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Try on glasses frames for free!  Find out how an innovative company uses the online storefront method to have people buy their brand of glasses, as well as a social push tool and baby name predicting on Episode 040 of Owning Your Own!

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• Updates! - A great listener review!
  
• Beginning of Time – Baby Name Predictor
  
• The Toolbox – Thunderclap.it
  
• Open Up And Say AAAA – WarbyParker.com
  
  
  
• Outro Song (Alan) – Little Wing (Hendrix Cover) by Carlos Vamos
  
  
  

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• Chainsaw episode – Palm trees being trimmed in the background (0:45)
  
• New Media Rights – Tell ‘em OYO sent ya! (5:14)
  
• Nathan gave us a great review and applauds our optimism about the industry.  Thanks Nate! (6:00)
  
• Beginning of Time features Time!  (7:10)
  
• Time Magazine’s baby name predictor – stats on names over the years and the predicted trends going forward. (8:25)
  
• We reviewed classic baby names like John, Evelyn, Mildred (Alan’s grandmother), Frances (Andrew’s grandmother) and Gertrude as well as recent names such as Miley, Adele and a few others, and even our own names!
  
• Biblical names are trending downward. (12:20)
  
• There’s a huge Alan explosion in the 80′s (in terms of naming) and trending evenly over the next 25 years. (12:45)
  
• The name Andrew was big in the 80′s but may decline…may become an “old man’s” name! (14:25)
  
• Mildred and Frances demographics are almost identical! (15:00)
  
• The increased diversity in America will lead to changes in naming demographics. (16:20)
  
• Thunderclap.it aggregates your social sharing and then pushes them all at once for strategic trending. (20:48)
  
• Is there an issue with Google, Twitter or Facebook to have “pushes” from several accounts at once?  Is that a red flag? (23:00)
  
• LinkedIn is the network has the most genuine sharing. (27:30)
  
• Is it AAAA or AAAA?  (28:40)
  
• WarbyParker.com is a glasses retailer that sends up to frames via online for free and you send them back.  You can try them on for a few days and return them. (32:00)
  
• Andrew is not a mannequin man. (33:10)
  
• The Netflix of glasses. (36:15)
  
• WhiskeyTortoise is a color of one of their frames. (36:30)
  
• Warby Parker does a great job with their website and retargeting. (42:30)
  
• Carlos Vamos plays a cover of a Jimi Hendrix using a tapping acoustic guitar method.  (47:00)