1. Insights Regarding Video Marketing

• 96% of marketers believe optimal length for a marketing video is under 10 minutes. (2022, Hubspot)
• 48% of marketers believe video integrations into websites improve Search rankings. (2023, Mcuser)
• Marketers focus on Repurposing of long-form content like Webinars & live events to create B2B content for Tiktok or Youtube.
• The marketers shifting focus from KPIs like Views & impressions to Direct traffic deriven by Video. (Vidico)

2. insights from CMOs at Fortune 500 regarding ChatGPT

1. Most CMOs believe that ChatGPT will have the most impact regarding content creation and management.
2. The impact of ChatGPT will be the least on Brand Strategy & tactics.
3. The second most impactful role ChatGPT plays is regarding market research & competitive Insights.
4. The response from CMOs regarding Impact on Marketing Tools & Customer Service is neutral as the it will take time to impact the usage of new tools. Also, their current marketing tools in usage are implementing AI slowly, making the decision of shift to new tools harder.

3. How Consumers Behaviour is Changing

1. People want brands to show they listen 93% of them believe that brands should react to public opinion. (2023, ruderfinn)
2. Why Consumers are abandoning purchases: 37% limited payment options, other 37% due to poor navigation and layout. With 33% leaving due to slow speed. (2022, storyblok)
3. Users are spending lesser and lesser time reading your emails. The average time dropped from 13.4 to 9 seconds. (2023, litmus)

4. Social Media Engagement is Dropping

• Instagram engagement rates across all industries fell by 30% last year.
• Tweeting frequency was also down by 20% & engagement rate growth was flat for Twitter.
• Comparing to Post frequencies, Tiktok is still at the bottom. Brands are posting less frequently on the platform comparing to FB, IG & Twitter. But the engagement rate is still highest among all platforms. (2023, RivalIQ)
• Gen Z Tiktok User are 1.2x more likely to DM brands after making a purchase. (New Feature: You can open Tiktok DMs for everyone to message) (2023, Tiktok)

5. My Key Insights from Advertising Research on Brand Awareness

1. In her study of the U.S. personal computer industry, Sovinsky Goeree finds that traditional demand models overstate price elasticities because they assume that consumers are aware of – and hence choose among – all brands in the market when in actuality most consumers are aware of only a small fraction of brands.
2. How Advertising Patterns & Practices deliver signals to Consumers can positively shape perceptions about the quality of the brand. The more volatile and inconsistent a brand’s advertising pattern is, the less impact it’s advertising expenditures will have on perceived quality.
3. Our main finding is that advertising expenditures have a significant positive effect on brand awareness but no significant effect on perceived quality. These results appear to be robust across a wide range of specifications. Since awareness is the most basic kind of information a consumer can have for a brand, we con- clude that an important role of advertising is information provision. On the other hand, our results indicate that advertising is not likely to alter consumers’ quality perceptions.

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Blue Reflection Sun was released one month ago and after playing religiously every day (this includes waking up in the middle of the night to consume stamina, something I'll get to later on in my review), here are my thoughts. First of all, this review will not touch on the controversy regarding including the first male character in a series that features only female characters. Just let me say that after playing through the story to the latest chapter, many of the interactions/scenarios between the girls and the protagonist completely excludes the protagonist from being female. So that possibility is off the books for foreign releases or future patches. Now that that's over with, I will be reviewing the game as a standard gacha game developed and published by large companies (Koei Tecmo and DMM Games).
As a disclaimer, I have been playing gacha games for over 10 years but rarely have I played in any language other than Japanese. So while I am translating to English to the best of my ability, some terms may be wrong, though hopefully decipherable.
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Gacha
I'll start off with the crux of gacha games: the gacha. There are essentially 2 types of gacha: character and fragcard gacha. Character is self-explanatory, but fragcard is the `card` system found in some gacha - each includes a skill, which can be upgraded, and stats, which can be levelled. Characters range from 1-3 stars (can be limit broken to a maximum of 5) and fragcards which go from R→SR→UR. Each gacha can drop the other type except for at the highest rank. In other words, the character gacha can drop R and SR cards but not UR, while the fragcard gacha can drop 1-2 star characters but not 3 star.
The rates in order of ascending rarity is 77%→20%→3%. The tenth pull is 97%→3%, so in other words, at the tenth pull you are guaranteed 2★/SR or higher. There is a pity system for each gacha that does not carry over, besides the standard gacha. 200 pulls for 200 tickets will let you exchange for the featured item - this number cannot be reached without major saving or else spending money. Each event period gives you an estimated 50 pulls (this is a very rough estimate since it's still service start).
Regarding the limited gacha, So far, characters and cards have been truly limited, in that there is no plan to add them to the standard pool after the run, though the fine print states that there may be reruns (par for the course). This is great as it makes things black and white: you either pull if you want it or save if you're waiting for something else. No grey area where you want the item but you might as well wait since it will be added to the pool later.
You'll also receive a plethora of gacha tickets, but unfortunately, these can only be used one at a time (probably in order to bypass the ten pull system). Combined with the slow loading screens, using 30 or so tickets took me almost an hour...
Finally, even 1 star characters can be easily limit broken to 5 stars, which makes it so that there are no useless characters. Of course, a 3→5★ will be stronger than a 1→5★, though at the very least this means that you'll still have viable characters even if you get horrible pulls.
All this to say that, the rates don't feel unfair, and even when you pull a card instead of a character, Kishida's art is so pretty that it doesn't even feel all that bad. Also, just as there are no useless characters, all cards can be sufficiently powerful once limit broken and levelled up.
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Cash Shop
There is no cheap monthly pass unfortunately. Only a simple money to gem system. The most expensive item is 10,000 yen for 16,000 gems which equates to 53 pulls. This goes down to the cheapest item, 160 yen for 160 gems, which is about half a pull. One pull is 300 gems.
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Mechanics
Standard turn-based rpg with no time-delay system found in the original series. 4 elements with none of that dark/light crap (sorry, I'm just not a fan of elements that do increased damage to one another) and in rare cases, non-elemental. Each character has her own powerful skill and 2 other skills that can be equipped and switched via fragcards. This means that a character of one element can equip skills of a completely different element.
Elements do increased damage and receive less damage to/from the element that they are good against. So much so that a party strong against an element can take down enemies of twice the power rating (in my case, my party of 60,000 could take down enemies of 120,000).
Standard attacks charge SP, which is counted separately for each skill. So you can freely use each skill as soon as it is charged, without worrying about saving the SP for another skill. This is where the auto battle fails. Auto makes the characters randomly choose attack or a skill, without prioritizing fully charged skills. So that means your character may use a standard attack even when you don't need the SP. Management has said that they are planning to improve the auto system in the near future, so this may be subject to change. On the plus side, characters will focus fire enemies from right to left in auto.
Finally, characters can be `borrowed` from friends/strangers, which lets you use her skill once per battle at any time, without losing your turn. This will not activate during auto. All in all, this is to say that if there is a powerful enemy that you cannot defeat in Auto, often Manual will often enable you do so.
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Stamina
At player level 1, you start off with 51 stamina (if I remember correctly), which recovers at a rate of once every 3 minutes. Doing the math, you can see that initially 2.5 hours will give you a full charge; hardly enough to let you rest during work (let alone sleep). You'll receive a ton of stamina refill items, which is in your best to use as soon as possible to level up and increase your maximum stamina. After a month of playing, I am currently at 100 stamina - the highest leveled players I've seen are 10 levels higher, i.e. 110 stamina, which equates to 5.5 hours for a full charge - still hardly enough for a full night's sleep.
All this to say, for those of us that are very stoic about consuming stamina to never let it go full, the stamina system in this game is the most stressful I have ever experienced. It seems as if not much thought was given into either lowering the recovery rate (along with the cost of stages) or else increasing the maximum increased per level.
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PVP
There is a ranked battle system, but it's almost impossible to lose. Firstly, while the enemy team will attack randomly, your team will focus fire. Secondly, each enemy has a break meter, which when full will make them lose one turn (normal enemies also have this). This, combined with weaknesses can easily let you win fights with differences in power levels of 20,000 (or potentially higher, though I don't want to try my luck).
There is a maximum of 3 battle points, which are not refreshed daily as in most games, but gradually (1 every few hours, I haven't bothered to time how many hours). Basically you can fight much more than thrice a day. There is also a consecutive win bonus, which keeps increasing to the point that the consecutive bonus is higher than the standard win bonus. At high ranks and high consecutive wins, you will receive way more points than you need for the limited items in the battle shop.
One month in, and I along with most player I imagine, have never lost a match.
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Story and Characters
The story is not Shakespeare, nor is it Twilight. The voice acting is excellent as usual, and the story is interesting enough to keep you immersed. Each character has her own personality, motivations, and desires, which are much more rounded than the standard flat female characters born of a male mind found in most fiction. While most works feature simple anime tropes that perpetuate sexist stereotypes, the characters of brs have a certain nuanced depth, i.e. they exist as entities independent of male characters (and not as mere supports to a well-rounded male). All this to say, while there are some cringey moments, most of the characters have a certain human charm separate from a mere sexualization of the character.
The main character is also not annoyingly smart/strong or dumb/weak, i.e. he has the same attractive qualities that the girls have as well. There is a good balance in terms of character relations, though I wish they reversed the females-dependent-on-male trope more (they almost did in the beginning, but then it swung to the standard MAN DO EVERYTHING AND WOMAN LIKE STRONG MAN caveman mindset...).
In terms of character design, Kishida's design is top notch as always, showing that not only is he talented in bishoujo design, but even his bishounen are pretty as hell. Personally, I cringe at the hairstyles/fashion/makeup/design of most anime because you can tell these were men creating women, 10 years behind the current fashion. Kishida, however, I always imagine him spending hours every day on Instagram absorbing all the latest trends. His characters' hairstyles and fashion really show this and adds a certain believability (most other works of fiction make me groan "no woman would be caught dead in such a mismatched setup" etc.).
The 3D models are also very similar to the 2D art, so thankfully there is no huge gap between the concept design and implementation. Also, most of the limited gacha outfits are so pretty, it never feels bad to pull.
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User Interface
There are certain aspects of UI that show of outdated design or a lack of knowledge of gacha design. For example, you cannot see details of a character's skill in the Training menu (where all of your owned characters are listed). Instead, you have to go to Formation, change character, and then view from there - very unintuitive, not to mention unecessary. Another is that upcoming maintenances are not announced in-game in an in-your-face sort of way. You have to check the once-a-day announcement or else follow their Twitter closely. Very frustrating, which I'll go into more detail in the next section.
Besides a few grave errors, most of the UI design is non-problematic, and likely to improve as hinted in an upcoming update. Much of the UI design (along with the sound and music) from the main series is brought over to the gacha game as well, which fans will enjoy.
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Management/Operations
This is the most frustrating thing about this game. Luckily, if there is an English release, you might not have to deal with this if you end up with a better English team. To sum up why, basically the 運営 (I think this translates to management or operations in English) of KT/DMM does not feel like part of a company with decades of experience; they feel like a small indie developeself-publisher that has no experience handling sudden errors.
In the first week especially, there were lots of server crashes and emergency maintenances to fix a lot of the problems. Server crashes are unexpected, but I have never seen a company handle maintenances so poorly. Apart from the lack of in-game announcement interface mentioned in the previous section, there were times when the Twitter announcement was only a few minutes in advance. Completely unacceptable in Japanese society, especially so in customer-service relations. To add to this, stamina fills up fast, which only adds to the frustration. Such that you have to constantly log in because you're never sure when the next maintenance will come.
As a side note, post-mortem of the server crashes found that they were due to high access traffic "overseas." Obviously we all knew this meant China bots once again ruining a party that they weren't invited to. Perhaps future games would do well to always cordon off a China server for the safety of Japan, but that's another story for another day.
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Final Thoughts
I am a big fan of DMM/Exnoa published games; they often publish many obscure developers, most of which are terrible, but every once in a while, there is a hidden gem. So it pains me to be so critical of their handling of this game, because I know they can do better. On the other hand, Koei Tecmo did an alright job of bringing a console/PC game to mobile, and if they are as willing to improve based on feedback as promised, then there may yet be hope for this game.
Regardless, after one month, I am still highly enjoying this game. The sounds, visuals, gameplay loop just hit all the right places for me, so I am looking forward to future updates and improvements. Those that have more free time than me may find that there is not enough to do in-game, but for relatively busy adults, this may just be the game for you.
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P.S. Thank you for making it to the end of this long review. If you wish to comment, please refrain from bashing the game, developers, publishers, etc. for introducing a male character. You can gripe about that in a different thread, but this is not the place for that. Productive comments regarding gameplay or similar are welcome.

1. Insights Regarding Video Marketing

• 96% of marketers believe optimal length for a marketing video is under 10 minutes. (2022, Hubspot)
• 48% of marketers believe video integrations into websites improve Search rankings. (2023, Mcuser)
• Marketers focus on Repurposing of long-form content like Webinars & live events to create B2B content for Tiktok or Youtube.
• The marketers shifting focus from KPIs like Views & impressions to Direct traffic deriven by Video. (Vidico)

2. insights from CMOs at Fortune 500 regarding ChatGPT

1. Most CMOs believe that ChatGPT will have the most impact regarding content creation and management.
2. The impact of ChatGPT will be the least on Brand Strategy & tactics.
3. The second most impactful role ChatGPT plays is regarding market research & competitive Insights.
4. The response from CMOs regarding Impact on Marketing Tools & Customer Service is neutral as the it will take time to impact the usage of new tools. Also, their current marketing tools in usage are implementing AI slowly, making the decision of shift to new tools harder.

3. How Consumers Behaviour is Changing

1. People want brands to show they listen 93% of them believe that brands should react to public opinion. (2023, ruderfinn)
2. Why Consumers are abandoning purchases: 37% limited payment options, other 37% due to poor navigation and layout. With 33% leaving due to slow speed. (2022, storyblok)
3. Users are spending lesser and lesser time reading your emails. The average time dropped from 13.4 to 9 seconds. (2023, litmus)

4. Social Media Engagement is Dropping

• Instagram engagement rates across all industries fell by 30% last year.
• Tweeting frequency was also down by 20% & engagement rate growth was flat for Twitter.
• Comparing to Post frequencies, Tiktok is still at the bottom. Brands are posting less frequently on the platform comparing to FB, IG & Twitter. But the engagement rate is still highest among all platforms. (2023, RivalIQ)
• Gen Z Tiktok User are 1.2x more likely to DM brands after making a purchase. (New Feature: You can open Tiktok DMs for everyone to message) (2023, Tiktok)

5. My Key Insights from Advertising Research on Brand Awareness

1. In her study of the U.S. personal computer industry, Sovinsky Goeree finds that traditional demand models overstate price elasticities because they assume that consumers are aware of – and hence choose among – all brands in the market when in actuality most consumers are aware of only a small fraction of brands.
2. How Advertising Patterns & Practices deliver signals to Consumers can positively shape perceptions about the quality of the brand. The more volatile and inconsistent a brand’s advertising pattern is, the less impact it’s advertising expenditures will have on perceived quality.
3. Our main finding is that advertising expenditures have a significant positive effect on brand awareness but no significant effect on perceived quality. These results appear to be robust across a wide range of specifications. Since awareness is the most basic kind of information a consumer can have for a brand, we con- clude that an important role of advertising is information provision. On the other hand, our results indicate that advertising is not likely to alter consumers’ quality perceptions.

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For those who missed it, today’s new announcements alone:

• Google opens up their Bard LLM.
• NVIDIA launches cloud tools for Generative AI.
• Adobe announces Firefly, an AI image creator.
• Microsoft unveils Bing Image Creator.

Firefly creates: - Perfect text to images + edit image - 3d to image - Text to vector - Combine photos, upscaling and more...
https://firefly.adobe.com/
Really excited about Jensen Huang’s announcement today, where he said “The iPhone moment of AI has started,"
“Nvidia released a service called AI Foundations to help companies train their customized artificial intelligence models, enabling them to create products similar to ChatGPT or the Dall-E image creation system but fine-tuned using their own proprietary data.”

1. Insights Regarding Video Marketing

• 96% of marketers believe optimal length for a marketing video is under 10 minutes. (2022, Hubspot)
• 48% of marketers believe video integrations into websites improve Search rankings. (2023, Mcuser)
• Marketers focus on Repurposing of long-form content like Webinars & live events to create B2B content for Tiktok or Youtube.
• The marketers shifting focus from KPIs like Views & impressions to Direct traffic deriven by Video. (Vidico)

2. insights from CMOs at Fortune 500 regarding ChatGPT

1. Most CMOs believe that ChatGPT will have the most impact regarding content creation and management.
2. The impact of ChatGPT will be the least on Brand Strategy & tactics.
3. The second most impactful role ChatGPT plays is regarding market research & competitive Insights.
4. The response from CMOs regarding Impact on Marketing Tools & Customer Service is neutral as the it will take time to impact the usage of new tools. Also, their current marketing tools in usage are implementing AI slowly, making the decision of shift to new tools harder.

3. How Consumers Behaviour is Changing

1. People want brands to show they listen 93% of them believe that brands should react to public opinion. (2023, ruderfinn)
2. Why Consumers are abandoning purchases: 37% limited payment options, other 37% due to poor navigation and layout. With 33% leaving due to slow speed. (2022, storyblok)
3. Users are spending lesser and lesser time reading your emails. The average time dropped from 13.4 to 9 seconds. (2023, litmus)

4. Social Media Engagement is Dropping

• Instagram engagement rates across all industries fell by 30% last year.
• Tweeting frequency was also down by 20% & engagement rate growth was flat for Twitter.
• Comparing to Post frequencies, Tiktok is still at the bottom. Brands are posting less frequently on the platform comparing to FB, IG & Twitter. But the engagement rate is still highest among all platforms. (2023, RivalIQ)
• Gen Z Tiktok User are 1.2x more likely to DM brands after making a purchase. (New Feature: You can open Tiktok DMs for everyone to message) (2023, Tiktok)

5. My Key Insights from Advertising Research on Brand Awareness

1. In her study of the U.S. personal computer industry, Sovinsky Goeree finds that traditional demand models overstate price elasticities because they assume that consumers are aware of – and hence choose among – all brands in the market when in actuality most consumers are aware of only a small fraction of brands.
2. How Advertising Patterns & Practices deliver signals to Consumers can positively shape perceptions about the quality of the brand. The more volatile and inconsistent a brand’s advertising pattern is, the less impact it’s advertising expenditures will have on perceived quality.
3. Our main finding is that advertising expenditures have a significant positive effect on brand awareness but no significant effect on perceived quality. These results appear to be robust across a wide range of specifications. Since awareness is the most basic kind of information a consumer can have for a brand, we con- clude that an important role of advertising is information provision. On the other hand, our results indicate that advertising is not likely to alter consumers’ quality perceptions.

P.S. You can subscribe through link in my bio to receive 5 marketing reports every week with links & marketing news sources.

1. Insights Regarding Video Marketing

• 96% of marketers believe optimal length for a marketing video is under 10 minutes. (2022, Hubspot)
• 48% of marketers believe video integrations into websites improve Search rankings. (2023, Mcuser)
• Marketers focus on Repurposing of long-form content like Webinars & live events to create B2B content for Tiktok or Youtube.
• The marketers shifting focus from KPIs like Views & impressions to Direct traffic deriven by Video. (Vidico)

2. insights from CMOs at Fortune 500 regarding ChatGPT

1. Most CMOs believe that ChatGPT will have the most impact regarding content creation and management.
2. The impact of ChatGPT will be the least on Brand Strategy & tactics.
3. The second most impactful role ChatGPT plays is regarding market research & competitive Insights.
4. The response from CMOs regarding Impact on Marketing Tools & Customer Service is neutral as the it will take time to impact the usage of new tools. Also, their current marketing tools in usage are implementing AI slowly, making the decision of shift to new tools harder.

3. How Consumers Behaviour is Changing

1. People want brands to show they listen 93% of them believe that brands should react to public opinion. (2023, ruderfinn)
2. Why Consumers are abandoning purchases: 37% limited payment options, other 37% due to poor navigation and layout. With 33% leaving due to slow speed. (2022, storyblok)
3. Users are spending lesser and lesser time reading your emails. The average time dropped from 13.4 to 9 seconds. (2023, litmus)

4. Social Media Engagement is Dropping

• Instagram engagement rates across all industries fell by 30% last year.
• Tweeting frequency was also down by 20% & engagement rate growth was flat for Twitter.
• Comparing to Post frequencies, Tiktok is still at the bottom. Brands are posting less frequently on the platform comparing to FB, IG & Twitter. But the engagement rate is still highest among all platforms. (2023, RivalIQ)
• Gen Z Tiktok User are 1.2x more likely to DM brands after making a purchase. (New Feature: You can open Tiktok DMs for everyone to message) (2023, Tiktok)

5. My Key Insights from Advertising Research on Brand Awareness

1. In her study of the U.S. personal computer industry, Sovinsky Goeree finds that traditional demand models overstate price elasticities because they assume that consumers are aware of – and hence choose among – all brands in the market when in actuality most consumers are aware of only a small fraction of brands.
2. How Advertising Patterns & Practices deliver signals to Consumers can positively shape perceptions about the quality of the brand. The more volatile and inconsistent a brand’s advertising pattern is, the less impact it’s advertising expenditures will have on perceived quality.
3. Our main finding is that advertising expenditures have a significant positive effect on brand awareness but no significant effect on perceived quality. These results appear to be robust across a wide range of specifications. Since awareness is the most basic kind of information a consumer can have for a brand, we con- clude that an important role of advertising is information provision. On the other hand, our results indicate that advertising is not likely to alter consumers’ quality perceptions.

P.S. You can subscribe through link in my bio to receive 5 marketing reports every week with links & marketing news sources.

Good day. I bought some cards from somebody on Instagram. They send it out on 22nd December 2022, sent me tracking number also. Pictures as proof. Last update on my mail was 5th January. I tried to contact USPS on every possible email address I found and nothing. They just say it's incorrectly submitted. Also I'm from Europe so Can't call customer service number. Any ideas? Thanks

Everything about Airtel sucks right now. I had raised a ticket on the Thanks app on Saturday 18th which was supposed to be resolved by Sunday 19th and it is still not resolved. My net speed is 15kbps. It's been slow since Saturday. Very difficult to do anything. Their IVR is rubbish. No option to speak to a customer service representative. If i press the option to raise another complaint, nothing happens and the IVR hangs up on me. If i try to raise another ticket on the stupid Thanks app, it can't find my location inspite of granting location permission and turning location on. The app's chatbot instead directs me to call customer care and that's useless.
Airtel you suck. Your IVR sucks. Your customer service team sucks. Your Thanks app sucks. Your mobile data speed sucks. Everything about you sucks

It's obvious that they're solely focused on extracting as much money as possible from their customers, even if it means sacrificing the quality of their services and causing frustration for everyone involved. Instead of gradually scaling up their services to meet the demand, they've chosen a short-sighted approach that's detrimental to their users and their own reputation.
The fact that we're being told to expect even worse performance from GPT-4 as they continue to onboard more users and prioritize profit over performance is nothing short of infuriating.

From some of the reddit Upwork threads I’m trying to get a big picture view.
One of the key elements missing is the actual details/data on the CustomeClient experience.
Several threads talk about blow back with connect bidding on the Upwork Contractor and its impact, and the point was “What is the actual data on bidding positions and effectiveness”.
As I understand it no data has been offered or shown.
Then there is the other side of Upwork.
What is the details/data on the CustomeClient experience and satisfaction with the Upwork bidding system.
I do not see Customers/Clients communicating at the same level on reddit, and Upwork on this.
There’s some, but not enough to get good data, if any.
I do see the Upwork Contractor communicating at a high level on the Upwork bidding service.
In my experience, even with an offer in place, the client can be rejected in the end.
My point is that to try for a good outcome with an Upwork project, winning the job is only one step.
If the process is providing a high number of Upwork projects offers to bidders, how are the Customers/Clients satisfaction and experience levels.
If they’re not, then more than likely their gone, lost to Upwork and Upwork Contractors.
Not sure anyone knows.
There are also threads with highly rated Upwork Contractors that they are experiencing the reverse, fall off with Upwork, increase with outside projects.
Again, no actual data.
If your Contractor experiences have taught you that it’s rarely easy, then what is the CustomeClient experiencing.
If this persist, then it may point to the long term outcome, and practicality in using the service from both CustomeClient, and Contractor.
In many threads there is data and explanations with the Upwork SEC fillings when they were published.
One small (Huge) item listed in the fillings was “Upwork is looking to retain and focus on their current customers/clients”.
Is this corporate speak for “we are going to throttle back down our advertising”?
Is this also causing a reduction in jobs/projects?
As was pointed out in threads, and in Upwork notice, that there will be a $5.00 fee added to CustomeClient billing when offer is accepted.
I’m not fully sure I understand if this is accurate, but if so, bet the Contractor will have to explain this to the client. May not be a big deal for big projects, but maybe for smaller ones.
My question is what is the near and long term affect with all these changes with the CustomeClient, and also the internet feedback on the Upwork service?
How bad is to much, so far only anecdotal information is to be had, and most is from the Contractor side.
Would like to have actual details/data to base near and future activity on the Upwork service.
One other note.
As was reported, the long term $10,000 5% fee will only be grandfathered in until “the end of 2023 “, then back to 10%.
I assume from threads that the Upwork Contract fee will then go to 15%, and possible price increase with connects.
If so, this will also require consideration with all that has occurred.

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The Galaxy is legendary for its speed, power, cavernous internal volume, and massive size. Designed to be a no-expense-spared, long-duration explorer, the class served not only in the role of flagship but also as the core of the Dominion War fleets.
The class proved itself worthy of both roles many times over. The flagship, Enterprise-D, pushed the boundaries of propulsion and warp field theory, heated the cores of dying planets, and sealed rifts in spacetime itself, not to mention saved the Federation on multiple occasions. As the backbone of fleets during the Dominion War, Galaxy’s were outfitted as assault carriers; with squadrons of smaller starships launched from her cavernous hull tactically supported by the firepower of the Galaxy herself.
The high losses during the Dominion War pushed shipyards to get as many starships to the frontlines as fast as possible. With the repurposing of the explorer to an assault carrier and the push on production, shipyards began specializing equipment aboard Galaxy-class vessels.
This led to a brief ‘Golden Age’ of the Galaxy-class; with specializations from all branches for all purposes. These specializations were so prolific and successful that they served as a testbed for an entirely new class that was built around them, the Ross-class.
Here is what I imagine some of those Galaxy-class specializations to be. They all come with tradeoffs, Pros and Cons. I have chosen not to list the Cons for the sake of brevity.
What specialization is your favorite? How would you outfit and customize a Galaxy-Class?
Specialization: Science
Primary Mission: Mapping Uncharted Regions
Secondary Mission: Relay Long Range Starfleet Comms
Primary Hull:
- 15 Stellar Cartography Suites
- Expanded Cetacean Ops to Include 20% of Internal Volume
- 2 Medical Holosuites with Non-Medical Secondary Use
- Long Range Lateral Sensor Grid
Secondary Hull:
- Expanded Cetacean Ops to Access Deflector Control (<5% Total Volume)
- Combined Shuttle Bay
- Aft Long Range Sensor Array
- 1 Full-Time Medical Holosuite
Specialization: Diplomatic
Primary Mission: Enforce Federation Law
Secondary Mission: Further the Cooperation of Federation Members
Primary Hull:
- All Quarters Outfitted as Diplomatic Suites
- 4 Full-Sized Holodecks and 24 Holosuites
- Central Arboretum featuring a Live Sequoia
- Deluxe Galley Seats and Serves 5000+
Secondary Hull:
- Conference Rooms and Gathering Space for 1500
- 3 Computer Cores
- 6 Holosuites
- Additional Main Bridge in Place of Battle Bridge
Specialization: Operations
Primary Mission: Advance Limits of Galaxy-class Frame
Secondary Mission: Explore Redundancy for Galaxy-class Systems
Primary Hull:
- Secondary Warp Reactor
- 3 Computer Cores
- Warp Nacelles Replace Warp Sustainers
- Additional Fusion Reactors, Capacitors, and Deuterium Storage
Secondary Hull:
- 3 Nacelles
- 3 Computer Cores
- Increased Deuterium Storage
- Enhanced Deflector
Specialization: Colonization
Primary Mission: Establish New Colonies per Federation Standards
Secondary Mission: Support and Maintain Existing Colonial Infrastructure
Primary Hull:
- Added Cargo Capacity for Colony Equipment
- Standard Quarters Upgraded to Family Suites
- All Ages Civilian School
- Terraforming and Habitability Research Labs
Secondary Hull:
- Long- Range Planetary Sensor Suite
- Combined Shuttle Bay
- Increased Fuel Stores
- Power Efficiency Upgrade for Longer Duration Missions
Specialization: Medical
Primary Mission: Provide Medical Services to Federation Members
Secondary Mission: Triage in Natural Disaster and Conflict Scenarios
Primary Hull:
- Fully Functional Hospital with 1500 Biobeds
- 6 Medical Holosuites
- Genetics and Bio-Research Labs
- Triage Capacity of 1000+
Secondary Hull:
- Enhanced Shielding, Transporters and Tractor Beams
- Secondary Sickbay with an Additional 150 Biobeds
- Large Stores of Bio-mimetic Gel
- Neutrality Transponder (To ID Ship as Non-Combatant)
Specialization: Tactical
Primary Mission: Enforce Federation Law
Secondary Mission: Respond to Hostile Threat Forces
- Sub-specialization: Phasers
Primary Hull:
o Ventral Phaser Cannon
o Additional Fusion Reactors
o Added Capacitors
- Sub-specialization: Torpedoes
Primary Hull:
o 4 Torpedo Turrets (2 Dorsal, 2 Ventral)
o Increased Torpedo Magazines
o Point-Defense Torpedo System
- Sub-specialization: Troop Carrier
Primary Hull:
o Quarters and Facilities for 10000+ Troops
o Enhanced Transporters for Rapid Deployment
o Extra Shuttlecraft for Planetary Landings

Predictmedix (CSE: PMED, OTC: PMEDF, FRA: 3QP) announced several updates regarding business expansions in the last couple of weeks. The company that provides workplace health and safety improvements thanks to AP-powered products notably stated it has begun to produce its mobile application for detecting impairment from cannabis and alcohol. Combined with high-margin revenues, there is no doubt why the stock price increases after news is released.
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What is the issue?
Over the world, law enforcement and high-risk businesses have struggled with the problem of alcohol and cannabis-related impairment, and the present testing procedures are cumbersome, expensive, and time-consuming. Drug testing businesses have struggled to develop a single product that combines dependability, speed, cost-effectiveness, and non-invasiveness. Businesses and organizations have been dealing with issues for a long time are addressed by the portable solution from Predictmedix, designed for law enforcement agencies and other high-risk mobility industries.
The global workplace safety market is expected to grow at a fast pace. The 13.5% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) should bring the market’s valuation to USD $26.7B by 2027.
Company Overview
Predictmedix is a rising international provider of fast health assessments, medical supplies, and options for remote patient treatment. The company’s Safe Entry Stations use multispectral cameras to evaluate physiological data patterns and detect indicators of exhaustion, impairment from cannabis or alcohol, infectious disease, and crucial physiological factors. These stations use specialized artificial intelligence (AI). Using multispectral cameras, the company’s Safe Entry Stations may detect indicators of weariness, impairment from alcohol or cannabis use, infectious infections, and other critical physiological factors. Another advantage is the company’s capacity to monitor signs of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Because Covid causes distinctive physiological patterns, its solution will be able to identify, evaluate, and then decide whether or not that person is likely to be infected. A real-time examination will decide whether any more testing is necessary. Predictmedix’s AI will learn how new symptoms present novel patterns from which to continue recognizing infection as the virus evolves.
It gives numerous benefits in financial terms. Screening as a Service provides multi-year contracts and high-margin recurring revenue. Safe Entry’s technology is supported and tested (CE Mark and ISO certified). Through innumerable placements and events that received excellent evaluations and were successfully published in peer-reviewed publications, Secure Entry provides organizations all over the world with the confidence and effectiveness they require.
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On March 15, Predictmedix announced it has started manufacturing its AI-powered mobile application that rapidly detects impairment from alcohol and cannabis. In numbers, the screening machine’s processing time takes less than 30 seconds to complete, and has a success rate of over 90%. The Safe Entry was notably tested by 1600 persons at the University of Jakarta, and Indonesia prepares the products for regulatory approval listed as Medical Devices.
“We are happy to announce to our shareholders that we are making very good progress with our portable solution for detecting impairment in individuals. From our research and discussions with high-level contacts, we believe our product will be in high demand in multiple industry verticals worldwide. In 2021, the drug screening market size was valued at over $5.2 Billion with revenue forecasted at over $22 Billion in 20302, making this another lucrative opportunity for Predictmedix.”
Dr. Rahul Kushwah, Chief Operating Officer
Share Structure / Financials
The latest financial statements occurred for the period ending October 31, 2022. On this date, the company issued 119M shares. We also can notice Predictmedix has 7.2M warrants at $0.27 and only 580k options at $0.40. These numbers don’t include the following $610k financing. Indeed on February 13, Predictmedix raised $612k by issuing 12.25M shares at $0.05. Entitled to each share is a $0.10 warrant. The net proceeds issued from the financing will be used for general options including business development and technology upgrades.
The stock price trades at $0.15 (March 18). After witnessing a constant downtrend over 2022, 2023 saw brighter days, notably thanks to commercialization targets. After undergoing a 52-week low of $0.025, PMED pushes towards its 52-week high of $0.21.
The company has made the same amount in gross profit and generated $3.5k in revenue during the quarter. The company experienced a $459 loss in the interim, primarily as a result of consultancy expenditures ($152k), management fees ($80k), and marketing costs ($86k). We can point out that Predictmedix has meager revenue costs, which means that costs will be quickly covered if sales start to come in.
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“In 2023, Predictmedix will be hyper-focused on commercialization, securing high-revenue recurring placements for workplaces in industries such as mining, manufacturing, warehousing, construction, and other industries where employee health and safety remain of high priority.”
As proof of this statement, the company announced a purchase order (March 6, 2023) from DefSpace, a global platform for Defense, Space, and Aerospace. This company will lease four stations, each of which will generate $2.5k per month in recurring revenue for a four-year deal, totalling $500k.
Conclusion
More than ever, Predictmedix (CSE: PMED, OTC: PMEDF, FRA: 3QP) is ready to move from the development to the commercialization phase. The secured contract with DefSpace marks a milestone for the company, and other contracts should follow soon. High margins offer the company to be quickly profitable, and this is something you have to consider about Predictmedix. Many companies have issues with returning a positive EBITDA, and it won’t be the PMED’s case.

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Predictmedix (CSE: PMED, OTC: PMEDF, FRA: 3QP) announced several updates regarding business expansions in the last couple of weeks. The company that provides workplace health and safety improvements thanks to AP-powered products notably stated it has begun to produce its mobile application for detecting impairment from cannabis and alcohol. Combined with high-margin revenues, there is no doubt why the stock price increases after news is released.
​
What is the issue?
Over the world, law enforcement and high-risk businesses have struggled with the problem of alcohol and cannabis-related impairment, and the present testing procedures are cumbersome, expensive, and time-consuming. Drug testing businesses have struggled to develop a single product that combines dependability, speed, cost-effectiveness, and non-invasiveness. Businesses and organizations have been dealing with issues for a long time are addressed by the portable solution from Predictmedix, designed for law enforcement agencies and other high-risk mobility industries.
The global workplace safety market is expected to grow at a fast pace. The 13.5% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) should bring the market’s valuation to USD $26.7B by 2027.
Company Overview
Predictmedix is a rising international provider of fast health assessments, medical supplies, and options for remote patient treatment. The company’s Safe Entry Stations use multispectral cameras to evaluate physiological data patterns and detect indicators of exhaustion, impairment from cannabis or alcohol, infectious disease, and crucial physiological factors. These stations use specialized artificial intelligence (AI). Using multispectral cameras, the company’s Safe Entry Stations may detect indicators of weariness, impairment from alcohol or cannabis use, infectious infections, and other critical physiological factors. Another advantage is the company’s capacity to monitor signs of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Because Covid causes distinctive physiological patterns, its solution will be able to identify, evaluate, and then decide whether or not that person is likely to be infected. A real-time examination will decide whether any more testing is necessary. Predictmedix’s AI will learn how new symptoms present novel patterns from which to continue recognizing infection as the virus evolves.
It gives numerous benefits in financial terms. Screening as a Service provides multi-year contracts and high-margin recurring revenue. Safe Entry’s technology is supported and tested (CE Mark and ISO certified). Through innumerable placements and events that received excellent evaluations and were successfully published in peer-reviewed publications, Secure Entry provides organizations all over the world with the confidence and effectiveness they require.
​
On March 15, Predictmedix announced it has started manufacturing its AI-powered mobile application that rapidly detects impairment from alcohol and cannabis. In numbers, the screening machine’s processing time takes less than 30 seconds to complete, and has a success rate of over 90%. The Safe Entry was notably tested by 1600 persons at the University of Jakarta, and Indonesia prepares the products for regulatory approval listed as Medical Devices.
“We are happy to announce to our shareholders that we are making very good progress with our portable solution for detecting impairment in individuals. From our research and discussions with high-level contacts, we believe our product will be in high demand in multiple industry verticals worldwide. In 2021, the drug screening market size was valued at over $5.2 Billion with revenue forecasted at over $22 Billion in 20302, making this another lucrative opportunity for Predictmedix.”
Dr. Rahul Kushwah, Chief Operating Officer
Share Structure / Financials
The latest financial statements occurred for the period ending October 31, 2022. On this date, the company issued 119M shares. We also can notice Predictmedix has 7.2M warrants at $0.27 and only 580k options at $0.40. These numbers don’t include the following $610k financing. Indeed on February 13, Predictmedix raised $612k by issuing 12.25M shares at $0.05. Entitled to each share is a $0.10 warrant. The net proceeds issued from the financing will be used for general options including business development and technology upgrades.
The stock price trades at $0.15 (March 18). After witnessing a constant downtrend over 2022, 2023 saw brighter days, notably thanks to commercialization targets. After undergoing a 52-week low of $0.025, PMED pushes towards its 52-week high of $0.21.
The company has made the same amount in gross profit and generated $3.5k in revenue during the quarter. The company experienced a $459 loss in the interim, primarily as a result of consultancy expenditures ($152k), management fees ($80k), and marketing costs ($86k). We can point out that Predictmedix has meager revenue costs, which means that costs will be quickly covered if sales start to come in.
​
“In 2023, Predictmedix will be hyper-focused on commercialization, securing high-revenue recurring placements for workplaces in industries such as mining, manufacturing, warehousing, construction, and other industries where employee health and safety remain of high priority.”
As proof of this statement, the company announced a purchase order (March 6, 2023) from DefSpace, a global platform for Defense, Space, and Aerospace. This company will lease four stations, each of which will generate $2.5k per month in recurring revenue for a four-year deal, totalling $500k.
Conclusion
More than ever, Predictmedix (CSE: PMED, OTC: PMEDF, FRA: 3QP) is ready to move from the development to the commercialization phase. The secured contract with DefSpace marks a milestone for the company, and other contracts should follow soon. High margins offer the company to be quickly profitable, and this is something you have to consider about Predictmedix. Many companies have issues with returning a positive EBITDA, and it won’t be the PMED’s case.