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Building a Café Community 📢 Attention Café Owners! Your café can be more than a business—it can be a hub for connection. Host events like book clubs or trivia nights. Display local artists’ work to support the community. Create a “wall of fame” for your most loyal customers. A sense of belonging keeps customers returning. How do you foster community spirit in your café? #CafeOwners #BusinessGrowth #CustomerRetention

Reposting to my network. Hoping to see a lot of my local connections this evening. Too hot to go out? Nonsense! Beat the heat with a refreshing beverage and air conditioning provided by Duke Energy Corporation and the Harris Nuclear plant which has been safely and reliably splitting atoms since January 1987. No brownouts or blackouts in this crushing heat wave! Thank you Duke Energy. At the three outstanding energy events I’ve been to in the last couple of months (the University of Idaho’s Energy Executive Summit, the State Energy Conference of NC at North Carolina State University, and the 10th annual UNC Cleantech Summit at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), AI-driven electrification (what Diane Leopold from Dominion Energy referred to as “datafication”) has been one of the topics that dominated the conversation among the utility executives that I heard speak. The people I heard and spoke to at these three events are Thought Leaders for sure…but much more importantly they are Do Leaders. They are responsible for meeting customer demand, keeping the lights on and the air conditioners humming, and providing affordable energy to all those customers who are living paycheck to paycheck and are forced to choose what bills don’t get paid each month. A big tip of the cap to: (1) the three universities mentioned in this post for the vital role they play in the Industry/Academia/Government triple helix for energy and cleantech, and (2) the RTCC for being such an excellent convener and a facilitator of collaboration and discussion. Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster Energy Executive Course Greg Gangi Yvonne Sertich Dishonna Arnett Mark Ogden Linxon Jacob Grove PowerSecure, Inc. Joe Stevens Ndustrial Jack Jirak Eric Grant Lon Huber John Szoka Fortnight Brewing #energy #ai #electrification #datacenters #datafication #energytransition #energypoverty #utilities #cleantech #doleadership #nuclearenergy

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A brilliant article!

Combined, they wrote thousands of pages on creating vibrant hubs of activity. But these 3 timeless nuggets of wisdom will live on forever: 1. Consistent quality in food and service. 2. Engaging community events. 3. Strong online presence. Contact us today to discover how our expertise can elevate your restaurant sales and bring sustained success to your business. #HospitalityMarketing #ThrivingRestaurants #CustomerLoyalty #restaurantmarketing #restaurantmarketingtips #restaurantmarketingsuccess #restaurantmarketingagency #restaurantmarketingstrategies #restaurantmarketingadvice #restaurantmarketingcompany #restaurantmarketingexpert #restaurantmarketingguide #restaurantmarketinghelp #restaurantmarketinghacks #restaurantmarketingideas #restaurantmarketingstrategy #restaurantmarketingtip #restaurantadvertising

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Here's the latest update from the Alma City Club in Moncton!

🎉 Exciting News for Whisk(e)y Enthusiasts! I’m thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of a virtual Redhead Whisk(e)y community dedicated to whisky lovers of all levels! Whiskey Club has grown so nicely in past 3 years. It has formed friendships, supported brand sales and marketing, it's a source of power for both consumer and brands. Why should it be kept for Bergen, Hoboken, NYC only? We can't we all meet one a month or so to share a good dram and learn new flavors? That's why... I am announcing THE VIRTUAL REDHEAD WHISKEY CLUB - Doesn't matter where you live, what time it is (5o'clock naturally!) - we can all meet and enjoy tasting together. I am kicking this community off and it will be FREE for Jan-March so we can see together where it goes. I will announce details on 9th Jan. in the meatime if you'd like to join - registration in the comments. We’re building a vibrant hub for all things whisky, and I’d love for you to be a part of it from the very start, whether you're an enthusiast or a brand ambassador. Let’s make this community as rich and diverse as the whiskies we love. 🥂 If you’re interested, comment below or message me for details. Cheers to this new adventure! #WhiskyLovers #WhiskyCommunity #VirtualCommunity #WhiskyAmbassadors

Some interesting echoes of Sir John Hegarty's MAD//FEST LONDON talk yesterday in Sir Martin Sorrell's talk today. Asked what he’d recommend to youngsters joining the industry Sir Martin said learn Chinese, Spanish and coding – not just because they’re useful skills, but because it’ll exercise your brain in a way that we don’t do enough of now. Whilst Sir Martin Sorrell also talked about trying tech fast, because it will change faster than you think, Rory Sutherland talked about what slow AI might look like. Sometimes we need to take time to do things, we need to put in the right amount of effort to achieve what we need to. Being more efficient can be easy to achieve, being more effective is often much harder. Thanks MAD//FEST – lots of great thinking to make the little grey cells fire up – now to slowly digest and think about the learnings to take forward.

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