I'm Jeff Ray, I'm the executive director of business and technology. So Amaran is a Japanese company, right? They're a global company, so they're our headquarters in Japan, but we actually have offices all over North America, South America, Europe, all over Southeast Asia. And selling lots of these cool sensors and stuff in the U.S. and not yet? Yeah, so Amaran has actually been selling products in the United States for over 40 years. We're the number one brand in the U.S. for home blood pressure monitors. For breath... Home blood pressure monitors. Blood pressure, like this? Yeah, so this is just an extension of our line of blood pressure monitors. So this is what we call our Project Zero upper arm. So normally when somebody takes a blood pressure, they actually take this big thing out and they put it on a table, they plug it in, and they have a long tube that's attached to a hose. This is all in one. Everything is built into this monitor. So how do you use it? So what you do is, instead of going to the doctor's office and trying to put it on your wrist, on your arm, all you have to do is open it up, wrap it around your upper arm. You don't even need to take off your jacket? What? It depends on how thin the jacket is, actually. But then all you do is press the start. A couple seconds later, start taking your blood pressure. That's awesome. In as short as 30 seconds? Is this on the market that I get? Not on the yet. This will be coming out in late 2016. Late? Why late? Why can't you release it now? Because everything that Amron does has to go through the FDA. Because we do everything, we'll go through clinical trials, go through the whole FDA submission, and we've got to make sure that it follows the right protocols. Because we want to put something in people's hands that they can trust is accurate. And the only way to do that is to follow the right protocols. This is impressive. So that's the best self-using blood pressure monitor on the market? It is. What's special about it? Well, this one actually is all about convenience. So we want to get people to be able to monitor their blood pressure on a daily basis. 73 million people struggle from hypertension, which leads to heart attacks and stroke. We can make a great device, but we've got to make sure that people are using it. If they're not using it, then they don't know what their numbers are in that risk. FDA sounds like a boring thing that just slows things down, is it true or not? No. Could you just release it without FDA? Otherwise, what happens is that there is a lot of technology that comes out onto the market that people believe in that is actually not giving them an accurate reading, which can be very dangerous to them. So it's got to be something that they believe in. Amron is also the number one doctor recommended brand. And that comes from a long legacy of working with doctors and having clinical studies that prove our accuracy to them. But can't you just release it and get their approval later? Not how it works. It's not allowed? Nope. So how about this watch? What does it do? So kind of the same thing, except for being on a... Let me take this one off. So this one is our lightest, quietest, and easiest to use blood pressure monitor. Blood pressure. But it does much more than just blood pressure.  How can it do blood pressure? It's a watch. It is. So but the same artery that's running through your upper arm, there's this similar artery that goes through your wrist called your radial artery. And it's taking your blood pressure from your radial artery. So that's not as precise as the other one, or what's the difference? They all pass the exact same protocol, which is plus or minus three millimeters of mercury. All of them, both wrist and upper arm, are cleared by the FDA. So does it put pressure on your wrist a little bit when it measures? A little bit of pressure, because it's... Not all the time, only when you need it, right? So the rest of the time that you're walking around is just like it would be a normal watch. But when I turn it on, and I go to start my blood pressure, just press the bottom, and now start taking my blood pressure. Is it going to squeeze, take your arm, and inflate? Inflate, yes. Because the only cleared home blood pressure monitor mechanism that is out there today is a telemetric, it starts that ventilation, and it will take your blood pressure. Well, that's awesome. Now it's going to air out, because I already have it on my arm. This is a lot of... I've seen some awesome sleep monitors, but I can only find them in Japan, and there's no English version. So this one also is a sleep monitor, but it doesn't give you... Honestly, if you're only interested in sleep monitors, there's a whole bunch of other gadgets out here that you could go. We're a medical device, not a gadget. So sleep is a component to heart health. All we're going to do is give you the basics. What do you need to know to live a better, heart-healthy life? All right, so then I could go through. I would say, what was my blood pressure? Not bad, 128 over 80. So they would do that, yes. It's so awesome, like once a few times a day. Yep, and that's why we made it so small, is that you can take this with you.  People know they need to be taking their blood pressure, but if we don't make it simple and easy to use, they won't do it. So how much is it going to cost? Is there any price for this? So right now it is still very open. We're still going through and developing that. Right now our target is to be less than $200. For both? Yes, so each would be $200 or less. All right. Is it already available in Japan or not yet? Not yet, so the US will be one of the first markets that it's available in, and we're targeting for late fall to winter of 2016. All right, so I guess Ameren has lots of other sensors and stuff going on. So we've been selling products in the United States for over 40 years. We're the number one trusted brand in home blood pressure monitoring.


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What is going on everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be doing an overall market update looking at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq. We're also going to be talking about two trades that I made today on the 22nd of January in 2019. And we're going to look into some charts, some other tickers, some stocks, ETFs that I personally see potential in for the rest of this week. But before we do get into this, feel free to smash that like button. If you guys do enjoy the daily content, if you guys see value in the videos that I'm making for YouTube, it really does help the channel grow. And I really appreciate you guys if you do smash that like button. So what happened today guys? Well, we finally got that red day that we've been waiting for since that last red day that we had, that last big red day that we had back on the 4th, I believe of January back in 2019. This day in particular, or actually the 3rd of January, where we had that nice big sell-off, this is literally the last red day that we've had. And from there, it's pretty much been about two straight weeks of upwards push with very minimal pullbacks in the SPX and the overall markets as a whole. So before we get into, you know, deeper detail on that, let's just see what happened overall at the close for the major indices. We see here, the SPX was down around 1.42% today, sizable down day, sizable red day for the SPX, down around $37.81. The Dow Jones closed the day today down around 300 points, down around 1.22%. And the NASDAQ composite guys also fell pretty decently today, the future showing that it's up around $2 right now. But if we take a look to see, you know, where we opened up at around 9.30 AM at around $6,700. And we sold off all the way to around, let's say, 66.40. So we sold off around 100 points in the NASDAQ. It was down around like 1%, 1.1% on the day. So not the craziest red day, right? But it's been the biggest red day that we've seen since that 3rd of January red day that we saw about two weeks ago, two trading weeks ago from right now. So let's dive into the SPX. And, you know, let's take a look at what's going on on this closer term chart. Actually, let's take a look first at the 180 chart. So for those of you all that recall that have been watching my videos, you know, the resistance that we've been looking at for the SPX was initially at around 26.35. And obviously it broke above that, which made the next resistance at around 26.80. And that's actually exactly where we got rejected guys at 26.80, which was put, you know, right under that 180 SMA. So we were actually at two different resistances, one under the 180 SMA here on the 180 chart and another one right around 26.80, which really is right by that 180 SMA. So that's why I'm saying it was around two resistance points. So we can see over the past guys, you know, the SPX has been rejected there once, twice, three times. So in my opinion, with all the green that we did have, you know, I thought it was pretty likely that we were getting rejected here, because like I've been saying, right, we're going to have a red day eventually, right? And, you know, we've been having green day after green day after green day, we broke above that, you know, resistance here. And I thought it was a pretty good chance that we were going to get rejected here since we have been rejected over the past couple of days. And today really solidified that, right? Have we gotten fully rejected? Not quite yet. But let's say we have another big red day tomorrow pushing us down, let's say back into the $2,500 level, I would say that is a pretty much, you know, that's a full on confirmation of a rejection. But why isn't it a full on rejection quite yet? Because we're holding the 50 SMA here on the 20 day one hour chart for the SPX, which has been a support here, as well as here over the past couple of weeks that we've been having this green recovery since, you know, the end of December, right? The 26th is when this green started to occur, right? And we're still holding that 50 SMA, like I said, and this red trend line that I just drew out for you guys. So even though we got rejected on that 180 chart, guys, you know, the fact that we're holding here, we're finding it as a support and we're slowly starting to push up, that is a good sign that this is continuing the uptrend right now. But just because the technicals are showing that, that doesn't mean that we're actually going to continue the uptrend. I personally think we're going to have a couple of more red days pushing us, you know, below this channel, making that a break of pattern, right? So I personally think, you know, with the state of the economy that we're in right now, we saw Trump and, you know, China the trade war deal that they're doing, it's not really happening right now, it's slowing down, you know, on Twitter, I just saw, you know, Trump tweeted something earlier today, I'm looking at my phone right now, he said, China posts slowest economic numbers since 1990 due to US trade tensions and new policies make so much sense, it makes so much sense for China to finally do a real deal and stop playing around. So in my opinion, guys, you know, Trump clearly is trying to leverage the fact that China isn't doing so well right now, I actually think they posted like the slowest GDP growth that they've had since the early 90s or something like that, I was reading in an article, you know, he's really trying to leverage that so they can make a trade war deal, right? But they're really just going back and forth right now. And it doesn't seem like it's happening anytime soon. So, you know, this has a huge weight on the markets, right? And of course, the slowing down of the economy, Apple's earnings coming up, which I personally think is not going to be great for the overall stock market, I think Apple's going to go down. I'm just eager to see what, you know, we're going to be looking like pre market hours tomorrow in the futures in the SPY. And of course, what the large caps are going to be looking like pre market hours, are they going to be down? Are they going to be up? You know, only time will tell.  But of course, let's say we break into the 2600 let's say we break 2600 back into the $2,500 range, you know, that's going to be a break of pattern, like I said, so the Dow Jones, you know, believe it or not, the Dow Jones didn't have too much. Wait, wait a second. This doesn't, what the heck? Why isn't my Dow Jones chart or my Dow Jones chart set up right now? That's weird, guys. What the heck? The last day recorded was the 18th. So this should be right around here right now. So I don't know what's going on. Has anyone else had this problem today? I'm actually just seeing this for the first time because I was doing most of my analysis on the SPX today. But anyway, guys, same thing with the SPX, although it's not showing on my chart right now for some odd reason, I don't know why. But, you know, we got rejected by the 180SMA on the Dow Jones, right? Very similar to the SPX, and we're probably trading around here because we were down 300 points. So that would put us, yeah, literally right here. So we're still holding that 50SMA. But, you know, that's not really telling me the whole story, right? Because that's just looking at the technicals. We want to see some fundamentals. And the fundamentals, in my opinion, are pointing to more downside. So if we break this trend, you know, just like the SPX guys, you know, if we break that, that's going to be a break of pattern, meaning, you know, more potential downside for the Dow Jones. And speaking of the Dow Jones, did you guys see J&J today? I'm going to be talking about that stock a little bit later on in this video, but they actually reported pretty solid earnings. I believe their EPS was up like .02 compared to the analysts, and they beat on revenue. I think that could be a potential bounce back play because they did good, they did pretty decent on earnings, but the stock actually went down.  I'm going to be talking about that a little bit later. So stick around, if you guys want to hear about J&J. But that's what I'm looking at in terms of the Dow, very similar pattern to the SPX. But we see here, the NASDAQ actually broke the 180SMA support on this 20 day one hour chart. We can see it was a support back here, here as well, here as well, here as well. And we actually sunk pretty below it here today, hitting around 6,600. So this could be a potential flattening out spot for the NASDAQ, right? And if more selling comes tomorrow, that's obviously going to be breaking it below that support line, that trend line that I just drew out for you guys at around 6,600. And if we really break back down into the $6,500 range for the NASDAQ, that's going to be putting us in a reversal pattern for the index. And if we're taking a look a little bit further here, we do see we got rejected by the top of this trend line channel here, but we're still holding technically the 50SMA on this 184-hour chart. So like that support I drew back on the 20 day chart, it's valid here as well. So keep an eye on that, guys, if we break this and then ultimately break the next support, which would be putting us under the 180SMA here on this 180 chart, that's going to be a strong reversal pattern for the NASDAQ. And it looks like we did get rejected by this resistance from back in, when was this? Back in the middle of December, guys. So based on the overall market, these technicals are showing us that we're getting rejected by the major SMA lines on the 184-hour chart. And this is a pretty good sign for the beginning of a reversal, guys. This is just the beginning because we haven't broken the SMA lines on those smaller timeframe charts on the SPX and the Dow, which is very vital. We want to see them break that before we can really say we're in a reversal pattern again to the downside. But in my opinion, we're going to be heading down in the next couple of weeks, whether it's tomorrow, the next day, I think we're going to continue to head in the downwards direction, guys. I've been saying this over the past couple of weeks. And this is the red day that we've been waiting for since the 3rd of June, not June, guys, January that I showed you guys in the beginning of this video. So that's pretty much it for the overall market analysis for today. Things are in very interesting spots, just like they always have been over these past couple of weeks with the funky market that we've been in. So what did I trade today? Well, big red day in the stock market means I traded TVIX. And TVIX, guys, I haven't been trading this one over the past couple of weeks, obviously, because the markets have been reversing to the upside. They've been having green day after green day after green day, which means TVIX was in the red for most of those days, for every one of those days. We can see it topped off at 86, sold off all the way to 42, lost over 50% of its value. And now we're seeing it's holding that higher or low. So this could be a good reversal zone, obviously, if SPX continues to sell off. But overall today, guys, we saw it was up $7.80, 18%. I know a lot of you guys in the group traded TVIX today. You know, I grabbed some of that profit today as well. And congrats to you that did very well on TVIX today because it really offered a spectacular opportunity pretty much for the entire day, right? If you really wanted to, you could have traded in and out on every one of these dips, literally every one of these dips, and you would have made money, guys. There's not often, you know, stock and ETF that does this for the entire day. Like this is the definition of a beautiful uptrending chart, right? This is absolutely beautiful, right? You know, but I personally, right, I got in on this nice big pullback on the second time at around $10.30, right? We noticed we opened up at around $44. We popped up to $46, sold off, opened up that margin of profit. I'll show you guys that right now from around this bottoming out zone at around $45, where it held above the $180 SMA up to around $46. And when we bounced on that $180 SMA, I wanted to see if it was going to continue to break up and ultimately break above this previous resistance. And if it did do that in my eyes, that means it was reversing to the upside continuing the uptrend and holding that new spot down here as a higher or low, which is exactly obviously now that we have all the data, what it did, right? Exactly what it ended up doing. So I waited for the bounce here on $45. I ended up getting in roughly at around $46.10, I believe once we broke that resistance, because I wanted to see, are we going to break that resistance to continue to push up? Or are we going to get rejected here and start selling off? And obviously, you know, the markets today were showing signs of a pretty big red day from the jump. So I really figured that this was a good buying opportunity anyway. I was going to buy it here and wait it out. Because at this point, I believe the SPX was down like, what was it down like 100 points or something? We can see not 100 points like 15 points or something like that. And you know, at that point, it was right around here 1030. And we can see guys, it was getting rejected by the 50 SMA. So that just gave me more incentive to just take that initial position in TV IX. And I ended up holding it guys for a little bit longer than I typically hold these, you know, inverse ETFs on day trades, right? Well, not really inverse ETFs, these leveraged ETFs on day trades, right? I typically like to get in and out of these pretty quick. But I ended up holding through this pop up above this resistance, ended up adding a little bit more on this little pullback here at around 1120. Because at that point, guys, just think about my mindset, the market was continuing to sell off. It wasn't showing any sign of a reversal. So this kept giving me the green light to just hold on to TV IX a bit longer.   I know a lot of people out there when they're first starting to trade, they're not really patient, right? They're anxious when they're holding on to their shares. And this is why I really think scaling in is the best way because if it goes down, right, once you buy in, if you're scaling in with 10, 15% of your goal position, right, you wouldn't lose as much money. And this is what I really just did on this particular trade today, I scaled in at initially at like 4610, like I said, added a little bit more money at around 4640. And then I just set my limit order at 3%. And obviously guys, since we had a 17% day, you know, me getting that 3%, my goal pretty much every day is to get at least 3%. You know, I just took my profits there. And it really just comes down to being very, very, you know, disciplined, right? I could have made 10%, right? But I stick to my daily goal, guys, because the whole idea is to be consistent. I'm not trying to hit a homerun trade every day. Because if I try and do that, it can bite me in the butt and I can lose 10%, right? If I don't set a stop loss or something like that, which I do pretty much on every single trade unless I'm scaling in very slowly. But you guys know what I'm saying, right?   Obviously, there's going to be red days, but you know, for the most part, being green overall, this is what I found to be the best way just be keeping it small and keeping it consistent, right? So, you know, that's what I did in terms of TVIX. Another position that I'm in right now is in Tesla, guys. In Tesla, I'm holding this one as a swing trade. So, we talked about this one in yesterday's video and the video before yesterday, and I really like, you know, what Tesla is looking like right now in terms of this chart. Sure, we have not yet really confirmed the support level here at 300, 290 to 300, but I really don't think Tesla is going to fall much further. I honestly think this, you know, the news that we got on this past Friday that really tanked down the Tesla shares 13% that they cut 7% of their workforce, I think this was a little bit over, you know, there's a little bit of an overreaction, you know, in the stock on Friday. I don't think it should have been down 13, 15%, whatever it was down, due to this news. And I really think, you know, it's going to stabilize over the next couple of days. The price is going to stabilize. And that's what I'm going to add even more to my position. And my position right now, I don't remember off the top of my head, but I'm in with a smaller position, I'm looking to scale into this one. And I think I'm in around like 298 or something like that 298 50. I don't remember exactly off the top of my head, but I put it in the chat if you guys did see that. And you know, I got in off this, you know, after this big sell off that we saw from around 306 today, all the way to 295 I got back in right around here, I believe, at around 1019 and I'm in with around like 10 to 15% of my goal position. So, you know, I'm not letting this one get under 290. That's the rule on this trade for me. So my stop loss is around 290. And let's say tomorrow we break back into 300, I do plan on adding more shares. So, you know, this is going to be about a one to two week swing trade if everything does go as planned. And I'm planning on selling right around 307 as of right now, which is a resistance from, I believe, Friday's close. And obviously, if we do break up up there, it's going to hit my limit sell, right? And it's going to hit my limit sell. And I plan on getting into more shares if it breaks above $310. So that's the current goal right now in my Tesla swing trade. Let me know what you guys are doing in terms of your trading. What did you trade today? Are you swinging Tesla? I think it's a pretty solid opportunity right now. And of course, it might not go my direction, right? I could be 100% wrong. And that is why I have stop losses set, especially on, you know, my swing trades, right? Very, very, very important. So let's take a look at some other stocks very quickly before I do end off today's video. So did you guys see Kron? Kron went absolutely bananas today. It actually cracked $16, ended up pulling back down all the way to $1480. And then it went back up to $16. Literally in one day, I think it did that, right? It did. See, you can see from $14, $15 all the way to $16, back down to $1480, back up to nearly $16, $1580, and then we down-trended for the rest of the day. So could this be, you know, the peaking out point of Kron? You know, it really very well could be honestly, guys, because we popped up to $16, right? And then we had trouble holding that above $16 level. And it seems like we're getting rejected by that resistance at around $15, because we ended up down-trending for the rest of the day, back to around $1507, like we can see here. And the RSI, like it has been, is extremely overbought right now. And this could just be, in my opinion, you know, the selling off point for Kron. Do I think it's going to go back down to $11? You know, I don't really know, to be honest. But as of now, you know, I wouldn't be too shocked if we sold off back to $14, putting it right above that $50 SMA, giving a nice opportunity for potential swing if it holds.  Another one that I like right now is UWT. I was actually tempted to take an overnight swing position in this, but that would be breaking my rules, guys. I'm always tempted, not always, but I'm sometimes tempted to hold these inverse ETFs overnight. And my rule very quickly for those of you guys that don't know, I never hold inverse ETFs overnight since I got burned about a year and a half, two years ago on Drip. Guys, Drip, I held it overnight. This was about two years ago. I made a video on this. I think the video is called like my biggest mistake trading or something like that, or my biggest loss rather. I think that's what it is. So if you guys want to watch that, look it up. But it was around two years ago, I took a position in Drip. I held it overnight. It was like a $5,000 position or something like that, $4,000 if I remember correctly. And I literally woke up the next day, right? It was down like 10, 15%. And I bag held all the way to the point where I lost 50% of my position, guys. So this was actually like a really bad, like noob mistake, right? I've been in the markets trading for like five years at this point. But that's when I first started getting into these leveraged ETFs. So I really made a noob mistake. And I've learned from it, guys. I lost like $2,000. That's actually my biggest loss ever. I lost around $2,000. And I've literally, I promise you guys, I have not held an inverse ETF overnight since then. Literally, it scarred me. So, you know, I got tempted because this chart is looking really good. You know, it held the 180 SMA. It's holding it nicely. It's popping up. It's looking like it's continuing the uptrend. But again, you know, I don't want to wake up tomorrow with it being down here, you know, at 13 or like 1250 or something where I'm already down 8%, right? 10%. I just don't like doing that, guys, honestly, like I said earlier, it's all about being consistent, keeping those small percentage gains. And not to say holding these are, you know, overnight is bad, right? You're not really supposed to. But it's just a little bit too risky for me. And do I hold stocks overnight? Sure, right? I'm holding Tesla overnight. But that's less risky than these inverse ETFs because these are 3x leveraged ETFs. They move three times as quick as, you know, their underlying asset.  So I feel a little bit more, you know, safe, you know, scaling in and holding those stocks overnight rather than these, you know, very quick moving leveraged ETFs. So, you know, UWT, guys, if crude oil does end up pushing back until, let's say, the $53 range, that could be the continuation of the uptrend, opening up a nice opportunity for UWTs. And I want to ask you guys, what do you think about a potential put option on Apple? So like I said earlier in this video, you know, Apple's reporting earnings in about a week from now, and we already know that their revenue is going to miss because the newer iPhones aren't doing as well. Sales in China are doing very poorly for Apple in general. Obviously, the whole Chinese economy is shot.  It's doing very bad in China. The economy is doing terrible, which is a big, big market for Apple. So I think, you know, with the revenue miss on Apple, and the earnings are not, they're just not going to be good, guys. Let's be honest. The earnings are not going to be good. You know, this could open up a solid opportunity for Apple to go down, making short term puts a pretty solid play, in my opinion. I'm thinking about it to hedge against my position because for all you that don't know, you know, I'm a long Apple, I'm a long-term investor in Apple. So I'm looking to profit on the downside, add more shares at lower prices, and hold for the long term, build out a nice big position because at this point, guys, Apple's like a value play, right? They're not much of a growth stock anymore. And they're actually opening up to be a solid dividend play.  So their dividend right now is like 1.7% or something like that. And I really could see it being 3%, you know, in the next 5, 10 years.  You know, I plan on this being a big position in the next 5 to 10 years. So let me know what you guys think on Apple, a potential put play, you know, let's see what Facebook's doing. So Facebook, you know, it's holding that uptrend nicely. It broke out of that 180SMA, nothing too crazy there. We see the sell-off in Amazon. If it breaks that 180SMA support here, that could potentially be a nice put, especially if the markets continue to, you know, push down. If we see a lot of other news come out that's bad, detrimental to the economy, to the trade war, to everything that we've been dealing with, you know, that could be a potential play right there. So, you know, that's pretty much it for today's video, guys. Tomorrow, what I'm watching very closely is Tesla. I want to add more to that position. If it does end up doing well, going back into the $300 range, I'm looking at UWT very closely. Oh, of course, you guys, guys, we saw a crazy move today in natural gas. We see you guys had a 20% loss today, and natural gas had a very big loss today, or, yeah, a very big loss today as well. We can see I had this channel drawn, you know, earlier on in the day. We broke this level where that arrow is, and we can see, you know, if there's a potential push back here, you know, a potential push to the top of this channel, you know, that could open up a very big opportunity in U-Gas, guys. So, take a look at this. Keep an eye on this. That's why I'm watching U-Gas tomorrow very closely. I almost forgot to talk about it in this video, but very big mover today. D-Gas absolutely killed it. So, tomorrow, U-Gas, UWT, Tesla, and, of course, TVIX if we continue to sell off. So, you know, what I think could potentially happen very quickly one minute before I do end this video is I think tomorrow, guys, since we sold off heavily today, I think we could potentially start to see some green heading off early on in the day followed by some more selling. So, what we typically see after we have a big red day is we slowly start to see a push back up towards the end of the market, which we slowly start to see today, and that heads into the next day before selling off strongly again. So, that's one scenario that I think is possible for the SPX. Drop a comment. Let me know what you guys think about that. I would love to know. So, if you guys enjoyed the video, feel free to smash that like button, leave a comment, subscribe for future content, turn on that notification bell so you guys can see when I'm uploading these videos. It's typically around 7 to 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time every single day. So, if you do enjoy it, just keep in touch with the channel. Hope you all had a great day today. I'll catch you all in the next video. Peace out.


Hi there, my name is Sandy Allnach. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I can't believe we're on the last of the 24 tags of Christmas series for 2016. It's already the sixth video. Goodness gracious. Each year I do 24 tags, six videos in a row, and I give away all the tags. So make sure you leave comments in the doobly-doo as well as over on my blog to potentially win. The winners will be announced on my blog after all of these are done. I will give you a couple days to get all your entries in on all the previous ones as well. Today's tag is going to use the tree farm set, brand new from Ellen Hudson, and it's got this cute little trailer. Lots of animals, one of them has a sign, but lots of them have things you can make them wear. We can put hats and all kinds of stuff on them, dress them up, scarves, lots of lots of fun to be had here. And I'm going to stamp them onto some watercolor paper because I want to watercolor these guys and the way I'm going to set this up in my Misti is to basically pile up my little outfit that I'm going to put on the raccoon and then when I pick up the stamps then and ink them up then I'm getting them right in place. So they're going to work really well when I stamp my raccoon. He's going to work perfectly. So I'm masking them out. I just cut them out of masking paper, stamp them onto that, and cut them out with my scissors. I don't even need to cut out the full hat because I don't need to mask that whole thing and then my little raccoon here. I can stamp him a couple times to make sure he gets good and black, but if I'm worried that it's going to get too thick because it's going to thicken up all the lines on it potentially, I can go in since I'm going to watercolor and use a water color safe marker, which is a sharpie. Goodness gracious. I can't talk today. So I used a sharpie to just fill in the rest of the black on him. Now each one of the little critters, I stamped using the same kind of masking idea into a scene so that I could then cut out each one of these little sections to add to my tag. And I tried to nest them together so that I didn't end up with stuff that was going to be hard to fussy cut because I wanted it to be fairly simple. I think this little mouse and his scene is probably the toughest one to fussy cut.  I only had to add the scarf to him and the raccoon. I will have to fussy cut because he's got a hat on and the die would not include the hat, but you could also stamp the hat separately, die cut it and then glue it on to him. My bunny, I added the stamp of the sign by hand and I basically masked out his arm so I could draw his arm back in so that it would hold the sign. That was a little crazy on the masking side and sorry I didn't include the video because the camera did weird things while I was doing that, so hopefully it's not something you would even try because it was a little challenging to do. So I'm going to add a little bit of watercolor to each of the sections now and I have the colors listed there on screen. I wanted to keep a limited palette here so that I could not have a whole lot to worry about as I was getting my watercoloring going because when you're doing Christmas projects, I tend to find people want to get them done quickly. And if you just have a couple colors out on your palette, you can just pick them up and move around and color everything right away. If you were to make all raccoons or do all the hedgehogs because then you could just use the dyes and not have to do any fussy cutting, then you could just get a couple colors out and by the boom, by the bing, you could do the hedgehogs with some of them in red, some of them in green scars and alternate a little bit that way to get a little difference. Or you can paint some of the hedges in black and some of the hedges in the brown color. And I'll make my rabbit brown and you can see how with a lot of the paints, these are Daniel Smith watercolors, with a lot of paints you can put heavy pigment down to get a darker color and less pigment down to get a lighter color. You can pick it up and move it as long as it's still wet, that sort of thing. So watercolors are really friendly medium in terms of being able to move the color around. So his arm, I got a little too heavy there, but as I paint, I'll just go back and pick up color from there as I run out of paint on my brush, so I can pull it around and have enough to color his feet. If you're going to fussy cut these, you could also just splosh the paint on around the image. You don't really have to stay within the lines around the outside edge. Just cut that edge off after you're done. And with the little thermos here, I thought it'd be fun to try to make it look like it was striped and crisscrossed, so I actually painted a wash of the red over the green, so it gives you that real thermos-y feel. And each one of their sides, I just put a little bit of color in just because it's fun, right?   I'm watercoloring these in. I realized too late, unfortunately, that watercoloring those red little lights was kind of silly. If you're looking for a way to color this quickly, then just slosh the paint over the entire area, and I'm going to end up using some, you can use stickles on them, you can use some liquid pearls, pearl pen, various things on those lights, and then you don't have to paint around them, because on this first one I did that, and I thought that was the hard way. And it usually takes doing it the hard way the first time before I figure out the easy way to do it the second time. So I will let you do it the easy way the first time. So as long as you're going to color them in with something that's going to cover it up, then you're fine. You could also leave the top as a white section and not color it in with a color of paint, and then you're not having to paint around everything so that you could paint in those lights without having a major issue. So I'm going to paint the stripes on my trailers with the same colors. And as I did the rest of them, I actually did some of them with red on top and green on bottom, some with red on bottom and green on top. Did I just say that right? Anyway, some of them are reversed the colors on. And for the door, I wanted it to look like it was a shiny metal door, so I just left a few white stripes across it and went across with a second layer after it was partially dried so I can add a little more strength to that color and make them look like they're metal doors on my trailers. So here's where I came in with my liquid pearls to just add a little bit of color right over top of those lights and no one will know that I painted right through them. It's just a lot easier when you're trying to do things quickly to not have to fuss around all those details. They're pretty easy little lights to add stuff to. And then I took some stickers and added it to each of the wreaths and then tied it onto the gift. I just taped a piece of string onto the back of the tag to tie it on. So lots of fun. These are just really cute and playful kinds of tags.  On the signage you can either stamp a sentiment or put the name of the person it's for and you can also then write the name of the person that it's for on the back of the tag to put that under the tree to identify the gift. Well thank you for joining me for the 24 Tags of Christmas 2016. This was the sixth in the series which you can click on any of the others to see those and go back and leave comments on everything to make sure you qualify to win potentially one of these tags. You can also go visit the 2014 or 15 series to get more tag ideas for your Christmas holiday preparations. Be sure to subscribe because I will be back on Monday with my normal videos that I do three times a week and I will see you then. Have a great day.


In business news, Naira recorded a 0.12% depreciation on Tuesday to close at $425 compared to $420 recorded in the previous trading session, representing its lowest level since 16 May 2022. The fall in the local currency is despite the 129.7% surge in forex turned over to $113.12 million at the import and export window. Meanwhile, the exchange rate remained stable at the parallel market, closing at $606 to a dollar on Tuesday, the same as recorded in the past two trading sessions. This is according to information from BDC operators in Nigeria. The exchange rate at the peer-to-peer market moderated further on Wednesday, starting the day as low as $601 to $1 compared to $602 to $1 recorded as of the same time on Tuesday.


What's up everybody Jason here from jazby's case breaks calm 2016 panini Donner's optic football mega box break for box break Two-round and teams each number one just sold out pretty loaded rookie class now guys if you really think about it And again all-card ship and this is the first year of optics. Remember the Zeke Elliott Dak Prescott Tyree kill Carson Wentz Derek Henry Derek got Joey Bosa Jordan Howard Michael Thomas and many more find one exclusive memorabilia card Find one memorabilia card exclusive to mega box per box And then of course five red and yellow parallels in the rookies and rated per box on average and look for special blue and green Parallels and Donner's threads and rookie threads So let's do the break guys you get two round teams per spot. So Kurt down to Brian Croft. We doubled up your names And here are the teams So let's roll it two and a six eight times. 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Really just our story and how we've developed loadstar over the past three years. So about us My name is Cayman. I work at chain safe. It is a great company We're hiring. We basically build blockchains We have a whole bunch of layer one projects loadstar is one of them But if you are interested in getting into core development, we're really great place great culture So loadstar is it's one of these projects at chain safe. We're we're We're basically an eth2 or aetherium consensus ecosystem written entirely in typescript We really take the open source ethos to heart. We have all of our meetings They're public everything we do is public and we really encourage anyone who wants to contribute We we try to help people out and get get people involved a lot of our team members actually started Started their work on the project through their open source contributions And it was kind of like a open source to contract to hire kind of a situation So we really we really like that that kind of ethos What we're talking about today is specifically our consensus client and how we got from like prototyping Typical kind of code to something that's like production ready something that you can really rely on Something that doesn't just blow up all the time So before I kind of step into our story. I just want to kind of do a very high level of what metrics are This is I'm not gonna go too deep if you really want to go no more You can like read the docs about these things so Metrics in our case we're using Prometheus Prometheus basically gives you the the tools to Build time series data for specific elements that you want to track in your code The kind of three main things that you're tracking is your counter a gauge or a histogram We can go we'll go into kind of some examples of all of these things But basically what you want to know about metrics or you have some value something in your code that you're wanting to track and you want and Prometheus will kind of Query the query your software over time and you can get a sense over time of of how things are changing how things are moving Then you use Grafana to visualize these metrics so the picture does is like a thousand words, so it's Basically the difference between like looking at a bunch of logs and then looking at like pretty graphs that can show you Give you a little more insight give you something at a higher level than just squinting so our story Basically, we we started with really bad With not very much infrastructure and not very much a discipline and how we tackled Metrics are tackled like the data that we we track and eventually we kind of Like over time and like through a lot of pain and and suffering We kind of realized that metrics are the way to go metrics give you all insights that you will never get just by looking at Logs so really metrics aggregate a bunch of information and give you The tools you need to make better decisions about how you release your product What things to focus on like what are priorities and they're also just really pretty so they're cool So this is a picture from the early days of load star from the interop lock-in in Muscova in 2019 Here's our message. Yeah, we're stuck sinking in some p2p issues We didn't really know what what was going on like why things are breaking We were looking at logs actually on the other side of the screen here, you know, we look happy, but it's like oh things are breaking Here's some Some funny issues that we had you can see priority low adding Prometheus monitoring. We didn't even know what we were doing Yeah, out of memory o.m. Out of memory. It was just like plaguing a lot of our development throughout 2019 into 2020 Load star was like very prototype very much like a prototype and we ran into the issues time and time again Like we would have the same thing happen multiple times and we weren't like like regressions that were happening and we weren't really like learning our lesson kind of the Turning point was you know starting to take some time to really Take the time to like build out these metrics and build out these dashboards. So we had a contributor I think I can save a new world maybe with peace And so throughout 2021 we started going really hardcore into adding a bunch of just add a bunch of metrics and Taking time to think through what questions that we want to answer What pieces of code are dark? where is Our you know, where are we spending time in the in our software? Where are we? Where is a bunch of memory being spent we really kind of uncovering all of the complexity of this running software? I mean blockchains are really complicated software. There's a whole bunch going on and Unless you're really tracking tracking key pieces you're you're kind of be going blind and now we're finally kind of at a point where We For any new feature that we're adding we asked for metrics. So It'd be very important to track the retry behavior meaning add metrics for So that brings me to metrics driven development Really the kind of the key the key thing that we've learned is that every large feature should be documented with metrics So if you are adding in case of a retry mechanism, you're adding some new feature You need to make sure that it's actually working and the only way that you can Or not the only way but a really the really great way of doing that is being able to show that visually Being able to show. Okay, my cash is now bounded. Let's see. Let's see that in the metrics Let's see how it's how that cat cash is growing over time or let's see how many times it's the retry mechanism is actually being activated Those are the sorts of things that you really only look confined by through through these graphical methods through these metrics You're gonna have a really hard time looking at the logs for that The other great the other thing about metrics driven development is that any deployed software that you use? You need to be monitoring it very carefully for regressions. So look here, this is the process heap increasing over time This is a comment from lion for the last two days. The leak is clearly visible an impact of 75 megabytes a day Yeah, so that's gonna be a problem if your blockchain is if it's just increasing at 75 megabytes a day Continuously you're gonna run out of memory And these are the this we were able to catch this this issue before we actually Before we actually cut a release. So It makes your release process a lot read least release processes a lot better Here's another here's another example of a regression We deployed deployed a version of our software and we saw the cache size grow. It's like, oh, is that is that a bug? Is that a is it okay? Well, we only actually caught it because we were tracking these things You probably aren't even gonna have a log that's gonna show you your cache sizes So unless you you actually measure this you're gonna be blind the other great thing about the about Dashboards and about metrics is that it lets you correlate different different pieces of the code to find out where the problem is So here we have different you can you can see a bunch of different graphs kind of all at the same time and see Okay, something is affecting the event the event loop lag I Can see at the same time the active number of handles is growing the number of requests is growing so you can kind of You know kind of solve the mystery and in a in a Way that you're not going to be able to do in the in the logs another great strategy is Is using different versions if you're running software so running Like a staging version of your software against a production version or against several recent versions and being able to overlay data on top of On top of one another and being able to see okay. Well, it looks like our beta version is Is using a whole bunch more memory than our unstable version. So, you know being able to kind of compare and contrast It gives you the tools to do this and so just just kind of like drilling down to a few a few a few tips These are very very practical kind of tips don't abuse the histograms. So I said there's three different types of metrics You just wouldn't doubt you use the simplest tool possible histograms are really only used if you're wanting to see the kind of the distribution of of Something so like maybe like looking at like request timing Maybe you'll want to see like all right certain requests are happening very very quickly, but then others are happening kind of longer so the classic mistake with histograms is is Using a label that's unbounded So if you had a metric that was tracking something per peer ID on the network Oh, well, you might have thousands of peers with and if you each new each new peers going to be using a new PRID it's gonna blow the metrics up and it's gonna affect the performance of of Prometheus and you're not gonna be able to Run the queries that you want to run. Oh, so how do you know which metrics to add? So I showed some of these pretty graphs and everything But you're like in your in your software. How do you know what you want? What do you want to track? so really what you want to do is Think about questions that you couldn't ask otherwise So a really good example is the size of your internal caches Another thing you can think about is like if this feature or if this part of the code Would degrade or explode in the in the kind of bad case that that's a that's a prime candidate for for adding metrics around it And then really just like at keep asking questions And then it's like if you have the data to be able to answer the question you're good But otherwise keep adding metrics until you can until you can answer those questions So some examples that we we've kind of come across how often are our streams being reset? How many peers do we have these are the kinds of questions that that that the metrics can help and so I'm gonna show you just a live demo or a live Example of of our dashboards and we can kind of run through some things And if anyone has any questions about it while I'm going through it we can we can do that too, okay? So this is this is our Dashboard for our fleet of of beacon nodes and validators This is kind of the high-level dashboard Right now. We're looking at an unstable node. We can go to like stable a stable version of load star So this is running version 1.1 or on the girly network. We're synced. It looks like it got restarted about a day ago Some interesting things I guess you know peer peer count is looking good. All right You know, there's nothing everything looks stable there. We track different types of peers inbound outbound and For us we really care about the number of peers that we're gonna be receiving messages from kind of continuously. Those are our gossip peers So the number of mesh peers on our core topics staying about six or seven it looks like we're connected to a lot of lighthouse nodes and a lot of prism nodes and And there's another load star out there. Let's drill into something a little a little more detailed here So one thing one one area that we really struggled with that when we added like a lot of metrics is in our gossip sub implementation we found through adding a few metrics that We weren't getting blocks on time and it turned out that we we didn't have enough peers who are sending us these Who are sending us blocks and then we started asking questions. All right. Well, why are they not sending us blocks? It turned out it was because our peer scoring was too low. All right. Well, why why was the score too low? Well, it was it turned out it was because there was a specific part of the scoring that was that was too low And so we kind of you know, you can start asking questions and you can build up You build you start building the answers to that Okay, so what you're seeing here is kind of some of what I was talking about We have breaking out the score into different components the different parameters that are Going into your kind of aggregated score for peers What we were seeing before is you know, you'd see a graph where the values are like going down and down and down over time Or if they're like negative very negative numbers another really useful metric that we were that we check a lot is Things related to the VM so memory CPU and Disk storage so looks like our memory is stable. That's great GC is only taking Roughly seven and a half percent. This is things are looking good. Yeah, I think that's enough of a enough of a demo here so At this point open to questions and we're also hiring so if any of this looks cool or interesting and you know type scripts Hello, and thank you for the talk So I see that you have a ton of metrics and I believe that the most of them are useful, but Do you have some kind of an alerting system? for you to be able to know when a metric has gone wrong because I Think it's just unfeasible to go through each of them like daily or something like that I think you need some automated way to the other to that something is going wrong Yeah, absolutely. So that was something I didn't touch on but it definitely feeds in so we we use Pager duty you can you can basically set up Thresholds for certain metrics that trigger Either a slack notifications or discord notifications or in the case of a critical kind of issue It'll call you or text you Yeah, we do have that set up. I would definitely recommend that if you are in for running something in production Thank you Again, there are lots of metrics you did you guys some develop over time a way to or you know Kind of a mental model or framework to decide how to or to put them whenever you have new You know graph or metric instead of or do you just like this side to put it somewhere and then go back like You know to make it easy to to read or to browse the dashboard And if that makes sense, it's a question about organizing the yeah, exactly Yeah, so I think probably have to grow it organically what we did is we we started with one Dashboard that grew and grew and grew and eventually it became kind of Unsustainable to have everything just piled together. So we we started breaking it apart The other thing that the other kind of issue that we had initially is we would create a bunch of metrics But we wouldn't add them to the dashboard So there was no actual like visual cue for for it for a lot of it. And so it kind of just went un Unnoticed and so one thing we would we would definitely recommend would be like if you add a metric also add it to the dashboard at the same time Thank you The question about storage and so again too much metrics Prometheus or what does it affect this the storage? Well, so some of it kind of it depends on your architecture of how you're deploying this it so What we do is we actually have one Prometheus and Grafana server servicing all our entire fleet of of Beacon nodes so, you know, we have a bunch of different machines and then we have once one machine for these Right to do things so it doesn't cut into the to the Storage we retain for a month quick question is are the metrics relevant for like other EVM chains besides the theory of mainnet Or is it just like specific to a theory of mainnet? So yeah a good question So I'd say like I don't know it's a half and half But like half the metrics are like more like for like monitoring the chain something like a like a block explorer kind of kind of thing But I would say like a lot of the metrics are Specific to the implementation. So and those are the ones that are I think probably more helpful Just the internal caches and like timing Timings of things that we're really really wanting to get right. Hi I wanted to know if you think these metrics are useful for other clients and not just a type script one And if so would you maybe consider like, you know putting them in the public domain? So like anybody can see them and apply that to new clients that might be considering building, right? I know that other clients do have metrics and I think like the ones that are more user focused Those are the ones that look more like a block explorer and would maybe with some like validator Like showing your balance ticking up over time And I think those are those are public and I and there is an effort to standardize metrics across the Consensus clients. So I think some of that's happening But again to the to the previous question like a lot of the metrics will always be implementation specific in terms of Roles and you know in team members who generally looks at which metrics and which graphs Just kind of to get an idea of You know, which metrics and graphs are useful to which team members or depending on like the role or the Type of work that they do you're asking if if only certain members contribute to these are more like the Looking at the the graphs and the bronzing the metrics themselves like, you know, for example, there are lots of metrics So not everybody looks at everything. So, you know, it's more What you know what team members look at look at what kinds of graphs or right? So so for any of these larger feature pull requests, we have the the person who is authoring or kind of owning that that feature they're responsible for Making the case that that that it's correct and then it works as intended And so they're responsible for looking at the metrics and building building that case and then as far as like our release process we have a Checklist of basic things that we look at Before we before we actually release we have a testing period. So we cut a cut a beta release. We deploy it to our fleet and we watch it for a few days and then after a few days we gather, you know check check do the checklist and Any other kind of ad hoc things that were were we're noticing that Okay, so in web 2 there is a standard of how to consume logs metrics and traces and it's done by the cloud native Foundation to make the same pipeline that you have here more standard in a way that's consumed by other tools as well Did you take a look at that or recommend it if not? the the standardization effort is to to build out some kind of baseline of functionality like you can have one One Prometheus and Grafana running and then whichever client you want plugged in here You kind of have some guarantees like it's not breaking and like it's it's kind of working. So yeah That's exactly what bought open telemetry there. So take a look at it


And it puts you as their first choice for an event or a sponsorship. That creates a following like no other. How's my hair? Your hair is beautiful. Thank you. Thank you so much for hopping on. And I know that a lot of our audience would be able to learn a lot of things from you because you manage the marketing side of a really big brewery. And also you do all the digital marketing and really was able to grow across like the nation for them. Tell me a little bit more about that background. What it was which company was like numbers you're doing. So then that way we can actually showcase that people like what a young stud like you are doing. Yeah, yeah, of course. I'm happy to chat about this. So I four years ago started as the social media manager for a restaurant group here in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake Brewing Company, which owns Squatters and Wasatch Breweries. They also own the beer side as well. So when I started with them, I started social media and I just picked at every opportunity I could. We need to update our website. We need to start email marketing. We need to update our reviews. We need to make changes to our online reviews so that we appear better outward. That was the biggest thing I did when I started and I loved it. And fast forward a little bit. I'm the senior marketing manager for Squatters and Wasatch. And then recently I left to do my own marketing agency, Big Mouth Marketing, which does promotion and supports restaurants, bars and culinary businesses. I took Squatters and Wasatch with me as my client, which is so great. That's so cool. Tell me more about like what were the numbers that you guys are doing? You guys are like, so basically you're doing digital marketing for a brewery. Yes, which is very interesting. There's there's laws per state that that change it up and make it difficult. And in the state of Utah, it's a little challenging. It's a, you know, you have to in the state of Utah to sell beer out of the restaurant. You have to brew the beer there. So it's called a brew pub. And so you have to be able to have a brewery, a mini brewery next to the restaurant. So you can brew out of there and sell beer out of there. It's a weird concept, but we have nine locations and we actually opened three locations during COVID. We were so grateful that we had support from people and we opened two airport locations and then a sandwich shop that I helped with all of the setup, all the marketing setup for all those. And then we also distribute in 24 states, which is a lot. That's insane. Like what's the numbers that you guys are hitting so far? Numbers for the restaurant side. We are doing really, we're doing well again, especially because we're at the Salt Lake City Air Force. We get a lot of traffic. We hit a daily gross of about 17,000, the airports. And then out of a regular restaurant here in the Valley, here in Salt Lake or here in Park City, it's about half that, but it is growing. COVID wasn't like it used to be. It used to just be numbers really down, but numbers are really growing. And I think with vaccine coming and I think with spring coming, we're feeling the push already. It's excited. That's 17,000 a day. That's a lot of, that's really high volume right there. Really high volume. We get a lot of people and that's COVID now. We've hit much higher days pre-COVID and we're hoping for more post-COVID as well. Multi-million dollar company and you're handling with all the digital marketing. Oh, I sure am. Okay, so you started off as doing all the anything that you can do to help them establish more of a digital space. And definitely as we were chatting a little bit earlier is that you see a lot of restaurants. They're getting kind of behind with the adaptation to online. And I totally feel the same thing is that this industry because the margins are so slim is very difficult for us to be able to jump on to the digital marketing space when the ROI isn't necessarily there to begin with, especially when you're investing in like social media. Pictures, reviews, like all those good stuff. So for you, what is the main thing that really drive or move the needle for when you're helping grow that brewery? Yeah, of course, and I can very much relate to that. You have to with digital marketing and with restaurants having that low margin, you really have to prove like the value is here and it absolutely is worth it. An example I have just pop the top of my head is social media marketing has been very, very powerful for us as far as Mossatch because we have new beers. It's kind of our mini PR, you know, it's where we can reach people immediately and create that cult following. And once you get that audience that really is eating up for a better term, everything you're doing, everything you post is exciting. People get into it and then people are at your location. Like I heard this beer is on tap right now or I heard you switched up your menu for St. Patrick's Day. It really that has been very, very powerful. It almost it and I would tie that in with there's that digital marketing piece and there's also this grassroots piece. We do a lot of billboards. We do a lot of community outreach and community engagement with companies and with other companies and it almost puts you as their first choice for an event or a sponsorship or something like that. And that combo creates a following like no other from my experience here. That's really, really insightful because that's exactly what I preach as well. When it comes down to build a community is really to be able to make sure that the value is aligned first. Make sure that you wear your sleeve on the heart or heart on the sleeve. There you go. Your sleeve on your heart. So then it's that's when you're able to actually reach the people and when you connect with them on that level basis, that's where you're able to grow that loyal following. And for you guys to invest in your community is huge. I would agree. And yeah, it's exactly that. You know, restaurants are feeding the community. You are the community. You are where the community gets together to to dine and I think restaurants can get so operations and so in their head that they almost miss the like yumminess of the community, you know, the heart of the community and what they're doing and the memories of. I mean, I'm sure you have many memories of going to a restaurant and friends, family and just a great experience. You always remember that restaurant with that memory. Well, I know for a fact that you have a budget to work with, which is the reason why you can reach so many people. Now, for the restaurant owners who are just starting out and they're just building their own restaurant, how would you propose? What is the one thing that they can do right now? That would make a difference automatically make them a thousand bucks. Hundred bucks. Let me tell you how to make a thousand bucks real quick. Yeah, it would be perfect for a click bait. It's like Maxwell teaching us how to make a thousand dollars in a day. Exactly. No, I don't know. I think where restaurants can do a little better for this is you do not need your staff doing digital marketing. You also don't need to hire a full time person. Usually do digital marketing. There are freelancers who can do it for less money and do it better who have the experience to take it further. I just think a restaurant might think, OK, I need to hire a whole marketing team to make this happen. When really you can hire someone to manage all of it and take care of it. And to me, that will save you money and get you more reach and reach more people. Also, join every community board you're on. Join them. It makes a big difference. That's like free right there. If you can, you know, if you if there's the Salt Lake Area Restaurant Association or the Vancouver, whatever, join it, participate. And then when an opportunity happens, you're there, you know about it. Wow. OK, so just to recap, don't do marketing on your own hire someone to do it. That's number one. And you think that's like the best way for you to be able to get your bang for your buck. And the second thing is to join community boards to make sure that you are tough of mind within your community. And I think that's really, really on point as well, because I truly believe to be in your community. It's not about like asking for stuff. It's about giving and being able to to to be there with them as well and be in the trenches. So definitely very, very good point on that. I do wonder, though, like, and I agree with you to a certain extent when it comes to the biggest effect when it comes to social media or like marketing is to hire someone that knows what they're doing to do the work. But then on the other hand, I feel like a lot of our listeners and an audience, they don't have that budget to hire people, even for even though it's like a contractor. Let's say a thousand. Let's say, for example, on average, a thousand fifteen hundred two thousand dollars. Do you think that's an average rate for a social media person? I think so. Right now, that that's that's pretty good. And if you're spending less than that, you might not be getting the bang for your buck. There you go. So I think like that itself to to afford for a thousand two thousand dollars might not be everyone's kind of jam. Let's say that. So for those people who cannot afford a contractor that knows what they're doing, what would you recommend them to do? I would I would recommend doing that's a that's a great question, because, you know, I'm chatting with those restaurants too, and I'm like, I know you need the support. How can how can you do this without spending this? You know, my recommendation is to start, yeah, to start taking photos for your social media and start engaging yourself and become your own mascot. Become your own face to your restaurant. And I'm sure some restaurant owners right now are like, no, like absolutely not. But but if you if you can sell someone to come to your restaurant, you can sell someone virtually to come to your restaurant.   You love the type of food you have. Put it on camera, put it out there and it will make a difference. It truly will. It just takes time and it just takes the the energy. And I know that's challenging because no one's busier than a restaurant owner. Like they are the busiest, busiest people, but it's worth five minutes a day to log into Instagram, go live and say we're eating and drinking this today. Come join us. I love that. That is a very, very actionable step that a lot of restaurant owners can do and they have no excuse not to do and the power of personal branding, especially if it's something that you truly believe in love is near to none. That's exactly the reason why I'm doing these videos all the time. You see me uploading all the time and that's how we're able to grow that community. And for viewers and audience that are watching and they want to be able to learn things and take away from this is that, hey, you're the best mascot for your own company because no one loves your brand as much as you do. No one is as invested as you do. So if you're not even willing to put yourself out there, then why would you expect any result whatsoever? So I think it's definitely brilliant points that you brought up and I think like this is exactly what is needed is to have that faith in your own company. So thank you. Thank you for sharing that social media tip. It's like at the end of the day, it's not just about the food. It's about the people behind the food, the mission, the value and it always comes back down to that. Preach exactly. Yeah. And it's it's totally worth it. And you believe in it. Tell people you believe in it.  Did you just turn on a campaign and it's like it ran for $30,000 and you didn't know about it and it just went down the drain. Never. No, that's terrifying. Like, yeah, let's let's get on camera and talk mistakes. Talk talk problems. Yeah, I I've got an example. Um, we did a one of my restaurants has been around for 30 years. And so we threw it was the first it was the first blue pub in Utah and it's fabulous. I really love it. And I myself and my marketing team, we did a large scale event in our city and it was it was so much work.  I said, like people will come people will be there and people were we ended up with a great audience. But it was this last 30 days that just terrified me are the people going to show up are enough people going to sell show up tickets say this, but I need them to say this. So my only, you know, I kind of like to say like, I went to college for that meaning I learned. I learned to this experience off this mistake and my only advice to anyone is if you're doing an event, promote it early as soon as you as soon as you know what you're going to do and the date, tell people about it, get it online, start promoting it, uh, even boosting it for engagement, $10 is worth it. You will see people engaging with it. So let's say how long of a duration actually, you know, for that story, how many people ended up showing up? We had 11,000 people show up for this event. It was huge. Uh, we were hoping for 15,000. So it was close. We were happy about it. It was there. But we knew about this event for about eight, nine months before the event date and we didn't start heavy promotion until about three months before and, uh, I think it's just, you know, uh, operations and marketing are busy and I was busy and I, I knew it was coming, but I didn't know today was the day I need a start, you know, and I'm sure you can relate. Yeah. Wow. That's insane. Well, at least people showed up. I think that's, that's really is the essence. And I guess like to bring it down a notch to, to people. We, we probably don't want 11,000 people to show up at someone's restaurant. No, no, and this is for a large restaurant group. We are a restaurant and a brew pub. So it was beer fest style.  Uh, you are a small restaurant and you can get 10 people there. That's a success and 10 people will go tell other people about how great it was. That's insane. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing all these big tips. Now that we know the trick, let's say if people do want 11,000 people to show up for their restaurant, who should they find? How they should they follow you?  I, oh, I, well, I've got, I got a tip on how to get 11,000 people at your event. What we did, what we did is we invited, we did beer. We sold beer. We made beer for this event. And then we partnered with, uh, we partnered with 10 other breweries and the, and it's that community engagement, right? We partnered with 10 other breweries and we said, let's brew a beer together and promote it at this event. And so they, their audiences told other people about this event and that their beer is going to be there. I think a great way to kind of look at that is, uh, food trucks and small restaurant, uh, ex events, uh, you're, you're a collective. And when you get that community engagement, you're also saying, Hey, we're doing this with this many people, uh, they will promote you as well. So that's another part of digital marketing is in that community engagement is. Shout out other restaurants that are doing it. Well, shout out the restaurants you like and say, we love what these guys are doing. And, you know, that friendship can turn into something where they're doing the same back. I love that. That's exactly how we always do a promotion and like cross pollinating collaborations. And I always just coin it in those terms to generalize it, but, but in, in essence, that's exactly what you guys are doing. So great job on that. And for people to actually follow you and along your journey with big mouth, do you have a handle that they can follow? Yes, follow me. Give me a follow. Let's chat. Let's talk. So you can follow me at, uh, Maxwell at big mouth dot agency. You can check out my website, uh, big mouth dot agency. And, uh, you can also check me out personally, uh, Maxwell Christians, H-R-S-T-E-N. Uh, I'm here to work with restaurants. I love what I do. I love supporting restaurants bars and, uh, catering, culinary businesses, food trucks. Uh, I just teamed up with a, a, a food truck, San Diablo Churro truck. They're a churro company and they go and just do churros and it's a lot of fun. I, I love what I do. So, uh, that's my handle. Hit me up. Awesome stuff. Thank you, Maxwell. Thank you.


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