So go ahead, Alexander. OK, hi, everyone. Thank you for coming to this session. I'd like to, yes, to present a little bit about our workshop just here. So this is about a participatory research agenda for open education post-pandemic. And we will be talking and also using two apps to share ideas. And this is a dialogue. I'd like that all of you please feel very relaxed. I'd like to ask if you could write in the chat your name, your country, and also why you are introducing yourself, please. I'd like to know if you have a drink. So please, yes, if you were able to get a drink, that'd be great. So I like a lot the topic of this event or a global open education, which is connect. Connect to people, connect to ideas. And this is very interesting because our project at the Open University, funded by the European Commission, is Connect. And it's about connecting students, families, universities, academics, and also policymakers to tackle real problems. And we are very focused on the sustainable goals of UNESCO. So in this event, yes, I'd like just to explain a little bit about Connect. And this is about an inclusive open schooling with engaging and future-oriented science. And that project will be offering partnership systems and policies, partners, projects, database, topical scenarios, science action within science topics. This is just for you to know, all of you, that it would be so lovely and useful this conversation for many, many projects, including Connect. So here is just an introduction about this framework that we are using the project about developing with the community, participate in research. We could be like a agenda, a research agenda. So we will be involving all these different stakeholders, different societal actors, which is the students from secondary schools, from the universities, and their communities with scientists from the institutions and even research labs. And they will be using specific tools, developing, identifying key problems or developing potential solutions. But we'd like to see students, learners as protagonists able to identify and defining methodologies, approaches, and tackle together in cooperation with the community. So that's the way to develop knowledge, competencies, skills, competencies. I'm talking about the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values. So for this process, for getting people involved, we are using that framework, which is about to identify issues that matter for them. They care. So students or local community, they care about the either is related to health, with the COVID, the pandemic, or effects of the pandemic in the community. So they will be identifying what they are worried or concerned and is really important or very relevant for the community. So in our case, in our open education global community network, we will be thinking now, what are our key issues for open education, post-pandemic? So to answer this question, I would like to introduce a little bit about the second step of this framework, which is no. I would like to offer an overview about 12 presentations or workshops, posters, 12 pieces of work from people here in the Open Education Global Conference, who use the either COVID, 19, or pandemic in their work. So I selected all the abstracts available in the program and there were a kind of 12 presentations. And they are tackling an issue relevant for post-pandemic or during the pandemic. And then I would like to introduce in note to a framework that is developed by the OECD Education 2030, the Education for this next decade. And that is about thinking about focusing on learners' competencies, learning environments, partnerships, and education to support the sustainable development goals. So this is an introduction of our workshop. And then we will be doing some activities, it's like the dialogue, and I will be mapping the dialogue. So let's see. And yeah, this is the approach for this moment now. So to start this, I would like to know if you could go to the main meter, because I needed to collect from all of you key issues, key words about, yes, if you could. I'm also going to open this here. And yes, if you could, please write a keyword if you don't like to go to them. Main to me that if you are in a mobile phone, if you can just type in the chat, this is fine. Or if you'd like to get them, they meet. Yes, if you'd like to share your keyword as well. So yeah, so I'm going to just see the chat and then we're going to open the main meter. Yeah, this is the first activity. I know that we have a small community. And also, yes, and I can share with you. This is a try to find. Why are we doing that? Opening, I would like to know, yeah. The link is already in the chat. Yes, all great. If you put the link in the chat, I'd like to know, because I had so many screens opened. So I had to check loads and I closed the outcomes. I just want to see how I'm going to find it again. So why are we doing that? I would like to carry on just to introduce a little bit about a summary of this OEA Global Connect, because this is what might inspire you as well. So yes, I'm going to present that. Okay, so here is, we have like 12 papers or abstracts presented in the program OEA Global Event. And as you can see, yes, we have like three, four, four abstracts from Taiwan. And but then we have a work from India, Netherlands, Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, United States too. And here all of us that somehow are thinking about COVID, the pandemic in open education. And in many, many work studies focus on higher education. But there are two in lifelong learning and one in key 12. So, and if you can see, there are many initiatives that they are focusing in developing supportive policy. Some work related to facilitate international cooperation, building capacity, sustainable open educational resources. So this gives us an idea about what people are talking or they are concerned related to open education and the pandemic. So if you go to the title of the papers, then it's very interesting because there are some papers that they are highlighting this key challenge which is remote teaching for the first time. I found like three papers and some papers are discussing learning environments like MOOC, also more interactive environments and pedagogy as well, how to ensure continuity of education, also how to use the audio visual or text or materials that they are more engaging and how to develop that in a short period, synchronous versus asynchronous. And it's very hard for the teachers to teach in synchronous when the students, they don't have this interact connection all the time or there is lots of problems and the de-flexibility is really key in this open education during the pandemic. There are some work related to students' engagement and how to decrease their workload because many students and even women that they are taking care of children or even parents in general with the home schooling and they have to work and have to study so there are lots of workloads. And for the students who are in universities that is one work that is about social distancing which is hard for the ones who are attending universities face to face and there is this work about a state of anxiety and fear and I'd like to highlight as well this challenge of replacing the traditional learning face to face with a blended or completely remote learning model. But the big picture, yes, if you think about the big challenge, we have two, yes, papers that they highlighted one is by Kathy in the United States that she was one important how can I say leader in the open education movement and she highlighted in her presentation that the pandemic will amplify is amplifying existing inequalities and it is very related to what this workshop is about. We are reflecting about the laws of learning and in human capital across the world high drop out rates low learning outcomes and the increased inequalities particular between low achievers and the high achievers are affecting all areas including employability like getting jobs or entering the university so it's the whole ecosystem and that is just to bring some ideas to inspire our dialogue. Before talking about the framework I'd like to open for questions. I would like to know if any of you have seen these presentations or participate or attending and if you'd like to share your ideas please I'd like to hear your voices as well but I'm going to look at the chat oh by the way is Igor our facilitator Igor could you help me please I would be facilitating I've not been able to see many of the sessions unfortunately not as many as I would have wanted so it's really impressive that you made the scan over the program and connected it to your presentation or your workshop it's interesting times where I think remote teaching and open education meet and provides with new opportunities we've got some extra people coming in I don't know if I pronounced the names correctly Super, Maria, Anya Dr. Aroma and Matilda maybe you can share your thoughts you can all unmute yourselves if you want to speak or if you want to write in the chat there's a question in the chat do you have any solution for the high dropout rate this is one of the big questions yes because we need to understand what are the needs what is happening now the dropout rates we need to understand what are the needs of our online education I am from the open university and we have been using a lot of different approaches from learning analytics to fund engagement to understand what is the meaning of student satisfaction what is the meaning of why and how they can enjoy and make the best and take the best from that experience so this is the whole work that I've been doing related to fun but in the opposite side which is the data the open university we started with when I started at the open university in 2006 we had 250 students 250,000 students and now we have 170 so it's a big yes we cannot understand how it's a big dropout and this is not even related to the pandemic but with the pandemic the fact is that these numbers will be increased um for our institution we offer flexible learning we are well considering microcritical we engage in the open education movement at the early stage and we can see how the big benefits of open education are that they are not sure that they were not sure to join and they open his source they become a little bit more confident so we have many stories it's about more than 12 years of stories related to open learn which is still there it's about probably if we think of the big context it's a little bit hard but if you start to talk about our goal here why you are here in this workshop this is really important and the dropout what is the solution I don't like to hear any idea I think what you mentioned it's a different story now with the pandemic other factors might be influencing the dropout so maybe a more personal approach towards the learners or more individual approach even more than usual circumstances are different some might not be able to influence but you can do your best so Dr. Roma has raised her hand and is now also unmuted so go ahead welcome everybody it's a very important question what should be regarding the solution for the high drop rate the two different stories before the pandemic and after the pandemic because that has changed a lot of things regarding most of the countries but depending on the social framework of the country why the dropout but what we could do helping people those who are interested in education we can provide them dual enrollment or night schooling we are doing that online education is now going to be a big big support to overcome the drop rates because this pandemic has really set up a pace especially the course known as MOOCs people are going to for MOOCs online courses so I think this pandemic and the technology which is now really has gained what would be there in the coming time in the future and would definitely solve the case of dropouts because we can get connected anytime anyway and it depends on what type of technology we have so I think government all over the globe should try to update the technology and to overcome the drop rates especially providing this technology facilities to those who are less privileged so there is another question can we create a personalized learning environment in MOOCs yes if I was in the room to say something or somebody else or I can say something this is very good because I would like to see I'm still going to stop the screen I'm going to share another one but dropout and MOOCs this is the idea of dropout I just included here that offering technologies and more engaging pedagogies for disadvantaged students is really important now so these two elements including learning environment personalized learning MOOCs which is another idea so talking about disadvantaged students I've been working in different communities including I'm from Brazil and we are working with an area affected by the big problems with the climate change as you know Brazil we had many fires in Amazon forest in Pantanal and it is all recent and there is a climate area that's a big problem, no water and they don't have internet and how they are facing education how they are addressing isolation and how they are learning in these conditions so technology is really important they are in Brazil and even in hard difficult the community they are now more used to mobile phone so the government, the council, the state they are supporting these initiatives industry to give the ship for students to connect to the internet so this is the way for access some initiatives in Brazil in these difficult areas they have partnerships for providing laptops or computers reusing this kind of equipment and to offer incentives that the community can access but that they are investing a lot in printed material as well so technology is a key point because for communication in Brazil they are using podcast and that was very interesting because we have students creating the podcast not only the teaching stuff and that was very successful because the students they sometimes know what the difficulty is and they can do the podcast because some of them are very used to technology and this was a very successful initiative so we have many many ideas from this difficult situation even connecting TV because they have even like areas they have in slums they have TV and the government started to work some local council with the university developing programs using the TV so how did the technology is really important the mass communication technology but the most important of course is this interactive technology because they needed to interact with other peers or interact with the teaching stuff this is vital but talking about pedagogies and the MOOC so personalize the learning I think that one key concept for this post-pandemic will be mastering learning mastering learning it's about supporting every all learners they can work towards the learning objectives however some learners will take more time or will need more break down complex activities in small learning goals and work more with the big ideas particularly topics that are very difficult like the science, maths that they need background knowledge so mastery learning is key point and we know that some yes environment, learning environment if you design properly it's possible from MOOCs to small courses to organize activities for pre-assessment diagnostic assessment to understand what are the right challenge for these different levels of group of students so that's very related to that flow I'm talking about Mihaly and this is an important scholar that tells us the flow and the importance of enjoyment so if in a MOOC you work for very difficult problems or tasks and just for the high achievers the low achievers will feel very anxious they will feel that they are not capable they will not enjoy and that will increase that drop down dropping rates, drop out rates but if you are able to align these different levels of student skills with different types of activities that are from small challenges to big challenges if you are in your MOOC make this more accessible for all of them you will also increase their chances for them to enjoy more, to feel capable and more confident so this is related to enjoyment and it's very important so I don't know if I answered are you delighted to hear a little bit about your comments I hear you talk about the pedagogical aspect here related to the Covid or the pandemic situation a lesson we might be able to learn from it is that student well-being also needs a lot of attention right now I can imagine so what are your thoughts about that answering the question so in the personalizing MOOC experience on a pedagogical level how do you see implementing student well-being aspects there yes so there is a bigger change for well-being and I am very involved in European projects and also funded research and I know that there are initiatives from organizations supporting this type of research related to well-being because one important element for being able to learn is having your first needs addressed is food if you think that in these countries that lots of students they had access not just for the educational environment but also food is talking about the free meals schools and that was one problem apart from food we have physical sports or yes feel good because you are able to do your activities physical activities and also have a social life and this affected as well students more depression problems in a few countries that the level of violence increased particular violence in at home yes this is really difficult to address and all these are affecting the education so the other issue related to well-being is also mental well-being so there are lots of studies tackling the problem of cognitive overload the time that we are spending in front of our screens all these difficult situations people losing jobs and that increased the stress that increased the pressure that affects the well-being and in particular in this situation and not just the disadvantaged students but also in any family that they are facing fear as one of the studies indicated yes they are very concerned so the question is of course there is no a miracle but what we think that's really useful now is increased the numbers of the people connected the researchers initiatives funders that we can together work with these different problems so this is the way I think that we could organize better potential solutions when we discuss with the community and the European Commission now is promoting a lot of this trend we are talking about science with and for society if we get this to open education movement it is about open education with open learners and we need to engage more the open learners in this ecosystem of open education so I would like to see more comments before talking about OER OER I would like to before I move to the UNESCO sorry the OECD framework I would like to know more issues from the OER Global from the presentations that you have participated or your own presentation would you like to share any topic I am following also the just to come back here to the zoom can I make a comment so hi Ale this is Bea from Delft I must confess I am not the right person in a way because I must confess and this is going to sound awful but every time I see Covid 19 on a mile. So I would not have, you know, any my issue is that and I can give you one of the examples because I was present at some of these presentations. So for example, the Irish presentation from it was Orna Farrell and her colleagues. And that was one of the things they what happened was that they so they were talking about professional learning, they were getting ready to launch a course on how to teach online right before, but they were they never decided with a pandemic in mind, obviously. So when they were ready to launch, and they were kind of thinking of maybe having say 40 50 people in the course, all of a sudden, because it was pandemic time, they found themselves with 400 500 people registered into to take the course right. So my question to you all is, yes, we're talking about the issues of the pandemic and direct response of what's been happening and everybody adapting and changing and doing things in a different way, but how many of those things we've done in a different way, do you think will remain once we inverted commas go back to to a normality? See what I mean? Yes. And that question, you might find many answers because it's all based on the context. For instance, in some universities, yes, they are more prepared for distance education like open university. We didn't have a big issues, but we had some problems. For instance, we have students that had to work in tutorials, face to face. And in our, we did a survey and we could see the importance of this face to face events for the students that they were missing. But when he was talking about universities that the teachers had to change or had to start to work remotely or online, yes, with the synchronous or asynchronous tools and without preparation, because it's completely different to work online with a curriculum and work face to face. So in different institutions, which I am observing, they have different questions from, since and from how I can transform the curriculum in hours, face to face to online, because that is not completely direct, you know, calculation or maths that you spend like 40 hours in, in, in visit three topics and you have a four online hours working on that activities. It's impossible. You need to understand the cognitive overload. You need to understand what it means giving students the time for make sense and the discussions that they don't have with the peers. You need to come up with different strategies and the technology, how they will be, how to be that experience. But the fact is that the teachers, they, many, many teachers, they had to be very brave and they started to, you know, work differently using technology. And we have good stories, difficult stories called the challenging stories, but it's lesson learned, all lesson learned. And I feel that even if in like a post pandemic, we needed to instruct these lessons learned to increase the quality of education. And this is the right moment for this reflection. This is the right moment to start an agenda because we can instruct the lessons learned. I, I liked so much this event. It is all e-global online. And I was observing conversations, not only in the, in their platform, but also online when the speaker was not there and the people started to talk.  I can take it off in my pad. I can do things at home. And I'm still learning, connected and sharing my ideas. So we also needed to understand that the learners, the teachers had this different situation about teaching at the first time remotely. And the learners on all of us, this is our first conference, all e-global, completely online. And this is also a new experience for us, how to instruct from this event, these wonderful ideas or problems, issues, and also do the networking online, which is lovely to do face to face, but to have about doing online. So this is, this e-global is 24 hours event. It's like even, you know, it's a big change. And that change is happening. So resilience is a key point. The, my work is very related to responsible research and innovation. And the RRI helps a lot in this kind of adversity, which is about anticipation, anticipation of the risks, examining consequences, adaptivity, reflexive, reflexivity, reflect about the issues and how to adapt fast to respond to this adversity. So we are developing lots of skills now. And, but this must be explicit, explicit, because we needed to also to make learners to understand that they can develop a lot of skills. Now, apart from deal with the content, to visit their knowledge, with increasing their understanding, they need conceptual knowledge. But how to do that online? They need the opportunity to increase their skills. How to do that without the peers, without the face to face. And then thinking about the end users, the learners, the teachers, people, then we can think about the technology, we can think about the MOOC, how to structure better. But the RRI approach with responsible research and innovation, it starts first to visit people's society needs, because the society needs priorities and expectations. And then this alignment of scientific innovation to tackle these issues. So this is the key message, which I think that is also good for this final moment that we could be thinking about, what is this education 2030? We are into 2020. So we are just in this moment, important moment in history. And able to reflect about this diversity. And thinking how we can change or how we can improve, how we can keep good things, but then scale it up. Yes, give more accessibility and increase our impact or legacy. And that is exactly the beginning of this next decade, which is 2030, with the education. We need to think now long term. And that is how I would like to start that conversation. I left a video, by the way. The video is in with this workshop description in the program. I don't know if I could have the time to show the video, but this image is a summary of the video. And the well-being, which you mentioned, yes, how to promote the well-being, individual and societal well-being. And that was the answer from the OECD, with this learning framework. The importance of connecting knowledge. When I'm talking about knowledge, disciplinary, the content, interdisciplinary, is exactly we needed to understand the connection between these different areas of knowledge. You needed that interdisciplinary knowledge. Epistemic, epistemic is the way that you create knowledge. So you needed to understand this meta-analysis, yes, the epistemic views and the procedural is how, in practice, how to create knowledge. And then you needed these skills.  And then also attitudes and values, particularly because we are now facing this important moment the counting down of the destruction of the earth. It is a beautiful BBC programme that they are showing what's happening in their planet and is a countdown for this destruction. So we needed to foster the next generation with the attitudes and values, personal, local, societal and global. The whole combination of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values is the contents. But before that, the contents is we needed to engage parents, teachers, communities, peers. And when we're talking about the communities, I'm talking about not only civil society organisations, the citizens, but I'm talking about policy makers, entrepreneurs, the industry, companies, is the whole, you know, societal representatives. And that is so important for the learners at the centre. If you can see my image, students, they are in the centre. And they needed that basics, numeracy, literacy, digital literacy, health literacy, data literacy, because they will be able to create a new value, taking responsibility, reconcealing tensions and dilemmas. And that will help them to reflect, anticipate and act towards the well-being. So I think that this is a very interesting framework, very useful. And we needed to bring our voice, our minds, our souls to work together towards this framework, adopting it, extended it, reusing and disseminating, because we needed to come together. It's about connection. Connection is learners' competencies, learning environments, thinking about the partnerships and the sustainable development goals. And this is very connected to the green economy 4.0, which we needed to prepare our next generation. So to finish this, because I like that all of you have a final moment, you know, for lunch or even breakfast. I don't know the time or the afternoon snack. But I started with this pilot, yes, to start to keep in contact with you. And I'm writing down there some information important from the chat. And I'm now asking the, yes, I'd like to hear more about your ideas related to the education 2030. So now I'm going to open the chat. Any comments? I tried copying the link to the pilot in the chat. I hope I clicked, I typed it correctly so you can use that link. Yes, please. If you can use the link, it's the way to keep in contact. I'll be there. I'll open this now. And I'd like to know if I can stop sharing and change the window, which I don't know exactly. Zoom is not my favorite platform, particularly because they open in the university as they don't support Zoom for various reasons. Now we see your patent. Okay. It would be if you want to have more input on this after the workshop, please do share the link in your connect app structure description and let people know that you're looking for input via Twitter or via other channels in the connect platform, perhaps maybe you can extend the conversation and in your reach to people. Perfect. That I will do that. Yes, I can see that the people are a little bit reflective now. A little bit quiet, which is fine. I'm happy, but I'd like to talk about the, sorry, just to, I can see some comments like pedagogy, well-being, personalized learning work, top arts, innovation in education, engaging learning. So this is some ideas that came from this meeting as this workshop. Interesting topics. If you have ideas, feel free to use the padlet as one now been added as well, or I see something happening in your padlet. That's good. Oh, this is interesting. The role of open education in workforce retraining. So I supported, by the way, sorry. I wanted to say if the one who added this comment wants to talk on mute, please comment on your contribution. If you don't feel comfortable, you can also use the chat if you want. Okay, so I'm just going to be very brief about it. It was, it was my comment that I made there. So I think that there is a great opportunity here, you know, as a result of COVID-19, obviously, millions of people around the world have lost their livelihoods. And I'm going to have to look for ways to, you know, regain employment. And some of them are actually not going to be able to re-enter the sort of the jobs that they used to, and they will be looking for ways how to re-skill, retrain in order to be able to retain new re-enter the job market, sometimes in completely new domains. And so this is where open education has got a really crucial role to play. And this needs to be a bit more emphasis on how open education can support such efforts. Yes, I supported two initiatives. One is about the job market that is changing with the COVID. And then new jobs that came up a little bit, you know, that they didn't have people to apply. And the other jobs that they have big problems, particularly artists and people who were working with tourism. So this is all affected. And then also I supported another network that they are developing now mini courses. They break down a program for professional development. And they are doing this to respond to these fast pace and the difficulties of the people with time. And that is also very connected to the micro credentials when you need these mini certificates. And that probably combines, you can, you know, get more benefits in your career or professional development. But it's important to have these mini skills or important specific skills that will help people with employability. And the open education can help in these two, you know, we called it in these two challenges, one open education to understand the job market and to analyze the needs and the seed trends. And open education can also support these break it down of big courses and small courses and how to reorganize the set of skills within micro credentials or mini certificates or open badges. And even now in the OE global we had these smart badges, which was a word presented by my university, Alex, a micro languages. He introduced the smart badges that is a little bit different. So the professional or the open learner taking a course that is in the in the all blockchain platform, they will be able to show that a micro credential or a smart badge and also the employer will be able to instantaneously to check to check it. So it is very interesting. Yeah. All right. So the participants, we've all had some time to look at the path that an ad input do share the link via other channels to get more input. But I think, you know, given the time that we've had to create input and looking at what is here now maybe you can continue. Alex, I'll know you're still there. Oh, yes. I am. I'd like to, yes, I'm available. We can now start our informal conversation. I don't like it. If you would like any, all of you could share one word about the OE global. Yes, your experience would be great. So I'm going to share mine. It's still if you want to share something either unmute and share it with us or add it in the chat. I think one word. It's hard to find one word. I think it's impressive. It's many sessions, different topics and intense. Yes, that's a good word. Inspiring. It's been a long ride for 24 hours a day. So for a lot of days after all in a row online with a load, very accessible one, but also because it's online easy to be distracted. Connection across the world. Yes. Engaging. And so much more to learn, which is a very one word. Good, good. Fun, informative. Can only agree. Challenging, yes. I think the chat is drying out. Alexander? Yes. Do you want to reflect on this? Do you want to continue on this? Yes, I don't like to use all these words, you know, to just conclude this workshop. Yes, the importance of learning with others. So much more to learn as well. Information, challenge, fun, the engagement, this connection, opportunity for interacting with people across the world, the inspiration, intensity. So I think that is a good, good set of words for us to take with us. And from this workshop, it's just a kind of exercise for us to think. And if you do like to keep in contact, please, I will keep that part of it to increase these different topics related to open education that are relevant now post pandemic or during the pandemic. But thank you very much for all of you to be here. And I just do like to stop to share a bit. I think if we could, yeah, this is going to stop to share, to see our space. You want us to also stop there. I think your presentation or your workshop is, do you want to continue or do we should we? No, I think we came to the end in the workshop because I would like to see if anyone would like to add anything during the, yeah, I think these final minutes before you just, I have a final, yes, exercise to conclude this workshop. Any more questions, please, or any comments? I don't see any questions or comments in the chat. So I just don't like it. How can I stop to share this screen? This is something that I don't know how to do. I see, I stop recording. Well, no, stop and share. I found it. So gallery view. Yes. I just like to know, yeah, if you could, yeah, put your cameras, but I would like to, if you could erase your, if you have any drink, but I'd like to toast. I'd like to toast, yes. We don't have this moment. I'm missing this moment that we get together, you know, to toast. Oh, yes, I will wait. This is so important. It's like the human contact. Oh, lovely. I take a picture as well. This important moment. So hold your, yes, so beautiful, this event about what's happening behind the screen. And I can see, yes, I can see beer, smile or eyes, all of you, yes. Igor and thank you, Martin, Matilda, Gino, and Japan. So yes, this is for OE Global. Thank you very much. This is an amazing event. And next time, if you do online, we will be, you know, thinking about how to get together differently. Cheers.


The U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, participate in an embassy reinforcement during a mission rehearsal exercise as part of Steel Knight 23.2, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, November 29, 2023. Steel Knight maintains and, sharpens 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, as America's Expeditionary Force in readiness and organized, trained and equipped to respond to any crisis, anytime, anywhere. This exercise will certify 5th Marines to be forward-postured in Australia's Marine Rotational Force, Darwin, a six-month deployment, during which Marines train with Australian allies and, facilitate rapid response to crises and contingencies.


Traylon Birx, 3 strengths, 3 weaknesses and a player comp, he's 22 years old, 6 foot 2, 225 pounds and he played 3 years at Arkansas. Now for his strengths, Birx is a great hands catcher that can high point the football. He's incredibly athletic and explosive. You might be upset by his 4-5-5-4 yard dash but that doesn't scare me at all. The speed is absolutely shown on the field. There was a play against Georgia Southern last year where Birx ran 22.6 miles per hour, a speed that we rarely see even in the NFL. Also, Traylon Birx is a tough guy. Look, he's tackling wild hogs with his bare hands. What? Simply put, Traylon Birx did have a bad NFL combine. Like I said, I'm not worried about that 40 time at all. However, I am very worried about his 3 cone drill time and his vertical jump, which both ranked very low when compared to other receivers all time. Also in college, Birx played in the slot the large majority of snaps and had a lot of his production skeamed up within that Arkansas offense. My player cough for Traylon Birx would actually be AJ Brown coming out of Mississippi. They both know how to use their sides very well, run smooth routes and they both have some concerns with their top end speed.


I was playing around and I decided to put this on and it made a bit of a difference because the power supply blew up. This side's okay, this side blew up. I know it was outside and all the smoke came out the back and that went a funny colour like a yellow and that just switched off so I'm pretty confident that's going to be okay. It'd be interesting to see what the root damages aren't.  Just shift them out of the way and take a peek. So, oh okay, well maybe it's not the actual, maybe it's not this. I can't see where that fuses blown up because this is actually from here. That's from the display. That's where the handle would go in the side there. So that's from the display. The switch has already died. I've, the back this, I don't know if anyone's noticed when I've been looking over across at this. It's in the off position but the actual switch itself is dead. It doesn't switch off anymore, it just stays on. So, this one still works fine. Look, I've still got power at the back and I've still got power here which I haven't got a display. So, the boost converter is still working. This is still working, brilliant old R-Detect. There you go, man. But this is dead. Never mind. So, I've just nicked this out of. I don't really need it at the moment. That's like a bit of a backup really, no? But it's great because I've got a minute for my battery or for these but you know, I digress. So, I'm going to put this in there but in order to prevent this because what's happened I'm pretty sure is it's just, it's burnt out the display, you know, a little bit more. So, in order to prevent that from happening because at the minute this has got 36 volts coming in. 24 d-seed. I've put a 24 volt regulator on there because this has got up to 30 volts but it's not happy with 36 obviously and with, you know, this type of load I presume doesn't help. So, I've put a 24 volt regulator on there and rather than fanning about with, you know, the board or anything, don't need anything, just need the regulator and at the side here. I don't know if you can see that. That's the output. So, I can take ground from anywhere else. I'll take the ground from here probably just for these and then just put the positive wire for the display side of this, these ones, onto that and then just have that connected as usual. I'll lift the wires there to connect to there. That's just sort of, yeah, probably a little bit of just tarnishing kind of from the heat damage and that should be it. That should put paid to hopefully that happening again because I was worried that if I would have another one in it's going to happen again and it's because, you know, we've got a 30, 30 volt limit on the actual display itself and that 24 volt regulator will do that. There's hardly any power. This will hardly be drawing any power and the regulator is good. You know, first it's going to be hard for 100 milliamp possibly without the heatsink and if it finally gets too warm I'll stick the heatsink there but yeah. Okay, I've been playing around with this for quite a bit though. You can try changing that, well, not changing the coils, just putting extras on and just seeing if it makes any difference and very mind you if anything you can tell changing all the things that go around. So what I'm going to do now is because I can see the sort of distance of sparks we can get off this the way it is with this circuit, I'm just going to swap that circuit now for this one and I won't be keeping any of this or resistors or these. It is literally just going to go on, it's going to center tap on here, it's going to connect here. We're going to power it here, give it 12 volts, see what it's like, just keep the rest of the way it is. Let's see what happens. So there it is connected up. I don't know what I'm going to do now, it's just some power. It's a bit crammed but that will do. I got that going to there. So I'm just going to connect this up and nothing. That probably means that one of these isn't connected properly. Oh no it doesn't, it means I forgot to put a capacitor. Okay so that's 12 volts and this doesn't really do anything. Let's see what it's saying there. So we'll just turn it up a little bit going to 15 volts. Again try that. Of course if I take it to 18 volts I'll just make that a little bit wider, the gap on the spark for 18 volts and then we'll see what it's like so it seems like in this configuration even I just just run it out to 20 volts there just for a few seconds just to see what it's like and it's no real big difference. I'll do it now. There's no real big difference. It's not as late as you get a big jump across here or anything but it is faster of course. Faster and it's good it's got that little extra. It's a bit of a safety doesn't it? It could probably do with a safety yeah, something like that somewhere. That's something I didn't put on those other resistors or those other components on your board. So it's not really doing a great deal extra. I like that. How you're at 20 volts you can hardly see that jumping across. You can see a little tiny bit. Let me just turn up that back light. Better give it a chance. So we can see it now. Just discharging. That's a lot better isn't it? Okay I reckon I can move that back a bit. We can just notch that back. It's the little bits that make the difference. Discharge. Not much. Discharge that's good. I'll press pull though so I'm just going to just a little tiny tiny bit forward just a little bit extra. See that's it. It's makes a pretty much noise doing it. Right I'm going to have a little think of some pots and have a bit more beer. Didn't notice that that's gone again. But if you turn it off and then turn it back on it's alright in recycles. It does that every time. I'm going to turn the power down just a little tiny bit and see if it'll still be as good because look 24 volts is quite a bit really isn't it? Where's the power button? How do we do this? There we go so turn it down to 20. There we go. Using less voltage. 20 volts. Okay so we can get down a little bit further. Let's go down to 18. It's not down the power supply. I've still got power going in. That's my power there. Do you want to have any power there? Have I done it again? I've got some fluff in the belt. I'm glad it's not this at least I don't think it is at this stage. I've got 28 volts coming on both sides of this but every time I get this one in it shorts out. Now on the secondries it seems to be okay. 8 ohms. 3.8 sorry. But here I think it's 0.2 ohms. And it's just shorting out every time. I'll just check it again and show you. 2.3 ohms. What do you think it would be? I don't know. That's okay but it's different to the other one. This one is more like 8 ohms. But it's working. I'd say it's working. It's not short enough. I've not actually connected up to it to anything just at the minute because I just kept shorting. So I'll just go over 10 ohms. Look on here. Just do it a minute again. There's a big difference. It's just shorting out. It's just blowing the fuse and the plug socket. Maybe someone connects up. So that's no good the way it is. There we go. I'm just going to turn it on. We have resumed power. Hey. Yeah that's it for tonight mate. A few good sparks.


What is it give me the TLDR. Well, okay on mobile. This is not gonna be TLDR. This is gonna be long Okay, you know like a movie trailer One tab is one desire. We don't have enough memory for all these tabs. It doesn't matter. We don't need all the tabs Coming soon to a browser near you the page life cycle API I've been reading an article Well, okay, so I was involved very roughly at the start of this API, but I didn't have time to do anything meaningful to it I'm doing this a career mate. Yeah I'm just saying that the start seems like it lends me some credibility, but it really doesn't but Phil Walton has sort of been involved from this with this from the start and he wrote an article That will link to as well. This is the page life cycle API. Oh Yes, is a new thing that dropped in Chrome 68 Very exciting. I think it's exciting. Okay. So what is it? Give me the TLDR. Well, okay on mobile This is not gonna be TLDR. This is gonna be long That you know makes it like an Audigans keep listening pages can be torn down, right? Yeah on mobile. There's not enough money off now Yeah on mobile you go away from the browser the second you pages go away Browser or just different tab or a different tabs as well. Yeah. Yeah, if you go to like I'm gonna type something in Oh, I need to look up what the code was on the other tab. Go back. Go back. Everything is gone Exactly, and it's like so it's it's worse on devices with less memory if you got a bit more memory It's better, but I think by default if the tabs not being used for five minutes on Android We get rid okay Mobile platforms do exactly there's the same thing right like it's you know phones have less memory So it's kind of like can we get that into the specs and how can we do the sensible thing? So the current state of things is like that we can think of a page having like an active state in a passive state This exists already active is you're using that page. You're clicking around you're doing stuff brilliant It's like and then passive is It's blurred You've got a lot of focus you lost focus And that's what we call the passive state and you you've got events for that you've had events that for ages on focus blur Yeah on on focus on blur bring these are the only per because these are also on input elements, right? Like when an individual input and it gets focused sure you need the code is in there But that's also document level focus and blur exactly. Yes And so when it's in a passive state it could still you know because it'll run JavaScript and stuff Yeah, cuz it that's your set time out raps. Yeah, some things might be reduced They tend Not to be too much because it's still visible Like it could be on your second monitor You're in a talking mobile here exclusively. It's we're talking about both mobile and desktop Yes, but I mean in with phones that have split-screen view you could still have this this sort of style thing and Then the next state is hidden Ah, that's visibility API isn't it visibility API? So you got the visibility change event and this is when you switch to another tab That's not desktop actually detect occlusion as well Do you know what I knew you were gonna ask this so I tested it and it does not call But do you know that the browser browsers could do that? Yeah, that would be a valid thing to do what they do or the ones I tested anyway, which was the browsers on Mac, Firefox, Safari and Chrome I should remember that last one if you if you switch desktops It will visibility hidden because it's technically it's a full-screen, but Also on workspace to workspace So it's got you I didn't it's work. Yeah, I didn't test full screen But I presume it would work because it's still going on to a desktop. That's now out of you So you get events for that as well And then you can go from hidden to like terminated right and that's you close a tab It's gonna go through those phases and it is a sort of mostly a line, right? You can go yeah, it's like a active and passive and back you can go from passive hidden them back You can go from hidden to terminated you can't go back from that one but true, but you can't go from hidden to Active active in one step. There has to be the url visible step in between So it's like a nice hierarchy of states that you can be in exactly and same that you can't go from active to terminated Except if you except you can I think on mobile you can and that's like if the browser goes out of memory if a tab crashes Of course, you've gone from active to terminated like but mostly it's a nice linear system new bits From the hidden thing like why are we doing new bits? Well, so Because you want to hook into these that's and we have a couple of events So we want this new state called frozen Okay, and this is where you've got like we want to start turning off timers We want to start like essentially like set time out timers. We want to stop the page running. Okay, but We want to know yeah, we want to be able to bring back. It's still gonna use memory Mm-hmm, or I mean, I suppose you could write that memory to this because I guess you want to freeze it That would be a good name for it. Yes, exactly So this is the new state and it's also what browsers that have a back forward page cache are going to use to define under BF cache So yeah, it's called frozen and then so you'll get a frozen event when it goes from hidden to frozen and a resume event when it goes from frozen okay hidden and the new another new state from frozen it can go to discarded Okay, and this is specifically for that. We've you know, it's gone but There might still be UI representing it and this is what you have a mobile because although we get it's the Android thing Whether it basically is safe this the screenshot more or less off the app So you can swipe through but if you actually activate it actually has to boot up Exactly, and so yeah, you know Android the browser goes out of memory You open it up to all those tabs are there some of them like through screenshots try and pretend that they're still active Okay, but like they're not they're going to do a full reload. So, you know, this is like a new Thing you've got events for all of these and including these new ones all of these and the old ones as well You said our events. Yeah. Yeah, they're all events. So can I Prevent default and be like no, I don't want you to suspend me. You may not Know none of like you can react to them, but none that you can't control any of them That's interesting. So you say I can react to them So there's like a grace period where I still have to run code before the actual freezing or whatever so the recommendation is On hidden when you get into the hidden stage, which is like, you know use the visibility change to pick that up save any data that you like to IDB or whatever to IDB or whatever and When it when you get the freeze events, you have the length of that event really sync No, I think I might be a grace period, but you really for safety would treat that Wait until yeah, that was that was discussed But I don't think anyone could agree on what the time should be and like there's worries about like people would just use it Just keep the page alive or something like that Yeah, okay, I mean that might still happen in some ways because like, you know heuristics like if sound is playing It's not going to freeze a tab so you get that Where play an empty sound and you use everyone's battery, but you get to stay alive So yeah, but on on freeze you get that that length of time and This is like an API which I have not used in ages comes into play And that's session storage So there's a bit of special behavior here and I'm I was looking at the spec Versus the like this doesn't seem well written in the space. It's kind of as an example But the the suggestion is that if a tab is discarded So the page is essentially unloaded. It's gone. Yeah, you've still got the tab there and when you click back to it It's going to reload. Okay, session storage will persist Because the tab is still there, but if I close the tab and then command shift here you open Yeah, that would be then it's gone. So it's a nice safe place to put data. That's you know For maybe legal reasons or for usability reasons that you don't think should persist like beyond the life. Yeah Yeah, but it will persist beyond discarding and there's once the page reloads. There is document dot was discarded Well for you to know if you're being restored or actually being loaded so fresh So if the user closes the tab to the app and they go back to it, you know we could using web storage like show them put the app into the same state it was before and It's I've always been really unsure about that because it depends on the app But in this ever seems unexpected, I guess right because I think one of the You know the benefits of doing something like image compression on the client is you can say like we're not sending it to the server Yeah, or anything. This is fine to use for private data But the problem is someone puts like a you know a sensitive image into the app close the app and then you know Yeah, give their laptop to someone else or something that or they open it like on stage and suddenly there's Let's let's say a receipt with import But with this this sounds like a a good way of doing it right like this Yeah, being able to have a proper semantic like when to check what you stored and because it seems understandable Like if there's a tab still there It's understanding from a user's perspective that if they go back to that tab It should be in the same state as they left it. In fact, it's almost unexpected to the opposite Look at session storage ever. I think is it synchronous like local storage. Yep. It's it's same same kind of API the the benefit of it in Legal terms I think is that the storage is held in memory. Yeah I think in certain circumstances rules change once that goes on to disk. Yeah So you know and although I think historically you would be using cookies or something But that would actually go on to the network. You don't want that so right and that's on disk as well Yeah, and on the network. I think it's just local storage. So so life cycle API. You said it's in Chrome 68 from 68 There's some nice debugging tools if you go to Chrome call on discards There's a nice little API there where you can Put pages into certain states because we have ambitions to do this on desktop Yeah, I would hope so because you I mean I don't know about the amount of tabs you have I have many of them and I've the great suspender because I have so many tabs and they all stay active, right? I have a Chrome extension that puts them Right, so if I cannot have to have an extension but rather Chrome do it itself I'm all for that and it's it you know good for memory as well because they you know that stuff But this is just to be clear. This is a standard, right? Yes. This is a web standard. It's on the YCG page life cycle Yeah, it's you know things like back-forward cache have been built into it. So it's not just with Chrome in mind It's with yeah of the browsers as well Cool. It's a web you know Safari and Firefox have the back-forward cache. Yeah, I I think it's really good I think it's it's not just good for mobile. I think it's gonna be good for desktop downline as well cool I'm not entirely comfortable of the idea of human contact. I don't think it's right I mean that it's not surprising to you are a very vocal about not being a hugger. Yeah, I'm not a great hugger I'll I do it if necessary


Hey, John Crestani here and I'm on my computer and we have brand new software and a new income opportunity that I'm excited to explain to you and show you exactly step by step how you can earn money. This is all free, so you're going to sign up for free on my software's website, marketingtech.io. I'm going to show you how you get your free landing page as you go through this just like mine right over here. You see you get your own landing page where you can take payments from folks and then I'm going to go over how you can get your payout information so you get paid out, how you can promote your link and also some tips and tricks for you to make more money using my software. Now, I'm going to dive right into a demo of showing you exactly how you set up your account and the software and how you promote your link. But first, before I start the video, it's very important to understand all payouts will be done through ACH transfer into your bank account and they will happen on a monthly basis. At the bare minimum, you will earn an additional $50 a month up to $300 a month per client. So, let's dive right into things. Let's go. So, the software we built is called marketing tech and it's very simple and very powerful local marketing software. As you see, there's some explanation on the website which shows you exactly how it works but we're just going to go right into things. Essentially, you earn money by helping local businesses market themselves on Facebook and Google and Instagram ads and you don't even have to charge the business a setup cost or a retainer fee which is the thing that most small businesses are completely allergic to. Now, out here in America, the average small business is spending about $1,500 per month marketing themselves and you can get a piece of that pie. So, let's go right in and click get started. Now, you're going to go up to the top place to get started is right up at the top of the screen or you just click this button right here and you will get started for free. I make money when you do. So, understand that. Now, this part is fairly straightforward. You're just entering in your information, your email address and then we are creating an account. You created your account. Now, it's very important to put in your phone number. In my case, I'm not going to put in my real phone number because I'm an influencer. A lot of people see my stuff. I already get enough creepy people hitting up me and my family as it is. So, I'm just going to kind of leave this blank but in your case, it is absolutely essential to enter in a phone number here. It comes into play later. I'll show you how and it comes into play to make you money. You put in your address. I'm just going to put in my address right here. It's not really my address. Again, I need to keep things private. Okay. So, I select an image right here. Click continue. Also important to upload your image. If you don't have potential clients and businesses that are using marketing tech, just say no. I intend to reach clients through marketing tech itself. This is a feature we're building out and you'll have more on later. Now, here comes the fun part. We want to create our landing page. So, just click create your landing page and what this is going to be doing is this is going to be creating your very own web page for your business. I'm just going to skip ahead but it's going to look something like this. This is a page which is personalized to you using tested marketing copy that will get people to want to buy, to get local business owners specifically to want to give you money. All you need to do is to send out emails with a link to your landing page in them for business owners to get your landing page and want to give you money. And this is passive income that comes into your bank account every single month while helping local business owners get more people or visibility in the local area and get people through the door into their restaurants or nail salons or calling them for their plumbing or pool repair or installation or attorney services. It's very powerful for 250 bucks a month. Local businesses will get to be exposed to 7,500 people in their local area and for a thousand bucks a month, 50,000 people will be exposed to them. We have many local business owners using this and the results are insane and the business owners are talking to me about how amazing this has been for their business. It looks like our landing page has been set up. I highly encourage you to subscribe to our weekly trainings and our success stories newsletter which is with me. Live weekly trainings is where I train and we'll take questions from all of you to help you make more money from our software and the success stories is just to help keep you motivated showing you other folks that are making money helping out individual business categories and also expose you to what business categories are working the best. So now that I've explained that let's go. We're almost there. We finished setting up our account. Now let's finish setting up our landing page. There's a few steps to set up your entire business. So this explains how everything works. Again this is your very own marketing website. This is your profile picture which is important for you to do. This is how we promote Facebook, Google, Instagram and YouTube. This explains to the business owners all of the different types of advertisements and what we do for them. We create a custom video for them. We create a website for them. We create Facebook, Instagram and Google ads for them soon to be YouTube as well. And you see in the bottom is exactly what the business owner will receive. Mobile reporting, ad impressions in their local area in a small radius so that they can get people who are actually going to walk in the door have a phone conversation. Now these buttons where people can actually pay you where local businesses can give you money automatically without anything really happening can only be done after you've set up your Stripe account. So you need to set up your Stripe account first so that we can collect payment from these local businesses and pay you. And you see so the next step is you set up your Stripe account. You can click this button or you could just click last and then we will move forward. Now promote your agency. Promoting your local marketing agency. If you don't know how to promote your local marketing agency we can do it for you. You need to advertise your landing page in order for people to see it. We will advertise your link to small business owners in your local area or whatever local area you want.  Ads will show up in in a small radius. You can pay us to promote your landing page for you. You can pay us 125 to 500 bucks a month but I'm going to show you a way to do this completely for free in this video. If you don't want us to advertise you on Facebook, Instagram, Google and YouTube, we'll just move forward in the process and it doesn't hinder you one bit. So now let's go to manage subscribed clients. Once you've subscribed to business you'll want to see how their advertising is doing. The business owner will get a link to view their advertisements themselves but so do you. And we make it very easy because local business owners are busy. Not usually tech savvy. Just don't want to have a million logins. We explain how the reporting works here. The business info. How you can see how many clicks and ads and performance. And we show you what ads we are putting up for you know in this case a roofing company. And we just show you the ads they get. Now next is your payout method. Again this is how you select. This is how you get paid using the software. This is how you collect money and get paid. In order to actually get paid you're going to need to connect with Stripe. And here in this step we connect with Stripe. Click here and we want to set up a Stripe account. So your email will be already loaded in. We've partnered with Stripe to collect and send payments. As you can see this is on Stripe now because we've partnered with them. Our logo is on Stripe because they're a big company. And they handle financial payments and all this nonsense. Much better than my fairly small company is set to handle. So we've partnered with a very very large company so that you can get paid and you can collect money from all around the world. Now to do this your email will be loaded in and you set a password for your Stripe account. And again you will enter in your telephone number. You'll need to complete various steps such as verification of your phone number to verify your identity to make sure you're not some sort of scammer using a fake name or you're not you know I don't know what type of nonsense people do. And then it will ask you for your banking information your account and your routing number so that we can send ACH transfers to you monthly once you've started signing up clients. Okay and also just so you can sign up clients and collect payment from them. Again we've done this all automatically for you. We've set up all of the programming. This would usually take tens of thousands of dollars to set up all these systems for you to run an online business properly. And we've made it all super easy. All you need to do is follow the instructions and then you're done. Now once again I'm going to kind of paraphrase where we're at in the process. If you've been following the instructions so far you've signed up for marketing tech. You've gone to marketingtech.io or I think you can also just go to johncrestani.com back slash mt if you prefer using john crustani links and that will get you to the website. You've created a landing page for your business that is absolutely amazing and is using tested copy to get small business owners who see this page will want to give you money at least a good a significant percentage of the time. You've linked your payout info information. Not only can you get paid out when a client signs up but you can also these buttons will appear once you've linked your stripe account on your landing page. And these buttons will allow you to take money. Wonderful. So the next step is we have to promote our link. Now I already gave you one option to get your link out in the wild to small businesses and we offer ad packages. Now in our case we skip those if you have money I recommend you go for the ad packages. If you don't have money I recommend you keep following along and use my free traffic method that I'm going to show you today of sending emails which is going to be the most effective way to get these small businesses in the door to learn about you. So ad packages start at 125 a month and then emails obviously it's free but you can send 500 a day if you're using Gmail. You have to know the limits don't send more than 500 emails a day if you are using a free Gmail account. If you are using a paying if you're paying for something you might be able to send more. So let's go. Notice how everything is localized and dynamic. Notice my email address is on this landing page. People can contact me. People see my face and this all adds to the conversion. But let's go back to our dashboard. Your dashboard won't look exactly like this when you start because in my case I have paying clients. We have a lot more paying clients than this but they're signed up on other users accounts. We have quite a few users. We haven't even I haven't even done a video on the software and we have almost 10 users that are earning money every single month from their clients and we barely released this a couple days ago. We've been constantly working on the software and constantly improving things and if you have any advice for us or features or categories you'd like to see feel free to chat with us here. Here we have our landing page right here. Again your link to your landing page will show up on the main screen right here and you can click that link to go to your landing page. This is the page you can advertise. As you see it's on our domain marketingtech.io backslash John Cristani and this is a fantastic thing to advertise. You have your link here. You can collect payment. Your clients will show up and your subscriptions will show up here. Now if you'd like to go for our ads you can go click promote and you can promote your local marketing agency in an area. Again you can go and we'll be adding to that. We'll be sending postcards soon and allow you to print other materials for your business. If you want to manage your clients again you can click over here and you'll see the information about the businesses that you signed up in my case. It's just a Mexican restaurant. Here's some of the ads and here's the video that we've created for them. Simple. You know right here in Agora Hills. Best Mexican in Agora Hills. We put their address on it. We create a little video for them and all of this is for very cheap. No retainer fees. No setup costs. The average setup costs and retainer fees are $1,000 a month for local businesses and that is has nothing going to advertising. So let's go back here. So let's promote our link. We're at the stage where we're saying okay we want to promote our link and uh John where do I start? Now the best place to start is looking at the categories that we have available and that just click on your landing page and you will see the different categories of businesses that we can advertise.  I mean we're only on C right now folks. We can advertise over a hundred different categories of business. In your case you want to start with the ones that are going to make you the most money possible. The place is where you're going to make the most money possible. There's different categories. I don't know them all to be frank but I know some work better than others. Let's scroll down here to medical. Here we see orthodontists, chiropractors, and dermatologists. Each of these professionals their average client will make them an average of $2,500 or more. That is the value of a client to these professionals. It's easy for them to justify spending $250 on advertising especially just to test it out. There's no contracts. It's just they can try it out for one month and see if it gets a new client. It's a 10 to 1 potential return for them. They can easily sign up but you want to get those businesses for higher packages if you want to make more commissions. Let's start with dermatologist. Here's an example of the video we'll show. This is a template meaning that all of this is dynamic. The business fills out five fields of information including their name, their address, their phone number, and they give us a logo. That information will turn into will populate the rest of everything in this ad. But as you see our ads are very well crafted and built to convert and built to be shown in local areas. We have partnerships with Google Maps and we have partnerships with Yelp to get all of this information. Let's start and look up dermatologist Agoura Hills. I'm just going to go straight to Google Maps here. Look at all these things. I don't care to read anything. I'm just going to open up a bunch of websites. We're going to email all these people or send them a message somehow. And also I'd encourage you text people. Text people as well. Here we have a steam dermatology. We have to get their email address. So we have their email address right here. So we're going to go straight into sending them an email, you know, wherever you send emails from. Gmail or Yahoo or whatnot. And what I encourage you to do is go to johncrestani.com backslash help. And I'm going to show you exactly what to write here. We have a couple different variations of the subject lines. I encourage you to vary up what subject line you use if you're doing this professionally and also to track your response rate of different subject lines. Let's just go here. Facebook and Google ads, no retainer, no setup cost. Then we're going to go back here and we are going to say we're just going to copy this email right here. There's a couple areas where it has put in your name, put in a link or put in a phone number. In my case, I'm going to skip the phone number because I am an influencer. But if you don't put in your phone number, you're not serious about this business. Local business owners, the way they work is they run a physical business where they do stuff in person because they need that personal connection in order to make their purchase decisions and their career and life choices. So you need to actually be willing and able to talk on the phone with them if you are serious about this business. Local business owners have a local business, not a worldwide internet business because they are physically personally inclined to dealing with people and not computers or robots. And while this may sound hard for you, you need to include your phone number, give yourself a chance of success here. We're going to replace these different areas right here. Let's do this. So we highlight this and I'm going to change name to John Cristani. We have our email, we edited it, and if, you know, in my case, I don't want to have to do that every single time, right? I don't want to have to like replace every, you know, it doesn't take that much time honestly, but I'm always about efficiency. So what I'm going to do right here is I'm going to click out of this and I'm going to go up here to the top of Gmail because I want to save this as a template. So we're going to go up here to the little gears icon that says settings on it. And then we're going to click this button that says see all settings right there. And then you want to go to this section, which is says advanced. Okay. And this is going to allow us to turn on the setting that allows us to save all of these email templates that we use. Now, right here is the area. And by default, it is disabled, right? But we want to enable it so that we can use this in the future. There's some other Gmail advanced features that you can look into if you have time. I haven't looked into all of them, but I know templates is absolutely essential. And in order for your changes to take effect, you need to click down here where it says save changes. So now that I have, I can do templates. What we are going to do is we're going to go down here the way we save this. So go to these, it's kind of hidden, this little three dot icon. And we go to templates and we do save draft as template. Then we go over here, save as new template. Okay, see that templates, save draft as template, save as new template. One, two, three. Okay, save. And then we're just going to click send. There we go. Boom, we did it. And let me know in the comments, how is this working out right now? How is my teaching, am I teaching everything a bit too slow? Am I teaching everything a bit too fast? Am I not explaining things well enough or in depth? Are there too many loose ends? I'm really trying to make this, make it so that I'm hitting every mark and I'm making a good use of your time and a good use of my time while not leaving folks, you know, at just an obstacle or a dead end. Because I remember when I was learning how to make money online, I was left with dead ends. I was left with obstacles. I would do everything that the person said and there's always going to be obstacles. But I just felt there were more obstacles than I was even aware of. So I'm trying to explain things as in depth as possible so that nobody gets lost. But again, I'm not perfect. So I'm always open to feedback. But let's go. Let's go. Let's start emailing more folks. We did a steam dermatology, but let's go more. We have another one. In this case, this person doesn't have an actual email address I can find, but they have a way to contact them. So I'm just going to fill out their information. Then what I'm going to do here, because I'm doing something different, is I'm just going to take this and I'm just going to throw... Well, you know what? Let's just do this in an easy way. We're going to click this button, templates, Facebook and Google ads, insert template. I'm just going to copy the text here. I'm just going to throw this in here best. I'm just going to kind of edit this a little bit so that it shows up on the right lines. Okay, notice the formatting kind of got lost. So I have to click control enter for the bullet points here to make it look a little bit prettier. So that I know the message gets sent correctly to this business owner. But again, all of this information, it's taking a really short amount of time if you think about it. And we are reaching people for free. Okay, highly targeted methods. And then I'm just going to click send right here. Boom. Message sent. Two. Okay, let's go three. And what I like to do when I'm doing marketing, when I'm doing any sort of marketing is I'll just... I'll take out my notepad and I will just... I'll do checkmarks. For me, I have a personal way. I have to do outreach to 25 people a day. In my case, it's for advisors for selling my business eventually. But in your case, it's small business owners. And whatever you're doing, I just try to make sure I always hit my numbers every single day. It's my little side hustle. And I try to always get better at what I'm doing. Make sure I'm using the best subject line or I'm figuring out the best category to market to. And here, we have the same thing going on. John Cristani. John at JohnCristani.com. Another client. I'm just going to do one more example of an email so that you see what we're dealing with here. We have an email right here. Copy. Go. Boom. Let's start an email from scratch. Watch how fast this is when you are actually doing things. Boom. Get our subject line. Boom. Go down here to our templates. Templates. Add template. Send. Let me just keep doing that. Now, as you see, it's very fast and easy to do marketing to folks. You can pay us and we'll put up ads for you. You can send out emails, 25 emails a day to jump start your business focusing on categories where people need your services the most. Soon enough, you'll be getting clients. You'll be earning commissions. You'll be helping local businesses get more customers through their door. And that's it. Once again, if you're looking to get started with this new software, this new income opportunity, make sure to go to marketingtech.io or go to johncrestani.com backslash mt. Okay, this is how you will sign up. You'll get your landing page. You'll be able to get local businesses to pay you and you'll get paid for it. And you will be able to promote your link. I showed you a method to help you a lot. I suggest you also bookmark our website so you can return to it daily and also bookmark our help page johncrestani.com backslash help where I'll be adding more ways that you can promote your link for free. Again, this is a totally new business model. I'm very excited to show it to you. It's not exactly affiliate marketing. It's not exactly e-commerce. It's something in between, but it allows you a very effective way to earn money from promoting businesses in your area. You earn 20 to 30 percent commission from every business you sign up. And I'm very excited to show you how it all works. All right. Have a good one. Talk to you soon.


Here's how I guarantee that at least an hour or two hours are free time in medical school, regardless of how busy I was. Number one is to look at your empty calendar and put all of the activities that simply can't be negotiated on where they go. Maybe you have an appointment, maybe there's a lab or a test that simply have to happen at the time they do. Step number two is to schedule at least an hour of activity for yourself every single day and actually indicate what you'll be doing during that time. I love going to the gym when I was in medical school. I would have at least an hour and a half slot every single morning that would be blocked off. In addition, every evening I would have an activity just to keep things fresh. Maybe it'd be a basketball game I'd be watching, playing on the Xbox, maybe reading a book. Nice thing about this is that because they're on the calendar, it felt like I had to attend that personal appointment, regardless of how busy I was. Step number three, go ahead and schedule in your study time, where activities will be doing what lectures you'll be covering because now you've already dedicated time towards yourself. Now you're going to look at your studying through a different lens. How can it become more efficient? When hour is not going to make a difference between you getting a C and a B, it will make the difference on whether you're happy and fulfilled throughout the process. So if you're struggling to have that free time, make sure you follow these three steps and continue to repeat it on a weekly to monthly basis.


good morning you guys I welcome to a new vlog today is a Wednesday and I actually wanted to do like just day in the life vlog because I don't have to work today because of my dentist appointment which I'm going to now so basically I could have just moved my appointment but the guy that like does my scheduling as of now basically was like oh is there any other days like that you need off because as you guys know we're going on a cruise so I told them that and then he was like is there any more days and I'm like well I do have a dentist appointment he was like okay like when is it so basically I am not working today but I'm working Friday so I still like work for 10s I just rearranged my schedule so that's nice I've heard like so many people love the schedule because it's always well my mom described it as like it's always a Monday or Friday so you know Monday and Tuesday Tuesday's like your Friday because you have Wednesday off and then Thursday Friday Thursday's like your Monday and Friday is Friday and then you have the weekend so honestly I would work with this I mean I think I would really like the schedule if it was like my real schedule because again I'm like in training orientation so I'm like with somebody I'm not alone yet but I think I would like this if I didn't get this schedule then I'd probably want Monday or Friday off just because I don't know I just I really like the schedule because I have a third day off and it like a consecutive order so I really like this schedule but I also really wouldn't mind just having a three-day weekend all the time whether I get Monday or a Friday off but then again my friend Kyra she was like I'm debating on just like wanting 312s because then you get four days off you just stay another two hours like after the 10 hour shift but but in general I like the 410s because number one you get out around 5 and that's like normal hours like getting off at 5 just is so much nicer than getting out at 7 because of my eating my feeding times I feel like an antipole when I say that but yeah I just I personally like getting out at 5 at my old job when I worked 5 8 I would start around 9 and I wouldn't even get out of there until 6 so honestly when I get out at 5 even though I start like super early in the mornings it's always so fast pace and like it moves really fast so I don't really even like think about starting that early and then we get a break for breakfast and then it's already like lunchtime and I'm like wow so then the rest of the day is like what I perceive like when I'm tired and stuff is like my work day and I get off at 5 and that's that's earlier than when I left downtown Orlando before so even though traffic kind of sucks like I really like my schedule just on my way to the dentist office thank goodness to this is also a side note this is kind of like a drive with me but you know we love those I love listening to people there's this girl she doesn't really make a lot of content on YouTube anymore but I've been watching some of her vlogs she does like long talks and stuff it's almost like a podcast so I just like put it on so I have like background noise and it's almost like I'm listening to a podcast mainly does like content on tiktok it's like Kate Chase vlogs that's I think what her like thing on tiktok is but what I was gonna say is I got my dental insurance card in the nick of time because like I was walking my dog decided to get the mail because sometimes I for just forget to do it and I got a package well not a package but an envelope with my insurance card because I was gonna say like they say that we got benefits the first day that we like started so I was like I need to find the company or whatever so I can tell my dentist office like hey like I do have insurance I signed up for it and I was nervous and we like got on my computer to look and see and lo and behold the insurance card was in that envelope and I was like thank God because then I can just like go and give them the card today this morning when I'm there it'll just be like so much better than having to tell them like all I'm with this company and everything so it just worked out so well also to before I forget to show you guys I got new OR shoes I told you them so I will link down below to get these shoes they're definitely running shoes I like wearing running shoes in the OR a lot more I talked about in my last video but so far so good with them I like them oh my gosh that is so cool they have this massage thing here okay so just got out of the dentist and basically it only took like 35 minutes and my insurance worked I think there was like a copay but it wasn't as bad as last time I went to the dentist so got a little goodie bag we got some Colgate and then we also got just a toothbrush and then we have floss so probably should keep this floss in my car or in my bag like my belt bag but I always just keep these for like if my friends like spend the night and need like a toothbrush and stuff so now I'm gonna head to Starbucks also to I was gonna do the mobile order for my Starbucks drink but the app is like I don't know something's wrong with it so I don't know what's going on but I cannot do the like the mobile pre-order it's like not showing up any locations so that's annoying this is crazy I was driving around for literally like three five to five minutes looking for a parking spot what are these people doing in celebration like downtown it's like Wednesday a common day offer people like what is going on I was like I was thinking that it would be like not a problem because it's a Wednesday at 10 a.m. but like that's the longest I've had to drive around for a parking spot in like a while that's crazy all right so we got some live music going on I think that's at the tavern I don't really know but I got my drink and I wanted to try the iced gingerbread oat milk chai I love gingerbread I love chai I like oat milk so let's give this a swirl and try it they're like if you don't like it you can always just bring it back I'm like I think I like it I hope I like it I feel like I could use a shot of espresso but it's still pretty good I definitely taste the oat milk the strongest and then probably the cinnamon I feel like I need to like shake it up more the cinnamon part could be stronger like I would do either another shot of chai or I would do like an espresso shot but overall it's not bad I got sidetracked my overall opinion of this drink is it's good but it just like could use a little bit of like something more I took Sherry and Piper for a little walk and look at my girls they are just so tired how was your walk Sherry it was great she is so it's like really hot yeah it was a little tiring that's okay it was good yep proud of Sherry for taking it one step at a time look at your poor knee one eternity later okay so I'm back at the gym it's like days later because I stopped vlogging that day I thought I was gonna just do like a day in my life but I don't think I have enough footage for that so I'm just gonna vlog the rest of today and then that'll be the vlog I'm here at the gym wearing the same thing pretty much I love this top it's just like the most comfortable it's like the little lemon one I'll link it down below and then I have my shoes these are my new ones cuz I'm still like kind of breaking them in and yeah and luckily I feel like pretty good because I'm trying not to like overeat and stuff like I normally do and also I was looking at my my steps and I get like around 10,000 steps a day because of work so we're looking good so far but I hate that I can't like fool myself like doing the workout I'm gonna do abs and maybe arms I'm not sure I need my music and I can't like do a time-lapse on this while listening to music so I wish that Apple would like do something about that but anyway gonna get working out now and then I might walk for a little bit it just depends I made it to lunch I'm going to lunch with Kyra and then we're gonna walk like to Boxy Park well not walk there but like walk around Boxy Park I just wanted something like different I feel like I always go to Winter Park or like downtown Orlando and I love Lake Nona it's just like really like nice cute little area and it's like grown so much so I suggested this and she was like yeah I'm down so we're here and I'm at one of my favorite restaurants it's called Canvas we're just gonna have a little lunch and it is so hot out Kyra made it I don't know windowed area we got an ass view of the lake alright guys Kyra got a burger oh yeah and we both got fries look at my wedge salad with the chicken like how cool is that that's insane I'm a little impressed like it did not used to get served like that and then Kyra got these mini look at them so good how's your burger so I'm showing Kyra the Lake Nona Boxy Park area like then Lake Nona Town Center because there's always like events going on home for the brave oh this is Veterans Day so they're probably gonna do like something fun and they have like all these different restaurants so I'm glad it's not raining yeah okay so after checking out Boxy Park a little bit it's just restaurants I just wanted to show her but I am at Disney Springs now we decided to come here because Kyra wanted to see like Lily Lemon and the like discounts and like merch there so we decided to come to Disney Springs which is fine because it's like super close to my house I didn't have to it was kind of like on my way back so I'm like yeah like we could go to Disney Springs so happy because they have their Christmas decorations stuff out do you feel free to take videos you can hashtag Disney Springs and hashtag also at the strolling piano you know let's do a big sing along hey a store that we can kind of afford not really I low-key want this ornament because it's the famous anthropology mirror the one that costs like $1,200 and it's an ornament form and it has like the date on it you know me and miniature things like I love that all right so they already got their tree up tomorrow we are putting our tree up which is exciting I feel like it's not too early because it's almost mid-November already stopping into free people to look at the other clothes that are expensive but I don't know one day one day I will do like I don't know a haul from here and I'll be like so much fun the whole reason why Kyra wanted to come the Lululemon the sherpa belt bags are out guys I don't know I feel like I get it so dirty though all right Kyra kind of convinced me but I'm gonna get this Lululemon tote it's like really good for my workouts and stuff like a workout bag and I don't know I just really like it at least for spin even though I canceled my membership it's just better and then here on the inside I love the thickness of the straps and then on the inside it's just like an open hole with like a little back pocket it's similar to the other one but the other one's just like kind of big and chunky and this one's more like simplistic and it's under $50 like it's only 44 and I get a discount I think so I don't know I really want it so I'm just gonna get it and swap out my bags Kyra should I sell my other bag yeah I don't know I might keep it and then if I want to sell it I can sell it yeah so it'll be an option if I do want to sell it Kyra show us what you got here she's gonna try on some stuff she said she's gonna leave with one thing yes and then same one in white but it's so soft yeah and then yeah this material is so soft whatever that's made out of like I would want my entire like life to be made out of that right and then I have the same nice oh yeah actually it's not the same material it's like super similar it's similar but this is like this one is softer you guys know it's a sign when you can't stop thinking about something I went back and I'm gonna get the mirror ornament so I could put it in my stocking I'll finally get the anthropology mirror I've wanted only in miniature version I was gonna get it and I'm so sad yeah anyway oh also our healthcare worker discounts worked at the Lou lemon so excited hi right I stopped into Francesca's because they're having like a friendsgiving little thing look at their little decor they have like sales going on so fun also look at this cute bag from anthropology my gosh oh what I was saying about this bag we had such a good like guest experience there the lady like the checkout girl was like so nice and also to in Francesca she was like oh my gosh to she vlog I don't know we just come across a lot of nice people today came into a store I've never actually been in it's a soap store Kyra really likes it I honestly don't even know what it's called which is kind of sad Kyra what store we in okay it's a soap store oh it's this name oh of low okay so we've come into the store called sure and it was funny because Kyra was like hey can we come into the store sure and I go sure I make myself laugh away too easily these days it's kind of sad but I think it's funny and honestly all this stuff I could totally see Kyra where I saw a bandeau but I'm really looking for like a black bandeau so then I can wear like a black blazer over it I think that looks so cute for like fall brunch okay there's Kyra in a bag form and that's me in a bag form we've been recording too sometimes I do that okay so we were gonna drink wine bar George but there was no seating so we ended up coming to the bow house and we're gonna see outside but also I wanted to sit inside because I was wedding a lot it's like kind of hot out but we finally found seats and the guy was like oh yeah like you can sit there and well the bartender will be right with you and I'm like thank goodness so we're just chilling I wanted to drink outside because it's beautiful like for the sunset but also I didn't want like it to start pouring down right even though Kyra did her powers for dinner Kyra and I got lobster bisque and wine so I got a Pino Noir and lobster bisque and she got the same thing I think she got a Pino Grigio though yeah and last but not least we got the juicy bread oh yeah