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This weeks video comes from a very cool site - http://www.commoncraft.com/

There are also a tonne of other cool videos on their site such as; Social Bookmarking in Plain English and RSS in Plain English

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For those of you who enjoyed my post a few weeks back on Checkmate Selling - Why You’ll Never ‘Close’ A Sale, here’s a video by the man who spawned the theory - Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson.

The video was taken back in 2006 at Simon Chens X10 seminar and Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, author of the best seller “The X10 Memeplex” talks about multiplying their busineses by 10.

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This weeks video is taken from the T.E.D. series and features the worlds greatest presenter Tony Robbins - Tony talks about how to unlock your true potential. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

For those of you who don’t know about T.E.D. - TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

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Today’s youTube video is of Bryant Simon, Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at Temple University. In this speech from the Taste3 Conference, he discuss’ his study of how the desires of daily life are revealed from the comfy coaches of Starbucks.

This is not, however, just a study of just Starbucks, but an exploration of American life both in the states
and abroad in the 21st Century. His research explores the very desires of daily life as they are revealed on the comfy coaches and in the drive-thru of Starbucks. As he looks at what it means to consume Starbucks, he also investigates what Starbucks consumes of us – our labor, our landscapes, and our politics.

One of the comments on YouTube hit the nail on the head: “I often share with my clients that Starbucks is a marketing company that happens to sell coffee to support its machine. This paradigm, this way of doing business is what separates those businesses that completely diminate versus those that exist.”

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