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Jack Harlow Knew This Was Coming

Well, sort of. But now he’s got a smash hit, a new album featuring Adam Levine, and he may have accidentally altered the course of NBA history 

Written By Khari NixonJanuary 27 2021, 10:00 AM ET

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DJ Drama was in no rush to return from his lunch break.

Sandwiched between the outskirts of Atlanta’s Bankhead neighborhood and the sprawling campus of Georgia Tech University is Means Street Studios. This hub of hip hop recording has played host to a litany of stars since its 2013 inception. Playboi Carti, Gucci Mane, Lil Uzi Vert and the late Nipsey Hussle are just some of the artists who’ve graced its halls.

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However, on this day in November 2017, the Means Street corridors were not especially glamorous. Atlantic Records had selected the studio complex to host its quarterly A&R conference in which DJ Drama, legendary mixtape arbiter and co-founder of Atlantic’s Generation Now imprint (Lil Uzi Vert, Killuminati), played a significant role.

Overnight success stories often begin at conferences like this one, long before viral TikTok challenges and feature placements on streaming services come into play. It can sometimes take years for an artist to build enough trust with a label to earn a star-turning album or single rollout. Drama knows a thing or two about this waiting game. It was his seminal free mixtape series, Gangsta Grillz, that helped rappers circumvent this indefinite layover and maintain relevance during the 2000s.

“I was just kind of, you know, taking my time to get back,” he admits over a Zoom call, reminiscing. He was, after all, DJ Drama. He was far past the stage where he needed to outhustle fellow A&Rs and executives. New music needed to hustle its way to him.

Still, as 2014 signee Lil Uzi Vert inched closer to international superstardom, Generation Now was in the market for a second star. When Drama finally returned from his break, something extraordinary happened.

“Right as I walked in just a little bit late, ‘Dark Knight’ was on. They were playing ‘Dark Knight’ in the meeting.”

A few months prior to Atlantic’s A&R summit descending upon Means Street, during the waning days of summer 2017, DJ Drama sat in a room at the studios beside his fellow Generation Now execs: Don Cannon, a similarly legendary mixtape DJ, and their partner Leighton “Lake” Morrison. Meeting with them were KY, a renowned engineer from Louisville, and a lanky, curly-haired white boy, also from Louisville, whose brand of brash-yet-self-conscious raps had built a fanbase whose support had him teetering on the brink of vested major label interest. This was Jack Harlow, Drama was told.

He knew who the 19-year-old rapper was. Drama’s friend and colleague Randy had hipped him to Jack’s Instagram page several months prior. Intrigued, Drama followed it and listened to a handful of the young rapper’s songs. The night before the formal introduction at Means Street, Jack had been thrust into a studio session by this same friend, Randy, to record with Generation Now’s inaugural signee, veteran rapper Skeme.

Harlow has endeared himself to a wide array of musicians in a short timeCREDIT: Noah Schutz

“The way Randy talked about it,” Drama recalls, “He was like, ‘I just wanted to see if [Harlow] had his chops. ‘Cause, you know. Skeme ain’t no hoe.’”

However, despite Harlow’s passing grades at his session with Skeme, Drama and company weren’t ready to set anything in stone. “It wasn’t final,” he says as he remembers how the meeting with KY and Jack concluded. “I don’t know, it was like everybody wasn’t sold.”

In the aftermath of the inconclusive meeting, Harlow, sensing Generation Now’s hesitation, returned to Louisville and got right back to work. He would be releasing Gazebo, his fourth and breakout self-released project, the third week of November 2017, and he needed to fire a warning shot. One that both his fanbase and GN would heed. That materialized as “Dark Knight,” a bruising ramble introducing listeners to a reenergized Harlow, who did not appear to be reeling from the effects of leaving Atlanta without a deal.

“Know this shit boom when we came down south and I had to bring my own lil’ Metro,” Harlow rapped, likening a member of his crew to Metro Boomin, the multi-platinum Atlanta-based producer. The song ends on an even more confident note. “Funny how it all works out / Right before this I was feeling burnt out / Now the whole city ‘bout to get burned down.”

Harlow wasn’t quite peeved, but there was a specific edge to his delivery. The chip on his shoulder was just big enough. “Dark Knight” made exactly as much noise as Harlow hoped it would. Because of it, he quickly outgrew DJ Drama’s circle. Label offers were imminent, regardless of whether Generation Now was interested. Harlow knew this. So did Drama.

Thus, when the DJ returned from his lunch break that day at Means Street to hear “Dark Knight” blaring from studio speakers, he knew immediately he had a decision to make. On his own accord, Harlow had quickly gotten better, sharper and grown more polished. So much so that Atlantic would surely be preparing to take its own chance on him by meeting’s end, leaving Generation Now out of the picture.

“Oh! That’s just Jack,” he hastily announced to the room. “I’m already on that. We got that, you can tuck that,” he remembers saying. The room quickly moved to the next order of business. If DJ Drama was on that, the conversation was over.

Truthfully, neither Drama nor his partners were actually on that. But that would soon change. “I went to text Cannon to tell him they played ‘Dark Knight’ in the meeting,” Drama says, as he cracks a wistful smile.

“It forced our hand in a way, thankfully.”

Jack Harlow photographed in Los Angeles, January 2021CREDIT: Noah Schutz

It’s a Friday night in January 2021, and Jack Harlow is seated in complete darkness. The COVID-19 pandemic will soon be a year old, so instead of doing something like eating tacos and playing H-O-R-S-E—which, I’ve decided, would have been my suggested activity for this interview in a safer world—I’m staring at a Zoom screen as Harlow, whose camera is switched off, describes his current setting. I’m not allowed to see it. “I’m sitting in the dark right now, you don’t want to see me in this mood right now,” he warns. For a moment, it sounds like a very vulnerable-rapper way of saying I was in the zone right before this. My next question is, “What are you doing, writing?” His deadpan reply: “No, I’m doing an interview.”

It is exactly this type of shrewd and subtle wit that allowed Jack Harlow to become Jack Harlow.

Born in March 1998 to the proprietors of a family-run sign business in Louisville, Kentucky, Harlow’s narrative isn’t the most compelling. Unlike many of his peers, he didn’t have to escape extreme poverty or take penitentiary chances in order to provide. He’s not from a city that regularly produces rap stars, and despite his obvious skill level, it would be fair to mistake him for a math tutor. His free time would often consist of riding around with friends in search of adventure, hoping to catch a cute girl’s attention along the way. As exhausted of a character trope as this is, young Jack Harlow was very much just a regular kid. His writing ability is what made him irregular. It also gives him a puncher’s chance at becoming the preeminent star of his generation.

In the 2020s, as microwave TikTok fame continues to prove reliable as a launching pad to Billboard success, emphasis on range and craft in the mainstream will continue to dwindle across the board. In hip hop specifically, descendants of 808’s & Heartbreak-era Kanye West have spent much of the last 15 years redefining how much traditional rapping is necessary to be successful in the genre. These dynamics don’t interest Harlow as much as they could. His duty is to his wordplay, and the techniques he employs to keep listeners on their toes. Sometimes it’s a stretch of alliteration that he’s able to effortlessly maintain. Other times, he’ll thumb his nose so nonchalantly you’ll forget that it’s slick talk. “The ones that hate me the most look just like me. You tell me what that means,” he raps on the 2020 single, “Tyler Herro.”

Jack Harlow is ready to rollCREDIT: Noah Schutz

In present-day hip hop, recognition is less contingent on lyrical ability than it ever has been. Despite scattered worlds that continue to place the technical art of rapping on a pedestal—the J. Cole-led Dreamville imprint and Westside Gunn’s Griselda immediately come to mind—being a Good Rapper has long taken a backseat to marketability. This transition has created somewhat of a perfect storm for an artist like Harlow, who isn’t going to blow you away with metaphors or dizzying flow switches. But his unassuming charisma, coupled with a sturdy pen and the attention to detail to execute a line like, “Been tryna pop, now I’m on like Shumpert,” provides for a lane that he can dominate.

“You know, for some odd reason, it’s been what I’ve wanted to do for so long that I can’t even pinpoint what it felt like to not want to do this,” Harlow says. “Like, sometimes I wonder, ‘What was it like to be a purposeless child that was simply enjoying life?” His mother, a hip-hop fan, would soundtrack the household with Jay-Z, OutKast and Black Eyed Peas. Perhaps unbeknownst to mom, her young son was taking meticulous notes. He wasn’t just enthralled, he was inspired. “What’s Poppin’” was an eventual outcome, but an inevitable one.

Harlow’s biggest hit song to date (and of 2020), “What’s Poppin’” materialized in the way that an innumerable amount of hit songs have come together. Hotshot producer slides into hotshot rapper’s DMs with hopes that they can form a mutually beneficial partnership. This particular exchange made perfect sense. JetsonMade, the Roc Nation-managed producer behind DaBaby’s breakout hit, “Suge,” was looking to diversify his portfolio. And Harlow was in album mode.

“I heard those piano keys, and I was just taken,” Harlow recalls. After a weeks-long back-and-forth with Jetson while touring in 2019, Jack had finally carved out time to get into the studio with the in-demand producer. On day two, Harlow heard the sound that changed his career. “I think I probably reacted how a lot of people reacted when they heard that beat. It’s fucking hard.”

Incidentally, it wasn’t even the featured beat of the night. In a recent interview with Genius, Jetson and Pooh Beatz, a producer Jet often partners with (“Told Pooh he a fool with this shit”), recall the night they flipped through instrumentals, looking for something for Harlow to “pop his shit” over. “You’ve got to give the artist room to be creative as well,” Pooh said. “So I’m always listening for that simplest piece.��� 

That beat, accentuated with that bouncing, accelerated piano loop, gave Harlow more than enough room to be selective with his approach. “I said to myself, ‘Jack, don’t think too hard. Don’t bear down on this beat and smother it. You know, don’t try to go crazy on it. Just have fun with it.’ So that’s what I did. I said the first thing that came to mind.”

What’s poppin? Brand new whip, just hopped in I got options, I could pass that bitch like Stockton

Then,

Just joshing, I’ma spend this holiday locked in

Seriously? “Just joshing?” I had to ask.

“That was a line I’d always planned on replacing,” Harlow admits as he chuckles. Given the opportunity to address the subtle audacity of this cheesy-but-effective line, he perks up. “I was always going to get rid of it. It was a placeholder. It was literally just something that rhymes with the other shit.”

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By the time he’d completed the song, it was far too late for replacements. For just over two minutes, on “What’s Poppin,” Harlow’s subdued-but-sharp flow darts in and out of the accelerated piano loop, buoying the dancing bassline Jetson and Pooh concocted. The beat doesn’t rush Harlow, and in turn, he doesn’t stifle it. After wrapping his sessions with Jetson, he played the song for confidantes on his team and friends back home in Louisville. Their response was the confirmation Jack needed. “What’s Poppin’” was the one. “I really treasure that moment because I use it as a lesson now when I’m trying to write,” he says. “I’m just like ‘go, go, go’ because look at the success that song is giving me when I just let go. It’s a lesson, you know, you just gotta let go and…” Harlow trails off briefly, perhaps rummaging through his brain for the word that will summarize this lesson. Seconds later, he finds it.

“Be instinctual.”

Shortly after its January 2020 release, “What’s Poppin’” was added to Spotify’s Rap Caviar playlist, the leading gatekeeper in the hip hop playlisting world. Securing a placement on a playlist like Rap Caviar in the streaming era is akin to being named a member of XXL magazine’s “Freshman Class” during the early 2010s blog era. It won’t guarantee a successful career, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a more effective springboard into the national conscience. Once “What’s Poppin’” hit Rap Caviar, it never looked back.

The song and its remix, which features DaBaby, Lil Wayne and Tory Lanez, have now been streamed over 700 million times on Spotify. Consequently, Harlow is a millionaire and Grammy nominee at 22. In case that was unclear, he announces it just 10 seconds into his debut studio album, That’s What They All Say, released in December, on the album’s intro, “Rendezvous.” The album, which features Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Lil Wayne, Lil Baby, and an appearance from the late R&B legend Static Major, is his biggest flex yet. The world had just learned his name, and already he was getting A-list stars out of bed for a set of tracks so versatile, comparisons to Drake are unavoidable.

“You know, it’s funny because, I remember my dad said to me he was proud of me because, you know, his dad was broke on a farm and grew up incredibly impoverished. Then my dad grew up a little better than him. And now, I’m a millionaire,” Harlow says, unable to disguise his pensive tone. “And he just wanted to point that out to me. It’s a huge step. I mean, I know that seems obvious for me, but it’s a huge step for him. I never met his dad—rest in peace—but if he could see the success, shit would be a whole ‘nother world to him. So it’s just nice to put it in perspective. You know, that’s the one thing I’ve been really careful about doing.”

Jack Harlow's trajectory continues to trend upCREDIT: Noah Schutz

The way Harlow ended his thought, it felt like a cautionary tale was coming. My hunch was pure. “Sometimes I think all these millionaires and artists get so wrapped up in entering the world and becoming friends with all the other millionaires when they get to L.A.,” he starts, “They get wrapped up in the world and it does become normalized. And they think to themselves, ‘Well, then, I have room to be depressed. Everyone around me is a millionaire and I’ll find something to be unhappy about.’”

Don’t let the depths of Harlow’s self-awareness disarm you; he knows he’s the guy right now. He always has. His account of the events surrounding his initial meeting with Generation Now at Means Street mirrors DJ Drama’s. Jack just sprinkles a little ego in, like parsley. “Drama was fucking with me, but he took a second. The label took a second. And I remember I ended up having to drop “Dark Knight.” I said, ‘I’ma just drop it.’ And that really got the buzz going. Labels started, people were interested. And I was like ‘O-K, yeah, yeah, no, I got it.’”

“So you sort of had to trigger your own bidding war,” I ask. He agrees. “Yeah, exactly. And they were on it quick.”

He's laid back and ready for a big 2021CREDIT: Noah Schutz

This Cinderella ascent has not come without setbacks, however. With fame comes heightened visibility, which can trip up even the most vigilant of stars. The NBA’s announcement that it would resume play following its March COVID-19 stoppage came with a strict set of safety guidelines. Players were prohibited from leaving the Disneyland campus that hosted the remainder of the season, fondly known as “The Bubble,” unless they had explicit permission from league authorities. Even so, they were still encouraged to stay clear of high-risk areas, like densely populated public venues.

Strip clubs—I’m guessing—would probably qualify as high-risk during a pandemic. That’s where Harlow was when he snapped a selfie with Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams less than a week after the league had resumed play. They each wore masks, but Williams had been granted permission to leave The Bubble so he could attend a relative’s funeral, not pop up on a rapper’s Instagram Story while at the strip club. Lou Will maintains that he was simply picking up chicken wings when Harlow snapped the selfie, and not ripping wrappers off packs of singles. The NBA, however, would hear none of it and forced Williams into a 10-day quarantine. He missed the first two games of his teams’ restart, the Clippers never redeveloped their chemistry, and they were eliminated from the playoffs so quickly, their season became fodder for a Freddie Gibbs chorus several weeks later. “Hoes get fucked and sent home early, just like the Clippers.”

Naturally, no one blames Harlow for this. Not even Lou Will. “[Lou] called me like, ‘Don’t even fucking trip. I’m Lou. I don’t get in trouble.’ I was like well shit, you just gave me the pass to relax,” Harlow reveals as he fights back laughter. Still, one can’t help but wonder how things might have turned out if the restart to the Clippers’ season was less turbulent. After they were eliminated, the team fired its coach, retooled most of its roster, and saw its star player, Paul George, spend the entire summer soul searching. What a sequence of events.

There is also the matter of the aforementioned remix to “What’s Poppin,” one of the most successful remixes in recent hip hop memory. Just a few weeks after the song was released, Lanez was accused of shooting Houston hip hop star Megan Thee Stallion in her feet following a party in Los Angeles. With increased social attention to misogynoir and violence against women as the wind in their sails, scores of Twitter users “canceled” Lanez and began lobbying for industry figures to blacklist him and his music. Harlow, stunned at the news, didn’t know how to react. The very mention of it makes him uncomfortable. I asked him what his initial reaction was.

“It’s crazy,” he says. “The news broke right after we dropped the video. I was like, ‘I wonder how this is going to go.’ I was curious, I was shocked, I was just like, damn.” He would comment no further.

Don't mess with Jack HarlowCREDIT: Noah Schutz

Eventually, Harlow’s whiteness had to be addressed. He knew it, and I knew it. In listening to his music over the years, I’d observed how many of my Black friends and colleagues were accepting of him in a way that they weren’t accepting of other white rappers. It’s comforting to have a white rapper just be a white rapper, and not cosplay their Black peers with guerilla music videos and disingenuous displays of gunplay and drug use. Maybe too comforting. Last year, Harlow trended on Twitter because the platform had somehow just discovered his race. He poked fun at the confusion on Instagram, posting a screenshot of his discography, which features his very white face on every cover art. “I did everything I could do to show y’all I am white,” he wrote.

Harlow expresses an understanding of what it means to be a privileged outsider. When Breonna Taylor was unjustly murdered at the hands of Louisville police last March, Harlow hit the streets as marches and protests swept the nation. “People have asked me, as if there was a strategy involved, ‘What made you do it?’ I grew up with Black people, and the empathy I have for them is ingrained in me. It’s not something that arrived this past summer, but I was charged up by the movement. It happened where I’m from and there’s a responsibility that comes with that.”

One of the earliest memories critics will have of Harlow is his visit to Sway Calloway’s Sway In The Morning show on SiriusXM. In the footage, Harlow, wearing a brown Ecko Unlimited long-sleeve T-shirt, is even more baby-faced than he is now. Sitting next to the much stockier DJ Drama, it almost looks as if Drama is the talent and Harlow is the management. He’s quiet and fidgety, slightly deer-in-headlights, and doesn’t look much like the guy who “forced” the hand of a legend.

I remind Harlow of this moment and ask him to consider everything that’s happened since. What will his legacy be?

“I want to be someone that’s true to myself, and someone that’s wholly original to the game.” He says that he’s been that person in spurts and that his goal is to intentionally chase that for the rest of time. “The beauty of making art and music is, ideally that’s what should live forever. That’s what gives me purpose. I think that’s what we’re all looking for. Mortality is in the back of all of our heads, and I found the thing that makes it bearable.”

I ask him, “Does that scare you? The thought of dying before you reach your full potential?”

“Oh yes. So much so, I don’t even want to talk about it.”

Jack Harlow is styled by Metta Conchetta.

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COUNTACH EXPERIENCE OFFERS FRACTIONAL SHARES WITH NFT AND BALBONI-DRIVEN RIDE-ALONG TO SOME INVESTORS

(Atlanta, Georgia) March 31, 2023 — ’87 Countach Experience, a CryptoIntelXcompany, announces a unique approach to investing at the intersection of cryptocurrency and tangible assets.  Fractional shares of a 1987 Lamborghini Countach are being offered in March of 2023.  The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) acts as a receipt for the fractional ownership share.  As the name implies, Countach Experience will distribute ownership experiences from the restoration process to NFT holders.  Valentino Balboni and his cohorts built Countach in the Lamborghini factory back in the 1970s and 1980s, bringing their firsthand knowledge to this restoration dream team.  As the process unfolds, video updates and behind-the-scenes interviews will be exclusively available to the NFT holders.  Countach Experience is also offering factory and shop tours with a ride-along bonus in Italy for some initial investors.  

Real estate developer Chip Bulloch started CryptoIntelX.com in 2023 to analyze, educate and speculate in the developing space of cryptocurrencies.  His successes in real estate have focused the company at the junction of digital and ‘real world, physical,’ tangible assets, increasingly called ‘phygital.’  Applying blockchain concepts to his real estate investment background, he studied tokenization and fractional share issuances for use in land development projects.  Bulloch felt the time was right for CryptoIntelX.com to craft a bridge between digital and tangible investments by complementing the fractional share of an actual collectible car with a receipt secured by blockchain; resulting in the Countach Experience NFT.

Fractional or corporately owned collectible car investments aren’t new.  The shares offered constitute a share of ownership in a vehicle, conveying a proportionate amount of benefit and risk, usually without the responsibility of maintenance or restoration management.  Similar fractional collectible car offerings generally aren’t secured by a blockchain component nor convey the same experiential considerations.  They also  appreciate only by the variable of market fluctuations while other manageable variables do exist; condition/restoration, campaign/awards, confirming neutral or positive unknown history.

By applying tokenization to this Italian investment vehicle - instead of digital art as many NFT have been thus far - the fractional share of the Countach is among the growing number of tangible asset backed NFT.  Upon finding that the legendary Lamborghini factory test driver Valentino Balboni could do the restoration, Bulloch realized others might like to participate in the ownership experience.  Bulloch is also the producer of the 2004 cult classic documentary reviewing Lamborghini history, “Lamborghini Experience - 40 Years of Excellence,” so he recognized the serendipitous nature of the project was worth sharing.  NFT provide an ideal platform for sharing the ownership experience in a way otherwise reserved for traditional car ownership.

Fifty-one (51) of the 100 shares will be held by Mr. Bulloch, six (6) remain of the first ten packages offered at USD$8000 per share.  Another 10 will be offered in a second tier, differently packaged.  Countach Experience shareholders can trade or auction their shares. Assets that, by nature are indivisible into smaller units may still be tokenized to enable smaller, more liquid denominations with the distribution of ownership benefits and risks without owning the entire asset. Similarly, fractionalization makes large assets more accessible to a group of like-minded investors, while also breaking down the investment into smaller units of risk, benefit and commitment that can appeal to a greater number of investors.  It can be a great way for investors who aren’t ready to commit to an entire project single-handedly yet still enjoy a process like restoration with a close, invited group, yet incurring little if any management expectations and maintaining some level of liquidity.  

A reasonably bullish valuation considering the car’s 20+ years of single ownership by a serial Countach owner who happens to be the producer of a Lamborghini documentary, added to Valentino Balboni’s restoration team’s factory pedigree all add to the car’s provenance.  Balboni and Bulloch can be relied upon to optimize this exotic design icon, making a USD$700,000 to USD$800,000 USD valuation reasonable, yet the additional owner-exclusive experiential components are valuable on their own merit.  Custom automotive art, video production, and blockchain projects require liquidity, expertise, and curatorial creativity.  Mr. Bulloch’s team’s perspective delivers well-informed content, providing exclusive access to NFT shareholders and potentially a limited release later to a wider audience.  Factory, shop, museum tours, and ride along with Valentino Balboni are available to the first ten shares, and though one must make their own way to Italy, it’s an experience otherwise not for sale.

The collectible car community is familiar with auctioned vehicles for use in the real world.  Internet gamers are more familiar with online auctioned NFTs which often represent digital artwork secured by blockchain for use or trade in the metaverse. For further car community context, the highly publicized Barrett-Jackson NFTs auctioned in 2021 and 2022 included no portion nor physical access to any vehicle - just the promise of owning an exciting moment on the block by way of digital content secured by blockchain.  Some would argue that no event or moment in time can be owned.  Others found it confusing to see imagery of a car on the famous car auction block without an actual car or tangible automotive item or ephemera being sold.

Tangible assets generally have holding and improvement costs in addition to market changes. Holding costs may include legal, monthly maintenance, storage, and insurance expenses.  Like the 4C’s of diamond evaluation, collectible cars have 3 main variables: desirability, provenance, and condition.  Restoration can require shipping a car overseas and finding correct rare parts, skills, services, and records.  Adding historical documentation can add some value to older cars if unknowns exist, but restoration is generally the most significant improvable variable.  The condition can be forcibly increased or decreased (independent of market fluctuations) through restoration, while the value of a tangible asset such as real estate or vintage vehicles is also impacted by the market or its desirability.

In collectibles, supply is limited by the production volume of a past model year, usually a well-known number.  Attrition reduces the total number of extant examples of a model, with restorable “barn finds” very rarely adding to the total number of cars.  Usually, available supply for a particular model is limited to only a handful of examples offered in a given year, with only some transactions publicized by auctions.  Restoration of such assets requires deep and siloed subject matter expertise to obtain optimal value, yet often there are few experts respected for a particular marque or even model.

Countach Experience offers not only a share in the financial outcome but also the pleasures, artful discoveries, mechanical intricacies, and camaraderie of such projects without the unknown headaches and stress that usually arise in the management and funding of such undertakings.  The car and restoration team tick the boxes for provenance and condition, and its design, desirability, and market trends in investing and collectible cars all appear quite favorable.  Demographics and historical significance of the design will synergize with beautifully crafted imagery to enhance this historic offering.

While the Countach Experience investment is available only to accredited investors, and risk always exists, its insured value is USD$750,000 - should a claim require proportionate distribution.  Unlike the Sam Bankman Fried debacle, wherein funds disappeared entirely, the risk is reduced by the asset’s insured, real-world existence.  While digital-asset-backed cryptocurrency NFTs have their market ups and downs, some might say that a physical Lamborghini currency is worth more than a fiat currency - definitely more fun to own.

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Build a website utilizing an AI Website Builder, host it on 10Web Hosting, and enhance its performance with PageSpeed Booster. Design your website effortlessly using AI-generated content and images.

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Uizard enables product teams to work together seamlessly and accelerate the realization of their ideas, eliminating the issues of missed deadlines and design bottlenecks that were once prevalent. By leveraging the capabilities of AI, teams can generate concepts from text prompts and refine existing designs through the use of basic screenshots.

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Utilize our AI voice generator to transform text into speech online at no cost. Instantly generate natural AI voices in various languages, ideal for video creators, developers, and businesses.

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Tome:

Tome is the leading AI-native research and presentation platform for sales and marketing teams.

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Unbounce AI Tool:

Over 15,000 marketers utilize our platform to enhance their landing page creation process and increase customer conversions. Unbounce proves to be an excellent tool for marketers in various industries and teams of any magnitude, including individual marketers. However, there are certain groups who particularly admire Unbounce.

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5 Creative Ways to Use Video Production for Your Business's Marketing Strategy

In today's digital age, utilizing video production for your business's marketing strategy is essential. Videos have become one of the most powerful tools for engaging with customers and conveying your brand message effectively. At Echo Productions, a leading video production company based in Atlanta, Georgia, we specialize in creating high-quality videos that drive results for businesses. In this blog post, we will explore five creative ways to use video production to enhance your marketing strategy and take your business to the next level.

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Will Wright Teaches Game Design and Theory Information Learn the art and science of game design with Will Wright, the mind behind SimCity and The Sims. In this game design class, Will teaches you how to create games that empower players and unleash their imagination. You’ll develop a tool set for understanding player psychology, as well as learn Will’s approach to generating and pitching ideas, prototyping, playtesting, and building a community. What you’ll learn The Fundamentals of Game Design Generating Game Concepts Early Prototyping The Relationship Between Story and Games Exploring Player Psychology Design Player-Centered Experiences Develop a Game Language Designing a Visual Aesthetic Game Mechanics Game Demo: Morey Iteration and Scoping Prototyping Case Study: Proxi Playtesting Designing a Sound Aesthetic Pitching Ideas Game Demo: Flooded Market Choosing and Understanding Your Platform System Design Leadership and Collaboration The Future of Game Design Final Thoughts About Author Will Wright is a game designer and entrepreneur who is best known for creating a number of popular and influential video games. He was born on January 20, 1960, in Atlanta, Georgia, and developed an interest in computers and game design at an early age. In 1989, he founded Maxis Software, a game development company that went on to create several groundbreaking simulation games, including SimCity, The Sims, and Spore. Wright's games are known for their innovative gameplay mechanics, open-ended design, and attention to detail. They have been widely praised for their ability to engage and entertain players of all ages and backgrounds. Wright has received numerous awards and accolades for his work, including induction into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2002. He has also been involved in various philanthropic and educational initiatives, such as the Stupid Fun Club and the entertainment technology program at the University of Southern California. More courses from the same author: Will Wright (MasterClass)

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[ad_1] ATLANTA — As RISKWORLD 2023 kicked off on Monday, RIMS 2023 President Jennifer Santiago took the primary stage of the Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom in Atlanta’s Georgia World Congrees Heart to welcome attendees and assist them put together for 3 days of threat administration schooling, perception and networking. “You'll depart right here prepared—prepared to guide, to take motion, prepared for the following step in your profession, and able to assist make the world a extra sustainable and resilient place,” Santiago mentioned.   Santiago launched RIMS CEO Gary LaBranche, who made his RISKWORLD debut after having joined the Society in June 2022. LaBranche rapidly established a presence as the brand new face of RIMS, having appeared at RIMS world, regional and chapter occasions often in addition to these hosted by different organizations previously yr. He unveiled a video detailing RIMS’ new 10-year strategic plan and mission assertion, which he mentioned, “makes the case that threat administration professionals play an indispensable function in making organizations extra resilient, in driving technique and decision-making and producing higher outcomes.” “For this plan to work, it’s going to require contributions from everybody within the threat administration group,” LaBranche mentioned. “From C-Suite executives and senior threat leaders to rising threat professionals and people in adjoining fields like HR and IT. Simply as vital, it would require the angle and contributions from professionals from all walks of life and from completely different cultures.” Santiago and LaBranche additionally had main information relating to the way forward for the RIMS-CRMP (Licensed Threat Administration Skilled), asserting a strategic partnership with the Pan-Asia Threat and Insurance coverage Administration Affiliation (PARIMA). The objective of the collaboration is to ascertain a world customary of information and professionalism for threat professionals. Central to this endeavor, PARIMA will market, promote and ship the RIMS-CRMP Examination Prep Workshop to Pan-Asia’s threat group whereas RIMS will ship course supplies, case research, instructors, and handle administrative and certification duties.The growth, they mentioned, is “crucial to the occupation’s future.” Santiago and LaBranche had been joined onstage by Franck Baron, a co-founder and chairman of PARIMA and RIMS-CRMP Fee Chair Ward Ching to formally signal a memorandum of understanding and commemorate the historic collaboration. “Setting a world baseline for threat administration abilities and data is a crucial first step to advancing the occupation,” LaBranche mentioned. “As a unified pressure, RIMS and PARIMA are able to ship larger alternatives for threat professionals within the Pan-Asia area to earn the RIMS-CRMP, strengthen threat applications, drive organizational resiliency and advance professionally.” LaBranche closed the final session by beaming up a clip from the unique “Star Trek” tv sequence, by which Captain Kirk realizes that he and his crew had been within the enterprise of threat. He famous the similarities between the Starship Enterprise and RIMS. “RIMS has been that vessel for exploration and discovery for the chance administration group for 73 years,” he mentioned. “For generations, RIMS has been a supply of steerage, schooling, connections and alternative. However instances change, new challenges emerge, and new journeys name us forth. Quickly after I began my voyage with RIMS, the Board of Administrators and the administration crew engaged in a complete evaluation and evaluation course of to plan for the way forward for RIMS. The result's a brand new strategic plan that charts a course for the place RIMS goals to go sooner or later. There’s no higher place to share that imaginative and prescient than right here at RISKWORLD.” left to proper: Gary LaBranche, Franck Baron, Ward Ching and Jennifer Santiago Comparable Posts:2023 RIMS Awards Celebrate the Past, Present and Future of Risk Management

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Naked #278

Let’s get Naked! Or at least I’ll share a story of one of my songs inspired by an episode of Firefly. Plus, The Haar are featured on this week’s show.

This is Pub Songs & Stories #278

0:13 - Marc Gunn “Bright Side of Everything” from Selcouth

3:25 - WELCOME TO PUB SONGS & STORIES

I am Marc Gunn. I’m a Sci F’Irish musician and podcaster living in Atlanta, Georgia. Come Adventure With Me comes out on March 4

If you’re new to the show, please subscribe. You can do that PubSong.com or Just send me an email to follow@celtfather.

What are your favorite songs on Selcouth? There’s a poll in the Gunn Runner’s Club.

40 Minute Workout episode of Irish & Celtic Music Podcast

4:14 - UPCOMING SHOWS

FEB 15: Hobbit Drinking Songs on Bandcamp @ 7:30 PM

FEB 17: Goblin Market: Frost Faire @ 6:00-10:30 PM

MAR 23-24: Sherwood Forest Faire, Paige, TX

MAR 30-31: Sherwood Forest Faire, Paige, TX

APR 19-21: Jordan Con, Crowne Plaza Ravinia, Atlanta, GA

6:14 - The Haar “Wild Rover” from Where Old Ghosts Meet

10:43 - JOIN THE CLUB

The show is brought to you by my supporters on Patreon. If you enjoy this podcast or my music, please join the Club. You get something new every week. It could be bonus podcasts, downloadable songs, printed sheet music, blogs, or stories from the road. Plus, you’ll get access to videos like my Coffee with The Celtfather video concerts. Email follow@celtfather !

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12:27 - THE STORY OF NAKED

Inspired by the episode “Trash” from the TV show Firefly

Check out Episode 11 of In the Verse: Song Crafting

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The Coupling

Naked Lyrics

You're a stunning lady Your emotions you hide You tear down my defenses With a wink of your eye

* You think it's a game That only you can win But that is insane, girl Cuz it's you...Who's naked

That I undress your heart You choose to downplay Try to reclothe your thoughts But your feelings you betray

Bridge:

You're breaking down now Can I hold you when you cry? Or will you disarm me? 'Fore you tell me goodbye And leave me naked

Don’t shut yourself off There’s no need to hide Wanna know every part of you Please let down your guard

21:27 - Marc Gunn “Naked” from Come Adventure With Me

24:35 - CREDITS

Thanks for listening to Pub Songs & Stories. This episode was edited by Mitchell Petersen.

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Paul Brown Talks Gallery 63 and How 'Auction Kings' Changed His Business

Paul Brown is an owner of auction houses in the second generation. The auction house was purchased by Gallery 63 in Sandy Springs, Georgia, in 2005 under his guidance the company has expanded and prospered. In the interview in this video Brown speaks about the story of Gallery 63 as well as the influence on the reality series " Auction Kings," and the vision he has for the next chapter of this auction gallery.

How did you become involved in the auction business?

I was brought up in Atlanta, Georgia. My dad owned an antique shop and auction house. I got exposed to auctions from an early age. I worked at the auction house during weekends and in the summer. Following high school, I went to university to study literary studies. However, after graduation, I realized I was interested in working within the auction sector. I began as a pickinger. That is when I search for things for auction houses. Within a couple of years I was elevated to manager. Then, in 2005, purchased Gallery 63 from my father.

What were some difficulties you had to face in the beginning when you took over Gallery 63?

Auctions can be extremely fiercely competitive. There are many auction houses within the Atlanta region, so it isn't easy to distinguish yourself from the rest of the pack. One of the difficulties that I had to overcome when I took over Gallery 63 was attracting new consignors. Also, I needed an avenue to advertise Gallery 63 to a larger public.

What strategies did you employ to overcome these obstacles?

The first thing I did was focus on providing top-quality services to my buyers and consignors. Additionally, I committed to offering a variety of auction items. I was hoping for Gallery 63 to become a destination where people can look for unique and exciting objects, no matter what the amount they can afford.

I also began marketing the auction house with more vigor. I set up a website as well as a social media profile to promote Gallery 63. 

Also, I began to run ads in local newspapers as well as magazines. In 2010 Gallery 63 was included in the reality television series " Auction King."

What impact did this have on your company?

"Auction Kings" was a massive hit. The show was telecast on Discovery Channel for six seasons and brought in thousands of viewers. The program helped place Gallery 63 onto the map. The gallery began to draw buyers and consignors from around the globe.

It also helped alter the way people think about auction houses. Prior to "Auction Kings," many believed that auction houses were reserved for the wealthy. However, the show proved that auction houses are entertaining and enjoyable for anyone.

What do you want to achieve regarding the future direction of Gallery 63?

My aim is to increase the size of Gallery 63 and become the best auction house across the Southeast. Also, I want to invent and discover creative ways to communicate with both sellers and buyers.

One of my main goals is to increase the size of the reach of our auction website. I'd like to ease the process for buyers and sellers to purchase things from around the globe. Also, I would like to devise creative advertising and marketing methods to connect with a wider audience. I am also dedicated to helping the local community. Gallery 63 donates a portion of the profits to local charitable organizations. Additionally, we sponsor local events and fund-raisers.

What tips would you offer anyone who's contemplating starting an auction company?

Auctions are very labor-intensive however, they can be extremely satisfying. If you're thinking of setting up your own auction business I'd advise you to research your options and develop a well-constructed business strategy. It is also important to build a team of experienced and knowledgeable professionals. Finally, I would advise you to be patient and persistent. It can take time to establish a profitable auction business. If you're willing to work laborious work, you'll succeed.

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[the-firebird69]

Okeechobee

Okeechobee

This whole town is a hopeless mess you can see the ships leaving with all the moisture coming off the shore they try and go inland to take over and they're fighting right there not many of the ships get destroyed some of them are disabled and crashed land but in the ocean it's not a huge scene but we have to be there and they do too there's some big ships of hours and we struck them to leave and mostly they do. There's a horrible day this is disgusting we have to go through it it's working now this is one area that is huge it's a giant combat area and always has been it's worth mentioning that more or less started it all off but this whole town is underwater and they're going and scuba diving and pulling stuff out it's not a city and they don't have any real low rises but that's what happened it was suspect it might happen up there in Georgia part of Atlanta is about 20 ft below sea level and it looks like that video the lost city of Atlantis finally found. There's tons of scuba divers tons of fighting it's unreal it's disgusting it's all these idiots and yeah blood is going to come down thankfully the market still there a friend says it's going to absorb the blood and it will go out to sea after being destroyed and it's true too the acids will destroy it and the bugs won't be eating it but it'll be gone and it'll be flowing flowing out so we are monitoring and we found them to be very disgusting but they're actually getting chips and we do know where they're going they're going to the islands and is going to be a war there shortly.

Today to be celebrated and day to be feared and we're building like madness it can't be fair enough these people will be sort of unified and we're getting in meetings now. There's a couple more times I want to mention but this is very important it's a huge area it's like a hundred miles by 100 miles Miami which are run down and just nothing but s*** heads in them and really they need to leave they are the biggest pukes in history okay they sacrifice everything they live like poppers just to get a few ships it's gross not the clones though but they live like that too it makes it very gross they're kind of Spartan so they don't care

Mac daddy

We're there too and we see it it's a big huge mess and we don't like it we're clearing out tons of them as we speak and Mac is too it's a gross place and it's attracting them and they're all dying

Thor Freya

I'm sorry for bleeding the water but really nobody cares and they shouldn't it's gross lots of us are sick so being pulled out and we can't help it we have to yell and scream and we get shot we should not be in the water right now it's not helping us but we're fighting over that area and other stuff because that's where the ships are

Bja

[guesthypebusinessfinance]

The catering firm Proof of the Pudding has a rising checklist of sports activities shoppers, together with main golf occasions just like the Presidents Cup. Three many years in the past, Bruin Capital founder and CEO George Pyne spent 5 years in Atlanta working for town’s chamber of commerce and, later, for world-renowned architect John Portman. Throughout that stretch of the early Nineties, he found an area catering firm, Proof of the Pudding, that supplied companies to a number of the metropolis’s iconic venues and conference facilities. Now, some 30 years later, Proof has quietly constructed a robust and still-growing sports activities apply, and Pyne’s Bruin has acquired a majority stake within the enterprise with plans for future enlargement. “I lived in Atlanta from 1990 to 1995, and even again in these days, Proof had an unimaginable fame,” recalled Pyne. “I can’t imagine we’re speaking about it in 2023. Within the Nineties they have been the most effective at what they did. So the chance to work with them now, for me, may be very satisfying.” Proof of the Pudding should not have the name-recognition of trade giants like Aramark or Sodexo, nevertheless it’s hardly a mom-and-pop enterprise. The 44-year-old firm now has some 1,700 workers nationwide and feeds over a million people yearly. It’s lengthy managed meals companies for venues like Zoo Atlanta and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, and it catered the 1996 Olympic Video games. Round 10 years in the past, the enterprise expanded into collegiate athletics, first offering meals companies for suites and membership seats on the College of Georgia. Proof of the Pudding now has eight collegiate shoppers, together with Alabama, Auburn, Duke, Georgia Tech and Mississippi State. A ninth such deal is within the pipeline. The corporate has additionally begun managing coaching tables — high-performance meals companies for athletes — for Duke, Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Hawks. That’s along with Proof’s enviornment enterprise, which incorporates Georgia’s Fuel South Enviornment and Gateway Middle Enviornment. And the corporate has expanded into automotive racing, offering meals companies for Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta and, for its annual System One race, the Circuit of the Americas. Proof’s golf occasion clientele contains the Masters, the Tour Championship, the Gamers Championship, the Presidents Cup and this previous weekend’s AT&T Byron Nelson exterior Dallas, amongst others. Noyes Adam Noyes, the president of Proof of the Pudding, had been contemplating what the subsequent chapter for his firm may appear to be when a mutual acquaintance launched him to Pyne greater than three years in the past. The 2 hit it off, although early talks of a possible acquisition have been placed on maintain because of COVID. Pyne remembered that the disaster solely reaffirmed his perception within the catering enterprise, as Proof proceeded to run meals companies for seven overflow hospitals. Negotiations restarted in earnest final September, with the deal closing on Might 5. Either side declined to share monetary particulars of the transaction, although Noyes’ household will retain a “important” minority stake within the enterprise. The catering firm has grown rapidly in recent times, particularly with the additions of sports activities verticals. Its income, now within the low 9 figures, is up 800% during the last decade, with most of that progress coming previously 5 years. “At this level in our journey, Bruin can actually assist us go on the market, open some doorways for us, assist us on the mergers and acquisitions aspect,” stated Noyes. “They’ve obtained a confirmed observe document and can assist convey extra worth to our present shoppers. We’ve already been engaged on human assets, constructing our bench energy on the advertising aspect, constructing out our accounting groups to be prepared for this journey. And we’re simply tremendous excited to be on the level the place we will now transfer ahead.”

Large names headline Bruin’s first portfolio summit In late March, Bruin Capital hosted its first portfolio summit on the Fairmont Grand Del Mar luxurious lodge north of San Diego. The funding agency gathered the leaders of 5 of its portfolio firms — Engine Store, Full Swing, OddsChecker, TGI Sport and Two Circles — for two-plus days of panels and networking. Conversations centered on hot-button points like altering media tendencies, the M&A panorama, sports activities and leisure client spending and the way forward for the sports activities economic system. These discussions have been sparked by on-stage audio system in former White Home deputy chief of workers Karl Rove, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, Los Angeles Dodgers President and CEO Stan Kasten, and San Diego Padres proprietor Peter Seidler and CEO Erik Greupner. Among the many others in attendance: longtime sports activities media exec and Genius Sports activities President of North America Steve Bornstein, UTA and Warner Music Group board member Ceci Kurzman, CAA’s Chris Silbermann and former NFL common supervisor and ESPN insider Mike Tannenbaum. For Pyne, the deal is, partially, a guess on the rising worth of high-quality, premium experiences round sports activities and leisure. He additionally sees synergies with a few of Bruin’s present portfolio firms that have interaction with sports activities hospitality, specifically sports activities advertising corporations Two Circles and TGI Sport. And Pyne finally believes that Proof can function the inspiration atop which Bruin can construct a much more complicated and holistic enterprise. “We see this as a platform that at present is hospitality, however tomorrow might produce other issues, different technology, who is aware of. Ticketing, knowledge, advertising, different parts,” stated Pyne. “Additionally, we will probably be aggressive in acquisitions if these alternatives exist.” “Excessive-end hospitality experiences are part of sports activities, and we’re working with each main league and federation on the earth. We've boots on the bottom in 16 international locations, and we predict we can assist increase [Proof’s] capabilities,” he added. “We've capital, we've a footprint and we predict once we mix these issues, good issues can occur.” Chris Smith writes a month-to-month column on finance news and tendencies. He could be reached at [email protected]. https://guesthype.co.uk/?p=7605&feed_id=17039&cld=6460b28f98ebc

[seotoolskit]

Are you sure that you know what exactly search engine marketing is? If yes, how does it work?

What SEO Is and How Does SEO Work?

At OuterBox, we help many clients reach their full potential on the Internet with our digital marketing services that cover e-commerce, web design and SEO. While our eCommerce and web design services are fairly straightforward, some of our clients are new to SEO and often ask “How does SEO work?”

Well, we decided to put together a guide to show you what is SEO and how it works, as well as giving you insights as to why it’s so important for your long-term digital marketing strategy. SEO is the key to increasing online sales.

What is SEO?

Okay, so first things first: what is SEO?

SEO is an acronym that stands for search engine optimization, which, in layman’s terms, means making your website easier to find at the top of relevant search results on search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and much more. For example, if you own a bicycle shop in Atlanta, Georgia, SEO can help potential customers find your business when they search “bicycle shops in Atlanta.”

How Do You Do SEO for a Website?

If you’re new to SEO, you may be thinking that including the words (in the case of the bicycle shop example) “The Best Bicycle Shop in Atlanta” in the title of your homepage may greatly impact the SEO of your business’s website. Although that plays a role in helping your business be found, SEO is much more than just using that one phrase in your homepage. Does this sound confusing? Let’s look at this step-by-step guide to fully understand what SEO is and how it works:

On-Page SEO

When it comes to SEO, there are both technical and non-technical aspects to making a website fully optimized for search engines. So, how does SEO work with these two components? On-Page SEO is handling the backend of a website, while off-page SEO is centered more around what you can’t control (we’ll explain).

There are a few things that you can optimize on the website through On page seo to improve your website’s search ranking. This includes:

Enhancing your website’s meta title and meta description (these explain more about your website to search engines)

Utilizing internal links within your website (links that direct to other pages on your site)

Adding images with descriptive, keyword-rich alt-tags (think of these as captions that are simply relevant, searchable keywords for what the image is)

Enhancing any headers within your website’s content with keywords (i.e., “The Best Bicycle Shop in Atlanta”)

Off Page SEO

Off-page SEO is a little more complicated, however, because this type of search engine optimization depends on other people.

You do have some control over the first way to do off-page SEO, which is to build backlinks with other websites. This means linking to other websites and (this is where it depends on other people) having other websites link to you. You’ll need to build strong content that legitimate websites will want to link to, as well as solid relationships with businesses or authors of blogs for future collaboration.

The other two areas of off-page SEO rely on social media elements such as likes, shares and follows, and building trust with Google by having a legitimate website filled with content, plenty of backlinks and has little to no incorrect information (i.e., name, address, phone number, working links, etc.).

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SEO software for smarter marketing also has a great resource on off-Page SEO and related ranking factor you should definitely check out.

Content Marketing

As the name suggests, content marketing is all about Creating great, high quality content for your website.

But, what qualifies as great content, and how does SEO work in conjunction with it?

Any blog article, social media content, videos, or infographics that you publish should exhibit two traits: engaging and relevant. The last thing you want is a website filled with content that nobody cares to see. However, you also don’t want that content to be vague, off-topic or completely irrelevant from what your business is truly about.

Make sure that any content you write is interesting enough for people to stick around and read or, even better, share or comment on. This will decrease your bounce-rate (percentage of people leaving immediately after viewing one page on your site) and bode well with Google’s algorithm. Likewise, by having a plethora of high-volume, relevant keywords or phrases in your content, you will make a great impression with Google, which will increase your page’s search ranking. Just don’t be spammy with the keywords. Google will penalize your website and decrease your ranking if you use too many keywords, especially in succession. For example, don’t say “Mountain Bikes, BMX Bikes, Bicycles, Carbon Bikes, Off-Road Bikes” all in one line of text. You’ll want to space this out and sprinkle it throughout various parts of your content.

One of the earliest forms of content marketing was John Deere’s publication of The Furrow, which shared tricks and tips and general farming advice from farmer to farmer. The Furrow lives on today and remains one of the best uses of content marketing out there!

Difference between On-Page SEO and Technical SEO

Google Crawl

So, you’ve written excellent content and your on-page SEO is on point. Still, how does SEO work in regard to search engines like Google knowing about your efforts?

Google performs something called a “crawl” which basically means that they scan your website for everything mentioned above. If your website displays many noticeable errors such as broken links or content that looks like spam, they will dock you points towards your search ranking.

Fortunately, if your website does have some errors that you’ve been meaning to fix, you can always submit your website page for re-indexing (ask Google to crawl the page again) to ensure that everything is okay.

How Long Does it Take for SEO to Work and Why Does Your Marketing Strategy Need It?

The most important thing to know about optimizing your website with SEO is that it won’t instantly improve your website overnight. SEO can take sometime to get results. Now you might be thinking “Is SEO worth it?”

Search engine optimization is more of a long-term approach and, if handled properly, it can gradually increase the amount of people viewing and visiting your website, and bring in more customers.

That’s why it’s crucial that you start implementing SEO into your digital marketing strategy if you haven’t already begun. In the grand scheme of a full, beneficial digital marketing strategy with a great ROI, search engine optimization plays a critical role. Here’s how:

As you begin adding optimized content to your website, the search ranking of the multiple pages within your site, including your homepage, will start to go up. This will slowly push your page closer to the top of Google search results in relevant searches and make it easier for customers to find you. When more of these customers find you, your sales will increase and you’ll begin building credibility and trust with more people, especially if some customers leave positive reviews of your business.

For another interesting piece on how long you should expect to start seeing SEO results, check out this great piece by Search Engine Journal.

After quite some time, your website has become more optimized and trustworthy, and Google’s algorithm will recognize that and potentially place your website at the top of search results. Is SEO worth it? Yes, SEO is absolutely worth investing in!

Above, note the strong organic growth the OuterBox website has seen over the last several years!

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[your-dietician]

Saga of Wall Street's pandemic darlings ends with tears

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Saga of Wall Street's pandemic darlings ends with tears

Oct 12 (Reuters) – Think about something novel you started doing two-and-a-half years ago to make life easier during the COVID lockdown and chances today are that there is a related story about a stock market casualty.

Add investor worries about soaring inflation and an economic slowdown that tipped Wall Street into a bear market this year, and you will find a bleak picture for the companies that became hugely popular during the pandemic.

Connected stationary bike maker Peloton Interactive (PTON.O) told employees last week that its fourth round of job cuts this year is a bid to save the company. Its problems put a spotlight on other pandemic hot-shots like Zoom Video Communications (ZM.O), Nautilus Inc (NLS.N), DocuSign Inc (DOCU.O) and DoorDash Inc (DASH.N).

Growth investors pushed Peloton stock to a $171.09 record in early 2021. Demand was so strong for its bikes that restless consumers had to wait out long delivery delays. But Peloton shares are now down 95% from their peak, closing at $8.53 on Wednesday. The S&P 500 (.SPX) by comparison is down about 25% from its record high in January this year.

Others bought exercize gear from Nautilus during the pandemic, sending its stock up to $31.30 in early 2021. It last traded at $1.65.

Zoom became synonymous with online meetings as many people worked remotely and even turned to video conferences for social gatherings. But Zoom’s shares were last at $75.22 versus its $588.84 peak, reached in October 2020.

Other stay-at-home favorites were online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and food delivery service DoorDash . People also flocked to consumer-friendly brokers like Robinhood Markets (HOOD.O) while stuck at home with no sports to bet on. But after scaling $85 in August 2021, Robinhood last traded at $10.66.

“These are companies with good enough ideas that they get enough funding. They catch a wave like COVID, their use explodes,” said Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners in Pittsburgh. But once that growth slows, investors lose interest.

“They kind of used up all the air in their universe, and they have nowhere to grow. So, while people might still be using the Peloton, not enough people are buying the Peloton,” said Forrest.

Daniel Morgan, portfolio manager at Synovus Trust in Atlanta, Georgia, says Peloton may appear cheap, but he is wary because it is not profitable. Its price-to-sales multiple has fallen to 0.8, on a trailing 4-quarter basis, from an average multiple of 6.6 since it went public in Sept. 2019, Morgan said.

Wall Street expects Peloton to report an adjusted loss per share of $2.07 for its fiscal year ending in June compared with a loss of $7.69 in its fiscal year 2022, according to Refinitiv.

Zoom has been making money and its valuation also appears cheap at 35 times earnings per share versus an average multiple of 135 since its April 2019 debut, Morgan said.

Still, he is concerned about its profit decline. Zoom’s adjusted earnings per share is expected to fall 27% for its fiscal year ending in January versus 2022 growth of 55.5%, according to Refinitiv.

Morgan also pointed to a growth slowdown for DoorDash and retail giant Amazon.com as they are also being hurt by soaring inflation and economic uncertainty.

“Each company is going to have to see how their particular business model can execute in a normalized environment,” he said.

Carol Schleif, deputy chief investment officer at BMO’s family office in Minneapolis, cautioned against investing in companies that look cheap and have loyal customers. It’s all about management, balance sheets and projected income, she said.

While one possible outcome for pandemic favorites with slowing growth could be a buyout by a larger company, Schleif is wary of making this bet.

“Buying a stock because you think it’s going to get taken out, that’s a risk. I wouldn’t be willing to do it with any money I wasn’t willing to lose,” she said. “It’s not really investing. It’s more opportunistic.

Reporting By Sinéad Carew, Lance Tupper and Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Alden Bentley and Richard Pullin

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Chen's world travels bring her to UIU

By Hunter Goltz/Collegian Staff

 Upper Iowa University is famous for having a variety of talents at the school. The diverse population is not only limited to students though as the school brings in new staff yearly. When the school looks for new staff members they may often search outside of the state. 

Like students, professors come and go. Professors who specialize in business are constantly in demand at Upper Iowa University. Demands are often met as a surplus of business professors enter the college each year. One of the many new professors that have arrived this year is Dr. Chun Chen, and her story is one worth telling. 

Chen is a first-year professor at Upper Iowa University. She was born in Taiwan in 1971 and has been exploring the world well into adulthood. Chen has been teaching on and off for 20 years while traveling the world.

Chen pursued her teaching career in places like Taiwan, China, Scotland, England and Georgia. The first place taught was Taiwan. “I enjoyed working in Taiwan because I received grants,” Chen said.

She also expressed her love for Scotland and England saying, “Europe was my favorite country to live and teach.” She then moved to Atlanta, Georgia in hopes to make a difference in the United States, but she found the work to be disappointing. 

 What brings someone like Chen to Upper Iowa University? Iowa just so happened to be the right fit for her. “The area has similar systems of teaching to what I am used to,” Chen said.

Upon arriving in the area, Chen found herself surrounded by friendly people. She found the atmosphere to be comforting and enjoyed her early experiences. 

Chen was excited about something new in her field of work, and Iowa happened to be the right place for her. She expressed her love for the size of Upper Iowa University’s campus and the simplicity of student life in the area.

The most important quality of a new professor to college students is the area of teaching. It is in the student’s best interest to find classes that align with their major and a teacher that is appropriate enough to teach them.

Chen is a business professor who specializes in marketing. Most students who plan to graduate from Upper Iowa University with a degree in business will likely take one of the many classes she teaches. The classes Chen is set to teach include marketing principles, advertising, consumer behavior, new product development and personal selling.

“Students will like my classes if they like group work, videos in class, and discussions,” said Chen.

Chen is interactive with students and eager to help people achieve their goals. Business and marketing majors will find classes of hers to benefit their future.

“Everything fun about marketing is highlighted in my classes,” Chen said. Classes like marketing principles and advertising will equip students with knowledge of terms used in the marketing industry.

Chen is the newest face in the field of business at Upper Iowa University. Her story is an interesting one, but it is just an introduction to her new life in Upper Iowa.

Chen is a friendly individual who is ready to work with new students. Upper Iowa University is filled with a diverse population of students and professors, and the college now offers a warm welcome Chen. She has traveled the entire world connecting with students and is now eager to connect with us.