Hi folks, I'm here with Jason Kahl running in the second congressional district in Washington State and he is back to talk about his campaign. He's running once again for Congress. Jason, welcome to the program. Thanks so much for having me on the show, Mike. It's really great to be back. Always glad to talk to you. I've got to ask, so I've been asking this question to everyone who chose to run for Congress twice. What made you want to do it? Because I would never want to run once, let alone twice. So this is a lot of work. It's probably exhausting. What made you do it? Well, first of all, it is exhausting. I have almost no free time and I get almost no sleep. I've got teenagers. I work full time and then I'm trying to do and I'm also involved in a number of activist issues still because that's just my history over the last 30 years and now running a campaign again. But you know, there's a few reasons. I would say first we did really well the first time around. We got almost 35,000 votes for what was essentially a no name campaign. We raised about $53,000 total and we got, you know, I want to say, you know, without having actually crunched the numbers, we got more bang for our buck in terms of votes than almost any other progressive in the primary running in 2020. You know, Washington is a top two primary state. I think California, Washington and maybe Louisiana, the only states that do this top two primary, which means, you know, I can be on the ballot next to the incumbent. So in all of the states that have a separate Democrat and Republican primary, you're going to end up with the top Democrat against the top Republican. And Democrats will typically say in those situations, well, we want to keep the incumbent because the incumbent has already proven that they can beat the Republican. But in Washington or in California, we can actually push the Republican off the ballot.  But if I get that second spot, then the voters of this district get to have a policy conversation that for 20 years they have not been allowed to have. And that's really what this is about. We're at the confluence of multiple crises in this country, economic, certainly environmental, healthcare.  They're in the tank for their corporate donors. I mean, Rick Larson is one of 53 Democrats whose majority corporate PAC funded. He's deep in the pockets of the military industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry. And I think the voters of this district have voted for him as have I.  You know, but it's more like a Democrat by default vote rather than really feeling like I'm voting for somebody who represents my interest. So we can have that policy conversation, you know, and force him into a debate on issues. I really think we can win this race because I think this is progressive district. Yeah. And you have the experience now you've been in activist circles you've kind of tried to build up your credibility with local party officials and whatnot. It feels like this time is different like I feel like you have a better chance this time around and I know that you feel the same way to explain what makes this race different and kind of what you learned after running the first time. Well, you know, I we have to we have to make some better inroads into the local Democratic Party organization. I mean, I was you know, Washington's second district is and I know that saying something like that is kind of anathema to a lot of the leftist out there. But I want to talk about the reality of politics and what the electorate is like, because you know, the left on social media is not the same as the electorate in your district. And I think a lot of times that gets confused. So while I hold those values, those progressive values, I'm not going to take any corporate PAC money, you know, I'm going to stand up to Democratic Party leadership. The reality is that we do need support from Democratic Party organizations. So there are 14 local, I mean, we'll know what happens with redistricting here in another week, I think. But there are 14 local party Democratic Party organizations that are intersectional with the second congressional district. We got five counties, we got nine legislative districts, all of those organizations endorse. And so when those endorsements come through and we got seven out of 14 last time around, I think people were very surprised that one, we got as many endorsements as we did. But two, we ended up getting as many votes as we did. My name was at the bottom of the ballot of eight. Rick Larson has 20 years of name recognition, and we still got within 1% of the primary vote for being on the ballot. So I think that these local Democratic Party organizations, even though they know I am challenging the establishment of the Democratic Party, there are enough people within those organizations that recognize that we have to do better than the status quo. And I think that's really what gives us a good boost now is we've had Biden in office for 10 months. And what have we seen? We've seen Democrats fighting with Democrats and not getting the policies passed that we need to get passed. And I got to tell you, the incumbent that I'm running against, although he mouths the words, I'm a progressive, I'm grassroots, the fact is his voting history is extremely conservative. We actually went through the American Conservative Union, which is the premier Republican slash conservative organization in the country. They are the people that host CPAC every year. And they have rankings of their Democrats in terms of, you know, have they voted in alignment with the way we would have wanted people to vote. Well, over his 20 year career history, Rick Larson comes out about the 36th most conservative Democrat out of what we got 230 in Congress. He's the 36th most conservative. He's like, what is that 84th percentile? I think it worked out to in terms of his voting history alignment with the American Conservative Union. I don't think that the voters in this district, one, they're not aware of that, but two, that's not their values. So when we're talking about voters in this district voting their values, I am far more aligned with the actual Democratic Party stated platform than the incumbent is. Yeah, I like that you express the importance of really building up relationships with local organizations, even the Democratic Party locally, because that is how you kind of win them over. That doesn't necessarily mean that you are sacrificing your principles.   And one thing that I like about you is that if you were to be elected, I know that you would actually be a real fighter. I wanted to ask you about that in terms of the squad and progressives. Can you share your thoughts on the build back better slash so called bipartisan infrastructure negotiations and what you would have done differently because there's a lot of people who have different thoughts about this but I think that just like based on what I've seen collectively leftists are disappointed with most of the congressional progressive caucus. So what are your thoughts on that? Well, I would say first of all, I would have been one of those people, the squad and you notice that it's all the members of the squad who voted no on that I would have been with them. I really want to, you know, this is another thing about about left wing social media and sort of the reality of politics and there's been a lot of sniping at the squad and I get it. I mean, AOC has said some things that I do not like things that I would not say. And I would challenge her on those things but in sort of a big picture way, she's one of the people who stood up and voted no on this because one, we know that conservative Democrats are not negotiating in good faith. I mean, that's really what it comes down to. So when we look about talk about Pramila Jayapal as leader of the progressive caucus, I want to be careful because, you know, I don't want to act like I'm trying to take her down a peg or not but I'm disappointed in her leadership, you know, and I'm disappointed with the progressive caucus as a whole. There are something like 95 members of the progressive caucus. And if you look through that list, you know, there's a lot of crossover with the new Democrats. Well, the new Democrats are a free trade coalition, you know, and that's what I'm running against. I mean, Rick Larson is a member of the new Democrats. He's chair of the Aviation Committee and Transportation. He's been a career member of the House Armed Services Committee. Majority funded by corporate PACs takes a ton of military industrial complex and fossil fuel industry. Now he's claiming in his emails that he's grassroots progressive. He's not part of the progressive PAC, but take somebody like Adam Smith who is chair of armed services and who was a member of the new Democrats coalition. Why are they letting these people into the progressive caucus? It muddies the waters on what progressive means. So I'm glad that the sixth stood up to the build back better. The build back better is wholly insufficient to the needs of the time. The climate provisions in there alone are 7% of the military budget taken annually. And I don't understand how how Pramila Jayapal can get out there and talk about the build back better act being transformative. You know, it wasn't even transformative at 3.5 trillion. It was transformative at the 10 trillion it started and maybe the 6 trillion that it got cut down to. But once you start knocking it down to 3.5 trillion and then take it down, it's not transformative after that. And journalist Ryan Cooper actually wrote a really good article about the insufficiency of the climate provisions and saying, you know, putting an insufficient amount with not a great plan towards climate is actually worse than just tanking the whole thing right now going back to the drawing board and saying this is what we need and this is what we're going to stand firm on. So that's my problem. I mean, we get this build back better. I've said this for for months now we get this insufficient bill passed. And the next time that we go to try and get better climate provisions, we're going to have the majority conservative. You know, we're going to have the Republicans and the conservative Democrats coming at us and saying, we already did climate. What are you talking about? Why are you coming back at us for more climate money? We already did climate. We already did health care. We already did infrastructure. And and and that is the real danger of passing something that's insufficient is like where do we go from here, because they're not going to want to they're going to want not going to want to do anymore. Yeah. On that note, I wanted to ask you basically about something that you would have crucial insight into this might be an online left thing but one thing that has concerned me is kind of this disillusionment with electoralism among the left for good reason. I mean, we had India Walton lose Nina Turner lose and then I see a lot of dissatisfaction with the way that the squad not necessarily the squad but the progressive caucus more broadly speaking handled build back better. And one thing that has concerned me is that this is going to suppress, you know, support for new leftists running for Congress such as yourself. Now I think that probably that's mostly online and people in your district don't follow this as closely and you can kind of come in on that. But at the same time, I haven't really seen that on my channel every week I'll talk to a new progressive running for Congress. And there's been a lot of enthusiasm, and I didn't think that that would be the case maybe more enthusiasm than in 2020. So what are you seeing like our people feeling dissatisfied or is this kind of just in our own online, you know, echo chamber talk. I think, you know, yeah, again, what happens online and what happens in the reality of elect electorate are not always the same thing. I think that there is more lack of enthusiasm for electoralism online than there is in the general public but I mean, let's face it. The voter turnout was in the midterms was abysmal. I actually went out to Cleveland for 10 days to help with Nina Turner's campaign the last 10 days of her race I was on the ground they're knocking doors in Cleveland for her. And in the end they had something like 1617% turnout in this special election. That's abysmal. I mean, if you think about it, Nina Turner got about the same number of votes as I did in my first run. Well, I had 13% of the electorate. She was almost 45% of the electorate with her votes. I mean, just as a comparison of turnout in the Cleveland area, compared to here in Washington. But in this last election just the midterms now the the what is it the off the off season right between the congressional and the presidential right you've got your offer. We had, you know, like 25% turnout. That's just generally bad. I think it would be better in 2022. But but I do I do worry that a lot of the people who I need for my for my success, that is young people, you know, people who are who are in the 18 to 29 range where my policies are going to be the ones that are working best for their future. I need to convince them that I'm worth paying attention to and I'm worth showing up for if I can get that segment, which only voted from what I can tell in terms of eligible voters, versus who actually voted. I mean, it was under 10% of that age group actually voted in the most recent November elections. And so I've got to increase that turnout. Now, the 65 and over, they vote better than 50% every time. And so it's, it's a conundrum where you say, you know, we could win this thing if we have the turnout, you know, from the younger populations. And then trying to try to sort of play that off with, well, we keep showing up for these people, and then they don't turn around and show up for us. And so I think that's what we're going back to like, if the progressives aren't fighting as hard for us as we have elected them to do, what is the point of showing up. And so where I think we are right now is I think the people who are running in 2022 as a and ran last year in 2020, as opposed to the vote to the ones who got elected in 2018 the current squad. I think we're coming in with sort of a different recognition of how hard we need to fight when we actually get to Congress. So people asked me about the whole force the vote issue one, I didn't think force the vote was great strategy. I think it was kind of cobbled together very quickly and then blew up into this online thing of you've got to do this. I was like, I don't see any of the squad voting against Nancy Pelosi right now. But if you want to know where I would be on that issue, I wouldn't vote for Nancy Pelosi just on principle, you know, and I think that's what people are looking for. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. There's there's a lot that needs to be fixed right now. I mean, we know the policies I think that all of my viewers, they're familiar with you enough to know that you have a great platform. But what I want to talk about is the barriers that are stopping us from actually getting what we need accomplished. And this, this is really big picture. It's it's difficult but I mean out of all the things. I think we need institutional reform, you know, I would stack the Supreme Court abolish the Senate or turn it into some ceremonial institution. We need electoral reform. I think that first pass the post, you know, winner take all this this two party system is absolutely not helping us get adequate representation. I think we need campaign finance reform because basically what it comes down to is if you have more money, most times you're going to win. What would be the main thing that you focus on if you had to prioritize one of these really broad institutional changes because I think that all of them are needed but I just don't know which one to focus on first. I kind of campaign finance but it is and I've said this a long time when people say what are my top three issues. Okay, so Medicare for all and the Green New Deal. Those are top issues but when my third issue and it's really the all encompassing issue is campaign finance reform. We have got to get corporate money out of politics.  They're going to be dropping money in his coffers because they know they're going to get something forward in return. I'm not seeking out corporate PAC money, you know, and they wouldn't donate to me anyway because they know that I'm highly oppositional to corporate control of our government. But that really is the issue. We have these these, you know, we've got Citizens United. That is a tough nut to crack. But expanding the Supreme Court stack in the Supreme Court would immediately we'd be able to one secure, you know, any assaults on Roe versus Wade, but we also be able to overturn Citizens United. So the dark money is an issue. And it's interesting because the Democrats, even the my opponent talks about how terrible Citizens United is, but he benefits hugely from it. You know, I mean, that's that's just the reality. So again, it's mouthing the words without actually really being invested in changing that policy. But campaign finance reform. We have not seen a campaign finance reform bill since since McCain fine gold back in 1992, I think it was 30 years without anybody bringing anything about campaign finance reform to the table. And I think that that's something that progressive caucus should be doing. And even if it won't pass, and this is the same for anything, this is the same for Medicare for all, even if it won't pass, you keep bringing it to the table and you keep focusing attention on it. You know, because I think this country, Republican Democrat alike, the rank and file voters know we've got a ton of corruption in Washington DC. The easiest way to get rid of it is just to ban those corporate PAC contributions outright. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think that's important. And I feel like unless we get campaign finance reform and get money out of politics, you're not really going to have an easy time passing anything. I mean, we're seeing it in action right now trying to push through that with build back better. And it's just being gutted. At the time that I'm filming this, there's a Newsweek article about how mansion is considering not voting for build back better shocker, because of inflation when we know that that's not the case. He is taking money from the fossil fuel industry. Kyrsten Sinema saying things. She was against, you know, the pharmaceutical negotiation provision and build back better. And it's because she's being bankrolled by big farmers. So I feel like unless you really change the system itself, you're not going to get meaningful legislation. You'll kind of see nibbling around the edges from time to time, but these things can be easily undone with the new administration via executive order. And it's just, it's really frustrating. It's nice. Go ahead. I'll just say mansion and mansion and Sinema are kind of like the poster children for this corporate corruption. But what I think what a lot of rank and file Democrats don't understand is they are providing cover for your shitty rep. Exactly. I think my Washington state senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are both deep in the pot. I mean Patty Murray's taken a million dollars from Pharma over her career. They both voted in 2017 along with Cory Booker and, you know, a dozen other Senate Democrats to ban the re-imputation of drugs from Canada. This was where Bernie was saying I can take my people up to Canada and we can go get cheap drugs right across the border. Why is it that we can't have it come in the other way? We've got Democrats. It's not just mansion and Sinema. You know, we've got an identified cadre of really conservative Democrats like, you know, Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Delaware, Maggie Hussain in New Hampshire. But where is that? Is that Maggie Hussain, Jeannie Sheehan? Anyway, they're all the same. They're identified as being conservative. But if you look at the Senate, how many actual progressive champions do we have in the Senate at all? We've got Bernie Sanders. We occasionally have Elizabeth Warren, depending upon what the issue is. And we've got nobody else, right? So we've got 48 Democrats who I don't think we can count on at all, but mansion and Sinema are providing cover for a lot of them. And I think that's what Democrat, you know, the Democratic rank and file need to wake up for, up to. And it's the same thing. They're providing cover for Democrats in the House. So the Democrats in the House can vote for Bill back better. And they can say, yeah, we're pushing Biden's agenda knowing that mansion and Sinema are going to tank it in the Senate. So, you know, you know, I mean, that's why it's important, like even the sixth that we have in the squad and we need to expand that, they've got to be voting against these bills and then go into the public and explaining exactly why they voted against them. And I think that's a problem with progressives. They don't talk to the public enough about why they're making the votes that they're making. Yeah. And you're kind of touching on a really important thing that I've been thinking about a lot lately and that is marketing. I think that as right as we are on the policies because we have facts and data on our side, we're not good at convincing people of that. And maybe it's because, you know, the left doesn't have big money to get that message out more effectively. We've been successful at Medicare for all. I've convinced many people in my personal life to support Medicare for all. But overall, I think that if I can make a constructive critique of the left, it's that we suck at marketing. We don't know how to sell our message. And that's something that extends to Democrats as well. What do you think we're like, what's a constructive criticism of the left overall that you would make that you think we should really be more introspective about and possibly change areas of opportunity if we want to be polite. Now, when you say the left, are we talking about the online activist left? Are we talking about the progressives in Congress left? I brought him that out. I'd say all of the left overall, like if there's this underlying issue that the progressive in Congress deal with and the online left grassroots activists. If there's one thing that kind of we're all weak at specifically, what do you think that is? Because I do think marketing is probably the answer that I'd go with. I would say the other thing in marketing is terrible and Democrats are terrible at messaging in general. They always have been. But I would say for the people who are left of the Democratic Party, I would say, you know, as anathema as this might be because a lot of people want to push for third parties. We are not in a third party system and we won't be until we get changes in our voting and get ranked towards voting. And people can vote sort of outside of this fear voting where like, oh, I want to make sure I'm voting for the Democrat who's going to beat the Republican rather than, you know, let's let's vote for the one that we all really want to support. I would say to get involved in your local Democratic Party. I ran a push and it's horrible for me.  But the reason the left does not get any traction within the Democratic Party is because people are like, I'm just not going to engage with them. They're terrible. They're corrupt. So I can hold two thoughts in my head at once. Yes, the Democratic Party is terrible. It's corrupt. Yes, if enough of us get in there who are willing to fight the system, we could actually take it over and we can make a difference in terms of endorsing progressive candidates and making sure that we're raising money for those progressive candidates. We have in Washington a very progressive platform at the state level, and I know because I helped write it when I was a member of the Washington State Democrat Central Committee. Right. But we cannot get progressive candidates elected unless we're willing to have those people on the ground in their districts within the Democratic Party, you know, voting for those endorsements, making sure that people are getting elected to the to the state committee who are progressive, making sure that the state party itself is, you know, has a progressive chair and a progressive executive board. All of those things are within reach. If the people who are just like no, no, get away would say, okay, I'm going to give this a try, it's going to take sustained effort. Right.   Get involved with the Democratic Party because that's what's on the table. That's the reality of what is on the table right now. Jill Stein pulled 0.7% in 2016. And I don't even remember what the numbers were for the Green Party in 2020. I don't think it was even that. So this idea that we can push third party right now with our voting constraints, I just don't think it's realistic. But I can go to every state and look at their sort of platform, their rules, regulations and bylaws. And I can say, here's how it can happen. I mean, Washington State would be hugely easy. It's just a matter of getting the bodies to do it. Yeah, I think it's really important that you say that because when we think about taking over the Democratic Party, people think about how difficult that is nationally with, you know, the National Democratic Party. But at the state level, at the local level, it is different. You can make a difference. I'm hearing an echo. I'm not sure if you can hear that too. I'll just push through.  And that's why I've been pushing for years to have people try to support HR4000, which is a bill that would actually move us towards proportional representation. And for me, I was the supporter of Jill Stein in 2016. And it was because I thought that if we have this opportunity right now with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and I live in a safe blue state, there's nothing, you know, there's no risk in trying to get the Greens to 5% to see if they could get federal funding. But the reality is that people just are not going to go for that. So we can't just by sheer force of will get a third party to a viable state. We have to get electoral reform first. And that's what I really want progressives and leftists to acknowledge. I love that you said that because, you know, you can you can try to take over your own state's Democratic Party and enact electoral reform in your state to make third parties viable to change the system. But it's tough and it's a really complex and complicated endeavor. I studied electoral institutions in grad school and even if you change the system and you think it's going to yield multiple parties, sometimes it doesn't. There are examples of this in Japan, for example. But, you know, I just look at what happened in the main Senate race. I mean, how many millions of dollars did did the Democratic Party dump into Sarah Gideon's race? So even though Maine had ranked choice voting, we still could not overcome the sheer volume of corporate money that Democrats threw at Sarah Gideon.   So it's ranked choice voting in conjunction with getting rid of corporate money in conjunction with, you know, pulling the Democratic Party to be a more progressive party. But, you know, I would say that for somebody like myself, if I were to get elected or I should say when I get elected, you know, it will be a goal of mine to make it easier for third parties to establish themselves.  And then you have to do some coalition building to get any real legislation passed. But what we have here in the United States with two corporate-owned parties is anytime you get something that's bipartisan, the only reason it's bipartisan is because the corporations that are backing both parties are agreeing on it. So bipartisan in America is a dirty word in my opinion because it means the general public is getting screwed. And our system right now is so fundamentally broken that I feel like even if we somehow got a third or a fourth party, that would just be corrupted by capitalism as well. We saw what big money did to the Democratic Party, which was once, you know, a party of the working people. So I feel like what you're saying here, this message of getting involved is really important because even if you kind of feel hopeless, which I think a lot of people feel right now, getting involved locally, it really does make a meaningful difference in your life. So, you know, I feel like most of my viewers are already on board. So now I want you to tell us how do we help you get elected because we need you in Congress desperately. Do you need phone bankers? Do you need canvassers, donations? Tell us what you need because we need you. Right now, right now, I need money. I mean, aggressive fundraising is terrible. And most of the time that I spend on my campaign right now is calling phone lists of people who are, you know, maybe progressive and maybe have donated in the past. You know, we've got these, you know, phone lists that are all the candidates have and basically we're out there trying to sell our message for people who we think might give us some money. And sometimes it works, but most of the time I'm leaving voice messages and so fundraising is really a struggle. But, you know, I need staff. I need printed materials. I've got a guy, I mean, I'm hoping to raise $2,000 like in the next week or so so that I can hire a guy because one of the things with progressive campaigns is unless we are fundraising, we can't pay staff. And I don't want, as a labor guy and as a union guy, I don't want people working for me for free. You know, so we're running on it. We're running on a skeleton crew right now because we can't afford to pay more people. But everything, honestly, everything starts with money and I'm not talking about the million dollars that Rick Larson has taken in. You know, I'm talking like, can we get to a couple hundred thousand dollars? If we can get to a couple hundred, three hundred thousand dollars in fundraising, I'll be able to pay the people to do the work for me, to pay the materials, to keep our tech going. Like I said, I got $2,000 I want to raise in the next week or so so that I can hire a guy who's going to do some Facebook ads for me, some targeted Facebook ads for me.  So, I mean, that's really what it comes down to. It's going to be fundraising, fundraising, fundraising, you know. And we're not, until we can do that, we can't really get out on the streets and hit the district. And I'm hoping we can do that by January. But, you know, I hate to say it, man, money, money, money. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's a surprise to any of my viewers. You know, it's nine times out of ten. If you have money, you win.  So, absolutely. I don't think that's shocking at all. Well, Jason, thank you so much. Running in Washington's Second Congressional District. We are absolutely rooting for you. And of course, we'll be in touch. I'm sure. Callforcongress.com and all my socials are called for Congress. F-O-R, not the number four. Mike, it's been a pleasure talking with you again. And hopefully we end up with some good news when the primary rolls around in August. One of the things that I wanted to say just as a quick wrap up here is I personally am donating $5 a month to ten different candidates or all progressive candidates. And if every progressive could just take $50, spread it out between ten people, you know, we're all running on shoestring budgets right now. So, you know, that's one way to approach the fundraising game is pick your ten favorites, give them $5 a month. You know, honestly, if everybody who was following me on Twitter was willing to do that, progressive candidates would be funded. I like that. That's a really great idea, actually. All right. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate it, Jason. All right. Take care, Mike.


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What you can do is use some tools that are out there. Now, one of the best out there is Uber Suggest. I really like Uber Suggest. Neil Patel's behind it. He's a great guy, does some really good work. Very intelligent guy. But I want to pull up a couple of things here. He's got a competitor analysis screen and I want to show this to you here. We looked up Nike and if you look at what Nike is, you can also look at New Balance, you can look at Puma, you can look at Adidas, Dick's Sporting Goods, and you can see where they stand against all these other people there, which is pretty, pretty interesting. If you look at this, it's going to give you different things like it's going to give you common keywords, SEO keywords, paid keywords, monthly traffic. Now, monthly traffic is kind of interesting. Obviously, it's how much people are coming to that website. Below that, you can see the competitor's domain, SEO rank, common keywords, paid, everything about them. With this information, you are now armed to where you can improve your company because if you look at the top companies and you see what they're doing and you do some of the same things, and I don't mean copy, but I mean just do some of the same things, you'll find that you'll do better. Lo and behold, kind of interesting, right? So that's one of the first things I would tell you to do is get Uber Suggest and I'll put a link below to Uber Suggest so you can go ahead and grab that. Now, the next thing we want to do is we want to look at what products are gaining interest, what products are gaining search. So I'm gonna put another screen up here now. Now, this is Nike, okay? And you can see what the searches are on Nike right here, but you can also see how many people, the volume for running shoes, okay? The volume for Nike Air Force One Women's, Nike sweatpants, Nike Women's, you know, whatever, white shorts, sneakers, all of that. And you can look at all that, you can actually export this to a CSV file or copy it to your clipboard and look at it in a little bit more detail later on. The next thing I want to put on the screen here is tracking competitors. So let's go ahead and pull that up real quick. Let's see, nicedomain.com, forwardthinking.net, marketpredictor.co, so offcpickles.org and you can see what their monthly traffic is and their common keywords. Now, if you know their keywords, you can put some of the same keywords on your pages, okay? So this is a really, really useful tool that you can use to make more money. All right, the next screen I want to pull up is called position tracking, okay? It gives you a little bit more information. So all right, so I got it pulled up here, position tracking here and I've got, actually we pulled up neilpatel.com here and you can see the visibility trend right here. You can see Ubersuggest, these are all of his different products here and what's going on with him. SEO, Pinterest, Home Office, Facebook ads, digital marketing, blog, affiliate marketing and they're gonna modify this report in the future but right now it provides you with a lot of really good information that you can use. You can also get data not necessarily just on your site but other people's sites too. So let me pull up another screen here and I've pulled up and it shows entrepreneur.com. These are some screenshots. 10 marketing strategies to fuel your business growth but if you look over here, it's got some numbers. It's got your Facebook, it's got your Pinterest here, it's got your domain traffic, it's got your domain score and this is pretty cool stuff. This has to do with a Chrome extension that you can put in. So the next one here is, what do we got here? This is the first one was 10 marketing strategies to fuel your business growth. The next one here is marketing news and topics entrepreneur and it's got all your stats there, your domain score, your domain traffic, Pinterest, Facebook, all those different things there. And next one is what is marketing? Your marketing insider group and that's this particular website here. So you've got your domain score, domain traffic, Pinterest and Facebook and interestingly they have zero in Pinterest and Facebook. That's not good. Next one here is the balances MB. Learn what marketing is and how it is used. Domain score, domain traffic, Pinterest and Facebook. And you can see they're not using Pinterest and Facebook that much. Now you don't have to use everything. I think that's one problem people run into. They go, oh my God, there's so many social platforms. I can't keep up with all of them. Pick two or three and be good at those, okay? I've decided that I like YouTube. So I do videos on YouTube. YouTube is a platform for me. I am on Facebook some, we post on Facebook some. I don't do Pinterest. I don't really tweet. I don't think I have anything that profound to say on a daily basis. So I don't do tweets. But I've done it in the past and if you want to get good at it, that's what you like doing. Then go ahead and of course do that. Now this next screen here shows the SEO metrics, okay? So you can have an overview of the backlink data too if that's what you're looking for. You can look at the position and this next screen here, you can look at the position versus backlinks. So that's going to give you some really good information. That's why this Uber suggests it's really good for you. I mean, it's going to give you a ton of information that you would have never had access to. Now, here's something really cool. It actually will pull up the stats when you're searching. So I've got a screen here for Amazon and I just put in the word sales, but it's got sales today clearance. It shows how many searches, what the cost per click is, all that extra information, sales today clearance. So it's giving you all these other suggested things that people are searching for that maybe you'll want to use. Anytime you perform a search on Amazon, it's going to give you the data of suggested keywords that they are providing you. So that's really useful, really helpful and it may wake you up to some more keywords you weren't even thinking about. Now, this is what it looks like on YouTube. Pretty much the same thing. I typed in the word workout here, but it's got workout music, workout, workout at home, workout playlist and you can see how many searches are there. So if you're trying to come up with maybe a title for one of the videos you're doing and I use TubeBuddy, which I'll put a link below, TubeBuddy's really good for that too. This particular tool that he has can really help you out on your searches and figuring out those titles and maybe keywords or tags for your videos also. Now, I've typed in workout here. On a YouTube search listing page, you'll start to get recommendations on other keywords that you could be targeting with your YouTube SEO. Now you may not even have known of these keywords, but Uber suggests it's going to help you find all this stuff. That's why it's such a great tool. On this screen here, if you click on a video, even a competitor's video, you'll start to see more data on their performance as well as keywords that they are targeting. So we clicked on it here and we've got a version, no equipment, equipment, Pamela Reef. Oh my gosh, we know Pamela Reef, we have used her videos. Great videos guys, if you wanna check that one out too. Then we got the body coach down here and you can see the volume, the cost per click, all this related information that you may not even know about, you can get by using this Uber Suggest. Now the next screen I wanna show you is the video metrics, okay? So let's check this out. Data by Uber Suggest, video metrics, 850,000 views, 320 comments, it's got your likes, your dislikes there, how many shares, how many pins, it's got your different tags here. So if you're putting tags on your videos, you'll know what tags to put on there. If you haven't already, make sure you install this Google Chrome extension by Uber Suggest, you're just gonna love it. Now over the years, I've looked at a lot of people and I've looked at a lot of products, I've looked at a lot of softwares that are out there. And the first thing I do is I say, okay, is this course, is this product, is this extension something I need? Do I need it? Because you can overwhelm yourself pretty quickly, okay? You can get so many extensions, you can get so many reports, you can get so many things. And a lot of these reports, a lot of these extensions do the same things. So you'll wanna make sure you analyze them. I like to go into Google and type in email marketing reviews and find the products or email marketing software and find the products that are out there. First off, see how they're rated. You do wanna be careful, I will tell you. I would say 95% of these review sites, of these sites that say they're looking at the quality of all these different things are actually affiliate sites. Now that doesn't make them bad. We do affiliate marketing too. However, you do wanna take that with a grain of salt and look at two or three different sites that review something. I looked at that when I looked at Kartra. Of course, Kartra when it first came out didn't have very many reviews because it was brand new. And I do suggest you get Kartra. If you're marketing online, go down in the description. You can watch a video on Kartra. It is the all-in-one marketing tool. You can watch a video for absolutely free. If you like it, you can get it for only one dollar. So I would definitely tell you to check that out. And I've been through all of them. But I went out and I looked at all these different marketing tools and I looked at what they did. I don't need two or three tools that do the same thing. There are all kinds of reports you can get out there. There are all kinds of tools, all kinds of courses. Figure out what's gonna work for your business. Figure out what's gonna work for you. And you know, two of them may be equal, but you just may like the way one of them functions better than the other one, okay? So play around with it, get these free trials. Try them out and make sure it works for you. I have been following Neil Patel for years.  He has good stuff. He has a lot of good free content. I am not an affiliate of Neil Patel's, by the way, so don't think I am. Probably should have been before I did this video. That would have been the smart thing to do. I don't really talk about anybody unless I really believe in the product they have. I talk about Kartra a lot. I'm an affiliate of Kartra, but I really believe in the product. I think it's great. The other day I did an interview with onlinejobs.ph. I have Filipino workers. I think they're great people. I love them. I love Philippines, I love the food, love everything about it. And they asked me to do an interview. I did an interview, and I do promote them because I think it's a good product. If you need to hire somebody overseas, I would suggest you use onlinejobs.ph and we'll put an affiliate link below so you can do that. But bottom line is there's a lot of things that'll help you out.  Know what they're doing. Now, that may involve you actually buying their product because if you buy their product, maybe they've got some follow-up. Maybe they got some emails. Maybe they have a funnel. Maybe they have some sales pages they're gonna send you to. And you can really get a behind-the-scenes look at their company. There's nothing wrong with that, okay? There's nothing wrong with copying success. I know McDonald's, when they decided to put a restaurant in, they do all kinds of demographic research and they figure the income and the traffic and how many cars are going through there. And once they've done all that research, they pick a spot and they put a restaurant there. Then right across the street, Wendy's will stick one in. Without all the research, why? Because it's already been done. McDonald's already did all the research. They know they can sell a hamburger on that corner. Why wouldn't Wendy's be able to sell one across the street on that corner? They're smart like that, okay? So what you wanna do is you wanna look at people who are successful. You wanna look at companies that are successful. Get that data. How do you get that data? Use this Uber Suggest, Google Chrome tool, and you can get that data. And I highly suggest you go in there and use those reports from Uber Suggest too. They're awesome. Why wouldn't you use them? Okay, so don't try to reinvent the wheel. Not necessary. Not necessary at all, okay? I know a lot of the pricing I've done, a lot of the courses I've done have grown out of me looking at other people's courses, have grown out of me looking at where they did their course, how they marketed their course, you know, how they marketed their survival food. Whatever it was that I was trying to sell, I find somebody who's successful at it and I do something similar. I put my own twist on it. I don't copy it. You don't wanna copy it, but you do have to find success and learn from it. And people say, well, that's terrible to learn from somebody else's success. Well, you went to school, didn't you? Somebody taught you math. You didn't figure out math on your own. You didn't learn a new language all on your own. You learned it from somebody. Everything is borrowed from somebody else. All your teachings are borrowed from somebody else, okay? The person that's doing it, you know, whether it's McDonald's or Burger King or whatever, they didn't invent it, okay? They took things from somebody else and they learned and they improved on it and that's what you need to do. And if you do that, guess what?  And when you put those together, it's just a competition crusher. And that's what you wanna be, a competition crusher, right? Thank you so much for listening to this video. Don't forget, if you haven't subscribed, do so right now, hit that subscribe button below. Next to it, a bell will pop up. You won't see the bell until you hit the subscribe button. It's gonna change colors magically, okay? And then a bell will pop up. It looks just like this, okay? But it won't ring. It won't ring. It'll be silent until you click it. 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Hi everyone and a big welcome back to my channel. Here we go again people, it is that time of the year women's prize time. I just love this time of the year, there is something so special about a prize bringing everyone together, everyone gets so excited about it, different people are making videos and all of their thoughts. I love finding out what the judges have picked, I love seeing books on there that I already love as well as discovering new books. It's a fun time. That all being said, this year I am going to be taking a slightly different approach to my women's prize reading. Usually I try my best to read the majority of the books on the list and that doesn't always go well for me. There are always without fail a few books on the list that I either deeply dislike or I just think are pretty meh. And the truth is if those books weren't on the list then I probably would never have picked them up. So that being said, using this knowledge of my prior experience combined with the fact that I've just got so many other exciting new books to read at the moment, I'm going to be putting less pressure on myself to read the majority of the long list this year. I am just going to read the books that I'm really excited for. This sounds very obvious, no I'm saying it out loud, I'm aware, but it's a pretty big deal for me. So what I'm going to do is split these books into three categories. Firstly, the books that I'm not interested in probably won't pick up. Secondly, the books that I am interested in may pick up depending on how the reviews go from other booktubers and just where my other reading is up to. And finally, of course, the books that I definitely want to read. Oh, and there's also kind of a fourth category because I've already read a few of these books. Like I say, this new approach doesn't mean that I don't still love the prize as a whole. I do love it, I love this time of year. And honestly, just allowing myself to focus on the books that I'm really genuinely excited for and let myself off the other ones is probably the best way to keep myself loving this prize. So before we dive into the specific books, let's talk about overall long list thoughts. So my main thing that I want to say about this list is it doesn't really shock me. I guessed a good few of these books on this list, some of which I have read, some of which I haven't. There are other books that I've already heard of as well that I'm not particularly surprised to see on the list. And there are actually only two books on here, I believe, that weren't already on my radar. Now in a way, this is all kind of good news because the books that I had heard of or had already read are good books, they are exciting books, they are diverse books. Like I really do think there is quality on this list. But I would be lying if I said that I wasn't a tiny bit disappointed because I really love discovering new books through this list. I love that the lists occasionally offer up really exciting amazing books that were kind of under the radar, not really getting a ton of attention already, and it doesn't really feel as though this list is doing that too much. This kind of goes hand in hand with my observation that there isn't a ton of smaller indie presses on this list, which is a shame. So overall, not the most shocking of lists potentially, not the most groundbreaking, although we do have to acknowledge that the list does feature a trans author for the very first time, which is awesome. Like I said, I have already read a few of these. There are a few that I really want to read, that I was already excited to read before the list was announced. And there are also some books that I think I will just let pass by me. So let's get into the books, shall we? So starting with the books that I have already read. Firstly, we have Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi. I swear to God, I cannot find my copy of this book anywhere. I thought we would just start with this one, get it out of the way. I read this one when it was long listed for the Booker Prize last year. I was kindly sent a copy from the publisher. It is set in modern day India and explores the fraught relationship between a mother and a daughter when the mother becomes old and relies on her daughter to take care of her. Now, I didn't particularly like this novel for whatever reason, I just could not emotionally engage with it. I didn't like the central characters. I didn't find them interesting or likable or relatable. I just couldn't really care about them however much I tried. That being said, I do not think that this was a bad book. I think in many ways it was technically very good. Plus, I know that a lot of people really liked this one, so I'm not surprised to see it on this list. It just isn't a book for me, it's not one that I loved. Next up is The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett. Again, this is another book I do own a copy of. It's just in boxes somewhere. We are moving house really soon. This is another one that I'm not surprised to see on this list at all. I really should start putting money on what's going to be long listed for this prize. This one follows a story of two twin sisters who grow up in a small black community in southern america. As the sisters grow older, their paths end up diverging, they end up living very different lives and taking on very different identities. One of the sisters remains in the small black community in which they grew up, living with her young black daughter, and the other sister lives miles away with her daughter secretly passing as white. This novel has been hugely popular over the past year. I jumped on the hype, I read this book last summer when everyone else was. It was really good. I love what this book is doing, I love what this book is exploring, I love themes of self-identity, self-reinvention, and our roots. The structuring in here, switching between perspectives and timelines is also really clever, really helps to bring this whole thing together. I will say that this isn't a favorite book of mine, I don't think I loved it quite as much as everyone else, but I do see why this book is so popular. It is hugely enjoyable, hugely important, so I'm very glad to see that it made it onto this list. Next up is Detransition Baby by Tori Peters. I read this one at the beginning of this year when the publisher kindly sent me this copy ahead of publication. It follows a story of a man named Ames who has recently detransitioned from living his life as a transgender woman when the woman who Ames is sleeping with falls pregnant. Ames then suggests a non-conventional, non-conforming, non-nuclear family setup in which himself, the woman he has been sleeping with, and his ex-girlfriend who is a transgender woman would bring up this baby together. So it is very exciting that this book made it onto this list, even if just for the fact that Tori Peters is herself a transgender woman. The first transgender author to make it onto a long list, amazing. And once again, I can totally see why this book has been receiving so much buzz recently. It's fresh, it's exciting, it's humorous, it's touching, it's contemporary. I loved the exploration of womanhood in here in particular, and all of the different ways you can come at womanhood. Again, I didn't think this one was perfect. You can hear more of my full thoughts in my review video. I will leave reviews linked around. But nevertheless, a great book and really happy when I saw it listed. The final book that I have already read on the list is Exciting Times by Nisha Dolan. Now this is a book that I have been meaning to read for what feels like forever. I have been bugged to read this book for what feels like forever. And finally, I did it like literally last week. This is an incredibly popular millennial literary novel. It follows a young Dublin-born woman named Ava who meets two very different characters out in Hong Kong, where she's teaching English to kids. This book has been so incredibly popular, and I can see why. This book is so on trend. I cannot tell you how ridiculously of the moment this book is. Shockingly, and I do mean shockingly, I am shocked. I didn't totally love this book. I thought I would. Everything about this screams me. Literary, character-focused, millennial, tri, simplistic language. If you love Sally Rooney, you'll love this. You know the drill. But I just didn't really love this. Nevertheless, not shocked to see this on this list at all. Also, not particularly mad, like I can kind of see why. But anyway, look out for my full thoughts coming on this one soon in my next recent reads video. Now onto the books that I'm not so interested in, probably won't pick up. Firstly, we have Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller. So let me just start by saying why I have a strange relationship with Claire Fuller as an author. I first experienced her work a few years ago when she wasn't as well known, I don't think. I read our endless number days, which I believe was her debut. I hated that book. Honestly, I can't name many books that I have hated as much as I hated that one at the time. From what I remember, I found the book to be so mediocre. But then towards the end, it featured abuse in what I view to be a purely shock factor way. I did not think it was handled realistically, or sensitively, or responsibly. I thought it was gross. So I thought that I was done with Claire Fuller. Honestly, never thought I'd really run into her novels again. But then, as we've all seen, in the past couple of years, Claire Fuller has been churning out the quality. Everybody seems to love her novels. She just keeps popping up. And like I say, my experience with her earlier novel was years ago and now. I don't remember the book too well now. I just remember having that reaction at that time. She is an author that I would consider giving another go if the right book came along. Like her writing must be good at this point, surely. But unfortunately, or fortunately, I guess this book just doesn't interest me enough to make that leap. I believe this one follows two twin sisters who are in their fifties, who both live at home still when their mother unexpectedly dies. That's all I know. For some reason, this premise just isn't getting me. I'm not interested. Apologies for the slight tangent on this one as well. If any of you have read our endless numbered days and had a similar experience to me, please do let me know. It would be very nice to hear that my 20 year old self was not alone. Next up, we have Because of You by Dawn French. This was one of the couple of books on this list that I hadn't heard of, didn't guess. I've heard that this book is essentially about motherhood. I believe we have two women who both give birth to daughters in the same hospital on the same day, and the book then takes place 17 years later when something happens. So I'm kind of surprised to see this one on this list. Celebrity authors don't tend to make these kind of long lists. Not that that means they shouldn't, I guess. But all of that aside, I just don't really think this one is my kind of read. Nothing about this premise has me excited or hooked. I also haven't really heard anything good about this one yet, so I'll probably just let it go. The next book on the list is This One by Susanna Clark. I really should have looked up how to pronounce this book title before I started filming. Piranesi. Piranesi. So I believe this one is set in a dream-like alternate reality. We have a labyrinth, this house that is filled with an infinite number of rooms, and we have a main character who spends all of their time exploring this house. I've got nothing else to tell you. So funnily enough I actually purchased this book a couple of weeks before the list was announced because it was Cameron's birthday, and I do think this book is probably very good. I've heard very good things about Susanna Clark's writing. I've heard great things about this book in particular. Also, the end papers are just absolutely stunning. Kind of irrelevant, but also kind of not. For me, personally, this just isn't the kind of book I tend to read. If Cameron reads it and tells me that it's incredible and that he thinks I would like this book, then I may give it a go. But other than that, I just don't really see this one taking priority over the rest of my TBR, to be honest. Now for the second category, the books I'm interested in. We will see how my reading goes category. Firstly, we have Summer by Allie Smith. This is the fourth and final book in Allie Smith's insanely popular seasonal quartet. Of course, this book made it onto this list. And honestly, making this video has just made me realize how little I actually know about the content of this book. But perhaps that's the best way to go into it. This one was also one that I found very difficult to categorize because I really want to read this. I really, really do. I've read one other Allie Smith, really enjoyed it. I've heard endless amazing things about this quartet, but I just haven't read the first three books in this quartet yet. Because of this, Summer is not going to happen anytime soon. Certainly not before the short list is announced. I know I call myself a literary booktuber, so that's why this book hasn't been put in the top category. But yes, Allie Smith. Next up, we have How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Sherry Jones. This is a debut novel, I believe, which is exciting. And all I know about this one is that it is set in Barbados and follows four different characters who are all trying to avoid some kind of violence. I've seen this one around these past few months and I've heard quite a lot of good things about it. It definitely sounds like something I could enjoy. We all know that I love contemporary novels focusing on different characters. I've also heard this novel likened to Zadie Smith novels, which obviously could mean nothing, but it could also mean something, which would be amazing. Very keen to hear more people's thoughts on this one, and then we will take it from there. Next up, we have No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. This is one of those books that I've seen around, but I couldn't really tell you what it's about. Honestly, I've looked it up, I've read the blurb, but I still couldn't really tell you. From what I've gathered, I believe the novel follows a woman who has a huge social media presence, and the book explores the weird space between our real selves and our online selves. Maybe. I've heard this book described as genre defying. I expect it's going to be quite unique and pretty surreal.  So yes, definitely intrigued by this one, plus it's blurbed by Sally Rooney on the front, so pretty cool. Next up, we have The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig. This is one of the chunky novels on the list, and it's one that I hadn't actually heard of before. I just realized that I forgot to say for the past couple of books, but a big thank you to the publishers for sending me on these copies. I believe this one follows a young single poor mother named Hannah who meets another woman on the train, they end up chatting, and basically agree to murder each other's husbands. Hannah then gets to know this woman's husband who doesn't appear to be what she was led to believe. This book sounds bizarre but I'm here for it. I imagine it is a dense character focused, family focused novel which sounds as though it has strands of intrigue and mystery. I think this could be really really good and very me. I just haven't heard too much about it yet. Time will tell. Now onto the good stuff, the ones that I am very very excited about. Firstly, we have Small Pleasures by Claire Chambers. Set in London in the 1950s, I believe this one follows the story of a woman who works for the local paper. When she starts working with a young Swiss woman who claims that her daughter was the result of a virgin birth. So I've seen this one around quite a few places recently. It had always attracted me, I'd heard great things, plus the cover is absolutely gorgeous. I think it is so stunning. I'm so pleased that this one made it onto this list which will hopefully give me the final push I need to pick this one up. This one just has me. It sounds super intriguing. I'm really excited to get to know the characters. I'm excited to explore the time setting and I'm just excited to see where this novel goes and what its point is. I will hopefully be reading this one very soon. Next up is Consent by Annabelle Lyon. This is another debut. I was actually sent this advanced copy a couple of months ago when the book came out. I just haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I believe it follows two sets of sisters whose lives come together when some kind of tragedy occurs. That's really all I know and kind of all I want to know to be honest. As I say, I was already excited to read this one. I'm now even more excited to read it. I've heard that the characters are supposed to be a particular highlight in this one which has me, characters are my favourite things. Apparently it's filled with the complexities of family duty. It explores resentment and guilt and regret. I'm excited for this one. I'm hoping it's going to be really good. Next up we have Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. This one follows a Ghanaian family in Alabama, most prominently a young woman named Gifty who is studying neuroscience at Stanford and it explores her relationship with her mother and her brother who at different points struggle with addiction and depression. This book is about immigration and grief and love and family. I'm actually already reading this one. I'm listening to it on audiobook. I am a massive Yaa Gyasi fan. I fell in love with her when I read Homegoing a few years ago. I said then that I would read anything that she brings out so of course I was super excited for this one and I'm really enjoying this one so far. I just love the way Yaa Gyasi writes characters and family and how bold she is. I will report back with my full thoughts on this one soon. The penultimate book on the list is Nothing but Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon. This is another one of those books that I'd kind of seen around but didn't really know too much about but now I know more about it and I'm very excited.  He then uncovers some secrets about her and starts to question whether he knew her, whether he knows himself, whether he knew their relationship. A character study set within a long-term relationship exploring love and identity and memory. This book is so me. Plus this one has actually been blurbed by a Donal Ryan I believe who is such a beautiful writer. I'm very excited to read this one soon. And the final book on the list is Luster by Raven Leilani. Apart from the Alice Smith, this is probably the least shocking novel on this list. I've spoken about this one before in my anticipated releases video. It is supposedly a dark comic novel following the story of a young black woman who is navigating life as an artist. It supposedly explores themes of sexuality and politics among other things.  This novel is insanely popular. It is the literary fiction novel of the moment and everything about this one just screams my name. I think I am going to love it. I just need to actually pick this one up and hopefully I'll do that soon. So there we have the 16 books on this year's women's prize long list and some of my thoughts. I would love to know your guys thoughts on this list down below in the comments. Do you like following the women's prize? What do you think of this list in particular? Are there any books that you particularly want to read? I can't wait to hear all of your guys thoughts. Let's chat women's prize down below. Depending on how my reading goes, I may do some women's prize focused review videos. We will see. Please let me know if that's something you'd be interested in or I can just keep the reviews to my normal recent reads videos. Other than that, I hope you're all doing really well. I hope your weeks are going really well. I hope you're all enjoying spring and I will see you all soon in another video. Thanks for watching everyone.


Hello everyone welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 tutorial guys this one I'm gonna show you how to very quickly do batch edits batch edits with Photoshop actions basically we're gonna take a whole bunch of pictures in this case for and I'm gonna show you them and then we're gonna apply some actions to them so we can move through them and kind of get that get the get the same look get the same feel really really quickly as opposed to going to them one by one and copying and pasting which is very very painful so the very first step here is I like to do is I'm going to go to the window and I'm going to arrange them so that they are four up I've got four pictures and I want to meet you in their own little quadrant just like this all right we're rolling guys the next step is I am going to go to file and then let's see here file edit file and where is it batch batch batch batch batch automate batch there it is it wasn't in batch it's automate batch file automate batch there we go yep and the next step here is you want to set this to default actions in this case the action that we're going to do is we're gonna apply a CP a toning layer and it's one of the default actions so you guys can just follow along with me you will also see any of any actions that you've created of your own they will show up here as well but let's just go ahead with CP a toning and then you want to make sure that the source is the open file so it's these files that we've opened already that are getting the action applied to them CP will be applied to them destination I am just gonna leave it at none and I am now going to hit okay when I do that quick and lightning fast you will see that the CP action has been applied to all of these images this is a very fast way to work with images and create a whole bunch of things that have the same look and the same feel just using actions and using one or two buttons guys I hope you enjoyed this tutorial I have a lot more stuff coming up please stay tuned I'll be back soon