you need regarding drop shipping, e-commerce, and everything in between. We here at AutoDS, our goal is to help you guys start your e-commerce businesses at ease because it is not an easy task. And by the way, this live, we didn't tell you guys about it. This is a very spontaneous live. Usually we'll let you guys know about it a little bit before, but this time with spontaneous. So let's see how it works out. Start joining the live guys. Start asking me your questions. Anything regarding e-commerce, drop shipping, using, of course, AutoDS as your selling platform, if you guys are using it, if you guys are having any problems with it, if there's any technical bugs, please use the technical support chat that we have on the bottom right of AutoDS. This live, of course, is to help you guys succeed, move forward with your drop shipping businesses, get more sales, get more profits. And in this webinar, I want to talk to you guys about something really, really special that's going to go on next week, which is our CEO of AutoDS, Leor Pozen. He's going to have a Q4 webinar. And the name of this webinar is the Q4 product masterclass, product research masterclass. What you guys are going to learn here is going to be different from the previous webinars, the previous Q4 webinars that we've had in the last few years. This time is going to be much different because you guys are going to learn about a new revolutionary product finding system that hasn't been seen before anywhere else. Let me show you guys really quick. I'll share my screen right now. I want you guys to start asking your questions in the chat, and I will address them in just a couple of minutes. For now, I just want to open something on my screen and show it to you guys, because this is really something big that's about to happen. Besides that, I want to talk to you guys a little bit about Black Friday. You know, on November 27th, if I'm not mistaken, we've got Black Friday. And all of you guys who are into e-commerce, if you started recently and you don't know about the wonderful aspects that we have and all of the benefits that we have with Black Friday, this is definitely something that you guys want to know in advance and prepare your drop shipping stores. Black Friday, we have a huge peak in sales. If I'm not mistaken, it's the biggest peak in sales that we see in all of our months, even though there is Christmas. But in all the time of the year, let me just share my screen so you guys can see it. But once again, Black Friday is one of the biggest events that we have during the year. Let me just share my screen. All right. Now you guys can see my screen. So the first thing that I want to talk about before we get on to Black Friday, and I'm going to talk about this again in this live QA, we've got a queue for product research masterclass. Let me fix my camera. I didn't even check it before I started this live. It's a little bit too high. All righty, almost the same. So if you guys can see my screen, I'm pretty sure that you can. I can see that you guys are already starting to write things on the chat. So I'm happy I will address it soon. And I have some people that have been on our previous live, so I'm happy to see you guys, especially you Omar. I will address you guys soon. So once again, next week on November 16th, we have a queue for dropshipping product research masterclass. And once again, it's going to be different from the other lives that we had in the previous years, especially because we're going to introduce a new feature in AutoDS. So you guys know about the AutoDS Finder, right? It's not the AutoDS Finder, but you guys know about it, right? So you know that the Finder, the reason that we have it is to help you guys save time on your product research for people who don't have time on product research. We created the AutoDS Finder for you. So we've got a huge database in AutoDS. We know what sells, we know what's working well for dropshippers, and we're helping you guys by adding these similar products to your dropshipping stores to help you guys sell with the AutoDS Finder. But what we're going to talk about, what Lior is going to talk about in the queue for product research masterclass in the webinar is about a new feature that's going to help you guys with your product finding. I cannot give you guys too many clues, but I can promise you that it hasn't been seen before anywhere, and I've tested it myself, and I was pretty much absolutely shocked by the things that I saw there. It's definitely going to be a game changer. You guys can have a little clue by looking at my screen, and I'm just going to read it really quick for you guys because it's really, really interesting. What you'll discover in our most revealing tell-all webinar ever. First, you're going to learn why you can expect to double yourselves in Q4 2021. So if you're new to the scene, you're going to learn a lot here. How to prepare your business for the explosion of holiday sales that you're about to get if, of course, you prepare your stores accordingly. The most profitable product niches and ideas for the holidays. So you guys will get the products, the most trending products to sell, specific product recommendations, the PGO 2021 strategy, plus a special surprise. We have a special guest in this webinar, and you guys, I cannot tell you about it yet, but you guys will see it soon. Our method for increasing store traffic by up to 150%, and it's going to be more than that if you guys prepare accordingly. And of course, ask us anything so you guys will have the chance to speak live with Lior. You guys have been used to speaking with me for the past few months in these live QAs, but now you will be speaking directly with the founder of AutoDS Lior. At the end of the webinar, you guys can ask him questions. Out of all this, I didn't even talk about that new feature that he's going to introduce to you guys, and this is going to help everyone in the dropshipping scene, even if you haven't started yet, if you have started, you're going to learn and you're going to utilize this new feature a lot. I know that I'm going to use it for my dropshipping stores. So quick sip and let's begin. Okay, so I want you guys to start asking your questions in the live chat. I can already see that we have some questions. I want you guys to continue, keep asking questions, and soon I will address each and every one of your questions.  So no one goes unanswered. Start asking your questions now and I will get to it in just a couple of minutes. So for those of you who don't know, this is our blog page in AutoDS. We have a great content team that's sitting down every day, working from morning to evening, writing down more quality content that we have here. Let me show you some examples of the recent posts that we have on our blog page. The last post that we had uploaded to our blog page is the top 10 Christmas products to dropship in 2021. So we're preparing you guys for Christmas with the best product ideas that we have seen working in the years before and products that we have seen trending recently. So use them for Christmas. We've got the top 11 UK dropshipping suppliers for your business. Here, for anyone who wants to dropship in the UK, this is especially for you. We went over the top suppliers that we have in the UK, the suppliers that you guys should be working with. And for those of you who don't know, the UK is a great, great market. It's pretty much, I wouldn't say it's untapped, but the competition there is much lower than in the US. Now granted, the US has more buyers on one side, but on the other hand, there is a lot more competition. You can still make great profits from dropshipping in the US. I'm a great example for that, but that doesn't mean that the UK, you will definitely, definitely see some great sales there. If you know what products to sell, if you guys have been around the block for a while and you wanna expand your dropshipping business and also open it in the UK, you wanna know what suppliers you guys should be working with, check out that article. How to find dropshipping products in CJ with using CJ dropshipping. I love that supplier. They're very user friendly. It's pretty much paying Chinese prices. So Chinese low prices for your products, but also using warehouses like in the US and in other countries, not just from China. So you can ship quickly with Chinese prices. Then we've got the top 10 alternative, AliExpress alternatives for dropshipping. So if you're looking for more suppliers who are not AliExpress, check out that article. Top 10 trending products for dropship in November, 2021. So today is November 10th and you've seen how many articles we've published since then, but we're preparing you guys for each month in advance. So the top 10 products for November, how to sell on eBay step-by-step beginner's guide. So this is a very good article for anyone who wants to begin dropshipping on eBay and you haven't started yet. I definitely, definitely recommend reading this article. I'm not going to go through it, but I just wanna show you the size of this article and the amount of information that you have inside. So if I'll click on the post content here, you can see the topics that we have in this article, but mainly you're going to have a step-by-step explanation of how to start selling on eBay as you can see over here. So you have all of the steps and you have, of course, a detailed explanation of how to start. So for anyone who hasn't gotten started, definitely check out that article. And one last article that I wanna show you guys is the top 10 Black Friday dropshipping products to sell in 2021. So of course, you guys have to start preparing your stores for Black Friday. It's coming up really, really soon by the end of the month. And yeah, I was correct by the date, it's November 27th. We also have a video that our social media manager nearly has recorded for the top 10 Black Friday dropshipping products. So it's right here, you guys can see it in the blog. And of course, you guys are gonna get some statistics, some numbers about what goes on, but check out this graph that I have here in front of me. Okay, so what you guys can see from here is the Google, not analytics, Google Trends interest over time for Black Friday. So as you see here, towards the, not the end of August, but let me show you, let's do a live view. Let's go to Google Trends. Just to show you guys, if you're wondering if you should get into Black Friday, this is why you should. Black Friday worldwide. So I'm going to check out the Google Trends for Black Friday worldwide and look what's happening right now. Okay, it just happened in the last month, look how it's starting to increase. People are starting to look for Black Friday sells. Let's look at what happened last year. When did it start trending? Right now I'm looking at November 15th from last year and you can see that it was at about the 41 points of interest over time. And from here, look what happens. It continues to increase until the 100. We are there now, we're starting that increase. Right now is the time to start selling Black Friday products. And it's not just Black Friday products because it's not like there's a product that's specifically made for Black Friday. Black Friday is all about having sales. This means that you need to prepare your store, make sure that your store has Black Friday all around it. I don't know, make a Black background theme. Use a Black Friday banner on your store. I don't know if you guys are dropshipping on Shopify or on eBay or maybe it's even the Facebook marketplace and you don't have a template. You don't have a background. So write it in your titles, write it in your description. Make the buyers know that Black Friday is happening in your store now. And if you do that, you're definitely going to reap the rewards from the graph that you're seeing right here. It's starting its rise this year. It's going to rise really, really quick to the 100 just like last month. On November 22nd, it reached that 100 point mark which is just about a week and a half from now. So don't miss this guys, right now is the time. When it reaches the 100 point mark and you guys haven't prepared your stores yet, it's too late. Start right now, that's the time. So what Black Friday products should we be selling? Here's a list and guys, this is just a starters list. So if you haven't started yet, add these products but keep adding more products and make sure that you have Black Friday written all over your website, all over your drop shooting stores. Black Friday, that's what it's all about. That's what's happening right now. So the first product that sells really, really well are headphones. Now guys, headphones is a very general niche. You can break this down to over the year, over the ear headphones, on ear headphones, ear buds. So there's a whole bunch of different types of sports headphones. There's so many different types of headphones that means that you guys shouldn't only add one or two or five headphones, add 20, 30, 50. However much you can, don't blow up your whole store with headphones but get a nice amount of balance of headphones in your store and make sure that you've got Black Friday written all over it. That's what people are going to look for. Headphones are the first product that sell really, really well. Number two on our list are throw blankets. Now it's winter time and it's getting cold all around the world. So people are going to look for special discounts and things that are on sale but things that they need right now. One of those things are throw blankets. Number three on the list are robot vacuum cleaners. And this also goes with their accessories, right? You've got filters, you've got mops. You've got so many accessories for robot vacuum cleaners. So import robot vacuum cleaners to your store and also their accessories. Just stay out of products that you cannot resell like iRobot. We are not official resellers of iRobot but there are more than enough sellers, more than enough manufacturers that will be more than happy for you to resell their products as long as they're making more sales and more profits just like you. Robot vacuum cleaners, number three on the list. Number four, we've got cordless drill driver kits. This one pretty much goes without saying. A lot of people are improving their homes or renovating their homes and they need these cordless drill driver kits to get their work done. And right now we're still in COVID. I cannot believe that we're still in COVID but people are spending a lot of time in their homes making their homes a more comfortable space to live in. Cordless driver drill kits helps them get to that. Number five on the list of Black Friday products that are going to sell out this year are gel and memory foam pillows. So this isn't a new product but there are new versions of it coming out all the time. Check out these forms over here. I haven't seen this one before. So definitely add gel memory foam pillows to your list. These are evergreen sellers. They're selling all year long and people are going to look for this specific product on sale during Black Friday. Another one that we've noticed trending really, really hot are Instapots. So you have them right here in front of me. By the way, guys, if you guys want to read this article and get all these product ideas just go to our blog page just like I did. Okay, I'm going to address you guys questions really, really soon. Let's go on with the list. Number seven are camera drones. So first we had drones. Today we have drones with cameras. Still not something too new. It didn't just come out like in the last month or two but there are more versions of this coming out. 4K, 8K, different designs. Drones are definitely still selling really, really hot during this time. Black Friday is no exception. Number eight, we've got selfie sticks. Once again, nothing new, right? You guys have heard about this before but if you guys will watch how these products trend during Black Friday you will be shocked too. Add all kinds of selfie sticks to your store. Number nine, we've got action cameras and tripods. Once again, not a new product, right guys? But we've seen what's selling so well on Black Friday. We cannot tell you to sell something that's not going to sell. Action cameras peak in sales during Black Friday. This is a product that a lot of people are looking for sales on. So add them to your store. Just once again, don't add GoPro. You're not an official reseller of GoPro. But once again, more than enough cameras that you can resell. Tripod stands, so this is for those action cameras of course. Always look for accessories for products that you are selling. It's easier selling accessories as a drop shipper rather than the product itself even though of course you can sell both but one usually sells more than the other. And number 10 on the list, don't miss out on night light projectors also selling really well during Black Friday. Okay, so that's a little bit about the Black Friday statistics and Black Friday products that you need to sell. By the way, this screenshot shows up to about August, the end of August when we uploaded that blog article but as I've shown you from the current list, the real updated list right now in real life, real time, you can see that right now is the time. We are during that huge, huge increase right now. Okay guys, so that's just a little bit about Black Friday. Now let's go a little bit. Let's read your questions and start answering. Okay, let's begin. Luan, what is DeWalt? That is a manufacturer. He is manufacturing, DeWalt is mostly home improvement products like that cordless drill driver kit that I just showed you a minute ago. Hello, green V blogger, how are you doing today? Please show us how to find hot selling products, please. Okay, so I just showed you 10 products that are going to sell really well for Black Friday and if you wanna see more then check out my screen. There's two places for you to check out really hot products that are selling hot right now. First of all, subscribe, sign up for the webinar. Okay, I'm leaving a link below this video after the live. It will be on our YouTube channel. There will be a link below the video. You have a sign up link for the webinar. You can just go to our YouTube front page right now and also sign up. Let me show you where it is because in that webinar, if finding hot products is what you're looking for, we've been working on this feature that's going to come out and it will be revealed in the webinar next week. We've been working over two years on this feature, really, really hard and it's going to be amazing. So if finding hot products is good for you and you wanna try something that hasn't been seen before, doesn't exist really anywhere else, definitely sign up for the webinar. Let me, yeah, my screen is shared. So if you just go to our youtube.com slash auto DS, that's our YouTube channel and here you will be able to see where is it, right now we've got the live. Okay, so soon the main feature video here will go back to what we had before. Actually, I just signed, let's go back really quick. I just want you guys to sign up to the webinar, sign up to the webinar. You don't want to miss this webinar. So click on this right here, Q4 dropshipping master, research masterclass. Click on that link and here you have the link to sign up for the webinar. Okay, click on that link. Click on that link and sign up, save your spot. You know that, I don't know if you guys know this but there's a certain number of limited number of spots that you can have for a webinar that we can have. We can't have everyone join. We can't have, I don't remember the exact limit but usually we reach that limit. We reached it last year. I can obviously that we're close to it. Here, write your name, write your email address and save your spot. Okay, there you're going to get a lot of product ideas but besides that, you can simply head over to autoDS.com slash blog and also our YouTube channel slash autoDS. Am I sharing my screen here? And from both of these places on the blog page, what I want you to do is here where it says I want to learn about. Click on that and click on dropshipping tips, sorry, product finding and best sellers. Then you'll have all the articles that are only talking about the best products that are selling right now. So how to find products on CJ dropshipping, top hand products for Christmas for November, for Black Friday, electronics niche, Home Depot. So of course you can show more. We have so many articles for Halloween. I mean, Halloween just ended and we had a huge peak in sales in Halloween. October, which was before that, best selling items in eBay 2021, the AliExpress dropshipping center. This is one of my favorite places to find products that are trending and then look for them using other suppliers, even though AliExpress is also okay, but usually I'd go from outside China to start looking for US suppliers, UK suppliers, depends on what selling channel you are selling on. So that's one place to find tons, tons of products to dropship.  And here you have, this is not a good view, but because I'm the channel creator, then I'm seeing it in a not comfortable view, but here we have the sell these now. Let me just look for it really quick. Here sell these now, the hottest dropshipping products in 2021. Check out this playlist. You'll have a lot of videos here, as you can see here. So I don't know if you like watching videos. I don't know if you like reading articles. You have both of the options to find the best products to sell, the best products that are trending right now. So use the YouTube channel, use our blog page and also sign up for the webinar because this is going to be a game changer, mark my words. Okay, let's continue with the questions. What are the best products to choose only from the best sellers? So we spoke about the best sellers and guys I'm happy that you guys are always wondering what are the best products to sell. This is a question that most dropshippers are asking even those who have been doing it for a few years. Even me up until today, I've been doing it for about five years now if I'm not mistaken. Even up until today, I like researching new products. There is no limit to what you can learn and to more products that you can find. So even if you use the products that we have here that I showed you from our blog page and from our YouTube channel, the first thing that you need to do is when you're asking what products to choose from the best sellers, the answer to that is all of the products from the best sellers. And then what happens is you start to sell some of those products, some of those products start to sell, some won't sell. You will not sell all of the products that you list but the good part about being a dropshipper is it doesn't matter because you didn't waste money on inventory, right? So what happens next is when you start selling items from those best sellers, even if one product out of 10 products sell, take that one product and start adding more products that are similar to it. So for example, if you're selling a specific dog collar then look for more dog collars that have the features that that one had. There was something special about that one that got someone to buy it from you and not from other people. Then what you wanna do is add more listings that are similar to it. The same features in different colors, different features with the same colors, different sizes with the same features in the same colors. There's so many things that you can do there but what you wanna do is keep scaling your success. So add more products similar to the ones that are selling, while always testing out more products in more niches and more categories. I hope that that helped you out without being too general. Okay, next question. How do you want, what's the maximum amount of products that the AutoDS can monitor? High E, Kiki. There is no maximum amount of products with AutoDS. You can go as high as you want. There is no specific limit, not that I know of. And one thing that you're also going to learn in the webinar is that this is actually a pretty good strategy. You should always be thinking about what is the maximum that I can list? How high can I climb? Don't get comfortable with 1,000 listings. Don't get comfortable with 5,000 listings because you'll always learn in the game, in the world of dropshipping, the more products that you have, the more sales you're going to get, which makes this a big numbers game. That's it. It's all about that, especially on eBay, especially on the Facebook marketplace. Shopify is a different story. You can even have 10,000 products and you won't even get one sell unless you are marketing your products correctly. So it's more about what products you're selling and how you're marketing them and not how many products you are selling. Even though if you are selling a product well, you don't want to stay with only that product. Of course, you want to add more and more, right? That are similar, even on Shopify, especially on Shopify, and you want to market those products too. But more on eBay and the Facebook marketplace, guys, the more you list, the more you'll sell. You have free organic traffic on eBay, free organic traffic on the Facebook marketplace. List more, sell more. The more your products are interesting, the more you'll sell, plus multiply the amount of listings that you have. If you guys want to enjoy profit, see how high you can climb, go ahead and start with Facebook marketplace and eBay. Is it okay that we can only scale slowly and not scale too fast at all? Okay, Omar, so if you're speaking about eBay, the answer is yes, you need to scale slowly. If you're talking about Facebook marketplace or Shopify, the skies are the limit, scale from the first day. And the reason for that is because eBay is very, very weary. They want to check the new sellers with a magnifying glass. eBay has had enough, guys. eBay has had enough of people who don't know what they're doing, starting a seller account right now. Oh, I heard from this guy and oh, I took that course and I'm going to be a millionaire in one day. So I'm going to open an account right now, start listing a whole bunch of random products, start getting sales and start going crazy. eBay is not looking for that. They had enough of that. They're looking for sellers who actually care about their business. They're looking for sellers who know what products they are selling. They're looking for sellers who know how to take care of customer service because at the, I don't know why I'm sharing my screen. Because at the end of the day, eBay is looking for customer satisfaction. eBay wants you to take care of their buyer that they brought to your store to purchase your product. So they want you to start slow. They want you to list only five items at once when you create an account. Only 10 items when you create an account. They want to see how you put up with the shipping. Did you ship your product on time? Is the buyer happy? eBay is going to check you like that and you can't scale from the first day if you're being checked like that from a magnifying glass. But on the other hand, there's an upside because once you get those limits, once you start to sell and they start upgrading your limits because they see that you're doing a good job, you're going to really start reaping those benefits and those profits because eBay is giving you a lot of free organic traffic. That's wonderfully wrong. What is Black Friday? So I'm guessing that you asked this before I started the live. I went all over Black Friday. I don't think you missed it, but if you did just watch the live again when it's over. Okay, guys, so if you guys have more questions, let me know in the live. I'm going to address one more question and talk to you guys about some more things that I have missed out so far in this live. How is sourcing of products done? Hi, Rakesh. So when you say sourcing of products, do you mean how do you take products from your supplier's website and add them to AutoDS? So if that is your question, then I will address it right now. One sec. How is sourcing of products done? Okay, sure, let me show you guys. So I'm going to share my screen. Let's log into the AutoDS platform. And I think that I'll also open one of our suppliers. Let's go with Amazon. Okay, so first on the AutoDS platform, I'm going to choose what store do I want to import to. So I click on the stores that I have on the left side. And here I have all of my stores. Right now I'm going to import an up product to my Shopify store called Pet Shop Discount. Okay, so that's the store that I have on. And let's just upload, let's import this product, even though it's a Weber product, it's, you're not really allowed to resell Weber, so let's just go with anything else. Let's search for at-house. Okay, so we got this indoor cat bed. So let's say this is the product that I want to add to my store. What I'm going to do is I'm going to copy the whole URL or I can just copy the product ID, which is the ASIN over here. So if you guys know how to grab the product IDs, you can just copy that, but it really doesn't matter. Then I'm going to click on add products. And here I can tell AutoDS if I want to just add a single product, multiple products, or use the AutoDS Finder, or of course to import my untracked products if I have any. So in this case, it's just one product. So I'm going to click on single product. Then it's asking me for the URL or the buy ID, which is what I just copied. The supplier in this case is Amazon. The region is the United States. I can choose some advanced options like allow auto stock variations, allow locked keywords or vero and so forth. Then I'm going to, well, I have two options. I can either edit it now quickly, so optimize the product before I list it on my store, or publish it directly to my store. But in this case, let's go with the editor. So I'm going to click on edit now quick. And how long did that take guys? We did it live. So it took less than a second. And right now we have all of the product details as you can see, we've got the product, we've got the description. Okay, as you can see here. So the products title, what stock monitoring options you want, you can optimize the title here, the Shopify collection, the tags, the shipping methods. If you want to go cheapest with tracking, fastest with tracking or cheapest without caring about the tracking, of course you can optimize the product description as I said. So click on edit product description and start optimizing your products. So this is the easiest way to source product from your supplier. You saw how fast it got all the information from here and it passed it to here. And we've got the variants. Yeah, I saw that I skipped the question, asked you and I'll get to you in a second, sorry. So yeah, so we've got the variations here, all three variations. We can edit each one of them if we want. So I clicked on one of them. And here we can start to edit those variations. But as you guys saw, it really takes only a second or maybe even less than a second to start optimizing your products page, to import it really, really quickly to your store. Let's go back. Nevermind, it already closed it. The last option that I have is to import the product to your store right here. And that's how easy it is to add them. Now of course I could have just clicked on edit now and if I would have done that instead of edit just publish it directly to my store, it would have published a product in just those couple of seconds. So you can really list products from your suppliers to your stores on Shopify, on eBay, on the Facebook marketplace in just a matter of seconds. And this is one of the best parts about using the product importer. All right, let's go to the next question that I accidentally missed and thank you for letting me know about that. Okay, ask Jad. Great to see you again, Liran. Great to see you too, thank you. I have a question. After pushing products to Shopify stores, it goes in the homepage default collection. How can we organize that in a specific category? So lo and behold, I just answered your question without even addressing your question. But once again, if you missed it, then while you're adding your product, you can choose what collection you wanna add it to. So let's add that same product, add it now quick, sharing my screen, yeah. I got a little error because it already exists in my drafts. So let's open it from the drafts right here. And here you can choose what collection you want it to. So right now your default is the homepage. That's what you're seeing, right? That's the problem that you're having. So just choose anything else. Like right here, I have a collection called beds. If you don't have a collection, you can just type it and it'll add a new collection. But I have beds, so I'm just going to put it in that collection. That's it, continue optimizing your product. Of course, you've got the images and everything else. Everything got imported in just that one second from importing it from there to here. Of course, you also have the one click importer. I can just click here, this button right here from the suppliers page, import to Autodesk. And it'll also source that product and import it directly to my Autodesk platform. And of course, you've got your item specifications. That's it, finish up, click save and import. It'll go directly to your store, to the product section. That's pretty much it. Okay, Ashtya, hope I answered you there. All right, let's keep going. What happens if your supplier is taking too long to ship the product to the customer? Omar, that's a great question. Let me take a quick sip. That is the reason that you want to work with more than one dropshipping supplier. If you have a product that's selling really well and you're buying it from one supplier, it's a good time to see if another supplier has that product, see how fast he ships it and what price he's charging for it.  Here you'll have the whole list of suppliers that you can drop with, drop ship with using Autodesk. So here you have about 23 suppliers, I think, for a 12, 16, 20, 23, yeah, exactly. So we've got 23 suppliers right here and we're always adding more. If you guys have been here half a year ago, I think we've had maybe half of these suppliers. So we're always moving forward, always adding more. So as I've been saying, let's say you took the product, Omar, let's say you took the product from AliExpress, okay? And it's taking him too long because why? Because the product is coming from China and I'm dropshipping to the US or to the UK and it's taking three weeks, four weeks, buyers don't wanna wait that long to get their products. They'd rather pay you more and get the product within a few days. So for example, if you've been dropshipping from AliExpress and you've had success from there, you check out search for that product on Amazon. And I can tell you guys that most of the products, 90% of the products that you find on AliExpress, you'll also find them on Amazon. Why? Because Chinese sellers are all over Amazon. Let me show you an example of what I mean. So we got this cat bed, right? The first example that we saw, let's click on Sold By. You see it says, let me zoom in on my screen so you guys can see it. You see that it says Sold By Bedshore. So what I'm going to do is click on that bedshore and it'll show me that seller's information. Okay, in this case, he's really from California, from the US. Most of the products that you guys are going to see on Amazon is going to be from Chinese sellers. Okay, let me just show you, I don't know, another example, cat, something else. Cat, water fountain, all right? Let's just click on a listing here. Let's go with, let's choose a random one, this one. It's got 10,000 reviews, selling really, really well. Let's see who's selling it, NPT Direct. This might also be, yep, there we go. China, see that CN from a city called Guangdong, Denguang. Okay, so most of the sellers that you guys are going to see on Amazon are Chinese sellers. Why? Because they're simply getting the product from Alibaba or from Aliexpress and they're shipping it to the Amazon FBA warehouse and they're starting an FBA seller account, also on Amazon. Most of the sellers that you guys are going to see on Amazon are from China. Most of the products that people are buying from Amazon Prime, these products are manufactured and imported from China. But do people care? Mostly not. If it's a high quality product, they don't care. So to answer your question once again, Omar, if you have a product that's taking way too long to ship from your Chinese supplier, it's mostly because you're not shipping domestically. So try to ship domestically. Keep it inside the same country. That way you're going to get the fastest shipping times. Okay, I hope I answered you there. Rakesh, you said yes to the previous question when you asked how is sourcing of products done and I asked you if you mean importing products. So I hope that I answered your question there. Let's move on. Alrighty. Can orders on Amazon be fulfilled by AutoDS? Of course, Rakesh, this is something that I definitely encourage you to do. I'm also doing it on my drop shipping stores. So you have to fulfill by AutoDS service. Fulfilled by AutoDS on Google. We'll take you to our pages. So you've got first of all the page, you've got also the help section if you wanna see what the help, our help articles about it, you know all kinds of questions, issues that people are having and how they fixed it. But mainly you have this article over here, which not article, but you have this page over here, which shows you how this is done. So no more locked accounts because you don't have to use your own buyer account, eliminate quantity limit. Of course, you don't have, you can sell as much as you want and one click returns. Let me show you how it looks like inside the system.  It's a demo account. That's why you're seeing old dates, but when an order comes in, you'll see it either in pending or it will already be in the auto order. Let's take it back a sec. If you wanna enable auto orders on AutoDS, it's the fulfilled by AutoDS service. What this means is every time you get an order, it'll be fulfilled automatically. How does that happen? This is what you need to do. First click on settings and on your plans and add-ons, make sure that you have the orders processor enabled. Once that is enabled, go to your store settings and let's say you want fulfilled by AutoDS on Amazon. So make sure that you have your store selected and the supplier selected, which is Amazon US and I'm going to go to orders and here I'm going to click on process orders using the fulfilled by AutoDS service. You can do that because you're paying that $8 a month for the orders processor. Then you have automatic orders. What this means is as soon as an order comes in, it will be fulfilled automatically or don't check it. And when an order comes in, it'll be on pending and you will have to switch the status from pending to send to auto order in order for that order to be processed automatically by the system. Now, what about the money that it costs to buy the product? So what you need to do next is go to your orders page and buy auto order credits. Here you see that I have 2,530, so the system can fulfill 2,530 orders for me. And if you don't have any credits and you can buy some, when you create an AutoDS account, correct me if I'm mistaken, you guys are getting about 20 or 33 auto order credits just to try it out, check it out for free and see if you like it. Here I have a 100% discount because it's a demo account but you can buy your credits here. The more you buy, the cheaper it'll be. Average prices between, it can be 16, 18 cents to 35 cents depends on how many credits you guys are buying. By the way guys, don't sell cheap at cheap profit margins. Sell at 30%, 40%, 50% profit margins. That's how to make it in a drop shipping gain. If you guys are selling at 10% profit margins, it's gonna take you so long to start seeing, to start withdrawing profits to your bank unless you're selling at a million dollars per day. Work at high profit margins. Don't worry about the competition.  You're marketing in a different way. You're doing things different than other sellers. So it's okay to sell the same products at a higher price point. When you guys will A-B test that and see that it works, you'll be convinced and you'll come back to say thank you. So what you're going to do after that is send your products from pending to send to auto order and then it will be fulfilled automatically by the system. That's pretty much it. That's how the Fulfilled by Autodea system works. Now, when the product already arrived, you can start A-Return really, really quickly. Just change the status from, it's going to be on shift or delivered. Just change the status to start A-Return. Okay, as you can see right here, this is delivered. Let's see if I have an example. Well, not from here, but of course there's also a video on it. So if you search for Fulfilled by Autodea's YouTube to take you there pretty quickly, here it is. Fulfilled by Autodea's feature. What it is and how does it work? So here I recorded a 10 minute video showing you guys how that works and there's more videos showing you how more things work in the Fulfilled by Autodea's service. But yes, definitely you can use this service. It's working really well. All of the orders are being fulfilled automatically. You don't need to worry about locked accounts and this has helped thousands and thousands of drop shippers get their business back when their accounts started getting locked by Amazon and I was one of them. I lost about $700 if I'm not mistaken from locked accounts. Like my money got locked inside those accounts and then I started creating so many accounts. I got to a point where I had 10 proxies, 10 different Amazon accounts and once one will get shut down, I will just move to the other and at some point I just got lost. How much money I lost? How much money I'm making? This is crazy. Then Fulfilled by Autodea's came out, thank God and all I had to do then was opt into the system like I showed you, buy credits and of course load balance. You need a balance to fulfill your orders. So you load a balance of 100, 500, doesn't matter how much you want. You have from 50 to $1,000. You can pay using Payoneer or using PayPal and once you load your balance that balance will be used to fulfill your order. So if the buy price was $4 then you're going to have let's say instead of $100 it's gonna go down to $96 and it'll keep deducting with your orders as soon as they come in. So make sure that you always have a balance. But once again, to answer your question Rakesh we definitely have orders being fulfilled automatically by Autodea's and I definitely recommend to check it out if you haven't done so yet. Okay, let's move on with the questions. When I have products on my store does the platform monitor price and stock? Do prices change on Facebook marketplace? Okay, so yes, prices will change on the Facebook marketplace. When I have products on my store does the platform monitor pricing and stock? Yeah, of course. Of course you have price and stock monitoring and by the way on the Facebook marketplace the price and stock monitoring on the Facebook marketplace by the way it won't take the product out of stock because we don't have an API connection with Facebook. Facebook doesn't know that you're using a tool to automate your Facebook marketplace account and importing products and all of that. So what it will do when it goes out of stock is it'll simply you raise the price to a crazy price that nobody's going to buy and then you'll know that the product is out of stock. Another thing that you can do is also enable notifications for price and stock changes. So let me show you what I mean. Go to settings on Autodesk and here you have notifications. So click on that and you wanna enable stock monitoring updates and price monitoring updates. Put your email right here and make a frequency if you wanna get emails daily, weekly or on a monthly basis. So you want it to be on a daily basis and every time the price or the stock status changes on your Facebook account you'll get an email right away to your inbox and you'll know that the price really increased because it's out of stock. So just go to your Facebook marketplace account and mark it as out of stock. Okay, next question. We got eight minutes left to the live. So I'm going to try to zip through this. Or will I get a notified via email then go to the marketplace and change and make any changes. Yes, exactly Kiki. Kiki or Kite, tell me what to call you. I'm sorry. But yeah, I just entered that. So yeah. Hey, do you wanna, is there a way to customize a template which we can paste through the clipboard from your extension? Customize the temple. You mean template which we can paste through the clipboard from your extension. Customize the temple, the table. Hey, do you wanna, is there a way to customize the table which we can paste through the clipboard from your extension? Sorry, but I didn't really understand your question there. Try to rephrase it. And is there a way to export bulk listings like spreadsheet from Autodesk drafts? Export bulk list spreadsheet from the drafts? You mean you wanna go to the drafts page and export those listings? Or do you mean doing it the other way around? Getting products from your suppliers, exporting that into a file and importing that into the drafts page? That you do have, but not the other way around. Why do you wanna export your drafts? What is that going to give you? Okay, moving on. No problem Iran, and is that clear that target is completely strict for dropshipping from them at all? I haven't heard of anything specific Omar. It's probably going to be easier for people who reside in the US because if I remember correctly, targets only allowed US credit cards, but maybe I'm wrong there. Please let me know if you tried it out and give me your feedback. But I know that we have a lot of people dropshipping from target here at Autodea so I haven't heard anything specific there.  Is it a review image or a stock image? So images from what? If you mean the main image for your product, it should probably be the main image that your supplier is using. Of course, you can use our image editor to make the image unique, to make it unique for you. A review image or a stock image. Once again, I don't see a reason to use stock images unless you're talking about your templates. If you're talking about a template for your store, then use stock images, or go to fiverr.com or upwork.com and get a free land to do it for you. But please be more specific on your questions so I'll know how to give the best answer. Does auto order work for Facebook? Great question. I don't know if I addressed it, but the Facebook marketplace, we are working on it, we've been working on it, and it will be available soon. So stay tuned. Okay, thanks a lot. Shiraz Jad, you're welcome. Do you love home decor furniture as they run? Yeah, Shiromar, check out. We have an article on home decor on furniture products, what products you need to sell on furniture. So just go to autots.com slash blog and search there for the word furniture and you will see our blog on the furniture products. Get those products to your store, start to sell, enjoy. Mr. Card Guy, I really don't know what you're talking about. I apologize for your experience, but you have to let me know what's going on. How much time we need to list them on new eBay store? How much time we need to list item on new eBay store? Hi, Anna. What do you mean by how much time do you need to list the item? So if you have a new eBay store, you just created it. The first item that you import to your store, I would recommend you to have a product that you have laying around the house, use a real item location, use a real product, a real title, even add a few of those. Then ask eBay to upgrade your limits, tell them that you have a full garage of items that you want to get rid of. That could also, I mean, you're not lying, upload real products and if someone buys them, ship it out to them. Tell eBay that you need more limits because you have so many products, you're making a garage sale, you're moving houses, I don't know, give them your reasons, tell them that you need to upgrade your limits and they'll go through a very quick verification process, nothing too special and they will upgrade your limits. Can auto-DS fulfill on all marketplaces? No, not on all marketplaces right now, but for suppliers that we have using the US dollar currency, so we've got Amazon, we've got Aliexpress, Home Depot, Walmart and that's all that I have on the top of my head and it works pretty well for that. I have a comment that I like here, smash the like button everybody. Hey everyone, I would appreciate that. Thanks so much guys. Smash that like button if you're appreciating the value that you're getting here. I would definitely, I'm definitely appreciate that. I always look at it and I take it as a personal compliment, so thank you guys. Okay, I think I missed something here. I missed something here. A few comments I missed. I need to add more text before it imports to Facebook. Yeah, so when you're importing your products to the Facebook marketplace, it's just like the import process that I just showed you so you can actually work on your product through auto-DS and then just import it to the Facebook marketplace where it's already optimized. Yes, export from the draft spreadsheet. I think we can bulk list on Facebook. You don't need to do that, Abed. You don't need to export your listings from the drafts to a spreadsheet in order to upload them to Facebook. Uploading products to the Facebook marketplace is actually pretty simple. We have YouTube videos, we have blog articles on how to import products from auto-DS to the Facebook marketplace. It's a little bit different than eBay and Shopify, but it's still definitely doable. You don't need to export spreadsheets. You're just using a quick drop-down menu from the Facebook which syncs with auto-DS. Just watch, you also need the Facebook marketplace helper extension. It's for free and it'll help you with the import process. Watch the videos, read the blog article and you'll see how it's done. Okay, let's see if we have more questions. I need to end the live in two minutes. I have 20 items limit. What type of item should I list? Okay, Sabir. So it's a new eBay seller account as I just mentioned. Those 20 products, if you ask me, all 20 of them need to be laying around your house. Okay, right now eBay is being very, very strict on people on new seller accounts. They don't like to upgrade their limits too quick. So what you wanna do there is simply add products that you have laying around the house. Keep in mind that if someone buys it, you'll have to ship it out to them. The chances are they are not too high, but it really depends on the product that you're selling. If you're selling something retro that people are looking for, like I don't know, a Nintendo, a Super Nintendo, people are going to probably buy it pretty quickly. So seller for really, really expensive so you can at least enjoy those profits. So list 20 products that you have from home. It might take some time, I know, but it's definitely worth it for the long run. Call eBay, ask them to upgrade your limits and they'll do it. Okay guys, last question. So I have to assign a particular supplier for a particular product. I forgot what we're talking about. You guys please make your questions more complete. All right, Lioran, I guess I'll see you next week again. You definitely will, Omar, next week. Sign up for the live, Omar, for the webinar. Okay, I said it in the beginning of this webinar. We have it on our YouTube, on the video that was uploaded yesterday on Nilly's video talking about the webinar. And we'll have it right after this live as the main video. You'll have a link there. Sign up for the webinar. You're definitely going to enjoy the golden nuggets that you're going to get there. Okay, I already answered this one. Let's wrap it up. Okay guys, this is the last question that I'm going to address. I think I went through everyone. So how exactly does the ordering process work in Autodesk manually automatically when an item sells? It's just a bit confusing for me. Okay, Ara, I think that maybe the next live QA I will dedicate it only to the fulfilled by Autodesk service and also the manual ordering service if you guys want to do it manually. I'll make the next live QA about that even though I think the next one I wanted to make it about Christmas so maybe I'll do both because I see a lot of questions about the automatic ordering service. But once again, guys, if you want to learn until then, please go to our blog page, write fulfilled by Autodesk. Go to our YouTube page, write fulfilled by Autodesk. If that doesn't answer your questions, I promise to address it in the next live. How fast would you scale on the Facebook marketplace? Not too fast, not too slow. I interviewed someone named Patrick on our YouTube channel, write Patrick P-A-T-R-Y-K. And you'll see someone who scaled really, really successfully his Facebook marketplace dropshipping account. And I want to interview someone soon who's also scaled to really huge numbers on the Facebook marketplace, not too slow, not too fast, okay? Keep it balanced there in the middle. List 10 items per day, 15 products per day. It should definitely be no problem. Is quit game type of items are safe or very well tracked on eBay? Severe, even if it's not very well now it could be very soon. If it's a copyrighted and you know, quit games is copyrighted. Even those puppet fidget, you know, those puppet toys, it's not copyrighted. Like someone came up with it and so many people copied it and nobody patented it. But soon one company is going to write up a tent on it and then everyone who's posting, who imported it is probably going to go down. So be careful with those things. Squid games, I would probably add costumes for Halloween but now that it's over, I will delete them from my store and forget about it. Okay guys, so that's pretty much it for this live QA. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. It was actually very spontaneous. So I'm glad that people joined. I'm glad that you guys asked questions and I hope that I helped you guys out. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel if you haven't done so yet. We've got so much content there and so much coming up. And once again, sign up for next week's webinar.  Thank you for watching. See you in the future.


Welcome to ThinkTech on Spectromosi 16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Cynthia Sinclair. And I'm Keisha King. In our show this time, we'll attend the Tech Force Hawaii Conference and Expo at the Hawaii Convention Center. It featured three important afternoon business panels covering media, communications and co-opetition in Hawaii. Jay Andrews of OceanIt made a short promotional video for the conference in our ThinkTech studio. If you are an employer, a job seeker, or a student, join us for Tech Force Hawaii Conference and Expo September 26 at the Hawaii Convention Center. Tech Force Hawaii is a first-of-its-kind conference that puts the spotlight on technology-based workforce development solutions and successes. Join us for thought-leader discussions in our speaker hall starting with a keynote by Jamie Kassup, chief education evangelist with Google. In our exhibitors' hall, interact with nearly 40 exhibitors, experiment with cutting-edge technology, and engage in design-thinking activities. The conference covered many things about technology that is changing the way we work, learn, and live, and about facing our challenges as a state squarely in the face. Can we lead with agility and adopt tech changes and disruptions? Are we giving our students sufficient survival skills and the mindset to meet the challenges of our time? When will we stop being ashamed to tell our tech success stories?  If this conference was about one thing, it was about statewide collaboration by motivating people to develop STEM and cyber skills. These issues shaped the multidisciplinary panels in the program. Bert Lamm of ByteMarks was the master of ceremonies. Governor David E. Gay made opening remarks. Jan Boyven of HPU introduced the morning keynote, which was presented by Jamie Kassup, chief education evangelist at Google. This was followed by a morning competencies panel featuring Brooke Conner of DOE, Scott Godwin of the GM National Security Directorate, John Gotanda of HPU, Christina Kishimoto of DOE, and Stephen Schatz of Hawaii P20, moderated by Steve Auerbach of PCAT. In the afternoon media partner presentation, we heard from Rick Blangiardi of Hawaii News Now, Ian Kitajima of OceanIt, and Ian Schuring of Hawaii News Now, moderated by Bert Lamm. Though I was inspired by those videos, I'm also inspired by the fact there's a conference like this and you're in the audience today and it's an honor for me at any chance I get to represent the men and women of Hawaii News Now. We were all fighting for life support. The stations themselves were heavily funded. There's always been a tough advertising market. Really, quite honestly, the way the businesses evolved through the islands nearly never really left anybody with a lot of money. So the point being, when we saw this opportunity to consolidate, what we saw in it was a chance to provide and build for Hawaii a 21st century multimedia company. Despite the economic woes, if you know, this thing here became a game changer. Jobs introduced this in 2007, I think it was June 2007. So at that point, we began to see some of the traction in mobile technology. None of us could have predicted in 2008, 2009 what was going to happen for us as a people. None of us saw that coming. But we did think that, you know what, this distribution is very different. This is going to create different expectations, hence our name, Hawaii News Now. So that being the case, we really made the decision that we were going to do that. So the genius of the name was, well, we knew we had to call ourselves Hawaii. We knew that if we were going to aggregate an audience, it would have to be through news. The little three-letter word now was the brains of the and and that equation. Because what that did was it dictated to us if we were going to live up to that brand, is we'd have to learn how to digitize who we were. It used to be only yesterday, for all of you, I'll make that statement. If you heard about something, you had to do something somewhat proactive to find out more about it. Today, the expectation is very different. If it's something newsworthy, and it could be international, international, certainly local, the expectation, it comes to me. And that's our ability to meet that expectation. That's a very different delivery system. And it's a very much now kind of a thing, and especially the world that we live in. So that really required a whole lot of different thinking, a whole lot of different kind of people, and really, quite honestly, a lot of strain and growth in that part. Let me just tell you one really kind of nice story. I can tell you a whole lot about the stories. We mentioned the Hokulea up there. We were involved with the Hokulea before its sale, and we were involved with the Hokulea throughout its sale. So much so that we were excited about its homecoming, and we decided, you know what, it's unscripted TV, but we want to do a really good job out of reverence, out of respect for what that voyage was about. And so we decided to throw everything we had at it. 11 cameras and two drones in the air, a kind of wired K.I. Tucker. I said, you fall in the water, you die, brother. So don't fall in the water, but we want these pictures on the canoe coming in, and this is the only way we can get them. I mean, we really went all out. And for six and a half hours, we did live TV, and we did a really good job. We had a great team on the beach, as well as, you know, out in the water. And we covered it in every way we possibly could. And, you know, it was a Saturday, and I think a lot of people in Hawaii got to watch it, and they liked it. Certainly the beach was packed, but the thing that was really great about that was we put that on Facebook Live, and over two million people watched that. And we really got to share Hawaii with the world. When I started in this business in 1977, if we were over in Kailua, and we were taping any one of you in an interview, the reporter would literally have to shoot that, get in the car, drive over it, hopefully get through the poly, get the Capilani Boulevard on time, do the edit, and try to get it on TV. Maybe then we couldn't even get a signal over the mountain range. OK? Today, we go global.  What do you think about the new iPhone? Well, you know, it's super pricey, but it's got great camera. If you get the pro, it's like three cameras, you got wide angle. And this goes on for three and a half performance. But now we get to reverse the roles and we get to ask Ian, not this Ian, this Ian, some questions about some of the technology that's now available on the newscast. Ian, you want to start? Maybe that could be part of the question. Well, I think one of it is you guys are doing so many amazing things. Maybe you can share some of the things you guys are doing right now. The backpacks that you mentioned already, if we were to narrow down the biggest technological advancement that we have at our disposal, it's that. They really are backpacks. You wear them, they're connected to a camera, and inside that unit, you know, about this big or so, are cell phone modems that connect to every major cell phone carrier. So if you're in a place with, you know, great AT&T service, but poor sprint service, it's going to transmit your video back to the station using whatever receiver you're getting the best signal with. I think the one thing that has really helped us the most, especially when you talk about immediacy and relevancy, you know, this morning there are these people getting arrested at Waimanalo Bay Beach Park because they're opposed to this development and we're streaming the whole thing. And at this point, you know, it's not even just a Facebook Live on your phone, it's a complete news operation that is being brought in through a backpack. So that's really exciting for us. The need to cater to, you know, what Rick was talking about, the expectation that news is going to come to you, even that expectation I think is evolving, where, you know, a year ago it was that news is going to find me somehow and the expectation now is I'm using this platform and I'm expecting this news to reach me on this specific platform and so trying to deduce what those platforms are and where the viewers are and where they're expecting that news to reach them is the next most exciting challenge that I think we're looking at. That sort of guides our day-to-day strategy, you know, is taking what's happening now in Waimanalo or wherever it can be and not just delivering it on the news, which is what we're known for, but delivering it to people where they are in the medium that they're choosing to consume it. There are a lot of kind of cool sort of visual gadgets that are being implemented like the Weather Channel. And I'm just dying to see Gai Hagi in a, you know, a six-foot tsunami surge. And so is that just too much eye candy and is the technology too expensive or when do you see perhaps white news now incorporating that? I think there's a very real potential for augmented reality in news. As we tell stories every day, the question we ask is, how can we most effectively help our viewers understand what's happening right now? And if augmented reality is presented in such a way that the viewer knows that it's augmented, which is not so much of a challenge now, but as that technology progresses, we will get to a point where you're going to have to differentiate, right, when this augmented reality becomes so good and so precise, you'll have to find ways to make sure your viewer knows what they're looking at. But with that not being such a big problem for now, if, you know, that six-foot tsunami wave in studio is the best way to help the viewers at home understand that story, then I think that's something we should all look for. It would have been now, I know there were no deaths or injuries last year during the volcanic eruption, but if there had been an AR way to the question that I kept asking myself, the majority of the people who were interested in that lava eruption story last year aren't especially familiar with the geographic layout of Hawai'i Islands in general and of lower Puna specifically. And so how could we, you know, you hear about how many homes have been destroyed and how many acres of land have been covered, but how can we translate that to people in ways that they understand? And the two that I tried to explore without, you know, the very short answer to your question is we don't yet have the graphical capabilities to pull off augmented reality in a meaningful way yet, but the two numbers or the two maps that it would have been useful for, if you lifted up the lava field from Hawai'i Island last year and transported it, you know, just laid it flat on the island of Oahu, that lava field goes from Manoa to Diamond Head to the edge of Kaka'ako. The communication panel went on to feature Isla Young of STEMWorks Ian Kitajima of OceanHit and Tyler Iokepa-Gomes of Elemental Accelerator, moderated by Christine Sakuta of Transform Hawai'i Government. All of our 10 campuses is all about properly preparing the graduates and giving them the pathways to get from and through their undergraduate degrees, be it two-year, be it four-year, be it continuing education, and really developing those skills that we're working on today. So the communications piece is absolutely critical to make that happen. We've got a lot of great success stories, but really one of the things, and this is all about Hawai'i, one of the things that we don't do very well is we don't tell the story. We don't talk about the stuff that we do. We don't talk about our successes. And that's the other part of communications that I think our panel is going to be really great and enlighten us about this morning. I think one of the first questions to ask the panel is, you know, we have talked a lot and heard a lot today about technology and innovation. What does technology mean? Since it changes so quickly and so rapidly, and what does innovation mean? So our STEMRx program is actually quite layered. We've got a lot of pieces of heavy focus on our teachers and making sure our teachers throughout the state are inspired and have the tools that they need to really educate and make sure that their students have the opportunities that they need. We do all kinds of software camps and gen cyber camps and partnership with UH and PCAT. We provide the Hawai'i STEM conference, which was mentioned, which is a really engaging way to bring together our educational system, teachers, students and industry here. And we're really trying to connect the dots between what they're learning, what they should be learning, and then how that equates to an actual job. So innovation is and the technologies are always changing. So we're no longer growing our young people for a specific job. We're looking at what skills do they need. And the soft skills was mentioned this morning. We call it power skills. How are we helping them to have the hard skills, but then also the skills that they need to be very productive, meaningful and then find jobs that they absolutely love. One of my mentors one day, just really quick, I was I was presenting in front of like a group of students at the office in our Duke design lab. And she was there for some reason. I can't remember why she was there. This is actually Poonani Burjins. She was sitting there, I think waiting for me for something. And she was listening to me explain what we do at OceanEd. And I would I guess what I was I was sharing with all these various innovations or technologies. But I think the way I was doing it was to explain first, what is the problem we're trying to solve? What is the human problem we're trying to solve? And then I would talk about the technology. And then as I was doing this in the middle of all of this, she would she just burst it out and just said stop. You know, she said stop. And I was like, what? And she said, ah, I understand what you guys do or what you're trying to do, which is when most people talk about innovation or technology, that's what they're talking about. They're talking about some widget or an iPhone or some technology. And she said, when you talk when you talk about innovation, you're talking about people. Talking about people. And that's actually where innovation comes from. It actually comes from people and the way they think and the cultures that get created. And through that process, the outcome is some gadget widget, some cool thing that helps people's lives. Ian just set it up really nicely for me. We don't really define technology as being a single thing and innovation either. We think of it about people and we're thinking about solutions and climate is one of the greatest threats that we're all collectively facing right now. And so when we're thinking about what innovation and technology look like together for us, it's about what are the solutions that are most creative and how can we help them move the fastest to solve these problems for us? And so as an accelerator, we're dual-emissioned in that obviously we want our companies to succeed, but we also want to offer transformative change to a place. And so in doing that, we've actually really spread out what we do to create the most impact and the most change. So we work with ILAW in the educational sector. And we're trying to figure out ways to create better opportunities for interns. We launched something called Root and STEM, which is the first interactive STEM map for the state of Hawaii that includes every single STEM opportunity, K through 12, and then post-grad. We work with the business community and we really turn to think about how we can help impact bottom lines because at the end of the day, there are still entities who see cost as a barrier to adoption and integration and that's what we want. The whole point of an internship is to experience. And so sometimes they absolutely love it and they're like, oh, good, I'm on the right track. And then sometimes they're like, okay, wait, hold on, I got a pivot here. This is not for me, which is a beautiful thing to learn at a young age. How to do that, yeah. But I want to say even the most basic things too, you know, one thing that we notice sometimes, and again, as adults we do this too, you know, is there's someone speaking or there's, you know, even like our CEO speaking and the interns are looking at their phones the whole time. You know, it's these, and these things, they don't realize that a lot of people are actually watching them too. They think, oh, because I'm an intern, no one's watching saying, no, absolutely, you're going to get talked to about this after.  So this is part of, you know, because of the social media piece of it, whatever, it's just part of, sometimes they may not be fully aware, so part of it is to coach them through that and then the guys and the team are really good, the mentors are part of that as well. I mean, we're at fault too, right? We're like the leadership team and, you know, the boss is talking and I'm looking at my phone, you know, right? It's like, you know, they pick it up from somewhere, right, they're picking it up from us too. So I shouldn't say it's just them. Well, that's the best of both worlds, I guess, because you mentioned, you know, when going back to this idea of why don't we brag and why don't we share more? And your comment, Ian, was that, well, innovation's just sort of a normal part of what we do that we don't think it's innovation. And I think maybe that we cut ourselves short because, I mean, I think in Hawaii, we collaborate quite a bit and because we collaborate and we're so community focused, there's this sort of natural innovation that we sort of take for granted. So I don't know. I just wanted to know if you find that as well and how do we recognize that and communicate more and brag more about that. But that's why too, we need to get out of Hawaii too. Yeah. You need to have your students or yourself, you need to go out, you need to have customers in other parts of the world and go there and go, wow, you know, we're actually pretty good. Like, wow, we really keep butt, you know? I think part of it is if you only stay here, we only know what we know and then when you go out, you go, wow. Cause I used to work on the other side of the world and I worked with, like, these are the best of the best in mobile technologies. And I thought to myself, you know, I actually have lots of friends in Hawaii that are just as good as these guys and gals. But I didn't know, you don't know that until you go there, until you get out, I think. And that was the part that was a big kind of moment for me was, okay, it's time to come home. Because of that, I was like, I always was, well, if I'm really good, then I should be somewhere else. Like, if you're really good, you wouldn't be here. And that's just, you know, yes. 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Good afternoon everyone. I'm Gabrielle here with Kenny. We're over here at Oxmer Toyota We are so excited to be here you guys for North America. This is the brand-new 2023 Toyota crown Absolutely beautiful now this vehicle comes in three different trims XLE Limited and this is the platinum it is the top of the line and this color is nothing I have seen before it is the bronze age with black bitone Absolutely gorgeous. Yeah, it's very very rare. So they only started out in the Cincinnati region making five of these We're the first one to get one and it's the only one the Cincinnati region on the ground I just got here this morning. We've been so excited about it We've been emailing since last night about this one to get cleaned up for you and really show it off Now the crown you may not be very familiar with it actually started back in 1955 in Japan It was the first Japanese built sedan everything done there and now this is the 16th generation This thing started as a sedan Turned into a pickup truck turned into a station wagon and went back to the sedan about 20 years ago 25 years ago exactly We'll put a link down in the description so you can watch kind of some videos of trilogy of it It's really not the trilogy the history of it. It's very interesting colors amazing Beautiful wheels all kinds of stuff. So we're going to show you a little bit about it Put the drone up flat around a little bit give you some cool details. So let's get started. Yeah, let's go the crown has a beautiful Contemporary front grill as we get closer. It looks like little triangles is absolutely beautiful Now there's going to be a 360-degree I'd camera with this will show you in the interior so you are going to have these sensors around the vehicle. I Like these lights that run across right here underneath the Hood there. It's really attractive for daytime running lights as well. Yeah, and speaking of lights You're going to have the quad led headlights So you'll have the three low beam lights and then one high beam light so it really illuminates the road Now look at these wheels So this is a sedan, but these wheels are 21 inches That is huge for a sedan and these have a 10 spoke machine finished Wheel to those black accents. It's just gorgeous. I did want to compare something to the floor over here on the side You can really see the this is different looking than a Camry We compared it to a Camry SE. This is about three and a half inches taller and three and a half inches longer as far as With and ground height. This is only one tenth of an inch higher than the Camry now with the platinum It is going to have the hybrid max powertrain With that you are going to get 340 combined net horsepower with 400 pound-feet of torque and then it is zero to sixty in 5.7 seconds and That back you'll see the hybrid max right there and with it being a hybrid, you know a Toyota vehicles It is going to be in that blue Get that really pretty Lights here in the back as well wraps all the way around.  There's going to be 11 speakers So the sound is going to be really great in this vehicle Yeah, you get heated and ventilated seats Front seats you can see right here. We'll show you in a little bit that there's heated seats in the back too in the platinum trim And another thing that's nice with this it does have its own separate buttons So for your heated one and your cooled That is convenient to have you also have a heated steering wheel too Right now I prefer the cold seats A little different looking right here For your gear shifter This is all push button for except for the part when you go to go to reverse you go over the side and up And you'll see We're down reverse Yep, so you've got your cameras right there And then if you want to put in park you just push this button Yep, and then likewise to go and drive you just do it and go down Don't like that. Yep There are multiple driving modes on here. I believe there are five different drop modes Yeah, let's see. We've got sport and it actually brings up the vehicle. So sport is in red We are going to have that sport s-plus Mm-hmm, and then custom you can just set however you would like and you've got your normal comfort and eco so much improved looking dash from Toyota as far as more Technologically advanced just with the appeal of it how it looks. I like it a lot. Here's a neat little trick though. Gabrielle Are we talking about this right here? We can open it from both sides Yeah, so your little armrest so my side it opens up. It's something I've never seen before and then my passenger opens up too Yeah, down here. You've got more USBs as well putting a plug-ins here. Oh, yeah feature to go ahead Oh, yeah, well, you also have more USB C's here, but you have a vertical Wireless charger and one thing that it does have is like a fan So it doesn't allow your phone to get too hot with that. Yeah, it's ventilated pretty neat, huh? Apple CarPlay Android Auto all the things you would expect This button right here will bring up your 360-degree camera just like the sensors I was pointing out on the outside of the vehicle Right here. You'll see one of the JBL speakers like we said there are 11 of them But we do also have this fixed panel roof. It's a really big And that was that black roof that we could see earlier So a gorgeous take no matter what again in front seat or the back You're also going to have two memory seatings for your driver and something else that you're going to have is the Automatic button for your mirrors.  All right, so I am in the second row and you guys I am five seven pretty tall for a woman I have plenty of space.  There is a hidden button All you do it's literally right here. You just push that and that'll open it up Now first to Dan you have a ton of trunk space again You're gonna have an all-weather floor liner back here. It says Toyota crown Speaking of Toyota crown I have a little Easter egg speaking of Easter coming up to you that I have to show you once we get up to the front But while we're back here, you have a ton of space and then you do have these pole latches that will Release your second-row seats You just come right back here and pull that down and you're gonna have a 60-40 split All right So like I had mentioned your little Easter egg Notice this when I was looking at the front of this you have your Toyota crown right here on the light and it's on either side I think that is really cool. So yay. I Hope you enjoyed that walk around on the all-new Toyota crown Absolutely beautiful. Now it is here available, but if you cannot get here in time We've got three more coming in that are in the limited trim Oxygen white heavy middle and black. They shall be here in the next two to three weeks So seeing this video a couple days later than when we got it out. It's okay. We've got the largest selection in the area Yeah, if you all have any questions, let us know all of our contact info is listed right here Thanks for watching and we'll see you soon. Bye