Helping Consumers Buy Products that Reflect their Values; How Google’s Mobile…
Google Tech Talks
February, 8 2008
ABSTRACT
Internet searching and advertising increasingly plays a role in consumer decisions and purchases, yet pertinent information for making value-judgments is currently awkward to ferret out and certainly not universally accessible or useful. There is rarely a feedback loop aligning vendor or manufacturer’s environmental, social or governance policies with a shopper’s values, so shoppers, over time, rarely cause industries to change their behavior.
There needs to be a way for shoppers to aim their purchasing power at achieving social values of highest regional priority. There needs to be a way to accumulate and redeem "social values rewards". What’s missing is timely and impactful analysis of a candidate purchases’ impact on the Shopper’s family, region and planet (expressed according to their values), so that the purchaser can more easily make informed purchasing decisions.
With some modifications to Google ads and Google product search, Google could solidify the feedback loop and help consumers, by their actions, build a greener and better world.
Speaker: Bruce Cahan
Bruce B. Cahan, President Urban Logic, Inc. (a nonprofit organization)
Email: bcahan@urbanlogic.org
Bruce Cahan is an Ashoka Fellow, a social entrepreneur, a non-residential fellow of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, a lawyer, and a banker.
In 1989, a steam pipe exploded outside his apartment building, spraying the neighborhood with 220 pounds of asbestos wrapping in an 18-story geyser of steam for several hours. After that, Bruce foresaw New York City’s need for geospatial preparedness, and founded Urban Logic, a New York nonprofit, to make America’s cities safer and sustainable. Bruce convinced New York to fund and build a multi-agency GIS basemap.
As a bond lawyer, he found $20+ million in the City’s capital budget to pay for its GIS utility.
NYC’s basemap was completed just 6 months before the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, and aided in coordinated response and recovery. In the months after September 11th, Bruce joined others at the City’s Command Center to organize and staff its Emergency Mapping and Data Center. His team supplied the Mayor’s Office, Fire, Police, EMS, military, public health, environment, news and other groups with up-to-date maps of rapidly changing conditions at Ground Zero and throughout Manhattan. Bruce was the catalyst for deploying OpenGIS’
SensorWeb project to monitor environmental conditions citywide, and other innovations.
Taking 9/11′s lessons, Bruce designed the federal OMB’s I-Team Initiative to strategically plan and implement spatial readiness across 49 states. Bruce’s knowledge of finance, law and organizational barriers to spatial awareness and urban innovation comes from researching and writing major studies for the federal government, including . Financing the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (FGDC 2000) . Aligning Investments in Environmental Monitoring and Management Information Systems (EPA 2002) . The Value Proposition for GeoSpatial One Stop (OMB 2004) . A Regional Portfolio Investor’s Toolkit (USGS 2006)
In 2005, Bruce moved to Silicon Valley to organize two market-driven mechanisms that support urban sustainability. The first he calls the Means MeterTM, a tool for socially-purposeful consumers to buy products that reflect their values. The second is a bank that amplifies the sustainable impacts of Means MeterTM consumers and their vendors. The bank will reward choices that grow Sustainable ResiliencyTM. Bruce’s bank would serve consumers, businesses, NGOs and governments. The bank would offer credit, insurance, investment and merchant banking services, and scale pricing and interest rates based on each customer’s impact on Sustainable ResiliencyTM.
Bruce graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple Law School. Bruce practiced law for 10 years with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he specialized in structuring and negotiating complex corporate, bond, creditor’s rights and real estate finance and ot…
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The beginning of internet marketing goes back to the last decade of the twentieth century, and the first forms were no more than websites based on texts which offered information on several products. Over the years it has evolved to what Dallas internet marketing is today, that is providing more than just information products. The range of products and services that Dallas internet marketing offers now is very wide from advertising space to business models and software programs.
When speaking of internet marketing, we commonly refer to marketing strategies which are no longer used in mail, TV or radio alone, but are now applied to the business space of the internet as well. With internet marketing there are benefits as well as limitations.
One of the most important benefits that come with Dallas internet marketing the availability of information. Consumers learn everything they need to know about the products and are also given the possibility to purchase them around the clock. The money that would have gone on a powerful sales force can now be saved by companies which use Dallas internet marketing. The internet ha no boundaries of time or space, so if company functioned at a local level alone, you can now expand through Dallas internet marketing to a national marketplace or even an international one. Dallas internet marketing can be significantly less expensive than other media, making it possible for small players to enter this realm as well. Not to mention that the efficiency of the internet marketing is easier to follow than the one of traditional media, showing advertisers what is accountable and what is not. Compared to TV or radio marketing, Dallas internet marketing is growing rapidly, like all the other segments in the Internet field, while becoming increasingly popular among consumers and small businesses.
One of the aspects that Dallas internet marketing focuses on is pay per click advertising. Dallas pay per click is an advertising technique which is used mostly on search engines, websites and advertising networks. Dallas pay per click advertising functions in the same way that all the other similar advertising techniques do. Some keywords are bid on and sponsored ads or sponsored links are created. When the user clicks on the ad that he/she sees next to or above the search results on a page that’s when the advertiser pays. Dallas pay per click advertising is that simple.
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The best network marketing company for you should be one that has characteristics that are necessary for YOUR SUCCESS, not the company’s success but YOUR SUCCESS. The best network marketing company must have at least 5 critical success factors in place in order to be a “good” company to consider joining.
Here are the five critical success factors that must be in place before you join any Network Marketing Company.
1.Does the company management have personal experience building their own networking organization? Have they done it with Integrity?
a.) Search Google for the owners of the company. Check these two websites: http://www.MLMwatchdog.com and http://www.imreportcard.com
b.) Do the owners have Integrity? Add the word ‘Scam’ to your search.
c.) Do the owners have a Corporate background or an in-the-field Network Marketing background?
d.) Read your "Policies & Procedures" and "Terms & Conditions"; both are part of your legal Contract
i.) Look for the word "Ongoing".
ii) Look for policies that strike you as "Unreasonable". Like "Termination, with or without cause"
iii.) Ask yourself "Does this contract protect me or the company?" "Is it clear which way it leans?"
v.) Rules of Thumb:
• The longer the contract, the greater the possibility that the policies important to you
are being hidden in "Legalese"!
2: Has the company passed the "early failure" Time Line? Are the company’s Products timed with the beginning of a massive trend of consumer demand?
a.) Beware of "ground floor opportunities" and start-up companies. 99% of companies don’t last two years.
b.) Avoid companies which have passed beyond their "momentum phase" and have become household names. (The realistic potential for big growth is gone)
3: Does the company have a Remarkable product at a reasonable price?
a. All MLM companies have a good product. But, there are others available that are just as good!
i.) It should be competitively priced.
b.) Warnings:
i.) If the product would not sell without the business opportunity attached, it is ILLEGAL.
ii.) If you can’t pay with a credit card and Must pay by cash or money order, it is ILLEGAL.
iii.) If distributors collect the money while the company stays at arm’s length, it is ILLEGAL.
iv.) If you MUST have a Retail Merchant’s account, the company is SCAMMING YOU.
v.) When you begin to justify your product to someone, You become a salesperson.
4: Does the Compensation Plan Pay Part-Timers?
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b.) Beware of companies that advertise how many millionaires they have created. Make sure it’s not at the expense of those "at the bottom". Everyone should be able to benefit.
c.)Take the Comp Plan Test – Ask yourself this question:
"How many people do I need on my Team to earn a recurring income check of $500 per month?"
There are companies out there that require as many as 500 and as few as 20. If your up-line won’t or can’t answer this basic question, You should Run.
d.) If a company stresses "Recruit, Recruit, Recruit!", You should "Run, Run, Run!"
5: Does your Mentor offer a System for Success that will work for You?
a.) The team you join must have a system in place that will work for everyone who uses it.
b.) There must be complete resources available; books, videos and audios explaining the system.
c.) Personal development should have a big emphasis in the system. This is a relationship business, the more you know about yourself, the better you’ll relate to your clients and customers.
There are some really good Network Marketing Companies in the industry but unless you are experienced, finding them is like looking for a needle in a haystack. If you would like to see the company I partner with you can check out my personal site http://alanyoungsing.com for the link.
Best of luck in your search.
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