best offer of $500. When I saw it at first, I nearly passed it by. But thanks to watching Bolo Buddies videos, I learned this was probably something special. It is- Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. All right, in this video, we're going to talk about big money Bolo's items to be on the lookout for items you can hopefully buy low and sell for a profit. In this video, I'm going to share Bolo's with you from May 2023 that sold from members of my Bolo Buddies Facebook group. This is my Facebook group. If you're not in it, definitely go join. It will be down below. There's a clickable link under my link tree. So definitely come over and hang out with us in the Facebook group. And I'm basically going to tell you where they got it, what they paid for it, and what it sold for. I posted this in the group, Share Your Best May Bolo. And members of the group share a screenshot. And they also tell me where that information. And now I'm going to share it in a video for you guys. And this helps everybody learn. So I would love for you guys to come over to the Facebook group and share a June Bolo. All right, let's get started here. The first one, found this dead cat plush at an estate sale for a dollar listed on Mercari for $40, two to three weeks ago and sold today for full asking price. He called it a dead cat or she, I don't know who it is. They called it a dead cat. Vintage Earl the Dead Cat Plush, 1985 Stuffed Plush by Mad Dog Productions. Oh my goodness, look at this thing. Sold on Mercari. You guys, if you're not selling your plush on Mercari, definitely think about it. I do have a link down below. It's a referral link and you're going to get money if you join with my link. You're going to get $10 when you join to shop on Mercari and another $20 if you sell $100 worth of stuff on Mercari. So take advantage of that link. It helps you. It helps me. I appreciate when you guys use my links. But anyway, yeah, Mercari is great for plush. I've talked about that before in videos. So I guess be on the lookout for this cat. I bought from a private collector years ago and paid like 10 or so at the time. She's been in my Build-A-Bear collection for years, but I'm moving across town and she's too bulky to keep anymore. Sold for $65 within 20 minutes of listing on Mercari. Again, Mercari. It's a Build-A-Bear. It's a pink Hello Kitty Build-A-Bear and this is what it looks like. This one comes from Bolo Buddies member Eye Candy Vintage on eBay and this is her eBay store. She said, I picked up this ceramic Christmas tree at a local yard sale for $2. It was missing some bulbs and had a bulb stuck in one area, so it had flaws. It sold in a few weeks for $52 plus shipping. Yes, these vintage Christmas trees are definitely a Bolo. They are a pain to ship. Bolo Buddies member, what is that? That means that she has joined memberships on my YouTube channel at level two or higher to get perks. Basically, if you remember, you get a screenshot popped up of either your eBay store or your YouTube channel and then I also link you in the description. So you guys, if you are watching this, make sure you go to the description and follow the eBay stores and also check out the YouTube channels because they are Bolo finders. You'll definitely learn from them. Hi, Courtney. Thanks for all the helpful and fun content you provide us. I found this vintage rubber face bear at the Benz, paid approximately 45 cents for it. I started it at auction of $650 and had a dozen or so views, but no offers. When it ended, I re-listed at $5.95 and took a best offer of $500. When I saw it at first, I nearly passed it by, but thanks to watching Bolo Buddies videos, I learned this was probably something special. It is a Rushton Scrappy Bear plastic face red white crying 4U plush stuffed nine inch and nine inch stuffed toy. I just did a video on Rushton, big money Rushton look for it. Definitely go check out that video, type in Bolo Buddies Rushton to find it on YouTube. But wow, $500 and she got it at the Goodwill Benz for $1,000. I found this hutch top in Maryland for $100 and had one of my movers pick up for me. I found the base cabinet in Naples, Florida for $111 on one of my buying trips. They were in rough shape. So I completely cleaned and restained sold within 10 minutes of posting on eBay. So he got them at two different places knew that they went together because he is like a Ethan Allen pro and so 211 cost of goods sold in 10 minutes for a thousand. It's a super rare Ethan Allen antique pine collection CRP gun cabinet. So he did put some time into this also cleaning and restaining it. I bought this at Primetime thrift store in Alexandria, Virginia. I paid $6.99 for it. I listed it for $159 but accepted a best offer of 152. The buyer paid shipping. I love selling vintage toys. And this is what it looks like. It is a Storm Collectibles 112th Samurai showdown. So small. And I don't know how to say this word. Hallahumera action toy figured in the original packaging still sealed sales have been really slow because I've been lazy and not posting regularly. I can't recall how much I paid for these napkin rings, but I know it was less than $5 for eight. I was asking 75 for one set and 90 for the other, but I accepted a best offer of 100 for both sets. The buyer paid shipping and I shipped the two orders together. It took a little bit a little while, but Vilroy and Bach always sells for me. This is what they look like. I got this at a church sale for $2. I know vintage shower curtains can sell for good money, so when I couldn't find any like it on eBay, I listed for $59.99. It's sold in less than 24 hours for an offer of $49.99. Sold another one that was just the shower curtain and rings with no cafe curtain in a different pattern to the same buyer on the same day for $29.99. Paid $2 for that one too. Don't pass these by. This is what it looks like. MCM vintage plastic vinyl shower curtain with rings, window set green fish and shells, new old stock. This one comes from Bolo Buddy's member, Thriftaholic. This is her YouTube channel. Definitely check her out. Picked up this for $0.25 at a church sale and sold it for $49. Crabtree and Evelyn scented environmental oil and Noelle sent. I also, I'm sorry, I always pick up Crabtree and Evelyn when I see it since most items are retired. I don't think they have retail locations anymore. It is a fragrance environmental oil. So maybe like a room spray? Another one. And this is what it looks like. It is a 1A class A. Oh my goodness. Sorry guys. Alvarino Martini Geoclassic European Map Leather Passport Holder. That's what it looks like. This one also comes from Thriftaholic. Another item picked up for $0.25 at a church sale was this Leather Map print passport wallet or folder made in Italy. Those are usually the magic words. So I ran a comp and sold that the sold in the $30 to $40 range. This one was still wrapped in plastic and had literature with it. I found two others, same and unused but not wrapped. The wrapped one sold for $45 and one of the unwrapped ones sold for $36. Thank you for sharing everyone's successes. I learned something with each video. Thank you for sharing. Here is the other one that she took an offer for $36 on. Bought this at a Goodwill for $2. I think I could have sold it for a little more, but $2 into $25. I will take it anyway. Thanks to you and Rebel. I will be looking out for all these Volos. So Rebel is the Rebel reseller. This is her YouTube channel. She's also a Bolo Buddies member.  She is incredible. It is a vintage Fisher Price Puffalump white bunny rabbit pastel rattle. Yes, Puffalumps can be a big money Bolo. Definitely look them up if you see them. I think she sold this on Poshmark. Sure looks like that is a Poshmark listing. So can you sell plush on Pops? On Pops? On Poshmark? Absolutely. You can sell hard goods on Poshmark. So if you didn't know that, definitely think about it. I use List Perfectly to Crosspost. I start on eBay, Crosspost to Poshmark and Mercari. I use List Perfectly. It's a Crossposting service. Check it out down below. I have a demo video of how it works. If you check it out and it's something you think you would use for your business, you can use coupon referral code Bolo Buddies. All one word to get 30% off your first month. I have to share my Bolo and I have tried to figure out how to become a member of the Bolo Buddies channel, but I'm getting a file not filed. Yeah, my link was bad. Sorry guys. I am a huge fan of the channel and I'm starting my own so I would love a shout out. This one comes from Black Dog Vintage and how you become a member is you go down below and there is a join button. Sometimes you can't see it on certain devices so I do have a clickable link under my link tree. You can click on that. If you join at level two, you're going to get a pop up of your YouTube channel or eBay store and a link down in the description of the video. That's level two and up. So I hope you can figure that out and get signed up and I'll get you in this video. She said, anyway, I want a group of miniature tea sets in an auction. Normally I'm a jewelry reseller, but I believe I saw another Bolo on your channel with miniatures a while ago. So I figured I would bid. I won the entire lot for $9. This set of two miniatures vases matched and had a mark on the bottom. I researched and saw they were rare. I put them on auction and they sold for $108.56. I also sold a larger lot of Lamoge from that auction win and that lot sold for $156.69. So not bad for a $9 auction win. Yes, definitely. Vintage miniature floral porcelain pair of blue vases signed GF and this is what they look like. Another thing if they're really small that you can put in the title is dollhouse. I went through your link tree and got it through there. Okay, she said I am a member now. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining. We found this vase at a local thrift store for 50% off. The cost was $2. It was a crackle glass and hand painted turned out to be Moser glass. Sold for $125. This one comes from Bolo Buddy's member, K-Hoff. And this is what her eBay store looks like. So it's C-A-H-O-F-F. And I think I was saying, I don't know what I was saying. I don't think I said K-Hoff though. So thank you for telling me how to pronounce it. How to pronounce it. Oh, how to pronounce it. It is a vintage Moser amber crackle glass vase. Enamel fish seaweed unmarked. And this is what it looks like. Bought these from another Dunn collector. 350 each. 700 total sold for 1800 and less than a day when posted. So she definitely paid up. She paid $700 for these, but she knew that they were worth big money and flipped them for 1800. Would you spend 700 to make 1800?  So she definitely knew that they were big money. Let me know in the comments if you would take that return or if you would pass. Playtime quilt kit. Purchased at the Salvation Army for $4. Listed 512. Sold 517. Listed for $129.99. It took a best offer of $110. Vlon times play what? Bowie? Play Bowie? Cartier? I don't know what this says. Tea. It's a t-shirt. I don't know that brand, obviously. I can't even read it. Salvation Army for four bucks. Listed on 520 and sold on 530. Listed for $119.99. It took a best offer of $100. And that's what that one looks like. What is that brand? Huh. Interesting. Found it. That's why we do this. This is why I do these videos. This is why I do these videos and why you guys share to help everyone. So thank you so much. Founded the Goodwill for $9. Never heard of Ray Dunn. Thought I'd take a chance. Sold in less than a week. Whoa. Whoa. Okay. Number one, you've never heard of Ray Dunn. And number two, you've never heard of Ray Dunn and sold this for $850. Incredible pickup. Way to go on taking a chance. Ray Dunn by Magenta. Bird on blue cup and plate. This is what it looks like. $850 in less than a week. Paid nine bucks for it. Best find to date. I am pretty new. Your videos have been super helpful. Thank you. I got a big box of who knew what for free at Nextdoor App. The only picture posted was one box that had Hewlett Packard on it and it looked old. So I picked it up, came home and researched, and it was a huge box of 10 to 15 vintage HP Scientific Calculator accessories. I don't even have the calculator. But I have sold a handful so far for 50 to 200 each and still have several to go. Plus a big bag of manuals that also sell for a little each. Screenshot of the most recent two solds and they sold within 48 hours each. So they are different modules and accessories that allow the calculator to do different calculations or even print and record the calculations. They are all different. Very cool find. Definitely look out for old, random tech stuff. Wow. One sold for $119 and the other sold for $200. So some type of reader and digital cassette drive. Check that out. Now talk about getting something for free and flipping it for big money. Let me know down in the comments what is your best free find and you guys come join the Facebook group. I would love for you guys to share a June Bolo. Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching. Be sure to like, comment, subscribe and share and thanks for watching. The first one comes... Hmm. Her? Is it Thriftaholic? Oh. I think it's... Did she put it anywhere? Yes. I was right.


From Soldiers Radio and Television, this is the Army Now. The Army is now accepting applications for graduate registered nurses. War was the lasting on Kathy Drake's mind when she joined the Army Nurse Corps. Oh, when I came into the service it was in 1949 and I worked at Walter Reed and I never thought anything about a war. She served with the 807-6 mash during the Korean War where she says they ran eight operating room tables and faced 12-hour days. They were just cots on horses, if you can imagine, because you don't do that in civilian life. You have a separate room for each surgery. The 807-6 was one of the last units to retreat when the Chinese entered the war. Drake says she thought they were going to be pushed all the way to Pusan but were transferred to Tokyo when they read Seoul. She served at a hospital before being reassigned to the 805-5 mash in Seoul. None of us were too excited, but it turned out great for me because that's where I met my husband. It's the Army now.


Cheers. Good morning, everybody. I can't see anybody. Literally, I can't see, like, there's three people down there. There's Lars. There's Lars. I can't see anybody else. Good morning. Congratulations. Congratulations. We won. We won. You might remember 15 years ago, maybe 20 years ago, some of you, when you were at school, you were told that you weren't going to win because everybody in this room was the nerd. You were the geeks. An awful lot of you didn't even stay in school. You didn't go to university. You dropped out.  Well, congratulations. We won. It turns out that the 900 people in this room, and 900 people in Malmo, 900 people, it's like half of the city is in this building. 900 people here, as part of this whole new industry, this whole new thing that's taken over the world. We won. How awesome is that?  And some people here will remember the time that a 28k modem was the fastest thing you could possibly ever imagine. And some of you might remember computer games which took up less memory than a single lolcat GIF. But that time has come and gone and it turns out that the world has changed completely and we are in charge of it. How awesome is that? Now, this, of course, is causing a lot of trouble. We live in the middle of a massive digital revolution. We know this. But there are people who have been in charge of the world for the past 20 or 30 or 50 years who haven't noticed this. We're living in that middle period, that strange period where the people who are in charge have forgotten to give up. They're not dying fast enough, quite frankly. Baby boomers, man. Seriously. Gotta get rid of them. And so they're looking at us and they're saying what a really strange world that we're living in today. So let's have a think about this. Have a think about the major trends that are driving this strange world that we're now the victors of. We live in a world governed by Moore's law. I'm sure everybody in this room knows what Moore's law is, but for the one person at the back who doesn't know, I'm going to remind you, Gordon Moore was the chief engineer at Intel, the people who make the microchips. And in about 1962 he was looking at the microchips they were making and he was looking at the price that they were selling them for. And he said, hey, this is weird. Every 12 to 18 months, you know, every year or so, for the same price, the number of components on one of our microchips doubles. He said, this is interesting. The power, effectively, the power of those microchips doubles every year for the same price. I wonder if this is going to continue. He wrote this down in a magazine article and a few years later they looked at it again and they found that this was true every year, more or less, the number of components on a microchip will double for the same price. Power doubles for the same price every year. And this has been true ever since the 60s. And it will continue to be true, we think, until about 2030. We are living in a time where our capability doubles and doubles and doubles and doubles every year for the same cost. Or the same amount of power halves in price every year. Now you all know this. You know this because it's that feeling you get when you buy a new laptop and then six weeks later you see the same laptop in the shops for half the price. Or you see the same amount of money being spent on something twice as good.  Moore's Law is the fundamental driving force of society and it makes the life of most normal people very difficult. It makes the life of politicians and business people incredibly difficult. If you have to make plans, if you may have to make long-term plans, if you have to pass laws, which you think are going to be there for the next 10 or 20 years, Moore's Law makes the world very difficult indeed. As Joanna said, I'm the British Prime Minister's ambassador to Tech City. Tech City is a part of London where all of the start-ups are. And I act as a sort of translator between the hipsters and the House of Parliament. It's a very strange thing. They've all got the same moustaches, but other than that, they're very different. This is an expenseable. I can get my tax back on this. And you talk about Moore's Law to the politicians and you realize something.  One of these costs what? 5,000 crowns? More or less? Imagine you're going to be in power for ten years. Now when you leave power in ten years time, the phone in your pocket, the iPhone 15, will be 128 times as powerful as this. Maybe more, maybe 256 times. Maybe if you get an extra thing, maybe 512 times as powerful.  And let's face it, Angry Birds is as far as we want to go. Then one of these phones of this power in ten years time will cost around ten crowns. They'll be giving them free with hot dogs. Which means in a world that we can easily foresee, in a world that we are currently planning for, in a world that laws being written today around the world will be in effect in that time. In that world in ten years time, very easily foreseeable time, a device like this, which five years ago would have been considered to be witchcraft. You know, if you went into the secret government time machine that...  Okay, if you imagine that you went into a, if there was such a thing as a secret government time machine, this isn't being recorded, is it? Okay.  These are impossible devices, right? These are absolutely magical. It's a small piece of black glass through which I can access all of the world's information, find myself in the universe within three feet, and watch television. And through moving my thumb, I can talk to one of any five billion people on the planet. It's a magical device. And these magical devices will be so cheap in the future that everybody on the planet will have two. We'll be building houses out of iPhones soon. They'll be so cheap. This makes the world very, very difficult to plan. It means that anybody who is trying to make decisions about the world in three or four or five or six or seven or eight years' time can't really do it. For the first time in human history, long-term planning is completely broken. And it's only we, 900, that really kind of understand that. And all of the people in the town hall and in Stockholm and in London and in Washington and Geneva and all of those other capitals, slightly confused by it still. And then Moore's Law, it gives you these incredibly powerful machines, ones in your pocket, the ones on your laps right now. And these incredibly powerful machines give you incredibly powerful capabilities. And this leads to the second big trend that we're seeing, the trend that I can't even pronounce. It's algorithmization. I'll try saying that after a couple of toasts with the mayor last night. Algorithmization is where you are replaced by an algorithm, where you realize that your job can be done by a computer and not by you. Now, 20 years ago, we were worried about blue collar workers being replaced by robots. You might remember there was once a time when cars were made by people and welding was done by a person. But that person, after a few hours, would get tired and the weld would get a bit wobbly and the car would fall apart. And then somebody realized that you could do this with robots and the robots would be absolutely perfect and they would never need a holiday and they would never go to the beach on the weekends and they would always be brilliant and they could work 24 hours a day. And we have now the modern industrial world. And all of the people in this room, all of the white collar people, all of the black collar people, all of the incredibly creative people in this room are sitting there very smugly going, Ha ha, nobody could ever replace me. I am a genius, creative person. I do not weld for a living. I will not be replaced by a robot. No, no. Well, actually, yes. What we're seeing now with this increased computing capability brought to us by Morse Law is the algorithmization of white collar workers. If you think of it, a lawyer or a doctor, very good examples, perhaps the sort of job that your parents wished you'd had. A lawyer or a doctor today is really just a big-ass flowchart. You know, you can see the flowchart that a doctor has. Is the patient dead? Yes, no, yes, continue. And you just work your way down the flowchart and at the end it gives you an answer. And if there's one thing that computers are really good at, it's flowcharts. It's decisions. And so with computing power today and with big data, an open source, databases of knowledge that you'll be hearing about in the next couple of days, you find that the professions, the white collar jobs are also being taken by computers. Lawyers. Lawyers are mostly flowcharts. Very well-paid flowcharts, but they're flowcharts. Is he a criminal? Yes or no? Work your way down. And the government, of course, is made up entirely of people who are lawyers and doctors and accountants. People who, if they look deep into their hearts, realize they are nothing more than an app you'll soon be able to buy for nine crowns from the App Store. What a weird world we're living in. And so, we as creative people, we as internet people, as digital people, as the media, we have to act as a translation layer between the young people and their new technologies, ourselves with our new technologies, and the old people who are running the world. We have, in many ways, through our politics, we have entrusted our future to people who are very confused by our present. And this is not a good place to be. And for those of us in this room whose job it is to tell people other stuff, you know, to give messages across, to teach people things, we are, it is our duty to tell people what is happening in the world today, what is really happening, what is driving these social forces forward. And over the next two days, you'll be hearing about all of these new movements, which are creating massive social change. And it's your job after this conference to go home and tell everybody about it. Because this is the world we're living in, the world we're computing power in your pocket, it's doubling every year. Now, it's all very well to talk about society as being this thing that stuff is happening to, but that's really ignoring the people, the humans. And we're all human in this room, apart from a couple of you at the front here. It's suspicious looking. We've all got one of these in our pockets. Yes, has everybody got a phone with them? Can you hold your phone in the air, please? Can you throw them at me, please? No? Okay. And there's a reason why you didn't do that. Quite apart from, it would hurt and you're nice.  I would say that everybody in this room is in fact, as of a few years ago, you became, without you realizing it, a cyborg. You are all in fact cyborgs. You have become part man, part iPhone. This is perhaps a tragic thing to realize, but it is true. We have seen over the past few years massive changes to the fundamental, fundamental humanity of people in the developed world through these devices. I can prove this to you. Nobody here knows more than three phone numbers.  Because you have all of the other phone numbers stored in your cyborg brain.  It's never more than a meter away from you.  It's never more than three feet away from you because if it was, it would be like losing half of your brain. You can experiment, that's right. You know, anybody here, hand your phone over to the person next to you and let them walk away.  We've become cyborgs. We've become cyborgs in the way that we learn things. You might remember being at school and being taught facts, you know? You'll be taught a fact about something. It was very important. It seemed teachers were really very, very concerned about you learning facts. We don't learn facts anymore. We learn pathways. You don't remember things, you remember how to find things. You don't have to remember who starred in what film or who was the director of what film. You just have to remember how to get to YMDB on your phone quickly. You don't have to remember who was the captain of the 1983 Cup-winning Bandy side, you know? Because you can just Google it. And you can Google it with your cyborg brain that is never away from your body. And we're finding now that people don't learn facts. They learn these pathways instead. It's a complete change in the way that we think as humans. A change, it's the first change of this sort since the beginning of writing. When writing was invented, Plato, ancient Greeks, Plato basically said everything.  So Plato said, it's true, he actually, Plato said that he didn't want young people of Greece to learn writing. Because if they learned writing, that meant writing and reading, it meant that they wouldn't have to memorize poetry.  But writing enabled you to create a paper-based outboard brain. It enabled you to remember a lot more. And we've done the same thing, but we've pushed it on. We now no longer have to remember facts at all. We just have to remember how to get out them. This makes pub quizzes very, very difficult. But it makes everything else change completely as well. Education, the way we can learn new facts, the way we can learn new skills. There isn't a single person in this room, for example, who has a job which even existed five years ago.  There isn't a single person in this room who wouldn't have been put in hospital. I'm a social media expert for a live TV stream. So what happens is, okay, so it's like television, but it's on a laptop.  Okay, right. So they're watching television and they're sending each other, at the same time, they're all sending each other messages on their phone. Yeah, the phone's on... Okay, so the phone isn't connected to the wall. No, no. And these messages are 140 characters each. No idea why that's... Yeah. And they're talking to each other about game of thrones. There isn't a single person in this room who has a life that could be explainable to somebody 10 years ago. We have become completely different people. Thirsty people, in fact. Another example of being a cyborg is, put your hands in the air if you felt your phone ring in your pocket in the past week when it wasn't ringing.  I said with cyborgs, you're just not very good cyborgs. So it's very important to understand. So we have created a new type of human. A new type of human that is capable of accessing all of the information pretty much in the world very, very quickly, through their cyborg brain. A new type of human which is able to connect to millions of people around the world with their thoughts very, very quickly, through their cyborg brain. A new type of human that is able to know where they are on the planet to within 30 centimeters at all times. A new type of human that is capable of forming groups of like interest, no matter where those people are in time or space. We've created a new type of human which gets its information from all over the planet and no longer from a hierarchy somewhere in the capital city. We have created a new type of human which spends most of its time at dinner praying. You've seen it all. We've become extremely pious in our old age. And with this new type of human that we have all become, we are able, we have an opportunity to create a new type of society. It's very lovely in here. It's a lovely boat with the gorilla playing the accordion. I always thought, I thought there was King Kong for a moment and it's not. We've created a lovely room here today and tomorrow as well with like-minded people all together. But the world outside is quite difficult. We're facing enormous problems, as was said earlier. We have an economic crisis. We have a climate crisis. There isn't any Olympics anymore so we have a sports watching crisis. I mean, what are we gonna do? If I can't watch horse dancing in the middle of the afternoon, I literally don't know what to do with myself. It's a terrible thing. We have these massive crises and we have the opportunity to redefine society. Over the next couple of days, you will be hearing about and hearing from a whole group of people, all of whom are changing the world in their own special way, using these new capabilities that we have. You're gonna be hearing about what's happening in China. You're gonna be hearing about what's happening with collaborative consumption. You're gonna be hearing about what's happening with open source satellites, putting stuff into space. Humanity, a couple of weeks ago, took a picture with a spaceship that was going around another planet. Of another thing that we made, landing on that planet by parachute was explosions and rockets and all of that. And sent that picture back via another spaceship that was around that planet, back to here, and then sent it as a live picture to a whole load of people who were on the bus and going through London and looking at a magical piece of black glass. We're living in a world of incredible, amazing technology and amazing achievement, but also one of huge problems. The people we've put in charge of the world at the moment don't understand the world they're living in. You can see this from the laws they're passing and from the way they talk about the internet. That's an example. And it's people in this room and the learnings that you'll get for the next two days that you can take away from here that will start to change that. That will start to give the possibility of creating an awesome future, a future where we would much rather be putting robots on Mars than sending people to war. A future where the climate might be changing, but everything's gonna be okay. A future where our cyborg brain enables us to bring social justice and to alleviate poverty and all of those other things that we want to do. This is a very special part of the world. Nobody in this part of the world would ever say it is and that's one of the reasons why it's so special. This is a very special part of the world because it is dedicated to social justice and to creating a better society. And we have in our pockets and in our minds and in our capabilities the possibility of taking that good society and spreading it all the way across the planet. And that work begins today. Over the next couple of days, you're going to hear people talking about how to use these new technologies to unleash social potential, to take these new behaviors, to enable people to become better than they've ever been before, to teach, to share, to create new societies, to create new communities. So pay attention. Learn everything you can that is told to you from these stages.  It's only through these new technologies and through these new ideas that we will be able to create a new and better future. And as the only people who understand those technologies and understand those movements, it turns out that it is our job. As I said right at the beginning, we won. We proved them wrong.  We rule the world now. It's time to do something really, really cool with it. Thank you very much everybody and good luck. Go on then. It's early in the morning, nobody's had any coffee. Oh yeah, oh no, about what you're saying man. Oh good, okay. And I'm gonna like to start with two questions and then I'd really like for those of you who feel critical and for those of you who are super excited to formulate your own. So just start thinking about that. I'll start with this, with what is true and what is right. You're being like Spider-Man I guess with great power from greatest people.  However, I also think that it's possible that the powers for good are being outspent by the powers for profit. So how do we start with the fact that that's still innovation and power in the shape of humans and in the shape of hardware is being bought up by big corporations who may pretend not to be evil, you know, but. Well, so I, so I, you know, I think, okay, I think there are a couple of interesting points there. The first one is that it's not necessarily true that big corporations are evil, right? I mean, most of them. I mean, they might want to be evil. An awful lot of them aren't very good at being evil. So there's a lot of hope there, right? Eventually most evil corporations tend out to be a bit rubbish at being evil. But actually I think it doesn't matter. I think the world is big enough, right? The world is big enough and there are enough people and there's enough possibility in your local area to do good anyway. The idea is saying I can't possibly improve my street or I can't possibly create an online community to help people who have the same disease as I do or I can't possibly connect with people who have the same interests as I do around the world because there's Coca-Cola. Is silly, right? Of course you can. And Coca-Cola or whoever is your, you know, your favourite evil corporation of the week will continue doing its evil and good for them. But in the meantime, you will have made your good thing. There's this ongoing... So I live in London and we just had this big sports day thing, you may have noticed. And all the way through, up to the beginning of the Olympics there was lots of complaints about the fact that the Olympics was sponsored by all of these evil corporations. And there's the world's biggest McDonald's in the Olympic Park, which is considered to be this terrible, terrible thing. And everybody who watched the Olympics will have had their favourite moment, but I can guarantee you that everybody in this room cried at some point in the past three weeks.  And saw the individual achievements of that person or that team. And the fact that they were in a stadium that was paid for by Dow Chemical, or paid for by McDonald's, or paid for by Adidas or whoever, so what? They still did their good thing. And we can live in a world where the internet might be paid for by an evil telecom firm or it might be run off oil, which is, of course, but that doesn't stop us from doing good stuff in any way. It's just an excuse, I think. Thank you. The other... the other nervous minority felt that there's a danger in saying we're special. We got these Twitter accounts early, so now we're super humans. And I know that for a lot of geeks, it's true that there has been an almost a revenge aspect. And I love that you say, well, okay, I mean, because what you ultimately said, of course, is, yes, well, you won, so now let's be responsible about this. Let's stop the pissing contest. But do you think... I mean, there's also... I mean, I don't even know quite how to say it. I want the next iPhone, too. I mean, I want that as well. And I find it, like, ethically very difficult to combine with my other convictions. And it's very Swedish to say, to be terrified by people pointing out how extraordinary you are. Yes, so this is... You know, this is the yantelaw, right? I mean, this is... Yes, indeed, I've done my reading. Yes. Hey, yes, very happy. This is the yantelaw, right? This is like, oh, you know, you are not special if you think you're special will have you shot. All of that. Well, you know what? Man up. You know?  Like, sure, if you were farmers in the middle of small land, right, and you were like, I'm special because my turnip is bigger than yours and you should make me king, then fine, all right?  But the thing is, there is a time and a place where some people have skills and other people don't. And you guys have the skills.   What are we supposed to do? We can't possibly take responsibility. We're going to leave it to those people over there who think a computer is something that their secretary has to print out their emails.  You know? What happened to the Vikings? Yeah, we figured out that rape and pillage isn't great, right? So we're still doing that. But the hats were cool, yeah.  I mean, I'm sorry, I'm with a superhero metaphor here, but you almost brought it on yourself with this message. So you want to be responsible about what you do. So you don't want to...   Of course, the very reason that we don't all stand up and say, okay, we're going to solve climate right now is out of sheer fear that somebody's going to think we're ridiculous. Okay. Okay, so no pressure. But would you like to ask some questions now? All right, could just... Oh, good luck. So can you... Now, there are hand mic runners. There are mic friends coming, and also it would really help if you were to stand up and wave your hands in the air, because, literally, we can't see anything. All I know is there's some pink... There are pink blobs. And where's... Somebody's getting... Yeah, yeah. Hi. Hello, can you hear me? Yes. Yes, I can't see you. My name is Britt Staxson. I'm one of the nervous ones. You're over there? Yes. Oh, hello. Hi. Hello. Hi. I'm a bit sad. Oh. And I'm a bit sad when Johanna sort of summarized my... some of my tweets as being nervous or thinking that we are not very special. I think we all are extremely special that are here.  I'm so mad I want to leave because this is not what we have time for now, because you have politicians, you have big companies. Everybody has these tools in their hands, in their pockets, and we have come so much further than feeling that we only in here, and God help us not be the ones that rule the future. Thank you. So, elitism. What do we do about that? I want to give you a hug. Are you an elitist, Ben? Am I an elitist? Yeah. Well, yes, in a good way, right? In the... So, we have all of these big problems, yeah? We have this technology that will help us to be able to solve these big problems. We have, at the moment, a smaller group of people who know how to use these technologies to solve these problems. So, we're all part of that smaller group. We have two jobs, therefore. One is to make that group bigger, and the second is to solve those problems, right? Now, if at the moment, by recognizing that we have certain skills that other people don't have, that makes me elitist, fine. But my job isn't to remain part of the elite. My job is to make myself incredibly boring, right? I want to get to the point where I will walk on stage and tell people about, you know, new technologies or whatever. I want to get to the point where every speaker at this conference is incredibly dull, because everybody in the city knows what they're going to say, because everybody has been doing it for ten years. Now, at the moment, we're not in that position. At the moment, we've only been doing this for a short time. For most people outside on the street, the internet is 500 weekends old, right? It's not that big a thing for them, and they're not that skilled, and they don't have the tools. You're right. And so, for those of us who are that skilled and do have the tools at the moment, one of the jobs is to take them to the people, and it's to undo our elite-ness. So, yes, absolutely. I'm massively elitist. I don't want to be. And so the work is to make sure that I'm not. But you can't do that without first acknowledging that we have things we can teach other people about this. Now, I know that they can teach me about lots of other things, and I'm great, so we'll swap. And that'll be one of the things you hear about in the next couple of days, about the sharing of knowledge. But you have to acknowledge that you have knowledge that is worth sharing with people, and many of you in this room have the capability of doing that sharing. If you genuinely believe that social media, for example, will change the world, and you make TV programs, or you make radio, or you make magazines, or you make websites, then use that to teach them that. I think the story that you told us also about the geeks, and of course that's also generalization. Of course it's a generalization. Of course there are people in this very room who were like handball stars. You can do both, right? But even though, and these industries are so huge, and many parts of the media industry, of course, are hundreds of years old. So of course there are people with all kinds of backgrounds. But in the internet-oriented media communities, there is this narrative that you also reminded us of, of outsider-ness and opposition-ness and of payback time in some senses. But especially of being... Since you can't succeed in the hierarchy, you'd rather stand outside it and amaze people with your awesomeness. So there's a resistance to taking a leadership position, I think, because we many of us work and live in communities where we love flat organizations. So this is the new society that's being created at the moment. I didn't talk about it today, but I will now. This is one of the major social movements that we're starting to see. And in some countries it's further on than others. But I think when we look back in 30 or 40 years' time at today, what we'll see is the transition from hierarchies to networks. You know, if you remember... So I split the world very crudely into people who did most of their intellectual development before 1989 and after 1989. And all of you are doing those sums right now. Nobody in this room. That doesn't count for anybody in this room. But before 1989, the world was bipolar. There was NATO and there was the Warsaw Pact, and we looked over there and they looked at us and we were never going to fight, really, but it was good fun to sort of go... And we could understand them because we could send them Christmas cards and they could send us May Day presents. And it would, you know... We had an address for the bad guy. It was very useful. And there was no internet, and when you left school you would then go to university and you would then go into like a trainee scheme at a bank and you would work your way up through the bank and then at 60 you would retire and they would give you a watch and you would garden for 10 years Very easy hierarchy. And that was the hierarchy that we lived through. And if you were in an industry, there was the hierarchy there. If you were in academia, there was the hierarchy there. No matter what you're doing, there were these hierarchies. And now, over the past 10 years, because of these new technologies, because of the fact that we haven't... None of us have a job that even existed five years ago. Those hierarchies are falling apart. We don't work for one single company. We work for lots. We don't have jobs. We have work. We have projects. We work sideways. We collaborate, all of those things that you'll be hearing about in the next couple of days. And so the hierarchy is dissolving. And that's one of the reasons why politicians and so on are freaking out because they're the head of something which really no longer exists. Except it does because they do have law-making power, for instance. So shouldn't we also, as a sort of bridge, stop-gap bridging measure, position our knowledge, if not ourselves, in positions of actual real-world power? Yes, absolutely. And that's the whole point. It will be very good if everybody who left here adopted their own local politician.  And maybe explain some stuff. And if it's not a politician, then maybe your boss, or the board of your company, it would have saved an awful lot of time over the past 10 or so years of most of the debates that we've had in this field. Copyright could have been solved 10 years ago if only the people in charge of that have been taken aside by people who speak to them in normal, non-technical language and explained to them that digital rights management is bullshit, right? If you'd actually done that, we could have gotten rid of 10 years of debate, and it's the same thing for cybersecurity, it's the same thing for internet censorship, it's the same thing for all of these big social questions around digital technologies. It requires professional communicators like these people to take those politicians and those business leaders and so on, sit them down, give them coffee, give them cannibal and say, like, you know... Translations and stuff. Translations stuff, yeah. Yeah. We have a question over there. There's a waving... Man, this was the microphone. Waving so hard. There's a microphone coming around there. Yes. No, yes. Otherwise it's going to be a rupture. Good morning. Thank you. Thanks, Ben, very inspiring. My name is Pastor Embeck. I'm the editor of Netopia, which is like a web magazine on digital society. And my question is, can everybody win? What I hear from your talk is that the only problem is that old farts don't get it, and if they would just jump on the bandwagon and embrace the digital revolution, all the problems of the world would be fixed. Aren't there no actual conflicts? Aren't there no real conflicts, producers? Isn't there a problem with North versus South or Center versus Periphery or the different industries fighting for money and all that stuff? Can everybody really win? Maybe not. But we can have a go, you know? I think this is very similar to the first question about should we even bother because the corporations are evil. Will we ever get to a world? Will we ever live in Star Trek where, you know, everybody's the same and brilliantly skilled and there aren't any pockets in our clothes? Will we ever do that? I don't know. Probably not, no. But there's a lot of space between here and there. There's a lot of stuff that we can fix between here and there. And we can do an awful lot of that with the technologies and the ideas and the concepts that you're going to hear about in the next couple of days. We can make the world a much better place. Can we make it perfect? Probably not. No. But can we get it somewhere closer than where we are today? Absolutely. And it's not getting people to jump on the bandwagon. I'm not saying, like, oh my God, if everybody had a Twitter account, because that would be terrible.  Subscribe to my mother's Twitter account. But if everybody understood how to use these modern tools, how to become part of their own online communities, how to share, how to learn, how to find facts, how to do all of the things which for most people in this room are perfectly natural, but for most people outside are not, if we have that capability in everybody's hands, then we can have a discussion about where are we going as a humanity. And we can use these fundamental ways that the digital networks change the way we relate to each other to make a much better world. Will getting everybody on Facebook create Paradise on Earth? No, not at all. Will getting everybody to know how to use the internet create the possibility for massive potential social change? Yes. Let's do a few more questions. We have five minutes left. Everybody puts up their hand. Hi, my name is Susan Cosell, and I'm at the Medea Collaborative Media Initiative at Malmo University, just over there. Thank you, Ben, for making me angry and inspired at the same time. What better way to begin a conference? My question relates to the theme that's been discussed really well by Johanna and others, but it's a bit more specific, which is that in your view, can the agenda for social justice, social transformation, can it be separated from Moore's Law? Because Moore's Law, of course, has been adopted by the consumerist capitalist economy, which wants us to buy more and more. So specifically, can we do what you have in mind that we might be able to do without being reliant on this? And a little side question relates to Tech City and the Houses of Parliament, which is that I'm wondering if the women also have mustaches, or if perhaps there aren't. And while Ben ponders this, let's get the microphone over there. Let's get the microphone up there. Up there, lady over there. Yes, you keep waving until you get a microphone. You answer the question. Do the women have mustaches only when they borrow mine? That's filthier than it meant to be. Can we... Let's pretend that didn't happen. Everybody goes into the secret time machine for like 15 seconds and then we start the question, the answer again. Can we separate social change from Moore's Law? No, but that's fine. What you have to understand about... I mean, a Moore's Law isn't a physical law. It's not like the law of gravity or something where, you know, it's inevitable that technology will double in power every 12 to 18 months for the same cost. It's not a physical thing. It's just a rule of thumb that has happened to be true and seems to be continually to be true. And it's because you use the older computer to make the faster computer, and then they use that faster computer to design the next one and so on and so on and so on. And that's a new thing. You didn't use a horseshoe to design the next best horseshoe. Technology that feeds on itself is a new thing. I think this is the dirty trick that we're capable of playing, which is using the gifts that the capitalist super-consumptive, you know, ideology that has given us, or that using the gifts that the industrial military complex has given us, to change society in the future. I think the idea of we shouldn't use these great things as they were once sold to us by people who wanted to make a profit, is really throwing the baby out with a bathwater.  And once we've used those technologies to teach people or to show people other alternative ideologies or other alternative ways of living their lives, then maybe the way that society... Well, hopefully the way that society works in general will change and the endless desire to have the latest and fastest and best laptop or whatever will die away. Maybe, I don't know. But the idea of... If you say they're not compatible, that sort of implies that you're not going to use those new technologies for good. And I think that would just be a massive waste. Last question over there. Hi, I'm Annika Gustavson, and my job didn't even exist six months ago. I am the Nordic Countries First Trans-Media Commissioner, which has a lot about the backwardness up here, but anyway, I'm the first. You've secured it really well in making people feel good about themselves in this room, and I think you've made 900 new friends, so I'm going to make 900 enemies right now.  I think we're sitting in a sandbox scratching each other back, feeling good about each other. Meanwhile, I grew up on a farm. I'm a farm girl. I think we're losing crucial knowledge. So my question to you, do you think we're even going to be around 50 years from now? I think we're fucked. I will add to that challenge by giving you 60 seconds to answer this question. Okay. Okay. Thanks. That's actually a really good point. And I don't think you're going to make any enemies at all. The reason is that, yeah, we would be entirely wrong if we all went away and went, you know, I work in the internet, and therefore I'm fine, and I will eat floppy disks for the rest of my life. I will subsist. My body gets its nutrition from the number of retweets I get. You know? Of course not. Of course not. We live in a massively interconnected world. Everybody in this planet is massively interconnected to everybody else. And everybody is going to have the same problems. And we all face the same challenges as farmers in Sweden or Masai warriors in Africa, or business people in Korea, or, you know, writers in London. Whoever it is, whoever you are, we're all facing the same major macro problems. The economic system is basically broken. The climate is basically broken. The planet wants to kill us. It's all bad. But we have the possibility to use these new tools that we have to make a dent in those problems, if not solve them completely. And so, yes, absolutely. 900 of us for the next two days are going to be sat in this room, scratching each other's backs, saying, aren't we terribly clever? Look at that person on the stage being very clever. I'm learning clever things. It's only I know, and I'm going to be really clever about it, and woo, and aren't we hipsters? That's true. And that's good. Because for the next two days, that's who you are. You are the 900 people who are getting the secret knowledge. And scratch each other's backs. Go for it. Because on Friday, you've got to go home. And you've got to take that knowledge and you've got to use it. Because the future, weirdly enough, is where we're going to be living for the rest of our lives. So sure, scratch away. Because it's going to get really, really itchy come the weekend. Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Hammersley. Thank you.


What kind of stories do you want to live? What kind of women do you want to bring into your life and in what capacity? And that's what I want to talk to you guys about is having some choice and some direction in that. Does that sound good? Only for you? Just me and him. We'll just have a little chat. I know you're British, but come on you can say something. Say, oh jolly good. All right, fair enough. So the five stages that I see as being functional and healthy in terms of going through relationship cycles is and there's of course many variations.   Active single. And this is where you are single by choice. You don't have a long term girlfriend.  Right? And that's where most guys are probably at, at this point. But from there, are we going to just go inactive single, active single, monogamous happily ever after? Highly unlikely.  And if you do it skillfully, then it means that each stage of relationship that you shift through will be positive. Not only for you, but for the woman or women that you're involved with. If you stay in one part of the cycle far too long, then you'll end up hating each other. Who's been in a long-term relationship for about 40 to 50 percent more time than they should have been? Yeah. Any friends with that girl now?  Well done. Yeah, I have been as well. It takes, you know, takes counseling. It takes patience. Most relationships die well before the participants admit it and having the ability to go This is no longer working. We should cut and run now is a fundamental of being a good seducer. Learning how to break up with girls, how to separate when the time has come is really important and to move on to the next cycle. So from there, active single, we move into multiple relationships. This is where you can date and have actual relationships with more than one girl at a time without the need to lie to her or give the impression that you're offering something that you're not.  And then do that to another girl and another girl, and so you have a bunch of girls who think that you might be their boyfriend. And where does that end up? Getting caught. Yes, getting caught. It ends with mess and slashed tires and broken plates and screaming, I thought you love me and all that kind of shit, which is dirty. We don't want to get involved in that.  I remember early on when I was experimenting with the multiple relationship paradigm, I thought I'd better tell girls straight away.   And afterwards I said, oh, I should just let you know that I'm not looking for anything serious. And she's just looked at me and said, I don't even know what your name is. I'm going to go now. Yeah. And I was a bit of a wake up call. Oh, I've just been used for sex. Nothing. So don't presume that all women want to be your girlfriend because we are sold this myth that women use sex to get relationships, essentially, which is not true. They do do that sometimes, for sure. But a lot of the times women will use men for sex. There's a whole range of bizarre motivations that lead to a woman deciding to have sex with a man. She's bored. She just wants to get revenge on her boyfriend. She's trying to procrastinate from an essay she's supposed to write. You happen to remind her of some weird father figure from when she was a child. God knows what. But it's not or it's not necessarily because she wants to be in a relationship with you. From that fourth stage, we tend to move into a primary secondary situation, which is where one of these girls that you've been dating tends to rise in importance. You really like them. They really like you. You guys have some kind of open deal, but most of your attention is focused in on that one person. And then from there, we move into monogamy, which I do not think is a bad thing. I have done 10 hard years of monogamy with three girls in my adult life, and I learned a lot about myself during that period. This is the time when you'll learn about what really makes a woman work, how relationship dynamics work, understanding compromise, understanding how to keep a relationship vital, becoming a really good lover. There's a lot of great things that come out of monogamous relationships, and there's also a lot of awful things that can happen where people become codependent, they lose their friends, their identity, they get bored, complacent, they put on weight, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm not here to suggest one of these models over another. What I'm here to suggest to you is that you consider what phase of relationships you would like to move into and why. A very wise Ukrainian woman once said to me, when a woman has 10 men, she has one man. What does that mean? Any ideas what that means? That bit of Slavic Zen wisdom. Nothing? Come on, give her a shot. Just the first thing that comes to mind, someone's thinking something and they're just a bit scared to say it, then she gets full attention. We're on the right track. What she's really saying here is that a woman has a whole lot of needs that are met by men. And if she can find one man that fulfills all those needs, then she will likely want to hold on to him and only him. If she can't, which is often the case, she will find enough men to fulfill her needs. And all women do this. Do not be sold on the lie that there are sluts and good girls. That there are certain girls who would never do that, whatever that is. This is not true. What there is is girls at different phases in their life who are after different things.  And then she'll have one of those... her first relationship when she's say 20 to 23, move in with a guy, see what that's all about, then she might cheat on him with his best friend and then she might go out, be really focused on her career and her studies, not have time for any of that shit, but want to have sex with a guy that she considers to be her friend once a month. Then she might go off travelling to Ibiza and get gang banged by a football team and then come back to London and wait nine dates before she sleeps with a guy that she becomes the girlfriend of. This is the same girl. And in her mind, that's all completely logical because she felt like doing that at the time because those were the needs that she needed met. Now if you go in there with the idea that there are tarts and strumpets and then there are ladies, then you will set up those roles. In the initial story that I talked about, this guy only knew one role to play in a woman's life, which was husband essentially. That's all he knew how to do.  And we slapped him about and he learnt very quickly that there are other roles and he enjoyed those much more.


My health expert have called for an increase in taxes paid on sugar-sweetened beverages from the current 10-naira to 130-naira in order to discourage excessive consumption by members of the public. Addressing the press conference in Lagos, the Executive Director of Corporate Accountability and Public Participation, Afrika Kappa, a Kim Bade Oluwa family disclosed that 99% of illnesses are as a result of excessive consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. For more than two hours, these men of the media profession imaged in this official launch of the research report on sugar-sweetened beverage, SSB Taxi Nigeria, organized by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation, Afrika Kappa. The aim is for them to have firsthand information on the outcome of the research on the potential fiscal and public health effects of sugar-sweetened beverage tasks in Nigeria. According to the group, the report is a comprehensive analysis of the SSB tax, including the potential impact on both the fiscal landscape and public health outcomes in Nigeria. A Kim Bade Oluwa family is the Executive Director of Kappa. Highlighting more on the report, he calls on Nigeria's re-engage in healthy lifestyles by consumers of what is destructive to the body. That tax is not just for government and revenue, it is to protect the Nigerian citizens. It is for public health. The tax is to ensure that there is decrease in the consumption of products that are causing NCDs in Nigeria, products that cause diabetes, high blood pressure, and are also related to the cancers and the rest of them. And so you've got sweet to these attacks that will induce reduction in consumption. In his presentation, a research associate Center for the Studies of Economic of Africa, Fidelis Obanii, course-run effective SSB tax regime. He holds strongly that it will go a long way in reducing consumption of SSB as well as a boarding of non-communicable diseases while generating revenue for public health initiatives. On her part, Okweyemi Ibitui paints a more gloomy picture on the consequences of too much intake of SSB. In Nigeria, living with diabetes, who continues to consume food will not be able to properly take care of his or herself. And that's just one angle. There is a family member that is taking care of that person who begins to lose productive hours, who is an unpaid caregiver, who cannot earn from his or her normal work, and can still not earn from giving care to that person. This is why I say the SSB tax is the triple way, a win for the individual, a win for the government, and a win for public health. According to the report, Nigeria ranks fourth globally in SSB consumption with an annual sale of approximately 38.6 million litres in a market value at $16.87 billion in 2023. Love Ikoku Uyiduku. Plus, TV News.


Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell. I haven't talked about blogging in a while and since that's one of the things that I'm kind of known for I figured it's probably time that I do something about blogging. So today It's going to seem like I'm going backwards a little bit to beginners people who are new to blogging but truthfully there's people who They will tell you they blog for a while, but they've stopped for whatever reason. They just stopped writing They just gave it all up Or they say well, I just don't know what to do.  Yeah, I was one of those kids who I used to write Poems I actually used to write plays believe it or not. I wrote music. I wrote lyrics and then I Gravitated towards writing, you know more serious things, you know, I've written two books on leadership But I've been a blogger for at least 10 years now and right now I have five blogs Yeah, I got five blogs all of them don't get the same attention But you know, this is what I do. So I like to think that I know at least a little bit of something about blogging No one else does No one else thinks I know anything, but you know, hey, you know what you get 10 years, you know longevity has this place So I'm gonna give you three things to think about if you're either a new blogger or you're thinking about blogging Or maybe you're someone who's just kind of lost your way a little bit I'm here to encourage you as a matter of fact I've been thinking about starting a new Google Plus group Basically encouraging blogging because there's a lot of groups out there But most of them are just posting blog posts about anything and you know, whatever and I've been taking a look at them And I'm not seeing what I'm looking for so if you like this kind of video You might like this particular Google Plus page. I'm thinking about doing so let's look at these three things The first one is the bill of the ability to write frequently now by that I don't mean you have to write every single day. I really don't mean that what I basically mean is frequently Over a period of time for instance right now because I'm concentrating on some other things I'm basically saying that I'm going to try to write on each one of my blogs at least once a week Now I'm very good at that with at least three of them the other two You know, I'm a little here and there but still the basic idea is to be able to do that Now the thing is I've been writing one of my blogs for ten years another one I'm coming up on eight and all the others are at least three years old Well, actually one is new for this year So I at least know that I can write whenever I'm in the mood if I have the time to do it But some people don't really know if can I write more one of the suggestions? I usually make is to sit down before you start blogging come up with your topic or topics or whatever and Then write ten articles write ten articles before you do anything else if you can write ten articles Then you can pretty much go for it now That may sound like a tough chore But here's the reason you do that the reason you do that is because now when you create your blog You actually have ten posts to get things started You don't post them every single day you give yourself some space But at least you have ten articles that you know Hey, look I got ten articles in and if you never write another thing which I hope you do But if you never write another thing you at least have ten articles So that's the first thing that's the first test the second one is the ability to create a dream now I'm gonna tell you the truth here. There's a lot of bad Just are I read a ton of blogs trust me on this I've always read a ton of blogs and one of the things that sometimes surprises me Isn't that someone is a bad writer, but it's that they are able to attract a lot of people There are just some folks who just have the worst grammar They they misspell a lot of words. They have no clue. They don't go clean anything up. They'll skip words here and there but they get a great following and I got to tell you the truth I've been troubled by that sometimes because I sit there and say wait I go back and I try you know to correct any spelling errors every once in a while I leave out a word, but it's not all that often sometimes I actually type a word just legitimate, but it's not the word I meant at that time and I will fix things I'm always editing, you know, whether I catch it up front or on the back end But there's a lot of these blogs that don't do that There's a lot of bloggers who lately have been saying well You should be writing long post anywhere from 3,000 words to 10,000 posts of 10,000 words every single post Let me tell you something my post last week was 3,200 words That was a fluke and I just I had something that I really wanted to say and I got very detailed on it So it ended up being 3,200 words. Trust me my post my next post was not that many words No work close to it. I don't know who really wants to read that all the time But you know what there are people that seem to do it the thing is that sometimes they ramble I mean if your intention is really to get to 3 to 5,000 words every single week You're gonna start rambling unless you have some kind of detail some kind of reference some kind of research that you've done or Maybe you're going to review something. You know, that's a bunch of words for every single week It just is trust me on this. I mean like I said, I find writing five blogs I may end up writing 3,000 words total, but that's over five different subjects sometimes six or seven So that's rough. But if you can communicate a dream get people to understand Hey, look here. This is my dream and you get them enthusiastic about it Then you've got yourself a built-in audience and you've got an audience that will be loyal to you So that's number two. And then the final thing is the ability to be authentic Now this might seem one of those strange kind of things that you sit there say, okay This just sounds kind of metaphysical or goofy or whatever But the truth of the matter is I like to believe that people know if you're being authentic about stuff You can be truthful. You don't have to tell every single thing about it But you have to be somewhat authentic like when I wrote like posts that I will link to here at some point Since I'm doing this in advance and I'll post it whatever I wrote this post about link Twitter and how I'm basically market myself on Twitter And it was 3200 words and it was as authentic as it could be but it was more of a research thing That's me teaching my latest post is me kind of ranting about people who set up their blogging systems The commenting system so that if you leave a comment and you pick the thing saying that you want to receive comments They send you a stupid email saying are you sure you want to get comments? I'm sorry if I clicked it I want comments Okay, I'm just telling you this me if I clicked on it. I want to see comments. Don't send me other mess I get too much email as it is anyway That post is definitely authentic because I'm kind of ranting about something that I really don't like Sometimes I'm passionate about something that I like, you know, you have to show some kind of authenticity I think people can read when you're kind of fake about stuff You know if I ever start writing great things about cars Then I'm probably for the most part kind of fake unless it's a car I just bought or if it's something that is just so extremely cool that I'm gonna write about cuz I don't know anything about cars I just don't so I don't talk about cars all that often I do have one old post that I did something about Cuban cars because it was something I found out I didn't realize that Cuba was driving all these really old cars from the 40s and 50s because they didn't have access to new cars I think that's kind of cool. I just do so that's what I mean You have to somehow get your authenticity out now you might find some difficulty doing that You know when I first started doing videos, I certainly wasn't authentic at all because I didn't know how to do it I mean, I thought that everything had to be perfect So I was I was speaking like this and I wanted to make sure that every single word that I said was Easily understood and there was no emotion. There was no authenticity to it whatsoever So if I did that with video Imagine that there are people who were doing that while they're writing their blogs. It's just the way it is I think there's a lot of really often authentic people who write their blogs I see it all the time and then there's a lot of garbage I hate to say this a lot of guest posts are garbage because there's no authenticity in it Yes, they've done some research and they've written something, but there's no emotion to it. There's no life to it. It's just there Probably one of the gripes I have with guest posts Whatever I've written a guest post for someone you can bet that things live. There's got some authenticity in it It's got some emotion in it. It's got some life That that's just me Anyway, let's take those off again number one the ability to write frequently The ability to communicate a dream is number two and number three is the ability to be authentic Anyway, those are my points. What do you guys think? Let me know below as this guy dame drops usually says if you like it Give it a thumbs up if you don't like it give it a thumbs down, but don't be giving any thumbs down Give me comments and you know what share this thing I will ask you share it with other people Let them see what I'm talking about and if you leave a comment, then they'll see what you had to say Anyway, like I said, I'm Mitch Mitchell y'all take care