#so i recorded the process for today’s drawing! hopefully i can actually put the video together this time lol

[michi-chelle-draws]

inktober 2024 - day 8

[steeklover]

You guys sleep on their friendship too much 😔

Time-laspe (I tried to download the video and attach it to this post but I think it was too big and my computer is tired because it won't download. That is the link, you can watch it if you'd like too, I know I like to watch art time-laspes. It is around fifteen minutes though, I didn't know how to make it any faster so there's your warning)

(Okay so I'm just now realizing that the part of the video where I used actually colors got cut off 😐And I can't even fix it because I've already deleted the clip off my computer and emptied my recycle bin. I'm so upset now, I'm sorry 😭😭I'm not a tech savy person at all)

You don't have to read this if you don't want to, it's more of an artist's note to myself. If you want to know more of my thought process while doing this then you can read it though.

First, I just want to give credit to the base I used!

Second, I used Krita to draw and Canva to put the video together. I've never really used another drawing app/software thing before (I've used Procreate a few times on my sister's IPad but it's not like I'm going to draw anything South Park on there) so I don't really have anything to compare it too. It's free though so... how much better can you get. The only thing I don't like about it so far is that the fill tool kind of sucks but it's not too bad, you just have to go over the edges to get a solid color (at least from my experience). And I've been using Canva for a while now, I've put together a few videos before but not in a while so I was a little rusty. The only thing I don't like about that is that I have to pay for an upgrade if I want to download a long video.

I started trying to draw seriously in April and now it's July so it's been like two months (?). I haven't posted anything since May I think but I've still been drawing a lot, I just haven't finished anything worth posting up until today.

I started out drawing this thinking it was going to be bad. Then about halfway through I thought it might actually turn out alright. Then I finished it and I kind of hate it. I think it would be much better if I practiced shading and textures but I'm too lazy for that, at least for now.

I hardly know anything about art, whether it be digital or traditional. I don't know anatomy, color theory, perspective, none of it. You can see on the time-lapse that I basically traced the base I used, did the faces and clothes and then colored it and that took me ALL DAY! Granted I had breaks like when I made my lunch and ran over to my grandma's house but other than that, I've been working on this piece (along with Stan but I did most of Stan yesterday, I just colored him this morning).

I have mad respect for every single artist out there because this is so hard... but for some reason I want to keep doing it. I know it's going to be super satisfying to look back on my art work from two years ago and see how much I've improved (hopefully I've improved, please tell me I'll improved)

As you can probably tell, I didn't get everything in the time-laspe. Recording the process was so hard, I tried to do it with Stan yesterday but I barely knew what I was doing and I kept getting called by my mom to do stuff so I had to keep pausing and un-pausing so I gave up and tried again today. I think my computer is worn out by working all day because not only have I been drawing on it all day but I have also been editing the video all day. I really like when artists post time-laspes though because it gives me an idea of their process and it's really nice to watch.

But anyway, I ended up giving Jason eyeliner because one) he's metro, two) I headcanon him wearing eyeliner (same thing with Tweek) and three) he needed a little something MORE to him, if that makes sense. I orginally wasn't going to give him eyeliner because I was afraid he would look too much like Tweek but once the picture was done, I decided they wouldn't look too similar. I also gave Tweek and Jason both freckles because for Jason, it's canon and for Tweek, it's my headcanon for him. You probably can't tell that Tweek has freckles because I made them really faint (on purpose) and I like to think he'd only have a few on his cheeks and nose. I gave Jason a lot though because I'm pretty sure that's how it is in the show. Lastly I forgot to color Jason's shirt in so that's everything that's not on the video.

I think the hardest thing for me was the eyes and the clothes. I have a love-hate relationship drawing eyes. I love looking at how different people draw their eyes but when it comes to drawing my own eyes... yikes ���Also I think it's the facial proportions that might make this seem off, I think I have a bad habit of making the eyes too big but that's what I've been doing ever since I was a little kid so now if I make the eyes small, it just looks off. And again, I didn't do anything shading so it probably makes the picture look flat. Plus I have no idea what I'm doing.

I also usually have a hard time drawing hair but today I had a pretty easy time doing it. I was really surprised. Also another headcanon of mine for Tweek is that he has platinum blonde hair. I love platinum blonde hair and just blonde hair in general and his hair is SO YELLOW, I feel like if he was older than he'd dye it. Also they are both teens in this picture.

Tweek looks really pasty here, I tried to give him pale skin but I didn't mean for it to be THAT pale.

I think that's all I have to say. If you read this and have any tips for me, I'd love to hear them. I'd love to redraw this in a few months or maybe in a year if I decide to keep drawing, I know there's defiently room for improvement.

Despite all the complaining I just did, I don't HATE this picture per say. I really like my art style, it's simple but cute (imo of course). I feel like if I learned more about shading and learn how to draw faces and clothes better than I'd do a lot better. I think Stan was a lot cuter but this is cute too.

Lastly, ignore the two random dots if you find them, I'm too tired to fix this.

Anyway, if you read all of this, I really appreciate you! Have a great day/night! ❤️❤️

[woulddieforperrytheplatypus]

Dan Povenmire, co-creator of Phineas and Ferb and the voice of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, just did a zoom call for fans, and this is a link to it on Google Drive and a link to it on YouTube.

Here’s a brief overlay brought to you by my incessant live blogging, and because I was speed typing on my phone, I can guarantee not everything made the cut. If you’re interested in hearing Dan talk about growing up an artist and becoming an animator and trying to pitch Phineas and Ferb and working on the show and movies, I would definitely suggest checking out the full 75 minute video. The highlights from the call are below the cut.

They added Doof and Perry because they liked chase scenes. They realized fairly quickly that more than not, the pair led to good comedy, and found it much more interesting to see how their relationship developed. He also says that they are "the most important person to each other” and “they’re really good friends.”

They wrote the Perry theme song in an hour between meetings with Disney

They decided during the pilot that they weren't going to try to get comedy from the characters saying mean things to each other. Even Doofenshmirtz wasn't motivated by evil, he just wanted to get the attention he didn't get at home.

Doof’s backstories were not Dan and Swampy's idea. They were from Jon Barry and Chris Hendrick, who [itched the lawn gnome backstory. It was long and compliated and Dan and Swampy couldn’t stop laughing. They also provided the "it all started on the day of my birth” one the next day.

making the 2D movie while making the movie was the busiest Dan says he has ever been, and that's not even counting the PnF Take Two and Doof's web show and all the interviews. Basically, 2010ish was a very busy time in the Dwampyverse.

They decided to give each pair of writers their own section of an outline to work on, and each pair got to make up the dialogue and jokes based on it. it works well for the show, but writers kept going on their own tangents and the movie ended up like 6 hours long. Dan and Kyle Menke had to redraw 80% of the show because they had to cut gags out and rewrite it so it was still funny. Note: in the new movie, they did the opposite — they wrote a script and told the board artists that they could put brief gags in but nothing too long

He thinks the show became one of the most beloved shows bc it was innocent and the adult humor wasn't dirty so the whole family could watch it together. He also said the songs at the closest thing you get to immortality in a show. Those combined made the show as big of a hit as it was, and hopefully those things will get older people to watch the movie.

His advice if you want to follow in his footsteps are to draw (and suggest you check out Cartoon Animation by Preston Blaire and How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way by Stan Lee) and to know that these jobs are out there

One of his favorite gags in PnF are the silent moments where something big happens and no one reacts (like something big fell in an early episode and crashed next to Phineas and co and at first they were all shocked but Dan changed it to them just kinda looking at it for a moment with no emotion)

Q: Did you ever want to quit what you were going?

A: "I don't really... do... anything else..."

He finished his new pilot today (July 2nd, 2020) and the movie is due tomorrow.

He would love to do more PnF and there's been talks of another PnF movie

He would love to do more Milo Murphy's Law, but it never got huge ratings and Disney's not too big on it but if people start watching it on Disney+ they might get to keep doing it. They did that with Family Guy, and it could happen to MML too.

The movie feels like old Phineas and Ferb and there are a lot of great songs! 

And now, the Q&A (in which he draws random characters are he talks)

How was the process of kicking the voices?

It was sometime easy but sometimes very difficult. For Phineas, they listened to maybe a thousand people. they actually recorded someone but they put it to animation and it didn't really work. He knew as soon as he heard Vincent that he loved him. They literally recasted the lead (Vincent) the day before they had to deliver the pilot.

He knew immediately that he liked Alison Stoner. She was the second Isabella he heard, and he listened to maybe 50 others afterwards, but he knew he wanted Alison Stoner

They decided on a different Candace and they sent it to the head of the channel and the guy asked if he heard Ashley Tisdale. He told Dan to have her come in and give her direction and Dan was hesitant bc he had one that he liked but he was lowkey forced to bring her in. It was his only audition that day, and after his big block of text Dan gave her like 20 notes and she wrote the notes on the big block of text and she did it again and it was perfect and obviously Candace (but he feels bad for the actress that was almost Candace bc she'll never know how close she was)

What was the most impactful episode you worked on?

Either the last (hard to watch w/o crying) or three moments that made himcey while doing them: the end of Summer Belongs To You when Phineas gives up trying to get off the island and decides to watch the sunset with Isabella which was what she always wanted and she exploded and talked him back up onto being the person he is even tho it's a sacrifice on her behalf. He later says he started crying while pitching to his wife the AYA scene of Phinabella getting together.

Do you regret any episodes?

There are some he likes more and some he likes less but he doesn't regret any of them. He was a little disappointed in an early episode without a sing but he watched it alter and decided it was actually pretty decent. None of them make him cringe or wonder why they did that.

How has social media impacted PnF?

He recently got on TikTok and found out that's where all the PnF fans are. He was thrilled to see the response everything was getting and it made him feel good about everything he accomplished. The fact that this generation knows what an aglet is is his biggest accomplishment in pop culture.

Favorite part of working on the show/movie

He likes editing, but writing the songs is the most fun bc it feels the least like work

Who is Ferb's mom?

Never established or really thought about Ferb's mom or Phineas's dad AND IT'S NOT DOOFENSHMIRTZ THEY MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THAT TO BE TRUE STOP ASKING and Phineas and Candace are full brother and sister. The bio parents aren't interesting to them bc the family already has a mom and dad and the other ones are just out of the picture and not important.

Will there be a new character in the movie?

Super Super Big Doctor (and Disney keeps telling him what he can and can't talk about)

Are there any secrets or theories that he can tell them?

The freaking creepy pasta about schitzophrenic Candace IS NOT TRUE Phineas and Ferb do exist and are alive. There's also a theory that Candace is not based on the diary of a teen girl in Russia who killed herself, and that's not true either. He genuinely thinks they are really freaking stupid theories and they make no sense at all.

Who is your favorite guest star?

Writing a song with Slash from Guns n Roses was really cool. He also liked working with Ben Stiller, Christian Slater the delivery guy (he called and said he'd do any part in MML so they wrote him a role), Jack McBrayer (Irving/Fix It Felix), Wayne Brady (co-wrote In The Empire)

What is the motivation of Candace to bust the boys?

He's not trying to hurt them. She doesn't dislike them. She gets irritated but she's really just looking for fairness. If she built a rollercoaster in the backyard, she'd get in trouble, so they should get in trouble, too.

How did you think about hot to end the show?

Disney was starting to cool off on PnF. The merch wave had plateaued. Dan and Swampy had the next two years in the show already made, but Disney wouldn't pick up another season until they finished airing that season. They'd have to restaff for a new season and they didn't like that idea, so they turned one of their hour long specials into the finale. He wanted to be able to say goodbye and thank the fans.

[hlupdate]

Interview: Louis Tomlinson Opens Up About ‘Walls’ & Tour Plans

It’s go time for Louis Tomlinson. After years of building anticipation, the 28-year-old unveils his debut solo album Walls today (January 31). And the 12-song collection (featuring familiar titles like “Two Of Us” and “Kill My Mind”) was well-worth the wait. On it, he reintroduces himself to fans after taking over the world as one-fifth of One Direction. And the crooner does so by placing the focus on his powerful pen to provide a glimpse into his heart and soul. Whether he is overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles on the title track or embracing a youthful sense of adventure on “Fearless,” every song offers a chance to engage with him on a new level.

But dropping Walls was just a warm-up. Now he turns his attention to the accompanying world tour. It all starts with a March 9 set in Barcelona. Then the hitmaker spends the next several months making stops across the globe. That includes a string of North American dates in June and July. And it’s the moment he’s been waiting for. Last week I had the opportunity to chat with Louis about the rest of his action-packed 2020. He opened up about how he mentally prepared for the arrival of the album and his goals. After that he spilled some tea about the show. That includes a little insight into the setlist selection process.

OG fans will be happy to know that they’ll definitely hear a couple One Direction staples in a live setting again this year. Even better, Louis plans to play every song off Walls. Keep an eye peeled for our official album review in the coming days. In the meantime, dive into our interview below to learn more.

You’ve been working towards Walls for a couple years now. How does it feel to be so close to releasing it?

I think just a big sense of relief. I’m excited to release it and to have the fans hear it. And to go out there and tour it. So I’m just excited to get into this stage. It feels like it’s been a long time coming.

Obviously you’ve done a couple album releases before, but it was always as part of One Direction. Do you feel like this being a solo project changes your perception at all?

Yeah, I think there was a slightly different goal. Naturally with the One Direction albums versus with my own solo album. I think I actually kind of review once I’d come out of the band… I had to almost redefine the word success really. Because the experience I had in One Direction wasn’t really real life. So in terms of what I want to get out of this album and what I’ve for starters learned a lot along the premises. But what I want to get out of it is that hopefully my fans think I’m a good songwriter. So really it’s almost less pressure in a way.

I think lyrically your writing is coming across so well.

Thank you.

Speaking of the songs you’ve released, it’s interesting looking at the tracklist. Some of the songs made the final cut, but there are a couple older singles that didn’t. How did you decide what would live as a stand-alone moment in time versus what would make the final album?

I think when I looked at the older singles that I’d done it was hard sonically for them to sit on the album. On the vinyl I did a version of the Steve Aoki song “Just Hold On.” But it’s a completely new production. We reworked that. But with the other singles, it was kind of difficult to imagine them on that record. I feel like my songwriting kind of matured a little bit since then.

Can you talk about why you settled on Walls as the overarching title for the album?

To be honest it’s my favorite song on the album. I think it’s the best song on the album. It’s the song I’m most proud of. So I’d been thinking about what title I was going to have for the album for a while. And then I kind of just thought let’s not overthink it. What’s my favorite song? I love the concept behind the single so I kind of just went with my gut and went with that.

It’s interesting too because as I’m listening to the album I notice that you obviously reference walls in the title track. But you also talk about fences on “Defenseless.” It seems like there was a theme emerging of overcoming barriers or putting yourself out there without barriers. Was that intentional that you were doing lyrically while writing?

Not deliberately but I do try to write in an autobiographical sense. And as relatable as possible. I think that’s one of the things that we all go through at times. So I felt like yeah it was important to cover that. I hadn’t realized. A lot of walls and fences.

A lot of things we had to get over. Looking at the tracklist, is there a song that hasn’t been released yet that you’re most excited for fans to hear?

I’d say “Only The Brave,” which is the last song. It’s just short of two minutes long, and it doesn’t really have a traditional structure to the song. You only really get the chorus once. And I think it’s an interesting moment in the album. It closes the album, and I think it’s interesting.

One of my favorites is “Fearless.” I love the message. I took it as encouraging yourself to return to our youthful confidence and just saying fuck it to expectations and anxiety.

Yeah, absolutely.

I was hoping you could tell me a bit about how it came together?

I think the age that I’m at at the moment, I’m 28 now. I’m kind of in this strange age. We’ve got a bit more life experience, but it’s kind of reflecting on how fearless you are when you’re young. The fact that you are willing to make mistakes over and over again. It’s just drawing on that whole vibe, really.

That’s something I relate to being at a similar point in my life.

Nice. I appreciate that.

Do you plan to release any more singles off the project?

No I don’t think so. I think I’m going to release the album, and I’m going to get into tour and just concentrate on that for a little bit. Just so I have more stuff to write about. Then at some point this year I’ll get into writing the next record I suppose.

Awesome! It’s good to hear that there are already plans for another album.

Yeah. Definitely.

Something else I wanted to ask about was the “Walls” video. Some of the other videos this era have been more straightforward in terms of a plot, whereas this felt more conceptual. How did you come up with the idea for this one and what does it mean to you?

This is the fourth video that I’ve done with that director Charlie Lightening who’s amazing. I really enjoyed working with him. The first three videos fit together. Were narrative driven and had a bit more story to them. So I thought, we both thought it was important with this video to kind of move away from that and make something visually more interesting. We went to Morocco to film it in the desert. I Think it looks incredible. You’ve got that scale with it being in the desert. And yeah, we were just trying to make it look kind of trippy and surreal. Visually interesting. Just a good sort of performance video instead of getting lost in a narrative.

Cool. I also wanted to talk about touring. How are you getting ready for the show?

I’ve been doing little bits of rehearsals here and there because I’ve got TV performances anyway. Like two or three weeks of rehearsals. To be honest since the year started I’ve kind of been counting down the days in terms of my solo career. This is what I’ve been working towards. So I’m really excited about it.

It brings everything together, and it’s great to see that this is coming. I was reading your last interview with us and you mentioned that touring was a big goal. So it’s great to have it be here.

Definitely. It feels good.

Speaking about the show, will the focus of the setlist be on your solo music or do you plan on throwing in any of the material you wrote for One Direction?

I think it’ll be like there might be three One Direction songs in there. I mean I’ll definitely put a few in. It would be rude not to, and there are some bangers in there. But mostly Walls. I’ll probably do the whole album and maybe two or three One Direction tunes.

That’s awesome. I can’t wait to see what the setlist ends up being. Thank you so much and good luck with everything you have going on.

Thank you very much. I appreciate your time, man.

[ofstarsandvibranium]

Your Face is a Masterpiece

Fandom: Marvel (Youtuber AU)

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader

Imagine: being a youtuber and you do a "Boyfriend Does My Makeup" video. Surpriiiise! Steve is actually very good at it because he says makeup is like paint and your face is the canvas.

Steve sat on your bed as you gathered all of your camera equipment and makeup together. You had seen “My Boyfriend Does My Makeup” videos all over youtube lately and you thought that it’d be fun to do that with Steve. So that’s where you were now. You were centering your camera and light fixtures in your room. Your makeup was set up on your desk. Once everything was ready you turned around, “Okay, babe! Let’s start!”

Steve got off your bed and went over to the front of your bed and sat on the bench. You pushed the record button and started, “Hey everyone! It’s Y/N and, obviously, the title tells you what we’re gonna do. So as most of you know, this is my boyfriend, Steve!” 

You gestured to Steve and he smiled at the camera, “Hey everyone,” he waved.

You then looked back at the camera, “So I have all the basic makeup set up in front of us. Steve, do you know what any of this is?”

“Uuuhhh,” Steve chuckled, “I know that’s eyeliner,” he pointed to your Kat Von D tattoo eyeliner, “I know that’s highlighter,” he pointed to the Fenty highlighter duo, “And that’s lipstick or lipgloss??” he pointed to tubes of Anastasia Beverly Hills liquid lipstick, “Anything else I have no clue.”

“Okay and did you happen to look anything up after I told you we were doing this?”

Steve shook his head, “Nope! I’m not a cheater! I’m a good person!”

You laughed, “Alright, Stevie. Don’t get your boxers in a bunch. I’m just gonna put my hair up and then you can start.” You tied your hair back so it wouldn’t get in Steve’s way, “Hair is up and I’m ready!”

Steve cleared his throat, “I’m really nervous. Oh God,” he chuckled anxiously. He picked up products and looked at the names, “Um? I guess I’ll go with this foundation stick? Is that right?”

You smirked, “I don’t know, babe, is it?”

He groaned, “If you look terrible it’s not my fault!” He took the cap off the foundation stick and began drawing streaks on your nose, cheeks, forehead, and chin. He then took up a blending sponge and began dabbing the makeup all over your skin, “Okay. This looks so far so good.” When your face was fully covered. 

Steve looked down at your desk trying to think what he should do next. He picked up a tube of Tarte Shape Tape Concealer, “Hm...I think I’ve seen you use this...under your eyes?” He unscrewed the top and pulled out the applicator. He made a swipe of it under both your eyes.

You giggled, “Do you know what concealer is for?”

He chuckled, “I think you told me once that it makes you not look like you’re part of The Walking Dead.”

You laughed, “Good enough.”

He then set that down and thought about what to do next. He looked at a palette that had different shades of brown. When he read “Contour Kit”, his eyes widened, “Oh! I know this!”

You bit your lip to prevent you from laughing and Steve gave you a look, “I’m not doing anything!”

“You wanna laugh at me, doll. That’s not nice. I’m trying here!”

You held up your hands, “Okay, okay. I’m sorry. I’ll behave.”

“Thank you. Now can you turn your head to the left, please?” he collected some product on one of the brushes and began to brush it along your cheek, “Hm. I think that looks right. Okay, other side.” you turned your head to the right and he repeated the process. When he was done, he stepped back, “Look at me, sweetheart.” you turned your head to look at him and Steve stared at you. 

“So, Steve, how does it feel doing your girlfriend’s makeup?” you asked.

He then fanned him face, “God, I’m sweating so much right now! This is a lot of pressure!” You covered your mouth as you laughed, “If I mess up, I have to wipe it off and I basically have to start all over again!”

You shrugged, “Welcome to the life of a makeup user.”

Steve picked up the highlighter duo, “Okay. I know you love this part. I promise not to do a bad job...maybe...hopefully.” he used another brush to collect some product and began to dust it onto your cheek and nose, “Oh wow. Not gonna lie, baby, but you look amazing!” He was starting to get really excited. 

You were bouncing in your seat, “I’m really excited to see.”

“Yeah. Let’s hope it’s smooth sailing from here.” He picked up your eyeshadow palettes and debated which one he should use. This part he thinks he’d do amazing with. Since he’s an artist, he knew what colors would look great together. 

He ended up choosing your NYX Multicolor Professional Eye Shadow Palette. He liked the colors that were given to him. He decided to go for a sunset look. So he went back and forth to a red, yellow, orange, and mustard yellow. He cursed a couple of times when one eye didn’t match the other. During a break, you looked at him and beads of sweat made their way onto his forehead. Cue more laughter from you and a pouty Steve.

“Just need to do the eyeliner and lips!” he grabbed your eyeliner and with a very steady hand, he drew on two thin lines on your lash line, “Lips!” he yelled as he grabbed a red lipstick, “Oh, wait. Just one more thing before this.”

“What?” you asked. He then leaned to you and pecked your lips. He grinned and you smiled, “Dork.”

He shrugged, “Just wanted to do that since you hate when I kiss you when you have lipstick on.” he then took the applicator and spread the product all over your lips, “Ugh! The line looked choppy!” he took a tissue and very carefully wiped some away before repeating the process. When he was done he yelled out, “FINALLY!”

You squealed, “Okay! Lemme see!” Steve picked up a mirror and handed it to you, “Oh my god...”

“It looks bad? Ah man! I thought I was doing so well! I’m sor-”

“No! Stevie! It’s amazing! I look great!”

“Well, you always look gr-”

“Seriously, Stevie! This is a lot better than me! I mean, sure, you forgot to use primer and setting powder, and eye shadow primer, but still!”

Steve was proudly smiling away now, “Really?”

You nodded, “Yeah. I figured you’d do decent since you’re an artist, but this exceeds my expectations!”

He wiped the sweat off his head, “I’m so happy to hear that, doll.”

“Soooo....can you do my makeup more now?”

“Nope! That was stressful! Never again!”

You laughed, “Alright. Alright.” you looked to the camera, “Well that’s it for today’s video. Steve and I actually are going out with our friends and we’ll see what people think of this look. So thanks for watching! Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe! Bye!” you then stopped the recording and looked at Steve, who still had a proud smile on his face.

“I did great. I really did that!” he pointed to your face.

You rolled your eyes, “Okay. Enough Mister Cocky. Now we need to leave soon to meet up with Sam, Nat, Bucky, and Wanda.”

You gathered your makeup and went to put them back into your bathroom, but Steve caught your wrist, “Wait. Kiss?”

You sighed, “Fine, but only because you did such an amazing job.” You bent down to meet his lips and you felt him smile against your lips.

When you broke apart, Steve mumbled, “You’re a masterpiece, Y/N, with and without makeup.”

[overcome-mentalblock]

What are the best tips to manifest your desires faster by using Law of Attraction?

Loren Vanderschoot, Life and Business Coach, Author, Telcom Engineer.

Grab a snack and a drink. This is going to take a minute.

Many people who first hear about the Law of Attraction form a belief that there is some magic incantation that, when performed correctly, brings everything that one desires to their doorstep without any effort.

This is simply untrue, but the reality is that once you understand how it really works it is just as simple. The truth is that you are already using the LoA every minute of every day. All you really have to do is learn how to direct it and use it on purpose.

I cannot fully explain the Law of Attraction to you in one article today. Understanding how this works so that you can use it to change the circumstances in your life will take a bit of time and study. I am currently working on putting together a complete library that will allow people to come to one place and learn about this great law. If you will follow me here at Quora, I will keep you up to date on the progress.

The LoA is a set of principles that, when understood and applied, can help you to achieve just about anything in life.

We like to say that you can do anything your mind can believe, and this is true. The trick is getting your mind to believe, and this is where the learning begins.

You have the most wonderful gift inside your head. It is the human brain. Unfortunately, it does not come with a user-manual.

Our brains are a three-pound mass located entirely within our skulls. The brain itself has no nerve endings and never actually FEELS anything. It never sees the light of day (hopefully) and never has any real experiences of its own.

The brain receives reports from our senses, logs the information, checks for memories of prior outcomes and keeps it all stored orderly. It knows everything we have ever experienced, yet has experienced none of it. It is our hard drive. Our brain is responsible for keeping track of what we have learned and experienced over the course of our lives, and for trying to make sense of it all. It is well-equipped for the task.

Our brains are under constant development, continually re-wiring as new experiences are recorded. Every new experience is recorded by the brain by making new physical connections between neurons. Every thought is a physical thing, created in your brain.

The more often this thought is remembered, the stronger it gets. So, thoughts are things and they can be made stronger. If a thought occurs often enough, it can become the default response. It has now become a part of a paradigm that shapes our behavior.

It is a well-known fact that repetition is a great teacher. Now you know why, at least from the brain's point of view. As new information is processed, over and over, the memories are reinforced again and again. This is a wonderful mechanism the brain uses to decide which actions to take in a given situation. It is a physical process that you can learn to use easily.

When we act a certain way repeatedly, the action becomes habit. Habits, my friends, are the single most important factor that determines our success or failure in any given situation.

Need proof? I tell my students who need reinforcement of this principle to choose 3 or more successful people that they would like to pattern their success after and read biographies/autobiographies about those persons.

Read the books and pay close attention to the habits of those people. They will be similar.

Wealthy people have common traits/habits. Great inventors share the same. So do famous actors, scientists…. all people who achieve certain things have a common core of beliefs and actions. This is part of the Law of Attraction in action. They are a vibrational match.

I do not choose the subjects of study because I know that whoever they choose will have the same habits. It is law. If they were significantly different in these areas, they would have different results.

These differences in behavior are almost all controlled in the subconscious mind. Little is really understood about this mind of ours, but we can learn to use it to change our circumstances.

Your subconscious mind is what keeps your heart beating, regulates your temperature, remembers to breathe for you and all the other things that are needed to survive. It also controls your behavior far more than you realize.

Have you ever had to make a sudden choice with no time to think - just BAM, choose left or right, right now? As you struggled to think about what to do, you suddenly just kinda knew. You actually just relaxed a little and made the call.

Sometimes the subconscious just takes over. And once it does, it protects its decisions. If you ever have made that snap decision without thinking, did you notice that you didn't question it afterwards? Or that you couldn't concentrate on it at all?

Automatic driving is a good example, where you arrive after driving for a long time with little recollection of the day. You made dozens of turns, but cannot easily recall them. These are just shifts between your conscious and your subconscious being in control.

Sometimes the deep mind can take over to allow the conscious to focus elsewhere. Your subconscious mind is believed to be able to perform over 50 million calculations at any given time, awake or asleep. The conscious mind? For most of us, it's around 7. And only while awake. The subconscious mind is one of the most powerful things we can measure. It is the driving force of our lives.

The subconscious mind is not just a physical thing contained in our brain. It is the part of us connected with everything else. Consider this: Why does a tree grow? Seriously, what makes a tree grow? There must be mind involved to make this happen. This is what I refer to loosely as the universe. A larger consciousness that connects us in many different ways. Our subconscious, or 'deep' mind is what connects us with the universe. It is the translator between what is and what could be.

The subconscious prefers to communicate with pictures, and it is believed by many that it may not use language at all. When the subconscious is presented with a picture, it connects that picture to whatever other input it has at that moment: Taste, smell, temperature, etc., but what it looks for the most is how much attention you are giving it and how strongly you feel about it. These things are what the deep mind uses to determine the level of importance the experience is given.

When you feel great about something, 'feel-good' chemicals are released in your brain. They can be much more powerful than some illegal narcotics, just in very small doses. When the deep mind gets rewarded with feel-good chemicals, it looks to re-create the circumstances that brought the reward. This is why it is so important to feel, as strongly as you can, all the happy emotions attached to your goal.

Message to deep mind: "When I am in this circumstance, I feel this way. Find a path to this future as quickly as possible and draw to us everything we need so that we can feel this great all the time!"

The frequency goes out and changes start to be made. Some changes are inward, and if you are careful to notice and approve them, they will arrive faster. Working in harmony with your desire shows that you really want this outcome and opens up paths the universe can use to bring your whatever to you.

In learning to use the LoA, we generally begin with affirmations (verbal reinforcement of that which we desire - always spoken of in the present tense, i.e.., “I am so glad now that I have this thing in my life” while feeling the emotion of having it) and vision boards (visual reinforcement of that which is desired) that are stated repeatedly and seen repeatedly until our subconscious gets the message that this is who we are.

This absolutely works. It can even be done against our will.

Some people have used this knowledge to control people against their will. When it is used this way, it is called brainwashing. We all know that brainwashing is real, so if this can be done effectively to someone against their will, how much more effective can it be when we choose to use this tool to improve our lives and our surroundings with permission?

There are thousands of free inspirational videos available online today. Find a YouTube channel full of the kind you like most (if you don’t know, explore!) and watch them for 30 minutes a day. Play them in the background when you can. Choose only messages you consciously wish to incorporate into your life, then listen to them until you do.

The Law of Attraction always works. What you show to your deep mind, attached with emotion, it will immediately begin to create. Pictures you reinforce over time will have more power the more often you reinforce them. If you can see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

As you practice these things, your habits will change. As noted earlier, habits are what make the difference in people’s lives.

The second of the main principles is that using the LoA will change the way you see things. What once was ignored will become urgent, while what you used to focus on will begin to fade away.

Dr. Wayne Dyer said it best: “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”.

John Assaraf tells a great story of a man who must repeatedly travel through the desert to a remote village.

On this journey, he must avoid the dangerous cacti that fill the land. One day he becomes too tired to continue and considers turning back. He is thirsty and tired and the obstacles seem too many and too difficult to overcome. He stumbles and cuts himself on the cactus before him.

At that moment, he remembers that some cactus contain water. He cuts it open and drinks the water. Refreshed, he completes the journey. The ‘obstacle’ has become a resource.

The resource was always there, but the traveler did not see it as such. When he changed the way he looked at it, it changed.

But did it actually morph into something different? No, it did not. The person changed, not the cactus.

The Law of Attraction is partially about becoming the person who has the things desired. It is many, many other things as well.

Many teachers who introduce people to this great law focus on the things coming to the student with little effort. Let’s be honest, that’s what sells books and videos. And what they teach is true, but it is not the complete story.

I’ll close with this:

If you want a certain kind of mate, first become the kind of person the desired mate will want to be with. In doing so, you will attract them to you and they will compete for your attention.

If you desire to be wealthy, first learn what wealthy people do (and do not do) and learn to become more like that. The wealth will naturally follow.

If you want [insert desire here] then learn what people who have this thing do and DO THAT.

The mechanics of vibrational tuning are confusing to most and trying to learn just those principles will lead many to disappointment.

I liken it to learning to drive a car. Thinking about how the internal combustion engine works will not get you where you want to go. It may be helpful to know how to maintain the vehicle, but learn to drive first so you can get to the store and buy the parts needed for maintenance.

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I make music, but I sure can’t draw cover art for it. What about you?

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For this writeup, we will backtrack all the way to 2010. Back in the early 2000s, I use to write a bunch of music in MIDI format. Yeah, the music that sounds really bad on every soundcard out there today and for which you’ll likely need pro audio equipment to play properly nowadays. I wrote music steadily from 200 to 2006, which is when I got bored and tired of the limitations of the MIDI format.

If you wanna listen to some of these, check out my old dead site from 2006: http://music.themaxproject.com/midis.php

Fast forward to 2010, where I kinda grew disinterested of music in general apart from making some songs here and here. I was transitioning to audio, but never quite managed to find my footing. I started buying some actual music gear but failed to use it in a proper way. Then, February rolls in and I get to heard about the RPM Challenge. “Record a full album of music all in February.” This was an insane idea, so I signed up.

And I did it! With about 36 hours to spare, I came up with my first complete collection of songs I’d call an album. It was a 10-track set of ambient, wintery songs that depicted the adventures of an unnamed person dealing with winter. It had some filler material due to the circumstances of the project, but it was my very first baby and I was proud of it. It was called “Winter Always Winter”

This process repeated during February 2011 and 2012, where I created two more albums under the same circumstances. 2011 saw the making of a watery-typed album which was more pop-oriented and less on the ambient side, 2012 was a progressive metal-influenced musical journey about the experience of death. You can listen to all of these albums here:

http://themaxproject.rpmchallenge.com/

I released these albums online, but they never ventured far past the website of RPM Challenge. Part of me was doubtful toward the music, the production which I didn’t like that much (especially the 2010 album) but in the end, I designed these albums to challenge myself and not really for the public to hear. As a result, the artwork for these albums was just pictures found on Google Images and slapped without any thought. These albums were not to be sold or shared, so who cares about the cover art? I had some encouraging words here and there, but I didn’t believe that I should share these songs openly.

Until now.

After giving it some thought, I do want this music to reach to a wider audience. I’ll put it for sale on Bandcamp for people who wanna buy it, but I’ll also put free to download versions as well. But in order to do so, I need them to have an actual face. You know, actual cover art and not something taken straight from Google Images.

Since I have no artistic talent (on the visual side at the very least), this is where you can come and help me. If you like drawing pictures or take photographs, you can help picture my music and make cover art for my albums. You can go listen to the music on this URL to know how the music sounds like.

http://themaxproject.rpmchallenge.com/

I'll talk about the albums a little bit more in depth in order to help inspire you in your endeavours and for you to know what kind of thing you'd be dealing with.

Winter Always Winter (2010) : A mostly ambient album with an occasional experimental pop feel. The mood carried through the music is very somber, cold and distant. It conveys the story of a person confronting winter. It starts in an hopeful matter, but they end up losing a friend who gets swallowed in a frozen lake. They lose all reason, running through the woods endlessly and feeling the trees are alive and can attack them at any given moment. All sense of time is lost and they end up lost in the frozen woods, losing the last of their strength as the sunshine finally comes. By then, it's already too late.

Aquastrophia (2011) : The name was supposed to be a mixture of the words "Aquatic Catastrophe" and water is the main theme of the album. In comparison, this is a warmer album which has a stronger pop feel to it. It introduces some electric guitar elements and the overall mood is kinder. In due time, the music gets more menacing as the events unravel. It involves the idea of a beautiful lake that attracts whoever sets eye on it. As time passes, people feel the need to dive in the lake and explore it. However, the lake powers are so strong it lures people in believing they don't need to ever surface. They drown and drift away into a hidden community consisting of sea creatures, where they get revived, but also transformed as one of them, making sure they'll never return to Earth to speak about what they've found, but also making it so that they have a new life in the undersea.

Infinity Decayed (2012) : The last album of the lot. Definitely the darkest album of the lot and also the heaviest. Most of the pop sensibilities from the previous albums are gone, replaced instead with monolithic metal with heavy progressive rock influences. Compositions are dense, bleak and oppressive. The theme of the album is death and its process. The songs convey the following stages of death: the refusal of dying and the fight until the bitter end, the last of your strength fading away as death claims you, the feeling of your soul drifting away in the afterlife, the arrival in Limbo, where a huge stretch of nothing appears before your eyes and where not a single soul is to be found, the refusal of your new eternal home in Limbo and finally, the resigned acceptance of your new fate.

Hopefully that should cover most of it. If you have any artwork you wanna share, feel free to send me a message on Tumblr for me to read and we'll discuss the terms of use and how much money you want me to pay for it. If you don't want money, I can also pay you in video games; just tell me that one game on Steam you want but didn't feel like spending money on!

Thanks for reading!

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AN INTERVIEW WITH CHAIN DAZEY 

    Chain Dazey, a hard rock band from Long Beach, NY just released their album Lo Lyfe. Sonically and visually tied to the nostalgia of the 90s, they combine punk guitar and explosive drums with ideas and lyrics relevant to those growing up in today’s society. Reminiscent of the anger and angst of Nirvana and the muffled guitars of Sonic Youth, this album makes powerful, creative statements. We talked with Chain Dazey to learn a little more about their band, cheesy 80s cereal commercials, and the importance of spontaneity when creating art. 

Tell us about the birth of chain dazey! 

    Chain Dazey was formed shortly after I dropped out of college and spent all the money I had left on recording gear. I recorded a couple songs I had been working on and posted to craigslist to see if anybody wanted to start a band. And that's how I teamed up with our bass player, Jimmy. He was going to school for audio engineering, so having him around was kind of a virtue. Not only is he an amazing bass player but when it comes down to making demos and recording, he’s a big help, because although I may be able to write a song and hit the record button, when it comes down to mixing and EQ, I have no clue what's going on. We originally came up with the name Chain Smoke, due to our consistent passion for smoking pot, but then realized there was already some band called The Chain Smokers. So we settled for Chain Dazey. We wound up liking the new name a lot better. It makes more sense in a way, if were consistently in a daze wouldn’t that make us Chain Dazey? So that's that.. I’m sure I’m leaving out a large amount of our story, maybe a drummer or two, but that’s pretty much the main gist of how Chain Dazey was formed.

I know this is super unoriginal on my part, but when I first heard your music it instantly reminded me of Nirvana. What artists do you draw a majority of your inspiration from?

Maybe its just super unoriginal on our part, but yea, a lot of people say we sound like an offspring of Nirvana and Green Day.  Although I do see where they're coming from with that, I don’t really see those bands being our main influences. I think we might just share some of the same influences those bands may have had, like The Replacements and stuff. I’m a big rock guy, from classic rock to punk and alternative, I’m pretty much into it all.

How has the New York area + music scene affected your sound, if at all?

It's great.There are a lot of really good bands on the East Coast and in New York, but I don’t think it's ever really had an effect on our sound. Many of the bands, from my area try way to hard to sound like Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. It all just winds up sounding the same to me, so I don’t see where Chain Dazey really fits in with that. Is that what New York sounds like? Most of the music I listen to is older sounds. I'm way out of the loop over here. I think we would have way more fun being a West Coast band.  

You recently released your music video for your single ‘Return of the Mutt’ which consists of cheesy snippets of 90s cartoons among many other things. What was the idea behind this video?

I have this really strange obsession with old TVs and crappy quality video and I really wanted to make a music video that emulated the feeling of paranoia through a bad acid trip. There is this part during the verses when I up strike the guitar between each measure. After listening back to the song it kind of reminded me of the sound an old TV would make, when changing the channel. So I came up with this idea of creating a 80's/90's channel surfing montage. I spent a couple days downloading old commercial vaults off YouTube, scrounging through them and picking the most bizarre clips I could find to add to the mix. All in all I had a lot of fun making the video and it was quite the learning experience for me. There aren't nearly as many fast food or sugar cereal commercials today as there was back then.

When can we expect your debut album to be released?

Our debut full length album Rawhyde will hopefully be out by March. Right after we finished production for it, we started recording this Lo-Fi influenced EP we had been working on and got kind of carried away with the spontaneity of it. Then we figured that since “Rawhyde” was recorded in more of a studio setting, it would only make sense to release a lower quality version of Chain Dazey first.

You guys recently released an album out of the blue; what inspired this sudden EP? What was it like recording it in such little time?

I had just finished watching the first season of Stranger Things and was really inspired by the dark retro tone the show had, along with its soundtrack, so I started listening to a lot of ambient style music. I really wanted to find a way to incorporate that into our sound. I wanted to make music that could almost disturb you. The recording process wasn't too much of a problem for us, if anything, we had a lot of fun. Unlike our full length Rawhyde that was recorded in a studio, Lo Lyfe was recorded entirely out of my garage, so we kind of had a lot of time on our hands, we weren’t working off of anyone else’s schedules but our own.

do you think that this sort of spontaneity is important in creating art, specifically music?

I do!! I think when it comes to art, or in my case songwriting, it’s important to act on impulse. It's so easy to get inspired by something and just let that feeling pass you by and do nothing with that. It happens to me all the time! But when you really take the time to try and express what your feeling and grab it before it goes away, then there's an actual outcome. I do however believe it's also important to take your time on your craft. Act on inspiration quickly, but once you have it all mapped out, really study it and try to make sure it’s your all.

an artist, song, or album that makes you feel a heavy dose of nostalgia?

Tons!! Old and new bands. Every time i put on Joan Jett or The Clash I get this urge to throw away every object in my room made past 1985 and live in denial for a little bit. Technology scares the crap out of me, especially when it comes to music. Maybe I'm getting a little off topic here, but I feel like so many artists these days embrace the digital era. It’s a really bad thing in my opinion, but I also feel as if it's created a chain reaction of some sort. A lot of bands/artists are going back to recording analog and people are buying vinyl records and cassettes again!! I don't even think its trendy, I honestly like the sound better.

any upcoming shows you'd like our viewers to know about?

Not at the moment, but we really want to do some touring in 2017. We're always looking for established bands to jump on the bandwagon with. We're pretty much ready for anything.

LISTEN TO CHAIN DAZEY HERE

interview by AL SMITH 

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Cool Ideas for Vision Boards

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Ideas for vision boards

Do you need some cool ideas for vision boards that work?  Read this.

I think we frequently envision a vision board as gigantic board on our wall, covered in photos of everything we desire in our lives, but that’s not really what it has to be like.

I have actually assembled some vision board subjects to motivate you to think outside the box and develop a vision board (or boards) that truly represents you.

My current vision board is a piece of paper that I keep in the rear of my planner .

I even have a little vision board card that I keep clipped right into my organizer to remind me of among my Really Important Huge Image Goals (to be debt-free!)..

  How Do You Use a Vision Board for Goal-Setting?

The best way to achieve your goals is to keep them top of mind, so you’re always looking for ways to move yourself closer to them – and a vision board is the perfect tool to help you do that.

By putting a vision board somewhere you can see it every day, you will prompt yourself to visualize your ideal life on a regular basis.

And that’s important because visualization activates the creative powers of your subconscious mind and programs your brain to notice available resources that were always there but escaped your notice.

Through the Law of Attraction, visualization also magnetizes and attracts to you the people, resources, and opportunities you need to achieve your goal.

By adding a visualization practice to your daily routine, you will naturally become more motivated to reach your goals. You’ll start to notice you are unexpectedly doing things that move you closer to your ideal life.

Suddenly, you find yourself volunteering to take on more responsibility at work, speaking out at staff meetings, asking more directly for what you want, and taking more risks in your personal and professional life – and experiencing bigger pay-offs.

    Ideas for Vision Boards To Visualize Your Important Goals

Visualize living a life you think about optimal and also well balanced. Penetrate the desirable information of your job, your partnerships and the hobbies you pursue.

Delight in the gratification of your experience. What are you doing to make this exciting life occur? Just how is your future self various from you today? Suggest of all that you observe– shades, people, actions, locations, feelings etc

. The process you just participated in above is called visioning.

This entails having fun with our ideal mind to invoke imagination as well as imagination. It’s a procedure that typically assists us reach the heart of what we desire, what holds worth for us, and after that motivates us right into action from an area of aliveness and positioning.

Famous athletes like Tiger Woods, Muhammad Ali, as well as Jack Nicklaus are recognized to have actually used visioning for their success.

A method for making visioning much more real is creating vision boards, which are representations of our objectives and desires. At their core, these boards are a collection of images, words, as well as expressions that record your desires.

The intent of this collage is to make you feel genuinely giddy, inspiring you right into focused action. Marketing

Vision boards that are produced from the room of understanding form when we are open to messages that come when we request what is waiting to take form.

These visions can be in the type of shades, feelings, words, or feelings. Such vision boards are highly spontaneous as well as intuitive.

The 2nd kind of vision boards are produced from the area of objective, where we look into our inmost longings and also actively take part in checking out, sharing, and also standing for these needs via different ways. This is a form of symptom.

Let’s check out what we can place on our vision boards that record our dreams.

  1. Words

Words have a mysterious method of influencing us. Whether words explain sensations or echo states of being, they all evoke experiences we have actually had or wish to have.

Check out magazines to reduce out words which define how you intend to be or what you wish to feel. You can even write them in big, vibrant, vibrant letters. My favorites are ‘curiosity’, ‘prospering’ and also ‘thankfulness’.

2. Quotes

Quotes are great resources of state of mind development as well as effectively share a suggestion or experience in its totality.

Regardless of what the context in which words were initially said, the influence of a great quote is timeless. The visitors make it their own.

Select quotes which provide surge to intense and precise ideas that match the state/experience you desire to show up at or those which envelop your journey.

These can be from your role versions, favorite authors, educators, or perhaps something out of a track! You can also include rhymes. Advertising

3. Self-Affirmations

Self-Affirmations are different from quotes because you write these by yourself, on your own. They are intended at altering one’s worldview and also downfall limiting ideas.

Research suggests that they can minimize anxiousness, anxiety, and defensiveness related to risks to our sense of self, while having positive neuro-psychological results and maintaining us available to enhancement.

Create affirmations which begin with “I am.” and obstacle beliefs concerning cash, success, ability, as well as skill. Write affirmations which go beyond what you believe is feasible as well as transform the ‘can not’ to ‘can’.

4. Art or Doodles

Art or Doodles created by you are one of the very best ways to strengthen your preferred states. Considering that it is you that is representing your vision through imagery, there is no better way of owning it.

You don’t have to be experienced in art to create doodles. You just need to agree to play!

You can scribble your life map, or just utilize colors to without effort share your sensations without type. Draw your future successful self, in your desire task or taking your dream trip.

And if you are video game for an innovative threat, doodle your favorite quote or your own affirmation.

5. Pictures

Pictures are a fantastic choice to the doodles, since they can snap you out of any kind of hesitancy you might really feel towards illustration. Marketing

Depending on the vision you are operating at meeting, you can install pictures of connected individuals who are successful as well as photos which evoke feelings you want to experience (appreciation, pleasure, love, event, etc.).

You can additionally locate pictures which are specifically similar to those you see in your imagination. If you wish to raise the obstacle, you can have images standing for different actions you will take.

6. Souvenirs

Souvenirs, as sources of motivation, are extremely potent. They can act as pointers of your staminas, uniqueness, achievements, successful partnerships, as well as favorable organizations.

If there are souvenirs which you associate with the birth of a particular vision, those are the ones that must take place the board.

You can have anything from name tags, gratitude notes, trinkets, key-chains, dry fallen leaves, buttons, magnets, string lights, and so on. The possibilities are countless. Simply choose keepsakes which apply.

7. Goals and Intentions

Objectives as well as purposes develop the basis of our visions.

Set up the objectives and intents affixed to your vision in innovative methods. You can make an intent tree with the roots being the vision, the bark being your staminas, and also the fallen leaves being all the objectives you need to attain the vision.

You can also create a multimedias sunlight, with the large goal as the core and also all feasible activities as the rays.

8. Lists

Listings can be enjoyable if you make them so. Vision boards can include listings of gratitude, your bucket listings, inspirational track checklists, support group checklists, and also publications to check out for attaining the vision.

Checklist core techniques or suggestions, which assist you step right into the fact of your vision.  This will give you more ideas for vision boards.

Have fun with shade, typefaces, printing, or creating. The more dynamic you make it, the much more enticing it will be.

  Getting more ideas for vision boards

Vision boards are an operate in progress as well as will certainly advance with your transforming visions and also dreams. But the ideal thing about this method is that there is no upside-down to create a vision board.

Keep in mind, your vision board is a present to you from your finest self. So, it has the potential of being a deeply reflective experience also.

Remove diversions, put on some calming music, and study the magic of visioning.

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Routines for Reasoning: A Journey of Bravery and Mathematical Thinking

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Written by: Elizabeth Azinheira, 7th Grade Teacher at Forest Park Middle School in Springfield.

In this blog, Elizabeth Azinheira describes how reading the book "Routines for Reasoning" and implementing the ideas has changed her teaching. In her intervention classroom, Liz carefully designs lessons that allow all her students to work at their learning edges. This may include working on language skills as well as working on mathematical ideas from lower grade levels. Liz was supported in making these changes by Dr. Christine von Renesse in a graduate course by special arrangement which included weekly video meetings and several classroom observations. After telling her personal story, Liz provides an overview of the routines and makes some of her lesson plans available for others to use.

The Journey...

Upon being given their own classroom, every teacher quickly learns that the reality of teaching is very unlike the experience they imagined. After all, the image conjured in the imagination of an unsuspecting would-be teacher is likely that of a classroom filled with obedient children who are ready to receive information from the wise and knowledgeable teacher, who stands at the front of the classroom and tells them what to do. “What could be more gratifying than dispensing valuable information to young hearts and minds?” one might think. “How could any child refuse the gifts of knowledge and wisdom I so obviously have to bestow upon them? Surely they would recognize the value of what I have to say.” I’m pretty sure we’ve all had some version of this daydream.

Cue the sound of a scratched record. (Do my fellow millennials even get this reference? To the Gen-Zers entering the workforce, you should know that, before MP3s and streaming there was this thing called a CD, before which there were tapes, and before those there were records and those records created a dramatic ripping sound when scratched and – alas, I digress. Let me get back to the topic on hand).

No, no, lovely would-be teacher. The reality of teaching today is that you will be simultaneously (take a deep breath now): (1) assessing student’s prior knowledge while teaching them the current standard but also considering how your instruction will affect students’ understanding and subsequent mastery of the next standard; (2) meeting the (often conflicting) demands of administration while (3) managing the unimaginably creative array of conflicts between students whose social skills are -ahem – developing; (4) communicating with parents of varying interest, expectations, and influence; (5) planning instruction for the average student, the advanced student, the student with learning difficulties, the student with major gaps in prior knowledge, the student with limited English proficiency, and –lest we forget—the student, who, for some reason (and unbeknownst to you, despite your infinite attempts to understand) does not like you and makes your job very difficult. Then, after making roughly 1,500 in-the-moment, on-the-fly, and gosh-I-really-hope-I-just-made-the-right-choice decisions of just one single day, you have the pleasure of doing it all over again the next day. (Whew!)

And yet, here’s the thing: It. Is. Awesome. The best ride you’ll ever be on. Worth every moment of struggle, every extra sip of coffee and every minute of post-work napping. Because here’s the thing: you are being and modeling the change that you wanted to see in the world.

You are an essential part of the journey for each one of those sweet (and sour) little buggars –those future business owners and leaders and decision-makers who will run the world while we slowly age and eventually retire (scary thought, I know, I know, so, let’s just bring this story back to the present tense). But in all seriousness, think about the self-improvement one inevitably makes throughout a normal lifetime. And now imagine that x10. That’s the experience of being a teacher. Indeed, as long as you are willing to reflect on how you can do better tomorrow, maintain a growth mindset and remain committed to practicing self-care, you will thrive. And you will have the journey of a lifetime.

I am currently on that journey. Although my teaching has transformed in the 6 years since I started teaching, I have only just begun the process of becoming the teacher that my students truly need me to be. In fact, it took me until this past fall to understand –to really understand—that teachers, including me, must move beyond lecture-style lessons. And yes, it still counts as lecturing if you have kids work with you in a small group to do their work. (I think of it this way: If I am the one explaining what should be done and why it makes sense, then I am teaching a lecture-style lesson). Now, why do we have to abandon our good-ol’ “sit 'n git” style of teaching, since it’s ostensibly worked for so long?

I think you already know the answer to that question. Students learn by tinkering, by exploring, by finding their words and sharing ideas. Even as adults, that is how we learn. And yet, in the name of efficiency and despite our own experiences to the contrary, so much of teaching takes place in the form of “you sit and copy my notes, listen to my rules, practice problems on your own, and then, hopefully, when you encounter a complex word problem, you will figure out how to do it right.”

In the name of full transparency, that was (more or less) the process of teaching that I used to follow. Sure, I tried to get students thinking by modeling my own thinking via “think-alouds” and prescriptive problem-solving strategy lists. But unsurprisingly, my students still just “didn’t get it.” They didn’t internalize any of my teaching! “Why aren’t they getting it?!” I would ask myself while pulling out my hair and blaming myself for being such an ineffective teacher; blaming them for being unable to make sense of it all in a meaningful or enduring way.

Upon reflection, it becomes so obvious to see: I didn’t get it. I didn’t understand that learning can only take place when students have multiple and varied opportunities to explore math on their own terms and in their own words. That means that my job, as the teacher, is to facilitate the intersection between what students can do, what they want to do, and what I can convince them to do!

I only just started to understand this distinction recently. What is amazing is that, since modifying my approach, my students have grown tremendously in their ability to communicate their mathematical thinking to me and to each other. This is because, for the last 4 months, I am been studying and practicing the art of mathematical reasoning with my students based on the book Routines for Reasoning by Grace Kelemanik, Amy Lucenta, and Susan Janssen Creighton. I have also been working with Dr. von Renesse on establishing a culture of bravery and peer-to-peer communication within the classroom.

Don’t the ideas of mathematical reasoning, bravery, and communication, sound so simple, so foundational, so…. implicitly interwoven into everything we do, anyway? And yet, If you are like me, you believe you incorporate these ideas into your classroom culture more than you actually do. After all, I’d thought I’d been doing mathematical reasoning for my previous 5 years of teaching. But as I explored Routines for Reasoning and examined ideas with Dr. Renesse, I came to understand that I needed to improve the way I modeled ideas of mathematical thinking and bravery in front of my students. I needed to explicitly point out examples of courage in the classroom and draw attention to metacognitive strategies.

Put another way, I had to be brave and take the risk of trying new strategies that felt, at first, like a waste of precious time. I had to be courageous by overcoming the fear that my reluctant learners would refuse to engage in the new routines, that they might revolt or start throwing rotten fruit at me –never mind where they would have gotten rotten fruit.

Just as I would later teach my students to say, I first had to tell myself: “It’s okay to be wrong and to make mistakes along the way, because the process of being wrong teaches us more than if we had first been right.” It sounds kind of obvious. And yet, saying this phrase - repeating it over and over every chance I got, until my kids actually started believing it to have a sliver of truth– it felt radical. What I now understand, however, is that this radical little phrase has the power to change hearts and minds well beyond the boundaries of math. It is with this very phrase that I have fortified my students against math anxiety and promoted a culture of mathematical exploration. By celebrating mistakes and, yes, the inefficient process of growth, I saw even my most reluctant of students develop a better understanding of mathematical concepts. Thus, I can honestly report that what I really learned this semester was more than just some routines out of a book – it was the art of reasoning.

And now I want to support you in being brave and taking the risk of transforming your own classroom into a laboratory of mathematical thinking. To support you, I leave you a brief guide to implementing the 4 Routines for Reasoning along with teacher-ready lesson plans and tasks. While the routines can be modified for any grade level, I have left you tasks for major learning strands in grades 4 through 7.

Let me close by saying that I am so glad you are on this journey. I wish you, and the students whose lives you will touch throughout your career, the many joys of mathematical reasoning.

Routines for Reasoning Resources:

On this page, Liz provides an overview of the routines and makes some of her lesson plans available for others to use.

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How to Draw Batman - Tech Version

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How to Draw Batman - Tech Version

How to Draw Batman – Tech Version – Easy Things to Draw

This is the tech version of batman I’m drawing from my mind. I had no preparation to draw this, I am making it up as I go along. I talk about my process through narration. I use ballpoint pen. Check out the entire video, and please like and share if possible.

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Hey guys, how are you doing, I’m Enrique and welcome to easy things to draw, hopefully you guys are having a really good day, this article is about an old video that I had from the channel sketch monster and I want to import in this channel, I’m actually having to record over the video because the original footage of this didn’t have commentary at all, so I just thought I can bring something different to it.

What I want to do with this is slowly merging my two channels together, realistically, I’m getting rid of the sketch monster channel, I might just make that only digital, I’m not sure yet and I will take most of these videos and delete them from sketch monster and put them over here, on easy things to draw…

  As I said before, I don’t want to upload the same video so I’ll go over it, what I’ll draw today is a made-up version of Batman just going to tech version because I love drawing tech, I usually go through phases where I love to draw robots and things related to them, you know, like all kinds of machines and it’s almost the only thing I do, then I go to another phase where I like to draw only monsters most of the time so I go to get back to draw people because I don’t draw that as much as I used to…

The first thing I will do to get started is ghosting the image, this is something I’ve talked about before, so if you need to go over this theme you can go see a video that I have, where I explain with more detail what the ghosting is about. In this step you should go quite light with your pen, the one I’m using is a regular Ballpoint pen, is one of those who give you free to advertise and those things are very generic…

  I originally did it to prove a point, which is, it really doesn’t matter what tools you use, just depends on the level of knowledge you have, because spend hundreds of dollars buying tools it won’t make you better, what will make you draw better is to learn and practice, of course I like my fine Ballpoint pen a lot better, but the one I’m using, which is free and the most common is good, I mean, it’s okay and also adequate to draw.

I continue with my drawing and I want to make like plates coming down in like the shoulder and neck area, I was thinking of giving like a samurai style, maybe a cyber samurai type, that’s actually the first thing that comes to my mind, you can find millions of amazing versions of Batman if you ever go looking for them…

  If you don’t know this character, even though I doubt it, I’ll tell you a little bit about his story, Batman is a character created by the Americans: Bob Kane and Bill Finger is also owned by DC Comics. His first appearance was in the story “The case of the chemical syndicate” of the magazine, Detective Comics N. °27, published on March 30, 1939.

Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, who is a billionaire and philanthropist who owns the Wayne company in Gotham City, after witnessing the murder of his parents in a violent assault when he was a kid, He swears revenge and fights against crime, for this, he undergoes a rigorous training

His clothing, fighting utensils and vehicle is characterized by the design of a bat. Unlike most superheroes, he doesn’t have superpowers, he has to resort to his intellect, well as scientific and technological applications to create weapons and tools with which he carries out his fights. He lives in the Wayne mansion and in the underground we can find the Batcave, which is the center operations of Batman. He also gets help from allies, among which we can find Robin, Elwood, Nightwing, the local police commissioner, James Gordon, and his butler Alfred Pennyworth.

Batman is one of the most emblematic characters of DC Comics, he even got his own magazine in the year 1940, given to for his good acceptance. Three years later, Columbia Pictures released the first television adaptation of the character, which was followed by the Batman and Robin series in 1949. In the 1960s, another series was released, called “Batman”, which used a more “camp” concept and this ended up setting aside his somber tone with which it was originally conceived.

Later, the writers Dennis O’Neil, Neal Adams, and Frank Miller produced newly written material about the Batman universe, which passed between the 1970s and 1980s, taking up the original designs and elements of the franchise.

Tim Burton’s namesake film, released in 1989, is considered to have played an important role in the popularity of Batman, also was the series of films launched with “Batman Begins” in 2005. In addition to the previous productions, there are several more in which the character and his elements have been incorporated.

So there’s a huge amount of Batman versions to blow your mind on, if you guys have a favorite Batman version, please send me a link to it or just tell me, that way I can go search for myself because I love seeing different versions of the characters.

I continuing with the drawing and I putting in little parts, I still don’t know where the neck part is going to attach, which I do know is I want that neck area to be a little more complicated, I also start finding for smaller shapes, and this is something I have said in the past, of all kinds of things, you star large, very broad and then you start to focus on different aspects of the drawing. If we’re talking about design, I don’t want to over complicate the forehead, I’ve talked about tension and release, tension in the area of massive complications, well not massive but just complicated area, right here, would be in the area of the face mask, then I release private upper forehead, the ears.

Now I’m trying to give this dimension, I want the plates do not overlap completely but give the feeling that they’re touching so you can see a little crack in between the plates, that’s like attention to detail thing. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the lens/eyes if it’s gonna be completely robotic, and then it made me think that this won’t be the real Batman, maybe, you know, it’ll be a more robotic version of Batman…

Now I want the line I’m making can bottle the chin over the cheekbone, it in carrying through all the way to the back of the forehead, you have the sweeps and that sort of thing and you can check out in this channel, since they were in my main channel before and that doesn’t exist anymore.

Continuing with the drawing, I’m going to the forehead of the far the side of the eye, now I’m choosing which lines I want to make thicker, as they’re going to really be the main focus, with at least one line you’ll create several different focuses, whatever you do darker in your drawing, it will push forward about the viewer so you’ll have to be careful what you pick and that’s why I can get away with kind of scribbling stuff in and then I put a thicker line, you know that too, if you’ve been drawing for even a little while…

You’ve already done exactly the same thing I’ve done, you know, you start drawing with a pencil and then you try to erase it, but the line is really dug so you can’t get it out, what I mean by that is kind of the same thing, but this time you’re doing it on purpose, although with this drawing I’m using a pen and it’s a little different.

Now I go around the side of the necklace and I push it downward, I just add abstract shapes at this point, fiddling with a small shape, just making a kind of mess around, also I’m trying to duplicate this piece on the shoulder, trying to mirror it, and that’s it, all I do is pretty much random, I also do this on the shoulders and the neck, I have no plan with this, I just do what I feel will look better.

We’re almost at the end of this drawing, I’ve always found pretty funny to darkening the contour, we’ve already got to the part of the drawing where the only thing left is just darksome things here and there and I feel like my drawing is almost ready, I just throw a couple of extra lines to kind of make it more presentable to the viewer, that’s also something I always think, “is this presentable enough” or “what can I do to make it more presentable”, I also like to darkening a couple of things, because this makes very clear what to look at and is more dealing to the viewer.

And that’s it, we’ve already finished our tutorial on how to draw tech Batman version, some things I have to say before saying goodbye is that I’ve started a new page in Patreon, although I already had one, like about two years ago, but this time I’m working really hard on it, since the one I had before I never took it very seriously and now I’m giving to Patreon another chance, this time I want to do it more seriously and consistently, so if you have time go visit my page…

  Another thing you can do to support me is subscribing you to my channel “Easy Things To Draw 101” (the whole title together) and activate the little bell button, That way you’ll get notifications every time I upload new content to my channel, you know I like to teach you how to draw easy things, what can be: superheroes, monsters, body anatomy, robot or things related to mechanics, You don’t have to worry if you don’t know anything about it, because I always try to explain..

How to draw step by step and I try to do my tutorials the best way to help you guys, also it doesn’t really matter if you’ve been drawing for a long time or if you’re new, my tutorials and other videos are made for all types of artist, you can find drawings for beginners or also if you are a more experienced artist, you can review some themes, It is always good to do it because one can forget some things.

Another thing I like to talk about in my videos are experiences that happened to me and can happen to you as an artist, they can be, blockades when you are drawing or also can be bad art teachers among some things. And that’s all, thank you so much for seeing my tutorial, I really hope it can help you and I see you in another tutorial where I will teach you easy things to draw, goodbye.

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APPENDIX 1 - INTERVIEW WITH JACK BOWDEN, DRUMMER, TORS

Interviewer (me): Hi Jack, thank you for joining me for this interview today.  Things seem to be going very well for Tors, can you take us back to the beginning? How did Tors become Tors?

Jack: I was coming to University and I had just left the band that I was in at home and then I met Matt and Theo online.  I looked online and saw a band that was looking for a drummer and then we met for a beer in Spoons and I joined. We were originally an indie band and there were five of us at the time.

Interviewer: So there has been quite a big shift in terms of genre since you first began?

Jack: Yeah we were a proper indie band. That was three years ago.  2 of the guys left so it’s the three of us now!  This current set up we’ve been doing for 6 months.  All new music pretty much for the past 6months.

Interviewer: Are your old band bitter at you?

Jack: Haha, no! They’re smashing it actually, they’re doing really well.

Interviewer: Was it easy to gel with the guys when you first met them?

Jack: It was good. We met for a beer in Guildford Spoons and yeah we’ve pretty much been mates ever since, which is good.  Obviously having to spend three hours a week with each other for three years, you become pretty good mates. From the get-go it was good.  I don’t think we would have been a band if we weren’t mates to start with.

Interviewer: Even though you guys have only been in this new dynamic for 6 months, you’ve still achieved some big success, one being that you’ve just come off a UK tour with Tom Walker.  Can you tell us a bit about that?

Jack: Yeah, it was mental. We played 7 shows with him around the UK, ended at the Garage in London which was sold out and the best show we’ve done. It was a 600 capacity venue about 650 were there with industry people.

Interviewer: So some big names are watching over you?

Jack: Yeah, it’s quite a bit stressful, quite a lot of people were invited who we had to impress essentially. It went well.

Interviewer: So that was the very time you guys went on tour.  What was it like spending so much time and essentially living together as a band?

Jack: Yeah it was mental.  Yeah living with each other for a week, there were up and downs, but it was good. But I think if you spend that much time with anyone in close confines, it forces you to be close. It was good!  I feel so bad for our sound guy and tour manager who has to also share hotel rooms with us, cos we made an effort to to like actually annoy them as much as possible. We definitely succeeded.

Interviewer: So on this tour I’ve seen you’ve got a bit more of a following now.  Have you encountered any crazy fans? Any stories to tell?

Jack: People were waiting outside to meet us and then following us to our next gig and then waiting out near our vanto talk to us , that was pretty weird…. a bit creepy.

Interviewer: And I hear you have your first fan account. That’s a big thing.  You know you’re making it when you get yourself one of those.

Jack: Yeah the first.  That was weird.

Interviewer: Are there any cool tour stories to tell?

Jack: We were all really hungover in a museum in Glasgow, we all had a bug and we were sharing a room together, we’d been eating pot noodles non-stop at like 2 in the morning, hunched over the hotel sink trying not to make any mess. We had a day to kill and we wanted to do an actual adult thing rather than just sit hungover in a van for 6 hours. We were all walking around and we all just started feeling really really awful, like everyone started getting weak legs so hard cut to Theo sat in between this really small gap between two pillars in the upstairs of a museum, shaking so we try and get him out and then we end up sitting in a van for 6 hours. So that was our only bit of culture and it didn’t work.

Interviewer: So this new sound. How would you describe it and how would you compare it to your previous music?

Jack: We’ve stripped back a lot.  We’ve also started to use track a bit to add a bit of oomph to it.  We’re trying to go for a sort of Staves vocal style and Mumford and Sons-esque but with a bit more sort of Kings of Leon - atmospheric. But still a big focus on the harmonies.  The Eagles is probably my biggest inspiration band.

Interviewer: You’ve just released a new single “Seventeen” what was the writing and release process for that track?  

Jack: We aimed put it out as a Winter Warmer.  We have some up beat tracks we were gonna release in Summer but we didn’t get things ready in time so we thought we’d wait and hold off for the big tracks for next year, leading up to festival season. So we’re sort of doing nice Winter-y tracks with warm vibes at the moment. We wanted to keep our presence up and not go quiet until next year.

Interviewer: So is it quite hard managing and planning when to release things?

Jack: We sat down with our manager and agreed what’s being released when so we had an actual timeline so we could see when we need a video ready by, all of the wavs ready by this date, packages ready by this date and illustrations and things like that.  Cos Theo draws a lot of the things himself.

That’s great that you take so much control, does Theo create all your artwork?

Jack: Yeah we try and do as much of it everything that we can on our own.  We do all the videos ourselves.  

Interviewer: Any plans for the next release?  

Jack: The next release is in January, we’re releasing it under our own label that we’re making called “Wilder Day’s Records” - The last few tracks have been through that.

Interviewer: More live shows coming up?

Jack: We’ll probably do another live show in March leading up to our second single of next year and then hopefully a few dates in May and then festivals hopefully - see which ones we can get.

Interviewer: I know you also produce a lot of music yourself. Have you got any plans to do your own stuff with that side of things?

Jack: I’ll always keep my hand in that pot, it’s also good to bring things to sessions.  I’ve got a friend from my old band and we collaborate quite a bit. There are always different bits going on which is nice.  

Interviewer: So what’s your biggest dream as a band?

Jack: As far as we can go. As long as I can keep going without having an office job.  I do not want to sit behind a desk.  It sucks, absolutely sucks.  If I can keep doing this well into my 30’s, that’s the dream.  Keep going and then just retire then I’m done.  Keep playing live music essentially because that’s what it’s all about, playing in front of big crowds; it’s the best rush you can get.

Interviewer: Good luck to you guys.  Many thanks for chatting with me today!  I look forward to the next release!

Jack: Thank you for having me!

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Interview with Jack’s housemate, Luke Amis

Interviewer: What’s it like living with Jack from Tors?

Luke: It’s good. I get to hear a lot of new music from him before anyone else.  Sometimes popping into his room but other time just through the walls.

Interviewer: Did you know him before he was doing music? Were you friends first?

Luke: I met him through a mutual friend.  He used to live next door to me last year.  I didn’t know too much about his band.  I could hear him playing music through my window. I’ve had a bit of a jam with him on guitar.  He’s taught me quite a bit of stuff which is quite cool.

You got a guest pass on the TORS TOUR! What was it like seeing all the behind the scenes?

Luke: There’s a lot more to it than I thought.  Everyone was really nice. The boys are awesome and so welcoming.  I helped out a bit with load in but tried not to get in the way.  The show itself was amazing.

Jack’s a great mate.  I wish him the best for the future!

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219: I’d like to Feature YOU on the ProBlogger Podcast

An Invitation for YOU to Be Featured on the ProBlogger Podcast

Today’s podcast is a little different. It’s an invitation for YOU to be featured in an upcoming episode of the ProBlogger podcast.

Early next year we’ll be releasing a brand new free course for bloggers to help them launch their blogs.

And in the lead up we want to feature stories and tips from ProBlogger listeners and readers who’ve already started their own blogs.

So if you’ve started a blog, whether it was recently or a long time ago, we’d love to include you in the series.

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Hi there, it’s Darren from ProBlogger. Welcome to Episode 219 of the ProBlogger podcast. Today I’ve got something a little bit different. Normally I teach something to you. I share an idea or a tip on how to improve your blog. But today I want to invite you to teach the rest of our audience. I want to try something a little different and give you an invitation to be featured in an upcoming episode of the ProBlogger podcast.

Early next year we’re going to be releasing a brand new course for bloggers to help them to launch their first blog, pre-bloggers really. In the lead up to that, we would love to feature stories and tips from ProBlogger listeners and readers who’ve already started their blog. If you’ve started a blog, whether it be in the last few months, the last year, or a long time ago, I would to love to include you in this upcoming series.

Today’s episode is all about how you can be involved in this little project we’re running. Listen on to find out how. But let me share the show notes for today where you can find all the details of what I’m going to mention, it’s at problogger.com/podcast/219.

Every year in January we notice a really big swing, upswing, in traffic to ProBlogger’s articles on the topic of how to start a blog. It seems that many people make this their New Year’s resolution. “I’m going to start a blog in 2018.” And we’re expecting that in the beginning of next year, many people will begin to do that.

This next January, we want to really help as many of those bloggers as possible in a way that we’ve never done it before. We want to really see in 2018 be the year that thousands of new blogs get started. And to do this we’ve been working on a brand new free course on that very topic that’s going to walk pre-bloggers through the process of not only setting up a blog, the technicalities of that, but setting up the foundations for a profitable blog.

We’re going to be talking about choosing a topic, and a niche, and really refining what it is that you want to do on that blog. It’s not just about getting a domain and a server, that’s certainly part of what we want to help people with that. But we want to really get the right foundations for starting a blog.

If you are one of our listeners, and there are quite a few of you who are yet to start, yet to do your first blog, or you’re thinking about starting a second blog, I want to encourage you to just be on the lookout for that because it’ll happen early next year. You can sign up to be notified of that in today’s show notes at problogger.com/podcast/219.

But if you are someone who’s already started blogging, we would also love to involve you in the process as much as possible. We want to ask you to share your story and a few tips on the topic of starting a blog.

My team and I are really excited about this course we’ve already put together. I’s very comprehensive. It’s the kind of thing I wish I had when I was starting out. However, we know that in the wider ProBlogger community, there’s such amazing knowledge and some really inspirational stories that come from a variety of different backgrounds that would be invaluable to bloggers just starting out. We know that there are people in our audience who are fashion bloggers, food bloggers, travel bloggers, business blogger, technology bloggers, sports bloggers, the list could go on and on and on. To be honest, I don’t have experience at all of those different niches and all the different styles of blogging. We want to include as many of your stories and tips as possible so that new bloggers have different things to draw and different experiences to draw on.

We want you to be involved. And want to give you an opportunity to share some of your stories and advice here on the ProBlogger podcast and potentially over on the ProBlogger blog as well.

We would love to hear from you and we’d love to hear from you whether you are an old-time blogger, you’ve been maybe at it as long as I have, from 2002, or maybe you’re a newer blogger. We actually want to feature blogs of all stages and in all niches and of all styles, we want to encourage video bloggers and those who are doing audio blogs, and those who are doing more visual blogs, we really don’t mind. As long as you classify what you’re doing as a blog, we would love to hear your story, no matter what the niche, the style, where your background is, whether you’re from America, Australia, Zimbabwe, it really doesn’t matter. We would like you to keep it in English because that’s where the bulk of our audience is from. But apart from that, whatever background, whatever accent you have, we would love to try and feature as many of you as possible.

This is really going to help a lot of new bloggers, but hopefully, it’s also going to be good for you as it’s going to get your story, your blog, your URL, in front of thousands of listeners of this podcast and tens of thousands of subscribers of the email list that we send out every day. Our readers are a friendly bunch, so don’t worry about that.

Here’s what we need you to do. If you want to participate in this, and again, blogs of all sizes, it doesn’t matter, we would love you to submit a short audio file. We want to keep it under ten minutes. You can go five minutes if you want, but anything up to ten minutes and we want you to share your story of starting a blog and share some tips for those starting out. You can do it in your style, but there are few things that we do want you to include. Before you go run off and do your recording, we want to have some consistency between the storytelling. There are six questions we would like you to answer. As long as you cover these six things in some way in your story, that would be great. You don’t have to read the question and then answer it (if you want to do it that way, you can), but as long as you include these things we’d love to include you as much as possible.

Here are the six things.

We want you to tell you us your name, your blog’s name and the topic, its URL, that’s the first thing. Just keep that really short.

The second thing is for you to tell us the story of starting a blog. Include things like why did you start, when did you start, what were your objectives, hopes and goals, what were your dreams when you started out. It’s the expectations that you had, I guess, and anything interesting happening in that starting process.

The third thing we want you to include is in hindsight, what did you do in starting your blog that you’re most grateful that you did? We want you to identify something that you did right, something that you’re grateful that you did, something that maybe helped you to grow faster or made the process easier. Keep in mind here that these are new pre-bloggers who will be listening to this. Anything that’s going to help them to make their process easier would be great.

The fourth thing, what mistake or mistakes did you make that you would advise other people watch out for. Did you choose the wrong domain, the wrong server, the wrong theme, did you not have a tight enough niche, whatever it is, mistake or mistakes.

Number five, what good things have happened to you since you’ve started blogging. We would love to hear the upside, what has happened since you started blogging. For some of you, there’ll be a lot that you can choose from. Don’t go into great depth in all of it, just choose one thing. Something specific as possible. Maybe it’s traffic, maybe it’s an opportunity that came, maybe it’s a lesson you learned, maybe it’s you got some self-confidence, maybe you’ve got a new income. Feel free to be specific about that if you’d like. Really, I guess what we’re trying here to do is to share with pre-bloggers some of the upside, some of the good things that can come. We want to inspire people to start blogging.

The sixth thing is what is your number one tip for a new blogger. Something practical that new bloggers can do or decide that will have a big impact on their blog. Again, we want them to come away from this with some practical things to do, to try. Keep in mind with that last one that we don’t want to really feature ten of the same tips. You can choose something that might be common. But if you’ve got something interesting, something a little bit unique that you haven’t heard other people talk about, feel free to include that as well.

There are the six things we want you to include. Keep it under ten minutes, it’s going to have to be fairly tight. My team has set up a page for you at problogger.com/blogstory where you’ll find all of that information, and it will point you to a Google Form where you can log in with your Google account and submit your audio file and a headshot.

We’d love a headshot. If you are blogging anonymously, for your freedom, maybe include your logo or something that symbolizes who you are if you want to keep that anonymous. But we’d love to see who are if you’re happy and comfortable to do that.

Before you record anything, please do read through the guidelines that we’ve included on that page just so you do it in the right way to increase your chance of being featured. One other thing: we really need you to act in the next week or so, if possible, to be considered in the first batch of episodes that we’d like to do. We may do more episodes down the track but if you would like to be considered for this first batch, we really do need your audio file by the 11th of December. As this podcast goes live, you got about a week to do that. You can submit after that time for potential lighter episodes but we’d love as many as possible by the 11th of December.

It’s also worth saying that I’m very excited about this but I’m also slightly nervous about doing it because we really don’t know how many are going to be submitted. It may be that we get ten, those ten, we’ll probably be able to feature a lot them. But we may get a hundred or we may get a thousand. I really don’t know. We will try and include as many as we possibly can. But it’s really going to come down to trying to choose ones that we think are going to be most practical and inspiring for new bloggers. And maybe something that’s a little bit unique as well. If you’ve got sort of a unique story, or if you’re blogging a unique way or a unique niche, that would be great as well.

Your recording certainly doesn’t have to be perfect but do try and make your audio quality decent and clear and think about how you can stand out from everyone else that does submit.

I hope that’s clear. If you got any questions, feel free to ask them over at the ProBlogger Facebook group. We’ll be watching out for those over the next week or so. Again, head over to problogger.com/blogstory to participate and I’ll link to that over on the show notes as well.

I’m really excited about this. I love this type of thing. We actually, a few years ago now, invited readers to submit video tips. We had 20 or so people record a tip on video and that was a fantastic post, I really love seeing and hearing the voices of our readers. Particularly the breadth of people that came from around the world, all those different accents. I know there are a lot of you who listen from America, or in Australia, or in the UK, Canada. We’ve also got a lot of listeners in India, Singapore, Manila. We’ve got listeners throughout Africa. I’d love to get as many different accents and experiences as possible. It’s fascinating to see that. Please feel confident to do it, please submit something and I really look forward to seeing what comes in as a result of this. Again, problogger.com/blogstory.

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219: I’d like to Feature YOU on the ProBlogger Podcast

An Invitation for YOU to Be Featured on the ProBlogger Podcast

Today’s podcast is a little different. It’s an invitation for YOU to be featured in an upcoming episode of the ProBlogger podcast.

Early next year we’ll be releasing a brand new free course for bloggers to help them launch their blogs.

And in the lead up we want to feature stories and tips from ProBlogger listeners and readers who’ve already started their own blogs.

So if you’ve started a blog, whether it was recently or a long time ago, we’d love to include you in the series.

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Hi there, it’s Darren from ProBlogger. Welcome to Episode 219 of the ProBlogger podcast. Today I’ve got something a little bit different. Normally I teach something to you. I share an idea or a tip on how to improve your blog. But today I want to invite you to teach the rest of our audience. I want to try something a little different and give you an invitation to be featured in an upcoming episode of the ProBlogger podcast.

Early next year we’re going to be releasing a brand new course for bloggers to help them to launch their first blog, pre-bloggers really. In the lead up to that, we would love to feature stories and tips from ProBlogger listeners and readers who’ve already started their blog. If you’ve started a blog, whether it be in the last few months, the last year, or a long time ago, I would to love to include you in this upcoming series.

Today’s episode is all about how you can be involved in this little project we’re running. Listen on to find out how. But let me share the show notes for today where you can find all the details of what I’m going to mention, it’s at http://ift.tt/2ie00fc.

Every year in January we notice a really big swing, upswing, in traffic to ProBlogger’s articles on the topic of how to start a blog. It seems that many people make this their New Year’s resolution. “I’m going to start a blog in 2018.” And we’re expecting that in the beginning of next year, many people will begin to do that.

This next January, we want to really help as many of those bloggers as possible in a way that we’ve never done it before. We want to really see in 2018 be the year that thousands of new blogs get started. And to do this we’ve been working on a brand new free course on that very topic that’s going to walk pre-bloggers through the process of not only setting up a blog, the technicalities of that, but setting up the foundations for a profitable blog.

We’re going to be talking about choosing a topic, and a niche, and really refining what it is that you want to do on that blog. It’s not just about getting a domain and a server, that’s certainly part of what we want to help people with that. But we want to really get the right foundations for starting a blog.

If you are one of our listeners, and there are quite a few of you who are yet to start, yet to do your first blog, or you’re thinking about starting a second blog, I want to encourage you to just be on the lookout for that because it’ll happen early next year. You can sign up to be notified of that in today’s show notes at http://ift.tt/2ie00fc.

But if you are someone who’s already started blogging, we would also love to involve you in the process as much as possible. We want to ask you to share your story and a few tips on the topic of starting a blog.

My team and I are really excited about this course we’ve already put together. I’s very comprehensive. It’s the kind of thing I wish I had when I was starting out. However, we know that in the wider ProBlogger community, there’s such amazing knowledge and some really inspirational stories that come from a variety of different backgrounds that would be invaluable to bloggers just starting out. We know that there are people in our audience who are fashion bloggers, food bloggers, travel bloggers, business blogger, technology bloggers, sports bloggers, the list could go on and on and on. To be honest, I don’t have experience at all of those different niches and all the different styles of blogging. We want to include as many of your stories and tips as possible so that new bloggers have different things to draw and different experiences to draw on.

We want you to be involved. And want to give you an opportunity to share some of your stories and advice here on the ProBlogger podcast and potentially over on the ProBlogger blog as well.

We would love to hear from you and we’d love to hear from you whether you are an old-time blogger, you’ve been maybe at it as long as I have, from 2002, or maybe you’re a newer blogger. We actually want to feature blogs of all stages and in all niches and of all styles, we want to encourage video bloggers and those who are doing audio blogs, and those who are doing more visual blogs, we really don’t mind. As long as you classify what you’re doing as a blog, we would love to hear your story, no matter what the niche, the style, where your background is, whether you’re from America, Australia, Zimbabwe, it really doesn’t matter. We would like you to keep it in English because that’s where the bulk of our audience is from. But apart from that, whatever background, whatever accent you have, we would love to try and feature as many of you as possible.

This is really going to help a lot of new bloggers, but hopefully, it’s also going to be good for you as it’s going to get your story, your blog, your URL, in front of thousands of listeners of this podcast and tens of thousands of subscribers of the email list that we send out every day. Our readers are a friendly bunch, so don’t worry about that.

Here’s what we need you to do. If you want to participate in this, and again, blogs of all sizes, it doesn’t matter, we would love you to submit a short audio file. We want to keep it under ten minutes. You can go five minutes if you want, but anything up to ten minutes and we want you to share your story of starting a blog and share some tips for those starting out. You can do it in your style, but there are few things that we do want you to include. Before you go run off and do your recording, we want to have some consistency between the storytelling. There are six questions we would like you to answer. As long as you cover these six things in some way in your story, that would be great. You don’t have to read the question and then answer it (if you want to do it that way, you can), but as long as you include these things we’d love to include you as much as possible.

Here are the six things.

We want you to tell you us your name, your blog’s name and the topic, its URL, that’s the first thing. Just keep that really short.

The second thing is for you to tell us the story of starting a blog. Include things like why did you start, when did you start, what were your objectives, hopes and goals, what were your dreams when you started out. It’s the expectations that you had, I guess, and anything interesting happening in that starting process.

The third thing we want you to include is in hindsight, what did you do in starting your blog that you’re most grateful that you did? We want you to identify something that you did right, something that you’re grateful that you did, something that maybe helped you to grow faster or made the process easier. Keep in mind here that these are new pre-bloggers who will be listening to this. Anything that’s going to help them to make their process easier would be great.

The fourth thing, what mistake or mistakes did you make that you would advise other people watch out for. Did you choose the wrong domain, the wrong server, the wrong theme, did you not have a tight enough niche, whatever it is, mistake or mistakes.

Number five, what good things have happened to you since you’ve started blogging. We would love to hear the upside, what has happened since you started blogging. For some of you, there’ll be a lot that you can choose from. Don’t go into great depth in all of it, just choose one thing. Something specific as possible. Maybe it’s traffic, maybe it’s an opportunity that came, maybe it’s a lesson you learned, maybe it’s you got some self-confidence, maybe you’ve got a new income. Feel free to be specific about that if you’d like. Really, I guess what we’re trying here to do is to share with pre-bloggers some of the upside, some of the good things that can come. We want to inspire people to start blogging.

The sixth thing is what is your number one tip for a new blogger. Something practical that new bloggers can do or decide that will have a big impact on their blog. Again, we want them to come away from this with some practical things to do, to try. Keep in mind with that last one that we don’t want to really feature ten of the same tips. You can choose something that might be common. But if you’ve got something interesting, something a little bit unique that you haven’t heard other people talk about, feel free to include that as well.

There are the six things we want you to include. Keep it under ten minutes, it’s going to have to be fairly tight. My team has set up a page for you at http://ift.tt/2jJ8BHf where you’ll find all of that information, and it will point you to a Google Form where you can log in with your Google account and submit your audio file and a headshot.

We’d love a headshot. If you are blogging anonymously, for your freedom, maybe include your logo or something that symbolizes who you are if you want to keep that anonymous. But we’d love to see who are if you’re happy and comfortable to do that.

Before you record anything, please do read through the guidelines that we’ve included on that page just so you do it in the right way to increase your chance of being featured. One other thing: we really need you to act in the next week or so, if possible, to be considered in the first batch of episodes that we’d like to do. We may do more episodes down the track but if you would like to be considered for this first batch, we really do need your audio file by the 11th of December. As this podcast goes live, you got about a week to do that. You can submit after that time for potential lighter episodes but we’d love as many as possible by the 11th of December.

It’s also worth saying that I’m very excited about this but I’m also slightly nervous about doing it because we really don’t know how many are going to be submitted. It may be that we get ten, those ten, we’ll probably be able to feature a lot them. But we may get a hundred or we may get a thousand. I really don’t know. We will try and include as many as we possibly can. But it’s really going to come down to trying to choose ones that we think are going to be most practical and inspiring for new bloggers. And maybe something that’s a little bit unique as well. If you’ve got sort of a unique story, or if you’re blogging a unique way or a unique niche, that would be great as well.

Your recording certainly doesn’t have to be perfect but do try and make your audio quality decent and clear and think about how you can stand out from everyone else that does submit.

I hope that’s clear. If you got any questions, feel free to ask them over at the ProBlogger Facebook group. We’ll be watching out for those over the next week or so. Again, head over to http://ift.tt/2jJ8BHf to participate and I’ll link to that over on the show notes as well.

I’m really excited about this. I love this type of thing. We actually, a few years ago now, invited readers to submit video tips. We had 20 or so people record a tip on video and that was a fantastic post, I really love seeing and hearing the voices of our readers. Particularly the breadth of people that came from around the world, all those different accents. I know there are a lot of you who listen from America, or in Australia, or in the UK, Canada. We’ve also got a lot of listeners in India, Singapore, Manila. We’ve got listeners throughout Africa. I’d love to get as many different accents and experiences as possible. It’s fascinating to see that. Please feel confident to do it, please submit something and I really look forward to seeing what comes in as a result of this. Again, http://ift.tt/2jJ8BHf.

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219: I’d like to Feature YOU on the ProBlogger Podcast

An Invitation for YOU to Be Featured on the ProBlogger Podcast

Today’s podcast is a little different. It’s an invitation for YOU to be featured in an upcoming episode of the ProBlogger podcast.

Early next year we’ll be releasing a brand new free course for bloggers to help them launch their blogs.

And in the lead up we want to feature stories and tips from ProBlogger listeners and readers who’ve already started their own blogs.

So if you’ve started a blog, whether it was recently or a long time ago, we’d love to include you in the series.

Links and Resources on I’d like to Feature YOU on the ProBlogger Podcast

Blogging What’s Your Story?

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Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view

Hi there, it’s Darren from ProBlogger. Welcome to Episode 219 of the ProBlogger podcast. Today I’ve got something a little bit different. Normally I teach something to you. I share an idea or a tip on how to improve your blog. But today I want to invite you to teach the rest of our audience. I want to try something a little different and give you an invitation to be featured in an upcoming episode of the ProBlogger podcast.

Early next year we’re going to be releasing a brand new course for bloggers to help them to launch their first blog, pre-bloggers really. In the lead up to that, we would love to feature stories and tips from ProBlogger listeners and readers who’ve already started their blog. If you’ve started a blog, whether it be in the last few months, the last year, or a long time ago, I would to love to include you in this upcoming series.

Today’s episode is all about how you can be involved in this little project we’re running. Listen on to find out how. But let me share the show notes for today where you can find all the details of what I’m going to mention, it’s at http://ift.tt/2ie00fc.

Every year in January we notice a really big swing, upswing, in traffic to ProBlogger’s articles on the topic of how to start a blog. It seems that many people make this their New Year’s resolution. “I’m going to start a blog in 2018.” And we’re expecting that in the beginning of next year, many people will begin to do that.

This next January, we want to really help as many of those bloggers as possible in a way that we’ve never done it before. We want to really see in 2018 be the year that thousands of new blogs get started. And to do this we’ve been working on a brand new free course on that very topic that’s going to walk pre-bloggers through the process of not only setting up a blog, the technicalities of that, but setting up the foundations for a profitable blog.

We’re going to be talking about choosing a topic, and a niche, and really refining what it is that you want to do on that blog. It’s not just about getting a domain and a server, that’s certainly part of what we want to help people with that. But we want to really get the right foundations for starting a blog.

If you are one of our listeners, and there are quite a few of you who are yet to start, yet to do your first blog, or you’re thinking about starting a second blog, I want to encourage you to just be on the lookout for that because it’ll happen early next year. You can sign up to be notified of that in today’s show notes at http://ift.tt/2ie00fc.

But if you are someone who’s already started blogging, we would also love to involve you in the process as much as possible. We want to ask you to share your story and a few tips on the topic of starting a blog.

My team and I are really excited about this course we’ve already put together. I’s very comprehensive. It’s the kind of thing I wish I had when I was starting out. However, we know that in the wider ProBlogger community, there’s such amazing knowledge and some really inspirational stories that come from a variety of different backgrounds that would be invaluable to bloggers just starting out. We know that there are people in our audience who are fashion bloggers, food bloggers, travel bloggers, business blogger, technology bloggers, sports bloggers, the list could go on and on and on. To be honest, I don’t have experience at all of those different niches and all the different styles of blogging. We want to include as many of your stories and tips as possible so that new bloggers have different things to draw and different experiences to draw on.

We want you to be involved. And want to give you an opportunity to share some of your stories and advice here on the ProBlogger podcast and potentially over on the ProBlogger blog as well.

We would love to hear from you and we’d love to hear from you whether you are an old-time blogger, you’ve been maybe at it as long as I have, from 2002, or maybe you’re a newer blogger. We actually want to feature blogs of all stages and in all niches and of all styles, we want to encourage video bloggers and those who are doing audio blogs, and those who are doing more visual blogs, we really don’t mind. As long as you classify what you’re doing as a blog, we would love to hear your story, no matter what the niche, the style, where your background is, whether you’re from America, Australia, Zimbabwe, it really doesn’t matter. We would like you to keep it in English because that’s where the bulk of our audience is from. But apart from that, whatever background, whatever accent you have, we would love to try and feature as many of you as possible.

This is really going to help a lot of new bloggers, but hopefully, it’s also going to be good for you as it’s going to get your story, your blog, your URL, in front of thousands of listeners of this podcast and tens of thousands of subscribers of the email list that we send out every day. Our readers are a friendly bunch, so don’t worry about that.

Here’s what we need you to do. If you want to participate in this, and again, blogs of all sizes, it doesn’t matter, we would love you to submit a short audio file. We want to keep it under ten minutes. You can go five minutes if you want, but anything up to ten minutes and we want you to share your story of starting a blog and share some tips for those starting out. You can do it in your style, but there are few things that we do want you to include. Before you go run off and do your recording, we want to have some consistency between the storytelling. There are six questions we would like you to answer. As long as you cover these six things in some way in your story, that would be great. You don’t have to read the question and then answer it (if you want to do it that way, you can), but as long as you include these things we’d love to include you as much as possible.

Here are the six things.

We want you to tell you us your name, your blog’s name and the topic, its URL, that’s the first thing. Just keep that really short.

The second thing is for you to tell us the story of starting a blog. Include things like why did you start, when did you start, what were your objectives, hopes and goals, what were your dreams when you started out. It’s the expectations that you had, I guess, and anything interesting happening in that starting process.

The third thing we want you to include is in hindsight, what did you do in starting your blog that you’re most grateful that you did? We want you to identify something that you did right, something that you’re grateful that you did, something that maybe helped you to grow faster or made the process easier. Keep in mind here that these are new pre-bloggers who will be listening to this. Anything that’s going to help them to make their process easier would be great.

The fourth thing, what mistake or mistakes did you make that you would advise other people watch out for. Did you choose the wrong domain, the wrong server, the wrong theme, did you not have a tight enough niche, whatever it is, mistake or mistakes.

Number five, what good things have happened to you since you’ve started blogging. We would love to hear the upside, what has happened since you started blogging. For some of you, there’ll be a lot that you can choose from. Don’t go into great depth in all of it, just choose one thing. Something specific as possible. Maybe it’s traffic, maybe it’s an opportunity that came, maybe it’s a lesson you learned, maybe it’s you got some self-confidence, maybe you’ve got a new income. Feel free to be specific about that if you’d like. Really, I guess what we’re trying here to do is to share with pre-bloggers some of the upside, some of the good things that can come. We want to inspire people to start blogging.

The sixth thing is what is your number one tip for a new blogger. Something practical that new bloggers can do or decide that will have a big impact on their blog. Again, we want them to come away from this with some practical things to do, to try. Keep in mind with that last one that we don’t want to really feature ten of the same tips. You can choose something that might be common. But if you’ve got something interesting, something a little bit unique that you haven’t heard other people talk about, feel free to include that as well.

There are the six things we want you to include. Keep it under ten minutes, it’s going to have to be fairly tight. My team has set up a page for you at http://ift.tt/2jJ8BHf where you’ll find all of that information, and it will point you to a Google Form where you can log in with your Google account and submit your audio file and a headshot.

We’d love a headshot. If you are blogging anonymously, for your freedom, maybe include your logo or something that symbolizes who you are if you want to keep that anonymous. But we’d love to see who are if you’re happy and comfortable to do that.

Before you record anything, please do read through the guidelines that we’ve included on that page just so you do it in the right way to increase your chance of being featured. One other thing: we really need you to act in the next week or so, if possible, to be considered in the first batch of episodes that we’d like to do. We may do more episodes down the track but if you would like to be considered for this first batch, we really do need your audio file by the 11th of December. As this podcast goes live, you got about a week to do that. You can submit after that time for potential lighter episodes but we’d love as many as possible by the 11th of December.

It’s also worth saying that I’m very excited about this but I’m also slightly nervous about doing it because we really don’t know how many are going to be submitted. It may be that we get ten, those ten, we’ll probably be able to feature a lot them. But we may get a hundred or we may get a thousand. I really don’t know. We will try and include as many as we possibly can. But it’s really going to come down to trying to choose ones that we think are going to be most practical and inspiring for new bloggers. And maybe something that’s a little bit unique as well. If you’ve got sort of a unique story, or if you’re blogging a unique way or a unique niche, that would be great as well.

Your recording certainly doesn’t have to be perfect but do try and make your audio quality decent and clear and think about how you can stand out from everyone else that does submit.

I hope that’s clear. If you got any questions, feel free to ask them over at the ProBlogger Facebook group. We’ll be watching out for those over the next week or so. Again, head over to http://ift.tt/2jJ8BHf to participate and I’ll link to that over on the show notes as well.

I’m really excited about this. I love this type of thing. We actually, a few years ago now, invited readers to submit video tips. We had 20 or so people record a tip on video and that was a fantastic post, I really love seeing and hearing the voices of our readers. Particularly the breadth of people that came from around the world, all those different accents. I know there are a lot of you who listen from America, or in Australia, or in the UK, Canada. We’ve also got a lot of listeners in India, Singapore, Manila. We’ve got listeners throughout Africa. I’d love to get as many different accents and experiences as possible. It’s fascinating to see that. Please feel confident to do it, please submit something and I really look forward to seeing what comes in as a result of this. Again, http://ift.tt/2jJ8BHf.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 135

Click on the video above to watch Episode 135 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

Full timestamps with topics and times can be found at the link above.

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

  Announcement

Adam: All right. We are live. Welcome everybody. This is Hump Day Hangouts, number 135. We are getting creepy close to a 150, that’s pretty awesome. We’re marching on up there. Today, is the seventh of June, and I’m going to go around real quick, and say hi to everybody, and we’ll get some announcements in and then we’ll get rolling. Bradley, you’re to my right, so how’s it going, man?

Bradley: Good, man. I’m happy to be here. I see we’ve got some good question, and Paul [inaudible 00:00:28] was the winner of the hat, a few weeks ago, and he’s got an awesome post on the event page, already, wearing the hat.

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Angry look, it’s awesome.

Adam: That’s awesome.

Bradley: It’s awesome that you won that, Paul, and that you sent us a picture, man, we really appreciate that.

Adam: Definitely. Roman, what’s up, man?

Roman: Not much, just keeping it going.

Adam: Cool. Where are you located, today? Are you in Tennessee?

Roman: Yeah. Tennessee.

Adam: Awesome. Since, Marco’s not here, I’ll ask you, how’s the weather?

Roman: Today, is really nice. It has been rainy all spring. Literally, every single day.

Bradley: Yeah.

Roman: We’re just starting to get some sun.

Adam: Nice.

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: Nice. All right. Hernan, what’s up down in the far, far south?

Hernan: in the far, far south it’s freezing, right now. It’s about to rain, but we’re hanging out, and I’ll probably be on the east coast for a couple of weeks coming up shortly, so maybe next month, so if you guys want, or are in Florida, or the east coast and you guys want to connect, grab a beer, grab a coffee, just let me know. I’ll be around there, hopefully, with warmer weather, because I’m fucking freezing.

Adam: Nice.

Hernan: Good.

Adam: All right. Chris, how you doing, man?

Chris: Doing good. Summertime here, cannot complain.

Adam: Yeah. What’s the temperature like there? Are you in Austria?

Chris: Yeah. I’m in Austria. Good question, give me a second, I got to calculate this.

Adam: You can do celsius, we’ll-

Chris: Around 30 degrees celsius.

Adam: Okay. That’s pretty nice.

Chris: It is.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let’s get the announcements going, real quick. I want to say if Michael and Jenny are watching in [inaudible 00:02:06], hello. Also, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, be sure to check out the Syndication Academy, it’s a really great place to get started besides Hump Day Hangouts, if you’re here you’re in the right place. Syndication Academy is definitely the next place to start. As well as, the Battle Plan. A great way to lay it out. Speaking of the Battle Plan, if you haven’t grabbed that, yet, we’re going to have a quick webinar on Monday, and we’ll be sending out an email.

You can sign up, it’s just going to be a free webinar, we’ve had a lot of questions about the Battle Plan, about some specifics, what’s in it, what do I do? That type of a thing, so we’re going to go over that, so we’ll be sending out an email, tomorrow, and you can hop into that on Monday, or catch the replay and find putt some more about that. Also, if you haven’t, yet, please go to SERP Space, you can get a free account at serpspace.com, and that’s where you can get your done for you services, and they’re adding more tools to that, like there’s the, correct me if I’m wrong, Roman, but right now the free tool we have is the JSON LD schema markup. Right?

Roman: Yeah.

Adam: Then, there’s a couple more that we’re working on. There’s some cool stuff there for you. Like I said, signing up for an account to check stuff out, it’s free, there’s no cost, and then you can see if you want to grab some of those done for you services. That I believe is it. You guys have any announcements?

Hernan: No. I think we’re good. Real quick, for those of you guys that join on Monday webinar for the Battle Plan, we’re going to be sharing some good stuff, and telling you what the Battle Plan is about, but we are also making an additional training webinar for the Battle Plan purchases.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: If you guys want to hop on in, you can still get it. I would suggest that you [inaudible 00:03:44] Monday, because there will probably be some kind of deal or discount, whatever that is, but that’s something that’s coming too, we’re going to be setting up additional training with Bradley.

Bradley: Yeah. Hernan, and I are going to do a, well, maybe the other guys, too, an additional training webinar for any Battle Plan purchases, we’re going to basically just go through the process and talk about it, expand on each one of the points. Answer questions that people may have, as well as, I’m doing a lot of testing with press releases, right now, and I’m starting to see some really good results, so that’s something I’d like to expand upon, a bit. Then, I think after we’re done with the webinar, for the Battle Plan buyers, we’ll probably end up going back through and editing the PDF to actually include timestamps, too, that section in the webinar, so that when people are reading through the PDF, they can just click and go directly to that one section of the webinar, and see it, where we expand upon.

We’re really going to make it a high value PDF, more so than it is. Just because it is so simple, and some people say, oh, it’s too, I cannot believe I got this PDF, that’s so simple, because they want a whole bunch of crap, a whole bunch of fluff, and bloat put in there. The Semantic Mastery way is not to fill it full of bullshit bloat, instead we’re going to go ahead and add additional value to it, to make it more of an actual plan that somebody would follow, instead of looking through it and going, oh, this is too simple, it must not work. Whatever. If you want to over complicate shit, you can do it, but we’re going to go ahead and add additional value to it, so that maybe people will take action on it.

Hernan: Yeah. Also, what I wanted to say real quick is that one of the benefits to join, to purchase in the Battle Plan right now, or Monday, or whenever that is, is that you’ll hae access to that webinar, live, and we’ll have plenty of time for Q and A. Right?

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Then, it will become a recording, so it’s another perk.

Bradley: Yeah. Cool. All right. I can get into questions, now?

Adam: Let’s do it.

Bradley: One last announcement, any Mastermind members that are on, we’re going to have an impromptu, like Mastermind, well, formally, Master Class style webby, immediately following Hump Day Hangouts. Give me a couple of minutes to get set up, because I don’t have it setup yet, but it will be in the Mastermind membership site at the-

Adam: Oh, webby.

Bradley: Page.

Adam: I thought you said, wedding. I was like, what the hell?

Bradley: No. It will be on the live event page in the Mastermind [inaudible 00:06:02] site. The membership site. It’s going to be, I see a question in the chat box-

Adam: Yeah. I got it.

Bradley: Yeah. It’s kind of impromptu we’re just going to be kind of talking about the various case studies that we’re working on in the Mastermind, and then answer Q and A, and it’s just kind of free forum for anybody, like I said, we’re going to continue doing those, so I’ll be on for about an hour, unless I hear crickets, in which case I’ll close it up early. If you guys want, just make sure that you come join us at the membership site on the live webinar page. All right? See you then. All right. Let me get into, where’s the screen share button? Here it is. [inaudible 00:06:48] on the page.

Hernan: We can see [crosstalk 00:06:51].

Bradley: Comments already on the page?

Adam: No. I’ll go ahead and do that for you.

Does Tumblr, Blogger And WordPress Count As Tier One Network?

Bradley: Yeah. If you don’t mind, it will make it easier. Okay. I’m answering a question first from Fabian [inaudible 00:07:03], who was in our Mastermind and he posted a rather detailed question, and I answered it, but this one is common enough that I want to answer this part of it publicly on Hump Day Hangouts, because again, this comes up often, and I can understand where there may be some confusion, here, so I want to kind of clarify this for everybody. From Fabian, he says, “Blog properties like Tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress, do they count as a tier one network, or are Tumblr, WordPress, and Blogger already tier two networks, which aren’t counted for the rest of the properties?” He’s talking mainly about a branded tier one network, and he’s trying to wrap his head around, really, the way that we stack networks, if we’re going to do that, so connecting multiple tiers. He says, “I’m confused about this detail, and now I don’t really understand, which and when these properties become a tier two, or one, can you help me, and give me some explanation why it’s like this, and why not, so I get it?” All right.

This is an image, guys, I’m going to see if I can expand on it. All right. This is an image just explaining a very simple graphic showing what the tiered network structure looks like. Okay? This would be tier one, here, and the way that this drawing shows here is that the Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr, are kind of pushed out of the tier one circle, or ring, but they’re actually part of tier one, the only reason why it was drawn like this was specifically, so that I could show detail on the outer rings. If that makes sense? The Blogger, Tumblr, and WordPress in a tier two network are a part of the tier one ring. If that makes sense? Again, just imagine, remember, and I’ve said this a bunch of times, but I understand how this can be confusing, guys, but you’ve got to look at syndication networks each as an individual ring. That’s it. That’s all it is. Every single ring is an individual ring.

When you start trying to visualize in your head the way that the networks all connect, and these multi tiered systems, and stuff like that, it can get complex very, very quickly. It can get confusing as well. But, when you break every thing down to single individual syndication rings, and then assemble them together, because that’s all you’re doing, it becomes a much easier process to understand, and to comprehend. If that makes sense? The point is here is this is one individual ring. The only thing that we’re doing is we’re taking the Blogger, Tumblr, and WordPress, because they’re the three blog properties that we consistently use for the networks. Then, we’re going to build another ring with those properties as the triggers. Right? Each one is going to get its own ring, so Blogger will get a whole other syndication network, which would be a second tier network. Right? Typically, that’s going to be a persona based network, or in some cases, and in some cases it could possibly be like an author network for perhaps a multi-blog, or excuse me, multi-authored blog, for example. Right? That would make sense.

That’s kind of more of an uncommon configuration, whereas for our purposes, typically it’s just going to be a persona based blog for, or excuse me, network that is surrounded by, or triggered by the blog property from the first tier network. Okay? Does that make sense? What happens is the blog RSS feed, excuse me, the blogger RSS feed, in this case, is the trigger point for the second tier network, IFTTT account. Inside of this account, this network out here, which would have its own Blogger, its own WordPress, and its own Tumblr, as well. Right? Inside this account, when you go to set up the applets, or formally called recipes, you would chose RSS as the trigger, so if this, and select RSS, then paste the RSS feed from the Blogger account, from tier one, into that field, and then that, select, and start going through the properties within the network that you’re creating applets for. Bitly, the Blogger account for that ring, WordPress, Tumblr, Dego, Delicious is apparently deprecated, now, so that’s not something we can use anymore, but Buffer, all of those, all those other properties are going to be connected using Blogger as the trigger point.

Then, likewise for Tumblr, and WordPress. Again, I can understand where that can be a little bit confusing, guys, because when you start to look at tiered structures, it’s like where do I start, and how does it all connect together, but if you remember that everything is a linear process, it’s a simple linear process in that IFTTT, it’s logic. Right? If this then that, it’s if this occurs, then that occurs, and you create the triggers and the actions, and it’s only a step one, step two type connection. There isn’t a multi-step, or threaded connection. If that makes sense? Everything is an individual ring, it’s only got a trigger point, and in the ring, itself, or the syndication network, itself, the whole thing is one action. It takes multiple applets for that to occur, but the one action is to just republish the trigger point content. That’s it. It becomes a much simpler concept when you break it down that way. If that makes sense? Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful, Fabian. We also got a Mastermind, like I said, webinar today for an hour, following Hump Day Hangouts, and I think the next Mastermind webinar is next week, so we can go into more detail if needed. Let me know in the Mastermind, by the way, or comment on this page, and let me know if that was sufficient.

Does Google’s Algorithm Only Factor In Links On Indexed Pages Or Non-indexed Pages As Well?

Okay. Ethan is up. “Hey, there, kind of a newbie question, but here it goes, when looking at your anchor text profile as a whole, does Google algorithm only factor in links on index pages, or non indexed pages, as well? This question became very important for me after I realized that the majority of web 2.0 links were not indexed. I built those primary to balance out the anchor text. Also, switching gears, do you guys send traffic to all your PBN’s, just some, or none at all? How important is this moving forward? Thanks, in advance.” Okay, Ethan. It is my understanding that Google does still count the anchor text, I mean, unindexed, because Google may know that those links are there without, or probably knows those links are there without indexing them, and the way that I can tell you that’s true is because if you, and I know Google has limited what they’ll show you, now, in search console, as far as backlinks, when you download a sample backlink report, for example, I know they’ve started to limit that.

But, it used to be that they would give you a full report of what they knew was, of what Google had, at least, we think it was a full report, of what they had as far as backlinks pointing to your site. In there you would see, it depends on how old the site was and how many posts you’ve done, but sometimes dozens or hundreds of links from wordpress.com, for example, or Blogger, so it would be Blogspot, Tumblr, Delicious, Diigo, you’d see those, it wouldn’t give you the individual URL a lot of times, but it would give you the root domain, and how many links. I’ve got projects out there that I’ve never done anything other than IFTTT or syndication networks, and content marketing, and Google would show dozens, or even like I said, depending on how old the site was, hundreds of links from the various network properties, but if you were to search info at, excuse me, info colon operator for that individual URL for some of the posts, or even site colon, for that profile URL, you’d see that a lot of the posts weren’t indexed, or the vast majority of them weren’t. Google, as far as I know is still seeing it, if Marco, or Hernan can comment on that.

Hernan: Yeah. I was about to say-

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:14:38].

Hernan: Yeah. I was about to say, Bradley, that I had the exact same experience when it comes to non indexed, [inaudible 00:14:49] websites that are actually blocking the bots, but those links that haven’t been index, yet, or they are not being indexed for some reason, I still have that experience, that they still count as link juice.

Bradley: Yes.

Hernan: Right? Because, again, with no indexed PBN’s, like no index to follow PBN’s, I still have had good results, those websites have moved the needle, so I have first hand experience that knowing these websites they still do the damage. Right?

Bradley: Yeah. You have to consider the anchor text profile of those links, as well, because if Google is seeing them, and you’ve seen movements from using them, then that means Google is recognizing they are there, and what goes for the web 2.0’s as well, and that’s why I’ve said, many times before, not to worry so much about the web 2.0 post URLs, the individual post URLs being indexed. Yes, it would be nice if we could index all of them, but I don’t sweat it too much, because like I said, search console, and I’ve proven this year after year, after year, until Google started limiting the data, that those web 2.0 post URLs are being seen by Google, they may not be in the index, because they could be put in the supplemental index, for example.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: But, Google has seen them.

Hernan: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah. I agree.

Bradley: Okay. “Also, switching gears,” well, Roman, do you have any comment on that?

Roman: Yeah. It’s interesting. You know? Because it kind of goes back to the caching versus indexing thing. Right? If they’ve cached it, they’ve seen it. Right?

Bradley: Right.

Roman: If it’s indexed that’s a different story. I’m trying to think of this in terms of penalty recovery type of thing, or hurting yourself with those types of links, and from my experience, typically, when I do any kind of site recovery, or intra text adjustments I primarily look at just the indexed ones.

Bradley: Right.

Roman: In my experience, for recovery sites, but again this is different purposes that may not be exactly what the context of this question is. I’m not sure.

Bradley: Let’s put it in this context, for example, let’s say somebody had syndication networks set up and let’s say they had a two tier syndication network setup and they spammed it to death, they spammed at their own network, with their own content, which we’ve seen people do.

Roman: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: So, they overload posts with anchor text links that go out across two tier networks that, again, we recommend against that for that reason, so they over do it. Here’s the thing, if they hammered away on a single keyword and it tripped the penalty, or triggered a penalty, even an algorithmic penalty, but their web 2.0 post URLs that triggered it that aren’t showing in the index, how would you know? You know what I mean?

Roman: Yeah.

Bradley: If you’re doing a traditional recovery, or like you say, anchor text adjustment and you’re using traditional like Majestic, or [inaudible 00:17:40], and those links aren’t appearing in those indexes, then how do you know that you’ve done all that damage from your existing posts that aren’t being indexed? You know what I mean?

Roman: Yeah. Good point.

Bradley: That’s my point. I always considered links, especially on the web 2.0’s, that don’t show in the index, I’ve always considered those anchor texts as still relevant, and that’s why I always try to balance it out. My point, Ethan, is just no matter what you’re doing when you’re building backlinks, always, always take into consideration your anchor text profile, whether you think it’s going to be indexed, or seen, or not, you should consider it, because if it does get seen and counted, you don’t want it to cause problems.

Do You Send Traffic To All Your PBNs, Just Some, Or None At All?

All right. Next, “Also, switching gears, do you guys send traffic to all your PBN’s just some or none at all?” I’m not using PBN’s so much, anymore. I am sending traffic, excuse me, spoofed traffic, CT spam stuff through social properties, citations, maps, URLs, press releases, I send fake traffic through everything, hoping to get an actual case study, or test, and experiment set up with in the next week or two. I mentioned it on the previous Mastermind webinar. Clint Butler, in fact, one of our Mastermind members had the idea to start doing some CT spam tool tests, where we test different, because there’s several of them, we’ve always promoted CrowdSearch, just because it’s the one that I’ve used ever since I stopped setting those micro task gigs up myself, which was time consuming. It was very, very effective, but it was time consuming.

CrowdSource kind of automated all that stuff, and I’ve been using it ever since, however there are other options out there that do that kind of stuff. We’re going to test, I am going to test it, it’s been difficult, I’ve got a ton of projects on my plate right now to get it setup, but I do have a project already in mind that I’m going to set up a test for, where I’m going to create various pages, they’ll be basically subcategories of an overall category, sub niches of a particular site that I’m working on, it’s mainly just AdWords traffic, it’s a lead gen property, so I wasn’t planning on doing any SEO work. What I’m probably going to do is add a few different pages to that site, targeting the sub niches, that I typically would have only caught, targeted with AdWords, but I’ll probably target those, you know, create some pages with some decent content, and then just do strictly CT spam tests. No backlinks at all, guys. I want to see where, first of all, where the page indexes, just naturally, and then I’m just going to start sending CT spam traffic to those pages.

Guys, anybody that doesn’t know what a CT spam is click through spam. Right? That’s going to Google and searching for a keyword, or a brand term, or any sort of search phrase, finding the link in the search results that you like, that you want, or your link, whatever, the one you are trying to promote, and then you click it and then browse around the web, that page for a few minutes or whatever. That’s click through spam. Right? Again, there’s a bunch of tools out there that do that, but we don’t know, which ones the best. I don’t know, which ones the best. I’ve only been using the one. I’d like to test that. That’s something that’s going to be coming up in the next few weeks in the Mastermind. If you guys are interested in that, it would be a good time to join.

Just to answer your question, Ethan, yeah, I’m sending spoof traffic right now through Crowd Search to everything. Absolutely, everything, except, like I said, I don’t send it directly to the money site, much, for that I’ll do brand or navigation searches, which is searching for the company name, so the brand name. You can also do brand name plus service, so that’s a chance for brand name plus keyword, that will start to build that association. The keyword with that brand, which will help. I’ll do just very, very few, very conservative type of search metrics, or numbers on brand searches, directly to the money site, but pretty much all the other spam traffic that I send is going to be through citations, or social media properties, or PBN’s like you said, or perhaps press releases. Somewhere, where I can refer traffic to the money site through a branded property. If that makes sense? Okay? That’s really powerful.

Guys, I’m doing more and more testing with this stuff, and I’m starting to see more and more results with SEO ranking results without backlinks, it’s insane. I’m starting to do more testing with strictly engagement signals, and I’m seeing incredible results with that, and I say no backlinks, but I’m doing stuff with press releases, right now, that’s starting to show a lot of promise, and there’s backlinks with press releases, but it’s pretty interesting to see how stuff is really starting to shift, as far as, how the algorithm works. Backlinks are still important, but I’m saying I’ve seen stuff, now, that can rank on engagement alone, which is insane. You guys got any comments on that?

Roman: Yeah. I wish I could talk more about it, but you’re absolutely right, Bradley.

Bradley: Yeah.

Roman: Absolutely.

Hernan: Yeah. Agreed.

How Do You Manage Keywords When Selling Video Ranking Service To Clients?

Bradley: We need to zip it, keep it shut for now. I mean, like I said, talk on a conceptual level, guys, a lot of the stuff you want to get in to the nitty gritty details you got to join the Mastermind. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is. Cannot share all of our secrets in the public forum. All right. Columbia, is up, she says, and she’s been crushing it. Columbia, has been really, Columbia, I just want to say, I appreciate you coming on the webinars all the time asking these great questions, I can see you’re really trying. I think with the amount of action that you’re taking your going to do just fine. Okay? Keep coming and asking questions, we’re happy to help. She says, “When you sell a video ranking service and you give them three keywords for the first month, do you give them new additional keywords the second month, and following months, or are you just supporting the original three keywords for all the months that follow?” Columbia, they pay me for the initial keywords, and that’s it, and then they pay me monthly to support those three keywords, or whatever. Whatever the number is.

If they want more keywords, that’s fine, but they’re going to pay me for a setup fee, for each new video, and then they’re going to also pay me an additional fee for every keyword, per month. Like I said, I do package deals all the time. My bottom line fee for doing wholesale SEO services for video production companies, 100 bucks a month, per video. Again, I tell, the way that I work this out is that I tell the video production company, they approach their customer, their clients, and when they go to sell them on the Google Boost program or the SEO program, whatever they want to call it, they’ll pitch it to them, and tell them, okay, give me what your three top keywords, or the three top search terms that your customers would search to look for your business. Then, they submit those to me with the work order, and what I do is I set up a poke test.

I’ll do keyword research very briefly, but this is in part why I’m trying to get away from doing anything other than just working in specific verticals, because it does require research, like keyword research, and such, for every new project. To me, that’s just a lot of additional work that’s unnecessary. I’ll do keyword research, figure out which keywords, and I’ll just build a list. It might be 15, or 20 keywords of their primary desired keywords, plus longer tail versions of those, plus the location surrounding their target area, as well. I’ll build a list out of that, and like I said, it could be 15, 20, 25 keywords and I’ll run a spam test, a poking test, first, to identify, which out of those 15, or 20, whatever keywords are easy to rank on test channels. Right? From there, I’ll send back a list of the keywords I can say, okay, heres what I think are the best opportunities are for ranking, and then the video production company sends it to the customer, and says, here’s what we can do, just you select.

That’s where, if none of their primary keywords that they originally posted, or suggested, are in that list to show, okay, here’s what we can do for you, then I’ll often do a deal, where I’ll say, okay, let’s just assume they’re only wanting one video, they gave me three keywords, but they’re only wanting one video, then what I’ll say, the proposal will be, okay, instead of, since your primary, or one of your three primary desired keywords isn’t in the list, but we can do all of these other options for you, what we’ll do is we’ll do two videos for you for the price of one. I’ll do that, and I don’t mind doing that, because already know I can rank the video with a test channel that has no syndication network, no authority, nothing, it’s an invalided entity, an orphaned account. I ranked for that keyword, well then I know if I go take that same video, or the video that is now provided to me by the video production company, and I go push it through my network that’s setup for this stuff, I know I’m going to be able to rank and it will stick.

I don’t care if I do two videos for the price of one, then, because I already identified it’s not going to require any work. All I got to do is upload it to my channel, boom, I’m done. For months, and sometimes years, I’ll collect a $100.00 a month for those two videos, without having to do any additional work. Does that make sense? If somebody wants additional keywords it’s fine, but that’s another setup fee, and I charge a $100.00 per video for setup fee, it’s a one time fee. Then, for example, I just had, it’s funny, but I was sending out client reports for the video production company that I do the most work for, today, I was sending reports out to them. He replied back, and asked, one of the clients had failed to pay him about two or three months ago, so I had to pause the campaign, so I basically unlisted the video. Right?

You don’t delete it. You unlist it, so that it falls out of the index. He contacted me, he didn’t say, oh, that company, blah, blah, blah, they restarted their billing, I’ve got payment so go ahead and restart that campaign, and I had to email him back and say, I’d be happy to restart the campaign, but I’m going to send you a bill for setup fee, because the campaigns been paused for two or three months, so now I’ve got to set it back up, so I’ve got to start over, again. Really, all I got to do is go in and turn it from unlisted to public, but then it’s probably going to require a little bit of massaging to get back up in the rank results, the search results. I charge them another 100 bucks for it. You know what I mean? For that. So, that’s something that, for example, any additional keyword you should charge them, the fee for actually the setup, which is what I call a setup fee, but that’s just to prepare the video and push it through your network, and then charge them on a monthly basis for any additional keywords. Don’t be afraid to do package deals, it makes sense. Right? Add value where you can. All right.

How Would You Present SEO Progress Report To Your Client?

“How do describe to client type of ongoing support work that you’ll be doing for them, so that they see the need to pay you for the following months?” Well, in part, Columbia, that’s why you push everything through your own channels, because the moment they top paying you, you can change it from public to unlisted, and it disappears out of the index, that’s why they need to keep paying you, because if they don’t pay you, you turn the shit off. I say that, because that’s what keeps you in control. You know what I mean? If you ranked a video on a client channel, then they could say, you know what? We decided we don’t need you anymore, and they’d stop paying you, and there is a chance that, that video will still rank for months, and even years to come. I’ve seen it happen, guys. I’ve got videos that I’m collecting paychecks from that I haven’t had to touch in six months, 12 months at a time. Every now and then I have to go in and do a link campaign, or engagement, or send it through SERP Space, or Video Powerhouse, or something like that. I just did a few of them, today, actually.

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: Go ahead. I’m sorry.

Adam: No. That’s fine. I was going to say, something else that she can do is go ahead and have your process, or much of it you want to share with the client listed out. In some case, they want to say, well, exactly what are doing? Say, I’m monitoring it, either you’re paying for a rank tracking service, or you’re doing it, you’re adding what’s needed to make sure that the ranking stays the same, but then don’t lead with that, I would lead with the benefits to the client, it’s not-

Bradley: Right.

Adam: What are you doing? It’s what are you providing, and hey, I’m providing you a service. I’m ranking videos. I’m getting you visitors. I’m getting you traffic, and you don’t have to do anything except cut me the check.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:29:43].

Adam: then, I’m making that happen every month, and you don’t have to think about it, you don’t have to hire another person. That’s the benefit.

Bradley: Right.

Adam: Then, if they want to say, well, what are you actually doing? Then, say, okay, here’s my process, I’m doing these things and it’s happening without you having to tell me.

Bradley: Adam, is exactly right. Lead with the benefits to them, not the features of what you’re doing, because people buy benefits, not features. Now, some people are going to be curious and it’s great if you lead with the benefits when people start asking questions about the features, it means they’re close to making a buying decision. Right? For real. Now, they’re curious as to, now, they know what they’re buying, now they want to know how it’s going to happen. Try not to make it overcomplicated or technical, because you’ll confuse people. You can, the ones that are inquisitive about it, who might have a little bit of understanding, you can say, look, I’m going to building backlinks, I also have to maintain the broadcasting networks that the videos embedded on, I have to constantly drive social signals, backlinks, and traffic into them, that’s what will help to keep the video ranked, and provide you traffic, and leads, blah, blah, blah. Remember, always come back to the benefits. Like, what Adam was saying.

“What kinds of work and how much are actually needed to these followup months, and how do you charge a regular client, not wholesale for one video setup fee of monthly support?” That depends, Columbia. Typically, a video service, video clients that aren’t through a production company, then video SEO services are usually for me just a foot in the door strategy, so I usually don’t charge very much for it. Usually on an individual basis, like when I’m working directly with a business, instead of a production company, or wholesale, well, when I’m selling retail, let’s put it that way, then I’ll usually do two or three video package and it might be something like $150.00 or $200.00 a month, for the two or three different keywords that we’re targeting, but that again, is usually just a foot in the door strategy, once I’ve produced results for them, which is rather quickly with the YouTube videos, then I will usually upsell them on doing full SEO suite of services, or PPC, or whatever. Okay? Content marketing, syndication networks, all that kind of stuff.

As far as, what kind of maintenance, it doesn’t take much. Some takes more than others, there’s no doubt, but you know we’ve got Video Powerhouse, that works really, really well. I’ve been using Crowd Search for traffic, that works well. Some videos that take, that just won’t budge with traditional SEO stuff, I’ll setup a YouTube ad for, and I’ll send a $1.00 a day worth of traffic, I’m getting a 100 bucks for the video, a month. If I set up a YouTube ad that drives local IP traffic to the video, it does a couple things, it helps it to rank, it will also show traffic signals on the video that I’m paying Google for, so that looks good to the client, or the customer. They’ve seen traffic on their video, and it helps to rank, because the local IP traffic I can set up via AdWords. It’s a $1.00 a day. You know what I mean? I might spend 30 bucks a month, but I’m making 70, and it’s pretty much on autopilot.

Is It Okay To Use PBN Links Directly To Money Site Or Should A Tier 1 Syndication Network Be Used As A Buffer?

All right. Alexander is up, he says, “Better using my PBN links directly to money site or using my syndication tier one as a buffer, that way I can also link from the same post to two or three properties, and it all converts in power to the money site, and maybe to RYS properties. I’m not really sold to it, yet, maybe because I never tried it.” Yeah. You need to try it first, Alexander. I’d recommend doing most of your PBN links to your network properties, or to tier one properties, period, and not directly to your money site. Some people might have a different opinion, but I really stopped doing a lot of that, quite some time ago. What do you guys think?

Roman: It depends, for me. As far as, the money site goes. You know? I still definitely use PBN’s on my money site [inaudible 00:33:19], but they’re very particular things that I look for.

Bradley: Yeah.

Roman: When I do that, and they’re not just quickly made.

Adam: Yeah. I was going to say, and I’m going to preface this with, I am not doing this, right now, but I mean that’s a pretty broad question, so I think Roman’s answer applies, it depends.

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: It’s not that you cannot do this, but it totally depends on what kind of a site you’re linking back to and from.

Bradley: Yeah. I prefer to link to tier one properties, guys. I just always try to be very, very careful. Like, Roman says, it really depends. If I’ve got some Uber powerful domain, if it’s Uber powerful it doesn’t even really be topically relevant and you can see a good push from a link, but if it’s not super powerful with high metrics, or whatever, then I’m looking more for topical relevancy, and it just depends. It depends. Yeah. I mean, if you’re in doubt, don’t link, if you’re in doubt about the actual value of the link from the PBN that you’re going to build the link on to your money site, then if you’re in doubt at all, trust your gut, and push it to a tier one property instead.

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: All right?

Hernan: Yeah. I would say that, if you control a PBN, that’s fine, you can change, and switch, and swap the links, but if you don’t, and this applies to any kind of link that you’re doing now, excuse me, this is the power of detachable link juice, or Switchbox.

Bradley: That’s right.

Hernan: Switchbox SEO, 301’s. I usually have had good results with linking from a PBN to an internal WordPress site, let’s say you want to rank an internal website, you will link from an article, and then it will get syndicated out, and then you point PBN links to the internal page of that WordPress, or that Blogger, or that Tumblr website. Right? That’s how I do it, and I have had good results, but I agree with Bradley, if in doubt don’t do it, that’s what the whole syndication network is about, and you can always still use 301’s to control the link juice, and see, and point it to different places, and see what the effects are.

What Is The Best Order To Follow When Targeting Properties Building?

Bradley: Yeah. I totally agree. Next part says, “For testing speed what’s the best order to target property building, video, AdWords, maps, organic?” All right. This is 100% going to be, this is independent of everybody, everybody is going to have their own independent opinion on this, me, personally, now, from now on, if I already know that AdWords is going to be mixed in to my marketing campaign for that project, I’m going to lead with AdWords, guys. A 100% of the time, now, because I can quickly identify where the traffic is, which keywords are producing the most traffic, and the best conversions, and then that’s what I’ll focus on my SEO campaigns, so if I know, I won’t start any new project purely on SEO unless it’s for experimentation purposes, for like case studies, and stuff like that. But, for any kind of client, or lead gen project that I start now, period, any project at all other than for experimenting purposes, I always lead with AdWords, because now I can identify where the traffic is, what’s converting, before I spend even a moment of time on any SEO work, because SEO work in my opinion has become way too complex for it to be the leading, or the only method.

Because the problem is you can think you know, unless you know a market very, very well, for example, I know the tree services market, very well. If I wanted to start a project purely based on SEO, I could, because I know those keywords, I know where the traffic is, I’ve been doing it for years, but the point is, is I can still, I still don’t know exactly what the search behavior of the new location that I’d be starting a new site in is. AdWords can show me what the search behavior is a lot quicker than SEO, because I can turn an AdWords lead gen funnel on and a campaign on, and within 24 to 48 hours I got traffic rolling in. Within 30 days, I can have enough data to be able to determine what to focus my energy on for SEO purposes, because it might take me three or six months for me to get any results from SEO, so I want to be damn sure that I’m working on the keywords that are going to produce me the best results and the 80/20 principle absolutely applies here, guys. 80% of your traffic and leads are going to come from 20% of your keywords.

In fact, in some markets you’ll see it’s more like 90/10, or 95/5, and that’s the absolutely truth, because I see it in all the different AdWords funnels now that I’ve got, I mean, both affiliate and mobile, the same thing applies. You’ll see the vast majority of your traffic comes from just a very, very small subset of your keywords. That’s what I would want to focus on for SEO to begin with, which would require, remember guys, a lot of the time those are going to be your broader keywords, at least for AdWords I always try to go very bulls eye, like targeted specific on buyer intent keywords anyways, because I’m not building out these big elaborate funnels to pull people down the sales pipeline for local lead gen. To me, it’s possible, but it’s a lot of work, so I just target after the really focused buyer intent keywords, anyways. Those are going to be difficult to rank for an SEO.

My point is, first to identify what those keywords are, and AdWords can help you to do that, but then from there you can start to develop an SEO timeline, or a plan, and a plan for optimizing for those keywords that produce the most traffic, and often that’s going to require silo structure, categories, and subcategories, supporting posts, all that kind of stuff. Again, I don’t like, in days past, in previous days I would always start off with SEO, and I would design these sites, and start building the content, and the pages, and the internal linking structure, and the syndication networks, and the content marketing, and all this stuff that goes in the rank, before I really knew where the hell the traffic was. You know? Again, my point is, guys, if you’re going to start with, if you’re going to have AdWords in the mix at all, at any point, I would lead with that.

Again, that’s going to be personal to everybody. I know the guys on the call with me, here, probably have difference of opinion, but I would start with AdWords, and Maps, initially, especially for local, guys. Then, from there after I have those two setup, which would already be generating traffic, because AdWords can generate traffic overnight, then I would setup some video campaigns, both SEO and AdWords stuff. I’m going to be testing some local video, local video ads over the next few weeks. We got a project, a case study in progress, right now, in the Mastermind, and that’s going to be applied to that, as well. Then, I would focus last on organic. What do you guys think?

Roman: I think you covered that really well.

Bradley: Awesome.

Roman: AdWords, I mean, that’s data. You’re making decisions based on data that you’re collecting, and there’s nothing more powerful than that.

Bradley: Correct. Okay.

Hernan: Yeah. I agree with Roman on this one, and with you, as well. Because usually when you’re doing SEO for your own websites, and when you’re doing SEO for clients, as well, or even a project that you are selling leads, or you want to send traffic, the best way to start is PPC, always, because it will speed things up, so that when SEO kicks in you already have data, as Roman was saying, in order to know what’s converging and what’s not. That’s the way I usually roll. I don’t disregard, here’s the thing, I don’t disregard one thing for the other. Right? The main point here is to not depend on one source of traffic, but rather have a true business, which is having several sources of traffic, and several sources of leads. That’s why we use SEO, but we also use PPC to speed some things up, but also to not depend on one source of traffic, alone.

Bradley: Yeah. The other problem with, you just got to remember, like, I don’t like relying 100% on just SEO traffic anymore, either. That’s why AdWords, I think, is so important. I know those are both just Google traffic, I get that, and there’s traffic to be had in other locations. Sure. But, I’m saying specifically from Google, because I just don’t trust the fact that anything is going to last, as far as, rankings go. Being proficient in AdWords is a skill that is almost a prerequisite, now, for any sort of marketing consultant. Even if you’re not really skilled at it, as long as you know the importance of it, and you have somebody who you can go to kind of help you with that kind of stuff, or even outsource that part of it, I think it’s important to have that data. All right. We got to keep rolling.

How Do You Speak So Smoothly In Front Of The Camera?

[inaudible 00:42:14], is up, he says, “How about I am currently producing a video for my SEO agency, where I explain five tips to hire a great SEO to a business owner. I want to do it like how you did for Syndication Academy, where I stand in front of the camera and talk to the business owner. I want to ask, how do speak so smoothly in front of the camera? Did you actually have a script, or did you just speak out of a thought in your mind?” No. I have a script, man. I have a teleprompter, and you can get a teleprompter cheaply, some of them are really stupid expensive, but you can get a very inexpensive teleprompter on Amazon that is just basically like this little setup that goes on top of a tripod, and you use a tablet, and iPad, or an Android, or whatever with an app. It’s called Teleprompter Pro. That’s the app I use, there’s probably a million apps that do the same thing, but the one that I use is called, Teleprompter Pro. It’s an app.

I use an Android tablet. All I do is put the Android tablet on the thing, and part of the app will reverse the text from the script that you add to it, and the script can be uploaded to the app, or imported into the app via a text file. Then, all it does a mirror image of the text, and it scrolls, and I bought a little Bluetooth slicer, what do you call them? The little, like remotes for changing PowerPoint presentations and such, dongles, or I don’t know what the hell they call them. Anyways, I bought one of those little Bluetooth things that I’ll use, that I can control the speed or pause, or restart the teleprompter, but yeah, absolutely script that out. You have to, man. I mean, if you’re doing something off the top of your head, that’s great, but for sales videos and stuff like that you pretty much have to script that stuff out.

It just takes practice, as far as, speak so smoothly. Trust me, some of those sales videos, guys, takes me three hours to record. I mean, it takes me longer to write the script then it does to do the videos, but as far as sometimes on off recording day, when you’re trying to record a video, you cannot get through more than two or three sentences without a stutter or a stammer, and then you got to start over, unless you have really good editing skills, or a really good editor. In my case, I try to get everything done in one take, so that there’s minimum amount of edits at all, and sometimes it will take me two or three hours, like 20, 30 takes to get through an entire script, especially a sales video script, which is like six, eight, ten minutes long, and it’s difficult to do all of that in one take. Yeah. It’s kind of a process, but you just get better. Just like anything else, guys, if you practice it enough, you get better at it, that’s all.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: If any of you guys remember the first sales videos we did. First of all, when I’m 280 pounds.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: They were so bad compared to what they are now. You know what I mean?

Hernan: Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. I mean, every video that we make, or that you make, or whoever, it doesn’t, it’s never as polished as it looks like. That’s the end product. Right. There’s a lot of stuff going on behind that. You see all of these guys appearing really comfortable on camera, or not, but there’s a bunch of editing. For example, I recorded some videos, myself, I will listen to [inaudible 00:45:23], and the guys a machine when it comes to selling, but he will tell you, yeah, it will take me a week or something to record a two hour webinar. You know what I mean? Because of that thing that it needs to be perfect, and it needs to be edited in a way that there’s no mistakes, whatsoever, so there’s a lot of work involved. Now, if you think about that, a via cell, or a video, or webinar bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars, themselves, it’s totally worth it. It’s worth the [inaudible 00:45:55].

Bradley: Yeah. Again, the hardest part, for me, really is the writing of the scripts, because I still write all of our sales scripts 100% on my own, and I’m not a copywriter, so it takes me sometimes two days to write a damn script. I’m not kidding. Two full days. It’s painful, for me, because it’s very, very time consuming, but I always feel like they come across better that way then trying to read off somebody else’s script. Anyways.

Possible Reasons Why Your Google Drive Properties Are Not Indexed By Google

Don says, “I’m not a member of RYS Academy, but I’m waiting for the next program to drop. Having said that, I’ve been playing around with Google Drive properties, but following all the pieces I’ve picked up here and there. I cannot get any of the drive files to index, not rank, but simply to index.

I’ve tried drive files on two separate drive accounts, and submitted all the links to SERP Space indexer. I know without seeing a link it’s hard to diagnose, but I have gone through and triple checked everything is public, but they don’t index. I also created a new Google site over a month ago and it still hasn’t indexed in spite being set to allow search. Having said that, I create a classic Google site and indexed almost immediately, as soon as I get my next GMB location verified I will order a drive stack, but I cannot figure out why the files aren’t indexing. Is there a way to test all of the public index my shit settings are correct? Thanks, guys.”

Yeah. Look, the only thing you have to do is if you set the file to public, and indexable on the web, and that’s in drive, it should be indexable. It doesn’t mean that it is going to index. I’ve had issues with drive files indexing, and what I found is just to leave them alone, or build links to them. What I mean is I’ve had a lot drive stuff, for example, the one that we use all the time is an example from my first test with it, that’s still ranking, the Virginia SEO one. That took six weeks before it ever indexed, but when it did, boom, it stuck. It’s been there ever since, which is freaking insane.

Again, I didn’t do anything to it, guys, but an initial, at the time, which was in May of 2015. That’s been over two years, now. I did a PBN link run to one of my really shitty PBN’s, like no kidding, it was a PBN that I wouldn’t use to link to any sort of money site, or even tier one property, it was specifically used for video broadcasting and that’s it. Only because it was a poorly built PBN from 2011, or ‘12 that I had built. I ran that site through there, I did a PBN post run for that and I think I had 13 backlinks from a poor PBN and about six weeks later it indexed and it’s been ranked number one ever since, and I’ve never done anything to that site, since, guys. That’s the truth, which is amazing. Anyways, Don, I’ve seen that, I’ve seen that those files don’t index all the time, or at least right away, just give it time. What you can do is build links to those files, that should help with the index, but just be patient. Okay.

Marco: If I could just add, what he’s missing-

Bradley: What’s up, buddy?

Marco: Hey, what’s up, man. What he is missing is the interlinking. The RYS shit, that’s what he’s missing. Everything, all of the relevancy that we create. Everything that RYS Academy is all about, and since he mentioned the next program to drop, there won’t be one, guys. It’s just, we’ve talked about it, and we might as well make it public. I’m not going to make a followup training. We might make an update for RYS Academy, and if we update it, it is going to cost a whole lot more, but as far as all of the stuff that I’ve been working on, and whatever, I’m way behind, because of my surgery, and we’ve talked about it, and it just makes absolutely no sense for us to go and give people training where they’re going to take it and create a competing product. Now, if we do release anything, it will be with a-

Bradley: As a service.

Marco: Yeah. Not only a service, but it will be nondisclosure, and noncompete agreements, and enforceable, so that I can chase you down in court, anywhere in the world.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s what we’re saying provided it’s a service, a done for you service, and if people want to learn how to do it themselves, that’s fine, but they’re going to pay a premium for it, and they’re going to sign nondisclosure, noncompete, all of that. And, a licensing agreement.

Marco: Absolutely.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:50:17].

Marco: I mean it’s going to be just totally, it’s not what people are expecting. We’re not going to give you a step by step process on how to build a competing product. I’m not going to do that. Sorry. That’s over. If you’re waiting for that, I’m sorry, it’s not going to happen.

Bradley: Yeah. That’s a good point. One of the things we’re going to be doing a lot of is continuing to build out our done for you services, guys, because we’ve surveyed our audience many times and that’s what people say they want. A lot of people like the training, just so they can figure out how it works, but they don’t want to do the work, so they say, can you do it for us? We realize that, that’s where the demand is, so we’re building out more and more done for you services. We’re still going to produce info products, and training products on certain things, there’s no doubt, but the really nitty gritty, like really technical stuff is going to be strictly for the Mastermind members, guys, going forward.

There won’t be another RYS Academy style release from us, unless, of course it’s like I said, under premium, and licensing agreements, and all that kind of stuff. But, there’s still lots to come from us. Lots of done for you services, and we’ve got, I’ve got several training programs in progress, right now, that I’m putting together, that we’re going to be releasing under Semantic Mastery, or the Mastery PR brand, one or the other. Again, there’s more and more coming, but it’s just like all the really big, like groundbreaking stuff, like what our RYS was, there’s a reason why we’re not going to be releasing that kind of stuff. We’ll be releasing done for you services, instead.

Marco: [crosstalk 00:51:49].

Bradley: Go ahead.

Marco: We have something that’s huge. We have something that, I mean, what we’re working on is turned into a monster, and what we’re trying to do now is decide how to put all these pieces together, so that we can offer the two, or what you said, the way that you mentioned it, the training, but that’s going to be a premium, if I’m going to train you on something like that, or if we are, because you guys are all going to be part of this, of course, Semantic Mastery. The thing is we just want to protect ourselves, guys. We didn’t last time, a lot of people took advantage of it. It’s never going to happen, again.

Bradley: Yeah. Okay. Greg, I’m going to answer these next two, guys, and then we got to wrap it up, because we got the Mastermind/Masterclass webinar in a moment. “My established blogs has a branded network, and the YouTube channel has its own two tier.” Okay. “I will be adding some of the videos to some of the already established individual pages on my blog, however, when I post a video to the YouTube channel, if I also want to syndicate it out to my branded network, as well, do I create a separate post for that video, and send it to no index? My website is siloed well, and ranks, and I do not want to mess that part up. Thanks.” No. Why don’t you just connect your YouTube channel to the branded network, and just syndicate directly to the branded network, instead of embedding it on your site first. Right?

My point is, if you’ve already have established posts, or pages on your site, you’re going to go in and just add a video to those pages, those aren’t going to resyndicate, unless you make them, which you can do with republish old posts, it’s a WordPress plugin. That’s the one that I’ve used a lot. They have a free and a premium version. It’s called republish old posts. You can use something like that to actually reinsert those posts back into the feed, so that they’ll syndicate out, but it’s not necessary to do that if you’re going to want to publish or syndicate videos from your money channel to the branded network, which is essentially only connected right now for syndication to you money site.

Then, just go setup, just connect your YouTube channel to your branded networks, set up a whole other series of applets, using YouTube as the trigger, and when you upload the video it’s going to automatically syndicate to your branded network. It doesn’t have to go through your blog. Right? That’s what I would do. That way you can do whatever you want on the pages on your blog by embedded posts, or videos, or whatever into those, but that’s not going to retrigger syndication, unless you force it to using like a plugin like that. But, the videos that you upload to your video, or YouTube channel would get syndicated to your branded network via the YouTube trigger applet.

All right. Last question. “Hi, Bradley. I have a question about citation in GMB, as you know Google is preventing user PO box for local business,” yeah, Google prevents using PO boxes, but you can use the street address option within post offices, I just set two of them up about two weeks ago. Another two. No kidding. I had a client for the case study I’m doing in the Mastermind. I set up an AdWords funnel for him, a lead gen funnel, and I had him, well, I think his is actually a real address, though, I think it’s a real address. Anyways, my point is it absolutely still works. Guys, I’m going to drop this link. We got to wrap up, but I’m going to drop something, here. Give me a moment.

This is the exact form that you fill out in the post office. You can print it off from your computer. Here, I’ll zoom in on it a little bit. You can print this off from your computer and fill it out, and take to the Post Office. All you do is go rent a Post Office box, period. Then, hand them this form. Look, it doesn’t cost anything, all you do is fill it out, and whatever their PO box, let’s say that the Post Office street address is 123 Main Street, and you get box number 101, so by filling out this sheet, and submitting it when you make the payment for your, and you have to go into the Post Office to sign for it, anyways, when you rent your PO box, when you go rent your PO box, you hand them this form, or you can ask them for it and they’ll produce it for you, and you fill it out, and then hand them the form.

It says, Post Office street address, so 123 Main Street, then you use the number sign and they’ll tell you very specifically that you’re supposed to use the number sign, not suite, not box, not nothing, you’re supposed to use the number sign, the pound sign, and say 123 Main Street, number sign, box number, and that absolutely still works. Where it has been creating problems, right now, is when people try to multiple register, or excuse me, register multiple PO boxes under the same GMB account, to quickly. That’s where it’s flagging, but if you set up each listing under a separate GMB profile, then I haven’t had any issues with it at all. Okay.

Anyways, let me drop this link and we’ve got to wrap it guys, I’ve got to go. I know there might have been a second part to that question, so let me jump back and finish that, real quick, guys. And, we’ll wrap it up. Is Bill Cousins, here? I’ll be damned, he is. Bill you need to reach out to me before the webinar, buddy, so we can get you on. All right. Cool. “My problem, now, is because I cannot get PO box verified, suspended from Google.” Yeah. Start over. I mean, what I would do is I would go and fill out that form, go submit it, and start over under a new Google My Business profile, so set up a new Google account. Create the Google My Business profile under there, and then use the street address results, or option, and it should work. Okay.

Clean your IP if you need to. Use a proxy if you have to. “If I’m going to use a local home address how to GMB, then use the original PO box address for the citation.” No. Don’t do that, either. Whatever the address is that you have registered with Google, that has to be the address that you use in your citations, if you switch it up, your never going to get any results. Okay, Hank? Yeah. Try that, buddy. Try this one, here, and I’m telling you it should work. I would clear your browsing history and all that first, use a clean browser like Firefox that you’ve run through the process of cleaning. All right, guys. We got to wrap it up. Thanks for everybody being here. Roman, thanks for showing up today, man. Appreciate it.

Roman: Yeah. No problem.

Marco: Bye everyone.

Bradley: See everyone, next week.

Roman: Take it easy.

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