Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice - The Week of April 28, 2023 Marketing and Business News: Apple is Developing an AI-Powered Health Coaching Service
Episode Date: April 28, 2023Key notes from this episode:Welcome to the latest edition of The Radcast! Ryan and Christina discuss the latest trends, policies, and services transforming the marketing landscape. Tune in to hear abo...ut Apple's AI-powered health coaching service, Twitter's revamped verification process, and Kraft's claim that mayo love leads to more dating app matches!If you want to stay ahead of the game, join us for insightful discussions and expert opinions. Listen now to stay informed and up to date with the latest news and trends in the world of marketing and social media. Small talkTwitter verification (01:16) Radnews Last week: The Real Business Behind Show Business with Jesse Palmer, Christopher Sean, Tarek El Moussa, and Marty Smith (05:23) Next week: Cesar Marin (06:28) Sponsor Good Ranchers: American Meat Delivered (09:00) www.goodranchers.com Social Media News Tinder’s verification process will now use AI and video selfies (11:26)https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/tinders-verification-process-will-now-use-ai-and-video-selfies/ Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered health coaching service (13:15) https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/apple-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-powered-health-coaching-service/ Marketing NewsKraft Real Mayo claims mayo love can lead to more dating app matches (14:58)https://www.marketingdive.com/news/kraft-real-mayo-dating-app-social-experiment/648299/ Sponsor www.takeavaycay.com (20:05) Learn more by visiting our website at www.theradcast.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/RadicalHomeofTheRadcastIf you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, Like, Share, and leave us a review! If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE. Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding. Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hey guys, what's up?
Welcome to the latest edition of the Radcast.
It's Friday, April 28th.
Unbelievable.
2023 joined by the lovely Christinaeosios.
Always.
Here we are.
Here we are.
Saw your rice on the ones and twos.
We're here in a lovely studio here in Greenville, South Carolina.
South Carolina, 55 and raining.
A chilly spring.
Here we approach May.
A chili spring.
I have a sweatshirt on.
If you're watching and you're going,
why does Ryan have a hoodie on?
I know this never happens.
It's a little woman here in the studio.
And Ty Ryan, yeah.
But it is quite chilly out.
side. But still on brand.
Yeah. Still on brand.
Got carrying all the brands of a vacay. I don't know what I put on.
Speaking of on brands, have you kept your branded verification mark on Twitter?
Yes, I have.
It's been in the news a bit this week.
I didn't have to pay for it. And then I, Twitter was the last space that I got verified
without paying for it. Like, I think it was last year.
This is the worst trade deal on the history of trade.
for about like five years on every other platform.
And Twitter finally verified me.
And then they charged.
Of course.
You get the five months later.
Of course,
you pay for it.
And so I know that a lot of people,
a lot of the magazines,
a lot of journalists are like boycotting this.
Don't want to do it.
Don't want to do it.
And it's obviously no longer a vanity thing might be the reverse of a vanity thing.
But Elon and very rarely,
it's always the secret algorithm.
Yeah.
All the platforms, everyone talks about.
It's ridiculous.
How do I get the most impact?
How do I get it?
There's a secret algorithm.
It's out to get me.
Elon has told you,
that's the voice of,
uh,
inside everyone's head with the algorithm monster.
And Elon's told you,
if you pay for it,
I'm going to bump your reach up.
Yeah.
You get more reach.
I'm going to prioritize the blue check.
But what's odd is there are,
as of this week,
I think as of like the 23rd,
people who have over a million followers,
have still maintained the blue check mark,
even though they're not paying.
I know Elon Musk has come out and said that he'll pay for some of them.
So there are some actors like Brie Larson has kept hers and tweeted about it.
It's Illuminati.
It's, there it is.
Yeah, yeah.
The algorithm has a mind of its own.
It's actually Twitter GPT.
Don't even.
Shut up.
I can't even think that.
And it's controlling and saying,
hey, we can't get rid of their check because it's something like that.
I don't know.
No, sir.
But I will say, I just want more eyeballs to see the things that I'm doing.
it's worth the money for the engagement.
For the engagement because I don't want it to go down.
If it was $100 a month or even $50,
it would be a little more consideration.
But for me personally,
I know what it costs to run ads to get the same amount of increase.
I couldn't run ads to replace the $12, $15, whatever is.
That's a good way to couch it.
So that's the way I look at it.
I think, look, I don't, again,
we've been very transparent about not always understanding,
knowing or agreeing with everything,
lawn desk, but I don't think that Twitter's going away.
Oh, no, I don't either.
And I think a lot of people use it.
And I think you're getting a little bit on your high box.
I think if you don't, if you want to be that stubborn about it to not get the same
attention and reach and all that, fine.
But I just, I'm going to choose my battles elsewhere.
Fair.
Pay the money and keep moving.
Right now it's serving you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I get that.
We'll see.
But it is interesting.
I know a lot of people are not doing it.
It's be fascinating to see if they should.
to their guns.
But when it starts impacting their pocketbook,
if you're a reporter and you get fewer stories
because maybe you don't have the reach you stuff.
Yeah.
Those type things come around.
If it has no impact on it, then who cares?
Competitive platform going to come out as my question.
Yeah.
It changed the name to X Incorporated.
Like Twitter, the legal name is now actually X ink or something like that.
Like he's not going to change.
He's not changing the DBA.
That's still a little.
Yeah.
All his other stuff.
Like his PayPal. He owned, he was a partner PayPal originally. Before it was PayPal was like X payments or
something. He likes to add Tesla Model X. Right. He seems to like to X. X, QRI, TUV. I don't know.
But I think it's more for money, how you, yeah, it's privately owned and not publicly owned anymore.
So you can kind of shift the monies around. For sure. And we'll see. But hey, if you want more
reach, pay for the blue check. If you want to.
Cheaper than ads. Yeah. There's a practical advice of the day.
Some practical advice coming on the Radcast next week or this past week.
Yeah, we did another best of business and show business.
Had some of our favorite guests.
Jesse Palmer.
Jesse Palmer, host of The Bachelor.
My guy.
Cool guy, man.
And Christopher Sean, who I saw on a show this past week.
He's on you.
And I was like, I know him.
He's on you days of our lives.
He's done several.
He's big in the animation voiceover for Batman and certain things.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Star Trek, I think even.
So cool guy, really fascinating.
interviews. These are kind of the best of each of those pulling out the business of entertainment
and what's happening there. Also had SPN analyst. So Marty Smith, if you're a college football person,
you'd heard them. If you've heard of Marty, good guy, good insights. And so yeah,
some of the best of the entertainment guests that we've had. The superstars. And so check that
out. Good summary. And we really appreciate them coming on. I need to follow up with a couple of those
guys. The next week's a really interesting episode, especially as it relates to we're getting
to kind of this alternative wellness space with vacay. Caesar Marin is probably, I'm going to
describe Caesar as one of the nicest souls on the planet. I'll start there. So that'll open up.
He's an ex-CN producer for 25 years. Wow. And left the company last year. And he, I've been consulting
with Caesar for a bit. And I want to have him on because he,
He is actually a proponent and really behind microdosing mushrooms.
Uh-huh.
So mushrooms are on all the news now.
You're seeing it for like treatment of Alzheimer's and like depression and all kinds of stuff.
And I'm talking about the illegal version, not functional ones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he's been microdosing for six months.
And he used to he had a weed addiction.
Like he was smoking weed like every day for like multiple years.
Wow.
And microdosing got him off of weed completely.
No other therapy, nothing else.
Cold turkey, pretty much, after two weeks.
Impressive.
He's maintained that.
He really changed his focus.
And he's just trying to really bring it mainstream for what the benefits are
and for people to just be talking about and have a dialogue about it.
Really fascinating discussion.
If nothing else, you'll love Caesar.
Super nice guy.
So down to earth.
But a lot of perspective, we talked about his time at CNN, some of his favorite stories
covered it.
He's done some real cool shit.
Oh, I bet he's got amazing stories.
And so I really hope you'll check that episode out.
be enlightening on many levels.
And no, he wasn't like, we're not talking about getting high on Western.
This is my, like, border, non-high-getting dose.
I don't know all my term.
Non-high-getting dose.
Well, that's the vacate coffee.
I like that.
Not high-geting dose.
Yes, that's what it is.
Because I didn't know.
I've had to educate myself on the micro-dosing.
I'm like, what does that mean?
A little like Alice in Wonderland kind of stuff.
Yeah.
But it does have a mental impact, but it's not, okay, 30 minutes later, you feel something.
It's more of an overall.
mental wellness and feeling over like a long day or a full day over as you take it.
So if you have any interest in microdosing or just the impact or some of the wellness stuff behind it,
really interesting.
Check out Seasor Maron's episode next week.
Sad about that.
Good stuff.
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The day's going to come when your boys will be able to out-eat you.
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We've got some fun social media news.
Tinder has a new verification process that will now use AI and video selfies.
This is a little bit creepy.
They're introducing an AI-powered photo verification feature to ensure users are who they say they are and not catfishers or bots, which is great.
Save first.
This process requires video selfies as proof as well as a third-party partner to manage the verification process.
It is smart.
It is smart.
It's a little unnerving, but it's moving fast.
Every company needs to be having something like this.
Yeah.
Because when you start making both audio and video of people,
either existing ones or ones that don't exist,
it's going to take it to the whole other level.
And we've all been on those Tinder Bumble hinge dates,
whereas they don't quite look like what they said that they look like.
I had a couple of those.
Remarker.
They also met Nicole and I met on Match.com.
There's a free ad for you a match.
You should come actually be a sponsor.
That's a freebie.
The other one's going to cost you.
But yeah, like there's a few.
Right.
It's like that picture was older, wasn't it?
Was this when you were 12?
Right, exactly.
Exactly.
It's not that was before you got your lips done.
That's nice.
Yeah.
Wow, you've really been working out.
But no more.
Now we're going to have AI verification.
Everyone's best picture.
It was so funny.
Here's the thing, though.
Photo verified members have a higher chance of matching with other users.
So like they're also going to play with the algorithm.
them so you're verified users have a better chance of finding love or whatever else you look for
on these apps but look all these apps need to get ahead of this so yeah I applaud them for doing so
and if you're out there and you're using dating apps just be extra careful yeah Apple is also in this game
they are developing an AI powered health coaching service this is brilliant the service is known as
quartz which will help users stay motivated to exercise and manage their eating habits
The project is expected to roll out next year, so 2024, though it may be delayed or shelved.
Apple's health app will receive an iPad version this year and an emotion tracker feature.
I'm going to need that, which will allow users to log their moods and compare results over time.
This makes a ton of sense.
This is functional use of AI and the metaverse in a way, the all realities and certain things like that.
So it makes a lot of sense, especially meditation.
I don't, I've tried to meditate.
I don't know if I've ever gotten there.
Get the Headspace app.
I'm obsessed with it.
I think I need something like this.
I don't know.
My watch tells me to meditate.
It's like, hey, hello, take a moment.
I don't do it.
But it does tell me.
I don't know, man.
My brain just doesn't stop like that.
I relax.
Yeah, sure, sure.
Like this morning, like I woke up.
And I'm usually pretty good sleeper, but like I woke up and my brain just was like on fire.
Yeah.
I didn't go back to sleep, but laid there forever thinking about 100 things.
So I know that's happened when I wake up and I have slacks and emails from you at 140 in the morning.
And I'm like, uh-oh.
Someone didn't take a vacation.
I've tried to tame them or time them now.
I actually send them in.
If you've noticed recently, if you get like seven from me at 9 a.m.
It's because I've sent them late and I'm like trying.
So yeah, that's definitely one of those.
So yeah, the mind of an entrepreneur.
What do you do?
It's a blessing and a curse more often than not.
Our last article is my absolute favorite.
It goes back to dating.
Craft Real Mayo claims Mayo love can lead to more dating app matches.
And what they've done is up with a campaign called Swipe Right for Mayo.
And they took a person with two profiles and one had mayo in the background of the photo and one did not.
And the photo with the Mayo had 74% increase on matches.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Mayo lovers.
Yes.
If you want to find love, start with Kraft Mayo.
I think this is a super fun campaign.
Mayo is like such a divisive condiment on its own.
It is very, very either love it or hate it.
I don't, here's a thing with mayo for me.
Give us a lot of tea.
I love it.
Like, you can't have tune about mayonnaise.
Like, you can't have like, like, that's just me.
If you don't like it, then that's fine.
But I get turned off a little bit about thinking about what it is.
Like, I don't like just want it scooped on my plate.
That was a good sound.
That was a good sound.
Like splat on my plate, like staring at me.
But blend it into ranch dressing or a marinade.
Marini Mayo.
Yeah.
And tuna salad, chicken salad.
Come on, man.
You got to have some.
And it's got to be Dukes and not Kraft, sorry.
We're from the South people.
I know.
Maybe you'll match even more with Dukes, though.
Oh, yeah.
Duke should be our sponsor.
Be a lot of sponsor in this today.
Yeah.
But you got to have it in some certain things.
I totally agree with you.
Now, I don't have to have it on every burger or every...
Sure.
Do I like it?
Do I think it probably adds to something?
Probably.
But I don't, but chicken, like certain things like you can live without it and I like it.
Devil Degs, all that kind of stuff.
But I don't want to necessarily think about the big blob of trans, non-trans.
Egg and oil.
Yeah.
We're really grossing people out.
They're thinking about...
Or making their mouth water.
One of the other.
Yeah, it's one of the other.
Or like a deviled egg or I think it has mayonnaise in it too, right?
Yeah.
Egg salad or, I don't know, something like that.
So.
All those Southern.
Yeah, some pickles.
Oh, yeah.
Heck, yeah.
So we would both get this match.
Yeah, I'd get it.
But I don't know if I was, if I was single, it's been a while, don't intend to go back.
It's a, so I'd say a picture with mayonnaise on the table.
I don't know if.
Look, I would at least bite.
I would at least be like, so curious to know about your love for mayonnaise just to see what would happen.
If you're a guy, though, and a girl, I don't know what are you doing?
Hey, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, that's what we got for today.
Man.
Short and sweet.
It is short and sweet.
I do want to mention a couple things that I've been hitting on my socials.
It's been really, I tweeted this yesterday and then I posted on Instagram.
We got a lot of comments on it.
It's become really easy to imitate and it's getting harder to innovate.
And I think if you're a business owner out there or a person out there and you're doing content, doing different things,
think about how you can push the needle, how you can break through because I think,
that it's become real easy to follow the herd and repeat trends and certain things like that.
So I'm really trying to challenge myself to go yin when the other's yang.
And so I think I read a stat that said for businesses, like if you're starting a business or doing something,
literally if you come into a category that already exists, if you're just trying to be better in a category that already exists,
you're always fighting on only 24% of the market because 74% is owned by the category leader.
And you're just fighting over the left or over 24%.
Yeah.
But when you start a new category, like a completely new category,
you have a chance at 100% short term and potentially 75% forever and always if you stay the category king.
My friend Christopher Lockhead preached about this all the time.
And I think it's becoming more and more truth.
as I watch businesses start as I watch people do content, different things.
And I'm like, a lot of you are just saying it's like painting the same stuff.
And so dare to be different.
Yeah.
Your motivation speech of the day here on the Radcast.
Dare to be different.
New tagline.
Yes.
I'm going to make sure, actually, that are inspiration greater than imitation or innovation
greater than imitation.
There you go.
Love it.
Yes.
So there you have it.
We need some stickers for laptops.
I know.
Hey, more merch.
We do love our merch.
Surrounded by stuff.
We are stuff motivated people.
I'm going to put it on my lamp over here.
Speaker.
Yes.
Any final words?
No.
Get that good ranchers.
Yes.
Go check out good ranchers.
And of course, our official wellness sponsor, Vacay.
Take a vacay.com.
Alternative wellness that's actually good for you and won't make you feel like shit the next day.
Yeah.
Got some new topical pain creams coming out.
The cooling.
pain cream and some functional mushrooms.
So those will be out in three weeks.
I'm excited about those.
More to come on that.
We appreciate everyone.
You ever find us to radcast.com,
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on marketing and business as of today.
We just shuffling around.
I saw that.
So appreciate all the love out there.
Christina,
where can everybody keep up with you?
Cry comedy on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
There we go.
I'm at Ryan off from all the platforms for Christina.
For Sawyer.
We'll see you next time.
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