Payment Technologies, Huge Disruption Coming.
June 3, 2014
Hosted by Bob Pritchard
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Episode Description
The new payment technologies will create new winners and losers in the giant credit card industry as Silicon Valley moves into the space. The new technology payment companies straddle the off-line and online worlds. The legacy companies are not gone yet but like the dinosaurs, they will become extinct sooner rather later: Apple's developer conference starts this week and they really need to pull a rabbit or two out of the hat. What do they need to do?: Attorney. General slams Australia as the worst offender in the world when it comes to piracy: Ballmer buyers Clippers, let's hope he does better with them than he did with Microsoft: Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are to be applauded for their support of Bay area public schools: Uber eyeing driverless cars and Instagram continues to be the rising star. We also provide some tips on how to be a great public speaker, words and phrases to use and those never to use. We also have our extremely popular email segment and an excellent interview with customer Service guru John Tschohl.
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Bob Pritchard
Bob Pritchard has over 30 years’ experience as a straight talking business and marketing troubleshooter and consultant with many of the world’s leading companies on 5 continents. Bob is the recipient of the highly coveted International Marketer of the Year Award, a distinction he shares with some of the world’s top business leaders.
Bob's newest book, Kick Ass Business and Marketing Secrets. How To Blitz Your Competition, the 100,000 word business bible, was released globally by Wiley and Sons, the world's largest business book publisher, in August 2011.
Bob has been a Business speaker and trainer at over 1,500 conferences, including 91 Fortune 500 companies. He has presented to major corporations in 53 countries. Bob was also Joint winner of a Clio award and joint winner of 4 Silver Telly awards for work with Citibank.
Bob was a television and live performer for 15 years, appearing in some 400 television shows as a singer and actor with several recordings including one top 10 hit. He is the Author of 5 internationally best-selling books, including ‘Complex Marketing Made Simple,’ with sales exceeding 100,000 copies. Bob has a wide knowledge of business, has business interests around the world and understands global business and opportunities.
