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How to setup a sales team by David Sacks is worth it's weight in gold. An essential guide for any SaaS companies that are looking for guidance from one of the most respected Silicon Valley CEO's: https://sacks.substack.com/p/simple-math-to-set-up-a-sales-team

Daniel Poppers Fort Lauderdale Sculpture is called "Thrive"

As the most instagrammable pieces in Florida you will feel like you're back on the playa at Burning Man when you see Daniel Poppers 20+ foot tall sculpture named "Thrive". This beautiful piece of art work is what makes a place like Fort Lauderdale great and notable. Things like this deserve a mention on travel sites like Atlas Obscura so tourists will come, visit, and most importantly experience interactive art. Of course taking a photo and sharing with others is really important as well.

So if you were wondering who created this piece it's by South African Artist Daniel Popper and it is on permanent display next to Bodega of Fort Lauderdale, The Wharf and Society Las Olas just off of the river.

Enjoy!

Micro Improvements to become successful

Richart Ruddie's Tweet of the day: Define a process of what you're trying to achieve, determine the optimal way to hit your target, repeat the positives, drop the negatives, continuous micro-improvements, rinse and repeat.

 

https://twitter.com/RichartRuddie/status/1380210265719988229

DHS Update

Readout of Secretary Mayorkas’ Meeting with New Zealand’s Minister for Justice and Minister for Immigration, Kris Faafoi 

On Monday, April 5, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas spoke by phone with New Zealand’s Minister for Justice and Minister for Immigration, Kris Faafoi.  Secretary Mayorkas and Minister Faafoi reaffirmed the continued strength of the U.S.-New Zealand relationship and discussed opportunities to enhance the bilateral partnership through collaboration with Five Eyes partners.  Secretary Mayorkas emphasized DHS’s continued commitment to work with New Zealand on countering the threat posed by domestic violent extremism.

Did David Field Change Entercom to Audacy Due to a Lawsuit?

An email was received from the radio conglomerate Entercom run by CEO David Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The announcement is that Entercom is changing their name from Entercom to Audacy. One of the cases which was triggered by an  "Anti-trust/Trade Regulation" and pure negligience from the Entercom legal team especially Peter Gould who blamed his peers for his inability to make good on the signed contracts and was completely negligent in ignoring a lawsuit despite multiple notifications. On top of this a sales manager named Dana Panepinto according to a recent lawsuit that Entercom/Audacy lost for almost a million dollars stated that Boston's WEEI's lawyer and sales manager Dana Panepinto engaged in the unconscionable acts or practices, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices, in the conduct of negotiating. Which essentially means that he breached a signed contract and agreement and was one of the root causes for a lawsuit against Entercom Communications Corp. which potentially led to Entercom being renamed to Audacy.





Also in the Florida lawsuit against Audacy says that "Entercom tried to extort SIT out of greater funds by changing the previuously agreed contract and asking for egregious terms and an unfathomable higher rate knowing the importance of the time of year.."

Does this sound like an ethical and honest company that you would want to work with? CEO David Field says in his newsletter that their acquisitions of CBS Radio, Cadence13, Pineapple Street Studios, the QL Gaming Group, and Podcorn,  have led them to a greater expansion of content and offerings. In my opinion I think part of the negative connotations of Entercom and the negligence by some bad apple employees like Dana Panepinto and attorney Peter Gould are a factor.

The Florida lawsuit filed that Audacy/Entercom lost as of April 2021 concerns Audacy/Entercom:

Promissory Estoppel
Breach of Contract
Negligiently Supplied Information

Richart Ruddie Engadget Writer

Sometimes you contribute content online and forget that you were once a contributer and writer for a publication. I used to be a writer for Wired.com when they had a program letting young entrepreneurs contribute content and did a few editorials for Today.com. Recently old publications done for Engadget.com popped back up online and are now visible at: 

https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/richart-ruddie

Not sure why they suddenly decided to index and showcase some of my older contributions but perhaps it's because of all the recent press around the work that I'm doing for countries around the world. The Irish Central website and the Times of Malta have both featured me of late and other well known global publications have approached me about covering similar stories.

How the Sega Game Gear Paved the Way for Nintendo

As Sega always brought the best out of Nintendo they learned a lesson when the Game Gear came out chewing through batteries and having only 4 games after two years versus the Monochrome Game Boy with hundreds of games. As the Game Gear ultimately failed and the Game Boy is still a classic today we have a lot to learn from this. That lesson is that Nintendo doesn't need the best graphics but they need to appeal to their fanbase with their less superior technology with top tier assets such as 1st party game library. They feed their millions of fans what they want and it works for them. They learned this after the handheld competition and have followed the playbook ever since.

In business you can follow the same strategy. It doesn't need to be pretty it just needs to work.

NY Times Covers Bad News and it's attraction

Below is a piece from at the New York Times about how we are attracted to negative news and  that the major media players in the USA overly promote negative headlines with pessimism regarding COVID-19 vs. other countries, scientific journals, and smaller media outlets that tended to cover it more on a factual basis instead of promoting their opinion. I will add my commentary and thoughts in bold below:

Is bad news the only kind?

Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS. It almost always seemed negative, regardless of what was he seeing in the data or hearing from scientists he knew.

When Covid cases were rising in the U.S., the news coverage emphasized the increase. When cases were falling, the coverage instead focused on those places where cases were rising. And when vaccine research began showing positive results, the coverage downplayed it, as far as Sacerdote could tell.

But he was not sure whether his perception was correct. To check, he began working with two other researchers, building a database of Covid coverage from every major network, CNN, Fox News, Politico, The New York Times and hundreds of other sources, in the U.S. and overseas. The researchers then analyzed it with a social-science technique that classifies language as positive, neutral or negative.

The results showed that Sacerdote’s instinct had been right — and not just because the pandemic has been mostly a grim story.

The U.S. media is an outlier

The coverage by U.S. publications with a national audience has been much more negative than coverage by any other source that the researchers analyzed, including scientific journals, major international publications and regional U.S. media. “The most well-read U.S. media are outliers in terms of their negativity,” Molly Cook, a co-author of the study, told me.

About 87 percent of Covid coverage in national U.S. media last year was negative. The share was 51 percent in international media, 53 percent in U.S. regional media and 64 percent in scientific journals.

Notably, the coverage was negative in both U.S. media outlets with liberal audiences (like MSNBC) and those with conservative audiences (like Fox News).

By The New York Times | Sources: Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal and Molly Cook

Sacerdote is careful to emphasize that he does not think journalists usually report falsehoods. The issue is which facts they emphasize. Still, the new study — which the National Bureau of Economic Research has published as a working paper, titled, “Why is all Covid-19 news bad news?” — calls for some self-reflection from those of us in the media.

If we’re constantly telling a negative story, we are not giving our audience the most accurate portrait of reality. We are shading it. We are doing a good job telling you why Covid cases are rising in some places and how the vaccines are imperfect — but not such a good job explaining why cases are falling elsewhere or how the vaccines save lives. Perhaps most important, we are not being clear about which Covid developments are truly alarming.

As Ranjan Sehgal, another co-author, told me, “The media is painting a picture that is a little bit different from what the scientists are saying.”

Why the bad-news bias?

The researchers say they are not sure what explains their findings, but they do have a leading contender: The U.S. media is giving the audience what it wants.

When the researchers examined which stories were the most read or the most shared on Facebook, they tended to be the most negative stories. To put it another way, the stories that people choose to read skew even more negative than the stories that media organizations choose to publish. “Human beings, particularly consumers of major media, like negativity in their stories,” Sacerdote said. “We think the major media are responding to consumer demand.”

That idea is consistent with the patterns in the data, Sacerdote added: It makes sense that national publications have better instincts about reaching a large audience than, say, science journals. And overseas, some of the most influential English-language media organizations — like the BBC — have long received government funding, potentially making them less focused on consumer demand.

All of that sounds plausible to me, but I don’t think it is the full explanation. I have worked in media for nearly three decades, and I think you might be surprised by how little time journalists spend talking about audience size. We care about it, obviously, but most journalists I know care much more about other factors, like doing work that has an impact.

In the modern era of journalism — dating roughly to the Vietnam War and Watergate — we tend to equate impact with asking tough questions and exposing problems. There are some good reasons for that. We are inundated by politicians, business executives, movie stars and others trying to portray themselves in the best light. Our job is to cut through the self-promotion and find the truth. If we don’t tell you the bad news, you may never hear it.

Sometimes, though, our healthy skepticism can turn into reflexive cynicism, and we end up telling something less than the complete story. I am grateful to Sacerdote, Cook and Sehgal for doing to us journalists what we normally do to others — holding up a mirror to our work and giving us a chance to do better.

You Can Download Adobe Acrobat Reader 1

You can still download Adobe Acrobat Reader 1 for those looking for that tech nostalgia: https://winworldpc.com/product/acrobat-reader/1

I've heard that Adobe is...

Open Store Miami - Keith Rabois Newest Startup

As our South Florida ecosystem continues to grow one of the biggest proponents of South Florida living Keith Rabois has officially announced his newest startup Openstore a Miami based startup. More details to come as Miami and surrounding areas really is the current gold rush of 2020-2021 for those seeking freedom, refuge, and mental health.

Marketing Entrepreneur Richart Ruddie Featured in Irish Central

The Irish Central feature on Richart Ruddie and his contributions to the digital marketing industry portrays the role that the digital marketing industry plays behind the scenes in helping to shape decisions and influence not only businesses but countries looking to rebound from the global pandemic.

Marketing Entrepreneur Richart Ruddie has been hired by numerous tourism boards & ministry of foreign affairs to help market their respective cities & countries as safe places to visit as the global pandemic starts to subside.

The Covid-19 pandemic entirely affected nearly every business sector in the world and global travel was halted last year. Particularly, the tourist industry has recorded major drawbacks, affecting the productivity of the business. Moreover, the decline has seen many workers in the industry losing their jobs including airlines, restaurants, and hotel workers.

In terms of revenue, many states have lost a significant amount of cash generated from tax, hence, slow the global economy. To retain their position economically, many countries are now focusing on using successful entrepreneurs to promote tourism. For instance, Richart Ruddie is among the top marketers who have been hired to promote and attract visitors to hotels and shores.

In 2020, Richart was hired to promote safety during the pandemic by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This worked well, as visitors were guaranteed a safe place to visit even before traveling. Richart Ruddie has also been hired by many countries, especially during global events, and many have recognized his valuable work which has led to more countries following suit hiring Ruddie.

Ruddie emphasizes the need to partner with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure that all people adhere to safety protocols to promote tourism.  Besides, he also feels that if countries establish innovative ways to retain visitors it would help boost tourism despite the rise of coronavirus. \

Strategies To Win Back Global Travelers

Creativity is key in retaining tourists. In the same way, Elon Musk's innovations are driving growth in numerous sectors, attracting back travelers by leading countries would call for an extra mile in innovation and honesty something Ruddies character has never been in put in question by friends or people who have had the pleasure to work with him.

Misinformation about travel could only cause harm to both travelers and to the final destination promoting any misinformation. For instance, if a visitor wants to locate the best country selling wine, then this is where Richart Ruddie's marketing expertise will help turn everything in their favor. Simply, it's putting the right information in front of travelers researching online.

One thing that has worked well for the industry is the use of the Google Autocomplete pop-up that offers suggestions every time a potential guest searches for a particular service in the hospitality sector. On the other hand, this technology can be of great use when comparing products from various countries. What happens is that a tourist will be re-directed to one of Ruddies clients, showing different articles and other press coverage indicating reasons to visit.

Richart Ruddie's contribution to the tourism industry has cemented a great foundation for him, and he is now recognized as the Ray Donovan of the internet.

CEPTIA is the Reason there are no more pay toilets in the USA

CEPTIA a small bootstrapped organization in the 1970's said enough was enough paying a dime every time you wanted to use the restroom. As you can imagine there was revolt against the free restroom movement but much like any change in the country there will always be revolt and disugst but decades later it will have seemed obvious. A perfect example is when the phone system changed and each individual home got it's own number there was protests in San Francisco.

For more information on this piece of American history read: https://psmag.com/economics/dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom-restroom-free-market-90683

If you liked The Cecil Hotel on Netflix You Will Love Don't F*CK With Cats

Wathcing the newest trending Netflix series about Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel. If you enjoyed this docuseries then you will absolutely love Don't F*ck with Cats and the Keepers. These are the closest thrillers and murder mystery series to The Cecil Hotel.

If you need an expert witness for an online defamation case I'm glad to help.

NearbyHQ may be the next biggest public benefit company

Excited to see how April's company grows and this is my personal reminder to re-check this in time: https://nearbyhq.com/our-story

The sade History of why Dustin Diamond Died From Cancer

Childhood actors can suffer from such stress and anxiety as they grow older. It's bad enough we've lost Jonathan Brandis (kid from Ladybugs) and River Phoenix at such a young age but this I read about the late Screech Powers from Saved By The Bell on why the real life Dustin Diamond waited months to get a giant lump checked out that with early enough detection could of saved the young actors life.

Paraphrased...A Friend of Dustin Diamonds spoke with him about why he sought medical attention for the lump on his neck after months of having it and not going to the doctors to get it checked out. It was bad enough he had a house in default in Ohio that was getting blogged about. The reasoning for his delay was that he was anxious and fearful of the paparazzi getting photos of him going to and from doctors’ appointments or the hospital and having people mock him in some way because he was so often made fun of online.

Seeking help sooner may not have saved him in the end, but maybe he would have been able to experience things he wanted to before he lost his battle, only he was too afraid because of what others thought of him. To me, that’s really fucked up.

Full disclosure, I don’t really know who he was as a person, but I know I’ve heard bad things (nothing that readily comes to mind, all though I’m sure I could Google them.) Still, that’s a sad state of affairs to be in where you can’t seek proper medical treatment for a (unknown at the time) life threatening illness.

 

Richart Ruddie Knowledge Graph

Richart Ruddie was born in Baltimore, Maryland on Sunday August, 25th, 1985 at Mount Sinai hospital in Baltimore City. He is an American who's Grandmother was born in the city of Riga, Latvia and then stopped into Suvalki, Poland before arriving at Ellis Island in New York City. Her father was born in present day Belarus. Living in small towns such as Zdiecol and Dzyatlava. Ruddie is a distant relative to the Bielski brothers who spent time during WW II leading a resistant group in the forests with Rae Kushner. Richart Ruddie's father's side of his family immigrated from present day Lviv Oblast in Western Ukraine being known as a Galician. 

For more information about Richart Ruddie visit RichartRuddie.blogspot.com

Transmira Has The Chance to become Oasis

From the book turned Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One Transmira a North Carolina based startup has the opportunity to become one of the biggest companies in the world if it can execute like it's recent investor Calvin Ayre did with Bodog in the early 2000's making online poker and casinos accessible to everyone. 

He was a Costa Rican legend and if it weren't for over-zealous regulations he would've become one of the richest people in the world. Transmira is now going to combine AR/VR/XR and Blockchain technology. 

Time will tell on this one: https://transmira.com 

844-491-9665 Google My Business Customer Support Line

Having an issue on Google with your local business listing? If so you can call their support line at 844-491-9665. If you're looking for a great book recommendation check out Zero to One by Peter Thiel.

Excited that the recent legislative bill passed will be bringing two new great museums to the USA. They are the National Museum of the American Latino and American Women's History Museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution! Can't wait to see it in person in Washington, D.C.

The ability to opt out of seeing Alcohol and Gambling ads on Youtube is soon to be a reality as per this recent announcement: https://blog.google/technology/ads/greater-controls-sensitive-ad-topics-your-ad-settings