This is May 1, 2020. This is the House Education Committee in the Vermont House of Representatives. And we are looking at S343, which is the bill that would delay implementation of Act 173. First of all, are there any questions that folks have about this bill? We have our ledge council in the room. Are there any questions about this bill? So here's what I'd like to do. There are a couple of options that I want to look at, and I kind of want to be prepared for both of them. We have a reminder about Act 66, which was the lead testing bill. And as you may remember, in order for that testing to be accurate, the samples needed to be taken while school was in session. The state of emergency has shut down schools making that not possible. Ledge council, Michael O'Grady, has looked at that and realized that we would need to make changes related to that. So the question I have right now is, is this something that we will simply add to this bill or if we will do a separate committee bill to do so? And I need to check in with Jim and with Michael and with leadership to see what their preference would be. So what I'd like to do then is set this up in two ways. One will be to take a vote on delaying 173 from the committee now. We will hold that and then see if we're going to take it back up and add the lead delay or if we're just going to pass this on. So what I'd like to do is just be ready for that. So I would entertain a motion to approve, to agree to concur with the Senate's bill S343 related to delaying implementation of Act 173. You're on mute, Larry. So would the lead bill be not sure? I would almost think that we'd want to just do another bill for the lead testing. I'm seeing other people nodding. I'm not sure that it's, that it really matches S343 dealing with dates and dollars and et cetera. I think we should just do a new bill. You know, it's certainly open for discussion, but that would be my feeling. So if I could see either little blue hands or your hand as to whether you would like to wait and just do a separate bill, although I would like to do a separate bill, raise your hands. Kate, I would put myself in the category of happy to listen to the advice of leadership and those who know the process better, but it does seem cleaner to separate the two topics. So I think what we can do then, because it looks like we have, what we could do then is just simply be ready to pass this one today. We'll talk with Ledge Council and leadership and be ready for that on Tuesday. In the meantime, I will be checking to see if that, if that is indeed the preference of the speaker, then we will go ahead and get this on the notice calendar on Monday, which would make it up for action on Wednesday. Caleb? Yeah. And just another point, I think 173 is such a big piece of legislation that delaying it is maybe beneficial to stand on its own just for simplicity of messaging around that because it is so consequential. The other thing is it occurs to me that we're talking about lead now, and I know that was a recently passed bill, but there's probably a few other things out there in the world of education that might need a delay. So it might behoove us to make sure we're thinking of all of them, and then we might do a bill that's around, here are the things we're delaying, because I think it's, for 173 to be delayed on its own is appropriate given the magnitude of that legislation, but it would be good to not have another three bills delaying three things. So to sort of say, okay, let's think about this for a second. Just do this, and then see if we need to catch all we're delaying the following. And maybe that doesn't work that way. It just occurs to me that that's an easier bill to understand. The following currently ongoing initiatives with deadlines need to be delayed. Let's counsel does go through. I think that there's a request that comes. I saw that something from from Michael O'Grady and that they actually go through and see if there are things that need delays. And this is one of the ones that O'Grady identified. Are you aware of that, Jim? I'm not aware of a systematic view of things that might need delay. That question might be best posed to the agency. It had a good sense for what's coming up, I would think. Okay, so what I understand is that Ledge Council have been asked to look at any programs or regulatory requirements that may be affected by COVID-19 pandemic and emergency response. And they put out a question to the Department of Health to see if that is one of the ones that they needed to address. And they've gotten back and said yes, they do. So I'm really just fine to just go ahead. We'll do 173. I just need to get that clarity from leadership. Jim, Jamarie, did you have something? No, no. We were all asked by Luce to get together with this type of that. And I couldn't see anything in education necessarily that was in that category. That was away from me. It was obviously with Michael. But so I think there's more, but we could ask the agency that question. I think that'd be helpful. Right. Yeah. Okay. Larry Coopley, you had a question or a statement? Yeah. S343 has an appropriation in it. Have you checked with appropriations as to whether or not? And we're okay? I have. That is up to that the clerk will, they are aware of it. I'll put it that way. They are aware of the $9,000. Okay. Will it go to appropriations after we vote this out? I believe that will be up to the clerk. And whether that needs to go or not or whether they can just do a drive-by since they already know about it and they've seen the language. But I will follow up on that. We'll just send that to Rebecca. So yeah, so we'll find out, but still be ready on Tuesday. Sarita Austin. Hi. The Senate bill that was on the waiting study, the task force, is that, does that, is that brought up next session? Or is it, can that be delayed? Or where is that, what are the options for that? When this session, at the end of this by any, everything that's on the wall comes down. Everything is dead. Right. Everything needs to start from scratch. I would anticipate that that will be a conversation again. I think it does, it's connected to 173. It's connected to school funding. And the question I think that we may be entertaining is this really all part of a much broader discussion about how we fund public school. Thank you. Very quickly. Got your little blue hand up. Okay. Okay, where we, when we last dropped off, you were asking for a motion. Yes. So I would move that we agreed to concur with the Senate on S 343. Second. Do we need a second? Discussion? Okay. Clerk shall commence to call the roll. Representative Webb. Yes. Representative Coupoli. Yes. Representative Conlon. Yes. Representative James. Yes. Representative Hooper. Yes. Representative Toof. Yes. Representative Bachelor. Yes. Representative Giambattista. Yes. Representative Elder. Yes. Representative Austin. Yes. Yes. Representative Matos. This is Representative Chris Matos and I vote yes. So the vote is 11-0-0. 11-0-0. Okay. Great. Good work team. So that's really it for us for today. Are there any chance for discussion on any topics before we end on Friday? Just about, again, I had emailed you about the districts that happened past a budget. Just, again, what is the process for that in terms of, because it seemed like they really needed some, an answer as soon as possible. I'm just wondering, are we waiting for the Senate or I'm not clear where we left off? So there was an agreement between the House and Senate leadership, which actually included myself and the chair of Senate Ed to agree that bills would start in the Senate. And at that time, the Senate was actually ready for remote voting and we were not that the bills would start there and we would have agreement before a bill left the committee room. We at this point do not have agreement and the Senate at this point has been, has resisted taking further testimony or looking at our bill or engaging in conversation. That is my most recent communication with the chair of Senate education. In the meantime, there is discussion going on at the level of leadership to see if there are alternatives on how we might address this. So our options currently, as I see them are, we concur with the Senate. We wait to hear from leadership. And that's really, really at this point. So do you have a timeline in terms of maybe by next Wednesday? I don't. It's pretty constantly. I would put forward that I'm, I'm, oh sorry, can you hear me? I'm more in favor of concurring with the Senate's version given the Secretary of State's guidance in the past week about remote voting and given the indications we heard from a lot of districts that votes will be attempted. I think that it was interesting for me to learn that the Senate did at least consider the 4% escalator and arrived at their sort of 100% level through what's going to be at the least a bipartisan process. And so it's complicated and I was interested in our version of the bill, but I did think that the Secretary of State's recent ruling on different provisions changed things enough for me that I would, I would vote to concur just to give some a definitive answer. I just speak for myself in that regard. Okay. I hadn't heard that piece of the 100%. So that's, that's a new piece of information for me. Did the Senate say that they would instead of the 87% that they would let 100% percent? So the current law just to clarify current law is the where it is right now is that you may borrow up to 87% of your budget from a bank. At that point your tax rate is set at one dollar. And the understanding is that you continue to vote until you pass a budget. That was set up for a different time when setting up and having another vote is relatively easy. It's also setting up at a time where the electorate, the electorate voting in May does not look that different from the electorate voting on March 2nd. So those are some significant differences. Okay. The, the child, the pushback that we heard from the school boards related to accepting that language is some of them felt that that would actually be worse because that voters would feel comfortable leaving it at last year's budget often with a lack of awareness as to what, what the impact would be, such as having to get rid of 10, 20 teachers under contract or no athletic program or whatever. So that's what, that's the, that's one of the reasons that we've continued the conversation is because of the feedback that we heard that while some of them that might be better, we heard from others that that could be devastating if they're not able to get the vote. The current bill that we had in 6.1 was to say you have three options. There's two or three options, I can't remember, but at any rate, and it, it basically said, you can just take your, your last worn budget and pass that. Another conversation that has come forward in a conversation with, with some, some folks was to where the Senate bill, the Senate bill said, if you don't have a budget by 6.30, you have last year's budget, but you can keep voting. Another option is to say, if you don't have a budget by June 30, you have your last worn budget, but you can keep voting. So that's, that's something that was in conversation at that one point. Thank you. Others? Kate, I, maybe we should hold this conversation on Tuesday just because of wanting to have it on the agenda, but when I did talk a little bit about this as well and, and sort of I, my mind has gone back and forth and back and forth about, well, is what the Senate is offering better than nothing. And for a while I convinced myself that it was, but I had to talk with some school board folks who, who reminded me of the discussion that you bring up that with the sort of fallback of the 2020 spending, that that might influence the way people vote, knowing that, hey, I can vote this down because at least the district can always just fall back on 2020 spending. And which could be, as we heard especially from Milton, I think that could be pretty, pretty devastating. So I remain somewhat scrambled on this. I probably could use the weekend to think about it, probably the weekend for whatever discussions are going on elsewhere to take place and maybe we'll start next week with a new bright, sunny day. Do we, do we know, do we know of, or what discussions are going on elsewhere? Has there been any response from any of you from your school boards that are, I mean, I, did we know what's going on? Dylan has one, Chris Matos has one. I think that's it, isn't it? Yeah, I've got a little Hancock. Yeah, Dylan. I could just give you the perspective that I have a pretty continuous feedback loop with my district and they liked the elements in our proposal. But I think at this point, there is a reality that if we can't find consensus, I don't want to jump to conclusions. I'd like the weekend to check in, but we got to move something sooner or later. And so I'm feeling pretty flexible so long as it provides the district some ground to work within. And, you know, I could see pros and cons to both proposals, but I did get a pretty warm reception last week. Or was it earlier this week recently when we looked at it? There's level funding. I mean, that seems to be the, my point taken that it's not going to work for a lot of the districts. That's what I'm hearing, that it's really troublesome for a lot of districts. So, and I don't know how we get around this, Kate. I honestly don't.  I don't know what's going to happen. Kate, is it accurate to say that some districts have given out rift notices to their teachers, and some have missed that deadline? I think we're past the rift. Do you know the story? I think we're past rift, aren't we? I think we're past rift now, but I do wonder if some are, you know, did it earlier in time. I think the answer to that is, is that, let Jim answer. Okay, Jim, Demary. I was going to say that there are two different things here. One is for a contractor renewal, teachers have to be notified by April 15. But that doesn't mean that you can't lay off teachers at a very date as part of a rift. That would be part of our collective bargaining process in terms of loosening the agreement. So while we're past the April 15 to date, that I don't think it's decisive in terms of whether or not you can do a rift. That's going to be controlled by local bargaining. Right. That'd be another COVID-19 bill in that, in the realm of things happening. I don't know. Um, there was a conversation that I had with a small group earlier today with the three chairs and the speaker, looking at if we were to dream big with COVID money. What are some things that we might consider? Broadband. Broadband. This is what I brought up. I brought up, Brad, you know, technology and there's, we can differentiate it in two ways. One is the energy and technology committee can look at actual broadband build out. We might be actually looking at devices for students or for schools. It's something that we could look at. The other thing I brought up is COVID money for compensatory education for kids who are losing ground. Anything else folks can think of? Can we stretch it for construction, school construction? Can we kind of wind COVID-19 into that? I did bring up, I did bring up that bill in terms of things that we, you know, we're looking at what did we work on and pre-K in literacy, which I didn't see we could, we could do much with at this point in time, but and the agencies are a little busy right now, but I said that it may be worthwhile to consider doing something with our construction bill. I did tell them that I am in conversation with NCSL about having them advocate. Should there be, should there be stimulus money that's for infrastructure to not just make it roads, but include schools? So I did bring that up as something, you know, if we could consider work that we would have liked to have completed, that that might be the one that we would identify as probably the most relevant. Would you agree or not? I would. Yeah. I see a couple. How much, how much money are we talking about? Like how much should we be anticipating if in terms of dreaming big? Yeah, I don't know. It has to do, I think, with additional funds that could come in as well as with our one point, whatever million it is, billion. I got to say state colleges, if that's on the table. I was going to ask about higher ed. I don't know what, how that factors in. And there is, there is conversation going on about having a larger conversation about our Vermont state colleges. We are going to have a joint meeting in mid-May with commerce to hear from the New England Board of Higher Education as to trends in higher ed and workforce. And Avery, I think you scheduled that now, Avery. I think it's, it'll be a joint meeting with commerce. So what about child care?   I mean, I don't know how, you know, I don't know how, how you try to get issues in line for funds, federal funds flowing through the filter, but, you know. Larry? I'm just looking at, looking at some notes and I'd be very cautious about really dreaming big time on COVID funds. Only if it has a direct nexus to COVID will those funds be used. So I'd be very, very careful about how you approach that money if there will be, especially through the agency. I'd be very cautious about doing a lot of dreaming about cash. Yeah, we were just to provide, be providing dreams, not making decisions about it. Avery, just let me know that we are meeting with New England Board of Higher Education on May 19th. Great. The only other thing I would mention in the short term is transportation, just school districts are doing some things with transportation that are a little outside of the normal contracts, especially in relation to food service. And I don't know that it's causing big problems yet. I think that they've had, there have been, you know, good partnerships on both sides of those contracts. But to the extent there's some short term dollars, that is a sort of extraordinary service is being provided by our school districts right now. And I'd love to see any, any short term money flow the other way to help offset those costs. When we had the secretary in, we brought that subject up and he thought that that would be absolutely clear COVID type expense. That's an expense that's totally COVID related. Yeah. So that makes, that makes sense to me. Me too. Anything else? So, okay, so I will have another conversation. We're going to talk about lead on Tuesday. We'll have another conversation about, about the 19 districts as well. Where the committee stands on that. So is that a, is that a, is that a vote cake? I mean, do we vote on that the 19 districts or just, we don't have a bill yet. Okay. So there will be. Okay. Yeah. I was just going to ask what the plan was for committee time on Tuesday. Well, at the moment it's just led. Okay. Do we know what time? Yes. We're on the same times now. It's Avery, it's, it's noon on Tuesday, Tuesdays it's noon and Fridays it's two to four if we need meetings. And so we're every, Friday from two to four. Yes. Tuesday from noon to two. Yes. That's if we have work to do. Okay. And then I've got the floor schedule. Great. Glad things are settling in. Okay. Do I email Avery the record of action and copy Rebecca? Hold it for now. We can get it in as late as Sunday because she's working remotely. So let me just make sure that we're going to, this is the way we're going to do it. Okay. I just have to check with each other on that. Sorry. Okay. And I'll let you know. Maybe text, yeah, text me or email me if you need me to send that in over the weekend. Yeah. Sounds good. All right. I think we, we can go off.


Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. All right, you guys it is time for another toy Bolo post video From my Facebook group. So what I did is I created a post asking or inviting Members of my Facebook group to share their best toy Bolo. I've got I think 20 to 23 come in your way This has been a running post. So I think it's kind of gotten a little stale So I've only got 23 in this video, but that's okay because they are fantastic This is what the post looks like. I think I'm gonna start a new one and discontinue this one tonight. So look for a new post if you're in my Facebook group and If you're not my Facebook group, there's a link down in the description. All right, you guys We are gonna get started here with some big money or unexpected toy Bolo's Hey I'm reseller. All right, let's get started So the first item is this Girl of today American girl retired mini Macintosh computer desk chair and glasses So it's like a little set and I am gonna be looking over at my computer to read what everybody wrote But she picked this up in a This and a couple other sets from a Facebook post and it went for full asking price of a hundred and twenty four dollars and ninety-nine cents Okay, you guys this next item was purchased at the Goodwill for two dollars and ninety-nine cents sold for full asking price of $70 plus shipping. It is a Misa toys sleep over Master plush Purple, I don't know. It's some sort of doll. This is what it looks like I've never seen it before but I am definitely gonna be looking for it Misa toys Misa Misa, not sure but Misa toys. The next item is this Adventure time card wars and it says Finn verse Jake Unfortunately, this is the photo I have I'm not sure if this is a game if this is a pack of cards Maybe it's cards But either way you guys this sold on Mercari for sixty-five dollars plus shipping So card wars look that up. Maybe it's like a card game The next item paid a dollar to garage sale and sold for fifty. It is a yogi bear 1959 Hannah Barbara Hannah Barbara nickerbocker toys stuffed doll with rubber hands and face So this is what it looks like and a dollar from a garage sale Pretty cool. I I would say anything that's plush with a rubber face. I'm gonna buy it. It just seems like I mean Rustin of course are like amazing and I hope to find one someday I've not yet found one, but if it has a rubber face and it's plush I'm probably buying it even if it's a good bread and butter the next item She said it. I'm not sure if this qualifies as at a toy Oh my goodness, sorry as a toy, but the brand is mainly toys So I'm going to post it too since I haven't noticed anyone else ever mentioned it and I have sold one of these before She paid a dollar for it at the Goodwill and it sold for 33 dollars and 99 cents plus shipping I would consider this a toy. It's a little tykes, which is a toy brand and it's a piggy bank and Definitely a good item to be on the lookout for All right, let's see I'm scrolling here. Okay. The next item comes from Reselling with honey, I think that's the name I'm gonna pop up her YouTube channel. I think it's reselling with honey I know it was honey with an a you and then she changed it So I will pop it up just to make sure it hasn't changed again for you guys. Definitely go check her out She's newer to YouTube, but her content is awesome. You would definitely learn something. She's a bolo finder and She is a bolo buddies member That's why I am giving her a special shout out if you guys want to join memberships and become a member I do special shout out videos if you're a member and this is just a bonus if you share in the Facebook post I shout you out again. So down in the description There's a join button or a link to join and then also buy like the thumbs up and stuff There's a button that says join so if you're interested you can check that out You have to be at level two to be shout to get a shout out Okay, so anyway, she paid three dollars for this you guys She planned on listing it for 90 but decided to put it on a five-day auction To see where it would go. It ended up selling for $220 and 48 cents plus shipping. It is a 1987 Steyer Bears 13 inch Barney Golden dense Mohair bear KW12 Catherine Wallace no clue what any of that means but definitely a bolo All right, the next item Okay, this item comes from sisters rescued treasures They're on eBay Mercari Poshmark, but they sold this book that they got for free. It is called pookie and They sold it for 95 dollars you guys it says Nine books series, but buyer only wanted this one book. So this one must be special, but 95 bucks I'm gonna share one of mine with you guys and This is I'm gonna call it a toy. I Just sold this right here these stickers and I just wrote this I didn't just sell it. It's probably been I Don't know when I posted this but it's been a few weeks back, but I sold these for 45 dollars. They are scratch and stiff Scratch and sniff stickers you guys and their vintage I got them in a $3 grab bag if you want to see all of the stickers that I got over on my sourcing with Bolo buddy's YouTube channel. This is what the video looks like go check it out It is just amazing what these stickers are going for but anyway, this one set sold for 45 bucks and That was at a yard sale the next one it says unfortunately, okay Daisy fairies plush I paid probably around $1.50 for her at a thrift store and sold within just a few hours of listing on Mercari for a best offer of $24 plus shipping So it is Disneyland plush fairy and it is fawn And I'm gonna pop up the Mercari listing and then I'm also gonna pop up a full shot of what the actual item looks like Because Mercari cropped the head off okay, and I think I sold one of the fairies like this. I don't know if it was this exact same one And I think I sold mine for like 65 I think it was a different fairy though, but some of those fairies that are not as popular can definitely be a Bolo. I Guess maybe not They're popular. They're just they were not as mass produced as like Tinkerbell Okay, picked up for 50 cents at a yard sale just because it looked cool turned out to be vintage and hard to come by It's sold in less than a day. I listed for 30 and took an offer for 27 So these are I don't know if it's a is it a board game? vintage Elixir wacky wizards TSR complete. This is what it looks like I don't know what it is you guys, but this also sold on Mercari you guys if you're not selling on Mercari I highly recommend it. I do have a link down in the description if you sign up you get a coupon and then once you sell a hundred dollars They give you another coupon I think it's like thirty dollars total and then they also give me a coupon when you buy something and then when you Sell a hundred dollars. So it's pretty cool. And then once you guys sign up you guys will get a link also that you can refer people So if you want to try Mercari you can check that out I cross post all of my items from eBay to Mercari and Poshmark I use list perfectly if you want to know more about that there's a link down in the description of the video I'm not going to get all into it But I do have a demo video where I show you exactly how I do it if you decide you want to try it You can use coupon referral code Bolo buddies all one word to get 30% off your first month I've been using it since 2019. I love it. It's amazing. Check it out. Okay, this folk monies, which I love folk monies I have a folk monies out that Yard sales and dreams sent me if you haven't checked out her channel Check it out. It's awesome. Okay This is a hippo puppet With working it says farting noises. Oh my goodness $4 at a local thrift and a couple bucks for new batteries. Oh I Guess it just farts guys Stinkers. I like stinkers better Sold to a guest posture for full price of a hundred and twenty five dollars. Are you kidding me? High value due to being a reoccurring gag on NCIS Burt the farting hippo Okay, so somebody in the group just mentioned they were talking about a Tasmanian mug that They recently sold and they were they did a post Asking people to share Which items they know about that have higher dollar values because they were featured in a movie I haven't went back to the post to check it out yet, but this would be a great example Poshmark is another platform that I sell on again if you sign up with my link I think you get a $10 coupon and then I get a $10 coupon when you buy something for the first time It's just something that once you sign up They give you like a referral link so that you can get little kickbacks when you mention the platform But anyway, well you you have to do more than mention it people have to use your link But anyhow Poshmark, mercari and ebay is where I sell mostly. I do dabble in some others So be on the lookout for this guy you guys. He's a hundred and twenty five dollar hippo Okay, I bought this vintage jean Hoeffler hoeffler western toy set at an estate sale for $15. It was so cool I had never seen one before at the building snapped together There was a stagecoach and horses cowboys and Indians a saloon a sheriff's office a hotel, etc I sold it for a hundred and ten dollars. Check it out. Um, it doesn't say where they sold it I'm guessing ebay Um, but I will pop the picture up for you guys and it sold for a hundred and ten Found 10 Douglas stuffed dogs at the Goodwill for two dollars each I never looked at look at the stuffed animals, but these caught my eye because they looked so real Spent a total of 20 dollars and sold them for 25 dollars each. Oh my goodness. Look how cute this is Oh So cute So cute Okay, I got these at Walgreens on clearance years ago characters from a Mexican tv show that briefly crossed over To a cartoon called El Chavo. I might be saying that wrong jack specific toys do well I think I paid about 10 dollars or less for both So El Chavo Kiko and Popsie Or poppies dolls and DVDs rare jack specific So sold these for $55 plus shipping So it looks like it was maybe an item That he's had for a little bit and then Maybe they're not maybe it's retired. I'm not really sure But this is what they look like I thought these would go for hire got at a shop Goodwill auction Hannah, Barbara, bobbleheads um Magilla Gorilla and Scooby-Doo I think I paid 50 for all and had to pick them up 50 miles away So it is a mixed lot as seen and they sold for a hundred and twenty four dollars and 50 cents plus shipping This was my first Etsy sale little Jetsons toys Um 23 dollars cost me about a dollar for all. Okay So these are just little Jetsons toy figures. You guys know I absolutely love selling toys. Um, anyway So the Jetsons 23 plus tax and shipping the buyer was all in for 32 98 for these little toys you guys So definitely be on the lookout and don't just dismiss little toys. They can do pretty well All right sold this in January for 299 dollars and 99 cents on ebay I have three shoeboxes of my daughter's brats monster high Barbie She said get rid of them. So free to me. She says well, I paid. Um She's like well, I did pay for them when she was little. Yes, that's true. You probably did. Um, this doll is rare It is Felicia campfire. I think I'm saying that right. I waited for the Complete with accessories ones to be sold and put mine up high comps are even higher now So this is what the doll looks like you guys some of the brats dolls some of the monster high some of them go for big bucks I'm not sure if this is one of like the extra big ones Or if this is just a regular size the photo is fantastic and her hair looks so good Sometimes the dolls hair get crazy um She said see there is a rerun on all of that money invested in those kids toys That's what she said. Yeah. Yep. So she bought the toys for her daughter years and years ago and now she's selling them Okay, I bought him at the Goodwill bins for 50 cents sold him for 67 dollars and 50 cents. He is the mascot for the Deviant art website. He is described as a robotic cat and his name is fella Um, yeah, this is what it looks like never seen that guy before ever. So good good to know that one I paid two dollars to pick anything and everything an attic at an auction Among the hundreds of items I picked sold two of these new old stock estimate one penny investment So it's a vintage rare blow mold frankenstein Halloween flashlights. So sold it for 15 dollars plus shipping. So you guys next item Um, this comes from bolo buddies member Money making mama. I knew it was mama. I just couldn't remember what the beginning was I was a reselling with mama or money making mama. Here's her channel. Um, she paid 125 From a place that she sources at it's called dirt cheap and if you've watched my featured members video I talk about her sourcing at this place. It's unbelievable what she finds She said this one sold for 314 dollars now. She did pay 125 for it, but she sold it for 314 and This is one of eight that I sold in just three days. So 125 into 314 Times eight So huge bolo for me. She said I even made my first youtube short about it.   Sometimes you got to pay up for things, but She knew to invest in eight of those. I mean 125 times eight. Ah, that would be scary for me Okay Paid up for this $10 at an antique store for the jail and $2 for the vehicle at a thrift store And she sold this on mercari for 57 plus shipping. It's a spongebob Spongebob imaginex bundle right here. Um toys do awesome on mercari. I love putting toys on mercari All right, you guys so that concludes this video Um, let me know in the comments what you think. Um, what your favorite bolo item was check out the featured members Bolo buddies members that were mentioned um And if you haven't seen the featured members video that here's the most recent one I did Go check that out. You guys these members are bolo finders They are showcasing their bolos in these videos and you guys are going to learn so much. So definitely go check that out Thank you for being here. 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This is the TikTok live course. And in this course, I'm going to share with you what I've used and what I've learned to grow my TikTok account and specifically how to use TikTok to grow your affiliate business with She-Life Store or Qi Energy AI. So right now I'm focusing a lot of my time and a lot of my resources into growing my TikTok account and it's doing very well. Being lots of followers, lots of views, lots of engagement. So if you want to build any kind of following, I think that TikTok is probably the best platform to do it. You get the most bang for your buck. You get the most return for your time investment. Reason is because if you start a YouTube channel or start Facebook page or anything like that, those accounts are quite saturated or Instagram, they're quite saturated. It's hard to start a new one and to get more followers unless you already have one that you've started a long time ago and you already have a lot of big following. But for someone who wants to start from scratch with no followers, TikTok's probably the best way right now. Reason is because it's still a young and new platform and it's very highly engaging and there's not many businesses that have really taken advantage of it. We've seen more in the last six months because they realized the potential but there's still not many businesses that are taking advantage of TikTok and the audience. So in this course, we're gonna go over all budget stuff.  So who this is for? It is for creators, it's for influencers and it's for brands or e-commerce businesses, consulting coaches or local service-based businesses. So you can take what you learned today and you can apply it and use it and benefit any kind of business or other platform or social media platform that you currently have. So even if you do this affiliate program, actually use the tips and the training from this course to amplify any other business that you create. How the TikTok algorithm works, if you didn't know is that it will take any video that's posted and test it with a small group of people. And then what it's gonna do is it's gonna analyze what you use as hashtags. It's gonna transcribe what you're saying as words and use that as the words that are in the video as the metadata. And it's also going to take you into count how many current followers you have. So it'll give more weight to your videos if you have more followers, but it's not that much. It doesn't give that much weight to it. And then what happens in phase two, it's going to look for people with a similar profile and then send it to them. And then after that, it's gonna send it to a even wider audience. So what it does is it uses something like this. So it's gonna send the video to the first 300 people and test it and see how engaged it's gonna be, how many people are gonna comment on it or like it or engage or follow based on the first 300 people. So if it does well, if you get a good watch timed, then what TikTok does is it's gonna show it to 3,000 people and then it's gonna test it with this group and then after that it's gonna test it, send it out to 30,000 and 300,000 and so on. So every video will go through this process with TikTok. So which is a good thing because it's gonna rely less on how many followers you have and it's gonna rely mostly on how good the actual video is and how engaging and how much people watch it, which is how it's supposed to be.  So what you want is you want to create so much content so that the chances of hitting that home run are gonna be higher. So it's all about quantity and quality. So if you're going to, if you want to grow virally, you have to get that home run. You gotta get that like 100,000 view or a million view video and it's actually easier than you think. A lot of times it's probably, it could be one of the easiest videos ever made but the key is to be consistent and keep testing new things and to keep making new content and then keep tweaking it to make it better. Okay, so that's how it works. And what the algorithm wants is they want people to be entertained, educated and inspired. So think in those three terms, there's a term that is infotainspiration. So that's what you want. You want to combine all those three things in your content. So whatever you're doing, see how you can make it entertaining and educating and inspirational all in the same video. So that's the goal. What the TikTok algorithm wants mostly is watch time and engagement. So how long they are watching your video for? How many percent of the video is being watched? And engagement, which means like if they're liking it, commenting, sharing it or following your account from after watching the video. Post time is overrated. Some people say you need to post this specific time of day. That doesn't really matter as much but if you're gonna have ideal time, it would be somewhere between nine to 11 a.m. in the morning or two to six p.m. And then there are tools I'm gonna show you that can automate your posting so you don't actually have to do it at those times. You can actually do it all on Monday and schedule everything at once with the software. Just a lot more convenient. So here's what the most important metrics are. So this is what TikTok is gonna look at. Average watch time, the full video percent watch time, shares, saves, follows, like to view ratio, like to follow ratio, comments and share. So basically in that order, okay? So the number one would be average watch time. How long are they watching that video? Like the average viewer, how long are they watching the video? And the next is how many percentage of that video is being watched? What are their completion time goals? So based on how long the video is, this should be the benchmark for how long they should be watching. So you will be able to see this inside your TikTok accounts once you get some views. So from zero to seven seconds, really short ones should expect 160%. So they're probably watching it 1.6 times. The average viewer from eight to 15 seconds, they should be watching the whole video 100%. 16 to 30 seconds should be 75%. 31 to 60 seconds should be 50%. 60 to 120 seconds should be 40%. Two to three minutes should be 28 to 35%. So that's your target. So don't think that if you have a three minute video and you only get 28% of the people watching that it's not a good view, it actually is a really good video if people are watching that much. So we're gonna go through some phases here. So number one, set your goals. Number two is research. Number three is create and then edit and publish. So first of all, what are your goals? So you gotta figure out before you start, what is your goal? What is your objective for building your TikTok channel? So here we're mainly going to be using it to promote your affiliate promotions, so which is your cheat coils or the frequencies or any products on G-Life Store and G-Energy AI. So that's what you're gonna be promoting. But if it's something else, you can also decide that you want to promote your own personal business. Let's say that you have your own clinic or you don't have your own service or you're a teacher or you have students or you have a coaching program that you wanna promote. Well, if that is that, then you need to figure out if that's what you wanted to do as well. And you can figure out a strategy that can blend all the things that you're doing into one thing. Okay, so either you could be growing a business, selling a product or do you wanna build authority for yourself in the marketplace? You wanna become an authority and a leader or do you want to become an influencer or a thought leader? You wanna grow a brand.  Are you wanting to amplify your art, your music or something that you wrote, a book or a course? So keep in mind, you wanna think about what type of people do you wanna reach with? Who's your ideal viewer? Who's your ideal client and based on that? Okay, so they call it avatar, right? So figure out what the avatar is. What is the, you know, how was the age range? Like are you selling BTS like a t-shirts or something? Well, then it's gonna be a younger audience, right? Or are you talking about what we're talking about, which is meditation, wellness, and let's say like a peak performance, which would be ideally between 35 and 45, and then also 25 too. So, but mostly around 30 to 45. Are you, is your message primarily geared towards females or males or what kind of hobbies do they have? What kind of jobs do they have? So you need to identify who is your audience and what kind of people you wanna reach, okay? Then research, research is very important. So what you wanna do is search for creators, search for hashtags, search for hooks, topics, ideas and styles. So I'm gonna show you how to do that in a second. Search the top content you need, search hashtags, look for big opportunities, check the like volume and drill down. Okay, I'm gonna go through this quickly and then I'm gonna show you, okay, how to do it. So search topic, top results, select the video genre, hooks, hashtags. Okay, so let's just go through this. So I want my TikTok account here. So what you do is you're gonna first figure out the top five topics. If you want some tips on the topics that would be very compatible with what we're doing with G-Life, we actually have some for you already. We've done many surveys and over the years we've figured out that there are basically like top six or eight topics that people who buy G-Coils are interested in. Okay, so the first is sleep.  So there's focus and clarity, meditation, spirituality, recovery, regeneration, energy levels, and stress dealing with stress and anxiety. Those are the top ones. Secondary ones are anti-aging, recovery from sickness, anxiety we just talked about. So EMF, protection, pain, fatigue, motivation. Okay, so those are some topics that you can think about, consider using as one of your main five topics. Now when you're looking at these topics, you also wanna think about who, which audience is interested in this topic. Sleep is basically everybody. Everybody's having sleep problems, even young people, young old people. Focus and clarity, everybody's having that problem. Most people are young and old. Meditation and spirituality is pretty wide range, but then probably people in their 30s, like in the mid range would be more interested in meditation and spirituality. Recovery, regeneration, mostly like in their 40s and 50s. Energy levels, mostly like in their 30s and above. Stress, same thing. So see, each topic has a specific group of people that are more interested in that topic, right? So these are just the main topics in Chi life that basically, well, we get the most results. I mean, get the best results with our Chi-Kho technologies and all the technologies for these specific problems that people have. We are very good at solving these problems with our technologies very consistently. So why not use these as your topics because that's what our technology does. Okay, so let's go back to our phone screen here. So let's say that you are doing research, then you wanna click on this search and let's say let's start with sleep, okay?  So right now you can start building a list of ideas. Like sleep in 60 seconds sounds like pretty good. It's number one on the list. So let's click on that one. And then we can see these are the top videos that have that in their description. You see in the description there, it's highlighting how to fall asleep in 60 seconds. It's pretty small, you might have to make your screen bigger to see it. But the first there it says how to fall asleep in 60 seconds and then hashtag ASMR and hashtag sleep. So this one, you can see it's got 900,000 likes. So this is a very successful video. And this is ASMR. So he's just making sounds with various things. So if this is something that interests you, you think this is a good video, then what you want to do is click on see more and then you can see the other tag. So you see ASMR, hashtag sleep. And then Nanna knows ASMR, that's her name. Relaxing and for you, okay. So if you want to do something like that, then you could put that into your sheets. Okay, I'm going to show you a sheet quickly here. Let's see your screen. So what I do is there's a TikTok research sheet that you're going to get. So you can type in the user, you can put the video link here for reference and then genre, style, hooks, hashtags, titles, subtitles. Okay, so let's just take that video and let's say we like that and we want to make something like that. Style would be ASMR. Montage is just a collection of clips, right? Hooks would be how to fall asleep in 60 seconds. Actually, that's probably better as a title. Call to action and see what it is. How to fall asleep. Okay, see? How to fall asleep in 60 seconds and she's whispering that. So that is the hook and it's also the title. And it's also in the description. Hashtags will be ASMR and sleep, relaxing. And then user is, you can write it down. But if you have, you can do, you can open TikTok on your desktop so that you can copy it directly. Okay, so what you would do is you would scroll through, then you would drill down, right? So you would go and look at her profile and then you can see that she got $250,000. Then you want to scroll and see what her most viewed videos are. And look, she only has 10 videos and she already has $250,000. So you can see how easy it is to grow very quickly on TikTok. Only 10 videos, you already have $257,000. So you can see like 2.4 million. You can take a look at this one. Follow my instructions. So the key thing I think, the hook is that she's whispering. So the style or the hook itself is like the technique that she's using is whispering. So you can add that to the sheet. So I would see what other video she has and then take a look at those hashtags. It's exactly the same hashtags. And then here it says follow my instructions. As the tag. So here we go, you can add follow my instructions. So you see what I'm doing? This is how you do the research. After you've gone through a bunch of videos, you're gonna have a whole list of the top videos, hashtags, ideas to work with. So look for big opportunities and check, like volume. Like right, the first one I saw right there, that's a huge opportunity because how do I know it's a big opportunity is because they only have 10 videos and they have 250,000 subscribers. So that means that she put in very little effort to get a huge return and get a huge result, which probably means there's not many people doing what she's doing or she's doing something that is unique. Hashtags, we already showed you how to find them. Top content in your niche. So how to sleep in 10 seconds at top content. Jilling down. So what I did is I go into each video and then find out what other hashtags are being used, what other techniques are being used, hooks and headlines are being used. So top results, what we did, we did sleep and then we found the top results. When we selected the video, we found out what genre, style, hooks or hashtags they're using. The next step, next wave of research. So here I found ASMR and that's just the first video. So let's say we also wanna scroll here and see what else is happening. So there's another person doing ASMR here. This one's also ASMR. So I guess that's a pretty popular thing, right? Here's another one, 500,000. To rest your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Breathe in for four seconds and hold it for seven. Then exhale while making a whoosh sound for eight seconds. This is another style, right? This is more of montage and instructions and a step-by-step process. So I think there's five steps here. And you can notice how he writes the steps directly on the screen, which is good, which is important because what TikTok will do is they will take the text from those texts that he added. And this is not text he added. I don't think it's text he's added on the, on iMovie or something. This is text that you can add directly on with the TikTok app. Can repeat this four to eight times. This makes you feel incredibly relaxed. I spent a week of my life doing the four, seven, eights. So this is pretty short. So if I was gonna add this into my sheet, I would once again add the user, the genre, which is instructional or tips video with montage or basically with clips showing the person how to do each of the techniques. And then the hooks are, there's a lot of hooks going on actually. The hooks is on this one would be- Your mouth, breathe in for a- I tried a four, seven, eights sleep method. Here's what happened. So that's the hook. You see that? So that's the description section. So if you're doing more research, you should be writing down these hooks. I tried the four, six, eights sleep method. Here's what happened. So it builds curiosity and it gets people to engage with the video. That's what call to actions are. So based on this idea, you can say, I tried the Chi-Koil meditation method. Here's what happened. Or I tried the Chi energy AI broadcast and here's what happened. So it makes people curious about what happened. And then that's what the video could be about. Hashtags, favorites, other videos under hashtags, users, profiles, other videos that popped, genre, style, hooks and hashtags. So if you're looking for hashtags, pretty similar process. I'm just gonna go back to the search here and then I'm gonna search, let's say sleep again. And then we click sleep. You see here, it says top. It says users, videos and on the end it says hashtags. So here you can write down any hashtags that are related to your topic. And what you wanna do is you wanna have about eight hashtags, eight to 10 hashtags. And I'm gonna show you how to choose them. You're probably wondering, there's so many, which one do I choose, right? So this is where you go find hashtags. You can click on hashtags. Then you look at which videos are ranking the highest for those hashtags and you can drill down and then do more research into these videos themselves. And once again, you go look at the users. There's actually a million. And then look at his videos, okay? And then do some more research into this guy's account. If it's something that catches your eye. And also users. So here we can search by users. Look at this one here. Look at the big follower numbers here. 4.5 million, that's a lot. I think these are mainly dance videos or music videos. So let's take a look at this one. Yeah, so there's a dance video. So this is something that you wanna do. You wanna do dance videos then you can copy that. But if you don't wanna do dance videos, look for something else. So let's take a look at that. This one looks like ASMR. Again, this one, I don't know what this one is. I barely post anymore. So probably a dead account. Some graphics or some video games. This one's live right now. So also ASMR. So that's pretty popular. So go down and scroll down so you find something else. Sleepy fur balls. Okay, this is a pet channel. 1.9. So let's take a look at this one here. Hi, I'm Inka and I've been a professional voiceover artist and announcer my entire life. And I wanna- Okay, so this is more like a, just a vlog. Okay, it's called Sleeping Pill Podcast there. So I'm not sure. It's actually about sleep, I'm not sure. Okay, so you get the idea, right? So you're going through the users, you're going to visit videos. You can even go through sounds and see which sounds are the most popular. You're reaching your hashtags. And all the while, you are writing down and recording on your research sheet, all the stuff that stood out to you. So you're looking for opportunities. And opportunities are people who have obviously very viral videos, but not that many videos. Or videos that are very easy to make without too much effort. Or hashtags or some kind of style that's unique that makes their videos different than other people. Okay, so you would write them all in here for your research. Other tips are to add lots of favorite hashtags and send yourself plenty of video URLs. So like there's no shortcut to doing the research. You just have to go and scroll through and actually watch the videos. And then you as a viewer would know whether it's engaging or not and whether it's related to your topic or whether it's something that you think that you can do yourself. You gotta be able to look at the video and see that you can do it yourself with the limited equipment that you have. Okay, so you find out what video is actually realistic for you to do. And remember that it's important to have a lot of quantity. When you're looking at video, make sure that you know that you can make it quickly. Okay, so video types basically the most popular styles is based on how long the video is. The 15 seconds, 60 seconds, a minute and now there's a 10 minute video limit. So each style or each length has a different kind of style that would go with it. And that's really for you to research. For example, a 10 minute one will probably be more talking and more explaining. Whereas a 15 second one will be more just like in your face and just lots of transitions to keep your engagement. And then a 60 second one could be something in between. But the key is simple is better. Simple videos give tactical value or tell a story works so well and build more followers. Instead of one hit wonder videos that grow viral and don't create a loyal following and it's hard to repeat. For example, you can make a dance video and get a lot of views, but then those followers would only be interested in watching you dance. So you have to figure out like what content you're putting out there is it's content that would attract the followers to you for the right purpose. Like are they following you because they want to learn more about sleep? Are they following you because they want to learn more about what you're talking about or just because you have something that's funny or something that's viral? So don't go for just one hit wonder. Think about the strategy of what kind of followers and what you want them to follow you for. So here's some ideas for video types and genres. So the easiest ones to do are valuable tips tutorials. Educate and demonstrate. So you can make five tips on how to sleep better or five tips to sleep in 10 or in 60 seconds. You can make a story to inspire, inform, entertain, advocate or create awareness. It can be an inspirational quote. You can just even just speak a quote and make it a 15 second video on a quote that's inspirational, funny or entertaining, raw, random thoughts, rants, trending content or current events. So those are different kinds of videos that you can make different genres. Video styles, face to the camera, narrative voiceover, which means you have some clips playing but then you're doing a voiceover over the clips. It could be a hybrid, which means you are doing a third party content. So you are doing a stitch, which means you're making a video reaction based on somebody else's video. You can be recording the screen while you're browsing a website or watching another video. It could be a one person, two characters. It could be a cover song. Video hook would be an aha moment when you're informing of a new idea of a practical value or you're debunking a common belief or you're creating some kind of mystery or curiosity, some kind of unexpected pattern interrupt, demonstrating something, something emotional, something about credibility or authority or a pain or a problem. It could be a challenge or frustration, benefit or desire, symbolic thought, metaphors, analogies, powerful statistics, engagement, CTA. So those are just a lot of ideas that you can use. Next is editing. So basically you can edit yourself. If you have an Apple MacBook, then you can just edit the video yourself with iMovie, it's pretty simple. Or you can go to Fiverr and get it edited professionally. You can get a pretty low cost, maybe for $10 and get something edited or $5 or something like that. Or you can get maybe your nephew or niece to edit it for you. So we have an editing team and they do our edits, but you can also do yourself, then publish. So publish and grow your account. All right, so that's the basic five-step process. Now we can drill down more into what to do when you're actually publishing. So hacking hashtags. Well first, here is like the structure or how you're gonna design your video. Okay, so there's a curiosity hook. You see here, 10 biggest business mistakes. You use the app to actually add that in. I'll show you how to do that in a second. It can make a different color. You can add a bonus hashtag. This is your text line, your main headline, you can say. And then you have your engagement CTA. So you write it in the description here. Be the best version of you, follow for more. So that's the CTA, call to action, that's what it means. So we want them to follow for more, so we add that into here. And then there's hashtags in there. I remember I said you want about eight to 10 hashtags. So when you're picking your hashtags, you wanna pick two of each, so two in each category. You want two that's over 300 million views. You want another two that's about 30 to 300 million. You want another two that's about 300,000 to 30 million. And then two that's about 30,000 to 300, and then two that's micro. So this is probably just your account name or maybe just cheek oil. Use hashtags to optimize for each individual video, not the attract specific types of followers. Okay, so each video, make sure that you use individual hashtags that's specific to that video. So for example, if you're doing a sleep video on how to sleep from jet lag, right? Then your hashtag shouldn't be sleep faster or sleep sounds or something like that. It's got nothing to do with it because you're giving tips on how to sleep from jet lag, right? So jet lag should be your hashtag or jet lag sleep, sleep after jet lag, something like that. It's gotta be more specific to that video itself and not so general as to attract the type of followers. I've actually created a video building tool for you. I'm gonna give you this link later. And what it looks like is this and you're gonna get this later. So here's the video genres, video genre ideas, video style ideas, hook elements. And I've also given you a bunch of hooks that you can use.  There's about 20 of them that are very useful. And hooks are very important because the first three seconds of the video are what's going to engage the person. If you don't get their attention, you don't hook them in the first three seconds, they're not gonna watch the rest of the video.  You need this free tool for sleep, right? Top five resources I use to sleep, whatever. How I got whatever in X time, for example, 24 hours. So how I fell asleep in three seconds or something like that. Okay, so we've got a lot of very useful hooks that you don't have to come up with any of yourself. You can just copy these directly and use them as hooks in your videos. So what you do with hooks is you want to save this first in your video. This is the first thing they hear and it's like right in the beginning. And you also want to add this as the text on your screen and also as the description, okay, as a hook. I've also written here some scripts that you can use specifically for our products. Okay, there's about 10 scripts here that you can use. So you don't have to read it word for word.  So for example, here says, all right, I've been buying Chico's for over a year now. So I can give you a proper and honest review. So I'm currently inside of his Facebook group, which is basically a community of energy and truth seekers as to what they call themselves. If it wasn't because of the group, I would have not known about Chico's. I would not have made this TikTok. Okay, so it's basically a script that you could use or tweak for use on your actual video. Here's another column with ideas, my odd healthy dessert recipe, my favorite meditation routine, what apps I'm using the most, best wellness tips I've ever tested, what's in my bag, my must haves, my weird relaxation technique. So it's just a bunch of ideas that you can start brainstorming with. And then on here, when you copy this Trello, you can make your own Trello board and here you can actually put your own video ideas and start tracking your progress. So you can make another column on the right. So here's like, you can make current video ideas. So I would make another column. I'll add this for you later. I just say videos in production and then videos editing and then videos released. So you have another column, so you can track which videos you've done and which ones videos you have in your flow. Okay, so all that's available, I'll give this to you later. So you can use that and speed up your progress. So some people ask, what kind of equipment do you need? Some essentials is, well, you need a smartphone, but other than that, I would get a tripod with a ring light. If you don't have one, this is very useful. So any kind of tripod like this that comes with a ring light and that can hold your phone, make sure you can hold your phone vertically because we're using in TikTok. So make sure that the tripod or the phone holder can turn this vertically. So tripod, ring light, back camera mirror, you might need to. Now, some people say, should I use the back camera on the phone or should I use the front camera? Well, on the back camera, you're gonna get more quality, which is good. The front camera is just easier to use, but in order to use the back camera, you have to see yourself, right? So what you can get is to get this mirror so that you can use the back camera and see the screen on the mirror so that you get higher quality videos with your back camera. So that's just an idea that I recommend. How I do it is actually I use software OBS Studio so that I can see my phone screen on my computer while I'm recording it. So it's a little bit more complicated. This is an easy way to do it. Just get a mirror that attaches to this stand. And a mic, depending on how much noise and what kind of camera you have, you may not need a mic. I mean, depending on what kind of phone you have, some phones have good mic, but you have to test it out. Sometimes your phone, your voice might be too thin if your phone's mic is not good. So in that case, just get one of these Lavalier mics and just connect it to your phone jack. Some of these are Bluetooth. You can use those two or these have a mini jack that connects to your phone. Okay, so that's what I would use as essential equipment that you need to make videos with. Okay, TikTok growth myths. So video length, trending content, posting frequency, posting times and hashtags. A shorter or longer video, people say that 15 seconds is the ideal length. Well, probably in general, but for the content that you're making, I would say 30 seconds to a minute would be a good length because if you're doing education, if you need to teach something or give tips, it's gonna be longer. So basically the proper video length is whatever you need to do what you wanna do. So if you wanna talk about five tips then you're gonna need at least one minute to talk about five tips, right? So don't get too caught up into making them very, very short. Trending content. You need to find out which content actually works for you. So not all trending content is applicable to what you wanna do. But if you can hack and figure out how to follow the trends then that's great. But don't get caught up with the trend and then make that distract you from what your strategy is. Posting frequency. What we're seeing now is the more you post, the faster TikTok will promote your videos because they know that you're active and you're working hard creating more content. So they will actually reward you if you post more often. Posting times we already talked about doesn't really matter, but ideally nine o'clock or about three o'clock. Hashtags we just talked about. Some other myths are TikTok is just for Gen Z is not true. We can see in the demographics that is actually quite evenly distributed between all age groups now. You have to be hot to be successful. You don't, you'll get your first 1000 followers in next weeks. No, that really depends. You can get the, the key is like I said is to make a lot of them so that the chances for one of them to go viral will be higher. Your first few videos determine your page access. That's not true. TikTok, shadow, ban me. That may happen if you post something that is in violation of their policies, but you just need to be careful and then you'll be fine. Joining the creator fund will decrease your views. Don't worry about that. Another thing you can do is you find people already influential on TikTok and then you can make videos based on their videos. So you can do a stitch or you can do some kind of response or some kind of duet with them. And if you, I don't have time to show you exactly how to do those, but it's basically you are doing a reaction to their videos. Okay, so here what I've done is I've created a seven day quick start plan. Okay, so on day one, you're opening your account, choosing your name, playlist. Day two, picking your five topics. Day three, doing research. Day four, doing more research. Day five, you're shooting the videos. Day six, you're editing the videos and then getting your headlines and headings and descriptions ready. And then day seven, you're uploading it. Okay, so there is a service called Hootsuite. It is, I think $50 a month, but what you can do with Hootsuite. So this is new before you weren't able to do this, but now you can use something called Hootsuite. And what it does is a social media manager and you can get a free trial. And what it does is you can post your TikTok video onto Hootsuite and then schedule it to post it anytime you want. So basically you pre-scheduling your TikToks. I think you can do it up to a week in advance, but that's not all it does. What it does is it actually can post your TikTok video to the other social accounts, such as Instagram, Facebook, I think Twitter as well, and Pinterest, which is pretty useful because now if you make one content or one video, now you can post it to like five different places and you can automate that in one place, which would be very useful for you because now instead of manually having to post into all these other accounts, you can just do it in one place and manage everything and automate everything in one place. So that could be something that you might consider doing if you are going to, and it makes sense because you already made the video, you might as well post it to all these other platforms and you never know. Sometimes you might even get more views on Twitter or more views on Instagram for the video than TikTok or the vice versa. So you never know. And then now you can grow multiple platforms with the same effort without having to do like five things and you just do one thing. Okay, so that's what you would do.  I actually have a team that does this for me but basically I've trained them using basically what I'm teaching you. You know, I have somebody to do all these features for me to find out all the users, genres and styles and then they tell me what they've come up with. And then I make the video, I shoot the video on one day. I spent probably two to three hours shooting videos on one day. So pick a day of the week that you want to dedicate for shooting videos. Preferably whenever you have time without distractions.  And then on the next day, you can get them edited where you add all the sub headlines, headlines and descriptions and then upload it to Hootsuite on day seven. So the goal is to do three to five posts per day. And that sounds like a lot. But you can definitely do at least one post a day. And you're probably wondering, how can I make that many videos? Well, there's a little trick that you can do. The trick is to pick five topics then make long versions of those topics. So if you're making a video, make a long version of it. Talk about a certain topic for three to 10 minutes. Okay, so it could be like top 10 ways to improve your sleep. And that would last for three to 10 minutes. So that's a long form. Now from that video, you can edit it and make let's say a shortened version of it. That's only three minutes. Then you can make another shorter version of it. That's only one minutes. Then you can just maybe pick the top three tips that you have on the video and make just a 30 second version. Or you can just, now you can take all those top tips and then separate each tip as a separate video, 15 seconds each or six seconds each. And now you have another 10 videos because you talked about 10 tips. But the cool thing is that you only shot it once, right? You shot this video once or you just have one main long video and they just chop it up into many smaller pieces. So now your one piece of content becomes 15 pieces of content. You guys following? So, and that's just one topic. Let's say sleep is one topic. And then the next topic is, let's say it is focus, how to gain focus, mental focus, right? Then you can do the same thing. And then you see what happens. So let's say in one day, you filmed five videos, three to 10 minutes each on five topics, right? And for each video, you can chop it up into 10s videos. So really by filming five videos, you made 50 videos because you can chop them up into smaller pieces, okay? So it's actually a lot easier to make a lot of videos. So on one day you can potentially make 50 videos. You just need to edit them but you potentially made 50 videos in one day. So that's how you do it. And then once you start posting them onto your account, so you got to post them, I would post them regularly. So let's say you made seven videos that week. Well, then you would post it once a day, right? But if you made 14 videos, then you would post twice a day and so on. So you wanna spread them out evenly across the week because TikTok tends to like to see the consistency. So you would use Hootsuite to upload all of them. Let's say you have 14 videos, you would upload all of them onto Hootsuite and then you would schedule them for that week, for that following week, according to the day and the time of the day that you want them to be released. And the good thing is you can add the hashtags, you can add the descriptions and the callouts and everything directly into Hootsuite. Okay, so after a couple of weeks or so, you're gonna start seeing which videos are doing better than others. So at that point, you're gonna evaluate yourself and see which topic, which style, which technique, which hook have the most response for you. And what you'll do is create more like it. And then start to making subtopics. If it's a topic like, let's say sleep got you a lot of engagements and it got me in the most interest, a lot of really good comments or people asking questions in the comments. Then what you can do is you can answer the comments and then create videos by answering the questions that people ask in the comments. And that's a really good thing to do because now you are engaging with your audience and TikTok actually sees that and rewards you for that as well. Okay, like I said, pick one day of the week and shoot a bunch of them. How many you think you can do? I would shoot at least seven to 20 videos. I don't mean seven to 20 individual videos. This could be maybe two long videos like that are like 10 minutes each. And then you can split it up into seven or 20 videos. So you can pick one day to do that. So you're probably wondering, how am I gonna set up? So now that I know how to make the videos, how do I monetize? So that's the key, right? So how do I monetize my TikTok channel? Now that I have all these followers, now all those views, well, you need to have something, you need to have set up your profile properly. Let me show you how to do that. Get to my screen here. Okay, so here's my account and can't release, there's no arrow on here, I can't point to it. But what you want here is you have basically one to three lines here in the middle that describe who you are. So here I put health technology founder, pre-performance coach mentor and martial artist.  And you can add some icons here, emojis to make it more interesting. So if there's something that you've, let's say that you won an award or you have some kind of a special thing that makes you stand out compared to other people, I would put it here. Okay, here you have a link. Now, I don't think, if you start a new account, you won't be able to add this link here and until you have 1,000 followers. But if you don't have it, it's still fine, don't worry about it. Q and A is right now actually testing it. And what I've done with Q and A is I made my own questions and then I answer my own questions with the videos. So these are all questions that people have been asking about G-Quals and then I made videos on the answer of those questions and then I add it here. Okay, this is another thing you can do. Okay, but it can also add your Instagram here. And because when people contact you, they usually actually contact you through Instagram direct message. Okay, the important part is how to monetize. Okay, we got this link here, but if you don't have the link, what you can do is you can use something called playlist. So you see this plus here, you can create a playlist and instead of making the playlist name just like sleep videos or something like that, what you do is you make this the call to action. So here you go, you can use code, let's say John10onsheelifestore.com. So once you create that playlist, you can select the video. And now when someone- Who can make money with G-Quals? We have a program for that. So now you see at the bottom it says playlist use code John10, right? So if that's your code, you can use the code. I gotta figure out how to... So if you wanna put the URL somewhere else, then you would put it in the description, you see here. So you put the descriptionsheelifestore.com or use code John10onsheelifestore.com. So that when people click on the description on your video, they would know where to go. And you would also say it in the video itself.  You don't know where to go get your code. Let me just show you that since we're talking about that. So you would go to your affiliate page, okay? If you go to affiliates.sheelifestore.com, that's how you log into your affiliate account. affiliates.sheelifestore.com. And your affiliate code is here, right? Keep on code. So you can change your coupon code here. You can change it to something like Inga10 or Ashida10 or Robert10 or Patrick10, whatever it is. And then you can tell people on your video to go to that or use that code. Because sometimes it's better because your referral code, your referral link is kind of complicated. It's difficult to tell people to go to sheelifestore.com like slash, question mark, REF equals and then give them, that's too long, right? So if you're gonna use this link, I would just copy the link and put it as your profile link but until you have a thousand followers, you won't be able to put that link there. So what you can do is actually put it as a comment on your video, okay? Or you can shorten this link. So you can use something like Bitly or tinyurl.com and shorten this link. So it'll be like tinyurl.com and then John Doe or something like that. So that it's easier for them to type in. But I think the best way is just get a really short coupon code and just tell people to go to the website and use that coupon code. And when they use the code, they get 10% off and then our affiliate system will track that. That's actually referred by you. That's what most people do. It's just the easiest way to do and people don't have to worry about the links that much. Okay, so this is where you get your links and your code. CTA, all right, so CTA, call to action. Once again, there's a few ways of doing it. So the first way is to add it as the link here. Here I put use the chi. But if you don't have a thousand followers and you don't have the link, you can add it here. So you see here, animated playlist, use code john10. And what you can do is actually add another playlist on chelivestore.com. Okay, I did it backwards. So you see what it shows here now? It shows on chelivestore.com and it says use code john10. So I did it backwards. So you gotta, I'm gonna go right away. Who can make money with chiquels? You have a program for that and it's called. Okay, so you put on chelivestore.com first, then you add another playlist that says use code. You can put discount. So you're gonna put discount in here. Yeah, I can put discount code next. So I'm gonna add any video on the playlist. There's a question about. Yes, see now what happens? Now it shows use discount code john10 on chelivestore.com. So it's separate into two playlists, but at least when they look at it, they can figure it out. Okay, use discount code john10 on chelivestore.com. You see how that works? So that's one way you can do it. Another way you can do it is actually add it in the, so let's say I'm gonna upload a video. Let's say I'm going to create a video right now. Okay, so I'm gonna upload this video. So this is the V2 version two. So I don't know what size that is, version two and if it's fine. Okay, so just to give you an example, what you can do is, first you add the text. There's a text up here. So this will be a hook, like this is a hook. And then you would click this button here on the left, the A button, and then you can change the different color. And then I say yellow looks good or green, blue. Let's do white. This is a hook. So this is where you're good to hook is. And then you put it up here. And you also set the duration. So you don't want it to show through the whole thing. So you make it show up for, let's say the first five seconds or only. So after that it's gonna disappear. All right, so there's lots of different things you can do. I'm just gonna keep it simple right now. You can do enhance, enhance. Okay, and then you go next. Okay, so here you describe your video. So this is where you put your call to action. So here you can put a curiosity hook, which is like, or you can put your call to action. So it would be like use code John 10 on g-life store. And what I do is actually I don't put the dot because I've heard that if you put a dot, people don't like, or TikTok doesn't like that you're putting another web address on there. So I just do g-life store dot, g-life store space com. So TikTok doesn't think that it's something that's gonna make somebody leave TikTok because they want people to stay on TikTok. Okay. So that could be the call to action, right? And then here you would have hashtags and so on. So you can click hashtags and then you can put all the hashtags. They have sleep, meditation, whatever it is. Okay. Okay, and our important thing is to select a cover. So when you select a cover, you wanna find the most interesting part of it. That's gonna get the most attention. So let's say, I don't know, none of this is, I didn't really intend this to be a video, but let's say this one looks kind of interesting. And then you wanna add also a headline. So you go, this is a headline. And then you would add some emojis or whatever, make it more interesting. And then you put it here, or you could put up here, up to you. Or you don't wanna cover up the important part of the video. So you can select different designs, but find one that you use and try to stick with that one throughout your whole account. You don't wanna use too many different ones because then it's gonna make it look messy. So find one that you like, like for example, this one matches this thing, but my account uses this theme. So let me save it like that. And then you post it. I'm not gonna post it. But then you can automatically share it on Facebook. You don't need to do that. I would add it to a playlist. So I'm gonna add it to this playlist. And then you would post. But normally I would add in eight to 10 different hashtags here. All right. Okay, so that's how I do call to action. Another important thing that you need to learn. Next important thing that we talk about is the three pinned videos here in the middle. So how I do it is I make the most popular video and one video that tells people why they should follow your account. And then one video that is talking about the product that you're promoting. Okay, so that's what I would do for the pinned videos. And the pinned video is very simple. You just go and click any of these videos.  And then that would create it into pinned. But I can only pin three videos. So it won't allow me to do that. So the top, the videos you would pick for the pins is your most popular videos or the video that you want to drive your views to. But, and then at least one of them should be a video that specifically about you introduces yourself and about why they should follow you. And then one of the videos should also be about what you are promoting. So it could be about the cheat codes and that's the one where you specifically would want to share your discount codes. And then the third one could be probably just your top, top viewed video. So that's how you would organize your pinned videos. Makes sense? Okay, we also have a Discord community if you are not aware. And to get to here, it's actually in the bottom of the G-Life store. You can go to Discord community and that's going to get you into this pace. And we have an affiliate section here. So if you have any questions and you want to discuss any affiliate issues, I'm on here quite often. So you can just post your question here if you have anything about affiliates. So actually you can use this for everything that's related to what we're doing. So general G-Life store, G-N-A-J-E-I, health, wealth, meditation, martial arts, inner circle. This is where we all hang out. And that we also make announcements and so on and so post our latest posts here as well and support. So if you're not on this Discord, make sure you get on here. There's an app for it too. So you can get notification whenever there's something new that's come up here. I like this better than Facebook because of these channels. Each channel or each thread can be more specific to that topic. And Facebook's just kind of like one thread and you can't really choose what you want to talk about. But here, this specific thread. So affiliates, we're talking this thread. It's the same thing about products. We'll talk in this thread and so on, okay? So make sure you join that, okay? And since you're on this course, I want to offer you guys a 30-day TikTok post challenge.  So plan out your calendar and commit to at least 30 days to six months of building your TikTok channel. As I said, as I showed you, it can be quite lucrative. We've had one of our affiliates earn money $150,000 in two months. He had a big network already, but as you can see, you can build a big network yourself with TikTok. So, you know, commit yourself to six months to doing this at least once a week because then you can grow an income, right? You can grow anywhere from $8,000 to $25,000 per month in six months. Even do half of that, it's still pretty good. So the last thing to talk about is the lives. How do you do the lives? Well, once you start creating, actually you can do the lives anytime. You don't even have to wait until you have a following because how TikTok treats lives, they treat them as if they are just separate videos. And they're gonna recommend your lives to whoever is watching or using TikTok at that time.  So I'm scrolling through my feed and see this one's live right now. And then, so these lives will pop up wherever you are. So these are lives. And when you do a live, that's exactly what's gonna happen on other people's feeds. Your live will start popping up on other people's feeds and then they might tune into your channel while you're doing a live and follow you because of your live. So you don't have to wait until you have like a thousand followers before you start doing lives. You can even have no videos on your account and only do lives and build your following like that. Some people actually do that. So, but I would also schedule in lives at least once a week so that you can like in real time engage with your followers or and also gather new followers as well. And what you would do in lives is basically just, it could be anything. It's very casual, it's very informal and there's no script and people just want to hang out with you and people just want to get a feel of what you're doing. They may ask you what you do and what you do is just talk about what you're doing and just talk about your experiences and why you're on TikTok, what you did that day. It's just a way to connect with people. And during your lives, what I'd like to do is actually create just a flash card to show the code in the web store address so that they can just see that on the screen or you can type it in the description as well on the live. The thing about TikTok though is that they don't record, they don't keep your lives on your feed. I mean, on your grid. They don't show up on your grid but you are able to record it and you can use that live. It's another trick, right? You can actually use that recorded live and then post it to all the other platforms like YouTube, you can post it to Instagram or you can chop it up and then make other TikToks with it. So that's what I did last couple of weeks is I did a live TikTok but I had to record it in high quality because when TikTok records your lives, they don't record it in high quality. So what I had to do is actually use two phones. I use one phone to record just a video of me doing the live and then I'll use another phone to use TikTok to do the live, okay? So while I was doing the live, another phone was right next to it recording just a video and then I'll use the video, the high quality video that's recorded, I send that to my editor and then I just cut it up into many pieces and then I use that content to make TikTok videos. So you see how you can leverage your time so that you don't have to spend too much time to make a lot of content, okay? So you can even do that, right? So you can pick one day of the week. You've got all these, you've got all these ideas, you've got all these hashtags and topics that you wanna talk about. Just create like a short outline and then during your live, you just go through the outline and keeping in mind that that outline, what are you doing during that live will be later edited into other smaller videos. So that's one other way you can do it. Yeah, you can test it out, see how that works out for you because then you can hit two birds with a stone, you're doing a live and you're making content for your TikToks, okay? So now, so the 30 day challenge is on and basically I just want you to see you get your, you know, post 30, 30 posts in 30 days, that's the goal, okay? So whenever you start, after you do your research, set up your profile, you should set a date that you're gonna start posting and then you should set a goal to post 30 posts in 30 days just as a quick start, okay? And if you need help, I'm on the Discord to answer questions that you have, all right? And so now that's it for this course. It basically covers everything you need to know to get started on TikTok and to shortcut and give you tools, give you the templates, give you the tips and scripts and the hooks, everything you need. We're gonna email you out all those resources after this course, but now we have time for some Q&A. Okay, Dave, Robert has a question. I don't know, I can't find the playlist on my TikTok page, I thought that was really cool but I can't, how do you get to the playlist? Where is that? It's just this button here. This plus button on the left. Oh, the plus button. Yeah. You know what, I don't think I have that on my page. Maybe I'm, I don't have enough followers maybe. I don't think that is a special, how many followers do you have? I have 1,599. Yeah, you should have it. Maybe you can update TikTok, sometimes an older version may not have it or sometimes some features come and go depending on the version. I'll look for the plus sign, thank you. Yeah, but I would update TikTok and it should update the latest features on there. Yeah, if you can't do the playlist thing then just do the other ways of doing the call to action. That will still work. You can just add the code directly onto the video screen. So let's say I'm gonna make another post here. All right, so I would just add it directly here. So I would just put use code, you know, a Shada or something. Yeah. 10 on GLifeStore.com. And you can just make this as a call out directly on the videos, right? So you can do that and then you can add a background and then let's say you want this to show up at the end of the video, right? So you can go, set duration and then you would move this. So you see it only shows up from for the last 10 seconds there. So you click that. So now it's on your video like that. See? You move it around. I would put it close to the bottom here. Okay. Another, yeah, so that's what I would do instead if you don't have the playlist. This is also actually pretty useful. So then this would be, this wouldn't go on the grid though. This gets saved in like, because I've got one of these. I've done one of these as well. I guess it's called a story. It's in Stories Archive. It doesn't show up on my grid. It shows up on. Oh, did you create a story though? I'm not too sure actually the difference between these but one is in the first column which seems to be like the usual video that gets posted and stays on the grid. That's the one that I am having a great time. Yeah, you probably created a story instead of a video. You just have to make the selected right one. Oh, someone's asking. So I'm using an iPhone 8. Hold on a second. Okay, so you can see. So these are the two videos I just uploaded. Oh yeah, that's under the low lock. Okay, that's where. So that's where good. So if you add a new post, you can, it says here in the bottom, it says quick, camera, quick or templates. So if you. Quick templates, yeah. So if you upload. See, instead of clicking post to story, you click next. I think you clicked post to story so it became a story instead. So what you do is you click next and then you post instead of. That's very subtle. Okay, it's not like a, for me, that's okay. Okay, so it's probably just clicked the wrong button. So post to story versus next. Yeah. Which is a video that stays on the. On your grid. On your grid, yeah. On the grid, okay. Good to know, thank you. Okay. Yeah. Let me look into the playlist thing. Maybe it's not something everybody can do. Hello from Rosslin. She said, discord did not download properly, retry it once more. So I guess discord's not working. Okay. And Tony said, what kind of backgrounds would you recommend? Okay, backgrounds. Well, I used my background. So I just had, I bought these extra lights. We can look at these lights. And you can make them like different white colored or you can make them colors. And they're pretty useful because they're small and they last for a few hours.  So light backgrounds, I like using them because it applies to frequencies and things like that. But you can use any black background, any background. You don't really need to get a green screen because there's a filter that actually makes a green screen for you on TikTok. I haven't used it myself, but so you can go to a video. Let's say you record a video like this. This is using my selfie camera.  And then you can use any image in the background. You can even use a screenshot that you have on your phone. Use an ocean like that. I see it automatically cuts out my background. So you don't actually need a green screen. It does it through the software. So I would experiment with different backgrounds here. There's actually some nice ones here, Tony. There's lots of different effects and green screen effects that you can use. Some really weird ones too. So another trick that you can use is go do trending and here, right? You can do fun things that are very popular. There are filters you can do videos with. So they're pretty funny. So there's a lot of things you can play around with with that, but for business purposes, you can probably just use a green screen and select any graphic and use it as a background. Rosslin said, I can do this on my computer. Remote area, do not receive signal in home. Okay. And then she also said, I have a tech who can download the prompts. It is better on my computer. Okay. Yeah. If you use your computer, it's probably better. Yeah. You can probably do a lot more fine tuning on your computer rather than editing on the phone. Most people actually edit it off of the phone. Just make sure that if you're adding those titles and headlines, add it with the app, with onto TikTok, because TikTok likes those headlines and then they're gonna use those words in the headlines as part of the SEO for that video. Does that make sense? So it's gonna give you more ranking if you use the headlines or the titles inside the app. Oh yeah, I said I was going to review your account. What's your account, Dave? It's my first name, Damacy, so it's D-A-I-F-I-C-I. Yeah. And the little dash thing. Okay. Yeah, that one. All right, so this is yours. Okay. Yeah. Oh, Lord. Okay, so yeah, so I would add two more pins in here. You only have one. And I like your profile GIF. You see how she did the profile? Give me just like an animation. So that's pretty good. It gets more attention. You got different colors happening there and that's really cool. Since you have so many words in here, you could probably make these into text callouts instead throughout your video. You see you have like binaural beats, right? I would add that as a title. And I would, yeah, you know, I would usually use more tags, like eight tags. Yeah, so I would use more tags. And I would use more specific tags. Right now, these are a little bit too broad. I would also include some more specific tags. So I like how you did nature's harmonics. So if you gotta figure out like what keyword you are mainly targeting and then use that in the title and the tags and also in your descriptions. So just more focused. And now you have too many tags here. So you don't need that many. Yeah, so what I would do here, I would put the call to action on the top instead of saying PMF two in your track rest. I would put here like to learn more, follow, follow to learn more. Either that asks people to follow or you ask people to go to a link or use discount code or something. Okay, so yeah, I would use less tags and then I would make better use of that call to action section. And I would add some more video, I mean the titles throughout your thing. So maybe you're talking about five things here. You can add the text. Let's say you can PMF therapy, you can add that in the beginning. And I would use a hook in the beginning. Let's say using the scripts that I posted. Okay, but in general, your lighting is very good. Like this lighting is very good, very clear. You've got really cool makeup on and then the framing is good. So you got a lot going well for you. Yeah, so I would just make better use of those titles and do more research with the way that I showed you. Like research those top videos and see what keywords and hooks and titles they use and try to replicate that more. Thank you. You're welcome. Good job, by the way. If you have other questions, you're probably gonna start getting questions while you start doing your third day challenge or when you start posting. So just make sure you go and get into our discord and you can ask questions in there. So thanks for joining me on the course and I want to wish you good luck and it's great to have you on board and working with us and partnering with us. So until next time, use the G and prosper.