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To be political, some voters are fine with companies entering the fray. data from the research firm sprout social shows that 78% of self-described liberals say its important for brands to take a stand on social or political issues. while not as high, a majority of conservatives 52% say the same thing. so despite the outrage, the numbers suggest, number one, nike knows its consumer base is young, diverse and liberal, maybe they did a little research first. in fact, online sales for nike spiked 31...

Worry when your core audience gets smaller. its one thing to say okay, we have monetizing this right now. when the new contracts come up four or five years of now and this pace of decline continues, it would be hard to demand those type of dollars in the future, this is the golden age of content and theres no batter content than football. >> and the guys kneeling by and large are already under contract. they dont have contracts that are kneeling, this is why colin kaepernick is not in the nfl. w...

Consumer base in atlantic city without boxing. so he needed don king. he needed tyson. he needed hip-hoppers, thats who fill the casinos. so he would socialize with them. i knew a lot, grew up with spike and that crowd, i would always see him at the events. he was at tysons housewarming when i got there. i mean, this was the crowd he hung out with. so they were comfortable with him. never realizing that he had these real inside kind of biases that we knew coming from brooklyn, we knew the queens...

You can use templates to provide legal advice early on. spotted places use it as a way to incorporate. it was hassel free and allowed us to do it in half the time. >> one thing that helped me is the work. hes interviewed different founders and sass businesses. its about metrics and could be about business planning. its different than other companies in a consumer base. that helped. >> i love to use sero for bookkeeping needs. they are cheap, 30 bucks a month. they spent two hours helping me set ...

Where individual ceos and independently sort of activist companies get involved versus where companies with big consumer bases like delta and americanairlines decide they need to stand up to the administration on something. its not because theyre pushing an ideological agenda. its ultimately less about the corporation deciding to be political than it is about fearing their consumer base. its why a lot of the companies that have clashed with the administration, that havent tried to sort of, you k...

Intellectual property theft, barriers to market access, chinas big state industrial man, made in china 2025 that is quite significant. all of these are things that everybody agrees on and we should be working with our allies to try to get at these issues. >> they are things that require focused approaches. and it feels like weve taken this very big sledge hammer approach to it. what are the mechanisms to deal with intellectual property theft? what are the mechanisms to deal with china not lettin...

California, ships to places like china which last year imported $210 million of u.s. wine. but with china announcing a 15% tariff on u.s. wine, producers like hoenig worry theyll take a hit. >> theyre a huge concern. theyre a huge concern because weve been working really hard for over ten years and growing our market and growing our consumer base in china, and this will have an impact on us and our importers and our partnerships. >> reporter: analysts say china is also the fastest growing import...

Locations across the country, those stores continued to sell those assault-style rifles. as of today, according to ceo ed stack, all stores under dicks will no longer car those assault-style rifles and high capacity magazines that make it easier for shooters to shoot round after round after round without having to reload and no dicks will sell any guns to anybody under the age of 21. were seeing corporate america, stepping up and listening to those kids in parkland and actually doing something, ...

On patented systems and corruption he has his own wealth he himself has not been accused of any corruption he is likely to get rid of many of the ministers that have been implicated in corruption with sense of a powerful system signal that the culture of impunity will no longer be be tolerated. so you have an independent judiciary that he can rely upon to properly tackle and rule on the cross he is going to have to tackle this because investor confidence is key weve seen international credit rat...

Businesses, personalities that have done a great job engaging with an audience. its smart for business to leverage that influence they have over their consumer base. i would expect to see a lot more brands focusing on using the right influencers to reach the audiences that are needed for their business. >> interesting. but if you pay the influencer, the influencer needs to disclose that. does that content then fall lower down? >> we havent seen that yet. >> okay. >> this is all pretty new. socia...