We are curing chlorine gas by mixing sulfuric acid to bleach. Bleach contains hydrochlorosacin. Notice the yellow gas forming above the liquid in the Erlenmeyer flask. This yellow color is characteristic of chlorine. Don't try this at home. Chlorine gas is very toxic. As the chlorine gas is produced, it bubbles into a solution of potassium iodide. It is out of the color change that chlorine is replacing the bromine. The reddish-brown color is characteristic of bromine. The chlorine and possibly some bromine gas bubbles into the second tube that contains potassium iodide. The color may look black in this video, but it is actually a deep purple. This color change is evident that chlorine is more reactive than bromine or iodide.


So again, think about those transitions. So as soon as we're blacks and we're playing in and we've worked the ball well with a little bit of patience and it's come back out, the second we get in there now, yep, it's like a game. We've got to really, really work to get up the pitch. But as soon as we're now up the pitch, now we've got to calm down and we've got to show composure. So it's going from quick, quick interception, good pressing, recognising the opportunities to play forward. Yep, recognising that. Once we've recognised it and played it and we've worked to get up in support, now we're in attacking half, what don't we want to do now? Give it away. Because if we give it away, we've got no control of the game. Yep, and if we give it away, what else does it mean? You've got to win it back again or you might have to go and make another 60-yard run. Back when they transition. So again, just think about it. So we're working hard, we're working hard to press it. Can we recognise the opportunities to play into the middleman? Can we be good enough to play through? Now once we've worked, now we've got composure. Yep, a coach once said to me, fire an ice. So when you haven't got the ball, you fire. You want the ball back. When you win it, your ice cool. Now you compose. Now it's nice and easy. Still got tempo, but you compose. Play it.


It's my channel. Today is time for our April wrap-up to chat about my reading in April, how it went. Um, I've got to be honest, it was a pretty mere reading month. Like, just average. Nothing exciting. My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day has ruined. As we'll talk about, you know, last month if you watched my wrap-up, it was one of my best reading months ever in terms of number of books. I think I had 16 books, something like that, in March. I just can't sustain that level. Like, I knew it would take a different April, because when I have a great reading month, then I kind of fall down a little bit the next month. But that's natural. You know, we can't read the same amount every month. So yeah, we're gonna chat about my reading in April, we'll go through my reading stats, then we'll go through each book and just when I rated them, and then we'll do my disappointment surprises and hits. There's not a lot, because I don't feel like much stood out either way, negative or positive. Anyway, should we just get into it? Okay, so in the month of April I read nine books, but two of those are reread, so only seven new books I hadn't read before. Total number of pages read was 2,662, which means an average pages per day of 89. So again, a lot of you know, I like that average to be above 100 on average, like I said many times. Some days I read zero pages, some days I read 300. I'm not a particularly, like, linear, same amount of pages every day kind of reader. The average pages per book was 295. I feel like a lot of time my kind of average pages per book hovers around their 300 mark. What was it last month? Because I know I read a few short books. 262, so higher than that. But I feel like it kind of often hovers around that. I like to read a few novellas or short stories every month just to kind of keep up, keep up the flow. You know, some 400 page books, some 200 page books is kind of the average for me. Okay, so my average rating technically was a 3.83, which is very similar to last month. I think it was like a 3.85 last month. But if you remove those two rereads, which were five styles, which how about them in a sec? My average rating was a 3.5, which feels more realistic to my month. I feel like I enjoy rereads, but I don't feel like they set the tone for a reading month. The new books that I read set the tone for a reading month for me. And so yeah, like a 3.5, just average. That's pretty low for me. I think my average rating overall was like a 3.9. So 3.5 is quite low for me. A lot of 3s this month. It's just very, very blah. Meh. Very blah. I can't lie to you. It just felt like, you know, fine. I was like, don't even do a wrap up. I had some good books and some low books that there's stuff we can talk about, but it just feels like, you know. The average time a book could spend on my TBR was six months, which is pretty low. But that's because there were quite a few books that A, I did a booktube twin test where some of the books weren't on my TBR and I had to buy them for that. And that means they'd been on my TBR for zero months. And the rereads I counted as zero months because they weren't on my TBR. I'd read them, you know. In terms of genre, I read six fantasy, one mystery, and two thriller. Wow, that's not a very good split. That's like, usually I read a very wide array of genres. You already see one genre having over 50% of the reading I did this month. Did I really read that many fantasy? Okay. In terms of the source, four were physical and five were the mixture. That means I had the audiobook and the physical book. In terms of audience, I read five adult, one middle grade, and three YA, which is by far like, I feel like the most YA I've read in any single month so far this year. I haven't been reading a ton of YA and I enjoyed the YA that I read this month. I feel like it was fun to read a bit more YA. So maybe we'll continue to feed that into future months. By the way, I read some of the way we're children series we'll talk about. And I do class that as adult. I don't think it's YA. I think it technically is adult. So I class it as adult, even though we're following young characters. In terms of format, I read six novels and three novellas. Oh, I didn't tell you the individual star ratings. So in terms of individual star ratings, I had one two star, two three stars, two 3.5 stars, one 4.5, and three fives, but again, two of those five stars were rereads. Okay, in terms of series stats, three books were part of a series, three books were standalone, two were first in the series, and one was last in the series. Finally, we finished a series, baby. It only took us four months of the year. I'm hoping to finish at least, let's say two, finish at least two in May. Although we did start two and I am continuing both of those series, we finished one. That's a win. A win is a win, baby. In terms of where the books were from, five were gifted, quite a lot of them were gifted, three were books I bought myself, and one was sent to me by the publisher. In terms of author stats, one was a debut, five were authors I read from before, and three were new to me. Is that all the stats? Yeah, that's all the stats. Okay, let's just go through each of the books now and give their ratings. First, I read Ghostwood Song by Erica Waters, and I gave this 3.5 stars. Then I read Along with Sault By Sea by A. D. Brebaker, aka Sean McGuire, and I gave this three stars. House of Hollow by Crystal Sutherland, which I gave three stars. Confessions by Kanay Monato, I gave two stars. The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson, I gave 4.5 stars. Finney Donovan is killing it, I gave five stars. Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Nyang, I gave 3.5 stars, and this was the series that I finished this month. And then I did re-reads of Come Tumbling Down and Across the Green Grass Fields by Strona McGuire, and these were both five stars. Again, of course. Okay, that's all the books I read this month. Let's get into the Disappointment Surprise and Hits, but again, there's not a ton. I feel like the tone of this is down. Let's come on, energy up everyone. Okay, Disappointments, I have two this month. Let's start with the biggest. We have Confessions by Kanay Monato. I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it, okay? Because I feel like the whole of BookTube loves this book, apart from me. I didn't love it. I would like to defend myself, but sadly, that's the truth. So we're following a teacher whose daughter, what do you know before we go into this? Yeah, yeah. Her young daughter was murdered by two people in her class, and she's kind of like telling them, yeah, I know what you did at the beginning. And then this goes on to have like, I think six or seven, I don't even know, different perspectives of different characters in the book talking about the events of what happened for them. And generally, I feel like everyone on BookTube is love this. Everyone on BookTube is give this five stars. I feel like I was reading a different book.  I can see how you could love that. It wasn't for me. I'm convinced I read a different book because I don't get it. I have come to the conclusion from, I think I read six stories in March, maybe. But I didn't love that either. And both these books have in common is that we've got like one central event. And the whole book is different chapters, one chapter per perspective, telling their perspective of what happened. And I just don't like that. It's not interesting to me, because I feel like once I've read the first chapter, I basically know the whole story, right? I find if I've met these characters or know all these characters, I feel like in this, they're so like one dimensional, I can kind of predict everything that's going to happen. Some reviews and this is like, oh my god, I was gasping, there was so many twists. What twists? What twists? What twists? Nothing shocked me. You're shocked? You're shocked? I feel mean, but not every book is for everyone. You know, I think it's interesting that I've noticed that pattern that I don't like one central event being retold again and again from different perspectives. It just doesn't work for me. I obviously find it boring. It's again, I think it's similar to like I struggle sometimes with dual perspective, dual timeline. Like I think I do just like one linear story. I like the, is it Save the Cat? I don't know. Like the traditional story timeline and story arc, I think I like. But I do like books that mess with it in different ways, but something about perspective story being broken up in some way doesn't work for me. And then I'd say my other disappointment was the March Book Club pick for my Patreon. I always tend to read it in the next month, so I read it super close to our live show. And that was House of Hollow by Crystal Sutherland. This one, we're following these sisters who disappeared as children, came back, changed slightly and we're following them in present day and one of their three sisters and one of them has gone missing. And this is a book over time. So many people have told me I was going to love. You know, I love Wilder Girls. This has got some kind of similar body horror-esque stuff. And so many people told me I'm going to love the writing. I'm going to love the way this was told. I didn't. I didn't like the writing in this. I just, I didn't like it. It felt so melodramatic, poorly written, one-dimensional characters. Whoa. I'm upset, guys. I'm really upset because so many of you are telling me I was going to love this and I just don't get it. This is a book I read right at the start of the month and I feel like I've kind of pushed it out of my brain. But I didn't feel like the mystery was particularly compelling. I didn't feel like the character relationships were that compelling. There were elements of it that I did enjoy. Could I tell you what they are right now? Not really. Some of the sister relationships I guess I enjoy. You know, sister relationships is usually something that I love. I actually, I think I should have watched my book club live show for this before coming and speaking to you because I cannot remember anything. I do like it goes there with the ending, right? I predicted the ending. I think the ending is fairly obvious. What's going to happen in this book? But I do like that it goes there, right? It commits the bit which I like, right? That's the positive for this. I gave it three stars. It wasn't terrible, but it was a disappointment for me because this could have been like a five-star prediction. Like it was up there. It was up there with the girlies. You know, some people are telling me I love it.  It's my kind of thing. Surprises, I only have one. Like I said, it's pretty sparse picking. And that was the kind of worth killing by Peter Swanson. I read this and confessions and the one book we're going to see and hits in my book shoot twin test episode with how to chain your gab in. So if you watched that vlog, then you've heard me speak about these books. So we'll keep it brief. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. But I gave the kind of killing 4.5 stars.  I really enjoyed it guys. I was shocked. So in this we've got these two characters who meet on a plane.  He's like, I could just kill her, you know. And the woman that he's met on the plane is like, why don't you? So we're kind of following their perspectives. And I loved this book. It had like, it had that thing where there's a midway twist that completely changes the trajectory of the book and shakes it up on you. And like, you get too comfortable with what facts you think you know. And it completely switches up on you. I love when a mystery book does that. I just thought this was a solid great thriller. If you've never, if you've never had thrillers, right?  You've never read a thriller, right? That was me once. My first thriller is up there. It was Ten of the Key by Ruth Ware. I'd never read a thriller before. I think this is a perfect beginner's thriller. It just does so many tropes and like, plot beats of a thriller so well. You know, I think it's a beginner's thriller. Perfect. It's great. It was a great thriller. The way you stuff twisted, the way you rooted for certain characters whilst thinking, should I be really rooting for them? The pace in this was wonderful. It kept you moving. Oh, I loved it. It was so good. The only reason it was not a five is that it is like fairly typical. It wasn't, you know, for me, increasingly a five has to do something new, something different or something fresh. And this didn't really do that. It was just like a solo thriller, you know? But this is my first Peter Swanson. And I know everyone clowns on all of his like newer books and doesn't like them. Maybe I'll give you a chance with some other books. I think I will pick up The Kind Worth Saving, which has just come out, which is the sequel to this. So, yeah. And then we had one hit this month. Like I said, I had three, five stars, but two were those rereads of the Mary Trun series. So no need to chat about them here. But my other hit, which you guys have told me for so long that I was going to love is Pretty Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosmano. It's incredible. It's incredible. It's incredible. You deserve an Oscar.  I need to get my hands on the rest of the series and not put it off reading it like I need to just read it because it's made for me. It's made for me. I just, I, I spent so long not reading it out of fear. I was terrified. I was petrified. Like what if I didn't love this? Anyways, we've got Finney Donovan. He's a single mum struggling for money. She's a writer, but she's like struggling with all the stuff going on in her life to write the moment. She meets up with her to show the coffee shop. She's giving her her plot.  And Finney just gets like wrapped up in this world of shenanigans and murder and darkness. And she's just trying to survive. She's like bumbling her way through it.  I've got to say like Finney has not watched enough she cried. They're like, Finney don't drop. Like she's leaving traces of stuff that she shouldn't hear there and everywhere. Let's just say that.  But this is so fun. It's such a fun mystery. I love the relationships in this. There's a really strong relationship between her and her like nanny, ex nanny kind of.  If I could kill any fictional character, it would probably be him. Actually now I feel like death is too, is too, uh, too kind of punishment.   I really hate men. I really hate men. I really just hate men. One way to get me to hate a man is to a man who's cheated and broken up a family with young kids. Like that gets me going. Like I hate him. I hate him. I'm so excited to continue this series. I thought the writing was so great. Again, the pacing, this was really good. It just kept you moving, kept you wanting to read more. Listen, you guys told me for years I was going to love Finley and I did. This is the standout of the month for me. This is the best of the month. Yeah, good old Finley, eh? Finally read it. So there we have it. That was my reading month for April. Not the best reading month, not the worst. It was okay. I felt a bit meh, but you know, Finney donovan was that and I reread some of my children and Peter Swanson shocked me. So everything else was like a three star basically. But thank you guys for watching this video. If you got to the end of the video comment a sunglasses emoji for Finley. Comment that down below if you got to the end. Thank you guys so much for watching. I love you and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!


this is Sonali. Thank you all for coming out some time for attending episode five of Meeks Academy, Business Excellence Mentoring and Coaching. Today's episode is on data intelligence for business excellence. To all the attendees out there, please type in any questions you might have in the Q&A section and we'll try to answer as many as possible at the end of the session. I would now like to welcome our speaker, Mr. Gaurav Mariah, Chairman and Founder of the Franchise India Group. A very warm welcome to you. Thank you Sonali and welcome friends and welcome to another edition with the Business Excellence Academy. This is an initiative by Business Excellence which is a part of Franchise India Group where every week on Saturday we talk about a particular subject part of our business excellence series and we talk about how you can implement those strategies in your businesses to grow your business or improve your business. Our endeavor at Franchise India and Business Access to help especially small businesses and startups to go to the next level. Business Access actually is an organization set up for three things. One, obviously we help companies to raise capital. Second, we work with them on developing their growth strategy and third, in some cases we would also do their exit planning if they're looking to exit the business. So we'll make it very interactive so it's about 30 minutes of series which I would discuss on today's data intelligence and I like to have many questions from you to use the Q&A box to ask any questions at the last five or seven minutes. I'll try to take as many questions you need to. So today's topic is actually about data intelligence and that's a very, very important aspect now for all businesses and especially if you look at small and early stage businesses they don't have any department called data analysis. This would really run into the founders themselves or owners themselves and they would have to really work on that and it's not on the priority list for them. So which means that they would continue to collect a lot of data which is part of anywhere our organizational cycles now because we are in a digital world so almost everything has a lot of touch points and a lot of touch points that get recorded but we don't really have any conscious effort done towards understanding the intelligence out of it and I know organization even the largest organizations are not putting that focus. Even look at what has happened in the current COVID period. We had a full cycle of one year for a COVID which was running in India and nobody, even the government of India, didn't put any kind of analytics to understand the second wave and how big it can be and so on and so forth. Now they're doing it, now everybody's understood the importance of data so almost all educational institutes of India are putting a lot of data, a lot of research organizations are putting a lot of data. So a lot of that is going on now. So we are bringing in predictability of the third wave and the fourth wave, the preparations would be required and so on and so forth. But other countries if you look at Singapore and other countries really have done this in the first wave itself. They started working on a lot of data points to really understand what is going to be the impact of what is coming up under this and if you cannot do this currently in your businesses it becomes even more difficult to sustain your businesses for future.  And so you're able to make your organization much more smarter to handle the issues and future challenges which it can really bring in. So what are we going to cover today? I'll cover five different topics. One, we will understand the need of data intelligence, why we need that today more than ever. Second, we'll understand the decision making process, how decision should be done in organization or how they are done and how this can really impact your decisions. Third, what is your data cycle, how the data should be collected and then we'll understand the larger business intelligence because end of the day there's so much of data which is available now, not everything is on use to me and you have to really bring in objectivity, what do you need to really hear from the data? What do you want from that answer from that? I think that's very, very important otherwise these are too much on these days and this whole data space has become very, very big and it's becoming even more confusing and you need to be very, very objective in terms of what kind of business intelligence you want from the data and five steps last point would be the five steps how to implement that. So let's get started, understand the need first. What is the need of having data intelligence in place? Any organization needs to take an effective and timely decision, that's very, very important now and if you're not effective or you're not on time you will either miss the opportunity or you will lose the customer. So it's very important at this stage to organizations for really to understand and forecast demand like for example current times if you look at this very, very challenging, how do you really forecast demand especially for manufacturing organizations? I'm seeing this a lot of big problems going on because they do not able to predict their demand cycles which is happening. A lot of look at auto companies they were slow, they stopped their production and then this thing started reviving, they had a good Q3 and Q3 was good and Q4, Q5 was looking very good and they start ramping up the production and again we come down to this situation. So a lot of companies are into this huge issue of how they can really bring in what I call demand forecast. What kind of demand we would see in times to come and how the data can tell us that this is going to happen and this is very, very important. Second, which is always a trigger point where companies start looking at going into their data intelligence is when they have seen the consumer churn or a consumer iteration like with most of the telecom companies when they started getting from another thing earlier there were no policy of you can shift from one subscriber organization to another brand and as this guideline came in and people started seeing moving from the entire thing and companies got into action and they started putting a lot of understanding, sampling the customer, going out and reaching to the customer and say why are you shifting and things like that and that's very difficult at that time because your churn cycle has already begun and even if you go out and sample thousand people it not tell you what is happening largely in your subscriber base because your subscriber base of millions and millions and what kind of size can tell you why the people are so much shifting outside and that is actually not the best time you really should start your data understanding or data intelligence because you should do much before because when the churn cycle really starts it's very difficult at that time but most of the companies would really do it at a stage when they have a larger attrition happening of their customer they are losing customer faster than they know and that is the time they would start putting up that another area which is becoming more and more important is to understand what other value-added products or services you will be able to give to the same customer and customer is telling you a lot of things but we're not catching we're just trying to deliver but not hearing them out and these days if you look at what is going around us almost everything is delivered to our home and most of the time they come and just deliver but they don't really capture anything what you were looking at what else you were looking at and things like there is a company which was actually formed by reliance called rescue you know it came from the need of the customer base so reliance digital used to be the large umbrella brand and they used to be in consumer electronics and they used to go out and put appliances in people's home later they found that the inefficiencies because they used to sell the appliance I would say they sell a samsung tv and a samsung guy would come from there and go and fit the tv because this lag was big time because I made a decision to buy from reliance digital today and samsung came after three days so customer was not happy so reliance started taking that responsibility also additionally that they would go out and and fulfill this requirement and actually do the fulfillment on the behalf of the samsung which obviously brought the better efficiencies they were able to deliver much much faster and then they really went to when they went to homes and they actually started fitting it for the customer the customer started asking about other appliances they have in the house and average home have many different brands and different service points you know you have small appliances big appliances you have other gadgets and you need a different service provider for that and that's where reliance really saw an opportunity that average home would have maybe 50 different brands and it is impossible for them to really go out and take service from different OEMs if there can be a company which can come from a valuation of reliance digital called rescue which can go and address that need and that's how this was multi-brand service outfit which was created so it really came from what customer was telling you so sometimes a lot of value-added products or services really can come in also it is very useful when you're scaling up data intelligence very important before you scale because sale is a very very important and very crucial decision in companies when they really want to ramp up and go up they need to really put that emphasis you need to really engage a strong research team which can work with you at that stage before unless and until you are absolutely convinced on why you want to do that I'll give you an example I'm consulting a company which is actually a 100 year plus tea gardening company so they were one of the finest exporters of teas to the world and they found a particular gap that they had a product which they just launched is called the black tea product and they felt that Indians don't drink black tea because they feel that it's very bitter the normal tea which you get which is a ctc tea you get is very bitter and they launched a product which can be had without having a milk now this is very clearly an opportunity case they have found but it needed a lot of other research points and why would people shift what is the compelling reason why they would shift from the conventional tea which is now actually a habit to everybody people have grown up on that they don't even know that there is a other option which is relevant what is the compelling reason why they shift well we saw in very clearly in green tea when green tea was launched it was not the best taste people liked it but was purely a health quotient which triggered people to shift from there so all these are very important when you really want to really scale or get into the next level you need to really go about and see the the kind of preferences customer is telling you another thing which which is very important and when people look at using data intelligence is then when they are looking for a large part of their growth cycle and growth comes from three things you know only three things which I would understand in my consulting experience if you want to really grow your enterprise only three areas you need to focus one is new product new channel and new markets these are three things which are very important so how do you really use your data intelligence to define new products which you have what is a new channel you can use you're delivering customer to through this channel can you go it from this channel also is your data telling you you can add to certain more convenience to the customer like a lot of things are now becoming direct to home direct to consumer businesses and third is what are the new markets which you have not explored you can do that so this is what the need part of it and I also also have to define you know there are three cycles to me in the in the whole data intelligence one is the data itself where it is coming from second is the information it is giving you and third what can be knowledge draw you can do out of that what kind of knowledge you can really get out of that information which is important actually you process the knowledge the data and information are just about really cyclic in order in doing it now a lot of you know companies have really created many many ideas out of that I'll give you example there is a company I was advising and I met the founder of Swiggy Swiggy is a very household name for home deliveries and they really started a dark kitchen the dark FMCG business in in Gurgaon and started testing it why because then they were doing deliveries in Gurgaon and these were late night deliveries people started asking a lot of FMCG products for them a lot of young people and a lot of other people asking for cigarettes and other things in the late night and there's nothing which is available at that time so they realized that an order especially in the late year when the supermarkets and your grocery stores or convenience stores are shut at that time people also needed a lot of FMCG to be delivered and they had the platform because they were doing late night deliveries for food and they started thinking that can we do this piece also now they started that pilot pilot was not so successful they didn't go forward on that because the the sample size or the ask was not big enough which means that they were there was a demand but demand was so small that it cannot be implemented across board I remember that when this first saw this as an opportunity they thought that they would probably go and put up these 2000 dark FMCG stores where they would do the fulfillment of basic staples and basic things and and then later they dropped the idea because it was not sizable it might be an indicative of one particular market telling you some indications but it cannot be generalized overall as an opportunity and then say they dropped it so they did a pilot they opened up a couple of stores of that nature but they didn't scale it up after seeing this early results were not very encouraging for them to do that now let's get into the second part of my discussion is what is the decision making process at what levels different decisions are taken on the data what data tells you and how you do that first is very operational decisions which are normally done at the point of a sales cycle right which is the almost front-ending teams would take that decision which means discounting it can be many other things which really comes from your data what customer is looking at and also maybe comparing with your competition you took this operational decision these are normally short term decisions taken by very very operational hands-on teams while obviously it will come strategic from the the top management but it's normally those decisions taken second are more tactical decisions which are which are designed for your promotion cycles you have a three-month cycle or a six-month cycles what you want to do or a new product launch cycles these are very clearly decisions on that and then the third decision which are more strategic which are long-term decisions are normally done when you have even a complete innovation of a product to be done or an absolute change of strategy or you want to shift from a you know offline to an online space or vice versa and things of that these are decisions which should be very very compelling and come from a very long-term viewpoint on that now let's get into the third part which to me is a data cycle you know what is a data cycle and how you really get this data historically there are two ways which we would really read the data one is through expert viewpoint expert viewpoint means that you have every single thing which happens in your organization there is a process lead so your sales head would tell you what is happening in sales and what he's hearing from a market and things of that so the or you can have even an expert from outside a consulting firm or a research firm and they would give you some kind of a opinion on which is very expert opinion somebody who belongs to that domain would give you that opinion second is actually what is your organizational knowledge base which means that at every point of your organization it can be different departments you capturing a lot of sense and you combine all that which through a data mining and get that expertise so one is a very data centric capability and second is very expert viewpoint on that and both has advantages and disadvantages when you are working purely on data then that's advantages that you're not really depending on somebody's viewpoint you are actually reading the data a lot of times actually business owners take decision on the expert side they don't really read the data and data might be telling you something else and the expert has his own viewpoint to tell you what he feels would be there so but if you look at only data and you don't look at expert the data can be purely historical it cannot predict sometimes the future it is very historical in nature so you need to really understand that it might give you what is being done in the business so far but it not tell you what is there but with expert you obviously can also find out what is going to be the future because they can have some kind of a trends which they can really capture so I would always try to mix these two I will try to mix these two options hear the experts what they're telling pocket there don't make opinions on that and also hear from the data what is telling and then try to make a combination of that and that would give you a little bit of what I call business intelligence which is my next point how do you really build a business intelligence from there what do you want to know from this data and what is the information you are seeking the first information to me would be your product preferences how the consumer is making the product or a service preferences with you it can be price it can be overall product relevance and these are very important points you know every boardroom has a brilliant idea that oh let's reduce the price by this and there would be a larger audience to take that sometimes it is not true in my company in a service business we were offering one one of our services at X price and I asked my senior team and say what should we do and they said let's drop the price because of this whatever the covid is going on let's drop the price and we'll get customers and and and I asked them is this only a decision for people not to take it because they cannot have affordability issue or we have only overall shrunk the market is the market itself is shrunk and because it shrunk we are giving the reason that we should grow the price down but actually it might be lesser customer which are willing to pay the same or more price for what needs to be done so you have to be really intelligent why you want to take that decision sometimes the overall market has shrunk but the demand of your loyal customers or people have that thing they are paying they are actually happy to pay you more because they want to really get that service done so it will not be like for restaurants when they open partially in the covid period almost every restaurant was trying to sell cheap to encourage people to do that actually it was wrong strategy and I actually did a webinar and and educated people that is a wrong strategy because everybody who's stepping out in the risk to come into your restaurant and eat is willing to pay you the best price and and he also appreciates that you are also underperforming and would not mind that you are while you cannot overcharge but you can charge the right price there is no way you should at that stage discount and create an excitement for people to just come out and risk to have a cheaper burger or something like that so one has to really see how do you really what are you trying to understand from what your data is telling second is your customer acquisition life cycle how your customer is acquired and and how the fulfillment is done so all that piece is and needs to be understood how you can build a better efficiencies consumer demographics like for example I was talking to one of our clients is actually based out of Middle East and they have operations in South India it's a children fashion company and they have stores only in certain part of South India which is largely Kerala they have stores and their online is telling a very different strategy is telling that the maximum demand is coming from markets like East and up North and so forth so when I asked the chairman of the company and said look what is your strategy for growth from an operational viewpoint he was very comfortable in doing South India but the indications of what people are making preferences on especially for online is coming from other markets not coming so much from the market he was operational now so this is can be a different strategy you might have an online a different strategy and for your offline business a different strategy because they both are different operational design sets and you can probably go and market yourself more online in the eastern and the northern markets where you're getting more demand and better conversion cycles are happening your your conversion ratios are better and maybe continue to have your retail brick and mortar strategy more concentrated on the south then a lot of things other than that we should really ask from data is how do you build better supply chain efficiency how do we save cost and time how do you boost productivity productivity is very very important and especially businesses which are non technology defining productivity is is a big challenge what do you really expect from from your workforce what kind of productivity they can do and especially in these times where a lot of them are working from home and things of that nature productivity becomes a very important aspect also understanding different needs a consumer would have and it might be shifting and significantly you might not know because you're you don't have any kind of sales dip you feel that the sales is still growing and robust that doesn't mean that consumer is continuing to enjoy the same kind of offering which you have it might have already have shifted but because there was no alternative available they are sticking with you so one has to be very conscious a lot of times with these we see sales numbers as an indicative to the consumer preferences answer is no customer might have shifted already but he's not really seen moving out of your sales function because there is no alternative at this being presented so as the alternative would be presented there will be complete shift off so therefore has happened to a lot of businesses which suddenly go out of business because they didn't understand that the customer was already not there it was waiting for an alternative to be driven and how do you really also build a transparency and relationship deeper relationship with your customer base how do you bring predictability to read the future as I said how do you are ready for future collaborations you might product might need something else tomorrow which you currently don't have capability you might have to collaborate with somebody else so all these things help you to make much better and faster decision making in the business now let's go to the last part of my today's presentation how do you put the five steps of putting data intelligence into your business first step is integrate your data understand the source understand the size you have got the simple size you've got and what kind of substance you get we call the triple s so i source size and substance how do you get what kind of insights you are getting out of that what is the kind of innovation is expected in whatever you want to change and can be small innovation which you want to really implement and how would you integrate within your organization that's very very important aspect this is before even you have started making any kind of this is just about integrating your data and understanding your data then this data gets into the actionable intelligence how do you really put this into action i call the four fits which are very important for any decision of your business which you want to take put this four fits into place all four fits are very important to run through strategic fit financial fit operational fit and marketing fit you want to make this action because you read this piece is it going to be a financially viable for you to take that is it a right call at this moment for you to make that additional investment to maybe produce a new product or change the strategy or change your channel whatever you want to do which data is telling you is it a right financial decision is it a right operational decision because it might burden your current operational structure you operationally you cannot manage that decision which you want to really bring in is it something which can come from the same marketing bandwidth or approach you have or the consumer would see from the same perspective coming from you and is it strategic for the organization to take that call sometimes the study call is so big that you have to take some major financial calls also because it is very strategic for you to that so first is understand data integration second is how do you build what i call actionable intelligence and then third goes into a little bit of a competitive and intelligence you need to also understand your competition and competition today is direct and indirect competition how do you really build your competitive intelligence on that how do you understand from the mistakes of your competition what they have done you don't want to do how do you create a differentiator then the your competition or understanding your core core value system what you need to do and sometime your competition is large enough you know and there is no way you can compete on all points then you need to really find your core competence and say i would do this best and stick to that part of entirely and leave aside everything i like the company called ISB ISB was a consumer electronic company still very strong as an organization and and they also had temptation like a lot of other companies like BPL and and video con and other companies to become a full-blown appliance company and get into all appliances and and and most of these companies on Eda and everybody else was actually trying to get into almost everything and now you look at it almost everybody is out of business they all are out of business and i have to be still strong because they were very clearly driven from their core competence and they were they were very very strong on that similarly voltas voltas were very strong on their core competence and they still as a strong company on that and a lot of other companies which were came in in this place got lost and they lost their competence they were actually doing everything but they didn't have a leadership in any of the of the pieces which is which is there so understand your competition the fourth point is understand real time visibility and insights don't lose even if you have that continue to check what the signals are coming in i call the test and measure anytime you really implement any decision which comes from your data understanding or your business intelligence if you if you put that decision go and test and measure because if you test and measure you will be able to manage things better you cannot manage what you cannot measure that's very very important and that's would be your very important aspect and the fifth point is once you have made a some kind of a strong decision or you know any kind of innovation which is implemented do a incremental improvement continuously keep reading the data what is it telling you if it giving good science keep doing your incremental improvement incremental improvement would would put the whole flow chart in a structure that you will continue to grow as an organization and improve your efficiencies and and your you know delivery to better deliver to customers so data and business analytics is the real muscle of delivering what i call operational and business excellence so this was a topic for today i hope that these points which you've got i have covered about five different points which is the overall need uh decision making process overall data cycle uh business intelligence what you want from the data and fifth is how do you really implement uh this so what do you sonali for any questions if you have i will be happy to take that thank you so much for another wonderful and insightful session for all our attendees uh we do have quite a few questions lined up with us and i would like to take up the first one so the first question is what kind of data points should i be looking at for leveraging my data i come from a retail business background you know so if you are in retail retail tells you a lot of data points uh again go back to the same thing data information and knowledge uh data points would be what is selling how much which SKU is selling what needs to be done the in the information you will draw on that is what is customer basket looks like how much they are paying to buy uh what is the average buying cycle who's buying what age group they are coming you know so the whole average basket size average price side how it is improving growing not growing all these are what i call uh this and knowledge you would draw on that is uh is more important to me you know which would be really about understanding uh you know what was the conversion ratio which you were getting and how you can improve that conversion ratio which means that footfall to conversion what is happening uh then average conversion to improving or ticket value what ticket value is a benchmark from from a market say the other competition is doing 600 rupees and you're doing 400 but where are you not doing that it's because you don't have required SKU or the offering or the uh you know any kind of a structure so all these are are this business uh this would create a knowledge base this would create what i call action actionable intelligence uh information would you would draw from the data and data is just about you know what has sold in the in the place and when it was sold who made a purchase decision to buy what they want to buy that right uh the next question is is it smart to invest in a data intelligence team at this time we are trying to sustain our employees but are struggling with uh with the same because of the second wave of covid i'm very interested in investing in a data or a business analytics team but not sure if that should be a priority at this stage it should be a priority rather it should be very big priority today i mean i know i'm not sure that you want to hire somebody from outside i would say it is a priority for you to invest your time into this it's not necessarily that you have to hire somebody uh to do that but and especially for small businesses you don't really need to hire you need to prioritize you need to prioritize it should be one of the top uh agendas for you to really have that and also put systems to really get the right logical data otherwise uh you get opinions you know and that's not something which again go back to what i was trying to explain you get expert viewpoints quite a bit uh everybody has a viewpoint on things which is good because they have some understanding below they're in market uh but it is backed by data so unless and until i would mix these two things together decisions should not be taken sure uh the next question i have is what is the future of real estate data analytics who all are the buyers of such analytics a lot of them i mean real estate so obviously it is a huge huge work going on and with all the major uh real estate advisory firms uh uh have a lot of uh you know investment good ones are obviously the jls and cdres and likes of them they do some i also personally because i have a real estate investment company for remax but i actually go out and read them more because i feel that they've they've done some some really good work in in terms of their forecasts and uh and you know their market behaviors and so almost every month they would create a lot of these reports for the for the industry and a lot of other companies are also there and i think mature developers today are investing a lot on doing it even to create their offering what they want to do because it's now becoming very very difficult uh different products are available in the market uh a particular site would you choose it for doing value home or you want to do a premium housing you want to do luxury uh in these are very important decisions and it's not really about the what would be just required because the project has to run for next four five years and you need to really see that the project would have continuous demand for next four five years and things would change in three to four years so it's actually analytic of uh strong data is actually a it's a very important need and it's a large investment projects uh it would need a much in uh depth of uh understanding and a lot of people have done mistakes and if you really see the lot of developers who've gone wrong is not because they don't have ability to sell or they were not aggressive or whatever it was the wrong choice of project at the timing was wrong and they were not able to sustain it look at a group called JP in Noida which invested so much in in creating those kind of possibilities invested into creating even a formula track which was 2000 crore uh in the predictability that it would create a lot of demand around it and that didn't happen so that money was not even recovered so it's a it's a wrong decision sometimes you put it back to buy uh understanding is able to create that kind of a demand it would create a an opportunity for a or a or a place where people would really buy homes because they want to be in a sports city like that and I mean he thought very Dubai centric approach Dubai has done this many times and because it's attracts tourists and people from all over the world which Noida is not attracting so it using a strategy of Dubai to Noida is is wrong and Noida is a end consumer market and he wants to be close to where he works and lives not for living for leisure versus in Dubai you can really have a second home or a third home in Dubai and you will take a leisure decision then taking a decision so so so a lot of things can go wrong with people when they don't really hear what what the market is telling them sure sir the next question is not specific to our topic of the day but I would still like to take it up the question is my son is 17 years old and he wants to do bbn wants to become an entrepreneur in the future can he attend any sessions held by you sure sure please anytime and this is the best time for them to attend that rather uh they should encourage them to be doing their you know entrepreneur journey as young as possible and that's what is very important and I feel that the young people from age of 14 15 to about 20 they are the best time to really conceive their startup ideas they're the best time to really nurture entrepreneurship because absolutely best time to do that and that's what become even more younger and and I was actually in oxford in you for a visit and and they told showed me a bmw has set up a lab there which is innovation lab in there and and this was kids are 13 14 were working on that because they said the next level of startup ideas innovations would come from this age group and bmw actually sponsored that piece for them for looking at the next level of creativity in mobility and that was the whole project and and and that's what is happening if you really see the the kind of ideas people are discovering these days are coming from absolutely you know fresh thinking and and fresh possibilities and and problem solving which sometimes in a later age like at my age it becomes very orthodox thinking you know well we can do all these talks and share our good viewpoints and and our numbers but really speaking in our businesses sometimes at my age I am a roadblock for for a fresh thinking the young people have much better thinking capability. Another question on similar lines is to get into a career in data analytics is it really required to have a technical or IT knowledge and skills according to you? You obviously IT knowledge I would not use the word I would say IT tools tools are very important because data is becoming bigger and bigger in in any form you cannot manage that but there are many tools available there are many many tools available to churn your data understand your data you need to choose very carefully which stage of business you are in and there are lots tools for small businesses which are available which are very good tools for you to really understand and draw a little insight but before you even start drawing and using the tool and then what is your ask is very important and that should be simple you know what you are really trying to ask is very important and stay very focused on that rest is easy rest is easy you know you know what you need to do that and that's what to me is very important so how do you really what is your ask is more important and the last question I would like to take up is how data intelligence works to sustain business excellence for long periods of time that is pretty much the gist of the whole session but anything you would like to add up to that sorry I missed your point question how data intelligence works to sustain business excellence for long periods of time yeah so this is what the whole session as I said is completely on that I mean how do really uh but essentially to make your future ready that's something which I would say is is the need of uh data analysis if it if can tell you that what is going to be future lies for you and how you can be adaptable to that future nimble to be that future and change it accordingly and stay honest to what you are like reliance has changed their strategy of energy because they feel the energy itself would change you know what would be a traditional fuel which would be a play important or the new energy would play a role so the transition would be easy now because they've clearly understood the next 20 years is is is transformation and and they would go out and look at almost all possibilities of next energy cycles it can be biofuels and it can be solar it can be any other thing possibly which needs to be done electric is any way with future for for going in different general energy so all these energies you will see these companies would would quickly adapt to and and that's what they are doing Adani just made a big investment in acquiring Bharti's assets in in renewable energy and clearly the transformation you can see how how companies are thinking and they're moving towards that so you also have to be really future ready and and and today good part is that you can really secure their data earlier days to get the data was impossible you know how do you really get to understand what your customer is trying to tell you today is simple while you have to cut a lot of noise also because a lot of noise is it's not true and and that's where you need to be really connected with your customer to understand what they're telling you sure sir so with this I would just like to wrap up our Q&A session thank you so much Gaurab sir for once again answering all the questions very patiently anything you would like to say in the end no thank you very much thanks for joining another session of mine it is your valuable time you take out so I thank you for for coming over and keep sharing your thought process anything you want from us to really bring in next time while we have a calendar to bring in a different topic every time on business excellence this is second series I'm doing I did one more series earlier which is invest scale exit and value your business that's also on on our Business X Facebook channel so if you want to refer anytime anything on that is all available it's all on the internet so thank you very much thanks for coming in and if you are looking to scale your business or raising capital or looking for a exit planning please reach out to Sonali and her business looks after that part of the business so if you any need you have please reach out to her and she and her team would be able to find right answers for you thank you very much thank you so much sir and thank you to all our attendees we really hope you were able to add some value to your lives through the session we'll see you next Saturday at 11 a.m. with another session in our BX Academy series and if you have any questions any concerns or if you want the recording of any of our previous sessions or this session please feel free to reach out to me and I'll be very happy to help you thank you so much


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Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Account and welcome back to the channel EA Sports back at it again with some big content yesterday on Saturday fodder is on its way to the moon after a prime icon player pick SBC was released so no more 92 plus primer moments pack enter the prime icon player pick which everybody loves icon player picks on this game. This is the perfect SBC for EA to release before team of the season to drain a lot of coins from the market and it is doing exactly that. I want to take a look at how prices moved fodder went up a lot of meta cards went down because this takes again it's pretty expensive takes a lot of coins to get this done. People were selling cards yesterday to get this player pick done and we had not one but two showdown SBCs released yesterday. Now one was for a very short time frame because break white and so so that game is today on Sunday. So these SBCs were only out for one day but a lot of people are hyped up about the break white. A lot of people are excited about the recharging son and the crazy boost to Mr. Weghorst six foot six striker in the Premier League. So we're going to take a look at those cars today and talk about market and also there's a lot of there's been a lot of market movements related to the fantasy foot cards who have had games whether they have won whether they have lost. A lot of these cards have gone down a couple of them have gone up not very many though. So I want to talk about why these cards have been moving the way that they have been moving over the past day or so. And then again it's another huge day for football today with more upgrades on the line for fantasy foot and showdown cards with a couple of games from showdowns that have been released already happening today on Sunday. I'll talk about Sunday content as well as a part of this video. We could have some more icon moments SBCs players that is being released on Sunday. So all that inside of today's video if you're excited for it hit a thumbs up and of course subscribe if you're new. Now the big piece of content yesterday right we started off talking about it was this prime icon player pick. It's just because people love player picks for icons on this game. I mean it honestly makes no sense when you go to the SBC section and you look this has a 77% up vote percentage on foot bin for a 750,000 coin SBC for the only the second best version of icons that are available. You know I know there's a decent amount of prime icons that are over 750,000 coins that are available from this player pick. But in my opinion this is just EA sports being so smart and draining so many coins off of the market before team in the season. I don't think it's really worth it to do this SBC just completely being honest. Now I also know that there's a lot of people that have invested in SBC fodder that go in here and they click this up vote button to make it look like. You know people are more excited about this so I see you I see right through you fodder traders but regardless it's working because this SBC is making hybrid fodder explode. Personally I've got like two pages of Sergio Ramos on my transfer list that I bought at 27,000 coins. He is 37k. Now a lot of those cards that are center backs or midfielders or right wings right mids. I don't even know the squad that is the squads that are required for that icon player pick SBC. But the cards that give good chemistry are up extra because look at how much chemistry these squads require. 75 chem, 75 chemistry this is very high chemistry for a lot of these squads. So people are having to buy those center backs those center midfielders and those cards specifically are seeing a higher rise on the market because you need that high level of chemistry in this SBC. And it makes this SBC more expensive and harder to do and that makes certain areas of SBC fodder going up faster and further than the rest of it. Now speaking about fodder once more I think that if you've bought SBC fodder you're still holding. I know some of you guys may have sold a little bit yesterday. This SBC the prime icon player pick is repeatable again on Monday right. You could only do it one time but it's going to be repeatable again on Monday after Weekend League Rewards after people maybe have gone out and done some 75 plus times fives and they get some more coins from Weekend League Rewards. So I'm holding my fodder because we don't really see a lot of supply for this stuff. We're not thinking that we're going to see a lot of supply throughout this week. There's nothing in packs right now is not running lightning rounds. There really is not going to be that much supply. So as this SBC is again repeatable and they dropped more of the showdown SBCs through this weekend throughout this week. There's just a lot more demand and not that much supply. So in theory these cards are just going to continue to go up in price. List for Lazies is what I would say right now.  But you know 85s aren't 11k like we thought they were going to be just hold on right. It is not over yet. There is still more content to come later on this week. So if you have fodder I'm holding I'm listening for Lazies. Now here's my tip for listening for Lazies don't list like 50 or 60 cards at a time if you have that many. I was listening I have like five or six Ramos that I'm listening at a time right now at 50k. All these ones at 33 were from yesterday. But look I got a current a lazy bid at 49000 coins for a card that currently sells at 37k right. I've got four of these three of these listed right here. I need to re-list one of them because I was running like a set of four of them. Boom OK I guess I have five but that's that's kind of how I do it. I'm not listing 50 or 60 cards at a time list a couple of them and then space them out. If you want to be that I guess picky with it or that you want to kind of monitor your transfers that much. Like I have a bunch of other Sergio Ramos is still on my transfer list here. OK not as many as I used to have they're starting to sell for Lazies. But you know maybe if I was to list a few of them up I'd wait 10 20 minutes list another few of them up. That's kind of how I would do the lazy sales not just spam all of them up at once. You know that's kind of how I would do that. So just keeping on that and good luck selling your fodder because you're going to have a lot of time to do it this next week. In my opinion as a lot of these great SBCs are out and that's the focus of this promo right the SBCs are the focus. Now speaking of SBCs again yesterday we have to talk about the new showdowns break white and so so if you guys are making a quick decision on whether or not you should do one of these. Obviously Barcelona is hot at the moment and winning a lot of the last few games coming back after international break though it always is a bit interesting. But break white first special card in the year four star four star pretty pretty solid boost really good looking card. I'm almost wanting to do this just for the vibes and just for again I love how showdowns the cards that get showdowns are ones that haven't had. Barely any special cards this year. I just love how they're so different. I think the price here on this break white is a little bit inflated. I think that all of the SBCs from yesterday were just a little bit inflated but you know 150 K for Suso is pretty solid. If you need a right winger in the lot in your La Liga team. I mean this card looks very very meta and very very good. So if you're a severe fan you're hoping he gets the upgrade and he hopes especially for your meta squad break white looks pretty solid as a striker of course. Then the other ones from yesterday. A little bit of prem tax involved here I think. Recharlison and Weghorst both being 300,000 coins apiece two teams towards the bottom of the Premier League table but also Recharlison hasn't had a special card this year. He's always kind of a FIFA favorite to get specials towards the end of the year. That five star week foot is nice. I mean yeah it's going to be a nice solid card to use a Premier League striker but it needs that upgrade. It needs that upgrade. I'm more interested in this card because regardless of whether or not Burnley end up winning this game this Weghorst is just different. It's just cool. Like they're making a this guy was two star skills three star week foot and they boosted him to four four high high work rates. I mean 90 agility and 84 balance. I know you guys have looked over this but can we just can we just give a round of applause to the A sports for making a card that was just so unusable before. Usable like look at this boost plus 40 balance. Plus 28 agility plus 29 acceleration and 30 sprint speed. Like GGs EA sports. I mean if you want to just try to throw in some crosses and have some fun. I mean 311000 coins if he potentially gets upgraded it's going to be even more cracked. I kind of want to get this card done just for fun man toss him up a striker throw some some balls into the box with team of the year messy and see if Weghorst can slam dunk them in with some headers. So this to me is just kind of a fun card. I dig this content right putting a card in the game. He's probably not going to get any more specials this entire year. Burnley fans are absolutely loving this. And that's again how I feel about this promo. I love every bit of it because these cards are getting specials. You know it's nice to have them and the prices aren't exorbitant. They're not super duper expensive. They're just just a little bit expensive right but they have that potential to upgrade as well. And again as we mentioned today especially for McKenny Brozovic and then Braith White and Suso those games are today on Sunday. So there's some big time football happening today and more fantasy foot cards are going to be moving on the market as well. Speaking of those live games let's look at some fantasy foot cards that moved on the market yesterday because of their games. Now more cards went down than went up right again. I sold a bomb at 360,000 coins yesterday pre-game selling in the hype. We've been talking about it this whole entire week. Sell in the hype if you have these cards. If they're playing today you know if you have like a Lucas Mora I would you know sell in the hype. Even though I believe in my spurs you know these price drops are really really real. Take a look at Bomba from 360 back down to 300,000 coins. Now there was a plethora of cards yesterday that got no upgrades. A few that got plus one and only one card from yesterday that gets getting a plus two and of course it's the boy Christian Erickson. The brother from another mother getting a plus two because he scored a goal and Brentford beat Chelsea four to one. Goodness gracious what a game. Anyways 90 Erickson is going to go to a 92. This is the best mistake that EA have ever made and it keeps getting better right. He's going to get a plus two whenever these upgrades are going to play out not entirely sure when EA is going to do this. Again I think it's on Wednesday but he is the only plus two from yesterday. It might be kind of hard to see all the cards that are in this list here on this graphic. But I'll put a link to this down below in the description. Guys that got plus ones from yesterday. Jimenez with the Athletico win. Let's see over here on the left. Klaus Scherman is going to get a plus one. Malin the SBC that is still alive going to get himself a plus one for his game. Hinkapi right down here. Your everybody's favorite Bundesliga center back right now. Plus one for him. Jose saw plus one Alvarez plus one. And I think that's about it. Again only a handful of cards getting upgraded after yesterday's games with a lot of players like Rashford playing the game. Not winning right. There's no upgrade for that Coutinho played but didn't win Nani played but did not win. So a lot of those cards that you saw actually went down in price a little bit. Now not many of them dropped like crazy but you did see some decent drops right. Again we take a look at team one of foot fantasy as well. You know Nani is down a little bit. Kamavinga went down almost 100,000 coins before bouncing back up a little bit. This was the common trend yesterday right. Kamavinga 660 all the way down to 550. Now he's back up to 600,000 coins right. Nice fluctuation there after the panic selling. Now I bought some John Stones after he was panic sold because John Stones went from 550. He's at 590. 600k. He didn't start and he went all the way down to 467,000 coins post game. And then to only rise back up to 500k where he is right now. So not a huge rise back on that card there. Now you have the other side of the coin too right. You're like mate Christian Erickson went up 20,000 coins yesterday because of this plus 2. Right. That's he went up 20,000 coins. So the only reason you're going to see these cards explode is if they get a plus 2 upgrade first day. So for the games that are happening today like I know off top my head St. Max and Newcastle are playing against my boys. Tana Motspur, Lucas Mora. Right. Again this card, this is not a million coin card. Again you compare this to Jaden Sancho for birthday card who is 900k. This card is 5 star 5 star incredibly more meta than Lucas Mora is just because of that 5 star 5 star aspect. This card is seriously good in this game. But again the upgrade and the hype is built into an item like this. That's why we're selling into the hype. So I would heed that advice really, really spot on today. If you have any of these cards I don't have any of these stilled. I actually kind of lucked out. I didn't plan this but when I bought Martinelli last week I didn't know that Arsenal played on Monday. So I'm still holding my Martinelli's but this is going to be the type of card where you know with Arsenal playing Crystal Palace maybe I'll chance it just in case. But you know I'm probably going to sell 90% of the Martinelli's that I have which I think I have like 6 or 7 of them. I'm probably going to sell all this due to like 620k hopefully if I can get that price. That's up 100,000 coins where I bought them from and I'm just going to continue to let them get rare and probably start to sell those off before the game on Monday. That's going to be my plan of action for a card like this or if you have any of those or maybe if you have somebody who's playing in a game today. That's kind of the safe route and the safe way to go about it especially again the other thing you have to consider is that that team of the season news. Those leaks are coming out. We'll maybe talk more about that later on this week when I think that might be but we're not very far from it. So all those things considered that's why I would really look to sell in the hype again for more of those games coming up today or tomorrow for those fantasy foot cards. So that's kind of what's going on with the market. Now one thing I also have to talk about with the market is you know this is going back to the prime icon SBC. Some of you guys are like man Nate a lot of cards are actually down a lot of value. And I was meaning to talk about this at the beginning of the video when we looked at the prime icon player pick SBC. But a lot of cards are down in value. That is the fact because you had a lot of people go out again yesterday and want to do that SBC and they had to sell some cards right. The market's been pretty stagnant right kind of high just kind of floating right even though we've had these really expensive cards that have been out. The market really hasn't dropped yet. We are entering that time later on this week even to next week. 100% for me is when you're going to start to see these prices start to fall off. But yesterday with a big time icon SBC like the player pick that we had like look at these panic sales that you had right. And Bob it was 500 K. So the combination of three or four two showdowns. So four showdown cards. I can't count four showdown cards being released yesterday and the prime icon player pick which again like I said people absolutely love those. He went all the way down to four hundred and seventeen thousand coins has rebounded back up to four forty six. Even a guy like foot birthday Fakir was four fifty one went down to three ninety two and went back up to four nineteen. I think you'll see a few of these cards rise back up again like you might see Fakir back to five four thirty four forty. Just as an example like after weakening rewards on Monday. That's maybe when I would take a look at cashing out on a few of these cards on this market. Because again once that player pick becomes available again just imagine how much market chaos would have happened yesterday. If this prime icon player pick would have been repeatable more times than one. Now people have a couple days where they can say OK this is going to be repeatable again on Monday after I get weakening rewards.  So for other people on the market I'm going to be looking to cash out on some of those cards. You know after that rewards timeframe on Monday since that usually is a time where you see the market rise up a little bit in value across the whole market. Right. That's honestly when I'm taking a look at selling some of these guys to I might hold on to a Kyle Walker or two. But man this guy has gone up so much in just two days like he was four hundred K instantly to four fifty out of packs. Even on these cards they dropped yesterday. Right. Kyle Walker was four sixty six went down to four thirty five then back to four fifty where he is now. I think Tiago what he's five twenty but he was down like four eighty again. Right. I bought this car to four eighty on Friday. He was five twenty seven went back down to four ninety in the forties for a quick second and is now rebounding back up again. So you know that's the kind of you know mindset that I would have this weekend. If you are trying to get out of some cards I would say today tomorrow maybe Tuesday at the latest. I just think that when we see that prime icon be repeatable again you're going to see some more panic on the market on Monday after content drop. So that's kind of I think how I imagine this whole thing to play out this week market wise. And that's probably what I'm going to do with a lot of my investments is get out of them still this weekend. I did buy some burrellas and some mainland Niles. I'm going to hold on to the mainland Niles I think because again we still have a leak for a Kent and it's going to be pretty difficult to link that Kent card. But since he does have the English nationality links I might hold on to these a little bit. I'm pretty sure I got mainland Niles pretty low on that one right there. But I think this guy might be back up after all the panic selling from the SBC for Brozovic and McKenny. I think he might be back up like to one thirties. Yeah I think he's in like the one thirty ranges now instead of the one twenties where he was before. So yeah one thirty four one thirty five. You know I think I'm going to hold on to that card as well. I just don't see a lot of panic coming to the market again until Monday and we'll talk more about that in tomorrow's video for sure. As we get really close to that time frame. But let's talk today content right because as a part of this showdown series promo we were told that we were getting daily showdown content. It says watch out for daily showdown content until Thursday April 7th. Now what showdown are we going to see today because there's not it doesn't there's no leaked showdowns for the Arsenal Crystal Palace game on Monday. And other than that game there's not too many other ones going on. The next games that we would potentially have for the leaks would be on Wednesday actually. We don't have any leaked showdowns for Tuesday's games. So I'm curious to see which ones you're going to start releasing. But our year and Pavard was one of the earlier ones that we had leaked earlier on. So this could be an SBC that we see coming today or maybe tomorrow and Monday. But this would want to be one of the next ones I would imagine we would see in this game. Of course a French right back would get a lot of people very very interested in a card like this Pavard. And of course he does have the low high work rates which we looked at last week when this leak came out. But again seeing how they changed so much with this Wegovore's card before did they change his work rates. Okay he was high high before but with such a big boost that they made to this item making him 4-4 from being 2-3. And you know the insane stat boost that they had given this item. You know I really think that they could they could do a lot. They could do a lot to a Pavard card. Maybe if they made him high low or you know he'd be high high actually instead of low high. But I don't know if EA is going to do a lot with that Pavard. But I think they're going to juice him up. I think they would juice up Pavard. I think they would juice up Auryar pretty well. I kind of want to do both of these if I'm being completely honest. Because Auryar links to Milo Shelso for the pass and presence first team that we were kind of halfway building at the moment. With those two cards right there both being in La Liga. But you know that's maybe what we're going to have content wise today. And then also I think we might have the second Sunday in a row of icon player SBCs. This is not confirmed or leaked or anything like that. All that's been leaked is we have two more names Del Piero and Schmeichel. Those might be our content for the day. I'm honestly expecting today to be a bit slower. A bit slower day content wise. So you know yesterday was our exciting Saturday. I think it's going to slow down today. A lot of hype again. We'll focus around whatever showdown is released and then whatever's happening on the market. Potential upgrades for Brozovic, McKenny, Breith White and Suso. That's going to be all the hype and what everybody is watching today on the market and on the game of FIFA 22. So if you're like Nate, I don't have any fodder. What in the world can I do right now? The 75 plus times five is it does cost some coins but it's really really cheap. And it you know what it's really craftable and seriously I know we've talked about it. But this is a car. This is a pack that we really need to save up for team this season with the way that it's been giving out pretty good fodder. Can you win these on bid for 450? Are you serious man? No way. Can you actually bid on non raise and win them for cheap? I thought non raise are going to be expensive because of they were on Friday. Pretty expensive. But if these actually go through, I'd be surprised if I win this for 300 on bid. I'd be shocked. Anyways, maybe the 75 plus times five. Okay. Yeah. 200. So it looks like maybe 450 to 500 for some of these cards might be what you have to pay to get the non raise in to get that SBC done. But I think this is just such a craftable SBC pack weights for fodder seems to be decently up right now. There's just not very many packs being opened.  Maybe it might help you craft a couple of these showed on SBC is like I have some fodder in the club. I'm probably going to do break white straight away. And I think I'm going to do wake horse in the next three days. You know, being careful with my fodder until then you're not going to see me do the prime icon player pick. I said no to the 92 plus primer moments. I'm going to say no to this as well. 700,000 coins. Think about how many coins like how you could do like three showdown SBCs for the price of that one prime icon player pick right now. You know, like break the white Suso and we're Charleston or a leg horse for the same price and get three cards instead of a choice of one of three, which you know, you might have like prime gigs prime schools and prime land part in your player pick. And then you're like, man, that was not a way a good use of my fodder. So as a more conservative gambler on the FIFA Ultimate team came, I would say go with some of these showdowns. You got the potential upgrades and cards that never get specials in this game getting some special items. So I'm a big fan of that. But that's kind of the video for today, boys. Again, if you have not done this, you're on Malenko versus Talgo Mendes showdown and you're done with your week in the games, maybe give that a shout as well. And it is really easy to get done and two really great cards, one of which could become a 90 rated for fodder purposes later on down the line or just a great card for your intradable team. Great card collecting time right now on the game of even 22. So that's going to be the video for today, boys. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. Good luck with your week in these. Have a happy Sunday. It's been Nate The Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace. Out.


The holidays are quickly approaching and it's going to be dessert time. There's going to be a lot of desserts out there tempting us. So today I want to make a pumpkin mousse that is not only decadent and delicious and creamy and just, you know, indulgent, but it's also got some really good nutrition in it.  So here's how we're going to be making this a little bit more nutrient dense. All right we're going to start by using Greek yogurt as part of our base and that's going to provide you with some live cultures, which is good for gut health. Not to mention there's a good amount of protein in yogurt.  The other thing we're going to be doing is using collagen peptides. Now this is going to provide some protein to this dish in addition to that Greek yogurt and it's going to provide those amino acids that, you know, might be lacking or maybe you need a little boost with and that's going to help with your nails and your hair and your skin and your bones. So I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after my chef joke. Okay here we go with chef joke number one. Why was Cinderella so bad at football? Because she had a pumpkin as a coach. Okay so this is a no-bake recipe right? We're just going to mix it up and put it in the refrigerator. So first up we have our organic whole milk Greek yogurt. Now this is going to add about 16 grams of protein to this dish. Not to mention the live cultures we talked about in the introduction.  Our next ingredient is pumpkin. So I'm using canned pumpkin here. This is 100% pure pumpkin and the only ingredient in it is pumpkin. So you don't want the one that has the spices in it already. This is just plain so I'm going to add one cup of that to our bowl. And don't forget you can get the written recipe below the video in the description area. Next up goes in the coconut sugar. Now we're going to get that protein in here by using vital proteins, collagen peptides. Now I get mine at Costco. It's a great deal there. Now I'm going to add two scoops of this which is going to give us about 20 grams of protein with all those amino acids. But you can use even three scoops if you want. It really has no effect on the flavor. Now here are the spices we're going to be adding to the mousse. We have some nutmeg, ground ginger, ground cloves and Ceylon cinnamon. Now did you know there are two types of cinnamon? One is called Ceylon which I'm using here and there's another one called cassia. Now if you eat a lot of cinnamon, say over a teaspoon a day, then you're probably going to want to try using Ceylon instead of cassia. Cassia cinnamon contains higher levels of chumarin which can be toxic if you eat a lot of cinnamon. Just keep that in mind. Okay so here goes our nutmeg. Now for the ginger and the cloves I'm only going to use a quarter teaspoon of each because they're both pretty powerful. And don't forget to check the dates on your spices because sometimes they get you know lost in the back of our cabinet and next thing you know they're five or six years old and so you want to use fresh spices. And I'm going to add a pinch of salt. So let's talk a little bit about our next ingredient which is beef gelatin. Now most of you are probably familiar with Nox gelatin and you use it in different recipes and you can use it in this. It's fine but I'm using one that is grass-fed here from Thrive Market. There are many benefits to eating gelatin and I'll leave a link in the description to an article that I think you might find interesting. So before I start mixing up my pumpkin mixture here I've got to lay out my beef gelatin. So I have some water here room temperature it's like three tablespoons or so. I have a measuring spoon here of one teaspoon and of course I have my gelatin so I'm ready to go.  Once this is mixed that goes in and then I can mix it together in it. It will mix in nice and easy. The first time I used the grass-fed gelatin I mixed it in the water in it just got so firm so quickly that it was very difficult to mix in. That's why I'm showing you the setup so that you can mix it very quickly and it'll mix in very nicely. So add two and a quarter teaspoons of the gelatin powder to three tablespoons of room temperature water and mix it quickly. Once it's combined then add it to the pumpkin mixture and blend it with the beaters. And make sure you scrape down the sides of the bowl so everything gets mixed well. Now we'll place this in the refrigerator to chill. It must be time for chef joke number two. Here we go. Who helped the mini pumpkin cross the road? The crossing gourd. All right we're adding some organic heavy whipping cream here and if you read the label you see that it is just cream which is what I like. Now here's an example at the store that I don't like. I don't like to see those extra ingredients. So we're going to pour a cup of our heavy whipping cream into a bowl and we're going to add some vanilla extract and a little bit of sugar and then we're going to mix it up until it's nice and firm. It should take about two minutes on high speed and be sure to stop before it turns into butter. Now we're just going to pour this right into our pumpkin mixture and we're going to fold it in. Now you want to fold it gently so you don't deflate the whipping cream and it stays nice and fluffy. So you scoop from the center and then you just fold it right over nice and easy. Keep folding until all of the mixture is one color. Spoon the pumpkin mousse into serving dishes and then refrigerate it for at least a couple hours. I ended up with seven servings. To serve this up you can whip up some more whipping cream and put it in a piping bag which is what I'm going to show you right now. So I just added some vanilla extract one teaspoon and I added about a tablespoon of white sugar. Start on low and mix for about two minutes on high. Once the whipping cream is done we're going to set up our piping bag. Here I have a Wilton piping bag that's 12 inches but really 16 would be better. So you place that insert into the plastic bag so you know where to cut off the tip. So I'm making my mark about halfway up that white piece there between the threads and the end of it. Cut the tip off at your mark.  And then put on your piping tip. Secure it on with the coupling. Now fold down the plastic bag a couple of inches and you're ready to stuff it. Now the dotted line here indicates how much filling you should put in it or no more than that. Fill your bag with whipping cream. It's a little bit messy but you can do it. Give the bag a twist and try not to squeeze it too hard like I did here. Oopsie daisy. Ah we'll just put that right back in the bowl. And then pipe on a cute decoration. You can serve these as is or you can top them with a little chopped pecans or walnuts or even some cinnamon or nutmeg. Whatever you like. This is going to remind you of a delicious creamy decadent pumpkin pie. If you'd like to try another pumpkin recipe you've got to try my pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting. And guess what it's gluten-free. Click the link and we'll take you right to the recipe. I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you did, let me know by smashing the like button. And if you know someone who might enjoy this delicious recipe, share it with them. All right, we'll see you back here next week for another rocking recipe.