And we should have broadcast feed to YouTube as well. Give me a sec guys, one moment guys, one moment, one moment, one moment. We need to make sure we're live on YouTube as well. Alright, fantastic, we have that here. Alright guys, so I wanted to say a quick welcome to you guys. Once again, my name is Dapo Willis. Thank you for joining this live stream, this live webinar from yours truly Dapo Willis. I'm broadcasting this from Dubai. I actually just moved to Dubai in December. Very beautiful city, love it so far. Making noise, love it so far. Now guys, in this webinar today, I want us to discuss how do we go about making $10,000 a month. $10,000 is a lot of money, right? Anybody who is able to make $10,000, I remember my first $10,000 a month. I remember the first month I made $10,000. Actually, I remember the first time I had a total amount of $10,000. When I had the total amount of $10,000 in my bank account. I remember that day I had the $10,000 in my bank account. Guys, I was having panic attacks because I had never had that kind of money before in my account. Like $10,000. I don't know, most of you guys are joining from different parts of Africa. Wherever it is you're joining in from $10,000 a lot of money.  I mean, this is many years ago. I was probably maybe 19 or 20. And I remember the feeling of having $10,000 in my account. Money gives you freedom. This is what money does. It gives you choices. With money you can do what everything it is you want to do. And I started to, I had money. People around me didn't know I had money. But I started to realize that the way people were treating me was a lot different. Like people were treating me with a lot more respect. People were just being nice to me. Things were just flowing nicely. Once you have money, things fall into place. So today I want us to talk about what is the most realistic way to achieve $10,000 every month on the internet. How can we do this? Once again, most of you guys know me predominantly. I'm an FX trader. Most of you guys know the fact that I like to trade forex, but I'm not going to be talking about forex today. Today I want us to talk about e-commerce. How do we build a very sustainable business by selling products on the internet and making $10,000 a month? So what I'm going to be doing here is I'm going to be using a couple of examples. I'm going to be building out the framework so that you guys can see as to how you guys can go ahead and make $10,000 a month. Now, I started e-commerce about four years ago. I came into the e-commerce industry about four years ago.  Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, is into e-commerce. And the problem is a lot of people feel like e-commerce is... They're like, I rather just trade forex. They're like, that's fine. But don't discard what you don't know. With e-commerce, I can sleep peacefully. I can go to bed knowing I can predict that I'm going to make X and Y. I'm going to make $10,000 this month. I can predict. So how can you guys go ahead and start making $10,000 a month with e-commerce? So what I'm going to be doing right now is I'm going to be sharing my screen. I do that. I just want to quickly say hi to everybody in the room. Shout out to you guys who are watching this from YouTube. Shout out to you guys who are on the Zoom meeting. I can see Simon here. I can see Tiona. I can see Rogers. And I can see Terry. Hey, nice to meet you, Terry. I can see Adik Hoya. Adimola. Nice to meet you, Alexander. I can see Chris Atan. Chris is always here for every single one of my webinars. Shout out to you, Chris. I can see Mary. I can see X. So guys, do you guys just want to tell me quickly where you're from? If you're on streaming this on YouTube, just kind of tell me where you're from. Are you from Nigeria? Are you from South Africa? I want to know where you guys are from. Are you guys from America? Are they from the UK? Namibia. All right, fantastic. Terry is from Namibia. Okay, that's fine. Fantastic. Tell me, just write your country. Tell me your country. I'm from Nigeria, Nigeria. Okay. South Africa. Okay. Okay. All right. From Namibia, South Africa. I knew there were a lot of Southern African people on the call. I can see Nigeria, Uganda. All right. Fantastic Ghana, South Africa. All my African brothers, man. I respect you guys so much. I love you guys so much Ghana. It's fantastic to meet you guys. Okay. I'm very happy to be here. Ghana, Nigeria. All right. Fantastic Uganda. All right. That's fantastic. You know what in Dubai? Somebody's Nigerian from the US. Shout out to you, Mr. Peter. Nigeria from the US. I'm greeting from Nigeria, South Africa. In Dubai. I'm privileged to. I'm privileged to meet a lot of people from different parts of the world. Actually, I just met a girl from Uganda just yesterday. I meet people from South Africa, from Ghana. You know, so I feel like every single one of you who's sending in the name of their country, I feel like I know a little bit something about your country. I'll give you an example. I know I'm digressing, but we'll get into the money. Don't worry, guys. I'm the money guy. I'll teach you how to make money. Okay. But I want to communicate with you guys first, right? So let's kick off with Ghana. My Ghanaian brothers, you guys know primarily I'm Nigerian. All my Ghanaian brothers, I remember when I was 10, 11, 12, actually nine, I spent my 10th birthday in Ghana and Acra. My dad and I, we went by road from Lagos to Ghana. We stayed in Acra. For those of you guys who are in Ghana, you're probably familiar with a place called Osu Road. Yes, I stayed there. My uncle used to have a house on Osu Road at the beginning of Osu Road, literally opposite the police station. Yes, that is, you know, that's how familiar I am with Ghana. And you guys have a rice called papaya rice. The rice, you can never finish it in the rice. The rice is too much. The rice is too much. And we used to go to Danko, we used to go to Frankies, you know, and stuff like that. So shout out to all my Ghanaian brothers. Now over to my Namibian people. Now I haven't been to Namibia before, but I used to have some really good friends from Namibia. I used to have a guy called Everett. There's this chick I used to like. She was Namibian. She was hot, you know, and stuff like that. So that's the little I know about Namibia. And one thing I know about Namibia is the country looks really nice. So shout out to all my Namibian brothers. You guys are absolutely amazing. And then South Africa, what I do know about South Africa, I've been to Cape Town once and South African women are one of the most stunning women in Africa. I've been to Cape Town and trust me, when I went to Cape Town, I didn't want to go back home. Okay. And obviously where else do we have here, Uganda? I haven't really been to Uganda, but I know obviously Kampala is the capital. And I've seen, I've met a lot of Ugandan's in Dubai. And they're very, very professional people. Ugandan's are one of the most hardworking people. And then obviously to Manila, I've met a lot of Ugandan's in Dubai. They're hardworking people. And then obviously to my Nigerian, to my Nigerian brothers and sisters, I hail. Okay. I hail you guys. Okay. I really appreciate you guys for being on the call today. I understand the situation in Africa. A lot of you guys are looking for how to make earns meet the country. The continent is tough. Our leaders are a bit f up upstairs. You know, they're not putting things in place. So most of the people in Africa are living, you know, hand to mouth and that shouldn't be the case. You know, so that's why most of my teachings that most, most of my teachings are kind of tailored to us Africans because I want to help, I want to help the continent. Okay. I want to help the, I want to, I want to help the continent. Okay. I really want to help the country. So Tanzania, right. I used to have two friends. The names were two friends when I was in A levels in the UK from Tanzania. Their names were Fatima and Fasiha Shivani from Tanzania. And then I used to have one guy called we just used to call him Kay. He was from Tanzania. I think I've covered most of the countries that I hear today. I don't want to miss out on anybody's country, right? And then obviously from Lagos, Nigeria, what about the US? Of course the US have been to Miami. Come on, I can't miss the US man. I went to Miami Jesus Christ. He was amazing. Okay. Yes, African leaders are selfish and greed. So that's exactly why I always try as much as possible to tailor my teachings to most of you guys in Africa. And I always try to make my school, my online school, Willis University, all the courses on there are $99 because we try and make it as affordable as possible. I have spent a lot of money learning programs in the US, in the UK. I spent most of my life in the UK. I was British trained, everything. And the courses overseas, you're talking a thousand pounds, 5,000 pounds, 10,000 pounds. I paid for all these things to learn how everything I know now, I have to acquire this knowledge and acquire all this information. I have to practicalize it. I have to fail, fail, fail, and eventually succeed. And everything I've learned over the years is what I always come and give you guys for free on my YouTube channel. And then for those of you guys who won the course, I make the Willis University as affordable as possible for $99. Yes. So I think that's the best service I can do to my people. We cannot make it free because if we make it free, people would not take action. And obviously it is many years of experience. Greetings from South Africa. Yes, I just said South Africa, Cape Town. That's the only time I've been there. So guys, let's jump into why we're actually here today. Since we're all brothers and sisters, we're all from Africa, we're all going to know themselves. I'm here to talk about how we can go about making enough of $10,000 a month from e-commerce. How can we do this? How can we make some sales on the internet? And I'm talking legit money.  We don't, we don't those guys have stained our name. You know, it's so bad. What are you here for? You're from Nigeria, Ghana.  So I want us to prove, I want us to prove people wrong. I want us to prove to people that we can have legitimate online businesses.  Okay. I want to talk to you guys about another way to go about making money. Okay. I think I've been talking too much. Let's jump into my screen and let's see So guys we're going to you see this right about here you see this fluffy microphone I use this fluffy microphone to record most of my youtube videos now we're going to be using this fluffy microphone to we're going to be using this fluffy microphone as an example okay so road microphone as an example okay and we're going to I'm going to teach you guys how you can take a product that is literally this simple and how you can sell a product like this online and make enough of $10,000 every single month this right here we're going to be talking about all the things you're going to need and trust me the things you're going to need I know it's not going to be that much okay we're going to talk about how we can sell and package this product to make it enough of $10,000 a month now guys if you're interested and you want me to jump into this training just type in the comment box go ahead just type go ahead I want to see how many people are awake are you guys awake okay I want to see if you're awake if you're awake just type go ahead okay okay everybody's saying go ahead go ahead all right fantastic go ahead go ahead all right fantastic good now let's jump into the game so I'm going to go ahead and share my screen what about now give me a moment hold up hold up hold up hold up all right fantastic so you're going to see a blank screen everybody on youtube is saying go ahead go ahead go ahead all right fantastic thank you guys on youtube you guys can now see my screen I hope you guys can all see my screen now should be able to see my screen yes you guys should always be able to see my screen at this point let's move this down here let's move this bad boy here all right fantastic so we're going to be talking about how we can I need to move this I don't know is blocking cool and we have that so like I said we're going to be selling this product okay we're going to be selling this bad boy now you see prior to now we in Africa if we wanted to and no offense to people who are watching this from the States I know a lot of people are watching this from the UK but shout out to you guys watching this from the UK I have a massive following in the UK as well obviously I live there at school there if you're watching this from the UK wherever it is you're watching this from this applies to you as well okay the strategies work they work worldwide now if I wanted to sell this product before I would have to go to China and I would have to speak to some Chinese guys who manufacture this product and I'll have to tell them I mean you know hey please I want to buy this product okay and I want to sell it in my country and then they will tell you something like okay that's fine if you want to buy this product in a container it's going to cost you about $35,000 so as you can see right off the bat even to do business even to do business the old-fashioned way was very expensive you'd first of all have to have money to fly to China once you get to China all the cost in regards to freighting it to wherever it is you are in the US the UK Nigeria wherever it is you are in the world 35 how many people have access to $35,000 not a lot of people okay not a lot of people have access to that kind of money you know and straight up a lot of people are discouraged like I can't do that business I don't have that kind of capital and then once you eventually bring the product the way you are you have to look for a warehouse to store the product which is going to probably cost you another $2,000 you need to buy a shop or enter shop and that shop needs to be you need to have electricity you need to refer to oh my goodness at the end of the day before you can get to sell this product you'd have probably been set back about $40,000 now a lot of you guys have probably thinking but I can just buy in small quantities now there's something called economies of scale if you buy it in small quantities you're going to be playing your margins are going to be this thin and then at the end of the day you find out that you've traveled back and forth for nothing I'm talking about people who have actually calculated the margins and are like okay I want to do this business you find out that the upfront capital cost is ridiculous okay now guys that's the old way of doing business now thank goodness to e-commerce we have now been able to find a way whereby we don't have to travel to China number one we don't have to spend $40,000 putting all these products in the container to ship it to where we are number two we don't need a physical shop we don't need a warehouse we don't need to pay for electricity we don't need to pay for any freaking sales person or any sales girl to be in the shop 247 you know to transfer we don't need all of that with e-commerce all you need to sell this product this product even if you want to sell 10,000 of these products all you need is something as simple and it's called a landing page okay it's something this simple and it's what is called a what a landing page okay it's called what a landing page this is all you need oh my goodness I think I wasn't just want to make sure this is being recorded live I think it's being recorded okay a what a landing page fantastic cool so on this landing page okay our landing page is going to act as three things number one our landing page is going to act as our shop to showcase the product okay that's what our landing page is going to act as as a landing page to what showcase the product secondly our landing page is going to contain all the information about our product now in this case what is our product it is this fluffy microphone so our landing page is going to have beautiful pictures about the guys you have to understand that people who are going to buy this product from your landing page they can't see the product physically as opposed to them walking into the shop so your landing page needs to bring your product alive you need good images where do you get images for the product simple your supplier will give you all of this your duty is to ensure that your landing page is built and guys not to worry those of you guys who are wondering how to build the landing page I speak about it on the e-commerce course in detail but I want you guys to listen to the ideology behind this it's not difficult to build this simple now your landing page will have all the information about your product so that when people go to your landing page they feel like they have enough information to buy your landing page will also contain the benefits of this product what are the benefits of this the benefits of this microphone is something like the distance so for instance I record my videos at maybe about a meter away so on your landing page you tell them how fantastic the microphone is what are the benefits so your landing page first of all needs to show images good images a your price so we're going to sell this microphone for a hundred dollars okay for a hundred bucks it will contain what are the benefits of this microphone to the consumer so first of all it must contain benefits features so what is the difference between benefits and features now benefits to the consumer are things like take the microphone anywhere you can now you can record in your car in your room on the road anywhere is a fantastic it's amazing you don't need to worry about noise you don't need to worry about wind why because this thing will literally change alive so what are the benefits of this microphone to the customer you see you have to understand that customers are very selfish people they want to know what's in what what's in it for them okay so you want to start your landing page by the by telling them the benefits to them okay the benefits to them and then you want to highlight the features the features of this are stuff like the plastic it is made out of what you know you want to talk about the how the range you know you know that kind of stuff like what are the features of the microphone and stuff like that and then at the bottom you also want to now talk about who you want to have like q and a's because people are going to have questions guys you have to understand your landing page is acting as your store your landing page should also act as your salesperson this is your salesperson that never sleeps as opposed to having to hire a salesperson okay this guy doesn't sleep your salesperson has to close by six o'clock i know in africa most people close by six o'clock right they have to close by six o'clock so what happens your shop has to shut down but guys my shop runs two for seven maybe we might even get a sale whilst we're on here i'm not even on this like it's running it's been built i sleep and i wake up to sales on my phone that's how i live my life i don't need to worry about anything i just see you have received the payment you have received the payment you also i see all day i just look at my phone that's it and guys we built our landing page we built our e-commerce store once we built our online business one time it took us about three days to build three days to a week we built it once and it's been paying us for years every quarter we go on there and we update it that's all we do and it pays us okay anyways back to what i was saying so just this is going to act as your salesperson so that it can sell for you even whilst you're sleeping now let me give you guys a typical example of what a very good well i won't say it's the best landing page but what a traditional landing page looks like amazon if you went and you search for this microphone this road microphone still the same mine guys i just detached this right if you went on amazon and then you searched for iphone microphone it will show you several different products when you click on any of the product you want it will take you to a specific page for that product when you go on that page what do you see beautiful pictures of the product you see all the information the benefits question people you see literally and but you see testimonials all of that and what happens after you see all that you go ahead and what you buy the product do you talk to amazon over the phone no do you see jeff bezos real life nobody sees jeff as i speak to you today amazon has probably made over 25 million dollars in sales today alone from the time we started this webinar till now amazon has made maybe about 900 thousand dollars in sales if not more maybe i'm out of million from the time we started this webinar till now where is jeff bezos jeff bezos is chilling on the yacht with he has a new hot girlfriend if you see his new chick she's so hot this guy's new hot chick she's rubbing his legs there on the boat he's built what he has to build and he's chilling that's passive income i know you probably hear a lot of people preach passive income passive income all this uh sign up for people to sign up for people you don't need that is not a realistic way to build passive income if you want to build passive income passive income requires work up front just build it up front and then for the rest of your life it pays you that is a realistic way to think about passive income forget about what those motivational speakers if you guys notice i try as much as possible not to speak in a motivational speaker way i don't really like motivational speakers although people find motivation in the things i say but i don't really like to you know and say by tomorrow you will be rich you might these are like shut the fuck up nobody's gonna be rich tomorrow if you want to be rich at the end of the month though you can start by building a landing page and putting the product on there that's more realistic so guys like i said amazon they have all the information on the landing page you see everything and guess what guys you're not the only one looking at that page at that given time different people across the world are looking at that same product at the same time and guess what they're doing they're all buying so this landing page is global everybody can see it across the world now you have gone from your little shop that you could only sell to your people locally to now having a landing an international shop that services people globally you have gone from serving this amount of people to serving this amount of people just because you have a simple landing page anyways that's let me carry on so that is um that is you know one of the amazing things about a landing page so like i said has to have clear pictures beautiful pictures to attract the customers the price all these things on the landing page need to go like i said if you want to know more about how to build a landing page and all this will this university have the e-commerce course you'll teach you how to do all this so now that we have built the landing page and we have product how do we get people to now buy where we're going to get the people from where we're going to get the people from don't forget we've built a landing page we have showcased our products it's looking beautiful everything's looking nice we're selling this for a hundred dollars okay everything looks nice everything looks beautiful of course now you can have the best product in the world but if nobody knows about it how can they buy they can't buy so this is usually a challenge a lot of people have businesses online or rather they try to sell on whatsapp and here and they're like i tried it it doesn't work it doesn't work because you didn't know how to go about marketing your online business i'm going to show you how to do it right about now and it's so simple and straightforward all you need to do is you need to call on a guy called mr facebook you see facebook is one of the most genius inventions known to mankind in the 21st century a lot of people don't know how powerful facebook is facebook is one of the most powerful facebook advertising i would say has been the single biggest growth factor in my business what does that mean facebook has single-handedly made millions a lot of people spend time on facebook messaging their friends wasting away their lives i like to use facebook to make money so there are two kinds of people people who consume on facebook and they're just looking and liking and sharing and commenting and gossiping and then there are people who make money from facebook now let's go ahead and make some money from facebook so now we have our shop we have our product right let's dive in let's dig in now with facebook what we're going to do is we're going to tell facebook mr facebook i want to run an advert okay and i want you to give me a sec guys so we go over to facebook mr max Zuckerberg don't forget there are over two billion people on facebook global market everybody's always on facebook the average human being checks his phone like god knows how many times on a daily basis there's so everybody's attention is on instagram facebook and everybody's checking what's happening what's happening once there's concentrated attention on something there's money there once everybody's looking at something all you need to do is advertise your product in front of them money how do we do this so call on facebook and we'll tell facebook mr facebook please i have a video advert of my product how do you get a video advert of your product don't worry your supplier on the course i teach you how to speak to your supplier so that they can give you video adverts for the product okay so you get your video advert okay and then you will tell mr facebook mr facebook please could you kindly show this my video advert to the people on your platform facebook will say okay but i need some information from you first you'll be like okay facebook will ask you what where is so these people you want to sell to where are they located because two billion people you don't want to sell to two billion people because they are people in afghanistan who can't who don't like what do you think about people in syria don't care about the microphone they're just trying to survive right people in afghanistan don't care about a microphone no offense they're just trying to get in like they're just trying to build their country the most of this country just suffer from civil war so you want to tell facebook like no no no no please i want you to only show i want you to show my videos my advert to people in countries that i know are most likely going to buy one of these countries the u.s the biggest market in the world australia canada the uk one two three four five and then new zealand nz recently south africa and nigeria have been doing very well when it comes to e-commerce people are actually starting to buy online from these countries so countries i'm just going to write it as big seven these are the big seven countries when it comes to selling online now this you would realize that this two billion people the number will reduce from two billion people to let's say about five hundred maybe six hundred million people now facebook also asked you another question you've told them the country countries they'll ask you what is the age because why facebook is asking you these questions is because they want to know who is this like they want to know who your target audience is so that they can narrow it down if not your ads are just going to be shown to people everywhere people that just like in billboard have you noticed that the billboards you see and you're just like who the hell is on that billboard all right nice you never bought the you've never heard of the product you've never bought the product and you never buy the product that's a waste because why are you showing me an advert that i don't care about that's a waste of money they could have used that money to target their more specific audience more specifically and this is where facebook is very powerful facebook is more intelligent than you facebook knows everything you're doing he knows everything about not you but your potential customer he knows what they like what they don't like when they sleep when they wake up where they are facebook is so intelligent so we want to give facebook as much information as we can so that it can go straight to our audience so now we'll tell facebook what's the age range now what kind of people like this kind of microphone i'll say between the ages of 18 to 45 because most youtubers don't forget what we're selling a microphone and what kind of people use this kind of microphone people who create content people who like to record videos once you start getting to 45 50 most people don't really want to record content the number starts to doing those so 18 to 45 and then facebook will now ask us what are these people most likely interested in so we can say stuff like so the people who are most likely going to buy this product from us what are they most likely going to be interested in youtube you can also say stuff like if somebody is going to buy this microphone they need to buy it to attach it to an iphone right you tell facebook they might also be interested in iphones youtube so by the time you give facebook excuse me guys the mic got into my mouth hold on one second let me get some water guys if you're with me can you type just let me just say i'm with you if you're with me say i'm with you in the question box if you're with me say i'm with you i'm with you dabs so that i know that you guys are not sleeping off you guys want to learn more you guys want to learn more you guys want to learn more you guys are you guys interested in doing this good i want to drink water same here man i want to learn more all right fantastic so everybody's with me they all everybody wants to learn more all right let's proceed so by the time we give facebook all the information that we need to give it um i don't really want to waste time on this let's erase this so once again we have what our ad okay by the time we give facebook all the information we want to give it facebook will now narrow down if you every from every information you give facebook the audience the size of people reduces because it is reducing it to that target specific audience you will find out that at the end of the day facebook will tell you that out of all the options you have selected seven million people match your criteria seven million people shit that's a lot of people so facebook will now ask you so okay seven million people facebook will now ask you all right cool um how much are you willing to spend on advertising for us to show ads to the seven million people so you tell facebook something like i'm willing to spend five dollars a day facebook will tell you okay based on your five dollars a day okay we can show your ads to about 500 people per day wow 500 people a day for just five dollars once you agree to this facebook will start sending people so once people see your advert they will click buy now it will take them to so now we've been able to get people because at the end of the day these people that are going to buy be able to get people to now come and rush here don't forget these people are what they call hyper targeted these people are most likely interested in this product based on the selection we have told facebook so out of 500 people that visit your store let us say that only to be on the conservative side let's say only one percent of them buy bringing our total sales excuse me bringing our total sales so they buy out of these 500 people that come here only five people come and pay how much is our product our product is going for five for hundred dollars so if five people buy out of the 500 people that is a return on investment of what 500 us dollars that's how you build an online business now let's do some math and let me blow your mind so according to our calculation we spend five dollars to make five hundred dollars actually we can't say the whole five hundred dollars is profit because we have to pay our suppliers their own money so let's say our profit margin is 50 percent so we're making 50 percent profit so let's cancel this and we'll call this $250 so I'm trying to be realistic here okay so what you're trying to say to me is for every five dollars I give facebook facebook is most likely going to give me $250 back in sales absolutely madness so what you're also trying to tell me mr. Dapps is the fact that if I go ahead and increase this my advertising okay by to $50 what that would mean is instead of 500 people coming to my shop I would have five thousand people coming to my shop every day absolutely powerful and what that simply means is at $50 a day I will no longer be making $250 a day my revenue my profit jumps from $250 a day now to $2,500 every single day just by building this out I think if you ask me this is one of the most realistic approaches to making money on the internet this isn't you're not begging anybody to sign up you're not joining any pyramid scheme here we have real product real customers making real payments for real products that they actually want now you guys are probably wondering how would our customers get their products now we have our suppliers waiting on standby once they pay us our money we give them don't forget for every hundred dollars we make we give our suppliers 50 bucks we buy the product from them our supplier now it is now our suppliers job to ship the product over to the customer so all you have done is you have simply built your landing page and attracted customers you have merged demand and supply without ever even having to touch the product physically without whatever having to touch the product physically you don't have to touch the product why because you have soft work and I tell you what when amazon started this is exactly guys let me tell you something amazon don't own the products that are on amazon do you know that it's people like you and I that list our products on amazon and oh amazon amazon is just a website i'm telling you amazon is just a website and then once you buy something for a hundred dollars they take that's called drop shipping yes they take their commission and then they give the supplier their money and then before the supplier will have to handle shipping but now because amazon want next day delivery they're growing and same as yourself as you start to grow your online business you will move from drop shipping as you're starting off your supplier will handle the shipment for you but as you grow you want your supply you want your consumer to get their products as quickly as possible so you now invest in a warehouse or you can ship from your house or wherever it is but when you're kicking off to raise cash because we want this to be a lean green profit machine what i say lean green profit machine we want to only spend as little as possible and maximize our resources as much as possible okay and this is why we are simply merging product and consumer simple three steps the add to the landing page to the checkout page we take our money give the fifty dollars to the supplier together with our customers information and the supplier does everything obviously will tell the supplier to put our leaflet inside we can send via pdf just do a little pdf and say insert this in the package so that it looks like the product is coming from our shop okay so that it looks so when the customer gets the product you're like okay i bought this product from tjjzc shop okay they're very good reliable the customer does never knows that you that is the owner of the shop never even physically held the product everything came from the supplier all you did was you were simply the middle man and guys once you build this you close your laptop and you go and relax you'll be sleeping people are going from facebook to your landing page bringing out their card information and they're buying your product and you're waking up and you have received payment you have received payment you have received payment and you have received payment so guys yes we want to see how we can make this a ten thousand dollar a day business so if i mean think about it guys if you're making two thousand five hundred dollars a day in profit all you need is four days multiply this by four days instead of making ten thousand dollars in the month you're going to have to make ten thousand dollars in what in four days okay so let's now talk realistically how much can you really make realistically and what are the realistic numbers so the realistic numbers because now there's some form of competition but it's always going to be competition doesn't mean that the business isn't profitable it's hyper profitable but let's talk about realistically how much money can you really make now from my own experience judging from the campaigns were usually asking to charge my ipad judging from the the products we're selling at the moment oh ipad stresses me out why is the charging port on this side and on this side it's freaking ridiculous judging from the campaigns we're running at the moment judging from the campaigns we're running at the moment this is the realistic return on investment i have noticed recently that for every hundred dollars we have invested our return on investment is about five hundred dollars so in reality for every dollar you put in you're expecting to get five dollars out it's just like a luxury machine but the only the only difference is this you have built a system a predictable system as opposed to trading that you can really vouch if this money's going to come up but once you build this system and you see people going through and they're buying you can now look at the numbers and say to myself okay if for every one dollar i put into this business i'm getting five dollars out that means if i invest one thousand dollars i get five k back if i invest 10k i'm getting 50k back if i invest a hundred thousand dollars i'm getting five hundred thousand if i invest a million dollars in this business i will get five million dollars back that is a reasonable approach to what income making money not expecting to you know people want to gamble their money away they want to flip their money overnight guys that just doesn't work out you want to build something as sustainable and as reasonable as this and grow it gently for most of you guys you don't really have that much money you'll probably start off so the costs cost about a hundred dollars you need maybe to start this business off you need about another hundred dollars so you start off with a hundred dollars you start running ads with so the landing to the software for the landing page is free for i think the first 14 or 30 days so you have a hundred dollars that you're disposable to play around with ads so for every hundred dollars you put in you're expected to make five hundred dollars back so let's say you put in a hundred bucks you make five now you have five hundred dollars back now you have money to even take the business to the next level you invest the five hundred dollars back that five hundred dollars towards two five that tough two five times ten k that ten k tons of fifty k and that's exactly how you keep scaling the bit guys i'm telling you people are making millions online with this business model and once you start to realize that your business is doing fantastically well you tell your supplier okay i have fifty thousand dollars now now i have money for the container ship it to me ship it to my warehouse because i want to even compete now i don't want to compete with the little boys now i want to compete with amazon because the advantage amazon has over most other online businesses is the fact that i can order something today it gets to my house tomorrow so once you're able to start delivering to your customer between one to three days they trust you and they'll keep coming back to buy from you now you have built a trusted business now you for you know what's happening you have your office your warehouse everything is but it all starts off with what your laptop your laptop and two hundred dollars that's exactly how it kicks off okay so guys that's pretty much it now a very common question that i always get is for those of you guys in nigeria you guys always ask me how do i get this money how do i receive the money the dollars there's there's a new payment provider called paystack paystack now allows you nigeria south africa and all the african countries to receive money in dollars so if you're in an african country and you can't receive paypal transfers and you can't open a stripe account to receive payment paystack is in your region so you have no excuse you can receive the money you can withdraw the money and you can pay your supplier to ship the product so there's no problems there so guys let's go ahead do we have some questions i know you guys are already asking me how do i get the course give me a sec give me a sec give me a sec so do we have any questions you guys have any questions do you guys have any questions do you guys have any questions do you guys have any questions all right cool so someone is asking me how do i get started so for those of you guys who want to learn how to build so this is just the summary of everything on the e-commerce course i go in detail the e-commerce course costs 99 dollars it's so cheap if you can afford 99 dollars to learn how to do this then you're not caught out to make money online okay someone is asking me about the suppliers let me speak about so the suppliers i speak about how to get the suppliers on the course simple and straightforward okay for those of you guys who are wondering how to get the program this is the link to the telegram group not the panelists to everybody this is the link to the telegram group once you join the telegram group joseph will be on there to help you out getting the course i've also sent it on youtube as well um so that's the link to the telegram group right about there click the link and join the group and then every other question you guys have obviously we can also answer on there as well so let's go do you guys have some questions for me you guys have some questions for me you guys please that what are there any restrictions on well you don't want to go ahead and sell an extradited product like vibrators you don't want to do that because facebook is going to ban you don't want to sell stuff like cannabis but you can pretty much sell anything just don't sell products that are extradited products okay obviously facebook wants to protect their platform okay so there you go so you can sell anything you want to sell okay guys the course teaches how to build your online business whatever thing it's sorry is this different from affiliate marketing it is the same it is the same way you use to build affiliate marketing that you build like is the same channel from ad to landing page to checkout page the only difference is for affiliate marketing the product doesn't belong to you the people who own the product simply cut you a commission so learning this will also teach you all you need to know about affiliate marketing as well can i email you directly so just join the telegram group you're going to see my name on there as well okay that's the link to the telegram group how much is the cost the cost is just 19 all the programs on willis university all cost $19 it is so freaking affordable okay so that's pretty much it joseph is going to be on the telegram group he's gonna whatever if you want the program he'll send you the link guys i'm telling you guys if indeed you want to make this year really count for you guys you guys do i buy the product from the supplier before advertising it on the facebook or do i pay the supplier guys you don't pay the supplier so you have no money somebody pays you hundred dollars you keep 50 and give the supplier 50 to ship the product you get the money first your upfront cost is little to nothing it's a hundred dollars that's your upfront cost okay you get the money so as you you're getting the money from the customers you're taking your cut and giving the supplier their cut and then they're handling the shipping so obviously you want to add your fantastic curry okay okay that's fine yeah that's fantastic all right that's fine any do we have any questions okay i hope i've been able to answer that question if you want to receive i know receiving payment has always been an issue now the reason why affiliate marketing is a good idea but the problem affiliate marketing is most affiliate marketing providers don't offer africans the opportunity because it is what it is but with e-commerce with paystack you can receive money in africa if you're in the us and the uk all good you have paypal you have striped all you need to do is integrate this payment providers into your landing page done then when you just see the money you get the alert okay i can see people joining the telegram group or a fantastic just look for joseph on the telegram group he will help you out with the course that's absolutely fantastic let me go ahead and put the link one more time here so guys do we have any questions so for those of you guys remember you're going to be selling your products to different parts of the world this is not just selling it locally we don't even sell locally we sell and we ship in so your market is massive you're selling to people in the us in the uk in canada australia like we said the big seven countries south africa nigeria canada australia new zealand um is there so you have to pay your supplies manually at the beginning but there's an app that can help you do that as it's it's simple it's straightforward there's an app that takes once the order comes in once the order comes in and you click fulfill order it will take you straight to the suppliers page it will fill in all the customers information because don't forget the customer has to give you the information for shipping yep it would give the supplier all the information to ship the product and then it would take you to the checkout page on the suppliers page whereby you can now pay so you have no issues does the training cover integration of pay stack payment gateway for nigerians yes it does it's very simple and straightforward to integrate pay stack to whatever thing it says okay for you to integrate that it is so simple and straightforward yes it does yes it does yes it does so more questions i can see people from delta state one guy from delta state just joined the telegram group okay any more questions any more questions before i have to go does this course give us a list of different products to sell and supplies so so i have more questions here turn it over is google ads also as effective as facebook ads is the best you would waste money on google ads you see i've tested both i've tested both i always i'm always the guinea pig i would test both google google google google google is not as intelligent as facebook facebook knows the shit it does facebook so i teach facebook on the course please do i buy okay so as a beginner how much are we expected to budget for adverts you can kick off with a hundred dollars okay so that's 200 bucks but i tell you something guys the more money you have the better because you can now test as many products as you want maybe you want to sell this you want to sell the mouse you want to sell it so you can test so the more as with everything in life the more money you have the better but if hundred dollars is enough to kick kick off with okay will you be giving us products to sell susan i can't do everything for you come on you want me to even give you the products to sell that's been lazy man i'll tell you what i do on the course okay i'll tell you what i do on the course on the course i advise on the best kind of products to sell don't worry about products there are so many products so many there's so many products to sell okay so much like can i change my forex course to e-commerce no you can't there are two different courses you have to get this one separately on the course i advise on the best kind of products to sell okay but i won't be telling you on the exact product to sell because just think about it if i tell you the product to sell on the course everybody who takes the course is going to be selling the same products and it's going to spike up competition and then you know people aren't really going to be seeing that much success with the product and i don't want that i don't want that i want you guys to succeed all right does the course give us a list of different products to sell and supplies it gives you the supply what is the duration of the training there are eight to nine modules you should finish it in like three to four days in like three to four days you should be done with the program all my courses are between four to six days watch the videos to be honest if you sit your ass down in a day you should be done with it on a good weekend you finish it um any more question so guys i'm going to leave you guys now because i want to go get ready for the euro finance england england is going to be playing tonight it's coming on may it's fucking coming on so i'm going to go support my other country yes the training covers facebook ads i'm going to go it's coming home it's coming on may coming on i wish i was in the uk while this game was going on to be honest the training covers the training covers everything that i spoke about here today it covers everything okay ads landing page suppliers everything covers everything okay i just want to make sure i've answered all the questions so guys before i leave you guys i want to go ahead and paste the link to the telegram group again once again that's the link to the telegram group before i have to go before i have to go before i have to go do we have any questions any more questions i'm about to sign out i'm about to sign off i'm about to sign off i'm about to sign off i'm about to sign off do we have any more questions do we have any more questions go in once go in once go in once go in once god bless you too go in once go in once go in once . Go in once. Yes, Mr. Peter, asking me if I'm gonna teach you guys on how to source for products to sell. Yes, I shall, yes, I shall, yes, I shall. up some of the program as well, some of the program as well going once, going once, going once, going once, going once. That's the link right there again. I want to say thank you for everybody. Thank you to everybody for coming out here. I see Toyin, Rogers, Terry, Susan. Shout out to you Susan for asking the question. All questions are welcome because with the questions, I can clear people's doubts. Prince Ikenna Ani, thank you for being here. How do you gain trust? How do you gain your customers trust by having a very good landing page? By having a very good landing page. Once I land on a landing page and once the landing page doesn't look really that good, I feel, I don't feel comfortable. But if I get to a landing page and I can see good reviews, good testimonials, good pictures and all that, yeah, I'm good, most likely by. And you have to understand that you're selling to people who are not skeptical about buying online. There's people in the USA, but they buy everything online. People in America, the UK, Canada, they buy everything online.  Are you sure you are the real person? All right, guys, so I'm going to leave you guys with this. I want to thank you guys for coming out today. Some people have already left the meeting. I want to thank you guys for coming out today. All my African brothers across the continent. Thank you for coming out today.  I want to wish you guys very well. Don't forget the people who are going to change their lives are the people who actually take action. You've learned all this today. The people who are going to be different 30 days from now are the people who actually go ahead and take action and start building their businesses. If not, you're going to end up being the person who keeps jumping from training to training, free training and never actually ends up doing anything. Action takers. Taking action is what got me here. So if indeed you want to change your life, ensure to take action. Okay, guys, once again, the telegram link is there. Joseph is going to be on the telegram group to help you out with your course and I'll catch you guys on the inside of the course. Take it easy. For those of you guys who take the course, if you want to reach me, I'll be on telegram. You can message me privately only for course members only. I'm there to answer your questions. Take it easy and God bless you guys.


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When you go around an art exhibition you go to the thing that captivates you and you talk to it You say, well, why do I like this picture and probably it may be because you don't even know But it's probably the compositions got a lot to do with it. It may be to do the color things It may be that's the way the paint is laid on it could be lots of things So actually you're asking questions and it's answering them I believe a lot of people talk to art, but they don't know they're talking to art Personally what I want from an artist is what they paint for themselves and not what they paint for the general public Because what they paint for the general public is part of what's fashionable then and makes the artist money That doesn't interest me. As I say to an artist, what I want is not your head, not your intelligence, I want your guts This is a sketch by Lord Layton, one of the most famous Victorian artists When Layton wanted to escape his public and the pressures of people wanting to buy pictures from you, he painted landscapes And I love to touch my artists and I love to feel the artists and these landscapes are very personal things This is a mask that was owned by Man Ray, part of his life and in his collection till he died and in his wife's collection till she died In this case, you're not only part touching part of the artist, you are touching the era Abstract art came out of these masks. It's a bit of history, but it's also a bit of Man Ray I think it's very important if you love a picture, you want to talk about it and describe it And sometimes you learn things about pictures which nobody else has ever thought about When I started the Victorian art department at Sonnabesville, Georgia in 1971, one of the first things I did was collect a library When I started on my own, I had to start from scratch and I collected a huge library as well When we closed the gallery, I decided to give it away and because Paul Mellon is the only art library in Britain who is an open library and has a great library, I gave it to them. People don't really know this, but Mellon is the one place where anybody can go but they will give you any book from their library and you can study there, so it's an incredible study place If I had no art in the house, it doesn't matter to me, but if I do have art, I love my art and I talk to it all the time If you live with something long enough, you're always talking to it and sometimes it answers your question


I'm going to welcome everyone to this, the third meeting of the standards procedure and public appointments committee in 2024. I've received no apologies this morning and good morning committee members. Agender item one is for members to agree to take agenda item four in private. Item four is the consideration of the ongoing consideration of the committee's work programme. Are members in agreement to take that in private? Excellent thank you. Our second agenda item is the cross-party group annual report. The committee has been provided with an annual update of cross-party groups compliance with the code of conduct and I know members have received the papers and just before opening up I'd like to thank the clerks for the extensive work that goes into not only this annual report but also maintaining the records with regard to the cross-party groups which are an essential part of this Parliament in the sense that it does allow people from outside this place contact with their MSPs to bring their experience, lived experience and information and that CPGs do form an important part of the work that MSPs do. But it's also worth reminding that at the moment CPGs are not part of the parliamentary procedure here at Holyrood but this committee is responsible for ensuring that the code of conduct or the items within the code of conduct that relate to CPGs are kept. Can I invite comments from committee members before we make decisions on where we'd like to start? If people are happy, I'm happy to start with you Stephen and work up the table. One of the things that I would just like to make public record of is the fact that some of the CPGs that are struggling with some of the requirements, this may be because of the number of ministerial changes that have occurred during the reporting period because some of the people who are now ministers were prominent members of the CPGs. I'm assuming that we will take an appropriately lenient approach to those CPGs in terms of them giving them some time to get their affairs in order again so that they can conform to the minimal requirements that are set out for the existence of CPGs. I'm not sure whether the word lenient is one that I would use but I would certainly use an individual approach to the reasons for specific CPGs where they have all and a significant number of CPGs have complied with all of the requirements that are imposed upon them. Of course there are individual circumstances and you've made mention of the most common one which is where having been elevated to ministerial posts you run round to find your colleagues to take over responsibilities that you had. Of course I'm sure that the committee will be more than happy to reflect the individual causes where problems are and it's not a case of automaticity of having your recognition removed, it is a case by case basis and I think whatever we do needs to reflect that. Can you clarify what the procedure is in the event that a CPG consistently doesn't meet the requirements? If for some reason a CPG wanted to cease to exist for whatever cause that brings about it would have to come to this committee to have the formal recognition which is what triggers the website, which is what triggers the review that the clerks make of collecting the minutes and things like that. Although CPGs are not a formal part of the parliamentary process they do enjoy certain privileges with regard to the lobbying act and things like that so it would be a formal step to remove the recognition from a CPG and that rests with this committee. Can you clarify on that specific point, convener? That's a process you're describing whereby a CPG decides of itself that it wishes to cease to be a CPG. Is there a process whereby in some circumstances this committee may decide that it wishes to derecognise a CPG even if it hasn't volunteered to be derecognised? I chose the route of explanation as empathetically as possible for CPGs. Should a CPG fail to comply and if having been given an option depending on what the facts are, the committee are of the view that it cannot maintain or return to its cross-party group then similarly the recognition would be removed. That would not stop, in fact, the very same MSPs or others coming back to us to say we feel there should be a CPG for whatever the area was, but of course that would, as we have dealt with a significant number of recognitions of CPGs, that could happen as well. There isn't is an automatic process where this happens without the involvement of this committee and there are not specific things that automatically trigger a reference, which I think speaks to Stephen's comments about the individual reasons why some may be struggling and some aren't. It allows a reality to get behind the situation that the public can see from this document, which is in the public record, as indeed all of the minutes and other items are. I wonder, given the number of CPGs that are listed in the various partial compliance to quite a failure of compliance overall, that it is down to the number of CPGs that are in existence. I know that this is something that we have discussed before. The number of CPGs is quite numerous and maybe that is something that we have to think about in the future. Certainly part of the work programme that we envisage is doing an inquiry in some form with regard to CPGs because from the outset of this session I think those MSPs who returned with considerably more experience than perhaps others had a view of the number of CPGs and it is something that both subjectively and objectively members have commented on because of the time commitment because the responsibility of CPGs, as far as this committee concerned, lies under the code of conduct, which is very specifically to the MSPs who are involved in it. I have said before that sometimes MSPs need to be protected from themselves and I think when we have the opportunity to take evidence in whatever form we choose to do so from people who are involved in CPGs and again return to the report that we see here today, I think there are some very serious questions that need to be asked because the original purpose behind CPGs laid out at the outset was incredibly important and I do not think that that has changed. However, there is clearly a challenge in complying with the responsibilities that MSPs take on when they willingly agree to convene and organise, which is useful. I agree with what has been said by my colleagues. The thing that I feel disappointed about when I read this is that some conveners have not even applied to emails that the clerks have sent them. That is quite disappointing in itself. You take that responsibility on as a convener of a group and you should be at least given explanations. I see some having given explanations to why they are partially non-compliant. I think that that is very worthy of note and we have in the past following various interactions with CPGs throughout the course of this committee in this session written to MSPs reminding them of their very personal and individual responsibility. Notwithstanding, many are supported by very competent secretariat and indeed their own members of staff that carry out so much work. However, there is support there and it is disappointing that some people have chosen for whatever reason on the face of it to ignore requests from the clerks because they are trying to fulfil a role that is placed upon them under the code of conduct. Just a few comments. First of all, I thank the clerks because there is a huge amount of work going into pulling this together. It is a comprehensive document outlining the performance or otherwise of the various CPGs. I think that CPGs are hugely fundamental to the Parliament because it enables members of the public and trust groups to engage with parliamentarians and visit the Parliament building on a fairly regular basis. The number will be the number that can be supported because that represents thousands of people coming into Parliament on a regular basis, which is absolutely to be encouraged. Having said that, I think that the requirements, frankly, if you look through them, are something that if people are operating a CPG they should be able to meet. I do not think that there are especially onerous in terms of number of meetings, number of members involved producing minutes and so on and so forth. I think that it might be interesting to have a consideration of whether we have got a more formal process both in terms of derecognising CPGs and extremists and also potentially an intermediate step because I understand the clerks are right to conveners but clearly that is just an email in the background. It may be that we have got a process whereby we recognise that a CPG is struggling and we make that public knowledge on the website so that the members of the CPG recognise there is an issue and they may step forward and start to do some work to help to reinvigorate the process. I think that it would be unfair if they would just get notification someday that your CPG no longer exists and they have not had the opportunity to engage in trying to seek out other parliamentary support. I think that an intermediate step that we can formally recognise is a derecognition step and I think that I was coming back to this again perhaps in three months to look at it again rather than just leaving it at once a year would be helpful because clearly while there are 76 CPGs on here that have done absolutely everything that has been asked of them, there are a number that haven't and it would be remiss of us not to have another further look at that in short order. I think that that's very sensible and I think perhaps even obviously subject to the committee's agreement a return to this specific annual report perhaps in three months to see where the improvement or changes are notwithstanding the other work that we're going to look at for CPGs. I've been asked this point of information, forgive my ignorance. Is this report published? It is. Okay, that's good to know. The other thing is, I didn't know that I should have brought this up when Ivan was making his excellent points about derecognition, as it were. He does say here in the summary that's been prepared for us and it is a brilliant report. For a lot of hard work that's gone into this and I totally acknowledge that. The two groups disbanded, did that mean they took the decision just to discontinue? Yes, they ceased. For their own compliance they ceased to be. They voted themselves into oblivion. They chose that everything had been successfully achieved that they resulted and decided. I don't know that. That does surprise me a little getting the cue that has been disbanded, but anyway. If there are no other comments, from this committee I want to reiterate the points that there is disappointment, significant disappointment in the fact that MSPs who have a personal responsibility with regard to CPGs, which are an opportunity for across political parties, MSPs to hear the experienced, lived experience and indeed wisdom of people outside of this place, that they do fulfil a very, very important role, not least the number of people who visit this Parliament because of it and also because of the hybrid nature now of so much interaction, the ability from people much further away to contribute to CPGs is important. I'm going to suggest if the committee are happy to things. Firstly, that we diary this to revisit the position in say three months. Secondly, the committee are happy for me to write to the CPGs that are in breach to point out and to reiterate the fact that we are concerned at whether or not they should maintain the recognition of being a cross-party group. And perhaps also put in that silence will not be accepted as acquiescence that you want it to continue. Are we content with that? Excellent. Then I will now move this meeting into private. Thank you.


My fellow Americans, after a vibrant and fractious and exciting year, we will at last be going to the polls on Tuesday and exercising our most important right, the right to choose our future, the right to vote. There's nothing more glorious than the blessing that is our God-given freedom to choose those who will lead us, and there's no sight more moving than a lone American walking into that voting booth, casting a ballot in secret and thereby determining the destiny of this great country. And make no mistake, this year, at the top of the ballot, is crucial. Don't listen to the cynical pundits who tells you this election isn't about the issues. Yes, it is. In fact, it's about more than the issues. It's about the direction this country is going to take over the next four years and beyond. It's about the kind of economy we want, the kind of defense we want, the kind of values we want. The choice is yours. But yes, my fellow Americans, there is a choice, a very important choice. A vote for Vice President George Bush is a vote for optimism and expression of faith in the American experiment. It's an endorsement of what we've done these past eight years and of our heartfelt promise that tomorrow and the days to come will be brighter still. No one knows better than a man who sought the highest office in this land what an awesome responsibility it is to be the vessel of change, the selection of a people in control of their present and future. It's truly humbling, and I'd like once again to thank all of you who placed your faith in me, and I'd like to tip my hat to those who supported others but took their responsibility as citizens of a democratic society, seriously and with care. I've heard your voices like those before me and those after me. I've heard your voices and I hope I have justified your faith. You know the two men who wish to succeed me on Tuesday know also so many others, tens of thousands of candidates on state and local and school board ballots from Hawaii to Maine. And there are ballot propositions on issues from gun control to the size of cows stalls. And yes, every one of these choices is vital. Everyone is crucial. Everyone gives you an opportunity to say, this is what I want the future to look like. This is the country I want to live in. And I believe you must take every choice from county sheriff to president of the United States with equal seriousness.  Alexander Hamilton, one of our founding fathers said it best. He said that no laws have any validity or binding force without the consent and approbation of the people. But what we've learned in this course of human history is the dictators may coerce and tyrants may control, but the people who obey them do so only because they are threatened with bodily harm to themselves or their families if they do not. These societies are not just and they're not good. And perhaps most telling, they do not work. They do not work because the people have no voice. They have no say. Their elections are cynical frauds, sick jokes. Did you know that in the most recent election in the Stalinist nation of Albania, the vote tally was 1,820,652 to 1? Yes, without the fundamental freedom of the right to choose, hope disintegrates, expectations for the future suffer, and life itself becomes gray and dreary. And that means a weak economy, low standards of living, high infant mortality, and general gloom. Now, compare that kind of society with the democratic societies where the last two centuries have seen the expansion of opportunity and freedom, steady increases in standards of living, and a consistent belief that things will only get better. And why? Because we who live in democracy are all our own masters, and we know that the future is ours to build, that the only limits upon us are those we place on ourselves. You can imagine how very moved I was last May to be in the Lenin Hills at a podium before the audience of students at Moscow State University speaking to them about the wonder and glory of human freedom. Think of those students. Only if they're very lucky and rise high in the Communist Party will any one of them ever have the influence on the course of their country's history and world history that each of you can have just by going into the voting booth. So, my fellow Americans on Tuesday, breathe in the intoxicating air of human freedom every polling place and voting booth in this nation, and reaffirm the words in the Declaration of Independence. All men are created equal. Thank you until next week.  My fellow Americans, after a vibrant and fractious and exciting year, we will at last be going to the polls on Tuesday and exercising our most important right, the right to choose our future, the right to vote. There's nothing more glorious than the blessing that is our God-given freedom to choose those who will lead us, and there is no sight more moving than a lone American walking into that voting booth, casting a ballot in secret and thereby determining the destiny of this great country. And make no mistake, the choice this year at the top of the ballot is crucial. Don't listen to the cynical pundits who tell you this election isn't about the issues. Oh yes, it is. In fact, it's about more than the issues. It's about the direction this country is going to take over the next four years and beyond. It's about the kind of economy we want, the kind of defense we want, the kind of values we want. The choice is yours, but yes, my fellow Americans, there is a choice. A very, very important choice. A vote for Vice President George Bush is a vote for optimism, an expression of faith in the American experiment. It's an endorsement of what we've done these past eight years and of our heartfelt promise that tomorrow and the days to come will be brighter still. No one knows better than a man who has sought the highest office in this land what an awesome responsibility it is to be the vessel of change, the selection of a people in control of their present and their future. It's truly humbling. And I'd like once again to thank all of you who placed your faith in me and I'd like to tip my hat to those who supported others but took their responsibility as citizens of a democratic society seriously and with care. I have heard your voices like those before me and those after me. I have heard your voices and I hope I have justified your faith. You know the two men who wish to succeed me on Tuesday. You know also so many others. Tens of thousands of candidates on state and local and school board ballots from Hawaii to Maine. And there are ballot propositions on issues from gun control to the size of cow stalls. And yes, every one of these choices is vital. Everyone is crucial. Everyone gives you an opportunity to say, this is what I want the future to look like. This is the country I want to live in. And I believe you must take every choice from county sheriff to president of the United States with equal seriousness.  Alexander Hamilton, one of our founding fathers said it best, no laws have any validity or binding force without the consent and approbation of the people. Well, what we've learned in the course of human history is that dictators may coerce and tyrants may control but the people who obey them do so only because they are threatened with bodily harm to themselves or their families if they do not. These societies are not just and they're not good and perhaps most telling, they do not work.  Did you know that in the most recent election in the Stalinist nation of Albania, the vote tally was 1,820,652 to 1? Yes, without the fundamental freedom of the right to choose, hope disintegrates, expectations for the future suffer and life itself becomes gray and dreary. And that means a weak economy, low standards of living, high infant mortality, and general gloom. Now, compare that kind of society with the democratic societies where the last two centuries have seen the expansion of opportunity and freedom, steady increases in standards of living and a constant belief that things will get only better. And why? Because we who live in democracy are all our own masters and we know that the future is ours to build and that the only limits upon us are those we place on ourselves. You can imagine how very moved I was last May to be in the Lenin hills at a podium before an audience of students at Moscow State University speaking to them about the wonder and glory of human freedom, individual freedom. Think of those students only if they're very lucky and rise high in the Communist Party will any one of them ever have the influence on the course of their country's history and world history that each of you can have just by going into the voting booth. So, my fellow Americans, on Tuesday breathe in the intoxicating air of human freedom in every polling place and voting booth in this nation and reaffirm the words in the Declaration of Independence all men are created equal. Thank you and until next week, God bless you and God bless America.


I consider Thunderfoot a friend, but if he were a vehicle, he'd be one of those luggage trucks at the airport, because he brings a lot of baggage with him wherever he goes. I disagreed with parts of his recent videos on rape prevention, and I've had a chance to tell him so during a recent Magic Sandwich show. On the other hand, some of the content of the video is factually accurate, and he broached a subject that's often avoided because of how hard it is to handle attack and empathy. It's also given me a chance to think about how certain attitudes among people, many of whom identify as feminists, interact with public health efforts to mitigate sexual victimization. I have three objectives with this short video. I want to raise your consciousness. I want to inject some factual research on the topic. And lastly, I want to try to give a more comprehensive view of how risk of rape can be mitigated. Let's start with a consciousness raising. I want to thank the four or five people who independently brought to my attention the use of specific genders to stand as generic terms for victim and attacker. It's easy to say, men rape women. And that is a significant portion of all rapes. But it does a disservice to victims who are men, or women who are raped by women. It also has a subtle effect on the way we think about this issue. It creates an us versus them attitude, placing a division down gender lines. I'm personally guilty of this. And looking back on things I said just a few days ago, after having this pointed out, I'm disappointed in myself. I even talked about educating my daughter about not becoming a victim, while teaching my son not to be an attacker. It's so pervasive, and it very well could have been a mistake that I propagated to my children. I'm not blind to the actual statistical differences in the risks they face, and they'll receive subtly different messages. But by singling out my daughter for the victim chat, and my son the attacker, I could teach a subtle message about the roles they ought to play in adulthood. I now notice that the discussions on blogs of all types, comment forums here on YouTube, and even on news programs repeat these gender roles, substituting woman for victim, and man for attacker or rapist. Looking at slogans like, teach your sons not to rape, I'm now painfully aware of the way they assign the default role of attacker to men. The signs should say, teach your children not to rape. My challenge to all of you is to be aware of this subtle enforcement of default gender roles in a horrific crime. Challenge people to raise their consciousness. Both men and women can be victims. Both men and women can be rapists. Next, I want to inject some facts into the discussion based on the best research. The citations for these facts are in the description bar. This is far from an expert or comprehensive review of all the literature, but so often the discussion occurs in a complete vacuum of sourced information. First, the size of the problem. Approximately one in seven women in the US have been raped in their lifetime, according to multiple validated surveys.  Second, the conditions of the rape. As high as 85% of rapes in a college setting are by non-strangers, who could be a partner, date, or just acquaintance. Researchers break down rapes into three categories. Forcible rape, referring to rapes involving force, threat of force, or injury. Incapacitated rape, where the victim is too intoxicated to be aware of or control his or her behavior. And drug or alcohol-assisted rape, where the perpetrator deliberately gives the victim drugs in order to facilitate a rape. To answer a common question, the perpetrator of an intoxication rate is intoxicated themselves between 30 and 75% of the time, depending on the report. In fact, alcohol appears to have two roles to play in sexual assault. It reduces the victim's ability to reason and resist.  In a survey of men who admitted to committing sexual assault, 48% had only done so while sober. The remaining 52% had either committed rape while intoxicated, or both sober and intoxicated. Third, the issue of reporting and why it matters. Only 16 to 20% of forcible rape victims report the rape to law enforcement. When alcohol or substance abuse was a factor, the number drops to only 2.7%. In one study, only 18.7% of rape victims received medical attention after the rape. And about the same number sought assistance from a rape crisis center. Looking at only victims who chose to report the crime, the numbers are much higher, around 50%. That means that in addition to helping law enforcement to catch repeat rapists, efforts to encourage victims to report will also lead to better medical attention and counseling to deal with the consequences. This is critical to the recovery of victims. Consider, for example, the issues of sexually transmitted diseases, or pregnancy in the case of women, as a result of rape. Victims need to seek both counseling and medical advice, and that is tightly linked to whether they feel comfortable reporting the crime. Fourth, the consequences of rape. The National Women's Study found that 30% of female rape victims suffer major depression. 33% have contemplated, and 13% have attempted suicide, compared to eight and 1% for non-victims, representing a 13-fold increase in attempted suicide. Post-traumatic stress disorder has a common consequence of rape, and untreated can lead to substance abuse, deterioration of health, and panic attacks. Lastly, the topic of rape resistance. A study of cases of women who either actively fought back against an attacker, striking, gouging, or punching, or used passive resistance, shouting, screaming, pleading, found that active resistors were more effective at preventing the rape without incurring any additional risk of injury. While controversial, there is evidence to suggest that as a last resort, urinating or vomiting can be protective against an attacker, according to one survey of reported cases. My last goal is to present a more comprehensive view of the public health efforts around rape mitigation. Many women feel that public health efforts focus entirely on restrictions on what women, as potential victims, are allowed to do safely, without a similar effort to educate young men on the responsibilities to avoid becoming attackers. My own opinion on why this may be the case is that we generally don't focus public health efforts on education for potential perpetrators when the issue involves a violent crime. There aren't many anti-stabbing campaigns or anti-bludgeoning campaigns, but not because those aren't important issues. I think the perception is that those behaviors don't emerge from a lack of knowledge, whether that is true or not. In my Journal Club video, I used a paper that focused on education for college-aged women about the risks of binge drinking. In their terms, because drinking in victims was a behavior that was amenable to educational interventions, meaning you can get results by talking to potential victims about the risks of drinking, where you may not get the same result by counseling potential rapists on their already illegal behavior. We also have to be careful about the messaging if the education is to be set in a public high school, given how hard it is to even teach teen pregnancy prevention instead of abstinence in many states. Imagine how hard it will be to have a frank discussion about crystal clear sexual consent with 16-year-olds. I'm not suggesting it shouldn't be done, only that public health policy will face an uphill challenge introducing these programs nationally because of the prudish and naive attitudes of parents. I want to end on the most important message I have to convey. The consequences of victim-blaming for rape victims. In surveys of women who have been sexually assaulted, approximately 25% of them report negative reactions from their friends or family, including victim-blaming behaviors. This can produce what experts call a second victimization, which in addition to preventing the person from seeking medical and psychiatric help, also statistically increases their chances of suffering mental disorders like PTSD and panic attacks. I don't want to over-dramatize this, but for someone who is trying to find support, the finger of blame can feel like a second rape.  Thanks for watching.


Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 45th module of Weber's view on legitimate authority. Today, we will discuss in a broad manner, which is about the legitimate authority. So, very first question comes in mind that, what are the types of authority? I mean, is that, isn't it that the structural authority, which is aligned by the hierarchy and which we call traditional hierarchy or traditional approach or a structure, which has a legitimate power and you have to work under it? No, it is possible that for an entrepreneurial approach or any other approach, we will have to look at the different sides of leadership. If you talk about authority, then sometimes your legal authority is that, you have a structure in the CEO and then your strategic level, your functional level, your operation level, that is, your top management, middle management, lower management. Similarly, if you go to the Qabayil, then the Qabayil has the leader of the Panchayat or the leader of the Qabayil. Similarly, if you look somewhere here, then there is a commissioner, deputy commissioner. So, these different powers, whether it is on the governance level, state level or organization level, then we call it legitimate authority. Okay, by the book we try to look at, one is legitimate authority. The other authority is the charismatic authority, charisma. Or the personality in which leadership is approached. And that legitimate authority also sometimes, I will not say that it is overruled, but usually legitimate personalities are followed by people. So, the ones who follow, they are removed from the common ambit. That is, people take it parallel to the government. Sometimes it happens that there is a religious and charismatic one. Or there is a social and charismatic one. Or in structures, in a particular structure, it is also called referential power. That is, its power is that it takes decency, it brings ease for people, it works. And people start understanding it in different ways. One is this. The other type of power is your by-defined power. That is, you give it by-cast color, creed, that kind of authority. But if we talk about legitimate authority, then it will be by-structured. Okay, what does an entrepreneur usually do? Usually, what I am going to give you an example is that normally it is charismatic. It is charismatic and then it moves towards legitimate authority. And it ultimately needs to be made legitimate authority because first it is a sole proprietor. Either it is a leader or it reshates something. And it brings people with its charismatic power with it. Not that it brings it with its hierarchical power. That is, it is not under any legal framework that you are an employee. Or it is not under employee-employer relationship. It is not under any money relationship. But it is a charisma, a leadership charisma because of which people come. The first sign of charismatic leader is that it is a promise. It takes decency, it takes decency quickly. If it is easy for people, it also gives benefits for people. And ultimately, it takes a stand for them. So, this is from charismatic personality. If we look at the chapter of entrepreneurs, you will see that there are moreover these charismatic personalities in entrepreneurs. Let's see what this legitimate authority is. To exercise the power, produce an enduring social order only if it manages to justify itself one. So, first very important thing is to justify itself only if it is able to secure certain minimum consent at least on the part of most socially important segments of the governed. This idea underlies a Weber concept of legitimate authority. So, legitimate authority obtained when the power of command is deemed valid, that is when persons subject to authority or might be the obedience or the ultimate obedience. You must have seen that there is nothing called ultimate obedience. Weber says that there is no ultimate obedience. There are different things in it. If we look at it, then you can now combine the structure and the text there. Now, consider legitimate authority that it describes three types. The first one is charismatic authority, the second one is legal authority and then a traditional authority. A traditional authority is that you go to any subject which has different authorities. If I tell you from a business point of view, let me tell you a little governmental structure, then there is something like MP1, MP2, MP3, there are some civil service cadres, some are your special cadres, some are your six cadres to nine cadres. Similarly, if you have different semi-government structures, different private structures, then the officiating structures are different, then according to their structures and their levels, your salary, your perks and privileges are defined. This is your traditional authority and then how many rules and regulations, rules and responsibility, how much you are responsible and how much traditional authority allows you to do this. The second is the legal authority. Legal authority means that the position you are sitting in, you have the legal capacity, what can you do? How much legal action can you take? For example, you have an interview with a company, if a man comes and he comes on a position, ad hoc basis, then legal does not allow him to take it out or question it or intervene in financial management. But if he does it, then he uses legal authority. So this is, what does legality allow you to do? As per the position, the third number is the charismatic leadership. It is also called referential. Sometimes it happens that if you look at the charismatic authority, sometimes it happens that the legal system and tradition are not in both. But you usually follow their opinions, their orders, their talks, people follow it in a completely different way. For example, if I give you an example of Iran, then the Ayatollah Khamanai or any parallel structure is considered to be their talk. If I give an example of Egypt, then the Shah-ul-Azar is parallel to the president. Similarly, in Theocracy, if I look at the Vatican City, then the Pope with the president is considered to be more powerful.  So, but usually in China, there is no tradition that someone else should be born. But his charismatic authority began to develop, his words began to come true. So, entrepreneurs usually, better than their words, are recognized as their talk. So, I have discussed three types of authorities. We understood that legitimate authority will have to develop. If you have a charismatic authority, you are a entrepreneur, then you will have to develop a structure, and in the structure, you will have to get a hierarchical model, and in the hierarchical model as well, if you want to share good systems, good innovation, development with innovation, then you need to put horizontal linkages. So, you can create the ultimate, developed legitimate authority. So, this is how the Weber's idea of legitimate authority, we will discuss it more in the next module. Thank you.