069. How To Use Cloud Computing For Business Success With Peter Moriarty

Books Mentioned

• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
• Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm

Related / Mentioned Podcast Episodes:

• 008. Get Productive! 15 Ideas That Really Work! (As featured on lifehack)
• 015. Google Adwords Success Secrets Revealed! With Mike Rhodes
• 018. How To Build An EIGHT figure business – With Buck Rizvi
• 037. Information Overload – How To Eliminate It And Maximize Your Productivity
• 042. Chris Ducker on The Secret To A 6 Hour Day, A 4 Day Week, & A Multi-Million Dollar Business

Key Points (Timestamps)

01:14 — Intro and overview
02:08 — Peter Moriarty and Ash discuss why Cloud Computing is so important in business today.
03:16 — Peter Moriarty explains how cloud computing evolved and how it’s revolutionising the way we interact with our devices.
04:27 — Ash Roy discusses how cloud-based SAAS (software as a service) can be an uber successful business model if you can solve a business problem.
05:11 — Google apps are being used by over 5 million organisations around the world.
06:26 — Is Google planning to grow their two billion-dollar Google apps division into a larger proportion of their $60 billion business?
06:45 — The reality is that google needs to diversify!
07:14 —  Facebook is starting to steal (search) market share from Google through very targeted search capability.
07:49 — How google is changing their structure and is building new divisions to support its future direction
09:27 — How google is trying to embed themselves into lives and businesses and take the position of the utility provider
10:25 — A brief discussion on Facebook’s basic service in India
11:01 — How Google is facilitating access to talent in other markets and providing the opportunity to take advantage of geo-arbitrage
12:33 —  A working definition of “cloud computing”
13:07 — How cloud computing removes points of operational risk in your business
15:58 — Case study: How google apps freed Michael from the constraints of time or location and enabled him to live in France for a year!
17:26 — A reality check on our geo-arbitrage obsession – It’s not a panacea for all productivity challenges.
18:44 — What are the biggest challenges when it comes to adopting cloud computing in your business?
19:27 — Who truly owns your data when it’s in ‘the cloud’? Is the custodian really the owner?
20:41 — Why Apple is fighting the FBI so aggressively on opening the ‘back door’ to their software
23:53 — Do I need to have a gmail address if I move to google interface for my business? Or can I still use my business email address?
24:37 — Why it’s important to get an expert into your business to handle the transition to google apps (your time is worth a lot of money)
25:17 — A cool little trick to work out your hourly effective rate (the 80 20 rule reversed)
26:51 — Three actions that business owners can take to transition their business (and mindset) into cloud computing
29:35 — Peter Moriarty suggests we should beware of IT consultants that are anti-google (arguments against installing google apps are usually about self-preservation).
27:42 — Learn google apps to get help in your business and how
30:54 — Books that have had the biggest impact on Peter Moriarty and why
32:57 — Peter Moriarty shares the secret on how to manage your inbox emails.
35:49 — How to get in touch with Peter Moriarty
36:25 — Wrap up