Hello everyone Today we are going to talk about how to handle no shout-out in Kubernetes. My name is Xin Yang I work at VMware in the cloud native storage team. I'm also a co-chair of Kubernetes 6 storage Hi everyone, I'm Ashutosh I work at VMware on cluster lifecycle team and I'm here to talk about notes are down in Kubernetes Over to you think you can get started Here's our agenda today We're going to talk about what is a graceful no shadow. What is a non graceful no shadow? We will talk about how to handle them We'll give a demo and we will talk about next steps In a Kubernetes cluster, it is possible for node to shut down This could happen either in a plan way or it could happen unexpectedly No shadow could happen for many reasons It could be that you need to apply a security patch You need to do your kernel upgrade. You need to reboot a node or it could be due to the preemption of the VM instances Or it could be that there's a hardware failure or some software problem that causes that to happen You can trigger no shadow by around a Shadow or power of command or just physically push a button to shut down the the machine No shadow if you do that without draining the nodes then that could cause workload failures a no shadow could either be graceful or non graceful Let me talk about graceful no shadow first graceful no shadow feature was introduced in Kubernetes 1.20 release and it moved to beta in 1.21 this allows Kubelet to detect a no shadow and properly terminate the pods make sure all the resources are released before the real shadow and Pods are terminated in two phases first the regular pods and then the critical pods to make sure that The critical function of the application can work as long as possible without this feature user have to Make sure they manually join the nodes before shutting down the node however, no shadow could happen unexpectedly in that case the pods could be evicted Unsafely if the node is not joined and your application would see arrows and your workloads may not function properly So let's talk about how the graceful no shadow works For this feature Kubelet relies on the system D's inhibitor lock mechanism When Kubelet starts it acquires this delay type initiator lock and it watches for the shadow events when it detects a shadow it delays the shadow and Terminate the pods make sure everything is released before the real shadow there are Two config parameters in Kubelet that you need to set for this feature to work The first one is the shot on grace period that's the total duration for both the regular and the critical pods to be terminated and The second parameter is the shot on grace period critical pods That's the time needed for the critical pods to be terminated and that's always smaller than the total duration and The graceful no shadow feature it works in Two faces the nodes the pods are terminating two faces first the regulars and then the critical pods But if you want to have more granular control then there is a another feature called a pod priority base graceful no shadow That's an alpha feature introduced in 1.23 release. So you can Configure your port priority classes into Multiple classes types and then the pods will be shot on in multiple faces Depending on how you defined your priority classes So that's how the graceful shut down works now. I'm going to hand it over to ashtosh to talk about non-graceful no shadow Thank you Let us get started on non graceful shut down and This is a feature that was introduced in 1.24 and we are targeting beta in 1.26 Zing just talked about graceful shut down and there are scenarios When the shutdown is not so graceful It could be due to some configuration error or maybe due to a hardware failure Or if a shutdown is not detected by cubelet and this kind of shutdown can be termed as known graceful one and It can be problem for stateful workloads Let us see. I've already talked about the system D inhibitor lock If the shutdown does not trigger inhibitor inhibitor lock then it will not be detected by cubelet or If you set shutdown grace period or shutdown grace period critical pods incorrectly This can also lead to non graceful shut down And as a side effect of this what happens is the pod moves to a terminating state especially the pods that are using volumes But if the node that went into an own graceful shutdown comes back online everything just works fine and Let us see why the pod gets stuck in terminating state and what happens next So here is the experiment that I did like sometime back. I used v-sphere UI to test that so I deployed a stateful set and I triggered a shutdown from the v-sphere UI button and that as a matter of fact is a non graceful shutdown and What I observed is the pod went into terminating state after five minutes and Also, what I observed is That pod is stuck in terminating state even after six minutes. I code six minutes here. It is an important number I'll come to that later. I did another experiment. I again created a stateful set I did the same shutdown and observed that The pod went into terminating state after almost five minutes and Then I deleted the pod forcefully with a grace period of zero and What I observed is The pod got scheduled to a different node and It was in container creating state for Six minutes like but after six minutes the pod came back online because six minutes is that default time time out before the volume get detached from the oldest tail pod this may not work for stateful sets because if the Pod is in terminating state stateful set does not allow you to create in your near pod. It is A deployment. So you use a deployment pod, you know, I mean it's a stateful pod I wanted to talk about the goals here of this feature The goal is to actually help increase availability for stateful workloads because as we saw it can take like approximately 11 minutes for your Container of the pod to come back online and We want to handle such non-recoverable cases when hardware goes down or the OS is broken There has also been talks about node and control plane partitioning in case node shutdowns, but it is not included in goal because when a Node is not ready it could be due to variety of reasons one could be due to a split of the network and We really don't know if the node is not ready because the network is Unreachable or the node actually went into a non graceful set down There is no goals to also have some in cluster logic to handle such partitioning Let us take a look at how the graceful set down non graceful set down works so we use the native taint APIs of Kubernetes in this case and as of now to utilize this feature one will have to do manual steps and What happens is once you figure out that a node has went into a set down non gracefully You apply this well-known taint that is now node dot Kubernetes dot IO out of service and Once you do that There is two steps that is happening behind the scenes. What happens is the part gc controller Deletes a part that do not have a matching toleration And it deletes it forcefully and after that attached detached controller is going to quickly do a force volume detach operation So that the newer part that might get spawned on a newer node The volume gets attached successfully If you want to use this feature You'll have to enable the feature gate because this is still in alpha And the feature is the feature gate name is node out of service volume detach You have to set this flag true in cube controller manager And once you do that You just have to utilize the taint and if you if you know that a node has went into set down non gracefully You can just use the taint command that you can see on the screen It is a well-known taint node dot Kubernetes dot IO out of service taint there can be cases in non graceful set down when the node comes back online And there are no side effects to that but You just are required to manually remove the taint once Once the node comes back online Um, after all the parts have moved to a new node If you are not doing so The only side effect will be that the newer parts that are going to be created on the cluster will not get scheduled onto this node Now this is one more experiment that I did with this feature Um I enabled the non graceful set down feature. I took a Kubernetes version that has this feature This time I created a stateful set Did the same set down via the vSphere UI And observed that after five minutes the pod changed to terminating state And I used the kubectl taint command To taint the node because now I know this is the pod which went into a non graceful set down And the pod immediately failed over to a different healthy node And it didn't had had to wait like six minutes for the pod to come to running state And just a caution here whenever you are trying to utilize this feature Just make sure that Your node has really went into a non graceful set down And you are tainting that particular node We can see a demo here of this particular thing I've recorded it. Let us get started for a demo on non graceful set down feature I have access to a three node kubectl cluster which is on GKE And it has all the alpha features enabled So that we can test non graceful set down feature First of all, I'm going to create a stateful set This is the stateful set channel. It has three doubly gas And it is using this volume claim template Which is sts pod pvc Oops Let me just apply Let us see the pods came to running state or not We'll wait for a while. Let us check once more Okay, now all the pods are in running state. Let us see which nodes these pods are scheduled on awesome What I will try to do now is I'll try to Do a non graceful set down and to mimic that What I will do is I'll ssh on to this node So I'm going to do a non graceful set down for this node And for that, I'm going to ssh into this node and Stop the kubelet there Once I do that this node should go into not ready state And the pods running on this node should go into terminating state So basically sts pod 2 and sts pod 0 should go into terminating state That's the expectation. Let's see what happens I'm going to copy this and I'm going to ssh to this node. Let us see the status of kubelet It is running fine And now I'm going to set down the kubelet Let's verify it Okay, the kubelet is now stopped Let us go back to the terminal And I'm going to check the status of the node It can take a little while for the status to update here Let us check the status once more Okay, now this node has a not ready status And let us check what is the state of the pods The pods are still in running state and it can take like Approximately five minutes For this pods to get into terminating state So let us wait for that Let us check the status of pods once more and now We can see that Approximately after five minutes or so These pods are into terminating state And from here if we do nothing about this then these pods are going to be stuck into this state So Let us do one more experiment now What I'm going to do now is I'm going to forcefully terminate these two pods And see what happens kubectl delete pod iPhone iPhone 4 sts pod 0 sts pod 2 I have forcefully deleted these two pods and we can see that sts pod 0 Has been scheduled on to a different node And sts pod 2 cannot come up until This sts pod 0 comes online And that's how stateful sets work So let us describe this pod And we can see an error is reported from a task detest controller that is multi-attachure And let's do right So This is the problem that we are into now So what I'll do now is I'll Wait for like six minutes and if we do so This pod should come to running state Because this is the default timeout Period for this volume detatch to happen and once that happens this pod will be able to Successfully attach the volume. Let us see. What is the state of pods now? Okay Now we can see that this sts pod 0 has came to running state And because this came to running state sts pod 2 was created and it also went into running state so But we have to wait like for a considerable amount of time And this is unfavorable Now i'm going to repeat the same experiment, but this time i'm going to utilize the non graceful set on feature And realize how it helps here so But before that let me Just start the cubelet back onto that node The cubelet is started And let us say what's the status of the nodes now Okay, now we have all the nodes in ready state I'm going to Repeat this experiment Let us say this time i'm going to Do a non graceful set down for this particular node Let me ssh into this node Check the status of cubelet Now i'm going to stop the cubelet the cubelet will stop now Cube CTL get node Again, it can take a while before this node comes to not ready state Let us check the status Okay, now this node is not ready. So now I know that this node went into a non graceful set down Because i just simulated it by doing It's a down up cubelet What I can do now is I can use non graceful set down feature and to do so I'm going to Taint this node using cube CTL tent Let us do that So that will be cube CTL Taint node node name and we'll use the well known taint Let me just pull that But before painting this node actually let us look at the parts once more And we can see that all the parts are in any state But this particular part will go into terminating state and it can take a little while So now let us just change this node. I'll just copy this command till here This node is tainted now. Let us check the part This part now got into Terminating state immediately because of the tent policies A new part got scheduled on to a different node. That is the node ending with 6k ps And it is in container creating state now Let's check once more Awesome. Now this part came to running state So we can see that The part came back online fairly quickly and we didn't have to wait like much longer so That is it. I wanted to show in this demo. Thank you Thanks I would like to Invite Jim to continue further So we talked about How graceful and non-graceful shutdown works now. Let's talk about our next steps So right now we are targeting beta In 1.26 for this non-graceful no shutdown feature And then depending on feedback, we're planning to move this to GA in the future So right now this approach Involves a manual step for the user to apply a out-of-service taint on the shutter node We are looking into how to automate this process and see if we can Detect the shutdown and apply the taint automatically and reboot if needed So while working on this feature we did look into several alternative approaches In the earlier version of this cap We have this a safe detach Approach while we are trying to introduce a safe detach Boolean in the CSA driver spec So a CSA driver can opt into this feature Then when the voting attachment is deleted CSA driver will get called Try to detach the volume CSA driver needs to make sure it is safe to detach and only detach If it is fine to detach But the problem of course is the CSA driver needs to have this knowledge We are not sure if that's possible. It's possible for every CSA driver But we will be looking into this approach again in our next step And the second alternative that we Evaluated is note fencing In this approach there will be a controller that monitors the status of the nodes And if the node went into Not not ready status It's going to create this the note fence crd and work on note fencing this this requires a Node fencing method to be defined and user need to specify the reboot command So we look at this approach. We thought it's intrusive for a reboot command to be Required in in Kubernetes. So we didn't go with this approach But again, we will look into this again in our next steps There are a few other approaches There is a CSI force detach proposal Pernod proposed some new capabilities in CSI controller and node And and also there is this potman project It also watches the status Of the nodes and if it is not ready It's going to check from the storage side to see if there is still i o and if there is no i o then it's going to forcefully delete the detach the volumes and clean up the pots So we are going to look at all those alternatives and try to decide What is the best Alternative what's the best way for us to move forward Won't you give a big shout out to everyone who is involved in this project? Of course, there are a lot of more people who have contributed than what we have shown here So we've included some blogs link here There's a grace for no shot on beta blog and there's a non grace for no shot on alpha blog here And also if you are interested in this project, please Join us and get involved in sick storage and the signal. Let's work on this together Here's the qr code Please scan it and provide feedback That's the end of the session Thank you Thanks jinx thanks astos if you have questions, please raise your hand So If I wanted to test using the taint right now, is that available in a version of kubernetes or But what what version of kubernetes is that available? Okay, so I think you said oh, i'm sorry I Yeah, yeah, so so you're asking the feature it's in 1.24 is the alpha feature But we are trying to move it to beta in 1.26. Okay, so you just need to enable the feature gate and then you can test it Great and question. I'm very aware of this This situation In my experience with rwo volumes, it never gets out of terminate I mean, I I know you said after six minutes. Well, this six minutes another six minutes Is there a condition which it would never get out of terminate for rwo volumes? Well, so you need to Well, so if you want to you want to use this feature, right? Are you going if you're not trying without Without this feature it's going to be In this terminating state forever if the note if the shutdown note does not come back Okay, because I thought you showed that after like six minutes the the vault. Yes. Yeah, uh, that is far if the pod is Managed by deployment controller because In case of deployment, you know, you can have the pod come up again Depending on like policies in your deployment But in case of state will set if Your pod is into terminating state You know, the newer pod won't come up until it like terminates. So Yeah Yeah, or you have to you know forcefully delete it and delete the volume attachments. Yeah Thanks Thanks. So if a node is not healthy state, what if I just delete do a kubectl delete node from the cluster with that? solved issue If you just do a kubectl delete of the node I don't think it will What was the question? Sorry Sorry, the question is uh, uh, if I don't uh So with the current kubectl version and then if we detect one node, it's not healthy And then I forced the leading node from the cluster Would that solve the issue of the?  Do you understand that? Yeah, I don't think that's going to solve this problem. Um Because you still need to be able to um Kind of delete the original pod But if the origin node is not there anymore, you can't even delete that pod the kubectl is not there to delete that Right, so you still need to have a way to delete your pod This for the state force set you can only have like one pod Like the the name Has to be just like you can only have like one unique name, right? So you can't really like have the pod created on Uh, like to know at the same time I have another question So During the node rebalancing one of the common thing happening is that cloud provider take a few nodes out from the rotation Will this feature help there or not? if If you have it's a down If during if during rebalancing you have to figure out what kind of sat down it is and If it does not trigger if it if it is not a graceful sat down It will help but right now you have to manually tame the nodes and you have to actually know What are those nodes that are going out of the cluster? And then you can utilize this feature Don't we apply across the node this feature or only for uh right now? You have to taint nodes individually Yeah, and maybe you know going further I can't comment anything but you know we can you know It's an alpha and going to beta and we can't think of automating it and you know, maybe spanning over a setup node So Hi, thank you. Um, have you tested graceful shutdown on Say pods that have pod disruption budgets Like say you can't have less than one of this pod and you try to initiate a graceful shutdown on a node Do you know what happens? I don't think I have tested that have you tried that I have not like personally tried graceful sat down gotcha But yeah, we can talk more about that, you know offline. Do you have do you have a guess as to what would happen In a case of a non graceful shutdown either or is that something we can I can ask you sure. Yeah Yeah, I had a similar question like when you drain a node, right? Uh, like Do we have to uh, follow it up with a non graceful shutdown if there are Pod disruption budget or any other things allow not allowing a pod to come down, right? I don't think so because You do this steps when you know that you have a Non graceful shutdown and usually those kind of shutdowns will not be under your control like at most times so You know once you know that this node is into a shutdown then you follow these steps and Grace if you are talking about draining what I was mentioning on the slide is You know when even if it was a graceful shutdown, you know, there there are some Down you know for which we can take precautionary steps But we couldn't because the graceful shutdown feature was not there and you had to manually go and drain the nodes and do all The stuff but now because we have this graceful shutdown feature You really do not require to You know Do all the stuff and Yeah Yeah I'm not sure about how it will count the power disruption policies But yeah, I need to check Yeah, but in general the idea is You'll have pods marked critical pods or regular pods according to the policies and You basically Configure parameters on cubelet. For example, you have 30 seconds for graceful shutdown. You can take Oh, yeah, we can talk more on that. Yeah, sir. Thanks. Thank you everyone


Hey everyone, I'm just out here at the park. Hope everyone's doing okay. What's everyone doing? Everyone keeping well doing this quarantine. I'm all good. Thanks, Ed. Judy's taking care of the pets. That's great. It's really good to have pets, you know, especially during this time and when you've been dealing with narcissists You can feel very lonely afterwards And you really need that oxytocin Which you can get from having a pet, so having a pet is great. I'm just out here at the park YouTube car silver maybe more Pictures on YouTube later Yeah, the weather's not too bad. It's not raining now It was raining a bit earlier Yeah, that's very true Irish eyes. It is helpful to have an emotional support pet Actually, I've got one myself My cat is an emotional support pet Officially. Yes, we all deserve it We all deserve great things in life It all starts with a belief You have to believe that you deserve great things And you have to believe that other people deserve great things as well And then you can attract whatever you want Cats are great. I really like them. I know some people might say their class is like Narcissists in a way But they you know, they are animals and they don't really know what they're doing They don't have the the kind of awareness that we do So you can kind of have some compassion for them then Sheila, I believe that a narcissistic person cannot fall in love Even if they wanted to and that's because of the shame and when you're around them You also lose the capability to experience love because they will project their shame on to you Yes, ashwag a lot of therapists aren't qualified to diagnose Whether or not you are with a narcissist it's only like Specialized psychologists who can do that. They could probably give you their personal opinion and really It's not that important to know if you are definitely dealing with someone who has NPD narcissistic personality disorder If you're dealing with someone who has strong narcissistic traits Which is probably something you could identify yourself, you know, if you're dealing with someone who is self-absorbed I'm a slip then If you're dealing with someone who is self-absorbed and lacks empathy You know, someone who clearly doesn't care about you That's enough You know, that's all you really need to know You know if someone's abusing you, you know, if someone's manipulating you Thank you for the donation Yes, Victoria In many cases, that's what happens. They just do something so bad that it's really unforgivable And then they don't even bother coming back because they know you're never going to forgive them That happens a lot. I've never seen the current like this before here. I definitely recommend for everyone To go out for a walk in nature At least for 30 minutes a day even if it's just like your local park or In a forest or something It's very healing to do that Being in nature, that's one of the best things you can do. Just go out and take some deep breaths Breathing that clean air Away from all the cars and the pollution It's great. Going for a walk in nature is a very high vibrational activity Yeah, that's all they really do Swag They just want to keep you Stringer lawn I called it on to them They're just trying to get as much as they can out of you and they create the situation in a way Where they don't have to give anything to you and it's not just because they don't want to give anything to you It's because they have nothing to give anyway If they had something to give and they could just you know keep you around for a bit longer So they could get even more of you They would be doing that But they don't have anything to give so they can't Yes Scandinavian narks fiver They will steal from you, you know, whatever they can get You've got to think that these narcissists are doing the best that they can from where they're at And then like you maybe you can get your own money They're not capable of doing that if they were They would be and that goes for everything, you know, even when like it comes down to your your energy They can't produce their own high vibrational energy. They've got to steal it from you and with money That's all money really is anyway. That's your energy So we're wherever they're going with that They're just taking a part of you with them And it's not a part of you that you really need because you can always produce it again from within anyway But wherever they go, they take a part of you with them And that's also the reason why they can never move on from a grade a source of supply Because they've spent so much of their time extracting energy from you That you're all they can think about Your energy is dominating their minds. I don't know how to pronounce your name, but That's really horrible, you know, your dad would dump his shoes onto you Take his anger out on you That's not fair at all on a child and you'll find that You know, you may also feel that anger yourself now as well. It's wrong. We should always own our own emotions We should never try to drop them onto someone else Because another person cannot resolve our emotions for us anyway Only we can do that. Amy. I think in a way, you know, they might not physically take notes But they do take mental notes of what works for them and what doesn't They are very predatory in that sense. They literally study you And I have done two videos on that Narcissists will study you like a PhD and Narcissists will study you like a test subject And that's exactly what they will do They will study your flaws weaknesses and vulnerabilities and Also the things that they believe you like and they'll try and use that to hook you in But sometimes it can look so ridiculous because they seem so convinced that you like something when in reality It doesn't even interest you and that's often when they They can put themselves in quite a vulnerable position there Where they're just chasing you and trying to get you back, but nothing's working Yeah, it's really sad life is a journey But that is What they always do They can't own these parts of them Because they're ashamed They're ashamed of what they've become So they just want to Drop it on to you. They want you to deal with it for them. I did a video on that how narcissists hate themselves If they really love themselves if they really accepted who they are Why would they ever do so in any part of them? They disown it Because they don't accept it. They don't like it So they want to put it on to you and they want to use that as an excuse to hate you When really it's got nothing to do with you anyway, that's very true magic You can't have a relationship with someone Who lacks empathy because the whole point of a relationship It's where two people have a connection with each other But you can't have a connection without empathy Empathy is when you share another person's experience You imagine what it would be like to be in their shoes But if you lack empathy, you can't do that Which means that you can't really have a relationship Yes, Huda They definitely do feel Some form of regret But it's not in the way that you might think they're not really sorry for what they did They're just sorry about the consequences of their actions and they do feel shame They do feel very ashamed of what they've done. The shame does grow within them But they don't want to own then they don't want to own their shame As soon as something triggers them to reflect on it They'll do whatever they can to project it onto you which often results in them Experiencing the narcissistic rage Well, they become very angry towards you They start blaming you for everything They start making you feel like you're the problem and as though they haven't done anything wrong But then if that doesn't work, they'll just start being nice to you Because they are experiencing some form of regret But as I said, it doesn't mean that they're sorry for what they did to you It just means that they're Sorry, they got caught Well, they're sorry About the consequences that they're now having to deal with Okay, that's it for now We have got a premiere starting later today in about One hour and a half. I think it's the narcissist wants to make you suffer That's definitely one of my greatest videos. So Definitely check that one out. So hopefully I'll see you all in the premiere. Thank you for joining us and I'll talk to you soon


Welcome back to my channel guys. It's your girl Coco styles and on this channel. We talk about beauty fashion lifestyle and Styling guys. So today is a lifestyle video. I guess you can say Beauty fashion. Yeah Lifestyle I have a beautiful table coming from Restoration hardware for those of you guys who don't know I am redecorating my Downsets area starting with that area. I've been in my home for some time now and I was getting a little antsy to move and It could be the New Yorker in me. I don't know. I just I like change and I wanted to do something different. So instead of moving and jumping into a higher mortgage, I decided to just redecorate.  I Think it's a lot in my opinion So I May do it later on not too sure because I have like an espresso color Which is okay, but my floors are dark so everything just seems a bit dark So I'm trying to lighten up the space with lighter furniture my Corporate table comes today.  That that thing is heavy and then my sofa should be here on Friday guys And you guys know I got that from creating barrel The fabric that I got is called Shin it is Monet it's shouldn't like a Chanel fabric and the color is frost I'll probably pop in a photo, but back to the table. That should be here today between four and six I'm super excited. So here's the debacle with the table. I first ordered the table in the smaller size And which was still not really small, but I ended up seeing it at the restoration hardware outlet and they had it in front of a sectional and I think the smaller size was perfect for the sectional because of how the lounge part lounge chase part on the sectional was I think if they would have put the larger one it wouldn't look right now in my case. I Didn't purchase a sectional. I did get a Sofa and I got like a 90 inch 98 inch sofa custom made with that fabric so The table that I got I believe it's like 70 70 inches long Yeah, I think it's like 70 and the other one was like 60 So that 10 inches definitely is going to help and it's deeper than the other one So I'm just excited to get it and it's in like a smoke smoke or brown color now Online it looks a certain way. I did not see it in the store. So when it gets here I'm just gonna have to play around with the colors if I do decide to get like a console table That kind of matches it. Reservation hardware did not have a console table to match, which is odd to me I mean, I've been looking for that same color with something on there, but I didn't see anything So I'm just gonna get creative with it. So they should be here around four to six today and I'm excited. So Yes, I'm working. I'm drinking my green juice. You guys know I love my green juice. This is This is watercress dandelion kale green apple cucumber cucumber green pear and Ginger and Kiwi there's a lot in here actually And you guys know, I love my Nama. If you have not purchased you a juice up, please get you one Invest in one Don't teach yourself and buy something that's cheaper It's just not gonna last and Do some research do some research on the best the best one. There's two that pops up, which is the Nama And I think the other one's called curving or curving or something like that But there's a gentleman on YouTube that has a really really detailed video on why he chose the Nama I like the Nama because it's easy cleaning for me But other than that, I'm just gonna be working today doing some work I'm gonna get off probably around four today. They should be here between four and six I'm just gonna move some stuff. Actually, I'm not gonna move my rug that's sitting there I'm gonna let them sit the table on so my my camera's not my camera died My freaking stories was full, which is crazy anyway So yes, I'll bring you guys along when they do actually come with the table So the video is really gonna be based around the table I'm gonna try to get really really good shots of it because I have not seen anyone post about this table and It was I am a member now of the restoration hardware crew So I did get the membership price, but the table also was on sale, which is still Not really a sale But I'm glad that I actually got it. So Sometimes you have to get what you want, right? I have a vision. I'm gonna try to execute that the best way I can my dining room Table that I currently have trying to sell it. So as of now, I'm just gonna buy my chairs Until that table sells and I'm gonna replace it. So it's a glass table The only issue is that the bottom of the table the base is chrome and I'm trying to bring in gold I don't want my face to be gold, but I definitely wanted to get rid of that so the chairs I actually got from Wayfair and They're just the same price as the ones at our house like the ones at our house the reason why I'm not going with those is because The color was not giving me white. It was giving me more of a cream beige And I really wanted the chairs to like Go with the sofa even though they're far apart I don't know. I just really wasn't liking the ones from our house. So Yeah, but Like I said, same price and I'm gonna see if I can find a photo and pop that in for you as well There were two styles that I wanted and I went with the rounder ones And I did buy six chairs before I had four chairs Which is crazy. Yeah, I only had two on each side and put two at the head because where my Chandelier was placed.  I think it's gonna look really good once I get like a nice centerpiece And just kind of go from there just change everything But once they come today I'm gonna let definitely let you guys see the table and give you guys some good good product shots of the table Can't wait to decorate and just everything be done downstairs So I can work on my office because that's gonna be my next little Project and then my guest bathroom and possibly my master closet that's in my actual bathroom I'm thinking about changing that as well and making that into like a sitting area for me to meditate like my leave my nice pajamas in it so almost like a Dressing room just for you know nighttime stuff like getting Unwinding from work separate from my actual closet. So once they come I will bring you guys along there and That's about it guys So I will catch you guys later and this video is not gonna be super super long But I just wanted to show you guys what I am gonna be excited to be receiving today from restoration hot with So I will catch you guys later on Hey guys, welcome back. So Here we are like a couple weeks later. I did not post the other video about the coffee table from restoration hardware Because it was just a whole thing So they delivered my other one. I got the smaller version. I'm glad that I did I think the other one would have been like too big for here But it has a chip as well and I'm gonna show you guys, but let me turn on some light now Here's the thing Restoration hardware has really nice They have really nice stuff, right? and You know you want your items like really? What an excellent condition, right? So basically the lady was like oh we can come repair it Now here's the thing Repairing something that is supposed to be new. I'm not down with that like I'm just not My mirror I'm here's my complaint with my mirror and I'm probably gonna do a full video So the mirror is up, but when my handyman came to put it together he said that the silver piece on the back the mounting piece is Slanted and we he pulled it off the wall and I was like oh Whoever put the mirror who packaged the mirror who had to put it together. It is slightly off It's like an eighth of an inch off You can't really see it. I know that it's there that it's slanted, but the average I wouldn't see it Anyway, now the table I'm gonna show you guys the table let you guys see how that looks. Let's flip you guys around. I Love the table guys. I do So these chairs are not staying here, but here's the table the table is Really really nice It's a really really really nice table. I got like a 60 by 30 It looks lighter on camera, but it's a really nice. I don't know I can't It looks green on camera to me, but it's a nice brown wood I'm waiting to get my rug. I needed the table to be here so I can see the exact color and that's also before I order my What do you call that? My chairs So it's a really small Gash right here And the lady is like, can you guys see that?  She's like, oh, it's just the um, it's just the paint Sweetie it's a gash Like I can feel it and that's my thing like at this point They should offer me something for free Because I'm sure it costs them more money to keep sending a delivery person out here So here's what I'm thinking guys And then the mirror is up and I don't even know if you guys you probably can't even see but it's a little slanted When you're here, you can actually see it, but it's a little slanted and then Really close over there. That's like a little. I don't know if it's like the paint or the wood itself All I know guys is that it ain't it.  I don't know. Just give me something something off What I want this is what I want So guys, I want them to say hey What can we do for you? Can we give you something that's under? $1,500 right it's this blurbing Can you give me can we give you something under $1,500? Yes, you can come repair this right, but then I also want you to Give me two task lamps. That would be nice.  I still want my 10% off of each item but give me something because I Don't know. I don't know. What do you guys think am I being a pain? But I like I said, I feel like when you're paying so much for things It should be in good great excellent condition new condition You shouldn't have to alter anything if you purchase something new You shouldn't have to have a repair company come out if you purchase something new No, you don't have to do that if you're buying something pre-loved or used Yes, if you damaged it yourself Yes, other than that now so But to be honest, I'm gonna show you guys from this way how it looks. I really like How I still got my grill in the living room guys. I'm moving slow because I just have to do Some things these are my old chairs. I'm gonna get some different chairs, but it looks it looks good I like it a lot, but again, I'm not a hundred percent satisfied with them and I get it nothing is perfect But however You guys charge so much money our age that you need to make sure that things are Perfect, okay I'm just saying I'm just saying it needs to be perfect, but I didn't want to make this video super long Like I said, I wanted them to keep it. I wanted to keep it here so I can see the size So the next thing I'm actually gonna do is on the sides of my mirror I'm gonna add some photos and guys over here behind my dining table. I think I'm gonna put a Huge gallery wall. I don't want to be pictured down in here But I want like huge photos here typically People would put their mirror there, which I know but I wanted to do something a little different It feels different.  I did see a rug from CB2 and I Like the rug a lot. I just don't know if the rug is going to is it blurry? It could be my glasses guys. I don't know if the rug is going to Give me the while that I'm looking for I'm gonna go back and see it again and Then I think I'm gonna just purchase it. I'm hopefully it goes on sell a little bit more and then I'm gonna put curtains up and then this photo here, I'm probably going to paint over it with um, I Don't know maybe just paint over it again because I actually like it It's nothing wrong with it and I don't know if I like a little I don't know something I just need to get creative. I just got a whole bunch of IKEA. Let me show you. I have a whole bunch of IKEA Frames that I had for a long time and what I did was I came in here And I put these on here because you guys know these freaking Reba Things this is not gonna work, but I put them here. I don't know if I'm gonna like it I may put it upstairs in the hallway But I'm trying to get it together over here guys. I really am but one last look over everything You guys will see a final reveal so that's the last nope, it's not the last big piece the last big piece I'm gonna say will be the two accent chairs that I got to get and My rug everything else is small. I want to say everything else is under a thousand dollars. I Think if I get these pictures that I saw online Mmm, I'm trying I'm trying not to it's like 600 And then if I do a gallery wall here with these photos from another place It may cost me a little chunk of change But I don't think anything is as expensive as the two accent chairs and then I'm just gonna go from there Yeah, look at my grow and I'm gonna change my Planter here and I'm gonna change the planters over there Get like a huge pot. My plant is leaning. So I need to get one of those things to set it up I over water this one the other day guys. Like I said, this has been sitting here since I put it together So long ago literally like a part of the living room But I'm looking at my mirror now. I can see that this plant is You guys probably can't even see it, but that's it This is gonna be a short video Maybe I'll add in some more things that I do today into this vlog But I'm gonna go check home goods again like I normally do and see if I can Find a rug or something and kind of go from there. This stuff is changing I just have it's just not all the way together It's coming along so I'll say this if you are redecorating your home Take your time. Get exactly what you want. Don't budge Period now. Here's the funny part Do you guys know that restoration hardware does have like a what is it called? Mmm, I don't know if it's called like a magic and Explorer program or something like that basically what you do is you Put your name on the list and tell them what you want So I put my name on the list and told them that I wanted The mirror this was like months ago.  Okay. Oh my god So it's not a zooming in and I need to know how to do that because I don't know how to use it on the vlog But they had a mirror that came in And guess what guys it was 790 the thing about the outlet is that you don't know maybe I should go there today You don't know what is going to be wrong with the item So that's the only thing like it could be worse than this one, but 790 that is a steal I've had a lot of money for this. So Yes, maybe I'll go there today. Maybe Maybe I'll go there today. Maybe they have a rug or something But if I don't this will be the end of the vlog if I do you're gonna see more from today So I will catch you guys later in the next one. Bye guys


Let's discuss the character of Benedict who is one of the main characters in the play Much Adore About Nothing. Now initially at the beginning of the play Benedict of course we learned that he's a soldier, he was involved in the war, however he is presented as very carefree, somewhat arrogant and he engages in somewhat playful banter with Beatrice, however some of their banter does seem to verge on being a little bit insulting. Now we learn initially that Benedict is very much against love, he actually scorns it, he sees this as a weakness within a man if a man falls in love, however by the end of the play we do realize that a lot of his banter with Beatrice is actually cloaked in love for her and of course in contrast to hero and Claudio who were really quick to fall in love and the love seemed somewhat impetuous too fast, actually it's interesting that Beatrice and Benedict both appear to actually have had a gradual development of their love which is presented as a little bit more mature okay. Now of course if you're studying this play as part of your coursework or exams you do need to be really familiar with the character of Benedict and of course memorize some of his quotes so as you can see behind me I've prepared all the key quotes to remember from the play relating to his character and I'm going to go over these key quotations and the word-level analysis you can do if you're writing about this either for your coursework or your exams okay so let's get started. Now when it comes to the character of Benedict, as I mentioned initially we see that he's somewhat arrogant, very bawdy, very carefree and initially especially when he first meets Beatrice there's a lot of banter. He states I am loved of all ladies only you accepted I love none. Now here of course what he is saying so Beatrice we've learned that they've actually met before and Beatrice says well I don't really like you you know we learned that both of them have this very scornful approach to love however he appears very arrogant he believes that he's just this very desirable man a desirable bachelor but he does not love any of the women that he engages with okay. Now in terms of what love and analysis to do for this quotation the first is alliteration of loved and ladies also of course he's for Benedict to say that he's loved of all ladies this is an over exaggeration hyperbole okay so also you want to talk about the hyperbole there in addition you want to see kind of this banter and almost kind of competitive dynamic that's set up between him and Beatrice and this is shown through the contrast in the pronouns I versus you so we can see here that there's this kind of competitive spirit that they both have that almost are trying to outcompete each other as to who loves whom less who hates love even more okay. The second quotation to bear in mind with Benedict's character is again he states I will do myself the right to trust none ellipsis I will live as a bachelor okay so here of course he's still reasserting and also of course going totally against what Claudio is doing which is falling in love really quickly with hero and wanted to get married he states that he is a lifelong bachelor and he's committed to being a bachelor now the one level analysis to do for this quotation with Benedict's character is firstly the alliteration of tea in to trust also the repetition of the pronoun I of course here we can see that Benedict is very much about himself very much about just making himself happy and he's a little bit selfish and finally you want to focus on this is a structure point actually so the declarative sentence when he states I will live as a bachelor okay of course this creates a sense of irony by the end of the play when he does decide to get married he falls in love with Beatrice and he does decide to get married and of course this quotation here shows how staunchly Benedict is against love. The third quotation to bear in mind for his character is when he states with anger with sickness or with hunger dot dot dot not with love okay so here he is listing all the things that he is willing to put up with but he cannot put up with love right and of course here you want to talk about the repetition of with and also the listing of anger sickness hunger all these are very negative things negative states of being and what Benedict is saying is that all of these elements are better and more preferable to being in love okay so of course he really is set up as somebody who is totally against love and this adds to the comedic element by the end of the play when he does fall in love with Beatrice. The other quotation to bear in mind for his character is when he realizes so this is after Claudio has denounced hero as being unfaithful and then they all ultimately realize that hero is actually very innocent it was the doing of Don John that led to Claudio misunderstanding the situation and he states two of them have the very bent of honor ellipsis the practice of it lives in John the bastard now here of course what he is saying is both Claudio and hero have actually done nothing wrong so of course he also is kind of excusing Claudio's hurtful words and his hurtful ways towards hero however what he's saying here is actually it's really clear to see that both hero and Claudio have done nothing wrong it's actually Don John who is the person who's created all of this miscommunication and this misunderstanding and he's almost jeopardized their love for each other so actually here we can see he's already changing because he's defending the love and the relationship between Claudio and hero now the word-level analysis you want to do here is a literation so a literation of tea and also you want to focus on assonance of E in them have the and very okay so you've got a literation of tea in two and them and then assonance of E now the next quotation to bear in mind with Benedict's character is when now we realize that he has fallen in love with Beatrice and he states suffer love a good epithet I do suffer love indeed for I love the against my will so here he is confessing to Beatrice still in a very hilarious way that he has fallen in love with her now as we can see in terms of word-level analysis you want to do and actually this would be a structure point you want to make he speaks in a series of exclamatory sentences he states suffer love a good epithet and here this is adding to the comedic element we can see that he literally cannot believe that it's fallen in love the one thing he said he was totally against he's now fallen in love with her and of course we as the audience meant to find this really funny and the other element that you want to do is the repetition of suffer love so he talks about love as being a form of suffering so he still kind of holds on to this notion that being in love is maybe perhaps a weakness which he has now fallen prey to the final quotation to bear in mind when it comes to his characters of course when he confesses his love to Beatrice and we realize that he does want to marry her he states I do love nothing in the world so well as you is that not strange and of course there's still that element of banter even at the end of the plate right so they still have this lighthearted banter between each other and here of course he's saying isn't it crazy that I've fallen in love with you to Beatrice now here in terms of word-level analysis you want to focus on firstly assonance of O in do love and nothing also you've got an actually assonance of O extends to also world so and you okay so that's assonance of O in addition there's a hyperbole of exaggeration nothing in the world and finally he asks the retropical question is that not strange and this retropical question of course is meant to make us as the audience laugh so that's it when it comes to key quotations of bear in mind with the character of Benedict thank you so much for listening


Alright in this video I'm going to show you how to set up your smug mug to sell more licenses in print. I want to use my own smug mug account in this example so I can basically go through and show you exactly how I have my website set up. Now there's a lot of ways you can configure smug mug but I've optimized mine over the years to make more sales and I'm going to show you how to do the same. Alright so here's what my website can only look like. This is the home page and it's the feed of all the photos that I've uploaded online recently. So when I upload a photo to social media or stock sites I also upload them to my own website. So I use our photo website to do this which allows me to upload the photo once and then just automatically gets distributed to eight different sites. I'm not going to get into that in this video but if you want to see what that looks like I'll put a link up here somewhere to a video that shows you exactly how that works. Alright so I have my homepage set up this way because I get a lot of traffic to my website from my social media accounts. So if you think about it let's say someone sees a photo on Instagram or Facebook that they like and they want to purchase a printer or license. Alright well they're going to go click and go to my smug mug site. Now most likely there's probably a photo that I've posted regularly so in this case my home page they're going to see it right away there's the photo they wanted they can click on it click the buy button and they can go through and purchase the license or a print right. You know good website design is about making it really easy for people to do what they want to do especially if what they want to do is buy something so that's what I've tried to do with my home page. Alright next I have my portfolio which has my best photos. Now this is just a gallery that someone can go to if they're interested in seeing my best work and it turns out this is the second most popular page on my site after my home page. Alright next is all my photos organized by location. Now on an older version of my website I had all my photos organized by location and by subject but over the years looking at my stats I found that people were really only using the search by location and not the search by subject. The reason is I think most people when they see my photos online they may see a photo of let's say Quebec and they think you know I don't like this photo but I like the style. Let me see if this photographer has other photos of Quebec that I might be interested in buying so that's when they navigate to when they get to my site whereas if someone's looking for a photo of let's say a forest they'd probably just go to a microstock site because there'd be much more selection there. So that's why I think it happens that way but again what you'll need to do is try this out for the type of photography that you do right. I think it's good to be able to think about how people might want to see your portfolio and see your portfolio organized especially if you have a lot of photos so they can quickly get to what they want to buy. Now the last two pages here are just the about me and the contact page which are just static pages without many photos on them. Alright next I have my email sign up so anybody can go on my site enter in their email address and every time I upload a photo they'll receive an email with that photo in it. Now you might think that most people won't want an email to follow you that way they prefer to follow you on social media and that is true my social media following is way higher than my email list. I've only got about 200 people on the email list but it's about quality not quantity. A lot of the people on my email list have purchased photos from you before so they know my photography and they might want to purchase from me in the future so it's good that they're seeing my new work as it comes out. I've got editors of travel magazines on this list and I know they're looking at my email so they've purchased from the list I can see that from my stats. I also see like a lot of local designers signing up for the list so people who need to purchase a lot of stock photos about the area they're signing up so although it's not a large list I actually get a higher number of sales through this list than a lot of the other social media channels. Lastly I have another page that isn't linked for my home page that helps me get more sales when people find my site from Instagram and I'll show you how to set that up as well. Alright now let's jump into this mug mug design page and I'll show you how I set all these things up. Now there's three main sections that I'm going to go through and show you in this video. The organize tab, the customize, and then the sell tab. I'm going to start with organize and I'll work my way to the right. So the way that I have my photos organized is really simple. I've really set this up so it's really easy for me to manage. What I have is I've got one collection called Daily Photo Blog and in here I put all my photos okay so every photo that I upload to social media is in here. Every photo that I sell the stock is in here. I've got about 672 items right now. So this is where I store all those photos and I always upload them to this directory. This makes it really easy for me to manage my home page because basically it's a long feat of all my images. What I do with those images I then go in and have them organized by location. So over here you can see on the left I've got a folder with my photos by location and then in there I have some folders for the places I've been a lot like British Columbia. I live in British Columbia so I've got tons of photos from around here. So I have galleries for all the different locations. Whereas somewhere like Ontario, Quebec, or Mexico I've visited there and I have some photos from there but not as many so I've just got a gallery here. Now the way that I've got this set up is when I post my photo to the Daily Photo Blog gallery it automatically sorts them and puts them in here based on the keywords that I put in. So I actually need to set up another one here because I recently took a chip to Hawaii and I've got a number of Hawaii pictures uploaded so I want to create a gallery for Hawaii so if someone's searching for Hawaii stock photos they may find my photos and want to purchase them. So I'm just going to set that up right here in the demo. So what I'm going to do is go here and do photos by location and I'm going to create.  I'm going to add some keywords in the description. The way that Google works these days I'm not sure how much that actually matters but I still add them in. So here's the United States and then for the URL what I like to do is I'm going to do Hawaii travel. So you can customize that for SEO reasons. Now what I have here what I've done is I've set up some quick settings. So what you can do is you can get a folder or gallery set up the way you like it and then you can set up a quick setting to automatically apply those settings. So I have one here called standard location gallery and I'm going to set that and check it and then it sets it to what I have all my other galleries. So I'll go through and show you what those are. The main change though is that I show very large images. I'll show the original. So someone has a massive 4k screen. I'll show them a 4k image. I am not too concerned with people stealing my photos. I think if they're going to steal my photos they're not going to buy them. So it doesn't bother me and I don't try to stop that because I just don't think it's worth a while. I think it's much better to show people the great big photos and if they're going to buy them then they'll be able to see what they're getting. So I'm going to go through here. If you want to see how I've set this up it's available to everybody in the public. I have everything searchable but I've got that set up as a site setting. Again I don't have any of the photo protections on. I do allow people to share to the different social saddles or put comments. I don't really get a lot of those and every photo that I want to go into this particular gallery it's always going to be sellable. So every photo you see on my site is purchasable and I've got it set up that way. So now what I'll do is go through and create this. So now that I've set it up this has no photos in it but now if I go to the settings you're going to see a new option that you didn't before and it's called smart rules. Now I love these rules. This is by far my favorite feature in smug mug. What this allows me to do is go up and set the rules for when a photo should be entered into the collection. Now I keyword all my photos. I think keywords are so important when you want to sell your photos to stock. So I always put the location in every one of my keywords. I think most of my stock photos will probably come from people searching for a location and having a keyword in there. So I know that all those photos are going to have the keyword of Hawaii in it. So all I need to do is say include my photos with the keyword of Hawaii. Now I'll refresh this and there they are. There's all the photos. Now I'm not going to include my password collected galleries. I don't have a lot of them in there but on occasion I might upload a gallery for someone else to make it password protected and if I do have that set up then I don't want it to show up here. So I'll turn that off and I'm done. It's going to create this gallery with all the Hawaii photos and even better than that what it's going to do is if I now go today and upload a new photo from Hawaii and I still have some that I haven't uploaded yet, it's automatically going to get added to this collection. So if you set up anything in Smugmont, the thing that I would just so recommend setting up is organizing your photos automatically with the smart rules. It'll just save you so much time and so much effort in the organization portion of it. Now going back to the organize tab, the rest of my set up is pretty simple. I do have my portfolio here. This is just my best photos. Now I typically will update this manually as I take more photos and want to reorganize it but I only really do it once a year so this is pretty static. I do have some other galleries here for specific URLs. They got a lot of search traffic on my old website and I wanted them to keep getting indexed by Google so that's why I just put these here. So I've got one for British Columbia Travel Photos. That was a very powerful directory on my old site before I moved over to Smugmont. That's my old Squarespace site. Now I have another one here where it's called SouvenirPixels Instagram. Now this is an interesting one. What I've done in this one is I've got a smart rule set up where every single time I upload a photo to my photo blog it automatically puts it into this particular gallery. Now the thing with this gallery though is what I've done is I've given it a custom URL of IG. So if they go to SouvenirPixels.com.ig it'll send to this gallery and I've set up the gallery settings so that they're in the thumbnail. So you go into appearance, the gallery style with thumbnails. So when you go in when someone goes and clicks on this link now I only use this link on Instagram. So when someone clicks on my profile on Instagram they go to this specific page that has square crop photos that looks very similar to the Instagram page with all my photos in a very similar order but in on my page they can go through and click on them and purchase the photo. So this is how I basically kind of make sales from my Instagram feed coming over and I think it's really nice just to have it the same sort of mobile friendly UI because most of the people that are coming from Instagram are going to be on a mobile device. That's why I set up a page specifically for this. And then I just have some other miscellaneous pages in an app about page. So that's how I've got my photos organized very simple but again very easy to manage which is why I love Smug Mug so much. Now going back to the main page let's go take a look at the Customize. So what I'm going to do here is I'll first let's go take a look at the new site template. So the template that I'm using is called Dina or Dina. It's this one over here. I personally like it because I like white templates or just bright templates so I prefer the white background to the black background but Smug Mug does have a lot of other options for the black background as well too if you prefer that. I wanted to get one that had the bar on the left hand side so it's always showing that have just a large section for my feed so that's why I chose this one but a lot of the other ones are the same and I have customized a little bit so I basically saved my own I've called it on June 2018 which is basically when I went through and set this up. So you want any which template I'm using that's the one. Now the next thing I'm going to do is to go to content and design. So a couple cool things that I've done here as well. So a lot of these are standard items like I've got my you know name up here again this is my photo blog thing so I've got the very large images right on my front page and that's that main collection that I have. I've got my different sections down here on the side and then over here we've got the received daily photo email so what this is and all this edit here is this is just site this is just code that I took from MailChimp so what I do is I use MailChimp to send out emails every time I upload a photo and I've got MailChimp set up so that it happens automatically so what happens is when you upload a photo to smug mug there's an RSS feed which is just like an automatic feed that gets generated for the photo and that can be easily imported into MailChimp to then send out an email so when I upload a photo automatically an email gets sent out to my list which is just over 200 people and they can receive those via email and so this code here I didn't have to write this I just got this from MailChimp it was a cut and paste and put it in here so it allows me to have an email address associated to my site so that's not something that is available out of the blocks with smug mug but I just use MailChimp for it and MailChimp as long as your list is under 2000 people it's actually free so I just have a free MailChimp version to send out my emails that's a cool little thing that's set up there another thing that I've done if I look at my folders here I didn't like the way the folders looked when I first logged in and I found this here where you basically have this kind of overlay I didn't like the way the titles looked so what I did was I went and found some code CSS code that somebody else created so I'm not going to take credit for this this was created by Scott Hunter and I'll put a link down below to where he posted this code on one of the smug mug forms and I basically just took this modified it a bit and used it so I found this to look a lot nicer a little bit prettier so I used that so it's another cool thing about smug mug is that you can go in if you do know coding you can go in the background and actually do some customization I didn't do a lot because I didn't want to spend a lot of time setting this up and I really like the way most things look except for the galleries but it's something you can do another great thing is is that on the smug mug forums a lot of other people have made customizations to smug mug and they've uploaded the code for other people to use you can just go there and literally cut and paste it in so there's a lot of resources like that a lot of great photographers use smug mug and a lot of good photographers are also designers so they have the skills to write this type of code and they're happy sharing that on the web so that's something that I've done to update them at my galleries look a bit prettier now the rest of what I've done here is really just out of the box smug mug I took the template and used it for the most part as is and I like the way it looks I think it looks pretty good so I've left it that way now the next thing that I have here is the cell section so I'm going to do here is go and take a look at my price list now most of the sales that I get from the site are for for commercial licenses so let's look at those in a bit more detail so the way that I've got this set up is that for low res photos less than one megapixel hr is twelve dollars so someone wanted to purchase a photo just to upload to facebook it would cost from twelve dollars for a larger photo a four megapixel one it's a hundred dollars so someone wanted to do an online ad campaign and use the photo in a lot more places they'd probably choose that one and the original which would typically only be purchased for print is two hundred dollars now I did a little test a while ago before I was on smug mug when I was on square space and what I did was I randomly chose half my photos and I set the price to twelve dollars and I the other half of the photos I set the price to a hundred dollars and I wanted to see which would be more effective in getting sales and what I found after doing that for two years is that fifty percent of my sales came from the twelve dollar photos and fifty percent came from the hundred dollar photos so it didn't seem to really matter what the price was and I think that's because people find my photos on social media they want to purchase that photo they come to the site and it doesn't matter to them the price as much they just need that photo for a particular ad campaign or for a particular purchase and they just purchase it now if they wanted to purchase to get a lower price they would just be on shutter stock and they'd be looking for the photos there so I don't feel that I'm competing with shutter stock these are people that are looking for photos elsewhere which is why that I can justify these prices and although these are high compared to the stock sites I don't think that I would make more money on my website if I lower the prices now you can let me know what you think about that in the comments and let me know if you found differently and that's it that's how I have my set set up now obviously I didn't go through the nitty gritty details of how to set up a smug mug site in this but there's tons of different videos and much better videos by smug mug they can go through and tell you what all these different options are but what I wanted you to get out of this video was just a good understanding of how I set up my site and why I've set it up this way for the particular types of sales sales that I'm looking for all right so that's how I have everything set up on my website if you use smug mug and have any tips for how you can do things better I would love to hear them in the comments also as always if you have any other questions about how this set up or how I did these different things feel free to post the questions down in the comments below and I'll do my best to answer them as I can if you found this useful at all I'd really appreciate it if you would go down and hit the like button just let me know that making these videos is worthwhile also this entire 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