Hello, Kirsten. Hello, Lauren. Hello to everyone. Well, this is, yes, our, in theory, last webinar for this season. It has been a very strong partnership with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, with the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and with parliamentarians for the Global Gold. The idea on how we created, how we organized this webinar has a different perspective. This is a time to wrap up, to bring all our knowledge together. We already spoke about the recovery for the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of health, in terms of economics. We spoke about the gender perspective and sustainability, and we addressed SDGs as the most important solutions, and as a roadmap for recovering after the COVID-19 pandemic. But as parliamentarians, we have different responsibilities. We are lawmakers. We are also the ones who allocate budgets. And of course, we have to work closely with the governments in terms of cooperation, in terms of working together, but of course also in terms of oversight. The idea today is how we can bring all these ingredients together. That's why we invited the panelists today, because they have the experience on new perspectives, on how to make everything work together. For example, there is a new approach for parliamentarians and governments, needs to decide the budgets with not only thinking on economic growth, it has to be also related with people's well-being and happiness. How are we going to make countries with economic growth, with jobs, with salaries, but also that are capable on improving health, education, housing. Also, of course, how are we going to make more inclusive legislation, legislation that is not discriminating anyone, and again, budgets. Budget allocation sometimes seems like a very obvious thing for parliamentarians, but it's not that obvious. We need to analyze how the government is performing, which are the results, and of course, to understand the new realities. This webinar is especially important, because next year, we are going to have a very complicated economic year. This pandemic is not over. We still have the health related problems, and of course, we are going to need budgets capable of designing solutions for 2021 to have a correct, an adequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But also, as some countries are doing to protect jobs, to help women, to understand that violence against women is also growing. So that's why we are here today. Thank you very much to our partners, to Dr. Jeffrey Sachs. Thank you very much, Kristin Bordel. This is a very important effort. Welcome to all, and I hope that we are going to have a very productive session. Thank you, Gabriella. And also for me, a very warm welcome to returning participants, but also to new participants. As Gabriella was saying, this is the fourth webinar in a series that we have co-organized among the IPU presidency, the SDSN network led by Jeffrey Sachs and myself. And I am the initiator of the new initiative for parliamentarians that I called Parliamentarians for the Global Goals. My background is as a long-term member of the Danish parliament and also as a minister of environment in Denmark. And I founded an all-party group in the Danish parliament when I was in a parliament. And my experience was that we really needed a more continuous global dialogue on how parliaments can be more involved and how parliamentarians can take concrete steps and initiatives in their own parliaments to make sure that we move ahead with accelerating action for STGs. So that's the background for the initiative Parliamentarians for the Global Goals. And I'm of course very pleased to partner up with Gabriella and Professor Sachs to be able to offer you this series of webinars where we have zoomed in on COVID-19 and STGs and how we can use the STG framework as a tool, as a strategic tool to design the policies that will make sure that we build back better from the pandemic. So that has been the overall topic of these webinars. And I agree with Gabriella that today we will take a more deep dive into some of the concrete tools that have already been practiced in parliaments around the world. We will hear from experts who themselves have worked with how parliaments can measure progress in other ways than the traditional GDP growth. And this is something that, moving forward from this pandemic, we have an opportunity now. This is also, it's a moment of crisis, but it's also a moment of opportunity where we can try to look at different ways of building back our economies and building back our societies using a more holistic approach and a more holistic lens on development. So that is what we hope to get to you today. And I'll also say, like the previous webinars, we very much encourage all participants to share their experiences and their best practices from your own parliamentary work. We have people participating from all over the world. And we really want to also use these webinars as a chance for you to inspire each other. And after this last webinar today of this series, we will look through the best practices that have been shared throughout all the four webinars and compile those to the inspiration for all of you who participated. And hopefully, this will give you some ideas for concrete steps that you can take. And for parliamentarians, for the global goals, this is the approach that we intend to use. This has to be something that is directly applicable for you. And also, that is why I'm encouraging you to, if you would like to join parliamentarians for the global goals, please reach out to me and contact me so that we can have a conversation about what is it exactly that you would like to see from us, what is it that you need in your work to be able to progress with SGGs. So without further ado, we will move to our expert panelists. And as Lauren said in the beginning, once we heard from our experts, we will move to the moderated debate and Q&A session. And we encourage you all to be very brief. If you ask for the floor, we will give each participant two minutes to ask questions or present an ideal best practice. And I'll try to moderate that as gently as I can. So I want to ask Lauren if you have this time also a slide with the agenda for today so that people can follow what happens? I will confess that I forgot to make a slide. But if you give me half a second, I could pull it up online. Not a problem. It's just for people to be able to follow. But all of you should have received the concept note with the program. And I'll try and run us through it. We will hear from Dr. Xiong Wang, who's the professor at KDI School of Public Policy and Management. And he will talk about measuring well-being on how to improve outcomes. Then we will hear from Mr. Roberto Gil Suat, the former president of the Mexican Senate about his experiences with budgeting for agenda. Also his work on COVID-19 and the SGGs. And thirdly, we will hear from Dr. Deborah Russell, who's the chair of the Finance and Expenditure Committee of the New Zealand Parliament on Inclusive Budgets. So first, let me give the floor to Dr. Xiong Wang, please. We're pleased to have you, Dr. Wang. Thank you. Let me share my slide. Hello, everyone. Good morning and good evening.  I'm very honored to be invited here to introduce how can we measure the subject well-being or, in our words, happiness for our public policy. I've been working in Korea for a couple of years and now I served as associate editor for the World Health Report, which is one of the UN SDSN's flagship I know product. Well, we know that all the countries are measuring our well-being. For example, we are measuring GDP per capita, GNI, GDP growth rate, employment. So we already know that many countries are suffering a lot from the pandemic and there is a very big reduction in terms of their economic growth rate and employment. So most countries have been relying heavily on the objective well-being measures to know how the economy is going and what's the levels of people's well-being. Well, we have been using those measures for a long time. Well, we also know that there are limitations of those kind of objective measures. Let's take GDP as an example and there are a lot of concerns nowadays that what should be included in these indexes or what it should be excluded and how we know the weights of those kind of elements in the measures who really can represent our well-being. For example, the important aspects of life may just outside of the scope of those measures. There are many important things like social capital pollution, the quality of the governance, the volunteering work, and some shadow economy. They are not captured by our GDP measure. There are also some goods and services which are part of our GDP, but they may not reflect our well-being. For example, if there is more pollution, which may lead to a higher price for some values, the values of some existing like clean water or land, then which may result in even higher GDP. We know that this is not right. And also the economic indicators may not distinguish between the production of the good products and the bad ones. For example, like the prisoner service we know is part of the GDP, but we are not sure whether this really reflects our well-being. So there are many concerns about validity of the current measures for our well-being. Well, there is another issue is that the heavy emphasis on the economic indicators may make people more materialistic and less attentive to other important aspects of our life. For example, our friendship or social connections. Those are also important elements in our daily life. We know these kind of limitations of the material well-being measures, which may not be complete, may not be perfect. Therefore, we are trying to find some other better measures such as human development index, which is proposed by UNDP. This measure will cover more elements than GDP. For example, they have three elements, the income per capita, the education, and the health. So there are three elements. So it's more broad and more comprehensive than the traditional GDP. But the problem is which demands should we cover? And who should decide which elements are important for our life? Well, here they just cover three elements. But we don't know that, only just three elements are important for our life, for our well-being. And another technical problem is how could those information be integrated? And how do we adapt them? We need to create a one single-dimensional index. How do we do that? And also, for many measures, we have the measurement problems like education. We know the years of education in different countries, but how do we know the quality? It's very hard for you to compare the quality of education across countries and across regions. So, therefore, there are still many unsolved problems with those objective well-being measures. Therefore, in recent years, economists and psychologists start to argue that we can use the subjective well-being measures as very important compliments to our objective well-being measures. Well, this subject well-being, it's like subject, kind of different from the objective ones. Generally, there are three main categories of the subject well-being measures. The first main group is called a life evaluations. It's like, how do you evaluate your life in general? It's an overall assessment of life. It's based on people's self-assessment of their own life. And sometimes it's also called an evaluative happiness or cognitive happiness. We have three measures which is commonly used to measure the left evaluations, which are left satisfaction. It's general satisfaction with your life, or the overall happiness, or the last one is called a country ladder. It's proposed by the psychologist country. Later on next slide, I'm going to introduce you how they ask you the question. So these three measures are often used in different surveys to capture people's evaluative aspect of our happiness. Well, there is another one which is called emotions or effect. It's like, it captures people's feelings or emotional states, which is typically measured with reference to a particular point in time. For example, we're happy yesterday. It's like about yesterday or last week or last moment. It's like moment to moment, about short-term feelings. We have many names there, as you can see. Effective happiness, hedonic well-being or experienced happiness. These names are used extensively in different fields like psychology or economics. Basically, there are two broad categories there. One is positive effect, another one is negative effect.  You laugh a lot yesterday. Inactive effect include sadness, worry, anger, depression, those kinds of negative feelings. The last big group is called millions of life or purpose of life. It's also like eudaimonia. It's a sense of meaning or purpose in life or good psychological function. But these days, we don't use it one very often because we found that it's highly correlated with the left evaluations. It's like if you feel you have a purpose in your life, generally, we'll be very satisfied with your life. They're highly correlated. So we generally use the first two broad categories to capture our subject well-being. Let me give you an example. As I mentioned, the work had to report. Nowadays, every year, we publish this report by the UN SDSM. Here, we use the data from Gallup Word Poll to make the rankings of the happiness in a word. We know that Denmark is often ranked as number one or number two, something like that, very high. Well, the main measure we use is country letter. The question is asked this way. Imagine a letter with steps number zero to 10 on the top. Zero means on the bottom and 10 means at the top. So which step of the letter would you say your personal feel you stand at this time? It's like it's a number between zero and 10 to indicate how satisfied are we with your life. And we also have a couple questions on positive effect and negative effect. So for the ranking, we mainly use the country letter because we found that this is much more relevant to our social and economic environment. Well, we have a couple of advantages of using such measures. First, this subject well-being can comprehensively measure people's experience and also evaluations. Anything that is important in our life would be reflected in such measure. So we don't need to list many important things in our life like our income or friendship or marriage or children, blah, blah, blah. We don't need those stuff. We just need one measure or one group of measure which may capture everything there because everything is important will be reflected in those comprehensive measures. So therefore the subject well-being provides us a common metric that can be used to compare different outcomes. We could measure like the impact of this policy or that policy because we have the same measure, same outcome. It also provides the weights necessary to convert diverse indicators into one aggregate measure of the course of life. We don't need to worry how to assign ways to different elements in our life. We can just use the one measure. And it also allows for a diversity of opinions about what makes a good life. Different people may have different opinions. Well, I don't care. If you feel happy, you are happy.  So this allows for freedom about different countries or different people's choice. Every road may lead to wrong. So we allow for different roads if we use this kind of measure. Of course, there are criticism and concerns. People say, oh, whether can we trust it? Is this measure really valid? Is it reliable? Because it's based on self-reports. Well, actually we have been used a lot of such kind of self-reports in our daily life. Are you satisfied with your service in a bank?  Are you satisfied with your professors? We have been using those kind of subject measures a lot.  Well, we have more and more empirical evidence to pose the reliability and also the validity of such kind of measures. The reliability means the extent to which measure may yield consistent results. And the validity refers to the extent to which a measure may actually assess what is supposed to assess. We want to know whether you are really measuring people's happiness. Well, in terms of reliability and validity, in both areas we have done a lot of research in psychology or economics and sociology. Well, for example, to measure the reliability, we may ask respondents the same way we have been questioned twice, or even more times within a single interview, but in different parts of the interview, to cross-check whether they answer the question consistently. We also examine the internal consistency of multiple items subject well-being scales. And we can also ask the questions over a longer time intervals. It's like I asked them many times in different times, time periods, to check the consistency. Well, for the validity, we can see what extent they are explained in terms of the left environments or other kinds of variables. So basically, we correlate them with other important elements in our life and see their correlation. We can also evaluate the extent to which they are correlated with other subjective and also object measures of development. We can also see whether and how the measure predict subsequent outcomes and behaviors. So there are many ways and methods to check the reliability and the validity. So anyway, it's not a perfect measure, but it does capture a very important aspect of our life. Well, we shall measure the subject well-being for the purpose of making a better public policy. There are a couple of reasons for that. And first, the national happiness itself is a policy goal. Because why should we develop our economy? Why we want to have a clean government? Why we want to attract investment? The ultimate goal is to make people have a better life. I think nobody will just, you know, disagree with this. We want to, we want everyone to have a better life. But what is a better life? Well, the SDGs have given us a lot of elements there, you know, clean water, you know, better social connections, inclusive groups, no poverty and education. But everything, all the elements there want to give people a better life. While here, national happiness measures is an indicator of a better life. If people feel happy, they are happy. Moreover, this kind of subject well-being measures is also very useful for economic analysis. For example, we can use this measure to identify the key determinants of our subject well-being. How income is important for our happiness. How education is important. And we also can evaluate the non-market goods, service and costs. For example, if the air pollution increased by a certain level, how much monetary cost would that be? So how much money should we compensate for the loss? Well, there are many measures, you know, developed by the, you know, scientists. Well, this subject well-being measure gives us another option. We can compare the relative values of your income versus the non-market goods such as air pollution. We collect the data from individuals and we run some regressions. We can value, you know, give the value to this kind of air pollution or other kind of non-market goods like disability, something like that. We can capture the monetary value. Therefore, using the measure, we can use the measure to improve the governmental or organizational effectiveness when they make their decision. We can evaluate the trade-offs of different policies or, you know, multiple factors. We can evaluate the impact of the public goods and service. And we can even, you know, set the fines or compensation for the loss of welfare measuring, as I mentioned. If people, you know, are luckily got disabled, how much you should compensate? Well, currently, we just based on their loss of the income or some, you know, or some other kinds of measures. But using such a method of the subject well-being, we can capture or measure how much happiness they are. They can, they will be lost from such kind of disability. And compared to their coefficient of the income, then we can calculate the monetary values of the disability and other kinds of, you know, illness. Therefore, we know the monetary values we should compensate the people. This, at least, can be used as an alternative measure or a method for calculating that. And we can also identify the vulnerable groups in the society, like the old people or the young children. Because we know that if you look at the mature well-being, the East Asian kids are quite good. They have generally wealthy families and the mature well-being is quite good.  So without using such kind of measures, we don't know that. But there are many ways to use subject well-being measures. Let me give you some examples for the policy purpose. First, as I mentioned, we can use those measures to evaluate the monetary cost of noise, air pollution, and congestion. And we can use the measures to find that the impact of unemployment actually extends beyond the unemployed people and their family. They even affect their community where people live in. Why? Because people may worry about being unemployed, even they have a job. Well, you know, with this kind of subject well-being measures, we can capture the impact. So therefore, economists find out that the tradeoff between unemployment rate and inflation rate is not one over one. Well, traditionally, we assume that the harm done by unemployment rate and inflation rate is the same. So then we add up them to create something called a military index. But actually, nowadays, we find out that the unemployment have a larger impact than inflation rate. It's not one over one. It's 1.66 over one. That means we may tolerate a higher inflation rate to lower the unemployment rate. Well, this may be used to guide our national policy on these kind of interest rate or other policies. And we also found out that the workplace environment, not just income, matters a lot, such as the trust and the support of supervisors matter a lot for people's job satisfaction and left satisfaction. I think you guys may have this kind of perception that if you are working in a pleasant workplace, it's not just a matter of money. It's a matter of whether you have a very good relationship in the workplace. Those steps matter a lot for our job and left satisfaction. In turn, a higher job satisfaction and left satisfaction may lead to a higher productivity and lower turnover rate. This has already been proved by many studies. Well, how to track the subject well-being during our COVID-19, because this topic is related with COVID-19. Let me give me the last two minutes to finish up my presentation. Well, actually, we know that the COVID-19 has been host to very severe challenges on our well-being, both objective and subjective. But not so many government efforts have been spent to track people's subject well-being. Almost nonexistent. But we do know that there is a very big negative impact on our emotions, our living valuations, and the mental health. Our WHR team, the World Health Report team, has been working with a couple of institutes like UCF and UCL and other Harvard University to track the people's behaviors and happiness during the COVID-19. So we are preparing a couple of articles and papers for next year's World Health Report on this topic. And we also exploit the text-based big data to measure the expressed emotion from, like, in the Twitter, Facebook, or China versions of Twitter, the Google trends, we can check how people, you know, say on their, you know, SNS to infer people's feelings and emotions. Well, we already know that some governments have been moved towards this direction, like the UK Office of the National Statistics has launched their own survey about people's subject well-being since 2011. And some governments appointed the Minister of Happiness, for example, the UAE, started from 2006-10. And the Chinese government announced that their policy goal is to bring happiness to its people, to make citizens have a strong sense of fulfillment, happiness, and security. And as far as I know, the Korean government also takes the happiness of people very seriously these days. But still, we need more actions from both governments who are non-governmental organizations to treat the people's subject well-being more seriously and consider it as a very important measure to guide our policies and actions.  You should consider this kind of stuff when you design some policies. And we need the official statistical agencies to collect the subject well-being data in a more consistent way and continuously in a larger scale so that we know better about the current status of the subject well-being. And here there are references here. If you got interested, you may read more books on this, you know, happiness policy and happiness. There are a couple of, you know, research here for your reference. All right, that's a very brief introduction to the measures of the well-being for public policy. I'm very glad to share all those kind of stuff with you. So please feel free to ask me questions later. Thank you. That's it. Thank you very much, Dr. Wang. This is very interesting hearing your thoughts and comments about sort of the pros and cons of the subjective happiness index. So thank you very much. And we'll make sure that your slides and references are also shared with the participants. So thank you very much. So the next speaker, let me see here, is Mr. Robato Gil Suat from the Mexican Senate. He'll be sharing his experiences on budgeting for gender COVID-19 response and the SCGs. Please, the floor is yours. I don't know if you can see the slides. Yeah. We can see them, but we can see them in your PowerPoint window. They are not yet full screen. Let me give you one minute, please. Yep. No? Yeah. Beautiful. Perfect. Thank you. Good morning for everyone. Hello. And thank you very much to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for inviting me to this relevant conversation with such distinguished speakers and guests. Thank you, Mrs. IPU President Gabriela Cueva. You shall feel very proud of your work at the IPU because your country, Mexico, is very proud indeed. So I send you a hug from your country, President. So yes, definitely, COVID has shaken us in many ways. In many more ways we could have ever imagined. As Dr. Juan pointed out, COVID has forced us not only to alter the ways that we work, learn, and live, but also to look at some social problems in a more complex way. Also, I will add, it has shown how good political representation is crucial in fighting such a crisis. Bad political representation is costing too many lives. I will talk about how I believe we can change, how, I will talk about how I believe we can change this representation in parliament, specifically how congressman and congresswoman can be a part of redefining policy objectives, instruments, and accountability, taking into consideration the lessons COVID-19 has taught us. My first somewhat bold statement will be that legislators are actually policymakers. We tend to believe that policymaking is a little monopoly of the government, that is the executive branch. But I believe that this perception is wrong, or at least is a false proxy for the true value of the democratic process. Legislators are not only the representatives drafting and approving laws or building democratic consensus around decisions. Legislators are in fact policy makers. And the budget approval is perhaps the process that best proved this statement. Let me explain. This process has three main stages. First, objectives and policy priorities are defined in the political process. This discussion generally involves human rights, economic development, and democratic principles. That is, what do we want to solve and why? Secondly, how do we think we can solve it? That is, in a context of economic scarcity, we need to choose the best tools means to serve our goals. As parliamentaries, you do not only have the choice between approving or not approving the budget. You actually have a myriad of policy options to satisfy the objects of that budget. So democratic consensus around the best options, again, means, first and most importantly, choosing the instruments and secondly, convincing a majority to bet on it. By choosing, you also exercise political representation at its core. It is actually said that there should be no taxation without representation. It's the core of the parliament. Assigning money to different programs is precisely putting a face to representation by benefiting some constituents over others. This allocation is again policy making. History tells us that the ancient parliaments will only comply to monarch witches. The time for passive parliamentarians is long past. You now need to be proactive in this debate. Third, the process entails overseeing and accountability. This is a very important part of the process. All year around in legislative committees, through technical and specialized work, and then after the fiscal year, by auditing expenditure and evaluating if policy and programs were useful to meet their ends and if some changes need to be made for the next budget. In my opinion, choosing ends and means, building consensus around budget allocations and accountability defines the core of the representative function of the modern and democratic parliaments. So I hope I have convinced you.  And as some famous guy from New York used to say, with great power comes great responsibility. And what is your responsibility in the context of COVID-19? In my opinion, COVID has shown us that social problems are much more complex than we thought. We used to think, for example, inequality was mainly a matter of income, and we approve programs that will help generate income. But COVID showed us that the devil is in the details. Inequality reaches many more aspects. For example, two women. And I choose women because just because of their gender, they will face an initially inequality. But say a woman who has a good education, is able to work from home and take care of her children, has a technological means to be connected. She can maybe call some service to have food, she has savings, she has medical insurance, she can call a private doctor in case she feels sick. She has a very, very different situation as another woman who, for example, has to work in essential services, cannot stay at home and take care of her children, and has no technological means for them to attend online classes, no savings, no medical insurance, and she cannot miss her job if she falls sick. So inequality cannot be understood as just an income problem anymore. And it should have never been understood in such a simple way. But COVID has forced us to see how limited our policymaking is if we don't consider these different aspects in tailored inequality. And I will go further as to remind us that the state in most countries facing this pandemic has shown to be insufficient to accomplish its main goal, providing security. Why? Because security can no longer be understood as only the absence of a limitation or a threat anymore. Security now has to mean having the condition to develop life projects. And this is how we should be thinking the context of the next year budget. We have the means, we have the technology, we have the capacity, and we have the institutions to change our objectives, our instruments, and our indicators, as Dr. Sun said, of well-being. The only remaining question is if we will have the will to do so, and if the Democratic Parliament is prepared to do so. And I certainly hope that the answer for everyone is yes. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for your insights. And everyone, we will also make sure we share your slides. Thank you so much. And then we will move to our last expert speaker, Dr. Deborah Russell, who is Chair of the Finance and Expenditure Committee in the New Zealand Parliament. Please, Dr. Russell, the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you very much for the invitation to speak. And what for me is it's about Court 1 in the morning now, so coming to you from down under in New Zealand. And just an apology, I have a teenage daughter who is out late and she may walk through the back of my screen at some stage. But our New Zealand Parliament has made a big emphasis on including parliamentarians' children in the parliament, so that might just be a manifestation of that. We have in New Zealand explicitly included well-being in our budget processes. I've got here with me a copy of the Public Finance Well-being Amendment Act 2020. What it did, this act did, was it amended our Public Finance Act. And in particular it explicitly said that every four years our Minister of Finance, who is the equivalent of the treasurer in some systems or the Secretary responsible for treasurer or so on, but our top finance parliamentarian must every four years present to the parliament a report on well-being using indicators prepared by our Treasury, reporting on the state of well-being in New Zealand, on how it has changed over time, and sustainability of well-being in New Zealand. So that is now incorporated in our law as something which must be done every, at least every four years. The same act also includes in it requirements for our annual budget, that our annual budget must have within it a report on how well-being objectives have guided the government's budget decisions. And in particular those well-being objectives must relate to the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being and to other matters that the government considers support long-term well-being in New Zealand. So that's a piece of legislation that went through just this year. It was finally enacted this year. It was actually working its way through the legislative process for six or eight months before it became actually enacted. It wasn't our first step in terms of including well-being in a budget process. Our budget cycle means that the annual budget is usually presented in about May each year. So it's under preparation from December through to March, April when final decisions are made. In 2019 our budget was the well-being budget. And what it had was very, very explicitly a focus on well-being. So within that the government chose some priorities that it was particularly interested in that it thought was a special priority for the year would have been the 2019-2020 year. And its priorities were taking mental health seriously, improving child well-being, supporting Māori and Pacifica aspirations, building a productive nation, transforming the economy and investing in New Zealand. So those were its priorities but it saw them all through the framework of well-being as well as looking at traditional economic measures. And you might say well then the question becomes and it was a question that Dr Wang talked about a little bit. It's how do you actually measure this well-being and what is going on with it? And they are quite beautiful words well-being. We can all talk about happiness and eudaimonia or flourishing and well-being and those sorts of concepts. But actually measuring it is a very tricky and difficult task. Fortunately in New Zealand the part that I'm part of came to government. Our Treasury had already been working on a living standards framework. And that living standards framework actually worked really nicely in with the well-being objectives. So what I want to do at this stage is I hope this is going to work is take us through to our Treasury's website where we have now the living standards dashboard where we can actually measure what's going on in a variety of domains that relate to well-being. Or just try the sharing screen. Right now Ken have I are you seeing my screen my living standards framework screen now? Not yet. It looks like you haven't started the sharing. Let me try again. Sorry. So we've got the living standards. So what you're seeing in front of you now comes from our Treasury. You can go on and look for it yourself at some later stage and see what's going in there. And what is sitting there in the Treasury is the living standards framework dashboard what we're measuring in our country. And we do that across 12 domains. I've got to take you through to those domains now. And in each of the domains that we work in a civic engagement and governance cultural identity environment health housing you can read them down the left hand side of the screen there. So going from there and through into I'll just go into civic engagement in government. It's right up the top. So that's the reason that I've chosen it. And what we try to do there is to have a variety of indicators that are related to civic engagement and governance. In particular the indicators we've got here are saved corruption trust in government institutions and voter turnout. So they're all ways of measuring civic engagement in government. And they can be broken down by population groups and in fact we can go on screen we can go on to the dashboard at any time to see how many people trust government what our voter turnout is like what perceived corruption is like and so on. And they are all ways of measuring civic engagement. We can do the same sort of thing with cultural identity. And again we have a number of a couple of identity measures here. One is a capacity to express identity. But the second one which is very important in New Zealand is the number of people who speak to Rio Maori and lots of us New Zealanders will use plenty of Rio Maori words and the like but actually speaking it is a different matter and so it's an important measure to us. So as you can see we have a set of measures there where we are trying to measure well-being. And just to go straight to some of the stuff that Dr Wayne was talking about we do have measures for subjective well-being as well. And it's been measured over family well-being and general life satisfaction and a sense of purpose in one's life. So that's what we're doing across all these domains and I do invite you as parliamentarians at some stage to have a look at this because it's one of those really attempts to do something quite new really in terms of actually measuring well-being across a variety of indicators. And the government is required to try to improve those in particular. I'm just going to go back to stop sharing now. The final point I wish to make here in respect of this ways that we are trying to measure well-being is that it's not perfect. It's not right. It's the beginnings of ways of understanding how to measure well-being. When we were first starting to talk about a well-being budget and working off our treasuries living standards framework which they had already started developing as the part of the finance and expenditure committee at parliament we had a series of briefings on living standards and how they measured across the world and all the sorts of research that is going on into well-being. And we had some fascinating presentations but the one I thought was most valuable was one from Professor Marilyn Waring whom I'm sure some of you know in the context of counting women's work and unpaid and unvalued work. And Professor Waring talked about how when she had been a member of parliament and chair of the finance and expenditure committee and she had got interested in the measurement of GDP and of course these days we regard GDP as almost fixed in stone. We know what it is. We can describe it. We know what goes into measuring it but when GDP or gross domestic product was first introduced as a measure it was deeply controversial and no one quite knew what should or shouldn't go into GDP and over time the sorts of activities that were included in GDP expanded. And so one of the things we have to remember as we set out to measure well-being and to develop our understanding of it and to include it in our national accounts and the way we do our budgets is that we are making the first steps in doing this. They're not baby steps, they're big giant steps and they're taking place all over the world as countries are grappling with this and trying to do it. And over time we will get better at doing it and our very first attempts are not necessarily going to be brilliant but they are a very good start and we've got to start somewhere on doing it. I have a final thought to add here and I do want to talk about in terms of COVID-19. I mentioned a few moments ago that in terms of New Zealand's annual budget cycle the budget cycle starts in about December and the really significant work where ministers are meeting and making budget proposals and trying to get stuff funded and alike happens in February-March but by March the budget is settling down into a fairly final shape. Of course March is when, well maybe not of course, but that is when COVID-19 hit New Zealand. So we had a budget underway and then we went into a four-week lockdown and the budget that was under preparation got thrown out and an entirely new budget was prepared instead in order to try to deal with the effects of COVID-19. But what led that budget was the thought that we needed to lead with a health response and if we could get a health response right then the economic response would be right and that has been the sort of leadership that has I think has given us quite a good outcome we hope in New Zealand there's a way to go yet and of course we don't know yet. So it is still a well-being budget that was prepared earlier this year but now it was focused on rebuilding together and it was driven obviously by economic concerns as to how to deal with a pandemic but also driven very much by the need to ensure that we maintained and if at all possible enhance New Zealand's well-being and that's what's sitting in the 2020 budget. Thank you. Thank you so much Dr Rossell. This was incredibly informative and I think really innovative and useful to see like the measuring and the dashboard that's it's very truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing that.


So again, my name is Brad Alexander chief of media relations with the governor's office of emergency services today we're going to give you a briefing on the earthquake that happened this morning in Napa and Speaking today will be director Mark Giller aducci Colonel Bob Spano from the California National Guard and John Parrish from the California geological survey I'll turn it over to our director okay, good afternoon everyone and thanks for coming in I want to talk a little bit about the earthquake that occurred today in the Napa area first of all Let me say that really our hearts and our thoughts go out to those who have been impacted by this Earthquake, it's it's you know these things happen in California But you know we never wanted to happen and those that have been impacted today are our thoughts and prayers and will continue to do everything We can to support them as they deal with this particular situation Want to talk a little bit about this this morning. I just recently returned from meeting with the City of Napa and the County of Napa and doing an overflight of the region that where the earthquake had occurred And I want to kind of give you a little bit of a briefing on what I saw during that Overflight as you can imagine the kind of damage that you would see with the earthquake of this magnitude a lot of regional impact But I have to say that as much as the as the earthquake was large And had a widespread impact The damage is not as bad as it could have been We we are certainly seeing a lot of damage to single-family residences Predominantly homes that may have been knocked off their foundation or had a crack foundation or have lost the chimney That have come down and further damage to home Broken glass Those kinds of activities we've seen some fires in homes predominantly in mobile homes all the fires have been extinguished at this point and we've seen a significant amount of things like water main breaks Some power outages in the area roughly now affecting about 20 to 25,000 people and road damage Throughout the region both on state roads and on county roads most of these this damage is either some buckling in the road or cracks that may have occurred in the pavement as a result of the earthquake or on the on ramps or off ramps of bridges where there was some subsidence and Some liquefaction and there was a little bit of a damage getting onto the the bridges our Department of Transportation Caltrans and Hire patrol as well as the county departments of roads have checked all of the bridges in the area and all of the bridges Are safe and secure and there are no damage to the bridges Probably the most significant damage we've seen is in the downtown portion of the city of Napa a lot of those buildings there are older structures and We've seen damage to commercial buildings that are predominantly unreinforced masonry type buildings where we've seen either partial collapse or significant damage to those those structures and Most of the downtown area of Napa is been cordoned off as crews go through and do assessments of those buildings both From a structural engineering standpoint as well as from a health and safety standpoint roughly about something like 90 to 100 homes have been red tagged at this point That means those are homes that are not Safe to go into but further assessments are being done in the area And the state has gone into support of the county and the city with structural engineers to accelerate that process As well in the city of Napa I'm sorry in the city of Aleo. We've seen quite a bit of damage downtown again old unreinforced masonry type structures in in one case. We have a three to five story multi-family residential Slash commercial structure that has a sense of damage and is compromised That that building is going through an assessment right now as well the region has Utilized significant mutual aid from throughout northern California fire and rescue law enforcement and emergency medical and all of the local and state Coordination centers are operational and coordinating with each other so that we can provide rapid Assistants where necessary. I could tell you that right now things are sort of stabilizing a little bit There have been some injuries. There have been no known fatalities at this point that we know of and Most of those mutual aid assets are continuing to support Both city Napa and city of Aleo and the counties as appropriate Our next steps as we move forward will be to in the coming days will be to continue with the Damage assessment so we can get a very good handle on what the damage looks like and what the cost is So that we could potentially apply for federal disaster assistance I have been in contact with the US FEMA Administrator in Washington, DC as well as the regional administrator here in Oakland FEMA has been a great partner and has been right there from the beginning supporting us through this process In fact, they have a whole team that is embedded here at the state operations center with us all state agencies are Activated and are operating here in the state operations center or in the field 100% support doing mostly building assessments, but also providing any other immediate life support Necessary I've had discussions with utilities particularly PG&E in the area through our utilities association and They're working diligently with the significant amount of Resources in the area to support getting the power back on or any gas leaks that may be Occuring in the area shut down and make it safe Lastly the the the water problem in the course exasperated by the drought Is that we we know we there are a number of water breaks and the the city cities of Vallejo and Napa as well as as the county are working closely with the Department of Water Resources and other agencies to ensure that we do have potable water for the people in the community and Places like hospitals and restaurants and other things like that. So That's a sustainable situation if there's any problem with with water Or water delivery. We will support the local authorities appropriately with additional water support right now There has been no there is no unmet needs that we know of from the communities and we're working very closely with organizations like the Red Cross and Some non-governmental organizations to support the counties with their evacuation centers And we'll know really the numbers of evacuating those in the evacuation centers tonight As they they start to populate those centers Because they can't get into their homes So with that I'll turn it over to the other speakers right now and then we'll come back up for questions in a minute next is going to be Colonel Bob Spano from the National Guard Good afternoon, and I'd just like to start off by saying on behalf of all the members of the California National Guard Our thoughts and prayers also go out to all those that in the affected area Immediately upon this earthquake hitting here this morning The California National Guard was able to provide an aircraft for immediate overflight I accompanied director Gillard Ducci amongst other staff members And we went down to the affected area and were able to do an overflight of the affected area as well as a ground assessment Director Gillard Ducci went into detail on that the California National Guard also immediately Upon this notification was able to call up the Northern California forces Send them to their armories for posturing and onward movement should the call it be required Some of that included the ability to provide right from the very beginning the ability to provide emergency communications emergency operation support Medical support search and rescue support water purification should that that capability be required as well as logistic support and security and as it stands today the California National Guard is still postured to do that and We are ready to support our state and local partners and any other requests that should come through and I will be followed now by John Parrish Good afternoon everybody. I'm John Parrish. I'm state geologist and chief of the California Geological Survey As you know this morning at 320 we had a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that occurred Probably on the West Napa fault up near Napa About 623 We had compiled a lot of information and we started putting it out on the website So there's a lot of technical information regarding that fault for engineers and Practitioners to take off the website there shortly after that we started putting together field teams and CGS has seven geologists out on the site since about six o'clock this morning And we are coordinating our efforts with the US Geological Survey who have sent some teams up from Menlo Park We are transmitting the data that we are finding and Bringing that back into the operations center here as well as to both the survey centers As you will probably see there Excuse me a number of aftershocks that are occurring from this fault or from this earthquake We think that there's probably over 50 or 60 aftershocks now the largest one being a magnitude 3.6 We do not expect that there will be much larger aftershocks But we do think the aftershocks will continue for several weeks and they will rapidly decrease in their magnitude And their importance Early this morning there was a message that went out saying that there was a 54% chance of a large earthquake occurring That is correct for the first hour on that It rapidly diminishes in the probabilities of there being a large earthquake and we feel it Unlikely now that there will be a large follow-up earthquake to this one This is a good time to remind everyone that we live in earthquake country None of us are immune for this You all in Napa all know that you need to resupply your earthquake kits You need to be cautious of the structures that you go into when we have these aftershocks They are occurring in an area where the buildings have already been damaged and weakened by the main shock and therefore They are much more susceptible to collapse or other falling down During these aftershocks, so please if you think a building looks shaky Do not go into that building without having an engineering report and a survey of that structure Thank you Okay, we'll be taking questions now if there are any from the media Hearing none. I won't thank you everyone for Well, I would just say that we have been working diligently on Implementing an earthquake early warning program throughout the state. There are some pilot projects that have been been working on in Berkeley and down in Southern California And I think the one that you probably heard about in the news was one that announced from Berkeley that they had been able to get a notice within 10 seconds That the earthquake was going to occur that wasn't put out Broadly or widely through the public because the system is not fully in place yet but it does show that the system does have Validity and Will be utilized as we move forward in the development of the rest of the program Well, we're actually Close to getting it complete here in California We're still working on the numbers with regards to the overall cost, but other countries we have met with Japan and Mexico Particularly our neighboring countries where they use an earthquake early warning system And we've taken a lot of the data that they provided as they've developed theirs and we're incorporating that into our system But we're we really are building a much more advanced system because of the the kind of topography and demographics California is the way and that it's designed its size and complexity has to be built out a little bit differently So we're working on that and we're still looking at that two-year time frame to getting that that system in place Absolutely, I mean I think that once this system goes in the place It's gonna have an opportunity to let people know depending on where you're at closest to the fault or so Anywhere from a few seconds up to maybe 90 seconds of warning and that has to be tied with a public education Program or what to do when you get that warning Duck cover and hold getting under something heavy so and something non-structural falling down doesn't doesn't injure you if you're a business or Some sort of a manufacturer you could do something like have automatic systems that could shut off your manufacturing lines or shut the gas lines off Automatically, so there's both a life safety and an economic benefit from having this system in place Yeah, I think we do have a handle on what's happening and that you know probably wasn't till Midday where we got a good good sense of the fact the fires have been put out There's not more fires that power was starting to be restored when when we started we had close to 70,000 without power We're now around around 20,000 The reports coming in from local government started to subside We knowing that local government was getting a handle on There their needs at the local level and then the overflight meeting with them personally gave me a sense that This was while it was bad It wasn't as bad as it could be and it was very manageable from a regional perspective Well, naturally, it's the geology that determines how good or bad a hazard tends to be and in this particular area Even though this was a strong earthquake. It's officially Classified as a strong earthquake the geology of the area is pretty much soft muds and That tended to dampen the surface Shaking in the surface waves that went through the area and with that lack of ground motion we got less shaking onto the structures and Had more of a confined damage area to the Napa American Canyon area with little damage going beyond that We have reports of it being felt as far north as Ukaya and as far south as Salinas Along the central coast and it certainly was felt up here in Sacramento I was met number of our my colleagues indicated that they were they were woken up by by the shaking here in Sacramento I also want to note that many of the folks that were responding to this at the at the local level and both Solano and Napa County most of those responders Those those employees are responding their houses are either damaged or destroyed and so that but they're still out there responding and I Was very very impressed with that today at that commitment that they're they're dealing with this whole thing While their homes are they know their homes are in in kind of shambles so Everybody's really come together on this and I got to say the this really falls into the way we do things in California It's very well coordinated. It's consistent with our plans and we rolled it out efficiently and effectively But always in support of the the people who are impacted by the event And that's that's really where our focus will continue to be as the days go on is making sure that any unmet needs Get met and that individuals that are impacted by by this event are Addressed accordingly any other questions. What's been the biggest struggle? I think the probably the biggest struggle is just is really just been you know initially Like any time after a quake like this. There's always like what I call a dark period powers out Communications is out and it takes a little time to get a good good situational awareness as well I the question earlier Had had contacts is because gave us by midday We got a better sense of really what was happening You think the earthquake happened at 320 in the morning and it took roughly a half a day to really kind of get our hands around The complexity of the event so I think that's probably been the biggest struggle so far outside of that really the Achilles heel of any disaster is is always the long-term recovery and That that's an area that we're all going to continue to have to come together and work to meet additional and new challenges to help that part of the state recover so that we can get back up online and and The economy recovers and people's lives get back to normal Okay, thank you very much for coming


Now, the presidential election petition court sitting in Abuja has given the former vice-president and presidential candidate of the PDP Alhaji Atikwa-Bubakar three weeks that he requested four to call 100 witnesses to prove his case that Tinibu of the APC was not the valid wiener of the presidential election. The Justice Haruna Samani led five-member panel in its pre-hearing report on Tuesday, noted that a total of 166 witnesses would be called to testify in the matter. Chief Chris Uche, S.A.N., cancelled to the PDP, said a court gave INEC two days to present its defense. First track trial. We prepare what is called a witness statement on oath. So all that a witness is supposed to state are already contained there. So no need the witness coming and repeating what is already there. The witness merely adopts that witness statement on and that's what it is. That the pre-hearing session has been speedily concluded by the court. It was done within record time. Now we are going into the proper hearing. Chris Uche added that Tinibu's swearing in is just a ceremony and is not binding to the court. The matter has been adjourned for a week for commencement of actual hearing on the target and people are asking what about 29th? What happens? We want to assure people that swearing in is a ceremony that does not in any way tie the hands of the court. The taking of oath binds the person who took the oath. It doesn't bind the court. The court's jurisdiction is still there to do justice. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay. I have Alex the CMO of List perfectly with me and I'm gonna give her the floor to do a brief introduction and then we're gonna go into a How-to and I'm gonna show you how to cross post an item from eBay To McCurry to Poshmark to Etsy to grail and it sounds like a long process, but it is very quick So I'll let Alex say a few words and then we'll get started. Hi Bolo buddies I'm Alex Shadrow the chief marketing officer CMO at List perfectly List perfectly is the fastest way to cross post your listings across multiple marketplaces and Like Courtney said we're gonna dive right into a demo so you can see how it's done and how much time you will save Yeah, so for me. I think we can just die right in okay And then we'll get into like the different plans and the pricing and all of that good good stuff But just heads up right away So you all know my code is Bolo buddies and if you guys put that in when you sign up You'll get 30% off your first month.  You will like it. So you'll love it I would not like I'm one of those people where I'm not gonna tell you I love it if I don't love it So I love it.  I mean I Did so much better financially There's not been a single month that I you know paid for this perfectly that it didn't paper itself back But the time and the sanity is priceless obviously Yeah, so I listed 3,000 items manually to Poshmark before list perfectly came around So Yeah Okay, so let's go ahead and pull up the screen share Yes, and I'm gonna go over to eBay and I've already got the listing that I'm gonna do I'm just gonna do one of these hats And can you see that okay on your end? I do okay because Courtney has was perfectly installed She gets those green buttons. That's right Yep, so I'm just gonna pick one of these hats because that's an item that I can list to all four sites that I have not Already Cross-posted so right here where it says custom label. This is a little trick or tip I can give you guys What I do is I put where the item is and then I also put that I'm gonna put it on Mercari and I put MC Poshmark at C and then grailed I just write and then I hit submit and then I know when this item sells on any of those platforms Oh, I Don't know why it's rotating so long We're gonna have a hiccup already No, so anyway that custom skew will tell you where the item is so you're less likely to Forget to take it down from another platform and I'm not sure why it's probably just gonna have to reload the page Yeah, hey though not list perfectly, so that's always good. Yeah, that's not list perfectly Let me see if I can find it again here. No problem Wow, what is going on? eBay is on something today. Oh my goodness Well, that is really smart to make that note. I like that Yeah, okay. There's my little I was like my bubbles aren't popping up. Okay. Yeah So when it sells on each platform now, I got to find the hat I was doing Okay, it was not there. Sorry. I had this all up and ready for you guys and of course I can't find the hat now. There was a certain one I wanted to do Oh Great, there we go. Okay. So again, it didn't grab it. So a PM MC Etsy and you guys can come up with your I'll just put gr with your own abbreviations. That's just what I use And then see it grabbed it and it's there Okay, so I'm gonna hit the green dot And it's gonna pull up all the places that you can share to on list perfectly So there's grailed mercari posh mark ebay etsy trade c Facebook and d-pop I choose to go to ebay first Because I don't always list cross post right away and I want it on my main platform, which is ebay So i'm going to go to mercari posh mark etsy And grailed and i'm going to hit copy And you can see over here it is going to pull up the items up here to the side The pages for each of the marketplaces are going to open up And it's going to copy all the information that kourtney already had on ebay to the different platforms So now she doesn't have to do pictures again titles again descriptions again. It's all going to fill out for her Yep, and I am streaming so it may be a little bit slower than it normally is because we're on We're streaming. Um, we're recording on stream yard. So Um, okay, so did I skip one? No posh mark etsy mercari and grailed. Okay, so I am totally new to grailed I just started but I've already sold two things So, um, and you told me you got on grailed because of this perfectly. I did I did Um, I was not going to do grailed and somebody's like just do it and I'm like I guess I can do it. It's you know It's right here for me. You know I've actually sold some things on grilled too Yeah, it's really easy. I mean, it's just trying to like I don't like all the tags and stuff like that Trying to figure out the the new platforms. So this one is completely, um new to me and I think yeah, I'm going to put in navy here and then usa And then I've got 44 dollars on it.  So And typically if you're like really familiar with the website, it's much quicker But again, I don't want to mess up anything. Okay, so I do have to change My um, I have too many characters up here So I'm just going to add made in usa and then I'm going to publish it and that is now on gray old. Yep. And then it's already ready in mercari for me Whoops That one did not load. So I'll have to check that one Okay, so um ready in posh mark Ready in posh mark and it's real easy if that happens. I can show you guys exactly what to do So this I'm going to go under men's and you do have to add some stuff It's not like full proof where it adds everything for you Just because the categories on every marketplace are different. That's why you have to add the categories, but again title color description photos Uh brand conditions sometimes these are all things that was perfectly Has for you and that was actually really fast on posh mark. Normally it takes like five minutes to make a listing on posh mark So that was posh mark is super easy to cross to yes um And then this okay, and then etsy's another one that I'm still kind of new to Like they don't let you have um Like these capital letters that will get you It's really weird. Um So I think it's okay now and then Who made it another company or person a finished product? And I always just put before 2001 because I don't know and it's a hat And I definitely like crossing to posh mark and mercari the best because I'm the most comfortable with Those those platforms like I get a little bit stuck on some of these things So the style I don't know athletic We'll just get down here and do vintage Hat back Maybe Oops I'm under pressure here under pressure No, those look great. And then I'm gonna do free shipping. I'm just gonna put in two pounds I know it weighs less than that, but it's free shipping. So it doesn't really matter Just do a seven four. I can go back and edit some of this And for some reason you have to hit that publish two times before it'll take Okay, so for some reason the mercari did not load.   Let's see. Where's the hat and I'm just gonna hit mercari and I'm gonna copy And it should pull it right up here And I never have problems with it loading to mercari. I'm surprised that did that No, it might just be something with ebay because ebay's been acting up. I don't there's no problem across. Yeah, there was one day when I couldn't find anything on ebay and it was some yeah for some reason it's not loading to This looks different Maybe I Huh This is totally different mercari must have done an update Maybe. Yeah, this is not how it normally looks And it's not pulling over the information Okay, so maybe mercari did an update which means you guys are gonna have to do another update. Oh my gosh Happens all the time. We're ready for it. Yeah, let me try it one more time You may want to like reload the whole page sadly, but we'll see You mean just reload this again. Okay I think it's something I I think mercari changed something like today They might have I was cross posting earlier today and didn't have any issues and I did I will say items. Yeah, it just looked different Let me see here Yeah, because mercari I love mercari It's super super super quick and super easy And mercari's been making a lot of updates also I personally do really wider and totally different Okay, it's not it's not grabbing the other stuff. So I'm guessing that that's what's going on Which I'm sure you guys will have an update within the next day or two because it's usually really really fast Okay, so anyway with mercari, you're gonna the title will already be there the description will already be there See the tags were used to be one row And now they've got it in three sections So yeah, it's definitely definitely is probably good because mercari is doing updates So um, yeah, but then you just fill in the information. So super super easy And let me get back to stream yard And I'm oh, let me also share with you guys one other thing Um, and I have a whole video on this There is bulk cross posting and I'll let alex go into this more But basically you hit this button And then you click on the items that you want And then you go like this and you pick which platform and you hit copy And it will open up all of the items you highlighted and all of the places you highlight them Pulls up all the tabs and they are ready for ready for you to just go and cross So this is our this is one of our most popular features. It's called bulk cross posting It allows you to cross post multiple items at the same time I personally like doing 10 items at a time just because I find that that's a really good number easy to You know remember where I left off But I know people that do 150 at a time So just go crazy with the bulk cross posting and love that on oh me too. I love it And uh, you get it on our business and pro plan only not the simple plan Which is actually a good transition so we can go through the pricing. Okay. All right. Let me uh, grab that awesome And I've already got it pulled up here and we're going to go down to the different plans Is that good for you? Can you see that? Totally so like the biggest difference between the symbol of the business and the pro is that bulk cross posting It's that second row Like we just said on the symbol plan you need to cross post your items one by one But on the business or pro you do get to bulk cross post so that is by far the biggest difference Also, you get more details with every plan So on the simple plan the image the title in the description will copy over And nothing else on the business plan you get a lot more, right? You get the color you get the size you get the material keywords Those are all things that copy over When you're listing making it even faster and of course on the pro plan You get things like weight and dimensions or how much it costs to ship so That's even faster, but I do think the business plan is the way to go Again, you get 30 off with the code Bolo buddies And it's really like our most popular plan people that are on the business plan absolutely love it and It pays for itself every single month because and I think Courtney We're going to dive into this in a little bit when you're on more marketplaces you reach new customers. It's just You know Exactly and even if you're selling one item a week 20 dollars a week, let's say That more than pays for the business plan. So highly recommend That's our most popular plan Yeah, I do the business plan and I absolutely love it and like you said I always tell people People that sell on mercari buy on mercari because mercari when you sell It's not like ebay where you transfer the money automatically. It sits in your account and you can spend it Same with poshmark.  So I buy from mercari poshmark and ebay, but I sell on all of them And I did not start buying on poshmark and mercari until I started selling on those platforms So I definitely believe that that is 100 true. So Now do they need to know the number of products in your catalog or anything like that is that Yeah, so this is only important if you plan on starting your listings on list perfectly So if you plan to actually create your item your listing On list perfectly. This is how many items you get to store in your list perfectly catalog So you can store 100 on the symbol plan you can store 300 on the base plan You can store 500 on the pro plan and then you can also get add-ons Which are just a little bit more so a little bit more money onto the monthly fee if you need more on list perfectly But again, this is only for people that are actually storing their items on now Can you tell me what benefit there would be to start it on list perfectly? Oh, yeah, definitely. So before we get into the benefits, the way that Courtney just cross posted was not Through her list perfectly catalog. She started on ebay. She went to poshmark. She went to um grill. She went to Etsy and she would have gone to mercari if we didn't have that little glitch but um I was like cross posting on mercari early today. So I'm sure it's fine, but Anyways, that was not in the list perfectly catalog. So if you were to start your listing on list perfectly First of all, the upload process is going to be the longest upload process of any of the marketplaces Because we ask for so many things And that means that when you cross post everything's already there for you because you filled it out that one time on List perfectly. It's like we take all the cell pages from every marketplace We get every piece of information that you could ever need and then when you're cross posting it's all filled out So that's one of the big benefits. And then the other one of course is our delist relist feature so If you have an item that's sold we delisted for you Then you can also relist if you're a person that likes to do the delisting and the relisting So that's another really really big benefit And of course the analytics are really great to know where you sold things where profit is What your average price point is those are all things that we tell you in our analytics So when you say so if I had it in the catalog and it sold on ebay I could come into list perfectly remove it from the catalog and it would take it off all the platforms Yes, you would mark the item as sold and that would immediately trigger it to go off of all the platforms Okay, but it does not automatically do that for you So we call it to send me automatic because you indicate that it's sold You say hey this sold and then we automatically delete it. You don't have to go one by one and delete it Okay, but it's not something that's automatic at this point It's not fully automatic, but it will be very very soon. I would say no later than 2021 So it is coming very soon Okay, so because I know that's a feature that a lot of people want Is that automatic removal from all the sites when it sells on a certain platform? But they are going to have to pay for like I have Like 5000 plus listings. So obviously that's not going to work for me because that would be crazy You know what? I mean crazy expensive because I have so many listings Um, but for somebody who had a you know smaller store that would be ideal for them, correct? Totally and I will say most people do Uh, just cross posts from their existing platforms doing this perfectly That's like the typical way to do it But like we just discussed there are a lot of benefits to starting on this perfectly as well Right, okay, and that may be once you guys start to offer That additional feature where it takes it off the platforms People may start using That feature more Yeah, definitely Yeah, no, I think that that's going to be really great when it's automatic I know for me that's going to make a big difference in my own business as well. Yeah Um, but one thing I will say is it's really easy to import your listings to list perfectly as well So you don't have to like start from scratch. You can Actually when you click that green button Okay, when we did it, uh, one of the options was actually list perfectly. Yeah Impore your items to this. Oh, okay. So if in the future I decided, okay I want this feature because it's going to pull it from everywhere and I'm not going to have to worry about Oh, I sold it and forgot to take it down Then I would just exactly everything to list perfectly Exactly makes sense. Okay. Okay. That was one of my questions for you actually so, um But yeah, as I was saying before when I first started Poshmark They didn't have anything like this and I had to um screenshot all of my photos for each item Because I didn't save my photos. Wow over 3 000 listings. I manually cross posted to Poshmark. So It was awful. It took me like three months. It was awful. So, um, Yeah, now that I can only imagine how bad that was but I think even just hearing from you I think that the audience would really like appreciate that like don't you find that list perfectly does pay for itself because you're just Oh my gosh, new audiences. Yes. I mean it it's it's worth every penny every penny I mean the time saving aspect of it.  Sorry I'm sending offers to people so I can do my thing over here while everything loads because I'll do you know 15 20 at a time and those 15 or 20 are going to three sites So, you know, it might take five to seven minutes because I'm doing so many But then they're all loaded and you can just go boom boom boom and work your right down the line and then they're listed It's amazing. So yeah, I absolutely love it. No, I love it too because I like I was saying I discovered it as a reseller Myself not even as somebody that was applying for a job there. Yeah. So it's yeah, it's just I have my own stories my own war stories like I had a Warehouse that was exploding with inventory that I had to get rid of and I just couldn't bear the idea of sending it all to Thread up because I knew I wasn't going to get anything on that right. So I was just like, how am I going to do this? I discovered this perfectly and I was like You do this So Yeah, that's my story. Yeah And then I think we were going to go over some of the things that We have in the that you can expect in the future from most perfectly. Yeah. Yeah. Tell us about that. Yeah, definitely So already tomorrow we're launching a new marketplace. It's kittison which is Yes So good and they have actually a women's section as well Like you can actually sell women's clothes on there too Okay, people really didn't know that and they have um half a million sellers So if you think about poshmark, they have five million sellers Not that much smaller, right for a new marketplace Like I know obviously five millions a lot more than half a million But they're definitely coming up as one of the leading marketplaces And it's the best place to sell kids clothes. That is for sure So we just launched that coming up next is Shopify and I know a lot of people are excited about Shopify Um getting on Shopify is really going to change your game because when you have a Shopify account It's like having your own website. So you really own all the sales. You don't pay a commission to Shopify at all There's no commission that you pay to Shopify um, you just pay for Shopify itself and also The tools that come with Shopify are game changers. So for example With your Shopify store, you can actually sync your products to instagram where people can click and check out Right from instagram. So that's a really big thing For people also, I don't know anything about Shopify. I'm going to be doing It's such a good platform. It's like I would say the second biggest to amazon When it comes to products and then every single month, we're adding a new marketplace So there's always more audiences to reach. There's always new buyers to kind of connect to through list perfectly um, and then also, of course, we already talked about it a little bit but automating that D list feature is coming soon as well. So those are some of the things that we have planned for the near future Okay, that is awesome and now so for somebody like me that has a 5000 listings or whatever if I decided to do Because I saw that the pro plan was it, um How many did that one have it's 500 Okay, so it's only 500 stored you get unlimited cross posts. I want to make that clear All your 5000 items, right? As much as I want so right now that's just included in my 49 99 but if I wanted to choose the option of where it's gonna Take it like I'm going to start it at list perfectly and import everything there How is that going to like? Is there a price plan for a bigger store? Yeah, absolutely. So it's just an add-on And we actually charge less than a penny per listing for the per storage right for the add-on. So Let's say you wanted to add on 10,000 products. So you'd have 10,500 uh Spaces right to store your products in your catalog That would be an additional 70 dollars a month and that's like the max it could be in terms of how expensive it was So that would be uh 139 dollars a month. But again, you'd have 10,500 right and that's in crazy catalog So it's pretty cheap. You know what I mean when you think about how much storage you're getting Yeah, our pricing is really affordable. Yeah, and that's only if you want it to deactivate them If I can manually go in and do that right now, but that works for me But that would be a nice feature for sure Oh, yeah, and I mean I think once it's automated and you have that many items it would make total sense I want to go back to that so because most people don't have crazy amounts of items like Me so For the people that are interested because I do get that question all the time. Are they deactivating them from the other sites? So with the business plan 300 listings would be included Yes, and then an additional thousand so 1300 would be an additional 10 a month, that's it. Okay So really here's the extra I see it now. Okay. Yeah, that's awesome Okay, and then I also choose to just do A percentage of my store and not everything, you know, oh, yeah do that Okay, absolutely and like again every plan comes with unlimited cross posting you can cross a hundred thousand items If you had a hundred thousand it's just how many you can store in this perfectly And storing it in this perfectly does give you access to that d-list feature. Right. Okay. Yep But if I keep doing it just the way I'm doing it, it's 49 99 a month and I can do as much as I want anytime I want and It's amazing All right, um, I'm trying to think if there was what else I I know we had oh We got a story The giveaway also. Oh, yeah, of course. I think that's all we have left. I went through our list also Like we covered everything. Yeah, and you know, my favorite thing is just how much time it saves me, you know And I really think that the 49 99 a month is very reasonable for the amount of time that I mean You guys once you try it, you'll completely understand. That's all I got to say Sign up use the code bolo buddies that gets you 30 off. Like she said, there's a three day Um, I hate it.   That's right and We had people sign up on my facebook group, which I don't know what happened because I I don't know if I just didn't advertise it right or if people weren't seeing the post But not very many people signed up. So lucky for the people that signed up. We have 37 entries so That's those are pretty good odds. So and I will um Definitely continue to share like I always do because I love this program But I'm gonna pull up the random Name generator and if they already have list perfectly They just get a month free, correct? That's right. Okay. So they're still eligible and I think I put that in all rules Okay, so I've got it already up One to 37 and can you see the screen share? Okay. Yeah. All right. So I'm just gonna hit generate and then I'm gonna go see who it is on facebook number seven So I am looking at my phone right now to see who number seven is Number seven is jeff canon Jeff A month of list perfectly So um, and then there were mailers, right? Yes. Okay. So how many of those were there? We got three winners for the mailers. So jeff already got some mailers with his winning We have two more people to select for some compostable mailers. Okay. So jeff gets one of them and then there's 10 of them and then the others who get five Okay, so I'm gonna number 23 All right, I'm scrolling on my phone to see if I can find this here 23 is carol summers We'll just say carol summers. Okay. Awesome. One of those Yes, and we are gonna number 10 Who is number 10?  And then I will take questions from anybody watching down in the comments And I'm sure that alex can check back at the comments section also and we can answer any questions You guys might have I know I got into a little bit of detail on the Deactivating it from the sites and you know the additional cost for that So I hope I didn't confuse anyone But I know there are some people in my facebook group that have asked me about that feature So I wanted to make sure that we um made sure that we talked about that for those people that were Wondering because I know there's a few that have bigger stores and I know there's one guy That he uses the the catalog Is that what it's called the catalog the catalog Yeah, because he's like you should be using the catalog and I'm like I I personally use the catalog I love it, but I like most people don't so No question So somebody was asking me and this is just good information for everyone They're like do you start with ebay? All the time and I'm like I like to start with ebay because that's my main platform But like the other day I was doing toys and I like to get my stuff my toys on mercari first Because I feel like toys sell quicker on mercari And I'm not kidding like I listed them to mercari and two items had sold within an hour of me listing it So I didn't even get to cross post them to the other platforms But like today I cross posted all of those items over to the other platforms and mercari was working fine today So it must be a very recent update. So yeah, it must be because I was working for me too Yeah, I mean I cross posted like And for yeah, and for anyone watching like if there's ever List perfectly works perfectly. It really does sometimes the marketplaces themselves make an update and then usually within 24 hours We're right updated with that. You guys are definitely on top of things. Yeah Yeah, and it's like sometimes I'll be like what's going on. They're like, oh they made an update So you just need to go in and re um reinstall, which is takes two seconds and then it Seconds two seconds. It's so easy So yeah, you guys put your comments and your questions down in the disc At the comment section of the video. I was about to say the description And also, um, I wanted to touch on this Uh list perfectly also has a youtube channel. So if you guys are not subscribed definitely go check that out And I don't know alex Do you want to tell us about this super seller sessions that you're doing? So every thursday on instagram live on atlas perfectly's instagram Okay, we interview top resellers with their tips tricks and we say no bs advice Because we really feel like Where can you get the best information from the people that are doing it and people that are making money doing it And people that are dedicating their lives to it So we interview top resellers every thursday and then we repost the uh session onto our youtube So if you can't make it if you're not available, you know at 4 p.m. On thursday, then it's right on our youtube as well Okay, so instagram or youtube they can watch that. Yes awesome. Okay Yeah, I just saw that today. I'm so behind on all of my youtube watching I've been so busy. I'm like I need to list. I need to get things listed, you know, because youtube takes up a lot of your life. So Mm-hmm. Definitely figuring that out Okay, you have any other questions or any comments or anything else that you wanted to say I think we covered everything and definitely thank you so much for um the giveaway and I will be in touch with their information So thank you so much. Courtney and thank you everyone for watching. Thank you. Willow buddies This was so much fun and I really hope that you know You just give it a try because it really is going to change your life and make it better Oh my god, Courtney and I it is amazing. Yep. I love it All right, you guys there'll be additional information down in the description of the video Check that out. Be sure to like comment subscribe and share. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video