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So, so we got another business breakdown I

know, pretty exciting.

Right. So.

And we've actually, we've gotten some really good feedback.

Yeah, we talked to cory,

right? Yeah.

And, and I'm going to,

I mean from Corey's Bagel, from our last episode.

So the first business breakdown was for Corey's bagels in Chicago.

Shout out to Corey Kaplan. Great last name,

spells it with a k. I'm with a C.

I think we're brothers from a different mother,

but he actually sent us a care package which was awesome.

Yeah. And that's going to show up right here

behind us, but I had the bagel chips;

I have to tell you they were the best bagel chips I've ever had.

Okay. We're down here in Florida and my wife

like we went on a little mini vacation to Orlando,

no joke. She brought the Bagel chips with us.

They have traveled around Florida because she loves them so much.

So shout out to Corey. Thank you.

And here we go. Business Breakdown number two,

we're staying with the Profit. We love the profit - Marcus Lemonis

again is great. Disclaimer,

we're not affiliated with CNBC, the profit,

anybody, we're just to marketing guys,

all we want to do is make sure that you guys can get a better idea.

See through our eyes, our lenses of how these businesses

should be actually using the internet, how they should be leveraging digital

media and digital marketing in order to grow their presence and grow the

revenues. Yeah,

exactly. Really what it comes down to more money.

It's all about the money in business, right?

Capitalism.

Today we're talking about Santa's Toys and what a great name.

And it makes you happy when you think about

it and even the episode made you happy. So now let's talk about the episode.

So Jake, you tell them about the episode.

So I watched the episode last night and you know,

a couple things came across to me. Santa's toys is small business in Santa

Claus, Indiana,

I think right? Santa Claus,

Indiana. Um,

the couple were from Pennsylvania originally and they moved to Santa

Clause Indiana because they want to have a new life for their kids and for

themselves. And so they started the toy shop.

I mean, it makes perfect sense,

right? Toy Shop,

Santa Claus, Indiana.

Great idea. Yep.

So they had a store and I think it was open for about a year or so before they

contacted Marcus and um, you know,

he went over the numbers and the numbers actually weren't that bad.

I think they turned a profit of what, $60,000 or something.

So yeah. Yes.

That's small business in a small town. Yeah.

No, it's themed.

Yeah. I mean,

that's, that's really good for a small

businesses just so you know, the fact is they weren't doing that bad,

but they knew they wanted to take that next step.

They didn't know how to do it. They didn't know what to do.

Um, they're very,

um, conscious as far as their expenditures,

which Marcus goes over quite a bit in the show and you know,

they brought him in and I think he had some really great insights.

He did. That's what he does.

That's what the profit is all about, is he's taking this business that needs

help, that,

you know, they know what their,

their core functionality is a core functionality.

It's what you do best, it's your product or service,

what you offer. So they knew the toy business to an

extent they they have done a really good job building it up.

Granted the experience when we talk about the episode too,

there are cameras everywhere because they didn't want shrinkage,

but would they understand it, which is totally understandable,

but in a toy shop you got to have shrinkage.

I mean that's just, that's what it is.

You're going to enter linkage is when you know it's loss of product either by

damage, by theft.

Kids are going to play with toys are going to break them.

That's just what it is. But he came in and really evaluated and

he found that they have a good solid business.

They've got a great theme, they've got a good name,

really a good stick and they just have to leverage it properly.

And one of those channels to leverage it is online.

And I think actually one of the best points that he made earlier in the show

was, you know,

the business was using Sanchez toys.net. Not because they couldn't own Santos

toys.com. But because they wanted to save $10 a

year or something, and it was,

it was that employee minimal. So yeah.

And the point that Marcus made is nobody uses.net.

You can own the.net and forward it to your.com.

But owning that Dotcom is very important.

Very true. Okay.

So what was the offer that Marcus gave them?

Right. So the offer the Marcus gave was 75 k,

and that money was intended to be for the store to make it feel like Christmas

and side as well as the online store. Okay.

So 37, five for the store.

30 slash 75 to the online store. Yep.

Okay. So what we're going to do is obviously

we can't look at the store, uh,

but let's take a look at the online store today and let's really figure it

out from a perspective of two dads that one of my presence,

I mean granted past Christmas time, it's past the holidays,

but to dad's looking for toys. That's right.

And I'm, I'm not great at looking at toys,

so this would be a good experience.

They go, all right,

perfect. So right now I pull up just a quick

search for Santos toys. Unfortunately the one thing I'll tell

you is their number one for that term, which is very good.

Right? So they show up number one for San as

toys and they also have their listing on the right hand side.

So take a look at their listing and they have 84 reviews.

What do you think 84 reviews is? Not for two years of business is pretty

good considering they haven't really focused too much on online products.

Online business at all. And on facebook they have 52 bones.

Okay. Very good.

So not bad. Good,

good. Start for sure.

All the information's correct. Say there's toys,

locations, correct.

Good information. Anything they could add?

Okay. So Jake,

I like that smile. Remember when I told you that I,

I, I'm,

I'm a national speaker for Google and get

your business online. I think you've told me that I'm leaving

tomorrow on a trip. You should know that I'll be out of

office for a few days. But.

So one of the big things I look at always is google my business.

It's like, that's like my meat and potatoes,

right? So let's just take a look.

I just want to dive into their. Google my business a little bit more.

Uh, we've looked at the reviews.

They have 84 reviews on Google for point one.

Stars good. What I'd like you to do is we click on

the google reviews for a second. Sure.

I want you guys at home to be thinking about not only how many reviews you have

but what you do with them because digital reputation is not just about

amassing a huge number of digital reviews or google reviews or reviews on

tripadvisor or facebook or whatever.

It's how you manage them. So how you respond to them and also how

you promote those reviews afterwards. So one thing that,

that we're seeing in these are pretty recent reviews a month ago,

a week ago, and this episode,

from what I understand, I mean these episodes that are filmed

over multi-month, six months,

nine months, like they have to record 70 plus hours

of footage. So there's been a long time since the

episode aired and since they've made the changes to

what I'm seeing here is they have pretty darn good reviews.

Right? Okay.

A couple of bad ones here and they're like,

here's a great example though. This right here by Evan Johnston.

They were probably going to be there. Yeah.

As you can see from the show, there are people that are just going to

be trolls. They're going to go in and they're going

to give a negative review because maybe they didn't like the episode,

they didn't like the people, whatever.

And that's not fair, but here's an opportunity for Santos

toys. Santa Toy should actually be managing

these reviews and go on and say, you know,

we don't remember having you, but please come back and we'll give you

a magical Christmas experience. So even on those one star reviews that

people are going to look back and they're gonna say,

how did the business respond to this review?

And on all these positive reviews, I want to see responses.

So on what does it say? Thanks so much.

Okay, thanks so much.

As the response to the review, now we read the review.

I'm not going to read the whole thing, love the store,

blah, blah,

blah. This isn't an opportunity.

This is an seo opportunity. Number one,

because whatever you're writing is attached to a five star review on

Google. This is all content that lives inside of

Google.

Instead of writing, thanks so much.

Three words to a multiline review they could have written.

Thanks so much for coming to Santa toys.com or Santa his toys and Santa

Claus, Indiana.

We really appreciate that. You love the store.

Hey, next time you come check out our line of

blah, blah,

Blah toys, we'd love to show them to you and

provide you with a magical Christmas experience.

Yeah, sounds.

I just saw your eyes like shoot up. Right?

I was good because as two dads that are looking for our kids for toys,

if I see them right that then I'm like, I'm going to put love into this

experience. They're going to make sure that my kids

have the best Christmas or whatever else they celebrate.

They're going to have and they're going to enjoy it,

and even if you're not buying online, if you're going to the town to check it

out and you go and look at the online reviews for all the different places you

want to go to, you're going to stop there because it's

like, wow,

they had a great experience.

I wouldn't take my kids care about their customers and that's what people are

looking at. A lot of people,

over 50 percent of consumers are looking at their responses to the reviews as

much as the reviews themselves. So if we're looking at why don't we

click on photos? If we're looking at the Google my

business profile. Sure,

okay. We get the new store picks,

the new store picks. Great.

There's the old one up. That's the old store,

that's the old store. We remember that from the episode old

store and these were posted, so you can see at the top left,

if you just mouse over that you can see that they were posted by Santos toys,

so it's not a user generated photo, so they could actually curate these and

make sure that they're proper photos. Right?

They have a very good volume of photos. I personally.

Here's one thing, so I'm going to give you a special tip.

Here's a. here's a nugget or gem for you.

You should always be posting up new photos.

If you're a toy store, you have so many different photos.

You can do toys with toys. You can do just specific skews.

Right? So what I would suggest for a toy store

or something that has a store that has a lot of products be posting up at least

five to 10 new photos every month. Absolutely.

How about Santa holding a toy and giving it to a kid?

Even just the Santa Glove. Yeah,

right. That's all you need just to cut down

costs, school,

Santa Glove or so, five to 10 photos.

So they have. They have really good volume.

I'd like to see more photos on there. Okay.

All right, so let's go back to the search coach.

All right, so we're back.

We talked about the listing a little bit now.

Can we talk a little bit about organic listings?

We did this with cory's as well, and there's one thing that I'm noticing

that it's bothering me. What's up that first listing you said

that they, that they,

you know, they're the top of organic search

results for Sanas toys, which is a branded search,

right? A direct search because people know the

name. What about the title of the page says

Toys Llc? Well,

that's the business name. Sometimes the page title of the page can

be different, but we'll see that once we get into the

site. Okay.

We'll get into the site. That's fine.

But even the LLC, it's still,

it feels a little. I feel like I feel like I'm,

you know, if I buy the wrong toy,

I'm going to have a lawsuit on my hands coming down.

Me Seriously with contracts. So just just for me being just a regular

data like okay, this is a little formal,

but sure, sure.

Okay. And what about the description?

The Meta description? Join our nice list for exclusive deals

in releases.

Probably not the best one and it doesn't really talk about the toys or anything

else.

It looks to me because it has so much more subscribe to our mailing list.

Subscribe. It's not copyrighted description,

I just pulling it from the page. Pulled it from the footer.

Yeah. Okay.

So again. Yep.

Opportunity. Missed opportunity.

Okay.

Now I searched one other term just because I was curious not thinking they

would probably do that well. And I searched for Christmas toys,

right. Probably probably a more common search

term. Toys

again to dad's looking for toys. Right.

It could be any to parents if you have kids,

best Christmas toys or Christmas toys and whatever.

But that's what we would maybe we would start with.

Right. So I mean obviously you come here and

the first thing you see is Walmart, it all the big,

the big stores. Not Seeing Santos toys,

although I didn't really expect to see it,

so kinda what that leads me to believe is mainly search optimization is good

for them and certainly is relevant at some level,

maybe not the most important thing. And the only reason I say that is

because they would have a really hard time competing with the walmarts of the

world and the Amazons of the world.

Okay. Well let's,

let's take it one step further. So it's very localized business.

It's in Santa Claus, Indiana.

What if we type in Christmas toys, Indiana and that's a good point in.

Let's try that.

There you go.

Okay. So what,

when you perform a search on Google, it's localizing based off of either your

Ip address, where your computer is,

right? Or on your phone.

It's either triangulating because of the cell towers or whatever Wifi or on.

So because we're in Florida, it was just showing generic results,

right? It was showing results for localized

Tampa, Florida,

but people might be an Indiana, they might be searching around Christmas

toys in Indiana. Maybe they want Indiana themed toys,

who knows? But they might type in the state if they

live in Indiana, they might type in Christmas toys near

me and we're seeing a lot more. There's a lot of research from Google

and think with Google that people are typing in something near me.

Yeah. So yeah,

I do it all the time too. It's just easy.

So Christmas toys near me then they might show up.

Right, exactly.

And the other thing I was thinking of too is I bet you they get a lot of

repeat business and actually marcus mentioned this on the show,

that's why you were so adamant about doing any boxes and things is that

repeat business. Somebody shows up from out of town,

they go to the store and they have a great experience and when they do that

then they go online and they want to have continue that experience.

Hey, I found these really cool toys there.

I couldn't find anywhere else. You know,

I'll go there rather than going to Amazon.

And is that loyalty? So they're,

they're building in bolstering that customer loyalty.

So not the best seo maybe, but maybe local seo isn't so bad.

It's pretty good.

Sounds good. Cool.

So we're. So we're here.

We're here. We're on the search engine results page.

We typed in San as toys because we watched the episode.

Let's

go to the website. All right,

sounds good. So I have it pulled up here.

And the first thing we want to look at, you mentioned before about the page

Fedele [inaudible] Santos toys, llc feels a little cold.

It feels really cold. Yeah.

At when? When we build websites for our clients.

I never like including the business entity.

No, it just feels a little crow was going to

call it unless it's actually sent this toy.

Especially Santa as toys. If it's a lawyer,

fine. If it's like,

you know, certain things that need those

designations.

I mean it's not bad. Obviously we,

we found in the search they're not doing that bad locally,

which is a good thing. They're doing well for Santos Toy.

So the company did a great job as far as that's concerned.

I think I probably would have changed it to Santa.

There's toys and then include the location probably.

Okay. You know,

maybe something else about Christmas. Okay.

So Santas, toys,

Christmas experience in Santa Claus, Indiana.

Yeah, exactly.

And then we also mentioned about the Meta description.

Right? So find it the.

It'll have one year is really what it comes down to.

They don't have a Meta description. So what it did was it just automatically

pulled in the text of the page, which was like the footer text.

But rewind for a second, he spent 37,000,

$500

website, right?

Something like that with 25 or 32. Okay.

Twenty five,

25, fine.

More than $500 on a website and it doesn't have a good title.

Meta description.

Yeah. I would expect that to have been done.

I mean especially is a shopify site, so it's easy enough to do that.

Okay.

So missed opportunity. Yes.

A listen can be fixed easily. Write a few keystrokes.

Yeah. I'm on your side at home.

It's one of those things, no matter what platform you're on,

it doesn't matter. They have ways in pretty much every

platform. Now the change the page title and align

it with the text on the page as well as the Meta description.

And do the same thing. Yep.

Okay. So they're great for search.

So big suggestion here is update the Meta title and Meta description of the

page that it really gives off a more friendly Christmas Eve.

Right,

exactly. It was more,

you can go further in depth, but that's sure.

Those are the two main things. Sure.

Alright. So looking at the site when you think,

I mean the colors. Okay.

So color scheme. Yep.

They've got the really cool Avatar of Santa Claus and the elves.

I love that.

Mm.

I like that. So I love that.

The puppet thing is, I mean I,

I guess they sell a lot of puppets. Sure.

Learn about, learn about Santa.

That's very cool. And then they have a signup for email,

which is good.

It's good that they have the email address and it's joined our nice list.

So it's not just like subscribed to our email.

Join our nice list for exclusive deals and your releases,

which is good. I want to be on the nice list.

Fun. Right.

It's, it brings you back to being a kid.

Okay. So let's start at the top.

Sure.

So I think overall, I mean if,

again, we were talking about this a little bit

earlier, you know,

these guys online are competing against Walmart,

against Amazon, against all these different people.

So I totally get this site is nice. It's not Amazon Nice.

No, obviously because Amazon's spends

billions of dollars, right?

Yeah. So it's,

it's good. And probably their target market,

my guess is people who came to the store,

people who've seen the show and they're going online to be part of that

experience, part of that promotion engine.

Right? So it needs to be good enough that they

can go and find the toys that they want or would like to see.

What do you think? Does it do that?

I definitely think it does that. What's at the top?

There's a little bar at the top $5 shipping $5 shipping on $25 plus total

order. Okay.

So not bad. So one of the things that we've seen in

our experience is if you actually tell consumers right away with their

shipping's going to be, you drastically reduce the attrition or

the loss of customer when they get to the shopping cart.

Yeah. No one likes adding a bunch of stuff.

The shopping cart and then see, oh it's gonna be $15,

15 minutes. I'll just go to target or Walmart or

whatever. Right.

So that right there is. Yeah,

I'll prime it. I'll probably search for the toys I

found here and prime exactly. So right there.

That's a a good job by them using a top bar.

Now one thing I would say is this, that's a really prime position for other

things.

A lot of times on the sites that we build will actually put up,

join the mailing list, join the nice list because a lot of

space up here where you get to anything to buy.

There's a lot of space. It's within shopify and shopify has the

ability to customize the template for the look and feel of the site for the

amount of money that was spent. All I'm going to say is this,

I would have used this vertical space a little bit better.

I'm right. I feel like for that top bar,

get people to subscribe to the email. Yeah.

Okay. Here's something.

I watched the episode. You watched the episode last night.

You're going to go to Santa Toys Dot com because you're excited to see what

happens to you. Forget about it.

Then another prophet comes on. Then billion dollar buyer comes on.

Then you know the next Gordon Ramsey show,

bar rescue, whatever else or whatever other shows.

Game of thrones is coming up. All these movies you forget about Sanas

toys. How do you remember Santa Toys?

How does San is toys? Make sure that you remember that it's

good to have the email signup, but just all the way the model was all

the way the bottom break and you're banking on someone scrolling all the way

down and really wanting to join. Really,

really either nothing, so using a pop up,

which we have some people think is annoying.

I get that. That's fine,

but some sort of emotion. It's proven to work some sort of motion,

even that top bar might be able to slide down.

Yeah, we can do that too.

Yep. So let's just say that this is a missed

opportunity here to capture that traffic and convert them right away to someone

that wants to actually learn more and stay in

the fold. What's.

Absolutely. Yeah.

It's all about that repeat business, especially in bringing people in,

especially with the show. I mean serious.

And we're in January, right?

When are we going to be shopping for toys?

Especially for November. December.

Exactly. So you love to get some of that business

over the rest of the year. Yup,

exactly. So then we've got the logo.

Great. I feel like you could put something that

says the 25, you know,

$5 shipping for 25 somewhere else on this site and still accomplish what

you're trying to do. They've got a nice Nav bar.

Not to clutter clear. Yep.

Okay. We can find all different kinds of

things, all different kinds of things.

They categorize them, new arrivals,

bestsellers. I like that.

So you can see what's selling the best sale about us.

I like that too. A lot of people like to go to websites

and you'll find this on your own site. When you look at analytics about us as

one of the most popular pages on all sites,

people like to find out about the business,

who you know who's running it. I want to know who they're buying from.

Exactly. All right,

so taking a quick look at one of these pages.

Now this is a shopify site. The first thing I see,

and this is very nitpicky, very nitpicky.

Look at this size of this image and they'll look at the size of this image.

Look at the size of this image, and it looks at the size of this image.

It's just a little sloppy. So the way to combat that is to make

sure that if you're using some image editing software,

make them all squares the same size. Exactly.

Upload that, right?

Yeah. Just making them all the same size.

That way you don't have that issue, but I totally agree because the prices

are off, the the product title is off.

So it's not a seamless user experience. Now on mobile this would be different

because would be stacked. Yep.

But how many people are visiting the site on desktop too?

And let's say somebody comes here randomly,

it was just thinking about buying from Santos toys.

Any kind of little thing that's different and not Amazon ask is a point

of is this credible? Do you want to put that kind of that

mindset of the customer?

Like wow, they didn't do that as is this customer,

is this know business legit? Is My toy gun come broken?

Is it going to come? Is it going to come?

Of course my credit card going to go. Exactly.

And those are all things because we can't go to Santa Clause Indiana.

We want to make sure that we're having the best experience we can so that we're

synonymized this website experience with the buying experience,

with the receipt experience of the product and ultimately the experience of

our kids opening up that gift and thinking,

Oh my goodness, dad,

where'd you get this? Yeah,

let's say it looks for a specific type of toy.

It's just do baby and toddler. Sure,

you have a toddler to sort of buy a to Z,

so alphabetically a to z. We got numbers showing up first.

Fine. Okay.

I think it's just, it's fine,

right? It's fine,

but most people aren't going to sort by either going to use the site search

tool. Right.

And they're not going to go through seven pages.

They're going to get bored and be like, I don't know where my thing.

So some of the sorting options can be removed,

right? Yeah.

Or figure out how people are searching and doing some research about how people

are finding the toys on the site and then you know,

gravitating towards that. So thinking.

So what you're really saying is I think that their parents,

they have two kids who are older, right?

But think like apparent or gift giver and onto her uncle,

a grandparent, whatever.

How are they going to be searching? So going into these minutia and we get

it. It's minutia,

but they're doing a great job. Yeah,

they're doing a great job. But this is very granular for a reason

because I'm not going to sort by a to z. So if you give me more options than I

get overwhelmed, it creates analysis paralysis,

analysis paralysis. Guess what?

I'm frozen. I'm off the site.

I'm going to somewhere like Amazon with all these small business owners,

US included, we don't want people to just use Amazon

all the time.

We want them to shop from us. We have to give them a good user

experience. Really take notes from Amazon because

they've done so. Exactly.

I mean they know what they're doing obviously.

Yeah. So I'll say one more thing about the

site and one thing I think is, is very interesting,

especially for, you know,

kind of this business and the fact that there are the profit and everything

else. You know,

you mentioned up here and I just thought of it,

gift cards, [inaudible] somebody sees this,

sees this show and they have a grandkid. They buy a gift card.

Yeah. So their son or daughter can buy their

grandkids, you know,

a couple of gifts and they can be a part of the show.

Exactly, exactly.

How excited were we? I'm just going back because I'm like a

fan boy. How excited were we when we got the

Corrie's care package and I know that's really fence.

We were like kids because we're now a part of the show and everybody was so

like my wife was so excited. So excited.

Yeah. So it's the same thing.

If you could be a part of Santa toys, it's pretty cool.

That's pretty cool. Right?

So definitely I think gift cards, like they have it,

they were smart and best sellers. It's the first product that shows up and

when you look at the gift card it's like that can be totally branded.

That can be branded. Definitely.

And you know what, click on gift card for a second because

we did harp on Cory's last time. Uh,

so we've got a $10 gift card. I don't know what $10 is going to buy.

Twenty five 5,100. Okay.

They do have the different quantities and the different values.

That's good deal of the day. I don't even know what that's about.

So the timer explanation. No explanation.

I think $10 is still for $10. $10.

Ten Bucks. Ten Bucks.

10 bucks my friend. Yep.

What I would maybe though one thing that I'm thinking suggestive selling,

so suggestive selling is one, hey,

you're telling people what they should be buying.

Yeah. You're telling me to buy a $10 gift

card. I would have it and I would have it at

50 and then have the other values because 50 bucks you're going to be able

to get a couple of toys. Right,

and maybe cover shipping. Yeah,

there you go. Yep.

We've done sel. We've looked at Google.

My business. We've looked at the website,

right? One aspect of the website that we find

very important because of the retention mechanism of it is email marketing and

you just signed up for the email newsletter or you joined the nice list.

What does it say?

Thanks for contacting us. We'll get back to you as soon as

possible.

We didn't contact them, we didn't contact them and I just joined

the nice list.

I feel like there'll be some like, cool.

How about Whoa, Whoa,

whoa. Like elves,

like jumping around or so something. Celebrate that.

I just joined the nice list. Not I just contacted you.

Thank you so much. Evelyn.

Please send me a Danish and a coffee. It's like a small things.

It's the small things, but this.

This is a big thing of small thing. That's a big smile.

I'm not on the nice list. I'm on.

I'm in some system somewhere now. My emails floating around.

Okay, so we joined the nice list and we just

checked and we haven't gotten any email yet,

so a welcome email. I would think I'd get a welcome email or

maybe even a series of emails series of emails which is called an autoresponder

drip marketing campaigns. So real simple to do and we do have.

We're gonna have some more videos on drip marketing and autoresponders.

The importance of them.

Oh my God. Right.

So easy to use too. Yeah,

I joined the nice list. Santa should send me a letter right

away, welcomed me to the nice list.

Then Santa should tell me about all the different perks I have of being on the

nice list. Ask My kids names.

Santa should ask. My name's to personalize it so that,

you know, our kids now are getting direct emails

from Santa Right, and then Santa is going to send me an

email showing me some of the best toys that my kids would like because not only

is he going to ask for the names, but their gender.

Yeah. Then from there,

Santa is going to show me some of the fun things that he's doing at the North

Pole and how hey, if I jump back on the website,

I can see a special page that's only available to people on the nice list.

Keep them engaged. We just built an autoresponder if I go

right. So welcome.

You're welcome to join our list. Brian Apple.

Um, so okay.

We, we did,

uh, we went through the email and the last

thing that we want to look at is their social media.

Right? And I'm assuming that since they put

good money into the digital presence of this business,

they're going to have good social media.

Well, I clicked and didn't pop up into a new

tab. It just went directly to the page.

So what does that mean? Explain to her what that means is,

so it's still in the same tab. That means I can't go directly back to

Sandra's toys.com. Let's say I want to go check on social

media for a discount or whatever to go like the page I have to hit the back

button to get back to the website. I can't just look over with.

Right. So that's that again,

is Mr. Mr. Opportunity, because you want your website to stay

open and one of the tabs as long as possible because life happens,

things happen, right.

And all of a sudden your attention is just drawn somewhere else.

Well, you keep tabs open.

That's what we'll do. So as you're closing tabs,

you're like, oh,

I forgot about his toys. And then you go back and see what you

want to do technically, right.

As a blank target. That's right.

We want to open it in a new tab or new window or an html terms.

Blank target. Yep.

Wow. Okay.

So right away they're using a video at the top.

That's kind of cool. That's very cool.

So they did a little video. They have some snow.

They're showing a little slide show of the.

That's great. Yup.

Very cool. Very cool.

They're leveraging facebook's cover video,

which I like.

Okay. So looking at facebook,

you know, I,

I want to say that they have spent good time here.

Recommended by 75 people. That's great.

That means 75 reviews. That's great.

They have videos on there. They're posting frequently posting

frequently January. Okay.

So we're seeing a good cadence, a good,

a good frequency of posting. Um,

listen, it's off season.

This is where they should be putting more time into social media.

They should really be, as we said,

think of different ways that you can showcase the products to drive people to

the site and to buy from the site. Birthdays are happening,

all different kinds of events are still happening even though it's past

Christmas time. So we want to figure out different ways

to really make those products heroes on social media.

Still liquid. Did inquiries and go check out their

photos and photos. Okay.

So we're looking through their photos and they have,

you know, Alpha on the shelf.

They've got some different product photos that they're using.

They're using stock photos from the manufacturers or the toy companies,

which is totally fine. Here's the thing,

if I'm. I'm signing up and I'm trying to have

this Santa Claus experience, nowhere do I see Santa Claus doesn't

exist. Santa doesn't exist.

Loyalty card values exist and bunnies in such boxes go invest or use.

Here's. Here's my suggestion.

If you have a themed business, go by the Santa Glove,

go by the Santa Costume from a costume store and just be holding the presence

of that. Santa is involved somehow.

You know Scott, Scott's the owner,

I think so. Scott,

dress up as Santa and have the gifts and you guys just take photos with the

family, whatever you want,

but have Santa there higher. I'm sure there's a Santa Claus

impersonator in Santa Claus, Indiana who is off right now,

who needs some work. Have him dress up and showcase all the

presidents and showcase on toys.

Have him have him take a tour, a virtual tour with Santa Claus,

and let me see that on social media. Let me see that on the website.

Here's a question for you. So they were on facebook.

They just invested this money into a website.

What's their call to action button? Call,

call now, and so I have to.

If you mouse over it, what does it say?

You'll need to be logged into facebook APP on your phone to call.

It's got a missed opportunity. It's a big Mit.

They're closed four days of the week. How am I going to call them?

Send them back to the website, so change that simple five,

five second fix. Send it back to the website to make the

money. You're not open.

How are you going to field calls? They have a lot of videos,

which is great. They're using the same template,

which is fine.

That's totally fine. They've got the logo so they have brand

consistency. I think as good,

again, with the thumbnails,

because you can choose the thumbnails of each video on facebook as people are

perusing. That's an opportunity for you to

showcase the preview of the video and get people to Click and watch.

Get more engaged with your brand. Where Santa Bring Santa into this

episode should be called where? Santa where Santa,

because honestly he's a figment of our ignorant right now.

I'd say big takeaway from social media. Let's see.

Some Santa show us Santa Free Santa. Yeah,

right. Free.

Santa Santa. Okay.

Jake, one last thing that I want to do is look

at instagram. Sure.

Instagram is huge because it's a big driver of traffic.

It's a big driver of engagement. People that are watching the show,

people that are involved, they're going to want to go and see all

the different products. Instagram's a great platform for you to

post the products and guess what? For business owners,

this is a tip, so to save time,

you post an instagram, you can automatically share it to your

business page. So now if Santa is holding a toy and

you're putting it on, instagram goes to facebook,

now you're covering both. Boom.

Not Somebody. How long have they had the account?

Maybe it's brand new. We don't know.

One's the oldest post. Let's look at that.

Yeah, wild.

So you have instagram on your website, you're showcasing it,

a use it, just use it.

Start using that as your mechanism to record photos and quick videos and then

share them to facebook. It's going to be a huge time saver for

you, but having instagram right here with

only four posts and you opened up August 2018,

it's a missed opportunity that you can really,

really grab hold of absolutely right. Here's the big one.

Have messages from Santa, go find the Santa Impersonator in Santa

Claus, Indiana.

One of we saw one of the show. He was on the show.

Go find him and have him record different videos.

Sit with him for a couple of days by him,

some beers or agnostic or whatever you drink and just have him record videos

showing the toys and then you can post those up on instagram and they'll.

They'll seamlessly go to facebook. Right?

Huge opportunity for kids. I watch my kids now,

I cannot believe the amount of video they watch.

They consume so much video of nothing, but if if they could watch videos of

Santa, showing them the toys,

oh my God, and

a new hint, you can make money that way.

That's the way Santa unboxing toys and showing them and everything.

Yeah, you're a moron.

You're welcome. So Jake,

we went through everything. We went through search engine

optimization. We looked at Google,

my business, a website,

email and social media. So much more we can do,

but so much more. We don't have years where we're doing a

new thing. We're not going to score each one.

But just overall, how do you feel about Santa Toys?

Well, I think they did make leaps and bounds.

I mean, a lot of progress after marcus a show.

Um, honestly I think they did pretty well.

I think overall I think they're doing pretty well.

I think the business owners obviously are very good at kind of conserving

money, um,

but there's definitely opportunities.

So if we're looking at it from the business owner point of view,

I totally agree with you. If we're looking at it that marcus

limonus owned 50 percent of the website. Marcus,

again, our websites right here,

just just call us or email us or go to the site.

I'm just kidding. But all due respect to everyone that

we're, you know,

thank you for letting us do this again. Here's what I recommend.

Improve your search engine optimization. Simple.

Start uploading more photos to google my business and videos of Santa use posts

which we didn't even talk about, but use posts on the website itself.

Try to figure out some ways to customize it and to capture more emails with email

automated welcome email, simple and easy,

and also drip marketing campaigns and the nice list and make me feel like I

joined the nice list. Don't make me feel like I just submitted

it to some to the, to the LLC robot and with social media,

more videos, more photos.

Get that Santa Impersonator working in the off season and have him work with

you so you guys can get more people to Santa Claus,

Indiana, but also sell more toys.

So for the bigger, better business channel.

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3 Reasons Digital Marketing Destroys Traditional Marketing - Duration: 6:43.

Damn I just got destroyed.

There are three reasons why digital marketing destroys

traditional marketing, now remember back in the old days

when I was doing traditional marketing.

Now for some of the young guys watching this,

you have no clue what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about good old newspaper.

Yes, we were running display ads.

And also I'm talking about like broadcast fax.

No email, fax machine,

but that's how we used to do advertising

and marketing before digital, before internet comes along.

I think a lot of us take it for granted compared to what

we have today compared to back then.

Let me share with you the three reasons

or what I call the three T's why digital

marketing is far superior than traditional marketing.

First one is targeting, now imagine

traditional marketing let's say you're driving on

the highway you see these huge massive billboard right

advertising certain things you see those in Vegas.

They still have those which is fine but it's more like

brand awareness but that's traditional advertising a

billboard you can't really target

who is going to see that billboard.

You just write there, if someone sees it good,

if someone doesn't see it you don't really know but with

digital marketing with online you can precisely target

exactly who do you want seeing your offer, seeing your

website, seeing your business or seeing your bundle.

You can choose example with Google AdWords, you can target

the keywords that they're searching, you know the buyer

intent and you can put your message right in front of there.

So that when they search the keyword they will find you or

with Facebook you can also their precisely target exactly

who you want, what are the interest, what's that,

that profile that you are targeting so you could target

very precisely, exactly who do you want for your customers

or for your offer that you cannot

do with traditional marketing.

When we were doing direct mail, we can target a little bit,

mean we can rent a list of potential buyers,

you can we can send out those direct mail pieces,

but it's not very targeted.

And we don't really know what happens, right.

In the good old days, direct mail, we have a term called

A-pile B-pile, meaning that people saw the the mail right

next to the trash can, the garbage can, right where they

know, okay, this is an ad, this is a flyer,

this is something that doesn't interest me, it goes in

the trash can we call that the B-pile.

The A-pile are all the personal letters, right,

it'd be letters from someone that you know,

or maybe statements and credit card statements and bills

those will make it to the A-pile, as a marketer back then,

when we were doing direct mail.

The first goal is not to get

people to buy, the first goal is to get people to make sure

they don't throw away our stuff, right?

Make sure we make it to the A-pile.

So now with digital marketing,

you don't need to do that anymore.

You can put your offer your product, your service

in front of precise exactly who you want, when you want it,

where you want it.

You can choose country, you can choose demographics,

you can choose psychographics,

extremely, extremely powerful.

Number two, the second T is tracking, not just that.

So with direct mail, we can kind of track.

Okay, we send out 1000 letters, we send out 5000 letters,

we send out 10,000 letters, we kind of roughly know that

okay, out of the 10,000 letters

we got so many order forms back.

Back then, that's what we how we used to do it.

They actually said people send back an order form or send

back the money or call a phone number to to buy something

but still not very precise with internet marketing.

Oh my goodness!

With digital marketing,

you can track exactly what happens.

Where that buyer comes from, where that customer comes from.

You can even track their journey.

Maybe they first saw this particular video

and then they've opt into this particular

offer and then they didn't buy and when we run a retargeting

ads and then they bought in this period of time or they

bought because they saw email

number four in your email sequence.

You cannot do that with traditional marketing you

could only do that with digital marketing that's

powerful and number three and that is the third T

and that is tweaking.

Now think about back then, if I'm doing a big

massive billboard and if say, you know what, I don't like

the billboard I'm changing my message

or now I have a different offer.

What do I have to do?

I've got to take out the whole damn Billboard.

I got to replace everything at

the reprint everything, with digital, if there's an ad that

I'm running, I don't like I can change it just like that.

I can split test different ads at the same time have an A/B

testing or been marketing call the A/B testing we can tweak

different things or my webpage I'm testing on a different

guarantee a different price point.

Run traffic to it and I will know.

Now traditional advertising,

anything that we do, there's a huge delay in terms of time,

that gap that makes it very, very expensive and very costly.

So the benefits of marketing online and all those things you

can target, you can track

and you can also tweak very quickly

to get better result, that's the upside.

But there's a downside, the downside

is everybody could do the same thing.

So the marketplace is getting way more

sophisticated, your competitors, they are getting more

sophisticated, there are more ways for

them to compete with you, anybody.

I don't care how big you are.

You could be running a pretty big company,

it doesn't matter.

A 17 year old kid living in a basement

could compete with you.

So knowing that yes, with the technology digital

marketing has so many advantages.

At the same time, knowing that it changes all the time that

you have to do more to keep up the pace to have that leading

edge and always say if you not the lead doc.

The view is always the same.

If this is the first time you are watching my video,

make sure you hit the thumbs up and comment below.

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Every single day, I upload a new video

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that will help you to take whatever is that you do.

I don't care if you're starting out.

I don't care if you're still working a job.

I don't care if you have a business that's doing

sort of model level,

I'm certain you'll learn something from it.

With that said I gotta get back to my game.

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Top 8 Digital Nomad Jobs - Make Money Online Around the World - Duration: 7:45.

digital nomads are taking the world by storm in fact a number of countries have

begun to create visas just for location independent people who want to travel

the world and work straight from their computers these nomads have the freedom

to live and work wherever they are allowed it's not uncommon for people

with this kind of lifestyle to flock to Bali Chiang Mai or California to enjoy

great weather and cities with exciting potential if you can do your job

remotely you can start living life as a digital nomad the digital nomad you meet

in Chiang Mai or Medellin may have one of the following common job titles but

that isn't to say you can't make the digital Nomad lifestyle work for you

whatever your job is the following are some suggestions for a moat and

freelancing jobs that can allow you to go digital but they're not an exclusive

list of just digital Nomad jobs so let's move on number one web developer someone

has to create and understand the ins and outs of the online world web developers

and web designers make great digital nomads after all their entire job

requires just a computer and an internet connection if you can offer great advice

or create great products for your clients you can set up a profitable

business as a web developer now it's really easy to get started in fact there

are tons of free online courses also I want to say many digital nomads run

their own businesses often they will produce a product maybe like a website

design for example a theme that is available for purchase and if you can

set up an online business delivering these types of digital products you will

be all set to live the digital nomad lifestyle because you can make money

whenever you sleep let's move on number 2 is digital marketer many retail

businesses are making the switch from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce many

business-to-business businesses are making the switch from outbound

traditional marketing strategies to inbound digital marketing strategies

Li's can find the solutions that are looking for with just a click they don't

need to be coaxed by door to door salesman or face to face meetings and

this is where your expertise comes in digital marketing strategies can be

created implemented and tested from any location in the world as long as you

have access to the right software and a good internet connection you can manage

marketing strategies and create content from anywhere on earth under the realm

of digital marketing you can find many different job opportunities and titles

for example digital marketing and SEO consultants often recruit a collection

of remote workers with different areas of expertise if you have experience

working as a content creator maybe a social media manager or a copywriter you

might find yourself working under a de jure

marketer and helping businesses execute their online strategies number three is

virtual assistant implementing a digital marketing strategy often involves a lot

of grunt work stuff like scheduling social media posts sending out and

responding to emails or even just creating simple graphics to be used in

marketing materials strategists don't always have the time to complete these

more mundane tasks so they just hand off their checklist to a virtual assistant

now VA s as they're called get paid the dupes some pretty simple jobs from their

computer busy professionals don't just hire virtual assistants to help schedule

Pinterest pins some VA s don't even have experience in digital marketing people

may hire virtual assistants to complete tasks like scheduling medical

appointments sending gifts answering phone calls data entry may be booking

some type of reservation testing links and scheduling dates I'm not even

kidding Tim Ferriss use a virtual assistant to

apologize to his wife apparently the virtual assistant sent his wife some

flowers now if you're interested you can look for virtual assistant jobs on

freelance platforms or traditional job posting sites like Craigslist number

four is to be a consultant so what do clients need from a consultant

well they offer expertise and advice consultants can deliver this advice from

anywhere in the world it doesn't matter where they are consultants like many

digital nomads create their own business offering advice to clients in fact there

are actual digital nomad consultants who helped coach clients to transition to

the digital Nomad lifestyle now this is a great opportunity for people who may

have this skill set of a typical digital nomad if you have years of knowledge and

experience in a certain area and have the ability to teach and communicate

that knowledge and information in an engaging and unique way kind of like how

I'm making these videos consulting may be the best career path for you number

five is something really simple but its customer support representative now this

is another job title that serves as an umbrella for other positions including

virtual assistant customer support representatives help buyers make their

purchase through a variety of channels maybe over the phone through instant

messaging software's or other stuff like that as long as you can help the person

on the other end of the line you can successfully work as a customer service

representative neil patel recommends that your customer representatives that

you hire or if you are a customer representative that you have actually

used the product or the service that you're trying to sell it makes it much

more genuine under the umbrella of customer service representative is the

exciting job of being a travel agent who can help plan a trip better than someone

who has always on vacation right earning travel agent

credentials may require a little bit of online education courses but it can be a

wonderful way to pursue your passion and make a livable income in fact most of

the travel agents that I actually know travel a lot more than the average

person number six is to become a language teacher the demand for English

teachers is high throughout the world and companies often want speakers who

are fluent in English for years this opportunity has allowed recent college

graduates or teachers from America England and other english-speaking

countries to live in different parts of the world that aren't main

english-speaking countries like Spain Japan and Vietnam

now this opportunity is still available and there are many nomads who spend

their lives hopping from country to country teaching English around the

world but if you want a little bit more freedom you can work and teach right

through your computer companies like say ABC or VIP kid allow digital nomads to

spend a few hours each day teaching children around the world how to speak

proper English each company has different requirements and schedules and

sub like that but most opportunities are actually really flexible I have quite a

few friends who do this as a side hustle now number seven is to be a copywriter

if you have the ability to write well and tell a story you can help businesses

individuals and entrepreneurs and hopefully you can make some big bucks

when most people hear the word rider in a job title they think of like a

novelist you don't have to publish a book through work as a writer full-time

freelance writers can submit pieces to magazines or publications or blogs and

get compensated for their work copywriters can enjoy a nine-to-five

brainstorming creative advertising or web copy for businesses in fact

copywriting is one of the easiest ways to make an extra thousand dollars every

month as a side hustle because it's not very saturated and it's very easy to get

started some copywriters get paid up to $10,000 per project if you pick it up

full time you can easily rake in six figures yearly many writers work under

the umbrella of digital marketing creating optimized blog posts that help

businesses drive traffic to their website to generate leads other writers

work as so-called ghost writers where they write stories biographies or just

other content under the name of their client now this content is like any

other product on the market if you can sell the ability to create written

content you can start gaining clients and create a business that will take you

around the world if you're curious about how to become a professional or maybe

even a part-time copywriter I've actually recently launched my training

called copywriting kit to help you learn to write more

persuasively and land a high-paying copywriting job in less than 30 days I'm

only opening it to a hundred students at the current discounted price and it also

comes with a 30 day money back guarantee so it's totally risk-free to you if

you're interested check out the link in the description below to learn more

about mastering this high income skill and if you're not let's move on to the

last digital Nomad job number eight is to be a photographer now like writers

businesses hire photographers to deliver a product as long as a contractor can

actually deliver the product they won't really need that much supervision

photographers do need to show up in person somewhere but they have the

freedom to take on jobs based on where they want to live for example who

doesn't want to see a gorgeous set of photos from Bali or Banff as marketing

materials so as you can see there are many ways to find remote work and start

making a living as a digital nomad if you have a skill set outside of what

these job positions call for you can probably if you're creative still find a

way to become a digital nomad all it takes is a little bit of creativity and

the ability to sell your skills to clients who will hire you thank you guys

so much for watching and I really hope you enjoyed this video

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Concept Checkup: Syntax, the Digital Warframe - Duration: 7:10.

Hello and welcome back to the Concept Checkup.

The point of Concept Checkup is to dive into the Warframe forums or other source, look

for a community made Warframe concept, and talk about it.

For the purpose of Concept Checkup, I will use my custom-built evaluating method known as...

ASS.

Without further ado, let's begin the Checkup.

For today's Checkup we have Syntax, the Digital Warframe.

Syntax was created by MrPigman on the Warframe forums, who has created a LOT of Warframe

concepts that I have covered previously, such as Vector and Flora.

Syntax is designed to be both a tank and support Warframe, similar to Chroma, but with more

emphasis on enemy disruption.

Syntax has above average Health, above average shield capacity, average Armor, below average

Energy capacity, and a very below average sprint speed.

These stats make Syntax an interesting Warframe, because while he is absolutely a beefy Warframe,

the 0.85 sprint speed would make him the slowest Warframe in the game, slower than Atlas, who

currently has a sprint speed of 0.9.

This suggests that Syntax is supposed to be a slow but powerful Warframe.

Syntax currently does not have a passive, so we'll jump right into his abilities.

Syntax's first ability is Identity Theft.

To put it simply, Identity Theft is the aesthetic version of Loki's Switch Teleport.

Instead of swapping yourself with an enemy, you swap appearances with an enemy.

Identity Theft is pretty strong for a first ability, not just because it removes aggro

from yourself and allies, but because it can potentially double as a life saving ability,

meaning that in situations where Syntax is close to death, he can simply swap appearances

with a nearby enemy and move away to recover.

Although Identity Theft is balanced out by its low base duration, it really could be

a great power.

Although enemies aggro on Syntax once Identity Theft expires, I don't think that's much of

a downside for Syntax, given that he's already a tanky Warframe.

Syntax's second ability is Analyze.

I really don't mind the buff and debuff portion of Analyze, but the range of this ability

is WAY too large.

While I understand that it's meant as a large area-sweeping power, 40 meters as a base range

is simply just too big.

A single maxed Stretch would increase the range of Analyze to 58 meters, meaning it

would have bigger than Affinity range.

Throw some Power Strength on top of that to increase the buff and debuff amounts, and

now you have an ability that's not a room clearing nuke, yet it has the power of one.

The range is the only portion of this ability that I find to be rather ludicrous, so honestly

I would say that cutting down the base range to 25 meters or so would be a good place to

start.

Syntax's third ability is Glitch.

As awesome as a "healing teleport" sounds, I really don't think Glitch is anything special.

It's not bad, it just looks to be incredibly situational.

If Glitch restored Energy to Syntax, I would without a doubt call this ability overpowered.

However, since it does not, I see it as only situational.

The only times I imagine a player using Glitch would be if they're either about to fall out

of the map, or if they're caught in a bad situation, such as being a second or two away

from dying.

In essence, this would make Glitch just basically function as an "oh shit" button, kind of like

Wukong's Defy, with the main difference being Glitch restores ammunition while also

changing Syntax's location.

Being a situational ability isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just that I think that it's

a waste to create an ability that will only barely be used.

On top of that, Identity Theft kind of already functions as a "life saving" ability, so what

again is the purpose of Glitch, aside from changing location and restoring ammunition?

Syntax's fourth ability is Data Stream.

Data Stream is... weird, to say the least, mostly because this is the first time I've

seen a hard CC, self buff, and team buff ability combined.

It's sort of like Harrow's Covenant, Nidus's Parasitic Link, and Volt's Discharge all rolled

into one.

Given that Data Stream targets all allies, I assume that its Range is based on Affinity

Range like Harrow's Covenant.

Thankfully the damage reduction and transferral is not affected by Power Strength, because

otherwise that would just solidify Syntax as the brand new meta support frame, which

is something that I don't think Trinity players will be happy with.

While the damage reduction and transferral is certainly great, the electrical burst generated

from Syntax upon taking damage is odd.

The range of the burst is not specified, so it's difficult to determine exactly how good

this could be in practical use.

However, Data Stream is a bit problematic because it does state that Syntax generates

an AoE electrical burst every time he takes damage, meaning that if Syntax is taking

damage from rapid-fire enemy weaponry or from damage over time Status Effects like Fire

or Toxin, he can become a perpetual and permanent enemy lockdown machine.

The range of this burst is what will determine if Data Stream is either just really really

good or really really overpowered, because there's a big difference between being a tank

for your teammates as well as a perpetual enemy lockdown machine, and just having unreasonably

godly survivability.

If the range of the burst is, let's say, 8 meters or less, I wouldn't have a problem

with Data Stream.

However, if it surpasses the 10 meter mark, I would say that Syntax would rank among the

most overpowered Warframe concepts ever created.

Anyways, here are Syntax's scores.

For my personal thoughts, while I'm a little bit put off by some parts of Syntax lacking

finalized stats, I really do like the premise of this concept, aside from needing to be

toned down a bit.

Is Syntax overpowered in his current iteration?

If you ask me, a little bit, yes.

However, that doesn't mean he can't be improved.

All he really needs is some mild nerfing to his Analyze, some tweaking to Data Stream,

and maybe some revision to his Glitch.

Otherwise, I feel he'd be a pretty solid concept.

Thank you for watching.

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Digital Leadership: Davos 2019 Marc Benioff - IA and Human Rights - Duration: 2:19.

we are risking a new tech divide between those who have access to AI and those

who do not I so strongly believe that artificial intelligence is truly going

to be a new human right every person in every country needs to have access to

this critical new technology of course today only a few countries and only a

few companies have the very best artificial intelligence in the world and

those who have the artificial intelligence will be smarter they'll be

healthier they'll be richer and of course you've

seen their warfare will be significantly more advanced that is why it's critical

that we look now at what we're doing with this amazing new technology and

asking the questions that are so important especially in regards to

equality what are we doing to really bring these technologies to everyone

those without AI are gonna be as I said weaker and poorer less educated and

sicker so we must ask ourselves is this the kind of world we want to live in

this can be seen right and where I live in San Francisco where we truly have a

crisis of inequality we also have a tremendous try crisis of trust you can

see that with the misuse of data the misuse of privacy all of these things

are huge and new complex issues that's why we have the center for the fourth

Industrial Revolution we must have an incredible place to be able to have a

true multi-stakeholder dialogue and Murat and his team have done a

phenomenal job over the last two years of building this incredible Center

currently in San Francisco with 70 amazing executives and researchers and

thinkers and now our ability to bring that to Colombia is so powerful because

some of these existential questions must be answered this is a new technology the

fourth Industrial Revolution an incredible new technology certainly AI

is technology like none of us have ever seen and none of us can truly say where

it's going but we do know this technology is never good

or bad it's what we do with the technology that matters

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OTAN's Google Applied Digital Skills - Duration: 5:23.

Welcome to OTAN, your Outreach and Technical Assistance Network

I want to share with you a new curriculum from Google.

It's called Applied Digital Skills. My name is Debbie Jensen. I teach adult

basic skills at Baldwin Park Adult and Community Education in Southern

California. I also present for OTAN: Outreach and Technical Assistance

Network. First, let me tell you why I like Applied Digital Skills. It truly meets

the needs of my adult learners. So much of our communication each day demands us

to be online: email, Indeed, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter; and tomorrow

there'll be even more. Our tasks require us to be online too. We send

files, folders, videos, and screen-casts. We share communication and work with each

other online every day. How many of us have taken formal classes in how to

navigate all of this? Speaking for us all, I learned to do Word, Excel, Docs, Slides,

etc. using many YouTube videos or talking to friends or trial-and-error. This

program teaches digital skills from the beginning. As I've auditioned the lessons,

each time I have learned something new and that excites me for myself and my

students. So let's take a look. First, look at the menu bar at the top of the screen:

for teachers, for students, and curriculum. For the teacher, the curriculum keeps in

mind that we are preparing our students for their future whether it's in going

on to more school or vocational program, or into the workforce. The lessons

also involve what they're doing right now in their lives. Whether it's emailing

families or friends, organizing files online, preparing a budget, or managing a

project with digital tools, Google has worked out seamless integration into our

lesson plans making the whole thing easy to do. For the students: it is all video

based allowing them to learn anywhere anytime and at their own pace. They can

learn new skills that they can use at school, for their job search, in their

current job, or in their everyday lives. The curriculum currently has 32 lessons

but that's growing. You can see them all when you select the curriculum.

As you select lessons you can sort by audience: middle, high school or adult

learners - you can search by applications you want to teach, or three

you can sort by state standards. Here's an example of one of their lessons

titled Digital Tools for Everyday Tasks. You can see it includes a description of

skills being taught, how long they think it'll take a student to finish, the

audience, and the applications the lesson uses. When you start a lesson, you begin a

video introduction that explains the different options available addressing

adaptability needs of our students. They can adjust volume, screen size, playback

speed, use captions or not, and access a transcript. They can download the videos

and watch them and re-watch videos as many times as they want. They can also

see previous lessons for review. The videos demonstrate how to do each step

on the left and include a write-up of the assignment on the right. Google has

also created lots of helps like classroom posters, Quick Start guides with

step-by-step instructions for the teacher, a one-page handout explaining

the program-- this is great for anyone wanting to know about the program

whether it's an administrator or co- teachers. They also have fact sheets with

frequently asked questions and more helpful information. So what's stopping

you? Go to Google Applied Digital Skills and take a look around. Create a class

and assign a lesson. You'll be given a class code. One more note: within your

class you'll be able to track your students progress and see their

reflections on their learning. If you're a student it's as easy as going to g.co/

applieddigitalskills, telling them you're a student, and adding the class

code. Put on the headphones and begin. There's a great introductory video that

explains the program, how to toggle between screens, and even how to create a

split screen. Each time a student rejoins the class they are shown where they left

off. Wwo final endorsements: from ISTE the International Society for Technology and

Education review report : "The Applied Digital Skills curriculum is an

impressive resource with projects that are engaging, relevant, and connected to

the real world." And from Common Sense Education, winning their 2018 top pick

for learning, " Applied Digital Skills is modern, relevant, and

surprisingly well-balanced. Give it a try." I couldn't say it any better myself.

Thank you, and as a reminder OTAN supports California Adult Education

agencies who are integrating, improving, and maintaining technology use in the

classroom. Always stay informed by visiting the OTAN website at www.otan.us And be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.

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A Digital Culture Of Fear (w/ Scott Malcomson) | Interview | Real Vision™ - Duration: 51:00.

Hey, everyone.

Just wanted to let you know about our new video on cybersecurity.

We got to check out a cybersecurity control center, so that's where they screen for massive

worldwide cyber attacks.

We also got to speak to a bunch of hackers, and actually see a hack happen live.

But before we get into that, we wanted to share some of our previous videos on cybersecurity

from some experts in the field.

So this episode originally aired on August 18, 2016.

Hope you enjoy, and remember to also check at RealVision.com to watch the new season

of Discoveries, where we dive into the implications of the internet of things.

That's everything from smart thermostats to internet connected cars and Wi-Fi coffee makers.

It's definitely something you don't want to miss.

So make sure to sign up for your 14 day free trial.

I was a foreign editor in the New York Times Magazine and then I've been an oped editor

there as well.

But I really started in college and really came up through alternative journalism, which,

whatever else might say about The New York Times, it's not really alternative journalism.

But I was at the Village Voice for like 12 years and it was all deeply anti-authoritarian

and mostly cultural, sort of, rather than political.

So needless to say, we didn't draw much of a distinction between those two in alternative

journalism.

But that's really what where I came from.

And my interests were divided between more cultural things like novels and film and that

kind of thing.

And then foreign cultures, but foreign politics and foreign affairs.

And so I just kind of stuck with those two.

And those were really my guide posts.

Once I had children I needed to make an actual living.

So I resisted full time work up until my first child was born.

When I was well into my 30s.

And that was when I went to the Times, actually.

But prior to that, I pretty much never had a full time job, except maybe for a couple

of months.

And I'd save my money and then I would go overseas once I saved up enough and I had

some story in mind.

So the first big overseas story I did was in 1984.

I was fascinated by the coal miner strike in the UK.

And so I spent several months running around to coal mines and talking with miners and

then with Mrs. Thatcher and Peter Healthfield and different people who were in the union.

Ian McGregor, who was sort of the point person for the government.

He was the head of National Coal Board, is that right?

So that was really my introduction to being a foreign correspondent.

And for years and years I just kind of arranged my life so I could go back to New York and

edit.

And I was in essentially a kind of a left wing counter cultural world.

And then when I had enough money I'd go off.

So I worked in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Eventually in the Middle East, Central Asia, across most of Europe.

North America, Canada.

Eventually I got to China as well.

Eventually, I went into college.

I was always interested in writing and at that time in the late '70s and '80s, the only

way that you could hope to make a living at writing was to be a journalist.

And so I went into journalism with that in mind.

I went to the University of California at Berkeley because of its counter cultural heritage.

Its new daily newspaper-- student so-called newspaper-- was an independent corporation.

It was an off campus corporation because there had been a rebellion by it.

I think the paper was at that point almost 100 years old, which is pretty incredible

in itself.

But a few years before I got there, the staff had rebelled against the administration.

And so there was a battle over it.

And so they took all the typewriters and desks and then walked a few blocks down Dwight Way

and put them in a rented office, which is where I came into the picture.

So that's really where I learned to be a journalist.

And it hadn't been what I intended to do, but I really, really loved doing it.

And at that point, we still had-- partly because we didn't have very much money-- but we use

manual typewriters.

I think there might have been one or two electric ones.

We did each story-- when you wrote it, it was done on what's called a half sheet, which

is a piece of paper about that big.

Usually taken off of the roll from the AP machine.

And we would slice out these pages and then you put one paragraph on each page.

So then the editor would then look at it and say, no, this paragraph is more important.

And then there was like a physical re-stacking of the order the paragraphs.

So I learned to journalism in a very low tech or early tech way.

Slightly anachronistic, but not by much.

And I've basically seen both the profession change technologically and in many ways, go

downhill ever since.

And in fact, most industries that I get in seem to fall apart within a couple of years

of my getting involved with them.

And that was the case with journalism too.

It's been a long sad decline.

Which isn't to sound anti-technology at all.

In fact, I did some work with the Chairman of Google, for example.

And I recently wrote a book about technology.

And I've worked on helping journalism to adjust to changes in technology.

Nonetheless, I think there were a couple things that have really been lost in the course of

that trajectory.

The main thing really was it in the United States, and to a lesser degree in other countries--

very much also in Latin America-- journalism came up as an industry that was based with

a lot of different newspapers in different towns.

And each newspaper was quite distinct.

And in a kind of pre-globalized information situation, each of those became powerful.

They were essentially monopolies.

Even if there was a morning or an evening paper, they were just sharing a monopoly.

And so first of all, if it had that kind of political power and significance, which brought

with it a sense of responsibility.

Local responsibility.

And local responsibility is, obviously, very different from the kind of diffused responsibility

you get in the internet period.

You're immediately answerable to people whom you know and who know you.

It's a different kind of responsibility.

. And then secondly, because literacy was not

a secret, it was hardly even a skill actually-- there was no professional journalism.

And there's barely a professional journalism now.

It sort of became professionalized, I think, largely at the instigation of universities,

who saw a kind of additional source of revenue that would be possible.

But basically, the brilliance to me of journalism, in that kind of political economic sense was

that someone like me, who came from a very modest background, who only had a bachelor's

degree and had to really struggle to get that, could succeed in it through work.

And yet it was a relatively esteemed profession.

Not like a doctor or a lawyer, but nonetheless, not like a landscape laborer, which I have

also been.

Or a construction site worker, which I've also been.

So journalism had this intense appeal in terms of social mobility among other things.

But it was generally in the US and elsewhere organized as an industry.

And so there's a great deal of on the job training.

I mean, it was never really seen as a profession, but it was seen as a kind of pretty intensely

trained vocation.

And that appealed to me a lot.

The social fluidity of it.

And that pretty intense sense of responsibility.

But also a certain rashness as well, which is very appealing, up to a point

Part of the way you get trained in it was through its own culture and through the responsibility

to other people within the profession.

I never thought of it as a profession, quite.

But anyway, in practice, you are answerable to the other practitioners.

And you built a reputation.

A good reputation or a bad reputation.

And then you sort of lived on that.

And that appealed to me.

That's what made it open to social mobility-- is that you had a chance to live on a reputation.

And I think that structure has really broken down.

There's a lot of good journalism that goes on now.

I find that in the sort of the more traditional media setups, the pressures are so great to

generate so much content in a short period of time.

That, with some exceptions, kind of overwhelms the practice.

And I know it's a huge frustration for people who are in it.

Somebody who used to spend a couple of days working on a story now has to deliver something

every few hours.

And it's not that they couldn't do it, so to speak, in the old way.

But they don't get the opportunity to do it in the old way.

What sort of fills in, to some extent, for that is you do still have real talent kind

of coming up.

And it shapes itself more than the industry shapes it now.

So there's a different kind of personality that thrives in a situation like that.

But some of them are really great.

They tend to be-- not so much today-- not so much in any kind of general media.

They tend to be on sites that are devoted more to a particular topic.

Like things that I'm very interested in are cyber security, foreign affairs generally,

but in a particular, parts of the world and everything.

American foreign policy.

But some of the best stuff that I read on American foreign policy is on websites like

this one called War on the Rocks that most people wouldn't have heard of.

And that don't get marketed particularly.

And US Policy Defense One is another site.

There are these sites for pretty much whatever you're interested in.

But it's a very, very different journalistic world.

And in some ways, it's barely journalism.

But the quality level tends to vary quite a bit, even within a quality site.

I think it's been difficult for journalism and investigative journalism to deal with

the Great Recession-- the period after it-- for several reasons.

One is that traditionally, there's been such a distinction drawn between the business press

or the financial press and the rest of the press.

And the business world tends to listen to the financial press or the business press

and not to the rest of it.

And so the non-business press, so to speak, approaches those sorts of issues, particularly

on that scale, a global scale-- tends to approach them in a way that very rarely gets at the

essential dynamics.

Because the people in the non-business press world aren't really accustomed to thinking

about those things.

So they'll tend to put them, for example, as Michael Lewis did, into a more, what is

sort of fundamentally a magazine journalism frame.

His work is really great but there was a lot else going on in 2008.

Or there's a kind of moral frame that comes naturally to non-business people when they're

thinking about business.

To me, judgment is probably more inappropriate than appropriate.

Which isn't to say that there isn't a good, sort of morally driven in some way or ethically

driven journalism done about business issues and economic issues.

But it does tend to close off the avenues that you would go down to investigate those

issues.

Because you have a moral point in mind already, probably.

So that stuff is really surprisingly difficult to write about.

And because the Great Recession had such an international quality to it-- the press is

still local in the sense that the French press is demonstrably different from the German

press.

And they're both demonstrably different from the American press.

And so early on in the Great Recession, there were several institution, states, people who

were seen as the possible likely people to blame.

Or institutions to blame.

And the press treatment of the Great Recession quickly started to break down along those

lines.

Did it originate in the United States.

Did it have to do with savings.

Did it have to do with Chinese surpluses.

And these issues.

So I think that kind of derailed a lot of that discussion.

Because it's very hard to be at both an investigative person and 30,000 feet.

It's very difficult to combine those.

Particularly at the time, there was sort of, in a way, more blame to go around than possibly

that could have been assigned.

And I think that made writing about and investigating that quite a bit more difficult than you might

think at first blush.

One of the processes that I've witnessed in looking at journalism over the last 30 years

is the rise of a kind of highly politically opinionated journalism to a point where it

could really shift things.

Now that was not so much of a novelty as we sometimes think.

I mean, the golden age of establishment journalism when you listen respectfully to whomever,

I think, is a bit of a myth constructed in retrospect.

And it's interesting to think about why it would have been constructed in these different

times.

At least with American journalism, if you're familiar with it, it tended to be very highly

partisan.

Pretty much up until the Second World War.

And a lot of the sort of model for very high minded civic journalism is really a post World

War Ii thing.

And I don't think it is a coincidence that it corresponds with a level of American felt

global responsibility, which had not pre-existed World War II, or even like 1943.

So it was a bit of a myth, which reached its apotheosis in the early '70s with the Watergate

case.

That said, there are bad myths and good myths.

And there are myths that make you work harder to do better things and there are myths that

make you not.

So it's an attractive myth and I think, probably, a useful one.

To me, the point when that started-- if I had to pick one-- to decline, it was really

with the rise of talk radio and in particular, the rise of Rush Limbaugh in the United States.

And tapping into a feeling that there was a sort of center liberal not ideology, maybe

conspiracy.

But a kind of chloroform that the mainstream media were applying to all debate.

And in the media world, Rush Limbaugh is sort of tip of the spear with that.

Newt Gingrich in the House was the political equivalent of that.

And this was a sort of fairly coherent movement.

It all predates the internet.

And it possibly doesn't have anything to do with it.

The way in which the internet kind of undermined that sort of really strong central authority

of the journalistic business, I think, was exacerbating existing trends.

And also, with the rise of cable TV, just the fact that you used to have three channels

when I was a kid.

And then you had 50.

And people could access it.

And it was all kind of crap at first and then it got better and better.

So the advent of somebody like John Oliver as a really important political elucidator

is the point where we're at now in a pretty long development where there's a style of

a highly opinionated and even quite sarcastic delivery of information.

And it tends to be built off of, from left to right, an idea that there's a kind of center

that is pretending to be wiser than it is.

Now having worked in that center myself, and if not in its heyday, then pretty close to

it.

I can say that yes, indeed, there was a kind of endemic smugness to that culture.

There was a lot about it that was great.

But you could hardly maintain that that kind of smugness wasn't there as well.

What I like about some of the more non-right wing people in that world is that they are--

and I think John Oliver is, I think, a good example-- coming out of Jon Stewart.

But Jon Stewart really didn't do this particularly.

He was just like a particularly well read and smart guy.

But the John Oliver show and some others actually really devote a fair amount of time to research.

And I think there's a kind of sense of social responsibility that sort of creeping in the

back door after essentially two decades of that really being in decline.

And so you know, we'll see you will see what the next stage is.

But I don't think it's just a downward slope at all.

It changes form.

Well, I mean I've gotten into this private intelligence work in kind of interesting way

with respect to the history of journalism.

Because there's now-- and generationally, this will disappear, but for this window of

time-- around the world, a network of people who went into journalism, were trained in

it to the degree that you get trained, and devoted to-- not to sound sentimental-- to

actually discovering the truth and the facts of a situation, who have a really hard time

making a living.

And what I do now when I work for investors who are trying to-- basically, I try to find

out if something that they're interested in putting money into-- a company, people-- if

those are what they represent themselves to be.

And if they're a bit more subtly, even if they are honest about who they are, are their

ambitions for themselves actually corresponding enough to reality.

And those are fundamentally things that journalists do all the time.

And often, when I need information from a place, I found that there's this kind of--

I call it the League of Ex-Journalists-- who all basically know each other and are sympathetic

to the fundamental plight of not being able to do quite what it was you wanted to do when

you were 20.

And so it's like an international network of people.

I mean, I can find somebody anywhere within-- well, so far it hasn't taken more than a few

phone calls to find somebody.

Because it's sort of a shared culture.

But as I say, it's a shared culture that I doubt will last very long.

But it's lasting right now.

It answers a need because the world of investors-- let's say in a pre-globalized era.

So let's say before 1990.

In the majority, you lived within a relatively circumscribed world.

You may deals on the basis of people who were known to you or known to your family.

There's a kind of degrees of separation thing.

But the number of people who were going into fresh markets that they didn't know and gaining

command of them and then making investments in them and having them do well and so on--

that was just really a negligible percentage of the people who were in the kind of investor

world, right?

So with globalization, you both had an opportunity to enter markets.

It was much easier to enter them than it would have been earlier.

You'd have more information about them.

Roots were created for the flow of money.

Money could be transferred so much more easily across borders.

Profits could be repatriated all that kind of stuff.

So capital became much more global.

And on the whole, that worked out pretty well.

I mean, you'd have these immense private capital flows to places that had not gotten them before

because it wouldn't have entered the minds of the people who were in control of the capital

to move them to the given place.

Anyway, that's making a very complicated story in a very brief.

But the point I'm trying to make is that investors and capital became globalized and they enjoyed

10, 15 years or so of it being relatively hard to make a mistake.

Relatively hard.

Not that people didn't lose lots of money.

But relatively hard to make a mistake.

And confidence was built because the sense was that there was a kind of gradual but steady

convergence of political structures and a kind of understood global culture, which can

be easily mocked.

But for people who wanted to move their money to new places in the hopes of greater returns,

it was kind of necessary.

It all kind of formed a confidence building thing.

And really, from 2007, 2008 on, that has gradually fallen apart.

And not all of it.

But some really significant elements.

At this point to maintain that the political structures, at least of the major states,

and the relationship between those structures and economic practices, legal practices, and

so on-- the sanctity of contract, blah, blah, blah, never be another nationalization again--

that would be foolish to think that now.

And maybe someday, every country will be a democracy.

But nobody actually believes that anymore.

Or that there will never be another nationalization.

All this kind of stuff.

So even the idea that there's a kind of, OK, not on democracy grounds, not on cultural

grounds, possibly not on moral grounds or international human rights grounds, but there's

still a kind of shared capitalist rules of the road pattern that we can all rely on.

Even that isn't really true anymore.

And so you have a generation now or maybe two of globally minded investors who came

up in a period when they thought things are in a certain direction.

Now, the returns that you can get here in the developed world are relatively low.

Just this week, if you wanted to fly to safety with your capital, you could go into German

bonds, and after 10 years of them basically storing your money, you get a little bit less

than that back.

So you have two things going on.

You have a class of global investors who are used to a certain rate of return.

I think it's achievable and feel that as they move around the globe, they should be able

to kind of find it.

But at the same time, you have all these systems falling apart actually made that possible.

So what I do in that context is find information in order to sort of recreate some of that

level of confidence which can't be taken for granted for the reasons that it had been taking

for granted for quite a while.

So what it usually amounts to is, on a given investment target, just really looking very

closely at the people.

The companies, but also very much the people.

What seems to me at least to really keep it stability in a period of instability is personal

relationships.

And so if you want to understand a group of companies-- why they might work-- you really

need to look at how the people in them work with each other.

It's very often family ties of one sort or another.

But it takes awhile, especially if you're looking at Saint Vincent and Grenadines, BVI,

all these different shell companies, it takes a lot of figure that out.

And then to put that in the context of a political, sometimes definitely an economic and commercial

situation.

Very frequently, also, a political situation.

You need to know how those people especially, but also the companies, fit into the larger

social context.

And it's not that hard to do, but it takes a fair amount of work.

And you need to know what you're doing.

And investors can't really do that themselves.

What they tend to do is they find a sector or companies or very often, individuals whom

they'll meet.

And they'll say, OK, this person I discussed it, this looks like a reasonable business,

they've done well in the past.

And then that's kind of it.

I don't want to actually move to Singapore or Ghana or Columbia or wherever and really

find out.

I just want to feel like I've got a shot at 10% rather than 1%.

So where I come in is trying to not just prevent mistakes, but create a kind of level of knowledge,

which is only aimed at creating a level of sound judgment, really, on the part of the

investor.

So it's all kind of the aspect of globalization and the relative deglobalization that we're

undergoing now, and [INAUDIBLE] the expectations of investors that were created in a somewhat

earlier period.

I think that investors have naturally focused on balance sheets and annual reports of financial

information and these sorts of disclosures and everything For good reason you can't you

can't ignore any of that.

But you also can't let it be a kind of token of stability.

You can't invest it with the power that it doesn't really have.

And any the company can do other things with balance sheets and you know and it's very

hard to know whether resources actually exist.

One of the things that we do it is fairly frequently misrepresented.

It's just like what are your actual assets.

And it's sort of like the equivalent of resume padding.

We've secured this magnificent property or whatever.

And there'll be a property, but it won't be that magnificent.

And one of the things that we do is send somebody to go look at a property.

It sounds simple but people don't expect you to actually do that.

It's just classic investigative-- it's sort of the binoculars counting the ship's kind

of thing.

But you learn you learn a lot that way.

The proliferation of information that's available relatively easily online has some interesting

benefits in terms of what we do.

And it can also be really misleading.

Some of the benefits are that you can get to know personalities.

Right now, and this will probably change, some people put a lot of information about

themselves still on the web and social media and sort of vaguely field that only their

friends will look at it.

And so you can find out a fair amount about people that they might prefer that you wouldn't

know that's of business relevance.

But it varies enormously.

And in some ways, I actually don't feel like there's that much of an information glut.

Partly because I just don't think there.

I think it's a bit overrated-- that there's you can find out all this information.

Secondly, if there's anything that somebody doesn't want you to know, the chances are

fairly high they'll go to some trouble to not make it available.

And so, in this sort of let's say relative information glut, the key thing if you're

trying to understand situation is not to be fooled into thinking that the information

that's in front of you is the information.

It's only the information in front you.

And so you go back to classic intelligence analytical work of trying to find patterns

of that, assuming that you know what they are and looking for correspondences without

imposing a pattern.

And letting the information kind of speak a little bit.

Because otherwise, you'll just be misled.

Maybe not deliberately, but it'll be as if it were deliberate.

I tend to break cyber security down and do a couple of different boxes.

Because at this point, there's so many different social actors-- I don't want to say exploiting--

for whom cyber security is a way to get some other goal, whether it's fear of one thing.

It's usually fear.

There's an enormous amount of fear marketing in the cyber security world.

And so from the perspective of some of that world, the more fear the better.

And their incentive is not to kind of break it down.

But I do you can really differentiate between several aspects of it.

There's the personal aspect, the social media aspect.

The pictures of you when you were 15, smoking a joint and throwing up that seemed so amusing

at the time and now you can't get a job.

That kind of thing.

And I think that sort of is taking care of itself over time in some interesting ways.

I think that, certainly for younger people-- and by younger I mean under 25, maybe-- at

this point there's a realization that who you are online is not your true self.

It's a constructed self.

Which, for someone of my age, is a little sad, because I can remember the point when

your online self was actually much truer than your real life self.

And that was, in many ways, the kind of deep exhilaration of the early web.

All the things that people assumed about you because they knew from the street and you

went to the same elementary school.

You have the idea in your mind that yes, that's all true, but the reason I'm like that is

because I resent something you did earlier-- two years before.

Whereas online, I'm going to be my kind of ideal, truest self.

And then people will flock to that self.

They'll make friends with that self.

Because inevitably, I'll be attractive, right?

Which is another wonderful delusion of the early internet days.

I think it's really, somewhat painfully, been reversed to where most people now think of

their online self as something that has to be somewhat circumscribed and kind of protected

or done temporarily.

One of the fascinating things is watching the last couple of generations come to the

realization online of what's perfectly obviously and traditional offline, which is that their

self when they are 10 is not their self when they are 13.

And when you're 10, you're very attached to your 10-year-old self.

You take it quite seriously and rightly so.

But no 10-year-old wants to think, I hope when I'm 14 I'll still be like me when I'm

10.

You have a sense of your development over time that you're going to change and that

you're going to change profoundly.

And that if you're not, something is actually quite wrong.

And so the process of growing up, you're used to shedding selves.

So we've had a couple of generations now who have kind of done that online.

And I think that the current generation of, let's say 14 to 15 year olds are aware that

these selves are temporary.

What the adult self is probably like the next shoe to fall in terms of how we define ourselves

online.

The next show to drop, rather.

But we'll see what shoe is like when it's dropped.

So people have become used to security practices.

They become used to keeping information off.

They become used to sort of curating their own public personalities, OK?

So that's one thing.

And that relates to other mundane but important cyber security stuff, like don't take a picture

of your credit card and put it on Facebook or things like that.

People used to do that.

So that's one category.

There's another category, which is cyber crime of the $100 million out of the bank in Bangladesh

via swift sort.

That might or might not become eased over in the coming years because the number of

criminal practices online-- while there is real innovation among hackers, a genuine innovation

among criminal hackers and noncriminal hackers in coming up with methods-- there are a couple

things to bear in mind.

The distributed denial of service attack, the famous DDoS, attack is pretty much like

an evergreen.

It's been going on.

It's like mace or the halberd or whatever-- the pike of cybercrime.

And it hasn't really changed much.

You just continue to do it.

And there have predictions of a cyber Pearl Harbor now for, I think, close to 25 years.

And yet the cyber Pearl Harbor never quite happens.

I mean, you don't want to give hostages to fortune.

But at the same time, it's not quite to the mysterious world of constant criminal innovation

that it's sometimes made out to be.

The other element in it, and we'll see if this happens or not, is the major states that

have online operations that are in a position to both identify and attribute responsibility

for this kind of thing when it's really sophisticated-- we kind of know what the states are.

And they're beginning really in the last year to talk seriously to each other about, despite

their differences, essentially gradually suppress truly criminal, stealing money kind of, selling

drugs kind of online activity.

Whether that cooperation really goes anywhere not is not really a money question.

It's really a political question.

And that brings me to the third box, which is the one that I'm a bit more specialized

in, which is the state power related cyber security box.

Like in the case of China for example.

But it everybody blames China and it's not entirely fair, but everyone picks on China,

really.

But any of the major states have had very sophisticated infiltration operations.

Some states are more likely to use that for purposes of what amounts to commercial espionage

than other states.

And this breaks down according to, more or less, traditional lines.

The French have always been famous for being willing to do commercial espionage on behalf

of French companies.

It predates the internet.

It's a cultural thing, I guess.

And certainly the Chinese have been very willing to do that.

That's not sustainable.

I mean it can't quite go on in that vein and states know this.

But it's hard for obvious reasons to separate a states' capacity to engage in political

espionage or aspects of cyber warfare, so to speak, which is another kind of abused

term.

And to be able to do what amounts to more commercial kind of crime.

And for the stability of the planet, it would be a good thing if ongoing efforts to separate

these boxes out so that the major states with the capacities to suppress crime can figure

out how to do it.

And they can bracket off those areas that are really more purely devoted to their competition

with each other.

Now that area of cyber security where states compete with each other and try to undermine

each other systems and try to create weapons that will enable them, in the event of conflict,

to prevail over enemy.

To make sure that their missiles don't hit their target.

To disrupt their command and control systems, which is what a lot of cyber warfare is really

devoted to.

That area is very concerning because it's not only not regulated, it's probably not

regulateable.

And my view is that different states recognize that situation but they are used to competing

with each other, essentially militarily.

And they don't know how to not do that.

And because the cyber sphere-- in terms of this kind of security-- involves weapons that

have had very few results, they, in a way, in and really imperfect and mostly misleading

metaphor, kind of resemble nuclear weapons in the sense of well, we all know we'll never

use them.

Except they're also the opposite.

Because they don't actually seem to do much of anything, the temptation is to use them

in a kind of experimental sort of way.

Which is basically what the major states do that with a lot of their cyber weaponry.

They just use it thinking that they won't need it.

But at some point they might need it if there's an actual conflict.

And it's a kind of form of arms race that's really need to cyber.

And nobody really knows where it works out.

My biggest worry is nobody really knows how to stop it.

The people in a position to make decisions about these things-- you can't know what your

enemies capabilities are.

And to be responsible, you should probably kind of assume the worst.

They do the same thing.

And there's no exit from that.

My additional great concern is that the stability of nuclear systems, strategic systems, is

coming.

Or at this point is coming and will depend much more on cyber systems, which kind of

control the weaponry and control defenses against attacks on the weaponry.

And so at that point, the logic of mutual assured destruction, which is so survivable,

second strike, and so on and therefore nothing will ever happen-- that will fall apart.

Both because the decision making windows will get so short.

And because by the time you can figure out what the other side's capabilities are, it's

kind of too late.

And therefore, you're going to be constantly trying to anticipate it.

So I really wish that the post-Cold War settlement had gone a little further along the road of

disarmament.

I mean it when a significant distance there, but the main countries still have stockpiles

that exceed the sort of destroyable part and therefore preserve this kind of second strike

capability.

All of which is theoretical.

But I really wish that all those weapons, before everything kind of went to hell, we

could have really reduced those stockpiles a lot more.

Because that's a true danger now.

Because the relationship between cyber and nuclear is very worrying.

it's not very well thought out.

My immediate reaction to the Snowden revelations was kind two fold.

Like a lot of people in my business, there was a sort of, well, you knew this kind of

thing was going on anyway.

And so don't get too wound up about it.

But it was the other reaction that really mattered more.

Which was it was now established as a kind of mutually recognized fact that this kind

of thing and had been going on and was likely to continue going on.

In other words, in the immediate aftermath of Snowden, there were denials and that sort

of thing.

But there was very little in the way of, yes, you're right, we need to rethink this on almost

anyone's part.

On Silicon Valley's part, there was an increasing anger, really.

I think there was a kind of feeling of betrayal, which maybe is partly a testament to the possibly

necessary level of naivety that you need in order to put in the hours and the effort and

the money to build companies the way that people do in Silicon Valley.

But they're basically been a kind of quiet agreement without any of the parties being

fully informed between the Valley and DC in terms of this kind of surveillance.

And with the GCHQ and some of the other players and the Five Eyes, the Commonwealth.

The kind of Anglo-Saxon world of intelligence sharing.

None of that relationship had been negotiated and it wasn't particularly transparent.

And the players didn't really know what they were doing.

So once Snowden exposed that from a Valley point of view, they though, oh my god, we

were actually kind of being used as tools here.

And we didn't realize that.

And that's certainly not how we envisioned ourselves and our role in the world.

Those to the degree that companies in the Valley want to be or are multinational or

international companies-- it raised it, and still does-- that kind of horrifying prospect

that their control over the security of their own systems would be, if not always compromised,

always potentially compromised, even by the US.

And that's attention that still is unresolved.

I mean the idea of building in back doors or redoing the code in iOS so that you can

get information off of the driver of a phone.

From a technical and from a Valley point of view, all this amounts to is making their

existing systems weaker and more vulnerable.

And at one level, that's inarguable.

It does make them more vulnerable.

And so all this was set in motion by Snowden.

And then the other thing that was set in motion by Snowden, in my view, is that the rest of

the world was like, oh, actually, these sort of sunny reassurances from either the big

US companies or the United States government or the British government-- that they would

kind of somehow just not do bad things really aren't worth very much.

And I mean it doesn't take a lot in most parts of the world to inspire a feeling of distrust

vis-a-vis American power, or vis-a-vis American-based multinationals.

And so that this was increased.

And this had, among other things, the effect of making other governments, at least larger

governments, feel like we need some protections here.

We need some protections for our possibly nascent IT sectors.

We need protections for our own command and control system so that our weapons continue

to work.

Maybe we don't want to only be using a system like GPS, which is still you administered

by the US Air Force and was a government project.

Maybe we don't want to have all of our commercial airliners dependent on that for their successful

functioning.

And so you have these other centers that are growing up, whether it's China and Russia

building their own GPS systems and trying to get their neighbors pulled into them.

It's laying your own cables.

All this kind of stuff, which on one view, if you look at the early days of the internet

and digital computing, you could say, well, the beauty of the internet is it's an open

system and anyone can come on to anyone could build onto it.

So why are we now having to build replicas of it.

And it's really almost entirely for political reasons.

And also for commercial reasons.

But I think mostly for political reasons.

And again, not to lay all this at Snowden, he was exposing some that existed.

But I really think it was a watershed moment in its different ways.

For the Valley.

For DC.

For China.

For Moscow.

For Delhi.

For all these different places.

Started in Brazil.

Started to reconfigure their view of what the internet and what this interconnected

world actually meant.

And to me, if, I were to pick one kind of line of development that I see now, it is

towards this kind of a Splinternet.

Where you're having sort of overlapping similar systems being constructed in order to preserve

certain kinds of political power.

To me, a very interesting development with this are these efforts by Facebook, Microsoft,

and Google to lay their own cable as companies.

Not as American companies, but simply as companies.

To build balloons and satellites that will be able to, essentially, if you put it all

together, it kind of amounts to an attempt to build a smaller, private, global internet.

Kind of like the internet of 15 years ago, that will not be subject to this kind of growing

sovereign restriction by nation states.

But I'm not sure that that's the solution either.

I mean, do you really want three or four companies to be the ones who control the non-subjective

state power internet.

I'm not sure that is necessarily the solution either.

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