Thank you everybody for coming. Welcome. Welcome to the Ask EFF panel. We're so glad to see so many of you people here today This is going to be kind of a lightning round. We have about 30 minutes in here and with a transition That means about 20 minutes for questions So we're going to do very brief introductions and then we'll look forward to answering your questions Brief word of warning as many of you know one of the things we do here is we provide some legal advice to People who are in need from this community. This is not the place for those questions. You want to have that in private conversations with the Privilege attaching these are this place for more of your general questions about some of our work and policy initiatives And so while you're thinking of the great questions to ask I'll begin with the introductions My name is Kurt Oppsall. I'm the general counsel at the electronic frontier Foundation EFF as you probably all know because you're here We are a non-profit civil liberties organization dedicated defending your rights online And with that I will let our esteemed collection of panelists introduce themselves. My name is Jeremy glula I'm on the tech projects team at EFF So we're the team that develops things like cert bot and let's encrypt and each of us everywhere in privacy badger and also explain Tech to the lawyer people Hi, my name is Katitha Rodriguez. I'm EFF international rights director. I work on global surveillance issues Helping group fight draconian surveillance laws and in particular in Latin America Hi, I'm Andrew cracker. I'm a staff attorney. I work on our civil liberties team, especially in our national security privacy Hi, I'm Eva Galperin. I work on EFF's international team mostly on issues regarding privacy and security of vulnerable populations all over the world. I also do our state-sponsored malware research And I'm Nate Cardozo. I'm a senior staff attorney at EFF I do crypto and security policy as well as free speech and privacy litigation and I will be giving a talk Immediately after this one in the same room about crypto law So yeah, save your crypto law questions for that talk because it's gonna be great So we have a mic here in the center aisle So if you have a question why don't you come on forward and ask on the mic? My question is do you think we can trust Tom Wheeler? Tom Wheeler? Take that one So I'm probably the only person on this panel who's worked on net neutrality issues. So I I mean in some sense, we don't have to trust him right because everything that he would do that would have any Consequence ends up being a public thing But I have been very pleasantly surprised by the direction. He's been pushing the FCC So I mean I trust him, but I also keep an eye on it So trust would verify. Yeah, exactly So what do you think the privacy and security implications are for Americans following the IANA transition? Anyone? The person who worked on ICANN is not here And none of the rest of you does anything Yeah, we have at this point about 70 employees and we bring a good selection Here this is a great group of folks, but unfortunately we can't cover every possible possible issue And also ICANN staff and the IANA transition is not a topic we give priority All right, anyone else have a question to come forward We can also I'll give a little brief discussion of some of the things that that we have been working on While you're getting your your questions ready Let's Please hi, I just got asked by a friend if the EFF would endorse his campaign for judge And I said I was sort of dubious about that Can you elucidate whether EFF can or cannot participate in political endorsements of candidates or positions? And why are why not? Well, we actually cannot as a nonprofit organization We don't get involved in what's known as electioneering This means on the plus side if you donate to EFF is a tax-deductible donation and we get some Advances as an organization But that that also comes that we are a non-partisan non-political organization that doesn't get involved in elections Well to talk about export controls I see you trolling One thank you for your guys help with the net neutrality stuff. I think everybody in here greatly appreciates it So thank you. Is anybody on the pan? Thank you Actually, I'm curious is anybody here familiar with the kind of stuff that's going on in Europe right now with the privacy shield and GDPR Danny, I don't know the the content of the GDPR right now. I know that European Union have passed a new regulation for data protection directive and it's a GDPR But due to max terms litigation the safe hardware provision which allows It's a European provision that compels companies to if you want to transfer data from European Union to the United States You have to or to any country have to be adequate country So so the question you may not know the answer, which is fine but I was just curious like I've been looking at it pretty heavily and I don't think America is ready and I The the like right to be forgotten clause is that even from a technology perspective There's just a lot in there that I think is going to be extremely disruptive And I just didn't know if you had a take on that or not. I got it. Yeah Okay Oh the right to be forgotten If you want to see people from EFF really squirm uncomfortably ask us about the place where your right to privacy and your right to free speech overlap In Europe the right to be forgotten is actually quite reasonably popular in the United States we tend to sort of err on the side of the First Amendment and EFF believes that the right to be forgotten is actually quite problematic on one hand Who among us has not done things that have ended up on the internet that we're not terribly proud of that? We would like to see not indexed by Google On the other hand what we're really worried about is that the right to be forgotten Can and will be used by the powerful to cover up their misdeeds And in fact we have a great deal of evidence that this is exactly what is happening So EFF does not support the right to be forgotten. We think it's super extra problematic But that's just one provision of the GDPR and I want to put an example in Latin America We copy a lot of laws from Europe and from that retention to the right to be forgotten So we already have bad presidents in for instance right now in Peru that they Are right to be forgotten case when they put a huge fine to Google But also to another another case that they put a huge there investigating investigative journalists So we have problems in Mexico and in Colombia the sentence in Colombia was favorable to Google but it was not good for the media the media have to take down the content The this index and contact from their website Please go ahead Is there anything that the EFF is doing or can do to? move technologies that are itar restricted and dual use that are out there and Essentially that is there a way to move them from itar to dual use or off of that I'm sure thank you for biting on my export control taunt We do a lot of work around export controls Most recently the State Department proposed listing cyber products on itar Without defining what that is or what it means or what it would be So we wrote we only caught wind of it a couple of days before it was debated And we along with our friends at access now wrote a very strongly worded letter saying don't Do this this is stupid We are also working to make sure That things like pen testing tools don't get included in the EAR Right now crypto is still unfortunately in the EAR. It's not in itar. What what's an EAR? Oh EAR is the export administration regulations. It's administered by the Commerce Department And it covers dual use technologies It's a lot better than itar, which is the United States munitions list Crypto used to be treated the same way as Tanks and hand grenades now it's treated the same way as MRI machines So we're making we're trying to make sure that things like pen testing tools don't require a license to export So stay tuned. That's the Vasanar arrangement Process I was on a panel last year in this hall talking about that and it's still very much live So we blog about it from time to time Eva and I are leads on itar and EAR stuff at EFF Hi I always leave deaf con feeling a bit deflated So I wondered if there's some good things that happened in the last year or some good trends That maybe you could highlight hopefully What's the what the good news well we won the Apple FBI case Yeah So last year Yeah, the launch of let's encrypt in the past year. Oh, did I still I'm sorry. I didn't feel it. Yeah Free certificates easy to set up. I'd say that's a pretty big win I have pretty with wings in small countries, too We defeat that retention in Paraguay, which is a big issue because the European Union have been the feeding Exporting these laws to developing countries and that was the first wing in that country another big win is the increasing use of end-to-end encryption as you probably know EFF has a lot of interesting projects to encrypt the web Encrypting data in transit. So we have HTTPS everywhere and we started surf the cert bot But this year we saw the implementation of the signal protocol For end-to-end encryption in all what's that messages and what's app is the largest sort of messaging Platform in the world. So that brings end-to-end encryption by default to hundreds of millions of people and I think that's kind of 1.1 billion people 1 billion dollars. So I think that's a pretty big deal. It's a big win So last year let's encrypt was just in beta and this year. It's you know, it's everywhere I mean in the developer community at least and I'm using in production now and It's I was sick of paying for certificates every year and everything. So thank you for that What's what are the next steps for let's encrypt and how do we get it kind of everywhere? I might that the default for everyone from the WordPress guy all the way to the back-end server admin So one thing that either just happened or it's about to happen is that the let's encrypt root certificate is going into the Mozilla trust store, which is pretty awesome and then Let's see. We're working on new challenge techniques or new challenge protocols And we're just gonna keep pushing it out. I Mean it at some level. It's just just it'll just keep being adopted people keep using it It I think third, but I also think it depends on how you measure So Yeah, I mean just keep telling everyone to use it basically it Hi guys So I have two questions. You probably know that the FF is a big player nowadays and a lot of people use your Extensions and let's encrypt. So the first question is can the FF be in any way forced to cooperate with your favorite three letter agencies? The first question the second is if that happens What kind of safeguards and ways you have to notify users that this is happening some kind of kills which may be for add-ons or something like that? So we have not received any national security letters Nor any orders to modify our code so we can put that out there for now And that's question again next year through happens But I think that you know this would be something that Of course, we would fight we believe very strongly That the government should not be able to force a back door that one of the core issues that EFF has been working on for most of its existence since the 90s is the notion that code is speech that you have First amendment rights to publish code and that if the government is going to come along and tell us what kind of Code we have to publish that would violate our rights We also think they don't have the statutory authority to to tell us what to put in our code, but even if they Did have a statute that that statute would be Unconstitutional and I think that the second way that there's some some assurance is that we put our source code out there I think Jeremy could you yeah? I was gonna say that the other addition is all of our extensions as well as let's encrypt are all open Cert bot are all open source so you can check the source you can compile it yourself if you don't want to you know Trust the distribution channel And then the other thing is also just by default. We don't really collect any data HTTPS everywhere if you turn off the SSL observatory Doesn't send anything back to us whatsoever Privacy Badger doesn't send anything back to us. I think maybe like crash reporting or something like that if you turn it on So we don't have much to give the feds even if they you know came to us, which is of course by design Also, we're a hard target. Yeah They would they would have to have some brass To think that we were going to backdoor anything Similar to what we've heard before thank you guys so much for everything that you do It makes us able to as a pen tester and I'm sure as many other people here Thank you makes us able to do what we do We also you mentioned earlier the signal protocol, which has been incredibly successful with its integration in several different apps Including WhatsApp is EFF doing anything to help either from the technical side Help develop it or from the legal side make it more available and make it easier for people in maybe other countries to access it crypto export plug Well, I was gonna say so one thing we are working on some of you may be familiar We had this secure messaging scorecard up for a while We're working on a revamp of it and really the main focus of that is to encourage developers to Basically adopt better protocols better tools better designs for secure messaging And so watch I would say watch this space That's gonna come up again soon and we'll be rating not so much rating, but basically, you know listing, you know, which Tools we think are secure which ones we would say avoid at all costs And so that's part of it. I don't know if you teach you one or Just one quick preview of the revamp secure messaging scorecard There is no such thing as a completely secure tool There is nothing that will be in our top tier of this thing is perfect Sort of nothing is getting five stars everybody has room to improve there's lots of ways to go and We're hoping we're going to see a whole lot more integration of end-to-end encryption in secure messaging tools in the future To answer your question we promote some tools on our surveillance of the fence one of those is signal And we do and even as a lot of security trainer To potential trainers in developing countries and around the world We just finish a tour in Mexico through all the country and so we do a lot of that Our guy is in several languages And we are also looking to translate it to more I also want to thank you very much for all your work that you're doing including net neutrality My question is about net neutrality. It seems a certain mobile carriers are getting away with Getting around that neutrality by zero rating certain streaming providers What are the F are the EFF thoughts on like white listing only particular websites like like streaming sites so We definitely have Zero ratings complicated right because on the one hand, it's very easy to say Well, I mean and there's there's reasons to say like it can be useful in certain scenarios and make it a lot easier To access the web for people at the same time. It's really easy to make it into a tool that distorts Competition and really makes it hard, you know, it can almost be a form of censorship in some sense One thing that we are I mean, so we are keeping an eye on Zero rating if you saw our blog post at the very beginning of the year that got the T-Mobile CEO Cursing at me via Twitter So and we're continuing to look at that I Don't know. I mean and we don't at the at the moment have any like big complaints or anything Plan But we are sort of staying on the topic keeping an eye on things and so we're it's on our radar And we're following the FCC enforcement actions pretty closely Thank you Let's let's encrypt presents obvious threat to the incumbent industry. What do you what does the EFF? See is the future of for-profits of authorities and what do you think they should do to stay relevant if anything? Okay Well, so so so one big thing that let's encrypt doesn't do is it doesn't do extended validation. It's only domain validation So it is really just it's just authenticating that you control the domain.  That's the biggest one I Mean in some sense, you know, I mean part of it too is just we wanted to get really hit that long low tail You know, I don't think you know Bank of America or whoever else is gonna switch to a let's encrypt certificate Just because they really like that extra little green bar in the in the URL bar, so Thank you my question is regarding the root cause for a canary watch being abandoned and What the best direction forward is for national security letters? Well, thank you. So I worked on the the canary watch project and I work also on our national security letter cases So with canary watch You know, we had a lot of ambitions for for the site we wanted to have something that would list out what various canaries were have Automated checking to see if there are any diffs and then It ended up having a lot of false positives that were just because of like the URL change or the format change or something about it Change that wasn't a meaningful one There were also a couple of instances in which people just didn't update things in a timely manner But then they then they did and so it was a sort of human error false positive So it was not really being effective at sort of the the the concept Actually think that that for People who want to be transparent who want to be able to to say that you know, they have not received a national security letter That regularly issued transparency reports where you list everything you put the subpoenas the warrants What it whatever is you might be getting, you know, and you would say national security letter zero Fires a court order zero And you issue those just as many companies do you know going all the way up to giant telecoms and internet companies regularly issue those And then every you know say six months, you know you issue a new one And in each one you say the most that you're allowed to by law So if it's zero you can say zero if you receive one you might not be able to say anything at all but in all cases you just do the most that you can allowed by law and Also, if you get that NSL in the meantime Reach out to EFF because we want to work on that. We are already litigating On behalf of two companies that have received national security letters We're challenging the constitutionality of the letters that they're gag orders That is going up to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals right now and we're Well, we think that they are a tremendous constitutional problem Do these letters are going out without court involvement having a gag order that only has court involvement on the back end after you complain about it And it doesn't comply with the First Amendment. So that's what we do about NSL We need to get NSLs found unconstitutional and stopped You can send your email to info at EFF.org All right, thank you And we have two minutes. So this may be our Want to thank all the good work you guys do and I've donated to you in the past. Thank you But having said that I don't actually follow you guys that closely But I do have a question you guys are rooted in you know the Western You know legal systems in Europe in the United States But what about areas of the world in particular China and Russia where the legal systems are you know not as The same basically and do you have partners? What what what kind of work have you done in those areas? And that's pretty important because they're like 300 million people now in those areas Yeah, that actually has an extensive international team. The internet is global and so are the problems on it and Some of what we do is Is policy work? Obviously, we don't do impact litigation outside of the United States because this would require us to have a lawyer from every country and That's more staff than we actually have at all of EFF but what we do is We do trainings. We provide all kinds of technical advice We have a project called surveillance self-defense which you can find at ssd.eff.org Which is translated into eight languages Including Russian if I remember correctly That gives you all kinds of a technical advice on how to keep yourself safe Especially in situations where you do not trust the government Basically, if you don't trust the government encrypt everything And we do policy work. Yeah, and we do policy work We we usually because we cannot have lawyers in each country. We work with lawyers in each country To fight draconian surveillance law we chair knowledge on the topics But we also use international human rights law in order to defeat those bills that are in Congress Because in many countries outside the United States, especially developing countries and the European Union the European Court of Human Rights or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Really, you have a little teeth and you can sue That the country is violating international human rights law. It's not as powerful as the other kind of litigation But we can do we can testify we can use those to defeat laws Alrighty, so I unfortunately we're out of time now But before we finish up, I just want to do a little public shaming. How many of you are EFF members who have renewed in the last year? Okay, great. So for those of you who don't know We are not as big as you might think we're a group of you know 70 employees who make all the amazing things you know EFF does happen and we are a member supported nonprofit So please stop by one of the booths get an awesome Def Con t-shirt And so that we can keep doing the awesome work. We're doing And we're in the vendors room in the contest room and stick around Because Nate is going to give an awesome talk about the state of the law with respect to crypto So thanks everybody for coming. Thank you


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Hi everyone, my name is Ketan Date and I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the department of industrial enterprise systems engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Today I'm going to talk about our research project titled Collaborative CPU plus GPU algorithms for triangle counting and trusty composition. This project was done in response to the Amazon DARPA IEEE graph challenge that was hosted recently by MIT Lincoln Labs. This project was a collaborative effort between the faculty and students from the department of industrial engineering and the center for cognitive computing systems research that is C3SR in the department of electrical and computer engineering at UIUC with support from the Watson Research Center at IBM. The team members in this project including myself are Professor Rakesh Nagi from ISC, Kevin Fang, Professor Wenmei Hu, Professor Namson came from ECE and Jinjun Zhuang from IBM. The objective of this competition was to design algorithms which can perform triangle counting and trusty composition in large graphs or networks. Triangles and trusses represent the most fundamental substructures in a network. A triangle is defined as a cycle of length 3 while a truss is defined as a non-trivial subgraph in which each edge is connected to at least k-2 triangles. Triangle counting task is to count all the triangles in the given network while trusty composition task is to find all k-3's for k-2. Both tasks are extremely important in graph analytics for calculating various metrics that describe community structure in the given network. Our solution for this competition was to design collaborative algorithms that use both CPU and GPU threads for triangle counting and trusty composition specifically targeted for the IBM Minsky platform. Through this project, we also benchmarked and compared the performance of two-memory management schemes, zero-copy memory and CUDA unified memory. We used the Minsky machine that was given to the C3SR group by IBM. It contains two Power8 CPUs with 80 cores each and four NVIDIA Tesla P100 accelerators built on the Pascal architecture and connected by the N-Willing Interconnect. This evolutionary architecture makes Minsky extremely amenable for big data analytics. We tested our collaborative algorithms on various networks and compared the performance with the baseline sequential implementation provided by the graph challenge organizers. We found that the collaborative algorithms achieved 28x speed up on average for triangle counting and 165x speed up on average for trusty composition. We also found that zero-copy memory management scheme is on average three to four times faster than the unified memory management scheme. Our paper received an honorable mention amongst the graph challenge competition participants. Future directions of research are to solve larger problems by applying graph partitioning approaches and optimizing the memory access part patterns for these two algorithms.


Hey you guys, welcome back to the vlog. So today I'm going to update all of you on our whole COVID situation. Yes, we are home with COVID for the next two weeks. So if you want to skip all of the COVID stuff and just hang out with me today at home, you can skip on over to like 12 o'clock, 12 minutes, 13 minutes in this video and it will skip right on over to the whole day in the life portion. I am at home and it is because we have COVID in our house. I'll just say it, announce it from the rooftops. Somebody in this home has the Rona. And I'm gonna give you guys a quick walkthrough of how everything happened.  So I'm gonna kind of talk you guys through this while I prepare my pumpkin or my pepkin, my peppermint mocha from home, which is just never the same, but you know, we do what we can. Okay, so let's rewind to last week. So I have my calendar here because it all happened so quickly, but it's all based on a timeline. Everything with COVID is all based on a timeline. How many days this, how many days that? And so I'm just gonna kind of do my best to explain how everything happened in days. So last, not last Friday, the Friday before last, November 20th, we got a text message from our son's daycare director telling us that one of the teachers had tested positive for COVID. Her last day of school was Monday the 16th. So she had been out from the 16th all the way to the 20th. Her last day of school with students was 16th. She was sent home with symptoms, tested positive. We found out Friday, the 20th, one teacher. After we found that out, we then found out that a few other teachers were out sick with symptoms and we're gonna be tested and we would find out in the next few days how many of them would come back positive. So on Friday, the 20th, Scott and I kind of talked about, okay, well, are we gonna still go to Prescott and be with my family for Thanksgiving? They're kind of older. Yes, they're healthy, but do we want to chance taking cash up there and something happens? So we decided that kind of weekend of the 20th, 21st, that we probably weren't gonna be going to Prescott for Thanksgiving, that we would just kind of see how things go. So Scott and I both went to work on the 23rd and 24th, that was Monday, Tuesday. On Tuesday, we found out that five more teachers tested positive from Cache's school. So, luckily for me and for Scott, our last day of work was that Tuesday, the 24th, we did not have to report to work Wednesday. So we decided to keep Cache home from school that Wednesday and we decided to go ahead and self-isolate. Just because we're both public service workers and at school, if I'm exposed to somebody, technically I'm supposed to report that and then I'm supposed to wait a few days, get tested, report the results. If everything's good, I go back to work. If not, here we are. So Wednesday, we did not go anywhere. We kind of started self-isolating that Tuesday night. So we decided we're not gonna go anywhere. We're not gonna see anyone. We're gonna stay home. If we do have to pick up groceries, we'll do the fries pick up so that we can just drive up and pick it up. We'll do door dash if we wanna order out. We're gonna stay home. Plain and simple. We wanted to be responsible. So Thursday was Thanksgiving. We self-isolated. It was just the three of us. You guys saw on Instagram, we didn't go anywhere. We didn't see anyone. The only people that we did see were our next door neighbors because we see them almost every day. And then we also saw Brittany who works with Scott who if you guys follow us on our family channel, you guys know who Brittany is. Brittany and Ashley came over Thanksgiving evening because Scott works with Brittany. They share a car sometimes and we figured we'd already been in contact with them. So we asked them if they felt comfortable, they did. And so we saw our neighbors and Brittany and Ashley. Friday morning, we woke up kind of sniffily, a little bit runny nose. Could have been anything. Could have been the change of the weather. It's now cold here. So it's kind of not as normal for us to start feeling like sniffly and sorry, I have a hair. Sniffly and runny nosey and things like that. Allergy season kind of deal. But Scott started coughing, which is not normal for like allergies. Saturday morning, we woke up, we felt worse. So we decided to go get some tests done. So we went to our local testing site, got the quick little nose swab. By the way, it did not hurt that bad. I think that the technology has changed a bit. They didn't go all the way up into our brains. They just kind of swabbed around right up in here and it was totally fine. It didn't hurt at all. We did not have cash tested because they said, one, he's pretty young, two, he'll probably hate me. And three, if the two of you have it, he has to stay home anyway. So we figured we'll just wait, not have him tested unless he starts having severe symptoms and then we'll talk. So Saturday we got tested, our results came Monday. Saturday I texted my principal and all my other administrators, let them know what was going on. I put in for a sub for Monday, Tuesday because the tests were gonna take like three to five days. So Monday, we actually got our test results. Scott came back positive, I came back negative. So because we live in the same household and we've been in contact, I have to isolate while he quarantines. So however long he quarantines, I have to isolate. Basically for 14 days. Which coincidentally is the rest of the school period before winter break. We literally only had two weeks left. Then we have a three week winter break. So I am literally missing the last two weeks of school with my students until January.  So anyway, how are we feeling? I'm feeling fine. I have a little bit of a runny nose, a little congestion, basically like allergies like we mentioned, the whole change of the season. That's probably what I'm going through. But Scott, on the other hand, he's not miserable. He's coughing a little bit. It's not like constant coughing though. Like he only coughs like, I don't know, maybe once an hour, every couple of hours. Like he's not hacking. He does have some chest congestion. He says that's his worst symptom. He had a really bad fever Saturday, see. Saturday night through Sunday. He had a fever. No, sorry, yes, no. Saturday or Sunday? I don't remember. It was either Saturday night or Sunday. Maybe Sunday night and Monday morning. He did have a fever, it did spike at 103. We took Tylenol, we did Popsicles, we did the whole cold on the head. Got it all dealt with. And so we have been home in isolation for now seven days since the Wednesday before Thanksgiving all the way till now. And so we do have, I have to stay home until December. I think ninth is possibly the day they'll let me come back. But that would give me two days left of the grading period. So I don't think they're gonna let me come back before then. I think she said I'm out the rest of the year but my absence is only marked until the ninth, which is great. So that would be cool if I could go those last two days before winter break. Scott's department is very different. They will allow someone to come back as long as they've been symptom-free for three days, which to me is weird. But police department different. We're not dealing with children. We're not dealing with the school district. So I don't know, very different. Both of us had to fill out some forms that proved that we had to send our test results in and we had to say that yes, we were either positive with it or yes, I'm exposed, directly exposed to someone who has it so that they could instate our coronavirus safety, whatever it's called. Basically saying that neither of us are going to be deducted pay for this extended period of time. My sick days will be used and then reimbursed. What, baby? You want more yogurt? All I have is cherry. All I have is cherry. And so that is really nice. My big question is, if our school system can reimburse me for having COVID, why can't they reimburse me for having a baby? I just don't understand the whole logic. It is what it is. I'm glad I'm gonna be getting paid through this whole thing.  Yes, baby. I'll find out. So anyway, 10 minutes of me rambling about coronavirus, I'm over it. So our neighbors have been super amazing. They've delivered us groceries. They've delivered us items. Vanessa, my friend here on Instagram and YouTube and in real life, Vanessa and Nicole both have been so amazing. Vanessa brought me some little activity books for cash. They're like the little dry erase books that he can trace letters and stuff with because we want to still engage him in learning while he's not in school. And so all of our friends have been amazing. Our family, same thing, but we're not allowing them to come see us, none of that. We are self-isolating. Everything is exchanged at the front door so people just leave things and then we grab them. What baby? Daddy's still sick? Yeah. And I am still working. So every day I do get onto Google Meet in the morning with my students. So the first 10 minutes of the class period, I do log in and I just talk to them. I talk them through the instructions for the day. If they have any questions or need any help, they stay on, I stay on. And then I am still sending, preparing and getting lesson plans sent out to my teammates. They print them for the sub. My students are going on a virtual field trip tomorrow. So I need to get that all set up. I'm also going to be joining my team for their meeting today at 11.40, 11.08, 11.08. So in about an hour. And then I will also be in my PLC group today. So everything will be virtual. I will still be participating. And that is partly why they are reimbursing me for my sick dates because I am still working from home. No, I'm not in the classroom teaching full-blown lessons, but there is a substitute that I'm providing lessons for. So it would be different if I was like, okay, just use my emergency plans. I'm out for two weeks. Don't talk to me. That would be different, but I am still actively working. So I think that that's really lovely. And I'm very fortunate to be able to do that. I have my own office here. I have computers. I have iPads. I have anything I would basically need for teaching from home. So I'm going to do it. I also don't feel that it's right to just be like, okay, peace out kids. Like I'll see you later. That's just not in my, I can't physically do that. So I do see my kids every day. I talk to them, they email me. We're on Google Hangouts. I Google meet with them. And so let's see how this pepper and mocha tastes, by the way. Which one? One, two, three or four? Which one? One, two, three or four? You watched number one yesterday. Do you need to go pee? Cash isn't mad about being home all day, are you? Number three? Okay, deal. We usually watch TV in the mornings. And then around lunchtime, we do something outside. We get him working on these little activity books. These are super awesome. They're just from Target. Vanessa brought these over. I Venmoed her, but she brought these over. They're just little like dry erase activity books. So this is the alphabet one. He just traces the words or the letters. And then this one's cool. It's tracing. So these are like lines and shapes and then some sorting activities. So this one was really funny. He tried to draw an X around things that have two legs. Kind of funny. But we do something of this nature at some point in the day. And then we make sure the TV is off by seven o'clock. So TV, technology, iPads, all that stuff is off by 10 or 7 p.m. So that we can actually get him to bed at a decent time. As you guys can see, we have decorated for Christmas. So that was kind of something we did on Thanksgiving to kind of boost our morale. And so we did decorate for Christmas.  So we just have, you know, stuff everywhere. Clean laundry. You should see our bedroom. Coming in. How are you feeling? You feel better this morning or worse? Same? Yeah, mornings are the worst. That's normal. Ramps in random places. Guys, look at our bedroom. I'm talking to the vlog. I know this one's going on apples and TRs, but I might just post it on both channels. Why not? You know, hi. Hi, sticky pants. So we did transition our bedroom. We moved all of my office stuff out of here. And so now we're just kind of, we need to clean up. I'll show you guys the office though, because it's kind of like my newest project, the office, and then we will fix up the bedroom. Let's just go through here. We had a ton of boxes here a couple of days ago, but we did dump them. So this is my new office. It is a pigsty. I got my new gaming computer in my PC so that I can play Sims and be happy. Wow, I just sounded so materialistic. No, I did get a new PC. It is for gaming.  I play the Sims very avidly and I like to build and create beautiful houses on the Sims. And so I will put all my Sims information in a different video, but I am gaming a lot more now. So I do have some like cool gear I need to set up. I did order a desk. It should be here next week sometime. And I have plans for decorating this room, but we moved all of the gym into the garage, which I'm not gonna show you right now because I am gonna do a workout today, I think, at some point until I'll show you then. But our house is a mess and it's just how it is. This is where Scott parks for the day when he gets up. So, you know, messy. Hi doggies. How do you guys feel about having mom and dad home all day every day, huh? You love it?  You don't care. Cash, do you like being home with mommy and daddy all day? Do you miss going to school? Yes. You miss Tina? Yeah. Yeah, do you wanna go back to school? Yeah. Yeah, we can go maybe next week, okay? Okay. We just keep telling him, mommy and daddy, we're all sick. So we can't play with other people. We can't see other people, right? We can't see Ronan, right? Why not?  So just as we suspected, this guy brought it home with him. That's okay though, we forgive you. We're just glad he's not sick. Okay, I'm gonna drink my peppermint mocha. I'm gonna go get on my computer and start making some subplans as soon as Scott gets up and out here so that he can watch Cash while I work. And we'll probably make some breakfast. Baby wants some eggs. You, I know you don't want eggs. Does daddy want eggs? Yeah. You want four eggs? The biggest decision that you'll make this whole week in isolation, you guys, is what you're going to eat. It's the worst decision, the hardest one. It's tough to choose what you want to eat. Do you want three eggs or four eggs? No, just three eggs in oatmeal. Yeah, that's my thing. No green eggs in ham? I do not like green eggs in ham. Oh, would you like them in a car? I do not want them in a car. Would you like five guys in a car? I do like five guys, but I do not want them in a car. You want them in your mouth? And all over my face. Five guys? I'm glad if I had to be stuck in a house. It's with you.  Those of you who are moms and wives, you understand my fear, right? You understand. No offense to all you men out there. But men are babies when they're sick. No, but not. I told this one he wasn't allowed to be a baby. I said, you've got one day, right? Let me work out. No, you can't work out. Stupid. You can work out, but you can only do one work out for every, like, hour.  Can't go to the gym. Can't see my friends. Jack says, what am I? Chopped liver. Well, Jack and I, we see each other. So I'm going to go make breakfast. I was getting old. Baby, when I'm done cooking, will you come out and hang with dude so I can do some work? I don't have any dudes here, but I know a cash. That's perfect. Mommy! I'm coming, Betty. Yes, you should have been there. What? There's your chair. My chair. Oh, thank you. Okay. Things I want to get done today are, one, clean the house. Two, work out. You can keep it. You're going to take the chair back to my office? Okay. Watch where you're walking. You're going to step on some stuff. You farted? Yes. Oh, okay. Thank you for that. You are so strong. You are so strong. Hey, you know what? Maybe later, while mommy works in the office, you can sit in the chair and watch something. Put it over by mommy's guitar. Did you see mommy's guitar? Yeah. Right here. Put it right here. Bring it right here. Can you get over that little hump? Oh, got it. You're okay. Right there. Right there. Right. Wow, you're efficient. Thank you. Alice, no, no. Don't hit her. You just tell her no. Okay, guys. So I'm going to make the man some breakfast. And I should probably eat some breakfast, too. Eggs, oatmeal. I'll probably have cottage cheese. We are both feeling very grateful that this all happened now, rather than at Christmas time and or before our trip. So Scott and I's anniversary is actually next weekend and we're going on an anniversary trip to Sedona. So we're actually really fortunate that this happened before our trip to Sedona because that would have had it been canceled. And that would have been really sad. So I ordered my homeroom students pizza today because they earned their 20 class points and 20 class points equals a prize and they chose a pizza day. So I have DoorDash ordered pizza for my students and I just let like our office staff know that it would be coming and to just take it upstairs for them. So they are in for a little surprise. They probably figured, well, she's not coming to school so she's not going to do pizza day. But I make things happen. Just like I'm making these eggs cook up very slowly. You feeling good? Aiden, I'm talking to you. How are you feeling today? Good? Yeah, you gotta take your headphones out. What's up, Cam? Camden. Camden. Camden. Utter failure. Utter failure. Jacob. Then Haley. Then Mackenzie. Got my first Starbucks. That was a good choice. Everybody, Mackenzie got her first Starbucks. Mackenzie got her first Starbucks. Someone's echoing. Okay, go ahead. What type of pizza did you get? I got two pepperoni and two cheese. Okay, because I don't like cheese. Yeah, you can just peel it right off. I got two pepperoni, two cheese. Both of them are from Little Caesars. Okay, guys. So I just got done meeting with my teammates via Google Meet. I also met with my students during their lunchtime, which I loved. It was really nice to see their faces. And so now I'm just kind of doing some work at my desk. I'm getting plans ready for tomorrow for my sub. Tomorrow is a big day because we have a virtual field trip that my sub has to have set up for me. So it's going to be a little weird, but I am getting that set up.  And then we have some weird scheduling things for next week. So I think I'm going to try to get a head start on plans for next week as well. And fingers crossed, hopefully everything will go well. So I have a lot of things to do today. Luckily though, cash has been very easy to deal with. Because this is how daddy's babysit. I'm just saying this is how dads do their babysitting. He's alive. He hasn't moved since nine o'clock this morning. He's alive. He is alive. Hi, buddy. It's bad. You drink water? Good job. We went pee. I think I'm doing a pretty damn good job. Yeah. I have to still do some more work. Ever watching Toy Story. And I also have a PLC meeting at three, three o'clock I think? I really have to work out of that one. So I'm going to get to work. Okay, friends. So it is now lunch time. I am cooking or heating up some beef stew that I made the other day. I need to stir it. The boys have eaten lunch. Have you eaten lunch, babe? Do you want some beef stew? Okay, I'm heating up beef stew. Cash has eaten lunch. Scott has not. I might just put this on the stove. I just got done typing up all my plans for tomorrow. Friday is easy because their kids are taking a school city test. So I need to make a pump-up video for them to watch first. Or I will Google Meet with them first. And just like I explained, you need to take your time. Like this test is important. Don't just guess. Don't be done in five minutes. I can tell how long you took, all that whole spiel. And then I can start plans for next week. Next week is going to be pretty simple. I have quite a few students that are done with their reports, their projects. I'm going to just give them some activities to do on their own. Kind of like some fun review games and stuff like that. And then that's it. So I do have a PLC at 3 o'clock today. So I think I'm going to take a break from work until then. Cash is going to take a nap at like 1.30. Maybe I'll play The Sims. I don't know. We'll see. Okay guys. So I just finished my workout. I didn't film any of it because I was FaceTiming Nicole and Vanessa, my workout buddies, while we were working out. So I did not get any of it. But here is the gym. I did chest biceps and triceps today. So just upper body.  We're taking all the tiny organisms in our house for a walk. Cash is insisting on walking Jack, but is getting mad when he pulls him. Scott's got Alice. And we're looking at Christmas lights. Oh yeah, I got Peepers. Yeah, let's have to go. Oh man. Alice, Peep, come on. Oh, it's moving. We have to pick that up. Give me the baggie. Give me the bag. Give mom the bag. Here, let me have a bag.  We try to do this every day, every night when there's not a lot of people out. Because Scott can walk without interacting with it. Look at all the lights. Come on. Hey, you guys. So I just realized that I did not close the vlog from yesterday. So it is now Thursday and I am just getting cash situated. He's playing games. I just finished a whole bunch of work.  I did a bunch of planning for my sub for tomorrow. And now I'm going to finish my protein coffee and go outside and play with the boys.  I would like to do another day in a life of a quarantined teacher. We will see. All right, guys. We'll see you in the next one. Cheers.


Christmas is coming and this is one of the best times of the year to make as much profits as possible as dropshippers and eBay sellers. In this video I want to show you the top five tips that I would recommend you to do to maximize your profits during this amazing time of the year. Hello everybody! So the first thing that I would recommend you to do is to go to your suppliers and first let's start with what products should you find and which type of products should you sell during this type of time of the year and what you should do after that. So the first thing that I would do I would go to any supplier. It's very important that the supplier will have fast shipping time in the United States because they don't have enough time to send these products from China. So I opened here three types of different dropshipping sites, China Brands, Costway and us.bengood.com. So let's start with Costway. If I go to Costway it's very easy to find here the dropshipping products for Christmas. You can just go to their site and here you will see the Christmas products. They just advertise it here. It's very easy to find it. So what I would do I would go and open the first page here and then I would just start and list everything from here. In the next tips I will show you how to maximize the profits and what to do exactly when you list the products from here. But let's see. So I will go here and take any products from here. Mostly here it's a Christmas tree. But that's not all. Start and open your mind. Search on Google for gifts. Just write a gift for women, gift for men. Everything like this on Google and you will get a lot of different ideas of what you can sell for Christmas because usually people give gifts during the Christmas and presents and this why I recommend you not only sell things that are directly connected to Christmas like Christmas trees but also gifts. So if I go to Banggood for example I can also write here Christmas. It's really easy and if I just write here Christmas I will find tons of tons of different products. It's very important if you do it from Banggood go to us.banggood.com so you will find only the products that are located in the United States warehouses of Banggood. This way you can make sure that it will arrive before the Christmas and soon I will also show you how to make sure even more so your clients will not be confused and will not be upset if something not arrived to them. So here we can see tons of different products. You can see that most of them are with reviews. You can sort it also by most reviews and then you can just use the Autodesk Helper, grab all of the page and list all of these products by bulk upload. So you can really maximize this time of day. I really recommend you to list now as much as possible products that are related to Christmas to maximize your profit. The second tip here is about branding. So let's say that we found any product and it doesn't matter let me take any product from here for example this one. I'll copy the link. Go to Autodesk. Here I will choose Costway US and it's very important choose Christmas template. Now when you choose Christmas template for Costway for example we have 60 days of turns which will give us a huge advantage over our competitors so I will choose the 60 days of turns template and click grab details. Autodesk will grab all of the details for me. Let's wait a second. For the title I would add also hot for 2020 just for the optimization and I will go down here and I will do here some endorsing things. The first thing that I would do is I would go here and add under the tag we have the tag field for Autodesk I would write here Christmas. Why? Because this way I can after that find easily the products that I uploaded that are related only to Christmas and then I can easily remove these products. Now after I list the product from here it's not enough to really brand my store and show people that this is a store for Christmas. So I recommended to go to YouTube write how to increase our eBay sales or just branding strategy Autodesk and you will find this video. In this video I'm explaining how to do the exact branding for your eBay store. Now during this Christmas I recommended to go and take this video follow the instructions there but make sure that you are branding your store for the Christmas after that you will brand it again for the new year. So here I would write things like Christmas related store put here something for Christmas put here a background for Christmas really make the buyer feel that your store is store for Christmas that here arrived to the right place to buy products specifically for Christmas it will increase your conversion rates but conversion rate but by a lot of percent and this is really highly recommended it will take you around 10 minutes maybe to do this maybe even less and it will make the huge difference for you. The next thing that I recommended to do this is actually the fourth tip the first one was about the Christmas product second one is about the branding and template and the third one was about the tag remember the tag is really really really important now what I recommend you also to do is to go to our uploader or in any monitor that you are using click on the edit template then here find the Christmas template click on the source and here what I recommend you to do is to add here a small note of may arrive after the Christmas now why do this I am doing this not because it's something that is must by Christmas but because I don't want people to buy and then be upset about me so it's better to lose some sales because the sales will still be huge but write this here and people will know that this product may arrive after the Christmas now when I recommended to do this I recommended to start doing this after the 18th of December because this is when the shipping may be arrived delayed so if you add this you will be covered it will be easier for you to solve cases after the Christmas and this is really huge tip if you already uploaded products without this and then you want to edit them you can just go to the active listings make a filter by the tag that we just created so if you go to the filters go here under the tag find the Christmas tag that you just created then go to bulk change click apply to all listings and just change the template here to the new template that you created this is something that is critical will save you a lot of headache after the Christmas and in the new year the next thing that I recommended to do and this is my fifth tip after the Christmas sorry not after but before the Christmas on around the 21st of this month of December I recommended to go and remove the Christmas products now don't remove the gifts because the gifts can continue sending even after the Christmas but things that are really related to Christmas like Christmas trips a Christmas trees I recommend you to remove them from your ebay store but here is a big a big big big tip and this is really important when you remove the things that like Christmas trees it can halt your store because you will remove a big amount of products in one time so what I recommend you to do if you remove 100 products go and list immediately the next 100 products instead of them search for products that are related to the new year seasonable products like things for the winter things that people will buy after the Christmas think about this and list these niches I really recommend you and this is really from all of our experience we saw that if someone removes big amount of products and doesn't list new products instead of these products ebay will decrease his visibility if you will immediately list the same amount of products that you just removed your visibility will stay the same and even will get higher because it's a new product in your ebay store I hope that this video helps you don't forget to click on the like button subscribe to this youtube channel because we release a lot of videos with high high high value for you that will really help with your dropshipping business see you on the next videos for any question I'm here in the comments just ask everything that you want and I promise you that personally I will go and answer all of your questions see you on the next videos bye bye


Welcome to ebay life the podcast your one-stop shop for all things ebay my name is Carl and I'm an ebay seller reseller just like you like you I know the ups and downs of ebay and I'm here to share my thoughts and experiences and advice with you in this podcast we'll dive into the world of ebay reselling exploring the joys and challenges and everything in between along the way we'll chat about sourcing listing handling customers and everything else that goes into running a successful ebay business whether you're a seasoned reseller or just starting out I hope to help you remember you're not alone and maybe help you get through another day in the world of reselling so grab your favorite beverage and settle in for a relaxed and informal discussion about all things ebay we'll take this reselling journey together and uncover the secrets to success in this exciting and ever-changing marketplace being as this is the first episode I think it's probably best if I was to give you a little bit of background into myself I know we all have our own journeys of how we've reached this point in our lives of being on ebay selling on ebay and trying to make some money on ebay for me it started about four years ago I pretty much got to the end of the journey that I've been taking in my career and well I got made redundant and was at a point where I was kind of sick and tired of working for the band working for the corporation and just had enough of the whole damn thing to be honest and for me I wanted to do something for me I wanted to create something for me that I could be proud of and that could support me and give me the freedom of not sitting on that hamster wheel every damn day now for me I knew very little about ebay other than obviously what it was yes it had fixed price items and auctions and you could make a bit of money on things you don't want but as a business I knew nothing about business I had to teach everything to myself learn it find it look for the all the hints and tips and tricks and they don't come easy so if you're about to start this journey don't think it's gonna be easy it's not you're not gonna make an overnight success you're not gonna be rich within three months it's just not gonna happen it's a difficult stressful and sometimes downright lonely life but it has so many rewarding aspects to it that you I wouldn't choose any other career now that I'm four years in still struggling like many of you out there still but the freedom of just being able to work when I want even though yes you work longer hours I mean don't kid yourself for that even if you're part-time around your family and your normal job you'll be putting in a lot of hours early morning starts late-night finishes over the last four years I have lost count of the amount of times I've been up until three or four o'clock in the morning listing creating photos tweaking optimizing researching is it can be exhausting and the problem with it as well as you can lose track of where you're going and what you're doing on a daily basis if you don't structure your journey so as I say for me I started shortly after I became redundant obviously I signed on and then you go into this rabbit-hutch chicken coop type system of sitting down and trying to justify what you do every day looking for work and just so you can get a minimal benefit that you've already paid into for 40 50 years of your life and you still have to justify it and wasn't for me it just wasn't for me so I took the journey on to eBay I started researching looking at it and deciding what was the best platform I looked at Amazon that was not for me it might be for you but it wasn't for me eBay was the platform I wanted to sell on work on and build my future on so like many I started off by selling things from around the home sourcing things from local secondhand stores and what you call in America thrift stores or as close as we have but it's a lot more difficult for us in the UK than it is for the US I can tell you that for sure you can't get the sort of bargains you get there we can't get bargains but nothing like you can get you have yard sales garage sales we don't get those you get car boots over here which is basically stalls set up at the back of your car in a rows and rows of other cars and they'll either be on a field or in a car park and the thing is most of the people they already know what the value of their products are and you're not going to find cheap cheap things or at least not the sort of things that you want to be selling on eBay as a whole but there are those out there that do make it work I won't take that away from them they do but it was the car boot aspect wasn't for me to be fair and the thrift stores or second hand stores they're a struggle but you can find some lower priced items in there and you can make a small profit off of them but for me it was looking for the right business plan to move forward and it would have helped if eBay was more I don't know what the word for it is but supportive as far as the way they are on the way they work as a platform because that they're really not simple they're not simple at all I mean you get vague instructions of what you should or shouldn't do but they leave it so vague and so open and so cryptic so that they've always got to get out of jail free card but you never really know what the heck you're doing until you do something wrong but they're very quick to let you know when you have done something wrong but then they're always not necessarily forward in telling you precisely what it is you did wrong so you kind of have to sort of make a a quick detour side turn on what you've been doing and try a different approach and then you find yourself moving on to things like YouTube for advice and then you find other channels like this one to just help you along your journey and find the right answers to the questions that eBay should be supplying it can be so destroying to be honest I mean unless you're in a either a relationship or a partnership with someone that has some experience or is as dedicated to it as you are and if you have that sort of connection your leaps and bounds ahead of the place where I am I mean I have a loving partner I can't knock that door she's amazing she supported me throughout the last four years trying to build this business up but the actual business itself learning how to do it I've had to do that myself and it's a struggle you lose sight of friends social life because you find if you're not careful you can't not be working you have to be working there's stuff you have to get on on onto the platform you've got to get listed you can't not get these tasks done and then when things do go wrong or if you do have a struggling day or a very exhausting day who do you share it with or if you have a good time good day even you can go oh yeah look we've had loads of sales today great and then that's it you're moving on to the next conversation whereas if you've got a community of sellers a community of other eBay sellers you can share stories and that's the purpose of channels like this and many others that are on YouTube we may just be voices at the other end of a click on a keypad but we are real people too we're all real people we all have experiences we all have emotions and stresses and challenges that we all face on a daily basis I want you to know you're not alone all here together we're all aiming for the same goal aiming for the same I wouldn't say trophy but we all want to get to a point where our business is smoothly running as it can be there are always going to be challenges there's always going to be curveballs there's always going to be readjust your business plan and your your model of of how you work and as we can see even on the platform even when you think you've got it right and even when you are going on the right direction and it's been working smoothly they can pull the rug from under you they can throw your curveball and you're like oh what I mean what do you do you know I mean who do you who do you you just want to scream on the inside I know I know this isn't a very positive sounding start to the first podcast but that is the point of this podcast is it's not our normal content it's not the the high octane or the highly entertaining or the informative on the levels of visual graphics and text and things but this is the raw hard truth this is how life is you know I mean if we're not creating listings sourcing stock shipping items dealing with customer queries working out profits and taxes and editing images for listings then you find ourselves sitting there researching researching categories researching the platform trying to find ways to improve our visibility on a platform that should literally just let the platform run they're always looking for ways to game it and unfortunately in those ways of gaming end up costing us and that's another major point that they seem to miss or maybe they don't but I think they do I think they miss it I think they don't see us as businesses and I think that's one of the major problems for the communication between eBay and eBay sellers they don't look at us as businesses they look at us as people that are just trying to flogs and bits and bobs make a few quid and be happy they don't seem to get that we are a business like they are granted we're on a much smaller scale but we're still a business and every penny they take away from us every change they make on the platform without helping us understand it makes the gap bigger between us and I definitely think eBay have lost sight of the fact that we are real people with real businesses in the real world trying to get ahead support our families maybe just have a few extra bit of funds for holidays or day trips or maybe just treating your family or your partner to a nice meal or an evening out maybe that's all you're after maybe that's all you need but they don't make it easy so here we are looking at our computer screens whilst we're working and in our minds we're thinking what more can I do there's been a lot of changes of late and there's been a lot of loss of sellers on the off the platform yes there was a lot more on the platform due to COVID and the economy but it's getting that tight now there's the margin is getting more and more difficult for many sellers out there and then when you see eBay finding other ways to strip away the profit margin strip away the progress stripping away the humanity of the individuals that are sellers that are businesses on the platform it's no wonder that their sales are going and their profit margins are going through the floor and they are I mean you've only got a look at this last week I mean what the heck have they been thinking I mean yes they did exactly what I said they would do they would start making the charging options for off platform advertising I knew it now social platforms are next 100% guarantee it they're going to keep stripping away at the promoting that they do and make it even harder to have your items seen unless you pay to play they found a way to double and triple their their the profit margins by charging for promoted advanced promoted advanced beta they've now got the off platform advertising I'll guarantee you love social media advertising soon and then at that point there'll be nothing advertised on the platform for free I'll guarantee it now we need to pivot we need to figure out other ways to promote other ways to get our product seen at the lowest cost possible I mean we can see it in the traffic already I mean in the last three days my traffic has dropped by 75% 50% of that almost within the last 48 hours I haven't dropped my promoted percentages I haven't reduced my my products literally as soon as that tab came up on the top for the off platform advertising the traffic went down but this is it this is exactly what we're all struggling with you know on a daily basis every single one of us there's always a new angle that we have to look at an approach a new challenge for us to overcome but eBay know that they've got the biggest platform next to Amazon of course it's a difficult time it's a difficult time what are your thoughts if you could pop them in the comments below I'd like to know your journey how you got to being an eBay seller how you became who you are and where you are in your journey now what challenges have you faced because I can tell you it's been a hard struggle for myself I'd love to say it's been an easy journey but it hasn't it's been a long long learning curve journey I've made so many mistakes along the way and to be fair to some degree I'm glad I have made them because the fact that I've made them I've learned from them and the fact that I've learned not only have I learned not to do it again or to avoid something that I may have done but I can also see other pitfalls that are not related to something I've done but something that's happened to me like scamming cuss scamming buyers there's always some buyer out there that wants to try and scam the sellers and unfortunately it's the platform still gained in their favor but you become more and more focused and alert to trigger sounds and trigger messages and trigger wordings and activity that buyers do and you'll learn and if you see something that's in your gut you think that's just not probably something I'm comfortable with you're probably right there's probably something behind it so be careful you don't want it to affect your business but sometimes you just have to pay off let them go block them and then make a point of looking back over the experience with that buyer making sure that you've you've learned what you need to learn to avoid it the next time so as I say I've been selling now for four years on eBay I've seen several variations of the platforms progressing changes even in that short spell am I deterred no I'll still be selling on eBay whatever it takes I will keep going I will keep selling and nothing is gonna stop me from reaching the goals that I intend to achieve I'm 52 now yes it'd be nice to say I've got a long life ahead of me but I know I'm past the halfway stage for sure so all time is precious to me there are goals I want to achieve there are things I want to do in life I've got no time for time wasters I've had no time for stupid stupid choices but at the same time I can't I can't ignore what's happening on the platform now we don't like a lot of it but it is what it is so we have to work even harder okay I can work harder but I'd rather work smarter now if that means taking two steps back and refocusing maybe just reevaluating maybe completely rechanging and revamping certain aspects of how I do my business or what type of sourcing I do or what efforts I put into my listings how I approach it it might be something really simple that just needs a bit of a tweak maybe that's all you need if you're finding me it's not working for you at the moment there might just be something that you know you've got to step out of your comfort zone and go if I want to carry on with this business there are a couple of things that will not guarantee but will certainly improve my chances of achieving my goal within my schedule and you're gonna have to go okay this is what it will take can I do it how do I do it and if I don't know how to do it where do I go to get that information and then once you've got that information decide if that's what you want to do eBay might not be the platform for you going forward you might need to look at other options I will only choose eBay I'm not flying the eBay flag but I have learnt how to use eBay how to achieve the goals I want to achieve or at least I did there's a lot of changes happening and there'll be more to come for me it's just a case of can I learn the new change fast enough before they change it again and I think a lot of sellers are having this issue and it's very hard when you're seeing a lot of conflicting information from a lot of different resellers and youtubers and YouTube resellers etc it's difficult to know there's so many tests going on so many people doing their own beta tests what's the right way of doing it some things are working some things aren't and I think a lot of those results are geographic based they are account based as in account history of the seller themselves but we can get through that's the thing you have to remember you can get through but you don't have to do it alone when you find yourself sitting there stupid o'clock at night cup of coffee in your hand staring at the screen keep pressing F5 for a fresh hoping to see a sale or an offer or something don't procrastinate don't do that if you've reached a point where you're pressing F5 go to bed go spend time with the loved one go read a book go for a walk step away from the business take some time for you to remember there is a world away from that four sided shiny screen it is a business you do rely on it but there is more than just that screen now I know a lot of this podcast has been mental state driven and that's fine as a first episode it was what I wanted it to be I wanted it to be more open more honest not such a highlight reel and visually entertaining as there are many many videos out there that do that style and we will do that style too but it's not what this podcast is about at least today's podcast I wanted to give a real insight to the the mundane the the slower pace of what eBay life actually is you're always busy you're always running around you're always doing things there's no there's no stopping for sure absolutely and your head is always thinking running things processing ideas all the time trying to come up with new sourcing approaches new listing new selling strategies but this is more of a thought-provoking or at least I hope it's more of a thought-provoking content that kind of resonates with you out there that's sitting there listening and maybe just in the background whilst they're doing some work just trying out seeing what this is about and then maybe there's just something in there that triggers and goes hey it's got a point there is some truth in there and I'm not alone I don't have to keep my my thoughts and my emotions hidden inside my own head all the time you can share them because if you share them other people will are guaranteed will be going through similar experiences and they may have ways to help and then together we can get through this now we will cover a lot more fun and entertaining and enjoyable topics too and many insightful hints and tips and discussions around the changes that are happening and things to do to improve our businesses but I think for this first episode I just wanted to make it a little bit more raw a little bit more down to earth and realistic and I hope it's resonated with you a little as well and I hope that you feel even just a little bit appeased knowing that you aren't alone because you're not so let's head this journey up together let's take it by the horns let's not take the feet let's not get down let's sit up straight head high and figure these things out because it can be done it can be done so with that I'm going to leave you today let you get on with your work or if you've done your work for the day let you get some downtime spend time with the ones that you love or doing the things that you enjoy but at the end of the day keep it real


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Hey guys, how you doing this is rich from rich to be live and tat as I told you I Told you be a monster. It's been a monster. I told you pre IPO Before you know when it was at 41 cents that it was going to be a beast and look at what it did today Beyond tobacco here experience a smooth and satisfying American hemp cigarette with zero tobacco Zero nicotine and zero THC Experience the difference is a game changer. I told you guys it would be and once again We've been a hundred percent correct. Look at that today Monster day today finally breaking the dollar mark now at a dollar eleven And this is a company that did an IPO at 41 cents not too long ago And I prepared everyone and told you in advance that they would be a beast and a game changer and they are Up 24 percent today traded 1.5 million shares I believe the largest equity volume trading day so far since the IPO You can see it's been a steady climb up since the IPO Congratulations to all the members that got in on this Ride this wave and I believe that this is just the beginning and I'm going to show you why right here You can see shares issue note standing 67 million shares issue note standing very tightly held I love tightly held companies Okay, and then they had a news release today, which was the catalyst for the explosion Take a look at this news. This is some big news guys I thought that this was huge news and you can see that the market thought so as well It is a holiday happy july the fourth for everyone in america and all around the world that are celebrating the holiday This is the news that caught my attention menthol variety of beyond tobacco trademark to enter the global market as an alternative to traditional menthol cigarettes menthol cigarettes represent us 80 billion out of us 814 billion tobacco global tobacco market and a 36 share of the us tobacco market alone With menthol cigarettes bands passed in jurisdictions to include brazil Canada and the european union the company has identified Unmet demand that could continue to persist as more jurisdictions follow suit Tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes are to be offered in a menthol variety Which can appeal to menthol cigarette smokers With a near term planned product launch on track for q4 2020 We are right around the corner from sales folks Tat limited believes that beyond tobacco tat beyond tobacco trademark Cigarettes are well positioned to capitalize on current and emerging trends relating to menthol cigarettes This is the news right here tat lifestyle and wellness limited cse tat tat on the cse and you can see the frankfurt listing here 2 t p2 That's the frankfurt listing has identified a significant opportunity to compete In the menthol cigarette category of the global tobacco market with its menthol variety of tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes At a global level the menthol cigarette category was valued by grandview research at us 80 billion in 2018 with a predicted compounded annual growth rate of 3.1 percent between 2019 and 2025 Despite this projected growth the company believes that there is significant unmet demand Which can potentially continue to be unmet as several government bodies worldwide Have banned or have sought to ban menthol cigarettes Which began with a nationwide ban being passed in brazil in 2012 With canada following closely thereafter finalizing a federal ban on menthol cigarettes in october 2017 Characterized by a unique cooling sensation from menthol A substance derived from plants such as peppermint and spearmint Menthol cigarettes are believed by many smokers to be less harmful than traditional tobacco cigarettes Although according to the u.s. National Cancer Institute There is no evidence to substantiate this notion The company has developed tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes as a better for you alternative traditional cigarettes in an original tobacco flavor as well as a menthol version It's a game changer folks This is a game changer Neither of which contain nicotine or tobacco game changer The user experience of tat tobacco beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes Is designed to replicate that of a traditional cigarette Between the stick format cigarette style packaging a proprietary flavoring blend An enhanced volume of smoke inhaled Tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes each contain a minimum of 50 milligrams of cannabinoidial CBD A non-psychoactive derivative of hemp Which has been shown to mitigate tobacco withdrawals and reduce dependency game changer Initial retail market testing of tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes As detailed in the company's june 29 2020 press release yielded overwhelmingly positive responses from users Which anecdotes formed a general consensus that there was no significant experiential differences between tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes and legacy tobacco products menthol which is also commonly used in non-tobacco products such as lozenges Ointments and candy was first added to cigarettes in the 1920s The tobacco industry presented menthol cigarettes as a proposed healthier alternative to regular cigarettes Which was part of a strategy to target beginner smokers who had health concerns regarding smoking Cools the first major brand of menthol cigarettes was founded in 1933 and gained a 2.2 market share by 1935 with the purported benefits of throat comfort beginning in the mid 1950s Tobacco producers also began offering menthol cigarettes under standalone brands including rj reynolds salem lory lard newport spring and philip morris alpine Following several decades of popularity for menthol cigarettes in 2012 the world health organization published guidelines recommending Regulation of ingredients that seek to make tobacco smoking more attractive to include the use of flavors such as menthol To date nationwide bans have been passed in brazil and canada as well as across the european union In february 2020 the united states house of representatives approved a bill on a 213-195 vote which would include banning cigarettes flavoring such as menthol The company believes that several current factors created as an environment in which the mental variety of tat beyond Tobacco trademark cigarettes can potentially thrive Foremost there is a sustained demand for menthol cigarettes in jurisdictions in which they remain legal as of 2018 menthol cigarettes represented 36 of all cigarettes sold in the united states the highest ever proportion Since reporting of such data by major tobacco companies was required A 2010 estimate by philip morris also showed that menthol cigarettes had a 49.4 percent market share in the philippines Wow, that's huge Additionally as of this writing there are no known competitor products that offer a cigarette-like smoking experience That specifically imitates menthol cigarettes came changer between potentially being market ready In just a matter of months and the combination of demand for the regulatory action Against menthol cigarettes tat limited is confident in the early stage and long-term prospects for tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes A chart accompanying this announcement is available at global newswire You can see the chart here. Let's click on it and see what they say So here's the chart here. Here's a sample of market share of menthol cigarettes As of 2010 So there's a sample there that's in the press release. This is the website right here at tatusa.com You can learn more about them go to product info And see it is a premium alternative Trademark beyond tobacco So pretty cool. This is what the products look like And let's just go back here to the press release here tat limited founder joe deegan commented and you can see my video on rich tv live and on youtube with tat limited founder joe deegan In recent years many of the most successful innovation strategies have sought to identify unmet niche demand As opposed to simple aligning simply aligning with existing demand that is already being met Like many other players in the tobacco space We are abundantly aware of the mass market demand for better for you alternatives to traditional cigarettes The difference between traditional cigarettes and menthol cigarettes is that there is no existing threat to the legality of the former Whereas the later has been banned in multiple jurisdictions with others potentially on the horizon too as a result millions of menthol cigarette users are Or may soon be without a choice But they'll stop smoking menthols because tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes are designed to mimic the experience of smoking a traditional cigarette We believe that promoting the product in its mental variety can appeal to mental converts Who may be unsatisfied by other alternatives? We plan to announce further details regarding our targeted strategy for the mental variety of tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes as we approach our scheduled launch in q4 2020 you could see all the references here of the press release And This is a little explanation of tat lifestyle and wellness limited tat herb code the flagship brand of tat lifestyle and wellness Is an early stage life sciences company based in las vegas, nevada Innovating nicotine free and tobacco free alternatives Tritiditional cigarettes with a unique proprietary blend of all natural ingredients and meticulous engineering of the user experience Tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes are designed to emulate every aspect of legacy tobacco products with no significant Difference to the user tat beyond tobacco trademark cigarettes provide benefits that include mitigation of tobacco withdrawals and reduction of tobacco dependency game changer With an expert led to go market strategy The company's objective is to position itself in the us 814 billion 2018 global tobacco industry to capitalize on the growing worldwide demand for better for you alternatives traditional cigarettes There is a statement regarding effects of cbd on smoking cessation the beckley Extra research program university of x exeter carried out a pilot study that found it after several weeks Following cannabinoidal cbd treatment cbd helped tobacco smokers to reduce the amount of cigarette smoked by as much as 40 percent so you can actually see a link to the study here And if we click on it, we can actually see a link to the study I'm not going to go through that right now. You guys can do that on your own I'm going to continue to do more research and do more due diligence, but so far tat is up It's approaching almost 200 percent since the ipo. I did bring it to you guys first And I'm going to continue to bring you guys all the news as it happens They did have breaking news today. The stock did explode if we go to weeble right here And we pull up tat I'm going to pull it up for you guys and we're going to take a look at it right here and right now Let's go pull up tat Pretty wild It's been extremely successful since the ipo And I guess it's been not even a month two weeks, I guess And the ipo price was at 41 cents. It opened at 67 and it's already at 111 So congratulations to everyone who has taken advantage of this move on tat Lifestyles and wellness. We did bring it to you first Congratulations to all members of the training academy who got into this well in advance We prepared you guys and once again, we've won big and in my opinion This is just the beginning for the story that is just now getting out there and is starting to become mainstream Okay, guys Thank you guys for watching If you like this video smash the like button if you'd like to subscribe Hit the subscribe button and hit the bell for notifications So every single time we go live or we have any big news or any breaking news about any companies You can get access first I'm going to continue to do my research and my due diligence Love to know what you guys think comment down below of this video Let me let me know what you think. Have you already won on this? Are you buying this? Are you planning to buy this? Have you already sold this? Are you thinking about buying this? Do you like this? Do you dislike this? I want to know now remember rich tv live is strictly for education entertainment purposes Always do your own due diligence Always do your own research before you invest in anything that we talk about here in rich tv live Always invest in the best because the best is blessed and in my opinion tat has a chance to be absolutely One of the best stories out there right now. Thank you guys for watching If you're not winning you're not watching we bringing the winners We brought you this winner and I believe it just continues to win And we bring them too first. I'm out Peace


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