Episode 245: Michael Coté’s Discount Webinar Barn, aka, The Webinar Episode

Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers. Mood board: They got money, kicking out the Nazis Have you tried saying it louder? It came out fine. The burger meat here is like a bunch of little worms. Long form commercials. Webinar as conference. Sitting in a Zoom. People don’t want to show up and consensually watch a YouTube video. The Wine Bottle Leads. The Minecraft Yellers. The pink slurry of enterprise software content. There’s nothing at the bottom of their funnel. I know all those things, I just don’t like them. HigherGradeWebinars.biz The conclusion of the plutes. Today was the last day of school for the kids. Tomorrow, the nightmare begins. The Rundown The New Conference Apple’s virtual WWDC wasn’t just okay—it could be the future of keynotes (https://www.fastcompany.com/90519618/apples-virtual-wwdc-wasnt-just-okay-it-could-be-the-future-of-keynotes) Google Next over 9 Weeks (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/) In the first cohort of HEY signups, 37% have converted to a paid account! (https://twitter.com/heyhey/status/1277959957053243392) Relevant to your interests Email Is Broken (https://mikestone.me/email-is-broken) Analysis: Here are five strategic options for Dell and VMware (https://siliconangle.com/2020/06/29/analysis-five-strategic-options-dell-vmware/) Arm Macs and AMD rising: How Intel's endless 10nm struggles cost it so much (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3563786/arm-macs-and-amd-rising-how-intels-endless-10nm-struggles-cost-it-so-much.html) US police using Chinese drones are ‘at risk’ of data breach, DHS warns (https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/us-police-using-chinese-drones-at-risk-of-data-breach-dhs/) Amazon jumps into self-driving taxis with purchase of Zoox (https://www.axios.com/amazon-jumps-into-self-driving-taxis-with-purchase-of-zoox-99cffedd-d3ef-4ce9-84d9-94ca4d84d865.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top) Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation (https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/06/30/discord-was-once-the-alt-rights-favorite-chat-app-now-its-gone-mainstream-and-scored-a-new-35-billion-valuation/#54d0bbd2b6b2) Your Place to Talk (https://blog.discord.com/your-place-to-talk-a7ffa19b901b) An Infrastructure Arms Race Is Fueling the Future of Gaming (https://www.wired.com/story/cloud-gaming-infrastructure-arms-race/) Ranking the Observability Offerings - APM Experts (https://www.apmexperts.com/observability/ranking-the-observability-offerings/) Flying Secret Flying | Cheap Flights & Error Fares (https://www.secretflying.com/) Jack's Flight Club | Cheap Flights, Flight Deals & Alerts (https://jacksflightclub.com/) Interactive Route Map of Low Cost Airline flights in Europe (http://www.low-cost-airline-guide.com/en/airline-route-map.htm) Alternative Airlines | Book Flights on 100s of Airlines (https://www.alternativeairlines.com/) Nonsense Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: Plant-based steaks (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-food-alternative-meat/coming-soon-to-a-3d-printer-near-you-plant-based-steaks-idUSKBN2411OL) Big Red soda is the secret to make deliciously tender smoked pork chops (https://youtu.be/q9ezbJFK-FU) Conferences Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th SDT news & hype Listen to interview with Kylie Grenier about Digital Transformation (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/244) Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Land of the Giants (https://www.vox.com/land-of-the-giants-podcast) podcast (https://www.vox.com/land-of-the-giants-podcast). Matt Ray: Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway (https://amzn.to/38ymBgd). Coté: Euro breakfast on the go.