I'd like to welcome everyone and thank you for coming. This is how to make screencasts and explainers people love. And as I'm not kidding when I was saying that the people who want to know more about this, you are my people because that's kind of always how I've been with video. I am an audio guy. I do podcasts, I do voiceover work, but I've always kind of had this interest in video. I do video some for work and I'm getting more into this and this whole idea of explainers kind of came to me because I would do a lot of voiceover work and explainer video scripts come in all the time and I see some really really good ones and I see some that aren't so good. So I see these scripts I'm like I really kind of want to understand how this process works. I want to know how to get better at this so when my clients are bringing me stuff I can say hey have you considered you don't typically do that but the more value that I could add I thought this would be a good way to learn more about it. So I started studying how explainer videos work and when I got into it I was really surprised at how straightforward it is. There's a lot of mystery it seems like how do they make it do all that stuff it's so cool but it's really there's a formula for it and it's really once you know the formula this gets pretty easy so today that's what I want to focus on. I want to kind of get a lay of the land to kind of talk about what video is and why video itself is such an engaging form of content. I want to kind of lay out that framework that structure for how an explainer video works how you do the whole setup and then at the end kind of give you some resources some things to consider if you want to do this yourself or maybe even hire it out does that sound good. All right great then let's get started I always like to start with context and that's been a big theme for me this year context Simon Sinek start with why why you know why do we want to talk about videos why is video so engaging. I saw the statistic and I thought this was pretty amazing the state of video and the internet it was an article in Forbes I think it was last year the year before by 2021 this is according to Cisco 80% of the internet traffic will be video. I saw it and I was like no way there are not that many people on YouTube watching cat videos no no way Facebook maybe no but I started thinking about all the social media applications and then it really dawned on me Netflix Hulu HBO all the streaming services that are coming online that's feeding a lot of that but that's very telling because what that's saying is that video is a very engaging form of content it is very easy to get sucked into video because it speaks to your brain much more than just hearing something or just reading something it engages you in in two ways the other thing about video though the problem with it is it's really hard to get people's attention if you don't get their attention in the first five to ten seconds they're gone scrolling past next show me something that delights me so that's the that's the trick with video and so I want to I want to kind of lay that out for you that saying when you're going to be doing video content the one thing you have to understand is you've got to hook them fast all right so let's find out a little bit more about how video works so you can learn how to hook them fast and it has to do with how the brain works so let's find out I'm going to try to get to some as loud as I can you have the greatest product since sliced bread but you also have a problem not many people know what your product is or why they be interested in it how do you solve that explainer videos now we all know the value of explaining something but why your video is so popular for doing that well there are many reasons video is great for explaining things but one of the best is voiceover see research has found that presentations with words and images are 50% more effective when the words are communicated verbally rather than visually what explains this the dual channel hypothesis which says that the brain receives information through two channels our eyes and our ears why is this important well each channel has a limited capacity for comprehension meaning too much information coming into one channel can cause an overload interfering with comprehension but what if some of that information was directed instead to the other unused channel you no longer have information overload meaning better comprehension of your product now you're thinking that's really cool but what does that have to do with explainer videos well the thing with people these days is that they get bored quickly which is a real bummer because there are a lot of amazing things you want to explain to them about your product so the more information you can communicate to them in a short amount of time the better and this is where instead of someone's eyes having to juggle both pictures and words in visual form they focus on the pictures with their visual channel and the words through their auditory channel which means people will quickly understand your product before yeah that happens okay that was used by permission I did ask column five if I could show that and they agreed and I'm thankful for that does that make sense to you why that's so engaging is this dual something called the dual channel hypothesis there's really three components of that dual channel hypothesis the first thing is if you I don't know if you caught that is that we tend to take information in both from our ears and our eyes at least when we're talking about video the more senses you can incorporate into a message the more experiential it is for your your listener or your audience the more they're going to remember that the problem that you have when you're appealing to just one channel whether it's visual or auditory is that channel can become overwhelmed it's very easy to shove too much information in that pipe and they're like I can't take it that's why when you're bringing it in and multiple from multiple sources it's retained better and we'll talk a little bit more that about that in just a moment and finally the reason that this works is the way the brain kind of organizes and creates schemas or meanings and information is it takes all of those different sensory inputs and very quickly says this belongs with this this belongs with this and all of those neurons start firing together and the more senses you can engage in any kind of experience the more your mind holds on to it so this dual channel hypothesis kind of explains why we love video so much it's because it's so much more engaging our brain remembers it better and it holds on to it more so when you think about creating content you always want to think is there a way that I can bring video into this because it will help people remember more video and audio together are very very powerful any questions on that before I move on on dual channel hypothesis it's kind of geeky but it's cool no okay so let me give you a little more reason for the marketers out here why would we consider wanting to use video in our content mix I thought this was actually kind of amazing 90 percent of people say that they've used video to help make them make a purchasing decision I have I have I would much rather see a video than just read something I want to read it but I also want to see the video very very helpful including video on your landing page increases conversions by up to 80 percent now this may or may not be true because I've seen statistics that say it can be anywhere from 20 to 140 percent or higher I think it's going to depend on the use case but what I want you to know about that is including video on your landing page works a lot better than not including video on your landing page we really don't care about executives but the important thing to remember here is that if given a choice between just written content and a video people are going to skew more towards wanting to watch video but if you have both written content and video you get them both so always remember that video is going to be that thing that gives people an option to engage with you at a little deeper of a level and finally 80 percent of people remember seeing a video that they've watched in the last 30 days it's kind of a non-stat stat but if you think about it you remember the commercials I remember the commercials I see and maybe even the TV programs I see far better than the things I've read in the last 30 days so video is much more engaging so would we all agree that video yeah it's it's probably a good idea to at least be thinking about it we might want to consider doing some video with our WordPress site yes yes okay is lunch kicking in am I losing everyone okay so yes we all agree video works but we're here to talk about explainer videos does anybody have a good definition of what an explainer video is anyone want to take a guess before we get going oh okay we'll take one in the back I like it actually works pretty good it's a self descriptive title yeah and it does so in a very engaging way that makes it very understandable for people that's a perfect definition but there's not just it's not just explainer videos right there's not just one kind there's all kinds of explainer videos and we're going to talk about the different kinds first because I want you to see that the explainer video format that you choose is going to depend on what you want to achieve so let's take a little bit of time to watch another video another explainer video on explainer videos I get it it's meta so we can just see what kind of landscape we're working with here did you know that using video in your landing pages can increase conversion rates by as much as 80% videos keep customers on your page longer giving your marketing message more time to sink in thing is not all videos are created equal let me put it this way a marketing video is like the type of clothes you wear you can't wear the same outfit to go to a rock concert a job interview and your cousin's wedding right likewise animated explainer videos come in all sorts of styles each tailored to different audiences let's take a look at some of the most popular a screencast video is a simple low budget type of video that showcases how your product or service works they're more about education and branding but these work well for prospects who like to try before they buy cartoon style videos are all about storytelling your company is the hero who saves the day by solving your customer's problem they're usually pretty funny and are great for humanizing your brand and building trust the characters represent your various brand personas so it's important to know the gender age and interests of your target market if you're targeting end users small businesses or startups cartoon style videos are a great choice whiteboard animation is a super engaging technique because the content is created in front of the viewer's eyes these videos are great for explaining complex information in a straightforward way and ideal if you're marketing it solutions or computer software motion graphics offer an elegant and engaging style for businesses with a more serious profile like financial institutions you can even add some 3d animation to make the video more impressive now you have a better idea of what kind of video could work for your landing page to convert like crazy as for what to wear to your next pitch sorry we can't help you there used by permission by yang mem videos uh make sense 2d 3d animation whiteboards explain our uh screencast motion graphics for main kinds there's a lot of different kinds of explainer videos don't think you're ever limited to one format because all of these formats have evolved over the last five to ten years there's going to be something new something somebody's doing but the principles of the explainer video remain the same regardless of which format you're using so let's figure out how we're going to get started creating these explainer videos like i said context is really important to me it's something that i've really started to see the value of in the last year and when we go to make an explainer video context is important we have to know what we're trying to do what's the outcome we're looking for before we get going if you can't answer the question what am i doing what is the outcome i want and what problem i'm trying to solve for my customer you're going to get lost as you go through this if you know where you want to end up it's much easier to create the roadmap to get there so before you ever start before you get the animation software before you do anything else start figuring out what the outcome you want is spend some time doing that if you think i promise it will pay you back because that will be the through line that carries through on your whole project and quick aside so what problem are you trying to solve make sure the problem you're trying to solve is a problem your customer want solved i was in a session yesterday on freelance and matt kasner was talking about how he had done a powerpoint presentation fixed a powerpoint presentation for an executive who wrote this incredible testimonial for him said how great he was and how knowledgeable was and how and he told me you know there really wasn't a whole lot to it the problem was this lady had hired a few different companies to fix her problem none of them listened to her all she wanted done was something very simple that he went in and fixed that anyone with any knowledge of powerpoint could do and she loved it that was absolutely what she wanted but the problem was the other companies were trying to solve a problem she didn't want solved and she was mad at them so you may know the right thing to do but it isn't necessarily what the customer wants you to do sometimes you have to solve the problem that they want solved before you can educate them on the problem they need to solve so make sure that when you're before you start on an explainer video you're solving the problem that the customer wants solved again before we break out the animation software we need to know who our audience is demographics psychographics and avatars we all are familiar with demographics right that's what the government loves to collect information on demographics who people are how much they make where they live where they went to school all of that objective data that's collected about your life demographics objective what about psychographics that's the kind of a different term you may or may not have heard of does anyone know what psychographics are go ahead take a what's your when i was a mayor we hired a company when we were trying to develop some land of what kind of retail we would want that would fit in our area and so we looked at psychographics for the area right and it looks at will they buy from a hardware store what are they you know what are they looking what are my neighbors looking at what are their interests yeah what are their concerns their interests what are the what are they what are their problems what are the things that they deal with the psychographics how how people think how they live yeah industry it goes much deeper than just knowing that someone lives in a certain neighborhood and makes seventy five thousand dollars in household income and has a college education or not this answers the question of what kind of beer do they like to drink on Friday night and are they going to go to a bar to drink that are they going to go to the local convenience store and buy it right so psychographics goes a little deeper now if we really want to personalize this we use something called avatars i need my marketing people avatars anyone want to take a stab at it what an avatar is not the movie by james cameron exactly exactly it is a personification of your ideal customer it's a fictionalized version of who your product is perfect for all right and you're in in my case my my avatar is bill and bill has a college degree he has an undergrad but not a masters and he's been married for 13 years he has two kids and his wife is is janey and janey does not like bill hanging out with his best friend and the more you develop this backstory about your avatar the more and this avatar should reflect your customer the more you understand the demographic and psychographics and build your avatar around those the more you can create and this is where it gets cool you can create the characters for your cartoon explainer videos because the characters in your cartoon explainer videos are your avatars they're who the story is about because when your customers come to see that this they're going oh my gosh this is me how does this company know this is exactly what i'm dealing with that's why knowing your audience before you do an explainer video is critical to getting it right and the avatar becomes the main character that you rescue in your explainer video so that's the basics of now i think we're ready to start talking about explainer videos all that to get here the structure of an explainer video is actually very easy there's really only four things that you really in general have to keep your keep an eye on when you do an explainer video the first is your storyboard and script the next is your voiceover after that your music bed very important and finally the animation if you can pay attention to those four things if you can make sure that you address those four things you have the structure for an explainer video but just because you have the structure of a building right if you've ever watched a skyscraper go up i wanted to find like this see other all the framework is is on that picture in the background that doesn't tell you what the final room is going to look like but it does mean that whatever you build has a solid base around it so you can kind of move the pieces around inside of that you're going to have to have a storyboard of voiceover music and and animation for your explainer how you do that well we'll find out let's start with the script the script and storyboard we'll start start with the script there's two kinds of scripts that i want to talk about today and the first one i'm just going to kind of breeze through because it's less germane because wouldn't people think explainer videos a lot of times they think the animated ones that's what everybody loves right now but there's also something called a process overview and a process overview just really takes you through the process of trying to solve a problem we were talking about it mentioned screencast earlier screencasts are a great way to do a process overview explainer because a process overview explainer starts with the person's problem the example that i thought of just a second ago was my friend bill who's moonlighting at macy's to make a few extra dollars so he can send the kids to college but bill has a problem at macy's bill doesn't know how to use the software at work all right so bill has to learn how to use the p o s system at macy's while a process explainer would be a great way to do that because in a process explainer what we would do is it would say hi this is bill bill works at macy's and bill has a problem he doesn't know how to use it if you want to learn how to use the p o s software here's what you do to ring a customer up so i'm addressing the specific problem and i'm taking bill through in a screencast showing him what to click on to ring a customer out i'm solving a specific problem here is the process of using the software for solving that problem does that make sense so when you're doing screencasts using a process overview script would be a great way to do that the other way is problem solution and we've watched two explainer videos that are animation and both of those use this framework called problem solution it is a classic storyboard or excuse me classic explainer video script formula if you can do the problem solution script you can do so much marketing with it it doesn't just have to be explainer video so how does it work it uses something called spec sp ec don't take a picture yet let me get the rest of it up there you'll get it all okay a problem solution script starts off by stating the problem what's the problem that our person has and we provide the solution we explain how the solution works and we finish with a call to action so how does that look let's go back to our friend bill at macy's uh we'll use the the very cliche explainer video start hi this is bill and bill works at macy's bill has a problem bill doesn't know how to count change in the first five seconds i've introduced the problem bill doesn't know how to count change now there's something about the human mind and how it works it hates and loves a mystery i've opened a loop it's a cognitive loop that when you open a cognitive loop by asking a question the mind wants to answer it what time is it oh because you answered my question thank you it creates engagement but you want to do that remember at the beginning when i say you have five to ten seconds to hook somebody right there the problem is the hook he has a problem i work at macy's and i don't know how to count change okay so that's how we get that then we provide the solution bill's boss tells him he needs to go to the change academy okay the solution is the change academy so now we spend about the next 30 to 60 30 to 60 seconds talking about just meant we do the solution and explaining how it works bill walks into the change academy he goes to here and here and the change academy shows him how to subtract from 100 bill does 100 minus 78 100 minus 50 and they explain how i go into the change academy and how the change academy works and then oh bill is so happy now because now he works at macy's and he can count back change to customers but no one uses cash anymore so it doesn't work but you know what i'm saying this is kind of we explain the whole process out and at the end we always end with a call to action the reason you end with a call to action is the customer or the viewer has to know what to do next if you don't tell them what happens next they go that was nice it was funny usually the call to action would be go to blah blah blah blah and slash login to sign up today or call this number and sign up today if you listen to any commercial especially local tv that when they end with the telephone number or especially radio ads that's what they do they end with a call to action all persuasion is with a call to action so that formula right there is a classic explainer video cartoon script i have a problem here's the solution here's how the solution works now do this and what that does is that creates a nice little storyline in which a character faces an obstacle overcomes the obstacle and then becomes you're actually your product is the hero who helps them get the result that they want out of life make sense okay cool storyboarding i didn't use to believe not waterboarding storyboarding i didn't use to believe in because i think i just know what i want to do but the storyboard is really an essential element to creating anything where there's visual elements this is a classic kind of storyboard setup you usually have a timeline in one column what your audio is going to have your audio is typically going to be your script your special effects in your music instructions for what you want to have happen the video will usually have pictures and if you've ever we've ever watched behind disney scenes or pics are and they show the storyboards we all know what this kind of idea is and that's just a classic example but you don't have to do it like that that's just one way to do it has anyone heard of the company videos there's a company called videos viddyoze.com they do some incredible motion graphics for intros and outros logos and that kind of thing this is kind of how they do it they do a list storyboard here's generally how i want this to flow so they create a flow we're going to do an entry then i'm going to show my first piece footage then i'm going to do a transition i'm going to show my second piece of footage and they create a list and after they have their list and they say okay let's put some boxes around these list items okay and then what we're going to say under there and then they kind of fill that in so that's kind of their technique i think that's kind of an interesting way to do it if you don't like the table form i'm not a big excel person so i kind of like this too this for me list make boxes what goes in the boxes what am i going to say that seems pretty straightforward the most important thing is that everybody agrees that this is how the production is going to go that's the important thing that you have to have about the storyboard the storyboard becomes the central document that governs how we're going to move forward in the creative process it's a living document it can change but it doesn't change unless we all agree it changes and that's what storyboarding is all about it's working out those differences in the script but do storyboard your process write your script and then work that in with the storyboard voiceover voiceover is one of my favorite parts just simply because i'm biased do the voiceover before the animation if you want to make life horrible on a voiceover artist tell them i've created the video it's 30 seconds you need to do a 30 second voiceover and then provide them with a 780 word script to fit in 30 seconds it's not going to happen and then they come back and say can you cut out this part or can you re-record that do your voiceover part for that just makes life so much easier it's a little bit easier to adjust the video to the voiceover in my opinion match the tone with the intent did you catch in those explainer videos kind of the the tone was a friendly upbeat tone that's because they're wanting to create good will in the script so you don't want to do a voiceover script that doesn't match for example we wouldn't do does everyone remember is it who this the humane society or aspca the sarah mcgloughlin eyes of an angel thing where the sad puppy dog eyes and you're like oh my gosh i want to buy this puppy i got to rescue them well think about that that upbeat voiceover with that commercial millions of puppies die every year and you can help it doesn't go you know there's a reason so you just want to make sure that the voiceover if you are doing something more serious more of a psa type of thing make sure that you give instruction to your voiceover artist that hey this is a serious read it's psa we need something that's that's very dramatic and heavy or we want something upbeat and friendly and conversational and finally don't be afraid to hire it out i know you've all the worst thing that a business owner can do is think that they need to be the face and voice of their business it's sometimes it that is true but if you do not have a face for video or a voice for audio it's okay to have a professional come in and do it i think of some of the radio commercials for like remodeling companies and you get the and i'm sorry that old crusty guy call my company we do great work we come highly recommend i don't want to call them gosh dang i don't even want to hang out with that guy you know fine if you can't do it it's okay vio is actually really pretty inexpensive so find the voice that really captures the mood and that you're trying to create it's very important so make sure that if you own the business and you don't think you can pull it off or you don't have the equipment to pull it off don't do it hire it out i'm trust me your customers will thank you for it and you'll be happier with the end result and finally um this is one i think rob you've told me this before people will forgive bad video before they will forgive bad audio bad audio in a video makes you not want to watch the video bad video you're like i'll tolerate it as long as i can hear what's going on so make sure that you get your audio right music i'll get on my soapbox here just really quickly on this point respect the intellectual property of other people don't steal your music make sure you have rights to it i'm not an attorney consult your attorney before you use your music but just make sure that you have the rights to use that music especially if it's going to out commercially don't steal choose music just like the voiceover choose music that reflects the tone that you want to set typically in an explainer video it's going to be a happy upbeat tone you're wanting to create good feelings about your company and goodwill choose the music that reflects that and finally make sure that your music complements your vo if you have chosen a voiceover artist who has a very high soprano type of voice don't choose music that's flutes and piccolo's right makes sense i mean there's things that audio engineers can do to compensate for that but for the average do it yourself just try to make sure that your music isn't overriding what your voiceover artist is saying or writing in the same frequency so it's hard for the listener to hear all right just give you other sites to go to whether i mean like the pictures they told us there are sites to go to there's for free not so much um when you're dealing with video are you wanting to are you looking for free or are you looking for paid services just that are royalty free yes there are okay fair enough um audio blocks is a big one for music audio blocks uh audio a blocks yeah um you can i probably wouldn't work if you were going to do something for your business youtube has a a public domain library that you can use for your youtube videos i don't know what the commercial if there's any commercial restrictions on those i don't think there is i have reference i have a sheet it's not up but it'll be on the web my website on monday i'll have all my references and resources lined up for for that absolutely but i want to kind of take a little bit to show you how important music is now this what i've done is i've taken music that is explainer video that you typically hear in an explainer video and i've just put two pictures with it and what i want you to watch this and i want you to just kind of within yourself go what's the emotional response that i'm having based based on this music that is the music impacting me emotionally not that we animation do we go did i skip it there we go i think i'll probably have to go back and manually start it anyone have any feedback yeah so did the music impact how you were feeling like when a different song came on did it delicit kind of a different feeling to watch this child these children growing up or that child growing right oh that's perfect thank you that's excellent feedback anyone else want to add yeah for me the very first one played more happy more of a happy tone gable and then kind of went into that second tone to me was more of a if it was a little bit lower would have just been more of a monotone background to me the second first one was playful a beat and the whole thing like she said but the next one kind of was more of a monotone it was just a little bit wider background it didn't it didn't excite me but it didn't make me feel sad just have a more of a monotone mid non offensive just very okay yeah that's awesome yeah for me the first one was kind of like well we're on an adventure run adventure and then then the second one was very nostalgic it's like oh maybe this is in the past yeah i know exactly what you're talking about when that second one comes up and that music comes on you're like oh you know you want to go run towards that little girl toddling right so hands over here anyone want to jump in no yeah go ahead in both of my i wanted the people to start moving because the music was maybe they'll eventually start moving i don't know it was just interesting okay that's that's interesting here's the interesting thing okay first of all i picked the songs before i even found the pictures all right i just put the music together and then i was like what goes up puppies and kids emotional appeal so i'm like okay i'll just throw some kids in the only things that were different in any of that the only changes that were happening the songs were changing and the camera was panning and zooming okay i wasn't trying to create any kind of an emotional appeal to any of you i did not know what you were going to say or how this was going to impact but i wanted to hear how the music impacted you emotionally because i wanted to make the point that music is emotion in an explainer video so when you pick your music be very cognizant of the emotion that it creates in you because it's going to affect different people differently and it's very it's good i'm glad that a lot of people said it was fun it was upbeat and adventure because that's kind of what i thought too but if i had picked can you imagine now we go back to that one with the dogs and the crates and their broken windows and children and the sad music with that how much does the story change you become it's much different i probably should have done that for this but do you see the impact and why the choice of music is so important finally animation and i left animation last for a reason because there are a million different websites out there that will teach you how to do explainer video damnation maybe you'll say that when you're halfway through animation and that's not what this is about what people really don't talk about is how do you what is the process that you need to go through to have this happen and that's what i really wanted today to be about not to teach you how to move things on a screen and how to create motion with a piece of software there's millions of sites that will help teach you that if you want to do this on your own why i put this up this is a company called raw shorts and they have everything from a zero start for free to 59 dollars for zero dollars you'll probably able to to go in there and play with it you won't be able to publish anything but you'll get an idea for how it works the interface is kind of a mash up between camtasia and and powerpoint you've got your scenes over here you've got your timeline slider with your main work desktop area and your elements over on the right you just move things around drop them in and it does a lot of the work for you they have a template system it's not difficult but it does take some effort to learn it's a piece of software so you are going to have to learn maybe there's an explainer video that shows you how to do it another one pautune very popular entry-level program again zero to ninety nine dollars a month pautune is a little bit different it'll do corporate animations social media it will do presentations infographics and explainer videos again what i would recommend that if you just want to play with these start with the free program go in there and play around even things like go animate video scribe they have free trials i would just say they're limited trials so if you want to learn it commit to that whole trial time of really getting to know that software to decide if you want to learn it same similar setup slides on the left work area elements on the right all pretty much the same animation the animation piece of this is it's especially when you're dealing with pre-made systems it's it's half art half guest but they've actually done a lot of the hard work for you if you're going to do it yourself this is probably the route i would go as a site like this here's some of these resources i'll go ahead and put those up there for you and we can't forget these camtasia screenflow and captivate those are all screen capture programs love camtasia screen flow is also great i have not worked with cap captivate powerpoint presi does anyone know and maybe you do realize how great powerpoint is for creating uh motion and animation is really getting a lot better they are really improving the product so it's if you have powerpoint go ahead and use it camtasia can be yes all it appears as a tool bar on powerpoint yes integrate powerpoint and camtasia and yeah you are right and camtasia also does have some of the animations in that in camtasia nine so yes that is the buzz plugin to powerpoint you're right oh sure animation software there we go let me know when you've got it good it got it okay good get it got a good okay so let's should you do it yourself or should you hire it out anyone i'll defer to my expert anyone care to guess would it cost to have an explainer video made a two-minute explainer video any guesses 350 3000 oh it depends i had one thing but it was a pound tune and it was voiceover by somebody else you know it was powerful so it worked out well for you pound tune had an excellent start right on the back but and then jib jab you can i've done some stuff with jib jab they have you can do it once a year for free for your christmas oh yes with those little faces on the character okay so so two you've done 250 you've done 250 and we've heard 3000 i've seen it yeah two any 250 tends to be kind of on the on the bottom end 20 000 is not unheard of for a big brand this depends if you want to take this on yourself or if you want to find someone to do it so some things to consider if you're going to do it yourself cost definitely is going to cost you less if you do it yourself and you have total control over the project you pick all of the elements you decide on the script you decide on the voiceover and the music and the animation on the downside of that it's going to take you some time it's going to take a lot of effort and you're going to have to develop some skills now those sites that do it yourself sites do make it a lot easier you don't have to do so much it's not like it used to be but if you do it yourself you're going to have a few obstacles to overcome now should you hire it out maybe downside on that are the positives on that excuse me you're going to get great quality because you're going to be dealing with a company that does this that's their product and you're going to get originality they aren't limited by templates that you do on the that you have on the do it yourself sites you have more originality they can customize it to what you want on the downside the biggest downside to hiring it out and hiring an explainer video company to make one for you is the cost but here's what i want to encourage you and especially i there's a few business owners and i know you'll appreciate that what is the return on the investment of the video if your if your adoption rates if you are capturing customers and creating customers from that and you can show the analytics that say that yes we spent five thousand dollars on this but we can prove that the customers coming into our funnel who eventually purchased have created forty thousand dollars more for us how expensive was that explainer video it's free you made a lot of money from having someone make a cartoon for you so don't let price be necessarily the determining factor factor make sure you're looking at the return on what you're paying for what you're getting creative control if you're hiring a company out they're going to have their opinions on things and you may not get everything you want if you're a little bit of a control freak that may be an issue for you i'm sorry micromanager that may be a little bit of an issue for you and involvement you're still going to have to be involved you can't just say here you go i'm out you're going to need to be involved in the process if you're going to get what you want so that's some things to consider i'm about up out of time so let's have a couple minutes of question we've got about five minutes worth of questions if you guys have anything more than happy to answer anything for you talk a little bit about integrating videos once you're produced into a WordPress site for instance a toyed around just making a youtube video and then dropping it into videos is there a better way to get that video it really depends on the amount of controls that you want to have i love youtube as a way of doing that because your video lives not only in line in your site but you also have the seo value and the largest video search engine in the world largest search engine in the world youtube to work with but sometimes you want to control the content you don't want everyone to see it maybe it's a membership area maybe vimeo or some kind of private hosting is a better solution for you um but for me it's just embedding the video is probably the best way that i've come to do it is anyone else have a different opinion anyone who's like really good at this kind of stuff for seo and that kind of thing okay other questions red logic your company no you click on your wckc site you go through that logic is that right oh my gosh no it is not my company it's rob is right after me okay this is this is the session where we answer questions about about the agenda hurts it bad links this is the problem this is customer service for wordpress cans of city i'm just kidding i'm sorry that's fine to bring it up yeah so my question is when you talk about justifying the amount of money that you put towards the explainer video is five thousand dollars to if we're not selling a product and it's a service that kind of thing is it something that you're kind of doing an ab test in regards to sites to say somebody watches this video once they click that they're going to do a different landing page so you can see if i can convert on the wordpress site looking at how are you being able to track other than google analytics says that yes they visited and they saw this video just because they saw the video it doesn't mean that they took a hundred percent action oh you're talking about the the trail for the funnel yeah the trail itself not this okay i'll be honest that's not really my area of expertise but yes that's pretty much what you would have to do is just the the analytics software would have to kind of tell you where your customer starts in your funnel and then how far they're going are they abandoning it are they watching all of the video on the next page and how far each step they're going through in the process they're going deeper into the buying the purchasing funnel and then second question is if how hard is it to after you produce the majority of i mean you produce one of those contents you want to change it up for like a different service but the majority of the beginning is going to be the same obviously in sending it to the same company are you doing yourself the last part of the animation to change that last little bit for a different service it's pretty easy to change like how hard is it for a voiceover person to change that tailor that it's it's typically in that in that length like if i'm doing a vo i can go in and rerecord the whole thing record a new one faster than i can go in and try to get my voice to sound exactly like it did at that day at that time and yeah it's much easier just to record a new via a new voiceover for it yeah explain it to you as myself and the voiceover stuff is the thing i struggle with um what where we're going to find good voiceover especially i've worked with uh business women so i like women's voices and uh what's what's the price range that you expect okay depends on what you want to do and what you're looking for um gosh i hate saying this but uh you can get a pretty good result off of fiverr fiverr is actually becoming a much better freelance site here's my good thing anytime you're shopping for voiceovers to artists and this is i think is the thing that you that is best have a portion of your script have them record it for you give them a portion of the script and ask as part of the bid i want you to record part of this so i can hear what you sound like and that's going to work out a lot of things number one it's going to tell you do they know how to do the read number two it's going to give you maybe an interpretation of the script that you didn't think of and number three it's going to tell you how good the quality of their equipment is because there's a lot of people out there who are just recording into their iphone and calling hey i'm a voiceover artist and here's my oh hold on i got a call i'll give you the rest of this in a minute say you know you ask for a sample and if you're if you believe me if you're a freelancer looking for work especially if you're talking fiverr up work you're not going to have a problem saying you know what yeah sure i'll give you a 30 second demo along with my bid that's would probably how i would handle it which fiverr f-i-v-e-r-r it's going to be hit and miss though it's it's becoming a much better freelance site they're they've changed it it is everything isn't just five dollars anymore are there any other sites that you recommend fiverr and up work are two of the big ones some of them like i don't think raw shorts is doing it anymore but raw shorts used to have a marketplace that here's yeah you're going to a couple of things number one if you're doing a small project they're going to be you're going to get great quality probably going to get much much better quality you're also going to pay a lot more for it probably um and that's all i'm going to say thank you any resources for screencaps screencaps i cantasia i love for yeah just doing that and even your own mic cantasia is a great one to use on your own this is really for websites but um what i find with my clients a lot of times it's high-tech stuff so i want to explain something you know it's like how do you do this it's like 10 steps or five steps it's so much easier to just turn on screencast or screen capture talk over it and do one take you're not going to publish it anywhere but absolutely it solves the problem absolutely in 30 seconds and you want to take me along why dual channel hypothesis right there okay i am out of time i will be more than happy to stay afterwards thank you all you have been a wonderful group i appreciate it thank you so much


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Four things that drive narcissists insane. Narcissists are very controlling. They need to have influence and authority over you. They need to direct the course of events. They are self-absorbed and they lack empathy. They're very exploitative. They have to treat you unfairly in order to gain an advantage or benefit.  You will feel like you're bringing out the worst in them. You're causing them to show their worst qualities. They always find something to complain about. There's always something that makes them mad. When you're around a narcissist you will feel like you could you can never be good enough. You will feel like you can never do anything right. There may be many things you do that drive the narcissist insane. But here are four of them, which I believe to be the most important. One, Disturbance Narcissists are very controlling. They need to direct the course of events. They have a fixed way in which things are supposed to pan out. So they cannot tolerate any disturbance or problems that interrupt their event activity or process. Everything has to be about them. They have to get their pleasure and gratification. Everything has to go along with their agenda. They cannot accept any difference of opinion. They cannot let you do your own thing. If they need you at a specific time, you have to be there. You have to be ready whenever they need you. You have to agree with everything they say if you don't. They're not going to take the time to understand your feelings or needs. They're just going to see it as an inconvenience. They're just going to see it as a disturbance or problem. If you think differently to the narcissist. They don't see it as though you're just a separate person with your own ideas and opinions. They see it as an inconvenience. Because they expect you to think just like them. They don't want you to have your own separate thoughts that are outside of their control. Because that gets in the way of them getting what they want. And all they care about is getting their needs met. Regardless of any inconvenience that it may cause to you. You can be an inconvenience to them. But they don't see it as though they can be an inconvenience to you. In their minds you're just there to burden it. You're beneath them. So you just have to put up with it. To complexity. Narcissists do not like anything that is too complicated or detailed. They need everything to be straight to the point. They cannot deal with any complicated processes or situations. They cannot deal with complicated people. They expect everything to be simple. Because it's easier for them to understand.  Who has a different way of thinking. Or a different way of life. This will drive the narcissist insane. Because they lack empathy. They cannot share your experience. They cannot put themselves in your shoes. They cannot harmonize or coordinate with you. Because they don't even have an interest in anything complex about you. They're self-absorbed. They're only concerned about their own complexities. And they expect you to make that your priority as well. They cannot deal with any problems, issues or crisis. That happen to normal people living normal lives. They just look at it like. That's your problem. And you have to deal with it in your own time. But if they have a similar problem. It's a completely different story. They expect you to cater to them. They expect you to provide them with help and support. They are very hypocritical. They engage in the same behaviors and activities. For which they criticize other people for all. They claim to have moral standards or beliefs. To which their own behavior does not conform. They fail to follow their own expressed moral rules and principles. They have black and white thinking. Where everything is either good or bad, right or wrong. They want everything to be simple. They want everything to fit their mold for how they see the world. And when something complex naturally comes up. They just see it as an inconvenience. They see it as though they have to adjust. They feel like they have to compromise. They cannot deal with anything that is uncertain or unclear. Free. Inclusion and diversity. Narcissists cannot deal with anyone who thinks differently than they do. They cannot deal with anyone who lives life in a way that is different to how they live life. They cannot include or involve people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds. They cannot be involved in a range of different things or people. They cannot include people who have different religious beliefs or lifestyle practices. It is natural in life. To come across people who have a different way of life. And sometimes you have to include people who have different experiences. It's good to accommodate people who have different ideas and opinions. People who have different lifestyle preferences. But narcissists do not want to include or accommodate anyone. It bothers them. It makes them feel like they are losing control. They only want to deal with people who they think are like them. People who are in their club. Anyone who is different to them makes them feel uncomfortable. Because they always have to be right. They always have to be in control. They have to be the one who makes all of the decisions. They don't want there to be any other external influences. Because that threatens their control. That threatens their authority. Narcissists are very insecure. So they cannot tolerate differences in other people. For freedom. At some point you show the narcissist that you want to make choices for yourself. And they do not like the idea of that. They have to be the authority. They have to be in control.  They expect you to just do as you're told. If you don't. They see it as though you're being rebellious. You're not going along with that agenda. When maybe you just want to make your own choices. You just want to be your own separate person. But narcissists have this need to be in charge. They need to have influence and authority over you. So that they are able to control you. So that they are able to direct the course of events. And then everything can pan out in the way that they would like. They don't care that you have different ideas or preferences. Sometimes they don't even notice. Because they're too preoccupied with their own interests and needs. Which is why they cannot tolerate any differences. Anything that threatens their control. Will drive them insane. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate. My PayPal link is in the video description. Coach Link Queries. You can email me at www.coachlinkuaries.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Hey everybody, this is Brian, and let's continue our conversation about the QObject class. Specifically, we're talking about automated memory management, or if we click more down here, QObjects organize themselves in object trees. What does this really mean? We're talking about automatically deleting its children. If you're a parent, I think that at some point you've wanted to delete your children, but that's not really as violent as what we're talking about. We're talking about automatic memory management. If you click on this object trees link, you can read this pretty lengthy little article here, but we're talking about ownership. I covered this pretty in-depth in my understanding QObject in Qt, on medium, scroll down. There's a nice little graphics here. There we go. We just simply have a parent-child relationship, and children can have children and so on and so on. The premise being we're making an object tree, and when the parent is deleted, all of the children and their children are deleted as well automatically. It takes the headache out of memory management, and it just makes it ridiculously simple. I absolutely love this. You can actually, like if you delete this guy, it'll delete these, and it will take care of the ownership for all that as well, so you don't have to worry about this object tree. It's all baked right into QObject. It's very streamlined, very easy, very elegant. I have to apologize. It's been a minute since I've submitted a video, and here's why. I hit the submit button on the Qt 6 core for beginners with C++. I'm so excited. I can barely pronounce it. You notice this says this course is in draft mode. It's not available yet, but hopefully fingers crossed the next few days they'll approve it, and this course will be a direct replacement for, scroll down, the Q5 core for beginners with C++. If you already have this course, you're going to get a free coupon as soon as they approve it, but anyways, let's dive in and let's take a look at the parent-child relationships. Okay, before we dive in, we've got a little bit of setup we need to do. First thing we're going to do is add a Q timer. So I'm going to say include, Q timer, and if you don't know anything about Q, basically what this will do is fire off some sort of event at a specific interval, or we can do what's called a single shot, which we'll do it one time. So we're going to go down here. There's something we need to understand before we really continue, which is Q core application is, well, a Q object, and just simply hit F1 on the keyboard, and you can see everything about it right here, and it is inheriting Q object. So because this is a Q object, we can use that parent-child relationship. So your very application can be the parent. Also understand that A.exact is Q core application exec. So if we highlight that and hit F1, what exec is doing is entering a main event loop. What does that mean exactly? So if I save this, run it, give it just a brief moment for this little virtual machine to build it. You notice how it doesn't say hit return to exit, or the window doesn't disappear. Just sitting there. That's the event loop. So we're going to include a timer to shut this down. We're doing this because we want to see the full lifecycle of a Q object. So I'm going to just say Q timer, and let's call this timer, then timer dot, and we want a single shot, meaning we're going to do this exactly one time. We're going to cover Q timer in depth in a later video, but I just for demonstration purposes wanted to do it here. We need in milliseconds, so I'm going to do 3000 milliseconds or three seconds. And then notice it wants a Q object receiver and then a const care member. So what we're doing is signals and slots, something else will really cover in depth, but just at the moment, take a giant leap of faith that we are sending something to another Q object. So the timer is going to let the application know the time is up in three seconds. So we're going to say address of our application. And then let's go ahead and give it Q for application. And we need a slot. So you may be wondering what a slot is because we haven't really talked about it. So a slot is a normal function that has mock wrapped around it. So we can now use what are called signals and slots, and we can send messages back and forth between objects. We're going to cover that very, very in depth in a later video, but just understand what we're doing. So the timer, after three seconds, is going to let our application know it's time to quit. It will exit this event loop. So what we want to do now is grab this, and we want to just intercept this somehow. It's an int. Let's call this value equal a dot exact. So what this is going to do is give us the exit code of our application. That exit code is something our application is going to return out to the operating system. So we're just simply intercepting all that. Once we got that, we can just say Q info. And let's go ahead and print out the exit code. This is so that we know we shut our application down gracefully. Save this. Let's run it. And as soon as this thing runs after three seconds, it should automatically shut itself down. There we go. So we have our exit code of zero. Zero is the operating system's way of knowing this shutdown as expected. There were no errors. So far we have our application. We have a timer with a single shot. So after three seconds, the application automatically closes. What we're going to do now is create a class that allows us to set up a parent-child relationship. So I'm just going to right-click, add new, C++ class, and then give it a name. Base class, we want to make sure we are Q object and automatically Q creator is going to include Q object and add the Q underscore object macro. This little guy right here is super, super important. Without that, it's not officially a Q object. This is what Mock uses to determine that our class is actually a Q object and it sets up all that goodness in the background. Those are the file names it's going to use. And there's a path that's going to set it up in just next, next finish. And let's go ahead and jump in here. And we're just going to add our class into CMake. I love you guys, but pretty please automate that. It's kind of annoying. I've had a few people already ask me, hey, how do I set that up so it does it automatically because everybody's so used to CMake? So in here, we're going to add in Q debug. This is what's been letting us print out into the console. The major takeaway from Q debug is that it is basically see out on steroids. You can intercept this and set different levels and things like that. All right. So let's jump in here and we're going to do a deconstructor. And then we're just going to right click refractor and then add definition in our implementation file. So you notice right off the bat, we have constructor and a deconstructor. So we have our objects full lifecycle here. This is where I'm going to do just a smidge of copy and paste just to save a moment of time. And let's call this deconstructed. Notice something right off the bat. Constructed and then parent. So we are inheriting Q object and we're going to get that parent. So there's our object tree and this is in the constructor. And in our deconstructor, I want to also know the parent. Notice how it's saying, hey, it doesn't know what this is. So we have to actually call the getter. So we could say this parent and it's actually a function. Don't need to this keyword. I just wanted to illustrate that. So someone out there is going to just copy and paste it down there and then wonder why it magically doesn't work because you have to call the function to get a pointer to the Q object. All right. Now that we've got that little beautiful thing in place, we can start looking at how to observe the tree and the object lifecycle. Back in our main code file here, we're going to go ahead and include the class we just created. So I'm saying include, we want test.h. Now what we want to do is make a function. And this function is going to be used for setting up in the constructor. So I'm going to say test. Notice that's a pointer. And from here, I'm going to say Q object, not Q object macro. I want the actual Q object. And let's call this parent. What we're going to do is just simply return a new test class. And we're going to set that parent in the constructor. Notice what we're doing though. If you're normal just C++ programmer and you've never worked with Q, you honestly look at this and go, you have just created a memory leak. But we actually haven't because we are setting that parent child relationship. So the parent, when it's destroyed, will automatically destroy this right here. It's actually really cool. I like this. So let's go ahead and jump down here and let's demonstrate that. So we're going to set it up in the constructor here. I'm going to say, let's call this test. Dog equals and we want to get our test. And we need a parent here. So the first thing we want to do is decide what object we want to use as the parent. Well, remember our Q core application, our very application is a Q object. So we can just simply use that. And that's exactly what I'm going to do here. So I'm going to give it the address of that. Let's go ahead and set the object name here. So I'm going to say dog dot that object name, just so we can see what that is in the console. And let's call this, I need a good dog name about spot. I was going to say something like Thor or Zeus or some, you know, Greek God or something like that. But spot works just fine. So let's go ahead and save and run. And let's demonstrate what happens with the parent child relationship. 1,002, 1,003, the application shuts down and bang, spot has been deconstructed automatically. We don't have that memory leak. We don't have to worry about it. All of this cleans up automatically. So this automatic memory management through a parent child relationship is very easy and very powerful. We don't even have to really worry about pointers as long as we're inheriting Q object. But the question is going to get asked, what if you don't have a parent? Let's go ahead and demonstrate that. So I'm going to grab this whole thing. And yes, all you C++ experts in the comments, there's a million ways of doing this. So I'm going to say setting up after the constructor. We could very easily just set this to null pointer. But I want to very clearly for the C++ newbies out there, show you, there's no parent here. So setting up after constructor, the get test, no parameter is going to just simply return a Q object with no parent. This is a problem. This is a problem because this is what's called a memory leak if we don't manage this memory. Go ahead and scroll down here and let's demonstrate this. So I'm going to grab this guy. We have our application and then we have our dog. The dog is a child of the application. I'm going to just grab this and everybody who watches my channel knows I love cats. I actually love cats and dogs, but I love cats really like a lot. So anyways, we've got this cat and we're going to call get test with no parent. And let's set the name here. I need a good cat name, princess. I think every cat should be named princess, male or female, doesn't matter. All right, so now that we have this, you notice we have a problem. This isn't in our object tree, so we need to set it in the object tree. Sounds super scary, but it's ridiculously simple. We're just going to say cat.setParent. And you notice it just takes a pointer to a key object that we want to set as a parent and Qt takes care of that entire object tree for us. I love it. It's just absolutely ridiculously simple. So let's go ahead and use our dog. So now we have a clear object tree. We have our application. Application is the parent of the dog. The dog is the parent of the cat, which is really a weird thing that I think about it. Let's go ahead and save and run. And let's watch all of this happen in three, two, one, boom. Application shuts down. So we have constructed our dog. Its parent is the QCore application. We've constructed our cat. It has no parent, it's just a zero, zero. And we have an exit code of zero, meaning we shut down gracefully. And then you see our dog, Spot, deconstructed. Now our cat, Princess, also automatically deconstructed. Its parent was the dog. That is extremely cool. Wrap this video up, let's cover one more final thing. It's really great that we have this object tree, but how do we access the individual children in that object tree? We've been using our test class. I'm just gonna jump out to the implementation you see in our deconstructor. I wanna know just before we deconstruct what children we have. So I'm gonna jump in here and say four each and I want Q object pointer. Let's call this child. You can call it whatever you want, but let's call this one child. And this is going to be in our children. Now you notice how there's children, fine child, and fine children. So these are a little bit more advanced than where we are in this video series. We're just gonna call children, which is going to give us a Q object list or a list of Q objects. Go ahead and do this, and I just wanna Q info this out. And this basically is just gonna show us what children we have. So I'm gonna say the current object, and then I want to know this is a child. And then let's go ahead and print out the actual child object here. Save this, let's run it. Now remember we had our application which had a dog, the dog had a cat. So sure enough, we can see right here, bang, spot as a child named princess the cat. Now you can actually access your elements inside that list. It's ridiculously simple. And yes, you can just keep adding and adding and adding and you can even remove them. When you actually delete one of these objects, it's automatically deleted out of this tree for you, so you don't have to worry about it. I hope you enjoyed this video. You can find the source code out on github.com. If you need additional help, myself and thousands of other developers are hanging out in the Voidrealms Facebook group. This is a large group with lots of developers, and we talk about everything technology related, not just the technology that you just watched. And if you want official training, I do develop courses out on udemy.com. This is official classroom style training. If you go out there and the course you're looking for is just simply not there, drop me a note, I'm either working on it or I will actually develop it. I will put a link down below for all three of those. And as always, help me help you. Smash that like and subscribe button. The more popular these videos become, the more I'll create and publish out on YouTube. Thank you for watching.


Ok, on the top of Sunshine took about 45 minutes to get over here from Red Cloud, panning around like usual. Here we are, here's a Karen on the top of Sunshine. Absolutely beautiful day. It's about 8.45 on a Friday morning up here all by myself. There were some other people heading up behind me but I'm not sure what happened to them. We stopped back on Red Cloud, which is right here, and swinging back around. There's the Weta Horn, the Mata Horn, Colorado's Mata Horn, and here we are back where I started. Climb on.


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This is stock number 200J200A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used Jeep and Jeep Compass headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2018 Jeep Compass Sport. This vehicle has a 2.4 liter four cylinder motor which pumps out 180 horsepower. This Jeep has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this vehicle is 100% ready to go. Red line pearl coat is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you'd like to check out all the photos on this Jeep in the upper right hand part of your screen there is a link right to our website. Click that and check us out there. It comes with the factory painted alloy rims. Looks like it has brand new Kelly Edge 21565R18 tires on the front here. We put those on in our safety inspection. They are brand new. Factory alloy rims, no scuffs or scrapes on there. Driver's side front fender, no dents or dings. Headlight lenses are nice and clear and it does come with the running lights down there. Front bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents, dings or cracks on that. You get the chrome trimmed seven slotted grille. Jeep chromed lettering. No dents or dings on the hood. Very nice and clean passenger side front fender. No dents or dings on there. And the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. That tire is brand new as well. It does have the cold weather group which gives you the heated windshield wiper de-icer. And down this side of the vehicle, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. All you got to do is drive the vehicle, love it, and it'll be all good to go. And that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for finance and get pre-approved. See a payment quote, even appraise a trade, all from the comfort of your own home. Back rim, no scuffs or scrapes. And the back tires are brand new as well. So four brand new tires on here. Four wheel disc brakes. And just really nice. In 2017 they started doing the capitalist fuel fill on the Jeep compasses. As we come around in the back rear bumper, great shape as well. No dents, stings or cracks on there. Can really get a good idea of that metal flake in the paint. Really a good looking color. Back up camera, chrome Jeep logo and sport logo. Back storage area is very nice and clean. Now this one's going to come with a tire inflator kit. And those seats do fall down for extra storage. See the rear hatch is held up nicely by those shocks. And it shuts nice and solidly and easily. Down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings on the rear quarter. Back rim is in excellent shape. And down the rest of the side of the vehicle looks really good. I didn't see any dents or dings. It does come with heated power mirrors. Inside the sport package gives you the black cloth interior with the honeycomb design on it. No rips or tears on those seats. Driver's seat height adjuster. Factory floor mats throughout. Tilt and telescopic steering wheel with audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. And as we hop inside the vehicle here you can see that this one has 25,983 miles. You can do your digital speedometer there and it's got a whole bunch of other things that you can scroll through as well. You can see you do get a compass display in the instrument cluster there. This one comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, and then those audio controls on the back. It comes with AM FM radio. And this is also where your backup camera shows up.  And it does have the six speed manual transmission, stability control and your electronic parking brake. Passengers side format and seat are in excellent shape as well. No rips or tears on there. The headliner is in excellent shape too, and you do get map lights up there. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood. Back seats are in excellent condition too.  You do get factory formats back here as well, USB port, and then these back seats do fold down for extra storage. And you can see just how nice and flat that those go when they fold up nice and easily. There is cup holders in the back center there and child safety locks on the back of doors. Bottoms of the doors look really good too. And we'll take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you'll have been able to tell just how clean this Jeep is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 2.4 liter multi-air motor, 180 horsepower engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Like I said before this Jeep has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This Jeep is 100% ready to go, four brand new tires I would highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at www.summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left, a link to more Jeep Compass videos like this one on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this extremely clean 2018 Jeep Compass Sport with the cold weather group in redline pro coat. Thanks again for checking out the video.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. Thank you so much for clicking on today's grocery haul I am in week two of a use it up challenge It's something I came up with last week because my refrigerator freezer and pantry were overflowing and I decided Instead of buying more groceries. I was going to use up what I had on hand. It was a huge success this last week I really enjoyed having new and different breakfast lunches and snacks throughout the week that I decided why not? Give it a go for another week. So my grocery haul today is just fill in the gaps of what I already have on hand I'm going to share my meal plan with you so you can see kind of how everything ties together for this week's second chance at Using it up. I'm gonna give you a fridge freezer and pantry tour So stay tuned if you're new I'd love that if you'd stick around join my YouTube friends and family Hit the little subscribe button and the bell next to it that way you're notified when new videos are uploaded I do upload most days of the week and we always do a grocery haul on Saturday So head over and join us give us one a thumbs up if you love grocery hauls and let's jump in my friends Wait until you see what I used up last week. So here is this week's grocery haul We are doing a second week of the use it up. I was extremely successful last week Wait till you guys take a look at my fridge freezer and pantry I will give you a quick tour before I put these groceries away so you can see what I used up I did find some good new things of this trip. I shopped at both Target and Trader Joe, so let's jump in to this week's grocery haul. Are you gonna help me with the grocery haul? Yeah, you sure are Hi bud So the first thing I did is restocked my kombucha for the week last week I used all of them but one or two bottles So I ended up getting three bottles of the unity and three bottles of the ginger berry These were on the target app. So I think it was 20% off. So that's enough kombucha for the week This week Troy's having tacos for lunch. So I found this pack is 73 27 ground beef I'm going to use this to cook up for his tacos all of the ground beef we have in our freezer is really lean So I wanted to go with a little bit less lean one for his tacos And then we are almost out of chicken and I probably will not be going to Costco until next week So I picked up this free-range chicken and ended up being $5 for this entire pack of thin slice chicken breast So that way that'll get us through until I go to Target or I'm sorry Costco And then Mexican style cheese for these soft tacos for him And then this is nude. This is the Miss Jones baking company cake in a cup and confetti pop Just add water and microwave. So it's 160 calories. It had decent Ingredients I picked it up. I've never tried it before so I'm excited to try this as kind of a sweet treat I did go through most of my snacks and all of my dessert items pretty much this last week So I picked this one up They also had a brownie or a double chocolate or something like that But I thought this confetti pop sounded really really good and then at Trader Joe's I restocked the barbecue rub in seasoning with coffee and garlic as you know, we had a lot of steak this last week I mean pretty much every day we had steak or pot rows to use up the meat in our freezer and I love this on steak This is amazing on burgers and steak and it is a seasonal item at Trader Joe's So we'll be going away shortly. He said probably within the next couple of weeks So I had to pick it up again because it's seriously a game-changer on steak and hamburger And then I was out of soy sauce or coconut Amino So while I was at Trader Joe's I picked up their coconut Amino's because they're extremely affordable and then another thing of olives just because Troy eats a lot of olives and these are actually on coupon on the target app these huge ones are so good So I had to pick that up. I also ate up all of my granola last week So I decided this time to get the blueberry hemp. So this is a new flavor for me. I have never tried this I always get the chocolate sea salt one So I'm pretty excited to have a little bit different flavor granola for my yogurts I actually still have quite a few yogurts left so I did not buy any more I'm planning on using those up this week and I like just a tablespoon or two of granola topping my yogurt We ate almost all of the eggs I think we have one or two left So I picked up another dozen because we do eat a lot of eggs and I need this for my meal prep Sourdough bread. I was under the impression I was making Troy sandwiches and then I realized hello He's having tacos, but we'll put this in the fridge and it'll last until next week I have heard that this is the best sourdough bread the Trader Joe's one So I decided to pick it up We will let him be the judge of that when he has sandwiches next week I did grab some cheese ravioli because I have some really yummy air fryer recipes coming your way in a video here In the next couple of weeks and one of them is using ravioli. So this was a really good deal at Target I think it was on sale for five eighty nine So I picked up the four cheese ravioli and I was excited to see and I guess I didn't really don on me But because there is cheese in the ravioli. It has 11 grams of protein So I thought that that wasn't too bad at all. So I decided this time I ate up all the cold brew chocolate dipped ones this last week So I decided this time to do the raspberry. So this is the dark chocolate dipped raspberry smashed mellows These are so good. I mean literally one of these is the perfect dessert You have the sweet and the chocolate. They're really delicious. So they are gluten-free. They have good ingredients They're non-gmo. So I went ahead and picked these up for the week and then of course I ate all of the frozen Raspberries those were so good. I do have to say I like the cherries better But the raspberries are better in points But these in the raspberries are similar in calories You just can have more raspberries for the smart points because they're smaller, but I love the cherry So I had to pick this up. This is kind of my dessert These are like the two things that I like for dessert most of the time and again I used up all the raspberries and I'm happy to report I did grab another one of these as well. This one is amazing. So the cookie dough one not my favorite The brownie batter with the peanut butter on the inside is so Good. These are just huge. So if I have a lot of points left This is a really good option. These are six points, but it's literally like brownie covered peanut butter It's really good. These ones I highly highly recommend Again, the cookie dough were not my favorite, but you should try them because you may actually like them I just prefer the brownie batter ones I did grab some sour cream for choice soft tacos And then on the target app the suja juices were on coupon. This one is so good you guys It's insane to me that this is three smart points I actually don't count this at all when I drink it because it's literally just fruit with a tiny bit of honey But it is technically three smart points. This is delicious. So highly recommend this if you're looking for a good Clean juice. It is a little on the pricey side. I think it was 379 But then it was on coupon for 20 off. So I just grabbed one But I love it. So that's kind of a little treat for me when I'm wanting some juice I did grab the kite hill dip in ranch. I'm out of the french onion I am still working on my hummus and I decided that I would get this to dip cucumbers carrots and celery And all of which I need to use up. So this will be a great way to get in some extra veggies So between the dip and the hummus. I'll eat up all those veggies. This too is on coupon at target And then at trader joes I grabbed a big bag of gold potatoes because I actually need these for several recipes this next week And everything else is produce So a watermelon because we love watermelon and before they go out of season A big bag of my organic lemons, which you guys know I put in my water I also grab celery of course for dipping in the dip and also in the hummus And then I need celery for a recipe to apples for a air fryer recipe I'm out of onions completely. So way to go with the use it up. So these are the anderson organic sweet onions I love these so I picked those up and then the other fruit for the week is going to be organic blueberries So that is my grocery haul. I spent just about a hundred dollars, which is not bad at all And I am on a mission again my friends to use it up So let's take a quick tour of my freezer fridge and pantry So starting in the refrigerator here in my kitchen, we're going to look at the fridge and the freezer Look at this you guys This was packed last week in my grocery haul if you haven't seen last week's haul I'll link it down below so you can see just how full this was I went through So much I went through an entire one and a half cottage cheese Look at this was packed. There's a little hummus left and a little queso left So I'll be doing that this week and down here I went through a lot of yogurt. So there is still quite a few You can see quite a few yogurts left in here. I did not get to the perfect bite So I want to make sure that I do that this week I had I think two clio bars So I still have quite a few of those left and then I did get my healthy eating all the time in go bar order So I've been munching on those but yeah, I did pretty good getting through some of the yogurt So that is my goal this next week is to really empty out this bin We went through a lot of the string cheese. There's only one left and some snacking cheeses And then look at this shelf this shelf is empty We have a tiny bit of strawberries and cantaloupe left So that'll actually be eaten up today and then we'll do the blueberries and watermelon this next week Wait till you see my produce drawers. Look at this you guys This is all that's left in here some shallots just a couple of bell peppers. This was packed full as well And tonight I'm actually using up this spinach. So this is what will be left in this drawer I am so proud of myself for how much progress I made in my veggies this week And then even this drawer looks a lot better than it did There's literally like two pieces of turkey left. I ate that a lot this week There is only one string cheese left because I munched on those And there is one laughing cow wedge left. So I'm pretty proud of myself I feel like I made some really good progress here in my refrigerator. So let's look at the freezer. All right So there is two english muffins left. I had those a couple days this week. I also had some bread There you'll notice there's a spot missing. I can't remember what was there, but I used that up I had a few protein shakes. So I went through a little of my frozen fruit And then in the bottom drawer here, I went through all my sweet treats. There is one of the bubbly's left That's why I picked up another one of those and then over here you guys there is literally this is all that's left We went through a ton of veggies. In fact, we'll have a bag of veggies this week I used up a cauliflower gnocchi. I used up ravioli. I used up two bags of frozen veggies I actually need this for a recipe. So that's why it's in there But pretty proud of myself. So by the end of this next week, this should be even more bear So I can't wait to show you guys next week. All right, and here's my pantry now It may not look that different to you, but you guys This shelf right here was completely full of snacks All I have left from last week are the partake cookies Everything else I ate up all of the granola all the other things were completely eaten up I did have a couple of my next sticks. So I have enough for this week I mean it pretty much looks the same in here. I didn't get as much eaten pantry wise other than snacky things I did have some crispy onions. Of course my built go I did have I think one pack of the crackers out of here So that's why I didn't buy really any snacky things at all other than granola Because my goal this week is to eat more of these snacky things. So I had protein shakes Other than that, it looks pretty much the same other than we are missing some granola up here But yeah, this pantry is still Good. I did not buy any other pantry items that we didn't need So I'm still on a mission you guys to clear this out even more and this is the star of the show my friends This was Packed absolutely packed with meat. I went through hamburger I went through a ton of steak like if you take these ice packs out you guys look at that I went through a pot roast. We had steak like three or four nights I also over here in the door used up a ton of sausage There was I think two or three packs of sausage that I used up I also had some of these amy lube breakfast sausages one day I saved the rice uh because I'm making a shrimp recipe that we need rice But I'm really proud of myself you guys I used up a ton of what was in the freezer So definitely stay tuned for next week because we're gonna clear all three of these out even more So here is my meal plan for the week again I completely did this meal plan around using up what I have on hand as well as a video I want to put out for you guys an air fryer video which you've been asking for So this is the week of august 29th through september 4th. Wow. It's september you guys almost september That's crazy. So today saturday. We will be going out for dinner It is the day that I use my weeklies slash my high calorie day I don't know what we're gonna do. We may even make pizza at home because we do have those Pizza crust that you saw in that pepperoni. So we may even do that Tomorrow I am doing honey garlic shrimp. I have two bags of shrimp in my freezer to use up This recipe you will see in next wednesday's what I eat in a day. So definitely stay tuned for that Monday, we're gonna be doing air fryer steak tips and again I am planning an air fryer recipe video where I'm going to feature three recipes One is a dessert. So stay tuned for that coming out here in the next couple of weeks Tuesday is always a leftover night because I go to the 5 30 p.m. Jazz or size Wednesday air fryer ravioli So stay tuned for this you guys this sounds amazing. I cannot wait We're gonna have a taco night on thursday We're gonna do taco thursday instead of taco Tuesday Just because we have a lot of taco-y things to use up. I have some tomatoes shredded cheese tortilla sour cream So we're gonna do taco thursday and then Friday is leftovers because I like to use up anything leftover from earlier in the week So here is my meal prep plan for this next week. You will see this on Monday. So stay tuned for breakfast I'm making a sausage breakfast casserole because as you know, I have a lot of like hot dogs and sausages in my freezer So I want to use those up and this sounds so good Lunch is dirty rice with andouille sausage So we're having sausage times two next week because again, I want to use up What's in my freezer and then I for snack you guys. I'm making crispy peanut butter cups. These are clean And w w friendly. So stay tuned for all three of these delicious recipes on monday for meal prep Thank you for joining me on another weekly Ww grocery haul. I still had a great haul with some new food finds even though I'm in the midst of a use it up challenge If you want to join me in use it up down in the comments leave Hashtag use it up challenge and I'll know that you're in it with me to use up what we have on hand Again, if you are new, I'd love for you to stick around Hit the little subscribe button and the bell next to it So you're notified when new videos are uploaded yet. I want to miss a single one Of course thumbs up this video if you enjoyed it and you are here For the use it up check up the description box down below for links and discount codes to my favorite things And the link to head over and join my facebook group We'd love to have you be part of our community over there Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me on this gorgeous saturday and i'll see you all in tomorrow's video Bye