Benno Pieters' Blog

What will the future be with 3D Meat printing? One of the exciting developments in the food industry is that of the emergence of 3D Meat printing. How will it effect our daily lives? What will the future of farming be? One scenario could be where we all have a 3D food printer in our homes. Via the internet we order a specific meat type and the 3D printer will churn it out. No animal will have suffered, no dubious meat-processing food chain will be transgressed before we have our proteins on our plates. What will the role of butchers be? That where we get our raw ingredients for the 3D printer. We will probably be tasting the meat in the butcher's and then decide what we wille buy. Most probably one box of meat sachets wil be able to produce different meats within a specific range. The farmers will reduce drastically in size and become the deliverers of prime stam cells for Cultured Meat Shops where they transform the stem cells into raw material for the 3D pr...

One of the best Social Media Branding strategies is the social patterning method:  ‘on becoming a Brand!’, which has proven itself extremely well in the past 5 years. It originated in the Netherlands (Europe) and enables small and large companies to brand themselves or their products in a fast way using the social media. In order to do that you need to set-up a Social Media Pattern , which is an investment in time of about one working week. After that it only requires 15 minute a day monitoring time. There is a book called ‘On becoming a Brand!’ written by Benno Pieters and Antoinette Pernot which describes the whole method. So what are the rules? 1)       Knowing what you want. Your product or service offering needs to solve a common problem for a larger group of people, the so called niche. There has to be a vision behind the product which lasts at least 5 years. People love consistency. Next you need to have a mission; the road to achiev...

Cultured Meat from the 3D Printer In the autumn of 2015, two Dutch Scientists announced ( read article ) they have the solution for not having to kill animals for their meat. Food Expert Peter Verstrate and Maastricht University professor Mark Post have been working on 3D printed meat grown from beef stem cells since 2013. They now have produced a first Hamburger for a cost of more than €300.000! But before you think this is impractical, the scientists are planning to have real life solutions before 2020.  The world population will migrate to consuming Cultured Meat by 2025 and cattle, pig and poultry farmers will be out of a job. Butchers will become 3D printer operators!

Together with Antoinette Pernot I wrote the book (in Dutch) in the spring of 2010. It is about how to Become a Brand (yourself). Since we are both Sales People, we look at new ways of generating business with the intent to selling something. We look at new technologies in how we can apply to sell something (easily). We test them and tweak them and when satisfied start using it ourselves. Sometimes we can productize them and support our customers in doing their business. Authority Selling What you really want in selling is that customers approach you in stead of the other way around. Then you can concentrate on quality in delivering your product or service. The best way to sell something is by having a great reputation, by being a brand. Then there are no questions about quality, delivery, people just assume that what you deliver is good stuff and want to know how it can help them. The next step is becoming an Authority in your field of expertise. Then potential customers will start ...

Having forgotten for some time about this Blog, I am back to pusue my Blog activities and publis my Blog thoughts. I also blog professionally on http://www.auriumcommerce.com/Aurium_Commerce/Blog/Blog.html, (take a look) but on this blog I will tackle issues which amuse me or make me wonder. Professionally, I have eveloved to being a Business Catalyst. I have gone beyond the business formula of TC-One (the Sales Consultancy) and have now Aurium Commerce, The Sales Support Company. Antoinette Pernot is my Business Associate and together we conceive new ways of getting business done. Or latest way of supporting small businesses is our Personal Sales & Branding Support Service, in which we help small businesses become a brand in a short time using a combination of traditional business development and the new social media. The goal is to become an authority and the game moves on to Authority Selling. I will be blogging about this on my professional Blog. This will create a continal str...

Observations about hairstyle and the clothing people wear: Men: Long hair: I am creative and emotional. I am not good with money. Money is not important. Short hair without side burns: I am an adventurous type. I am good at earning money. Short hair with short side burns: I am traditional. I am good at earning money. I have my feelings under control. Bald (shaven). I am an extrovert and want you to notice me. I am emotional. I am not a good money earner Long sideburns: I am creative and emotional. I try to appear rational. I am not good at earning money but am in for a good time. Moustache neatly trimmed: I am an adventurer and if you as a woman, take a liking to me, I will certainly take you. I have no scruples; women need to obey me. I earn my money by working hard. Beard. You must take me seriously for I am easily hurt. I want to dominate. Women may approach me but I am hard to get. Pipe. I am clever and easy going. You can easily hurt my feelings. I am not good at finishing things...

Life motto of a smuggler I once knew: chaos tendo, altus ususfructus vicis Daar waar chaos heerst valt veel te verdienen Where chaos prevails, much can be earned

For those who enjoy looking at photographs: some pictures of my last birthday. I turned 49 and held a wine tasting under the guidance of Johan van Walsum. http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=V7LRPVCN Take a look!

I am surprised how easy it is to set up a Blog. I am going to use it to note down ideas, observations and my opinions. Themes I will be posting about: - Sales effectivity - TC-One - Quinto Folium - Politics - Social Capitalism - Reducing Poverty in the world is easy - Scientific developments - Ancient History - Colonialism - Solutions to Social Problems - Personal Success - The Richness of Being and Being Rich Please remind me to write about these themes, I can be scatterbrained and experience many distractions..... Benno Pieters GoudaKarta Indo-Europa