#and for the last couple days watching submissions come in and tallying them has been my thing to do

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alright so here's the current plan with the nominations to the main tourney, not the oc tourney. tomorrow will decide if i'm closing them early or not. if we get a bunch of submissions and it turns out the last 2 days were just slow, then they'll continue to stay open until friday at least. if we continue only getting a handful of submissions, then submissions will close wednesday the 10th, 11:59 pm PST

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I’m so unprepared this year! Due to a lot going on in life, I didn’t have time to watch either of the semi-finals or even pregame with the official music videos! So that means I’m going into the finals 100% cold. I feel both unprepared and excited. I haven’t gone into finals without research and preconceived judgement before. I have no idea what each country’s songs will be like or what style their stage shows may take.

So here’s to art, entertainment, and surprises! 🥂

Opening performance by TK. Last year’s winner, Salvador Sobral, championed authenticity (sometimes to the ire of other contestants and fans) and it feels like

I’m watching the US broadcast this year, which is presented by Logo and hosted by Ross Mathews and Shangela. Since Eurovision is still relatively new to the USA, and very new to Shangela, this broadcast is a perfect entry for American viewers. Ross explains the basics along with the idea of the Big 5[foot]The Big 5 are the countries that have contributed the most amount of money to Eurovision which guarantees them a spot in the finals without competing in either night of semi-finals. They are [/foot]. It’s also available as a live stream on Logo’s Youtube channel regardless of your TV package, so it’s accessible to literally anyone to watch.

01. Ukraine – Mélovin “Under the Ladder” A vampire rises. The song isn’t great, and the performance suddenly loses some of its exoticism when it becomes apparent that he’s singing in muddled English and not Ukrainian. It gains some back when his entire set catches on fire (on purpose).

02. Spain – Amaia & Alfred “Tu canción”

Super cute! Simple staging and great chemistry between these two makes this performance so damn endearing! But they’re really early and not much of a spectacle, so I worry they’ll get buried by later performances.

03. Slovenia – Lea Sirk “Hvala, ne!” She’s trying to throw down tough and maybe come off like Pink, but that’s hard when she’s got a huge, goofy grin on the whole time.

04. Lithuania – Ieva Zasimauskaitė “When We’re Old” A slow, sweet ballad with holograms. Holograms can be a real risk in a show. It can be a neat effect, like when Australia used it for a Minority Report computer interface, and it can be the show-stealer, like when it’s a nude clone with wolves. This came of as middling, especially because she seemed to reign in her own vocals. It felt more like a verse of a song rather than a full performance.

05. Austria – Cesár Sampson “Nobody but You” Great job utilizing the stage and lighting as a single performer, but this song is not up for the job.

06. Estonia – Elina Nechayeva “La forza” Estonia has a history of visually impressive performances, and this is not a disappointment. With this, the world comes one step closer to the Diva from The Fifth Element. Her voice is great and her dress is all projection mapping! This is how you make a strong impression while pushing the vocals to the forefront.

07. Norway – Alexander Rybak “That’s How You Write a Song” Shoobidoo dap dap, shoobay doop hay, that’s how you write a song.

No it’s not. This an adorable performance with incredibly inaccurate instructions on song writing. Major props on playing the violin, and the whole thing is really endearing, but I think it’s too breezy to stick in this competition.

08. Portugal – Cláudia Pascoal[h] “O jardim” This is the home team, the current champions, so they have a lot to live up to. I don’t know if it’s authentic enough for Sobral but I’m loving it.

Anyone else get a total Lola vibe (from Degrassi) from her? These are not the same person.

09. United Kingdom – SuRie “Storm” I’m getting Annie Lennox redux. Her song is not the Tim Minchin song, disappointingly, but this is one of the best UK contestants in years. Many of the Big 5 countries, which can go straight to the finals, seem to phone it in or at least submit very generic pop. This is the first time I can remember actually enjoying the UK contestant.

10. Serbia – Sanja Ilić & Balkanika “Nova deca” (Нова деца) Amazons and the grim specter of death! And discotheque! Unfortunately the visuals are the best part of this group. Their song is meh and I don’t think I’ll even be able to remember what they sounded like the next morning.

11. Germany – Michael Schulte “You Let Me Walk Alone” Really touching, personal ballad. The stylized screen show behind him came off as far more effective than the holograms. I was really surprised at how honestly the whole thing came off touching. The song and accompanying performance are all about Schulte losing his father, and that personal connection does a lot to elevate this from just another pop ballad to a standout act. Also Schulte looks like Philippe and I had a son together, so I am very proud of my boy.

12. Albania – Eugent Bushpepa “Mall” This is clearly a grunge or metal band performing their first ballad before they go soft. Okay song, but could have been more specific to Albania or the band performing it or, well, more memorable in any way. And the disconnect between the look and the sound is jarring, disappointing, and lackluster.

13. France – Madame Monsieur “Mercy” Velcome to Sprokets. Just a reminder that this isn’t Germany’s submission. Okay, enough about their look. There’s a fundamental problem with this song here, though the song itself is good. It’s a really good song about real life baby born on a ship of refugees fleeing to Europe. This song would have been great on an album, but in a music and performance competition the nuances get smoothed out and the striking visuals take, no pun intended, center stage. I’ll probably come back to them as a band, but think that they’ll be lost when the voting starts.

14. Czech Republic – Mikolas Josef “Lie to Me” The year is 1994. The soundtrack is The Mask. The costume is Minkus from Boy Meets World. The inspiration is Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The performer was having fun, so I guess that’s nice. And that’s really all I can say about it.

15. Denmark – Rasmussen “Higher Ground” Do you like vikings? Do you like Silent Bob? Do you like when people take a theme (in this case, All Aboard) 100% literally? Well, have I got the group for you!

16. Australia – Jessica Mauboy “We Got Love” And the Bland Award goes to… The only words I can think of to describe this is “Europop” and “gyrations”. There’s nothing more to say.

17. Finland – Saara Aalto “Monsters” The remix of this song could be a club hit, but not this version. As it is now, there’s not enough bass or and energy for a club and not enough complexity for a pop hit.

18. Bulgaria – Equinox “Bones” I can’t be the only one that sees this guy and thinks black Jack Black.

The song itself was not all that great, but as a group their voices sounded great together. Similar to France, I’m not a fan of this one but I am intrigued enough to keep an ear out for the rest of their singles.

19. Moldova – DoReDoS “My Lucky Day” They’re introduced as a folk-pop group but… well, that must mean something else in Moldova. They have the presentation of a Laugh-In skit and the emotional range of a Bar Mitzvah DJ team. Hard pass.

20. Sweden – Benjamin Ingrosso “Dance You Off”

SCENE I. A desert place

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches

First witch

Performance of Bieber

Second witch

Face of Ephron

Third witch

Song of Timberlake

I’m assuming that’s how this performer was summoned. An amalgam of safe bets, it’s no surprise that the song is generic yet appealing. Coupled with a great use of stage lighting, I don’t really like this one but I’m betting it’ll be a contender.

21. Hungary – AWS “Viszlát nyár” Yet another country who’s music submission seems to be off by a decade or so. The look screams Fall Out Boy but the music is more of a mid to late 90s pop metal. Whatever their inspiration, I spent way too much time trying to remember what forgettable bands they reminded me of and had no time to actually pay attention to them.

22. Israel – Netta “Toy” Yasss! Netta! And then… Okay, so I am very much not crazy about the Asian appropriation, but I’m here for everything else. The whole kimono and maneki-neko motif is just not sitting right. Please, you can do but. But her amazing sneer, the bizarre incorporation of the chicken dance, and the dance-able Tel Aviv music is killing it! Also, it’s great to see my homeland with something that’s not some punchable dude-bros on a beach.

23. Netherlands – Waylon “Outlaw in ‘Em” When you think of the Netherlands, what comes to mind? High taxes? State supplied health care and other services? How about Ted Nugent tributes and awkward krumping? Well, it will from now on.

24. Ireland – Ryan O’Shaughnessy “Together” This is the reason that China lost the finale broadcast rights. The musicians are recreating the Broadway show Once while a So You Think You Can Dance routine plays out with two dancers. Honestly, I kind of loved this. It was intimate and sincere and lovingly executed. One of my favorites of the night.

25. Cyprus – Eleni Foureira “Fuego” Oh no! Cyprus has read from the Necronomicon and opened up a rift in time! Ash Williams, come save us! This is Cyprus expect a danceable track. Because that’s what you’ll get. Also, every year there seems to be a Beyonce impersonator. Just saying.

26. Italy – Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro “Non mi avete fatto niente” I immediately see this one as a real contender. Not because I love the song (I don’t) but because it’s engineered with brutal efficiency. It perfectly balances poignant lyrics, earnest performance, and a solid song. The lyrics come up on the video screen with stylized fonts, rolling through various languages in a brutal and brilliant method of bringing in the world audience. You could maybe find a performance that is better in each category, but none so perfectly balanced across the board as Italy’s.

And now we wait for the votes to come in and be tallied. There’s always a lot of confusion about how they work so I’ll break it down to the best of my knowledge for y’all.

The jury votes. Each competing country has their own jury of voters that rank a top ten list. Then points are portioned out to their picks, with a top 11th award getting 12 points.

Public votes. These are given out based on the call-in voting from across Europe. This are announced second as they completely reorder the competitors.

If that sounds convoluted, it is. And purposefully so. The system was designed to draw out the suspense of the announcement as long as possible. So really the jury votes set up a baseline that can be completely overturned.

And impressions of this year? Well, I’m happy that the “white dress and a ballad” phase seems to be over. No clear style came out as a successor so maybe next year we’ll see a clear group-think strategy emerge.

My top picks, in no particular order, are:

Estonia

Portugal

Germany

Israel

Ireland

And I want to draw attention to a few more musical performers from Portugal, that weren’t in the competition but performed in the opening and closing segments. Mariza, Sara Tavares, and Mayra Andrade all caught my attention. So if you’re actually looking for new music in the midst of this spectacle, those are a few people I’d like to draw your attention to.

After an insane amount of re-ordering, and a long stretch when it looked like bland-as-bland-can-be Austria might win, Israel won! I am so happy, as that was personal pick. I figured Italy would take a high place in the public vote, and they did with 3rd place.

However, I think I would have preferred that Germany (my precious boy) would have won, as I do worry about Israel hosting Eurovision and all of the possible repercussions. Between the security issues of the people to go, and the political statements of the people who won’t, it’s going to be interesting. So now we can all revel in the greatness of Toy (if not the Orientalism of the performance) for a year. In the meantime, I’ll start a betting pool for how many countries will pull out of Eurovision between now and then.

NEXT TIME IN JERUSALEM! !השלב הבא בירושלים

I watch Eurovision because I know you didn't! I was totally unprepared this year. Still had a great time, though. Eurovision 2018: Finals I'm so unprepared this year! Due to a lot going on in life, I didn't have time to watch either of the semi-finals or even pregame with the official music videos!

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UFC Vegas 16 predictions

Marvin Vettori is on the cusp of capping off a productive 2020.

Fighting for just the second time this year, Vettori enters his first UFC headliner against top-5 contender Jack Hermansson this Saturday at UFC Vegas 16. His other win in 2020 was a thrilling submission victory over Karl Roberson, a rival who rubbed Vettori the wrong way for a variety of reasons before they finally settled things in the octagon.

A win over Hermansson would be a gigantic step towards a title shot and possibly a rematch with middleweight champion Israel Adesanya.

Beating Hermansson is no easy task though. “The Joker” has won seven of his past nine fights, with his only losses coming to top opposition in Jared Cannonier and Thiago Santos. He’s also proven himself to be one of the best finishers at 185 pounds and could be the first to stop Vettori. Just ask Kelvin Gastelum, who was caught by a Hermansson heel hook in just 78 seconds.

Vettori isn’t the only one who could seriously shake up next week’s rankings. Contender Series standout Jamahal Hill has lived up to the hype in two UFC appearances so far and for his third octagon assignment he’s drawn veteran light heavyweight Ovince Saint Preux. Hill can break out from the pack in a major way if he can topple Saint Preux, who missed weight by a pound and a half on Friday.

In other main card action, Gabriel Benitez hunts for his first UFC win as a lightweight when he faces Justin Jaynes, Montana De La Rosa steps in to halt the hype train of Taila Santos in a flyweight bout, light heavyweights Roman Dolidze and John Allan look to add to their impressive finishing tallies, and Movsar Evloev and Nate Landwehr meet in a battle of former M-1 Global champions.

What: UFC Vegas 16

Where: UFC APEX in Las Vegas

When: Saturday, Dec. 5. The five-fight preliminary card begins at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN+ and ESPN2, with the six-fight main card starting at 10 p.m. ET also on ESPN+ and ESPN2.

Jack Hermansson vs. Marvin Vettori

I should probably stop picking against Jack Hermansson, right? Despite his prodigious finishing ability and wins over high-level competition like Kelvin Gastelum, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza and David Branch, I always seem to find a reason not to pick him. No more!

Marvin Vettori is just entering his prime and his best days are ahead of him. Fast forward to a year from now and we could be talking about a legitimate top-5 contender at 185 pounds. Like a lot of fighters at this stage of his career though, there are defensive deficiencies that put a ceiling on his potential for now. Defensive deficiencies could be costly when standing across from someone as lethal as Hermansson.

He’s going to learn from this fight, just as Hermansson has learned from his battles with the middleweight division’s best. Unfortunately for Vettori, I think that lesson will come in the form of a humbling defeat. Vettori’s standup and athleticism will keep him competitive in the early going, but Hermansson should get this one to the ground at some point and find a submission finish late in the first or in the second.

Pick: Hermansson

Ovince Saint Preux vs. Jamahal Hill

Unlike the main event, I do think this is a bridge too far for the younger fighter. Jamahal Hill is eight years younger than Ovince Saint Preux, but more importantly he’s 20 UFC fights younger than “OSP.” That’s a huge experience gap to overcome, especially when you consider the luminaries that Saint Preux has beaten or gone the distance with.

Even if you view Saint Preux as being on the outside looking in when it comes to the 205 elite, Hill is even further out right now. At 6-foot-4, Hill has made the most of his natural gifts and fighting instinct, but Saint Preux can match his measurements and certainly has more ways to win this fight on paper.

Speed kills and Hill’s agility is going to give Saint Preux a lot of problems. He’ll have to force Hill to fight at his pace, lest he become Hill’s next knockout victim. You love to see a guy with Hill’s finishing ability, but Saint Preux’s chin is solid and it should hold up here.

Saint Preux has to get this one to the ground to minimize risk, then attack with submissions until Hill has no choice left but to tap.

Pick: Saint Preux

Gabriel Benitez vs. Justin Jaynes

Gabriel Benitez has always been a talented all-rounder who lacks that one spectacular skill to put him over the top. Occasionally, he’s also shown a reluctance to pull the trigger, which shouldn’t be an issue with the aggressive Jaynes. Benitez’s boxing will be his best weapon if he hopes to stifle Jaynes on the feet.

One thing to watch is whether Jaynes changes up his game plan, which is usually comprised of him rapidly closing the distance rather than trying to win a range-striking duel. If he steps too far into Benitez’s range, Benitez will chew him up with fast hands. That said, Jaynes has an affinity for first-round finishes and if he wants another one he may have to get right in Benitez’s face.

This has the potential to be a wild one, which means it could be Benitez who lands a surprising haymaker to end the fight. I’m leaning towards Jaynes testing Benitez’s chin though and taking this one out of the hands of the judges.

Pick: Jaynes

Montana De La Rosa vs. Taila Santos

Don’t let Taila Santos’ 16-1 record fool you, there’s some generous matchmaking in there to put it nicely. The five opponents she faced before appearing on Dana White’s Contender Series had a combined record of 3-4, and three of those wins all belonged to one fighter. If you are liking Santos’ chances, it would be because of the poise she showed in her previous win over the gritty Molly McCann. She looked comfortable standing with McCann and showed rare poise for someone in just their second UFC fight. It’s not a stretch to say that Santos is already one of the best standup fighters at 125 pounds.

The challenge for Montana De La Rosa is to not be completely outclassed on the feet and to make Santos respect her enough there so that she creates openings for takedowns. On the mat is where De La Rosa can steal this one. She has better jiu jitsu and she’s aggressive going for submissions. Santos has to be careful pursuing De La Rosa to the ground if she scores a knockdown or manages to get De La Rosa down some other way.

I’ll probably regret this, but I feel that De La Rosa is being overlooked and I predict she either catches Santos with a submission off of her back or out of a scramble.

Pick: De La Rosa

Roman Dolidze vs. John Allan

Roman Dolidze has got style. He’s part of an influx of talent that the light heavyweight division has seen in the last couple of years and he’s got the kind of standup game that is going to make him popular. He’s not going to wow anyone with his volume, rather he’ll bide his time until he can unleash a high-voltage strike, possibly of the spinning variety.

He’ll have a willing dancer partner in John Allan, another striker comfortable fighting from both southpaw and orthodox stances. Allan may want to test Dolidze’s ground game, but this has the makings of a tactical standup battle with both wary of the other’s power. It’s possible that Allan will look to push the pace from the opening bell and take Dolidze out of his comfort zone.

I give Dolidze the edge for his more unpredictable approach and I see him catching Allan with something out of nowhere for the knockout.

Pick: Dolidze

Nate Landwehr vs. Movsar Evloev

Blue-chipper Movsar Evloev is the most heavily-favored fighter on this card and for good reason. He combines solid technical striking with explosive takedowns, which has been the formula for many a champion. He’s still hunting for his first UFC finish, but he may want taking too many risks against Nate Landwehr.

“The Train” joined the UFC with a reputation as a disciplined brawler and he showed that in his fight with Darren Elkins, putting it on Elkins in a brutal and bloody three-round scrap. With his power and durability, he’s not a name anyone at featherweight should want to see on a fight contract. Unless you have the wrestling of Evloev, of course.

In all likelihood, Evloev will go out with something to prove and invite standup exchanges with Landwehr. He has the skill to win them too, but he has to avoid being dragged into a dogfight. It’s not one big bomb that Evloev has to be wary of, it’s the constant pressure of Landwehr that could lead to his first defeat.

Evloev’s team should be well-prepared for this one with both fighters coming from M-1 Global, so Landwehr probably won’t be able to keep this one standing for long. As long as Evloev mixes it up, he should cruise to a decision or a late finish on the ground.

Pick: Evloev

Preliminaries

Louis Smolka def. Jose Quinonez

Jordan Leavitt def. Matt Wiman

Jimmy Flick def. Cody Durden

Ilia Topuria def. Damon Jackson

Gian Villante def. Jake Collier

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Has COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Affected Online Roofing Leads? (Before and After Comparison)

So you weren't online before COVID-19 and you're at home wondering to yourself, if you were online before COVID-19, would things be a little bit different as far as generating leads?

Well, that's what we're gonna cover in this video. So, let's dive right in.

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If you're looking for the best advice on generating roofing leads online, you are in the right place, be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell, so that you get notified when I release a new video just like this one, each and every single Wednesday.

My name is Mats Moy, and over the last five years I've been helping roofing companies across North America doing one thing and one thing only: generating roofing leads.

With this whole COVID-19, coronavirus situation, many roofing companies have been on the fence whether or not to get online and start generating roofing leads because they fear that it may not be the right time.

Many of them believe that nobody's out there buying roofs.

Well, by the end of this video, I'm going to either confirm or dismiss this in its entirety, because I'm gonna share with you some numbers to show you, what is actually going on online.

In many areas roofing is still considered an essential business. If you're in one of those areas, you're still fortunate enough to be able to go out and actually get some work done.

With that being said, customers are still out there that need your services. Needless to say, they are online, on their phones, on their computers looking for reputable roofing companies.

Online leads were a thing before COVID-19, but are they still a thing today? That's what we're gonna dive right into and figure out with this very video.

I'm gonna share with you one client that we're just gonna compare before and after, as far as how many leads they were getting before COVID-19 hit, and what are they currently getting today.

Leads in the time of COVID-19

First, let me set the stage for this particular client.

They've been working with me for the last four years now and they've seen some amazing results. And so, I wanna use this particular client because they've been pretty consistent across the board. They dominate their local market. They get really good reviews after roofing projects and so, they do everything in their power to be able to show up in the search engines online, have a good overall presence, and they generate leads consistently.

Now the leads that they're getting are of high quality in my opinion, which is subjective of course, but I want you to take a listen to some of the leads that came in recently.

Client: Hi, Joel. My name is [redacted]. I'm just calling to see about getting a roofing quote, my phone number is [redacted], and my address is [redacted], thank you.

Here's another one:

Joel: Hey, Joel speaking.

Client: Hey, how are you doing? You guys are still working during this coronavirus thing?

Joel: Yes sir, we are.

Client: All right. My mother-in-law is in St. George.

Joel: Okay.

Client: She wanted to, she's not sure if, she said the one side of the roof, obviously the West side and the shingles look a little funny and in the wind the other day she found a shingle in the backyard. And I looked at the roof a couple months back, it didn't look bad but we're up in Lionshead and we're doing the social distancing thing. So, I just wonder if somebody could go by and give her an estimate and just leave the estimate in the mailbox for her?

Joel: Okay, so the whole roof itself or the affected area?

Client: Yeah, just she wants the whole roof done.

Joel: All right, that's no problem.

Now, I definitely think that those were of high quality. Let me know in the comments below why you think those were not good quality leads if you disagree. Let me know in the comments, I'm curious.

Phone calls

With that being said, here are the numbers for the first half of March before this whole lockdown and everything went to crap. Take a look at some of these numbers.

I work with a particular company called Call Rail, which is a call tracking software that I typically use across all of the roofing campaigns that I use, because we can track essentially everything. We record all of the phone calls, we make sure that hey, we know where the user's coming from, what keywords they typed in and so this is a very, very powerful tool.

We have 27 phone calls from March 1 to March 15, 2020 and these are first time conversations. These are the first time that these people called and these guys are actual leads. Now, just to compare, same company, but the second half of March, we have 25 phone calls.

A difference of two, right? So there has been really no big difference between the first half of March, when everything was somewhat normal to the second half of March, where everything just went to crap.

Form submissions

Let's dive into some of the form submissions.

In the first half of March, we have 10 form submissions. From the March 1st to March 15th. Then in the second half, we have 11 form submissions. So again, it's pretty consistent across the board.

If you tally those up, yeah, I have my calculator here, we have 25 leads plus 27 leads plus 10 leads plus 11 leads. That gives us a grand total of 73 roofing leads in just March. That is a solid amount of leads to be getting. Granted, this client of mine has been working with me for the last four years and is seeing consistent results across the board.

How did we do that?

If you're wondering how we went about generating these leads, we went about generating them from two different sources here: we have your website and then you have your landing pages.

Landing pages are simply a place where we send paid traffic. With this particular client, we do Google Ads as well. We get that traffic from Google Ads, send them to the landing pages.

If you, for some reason, are sending your paid traffic over to your website, that is a huge mistake that is costing you a lot of money.

Take a look at some landing pages that you can put up so that you don't distract any of the visitors that are coming from your paid sources directly to your landing pages.

Quick side note, these are all things that I help my clients set up in my training program. Click the link in the description down below if you're tired of relying on any third-party to generate leads for your company 'cause you're sick and tired of spending this much without seeing any results.

That is where you'll be able to book a call with myself and we'll be able to sit down and speak about your roofing company to see if this would be a good fit for your business. Go ahead and click that link in the description down below and be sure to fill out the survey application that follows.

One more area that I wanna share with you. The first two that I shared were from their website and their Google Ads; the third way in which we generate leads is Google My Business.

Using these three mediums to generate leads, we have a full system that's combined. It all works seamlessly together to generate leads for my clients. Now I wanna use Google My Business to show you the numbers before and after so you can see for yourself what is going on in terms of lead generation.

It was pretty consistent across the board going into March back in February. Now the view that I have here is the past quarter. So over the last three months, right? And it's basically just like that.

There's no other way for me to take a look to see what has been happening on a month to month basis, right? But 59 phone calls, three months leading up until today, whereas, in the past month we've had 27 phone calls. So there's been a surge in phone calls from the Google My Business, directly. Needless to say there's no shortage or no reduction of roofing leads coming from their online presence.

What now?

Across all of the roofing companies I work with, this is what I've seen. For the most part, there has been no difference in terms of lead generation. This is with a few exceptions of some specific areas across the U.S. For the most part, it has been consistent across the board.

Now that you know that roofing companies are still out there generating leads from their online. What are you gonna do? You now have all the time in the world to set up a system online to continuously produce roofing leads for your business. If not now, for when everything gets back to normal.

If you're interested in joining my training program, hit the link down below and book that call with me. Stop procrastinating. You should have done this a very long time ago. Right now is no better time to do it.

Also, if you wanna join a community of roofers like yourself, be sure to join my free Facebook group Mastermind. Here, I share up-to-date strategies about this online space and help you learn about this forever-changing space,. The link for that is in the description down below.

Lastly, if you liked this video, be sure to give me a like and hit that thumbs up button. Also, subscribe to my channel and hit the notification bell to get notified every time I upload a new video. I drop new ones just like this one, each and every single Wednesday.

Again, my name is Mats Moy and I will see you next week, peace.

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April 20, 2018

I got a bunch of sleep last night and then I went to work at eleven o'clock.  That means I ate lunch around ten o'clock.  That's the main downside of closing on Friday.  It's like being back in high school.

I was on desk for the first two hours and my main accomplishment was finishing the nonfiction handout by picking a picture.  In the last few minutes I had to work on it last night I found a few options and threw them into the Publisher document.  Today I sorted through those, cropped and resized them, and eventually settled on an image that I think looks pretty good.  I also caught up on the past week of the local newspaper.  I need to get better at checking that out on a more regular basis.

I was off desk for the next three hours and most of that time was spent at the second computer updating statistics stuff.  I updated my spreadsheets for the web traffic on a few of our pages, and I watched 100 usability videos for March.  I'm obviously a little behind on those, but I got the recording for this month started, so I might be able to watch those sometime next week.  After watching several of the recordings today I took a break to create a counter in Excel.  It has a big cell to display the number, a big green button to add one to that number, a big red button to subtract one from that number, and a small black button to reset the total.  I made it because a lot of the videos now start with someone searching the catalog and then it's just our stagnant homepage for however long the video runs, sometimes over forty-five minutes.  With our updated website, when someone does a catalog search, the result opens in a new tab, and the video recording doesn't go to that tab, but it also doesn't stop the recording, it just sits on the page that no one is on anymore.  It's not very helpful.  And I didn't want to make tallies on a piece of paper to keep track of how many videos were pointless, so I made the counter, and it worked really well.  I really just need the green button, but I figured I would make it more robust in case I need it for something in the future.

Near the end of those three hours I went upstairs to show one of the other librarians how to use the folding machine, because she printed out a few hundred of the new handouts we've all been working on. Folding those by hand would have been ridiculous.  It took a bit of fiddling to get the settings on the machine right, but I got it dialed in and we knocked out the folding in minutes.  It would be really cool to have a paper folding machine like that but I have absolutely no need for it in my daily life outside of work.

When I got back from dinner the first thing I did was pull books for the staff picks display.  I even picked a couple books that I have actually read, which is rare.  The librarian in charge of that display had already left but she gave me the bookmarks to put in them so I added them to the record set and put them down with the rest of the backup books.  Later on another staff member dropped off books, and I didn't want them to sit at our desk all weekend, because if someone wanted one of them they wouldn't have been able to find it. So I added them to the record set, printed out more bookmarks (because she was one short in her backup supply), and put them downstairs with the rest of the books.

After I pulled the books I took down my tax display.  We're past the submission date so I felt it was safe to do that.  I put the display boards back in the basement and took the posters upstairs to put in my drawer for next year.  I left the books and forms down in the mail room just in case anyone comes looking for them, but soon we'll recycle them.

The rest of the night was pretty much spent catching up on library articles from Library Link of the Day, which sends a daily article, and I was about three weeks behind.  It was a pretty quiet night.  I handled some purchase requests, and tracked down an ebook version of a bestseller from 1913 for a patron, but that was about it.

On the way home I made two stops.  The first was the grocery store to get milk and eggs because I bought Bisquick (which I haven't had in many years but have fond memories of) and I needed milk and eggs. Then I stopped at my sister's because she had a plant to give me. I'm really hoping I can keep it alive.

When I got home I pretty much spent the rest of the night watching videos and clicking around the internet.  And now I'm listening to music and writing this.  I'm listening to Avicii because he died today.  He was only twenty-eight years old, which makes the news that much more sad.  In a relatively short career he managed to have a huge impact on the music world, his name almost becoming synonymous with EDM.  He's got a lot of songs you know and bunch more you didn't realize were his but can still hum along to.  It's crazy.

This weekend I want to make pancakes or biscuits with Bisquick, make one of my Hello Fresh meals, read a book, and play Elite Dangerous, because watching Lost In Space really made me want to jump back into a spaceship.  Doing it in VR would be ideal but it has been so long I think I'll need to play it normally so I can see my cheat sheet for my joystick.  But maybe I can graduate back to VR.