Have you seen the amazon treasure truck?

You register for it. It has stuff in it.

You buy something from it’s list. The truck tells you where to meet it and you go pick up your stuff.

I’m trying to figure this out.

On the one hand — it’s like a mobile pop up retail store — which is an awesome cheaper way to test a concept.

On another hand — they are making you come pick up your purchase as opposed to delivering it to you. Making you do some of the work is brilliant.

On a foot, because I just ran out of hands (lol), I don’t get it. I can only buy what’s on the truck (instead of amazons normal unlimited inventory) and I have to go get it (instead of sitting on the couch waiting for it). So that doesn’t appeal to me.

I’m guessing the appeal is the surprise of what’s in it maybe?

What do you think?

Sears is the next big box retailer to go out of business (again).

Predictions: the next retailer to follow will be Macy’s. While there customers aren’t as price sensitive they still don’t sell anything you can’t buy online and they haven’t differentiated themselves with their in store experience.

I believe the last major retailer to be left standing will be Nordstrom — simply because of their legendary customer service.

Thoughts?

Did you notice we used to have a lot more yogurt shops? Did you notice we suddenly had a yogurt place on every corner?

They were popping up like Starbucks for a while…

Totality

Yo Betty

Yogen fruz

Sweet Jenny’s

Etc…

Then they started to disappear, as after the fad faded — nobody really needed that much yogurt.

Here is the next trend: Salad places

Core life

Greens

Davolio

Etc.

I fully admit that I love the black and blue steak and bacon salad at core life. Rebecca asks every time if I want something else. “Nope, when I find something I like I stick with it.”

Her response “I guess that kind of works for me.” Lol.

What nobody noticed is that the salad places are Really “subway’s” without bread and with better ingredients.

Next up came Trampoline places:

get air

skyzone

Bounce magic

Etc

These are what I call “me too” businesses.

Someone opens one, and then someone says — “that seems like a good idea — I want to open one too!”

And they don’t do any demographic research on whether the market has enough demand to support another location.

Also there tends to be no major differentiating factor between the businesses. It was pretty much the same yogurt at all the places, right?

So I predict that pretty soon there will be a lot fewer salad and trampoline places.

Comment below and let me know what you think please.

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Thoughts?

For years I have hid something.

I suffered from entrepreneurial anxiety.

I would wake up way too early (so I thought) with anxiety.

I would wake up anxious.

Even if nothing was wrong.

Even if business was going great.

And more when it wasnt.

I tried a lot of different things to fix it.

I tried meditation, I tried affirmations, I tired self medication.

I tried coaching with many different people.

I’m not proud of myself then.

I am now.

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Instagram is rolling out a new feature to compete with snapchat (and face books video highlights) — allowing you to make a story out of your Instagram posts.

Brilliant use of Pokemon go by retailer Claire’s.

They reported to me that their foot traffic has doubled in the last few weeks thanks to this sign, buying Pokemon lures throughout the day, and promoting it on social media!

He has written X best-selling books on networking and referrals.

He has been a keynote speaker all over the world.

He is pictured here speaking at Alex Mandossian’s Pathfinder Mastermind which took place at Roy Williams Wizard Academy in Austin Texas.

Pathfinder had 50 of the top people in their industries as its students. People like Bill Harris, Mike Filsaime, Lee Richter, etc.

Ivan shared with us his brand new presentation about how he scaled BNI. From when he started the first chapter to replace lost revenue as a business consultant, all the way to a company generating over $1 billion dollars a year.

Ivan was demonstrating the hidden aspects to business. He is a black belt and was showing hidden moves in martial arts as a visual example to illustrate his point.

He asked me to demonstrate with him.

I am a black belt in Krav Maga (Israeli military’s combat system).

An overt move is something an untrained observer can see (a punch for example), while a covert move is hidden (what Ivan is doing in this picture — attempting to break my arm).

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