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kwantified · 4 years

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nct dream on social media!

excluding weibo, messenger apps, and dating apps

note: this is purely my personal opinion. kinda inspired by my irls :)

mark

he loves to share what he does when he can

on instagram he’s the kinda guy who isn’t really... there

busy boy finding out about news a whole week late

when he posts stories it’s usually like... super vague pictures of music or lyrics he’s working on

probably one or two basic shots of food

AND ESPECIALLY

shares what he’s listening to on spotify I Kid You Not

if mark lee posts a story it’s probably going to be what he’s listening to on spotify

he’s more active on twitter because uh

memes

mostly quoted retweets tbh

his replies are always just “HAHAHAHAHA” or “LMAOOOO” and some goofy one-liner

has mutuals on stan twt because he likes to steal the memes

it’s honestly like ????

tweets mostly in english but korean is always there

you would find him laughing his ass off and why? because one of his mutuals tweeted something off of punhub

“can you perform under pressure?”

“no, but i can perform bohemian rhapsody”

“doctor, it hurts when i do this”

“then don’t do that”

I SWEAR TO GOD THIS DUDE HAS THE FUNNIEST TL

not only because of punhub trust me

he’s mostly on local twt just on about netflix shows and music because he doesn’t have enough to time rlly branch out into one community other than his own

has tried uploading his works on soundcloud but just feels more comfortable uploading covers and stuff on youtube

he’d accidentally get in everyone’s recommended because hey here’s a talented man on the guitar who’s goofy and cute

BUT ANYWAYS

overall since he’s a very busy person he’s not too active, but social media kind of gives him a little laugh every once in a while so that’s great

renjun

say it with me, instagram

the prettiest golden hour selfies

your resident pretty boy

says he Doesn’t Care About Fashion but then posts a body shot of his fit smh

can’t complain because he’s mad fine let’s be real here

he has an account for every single social media out there but isn’t always active on every account

i swear to god he;s made a linkedin account

the way he’s probably made a mf foursquare account…

he’s just such an all-around sociable guy he just has mutuals everywhere

i mean the entertainment industry is all about connections so

go get it reonjeon!

makes an appearance in everyone’s social media like he’s EVERYWHERE

jaemin’s instagram? check. jisung’s tiktok? check! chenle’s twitter? check. he’s in everyone’s mentions fr

his stories are always reposts of other posts and of the stories he’s tagged in

work socmed! he makes his career look so comfy and homey from his posts and stories

was one of those guys who used to be super active on snapchat but gave up after insta stories became a thing

mans stalks more people than you think… he’s just a sly dude

not in a creepy way ofc he just gets pretty lost within the internet

you could actually play any trending tiktok audio and you’d hear him sing along every word in the background… what has this mf been doin??? uhm???

sends posts he thinks are funny to ig and twt gcs

mostly to jisung because he’s the only one who actually leaves SOME sort of reaction whether it be double tapping the text or going ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ

likes to visit pinterest every once in a while because it’s like a nice eye cleanse

it’s also good outfit and food inspiration in the cases that he feels like creating something non career related

in general he just likes looking for new ideas and sometimes pinterest is just a great outlet for a visual layout like that

renjun and jisung, THESE TWO

they scour the internet together

goin wild with the crack videos with jisung

jeno

this dude is nowhere

like. he has thousands of followers on instagram and for WHAT

twitter page: empty

snapchat: gave up after insta stories

insta stories: DOESN’T EVEN POST SO WHAT’S THE POINT

but he’s like almost always actively liking everything on your timeline

like... every post on your feed is “liked by jeno and xx others”

WHERE IS THIS DUDE

texting him becomes a game through all the different dm platforms online

like will he open his twitter dms today or will he only answer if you furiously facetime him

some days it’s katalk and somedays he just chooses to ignore you

PURPOSELY SO YOU HAVE TO CALL HIM

anyways when he does post on instagram it’s usually just his surroundings and daily activities

or his cats

yeah

does a lot of things with his friends so you’ll probably find him tagged in the dreamies’ stories

but not anywhere else for some reason

he’s more active on twitter!

he kind of feels more relaxed on twitter since it isn’t based on images

tweets out of context things

like a random “fml” out of nowhere and you’re like okay i guess

pretty vague too

doesn’t really make an effort to make any mutuals because it’s kind of like a vent place for him

stays on private

friends only so... about 30 followers and that’s it

people who follow his Instagram don’t really know his twt so it relieves him a bit

food videos on youtube

not mukbangs but like

very nice cooking videos

like have y’all heard of Nino’s Kitchen

he loves that shit BET

the greatest mix between dry sarcasm, humorous attacks and beautiful food

mans just likes real life interactions i guess

haechan

youtube addict!

gamer haechan

he could spend DAYS on youtube and just forget about time and space altogether

just finds the best rabbit holes to go into from music to snails to gaming to fancams

also on tiktok but his tiktok is on instagram ya feel

finds it stupid but so, so entertaining

loves watching those makeup and art tiktoks because they’re so well done

humor tiktoks on his explore page

number one edit fanatic

mans loves watching edits on instagram and how they’re so well made like

he’s truly one to appreciate art

his stories are uploaded on the weirdest times of day

want a video of him serenading the camera at two in the morning? sign yourself up

twitter is lowkey his diary

he just tweets whatever is happening all day errday

sometimes he completely forgets about the existence of twitter altogether so there are days where he’s on twitter every second but there are weeks where it’s just CRICKETS

loves to listen to other people’s playlists

open to new vibes (but no hateful vibes!)

still does snapchat streaks... hm

and who might he be talking to?

his snapchat streaks are always the same shot of the window or some scenery from his apartment

the kind of guy who snaps you until goddamn 4am

make room for online boyfriend hyuck

goes on twitch for the fun of it when he’s too busy to play

finds it real satisfying to just see the streamers engage with the audience while being real good at what they do

either way he’s just always on youtube but when he isn’t he’s usually just consuming content instead of uploading content

but when he does post anything it’s like quality!!

jaemin

unlike jeno, this man is EVERYWHERE

and when i mean everywhere i mean he’s also on letterboxd (!!!) and soundcloud

maybe this is just an excuse for me to force the jaemin film and photography student agenda

this man has customised every part of every profile on social media

except for linkedin

folks, his instagram is just pictures of everyone else but him

even on soundcloud his self-written songs are sung by other members in nct

his insta stories are the only place you can actually hear his voice

insta stories are just food and friends

and by friends i mean wtf moments at the dream dorm

memes all over twitter

steals memes pretty regularly

like he’d always like the tweets before stealing and those tweets would always end up in your tl so whenever he uses those memes in your convos it’s just like

aHa i see

posts “mood” tweets

mostly replies to other people rather than making his own tweets

loves to do deep dives on youtube because he always discovers the cutest music

also gets the best inspiration from youtube

has a few favourite youtubers and genuinely appreciates their content

again, inspiration

watches lots of movies but doesn’t really leave any reviews so he just gives a few stars (or none) on letterboxd

the kind of guy who’s glued to his phone

i don’t blame him

his phone is full of content

still on snapchat apparently

but he’s the kind of dude that just sends streaks every day and updates his snapchat story like never

his streaks... lmao

usually goes for a black screen with a plain “s” or just a random shot of his bedsheets

but if he considers you a close friend he might get distracted and send you a bunch of videos of him playing with filters

he really does think they’re quite the fascination

maybe he’s just bored lol social media is pretty expansive

chenle

he’s like jeno but gives less fucks

so... instagram and twitter are equally chaotic

such a mood

just makes you go WHAT IS THIS DUDE UP TO

this dude is usually just Chillin

and he gets bored so he just brain farts into twitter

whenever there’s a basketball game he’s watching he’ll fill your entire timeline with out of context reactions

also kind of a random out of context dude who posts things at the weirdest times of the day/night

doesn’t give enough fucks to go on private

gets a lot of followers on twt solely because so many people find his life so fascinating like hm...

what might zhong chenle be doing at this time of day

on instagram it’s kind of a different story because uh he might have to think twice about whether or not he wants a certain picture on his feed

but then again, no fucks

so he’s like meh okay sure i’ll post it

pics of food and places he’s been to and laid back selfies and #tbt type beat

NOT WAYV’S TURN BACK TIME I MEAN THROWBACK THURSDAY

but he does a lot of promo for nct and wayv

get that bag boy!

chenle on instagram is like hyuck on twitter: he can go weeks being completely inactive but one day he suddenly remembers the existence of instagram and posts five pictures in a day

all with either no caption or like the vaguest “ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ” or “哈哈哈哈”

if y’all have seen his weibo then y’all would know his twt would be filled with “哈哈哈哈哈”

mentions everyone (especially jisung) in each and every single one of his insta stories

replies to random comments

eternal chenle menpa how bout that

goes on wattpad and ao3 for the fun of it

actually kind of enjoys some of the work on wattpad... his fav trope is enemies to lovers

that one mutual that casually likes all your tweets

he would literally spam like all your pictures/tweets as soon as you guys become mutuals and it’s sweet

comments on everything

always dragged in jisung’s tiktok antics

knows all the tiktok dances by heart even though it looks like he’s so unbothered

thinks tiktok is cringey but HIGHKEY gets into it

jisung

now this dude is on tiktok but he doesn’t really fetch for clout

he likes doing short freestyles

the challenges are cool too and he’s had a few mutuals on tiktok so that’s nice

but this dude screams TWITTER and YOUTUBE

watches shit like vox and jubilee because it’s so interesting to him

has been through a vsauce phase but eventually got bored because they didn’t upload a lot

youtube is there for his deep dives and curiosities

also is subscribed to a lot of youtubers so his recommended page is super diverse

comments on videos with the most candid thoughts

youtube has been a big part of him honestly especially as a child who didn’t really get a formal education

he’s just kind of learning from the internet

doesn’t bother with instagram because... he can post pictures on twt too...

eventually gets instagram anyways so

the pictures/videos jisung sends on lysn bubble are literally his insta feed

but on twitter he’s just kind of vibin

says he goes on twt 5 times a day so there we go

likes those generational tweets and tiktoks that go like

“kids born after 2005 will never understand this”

his retweets bruv

he just retweets funny one liner replies from viral tweets

also keeps up with the news (ehem this was the boy on the political section of daily korean news let’s hear it)

rather than just korea he’s pretty interested in international news too so he’s a pretty outspoken guy

doesn’t really do a lot of tweeting himself though since he just kind of goes “헐” or “대박” or “ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ”

him and renjun are youtube buddies just because. yes.

usually spirals into crack compilations

like renjun, he’s also seen pretty often in other members’ mentions

ESPECIALLY CHENLE THIS DUDE WONT SHUT UP ABOUT JISUNG

but he honestly really likes being mentioned and being active online because he’s spent most of his life either practicing or online so

feels like home huh

kinda gen z spirit there lmao

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duhragonball · 5 years

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Dragon Ball Z 092

Last time, Goku reailized he was losing this fight, so he risked everything on a 20x Kaio-ken Kamehameha. If it worked, great, but if it failed, Goku would be completely exhausted and unable to continue fighting. Above is a side-by-side comparison of Frieza before and after the attack.

Yeah, it’s only one image because IT DIDN’T DO ANYTHING. Goku’s toast.

I think Goku had already decided that Frieza wasn’t bluffing about his true strength, but now there’s absolutely no question. Frieza’s been half-assing it this whole time, while Goku just went beyond his limits and came up short. He’ll only get weaker from here. There’s nothing more he can do.

Elsewhere, Bulma has recovered from getting blown away by Frieza’s power, and she’s caught Captain Ginyu, who got swept along with her. You know, I’ve often wondered if civilians in Dragon Ball are a lot stronger than real-world people. You’d assume that Bulma’s about as strong as a typical real-world woman of her height and build, because she’s not a fighter, so there’d be no reason for her to have any superhuman abilities. But I’m pretty sure if a real person went flying uncontrollably through the air like she did last episode, she wouldn’t have survived without injury.

I mean, this is presumably where she landed. It’s not exactly a pile of feathers or anything. Also, Captain Ginyu did some pretty athletic stuff while he was using her body. And maybe Bulma works out, but I doubt she’s doing like advanced gymnastics stuff just to stay in shape. What I’m suggesting is that if Bulma somehow traveled to our world, she could kick Brock Lesnar’s ass. She’d just slap him and he’d get a concussion or something.

While Goku and the others are demoralized by the failure of his last-ditch attack, Frieza tells a somewhat different story. He’s not that badly hurt. All that Kamehameha did was singe his hand. But it did hurt him, and that makes him upset.

And that fires him up. The idea that a mere Saiyan could do even that to him is infuriating, so he charges after Goku in a rage.

I’m not positive, but I think this is the first time Frieza calls a Saiyan “monkey” in the Japanese dub. Guldo said it first, back in Episode 62, and I think Jeice might have used the term as well, but I’m pretty sure we haven’t seen Frieza say it. I think the Funimation dub used the slur more often, which I guess fits in with how Linda Young played the character. Ryusei Nakao has a much more chilling performance in general. His Frieza makes polite chit-chat, then flips his shit. Young’s Frieza isn’t so subtle. Everything she says is tinged with an air of brutal menace, and a lot of her lines included cutting remarks and insensitive jokes at the good guys’ expense. There was always something really emasculating about her Frieza too. In one episode she calls Goku “big guy” in a really condescending way, and in another she mocks Ginyu for being hurt over not getting to do the dance of joy. I’m pretty sure she used the word “monkey” in almost every episode where Frieza mentioned Saiyans.

I’m not sure what to say about Chris Ayres, since I haven’t seen as much of his work. I feel like I saw some video about the Funimation dub of Kai, where Chris Sabat said they recast Frieza because Young couldn’t deliver the new lines at the pace they needed. That would make sense, because it feels like Ayres’ Frieza is constantly trying to fit in as many words as he can into a limited amount of time. Young might be fast enough to do that, but her performance always hinged on the timing, like she was soaking each word in as much contempt and spite as possible. Ayres’ Frieza is like “Oh I see you seem to be under the mistaken impression that I will let you live as it were but let me assure you that this is hardly the case as I have decided to murder you right here.” And it’s like I don’t think they needed that many words to get the thought across. He’s almost like a Big Green Dub character, only with better diction.

The point I guess I’m making is that Nakao’s Frieza developed over the course of the series. He started out being ultra-polite and unctuous, then he got snotty and irritated as things stopped going his way, and now he’s finally revealed his naked racism against Saiyans. Young, and perhaps Ayres, kind of did all of those things at once throughout their performances.

Make no mistake, Goku’s got nothing left in the tank. It would be bad enough that the 20x Kaio-ken didn’t get the job done, but on top of that, the Kaio-ken takes a heavy toll on the user. He’s worse off now than he was two episodes ago, when Frieza was beating the crap out of him.

For Frieza, this just proves that he was right to kill all the Saiyans, since all they’re good at is fighting, and they’re too stubborn to be made to do anything else. Goku and Vegeta insisted on fighting Frieza, even knowing how difficult it would be. He doesn’t admire their tenacity; he just views it as self-destructive.

Then Goku starts hearing Vegeta talking to him. At first, he asks him to team up with him, as if he forgot that Vegeta’s already dead.

Then he sees him in some sort of vision.

Years ago, I found an audio recording of Vegeta’s speech in this scene, and I used to put it on playlists and listen to it on long car rides. I’m gonna try to do the dub version from memory.

Vegeta: Kakarot, listen to me! Is that all the power you have? Where’s your Saiyan pride?

Goku: But... I never was a Saiyan!

Vegeta: What are you talking about? You can’t deny your heritage!”

Goku: Vegeta... right now it doesn’t matter what I am. Forget about it.”

Vegeta: We both know you have Saiyan blood running through your veins! [audio cut out for some reason] --pain, but there is one thing you must never forget: It was Frieza who destroyed our birthplace, the Planet Vegeta. There’s no one left except for your.

Goku: The... the pride... of my people!”

Vegeta: Think back, Kakarot. Remember your father.... my father.”

Bardock: My... son... lives... on!

King Vegeta: Ooohhhh... (dies)

Vegeta: So while you may deny who you are, you are the very last hope for a lost race of brave warriors. Ask yourself this: Why does Frieza want you destroyed so badly? He’s afraid a Super Saiyan will rise up! Fight him for the entire Saiyan race! Destroy him, for you have the power within you! Now go, Kakarot. It is time!

Eh, close enough, I think.

Anyway, Vegeta’s butt-ass nekkid the whole time he says all this. Also he has his tail, so that’s a thing.

Now, you might be wondering what Frieza’s doing while Goku’s having this conversation. Turns out he’s still intent on dragging this out. I’m pretty sure Frieza is just waiting for Goku to completely shut down, the same way Vegeta did before Frieza finally killed him. Also, I’ve begun to notice that this is Frieza’s big weakness. Before I said it was laziness or complacency, and there’s some truth to that, but now that I’m watching him fight, I see that when you piss him off, he actually slows down more. Frieza announced that he was going to kill Goku and end the fight like two episodes back. Instead, Goku singed his hand. You’d thin that would compel Frieza to hurry this along, but instead it had the opposite effect. He’s actually giving Goku more time, because he’s convinced that Goku has no more surprises in store, and he wants to punish him even more than he did before.

Yeah, he keeps saying stuff like this, but he never follows through.

Meanwhile, on King Kai’s planet, there’s some commotion going on inside King Kai’s house.

Someone took out Bubbles and Gregory.

And it turns out to be the dead guys from the Ginyu Force. If there was a college textbook on anime filler, this shot would probably be on the cover. But we’ll talk about the Ginyu Force on King Kai’s Planet later.

Back on Namek, Goku has raised his hands in the air like he just doesn’t care. Frieza is bewildered. He figures Goku must be up to something, but he has no idea what, since he’s so weak right now.

But Krillin calls it right away. It’s the Spirit Bomb, the same technique King Kai taught Goku to use against the Saiyans. Of course, Piccolo wasn’t around for that, so Krillin has to explain it to him. This irks Piccolo, because he just came from King Kai’s place, and King Kai never even mentioned a technique like this. To be fair, Piccolo was only there for less than a week, and he wasn’t exactly cooperative.

Now you might be wondering why Goku didn’t try something like this a long time ago. Well there’s a number of drawbacks to the Spirit Bomb:

1) It takes a long time to prepare, and Goku’s defenseless the whole time.

2) If Frieza notices what he’s up to, he’ll just dodge it, or kill Goku before he can deploy it.

3) The Spirit Bomb is pretty dangerous. King Kai warned Goku not to use it in broad daylight, because the energy from the sun would make it too powerful. Namek has three suns, and Goku doesn’t think that’ll be enough, so he’s gotta borrow energy from other planets in the vicinity. In other words, Goku might end up making an attack so powerful that he ends up destroying the planet along with Frieza.

These aren’t hypothetical issues either. The first time Goku used the Spirit Bomb in combat, it was against Vegeta in his great ape form. Vegeta attacked him before he was ready, then he attacked him before he could launch it. Then he had to turn the residual power over to Krillin, and Vegeta dodged it. Then Gohan bounced it back at Vegeta, and it didn’t work. Vegeta took the Spirit Bomb and survived. You know what finally did kill Vegeta? Frieza.

I can’t stress this point enough. The Spirit Bomb is an incredibly terrible idea in this situation. I’m pretty sure the main reason Goku trained at 100 times gravity on the way here was so that he would never need to rely on the Spirit Bomb ever again. Enemies like Vegeta were just too fast and powerful to take the time to make one of these things. It’s easy for us to think “well, he can just make a bigger one!” but it only amplifies the weaknesses in the technique. A bigger Spirit Bomb just takes that much longer to build, and it becomes that much harder to control.

But Goku’s doing this anyway, because it’s literally all he has left. His own power has failed him, and the one great advantage of the Spirit Bomb is that Goku can borrow energy from other sources. Even i he does destroy Namek, it’ll be worth it to rid the universe of Frieza.

As for Frieza, he’s just standing there watching this. I never understood why he waited so patiently here, but I finally realized that it’s his curiosity getting the better of him. He genuinely wants to know what Goku’s trying to do, and he figures Goku’s already beaten, so he can afford to wait. From a sadistic standpoint, I’m sure he wants to wait for Goku to execute his plan, just so that Frieza can prevail one more time and humiliate Goku further.

Ironically, if Frieza could just sense ki energy like the Z-Fighters, he’d know exactly what Goku was up to. Krillin spots the bomb almost immediately. I’m not sure why it’s so high in the air like this. Before, Goku would absorb the energy into his own body and form the bomb from his hand. This time, he’s using energy from multiple stars and planets, so maybe it’s easier to converge it all above him. Or maybe he’s purposely doing it this way to hide the bomb from Frieza. He’d have to look straight up to see the thing, and he has no idea that he’d even need to.

Here’s a couple of shots from the other planets Goku is drawing energy from. I really enjoy these for some reason. These alien creatures seem to have Namekian style antennae, which I think is a nice touch, assuming these are worlds in the Namek solar system.

#dragon ball #2019dbliveblog #frieza saga #goku #frieza #vegeta #king vegeta #bardock #piccolo #gohan #krillin #bulma #captain ginyu #recoome #burter #jeice #guldo #king kai #yamcha #chiaotzu #tien

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goindanswingin · 5 years

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Les Amis Webshows - Reviews!

So! There’s been a whole two new Amis webshows premiering this January! However, I’ve noticed not that many people are actually talking about them! New content, and we’re not yelling??

So, I’ve decided to give short reviews on their debut pilot episodes, as well as the first episodes of some other Les Amis webshows (I probably missed so many, feel free to add more if you know of them!) in order to maybe spread the word about some cool creators online as well as give y’all a lil more content to consume that isn’t just grim BBC Les Mis discourse atm

(I’ve reviewed them in the order they premiered)

1. Stories From Les Amies

This is a vlog story of the les amis with all the genders purposefully changed! Now this one has an awful lot of content to make up its plot, having premiered in 2013 and wrapped up with an HOUR LENGTH FILM at the end of 2014, so there’s a hell of a lot to digest here! The Enjolras behind this is actually also the author of TextingEnjolras/EnjolrasRising so the plot does bear some resemblance to that also! (Another piece of content I’d highly recommend if you’ve not read yet).

But, to keep it fair, I’m going to stick with just the pilot episode! It’s set up like a big group skype call with our amis introducing themselves, where we are first introduced to their personalities, mostly led by Enjolras although Combeferre acts a beautifully sarcastic arbiter. The video quality isn’t excellent, but surprisingly, the audio quality is pretty great (for every character except Marius), with almost no background noise or fuzz.

Enjolras: All of us make up a society that we call the Friends of the ABC

Enjolras: *awkwardly nods and grins*

Enjolras: Which is actually a pun, because... ABC pronounced together sounds like the word abaissés, which means “lowly” or “abased...

Enjolras: So... it’s... it’s a pun.

I know I’m only reviewing pilot episodes to keep it fair, but I will say yes, the quality of the series absolutely does improve over time, and I would highly recommend giving it a go if you’ve never seen it before! You can find the whole series here.

2. Official Les Amis Vlog

Premiering at almost exactly the same time as number 2 on this list, the Les Amis Vlog is similar in terms of quality but different in style. This is as it says - a vlog channel, with divided playlists for each character in the Amis. Every character uploaded vlogs between 2013 and 2015 introducing themselves, answering questions, and making content on certain themes.

This one took me by surprise - I was very much underwhelmed by the camera quality and lack of plot, but once I started watching, I realised why the Les Amis vlog doesn’t have plot - it’s because instead of making up political issues and action, they actually discuss real politics - in the pilot episode, Enjolras actually talks about a real news article from Reuters and then goes on into an impassioned rant on public surveillance - it’s kind of amazing.

Enjolras: I mean, you wanna hide your face for whatever reason? Well, congratulations! You’re now a potential t*rror*st for having stood in the way of the observational machine!

Obviously this one is much more about the characters than it is any sort of plot like we’ll see in some of our later series, but... these characters are by far some of the most convincing Les Amis I’ve seen! Particularly Enjolars - wow. So if that sounds like your kinda thing, check it out here!

3. Vines de l'ABC

A multimedia webseries that ran from 2016-2018, but mostly confined to Vines, this one in essence is similar to the Les Amis Vlog in that it is more character driven than plot driven - the different characters were all cast and then separately uploaded Vines (and occasionally YouTube videos) as well as answering questions to the main blog.

The first “episode” is, as common for these webseries, a video of our Enjolras introducing Les Amis and his character, then being interrupted by a phone call. The quality is webcam quality, the sound pretty fuzzy, but I do think Dorian here makes a great Enjolras... more on that shortly! Overall, the quality of this first episode isn’t super relevant to the rest of the series though, because as is obvious by the name, it’s mostly comprised of amusing little vines.

*Tik Tok by Ke$ha plays*

Enjolras: Hello? Did you change my ring tone again? ...Again? Well, I mean, I'm trying to do the video... No, I mean, I'm actually in the middle of doing the video right now, you're on camera... No, no I don't know how to edit it out... I mean, does he have a concussion, or..? *sighs* ...How did I know he had a concussion.

Obviously vine is dead, but everything is available here - if this sounds like your kind of thing, definitely go check it out! There is TONS of content for your consumption here.

4. Barricade Boys

Next up is a comedy/parody show from NyxRising, an already established group of YouTube cosplayers who’ve made lots of similar shows previously. This means, for a start, that the production quality here is some of the best you’ll see - great audio and video quality, basic but good set design, great costumes.

Now, let’s make it clear: if you’re looking for a brick accurate show, this is not the one for you. It’s a pretty ludicrous parody, with an unbelievably arsehole Enjolras with no notion of personal space, a Grantaire with weird sideburns and a crush so obvious it’s hilarious, a Marius so dumb he thinks he’s joining a “lonely hearts club” and a Courfeyrac so OOC that I don’t even know where to begin.

But god damn, did this make me laugh out loud a good few times.

Enjolras: You do you, Grantaire. Nobody else will.

This one has a couple episodes out already, and I’d highly recommend if you want some laughs! You can find it here.

5. The Downtrodden

Aaaand... onto our January debuts! I’m super excited to give a review of the pilot episode of Shadow of the Tor’s “The Downtrodden”!

One thing that stuck out to me immediately is that this might be the most diverse cast yet - we have multiple POC, and also a trans Enjolras - in both cases, there’s no self-congratulatory back-patting, but it’s made very clear and very casual, and it’s wonderful. Another point worth mentioning is that our Enjolras is the same Enjolras seen in Vines de l’ABC - and as I mentioned, I think Dorian is great at the role.

The Downtrodden seems to be going for an enjoyable line between plotty and humorous, and so far I’m super excited to see where they take it. The audio and video quality is outstanding, though the cafe background noises could do with being toned down just a tiny bit (as there are occasionally character lines in the background that are a little drowned out), but overall it’s by far the most professional looking alongside Barricade Boys (which had to contend with far less characters!). One comment I will make, though nitpicky, is that unlike Barricade Boys, which moves extremely swiftly through its jokes, The Downtrodden is edited just a pace too slow in one or two scenes, meaning the comic timing falls a little off and the jokes don’t quite get the reaction they really deserve.

Grantaire: You get free coffee refills here if you’re part of a student group. I gotta make that loan last.

Cosette: Do you consider yourself a politically motivated person?

R: I barely even consider myself a person.

C: Oh. Are you alright?

R: Is anyone?

Surprisingly, one of my favourite characters in the pilot episode was Marius! I often find he’s overplayed to death, but in this he appears a little dim but genuinely charming, and he got some of the best laughs out of me. I’d be interested to know how well all the jokes landed with someone who isn’t a Brit, however, since I’m super sold on all these characters being British uni students (student poverty aesthetic and Oxfam shopping bags, goddamn!), and also love Courfeyrac for the same reason - he seems like your typical friendly but laddish uni type, which works perfectly for his character. Also, I own that mug he has.

One of the strongest points, and a very common issue I have with Les Amis webshows (and the 2012 movie NOT GONNA LIE), is losing track of who is supposed to be who - I had no such problem with The Downtrodden - everyone is introduced naturally, gets at LEAST a line or two, and is beautifully acted - go check out the pilot here!

6. The Les Amis Webshow

The last one on our list - the Les Amis Webshow premiered on the last day of January!

First impressions of this webshow are: the most enticing hook yet straight from the beginning, and some of the worst sound quality.

After the introduction - structured as Marius speaking to us from the future - the pilot episode actually centers around a random film student coming up to Marius and asking if they can film him. Is this Cosette? Will we ever find out? Who knows, but for some reason Marius just takes it in his stride and lets this person follow him around, in what I can’t decide is a very weird move, or a very Marius move.

Jehan: Are you wearing your lanyard?

Marius: Yeah. Why? That’s what it’s for.

Jehan: (laughing) You simple little freshman!

Marius: *long pause*

Also Marius: We’re gonna get along great!

The editing is actually fun and a few shots seem to be going for something quite adventurous - I just wish the audio quality were better.

I like Enjolras so far - he seems very confident in himself and a little bit of a rich boy, and I’m really interested to see what they do with Marius, since this is the only webshow so far where Marius has been front and center instead of Enjolras - in that snippet at the start, he seems very anxious and weary - it’s very Empty Chairs at Empty Tables! Overall, this has the most “plot-y” vibe to its initial episode so far, and reminds me a lot of Stories from Les Amies, honestly. I’m very excited to see what they do with it, and am also euphoric at a REGULAR UPLOAD SCHEDULE unlike the other two which are currently running - Barricade Boys and The Downtrodden. Keep up with it every Thursday here!

Thank you so much to @starberry-cupcake for helping me compile this list!

highlight reel: @/SFLA who the fuck makes a feature length movie oh my god, the sheer levels of gay in BB, Marius’ super poshboy accent in TD (sorry if thats just how u speak Ethan), and best of all the German flag taking centre stage in tLAW - the european cynic in me is desperate to know why its there and hopes that you didn’t just mix up French and German flags lmao

#les mis #les miz #les miserables #les amis #exr #bonus points for the first person to make a compilation #of all the pronounciations #of enjolras #of combeferre #and of courfeyrac #every fucking show gets at least one wrong

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Have you ever been to Australia? Nope. Not really on top of my travel lists when it comes down to it, but it would be lovely to visit nonetheless. I'd be most excited to try their local food.

Who was the last person you know to have a birthday? Kate, our HR officer.

Are you wearing a necklace? If so, describe it. I am not.

Do you know anyone who is left-handed? Aya. But we’re not really friends anymore.

Ever wear out a CD? What was it? I don’t think so. I’ve broken CDs before but it was always because I had been a kid then and I constantly mishandled them.

What’s your favorite card game? I’m not into card games.

What’s your favorite fast food meal? I usually flock to burgers and fries. Fast food rice is blechhh so I never get any meals with them, which are usually paired with fried chicken.

Where is the best restaurant you’ve ever eaten in at? Torch. Prices are no joke either, so I don’t get to order from there a lot.

Lamb chops or pork chops? I have pork chops more frequently and I love them, but I’d go with lamb chops. More expensive so I get them less often, but I do like the taste of lamb more.

If you HAD to pick ONE song to listen to for the rest of your life, and that would be the only song you ever heard, what would it be? I imagine this would be so inconvenient after just a few hours...but idk. Based on my mood now, maybe Still With You by Jungkook.

Ever heard of Shinedown? I have. I used to have a mutual who was obsessed with them. Never listened to their music, though.

What size is your bed? Just a twin-size.

What is the first meal you remember eating? I no longer remember that.

What was the first movie you ever saw? Stuart Little 2.

What percentile of your class were you in? I’m not sure about percentile, but I was just above average. Never topped the class but wasn’t behind academically, either. In our batch of around 165, I remember my ranking peaking at like 26. I don’t know what the equivalent percentile for that is.

Can you name every place you’ve ever had sex? Yeah, I didn’t like being too adventurous anyway.

What forms of birth control have you used? Same-sex relationship.

Do you use sponges or dishcloths when doing the dishes? Sponge. OMG I hate touching wet cloths/fabric.

What’s your favorite song on the top twenty right now? Butter.

Ever punched a wall? Nope.

What was the last bug you killed and what did you use? An ant. My finger.

Ever get pulled over by the cops and get away without a ticket? Yes, because he noticed I was in uniform, as were my orgmates then. And I’m guessing it was also because he could tell we were all young, so he let us go.

What was your first legal alcoholic drink? A margarita, I think? < Hey, same!

What’s the most expensive things your parents ever bought you? My education.

What’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought? I’ve spent the most on my merch collection so far; but as for an individual item, I’ve spent close to 5k on a photobook set. I haven’t really ventured out to start spending on more adulting stuff yet, lol.

What is your favorite cover song? Paramore’s cover of Passionfruit by Drake, or Hayley Williams’ cover of Teardrop by Massive Attack.

Did you ever drop out of school? Nope, I did everything in one go.

Ever raise a child that wasn’t your own for more than 3 months? I have not.

Strangest medical procedure ever performed on you? I’ve only had basics done on me.

Does the place you work have music playing? What sort? The extremely few times I had to go to the physical office, my co-workers put on some music, yeah. It had been a very chill atmosphere and they simply turned on YouTube on the TV and put on a playlist of BTS and Taylor Swift songs.

Do you use Windows, Mac, Linux, or something else entirely? Mac.

Do you cut tags out of clothing so they don’t itch and bother you? Yes, I hate how the tags feel for the most part. The only time I don’t cut them off is if the brand is on the pricey side.

How many times a year do you go on vacation? Under normal circumstances, around 3-5 with my family.

What is your favorite time period in history to learn about? It’s easier for me to say what periods I find a little boring: medieval/dark ages and anything about wars. Every other period I’d happily soak up like a sponge.

What’s the saddest report you have ever seen on the news? Mmmh, probably kids dying from freak accidents and seeing the parents get interviewed. Just last night I had to hear about a 4 year old who ran towards a car while playing outside. Hearing the dad cry and plead was gut-wrenching.

In your honest opinion, what is the scariest sea creature you know? Idk, maybe those that live in the super deep sea and look nothing like what we would usually perceive as normal sea creatures.

What superpower do you think would be the most handy in times of trouble? I guess it would have to depend on the issue you find yourself stuck in. But I think being able to control time would be convenient, since you can just easily undo mistakes.

Do you believe there is just one love for everyone, or…? No. That would invalidate experiences for a lot of people. :/

Why are you best friends with your best friend? She’s always been supportive and stuck by my side no matter what I’ve been through. We also have great chemistry and have always shared the same sense of goofy humor.

Do you world peace is truly a possibility in the future? No.

Pretend you are a really good cook, what meal would you make? I’d just make sashimi everyday.

What do you think of when you look at the stars? I tend to reminisce when I do so. Think about what’s happened in the past, people who’ve left, what I’ve lost...and that there’s probably good reason why things are the way they are now.

If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked? Dead? Their shells are part of their actual skeletal structure. < Well there we go.

What’s one thing you feel you must do in your life before it ends? Travel the world.

What Disney princess are you most like? Personality-wise, I mean. Ariel. Pretty fucking clumsy, prioritizes the wrong things out of love.

What do you think is the most important thing in this life is? Happiness.

Do you use any acne medication? Nah, I just splash my face with water every morning.

Have you ever tried to learn another language? How did it go? [This survey seems to be a mix of a few surveys, so some of the questions - like this, I’ve already answered. I’ll be striking out the ones I’ve already delved on but if you’ll take this survey as well, feel free to remove the strike!]

Do you still have a landline phone in your home?

Throughout a typical week, which places are you likely to go? LOL just home. I work from home, and I’m usually exhausted during the weekend to want to go out.

How often do you use your webcam, if you even have one that is? A few times a week for work. Most of the time we communicate just through audio, but there are a few meetings or clients that prefer video.

Do you have a lock number or pattern for your phone? It’s a number combination, but I seldom get to use it. I usually rely on thumb ID.

What was the last thing you bought from a liquor store? Not a liquor store but I just got a few bottles of beer from 7-Eleven.

Is there any cereal in your house? What kind? We don’t. We’re not really a big cereal-eating family.

What's the most number of people you've ever lived with? 11. That’s a set of grandparents (2), my family (4), my mom’s older brother’s family (4), and my mom’s younger brother (1).

Do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

Do you have any pets? How long have you had them? I have two. 13 years with Kimi, a year with Cooper.

What's your favourite kind of cheese? Feta and mozzarella.

Have you danced in the rain? Once or twice, when I was a lot younger.

Who is your favorite person to text? I don’t text anymore, but I frequently communicate with Angela on Messenger.

What’s your favorite brand of jeans? My favorite pair is from Zara, but I don’t have a go-to brand for jeans per se.

Do you enjoy Mario games? Not all of them, but sure.

What’s your favorite online game? I don’t play games.

Have you ever been hit with a ball in gym class? Possibly. Not remarkable enough for me to remember though.

Who was last to cook for you? Dad.

Would you ever wish to explore a cave? I would love to. I had the chance to explore one during our trip to Sagada, but the tour guide decided against it since I had the wrong footwear and it wasn’t going to be safe if I tried. :( I did get to go to the underground cave in Palawan though, and that was a really fun experience.

You see the person you fell hardest for. What do you do? I’d give her a small, polite/curt smile and maybe wave, then go on with whatever it was I’ve been doing. Of course, I doubt it would actually go that way because I believe she’d run for the hills if she ever spotted me.

Have you ever ridden in a car with someone who was high? No. I would refuse to, especially if they were the one driving.

Did you ever date the last person you kissed? Yeah, for too long.

Have you ever held a snake? I have! A few times.

How often do you have friends over to your house? Almost never. Angela and Hans coming over for Sowoozoo two weeks ago was just an exception.

Have you ever had a boss who acted unprofessionally? No, I wouldn’t say that.

Who was the last person who cried around you? Why did they start crying? Was it unexpected?

Do you have any exercises you do everyday?

Are you more of a dog or cat person?

Have you ever had a dream of stabbing someone?

Would you ever have a bird as a pet?

Have you ever had to speak at a funeral?

Do you know someone who’s been cremated?

What is your favorite animated movie?

Did your grandparents teach you anything? Just some religion stuff and how to be a nice Catholic and all. Doesn’t apply to me, obvs, but I still outwardly listen out of respect.

Do you want/have a Bachelor's degree? Yes.

Are you into superheroes? Who's your favourite? I am most definitely not.

Have you ever played Cards Against Humanity? Did you like it? Sure, a few times. Yes, it was fun and hilarious.

Have you ever played a drinking game? Which ones? Just the basic ones like truth or dare and never have I ever.

Did you ever play Neopets when you were younger?

Have you ever been to Mexico? No, but would be nice to travel there.

Have your parents ever worked in medicine? No, not their field.

Is there anything unusual about your house? We don’t have a gate, which has always bugged me.

How many serious relationships have you been in? One.

Do you listen to Rise Against? Much more when I was in high school. I haven’t revisited their music in years.

When was the last time you congratulated someone? Reggy since she posted her graduation portrait the other day.

Have you ever taken care of a newborn baby? Nah.

How old were you when you got your ears pierced? Like a month old, I believe.

Do you snore when you sleep? Rarely. A snore or two would usually come out only if I’m extremely exhausted.

What was the last type of burger you ate? A Baconator from Wendy’s.

#survey #surveys

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TGIWednesday and having a twin flame love energy

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You know that person when you see them you want to kiss their face off? Maybe you complete their sentences for them or you just feel like they complete you? That’s twin flame energy for sure! It does not have to be romantic. It can be a best friend or a child or a relative or your “work spouse”, but it’s that someone you're just always excited to see. That is the kind of energy that we want to encourage and foster and know that it is real and if you have not experienced it yet, it’s coming. Granny Ruth (my mom) used to say, “YEAH you can do it baby……..go for it!” So just know that whether you had the best Valentine’s Day ever or stared out the window longing for what was or could have been. It’s coming. Always learn from your past, stay grounded in the now moment, but lean forward ever so slightly into a better more exciting future. I believe if you act like that, Spirit will lead the way to improving every area of your life and so it is and may the rest of your life be the best of your life and remember to make progress every day! Reminder, when you visit the shop this month and use the code LOVE44 you will receive an automatic 22% off the Ideal Love Audio MP3 for $44 through the end of this month.

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These calls are unique in that you have the benefit of tapping into a multitude of issues that our participants with truly insightful comments have submitted for the group each month on a different topic.

We compile that list of dozens of write-ins and one by one, Jimmy clears them ALL together during the live calls. And know too that during the LIVE call, Jimmy brings in additional pieces from Spirit in the moment of reading each item that really expand on things and cover the clearings in a much deeper way. The value in this is tremendous! Instead of paying $68 for a half hour one on one with me where we might clear a dozen or so items, you can join our group each month for just $22 where together in 30 minutes you will watch in silence and amazement as you hear and feel the shifts of over 100 items - most of which you haven’t even thought of until you hear them LIVE!! NEXT LIVE ZOOM EVENT Wed. February 24th at 7:30pm Register now - $22 (includes replay) https://calendly.com/jmh-calls/feb2021-switches Theme: Clearing the blocks and calling in The One! 🥰 All about Love/Soul Mate/Twin Flame energy. Want to increase and strengthen the love bond with your current partner? Is your energy clear and aligned to bring in that someone special? What past love traumas do you still need to clear? What beliefs do you have about love that are getting in your way?

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From the Fish Box

February Zoom Switches Event

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TGIWednesday and having a twin flame love energy

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Tampa Office Sessions

SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS - THIS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19th

Please call their office directly at ☎️ (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes $38 or 30-minutes $68. If you’re new to working with me, I suggest you schedule 30 minutes.

From the Fish Box

February Zoom Switches Event

Fish Food

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

**Can't See The Full Email? Click Here to View Online**

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! Click here to watch the Mastery video playlist

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Casio Privia PX-160 Demo & Review - AiR Sound Source & Tri-Sensor Scaled Hammer Action II

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Welcome to a video review and article on Casio's Privia PX-160 digital piano, presented by Stu Harrison for Merriam Pianos. We'll be discussing this high-value, entry-level piano that's receiving use as a stage piano for professional musicians, as well as home-based starter instruments all around the world. It uses Casio's Award-winning Tone Generator the multi-dimensional AiR proprietary sound source, which delivers realistic dynamic levels, improves upon Casio's previous generation of tone generator, and triggered by the remarkable tri-sensor hammer-action keyboard. It squeezes out a 128-note polyphony for a sound quality that delivers a surprisingly powerful performance.

Casio Privia PX160 Review Video Transcription

Hi, everyone and welcome to another piano review. My name is Stu Harrison. We're here at Merriam Pianos just outside of Toronto, Canada in our beautiful Oakville showroom today. And we are looking at Casio's PX-160BK, a product that has been out on the market already for a couple of years, but quite frankly is still holding its own in a very, very competitive market and a competitive price range, that of the under $1,000 88-key digital piano keyboard category.

So we wanted to give you a freshened up 2019 perspective particularly on how it compares now to the new boys on the market, namely the Roland FP10, and the Yamaha P45 digital pianos. And just gives you another chance to hear what still is a great sounding, great value instrument for its price range. I know in Canada and the United States, this instrument floats around the $600 range.

Now, there are lots of things to like about what this still delivers in 2019 for its price. One of them has absolutely nothing to do with the functions or the keys or the instrument, which is the available keyboard stand (CS-67 stand) with the optional SP-33 pedal system. You can still get it just as a slab with a sustain pedal / damper pedal but for such a small increase in price, the keyboard stand + 3-pedal unit is almost a no-brainer. This is essentially a nice starter home digital, great for your son or daughter who might be considering their very first foray into piano lessons. They're not too sure how serious they are and so you want to make sure that you keep your budget, you know, in line with reality until they really start to take off and become little Mozarts. Or maybe this is just for yourself to have at a cottage. You've already got a great instrument at home and you're looking for something to have as a secondary instrument.

We're going to be looking at the action. We're going to be listening to the instrument. We're going to be talking about the sounds that it has, and of course reviewing all of the features, both the basic and the more advanced features on this instrument, giving you a better look at home so that you could maybe do a bit of pre-shopping before heading out to showrooms. And as I said, right in the preamble, give you a little bit of perspective on how this compares in 2019 to the other items on the market. So once again, thank you for joining us. We're going to get started right away.

Piano Action

When the Casio PX-160 digital piano came out, and this I think is going back two or three years at this point, there were several things about the key action that brought some innovation to the marketplace, you know, particularly for the price range. One of them was that they came with textured keys (both ebony and ivory) and the keys actually had a pretty decent hammer weight to it. When you feel the black keys on here, when you feel the white keys, the texture is very obvious. When nobody else was doing it, it was kind of a nice differentiator. Now that you've got players like Roland and Kawai that are starting to introduce texture on their keys at these lower price points as well, you know, the differentiation is no longer whether it has it or not, it's what feels right to your fingertips. So you're just gonna have to figure out for yourself what level of texture. Of all of them, the Casio has the most extreme texture on it, so there's absolutely no doubt when you touch it, it is like, "Okay, yeah, it feels like there's a woodgrain there. It feels like there's, you know, some sort of, well, a texture on both the black and the white keys."

The second thing is there's a little more lateral motion in the key on the Casio PX 160 than what you might be used to getting in some of the more expensive ones. But I have to keep reminding people at home who are looking at this as an option in the $500, $600 range or maybe considering this as an alternative to going with a used one that was at one point more expensive, for the price range, the only other digital piano that really for my money competes with this would be the Roland FP10.

And I can't tell you over the camera what's going to be more satisfying for you. You really have to get into a showroom wherever you happen to be around the world and try these two instruments side by side. In fact, we've done a comparison video for you between the Roland FP10 and the PX160. You can find the link either in the playlist or in the description below, and that might be something you want to check out.

The sensor technology on here is decent and respectable, there's a tri-sensor that puts its accuracy into the same range as the Roland FP10 / FP30, meaning that the key is measured at three points in it's keystroke to ensure a proper 'capture' of the motion before it gets translated into sound. You are able to get a pretty nice dynamic range and a range of expression out of this instrument. Now, I think probably to protect the amplifiers and the speakers on here, you can almost hear a bit of a limiting or a compressing effect going on when you really, really punch it. You can feel that the sound sort of hits a bit of the ceiling, and so it plays tricks on your mind. You almost feel like the key itself is kind of hitting the bottom of the keyboard really hard. I don't actually think that that's what's happening. I think that's actually more of a digital limiting effect that's happening.

Tone Engine and Piano Sound

Moving on to the sound and the features in the instrument. And I make mention of this in my Roland FP10 video, the fact that they've got all of your shortcut commands nicely and cleanly printed on the front, I really appreciate that because who likes looking through manuals to try and remember a function that you might only use every couple of weeks. There's no way you're going to memorize that unless you've got a photographic memory. So having it right there makes it easy, it makes it intuitive, and it limits the amount of frustration that you might have navigating some of the more complicated features of the instrument.

And then you've got your acoustic piano sounds (concert grand is the default), your electric piano sounds, and some of your other supporting sounds like your strings, harpsichord, string ensemble, and your pipe organ. You can tell, or at least it's my impression, that Casio has spent the majority of time focusing on the acoustic grand piano sound and piano tones generally, which pairs with a nice reverb engine, and a polyphony of 128. You can hear some of the other ones don't have quite the same gusto or quite the same focus or level of sophistication in the sound, but they're still very much functional.

So you've got a function button right there, and then pretty much everything is laid out right in front of you. You've got sort of a number pad to drill in your tempo and metronome settings, transpose settings, sensitivity level adjustments, and some more advanced settings such as damper resonance and hammer response, as well as your music library select. That's to playback some of the more popular classical music that it's already got packed inside, either to play along with it or just listen to, just kind of a nice feature. All of this provided by the stellar 8w x 8w speaker system giving you with remarkably rich tone and projection.

There's a duet mode which permits the instrument to be split into two equal-pitched sections, as well as a track recorder function which allows for some basic recording and playback.

Features, Ports, USB Connectivity

Now, in terms of other features, some of the most basic but most convenient would be the included music stand, the AC Adaptor, the ivory keys as we mentioned before, an octave shift function (really handy in duet mode particularly), and dual headphone output (stereo mini jacks on both, fyi). Also, you've got a USB port on the out so that you can send MIDI through USB to either a laptop, Mac, even an iPad, if you've got a hard connection there. One of the nicer things that I really, really appreciate that Casio has done here is they've actually got discreet audio outputs. So if you want to send quarter-inch left and right line outputs to an amplifier or to a stereo, you can do that without having the stereo mini headphone jack defeat all of your local sound production, which is really honestly annoying. I'm not sure why all manufacturers still have that happen without some sort of an option to manage that function. However, you don't have to worry about it on there. You can still have the local speakers working and send this to an amplifier or a speaker, especially if you're using this to gig with, which quite frankly if you're looking for an inexpensive light instrument to do that, this isn't totally off the map.

So to summarize, with the PX160 you've got an instrument that is still a worthy consideration in the price range. Just because the Roland FP10 digital piano is out now, it does not wipe this off the map. The PX160 still has its place in the industry. And quite frankly, if you go back to when this came out, this really spurred a lot of innovation from both Roland and Yamaha to produce an instrument that would properly compete with the Casio PX-160 in this price range. And so I think it's done everybody a great service, the fact that the 160 was there in the first place and that it's still going strong as a great instrument.

So my advice is if you're thinking about $400 or $500, either for a used instrument or you were sort of in a Best Buy or a Costco and you've got something that you were somewhat compelled by in that price range, hold off on buying until you at least have a chance to get into your local dealer and try one or both of either the Casio PX160 or the Roland FP10. Those are definitely my two favorites for under the $1000 range.

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Minecraft in the Classroom

Jeff Gearhart on episode 162 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Are you studying Mars? Why not let students go live there? Jeff Gearhart is working with teachers in traditional subjects to let students immerse in the subject in Minecraft. In today’s show, learn about Minecraft EDU and how it is being used to teach. Join a delightful, fun world of immersive teaching.

Book Creator for Chrome. Previously on the 10-Minute Teacher, guests have mentioned Book Creator as one of their top apps for the iPad. Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser. Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video.

This is a perfect idea for special ed teachers and parents who want to use today’s show and make books Book Creator will let you record audio and video AND share the link with parents.

As a teacher, you can get started with a library of 40 books as part of their free version – go to coolcatteacher.com/bookcreator to get started now. This is great news! Now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms, on any device, using the Chrome web browser.

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Minecraft in the Classroom

Shownotes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e162 Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Vicki: Happy Ed Tech Tool Tuesday! Minecraft in the classroom. Jeff Gearhart @Techjeff09 did it all last year, and he’s going to tell us all about it. He was actually recently featured on the Microsoft blog about what he’s doing.

How Jeff is using Minecraft to get kids excited

So, Jeff, describe for us… How are you using Minecraft in your classroom, and what kind of things are you teaching?

Jeff: Ah, yeah… So I’m using Minecraft Education Edition in my technology classroom with my students. I’m at Brinnon School District in Brinnon, Washington. We’re a very small rural K-8 school.

One thing that I wanted to do with Minecraft Education Edition was bring something to the students that 1) they probably had never done before, and 2) give them opportunities for things that they wouldn’t be able to experience if it wasn’t for being in a technology class.

So with Minecraft Education Edition, that’s what I was able to accomplish. I was able to give these kids something to get excited about. We know kids these days. It’s all about technology. It’s all about gaming. When I brought up the subject of Minecraft, every eye went wide open, and the excitement was there.

What I was able to do with Minecraft Education Edition was I was able to engage students for an entire class period to the point where they didn’t want to stop because they loved doing it so much. That’s what Minecraft Education Edition does. It’s able to engage those students otherwise, where they wouldn’t do it if they’re just in a normal classroom doing pen and paper type stuff.

The great thing about that was that I was able to incorporate all different types of subject matter – whether it was art or science or history. I was able to bring that into Minecraft, and it allowed them to work on a lesson and collaborate together at the same time in one world of Minecraft. In a normal classroom setting, they probably wouldn’t do that.

Our students are very diverse, so we only have a total of three classrooms, and they’re all mixed with three grades each. So there are different learning levels and different learning environments for all these students. But the one thing Minecraft is able to do, regardless of that learning level, is it’s able to bring them all together to work collaboratively and be engaged at the same time and work together at the same time.

Vicki: Love it. Now, I’m totally onboard. My students have used Minecraft. We’ve participated in Givercraft.

(Editor’s Note: the Givercraft site isn’t there but my blog post has screenshots and explanations of this fantastic project.)

We did Gamifi-ED. So I totally get how you can teach with Minecraft. But let’s go into a lesson.

You know, lots of teachers listen, and they will say, “Sure, they want to play Minecraft a whole period. Of course they do.”

Example Lesson: Using Minecraft to Teach Science

But how would you teach a science lesson? Give us an example.

Jeff: So one of the things I did with science this year was I worked very closely with the other teachers and what they were doing in their normal classroom versus technology.

So let’s take the middle school class, sixth through eighth grade. They started working on a Mars project, reading about Mars and exploring Mars, and doing all this. A part of the Minecraft Education Edition and the entire Minecraft world, there are several Minecraft mentors – global mentors, which I am one of – and there’s just a huge plethora of resources out there that are available for other people who want to share their information or their worlds.

This full lesson and assets are available on the Minecraft EDU site

So I was actually able to find a Mars simulated world on the Minecraft website which is available for everybody to go to. So I just took that world and I worked with the teachers as to what they were doing in their normal classroom. I paired each student up with another student. They were in this world together, and they basically – it was a simulated world – had to learn to work together on how to survive Mars.

They were given a basic structure of being able to live with some food and resources and stuff. But then they had to work together and figure out how they were going to grow on that or improve their world or their habitat, and how they would be able to go out and “mine” or look for other resources that would help them along their way while they’re in this simulated Mars world.

It just worked fabulously because it coincided with what they were doing in their normal class and with their teacher, talking about Mars. I was able to modify the world and make those changes that they were working on, so that at the same time they were getting that same information together, only in a different environment. It was normal classroom versus gaming with Minecraft.

Teacher as the Game Master

Vicki: You know, one of the most fun things about this approach is that the teacher is a game master. I remember when I first took my kids into Minecraft, they just kind of wanted to play and be silly.

I literally levitated myself and then turned on monsters and made it go night – so that they would have to craft. I said, “OK, guys, you’ve got five minutes to craft something so that you can defend yourself.”

For people who don’t understand Minecraft, you’ll say that’s crazy. But we as the teachers do have an ability to kind of add a gaming element. So how do you play game master in this type of environment?

Jeff: I give them specific tasks or challenges that they have to do. Like I said, with the world they were given basic resources. But I told them, “OK, this is what you have to do. You have to add on another wing to your environment for farming, or for crafting resources, or for living quarters if you have more people coming into your simulated Mars colony.”

They would have to go out – and because the entrance to the outside world from their habitat was just a one-way door, one of them would have to then have to go out and work, while the other one stayed in so that they could get back into their habitat. And then vice-versa.

One would go out during the daytime and do stuff while one stayed and did work within their habitat. Then when it became night, one would go out and venture a little bit and look for those resources while the other one swapped roles with them and did stuff inside.

They were just able to go out and collect those resources that they need to add on a wing for additional housing or additional farming or additional crafting type resources – stuff like that. They had a specific task they were given and a certain amount of time frame. They were able to go out and do that.

A Key Tip: The Non-Playable Character and Linkable Information Inside Minecraft

Vicki: So Jeff, how did the teacher that you worked with in this particular example feel about what these kids understood about Mars?

Jeff: She loved it.

That’s the great thing about Minecraft Education Edition. There are specific elements that you can add into the game – that you can’t do with the normal console version. One of those is called and NPC, or a Non-Playable Character. Basically, you just put this character in there, and you can put information about something with the hyperlinks.

So if they were talking about airlocks or something, there would be an NPC that would talk about airlocks, and then there would be a URL that they would click on that would take them outside of the Minecraft environment to a specific website or video. That would explain what that is.

So for this instance, and airlock would take them to NASA’s website, and it would talk about airlocks and how they work. So they were able to understand that at the same time. Bringing in what the teacher was doing just reinforced what the teacher was talking about, in how you would live and colonize on Mars. I was able to incorporate that right in the world, and give them those outside resources even though they’re still in the game.

30-second Pep Talk to Get Started in Minecraft EDU

Vicki: OK Jeff. We have 30 seconds to give information to teachers who want to get started using Minecraft Education Edition in their classroom. Go.

Jeff: Go to education.minecraft.net There’s a plethora of information. It has resources. It has worlds. You can connect with Minecraft global mentors all across the world, myself included. There’s tons of information on there, and if you want to know anything about it, please feel free to reach out to me on social media, through Twitter or my e-mail address. Or you can get me on the Minecraft Education website.

Vicki: So many things are happening in Minecraft Education. It is a powerful tool. It has been around for a while. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids.

There’s another show that I’ll link to that actually shows that kids who are using Minecraft can improve in their social-emotional learning.

Dr. Michelle Zimmerman – Edtech and Social Emotional Learning – talks about this research.

So this is serious games. These are serious ways to teach and really make for remarkable experiences. So if you’re looking for something to really hook those kids in, think about Minecraft.

Also see: Why Minecraft in Schools in the Modern Marvel: 5 Epic Ideas (Lucas Gillispie)

3 Ways Monsters and Minecraft Can Drive Exceptional Learning (Joel Levin)

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford

Bio as submitted – Jeff Gearhart

I am the Technology Coordinator for Brinnon School District in Brinnon, WA. I am a self-proclaimed “tech nerd” and love to have my hands on all the latest and greatest products and software.

I love the camaraderie among other educators. Being able to network with so many other educators through social media has been an amazing experience. I love to share what I have learned with my fellow educators. I love being able to teach other educators about my passion of technology. When I am not working I love spending my time with my wife and four kids. I am an avid sports fan (Go Hawks!) and technology guru (obviously)!

Blog: www.atleastimwearingpants.com

Twitter: @Techjeff09

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just a guy trying to get it right

Do you listen to music while you fill out surveys? Sometimes. This is not one of them.

In the past week, what song have you listened to the most often? While a couple songs have come up in the playlist more than once (due to having hit the end of the list and restarting) I haven’t listened to them the second time, I’ve pressed > within a few seconds.

What was the last thing you shared with someone else? Photos of typewriters.

While playing video games, do you prefer being first or second player? Doesn’t matter, unless the other person is so good I have to wait forever for my turn. :)

What is the most difficult word for you to pronounce? I sometimes struggle with Cheburashka.

What did you have to do for the last homework you were assigned? I don’t have an answer for this; school it’s been a really long time and other work to do at home I’m not really sure.

You’ve planned a roadtrip. Where are you going, and who’s coming too? We’re going to Yakima and beyond... I don’t have a copilot at the moment.

Do you have an overactive imagination? This would be why I am awake at this hour. Actually, my reason is valid but thinking/dreaming about the results woke me up.

What was the last important thing that you thought about? The above statement. I made a blunder, not knowing how something worked, and needed to contact someone about it because the Interbutts is forever.

Generally, do you call people, or wait for them to call you? With my cell phone I prefer to call them since half the time calls go to voicemail without ever ringing.

On average, how many texts do you send out each day? Between four and twelve.

Has anyone ever questioned your sanity? Mostly me. A bunch lately. Other people have had other mental fitness questions, some plausible and others simply offensive that they’d ask.

How many people do you depend on? I like to say zero other than myself but it’s never that simple. Two certainly come to mind, my boss for giving me hours and my landlady for allowing me to live here, but I have no one of greater importance than those basics.

How many people do you think depend on you? I can’t prove anyone is dependant upon me. I don’t have kids, I don’t have a partner, and my work manages to go on without my being there.

What is the worst color combination? I don’t really know since there are so many.

Have you ever injured yourself walking around in the dark? Absolutely. I have a couple toes I’ve broken repeatedly.

When you get a papercut, how do you react? If it hurts, I react. If I’m bleeding, I take care of it. And internally, I am miffed because papercuts take like a week before they heal sufficiently. Can you type without looking down at the keyboard? Yeah, happy to say that I don’t have to watch my hands anymore. :)

At what age did you develop an interest in the opposite [or same] sex? Man, I was so young... chased a girl when I was in 1st grade. (And she had older sibs/relatives who picked her up by the arms and ran with her. That was NOT in the rules!!)

Are you or members of your family religious? At one time I was probably the most religious. Then I changed spiritualities.

What’s so scary about clowns, anyway? They run for public office.

When was the last time you acted like someone you’re not? The last time I needed something that was denied to me for me being me.

When was the last time that you cleaned your room? I know this one! Uh, it was a few weeks ago because I couldn’t walk through my room without tripping over things.

How many hats do you own/wear? Own a lot of them. Wear none of them unless it gets cold out. On that note, yesterday was a beautiful don’t-need-a-coat day and it fucking snowed overnight. Talk about plot twist! And now it’s coming down HARD.

What was the last thing that you printed? A map or directions, something related to a roadtrip.

Did the last song you listened to hold any special meaning? The last one? “Action” by Sweet? Not particularly, other than it’s the rare song I’ve tweaked with audio tools to improve the sound successfully.

Are you experiencing problems within a current relationship? Yes, actually. I lack a current relationship, that’s the problem. Yesterday I was waiting for someone to come online and when she did she only said “after yesterday’s conversation we’re not a good match.” I can’t argue, because I think she was showing signs of being a bit off her rocker. I couldn’t understand what she was talking about the day before and she apparently couldn’t understand what I was giving back, but the bigger question I had was *why* she was talking about this totally internal thing in such great detail as though this mental pursuit is a lot bigger than it really is. I replied wishing her good luck in finding love, holding back the “you are going to need it” part.

When you’re upset, who do you turn to? Depending upon what’s upsetting me, I have four friends I can lean on. Does winter weather depress you? Autumn depresses me. Winter either invigorates me or is so quiet that I can find some respite.

Who was the last person that you called? Hmm, I think it was a friend I was trying to nail down plans with.

What product was being advertised on the last commercial you saw? Radio and television repair. (I was scanning a 1954 electronics magazine.) As for on TV or the web... Grammarly?

Do you ever wonder who sings the catchy commercial jingles? I am geared like that. Just yesterday I was thinking, who is the guy who does the voiceovers for Wendy’s ads? Joe Sirola -- who just died a month ago!

When you think about your last relationship, what song comes to mind? Melanie “Brand New Key” reminds me of her personally, but thinking about the relationship itself the song would be Henry Rollins “Liar”.

Are there any lyrics to describe your current crush/relationship? It’s a question of lust, it’s a question of trust, it’s a question of not letting what we’ve built up crumble to dust; it is all of these things and more that keep us together...

Who in your life makes you the most uncomfortable? Myself, mostly. Do you ever receive comments on your weight? Never negative. People seem to think it’s less than what it is.

Is there anything that you do just to make other people happy? Well, I am in customer service, so a lot. Also, when told to fuck off I do so with a smile most of the time.

When you need a temporary escape, what do you do? Quick, to the park! Bring headphones if it gets really bad!

What was the last lie that you believed in? “I want to see where things go.”

How long did your last feelings of heartbreak last? I’d say a week or two.

Is there any sport that you would want to learn to play? No.

What band would you most like to meet? Depeche Mode.

Do you ever have difficulty opening pill-bottle caps? Not usually.

Do you gain weight around the holidays? I have been known to lose weight over holidays. But let’s say yes, because I really do love Christmas snackies.

Are you related to anyone famous, or to any historical figure? Not that I know of.

If it was an option, would you take a trip into outerspace? Maybe as a break from the bullshit but space is large and takes a lot of time to get to places so maybe to the moon which isn’t really outer space.

What was the last thing that you wrote down [with a pen/pencil]? My hours.

Has anyone told you that you have a nice smile? I can’t recall.

Are you uncomfortable with being photographed? No one wants to do that, unless they think they’ve caught me doing something wrong and then yes I am uncomfortable with them whipping out their cell phones for pictures.

What’s the earliest you’ve woken up in the past week? 4am.

How many people have you talked to today? Today? Just you all.

What was the last reason behind why you went to the hospital? To have lunch with a girlfriend who worked there.

When journaling, are you honest when documenting your feelings? Yes.

If you have a journal, do you ever worry others might find it? They would have a hard time deciphering it. :)

When you go camping, do you sleep in a tent or an RV? I don’t go camping. The last time I was supposed to, it was in a tent but since we didn’t have reservations at the park and pitching a tent where there wasn’t an outlet wasn’t an option to my companion we went to a motel room. The two things I learned were to make reservations at state parks ahead of time, and don’t get involved with anyone so fat they require a CPAP.

What’s one ridiculous thing that you do? Tinder. I do a lot of other ridiculous things also but that’s probably the most.

Do you feel that you must wear make up to be attractive? Straight male here. Makeup has the opposite effect.

What was the last thing [other than the keyboard] that you touched? My ziplock bag of Dark Chocolate Mint Almond Roca. Breakfast!

Ever done anything dangerous while driving with someone else in the car? Absolutely.

Name someone you wish you could be closer with? A nice lady. One who isn’t fucking other people. That’d be a change.

Have you ever played the license plate game on long car-trips? Nope.

Are you a secretive person, or are you open with your thoughts? I have things that are wide open and I have things that are private. I have learned from others how to be more clear about when things don’t suit me.

What is the worst question that someone could ask you? Nah, I’d really rather not expose myself like that.

Do you talk to your pets? My cats talked back so yes.

Do you have a least favorite day of the year? It tends toward my birthday. I am sure there are worse things.

What traits do you look for in a potential BF/GF? Fidelity. Sanity. And other myths.

Right now, what’s in your bookbag/backpack? Not sure right now since I don’t have anything in my messenger bag.

What’s unique about your city or town? It was founded by a guy who grew hops, hop growing was the local economy a century ago, and yet the town no longer grows hops.

If you could say something to the world, what would you say? If you look at a guy’s phone, you will find a record of conversations and pictures. If you look at a girl’s phone, you will find a whole other life going on.

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What song by your favorite group/artist would you recommend to somebody who has never listened to them? >> I avoid recommending things to people in general. I think people should make their own choices about what media to consume, especially in this era where you’re bombarded left and right with the overbearing opinions of other people. Any influence I have on people tends to be indirect -- they see me talking about something that I really enjoy, and they become curious enough to check it out for themselves. That seems the most acceptable kind of influence, to me.

What is your least-favorite song by your favorite group/artist? >> I don’t have a favourite group or artist.

What was your favorite band when you were 14? >> Pretty sure I was fully entrenched in my obsessions with Fuel and Creed at that age.

Have you ever gotten up early to watch a performance on a morning show? >> No.

Have you ever counted down to the release of a song or album? >> That definitely seems like something I would have done when I was younger, though I can’t remember any specific examples.

Have you ever thought a group/artist was trying to copy a different one? Examples/why? >> Maybe, but I wouldn’t remember anything like that now.

Do you look up who writes all the songs you like? >> No.

Or do you just assume the artist wrote it themselves? >> I generally assume at least one member in the band was responsible for the writing. Although I know with a lot of modern artists, that’s probably untrue.

Does it bug you when an artist doesn't write their own songs? >> No.

What about songwriters who don't sing? >> No.

Isn't a singer who can't write& a writer who can't sing a good partnership? >> Sure, provided they work in harmony.

Is Bohemian Rhapsody really the greatest rock song of all time? >> I don’t know. It’s a really fun and unique song, though.

Do you like any of the many covers of Bohemian Rhapsody? >> I have actually never heard a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody. Maybe later I’ll look some up, because now I’m curious.

'The kids call it music, but I call it noise!' < Does this sound like you? >> Nah, I tend to sound like the opposite. I’m always interested in new trends in music.

Which bands (if any) have you had posters of? >> I don’t have any band posters.

Which bands (if any) do you have T-shirts of? >> Let’s see if I can remember them all off the top of my head... David Bowie, Amon Amarth (two), Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, Wovenhand, Blaqk Audio... I think that’s it?

Were you mad when Harry Styles released Sign of the Times? (Some were mad bc there was already a Prince song, Sign O' The Times) (Others said he was 'trying to be David Bowie', like, what? Lol) >> This is all news to me, because I don’t listen to Harry Styles.

What is your favorite David Bowie song? Why? >> This is very difficult to choose. I’m sweating just thinking about it.

Ziggy Stardust VS. Thin White Duke? >> Oof. I think I slightly prefer Ziggy, but there’s something immensely, darkly compelling about the Thin White Duke.

What about your favorite song by The Beatles? Why? >> The only Beatles song I like on its own is I Am the Walrus. Oh, and I guess Hey Jude is pretty catchy. There’s a cover of Tomorrow Never Knows that I really like, and I enjoy the lyrics, but I’ve never heard the original and I’m in no hurry to.

Any favorite music videos? >> I have a lot of favourite music videos. I eventually made a Youtube playlist for them all, because there are so many.

Group/artist that was big when you were a teen but you didn't like: >> I don’t even remember who was big when I was a teen aside from Evanescence and Linkin Park (and I liked/like both).

One that was big when you were a teen that you DO like: >> Oh, already mentioned.

Group/artist you enjoy from before you were born: >> The Temptations.

Group/artist the kids like these days who you think has potential: >> I don’t know.

Did you hate Despacito, or did you think it was catchy? >> I only heard it a couple of times, but it sounded all right to me.

Can you enjoy a song if the lyrics are in a language you don't understand? >> Sure.

Do lyrics always have to be meaningful? >> Well, all lyrics mean something. They just don’t necessarily have to mean anything that matters to you or me. Which is fine.

Have you ever made friends because you had the same taste in music? >> Yeah, in high school.

When a group goes on hiatus, do you actually expect them to come back? >> I don’t really think much about it.

Any solo work from former band members you love? >> I know I have examples of this but I can never remember them on command...

Have you ever ruined a song for yourself? (Listened to it too much) Which ones? >> Nah.

Are you usually in a better mood after listening to music? >> Yeah, usually.

Do you actually know anybody who DOESN'T love music? >> Probably. I’ve definitely met a few people who seemed completely indifferent to music, and it blew my mind.

Are there any groups/artists whose music you have heard all/most of? Which ones? >> Yeah, there are quite a few like that. My Chemical Romance is one, and Pearl Jam, and Coheed and Cambria, and Volbeat... and so on.

A few songs that give you goosebumps? >> I don’t know. I don’t think I pay much attention to whether a song gives me goosebumps or not.

A few songs that bring back happy memories? >> Can’t think of any right now.

Any songs you didn't like at first, but grew on you? >> There are a few songs like that, yeah. There are whole bands like that, in fact. I hated Metallica and Guns N Roses when I was a teenager.

Some covers you liked? >> Oh man, there are so many covers I like. I’ll give two examples just to keep it short: Dream Theater’s cover of Rainbow’s Stargazer, and Alex Boyé’s cover of Adele’s Hello.

Artist with the best fashion sense? >> *shrug*

Artist with the best hair? >> *shrug*

Group/artist you think has improved over time? >> I don’t know, I generally just think bands and artists evolve over time -- whether that’s an “improvement” or not isn’t something I think about. Either I like it or I don’t, but that’s it.

Group/artist you think was better when they first started? >> *shrug*

List some of your favorite male vocalists: >> Eddie Vedder, James Labrie, Warrel Dane, Andy Kuntz (he of the unfortunate name), Hozier, Sam Cooke.

Some of your favorite female vocalists: >> Floor Jansen, Skin, Alissa White-Gluz, Whitney Houston, Céline Dion, Amy Lee.

Have any of your favorite groups broken up? >> Oh, absolutely.

Do you wish they would come back? >> No.

Do you like live recordings? >> Not usually.

Any artists you find entertaining to watch performing? >> Trans-Siberian Orchestra, always.

Are there any groups/artists you would like to meet? >> At this point, I can take it or leave it. I’ve met a lot of bands and it’s been fun. I feel pretty satisfied with my level of band-meeting experience.

Do you ever actually look up music people recommend to you? >> If I’m actually interested, sure.

Have you discovered any favorites through recommendations? >> Yeah, I remember I got into The pAper chAse because one of my longtime tumblr mutuals wouldn’t shut up about them for a while a few years ago, lol.

Any groups/artists you plan on checking out soon? >> Just whatever I run into thanks to Spotify’s algorithmic playlists. I’ve gotten into a lot of new songs because of them.

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Announcement

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:00:03].

Adam: Hey, all right. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts, this is episode 133, the episode with Adam and Bradley, and where Adam is working on being more expressive using his hands and making more movements instead of being here like twisting in my seat, I was told I do that a lot.

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: Anyways. It’s good to be here, and despite two of us, we do have someone else coming on, we’ll introduce, shortly. Then, I think the rest of the gang may show up, here as we get going. Everyone is pretty busy right now, so we’re just going to go ahead and get started. As far as announcements go, I just want to remind people, if you’re new to Semantic Mastery, please check out the Syndication Academy, I’ll put the link if you’re watching this on YouTube or if you’re watching this live, check it out. All right?

It’s a great place to get started with us, besides Hump Day Hangouts, although we highly recommend if you can come by ask us questions, you know, these are live every week, and you can catch the replay if you’re not able to make it. Also, if you have not, yet, create your free account over at SerpSpace, all right, that’s where all of the done for you services are, you can find, so check those out. We got a bunch more coming out, too, along with, I’m trying to think of the newest one, it’s going to be a YouTube accounts, kind of done for you, we’re still working on exactly how that’s going to come out, but you can check that out and then another one that just came out, what was it? Indexing, and citations.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Citations live, this is bad, I’ve got so many things going on-

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:24], citations is live, yet.

Adam: All right.

Bradley: It’s damn near it, if it’s not already, because I’ve seen it in the dashboard in the development server and all that.

Adam: Right. I’ll quit rambling, because the secret guest is going to be Roman, who is one of our partners on SerpSpace, so he can talk about this a little bit more. We’re doing a lot of, well, that’s him right there, it says Hernan, but it’s actually-

Bradley: Yeah. He’s playing Hernan’s part today.

Adam: Incognito. Then, real quick, too, one more thing is we’re going to be sending out some information about syndication networks, and we had a webinar this past Monday where we had a lot of information about the Syndication Academy, as well as syndication networks. Part of that is because hearing from other people, who have ordered services elsewhere, we know there’s other people that make syndication type networks and some of them are okay, and others are really not so good, so we’ve heard back from some people, like, hey, I bought this network, can you guys fix it? It’s like, well, probably not.

Bradley: No.

Adam: It would be expensive to fix it, then it would be to just do it. So, we’ll be sending out some information just doing some comparisons and then, you know, why you would want to use this service. We get that question a lot. Like, hey you guys charge more, why? So, diving into that, because we get that question and I think it’s a valid question and I understand, if I saw that, and was like, wow, why do you guys charge 10 bucks more? What’s up with that? Answering some of those questions, and then there might be a special opportunity with that. We’ll leave it at that, for now. Roman, can you hear me?

Roman Barnes: Yes, I can. Can you hear me?

Adam: Ew. Yeah. Your audio is awesome.

Bradley: Still, no camera, though. Right?

Roman Barnes: No. I need to go get a camera.

Adam: Got you. All right. Yeah. Everybody, this is Roman and Roman I’m not going to butcher your last name, you want to introduce yourself?

Roman Barnes: Yeah. My name is Roman Barnes. Not too bad to ruin my-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:16].

Adam: Actually don’t ask, I was thinking-

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:17].

Adam: Don’t ask. I was thinking about your email address. I got confused for a minute and I was thinking that was your last name. Yeah. I’m out there. Anyways. Yeah. I mean, right before you hopped on we were talking about what’s coming up at SerpSpace, how we had the indexing come out. There’s some cool stuff like the done for you YouTube channels. Then, I even got confused, myself, as far as what has most recently come out since we had so much rolling out that you guys have been working on. If you don’t mind if you can kind of do it off the top of your head, what’s the latest two or three things that have come out?

Roman Barnes: The two things that we’re working on/pushing out kind of at the same time, one of them is something called TAS, or traffic authority stacking, it’s based on Jimmy Kelly’s Domain Authority Stacking. It’s the 2.0 version that everybody was waiting for that never happened through Network Empire. Storm alerts. Outside of that, also, we have citations coming out and that should be very shortly.

Adam: Nice. That’s right. Yeah. For some reason I thought they’ve gone live, and then I was like, wait a second, maybe not. All right. Cool. All right. Again, hopefully we’ll be having you on these Hump Day Hangouts more often, so something I’ll just say to everyone who is watching this now, if you guys have questions about SerpSpace, I know from time to time we get them. By all means, pop those in here and we’re going to try to be hooking up with Roman here, and bringing them on Hump Day Hangouts, so I mean he can answer all sorts of SEO questions, but obviously he’s going to be kind of the go to for SerpSpace stuff, so we can give you some more in depth answers.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: One thing, before we get started, I wanted to say we sent out an email, but if you haven’t heard about it, the Video Link Vortex webinar is tomorrow. That’s a free webinar. I’m going to pop the link on here. Bradley, did you, are you going to be involved in that?

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: Okay. Cool.

Bradley: I’ll be there.

Adam: Awesome.

Bradley: I’ll be there with my buddy Bill, and Lem Moore, those guys are awesome. We always have a great time when we get together on webinars. It will be fun. We’ll have a good time, so guys, come check it out. He’s got another application that kind of, it’s kind of like a one, two punch with the Rocket Video Ranker, or the Tube Authority Rocket, whatever you want to call it. We promoted that with Bill a few weeks ago, and I did a case study, and Video Link Vortex kind of is like the next step, it can do, like automate YouTube silo builds, and it can do silos within, so in other words it’s like a playlist thing. It’s awesome.

Adam: Nice.

Bradley: It can do it from within the same channel. It can do it within, you can create silos using other channels, as well. It’s insane.

Adam: That’s awesome.

Bradley: Yeah. It creates like video link wheels and all kinds of stuff. It’s a really cool application that would work really well with the other app, too. Anyways, that’s what that’s about. Come check it out tomorrow, guys. There will be a replay, so if anybody asks, because I know we get that every time, so there will be a replay, don’t worry about it if you cannot make it live, we’ll send out the replay. Okay? By the way, Roman, while I got you on, real quick, did you say the super web 2.0’s are available, now, or they’re coming out?

Roman Barnes: Not, yet.

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: We still have a big piece to finish for that.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:06:31].

Bradley: Dude, I was logging into SerpSpace when you were saying that, I was like, no shit, they’re ready? That’s awesome.

Roman Barnes: Okay. Cool.

Adam: All right. Yeah. I guess, that’s it. That’s all I’ve got for announcements. You guys got anything else? Any SerpSpace news coming up, Roman, or anything people should know about?

Roman Barnes: Not too much. Once the citations are live, we’re going to be good to go on those for the desks, task type of stuff, that we haven’t pushed live now on the site. We can take a couple of orders, but we cannot handle heavy volume, yet, until we get more people trained on it.

Adam: Yeah.

Roman Barnes: It’s live, but-

Adam: Awesome.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. Limited.

Adam: Cool. All right. Awesome. Let’s get into it.

Bradley: Cool. All right. I’m going to grab the screen, and bear with me, I’ll drop out for a minute … Can you guys hear me?

Adam: Yes, I can.

Bradley: Okay. Cool. All right. Ed [inaudible 00:07:34] up, he is a newer Mastermind member, and he is a hustler like no one I’ve, I mean, like it’s rare to find people that hustle as much as Ed does, so Ed, again, welcome and keep doing what you’re doing, dude. You’re going to crush it, there’s no doubt.

Short Tutorial On How To Use Live Rank Sniper

Ed says, “Any way to get a short tutorial step by step on how to use Live Rank Sniper? I thought I had it to create videos, to even use it. Thanks, Ed [inaudible 00:07:56].” No. Ed, and in fact you should as a Mastermind member, anyways, regardless of whether you purchased it or no you should have access to the bonus site, the MPR/, well, MasteryPR/SemanticMasterybonussite and there’s a case study in there that I did on how to use Live Rank Sniper. So, there is step by step tutorial on exactly how I use it in there. Just go check that out, if you do not have access, just reach out to us via support and we’ll get you set up, but you should have it already. Okay?

Next question, and by the way guys, you don’t need videos to use Live Rank Sniper, because all it does is, it creates scheduled live events within YouTube, which are indexible, if they’re set to public. You don’t even need a video. You can just go in and schedule a whole bunch or live events, targeting keywords, you get a YouTube URL and everything. It’s just like a YouTube video, there’s just no video, it’s just a placeholder. Then, once you’ve tested, if you decide that you want to replace the placeholder with an actual video, then you can stream to the placeholder. That’s possible to do, you can do it within Live Rank Sniper. You can do it with Hangout Millionaire, which is Peter Drew’s, basically it’s the enterprise version, or whatever, of Live Rank Sniper.

It does more than that, too, by the way, or you could use something like OBS, which is free. OBS Studio, and live stream to those scheduled live events. Really, the trick to using that tool is really just use a bunch of test channels for spamming with scheduled live events for poking keywords. In other words, testing the rank ability of keywords, using test channels that have no syndication networks, no connection to anything else on the web, they’re just spam channels for testing purposes, and then from there, once you’ve identified, which ones ranked, then you can go through and delete all those scheduled live events, and then just upload, or target those keywords from money channels that do have syndication networks, that have authority and all that kind of stuff, and you should be able to crush it.

That’s really what the whole purpose of that tool is for. It’s not necessarily to actually replace those scheduled live events, you know, like actually add videos to those events, because the tool isn’t really designed for that, it’s more for, it’s a poking tool. It’s a keyword testing tool, so to speak, although, you can do that it’s just a slower process.

Difference Between The Link Services Provided At Serp Space and Backlinks Indexer

Ed’s up next, he says, “I am taking all of my URLs for my client website, social media, and Web 2.0 sites and listing them on a spreadsheet, and then having my VA create a Google shortener for each URL and then I run both sets through the backlinks indexer, which I buy monthly, but I only get a total of 1400 links. SerpSpace allows for almost the same amount of money, it does 5,000 links. What is the difference in service? Objective answer please.”

Adam: Wow. What a good time to have Roman, here.

Bradley: Yeah. It’s a great question. Roman, do you want to tackle that one, or shall I? He might be muted.

Adam: Yeah. Roman, if you can hear us, you can feel free to talk, I don’t know if you’ve got yourself muted, or something happened, otherwise, Brad-

Roman Barnes: Yeah. I muted, myself.

Adam: Oh, okay.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. All I see is a black screen in front of me.

Bradley: What? You don’t see the screen? Does anybody else not see the screen?

Adam: I see it. Here, Roman, I’ll just send you the Skype, there you go, I just sent it to you.

Bradley: You need the, he doesn’t have the event page URL.

Adam: Right. Yeah. Let me send that to you, also.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:11:19].

Adam: As you can see everyone we’re working through-

Bradley: I’m surprised he’s not seeing my screen from his angle. Anyways, whatever. That’s interesting. Everybody else can see, right? I’m going to assume.

Adam: Yeah. I can see.

Bradley: Don’s asking, “What are the super web 2.0’s?” Cannot talk about it, yet, Don. “I was asking because it’s something that’s coming out with SerpSpace.” We’ll let you know as soon as it comes out. We’ll definitely be talking about it. Okay. Can you see, now, Roman? Apparently, not. All right. I’m just going to answer it-

Adam: Sure.

Bradley: If Roman wants to add on, he certainly can. Okay.

Ed’s asking, he’s using, let’s see, backlinks indexer. Backlinks Indexer is good. There’s nothing wrong with it. I’ve been using Backlinks, I actually canceled my subscription, I’m not kidding, like probably five or six weeks ago, only because we’ve got Dedia in our indexing service now, through SerpSpace that is guaranteed at 60% of indexing. That’s pretty freaking fabulous.

I don’t know of any other indexing services that do that, maybe they do, I don’t know of any that do, and I could be wrong, but that’s pretty cool and I know that Dedia, it’s amazing, because the amount of links that, that dude builds is unbelievable. Him and his team, I mean millions and millions of links per week, and he’s getting, I cannot tell you what he’s getting on his indexing, but we’ll guarantee he’s above-

Roman Barnes: Is it quite?

Bradley: 60%.

Roman Barnes: Or, is it just me? I’m just curious. I’m sorry.

Adam: What’s that? No. I can hear you.

Roman Barnes: Okay. The only person I could hear is you, in the last little while.

Adam: Weird. Yeah. You might have dropped out, especially if you’re having storms.

Roman Barnes: Do you want me to rejoin on the webinar?

Adam: [crosstalk 00:13:01].

Bradley: Hey, guys. I can hear you guys.

Roman Barnes: Okay. Yeah. I’m trying to understand the question that-

Bradley: What’s going on? Can you guys not hear me?

Adam: Yeah, Bradley, I can hear you. Can you hear me?

Bradley: Yeah, but I hear Roman in the background talking, so I don’t know-

Adam: Yeah. Roman, you’re here, right? You can hear me, right now?

Roman Barnes: Yeah. I can only hear you though, I cannot hear anybody else.

Bradley: He cannot hear me is what I’m saying Adam.

Adam: Okay. So, Bradley is talking. All right. Roman, we’ll probably have you stop, just because it’s going to get all sorts of messed up.

Roman Barnes: Okay.

Adam: Yeah. Thanks. If you want to type me something as far as an answer about this or anything, feel free, and I’ll just kind of relay it.

Roman Barnes: All right. Sounds good.

Adam: Thanks.

Bradley: We’re going to have to switch back to Hangouts, man. I can see it already. All right. Anyways, that’s really the whole reason why Ed, is why, like, I mean, again, Backlinks Indexer is a great service, but since we have the ability, you know, through SerpSpace to indexing links at 60% or above, we guarantee, which is amazing. That’s why. If you can get better value by using SerpSpace, absolutely use it. Why not? Okay. By the way, I don’t think it’s necessary, Ed, honestly, to be taking your, well, if you want to do it one time, like take your clients website, social media, URLs and Web 2.0, like the profile URLs, like the main blog URLs, and shorten them, and then submit them, that’s fine, although I really don’t think that’s necessary. I think that’s overkill.

I mean, again, you can, it’s not a problem, if it’s not costing you a lot of money it’s not something you’re doing it’s a VA doing, then feel free to do so, but again, I think that’s overkill. Just submitting the URLs directly into the indexer ought to be good enough. It just seems like that’s redundant, is to shorten those URLs and then submit them, unless you wanted them shortened for a reason, for other link building purposes, in which case it would be nice to already have it done. If that makes sense?

Again, if your objective is specifically just for indexing those URLs, it’s really unnecessary to shorten them and submit them twice, because you can just take the actual URLs instead of shortening them and submit them more than once if you wanted. That’s not a problem. You can submit the same links over and over again. Usually most of the indexing services if you submit duplicate URLs in the same batch it will filter out the duplicates, but if you resubmit the same, like submit a batch, and then you resubmit the batch a second time it will take both times. If that makes sense? It’s probably going to vary from service to service, but that’s typically how it would work.

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: All right. Jeff’s up next, he says, I’m sorry, go ahead, Adam.

Adam: No. I was just saying, yeah, that makes sense. Then, also if anyone is interested, something we’re looking at is the possibility of integrating the indexer in SerpSpace with network management. If you know what I’m talking about, and that sounds interesting to you, just put something on the page, please.

Bradley: Can I elaborate on that a little bit?

Adam: Yeah. Sure.

Bradley: All right. Guys, if you’re a member, for those of you that have been using syndication networks or part of the Syndication Academy for any length of time, you probably remember over a year ago, from two years ago to about a year ago we had been endorsing a plugin called Backlink Commando that was really great, because it was a plugin that you could add to, you could take the RSS feeds from your Web 2.0 URLs, from your Web 2.0 sites, your network properties. Any of the properties that created, or had an RSS feed, so think of Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, Delicious, and [inaudible 00:16:29]. Delicious is pretty much dead in the water, right now, but Delicious and [inaudible 00:16:33] had RSS feeds. Pocket, was another one.

If you use pinboard.in that was another one that has a feed, anyways, any that had a feed, period, you could add to this plugin and it would basically run on a cron, so a cron job, so you could set it to once every, or four times a day, let’s say four times a day it would go basically call or fetch all the RSS feeds that were submitted to the plugin and pull any new posts that it had discovered. It would submit them or put them into a queue that then would go submit those URLs on a cron to a backlinks indexing service, and there was several of them that it would integrate with, one of which was Backlinks Indexer, and that was the one we always recommended. It was awesome.

It was an awesome way to automate your Web 2.0 post URLs, so your syndicated content from your money site, or your YouTube channel that goes out to your Web 2.0’s and is published on the Web 2.0’s it would extract those URLs, post URLs and auto submit them to indexer, as well. About a year ago, they just stopped supporting that plugin, and it stopped working. They don’t sell it anymore, either. They don’t support it anymore, which I think that’s shitty, but it is what it is, and it stopped working, so we really didn’t have any other solutions for that.

Now, about two or three, maybe even four months ago, now, on one of the Syndication Academy update webinars there was a hack that was brought to me, or was shown to me by one of our Syndication Academy members, his handle in the Facebook group is Rico Suave, but he gave us an awesome, or shared an awesome method for being able to use Google Sheets, which would extract the post URLs and put them in a Google Sheet and then you could index the Google Sheet and do all kinds of stuff with that. That’s been covered in the Syndication Academy updates, guys, if you want to go look at that, but again, it was still kind of a bit of a pain in the ass to set up.

It was a decent alternative, but it was kind of a pain in the ass, so anyways, the next step is now that we have indexing services inside of SerpSpace, along with the network management. Right? Network monitoring service, we can possibly, and that’s what we’re working on is have that service to where it will auto extract the URLs and submit them to the indexer, so it’s going to be the solution that we’ve been waiting for, for about a year, now. Thanks to our friends over there at SerpSpace. Hopefully, that makes sense. Guys, when that feature rolls out, we’ll certainly let you know, because that in of itself will be totally worth having a subscription for the indexing service just for that reason if nothing else. Okay?

Thoughts On Syndicating WordPress Blogs To Personally Branded IFTTT Networks

Okay. Jeff’s up, let’s see, he says, “I have a new client who, he and his wife both have problems in the past with showing up on Ripoff Report we are working on citations, and soliciting new reviews. If I can bury a Ripoff Report beyond page two for his name I get paid a handsome bonus. He has a consultingbusiness.com, domain number one, and his wife is a real estate agent and she owns her name.com, domain number two, and he owns his name.com, domain number three. They also own a prominent real estate development, domain number four.” Okay. “I was thinking, syndicating their respective WordPress blogs to personally branded IFTTT networks. Thoughts?” Yeah. That’s fine. There’s no reason you cannot do that.

You can certainly brand, like think about consultants and things like that, speakers, coaches, those kinds of things are typically going to have their brand is themselves, you know what I mean? They are their brand, that’s what I mean. Okay? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, Jeff. That’s perfectly logical and normal.

Ordering IFTTT Networks And Use Real Names/Photos Instead Of Personas

“If so, can I order syndication networks and use real names, photos, instead of personas?” Absolutely. Yeah. We only use personas stuff when we’re creating specifically just for SEO boosting purposes. You know, syndication networks specifically just for SEO boosting purposes, but if you’ve got, you know, a real person that has their own blog, absolutely, we don’t spoof anything there.

That should be branded for them. Right? It should be branded after them personally, because they are their brand. Yes. You can absolutely do that. “Could these be ordered so that IP’s match the regional area?” They could be, but here’s the kicker with that, Jeff, it’s not something we cannot do, but you’re going to have to provide the proxy when you purchase the order, and it’s going to have to be a custom order, which means we charge, it’s a small nominal customization fee. I think it’s like 20 bucks.

If Roman is still on, and he can confirm that, or Adam, if you can confirm that. I think it’s 20 bucks as an add-on for something like that. Here’s the deal, when you go to order the network, as far as I know, you order the network and place a support tech ticket after it’s been ordered, mention that you would like to use a specific proxy, pay the upgrade fee and send us the proxy with the user name and password for it, and we should be able to get it done for you. Okay? Am I wrong in saying that, guys? Anybody want to comment on that, before I move on to the next one?

Roman Barnes: I don’t think we have that option available in the site, but we could certainly take care of it if you-

Bradley: Right.

Roman Barnes: Send in a ticket afterwords-

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: That’s not a problem.

Tiers Suggested Per Property For All Four Domains/Properties

Bradley: Okay. That’s your deal, Jeff, just send in a support ticket, as long as you can provide us with the proxy, and again, I think it’s just a small fee for customization. That kind of stuff happens from time to time. We do accommodate things like that when needed. “If I ordered networks for all four domains, properties, how many tiers do you suggest for property?” Honestly, I would just suggest one tier one network for each property, Jeff. That hasn’t changed, that’s the same suggestion that I always do for blog syndication, I want one branded tier for each domain. Right? Because there’s going to be four different brands, really. That’s all I recommend.

You can do multi tiered networks, but it’s more hassle, in my opinion, then it’s really worth, unless you’re using something like RSS Masher, Damon Nelson’s product, which is a good product, and that’s a good way to kind of like reduce footprint issues on tier two. For YouTube channels, you can get away with as many networks as you want, but for money channels, I recommend that you stick with just a branded tier one network for now.

Syndicating Youtube Channels To The Same Set Of Web 2.0 Properties

“Can I also syndicate YouTube channels to the same Web 2.0 properties?” Of course. Of course, you can.

“Any other tips, recommendations?” No. The only thing I would recommend is from the personal blogs, because it’s kind of like all wrapped up in one, those four brands, believe it or not, I would recommend actually, probably interlinking between networks. What I mean by that is not linking everything together, but I’m talking about like occasionally do a blog post from one site where they mention or reference another site, kind of like, you could do it multiple ways, a traditional contextual link from within a blog post with an anchor text or you could do curation style link. Remember, where you could actually curate some content from one of those other three domains on to the blog. Right? Then, cite, or give attribution. Just like you would for any sort of curating content over to that site.

Another thing you could do is like a resource box, like, at the bottom of a post, say recommended reading or additional resources, or something like that, and then put links to related content on the web, one of those links being one of your own sites, or one of your clients sites. You know what I mean. The reason I say this, you don’t want to interlink everything all the time, but you don’t want to start just at kind of randomly, occasionally linking from one to the other, and another to another, that kind of stuff and what will happen is you’ll start to improve the authority and the relevancy of all four of those. Right? That’s a little bit counterintuitive.

Our friend, Pavel from Rank Whiz has been doing a ton of testing with that kind of stuff. He’s got a lot of data showing that, that will improve actually interlinking between network properties, now, in a randomized fashion, and Roman could talk about this a little bit, as well, but that seems to be actually really effective for reinforcing the relevancy of the network properties, and actually improving the overall authority and the power of them.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. Definitely. One of the things I wanted to maybe also add into that is maybe some JSON structured data markup might help in his situation as well, because it’s general reputation management from what I’m understanding from the question, same attributes, and that kind of thing would definitely go a long way.

Associated Website For A YouTube Channel

Bradley: Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Cool. On to the next one. Greg’s up, he says, “My established website has an empty YouTube channel, it’s part of it’s branded syndication network. I went through YouTube mastery course and will not be adding a lot of videos and I’m wondering about the companion website you discussed, is a companion website needed in my situation, or is that only when used when YouTube is a primary focus and there is no related website already placed?” Yeah. That’s what I mean, Greg, the companion website, associated website, whatever you want to call it, that’s typically if you’re going to be using YouTube as your main content distribution engine.

In other words, if that is your epicenter, your golden frame, is your YouTube channel, itself, like that’s your main content platform, then I recommend buying a domain and creating a companion/associated website and it attaching it, because it does help to improve the authority of the YouTube channel, but it’s not necessary if you have that, for example, in your case it’s part of a branded network, it’s just not being used, then it’s not necessary, because it’s again, it’s only, I only recommend doing that if you’re using YouTube as the primary content source for your networks.

If you’re going to be using a website, then I recommend creating the associated website, right away, and then using that as your content distribution, so that’s the center of everything, is your website, because you want to transfer as much authority to your website as possible. Right? If you’re doing specifically YouTube marketing, YouTube video stuff, then I would recommend just sticking with the YouTube channel as your primary source and you can add a companion website if you want, but if you already have it as part of a network, it’s really not necessary, because it should already be linked to your existing, and excuse me, interlinked with all of your existing properties in that network. It’s just your call. It’s up to you. It’s really up to you.

Pinvid As Top Recommended Theme For A Youtube Companion Website

“Is PinVid still top recommended theme for a companion website?” Yeah. In a reality, if you’re doing video based stuff, oh, God, I want to talk about this, this screen, here, at some point, if we have time.

Adam: Yeah, man. Do it. Momentum?

Bradley: Yeah. This is awesome. I freaking love this. Guys, this in a Chrome extension. It’s called Momentum, it’s free, but what I love about it is once you install it, you’ve got this to do list over here, and I’ve just always used paper and pen or whiteboard and I have for years, now, I’m just keeping tasks and stuff, daily tasks, this is awesome, because you can swap stuff around, you can move stuff, all kinds of stuff. You can put your favorite links, the links you access often up here. What I like about it is every time you go to open up a new tab to go to another website-

Adam: Hold on, your man focus today is get shit done.

Bradley: My man focus today is-

Adam: That’s awesome.

Bradley: To get shit done. That’s right. What that means is look at your to do list, dummy.

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: That’s what that means. You know? Every time I go to open up the tab to go check Facebook, or go look at the new offer from some stupid email that I got, or whatever, I click on this, I open this up and it is basically starring me in the face, like hey, this is the stuff you’ve got to do quit being stupid. You know?

Adam: Maybe we should have an episode of Hump Day Hangouts that’s all about workflows and productivity, or maybe just an extra episode. I think it would be interesting.

Bradley: Yeah. All right. What I was looking for was structured, you would know this one, Roman, if you’re still on.

Roman Barnes: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Semantic WordPress themes, that’s what I was thinking of. Kevin Polley, he coded these. If you’re just doing this, let’s see if I can find it, this is on the Network Empire website, but they had, he had his own website for, I thought it was semantic WordPress themes. Anyways, this is it here, guys, just go to Google, if your curious, look up semantic WordPress themes, this is from the Network Empire guys, specifically Kevin Polley, and he’s the one that coded all this out, it’s basically the PinVid theme, so you can see the Pinvid theme. It’s 50 bucks, or the PennBid Pro theme, only for certified advisors, so this is the one that you could get, here. PinVid theme for 50 bucks.

I’m telling you it’s a really good theme if your focus is video stuff, and you’re just building a companion website for the sake of the authority boost that it gives the channel, then this is a great theme for that. This is the same theme I use for those. Okay, guys? The reason I’m telling you that is because it’s been marked up entirely with schema, so the video objects, the whole entire theme is marked up and you can automate the posting of the videos to the WordPress theme, or excuse me, the site through plugins or you can do it with IFTTT. Right?

I prefer to do it with IFTTT, because there’s no load on the server. That’s why you can set up an IFTTT account guys that will automatically post your word, excuse me, YouTube videos to your self posted WordPress site. We actually covered that, I think, last month in the Syndication Academy Update webinar. That’s a great theme specifically for that purpose. I wouldn’t use it for much of anything else, but for that, it’s a great theme. Okay? There you go.

Uploading Videos To YouTube Without Persona Syndication Network

We’ll move on. “I don’t have a persona syndication network build around my YouTube channel, yet, should I wait to upload any videos until that is completed, or if I add the videos to the channel now can they be added to the network once it’s finished? Thanks.” They can be, Greg, but you have to set up the like recipes, so you have to build out a whole other set of recipes that are triggered by liking a video, so I would recommend just holding off if you’re going to build a persona network as well. I’d just wait, if I were you, but it’s up to you. You can always go in and add the like recipes, or applets, now, and I’d just click on those and that will syndicate it, as well, but that means you have to build a whole other set of applets.

Google Maps For Online Business With No Intention Of Getting Foot Traffic

Okay. Steve’s up, he says, “I ran a number,” excuse me, “I run a number of online websites out of my home, and I’m definitely not interested in foot traffic. Are they’re any good ways to still use Google Maps for SEO, or should we just ignore them outside of local SEO?” Now, you can, here’s the thing, guys, look, and I started doing this, too, for some of my affiliate businesses and stuff, guys, I’m not kidding, I’m registering Google My Business pages with registering addresses and all of that for even affiliate based businesses, now, guys, because of the boost that it can get, because it validates the entity.

When you get a Google My Business page, and you verify an address via postcard or whatever, how ever you verify it, for me it, it’s always been postcard, then that’s a verified business entity in Google’s eyes. Like, I’ve even got, recently, the Ketogenic Diet project that I’ve been working on, some of you would be familiar with that, I actually formed another company for that project and so I registered that. We just started a traffic agency, Semantic Mastery, we just registered that. I mean, even affiliate websites, guys, can be registered, but you have to verify an address.

The thing is, Steve, all you got to do is once you’ve registered the Google My Business page you want to during the initial process of setting it up adding your business to Google Maps or to Google My Business, there’s going to be a checkbox at the bottom when you go to, and it says something like, does your business serve customers at their location? You want to leave that to no, at first, which is the default setting, because when you go through the process and it sends, and it wants to send you a verification postcard, a mail via US mail, if you had selected yes, I serve customers at their location, unless this was a bug and it might have been fixed, because about six months ago when I was setting up several lead gen locations, or lead gen Google My Business location pages if you had that, yes, I serve customers at their location checked on the sign up process.

When it got to the point where it would direct you to send the postcard there would be no address in the postcard address field, it would just be the name of the business, and the city, it would have no street address, because that’s what happens when you select that option after you’ve verified the address, so in other words, leave it to no, I don’t serve customers at their locations, when you set it up. Then, request the verification postcard, then once you receive the postcard and you enter your pin number in, which then verifies it, then you can go in there and set, yes, I serve customers at their location, and what that does is removes your street address from Maps. It’ll still give you a Maps listing, it will still identify the city that the business is listed in, but it will remove the street address and the Map marker from the pin, or excuse me, the Map pin from the map, itself.

It will just show your business name, and the city, and then obviously the contact details, phone numbers, stuff like that. Again, I recommend for those of you who are willing to do so, I mean, guys, I don’t care what anybody says about post office boxes not working, still. I just did two more of them last week. I’m not kidding. The US Post Office boxes still work, as I’ve recommended before don’t try to register several boxes for the same Google My Business profile, so whoever the Google My Business owner is, like if you’ve got, if you’re going to be using the black hat method of USPS post office boxes, guys, then don’t go try to register four under the same account. Does that make sense?

You don’t want to do that, because that will flag it, I know it, I’ve seen it happen, it hasn’t happened to me, but it’s happened to several of our Mastermind members or Local Kingpin members, or whatever. That’s why I recommend for every single Google My Business profile that you set up if you’re using the PO box method is that you use different persona accounts for each GMB profile, and then once the listing has been verified, then you can add your main profile, or a single profile as the main manager for every single one of those that you set up. If that makes sense? Okay. That way you can access everything from one profile, but the actual owners are all separated. All right. That’s how I’ve gotten around it, and again, I just did two of them last week. I know it still works.

Webinar on KML

Chris G is up. He’s our support guy, and our partners in Mastery PR, he’s awesome. He had a support question from Daniel [inaudible 00:35:49], he says, “Can you point me to the webinar that talks about KML? I’ve seen that except floating around the Facebook group numerous times, but have no idea where it’s from. I believe there was a webinar about it in the past, but not sure if it was free or a paid webinar.” Okay. My answer to that is, Daniel, it’s funny, but I was chatting with Marco about this earlier today, and Chris, and KML files it stands for Keyhole Markup Language. That’s a, I guess it’s a specific language or whatever, like what Google Earth uses.

I have limited knowledge on KML, guys, except for how I used it in the past. Okay? When I first got into doing, and I promised Marco that I would just talk about it based upon what I know from back in 2012 when I was using KML files a lot, and Marco and his team of mad scientists have been in the lab and they’ve got some really crazy shit that they’ve discovered about KML, recently, that is strictly for RYS members, guys, so I cannot, I don’t even know half the shit that they’re doing to be honest with you. I can tell you specifically about what KML used to be. I didn’t even realize that they were still valid or viable files that would help SEO.

Back in 2012, I was introduced to KML files through Ivan Budimir he’s one of my primary mentors for local SEO, and this goes back when Google Maps SEO was brand spanking new. Right? It was in its infancy, so KML files are, you can even go to Google and look for this, let’s say, KML file generator. Let’s see if they still have them, because this was back in 2012 when I used it. Okay. Yeah. Here’s some of them, here. See if I recognize any of these. Geo Site Map Generator, that’s the one I used to use back in 2012, and look this site hasn’t even changed in five years. Look, it’s 2011 was when it was created.

I’m telling you, this was back in 2012 when I joined Maps Magic, which was Ivan Budimir was the coach, again, he’s one of my primary mentors for local SEO, the guy was a freaking ninja. Anyways, this is where Geo Site Maps something else we don’t use too often anymore, but a geo site map is basically like any other site map. Right? It’s an XML file that you can create and basically you can upload it as just a file to your server, to the root of your domain, and then just put a link, we used to do this, guys, all the time, we would create, and this is the exact site I used to use to create them, I would create, it creates a geo site map and a KML file, and what you would do is upload both files that you download once the application spits out the files for you.

You upload them to the root domain, the server on your root domain and then you would just put a link in the footer of your site, just like your privacy and terms of service links. One would say location, and that would point to the KML file, and then the other one would say geo site map and it would point to the geo site map file. That used to work like gangbusters, I mean, I’m talking about in 2012, guys. I had lead gen sites at the time that literally all I did was go in and once I learned this technique and add the geo site map and the KML file and within two, three days boom I’d be the top of Maps.

Now, again, this was back in 2012, I got away from doing it, honestly, because once structured data came out I heard that this had been basically rendered useless. It wasn’t really all that valuable, although, again, I don’t know what the hell Marco’s doing in the lab, right now with KML files, but he’s pretty freaking excited about it, so apparently there’s still some value to these files that I am not aware of. Again, just very simply the extent of my knowledge to these were creating the geo site map and by the way the Yoast plugin has that local SEO add-on, it’s expensive, you could purchase, I don’t like it, personally. The local SEO plugin and add-on, or extension, whatever you want to call it, that has a geo site map built into it. Okay.

I personally don’t really like that plugin at all. The add-on, especially, it’s expensive, and I think it’s just too much bloated code and all that kind of stuff, so I don’t use it, anymore. I know that the local SEO plugin does have that ability where it creates a geo site map. One other thing I want to mention about this, guys, is I know that, here’s another thing, whenever you go to, and let’s walk through this, real quick. We’re running out of time. A lot of great questions today, guys, I really appreciate that. Am I logged in? Yeah, I’m logged in. Let’s go to Semantic Mastery. Okay. I’m logged into my AdWords Manager account, so I’m logged into Google.

Here’s the thing, guys, I’m just using this as an example. Whenever you see how it says Semantic Mastery and then there’s this star, here? When I click that star, you see how it says saved to your map? That just created a KML file. There are gigs on Fiverr that you can order that will have a bunch of, you know, they’ll take, they’ll give you 30 KML files for your Maps listing, or for your Google My Business listing, business page, whatever. That’s what this does. All it does is they’ll take 30 different profiles and they’ll go search for it, you know, go visit, or whatever it is that you tell them, and they’ll just click on it, or maybe you send them the maps URL, whatever. Same thing.

If I go here and go to maps, so I can see the maps listing, you’ll see the same saved icon, here, so that means that by doing so this account, this Google account has now created a KML file. I know that you can use KML files for spam purposes, as well. Also, the thing is when you click on a, and I don’t know where, I don’t know if you can download or extract that, but I know that at least years ago that would create a KML file, because that was another way that you could boost maps listings, was spamming the saved maps. Does that make sense? All right.

Just so you know, when you click on a KML file all it does is open up Google Earth and it takes you directly to where that location is, so you want to be very, very precise, if you’re going to use something like the KML file generator, and put the exact geo coordinates in for the Google Maps listing. Guys, remember to get the exact geo coordinates, go search for your listing, go to maps, search for your listing in maps, in Google Maps, and then right here in the address bar, right there are your geo coordinates.

Do you see that there? I know it’s probably small on your end, but right there past the at symbol in the maps URL is your latitude, then it’s comma, longitude. If you’re in the US, at least, you’re going to typically, I’m pretty sure they’re always formatted latitude then longitude, so that’s what it is right there. Right there, your exact coordinates based upon Google’s data, so that’s what you want to use in a KML file. Does that make sense? Anyways, hopefully I didn’t confuse anybody on that, again, my knowledge is very limited on that, other than from what I know from years ago.

I know Marco’s got a whole bunch of stuff he’s looking at and again that’s stuff that’s got to be reserved for the RYS Academy, in fact, I don’t even know half the shit he’s doing. From five years ago, that used to be a really effective method. I don’t know that it still is, today, because I thought, again, I haven’t used it at all since we really got heavy into doing structured data markup, or schema markup. I don’t how effective that is. Do you know, Roman, if you’re still on, do you have any input on that?

Roman Barnes: Not on the KML stuff. I joined the first webinar Marco did, but he had to redo the webinar, because he had a bad connection that day.

Bradley: Yeah.

Roman Barnes: I missed out on it.

Bradley: Okay. Cool. Had you ever heard of that stuff, before?

Roman Barnes: Not before that.

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: That was the first time I have ever heard of it.

Bradley: Yeah. It’s so funny, because when I saw this question come up, I was like, really, KML files, are they still effective and that’s when Marco was like, oh, my God. I was just like, wow. I may have to revisit that, because I stopped using them like three, four years ago. Probably at least three years ago. Okay.

Pitching A Syndication Network To A Video Production Company

Columbia is up, she says, “You mentioned selling network to a video production company.” You can, Columbia, I prefer, well, it depends on your strategy, yes, you can sell networks to video production companies, in fact that’s a great way to generate a whole bunch of revenue in one lump sum. Excuse me.

Then, upsell them on network management, and that’s maintaining the networks, so that’s monitoring them, also boosting the networks, so additional link building, that kind of stuff. I can tell you, my engagement with the video production companies, I’ve got one, I’ve got a handful of video production companies that send me like a couple jobs per year, if that. They’re really not pushing it all that hard. I got this one video production company it’s in the neighboring town, in an adjacent city to me that at any given time we have between 25 to 35 videos going, per month on what they call the Google boost program, and it’s only a $100.00 per month, per video, but that’s pretty decent money, if you think about it. I’ve been dealing with this particular video production company for three years, now, at least three years. You know, it depends.

For them, again, I don’t sell them networks, they rent, I sell them video ranking services at wholesale prices on my own networks, now I quoted them on selling them networks, and I told them that I suggested that they purchase their own networks, because then it could be branded after their company, which is their video production company, which means every time that any of their client videos that are currently ranked on my networks, but if those videos were ranked on their own networks, with their own branding. Then every time somebody was exposed to one of their client videos they would also be exposed to the video production company, because they could have their branding on the channel and all that other kind of stuff, but they didn’t want to put up the initial investment.

They have been for three years, now, using my networks, and I still to this day, probably two or three times a year get an email from the owner of the production company saying, hey, I just was looking at the rankings for this particular client and I noticed that there’s two listings on page one that says, it’s a John Doe blog and it’s got the clients video on that, what is this? And, I’ve told this to the owner like three times, a year, for the last three years, no kidding, that those are persona based properties that I use to help rank the videos, but they’re like, you know, this doesn’t make any sense, why would they have videos on somebody else’s video on their blog, blah, blah, blah, I said, look, it’s just a way to rank stuff.

I’ve had to explain because the client says, or the business owner will, or the video production company owner says, “Well, what happens if the client goes and looks and he sees this? Isn’t this going to make him mad?” I say, “You think the client is going to be mad that his video is taking up three or four places on page one, and knocking three or four competitors off of page one, just because it’s on some persona based blog that he doesn’t know who it is? That’s more of a problem than having his competitor in that place?” “Oh. I guess, when you put it that way it makes sense.” You know?

Anyways, every time I have to reexplain that to the video production owner, is always another opportunity for me to pitch him on his own done for you networks, which we don’t charge what we charge you guys as internet marketers buying networks, we charge high dollar when we charge an end user for networks, it’s a hell of a lot more expensive than when you guys buy it. You know what I mean? As far as how to pitch that, Columbia, okay, so her question is, “Do you do some video promotion for their clients while remaining invisible to their customers?” Meaning the video production company’s customers, “And, later pitch the network to the production company, or would you pitch it all up front?” No. I don’t do that, because that’s sneaky.

What I do is I go directly to the video production company and the exact pitch that I use, that worked, and it’s worked four times, now, is to go to the video production company, strike up the conversation, especially if you can send them, what I like to do is send video emails, I’ve talked about that a million times, but if you send video emails to the video production company, so inside the email, it’s got a screen shot that looks like a video, so if somebody clicks on it, it opens up a video and it’s you explaining very quickly, because you have a very, very small window of opportunity to catch their attention, but show some results of ranked videos that you have ranked.

They can be generic videos that you ranked specifically, okay, now, where is Adam? They can be videos that you rank specifically just so that you have a portfolio of results to show, even if you don’t use those videos to actually monetize them in any way, just rank a few videos, and then show that in a video when you’re pitching a production company and say, “Look, I provide video SEO services, I can do this for your clients,” and how you pitch it is most video production companies, they sell the video service, the creation service. It’s a one off fee. They have to constantly be going out and getting new clients. Right? New customers. New people to buy new videos from them.

Once the video has been created they are done, unless they get repeat business from that same customer, they’re pretty much done, so you frame it as, how would you like to generate recurring revenue from your existing client base, existing and future client base, customer base? Whatever you want to call it. Explain to them that you provide wholesale SEO services and you can rank those customers videos, so that they can not only produce the video and sell the video to the customer, but then they can upsell them on monthly SEO and mark that up, so that they get recurring revenue from them. Right? It’s a win-win-win situation.

The customer gets more exposure and more leads from their video, which otherwise would probably only get put on their website and maybe shared to their Facebook page and that would be the end of it, nobody would ever see that video again. It wouldn’t generate leads, it would only be seen by people that had already, were already leads. Does that make sense? It wouldn’t be used for lead gen, most businesses buy these super nice videos that they pay $3500.00 for a local production company to create and then nobody ever sees the damn video unless they’re on their website. What good is that? Use the video as a lead magnet. Right?

That’s the whole way you frame it. You frame it as the customer wins, you guys win, because you get to provide this service and generate recurring revenue from an otherwise one off service, and I win, because I get to do what I like to do, which is the SEO, the man behind the curtain. I don’t have to do sales. I don’t have to do customer contact, or support. None of that. All I got to do is perform. Does that make sense? That’s the way to pitch, and that pitch works really, really well. Here’s the thing, if you get some people on the fence, that are unsure, offer to rank a couple of their existing clients videos for them for free. That’s what I’ve done.

I’ve done it, three out of the four companies that I’ve landed from using this exact method, I ranked videos for them for free, and I did it very quickly, too. You know what I mean? I’d tell them, “Send me three, or five videos of current existing clients that you have, that you would like for me to rank,” and they’ll send me three to five videos and I’ll select one or two, or maybe three, out of them and I’ll rank them. Then, I’ll contact them back once they’re ranked, which typically only takes a couple of days, and I’ll rank them for something like the company name, plus review. Something like that, so it’s not hard to rank, but it’s just to show results, and say, “Look, I got this done. Here’s the results. If you’re interested in this service, let’s talk.” It works really, really well. Okay. It’s a great strategy. I love that strategy. I don’t do a whole lot of it anymore, because I got enough volume from the current clients.

We’re going to wrap it up in four minutes, guys, we’re trying to get through a couple more very quickly. Yeah. Again, Columbia, it depends, if you want to sell networks, you can generate large lump sums of cash up front, for that, or you could build your own networks to where you’re building your own assets that you can use for not only ranking videos for production companies, but also for your own stuff. You can build your own lead gen assets, because you’ll have the networks in place. If they’re your networks, you can do whatever you want with them. Remember if you’ve been following us for any length of time and I know you have, we always talk about building your own assets. It makes sense to do both, even. Sell them networks and then build your own, as well.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. Make sure you charge them for it.

Bradley: You’re damn right.

Roman Barnes: The value of the IFTTT networks, I’ve known people that have sold them for more than $2500.00 a pop.

Bradley: Yeah. One of our Mastermind members, John, a realtor, or he sells to realtors, and he’s sold them for, he showed that check $1995.00. All right. Robert says, “Do you use a proposal when selling syndication networks?” Me, typically, no. We talked on the Mastermind webinar last week very briefly about in the past for my agency, guys, like the client services, I’ve never had like packaged prices or like boxed service prices, except for a few things, one of which was syndication networks. I charge 797 to local businesses for a network order.

It’s not really a proposal, it’s just on my agency website there’s a services, that’s funny, that site hasn’t even been updated since 2012, because I don’t get clients from my website, guys, I don’t know if too many marketers that do. All my clients come from either cold contacting, and prospecting, or referrals. Anyways. But, my website has in the packages section, it’s got for example the syndication networks, 797, and it explains on the page what it is, there is no need for a proposal for that, obviously during the pitching process if some questions arise, I’m happy to answer questions, but I really don’t need a proposal for that.

What I was getting ready to say earlier was it used to be my opinion in the past was to never have boxed prices, except for something like SEO, especially, because you’d have to approach every project, independently, or separately, and evaluate every project separately, so the pricing is always going to be customized pricing based upon the project. My attitude has changed a bit into more now, to me it makes more sense to have boxed or packaged prices that are specific to services or activities. Not necessarily results. You can promise results, or whatever based upon a combination of these services, but that way everything is like ala carte, like a menu of services, and it makes it easier, because you don’t need, the problem with doing customized proposals is the amount of time it takes.

That’s where I had always done it that way before, but going forward, looking with our new traffic agency, that I’m basically heading that up, is I want to be able to prospect and pitch, or send proposals in volume in mass, and you cannot do that when you’re doing customized proposals. Does that make sense? Again, I recommend for something, especially for syndication network, is just having a sales page basically that you can direct people to that has your pitch for why it’s important, and why it would help their business on it already, and then just send people to that. All right.

All right, guys. We got to wrap it up. I’m going to answer one more question, just because I saw this one earlier from Alexander and I just want to answer this very quickly, guys, and then we’re going to wrap it up, because it’s at the hour mark. He says, “Do you guys still use and endorse Crowd Search?” Yes. I still do. I still use it the same way that we talk about it in the Crowd Search demo webinar, the update webinar that we did last year. I use it the same. I don’t typically use it to direct traffic directly to the money site, I usually it unless it’s just for navigational search purposes, which means like brand searches, and that kind of stuff. I do use it for referral traffic, a lot. That’s primarily how I use it, is referral traffic.

He says, “How can you be sure that Google will notice the traffic on link to money site?” Because if you have Google Analytics on the money site, it knows where the traffic is coming from. You can use the goo.gl, the Google short links to inject analytics in any link stream. Right? Anywhere that you shorten a URL with Google you’re adding analytics to that link stream. Analytics will see everything. Google will see everything. That all traffic activity through that link, they will know the referrals, where it came from, all that kind of stuff. The user’s device, their browser, all that kind of stuff, where they are in the world, all that comes through the goo.gl short URL, but then on your money site, if you have analytics, which why shouldn’t you? I mean, some people are afraid to use all that, but I use Google Analytics on all my sites, and Google analytics will know where the traffic is coming from. Okay? Yeah. That’s pretty much it. All right, guys. We got to wrap it up. We’re already a couple minutes over. Roman, thanks for being here, dude.

Roman Barnes: Definitely not a problem.

Bradley: All right. We’ll see everybody, tomorrow the Rocket Video Ranker webinar, or the Video Link Vortex webinar, so don’t miss it. If you guys are interested in that at all, otherwise the replay will go out. We’ll see you all next week.

Adam: Awesome.

Bradley: Thanks, everybody.

Adam: Have a good one.

Bradley: Thanks, Adam. Bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 133

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 133 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://semanticmastery.com/humpday.

Announcement

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:00:03].

Bradley: Yeah.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Citations live, this is bad, I’ve got so many things going on-

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:24], citations is live, yet.

Adam: All right.

Bradley: It’s damn near it, if it’s not already, because I’ve seen it in the dashboard in the development server and all that.

Bradley: Yeah. He’s playing Hernan’s part today.

Bradley: No.

Roman Barnes: Yes, I can. Can you hear me?

Adam: Ew. Yeah. Your audio is awesome.

Bradley: Still, no camera, though. Right?

Roman Barnes: No. I need to go get a camera.

Adam: Got you. All right. Yeah. Everybody, this is Roman and Roman I’m not going to butcher your last name, you want to introduce yourself?

Roman Barnes: Yeah. My name is Roman Barnes. Not too bad to ruin my-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:16].

Adam: Actually don’t ask, I was thinking-

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:17].

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: Okay. Cool.

Bradley: I’ll be there.

Adam: Awesome.

Adam: Nice.

Bradley: It can do it from within the same channel. It can do it within, you can create silos using other channels, as well. It’s insane.

Adam: That’s awesome.

Roman Barnes: Not, yet.

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: We still have a big piece to finish for that.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:06:31].

Bradley: Dude, I was logging into SerpSpace when you were saying that, I was like, no shit, they’re ready? That’s awesome.

Roman Barnes: Okay. Cool.

Adam: All right. Yeah. I guess, that’s it. That’s all I’ve got for announcements. You guys got anything else? Any SerpSpace news coming up, Roman, or anything people should know about?

Adam: Yeah.

Roman Barnes: It’s live, but-

Adam: Awesome.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. Limited.

Adam: Cool. All right. Awesome. Let’s get into it.

Bradley: Cool. All right. I’m going to grab the screen, and bear with me, I’ll drop out for a minute … Can you guys hear me?

Adam: Yes, I can.

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Adam: Wow. What a good time to have Roman, here.

Bradley: Yeah. It’s a great question. Roman, do you want to tackle that one, or shall I? He might be muted.

Adam: Yeah. Roman, if you can hear us, you can feel free to talk, I don’t know if you’ve got yourself muted, or something happened, otherwise, Brad-

Roman Barnes: Yeah. I muted, myself.

Adam: Oh, okay.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. All I see is a black screen in front of me.

Bradley: What? You don’t see the screen? Does anybody else not see the screen?

Adam: I see it. Here, Roman, I’ll just send you the Skype, there you go, I just sent it to you.

Bradley: You need the, he doesn’t have the event page URL.

Adam: Right. Yeah. Let me send that to you, also.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:11:19].

Adam: As you can see everyone we’re working through-

Bradley: I’m surprised he’s not seeing my screen from his angle. Anyways, whatever. That’s interesting. Everybody else can see, right? I’m going to assume.

Adam: Yeah. I can see.

Adam: Sure.

Bradley: If Roman wants to add on, he certainly can. Okay.

Roman Barnes: Is it quite?

Bradley: 60%.

Roman Barnes: Or, is it just me? I’m just curious. I’m sorry.

Adam: What’s that? No. I can hear you.

Roman Barnes: Okay. The only person I could hear is you, in the last little while.

Adam: Weird. Yeah. You might have dropped out, especially if you’re having storms.

Roman Barnes: Do you want me to rejoin on the webinar?

Adam: [crosstalk 00:13:01].

Bradley: Hey, guys. I can hear you guys.

Roman Barnes: Okay. Yeah. I’m trying to understand the question that-

Bradley: What’s going on? Can you guys not hear me?

Adam: Yeah, Bradley, I can hear you. Can you hear me?

Bradley: Yeah, but I hear Roman in the background talking, so I don’t know-

Adam: Yeah. Roman, you’re here, right? You can hear me, right now?

Roman Barnes: Yeah. I can only hear you though, I cannot hear anybody else.

Bradley: He cannot hear me is what I’m saying Adam.

Adam: Okay. So, Bradley is talking. All right. Roman, we’ll probably have you stop, just because it’s going to get all sorts of messed up.

Roman Barnes: Okay.

Adam: Yeah. Thanks. If you want to type me something as far as an answer about this or anything, feel free, and I’ll just kind of relay it.

Roman Barnes: All right. Sounds good.

Adam: Thanks.

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: All right. Jeff’s up next, he says, I’m sorry, go ahead, Adam.

Bradley: Can I elaborate on that a little bit?

Adam: Yeah. Sure.

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Roman Barnes: I don’t think we have that option available in the site, but we could certainly take care of it if you-

Bradley: Right.

Roman Barnes: Send in a ticket afterwords-

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: That’s not a problem.

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Adam: Yeah, man. Do it. Momentum?

Adam: Hold on, your man focus today is get shit done.

Bradley: My man focus today is-

Adam: That’s awesome.

Bradley: To get shit done. That’s right. What that means is look at your to do list, dummy.

Adam: Yeah.

Adam: Maybe we should have an episode of Hump Day Hangouts that’s all about workflows and productivity, or maybe just an extra episode. I think it would be interesting.

Bradley: Yeah. All right. What I was looking for was structured, you would know this one, Roman, if you’re still on.

Roman Barnes: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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Roman Barnes: Not on the KML stuff. I joined the first webinar Marco did, but he had to redo the webinar, because he had a bad connection that day.

Bradley: Yeah.

Roman Barnes: I missed out on it.

Bradley: Okay. Cool. Had you ever heard of that stuff, before?

Roman Barnes: Not before that.

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: That was the first time I have ever heard of it.

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Roman Barnes: Yeah. Make sure you charge them for it.

Bradley: You’re damn right.

Roman Barnes: The value of the IFTTT networks, I’ve known people that have sold them for more than $2500.00 a pop.

Roman Barnes: Definitely not a problem.

Adam: Awesome.

Bradley: Thanks, everybody.

Adam: Have a good one.

Bradley: Thanks, Adam. Bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 133

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 133 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

Full timestamps with topics and times can be found at the link above.

The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://ift.tt/1NZu6N2.

Announcement

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:00:03].

Bradley: Yeah.

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Citations live, this is bad, I’ve got so many things going on-

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:01:24], citations is live, yet.

Adam: All right.

Bradley: It’s damn near it, if it’s not already, because I’ve seen it in the dashboard in the development server and all that.

Bradley: Yeah. He’s playing Hernan’s part today.

Bradley: No.

Roman Barnes: Yes, I can. Can you hear me?

Adam: Ew. Yeah. Your audio is awesome.

Bradley: Still, no camera, though. Right?

Roman Barnes: No. I need to go get a camera.

Adam: Got you. All right. Yeah. Everybody, this is Roman and Roman I’m not going to butcher your last name, you want to introduce yourself?

Roman Barnes: Yeah. My name is Roman Barnes. Not too bad to ruin my-

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:16].

Adam: Actually don’t ask, I was thinking-

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:03:17].

Bradley: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Bradley: Yeah.

Adam: Okay. Cool.

Bradley: I’ll be there.

Adam: Awesome.

Adam: Nice.

Bradley: It can do it from within the same channel. It can do it within, you can create silos using other channels, as well. It’s insane.

Adam: That’s awesome.

Roman Barnes: Not, yet.

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: We still have a big piece to finish for that.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:06:31].

Bradley: Dude, I was logging into SerpSpace when you were saying that, I was like, no shit, they’re ready? That’s awesome.

Roman Barnes: Okay. Cool.

Adam: All right. Yeah. I guess, that’s it. That’s all I’ve got for announcements. You guys got anything else? Any SerpSpace news coming up, Roman, or anything people should know about?

Adam: Yeah.

Roman Barnes: It’s live, but-

Adam: Awesome.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. Limited.

Adam: Cool. All right. Awesome. Let’s get into it.

Bradley: Cool. All right. I’m going to grab the screen, and bear with me, I’ll drop out for a minute … Can you guys hear me?

Adam: Yes, I can.

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Adam: Wow. What a good time to have Roman, here.

Bradley: Yeah. It’s a great question. Roman, do you want to tackle that one, or shall I? He might be muted.

Adam: Yeah. Roman, if you can hear us, you can feel free to talk, I don’t know if you’ve got yourself muted, or something happened, otherwise, Brad-

Roman Barnes: Yeah. I muted, myself.

Adam: Oh, okay.

Roman Barnes: Yeah. All I see is a black screen in front of me.

Bradley: What? You don’t see the screen? Does anybody else not see the screen?

Adam: I see it. Here, Roman, I’ll just send you the Skype, there you go, I just sent it to you.

Bradley: You need the, he doesn’t have the event page URL.

Adam: Right. Yeah. Let me send that to you, also.

Bradley: [crosstalk 00:11:19].

Adam: As you can see everyone we’re working through-

Bradley: I’m surprised he’s not seeing my screen from his angle. Anyways, whatever. That’s interesting. Everybody else can see, right? I’m going to assume.

Adam: Yeah. I can see.

Adam: Sure.

Bradley: If Roman wants to add on, he certainly can. Okay.

Roman Barnes: Is it quite?

Bradley: 60%.

Roman Barnes: Or, is it just me? I’m just curious. I’m sorry.

Adam: What’s that? No. I can hear you.

Roman Barnes: Okay. The only person I could hear is you, in the last little while.

Adam: Weird. Yeah. You might have dropped out, especially if you’re having storms.

Roman Barnes: Do you want me to rejoin on the webinar?

Adam: [crosstalk 00:13:01].

Bradley: Hey, guys. I can hear you guys.

Roman Barnes: Okay. Yeah. I’m trying to understand the question that-

Bradley: What’s going on? Can you guys not hear me?

Adam: Yeah, Bradley, I can hear you. Can you hear me?

Bradley: Yeah, but I hear Roman in the background talking, so I don’t know-

Adam: Yeah. Roman, you’re here, right? You can hear me, right now?

Roman Barnes: Yeah. I can only hear you though, I cannot hear anybody else.

Bradley: He cannot hear me is what I’m saying Adam.

Adam: Okay. So, Bradley is talking. All right. Roman, we’ll probably have you stop, just because it’s going to get all sorts of messed up.

Roman Barnes: Okay.

Adam: Yeah. Thanks. If you want to type me something as far as an answer about this or anything, feel free, and I’ll just kind of relay it.

Roman Barnes: All right. Sounds good.

Adam: Thanks.

Adam: Yeah.

Bradley: All right. Jeff’s up next, he says, I’m sorry, go ahead, Adam.

Bradley: Can I elaborate on that a little bit?

Adam: Yeah. Sure.

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Roman Barnes: I don’t think we have that option available in the site, but we could certainly take care of it if you-

Bradley: Right.

Roman Barnes: Send in a ticket afterwords-

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: That’s not a problem.

Tiers Suggested Per Property For All Four Domains/Properties

Syndicating Youtube Channels To The Same Set Of Web 2.0 Properties

“Can I also syndicate YouTube channels to the same Web 2.0 properties?” Of course. Of course, you can.

Associated Website For A YouTube Channel

Pinvid As Top Recommended Theme For A Youtube Companion Website

Adam: Yeah, man. Do it. Momentum?

Adam: Hold on, your man focus today is get shit done.

Bradley: My man focus today is-

Adam: That’s awesome.

Bradley: To get shit done. That’s right. What that means is look at your to do list, dummy.

Adam: Yeah.

Adam: Maybe we should have an episode of Hump Day Hangouts that’s all about workflows and productivity, or maybe just an extra episode. I think it would be interesting.

Bradley: Yeah. All right. What I was looking for was structured, you would know this one, Roman, if you’re still on.

Roman Barnes: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Uploading Videos To YouTube Without Persona Syndication Network

Google Maps For Online Business With No Intention Of Getting Foot Traffic

Webinar on KML

Roman Barnes: Not on the KML stuff. I joined the first webinar Marco did, but he had to redo the webinar, because he had a bad connection that day.

Bradley: Yeah.

Roman Barnes: I missed out on it.

Bradley: Okay. Cool. Had you ever heard of that stuff, before?

Roman Barnes: Not before that.

Bradley: Okay.

Roman Barnes: That was the first time I have ever heard of it.

Pitching A Syndication Network To A Video Production Company

Roman Barnes: Yeah. Make sure you charge them for it.

Bradley: You’re damn right.

Roman Barnes: The value of the IFTTT networks, I’ve known people that have sold them for more than $2500.00 a pop.

Roman Barnes: Definitely not a problem.

Adam: Awesome.

Bradley: Thanks, everybody.

Adam: Have a good one.

Bradley: Thanks, Adam. Bye.

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