8 Simple Ways To Implement New Technology In Your Teaching To Benefit From It In 2019, it is difficult to imagine an ESL lesson without the use of modern technologies. Every tutor, language center or school tries to use audio and video presentations, interactive whiteboards, smart toys and so on. With the help of modern technologies, the learning process becomes more interesting, dynamic and informative. It is promoted by the developing market of educational services, growth of the competition, and also inquiries of students. In this article, we will try to find out how a modern teacher can use technology in his lesson. 1. Plan Before You Go. A good teacher always knows what his students will do in the classroom. Not so long ago the preparation took long hours of handmade, required artistic abilities and excellent imagination, but now any necessary material can be printed or presented in a visual presentation. Referring back becomes easier with e-copies of all the lesson plans used and sorted on the computer. The quality of the lesson depends only on the teacher himself. 2. Learning News. Imagine a lesson that will start as a news story. The contents can be anything, like the missing article or past simple practice. The teacher can play videos, use a microphone, camera, record interviews only to gain the student's interest at the engaged stage and diversify the lesson. And that's only one idea. 3. Look and Listen. Of the growing popularity of a variety of smart toys, it is worth thinking about purchasing smart pens and books which can be found everywhere these days. They will definitely help you in drilling exercises and can make the study process more fun. Add various video and audio materials to that and you are set. 4. Make It Fun. A variety of technologies will help breathe new life into the Activate Stage. Students can make their own movie, vine or record their own song. The evolution of the internet can make interesting online conference sessions possible, for example with the other class on the different side of the earth. 5. A Star Goes To. Pretty much every teacher was ever using a rewarding system with their students. That could be stickers, stars, candies, fake money and so on. Now you can combine them all. With the help of projectors and smart boards, your reward may vary from an Avenger sticker to a PPT about the best student of the week, month, term. You can easily split the class into teams, which will have their own design name, logo and a scoreboard. That would serve as a nice team building thing and develops a student's imagination and production as well. 6. How To Say That. Preficient students may have completely different needs. For the young learners, it is very important to get acquainted with the sound of a foreign language, practice in the pronunciation of new words, and for the proficient, students may be interesting to learn the accents, intonations, and ways of speaking. For example, many online platforms offer phonics courses for the very beginners with all the games, songs, chants and videos needed. And, thanks to the internet again, you can always find videos of people speaking British, American or Australian English and present them to your students, pointing out the differences and breaking points of each of the speakers. 7. Click It, Touch It, Say It. Due to the huge competition between the educational publishers, all of them are trying to keep up with the times. Almost every coursebook of a famous publisher is presented as an e-book. If the classroom is equipped with a smart board, the students can interact with it in any possible way, like click, touch and write in it whatever they want. 8. Are You Ready? Testing and evaluating the students can be upgraded to the whole new level. If you don't want to waste the time during the lesson you can always assign a test to students as homework without worrying about their cheating. Professionally developed testing software can help you with assigning a personal task for every student and provides you with all the information about their mistakes, errors, typos and even time spent on each question. Or, if you still want to test your students yourself you can make it in a more interactive and interesting way turning the test day back from being less favorite among children. Do you want to teach English abroad? As you may see, there are dozens of ways how to use modern technologies during the ESL class. The TEFL course was an inspiration for creating all these ideas and I hope I will have a chance to try them all being a certified teacher. 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.


From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, bringing you data-driven insights from theCUBE and ETR. This is Breaking Analysis with Dave Vellante. In 1987, Nobel Prize-winning economist, Bob Solo, famously observed, you can see the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics. This proclamation became known as the productivity paradox. Ironically, Solo's statements preceded the greatest productivity boom since the dawn of the computer age, which subsequently came to fruition in the 1990s. It can be argued that a similar pattern is being seen today where AI is everywhere, but generally not showing up in earnings numbers or productivity statistics just yet. Hello and welcome to this week's CUBE Research Insights, powered by ETR. In this Breaking Analysis, we squint through the latest earnings reports from Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon to understand what's happening in cloud, evaluate the impact or lack thereof of AI on cloud momentum and explain how we think about the future impact of gen AI in cloud. And the market confusion can be summed up by this chart here. Check it out. Here's Amazon's stock price yesterday, Thursday, prior to its earnings release and after hours up through this morning. The stock was down during the day. Then Amazon announced earnings. After the print, the stock shot up after hours because Amazon beat, but then the talking heads, those experts on the financial channels started to question the attractiveness of Amazon as an investment. One analyst on CNBC called the tepid growth rate of AWS called out the tepid growth rate of AWS and the fact that Azure was growing significantly faster than AWS cited that as a negative. And he said he wouldn't get excited again on the AWS stock until it was growing, an Amazon stock until AWS was growing in the high teens or even said 20% range. And you can see above that narrative, it dampened the enthusiasm after hours and the stock actually shot back down. So I'm on a plane and I'm listening to the earnings call.  Here's AWS, they're a $90 billion company. They're growing at 12% with 30% operating margins. That's north of Cisco. And although South of Oracle, it's really, really fantastic. AWS basically came in on its number and has $7 billion of operating income and that only accounted for about a quarter of Amazon's overall operating profit. You remember, we've seen that percentage exceed 100% in the past. Now, Amazon's guide for AWS was conservative. Okay, well, why wouldn't it be? There's no upside to being too aggressive in this market. But then through this sort of half baked Wi-Fi, I got CNBC in one year and the earnings call on another. I hear Jassy say in the call, quote, we signed several new deals in September with an effective date in October that won't show up in any gap reporting numbers for Q3, but the collection of which is higher than our total reported deal volume for all of Q3. And then this expert comes back on TV. It says basically, well, maybe I'm missing something here. And you can see how the stock reacted during the earnings call shooting back up after hours and today, and as of midday, today Friday, the stock is up 7% while the NASDAQ is basically unched, i.e. unchanged. So what's the point of all this?  But the reality is the size of the new is still so small that despite the momentum and the growth, it's just not nearly big enough to blow through any headwinds or other market friction of which there is a lot today. And given all the market uncertainty, CEOs are not allocating huge incremental dollars to CIOs. Rather, they're saying, figure it out, show some ROI and then we'll reinvest more as like a gain share. And as we've said in previous research notes, AI is stealing from other sectors. This chart here from ETR's latest spending intentions survey shows all the sectors that the company tracks. The N in this study is over 1700 IT decision makers. We call them ITDMs. The Y-axis is net score or spending velocity in a sector and the X-axis is the pervasiveness of the sector in the dataset. And we show here that AI bounced off its low of October, 2022, one month before ChatGPT was announced. And you can see the trajectory of cloud computing over the last 10 quarters. So based on, you see those squiggly lines. Cloud optimization and a rebalancing of hybrid portfolios between on-prem and cloud has been taking place for over a year now. And that's why we see so few sectors over that red dotted line at 40% net score, which is considered a highly elevated indicator of spend momentum. But the takeaway is that AI is still experimental right now showing lots of promise, but most is still in the evaluation stage. Resources are being allocated for AI, but for the most part they're not incremental resources. They're being reallocated. They're stealing from other buckets. It's still a cloud world in the sense that the cloud operating model is setting the tone for IT operating models in general. And the cloud continues to outpace on-prem growth quite significantly. So let's take a look at what the market looks like for hyperscale clouds post earnings. Here are our updated figures for our quarterly IAS and PAS forecasts. Remember, this is meant to be apples to apples with AWS, i.e. we're stripping out applications and collaboration software, things like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspaces. We consider the big four hyperscalers to be AWS Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba. And we've been tracking these for years now. Now the second column shows our previous Q3 estimates compared to our new actuals based on the latest earnings reports. Alibaba note has not reported yet. We then show the growth rates and our latest full year estimates. So if you keep points here, they like to call out. First is the numbers are pretty much in line with our expectations. However, the total for the big four we want to point out is 172 billion. It's about 10% lower than our early 2022 projections. So if you go back to say January, February, 2022, we were up in the 190 billion. But the reason for the Delta is almost entirely due to our restatement of Azure revenues based on the poorly redacted court documents that came out during the Microsoft Activision hearings when they mistakenly leaked Azure data. We're still actually squinting through some of that, but as of now, this is where we land. So as reported by all three big cloud players, optimization is still happening in the cloud. And AI is not yet showing up in the numbers except for Microsoft, which indicated about a 300 basis point tailwind for Azure as a result of AI. Let's face it, Microsoft is making all the right moves with AI and elsewhere. It's quite remarkable. So it's somewhat understandable why analysts might be negative on AWS, but they're missing the boat in our view. Microsoft is a four decades old plus company with a giant software estate, some would argue a monopoly, which serves as a captive market for Azure. In other words, because Microsoft runs its own software and it chooses to of course run it on Azure, it has this unique flywheel that AWS doesn't possess. AWS has other flywheels, but not one stemming from its application software. AWS competes on the merits of its IS and PAS and the fact that it has the best cloud services. But the point is there's plenty of room for both. So don't assume Azure's success is necessarily a negative for AWS. As Matt Baker says, it's not a zero sum game. Having said that, the performance of Azure is astoundingly good. We have it growing at nearly 30% this year to AWS is 14% annually. The real concern we have is Google. It can be argued that Google has the best tech, the best AI and of course the resources to invest. But at $4 billion in IS per quarter, its growth rate should be at least double that in our view. Both AWS and Azure at this size were growing at rates of 60% plus. Now, accounting for the fact that Google was late to the enterprise cloud game and is ramping up in times of much greater uncertainty and headwinds, they still should be growing faster in our view. Now the last point on this chart is we fully expect accelerated growth in Q4 as a direct result of Gen AI. We have the overall year over year growth rate of 17% in this past September quarter accelerating to 21% in the December quarter with AWS, Azure and GCP growing at 17%, 30% and 25% respectively. Now, while Azure and GCP are clearly growing faster than AWS, AWS remains the largest IaaS Paz player in our models through the next 24 months at least. And we could most definitely see a re-acceleration of AWS growth in our view. As AWS is fond of messaging these days, it's early days, it's the early innings in AI. Here's a chart of 300 respondents from a recent ETR drill down that asks which products from the cloud providers is AI products are currently in use, that's the blue bars and planned to be evaluated, that's the yellow. Microsoft clearly is winning right now, as we've said. There's a little question about that. And Google with Vertex AI combined with BigQuery is a very strong data and AI story, despite the fact that it's not showing up in the cloud numbers yet. An interest in Amazon is also quite high, as you can see here. Note the parenthetical however, if generally available. Now, remember, bedrock went GA this month and with re-invent right around the corner, one would have to believe that AWS will have the last word this year on gen AI and it's going to be a strong word. But a couple of other points here. One, Amazon is not used to playing from behind. They've always led in cloud and for the first time really, they're spotting points to the opposition. Everyone was caught off guard with GPT, the GPT heard around the world, the uptake surprised even Microsoft and open AI, but it's had the biggest impact we think on AWS and Google from a perception perspective. In some ways, Google for good and that even though it called a code red, Google's recognized as an AI leader and has been flexing its AI muscles, but it hasn't yet helped its cloud business. Now, probably not has been as positive for AWS who has always had machine learning and AI momentum with SageMaker, but AWS, they're going to be a player and let's see how they play catch up in this game. The other call out on this chart is IBM Watson X. Take a look, both IBM and Oracle are in the game, both cloud and of course AI and IBM seems to be a little bit further along based on this customer input because you see some blue there, you don't see the blue for Oracle. IBM for years was marketing Watson hard with very unimpressive results, but Watson X from a product standpoint is looking pretty good this time around. Watson X supports open data formats that has strong metadata management. It supports many, many data types, multiple database and query engines. It's got a decent data sharing story. Take a look at this XY graphic with net score on the vertical axis, that's a measure of spend momentum again and on the horizontal axis presence in the dataset. And what we did is we filtered on cloud computing accounts only, okay? So again, vertical spending momentum, a horizontal is presence or shown as overlap. So it's overlap with 1165 cloud computing accounts in the latest ETR spending survey. And we're showing here the platforms in use in those 1100 cloud accounts for machine learning and AI. And look at IBM Watson. Well, it's still well below the magic 40% elevated momentum red line. Look at where it was in the April survey of just this year. Now, IBM announced Watson X in May at its think conference and it's showing momentum. So in April, as you can see in this chart, it's pretty much in the red zone and it's shot up at least, looking pretty good in the positive below the leaders, but still good for them. Arvind's expanded his hybrid cloud story. It now includes AI. And remember when IBM bought Red Hat, we said this was really a consulting and services play. Well, IBM's strong consulting business allows it to have a captive market for software and things like AI provided that it works. And by our assessment, after years of torturing us with Watson mumbo jumbo bolstered by great advertising, IBM seems to have got it right this time around. Now the other callouts here are open AI and Microsoft. They are crushing it relative to the rest of the crowd. It's interesting how AWS and Google, notice how they've come more closely aligned with the followers of this program. You know, we'll notice that. When you cut the data on cloud plus AI, normally AWS would be much closer to Microsoft than to Google, but not when the data is filtered on AI. Surprising or not. Now as a caution, remember Microsoft is so large. You might be wondering, why is Microsoft so large? And Dave, you're saying that Amazon's got the best cloud. This is the, we have no doubt that some of the ubiquity of Microsoft, Microsoft skews the data to their favor because it has such a massive software state. Some of that will filter into the cloud definition that the customers interpret or infer. But nonetheless, AWS has some work to do. That's clearly the message here. My strong bet would be that AWS is going to see accelerated momentum coming out of reinvent. Just as Google saw coming off a Next and IBM off of Think, AWS could be sitting pretty in 2024. I also want to point out anthropic on this chart, which is not as prominent on the X axis, that's presence, but clearly is showing market momentum. Everyone seems to be working with anthropic. They're like a checkbox item on all the cloud plays. And you may recall in the previous chart, the other category of AI players being adopted or evaluated was quite large. So as we've been saying with our Gen AI power law research, that the tail in AI will be very, very long. Okay, let's wrap it up here. So cloud optimization as we posted earlier this year, it's a feature, not a bug. It drives lifetime value. It increases net revenue retention. It minimizes churn and it improves customer acquisition costs in the sense that if you're not churning, you're going to have lower cat. And with cloud optimization, the ability to optimize that cloud is going to lower the risk of the customers. So it's easier to onboard them. So your LTV to cat ratio should be pretty good. Cloud growth is playing out pretty much as we expected from our early 2023 forecast with the exception of the restatement of Azure. We've been pretty much dead on. Certainly at the total market level, you know, perhaps we were a little bit too optimistic with Google, but Microsoft has made up for that. So our overall numbers are pretty much dead on. Now cloud growth continues to dramatically outpace overall IT spending rates, 19% growth on $170 billion market is pretty impressive. And the last thing is foundation models like GPT, they shift the economic equation, they're driving cloud demand, we believe. It's going to start, it's already starting to show up just a little bit this past quarter in Microsoft and we're going to see it, we think in both AWS and Google and Q4, but then really driving in 2024, Silicon, large language models, APIs, apps are going to drive compute and storage and other infrastructure. So we expect an acceleration in Q4 and into 2024 with the obvious macro caveats that of course we'll be watching. All right, that's it for now. Thanks to Ken Schiffman who's flying solo today. Alex Meyerson is on production and manages our podcast. Kristen Martin, Cheryl Knight, they help get the word out on social media and in our newsletters and Rob Hoth is our editor in chief over at siliconangle.com. Remember, all these episodes are available as podcasts wherever you listen, all you got to do is search breaking analysis podcasts. I publish each week on wikibon.com, which is being rebranded, the cube research and advisory. So look for that. And we publish on siliconangle.com every week. So you can email me if you want to get in touch, david.balante at siliconangle.com. We're getting a lot of in bounds already on our prediction posts, which we do in mid-January. So we print them and we go through every one of them. We get a huge stack of paper. Sorry, we are killing trees. You want to get in touch? You can DM me at davilante or comment on our LinkedIn post and please do check out etr.ai, best survey data in the enterprise tech business with tremendous data scientists over there. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE Insights, powered by ETR. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time on breaking analysis.


As so, socialism's on the rise everywhere, including in some countries in Latin America in spite of Venezuela, capitalism's on the decline in terms of popularity, even though everybody can see right before their eyes the consequence of socialism. And everybody should be able to see, if they know a little bit of history, if they know something about the world, the outcome of capitalism. And yet, everybody chooses socialism instead of capitalism. They choose poverty, starvation, and eating their pets over the kind of world that is possible of great prosperity, great life expectancy, great quality of life, great standard of living. They don't want that, it turns out. Why? Why the rise of socialism? If capitalism is so great and socialism is so bad, why the rise of socialism, especially in the United States? Well, I'd say first you have to understand, the first thing to understand is that we don't live under capitalism. The left has been very good at defining every problem that exists in the world today as a problem caused by capitalism, right? But we don't have capitalism today. We have what is a mixed economy. We have elements of private property and freedom, and lots of controls and regulations and taxes and massive government spending. So lots of statism, lots of socialism, if you will. So it's a mixture of capitalism and socialism. And the left has been very good for 100 years, really, in the United States, blaming every problem we have on the capitalist piece of it, and claiming that the solution is always more state, more state. And the capitalist side, the people who believe in capitalism, have been terrible. I mean, gross negligence is at defending capitalism and explaining what it is and why all these problems are not caused by capitalism. I mean, one example from recently is 2008 financial crisis. Everybody thinks it's capitalism. It's not capitalism. There's no capitalism in 2007 in the banking sector and the mortgage sector that would explain the collapse, right? These are two of the heaviest regulated industries in the United States, heavy, heavy regulations. That's what caused the financial crisis. And we could talk more if you want about what caused the financial crisis. And yet nobody went out, except me and Peter Schiff, maybe, and said, no, no, no, capitalism didn't do this. Even George Bush, who is Republican supposedly, right? He said, no, this is caused by capitalism. We need to bail out all the banks and to save capitalism. Capitalism, capitalism, I mean, a mishmash of nothingness, right? And in complete capitulation. So, so you've got, you've got the left being very good at blaming every problem of capitalism and the people who advocate for capitalism, not standing up for capitalism. Part of the question is, why don't they stand up for capitalism and why did the people buy into the left's propaganda? Because they do and they bought into it for over a hundred years now, since the progressive era, since 1914 with such, you know, it's a hundred and something years, since Woodrow Wilson at least, if not even before that. And the reason is, you know, that fundamentally we all grow up with a, well taught, a moral code, an ethical code that is consistent with socialism. So what did our mothers teach us is good. Share. Share. Think of others first. Think of yourself last. Now they don't believe this. No mother actually believes any of this. But that's what we say. That's what we present as the moral ideal. Be selfless. Being selfish is bad. Thinking about yourself is bad. You've got to always share it. You've got to always think about other people. And sacrifice, we are told by our mothers often, is a wonderful thing. It's the most virtuous thing. I mean, they tell us how much they've sacrificed for us, how much we owe them because of all the sacrifices they've committed to. Sacrifice is like a noble word. I mean, to me, it's the essential evil in our world is the idea that people are sacrificing, right? Why sacrifice? But put that aside, to sacrifice, to be selfless, to share, that's good. Well, what does socialism want? It wants us all to share, right? It wants us to think of others first, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. There are people out there who are suffering. There are people out there who don't have as much as we have. It's our moral duty to help them. And if we're not helping them, then all the government is doing is helping us be a little bit more moral by taking stuff from us and giving it to them. So that's one piece is this depiction of morality as otherism, altruism. We all think altruism is fantastic, right? But altruism is about placing the well-being of other people above you. But there's a second twist to this, right? So that's one piece of it. The second piece of it, we've been taught since we were very little that self-interest is what? It's about what? It's about exploiting other people. It's about being nasty to other people. It's about lying, cheating, stealing. It's about doing whatever it takes to get you away, whatever it takes. That's self-interest. So think about what that means. So we've got a file folder in our mind, in a sense. Our mind, our concepts are like files, file folders. And in the file folder we've put in, so the file folder at the top says self-interested people, selfish people. And in that file folder we have lying, stealing, cheating, backstabbing, getting, doing whatever it takes to get you away. But what else do we have in that file folder? We all know that what business is about is making a profit. We all know that when Steve Jobs got up every morning he was like, I want to do something for myself. I'm going to make something that makes me happy. I'm going to build something beautiful for me. Yeah, everybody else benefits too, but business is about self-interested. Business is about doing what they love doing, what they enjoy doing, what they have fun doing and what makes them a lot of money. Capitalism is about self-interest. You go shopping. When you go shopping, you're thinking constantly in your mind, this is great. I'm helping my fellow man. I'm making sure people have jobs. Yeah, exactly. Nobody thinks that. Now, I'm buying shoes because I know that salesperson needs a job and I'm contributing to their ability to have a job. Nobody thinks that. We buy shoes. We buy iPhones. We buy whatever it is that we buy because we're trying to make our lives better. We're being selfish. We're being self-interested. So you've got this file folder in our mind which has lying, cheating, stealing, SOB and businessmen, capitalism, markets, all in the same file. Financiers like you talk about? Certainly financiers. They're after-profit. They can't even hide the product. I mean, Steve Jobs can say, look, I've made your life better. I gave you the iPhone. So I deserve the billions. What does the bank or city bank do? Well, city bank's a bad example because it's a bad bank. But Goldman Sachs, what does he do? What does he present the world? Right? Yes, I financed Apple. I made Apple possible, but that's an abstraction. That's hard to get. So all of these things go into the file folder of selfish and they mix up. So implicit assumption, our instinctual assumption, our immediate assumption is, businessmen equals crook. Capitalism equals a system of exploiting lying, cheating, SOBs that are going to do bad things. You know, why do we have... You walk into an elevator here in LA or anywhere in the country and you walk into an elevator and there's a little diploma on the thing that says, a government bureaucrat has inspected this elevator.  Why do we have that? Because we're convinced that those greedy, selfish, profit-seeking businessmen would build elevators that killed us if not for the government inspector. Right? Because the best way to make money in business is to kill your customers. We believe that. We truly believe that. Right? If there were no food inspectors, restaurants would poison us all the time, like McDonald's.  So we need food inspectors to make sure that doesn't happen because those greedy, selfish SOBs, right, we know business equals selfish, selfish equals lying, cheating, stealing. They're going to lie, cheating, and steal. So we regulate them. We control them. If you're in business, if you're selfish and you're in business and I know you have the potential to be a lying, stealing, SOB, what am I going to do? I'm going to put a government bureaucrat right behind you, watching everything that you do and making sure that you don't do it. Right? You don't die, steal or cheat. So this moral framing of sacrifice, sharing, taking care of people, frames everything, everything that we think about in the world out there. And that selfishness is bad and lying, cheating, stealing. That's the behavior. That way of framing the world has to lead to socialism or it has to lead to some statism. It leads away from capitalism because capitalism, capitalism, no matter what you think of it, capitalism is a system of self-interest. It's a system where people pursue selfish, their selfish interests. So if selfishness means truly lying, stealing, cheating, then capitalism is a system of lying, stealing, and cheating. And we have to regulate and control it.  It's for me to tax you and to give the money to them. So I think everything, everything we experience today in the world can be explained in terms of this moral view. And unless you have an alternative to this moral view, you can't fight socialism. You can't fight socialism. You can't fight AOC on the basis of how you're going to pay for it. Because there are sophisticated economic economists out there, whether they're modern monetary theorists or they're Paul Krugman, who is anti-modern monetary theory but pro-Keynesian economics. He can fight a justification for, people will justify the economics of it. They'll find a way to pay for it. You have to challenge on morality, but what's the alternative? Republicans have exactly the same morality, moral code as the Democrats. That's why the Republicans have drifted left every year. They're more socialist. I mean, if you take the Republican Party of after the New Deal, FDR's New Deal, Republicans swore that when they got into power, they would undo the New Deal. They got into power in Eisenhower. They didn't, they didn't do anything. And contrary, they protected the New Deal. And what exactly was the New Deal? The New Deal was massive regulation of financial industry, massive. Every aspect of finance became regulated. Every aspect of banking became regulated. The New Deal was entitlements, the first kind of real entitlements, primarily social security. Social security ensued at the beginnings of a welfare state. The first time America really engaged in industrial activity, the big Tennessee Valley projects and building dams and building these things. So it was big government projects where the government is directly involved in the economy. Did Republicans undo that? No. Did they undo social security? No. Did they undo the financial regulations? No, in spite of what some on the left would claim. And then we had the Great Society. So the Great Society was now a big step towards full welfare. So it's Medicare and Medicaid. It's real welfare. Actually giving people, at the federal level, giving people who are poor money, food stamps. Food stamps were introduced, I think, in the New Deal. But direct cash payments were introduced in the 1960s during the Great Society. And then Republicans swore at the time, as soon as we get into power, we're going to undo all this. Never happened. And the contrary. Now, somebody like Donald Trump runs and says, we will not touch social security and Medicare. We're going to make them stronger. We're going to make the welfare state work better. But we're huge advocates of the welfare state. All the Republicans hold that. So what you have is a complete shift to the left of both political parties. But it's inevitable. Because how are you going to say you're going to do away with Medicare? I mean, old people. You're not going to take care of old people? What's going to happen to old people? I mean, the heart starts pounding. I mean, you start feeling bad. And markets, you're going to let those greedy. You're going to let those lying, stealing SOBs do health care for old people. They're going to exploit them. They're going to take advantage of them. They're going to cause these old people to die. We know that, right? Because that's what markets do. Because that's what selfishness does. So unless you challenge the fundamental underlying moral premises, you can never get rid of the policies, right? And nobody is willing to do that. Nobody is willing to do that. And there's even ideas deeper than that. Because, you know, statists, socialists, others always claim, one of their basic claims is that most of us don't know what's good for us.  But more importantly, they would argue philosophically they would say it's not so much about stupidity. It's about the fact of truth, what's really important, what's really true. It's just not accessible to simpletons like us. You know, you need to be, you need to kind of commune with the spirits to really discover what's true. This is Plato, right? If you go back to Plato. You know, only the philosopher king knows the real truth. Only the philosophers see the sun. We all live in a cave. We see shadows. We don't really know what's good for us. We don't know how to live. So the philosopher needs to tell us how to live. And it's okay for him to force us how to live because it's better for us. So we should embrace the force inflicted on us. And if you think about every authoritarian regime, it's always, well, we know what's good for you. You don't know what's good for you. So again, how do you challenge that philosophically? You have to, you have to change the terms of the debate. So what I ran does, what I ran, why I ran, I think is the most important philosopher of the last 2000 years. And I think the most important thinker in all of these realms is because she challenges that assumption that you can't think for yourself. She challenges the idea that you can't figure out what's good for you. And then she challenges the whole morality of sacrifice or selflessness of other people. And she's the first philosopher in a comprehensive systematic way to actually challenge the conventional wisdom, the conventional approach, which I think conventional is statism, conventional is socialism, conventional is other people making decisions for you.


Today we're talking about the importance of mindfulness for entrepreneurs here on the journey So as an entrepreneur you have a million things to be concerned about you have bills you have employees you have products Yeah, we've all had those days when you're running around all day crazy, and you're done at the end of the day And you're like what did I get done today? I mean your day was just so hectic Mindfulness is really important for not only taking care of yourself, but it's also a great business strategy Alright, so what is mindfulness now? It has been associated with meditation But it's good to know that mindfulness is not just exclusive to meditation Absolutely being mindful is being really consciously present in the moment Having a lot of intention about every single thing that you do and this isn't just a temporary thing like oh It's 10 a.m. Time to be mindful This is something that you need to have as a habit that you really put into practice throughout your entire work day So what does mindfulness have to do with being an entrepreneur now as an entrepreneur? There's so many things on your plate, and it's easy to be burnt out Well mindfulness can actually help with that mindfulness has a ton of great benefits starting with improving your health I mean as an entrepreneur you can't really take a ton of sick days So it's really important for that in maintaining certain health benefits Also mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress lower your heart rate Even your blood pressure it can improve your sleep or even boost your immune system It also helps fight anxiety and depression You know as someone who's constantly go go go have a lot of stress in your day-to-day activities So it's a great way to help combat that anxiety and stress and depression It also helps cognitive ability as an entrepreneur You're gonna have some issues you're gonna have to work through so being able to problem solve and be analytical It's gonna be important and you can't do that with a foggy brain One study even found that even just a 10-minute daily practice help result in more efficient cognition Say that three times fast. It also helps to battle burnout You work a lot of hours. You have so much on your plate. It can be taxing So having a more mindful practice throughout your day can help avoid all of that Basically it helps with everything so why not? So you know why it's important you know all the benefits but Sam How do we actually do this? Where do we start? Well, you can start by just scheduling your day Embracing routine and making sure that you have some structure. It can reduce anxiety and it's good for your overall Of course help, but making sure that things get done efficiently There's something so peaceful about just having your day planned out like that is the greatest feeling You know what to expect Exactly and don't forget to also include some breaks or maybe some non-work things in there as well Like hey, I'm gonna be eating from this time and then you know gonna take this five-minute break here. I'm commuting here Exactly. It's really important to think about all those things so that they don't surprise you and then all of a sudden You're really behind schedule and stressed out and it's good to know when to stop You want to be able to make sure that you're checking in with yourself The whole point of mindfulness is to make sure that you're not burning yourself out So even though you have a good schedule you're being productive Relax no one to take a break. Yeah, I struggle with that one a lot. I know I'll get in my zone I'm staring at my computer screen for like hours, and then I realize that you've hit that kind of brain fog And that's when I know that hey I need to take a step away take a lap around the office go outside take a little nature break whatever it takes to Really reset your brain and reset your focus. I like to pass out taking that now Obviously one other way to be mindful is to create a checklist, but we're gonna switch it up a little bit We're gonna say create an anti checklist because sometimes when you have that to-do list If you don't get everything done at the end of the day You're just looking at everything that you missed But if you have an anti to-do list you start off the day with a blank list and when you finish things you add them to it So at the end of the day you see everything you've accomplished exactly. I love a good to-do list This is an even better way to do that because then it's also like a little pat on the back as you're completing tasks And then you know, it's great You don't have a whole list of things that you didn't accomplish that day So this will just give you that momentum that you can ride on and continue to be productive as you go Mindfulness isn't something that just magically happens on its own You have to actually put forth intentional effort to make sure that it does happen But if you fall off and you kind of forgotten a little bit about that Here's some strategies that you can use to really get back on track. You could perform a body scan So you just think about how you're feeling and taking it all in starting at the crown of your head all the way down to the tip Of your toes think about how does my mind feel right now my head and how do I feel in my, you know Chest my abdomen all of those things come together with that body scan now that you've done that body scan notice Where you're unintentionally holding on to a lot of tension So whether that's in your jaw or your shoulders or your neck Realize that acknowledge it and then release it next you can stretch Whether it's your arms or you're standing up and you're reaching up. That's a great way of releasing that stress You can also review all your senses. So it's a lot like that body scan, but you're thinking about those five senses You know, what do you see? What do you feel? What do you touch all that great things? And that kind of reminds me of a meet-up that I did it was like a mindfulness hike Not only are you just walking through the woods, but the person leading it was saying what are your feet feel? What do you see? What are you taking in and we even had moments where we just stopped in a place? look straight ahead and just focused on that one Particular piece and figured out what is in that area? It was a little different But I did realize that it helped me become more mindful in that moment in present Exactly and the next thing you can do is also breathe. So breathe in Hold it breathe out. You know all of that great stuff breathing is so important And it's a great way to really help ground yourself again So next be grateful one of the great ways of resetting your mind is just spend a few minutes and be grateful about the things that you Having your life another strategy is to acknowledge where you're at in your entrepreneurial journey So, you know, a lot of times we get so lost and I have this to do this much to do You know, I haven't reached this point in my career yet But if you take a step back and you actually acknowledge how far you've come you realize that you're doing pretty well The bottom line is entrepreneurship is hard. You need every possible tool you can get to make it easier So mindfulness is definitely something you can utilize to help you actually be more productive at work All right, so that's a wrap. 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860 daily vlogs in a row for you guys. The insights that I'm about to share with all of you on what keeps me motivated for the daily vlog, I would not feel comfortable sharing these thoughts with you six months ago. Or even, you know, three months ago, frankly. But after 860, I'm feeling a little more comfortable in my own skin. I feel like I'm entering into uncharted waters. I don't know, frankly, very many people who have done what I've done, and I'm not trying to toot my own horn. I'm just pointing out facts and reality and experience blowing my mind blowing my mind. We keep moving forward, folks. More subscribers keep coming on board. It's getting a little exciting, but I'm not getting too excited because I remember where I was six months ago, or 12 months ago, or 18 months ago, and what I'm about to share with you as far as what keeps me motivated to film, edit, and publish a daily vlog, I would not feel comfortable sharing these insights with you six months ago, or even three months ago. Because frankly, it takes time. It takes experience. You gotta build up your repertoire, and your grit, and your dedication before you can start spitting out onto the YouTube thoughts and ideas about what it takes to make a daily vlog. Like if you don't have the facts to back it up, not many people are gonna believe you. And so, what I'm about to share with you is not earth-shattering, it really isn't, but it has helped me make it through. 260. Vlogs. In a row. Ain't a row. No breaks. Okay? So, here's the first one. Do it for others. Simple. Simple. Simple. Or is it? Or is it? Do it for people that you love, that you really, really know and love.  I'm sorry. That's sometimes how life works is if you get into your own brain too much and you're thinking about the daily video too much and how long it takes and how much work it is every single day, you might go a little stir crazy. And so after about 60 days, so way back in 2016, I clicked on my brain, wait a minute, I cannot do this every day for me. I gotta do this for somebody else. And for me, that's easy because I got the family. You may not have a family yet, you know, you may not have a family yet, but find someone in your life that you can frankly dedicate your videos to, your vlogging to. It helps so much. And I know that's kind of deep or intense, but I'm telling you, do it for others and your motivation will go, it'll go up. It'll go up. It may not go through the roof, but it will go up. I promise. I promise. Number two, for the motivation to keep up the daily vlog. Do it for the other people on the other side of this glass right in there that just showed up on the screen. We do the daily vlog for you. We're fighting for you. We're waking up at 4.30 a.m. to edit for you. You guys inspire us. And so, what's my secret number two for keeping the motivation ridiculously high? It's you in there. So folks, you gotta build that relationship base. You gotta build real relationships with people through the digital continent, alright? That's what we're doing here on the vlog. And I would bet some big money that someday, those names you just saw on the screen, we're gonna meet in person. I don't know when it's gonna happen, but I have an incredible amount of faith that it's gonna happen. You hear me?  So please, if you're in there listening, thinking about starting a daily vlog, thinking about starting a weekly vlog, thinking about just publishing regularly, but you're tired and you're busy and you don't have time. Build the relationships with people on the other side of the glass. It will keep you going. I promise. I promise. Oh, I guess we go.  Put the stats away. Don't look at your phone. Don't look at your phone. Put it away. Don't focus on the stats. Focus on the consistency. And if you are consistent and you're bringing just a teeny tiny bit of value to one person, that one person, I promise, will turn into two people. Two to seven, seven, seven, seven, seven people, seven to 16, 16 to 38. You see what? It's a snowball effect. Have the long-term outlook on the forefront of your brain.  With that said, that is today's daily vlog. I know it was a little intense, a little different, but a lot of people have been asking, like, where does the motivation come from? Where does the passion come from? Those are my three points. Do it for others, specifically your loved ones. Do it for the others on the other side of the glass in there, YouTube, YouTube.  You know what I mean. You know the drill. Oh, man. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. Mm. You see beauty? Work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.


Timing is everything. If you miss the primary cooling season of becoming a product manager, it's likely to be game over. Most big tech companies start hiring right now in August, September, October. Are you ready? Hey guys, this is Dr. Nia Zili, the founder of Product Manager Accelerator at PMAccelerator.io. I hope you will transition from worker B to product manager and business leader. If you want to learn the most effective way to become a product manager, you should subscribe to the channel, hit the bell button so that you notify every time I post a new video every Wednesday. If you like any of the tips we share today, please make sure to hit the like button, share with any of our managers and out there. Please also check out behind-the-scenes stories on our Instagram channel right here. I've helped hundreds of people lending the DreamTM job offer. Even if lots of you guys knowing that a recession may come and lots of big tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple already announced that they are going to freeze hiring or slow hiring. Some of them announced firing people as well. However, there are still opportunities if you know how to capture the right timing to lend your DreamTM job offer. And even last month, our students already received offers from Meta, Tesla and these big tech companies even if they already announced slow hiring or freeze hiring. The secret behind that is that you need to identify the cash cow business and capture the right timing lending your DreamTM job offer. In this video, I'm going to capture the top three most important customer segmentations and different timings you need to pay close attention to so that you are able to lend your DreamTM job offer. We're going to specifically talk about the fresh graduate and MBA categories and also meet career and finally be executive. First of all, if you are a fresh graduate or MBA student, the most important timing for you is to understand the recruiting season for big tech companies such as fan companies and Google Meta, Amazon, Apple. All of those will start hiring fresh graduate or current MBA students starting from August and majority of the offers will be given out around September and October. For example, this is the offers our students received last year who received Microsoft fresh graduate entry-level PM offer at the end of September and that person is only an undergrad. We also have people who were MBA student who received the offer from Amazon as senior product manager. His offer was given in the first week of October last year.  For example, Meta's RPM program already opened the application as we're filming this video. So starting from August, lots of big tech companies will accept entry-level PM positions such as APM positions right now. So therefore, if you are a fresh graduate, I want you to immediately get your resume ready and apply for these big tech companies out there. You can directly go to this website and download the Peter PM resume template which has been used by over 7,000 product managers out there. I don't want you to miss the most important primary recruiting season. If you're not interested in these kind of big tech companies, you can still apply for startups. But startups' recruiting season also starts around this time, but they're more flexible because startups, they're hiring people all year round and it's mainly based on the business needs and also the funding rounds. But in general, if you're a fresh graduate or MBA, pay close attention to the upcoming three months, August, September, and October. Around September and October, lots of companies will start to give out offers. For example, last year, by the end of September, we have student receiving offers from Microsoft. So get ready for your upcoming interviews. Now, let's talk about mid-career for people who transition into product management with a few years' work experience. For example, you might be a consultant with five years' experience. You might be a software engineer with two years' experience. You also may be a data scientist with five years' experience. And all of you guys, you can transition into product management for sure, but when you apply for these big tech companies, if you already have years of work experience, you are not going to be qualified for those 8 p.m. positions. You will be qualified for product manager positions or even senior p.m. positions if you know how to repackage your prior experience. In the past video right here, I talked about using the product portfolio to highlight your past experience and identify the trend for skills to become a product manager. You study the product portfolio strategy immediately so that you'll be qualified for even senior p.m. position. The senior p.m. hire and the timing will be between August, September, October and November as well. So it's not as urgent as someone who is currently fresh out of school, but majority of the companies, they're experienced hire. The offers will also be given all the way until Thanksgiving. And some offers might be given in December, but I want you guys to focus on landing your dream p.m. job offer before Thanksgiving. Primary offer season assails around September and October. If you do not see any offers or good leads by the beginning of November, I'll be worried. My dad is in my video the whole time, but it's okay. The third categories are executives. If you are principal p.m., director product or someone who wants to upgrade to VP of product, those kind of positions, your timing varies significantly from everyone else because your timing really depends on the structured growth of the company and also when do they prove the budget. You might be hired to lead a major organization of the company. If you are product executive is very critical, you understand that majority of the direct level positions are not post online and majorities of senior level positions are getting recruited directly through the recruiting agency or student protein methodology. And the timing of landing executive offers, it really depends on the needs of different companies. For example, you might be hired to directly lead a new organization. You'll also be the replacement of another director of a big tech company. So in this situation, the timing is based on the needs and the budget of the company. For example, last year, we have people landing principal or director p.m. positions in like April in June. And some of those openings were also available all the way until December as well. So if you're senior executives, I want you to immediately look up different kind of networking resources to start landing your next executive offer as well. By now, you probably want to ask me Nancy, is it too late and looks like lots of people already get ready for the upcoming recruiting season. What about me? And the best answer is that it's not definitely not too late and wishes to be honest, the best time for you to study how to land your dream p.m. job offer is two months before you start your dream company interview. Of course, the second best time to get started is today. So therefore I invite you to join my upcoming free masterclass where I teach you how to land your dream p.m. job offer in 60 days and thrive in it even if you don't have confidence prior p.m. experience or a tech degree. You can go to the description of this video and learn more about the free upcoming training. Are you ready for your upcoming recruiting season and what's your dream company? Please comment below and let me know. I love to hear your significant achievement and success stories. Feel free to hit the like button, share this video with anybody who is actively looking for a p.m. job. This is Stockton NCT. I'm going to see you next time. Bye.


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Alright guys, we're recording. Let me allow Alex to talk. Yo, Alex. What's up, buddy? I can hear you, man What's up, man? Can everyone else hear me guys? Can you hear Alex? Nice nice, dude. What's up, man? How's that? How's New Jersey, man? It sucks, man.  Oh dude sign me up bro.  Nothing but fur coats and rape by Uncle Sam You got no idea, bro Bro, so should we do should we talk about this gene for a second? This is like I feel like there's so many new traders just getting slaughtered in this market, man Because they're just not respecting like bro. Talk about how Unbelievably simple yet effective zombie. I lost money on it today, man I shorted the three I short and 350 topped out early in the morning. I remember bro 330 and I said my stop is 360. Yeah, this was it.  I would have lost triple my money. I'm the bro on the same check this out I was shorting right here outer lines. I think I started in 310 to 3. I think I hit like 325 I stopped out right here at about 340.   This is called a time level line If I if I scroll out, so hold on one sec My computer's being glitchy if I were to scroll out Look how much money we saved Or look how much money we missed by not going long at 10 30, bro See, that's the bullshit on it, man. Why aren't we flipping long, bro? Honestly, like how many members do we have to teach before we do it ourselves? It's a dude as long as they're nailing it at least like it makes us feel better because I get DMs all the time that people Literally do they just wait until zombie times and that's when they start their trading I get so jealous because I'm like, dude, I love that you're doing good. But why can't I do that? Shit.  It's gonna be like a UABS type offering Yep, but it is what is rose as long as we stay safe. That's a win too So this gene I don't care if it closed at six or 12 tomorrow is gonna be a great trade anyway Well, it's already up enough. It's like it's like guys when when something happens that I was saying this earlier You know, and I know Alex actually really taught me this kind of perspective think about it like this, man There are so many plays in the market if you stop out and you take a loss of 10 30 like me and Alex did today Dude, we know that there's gonna be another play on it now. We just want it as high as possible So instead of just trying to like find the top all day and be like, oh my god, today's the only day We're gonna get a move dude. That's the wrong thinking if you just wait till tomorrow, bro We're gonna have a sick play on this man As long as you can get the borrow that's always like the disclaimer as long as you have a broker that's good enough Aravind goes UABS offering is still a nightmare Crazy man, what about you guys you guys have any questions like how you guys doing this market? What's been working? What's not been working? Yeah guys, even if you have charts man post them and just ask for help man Like what can we do for you right now? How can we help you? What kind of questions you guys got?  I love it. I see you guys like we're a team here, right? So like if Joe can't make it I help him out if I can't make it Joe helps out Tosh can't make it Bow helps out so that's just like in training and in the real world You need a team around you to help you need a tab around you to help you And Joe was a little bit busier today. So I'm there to pick him up Yeah, man. That's how we do it man. So you guys so you show the members never suffer So you guys always have content you always have what you need Um ready player one. How do you narrow down your stocks to play on day one plays? Oh, dude, I'll show you mine, but Alex you want to talk about yours first? Yeah, I mean it depends right? So if I see two hot chicks on a day and one of them is easy to borrow an ssr And one of them is hard to borrow the hard to borrow one's obviously going to have my attention The less red flags that a stock has the more interested I am in trading it on day one Dude, I love that. I just to add on that guys a little quick trick that I do And this is more if I'm mobile obviously This is literally just a laptop that I'm showing you right now I have a main, you know trading setup where I kind of mimic this though I love TD Ameritrade just for charting, but I use DOS for trading right? So on the screen that I do have TD Ameritrade up This is what I actually like to do man. Check this out This is a really cool trick that I think you guys will probably like Because I don't think I've ever talked about this before I will put now of course I've changed them up since doing this webinar But I will put the strongest stocks in the morning on top. So I'm not guessing dude I'm not like wait. If I had to do a really quick glance. I'm not like, okay There's six runners, you know, this to this they're all mixed match No, dude, I want to do the weakest ones on the bottom or low hanging fruit that I want to play So, you know, as you guys notice like like camp this morning Because this was so under view up and so weak.  I just thought that that was a cool little trick that I've been using for years That maybe you guys might like to kind of help you especially when you're new But um, yeah, thanks Sean, you know, I hope that helps man.  So if you have little tips and tricks that can help Yep And what would what would toss you I sometimes I don't even know what I would do Who someone admitted man who fought jean today, dude? Let's talk about it. Who fought jean? How do you control emotion or ventrating when you are red on the day?   Just just leave it up to the broker man Seriously eliminate yourself from being even able to trade. So if you can't do it yourself, leave it up to the broker Yep Dude, I can't tell you about how many times in the past years, dude I was like chris. I'm gonna trade gene all day unless you cut me off cut me off right now And he'll be like I got you and I was like, thank god You just gotta learn from mistakes, man Yep All right. So I see a couple guys bought today. It's okay, man. Just use it as a learning lesson, but you know, just learn from it That's all you can do Um, and you're recently to video you said that you feel like you are underperforming this market Are you looking at big picture in terms of yearly gain instead of one particular month gain? Uh, so here's here's the problem man because like Something that I've learned obviously from bow and from other people is that it doesn't matter how much money you make There's always someone making more money than you no matter what it doesn't matter if I think I make money Someone else makes more money than me. You think you make money. Maybe you think I make more than you So it's just a losing like an ever-ending Never-ending losing scenario and losing mindset Problem is in the social media world that we live in everyone's posting their numbers Everyone's showing you how big their dick is and at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much you avoid it It's there regardless So sometimes I feel like If I'm not making, you know, 10 20 30 40 50 grand a day that I'm underperforming But then after I really sit back and think about it. I think about uh What my trading was like when I was trading that size and based on my personality when I trade massive size I find myself a little bit more depressed and a little bit more upset because I am stressed. I'm not really eating. I'm not really leaving the house My mind is consumed with trading my mind is consumed with everything that it kind of ends up hurting me So I kind of realized that uh swinging for the fences and going for the big numbers just isn't based on my personality anymore I find more Happiness from making two or four grand a day with my eyes closed rather than making 40 grand stressed and kind of losing my hair So going back to your question, um Uh, what do I feel like? Why do I feel like I'm underperforming or stuff like that? I feel like that when I see other people's numbers and then I realize that I am not comfortable trading with a million dollar account I am not comfortable trading with 100 000 shares again. I am comfortable making my 2k a day enjoying my day putting trading away after I have my day and just focusing on my real life and You know, everyone wants 100 k days everyone wants that stuff But most people are not willing to accept that you have to lose the exact same amount if not more To be able to deal with that and I'm just I'm just not interested in anymore Yeah, and this goes so beyond even just trading guys It's like again in life the key to happiness is where's your focus, right? If you're if you're the guy looking at you know cars all day, you know And and wondering why you don't have it or comparing yourself to people on instagram or like alex said You know these these guys who post 17 000 dollars saying 200 grand tomorrow Where's your focus on the fact that you're not them? So that's a negative focus if you're focusing on every single day looking at your own trades And being appreciative of what you have or the things that you're learning you're actually focusing on growth So literally if you're at a crossroads and you're looking left And that's all the growth of where you are no matter how slow it's still growth and progress Or you're looking right and you're and that's the path of comparison You're gonna die every time going right, dude You need to focus on your own journey and look dude bowels on chapter 64 of his life while maybe me and alex Yeah, he's definitely on 69 me and alex are maybe on 34 and guys some of you guys might be on chapter two And that's okay, dude. That's okay. Get to chapter three, man So don't focus on chapter 70. You know where bowels about to get to Just where's your focus man You with a 30% rule, uh, you mentioned that the 70% is when it's going your way How can you tell the trade is working for you and you're not on a temporary pullback to move? Oh, I love this question alex. I know how to answer this but you want to answer this Well, I think we kind of do it a little differently, but I so here's the way I do it glad it is is say I wish do we have an example today? Um Shoot I don't Shit, where's my yeah mbrx mbrx was actually something so let me actually pull up mbrx The key the the thing that I do every single day with outer lines So i'm just going to show you an example like I was shorting mbrx.  I absolutely top ticked this but when it got under vwap It didn't feel weak enough for me to add So I actually just covered around this area If this would have death candle slam gave me one of these candles I feel that that's a trade that that is just so Unbelievably confirming my thesis of hey, I got 30 up here now. This is a massive massive rejection Maybe there's a lot of meat to come down. That's when I'm going to start throwing on some size This was not one of those trades Then look what I did squeeze right back up because it wasn't convincing enough for me But that's at least how I go about the 30% rule is how convincing Is once it gets under vwap and how much room is left do I want to be confident? Throwing on or even doubling my size because maybe I only have 30% versus 100 Alex do you look at that a little bit different? No, that's exactly what it is man exactly Yep. Yeah, yeah, dude's how how much more can you milk out of the move this dude?    Are you done?  Who cares? Maybe you're going to be fine But that one time that you know is game only takes one time dude Exactly. So put your seatbelt on at all times to use a 30% rule use hard stops And I guarantee you that you will have an everlasting trading career Alex did you ever see that that new movie with christian bail bro? It's got to be one of the best movies I've seen in like the last 10 years man I give it like dude. I give it like a 99% but did you see ford vs ferrari? Of course, dude Dude, how sick was that? But guess what man that that one crash dude? All it took was that one day where the car was malfunctioning bro. That's the point of trading man. It's like Bro, all it takes is you bake in 100k a day 200k a day and then one gene comes you go all in and then you're all of a sudden Down all that money plus more. So just go back the same thing Let's be honest Alex without naming names.    It's great. But after you have a certain amount It's not really going to matter So you have to find what really works for you and for me an extra I don't know fucking 100k or 200k a year isn't going to change my life But taking an extra couple hours off every day is that it matters And that's repeatable for the next 100 years Alice can do exactly what he's doing with the least amount of stress for dude Literally until he dies like think about the guys Sweating and losing their hair and and aging overnight because they're swinging such big size and look this year Maybe they make 10 million next year Dude, what kind of cost to your health and who's to say they can do it again without giving back seven?  Yep, exactly Yeah, nail and bail man attitude is is a way of life dude seriously Plus if you nail and bail If you nail and bail You allow yourself to just stay protected because the longer you hold the more odds There are the casino the house the market winning, you know, this is why we have zombie hour, man Literally, it's when the edge goes back to the market not the retail short traders Nice move man, all over dude. When did all of her become a thief in the night, bro?  Shout out all of her man. I love it, dude. He's really doing good, man Very nice brother very nice I love it man. I love it What else brother? Dude, I'm telling you right now, man. I uh Thinking about uh, I think I'm going for a drive.  It's um, it's uh, what is it?  So I'm paying like 60 Come on, bro Dude, it's nothing in the scheme of things. But oh my god, how can the labor be like I'm telling you It's like double just because the labor takes a long time. There's gotta be a mechanic here in m.  It's the Mercedes dealership.   I'm like here bro. Just rape me. Just give me my car back Motherfucker, that's funny. Just get a Ford fiesta I'm gonna Oh man, Ford vs Ferrari man.  Yeah, I swear to god, dude He would walk to the dealership if he could save $10 Be like you need a courtesy vehicle. Sure. I would love one. How much is it? Yep. Nope.  Is it is it cold enough to I'm taking some drives Rob chill and the the problem here in jersey bro is like when it's cold, it's freezing. Yeah, it's hot It's humid. So it just sucks man. It really just sucks But what I've been trying to really do is I've been just trying like go out At the close like to go out and like get some food outside. Hell. Yeah, man The outdoor restaurants are open again.  I went through some serious depression over this last weekend, dude This this quarantine has affected us man. It's like we are so blessed to do what we do But still guys, this is so against What human nature is to be cooped up in a bottle like man, it's tough dude and we're healthy bro And it's tough man. It's like, oh my god.  And I just I sometimes I have to go for a drive. I don't care if I go anywhere I just have to get out And it's like what I want to be everyone needs everyone needs a way to disconnect from the market and whether that's a family But that's friends or that's whatever that is for me. My way of disconnecting is I got to turn off the computer I got to turn off the lights in my office. I got to go for a drive. I got to Just do anything that kind of gets me away from the market just for like even an hour or two because I come back PM's I do a bunch of stuff But just for the sake of clearing my head for an hour or two this I just got to get away from this thing because if it's already on my mind 24 seven So I got to at least step away for a couple hours, you know Yeah, dude, I like to equate like pardon me like the analogy but dude traders are like horny teenagers It's like all you have is one thing on your mind 24 seven And once you kind of get bit by the bog of trading it's going to be charts, dude It's going to be making money. It's going to be p&l's But you have to figure out how to not be that horny trader and just focus back on life again And like alex said family and what brings you peace and bro. I swear to god man I I used to meditate like kind of heavily nowadays. I can't go a day with that I'm going to take two times a day dude for like 30 minutes. I have Tosh goes in the bathtub. He gets the candles out.   What can I get you? Uh, young adult, please Any other questions guys? Yeah, shoot me a link to the best bath bombs Guys any any trading questions or process questions or anything that relates to how we can better Anything that you're struggling with man specifically And let me just pull this up real quick guys. Just so you also have my point of contact You know what I guess I took it down, but I'll just write it right here. Um text Just so you have this I'll keep this up If you guys have any questions man coming into the club if you have any questions If you have you know any concerns anything that you want to see first, we don't do free trials, but I you know, I can send you a recording of this, you know video if you haven't seen or whatever things like that But um, we're gonna get you in man, and you're gonna love m. I see I'm telling you if you lost 197 in your trading today guys like why not just try to invest in your education And that's a whole month at m. I see I just don't get it dude. I just don't get it dude Like I just what like Like if you're paying $200 just six dollars a day For education that has been a teacher how to make thousands of dollars a day I just don't get why people don't try it or why these people are so As I know there's a lot of scammers out there. I get that. Yeah, so some people are shell shocked They come to me all the time and they're like toss I've gotten burned so many times in the past Can I try out m? I see for a day just so I know you guys are legit? I'm like dude How do we not look legit and simultaneously look I understand where you're coming from but no, dude If you're willing to give Mercedes 1600 you just plot an annual there. You can do it here.  So to me man, it's like I am only willing to help people that want to be helped I don't want to help someone that doesn't understand how Special an opportunity like this is. Yeah So at the end of the day man, uh, the people in this community the people in this club are the hardworking people And I am almost confident that everyone in here is going to find success if they continue to put in the work Dude, everybody wants to help the hungry Grateful guy that asks questions. You know what I mean?  I know you guys got a strategy, but I like my style But okay, what can you show me? No, dude, we don't want them in town We want someone who's taking away their ego and saying, okay I know I've done this for years and it's not working Let me eliminate all that. What do I need to focus on and we're gonna teach you the right stuff I am human, bro. I am human.  You're saying I know what to expect.  It doesn't matter what else happens Education is something they can't take away.  I don't think the stock market is going to disappear anytime soon because the richest people in the world need it I am able to now have a career at any if I want to stop trading for the next five years and go on a boat and travel Fucking Maui I can do that and I can come back five years later and get back to trading on a computer and get back into the swing of things You can't say that about Everything out there. So it's just a very unique opportunity that we had dude a hundred percent Although I would recommend alex after a five-year hiatus.   That's how it goes, right?   You really want to just figure it out yourself or do you want to kind of Skip the line and just get right to the front. It just I don't know. It just doesn't make sense Yeah, then the num the number one, you know fallacy of thinking guys is thinking you can do it yourself I I swear to god I can't say this enough and I'm not even talking about joining m. I see or or anything in the stock market I'm saying the guys in this world in any industry real estate, you know marketing starting a business online If you have two thousand dollars to your name, which is pretty much I I want to say the general Price for a major major course that will teach you something like our annuals 1890 That's usually the general price for anything right If you if you have two thousand dollars to your name And and you're like dude. I'm gonna do this on my own versus getting education That is the stupidest thinking I've ever heard in my life and again. I'm not even talking about m. I see I don't care if it is real estate or whatever pay the master's two thousand dollars to learn something you can do for the rest of your life The guys that try to do it themselves and don't fork over like a little bit of investment in themselves like maybe that 2000 Bro, they will be treading water and they will be the same person on the sidewalk when you run into them four years later Because they didn't learn the fundamentals and so here I want to So I was I was uh dealing with some computer issues yesterday So I wasn't really around so I was kind of late to everything and Just like everyone else should be doing I watch every single video that we create and we produce I don't care how many millions I have in the bank. I still watch everything right? So I do it You should do it. So I was watching bow's uh recap yesterday on the tv in my living room And my boy ryan, uh was kind of talking to me. He was listening to bow He's cracking up a little bit and he's like what do you think makes m. I see different than everyone else And I was like It's well number one is that we actually teach people how to trade believe it or not Everyone else doesn't teach people how to trade they teach you how to become a follower And to buy random shell companies and hope that they're going to go higher And what he mentioned to me was like yeah, that's definitely a big part of what you guys do But the also like the the most important thing is that it's something that everyone could do right It doesn't matter if you're black white chinese filipino orange You identify as a microphone. I don't I don't know what it is But it's like going to the gym, right? It doesn't matter what you are As long as you go to the gym and you put in those reps You will have the same amount of muscles as someone else and it's the same thing about trading It doesn't matter your ethnicity doesn't matter anything if you go and you put in the reps of watching the videos You will get muscles. You will get bigger. You will make money. So it's the same Fucking thing always man. It's this is uh This is a really really really top Industry because the earning potential is unlimited man if I wanted me with enough dedication enough hard work and enough money I could make a billion dollars in the market if I really want it because there's no cap I'm not saying I have the talent to do that But the opportunity potential is there.    It's like It's people always see the numbers people always see the the success. They'll see the cars.     You're gonna become really really good at it The problem is that most people don't last in this game for this long because they don't follow the rules, right?  It's like guys It's just no one second. There's someone outside revving outside my house. I want Is it Pete? I don't know tell Pete. I said hi Alex always has like a flock of people in his house man.   He's out of there. He's back to the hardware store Oh man, I think did we get all the questions You guys I see friends. I think we got all the questions Guys if we missed just type it again, but uh, if you didn't get your questions answered, but Yeah, man, again, dude, this this is not rocket science It's we're very much ordinary people Um bow's the perfect example of that man. He likes to have fun. He likes to drink He likes to do his thing.  Give me the what do you mean, dude? It's being taught. There is no secret so we are teaching the secret sauce like The secret sauce is hard work, man If Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan didn't show you that it's like, I don't know who can dude The secret sauce is nothing other than hard work What will tomorrow's hot chick be? Well, I don't have a crystal ball, but CPTA hopefully it's CPTA let this go to five No, dude, I honestly, I hope junior even goes hired man I want this to like I want this to go to like 15 and offer us some serious meat to come down If this held right here though, we've got some outer lines tomorrow, which I'll be excited about but um Yeah, so that's just part of it man. And then you know again like what's on radar for tomorrow at our lines, right? It's like what are we looking at we're looking at We're looking at mbrx for tomorrow. We're looking at gene. We're looking at immp. We're looking at camp We're looking at CPTA already If you guys pay attention already we have five tickers that are on radar for a play today So when you know, you're a new trader and you're like, man, I don't I don't there's just not enough plays or this Dude, yes, there is there's already five potentials tomorrow for a great trade and all you need is one good traded day That's it And then you know, there'll be day one runners tomorrow. These are gonna be day twos There'll be day one runners man.  This is crazy.  Guys any more questions alex you have any on your end? Uh, I think that's it brother on the youtube side now Anything that you guys want us to cover before we wrap up anything that you want to know about anything that um Damn, dude, gene is really breaking down.  Yeah, we'll get it tomorrow I just man.   Everybody does You just got to have process man, you just got to have process in life I mean think think about that, you know, you know as the best process in the world Dude think about think about who has the best process in the world The tax man dude every single year We have to pay by a certain date and they give you a little bit of leniency, but they get their money Dude, that's a perfect process bro is like uncle sam gets his money There's no different from any other kind of process You set something up that works you can implement a set in rules where you get paid to do so And you rinse and repeat dude Become the uncle sam of the market Yep, I think that's it brother While you are on the webinar Austin is banking on gene.  I think midtown did really get on it too. Awesome job guys. Seriously If so, so we'll leave you with this guys. We'll leave it with this If you fought gene short all day guys, please look in the mirror and ask why Maybe maybe, you know, just just risk management guys hard stops max daily loss Maybe if you're not ready for real time, just go back to a simulator Do not fight trend if you found yourself waiting for backside and then you're able to maybe do 30 size. That's good That's part of process again I wouldn't have shorted this today After zombie hour for anything but but if you did just make sure that you're following the safest route possible Not trying to guess tops man because the first way to die Specifically with a small account guys is try to fight trend. It's the number one way to die. So Just be safe out there, man. There's a lot of craziness in this market It's in with somebody Alex awesome stuff, man. Seriously. Thanks for coming on dude. I'll we'll have joe next week and dude If you're filling up to it, maybe we might have to do a three way Yep, let's see bro. Let's see brother. See how you're feeling, man We'll definitely have everybody on the real estate expert show I love it, man. Thanks guys for attending. See you buddy. See you guys. Have a great week


Hey, what's up guys, welcome to a new video. So today's video then is part two. It follows on from my previous video where I showed you guys a couple of six-figure stores that will turn it over six figures per month. I showed you the products, et cetera. Quite a few people commented part two. They wanted to part two or follow on from that video. So thank you very much to everybody who did comment. So this is part two then. In this video, I'm gonna be showing you one more store. So a six-figure store turning over six figures per month. It's best selling products. The Facebook ads, it's running, it's store absolutely everything. And then at the end of the video, I'm gonna show you how I found these stores. So make sure you stay tuned for that because it's an important skill to have in any business is to make sure that you keep learning. And the best place to learn is from those existing stores that are producing those good results. So just to make sure really that you keep up to trend with what products are currently selling, what style of Facebook ads are working, just those kind of things. If you missed part one, make sure you go and check it out. I will put a link. It'll be the first link in the video description below. I'll also put it in a comment too so you can't miss it. And just go check those stores out really. They're quite interesting. They are both general stores. They were some pretty cool products in fact that I've never seen myself before. So it just goes to show that when you do do the research and you check out stores you've never seen before, then you will come across some products that you might not otherwise find. So yeah, make sure you check out part one. That being said, thanks for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed this part two. And yeah, let's get straight into store number one. What's up guys? So here we are then on store number one. It's called Little Style Shop. Just to show you kind of like a generalized overview then they have free shipping store wide. So they do ship internationally.  So it's quite a bold claim. But obviously it's a brilliant way of gaining that kind of trust and proof and kind of giving that guarantee to your customers.  The fact that you're offering a hundred percent lifetime guarantee shows you have confidence in your products. As you can see then they sell multiple products from different niches. So again, this is a general store. General stores do work. Don't let anybody else tell you otherwise. And then apart from that, that's pretty much it. As you can see, it's quite basic. And there's not really a lot else to show you guys. We can go to their catalog and see that other kinds of products that they sell. But at the end of the day you guys can go into their store and see this information for yourselves. What we're interested in then is we want to find out what their best selling product is. And we want to find out exactly how many units of that product they are selling. Essentially then as a whole, what we want to look at is their sales funnel because that is what we want to then take notes from and even replicate and use as inspiration to implement into our own store. So when I refer to the sales funnel, I'm referring to the ads that they're running, the products that they're selling and then the product page as well. So it's really important to have a look at the product page because lots of different stores use lots of different styles and they work for lots of different products too. So if we just use this handy little Chrome extension, it's called Shopify Inspector, 100% free. It's going to give us a bunch of interesting information that we can use ourselves. So number one, their Shopify theme that they're using is called debut. This is a free theme that anybody can install once you've signed up to a Shopify plan. It'll tell you a bunch of different applications this store is using, but what is most interesting is their best selling products and it kind of lists it from top to bottom in best selling to worst selling. So we can see straight away from this particular store, their best selling product is this Pastia Corrector. Now this is where this store gets quite interesting or at least it does for me because they don't really use like a textbook product page layout. As you can see, it's quite kind of just random and all over the place. At the moment, there's no kind of signs of an add to count button or anything like that. And then once we scroll down, this is essentially where the customer can make a purchase. So it's very different to typically what I would teach or typically what I would recommend. But as I'm about to show you this is what's working for these guys. And it's all about testing to find out what works. The next thing I want to show you then is proof that this store is absolutely killing it and doing really well. And that is proven then by how much traffic they're getting. So this extension is called similarweb.com.  But if we go across to more insights, it's going to give us a load more information that will help us kind of understand what this store is doing. So again, we have that information. We can then start to implement that kind of strategy into our own stores. Number one then is the traffic overview. As we can see, these guys are consistently getting over 100,000 visits per month, which is very good. If you watched in part one, the difficult thing with drop shipping is getting these consistent results. It's easy to find or at least it was for me that first initial products that did really well. But what I struggled with then was having that next product. So again, to keep the traffic up, keep the sales up and overall just maintain a profitable business. One thing I can tell you about these guys is that the fact that they're driving consistently really decent traffic numbers so over 100,000 per month. In fact, 150,000 as you can see was the lowest in October. And then these guys have gone as high as 360,000 which is really good. They wouldn't be able to bring this amount of traffic in without paying for ads and ads are expensive. So what I'm trying to say then is these guys are making a profit. There's no way they will consistently get these traffic numbers if they weren't profitable. Next thing is we can see where the traffic come from, majority from US. So if this is a product you wanna have a go with then I recommend focusing on the US. Next thing is the traffic sources, 68% is from socials which is a good sign because chances are these guys are paying for ads. And then where this store gets really interesting if we just scroll down, it will actually tell us what social platform this traffic is coming from. And as we can see, it's coming from YouTube. So these guys are running ads on YouTube. Now this is something I've started to experiment with myself because in terms of the e-commerce world in comparison to Facebook at least then it's not very competitive whatsoever. So if you guys do want some content on YouTube ads and the kind of things I've been getting up to and then just leave some sort of comment down below. So that being said then guys, we've seen the shop, we've seen the amount of traffic they're getting, we've seen their best selling products. Now we wanna see the kind of Facebook ads they're running. So I headed over to YouTube, I put Little Style Shop in and within about 10 seconds I was able to find their YouTube page. It's the same logo, everything and they've got three different videos. So what this tells me is this, these are the three different video ads that they've been experimenting with. And if you just look at the view numbers, so 180 subscribers and this video here has got 15 million views. So this video here is by far their most successful and this video here the chances are has drove the majority of that traffic and the majority of the sales. So if you're watching this video now then as a beginner and you're not quite sure where to start then in this video I've just shown you a six figure product I've just shown you a product page layout that you can replicate. And I'm about to show you the ad then to produce those results. So essentially head over to this page and replicate something similar. Don't use the same content, don't chop and change it. If you're serious about creating a business that's gonna be sustainable and make you lots of money then you have to be original, you have to create your own content and you have to do things from scratch. It's just gonna come across as so much more professional and you're not gonna run the risk of receiving some sort of cease and desist or getting your Facebook ad account banned. So that being said then guys, that is the Facebook ad. That is pretty much everything I wanted to show you with this store. If you want more videos like this in the future make sure you just let me know in the comment section below. I tend to go on what kind of reaction these videos gets and what kind of comments I see. So if you do want me to do kind of more store reviews and show you more products, et cetera, make sure you leave a comment down below. So that's kind of like the first part of the video done. The second part of the video is I wanna show you how I found these stores. And it's only gonna take me a couple of minutes to be honest, it's actually really easy to do. So I'll take you back to the beginning of the process. Let's go back to Google. And all you want to do then is just type in myip.ms and then space Shopify. As you can see, I've searched this before. And then the one that you're looking for is this one here that comes up with Shopify Incorporated. If you just click on that, as you can see, I have done before. It's gonna take you to this page here. And essentially what this is is it lists all the current websites that are using Shopify as a host. So essentially these are all the Shopify stores in the world basically, all the kind of active and current ones. And as we can see, the number one is obviously myshopify.com and then number two is copop.com. And what you'll soon be surprised by in fact is when you start scrolling through these you'll start seeing some big names, some home names, if that's the right term, some home brand names that everybody's heard of. So Jeffree Star Cosmetics was a big one, gymshack.com, I'm pretty sure most people will have heard of. On page two on VQfit, again, another big company, blendjet.com, which is obviously Jen Selty's company, which is one of the biggest kind of fitness influencers on Instagram. You've got Vitaliy Design, MVMT Watches, Higo Shop. Again, I'll just show you this one quickly. I've covered these guys before in another video, but this is one of the biggest, if not the biggest general store on Shopify at the moment. And these guys have been in business for, I don't know how long actually, but it's at least years and years and years. So these guys are consistently able to produce those profitable results. So again, another store that you guys should definitely, definitely, definitely check out. With that being said, then in terms of actually finding these general stores, and what I tend to do is actually just kind of flip through these every kind of maybe once a week, maybe once every couple of weeks because it updates and you'll see that kind of stores go up and down the list depending on how big they are, how much traffic they're getting. But when you go through these stores, you can kind of pick out which ones are like the dropship in general stores by what they're named. So for example, Higo Shop. It's quite a general name for a shop. TypicalGoodies.com. Again, this featured in part one, the previous video. And Typical Goodies kind of just lends itself to that kind of general store. And as you can see, they sell general products. And then the other thing you can do as well, which is actually really handy.  So you can go through all these different sites, open them up and just find ones that are actually dropshiping dog products, see what their best selling products are and then just go from there. And with that being said, guys, I'm gonna wrap the video up. I think I've been talking for kind of like 11, 12 minutes. If you're still with me, thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, please do make sure you let me know by hitting that like button. Any comments or questions, whatever you wanna ask me, I do answer every single person. So again, just make sure you leave your comment down below. Make sure you subscribe for regular content. Have a great day and I'll see you in the next video.