We'll isolate our x terms by adding one to both sides That gives us minus 2x equals 4 and since the left-hand side is the product minus 2 times x we can solve for x by dividing by the coefficient minus 2 and Simplifying the algebra the factors of minus 2 can be removed and for divided by minus 2 is Minus 2 and that gives us our first solution x equals negative 2 The second equation we can solve in the same way minus 2x minus 1 equals negative 3 We have a subtraction over on the left-hand side So we can add plus 1 to get rid of the subtraction once again We have a product over on the left-hand side minus 2 times x said to get rid of a product will divide And we get our solution x equals 1 which tells us the critical values are x equals minus 2 and x equals 1 Now if we want to find the solution set we can begin by graphing the critical values Now since the critical values solve the equality minus 2x minus 1 equal to 3 But our inequality is strictly greater than the critical values are not included in the solution set So we'll use open circles for them So the critical values partition the number line into three intervals And now we'll pick a point in each interval and see if the points in the interval satisfy the inequality So in this interval on the left we might let x equal minus 1 million remember it's easier to go big and It's useful to think about these in terms of our signs and our magnitude So the components of our absolute value expression minus 2x Since x is negative and large then minus 2x will be Still large, but because we're multiplying two negative numbers. We'll get a positive number If we then subtract one from a large and positive number we get a number that is Still large and still positive and when we take the absolute value It's still large and still positive And now the question you got to ask yourself is is a large positive number greater than three and the answer is Yes, so x equals minus 1 million should be included in the solution set And we want to include the interval that it's part of so we'll shade this left-hand interval How about this central interval well unfortunately? We can't pick numbers that are large because they're way off to the right or way off to the left But there is a convenient number right here in the middle of the interval x equals zero So let's actually substitute x equals zero into our inequality and see if it's true So first we'll let x equals zero will substitute that into our absolute value inequality We'll do some arithmetic minus two times zero minus one is The absolute value of negative one is and the question we have to ask ourselves is is one greater than three And even though some people may think that one is bigger than three This is in fact false and so we should exclude this central interval And finally we have this interval off to the right. So let x be one Billion and so remember x is a large Positive number and let's go through the different components of our inequality. So minus 2x That's minus 2 times a large positive number. And so that's going to give us a number that is large and negative Minus 2x minus one well, I'm going to subtract one from a large negative number and I get a Large negative number, but then I take the absolute value and I get a Large positive number and again the question you got to ask yourself is is a large Positive number going to be greater than three And we won't listen to this critter We'll say that yes a large positive number is greater than three And so that means that x equals one billion should be in our solution set And so we should include the interval that contains x equals one billion Now once we have the interval we can write our answer in interval notation So this left interval goes from the way way way way way way left Well, we call that minus infinity and all the way up until we hit negative two and we don't include it So remember infinity is never included in our interval it always gets a parenthesis Negative two because it has an open circle shouldn't be included either And so we'll close parenthesis there and this describes our left interval minus infinity up to negative two We don't include the center portion But we do want to include this right hand interval which starts at one and goes to the way way way way way Right, which we call infinity and again infinity always gets a parenthesis One is not included in our interval. So one also gets a parenthesis Since our domain includes things that are in the one or in the other will union these two intervals And to avoid confusion we'll say that x is an element of the union of these two intervals


I have talked to you guys a little bit lately about my evolving personal style, and I think I've finally hit the nail on the head with this outfit. But before I tell you about how it came together, let's rewind a couple of hours till this morning when I woke up on my silk pillowcases with my silk eye mask and in the same silk dress I wore out the door. Yep, this dress is actually a nightgown. I can't wait to tell you all about it, but real quick, if you're new here, I'm Lindsay. Welcome.  Please be sure to introduce yourself in the comments so that I can give you a formal hello. And for everyone watching, please be sure to like this video so YouTube will know that it's awesome and suggested to other people. All right, let's get into this outfit. Now, don't be mad, but I did not make the dress. I know, I know. That said, it is awesome for many reasons that I think will blow your mind. Some of the main reasons that we get into sewing our own clothes is because we have so many issues when it comes to ready to wear. They never fit the process by which fast fashion is made, is so bad for the environment, and a myriad of other reasons, right? Well, let me introduce you to Lily Silk. Lily Silk is a clothing brand specializing in silk garments, sleepwear, bedding, and accessories. One of the things I love about them is that they are zero waste, using fabric scraps to make accessories like eye masks and scrunchies. What they aren't able to make into accessories, they then recycle with TerraCycle, a world-renowned recycling company committed to zero waste production. They are also environmentally conscious using silk source from mulberry trees, which require less water than cotton to grow. Mulberry silk is called the queen of fibers and is 100% natural. Lily Silk goes to great lengths to certify that their products are also clean and toxin-free. So, zero waste, toxin-free, eco-heroes, what could be better? What if I told you that you could get them to make a garment using your exact measurements? Yep, they have a made to measure option. As an extreme pear shape with an 11 inch difference between my waist and hip, slip dresses like this never fit off the rack. It either fits my bust and is too tight on my hips or fits my hips and I'm swimming in the bust. Lily Silk makes it so easy to make a custom garment. Just click this box. A form pops up. You enter your measurements and order as usual. It was seriously so easy. In addition to this garment being literally made just for me, it's also bias cut, which I know I've raved about in many videos before. And I'll say it again, if you've never tried a bias cut garment, you are missing out. No matter what your problem areas are or your size or anything about your body that you tend to nitpick, bias cut will work miracles. It hugs all the right places and conceals the trouble ones. It's truly magic. I got the relaxed fit long silk nightgown in chocolate, which actually has this really pretty purple undertone to it in the sunlight. My pillowcases are the terse envelope silk pillowcases. Just look at all these colors that they come in. One to match whatever your decor is. And with every purchase, you get a free zero waste product. So I chose the eye mask in dark blue. All of these products are some of the best quality I've come across.  Lily Silk was kind enough to offer to coupon code for all of you. Use code SOWINGBFF12 for 12% off your order side wide. And if you end up spending more than $200, use code SOWINGBFF20 for 20% off of that order. And don't forget your zero waste product. One really cool thing they do when you order the customized size is you get a label that says custom made. It's such a nice touch and so similar to the things that we do when we make our own garments, right? I just love that detail. So when it was time to get dressed for the day, I knew I'd be wearing my new dress, duh. But how'd I style it with my evolving personal style in mind? I mean celebs like Nina Dobrev, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Megan Trainor are all wearing Lily Silk. So I knew I had to step it up. I wanted the simple design of the nightgown to remain highlighted while also adding a cool, comfy, chic vibe as well. The silk of the dress is also shiny and beautiful, so playing with textures would be a must as well. And all the while, on my mind was my new Remi sweater from Petites to Tree. This is the Sew Together pattern from March, and I have thoughts. The design of this pattern is very loose fitting, but even keeping that in mind, there's still a lot of ease throughout. Based on my calculations, which are really a guess because there were no waistline markings on the pattern, there's close to 20 inches of ease in the waist and even more than that in the bust. I fell between a large and a XL in the body measurement chart, and I opted to size down to the large, and I could have easily gone to a medium and still achieve that oversized, slouchy look. My only saving grace was that this fabric, which we'll talk more about in a little bit, is pretty drapey. If you want to learn more about how I pick my pattern size, download my Fast Fit Worksheet. It's the exact same system I use for every pattern to determine which size to cut, factoring both the design and wearing ease. It works for me, and it's worked for so many people as well. In addition to the additional width, these patterns are drafted for a range of heights from 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches. That in itself is confusing because there's just one length for each style and each size, so if I made the size large, was it drafted for the 5'5 person or the 5'7 person? And because there's no waistline measurement, there was really no way to tell how long this thing was going to be. In the end, the hem of the shortest part of the front ends up hitting me right below my natural waist, and I'm 5'5. I don't know if that's the intention or not, I just know that's how it fits me without any length alterations. And honestly, I like the length of the front, but it scoops down a little low in the back and ends up riding up when I have the ties tied. So I think for my next version, I'm going to lean into the crop length and shorten it all by about 2 inches all around. It will give me an extreme crop in the front, but should hit my back at a nice length. Okay, all that said, I did do a little styling hack for this outfit today. I wanted it to hit higher up, aka be shorter, to give better proportions with the length of the dress. So I folded up the hem band twice and then threaded the ties through the side slit. It seems to be staying in place, it's giving the look I wanted, but I do lose the coolness of that gathered band on the bottom. Oh well, just a little give and take. Speaking of the band, I know I mentioned in the Know Before You Sew video for this pattern that I wanted to see if I could make the bands look a little less slouchy and more intentional than the sample makes on the website. So I added a piece of one and a half inch wide soft elastic into the band and sewed the ties onto the end of it. This way my band has a little bit more structure and the ties look a little less sloppy. For the fabric, I shopped my stash, so it's no longer available, but it was originally from Joanne, maybe late 2020. It is a nice lighter weight double knit, has a decent amount of stretch, but also has nice strength, which makes the dolman sleeves of this top lay nicely against the body without looking too bulky. Fitting this was obviously not very difficult. As I explained earlier, the whole thing is very loose fitting. I didn't end up shortening the sleeve length by two inches to ensure the cuff would hit in the right place and reduce pulling at my wrist, but other than that I didn't make any other adjustments to the fit at all. I think for the next version, instead of chopping off two inches from the wrist side of the sleeve, I'll shorten the drop shoulder by two inches instead. That combined with shortening the bodice, like I mentioned before, should give the right proportions for my short waist.  If you want to know how it's done, you'll have to make the top or just stick around for my next knit sew-along since I'll probably only be sewing knit bands this way from here on out. I've got a ton of links in the description box, including the top pattern and of course links to Lily Silk where you can grab this silk nightgown, pillowcases, apparel, and so much more. I genuinely love what they are doing, and I know you will too. I've also linked my most recent pattern review for this plaid jacket here in the Inslate, so if you haven't seen that video yet, click on the bottom right of your screen and it'll take you right there. But that is going to do it for me today, y'all. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you all very soon. Bye!


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss a problem based on circular commutation which says in our group discussion 7 boys and 7 girls are to be seated around a circular table so that no 2 boys will sit together. In how many ways we can do this? Let's understand the question first. In this question there are 7 boys and 7 girls who are to be seated around a circular table with a condition that no 2 boys will be seated together. And we have to find the number of ways for this arrangement. As we already know the number of ways in which in persons can form a ring is given by n minus 1 factorial. That is if you have to make circular arrangements for n number of objects then we fix the position of any one of the object and the remaining n minus 1 number of objects can be arranged in n minus 1 factorial number of ways. Hence we can say the number of ways in which n persons can form a ring is given by n minus 1 factorial. Also we have one more principle known as fundamental principle of multiplication says that if there are 2 jobs to be done such that the first job can be done in n number of ways and second job can be done in n number of ways. Then where the jobs together can be done in n multiplied by n number of ways. This is the key idea we shall be using in this question. Let's move on to the solution. We are given that there are 7 boys and 7 girls to be seated around a circular table. Let us assume that first set up their seats and we have to arrange the position of these 7 girls in a circular manner. Using the key idea we know that n persons can form a ring in n minus 1 factorial number of ways. If there are 7 ways in all then using the key idea we can fix the position of one girl then the remaining 6 girls can be placed in 6 factorial number of ways. Or we can say that the number of ways 7 girls can be seated is given by 7 minus 1 factorial which is equal to 6 factorial. When all the girls have been seated then there remain 7 places of the boys each between 2 girls and these 7 places can be filled in 7 factorial number of ways. So the number of ways in which boys can sit is equal to factorial. Now there are 6 factorial ways in which 7 girls can be seated and 7 factorial ways in which 7 boys can be seated. Now we have to find out the number of ways in which 7 boys and 7 girls will be seated together. Now using the fundamental principle of multiplication as given in the key idea it says that if there are 2 jobs to be done such that the first set can be done in n number of ways and second job can be done in n number of ways then both the jobs together can be done in n multiplied by n number of ways. So we have our first job that is the number of ways in which girls can be seated is given by 6 factorial number of ways Our second job that is number of ways in which boys can be seated which is given by 7 factorial. So by using the same principle we get the number of ways in which 7 boys and 7 girls will be seated around a circular table is equal to 6 factorial multiplied by 7 factorial. Now 6 factorial can be written as 6 into 5 into 4 into 3 into 2 into 1 which is 7 multiplied by 7 factorial which gives 7 into 6 into 5 into 4 into 3 into 2 into 1 which on multiplication gives 3,628,800. Hence the number of ways 7 boys and 7 girls can be seated so that no 2 boys are adjacent is 3,628,800 which is our final answer. This completes this session hope you have understood it well.


Okay, so as as like a beginner right as and even as an as an experienced freelancer or or agency owner, whatever you want to call it. If you're the type of person that wants to go out there and get clients on social media like social media clients, social media marketing clients are or in your case Facebook advertising clients. I truly believe that the branding on your platforms is where it starts, because as you start to message people on social media, because that's where you're going to be messaging you're not going to be cold calling. You're not going to be going door to door to the different businesses in your local area, you can you can reach anyone and everyone on social media. And it could be Facebook, it could be Instagram, it could be LinkedIn, it could be Twitter. Those are the top four that I would recommend pick one of those you don't need all four you just need one Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter. Now, now you, you want to have all of them active you want to have accounts and your platforms active, but for prospecting for prospecting for trying to reach clients for trying to message new clients, you just need to do it on one. What I did since 2016 is I did it on Facebook. Okay, so, so my whole strategy over here was to was to come over here and type in my niche, whatever niche, you're thinking of so if I, if I simply type in dentist.   I don't want the pages I don't I do not want to message people on their Facebook page. I want to connect with them under people.  And you don't need to click on each one of them because that's going to be time consuming. All you want to do is come down and, and if you see a person's face, not a logo, right this logo, I don't want them. This other this, this, let's see if there's another one. This logo, I don't want them that logo, I don't want them. I want the real person. Right, I want a real, a real profile picture. So, this is what I did, and this is what I'm recommending you do because this is simple. This is free, it takes your time, but it but but it's free right it just it's the only cost is your time. So here's what I did. I searched my keyword, I found people and all I'm looking for is is the picture, and I'm looking for this. I don't want to click and have to go to their page. Again, that's too time consuming. I just want to look right here. So here's all I'm looking for is I'm looking for a personal profile and I'm looking for this sub headline. If this says dentist, I click add friend. I go down, Sandy go dentist, add friend. This guy right here, DK dentist, add friend. This right here, new smile dentist, add friend. That's what I did. And I did that in 2016. And I started requesting nothing but nothing but my niche. And today, I have, you know, I maxed out at 5,000 with Facebook you only get 5,000.  That's where it started. That's where it started. Okay. And then the second thing I did is I needed to make sure that my pages were optimized. I needed to make sure that my platforms looked good. And that's why I tell my son all the time because he's starting to get into social media, you know, tick tock and really trying to find his way online. And I'm telling them the basics of branding. When people come to your page and they look at your links, this stuff matters. This is marketing. This is branding. And my son still don't get it. But I'm trying to make them understand where it's like, dude, this is basic. You need to listen to what I'm saying because this is your brand and this is what people look at. So this is step two. Step one was going to find that niche, request all of them. Okay. That's that's step one. And then step two. Actually, you know what, I, it could go the other way around. This is step one and then finding your niche is step two. But here's what it is. Here's a step. If you notice right here in my intro, these are my social media platforms. And if you look closely, which you don't even have to look close, every single link link is identical. That's basic. And so when you start to look at these businesses, none of them have it like that. The dentist, I could show you all of them. No one I've seen thousands and thousands of pages, personal pages. No one's intro looks like this. Just as a beginner, you have to look professional. You, your branding has to look look good. And this is where it starts. So right here, this is a link that goes straight to your business page. And then down here we have Instagram Pinterest LinkedIn Twitter and the website address. Everything is one name. That's where it starts. So if I go to your personal Facebook page, I already know it doesn't look like that. So when you come across my page and you see that right, right away, a person can think that I'm professional. Maybe they think that I'm that I'm that I'm credible where I have credibility, you know, but they look at that and the name stands out inspired energy. One name for all, not a different name for Twitter, not a different name for TikTok, not a different name for Instagram, one name for all basic. So this service right here. This was a basic service that I started offering clients in the very beginning, where I would come across their page I would request a dentist for example, and then I would come across his page and then I would send him a message. And I would say, Hey, hey, John, this is David. Hey, thank you so much for requesting me or thank you so much for accepting my friend request. I noticed that you're a dentist and very successful. In fact, I help dentist with Facebook advertising services and social media marketing and branding. I'd love to give you some free tips. If you can schedule a call with me, or I'd love to schedule. I'd love to give you some free tips if you get a minute later on. Right. So, so all I'm doing is I'm messaging them and saying hello, I'm saying thank you for accepting my friend request. I'm saying, hey, I noticed that you're successful in dentistry. I run Facebook ads for dentists. I'd love to give you some tips if you get a minute. And that's it. And now that's the first message that I would send people. And then when when when they would reply back they would say David, social media. Yeah, I'm trying to do something over here but I know nothing about it. That's what you're going to hear nine out of 10 times 99% of the time that person's going to reply back and they're going to say you know what I do need help with this. I don't know nothing about social media. And that's what you have to understand is that these people are professional at what they do. They're a professional dentist. They're a professional gym owner. They're a professional chiropractor. They're a professional real estate agent. They don't know nothing about social media marketing. Okay, so so when I can get them on the on the on a zoom call and I do zoom I don't do phone call I don't ask them for their phone number. I simply ask them when they reply back and say yeah I'd love some tips. I tell them first of all it's free. All I want you to do is give me a good review on my business page. That's all I'm asking for. So when I'm messaging them the way I get them on the line and the reason what the way I get them on a zoom call is I say hey, I'll give you some free tips. I'll give you all of my strategies on how I help dentist run Facebook ads and brand themselves on social media, but you're going to do one thing for me. You're going to give me a good review. They reply back and they say David, I'd love to give you a review. I reply back to them. Great. Send me your email and best time tomorrow. I'm going to send you my zoom link. And we'll and we'll go from there. So that's that's the whole pickup that's the whole pitch that's the whole beginning. That's how I get them on the line because all I'm saying is I'm saying I will give you free tips. If you give me a good review. That's, that's how I get them on zoom. And then once I get them on zoom, I show them my page or I'll show them a client's page. I'll show them a client's page. I'll show them another dentist that I'm working with. And the very first thing I do the I don't talk Facebook ads. I don't, I don't even bring that up right now. I say, Hey, you know what, John. I understand you want to run Facebook ads. I understand you want to make more cells and capture more leads. But after I took a look at your page. Let me show you what's missing. And this is where I start them at man. This is where I start them at. So, so as a lot of agency owners or freelancers are are trying to take $1,000 or $2,000 right away on the very first call with that person. I never did it that way. I always started them small 200 300 400 500 USD start small. And this is what I would do for them is I would, I would, I would come over here and I would update all of their links. Again, when you show a when you show a dentist, another person, another dentist's page. Believe me, they understand the difference. Like, like I can, like for example, for example, let me show you. Let me just show you my one of my clients. Let me show you. This is my actual real client. So, when I'm on the phone with the, with the prospect. I'm showing and it's the same niche, right? That's one thing you want to do is focus on one niche, not multiple businesses. Pick one. You're going to go after only real estate agents. Okay, great. Only real estate agents. Don't go after plumbers or yoga studio. Only agents pick one. So what ends up happening is when I'm on that zoom call with Stacy. I tell Stacy, I say, Hey, you know what? Let me show you my clients candy's page. And let me show you how basic this is. So I ended up bringing them bringing Stacy over to this page to show her that because her page looks like this. Let me show you what what 99.9% of every single business owners, Facebook page looks like if I click on this one, actually that's Christian. That's a different one. Let me click on an actual friend of mine here. Let me show you one that I don't someone who's not a client. Let me let me click on. Okay, Amy. This person is not a client. I come over. Let's say I'm on the phone with Amy. I'm not phone. I'm on zoom. I don't need. I only do zoom. Let's say I'm on zoom with Amy. I'm going to show her her intro. And then I'm going to show her candy's intro automatically, there's a difference automatically. You know what, Amy? I understand you want to capture leads. I understand you want to run Facebook ads. I understand. But let me show you what's missing. Let me show you the basics. And once I show Amy, she's a real estate agent. Candy's a real estate agent. Once I show Amy candy's intro automatically, she wants that. And so here's what ends up happening. I end up telling her all this stuff, right? I say, Hey, you know what? This is where I start my clients. I only want to do this part for you. Let me optimize your links. Let me match everything because a lot of a lot of the times Amy, she'll say, Well, yeah, David, I have a Twitter. Or she'll say, Yeah, David, I have a LinkedIn. I have an Instagram. And the moment I ask her what her link is, they're all different links, just like my son, all different links, right? So I tell Amy, I say, No, no, basic marketing, basic branding, we need everything one name. So what I want to do for you, Amy, is again, I understand you want to run Facebook ads, but we're not there yet. Let's start here first. And that's what I that's what I that that's how I started is I simply would offer them that one service to optimize their social media. And as I got really good at that, it would take me to log in. So here's what I would do in the now I just send the client a video. That's what I do now. I just send them a YouTube video where I teach them how to link everything. I just send them a video now. But in the beginning, I would do this part for them. So I would ask for passwords for all their accounts so I can log in and simply change the user name. That's all we're doing is is she has an Instagram, she has a Twitter, like Amy, she has a LinkedIn. But again, they're all different names. We want one name for all, right, we want one name for all. And so as I'm showing this that showing this to the to the to the prospect Amy, she's gonna. Her mind is she's excited. She's like, man, David, I need my intro to look like that. So the problem is, is that number one, she doesn't have the time to do it. And number two, she doesn't know how to do it. And it's basic. All I'm doing is logging into each platform updating the user name. And then I'm coming over here to Facebook. Let me go to my page. And here when I'm logged into her account, for example, I would come into her personal page because I have to list everything. That's what she's paying me for. She's paying me to match all the user names and she's paying me to link everything. That's step one. So I would log into her personal Facebook and I tell her I say, Hey, Amy, you know what, I don't need to be logged in at all the time. I'm going to have this completed by tonight. Let's say I'm talking to her during the day. I'm talking to her at 1pm. And if I don't have other clients that I'm working with, I'll tell her I'll say Amy, here's what I want you to do. Send me the password for everything because I have to I have to log in and I have to change everything. And then I have to log into your personal Facebook so I can list everything. I will have all that done by 10pm at 1001. I want you to change your passwords. That's what I tell her. So that way she's comfortable and she doesn't think that I have her passwords anymore. I log in one time. I change all the names. I make it look like candies. Right. I make it look like candies. And now Amy's fired up. So all I do is I log into her account. I click on about. I go to contact and basic info. And all I do is I simply update all of her links. That's all I do. So I'll come over here. I'll hit edit. And I simply it's just the username. I'll simply put in just the username and I'll make sure that everything is public because you want the public. She's a business owner. So so no matter if someone's your friend on Facebook or not, when people come to your personal page, they need to see this information public. So so if you notice everything is one name. And if she doesn't have that one name for the dot com, I'll even go and get that from go daddy for her. I'll say, you know what, Amy? Okay, cool. You don't even have a dot com yet. And again, the the the the objective is to match everything. So if you have a dot com and it's a different name, then we need to change everything. We want one name for everything. That's the point. Okay. And that's that's that's the magic is that when we have one link for everything, they see value in that. Okay, so so if she doesn't have a domain, I'll go get it for her. I'll go go daddy. I'll buy the name for her. And then I'll and then I'll forward it to to to whatever website she has maybe she has a website with her broker her her her real estate company they give her a website, but she doesn't have the dot com. She doesn't have a custom domain right. So all all all even tell her I'll say Amy, no problem. I'll go and register it. I'll put it in your name so that domain so you own it. I'm gonna log into Pinterest. I'm gonna log into LinkedIn and sometimes they say David, you know what, I don't even use Pinterest. I don't even use Twitter.  This is not about you. This is about your audience. There's a billion people on Pinterest. There's 800 million people on Twitter. This is not about you. It's about your audience.  They come to your intro and it looks like this versus versus the other way it used to look, which was blank. Okay, so so this is what I show her the personal page and then she'll say well David, I'm a business owner. This is my personal page. I only have friends over there. Yeah, right. So then why did you accept my friend request Amy? I'm not your friend. I don't even know you. You live in another state. You live in another country. I don't even don't tell me that these are 900 friends. Yeah, right. You're and that's the thing about Facebook. And that's the thing about anything TikTok, Instagram, whatever, these people that start to follow you. They're not you don't know them. They're not your friends.  But before that, they were my friends. Maybe I have 200 friends from school, my mom, my brother, my cousin, my my aunt, my uncle. But in 2016, I removed all of them, because my strategy was to fill up the 5000 with my potential client. That's what I did. I moved all of my real friends to my Instagram. That's where all my real friends are in my family. They're all on Instagram. Over here, it's nothing but agents. So, so here's what I'm telling Amy, I say Amy, as you take your friend count up. You know, David, this is my personal page. I only have friends and family.  And, and, and, and I see that you have 3300 friends. Those are not all your friends. Don't lie to me. Right. Because at the end of the day, it's only a couple hundred that we actually have as real friends. Right. It's only, it's only maybe 200 that you actually really personally know as a real friend. Right.  That's the only reason why this is it. This is even important. If we were not a business owner, forget about all this stuff. But if we're a business owner, we're trying to take all of our platforms to thousands of people following us because we're a business owner. So, so as Amy starts to start to say, you know what, David, this is only for personal. This is not business. Yeah. Right. When it comes to Facebook, people connect with you first on this page. Amy and I connected on this page. I didn't even know she had a business page until I went to go look. Right. We connect with people here first. That's why if you're a business owner, this intro better be updated. And I don't care if you're not on these platforms. It's not about you. It's about your brand and it's about your audience. And I tell Amy all the time, because again, no links were listed in her intro. I say Amy, you and I connected on Facebook. But how do you know that I don't spend the entire day on Instagram? Amy, Amy sits back and she says, well, David, I don't know that. You're right. You don't know that. So if you had your link, I would have clicked. I would have followed you there. And if I would have messaged you regarding real estate, you better hope you get that message. Right. So having your links up is means we're open for business. So once I let her know how important this is for the personal page, I then take her over to the business page. I say Amy, on the business page, the same role applies. When people land here on the business page, they need to see all your links inspired energy, inspired energy, inspired energy, every single link is identical. So again, when I show her this, and then I go look at her business page, she doesn't have any of that. So so I'm not always showing her my page. I'll show her my client. So again, back to candy. This is her personal page. Right. So if I'm on a zoom call with with with Amy, I'm showing her the personal page. And then I'm coming over here to candy's business page. So I'll come over here, click on the link. So straight to the business page. And then I'll scroll down and I'll show her over here, all of candy's links, hedge properties, hedge properties, hedge properties, hedge properties. And I tell Amy, I say, Amy, does that not look a little better than having everything blank? And again, because she's a business owner, she understands the importance of that. But she's too busy to update it. And she doesn't even know how. So as I'm showing her this, I'm showing her my page or I'm showing her my client's page at the end of the call. She says, you know what, David, I need my pages looking like that. All of my links are different. I need everything to match. But I don't have the time to do it. What do you charge to go do it for me? Well, Amy, I'm glad you asked. That's where I started people, bro. That's where I started people as I started there. And then as I started to learn Facebook ads, then I would simply run the like ad for them. This is where we start. We're not running. We're not spending hundreds of dollars on Facebook ads just yet. We're only beginning. Right. So so so when I looked at when I look at anyone's business page, anyone's business page, thousands and thousands of people I've looked at thousands and thousands of people's business page. Okay. When I come over to someone's business page, let me let me see if I can find someone who's not my client. Let's see Leah. Okay, let's see if I again, every single friend is in my niche. Okay. Every single one that I click on. Look, I come over to her intro. Nothing is there. This right here in vision advisors at your castle real estate. That might be the name of her business, but it's not even a clickable link. She has no idea what she's doing. Right. Studied lives from. Okay. Where's your website? Where's your Instagram? Where's your LinkedIn? Where's your Pinterest? Where's your Twitter? And again, this is social media marketing. If Leah wants to know about social media marketing, this is the basics. This is where it starts. Right. So again, I'll show her this, and then I'll show her candy's page and she's blown away just on that. Let me see if I can find someone that actually has their business page up here. Um, actually, you know what? I could just go to anyone's business page right here. So, so as everybody clicks invite to invite their friends to like their business page. I've literally looked at tens of thousands of business pages. Okay, so here's Jessica Fry, a ruler. I don't know her. She's not a client. I come to her business page and she has 135 likes. 99.999% of people who have a Facebook business page have 100 likes. This is what I call step two. Step one was, was getting all of her links up for her. Step two is saying, you know what, Jessica? You have 135 likes. When I land here, I don't know if you've been in real estate for 15 years. I don't know if you're a top producing real estate agent with Keller Williams. I don't know that you're the most popular person in your, in your city or in your town. I don't know that because on social media, no one knows each other. So when I come to your page, Jessica, and I see 135 likes, and then I come over here to my friend, my client and my friend Candy's page, and I see 3500. Is there not a difference in perception? Is there not a difference in the way you simply see it? 3572 versus 135. Do you see any difference there, Jessica? She's going to say, well, damn David, that's a big difference. It looks like Candy's been doing this for 17 years. And I say, no, Jessica, Candy is actually a brand new agent. All she did was run a Facebook ad. So as you're over here clicking invite to all your friends who don't even live in your state, to all your friends who don't even know you because you have 3900 friends, but none of them know you. So as you're clicking invite to get all these people to like your business page, you've been doing that for two years and you got yourself to 135. Candy ran one Facebook ad and took her to 3500 in a few days. And then she says, well, David, I don't know how to run the ad. Okay, well, here's the deal, Jessica. Here's the deal. I'll run that ad for you. But what you're going to owe me is a good review. That's how I've gotten hundreds of clients. What ends up happening is that is Jessica is going to give me a credit card to update all of her links and to run one Facebook ad. We're not hiring. She's not hiring us to do monthly ads just yet. We're only beginning. You got to date the girl first before you throw in the backseat of your car, right? You got to date. You got to date them first. This is how I dated people. This is how I would take them out and date them and get their credit card. So she's going to give me a credit card to update her links. And that that credit card is what I'm going to charge to run the Facebook ad. So, so here's what I can tell you just on those two steps alone, updating all the links and running one simple Facebook ad. Okay. Nine out of 10 businesses will pay you for sure a minimum, minimum of 500 USD to do that minimum. That should be your pricing point 500 USD. So the two services that you provide. So in the meantime, you're learning Facebook ads, right? You're learning how to get better with Facebook ads. But right now, those are the only two services that you offer is updating their links and running one Facebook ad. Now here's the third service. Here is the third service that you're going to include in this package. You only have one package. Your package is includes link optimization, the Facebook like ad and and because you're a graphic designer and what that person is going to get for the 500 USD is they're going to get a cover photo. They're going to get the cover image for all their platforms, the cover image for for Facebook, the cover for LinkedIn, the cover for Twitter, the cover for which other one do we have? We got we got we got Facebook business page. We got the cover for LinkedIn. We got the cover for Twitter. And then if they have a YouTube channel with which most do not have most are not building a YouTube channel. So you don't really have to worry about YouTube. But if they do, maybe you can give them a cover photo for the YouTube as well. And and and that's something you can you can easily do that. That's what you're good at. So so your package for 500 USD includes the cover photo design, the like ad and the link optimization 500 USD, any business owner would do that for you would pay you that and all you have to do is show them the proof. That's all you got to do, man is show them a client. But if you don't have a client right now, that's why you have to update your profile first. You have to go to your page your personal profile. You have to you have to think of that one name that you want to use the one name for your business, whatever it may be, and you have to update all your links and get everything listed. And then and then when I come over to here here to your business page, what you also have to do is you have to run the like ad for your business. So over here, when people land on my page and they see 10,000 likes automatically automatically they take me seriously automatically. And I show them that and I tell them that I say Jessica, look, you got everyone sending you a message wanting to sell you something. But when you go to their business page, do they have that many likes. And it's not about. It's not really all about that it's really about the perception. It's about it's about when you land here, you automatically know I'm legit, or you at least think I'm somewhat legit because of my light count. If you came to my page and saw 100 likes, you might not take me serious. But if you come here and you see a few thousand, you're going to take me serious. So, so over here, I'm showing them, you know, my like number, and I'm showing them all of my links.  And maybe we can schedule another call and I'll show you how to run the like ad. I'll show you how to run that like ad on a different call will schedule another call, but but you want to do that to your page first. Now you can now you can go start prospecting people.  They see your links, everything is updated. They go to your business page and they see thousands of likes. Now you look good. Right. Now you look legit.  Right. You look good. Right. Because everything is updated. And that's where it starts, man. That's where it starts. That's where it starts. So, so I've never done a phone call. I've always used zoom, even way before this whole Corona crap, this pen, big dent, these whole fake Demik that's going on but way before that I was already using zoom. So, since day one I've always use zoom, because I need to share my screen I need to show you results I'm not going to just tell you over a phone call, right I need to show you the results and I use zoom to do all that. That's where I would start a client first is is step one the links step to the like add and then in your case, the design. Right. That's what you want to do is give them a good design right a nice cover photo. That's where I would start them. And then what would happen maybe let's say two weeks later, two weeks later, I'll email that client. Hey Stacey, I hope you're well. All your links look good, your light count, the numbers are increasing every single day. What I want to do now is schedule our next call so we can start so we can start talking about running Facebook ads to capture leads. Let me know when you're available and I'll schedule it on my calendar. So what I do and it's what I do still to this day is this is where I start them. I end up talking to them again. And that's when I end up selling them my coaching program. And that's when my coaching programs to grant. So that's when I end up to 2000 USD. That's when I end up selling them that higher package. That's not every month. That's one time, because what I do now is I teach people to do it themselves. And for you, you can maybe just charge them 1000 USD and run Facebook, Facebook ads every every month for them. But, but it's after you've already done this part. And that's why this part so important because just by starting them small, that gives that that that allows you to earn their trust. Now you did a great job on the links. Now they used to have 100 likes. Now they have 3000. Right. So now they trust you. Now they want to do business with you more business because you made their pages look good. Right. It didn't look like that before you got a hold of it. Now now it does. So so that's when two weeks later, they're more they're more willing to take your phone call your zoom call because they know you already did a good job. And now they want to start capturing leads. So now that's when you start, you know, telling them about how we can run Facebook ads every month to capture leads. And then that's when you're going to you're going to sell them your monthly package, which which which what I recommend is is only Facebook ads or Instagram ads, right. Facebook or Instagram ads. That is a monthly service. That is what people will pay you for. It's no more social media management. They're not going to pay you to post for them. Don't do none of that. You don't want to do none of that. This is only step one. I'm going to list everything. I'm going to match your link. And that's all I'm going to do. I'm not going to post for you. I'm not going to do any of that. My my neck my higher service, which is my monthly service, that's to run Facebook ads and Facebook ads only. And that's what businesses will pay you for businesses. Businesses will pay you to capture leads. They'll pay you to get them more appointments by running Facebook ads, or they'll pay you to make to help them make more cells running Facebook ads. If you have a Shopify store. Okay, great. I'm going to help you run Facebook ads. We're going to make sales and that's what you're going to pay me for. There's no value in posting for people. Before a lot of people try to start a social media agency. They want to manage people social media.  None of that. None of that makes money. What makes money is Facebook ads. So that's what they'll pay you for.  You have to be able to show them that you captured five leads, 10 leads, 50 leads. That's a result. There's no value in posting. There's no result. There's no way to track a result by just posting for people. And that does absolutely nothing when you're posting, especially when you're posting on your business page. Like I have over 10,000 likes over here. When I post very few engagement, very few engagement because organic posting on Facebook is dead. You absolutely have to be running Facebook ads.  Stop posting on the business page thinking that all your likes are going to like it and see it. They're not. They're not. Facebook doesn't even show that post to all your likes. So it's not about posting for people. It's all about running Facebook ads for them. Okay. But again, that's down the line. You end up, you know, running Facebook ads for them after you've already did step one, which is the links and step two, the like ad. They will fall in love with you just by doing that first. And that's just where I started, man. That's where I started. I always, I always recommend and encourage people who are starting to start there too. Because I will get you get you some money going. That will help you feed your family, you know, pay your bills, just that alone, just that service alone will help you. And as you're learning how to get good at Facebook ads, that's what that's what how I did it. I started here and that was helping me feed my family. And as I'm learning, I'm learning Facebook ads and I'm getting better at Facebook ads. And that's what allowed me to charge people now even more to now do the Facebook ads for them. Whether I'm going to teach them or whether I'm doing it for them every month. It's a monthly fee, right? But but that's not until this first two steps are completed. Okay. So, so again, it's all about one link for everything for the dot com for the email for everything. It's one name for all. That's the magic. So when you can do that for someone, they will pay you and they'll love you forever. So that's how I started, man. That that that's how I started and and to tell you the truth, that's what I still do to this day. I just don't I don't do the work for the for the links anymore. I just send them a video, but I'll still run the like ad for them. And that's how I got a good amount of reviews on my business page and that's how I get clients, you know, every day. Yeah, man. So, so pick a platform, you know, Facebook, the personal page or LinkedIn or Instagram or Twitter, you can you can search the niche on any of these platforms. You can search any niche on on these and you're looking for the people. So if I go if I go plumbers, I'm looking I'm going to type that in and I'm going straight to people. I want to request you as a friend first. Okay, that's where it starts and become friends with them. Huh. There's a picture on a face. Yes, yes, I'm looking for looking for a picture. Oh, yeah. And I'm looking for the sub headline to say something about plumbing or maybe even the name up here AJ plumbers. That that's good. I'll add friend. And then I'll and then I'll keep going. And then and then I want I want to look for a real person like I want to look for the real people John well plumbers right here. Add friend, you know, so that's where it starts and then what I would also do real quick before I let you go is I would here's how you want to look at it. Here's how you have to approach it. You have to approach it as a genuine person. You have to actually become friends with them. So as you request everyone in your niche, start clicking like start commenting. Right start commenting before like don't don't comment anything about business comment something give them get make them feel good about this post look the best the best things in life begin with the letter s. I'll come over here I'll give it a heart and I'll say I love this. Nothing about business, all about just giving them praise of the post. And then I'll come over here again. Let's see Bailey. This is actually that's an ad Jessica Smith right here. Look, this is a picture of her profile picture. Awesome picture. Awesome picture. Great job. So I'm actually not only am I liking it, but I'm commenting something genuine. Right. And now here's what's going to happen. This person, Jessica, she's going to receive the notification. And that notification is going to say David just liked your post David just commented. So what I want to do is I want to get my name going in the news feed I want to get my name going and everybody's notifications I want people to see my name. Right, I want them to see my name I want them to know that I'm a cool person. I want them to know that I'm actually looking at their stuff and I'm sharing their stuff and I'm commenting on their stuff. I had a pleasure of working with David on his purchase please, please help me say congratulations. I'll put over here congrats David. Right. Congrats David, and I'll just spend not a lot of time maybe maybe an hour a day, one hour a day. I come to the news feed, and I just like, and I comment on everyone stuff. To those people who are already your friends. Yes, to everybody who's already my friend. Yeah. Yes. Yes. And again as I keep saying everyone who is my friend is in my niche. There's not one friend that I have from school, not one neighbor, not one cousin or not one aunt or brother or sister or mom or dad, none of them. None of them are in this 5000. It's all my niche. Now, that's not the same 5000 since 2016. I'll have a few people unfriend me all unfriend of few, and no one even cares no one even notices. No one knows me. Right, you got to understand that man no one, no one knows their friend list like maybe a few.  So we're thinking okay if we can have thousands of friends maybe someone's going to buy our stuff. That's how we think normally. So so as far as us really knowing them know we don't know we don't know them. You know so so as people unfriend me or if I unfriend others I just request more. That's it. I'll always keep it at 5000 you'll always see this number at 5000 always because a few will drop off and I'll request more right away. Right and then and then again I'll spend an hour a day and I'll like everybody stuff I'll comment on everybody stuff I'll share everybody stuff. And everyone's in the same niche. So so I'm sharing you know with real estate for example I'm sharing everybody stuff like like right here actually. Yeah, two full days of building now now to get more rock to backfill next project. Okay cool. So if this was something that I could share she this person Barbie doesn't she's only shown it to her friend so it's not public. If it was public I can share it. So I'll even start doing that I'll share their stuff and then they'll comment back and say hey David thanks for sharing. And this someone I don't know, but we're now friends on Facebook. And that's all I want her to see I want her to see my name. Right, because here's what starts to happen. As I start to comment on everybody stuff and like everybody stuff. My name sticks out. And then as I go and message that person. Now as as I request them as a friend and they and they accept my friend request, I might not message them right away. Because I'm too busy requesting a lot of people. I'm too busy messaging other people so I might not message that person right away. But by the time I do. Let's say it's two weeks later, and I finally send them a hello message. Hey Stacy thank you so much for for accepting my friend request. I noticed that you're very successful in real estate in fact I run Facebook ads for real estate agents. I'd love to give you some free tips and all I charge is a good review. So if you have a few minutes I'd love to chat whenever you got it whenever you got free time. Talk to you soon. That's the first message but here's what here's what happens. This could be two weeks later. And so for the first two weeks maybe maybe I click like maybe I comment on her stuff. So now as I'm messaging her two weeks later. Right now she's more likely to read my direct message because she's been seen my name for the past two weeks. And I don't I don't even care who who the person is right Jen all I'm doing is going through my newsfeed I don't even care I don't I don't bother to look like Leah I don't even care I already know if they're my Facebook friend they're in my niche that's all I care about. That's all I care about. So I don't I don't I don't even care like a lot of times I'll close my eyes and I'll just scroll and click like on everything I don't even care like I'll just click like on everything. Right, because all that's doing is sending my name through their notifications and getting my name branded, right, to a certain extent, it's branding in certain, you know, ways you can look at it, because my name keeps showing up in their notifications. You know, and again that's that's why it's so important because as I go and message them. They're going to be more likely to take my message or reply to my message. Yeah, because they've been seen me engage in their post for the past two weeks. In this way you built your social presence. Yes, you got it right there man, you got it. You, you couldn't have said it better. That's how I did it man that's how I started that that small service again in the very beginning before I even knew Facebook ads. I learned one ad, the like ad, I learned one ad in the very beginning, the like ad, and I use that as my entry service. Right, and in that alone that income alone has has provided for my family. It's what puts food on the table for my family that one income stream alone. Okay, so, so I always suggest start there start there and as you start to get better at Facebook ads, then you'll have all these clients that you can go back to. Hey, John, I did your links, I did your like ad, you know, two months ago, I really want to talk to you about Facebook ads, I learned some new strategies that I really believe is going to help your business when can we jump on another zoom call. Right, so you might do this one time right you did all this one time you might have done it three months ago, but you're now keeping that client on your email list or keep that client's contact information because you're going to want to get back to them in the future to now run Facebook ads for them. Yes, right. So, but that's but this right here this is where it starts. Okay, so does that make sense. It makes sense. Yes, man so that's what I recommend man is starting there and maybe we can schedule another call where I'll show you how to run the like ad. I don't always show everyone how to run that like ad but I'll show it to you man I like you I really believe you can you can you can succeed and I want to help you so let's schedule another another call for maybe tomorrow or maybe a few days later.  That right there is a great entry level package for anyone starting out wanting to go after clients for social media and and and for those of you that are watching on YouTube. My buddy here is an actual graphic designer that's why I'm telling him to add the third service for the cover photo, but if you guys are listening on YouTube, if you guys are not graphic designers, I'm not a graphic designer. That could be an easy service that you simply get someone on fiber to do right I can have someone on fiber for $5 do me a nice cover photo, and I could charge the client 500. Right, so I don't need to charge them that much but I can I can easily charge that client more right and I can just delegate it to someone on fiber and and now that could be part of my package. You know now I wouldn't tell the client that I'm getting it from Fiverr right the client knows that they're getting it from me, but but as a business, I get it through Fiverr and I just simply charge the client. Right, and that's a great service because as you start to look at everybody's cover photo. No one has a custom photo. Right, and again it's it's it's all about their business. So when you can show them your page or when you can show them your clients page and it looks good with all these services. That's when they give you their credit card. Okay, okay, and to process credit cards. What you want to do is you want to go set up a stripe account.  All they do is they charge you 2% for every transaction which is what every credit card processing company does every every credit card charges. So with this it's free. You guys set it up and this is what I this is what I use to to to process credit card payments. Is I use stripe or I'll use PayPal. You know, so that's how I do it man that's how I do it is is and I and I run everything through cartridge so as I'm building landing pages and that's a whole nother, you know package, but cartridge for landing pages for email application for an online calendar software I do all that through cartridge and that link is in the description as well profit with cartridge dot online. So that's that's pretty much what I do man. So hopefully that makes sense and, and let's schedule a call, you know in a few days and I'll show you how to run the like at, but what I want you to do first is is get all your links listed I'll send you a link and in fact again for those of you on YouTube. All link the video in the description of step one, like how to list all these links I have a YouTube video teaching you how to list all these links. Okay, so here's what I want you to do. Before you schedule our next call.  Get your platforms up and these are the only ones you need Facebook, Instagram Pinterest LinkedIn and Twitter. That's it. Majority of businesses. That's all they really need are those platforms up and and and and listed identical. Right.  Watch the video. I'll link it in the description. I'm going to have this video up tomorrow morning. Actually tomorrow night for you. It'll be tomorrow morning for me. I'll have, I'll have this video so you can you can see the link in the description for step one. I have a video that you'll see right here that'll help you link and customize your social media platforms. Very simple, very basic, but I'm telling you man, everyone misses it. So businesses will pay you to make theirs look like this. Okay. Okay. So, so update your links. In fact, you know what I'll just simply, I could just send you the video right now, let me send it to you right now. And for those of you that are watching, it's this video over here you'll see the link in the description, but it's this video over here. It is link customization, which is where did it go it's this one actually no it's this one right here actually no. Where did it go. It is this one right here. So how to customize your social media links. So this one right here will teach you how how to set up step one. Okay, so I'll send it to you here in the in the in the zoom chat. So go ahead and look at the message that I just sent you right here that click on it so you save it. You see it come through in the chat. Yes, it goes. Yeah, so click on it so you can open it up and then watch that later on, you know that that's going to help you with step one, customizing your links start there. And then let's get our next call and I'll show you how to run the like at. Okay. Okay, my friend so so many blessings to you man all the way to Ukraine. Thank you so much for reaching out to me on YouTube man I truly truly appreciate you. So I look forward to helping you and and helping you make an income for you and your family man that's what it's all about right is we got to feed our family. Thank you also for your time for valuable information. I'm so inspired to do everything today. Yes, man. I'm very excited for you. So, so start with the basics, get your pages looking good because this is your proof on showing other clients. Okay. Okay, we'll talk after that. Okay, okay my friend. I'll talk to you later. Cheers. Cheers.


Teaching English in Taiwan, the Salary and Budget Guide This guide will help you answer the question, How much can I earn and save teaching English in Taiwan? You'll also find information on the local cost of living in order to figure out how much to budget for when making the move to Taiwan. The typical salary for English teachers in Taiwan English teachers in Taiwan can find positions at public schools, private cram schools and international schools. The salary is typically paid by the hour with working hours ranging anywhere from 4 to 8 hours a day. In the private schools sector, you can choose between private language schools and kindergartens. Private language academies usually pay US$20 per hour while kindergartens pay a similar rate of between US$18 and US$20. Public schools and so-called bushy bins or after-school study centers pay an hourly rate of between US$30 and US$40. These jobs are highly competitive and a TEFL certification, specialized TEFL certificates and teaching experience will be a huge plus. International schools pay the highest salaries of up to US$6,000 per month, but jobs are highly competitive. You will need to possess a degree in education, work experience and be a native English speaker. Other benefits to expect when teaching English in Taiwan Teachers working in Taiwan can expect to receive added benefits such as return airfare, paid accommodation, health insurance as well as a bonus on completion of the contract. This, however, varies from school to school and should be discussed when signing your contract. How to earn extra cash while teaching English in Taiwan A lot of teachers take on private students in their free time to top up their salary. You can usually find students through word of mouth or via online forums. The typical rate for an hour of private tutoring can range between US$20 and US$40. The cost of living in Taiwan Taiwan's cost of living is very low in comparison to many western countries. Combined with high salaries, this allows foreign teachers to live a very comfortable lifestyle during their stay in Taiwan. Eating out at local restaurants and markets is very cheap as is transportation around the country. Let's break down the cost of living in Taiwan for individual areas below. Cost of living in Taiwan Food Eating out at local restaurants and purchasing produce and ingredients at Taiwanese supermarkets not only gives you a great insight into the Taiwanese way of life but also leaves you with money in your pockets for fun and adventure. Milk, 1 liter. 85 New Taiwan Dollars Eggs, 12. 60 New Taiwan Dollars Apples, 1 kg. 130 New Taiwan Dollars Chicken breast, 1 kg. 210 New Taiwan Dollars Rice, 1 kg. 98 New Taiwan Dollars Bottle of water, 1.5 liters 35 New Taiwan Dollars Bottle of domestic beer, 0.5 liters 50 New Taiwan Dollars Cost of living in Taiwan Leisure activities Living in Taiwan is anything but boring. The island has a lot to offer in terms of natural beauty and outdoor fun. At the same time, it's many bustling cities are nothing short of exciting urban wonderlands where you can enjoy yourself to no end. 3-course mid-range restaurant dinner, 700 New Taiwan Dollars Quick restaurant meal of rice or noodles 100 New Taiwan Dollars Large dumplings, a common street food 20 New Taiwan Dollars One-month fitness club membership, 1,400 New Taiwan Dollars Movie ticket, international release 300 New Taiwan Dollars Cost of living in Taiwan Transportation The public transportation system in Taiwan is incredibly advanced and the entire island is very well connected. The big cities feature extensive networks of buses and subway lines and high-speed trains connect them across the island. Taxi rides are also very inexpensive but often take longer than the subway because of traffic. Metro ride 20 New Taiwan Dollars Monthly pass, regular price, 1,280 New Taiwan Dollars Taxi rate per km 25 New Taiwan Dollars Start fare 75 New Taiwan Dollars City bus 20 New Taiwan Dollars Cost of living in Taiwan Travel in Taiwan and beyond As mentioned above, Taiwan has a lot of exciting attractions and tourist destinations to offer. Whether it's national parks, sandy beaches, remote monasteries or traditional hot springs, you will always find something to do in your free time and during holidays. On top of that, flights to neighboring destinations such as Hong Kong, Mainland China, South Korea or Japan are also very inexpensive. Being based in Taiwan allows you to explore all parts of Asia on a budget. One night in a mid-range hotel, 1,800 New Taiwan Dollars High speed train, Taipei to Kaohsiung, 2.5 hours $1,490 New Taiwan Dollars Slow train, Taipei to Hualien, 3 hours $340 New Taiwan Dollars To flight, Taipei to Hong Kong, 2 hours $3,000 New Taiwan Dollars Sample monthly teacher budget To give you an example of how an English teacher in Taiwan spends their salary, here is a sample monthly budget. Gross income, salary $60,000 New Taiwan Dollars Approximately $2,000 United States Dollars Rent Zero, paid for by the employer Utilities, electricity, gas, water $2,100 New Taiwan Dollars Phone and Internet $800 New Taiwan Dollars Food $5,000 New Taiwan Dollars Insurance $900 New Taiwan Dollars Remaining disposable income $51,200 NT Dollar Around $1,600 United States Dollars How much you can save when teaching English in Taiwan? As you can see from the sample budget above, the added benefits and high salaries in Taiwan make it possible to save a substantial amount of money from your monthly paycheck. Teachers in Taiwan can save up to $1,000 United States Dollars per month, depending on their lifestyle. Are you ready to teach English in Taiwan? Apply now for your TEFL TESOL certification course and start teaching in a matter of months. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Okay, oh. She's in this video again. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for Croatoan, the next episode in Supernatural Season 2 Reviews. This is episode nine, and this is a mid-season finale for season two, and I'm actually quite surprised that this is as good of an episode as it is. I like Croatoan because they even make a reference Chuck Heston and the Omega Man, which is a film that's based off I Am Legend, which is a fantastic novel. If you've ever read it, incredibly depressing, but a great novel. Sam and Dean come into this town that has a Croatoan name on it. People in the town start to go crazy. There's this sort of virus idea that's happening. They have to try and save themselves in these few people in this building and they can't trust anyone. This infection just seems to make people rampant. Admittedly, the budget does show. There's not as much in the episode as you would think, considering it's content. They spend time making all of these fire bombs but they never use them. But the episode still plays out very, very well as well, written because it was written by John Saban, who used to be a writer for X-Files. He wrote episodes for Breaking Bad and whatnot. This episode was also directed by Robert Singer. This shows when this dude could actually care when he actually didn't do the laziest means of a job. He actually did his job well. Oh, here we go. Either way, I enjoyed this episode immensely. The acting done by Jensen and Jared is actually pretty good. There's one point where Sam kind of gives you this kind of face. It's a little silly, but other way, I actually thought it was pretty good. There's a lot of good surprises in this episode that don't seem predictable, that they actually kind of come out of left field but in a good way, that there's some well-written tension in this entire episode. Seeing where the brothers are talking with each other about whether or not they're gonna have to kill Sam.  And then how it ends with Dean about to reveal what their dad said to them. That's a perfect cliffhanger. Either way, I enjoyed this episode immensely. It is one of the best episodes of this season and there are a lot of them and I'm going to give it, I can't believe this. I'm gonna give this episode a seven out of seven. That's two seven out of sevens back to back in this season. I'm remembering now that this middle point was just so dang good. The middle of this season is just phenomenal so I'm really excited to keep on going. I asked for your guys' comments about Crotone in the last review so let's see what you guys have to say. All right, so going through our comments here, got one again from Karen C. Croto in mid-season finale and love it. I enjoy a good bro story and hear the boys are at odds with one another over how to handle the situation with Sam's words ultimately acting as Dean's conscience and causing him not to execute the guy tied to the chair.  Of course, we really don't understand the full weight until he reveals that in the mid-season premiere. The ending has two big whammies with Dean admitting that he had a secret about Sam and a surprise by the demons testing Sam's immunity. Good mid-season finale as the wait for us was agony.  Crotone is one of, if not my favorite mid-season finales. The Crotone virus was greatly used and showed us just how bad it was going to be, especially when it returned in season five. Then we got one last here from Sarah's and Texas. Crotone is as important to the lore as the previous episode in my opinion. It's establishing that demons have experimented on small isolated towns and was successful at turning all the inhabitants into zombie-style creatures, reverbs all the way to season seven. Why was Sam immune? And then there's that tease at the end. What did John tell Dean about Sam before he died? Seven out of seven for me. And yeah, you guys are right. Everyone who's a seven out of seven thought that was going to be for this one episode. You were definitely correct. Anyways, thanks to God. Anyways, guys, thank you for your comments. Next episode is hunted. This is when we start to see more of the children that are like Sam. I'm actually excited to watch this one too because we're just on such a really, really good pace right now. Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed this review. If you did, leave a like and if you're interested in more, subscribe. Otherwise, can't wait to review the next episode. See you guys next time. Thanks for watching the video. My name is Nitz and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show, Undergrads. It's been a while, but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all new movie, thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign. But we are still asking for your support. To see any and all updates about the upcoming Undergrads movie, be sure to check out and like the Bring Back Undergrads Facebook page. And with any luck, we'll see you guys soon.


Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE. Covering South by Southwest 2017. Brought to you by Intel. Now, here's John Furrier. Hey, welcome back everyone. We're here live in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest CUBE coverage at the Intel AI Lounge. Hashtag Intel AI if you're watching. Put it out on Twitter. I'm John Furrier. It's SiliconANGLE theCUBE. Our next guest up on you is with Cloudera. And there's been news today and although they won't comment on it. Great to see you, social media manager, Cloudera. Yes, nice to see you as well. Great to see you. So Cloudera has a strategic relationship with Intel.  So it's well known in the industry. But what's going on here is interesting. AI for social good is our theme. Cloudera has always been a pay it forward company. I've known the founders, Mike Olson and Amar Awadallah. Really all about the community and paying it forward. So Allison, talk about what you guys are doing and working on it because you're involved in a panel but also Cloudera Cares and you guys have teamed up with Thorm doing some interesting things. Take it away. Sure, thanks. Thanks for the great intro. So I'll give you a little bit of a brief introduction to Cloudera Cares. Cloudera Cares was founded roughly about three years ago. It was really a employee driven and led effort. I kind of stepped into the role, ended up being a little bit more of the leader just by the way it worked out. So we've really gone from going from, we're just doing soup kitchens and everything else to strategic partnerships, donating software, professional service hours, things along those lines. Which has been very exciting to see our non-profit partnerships grow in that way. So it really went from almost bastard efforts to an organized organization now. And we started stepping up our strategic partnerships about a year and a half ago. We started with DataKind as our initial one about two years ago, we initiated that. Then a year ago, in September, we finalized our donation of an enterprise data hub to Thorn, which if you're not aware of, they're all about using technology and innovation to stop child trafficking. So last year around September or so, we announced the partnership and we donated professional service hours. And then in October, we went with them to Grace Hopper, which is obviously the largest women in tech conference in North America. And we hosted a hackathon and we helped mentor women entering into the tech workforce and trying to come up with some really cool innovative solutions for them to track and see what's going on with the dark web. So we had quite a few interesting ideas coming out of that. Also, we had Frederico Gomez Suarez on, who was the technical advisor. A Microsoft employee, but he's volunteering at Thorn. And this is interesting because this is not just donating to the soup kitchens and whatnot. You're starting to see a community approach to philanthropy that's coding oriented. Hackathons turning into community, galvanizing communities and actually taking to the next level. Yeah, so I think one of the things we realized is tech, while it's so great, we have actually introduced a lot of new problems. So I don't know if everyone's aware, but in the 80s and 90s, child exploitation had almost completely died. They had almost resolved the issue. With the introduction of technology and the internet, it opened up a lot more ways for people to go ahead and exploit children, arrange things in the dark web. So we're trying to figure out a way to use technology to combat a problem that technology kind of created as well, but not only solving it, but rescuing people. It's a classic security problem. The surface area has increased for this kind of thing. But big data, which is where you guys were founded on in the cloud era that we live in, pun intended, using the machine learning now, you start with some scale now involved. Yes, exactly. And that's what we're really hoping. So we're partnering with Intel in the National Center of Missing Exploited Children. We're actually kicking off a virtual hackathon tomorrow. And our hope is we can figure out some different innovative ways that AR can be applied to scraping data and finding children. A lot of times we'll see, there's not a lot of clues, but for example, if there can be a tool that can upload three or four different angles of a child's face when they go missing, maybe what happens is someone posts a picture on Instagram or Twitter that has a geotag and this kid is in the background. That would be an amazing way of using AI and machine learning to find a child, right? Well, I'll give you guys a plug for cloud era. And I'll reference Dr. Naveen Rao, who's the GM of Intel's AI group was on earlier, and he was talking about how there's a lot of storage available, not a lot of compute. Now, cloud era, you guys have really pioneered the data lake, data hub concept where storage is critical. Now you've got this compute power and machine learning. That's kind of where it comes together. Did I get that right? Yeah, and I think it's great that with the partnership with Intel, we're able to integrate our technology directly into the hardware, which makes it so much more efficient. You're able to compute massive amounts of data in a very short amount of time and really come up with real results. And with this partnership specifically with Thorn and NACMAC, we're seeing that it's real impact for as thousands of people last year. I think in the 2016 impact report, Thorn said they had identified over 6,000 trafficking victims of which over 2,000 were children, right? So that tool that they use is actually built on cloud era. So it's great seeing our technology put into place. That's awesome. I was talking to an Intel person the other day. They have 72 cores now on a processor, on the high-end Xeons. Let's get down to some other things that you're working on. What are you doing here at the show? Do you have things that you're doing? You have a panel? Yeah, so at the show at South by Southwest, we're kicking off a virtual hackathon tomorrow at our Austin offices for South by Southwest. Everyone's welcome to come. I just did the liquor order. So yes, everyone, please come in. And you just came from Austin's office. You were just coming there. Yeah, exactly. So we've... Unlimited Red Bull, pizza, food. We'll be doing lots and lots tomorrow, but we're kicking that off. We have representatives from Thorn, NACMAC, Google, Intel all on-site to answer questions. That's kind of our kickoff of this month-long virtual hackathon. You don't need to be in Austin to participate, but that is one of the things that we are kicking off. And then, on Sunday, actually here at the Intel AI lounge, we're doing a panel on AI for good and using artificial intelligence to solve problems, right? And we'll be broadcasting that live here on theCUBE, so folks, silkandangle.tv will carry that. Allison, talk about the trend that we were... You were in here when we were talking about how there's now a new counterculture developing in a good way around community and social change. How real is the trend that you're starting to see these hackathons evolve from what used to be recruiting sessions to just people just jamming together to meet each other? Now, you're starting to see the next level of formation where people are organizing collectively to impact real issues. Is this a real trend or where is that trend? Can you speak to that? Sure, so, I mean, from what I've seen from the hackathons, what we've been seeing before was it's very company-specific, only one company wanted to do it, and they would kind of silo themselves, right? Now we're kind of seeing this with coming together of companies that are generally competitors, but they see a great social cause and they decide that they want to band together, regardless of their differences in technology, product, et cetera, for common good. And so... Like Thorn. Thorn, you'll see a lot of competitors. So you see Facebook and Twitter or Google and Amazon, right? And we'll see all these different competitors come together, lend their workforce to us, and have them code for one great project. So you see as a real trend? I do see it as a trend. I saw Thorn last year did a great one with Facebook and on-site with Facebook. This year, as we started to introduce this hackathon, we decided that we wanted to do a hackathon series versus just a one-off hackathon. So we're seeing people being able to share code, contribute, work on top of other code, right? And it's very much a sharing community. So we're very excited for that. All right, so I've got to ask you, what's the culture like at Cloudera these days as you guys prepare to go public? What's the vibe internally in the company? I'll see Mike Olson, the founder, still around, armors around. You guys have been growing really fast. Got your new space. What's the vibe like in Cloudera now? You know, honestly, the culture in Cloudera hasn't really changed. So when I joined three years ago, we were much smaller than we are now. But I think one thing that we're really excited about is, you know, everyone still is so collaborative and everyone makes sure to help one another out. So I think our common goal is really more along the lines of we're one team and let's, you know, put out the best product we can. Awesome. So what's South by Southwest mean to you this year? Have you had to kind of like zoom out and say, okay, what's the theme? We heard Robert Scoble earlier say it's a VR theme. We're here with Intel AI. So there's a Cloudera of different kind of touchpoints here. What do you see? Yeah, so I actually went to the opening keynote this morning, which is great. There was an introduction and then, I don't know if you realize, but Cory Booker was on as well, which is great. But I think a lot of what we had seen was they call it on the stage that artificial intelligence is something that will be a trend for the next year. And I think that's very exciting that Intel really hit the nail on the head with the AI lounge, right? Cory Booker of big fan. He's from my neighborhood, went to the same school. I went to, but my family, you know, so in Northern Valley, Old Tapan. Cory, if you're watching, retweet us, hashtag Intel AI. So AI is there, no doubt on stage. Yes. But I think we're also seeing a very large, just community around how can we make our community better versus let's try to go in all these different silos and just be hyper aware of what's only in front of us, right? So we're seeing a lot more from the community as well, just being interested in things that are not immediately in front of us. The wider, you know, either nation, global, et cetera. So I think that's very exciting. People are stepping out of, you know, just their own little bubbles, right? And looking and having more compassion for other people and figuring out how they can get back. And of course, open source at the center of all the innovation, as always. I would like to think so, right? It is. I would testify. Machine learning is just a great example of how that's now going up into the cloud. We started to see that really being part of all the apps coming out, which is great because you guys are in the big data business. Yeah. Okay, Allison, thanks so much for taking the time. Real quick plug for your panel on Sunday here. What are you going to talk about? So we're going to be talking a lot about AI for good. We're really going to be talking about the NecMech, Thorn, Google, Intel, Cladera partnership, how we've been doing able to do that. And a lot of what we're going to also concentrate on is how the everyday tech worker can really get involved and give back and contribute. I think there's generally a misconception of if there's not a program at my company, how do I give back? And I think Cladera is a shining example of how a few employees can really enact a lot of change. We went from grassroots, just a few employees, to a global program pretty quickly. And that's organically growing, which is the form of a success versus some sort of structured company program. Exactly. So I mean, we've definitely gone from Steve Kitchen to strategic partnerships and being able to donate our own time, our engineer's times, and obviously our software. Thanks for taking the time to come on our queue. Getting crowded in here. It's rocking, the house is rocking here at the Intel AI lounge. If you're watching, check out the hashtag Intel AI or South by Southwest. I'm John Furrier. We'll be back with more after this short break.


How do we calculate glasses for people with myopia? Myopia is when you can see things are up close very clearly, but things are very far away, very blurry. So how do we do this? The problem is when you have myopia that whatever is far away is blurred, whatever is close you can see. There is one point that we call the far point that is up to this point you can see everything clearly, further on you can't. So first step when calculating the glasses for somebody that has myopia need to ask them, okay what is your far point? So do that, they have to take their glasses off and one eye at a time they move backwards from some text or some object that they can clearly see clearly and they walk back until it starts getting blurry and then you take down that measurement. For example in my case my far point of my right eye is about 32 centimeters or 0.32 meters. Now what are my glasses doing? My glasses they create an image of the distant object that can see clearly and they create an image closer than my far point. So I need glasses, I draw the glasses here, here are my glasses. I will create an image in this case of the tree so that it is closer than my far point. Then I can see the tree clearly. So I need an image of my tree here, move the book here and then I can see it clearly. So what do I need? I have an object that is very very very very far away. So object distance is you can assume infinity, I want to see sharp at distance. What is my image distance? My image distance is the distance of the image to the eye and if I want to be able to see clearly well that needs to be closer than my far point. So 0.32 meters in my case and think about is this a virtual or real image? It's a virtual image and therefore we're going to put here a negative sign.  So the diopters I need is 1 over minus 0.32 is our 0.32 3.1 negative diopters. So I need glasses for my right eye of minus 3.1 diopters. What does the negative mean? The negative means there are diverging lenses. So my lens here is actually diverging lens. One quick note, if you're trying to figure out your far point and you figure out that you can actually see clearly at all distances you cannot figure out when it gets clearly well that's normal then congratulations you have normal eyesight because if your eyesight is perfect you should be able to see clearly at objects that are very far away so the mountains at the horizon you should see them very sharply. So this only applies for people that see objects at far distance blur. So just to recap figure out how close the object has to come until you see clearly this is your far point distance. Plug that in as the image distance because that's where you want the image of the glasses you create for objects that are infinite distance away and then you get your power in diopters.