Empfehlungs-Marketing als Umsatzbringer: 7 Tipps für gute Referenzen - Eine Empfehlung wirkt oft stärker als alle Argumente des Verkäufers. Nicht selten gibt sie den Ausschlag, dass ein Kaufabschluss tatsächlich zustande kommt. Das Geheimnis? Zahlen und Fakten sind das eine. Doch hier kommt ein Mensch ins Spiel.
#Communication #Customer #Marketing #Negotiation #Reputation #Sales #Success
https://berufebilder.de/empfehlungs-marketing-umsatzbringer-referenz/
"I don’t think I was a terrible coworker because I learned to still remain polite and professional. But, now that I look back, I always found a way to split up work where I could be left to my devices on some parts of the projects while letting others own their bits and keep the two isolated."
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"Europe just canceled $25B in US military deals. NATO allies are planning to replace American l'ship. Japan, France & the UK are prepping deployments w/o us. And now Trump says allies only get ‘toned-down’ jets bc ‘someday they’re not our ally.'
News flash: They’re already walking away."
-R Saddler
Trump is destroying the #economy, #GDP, America's #reputation, #tourism, #jobs, #freepress, #freespeech, #rights, #nationalsecurity, relationships with allies, #publicsafety, #publichealth...
#USPol
TechCrunch: ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations. “OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbot’s tendency to hallucinate false information — and this one might prove tricky for regulators to ignore. Privacy rights advocacy group Noyb is supporting an individual in Norway who was horrified to find ChatGPT returning made-up […]
A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or smoot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1832-05) “Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” Fraser’s Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 28
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/75758…\
#nonce is two separate nouns:
Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
(Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)
Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
(Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeur
Обожаю, блин, людей, которые кого-то репортят без пруфов и пишут в комменте что-нибудь вроде "расизм", "фашизм", "сексизм".
А ты потом идёшь, листаешь последние несколько дней активности пользователя и там нихера нет. Ну то есть там есть какие-нибудь срачи где кто-то с кем-то не согласен, но не более.
Иногда кажется, что в феди не хватает системы репутации как в каком-нибудь Counter-Strike, где если ты репортишь регулярно нормальных игроков, то твоим репортам просто придётся пониженный вес.
С другой стороны, конечно, тут бы это не сильно помогло - только от "добропорядочных дураков".
А жаль.
One of my #punk #SocialMedia #bucketlist goals for the #Fediverse is to have the #reputation, consisting of #promise and delivery, that results in a banner on a Sunday morning talk show which labels me “generalist who goes down rabbit-warrens and coined #RevolutionWillBeMemeticized”
It Isn’t Just #Trump.# America’s Whole #Reputation Is Shot. nyt https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/opinion/america-trump-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.304.F9M3.UIxktZ4te0UF #Trump does not seem 2 notice or care that if you betray people, or jerk them around, they will revile U. Over last few weeks Europeans have gone from shock 2 bewilderment to revulsion. This period was 4 them what 9/11 was for us the stripping away of illusions, the exposure of an existential threat. Europeans have realized that America, the nation they thought was their friend is actually a rogue superpower.
A quotation from Josh Billings
When yu hav bored the bulls eye, set down, and keep still, folks will think then that yu kan hit it enny time you hav a mind to.
[When you have bored the bullseye, sit down, and keep still; folks will think then that you can hit it any time you have a mind to.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 14 “A Ghost” (1874)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/75443/
"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
[…]
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."
Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169
The only political party brand worse than Republican Party is the Democratic Party.
A brand is a reputation.
A reputation consists of “promise” and “delivery”.
One brand promises and delivers, even if the promise is awful, and the delivery is cruel.
The other does…neither.
Be careful that you don’t practice your religion in front of people to draw their attention. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow your trumpet as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may get praise from people. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get. But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that you may give to the poor in secret. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.
When you pray, don’t be like hypocrites. They love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners so that people will see them. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get. But when you pray, go to your room, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is present in that secret place. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.
[Προσέχετε [δὲ] τὴν δικαιοσύνην ὑμῶν μὴ ποιεῖν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι αὐτοῖς· εἰ δὲ μή γε, μισθὸν οὐκ ἔχετε παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν τῷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.
Ὅταν οὖν ποιῇς ἐλεημοσύνην, μὴ σαλπίσῃς ἔμπροσθέν σου, ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ποιοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ῥύμαις, ὅπως δοξασθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπέχουσιν τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν. σοῦ δὲ ποιοῦντος ἐλεημοσύνην μὴ γνώτω ἡ ἀριστερά σου τί ποιεῖ ἡ δεξιά σου, ὅπως ᾖ σου ἡ ἐλεημοσύνη ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ· καὶ ὁ πατήρ σου ὁ βλέπων ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ ἀποδώσει σοι.
Καὶ ὅταν προσεύχησθε, οὐκ ἔσεσθε ὡς οἱ ὑποκριταί, ὅτι φιλοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς γωνίαις τῶν πλατειῶν ἑστῶτες προσεύχεσθαι, ὅπως φανῶσιν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπέχουσιν τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν. σὺ δὲ ὅταν προσεύχῃ, εἴσελθε εἰς τὸ ταμεῖόν σου καὶ κλείσας τὴν θύραν σου πρόσευξαι τῷ πατρί σου τῷ ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ· καὶ ὁ πατήρ σου ὁ βλέπων ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ ἀποδώσει σοι.]
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 6:1-6 [CEB (2011)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/bible-nt/10169/
#quote #quotes #quotation #bible #jesus #admiration #alms #applause #charity #gooddeeds #goodworks #hypocrisy #ostentation #praise #prayer #privacy #publicrelations #publicity #reputation #selfaggrandizement #showingoff
The two most precious things on this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. A wise man, therefore, will be more anxious to deserve a fair name than to possess it, and this will teach him so to live as not to be afraid to die.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 555 (1820)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
The commitment to collaborate
https://aeon.co/essays/commitment-and-cooperation-a-coevolutionary-relationship
#Cooperation isn't just about immediate benefits, but about creating future opportunities through:
#Signaling intent to collaborate
Building #reputation
Creating social consequences for not following through
How did we get here? A step-by-step evolution:
Early group hunting required coordination
Successful hunts depended on mutual #trust
#Reputation became crucial for future interactions
Language emerged and made more complex commitments possible.
We learned to make credible promises that go beyond immediate context - promises across time, space, and with strangers.
That integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it; and that theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for an audience, could not be depended on in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 236 (1820)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
"Many people bought a car. Not an ideology." - Futurist Jim Carroll
It's an "interesting" time to own a Tesla.
I've said before that it is becoming increasingly difficult to be someone who speaks and writes about the future when so much of the future has become massively volatile and wildly unpredictable. It becomes even more difficult when you find yourself caught up in a hot mess that you didn't anticipate or wish for.
Today's image is from the day I drove my Model 3 for the first time when I purchased it just under 4 years ago. I was thrilled to finally have the vehicle that I spoke about on the stage for years. A brand and vehicle that was indicative of bold thinking, radical design, massive connectivity, and eco-friendliness. It was a revolutionary project, redefining the future of one of the world's biggest industries. The founder was a true visionary, someone willing to shatter the norms in pursuit of a better future.
Today, to be honest, it's a bit difficult to drive around in it.
I feel like I'm being branded with something that I did not subscribe to.
All the stuff I just wrote above? It seems somewhat like a cruel joke.
A better future? I'm Canadian.
For years, I've observed that a brand today can go from hero to zero overnight.
Yup.
Have you seen how people are responding? Do a quick search and you'll find dozens if not hundreds of bumper stickers, license plate frames, and other accoutrements by which people share their disgust, weariness, frustration, and disappointment.
I might be compelled to get one, in that I've already had a few people give me the finger while I'm driving.
If you see someone with something like this, give them a wave - be nice to them! As I said, we bought a car, not an ideology. Many Tesla owners I have spoken to are considering selling the car and moving into something that doesn't make a statement but simply does what it is supposed to do.
I consider this course of action regularly. Do I stay or do I go now? It's a dilemma. I still love the car ; the brand and owner not so much.
Many are responding with their wallet.
The European market - traditionally a stronghold for Tesla - is showing us the power of consumer values in action as people associate the brand with a rapid hero-to-zero transition. We're seeing unprecedented declines: 63% in France, 59% in Germany, 38% in Norway, and similar dramatic drops across other key markets, culminating in a 10%+ European decline in 2024.
This isn't just a market correction - it's a fundamental realignment of consumer values with purchase decisions.
A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months.
Futurist Jim Carroll predicted the Tesla business model in 2006.
**#Brand** **#Leadership** **#Values** **#Innovation** **#Change** **#Decline** **#Reputation** **#Influence** **#Identity** **#Consumer**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/02/daily-inspiration-brand-image-many-people-bought-a-car-not-an-ideology/
"Look What You Made Me Do" is a song by the American singer-songwriter #TaylorSwift and the lead single from her sixth studio album, #Reputation (2017). #BigMachineRecords released the song on August 24, 2017, after approximately one year of Swift's hiatus due to the controversies that affected her "America's Sweetheart" public image throughout 2016. While secluding from public appearances, she wrote and produced the track with #JackAntonoff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0RzZGpyds
"The world is big, but industries are small.
After a few years, everyone comes to know the quality of your work.
Reputation matters." ~ James Clear
To expose vices to everyone’s laughter is to deal them a mighty blow. People easily endure reproofs, but they cannot at all endure being made fun of. People have no objection to being considered wicked, but they are not willing to be considered ridiculous.
[C’est une grande atteinte aux vices que de les exposer à la risée de tout le monde. On souffre aisément des répréhensions, mais on ne souffre point la raillerie. On veut bien être méchant, mais on ne veut point être ridicule.]
Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Preface (1669-03) [tr. Kerr]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/41387/
