Dear students, I welcome you in the course of Leadership, Emotion, Intelligence and DCN making. This is module number 247 and the topic under discussion is a unified model for DCN making and problem solving. When we talk about DCN making, we have to be clear and we have to be clear and conscious about the mind processes as well. In mind processes, we talk about analysis, synthesis and valuing. Therefore, we have a model which will correlate all these aspects that how we analyze, synthesize and value things and how its association with DCN making and creativity can be developed. For example, the first thing we have is the definition of the problem. By defining the problem, half of the problem will be solved because the problem would carry expectations, problem would carry actual outcomes and the problem would be determining that what are the differences between the two. Now since we are analyzing the problem by breaking down the problem, that is basically involving the function of analysis. After this, we are moving towards generating feasible options. In those feasible options, we combine different options and develop an evaluation criteria, a parameter, a perspective. So that is basically involving our mind faculty of synthesizing the things. After that, one of the alternatives is to choose the best and optimum course of action. So you can choose the best and optimum course of action only when you are using the mind faculty of valuing. So this is how the analysis is linked with synthesis and it is linked with valuing. And here all our mind functions will be involved when we are there to define a particular problem and identify the relevant solutions. Now to identify the problem, there are different things that we need to focus upon. For example, when did you first sense or become aware of the problem or the need for a decision? First of all, when did you realize that you needed to make a decision and the problem under discussion is no more bearable? Secondly, have you defined the problem because it will be very important in decision making and or objectives and they should always be defined in smart fashion in your own words. And it will be very important to keep both qualitative and quantitative things in mind. Remember that a problem properly defined is a problem half solved and this is an understandable factor. The next thing is, are there any other possible definitions of the problem worth considering? You may be missing this point and general solution, what do they suggest? And you will have to see what popular decision making was in the past. Maybe we have precedents available from the past. After this, we have to see, are you clear about what you are trying to do? Where are you now and where do you want to go? So you should know your direction because if you don't know where to go, then any road will take you there. In that case, our optimum decision will not be said. So when we talk about understanding the problem, remember that you have to consider these questions under your kind consideration. Have you identified the important factors and salient facts? Do you need to spend more time on obtaining more information because you may lack information and need to collect more facts and figures. So do you know that relevant policies, rules, limitations and procedures try to see a problem from every angle so that concrete outcomes can be generated for us? The second important thing is, when you talk about understanding the problem, have you reduced the problem to its simplest terms without oversimplifying it so that we can break the problem and understand it in such a way that it can be an understandable phenomenon or a thing that comes into our perception. Now, after problem identification, when we talk about solving the problem, the first point would be, have you checked all your main assumptions? The second point would be, out of all the possible courses or solutions, have you identified a short list of the feasible ones? The third point would be, can you eliminate some of these in order to shorten the list till further? The fourth point can be, if no solution or course of action seems right by itself, can you synthesize elements in two or more solutions to create an effective way of dealing with the problem? This sequence is exactly the same that you have to identify the problem, then you have to see the course of solutions, evaluate them, and we are slowly moving towards the final decision that will be implemented for us. So the fifth point would be, have you clearly identified the criteria by which the feasible options must be judged? After that, we have the sixth point would be, if you are still stuck, can you imagine yourself in the end state where you want to be? So now we want to reverse from the outcome and see is that something that is going to be achieved by this particular solution? So if so, can you work backwards from there to where you are now? So this also helps us a lot. With reverse engineering, we can reach our decision making better. And the seventh step would be, has anyone else faced this problem and how did they solve it? So we can draw our conclusions from the past, from the past, from the trend. Now, if we have to talk about evaluating the decision and implementing it, there are a few things that we have to understand. The first one is, have you used all the available information? The second checkpoint would be, have you checked your solutions from all angles? The third checkpoint would be, are you clear about the manifest consequences? The next point would be, have you an implementation plan with dates or times for the completion? Because scheduling would be very important for us in the problem solving phenomena. After that, we also have to see, is the plan realistic? And we also need to see, do we have a contingency plan if things do not work out as expected? So what will be our plan B? What will be plan C? What if plans will be there? If our existing plan collapses, then what is there in the backup? So next we have to see, when are you and your team planning to review the decision in the light of experience? So these are all very important things for us to understand that how, when, why and where we have to operate. Now in this phenomenon, we have to clearly see that problem definition, alternatives available, we have decision criteria and then final selection. What is the way in which this is happening? Dear students, if we conclude all this, then in decision making, we have to follow up with different steps to reach to the final decision. And by making a checklist in those steps, it will be easier for us to understand that somewhere we have done some important things. Did we not see that? If we did not, then we can come up with the confidence that we will be able to do our decisions correctly. Thank you.


Hi guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, it is kind of a declutter video, but like I'm not decluttering, but I'm showing you eyeshadow palettes that I've already decluttered. So if you want to see the eyeshadow palettes that I will no longer have in my makeup collection, then just keep watching. Hi guys, thank you for joining me today for this video, so a fact about moi. I have a box in the corner of the makeup section in my room and it's just a box full of palettes that I am decluttering or taking out of my makeup collection. As I'm editing, I do want to clarify this box that I speak of. It's makeup or items or palettes that are basically on trial for me to see if I'm really ready to get rid of them or not. And eventually, if after they've been there for a long enough time, I will like actually get rid of them, but it's also stuff that has been in there for a long time because like just the memories, I don't know. I'm a makeup hoarder. I am. People shame me for keeping old makeup because we can't use it anymore, but like make up my life. So like it's important to me. It's weird. Okay. Call me a hoarder. I am a makeup hoarder, but like I like to keep makeup to look at and bring back memories. Now I do have a hard time decluttering eyeshadow palettes in particular because I use eyeshadow palettes all the time to reference things in my videos and there even have been occasions where I've pulled out eyeshadow palettes from this specific box just to show or compare. It takes a long time for these palettes to actually reach the trash or the hands of another owner. Sometimes it never reaches the trash can, but this is currently what is sitting in that box. And a lot of these just kind of looking at them very soon will see their way out of this house because they just don't see even a use for mentioning or comparing anymore. But I thought it would be interesting to show you some blasts from the past. A lot of these are older eyeshadow palettes that can no longer be used or just ones that I never used and I don't like. So we'll start off with the ones that pull at the string of my heart. I have a really hard time getting rid of these La Rock palettes. I have such a strong connection to La Rock palettes because they were my favorite for years. I especially love these Mega Pro palettes because I used to hunt them down. So the first one that I'm getting rid of is the La Rock Mega Pro 2 just based on age. This I've had for many years. This I used all the time in college. I feel like it had every single color that I needed at the time. Now kind of looking at it, it looks dull compared to all of the other palettes that I have in my collection. But I used to love this baby. This got a ton of use out of me but it's just really really old and I never really reached for my La Rock palettes in general anymore. But this is a really great palette though. Just looking at it for every day. Very fabulous. I think La Rock's kind of gone down in the toilet if I'm being honest but this one was a really good one. The La Rock Mega Pro 4 on the contrary. This I'm getting rid of simply because I felt like the quality in here was not very good. A lot of the shadows just blended away or ended up on my cheeks. Overall I thought the color story was very pretty when this first came out. I thought it was a lot different than what they had come out with previously. We have some lighter shades here. We have some blue pops over here but ooh the quality of this was really bad. So I put this in my pile to declutter because simply it's not good. But it does come in handy when I talk about palettes that I don't like because I really was disappointed by this one. The last La Rock palette that I plan on decluttering is the Unzipped Ocean Sunset Palette. So this one is so pretty. I really like it. So has this weird opening but okay. And here are the shades. I just bought this at the time because I thought it had a very unique color story and it's true. Looking at this I don't have a color story like this particularly this mint green shade. I mean girl who would not like this shade. See this is why I can't go through this box because then I look at it and I want to put this bag in my collection okay. This one's gonna remain in this box a little longer because it's really pretty. By the way I'm not gonna swatch any of these eyeshadow palettes because quite frankly if I swatch them then I will refall in love with them and add them back to my collection and we ain't gonna do that. Not today. So the next palette that I have is from Pure. I have a large number of palettes in here that I actually got in my boxy charm back in the day when I did boxy charm. I canceled my subscription because again these palettes just ended up being given away or thrown away. I just have so much makeup at this point it was becoming too much but this is the Pure festival palette and I don't think I've dipped into this guy once. This one I think I might re-gift to a family member but it has really pretty colors in here and different textures. I think of the Pure quality when they collaborate with boxy charm it's not as good. They definitely cheapen it for the box but this has pretty colors so this one I'm going to re-gift. I have a couple palettes from Too Faced that I'm getting rid of so the first one is this Razzle Dazzle Berry eyeshadow palette. If I do recall I did talk about this in a palette video recently again. I pulled it out of that box but I really just did not have a good time with these palettes. I thought they were difficult to work with. The colors just weren't good quality. The only kind of saving grace here was the smell which is extremely strong now that I'm thinking about it. I also really love this shimmer here but other than that this palette really didn't do it for me but it's one of those though where I'm like looking at it again and it's really pretty so it's gonna stay in the box for a little bit longer but I didn't like it so I need to stop. Okay so the next palette is the Natural Love palette. Do you guys remember when this was a big deal? I just remember my college roommate had this one and she used it to pieces like so much pan was hit but this is a gorgeous palette overall. I think nowadays our color palette is a bit more sophisticated as far as everyday wear and to be quite honest a lot of these shades probably look the same on the eyelid but it's a gorgeous palette. They have since come out with like another version of this like a volume two and I didn't pick that up but I was tempted to because of how gorgeous this palette is and I'm looking at it and I really like it but this is super old so it definitely needs to be thrown away. This has some nostalgia to it. It's a really nice palette. I also have the glitter bomb palette from Too Faced and this one's a pretty easy giveaway. This actually got quite bad reviews but I liked these with the glitter glue. They're just simple glitter shades. I think this was one of the first kind of glitter eyeshadow palette that came out and nobody gave it attention except for me and I think they did a good job for it but I think now brands have really figured out how to do a good glitter shadow so now those put this to shame but for the time that this came out this was quite original and very very nice and then we also have the Too Faced chocolate bonbon palette. Not even sure how old this palette is if I'm being honest. It has a lot of really nice neutral tones in here even leaning a little bit more cool. It still kind of smells like chocolate but this is super cute but oh my gosh this has to be like six seven years old probably more than that. It's just so cute though. I just kind of liked having the whole collection of the chocolate bar palette but this one has it's just taking up space. I also have the other Too Faced sparkling pineapple eyeshadow palette so this one again I struggle with because they're really pretty but even these shimmers are like this weird putty formula that don't actually deposit pigment and again it smells really good and it looks really pretty but it was like they tried so hard to create this new innovative formula but the formula wasn't that good. I also have this touch and soul medallist high shine bouncy cream shadow palette. I loved this for a really long time. I think I got this in my senior year of college. These are like a bouncy cream formula and they're really pretty and like glittery and they just had a lot of dimension on the eye but this has dried out and I think this might still be available. I don't recommend it just because they don't last that long. They dry out very quickly in this palette so that's sad. It's kind of a waste honestly. I have a couple color pop palettes that I'm getting rid of. These are old like back in the beginning when they first started doing eyeshadow palettes. This is the golden state of mind and they made too many of these. I remember they were like giving these away up for free with every single purchase that you made. They just made so many and honestly this is not a bad palette. It's really pretty. It has a very nice array of really glittery shiny reflective shadows and lid toppers and just things to finish off your look and so I kept this in my collection for a really long time because the colors in here are really pretty but I never reached for it. You know I have so many shimmers. I have so many eye shadows and as much as I liked this I never used it. So it's kind of old now at this point. It probably needs thrown away. Same thing with this semi precious palette and I never got the hype about this. I remember Temptalia. This was one of her favorite shadow palettes that came out that year. I don't even know what year it was but I mean this one I remember was a little bit more expensive and everybody thought that the quality in here was really nice. Ooh I mean she kind of pretty though. I know I said this is why I can't swatch you guys. That's really really pretty but they don't even sell that anymore so I have no use for that but that was really pretty but people love that palette and I never reached for it. I never got the hype until like now apparently. I have some of these MAC palettes that I'm decluttering. I feel like they made so many of these and again they never sold. They did end up discontinuing these but this one is the mischief minks. I believe this was my mom's and then she gave it to me and then I just decided to declutter it because I never used it. It's a more warm tone palette and these I thought were nice. I didn't think formulation wise they were anything special but I thought the colors in here were nice and the quality is decent. I also have fashion fanatic. This one was mine. I actually really liked this one when I wanted something a little bit more colorful but I just have so many palettes as you know in my collection. I just didn't have a use for these you know. I just never found myself grabbing these. Stop swatching these. It's making me want to keep them. I touched the purple in that one and I was like okay moving on. I have this one from Beauty Bakery. This is the Dew It For The Graham eyeshadow palette and this is one of my first rendezvous with Beauty Bakery and honestly I was not impressed with this palette. I feel like this lacked pigmentation. The colors were just blah. Honestly I don't even know why I bought this. I thought it looked cute I think because they were such big pans but I've never really been a fan of the quality of this palette and I've heard so many amazing things about Beauty Bakery and I was honestly kind of let down with this palette because I didn't like the quality of it but it's like such a nice big palette and I had a hard time getting rid of it because it was the only eyeshadow palette that I owned from Beauty Bakery and one of the few items in general from the line that I owned but it really is disappointing. Oh here is a blast from the past you guys. This is the Morphe and Kathleen Light's collaboration. I remember being on the phone in my dorm room. I lived in my sorority house in my room on my lofted bed ordering this palette because I was so excited. I loved Kathleen Light's for years and this was when Morphe was very very popular this came out so me as a broke college student I was very excited to purchase this more affordable eyeshadow palette. I mean at this point this is what like five years old quite old otherwise I think I would keep it and I love Kathleen Light's. I buy basically every single one of her makeup collaborations and this one has such good colors like she picked warm tones, cool tones, berries, the most perfect mask. She did a really nice job with this array of color but um yeah that's cool. The Pixie and its Judy time collaboration I love its Judy time. I watch her channel still to this very day that it's Judy's life. I love her family and I really liked this palette that she collaborated for them on and yeah I mean it's just like warm tone neutrals it's nothing really special but I like the clear packaging and I'm the only person on earth that really likes clear packaging like this so that you can see the colors. I feel like if I had a makeup brand this would be the kind of packaging that I would have. I love Luxe packaging but I just really like a clear acrylic front and I would get so blasted for it but I really like this palette. I thought the colors were very wearable. I don't think Pixie has the most amazing formula but since I also love Judy I kept this in my collection for a long time but at this point you can't get it anywhere and the colors aren't particularly original but yeah I do need to get rid of it but I do like it a lot. I have a couple palettes from Boxy Charms that I never use like this should just go to show you. If your palettes are sitting never being used you don't need Boxy Charm. I have this really cute Butter London palette it's called Natural Goddess. This is like from last year or something really pretty colors I can give this away to my little cousin. Ace Beauty has this grandiose palette really nice warm tones. Ace Beauty has an okay formula. I've never been a big fan of their formula but I'm a fan of their brand so I have a tough time because I love the color stories that they come out with and the palettes and the designs but most of the time I'm pretty disappointed with their formula but I've never used this and I don't think I ever will so put that up. I have this palette from Maybelline. This is the Lemonade Craze palette.  But this was like very bad quality. You can get a very nice light soft look but for the most part the quality in this is horrific and this is like a true drugstore palette that really sucks. I also have the Flower Beauty Sugar Rush eyeshadow palette. Flower Beauty has some amazing products in their line and this one isn't it and I mean I've created some nice looks with it but I always say this and it's hard to explain but sometimes you can just feel an eyeshadow and know if it's drugstore or not. Drugstore eyeshadow palettes in particular they have this specific type of formula. You can almost tell just by looking at it that it's going to be that drugstore formula and I don't like that formula and this one has it. Here is another boxy charm palette. This is Morphe. What is it? The 15N. I wanted to keep this for myself that's why I still have it like I know I don't want it. I know I will never use it but I love these plummy tones. I think I'm gonna keep this. Honestly you guys I filmed this video like three weeks ago. Still have not used that palette but I definitely put it back. Why am I like this? Oh my goodness. You can shame me. I'm not gonna edit this out. Feel free to shame me. It's fine. So the last one that I am decluttering is this Cover Girl True Naked Jewels and me and this little palette we have some good memories together. This is when I was first really getting into doing bright out of the box the makeup looks for what I was used to. So I picked this little guy up and I really like the jewel tones in here. I don't think the quality in here was amazing but just for my needs and my budget I was definitely able to make this work for me. So this just reminds me of a time when I was making it work with what I had just expressing myself with makeup and loving it. So this one does have some nostalgia so it kind of hurts a little bit for me to throw this away because I remember when I was first getting into making my Instagram I purchased this to do something a little crazy for my Instagram but anyways that is all I have for today's video. I just thought it would be fun to sit down chat and just show you my shame basically and most of these palettes honestly are gonna hit the bottom of a trash bag very soon. They're very very old. The quality isn't as good. Like I said I probably have a few that I want to keep around in my box where I just keep palettes to keep them just in case they do go through a trial period. So that is all I have for today's video. I hope you found it somewhat entertaining. Do you guys do what I do? Do you have a trial period box? If you aren't subscribed to my channel I would really love it if you would consider taking the time to do so and I will see you guys in the next one. Bye guys. Have a good one.


In today's video, we're going to be talking about everything that you need to know to be able to start your own print on demand dropshipping business. Today's video is one that I'm actually very excited for. Print on Demand is something that I've always loved and I actually have a lot of experience with. Now, because of that, I'm extremely excited to announce that AdultDS now supports Print on Demand directly on their platform. That's right, on top of having access to some of the hottest dropshipping products and some of the best data and information to actually help you sell these products.  Very impressive. So first things first, what exactly is print on demand? Well, similar to dropshipping, print on demand is pretty much another fulfillment business model. Except in this case, what happens is instead of a supplier shipping out your item directly, an item actually has to be produced or printed on. So when you're working with print on demand, you have access to tons of different products. These are going to include t-shirts, mugs, cups, tumblers, certain office supplies, some home goods. The amount of products that you have access to customize are absolutely endless. You create a design for a particular product, whether that be a t-shirt, a cup, or a mouse pad. Then using your print on demand supplier, you go ahead and upload that design to their website. Then you go ahead and list that same item on your website or whatever marketplace you're selling on. And whenever a customer places an order, then that order is going to be rerouted to your printer or your supplier and they're going to produce a product. So they're going to take the blank t-shirt and print on it, or they're going to take the blank mug and print on that and then ship it out to your customer. As you can see, it's very similar to dropshipping, except you have a little bit more creative freedom. Personally, that's something that I love about it. Pretty cool. Now, where can you sell your print on demand products? Well, you can honestly pretty much just sell them practically anywhere, but the top marketplaces are going to be definitely Etsy. Etsy is hands down the number one place to sell these kinds of items and then eBay. Then the other option you have is also Shopify. So you can sell on your own website. Now, you can also do print on demand and sell it on Amazon, except it's a little bit different. Amazon actually has their own print on demand service called Merch by Amazon.  But by far the best places to sell your print on demand items are going to be Etsy and eBay hands down. So just to show you a few different examples, I'm over on Etsy and I just looked up Sunday shirt. Most of these are going to be prints on demand. Some of them are going to be printed by the seller themselves. Etsy has a mix of both, but lately prints on demand has been absolutely taking over pretty much the entire platform. So looking through Sunday shirts, these are all of the different types that there are. Some of them are super simple. Like, look at this one. All it says is just literally Sunday Funday, nothing else. Now, of course, you can do something as simple as this or you can start to get a bit more creative and maybe go with something like this. Add a few different colors. Then you can actually start getting into some different types of designs like these. So you have the Sunday scarries over here. You also have one like this right here. Sundays are for Formula One. This is niching down specific to Formula One lovers. My suggestion on this part is just be careful because Formula One is copyright and trademarked. So I don't think you want to be mentioning that on your posts or on your actual clothing. So just keep that in mind and be aware. I did not think of that. Another example we have here is a mom tumbler.  These are extremely popular for Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. And you can see that there's some that are extremely simple. So let me tell you right now which ones are print on demand. This one right here is print on demand. This type of printing is the type of printing that's done through POD or print on demand. This one over here, most likely this is not print on demand. This is somebody that's just adding the stickers on top of the cups. The reason I'm saying this is because this is a very common practice on Etsy. And a lot of people do this because it's pretty much easy money. Now scroll down a little bit more. You can see that this one right here. This one also can be print on demand. And pretty much this entire row right here can all be print on demand. Now, while they all can be print on demand, some of these can be hand printed by the sellers themselves. But again, lately, print on demand has been completely taken over. So the chances of that are kind of low. Now, as you just saw, I searched up specific keywords. So I looked up mom tumbler or I looked up Sunday shirt because I wanted to show you the importance of niching down. As you can see, there's literally a niche for almost anything. You can niche down to the most specific thing. And there's always going to be some sort of target demographic for it. So when it comes to print on demand, I highly suggest you niche down, not just with your overall designs, but with products as well. So what I mean is when choosing a design niche, go with something like dogs. Or if you want to be even more specific, go with something like Chihuahuas or Terriers, French Bulldogs. This is where you're going to start attracting a particular customer base and you're going to start finding people that are more interested in your specific products or in your niched products. Now that's on the design part. When it comes to the products part, I also suggest that you niche down. Don't just start selling absolutely everything.  It's just too much. And honestly, some of these products won't even make sense. Imagine having a pet store where you sell primarily dog stuff and you have a shower curtain featuring dogs. It just doesn't go with each other. And most people that visit your store aren't going to be buying that shower curtain. Now, it doesn't just have to be one product. It can be a few different products, but just make sure that everything is relevant.  You can customize these. There's a huge variety of different items you can choose from. Make sure that everything makes sense together. All right. So it's actually time to get down on dirty. And let's just go ahead and create a design and upload it to a hoodie. So let's go ahead and start. So I'm actually not very creative when it comes to coming up with things from scratch. So I'm actually just going to simply go on chat GPT and ask it for a few different text-based designs that have to do with pets or with dogs. So give me a couple of text-based designs having to do with dogs for a print-on-demand business. Okay. So pause and play. Home is where the dog is. A playful and vibrant design featuring colorful paw prints scattered around the text pause and play. Then the other one, create a heartwarming design with a cozy feel. Use a script font to write the phrase home is where the dog is with the outline of a heart. Okay. So I'm actually going to do a mix of both of these. So right now we are on Canva and I'm simply going to go to create a design. And down here, I'm going to go to custom size. I'm going to change the pixels to inches. And when it comes to print-on-demand and designs, you always want to have a big file. The bigger the better. That's what she said. Simply because the bigger it is, the more detail that's going to fit in it and ultimately the higher quality the actual image is going to be when it prints. Now, if you want to get technical, I highly suggest you start at a minimum of 12 by 12 inches or 30 by 30 centimeters and a 300 DPI or a resolution of 300. But if you can't do that, at least try to get the 12 by 12 inches. So let's go here with 12 by 12. Let's go ahead and add text. So I'm going to add a text box. My dog is not the dog. That sounds too generic. Okay. So let's go ahead and change this font. Let's see if we can find something a bit more playful. Okay. So home is where my dog is. Perfect. Now let's look for paw prints. And all right. Perfect. So let's go ahead and choose this one right here. Make it a bit small. And you know what we could do? Let's go ahead and actually lift this up and let's make these paw prints as if they're making a trail or they're walking to the text. Let's go ahead and rotate it a little bit. Put it down here like that. Okay. So now let's copy this control C and control V for Windows users. Okay. So I can't figure out exactly how to flip it for some reason. So I'm just going to make it as if the dog was walking towards the text and then walking away. Okay. So this is what I came up with. I kind of changed it up. I messed with it. Typically I would actually put a little bit more work into this one, but it's not too bad. Okay. So now that we have our image designed, the next thing that we need to do is download it. Now when it comes to downloading it, there's a few things that you need to keep in mind. And these are actually extremely crucial. So the first thing is you need a PNG. The file you download has to be a PNG. Do not download it as a JPEG. The reason for this is because a PNG allows for transparency in the design itself. So one thing we don't want is this white background because if we upload the white background to one of our products, then the white background is going to be printed as well. And that's going to look absolutely horrendous. In this case, when we go ahead and download it, unfortunately in order to download with a transparent background, we're going to have to have Canva Pro. Now you can either sign up for the free trial and download it that way with a transparent background or you can do the following. So PNG or JPEG. Always go for PNG. Typically it's also going to be the higher quality one. So go ahead and download. This is what it looks like.  We don't want that. That's going to look bad when it prints because it's going to be a big square. And again, that's going to look bad. For this, we're going to go to remove.bg. Now you get your first one free and then after that you need to buy credits. Quick hack, just create different emails. I do that all the time. Well, not anymore because I actually use Photoshop, but whenever I did need to use the service, I would create different emails. Guilty. We all do it. So we're going to go ahead and upload our image and it's going to remove the background. So we can either download it in HD, which is the one that you actually need the credits for or you get the first one for free or you can download the very low resolution. My suggestion, don't go with this one because when you print it, it's not going to look good. Go with the download HD, but I'm just going to go with the top one so you can see what I'm talking about. So this is our original image and this is our image without the background.  This is what we're looking for. Transparency in the background. Now obviously if you zoom into this, it is going to be pixelated and it's going to be blurry. That's because I did go with the free download but if you do download the HD version, then you're going to have a high quality image that you can use. Now as a professional tip, if you have a JPEG or a JPG, even if you remove the background and you save it again as a JPG, that white background will be automatically applied back. A JPEG will never have any transparent parts. Any transparencies that you see in an image, if you save that file as a JPEG, those transparencies are going to turn white. Always keep that in mind. This is extremely crucial. All right, enough of that. Let's go ahead and start having some fun and let's upload this to a t-shirt or a hoodie. So for this, we're just going to simply go to OutoDS.com. Now for this, you are going to need to be signed up for OutoDS and if you do want to sign up and have a trial period, you can sign up right now for just $1. Now continuing on, once you sign on, this is the first screen that you're going to see. A bunch of different trending dropshipping products but that's not what we're here for. We're going to go over here to print on demand. Now on here, you're going to have an insane amount of different products that you can print. Let's quickly look over them so you can more or less understand what you're looking at. So the first few items up here are going to be basic shirts or basic hoodies where you're going to have a spot print. So this spot print is going to be just one print either on the front or the back or both. You can do both as well. But that's pretty much all it's going to be. It's just going to have the print in the front or the print in the back. So scroll down a little bit. You see there's tons of different options. You're also going to see a few different models over here. That just means they're different t-shirt models. So you're going to have a few different brands. You're going to have Next Level, Gildan, Bella Canvas. The difference really is going to be the difference in qualities. But the most economical is always going to be Gildan and the most expensive one is typically going to be Bella Canvas. So as you can see, you have different types of sweaters too. You have some crop top hoodies, different types of shirts, some tie-dye shirts. Now here, this is where it starts to get interesting. So these are all over prints. So instead of just having a simple image on the front, you can print on the entire garment. So you can print on the entire shirt, on the entire hoodie, on the entire pair of shorts, whatever it is. So you can also do things like phone cases, jerseys, hats, mugs, stickers, the possibilities are endless. And if you want to know how to be able to upload to some of these, you are going to have to have a little bit of Photoshop experience. If you don't have any, don't worry about it. You can find somebody to help you out. Just go on Fiverr. You're going to find tons of people there. Or you can also find Ready to Print Designs or Pre-made Designs on Etsy. But for this, we're keeping it simple and we're going to do this t-shirt right here. So Edit Product. Now, once we click on Edit Product, this is the screen that we're going to go to.  And then simply click on Upload Design. So we have our design here. Let's go ahead and add our image. And this is what it's going to look like. Now, obviously it doesn't look too good because it's white. It's a white shirt on a pretty light design. So let's just go ahead and change the color of this. Let's add a lime color and see how this looks. So let's see how this looks like through a preview without the grids and the lines and all that stuff. And that's what it looks like. So it's not that bad. It actually looks pretty good. I like how it looks. So from here, all we're going to do is simply click on Save. Now, one thing I do want to note really fast is right here, you're going to see print quality, great. If it says print quality poor and this is red instead of green, unfortunately, you're going to have to choose a different design. You are going to need high quality artwork to have good products. Now, I did swap out the Canva print. What I ended up doing is I actually saved it myself and I removed the background myself. So I did make it a little bit higher quality. If you want to learn more about designing for print on demand, then make sure you hit that Subscribe button because we're going to be covering a lot more in some future videos. So if that's something that interests you, make sure to hit that Subscribe button. So from here, the next step that we have to do once we approve it is simply Save. And that's pretty much it. Now it's going to go to our draft section and there we can make any necessary edits to the title, the description, the pricing. Then after that, once we're done making all the edits, then that's all there is to it. The listing will be live in our store within seconds, whether that be Shopify, Etsy or eBay. Now, let's quickly cover pricing your products. So obviously you're going to have to price your product competitively if you want to make sales. The good thing is that's not that hard to do. AutoDS has some pretty good prices on their different products and people are typically selling these products for a decent markup. T-shirts are typically going to run about $25 to $30. Tumblers are typically going to run about the same, $25 to about $35. Hoodies, that's where the money is at. You could sell those easily for about $60. But if you want to validate your pricing and you want to make sure that you're not overcharging, simply go on Etsy and look up the different products that people are offering.  See what people are pricing them at.  It's okay. So looking through some of the different ones, you can see that this is a simple mug that's running for $20. These different tumblers, again, are running for $31.96. Typically $45. $25 on sale from $50. That's a huge discount. So as you can see, you can make some pretty good money with tumblers. Now let me give you a pro tip. You see how all of these are on sale? Always mark up your prices and then put your listings on sale. Whether that be on eBay, on Shopify, or on Etsy, this is a very common marketing tactic. And as you can see, pretty much everyone is doing it. Now after you have everything set up, after your store set up, after you have your products stocked up and you're ready to start making some sales, one way that you can start getting in front of the eyes of some new customers is by running different ads. If you're selling on your own store, if you're running on Shopify, then your best bet is gonna be TikTok ads, Facebook ads, organic marketing, and things like content creation. Now if you're on Etsy, you don't need to run ads, but you can. So Etsy does have Etsy ads where you can set a budget of maybe $1 or $2, maybe even $10, $15 a day. What this does is it'll just help you get in front of the eyes of new customers and it'll pretty much just put you at the top of the listings. Now if you want more information on any of these different ways of marketing, then I highly suggest you go ahead and check out the cheat sheet on there. I'm gonna have everything that you need to know and everything that I'm covering on this video. All you have to do is go ahead and comment down below. Hashtag start POD and let me know what your takeaway was from this video. Once I see that you went ahead and commented that, I'll reply back with a link to the sheet. And from there, that's pretty much it. The next thing you need to do is really just focus on your scaling and the way you're gonna do this is, one, by simply adding more products, and two, one of the best ways that you can do it is try opening up new stores, open up more stores in different niches with different products, and see what works best for you. And that's everything that you need to know on how you can get started with print on demand. Huge thank you to everyone for watching, especially if you made it all the way to the end. Remember, if you're interested in more print on demand videos, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Make sure you smash that like button. And let me know down in the comments below what your takeaway was from this video for access to the cheat sheet. Huge thank you to everyone for watching again, especially if you made it all the way to the end. Make sure you smash that like button, smash that subscribe button. And with that, my name is Mario with AutoDS. I'm going to catch you guys next time.


Vim is one of my favorite Linux applications ever. I've talked about Vim on this channel in Numerable times like I talk about it a ton I'm a big fanboy of Vim and I tried to get as many people to use Vim as possible now obviously I have Meandered in the last month or so and have tried nano and I really liked nano But it wasn't really for me because and you can say this with me if you've watched that video nano is not Vim, right? I'm such a big proponent and user of Vim It's hard for me to go use something else And that's really what I learned when I went to use nano was just that I like Vim too much to use anything else But that doesn't mean that I'm not gonna continue to try because I like try new things and it does give me some content for the channel So today I'm going to be talking about an application that I've used many times before But haven't really given a chance to and that is the Kate text editor now Kate is a built-in Katie application. It is obviously a Katie application. It starts with a K So of course it does it is and it is like all Katie applications very very very full featured sometimes you think probably to his detriment But I actually haven't found that to be the case. It's actually been a very Steady text editor in the times that I've been using it So today we're gonna be talking about Kate and how it is kind of won me over a little bit from them We'll talk about more of that later. So let's go ahead and jump in but before we do if you if you would Give me a like on the video. I'd really appreciate it that really would help the channel It just would be super awesome of you. So thank you so very much for doing that now Let's go ahead and jump in so let's take a look at Kate This right here is Kate and even if you've probably never seen a KDE application before you'd be able to tell that This is in fact a Katie application. It looks like a Katie application, right? It's got all the features that you'd expect as you know toolbars all over the place And if you were to go to the settings panel, you'd see that there are a ton of settings and stuff like that So it is a very Katie application right out of the box and I haven't done very much to configure it the look of and feel of it It just doesn't really need it to me I just use it the way it is and it does a really really good job of just being a very good application in terms of UI in general, but there's obviously more to an application than how it looks right? How does this thing function me and why am I saying that it's kind of pulling me away from them? I'll talk about that later, but in terms of features Kate has basically everything that you could ask for now You guys have to remember that I'm not a developer a programmer or anything of the kind I am learning Python a little bit and I've been using Kate to do that So I have a miniscule amount of coding experience inside of Kate. So just to qualify my opinions here know that I'm not an expert on any of this stuff But I will say from my point of view it has everything that you would need if you're a developer but also if you're a writer or if you are working in markdown or it basically any of the languages that it supports, you know Writing bash scripts or PowerShell or PHP any of this stuff that it supports It does a really good job of all of this stuff I would say it's very close to VS code in terms of simple functionality And when I say that what I mean is that it doesn't have as many plugins as VS code So there's a lot more you can do with VS code because the ecosystem is so Grand Kate doesn't have that. It does have plugins. There are quite a few of them But it doesn't have that breadth of plug-in ecosystem Also people who use VS code are very into using VS code. So leaving it probably isn't you know something that they're willing to do But if you if VS code hasn't sunk its teeth into you yet Kate is a good starting point and maybe something that you could set up in a way that your workflow Suits this better than VS code ever would so let's go ahead and go through some of the features And we'll start off with some of the UI features Obviously some of these UI features are just bog standard for a lot of code editors and stuff like that So it's not gonna make anything special here for Kate But it I just want to show them to you so that you can see that they have them So they have the overall document preview over here. I'm sure that there's some You know fancy name that this thing has over here, but they have that you can split So if you wanted to split vertical you could do that so you could have splits and then you could have obviously tabs along the Top for different files of you if you're creating a website you could have the style that CSS and the JavaScript file and the HTML file all open at the same time and switch between them very easily There's built-in terminal support So if you needed to do work in the terminal or work inside of the project folder you can do that There's built in a high quality search So if you need to do search and replace within your document and you needed to put conditions and filters on top of that search You can do so it's much more refined than Something like them if you wanted to do a lot of this stuff in them You'd have to know a lot of regex here You don't have to know how all that regex because it does a lot of that stuff for you it also has the traditional project tree and Open document tree and things like that So if you need to if you need to navigate the file system you can do that very easily right here along the side You can obviously Configure all the stuff to open up upon launch if you want to do that So if you if you always know you want to have the tree open you can you can have that set up like that very very easily It also supports sessions So if you are doing multiple different projects, but you don't want that all their their tabs and splits and all this stuff to intermingle you could go and create a brand new session just like so and You know open up another instance of a document or another project or whatever and then you could go Save this session to another one the session to and then if you opened up a new session You could you know switch between them or whatever you wanted to do right? It's a great way at project management if you're doing more than more than one project Which a lot of people usually do more than one project in this way you can kind of keep them organized and separate I have when I was working with this on in one of my VMs Basically, what I did is I had all my my Python stuff in one Session and then I was doing some bash scripting in another session and just kind of kept them separate Which is really nice and again this this is I'm positive the other Code editors and stuff like that have this the same functionality But Kate is my first kind of introduction to that kind of stuff So I found it very impressive now obviously in terms of actually coding inside of Kate It has functionality for all of that stuff as well including tab completion and LSP support So obviously most of that stuff will require additional Dependencies things like if you wanted to use the Python you'll need the LSP Python Library a package it's gonna be named something different on every single distro But you'll need a package and it will usually tell you what that package is going to be down here I haven't got it set up quite yet I just switched to Debbie and yesterday so I haven't get it all set up And I'll probably just do that in the VM that I set up for my my programming course But like I said, there will be dependencies for all these things and like I said It supports a ton of different languages and stuff like that So if you go down here, you can just see you know, it's you know supports a lot of like open scad but I could just read these for days and days and days and still just continue on and Continue on reading them for days and days more so if there is a language that you're you know wanting to use It does support a lot of that stuff some not all of it I don't think will be supported with LSP, but it does support syntax highlighting of a lot of languages So if you're coding in a like if you're coding in like Haskell or whatever like that You can get LSP support set up very very easily and it works basically how you'd expect it to work So, you know, I like said, I don't have it working here because I don't have the paths and stuff set up properly Yet, but you know, if you're doing like import it would it would show you Options for auto-completion and stuff like that and do it as you go along It'll show you definitions and how your variables are stacked and all this stuff, right? So if you are a developer and you can tell I'm not one given by the fact that I don't know what the hell I'm talking about It does show you all of this stuff that you would expect from all other, you know fully featured code editors Which is again a very good feature Another thing that I wanted to talk about of course is the key bindings Now key bindings in a KDE application are a dime a dozen And I say that because they're almost every single KDE application has a ton of key bindings and K is no different So you can customize every single key binding in this editor to your heart's content Like you could spend as much time as you want making this text editor yours in terms of key binding every single option Movement tool bar Terminal all this stuff gives you an option for key binding to control it And you can change what those key bindings are now like I said This is not a feature that only belongs to Kate but in traditional KDE fashion They do a better job of literally allowing you to change basically anything when it comes to Keybindings and stuff like that and one of the coolest things about a lot of KDE applications Including K is that you can have multiple schemes So if you are a weirdo and have multiple key binding scheme needs Saying that was really hard So for say for example, you wanted to have both an emacs like scheme and of them like scheme You could do that if you wanted to and then you could change between them very easily just by doing something like this Why you'd want to have to I mean your muscle memory would be all over the place Maybe you don't want to develop muscle memory You want to be keep your your keep yourself on your toes or something like that Maybe that's the reason why you want to do that, but you can do that if you want to my favorite feature of Kate is Them mode or what they call by mode I call it the mode just because I want to call it the mode But it's really by mode So if you go up to the edit button or the edit menu and then you go to input modes and click by mode Basically, what happens is that it get puts you immediately into normal mode So you can use hjkl to move around Like so you can hit I to go into insert mode. You can hit DD to delete a line You can hit you to undo control R to redo Basically anything you can do inside of I you can now do inside of Kate So this is one of the reasons why I said this is kind of winning me over from them now first of all It's not gonna Make me stop using them. I once I go to a window manager I'll no longer want to use a gooey again For whatever reason when I'm in a window manager I'm much more likely to want to use the terminal when I'm in a desktop environment like I am right now I'm much more interested in using a gooey. I don't know why I feel that way. It's really weird But that's just kind of the way my Brain works. So when I'm using a gooey editor I want my Vim binding still and this allows me to have that now now it works phenomenally well, it's almost like Vi or Vim is right here in front of me, but with all of the accoutrements of I'm not French. So I apologize for that right away I All of the bells and whistles of a gooey application are here while still along allowing me to have the motion so I can You know go 10 J and it'll go down 10 lines. I go, you know 10 K and it'll go up 10 lines You know, it's just very good and visual mode is here as well You can do visual block mode if you wanted to you can even use command mode if you wanted to use command mode and One of the coolest things if he is if you have a whole bunch of custom key bindings inside of your Vim RC You can actually import your Vim RC key bindings right inside of Kate So you have all of those available to you So if you use a custom leader key or something like that a lot of that stuff can be imported right here inside of Kate I don't think that's going to import your plugins and stuff like that So don't get excited there But if you have a whole bunch of key bindings that work with your Vim You can import them indicate and that's really nice. Let's go ahead and take a look a little bit at this the settings So there are in traditional Katie Application fashion a ton of settings the best part the absolute best part is the search panel because this is not something that a Lot of Katie applications actually have and in order to you know navigate through this the settings panel They have a search button here And if you wanted to search for like vi mode like so you can find all of the Settings for vi input mode so you can choose that you can make it so that vi is the default mode You can choose you can see here where all of the vi settings are Including custom key linings and stuff for normal mode insert mode and visual mode You can do all that stuff from right here And the search box is just a phenomenal thing to have when you have this many settings And it's pretty rare a lot of settings a lot of applications that throw a ton of settings that you don't do a good Job of discoverability of those settings and that's a big problem in a lot of Katie applications But not in this one there are a lot of settings for appearance So you can choose you know the font the font size line space the style of the cursor and How much the show the indentation line? So if you wanted to make sure everything's intended to the proper length you can do that You can show the line numbers you can not show the line numbers you can change the color scheme So you can download a whole bunch of different color schemes If you want it comes with a whole bunch of them actually installed, which is nice Usually you'd only have like a few color schemes But this one has quite a few color schemes already pre-installed plus of course you can create your own Which is I mean have fun. I think I will you can change a lot of the settings for general editing and text navigation and indentation So if you're particular on how many spaces you use for tabs and so on and so forth You can make all those changes here. You can change how it saves and save behavior You can change it a lot of the other behaviors as well when it comes to Tabs and sidebars and things like that. The one thing I haven't noticed is a place where you can move the tabs to the bottom I haven't seen that particular Feature here anywhere. So maybe that's missing Which is a little bit disappointing because I prefer them to be along the bottom But whatever not that big a deal you can change how sessions are done You can change Auto load of sessions you can so if you wanted to load the last session So if you're always coming back to the same project, you could do that and just have it load the last session That's nice. Here are the plugins that they have available to you one thing that they Don't seem to have as a way to upload manual Plugins now it's possible that there's like a file somewhere that you could drop a plugin into and then it would just appear here But normally when a KDE application has extra additional third-party functionality to be added to it They have a button that you would click on down here is like Get new schemes or get new plugins or whatever, but that doesn't seem to be here so there aren't that many plugins, but there are quite a few and The one thing is that I'm seem to be missing are like a live preview of like markdown HTML and stuff like that. I don't see any of that kind of stuff here. Actually might literally just be right there Let's see here. Let's go here if we go to preview. No, that's not the right one Maybe it's you gotta press no. I don't know. It's possible That that just needs some setup setting up or something like that. I'm not sure I think I did some googling and then they do have it built-in, but I'm just not sure how to set that up But anyways, like I said, there are plugins here not a lot of them But you'll probably find what you're looking for here. Anyways, there's a lot of settings here for the LSP client as well You can see allow and block servers You can change a lot of the client settings. They're there the color picker here is actually a plugin that I installed Which is if you're working in any HTML or CSS or whatever, that's really invaluable And there's some settings for project because there is get integration. So if you want to Integrate your your git repositories and Push merge stash do all that stuff right from inside of of Kate you can do that And as you can see, there's just a ton of different features here in settings that you can change and kind of customized To make Kate as much your own as possible and that's a great thing for an ID, which is basically what Kate has become It's not a text editor Even though that's what I usually use it for so that is Kate It is awesome and like I said, it has pulled me away from using Vim while I'm here in plasma Whether or not I'll continue to use it when I'm in a window manager I don't know maybe a little bit because I do it does seem to handle large Files better than Vim does and I deal with really like many lined files in my day jobs So maybe I'll end up using Kate a little bit more often just because of that fact Why Vim continues to be a little bit slower than it should be for me I still don't know probably a plug-in somewhere along the line But I'm not giving up my fault my plug-ins. So, you know, whatever. It's my fault. Whatever it is Anyways, so that is Kate if you have thoughts on Kate, you can leave those in the comment section below I did not go over every single feature. I would have been here for days to do that So I just kind of went over the ones that were important to me But if you have questions, you can leave those in the comment section below if you have comments down there as well If you haven't already leave a thumbs up on this video and would really help the channel You can follow me on mastodon or honestly those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon and YouTube you guys are all absolutely amazing without you The channel just would not be anywhere near where it is right now. So thank you so very very much for your support I truly do appreciate it. You guys are all awesome. Thank you so very very much for your support Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time


Black Friday, the biggest sales event of the year is coming November 25th and if this is your first year dropshipping or if you want to make more sales this year, then you're in for quite a ride because in this video, I'm going to cover the top 20 products for you to sell on your dropshipping stores to maximize sales and profits this Black Friday. Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back, I'm Iran from AutoDS and as you know, this video is all about the biggest sales event of the year coming this November 25th. So we've got Black Friday and for those of you who have been following us for the past years, we always share the best tips and strategies to help you maximize your sales and this year is going to be no different. Every year we see the rising numbers and just last year, e-commerce revenue closed at around $9 billion in sales. If you are part of that action, great job. Now let's do a much better one following the best products in this video. Right before I get started, do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always learn about the best products to sell in your dropshipping business and we've got so much going on besides that, case studies, interviews, step-by-step tutorials, live Q&As and so much more. Subscribe to us at youtube.com slash autoDS and also don't forget everything that I'm going over in this video. You'll also have the full blog version which I will leave a link to right below this video but do stay tuned here because I always like to throw in a little bit of extra value into these videos. So without further ado, let's go ahead and get started. This is the biggest sales event of the year. It's the third time I said it in this video and we're barely even two minutes in. And before I get to the top product list, remember keep in mind Black Friday is good for any selling channel that you are dropshipping on. So whether you have a store on eBay, on Shopify, Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Shops, Wix, WooCommerce or any other selling platform, you can definitely benefit from Black Friday sales. Everybody is online looking for the best deals in online shopping revenue. We simply see a huge increase during Black Friday year by year.  You already know what products are going to sell better during Black Friday because you have experience from previous years. But on top of that, add the products I'm going to talk about in this video and watch how your sales will continue to pour in, especially during Black Friday. So what are customers looking for on Black Friday besides looking for things to buy? They're looking for discounts. They're looking for sales. They're looking for really low and competitive prices. We do have to tighten our belts when it comes to the profitability. But on the other hand, we will make up for it by the amount of sales that are going to pour in during this sales event. So besides selling the right products, do not forget to also decorate your store. Make it have a Black Friday theme and make your customers know that you are taking part in Black Friday and they will benefit from it when purchasing from your store. So get your store theme up and running. You also have free templates on AutoDS or if you're using AutoDS, you can use the Black Friday templates that you have there. But at the end of the day, make sure that your buyers know that you are here to offer them the best discounts available. So it's on you to get your stores visually ready for Black Friday and it's on me to give you some of the best product ideas to sell in your stores. So let's go ahead and get started. Product number one, heated hand massager. There are all types of massagers out there. There are back massagers, leg massagers, foot massagers. This one is a hand massager and that's exactly what it does. If you haven't heard about this product before, look it up now using your suppliers. I'm also going to talk about suppliers soon. But this is one of the products to have your eyes on during Black Friday. Now remember, one of the best selling categories during Black Friday is in the ELECTRONICS category. Now I'm not saying that that's the only category that is going to sell, but it is one of the best selling categories during Black Friday and this heated hand massager definitely falls under that category. Let's see an example of someone who is selling this same exact heated hand massager. Here is the Facebook ad that he's running. As you can see, he's got a Facebook page called Puree Spa. So obviously here, he's going over all of the spa niche. So anything that we have under spa, he's probably going to try and sell it to you. Get it for 50% off and wave goodbye to hand pain today. Our innovative heat therapy electric hand massagers use nothing more than air compression, massage technology combined with heat therapy. This device is able to help stimulate sore muscles, relieve hand pain, ease soreness, numbness, swelling and more. Then you've got bullet points with some of the best features that this product has. So this Facebook page got some engagements, got a lot of views, about 195,000 people viewed this ad and here he also added a video of the product in action. So here, Mr. Puree Spa actually did a few things, a few good things to help him make more sales. First we've got the video showing exactly how this product works and this is one of the best ways to showcase what this product does and what problem it helps us solve. So let's see how much the seller is selling the heated hand massager for. Here you've got his product page and he's selling it for $90 apiece with free shipping. Now let's see how much he's profiting every time he makes a sale. Here we have the same exact heated hand massager on AliExpress being sold from 38 to 46. So I'm going to choose my variation and here you see that my total price will come to $43 but I do have a $3 off discount for orders over $4. So what we're looking at here is $43.67 with free shipping including tracking information to the United States. So $43 selling at $90 leaves you with a profit potential of almost $50 for every time you make a sale and that is what this seller is doing. Heated hand massagers is number one on our list and keep in mind one more thing. When I'm telling you that heated hand massagers are going to sell well this Black Friday, it doesn't mean that you're going to go for this same exact product that you are seeing here. What you're going to do is go to your supplier's websites and search for heated hand massagers and add at least 10 to 20 items from every product idea that I'm passing on to you in this video. If you only try to test one item per product idea or one item in any category, you're not going to be able to really test and analyze the market and make any significant sales and profit out of 10 or 20 items. Even if one catches on and starts to sell, that is the profit that you're going to make and then you're going to add more products that are similar to that one that just sold for you so that you can multiply and scale your profits even more. And of course, keep this in mind. Keep that product in mind that sold for you during Black Friday. So when you reach next year, you'll already have your list of best sellers and you'll continue optimizing and testing the market. And that way with the compounding effect, you're going to make significant sales every year and more sales every year that passes. Heated hand massager number one on our list. Let's move on to number two and now we're on water resistant smartwatches. So smartwatches have been trending for the last couple of years and statistics show that smartwatches are going to continue breaking records every year, especially because of all of the health, fitness and activity that we have going on in smartwatches. So this is going to grow once again every year and smartwatches are going to be selling like hotcakes this Black Friday. Just make sure that you're getting water resistant smartwatches. I'm not sure if there are smartwatches that are not water resistant today. Water resistant smartwatches are going to sell like crazy. Add them to your list of Black Friday products. Product number three, wireless outdoor security camera or wireless outdoor security systems. Another great product to add to your Black Friday list. And of course it belongs to the electronics category. Let me show you guys a neat trick how you can add all of those products to your stores before I move on to the rest of the product. Here what I'm going to show you is how you can import all of these product ideas to your Black Friday stores and make the most of it. Save the most amount of time so that you can invest that time in continuing to grow your business and continue to research for more products to sell and profit. And of course enjoy all of the automation settings that come with it. So let's take a look at this example here. Let's say that you want to add these wireless outdoor security cameras, but you don't want to import them one by one to your stores. You don't want to work manually because that's just going to consume all your time and you're not going to make any significant sales. You want to add automation and you want to add these products to your stores as quickly as possible. So after signing up to AutoDS, all you have to do is download and install the AutoDS Helper extension. It's absolutely free. And once you have this dropshipping helper extension installed to your Chrome browser, you can simply head over to your suppliers website and it can be any one of the 25 plus suppliers that AutoDS supports if you want to enjoy the dropshipping automation that comes with it. If you are not sure what suppliers you can use, simply head over to autoDS.com and on the top just click on suppliers. So after you click on suppliers, you'll be greeted with about 25 suppliers that you can start using today. Now remember, some of these are retail suppliers. Some of them are wholesale suppliers, and it really depends on your level of dropshipping, what suppliers you should be working with and how to move forward from there. I'm just going to go with one of my personal favorites, which is Amazon. Now once again, keep in mind that this is a retail supplier, thousands of dropshippers are using Amazon and thousands of dropshippers are also using other suppliers. The supplier that you want to use depends on your experience, your abilities and what you want to do with your dropshipping business. For demonstrational purposes, I'm going to continue with them because again, they are one of my favorite suppliers on my stores and they simply have a product line that's par to none in most cases. Wireless outdoor security cameras.  And as you see, we've got hundreds if not thousands of products that we can sell under this category. Let's enter the right category here on the left side. So I'm going to click on surveillance and security cameras. And so I've got my search results. Now I want to add these products to my store, but for Black Friday, I really don't have time to waste. I need to add them all to my store as quickly as possible and simply test out what's going to sell. So how are we going to do that with that auto DS helper extension that we downloaded and installed for Chrome? When we search for a product using our suppliers, you will notice the auto DS circle right down here. What we're going to do is click on it, then we're going to click on extract. All of the product IDs got extracted into this extension. Now I can go on to the next page and continue this over and over. Just get more products. Click on extract and their product IDs will also get inside the extension. So now I've got 51 products. I've got 51 wireless security cameras and I want to add all of them to my store. So I'm going to click on export a CSV.  And then we're going to click on the upload CSV option. Now of course, there are more options or single product importers. There is multiple product importer without using CSV. But in this example, I'm going to stick with the CSV.  We're going to choose the right supplier. So in this case, it was Amazon and in the region, United States. Then we're going to click on add as a draft. We can also hover over the arrow right here and publish these items right away. So instead of going to the drafts page where we can optimize them, we can publish it right away to our stores and have it go live and maybe optimize it later after they make some sales or have my virtual assistant do it or any other option that you see fit for your business. You can also choose schedule for later. So you can select a time and day to publish these items. If you want to, let's say for example, you're dropshipping on eBay, you have a limit at the beginning of only a hundred or let's say a thousand items. So you don't want to overdo it. So you want to import 10 or 20 products every day. So this is the way to do it. You can simply schedule to do it at a later date so that you won't have too many items importing to your store at once. But this will import all of the products at once simply at a later date and time. Then you've got edit upload settings. So if you just want to play around with the settings before you import them to your store or add them to your drafts, you can of course do that even later, even if they're published and even if they're on your drafts page. So once you click on add as a draft, all of those products will get to the draft section of your store and here you will be able to completely optimize them before importing it to your store. So for example, we've got this Jade roller, this faced roller product here. So I clicked on it, it opened up this item editor and here I'm actually editing the item before publishing it to my store. So I've got the products title, the collection of belongs to it from dropshipping on Shopify, product tags so that you can easily analyze it later and see how well this niche sold for you, shipping methods, country location, price monitoring, stock monitoring, automatic orders, all of the products description, which of course we can completely edit. We've got a rich text editor right here, all of the products variations. So as you see this faced roller has a few variations, they're all in stock and they're all going to be added to that product pages, different variations. All of the products images, once again, everything here is completely 100% automated, the item specifications and more. Once you're done, you're going to save and import, then it'll move to the product section of your store. And that's how easy it is to add one, 10, 100 or even thousands of products to your store, all with automation in just a couple of minutes. Now let's get back to that product list after I showed you how you can save a crazy amount of time so that you can really scale your businesses. Number four, dog sports ball launcher. This is a great outdoor or even indoor activity.   So here is the search results on Aliexpress, in this case, for a ball launcher. OK, so you've got the machine right here and it simply launches that ball. The dog will get it, come back and they will simply love this toy. This is going to be a great seller for this Black Friday. Number five, LED gaming keyboard and mouse set.  And I even made some money being a teenage gamer. Teaching people how to play a game professionally before there was streaming, before there was YouTube, before there was Twitch and before there was everything that is going on today. There were no gaming accessories like we're seeing today. But well, we all have our generations, we all have our childhoods and we all see crazy technological advances as we continue down the road of life. So LED gaming and keyboard mouse set, another great seller for Black Friday. Number six on our list, ice maker machine. Many people do not have an ice maker in the refrigerator. And they simply need the help of external ice makers to get the job done for them. So now I'm going to search it up in Wayfair. Can't another drop shipping supplier, of course, that you can use. So I searched for ice maker and here you have a nice list of ice makers that you can resell on your stores. Now, the great thing about ice makers is that it is a high ticket item. Most of them cost over a hundred dollars and some of them can even go up to a thousand, meaning every time we sell an ice maker, we're going to make some great profit because we're profiting in percentages. So of course, the higher the product price, the more we're going to profit. And that is going to come quite so often during Black Friday. Number seven, gold knuckle ring set. So now we're stepping out of the electronics niche for a sec because people still use Black Friday to look for discounts to purchase for their loved ones. And some, of course, some women will purchase this for themselves. This is the product right here. And as you can see, there are more than enough variations for you to find for you to add to your store and for you to make great sales. Now, the thing is when selling jewelry accessories is to make sure that your buyers know what the material is, is it real gold, is it gold plated, how much carrot. So there's a lot of things that the customers need to know about jewelry items before purchasing them. We don't want to put up with returns because the customers didn't know what material they're getting or how many pieces are in that package. So make sure that that information is clear when creating your product pages. Number eight on our list are Bluetooth car receivers. This isn't anything new. It's a product that's been here for years now. But the good thing about it is during Black Friday, it starts selling like crazy. Add Bluetooth car receivers. And of course, there are different variations of them. There are different types of looks. There are different types of styles. Let me just show you a quick example. So as you can see right here, we've got different types of receivers. Some can connect to the USB port. Some can connect to a 3.5 millimeter port. There are different types of variations. Some come with USB ports inside of them so that you can actually connect your phones and tablets to charge while listening to music in your car using Bluetooth technology. One tip that I can give you here is to add more than the quantity of one. These are the types of products that people buy more than one quantity. They also want to purchase it as a gift for someone that they know that that don't have a Bluetooth integrated into their car speakers. And this product also isn't really expensive. And the cheaper it is, the more likely it is for the customer to purchase more than the quantity of one. And if we have a quantity of two, three, four inside of our carts, then of course, the higher the average order of value, the AOV, the more profit we're going to make. So for cheap items up the quantity for expensive items, you're just going to make great profit from even selling one unit because of your profit percentage. Now, speaking of profit percentages, many people always ask, what should my profit percentage be? And you have to understand that there is no right or wrong answer here. It is not a black and white question. And there is not one answer that can simply diminish the rest of them and say, this is the right profit percentage. It depends on what niche you are selling in. It depends on what selling platform you're using. It depends on the audience that you're targeting. It depends, of course, on the products that you're selling. So there are many factors here that can help convince the customer to continue with the checkout process or to look for in a different place or to even look for a different product. However, my dropshipping stores do not run below 40 percent. And it usually is more than that. It's usually 50, 60 percent. But after I pay source tax, it goes down to another 10 percent. So about 50 percent, maybe 40 percent. That is the bare minimum that I would go below that. I will simply not sell those items and I will look for others. Number nine on our list, two-way walkie-talkies. This is a great item being sold throughout Black Friday. And there are many different types of variations of walkie-talkies. As of course, you should know, walkie-talkies have been around for a while, even when we were little kids and they're still around. Kids still like them. Enjoy walkie-talkies. They're fun and they sell a lot during Black Friday. Number 10 on our list is a newly trending item called rustic walls cons. Here is exactly what it looks like. And this is going to be another great seller for this Black Friday. And here are a lot of results for rustic walls cons. And one of the things, one of the biggest tips I can give you on AliExpress, you can also use AliExpress extensions to to see this, but is to analyze the sellers really, really well. We don't want to sell products that are just not of high quality. We want to sell products that our customers will be happy to get them. They'll be happy with the material. They'll be happy with the product's description that did correspond to what they got in the end and simply they want to be happy with their purchase. This way, you're not only going to get repeat customers, but they're also going to refer their friends and their family to purchase from your store, and that pretty much will also create a compounding effect for your business in the long run. So first thing what I would do is click in the four stars and up because I only want a rustic walls cons that has high positive reviews. So what we have here, for example, I would look at these two listings right here. So this one sold 810 times and has a 4.8 average rating. This one sold 447 times with a 4.8 rating. So let's just click on one of them. And here we have more information on this product. So of course, we've got the video, we've got images, we've got the product's description, but I want to know about the seller. I wonder if this is a good seller. So right here, we can see that this seller has almost 44,000 followers, which is quite a lot. He already has quite a reputation running for himself. And here you can also see that he is a top brand. And if you hover over that, you can see that he's been around for over four years now, which is good. I always want to go for sellers that have been around for at least one year. See that they're still here. See that they're still in business, that they're doing a good job. And that is a good indication, at least one year on the platform. And then you've got this. So other detailed seller ratings and everything is above average, even if it would have been 4.6 or I would go as low as 4.5, which is just around the average spot, that's still fine from AliExpress. But here we're seeing way above average item as described, communication, shipping speed. And you can also see it on this product, 180 reviews, 4.8, 810 orders. So yeah, this is definitely one of the products that I would import to my stores. Eleven on our list. So we already talked about that heated hand massager. Well, massagers in general are selling like crazy during Black Friday and neck and back massagers are no different. So look for them also when adding those hand massagers, add neck and back massagers. There are so many different types of variations of them. Therefore, you will have to test a lot. And I showed you the best strategy to do so. Product number 12, waterproof action cameras. Action cameras have been around for a while. Some of them look like a GoPro camera because if you're going to go to Chinese sellers like from AliExpress, you're going to get a lot of GoPro lookalike items. But once again, these waterproof action cameras are best sellers, especially during Black Friday. It fits the electronics category. We see the sales year by year. Add waterproof action cameras to your list. Number 13, we've got video game head straps. So today we are slowly moving towards VR. We're moving towards virtual reality. We've got the Oculus Quest. We've got the Oculus Quest 2. You've got PlayStation VR and many other companies like HTC and others that have entered the VR industry in the last couple of years. But Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook and the founder, of course, of Meta is now putting most of his investments into the world of VR, into Quest 2 and whatever is going to come after. And those who know me know that I'm also a gadget geek. So of course, I've got my own set of the Oculus Quest 2. And this is simply a best seller during Black Friday. I've said that a few times in this video, but you will understand it once you start to sell it. So here I'm not telling you to sell the Quest 2 because, of course, it's trademarked, it's copyrighted, but you can sell many of the third party VR sets and better yet, VR accessories. There are many types of accessories that go with VR sets that you can easily resell during Black Friday. Number 14 on our list, Car Bluetooth AUX adapters. This is almost similar to that Bluetooth adapter that we were talking about. Only this one is going to give you that AUX adapter so that you can connect anything with a UX connection with an AUX connection to your car. There is not much to say about this. I'm not going to show you it using suppliers. You can easily search for this. It's a very straightforward product, but there are many different types of variations for them and it comes with a super low price. So you can easily sell more than the quantity of one. So be sure to up your quantity. Number 15 on our list, Wi-Fi smart home remote controls. These are controllers for your home to be able to turn your home into a smart home. Of course, for that, you're going to need all kinds of accessories that connect to those appliances, like, for example, if you want your light to be a smart home light, then you're going to need to buy a light that actually supports it. And then you can get a remote control that can access that light and any other smart appliance that you have connected in your household. Add that to your list. Do not forget it. And remember, guys, you need to sell more than one. So when you're testing, test out 20, test out 30 different types of Wi-Fi smart home controllers and you will see the cells start to roll in during Black Friday. Number 16, Selfie ring lights. These have been selling ever since they started getting manufactured. And it's one of the best ways to add lights to your videos. I also have selfie ring lights looking at me right now projected onto my face. That's why you see a very bright face. And that is because it simply gets the job done, especially for anyone who wants to be a content creator, a video recorder or for any other or for any other matter. Number 17, LED video light on camera. This accessory or this light, this LED light simply helps you get much better lighting for video creators, for content creators and so forth. I also have my set of them. So what it actually is is a light and LED light, right? So you've got extra lighting for your videos, but they can also come with RGB lights so you can change to different colored lights. And that way you can have all kinds of nice colorful videos for your video creation. So for example, I already told you that I have lights shining on me now. And I also have all of these different colors that I can add to those lights. And that way, of course, I've got different LED colors coming through. So it's lights that help you get more lighting for your videos, not you, but of course your customers. And many people are looking for this, of course, during Black Friday, they're looking for the deals. Number 18, gaming controller finger covers. This is a cool item that you can simply use it to cover up your fingers. So of course, you know, you've got gloves and then you've got these finger covers or finger gloves right here that will simply give you an easier time when you're typing all day or if you have sensitive skin and so forth. So gaming controller finger covers, of course, sell more than the quantity of one. It's super, super cheap and a lot of people are going to buy it. Number 19, rotating Wi-Fi pet camera. So not just your everyday pet camera, but this one actually rotates. So you can also control this from an app so you can do it when you're away from home. You can, you know, change the camera. You can rotate it. You can see what's going on in your household and it can also do it automatically. So there are different types of variations for this. This is a it's not super cheap, but it's also not super expensive. I would say it is a medium ticket product. So you can make some nice profits selling this one. Of course, the more you sell, the more you're going to profit. Rotating Wi-Fi pet camera number 19 on our list. This brings us to the last one, which is portable refrigerators. So here it is pretty self explanatory. It is a refrigerator. It's small, it's meany, it's compact and it is portable. You can move it from room to room from one building to another.  And that is exactly what it is. It is a meany refrigerator. And one of the things that I like about it is that it's pretty customizable. I mean, there are many different types of variations. Just take a look at this one. I mean, yes, it is the Xbox's design and we cannot resell it, but just look at how cool it is. It looks like the Xbox, but it's actually a refrigerator. So of course, with the Xbox logo, we're not going to be able to resell that. But anything else that we see here, like this one right here actually looks pretty good. It's got this nice design here on the front. And you've also got this one. So there's the glass breaking design here in the pink color. There are many types of mini fridges that you can resell. And one of my favorite parts about it is that this one comes at the high ticket price range, meaning lots of profit for every time we make a sale on mini fridges, especially during Black Friday. This sums up the top 20 products to sell on your Black Friday drop shipping stores to make more sales and profit this year than you did any year before. And of course, if you are new to the drop shipping scene, welcome, prepare your stores accordingly and enjoy Black Friday. If you small tips before we wrap up this video, remember a custom Black Friday store theme is one of the best ways to prepare your store for it. You can read about the many different methods to do that in the blog article below. But if you're already acquainted with your store, you know how the things work around there. Make sure that your store has the Black Friday theme. You can also use the free Black Friday template provided in the AutoDS system. Online marketing techniques, you also need to know how to run promotional codes for your store. Promo codes are a great way to add discounts so you can add them. For example, if you drop shipping on eBay, you can add promo code, same thing on Shopify and pretty much any other selling channel that I know of. And you can also add if you're drop shipping on places like Shopify and Wix, you can also add apps, giving them popups with promotional codes and many other creative ways to do it. You also want to offer competitive discounts. So we already said that during Black Friday, we need to provide great discounts so that our customers will see that we're in the game and we're not just pretending to be. Now remember that Cyber Monday continues the sales and events a few days after Black Friday. So after Black Friday is over, do not stop the sales. Keep it going until, during and after Cyber Monday. Even give it a couple of days after Cyber Monday because some people wake up a little bit too late and you don't want to miss those sales too. Optimize your product listings to the best of your ability. Make your product pages look good. Make them look sexy. Make sure that it shows what problem this product is helping the customer solve and why they actually need it. Work with multiple drop shipping suppliers. So work with multiple suppliers because you don't want to put all of your eggs in one basket. If one supplier ever lets you down, you'll still be able to make it up using other suppliers. For example, Chinese suppliers have Chinese holidays. Then they won't be around for a couple of weeks to ship out your products. So if you're working with Chinese suppliers and now they can't ship out your products, you can always rely on your American suppliers or UK suppliers or anywhere else to ship out your products on time. That pretty much wraps up this video for how to prepare your stores for Black Friday and what products you need to sell to maximize your sales and profit. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always learn about the next step in your e-commerce business. Thank you for watching and good luck with your Black Friday sales.