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Will Smith slap and your business?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Okay, so at the Oscars, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.

What does this have anything to do with business?

While we talk about business concepts here, this is one of the things we go through. So if you're not interested in business, this won't really interest you. But if you are, if you're a business owner, or you're an executive, you're somebody that runs the business, you're somebody in charge.

This is what you're going to want to think about when it comes to standing out and getting attention.

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Now, what is the lesson that we can learn from the Will Smith slap that can affect your business?

Here's what I take from it.

Number one, in a very short period of time after it occurred, the internet is swarming with memes.

Everything you could possibly think of I guess, it amazes me how quickly people can come up with things. And I think these people are more professional meme creators and so forth. I mean, if you created a meme, and it's a good one, and you want to post it, post it wherever, wherever you're watching this, I'd love to see a link to it.

Let me know, is this something you do on a regular basis or did this just inspire you?

I'm guessing that these people are really fast about this type of thing. It's something that can't be ignored. That's what's amazing about this when something it's pretty clear that it's real.

This isn't a fake thing. This is it stands out as being a real incident, where somebody walked on stage and slapped someone telling a personal joke at the Oscars.

This has never happened to my knowledge.

Yeah, there's been people that have been upset and people that have said things and bicker back and forth but never someone actually going right up and causing physical harm to somebody else, or at least attempting to.

Because of that, you can't ignore it.

Because the two people that were involved were at the Oscars, which everyone knows about. And the two people involved or two people that are extremely well known.

Will Smith, Chris Rock. These are very well-known actors.

Very, very well-known people in their craft, you can't ignore something like that.