Monday 14 October 2019

HOW TO SELL ANYTHING TO ANYBODY BY JOE GIRARD

How to sell anything to anybody, Joe GirardSales are the foundation of every business. We can call an entity "Business" if is not making any sales. It is simple concept if you can't sale, you can't make any money that is the true. If you are in the situation to start your own business, having good sales skills can give you a huge advantages.

To reinforce what I 've said before , I will give an example "Steve Wozniack" was creative genius behind company "Apple". He was the man in charge with designing and creation of first Apple products. He couldn't achieve alone what "Apple " is today, very creative and intelligent person, but he has one lack, we couldn't sale, he wasn't a good sales person. Instead Steve Jobs was the opposite of him good business skills and entrepreneurship drive.

It become obvious how important is to have good sales skills. A book that I founded interesting is: "How to sell anything to anybody" written by Joe Girard.  It is not more a good example to follow in sales than Joe Girard. Is probably the most remarkable person ever to come along in the world of retail selling.  He use to say: " Working smart and being persistent could achieve wonders".

In conclusion I highly recommend this book, it provide valuable insights from the man with impressive track records. He is know like: "The World Greatest Salesman" , he entered in Guinness Book of World Records with 1,425 cars sold in one year and 13,001 in fifteen years of activity.

Friday 4 October 2019

SELF DRIVING CARS FOR A BETTER WORLD

self driving cars, AI carsAccording with World Health Organization nearly 1, 35 million people die on road crashes every year, an average 3,287 deaths per day.  Should this statistics make us to worry?   The answer is Yes, the truth is that you are not safe when you drive a car or when you are in a car.

To reduce road accidents governments and non governments institutions have took some actions to try to prevent road crashes. In the following moment I will present some measures taken by governments in hooping to reduce car accidents:

  • reducing speed limit
  • reducing alcohol level and in some cases prohibiting alcohol
  • raising awareness of legislation and increasing of fees
  • making vehicles more protective for occupants
Unfortunately this measures wont work. Maybe I'm to critique and don't have enough conviction , it's very hard to educate people in general. In my view one of the best solution to solve this problem are self driving cars.

WHAT ARE SELF DRIVING CARS?

Also known as autonomous vehicle is a vehicle that is capable to move safely with no human input. That means that those cars have incorporated Artificial Intelligence based systems. We can enumerated here some companies which are developing self driving cars like: Tesla , Uber and so on.
A research made by IHS Markit predicted that installation rate of AI based systems for cars will increase with by 109% by 2025.


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SELF DRIVING CARS

To create a AI based for a car we need to implement some techniques like: deep learning, machine learning , algorithms like: linear algebra, probabilities, programming languages like Python. The process of creating a self drive cars can be split in three main stages:

Stage 1   Data Collecting  Input ( supercomputer, electronically radars, comunication systems, traffic light cameras, trifocal camera, Gps,

Stage 2  We train data set

Stage 3  We have the output which include :( object detection, voice recognition, speech recognition, Eye tracking, maping system, driver monitoring and so on)

In the end I would like to emphasize that even this cutting edge creations failed few times. Here I would like to mention that a women was killed by a self driving car tested by Uber and two Tesla pilots have died .  Despite of this isolated failures I still firmly believe that self driving cars are the best solution for decrease road accidents and to become a better world.