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Is it better to err by taking a quarterback early, or by not taking a quarterback early?
Posted by Mike Florio on April 23, 2022, 4:44 PM EDT
Given the importance of having a great quarterback — and in light of the absence of truly great quarterbacks for every team — there's a temptation to draft quarterbacks higher than they should be drafted, relative to the available players at other positions.
This year, it's unclear whether the urgency to find a great quarterback will get teams like the Panthers at No. 6 or the Falcons at No. 8, or someone else, to pull the trigger on a signal-caller in the first dozen or so picks.
Recently, Seahawks G.M. John Schneider was asked to assess this year's quarterback class, which is perceived to be less talented than the quarterback classes from recent drafts.
"I would say there's a quietness about it that can make people feel either anxious or extremely calm," Schneider told reporters. "There doesn't seem to be a lot of buzz right now. That's happened in the past, too, where all of a sudden, I think it was the year that Jake Locker and [Christian] Ponder, and that whole group of guys went, or it was pretty quiet, and then they all went really high."
That was 2011, the year of the lockout. With no prior opportunity to address the quarterback position that year via trade or free agency, quarterback-needy teams overdrafted them.
The Titans took Jake Locker at No. 8. The Jaguars took Blaine Gabbert at No. 10. (Both passed on J.J. Watt, who went to the Texans at No. 11.) Then, the Vikings took Christian Ponder at No. 12.
Each of those three quarterbacks became busts, but the rookie wage scale (which was expected as of April and which became a reality in August) reduced the cash-and-cap consequences of swinging and missing. Indeed, thanks to the reduced financial commitment made to a highly-drafted quarterback, teams can now roll the dice with the knowledge that, if it doesn't work out, they'll be able to roll the dice again in a few years. (Or, as in the case of the 2018 Cardinals, the very next year.)
While it's far from ideal to take a chance on a top quarterback and fail, there's a worse fate. Just ask the 49ers, Jaguars, Titans, Jets, Chargers, Panthers, and Bengals. Each could have had Patrick Mahomes in the 2017 draft. Each passed on him.
The Bears got the worst of it. They traded up one spot that year and picked a quarterback not named Patrick Mahomes. Five years later, the Bears and Mitchell Trubisky, the player taken at No. 2, are still trying to live that down.
But think of how different each of those teams would be, if they had Mahomes. The 49ers were waiting for Kirk Cousins in free agency a year later (they instead traded for Jimmy Garoppolo). The Jaguars still believed in Blake Bortles, for some reason. The Jets went with Josh McCown in 2017. The Chargers were actively considering a future without Philip Rivers, but apparently not actively enough. That Panthers, who did well for themselves with Christian McCaffrey, were in the final years of their relationship with Cam Newton. The Bengals had Andy Dalton, and three years later they'd get Joe Burrow. (All of this assumes that Mahomes would have become great with a team other than the Chiefs. Obviously, there's no guarantee that some other coaching staff would have developed him the way Andy Reid did.)
It's arguably better to swing and miss than to get caught looking with a fastball in the wheelhouse. The bust eventually will be forgotten. The failure to snatch up the future Hall of Famer will leave a much bigger scar.
The worst scar, of the course, is the one the Bears endured in 2017. Trade up. Take a quarterback who busts. Pass on a quarterback who booms like few ever have.
That's the other angle for teams considering quarterbacks in the upper half of round one to consider, this and every year. If you're going to take one, you'd better take the right one.
Look at the 2018 Browns (who took Baker Mayfield instead of Allen or Lamar Jackson), the 2018 Jets (who took Sam Darnold instead of Allen or Jackson), and the 2018 Cardinals (who took Josh Rosen instead of Jackson) can also relate to. And don't forget the 2020 Dolphins, who left Justin Herbert on the board.
Are the teams that need a quarterback upgrade willing to take a chance on a quarterback who may fail? Are they willing to pass on a quarterback who may thrive? And are they confident that, if they take a quarterback, they'll take the right one?
These are important questions to consider during every draft. They become even more important this year, when the prevailing vibe is that the quarterbacks aren't great. Of the names floating around at the top of the class, the chances are that at least one of them will work out, for someone.
46 responses to "Is it better to err by taking a quarterback early, or by not taking a quarterback early?"
minime says:
Why the 49ers must fire lynch & shanahan.
It doesn't matter where you draft them….what matters is your Expert Scouts Who are suppose to evaluate these guys.
kenmasters34 says:
I would avoid drafting a QB earlier than they should be. It sets a high bar for them, basically setting them up for failure
harrytootsie says:
If it's Daniel Jones , don't do either !
Norseman says:
The decision is unanimous. All non-QB needy teams think it's better to err on taking a QB as early as possible.
joenash72 says:
Malik Willis gonna make some teams look bad if they pass on him (pun intended)
Tony Awesome says:
I fear for the GM that takes one of these QB's first round. It could be a career killer. On paper this might be the weakest QB class in 10 – 12 years. And there's no clear cut favorite among them. However,… this is a draft loaded for bear at WR and Edge Rusher.
dynastydan says:
"It's arguably better to swing and miss than to get caught looking with a fastball in the wheelhouse. The bust eventually will be forgotten." but yet "Five years later, the Bears and Mitchell Trubisky, the player taken at No. 2, are still trying to live that down."
I guess the lesson is that it's better to wing and hit. Everything else stings.
MortimerInMiami says:
This proves why most NFL GM's are clueless when it comes to drafting, they're hoping to get lucky.
charliecharger says:
Always best to have someone on your staff that's an expert at evaluating QB's. Take the guesswork out of it.
BuckyBadger says:
Bad franchise are bad franchises. The Jets drafted a bad one and then did it again. Most of the teams mentioned have drafted multiple QBs because they are poorly run from top to finish.
Admiral Ackbar says:
Ask the packers if it was smart to take Love in the first round when they were a playmaker away from a championship
courbettheman says:
My definition of a bust is a quarterback who can't play. Jake Locker could play, Mitchell Trubisky can play – neither was/is a bust.
joshcomputername says:
Not. QB's move a lot more in recent years. If a team wants to pay the price, they can rebuild that position group in one off season.
dirtnasty says:
Weak draft regardless
cueghost says:
It seems important to remember that some pretty dang QBs have been taken post 1st Round… Wilson, Dak, and… Whats that other guys name? Oh yeah… Tom Brady.
pauldeba says:
Nothing is better than the 2000 Jets fans cheering wildly at the draft as their team took Chad Pennington in the first round.
PartyonWayne says:
No right or wrong answer. The key is to accept the error as quickly as possible, and move on. Too many teams dwell on guys because of their draft position. That's the worst.
_ says:
Like Green Bay found out, if your QB is a petulant douche then don't take one even as a backup.
mnrasslinggovjesse says:
I'm not sure what big difference maker they could have selected. But anyway, you can also ask most of the league if it was smart to pass on Aaron Rodgers – some of them twice.
mlhigh77 says:
Early or late? It depends on the draft market. This year, apparently not so much.
stellarperformance says:
It would seem to me the Packers secured an excellent insurance policy in Jordan Love, especially doing it the way they've done it before.
jmscooby says:
Depends if it's a rookie head coach… Who was the reason for success? Bellichick or Brady? Same at the other end of the spectrum. Who was at fault? Nagy or Trubisky? I wouldn't hand an early QB pick to a rookie HC (for the most part).
unknownvikingfan says:
Ah yes, the heady days of Christian Ponder. Those were the days!
qdog112 says:
If you need one. you take one. doesn't matter where, as long as the 'brains' picking him know football and make an informed decision.
The experts get paid a lot to decide. Incompetence is not rewarded.
backintheday99 says:
Ponder lit up the Senior Bowl. Turned him into a first round bust. A bust is related to where you are picked and therefore unfair to the player. Ponder was a 3rd QB who might have had a better career if thought of as a back-up/maybe starter.
What if Gabbert had been a 3rd rounder? He'd be a success story. Not a Wilson 3rd Rd HOF'r but a guy with 50-to 75 mil or whatever he has. He's only a 'bust' because of where he was picked and expectations from said location of the pick. Colt McCoy is a perfect example. Seemed like a good back-up. WRONG. Great back-up. What if he had been picked #1 by some moron?
I'd take Gabbert's career in a heartbeat and so would everyone else reding this (who didn't inherit 50 mil). I think everyone knows the back-up QB is one of the best jobs in America.
How much has Tyrod Taylor made? His problem is they keep throwing him in there to start.
Chiefs fan in LA says:
if youre picking in the top 8, you likely have more than just quarterback issues.
harryhands09 says:
Let's see here, 1st of all if you find the QB expert who's perfect, then you win. 2. Love is an unknown at this point… but I'm guessing if he was good, Aaron would be gone. 3. Good one about Ponder. He did help beat you in 2012, even if it was mostly AP. That was a good day!
calkcfan says:
Any team in the NFL could have traded up to 10 and taken Mahomes.
dejadoh says:
Clearly scouting, team, real opportunity (playing time) and a little luck accounts for most of a players success. How many QB's have replaced Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers?
bucsfanfor5months says:
Just never know. Always depends on what franchises they go to and what pick. Mahomes hit a homerun getting drafted by KC. Some of these other QBs just walk into crap .
omniscient says:
Isn't that "bust" Gabbert still playing 10 years later? He seems to be a serviceable backup.
Dan Oregon says:
It's not so much the quarterback in question, but if the team around them is good enough where they can achieve their maximum potential. Some decent QBs in history have been ruined because they played behind horrible OLs. And few QBs could overcome having a bad supporting cast around them. I don't think its a coincidence that the top QBs in the league right now – Mahomes, Rodgers and Brady sat for their first season and weren't thrown out to play for a team that hadn't matured yet. If you draft a QB in the top 5 the team and the player, need to be ready to win from the jump. And if you are drafting in the top 5 – odds are your team is not ready to win from the jump and should be addressing other needs.
gibson45 says:
Chad Pennington was an excellent quarterback who had an outstanding career.
phuckphlorio says:
It's the most important position in all of sports and there are very few experts in the field of scouting and evaluation. As a Cowboys fan, we are currently cursed with what is disguised as a blessing. A stats monster who will never get us to the mountain top.
mancave2022 says:
The bottom line is no one knows anything. You can have the absolute best talent evaluators in the world, but they cannot predict the future. Look what happened with Carson Wentz. He was a unanimous top one or two pick. And he lived up to expectations for about a season and 3/4. Then he got injured and it went off the rails. Oh I think NFL teams will be wise to ignore all of the subjective "this is a very talented class" nonsense and just focus on each player. How do they look? What are their numbers? What is their mental make up in interviews? What kind of competition did they face? What kind of system did they run? Do players like them typically make it in the NFL or do they flame out (e.g. are they Superman athletes like RGIII and Vince Young?). Then you trust your people and make the pic. If it doesn't work, you move on as quickly as possible. That's all there is to it.
troy43mvp says:
Reaching a little in the first round to get the QB you've evaluated and that you are going to trust to lead your offense is not nearly as scary as it could be, because of the rookie contracts. Cleveland took on a full year of a rookie contract and guaranteed 230 million. Granted Watsons only getting 1 million the first year, it shows that when you go top ten in the first round for a qb maybe not rated top ten it's not an all or nothing move. Rookie contract scales along with the salary cap has really created parity in the league. Also credit some very timely rule(s) interpretation by refs to keep games close and the league has exactly what it needs to maximize profits.
sameer1138 says:
With the rookie wage scale, it doesn't matter. You can draft a guy (even if you spend three 1st round picks on him), play him for 3-4 years, and if he doesn't work out, rinse and repeat. You can keep doing that because of the rookie wage scale — until you find a true franchise quarterback.
billh1947 says:
If you have a great QB coach then take a QB too early and develope him for your future success.it takes a great deal of time,teaching,practice and preseason games to develope that young QB properly.rookie QB rarely become proficient by being thrown into the fire before they are ready.
bassplucker says:
The Bears have made a legacy of botching high round QB draft picks. Trubisky, Rex Grossman, Cade McNown just to name three within my lifetime with the jury still out on Justin Fields. Some organizations just have persistent blind spots at certain positions and unfortunately for Chicago fans, the Bears are systemically inept at evaluating the most important position on the field.
laxcoach37 says:
Bottom Line: QBs that go to bad teams generally never do well. The reason is these teams picking in the top few have more problems than the QB play. A good example is the Dolphins and Jaguars. Tannehill is pretty good (now) and so will Lawrence be. Tua will be good, now that they have surrounded him with talent like the Bills did with Allen in 3 years. The Bengals and Chargers had decent rosters when they got Burrow and Herbert. In fact, Herbert went to a top 8 Offense. Mahommes is great, but imaging him drafted by the Jets. QB's that can sit out for a year and learn ALWAYS do better. Unfortunately, desperately bad teams need immediate impact and ruin these guys.
malcomreynolds says:
Chad Pennington was an average quarterback who had an okay career. Threw for 20+ TDs and 3500yds only once in his injury plagued career. 'Excellent' or 'outstanding' are adjectives that are in no way are applicable to his ability or stats.
marooncat79 says:
That's why Jordan Love should be sought out by everyone needing a QB.
Looking at the Panthers, Titans, and the ATL
jojomogir says:
If you're drafted in the 2nd round or later and you bounce around as a backup, you are not a bust. When you are drafted in the top 10 and can't hold onto a starting job in the NFL, you are a bust.
steelcretin says:
I know Jackson was voted MVP, but is he really a "great" quarterback that everyone is kicking themselves for not taking?
purpleguy says:
The NFL makes billions, they have about one coach or scout per player, more statistical analysis than MIT, and after all these years they still can't evaluate college QB talent.


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Country singer who's hit No. 1 with 5 of last 6 albums to play Sands Bethlehem Event Center
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Posted by The Morning Call at 07:54:31 AM on August 15, 2014
A country music singer who has had five of his last six albums hit No. 1 and has had 10 No. 1 hits will play at Sands Bethlehem Event Center, it was just announced.
Dierks Bentley, best known for his hits "What Was I Thinkin," "Come a Little Closer" and his recent hit "Drunk on a Plane," will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14, the event center announced on its Facebook page.
Also on the show will be Randy Houser and Eric Paslay.
Tickets, at $69.50 for reserved seats and $59.50 general admission, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Aug. 22 at www.sandseventcenter.com, the event center box office, www.Ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets and at 800-745-3000.
He'll also play Hershey's Giant Center on Nov. 13.
Bentley hit platinum with his self-titled 2003 debut album and the chart-topping "What Was I Thinkin." His sophomore disc, "Modern Day Drifter," also went platinum and became the first to hit No. 1.
In 2004, he won the Academy of Country Music award for Best New Artist, and the Country Music Association's Horizon Award the year after that. He's been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards, including Best Country Album for "Long Trip Alone" in 2008 and "Up on the Ridge" in 2011.
He also topped the charts with 2006's "Long Trip Alone," 2009's "Feel That Fire," which went platinum and gold, respectively, and 2012's "Home" and his latest, "Riser," released in February.
In all, he's had 17 Top 10 hits, nine of which have gone gold. Other No. 1 hits included "Feel That Fire," "Sideways," "Am I the Only One," "Home" and "5-1-5-0."
The show will be part of a 20-city tour that begins Oct. 2.
Houser is best known for his 2009 breakthrough hit "Boots On" and the platinum hits "Runnin' Outta Moonlight" and "How Country Feels."
Paslay released a self-titled debut album in February featuring his No. 1 hit "Friday Night" and current Top 15 single "Song About A Girl."
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Tiffany, thanks for the great pics and website – Alex is great! Quick question: I wrote to him at the ICM address and it was sent back unopened and marked "Return to Sender" – is this the right address for fan mail and has this happened to anyone else? Let me know please.
These photos are awesome. I wanted to jump into my lap top. Alex looks so alive and beckoning….ok ok I'm calming down.
Yes, ALex wears that DOnate Life pin everywhere being the Ambassador for Organ Donation. At least I could watch this clip yay. Two bites of ALex on that bit. Get noticed there boy, in Tinsel Town town you need to there on the scene, getting noticed.
OMG, He is just the most Gorgeous man I've ever seen.. He does have a way of saying more with his eyes,and smile. Good thing his new role is a Doctor alot of Females are going to need him.
I have to agree with Natalie, the 2nd photo is the best one, the look on Alex's face say's so much and he does'nt even have to say a single word. You only have to look into his eyes and your heart just melt's!!!
OMG………….Be still my beating heart…….
Thank you very much Tiffany!
The second picture is the best one. Such a handsome face. Mmmmmm.
That second picture made me feel like he was looking right through me! Alex is such a Hunk! Thanks again Tiffany.
He's so cute!! He has something in his lapel that says "Donate Life". He's gorgeous and a good guy too!! Best actor ever.


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How can I open an account in UK to save enough to buy Bonds when needed with my UK pension to save changing to AUD from GBP's and back again?
Let's see if I've understood this - you live in Australia and want to open a UK bank account. Is that right? If so, you'll probably find it very difficult. Banks in the UK will normally expect you to be resident in the UK. There might be ways around it, but the anti money laundering laws these days make moving money around more difficult than it used to be.
Are you a British expat? If you are you could explore the possibility of opening an offshore account in sterling. However, if you are now an Australian, then the offshore option is unlikely to be open to you.
I'm not a banking expert but that's how I see it. Perhaps someone else here has better knowledge than I do. Good luck.
I still have my (out of date)British passport.Have they changed the likes of that?Thanks,Nosher.
I agree! These tough anti-laundering laws are a huge inconvenience to the average person and the big boys will always find ways around them. But that's the system we have to work within.
What I meant by asking if you're an Australian was just to establish if you'd emigrated some time ago, now have Australian nationality, and can no longer claim to be British. Since you have the dual nationality - and can still claim to be British - I expect it'll be slightly less difficult to open a British bank account.
We were overseas for a long time and found it extremely difficult to open a UK bank account until we were actually back on the ground with residential status and a UK address.
I hope someone else might join in with some advice because we faced similar problems of being British, living elsewhere, and not being able to open a UK bank account. I'm not saying it can't be done, only that we couldn't figure out how to do it.
Sorry that's not the answer you're looking for. It's only our experience. Maybe someone else will have something more encouraging.
Does Oz allow you to hold an account in sterling as well as your AUD account? If so, get your UK pension paid into it in sterling and only transfer what you need into AUD. There must be several ways to hold a sterling account, but the real trouble will be that you can't get your pension payments split. Do they arrive in Oz in sterling, or are they already converted to AUD?
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Kay wrote: What I meant by asking if you're an Australian was just to establish if you'd emigrated some time ago, now have Australian nationality, and can no longer claim to be British.
If you're a British Citizen by birth, the only way you can lose your citizenship is by writing to the Home Secretary to renounce it. The UK allows multiple citizenship. Some countries don't, and may insist that you sign a declaration that you've renounced your British citizenship as a condition of obtaining their citizenship (or continuing to hold it, if you're entitled to it by birth). Under UK law such declarations to other governments don't affect your status as a British Citizen - you'll retain all your rights and obligations as far as HM Government's concerned (although under the law of your other country it may well be illegal to exercise them, eg by trying to enter that country on a British passport).
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Aside from your classmates, what was the key factor that led you to choose this program for your full- time MBA and why was it so important to you? Mendoza's emphasis on values-based learning was the most significant differentiator relative to other MBA programs. I think it is true that an organization is only as strong as its people. Mendoza strives to create a community of bright and driven students, but perhaps more importantly, a community of students determined to lead with purpose and integrity. This commitment to "asking more of business" and creating strong, professional leaders was a crucial factor in my decision and helped to elevate Mendoza above comparable schools.
Finance and Investment Club, or at Monday Night Bowling, Mendoza presents a great opportunity to augment my own worldview and see business through a different lens.
What led you to pursue an MBA at this point in your career? After nearly five years of working in private equity, I had reached a crossroads in my career. While HCI has provided me with a wealth of experience, I thought that an MBA would allow me to diversify my professional skill set and fill some of the void caused by studying Plato and Aristotle (great for critical thinking, less so for developing business acumen). I think most importantly, an MBA provides me with the option to chart my career path going forward and opens up doors that might have otherwise been closed.
How did you decide if an MBA was worth the investment? Determining the economic return of pursuing an MBA was fairly straightforward. I knew that I wanted to go to school and based on available salary information, determined that I could justify it financially. Equally as important and somewhat more difficult, however, was determining what other returns I wanted a business school to provide. While a number of schools offer quality educations and strong job placement, far fewer place equal emphasis on continued personal development and growth outside the classroom. Once I realized how important this element of the experience was for me, it became much easier to narrow my focus and determine what schools could help me best achieve this goal.
How did you determine your fit at various schools? Some of the important considerations to me were class size (I preferred a small, intimate environment), efficacy of alumni network, collaborative working environment, and an emphasis on personal, professional, and academic development. It was also helpful to review industries that alumni had recently entered and evaluating how those lined up with my own ambitions. Beyond looking at school websites (and Poets & Quants), I found the most useful resource to be students. Most b-school students were very honest and forthcoming about both the positives and negatives of their experience. While looking at employment reports for schools was helpful, I think that the best tool for evaluating career opportunities was speaking with career services representatives. In most instances, they were very open to speaking about their respective school's reputation, strengths and weaknesses, and company / industry pipeline.
What was your defining moment and how did it shape who you are? Moving to an unfamiliar city (Minneapolis) to take a job in an unfamiliar industry (private equity) helped me discover the importance of stepping outside of my comfort zone. In addition to allowing me to grow both personally and professionally, the move has also given me the confidence to pursue career paths that I might have otherwise shied away from given their unfamiliarity.
What do you plan to do after you graduate? Immediately after graduating, I would like to work in a corporate finance or business development role at a large, multinational corporation. One of the drawbacks to private equity was getting to know companies and industries extremely well only to move on to a new company or industry after exiting our investment. Working within a captive finance group at a large corporation would allow me to better understand the dynamics and operations of a company while also allowing me to continue working in a field that I enjoy.
Where do you see yourself in five years? Professionally, I hope to be at the same company that I joined following graduation. Most importantly, I want to be working in a role that challenges me daily, presents new and exciting opportunities, and provides me with the ability to continue to advance my career. I think that the skill set developed at Mendoza will serve as a great platform for realizing personal and professional success for years to come.


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• A recent highlight is Adam Roberts's long review of Minority Report, which begins "The symbolic Oedipal psychodrama elaborated by Minority Report is so egregious, so unmissable on-screen, that it is hard to escape a sense of deliberate over-cueing by scriptwriters and director." Also, reviews of books by Clive Barker, Ben Jeapes, Jeff VanderMeer, and others; plus news, features, etc.
News about Warren Lapine & Andy Porter, Charles Sheffield; awards, deaths, fans, changes of address; outraged letters; Thog's Masterclass.
Website of annual European review magazine of science and SF, edited by Jonathan Cowie. Updated intermittently.
• Four articles have just been posted, beginning with The State of UK SF Publishing by Jonathan Cowie, and three science essays by Jack Cohen (asking, is biology a science?), Ted Nield (are scientists expecting the impossible?), and Peter Cotgreave (should we trust scientists?). See links from this page.
This issue has fiction by Bruce Boston and Harry Shannon, sample chapters from Harry Shannon, Scott Nicholson, and Rie Sheridan, and interviews with Tobias S. Buckell, Teri A. Jacobs, Myra Nour, and Mike E. Purfield; plus news, reviews, links, etc.
• Three stories have been posted so far in August, two by Neil Williamson, one by Nathan Ballingrud.
Available on the web or PDF (click on date above), this issue has a horror story by Samuel Minier, dark fantasy by Christopher Rowe, flash by Kyri Freeman, and a classic by H.P. Lovecraft. Charles Coleman Finlay reviews Jack Dann's novella "The Diamond Pit", and Lee Battersby reviews 4 of the 5 short story nominees for this year's Hugo Awards.
• A series of short-shorts are being posted by writers who attended the Rio Hondo Writer's Workshop in Taos, New Mexico; so far stories by Walter Jon Williams and Sally Gwylan are available, along with background by Ellen Klages and recipes by Williams. Otherwise the 'zines regular features continue: Bruce Sterling's weblog, David Langford's news bits, Michael Swanwick's vignettes, Richard Kadrey's nanotales. Editor Eileen Gunn recently announced that, the webzine's generous grant having run out, a fundraising drive will be held this month and next with works of art contributed by Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, Howard Waldrop, and others; details to be posted shortly.
• Original stories posted recently are by Patrick O'Leary, Robert Reed, and Dave Hutchinson, in addition to a classic by Peter S. Beagle, all linked from the archive. Michael Swanwick is up to Cerium.
• Last week's Issue 276 featured that long interview with Robert Silverberg, reviews of Harry Turtledove and Jack Williamson books, and a column by Michael Cassutt about the lack of "real futures" in movies and especially TV. This week, John Clute reviews two books by Carol Emshwiller, while others review new books by Laura J. Mixon and Lisa Goldstein. The Hugo Awards poll remains open.
The lead feature is an interview with Kage Baker conducted by Nick Gevers. Further down is another interview, with Karin Lowachee; reviews of books by Ben Jeapes, F. Paul Wilson, Laurie Marks, Paul Di Filipppo, and others; a review by Rick Norwood of Signs; and "second look" reviews of works by Norman Spinrad, Clark Ashton Smith, and others. August 1st posts included an interview with Karl Schroeder.
• Articles this month include an interview with Jon Courtenay Grimwood and an essay on magazine serials by Rich Horton [in part spun-off from his review column here a couple months ago]. Other recent posts are fiction by Kenneth Brady and Sean Klein, poetry by Jonathan Price and Phil Wright, and reviews by Nick Brownlow and Paul Schumacher. Editor Mohanraj is interviewed at BookSense by Gavin J. Grant, though for her erotica, not for this webzine.
Anthology of original fiction, the first written-for-Fictionwise anthology, with stories by authors who've been with Fictionwise since its beginning in June 2000, including James Van Pelt, Vera Nazarian, Alan Rodgers, Tom Gerencer, Tobias S. Buckell, and the editor -- 66,000 words in all. A more ambitious anthology is in preparation for Halloween.
Interactive CD ROM "story sculpture", in pdf format, suitable for both PCs and MACs; by Alan M. Clark, Paul Groendes, Marti McKenna, Kenneth Brady and Dana Swisher, with original music by Michael M. (or 'Mule') Green.
The description reads: "This is not a game. It is not a book. Story Sculpture is a new digital art form of non-linear story-telling, blending sculpture, photography, painting, music, writing, audio tracks and animation into an adventure for the imagination." See this page for a sample of how it begins: a complex artwork with instructions to turn on the sound, examine the picture for hotspots, read the words...and explore. Clicking on hotspots within the opening artwork leads to detail artwork, some with text, accompanied by strumming piano music; further clicks lead to increasingly detailed artwork, some adding animation, or audio tracks of dialogue by the various characters, sometimes warning "Hah! Clicking here will do you no good!". It's not so much a story, as a puzzle to figure out. If you get stuck, there's a page of "Questions and Possible Answers". See Alan M. Clark/IFD Publishing for ordering information.
Subtitled "Stories of a Future Mars", this is a collection of 5 hard SF stories, with illustrations by Wolf Read, first published in Analog and Asimov's -- "Morning on Mars", "The Day of their Coming", "Comet Gypsies", "A Life on Mars", and "Martian Valkyrie" -- along with brief 2 or 3 page interludes. Available in Microsoft Reader format, which vocalizes the text as you select it (if your PC has that option turned on). The audio is neat, but the MS Reader format has its irritations, principally that there's no actual table of contents listing the story titles (we had to page-down through the entire ebook to compile the list of stories above), and that there's no way to page-up to the cover image -- you have to use the Go To menu to do that.
Those issues aside, this is a worthwhile collection of stories by a hard SF writer who's never gotten the attention he deserves -- perhaps because he's never published a novel, or a physical book -- since many of his stories constitute a unified future history, with hard SF credentials, worthy of Larry Niven or John Varley before him. Recommended.
The links on the title and cover image are to the Amazon page; alternately, here's the Scorpius Digital Publishing page about this e-book, and here's a page about the author [scroll down].
Science Fiction Weekly's reviews and interviews are often linked in advance from the SciFi.com homepage; here for example is Patrick Lee's review of Signs (he gives it an A-), and here's a long interview with Robert Silverberg. But note that these are a temporary links.


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'use strict';
var chai = require('chai');
var assert = chai.assert; //http://chaijs.com/api/assert/
//var expect = chai.expect; //http://chaijs.com/api/bdd/#method_language-chains

var config = require(__dirname + '/../src/config.json');

describe('config.json', function () {

    before(function (done) {
        done();
    });

    describe('branding information',
        function () {
            it('config contains technical product name', function () {
                //used for filesystem operation etc
                assert.isDefined(config.technicalProductName);
                assert.isString(config.technicalProductName);
            });

            it('config contains product name', function () {
                assert.isDefined(config.productName);
            });

            it('config contains major and minor version', function () {
                //used from build system
                assert.isDefined(config.version.major);
                assert.isDefined(config.version.minor);
            });
        });

    describe('server configuration', function () {

        it('should define port', function () {
            assert.isDefined(config.server);
            assert.isDefined(config.server.port);
        });
    });

    describe('service configuration', function () {

        it('defines employee service', function () {
            assert.isDefined(config.services.employees);
        });

        describe('employee service configuration', function () {

            it('service is enabled', function () {
                assert.isTrue(config.services.employees.enabled);
            });

            it('endpoints are defined', function () {
                assert.isArray(config.services.employees.endpoints);
                assert.include(config.services.employees.endpoints, '/employees', 'employees endpoint is not defined but referenced in documentation');
            });

            it('persistence is configured', function () {
                var p = config.services.employees.persistence;
                assert.isDefined(p);
                assert.isDefined(p.database);

                assert.equal(p.fakeDB.locale, 'en', 'default database language is not en');
            });

            it('default database is fakeDB', function () {
                var p = config.services.employees.persistence;
                assert.equal(p.database, 'fakeDB', 'default database is not fakeDB');
                assert.isNumber(p.fakeDB.employeeCount);
            });

            it('default language is en', function () {
                var p = config.services.employees.persistence;
                assert.equal(p.fakeDB.locale, 'en', 'default database language is not en');
            });
        });
    });
});

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Revu on the Road was our large 2015 product launch. I collaborated with our video team to create a teaser video for the campaign. I worked on the story boarding, designing assets and provided feedback on final edits.


The AA-E lists over two hundred current members. Some work or practice in the studios every day, while others visit when they're completing projects. Others stop by for meetings, workshops, or to receive legal advice. New visitors are always welcome. Learn more at http://aa-e.org/fr/category/atelier/ and check out some of the artists' work on the AA-E instagram at https://www.instagram.com/atelierartistesexil/ .
This story appeared on January 20th at Art & Object.


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About BNE
BNE first opened in 2001 and was originally called Holy Spirit Northside Private Emergency Centre – as it opened simultaneously with Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital, now known as St. Vincent's Private Hospital Northside. It was the first private emergency department to open in Brisbane and was developed by emergency medicine pioneer, Dr Phillip Kay.
The centre's name was changed to Brisbane Northside Emergency Centre in December 2008 to reflect the geographic coverage of the centre and to make it clear to patrons that the Centre was not just for patients of the Hospital.


the camera collection from antonio vicentini on Vimeo.
Brazilian animator and producer Antonio Vicentini's cute and whimsical one-minute short film shows the evolution of the consumer camera. Colorfully pixelated cameras illustrated by Billy Brown are animated and set to cheerful music by Ben Hantoot. While not a complete history, the 24 cameras illustrated in this short film are a vignette of Vicentini's personal history with cameras and include an early box camera, disposable cameras, Polaroids, point-and-shoots, and modern DSLRs.
View more of Vicentini's work on his website.
Do you make moving images of know of someone who does? Let us know at info@donttakepictures.com.


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As the UK's largest agricultural event, LAMMA is the perfect platform to launch the new Solis 75 CRDI demonstrating its pure power and ultimate efficiency to the agricultural community. To learn more about the 75 CRDI and the other tractors in our range, please visit us at the show, hall 17 stand 240, alternatively please contact us to arrange an appointment.


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Hi, I am using the AMBE stick, is there any chance this will work through Pi Mic/Speaker?
Is there any chance the AMBE stick could work with Pi Mic/Speaker Setup?


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Bruce hits 2 homers to lift Mets past Phillies
Chris Iseman
Staff Writer, @chrisiseman
NEW YORK – Jay Bruce twice brought Citi Field's crowd to its feet.
Bruce's first big swing came in the sixth inning, when he launched a three-run home run over the right-field wall to give the Mets a one-run lead. Then after the Phillies tied the score, Bruce delivered for the Mets once again. The right-fielder blasted another homer, this time a two-run shot in the eighth, to give the Mets the decisive advantage.
With two two swings, Bruce injected life into an offense that desperately needed it.
"We needed to get it going," manager Terry Collins said. "Of course, a big night for him tonight. He carried us offensively. It was certainly something to maybe get us started."
Bruce's multi-homer game and a solid outing from Robert Gsellman propelled the Mets to a 5-4 victory over the Phillies in front of 22,243 at Citi Field on Wednesday.
The Mets snapped their four-game losing streak.
"I don't believe in must-win games in April but it was good to get this one tonight and just look to build off of," said Bruce, who has six homers. "We have a very, very good team that's going to get rolling and I look forward to that."
Familia to give Mets' bullpen some relief
Mets' Zack Wheeler strives to pitch deeper into games
Addison Reed allowed a run in the ninth, but ultimately earned his fourth save.
But the game wasn't all positive for the Mets as Lucas Duda left with a hyperextended left elbow, while Travis d'Arnaud left with a right wrist contusion.
Cesar Hernandez hit a grounder back to the mound in the fifth. Gsellman's throw to first was off line, forcing Duda to reach into Hernandez's path to attempt the catch. His arm collided with Hernandez's shoulder.
D'Arnaud departed after getting hit by Aaron Altherr's follow through while making a throw to second base attempting to throw out Hernandez stealing second.
"As the game went on, bottom of the fifth, I had an at-bat," d'Arnaud said. "I felt OK. As the night progressed, it started tightening up so I said something."
Bruce's first home run off Vince Velasquez in the sixth gave the Mets a 3-2 lead, but they couldn't hold it.
Gsellman allowed a leadoff double to Altherr in the eighth, which was his final batter of the game. Jerry Blevins then gave up a game-tying, RBI single to Michael Saunders.
Bruce's second blast, which came off Edubray Ramos, sealed the win.
This was an encouraging performance for Gsellman, who yielded three runs on six hits in seven-plus innings. He walked one and struck out seven.
The right-hander was coming off a dreadful outing against the Marlins, during which he gave up eight runs in 4 2/3 innings.
"The depth on the sinker was way better than the last two starts," Gsellman said. "Last two starts they were going sideways. Now they're actually sinking."
They had a good chance to score in the first inning but couldn't capitalize. A failed baserunning decision by Yoenis Cespedes was partly to blame.
After Cespedes grounded into a fielder's choice with two outs, Bruce doubled down the right-field line. Cespedes rounded third and ran through Glenn Sherlock's stop sign and was thrown out at the plate.
"I didn't think that was a bad play," Collins said. "I know Glenn tried to hold him. As I told Glenn, he came running by third base with a head of steam. I'm not sure he's going to stop real fast."
In the end, Bruce made sure that decision didn't hurt the Mets.
"He's a run producer," Collins said. "He's showing it now."
Email: iseman@northjersey.com


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Bad at poetry? Door County improv troupe seeking 'putrid' submissions
Beginning March 1, viewers will vote to deem one poem the worst of the worst, and the winning poet will be announced on April 1, April Fool's Day.
Bad at poetry? Door County improv troupe seeking 'putrid' submissions Beginning March 1, viewers will vote to deem one poem the worst of the worst, and the winning poet will be announced on April 1, April Fool's Day. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/door-co/2020/01/04/door-county-deaths-door-knockers-hosts-bad-poetry-competition/2813232001/
From Staff Reports, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 12:40 p.m. CT Jan. 4, 2020
DOOR COUNTY - Death's Door Knockers, Door County's improv company, is hosting a contest to see who can write the worst poems.
The "Poor Prize for Putrid Poetry Contest" deadlines at 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 31, and the worst poems received will be recorded in the troupe's "Bad Poems for the Peninsula" style and posted on the Door County Comedy Channel on Youtube.
Beginning March 1, viewers will vote to deem one poem the worst of the worst, and the winning poet will be announced on April 1, April Fool's Day. The winner will receive the honorary title of "Poet Pooreate of the Peninsula," a red nose, and a handcrafted Kazoo from Door County's own Joseph Taylor.
Poems should written in a Microsoft Word document and emailed to deathsdoorknockers@gmail.com. The poem must be in a standard, 12-point font and not exceed one page in length. Death's Door Knockers also reserves the right to refuse submissions.
For more information, find the troupe on Facebook at facebook.com/deathdoorknockers.
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Dreamland by Nick Clausen #bookreview #Dreamland @NickClausen9
Some nightmares never end
In his sleep, Louie starts visiting a magical world where he meets his father, who died when Louie was still a baby. But nothing turns out to be what it seems, and great horrors loom very close by …
Welcome to Dreamland
A mysterious teen ghost story about fear and loss and losing yourself in dreams, Dreamland was originally published in Danish to great reviews, and is now available in English.
First of all, many thanks to Nick Clausen for reaching out to me and offering me a review copy. Nick is a Danish author with almost thirty traditionally published books under his belt, so he's by no means a lightweight. Recently he has started translating and indie-publishing his books in English, and Dreamland is one of those books.
Dreamland is a tiny sliver of a book, which is why I put it in the novella category in my monthly overview, but it's actually a compact, yet well-rounded story about Louie, a twelve-year-old boy raised by his mother because his father died when he was just a baby. The trouble starts when Louie starts visiting a place called Dreamland in his dreams. There he meets a man who says he's Louie's father. He knows things, things only Louie's father would know, but is he really who he says he is, and why is Louie dead-tired every time he wakes up?
For sure an intriguing premise, and an excellent execution too, a dream-like ghost story that felt like a mix of Joe Hill's NOS4A2 and Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls. Dreamland reminded me of NOS4A2 in that they have the same dream-like, nightmarish quality. If I had to put Dreamland in a target audience age bracket, I'd say it is mostly middle-grade, and obviously NOS4A2 is aimed at a more adult audience. However, Dreamland as a setting feels like a light version of Christmasland, it has some of the same atmosphere. Dreamland reminded me of A Monster Calls because both stories have a young boy at their cores, who is trying to make sense of death and loss. Although Louie has never really knows his father, he is growing up without one, and that has had an impact on every aspect of his life, and so of course he clings to his Dreamland father. In a way, this also made me nostalgic for the Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine, so if you or your kids are into that series, you should definitely give Dreamland a whirl!
Although I think this book is best suited for a middle-grade audience, I, at a slightly more advanced age (ahem), did enjoy Dreamland too, and very much so. It was a quick, fun, yet at certain times also emotional read that I'm happy to have read and that I'd gladly recommend.
Blog Tour: Dead is Beautiful (Charlie and Rose Investigate Book #4) by Jo Perry #Extract #DeadIsBeautiful @JoPerryAuthor @F13Noir @fahrenheitpress @damppebbles #damppebblesblogtours
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Yvo @ It's All About Books 18 June 2019 at 10:18 pm
Fab review! The blurb alone made me curious; it sounds like such an interesting read! And who says adults can't enjoy MG reads? 😉 xx
FromBelgiumWithBookLoveAuthor 18 June 2019 at 11:07 pm
Thanks Yvo ?
Zoé 20 June 2019 at 8:34 am
Ooh I need this book in my life. It sounds awesome!
FromBelgiumWithBookLoveAuthor 20 June 2019 at 9:42 pm
I think Nick may be open to requests if you'd be interested to read and review.


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Europe should stop backing a Russia-led project to deliver natural gas to the continent, according to US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell. However, not all the European nations agree.
Earlier this week, Mitchell urged the European countries not to "deepen the energy dependence" on Russia, saying that supporting projects such as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is totally unacceptable for US allies. According to the official, Washington is doing its best to protect Europeans from their excessive reliance on Russian energy.
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project is set to deliver Russian natural gas to European consumers. The pipeline, which is set to run from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea, is expected to double the existing pipeline's capacity of 55 billion cubic meters annually. Nord Stream 2 is projected to provide transit of 70 percent of Russian gas sales to the EU via the German route when it is built in 2019.
The pipe will go through the territorial waters of Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The project, led by the subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom, is being implemented in cooperation with German energy firms Wintershall and Uniper, French multinational Engie, British-Dutch oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell, and Austrian energy company OMV.
The White House has repeatedly slammed the pipeline, threatening to impose sanctions on the European corporations that are participating in the project. Nord Stream 2 has also been opposed by some Eastern European nations, including Ukraine and Poland.
However, construction work is well underway with Nord Stream 2 AG, the company in charge of the project, receiving the final permits from Germany, Finland and Sweden.
Germany, which currently gets around 60 percent of its natural gas imports from Russia, is not planning to give up on the project, which is set to boost the country's energy security.
"Russia is a well-valued, sure and stable partner, and I think it's very important to stock up on gas and other forms of energy," Dr. Robby Schlund, a Bundestag member for Alternative for Germany (AfD) told RT's Ruptly video news agency during the meeting between a Russian delegation and members of the German federal parliament.
"At the moment, we have four out of five of the necessary permits in the Baltic Sea. We have the time frame, we started construction and have taken all the required steps," said Ulrich Lissek, the head of Communications of Nord Stream 2.
Russia's natural gas is more competitive, according to the chairman of the Energy Committee of the Russian parliament, Pavel Zavalny.


Rocs and Fire Rocs tend to gather around the giant rib cages found in Tanaris.
There are various comments here about what the Fire Rocs have and don't have, but none state patch numbers.
As of version 1.7 (September 13,2005) the Fire Roc does not have resists - no pets do. They will sometimes have Dive (Rank 2) when tamed (the one I tamed last night did). Their fire resist found in previous patches can be replaced with skills learned from a pet trainer, but with a limited number of training points on each pet, pick what you train carefully.
If you're hunting these for the eggs, they spawn around any of the old bones in the middle region. However, they share spawn locations with the Hyenas, so either a Roc will spawn or the Hyena. So you have to kill everything around the bones. It works best to just pick a large camp of them and farm non-stop. I got my 12 eggs in an hour, and a lot of exp at level 45.
it should be noted that these birds have 110 fire resist after being tamed.
This NPC can be found in Tanaris (49).


Lamp polishing – changing seasons and weather conditions will affect your car lamps, as they will dim and become yellowish. Old lamps do not produce a sufficient beam and a precise angle, which means that they do not focus the light correctly on the road, and your vehicle will not pass a technical inspection. Lamp polishing renews the glass and makes it transparent. Therefore, a refurbished lamp has better road illumination and the correct dispersion of light, and this in turn increases the safety of your trip, especially at night or in the rain. To make sure that the condition of your lamps does not deteriorate we suggest coating them with a protective material.


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Prospecting On Demand Hits $1.5M With 47 Agency Coaching Clients. Running Lean & Strong
Alex Schlinsky, Founder and CEO of Prospecting On Demand currently works with 47 agency clients to help them build their business while doing a whopping $1.5M in revenue and running lean on team size.
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Here are some questions that the video had covered:
00:10 What is Prospecting On Demand and how does it work?
02:31 How many people do you have in your team?
04:28 How many active clients do you have in Prospecting On Demand?
05:10 How many people do you have in your audience size?
06:07 What's the pricing model for Prospecting On Demand?
08:36 What's the one needle mover that really took your business to the next level?
09:37 What's the most successful automation that you've setup in your business that either saves you the most time or makes you the most money?
10:29 What is your actual sales process look like?
13:31 In the last 12 months, how much revenue has POD generated?
16:32 What's the number one tip that you can give to new entrepreneurs?
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What's going on everybody today, we have the Alex Schlinsky from prospecting on demand all the way from Tampa, Florida, Alex, what is it that you actually do? And how do you generate revenue for prospecting on demand? Absolutely. So, yeah, we actually have two different companies prospecting on demand. The real company has actually sky social media LLC, which was originally my agency working with attorneys, started that in 2010. Thankfully I don't have to work with attorneys anymore because anyone that works with attorneys out there, they aren't the most nice people ever. But we do still have that agency working with about 15 attorneys across the United States, but prospecting on demand. What we really do is we help agency owners, coaches, and consultants scale their businesses from six to seven figures, helping them remove themselves as freelancers and building a real business. That's an asset automated systems, which program what's that what's program, but which business between the two does more revenue. And that's like where your main definitely pod is a seven-figure company. And then Scott social media is about half a million which I'm really proud of. Cause I don't really do anything for sky social media things in large part to our fulfillment partners into dash flakes into these types of companies makes a huge difference. As many of you are listening, understand white labeling super important. Cause I don't know Jack shit about ads, just prospecting.
So let's, let's do this interview. We'll focus Prospecting on demand. Just so people in the space can understand. I want to focus on one company so we don't mix metrics or anything like that. So if you can in prospecting on demand, who is like your ideal perfect avatar, is it just purely agencies? Is that who you're going after? I would say the ideal avatar would be agency owner just cause we have so much experience with it. But I think we're probably expanding to the idea of working with entrepreneurs mostly that are freelancers. So someone that had an idea figured out how to be good at prospecting generating opportunities, how to then convert them from a prospect to a client and then how to retain them, but realize, Holy crap, I can't do this with 10 or even 20 or 30 people. Cause I'm by myself. How do I build a system around everything that I do really good myself.
Those are the ideal people we work with. And agency terms, probably people that are like three to seven clients, 3,500 to 5,500 recurring and maybe have like a VA in the Philippines that helps them. But no, that would be your ideal client. That would be the ideal. If you did these massive gross with helping them implement systems that change from this is all I need to now have a process and a team to rely on, which is obviously incredibly valuable. What's the team size today? How many people do you have? And just give me a quick breakdown of, of what they do. Wow. I felt my head. I think we have nine people, so I'll give a quick breakdown. So Brian downer is our head coach and client success manager. Kemet Domingez is another one of our head coaches and systems, operations manager, Shira.
My wife and my business partner is our backend operations manager. She works on all the SLPs and systems and make sure payments are done and all that kind of stuff, Jennifer. Right? Our executive assistant she handles making sure that we're on track. She kind of holds us accountable. It's funny. We hold everyone else accountable. And she holds us accountable, which is great. Katina Flores. She handles our group our content, our emails, thank God for her. Cause I would be dead if I didn't have her address. Velasquez does all of our images and copy. We've been doing a lot of silly images online. If you guys haven't seen it recently, they're kind of fun. And then we have John here, who's our tech expert. When someone asks me a tech question like how this thing works with Zapier, I'm like, Oh, I thought it was magic. But John, he makes magic into reality things that I don't understand. And then if I'm missing anyone, I don't want to live like a jerk, but I think that might be it. I think that is seven people and loaded.
You get the breakdown. So you got, you got customer service guys essentially. Right?
We just break it down and then anybody on sales or is it just purely be in Kemet handle sales? I love doing sales. I think a lot of people ask me like, why do you do sales? If your company is doing so well, it's like, I enjoy it. So like they do in their businesses, do what they want to do. Like does Chad have to do a podcast for dash clicks? No, he wants to do them. That's part of it. He has a bunch of people that can do it. The idea is doing what you want in your business. Not just falling into a trap. That's like, no, this is what a CEO is supposed to do. And who says that this is my business. It's 2020. I decided what I want to do. I love him man.
And how many how many active people are in a pod?
How many would you start? Which is insane amount of clients we've ever had? I said we would cap at 50. But I don't know if we can actually, cause there's so many people that want to work with us. I think we just don't need to cap, man. You just gotta grow your team. And we got to hire another team. You shouldn't put a cap on your business and never do that. You gotta hire another coach.
There you go. Exactly. So let me
Really quick. If you could take your entire audience. Okay. And I'm talking about your email list, your Facebook followers, the people in your group your many chat bot, subscribers, whatever it is, take all of that shit. Put it into one bucket. If Alex tomorrow wakes up and wants to send a message, how many people do you think you can reach? What's your audience size? Wow. so I have 15,000 active people on my email and then like active campaign says there's like 6,000 inactive from the last 10 years. So those wouldn't count, but we have 15,000 active people there. I guess we can say 5,000 Facebook friends. Brian's email list is about 10,000 and Kevin's is about five. So probably like 30 or 35,000, which is a lot of people. So you, if you want to say something tomorrow, you're essentially talking to an arena full of people.
Yeah. A lot of people, but to be totally honest, I mean, Frank, how many of those people will open it? Like maybe like 15%, probably, maybe like 20 to 50%. So depending on the, depending on the source, right email obviously is going to get like a 15% open rate. Yeah, exactly. Obviously a lot higher than that. SMS is hard at that, but we get the juice. Okay, good. And what is your pricing model look like for pod? Let's say come in right now. I'm interested. What am I what's my fees to get in? Absolutely. So we have a couple of different products. Mostly though we just focus on our main program, which is prospecting on demand elite. It's a $9,000 program. Essentially in the 90 days, we're trying to add on at minimum $10,000 recurring revenue to you freeing up your time pretty significantly, and then ensuring that you have the systems to scale to seven figures.
And then beyond that, is it a three month program? Is that what it is? It's 12 months, but we do a honeymoon phase for three months where it's like, let's see if we like working together. I want to work with people that I like. That's why I have the attorney business. So I don't, I don't have to worry about the cash side. I can just work with people that suck like attorneys and then work with entrepreneurs. I enjoy working with because as you know, Chad, there's plenty of entrepreneurs and agency owners that are not want to work with. So yeah, that's what we do. We use a nine K nine K a 12 month term, essentially three month honeymoon stage. That's good. And what's your value ladder look like? Do you have anything coming in on the front end or back end of that offer?
Yeah, so we don't have a down sell course for a thousand dollars that we sell really for anything from 500 to a thousand, depending on the person and their situation. But I really try not to sell the course at all anymore because I do strongly believe that basically anyone that's been in this space for any amount of time has enough information. It's really about accountability, specific, customized mentorship support and ensuring they move in the right direction. Not just like more information. There's a lot of good stuff. Taking a courses is night and day between joining a high level elite coaching program. I think the time has passed for most people. That courses make sense. Like it really made a lot of sense in like 2015, 16, 17. I think the dilution of how many courses are now and how much free information there is online.
It's tough to make someone invest in a course unless they just want to, you know, get the information from one guy. They really like, which that's fine. But I think mentorship is the big key. That's my focus. The second thing that we do, we have the 12 month program thereafter, which is great. We love that. That's why we retain our clients, which is the most important metric to me, retention over sales. And then we also just built out a SAS product called the budget, pull the tool, which we will be launching hopefully in the next month or so maybe by the time this comes out and you guys here. So I'm pretty excited about it. What would you take if you could take the one thing in your business, let's say you can think about anything that you've done in pod. What is that one needle mover for you?
What was the one thing that you did that was like, Holy moly. This is like the best thing since [inaudible] no question. The biggest change for sure. My, my business life was everything before pod library event and everything after pod lab, man. I found it pretty challenging before pod lab in the last three, four years to retain clients past three months. Cause it's just something that I didn't do. It wasn't something that I had experienced specifically. We're talking coaching clients, not the agency. And then at pod live the ability to connect with someone in person as you know, with dash days and stuff. Yeah. It's just an entirely different experience. And then having someone commit on the dotted line for 12 months and then backing that up financially and their, with their word as well has been just huge. I mean, it's been unbelievable for us this year. So I would say without a question, that's the biggest one. Okay,
Good. And look, we're in 2020 now. What's, what's the most successful automation that you've set up in your business that either saved you the most time or makes you the most money. What's that one thing that you have that's automated that no touch that. Just say gee, either a shit ton of time or makes you a lot of money.
I'll go both. So the one that saves us the most time is we've Slack to communicate with our clients and share on my wife, used to send out messages every day for accountability. And like I said, we did some magic also known as savior that automates all of those messages, which is amazing. That said that two hours of time, especially when you have 50 clients that you're trying to message every day. So that's pretty wild. And then the thing that's probably made us the most money. I don't know if this counts, but I'll go with ads. I mean like running ads and set it up, doing outbound prospecting has created a, it's not like we're not even to be Frank, not even that good at it. Ads are pretty hard in this space cause there's so many people running it. But even if you're booking one qualified conversation a day and three of those people of the five you speak to every week or like, I want to work with you, you end up the end of the week, like 12 to 12,000 to $20,000 more in revenue. It's pretty fast.
Who's your actual sale process look like, can you break that down for me? Like, let's say me, I come in, I see one of your ads. I, I, I opt into a, you know, sales page or an application page. And I get I'm on the phone with you or my own a zoom call with you. Like what, what, what happened?
Very specifically the biggest and most important thing that we do that I think anyone that's watching this can take away from it and that we coach everyone is a demo video. So I joked with Chad before this, where he's like, Hey, this is going to be like a short like podcast, try to keep your answers short. And I was like, good thing. You said that, cause I'm a person that doesn't know what to shut the fuck up. So with that being said basically what I do is we have a 15 minute demo video that breaks down the program. And I kind of like in a joking manner, if I get on a call with someone and they haven't watched that video prior, like they didn't see the automations or whatever it is. I tell them in a joke like, look, I can sit here with you for the next 40 minutes trying to explain this whole program or I can know my weaknesses and say that I'm not going to be able to make this better than what the 15 minute video is. Once you watch the video and then we'll continue talking so
Well, it's a pre-frame video in a nutshell. Is that what it is? Would you say? Okay, cool.
Called demo makes a huge,
I had Rob Quinn on yesterday and he does something very similar after the application page. And he has like a specific name for it. I forgot what he said.
It was pretty cool. Three vault demo video, and it works for coaching programs or agencies. So like if you have an agency and you're selling a product, just make a quick video on it, don't include the price, explain the ROI, show them this is a no brainer. Show them some social, show them why it works and then we'll get on the call and then bang. They love it. The investment
Let's go through some metrics really quick, a hundred people fill out an application through your funnel. How many of those guys are booking a call? How many are showing up to the call? How many are closed?
Yeah, I have to look at the numbers, but I would go basically a numbers rate. I would expect about 10% rate or something like that. 10, 15%. So if you have a hundred people that go through the application, I'd expect probably 15, 10 to 15 people to fill it out from those people. We ended up probably getting on calls with about half of them. I wouldn't say no shows is really a problem. I would say we decline a lot of conversations. Cause there's people that are very honest where they're like, I make $0 and I don't know where to start. I'm like, okay, cool. Like here's the thing that will help you start. And we give them like a 25 page PDF instead of getting on a call. Cause it's not really worth our time. No offense to that person. It's just that they're just not there yet for you.
Exactly. We have other things to do. So yeah, I would say that's the model. And then in sales, like you know, just frankly like anyone that's qualified they're going to join the program. We're just, we're really good at that. And we know who we can help. I think one thing that anyone can learn from, if they're listening to this, tell someone to make the decision, people suck at making decisions. That's why we do this all the time. Like, Hey babe, what are you, what do you want to do for dinner tonight? And you have no fucking idea instead of being like, I want sushi. Why do you always say, I don't know, because people suck at decision making, right? They're just terrible at decision-making tell them to make the decision. People want confidence, but only do that. If you really believe you can help them. And that's something that I feel very strongly about that we can help people. And that's why I feel so confident. Be like, stop dillydallying about this, make the damn decision. This is what you need. Don't be stupid. Do it. And they're like
In the last 12 months, how much revenue has pod generated?
Let's see here. I'm pretty sure it is one and a half. Let me just double-check right now and try it. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. It's one and a half. I'm pretty sure it might be a little bit more. This year has been crazy. I mean, we, we were having a better year than we did last year. Which is wild. I mean, it's just crazy to say that. Yeah. So in the last year, exactly in the last 12 months, it has been one and a half million dollars.
Well, congratulations on all that success. That's amazing. And what's, let's say you want to, you fast forward 12 months. Okay. What is, what is Alex's goal to hit in 12 months?
What's the, yeah. I think things changed a lot in, in 2020, obviously because of certain plans, you know, we had met up early 20, 20 before the event and that we were talking about your event and our event and one of our big things this year we wanted to do. And now I'm hoping in 2021 is I want to do an event every other month with a small number of people, 20 or 30 people, smaller mastermind style. Exactly, exactly. And then of those 30 people, like half of them would be current clients. Half of them would be leads. Half of those leads would probably sign up for the longterm program. And that would be the business model. I'd like, cause like just being Frank with you, you know, we have a good friendship and relationship. It's so much more exciting to be with you than it is to be on zoom.
Even though 100% who I work with every day. I love the guy to death. I mean, I consider him like a brother, right? I haven't seen him since the event that wasn't March one. That's a long time. Like I worked with this guy every single day and I haven't seen him since March one. And we had a plan this year to do an event basically every other month and well, that didn't happen. So hopefully next year that's a, that's what we're looking at. So, so in 12 months you see you guys doubling revenue, you see you going from one and a half to $3 million. What do you, what do you, what do you think? So this is common. So I'll talk, I'll touch on this really quickly. Brian and Kemet and share are more adamant than I am about revenue goals. I'm much more adamant instead of revenue goals to like the satisfaction of our clients.
That's the most important metric to me. So I'm not really the best person to ask about it. I think there's this really bad problem in entrepreneurship that it's like, nothing is ever good enough. Everyone's fighting against each other. It always has to be a competition. Always have to make more. And I get that like capitalist mindset and I don't disagree with it necessarily, but for me as someone that understands who I am as a person and what I want in my life, which as you know you know, I guess I'll say it on the podcast, but you know, Sharon's pregnant and about to have our first kid, like we're, we're making good money. We're, we're doing a lot of things for amazing people. Really, all I give a shit about in 12 months is that I'm healthy. My wife is healthy. My son is healthy.
My clients are happy and we're doing good in the world. That's really what matters. Let's make more money. I'll take, I like to wrap up your, if you could, if you could give one tip to a brand new person, who's starting a business going into the entrepreneur space, they're just literally getting their toes wet. What would, what tip would you give them that would shave years off their life, off their business life. Okay. I'll do two so that I can get away with the emotional side and the, and the legitimate side. So let's start with the emotional side. Cause I think this is actually really important. Like the mindset of being an entrepreneur is different than what you think it is, right? Like when you have a normal job, you can clock out like either metaphorically or literally, and then you go home and then the day is, are separate.
When you own your own business, it's not like that. Like your business is your own baby. It's like essentially a child that you are rearing and growing up with and trying to build it like a process around. And it's a big challenge. Like there's ups and downs and massive roller coasters. It's never just a roller coaster that brings you up. You will have a drop, you will have enough. And I think like we just said like, feel comfortable with where you want to be, not where someone else tells you to be, feel comfortable with what your race is. I'll give this quick metaphor. It's like understanding the difference between you st bolt a short meter, distance runner and Mo Farah along get mr. Long meter distance runner who wins the race. You don't know if, unless how sh how long the race is, right?
If a short meter you're saying wins, if it's along meter Mo wins, what's the race of your running, not the race that Gary V tells you to run or Tony Robbins or, or Russell Brunson or me or anyone else, it's your race. And it's your race only. And that's all that matters because no one else out there is going to give a shit about you, your nuclear family and what you're trying to accomplish. I think that's huge. So like understanding the mental aspect of it is absolutely key and something that I think a lot of people just don't understand at all. They think it's easy and that's just not the reality in terms of a legitimate business recommendation. I would say the best thing to do is hire someone that has been there before you, right? Like make an investment in yourself, find someone that's willing to actually support you.
That has proof they can help you. That actually gives a shit. There's a huge difference between someone that, well, I'll take your money and try to help you versus like, I'll fight for you. And I'll do what it takes to really get you where you need to go. That made a huge difference for me, all the investments I've made in mentorship over my 10 years of doing this has made a big difference. Not all of them have been huge wins obviously, but a lot of them have really grown me up pretty significantly. We've spent on mentorships since, cause I I'm very curious, cause I know I I've spent a lot too as well.
I won't drop names just because, you know, I think it's, we don't need name drop, but one person's program alone was $7,500 a month. And I did that for four months, which was insane. So that was pretty crazy. I did another program that was 10 to I'd probably spend man rounded off. You think it'd be about a hole between us and coaches? A hundred K I would say a hundred to 200. It's hard to say. Like, because I dropped a lot of money on pod live to for like, not in a necessarily like program, but like coaching support on how to sell it really effectively from someone, you know, very well. Who's awesome and really helped us a lot. Like I dropped 40 K on that and it was a thousand percent worth. It, it was like, it was not good question. It was a hundred percent worth it. So I'd probably say like 100 to 200,000 in the last five years. Cause the first five years I laughed when someone was like, Oh, you want me to pay you 1500? Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind? And now it's like, I'm sorry. I was so stupid
Understanding the value in the outcome of what you're investing in. Right. And at the end of the day, it's an investment, whether it's yeah,
A thousand bucks or $50,000, if your looking at it as purely as an investment, what you're going to gain out of it, the value, whether it's learning something new, whether it's a tangible item, whether whatever it is. So I think the time is really important. Like the time investment makes a big difference, like how much you're required to do and what you're going to get in terms of your time back. That's really valuable as well. Love it. Hey guys, you guys heard it first here, Alex Schlinsky from prospecting on demand all the way from Tampa, Florida, Alex. Thank you so much. We look forward to having you on future podcasts, brother, have a good one.
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