Hello friends, Joe here from Hacker Boxes. Today we're going to learn how to solder. And we're going to learn to solder using this cool little kit, which we call a badge buddy. Has some blinking LEDs and a battery and a switch. So not many components. It's pretty easy to make. It's a nice first start if you haven't soldered before. So first let's talk about what is soldering. So soldering is just melting solder, which is a alloy, a metal alloy that has a very low melting point. So we melt the solder using a soldering iron, a tool like this, and we melt it between things that we want to connect together, usually connecting them electrically, although we will discuss that there's more to it than that. We see things that are soldered all the time and we have the entire world around us as full of electronic gizmos that have components soldered on the circuit boards. So it's a big part of our lives whether we stop and think about it or not. Being able to solder is a really nice skill to have because you can repair things, modify things, connect wires to things to read data in and out of them. It's a really excellent hacker skill, a nice DIY skill. Once you get into it you'll find that it comes in handy a lot and it's one of these skills that you can kind of apply to a lot of different things. So all right, I thought I would start by just saying kind of big picture. There's kind of two things that we want to kind of keep in mind that are really important. The first one is pretty obvious and it's almost sort of a joke. I've probably seen these pictures online. This is a soldering iron. It's off obviously.  Okay? Always hold the rubber handle. So that's the first big picture item. The next big picture item is to realize that you always need more solder. I don't mean by that that you need to go out and always buy some more solder because you need to have lots of solder. But when you're working on some work that needs to be soldered, you'll find initially that generally you need more solder than you think you need. And when something isn't working right you need to add more solder to it. And sometimes that's counterintuitive, especially when we're trying to unsolder something. Adding more solder is a vital part of unsoldering. So just keep those two things in mind. The first one's obvious. The second one can be a little counterintuitive. It smells like chicken. You're doing it wrong. Number two, you probably always need more solder. Just don't be afraid to add more solder. Okay? So solder serves three purposes. And I think this is one of these important things because it's there's some subtle importance to these three different things. And they're different. And contained in the fact that these three things that solder does are separate jobs of the solder contained in that are some of the common problems that people have as they're getting into soldering. So the first one is almost obvious. It's that soldering mechanically connects two things. So it's almost like glue.  You melt it between two things and it connects them. You know, but is that enough? Certainly not. Because really often the main point of the solder, aside just holding two things together, is you have to have a good electrical connection. Something that current will flow through. Not something that will easily break apart and not something that actually has small gaps in it. So if you go at it thinking, I just need to get these two things stuck together like glue and you don't think about needing to have that really nice electrical bond. You know, you might be missing something. And the third thing, which is this is the part that's a little subtle that often people miss in the very beginning. And usually this is one of these things where when you get this, usually your soldering game goes up to the next level. And that's that one of the jobs of the solder is actually a thermal conductor. And what I mean by that is because there's two different ways that that's true. But the one that's really important is that it is the solder that allows heat to flow from the soldering iron onto the work. Okay, so if you don't have solder in the play before you even start soldering, in other words, if your tip isn't tinned, if you don't have the work, the pieces of work, meaning the wire in the pad or whatever it is you're trying to solder together, you don't have solder in play, there won't be a thermal conduit for heat to go from the tip of the soldering iron into the work, which is really what you want to do as well discussed. So just remember that part of the job of the solder is to actually be a thermal conductor. Okay, so it's a mechanical bond. It's an electrical conductor, but it's also a thermal conductor. And the second way in which it's a thermal conductor is in some instances, where you have components that get warm while they're operating. So maybe let's say a linear regulator or something. It being bonded with solder onto a PCB or or some other substrate can allow the thermal energy to flow out of it to keep it cool. So it doesn't overheat. So that's kind of a secondary way. But what I'm really talking about when I say this subtle thing about thermal thermal conduction is while you're soldering, you need the solder to help do the soldering. Okay, it isn't just a glue, it's actually a conduit of the making of the connection. Alright, so try to keep that in mind. So let's talk about some of the tools and supplies that we use a more soldering. The first obvious one is a soldering iron. So the really cool thing about soldering irons is in the last 15 years or so, they've the the price profile of soldering irons has changed quite a lot. Now for what would have been unheard of 2030 years ago, you can get for a price that would have been unheard of meaning even as little as like 2030 $40, you can get a very nice soldering iron. I know the soldering irons, you know, that I came up wishing that I could have had but I only had access to in a lab because they were $250, you know, now, you know, we get soldering irons all the time that are in the $20 range that are of of similar quality, you know, controllable temperature and very nice, you know, tips that that keep that stay very clean for a very long time. So that's that's a nice thing is soldering irons are readily available now and they're not super expensive. I mean, you can still spend a lot of money on a really nice soldering iron but you know, generally, what you really want is just one that has a nice quality tip that's that's replaceable. Although you'll find you might not actually need to replace it very much if it's a nice tip. And you need to be able to adjust the temperature because there are times when you want a little more heat on the tip or a little less heat. You also just don't want it to just always be some preset random amount. So, you know, really inexpensive soldering irons don't have a temperature adjustment. Alright, and another tool or part of a tool you'll need is you'll need to always be able to clean the tip of your soldering iron. Basically, I have to keep it clean all the time. If you're thinking always clean, the tip constantly clean the tip, you'll end up cleaning it a lot, which is what you really need. You need to clean that tip very, very frequently while you're using it. It's not just something you do at the very end while you're putting it away. So, most soldering iron stands come with a little little sponge, SpongeBob, SpongeBob Square Sponge like this, that is just at the bottom of the stand. Just get that wet. Some people keep a little bottle like a little drinking water bottle next to their soldering station so they can always just keep that thing wet when I'm going to run off to get it into the sink.  And then, as you get a little more into soldering, kind of like a style point tool is you'll, you might get one of these little kind of shaved metal tip cleaners. And these are pretty nice. You, you make sure to get this on the camera right here. You just kind of stab the soldering iron into it, scrape, scrape, scrape, and it scrapes the tip of the soldering iron. You can just do that frequently while you're using it. Every time you go to set the soldering iron down or pick it up, just kind of stab it in there a couple of times.  It's like a, I think they're usually made of brass and it's like metal wool. I think people call metal wool or steel wool. It's not technically steel wool, but these type of cleaners, the really nice thing about them is because they're not wet, they don't conduct as much heat away. So, so that's really good. Yeah, so those are probably the main tools you need. It's also nice to have some flush cutters, like, you know, these little guys, which are really very tiny. And one side of them is flat.  At some point you will, you'll come, you will want to be able to remove the residue that's left on a circuit board after you solder it. You know, this is called cleaning the flux. So you'll want a flux cleaner or a lot of people just use rubbing alcohol, isopropanol and a little very stiff brush and acid brush to just clean the back of the board. In the beginning, you really need to worry about that too much. You can, you know, just clean it with a tissue or just, you know, don't worry about it too much for a board like the one we're going to do today. But when you start making circuit boards, you want to be able to keep for a while, you want to be able to take that residue off. We'll discuss why you want to do that. So you'll want the whatever solvent you're going to use for that. Like I said, isopropanol is usually fine and maybe a little brush or something. And at some point you're going to want to have flux that you can deliver to the board. So flux is the thing that cleans the work. It cleans the surface that you're going to be soldering on. It also breaks the surface tension of the solder when it's liquid so that it can flow a little easier. So it's a cleaner and a flowing agent and flux is just kind of important. I have heard some people refer to flux as grease. So have you heard people say that? That's what they mean, but it's not grease.  A lot of people these days really like the gel. That's become readily available. I usually use the liquid just because that's what I've always used and I get a little dispenser bottle. Let me see if I have one of these. A little dispenser bottle. These are extremely inexpensive so you can have a few of them loaded up. And you can see the flux that I have in there is a liquid. So you're going to want some flux. So like I said, there's a bunch of different kinds of flux. The most basic kind of flux is rosin. You know if it says it on here. It says flux on there. I don't know if you can see it. It's a very tiny. But for the most part, all the solders you're going to use, we'll discuss soldering in a second. They're rosin core meaning they have rosin flux inside the solder. So when you're using the solder, it's kind of auto-fluxing. It's self-fluxing. So you don't need to apply flux from a pen or a bottle. But as you get a little more advanced in soldering, you're going to want to have flux. But you know for the very beginning, using the flux that's inside the solder is totally acceptable. You'll be able to get away with doing a lot of work just using the flux that's inside the solder. But I'll speak more to that in a minute. There are some things you have to keep in mind when you're using the flux in the solder. So that flux is what leaves a residue on the board sometimes. And it's when you're done soldering and you might want to clean that off. Because the way the flux cleans the surface is it's usually an acid. It's not a super strong acid, but it's acidic. And if you leave it on there, you know, it's great when you're trying to solder because it'll clean the oxidation and dirt and oils off of the work so that your solder will flow. But if you leave it sitting on there for a long time, it might eat into the board a little bit or pit the surface. And plus it just usually looks a little yucky. So it's kind of nice to clean it off. But for your first few projects and certainly for this soldering this first batch, but you don't worry about that. But just know what flux is at the point where you want to start cleaning flux or using a separately applied flux other than just the flux core and the solder. It will come to your mind that Oh, I want this other thing and just, you know, worry about it then. Okay, you don't need to worry about that for right now. So, but yeah, so as far as the solder goes, there's a lot of different options when it comes to solder. The basic options are tin lead alloy and just basic six. A lot of people call it 60 40, although there's slight variations. They're not always exactly 60 40 60%. I think it's 60% lead 40% tin or it might be the other way around. I'm not sure, but let's see. I might tell us on here. 60% tin 40% lead. That's kind of the basic solder. It has a, you know, like I said, it has a flux core in it. And this one right here, you can see it's very, it's fairly thin. This is a 0.6 millimeter solder. I usually get 0.6 or 0.8 millimeter. I've used one millimeter before too. That's fine as well. But you generally want something that's fairly thin. If it's too thin, when you're soldering something larger, like a connector or something or something that has like a big heat pad or something, you'll find that you need to use a long length of it. That's not a big deal. Just use a little more. Some people like to have a thicker one for doing stuff like that and then the thinner one for doing smaller work. That's not nothing you really need to worry about right now. One thing I do want to comment on is a lot of people get caught up in the lead free solder. And of course some talk about safety in a little bit. Lead is potentially toxic substance. So if you're concerned about it, you can use lead free solder. I don't. Most people that are really into soldering really hate lead free solder. It has a much higher melting point. It's very annoying to work with. It's really hard to rework. It's just not the best thing in the world.  So, you know, you don't get lead inside of you by simply by touching it. You have to touch it and then lick your hands or you have to chew on the thing that has the lead on it. Lead doesn't just float up in the air.  That's not my expertise.  It's just much, much easier to work with. Lead has a very low melting point. So anyway, those are the kind of solder things you need. Speaking of melting point, if your soldering iron has an adjustable temperature on it, a common question is, well, what do I set that at? So, I usually set mine right at about 350 degrees. That's Celsius. Maybe a little higher than that sometimes and that works out to about 660 Fahrenheit if you have an older rig that has a Fahrenheit rating on it. But, so yeah, just kind of keep in mind like 350, 360, something like that. And you can go a little lower if you're working on something really fine and you're worried about heating it up too much or a little higher if you're soldering like some big screw lugs or something that needs a lot more heat delivered. You know, and if you kind of sense that your tip is getting cooled too quickly, you might want to just turn the temperature up a few degrees. So, yeah, so remember that 350C or 660F will kind of keep you in the right range from melting the lead tin alloy solder. If you decide to use lead-free solder, you're going to need to go up a little bit and you can find the specifications for whatever solder you're using. It'll have a melting point, but the tip temperature needs to be much higher than that melting point. So, it'll usually have a melting point than a specified tip temperature. Alright, so, yeah, so temperature, soldering arms are really hot.  Like, that's the, there's a few safety points to keep in mind here. That's probably the one that we almost don't need to mention. I mean, we're melting metal. Of course, it's hot. Don't stick your fingers in it. Don't clean it on your tongue. Don't, all those things, right? So, just remember it's hot. Okay? The next safety point, we're going to have four safety points. The first one is heat.  Alright?   Don't start a fire. Just remember it's hot. Heat. The first one is heat. Okay? Number one heat. Number two are fumes. Okay? And a lot of people think this has something to do with the lead. It doesn't. It's when you're soldering, there's that rosin core in there and the flux, that rosin core, it will gas off. It'll make kind of a smoky smoke. And you don't want to breathe that. Alright? So, you want to have a little, what I have on my workstation is I actually just have a small fan and it just kind of blows into the corner because that smoke, that residue, it'll, it'll, it'll settle very quickly. So, if you just blow it away from your work, that's probably fine. I don't recommend this, but I've actually noticed even with my fan on just because I've been soldering for so long. When I solder, every once in a while, I'll just go and I'll just blow the smoke away. If the smoke is rising up into my face, I don't want to inhale it. So, I just and then I inhale, probably not smart, probably not safe. Just keep the fan on. You can buy a really nice little fume extractor hood that has a little like a filter. I think it's a charcoal filter in it that keeps the, gets the soot trapped and it's very nice. So, if you're going to solder a lot, you might want to get one of those. You don't want to be breathing those fumes. Okay? So, number one was heat. Number two was fumes. Number three is lead. We already talked about the lead. So, when you're soldering with lead solder, lead can get on your hands just like, you know, if you were touching a lead pipe or something like that. Also, little bits of lead break off. I think it's called dross and, you know, maybe even, they're almost microscopic.  That stuff is called dross.  That is particularly a problem for children. So, if you're soldering in an area where there are children, you want to clean that lead up. Like, so, all right, after you work with leaded solder, you need to wash your hands. Okay? And this isn't a hand sanitizer situation because this is not, you're not trying to kill bacteria or something.  Okay?  That's not cool. You don't want to get lead inside you. You do not want a child getting lead inside them. Okay? It's not that big of a deal.  Just wipe it up with a wet wipe, wash your hands, clean it up, just keep it clean. Don't get this lead around the place. Wash your hands after you work with lead and solder. All right. So heat, fumes, lead, right? Those are three things. And then this last one is huge because people just don't think about it that much, but please wear safety goggles.   Well, that doesn't sound nice if it hits you in the eye, all right?  Anyway, you probably want to keep both of them. So protect them, wear some eye protection, all right?  All right. So great. So let's actually get the soldering now that we've covered sort of the theoretical background stuff. I guess this might be a good time for me to say there's a lot of great soldering videos out there. If you just get on YouTube and look for things about soldering, you'll you'll hear mostly all these things I already said, but you know, maybe you'll pick up some other pointers and sometimes it's good to hear things explained from different people. So, you know, if you like soldering and want to get better at it, definitely watch some other videos. You know, we're only going to barely touch on, for example, surface mount soldering. So there's some great surface mount soldering videos out there that you can find. So that nice segue to our next thing, you know, I like to think of there being three structures for soldering.  There's through hole soldering and then there's surface mount soldering where you have a pad on a circuit board and you solder something onto that pad so it doesn't go through the board, it just solders onto the surface.  Today, we're just we're going to do one really big surface mount thing and that's our battery clip, but it gives you the idea what service mounting is. So it's a nice exposure for that. So we have through hole surface mount through hole some called Th sometimes called Th service mount is often called SMT surface mount technology. And then the third thing is just I guess I might call it point to point soldering. And it's when you just solder two wires together. You usually strip the two wires, twist them together and then solder them and making sure you get solder flowed completely into the joint. Another example of that kind of point to point soldering is when you're soldering a wire into a connector or something like that. So that isn't exactly through hole and it's not exactly surface mount. It's just a different kind of soldering. But if you always think of those three things, they all kind of work the same, but they all have little differences that it's nice to make sure you get some practice in doing all three of those. All right. So let's get right into this example. Actually, first let me just say so the basics of soldering are and we've already touched on this a little bit. So I'm going to say these things a few times just to make sure they really sink in. So you have two, let's say, let's say you just have two surfaces.  So but there's usually two things, right? The the pad and the and the lead or the the hole, the through hole and the lead the plate of through hole and the lead. And what you want to do is heat up the junction. So those both of those things, you want to heat both of the things you're trying to connect hot enough so that solder will flow on to them. All right. So there's there's a few things that you're trying to do all at once here. So when you go to heat them, you need to have some solder between the soldering iron and the connection. And this is not the solder that you need to flow into the connection later. This is just the thermal connecting solder. So you have the two components sitting together. So often what you'll do is you'll have the two components, you know, near each other in some way. They're next to each other either inside of each other sitting on top of each other. So you put the iron near them, get a little solder on it on the iron just so that that solder can touch to the work and conduct heat into the work. Right. So that's not the solder that makes the connection. It's the solder that is used. It's the solder that's used to enable the connection to be made by allowing the soldering iron to then heat the items up. Right. So that first little bit of solder you put on there, you're really putting it on the iron and it heats up the two items. Right. That heats up the work. Let's call it the work. And then once the work is hot enough, it's up to that melting point of solder. Then you touch the solder to the work, not to the iron. And the work will melt the solder onto itself. And that's how you get a beautiful, nicely flowed solder connection where the solder flows onto the work and is not just kind of being brushed on there by a soldering iron. All right. So again, you don't, you do not use the soldering iron to apply the solder. You use the soldering iron with a little preliminary bit of solder on it to heat up the work enough so then the solder melts onto the work. Right. So anyway, that's a thing that, you know, when you get it, when you get that really nice flow of the solder on something, when you have the metal really hot and then the metal melts the solder, not the soldering iron. The soldering iron merely heats the metal up. The trick is you need a little solder initially to be able to get the heat from the soldering iron into the metal or the work. So that's one of the main things you're doing there.  Your solder has your flux in it. So you need to be adding solder. I don't want to say constantly, but the process of making the solder connection, you need to be adding solder because the flux comes out when you melt the solder. All right. So before you make the connection between the two pieces of metal, then those surfaces need to be they need to have flux on them. So you have to melt the solder in their vicinity so that the flux gets on them and then that allows the solder to flow onto them. So the two things kind of happen at once, the heating and flowing of solder and the application of flux because they're coming in the same delivery package, right? The the strand of flux you're using has the has the rosin, the strand of solder you're using has the rosin flux inside of it. OK. And another important thing about that is sometimes when you get solder on a connection and you're moving around or you're still working the connection in some way. The the smoke that came up, that's the that's the that's your flux burning.   So now that now that flux is gone. OK, so that's one of these things where you need to add more solder because the solder has the more flux in it, right? So if you're if you're continuing to work the item, you only have so long before your flux is gone. OK, and then, you know, if you get to the point where you've melted a bunch of solder on it and there's this big mess, you need to take the solder away, which sometimes you can just lift it off with iron.  And and then you can apply some more fresh solder, which will have new flux in it and releasing a little more smoke. So this is part of that thing I said where you need to be always ready to put a little more solder on because you need the solder because it conducts the heat. You also need the solder because it has the flux inside of it and the flux doesn't stick around. You only get a few seconds to use to flux the surface with the solder. That's why, you know, you need to keep adding more solder, even if then you get to the point where there's too much metal on there, too much solder.  You're going to need to flux. And when you get a little more advanced with this stuff and you're doing a lot of connections, you know, really small packages that have a lot of pins, that's where you just want to get a bottle of flux and just drench the thing with flux or put gel flux on it. So it's all soaked with flux because then you can work it. You can move the solder around. You can add and remove solder and the flux is still there doing its job of cleaning and breaking the surface tension of the molten solder. So this is the badge, buddy. Comes in a Ziploc bag like this and there's some stickers in there. If you got this during DEF CON 28, we did some sticker swapping. So there's a bunch of different stickers in here from lots of our friends and members in the community and other vendors. And you see such as Hack 5 and Hacker Warehouse and just random stickers. So that's lots of fun. And, you know, let's say there's some good ones in here. Yeah, there's the Hacker 5 sticker. Couple Hacker Boxes stickers, Hologram sticker. Hacker Warehouse gave us these. They have some little camera covers on them to keep your camera safe.  There's a bead chain that you can use to connect the badge, buddy, to your lanyard or your backpack or whatever when you're done. There's a coin cell battery. It's a, say, a lithium battery. A CR2032. It's a pretty common lithium battery coin cell. That's the clip that holds the coin cell onto the back of the PCB. So let's get these things out of our way here. Solder these four items to the PCB, to the circuit board with the logo on there. It's the Hacker Boxes logo. His name's a bithead or circuit head, depending on which version he is. So we're going to get some solder out. We're going to start by tinning the tip of the soldering iron. This one's already tinned because we use it a lot. And then we're going to tin these three pads, these surface mount pads, on the board. But you want to always keep the tip of your soldering iron tin. Keep some solder on it. You know, it'll get, the flux will help clean it. And every time you see the soldering iron going off the screen here, that's just me cleaning the tip in a tip cleaner. So we're going to tin these three pads by just, you know, getting some solder flowed onto them. And again, we're not just melting it on there. We're actually, it's actually bonding into the into the pad, the solder that's already on the pad from the manufacturing process. And when your surface mount soldering, well, with any soldering, you really want to pay attention to the orientation. So this little clip is oriented according to the white paint on the board that's called the silkscreen. So the board has been silkscreen with these positioning indicators. And most boards have this. When you lay out a circuit board, you can design the silkscreen. So the silkscreen shows you which direction that the battery holder goes. And in this case, you could put it the other way. It's just a little harder to put it in. So we intentionally oriented it. So the the clip opens downward. So now what we're doing is we're getting solder to flow onto the onto the little wings on the side of this battery clip, battery holder. And we're actually heating the the clip up enough so that solder flows onto it. So remember, we need a little solder on there just to conduct into the metal of the clip. And then you can see the solder flows really nicely. It makes a nice shiny surface. So you want to make sure when you're soldering, you always end up with a shiny surface that flows neatly on all of the metal around it. And that lets you know you do not have what's called a cold solder joint. If you just dump hot solder on a cold metal, it won't flow onto the metal and it won't bond. And that will be a cold joint, which is mechanically unstable and can be broken off pretty easily. And you do you never want that. And that's like the most the most important thing to avoid while you're soldering is getting cold solder joints. But you can see these are nice, well flowed, well, it's called wedded. The solder is fully wetting the board. So, yeah. So the indicator on the silk screen for the LEDs shows the flat side. So the LED has a flat side on it. And the the the flat side goes to the short pin. So the short pin is going through the board. So that it lines up with a flat side on the silk screen. You see this right here. So this is an example of through holes. See, we're putting the leads through the holes. We're going to get them on the other side and usually just bend the leads a little bit to hold it in place. But then also we're going to set the board down on the component side down, which will hold the the pieces into place. And that's why when you're soldering, you often start with the the lowest altitude or the lowest thickness parts first. Because then as you flip it over, you can get the basically the table to help you hold them into place. And then just things don't get in your way when you do that. So again here, we're just flowing solder. We're using a little tiny bit of solder to heat up the joint and then getting the solder in there so that the the joint the heat of the joint melts the solder into the joint.  It's actually quite easy. And you can see I'm moving pretty quickly because like I said earlier, you want to be able to use the flux. And the flux will will disappear over time. So it's not it's not not smoking anymore because the the flux is gone. So while the flux is still in there, you want to get the work done. So you do want to move a little bit as quickly as possible without being without creating errors or making a mess. All right, then we're going to cut the leads off. This is where you need to be wearing your safety goggles. And then some people like to go back. I usually like to do this and hit the the cutoff part with the soldering tip again, just to get the solder basically the wound that was left behind by the cutter just to make it nice and smooth. But you know, that's your option. And the switch is also through hole. You can put it on the front or the back. I think since, you know, doesn't really matter. Putting it on the back means you don't have to see it. It leaves the board looking kind of nifty. So you just you can just push it through those three holes here. If I can get that stick in there, right? The leads are really short on that switch. And so here's a good example where you want to get one of the pins soldered. And then maybe just get one soldered here and then maybe check and see, make sure the other three are, the component is lined up. Cause, you know, while only one pin is soldered, you can reflow it very easily and move the component around a little bit. This is important when you're doing a like a chip that has a lot of pins is you just get a corner tacked down and then you can move the chip around just a little bit by just reflowing that corner. And then once everything's lined up, you can go ahead and solder down the rest of them. But it's even useful for just a little switch like this. There's a lot of play in those holes. You can move that, the switch around a bit. So it just helps you line it up nice and straight. All right. All three pins of those and that switch is just an on off switch. It just, it just opens the circuit between the battery and the two LEDs. And now these are not just regular old LEDs. They actually have a little, a little circuit inside of each of the things. They're in an LED, a five millimeter LED package, but there's a little circuit in there that actually cycles three different LEDs inside the package. So each of those package, while it looks like an LED, it's actually three LEDs and then a little circuit that will make some cool flashing patterns. And we're gonna get this coin cell open, it's lithium coin cell. I'll show you how to install that. These are packaged really well because the manufacturer of the batteries doesn't want them shorting out and causing any trouble. So they completely encapsulate the battery to keep it safe. Anyway, we take that and we flip the positive side up. Here I'm gonna show you there's a little plus on the top. Flip the positive side up. That obviously means the bottom is ground. And then slip it in there. And the part of the reason why we tin that pad underneath the clip is because the center pad actually becomes the terminal. There you go. That's a bad buddy. Nice, beautiful blinking lights. It's very colorful. And the lights blink quickly and then slowly in different speeds. And if you leave it on for a few seconds, the colors will get out of sync, which makes it look a little more disco tech. It's pretty cool. Okay, so that was pretty cool. So I said we would talk a little bit about, just give you some of the keywords about removing solder. If you need what's called rework, meaning something's already soldered and now you need to rework it or reflow it, you need to heat the solder up so that you can take the parts apart. Sometimes you wanna remove the solder, so you can use this thing called solder braid, which is basically just this really finely braided wire and it has a lot of flux in it. And it'll suck, if you just put it between your iron and a piece of work, once it gets warm, it'll kind of draw the solder out of the work. You can also use a solder sucker. One of these guys right here.  So yeah, I wanted to point out when I did that, a couple of little chunks of solder flux flew out of there and you do not wanna eat that or leave it where a child might eat it, okay?  Yeah, so braid suction. Just remember, you're gonna need more solder, either of those things you're doing. You need more solder, you might need flux. Again, you'll figure these things out or you get to them. Just don't be afraid to use more solder or don't be afraid to get some flux going on things when you need it or add more solder to get the flux melted in there. All right, so hopefully this is useful. There are a lot of resources online you can find about soldering. If you have any questions, hit us up here at Hacker Boxes. Yeah, and like I said, I hope that was interesting. I hope you're open to soldering some more projects. We sell a lot of kits at hackerboxes.com and there are a lot of fun things out there to solder. Even if you don't get them from your actual kits, just things that you might wanna rework or modify or try to repair. Like I said, it's a very handy skill. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for spending this time with us. Take care.


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What's the word y'all walk back to call game Kenny Frill whatever you want to call it I cannot believe we saw one of the greatest performances of all time And I am not exaggerated when I say that one of the greatest performances of all time was today and it was by an Undrafted player Listen, I think it was Shams that tweeted that Fred Van Vleet putting up 54 today passes the record held by Moses Malone For the most point score by an undrafted NBA player now raise your hand if you knew that most Malone was undrafted You're better than I am because I had no Moses Malone was an undrafted player the more you know the more you know We have to start off talking about Fred Van Vleet in this in this game And they beat up on the Orlando Magic game who are still fighting injury stuff We'll talk about them in a little bit But this game right here was so so very special man When I'm when I'm telling you this is one of the greatest regular season performances ever I am not exaggerating some of y'all may understand the idea of game score Something that was created on back I don't actually I don't know if it was created on basketball reference But that's why I found it where it takes into consideration the amount of points you score assist rebounds all the accounting stats Your efficiency and all of that and it gives you a final score the higher the score Obviously the better the performance and I was doing something on twitch last year While I was trying to go through every single great performance in NBA history and just watch it Fred Van Vleet after this game has a I think it was the 22nd greatest regular season performance in the history of basketball Can you believe today on this random Tuesday? We just saw history This man put a 54 point shot 74 percent from the field hit 11 threes on 78 percent Also racked up three blocks also racked up three stills and ultimately got the w Ridiculous and if you watch how we did I recommend going back to watch this game for anybody And if you can just get to the highlights get to the highlights man Because some of the shots he was hitting wasn't just open shots in the corner open shots on this man Was hitting Steph Curry range threes he was hitting it off the dribble and then it got to the point And and this is my favorite part about this performance at the end. I don't know if he was whispering to evan fornie He was like bro.  Can you just let this slide the man cut back door? You thought evan fornie was playing for the toronto raptors because he did not react whatsoever It happened two times for him to get that 54 and I was thinking about it like this If I was on the opposing team if I was a part of the Orlando magic Would I want to see or allow him to get that last four? Or would I be sending every defender we have to prevent history being put on us? You know what i'm saying? Fred Van Vleet is such a nice guy that maybe i'm like freddy You torched us all game take that easy four. I don't really know. I don't really know But this is crazy coincidence because today on my podcast me and my homies were talking We were talking about Cal Laury as a free agent because if you didn't know he'll be a free agent this off season And and somehow we got into the conversation of Fred Van Vleet because he signed his big old contract In the in the off season and I just posed a question like has Fred Van Vleet lived up to the contract through the first month of the season? And I think that most of us are like No, not really And I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that the toronto raptors at this point is still underperforming If he was still putting up the same I think it was 18 points per game before tonight That's going to jump up If he's putting up the same 18 points on decent efficiency We'd probably like yeah, he's living up to the contract if they were winning But the fact that they weren't winning um kind of hurts that but him coming out here putting up 54 is It's so ridiculous because in the beginning of this game It was starting to look really bad because I think The Orlando magic came out on like an 11-0 run Pascal had missed like his first three shots and they were looking for somebody to pick it up And then Fred Van Vleet actually scored the first bucket for them in this game And then he did not stop He did not stop whatsoever And it was an overall amazing amazing performance one for the ages man to hit 11 threes on 14 attempts is mind blowing And and what makes it so special is it wasn't just an offensive performance He ended with three blocks at six foot basically three steals And and I think um one of the homies because you know we do these things We watch in the games together all over discord or in the xbox party we're able to call it And one of the homies was like imagine if he was six six If Fred Van Vleet was six six with the way he plays defense right now at six foot in the way He scores right now at six foot. He'd be one of the best players in the league He'd be like an all-star caliber player just just by adding a couple inches to his height So amazing performance by him And this is a step in the right direction I think I say this every time the Toronto Raptors win because I think we all know The Toronto Raptors aren't as bad as the way they started this season not even close to as bad They started this season They're just trying to get it going and now they're sitting at 9 and 12 9c baby they be in a playing right now a lot of basketball left Um, let me talk about the Orlando Magic for a quick second. This is another game We found out that Aaron Gordon is going to be out for a significant amount of time They can't catch a break with the injuries But this might be a blessing in disguise Because from everything I've read and everything I heard the 2021 draft classes as stacked as I don't know when Um, and this this is a team that could definitely benefit from having a top five pick for sure And while you're at it, I know you got an inclusive itch But I would love to see more mobamba minutes Now I am in a camp of having a player earn his minutes and not just giving it to him because of something But it's like y'all wasted such a high pick on him Him getting what three minutes late in the fourth quarter when they were already down by a lot seems a bit Sense a bit bad right and from my understanding. He's fully healthy now. You know, I'm saying he should maybe begin more minutes But I know uh, Steve Clifford is I want to win right now coach when in reality They should probably be doing a little they should be giving mobamba Chumo kiki and co anthony all the rad in the world because that's that's their core right now Until they end up with this top pick because the way the injuries are going Them boys are hitting that lottery and maybe they hit big you never really know next game might be Um, the game of the year you ask jamal crawford jamal crawford asked on twitter Is it the game of the year and it might be it was the clippers losing to the the uh, Brooklyn nets today first of all they had the basquiat jerseys in the basquiat court It's just a beautiful match the court is even better than the jerseys. I like the jerseys But the court to see beautiful and this had this is game of the year Potential the way it was back and forth back and forth and it kind of was a chess match There's one of the first times of season that I can say I felt like steve um, steve nash Almost says steve kerr steve nash was out there really really coaching and playing chess. It was beautiful I mean the first of all they start off like dj you're coming off the bench for us We're actually going to start off the game with our small ball lineup Jeff green getting that center position and and it didn't hurt them as much as you would expect right You would expect them to get killed on the glass and and though I think they did get a rebound in this game I don't know how many of those offensive rebounds turn to second chance points And that's really what it's all about they they held their own on the glass again They they get outboarded, but it wasn't like by a dramatic amount and believe it or not What what was the real key to me this game? Of course, it was the fact that kairi urban hit so many shots kevin arant was shot 11 for 13 but james hartam I don't see a world right now where james hartam doesn't lead the league and assist this season There's no reason for him not to with the amount of weapons as the team has offensively There's no reason from not to but the thing that that really helped them out this game is there was a period of time where like Paul george are struggling and they were trying to give kawai the ball because kawai is like a mismatch nightmare for a lot of people And they were trying to give kawai the ball in the place that he loves it Which is like Back to the basket kind of like at the elbow sometimes at the block and james hartam was the guy guarding him Now nba nerds have been talking about this for a couple years now about james hartam being a fire hydra And one of the best post defenders in the league people don't want to accept it because you remember like Four to five years ago. There were so many of these clips on twitter of james hartam Basically just standing still on defense again beat back door He was an absolute terrible defender possibly the worst defender in the league back then But he's a lot better now and a lot of that is in that post defense So when they got to the point where kawai was trying to back him down. He was like, nope Not gonna do it Overall this game james hartam's defense was pretty solid and that's that's very there's very promising for them The thing that makes this team dangerous is not not that not the defense obviously It is the offense where kawai urvin was cooking and cooking and cooking and you know what the the la clippers have great defenders Right, they have kawai lynda. They have paul george. They didn't have patrick beveley tonight Which i think could have helped them potentially win this game um nix batumi still a positive defender They have good perimeter defenders, but it felt like okay whenever kawai got put on kawai after kawai went on on his own personal run He like all right. I guess I got kawai now Here kevin your turn Isn't that crazy No team is going to have enough defenders to guard all three of these dudes on the offense side of the ball If this team could just get the defense together The office is going to be there this this team has the ability to um to to to really outperform A lot of the good teams anything like when you when you think about when the losses they have They have two losses of calves a loss to the wizards a couple days ago But when it comes to them going against like the elite championship quality talent so far this year They've they've won they can do that now. Can they do it in the seven game series when you get adjustments? Things like that. I don't really know But it's very promising to see them be able to do this and and maybe those that watched the game Or maybe those calves game is kind of planned to the competition, but they showed out I mean it's something about national tv for the brooklyn that's I think they're undefeated on national national tv Not in not like the nba tv stuff. They're undefeated still this year And they can they can come out and play man again still worried about the defense a little bit But today was a step in the right direction. It's very promising to see what they did because Would a team have this many elite isolation players? It is impossible to guard at all It just is and you have a night like tonight where it feels like all three of them are on Counted as a ale but for the clippers all they're being said they had the the brooklyn That said all three of their superstars playing amazingly tonight And yet the clippers were still in the fight and that's even with paul george not necessarily shooting the ball well The clipper I told you I wanted to make an entire episode with the clippers like a focal point And I think I still want to do that Um, but they're they're on the process of having this crazy road trip right now five games and seven nights is ridiculous It's it's crazy and they just did this where they held on to one of the most stacked teams in the nba right now We're currently in in the process of seeing The most effective offensive team two years in a row in history So like last year the dallas maverick put up the highest offensive rating of all time Right now the brick and that's on pace to beat that from last year We continue to just level like like get the ball higher and higher on the offensive side of the ball And the clippers held their own against that without having a guy like patrick beveley Without having their bench rotation played that will mook had a good game But like lou williams still ain't really done that lucanar still can't can't really hold himself in the rotation I'm still super super high on the clippers man even after this loss man. This is not a bad loss Sometimes you get bad losses. This was not one of them for the clippers. They should be okay with this They should be I mean nobody wants to lose but this they should be okay with this They got another game I think tomorrow like I said five and seven nights, which is a crazy road trip Um, and then they can get back home and get things going one of the games the game that I did not watch Um this year or this this day was the grizzlies losing to the paces So I don't have many take away from this. Um, but the grizzlies lose this one. I mean, it's okay They were just on like a six game win is great. So I'm I'm guessing they're fine with everything has to end You know what I'm saying? I'm the trailblazer end up getting the win against the watch two wizards in a game where It felt like Gary shrink could not could not miss a shot Like I think and y'all know I'd be doing these beddings His over under on the three pointers were like 3.5 and I took it. I was like he can hit four three today He had that like the first half, bro And I knew that this is going to be a super high scoring game because it is the Portland trailblazer who are missing so many players And it is he watched the wizards who like one of the worst defensive teams in the league And it ended up being that it was a shootout was a dog fight and it was a fun game overall It was a fun game overall. Uh, denim do you have one of his better games with like the full cast? I know that we saw denim do you have a good game when like bradley bill and Russell us we were both out But like playing in the flow of the offense was good today We had more ahead his best game of the NBA season. Um And those are the promise of things when you when you talk about your younger players They end up catching the ale and then it came out today that like again I think I mentioned this on the last episode us fans have been trying to get bradley bill out But he is completely bought into the wash it was which is which is an understandable thing as far as like career goals because there are plenty opportunities and My short career or like I had the opportunity to move to new york I had the opportunity to move to la for work and I was so afraid to I didn't want to move You know what I'm saying sometimes you just find a spot like me in chicago right now And you don't want to move from that spot and he's building a family I ain't even building a family. I can't imagine if I had kids right now I'll be like, okay, we got a we got to uproot and move to another city So he's just going to work in dc every day until further notice The next game was a very interesting one because the jazz were up by 30 and I stopped watching I was keeping an eye on it because the other game the the seltzings and awards was so close and then the They say you live by the three you die by the three and the jazz almost died by the three because the The um detroit pistons went on a huge huge run where the utah jazz couldn't hit Anything and you had another good game from jeremy grank continues to to uh surprise us Josh jackson is such a great story so far this season and he had a little a little maybe weaker to um This season so far where he went like kind of tanked a little bit But now he drops to 22 they couldn't close it out They had a couple couple open looks at the end of it But the jazz I think back donovitz had a big shot at the end and that kind of put him over the hump and back donovitz I think the first time we were talking about them a couple days ago We were talking about the utah jazz I was saying that back donovitz really hasn't found himself yet You know, you still have to 13 points per game not shooting it efficiently since then he's been really good And that is scary that is scary for the rest of the league of back donovitz is now picking it up And they end up getting this win quality win for them. And then the last game Um, the celtics end up getting the win on Wardale, stefan curry and the warriors before we talk about the boss of celtics I want I want to say this to everybody. I want I want everybody to hear me And I got a I got a couple minutes to tell this story when lebron james Went to the miami heat um I absolutely despised him not just because he built the six a big three and Potentially ruined the league. Remember I'm at this point. I'm probably 13 14. So I'm a teenager Um, but because he destroyed my team night in and night out in the playoffs That's when I realized that regular season doesn't really matter too much because the bulls will always beat the heat In the regular season series, but always lucid them in the playoffs Um, I hated lebron in those hito days and and obviously things have changed significantly system And now I look back on it. Like I wish I didn't hate lebron during those days I feel like I missed out on so much great basketball because I was hate watching him instead of just watching him, right? I'm saying all that to say because I keep seeing people Um from the steff the steffen curry camp And the damia lilor camp go at each other on twitter Who's the best point guard in the league and they hate each other because both of them Both of these fan bases see the other as a competitor You know and and i'm telling everybody that's in those two camps that are arguing every single day between us and not Really enjoying these games. Please cut it out and just enjoy Greatness this is much ctv and if you're not if you're hate watching it You're not getting a full extent of damia lilor of steffen curry because of that You know what i'm saying? I think in my old age of 24 years old. I'm more understanding of just Greatness why it's in front of me. You know what i'm saying? So please please just enjoy greatness I know steffen curry them didn't get the win today But it was it was moments in this game where the man felt literally Unguardable and I would say kemba walker overall did a pretty solid job on him Especially in that second half But it's still steffen curry still has this thing where there is a shot that he's gonna throw up and you just have to Accept that it's going in no matter what you do they end up losing this game And I think they only lose this game because they don't have a center kevaluni ends up spreading this ankle They are already losing james wiseman because of injury So they literally didn't have a center and there was a lot of possessions in this game where the boston seltsie Got second chance points because um trishon thompson or dale tyson's down there get a bunch of boards It was an ugly win for the seltsies because of that like like jaylon brown didn't shoot the ball well You could be walking to shoot the ball well, but they grinded out this game You know win is a win at the end of the day one of my biggest regrets going into the season though Is that I didn't buy more jaylon brown cards I didn't expect this man to take off and be a bona fide all-star. I didn't I knew he's gonna be better I didn't know that better was like guaranteed all-star potential all-star starter So now I wish that I would have bought in more because right now I'm I'm gonna do a lot of more car videos by the way I'm a ps a like 10 of jaylon brown's rookie card. It's like three to five hundred dollars, bro And six months ago. It was not that And I wish I would have bought in this six months ago. So yeah Ugly win for the boston seltsie Fun game overall and that is my slater game. Shout out to freve and valete, man Keep bet on yourself, bro It's something that I live by too when y'all y'all about to see that very very soon in the next month, man I have a trip to la They could potentially change a lot of things and I bet no myself You know what I'm saying appreciate y'all call game


What's up guys and welcome to a new video. Hope you're all staying safe and sound. So in this one, we're gonna be looking at a few different Shopify stores and just review and then basically go through the good things, the bad things, kind of things they need to improve on. So it was about this time last week, I put out a post on my Instagram asking people to send me their store reviews. The reason being is I've been talking to a ton of people on social media due to the current situation and there seems to be quite a lot of people making use of their time wisely, getting involved, building a Shopify store and taking advantage of that 90 day free trial now that Shopify are offering. So if you haven't started your store yet and you do wanna take advantage of that, our further is a link in video description so make sure you just head down there, click that and then you'll get a 90 day free trial. And then once you have finished your store, send me your link and I'll feature it in a video like this. So there will be quite a few of these videos coming over the course of the next couple of weeks. Now before jumping to the first store, I do wanna say it's very important you do get feedback on it, regardless of whether it's for me or not, just make sure you get some honest feedback.  Make sure you get honest feedback from somebody who knows what they're talking about because before you start spending money on marketing as well because it doesn't matter how many pounds, how many dollars you spend on Facebook ads, spend on Instagram influencers. If you've got a poor looking store that isn't very professional that people aren't gonna trust, then you're not gonna make any money. So you must make sure that your store is ready before you start spending money on ads. All of that being said then guys, thanks for tuning in and let's jump straight into store number one. One thing I will say is that I'm gonna be reviewing these stores on a mobile device as you can see. The reason being is because last year in the US, 50% of all e-commerce, so all retail orders online came from a mobile device. If you're advertising on a social media platform, so for example, Facebook, then the chances are it's gonna be higher than this. So let that be like as the tip, if you haven't optimized your store from a mobile device, then the chances are you could actually be losing out on some sales. So the first store we're gonna be looking at is Flexifit UK, a very relevant and current store in my opinion to this time of year. If you check out the trending data for home workouts, then it's absolutely just kind of blown up since the whole quarantine period. So first initial impressions are, it looks very good, they've got a decent image. Everything is kind of in keeping with the overall theme of it, which is quite a bold and powerful look. They've got a custom domain, which is obviously a good thing. Some people run ads with still a.myshopfly.com domain, which is just not a good look. So overall first impressions then are very good. The most important thing we're gonna be focused on knowing these videos are the product pages. Now the first thing I've noticed on this page is they still have that by default, that tax included note. I remove this on all of my stores, there's no need to have that there. If there's anything on your product page, it's gonna kind of detract your customer's attention from what's important, hitting that add to cart button and just remove it. They don't need to be reading tax included and thinking about taxes. They need to be thinking about buying. Next thing, they've got dynamic checkout button, which is ideal. Again, I have this on all of my own stores. And then below that they've got this countdown timer now. I'm not completely against countdown timers. However, in this case, I would say remove this because it's not really in keeping with the theme of the store. Like there's a lot of white space around it, which doesn't look very good. It's wasted space. If you look at the kind of fonts and colors he's used, they're all very bold and brash and kind of in keeping with the fitness niche really. But then if you look at this, the text is really soft. There's different colors, different style of fonts as well included. So it doesn't really fit in, if you ask me. Bit of a layout issue below as well. As you can see, he's got the social media links, which isn't a bad thing. But all three of those need to line up nicely and line with each other. And then by default, he's got his subscribe to us newsletter, which is absolutely fine. He's got all the required pages too at the bottom, which is good at terms of service, return and refund policy, as well as a privacy statement. And then he's also got contact details in an FAQ, which is spot on. Now, if we take a look at the actual proper product page, which I assume or I'd hope this is where he's directing people too from his ads. Again, obviously I've touched on the tax included. I've touched on the countdown timer. And then as you can see, he's gone back to like the bold font and everything, which is absolutely fine. But everything needs to be in keeping with that. You can't have half and half because it just looks off. Now under this quite bold statements, he's got two kind of like, what's it called now to create a sense of urgency and a fear of missing out. He's got sale for a limited time plus limited stock available, plus with the countdown timer. If you ask me, it's just a bit of overkill. It comes across as a bit spammy and not very legit either. The fact that then I lined up central in the page either. Again, I know I'm being quite picky, but trust me, the tiniest details can make all the difference.  Trust is like the biggest thing that you have to overcome as a new business. He's got some pretty cool icons that kind of illustrate the different features of the product. And then he's got all the different key words in bold again, which is kind of good. Attracts people's attention to the words that are gonna sell the product and make it seem good. Now, general overall thoughts are that the product itself is fine. However, everybody has seen these before. Everybody knows you can go to your cheap sports outlet and get them probably a bit cheaper than this and a lot faster too. So if it was me, you've got to increase the value of somebody. You've got to give somebody a reason to shop with you and not say sports direct. And like I said, get it cheaper and faster. You can do this in multiple different ways. So after these tags in the stay at home audience, people who want to work out at home, so why not have some sort of bundle offer where somebody can get absolutely everything they need all in one go. So they haven't got to shop around. They haven't got to buy from you and then buy something elsewhere when they can just go straight to Amazon or straight to sports directs and get everything they need. So create some sort of bundle offer. You could include like a yoga mat maybe, some form of light dumbbells, people can use an ab roller, et cetera. Or the other way or something you could do on top of that even is include some sort of get fit at home e-book because it goes hand in hand. It gives your product a USP and it gives somebody a reason to buy from you and not somebody else. Moving on to store number two then guys is a store called InnoPalace.com. They've got a custom domain. They've got a pretty decent kind of banner image at the top with a slider option which is works well. So, so far so good. That's done all the basics correctly which would you would expect most people to do. They've got kind of like a little note there about who they are, what they do and then straight into the product page. As you can see, they've got the tax included note still there which I've spoken about in the previous one. And then what they've got here is they've got the different dropdown but they've got a wattage but then it refers to the different colors. If it was me shopping on a brand new store that I've never been on before this would be an immediate no-no. This is one of like the basic fundamentals you'd expect every store to get right. So, if they're getting this wrong then what else they're gonna get wrong?  Is it gonna be a poor product? So on and so forth. So, make sure you saw that out before you start spending money on ads. And then they've got kind of like a green outlined add to cart button and green text which in some kind of funny way it kind of works quite well because it is about sterilize or about staying clean and green and blue, those sort of colors kind of a sign with that industry that kind of feel if that makes sense then it kind of works quite well. And then at the bottom they've got our mission which is nice. They've got a double guarantee and again all the relevant and quick links that you would expect. If we move on to the product pages then just have a quick look at their images USB charging, charging your phone with phone cable while sanitizing the units. So the English isn't great on that. I would probably order this in fact myself, take some proper decent photos just to use. And then again they've got a lot of text in these images. Now in my opinion I've seen people do it successfully either way but I don't like to have the text on the images like that because again if you go into Amazon and look at different products they don't do it that way. They have it in the product description. It just doesn't look as professional if you ask me. Tax included, obviously they need to sort their variants. Add to cart, they've got a nice kind of security check out with trust badge. And then it moves into the product descriptions of different benefits, et cetera. Now I've seen this product about the first thing I thought when I saw it was is it 100% safe? So that's not the most important piece of information I'm looking for especially if I'm gonna be putting my phone in there which some phones now cost in excess of a thousand pounds so that's probably gonna be like one of the main things people wanna know. So I'm just gonna make sure that it does reassure people of that. Powerful UV light, more than just a phone so you can put your jewelry in it too which is pretty cool but again if you've got expensive jewelry you wanna make sure, you wanna guarantee basically that it's not gonna harm it or damage it. And let's see, only takes a few minutes. Key features, easy to use. So by the looks of it there's no kind of guarantee that this is actually safe for your phone or your jewelry or whatever it is which again is a big no-no for me. This would be something I'd be ordering, testing so I could make sure I could reassure that to my customers. To finish off this second store then I just wanna touch on the way they've kind of displayed their product description. You can see this bit's fine because there's like different individual points. This bit's quite good as well because he's got like the bold, the important bits and bold which again kind of separates it up and makes it easy on the eye. But then towards the bottom here and the key features I think what would work really well here is again if he did some sort of similar thing just to kind of people's eyes get a bit kind of glazed over when there's lots of information and there's nothing to kind of separate it whereas if you have like checkpoints or bullet points it just makes the information a lot easier to digest which is a good thing especially when you're talking about the features of the product. To check one final thing then before we move on to the third and final store I just wanna see what his checkout process looks like. So once you add to cart then it comes up with this pop up here. Now what I tend to do with brand new stores those stores that don't have that trust or that fan base, that customer base is when somebody hits the add to cart button then it takes them straight to the cart because by doing that then you eliminate one click that a customer has to do.  So instead of having to click add to cart then click view cart and checkout what it would do instead is just take somebody straight to the cart or even straight to the checkout process the quicker and easier you can make it for somebody to check out on your store then the better the higher your conversion rate will be because the longer they stay on your store the more chances are of them getting distracted by a phone call and app notification could be multiple different things. I just wanna point out too they've got the tax included and shipping calculated at checkout. I would remove this and put some kind of benefit there it could be like free shipping on this order just make sure that if you are advertising free shipping on your store then you go into your checkout language within your Shopify dashboard and you change notes like this because if you're advertising free shipping and then it says shipping calculator check how it doesn't add up it looks off and again it's just another reason for your customers not to trust you. Moving on to the third store then we have waxcalm.com really cool domain it's custom and wax and calm two words put together just works really well in my opinion. Really current and relevant niche or products as well for this time of year obviously people can't go out and get their wax so next best thing is to get products like this and do it from home. If you notice the colors and the kind of style of fonts are really in keeping again with the beauty niche they've got that products there in the banner image with the logo on too so again just those little touches look really good and then overall impressions everything's really easy on the eye and just overall they've done a really good job they've got our goal nice touches of information some good images and again all the relevant quick links that you would expect to see from an e-commerce store. If we take a look at their product pages then one thing in case you didn't notice it they've got free shipping on all orders but then if we go to the product page it changes to congratulations you've got free shipping so again that's just kind of like a nice touch it's another benefit that customers notice it's gonna be a positive in their mind and it's gonna help them make that decision of buying money with you, buying money with you spending money with you that much easier. If we take a look at the way the variants and the add to cart button is displayed again it's really easy on the eye the boldest color on there is the add to cart button which is always the best thing to do it's in keeping with the theme of the niche they've got some really nice in keeping truss badges there that aren't vulgar, they aren't too bold and brash again really in keeping with the theme the way they've used the colors how some are bold and in black and some are pink it's just really nice and pleasing on the eye 70% less pain, a plain less flawless wax experience opens up your pores, reduces pain, discomfort all the key words in bold which is really nice they've got an easy to use section so it clearly demonstrates how you use a product like this I still think if they could integrate a video of some sorts that would work really well too they've got some more benefits here no added chemicals, natural and healthy ingredients in bold, another positive, inexpensive save you money and time they've got an illustration of how to use it what's included to buy only the wax beans click here so again there's another, there's a great way of bringing people back onto your store and having repeat customers here is obviously you have to keep buying the beads they've got all this shipping times in a nice easy to consume layout to be honest there isn't a lot I can say about the store they've done a pretty good job so far now, saying that they are using the frequently bought together app in my opinion I don't like this for this reason it's not optimized for mobiles very well so if this was my store what I would do would be to have this app on my store for a couple of weeks see what kind of traction see if you get any takers for it and if you don't then just remove it one thing you could do is this product they're trying to add with it is offer that as some sort of upsell moving down they've got reviews by looks of it is the looks app which is just absolutely great fantastic, really good looking store in fact and if we take a look at their cart page you can see they've got the dynamic checkout buttons here the paper options, the Google Pay the Apple Pay options, sorry so again it's just, it's super fast for people to know exactly what they need to do how they can check out it comes across as really trustworthy in fact they have a big PayPal, big Apple Pay button there so yeah all in all a very good job great looking store and if this was my store now my sole focus would be marketing if I had to give some advice on marketing I think influencer marketing straight away if you could get a couple of these shipped out to a few different influencers get them to create some content of them using it review it put it out to their followers put it on your Instagram page it'd be instant social proof instant trust from your customers and I think you'd be absolutely flying great products, great store and huge, huge potential and with that being said guys that is it for this video that is the three stores I'm gonna be doing make sure you subscribe and stay tuned for another video where we're doing another three stores if you haven't started your store and you want that 90 day free trial make sure you head down to the video description and if you do want a course and you're looking for that guidance that comes with a full on mentorship and support and guidance from myself make sure you check out my Ecom Academy again there will be a link in the video description below apart from that stay safe stay healthy and see you in the next one


Hi, this is Helena Hart from commitmentconnection.com and in this video I'm going to be talking about why you actually need to let a man pull away sometimes if you want him to fall for you. This is one of the number one reasons why women come to me looking for advice. If their man has pulled away recently or is acting a little distant, I know it can be easy in those situations to start to panic and want to figure out what you can do to get him to come back as quickly as possible. And that's actually counterproductive in most cases. So I want to give you a whole new way of looking at this and a whole new approach to this situation because it's really common. So before I get started, if this is your first time to our channel, be sure to click the button to subscribe to get all of our videos on how to attract the man and the relationship you've always wanted. So let's get started. When it comes to why you actually need to let a man pull away from time to time. If you want him to truly fall for you, this really boils down to the way our brains are hardwired very differently as men and women. Typically speaking, you know, we women fall in love and feel the most connected to a man when he's right in front of us, for the most part. There's always exceptions to the rule of course, but in my experience and just in working with so many women around the world over the years, I've really found that to be true. We feel the most connected to a man when he is actually with us physically, when he's talking to us and looking in our eyes and touching us. And we get all those really good feeling neurotransmitters, our brain gets flooded with these good feeling chemicals like oxytocin and serotonin and dopamine. And it just feels incredible. And that's when we feel really bonded and connected to a man. And that's when we fall in love. But generally speaking, men are a little different. They tend to fall in love when they're away from us. Like when they're off doing something and they miss us, for example, and they wish we were there with them.  It's sort of a similar thing, you know, men feel more connected to us when they have some time and space to actually miss us and wish we were there with them. So that's the number one reason why you need to let a man pull away sometimes if he's taking some space for himself, if you really want him to fall for you, because that's when he's going to fall for you. What typically happens, you know, when men take some space, maybe they, you know, need some time to himself, which I believe is a really a normal, healthy thing. And you should be taking time to yourself as well, you know, in order to have a really successful fulfilling relationship with like two whole individuals that have their own lives, you know, outside of their relationship, right? So when a man takes some space for himself, typically as women, we want to close that gap because we really want to feel that connection again.  So if a man is pulling away, that's when we do all those things that actually keep him at a distance sometimes like lean forward and initiate contact with him constantly, asking him what he's doing or why he needed to take some space, you know, initiating talks about the relationship, you know, that's not the time to do any of those things. When a man is pulling away or taking some space for himself, it's so important in my opinion to really just anchor yourself right where you are and create that tension and that space for him to want to come back towards you. If you're always closing that gap with a man and not letting him have some time to himself, some time away from the relationship, there's not going to be anything to compel him to want to come back towards you. And he actually won't be able to truly fall for you if you're constantly wanting to close that gap. So next time your man pulls away, I would really try that. Just stay right where you are. Pull all of your attention and focus and energy off of him. Stop obsessing about him. Stop thinking about him unless he's right in front of you, of course, and put all that energy on yourself and your own life where it belongs and see how much more quickly he'll come back towards you and how much more attracted and connected he'll feel with you when you allow him to take some space from time to time. It really is a healthy thing. Now, of course, if a man is flat out ignoring you or refusing to talk to you or he's acting cold and distant because he's trying to punish you somehow, that's a really unhealthy dynamic. That's not what I'm talking about here. So of course, it's not about like rewarding negative behavior. That's a completely different situation. And if a man's acting really hot and cold, that's also kind of an unhealthy relationship dynamic, in my opinion. That's really not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about when men just need to take some space from time to time. They need time to themselves to recharge, especially if they're introverted. A lot of times that's what men need in order to process their emotions and feel the most in love with us feel the most connected. We women tend to be more fluid and we can process emotions and think and multitask all at once. But for men, if they get flooded with emotions, even good emotions like feeling really attracted to us or falling in love, a lot of times they need to take that time away in order to process that so they don't just completely shut off. So I hope that was helpful for you. That's really the number one reason why you need to actually let a man pull away sometimes. As long as it's not this thing where he's ignoring you for weeks at a time, of course, that's not a healthy relationship. But if he needs time to himself, or if he just naturally pulls away after you've been spending a lot of time together, I would absolutely let him do that. That's what's going to, I guess you could say, rebuild his testosterone levels. Physiologically, he needs time away from the relationship in order to do that. And that's what's going to make him want to come right back towards you sometimes stronger than ever before. So I'd love to hear your experiences with this. Feel free to type those into the comment section. I love hearing from you. I hope this was helpful. And I will see you next time. Thanks for watching. And if you'd like to discover exactly what to say and do to get the man and relationship you've always wanted, click the button on the right side of this video to visit our website. And I will talk to you soon.