We have Ricardo Iacunetti, he's a KDE contributor and developer since more than 10 years now. He started at age 14, so in what in that? He's a Plasma Core developer and he's also collaborations with Sam and other research institutions. And now we will present his latest project, the Wikia FM. I would like to change the way higher education is delivered and is taught to students. Not only to students, actually, but also to researcher, professor, and continuous learner. And to explain you this, I want to tell you a story today. A story about how a group of students from physics and mathematics in a university, in an Italian university, are trying to make an impact and to change how the work does its things. To open up. This is a picture from 1967 of MIT in a classroom. This is the same classroom in 2015. Can anybody tell me what changed? No clues? Personal. Well, to see here, the professor here has a document. Here, just where's the number? Just go to the stage. You can see how that could be a problem. We have some space for innovating here. I would like to ask you, how many of you are or have been university students here? But the greatest majority, I would say. Then second question, pardon me. How many of you have always been in the university, new all the time, what you had to do for an exam, had all the lecture notes collected in one easy place? Anybody? Exactly. I always failed at that. I was absolutely terrible. I usually spent most of the biggest part of my study for my exam in actually collecting all the material that I needed, all the lecture notes. I had good friends, fortunately. So we could exchange notes and we could confront each other on what we had to do. But it was very, very suboptimal. We had a few forms of communication, such for example, we had a Facebook group. But you know what problems there are in a Facebook group. First off, it's Facebook. So it's not open source. If not, everybody has Facebook. Also, the way you can communicate on Facebook is limited, you don't have thread, you don't have any way to store permanent content. What would have you done? What would have any first offer developer have done? Say, well, I can install my own software. I can start a witty. It was a private witty, but it was a great success between my fellow students. Because we could write down everything. Just, we were about 50, 60 people, so I just needed one to remember everything. And we could collect good knowledge. We also use it for things like writing down the most common questions of the professors, since it was a private witty anyways. And it started to be moderately usable. Now, fast forward of six months. Everything changed. And we started having the first ideas that I'm presenting now, here today. For our course, a course of advanced calculus. It was extremely well made. But so well made that the professor was teaching us how to do calculus. Was giving us exercises that not even the assistant was able to figure out how to solve. So we were in trouble. We were going to have an exam after four or five months. And we had no way to, we didn't know at all how to solve the exercises to pass the exams. We were students who wanted to make an effort. And so we decided to learn ourselves how to make these exercises. And to write a manual, our own book, on how to solve this. Everybody was concentrating on one little part, was studying on advanced books. And I'm figuring that out. And I'm writing it for everybody, you know. At the beginning, to collaborate, I proposed, well, why don't we use GIFs, so far? But then, for mathematician and physicians who barely used Linux at that time, it was not really the best solution. So second option, well, let's try the story down the week. And there is no web page. Imagine here, there is a web page. I honestly don't know. It worked five minutes ago when it started. Anyway, we can see to that. It's close enough. This worked very well. The material was extremely high quality all my years. You said you used it, the year after me has used it. And everybody has passed the exam. And then we figured out we could extend this to our courses, which we liked, or which were particularly difficult, such as quantum mechanics. This is quantum mechanics, for example. And at that point, we ended up with a lot of material to figure out. We ended up with 15 books on different subjects, more than 2,000 pages of scientific content. And the most important thing was that this material was extremely high quality, which is high quality, exactly because we use it for studying, and we pass the exam. So we know it works. It works for a university course. Not only this, but we started to see that it was not only the people from my university who were using the content. It was also people from all around Italy. The greatest episode about this was when I went in Rasmus in Sweden for six months, and I remember meeting an Italian student of physics at a certain point, directs to me and says, oh, look. There's this amazing website. Check it out. You have plenty of things. You will use it for everything. Thank you. And so we have the idea, the idea we get there, which is what I want to explain to you today. The idea to collect in one single place all the material, all the lecture notes. Actually, even from lecture notes to textbooks, this is the range we want to text in a free and open way and collaborative way. And what we want to do is we want to answer the question, can we actually deal with textbooks? Oh, it would be nice, wouldn't it? Imagine, no textbook? Do you remember the class at the beginning? That's the way it's going to be. Instead of textbooks, we have documents created collaboratively. We have textbooks which are alive. When something new gets discovered, it can be integrated. When another university has another approach to a certain topic which can be found interested, all of these can be discovered. Textbooks can be assembled. I cannot tell you, OK, study this subject on this textbook and this other on this one. I can assemble everything. Why we could assemble everything? We are based on a few technologies which are really, really nothing new, like latex or a wiki. Another ingredient which probably has been around for more than a decade or two, students. But what Wiki FM really brings into the mix, which has not been done before, is the connection between these three things. We have some open search projects, such as Wiki University. I've checked the Italian version. It is not really, let's say, not really complete. For a physics course, that's three pages of content. We got plenty of C++ manuals, but nothing else except computer science. If we use the power of the students who are doing the work of taking the notes anyways, and we just tell them, OK, let's try to write them online.  But it would have no problem to write them on a website. We tell them, put them together. Put them on a unique source. This, unfortunately, is much more than we, as were university students, who really do this in the free time or in their study time. But still, we have a very limited amount of time could ever think of tackling. This is really a global challenge. It's a challenge that goes beyond the Italian university. It can be embraced by everybody. And it is why we decided to ask the KDE community on incubation. We wanted to have the shoulders in order to support the weight of doing this global challenge. And KDE, thankfully, said, yes. You respect the manifesto.  And we also got paid by Wikimedia Italy, which is the sister organization of Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikimedia. At this point, you could ask, OK, this is nice, very, very nice. I'm just a developer who cares. I've been a university student. I'm no longer a university student. And my answer to this is whoever told you that WikiaFM is just for the university, for example, we implemented this for the university, actually, for some research centers. Really, there's no Wikiped. OK, I really have this with demos. But I don't know why. I don't know if it's the internet or something. That doesn't show up. I think I will. Well, this one is less important. The next one, I will go to another tub and show you. You might be here with some code, some snippet of code. And it can be run inside a browser itself. You just have a C++ code. And a button run, you click run, the code gets compiled, executed, and the output is in the browser. And you say, OK, still, this is nice. It's closer to what I do, but it's not what I do. What I do is this. It's a KDE session. I develop KDE programs and applications. And I would like people to use this easier. Don't you notice something strange in this screenshot, such as this bar? You know why? Empty page, but I told you there is a demo. Because this is our lastest feature, our lastest addition. This is live version of Wikiafm. And I'm logged in. Every logged in user can see this. And you would just, you want to develop KDE? Good. You press KDE Development Image. And this is it. On another server remotely, I just got booted up private, private instance of KDE. I just logged in. This is my KDE desktop. Look, it also has compositing and open gel. And this is entirely in my browser. I can play games. So imagine here having your application, your source code, and having the possibility to have users, just a new potential developers, just go on the website. I want to develop KDE. How do I do it? I want to try out ThreadWeber. Why could it be nice? Just hold 30 examples. They don't need to download anything. They don't need to spend hours to compile the development environment or install all the development libraries. It's quite like, it's not. Where is this running? This is running in Milano. And hosting is sponsored by Gap. Loom resources, you say? Of course, this is very resourceful. Well, this is an actual quote from a private conversation with one of the managers of this institution. So resources, no problem. We'll just do like Google. If you have more users, we'll just throw more hardware at it. So this is also nice. This is the main features of Wikifem, and I hope I introduced them to you in a way that at least gave you some interest in the project. Now I want to tell you about a few other things that happened around Wikifem in the last months. The first thing that happened was this year. A new foundation, a new entity, a new institution, was started to be created in the physics world. A new institution here is missing the logo. Sorry, there is no internet. And sometimes the pictures here is the ENFN logo. I'm noticing my slides today are not, it doesn't want to work. Key people in this institution got together to try to fix a problem in the physics world, which is we are, the students that come out from the universities are not ready to work in the big experiments. They try to fix this solution by organizing summer school and excellent summer school directly as a place. But they figured out this was not really the solution because you can make a student come over and stay there for two weeks. But it would just be a very limited amount of students. And in two weeks, the training you can perform is limited. Let's say, why don't we try an online approach where we have lectures, our lecture from our training, which is for sure at a top level, but that everybody can consume around the world. Every interest that a student can consume. And then we're looking for a platform to say, what do we can we host this? We need a place which is civil, usable, but still has some effort in training. Well, the solution was obvious. Wait a minute, let's start to contribute. Look, this is, oh, this works. Good. This is the web page, the live web page of HEPS upper foundation, where they are populating everything. They just started. They started not even a month ago, so they don't have everything yet. But they're starting to populate all the training material. We could prove to be a very valuable addition, because if you have people from this institution providing direct training on this KD platform for everybody, it's increasing visibility. It's a win-win for everybody. And what about the rest of the world? This is great for physics. I mean, with this, it's got high-energy physics, probably got astrophysics also. But what about the rest of the world? Well, this is just an initial plan for what we have right now. In September, we already have organized three seminars, three official seminars. One is going to be at CERN, where we're going to officially present it to the scientific community. One is going to be at Fermilab, the equivalent of CERN in America.  And another one in Chile, with the presence of the major Chilean universities and the Chilean government, who seemed very interested in Wikifem. This is for September. It's quite a big business schedule. October, we're going to speak with these other universities. We're going to start in Milano-Bicocca and experimentation, where the professors will go to the students and will ask them, please take lecture notes directly there. We'll try to institutionalize this so that more and more people are writing on this. And we are in contact with these other universities, which might or might not start this same experimentation. That's something we're doing right now, just speaking. But all these contests are coming in every moment, because every professor we speak to, every institution, they're really, really happy. It seems like that's what they were looking for, since years. And we're just now providing it to them. November, we don't know. Do you have context? I was talking with San Juan Rade. He told me he would be very, the new board member. He would be very happy to have the same thing in this university. A colleague yesterday was asking him the same question of mathematics. So I say university, why not? I've been talking to the people, to the organizers, so this university, the GPOL, they also told me, oh, that would be interesting to have this thing in our university, too. So we don't know. But at least I hope that by December, we achieve world domination at least for training. In this meantime, we're going to have some development continuing. But more important than development is spreading the world. As I try to make it clear to you, which event is less about quoting? It's also about quoting, because we support some beautiful features to allow people to write chapters of books and remix them and give everybody the freedom to take different parts and remix them. But spreading the world, going to university, going to professors, going to the people who are already doing the work and just telling them, don't let your work be rotten somewhere on a server or unknown. Make it public, share it, collaborate with other people, put it on a single platform where it can continue to be useful. So let me get out. All of what is changed before was made by less than 10 students, hard as in any open source project to say the exact number. Who have been working in about 1%, 2% of their study time, just putting things online instead of writing them on paper or on their own computer, maybe so just figuring out a little bit how to use media weekend. It has been in time and only. And what it has led to, so it's a very limited premises, what it has led to is 2,000 pages of high quality material, more than 200 users per day, unique users per day. The interest of laboratories such as CERN, Fermilab, seminars in Chile, other content, it's huge. So my real question, my real question for you is, with the help of KDE, can we do more? Thank you very much. I'd like to ask what was the relation between Wiggy FM and Wiggy Books, because it's sort of like related thinking by different people? Actually, our real competitor is not Wiggy Books, it's Wiggy Books. The solution to this question lies in the slide where there is a triangle and a written connection under it. Wiggy Books has a wiki, has not related with some form of latex, but it doesn't have students. It doesn't have universities. What figured out is that, unfortunately, the academic world is very, very close in itself. It doesn't really know much about what is going on in the rest of the world. And let's call that a report, so you show it to them. An example of this is the Italian wiki university, which I checked out, because it's kind of our direct competitor, even if we got baked by Wiggy Media Italy, which should be on the other side, so it's not really competing. And it's really tragic, the situation there. We have no content, nobody even thinks about going there and putting their material. So if it's born in the academia, you have way more contact and way to have people contribute to this. The second way to answer this is technical. It's a minor detail, but unfortunately, wiki university, since it's a wiki media foundation project, has very, very strict requirements on a software that can run on it. And sometimes, this additional software is very useful for training, such as, for example, a document like this one here, requires. Number of equations, requires references, requires. This is a line environment. Media wiki, the media wiki that is a wiki media foundation doesn't want to support this by design. Another question which was made to me was, do we support UML? Yes, we can support UML. We can add extensions. We can add all these kind of features that are essential for training. They're not essential if you want to be an encyclopedia, of course. But when you want to build a book, a book like a textbook, you don't really need these features. So these are the two sites that differentiate us. Can you answer your question? OK. No more questions? So the teachers, the professors were all OK with publishing their lecture notes to the world. Because if I remember correctly, from my days, the teachers had some of the professors were a little bit protective about their lecture notes. It depends. You have, of course, every time we published them, we were careful to go to the professor and ask. There were professors who were saying, yeah, sure, go public. Everything, no problem. I also give you the things I wrote. You can do whatever you want with them. Some others would say, which were a little bit more worried, that they would say, you can publish them, but don't say it was me. It's unofficial, because, of course, they had no control over that. Others have told us, do it, and then you can put my name or you can say, I also check them. When you finish, you'll give me the PDF. I correct it. And we'll do a real work. So it's mixed things. Nobody ever stopped the students to write their own lecture notes in their summaries, of course, because I'm not really sure they were allowed to. But of course, you have different reactions. There were one of the real strengths of Wikifem is that you don't really need every professor to help you with that. You need one professor for every course, maximum. And I think if you take all the university or the student population, you really can do that. Another question, which license do you use for the content published? It's GNU, FDL, and Creative Commons by ShareLite. I don't remember if it's FDL or GPL. Anyway, it's exactly the same license as Wikipedia. So the idea is attribution, ShareLite. I would like to remind everybody we're going to have a call. Monday, 11 o'clock. It's a busy hours. We should be enough to cover any kind of topic. We can develop new languages. We can speak of the technology. We have many, many kind of junior jobs, you know, kind of areas if you're interested. Or, as I was saying in a slide before, please spread the word, because I feel that Katie is not really aware of what we are doing and why we're doing it. So please do that. Second request, you told me at the beginning you are or have been university students. You can't lie now. You raise your hands. If you can, go to your university. Go again to your university. Take one course. Take just your favorite course. It's enough. Go on the Wikipedia fan page. Add a few references to the material you really found more useful when studying. Just this. This is enough contribution to the Kickstarter project. If you want to contribute at a second level, go to your university. And speak to them briefly about what I just showed you. I can assure you I spoke with hundreds of professors until now. The reaction will be enthusiastic. And it would be a great contribution to WikiaFM and Katie. This is it. Thanks.


This is one of the most exciting videos I think I've made on Nintendo Switch 2 in quite some time and you guys know we've spent a lot of time this year in 2023 and a little bit in 2022 talking about Nintendo Switch 2. We've had so many podcast episodes, we've had so many rumors and speculations and leaks from Nvidia last year and look I like talking about future technology I am a tech enthusiast so upcoming products that are unannounced or even announced obviously are really really exciting to me I mean I had my hands on Switch OLED a week before it ever became public and made a bunch of content around it because I was so excited I spent a lot of extra money to be able to make that content for you guys I like talking about this stuff now the stuff we have today is about Nintendo Switch 2 and isn't your typical rumor affair we're not talking about typical stuff like from Nate the hate or anything that's like I don't know Andy Robinson we're actually going into something that seems a bit more tangible and actually has some evidence behind it and when I say evidence legal documentation things are getting pretty crazy here in the world of Switch 2 so crazy that what if I were to tell you two major things about Switch 2 in this video there's going to be two sections the first forget the eight inch LCD Nintendo Switch 2 may have an OLED screen and we're going to talk about how we know this next next and this is very key we might actually know what the gimmick of the system is that makes it so different from the Nintendo Switch and let's just say this gimmick not only is it a game changer in certain ways it is something you legitimately are going to be excited for it is a good gimmick oh my gosh what are we talking about well let's dive right in because one of the earliest reports for Nintendo Switch 2 beyond the T239 Nvidia confirmed leak Nvidia confirmed it themselves last year was the eight inch LCD display reported at many outlets the primary source on this was Nate the hate again still a rumor who made the statement back in August of this year shortly after all the reports came out from reputable outlets that dev kits were now landing in key partner's hands in the middle of July of this year this report was then corroborated later from other journalists who said their sources which were developers had told them the same thing meaning it was highly likely that the dev units probably have an 8 inch LCD display however what is also true is in July Samsung filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against BOE technologies in several countries over a handful of different patents Samsung is currently a Nintendo and Steam Deck partner providing OLED panels for both systems however so is BOE technologies unknown to many because we don't follow this space that closely BOE technologies is the market leader in LCD screen production and yes has their own OLED panels as well Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite happen to use BOE technologies as a major provider of the LCD panels in Nintendo Switch and so does Valve for the Steam Deck they offer industry best pricing and have a huge stranglehold on the manufacturing of LCD panels specifically in China but also worldwide now we originally never paid attention to this because lawsuits happen all the time however it is now being reported out of South Korea a country where many tech companies do manufacture components including Samsung for these devices that companies like Valve and Nintendo are looking to drop BOE technologies moving forward all right so why does this even matter well it's stated that Nintendo is looking to switch to Samsung OLED panels for their next generation device going away from the LCD panels they were using from BOE technologies in their next device this appears to be largely in part because Samsung is seeing some very early success with their lawsuits against BOE technologies as it's slowly becoming increasingly apparent that they have infringed on Samsung's technology and Nintendo like any big business doesn't want to get caught on the losing side potentially being forced to hard switch early in a console's life now this report has come from several places but I'm going to give you the one that's on the ground floor in South Korea which is an outlet called Chosen Biz who does provide an official English version of their article for international audiences as you see they titled it global IT companies tapped to collaborate with Samsung for avoiding lawsuits so as the article says major video game companies are contacting Samsung's display to avoid legal disputes following Valve which is an American video game company mass producing and selling the portable gaming device Steam Deck Japanese multinational video game company Nintendo is reportedly in talks with Samsung display to display next generation OLED or which is organic lightning manning diodes panels for various IT devices on December 1st 2023 that's today although might have been yesterday for Japan anyways time zones and everything Nintendo reportedly asked Samsung display to supply OLED panels the OLED display is a self luminous display using organic materials that self illuminate when a current flows through them both companies initially considered Chinese electronic components producer boe as a supplier however analysts say that they switched to Samsung due to the risk of damages from a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Samsung display back in june 2023 sound on display filed a patent infringement lawsuit against boe in the united states district court for the eastern district of texas the alleged infringement technologies are five OLED display patents for all products released after the iphone 12 samsung claims that boe is directly infringing on its patents by selling panels like those used in the iphone 12 in the united states market it recently filed a complaint in the united states international trade commission against boe and eight other companies including boe's subsidiaries for trade secret infringement in december 22 samsung display filed a complaint with the itc against 17 us component wholesalers to stop them from using parts and panels that infringe on the company's diamond pixel to keep boe in check according to samsung display the diamond pixel is the atoms of the samsung display consisting of red blue and green screen dots in the shape of diamonds now just for reference this isn't the only place you need to go for this lawsuit it's a very real thing a quick google search literally shows how widely reported it's been it's absolutely insane this is a massive lawsuit in the world of display technologies of course look that's on OLED panels and you know what if they need to drop boe is an lcd supplier to not upset samsung there are other lcd options for nintendo lg is an example but they don't make the panels at nearly the same cost as boe samsung is also as we're aware a key manufacturing partner for nintendo that also helps them not rely solely on chinese factories and they do actually make some of the switch components beyond the OLED display samsung was a major lcd manufacturer for many years themselves but they did stop making lcd panels to focus on q led and o led panels exclusively in 2022 so while nintendo could probably continue to work with boe on lcd technologies and panels it could cause a major strain in their business partnership with samsung if all of this is true the consumers themselves us yes they'll get the play would be the ones to benefit the most if a decision was made recently which the reporting suggests to switch to samsung o led panels that means the nintendo switch 2 would launch with an o led screen the better technology making a lot of potential buyers very happy now that's all good and dandy and what a doozy let's just think about this for a moment those displays being o led would just be phenomenal this does not mean the report of the 8 inch lcd was wrong because that would have been done and those units would have been made before this lawsuit was really really really kicking into gear so again if the lawsuit is going heavily in samsung's way you don't want to strain partnerships with the number one o led display maker in the world then hey and you know what they're actually might be using there's reports out there nintendo might be using samsung again to help manufacture the actual literal chip inside the system samsung is a major partner for nintendo so if you wonder why hey why would them suing the hell out of boe technologies over an unrelated display technology make nintendo want to contact samsung and maybe switch because samsung is that important to the point they literally might be printing and building the actual chips used inside switch 2 so again this is a massive company for nintendo and they want to avoid any possible conflicts it might just make sense to say you know what we recently just talked to samsung i think we want to use them for our display technology for our new system we don't want to we don't want to mess around we don't want to be involved in this legal battle we don't want to upset you let's just go with you you're already our partner and already helping make components in the first place pretty crazy now that's not all guys because we might actually know what the gimmick of the next system is and it does technically come from a rumor an older rumor a rumor you may have forgotten about but now it just got some official backing actually we now know it's an idea that nintendo has had pitched to him several times and not just pitched by some random gamer on the internet how about masahiro sakurai himself yeah is that a big enough name for you he actually put up a new video detailing a suggestion he has made to nintendo for new hardware and he has stated in that video that occasionally nintendo has come to him for suggestions on what to include as for what he suggested well since the gamecube days he keeps suggesting the same feature for the controller and he's made the suggestion several times over the years a scroll wheel he even showed a proposal document he submitted to nintendo during the gamecube days now naturally at that time with what they were doing with we the idea probably wouldn't have made sense but it would replace the l or r buttons and can still be pressed like a button okay it could make a lot of sense he called it a jog dial back then suggesting it could help you with camera movement and menu navigation as you know just easy examples and he compared it to a mouse wheel for how useful it could be then he goes on to show other use cases in games he does mention scroll wheels are quite large so it may be hard to include using a switch controller as an example which may mean he actually made the suggestion leading into the nintendo switch now why does this matter well a rumor from i don't know about five months math suggested literally that this exact thing was being implemented potentially in switch two you may recall a rumor we covered about a tsa agent who posted anonymously discovering an unusual tech device in a pelican case that triggered a metal detector at the airport the carrier heavily requested for a private screening and in that screening the device was pretty large and similar in size and look to a wi-fi router with a game controller and it all sort of looked to be unfinished almost like it may be a prototype or a dev unit of some kind it had a scroll wheel in place of the upper l in our buttons above the traditional triggers now what does this have to do with nintendo reportedly the man in question had nintendo business cards stating that he actually worked at a position didn't name the position for nintendo's research and development department obviously if this is true that was likely a dev unit of some time for internal nintendo purposes of course all of this is unverified and was posted anonymously but here's where it got weird later the person did a weird thing and provided actual evidence that they do work for the tsa but i'm not going to divulge or show that evidence as it included enough information to actually figure out who the said person was and what airport they worked at for the tsa still this is an account from them that we will never be able to fully verify in the first place but it is interesting that sakurai brings up this suggestion and that he's been continuing to suggest it and maybe nintendo finally decided to run with the idea for nintendo switch to after all or it was just a prototype of something that will never see the light of day some did wonder why you would be traveling with it but if it's a prototype and there's maybe only one or a handful in existence at that time it's natural that you have business meetings with various departments in different countries of well your company and hey you know what you're not going to send something like that through the mail you're going to want to personally bring that to ensure it never gets lost never gets stolen and doesn't leak out now again we don't know that that's what the gimmick's going to be on nintendo switch but it's very very interesting that masahiro sakurai himself just posted a video the same day these reports are coming out about the manufacturing and the olab panels that are just like hey by the way i've been suggesting this feature to nintendo repeatedly since the nintendo gamecube days and here's an idea of how it could work here's why i think we should have it here's all the functionality and he showed other functionality including games and i honestly if this is the gimmick for nintendo switch 2 i am so happy because this only increases functionality i'm trying to look for a controller i don't have one right next to me but imagine taking the l and r buttons on the joy cons the l and r buttons on controllers you replace it with a scroll wheel i really like this this to me would be a ground changing way to control games it would add functionality without removing functionality if that makes sense and it would be a massive functional difference between switch 2 and the original switch especially if none of that stuff is actually compatible with the original switch it they just made the controllers you know the pro controllers the those joy con 2s only work with the new technology i am wow guys we might get me getting an olab panel you might be getting the scroll wheel for buttons i think this is pretty exciting stuff now again i have to always remind people towards the end of the videos this is not nintendo making an announcement nintendo's not out here revealing a system there's no guarantee we're going to have an olab panel there's no guarantee that we're going to have those scroll wheel buttons what we have are reports and an old rumors resurfacing due to stuff masahiro sakurai apparently has been suggesting nintendo for years and by the way we didn't know masahiro sakurai has been suggesting this stuff so that just might lend a little more credence guys i am really excited for what this system might be and now we just have to sit back and imagine the possibilities i'm going to catch you guys in the next 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Most of us can think of a time when we said I want to start my own business. I want to be my own boss I want to get rid of rush hour that incompetent leader that I have to report to and I want to start making my own Decisions, but then without fail something happens Life gets in the way, but there is one day a year when we think back and we say oh, yeah I said I was gonna start a business now. I'm gonna start that process all over again and that is New Year's Day We say this is a new year. It's a fresh start. Let me take a step back and Actually do what I said I'm gonna do Now I don't know about you but year after year. I've said I'm gonna start things and I don't actually do it But you just have to keep trying because the next year after I failed a couple years in a row Oftentimes that'll finally hit my goal. So if you haven't started a business yet. It's not that it's too late It's just that you need to keep trying and I think 2021 is gonna be your year to help you out Let's talk about the five best businesses to start in 2021 Breakdown the pros and the cons and see which one is right for you. Alright, so off the bat Let's talk about the difference between a job and a business There's plenty of things that you can do to make money online in 2021 that involve you trading hours for dollars That means you work on somebody else's schedule You report to a boss you do what they want you to do and when you walk away and you have that paycheck You're not getting paid again for that work That's a job and if all you want to do is be able to work from home A job is a great option to go out there and get paid and not have to leave your house Okay, there's a job website called dynamite jobs. They specialize in remote jobs. Go check that out Now, why do we want to start a business? We want to start a business so we have time and location freedom so that if we want to sleep until 10 a.m. Today or stay up till 3 a.m. We're quit work at noon. We can do that because there's no boss saying why don't you work yesterday afternoon? Now the difference between a job and a business is that the job requires our time And that's why we're so locked into those certain hours Whereas a business a system is what actually produces the results in our job as a business owner is to build Systems so the skill set of a business owner is systems building It is taking different pieces and putting them together in a way that creates value for everyone involved And you make what's called a profit, which is the excess value created from that system So let's talk about five ways to start a business that you can do with no prior results credentials or experience You don't have to have a degree in this all you have to do is say Christian I'm open to the idea of becoming a systems builder So business idea number one for 2021 is e-commerce. This is selling widgets online You could be selling sweaters or baby toys or Porcupine stuffed animals. Whatever it is you're selling e-commerce is pretty much the same kind of system So e-com works like this you're going to attract a buyer Usually using social media marketing or search engine results in Amazon that buyers gonna buy your product You're then gonna ship out that product to the buyer And they'll receive the product. Hopefully they're happy with it and they might buy from you over and over again Now the upside to e-commerce is that pretty much anybody can do it You don't have to communicate in front of a camera like this. You don't have to publish every single day You just rely on that product to sell itself It's one of the easiest things to sell online so much easier than selling Coaching or anything like that. So if you're just getting started e-commerce is a great way to do it now I'd recommend you start with dropshipping which means a manufacturer ships directly to your customer from the Manufacturing facilities and you never even have to touch the product now I say start with because dropshipping margins are extremely low And that's because you're gonna pay a premium to get the manufacturer to ship directly to your customer You can go on sites like Ali express right now You can find products to sell then you can put up Facebook ads and you can have a dropshipping business by tomorrow afternoon That's how easy it is for a beginner to get started now The downside of this is you're not gonna make much profit with dropshipping But it's gonna teach you how to build that system of an e-commerce business So you're gonna learn how to publish e-commerce ads you're gonna learn how to deal with customer support requests How to deal with fulfillment how to market different products and build your e-commerce website and Shopify And once you learn how to build those systems then you can graduate from dropshipping to actually sourcing your own products Now this type of business is gonna work for someone who likes products who likes looking at clothing or At toys or widgets or gadgets or whatever it is and then putting those on their website Presenting them in different ways and then getting people to buy those So for me, I absolutely hate physical products If I had to fill up my garage with boxes of stuff so that I could ship it out to people That's my absolute nightmare So if you like going around and shopping for deals No, she get negotiating with suppliers and things like that and you like picking out different products That's gonna be a big part of your job in e-commerce and that might be a great business for you If you do get a mass market product that can be extremely scalable And it's also very sellable business because it doesn't have to rely on your face at all Like a coaching or consulting or a info product business. So it's a really sellable business So business number one idea for 2021 Absolutely blew up this past year with the pandemic is e-com start with dropshipping That's gonna teach you the business model and then graduate to sourcing your own products when you want to make a profit business model 2 for 2021 is productized services This is doing things like offering marketing services to local businesses Now I say productized services because the difference between a freelancer somebody who offers to do anything for anyone And a productized service is the freelancer is trading hours for dollars. Whereas the productized service is actually trading a Standardized process So we might say we set up three different marketing campaigns for every company we work with we test ten different ads in Three different products for the company and we do it over this time frame And it works exactly the same way for every single customer that we bring on That's productized and that means it works within a system And so our job as the entrepreneur here is to build that system, you know We get a sales rep in place We get a marketing campaign that brings in new leads to our business And then we hire an ad buyer or a copywriter to actually create those ads and launch them up for us And our job is just putting those pieces together Now if we were offering services that weren't productized We will be trading our hours for dollars, which is what we don't want to be doing So again, if you want that time location freedom, I use what's called the snowboard trip test Which means could I take a snowboard trip with this job or not? And if not, there's a good chance. I'm not actually in my own business I'm just self-employed and I've built the job for myself So I always want to be building those systems where the work I put into them pays off long after I've done it And it can actually run without me being there So if you build your marketing agency as a productized service where You niche down and you offer a really specialized service to one type of business That's going to be a lot more sellable than you just going out there and being a marketing consultant and doing anything for anyone If you want to know exactly how to build an online sign spinner business, which is a productized marketing agency in 2021 again one of the best things you could do right now because It's quick to cash flow. You're going to make high profit margins unlike e-commerce You can get started with no prior results or experience and like I said, you can productize it So you are the business owner. You're building the system not trading hours for dollars. Just check out the link in the description We've helped thousands and thousands of people do this So we can show you exactly how to do it and demand for this Is only growing in 2021 all the businesses have been forced online There are millions of businesses who need your help getting their Business online and getting customers through online channels And this is the perfect way to do it again It's a great business model because you can do it as a beginner You're going to make very high profit margins And you're going to your speed to cash is very very quick business idea number three for 2021 is affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is essentially acting as a sales rep for another company So if I go to amazon I can sign up for their affiliate program Then let's say I get a link to this camera and I post it in the description of this youtube video Now if you buy this camera through the link that I posted I would get a small commission from that purchase Now amazon offers a small commission, but there are companies out there who offer 50 percent or more And what this does is it breaks down a business from having to create the product And the marketing to only having to deal with the marketing So this is a great business to get into after you've been in business number two a marketing agency because you know how to market And if you can bring a business customers cheaply enough through marketing channels like facebook ads youtube ads Organic posting things like that then you can make a great commission Another example of this is click funnel software, which you can check out in the description below They offer I believe it's 40 or 50 commission So if you refer click funnels out to people and they sign up for that program You're going to get paid a nice healthy recurring commission And again, you don't have to worry about fulfillment or dealing with a product at all All you have to do is get people to sign up and then you'll get paid every single month So that's a nice beginner business But you actually have to be good at marketing and that's why you usually don't recommend affiliate marketing Before the marketing agency because the marketing agency you kind of get your feet wet by learning how to market for local businesses Which are the easiest to market for and then you can get into more competitive channels Using digital marketing where you really have to get people's attention and make that margin on affiliate products Now the downside of affiliate marketing is that your margins are lower than if you owned your own business So if I sell a product I get 100 of that back and then I can spend some of that on ads to bring in new customers If I'm an affiliate, maybe I only get 50 percent So my margins are going to be a lot smaller on that product, which means what I have to be better at advertising So that's why I don't recommend that to complete newbies But it is a great business model if you know how to market business idea number four is coaching Coaching industry has just been blowing up for the last decade and even more so in this past year with the pandemic Coaching is just helping somebody get an end result So you could help somebody lose 30 pounds. You could help somebody pack on 10 pounds of muscle if you're a fitness coach You could be a marketing coach. You could help somebody go out there and get clients or get results for those clients You could be a snowboarding coach help somebody get better at snowboarding You could be a dating coach helping people get more dates Whatever it is you can coach somebody and pretty much anything you can think of Where they want to get an end result and they've struggled to get it in the past Now the best results in coaching typically come from three niches wealth health and relationships And that's because those are the most important things in most people's lives And they're the most painful to not be able to get a result in So think about somebody who really wants to find the love of their life and they've struggled and they've been unable to do it Number one if you coach them through that if you're really good at tinder or something like that You can make a tremendous impact in their life You can help them find their husband or their wife and they're willing to pay a lot of money for that Likewise with health if somebody's trying to get in shape or you know get over their lifelong struggle with their weight And you make a difference in their life that is huge So you can charge premium prices for that same goes for money If you can help somebody start a business and they're making 30 000 a month less than a year later That is a tremendous impact on their life.  I'm taking on three free clients in exchange I'm going to ask for a testimony after you get the result I'm going to help people go from point a to point b So I'm going to help people go from you know out of shape and not working out at all to Enjoying working out every day and losing 20 pounds over the next six weeks. So Losing 20 pounds over the next six weeks. I'm going to offer this for free in exchange for a testimonial That's how you start your coaching business once you have those testimonials you have key studies and results You can go out there and use those to get more coaching clients Now the upside of coaching is that the margins are amazing. You can charge high ticket prices You can charge somebody $8,000 to help them start their business and most of that is profit So unlike e-commerce when you're doing really big numbers a lot of that's going to your fulfillment cost paying for that product Paying for ads coaching you can go out there. You can use organic marketing You can get your first couple clients and you know, you can be making 10k a month a couple months from now and it's all profit The downside to coaching is it's not as scalable as other business models because it does require your time Especially in the beginning before you productize this or brought on other team members to help you So it's a great beginner business if you know how to get somebody a result that they're after So my pick number four for 2021 is a coaching business You can get started right now with no overhead and pick number five is digital products or online courses Now online courses are kind of like a coaching business, but you have standardized the process So a lot of people make the mistake and they go out there and they try to create an online course before coaching people And they create something that nobody really wants and it doesn't really get someone a result So you actually want to put people through your coaching process over and over once You know exactly what works every single time turn that into an online course And you can go out there and sell that and that is much more systemized than a coaching business You know, you can create an online course and sell it over and over again for years and years Without actually being there present in the office every single day Now the downside to this is it's a lot harder to sell an online course as it is coaching because people like the personalized attention of coaching So you have to be a lot better marketer to do this and you have to be a lot better at getting your students results Because you don't get to work one-on-one with every person.  The margins are going to be lower than a coaching business You have to be a lot better at marketing But it's a great business model because the fulfillment costs are low once you've built that actual course So that's the five businesses that I recommend most in 2021. We've got e-commerce Product type services. Number two is my pick for beginners who need high profit margins. They need to make money right now We've got three affiliate marketing. This is great if you're an amazing marketer For we have coaching and number five we have digital products Which is an awesome business model if you've already been a coach or an expert I want to point out some notable mentions here Number one is a youtube channel YouTube I think is only going to continue to get bigger and bigger. There's kind of infinite niches And it's a great way to make money, but you don't make money on day one You have to build it up over a couple years So if you won't need to go out there and make money right now in 2021 That's why I didn't put up on the list because you actually have to stick with this for a long time So that's my notable mention is youtube channels. I think as a long-term strategy It's an awesome business to start, but you have to be really patient Now I want to say one more thing before I let you go here. These five business models The best business model for you is probably Whichever one you'll keep doing the biggest indicator of your success is a year from now Are you still doing the thing that you started today? So if you do this for a week for a month, you might get mediocre results But if you do it for a year, you've created an entirely new life for yourself So do what is easy for you do what you're interested in Do what you would do even if you didn't make money in it and actually give yourself that gift say I'm going to do this thing for a year and I don't care if I make money in it this year And I'm going to do it no matter what until next year and then I'll look at the results And that's because I'm like a job a business As what's called exponential results, which means the majority of the results come At the end of the work that you've done by the time you see results You've already done all the work So imagine a business where you put in work all year and then the last month of the year you make 200 grand Now if you were getting a job you would you would want to make that 200 000 spaced out over the whole year In a business it might come at the very end But the difference is you might start making 500 000 or a million It's so scalable, but the results don't come until down the line And so that's the biggest reason that most people fail Over and over again with businesses because life gets in the way and they don't keep doing the things that they started doing So if you're doing something and you're not getting results Make sure you have a proper mentor. Make sure your proper guidance But chances are you just need to keep doing those things over and over and down the line the exponential results will come So I hope this helps if you want to start a business in 2021 Give yourself the gift of committing to it for a whole year no matter what happens It's like you're in the army. You're not allowed to quit and your life Will completely change in a year if you do that Now if you give up after six weeks or three weeks or two weeks or one week like most people Nothing is going to change in your life. Go out there try these five Don't forget to subscribe to this channel if you want more info like this or break down these business models in detail I'll show you how to do each one But also throw in the comments below which business model are you going to try What are your biggest hesitations or your obstacles do you think and I'll go ahead and help you out in the comments Again like the video for the algorithm so it can keep producing more free youtube content for you This is christian the work money where digital marketing guy So excited to see what you do with your business in 2021 and if life gets in the way Just remember just come back today is the best day to get started


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