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#InMyToolbox: Business Trends you Can't Ignore in 2025 · PHLV Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good evening, Malakaibiga. Well, let me ask you something. When
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  was the last time you looked at AI, you know,
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  the artificial intelligence, or maybe you look into remote work
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  or even sustainability, and then while looking into it, you thought, hmm,
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  that doesn't affect my business.
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  Speaker 2: You know, look at this guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe you're a local shop owner, a contractor,
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  a service provider, or let's just even consider a freelancer.
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  Speaker 2: You know, here's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: These trends are no longer just for the tech giants,
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  because that's the mindset you know a long time ago,
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  like Silicon Valley or you know the fourteen five, one
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  hundred crowd.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're right, All of this are right here
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  in the main streets of America.
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  Speaker 1: They're knocking on the doors of small businesses like you
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  and me, entrepreneurs and every day folks trying to stay
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  competitive out there. All right, okay again, welcome to in
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  my two box. My name is Enrico Pobra, and.
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  Speaker 2: Today that's exactly what I want to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be unpacking the business trains at twenty
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  twenty five that you.
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  Speaker 2: Simply cannot afford to ignore.
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  Speaker 1: Again, AI Artificial intelligence or what I mentioned about remote
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  remote work and Chris, what do you call this a
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  green business? You know, like environmental friendly. These are not
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  just future ideas anymore, like how we talked about it
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  a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: They are here today and it's real, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're not adapting, you know, you're you're you're
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  handing your competitors definitely an advantage.
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  Speaker 2: You're giving that advantage to your competitors.
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  Speaker 1: So whether you're running a family owned business like maybe
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  a bakery, or even a consultancy agency, you know, or
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  a small management manufacturing company, or you're launching your next
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  big idea, well, guys, this topic might you know, definitely
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  is for you. So I want to dive into it.
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  You know all of the things that I just mentioned.
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  So let's talk about artificial intelligence. So AI today that's
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  actually going to be your new business partner. I try it,
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  learn it. You know, AI is now your business partner.
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  And AI is not just a tool. You know, a
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  long time ago, only large no, not really long time ago,
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  but you know, only large corporations had access to artificial intelligence,
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  you know, for for data analysis and business intelligence. Now
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  AI tools are it could easily be you could easily
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  subscribe on it into what you know, a subscription based
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  now and small businesses can leverage this AI tools today.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: AI can help with you know, sales forecasting, even trend spotting,
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  and even suggesting pricing adjustment based on the demand today
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  real time example. Give you an example, guys, so, so
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  I maybe a small coffee shop. You know, you can
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  use an AI to predict what, you know, what are
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  the peak hours in this location.
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  Speaker 2: So you can actually adjust your staffing accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: That's very important, you know, because that's gonna be definitely
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  you know, money that you're throwing away if you're not
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  maximizing your staffing.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So the relatable.
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  Speaker 1: Angle on this one, imagine having a manager who works
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  twenty for seven maybe right, but you know, doesn't call
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  in sick and always has the latest data.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually AI working for your business.
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  Speaker 1: You can depend on this tool twenty four to seven.
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  See so, if you're still running sales reports manually today,
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  you're missing out an opportunity because AI could.
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  Speaker 2: Flag you know, for all of this for you instantly.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you an example, guys, AI too is the
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  new customer service frontliner. Huh see, so consumer today you
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  know they expect instant responses. Have you actually imagined yourself?
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  You know, you you try to email somebody or chat someone,
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  but you know it takes a while before you get
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  an answer. Today, those tools, you know, some of them
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  are already AIAI powered chat bots that can handle eighty
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  percent of the increase and this twenty four seven. So
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  a AI artificial intelligence doesn't just answer basic questions.
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  Speaker 2: It learns from you know, from from you and me.
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  You know, our we are our, we are customers.
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  Speaker 1: So AI learned from customer behavior, behavior, and it offers
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  tailored recommendation. So let's say a small e commerce shop,
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  you know they use AI chat bots to upsell complement
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  their products.
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  Speaker 2: Someone is actually going to be doing that for you.
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  So imagine this. When was the last time you got
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  frustrated waiting for a response from a business?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly what I was mentioning a while ago, right, your cause,
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  your customers is going to be feeling the same.
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  Speaker 2: If you're running a.
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  Speaker 1: Business, put yourself into their shoe. That's exactly how they're
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  going to be feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, so again, if I were you start with AI
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  chat on on on Facebook Messenger, it's of course just
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  cost to it, but you're going to be learning from it.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's low cost anyway, and it's going to
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  be effective. Okay, So another.
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  Speaker 1: Thing AI today, these AI tools are well we talked
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  about costs, but it's affordable you know, for every business now,
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  for every small business. You know, these AI tools could
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  be affordable already. So like the software as a service models,
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  the SaaS models, you know, they they have made AI
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  tools like Canva, Jasper, you know, Zo, all of the CRM.
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  Speaker 2: It's accessible for us low as you know, maybe twenty
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  bucks or to fifty bucks every month.
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  Speaker 1: So how much is that, you know, comparing to that
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  that I mean, that cost compared to the amount of
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  work that it can do for you because you can
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  automate design, you know, you can automate customer follow ups
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  and even content creation without you hiring extra staff. That's
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  the power of AI today, guys, for small businesses. You know,
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  so say for example, a local real estate agent, they
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  use AI to generate property descriptions and maybe even a
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  social media post.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of tools out there that are you know,
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  AI generators.
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  Speaker 1: So you no longer need to hire a full time
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  designer or a marketer that on that case, you know,
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  because AI could do it about eighty percent of the
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  job already and you just have to put the finishing
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  touches into it. See, I use AI in a lot
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  of stuff, you know, and definitely finishing touches I do
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  I still, you know, or of course I keep it
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  to me that I have to just finalize everything before
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  I put it out.
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  Speaker 2: There, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So start, you know, guys, just start with one AI
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  tool and don't try to overwhelm yourself with all of
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  these AI tools because there's a lot there. Just choose
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  one and learn from it, you know, automate the task.
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  You know, maybe the way that you that you would
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  want to do it is to automate the task that's
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  going that's actually eating a lot of your time today.
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  Speaker 2: You can start it that way, right.
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  Speaker 1: So another thing that AI we can use AI for,
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  you know, AI in in hiring. You know, definitely it
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  saves time, but of course still needs human judgment. But
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  some of the some of the some of the items
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  in hiring, you know, a I can do that for you.
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  Speaker 2: So AI can filter out and qualified.
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  Speaker 1: Resumes, a I can actually do scheduled you know, the
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  scheduling of interviews for you, and it can actually assess
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  candidates as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So however, you know the the the all of this AI.
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  Of course we understand there's what you call cultural fit
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  or work ethics and you know sometimes me I look
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  for passion. Of course, all of this still need human judgment.
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  But then again the other stuff AI can actually do
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  that for you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just say a.
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  Speaker 1: Small marketing agency you know, using AI for maybe to
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  short this candidates. But still you're going to be doing
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  the you know, the final interview, especially final interview. It
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  should be personal, right, so but AI can actually do
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  the short listing for you. So AI can tell you
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  who meets the checklist that you have.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, of course only you can sense if
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  they click with the team, you know, personality, character and
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  all of this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So but then again when you use this one, always
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  audit your AI screating process of course, to avoid biases.
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  Right now, speaking about you, you know AI and you well,
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  it becomes smarter, you know you, and then you can
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  actually do some faster decision making for your business. The
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  AI's role today, guys, is not to replace business owners
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  like you and me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just able to.
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  Speaker 1: Enhance decision making and definitely you know, free up sometime
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  to you which is very important for business owners sometimes
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  you know business owners or no not sometimes a lot
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  of times business owners are just.
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  Speaker 2: Overwhelmed and they could not find free time.
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  Speaker 1: So but you know, with with with the help of
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  AI today, that will allow you to free up some time.
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  So when AI handles, like, you know, all of this
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  routine task, you can focus now on what you're supposed
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  to be best in doing, you know, like like strategy
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  or making relationship with the clients and definitely growth of
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  the business. Let's say a a boutique accounting firm uses
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  an AI. You know, they use AI to automate reports,
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  allowing partners to focus now on advisory services instead of
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  those you know, small tasks that they should not be doing.
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  So imagine this you stop you know, you by imagining
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  that you stop wasting.
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  Speaker 2: Hours in the day on admin work.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because your skill set is not a ten
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  dollars skill set an hour.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're definitely worth more than that, and you
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  would want to assign that to an AI.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's more time for a client meetings and
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  definitely more time is.
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  Speaker 2: Scaling your business.
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  Speaker 1: So again delegate low value tasks to AI and invest
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  your time in high impact areas. Okay, so that's about AI.
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  I mentioned about remote remote work guys. You know, so
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  the new American work culture. So today, guys, I don't
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  know who a monts you are working remotely today. Hybrid
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  work is now the American standard and even the Philippines.
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  You know, it has been a huge change on how
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  work now as a standard in the Philippines. You know,
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  here in the US, the US workforce now expects flexibility
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  and then forcing full office returns you know, leads to
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  well resignations. Right, So hybrid setups improve productivity, they lower
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  commute related stress, and increase employee satisfaction.
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  Speaker 2: Especially in the Philippines.
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  Speaker 1: Right traffic there in the Metrimnila is just terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine people now.
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  Speaker 1: Going to work two hours and then from work to
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  home it's another two hours. Can you imagine that if
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  you're working in a remote work that saves you four
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  hours already for productivity. You know, tech companies offering three
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  office days maybe here in the United States, and they
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  can do two remote days. And then because of this,
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  you know, there is a higher retention rate and that's
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  exactly what business owners want.
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  Speaker 2: A higher retention rate.
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  Speaker 1: So employees don't want to waste ten hours a week
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  in traffic for just for you know, going to work
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  you know where in fact, they can do some stuff
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  already just by being at home. So again, guys, establish
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  clear hybrid policies in your business, you know, and then
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  be able to maintain accountability.
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  Speaker 2: Well, guys, you know remote work.
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  Speaker 1: You can hire the best talent across the United States
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  if you actually have remote work the entire United States,
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  not just in your locality, right, So businesses are now
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  tapping into talent pools in other states where cost of
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  living and definitely are lower, So it means that salary
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  expectations are lower too.
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  Speaker 2: So remote hiring.
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  Speaker 1: Allows businesses to get specialized skills without the overhead of relocation. Say,
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  for example, a Virginia based start up hiring you know
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  coders from Ohio or here in Nevada, Las Vegas. That's
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  going to be saving thirty percent on labor costs definitely, right,
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  So why limit yourself to local hires when the perfect
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  fit could be working from another state and can actually
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  do the same productivity and efficiency. So ensure definitely well
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  when you do that you have to understand tax implication
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  when hiring out of state. But then again we're talking
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  about we're talking about remote workers. Okay, now speaking about
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  remote workers, we also have what you call virtual offices
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  and digital workspaces, and it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: Becoming a norm today. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So platforms like Zoom or Teams, the Microsoft Teams right,
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  and virtual collaboration tools. This actually have replaced a lot
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  of physical meeting rooms. Even industries like construction and retails
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  are already using digital project management system Say, for example,
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  a Nevada based law firm using.
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  Speaker 2: Teams for client consultation.
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  Speaker 1: Why not you know, a meeting that would have been
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  you know, wh would have taken two hours in traffic
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  going to your clients or vice versa is done by
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  twenty minutes just using Zoo. So all you have to
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  do is to invest in good webcams, you know, microphone
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  and maybe a good virtual background. Make sure that you're
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  not you know, you have a very good virtual background,
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  you know, because your digital presence using Zoom or the.
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  Speaker 2: Likes is now going to be your office.
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  Speaker 1: See, so remote work here in the United States, the
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  infrastructure is actually booming in the in the in the
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  US industry in general.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so services supporting remote work, like cyber security
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  or any virtual collaboration.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen a lot of these cloud storages, right, and
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  these are now essential. Cyber Security breaches are a major
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  concern with distributed teams, right, So small businesses subscribing to
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  let's just say manage it services to protect remote workers.
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  So if your team works from home, definitely, you know,
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  one of the things that you want to make sure
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  to secure your data. You know, like a bank secure.
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  It's evolved, so data now in cloud. You know, it's
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  just like money that you're you're protecting. It's like an
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  asset that you would want to protect, right and again
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  like a bank that is securing its own vault. So
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  this is how that's how it works. So don't cheap
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  out on cybersecurity. That's something that you would need to,
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  you know, to protect all of these things. Right, So
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  it's cheaper to prevent a breach than recover from one.
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  Speaker 2: And you've seen this one guys all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you've heard this from the news, but yeah, it
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  is actually reality. Okay, So again another thing maybe is
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  in a remote work keeping team culture alive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's actually a.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge, you know, you know, keeping that that that culture
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  life doing remote work is actually a challenge. But you know,
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  all of this virtual team building, regular check ins and
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  online socials are are what other companies are using to
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  maintain high engagement within their their their their what do
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  you call this their culture of the business?
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  Speaker 2: Right, So, disconnected teams lead to of course.
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  Speaker 1: We already know that you know, to to low morale
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  and eventually a turnover. Remember we were talking about retention,
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  but if you have a disconnected team, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: The turnover is going to be is going to be high.
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  Speaker 1: So you would want to think of if you're doing
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  remote work, you would want.
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  Speaker 2: To think of strategy how you can increase engagement.
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  Speaker 1: Say, for example, a New York based agency hosting a
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  virtual tree via night or you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, even as you know, even even check ins are actually.
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  Speaker 1: Very important in remote work, right so or maybe we
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  can have a weekly coffee catch.
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  Speaker 2: Up, you know via zoom.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, all of these things you might want
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  just to to to understand how to increase engagement using
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  all of these tools and having a remote remote team. Okay,
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  out of sight should not mean out of mind, you know,
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  because team.
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  Speaker 2: Culture is going to be your glue. So recognize team
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  achievements always.
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  Speaker 1: I always believe it when I recognize achievements of my team,
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  I recognize them publicly, privately, even in digital spaces.
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  Speaker 2: You are able to do this right.
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  Speaker 1: So we talked about AI, we talked about you know
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  this remote work. These are some business trends that you
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  should not be ignored in twenty twenty five. Let me
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  give you another one. You know, we call it green business.
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  This is no longer optional here in United States. American
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  consumer now prefers eco friendly brands, So state ability is
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  now a buying decision factor, especially for millennials. In what
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  do you call this, I'm a gen gen z Okay, So,
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  businesses that adopts eco friendly practices, believe it or not,
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  today are actually.
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  Speaker 2: Winning customer loyalty.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just say, uh, I don't know if you if
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  you see that, but again, you know the gen zs.
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  Speaker 2: Millennials are looking into this one.
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  Speaker 1: A California cafe switching to a composable cups.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what do you call this? Straws Maybe are.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing sales growing just because of that switch. So you
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  might want to look into that green business. Okay, people,
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  don't just buy products anymore. They buy into the value
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  attached to your product. Okay, so you know what I
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  would want to make sure that you know, I advise
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  you is to promote your eco friendly initiatives actively because
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  this is going to build your brand story. So right now, guys,
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  if you're a business, is if if you have a
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  business today, you might want to ask yourself what's your
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  brand story?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So US regulations are pushing businesses to go green, you know,
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  even as simple as band k you know, they they
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  as much as possible, they tell you, hey, you know,
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  go jump into paperless rather than you know, your statements
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  to be sent to you by paper.
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  Speaker 2: Right. You know, cities and stage are implementing plastic bands.
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  That's good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, stricter emission policies and green certification. So non
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  compliant businesses risk all of these fines and there's going
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  to be definitely a lot of operational restriction. Say, for example,
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  San Francisco businesses, you're mandated to reduce plastic packaging by
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  like fifty percent if I'm not mistaken, you know, So
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  the whole idea there is, yeah, they are mandated to
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  reduce plastic packaging. See so don't wait for regulations to
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  force your hand. What I'm trying to say here, guys,
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  if you're running a business right now, that's going to
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  be your direction that you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Want to ignore this yere, You know you have to
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  be proactive.
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  Speaker 1: You want to make sure that you have one You
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  know you're you're ahead of everybody, and you would want
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  to always stay ahead.
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  Speaker 2: So now do yourself a favor, do your business a favor.
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  Speaker 1: Favor check if your state offers incentives for eco friendly initiatives,
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  maybe that's gonna be a good push for you if
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  you're not there yet.
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  Speaker 2: So sustainability is going to be a strong marketing edge.
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  Speaker 1: You can use this one definitely in elaborating what your
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  business is all about. Eco Friendly businesses definitely differentiates themselves
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  in crowded markets, so this could actually.
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  Speaker 2: Set you apart.
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  Speaker 1: So green initiatives attract positive pr and create an emotional
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  connection with customers.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what you want.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just say, for example, a local printer offering
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  recycled paper options. This will actually gain a lot of
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  premium clients because of just that switch becoming green. So
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  going green, guys, can be your biggest selling point. It
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  just shows you that you care beyond the profits.
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  Speaker 2: So document your green initiative. That's something that you can do.
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  You know, people want to see proof, not just the claims.
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  Another thing that you.
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  Speaker 1: Would want to look into sustainability and green efforts is
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  green startup are booming across the US. Investors are aggressively
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  funding eco friendly starts up startups, you know, from renewable
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  energy to zero waste solution. Well, you know even traditional
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  businesses right now are people in toward green business models.
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  So startup turning plastic ways into construction materials. You know
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  that maybe getting a major VC backing, especially if you're
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  looking for funding right now. You know, just like all
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  the businesses that I consult, they're looking for funding. But
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  this might be something that's going to be pushing.
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  Speaker 2: All of this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, interested funders you know or like you know,
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  the vcs out there, they might be interested. That might
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  just be going to be changing your strategy or the game.
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  Green businesses definitely are not charity projects anymore. They could
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  be a high return investment just because you did that switch.
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  So if you're launching something new, you won't want to
• 23:06
  make sure that you touch something that is green from
• 23:09
  the very very start. Okay, so again we talked about
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  business trends. Maybe banks and investors they would maybe favor
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  eco friendly businesses.
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  Speaker 2: So all of this, uh what do you call this?
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  Speaker 1: H Environmental social governance compliance has become is becoming now
• 23:29
  a standard checklist for again, those funders that you're looking for,
• 23:33
  they would want to see that into your into your
• 23:37
  executive summaries. Right, So green businesses often you know they
• 23:41
  get they get lower indust rate, so grants this is
• 23:45
  there might be some grants waiting for you there and
• 23:47
  and of course priority this could be for for for
• 23:51
  the investors. Just because you made that sweitch, I'm not
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  saying you know that you know every SBA is looking
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  for that.
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  Speaker 2: But then again there's studying.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're not gonna be losing anything, you know,
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  because if you just make that switch SBA, you know
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  who knows back back up this green businesses they could
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  offer you loans no, or maybe they could be giving
• 24:12
  you better terms for sustainable practices. Going green, guys, isn't
• 24:17
  just good ethics today especially, it's gonna be good for
• 24:21
  your wallet and growth of your business. So prepare that
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  ESG plan, attach it into your business plan, make your
• 24:28
  business investor friendly. All right, So we talked about business trends,
• 24:33
  we talked about AI, we talked about remote work, and
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  now we talked about sustainability or going green. So, guys,
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  this is actually what it boils down to. AI is
• 24:45
  no longer a futuristic gimmick. If you still thinking that way,
• 24:50
  well you're left behind already, right, So remote work again,
• 24:53
  it's no longer a temporary pandemic fix, you know, like
• 24:57
  a few years ago, right during pandemic and going well,
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  that's not just a corporate pr play. It's part of
• 25:03
  strategy now and you would want to attach into your businesses.
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  It's becoming a survival strategy for businesses of all sizes again, literally,
• 25:13
  guys of all sizes. You if you're SMEs, small medium enterprises,
• 25:18
  this actually goes with you too.
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  Speaker 2: So in twenty twenty five this.
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  Speaker 1: Year, right, even though we're half of the year ready,
• 25:24
  the small businesses owner who automates, who adapts, you know
• 25:28
  to who gives flexible work for the employees and embrace sustainability,
• 25:34
  I tell you will definitely out based competitors who are
• 25:37
  still stuck in nineteen ninety five.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't need a million dollar budget to start
• 25:45
  this one, right. All you have to do just go,
• 25:48
  you know, do your due diligence, look into all these
• 25:50
  things that I mentioned to you. Automate one task using AI,
• 25:55
  open up to hiring remote, switch one packaging material to
• 25:58
  an eco friendly alternative. Those small steps, guys, could actually
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  compound into a competitive advantage that you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: May have not seen yet or may not even believe.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: If I can put it that way, that's you know,
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  definitely just gonna be so hard to catch up to.
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  All right, So again, guys, my name is in Rico Corporate.
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  Thanks for spending this hour with me. Again you're listening
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  to in my Toolbox. If this episode opened your eyes
• 26:22
  to where business is heading, you know, hit that like button,
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  right and who may need a business reality check. Again,
• 26:32
  my name isid Enrico Pulbre. Stay sharp, stay doctible, and
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  keep your toolbox ready.