Top Tips for Taking an Online TEFL Course In recent years, online courses have become more and more popular in many walks of life and TEFL is no exception. Due to the convenience and flexibility of distance learning and the clear financial savings compared with in-class training, online TEFL certification courses are the obvious choice for many aspiring English teachers. However, for many trainees this is likely to be their first taste of online study and distance learning can be a challenge for anyone who is new to this form of education. If you are considering an online TEFL course, we have put together the following tips to help you complete it with flying colors. Internet Access Although this may seem glaringly obvious, it is still worth pointing out that the fundamental nature of an online course means that you will need regular and reliable access to the Internet. Before signing up for the course, you should ensure that you have a quiet and comfortable place where you can work through your studies and that your computer is equipped with any software and hardware that the course requires. Time Management One of the biggest advantages for many trainees is that an online TEFL certification course can be completed at whatever pace you see fit. However, this flexibility can often be the undoing of those who have never undertaken a distance learning course before. To get the most from the course it is important that you properly manage your study time. Similarly, you should schedule to complete a section of the course each day or set aside a certain amount of hours each week, depending on your other commitments. Most importantly, once you have made a study plan, stick to it. You should avoid trying to rush through the course in one, go as you are unlikely to retain much of the information covered. Similarly, if you leave long gaps between study sessions, you may find that you need to go back over previous sections or you might even run out of time altogether. Ask Questions One disadvantage of an online training course is that you won't receive direct instruction from a teacher trainer. However, this needn't be an issue if you choose a tutored online TEFL course which allows you to contact an experienced professional trainer whenever you have any problems. A training course with an online tutor is the recommended way to go if you are new to distance learning or you simply feel you might benefit from professional guidance during your studies. You should also remember not to be afraid to contact your tutor no matter how minor your question might seem. That is what they are there for after all. Use all available resources. While your online TEFL course will likely come with all the reading materials required to complete your studies, you should also take advantage of any extra resources that are available to you. Many of the best course providers have free additional contents such as tutorial videos that will aid your understanding of the wide range of subjects covered throughout the training. By fully embracing all aspects of the course you will give yourself the very best preparation for your post course life in a real English language classroom. Remember why you enrolled on the TEFL course. Many people who sign up for an online TEFL certification course will have other commitments such as work or family to consider which can sometimes upset your carefully laid study plans. If you find you are struggling for motivation to continue, simply remind yourself of the reasons why you signed up in the first place. Your main goal might be to travel the world, to start on a new career path or to help others in the classroom. Whatever your personal ambitions, a simple reminder now and again should help you stay focused on completing your training course and starting out on your TEFL adventure. For details on all ITTT's online course options click here. Why not enroll in an online TEFL certification course today? Apply now for your TEFL TESOL certification course and start teaching in a matter of months. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Hey, what's up guys? This is CursePike. My friends call me Bigsy. I'm back in action today. We're in Photopia and we're continuing our series where I show you how to be the best darn video editor, content creator, YouTuber you can be. And we're using free software and free tools only. So any of you that want to get started and you don't have a ton of money or you're not sure if this is for you, roll with me. I'm going to show you how to do it and show you how to do it free. In this one I'm going to show you how to cut out a background image or how to remove background images and background noise and just isolate a particular object. What am I talking about? Let me show you. You see here this is the background. I've got some old school Atari games and it's photographed against like a blanket or a couch. But I don't want this background gray stuff in the couch and in the blanket and I just want the games. So how did I do it? Well, there you go. I did it and I cut out all the other stuff and it's quite easy to do. So let me show you how to do it. I'm going to delete these two images and we shall start from scratch. Okay. So I got hit the trash button. Never mind. Okay. So the first step, if you're following along with me, grab the image that you want to work with. Mine is located in my teaching folder and I'm just going to drag and drop it and presto. There she goes. It's dragged and dropped in and this is a free stock image. So if your phone will follow along, it's a free image on pexels.com. Okay. Good. Now, so we've got this image, we drag and drop it in. What is the next step? Simple. We want to now go up to the top, select, hit select. And now you're going to see something called magic cut. Now, this takes a few seconds to load. So if you get a, if you, if it's not quite where it needs to be or it takes a few seconds not to panic. Once you load it up, you're going to see something like this and it's done a pretty good job of isolating the image. But this part here needs to be kind of chopped out because you can see that that's partly where the shadow is and that's not part of the actual game. And then it missed part of the top here. So very simply, there are three different colors. The main ones are the red and the green and the red. And here's the thing at the top left here, you're going to see that it defaults to a soft brush and the size is about 96 pixels. So I'm going to go way down and I'm going to drop this to 20 pixels. So what I'm doing first off is I'm reducing the size of the brush. And if I hover over something like this, you'll see that it's a very small brush. See how you see how it's just that little circle moving around? That's okay. So green, I'm going to hover it here. Green basically means foreground. So this is what we want to keep. This missile command pack man and defender is in the foreground. So we want this, we want to basically just apply a green stroke to it. So this is stuff that we want to keep. So I'm just going to draw a little green over here and see what happens over here. Okay, good. That got most of it right away. So you'll see this is the original image and it's got pretty much all of the stuff I want. So I'm just going to make sure that that's all green. So okay, good. Now we're going to go over to the right side here and then you're going to see background. So we want to take out some stuff. Now this has done a very good job. I'll be honest with you. I've taken out the background. So all of this stuff, this red stuff here, this background here is noise. This, did it catch this? Let's see if we can get in here. Let's see if that'll take some of that background. I'll see what it did there. It reduced the little bit there. And then this shadow here is all background too. And that didn't do too much. So I might color in a little closer. And actually that is catching a bit more. And then you'll see that there's a little bit more shadow here. Again, for every, okay, see that's good. That went way too far. That pulled out part of the front there. So I'm going to commands it or controls it. And that's going to undo it. So here we go. So we've kind of got the majority of it, but it's not perfect. But that's okay. Now the next step is we can create a raster mask, a selection or a new layer. I almost always recommend clicking on okay, new layer. Because now it turns off the bottom layer and it gives us the top layer. And this has done a pretty good job. So if we compare it to what's underneath it, I turn it on and off. It's done a good job, but I got to get rid of some of this stuff too, right? So let's go over here to the left side. And on the left side, and we're going to see something called the eraser tool. So I'm going to select the eraser tool. I'm going to make sure that the brush is still very, very small, let's say 15 pixels. And now I'm going to do some fine tuning. So I'm going to start doing some erasing. So you'll see here as I erase over here, pulling out that part there. And I'm just basically getting rid of all the bits and pieces that I don't think work. So this here is not part of the image. So I would chop this out. So I'm just erasing this out here, making it nice and nice and tight. It doesn't have to be perfect. But again, this is just a technique to show you how to do it. I've gone in there. I'm going to go in here. I'm going to erase that part out just like that, guys. And this is how you create and remove things from the background using Photopea. This is a free piece of software, and it's quite amazing when you get going. So again, it's just magic cuts. And then use the two different brush colors, make it into a new layer from a new layer when you click on new layer and then just use the eraser and brush in the bark some pieces and erase the pieces that you need to make it perfect. That's all there is to it, guys. Thanks for watching. I have a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned. Be back soon.


You know what the money gun means. It means another video where I'm going to take you from A to Z. How to make money. Turn $50 into $500 every single day with snapchat ads. I'm going to walk you through exactly how to use snapchat ads.  I'm going to show you exactly where to point, where to click. What to do to be able to leverage this 210 million person audience every day and advertise products or services to them that they already want. So you can start making money. And the way I'll be showing you to make money, you will get money one of three ways. You can get it either into your PayPal account, into your bank account with a wire or a check sent directly to your house. I'm going to show you exactly how to market products that people already want. Users on snapchat over 210 million users. That's the size of Germany, France and the United Kingdom combined. So you got a lot of power here. I'm going to show you how to use it. Stay tuned. Let's get it. Okay, this is going to be fun. So let me get you started walking through the system. Once again, in this video, I'm going to show you everything you need exactly how to turn $50 into $500 using snapchat ads. Once again, 210 million people daily. I'm going to show you how to sell products via affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is great way to start in online business because you don't have to do any customer service. You don't have to ship any products. You don't have to have a company. You can be any age. You can be 13 years old. You can be 1300 years old. Don't have to be from any country. You can be from Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, United States. Germany doesn't matter. Any age, any country doesn't really matter. You just need to have a PayPal account, a bank account or an address to get paid. And I'm going to show you my three-step system to making this work. People place products. So the people we will be reaching are on snapchat. So they're on snapchat. Place, these are the people we're going to be selling products to. The place we are going to be selling products, we will need a website. And I want to warn you real quick, leave this video if you're not comfortable with this. This will cost money. It will cost $50 because you're going to be setting up by the end of this video. My promise to you is that you will have everything you need. You will have a website set up. Very well done website prepared to sell products with your affiliate links on them. And furthermore, you will have an ad account set up, micro targeted to only advertise to people that want to buy the product that we are offering them. So again, this will cost money. You will need $50 to get this started. So if you do not have that sort of money, please leave the video, go check out one of my free traffic videos. But if you have $50 to play along with me and test out marketing. And if you just enjoy and love marketing like I do, then you're going to have fun in this video. But once again, you will need money to register a website and you will need money to place a few dollars on ads so you can get this sort of return. But the benefit of advertising is that it's instant. You can reach these people like that. The second benefit of advertising is that it's scalable. As soon as you start making money, you can ramp it up. Remember my first $10,000 profit day? I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was living at 6th and Broadway in Santa Monica at a cool little bachelor pad with my friend Arturo. And I was advertising skincare products. Specifically, I was advertising a product named Hydroxatone on Facebook. I had an image where it showed two hands of a woman. One hand was really old and wrinkly. And the other hand was, it looked youthful and perky. And the image was like this and it said incredible transformation. Check out this skincare product limited quantities. Something along those lines. And that ad, it went from making me $1,000 a day. I remember it like yesterday. And I just upped my budgets. All I did was I changed my budgets from spending $500 a day to spending $5,000 a day. I was bold. I was taking risks. Usually you don't scale advertising by 10xing the budget. Usually you don't do that. Usually you double your budget every day. You go from $500 to $1,000 in spending. But I was excited and I'd saved up a couple dollars from my job. So I just said it was all on credit cards anyway. So it didn't matter. I had credit. So I just said I'm going to spend $5,000 just to see if it goes all the way. If it keeps doubling my money. And it did. And I remember we had some friends over that night. It was Friday night drinking at my place and we're going to go out to a bar. And my friends were all sitting around and messing around. And I just kept refreshing my phone. My friends were trying to get me involved. And I said, dude, it keeps going up. And they said, what? And I said, the amount of money I made. They said, what are you talking about? Because every time I refreshed my phone, I made another $32. That was how much commissions I made from each product sale. It happened almost every 15 to 30 seconds. Not every second. But every time I did that, it just kept going up. And that day, I made $10,000 profit. Spent about $5,000. In fact, my ROI got better. And I made about $15,000 revenue or $10,000 profit. It was amazing. And I remember the moment it happened. It was incredible. And we were at a bar. It was later on in the night. And I hit that $10,000 profit. That was such a magical moment. But to sit there and not have to do any work. And that's the power of ads. This is what I'm going to teach you is a preview for what's in my training course and super affiliate system. This is a preview of everything. But if you're looking for something that's more step by step, that's a training course where you actually learn skills. I'm giving you the lightning. I'm giving you the adrenaline shot here. I'm going to show you how to do all this. You want to learn the skills behind it? How do I get so good? How do I think this way? And how you can too? Then check out my training course at the end of this video. But make sure you follow along to the end. Go through all the steps. Set up the snapchat ads. Set up the website. And lastly, product. Now, in terms of implementing all of this, we actually implemented the opposite way around. So this is number 1. This is number 2. And this is number 3. First, we need to sign up to get our affiliate link. This is how we'll get paid from the affiliate network. So, we're going to get our affiliate link of the product that we're going to be selling people. The product that these people want. The second step is we're going to set up our website. Because we're going to need our website to place in the app. I already have a website created for you. That is perfect. That works for our purposes. Sell to convince people into buying some. The other thing that's good about marketing is that you don't actually have to sell things. You don't have to be good with words. You don't have to be personable or look good or be clean-shaven. Rest a certain way or have a certain hairstyle. I know people make fun of me for my hair. With marketing, you can do anything you want. Because your website sells people for you. That's the purpose. And I'm going to give you a website that sells people for you. And the third step is we're going to be setting up our ads, our targeting. And I'm going to show you where to click and point. Let's get on my computer without further ado and make this happen. There we go. Okay, some money gone. Okay, so to follow along with me, you'll want to go to this site which is johncrestani.combackslashresource. Now, there should be a link somewhere down in the description. Or you can just type it in. It's myname.combackslashresource. And that will take you to this document.  You'll want to select Snapchat ads right here. Select that and you'll go down to the Snapchat ad section. If you want to purchase my course, my training course super affiliate system and go further in depth and have a step by step training program, much more resources, live trainings every week at a certification program. Really go into skills. People don't want to learn skills. The skills are copywriting, data analysis, and research. I've posted videos on YouTube channel. Nobody cares about it.  If you want to learn step by step how to do affiliate marketing, get certified and all that jazz. Make sure to check out the link right here. You'll get my special YouTube people's discount. It explains everything, my people place product system, all that jazz. Now, here we are. First off, you're going to start follow along, sign up for DigiStore. So, there is a link in here and that'll lead you to a place where you can create your DigiStore account. You can sign up from any place in the world, any age. They will pay you via PayPal, check or wire. So, as you notice, you can see your earnings chart around here. You can look at some other numbers for your account up here. There's a lot of reports. I'm not going to go into like data analysis and whatnot here. I go in that in my course, but you'll want to go to get your link. You'll want to go to marketplace right there. On marketplace, you'll want to search my last name or you can go over to the internet marketing and e-business category. Either one of these works to get the link that you want. But as you'll see, there's over 150 products and they all pay you commission, right? These are all products that you can market if you want to. You have an option of marketing anything you want. So, you see this product pays 75% commission. Average earnings is 37 bucks, HSB, all sorts of things. We're going to promote my product for this training. So, for this training, we'll be promoting work at home secrets and internet jet set. This is my book you'll be selling. This is your link. So, I just right clicked and I clicked copy. See, your link is right over there and you'll be promoting my book and my free trainings. I always like to copy it into a notepad so that I have my link somewhere safe. I'll say digistore link just so I have it available for the next step. Now, to give you a little demonstration of what you'll be selling, once again, you are selling a book which teaches people how to work from home. This is the book I wrote for $1 and it has over 100 different ways that people can find work at home jobs.  Companies prefer crowd source activities as opposed to have office space and have people actually commuting to work. Here on page 34, for instance, are a dozen different ways people can find freelance and task-based work. Now, the whole marketing page is built to sell people. I'm not going to really explain how it works but you get 90% commission and you'll see right here the charges are $1. The person only has to spend $1 today plus tax and then after 30 days, they will spend $39.95 monthly and you get 90% of that. So, if you get two customers a day, you will get $36 times $60. You'll add an extra $2,100 to your income every month. You just need two customers a day for a month and then you've created a passive income that will replace most job incomes. That's all you need. Just get two people to spend $1. Pretty good situation. That's all you need to do. You can promote this book using any of my other free traffic methods out there. Very easy way to build recurring income. So, we have our link. That's all we need to do on DigiStore. Now, the second step to get this going is we have to create a place to advertise. Most advertising networks will not accept affiliate links. So, we have to set up a website. And I'm going to actually give you a high converting website right here in this training. Heard it from me. It's freaking built to convert. It's built for you and you can also modify it any way you want with the software that I'm going to show you. Oh, this is good. This is good. If you are excited, if you are enjoying this process so far, type in the chat. I'm enjoying this because this is cool. You're actually going through the steps of setting up a full online advertising campaign. And I really want you to congratulate yourself. Pat yourself on the back. If you're still one of these like 18-year-old kids sitting in your bed with a phone on portrait style, like browsing through the comments skeptically, please at this point, pause the video. Go over to your desktop computer, a laptop computer. Pull it out from under your bed and actually watch and go through the steps. Because if you're making it this far, you at least deserve to turn your phone landscape mode. I look at the analytics. I know how people watch these videos. But let's get into it. Let me show you the rest of the steps. We're going to set up the website. There's no coding. There's no technical stuff involved. But you are going to have to watch my screen. And you may have to pause a few times to get this right. On my resource document, you're going to want to go down to the second step. And you're going to want to click this button which says copy my pre-sell. And you're going to copy my pre-sell page which says 16 legitimate ways to make money online. This is built to advertise the affiliate link for your product 16 times. But you could also sell 16 different products. You could also rewrite this page to sell different products other than mine. There's a million ways you can use this page. It's very extensible. It's called a list. And it works very well. And advertising networks love this because it offers a lot of value and information of people. So, you're going to click copy my pre-sell right there. The pre-sell page is a website built to sell on what comes next. You will click add funnel right there. For this to work, you will have to sign up for a free trial of ClickFunnels. ClickFunnels is a software that allows you to build websites and to register websites without any programming whatsoever. It costs $97 a month after the free trial. You can cancel anytime. It's a very big company. They respect everything. They have a lot of people working. But for the purposes, you need to sign up for this. I think I already made clear. You have to spend some money. We're going to have to buy a website in this step. And we're going to have to sign up for ClickFunnels. ClickFunnels is free sign up for. But the website will cost $20.   So, we'll click add funnel. The funnel will load in our place. So, we will click view funnel right here. And voila. So, we will have a funnel set up for us right there. Now, on this page, we're going to have to do two things. One is we're going to have to change out the affiliate links to our own. And number two is we're going to have to register a website. Because right now, this page is still on ClickFunnels.com. Do you see that? So, first, let's replace our affiliate links. We will go right down here to where it says edit page. So, we're actually editing a real web page right here. You're changing around links. If you've never registered or done anything, edited any web pages before, type in I've never done this before and it's exciting. Or however you're feeling and it's scary and it's freaking me out. And I'm stressing. I'm anxious. Whatever you're feeling, let me know. Say I've never done this before and I am like freaked out of my mind. Whatever it is, but you're getting deep in the internet and you're getting deep towards where the money lies. Most people haven't done anything. Most people are actually watching this video on portrait mode on their phone. And not even watching the video. They're just listening to the audio. So, by getting this far and actually doing the steps, you're past what I call the weak players. The weak players are in your dust because they're not willing to go this far. By getting to this far, you've got to congratulate yourself and pat yourself on the back. You're making progress. This is why most people fail in internet marketing. They're not willing to be this focused. So, we're going to click edit page and we're going to find every single link selling my product and we're going to replace it with our own. So, I'm just scrolling down and it says number one earn cash while watching cooking videos online and you see right here at the end of each section I have a link for my product. Get the book work at home secrets from John Crestani for only $1. So, we're going to click this and you notice a little link area shows up. This is where the link shows up and we're going to change that out to our own link and you'll just copy and paste your link into there. And when I say you'll copy and paste your link into there, you'll be copying and pasting your digi store link in there. Boom. I just copied and pasted. Then we'll scroll down. We have another link right here selling that book. Again, you only need two people to buy this a day to get a recurring income of $2,000. $2. If you can't get $2 from people, I don't know what you're doing but you should be able to get $2 from people. I'll make this a little bold so it's more sticks out more and every single section I'll click the link and copy and paste, right? Because the thought is that people will read different sections of how they want to work from home and then they'll go to the book.  So, you right up there, you'll click save. Boom. You let it go to space and back. Voila. And then you can return to the previous page. You can click this back button right there. That's it. The second part of this is you'll want to go over here where it says settings. What we're going to do here is we're actually going to register a website. So, settings. Now, let me know while I'm going through this if I'm going too fast or too slow. So, this next step you'll want to go over here under settings. You'll see there's the domain section and then you'll see add or edit domains right there. It's a little small thing but you'll want to click that because what we need to do is we need to get our own domain so we can do ads. So, we click add or edit domains. I've already registered some domains but I'm just going to show you how to do this. So, you're going to click add new domain right there. Click add new domain and then you'll want to click register a new domain. You don't have a domain yet. Domain is a website. Click choose domain and then you'll enter in a name for your domain. You could do your name. I could do JohnCristani.com. It doesn't really matter. This doesn't really affect things. I'll do John's work news. Perfect. And then I will click this number right here. It's going to cost $20 to register a domain and you just register that. Click that button and your domain will be registered. Then what you will do is you'll go back up here then you'll click funnels right there. You'll go back to where we were previously. So, now we're back on our funnel page. We clicked our funnel and we're going to go back over to settings. Now, all we do now is we're going to select this domain area. We're going to select this little drop down right here and we're going to select the domain we registered. I'm just using a previous domain I registered which is new career advice. That's the domain I registered. And then we scroll down to the bottom of the page. We'll have to do save and update settings. So, we'll go right there and voila. We have our site and we have it on our own domain. You're going to want to take this link right here and actually save this in your notepad. This is the link you're going to want to use now. Website link. If we go to the website, now we have 16 legitimate ways to make money at home and we have all of our affiliate links within the page every step of the way. You have a little cameo in one of the pictures from me, right? Woo! Dude, if you finish this step, first off, take a breath, pat yourself on the back. Let me know how long has this taken you so far. If you made it to step two, say I made it to step two. So far this has taken me 30 minutes, an hour, whatever it is. But congratulations, you made it this far. You set up a website.  That's a huge accomplishment. Like 99% of people doing marketing, they never get to this step because they're just watching videos hoping for some magical gold mine to appear but they're not actually doing anything. The people who made money mining gold did not hang out in Ohio, right? They actually went west. Setting up a website is one of the first steps to really tapping in to that wealth flow of money on the internet. You are in the game and you set up a website that is crafted by I'd say one of the better affiliate marketers out there. So you are starting way ahead of people.  You're actually on your laptop doing stuff. So congratulations. Awesome stuff. The last step, step number three is setting up the actual Snapchat ads. I'm going to show you how to do that right now. Let's have some fun.  That just gives you a completely unfair advantage. I think you're going to like this. So let's get into this. It's a little aggressive. Just a warning. Ads may be disapproved. Super normal. Sometimes the same ad will get disapproved one day and improved another day. Some things to watch out for are part of advertising is ads get disapproved is a normal part of advertising. So don't let that dissuade you if your first ads get disapproved. Another thing to look out for is ad interfaces change. So how Snapchat ads looks on my screen by the time you're watching this may look a little different. It could look very different, but a lot of the same elements will likely be the same headline, description, etc. Image will likely look the same. If you get disapproved ads, don't worry. Just do things a little bit differently and submit a new ad. The interface looks different. Don't worry. That's fine. Just do it and try to figure it out. Look at their resources and figure out what's most similar. Without further ado, let's go into this. Let's look at how we actually implement an ad. Congratulations. Once again, give yourself a pat on the back. You've made it this far.  You're learning marketing and I hope you love this because I love marketing. I think it's so exciting. I still play a lot of video games. There's my Switch controller. I'm always a wizard or a mage or a sorceress. Don't ask about me being a sorceress because I love the idea of magic. Advertising is the literal equivalent of magic. By placing an ad, you are sending something out in the world that is multiplying and affecting hundreds, thousands, millions of people and returning to you wealth if you get the magical formula right. So, it is truly a form of magic and what you are learning here and what you are implementing is you're getting on your path to becoming a mage or a sorceress. Learning how to use that power. So, be easy on yourself. This is all hard. Let's get into it. That may sound a little nerdy but hey, this is my channel. So, if you don't like it, get out, right? Let's move forward. So, I'm back on my resource guide right there, johncrestani.com back slash resource. We're under Snapchat ads. So, the third step is people and you're going to want to sign up for Snapchat ads right here. Okay, I have a link handy for you of where to sign up. So, you'll need to sign up. Click the link and you'll go to Snapchat ads manager. I recently started the keto diet. So, I'm drinking a lot of these bulletproof coffees and macadamia nuts and all that stuff. It's pretty cool keto diet. I'm a pretty big fan of it. I suggest, you know, if you're looking to lose weight or just get on a diet that doesn't make you hungry, highly suggest it. We're going to go over here. We're in Snapchat ads. You're going to sign up. I'm not going to walk you through the sign up process. You should be smart enough to do that. If you're having problems with the sign up process for Snapchat ads, don't message me. Message Snapchat and you probably shouldn't be doing internet marketing if you can't figure out how to sign up for an account on some website. The internet's not for you, dude. Sorry. Do something else. But here we are. We're going to select new campaign and we're going to select advanced create. So, we're just going to select here. Advanced create right there. Then we are going to click that. Now, remember you can always follow along every step of the way here. We have all the steps there. So, for this, we're going to want to select driving traffic to website. It'll say select your objective. Traffic is basically people or eyeballs. And we'll say starts and ends immediately. Let's set a time cap. You know, we'll just say it runs for a couple days. And we'll say daily spend cap is $20, I guess. That's the minimum. And we'll say the lifetime spend cap is $50, right? Because we only want to spend $50 doing this. So, that's what we'll set. $50 right there. And $50, all we need to get is one person to spend $1. And within 2 months, we'll make back our investment. Because if you make $35 every month from each customer, after 2 months, you have made back your $50. You get 2 customers spending $1. Within 30 days, you will have made back your investment and then some. Which will leave you in a cash flow positive state. Because then the amount of money you spend, you don't have to pay off your credit cards for a month. So, really, to stay cash flow positive, you want to be making 2 sales a day. 2 sales a week if you're spending $50 a week. So, know your math. I'm not going to go too deep into that. So, after we select these things, we will click next. Right down here. Kind of small. It's kind of hard to see. I was like looking around for this at first. I was like, where do I go next? We're going to click next. And for this, my ads are kind of aggressive. But I think they're pretty good. You can create ads however you want. You can create images, whatever. It doesn't matter. But I'm going to say ad set name doesn't matter. Snap pixel. Not going into that right now. We're going to keep it simple. Single image or video. So, we'll select that. Then we'll do placements. Keep it automatic. We'll include people in the United States. For you, you can advertise any English-speaking country. One place I like to advertise is Australia. Because not many people advertise in Australia or Canada or South Africa or Ireland or New Zealand or Bahamas or Jamaica or Hong Kong or Singapore or Seychelles. All sorts of places where people speak English and have a lot of money but don't necessarily advertise. Do what you want but I like testing out new things. We're going to advertise to people only above the age of 25 because those are people who have money. People under 25 literally don't have like a dollar. We can do 21. We'll keep it that simple. Language, we'll select English. Notice we are under language and I'm just selecting English. See, I just selected the language. Select a category. So, now we're under the audiences area and we will select this drop down to get a category. Lifestyles and we will select actually adventure seekers. Likely to want to work from home. They want to have a flexible style of work. So, this book work at home secrets will be appealing to people who are adventure seekers because you're more flexible. You can go and more adventures.  Eddie's an adventure seeker. Maybe you're an adventure seeker.  Choose what you will. But I know this category works. So, we selected adventure seekers and you'll see this is updating kind of who our audience is. And then we have all these different things. We'll scroll down. Goal is swipe up and then we'll select auto bid. Then we will click this next button right here. Name your ad. I'll just say brand name to display an ad. I just use my name or my website. So, in this case, my website is newcareeradvice.com. So, I'm going to say new career advice headline to display in the ad. Again, this doesn't really matter. But I'll just say 16 legitimate ways to make money at home. Do I copy that? I'm going to paste it in. So, that's my headline. So, it says only 34 characters allowed. So, I'm just going to delete that word. So, for the media, you can create your own and they give you templates of images you can use. Now, for the actual media, I've given you some videos you can upload. Snapchat may or may not like. So, just use similar images to what appear in the videos if these don't actually end up getting approved. I tried it once and it got approved. I tried it another time. It didn't get approved. I tried another time. It got approved. So, Snapchat seems to be a little funky with what they approved. You could create your own ad as well. Do whatever works. But just keep that in mind. You want to download these ads, click these videos. You will click them and you will download each of them by clicking this button right here. And these are video ads created by me for Snapchat that are built to be highly effective. As you'll see, these videos are very flashy and they're built through appeal to somebody who wants nicer things in life and work from home. So, they're built to get people's attention. That's how I build my ads. And you can download each of these videos. They're pretty cool. I particularly like this one. This this third ad is pretty funny. It's a guy throwing down $100 bills at his dog. So, there I upload my video and you can see it's uploading. So, we'll wait a couple seconds. While we're waiting, if you are getting massive value out of this video, make sure to hit that like button. Subscribe to the channel and also hit the notification bell if you want to see more stuff like this. We're going to have a lot more stuff coming out like this. So, be prepared. There we go. We have our call to action. All we need to do is put in our website which we have our website link right here which is new career advice. We're just going to copy this and finalize piece of the puzzle. And that is it. So, we have status active. We click next right here. We can review everything one final time. Everything looks good. And then you will click this button down there that says publish campaign. Voila! There we go. Congratulations, okay? If you made it this far, say I made it to the end or just say I posted a Snapchat ad. Congratulations. And everyone else watching this video, all you 19-year-old college people sitting on your bed watching this on portrait mode so you can look at the comments. This is your time. Comment on people who say they set up their first Snapchat ad. Just say congratulations. Give them encouragement because this was a long video. This is a huge training. This is a preview of an exercise you'll go through in my training course super affiliate system where I show you how to set up advertising. This is a preview of my training course but I go much more in depth and I give much more step by step showing you why things actually work. Because what I left out of this was why things actually work. Like how do you track things? How do you write the ads? How do you determine what to write? How do you create these things? How do you know how to research what works and what not? How do you know what the targeting is? But right now all you need to know is if you set up an ad, congratulations.  You should be proud of yourself. I mean frankly it doesn't matter if I'm proud of you. You should be proud of yourself because you went where 99.9% of people are not willing to go. You went all the way. And my guess is you might actually love marketing and this might be a really good profession for you. So keep doing it. Subscribe to my channel. Hit the notification bell. Join my super affiliate system training course. It's a 6-week course. Go step by step over everything. Lead you down a path so you have a clear thing. These youtube videos are like shots of marketing adrenaline. But if you want a serious course to follow in order to make this a full-time career of yours. Like I have. I mean it's unbelievable to me. I make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. It doesn't make sense. But it's awesome and it's beautiful and it's magic. And you rock. You signed up for an affiliate network. You signed up for a product that is easy to buy. $1 but produces recurring income. Probably one of the best sorts of products you can sell. Small entry, long time recurring income. You set up a website. You set up the most advanced form of website you could possibly set up which is called listicle. Which allows you to promote multiple offers. It's very compliant cutting edge of affiliate marketing. Keep in mind I'm trying to help you sell my products. The more money you make, the more money I make. So this is mutual. And the third thing is you set up ads on Snapchat. Which is a new ad platform that really very few people have even learned or understand. So you are at the cutting edge. You are at the 0.1% of people learning this sort of material. Millions of people watch my channel. Million people a month look at videos on my channel. You've gone farther than 99.9% of them. And if you continue and you stay focused and you learn the skills and you get better at things and you learn to actually blame yourself when things go wrong and look at the obstacles and figure out how to make it through them, you will get to the point to make $500 back. I'm really stoked. And congratulations once again. First off, for those of you who enjoyed this, share this with everyone. If you got a ton out of this, share it with people on Facebook or whatever. Like say this is marketing and this is fun. Second off, let me know if you actually completed these. If you actually did an ad, I want to know how long did it take you? This video was probably about an hour long. Let me know how long it actually took you to go through this whole training. Because I'm sure you paused a number of times. So I'm actually interested to understand how long the whole thing took you. Write it in the comments below. For other people who didn't follow along, just congratulate everybody else and say congratulations on the dedication, the focus, etc. Because it is really a big accomplishment for people to have stayed focused. I'm guessing this maybe took 2 hours for some people or more. If it took 2 hours, that's focus. Most people don't have 3 minutes of focus in today's day and age. So congratulations. Drive the channel notifications. I look forward to talking to everybody again soon. I'm going to be putting out more videos like this. And I'm really excited to help you all out.  You're making 90% of it. I'm only making 10%. But also infect you with the enthusiasm of marketing. My goal this year is to become the number one marketing teacher in the world. And I want to infect others with that enthusiasm for marketing that I've learned over the past 10 years. Thank you for watching. Check out my other videos. I have some really cool ones that I'll talk to you soon. Remember, quit your job. Don't listen to your parents. Drop out of school. Take back control of your life and live free. See ya.


flickering to start my talk off. Hello again, I'm Marco Zuber. I'm with the St. Burton University of Applied Sciences where I started this year. I'm trying to establish research into privacy there and the talk today is about trackers and how to get rid of them. So yeah that's that's I think our mission as privacy people trackers we should get rid of them yeah it's like and in this talk I show you some research on how you can effectively block trackers and and also another project I'm working on where we try to to make this tracker blocking protection a little bit more more usable. First off and I don't know how many of you have seen the talk on privacy patcher anybody on the first day yeah a few hands I was obviously because I'm very obsessed by the topic I went there and watched it and this is also why I'm I'm only briefly speaking about the threats of of online tracking to start off my my talk. I mean this picture is the classic and I mean you see it in you saw it 10 years ago in presentations and it's it's this old cartoon from the New York Times and on the internet nobody knows you a dog and obviously 20 years later this is this is not true at all so what I'm gonna do is like in my future talks this is gonna be the the new cartoon I will use for all my presentations on tracking I think and privacy on the internet by the tech of joy or the joy of tech it's really cool I think it summarizes the whole tracking problem pretty well so in the old days you were reading your newspaper at home in front of your chimney and then you were happy nobody happy and nobody was watching you nowadays when you when you browse the web it's like you're reading the news online it's like it's Facebook is tracking you the articles you're reading the NSA might track what you are reading Google obviously tracks the whole ecosystem so you're leaking a lot of personal information nowadays when you surf the web I think them the literally sickest example for this online tracking is is from from Austria this year so Austria the country I'm coming from this is a translation by the guy into English maybe it's it's not obvious to you but the story behind behind this is Daniel Knapp and a fellow Austrian unfortunately got cancer and he started googling his symptoms and his diagnosis and he ended up getting advertisement for funerals by Facebook yeah so this is I think as a sick as he can get there so he was targeted for for funerals and see this here bestatung and win yeah so I think this is the most epic fail with with targeted advertisement the other thing except from from companies like Facebook or advertising companies tracking your online behavior it's also governmental organizations yeah so what we learned recently through the snow disclosures is that the NSA luckily picks up tracking cookies so they are basically piggybacking on all the tracking advertising companies to because they have they have select us and it's very nice for them so they have these unique identities created by advertising companies and social networks which uniquely uniquely identify you so one thing they used it for was to reveal the identity of door users so this was a very special case this is for people who use their browser both for serving normally in the internet and then use some kind of heck or a door proxy to access store so they can basically just link the advertising cookies and they know exactly who you are no matter if you're using to or not the other thing is they use it for target selection so they're listening to this huge stream of data and they want to attack this is admin at this this company or somebody at belgacom they want to target they very exact person they want to exploit and this is where tracking is very handy for them yeah so they also piggybacked on mobile tracking yeah so things leaking through a mobile smartphone apps yeah so I think this is like the biggest threats with tracking nowadays companies making profiles about your what you serve online about your medical history and so on and governmental organizations on the other hand and the second part of my talk focuses I give some insights into this this arms race between trackers and and blockers yeah so because you you didn't I mean I'm gonna talk about this extensions later on I think what what's the most effective defense at the moment a browser extensions there are so many of them as this is those are the most the most popular ones I don't guess most of you use use some of the the blockers on this list and I will go into into detail about them in the in the next few slides yeah so the most popular one is is adblock plus and we see that a number of extensions are basically building on the the filter rules of of adblock plus and then we have costary which is very popular and a new one a new a new where browser extension which I quite like is is you block and then privacy patcher so I will because not so many people maybe saw the talk I will explain privacy patcher in in a few sentences as well yeah so this is and we see that it's like adblock plus is used by by 20 million people so this is this is some a really widespread use of such a protection measure the thing though with adblock plus is they have the rules that is pretty good the the controversial thing they started in 2012 was this acceptable ads program so they have some agreements with certain companies including Google and Amazon to not block their tracking code or the advertisement yeah so basically if you're using adblock plus and you're not aware of this opt out of this feature yeah so wherever you've installed it just remove the acceptable ads adblock is very similar to adblock plus it basically just filled the gap for Chrome because the adblock plus people were too too slow to board the extension there you block I said is a is a a new browser extension which builds on on some of the rulesets of of adblock plus such as easy list easy privacy and also a DNS list which are quite like by Peter Lover and so there are no acceptable ads and the focus is on performance and privacy and it's all open source on github so this is this an extension I would highly recommend you yeah the other thing is is extension so the first ones we're all focusing on advertising other blocking tools are dedicated to blocking trackers yeah so maybe the most popular one is grocery how many people here have grocery installed yes a lot of people the thing is grocery for us it works pretty well for the for the layperson the problem is you have to opt into blocking yeah so some people just install the extension it shows these nice little bubbles about about trackers but you're not actually blocking them I guess everyone sitting in this stamp already did this so just as a word of caution the other thing is disconnect me which is very similar similar to to grocery and it's also included in in Firefox right now so this is an optional feature in Firefox I built in a tracker blocker which you can enable and privacy patcher the really nice thing is and I suggest you to also watch the talk from the first day but privacy patches it doesn't depend on rule files so it doesn't download it doesn't have subscription to rules but it uses some heuristics to block trackers yeah so it's while you serve it the next that's strange I'm going to all these different websites and I'm always loading content from Google this might be a block a tracking domain so I block it so privacy patcher is a really really nice idea and the thing we and I say we as researchers were interesting is on on how effective are these tools really so I mean with grocery you have these little bubbles or or with with ad box plus you just see okay the advertisement disappeared so this seems to be working quite well but we were interesting and how effective they really are so this is some joint work I have done with Georg met stoffnik so get met stoffnik is a very gifted programmer who implemented this and so we crawled 200,000 websites and different sub pages of them so roughly half a billion web requests and we are automated browsers to to analyze the traffic and we collected the network traffic to see how effective they are and who is actually tracking people so the next few slides what you're going to see is so to say bleeding edge research which means the graphs maybe not easy to read and not as polished as we wanted to but they give you a general idea of our findings so the first thing you see here is who are the most prevalent trackers so what are really the companies that that track you the most and if you look at this this table on the right hand side upper corner you see that Google is really the biggest player in the game so it's Google analytics Google's ad provider double click and so on Facebook is also very popular and the graphs basically show you why for us it made sense to to to really analyze a big big sample so some researchers previously they analyzed I don't know the top 100 websites so really really wanted to have a big sample and as you can see here with a small spike by do obviously is is in Asian in Asia has a bigger bigger market share yeah so you see that some of the Google services are declining while by do for some popular websites is is a bigger player the other thing that this is unfortunately a table which is very hard to read maybe with the with the huge project that is the the thing is that this is really the top tracking domains and we wanted to see how effective the different tools are and to our surprise or not to our surprise actually grocery is really really leading the field yeah so you can see that so you're the first column is like how many if you don't use any extension who is who is tracking you and then with grocery you can see that some of the domains go to 0% yeah so grocery is effective effectively blocking the tracking domains you might also notice that there are some domains which grocery doesn't block this is for example APIs so font APIs from Google so third party content which you can't easily block but which is also not not really tracking you so this was all kind of setting setting the the stage for the for the last part I want to talk about this so I showed you all these these extensions and what I really want to to do or what we want to do in this this project is make tracker blocking a little bit more more usable and I'm gonna talk about certain drawbacks and and but also advantages of the solution and yeah and this project is called the usable privacy box or you repox in in short it's an open source project and I got I was very lucky to get funding by the Internet Foundation in Austria yeah it's the funding is called net today and so the idea is to use a commodity hardware so basically a Raspberry Pi with a with a Wi-Fi dongle and make some kind of privacy enhanced Wi-Fi hot spot and make it make it as zero configures as possible yeah why why the Raspberry Pi I don't know it's like I think this Raspberry Pi hype always goes in cycles and there are so many geek friends who bought like I don't know five Raspberry Pi's and now they're just lying at home unused or maybe you're using it to watch television or something with your media center setup I really want you once the software is out take your your buy of the shelf and put our software on so we'll be very happy if people gave it a try the first prototypes on the left side this is this on my my desk in in back in st. Burton on the right hand side as this was as a live and willing in metal up this is where I stayed at the camp it's a very awesome village if you have time go go by there and check it out and yeah basically just use some cable binders to to deploy my hotspot there you could also try it out if you wanted to they actually want to go next is want to create a nice case and actually work on the on the software which brings me to the next point what is what is it what is it actually doing so it's a first of all it's blocking trackers so I'm using some kind of DNS blacklist which redirect certain domains so for example Google analytics is resolved by the urebox and redirected to a different host and it resets the cookies from this tracking domain so basically you connect to the Wi-Fi once and you also get rid of of some old cookies it also uses the transparent proxy called pre-voxy I guess most of you know the project if not Google it it's quite nice it's maintained by some German developers this also injects CSS into the the website so advertising is not displayed and what I ultimately want to do is block advertising and tracking in on websites and also in applications on your mobile phone yeah so if you connect your mobile phone I want these little tracking ads to be gone network blocking door is is is tricky yeah so I mean the network blocking the nice thing is you cannot you connect to the Wi-Fi and and most of the trackers are gone so it works with most of the devices which have Wi-Fi so if you're old old feature phone with Wi-Fi it works the same way as with your Android or iPhone however it's not very easy or it's quite tricky to do network blocking for one you can't reliable detect third parties so if you have a browser extension this is something which you can easily do like privacy better does this is very tricky to do on the network the other thing is and this is might be a privacy paradox on or at least for my project is the growing number of websites which are using TLS or HTTPS by default which is very good because you don't leak any information but obviously the box can't can't intercept it it's a very it would be a very very bad idea for a privacy project to to open up the HTTP traffic so this is something I'm definitely not doing so certain trackers are harder to block so for example this Facebook like button because it's all encrypted you and it's on the same domain the tracking is on the same domain as the main Facebook website you can't just block the domain yeah I would love to but then people would get annoyed if they want to surf the the Facebook account the other thing is onion routing with with door we decided to deactivate this feature it works quite nice so it filters advertisement and you route your whole traffic over door the thing though is that there's no magic there's no magic door boxes yeah you're always gonna screw up if you if you're using one of these privacy boxes with door on them because it's just a very very bad idea so what we do is it's like we point the people to download the door browser bundle what I personally think is the most the most effective way to to block trackers and to increase your privacy so never ever do if you're doing something critical never ever use your normal browser and just route it over the door network the last thing the urebox is gonna gonna offer is a VPN so it it comes with open VPN certificate based we spent quite some time on on trying to get IP sec running there might be some net network guys among you here I just literally hated it working with it but open VPN is very nice and so you can use it use the box even when you're brought so I guess the ccc can would be a good option to use a VPN because of yeah you know all your your colleagues and the friendly neighbor hacker the issues here the the challenge is is zero config is is tricky to set up so you have to somehow do the board for wedding with you PMP or not PMP and of course you have to handle changing or dynamic IPs by your provider somehow yeah the plan for the for the project is that we release it on github using a configuration management tool called uncivil so you can really reproduce the image and we want to release it in the end of this year and yeah there are many many gifted students and people helping me so I'm not doing this by myself there's our on Alex and Anton who are doing mostly the networking staff and the hardening Julian and Tobias I do bachelor students at FHASA which were really good programmers and really obsessed with security as well so we always have interesting discussions and also have some usability people and some people helping me with the case so basically I'm very happy to to to work with a small team of people to get this get this done yeah and this brings me basically to my final slide the take away from this presentation so yeah just just in a nutshell I think we are now entering basically an arms race between trackers and blockers so adblock plus for example had a legal case in Germany now because by blocking advertisement of course it's also you're creating problems for publishers because they lose revenue and so they were suing some German news companies were suing adblock plus for example a former Google employee wants to create a new company now which which works in the opposite direction of browser extensions where he wants to come up with checking and advertisement methods which are harder to block yeah so I think that's that's really a lot of things are happening there basically I think the browser extensions to to some extent to my surprise are quite effective as said I would go with you block this connect is also very nice and privacy better these three applications come all with an open source license which is really nice and then finally I talked about the this usable privacy box project I'm working on where the goal is really to make to make the whole thing zero config so you don't have to install the browser extension on on every browser you use you don't have to configure it and make sure I don't know you enable blocking in grocery and this a disable the feature where you send statistics called ghost rank back to grocery where you don't have to fiddle with adblock plus to disable acceptable ads and so on so basically something I could also give to my parents at home and the connector devices and they're happy yeah and as I said if you have a spare raspberry by I really hope you could turn it into a jewelry box and give it a try and yeah the last one this is a obvious thing for everyone who ever programmed prototyping is very easy product productive setup is hard yeah this is not the user where privacy box there are so many tutorials so if you check out other fruit they have an onion pie there's an other fruit Wi-Fi advertising blocker and so on if you want to go from this this small how to so something really I don't know more stable and useful that's tricky but also that's not a surprise but just to let you know we are we're working hard on the box yeah if you want to stay tuned for the for the public release this is the Twitter account at use of a privacy if you don't have the chance to speak with me today you can always contact me for questions actually there's a there's a typo here so it should be dot org yeah and yeah thank you for listening and hopefully you you learn something new and and you have some interesting questions thank you very much Marcus for your talk as we are running short on time please only short one or two short questions if you have more questions please meet each other outside of the 10 I think it's okay for you to meet yeah yeah okay one or two questions only please so left just one question do you have tried some combination like no script on one of these tools there's no script and request policy I think it's what most people here at the camp use but I think it's it's just not it's it's just not accessible to the average person so the whole thing for me it's also a usability idea I know most people here are fond of no script it's effective but anybody not from the camp would have a hard time using it yeah so this is why we didn't include it yeah did this answer your question I wonder if you had any advice for publishers who are relying on advertising to fund their sites obviously the revenue from targeted ads is much higher than revenue from ads that are just generally broadcast on the internet I wondered if you could you know if you had any advice for them so I didn't really get the question it was the question was about revenue and advertisement so for advice for publishers so people who are trying to keep their site running on advertising revenue it's obviously in their interest to have targeted ads on their website because they get more revenue than they will yeah yeah yeah it's true and I see a real problem here especially I mean some some open source or grassroot campaigns also relying on advertisement to basically fund their project I think one one really nice idea is like things like a micro payment systems like flatter or something where you can directly donate to do a website and you just flatter websites but I think it's it's a very bad idea if you run your website that you enable tracking and enable tracking of people for bigger media houses I'm afraid that once people effectively block block advertisement it's gonna be like like movies nowadays it's gonna be news with product placement so you're basically reading a news article which is funded by company and looks like normal news to you so this is with movies and then TV we got rid of all the advertisement now you're watching a movie a cluttered with products so and I think that's that's for one thing but for smaller websites I would go for for crowdfunding flatter or get Bitcoin donations paypal donations something like this but not rely on advertisement so for more questions please meet Makos outside of the tent because we're running out of time thank you again very very much Makos Huber