Sales enablement technology provider doubles employee count, revenue and partnerships

Mediafly, a provider of sales enablement technology, content management and advisory services that create interactive, value-based selling experiences, announces significant company growth in 2019, additions to its newly formed Advisory Board and plans for additional expansion in 2020.

In 2019, Mediafly made its second acquisition in company history by acquiring UK-based sales enablement pioneer, iPresent. With iPresents capabilities, Mediafly increased its addressable market to meet the needs of companies of any size while also expanding its global footprint. In addition to the acquisition, Mediafly announced several product updates, including a brand new platform interface and Mediafly Workspaces, Story Mapper and Tool Builder, allowing users to customize in-app experiences on their own, without incremental coding resources, including custom ROI calculators. Earlier this month, Mediafly introduced Mediafly Insights, its next generation content usage reporting and analytics capabilities. Mediafly also announced its partnership with Mindtickle and Lessonly to introduce Mediafly Readiness, providing users with one central location for real-time contextual online sales training and coaching.

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This year, Mediafly doubled its employee count, revenue and partnerships, and tripled its customer base, surpassing 125,000 active users on the platform. The continued growth led to the companys sixth consecutive appearance on the Inc. 5000 List of Americas Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

In 2019 we worked on piecing together the building blocks for Mediaflys significant growth. For us, this means evaluating and assessing where our strengths and weaknesses lie to improve our teams across the organization while ensuring were not only meeting but exceeding the demands of our customers, said Carson Conant, CEO and founder, Mediafly. This year weve seen our revenue double quarter over quarter, and our teams are performing at an all-time high. Ive never been more excited about the future of Mediafly than I am right now. 2020 is the year we bring sales enablement to the masses.

Mediafly also appointed three new additions to its Advisory Board, including Jason Lovelace, Chief Sales Officer at SPINS, Latane Conant, Chief Marketing Officer at 6sense, and Sanjay Kini, Chief Customer Officer at 6sense. Each member will provide valuable guidance and insights in growing Mediaflys sales, marketing, customer success and teams.

Jason Lovelace, Chief Sales Officer, SPINS, will provide his veteran sales experience to Mediafly by working directly with the companys sales teams. Previously, Lovelace served in a variety of executive roles during his 18-year tenure at CareerBuilder, including President of Enterprise Sales, President of CareerBuilder Healthcare and VP of Corporate Marketing. As CMO of 6sense, Latane Conant empowers marketing leaders at companies like Aprimo and Impartner with effective ABM technology, predictive insights and thought leadership to help ensure marketing programs result in deals, not just leads. Prior to 6sense, she was CMO at Appirio. Kini brings 20+ years of experience previously working for Responsys/Oracle, Intellibank and more, building customer rosters and leading solutions consulting teams. Now as the CCO of 6sense, Kini leads the customer success team in ensuring customers achieve their business objectives.

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Mediafly is taking the necessary steps to accelerate its business while ensuring each customer has the level of support they need, regardless of where they are on their sales enablement journey, said Jason Lovelace, Chief Sales Officer, SPINS. While other companies in the space seem to be convinced sales enablement is a complex and high risk commitment best suited for enterprise, Mediafly uniquely understands the opportunity to make enterprise-grade sales enablement easy and accessible to every company regardless of revenue or employee count. Under the strategic direction of Mediaflys executive leadership team, the limits to what this team can achieve simply do not exist.

While rapid growth sometimes comes at the cost of culture, Mediafly received recognition from Crains Chicago as a Best Place to Work in 2019 for the second consecutive year. According to a 2019 Mediafly employee survey, 98% of respondents agree Mediafly is a great place to work and 96% of respondents have strong relationships with their colleagues. Transparency and purpose also ranked high in the survey, with more than 94% of employees understanding the strategic direction of Mediafly and their teams role in the companys strategic direction.

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Allego, the modern sales learning and readiness platform, announced today it has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology award in the Best Advance in Sales Training Online Application category. Allego was recognized with a bronze award for its success in elevating sales readiness with its modern learning solution. This is the second year in a row that Allego has been recognized in the same category.

@Allegosoftware recognized by Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards for Best Advance in Sales Training Online Application for the second consecutive year!

The industry recognitions that Allego has received from prestigious organizations like Brandon Hall Group during the past 12 months validates our employees hard work and commitment to driving innovation at every level of the organization, said Yuchun Lee, CEO and co-founder of Allego. Since the beginning, our top priority has been to make it easier and more efficient for customers to empower their sales teams so reps are more confident during every customer conversation. We are extremely optimistic about furthering this mission as we head into 2020.

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This recognition from Brandon Hall Group is yet another testament to Allegos commitment to investing in technology that promotes the kind of agile learning needed to succeed in todays fast-moving world. Earlier this month, Allegos modern sales learning and readiness platform was recognized by Best in Biz Awards as an Enterprise Product of the Year Sales Software for the second consecutive year. Prior to that, the company was selected by Chief Learning Officer magazines 2019 Learning in Practice Awards for demonstrating Excellence In Technology Innovation. Additionally, Allego prides itself on providing an enjoyable and meaningful work environment for its employees, which was validated when it was named a Boston Business Journal (BBJ) Best Places to Work honoree in 2019.

Winners of Excellence in Technology Awards are at the forefront of technology innovation. Our program evaluates not just the solution itself, but the benefit to the human capital management function, the business and the customer. That is the ultimate differentiator whether the technology has a positive business impact. Technology Award winners pass that test with flying colors, said Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer of Brandon Hall Group and head of the awards program.

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An Excellence Award also validates the vision of the technology development team, the wisdom of the companys investment in the solution, and the value the technology brings to the end-user, said Mike Cooke, Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group.

Allegos modern sales learning and readiness platform combines training, practice, coaching and knowledge sharing into one app, using mobile, video, and peer collaboration to reinvent traditional learning for the dynamic needs of todays sales teams. With Allego, sales teams onboard faster, deliver the right messaging, rapidly adopt best practices, coach, practice and learn more effectively and frequently, and collaborate with peers and the home office. More than 200,000 sales professionals across financial services, technology, life sciences and other industries use Allego to ensure they have the skills and timely knowledge needed to make the most of each selling situation.

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MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Gov. Tony Evers, alongside senior leaders of Milwaukee Tool, local government officials, and region economic development officials announced Tuesday, Dec. 17, the company will expand its footprint in southeast Wisconsin with a new campus in Menomonee Falls.

Gov. Evers also announced Milwaukee Tool will expand itsImperial Blades manufacturing operation in Sun Prairie.

According to a news release from Evers' office, the expansion will create 870 new jobs by 2025. Milwaukee tool expects to invest over $100 million to construct and outfit the Menomonee Falls location, which will complement thecompanys current Global Headquarters campus in Brookfield.

Milwaukee Tool will also invest $7.5 million to expand its Imperial Blades subsidiary in Sun Prairie.

Our state is extremely grateful that Milwaukee Tool continues to expand and invest in Wisconsin, said Gov. Evers. From the companys name to the quality of its tools, Milwaukee Tool demonstrates that Wisconsin products and Wisconsin workers are the best not only in the nation but in the world.

About Milwaukee Tool

A Wisconsin-based subsidiary of Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd., Milwaukee Tool was founded in 1924 and is a global leader in delivering innovative solutions to the professional construction trades that offer increased productivity and unmatched durability.

The company moved from Milwaukee to Brookfield in 1965, and over the last decade has redeveloped 190,000 square feet of former manufacturing space to accommodate research and development, product development, proto-typing, packaging design, marketing, sales, training facilities, and administrative offices. In 2017, Milwaukee Tool completed construction and took occupancy of a new 200,000 square foot, four-story office building on its Brookfield campus, and will take occupancy of a new 116,300 square foot building across Lisbon Road in January 2020. The company has grown employment at its Brookfield campus from just over 300 jobs in 2011 to over 1,400 this year.

Milwaukee Tools global leadership continues to make a big impact on jobs growth within not only Wisconsin, but also the rest of the United States. The company currently employs over 4,100 people nationwide.

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Rob Ellerman

In the early 2000s, Rob Ellerman, already an established REALTOR, began building his real estate team.

His first four hires? Still on the team today.

My slogan is, Train them so everybody wants them, and treat them so theyll never leave,' Ellerman explains. Our retention rate is probably the best in our city.

Probably the best understates things. As a group of 110 professionals, The Rob Ellerman Teamaffiliated with ReeceNichols Real Estate, based in the Kansas City metrohas little to no turnover. According to Ellerman, his culture is made to retain. The Rob Ellerman Teams structure and support, for example, allows for the growth of teams within the team, as well as access to comprehensive, in-house training, so agents have the knowledge and skills to succeed.

Its working. In 2018, The Rob Ellerman Team garnered $338 million in sales volume and 1,119 transactions, and is consistently one of the countrys leading real estate teams.

Members of The Rob Ellerman Team

Suzanne De Vita: Rob, how did you establish your real estate team? Rob Ellerman: I started in real estate right out of college in 1996, and worked by myself for 7-8 years. I saw things falling through the cracks, so I hired a buyers agent. Shes still with me today, which is something Im pretty proud ofIve got my first four hires still with me. My slogan is, Train them so everybody wants them, and treat them so theyll never leave. Weve got about 110 people total, including staff. We have an office manager, who is our transaction coordinator; we have a director of Marketing, and she oversees two others in marketing; and we have a lead coordinator and a trainer, and a director of Expansion. We have offices in Lees Summit, On the Plaza, North of the River, Overland Park and Leawood, Kan.; in Springfield, Mo.; and in Pensacola, Fla., and Des Moines, Iowa.

SD: How do you determine who fits with the group? What criteria do you look for? RE: Culture is a big thing for us, and reputation. We dont want to take on part-time agents; we want full-time agents that can go through our 13-day training process. Im proud that we have great people on our team. Our retention rate is probably the best in our citywe just dont have people leave that often. Im happy to take care of my agents. Weve done things for agents that a lot of team leaders do not in order to help them be successful or get through bumps in life. Everything I do is agent- and client-focused. If I can break-even on Zillow, for instance, and give all my agents a bunch of business, its worth it for me.

SD: How did you develop your training? RE: Every year, I look at my business and ask, Where am I weakest? For a long time, I could always point to something that I was in charge of, because I was in charge of everything! I knew I needed a trainer. I had a process, but it wasnt nearly as elaborate as what my trainers come up with. The hard thing about training a team is you spend an enormous amount of time trying to teach them everything thats involved in real estatefrom contracts to dotloop and e-signature, to opening a lockbox, to sales training. To start a team on your own, it takes hours and hours of one-on-one time, which can lead to flat or lower sales for that persons business. On our team, we bring people in and send them to our trainer. Our team leads can focus on their business while we train.

SD: You have teams within your team. How does that work? RE: I allow the agents to form their own groups underneath the team, so instead of having an agent grow out of the team, I let them start their own. My agents run their business under our umbrella, so they can list, sell, get a builder and a development, etc.they can do it all.

SD: What are your goals for 2020? RE: Its hard to say We want to do $370 million next year and for me to break that down over 110 agents, so were looking at growth and expansion. I look at profitability of each area. My goal for next year is to have our expansion offices do super well. In Des Moines, were going to be building homes with our builder, Summit Homes, and I expect that to be very successful. In the Kansas City metro area, we still have a shortage of home inventory, and I dont see that changing a whole lot next year. Our new-construction developments are going to help with that shortage.

SD: Having led a team for 20 yearswhat did you wish you knew when you started? RE: I would have started off differently. Instead of the first buyers agent, I would have gotten a paperwork assistant to handle the transaction coordinator piece of things. I would also know how to leverage my time better, so I could step out of selling quicker and grow the team, versus trying to keep going on the sales side.

Suzanne De Vita is RISMedias online news editor. Email her your real estate news ideas at sdevita@rismedia.com.

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In pursuit of an Associate, Bachelor or Graduate degree at an Accredited Institution and be able to provide documentation to confirm your degree progress. Current class standing of sophomore or above (30 credits) Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above Must be 18 years of age or older Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship by NBCUniversal Needs to be able to work on-site in New York, NY

Internships at NBCUniversal are paid and do not require course credit

Deadline: Interested applicants are encouraged to apply by February 14 , 2020.

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Desired Backgrounds: Advertising, Sales, Marketing, Economics, Consumer Insights, Operations Research or Business, with a desire to learn about different areas of the Advertising field Desired Characteristics: Strong written and oral communication skills, organized, detail oriented, team player Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite is strongly recommended Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, SPSS, or other tools is preferred. Previous internship experience or on-campus leadership

The NBCUniversal Internship Program is an experience like no other. We offer diversity of opportunities, with unique internships across our iconic portfolio of brands. Through unparalleled access to the best in the business, hands-on training & one-of-a-kind networking events, our interns have the chance to influence change. Our interns are ambitious, innovative and savvy; they shape the way we do things. Here you can contribute as content creators, problem solvers & innovators. Here you can learn the power and possibilities of media and technology. Here you can go far.

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E Ryan T. Sauers Author's page

Ryan T. Sauers has spent 25 years leading and/or consulting with printing, graphics, promotional and visual communications related organizations. Ryan is President of the independent consulting firm, Sauers Consulting Strategies, founded in 2010.

Key areas of focus of the firm include: sales training, marketing strategy, personal branding, leadership development and organizational change.

Sauers is a frequent national speaker and columnist. He has been recognized as one of the top 80 CMOs in the world and achieved the top designation of Certified Marketing Executive through Sales and Marketing Executives International.

Sauers is an adjunct university professor teaching leadership and communication courses to current and aspiring leaders. He is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner (one of few in US to achieve all 3 rigorous certifications related to human communications, personality & behavior).

Sauers is working on his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and hosts a radio show in Atlanta (Marketing Matters). He is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You? More info at: RyanSauers.com

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If you want to become a more productive entrepreneur, doing more usually isn't the answer. Here are ... [+] five ways to prioritize what you spend your work time on, and how to get more out of those hours each day.

Theres an old adage about what its likerunning your own businessyou only have to work half a day, and you get to choose which 12 hours they are. While the work load often comes in waves, anyone whos tried their hand at entrepreneurship can attest to the truth of that statement.

It can be surprising for an ill-prepared entrepreneur when they find out just how much work actually goes into getting a business up and running. Many might not be able to manage the additional workload and stress that comes along with being responsible for your own income each month.

With an estimated 50% of businesses failing in the first five years,a lot of those failingscan be attributed to mistakes by founders. Things like not having a sustainable business model, the wrong go-to-market plan, or not accurately anticipating cash flow needs often find their roots in overloaded and overstressed founders that unintentionally let the wrong things slide.

If you want to be a peak performer and focus on whats most important for your business, youll need to build strong habits and take advantage of the tools you have at hand. To shed some more light on this topic, I recently spoke withSam Taggart, founder of theD2D Experts, to gather some of his recommendations for achieving maximum productivity as an entrepreneur.

Many entrepreneurs and CEOs insist on planning for their day during the morning. But the Ivy Lee method, pioneered in 1918, suggests a slightly different approach. At the time, Charles M. Schwab was the head of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and he was a highly driven CEO that was always seeking new methods of increasing productivity.

When Schwab contacted consultant Ivy Lee and asked him for assistance, Lee simply asked for 15 minutes with each of his executives. Schwab would pay nothing unless Lees conversation workedbut if his executives saw a boost in productivity, Schwab would pay what he thought it was worth.

Lee gave the executives a simple plan to write out the six most important tasks for the next day as they finished up their work during the eveningranking them in order of importance. When they came to the office the next day, theyd tackle them in order of priority and push any unfinished work to the following day.

Schwab and his executives tried this routine for three months, and he was so delighted that he paid Lee $25,000 for his recommendationover $400,000 in todays money. Not bad for a few 15-minute conversations.

Lees method works for a few reasons. For one, its simple enough to stick to and form a habit around. Writing out your to-do list the night before also helps declutter your mind and leave work at work, so that when you come back in the next day, youre ready to start immediately. Finally, the six-task limit forces you to pare your activities down to just the absolute essentials.

Experiment with this productivity method yourself for a month and see if the results measure up. If it was worth $400,000 to Charles M. Schwab, it could work wonders for you too.

Stanford University did extensiveresearch on multitaskingin 2009. They found that far from being more productive at certain tasks, heavy multitaskers actually performed worse across the boardeven in areas researchers expected them to outperform their more focused peers. Most striking is that multitaskers werent able to slow down and focus on a single task at hand.

Were so focused on doing everything, that we often do nothing, says Taggart. If you constantly keep switching tasks, you dont realize how much time youre wasting just getting back into the groove. Setting uninterrupted time aside for important tasks is crucial to your overall productivity.

If youre a compulsive email checker or are constantly dealing with distractions, it might be time to turn over a new leaf and try to forge a more distraction-free work environment for yourself. Create some time away from the hundred things that can make you less productive and really focus on your most important work.

According toone Salesforce survey, 51% of top-performing sales teams focus on customer retention over simply aiming for more immediate sales. If youre in B2B, that divide is even more pronounced, with 79% of business buyers saying its critical their sales contact be as a trusted advisor who adds value to their business.

I do a lot of sales training, and one of the things Ive noticed is a lot of salespeople just dont come across like they care what their prospects are saying, explains Taggart.

Youd be shocked how often I go in and record someone on a sales call and theyre just straight up talking over the person, not listening to what they say. Its a mindset thingtheyre more focused on what they can get out of it than building a relationship, even if that relationship is brief.

Peak performance means making the most of the people you already have a foot in the door with. That means viewing your prospects as mutually beneficial relationships, rather than just seeking to get as much as you can out of the sale.

Anyone whos worked a day in their life knows there are some hours where you just breeze through your to-do list, and others when youre struggling to finish even the most simple of tasks. Did you realize that theres a threshold in the day, after which point your time is all but wasted at work?

That threshold is likely a little different for everyone, but you need to be aware of it. A paper byJohn Pencavel of Stanford University published in 2014makes it clear that hours and output have a nonlinear relationship. Above about 49 hours of work per week, productivity began to plummet dramatically during the study. Pencavel also noted that a rest day made for a more productive remainder of the week.

Ive come to learn this lesson in my own work over the years, too. As a blogger, I can usually sit down on a Monday morning and write a blog post thousands of words in length without ever stepping away from the computer, yet by Friday my thoughts just dont flow as easily.

Working a lot when youre an entrepreneur is understandable, and sometimes unavoidable. But dont neglect to get your rest whenever possible. Use your downtime to intentionally supercharge the hours you do spend on the clock.

It can be easy as an entrepreneur toattempt doing it all yourself. It had to be me, you justify to yourself. Someone else mightve gotten it wrong.

However, learning how to hand things off, either to teammates or the right automation tools, will unshackle your working hours. It allows you to focus only on the tasks youre best at, instead of spending time on work youre ill-suited for.

Learning how to hand off aspects of your job is one of the keys to being an entrepreneur, says Taggart. No one in this line of work can do it all themselvesthere arent enough hours in the day. The stress will destroy you. Entrepreneurs use every resource available to them, and that includes people just as much as it does technology or money.

Becoming a peak performer takes a lot more than just these five pieces of advice. But if you methodically apply them in your day-to-day work, you may find that youre capable of greater output than you ever imagined. Just be sure youre not engaging in work behavior that runs counter to achieving your most meaningful goals.

Create new, productive habits and pair them with pursuing the right idea this new yearand youll be well on the way to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

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Tesla has begun the process of merging the roles of its sales and delivery employees, four current and former employees told Business Insider. The employees asked for anonymity due to a fear of reprisal from the electric-car maker.

Announced internally in October, the initiative, called One Motion, is designed to give each customer a single point of contact when buying a vehicle, the current and former employees said. That means one employee would handle sales, paperwork, and delivery. (At Tesla, a delivery can involve driving a vehicle to a customer's home, or guiding a customer through the final stages of the buying process at one of the company's delivery centers.)

Screenshots of an internal website viewed by Business Insider that include information about One Motion list the following six steps sales and delivery employees should take with potential customers: "connect & understand," "build value," "ask for the sale," "checkout," "support," and "delivery."

"You are the primary owner of the customer's experience up to and beyond the moment they become an owner," a video published on the website and sent in a text to Business Insider says.

The merger between Tesla's sales and delivery departments was in its beginning stages as early as July, when a former salesperson said delivery employees at his location were receiving training to sell cars.

"We've been told in no uncertain terms that we are one team and we will all be doing the same job," he said at the time.

But the transition is not yet complete. A current delivery employee said she has not yet received formal sales training, and a current sales employee said she has yet to deliver any vehicles this quarter. Both employees said they aren't sure how One Motion will be implemented.

One current and one former salesperson expressed skepticism about One Motion, saying it's better to let employees specialize in the tasks that are best suited to their skillsets.

"In practice, it took half, if not more of my productive time and tied it up in paperwork, scheduling, vehicle walkthroughs, customer complaints," the former salesperson said. "Essentially, they took somebody that could have dedicated 100% of his time to selling cars and basically chopped that time, effectively, in half."

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

Unlike other automakers, Tesla owns and operates its own stores, rather than outsourcing sales to third-party dealerships. The demands placed on the company's delivery department have grown over time, as Tesla has set quarterly delivery records in eight of the past nine quarters, and expects to do the same in the fourth quarter of this year.

Tesla has in the past recruitedemployees from a variety of departments to deliver vehicles at the end of a quarter, suggesting that the company's delivery staff has at times not been large enough to handle peak workloads. In one case, CEO Elon Musk even asked for assistance from Tesla customers.

Combining the roles of sales and delivery employees is just the latest change in what has been a tumultuous year for Tesla's sales operation. In February, the company said it would close most of its stores, though it partially reversed that announcement a few weeks later when it said it would close only low-performing locations.

Tesla has also changed the compensation structure for its sales employees multiple times and shifted from Salesforce to a proprietary customer-relationship-management system.

Are you a current or former Tesla employee? Do you have an opinion about what it's like to work there? Contact this reporter atmmatousek@businessinsider.com. You can ask for more secure methods of communication, like Signal or ProtonMail, by email or Twitter direct message.

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This paleo, vegan mashup is the latest trendy diet sweeping the nation. Here's how it works. USA TODAY

As 2019 comes to a close, we're taking a look back at the biggest health and wellness trends this year.

From certain diets to specialized products, the year has brought a variety of buzzy wellness trends.

Not only headlines have held the names of these wellness trends, celebrity social media posts have also promoted certain diets.

The keto diet, for example, has gotten praise from"Jersey Shore" star Vinny Guadagnino, which he credits for losing 50 pounds. And although they never directly referenceketo,Khloe Kardashian andVanessa Hudgens both credit their weight loss to a high fat, low carb diet.

We've rounded up some of the biggest headline-making trends, in no particular order:

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Though vegan diets started creeping into the mainstream in the last couple of years, 2019 saw the biggest increase in vegan hype and headlines.

From plant-based fast food optionsbecoming available across the country, like Burger King's Impossible Whopper, to articles on how to vegan-ize your Thanksgiving, this year has brought veganism to the forefront.

And it's not only fast food other industries are taking note too.

In September, Walt Disney Worldannounced that it will begin offering hundreds of plant-based options for its park-goers at all of its major quick and table service restaurants. Vegan options are also coming to Disneyland in spring 2020.

Celebrities speaking up about veganism has also been prevalent this year, fromJaden Smith's ups and downs with the dietto pop newcomer Billie Eilish slamming Lady Gaga's meat dress.

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Though the ketogenic diethas been around for a while, it was everywhere in 2019, from keto movie theater snacks to celebrity endorsements.

In the diet, carbs are ditched to make room for high-quality fats and proteins. After several days of strict adherence, the body pushes through a period of lethargy to arrive at ketosis. In this highly efficient metabolic state, you burn stored fat for fuel and those stubborn love handles finally fade away.

To enter ketosis, dieters need to be eating fewer than 50 grams of carbs a day for a few days while maintaining a diet that's high in fat.

Some celebrity endorsements include Vanessa Hudgens plugging the "perfect keto snack!!," on her Instagram April, which was aSlim Fast keto peanut butter cup.

Alicia Vikander's trainer says she got her "Tomb Raider" physique from seven months of hard training and adhering to the keto diet.

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Cannabidiol, the popular hemp plant derivative marketed as a cure-all for just about any condition, has only been approved by federal regulators to treat some rare forms of epilepsy, but its popularityquickly grew in 2019.

In April 2019, there were 6.4 million CBD Google searches, according to research in the peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open.

CBD,a non-psychoactive that shouldn't contain the"high" producing THC chemical,has poppedup on shelves across the country in oil, extract, vaporized liquid and capsule form.

The product, which as found its way into natural medicine, cosmetics and even food has caused some issues, however, due to confusion surrounding its legality.

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Forget soy and almond milk, 2019 was all about oat milk for a go-tonon-dairy alternative.

Oat milk gained popularitythanks in part to the U.S. arrival of Swedish company Oatly. The company, which was formed in the early 90s,brought its oat drink to the statesstarting at Intelligentsia coffee shops last year.

Nowthe gluten-free and sugar-free product is available in upwards of 2,200 coffee shops and 1,000 grocery stores across the countryfrom Seattle to Northwest Arkansas and Brooklyn, says Oatly's general manager Mike Messersmith.

In addition to a milk-change up for yourcereal and lattes, oat milk is also coming in the form of yogurt soon.

Earlier this year, Danone North America, which sells Dannon yogurt, announced a line of oat-milk yogurt alternatives under its Silk brand.

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A cross betweenpaleo and vegan diets, the Pegan diet was originally written about on functional medicine doctor Mark Hyman's blog in 2014. The doctor's buzzworthy brainchild caught on to the mainstream in 2019, however, withPinterest reporting a 337% increase in people searching for the term as of October.

"While Pegan involves leaving out certain foods like refined sugar and flour, conventionally raised animal products and chemical additives its so much more focused on what we can eat for optimal health," Hyman explained to USA TODAY partnerMakeItGrateful.com.

He continued, "Eating this way means you dont have to count calories because when you eat the whole, nutrient-dense foods, youre naturally satiated."

Most people are aware of fasting for religious reasons, but 2019 brought a whole new meaning to the practice when paired with the word "intermittent."

The trendy dieting advice suggestalternating between certain periods of eating and not eating. The methodhas been used as a way to lose weight and for other benefits. A study from The National Institute on Aging last year suggests that intermittent fasting could be the key to longevity.

Food fasting isn't the only kind to pop up this year, either.

Dopamine fasting has become a mindfulness practice that has taken off at the end of the year, about a year after Youtuber Improvement Pill published a video where he perhaps coined the term while describing his routine meant to Get Your Life Back Together, as the video title says.

The term has a different definition for everyone, but for American Authors musician Dave Rublinit means making a concerted effort, in a set amount of time, to avoid social media and TV.

Contributing:Jennifer Mattson, MakeItGrateful.com; Ryan W. Miller, Marina Pitofsky, Carly Mallenbaum, Brad Japhe, USA TODAY

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The holidays are here, which means you'll be celebrating andeatingwith friends and family . Whether you're the hostess with the mostest or the party guest who's ready to impress, making a delicious, vegan and "healthier version" of a sweet tooth's favorite dessert, like chocolate non-dairy cream cake, or warm and vegan buttery cinnamon buns, will be the crowd pleaser!

Or, makea chocolate snowflake pull-apart bread wrapped in a pretty box with a big ribbon and wish your neighbors a happy holiday. Either way, you can't go wrong with making one of a kind dishes that no one will forget.

This week's influencers are inspired by holiday party feasts and gatherings. Here are five vegan recipe developers that can make these masterpieces come to life. They have a variety of options, some healthy, some not so healthy, but it's the holidays, so you deserve to treat yourself! If you're the early riser, wake up and make the cinnamon buns, the smell will excite the late sleepers!

We first found his decorative matcha donuts on Instagram and clicked around to discover more and more beautiful creations like an Oreo pie, sticky cinnamon buns, and vegan mac and cheese, all of our favorite guilty pleasures. We loved him so much we partnered with him on a weekly "What We're CookingThis Weekend,"regular feature,which provides easy-to-make recipes for weekend parties or a loved one.

J.D Raymundo is the creative chef behind The Little Almond, an Instagram and website full of mouth-watering recipes with easy to navigate ingredients and instructions. We hopped on the phone with J.D a few months ago and he told us a little bit about himself, like the fact he decided to go veganthe moment he waswaiting in line for a burger, and when he is not making and baking masterpieces he is working at a local gym as a trainer. He is wonderful to talk to and will answer your questions about living a vegan lifestyle or how to substitute specific ingredients, so send him a DM.

Lenny is a student at UCLA and in her free time makes delicious recipes for vegans like us to recreate. First of all, her images are so crisp and sharp, you'll want to eat these cinnamon buns right off your screen. Lenny creates recipes unlike any other, her purple sweet potato swirl bread looks like a work of art. Wefirst noticed Lenny for her photogenic oatmeal bowls and realized she can make kale look delicious. Try to make one of her fresh salad bowls, my favorite is the falafel bowl, which is a great source of protein.

Mairi focuses on recipes to fuel athletes, as she is a runner herself. Her health-conscious recipes usually include vegetables. And if she is cooking up a yummy dessert, she mostly uses raw ingredients. Theraw cucumber rolls are a creative way to eat more plants and get crafty about it. In addition, Mairi is a photographer, so her pictures look like they came from a glossy cookbook page.

Magda, the talent behind oatmeal_stories, is a comfort-food lover and her Instagram has over a quarter of a million followers. If you're a breakfast lover, Magda is your best guide to vegan fluffy pancakes, healthy chia seed bowls, crispy waffles, and hearty oatmeal bowls. If you're bored with your simple brown-sugar-flavored oatmeal, she will show you over 50 ways you can make oatmeal, whether it's a different topping or mixed in ingredient, like matcha powder, or almond butter, it will change the taste of the base. Magda likes to say, "another day, another oatmeal bowl".

5. @Barbarafrenchvegan

A vegan living in France, Barbara is a master for all things holiday, and her recipes make you want to whip up aspecial-occasion treat or flavorful dessert. Her pinecones, at the top of this story, are worthy of a catered affair. Only five ingredients, they are edible vegan chocolate and peanut butter pinecones.

If you're throwing a party, or thinking of which dish to bring to your friend's house, Barbara has a variety of creative ideas, like thesnowflake pull-apart bread, caramel and coconut cheesecake, and Christmas truffles. Filter through her recipes to find dietary restrictions substitutes like gluten-free, and sugar-free ingredients. For the link to theedible pine cones, click here.

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