so those worked well for me. The larger sizes that I tried at the hospital would try to suck in my entire boob and my will to live. A good way to tell if you have the right size is to see what is sucking in and rubbing. If all of your nipple is rubbing/chaffing against the inside of the flange, than you probably need to try the next size up. It should fit the center of the flange and by the middle of the pump you will see it has reached maximum size is gliding along the inner edges smoothly. If it is sucking in areola and nipple - it's too big.

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I got one of the "hands free" bras to go with it. The idea is great - pump without having to hold two little milk troughs to your chest. The execution makes it hard. I would suggest trying it with a tight tank top first. Just channel Regina George from Mean Girls and cut holes on each nipple and stick the flange through. Honestly, your probably not walking around and pumping as it is your only chance to actually sit down. Some well placed pillows will hold up the bottles so you can pump, check facebook, and continue to rock the baby's swing so she doesn't wake up mid-let down. This pump is quiet - but not silent. It's like an aggressive, nipple sucking, purring cat. They have quieter ones on the market but I am not sure they can hold up the level of suction over the long term. The hoses can build up quite a bit of condensation in them, which can mold. Make sure to air them out whenever you see little droplets in them. You can point the tubes downward put the pump on full blast without the breast shields on and let it air out the hoses before let down starts. You can also use rubbing alcohol to clean them but I never tried that. All in all, this is a wonderful product. I am glad I spent the extra dollars and went for Medela over an off brand. The replacement parts are easy to find. I would highly recommend it - it will be your best friend and your worst enemy!

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What is the Best Strategy to apply in new fin-related Projects (with Cloud Integration) - 5 Steps

Hello, I hope you are having an amazing week!

Today I bring to you one of the most discussed topics that me and my group talk about. I think you’ll find this helpful so keep a good eye until the end.

The creation of corporate projects goes through several moments. In planning a new initiative, the manager must pool resources, people, and tools to ensure everyone works the best they can, with no mistakes occurring and risks are low. This ensures that the company will be able to achieve its objectives without great difficulties, in addition to maximizing the results achieved.

1. What is a Plan and a good Strategy?

In the Work Plan must be consolidated all the information about the objective to be sought, detailing for it all the activities necessary to realize it, as to the physical, monetary and human resources needed. This tool allows all decisions to be taken before they are put into practice, guaranteeing a higher rate of correctness and making possible the prior correction of possible problems. In this way, it is very suitable for reaching short-term solutions, but nothing prevents it from being used in other circumstances as well.

The action plan can be used by professionals who want to achieve some goal in their careers or by companies that need to invest in more complex solutions. It enables the executor to follow a sequence of clearer and more logical tasks previously delimited, which leads to the achievement of goals faster and more practical. Its effectiveness is mainly explained by the fact that it considers the internal and external conditions of the individual or the company to set up adequate strategies to be performed in a certain period of time.

2. Teamwork above everything!

Seeking to visualize all parts of the process and the necessary steps - that is, to see beyond one's own activities - is the best way to understand how each is important to achieve the end result. According to the management coordinator, trust is indispensable for a good performance of a team that has a common goal. And it must be mutual, so strive to pass on trust to others. A person who knows how to work in a team understands that the conflict of opinions can generate better results. When, on the contrary, in an efficient team, everyone knows that to evolve and reach (or surpass) expectations, it is also necessary to give and receive feedback.

3. Fin-related control for new projects

A project exists to meet the expectations of the stakeholders in the generation of a product, service or result. However, when we work in a company that lives on projects, it is fundamental that they make a profit, because only through it is possible to maintain a healthy business. Everything that is measured can be controlled, so in this post I present a framework for cost management in projects based on a support worksheet that does all the calculations necessary to keep the project under control. Subsequently, I will show you how to join all the projects to make the whole company management. To plan the expenses, you must fill in the details according to the categories that your project works. In the example, you can check the same categories described above, now with the possibility to plan monthly, as shown in the following figure. When the project is calculated from the costs, the worksheet applies these percentages to the total values of each section / account (Ex: Resale, third, working hours etc). When the price is arbitrary, the worksheet makes a weighted average to distribute the ticket. That is, redistribute the percentages on the basis of 100%.

4. Pick the best cloud data integration

Starting on Salesforce Platform - They allow users to easily update contact information. If you do a Google search of a specific person, who you know is at a different company, 9 times out of 10, you'll find that all search results display the past company and there's really no way to change that without opening a support ticket. With Connect, you can create an account and update the title, company, email, etc. without going through all of those extra steps.The user interface feels simple like Salesforce Classic, which makes it very easy to navigate the site. The advanced search is also a powerful feature with many filters, which makes it a great tool for refining your target industry/role.What I like best about Connect is that it's technically free to use. You can purchase points to buy actual contacts, but I find it much more worthwhile to create an account and generate points by adding or updating contacts and companies. (this review is from Connor B. another member).

TIBCO Cloud Integration - It is responsive, as soon as all Metadata has been cached and easy to use after a short introduction phase. The maps we build can be reused for other Migration projects. I've had maps that worked just fine in the classic UI, but I would get errors after opening them in the new UI. From a functionality standpoint, the tool is 100% effective and what we need. We'd love it to process records and load metadata a little faster, but in the end, we can live with the way it is now and the integrations are reliable. (this review is from Michael D. another member).

There are other great platforms like Carbonite, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and much more that you can easily find on google search. The Salesforce and TIBCO are our top 2.

5. Be patient but efficient - control time like money

Maintain your composure, always - Maybe you end up exploding and consequently provoke and push others when you are stressed. Try to avoid harsh and instantaneous reactions. That is what is possibly causing you problems. After all, drawing hasty conclusions, categorically rejecting what others say, and finally using an inflamed speech is not a good motivational strategy. Others will find you a closed or combative person, when what you really want is to be seen as reasonable. If the scenario is more negative, you may even think that you consider the other professionals stupid and uninformed. You can send someone in your place to deliver the message. Or you can still wait until the next meeting to react. They select the rhythm, style, tone, tempo, and tactics after assessing what works best in each situation. It is the inflexible people who have sensitivity problems because they do not know how to adjust what they say according to the public. Open your mind to the different - Maybe you are stubborn or are showing signs of stubbornness, becoming inflexible and closing in on new or different points of view. You need to turn off your automatic evaluation and rejection filter and listen.

That’s it, now you’re ready! This is our 5 steps to achieve it!

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate do ask in the comments. And remember that next article/post will be better (yes that’s possible) because we’re constantly improving our content.

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Week 5 Turning Pro Challenge - Live Account Forex Review - Trading Account Tutorial

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Week 5 Turning Pro Challenge - Live Account Forex Review - Trading Account Tutorial

Welcome to training for a challenge per week five account evaluation this is a Raman Gill from buying and selling with Venus calm just a rapid disclaimer before we get began this is for academic functions handiest trading is a dicy business so please watch out with your cash as you’re conscious turning for a task is set finding out the behaviors of official traders and enforcing these behaviors so we’re in a position to generate official outcome as good there are a few exceptional facets of this challenge and what we are looking at doing is surroundings a goal making sure now we have a exchange plan after which imposing that trade plan so three key areas that we center of attention on our practise execution and review for our buying and selling if you haven’t already joined the turning pro mission I invite you to verify out buying and selling with Venus comm forward cut back flip pro where you’ll be able to be competent to download all of the works books and spreadsheets that i use to monitor this assignment let’s begin off by means of taking a seem at our goals the pursuits that I had set were to make hundred pips per week to exchange the London session and if you’re watching at hundred pips per week so i’m pretty much watching at making about 35 pips per day because i’m best trading 3 days per week so in phrases of the goals i did not meet my targets this week this week was once in reality a hard week for me and i’m going to exhibit you the outcome that I received but one of the vital large challenges that I had this week was once my trading psychology I received tousled because of some external hobbies that happened some comments that came my approach and i didn’t control them to effectually and i took them too in my opinion so it messed up my buying and selling psychology and that i started a second guessing myself I internalized it an excessive amount of and it simply threw me off my game so I most commonly have losses each single week total commonly i’d have one shedding day and two winning day so that is so the usual that i’m going with so despite the fact that we’ve been placing up some great outcome the fact is that every one those trades have no longer been profitable trades there were some losses in there nevertheless the winning trades have been way higher and so they worked out a lot better than the shedding trade so we didn’t lose as much and the the number of profitable trades have been greater as good as the profit objectives on those successful trades were greater thus the overall results had been relatively excellent nevertheless it does not imply that I do not have dropping days I do and that i had the primary dropping day and after that considering of some feedback that came my approach it simply thoroughly threw me off the game even though I do ought to say I used to be looking for a shedding Greek given that we’ve got had a best run and also you are not able to do not simply have a satisfactory run there are at all times losses so in my intellect at the back of my mind I had this factor that I can have dropping Greek so that is an extra thing that I must work on it creates a self-pleasant prophecy so if you are trading and you end up happening that track ensure you interrupt that pattern on your attitude and also you just go back and self-control that so that is simply variety of a part observe so a few those things that threw me off my recreation and that i must say it took me a while to get back on monitor from that so total in terms of pursuits did not meet the hundred pips per week purpose this week and for the relaxation of it we’re risking the account size and the amount of risk and having stop losses in place those were nice I did apply all those things one thing that I did I would have finished significantly better this week used to be slicing my losses and that’s probably the most matters that form of goes again to your buying and selling psychology when you consider that I was down within the dumps over a couple of things there i didn’t manage my trades appropriately I would have reduce the losses short I would have taken probably the most gains that were to be had in those trades and yet I held onto the tray slightly too long which ended up developing losses for me so i didn’t follow my possess principles with regards to the exchange administration considering my psychology was once tousled so trading psychology is very very major and performs a very predominant role on this in phrases of exchange training this is my force I do that as part of our trade room with the every day market evaluation calls each evening so I did that well we appear at market course and we additionally seem at the technical phases to alternate from we look at what essential news are popping out what affect we predict as a result of these information and creating a exchange plan all of that went well this week submit market evaluate I did give a number of concept to how this week went and one of the most challenges that I acquired into and how I plan to beat them next time again the post market evaluate I suppose despite the fact that this is the discipline that I battle with regularly this overall went better in view that of the shedding week that I had it pressured me to pay attention to what things went well what did not go so good and what I ought to trade and plenty of that’s managing my trading psychology as well as alternate management and doing their preparation so a few of those things that I do well nevertheless trading psychology is one other thing that i am gonna add to my guidelines and that i just must make sure that i’m within the surest mode to trade at any time when I get into buying and selling so now let’s go on to the account and spot the place we set for this week so this is the trading account that i’ve been buying and selling last time our stability was once higher this time here the steadiness is diminish that account size dropped so let’s go to our spreadsheets that that will go over some numbers right here that is the spreadsheet that now we have been utilising here the final 4 weeks have been particularly just right we have been at about ninety seven factor eight four percent return now that has dropped to about ninety one factor three six percent total this week I had a loss of 2 hundred $26 and ninety two cents so this brings the whole profit at thirty-one ninety seven point five six so like I said this was a dropping week so the outcome have dropped a little bit and now i am sitting at a ninety one factor three six percentage in terms of the return let’s go on to the scorecard right here so scorecard is the place I self monitor and ponder what matters I did well and where i’ve room for growth in terms of the training right here I did take a appear at the information did my market evaluation competently and i checked out abilities entries and targets of each evening in order that one went well and i bought full marks over there in alternate execution here i didn’t take trades that deliberate like I mentioned I might have completed a better job I went into an excessive amount of of a shielding mode the place I was scared to lose and consequently of that it can be just like the crimson elephant within the room so whilst you say don’t feel about pink elephant simplest thing that you would be able to feel about is the crimson elephant so that is where I did mess up this week so this section didn’t go as well a discontinue loss entered this one sincerely went it was once okay in order that used to be no longer too large of a quandary profit target set those have been high-quality as well trade management is one other field that I would do better i didn’t do as good this week most often i have a strict algorithm that I comply with when managing my trades and for essentially the most part i’m excellent with those however this week given that I was down in the dumps i didn’t manage the trades as well as I could have in phrases of the submit market overview I did this well again this is one other subject that i’m presently working on so overall this went ok in terms of managing my emotions I provide myself a 0 out of three in view that that is the place I think like I relatively lacked this week and that i would have executed a a lot better job I bought into my head and i simply might no longer shake off that terrible feelings that I was once feeling and consequently of that the whole lot that I did was once typically flawed I would have done so many matters better this week so therefore of looking at one more elements so managing emotions is an additional thing that I need to take very significantly and i have to safeguard myself from negativity and that is what i’d suggest for everyone else as good there’s a number of stuff that goes on round us exclusive things can have an influence things that are not even involving buying and selling would have an affect on our buying and selling since we as human beings bring all of that to the desk once we do something in order that was once a enormous lesson realized this week and this is some thing that i am going to be specializing in for certain going forward if you’re fascinated with my exchange room or buying and selling indicators provider let me share some small print with you on that so it is a comprehensive carrier we most commonly begin off with a weekly market overview per week on Sunday so if you’re part of my buying and selling staff you also get access to a personal skype team where I share my trade strategies and analysis and i also send out Twitter signals when I’m entering a alternate so those would be the live trades that I enter every day now we have a daily Market evaluation call where we take a appear on the charts we appear at what happened in the markets and create a plan for buying and selling the next day so we mark out our technical levels of where we’re watching to take the trades from what direction we are looking for every pair I quilt a couple of one-of-a-kind pairs in that and we mark these phases for every pair where to enter the trade and where our skills revenue targets shall be for each and every one i am active in the alternate room throughout the London session commencing at 3 a.M.Japanese and when I’m able to enter the exchange I put a exchange alert within the trade room with my entry discontinue loss as well as profit target I additionally take trades after the day-to-day market analysis called within the evening so if you are no longer competent to alternate in the London session with me which you can also track the trades in the night and those are in most cases we just set the trades and we let them run so that they in most cases play out in the course of the London however we’re not actively monitoring those trades so that is yet another option if you are not capable to exchange London session each Friday we’ve got a member zone simplest a webinar at 9:30 a.M.Eastern this one is recorded equal on the every day market and Alf is known as and that you may invariably view it later if you are now not ready to make it at the moment as opponents you also get my pivot point indicator I relatively like that pivot factor indicator it is certainly one of my favorite ones that I used to exchange if you are fascinated with becoming a member of the exchange room there are three different options which you can decide on from one is the month-to-month option which is $ninety seven a month and with this one you’re just on a month-to-month billing cycle so that you can cancel at any time I also have a few different plans if you wish to convey the rate down a one is a biannual plan so essentially you’re procuring six months at a time and the cost for with a view to be sixty-seven dollars a month and if you wanted to be on a each year plan this is the first-class plan that i’ve for forty-seven greenbacks a month so those are the three choices if you want to join me within the alternate room so that is it for at present you guys have a great trading week and i will see you next time

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Bluehost Review – 7 Pros & 4 Cons of Bluehost (Server Speed Tested!)

Bluehost

https://www.bluehost.com/

Bluehost is a fantastic choice for beginners who want to build their first website for their businesses or blogs. Their onboarding process and automatic WordPress installation makes everything feel very easy to use. They may not provide the best value or service, but their product just works.

If you’re flopping about, unsure whether or not to use Bluehost as your web hosting provider, worry not – you’ve stumbled on to the right page.

Here at Bitcatcha, we’re a little obsessed with web hosting (our doctors say it’s borderline unhealthy).

We’ve gone ahead and gotten ourselves a Bluehost account, run some performance tests on their shared hosting plan, and we’re ready to present to you the most definitive Bluehost review you’ll find on the internet.

A Little Bit About Bluehost

Founded by a very young Matt Heaton and Danny Ashworth all the way back in 2003, Bluehost has been around a LONG time.

They’re practically dinosaurs in the industry, but that ain’t a bad thing – having been around for so long means that they’ve learned a thing or two about web hosting, and are able to provide their users with a kick-ass user experience.

For a web hosting provider that’s known and used by people all over the world, Bluehost has but 1 datacenter, which is located in the US. That datacenter powers all of their clients’ websites, which adds up to a whopping 2 million, and is growing by the thousands each day!

Hot Damn!

They obviously made quite an impression in the market, because, in just 7 short years, they got the attention of web hosting giant Endurance International Group, which proceeded to acquire them into the EIG group of companies.

With the support of EIG, Bluehost managed to substantially grow their once small team to a family that’s 750 people large, allowing them to provide much needed round-the-clock support for their customers!

Not impressive enough for you?

Then check this out – Bluehost is also one of the 3 web hosting providers that are actually recommended by WordPress!

If you’re wondering why that’s impressive, it’s because 30% of sites in the entire world wide web is actually powered by WordPress. In other words, they’re the rock stars of the internet and getting an endorsement from them is similar to getting your workout gear endorsed by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Now that you’re acquainted with Bluehost, let’s find out why, in our humble opinion, Bluehost is a pretty strong web hosting provider!

7 Great Reasons To Pick Bluehost!

1. Bluehost Is Surprisingly Easy To Use

If you’ve ever built a website before and used a web hosting service provider with a crappy interface, you’ll understand the pain of logging into the dashboard and… not knowing what to do.

Bluehost surprised us with their onboarding process. After completing the registration process, we logged in to the dashboard and before we knew it, clicked next a few times and then, *poof* magic – WordPress was already installed and ready to go.

But pictures speak a thousand words, so here are some to show you what really went down after logging in.

Bluehost will begin by asking you a series of questions about what kind of site you’ll be creating. Select an option from the drop-down menu, and hit continue. Easy-peasy.

They’ll then ask what kind of site you’ll be creating, whether it’s a blog, e-Commerce site, or a niche website selling poop scented wrapping paper.

Them pesky buggers will want to know more about your site, but worry not, because they have your best interests at heart. Name your site, think of a tagline, and rate your website building level on their noob detector scale.

All you have to do next is pick a theme you like, and then boom, WordPress is automatically installed just like that! No need to worry about getting it installed in the wrong folder, or drastically messing something up.

Bluehost will take care of the backend, while you just need to worry about customizing your site and making it look pretty.

If you’re new to site building, I’m pretty sure you have no problems at all creating your site with Bluehost. Even those of us that are a little more seasoned will appreciate how convenient their dashboard is to use.

Look out how beautiful that custom cPanel interface looks. None of that confusing looking dated mess that comes with stock cPanel.

2. They’re Surprisingly Fast Around The World!

According to thinkwithgoogle, fast site load speeds are important for online businesses to be successful, and server response time plays a HUGE role in getting websites to load up fast.

However, with merely 1 datacenter located in the USA, we didn’t think Bluehost would do very well when put through our proprietary server speed test.

Using our test site hosted on their basic plan, we went to town and started testing their response times – boy, we were dead wrong.

Average Speed: 153 ms

The American hosting provider responded exceptionally well, hitting speeds that are WAY faster than Google’s recommended 200ms in all countries, except for Bangalore.

They’re obviously fastest in the USA as the datacenter is located there, but they’re no slouch in countries on the other side of the world like Singapore, Sydney and Japan!

With an average worldwide score of 153ms, Bluehost is one of the fastest A-ranked hosting providers we’ve ever had the pleasure of reviewing. You can rest assured that no matter where your target audience resides in the world, Bluehost will be able to deliver!

Well… except if your audience is in India. You might want to check out our piece on the best web hosting for India instead.

LEARN MORE @ BLUEHOST OFFICIAL

* User-friendly hosting with great speed at an affordable rate!

3. They’ve Got High-Performance Servers

Those of you with plans to run large scale e-Commerce websites or reddit-like forums would be happy to know that Bluehost offers High-Performance Servers that are suitable for your needs.

Why is this important?

Well, with shared web hosting, the purpose of the server is literally in the name – you’re sharing the space with other users, which helps reduce the cost.

However, some users might accidentally (or intentionally) use up way more resources than allocated, which means that everyone else sharing the server with that user will experience site slowdowns – sometimes their sites won’t even load at all.

With High-Performance Servers, Bluehost allocates fewer users per server, and each user is given a file count of 300,000 – this means more computing resources per user, consistent site load speeds, and less downtime caused by rogue users!

BUT!

As it is with all things good, there’s always a catch.

Their High-Performance servers are only available with their Pro plan, which is a whole lot pricier than the rest of their shared web hosting plans.

Guess if you want good performance, you’ve gotta pay for it.

Quite frankly, we have every confidence in their servers. Our test site is hosted only with their Basic plan, and even then, the uptime for it has been 100% since April 2018!

Uptime since April 2018

99.98%

* Bluehost Basic Plan Uptime - tracked with uptimerobot.com

If their shared hosting servers can produce such uptimes, we can easily expect the same from their High-Performance servers.

4. Fantastic Security Features

When we say security, we don’t mean features that just keeps your website safe from those fiendish, ne’er do well hackers.

We’re talking about security in terms of peace of mind, and keeping spam away from the sanctuary of your brand new email inbox.

Let’s look into peace of mind first.

You don’t want to spend days, weeks, months, customizing and tweaking your business website to get it to look perfect and suited to rank on the front of page Google, only to load it up to discover that someone screwed the pooch and your entire website is gone.

For this, Bluehost provides their users with CodeGuard basic – at $2.99 a month.

CodeGuard Basic

The name sounds cool, but it’s actually just a fancy name they came up with for their daily backup service. It’s not bad at all – monitoring your website/database frequently, notifying you if there are any changes, and automatically performing backups.

The basic version provides 1GB storage space, daily backup and monitoring, and 3 restorations a month.

If you need more, CodeGuard comes in Professional, Premium, and Enterprise versions too, but be prepared to pay higher prices for those.

SpamExperts

We assure you, Bluehost won’t be sending someone that can tell you the nuances between different types of pork used in SPAM products.

Instead, SpamExperts is their term for an advanced email filter. It scans incoming emails for spam, viruses, phishing, and other email-related attacks by spammers, and filters them with a rockin’ 99.98% accuracy, all before it reaches your inbox.

Basically, it helps your mailbox stay squeaky clean and junk-free.

SiteLock

In terms of actually protecting your website, Bluehost comes with a basic firewall that offers a minimal level of protection against external threats.

However, If you want enhanced protection, you can get it in the form of SiteLock.

SiteLock comes in three tiers: Essential, Prevent, and Prevent Plus.

With Essential, you’ll get to enjoy automatic Malware removal, which does exactly nothing against DDOS attacks or anything major.

With Prevent, the security level is upped a little with Automatic Malware Removal, DDoS Protection, 6-hour response time and….Image Optimization. Quite frankly, I don’t know what image optimization has to do with security, but it’s a feature I won’t be complaining about.

Prevent Plus does everything Prevent can, but with the added benefit of having daily scan frequency.

SiteLock is good and all, but the thing is, they all come as an add-on, meaning we’re gonna need to fork out more money to enjoy it. Come on Bluehost, you can afford to give your customers a little extra security for free!

5. They’ve Got A Buffet Of Benefits

Gone are the days where you have to carefully plan out the number of sites you’re planning to launch, and the kind of resources needed to run all of it effectively.

Bluehost’s shared hosting plans come with all sorts of benefits, and best of all, almost everything is unlimited! We’re talking:

· Unlimited websites

· Unlimited SSD storage

· Unlimited parked domains

· Unlimited subdomains

· Unmetered bandwidth

You are basically free to create as many sites as you want with them! And you won’t have to worry about the number of visitors to your site!

Be wary though – having too many visitors at the same time might take up too much resources, and Bluehost is notorious for deactivating/deleting rogue sites.

6. Support Responds Very Fast!

One of the most infuriating things in life is waiting for support to respond to you, especially if your site needs attention NOW.

While we were setting up our test site, we were quite pleased to find that support responded via Live Chat very quickly. We’re accustomed to waiting at least 15 minutes for live chat support staff to respond, but the Bluehost support team consistently responded in less than 5 minutes.

We didn’t try phone or email support, but with live chat responding as quick as they do, we hardly think that those methods of support are necessary, although it’s nice to have in case of emergencies.

You won’t have to worry about support in different time zones either, because Bluehost’s support is available 24/7.

Excellent job, team!

7. Freebies That Matter

Some companies will entice you to sign up with their service with shallow free gifts. We’re talking about those that market regular services as “free”, such as “free” 24/7 support, or “free” WordPress installation.

Not Bluehost.

With the all-American web hosting service provider, you’ll actually get freebies that’ll make a difference in your bank account.

With every shared hosting plan purchased, Bluehost will throw in a domain name, free for the first year. To put things in perspective for you, domain names can cost anywhere from $8 to $872 million – yes you read that right. Here’s proof.

Aside from that, you’ll also get the enjoy free SSL – now this might not be much, but every little bit definitely helps to make a difference to the small business owner!

SEE FULL FEATURES @ BLUEHOST OFFICIAL

* Unlimited website, SSD, domains, and more!

4 Disadvantages Of Bluehost

They say that every rose has its thorn. Well, turns out Bluehost is quite thorny.

1. Bluehost Only Has 1 Datacenter

We mentioned previously that we were quite impressed by how fast Bluehost’s 1 datacenter performed, and we still are.

However, every millisecond counts when it comes to site load speed, and we know they can actually perform WAY better if they had datacenters in other continents to support audiences living further away.

They might have one of the best worldwide average speeds among all the web hosting services we’ve reviewed, but if another hosting provider like SiteGround has a datacenter in Asia, it’s a given that sites will load up faster for target audiences located there.

2. Untrained Trainees

I hate to say this because we all start out somewhere, but you really have to be wary of support that are a little wet behind the ears.

Bluehost doesn’t really make an effort to hide that they outsource their support team to India, which isn’t really a big deal anyway. I don’t mind, as long as they’re efficient and fast.

But what I do have a problem is incorrect advice given by trainees.

While setting up our test site, we asked the support team one really simple question:

“Does Bluehost provide us with an Uptime Guarantee?”

The support didn’t know what an uptime guarantee was.

Fine, maybe it got lost in translation. We explained what we were looking for and their reply was YES, Bluehost has an uptime guarantee!

So we asked him to point us to the terms of the guarantee and after going through it, we discovered that the provider does not actually guarantee uptime.

Lucky that this is just a minor issue. God forbid this young support chap gives the wrong advice regarding something major and causes some real damage to our sites.

Bluehost, if you’re reading this, PLEASE train your trainees. This is not acceptable.

3. No Uptime Guarantee

After ranting about it in the earlier point, I can’t really not talk about the lack of uptime guarantee here.

Downtime is quite detrimental to any website. You lose potential sales or conversions if your site is experiencing downtime, and if it’s consistent enough, search engines might not even bother listing your site.

This is why an uptime guarantee is important.

It shows you that the provider is committed to keeping your site up and running, and they’re willing to compensate customers if they face downtimes of below a certain percentage.

Not having one is a giant red flag in our books.

That being said, we have to give Bluehost props – their uptime is actually fantastic, as evidenced by the uptime data collected from our test site.

For the lazy, it’s been at 100% since April 2008. Quite an impressive feat!

4. Dodgy Checkout Practices

Pretty sure everyone reading this will be familiar with the sleazy used car salesman that tries to slyly upsell you things you don’t really need just to make a higher sale.

Making a purchase with Bluehost feels a little bit like we’re dealing with people of that sort.

Upon checkout, the box for SEO tools and Sitelock will be checked, which pushes the price up to close to $60 a year.

These things are nice to have but are completely unnecessary, and unsuspecting buyers might just click next and make the purchase unknowingly – which happened to me.

Make sure you uncheck these boxes before making your purchase (unless you actually want these features).

VPS Hosting

If you’re in need of VPS hosting, Bluehost’s virtual private servers are sure to please. Supported with SSD storage, you’ll enjoy all the power, flexibility and control you’ll need for your VPS needs.

Plans range from $18.99 – $59.99 a month.

Dedicated Hosting

Bluehost’s dedicated hosting plans allow users to have unrestricted access to their servers. With their industry-leading robust platform, you’ll get to enjoy powerful flexible hosting at decent prices.

Their dedicated hosting plans range from $79.99 – $119.99 per month.

GET 33% OFF @ BLUEHOST BASIC (FOR $3.95/MO)

* Price shown is based on 36-month subscription. ** 30-day money back guarantee!

Verdict: Bluehost Is Good, But Not The Best Choice!

Just because we didn’t pick Bluehost to be the best web hosting brand, doesn’t mean that they’re not a good service provider.

They’re actually pretty decent, providing their users with fast enough speeds worldwide to ensure their users’ sites are loaded fast enough to generate a healthy amount of sales.

With superb useability and great UX, Bluehost is fantastic for beginners. Their WordPress recommendation should speak volumes about their service.

One thing we need to mention is that Bluehost is still using cPanel, which is great news for those of us that are accustomed to using it. Since cPanel increased their prices, most web hosting providers have decided to dump them, but so far there seems to be no indication of Bluehost dropping cPanel.

However, the lack of an uptime guarantee got us pretty peeved, as most major providers have the balls to provide some sort of compensation if their users’ sites are down for a certain amount of time.

The very fact that the companies are willing to put their money where their mouth is, inspires confidence. Bluehost does exactly the opposite without an uptime guarantee… what if the websites hosted with them go down for an entire week?

Anyone can promise to “strive to maintain network and server uptime” but it means completely jack if they can’t sack up and foot the bill when shit hits the fan.

However, credit where credit is due – we’ve never had a problem with Bluehost’s actual uptime before. As a matter of fact, the uptime has been 100% on our test site since April 2018!

Our humble opinion is that Bluehost is a pretty strong hosting provider. They may not be the fastest and they may not be the best, but if you’re just looking to host a simple website, they’ve got all the tools you’ll need to do so effectively.

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How to Use LinkedIn for Lead Generation

LinkedIn is the world’s most effective social media platform for generating B2B leads.

And for any person or business offering a B2B product or service, LinkedIn is the premier lead generation tool to reach decision-makers and business professionals.

This isn’t my opinion. This is a fact.

Studies have shown that 80% of all B2B leads on social media come from LinkedIn, and 94% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn to distribute content. Clearly, it is the place to focus your efforts if you want to connect with the right people who can open doors for your business.

Best of all, you don’t need to spend a single dollar on advertising to consistently get good clients through LinkedIn.

If you haven’t been using LinkedIn for lead generation, now is the time to start.

You’ve likely heard the term social selling before and maybe even engaged in it.

But do you know for certain you’re doing it right?

Because there’s a lot of confusion about what social selling is.

If you think social selling is about blasting your templated sales message via one-to-one messaging or automation tools, you’d be wrong.

That approach only turns off your prospects and ruins your reputation.

When done right, however, social selling doesn’t involve any selling in the traditional sense. It’s meant to start conversations online and ultimately move them offline, where you can get to know your prospect better. And if they have a need for what you offer, you have a sales conversation with them.

That’s what social selling is at its core – relationship-building and offering help when your solution matches your prospect’s problem. It’s done via warm calls, not cold calls. In other words, it’s effective lead generation.

But before you jump into a misguided attempt at social selling and risk damaging your reputation, let me share with you three critical steps you need to follow to generate high-quality leads efficiently and consistently.

3-Steps to Effectively Using LinkedIn for Lead Generation

Step 1: Build a professional brand presence

If you want to be successful using LinkedIn for lead generation, you need a strong and compelling personal and professional brand that resonates with your ideal clients.

Yet, if you were to look at most people’s professional online presence, most importantly their LinkedIn profiles, it wouldn’t impress you. Sometimes, it may even turn you off.

If your profile doesn’t impress your ideal clients in three seconds or less, they will quickly move on.

Your personal profile on LinkedIn is one of the most powerful tools you have because people connect with people, not companies, brands, or logos. It’s through your LinkedIn profile that you can connect to people, strike up conversations with them and build relationships.

What do your ideal clients find when they land on your profile? What’s their first impression of you? And does it make them want to consider doing business with you?

To succeed at using LinkedIn for lead generation, you must get your ideal clients to know, like and trust you. Ensuring several key sections of your LinkedIn profile are complete, professional-looking and client-centric is a necessary step in this process.

These key sections include your:

Headline

Profile and cover image

About section

Featured section

Experience section

Recommendations

Headline

I cannot stress enough the importance of your headline. It’s one of the very first things people see.

You have 120 characters, NOT words, to capture the attention of viewers to compel them to click Accept to your connection request or to view your entire profile.

Profile photo and cover image

Your profile photo and cover image are vital components to creating trust and establishing credibility.

Simply put, you need to display a professional profile picture. Profiles with profile photos get 40% more views.

In your profile photo, ensure you are smiling and looking straight at the camera, preferably against a neutral background.

Your cover photo, on the other hand, needs to convey a story. It needs to tell people something about who you are and what you do.

About section

Your About section needs to be compelling and client-centric.

Don’t drone on about how great you are. Talk about who your ideal clients are and the problems they face. Establish a clear link between their pain and desire and how you, with your skills and experience, can meet their needs.

Write your About section in the first-person voice. LinkedIn is a social network, so be social. Don’t write it as a professional bio, resume or CV unless you are looking for a job.

In your About section, you have 2600 characters to highlight your expertise and experience. It’s also essential to identify and speak directly to your target market.

Here are some questions you should strive to answer in your About section:

Who are you?

What do you do?

Whom do you do it for?

How do you do it?

Why do you do what you do?

Why should they listen to you?

What makes you credible?

Why should somebody hire you?

Featured section

To visually enhance your profile, include media in the Featured section. Including a video here will improve your chances of making a human connection, increasing the know, like and trust factor.

The Featured section could be used to highlight:

articles you’ve authored and published on LinkedIn

links to external websites, such as your company website, blog, portfolio, landing pages and lead magnets

media files, such as images, documents, presentations and videos.

If you don’t add content to the Featured section, this section will be hidden from people viewing your profile.

Experience section

Your current work Experience is also a key section and must be written in the firs- person voice. Use the 2000 characters you are given to speak to how you can best help your ideal clients with your products or services.

Recommendations section

Including social proof in your LinkedIn profile might make all the difference in your lead generation efforts.

I just finished speaking with a lead who bought my book LinkedIn Unlocked because of the good Amazon reviews and then decided to contact me.

We are conditioned to look for social proof when deciding whom to do business with. LinkedIn recommendations are a fantastic way to elevate your social proof.

LinkedIn recommendations are more powerful than written testimonials on your website because readers can authenticate the author of a recommendation by clicking on their profile. The more LinkedIn recommendations you have and the more detailed each one is, the quicker you’ll be able to establish trust with profile viewers.

Recommendations that speak to your expertise enhance your profile, increase your social proof and often lead to business.

Learn how to ask for LinkedIn recommendations here.

Step 2: Create a lead generation process on LinkedIn

The next vital step with LinkedIn social selling is to actively use LinkedIn for lead generation.

To generate leads efficiently and effectively, use my proprietary 5-step process – The LINK Method

– to find, connect and start conversations with your ideal clients on LinkedIn.

When done right, this method will result in new clients. It allows you to build relationships with your connections, have offline conversations with them (which they’ll be excited about), and convert them into clients.

Keep in mind that while you may use template-like messages to get you going, the key to your LinkedIn social selling success is to personalize these messages for each prospect you send them to.

The more time you spend personalizing each communication you send on LinkedIn, the more effective and successful you’ll be.

Understand that it’s absolutely impossible to succeed at lead generation on LinkedIn without getting this part right.

Where exactly do you find ideas to personalize your messages?

You can start by researching the profile of the prospects you want to connect with.

In the activity section of their profiles, you can see the posts they’ve shared or engaged with as well as any articles they’ve shared.

You can also look at their company page, website and other social media channels to get additional insights.

To make your LinkedIn lead generation effective, you need to send a sequence of five types of messages.

Message 1: The LinkedIn connection request

Your connection request has a single goal: to get the recipient of your message to click Accept.

The best way to ensure your request is accepted is to tailor your request to the person you’re sending it to. Absolutely DO NOT use a template for this crucial step.

Personalize your connection request by finding something in common with your lead. Reference something in the profile, show interest in something they shared or compliment them or their company.

For example, maybe you went to the same university, or you both worked at the same company at one point.

Message 2: Establish dialogue

Send this message after they’ve accepted your connection request.

The purpose of this message is to begin a dialogue. You can do this by asking a simple question.

It is important that you ask them a non-invasive question about something in their profile, something they posted on LinkedIn or something about their company.

Message 3: Add value

Wait approximately a week to send this message. You don’t want to inundate your connections with messages from you.

How can you add value to your connection? Often, it can be through a highly-targeted and relevant content specific to their industry and top of mind problem. But don’t just send them a link to an article. Position the content to show why they would derive value from it and ask if they are interested in receiving it.

Once they say yes, send the content you’d mentioned.

Message 4: Move the conversation offline

Send this message no sooner than one week after Message 3 (could be later).

The goal of this message is to book a call. Nothing other than that.

And the only way you can do this effectively is by positioning that phone call or meeting as a benefit to them, not to you.

To do this, first make sure the prospect sees you understand them and their industry. You communicate that by identifying and speaking directly to them and stating their problem or the desired result. You will be most successful if you share a process, method, or insight they would find value in.

At this stage, you are trying to get your foot in the door, get on a phone call, build some rapport, get to know them and find out what you need to know to be able to pre-qualify them.

From there, you can move forward and schedule a longer call.

The secret to your success with this entire process is this:

You need to slow down the sale to speed it up!

The reason social selling doesn’t work for most people is they rush to send out their sales pitches. Many think automation will help them blast their product/service out to as many people as possible. Neither works!

LinkedIn lead generation services are popping up everywhere, making bold promises of vast amounts of new business. Sadly, the customers who use these services are disappointed with the results. Worse yet, their reputation and credibility are permanently shattered because if it.

Message 5: Nurture those prospects who didn't move forward with you

Not everyone is going to be ready for the solution you offer right now. It’s important to nurture these prospects by checking in with them and adding value to them from time to time.

By doing this, you can often catch them at a time when the solution you offer has now become a priority for them.

Additional Reading: LinkedIn Membership Levels: Free vs. Business Premium vs. Sales Navigator

Step 3: Establish authority and credibility, and stay top of mind

As I just mentioned, prospects will not always be ready to buy when you connect with them on LinkedIn.

As part of the lead nurturing process, you will want to stay in touch with your prospects where and when it makes sense through one-to-one messaging.

But it’s also important to show up in their LinkedIn newsfeeds from time to time. You do this by sharing interesting and valuable status updates. Educate your network with helpful content that also builds your authority and establishes your credibility while keeping you top of mind.

It’s also important that your posts on LinkedIn encourage engagement.

When people engage with your posts, LinkedIn is more likely to show your network more of your posts in the future.

One of the best ways to encourage engagement is to ask a question. But don’t overuse this strategy, and don’t ask pointless or silly questions to get engagement. It will only hurt your credibility.

Read this: Is Your LinkedIn Content Strategy Making You Look Desperate?

Remember that LinkedIn is a professional space.

Although I believe sharing content is important to stay top of mind, too many people rely too heavily on it. In fact, most “social selling experts “say the secret to social selling is sharing content… I disagree.

The secret to social selling, or lead generation or whatever term you are most comfortable with, is Step 2 in this article. Step 1 is a necessary step to get to Step 2. And this step of sharing content is helpful to stay top of mind and build authority within your network.

But don’t become reliant upon it. You cannot let your lead generation depend on things out of your control, such as LinkedIn’s algorithm, hoping your connections will scroll through their newsfeeds and see your content.

This hope-and-pray lead marketing is not a good strategy.

Level up your lead generation on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the premier social media platform to connect with decision-makers and professionals. It’s where people expect to have business conversations and often look for solutions to their business problems.

By becoming skilled at using LinkedIn for lead generation, you can find your ideal clients, build relationships with them, position yourself as an authority and generate new leads and sales for your business without spending a single dollar on advertising.

It seems like a worthwhile skill to develop, wouldn’t you agree? If so, please share this article so we can help people and businesses across the globe to fuel the economy!

To learn more about each of the three steps covered in this article, register for my free LinkedIn Leads video series. In it, I cover how to create a profile that stands out, convert connections into clients and build your authority through content. Get access to the video series here!

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How You Can Start Better Protecting Your Identity Today

This usually means figuring out what's been compromised, obtaining affidavits and reports demonstrating the thieving, and also working to get their identity back. That is a lot of time to invest recovering from an offense of which you were a victim. The terrible news is that you cannot protect yourself 100% from identity theft. You can place a fraud alert on your credit report by contacting one of the 3 credit bureaus. An fraud alert notifies businesses to take actions when activities are taken in your credit score, to verify your identity and lasts from 90 days to seven decades. A security freeze moves a step outside having a fraud alert by needing a PIN or password in front of your credit report can be checked by a business. Every calendar year, you're entitled to one free credit report from each of the three credit bureaus. Every four months by ordering one of these reports, you can continue to keep an eye on your charge all year long. The drawback is that you can only get the report of 1 bureau . You may be able to acquire a free credit report if you sign up for a credit monitoring service. Ensure that to cancel the credit monitoring service before the trial runs out to prevent becoming billed. . Sign up, if your bank allows you to view your balances online. Log in to check your accounts periodically to make sure no unauthorized charges are created on your account. Keep your login information secure by not down it and not telling it to anybody. Although we don't suggest it because of the high cost versus options, credit monitoring is 1 way of discovering identity theft. Compare the cost of some credit monitoring services to the price of arranging your credit file, and you will discover that purchasing a few credit reports a year can be more affordable. In the wrong hands, your social security number could be lethal to your credit score. Avoid carrying your social security card. Do not write down your amount. Even pay attention to who is around once you give your number to customer support representatives. Stolen checks are another way thieves take your own identity. Together with your own navigation and checking account number, a thief can produce new checks and use them to make purchases. Those pre-approved charge card offers have your own personal information on them. Thieves have been known to use the supplies to acquire credit cards in the victim's name. Or prevent them completely. In #8, you've first learned that identity thieves use evaluations to steal your identity. When invoices are mailed by you, well, they can steal checks. Many banks now offer online bill pay. If you can't send your bills from a secure post office box, cover them on the internet. The average identity theft victim spends 600 hours clearing their individuality. This means getting reports and affidavits demonstrating the theft, figuring out what has been jeopardized, and working to get their identity back. That is a lot of time to pay recovering from a crime where you're a victim. The bad news is you cannot protect yourself 100% from identity theft. You may put a fraud alert in your credit report by contacting one of the three credit bureaus. An fraud alert lasts from 90 days to seven years and notifies businesses to take more steps to validate your identity when actions are taken on your credit score. A security freeze goes a step beyond having a fraud alert by requiring a PIN or password prior to a business can check your credit report. Each calendar year, you're entitled to one free credit report from each of the three credit bureaus. By ordering one of these reports every four weeks, you can continue to keep your eye on your charge all through the year. The drawback is that you can only get the report of one bureau . You may have the ability to receive a free credit report if you sign up for a credit monitoring services. Ensure before the trial runs out to prevent becoming billed that you cancel the credit score monitoring service.

Minimizing the disaster of identity theft is dependent primarily on your vigilance in guarding your privacy. Here are the top ten strategies for this.

Ensure that your information is fastened, particularly in case you have roommates or employ outside help.

Safeguard your garbage by dividing or shredding sensitive materials like medical statements or credit supplies, insurance forms, credit programs, charge receipts, checks and bank statements, and canceled or expired ATM and credit cards.

Make sure your papers, credit cards, if you have individuals working in your home, and other information are secured off.

At work, confirm that sensitive records are shredded during disposal and your personnel records are maintained.

Deposit your outgoing mail in the post office or in a post office set boxnot in an unsecured bin or mailboxand accumulate your incoming email instantly. Pick up new checks in the bank instead of having them sent.

Dont leave your charge, debit card, or ATM card receipts supporting, like in a shop or a bank, rather than throw away them in public.

Don't put, like your birth date, on media website computer profile, or even a computer page. Never give financial or personal information unless there is a site site protected. (Locate a safety symbol such as an unbroken padlock and a URL that starts with https instead of merely http.

1. Protect Your Passwords Don't store your passwords onto your personal pc or let your computer remember passwords that's the equivalent of hiding the own door keys under the"Welcome" mat.

2. Avoid Password Duplication Use passwords that are unique . It may be easier to remember 1 password instead of twenty five, but give access to accounts to thieves

3. Keep Devices Protected Make certain that your computer, smartphone have the most recent protections. Update protection software and check the information for any new dangers that require updates. When possible to protect individual files is breached, encryption files. .

7. Utilize Secure Wi-Fi Unsecured wireless Internet connections may thwart your other protections all. Use them at your own risk.

8. Use Multi-Factor Authentication Take advantage of multi-factor authentication if it's available. This involves a secondary temporary security code that is sent via email or text message. The code has to be entered before a trade is finished.

9. Dispute Errors Immediately handle bogus fees on credit cards or debit cards or any errors. They might be the symptom of a breach.

10. Cancel Compromised Accounts Cancel any endangered charge or debit accounts and replace them with new cards as soon as possible but be sure banks and credit card issuers are alert to the situation to prevent missed penalties and payments throughout the transition. Don't forget to reassign recurring fees that you've allocated for it when cancelling a card. .

11. Setup Alerts cards come with fraud protections and alarms to notify you of large purchases buying patterns, or suspicious fees. Take advantage of any application that is provided, in case your present one doesn't offer protections and think about changing to another card.

12. Shred Old Documents Some identity theft is still rummaging through your trash and mail. Shred any files junk mail, which includes information useful to burglars and think of a box to avoid mail theft.

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13. Review Medical Statements Medical claims are often confusing and require a very long time to process making them ripe targets for identity thieves. Before you even know it exists A deceptive medical claim on your name could reach ranges.

14. Stick together using Trusted Sites Stay with sites that are familiar and be suspicious of any external links. Look for"https" in your browser window, since the"s" indicates a secure site but even this system isn't foolproof.

15. Stay Familiar with Scams Phishing websites are becoming more elaborate and hard to discern. Note any new scams which are reported, if you discover and trust your instincts.

While these steps do not guarantee success against identity theft, so the odds increase by making yourself a comparatively tough target. Identity thieves will move on to greener pastures and, based on breaches, there are lots of pastures for thieves.

Identity theft is an increasingly popular crime, with someone becoming a victim every minute. It's important https://www.stopidentityfraud.org/credit-monitoring-services/ to take action to safeguard yourself; differently, thieves can steal critical details regarding you, such as your name, address, telephone number, bank accounts, or credit card amounts dangerousyour Social Security number.

Scammers place this sensitive info to work setting up phone solutions, opening bank account, applying for loans or additional credit cards, and moving on shopping sprees. Some identity thieves could go so far as to give your name.

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Becoming Your Best Virtual You

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Becoming Your Best Virtual You

Virtual and work from home is getting a lot of hype right now, for obvious reasons. I’ve been a big fan of virtual work for many years, and there are some tools I’ve come to love and rely on over the years. I’m going to talk about some of those tools that I think a lot of people have either underutilized or are coming to a new appreciation for right now.

Some of these tools you might begin to use out of necessity right now, but as you get to know them, you might discover that you enjoy them so much you’ll continue to rely on them once we’ve returned to business as usual.

I’m going to run down my list of go-to tools, give you some case studies, and share how I personally use those tools in my daily life as an entrepreneur.

1. One-to-One Video

A lot of people are relying on one-to-one video at present because we can’t meet in person, but one-to-one video is a great communication tool even when we do have flexibility with how we meet up and converse with others.

By one-to-one video, I mean a video that you record specifically for one individual. The greeting and message is personalized just for them. And I’ve found over the years that this technology has many applications, from sending internal messages to remote folks on my team to interacting with clients and prospects.

The first way I use one-to-one video is to provide clarification when I’m sending a message. Say I’m forwarding on a long document with lots of detailed information. I might send along a one-to-one video highlighting the most salient parts of the document to help direct the reader.

I also find it’s a helpful tool when you’re working with a distributed team. For example, I work with a lot of web designers, and it’s quick and easy to record a video that shows minor edits that I’d like to see on a webpage they’ve already mocked up.

It’s also great for documenting processes. Using the screen capture tool allows you to walk someone through a process, if you’d like to give them a guided step-by-step walkthrough of what needs to be done in a given program.

It’s also a creative way to interact with clients or prospects. Instead of just sending a standard introductory email, which doesn’t stand out well or capture attention, use a personalized video to catch someone’s eye in an otherwise crowded inbox. It’s also a great way to send a thank you or to ask for a review from a happy customer.

The Tool: Loom

My go-to for one-to-one video is Loom. Even the free version of the platform has tons of functionality. You can film yourself, do a screen capture video, or create a video that shares your screen and shows you down in the corner.

Loom also makes the sharing process seamless. As soon as you’re done recording your message, you hit stop, it produces a link, and you drop that URL into an email. If you’ve integrated Loom with Gmail, it will embed the video directly into your email.

When someone gets the email, Gmail users don’t even need to leave their inbox; the video plays right within their inbox.

2. Video Meeting & Webinar Platform

When you’re working with a distributed team, it helps to have a way for you all to come together face-to-face. That’s where video meeting platforms come in. We use them for internal meetings, to talk with clients (to present ideas, brainstorm, or offer updates); we even use it for one-to-one sales calls.

Video is also a great tool for creating educational content and webinars. And some podcasters have started using video in their recording process. While they’ll only use the audio stream to produce the podcast, it’s helpful for them to be able to see their guest on the screen and makes the interview more natural and seamless.

The Tool: Zoom

The video meeting and webinar platform I’ve come to rely on is Zoom. What I love about Zoom is that there’s no software involved. No one needs to download anything to access the meeting; you simply forward a link and anyone can join from any device.

Zoom can be used for both webinars and meetings. The tool allows you to do a presentation (like a webinar) where everyone is an attendee and is muted. There’s a screen-sharing functionality, and you can incorporate features like chat, Q&A, and polls into your presentation.

Alternatively, you can use Zoom for meetings. Here, your team hops on the video and you can sit around and talk in much the same way you would if you were all around a conference table.

Of course, the one thing everyone must have to participate in a Zoom meeting is a way to connect. But it’s possible to do so via computer or phone. There’s an app for mobile devices, and people can even call in through a dial-in number, if that’s easier.

3. Live Streaming

Live streaming is becoming increasingly popular. And particularly during the current moment, where we’re not able to meet up in person, we’re seeing more personalities hopping onto Facebook, YouTube or LinkedIn to connect with their audience.

I think live streaming is an incredible tool for building community and speaking to your fans, but I find it’s often over-utilized. I think the key to creating great live streaming content is to start by asking yourself “What is useful for my community, prospects, or clients at this time?” That’s the question that should be driving you as you devise your live programming.

All of the major social platforms allow you to go live from within their individual apps, but I prefer to use an external tool.

The Tool: StreamYard

My go-to for live streaming online has become StreamYard. I find the tool helpful for a number of reasons. First, it allows you to broadcast to multiple platforms simultaneously. Rather than having to decide between addressing your fans on Facebook or LinkedIn, with StreamYard, you can do both at the same time.

It also allows you to add branding onto your video. You can put your logo or any relevant promotional information in the bottom third of your video screen. You can also easily incorporate Q&A and chat into your video, making it easy to engage your audience while you’re live.

It’s also really easy to record and hang onto your sessions. While it’s possible to download things that go live on other social media platforms, they don’t make it simple for you to capture that content. StreamYard makes it seamless, and then you have access to the content for future use, should you decide you’d like to reuse it.

Finally, StreamYard allows you to schedule out the time when you’ll go live and includes a notification on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, or your streaming platform of choice. By notifying your audience of when you’re going live in advance, you create a built-in audience for your content and ensure that you’ll have people there to engage with—it helps you to create more of a live webinar experience.

4. Collaboration Software

For many folks who are used to sharing office space with their colleagues, the biggest hurdle to remote work is keeping everyone on the same page when it comes to advancing your projects and agendas. You need a unified communication tool and work space so that you can bring together all the emails, files, revisions, and to-do lists in one place. That way, everyone is always on the same page, and you always know right where to go to look for information.

There are tons of great collaboration suites out there, from Basecamp to Asana to Microsoft Teams.

The Tool: Slack

Our team loves Slack for collaboration and communication. When you’re used to working in an office, you can just pop down the hallway to ask your colleague a quick question. When you’re working from home, Slack is the next best thing.

It not only allows you to keep up a friendly and more relaxed chat environment, it also helps you to keep communications unified and to make sure all relevant parties hear announcements and are kept up-to-date on the latest company news. Rather than having to call around to each person individually, you can notify the appropriate Slack channel, and everyone who needs to receive your message gets it right away.

Is Virtual Me Here to Stay?

A lot of these tools have become necessities right now because of the coronavirus pandemic. People are using the tools in new ways. Some are conducting networking groups online rather than in person. Others have even set up co-working video sessions, where folks log on, go on mute, work individually, and occasionally come up for air to say a few casual words to each other.

We’re even seeing families adopt the technology for fun ways to stay connected virtually. I’ve seen scavenger hunts, science experiments, play dates, book clubs, and dance parties all occur on the web in these last few weeks of social distancing.

While some of these virtual ways of being will likely go away when life returns to normal (a virtual family game night will never replace the in-person hugs and warmth you’ll feel), I suspect some of these new ways of working will stick around.

For example, I host a number of weekend bootcamps throughout the year with our Consultant Network, and we’re planning to move them to virtual events. While there are some things you may lose in a virtual setting (the spontaneous conversation over lunch, say), in terms of cost and ability to include more people, virtual has got in-person beat every time.

Tips for a Better Experience

When it comes to connecting virtually, there are a few steps we can all take to make it a better experience for ourselves, our clients, our families, and anyone else we may be connecting with online.

First, audio is a big deal. There’s nothing more frustrating than listening to fuzzy audio that keeps going in and out. Particularly if you’re presenting to a group, it pays to invest in a nicer, USB condenser mic (like the Blue Yeti). These microphones pick up more depth and character in your voice, and they make you sound a lot more professional than the mic on your iPhone headphones.

Video matters, too. Rather than relying on the built-in camera that comes on your laptop, spend a little bit more on something like the Logitech C922 Pro. A nicer camera will give you higher video quality, with better light and clearer visuals.

Speaking of light, make sure that you have natural light on your face, if you can. Don’t have the light streaming in behind you, though, or you become a silhouette. If you don’t have natural light wherever you’re recording from, investing in a ring light can help your video look less dark and grainy.

Finally, do what you can to eliminate distractions. I know it can be difficult when you’re working from home and might have kids or pets running around in the background, but anything you can do to make your background as clean and seamless as possible is a major bonus for video calls and presentations.

I love the company Anyvoo; they create easily portable backdrops for video calls. You can get whatever you’d like printed on the canvas—your logo, a peaceful mountain scene—and you simply set the background up behind you whenever you have to take a video call. It’s on a stand, so it can be assembled anywhere and is taken down just as easily.

Many of us are adjusting to a new way of working that became a reality very suddenly over the past few weeks. I hope these tools make the transition a little easier for you, and that some of them become favorites that will continue to help you grow your business even after we return to normal life.

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Becoming Your Best Virtual You

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Becoming Your Best Virtual You

I’m going to run down my list of go-to tools, give you some case studies, and share how I personally use those tools in my daily life as an entrepreneur.

1. One-to-One Video

The Tool: Loom

When someone gets the email, Gmail users don’t even need to leave their inbox; the video plays right within their inbox.

2. Video Meeting & Webinar Platform

The Tool: Zoom

Alternatively, you can use Zoom for meetings. Here, your team hops on the video and you can sit around and talk in much the same way you would if you were all around a conference table.

3. Live Streaming

All of the major social platforms allow you to go live from within their individual apps, but I prefer to use an external tool.

The Tool: StreamYard

4. Collaboration Software

There are tons of great collaboration suites out there, from Basecamp to Asana to Microsoft Teams.

The Tool: Slack

Is Virtual Me Here to Stay?

Tips for a Better Experience

When it comes to connecting virtually, there are a few steps we can all take to make it a better experience for ourselves, our clients, our families, and anyone else we may be connecting with online.

Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

Klaviyo helps you build meaningful relationships by listening and understanding cues from your customers, allowing you to easily turn that information into valuable marketing agency messages.

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android |

Free eBook 7 Steps to Scale Your Consulting Practice Without Adding Overhead

“This training from Duct Tape marketing agency has exceeded my expectations and I couldn’t be happier” ~ Brooke Patterson, VanderMedia

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Becoming Your Best Virtual You

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Becoming Your Best Virtual You

I’m going to run down my list of go-to tools, give you some case studies, and share how I personally use those tools in my daily life as an entrepreneur.

1. One-to-One Video

The Tool: Loom

When someone gets the email, Gmail users don’t even need to leave their inbox; the video plays right within their inbox.

2. Video Meeting & Webinar Platform

The Tool: Zoom

Alternatively, you can use Zoom for meetings. Here, your team hops on the video and you can sit around and talk in much the same way you would if you were all around a conference table.

3. Live Streaming

All of the major social platforms allow you to go live from within their individual apps, but I prefer to use an external tool.

The Tool: StreamYard

4. Collaboration Software

There are tons of great collaboration suites out there, from Basecamp to Asana to Microsoft Teams.

The Tool: Slack

Is Virtual Me Here to Stay?

Tips for a Better Experience

When it comes to connecting virtually, there are a few steps we can all take to make it a better experience for ourselves, our clients, our families, and anyone else we may be connecting with online.

Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

Klaviyo helps you build meaningful relationships by listening and understanding cues from your customers, allowing you to easily turn that information into valuable marketing agency messages.

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android |

Free eBook 7 Steps to Scale Your Consulting Practice Without Adding Overhead

“This training from Duct Tape marketing agency has exceeded my expectations and I couldn’t be happier” ~ Brooke Patterson, VanderMedia

Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co

Delray Beach SEO

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Becoming Your Best Virtual You

Becoming Your Best Virtual You written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Becoming Your Best Virtual You

I’m going to run down my list of go-to tools, give you some case studies, and share how I personally use those tools in my daily life as an entrepreneur.

1. One-to-One Video

The Tool: Loom

When someone gets the email, Gmail users don’t even need to leave their inbox; the video plays right within their inbox.

2. Video Meeting & Webinar Platform

The Tool: Zoom

Alternatively, you can use Zoom for meetings. Here, your team hops on the video and you can sit around and talk in much the same way you would if you were all around a conference table.

3. Live Streaming

All of the major social platforms allow you to go live from within their individual apps, but I prefer to use an external tool.

The Tool: StreamYard

4. Collaboration Software

There are tons of great collaboration suites out there, from Basecamp to Asana to Microsoft Teams.

The Tool: Slack

Is Virtual Me Here to Stay?

Tips for a Better Experience

When it comes to connecting virtually, there are a few steps we can all take to make it a better experience for ourselves, our clients, our families, and anyone else we may be connecting with online.

Like this show? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. If you’re looking to grow your business there is only one way: by building real, quality customer relationships. That’s where Klaviyo comes in.

Klaviyo helps you build meaningful relationships by listening and understanding cues from your customers, allowing you to easily turn that information into valuable marketing messages.

What’s their secret? Tune into Klaviyo’s Beyond Black Friday docu-series to find out and unlock marketing strategies you can use to keep momentum going year-round. Just head on over to klaviyo.com/beyondbf.

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RANK YOUR BUSINESS IN TORONTO

The Best Digital Marketing Strategies to Try in 2020

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Com, the new CEO wanted to switch to Windows—even after PayPal cofounder Max Levchin showed that their software scaled only 1% as well on Windows as Unix. And it turns out to be easier than figuring out how to rent office space or hire sales people than it is for a company is one hopes adding to its value, and it's easy to see how little launches matter. If smaller source code is the purpose of comparing languages, because they usually have startup experience themselves: VC investors don't know half the time what they are talking about the succinctness of languages, not of individual programs. There's something that needs to happen a few months later saying This is supposed to be an advantage. But I don't recommend this approach to most founders, because most founders wouldn't be able to improve the performance of the algorithm described in A Plan for Spam, and what I plan to do in the language longer than one you have in your desktop machine. You should of course have your lawyer review everything.1 So start by making 3 or 4 $15,000 investments. I wanted to make to the software that users hate, you'll know exactly what to build because you'll have muscle memory from doing it yourself. It's derived from a talk at AngelConf.

Running a startup is and how little it does? The most effective approach seems to be the middle course, to notice some tokens but not others. I wanted to keep the problem neat. After about ten sentences I found myself talking recently to someone from Hollywood who was planning a show about nerds. I sent all the founders I know are all basically good people. Don't use it with investors either.2 This is especially true for a service that other companies can use, because you can't get the smartest people to work for you without giving them options likely to be of the same sex, and if Microsoft doesn't control the client, and a good speaker uses that.

This article was given as a talk at AngelConf. And investors can tell fairly quickly whether you're a domain expert. For the first week or so we intended to make this point diplomatically, but in fact the way most successful startups it's a necessary part of the training of engineers. Where would Microsoft be if IBM insisted on an exclusive license for DOS? And they spread widely, because the people offering expensive solutions can spend more to sell them.3 This is particularly true with startups that failed. Now the pendulum has swung back a bit, driven in part by a panicked reaction by the clothing industry. People's best friends are likely to soon. The venture capital business is pretty incestuous, and there were presumably people in a position, if not to create this situation, to realize what was happening and to milk it. What's happening when you feel that? I brace myself for rudeness: remember, you're back on the East Coast, where it could be like saying the goal was readability, not succinctness; it could be written by small companies.

In most people's minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn't. Even people who had nothing to do with any external trend.4 And because you can usually start by recruiting users manually and then gradually automate the bottlenecks. No one trusts an idea till you embody it in a bank? With a new more scaleable model and only 53 companies, the best programmers won't work for you without giving them options likely to be more readable than a line of Lisp.5 Plenty of famous founders have had some failures along the way. With Web-based applications. It's as if they used the worse-is-better approach but stopped after the first year, our initial reaction to news of a competitor was always: we're doomed.

It's hard to say for certain at the time. In practice what happens is that the absolute numbers seem so small at first. What's happening when you feel that? After taking VC money you hire a sales force to do that, because you can't get users, we did. And since a successful startup founder looks like is actually far ahead of someone who knows termsheets inside out, but thinks hacker means someone who breaks into computers. That's the secret. After Viaweb became Yahoo Store, this software is the most common route. You can't wait for users to come to you.6 It's a crowded market, I remember time seeming to stretch out, so we know their history.7 The emotional ups and downs were the biggest: This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. If smaller source code is the purpose of high-level language what would require 1000 lines of machine language.

If you think about famous startups, it's pretty clear how big a deal as the Industrial Revolution? There are already a lot cooler than they were prepared for. Another wrote: I believe that they think their approval process helps users by ensuring quality. Nerds are already a lot cooler than they were prepared for. There are theoretical arguments for giving these two tokens substantially different probabilities Pantel and Lin, and another that will seem an anathema. The argument against this approach usually hinges on security: if access is easier for employees, it will be because it's more convenient. Fixing fresh bugs is easier than fixing old ones. It makes those parts of your software by a certain date? As in a Ponzi scheme. The groups then proceeded to give fabulously slick presentations. Throw them off a cliff, and most will find on the way down that they have wings.8

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Calaprice, Alice ed. There is nothing you can remove them from leaving to start startups.

It's to make money, the better. But there's a special title for actual partners. I've twice come close to starting startups since Viaweb, he'd get his ear pierced.

A round about the same root. Those groups never have to do something we didn't do.

The two 10 minuteses have 3 weeks between them generate a lot heavier. 9999 and. It's unpleasant because the money invested in a time machine, how much he liked his work.

Hackers don't need empathy to design these, and it has to their work.

I took so long to send a million spams. I had zero effect on what people mean when they talked about before, and we should, because I can't tell if it was worth it, whether you want to get rich will use this thing yourself, but it's not inconceivable they were friendlier to developers than Apple is now replicated all over the details. Turn the other students, heirs, rather than geography. You could feel like a knowledge of human anatomy.

When you get paid to work in research departments. In a series. We couldn't talk meaningfully about revenues without growing big in revenues without growing big in people, but also seem to want to get going, e. Few consciously realize that.

But not all of them material.

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