So we're gonna do two panels first. We're gonna discuss the policy implications of this work And then we're gonna discuss what it means for companies big and small and you're gonna find that discussion particularly interesting I think because there's a lot of bifurcation So let me start. Let's see. We're gonna need I think five chairs here And let me start by introducing our panelists and as I call you you can just come up and take a seat Alan Davidson As the first director of the digital economy at the US Department of Commerce and senior advisor to the Secretary of Commerce Rob, thank you You can say the clapping till the end. They're they're all big wigs Robert Atkinson is the founder and president of ITIF And each Chopra is the former US chief CTO and co-founder and executive vice president of Hutch analytics and also an author himself the innovative state How new technologies can transform government and finally Rebecca McKinnon whose director and ranking digital rights Excuse me director of ranking digital rights at New America's open technology Institute so thank you all for being here and The goal of this panel really is to kind of continue to wet everyone's appetite for clearly What are the opportunities and and challenges big challenges of this new era of digitalization and global digitalization? So I'm gonna just fire away a few questions and then we'll have time at the end and you all can Ask some of the panel as well and Alan, I think I'm gonna start with you And I'll just sort of frame this by saying Susan shared some sort of amazing big figures outlining what the potential economic benefits are And you know, we all feel this we all carry smartphones in our pocket We see this whether we tabulate the data correctly is another topic perhaps for another panel entirely But there's also some huge challenges To this new era and just as a journalist. I'm gonna put front and center the story We've been reading about for the last few weeks Apple versus the FBI, you know, this is This is one of the potential areas of challenge a lot of the big technology companies in particular Have become targets certainly around privacy. There's been conflict Around around tax issues around different kinds of regulation And I think what it underscores is this idea that you've got Companies and countries playing on an entirely new field So tell us where that's going and perhaps, you know, maybe touch on this Apple case and what it might pretend for the future First of all, and let me say first of all, thank you. Thank you to New America to McKinsey It's so wonderful to be back here at New America in this incredible space I will say thank you to McKinsey for for both of these reports because They are they are illuminating for all of us who are following these issues and we rely a lot on them to help us Understand what's happening out there and part of what's happening out there is something like you said that we all understand and and you know I won't quote McKinsey's numbers back to McKinsey, but we you know, we see just Commerce Department numbers $400 billion worth of digitally delivered Goods coming out exports out of the United States and that's a big number for us That was in 2014 and so we you know, we feel this and I think that A couple of ways to answer your question one is Obviously these flows are incredibly important They raise huge new issues and one of the big issues they raise is that we can't take them for granted right that there are many forces out there that now are That may throw some of these flows into jeopardy, especially the model for under which they've taken place a relatively free and open digital economy that's allowed for innovation and allowed for a lot of interaction around countries and and The the kinds of issues that you're that you're mentioning with the Apple case are Basically part of a set of issues that are going to come How do we as we kind of try to figure out how to protect these data flows and allow for them around the world? I think it fits squarely in there because people are not going to participate in this digital economy if they don't feel like their Privacy and security is protected. So it's actually one of the core issues in making sure that data flows can happen Rob, I want to bring you into the conversation now and let's hit particularly on the issues around trade Because this is a this is a huge thing. I know you care a lot about this. We were speaking a little bit earlier At lunch about how this new area changes the conversation around trade The kinds of companies that we should be talking about including that conversation. Why don't you give us your top-line views there? Well, I think the top-line view is that we're at risk of a new digital Mercantilism in the world that we had a physical mercantilism where companies try to protect their physical production What you're seeing your country after country today Nigeria of Vietnam China I mean you can just name name go down the list who have put in place rules that basically require data localization You cannot send the data outside the country Now why do they do that? Most of them do it because they're just mercantilists. They think they're going to get some data center jobs Sort of fanciful they're not going to aren't a lot of data center jobs are much more about the use of data But the justification they don't they don't go to the WTO and say We're mercantilists. Okay. They they say we have to have this exception from the WTO principles and Philosophy because we're trying to protect our citizens privacy And I think this is the single most important point that people have gotten fundamentally wrong in the debate and I think we Didn't quite get it right in TPP and I risk I think we're going to risk getting it not quite right in teaser And that is that there is absolutely no increase in privacy or security by keeping data in a country We wrote a report last year called the false promise of data localization And when you think about it, let's just think Citibank or General Motors or whatever a company doing business in Europe And they're collecting data on European citizens and they move the data that is in Bob way Where has no privacy laws? They are still subject to European law They can't avoid European law by moving the data and I think that's really a simple and fundamental point You don't have to governments don't need to worry about where the data are They just need to worry that they can hold companies accountable and if a company wants to put data in a place that has bad security Then they will get sued and they should get sued But the location doesn't matter and I think we have to be much more aggressive in that in our trade Negotiations and not even give in I mean a TPP was a good step forward But there were even if you look at the TPP provisions There are provisions in there that say and in unusual circumstances you can do this I Don't think there are very many unusual circumstances. I think we should be very very strict about that You know unless you're like the CIA or something like that or I know at one point the president Was thinking about do putting data, you know this in the cloud and it's like yeah, we don't want the president's data stored in China I get that but For our commercial data we shouldn't care Well, you know, it's it's complicated. I mean definitely countries are trying to wall off The internet and data flows for all kinds of reasons part of it is mercantilist It's also political, you know, you have China trying to exert sovereignty over Everything that crosses its borders on the internet and one of the interesting things I think from from this report Is China is shown as being very connected yet at the same time China sort of exhibit a for how an authoritarian country Sort of adapts to the internet age and doesn't democratize which is a real challenge to us in that, you know there's there's conventional wisdom that commerce brings political liberalism and We're not seeing that in fact. We're seeing models for how a country can avoid that at least Up until now Which brings me to the point? Another organization in this town Freedom House a human rights organization has an annual index called the global internet freedom index and They have found that over the past five years consistently the level of internet freedom worldwide has declined So as connectivity is growing actually the rights of internet users and the protection of internet users rights is declining That is a huge wet red flag in terms of the level of trust out there on the internet and who's benefiting and How power is being exercised? So you're seeing a growth So what what contributes to those figures the growth of censorship? Not just blocking websites or blocking all of Facebook for instance, but requiring Facebook to take down You know requiring companies to take down content requiring companies to assist with all kinds of censorship You know sort of monopolies sort of uneven data flows control over who has access to what? Getting increasingly uneven around the world You have a rash of quote-unquote cyber crime laws and cyber security laws all over the world In many countries where crime is defined to include certain types of religious activity certain types of critiques of the government in Ethiopia terrorism and journalism are equated and Many types of journalism are cyber crime Yeah, you know so you have all of this kind of thing happening you have a growth and intermediary liability you know laws that are placing more and more responsibility on the digital platforms and Carriers for what their users do which then compels the digital platforms and carriers to police and Sensor and monitor what their your users are doing and try and proactively prevent that and those types of laws and those types of trends are not just in authoritarian countries, but because of concerns about terrorism and so on we're seeing that more and more In Europe and in a range of democratic countries and and again that Makes that opens it up to abuse that makes it harder particularly for small players That when you're talking about who is benefiting from the digital economy If you're trying to have open government, you're trying to be you know anti-corruption You're trying to enable people to really you know have open discourse about what types of policies benefit everyone And when those who are incumbents in a particular country can utilize Their power over networks to silence critics or silence aspects of the policy debates including economic policy debates Including regulatory debates about who you know Whether small businesses can thrive You know that's that's a problem And we're gonna come back actually in the next panel to this issue of the kinds of companies that are benefiting and the different players That are benefiting in this new age. I'm reminded actually of that fabulous heat map that I know James loves That that shows from McKinsey data the different industries that are most digitalized and least and government is way down here in this sector So I'm teeing you up What can what can government do? Here's an important we just spent the first few minutes talking about one of three dimensions in the role of government on this issue Regulating and engaging on rules of the road and the internet economy. That's Alan's life He's all over this for the secretary, but there are two others one We're always investing in infrastructure and the modern version of infrastructure is increasingly digital The smart grid electronic health records even mobile broadband and much larger domain So we're actively investing in the assets that are then throwing off or opening up capacity for the digital economy But more importantly We are looking at the ways we solve big problems health energy education and Increasingly you can't solve those problems unless you can connect to digital assets that can make better use I the former deputy secretary of education and I I remember this vividly We had a summit of education technology entrepreneurs I know it was so boisterous and everybody had ideas and learning labs and ways to teach calculus in new ways and Then we got the crickets chirping when they said how many of them got contracts from any, you know US schools and they're like, oh procurement can't get anyone. It's like where are you making any money? How many of you sold your first dollar revenue overseas? every single hand of every education technology Because and I remember vividly going to India in preparation for the president's trip I went to a hut no paved roads no Any modern forms of infrastructure but a hut that got a broad band of fiber connection and the village said I wonder if we could use Khan Academy and other open education resources to complement the absent teacher that doesn't show up for the school to get folks math trained and you if you want to be the president of a country that wants to educate the population to compete in the 21st century you will be begging the Educational technology entrepreneurs the access to open education is you will want that flow while you may get mad at Instagram for Some kind of imaging that you don't want to have propagated in your country So if you look at the role of government in all three of these dimensions, there's an un Wavering trend towards this very goal that we saw Clearly and to me it's the new default for the president president Obama said now by default All data sets held by the government shall be made publicly available in machine readable form Increasingly by API's which is the method by which all these apps shake hands and exchange information How about that Alan Davidson? Anise was blazing the trail for us here, right our path breaker By the way, feel free to interact together and interrupt each other politely All right, let me just continue with yeah, please go ahead to Rob. Yeah, here's an interesting point He kind of hurt a little bit. You guys didn't fight hard on trade. Okay a little friendly friendly banter I will say this when we published our cyber security framework back in 2010 One of the most important provisions on this was we said no state governments Shall hold data localization requirements because we wanted to eat our own dog food because we absolutely agree with what Rob Was saying so when the president spoke clearly in the domestic context It was very clear no lines between states on you have to have a data center in North Carolina versus Virginia, etc So that precedent has been laid. I want to I want to actually put out a big kind of metatopic again around trade But also around the perception of the labor consequences of this new age of globalization So we've all been talking about the incredible opportunities for small business people I mean my father for example is a Midwestern small manufacturing firm owner who has a lot more global business now in part because of what we're talking about yet As we see in the current Political campaigns. There's this perception. This is all kind of scary that it's it's bad for workers in some ways it feels like we are Talking about a previous age of globalization and and trade discussion We don't really know completely what the new age is going to look like How how let me come to you again. How should we be reframing the trade discussion? Based on the opportunity and the challenges now I mean first part is and I'm still in line in some ways from Rob here, too Which is that you know, we have to retool the way we think about trade, right? I mean the fact is that we have huge apparatus That's designed to think about trade in the in these old-world context not thinking about the the trillions of dollars that's now being That's now happening in these in the digital in the digital world and I'll say we see this at the Commerce Department We're kind of racing to try to do this. We have divisions of you know We have a deputy assistant secretary for textiles. We have no deputy assistant secretary for anything digital And we're we're working on it and we will be working on it But I think that's you know That's part of our retooling and that's something that the entire government and this is you know This is where folks like in each other having a chief technology officer a relatively new concept, right now It seems like how could we live without it, right? So I think there's a huge part of that but also to we need to part of that is also though about asking two really hard questions about new technology one is Is this question raised about are we are we building these tools in a way? That really includes everybody right and so part of that is that the access work and All the work that happens to make sure that people are online But part of that is also about skill building the second big question is are we actually is is is our society building? technologies that are actually serving Human progress and that is a much harder question to answer And we're not necessarily the right people to answer it all the time But also the one thing that we can do is as government is try to catalyze a conversation Early on when these technologies are coming out for example, we're doing a project right now on Driverless cars, we're doing another project on the Internet of Things both of these things are things that are going to really have Massive impacts if we can be thinking early on in the development life cycle while these technologies are being built and deployed in the industry How we can start to address the incredible like disruptions that are coming and wonderful things that will come from these things We actually might be able to get ahead of it, but it's a lot of work And you're touching on something important, which is how is government going to compensate from for the disruption the Dislocation that's going to happen not just at the the lower socioeconomic part of the labor Chain, but but the middle and even the upper I mean actually James I'm remembering we were sitting at James I was sitting in in Davos having a conversation together and someone came in we about this topic and someone came in to serve Us coffee and you were saying you know what our jobs are going to be disrupted because our analytical Skills can be done by computers. His job will be harder to disrupt So there's there's a really wide spectrum. Yeah, that's pretty good, right? If there's a wide spectrum of Dislocation what can government do what is government doing? What should government do and maybe you can jump in a niche I would just say earlier this year a year ago what it was if the same technologies were applied to the labor market Then you could actually solve this challenge I mean one of the most frustrating questions that if you look at the articles about minority students in Harlem That were qualified over qualified to get into Harvard But didn't even know or thought to apply because the guidance counselor infrastructure didn't encourage it or The h&r block study that said while I might be aware that I might qualify for subsidies If h&r blocked the study that was referenced here as a digital asset could access my IRS transcript and or could connect digitally to the FAFSA on my behalf the mere fact that they as a Digital coach got me applied with my permission eight minutes of time from the advisor eight percent more people finished college As a result of this one minor intervention according to the you know to the risk well So to me this fundamental question is if every human being lives up to their fullest potential and could be like a GPS router Encourage to pursue this degree and get this certificate and if you want to live in this neighborhood here The jobs that are coming and here's the skills that are demanded and if you want to move this is what you can do Every single day we should be getting an inbox letter that says you are put on this earth to perform these jobs And how exciting would you feel if you got such a message right and and opening up labor market data? Might foster more and more of those technologies to be brought to bear to advance your goals Rob you wanted to jump in on this. Yeah, I get the email every morning. It said you should run a thing Really works for me quite well So I think the issue is here is the difference between perception and reality and perception is the only thing that matters That's what's driving this and there's a perception that we're all at risk We read these stories in any day now there's going to be think tank automation from Google and no more think tanks and The reality though, which I think we have to recognize I haven't read an article about a think tank automation way But I hear you we're working on it. We're gonna we're gonna be the platform that sells it. Yeah I'm sorry new America. I'm just saying Yourself But anyway, reality is there hasn't been an increase in disruption There's been a shift in where it is, but there hasn't been an increase in and I actually think if we're sort of putting a bet on What are we going to worry about more disruption or lack of disruption in other words lack of productivity? I worry more about that I think you know you're that's where your study showed is what you see a bunch of firms a few firms that doing really well They're figuring it all out They put in all the pieces together and doing well and a lot of other firms and a lot of industries not doing that I think that's one of the central questions and then the question for that to me Which is a policy question is how are we going to think about that? So you've got a bunch of firms doing really really well bunch of firms that sort of haven't figured it out If you look at what Europe just announced their approach is there are these digital moors We're going to make the digital moors give some of their digital to the digital lesses Seriously, that's what the Commission now is trying to do They're trying to do antitrust and other competition policy that would force companies to give their data away And it's this notion that we we don't want this kind of thing We want this kind of thing and so we're going to bring down the top So that they're equal kind of Aldrin on Berger on story and Kurt Vonnegut if you remember that I think that would be a huge mistake And I think what we have to recognize in the digital era is it leads to a sort of bimodalism and it's going to lead to scale It's going to lead to firms getting incredible scale And we shouldn't be afraid of that and it's going to lead as Donna will talk about a bunch of Opportunities for really fast-growing globalized gazelles from day one, which is fantastic, but I don't think we should fight that I think we don't want everybody in the middle. I think that's a that's being stuck in the middle is where you don't get the growth Alan punted on at the beginning about Apple But because I think this this relates to sort of corporate interests versus government interests and large firms large global firms I think we're increasingly seeing companies like Apple, but you know, you could create a long list Google Facebook, etc Whose interests are increasingly divergent from those of even their home country governments Let let alone clashing with other other governments that are trying to you know, break them up or make them do this or that But Apple has you know, you increasingly have large multinational digital companies with global constituencies and so they view their interests as More you know, why is Apple standing up to the FBI? Because they're playing to their global user base Right and that's what they're concerned about, you know, there's principle involved as well There's lots of different facets of this, but their interests are not the same as the US government's interests anymore And not the same as the US public's necessarily, you know, and so increasingly you're seeing these big firms that just have these global international interests and in some countries You know when Steve Jobs died in Iran people were out there morning and you know, there was a political cartoonist saying you know We're mourning this guy's death more than we would the passing of so-and-so and so-and-so and and you know The reason is that people see in these technologies Opportunities that their own governments aren't giving them and and so so these cross cutting kind of constituencies for corporate Corporate governed and created sort of communities I think is is a force that both the commercial implications and the geopolitical implications You know, we don't know I actually completely agree with you Alan. Do you want to come back on this? Well, I just want to say I wouldn't overstate the divergence between the interests of the US government and the broader Economy and the firms in the economy because I do think While there might there are local disturbances the fact is that as a first order approximation. We are We work very hard with and with with us firms to try to To promote promote this digital economy and I will say I come back to kind of a point I was making at the beginning about The fact that we can't take the current situation for granted I mean we are out there as Rob was saying every day looking at new data localization rules new kinds of restrictions on On these cross-border data flows We just went through a big issue at the Department of Commerce on the what they call the EU US Privacy shield this agreement about privacy And the transfer of data between the euro between Europe and the US it's ongoing We reached a big agreement extremely important protecting hundreds of billions of dollars of trade between the US and Europe But it just shows that if we don't get these things right right this there's a lot that can jeopardize these flows And there and there's a lot of harm that comes for that And I shall come back to you, but I actually Rebecca This is a I think you've hit on kind of the hot core really of this topic globalization used to be defined as free movement of Goods capital and labor now we're adding digital flows to that But as James was explaining as I think data shows Everybody's feeling pretty good about this except the labor part and possibly some overlap with the citizen part So that's a huge kind of existential challenge that no matter how hard you're working at it It's there and it's not going away. And each do you want to come and I know we're running near the end of the time My only comment would simply be where I would make one observation Which is your favorite map James's map of these sectors that are failing us It moves from the abstract to the practical. Why is healthcare near the bottom of your list? Utilities etc. It's because we haven't quite unified the rules of the road on data liquidity in this environment I literally just came from the president just literally might drop the mic around a story around patients having access to their own data So in this case they could contribute to research to find new cures and diseases But what's amazing now is that the regulatory structure is thinking of this as a new muscle They'll I would leave you with this final final digital economy. What's the least understood? But has the most potential impact part of Dodd-Frank on the digital economy the regulatory authority Given to the Consumer Protection Bureau to regulate how consumers can get machine readable access to their transaction level data in financial services James And we do not yet have consensus in the community as to what Record what regulations and standards the CFPB should promulgate on the banks in our system Could you imagine a more important topic on the digitization of the global economy than to get the financial flows moving through the consumer? Right, and I think in health and energy and education We're consistently describing the knack that the new default and regulation is to the consumer and then to the consumer's designated Applications and that's this new chapter, which I think this is all coming on the right And if one were to go to the Department of Commerce website and see the digital economy agenda That's recently been posted about our forward-looking agenda You would see four parts to it one is protecting cross-border data flows But the other three are promoting trust and security and privacy Promoting access and skill building and promoting innovation in new technology and the reason is you can't have the first one without getting the other ones Right, so I totally agree. We got to look at it as in a global environment. Okay, lots of interesting stuff here We have time for literally two questions gentlemen here Mike Nelson with Cloudflare. I learned a new word last week. It's called Incumbation it's what incumbents do to stop innovation Love it waiting that later. I would challenge McKenzie to do a study on this and then correlate how Incumbation compares to growth in digitization in different countries around the world So my question for the panel is what are the most important things we could do to prevent Incumbation My favorite is stopping some of the lawsuits and maybe doing something about IPR But I'd just like to see what you would think we could do a flash round quickly Alan do you want to start? I would just say I Think promoting this openness on online that makes it easy permissionless innovation Is the starting point and that's really the motivator for a lot of us So I think it's a mythology out there that in the income Whatever it is our are the big firms against the little firms actually in most cases It's actually little firms protecting their little thing against big e-commerce players who have scale You see that over and over and the biggest place that plays out on our economy is at the state legislative level in the state Regulatory barred level and I think federal government could at minimum you can do now start a scorecard a scorecard of Regulate regulatory I like to joke that the commission is doing a digital single market We need a digital single market in the US and that's one of the barriers do it are these state laws at least begin a scorecard The consumer has the data rights on any sector that's regulated gives us a default So even if I'm held by an incumbent I can pull it out and get a second opinion by someone I trust If we're trying trying to change the narrative and we have if you can argue that The benefits of globalization and digitalization are huge But diverse where the the risk to an individual is very personal and very painful So it is difficult. It seems to fight kind of protectionist Tendencies in the US these days to go for globalization and go for digitalization How do you deal with? Diverse but massive benefits and communicating with individuals who they lost their job and they don't think globalization is good Yeah, how do you balance kind of the data points with that the touch factor of hey This doesn't feel great to me right now this disruption and each do you want to start first principles? Rebuilding the social safety net we have disruption I lived in Virginia served in the governor's cabinet the North Carolina Virginia border has been decimated by textile and other You know outsourcing to China and our inability to build any thoughtful response We've given people some short-term benefits cash benefits But to really think about how they can leapfrog in to build a better life for their families We've weakened their capacity on broadband. We've weakened that weakened their ability to access Advanced placement courses we've weakened the capacity for them to get access to telemedicine services So my opinion is you got to reimagine the social safety net for those who are dislodged and make sure that they have every chance To the income mobility question through digitization I think is a faster path to the other end As opposed to the source of the disruption Anybody else want to have a final word on this? One is we should just stop the the sort of pundits of which I would put myself in that category Should just stop the narrative that that automation destroys jobs on net. It does not It doesn't I mean I just know how many McKinsey studies have shown that Thank you. It just doesn't okay. It does not destroy jobs on that it destroys particular jobs It doesn't lead to and I think that's number one Let's just get that in our consciousness in our dialogue number two It's just a real simple thing if you look at unemployment insurance the amount that people get as a share of their wages It is way way down from what it was 30 years ago So if you lose your job and you have a UI for six months You're gonna get very little and there are some states that are just like they give you pennies almost and I think I Know the president's tried to do that You can't do it with the Congress right now But a sort of federal floor on unemployment insurance would be I think a really important step forward Well, we haven't solved the future of the nation-state in the era of digital globalization But I think you've wet everybody's appetite for more so thank you to all of our panelists


The beauty industry's yearly revenue exceeds $50 billion per year in the US alone.  Quick intro and let's go! What's up everybody? Hope you're all having a wonderful day today. My name is Liran from AutoDS. I'm the content manager and I've also been dropshipping for the last several years and in this video I want to share with you guys the top 12 beauty products to sell on your dropshipping stores so that you can really profit from the beauty industry which is selling a lot. I've stressed it in the first 30 seconds of this video. Here's a small example from Satista showing how much revenue the beauty industry is making year by year in the US alone. So as you see we are at the average of $50 billion per year. Right now we're in 2021. Let's see what's going to happen but from what I can see this industry is just going up and up and increasing as time progresses. So jump into this niche now and enjoy the sales and profit. 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The first product that I want to recommend from the beauty industry niche is IPL hair removal products. So as you see here this is what they look like. Let me show you even a better example from one of my favorite suppliers which is Amazon and as you know AutoDS supports over 25 dropshipping suppliers giving you access to tens of millions of products. So here's the IPL hair remover. I am personally also selling this product on my dropshipping stores. There's no doubt about that it's selling a lot and what I like the most about it is that it comes with a medium to high ticket price range which means you are going to make some great profit selling this product and it is simply a best seller has to be on your list. If you want to tap into the beauty niche that is number one. Let's move over to number two nail kits. So in nail kits you have so many different variations and this is not a high ticket price range. You can add more than the quantity of one if you want to enjoy higher average order values inside the shopping cart increase your AOV for every order and make more profit along the way because this is the type of product where people like to buy more than one. So as you see we've got nail kits right here in front of me using this time AliExpress and I want to show you a neat little trick where I can add all of these products to my store. So let's say you tested out this product you added at least 20 of them to your store and you saw that it's selling well for you. Now you want to add more than 20 you want to have 100 200 and maybe even more. The best way to go about that is to download and install the AutoDS Chrome dropshipping helper extension. Once you downloaded that I'll leave a link right below this video to it if you don't have it yet. What you want to do next is click on the extension. As you see I have it down here. So I'm going to left click on that and click on extract. All of the 45 nail kit products that I see on this page have been extracted into the small little extension. The next thing that I'm going to do is click on export as CSV and as you see a CSV file was downloaded onto my computer. Next I'm going to head to the AutoDS platform. Now on the left side I'm going to click on add products, upload CSV and here I can drag and drop that CSV file that I just downloaded onto my computer or I can click on it to open up my file browser window, navigate to that CSV file, double click on it and that is all there is to it processing CSV and in just about a second file is uploaded. I will choose AliExpress as the supplier, choose the right region where these products are coming from and that is how simple it is click add as a draft and now all of those 45 products that we had in that extension will be added to the draft section of my store where I can continue optimizing it before importing it to my store having it go live and everyone will be able to buy it. So that's a neat little trick to save so much time when you find a niche that's working for you or if you want to test a certain niche and add as many products as you can from that certain search so do that save your time let's move on with the product list number two was nail kits number three we've got hot air brushes we've noticed on our algorithms that this has been a hot seller recently so let's take a small example this time let's go to Walmart I want to show you guys that you can really find products from using any one of our supported suppliers we've got more than enough so Walmart seems to have some duplicates here different sellers selling pretty much the same product that is fine that's what dropshipping is all about we have no problem dropshipping from other dropshippers as long as we can make a sale in profit that is what we're here to do so here are the hot air hair brushes this is what they look like this has been a hot seller let me just show you another supplier because this one we're seeing pretty much the same one that's repeating itself and that's a good reason why you always want to work with more than one dropshipping supplier you don't want to get stuck or limited to what only one can offer but sometimes one supplier can have better results than others so you always want to work with multiple suppliers and here on amazon we're definitely not seeing the same listing every time we're seeing different hot air hair brushes this would be a good place to get it from and there are so many coupons if you're looking at the same places we're looking at we've got 15% 5% 20% 20% $9 almost every hot air hairbrush has a coupon so if you're working in the 20 30% profit ranges whatever your profit margin range will be here you're going to make so much more profit with these coupon items so take advantage of what we are seeing here that's product number three let's move on to product idea number four that's been selling really well lately we're talking about hair extensions this one is really selling way more than i could count for let me show you a small example the best part here is there are so many different types of hair extensions so this is one that you want to test around check out the different variations maybe you'll find an audience that wants the colorful ones maybe you'll find an audience that wants curly hair straight hair wavy hair there are so many different variations as you can see here one listing does not look like the next you really want to test this one out just check out the number of sales that we are seeing just from the supplier itself 1200 on this one 1500 here almost 2000 here 1300 here 6273 you see where i'm going with this all you want to do is add it to your stores optimize your titles optimize your product pages don't make it look the same as the supplier that you're getting the product from don't make it look the same as other sellers who are selling this product make yourself stand out make yourself unique we have so many videos and articles on our blog page on how to do that and stand out and beat your competition now let's move on to number five we've got scalp massager scalp massager shampoo scalp massager shampoo scalp massager sven try saying this one 10 times in a row scalp massager shampoo brushes so let me copy this title and show you how some of these variations look like and again i want to give you one of the best tips that i can when you're checking out a product line when you're testing it don't just add this one or just add this one you want to add more than one if you're only going to test one product and everything that you're trying to sell even big businesses small medium doesn't matter if this is your method of testing out products it's not going to work you want to add at least 20 products from every product idea you can add 10 if you don't have enough time or if you have a certain limit on your store but if you can add 20 to test out each product niche that's where you are going to start selling and those products that do start selling out of those 20 products you can multiply them by finding more products that are similar to them with additional features maybe a different color different variation but that is how it is done so scalp massager shampoo brushes add that to your list let's move on to product number six we've got makeup sponge blenders so this is what the product looks like and this is a really low ticket selling item so let's check out aliexpress in this example we know that aliexpress is going to be cheap because most of the products are coming from china but you can ask aliexpress to show you only the things that only the products that are shipped from the united states in this example to get faster shipping times and the products are still relatively cheap as we can see here $2.50 60 cents with free returns but shipping is probably going to cost there here we can see the shipping cost one dollar and 26 cents the product cost one dollar still very very cheap and fast shipping from the us to the us so we're definitely going to enjoy selling these products to a us audience and that's just checking aliexpress this is a low ticket item which means you need to have a quantity of at least five on each product that you're adding from this list that is because you will notice that customers will buy three four five units each time and that is what you want at the end of the day a higher aov higher average order value which means higher profits because we are profiting in percentages let's move on to product number seven now we've got makeup brush and sponge cleaners and the thing here is we're breaking it down to micro categories micro niches because if you're going to write something so general you're going to have to test a lot of products until you start finding the best sellers inside them that is why here we already broke it down for you so makeup cleaning mats and by the way guys everything that i'm talking about this article that i'm getting the information from is written right below this video but do stay here because in this video i always add more valuable information than what you can find in our blog articles so on top of that let's continue learning makeup cleaning mats is the first micro or subsection of the makeup brush sponge cleaners okay and here we go makeup cleaning mats we've got them in different forms different variations and check out the product prices let me know what you guys think what are we seeing here that's right we're seeing low ticket items four dollars five dollars seven dollars maybe you'll make it up to ten bucks and if you will go for something really serious you can even get to thirty dollars it would definitely be a good idea to test this too because if you're going to be one of the only ones who are selling this product then you are definitely going to get those sales and enjoy the profits from it and we do want to increase our aov as i've mentioned a couple times in this video the higher the average order value is the more profit you are going to make so on the low ticket items make sure to add more than the quantity of one people will buy more than one because it is that cheap if one gets lost if one arrives damaged or whatever might happen they'll have more and they won't have to wait for a new order to come in makeup cleaning mats is the first micro niche from the makeup brush and sponge cleaners next we've got makeup cleaner sprays so you can just see from here i won't search for this one this is a very self-explanatory product but it is selling a lot it's simply a spray that cleans up all of the makeup that you have on you so this is a very self-explanatory product and it's selling quite well that is why it's on this list let's move on to the next micro niche electric makeup brush cleaners let me show you what this one looks like so it's a makeup brush cleaner but it's also electric which means you can use it with a battery you can find a rechargeable one and this one simply cleans up your makeup nice and easy as you can see here in front of me this is the product that we are talking about this is a still a low ticket item you can even find it in a medium ticket price but this is the product this is what you want to sell and this is number three from the micro niche of the general makeup brush and sponge cleaners so these are the best sellers that we were able to find inside that now let's move on to product number eight we've got makeup organizers and this is another self-explanatory product that organizes all of your makeup accessories and components this time let's go to walmart and as you see here we've got a nice selection i'm pretty sure that any supplier that you will search up in all of our 25 plus supported suppliers you will find very nice and unique variations for this product and others so make sure once again to check more than one supplier when you're searching for these products and this is what we're talking about over here so here we've got one two three even a four tier makeup organizer sometimes they can be two tier sometimes they can spend they can have drawers so we've got different types of makeup organizers they all sell very well so be sure to add them to your list product number nine on the list is lash products and this time we've broken it down again because this is a general niche and you will have to test many many products to get to these results so let me give them to you in advance the first product that's selling really well under lash products is lash lifting kits so this is what we're talking about lash lifting kits you can see here it even says lash lift on these boxes but all of these products they may look the same but each one differs from the next you can see them in different sizes different colors different variations and just by looking at the reviews here you can get an idea of how much these products are selling the second micro niche from lash products is lash extensions another very self-explanatory product this time let's go to a different supplier so we talked about hair extensions now we're talking about lash extensions another great seller pretty much anything that's an extension to something in beauty products is going to sell really really well and once again you can see it just by looking at the results over here it's not enough that we have seen it on our dropshipping stores it's not enough that our algorithms picked up on these products another way for you to see how much these products are selling is simply by looking at the reviews here so almost 19 000 reviews just for this one product another 46k over here another 8 000 over here this should give you a small indication of what's going on if you don't want to take my word for it and you should take my word for it so lash extensions is the second micro niche for the lash products the third and final for the lash products is magnetic lashes another self-explanatory product this time let's go to walmart so lashes that you add and they are magnetic so it's not a clip-on or something that sticks in any other way magnet on magnet off it's that simple that's what this product is and of course it is selling really really well that's why you should add at least 20 of these product ideas to your store 20 different types of variations see what's selling and start multiplying your success from whatever sells within those 20 products that has always been my best strategy here that is how i run my dropshipping stores and that is how i'm making a nice amount of profit at the end of every month the 10th product that i would like you guys to add from the beauty products niche are makeup mirrors so again self-explanatory it's a mirror and it's a mirror for your makeup so you've got a makeup stand you definitely need to have a matching mirror that helps people see exactly how they look how this makeup is suiting their faces and as you see here we've got different types of them let's see i searched up walmart again so let's keep it here some of them can come with led lights which is very very nice some of them can be in circle form square form some can open and close so you've definitely got different variations for makeup mirrors let's check out one more supplier just to see a little bit more of a variation when it comes to makeup mirrors so as you see here these these lights look even better this looks like from those broadway shows or even in hollywood films so these are the types of mirrors with lights that people use before going on such serious occasions and you can also just use it before going out on a date make sure that you look as good as you want to look makeup mirrors number 10 on our list for the beauty products let's move on to product number 11 now we're on facial steamers so this is a steamer for your face and it helps out take out those pores helps you out with those blackheads let's show an example so this is exactly what the product looks like you may find variations that look the same here but each product is a little bit different than the rest you just simply want to go inside these listings and add 20 of these products you may have noticed recently that amazon started implementing or adding a lot of videos to their product search pages as you can see here so they're showcasing one of these products and they're showing the video of how it works this is something that's been working a lot from chinese suppliers on adi express and so forth and only recently amazon has started implementing this method on their on their website too and it actually works pretty well because it helps you understand exactly what this product is about to do what this product is good for what problem it solves so this is exactly what the product is it lets steam off on your face and that simply helps you refresh your skin get a nice refreshing feel and maybe even add a nice fragrance along the way facial steamers number 11 on our list a great seller from a medium ticket price range so you can definitely profit from this especially when you start selling it a lot and it is a great seller so you shouldn't have any problem with that just remember to add 20 product ideas from that product so 20 facial steamers let's move on to product number 12 on our list now we're on blackhead removers so this is one of the best selling beauty products and the reasons here are pretty obvious it helps get rid of those blackheads something that people do not want to see on their faces or anywhere else on their bodies but mostly blackheads show up on people's noses and as you can see here this is the product that helps you remove them most of the blackhead removers are these types of stickers that you simply stick on your nose and then you unstick it and it removes it and i remember as a teenager actually having a lot of blackheads and i always wanted to remove them back then there were blackhead removers but i wasn't using those products i'm definitely not even using it today but there is a huge audience base for these products a lot of people are buying them they can even come in creams as you can see here in liquid form and they can come in this little product that you see here so it can come in this form it kind of does like a suction and that suction gets those blackheads out of your nose that's another way to do it another way to do it is from this product is to simply pick them out one by one so there is a few different ways to remove those blackheads a few different products that give that solution that is product number 12 on our list one of the greatest sellers on the beauty products so we went through some examples here we broke it down also to those micro niches so let's go over them really quick we've got the blackhead remover toolkit so that's what i just showed you where you take them out one by one using these tools another one is the blackhead remover vacuum so that's the one that has that suction effect that i just talked about and there was also the creams and liquids that we also saw so those are the three blackhead removers that you can sell on your drop shipping stores and that sums up the top 12 beauty products to sell on your drop shipping stores to make much more sales and those who aren't in this niche yet haven't tried it out now you have a good reason to dive into the beauty products niche get those sales and profits and enjoy them before i end this video i want to talk about which beauty products not to sell now that you know what you do need to sell you need to also know what's prohibited because you do want a long term business relationship with your store you don't want any troubles you don't want anything that will stop you from profiting and selling so let's do only what we can do let's sell what we're allowed to sell and let's not resell what we are not allowed to let's not take any risks on our business which beauty products are we not allowed to sell doesn't matter which selling platform you are selling on whether ebay or Shopify Facebook WooCommerce wix or any other selling platform you want to stay away from lubricants creams even though we just saw a cream for the blackhead remover and creams are not that dangerous but some of them do have some hazardous materials that cannot be transported in airplanes you cannot ship it out to certain countries and some creams and liquids will simply give you guys a hard time so do stay away from them unless you know that you can ship it to that specific country do not sell beauty supplements do not sell vitamins don't sell these medical products just stay away from anything that's on this list that i just mentioned and also big brand products so don't sell st louder and Ralph Lauren or i hope i was correct in those names i'm not that good when it comes to makeup but i do know what sells well stay away from big brands that you have heard of before big brands that have made a name for themselves they don't want drop shippers they don't need us drop shippers to get more sales but there are more than enough third-party sellers that will be more than happy for you to drop ship their products and we have seen them on this list of the top 12 beauty products to sell in 2021 so i really hope that you guys enjoyed this video do not forget to like and subscribe enable those notifications thank you for watching good luck with the beauty products see you in the future videos


The Bemidji area school district is seeking construction proposals for its newest elementary school. After securing various permits, environmental assessments and other necessary paperwork, the board is excited to be that much closer to breaking ground. Mel Meyer has more from Bemidji. The school board met tonight to discuss the latest updates to the long-term project. We just had a very good frank discussion. Most recently, the superintendent met with the board of Grant Valley Township, the area where the school will be built. The district will be closing on the property next Tuesday, and then the final step begins. The board has opened the construction bidding period to assess potential company plans for the project. Perspective bidders are reviewing their costs and their projections. The period will close on December 8, after which the board will review the proposals. One board member expressed concern that there was not enough board meeting time to discuss, especially since this was not their area of expertise. I think we would make better decisions if the approval were spread out a little bit. Superintendent has said a special session may be called to address all proposals thoroughly. The superintendent plans on meeting with the city manager and mayor tomorrow to discuss the updates. In Bemidji, I'm Mel Meyer, Lakeland News. According to a construction timeline filed last March, the school should be completed at the end of August, 2018. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


OK, I have some basic ideas I have for a little time, so just scratch the surface of the ideas I have. But let me first start by saying that we live interesting times because the international community set itself to an unprecedented global agenda of ending hunger, poverty, and deal with climate change within the next 15 years, as far as the first two objects are concerned, and laid the foundations for dealing with climate change throughout the century. Building on that, we have the Paris Agreement and Climate Change. We have various other major international police frameworks for agreement. So we want to make true on these commitments, do we have the mechanisms to actually steer in that direction to avoid these are nice, lofty objectives and will not be followed through. Now having worked for a bit over 10 years in the UN system and depending to a large extent on mechanisms for global governance to do our work, we have plenty of mechanisms. But the main characteristics of what we have is multi-layered governance platforms, which to some extent work together, to some extent sit on each other's backs and in each other's ways. But one could say is that if we put a negative word on it, there's a lack of coherence, transparency, and in many ways legitimacy. There's legitimacy in the UN system at large. But in terms of dealing with the true implementation of governance, that's not necessarily there. In terms of coherence, the Food and Agriculture Organization, our major counterparts are the Ministers of Agriculture. But the work we do goes well beyond the scope of work of Ministers of Agriculture. It has to do, think of under nutrition with access to food. It has to do with poverty reduction, social protection. We have to deal with confronting crisis with sustainable agriculture. So if nothing happens on the environmental front within agriculture and in other sectors, then we cannot properly do our jobs. And in working together with the other parts of the system and with other platforms, sometimes that's where things bite, but also within our own constituency. And that matters throughout the system. So I just want to talk about what are ways to get to more policy coherence and coordination as part of the governance framework. How can we finance the provisioning of global public goods, which if we take the SDG agenda, it's, I wouldn't say, all about global public goods, but it's very enshrined in there. But we don't have commensurate financing mechanism. And last thing is what I would call should we move to international multi-stakeholder-alism instead of just multilateralism. OK, let's quickly run through these points, flagging a few books which are collaborated on that deal with these things much more at large. So I suggest you consult those. But the key thing is that we don't have true mechanisms for agenda-wide coherence. So we have basically in the realm of development, it should be the economic and social accounts of the United Nations, that has to start and that originally was invented to coordinate the works across the areas of economic and social development. That's why FVO is a specialized agency under ACOSOC, but a lot of people don't know that, but also the IMF and the World Bank are specialized agencies that fall under ACOSOC, although each of us have our own constituencies and ways how we work. But this coordination was meant to be at the inception of ACOSOC talks where it should be called an Economic and Social Security Council, that it was revived later on. But the powers would be at the start of the year and didn't want it to give it that much powers. And of course, if we think now, it's a momentum to think more of this coordination because the SOG agenda commands to do so. Maybe a couple of years ago, with the outbreak of the global financial crisis, that momentum was much bigger. We had a crisis, not just the financial crisis, there was a food crisis. We talked about an energy crisis, this big momentum to make these reforms. There were lots of proposals. We talked at the UN, when I was at the UN Secretary at the time, about a new Bretton Woods moment, right? So to rethink the international system. And lots of discussion. There's a Sticklets Commission was set up by the President of the General Assembly that produced a very interesting report about reforms, mainly focused on the international financial system, but also called for a proposal to strengthen economic and social council, precisely to provide this coordination role to bring more coherence in the system and provide this guidance that was there to all the agencies and the platforms that fall under ACRSOC to coordinate better and to avoid inconsistencies that, I think, move in different directions and stay in coherent. With the SDG agenda, there was a new thing at the event called a high level, it's an HLPF political forum. Sorry about that mistake, but to monitor it, but not to coordinate. So it's to give accountability, but how are we going to coordinate? So I think, and to strongly believe in the proposals proposed forward by the Sticklets Commission and previously to do so, but then I'll come back to the end. It's very difficult to achieve that if not all parties, if we don't have the same consensus about the overall goals as the consensus about how should we coordinate the implementation and guide things moving forward. Now one example I give, which is also why some of these proposals did not work so well is what we proposed before the global financial crisis is to have much stronger mechanisms for macroeconomic policy coordination. The World Economic Situations Prospects, which one of the reports I coordinated at the end, had a long analysis of that of what would be the rationale and the reasons for historic coordination, but also flagged the reasons why that might be difficult and why we don't get there. And at that time also the IMF flagged this, but people have short memories. But the IMF, before the crisis around 2007, was more or less in shambles and could not make this role. And actually, thanks to the G20, it was put back on its feet. Not all the details, but we got a new allocation of special drawing rights, which sort of replenished the fund and also helped to put the IMF back at the forefront of managing the part of the crisis with the guidance of various platforms. The IMF's own constituency, the G20, the G7 finance ministers, and a lot of other platforms, they're confusing a little bit how this should work and how we should move forward. Now, positive things have come out of that. The G20 have also been an observer to many of those meetings, which were very useful. A lot of discussions on reforms and also the G20 is not just about micro-recognized policy coronations, it's broader discussions. But things fell flat as a true coordination platform, once the first actions were taken to circumvent the global economy falling into a real global recession because of different interests. That was also the reasons why we thought that it was so difficult to get to micro-coronation even before that, because you need to do that, that everybody believes that by doing things together you have gains and that by doing so, you can also overcome political strains within your own constituency that this is to your own interest and to a longer term interest. And that's what has been holding back. And as long as we don't change that, then it would be difficult to make this into a proper platform. OK, let me just dwell too much on it, but so I'm skeptical about the G20. It's good that at that level it's much better than the G7, but it's probably not as good as the G193, which are all the red member states. OK, well, I'll just leave this for the discussion. Let me quickly move to proposal 2. We need new mechanisms to finance global public goods. A lot of proposals are out there, but I think the bottom line for the rationale is that the existing development finance mechanism we have for well-short of what's needed, particularly finance, the global sustainable development agenda at the bank and the fund. They talk, well, development finance has to move from the billions to the trillions. So how do we get there? There's a lot of proposals out there. Now, one proposal which is also the previous studies, also the Sticklage Report, was mentioned and a lot of other attempts. We did also report on in search for new development finance in 2012. And one of the proposals which I think is worth thinking more about, and there's other options, but is to use precisely the needs to reform the international monetary system to a more stable system. And one of the things is to make it less reliant on one single national currency and move to an international currency, and that could be special drawing rights. Now, that already exists out of the issues of regular SDRs that could serve as stabilizing factors to immediately address short-term balance payments crisis, but also can be served to leverage long-term development finance. In this study, we say with modest assumptions, that could lead to leverage up to a trillion US dollars per year for development finance. If you do that, you also have a mechanism to at least how you would generate the funds. What we'll be lacking is a mechanism how you would allocate the funds. No, maybe that's where we could give some power to a stronger economic and social council if that ever comes about. Lastly, the world has become more global, more complex. So we need this further coordination because of the interdependencies, but also we need to take better account of all the players that are out there. And I think also in the opening plenary sessions I mentioned made of what role to give to the private sector in all these discussions, civil society organizations. So if in the multilateral system they don't have a role, then it all depends on the capacity of national governments to mediate the international agreements with their constituency. But since many of the private sector and CSO organizations have also become very strong and influential international players, that may not be good enough. So one of the things to think about is shouldn't we reform our key platforms that can absorb these interests in the deliberations and in the decision making? Now close at hand, FVO is also guided by the conclusions by the Committee on World Food Security, which is an intergovernmental body but which includes the private sector as in large food industries and agribusinesses, as in the farmers through farmers organization, as in consumers through consumer organizations and produce organizations, as well as other agencies that are concerned with food security, nutrition in the broadest sense. And I would say that the Committee has a lot of powers, but it makes a difference if you can make decisions inclusive of those agents. And for instance, to give an example, CFS recently developed a set of principles and subsequent guidelines for responsible agriculture investment. Now I can say, well, they're voluntary guidelines, and so what difference does that make? But the fact that you have already brought in the industry, the agents, and agreed on that, there's also since the responsibility to make true in it. So governments are adopting it. We get a lot of calls from the private sector actually trying to change behavior responsibility. These stats try to see what can they do to actually re-channel their investments towards more sustainable and more inclusive ways of doing business. So this hasn't changed the world, but it's, I think, are meaningful steps in the right direction. So question is, can this be applied more widely? It's not easy to do. I'm not saying that now everything goes smoothly. You get easy to consensus, not at all, but it's different ways to do things forward. To end, there's a report of, I think, two years ago of the Committee for Development Policy that discusses these challenges for global governance. And there's five principles they lay out which I agree with and which are not new, but I think are essential for good global governance. And I have to do it recognizing that they're common, but also differentiated responsibilities and respective capacities. We need to follow through subsidiarity principles and trying to take the decision making where possible, we're necessarily to the lowest level decision making, but making sure it's guided by the overall and common principles. Should be inclusive, and that's where the multi-stakeholder approach could come in as one example. We need coherence to make this work because of the interdependency and the challenges we have, and we need what's called responsible sovereignty. So there should be the sovereignty of taking decisions, but also that we see national interest as best served by doing it through policy cooperation. Here are good principles. They may also be the obstacles to actually get this done because, as you can see, it's extremely difficult to get all the parties to agree on these principles or the interpretation of these principles, maybe not on the principles in an abstract sense, but yes. So they're just taken common, but differentiated responsibilities, think of the climate change discussions, okay, what does it mean in practice? So who should contribute what? So there's enormous distributive, current distributive, well, it's historic distributive, as well as future distributive complications to do so. I could run through the others. So I think the key thing is to try and flesh this out in the future proposals for a new global governance. Thank you very much. Thank you.