Sunday Learning | The $8 billion iPod (what it really holds) - funny TED talk

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Sundays are for learning at the lead generation company Find New Customers. In just 20 minutes or less, expand your mind. In this funny and witty talk, Rob Reid shares shocking data about the music industry and theft. He explains why copyright law is all wrong.

Rob Reid is an author and a serial entrepreneur. He founded the company that created the Rhapsody music website, and his latest book, Year Zero, will be published in July. In it, aliens seek to erase the ruinous fines on their vast collections of pirated American music by destroying the Earth. Parts of it are made up.

Sunday Learning | What You Don’t Know About Marriage

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At Find New Customers, we dedicate Sundays to learning. We believe you should learn in less than 20 minutes.

In this funny and witty presentation, Jenna McCarthy shares some insights on marriage.

I’ve been married to Kathy for 23 years - my one and only wife, so I thought this helpful. (I do laundry, by the way. And I’m quite slim.) Maybe she’ll even watch it.

Jeff Ogden is the President of the B2B lead generation and global marketing company Find New Customers. On weekends, he is a father, husband and avid but lousy basketball player.

Sunday Learning: Why Videos Go Viral

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http://www.ted.com Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral.

Sundays are for learning at Find New Customers. Give us 20 minutes and we’ll help you learn something new and interesting.

Sunday Learning | Why Comp Plans Don’t Work

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Almost all executives believe that compensation plans work - pay more for better performance. There’s a flaw however. It doesn’t work.

Dan Pink, New York Times best-selling author debunks some standard ideas on motivation. But instead, ideas like Self-Direction and Autonomy work. People look for Purpose.  Treat people like people and not like horses (carrots and sticks work for horses, but not people.)

Every executive who sets compensation ought to watch this.

This video also matches the research done by Delivering Happiness. The CEO of Delivering Happiness is an upcoming guest on Mad Marketing TV.

Jeff Ogden is the President of Find New Customers and the host of Mad Marketing TV. But on weekends, he is a husband and father as well as an avid, but lousy, basketball player.

Sunday Learning | Communicating Ideas Though Story-Telling with Nancy Duarte - TED talk

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At Find New Customers, we reserve Sundays for learning. Our goal is to empower YOU to come away with new insights and ideas - in just 20 minutes or less.TED logo

Nancy Duarte of Duarte Designs is one of the best graphics experts in the world. We at Find New Customers are huge fans of their work for Apple and top companies, so this TED talk caught my eye. Hope it does yours too.

She talks about the ability to communicate your ideas can truly change the world. It’s hard. You have to spread your ideas.

Jeff Ogden is President of the b2b demand generation and global marketing company, Find New Customers. On weekends, he is a dad, husband and avid (but lousy) basketball player and sports nut.

Sunday Learning | Shape-Shifting Dinosaurs - Great TED Video

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At Find New Customers, we reserve Sundays for learning. Our goal is to empower YOU to come away with new insights and ideas - in just 20 minutes or less.TED logo

Kids and those of us into nature love dinosaurs, so this TED talk caught my eye. Hope it does yours too.

http://www.ted.com Where are the baby dinosaurs? In a spellbinding talk from TEDxVancouver paleontologist Jack Horner describes how slicing open fossil skulls revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs.

 

Jeff Ogden is President of the B2B demand generation and global marketing company, Find New Customers who helps companies craft world class demand generation programs. On weekends, he’s a dad, husband and avid (but lousy) basketball player.

Sunday Learning | Delivering Happiness - TED Video

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TED logoAt Find New Customers, we reserve Sundays for learning.  Our goal is to empower YOU to come away with new insights and ideas - in just 20 minutes or less.

This is a very special Sunday learning episode, because we have a BIG announcement to make. The lady in this video is our upcoming guest on our Mad Marketing TV show! I cannot wait to interview her about how Zappos built a business on happiness. You can follow her on Twitter at DHMovementCEO.

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Zappos.com built an enduring brand through customer service and company culture, but even more interesting is that they succeeded by using happiness as a business model. Drawn by the notion that anyone can apply the science of happiness to work, communities and our everyday lives, happiness has become the organizing principle behind a new business and now, a movement.

Jenn Lim is the CEO and Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, a company she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) co-created to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life.

Sunday Learning | Why SOPA/PIPA is a bad idea

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Sundays are for learning. In less than 20 minutes, you can learn something new. This is our tradition on the blog belonging to the B2B demand generation and global marketing company, Find New Customers. This one discussed the bills in Congress recently and though SOPA/PIPA is dead for now, it’s good to understand the root issue.

http://www.ted.com What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

Sunday Learning : TED Video |David Damberger - Learning from Failure

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Sundays are for learning at the global marketing firm Find New Customers. We have a simple goal - to share fresh ideas and insights on Sundays. The idea is that in 20 minutes or less, you can come away with new ideas and insights.

I’m a huge believer in the power of failure - it shapes us and makes us stronger. How are you embracing failure in YOUR business? For more insights, check out this earlier post. What’s the Real Key to Success? It’s Failure!

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David Damberger discusses “Learning From Failure” at TEDxYYC 2011. (13 minutes long) Here’s the link he discusses, Admitting Failure.

David is the founder of Engineers Without Borders Calgary (EWB). After building the organization in Calgary and working with them in India, David spent four years building EWB’s overseas programs as the Director of Southern African Programs. In this role, David consulted for dozens of African based companies, non-profits and governments in the fields of agriculture; food processing; water and sanitation; and mobile applications for development.

David currently works as a corporate strategy consultant and is a co-founder of Ethical Ocean, an e-commerce marketplace for the worlds top fair-trade, eco-friendly and sweatshop free products.

David holds a degree in engineering and a minor in entrepreneurship from the University of Calgary. He is also a Social Entrepreneurship MBA candidate at the University of Oxford. Recently, David was recognized as the youngest member of the Top 40 Alumni in the History of the University of Calgary.

David will be drawing on his work experience in Africa to speak about the transformative power of publicly admitting failure in the development aid sector which currently lacks accountability, creativity and transparency.

Sunday Learning | Inspiration from Leaders by “Start with Why”

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TED logoAt Find New Customers, we reserve Sundays for learning.  Our goal is to empower YOU to come away with new insights and ideas - in just 20 minutes or less.

Hot News: My Alma Mater, the University of Notre Dame, upset #1 Syracuse last evening. One happy ND grad here.

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This 18 minute video shares a simple idea: Think of three concentric circles.

  • In the smallest circle - Why?
  • In the larger circle - How?
  • In the largest circle - What?

Every business can apply these ideas. What does your company do? That’s falling off a log.

How does your company do what it does? That might be a tad bit harder, but not that bad.

Why does your company do what it does? That is really hard to answer, but Why? inspires.

At Find New Customers, we’re improving the lot of salespeople everywhere. That’s why our company exists.

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