u/TheGreatAlexandre

I would rent the apartment from the web series.

It would start at 10AM, in the apartment. On a white board to piano music, we would come up with a plan for booking a lunch at the Rivoli.

How? ...We start a band.

The tour bus would look like the RV.

We would take a band photo at Sears.

But, then we realize we don't know how to get to the Rivoli.

We would go up the CN tower, to try and see the Rivoli from up high.

A camera crew would tape us, the entire time.

We'd visit locations along the way.

We would visit the museum, and everyone would bring one piece of a display, which we'd secretly build, then smash the glass, and grab the printed out Google maps instructions to drive to the Rivoli.

We'd sneak into Now Magazine, to get a Rivoli gift card.

Then we'd pick up Matt Johnson (the athlete, not the filmmaker), and do a Q&A, where he gets to ask us about Nirvanna the Band and we blown his mind.

And it ends with lunch at the Rivoli.

I just watched an ad for Manscape. A heart-warming ad about not sending dic pics. I liked it. It was a good story.

Manscape's name doesn't appear until the end, and when it did, I was a little disappointed.

One, I'm not going to remember Manscape, if I still remember the ad.

Two, Manscape is a comedic brand, and the theme of "don't send a dick pic"... storytelling could be stronger.

Three, it doesn't make me want to buy.

So, what specifically is the intention of commercials that don't sell?

It's not brand awareness, because if I hadn't written a post about it, the ad would stay with me longer than the company. It doesn't sell me on manscaping as a concept, because it's an ad about sending a "cute face" pic. And I don't want to buy something, because there isn't a problem it's offering to solve.

Also, Manscape is a comedic brand, and this felt way off target. It'd be like Dave Chapelle saying, "But, you know, Jesus is love and He loves you."

Or, maybe advertising is more art than science.

I listened to Shane Gillis roast Hinchcliffe. He mentioned Hinchcliffe wanted to play the Joker.

Batman's greatest tool is his ability to inspire fear in criminals. Imagine, then, a Joker who can roast Batman, and thus take away (or greatly diminish) the fear of Batman.

Batman's smart, but he's not a comic. And the Joker would actually be funny.

You guys don't know this, but Matt and Jay and Jared and company are Canadian. And the show takes place in Toronto, which is also in Canada.

In season 1, episode 2, the cash loan is for $10,000. But, it's American dollars.

Why didn't the bank give them Canucks (or whatever they call Canadian money)?

I thought the reason the show felt so different was because Harmon was working on other projects.

I just watched a clip of him discussing season 10, and how he's really excited.

So, it's not like Dan isn't around anymore. The shows just different now, because it's just different now.

I'm in advertising. I sell Super Bowl quality commercials to roofers.

I can sell one for $5K, or four for $10K. The first sells the company, the second sells the company, but then three more to sell products/services.

I feel like I'm selling lightning in a bottle.

When I do my presentations over Zoom, I'm just not hooking my audience.

How do you hook them before you introduce the problem you solve?

Just finished two sales demonstrations, for companies in the roofing industry.

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One seemed really taken with the product and presentation. The other liked both, but its their busiest time of year, so I'm going to reach out again in February.

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I didn't close the sale right then, I'm optimistic overall.

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How common is the one call close with B2B?

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I sell advertising, if that adds anything.

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I'm rewatching S4E2.

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Dr. Bruckner begins speaking to them in English, then switches to Spanish.

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There's this moment, a pause, when they're suddenly awake, the energy shifts, and you can feel their respect for her.

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First of all, GREAT acting by those two, who are not trained actors. To me, they've always been akin to the Smoke Monster in Lost. In this scene, I felt like I understood them on a much deeper, 3-dimensional, more realized way. Fucking wow...

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Second, mind you, Dr. Bruckner isn't in the game, she's not in danger, but she's one of the most quietly powerful characters I've seen in this show.

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Third... I've never seen them show ANYONE that level of respect. Obedience, sure. But...

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God, this show is good.

I'm targeting an industry in my state. There's a limit to the number of these businesses are in my state.

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Nationwide, there's thousands.

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What's your experience with selling over Zoom?

Started a new job selling to businesses. I put together a list of people to call, and I've been booking meetings, which is awesome. Some people disqualified themselves over the phone, which is fine--save me the time.

Should I just book as many meetings as I can, and use them to practice and perfect my pitch, regardless? Or should I be qualifying on the phone?

I read, recently, a post about which show is better (call Saul). Someone wrote, and others echoed, that BB ran so BCS could fly. And BCS does owe a lot of character establishment and world building to BB.

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But, I would've watched a show about a trickster lawyer and his personal drama anyway.

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My first time through, I loved all the Gus/Salamanca stuff. On subsequent watches, the Jimmy stuff I find more and more compelling.

I'm using Smart Shot. I've generated a dozen Preview Shot Plans, which OpenArt generates, but when I click the button to generate a video, I get this error message.

ID: LLoN4XET4w5y1UtW729B

1002: upstream_error

[byte-plus] InvalidParameter.WidthTooSmall: Width must be between 300px and 6000px.

Hasn't really happened before.

Anyone have a fix?

I've never cold emailed, so I'm oblivious to any useful tools.

On Monday, I start prospecting, and I'm going to cold email. As I collect addresses, am I sending emails one at a time, or is there a better way to go about it?

Or an HBO series.

They look and sound alike to me.

It would be called "Sell or Be Sold".

I'm using Openart, and its fine, but I'm wondering if I went to Seedance directly if I wouldn't get a better deal and bang for my buck?

I read that the credits rollover, which is already an improvement over Openart.

Just interviewed for a job I wouldn't have wanted, had I known I could be working 80 hours a week, forever.

I was a bit anxious, and now I'm just brushing it off.

There's a life lesson here.