This seminar teaches how to recession proof your life through changing spending behaviors and developing a simpler lifestyle. It discusses the influences on lifestyle choices and buying behaviors. Six lifestyle influencers are identified: socio-economic status, personal taste, television/media, greed, peer pressure, and money. Tips are provided for managing influences, such as avoiding advertising and shopping deliberately. Eight strategies are outlined for recession proofing, including becoming a smarter, frugal, and no-frills shopper who tracks spending. The goal is to learn to live more simply and within one's means.
What makes shoppers buy on impulse? Marketers often use this knowledge to promote impulse buying in the hopes of increasing their bottom line. But while impulse buying does indeed mean more product bought, it can also lead consumers to harbor negative post-shopping feelings about the producer and retailer.
What makes shoppers buy on impulse? Marketers often use this knowledge to promote impulse buying in the hopes of increasing their bottom line. But while impulse buying does indeed mean more product bought, it can also lead consumers to harbor negative post-shopping feelings about the producer and retailer.
I was recently asked to be a guest speaker at UNSW's Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. If you're interested in finding out more or have any questions, feel free to contact me via @mishymash
This seminar helps couples communicate about money matters, offers money and budget saving tips, and helps couples develop a spending plan for their future goals.
View highlights from the 2015 American Pantry Study, which tracks consumer shopping patterns based on input from 4,013 survey respondents.
To access results of the survey, please visit: http://deloi.tt/2flmABk
I was recently asked to be a guest speaker at UNSW's Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. If you're interested in finding out more or have any questions, feel free to contact me via @mishymash
This seminar helps couples communicate about money matters, offers money and budget saving tips, and helps couples develop a spending plan for their future goals.
View highlights from the 2015 American Pantry Study, which tracks consumer shopping patterns based on input from 4,013 survey respondents.
To access results of the survey, please visit: http://deloi.tt/2flmABk
Learn the A to Z of How to Sell in Today's World - 2023
Today’s Market
Today's marketplace has changed dramatically. Buyers are more cautious and sophisticated.
The environment is competitive, challenging and constantly shifting
To grow and compete you need a new set of sales strategies and a new approach to growth.
In this high-energy workshop, we discover how to turn uncertainty into your competitive advantage. You will learn how to stay razor-like focused while remaining highly flexible, so you are prepared no matter what this marketplace does.
Sales Challenges
• Selling On-Line and Face 2 Face
• Failing to CLOSE Deals
• Inability to communicate VALUE to Buyers
• Hearing TIO - ‘think it over’ - all too often when you ask for the business
• Handling the Price Objection
Sales Modules
1. Understanding this VUCA world
2. Selling Face 2 Face
3. Prospecting & Cold Calling
4. Getting Qualified Appointments
5. Effective Telephone Techniques
6. Engaging the KDMs
7. Control with Questions and Active Listening
8. Open Questions to find the “PAIN”
9. Cross Sell & Up Sell
10. The Objection Handling System
11. Power Closes of a Champion
12. How to Motivate your way out of a Slump
13. Selling On Value and not Price
Why retailers buy. How to approach retailers. What retailers are thinking about. What retail buyers look for in suppliers. What retail buyers look for in a product. Retail pricing & merchandising. Retail distribution, supply chain & logistics channels.
Your sales & marketing plan
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
3. Seminar Overview What you will learn in this seminar is: What a lifestyle is Lifestyle influencers What influences buying How to manage spending behaviors How to enjoy life without paying so much for it The benefits of a recession proof life
4. What is a Life Style? A way of living based on an ideal that Reflects your own values and attitude Demonstrates your individual expression Determines your lifestyle choices and behaviors Influences how you spend your money Influences the type of products and services you buy
5. Why You Buy Things? Positive Reasons Negative Reasons Because of need The price is right Personal satisfaction To feel good about self Lack of spending control Keeping up with the Jones’s
7. Lifestyle Influencers #1 Socio-Economic Status (SES) A measure of economic and social ranking based on: Family income Parental education level Parental occupation Social status in the community It is assumed that the more money you have, the more the more education you have, and the more lifestyle you can afford.
11. Lifestyle Influencers #4 Greed An excessive desire for more of something than is needed Always wanting and never being satisfied Seeking of a lifestyle you cannot afford
12. Lifestyle Influencers #5 Peer and Social Pressure Image and the need to fit in with others The need to look and feel a certain way The concern of what others might think Keeping up with the Jones
13. Lifestyle Influencers #6 Money Cheap money Disposable income A false sense of security An illusion for happiness
15. Avoid television and media advertisement overload Mute commercials Watch less television Turn during commercials Leave the room during commercials Record shows (fast forward past commercials) Life Skills Enrichment Program 14 Managing Lifestyle Influences
16. Managing Lifestyle Influences Avoid buyers remorse: Ask yourself… How much debt do you already have Will buying it create more debt Can you really afford to buy Can you live without it Will you regret it later
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19. Managing Lifestyle Influences Practice frugality Make cash purchases Keep your eye simple Create a spending budget Live by an allowance
20. Managing Lifestyle Influences Recession proof your life Live within your means Avoid unnecessary debt Save more than you spend Do not spend money you do not have
22. What is a Recession? A time when economic growth has reached its’ peak and starts to decline and bottoms out. Signs of a recession: Businesses stop expanding Unemployment rises Housing prices decline A retracting or shrinking economy
23. The Recession Cycle Consumer spending is down Job lose is up Businesses stop expanding The demand for goods and services decreases Companies start to downsize People loose their jobs Companies stop trading The economy slows down A recession occurs
24. What Happens in a Good Economy Business trade and spending is up Companies grow and expand and hire Salaries and bonuses are paid Employment is up Consumer spending is up More disposable income More spending on goods and services Government spending up Government buys goods and services Keeps businesses and the economy churning
25. What Happens in a Bad Economy Less disposable income Increased unemployment Belt-tightening among consumer Slow economic growth and expansion Companies stop hiring Job loses People panic Talk of a Recession
27. Why Recession Proof Your Life There is no such thing as stable Employment situation can change Personal situations can change Financial situation can change Lifestyles can change The economy can change Because it makes sense
28. Recession Proof Tip #1 Become a Smarter Shopper Comparison shop and bargain hunt Beware of shopping gimmicks Avoid impulse shopping Never shop on an empty stomach Question every purchase Shop online
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30. Recession Proof Tip #3 Become a No Frills shopper Shop generic, store brand, or no frills brand Save more than $2000 a year Take advantage of Dollar Store savings Use off brand supermarkets for additional savings Buy on consignment, thrift or resale Buy slightly irregular merchandise
31. Recession Proof Tip #4 Membership has it’s rewards Join a wholesale club Costco BJ’s Sam’s Club Buy in bulk
32. Recession Proof Tip #5 Track your spending Benefits See where your money really goes See how much you really spend Identify wasteful spending Redirect money to more useful areas
33. Recession Proof Tip #6 Change your lifestyle behaviors Become a deliberate spender Only buy what you really need Don’t overspend Monitor your spending behavior Keep track of receipts Live with simplicity in mind Become a deliberate saver
34. Recession Proof Tip #7 Challenge your buying decision Is the purchase necessary What purpose does it serve Does it satisfy a need Can you get it cheaper Can you afford it Can you do without it How much use will you get out of it
35. Recession Proof Tip #8 Attend future seminars and learn more about the following: How to Avoid Wasteful Spending How to Make Your Paycheck Work for Your How to Live Lean and Still Enjoy Life How to Create a Budget You Can Live With The Best Way to Shop Online Strategies for Smart Spending How to Survive College on a Thrifty Budget
36. Some No Frills Facts Equate brand items are 52.0% cheaper than national brand products. Kirkland items were 53.6% cheaper than national brand products. Store branded products on a per use basis: Kirkland products were 29.1% cheaper than those same products found in the Equate brand Nationally branded products on per use basis: Costco products were 14.7% cheaper than the same products found at Wal-mart.
37. The Simply Life Made Easy Learn to become a smarter shopper Learn to become a frugal shopper Learn to become a no frills shopper Change your lifestyle behaviors Learn to live with simplicity Recession proof your life
39. Resource Links Crawford, W.. (2009, July). A Time of Limits. Online, 33(4), 58-60. Retrieved July 26, 2009, from ProQuest Education Journals. (Document ID: 1796629571) Gregory Karp (2008).Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to get more of what you really want. Pearson Education, Inc. U. S. Supreme Court inDoyle v. Mitchell Brothers Co., 247 U.S. 179, 38 S.Ct. 467(1918) Walker, R., & Garman, E. (1992, July). The meanings of money: Perspectives from human ecology. American Behavioral Scientist, 35(6), 781-789. Retrieved July 26, 2009, doi:10.1177/0002764292035006012 Practical Information for College Students in Morris Code: (Click Link Below) http://promotions.bankofamerica.com/oncampus/home/index.html
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