Welcome to our new and improved product finding videos where not only am I going to show you what products you should be selling on your dropshipping stores, but I'll also show you all of the social proof that you will need, including which seller is selling these products, what Facebook ads they are running with all of the engagements that they have going on there, and where they are getting the product and how much are they profiting from every sale. Our new product finding videos are going to take you one step ahead of your competition with the best product finding practices and strategies. Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back to our new and improved product finding videos where not only are we going to show you what products you should be selling, but we're going to show you a lot more information on top of that, how we got to this product, how we know that this product is selling well, and all of the information is just going to be jam packed with value that you haven't seen before anywhere else. One second before we get started, do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always learn about the newest and latest dropshipping tips, secrets, and strategies in every topic that you can think of and like and share this video if you appreciate the value. Now without further ado, let's go ahead and get started with this killer new strategy for knowing what products to sell on your dropshipping stores. Number one on our list, Tiger Eyes Street Art. Now before I talk about this, I want you guys to know that everything that I'm mentioning in this video is also available in the blog article, which I'll leave a link to right below this video. And there you can see everything that I'm showing you here, but do stay tuned in the video because I always like to throw in some extra value. So this product is selling for $119.99 and I'm going to show you everything soon. The seller is buying this product for $24.21, which means he's making a potential profit of about $95 for every sell. Keep in mind the potential profit does not include your selling channel expenses. For example, if you're dropshipping on eBay, you're paying anywhere around an average of 15% transaction fee on every one of your sales. So if you're selling a product for $100 and you're paying eBay 15%, then $15 goes to eBay and you'll keep 75 out of that 100, not including of course your source price. So take into consideration that the potential profit does not include your selling channel feeds. Other selling channels like Facebook Marketplace with just a 5% transaction fee. All right, so let's get down to the good stuff. Here is the seller's Facebook ad. As you can see here in this screenshot, we can see his Facebook ad has 6,900 likes or hearts with 408 comments and 313 shares. You can see that he is selling the same exact product. And then I'm going to click on the link right here to actually show you his Facebook ad live. And you can also do the same simply head over to the blog once again right below this video, and you'll have all of this information, all for you to use. And as you can see right here what I just showed you, 6,900 likes. This means that this ad is getting a lot of popular and good engagement. In other words, this product is in demand. People are interested in it. People are engaging with this post. And as we can see right here, 407 comments, 313 shares. People really like what they see. And then what happens next when they see a Facebook ad that's interesting to them, they'll click on it to go to the seller's website and hopefully purchase, which is the same thing that they're going to do on your website. So of course, I can click right here to go to the seller's website, but you'll also have a link to it in the blog article below this video to help you out as much as possible. So here is a screenshot of the seller's website. And of course we can see it right here because I clicked on the Facebook ad and you can see that he is really selling this product, not here for 159 because it's a different size. But if we go back to the blog article and it's really important to always check the same dimensions when you are checking your source. So here in his example, he's selling the 71 by 24 inch, as we can see in the blog article. So if I click here on the 71 by 24 inch, then you'll see that he is selling this for $119.99 as we can see in the blog article. How do we know that this is what he is seeing? This is what he's buying from his source price. Of course, you can read all about it in the blog article, his product features, good things that he's doing on his website that's making him get even better engagements and even increasing his sales conversion rates. For example, as soon as I entered the website, I had a 15% discount pop up as long as I leave my email address. That's a good way to get email subscribers, get their email addresses and send them email promotions later. He also has a buy two items get one free. So he has a lot of good promotional offers going on. If you will ask yourself, how can he afford to give one free item every time he buys two? Well, you can simply tell by the profit potential that he's making if you're making $90 or $95 for every sell, you wouldn't mind giving him a buy two get one free when you're paying $24 for each one. So let's scroll down to the supplier's website. And as you can see right here, he's buying this product from Ali Express. And this is the same size we're looking at 60 by 180 centimeters. And as you can see it right here, 60 by 180 centimeters, this is the same exact listing and the same exact product that he's selling. And I'm going to click on Ali Express just to see that this is real, and that that exactly is the price that he's paying. So I'm going to click on the 60 by 180. And as you can see, it costs $21.26 with free shipping to the United States. Here you can see that he is really selling this product for $119 he's paying $24 he's making $95 profit for every order. And just by the amount of engagements that he's getting on the Facebook ad, you can tell that people are interested in this product, they are clicking, they are purchasing, and this is something that you guys should also be doing on your stores. Now keep in mind another great tip, do not copy and paste what other sellers are doing. I'm sharing with you some strategies that other successful sellers are doing. And I want you to pick out similar items to those that they are selling. Because if you're just going to be a copycat a copy and paste website, then they already did much better work than you because they already have a selling history. They already have customers who are engaged with this product, they're already running marketing promotions on this product, pay per click ads, and so forth. So look for similar products, look for patterns in what the successful ones are doing, and practice the same things on your stores. Number two, cat bowl. Now this seems like a very general niche, a very general category, but we're actually talking about a bowl that is shaped like a cat, and that is what's so special about this cat bowl. The seller is selling this product, this cat bowl for $24.99. And guess how much he's buying it for? A whopping $5.25. The potential profit here, $19.74, not including your selling channel fees, which is still a great, great profit. The profiting percentages, this is what dropshipping is all about, and this is how easy it can be done once you have all of the right knowledge, all of the right tools, and all of the right information. And by the way, these sellers are not dropshipping manually.  You need to have price monitoring, stock monitoring, and automatic orders are also going to help you scale your dropshipping business by automating every order as soon as it comes in. And of course quick product importing, we need all these things. And the best way to be able to automate your business and really scale it to the moon is by using the best all in one dropshipping platform out there that is AutoDS. Go to autoDS.com right now, get your $1 trial, actually not right now. Watch this video first so you'll know what to sell. Start your $1 trial, start adding these products and see how that works for you. And then come back here, leave me some comments, let me know how these products work for you on your store too. Okay, so let's see what's so special about this cat bowl. I'm going to click on the seller's Facebook ads so we can see it in better quality. And as you can see right here, he's using this image as his main image showing you the wrong way to do it, the right way to do it. And he's starting off by emphasizing on the problem that people have with their cats and how this product solves that problem. And this is always something that you guys need to be doing when you are showing your product to your target audience. Let them know first of all what the problem is and how you can help them solve that problem that they're having, which of course is the product that you're trying to sell to them. So prevent your cat from vomiting and getting a worn out body prematurely. That sounds like a problem. Cats greatly benefit from eating in a more elevated position or bowl for both water and food helps your cat by raising it off the ground as well as giving it an ideal angle. So this slouchy cat over here, the wrong is the wrong way to do it. And when they have this elevated cat bowl, then as you can see right here, they have a better structure while they're eating. And this is the problem that this product is trying to solve. So let's check out this elevated cat bowl. I'm going to click on the link on their Facebook ad. And right away I can see a video. This looks good. This will get me to engage if I had a cat and I would like to improve their posture while they're eating. And once again, this does the job. I already understand even before I clicked what problem this product tells me solve. And as soon as I clicked on the link, I got greeted with a video that's showing me the product in action. That is enough for me. If I was a shopper, if I needed this product, I've got the buy me now button right here and everything looks clear. Everything looks smooth. It's not messy. You scroll down. Everything here looks very professional. It looks like a real business. And at the end of the day, you and I both know that this is a dropshipping website. So let's see where he's getting this product from. We're going to go back to the blog, scroll down a little bit. And once again, you can read about all the good things that the seller is doing and also room for improvement. And this is where you can come in, make that improved product to sell to your target audience. Okay, so here's the supplier's website. And once again, this product is coming from AliExpress. Let's click on the link. And lo and behold, this product is not available anymore. Well, that's a shame, but the good thing here is that we can always find duplicates on AliExpress. One of the ways to do it is to use the AliTools helper, which can show you more sellers who are selling this product. But if I just scroll down here all the way, I can find more sellers. So as you can see right here, this is that same product. Let's click on it and go for the single cat bowl, not the double. And here we go. We've got it for $7.08. Let's see if there's a difference. Okay, so that's another $2 instead of the $5.25. That is why we have to be fast in the competition, but $2 more really doesn't make any difference. And if you search for this product more in AliExpress, I'm sure that you can find it for one and $2 less. So in any case, the seller is paying up to $7 with free shipping to the United States. And we know that he's selling it for $24.99. Let's click on buy now. And there you go 24.99 for just one unit. That is the profit that he's making. And by the amount of engagements, you can also see that people are actually engaged with this product, even I liked it. So with over 330 likes, 40 comments, 12 shares, the ball has already started rolling for this product. And our third product is leather jacket. Now this isn't just your ordinary leather jacket, but leather jackets are starting to trend again. Let's see how well the seller is doing selling this specific leather jacket. As we can see here, he's selling it for $94.95 for one piece. He's buying each one for $46.89, which leaving him a potential profit of $48 per transaction. Let's take a look at his Facebook ad and see if people are actually engaged if they're actually interested in this product. This is a good way to see if this product is working or not. So as you can see here, he's running a Facebook ad with 355 comments, 68 shares, 1,600 likes, and we can see an even up close view right here. And of course, I'm going to click on a shop now to go to his website and the right jacket that he's selling is this one. So we're going to click on that. And this is the same jacket that we're going to see on the supplier's website. So as we can see right here, he's really selling it for $94.95. And by the way, another tip, many sellers are hiding a shipping cost, which you will only be able to see if you try to check out with this product and pretend to purchase it. Of course, you don't really have to purchase the product. You don't have to put your credit card information, but you can add it to cart, proceed to the checkout process, add in your address, and then you'll get a quote for shipping. Now, many sellers tend to give a really cheap price on the products page, but you'll have a surprise when you'll be at the checkout process and then you'll see a shipping price too. So always take that into consideration when researching your competition and seeing what their final selling prices are. Now, another tip is that it is not a good strategy to implement. And that is because you will notice that you will have a lot of cart abandonments. Many people on your website will add your products to their cart. They'll start the checkout process and then they'll stop in the middle and then they'll just leave. And it'll leave you wondering why are so many people abandoning their carts and not checking out with the product. This is one of the biggest answers as to why because they notice that shipping price and they don't like those surprises at the end and then they unengage with your product. He's selling it, of course, with shipping included at $94.95. Now let's check out the supplier, where he's buying it from. And here's the supplier's website. AliExpress comes to no surprise. Many dropshippers love to drop you from AliExpress and that is fine. And as you can see here, it's being sold for $39.31, which is cheaper than what I showed you, but that is because there's an added shipping cost of $7.58 and we want to be fully transparent. Therefore, if you add the two together, you will see that the total source price is $46.89, leaving you with a potential profit of $48 for that leather jacket. Now there are many leather jackets out there. There are many ways to create wonderful product pages like this seller. Also, by the way, his product page looks very professional. It looks like a real brand. As you can see here, he even added a logo to these jackets, which is the same logo that you can see on his website. So it looks like he's the manufacturer. It looks like he's running a big company here, but you and I both know what's going on behind the curtains. And once you also do extensive product research, like the one that I'm doing for you now, you will be able to sell more products, test the market in a much, much better way, save a lot of time when researching for products. And of course, enjoy the profits. Do not be afraid to make your profit. So that is product number four. Let's move on to number five. Halo floor lamps. Check out this product. It looks good before you even dive deep into it and see how well it's selling. This one is selling for $199. The source price is $148, leaving you with a potential profit of only $50 to $51. It doesn't seem like a lot when you're selling a product for $200. But if I'm paying $150 and I'm getting $50 back, that is good profit for me. It doesn't really matter if it cost me $150 or if it even cost me $250. If I'm going to make $50 profit per order, that is good enough by me. So let's check out the Facebook ad. As you can see right here, he's got great engagements, about 548 likes, 67 comments, not as much as the ones we've seen before. But hey, this product is working and making $50 per sell. Well, why not? So this is the Facebook ad that this seller is running. His name is Articcher. And we're going to see the engagements right over here. Click on the link. Let's go to his product page. And you can see that same lamp that we were talking about $199. You said that I had a couple of promotional pop-ups, which is always a good thing to do. It's always a good thing to have, but don't have more than one pop-up when someone enters your website. It'll feel too spammy. Your viewers won't want any part to do with it. So as you can see right here, he's running different variations for the different plug types. So if you're from the USA, you're from Europe, the United Kingdom or Australia, he's got the right variation for you. And this way you are expanding your reach to more and more regions around the world and not targeting only the US or only the UK and so forth. And as we scroll down, we can see that he made a pretty good product page. It's not the best that I've seen. It doesn't have the most amount of information. And if I just scroll down a little bit, he's already trying to throw me to different products. So we can do a much, much better job. Let's click on product specification. So he's really doing the minimum right here. As you can see, only two sentences, two to three sentences to describe what this product is and what it's doing. And right away, add to cart. The color animation effect here is cute, but we've got the product specifications, which is really important. Do not sell these types of products without showing the buyers what the dimensions are. You will have a lot of returns. Oh, it looked big on the picture. It came out really small. This way you cannot go wrong. But once again, you can do much better than this by giving more information on this product. And even if your supplier doesn't have that much information on the supplier's website, but you can still take a look and see how you can add more value to this product. Here's the supplier's website. Once again, it comes to no surprise that it's AliExpress. Click on the product link and we'll see it right here. Of course, make sure that the information is relevant to your product, but make it better than what this seller did. Moving on to the next product that we have in line vintage Japanese hanging scrolls. Now, this is a very popular item and it actually looks pretty good. I wouldn't mind having one hung right here in the back of my office. So these Japanese vintage hanging scrolls are selling for $94 and they're being bought for $41.57, leaving you with a potential profit of $52.43 minus your selling channel fees. So let's see exactly what we have, how much engagements we have, how interesting this product is. So I'm going to click on the Facebook ad and the seller's name is 1000 Ways Forward. Bring some magic into your space with these vintage Japanese hanging scrolls free shipping. So let's take a look over 1000 comments, 1700 shares and 14,000 likes and hearts. You can tell that this one is very popular and in demand. Another way to see that this product is actually still trending today since as you can see here, it was actually posted in January 19, 2021, which is almost one and a half years ago. So how can you know if this product is still even trending today? We don't want to sell products that were trending half a year ago and today nobody's buying them, but there are many products that can still sell really well for over a year and over two years if you're doing your product research correctly and you're retargeting your audiences and you're selling to more than one region worldwide. So how can you tell if this product is still popular even after a year and a half? What you're going to do is you're going to go to the comments section and instead of seeing the most relevant, you're going to move it over to newest comments. You want to see that people are still commenting on this product today and as you can see here, we've got a comment from a week ago, another one from two weeks ago. So it's still actually working. It may not be getting 20 comments per day, but people are still looking at this product. They're still engaging with it. They're still sharing it with their friends and they are still purchasing it. So let's click on the ad and see the seller's website. Now you're seeing the wrong currency here and the seller doesn't have any currency converters up here. This is his number one mistake. If I don't want to see the NIS or the Israeli Shekels, I want to see the US dollar or I want to see the Great Britain Pound, I won't have that option here and that is not very friendly. So that's the first thing that I would fix. You have a free currency converter apps on Shopify or on Wix or wherever else you're selling. Use that and have a currency converter option up here where you can simply choose a different currency. We also have a free Shopify course on autodesk.com slash courses where you can learn how to do that on your store. Okay, so if I click on the 40 by 120 centimeters and on the ABCD, the four piece set, then I know that I'm looking at what we're seeing right here. Even though this is the three piece set, but on his website, it's being sold for 312 Shekels, which rounds out to around $93 or $94, depending on the currency exchange rate. But the $94 that we're seeing here on the seller's on the selling price is correct. So he's selling it for about $94 for that four piece set. Now let's see how much he's paying for it. So I'm going to scroll down to the supplier's website and click on it. And then here I'm going to click on that same four piece set and on that same 40 by 120 centimeter variation. And as you can see right here, AliExpress can sell it to us for $41.57 with free shipping to the United States. Of course, with AliExpress standard shipping, which also gives us tracking numbers, tracking information so we can back up our orders. If our buyers open up item not received cases. So what we have here is a total of $41.57, leaving us with that potential profit of $52.43 per transaction minus your selling fees. Let's move on to product number seven. Now we're on multifunctional ratchet screwdrivers. This one can once again seem like a very general niche, but this product is selling all year long. It's an evergreen niche. It is not a seasonal product. And once you find the right ones that will sell for you, of course, you're going to add more products that are always similar to those that are selling so you can always multiply your sales. But let's take a look at this specific multifunctional racket screwdriver set. So this one is being sold for $49.99, the source price being $18.60, leaving you with a potential profit of over $30 per transaction. Let's see the seller's ad and see if it's even working well for him. So here's his Facebook ad right here. As usual, we have videos that show us what this product is, what problem it's helping to solve, and it always helps to have text guiding you on what this product is and what it can do to help you. Ever imagine doing all of your home repairs with one single tool. It can be adapted to many different combinations, avoid unnecessary efforts, save tons of time, reach tight and narrow spaces, stop wasting time with inefficient tools. So this is so as a home repairman, when I see this and I'm thinking ever imagine doing all your home repairs with one single tool, is that even possible? If it was possible, I would like to see that tool. And then I would watch the video, and I would say, Hey, it really is so it really I can really do a lot of things with just one tool. So let's click on this product and see what it is. So it just changed the currency in the last minute once again. But the selling price, I even saw it for $45 instead of $49.99. I think that he that he reduced the price a little bit anytime between the time that you're watching this video, or when we wrote the article to the time we recorded the video to the time you're watching the video, things can change prices can change. But all in all, we're looking at the same products around the same prices with the same profit potentials. So as you can see right here, this one is a little bit messy. I'm not going to lie. It's just a little bit too much. You can make a much cleaner website and get better engagements. But what the seller is doing well is he's showing the reviews up here. You can see the stars and if you click on it, he'll show you the reviews down here. Now these are not reviews that people are actually leaving on this website, but he's actually using review imported tools from AliExpress. So you'll see the same reviews here from AliExpress that he imported using a review importer app. There are many review imported tools that are free to use so you can have the same effect as you can see right here. But all in all, this isn't the best product page that I have seen, you can do a much better job when you're putting off work at it. But as you can see right here, he has 1300 likes over 150 comments over eight almost 850,000 views just for this one product. He posted it back in September and once again, do that same technique that I showed you go to the comment section instead of most relevant click on newest and see if people are still buying this product today. Here was just one for two weeks ago. I bought one. They are excellent and I'm sure that this guy is getting much, much more sells than that. But this product is still popular. It is still running well. And you can use other products that are similar to this one, maybe with more accessories, maybe with more tools, maybe a more heavy duty size. See what you can get from AliExpress or from other dropshipping suppliers. You can see a list of the best suppliers if you just head over to Autodesk.com slash suppliers. And here we've got over 25 suppliers where you can not only import their products really quick, automate your orders and enjoy price and stock monitoring. But you'll also have a reach to tens of millions of products to help you find better variations than what you're seeing here and make more sales than the examples that I'm showing you right here from all of these great selling products with wonderful engagements on Facebook ads. All right, let's move on to product number eight. Now we're on a large capacity laptop backpack. So it's not just your ordinary backpack, it holds laptops, but there are many bags that can hold laptops. What's more special about this is that it has a large capacity, but more than that, it also has a USB port where you can easily charge your laptop if of course you have a portable power bank inside or anything else. These popular backpacks are being sold for $87. They're being bought for $55, leaving us with a potential profit of almost $32 per sale. Let's check out how well this product is doing. So here's the Facebook ad and I'm going to turn on the music a little bit so I can show you the animations. Now this one, this seller didn't have a video for the ad and you know what this means for you. You can actually create a video for this ad and you don't have to be the one to do it. If you want to learn how to create videos for your ads, even if you don't have a video for them, head over to autoDS.com slash courses or read the ebook that I mentioned about the eight steps for running Facebook ads. So if you're the type that likes to read, go to the ebook. We also have an article about it on our blog page and you also have the free Shopify course where here, when you get to the online marketing section, you'll learn how to create a video for your ad even if you don't want to be the one who is physically creating the video for yourself, but you simply need a good video for your product and you don't have one. Your supplier didn't give you one or he has a really bad one and you want to do a better job, you can easily do that. And I'm sure that it'll do a much better job than these Corosal images, which are moving way too fast and I'm not even sure what I'm looking at. But as you can see, even if you didn't do the best job on his Facebook post right here, you can still see that he has over 1400 likes over 84 comments, half a million views. Now let's check out his product page and see how his website looks like if he is doing a good job there. All right, so here we go. You've got the two pocket and the three pocket. So he's selling two different variations and you saw the USD price. Well, it's showing me 110 Canadian dollars. So this isn't very friendly. Once again, don't use those currency converters. It is not very friendly. Now I'm seeing it at new Israeli checkouts, but when I'm hovering over, it's showing me Canadian dollars. I want the USD dollar. Guys, when you're running your stores, use a currency converter where the buyer where the viewer has the opportunity to change the currency to whatever currency they want to see. Once again, those apps are free to use and it's really a shame to not have it on your website. Overall, the website has a very clean look and feel as you can see right here. He's got the whole black and white theme going on. So we don't have too many colors. Everything is clean.  And when we scroll down, it simply looks good overall, even though he's using images from Chinese suppliers. And the problem with that is while it's not in the highest quality, you also have spelling mistakes like this one opening design. The word opening should only have one end. That is the problem with Chinese suppliers. And that is why a seller with a sharp eye can catch these things, do a better job than what this seller did. Overall, the seller did an okay job. For example, the product highlights right here. He created his own icons and he's writing about the product. And I can tell that he fixed the English in the product's description. However, he didn't do it in the images, which makes his website a little bit less professional than what it should be. Moving on to product number nine. Now we are on steampunk sunglasses, not just your ordinary sunglasses. Let's take a look. These steampunk sunglasses are being sold for $50 with a source price of only $2.5 leaving you with a profit potential of about $47 for every time you're selling one piece of these sunglasses. Who's selling them? Are they selling them? Are there any good engagements for this product? As you can see right here, over 1000 comments, over two and a half million views. Let's take a closer look. I'm going to click on a Facebook video ad. And as you can see right here, first of all, they're giving you a buy one, get one free. And hey, if you are profiting, if you are buying the product for $2 or $5, when we caught it on AliExpress, it was $2.41. And you're selling each one for 50, making a profit of 47. You can even give them a buy two, get one free and still remain very profitable. Okay. So here on the Facebook ad, we can see that we've got almost 10,000 likes, 1500 comments, 3 million views from November 20th, 2021, which isn't even a year ago. And let's just see how well this product is performing more than half a year after this post was posted. So I'm going to click on the comments. And as you can see, they're also pinning a comment. So in case you miss what we're reading up here, you can also get the link down here, which is another way to make sure that anyone who engaged with your ad is also going to click and go to the product page. And instead of most relevant, we're going to change it to newest. And as you can see here, people are asking questions, can my mother use this? Can you ship it to Brazil? But what we're actually looking at is when they commented. So as you can see, this one was from 10 hours ago, 14 hours ago, 14 hours ago, 20 hours ago, one day ago. So many people are still engaging with this ad. This is the most engagements that we've seen from all of the products that I've seen up until now, which is still working more than half a year since the post. So these sunglasses, these retro looking sunglasses are very, very popular. And with such a high potential profit, there is no reason to not try it for yourself. Let's take a look at the source website and see if everything we're seeing here is true. So I'm going to scroll down to the supplier's website, click on the AliExpress link. And here I can see that the seller on Ali Express raised the price by about a couple of dollars. And that is just fine. By the time you're watching this video, the price could go back to $2. It could be $6, whatever. It's still very, very profitable. So we're going to click on the right variation. This is the same exact sunglasses that we are seeing on his Facebook ad. I'm sure you can agree with me there. Let's also go to his website, be a part of something our two for one offer is for everyone. Okay, so right away, they want your email address, they'll give you a nice promotion. It's very nice to have. And as you can see, congratulations, you've got free shipping to your country. So he's using some localization app to see where you're from and tell you that you've got free shipping to your country, makes you feel a little bit special. And if we scroll down, we're going to look for those sunglasses.   Okay, so once again, we're seeing a localized currency, which isn't very practical. This comes out to about $50, which is exactly what we saw in this calculation right here. So $50, paying about $4, you're profiting about $45 per sale here. That is just crazy. And that is exactly why I love the dropshipping business model. You don't have to pay for this inventory. You make a lot of profit per every sale. And now I've shown you guys proof that not only am I showing you that these products have great engagements and from engagements, you can get a sales conversion rate, you can get a nice feel that people are actually liking this product if it's in demand or not. It gives you a great, great tool, a great way to analyze what products are popular. This isn't the only analyzation tool, but it's one of the best social proof that you guys can have today. The 10th product is a crystal money tree. This is the product right here. Let's see how well this one is doing. This crystal money tree is selling for $170. Now get this, the source price $18, potential profit $152 per sale. This one may seem too good to be true. Let's dive in and take a deeper look. So here's the seller's Facebook ad. We're going to click on it to get a better view. This one calls himself karma and luck. The tree of life is a symbol of growth, strength and our deep roots. Sparking authentic gemstones are hand wrapped onto copper wire, inviting harmony, prosperity and positivity into any space. That is very convincing. And if we'll look at this product, you can see that it's the same exact product which you will also see in your sources website soon. The supplier where he's getting the product from. But let's just take a look at the engagements over 8,800 likes, 255 comments, 312 shares. The engagement here is great. This product is in demand. Let's check out the seller's website. So I clicked on that and he's calling it a relaxing lullaby Feng Shui aquamarine stone tree. Do you see what he did there? When we are optimizing our products titles, we're trying to take it away from what our source is calling it. Because if you take this title right here and you copy it and you paste that on Aliexpress, you're not going to find this tree. But if you search for a crystal money tree, you will be right on point and you will find it on Aliexpress. So the first thing he did was differentiate himself from the source, made himself different, so it'll be hard for people to see where he's getting the product from. And that is the reason that he came up with this name. Now if we scroll down, another very clean and smooth look, some nice icons right here, lifetime warranty, even though he can't really give you lifetime warranty, fair trade, authentic gemstones and blessed by singing bowl. I don't know what he means by that, but this is all just to get you to buy the product. And you also have a live donation count right here. So he right here, he's telling you that he helped over 37,000 families and kids. I'm not sure if this is true, but that is not what I'm looking at. My advice to you is to not lie to your buyers. If you're not donating, don't say that you're donating. And if you're not blessing it with by a singing bowl, then also don't say that that is what you are doing. But on the other hand, you can definitely play around with the product's title, the images, add more specifications, make the reader make the viewer understand why they need to purchase this product. But overall, this looks professional, nice and clean look. It looks like a professional website. And I'd like the sound and look of this. And once again, he's selling it for $109 apiece. How do you know that it's the same product? How do you know that it's the same size? I can see that I've got small, medium and large, largest out of stock. And we've got the medium variation. And if we look down here, then the size for the medium variation is eight inches tall. Eight inches is 20 centimeters. Now let's go back to the blog page and go to the source website. And as you can see, AliExpress $7.90. Let's click on the link. And here we've got that 20 centimeter or that eight inch variation. So if I click on that, we can see that the price is $11.90 for that same exact relaxing lullaby Feng Shui aquamarine stone tree gemstone product. Another $5 in shipping, which brings us to about $17, $18 in total source price, selling at $159. This one is a no brainer. Even if you guys notice small inconsistencies in the prices like $159 to $170, the sellers are always moving their prices. The sources are always moving their prices. But at the end of the day, we're always around the same profit margins, making $150 or $140 or $100 on a product that you're only paying $18 for. Once again, this is the dropshipping business model. Product research, once again, is not an easy process. And we're putting in hours and hours of work finding these best products for you and also showing you the Facebook ads, the source websites, analyzing the seller's websites and telling you what you can do to do a better job than what these current popular sellers that are actually able to make substantial sales from their products, but you're also learning to be much better than them. That concludes our first product finding video with this new method with this new strategy showing you guys everything that you need to see and know about these best selling products. 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Good morning, everybody. My name is Avast Vasiliadis from the University of Chicago.  A couple of few things today. Just by show of hands, who's familiar with GLOBUS? Some of this might be a little repetitive, I apologize. I'm just going to run through a high level view of what the GLOBUS service is, how it looks from a researcher's perspective, and in that I'm mostly going to do a brief demonstration and a live demonstration. Talk about some common use cases about how it's being used, both in sort of an interactive mode as well as in some automated research data management flows. I'm going to spend a little bit more time on how it's being used in the data publication context, because obviously that's more relevant to you folks. I'm going to start off with some of the things we're doing on the sustainability side, because that's something that's been sort of caught to our mission from day one. And day one was about ten years ago, and this was sort of the picture on campus of what people's data looks like in their labs. I think one of these was actually on our campus, I forget which one. I show this slide because I'm particularly intrigued by this numbering scheme, because you can't see it in the back. Each of these drives is numbered. So there's obviously an index somewhere that is being used to track that data and one wonders what happens when the grad student who has that index Excel file leaves the institution. So obviously the question is how do we, in this sort of environment, how do we move and share and describe data and make it reproducible and discoverable, and really how do we facilitate data stewardship throughout the research life cycle. So we came at this from Globus and actually I'm just sort of a quick snapshot here of where Globus has come from. So as a technology it's been around for the better part of two decades now. The early days were fraught with peril for those that might have tried using Globus back then was a very painful exercise. So about eight or nine years ago we launched a service to really make Globus accessible to anybody, really. No sort of deep tech experience required. Just some milestones in particular. Again I'll talk to sustainability at the end, but we are approaching our 100th subscriber. At least I'm hopeful that will show up sometime next month. And we are well on our way to becoming fully self-sustaining. We're well over 50% at this point, but we still do have a lot of grant funding. So the way I like to summarize what Globus does is really acting as a bridge between data and people, both within the organization and between institutions. And at its core what we try and do is present sort of a unified view of data irrespective of what type of storage system it's on and where that storage system lives, be it on campus, be it in a national facility somewhere, be it in the public cloud and so on. And then we do try and make it as easy as possible for researchers anywhere to share with the collaborators and also to make their data sets more widely available to the community. Again either in the form of public repositories or in their own storage, be it again on premise or in the cloud. So the core functions of Globus, so we started out basically as a file transfer tool. And the idea here is that a researcher can come along and say, move some data from a storage system somewhere. And that can be, as I say here, might even be an instrument in many cases. That is the case. And move it to some other machine. And that request goes into Globus and at that point the service takes over and the researcher can go off, shut their laptop down and the data just move between those two systems with Globus monitoring things making sure that it can recover from any transient errors and so on. So it's really a fire and forget kind of mentality when you're moving even small data sets but typically the larger data sets where it does become critical to make sure that things are progressing as they should. When you want to share data, what the researcher does is select the data they want to share and they set permissions for who can access that data via Globus. So this is not changing anything on the underlying storage system. So Globus has this philosophy of really not touching the storage. The storage is yours, you administer it and configure it and set policies on it. And Globus just sort of sits as an overlay on top of that. So we have these permissions that are sort of sitting above your storage system if you will and then another researcher at another institution can come along to Globus and access the data the same way. And then when you get more to sort of a more formal publication situation what you can do is attach metadata to this collection or this data set and optionally put it through some kind of integration step and then we have a search facility whereby others can come along and discover and reuse that data, pull it down to their systems by the same means. And all of this for the most part is available just via web browser. We do have other interfaces I'll talk about briefly later on. I say it's accessible on any storage. That's not strictly true. We don't support everything but we are working hard to add accessible connectors to support essentially any type of storage system. And very importantly for many people they can use the service using with their existing identity so they don't have to create yet another user name and password just to access the service. So with that I'm just going to switch out of slides and do what my mother always said I shouldn't do which is do live demos. So let's hope this works. Okay so here's the home page. So I'm going to go log in and here is where you'll see, can everybody read that at the back? Should I make it a little bigger? Okay. So this is our federated identity system. We call it Globus Auth. So we have about 560 or maybe close to 600 now different identity systems that we trust. These come to us through different federations like Incom and Edugame. If you don't see your institution listed here you can always use Globus ID. That's our username and password so you can go and create a Globus username and just access the service that way. But for most people hopefully they have their institution listed here. So when I click continue this will actually redirect me out to my identity system at UChicago. The thing for us is we don't want any credentials flowing through Globus if we can do that. So I will log in here with my UChicago ID and we have two factor authentication enabled. So I will get a code on my phone here and approve that. And then I'll be redirected back to Globus and I'm logged in and looking at what we call the file manager. And so this is our main screen. Maybe I should make that a little bigger. We can read that in the back. So we have this concept of end points and collection. So an end point is a system that has the Globus software installed on it and can be accessed via the service. So I'm just going to access one of the storage systems that I have data on which is our high performance cluster on campus called the Midway system. And you'll see when I click on that it logs me right in. And that's because wherever possible Globus will try and do single sign on based on the credentials that I've given it. So in this case I logged in with my UChicago ID. This system recognizes it so all is good. I'm going to actually do a quick transfer between two other systems. So a common use case for us is people accessing large public data sets like the NCAR Research Data Archive that stores I think upwards of 30 maybe 50 petabytes of climate research data. So actually let me click on a bookmark that I have there. So here is this is a data set that's about a terabyte in size. So let's say I wanted to move this to one of the other systems I have access to which is at Argonne and that's called the Petrol system. So I'm going to go there and then transferring is pretty straight forward. I select the files I want to transfer and down here I click the start button. And that's it. So you'll see up here it says a transfer request was submitted successfully. So Globus now has this job to do and it will go off and do it and if it runs into any issues it will try and work through them. If it needs some intervention from me it will send me an email. So for instance if this is a very long running transfer and we've had transfers that run upwards of months so my credentials may expire in case Globus would say hey, let's go and log in to this system so the transfer can continue. And it will pause and resume things automatically so at this point there's nothing I need to do further just go about my business. So that's in the simplest way what transfer is about. The more interesting thing and I'm going to go back here to my midway system is I think more interesting at least is the ability to share. So let's say I wanted to share this folder with all of you here. Let's say I had a group of you set up in Globus so I can select that and click share and it prompts me to create a share. Let me just call it demo share because I think I have another one that I created by the same name. And now I can grant permissions to anybody that I want to. I can only grant permissions that I have so in that folder I do have read write access so I could give you access to read and write files there. I can select an individual user, a group of users or I can make it more open and say anybody who logs into Globus has access to it. So that's essentially a public share if you will except that you do have to log into Globus to get access to that. So I do have a demo user for this purpose so I'm going to search for that. And if you don't know the individual's user name or ID or anything, you can just put in their email address and Globus will send them an email and they can go into Globus and it will automatically create accounts and all that so they don't have to worry about it. So I can add permissions here and this user now has access, they have read access down here to that folder. So if I go back to the file manager and access that share, you'll see that's the set of files they're looking at on this system, this was the directory I shared so they're kind of locked into there, you can see they can sort of navigate up from there. So it's a nice clean way of giving someone access to your data even though they may not be part of your institution or they may not have an account on that storage system wherever the data resides. Actually speaking of identity, so we do have as I said a federated sort of identity and access management system here. So I can link a number of identities, I don't know if you can read those in the back. So here is my UChicago one, likewise I have an Argon identity, I have my University of Michigan ID from back in the day. So depending on what people know me by, they could share with me with any of those identities and I could just access it irrespective of how I'm logged into Globus. So that's just a quick walk-through. Let me go back to some slides here. So we talked about that. So how do all these systems become available or accessible via Globus? So it's using a software called Globus Connect. There's two sort of major versions of it, one is a personal version so that you can run on a laptop, on a single user system. It doesn't require any special permissions to install and it handles all the networking, cruft, firewalls, etc. So pretty much anybody can just plug and play that and they have an endpoint on their laptop. More interestingly, there's a connect server. This is the thing you would put on a storage system and that would give access to anybody that has a local account on that system. They could then come in via Globus and access that system with whatever permissions they have. And as I mentioned earlier, we do support a lot of different systems. Any sort of POSIX compliant system is supported out of the box. We do have a number of connectors on the left that we've released over the last three or four years. Next up for us is a connected box. That's been one that's been asked for by many people for a while now so we're trying to get that wrapped up soon. And then there's a few others in the pipeline and we keep adding to this. We keep getting requests. We've had requests for one drive and various others. So we do try and keep up with what our users are asking us for. You just saw me walk through some part of the web interface. There is also a command line interface which is more interesting for those that want to script things and automate things further. And then ultimately, behind all of that is a set of REST APIs so if you want to access Globus programmatically, you can just talk to those directly. We've got lots and lots of sample code out there on how people are doing that. So that's our command line interface. It's actually a little more full feature than the web UI because there's a lot more options on some of the commands that are exposed through this interface. It's an open source code that you can actually go look at. And so one of the ways people are using this is to integrate Globus into their workflows. And further they're actually using the Globus platform to build science gateways, data portals, various other applications that are part of their research workflows that allows them to manage data a little more in a more streamlined fashion. So here's a very high level view of some of the Globus services. So what you saw me demonstrate just now was Globus Auth, which is the identity and access management piece that underlies everything. I showed you transfer. I did not show you search to identify. So the transfer is sharing with the two key ones. And then there's additional services built if you will on top of those. But I do want to spend a second just talking about Globus Auth because it really is a critical piece of the puzzle here for us. So it's essentially based on OAuth 2, on the OAuth 2 standard on an open ID connect for those that are familiar with those terms. So what we've tried to do other than allow people to access Globus with existing identities, we've tried to create a set of services that you can put, that you can leverage in your own applications. So if you're building a data portal, you don't have to go and build your own user name and password managers and accounts database and so on. You can just hook into the Globus Auth service was literally a handful of lines of code using standard libraries and then anyone that has an identity from one of those systems or one of those identity providers that I showed you earlier could access your application. So assuming you've given them access right. So there's a nice clean way to make your apps sort of accessible to a broader community. And you can also use it to secure your own APIs if you're building. We have some folks that are a little more sophisticated using Globus Auth to secure their own APIs so other services can call those as part of the same flow. So as we've gone through the last few years it's become clear that it's not sufficient to have these sort of point and click interfaces. They're good for sort of ad hoc work but when you get to sort of scale and large research projects that need to do the same tasks over and over in an automated fashion. So we've built additional facilities to enable that. So a very common one is doing things like scheduled backups or replicating data on a regular basis so you've got scripts that will run and automatically kick off transfers that put your data elsewhere. Data distribution is a very common use case so for instance from a lot of campuses have next-gen sequencing centers and other things like that where they'll pull data off and then they'll put it onto some storage system and using the sharing mechanisms they'll make the data available to their users. And in many cases as I said they're building sort of custom data portals and some of the capabilities of the global so built into those portals both for data movement and for sharing. One of the biggest examples I mentioned I showed you that NCAR Research Data Archive that I was transferring from so if you go and browse that archive when you select the data set you'll see one of the options typically not for all the data sets but for most of them there's an option to use the global service to transfer that. So this NCAR was one of our very early users of the global platform and they continue to build capabilities into their repositories. And what's becoming probably our biggest use case of late is pulling data off of instruments right so be they light source high resolution light sources like the advanced photon source of the ALS out of Berkeley high-race microscopes and so on we've got lots and lots of instruments generating lots of data and what's particularly critical in these use cases is the research only has access to the instrument for a short period of time and then they have to get the data and get out right so they have to pull the data off of that instrument in a reliable way because in many cases it's very hard or in some cases impossible to replicate that experiment right it might be sort of a one-off sample or what have you so they want to pull that data off and put it again into some other system perhaps for analysis or for sharing with the collaborators so how do you do that securely or reliably so we've got a number of different use cases where instruments are sort of enabled for global access and there are automated mechanisms for pulling the data off those instruments as it becomes available a good example of this is that the advanced photon source out at Argonne National Lab we have a researcher Bobby Casturi who is studying the brain he's essentially he's undertaken to map the brain to build out the connector as they call it so a massive undertaking so he does he takes images they talk about it as using a deli slicer so they'll take mouse brains or octopus brains slice them very very finely and push them through one of the light sources and gather all the data and then there's a flow built behind this that's built using the Globus platform where after the imaging the data are pulled off to an acquisition server they go to another server where they're pre-processed and then they're sent to a system sort of on the other side of the Argonne campus at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility where someone looks at that so they do some initial reconstruction to see if this image is sort of of adequate quality perhaps they might do some adjustments to the machine to the instrument and then once everything is good they'll do a full reconstruction on that same system at Argonne and then move the reconstructed data to yet another system called Petrol you saw me move some data there earlier and there they will attach persistent identifiers to it and essentially publish it for the rest of the group and much of the group lives at the University of Chicago so about 35 miles away from there and between them as Bobby says science happens right so there's some magic there obviously but as far as the infrastructure goes all of that is enabled by Globus and this is actually the kind of thing we're starting to see more and more of as a requirement out there. There are also many use cases where Globus is helping people with their data management plans so you're able to pull again from diverse systems maybe you pull raw data from your instruments you pull process results from some other HPC cluster or something and then perhaps you've got some additional data on your own machine on your own laptop documentation what have you code and you can sort of put all that together in a data set as we call it in the data set has a number of policies that define who can publish data sets into these collections and whether or not there's a curation required, what types of metadata are required and so on and once that's published will mint an identifier, it can be a DOI, it can be an ARCA handle what have you and obviously that's then available to others so the current, what we call sort of our version 1 of the data publication service this has been around for probably going on 4 years now so this was an interesting exercise for us because when we first built this service we really didn't understand the needs of the community quite frankly we assumed that for most people a nice turnkey sort of application would do the trick so you bring your own storage that's where your repository lives, you decide where that is and then we provide some predefined schemers and we mint these identifiers so you can pull these data sets together and publish them in your repository and we're all done. The reality was obviously that that's not the common use case, there is that use case out there so we do have upwards of a couple thousand users and a few hundred data sets published but it hasn't had the adoption that we had hoped so about 2 years ago we started looking at really what are the other types of use cases in sort of research data publication so citable data where your metadata tends to be more standard do you require strong persistent identifiers like DOIs then perhaps in community data where the schema is agreed on by the community some of these data sets have sort of more fine grained metadata because they are discipline specific and then within the institution again there are multiple domains and lots of different storage systems so trying to handle all of that from a publication standpoint was quite a challenge for the initial system and all the while we still want to support this active research data so it's not just about creating these immutable snapshots and then we're done it's how do you manage data as it evolves as the schemers and things change and so on so what we did is starting about 18 months or there abouts ago we took that publication service and broke it up into a set of micro services that allow you to essentially build your own flows if you have an existing repository and you want to integrate some of these capabilities into it so you can add data to your institutional repository you cannot do that there are a number of services we have two of them so other than the often transfer which already is there we do have a search service this is actually built on Amazon's elastic search and the nice thing about this is it's sort of schema agnostic so as our product head says just give us your unwashed metadata and we'll just do the best we can so we'll index essentially whatever you give us it just has to be in a certain readable form and it's basically a JSON type document so we can index that very importantly we overlay the same access control mechanisms that we have in the rest of the global service on search what that means is you can determine or you can decide who can actually search into this data who can see this index or these indices so it's not sort of a it can be an open index an open search but in some cases perhaps there's some PHI data so you say for this data set for this index you only want people that have certain permissions to get to it and what global search is it creates a set of facets so you can filter by those and you can sort and organize your data that way and it provides a rich query language so you can write your own search queries and build those again into your own data portals and so on and then the other service that we've tried to this is the identifier service so again this allows you to different types of IDs and so when you create an identifier very importantly it's created within your own namespace so we're not in the business of maintaining DOI namespaces or anything like that and it has an identifier has all these different attributes right it's versioned you can control visibility every identifier points to some kind of landing page with a link to the data and so again you can build this into your own data flows data portals what have you and the service we're working on right now and we should have a first release of this probably in the next month or so is the Globus Automate service so this is taking all these individual services and allowing you to compose them and use them in a flow so you can define some automated set of steps that are triggered either manually or through some type of event perhaps you know data showing up on capture device on an instrument will kick off a flow a transfer flow and then data showing up out of some analysis tool will kick off some kind of publication flow where that data gets it's metadata it's indexed and it gets an identifier and so on so all that can now be soon will be automatable and you can tap into that and build your own flows just some other applications here and then I will wrap this up because we have a few minutes for questions so we've also done some integration with Jupiter hub and this has become you know many of you are aware Jupiter is becoming sort of the defective tool for interactive data science and so we've built integration into the Jupiter hub such that again using your existing identity you can log into a Jupiter hub instance that you've set up on campus or your researchers rather or your students can they can spin up Jupiter hub and within those notebooks they can they then have access to all these global services with the same fine-grained security model that I've been describing so this is a case this example here is from our materials data facility at Argonne where they built these flows whereby they query this big data set of materials data they move it to petrol do some analysis using this parcel library which is a parallel python scripting library and then they push it out sort of they publish it and make it available to the materials research community other examples so this is from the Welcome Sanger trust in the UK they've integrated globus they've actually had this in place for quite some time where you can send them your genomics data and they'll run the imputation tools on it it's used extensively in sort of national cyber infrastructure compute Canada and exceed the two big providers of supercomputing resources in the US and Canada I just want to talk briefly about sustainability and then I'll open up for questions so we've got over the past nine or so years since we launched the service we've had some reasonably good adoption all of this and thank you to our sponsors that have made it possible so we've had grants from those agencies as well as some private foundations we continue to get support from the university and from Argonne National Lab but more importantly we've really as I said at the beginning we've tried to build sustainability into our core sort of value proposition so what we want to do is make globus self-sustaining and we decided to do that by having sort of a freemium model right like you would see in the industry so parts of the service in particular the transfer component is free for anyone to use but most of these other features that I've talked about do require paid subscription so we do have as I said approaching on 100 subscribers and thanks to them we've actually we're starting to get to the point where we can support everything without relying on grant revenue because grant funding is obviously not geared towards supporting operations right we are in a sense in the business of providing a production grade service to the community even though we're sort of with this group within the university so we're kind of this odd duck in some sense but we're doing it from the perspective where you know we want it to be available for a long time right so there are different levels of subscription standard high assurance gives you all those additional protections for PHI and so on and there's add-ons and that's I'll I'll leave it there sorry I haven't lived too much time for questions but I'm happy to take any questions that you have we'll show you anything else okay thank you very much