Aloha, welcome to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We are a weekly show that broadcasts every Thursday at 2 o'clock in the downtown studios of Think Tech Hawaii and Pioneer Plaza. We highlight successful individuals and businesses in Hawaii and explain how they made things work and what they're up to. There are a lot of challenges in Hawaii, but there are successful individuals who have figured out how to get around those challenges and make things work. Today we're going to be talking to Un Yong Nakara, who is a senior director of development at the University of Hawaii, Shidler College, and she also holds a chair-elect position over the Chamber of Commerce Young Professional Program. So we're going to be talking about both pieces, but the real exciting piece of this is how much she's accomplished in a short period of time and how well she's doing out there at Shidler. Welcome. Glad to have you on the show. Thank you, Reg. I'm so happy to be here.  Sure. So I'm actually a military brat, and I was born in South Korea, and my stepfather, who adopted me, was in the Air Force. And so the first time I lived in Hawaii, we lived in Hickam Air Force Base. I remember I lived on 17th Street, 17B. And then my mom got homesick, and so we requested to live in Korea. So we spent quite a number of years on an Air Force base in Korea. And after that, I came back to Hawaii my sophomore year, and I've been here ever since sophomore year in high school, which, as you can imagine, it's a little tough to break into the Hawaii community as a sophomore, because everyone's been growing up since a small kind days, right? And so I talked a little different. I dressed a little different. And which high school was that? I went to the oldest high school in Oahu, President William McKinley High School. Oh, McKinley. Right, right. Right downtown. Good. So I've been here ever since, since the summer of Iniki, hurricane. That's a date to remember? It was. So I'll never forget the year that I came, the summer of 1992. But since then I've been here, and I'm very, very proud, and I'm privileged to call Hawaii my home. Very good. Yeah. After McKinley, you went to college, I assume? I did. So I went to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and would you believe it? I actually majored in microbiology. Really? So science is my first love, and I think nerds rule the world. Okay. All right. Well, I don't want to argue with that.  So I loved bacteria and viruses and immunology and genetics and all those things, but when you have a Bachelor of Science in microbiology, there's not much you can do in Honolulu. So while I was working at a research project, I actually went back for my MBA, and at that time it was called College of Business at UH Manoa. I remember those days. Right. And I graduated from their long-standing part-time evening MBA program. And after that, I would say my life and my career really changed course. And I had a eye for marketing, and I was really privileged to be hired by someone named Lonnie Starkey at the UH Foundation, who recently just left the Foundation's Stardisone Consulting firm. And he really took me under his wing, and I found this wonderful world of philanthropy. And how long ago was that? It was over 10 years ago. Wow. Yeah. Have you been with the UH for quite a while? I have been. Very good. Yeah. And so you've been there the whole 10 years, kind of just evolving into the senior director position you have now? I have. So I started in the Office of Estate and Gift Planning, and shortly thereafter I got a phone call, literally a phone call, from Dean Vance Rowley, and at the time I was serving on the Charlotte College of Business Alumni Association board. And that's how we knew each other. And he offered me a position at Shidler as their Associate Director of Development. And to be really cliche about it, the rest is history. I get so much joy and so much fulfillment from serving my alma mater and really just paying it forward. So I was enabled by a scholarship myself when I was at UH Manoa, when I was studying microbiology, by the Herbert H. Lee Scholarship. So now to be on the other side and raising funds for students and faculty and programs and buildings, it really, really, it fills my cup. It's very rewarding to know that you're working in an area that's actually allowing people in the state to obtain this higher level of education. I mean, how many, you must have put a lot of students through the University of Hawaii over the last 10 years. I was a small part of that. So me and many, many wonderful people that I work with, yes, yes. It really feels great. I love being able to go home and seeing my husband and seeing my daughter. And when I look at my daughter, I can know that I did something good that day. I did a plus one that day. Good, good. It's nice to have that passion and that pride and what you're doing. Now, Shidler's got some pretty interesting programs too that we were talking a little bit about earlier that, you know, and, you know, I'm a UH alumni and my wife is, and my three sons are, so we all have this connection there. But there's a lot going on over there that, you know, it's been for a while and very successful that you kind of educated me on. So, you know, like Vietnam, for example, you know, 15 years. I didn't realize it was that long, but they've got a good program over Vietnam. We do, we do. So we have so much good that's happening. And I know that we're both big proponents of showcasing the good, right? In the state and the world. So when Dean Vance Rowley arrived in January 2005, the college was good. And that's why he came, he said, because it was great potential. So we had six faculty endowments and now we have 38. Wow, huge. Right. And this helps us recruit and retain world class faculty, which has exponential benefits for students, right? Absolutely. I don't know what the stats were at the time, but today we give away on average a million dollars every school year in scholarships, which I'm very, very passionate about. Just for Shidler? Just for Shidler. That's amazing. So what does this do? It helps students graduate on time without debt, but also frees up their time. See, that's so unfair because I think when I was going to Shidler, they were only giving away a couple hundred dollars a year. Oh, you can come back. And as you mentioned, one of our star programs, we have a robust executive education program. And part of that, we have an EMBA and a distance EMBA and a health care track EMBA, which you're on the advisory board for. I am. Thank you so much. But one of those is the Vietnam Executive MBA, which we celebrated 15 years of just this past summer in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. And a few years ago, maybe five years ago, the Financial Times stated that the companies led by our VEMBA alumni account for 25% of the country's GDP. See, that is so impressive. And that's something that we really, and we don't, I haven't heard enough about that here in Hawaii. I mean, that's a success story all by itself. It is, it is. It's a one, you know, and even a few years ago, Senator John Kerry mentioned our Vietnam Executive MBA program as something concrete that is a positive towards U.S.-Vietnam relations. That was a real big moment for us.  I'm a Vietnam veteran. I'm a member of a Vietnam veterans group.  I think it's good that we are doing something positive to try to fix the wrong that we did in Vietnam. Right. And this is good. And the wrong I'm talking about is that we left them hanging there and it creates some problems. So we're back. We're helping. We're helping rebuild the economy. We're doing some very positive things. We need to continue doing that. And we need to let the rest of the world know. We do. And this is a great start, right? It is. That's right. Please touch 10,000 or 20,000 people from this. So this is exciting. And for those that don't quite understand what that Executive MBA program is, it's basically we send professors over there, right? We do. You're absolutely right. So the reason why we are the most successful and highly branded and recognized program in Vietnam is because we are teaching our curriculum in English with our professors. And so it's a very intense program. It's not like the regular EMBA or the distance EMBA here where it's 22 months and it really fits your work schedule. This is, let's say, 13 weeks and you're cramming in one course. And imagine financial economics with Jack Seiderhout in 13 weeks. But it's like boot camp. They just absolutely love it. So someone that we both love, Dr. Dave Bess, and so he's one of our star faculty that are asked to go over to teach in the VEMBA program. And it's a real privilege because we want to send our best faculty. And they go over, they spend a couple of weeks. They really bond with the students and the students go through an entire course in that short amount of time. And that is what makes our program special amongst other things. That's a great program that we need to really encourage and continue to do. As a matter of fact, we should probably get some federal dollars to help do that because that's a good message. It's coming from the United States. Let's do it. Not just Hawaii. Let's do it. So let's talk to our congressional delegation. Let's do it. Yeah. And then, of course, we have the Executive MBA program in health care that's relatively new. It's just, I guess we've only had it for a couple of years now. Yes. And that's going well from what I understand. Yes. Just a lot of neat programs over there. There are. You know, something that we're in our fifth year of, but I would say most people don't know is that for, since 1949, the College of Business, the shy of the College of Business now, has been admitting students at the junior level. So they come to UH Manoa. They finish their freshman year, their sophomore year. They finish their course and they apply to be admitted into the shy of the College of Business. That's the traditional model. It is. It is, right? Your two wonderful sons who are very successful followed that model. But what we realized was that we were passive in that process. So to compete with other universities around the world, we had to be more active. And that required us to admit students at the freshman level. Very high achieving, high SAT scores, high GPAs, straight from high school into shyder. So we're actually in our fifth academic year. It's going very, very well from public and private high schools. A lot from California. Really? Really. So we have a tuition agreement with California where they only pay 150 percent of tuition. The resident level. Well, that's better than a regular average tuition. It totally is. It totally is. So these freshmen, they get, most of them get $1,000 scholarship. And they get mentoring, career services. They get to go on study abroad because we also send the most number of students on study abroad on scholarship. And by the time they're at the junior level, they're just ready to take on the world. And so it's going really well. Well, and they're also comfortable in the environment. They're probably a little bit more focused. They know exactly what they want to do and they're more focused in moving in that direction. Absolutely. Laser focused. Absolutely. That's great. I know that for most students, at least historically, it just takes a while or a year or two to get into the campus environment, to explore all the different options and to be able to decide exactly what it is that you want to major in. But for those that already have a pretty good idea of what they want to do, this is a great way to get a running start into it. It is. We're at a special counselor just for them as well because they do need that extra attention. We have to remember that they are 18 and 19 years old. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's very good. You know, we also have something else in common that we haven't talked about and we will be doing a little bit more of that, you know, after we come back from the break. But basically, it's a Chamber of Commerce connection. Yes. And, you know, you've done so well out at the university and you're also doing equally well with the young professional program at the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii. And so we want to speak a little bit about that. But we're going to go on break here shortly. And we're going to be back in about 60 seconds. Nick, are we good for going on break? Hello. I'm Marianne Sasaki. Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii, where some of the most interesting conversations in Honolulu go on. I have a show on Wednesdays from one to two called Life in the Law, where we discuss legal issues, politics, governmental topics, and a whole host of issues. I hope you'll join me. Aloha. My name is Richard Emory, and I host Kondo Insider. We talk about issues facing the Kondo Association throughout Hawaii and talk about solutions. When you think about it, about one-third of our population lives in some form of common interest real estate. We broadcast every Thursday at 3 p.m. Please tune in. Tune in. Thank you. Aloha. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from Hibachi Talk, and all of us here at Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha Kako. I'm Marcia Joyner, and I'm inviting you to navigate the journey. We are discussing the end-of-life options, and we would really love to have you every Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. Right here. Aloha, and welcome back to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. Today we're talking with the University of Hawaii and the Chamber of Commerce. One of the more successful individuals involved in both sides is Ongyong Nakara, who has gotten a senior role over at the Scheider School of Business in the fund-raising and development area, and then also is the chair-elect for the Chamber of Commerce Young Professional Program, and she's going to be taking over probably in about less than a year or so, I guess. Maybe six months. But before we get over to the Chamber and Young Professional Program, there was a couple final comments we wanted to make about the University of Hawaii Scheider School of Business, and that is? There was. There was. I couldn't ever speak about the Scheider College of Business without actually mentioning Mr. Scheider. Of course. And what else, what could I say about Mr. Scheider, such a unique individual, so generous, actually very down-to-earth, very funny, has the best colorful socks, and very committed, very loyal. So when Dean Vance really arrived in January 2005, from there Mr. Scheider's first gift went public in 2006, and that was $25 million, and we launched many things.  For $25 million, he can wear whatever color socks he wants to. So we were so grateful to name the college in his honor, launch a full-time MBA program, seed many faculty endowments, amongst many other things, and since then he's been quietly giving several million more for the building. And then in October 2014, as I hope most everyone in the community knows, we announced the visionary gift, which was Mr. Scheider's commitment to give another $69 million to bring his total giving to $100 million. I don't think the University of Hawaii has had anybody as generous as that. No. So he's actually the most generous, by fact, person in the entire state of Hawaii. So after him is Mr. Amityar. Oh, yes. And of course, that's not why he gave. He's all about difference, impact, and leveraging, right? He always says, you can't change where you went to school, but you can change the school where you went, right? Yeah, that's true. And that might not be an exact quote, but that's the spirit of his quote. And one of the things that Mr. Scheider seeded was our Pacification Center for Entrepreneurship. And you know, something's changing in the community. Small business, entrepreneurship, tech, innovation. It's happening. It's really happening. Besides hospitality and government, there is something meaty there. It can happen. So we successfully just closed a $3 million campaign. And with many, many people, business leaders, community leaders, and donors and friends in the community, and what did the $3 million do? One, we have a new center. It's amazing. It's called Space for Scheider Pace. Although Susan Yamada, the executive director, says, no, it's for Susan Pace. Sounds like Susan. And we love her. So and we increased our programs from 15 to 25. And it's securing the long run future of the Entrepreneurship Center. Well, you know, and some of the students, and I spoke out at this group, and they're very motivated. They're intense. They're serious about what they're doing. It's an exciting group of people to speak with. They're passionate. Definitely. Definitely. Very good. It's a great program. And it's so nice to have benefactors, the university, that's able to make that all happen. That's right. That's super. You know, can we talk a little bit about the chamber? I'd love to. You know, the chamber, you know, I'm involved in the chamber. I was on a formal, formerly I was on a board and treasurer of the organization. And I'm now the chair of the small visit out to more committee. And when I was with HMA, I helped sponsor and provide some capital to start the YP program. You did. Thank you. As a matter of fact, Jacob was one. Jacob, no. He was. He was one of our assets that we contributed to the program. Oh, great asset. Great asset. He's a good guy. He is a great asset. And so he took the lead on that. We funded some of that. We got that going. And it has flourished. It has done very well. And you've been a big part of that. Well, I've been a small part of that. So I joined the YP program. This is my fifth year. And I joined because my very good friend, Jennifer He, who you also know, who's at the Salvation Army, she was there from the very get go, I believe, with Kyle Okamura and several others. So she asked me to come on and chair a program called exec connect. And she's very smart. And I found it very fulfilling and quite easy for me. It was a way for me to leverage the privilege I have at the Charlotte College of Business and the interactions I have with community and business leaders and ask them to give one hour of their time, three executives a month, and have talk stories style informal lunch with the YPs. And this is a free, this is the only free benefit to the YP members. And for over four years, I've done my best and I've exhausted my entire roll of decks. I actually really recently just asked the vice chair Kyle Shelly at American Savings Bank to take over. But I've been very fulfilled and I've made great friends because the YP program, I truly believe is the premier YP, a young professionals program for anyone in Oahu. It is. And I've had the opportunity to participate in a couple of those and it's another one of those dynamic groups of people that are very career focused and, you know, they want to be successful. But they ask some really good questions. I hope so. Yes. I hope so. They do indeed.  Oh, that's great. That's great. So to your point, what I find really fulfilling, it's not just what the YPs get from this hour. I find it's very common that the executives after the lunch feel very inspired about the next gen. And that's going to be, that's going to be good too, right? They're going to go back to First Hawaiian Bank or Deloitte and they're going to be energized about what's bubbling up behind them. Right.  Sometimes you go over to the program at the University of Hawaii or you go over to the Exec Connect program and you get to see those individuals that are really committed and focused and it tends, it will change your perspective. Right. Definitely. Definitely. Yeah. And so now as you move in, you're transitioning into another role now. You're going to be the chair-elect, right? You are the chair-elect. I am. I am. So I'm privileged to be the chair-elect and right now the chair is Stan Lau of Hawaii Tech Support, another great YP and his chair position will sunset June 30th and I believe that's when I will become chair and I'm just very excited. I am looking forward to how best I can serve the YP program and also the chamber in my new role and when Sherry and I briefly discussed this a few months ago, when actually I had to interview for the position, she asked me what my plans were and I told her it was twofold because I believe in doing a few things well, then a lot of things not so well, right? So I told her my goals were, my hopes were twofold. One for our internal was governance and it doesn't mean reports and structure and hierarchy, but it means evolving the bylaws a little bit more, creating a vice chair position, creating succession, creating support, creating some structure so that it promotes the organization into perpetuity. Right. It's sustainability. Exactly. Exactly. And I've learned that over time through serving on different boards how important governance is. Frankly, I think governance was quite boring, but now I see that it's very important. So now you're actually involved in the process, sometimes learning a new concept, you're kind of, you know, it's all conceptual, but now it's really, you know, and it makes a difference. So the other goal was external. So the external goal for the YP program, and we actually just had a strategic planning session and we discussed this, we don't know yet who, which organization to partner with, but we feel that now with our robust membership being above 260, it was 140 almost a year and a half ago, it's now time to see which other organizations we can partner with. But we felt it was, we all agreed it was the right time, but we want to be sure as to the Y. Exactly. I was just going to ask that. Okay. It's great to partner with somebody. Right. But what are you going to get out of it? Exactly. What do we provide? But also whichever organization we ask to partner with us, what do we want from them? Because it has to be, this is what we talked about earlier, Hawaii style, Aloha style, right? It's got to be a win-win. It's not just tick, tick, tick, or give, give, give, but win-win. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's got to give and take. And so, and you're going through that process now of trying to identify the different partners that you might be talking to. Right. Well, we just had our strategic plan. Yep. The plan led that. And one of the outputs of that was we at least all agreed it was the right time. And so we're going to do a little research and auditing of what potential partners could be, and then figuring out the Y and then approaching them. That sounds like exciting times. It is. It sounds like this is going to be kind of thought out, figured out, and then maybe launch just in time for you to take over as chair. That's the plan. I'm a planner. Good luck with that. I know I've been through the cycle a few times where I would either inherit the chair position or maybe move into the chair position. And sometimes my predecessor would spend the entire budget and I wouldn't have anything left to do what was supposed to be done. Oh no. Oh no. Stan won't do that. Tell Stan to be careful. He's physically prudent. All right. Good. And actually we, you know, I wish you could be a fly on the wall at these steering committee meetings. We actually have quite a robust and a good conversation about budget and about marketing and about relationships. And we kind of, we consider all factors. And because we want to be, we want to be a positive program within the chamber. We want to be a revenue generating program. And we're finally there. And this makes us really, really happy because all we want to do is support share in the chamber. Of course. Now we're down to our last 30 seconds here. So we're going to just kind of wrap up. You know, but there's a lot of programs that the chamber offers through the YP program. And you have a website that people can find out more information on. Yes. Okay. And that would be, do you know what that name is? Oh my gosh. COCYPHauai.org. Okay. So remember that. And then also we've got a big event coming up here in early January. Don't we? Chamber week? No. That's July. Close to the family. Oh yes. Okay. So please allow me to wish my daughter a happy seventh birthday on January 2nd. Happy birthday, Mia. You're the best. And mommy and daddy and Nana Papa just love you. All right, Mia. Very good. Very good. Thank you for being on the show today. Appreciate it very much. Great stories about both the chamber and the University of Hawaii. So it's exciting times for you and for those organizations. This is Reg Baker, host of business in Hawaii. We air every Thursday at 2 o'clock from 2 to 2.30. We highlight individuals and businesses that are successful in Hawaii and share some of the secrets on how they do that. So until next week, aloha.


So when it comes to earning gold or making gold, the best place to do so is no doubt within the trading posts, no one will argue with you on that point. The problem is, and while I say problem, for people who use these guides, it's no problem at all. But most people now are too worried about making hundreds or thousands of gold at a time, selling Ocalcom gear etc etc. But this is great because if people are selling items for such profit, it means that the smaller dudes who are nowhere near that level where they can create items and sell them for thousands of gold profit, it means that these smaller dudes can take advantage of the lower end of the market where items like vegetables, herbs, fruit and other resources, people don't think twice about buying because they're too busy making hundreds or thousands of gold profit at a time. Because let's face it, if you're earning hundreds or thousands of gold profit per item you sell, why would you waste your time going out and farming nutmeg, basil, sage, onions, coconuts, things like this? Why would you waste your time going out and farming them when you can literally buy them for 4 or 5 quid each? And that's the point. And this is where these guys that will bring you over the next few days will take advantage of. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video, leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more, be sure to subscribe. So people do need to realise when it comes to guys like these, certain things in certain servers sell more than others, some things are less and some things are just more, some things are just atrociously over the top, what people are asking for. So firstly, if I were you, head to your local trading post and search for items I'm covering within the guys to come to see if it's truly worth your time. Now these guys ain't just fruit and veg there for other resources too, so don't worry if you're thinking that you're doomed here with the veg on your server just selling for peanuts because it will bring you many, many other farms also. So one of these will truly make you a profit. Now for me, ever thought it's by far the busiest outpost when it comes to trading, probably because it's basically centre of the map, so head to your busiest outpost and check the prices there. Now like I said, there are those certain items that will make you a decent profit. So I'm taking much, much along with the farm and craft though like Starmel ingots or Arukelkin gear or they could require you to be a certain level in something. Now most of my guys are going to avoid all of that. So today we are farming provisions, crates. Now the beauty with these is they actually have exclusive items you can't find elsewhere which is why the contents can sell for such a great profit and it seems different areas you have exclusive items too. Today's route takes part in Everfall and items you'll find from these crates are milk which isn't a rare resource at all but salt, string beans and wheat can sell for great, great money especially salt on my server is ridiculous. Now the thing is these items do seem minimal but like I said, check your outpost, your busiest outpost and see if there's a decent profit for you to do before you head into trying to do this. If it looks good enough for you, you may as well farm these guys. So yes, use what both shoe can to earn even more and while I hope this helps you guys out. Now when it comes to selling the items you have gathered from these guides, what I will say is obviously you want to undercut people by as minimal as possible but you also want to check recent buy orders what they've recently sold for. If they're sold for way less than what people are asking for I'd probably go halfway in between because you've got to remember items don't always sell for the price people are actually asking for, they clearly sell for what people have brought them for already. Now there can be a situation where you'll see some of these items may not have been up for sale yet but people do have them up for sale that's where I normally undercut them by a couple of quid maybe and if you notice they fly out like that then you know the range to sell them for in the future. That's the way I work it anyway it's the way I've been selling tons of things since moving server because my first server was kind of dead but now I've gone to a pretty populated server I have no problem whatsoever selling the items I'm showcasing to you guys within these guides. Now I'm not sure if a lock in regards to monsters and chests work with provision crates and we can always wear it anyway you've got nothing to lose in reality so if you've got any of that gear slap it on. Now me personally I think farming these smaller items can in reality be just as efficient as getting the materials together to create bigger items itself for more profit but yeah like I said make sure there is a profit here to be made for you in your server before following anyone's guides not even my own and there we have it guys follow the route on the screen now to get tons of these provisions crates and I hope this helps you earn some decent gold. I'll leave you now to watch the video if you enjoy leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here and want to see more be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button because thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


So now more than ever, I'm pretty sure that we all know that the drop shopping market is as big as it's ever been, and it's only getting bigger. And because of that, right now is the perfect time to actually jump into the e-commerce world to start making some money. Now, for those of you that are wanting to make the jump, but you're not entirely sure how you can find either what's trending or some trending products, then make sure you check out this video all the way through because I'm going to give you one amazing tool that's going to help you find some of the best selling items and you're also going to be able to use it as proof. So that way, you know which items you can actually sell and which ones are going to be trending. Now, before we continue on and actually get into it, my name is Mario with AutoDS and make sure if you haven't done so already, make sure to hit that subscribe button and ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos. Remember that on this channel, we cover anything and everything that has to do with dropshipping, starting from some of the best tips and tricks to be able to help you succeed all the way to some of the best products to be able to maximize your profits. So if that's something that interests you, just make sure you hit that subscribe button. Also to go along with this video, I'm going to have down in the description below a link to the relevant article. If you want more information on this particular tool, then you can go ahead and just check that out. So enough talking, what tool am I referring to? What is this amazing tool that can help you find best selling products and let you know whether or not they're trending or not? Google Trends. So Google Trends is an amazing tool that dropshippers can use to their advantage to be able to find what niches and what products are currently trending. So pretty much what this tells you is what is a search volume on Google? How many people are searching for this particular product or this niche or this particular search term that you're going to be looking for? Now, depending on the results that we get from that, we can determine at that point, whether the search term that we looked for or whatever item that we looked for is actually worth selling or not. So how exactly does Google Trends work and how can we use it to our advantage? Well, let's go ahead and jump over to the computer screen and let me show you. So here we are on the Google Trends website, which is simply trends.google.com. But if you want a direct link to it, you can simply just check out the article in the description below. Everything will be in there. Now, all we have to do is simply just search up a particular niche or a particular product that we're interested in selling. So in this case, we actually just passed summer. So one of the most popular niches that you can sell during the summer is, of course, going to be bathing suits. Now let's take that as a quick example. Let's go ahead and look up bathing suits and let's see what it gives us. So right off the bat, the first thing that we see is the search results for the past day. This is not going to help us in any way whatsoever. What we want is either the last year or the last five years. So on here, a cool feature is the fact that you can actually change the different country that you're going to be searching for. Typically, I stick to the United States, but if you're dropshipping in, let's say the United Kingdom, you can switch us over to the United Kingdom to see what the search results are over in the UK. You can see whether it's trending over there or not. There are going to be times where certain niches or certain products are going to be trending more in a different country rather than the one that you're currently dropshipping in. So sometimes bathing suits can be trending in the US, but not in the UK, or let's say gaming accessories at one point might be trending more in the UK rather than the US. So just keep that in mind for whatever country that you're dropshipping in. Now you also have a few other options that you can choose from here. So as I mentioned earlier, the moment that you land on your search results, you're going to see the search results for the past day. Again, that's not going to help us out, but we're going to get to that in just a quick second. Aside from that, you can also change the category. So these are the categories that people are going to be searching in. Typically, I like to keep this blank because I like to look for a particular search term. But if you do want to check out the different categories and see what's trending, you can do that as well. And you're not limited to just web searches. Using Google Trends, you can see what image searches people have been looking for, along with news, Google shopping and YouTube.  So let's leave all of these at default. We're going to keep it at the US with all categories and the basic web search. Now let's go ahead and go back in time. So as I mentioned, this search results right here are for the past day. Now what I want to do is I want to switch it over to the past year and see where we are. So right now we're actually in the beginning of September, which means summer is long gone. So searches for bathing suits in theory should start to go down. And just looking over here, we can see that that is exactly the case. So you can see that it started rising right around January, February, and it peaked right at the end of May, not between May and about mid June. It was fairly consistent with people searching for it. But starting in July, it started to go down because let's face it, if you order a bathing suit in July, you're going to be getting it towards the end of July, which is pretty much coming to the end of summer. When somebody is looking for a bathing suit, they're typically going to be searching for it right before summer. And that is exactly when you want to start preparing your store. Now these are the search results for the past year. This can help us out to see what the current search volume is. But if we want to compare this information to the past few years and actually see where these search results are ranking and around what time we should actually be listing these bathing suits or whatever niche or product it is that you're looking for, then we want to go back for the last five years. So for that, let's just go ahead and switch over to past five years. And now you can see a clear trend. So as you can see, not a lot of people are searching for bathing suits around October because let's face it, who's going to go swimming in the middle of November, right? It's too cold for that. So it makes sense that people are not looking for bathing suits around this time. Now if we start looking over here, we can see that around December, it kind of starts to go up. But around the end of December is when it really starts to actually rise. So we can see here, the trend starts to rise up until about March. Now in March, it dips a little bit, which isn't really a big deal. And then it continues to rise all the way to about the beginning of June. Around the beginning of June is when it starts to dip again. Once again, it's because people stop searching for these because people already have their bathing suits. So while there is going to be a lot of traffic for these keywords or for these products, it's not going to be as much as it is in, let's say, the month leading up to it. So as you can see in 2019, it peaked at around June 1st. Then it started to go down. Then it started to rise up once again around the same time in December peaked at June around the beginning of June, the first two weeks of June. And it just continues the same exact trend peaks back up down peaks back up. So using this information right here that Google Trends is giving us for 100% free, we know when we want to start stocking up our items for bathing suits. In this case, I would say around the beginning of the year, start stocking up around the beginning of the year for the next few months, start building up an inventory and a bunch of different variations and a bunch of different styles. So that way, when people really start to search for it around the month leading up to summer, you're going to be ready and you're going to have tons of different products that people are going to be looking for. Now, cool feature with Google Trends is the fact that you can see the search results by a particular region. So in this case, since we're looking in the United States, we can actually see which states are googling bathing suits more than others. So that way, we can target these particular locations more than others so we can increase our chances for a sale. So if you scroll right down, you're going to see interest by sub region. And on here, you can see the top five that have been searching for bathing suits in this case. So we have New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware. In the past five years, these states have had the highest search results for our particular search term, bathing suits. Now, if we want to increase our chances even more for a sale, then we also want to start including different keywords within our descriptions and within our titles or even within our tags, if you're selling, let's say on Etsy. And on this, Google Trends can also help us. So if you scroll down right under the sub region, we can see related topics as well as related queries. So these are all different searches that people have been searching for in relation to our current search term, bathing suits. Now, I can't stress enough how important it is to do your research when it comes to different keywords. If you use the proper keywords and you optimize your SEO or search engine optimization, then all of these things put together can increase your chances of your website being found organically on websites like Google. So when somebody searches up, let's say bathing suits or bathing suits, plus any one of these particular queries that people are searching for, your website is actually more likely to be able to show up so people can make a click on it. Now, looking at some of the related queries right now, you can see that bathing suits 2020 have a breakout, which a breakout means simply that there is massive search volumes when it comes to this particular search term. Aside from that, we also have Demon Slayer bathing suits, which of course, Demon Slayer is an anime which is one of my personal favorites, but unfortunately, we can't sell those because they're copyright, but that doesn't mean we can't sell anime bathing suits with original anime designs that we create. Aside from that, in this case, you also have bathing suits 2019, Fair Harbor bathing suits and Sheehan plus size bathing suits. So these search terms have been the ones that have been the most searched for in the past five years. Now, let's actually go ahead and switch us over to the past year and let's see what people have been searching for in the past year. So scrolling down, we can see that we have best bathing suits 2023 tug friendly bathing suits. Now let's go ahead and switch it up a little bit. So instead of bathing suits, let's go ahead and type in gaming accessories. Let's see what the search volume is for that in the past five years. And as we can see here, it has peaks around December around December and around December. More than likely, the reason for these peaks is going to be the holiday seasons like Christmas. So a lot of people are going to be searching up gaming accessories so they can purchase gifts for, let's say their kids or their friends or whoever it may be. So now let's check out the different search queries within the last year related to gaming accessories. So I'm going to switch this over to the past 12 months and I'm going to scroll down. So let's scroll down here and we can see related queries. So for one, we have Nintendo Switch games, Wii accessories, which is actually pretty interesting because the Wii is actually an outdated console from maybe like five years ago. You also have history books, mini fridge and cookbooks. How these three relate to gaming accessories. I'm not entirely sure. Well, the mini fridge I can get because you can have a mini fridge right next to you while you're gaming. That'll be pretty cool. But according to Google Trends, these are the related queries when people search up game accessories. Aside from that, some other topics you can see are the docking station or a Wii video game console. Maybe people actually like the retro games. So they want to have some retro video games for Christmas and a few others. So as you can see, if you're selling gaming accessories, one hot item that you can potentially sell is going to be accessories for the Wii or even a mini fridge to be able to complement your video game setup. Now using this extremely valuable information that we just learned, we can go ahead and start searching up different items, different niches, different categories to be able to see what's trending and what's going to be trending based on past data. Now after we did our research and we found out what products we actually want to drop ship, then the next thing we need to do is actually find those products to be able to offer in our stores. And doing so is probably one of the easiest things that you can do. So one of the best ways to do this is simply by heading over to AutoDS. Now, this method does require you to have an account with AutoDS. But if you don't have one, you can currently start your trial for just one dollar. Now, once you have your account set up and you're logged in, you simply just have to go to the marketplace. Once you're on the marketplace, let's go ahead and switch over supplier to the AutoDS suppliers. And from here, we have a wide variety of different categories that we can choose from. So that way we can find items in the niche that we're trying to get into or the niche that we're trying to sell. So let's say we decided to go with video game accessories, we can simply just click on toys and hobbies. And here you can find tons of different products that have to do with toys, hobbies, video games, whatever it might be. Now, as I was scrolling, I actually found one perfect item that you can offer in your store. So I came across this case for the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons. So for those of you that don't know, the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con is simply the controller that you use to play your Nintendo Switch. Now, this is a perfect accessory because people love to protect their consoles or their video games or whatever it may be. So let's go ahead and click into it. And you can see the different variations here. So you have two different colors and you have the different pictures to be able to showcase in your store. Now, two quick things that I do want to highlight here is for one, on this particular product, you actually have customizable branding. So when this product ships, it's going to ship with a custom thank you card with your logo on it. And don't worry about copyright in this case, because this is not a Nintendo item. This isn't sold by Nintendo. It's not made by Nintendo. This is simply an accessory or a video game accessory for your Nintendo Switch. So when it comes to these types of accessories, there's tons of different companies that actually make them. A lot of different companies make protectors, they make covers, they make screen protectors, grips, a bunch of different things. So you don't have to worry about copyright in this case, because you're not selling the actual Joy-Cons or you're not selling any video games and you're not selling the actual Switch console itself. You're just selling a simple accessory to protect your Nintendo Switch console. And another thing that I do want to point out is the fact that this item ships between 11 to 14 business days. Now, if it was 11 to 14 business days for the supplier to actually ship out the item, then I would say that's going to take a long time because on top of that, you also need to take into account the transit time, you know, how long it's going to be in transit from your supplier to your customer's doorstep. But that's not the case. In this case, the 11 to 14 business days actually includes both shipping and transit time. So this is the amount of time it's going to take for the order to actually reach your customer's house from the time they place their order. So that's pretty quick shipping because it is within two weeks. If something starts to go after that, maybe if you start to have items that ship in about a month, then you maybe want to stay away from those items and look for items that ship a lot quicker, like this one, for example. Remember that in this day and age, people want their orders tomorrow, but a lot of the times unless you're Amazon, that's not really possible. So two weeks is a very acceptable time frame. One month is already starting to push it. Now, let's say that I actually did decide to actually sell this particular item. Then in order to import it to my store and make any adjustments or start selling it, all I have to do is simply click on import draft. Once I do that, it's going to be ready to sell within minutes. And that is one of the most powerful tools that you have at your disposal for product research. Google Trends really is an extremely valuable asset that you should be using to your advantage. If you're not using Google Trends, then start getting onto it, start learning how to use it and start using it for your product research, your keyword research, because trust me, using Google Trends can really either make or break your drop shipping store. Now, if you found this video informational, if you liked it, if you found it helpful, please make sure you leave a like. It truly helps me and it helps the channel keep growing. And it helps us get this information out there. Two more dropshippers so they can actually start their business, start making some sales and start succeeding. Also, while you're down there leaving a like, make sure you hit that subscribe button as well and ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos. Remember, if you want more information on Google Trends, all you have to do is check out the description down below. I'm going to have a link to the relevant article down there. Huge thank you to everyone for watching. Once again, especially if you made it all the way to the end. My name is Mario with AutoDS wishing you all nothing but success in your dropshipping business. And we'll catch you all next time.