Jono Hey’s Sketchplanations are sometimes informative, sometimes simple, sometimes enlightening and often bring a smile to my face. But not today. (Don’t worry the UTM crap associated with the link that went on over three lines has been removed)

Behold … ‘The Business Flywheel’ which is actually credited to Hubspot’s CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan … he / they that originally coined the term ‘inbound marketing’, some say invented - but that would suggest that it don’t exist prior to 2006. It did.

Drop your prospects into a meat grinder. Beat them into submission until they comply (become a customer), before they ‘lose all their energy’ and become useless to you. Once a prospect morphs into a customer ‘harness their energy’, to make your pie bigger and more lucrative.

Filed in the ‘everything that is wrong with e-commerce today’ bucket.

The People Behind ByteDance’s App Factory is worth(?), valued at 75 billion dollars … that’s a significant number of spondoolics!

Happy World Transformation Day … hope it’s a great one.

About that Codepen thing …. Their Post Seems like a DDOS is at the route. Looks like they have a way though though. 😎

Trump Admin Revokes ICC Prosecutor’s Visa Over Probe of Potential US War Crimes in Afghanistan

I mean it’s not as if America recognizes these courts - so why bother?

Please remember.

All hikes are walks …. not all walks are hikes.

Oh that’s interesting … ‘Keynote Live’ … built right into the app … same mechanism as collaborating - but instead just presents … .

**Crowd sourced call blocking. **

I have lost count of how many phone numbers I have blocked..

Suggestion for a new Apple Service.

Once you subscribe, any number in in the blocked pool is now blocked on your phone. Any number you block is shared back to the pool.

#people #matter #brassedoff #quotestoliveby

Until I saw this graphic today, I never ever thought about ‘Alphabet' in terms of “Bets on ‘Alphas’ “.

The Article : How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions

Maybe this a possible solution to your App Store -v- Direct Sale question @brentsimmons ?

Subscription through the App Store and Purchase from the Web Site

MPs’ Brexit votes reveal myriad divisions among the Tories.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words … even more I would say when you see that the ruling party in the UK Parliament is as fractious as this.

That moment you put the volume of your phone all the way up because you could hardly hear the call center guy … who puts you on hold and you instantly get deafened as the on-hold muzak kicks in … yeah that moment.

Thank-you @amex … you are already in my bad books.

Facebook Brexit ads secretly run by staff of Lynton Crosby firm

Oh no - really - my faith in this whole process has just dropped through the floor!

Oh wait there wasn’t a floor.