Episode 37: Spotify vs. Apple, Coffee Subscriptions, America's Drunk Purchases, Choosing Your Battles, Opportunity Awareness

Show Description:

In the current events section of today's episode, we explore Burger King's new monthly coffee subscription, the Spotify/Apple dispute over fair competition in the music realm, American's drunk purchase choices.

For work updates, Slager discusses the potential that could come from his NCI Level 1 Certification pursuit, and Tim talks about increasing your awareness of opportunities, relating to a lunch interaction with a potential customer.

In the book talk portion of the episode, we talk about the right away to approach arguments, and deciding which arguments to enter. Tim discusses the section of his book that talks about the concept of luck, and whether we can actually control our own luck or not.

Show Highlights:

4:00-11:15: **Slager talks about his nutrition and gut health journey, as he pursues his NCI Level 1 Certification with the Nutrition Coaching Institute. He gets into the opportunities this could bring to Summit Chiropractic and himself.
**11:15-16:30: Burger King is getting into the coffee subscription business. We discuss this bold marketing move, the potential target market, and if the subscription is worth it.
16:30-23:15: Spotify is making it known that Apple is getting monopolistic with the music apps on the app store, and they are getting creative with ways to make money without aid of Apple. We discuss the tension between the two entities and the potential road that this dispute could lead to.
23:15-28:15: Americans have spent $39.4 billion on drunk purchases in the last 4 months. We discuss the top things they are buying, and you would be very surprised.
28:15-37:00: We talk about how opportunities are everywhere you look, and Tim talks about how a lunch trip to Chipotle opened up a new prospect for his sales pipeline. We take this and get into approaching strangers the right way.
37:00-53:45: We talk about choosing your battles wisely and having a productive argument. We ties this in with the importance of educating yourself on both sides of an issue of topic. We lead this into our jobs and using this strategy to disarm any objections in a sales presentation and the use of social proof.
53:45-1:02:00: Is luck real? Drawing from our readings, we talk get into how every reality has a cause, and how we are where we are because of our thoughts and deeds.

Show Links:

Burger King (QSR): https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/finder-survey-how-much-americans-spend-drunk-shopping.html

Drunk Shopping (CNBC): https://www.qsrmagazine.com/technology/burger-king-launches-5-coffee-subscription-service

Apple vs. Spotify: https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/apple-music-vs-spotify/