Hi, I'm Dave Nolette and I'm with the Justice Education Society of British Columbia and we're an organization that really is quite different from all of you. We have three different divisions and none of those divisions provide legal aid services. Our vision is really to help build the legal capability of individuals as well as to improve the capacity of justice systems. This is our family law website and ultimately it's a website, a family law resource like no other. Right now we're developing this with localized versions of the site for 14 different regions and my presentation today is to answer the question why what makes families change so popular. Well, when we developed the site we worked with family counselors, youth counselors, psychologists, lawyers, parents, teens and kids and the result was three separate age-appropriate guides to separation and divorce. One for kids ages 6 to 12, one for teenagers and one for parents. What you see here on the screen is actually some screenshots from the teens and the parents sites and it includes a Changeville and online game. And so, sorry I'm out of sync here, sorry for that. So ultimately yes, sorry, Changeville the online game and it allows kids to explore the town of Changeville and discover their feelings and here's some excerpts from some of the sites. My friends and I are going to be telling you some things about what happens when parents decide not to live together anymore. I'm Kiko, I'll be talking to you about some of the reasons why parents decide not to live together anymore. So the kids guide in Changeville provides some basic legal terms, but more importantly they talk about things like changes, feelings and where to get help. And the information is presented in a fun and engaging way. Many kids don't want their parents to divorce. Some kids have mixed feelings about it, especially if they know their parents weren't happy together. It's perfectly normal to have different feelings in your head at the same time.  Dad, I need ten dollars for the field trip tomorrow. Ten dollars? Do you think I made a money? Why didn't you ask your mother? How does this boy feel about the money situation? So this scenario is from Break Up Street where we talk to kids about being caught in the middle and there's activities there with helpful suggestions as well. And the next two slides are screen captures from the teen guide and from the parents guide. And once again there's some baseline legal information, but the content is focused on changes, on feelings, communication and on problem solving. Families Change was popular in British Columbia and it was only in that province and then ultimately things changed when we got a call from California. They said they liked the site, they were interested in having one for themselves and so here you see it on the screen. It's virtually identical, but we've produced it for California now and it's available in English as well as Spanish. And so this year Families Change will become a national website in Canada. We're producing local versions for each of the provinces as you see on the right and it'll be in English and French. And here in the US you've seen the California site and we're also building it out for Connecticut, Maine, Vermont as well as Utah. And one of the reasons that Families Change is so popular is in fact because of what it's not. And it's not a how to separate and divorce website. The truth is you all have websites that do a much better job of helping lead people through the process of separation and divorce. It's not that. The success of Families Change really is that it provides age-appropriate information about separation and divorce that goes beyond the law. It helps kids and teens and parents deal with emotional and psychological realities of a family breakup. So that means for kids it talks about living in two homes and that it's okay to feel sad. For teens it talks about how they can help and that it's not their fault. And for parents it talks about talking to the children and how to keep them out of the conflict. The site content, the images, the activities, it all does this in a way that's positive, respectful, inclusive, and engaging. And so now the site continues to evolve and for the New England people for California this is the new look of the site. It's an improved website design that we're working on now. We have maintained the theme through this new responsive design and what that means is it'll be accessible for internet connected devices. It'll be mobile friendly. And it's all Drupal by the way. And we're going to use IP recognition to get users to the right content. A drop-down menu will let them choose a different location, a different state if that's needed. All of the Canadian provinces will be built out on FamiliesChange.ca. For U.S. states we're building out FamiliesChange.org. And for the sake of easy promotion we use subdomains. So for example a state like Connecticut would be CT.FamiliesChange.org. In terms of customizing we provide Word documents of the content. We get information back like this. It's been modified. We also want the states to provide links to their own family law resources. So ultimately this is a page that's been modified and this has California content on that page. Now I think we can all agree that emotionally, psychologically the experience of separation and divorce is largely the same for kids, teens and parents regardless of where they live. It's sad. It's confusing. It's hard. The feelings are universal and that FamiliesChange content really doesn't change much from state to state. But for each state what does need to change is the information about the law and where to get help. So that's how we customize the site and that's part of the reason for the success. It's much easier for us to customize a local version for your state than it is for you to produce that site on your own. So if you're interested in having FamiliesChange in your state my contact information is provided there. And wouldn't it be great if FamiliesChange was a national resource here in USA as well. Thank you.


So today's presentation is about six key focus points for website success. So the whole goal or point of this presentation is to give you some pointers that will help you with auditing your own entire website or if you are helping out another team or part of a communications team, you can go through and find things that will help you improve your optimization, not improve optimization with conversions, will help improve your speed, will help improve security, your branding and design of your website to help ensure your success and also help with optimization techniques. So you know what to test, how to test and what to look for and trying to figure out how to extract points from data to help you set guidelines for testing. And we'll learn a lot of those techniques throughout today's presentation. And also as a big bonus for dropping in, I'm going to send you the presentation slides that I'm going to show you today. Also, I have an ebook as well that gives a little more in-depth information about a lot of the topics I'm going to discuss. And then I'll follow up with some of the information as well. There's not in the presentation, but I'll give you as other pointers. I'll follow up via email with you and send it out so you can have it for your own money. So without further ado, let's jump right to it. First, a little about myself. My name is George Woodard. I'm a full-time WordPress developer and marketing website specialist. I've been doing this for over 10 years now. I work with nonprofits, AMB to be businesses to help optimize the website so we can target their target audience, help improve conversions for SEO, accessibility, speed and security. And I love what I do. It's fun to do. I've been enjoying this, like I said, for over 10 years now, and I've got a chance to work with people all over. So the presentation today is just another way of showing some of the fun that I get to look at and help you see the fun and what your website can help offer you. So first, how is your website?  And that's something, believe it or not, that a lot of people believe that a website is a set it or forget it type part of your marketing, which is not true. Because just like a car, just like any software, whether you have a cell phone or laptop, software requires updating. And just like your website, when there's changes not only in software, like for example, I'm a WordPress developer, so WordPress has periodic updates. You want to make sure you're up to date there, as well as like your marketing. You have Google, they're notorious for making changes to the algorithm for the search engine. So you want to make sure that your website is hitting the points that's needed for them to recommend your website to visitors, people who are looking for the services or products that you may be offering. So you want to make sure you look after it, make sure it's easy to use, and you want to keep it relevant so your audience will be there for you. And they'll come looking for you looking for the services that you offer. With that said, let's jump into six areas that you should focus on. And the first, let me adjust this here. The first is the website design. So we all know your website is like your first impression. Whenever people are googling, looking for services, they always find what they're looking for, click on it, and then they get to the website. And then the design is the very first thing that they see. So a common analogy that I use in web development is relating your website to building a house. So in this case, the design of your website is your curb appeal. So how well does your website present itself to the world is what you should ask yourself. If someone were to use Google Street View, for example, to find your house, would they be impressed or repulsed? And that's the same exact way you want to think about with the design of your website. When they search for what they're looking for, based on whatever search terms they input, and then they find your website, when they land on your home page or whatever page comes up first that provides the information they need, are they impressed? Does it bring them in? Does it draw them in? Or are they repulsed? So things out of place, is it hard to find information? Is it things like text? Is it legible? Or is it hard to try to click? Another big point is responsiveness of your website, which is a fancy word saying, can they use it on multiple devices, whether it's an iPhone, it's a MacBook, they're using it on a tablet, or in these days people can actually browse the web from their TV. Are they able to navigate your website doing the same thing? Is it hard for them to click on items? Is it hard for them to locate information? Those type of things go into the design of your website and you want to make sure that you give it a fresh look. You want to make sure it's cohesive, because there's issues sometimes where we make changes, there are branding initiatives that happen, and a lot of things may get changed throughout the time and you want to make sure that they all match the brand of the organization. And the best way to do that is to make sure you have brand guidelines. And that's another topic for another day, but the point here is just make sure that the design that you present, it doesn't have to be grand dose, it's just as long as it's clean, it's concise, and it's easy for your visitors to and then moves over to the next point is the user experience. It's right behind the design for a simple reason. What good is a tow truck if you can't tow your car? That's the same way with the user experience. What good is a good looking website if visitors can't do or find what they came to look for. I'm going to give you a few stats here. So according to Amazon web services, 88% of visitors say they wouldn't return to a website after having a bad user experience. So to make it simple, if you had 100 visitors in a month and aiming for a 1% conversion goal, all you need is one new client. And how could that benefit you if you have one new client? If your website has a poor user experience, you've already disqualified 88 of those 100 visitors. So that leaves you with a lower chance of conversion of just 22 people. And honestly, in my guess, if 88% of the people are disqualified, the other 22 are really not too far behind them. So you want to make sure that the experience that people are having when they visit your website is a pleasant one. And again, it doesn't have to be grand dose. That's a common misconception. After working in this field for so long, that's a common misconception that people have. They want to put all the flashy elements. They want to make sure things are whizzing past the page. They want to have all of these interactions going on the website. If your website is built or you're in an industry that is more service based or you're providing consultations and things like that, less is more. You want to dial back a lot of those interactive elements. You want to make sure that, hey, when they land on your website, can they find or at least get to in a very easy way the information that they came to look for. One common rule in web development is called the three click rule. And simply what that means is, does it take a visitor three or less clicks to get to where they're trying to go? And that's really it. You want to make your user experience for all your visitors to be that simple. And there's a lot of quick wins that you can do to try to help you out. And here's a few that I'm going to show you. So these are five checks that your visitors to let you know that they're having a good user experience. Do they understand your message? Is your message clear? Does it take them a long time to understand what you do? Or does your USP or unique selling proposition tell them exactly how you can solve the problem that they have? Number two, is it easy to contact? Do you have contact forms? Is your address visible if they need to know something? Phone numbers, are they easily accessible? And especially on mobile devices, if you have a phone number, you can actually convert the phone numbers into links. So if people click on it, it takes them to their phone on their device and be able to call you directly. Things like that. Is it easy to get in touch with you when they need to? Can they navigate your website with ease? Again, that refers to the three-click rule that I was talking about. How easy is it for them to get from point A to point B? You want to make that transition or that experience, I should say, as easy as possible. One thing I know a lot of people would like to have but only works on a certain type of website is the big navigation menus where you hover or click on it and it has 40, 50 different elements. And a lot of entertainment-based websites that works well, but when you're more informational or transactional, you don't want to expand stuff like that too big because then that can impact the user experience, especially on mobile because there's a lot of scrolling that you're using what has to do. And then sometimes on desktop, it can hide things and makes it hard for people to try to access it. Number four is clear call to action. How easy is it for them to get in contact with you and make a conversion? This is something similar to newsletter. If your goal for the next quarter is to increase your newsletter base by a thousand subscribers, how easy is it for them to input their email and hit subscribe? A lot of people would like to have their forms on the page, which works well, but another is also thinking about exit intents. And what that is, if you've ever gone to a website and then you moved your cursor off the page and then a box pop up that's called exit intent, there are numerous ways that you can capture people to sign up for your newsletter. But just to call to actions, not even just newsletter, is it material that you're providing whether it's like a brochure, a checklist, a sheet, some type of lead magnet? Is it easy for them? And it's clear to tell them this is the action that they will be taking if they click this button. And number five is trust fact. Are you a part of associations? Are you a part of groups? Does it show that you're relevant or you've shown experience in your development of expertise? For example, and I'll go back and show you something on this slide. This is what you would consider trust factors on the left hand side. You see my badge where it shows on certified wordpress developer. And then on the right side, it shows you that I'm a digital business consultant. The same thing occurs on other websites. If you are in construction, that show you can show house where it shows that you have plenty of reviews, your Google reviews, but there's a show all in your positive reviews that people could see prior clients that have worked with you testimonials. That's another trust factor where people can provide their experience and by working with you. So that's just a lot of different ways that you can show your trust on your website. And moving on to our next point, search engine visibility. Now, this is a hugely talked about subject, but there's a lot of cloudiness around it, not of misstated information. So I'm going to try to make this as clear as possible. But what you want to do is make it an important point to make sure your website is visible in search engines. And what I'm referring to is when you go to Google, you type in a search term, how easy is it for Google to recommend your website to your business? And the goal there is to make sure two things is that, like I said, your website is being recognized by Google or just search engines in general, because Google is the biggest one. But you have Bing, and you have a few others, Yahoo, and plenty others out there. And that your website copy or content is optimized for the correct keywords. Usually when you nail those two, you should continue to optimize for marketing, but that would help you get a big start. And to show you some tips in this, I'm going to show you a few tools and things that I've used before. So here's one. If you notice at the top of the search bar, the word site, and then behind it is a code. And then after that is my domain, lsquare.com. What this does, if you type it in Google, it will show that Google has indexed your site. And I'll put this in the chat real quick. So if you type that in, and of course replace your domain.com with your actual domain, what this will show at Google is that Google has actually indexed your site. And if it comes up and shows pages on your site, that's a good thing. That means that Google recognizes that your site is a credible website, that they're actively crawling is what it's called, but actively scanning your website to see if they're in changes. And this is also another point of making sure your content and copy is fresh and up to date. Because if you're constantly updating it, whether it's through blog posts and projects, research material, what have you, the more that you do that increases your chances for being found in Google based off of search terms. And to also know or find out what search terms that you would want to target is going to be on the next slide. I'm going to show you how you can do that. This right here is a tool that Google provides called Google Keyword Planner. And I don't know if you're familiar with that, but Google provides a free tool where you're able to type in words related to your business or related to the services that you offer. And it will turn a list of keywords that match your search. So in the top box, that is where I typed in WordPress Web Developer. And when I type that in, that is a set of four string of keywords that I would like to research to see what hits that I can get or what ideas I can get from it. And on the next tab, you can actually see there is a option that says start with your website. And this is a little trick that many people may or may not know, but it'll allow you to ethically spy on your competition. What you can do in this box is when you click on this tab and put in the URL either for your own website, if you want to see what your website is ranking for or if you want to look at competitors, you can put it in that box, put their URL in that box, and it'll show you what keywords that they're ranking for or what keywords that Google is actually recognizing their website for. This is helpful for you because then you can see where you can fit in or maybe what keywords you can try to take off or try not to rank for on your website. And on this next slide, it's going to show you an output of what that looks like. So whenever you put in your keywords, then it will put out this list here where you can see all of the keywords or keyword ideas that are related to the keywords that you input on the previous screen. In the first column, the very first option is the one that you entered. And then the column results under that are other ideas to give you some options. A good rule of thumb is maybe to select anywhere from three to five keywords as a focus initially, and then you can expand from there. In the right hand column or the right hand two columns, the first one is average results or searches. And this is a range of average monthly searches that occur for the keyword on the left hand side. And then to the far right is the competition. So if you choose to run paid ads at some point in the Google network, I'll put it that way. If you choose to run paid ads with Google, this will tell you how competitive it is to rank for the keywords that you're looking at. Going back to the search results, if you ever typed in anything in Google and the ads that may come up at the top, this is what that's referring to. So if you're searching for a certain keyword, and it has a low competitiveness, that means you have an easier possibility for obtaining a spot at the top or in the ad for that keyword. And I did put that in there, but also you can, you'll be able to see the cost per click if you were to want to pay that campaign. And usually low competitive keywords have lower cost and inversely higher keywords have higher costs. So this is something that a lot of teams can use, a lot of marketing communication teams can use to be able to see how they rank, where they're ranking, what keywords they can and should rank for. And it can help drive ideas for writing your content. Moving on is conversion optimization. This is a big one. So basically, conversion optimization is the process of wanting to increase the percentage of visitors to your website. They carry out a specified action or then whether it's making a donation, purchasing a program, registering for membership, what have you, whatever goal that you set out is the action that you want them to do. And tracking that is the conversion and being able to optimize it is conversion optimization. So the conversion rate that you define for yourself is the percentage and is using a simple formula. So it's the action number, which is the number of people who perform the specified action divided by the visitor number. And it is, you guessed it, the number of visitors to your website. And then you multiply that by 100. So for example, let's assume your website received 5000 visitors last month, and you had 65 event registrations. So using that formula, you would divide 65 by 5000, which gives you .013. You multiply that by 100, and it gives you a conversion rate of 1.3%. Now, a lot of people see that as an extremely low number, but honestly, there's actually not a bad conversion rate. In most industries, typical conversion rates land anywhere between 2% and 5% depending on what the product is, and also price points, because different price points have higher or lower conversion rates. But this is an actionable equation that you can use to help set some goals for your website. And then also, and these are ways that you can actually improve your conversion rate. Again, how easy is the contact? Do you have a noticeable phone number? What is your primary call to action, whether it's in the header or if it's what's called below the phone, which is a certain scroll point on your website? Do you have a primary call to action? Can they register for the event immediately? Can they schedule a consultation? Can they book a call, anything like that? Primary call to action, adding that on the main landing page or adding one on your home page is very vital. Lead capture forms, they could be newsletter signups, contact forms, even forms that are used to register to obtain content from you, like applications for certain events. If you have forms that could do that, they can be folder wrote into your CRM, testimonial and reviews. This is falling under the trust factor when clients or people are working with you and you gather testimonials. Do you have them readily or easily viewable on your website? Siping for reviews, Google has widgets, a lot of different platforms have widgets that you can actually embed on your website to show the reviews people have left you. And that can help boost your trust for the potential, whether it's clients, visitors or potential partners that you want to work with. Online help. Now, this is one that kind of lean towards, do you have live chat? For some websites, that's a viable idea, having a live chat box to be able to immediately stay in touch with your visitors. This also means an option for a knowledge base. Do you have a repository of knowledgeable information about your service products or your business that visitors can use? Another one is FAQs. You get a lot of questions, so you field a lot of questions from clients or potential clients. And if it's frequent information or frequent questions, it's good to have FAQs to help solve that problem and answer those questions up front. And then when it comes time for them to contact you or make that desired goal or action that you want them to, they already have been preeducated about what it takes or what's involved in the process of working with you. So these are much, there are many others, but these are some of the main ways that will help you improve your conversion rate. Now moving on to our next tip is website speed. So website speed is the first impression and as we all know, first impression is really count. It's the first impression that people have when they come to your website. Design is a big one, but speed also plays into that factor and it rolls in under as an option under the user experience. How fast does your website load? How fast does it transition from the click that they've made on whatever material they're trying to get to the next page? That is pertinent that you have a fast loading website, not only for the user experience, but also for search engine results. I am fully aware and many people may or may not know that Google actually penalizes websites for them being slow. And it's not just for desktop for mobile experience and for tablets because desktop experience has a different experience than mobile devices typically don't have the same speed needs or the same processing power as a desktop does. So you want to make sure your website is optimized to be used on those different media. Delivering a fast website experience allows you to build trust with your visitors and it actually keeps them engaged and understand a lot more what you do. There are a lot of factors that come down to how fast your website loads and a few of them are quality hosting. This is a big one that I try to educate people on that cheap is not always better or the old saying is that you get what you pay for. I know a lot of hosting companies advertise these cheaper plans. Some of them are quality hosts, but a lot of times with the cheaper hosting options, what happens is you're sharing processing resources with other websites you may not even know exist. And if someone on that same server going back to the housing analogy, if you're using a cheaper host, usually that's what's called shared hosting, and you're living in an apartment. So if another tenant is overusing the resources in the building that affects your experience, the same concept there. So if another website on the server is using all of the processing resources that can cause your website to slow down quite a bit. So that's why I fully support going with a VPS or cloud hosting provider. Or if you are capable in the budget to go hire, get like a dedicated server only for like super custom websites, but most people can go with the cloud or VPS hosting. Another point that goes into speed is website file size. Mostly if you're using a CMS such as WordPress, the file size for your website will stay relatively small. Where it expands or explodes is when you start adding media elements to it, particularly pictures. We know that user quality photos is a part of the website user experience. What the biggest point you should make sure is optimizing those pictures.  And I'll send those out and send some of those out during after the presentation via email. But you want to make sure you're optimizing your pictures. So when visitors from again, from desktop versus mobile are loading your site, it doesn't take so long for the photo to load because the file size is too big. Another point here is external requests such as Instagram feeds or YouTube videos. You want to include as much points or more interest points as possible to social media or other platforms so people can engage in your content. That is fine, but at some point, if you overdo it, it can cause your website to slow down. For example, with the YouTube option, I highly suggest that you actually use YouTube, but to invent the videos that you have on YouTube, if possible, just put a screenshot and link to it. One big no-no unless you have the dedicated or the more expensive hosting I was talking earlier, the one big no-no is actually self hosting your videos. The reason that's an issue is because every time a visitor visits your website, that video has to be processed to be loaded. And if you're getting thousands of visitors every month, that's thousands of people sometimes will times in a month. There are loading your website and that can take a huge hit on the performance and speed of your website, so you don't want to do that.  And in the last, there's poor optimization techniques, and that's such as clearing the cache or deleting expired draft, post pages or anything like that. You want to make sure that a lot of the saved memory, the memory that's on your website is cleared out regularly because, for example, if you're writing a blog post every time or every few seconds or minute, depending on your website is set up, the CMS would automatically save a draft of it, similar to what Microsoft Word or Google Docs, a draft is saved. But when that happens, it saves multiple draft copies that the memory of your website can be eaten up by a lot of those. If you have hundreds and hundreds of them that have been saved and never cleared out, that can cause other processing issues for your website that goes back to the website file size. You have all these hundreds of draft or expired pages that have not been deleted. Yes, they may not be accessed, but it's not benefiting you because the storage space on your website is getting eaten up by these old pages. And then we give you a few more stats here. Based on Google Developers, the social Google Developers, sites that load at five seconds see 25% higher add new ability, 70% longer sessions and 35% lower bounce rates than slower loading sites. So if you do those optimization techniques, you can see it happens almost real time. You would see the bounce rate decrease, which means people are not leading your website immediately. They're staying on your site. They're staying engaged. They're reading your content. And they're doing the longer sessions because things are not loading slow for them. They are having a better user experience. Number two, 73% of mobile internet users have come across slow to low websites. And this source is Neil Patel. He's very big in the SEO community. Like I said before, mobile devices do not have the processing power as desktops or laptops do. So having a mobile optimized or responsive website is a very key point or a key factor in making sure you have a good user experience. I didn't add this stat in there, but I think it's over 40 to 48% of users and it's growing exponentially of users are using mobile devices today. Just think about it. How often do you leave the house and make sure you have your keys and the next thing you look for is your, not your, why I'm sorry, your cell phone. People are using mobile devices often and regularly today. So you want to make sure that your website is optimized for the mobile experience because of how many people and how often people are using mobile devices. And the third is 53% of the time visitors to mobile sites leave a page that takes more than three seconds to load. And that comes from another thing piece by Google. So basically what that means is 53% of visitors will leave a page if it loads more than three seconds. Again, that goes back to the user experience. If I'm trying to find a specific piece of information that you provided and have, if it takes forever to load your website, then I'm going to leave and I'll go to a competitor who has the same exact information, but their website is loaded faster. That's all that means is that you want to make sure that it's loading fast or optimize again for mobile because people just the time it takes for your website to load the experience just doing those from there and they will leave your website and go find that information elsewhere. So you want to make sure that the site stays optimized to prevent those type of issues from happening. And moving on to point number six is website security. Now this is one of the biggest components of your website and it also aligns with the set it and forget it analogy that I mentioned earlier. So our computer cell phones, any type of computational device has software built in and that software needs continuous maintenance. So your website is no different. You don't need an extensive security policy that requires you to apply for security clearance, but if you're working in government sometimes that's required, but you don't need this big security plan. There's just a few responsibilities that you can manage on your own and that makes sure that your website is blocked from hackers from malware from spam bots and any nasty type of intrusions happening on your website. And a few ways that you can do that is one update the software on the website. I can't emphasize and I can't preach that enough. Myself as a WordPress developer, many people are familiar with WordPress core having a lot of updates, but there are also extensions called plugins. You want to make sure those are up to date as well. It's the same thing as if you're using Microsoft Windows and you download applications, you want to make sure they're updated. Same thing for Mac computers. It's just the same exact way with your website. You want to make sure your software is up to date and there is a performance component of that too. So if you're making sure your website software is up to date, it helps with the speed and the user experience of the website. And I hope you're seeing how all of this is intertwined, but moving on to the next point, you want to make sure your website is backed up and then back it up again and make sure you do it again. The reason I emphasize this is that it's extremely important. Anything can happen when it comes to software. So you want to make sure you have things backed up. So if something were to happen, you can jump right back in and restore your website back to what it was. Quick story on this. So years ago, I had a previous client of mine that had a website. I built for him. He worked in logistics. So he wanted to manage his website. And it was very small, but he wanted to manage his website in-house through his secretary. And I was like, cool. I educated him what he should do, the steps he should take from security, from backup, what type of hosting he should go with, et cetera, et cetera. But we farted ways. And then a few years after that, he came back and he asked, did I have a copy of his website? And by the time it passed so much, I did not. He had told me that his website had crashed and I was curious. So I asked him, do you mind if I try to check it out? So I went on to his website and it looked like it had been taken over by Spambot. So everything was completely different. Nothing looked like what it should have been. It was actually a totally different website. Through investigation, I found out that the site was not updated for anything. And the biggest loss here is that he did not have a backup copy, but the worst part of that was the hosting that he had, did not have a backup copy of his website either. And this goes back to the point I mentioned earlier, having a quality host. Most quality hosts would have a backup copy of your website. On top of that, you should make sure you have a backup copy of your website. And on top of that, if you have someone like a web consultant, a designer or someone like myself who is working or supporting your website, they would have a backup copy and probably multiples of your website. In the event anything happens, having a backup like that in that case of emergency will get your website back up in maybe a couple hours less than that sometime. But having a quality host would also speed up that process by minutes. So make sure if you have a backup for that one and a backup for that one. Another point of security is to make sure you use strong passwords. I cannot emphasize this enough Originally, when WordPress up until they're in version, major version six now, but up until think of this version four, when you installed a brand new copy of WordPress, it automatically inputted a new user with the word, the username admin and the password was admin. And because of security reasons, hackers started understanding that they deleted that out that feature out. You want to make sure that people are not using passwords and usernames like that, because it makes it easier for people who are unauthorized to gain access to your website. You want to emphasize or enforce, which can be done on many weapons, if for strong passwords. And I know and I am guilty of this. My memory sometimes is terrible. So try to remember for your online shopping, one for your website, you have one for Apple Music and everybody else trying to remember those passwords can't be extremely tedious process. What I suggest is getting a password keeper or password organizer. My personal favorite is Last Pass L A S T P S S. Last Pass. I have hundreds and hundreds of passwords for many different reasons. And that program is extremely secure. Because I've also lost access to my last pass and had to go through the process of regaining it. It was a very extraneous process. But I appreciated it because the security that they took, the security messages that they took to protect my information. So I suggest if you do have a lot of passwords or you have a problem with keeping track of passwords, gain access to a program like that. So it'll help you stay on top of things and stay managed with all the passwords that you have. So now we have reached it in. I want to thank you a lot for dropping in, checking out the presentation today. I'm going to open up the chat. If you have any questions for the next few minutes, you're welcome to ask them and I will hang around to answer them. But I thank you. I really do thank you. I hope a lot of the information I provided you was extremely valuable. Again, since you did drop in today, some of you came in kind of after I gave this information, but what I'll do is send out the copy of the presentation slides. You'll get a copy of an ebook that provides these same points with a little more in-depth information and some of the tools that I've used. I'll send out the links to those as well. But the floor is open. So if you have any questions, drop them in the chat for me. I'll wait a few minutes to see if we have any. Okay, Audrey, I noticed Facebook events for business pages now as for keywords. With using the Google Keyword Planner tool, it will be effective for Facebook keywords as well. I'm going to say yes. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm going to say yes. The reason why I say that is usually the keywords or the typing, not typing, but the keywords or the search criteria or the search terms that people are using on one platform kind of translates between all of the platforms, between Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, et cetera, et cetera. So I would say try it. This is a conversion optimization opportunity for you is to go to Google, search what they're looking for, and try to find your keywords that you would think would be helpful for you, and then give it a shot on your Google page, on the Facebook page. I don't know if Facebook has a Keyword Planner and I'll actually let me write that note down. If I find something, I'll send that out too. But I would think Facebook may have some type of tool like that, and if they do, I will make sure to include that. But I know the Google one would help. It would help give you some ideas. And like I said earlier, use it, get started, and then optimize as you go. Set some goals that you want to accomplish for your page, and then tweak it. Just one or two things at a time. You don't have to do too many. And just tweak it as you go to see how well differentiated it's work to get to the big rainbow. That's what I'm saying. But good question, though. Good question. Anybody? Okay. I don't... Are hashtags irrelevant or what pages? I will say irrelevant. They... I guess you could... They're not completely irrelevant. They're just not as widely searched for as they would be keywords. They are a keyword because people would search for those type of things, but it wouldn't perform as well on a website as it would on social media. Because the correlation of keyword or hashtags is correlated to social media. So I wouldn't say irrelevant. I just wouldn't use it. I wouldn't bank on it being my primary source of keyword optimization. I'll put it that way. Good question, though. That's really good question. That's something I never thought of. That's a good question. I want to thank you all for dropping in. I am extremely grateful for you guys stopping by.


11 and we are here from DLDC celebrate Dunnegull business showcase Live from the Clannery Hotel here in Letter Kenny, and I'm joined on the program now by Ingrid Proberkite. Is that is that the if I pronounce that right? My god, I've been really worried about that all morning I saw on the page. I'm like, oh no, I'm going to a Fender now I've been called different names So we got that right so we're off to a good start So you are the prider I suppose of Ingrid's balloons So Ingrid tell us tell us about your business. What's Ingrid's balloons all about so Ingrid's balloons is Actually based in Brookless, but we covered all Dunnegull Okay, so it's a luxury styling balloons for any occasion really so starting from a smallest birthdays, christens, Anniversaries you name it going into the bigger events like corporate events, weddings, as well So we do a lot of it Okay, and I mean, you know, where did the idea for this business come because it's a very it's a It's an unusual business. It's a niche business. Where did the idea come from? I guess I suppose I always been very creative And you know it at the back of my head it always was like oh, I do want to work for myself Yes, but I never knew what I want to do Mm-hmm And it's always one of these things when you start to think too much never goes anywhere very true I actually had a few ideas and Then I was approached by a few people and they guided me to Dunnegull local development Yeah, and I went there with my ideas a couple of times actually Whatever the girls were absolutely amazing. They were like ingrate. No, you're not going anywhere with this They gave you a sort of an honest appraisal. Yeah, and it was great And you know, it's been days and nights you you didn't sleep and you think what I'm gonna do Yeah, and obviously the power of social media is on really this yeah And I think one day I was scrolling through Instagram, and I see that's the display and I was like oh That's so me it was sort of just an epiphany Out of the air it just landed on me.  This is that's what I needed You know I do I think I told a lot of people are gonna do this and kind of a lot of people was looking at me, right?  Yeah. Yeah. I want to go somewhere with this You know and quite often I suppose that's sort of the driving force you need to push you on to show I can do this. I will do this. It'll be three years. I'll be in business now in November and It's going strong.  Yeah, the first communion confirmation everything goes on like that So people you just gain the trust and then you know, you don't know maybe 15 20 years time You could be doing the wedding You know people recommend me and I'm just so grateful because all the people who come into me Angered my friends. Yeah, but you know, it's great like yeah And it's both the type of business here and you would you would depend quite a bit on word-of-mouth referral business Things like that. Yeah social media is great, but you know, what am I at the best? It's still yeah, that's still Absolutely. Yeah You know so you you came in to as a relatively new entrepreneur Okay, and you're in business now three years. You said it will be November three years Okay, what advice would you give if there's somebody out there listening right now as I'm sure there is somebody out there that's had this kernel of an idea for setting up a business and Are just a little bit afraid to take those first tentative steps What advice would you give them as someone who's done that and loved that? I just say don't be afraid Listen you got go for it.  Oh the team is amazing there They will guide you from set it up the business plans full trainings like I come in and I had no experience Anything at all to do with the business and they guide me through completely From a yeah, so from the start so those first steps right through absolutely Go for it. It's plenty support out there. Don't be afraid of it. That's good advice good advice What can people expect today at the at the exhibit so from yourself and from from you from what you've seen from the other Exhibitors that are setting up right now as we speak. What what can people expect to see? It's a lot of exhibitors out there from different kind of business So definitely come in and check it out. It's loads of fabulous displays suppliers are showing their best So it's going to be a lot of fun. So come in and check us out and support your local businesses Couldn't have said it better myself a grid. Thanks so much for joining us this morning You had something you wanted to tell us about yes, so we doing a wedding fair on Thursday in Silver Tassie from 4 p.m. To 8 p.m. I think okay, so we're going to do a really special offer So we're going to offer a hundred euro off to every couple who are going to book us And we're going to have a luxury goodie bag for them as well. Wow, so definitely don't miss it out come in So just tell us again silver Tassie silver Tassie Thursday come in 4 to 8 p.m. Come in and have a look at all the displays. You heard it here first and good Thanks so much for joining us this morning Take care. Bye. Bye


Good morning. Good morning. There's no better music to walk up to than Rocky. Okay, so I'm a I'm a big Rocky fans We're already kicking this thing off, right? Good morning Good morning Good morning All right, I'm a big energy guy and I do get a little loud In our office. We kick off our day the entire team of 70 of us With some type of energy activity.  You can't Achieve the success you want if your energies low You can't convict someone to make a purchase and decision and do business with you if the energy is low, so I'm gonna ask you To stand up with me to kick this thing off. Okay Coach Burt said hey, I got you first. So let's let's let's pick up the room and let's get the energy going Okay, so I'm gonna ask you guys to do 25 jumping jacks with me and after the 25 I'll probably end up having a better Presentation and everything else simply because we got my energy up and everybody else is energy up sound good sound good All right. You ready? Let's go one two three four five six seven eight nine ten 11 12 come on eight 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 give yourselves a hand. Thank you so much. Here we go. Here we go I'm big on energy So I'm gonna share I'm gonna talk through a few things.  Who's had to get more creative and push a little harder during this time of? everything going on in your business I believe Look low coach birch Coach Burt power statement here. I believe That anyone can have Anything they want. I know Tim's story is gonna close us out strong later with a very similar message So I'm gonna share not only my story, but three Ems today Okay, three Ems mediocre Which isn't good mindset and Mission and mission I got started in the Insurance business as an intern at 19 years old. I later decided to become a full-time insurance agent. I'm 20 years old I'm in college Taken 21 credit hours a semester playing basketball Practices tournaments games weekends everything else right who could have came up with some type of excuse for for why you maybe wouldn't do well When you got freakin school and basketball and everything else, right? And I went to your recruiting meeting and there was ten of us in the room Okay, ten of us in the room and and and the recruiter says all right ten of you stand up Okay, so help me out one two three four five six seven eight nine ten. Can you ten stand up for me really quick? Okay Let's probably be the last time by the way So he said all right ten of you stand up. Okay. He says all right now take a look around so we start looking around the room He says okay now nine of you sit down if you nine can sit and if you can stay standing sir. Thank you guys very much he says okay now Maybe one of you will make it you can have a seat. Thank you sir.   I'm competitive a ton of drive and In that moment. I did something that I didn't really know the power of what I was doing Well, buddy, Nate will talk a lot about this later And I wrote down in that moment when he said like most of you're gonna fail. I wrote down I will earn $100,000 at 20 years old my first year in the insurance business. I Dated it. I signed it and I hung it up in the wall of my cubicle and then every day I went out to make that a reality Cold calling cold door knocking No leads. Nobody wanted to talk to me door slammed my face. I Remember one Friday going out and knocking on 175 doors Remember cold calling for five or six hours on a Sunday like I was going to do whatever it took What that taught me is? I should never do anything And coach talks a lot about this. I should never do anything without a target. Who feels like they got some massive goals Who's got those goals written down? One of the things that I do is something called a daily power five that I'm gonna share with you really quick And then I'll go back to my story. I Do these five things every single day to kick off my day Because I want today to be better than yesterday Say aye if you're with me Say aye if you're with me. There we go. There we go. I want today to be better than yesterday every single day So wake up before 6 a.m. That's the first one today. I was so excited to get up here I woke up like 429 and couldn't sleep. Okay So what wake up early?  What kind of speaker am I gonna be at my energy socks? right, I Do some type of training Cells training video training book audio book kick off my day, right? They always say your mind's most palatable early in the morning So I always want to absorb some of the content to help me out The fourth thing I do Is a write down my goals every single morning?  I'm doing the first four, but I ain't doing the fifth one. Okay Not yet. Not yet, right? The fifth one is I finish every shower With a couple minutes of ice cold water cold shower. There's a few reasons.  That's good, right? That's good, right Nate and It forces me to start my day with something run that I don't want to do man and I believe a lot people are preaching it in in in in in our space that like hey if you don't want to do something Don't do it Right who thinks you would have achieved the success that you have if you would just done whatever you wanted to do every day Sounds silly doesn't it I Forced myself to start my day with stuff I don't want to do if there's something you don't want to do and it's tough put it right out of the gate And what I constantly challenge myself to do is to not be mediocre. Who's ever felt like? Because I really believe that that that most people are like born mediocre at different things, right? Tim's gonna talk about when once you find something that you're not mediocre with right then you found your gift You know and your passion. I think a lot of people are naturally when they get in business or sales or something They're average Who wants to be mediocre? Yeah, not me either Who wants to get great at at what you do and and the nice thing is you can you constantly can't I believe that Who's ever gotten bored lazy? Complacent you like dude. I need something to challenge me. I need something to wake me up So recently I'll tell you a quick story recently. This will move into mindset recently About a week and a half ago I Said babe, I'm gonna go run a half marathon 13.1 miles. Okay, I haven't ran More than a mile in like seven years since I got married. Okay, she's like, okay great. I'm like I registered for it It's on the book. She's like when is it? Since in a week She's like what? So I start researching. Okay, how do you prep for for a half marathon like and this is okay I'll start googling this over the next eight to twelve weeks. I Got a week. I also read that it's supposedly impossible to run your first half marathon in under two hours at a nine minute pace For 13 miles and most people run it in about two and a half to three hours I went out ran seven miles that Saturday of one week before Was just totally Dying exhausted average like ten eleven minutes a mile. I'm like, oh my gosh. This is ridiculous This is harder than I thought I got so sore. I didn't run anymore and then that morning I wrote down You will finish your first half marathon today in under two hours And I signed it and dated Before I went out and it was one of the most challenging things I've ever done and For two straight hours and Brad knows I'm talking about. He's a runner for two straight hours. I Kept the exact same pace And I wanted to slow down. I want to stop. I'm like, no, you are not slowing down You are not stopping you are finishing this thing. I got up to nine oh five nine oh ten a minute Minute per mile and I and I got it back down by speeding up my last four miles were faster than my first four That's how I believe that's why I believe anyone can do anything they want If they have the right mindset if they go into it say and I am absolutely going to destroy this And and when I get bored and lazy and complacent because I do a lot Right and coach work talks a lot about those people that are have a high high D on a disc assessment They wake up like they've never accomplished anything in their life. Whoever feels that way like dude I'm doing well, but I don't feel like it and we moved out. I just would just my wife And I just bought a new house and and I needed something to wake me up. I'm like babe. I'm feeling complacent. I'm feeling lazy I'm feeling bored She's like once you just slow down and and and take a look around, you know, I'm like, well I'm nowhere near my potential. So I'll tell I'll do it. I'll do it quickly. Okay. I'm big on when those moments arise I need to be challenged. I really believe when people get bored lazy can place it when you went when something's not going right You're like, dude, I got to wake up. I'm feeling stagnant. You know what I mean? You need a challenge And if I would have said hey, I'm gonna run a half marathon in three months. I would have lost interest, right? I mean who else is like that? I would have What I didn't tell you about my story earlier cold calling cold door knocking all that In eight months, I made a hundred seventeen thousand three hundred sixty-one dollars and thirteen cents at twenty years old Where 92% of people fell Nobody wants to door knock and nobody in the office that I was in had ever made a hundred grand their first year number one And nobody in their 20s really ever made it and and why Because I had a I had a strong mindset. I determined I set out what I was gonna do I didn't want to be mediocre and I had a mission I Think a lot of times it for us to be challenged. We need to be on some type of mission We got to be wanting to accomplish something. It's so easy for life to just float by For us to do this and that before you know it. We haven't accomplished anything ever my father Taught me How to work hard how to focus how to do the right things? I remember 16 years old. I'm supposed to go work at Apple Market little grocery store in Rogersville, Missouri It's supposed to start at four o'clock and go till 10 o'clock for six hours It's like 330 and I'm throwing up. So it's gonna work in 30 minutes 16 years old. I look at my dad and I'm like, hey, I'm I Feel like going to work today Right whoever who always woke up and been like I don't feel like showing up today Right, is it just me? I mean, I know I have a lot right And he says something to me that changed the way I think about stuff every single day What I love about coach bird is that dude shows up every single day Who knows what time he got to bed last night, but he doesn't care He is gonna give his best effort some of you and maybe a good maybe maybe first time meeting him He's got to put his best first impression out and he's gonna show up every single day Like it feels like a true or false My dad said You do whatever you want, but you know what I would do Ouch ouch So I went to work, but I learned something that day And it's a mindset No matter what I Got to show up We started doing a lot of traveling and speaking in conferences and going to companies and everything else And we'll get in at two or three o'clock in the morning and I'll have to be at the office 8 a.m Somewhere There's a lot of days. I do not feel like showing up But when that happens in your life You have two options You can show up when that moment arises to be the best version of yourself that day and every day after that Or you can choose to be mediocre And I know the Marlins of the world. They don't want to be mediocre man. They don't want to be mediocre And I don't want to either I Don't want to either so I got a challenge for you guys.   I don't know if I can get it You'd be like you did it before You can do it again You can do it again Okay, so we got some unbelievable speakers today. I'm super excited for everything. I am Normally a not a very long-winded speaker, right? I try to get energy up and go quick. Okay Thank you guys very much for everything appreciate you being here. Thank you coach. Give up give give a hand for coach again. Okay Hey, nobody wants to be mediocre Develop a strong mindset and go find your mission. Thank you guys. Thank you buddy


But then there was a story that came out of that. Why are you guys banning just clubs when we have churches that are doing the same thing which is noise pollution? The problem in this panel is our name is Shirati na sasa kuna vene club na fungwa sasa wana taka ukuje church na wata ke kuja church. I do. Seriously. Why are you putting one's name in your name? You are watching Friends Vibes All Feelings Are Represented. This is S.P.M.B. What's up guys? Welcome to Friends Vibes. My name is Miss Kithingi and I am joined by Nisa Abdi. Edima Story. Nde nya.  Na watu wali beboa? Wali beboa we can't sana, we saw videos online I'm sure you have seen. But then there was a story that came out of that. Why are you guys banning just clubs when we have churches that are doing the same thing which is noise pollution? They should be banned as well. And that was the conversation that was online. Nami Sijini muna se maji. Kani sayen munda enya ina se maji. Kani sayo tuku kuwaitu. Okay I'm joking. My thoughts. Yeah good church. My thoughts. Kuwaitu na uta niso meya. Are you my pastor? My pastor knows me. I'm not your pastor. Guys. Because kwa Instagram adukoni kani sa? You ni mabuwa monguwa. Pastor anguwa nifu lotu Instagram. As I was saying we thought it was rudely interrupted. I feel like ukweli our kids need to sleep. Nandjuwa? Yes. I love the story. Okay niku 50-50 kwa so many people have lost their jobs you know. Influencers, hosts. Mani fanguwa je club. Host. Club hosts. Waiters, waiters, waiters. Unamu se wa smokeiwa maia na kwangapu inje. Kuna alo akut dance ititut. Iti apu mbe na wapia na waputia. Uda mani kwa. Uda mani kwa. Uda mani kwa. So many people have lost their jobs. But wapia kifikiri inje kuna families, kuna masusho wa neshiapo, kuna kelele. At the same time, churches as ikwangi mandetu sa ndi kama clubs. Clubs wuna jokuna clubs mandetu. Ati chana zili ni tersha wiku. Benikersha ni kilasiku. Kirasiku. Tersha usiku na pata kwa ukuwa estet. Atia wuna jokuna letmi tere liu. Instead of kwa estet wuna pata monsili ni churches kani ne. Zina fanya ni ni apu. Danya you don't remember just the other day we were in town early in the morning picking those dresses. Tukas kemjoa ki ombo ko tunapiguna, tunasinana ni anapiganduru. Kuma ni kani sa? Ono jesu kani sa initwa kaji. Iwa fellowship ni tuwaji. Morning glory. Morning glory kuna lanchawa. Fellowship kuna sakumi. At this status. Will you compare the noise of a club and a church? No. You cannot. The problem in this panel is, our name ni washerati na sasa kuna vinye club ni na fungua. Sasa wana taka ukuji church na wata ke kuji church. Now that's the problem. Why we are sitting once in a while? One ni munda kama kani sa zifu. One ni munda kama kani sa zifungua. No, we are just saying that. The club was in kifungua, that's okay. But now come to God. How did you do? One ni munda kuna ukuji kani sa. Do you want to go to Jenny? Jenny kuwa kani sa. Tokeni kwa maklabo. Iwa nona iwa mizing kuna kuwa ga uku. Kuna iwa initwa kaji, the blood of Christ. Iwa ni iwa pira kwa ga gataoji. Iwa na ukuji. Iwa na ukuji. You are off-top. The conversation here is noise pollution. That is the conversation. Why are you against it? That's what I'm saying. No, we are not against it. Why the double standards? And people, and you know what I mean? This thing could not just that. You often get to clubs all of a sudden. So many people have been left without jobs. You know what I mean? With no way of finding for them jobs. No way of finding to provide for them. Kuna kusakaji mena kataoja ukuji. This thing, what I feel like, he should have talked to those, what is it called, the club owners. Those who can sound proof it, find other ways so that they can stay for moja. Una ja. One requirement. One requirement, ya, if you did business in school, was first thing is location. Look for location that is suitable for like you bees. But if they have been there, now you blaming the government or you blaming the club owners? I'm blaming the club owners. No, you're blaming, you're supposed to blame the government. But it's those licenses. Licenses. Alcohol licenses. We see this corruption. They have to have a Nema license. They have to have alcohol license. They have to have those licenses. You see there's a lot of corruption. But we have a soba person when they come and say, these things you got them in a corrupt way now anasafisha. Now come anasafisha. Explain to me how sober this person is who anasheku avoid problem, anasheku solve a problem without bringing a solution, by creating more problems. Listen, the change is always painful, very painful. Kuna watu wa taumia, lazima utaumia. No, he is the thing, he is the thing. So anu watu wa naumia because kuna mutu ali amua kuhenda kuhangia isi zofa. So watu wa taumia, lakini waschana watu okeko club wa kuji kuka nisa. No, he is ya club na kusumbuia. No, he is ya kaniisa i kusumbuia. No, he is ya kaniisa nemuzuri because he na kuambia kunjoko mungu. Kwa ifo as long as it's not the point is not news. The point is not news, it's the content. The church should be where people are but the club should be where away from where people are. Mostly if you are raising a family. You can raise a family where kuna strip club apu kandu. So your problem is the content. It's not news, it's the content that is being produced. It's a package, it comes to the package. What package? This is a club. The club is na kujana. Kuna mutu zina ndileu kundani. Around apu kuyo club there are so many things usherati na ndileu apu inje. Yes, what about the church? But now in this scenario adu ata sakaaja akibiana directive kufunga 1824. It was not about usherati. It was about noise pollution. And it's near residential areas where people are living. So whether it's a church or whether it's a club as long as it has noise pollution it should be done with. Mi kwa na kuna kitu. Mi kani sa seliangwi. Mbuna wunom ba mungu kwa microphone. So ata kitu wa microphone wunom ba mungu akuna schema on. The problem now is that we are not able to plug in microphones. Say, I am lived in prison worship and I get in the moment sit a Kaaa Majikchi niya na kupukia tii. Oh, I am in the moment with my God. But do you realize you're distracting other people? Were you not pleased with their house? I put you in the mud of prayer. I am in my house. I am in my house. No, we're not talking about being in your house I am saying like Ukilid crowd. That's what you're saying. I have people. You should be mindful of other people. I can't be sleeping in my house on a Tuesday night. No, I can't be sleeping in my house on a Tuesday night. I have to wake up in the morning. My kids have to wake up in the morning. And there's a church right there. People are screaming. People are shouting. Why? You're telling me you're praying to God. You don't need to use a pio. You don't need to pray to God. Let me ask you. So if you're talking about clubs making noise, let's also talk about churches making noise. Let me ask you. Let me ask you. If you're given an option between a club making noise and a church making noise, which one would you take? None. None. I'm just asking. I do not have a noise. Like in a play, I don't have a noise. None. No noise. Then come here. Come and talk to your noise. Kajen gini umbayako. No, I do. Thank you. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. In meh land, we'll just work here. . I don't know what peopleasha do when making noise. I'm not making sense. You can do what you're saying. But I had a problem female clubs making noise. She said no land. No land. Just came out from outside. If you're saying that stories, told me my job is so harmonica. If you're just being realistic. We're talking on behalf of people who are in the ghetto, they're probably not even affording to buy land and do all the stuff. We are Kenyans and I'm still in Israel to get you to a peaceful house. Let me ask you right now Betty. I just want to ask you too. Sayi, sayi zin niwa tatu. Sayi, kama amu saya me leta club mawinuku. Ani u feel ina kupigia kelele. Su toki. Apa na una mombi eke sound proof. Ana toka aji shuwa bitu. Ano, no see e ya toki. Kwa ma su toki? Buna ni toki. So we na kubrenyuba kwingini ma niya kuna kelele. Uta toa maru angape. Uta abisha u tu angape. Uta maaliza keambu mzima juhuna kwangana kaniisa. No, that is wrong. You should be mindful of other people's well-being. Kwanza, the kind of sound system some churches have is really bad. Because atawana midrige akuna atabe na nadezna na nani ni. Edw, it is about noise pollution and mindfulness. It is about that. It's okay. Let people prove it. Mimi, I am four. Noise pollution. X. So if you cancel the clubs, cancel the churches too. I do not even... Uta is a club. Uki make noise under lewa. Juhu, if you make noise, you are bringing so many other things unaleta. We zikwa yu area ni ni. Me think. Anything noise pollution out. I agree with you. And I think sakaja hangi fanya the way he did. Like ana rei dwa tu mariamum na rushu na nani. But they were given a notice. I know, I know, but I feel like... There is no but. No, he should have talked to those people. There is no but. Listen, listen to what I am saying. Okay, I will talk to Tonka. Listen to what I am saying. I feel like sakaja hangi sewa. What we are talking. Bokei kuna clubs na kuna churches. The churches are also making noise. So let's do this. Church ikuwe from like a subui. Mpaka during the day. Usiku the church is open. But I need you. Kelele, musical. O mbeni. Kelele. O punguze levels. Zinetangwa, SB. Watuwa sound healthy. Kitu mother mujui. Zinetangwa. Zinetangwa. Zinetangwa. Zinetangwa. Zinetangwa. I say that he come back as a thief. As a. Dee? Decibells. Decibells DB. Wapunguze DB na skiakuna DB na kwangi mekwa ya church. Sijui ni 30. Sijui ni 35. Isyu ke kabisa. And then, sakaja hangi ambiau onazwa clubs. Kindly, ekeni sound proof. Eo kunze kufurugawa tu. Siju kuna cha pwa. Miye don't get wet. Miye don't get wet because. Bipo ajuwa na ibiwa kila siku. There is so much insecurity in this country. You listen to this. No, listen to this. Why? Listen to sense first. Sorry. Just talk. I'm listening to sense. I'll say there is so much insecurity in this country. Like Poto na ibiwa kwa maizu estet. Ni ni ni ni ni. Ah, poliswa ni deploy eivo na mafujo. Mua kia mungu. Why is that same energy when it comes to insecurity in Kenya? Why is that same energy? And drought, you know. There is drought. Why is that same energy? Why are you putting your energy in things that really don't match? Also we have a lot of employment issues in this country. Unemployment issues? So we try says kuna mtu anengianga shift 7pm. So technically kumanisha wiyu ana kazi. Uno? So what are enda wapi? Tutongen na crime things or something. There are just better ways to have delta. Endu na se mautuende church. Okay ute belika weita cha-cha laugh. What are you saying? What are you saying? What are you saying? Listen. So wukun onenda kumba munguwa kukupati kazi. Bro, what are you saying? What are you saying? What are you saying? What are you saying? Because people need kazi gani, kazi gani. There are already thousands and millions of people who are already unemployed. You are adding other unemployed people. How is that helping us? No, but me, you know. Ni tawama aje ni pati na kazi. No, I want to see because I'm praying and I'm not getting it. Na shangani ni isana. Where you are so ni ni, like klabo zi na funguwa. But the same thing muna se mautu beli klabo zi me funguwa, churches play zi funguwa. No, it's noise police. No, it's noise pollution. So if they are being closed because of noise pollution, there is noise pollution from churches too. How do we have five of four churches or more in one estate and... You can probably be working from home. You cannot have a good environment to work from home. And that's why I've just told you a simple. You see, nini mukuna rigidimendi ya wuna pigiwa kelele. So you're churching me if I talk to Apple. Where is you talk to Apple? Abana edu. There are so many people who are living in that house. We just have to hanga pini. We just have to hanga pini. So you just have to hanga pini. But it's not like this is the place where I was, where I was. Like I remember this place I was, where I was living in Subui. So I was living in Subui. And I got out in Islam. Eh, you know what? I had to go out. Like I was talking. No edu ma, I was coming to church. Come to church and I will hanga pini. I was in the church. I was going to church, that is my home. I want the land Kwa za muna? Kwa yu we have? Io meaning, that when I stay kwa geto Toka geto Gato Gato Gato Gato Duna one thing Nisa, if you go to nini, kilimani, wende, mani Aota pateza ma cha-sha No, in residential places Ilema get Kwa ni ikina, habe funwa juzu wakwa Wakwa ni wakwa ni mani Texto äniz motaiga, hu'kata tezi MUSICU Kinyu shaiki isha za makt plusieurs kataja Asumati ichi kwa Tesi kukuhe hini za Listena Kuhu j esta maسya Disa kiki Niwe guys let us know down on the comment section what are your thoughts noise pollution should apply to everything clubs churches people selling whatever is what one marimari Let us know down on the comment section what are your thoughts but in the meantime make sure you stay tuned to espm bars and subscribe this was friends vibe Club is a fungwe churches ya delay You are watching friends vibes all feelings are represented


I'm coming at you with another IKEA hacks finally. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Hello guys Welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox and today I have another IKEA hacks video for you I'm obsessed with IKEA and you guys really seem to like the IKEA hacks that I do on my channel And I love making the IKEA hacks one of my favorite things It's just knowing I'm doing one of these videos and going to IKEA and spending like in 18 hours there Then putting all the stuff into my car leaving it in my car for about a week So my car smells like Swedish meatballs and cardboard and IKEA just the scent of it, you know, it just has a specific smell and besides the point I'm doing an IKEA hacks video for you today. I'm going to be taking stuff from IKEA and just turning it into new things I'm really excited because today's video. I actually have some furniture. I have a basketball hoop, which yes I know kind of sounds crazy, but you guys are gonna see it's actually really chic and really fun I have a super fun hanging pendant like that looks so pretty and so like urban outfitters Anthropology inspired which I think it's going to be perfect for anyone that loves it kind of like bohemian urban space And I'm just excited for you guys to see this and if you have not already make sure to subscribe to my channel I post brand new videos every single week So you get your daily dose of DIY and if you'd like to you can also follow me on Lone Fox home on Instagram Or you can follow my personal Instagram where I share more of my fashion and that is I'm Drew Scott Which I'll put on the screen right here, but without further ado I think we should jump on into today's IKEA hacks because they're really good ones And I'm so excited for you guys to see them.  So I spelled out the word hello in the bottom left hand corner So when someone goes up to your door, they're going to be greeted with the word hello, of course So I just use my black paint and with this kind of doormat texture I suggest kind of stippling the paint down into the actual mat because I find that it you get a better color payoff that way And I just simply went all the way around and then I let it dry And then I did one more coat of it on there just to really get it locked in there And as you can see I'm kind of pressing and stippling downwards to get that color payoff to be really dark and very opaque And then I flipped them at over and I'm gonna put goodbye on the opposite side that way when your guest leaves they're gonna read goodbye in their direction when they leave so it's kind of like a Double meaning doormat, I guess you could say I think it's really cute and fun So I did goodbye on this side again I free-handed it but if you want to you could get like letter stencils Or you can just print out the word and kind of just trace around it cut it out And have a little bit more of a simplistic look, but I just free-handed it and I think it turned out great This is probably one of my favorite projects in the video for sure And I'm using the Stockholm 2017 tray, which is actually currently on sale at Ikea for 2499 But I did have one in my own collection, so I just pulled that one out and used it I'm also using three hairpin legs from Amazon and some strong bond adhesive Which I will link those below for you guys and all I started off by doing was flipping over my tray And I'm gonna be gluing down these hairpin legs in a kind of triangular shape And what I suggest doing is adding glue to the bottom side because essentially these are supposed to be screwed on to like your item But the tray is not that thick So I just decided to glue it down and then make sure that you add glue into those holes and kind of make sure it Overflows over the top, which is kind of gonna act as almost like a reinforcement for that leg to stay on there But this glue is super super strong bond. I actually buy that Michaels.  I think it's amazing But just get it in those holes glue it down in all three sections And then I suggest just letting it dry overnight and then once you are completely done You have a perfect little side table or nightstand whatever you want to use this for it could even be a plant stand Now this is a little bit of a different project for my channel But I thought it was cute for like a boys room or something So I'm using the Lindronde circular object and whatever the name of this bag is and also for additional supplies Just some scissors and hot glue So I'm pulling out the Lindronde circular object and I'm constructing it You just have to twist it into the base and then once that is done I pulled apart my little market bags and these are just little mesh like market bags You can take with you I guess to like the farmers market or something and I'm actually cutting the whole net portion Off of the handle and we're gonna be using both of these so make sure to cut it really nice and cleanly So I just use my fabric scissors and I cut around to create this net and when you take it off It's actually a rectangle shape which is perfect because we're gonna be gluing the rectangle shape Around the base of the circle because we're gonna be creating a little like cute chic minimal basketball hoop And you're just gonna go around the outside edge of this and glue it down I just add like a little tack of glue at every intersection and then I glue the opposite intersection onto it It's pretty self-explanatory and I actually think I say self-explanatory so much I need to make merch that says it's pretty self-explanatory because it seems to be my favorite thing to say and you guys have been Suggesting that in the comment section, which I think is so funny And once it is completely attached I just glued the start and the finish kind of up towards the base of the basketball hoop And then what I did was I glued together the net so that it created a circle because at the moment It was kind of had an open back and you're just gonna glue the pieces together. It's really easy You're just gonna connect them up and you're going to basically stitch this back together And then what I did was I cut the little bottom portion off and I cut in between each of the little Like squares that it has on the net that way you have a clean edge And then lastly I used the handle portion because the net at the bottom just looked kind of unfinished so I used the handle handle portion kind of as a little bit of a Sealant I guess for the bottom or just to make it look a little bit cleaner So I just wrap that around the bottom portion cut off the excess and it just overall gave it a little bit more Of a finished look and then all you have to do is glue on a little string to hang it up And I suggest gluing this as high as you can that way it doesn't stick that far And saving my personal favorite project for last we are starting off with this woven snitted basket I think this is pretty new to IKS collection or not super new but definitely within the last year And I'm also using one of the Hema Hanging cords and for additional supplies you're gonna need wire cutters and some hemp cording as well So I'm starting off with my wire cutters and I'm basically gonna be cutting the handles off this basket You could leave them on if you wanted to but I really wanted it to have the appearance that this was created as a pendant light Shade and not a basket turned into a pendant light shade.  There are a couple of nails in there once you pull it off You have these handles and I actually kept these handles because I can definitely use these on future projects If I need handles somewhere, I mean just kind of recreate this sort of caning effect So I did the same thing on the opposite side by taking off the handles Once those handles were removed I flipped the basket over and we're gonna have to create a bit of an opening because these sections at The bottom are too close together to fit the cord through So all I did was I used my wire cutters to just cut in that downward motion Directly diagonal across from each other So I cut out two sections as you could see here cut out one and two and it's super simple to cut these out You're just creating a little bit of a larger gap Then I flipped it completely 180 and I did the opposite side as well by cutting out the inside section here Just to create an opening where we can put the cord. This is kind of what it looks like once those are done So this is the cord that we're using and I'm gonna feed it up through the bottom and up through the top I guess you could say and then once it's all the way up. I'm putting it back down We're wrapping this around the center section so that we can get the light really centered in there And I flipped it over in order just to tie it right at the base here And then I'm actually going to feed the cord back through so that you're able to hang it So you're gonna feed it back through so the cord is going through the top portion of the basket And then the light's gonna be in there and then the cord is on the top And I used a little bit of hemp cording up here just to kind of blend in and kind of camouflage With the actual basket and I just tied it and a couple of knots that way It stayed nice and secure up there and then I screwed an Edison bulb and you have a perfect little hanging pendant light Hacks for today I hope that you guys did enjoy them And I hope it gave you some inspiration of things you could do with your current items that you might have in your house You're just kind of over with because I know sometimes I buy things and then after like a year I'm just like what can I do with this? What can I reinvent it to me? I'm also gonna make sure to link everything that I did use in the description box below in case you do Want to take a look or purchase it for yourself and then of course all of the IKEA names and stuff was throughout the video So drop those down if you want to recreate some of these items, and I hope that you did enjoy I would love to know which was your favorite project Honestly, if I don't have a use for it right now, but it would be that pendant light I just absolutely love the way that turned out, but I actually do have a use for that side table I'm gonna put it right next to my bed a new nightstand. It's so excited about that But thank you guys so so much for watching Don't forget to subscribe and turn on a little bell next to the subscribe button That way you get notified when I upload brand new videos and you can also follow me on Instagram Which is a lone fox home where I post more behind the scenes type stuff and then also some additional just home inspiration over there So thank you guys again. I hope you have an amazing rest of your day, and I will catch you all in the next video. Bye guys