(Tightrope walking)
(Trying out for the circus maybe?)
(Be careful)
(fearless)
(adrenaline junkie)
(Haven't you heard that curiosity killed the cat?)
(Once Bean goes up, it doesn't come back down)
(woke itself up from the fall)
(even eats on the railing)
(don't try this at home)
Let's go down, Bean
(nope)
(play date)
(It's lonely up there)
(safety nets)
(Makes the railing safer)
For more infomation >> Adrenaline Junkie Cat | Kritter Klub - Duration: 1:36.-------------------------------------------
Baby Monkey | Doo's Family Has A New Member, Cat Miu - Funny Animals - Duration: 6:08.
Hello, our dear friends
Doo's family has a new member
That's a cute kitten
She is Miu
After Doo and Miu finish their lunch, they play together on the hammock
Then Dad and Tom also play with them on the hammock
Some children in our neighbour also visit Doo and play with him
Doo seems to like Miu and love playing with her
Miu also likes playing with Doo
Hope Doo and Miu will become best friends
The whole family finish lunch and play together happily
Tom loves both Doo and Miu
Tom asks Miu: "Do you love me?" and then he himself answers: "I love you"
These children love Doo a lot.
They visit and play with Doo everyday
Dad is teaching Tom that Tom is a big brother so he should love Doo and Miu and take care of them well.
Doo's so cute and feels comfortable when lying on Dad's body
After finishing playing, we let Tom, Doo and Miu take a nap
Just a few minutes in bed, they hug each other and sleep well
They look like angels
We want to share with you all these precious and cute moments.
Hope all of you like this
Thank you so much for your watching
Have a great and happy day with full of love and laughter
We love you so much
-------------------------------------------
POLICE ACADEMY (1984) CAST - Then and Now ⭐ 2018 - Duration: 10:13.
POLICE ACADEMY (1984) CAST - Then and Now ⭐ 2018
-------------------------------------------
Shamans & Amazons: The Endnotes - Duration: 3:36.
Welcome to the Endnotes, where I put all the fun facts I can't fit into the main videos!
Today, some extra bits of information from my video about Magic — and if you haven't
seen that yet, click on the card.
In that video, I talked about how the word magic comes from the magi or magoi in Greek,
ultimately from the Persian word magush, meaning "priest".
The word magush, in addition to being borrowed into Greek, also makes it into a number of
other languages, such as Talmudic Hebrew magosh and Aramaic amgusha meaning "magician",
and Chaldean maghdim meaning "wisdom and philosophy".
One of the most surprising borrowings is into Chinese.
It has been proposed that the Proto-Sinitic root *myag, which later becomes wū in Mandarin,
came from Old Persian magush.
Now wū, normally translated as "shaman", were responsible for such things as divination,
astrology, prayer, sacrifice, and healing, and might be better thought of as magicians
or mages.
Shamans on the other hand originally come from Siberian and Ural-Altaic traditions,
and are associated with altered states of consciousness and ecstatic trances.
The word shaman, by the way, comes into English through German and Russian, ultimately from
a Tungusian word, which might come from a root that means "to know".
As an interesting side note here, there is another Mandarin word w which means "martial,
military", which comes from a very phonologically similar Proto-Sinitic root *myagx, and what's
more, the Proto-Indo-European root *magh- meaning "to be able, have power" that
lies behind magush and magic has a homophone that means "to fight", so there might
be some sort of relationship here.
This second Proto-Indo-European root is, through Greek, the source of a few fairly rare words
ending in -machy, such as naumachy "a place specially constructed for mock sea battles",
logomachy "a contention about words", and duomachy "a fight of two" in other
words single combat.
It might also be the root of the word Amazon, the society of female warriors in Greek myth.
The Greek folk etymology for Amazon is that it comes from Greek a- "not" and mazos
"breast" in the belief that the Amazons cut one of their breasts off in order to use
a bow and arrow better, but it more likely comes from a hypothetical Iranian compound
*ha-maz-an- "(one) fighting together", in other words a warrior, with the ha part
coming from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem- "one, as one, together with", one of the
possible roots that lies behind Samhain, the Irish festival that may have led to Halloween.
By the way, the Amazon river was given this name because the expedition of the Spanish
explorer Francisco de Orellana was attacked there by warriors that he took to be women
on account of their long hair, and Jeff Bezos named his online book company after the river
because it was exotic, the longest river in the world, and started with the letter A.
But despite his success, he's no magician, just very flexible in the ethical department.
As always, you can hear even more etymology and history, as well as interviews with a
wide range of fascinating people, on the Endless Knot Podcast, available on all the major podcast
platforms as well as our other YouTube channel.
Thanks for watching!
-------------------------------------------
"No paguen por estos idiotas": Duterte llama a los filipinos a orar en casa en vez de ir a misa - Duration: 1:03.
For more infomation >> "No paguen por estos idiotas": Duterte llama a los filipinos a orar en casa en vez de ir a misa - Duration: 1:03. -------------------------------------------
Trại Tập Trung dành cho "Khủng Bố" ở Trung Quốc | Trung Quốc Không Kiểm Duyệt - Duration: 18:08.
On this episode of China Uncensored,
when terrorists becomes propaganda.
Hi, welcome to China Uncensored,
I'm your host Chris Chappell.
If you've been watching this show
you've heard about Xinjiang in western China.
It's home to the Uyghur ethnic minority,
where more than a million people
and by some estimates 3 million people
have been put into re-education camps.
And forced to violate their religion
and their children put into orphanages.
So to learn more, I went down in Washington DC to speak with Nuri Turkel.
He's a Uyghur laywer and human rights activist.
Thank you very much for joining us today.
Thank you so much for having us.
So what is life like for Uyghur in Xinjiang.
it must be pretty safe I hear there's lots of Chinese police around.
It is very safe,
probably the safest place in entire China,
maybe in the world.
The Chinese government is pouring in with a mindset of making Uyghurs feel safe,
to build lots of security apparatus.
The streets are full of cameras,
the Chinese government wants to make sure that your phone is not hacked,
so they run it through data scan.
And they force you to do.
Yeah, and they wanted to take your DNA samples
to make sure that you don't have any terminal illness.
Yeah what is up with that DNA sampling?
They're different ways of explaining...the Chinese motive.
One is
they wanted to establish a database,
for this new system that they're building up to monitor their its citizens.
And the second possible reason is that
they wanted to engage in some bio engineering in the future.
Like create a super Uyghur?
Super Uyghur,
maybe European looking ethnically Chinese looking Uyghur
who appreciates this universally accepted Chinese culture,
speak Chinese, talk like Chinese
act like a Chinese, think like a Chinese.
Wait seriously, is that something they're trying they can do with DNA?
I think that scientifically that's possible.
It's absurd.
And Chinese is very capable when it comes to that kind of technological advantages.
Well when you don't have a state that's answerable to the people
you can get a lot of science done.
The Chinese government have invested
a substantial of money in the recent development .
And in addition to taking advantage of American, European inventions
by forcing companies doing business to share business intelligence,
and the technological inventions.
The second reason is the Chinese government
has been using the technological advantages and resources that they have
to increase their state security apparatus.
Eventually turning it turning the country into Orwellian society on the steroids.
And so a lot of this is technology that's coming from the West.
Technology is supposed to be helping to make our lives better.
But to the Chinese government's benefit,
it's making the Chinese government much more secure,
particularly seep Communist Chinese Chinese Communist Party
and Xi Jinping's China.
So would you call Xinjiang a surveillance state?
It is a trick question, it's an autonomous region.
It's surveillance state in the way that
the Chinese want to make sure that
people are happy smiling chanting
and renouncing denouncing their ethnic identity religious belief,
and waking up to worship - Xi Jinping instead of their God.
So by doing that, they wanted to surveil people,
monitor people's private lives
in addition to installing barcodes on the doors
and randomly checking your phones
making you go through iris scans.
In some instances,
they the Chinese government so concerned that
some Uyghur may have a bad dream at night
so they sent the Chinese cadres to sleep in Uyghur bedrooms
to make sure that they will not wake up in the middle of night,
afraid of the Xi Jinping's regime.
Oh I can't imagine that being abused in any way.
So I want to ask about the political re-education camps in Xinjiang.
So at first Communism Party denied that they existed.
Now they're saying that
local governments can educate and transform extremists
in these vocational training centers.
It sounds very lovely.
Two thoughts.
One, the entire world, I would call civilized world
believe that the Chinese government will come out after UN report
and apologize to the Uyghur people
and bring justice to those officials who committed this heinous crime.
I think the the civilized world is very disappointed
that they haven't seen such a decency.
Forgetting that authoritarian dictatorship
the ones that in Beijing
and known for conflating, denying and confusing.
So, people should not be surprised
that the Chinese government initially denied.
So what they doing now is to say that
in order to achieve their conversion programs,
basically converting the Uyghurs from who they are to something that they're not,
and claiming that they are providing this vocational training programs
as if that those Uyghurs willbe trained
and sent to coastal cities towork in a foreign assembly last .
May be the Uyghur will be making your iPhone's
after finishing the re-education camps.
So what is life like in a re-education camp?
The life in reeducation camps
is exactly the way how the Chinese design it and want it to be.
You spend half of your day
with like flag raising ceremony,
singing Chinese Communist Party songs
and phrasing Xi Jinping's ruling in a way that you worshiped spiritually.
And then you have very basic meal
and then an afternoon you watch anti separatist movies, videos,
go through indoctrination programs.
So that's a typical daily routine based on personal accounts
by those who were detained.
But the Chinese government calls that re-education.
Reeducation means you get up in the morning,
you have nothing but to please your jailers,
the guys with the black uniform machine guns and helmet walking around
as you've seen on the pictures in barbed wire compounds.
So and then the Chinese want you to,
despite your age,
despite the environment that you grow up
despite what your appreciate in life,
you gradually or by force, accept the Chinese way of life,
the one problem that they, both government and some people in China
have a problem where there have a difficulty to grow up
as if there are preference in life
culturally, linguistically as something universal
as such the Uyghurs should accept.
And become one of them.
So us against them mentality has been...
has been in practice in Chinese society,
quietly encouraged by the Chinese government controlled state media.
Well I mean that's sort of how the Communist Party has ruled all of China,
always making certain groups the enemy class
that you do have to struggle against.
So why is the Communist Party targeting Uyghurs?
There are three possible reasons.
For the Chinese government to implement
and this Nazi Germany like policies,
some people think that we got to be careful with the terminology
but if you look at the legal definition of cultural genocide,
what the Chinese government has been undertaking purposefully systematically
fits into the definition.
A reason that people may disagree
But there's no other way of seeing
what they have been doing it as crimes against humanity
and cultural genocide.
Why are they doing it?
One, this is all about China's global ambition,
Xi Jinping announced this international project
called One Belt One Road initiative,
that expands to more than 70 countries.
Of those 70 countries, seven of them
have borders with Uyghur ethnic ancestral homeland East Turkestan.
So when you look at the map from the China proper all the way to Central Asia,
you got to go through this big landmass,
which is four times the size of California.
Of course this is unstated, Chinese never admit this is part of their objectives.
But to some Chinese strategists or party leaders or people who advises Xi Jinping,
the area must be fully controlled.
Otherwise China's global ambition will be hampered.
Number one.
Number two, this has a lot to do
with Xi Jinping's ability to keep China together.
So there's a thing called the domino effect,
the Chinese leader believed that
if East Turkestan - a Uyghur homeland gets out of hand,
it will affect negatively to other China related areas
such as Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong.
So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy
that as long as that region that people stays as they are
will eventually will pose political threat.
And number three
this third reason that some people are uncomfortable talking
has a lot to do with racism.
In Chinese society as well as the Chinese government's
way of conducting business
or implementing policies often time tell us
that they have a lot of racially motivated policies being implemented
They started with banning the Uyghur language,
restricting female individuals
children under age of 12, students from entering mosque
the human rights organizations,various governments were complaining about that.
And now Chinese government under Xi Jinping's leadership
believe that Uyghur ethnic background is is a kind of tumor.
And religious belief is mental disease.
So for fair-minded people
I don't think this requires any explanation
it's pretty evident if you look through the history books,
you see very similar mindset calling somebody's ethnicity religion
as something that needs to be eradicated.
So it is inconceivable in the 21st century in 2018,
we have a conversation about China
that is systematically purposefully criminalizing the entire nation
because of their ethnicity and because of their religious belief.
I might add the Uyghurs have been practicing Islam
as early as 12 13th century.
So whoever's advising Xi Jinping or unknowing if it is his idea
this policy will eventually fail.
it's not gonna work.
It may work for a small group of people.
It may create a long long lasting emotional psychological damages
to both the Uyghurs inside and outside of China.
But strategically this is not gonna work
this will create more resentment
and strong anti colonial sentiment among the Uyghurs people
wherever you can find them.
So after 9/11 the Communist Party stopped calling Uyghur
separatists and started using the term terrorists.
Why?
The Chinese government thought after 9/11
that the world will be turned against Islam
and there will be a war because this country was attacked
and to the Chinese government, it sounds like it seems like
their long waited opportunity just arriving.
Because in the past,
the Chinese government tried to justify their harsh policies
with respect to rigorous cultural and religious freedom
by saying that they are extremists
but Uyghurs by nature very moderate Muslim.
The word terrorism does not even exist in the Uyghur dictionary.
So the Chinese government were very effective
and in its opportunistic approach,
Two weeks after 9/11,
Chinese party secretary for the local government
came out said our China is also a victim of terrorism.
At the same time in a central government level, in a diplomatic effort
they find an opportunity to get on board
on Intelligence Sharing purposes of war on terrorism.
Because of its intimate relationship with Pakistan,
and Pakistan being the one of the few countries
recognized Taliban regime along with Saudi Arabia and others
were in a good position
to obtain some valuable intelligence and share it with the United States
So because of that opportunity,
United States were kind of willing to work with the Chinese
because this country was not expected that level of that magnitude of attack.
In 2009, there was a turning point in the modern Uyghur history
there was a Uyghur took to the streets to protest
and Chinese responded with its security
and resulting in, not only ethnic clash but deaths and injuries.
That has been widely reported
and then some people think that this was the wake-up call for the Chinese
to implement even much more aggressive policies.
Thank you very much for joining us today.
If people would like to learn more about you or the Uighur cause
where can they go?
They should visit three main websites.
One is you UHRP.org, which stands for Uyghur human rights project.
And also UyghurAmerican.org
that is the website for Uyghur Association
And also world Uyghur congress website UyghurCongress.org.
Those are the three Uyghur organizational websites.
But I also encourage people to read the reports done by Human Rights Watch
and congressional executive committee on China
which just published a new report a couple days ago.
So they're there a wealth of information available publicly
So, I might say that the narrative,
the narrative that are supported by evidentiary information
is overwhelming.
Well, thank you again for joining us and sharing the story of the Uyghurs
Thank you so much.
I hope you enjoyed this interview but there's actually much more
to learn about the situation the Uyghurs are facing inside of China.
Fortunately I had Nuri on the China Unscripted podcast.
If you listen to the podcast,
you will learn more about the Uyghur people,
their concerns and difficult times that they go through
under the leadership of China's Superman Xi Jinping.
Ah, the Superman.
I put a link below be sure to check it out you won't regret it
-------------------------------------------
How To Install Resident Evil 7 Biohazard | WIRED GAMES - Duration: 2:51.
Download the files from the link in the description.....
select the both files part1 and part2
extract using winrar or 7zip as i am using
select the file destination (where it will be extracted)
and wait till it finishes extracting
finshed extracting..if it promps if you want to replace the files hit "yes"!
i am just gona rename the folder to resident evil 7
run setup .exe as administrator
hit browse to choose where to install the game
remenber to have at least 30 gb free on the disk that you want to install
if you want you could let both boxes checked
than hit install
and wait till it finishes
finished installing
open crack folder and copy all files to the installation directory
install directx and vcredist to run the game clear
and thats all
thanks for wathing!!!! if you liked hit like and deslike if you desliked ...dont forget to subscribe
-------------------------------------------
2019 Zontes R310 Naked-Bike China Cheap Price | Mich Motorcycle - Duration: 2:06.
For more infomation >> 2019 Zontes R310 Naked-Bike China Cheap Price | Mich Motorcycle - Duration: 2:06. -------------------------------------------
The 100 Greatest Innovations of 2018 - Duration: 0:42.
Best of What's New
Popular Science
The 100 greatest innovations of 2018
Aerospace. Gadgets. Entertainment. Software.
Auto. Recreation. Health.
Home. Engineering. Security.
So where's my jet pack?
-------------------------------------------
Las Noticias de la mañana, martes 27 de noviembre de 2018 | Noticiero | Telemundo - Duration: 6:30.
For more infomation >> Las Noticias de la mañana, martes 27 de noviembre de 2018 | Noticiero | Telemundo - Duration: 6:30. -------------------------------------------
Meghan Markle's mom Doria Ragland won't be moving to her daughter's new Royal home - Duration: 11:26.
Meagan markle's mom Doria Ragland won't be moving to her daughter's new royal home
There's no doubt that Doria Ragland will be a hands-on grandmother to. Megan Markel and Prince Harry's first child
But she won't be sharing a roof with the newest member of the royal family
Despite reports that Megan's mother will be moving in when the royal couple leave Kensington Palace for their new home at Windsor Castle
'he's Frogmore cottage next year sources
Tell people that Doria who is based in Los Angeles will not be a live-in grandmother
Doria may have rooms set aside for her in the cottage
located close to the house where Harry and Megan's evening wedding party was held and where their
Engagement photos were taken about a year ago, but she's not making a permanent move
They're also contrary to prior reports Frogmore cottage does not have ten rooms
Rather it likely has around half of that the cottage will undergo renovations
before the newlyweds move as it is currently divided into five units as home to the palace staff in a statement released by
Kensington Palace last month Doria 62 shared a reaction to the development as the rest of the world learned Megan
37 and Harry 34 are expecting their first child together MS
Ragland is very happy about this lovely news and she looks forward to welcoming her first grandchild the statement read
In September Doria joined her daughter and Harry as Megan hosted a celebration marking the publication of together our community
Cookbook which the Duchess of Sussex helped create to benefit those affected by the grenfell tower fire tragedy
Doria met members of the hub community kitchen at Kensington Palace and beamed as Megan spoke about how the women welcomed her
speaking with guests
Doria said she was head over heels about her daughter's accomplishment
Megan and Harry have lived in Kensington palaces Nottingham cottage since their engagement
But that two-bedroom home was never likely to be a long-term residence
especially once they had children with
Prince William one day set to be the Prince of Wales and all that entails is heir to his father Prince Charles
Harry and Megan will want to forged their own path
So it's a natural time to split up their joint court insiders believe
The palace had no comment
The arrival of Megan has changed the dynamic of the relationship in a fairly
significant way royals author Sally Bedell Smith
Previously told people it is inevitable and practical because it gives Harry and Megan some freedom to build up their own
collection of interests and charities
Megan has very strong views
On what she is interested in and that may be what Harry shares but not what William and Kate share she added
Thank you for watching the video
please leave your thoughts in the comment section below and
Don't forget like and share the video with everyone if you feel this video is useful
You
Is Maegan Markel really the royal hurricane the royal family prizes can formerly over individualism
Megan, marco appears unwilling to accept that but sexist tabloids may also be misrepresenting her independent spirit
Not causing a fuss is often held up as a guiding principle of the Queen's existence and one of her many virtues
Understandably given that she never causes one Her Majesty is known not to be crazy about people who do in
An ideal world therefore people who join the royal orbit are expected to go along with a royal way of doing things
Square pegs that don't get their sharp angles rubbed off fast see Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson have found life in the Royal fold
unbearable
Megan Markel therefore poses an interesting dilemma for the monarch and the monarchy
Megan has made it very clear that she wants to do things her way and the family have made it clear
They are determined not to repeat the mistakes made with Diana and Fergie
But ultimately if megan kinder won't conform in the way that kate middleton
After initially breaking the rules in lots of ways eventually. Did it may spell trouble ahead in the long run
Take for example
Something as simple and uncontroversial as mealtimes
Royal mealtimes have always operated according to their own civilized but in flexible timetable
Awaken shortly before 8 a.m
With or without Piper for a cup of tea have breakfast finished shortly after 9:00 a.m. Lunch at 1:00 p.m
Afternoon tea and a quarter to 5:00 and dinner no earlier than 8:30 p.m
Dinner in many upper class British households would not conclude before 10:30 p.m. And the Windsors are no different of
all American diet
trends the notion that eating late in the day is somehow worse for you than eating at some other time is one that occurs the
most voluble snorts of British derision
no matter what the scientific evidence may be dinner cheese and perhaps a glass of port has been and ever will be
The own way to pass an evening either alone or with friends
Prince Charles is no exception
He has dinner ridiculously late at night his son Prince Harry side on a recent documentary on his father
Megan was said in one recent Daily Mail report to be up before dawn rising at 5:00 a.m
To kick off her day with yoga her mom is a yoga teacher
meditation and smoothies that
Comes commensurately early and while this may not be a problem in her day-to-day existence with Harry. It might not go down too
Well, this Christmas at Sun bring ham where it is a not inconsiderable
breach of etiquette to slip off to bed before the Queen does
Diana who hated late nights was said to find waiting up for between to retire to be torture a
Minor example this may be but it is indicative of the vast gulf between the way things are done in Megan's former and new worlds
The same male report claimed that several palace aides have moved on since Megan's
Arrival and that she bombard staff with texts up to 6 or 7 a day
That her fashion choices are causing raised eyebrows
And that there may be tension between Harry and Megan and Will and Kate as well as tension between Megan and Kate Middleton
Malicious gossip very possibly what female friendship is without its sharp edges
The male added bit chilly terming the impact of Markel on the royal household as hurricane Megan
Megan has gone from being the star of her own show the one calling the shots
And setting the agenda and the alarm clock to being a small fish
Now much of the time she is expected to do as she is told
How much of this is true?
Fabrication or just plain but she is unknown The Daily Beast has noted the snobbery and Prejudice of some of the upper classes towards
Megan before
But she is an independent female spirit in a family not previously noted for welcoming and encouraging them
Megan has gone from being the star of her own show the one calling the shots and setting the agenda and the alarm clock
To being a worker bee in the palace hive
Now much of the time she is expected to do as she is told
She is it has been reported not universally popular with royal household staff
British newspaper The Sun quoted a source as saying Megan can be difficult
She has very high standards and is used to working in a Hollywood environment
However, there's a different degree of respect in the royal household and kate has always been very careful about how she has acted around staff
Interesting stories have also surfaced in the past few days of some alleged irritation on the part of the Queen at some of Megan's wedding
Clothing choices were veiled white bridal gown ivory and no veil
The Queen is said to have thought may have suited a divorcee better and a dispute about which tiara she could wear
royal biographer Robert Jobson alleges in his new book
Charles at 70 but in the days leading up to the megan and harry's wedding harry
Occasionally shouted at his staff what megan wants she gets?
Stories about how the members of one of the most privacy obsessed and protected families in the world think and behave
Behind closed doors are hard to stand up definitively
but The Daily Beast has been told by sources that Megan's amazement at the relatively poor levels of British service in
Comparison to what? She enjoyed as a TV star in America and Canada?
Has left her dismayed at times and that she has not maybe been as tactful as she might about keeping her views to herself
There has been no pushback from the palace against the anecdotes contained and job since book
But it would be wrong to imply that Megan is getting the reputation for being unreasonable within the family
She freely admits to being demanding and exacting but the extraordinary way
she has embraced her royal role taking on an unprecedented number of
engagements
Including a monster two-week tour of Australasia while pregnant has reassured
Pals elders that she takes her duties extremely seriously and is eager to please
Megan wants to do things her way whether that's closing her own card or hugging the crowds are taking a weekend house
Nowhere near the royal estate. It's on during ham. The challenge for the institution of royalty is understanding that does not make her difficult
She has for example
completely gone along with the palace way of doing things when it comes to dealing with her troublesome father and sister by simply not
Acknowledging or reacting to their increasingly hysterical attacks. This has proved to be the right course of action as
Prince Charles and his advisers plot the best strategic way forward for the next 50 years
They are acutely aware that Megan holds a significant number of cards
The family are the ones who have everything to lose if they fail to embrace and nurture Megan
the royal family cannot reasonably both embrace Megan as a breath of fresh air and
Simultaneously demand she slots neatly into their preordained grid
The old guard who have for so long controlled the levers of power at the palace the men in gray as Diana called them know
this
It's debatable whether the monarchy could survive another messy fairy tale gone wrong
the royal family cannot reasonably both embrace Megan as a breath of fresh air and
Simultaneously demand she slots neatly into their preordained grid
Inflexibility often misrepresented as the virtue of
Steadfastness has always been the Windsors weak spot and Megan's arrival in their bosom gives them a powerful
incentive and opportunity to abandon such fixed rigidity and
Bringing dinner forward an hour might be a very good place to start
-------------------------------------------
Why Major Brands Are Heading to Crowdfunding Sites for Product Development Insights — MashTalk - Duration: 49:57.
(upbeat music)
- Hello and welcome to MashTalk,
the show where we catch up
with the most interesting people in tech.
I'm Mashable tech editor Pete Pachal.
So it's been ten years since Indiegogo launched,
changed crowdfunding forever.
I am super excited to introduce our guest.
Welcome to the show David Mandelbrot, CEO of Indiegogo.
How you doin'?
- I'm doing great, Pete.
Thanks a lot for having me.
- Cool, can I call you Dave?
- Yeah, Dave is great.
- Is Dave alright?
- Yeah, Dave is super.
- Nice, so you're the man in charge
of the whole operation there.
How did you get there?
Tell me a little bit about yourself.
Where did you start getting involved in crowdfunding
and then how did that sort of transition
into Indiegogo and then the CEO gig.
- Yeah it's actually a nice story.
So earlier in my career I spent
about seven years at Yahoo,
starting in the late 1990s,
so I've been working in online tech for over 20 years now,
but the way I got involved in Indiegogo was,
I was at a start-up before Indiegogo call Tynt
and we had a board member who was also on the board
of Indiegogo and he was based here in New York,
we were based in San Francisco,
Indiegogo was based in San Francisco,
and every time he would come to one our board meetings,
his name was Lewis, I would say,
"Hey Lewis, what else are you doing
while you're here in San Francisco?"
And every time he would say,
"Oh, I just had a meeting over at Indiegogo.
That is the most amazing business.
So exciting what they're doing,
the way they're empowering entrepreneurs."
- So he's inspiring you?
- Every time.
- He was like damn I need to get on board with this!
- Every time he would come he would be like,
"Alright let's talk about Tynt, but let me
really tell you about what's going on at Indiegogo."
In the end Indiegogo got acquired and then,
I'm sorry, Tynt got acquired,
and then Lewis introduced me to the founder of Indiegogo
and things just progressed very rapidly from there.
- Well one of the founders,
wasn't there like three people?
I forget.
- Yeah there was three cofounders of Indiegogo,
one is named Slava Rubin.
He was at the time the CEO of Indiegogo.
We also had two other cofounders,
Danae Ringelmann and Eric Schell.
Danae and Eric were both business students
at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley
when they had the original idea for Indiegogo.
- Are any of them still involved?
- Yes, actually both Slava and Danae
are both still very active members of the board
and Eric Schell is our head of product at Indiegogo,
overseeing all of our product development.
- So how did you get convinced?
You keep hearing about how what a great place this is
and they're just changing the world or whatever,
and you know what was it that sort of persuaded you
that this is the place you wanna just like,
"I got my stake in the ground here."
- Yeah you know it's interesting for me
it's always been about working with businesses
that are doing something that's transformative.
So when I went to Yahoo in the late 1990s
I was actually really excited about how
the internet was gonna change the way
we consumed our media.
- That was the place to be in the late 90s.
- It really was.
- Maybe not a few years later.
- It's sort of sad, I know.
I wonder if at some time people will remember
you know that there was a time when Yahoo
was sort of at the center of so much of what was happening.
- Oh, that's where you went.
- It really was.
- You know like I remember first getting online
in '94, '95 and stuff and wanted to go
to that Yahoo homepage with all the categories.
That how people surfed the web back then.
- Right that was the way you found
the best places to go and I'll say it was actually
a really interesting time because it was the place to be
and attracted an interesting and diverse group of people.
It was actually in that period,
it was an incredibly exciting place to be.
So many people that I worked with
at that time at Yahoo are now doing
such interesting things now.
Jeff Weiner who is the CEO of LinkedIn
was somebody I worked very closely with at Yahoo.
Rob Solomon who's the CEO of GoFundMe
was somebody I worked very closely with at Yahoo that,
Yahoo people have gone on to do
really interesting things.
- It sounds like you've got that taste
of like wanna be around innovation
and things changing at that time.
- Absolutely, and I think that industries
are most interesting at the moment
when they're going through real transformation
and what was so interesting to me about Indiegogo
that I could see from the very beginning
was the potential that Indiegogo had to really change
the way entrepreneurs launched their businesses.
The typical way that entrepreneurs
always launched their businesses,
I'm going to overly simplify 'cause of course
each entrepreneur's journey is different,
but the typical way that entrepreneurs
used to launch a business is they would get an idea,
maybe they would start working on it a little bit,
and then they would go out and raise financing
and then they would develop the product
and then they would hopefully get a distributor
and get that product into retail stores
and then at the very end of this long process
that could last years,
that product would show up in a store
and only at the very end of that process
would you find out if there was an actual market
for that product, if there were gonna be customers.
- Right.
- What was so interesting about Indiegogo
was the way it was radically transforming that model.
The way an entrepreneur could determine
extremely early in the life cycle
of their product or their business,
whether there was gonna be a market for that product
and I could see early on what we've now come
to see over the last ten years,
which is it that it would have a really
transformational impact on the way entrepreneurs
brought their products to market.
- Yeah, definitely.
There's been a lot of products that have been funded
through crowdfunding and then
become these massive success stories.
Not just on the platform,
but they go on to like get venture capital
and maybe even get acquired or their own company,
you see that time and again,
(laughs)
not every single thing is that's the story
for everything but it's definitely very possible
and I guess if you're a VC or a bigger company
you can sort of have that confidence
when you're thinking about what's the next thing
and when you look at these projects
and like oh okay this thing made 400% above its goal,
that's a good sign.
- Absolutely, you know what's interesting
is almost every party that's sort of
part of the entrepreneurs journey,
every third party that the entrepreneurs engaging with
whether it's an investor, a distributor of that product,
if they're a product entrepreneur,
the retailer, they're all basically making a bet
essentially on whether there's gonna be a market
for that product in the end.
You know the VC is anticipating
there will be a big market for this device
and the distributor is thinking a lot of retailers
will be interested in this device.
The reason that crowdfunding and Indiegogo
in particular is so transformative
is it makes that part of the analysis so much easier.
So what's exciting about Indiegogo
is in part that so many entrepreneurs on Indiegogo
have been able to go on
and raise venture capital financing.
Entrepreneurs on Indiegogo have raised
over a billion dollars in venture capital financing
after their Indiegogo campaigns.
- Nice.
- But what's also exciting is the way the entrepreneurs
have a much easier time getting their products
into Target stores,
into Amazon, into Brookstone,
into many retailers that otherwise
might have had more questions about those products.
They can look at the success on Indiegogo,
say I can see that there's a market for that product,
I wanna carry it in my store.
- Nice, it's definitely from everything you've said,
it's very clear how like crowdfunding
changed a lot in the entrepreneur process
particularly with products,
but how do you think crowdfunding itself has changed
since it started getting very popular
about ten years ago?
I know at the beginning
there was no equity type of crowdfunding,
still is usually very perk based,
it's like the PBS or NPR model
where you get this level and you get the bag,
and at this level you get the thing and whatever,
but now I know recently,
I think it was a couple of years ago,
that certain laws changed or security laws
and you can do equity crowdfunding?
- Yeah, actually.
- So that seems to be a big change in what's happened,
but how else has crowdfunding evolved?
What are the main ways crowdfunding has evolved
over the past ten years?
- Yeah it's a really good question.
There's a few ways it's evolved.
For one thing the landscape has changed
a lot over the last ten years,
so when Indiegogo launched
a little bit over ten years ago,
Indiegogo was actually the first crowdfunding platform.
There was no Kickstarter then,
there was no GoFundMe then,
if you count Patreon there was no Patreon at that time.
Indiegogo was the pioneer of crowdfunding
and over time other companies
started to focus on crowdfunding.
Kickstarter jumped in I think about a year later.
GoFundMe a few years after that.
The main evolution in the landscape
has been that as crowdfunding has evolved,
different companies have developed
their own individual areas of focus.
So for example GoFundMe now is exclusively focused
on personal causes and non-profit fundraising,
and in fact Indiegogo earlier this year,
we actually sold off the portion of our business
that was focused on non-profit
and personal cause fundraising to a company
called YouCaring that was subsequently acquired
by GoFundMe so that's part of GoFundMe's business now.
Kickstarter has really maintained a focus
on what they call creators.
So those are filmmakers, musicians,
the fastest growing category actually on Kickstarter
over the last few years has been
tabletop game developers.
- Oh really?
Like these kind of like handheld things?
- No not handheld things,
like actual tabletop games, like Monopoly.
- Yeah, wow.
- And then Indiegogo in particular
over the last three years has really developed
a focus on product entrepreneurs
and helping those product entrepreneurs identify
if there's a market for their product,
and really take their idea all the way
from an idea in their head all the way to
a manufactured product that's getting
into the hands of their backers.
- Nice, so you mentioned Kickstarter
and I feel like you know you guys were first,
and then they came in and then they kind of swooped up
all the attention and the glory in a lot of ways.
Why did that happen?
Is that just my perception?
But I did look at some stats before this
and it seems like collectively they raised more money,
I think it was something like 2.8 billion
to I think Indiegogo's about a billion.
- Yeah we've actually raised now
over 1.6 billion dollars in our history.
- Gotcha, but why was there this perception
for a long time that Kickstarter was the place to be.
- Yeah, it's a really good question.
You know things changed a lot around,
I believe it was 2012.
2011 or 2012 was when the people really started
to notice Kickstarter and the main thing
that transformed things was that Kickstarter
had a single campaign on Kickstarter
that was very successful which was a campaign
for this product called the Pebble Watch.
- Oh yeah.
- You might remember that,
and at that time that became the most successful
crowdfunding campaign of all time as of 2011 or 2012.
It raised over 10 million dollars
and so what happened was Kickstarter sort of
opened up people's eyes to the potential
of crowdfunding and for a while their name
was somewhat synonymous with crowdfunding.
- So did they just get lucky then?
Basically they got that one super success story
because I think in addition to the perception
of Kickstarter sort of being the bigger brother here,
that there was a perception that like Kickstarter,
the standards are different so that
you know there's a certain bar that needed
to be met there that maybe didn't exist on Indiegogo
and maybe the perception that it's Indiegogo,
anything goes there.
Is that wrong?
Or is that actually a strength perhaps of Indiegogo,
that it's like maybe your dreams are a little more harder
to see but you're welcome here still.
I mean what is the correct way to interpret this?
- Yeah that's a really good question.
Yes for a long time and even now in some ways,
Kickstarter has had and continues to have
a very different approach to how
they accept entrepreneurs onto the platform.
For, you know, Indiegogo has not only tried to be as open
as possible a platform but a also very flexible platform.
So on Kickstarter there's basically one way
to offer crowdfunding campaign.
You need to provide your product to Kickstarter.
Kickstarter actually evaluates
who can be on their platform,
and who can't be on their platform.
To Indiegogo, we take a different approach
in part because when the company was founded
the goal was to essentially eliminate the gatekeepers
so rather than, our idea was why should the VCs
be the only people to determine
what products get funded and what products don't,
and it's our feeling that if we evaluated
each product for whether it was acceptable or not
to our platform we would just
be inserting ourselves as the gatekeeper,
and with Kickstarter doing that,
in our mind they're inserting themselves
as the gatekeeper rather than letting the public
essentially decide what products get funded.
So Indiegogo has always been a open platform
where any entrepreneur can actually
run a campaign on Indiegogo.
What we have changed in the last couple years though
to make the opportunities much more clear to backers
is that we now require entrepreneurs
to be very direct about which stage
they're in, in development.
So if you just have a concept,
but you haven't actually developed
a working prototype of your product yet,
you need to disclose that to backers on Indiegogo.
If you have a prototype,
we actually verify that you have a working prototype.
If you say that you're in production
we actually ask for a production version
of the product so that we can validate it.
So we're actually a more open platform
but also with a set of rules
to make sure that backers that back campaigns
know what they're in for.
- So yeah, there's more nuance to it, I guess,
but it's more democratic in that simple way
like what you said about like
oh if we simply wait listed every single thing,
then we're throwing our own biases in there
and why not just let the people decide.
- Absolutely and what's wonderful about Indiegogo
is that because we have this different set of rules
it enables products that might not have gotten
the opportunity to launch on other platforms
or be successful on other platforms to be successful.
One example that comes to mind
was a campaign that ran I believe about three years ago
on Indiegogo was for a product called the Flow Hive,
and the Flow Hive was a new type of beehive actually
and apparently there had been no real innovations
in beekeeping or beehive development
in the last 50 years.
- Don't tell Apple.
- (laughs) And a father and son team
from Australia came up with an idea
for a better beehive.
They put in on Indiegogo,
they needed $50,000 to be able
to set up a manufacturing facility in Australia
to be able to manufacture the first beehives.
Now at that point when they hadn't quite gotten
to real manufacturing of the product yet,
they might've had a hard time being able to launch
on Kickstarter, they launched on Indiegogo.
They raised, within two months,
they raised 13 million dollars to make beehives
from an evolving and emerging beekeeping community
all over the world,
and at Indiegogo we've got thousands of stories like that,
of entrepreneurs who you might never have thought
would have been successful but the public
actually got this democratic opportunity
to identify what they were really interested in
and directly communicate that to entrepreneurs.
- 13 million, wow that's a market I didn't know was there.
That's gotta be an impressive size for beekeeping.
So Dave, I gotta ask you.
How do you guys make money?
- (laughs) I'm glad you're asking!
You know we actually just announced this morning,
we just had our first profitable quarter in Q3.
- Nice.
- Indiegogo makes money in a few different ways.
The first thing, and the primary way
that we make money is that we get fees
that are a percentage of the amount of funds
raised on our platform.
So our standard fee is a 5% fee,
and so 5% of whatever the entrepreneur is able
to raise on Indiegogo goes to Indiegogo.
The entrepreneurs on Indiegogo,
and we really like that fee structure
because it means that we have a shared interest
in the success of those entrepreneurs on Indiegogo.
If they're not successful on our platform
then they don't need to pay us
and if they're extraordinarily successful
on our platform then they pay us more.
So that's the primary revenue stream.
- So if it's 5%, and you've raised over the years
1.6 billion, what is that, 800 million?
- That's 80 million.
But that's just the primary way.
In addition, as more entrepreneurs are using Indiegogo
as a platform to go direct to consumers,
which is really the big movement
that Indiegogo is a part of.
Now entrepreneurs are bypassing traditional retail,
traditional distribution mechanism
and they're selling their products
directly to consumers online and as we do that,
there are more and more services
that those entrepreneurs need.
If they're marketing their product on Indiegogo,
the often need help with marketing.
Critical to a successful campaign on Indiegogo
is having a really good video that demonstrates
the benefits of that product.
Indiegogo now offers solutions to entrepreneurs
to develop a really good video.
- Is that like you have an in-house staff
of editors, shooters?
- Yes it's a combination of both expertise
in house and in outside video...
- Tara's ears there are perking up.
- It's actually really an exiting time.
It used to be that if you were a product entrepreneur
and you wanted to raise interest in your product,
you know say 15, 20 years ago,
the only way to do it was with brand marketing
and by creating a television commercial.
Most of the entrepreneurs on Indiegogo now
are able to produce a video
for somewhere in the neighborhood of $20,000
or in a lot of cases less.
The most most successful campaigns,
those videos are watched by millions of people.
- Oh, they're just fun to watch.
I feel like the crowdfunding formula
is almost like the reality show thing plus cool gadgets.
I mean it's like this sort of addictive format
you can watch them one after another for hours.
- They actually really are fun to watch,
and they're fun to watch because it's fun to see
the most innovative products that are coming to life,
it's also really exciting to see
the entrepreneurs behind those products.
When we're marketed to during the Super Bowl,
there's paid models and actors
that are demonstrating that product,
there's something actually really rewarding about getting
to see an entrepreneur actually explain this product
that they have dreamed of
and how they are trying to bring that product to life.
You know part of why Flow Hive was so successful
is that the backers on Indiegogo just fell in love
with the founder and wanted the founder
and his dad to be successful with this campaign.
Earlier this year we had the most successful campaign
on Indiegogo on any platform
over the last two years
for an electric bicycle called Mate X
and the founder of that company is a female entrepreneur.
She is a mom with three kids
and backers get excited about supporting
an entrepreneur like that.
So yes, there's something about the videos
that's just fun to watch,
in part because it creates a better connection
between the backers of those products
and the entrepreneurs that are building those products
and providing them to users.
- Well congrats on your first
profitable quarter, by the way.
- Thank you.
- So I understand as going forward,
first of all Indiegogo is international,
in a lot of countries.
How many countries now?
- About 230 countries.
People back projects and offer products
from over 230 countries and I'll actually tell you
one of the most exciting things about Indiegogo
is that last quarter 48% of all of the transactions
on Indiegogo were cross border.
- Oh wow.
- So what we've created is a true world wide marketplace
for entrepreneurs to be able to reach new customers
by going direct to consumer.
- Why have you had so much success
in terms of being international so quickly?
I think you've been in a lot of countries
for a while now but it feels like that's sort of
a weird tough nut to crack for a lot of services and stuff,
but do you use a middleman?
Is there a secret to doing that?
- It's a really good question.
You know you asked earlier about how
the crowdfunding industry is changed
over the last ten years.
As we at Indiegogo got really focused
on product entrepreneurs,
people are recruiting new products
and wanted to learn if there was market
for those products and go direct to consumers
with those products.
Our worldwide strategy became much more clear,
the most clear example is China actually,
needless to say, not only is a lot
of product manufacturing happening in China
but now there's been manufacturing in China for decades.
There's a lot of great product innovations
that are coming out of China.
- I bet you could go down to the Shenzhen market,
grab all the components you need
and if you're an inventor, you know, bam,
see if something works
and then all you need is Indiegogo to help you out.
- It's absolutely true,
and so what we did, part of why it's worldwide
is that Indiegogo really invested in
making Indiegogo a worldwide platform.
In the beginning when I first joined Indiegogo
a little over five years,
we used four different payment processors,
in part to ensure that we could support
transaction processing in those 230 countries.
We've since been able to streamline it somewhat,
but we have a real commitment
to being a worldwide platform from the beginning
and then in markets like in China,
where there's a strong base of entrepreneurs,
we've actually hired people that are dedicated
to that Chinese market and so you mentioned Shenzhen,
we have dedicated people working for Indiegogo,
there's a little bit of a complicated legal structure
to be able to do this in China,
but that are based in Shenzhen
to create a streamline way for China-based entrepreneurs
to be able to reach a US market with their products.
- Well it's huge.
I think that could open up a lot of stuff for you guys,
but the thing is that we've seen this
before a little bit, not exactly this,
but I know Amazon has done a lot in the last couple years
to sort of open up its market place
to international sellers, a lot of them out of Asia,
and they've received a lot of backlash for it
because some of these are knockoffs of American
or just other products and they're either not as good,
or even if they are as good,
they're really undercutting the innovation happening here
because of the rapid commoditization I guess
of some of this stuff.
Do you see a similar backlash possibly on your side
and are you doing anything to guard against that?
- Yeah that's a great question also, Pete.
We did see that.
One of the things that's still so exciting
about working with a relatively early stage company
is that we can be really flexible,
so we did see that.
We started to see a lot of knockoffs on Indiegogo,
we also started seeing a lot of distributors
or resellers that were using Indiegogo
as a way to just distribute products...
- I feel like this is your fake news problem.
It's nice to be democratic and be hands off
but at the same time you have to take
some kind of active roll in ensuring some quality control.
- Absolutely, and yes we're democratic
but part of being democratic
is also being hands on to ensure
that we don't have fake news
so it's a policy on Indiegogo that you need
to be the original entrepreneur of the product
and we have a dedicated trust and safety team
that reviews the successful projects on Indiegogo
and ensures that is the actual entrepreneur
that is running that campaign.
We don't allow distributors or resellers on Indiegogo
and of course if we get notice of copyright violation
or patent infringement we're fully compliant
with the DMCA rules and in a lot of cases
we'll take campaigns down if there's any type
of IP infringement happening on our platform.
So we did start to see that,
we responded very quickly and there shouldn't be
any products on Indiegogo that are not products
that are being offered by the original entrepreneur
behind that project.
- So this may be old news,
but I do remember there was a big story,
it was probably like five years ago now
but it was like I remember the Kickstarter guys came out
and basically wrote a blog that went pretty viral,
like this isn't a store.
I think they were getting a lot of bad press
for various things not really
living up to snuff at the time,
but I feel like obviously it is a store,
in your case in some ways
with the marketplace and direct to consumer.
Was that an overreaction do you think?
Has it gone into more this is a store with caveats
or how should people look at these today in 2018
and going to a crowdfunding thing,
what is my expectation or do I just have to be
really sophisticated about it?
- Yeah that's a really good question.
So it's interesting, we've done plenty of research
with the backers of projects on Indiegogo
and while people have many reasons
for backing a campaign,
maybe they know the entrepreneur,
maybe they wanna make sure that product gets built,
what we learned from engaging directly with our backers
is that the primary reason that backers back campaigns
is because they want to get the product.
That's why they're doing it.
So when you're in a situation
like Kickstarter had a few years ago
where they had this project called the Coolest Cooler...
- Oh yeah, infamous.
- Yeah it raised 13 million dollars
and even with the 13 million dollars
was not able to deliver that product to the backers.
That's a bad experience for users.
You know frankly Kickstarter can say
we're not a store but when people
spend 13 million dollars on a product
that they don't get, they're going to be very unhappy,
regardless of what you say.
So what Indiegogo, you know, recognizing that this
is a risk with entrepreneurs,
we started working closely with companies
that could help the entrepreneurs
that the most successful entrepreneurs
on Indiegogo manufacture and ship those products,
so a lot of entrepreneurs went into trouble because,
and I think this was the case for Coolest Cooler,
because they haven't really thought through
all of the components that they need for that product
or how much manufacturing is gonna cost,
so on components, Indiegogo has formed
a partnership with Arrow Electronics,
one of the largest component distributors in this country.
Arrow, for free, will actually review your bill of materials
if you're an entrepreneur on Indiegogo
and make sure that you thought through
every single component that you need
to manufacture that product.
They will make sure that those components
are not close to the end of life,
requiring you to re-engineer the product.
We formed partnership,
if you're a successful entrepreneur on Indiegogo
and say you sell 10,000 of your product
or you get 10,000 backers for your project,
you've gotta figure out how to ship to 10,000 backers,
so we formed a partnership with Ingram Micro
to make sure that entrepreneurs have a solution
for doing the logistics of literally shipping
10,000 products.
- That's a lot of stamps.
- (laughs) It is a lot of stamps!
And as a result now backers are much more likely
to get their product than ever before
because we know that for backers
to be truly thrilled with the experience that they have
on Indiegogo they need to get their products,
regardless of what we say.
So whether they receive the products
that'll make them most happy
and I'll add on that,
in our marketplace we do guarantee
fulfillment of the product,
and of course the customer satisfaction level
is much higher in our marketplace
than it is for overall crowdfunding.
- 'Cause that's stuff that's already been created
and gone through these difficult humps I guess.
- Exactly, for now those are projects
that are further along
and where we can have much higher confidence
that the backer will ultimately get the product.
- So one of the things that I think
has changed a lot in crowdfunding,
it's not that new anymore,
but is the established companies coming in
and like oh this is actually a great place
to sort of try out new,
like part of their development process,
I'm thinking specifically most recent thing
I can think of is Bose with their sleep buds...
- Yes.
- Had a campaign, I think it was early this year
or late last year.
- Late last year.
- 'Cause I went to their launch event,
I think was summer or the spring,
and they told me all about the Indiegogo experience
and it was really interesting
because it always a very different product for them,
they're usually speakers and headphones and stuff,
and this is like a sleep masking thing
and it was a different experience
and they were like well we could develop this
on our own and just put it out there
and hope for the best,
but given the nature of the product
which wasn't a giant thing,
it was a very personal product too,
it's like they concluded we should do crowdfunding
and they partnered with you guys
and I tried it out, it's a nice product,
but that whole idea seems to have really caught on
and has it exploded lately or has it held steady?
- It has, yeah, within Indiegogo we refer to this
as our enterprise business
but we're really talking about really well established
companies that are using Indiegogo
as a platform for product validation.
My favorite example most recently,
just last quarter was Gillette.
So Gillette as I'm sure most people know,
you know Gillette of course is in a competitive business
in the razor business,
and particular with some recent
direct to consumer brands that have come along,
and Gillette is of course always innovating with razors
and Gillette developed a new heated razor,
and the old model would have been to get
all the way through development
and then do a big marketing campaign
for their new razor.
What Gillette is realizing,
which is what most great direct to consumer brands
now are doing that it'd be worthwhile
to get out to consumers earlier.
So Gillette actually launched
their heated razor on Indiegogo,
they launched a project actually for their heated razor
and they're doing it in part to get their first customers,
but of course Gillette has a very
robust distribution system,
drug stores and all kinds of stores all over the world.
What the enterprises are really using Indiegogo
for is similar to what Bose,
like Bose launched a campaign on Indiegogo,
is to connect with consumers early,
and get their feed back and figure out
if the price point works for consumers,
to figure out which features
are most important to consumers,
to get consumers to test that product.
That Bose campaign, Bose did something pretty amazing.
Bose actually sent an early prototype
to all of the backers of that campaign
that bought the headphones to get feedback.
They collected that feedback
and then after they got that feedback
and they made some modifications to the headphones,
they then sent all the backers
the actual commercial version of those headphones.
- Right, that was pretty sweet.
Like a big company can sort of afford to do that too.
I don't know if every start-up
can model their campaigns after that, but...
- Exactly, but for them it was a great way
to connect with customers.
- Oh, and establish so much goodwill.
- Absolutely, and if I'm Bose,
or Whirlpool has run two campaigns on Indiegogo,
I love the Whirlpool example.
Whirlpool, known for their washers and dryers,
launched a kitchen appliance
that was a composting machine on Indiegogo actually,
and they did it primarily so they could connect
with early adopters and get feedback on the product
and I asked when I was in meetings with Whirlpool,
I asked them how would you connect directly
with consumers before Indiegogo,
what would you do if you couldn't do it on Indiegogo?
If they're selling products through Best Buy,
Best Buy doesn't tell them who the customers are.
If they're selling, for any of the other enterprises
that are selling through Amazon or Walmart,
they hold that information very close to the vest.
So what Whirlpool told me is that the primary,
before Indiegogo, the primary way
that they would find out who their actual customers were,
was from people sending back those warranty cards.
- We're not doing it online now.
It's all about data.
- It is, so the enterprises on Indiegogo,
they not only get their first few thousand customers
but those first few thousand customers
become their focus group and the benefit to backers
is that they get to have a voice in those products
that are created by those great companies.
- I have to ask though,
I know with this idea there's been a bit of a backlash
from sort of the true Indies,
like oh wow this is supposed to be,
like you're letting these guys in.
This is supposed to be our place for start-ups
and people just starting out
and how do we stand out when there's
these bigger fish swimming in our pool.
Now I remember, I think this was Kickstarter,
but it was again years ago,
but when the big films or stars started asking,
like Veronica Mars and there was Zach Braff
had this thing, I think it was Zach Braff
that got the most heat for it,
but they're like hey this is,
get out of here established people,
this is not your pool.
What has been the reaction on Indiegogo
to some of this enterprise stuff?
- You know honestly, directly we've heard very little
negative backlash from the entrepreneurs
on our platform and you know we've had
over 800,000 people that have raised money
for different things on Indiegogo
and we've had almost no negative feedback directly,
and the main reason is that the entrepreneurs
recognize that these established brands
bring a lot of new users to the platform
and while they may come to see
that big enterprise campaign from Bose
or Whirlpool or General Electric or Lego
or some of the other big brands
that have used Indiegogo,
while they're there they tend to browse around.
- I was looking at some stats.
There's something like 22% of your users
back more than one campaigns?
- Absolutely and if they back one of these
large enterprise campaigns then they often elect
to join our email lists
and they're getting notified regularly
of the latest and greatest innovations on Indiegogo.
So what those large enterprises do actually
is they really help build the community
of early adopters on Indiegogo
that then get turned on to innovative projects
from small and large entrepreneurs alike.
- Nice.
So what's next for you guys?
- So a lot of things.
You know the big things that are coming up for us
is continuing our worldwide expansion.
We've been thrilled to see the tremendous growth
that we've had in China
and we'll continue to explore
how we enable entrepreneurs from all over the world
to reach audiences elsewhere in the world.
We're also continuing to implement to form
new partnerships to help entrepreneurs
be more successful in manufacturing their products
and shipping those products
so you'll see over the next year more announcements
of partnerships to enable entrepreneurs
once they've raised a lot of money to be more successful.
You'll also see us rolling out even more services
to make the whole crowdfunding experience
easier for entrepreneurs.
You know the entrepreneurs on Indiegogo
are often great at having innovative ideas for products,
at developing products,
they may not have great experience
in running a digital marketing campaign
to make that project successful
and building a large community,
that may not be their strength,
so you'll see us doing more there,
and you'll start to see us
in the beginning of next year
exploring more and more with guaranteed shipment
of products as we have more established
entrepreneurs using Indiegogo,
they're less reliant on the funds
that they raised in their campaigns
to be able to ship their products
and they're able to actually guarantee that
that product will ship.
For example Lego launched their first toy
aimed at adults on Indiegogo a couple months ago
and of course Lego...
- Aimed.
- What's that?
- (laughs) There's a lot of adults
I know that are into Lego.
I'm asking for a friend.
- The reason I say that is that I've learned
from experience not to say that Lego
is launching their first adult toy on Indiegogo.
- That would be really off brand for them.
- Exactly and at Indiegogo we're actually
in awe of Lego the way that they inspire innovation
and creativity from young people.
There's so many entrepreneurs on Indiegogo
that have told us about how they started developing things
actually playing with Legos as children,
but Lego knows that they're gonna ship their product.
Gillette knows that they're gonna ship their product.
Indiegogo's having a lot
of repeat entrepreneurs on our platform.
Mate X, which I mentioned earlier,
which was the most successful campaign on Indiegogo,
this was their second campaign on Indiegogo.
They know how to manufacture an electric bike,
and while we didn't do it for this campaign,
they're in a position to guarantee that
that product will ultimately ship.
So you'll see more guaranteed shipping
as a way to build back our confidence in our platform
and ensure that we have a really happy community.
- Sounds great!
So if you don't mind I would love to transition
into some fun time questions.
- Fun time!
Okay, let's do it.
- Fun questions, okay.
So it's a bit of game.
- Uh oh.
- Now we have five questions
and the first three are part of a guessing game
and the other two are,
well they're are kind of a guessing game.
- Uh oh, okay.
- But the first three are you have to guess
whether this project is funded or not funded.
These are all Indiegogo campaigns.
- Oh really?
Okay.
I've got a little bit over 800,000 to think through.
- I know you have to scan real quick.
- Okay, let's do it.
- Okay so the first one...
- Sorry just one clarifying question,
is it whether the campaign existed
or whether it got funded?
- Whether it got funded.
The first three are all real campaigns.
Did they reach their funding goal or not.
- Okay.
- Alright, the first one is the Candwich.
'A pocket sandwich in a self-heating can.'
- I'm guessing yes it reached its funding goal.
- It did, you got the first one.
- Yes, okay.
- It was funded.
Alright second one, Bug-A-Salt.
'A miniaturized shotgun effect is generated
through this ingenious design for killing flies
and other pesky insects using only ordinary table salt.'
Was that funded or not funded?
- Yes, funded.
- Oh wow, the great confidence.
And it was, it was in fact funded,
so two out of three so far.
- Okay.
First of all isn't this a testament
to the Indiegogo platform?
That these amazingly unique projects
could actually get fully funded.
- Especially the amazingly unique names.
- Imagine the Bug-A-Salt people showing up
at Andreessen Horowitz and trying to get funding
for the Bug-A-Salt.
- Bug-A-Salt, it's like the guy
that would leave dejected from Shark Tank.
Like I didn't get a vote, what?
Alright third one, Aliens and UFOs.
A small business 'making gray alien dolls
and selling UFO/alien related products.'
Started by a retired grandmother.
- Oh, did it get funded?
On that one I'm gonna guess no.
- It was not, you are correct.
- Wow.
- I feel bad for the grandmother.
- Yeah.
- But what are you gonna do?
- It's okay, she was able to do early product validation,
I'm sure she moved on to something.
- You did great, you got three out of three so far.
- Okay.
- We're going into advanced stuff now though.
- Oh boy.
- So this next question,
I'm gonna read three campaigns to you,
one of them is fake.
The other two are real Indiegogo campaigns
that were on the site.
So you're not choosing funded or not funded,
these are just three campaigns, which one's fake.
First one, a new tooth.
A YouTuber raised money for his broken tooth.
He broke his front tooth in half one weekend.
He said it was 'gross'
and that it was 'nearly impossible to eat sandwiches.'
He has no dental insurance
and it's gonna cost him 'an insane amount of money,'
so of course he turned to Indiegogo.
Second one, or do you wanna make a judgment right now
on whether that's true.
- No I'd like to hear all three.
One is not true of the three, correct?
- Correct.
Second one, a self-declared lifelong introvert
got a notification that it was the birthday
of a high school classmate who he hated.
He set out to create an app
that would help you mute all birthday notifications.
Where the app couldn't just mute them for you,
it would recommend turning off certain notifications
in apps or deleting certain calendars.
Birthday notification muting.
- Okay.
- And the last one is the Audiopill.
You swallow this pill and it starts beating
at a certain number of beats per minute.
It's a techno party in your stomach
that you can't escape.
The creator says that 'the beating
within your abdomen induces a unique feeling
of restlessness, amazement, and elation.'
The battery lasts for only ten hours
but it can be switched off after you swallow it.
- Wow.
- One, two, three.
So those are three campaigns.
Which one's the fake?
- Which one's fake?
- Is it the new tooth,
the birthday muting idea, or the Audiopill?
- I'm gonna go out on a limb,
I'm gonna guess the birthday muting is the fake one.
- And you would be correct.
That is the fake campaign.
- Wow.
- Very confident.
Did you know the other two?
Have you even heard of those?
I feel like the Audiopill might have gotten around.
- I vaguely remember the Audiopill.
There may have been Food and Drug Administration
concerns (laughs) played into that one.
- I believe that,
I could see how that could happen.
- Yes.
- Okay so you got four out of five.
- Wow.
- We're going to the bonus round.
This is it, the last question.
So this is the tough one.
- We can't just stop right now.
I can't just take my money...
- (laughs) You can bank it.
No we gotta go, we gotta do this.
- Alright.
- We're on this journey together now.
- Okay.
- Okay, which Indiegogo campaign,
of these three that I'm going to mention.
Which Indiegogo campaign did I back?
- Oh, that's a great one!
- Me, which one did Pete Pachal,
host of MashTalk, back?
Was it the Banana Phone?
A yellow, 'banana shaped, Bluetooth enabled,
mobile hand set that connects to your smart phone.'
It's 'a phone with appeal.'
Was it the Morpher folding bicycle helmet?
It is said to be the 'world's first fold-flat helmet.
Morpher folds and unfolds quickly and simply
so it's perfect for cyclists who wanna carry
a helmet more easily,'
or was it Super Troopers 2?
The 2018 sequel to the 2001 film Super Troopers.
A cult comedy from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe.
It's all about the high jinks
of the Vermont State Troopers.
Which campaign did I back?
Was it the Banana Phone,
was it the Morpher folding bicycle helmet,
or was it Super Troopers 2,
which came out early this year.
- Oh, Pete I'm gonna go with a testament
to you on this one.
I'm gonna guess, you look like a fairly fit guy to me,
I'm gonna guess that you are somebody
that travels to work by bicycle
and you went with the Morpher foldable bike helmet.
- And it was the Morpher!
- Wow.
- Dave, you got five out of five!
You nailed it, you aced our test.
- This is amazing.
Where do I claim my prizes?
Is that somewhere just outside the studio?
Or do they have to be shipped to me?
- Yeah we're gonna need some help with that shipping,
I think you guys...
- Alright, so I leave my address?
- Exactly, maybe we need to get plugged
into your marketing and all that stuff.
- I can do that, I'll leave our address
so our whole team can share.
- Yeah we're gonna need some help on that,
but congratulations.
Thanks again for coming in
and answering all our questions,
including the silly ones,
and letting us know about what the future's in store
for Indiegogo in crowdfunding.
- Okay, sounds wonderful Pete, this was great.
Thank you.
- Alright, thank you.
-------------------------------------------
How to use Google Analytics - What are goals? Quick facts about goals in Analytics - Duration: 5:31.
In this video let's talk about goals and why they matter in
Google Analytics.
Now, first a couple of fun tips about goals. They only achieved
once per session.
So when a visitor, when one of your users, goes into your site
and maybe achieves a goal they say becomes a lead and that's a
goal that you might have triggered that goal once but
only once if they sign up again in that same session it will not
trigger so very important that you realize that you also have
some limitations on goals you can only have 20 goals in a
view.
So in a view of your data you can only have 20 goals but there
are 25 different views that you can set up in Google Analytics.
So while there are limitations it's still an awful lot of goals
that you can use.
It is true that you cannot delete a goal once it's created.
Very important point.
You cannot delete a goal once it's created because it's got
data associated to it in the back end of Google Analytics.
However, you can stop them.
You can pause them and you can hide goals from your reports so
you can make it look like essentially it was deleted.
If you really needed to.
So very very powerful feature when it comes to goals.
Now in Google Analytics, the way to set up goals you're going to
go into your admin section you'll go into whatever view
that you're looking for and you'll click where it says goals
and then you'll have a button to set up new goals now.
In this case I'm actually using the Google merchandise store
account so I don't have the permissions to set up goals but
I want to show you the goals that they have set up.
Very first thing to think about is what should be a goal?
Well really you think about it in terms of the pipeline in the
stage of the process that your users are going through in your
own customer journey whatever that is for you.
In this case Google started it first by saying hey we've got
engaged users that could be a goal then maybe they register
their account.
Then they check out.
Then they complete a purchase.
So these are sort of the main stages that they wanted to
measure.
So the way they did against users as they come in here we
click on details they're using pages per screen or session and
in this case are saying if it's 10 or more so if it's greater
than 10 or more then go ahead and trigger this goal and that's
what would actually have that goal trigger.
If you come into the checkout process, they actually said well
you know if there's a bunch of different pages that they hit if
they hit any of these pages we're going to say they entered
the checkout process and that's going to trigger that goal.
It's something called a destination goal that you can
use in Google Analytics.
Another one they did was purchase is completed.
So the purchase completed goal.
That is when they had the order completed page, triggers the
goal.
But interestingly enough they also added a funnel option here.
So in Destination goals you can actually create funnels and you
just put in different steps.
The name of the funnel here them in the step and then how does
Google Analytics know that step was achieved in this case when
these pages were viewed by the user it triggers these different
steps in the funnel?
Now this goal itself happens every single time somebody hits.
In this case the order completed page.
But these funnels are used by two very specific reports.
The goal flow report and the funnel visualization report and
they actually build out a visual funnel so you can see how people
are actually achieving this goal that came in from basket.
So it's really really cool feature in Google Analytics.
There are also two other types of goals that are available in
Google Analytics.
One is called event goal.
It's a little more complicated you have to set up events in
Google Analytics but if you have those already then you could set
up an event goal that triggers when certain events happen.
For example when somebody scrolls halfway down the page
and there were also duration goals which are essentially time
oriented goals.
So if somebody spends time on a session of at least five minutes
or something along those lines you would trigger that goal.
So now I want to show you exactly how to set these goals
up so you can see where that is.
I've actually just switched accounts to our ConversionXL
account here and click on or says new goal.
And so that you can see these we've got these four different
types.
Now you saw two types you saw the destination examples you saw
the pages prescreen example but no also that you can do duration
goals and duration is exactly that.
It's just how long somebody is staying on the page in the
session.
And then when it hits a certain point and it will go ahead and
fire that particular goal.
The other one that you can set up which is really interesting
is called event.
Now this is a little more complicated usage is a lot more
stuff here and you will use these but you can only use these
if you are firing events into your Google Analytics.
So this is the type of goal that requires set up to have already
happened prior.
But as long as you have events coming into your Google
Analytics reports and you get and you could find those in the
behavior section in the events reports that are in the behavior
section of your Google Analytics those events can be associated
to goals is where you might say OK when somebody scrolls halfway
down.
Go ahead and fire a goal.
So this is the event itself.
Otherwise what you're going to want to do is click on new goal
here.
Set of destination goals.
So they are... doing a test here.
So very very easy to set up.
Equals 2 begins with Reg expression a little more
advanced but definitely useful.
So could say hey if it begins with you ConversionXL go ahead
and trigger the goal.
So whatever the page is for you.
But this is something that you want to be able to play around
with to figure out number one planning out your goals what
should be a goal?
Think in terms of your customer stages and then how does Google
Analytics know that that happened?
Right.
And that's where you would figure out these different types
of goals that are here and then figure out OK this is how I can
tell Google Analytics that they hit this particular stage for
this particular goal and that is the overview of how to use goals
in Google Analytics.
How are you actually using this information to improve your own
marketing efforts?
I would love to know what you're doing.
Just leave a comment below.
Let us know also if you like this video be sure to like the
video and subscribe to the CXL channel. That we are notified
whenever a new video is available.
-------------------------------------------
Bulldozer Story | Learning Videos For Children | Vehicles For Babies by Kids Channel - Duration: 31:50.
Bulldozer Story
-------------------------------------------
CRUSHING EXTREME CRUNCHY TOBIKO by MOUTH 😎 ASMR Eating TOBIKO Mukbang - Duration: 3:02.
CRUSHING EXTREME CRUNCHY TOBIKO by MOUTH 😎 ASMR Eating TOBIKO Mukbang
-------------------------------------------
✔Best Tik Tok MEMES Compilation | FUNNY Videos | Ep.01 - Duration: 3:09.
Tik Tok Funny Compilation!
-------------------------------------------
Buddy Sexy vs BuddyBot | Kick The Buddy #kickthebuddy - Duration: 12:23.
Welcome to my video
Thank you for this video view
Like, sub, share, support my channel.
Thank you very much
-------------------------------------------
Мультфильм для детей с игрушками! Праздник. Мультики онлайн новые серии на канале Игрушки Веселушки - Duration: 5:36.
For more infomation >> Мультфильм для детей с игрушками! Праздник. Мультики онлайн новые серии на канале Игрушки Веселушки - Duration: 5:36. -------------------------------------------
Paranormal Stories. The Voodoo Haunted Mask. - Duration: 12:49.
If is on a short break, I am Peter your bot narrator I won't be here long.
If has informed me will be back in the next video, and I will be looking for work!!
So let's get into Masks!!
We have all seen and played with them, their uses can be more serious, being used to hide
a person face and even transform personalities and call upon the powers of the supernatural.
From the wild and crazy antics of Jim Carrey and the comic book inspired movie "the mask"
to the 80's action cartoon and toy line of the same name.
Masks are something that can be seen almost every day and we rarely give them a second
thought Well maybe we should!!
Before you decide to plant your face into one of these disguises maybe you should give
this video a watch to the end and make sure you know what could happen.
Let's take a look at some spooky masks.
Welcome to IF Videos on mystery and history.
Hit that subscribe button and ring the bell to never miss a video again
I started with the movie the Mask in which Jim Carrey famously wears a green mask that
gifts him superpowers.
The mask was said to have been created by Loki the Norse god of mischief.
If you think this is something that can only occur in movies and fantasy, you're wrong.
In the following stories of masks you will see that it doesn't need to be something
that once belonged to a god, to have powers that can terrify.
The story begins at New York's Steinway Mansion when auctioneers were clearing out
the house for an estate sale, this is when they uncovered a voodoo and doll creepy masks.
This old mansion had once belonged the Steinway family whose name is still famously linked
to pianos.
They left the property in the 1920s leaving a vast assortment of items behind.
it was these and in addition the belongings of the last owner a Michael Halberian, that
the auctioneers had to sift through in search of items which that could be easily auctioned.
This is when they stumbled across a spooky artifact, a box containing voodoo masks and
a doll which was surrounded by rusty nails and lay in a small coffin.
The box was found hidden in the vast cobweb filled attic of the Steinway Mansion.
Michael Capo was the man charged with the job and responsibility of selling the mansion's
contents, these included many old items and antiques as Mr Halberian had lived there for
an astounding 82 years.
Describing the box Mr Capo said that it was something that most likely dated form the
late 19th century, when opened it revealed five voodoo masks..
The mask were made from some odd materials that included wax and pig skin, some say it
may well have been human skin.
Handling the objects the auctioneer said he could feel an energy being emitted from the
masks and that it felt bad even evil.
Inspecting the items those that were in the room fell silent as a cloud of dark feeling
descended upon the group.
The masks were obviously things that had been used in some kind of ritual or ceremony there
was a mirror inside hem lid of the box which the wearer of the mask could see themselves
in.
The box also contained a strange voodoo doll.
The history of these artifacts was researched with living members of the Halberian's and
they insisted that these objects were things that their late relative would absolutely
not own.
So we can assume that these things must have been the possessions of the Steinway family
and can dated to at least pre 1920.
The location of it discovery could provide a clue, hidden away in an area where the owner
wouldn't necessarily go, so perhaps a member of the domestic staff kept it there.'
These staff were of African and Haitian descent the birth place of voodoo.
This mammoth 27-room house, was crammed packed full of objects like telescopes, barometers
and old maps.
Built by Benjamin T. Pike Jr in 1858.
Then being sold in 1873, by Mr Pike's widow to the Steinway family, who had begun moving
their piano-making facilities to Astoria from Manhattan.
Tailor Jack Halberian purchased the mansion in an auction during the 1920s after the Steinways
moved out.
No one is sure if the voodoo masks will go to auction like the house but they are sure
the objects hide a dark past.
The voodoo religion originates in the Caribbean country of Haiti, and is based upon a merging
of the beliefs and practices of West African peoples and Roman Catholicism.
This system of beliefs was put together by African slaves brought to Haiti in the 16th
century.
This religion had given rise to many a spooky story the aforementioned masks and voodoo
dolls to zombies and demonic possession all claimed to be curses that voodoo can inflict
upon a person.
This brings us to another case of voodoo masks and strange paranormal happenings.
A mask was donated to a museum after those that owned had a series of scary experiences
which they linked to the mask.
This mask causing intense nightmares for the majority of people who choose to touch it.
The start of the story is a letter.
This e-mail sent to paranormal investigators after an appearance on the famous coast to
coast radio show.
The e mail reads as follows: Greg and Dana,
Caught your Coast to Coast show on Sunday and heard you talking about the museum of
the paranormal.
I have a statue that I think you would be interesting in.
I was going to send it to you but when I saw how local you were I hoped you might meet
me half way instead.
It would save me shipping on a heavy item.
I found the statue in the crawl space of our home several months ago and my family and
I have reason to believe its is haunted.
I'm ready to put it in the trash but would rather give it to someone who will keep others
from using it.
If you would like to know more please email me.
Tim A meeting place was agreed and the paranormal
team met with the finder of the strange object.
Wrapped in a heavy burlap sack the object was handed over with an ominous warning
"Well, he's your problem now."
The investigator asked what he had just taken possession of and what lay in store for him
in the days months or years ahead.
The man began to the story of purchasing a house on the outskirts Dayton, Ohio.
He his son and wife were very happy and settling in nicely, while the man got the house in
order he had to run new cables through the house and into the basement.
As the man shimmied his way into a crawlspace he discovered the burlap sack bound tightly
with twine.
The sack was covered in dust and cobwebs obviously it had been there some time curiosity got
the better of the man and he pulled the sack free of the crawl space.
Opening the sack revealed a two-foot statue of a man with elongated features, jet-black
aside from ivory eyes and a strange triangular symbol carved into its forehead.
The object seemed odd to them but it was nothing to fear and was placed in a corner of the
room.
That night the terror began, the man awoke to the nightmare fueled screams of his young
son, rushing to the boy's aid he found him shivering in fear.
The boy said that the figure had come to life and was trying to pull him from his bed.
the nightmares of the "little man "continued, then he and his wife began to experience terrible
dreams themselves.
These terrible nightmares were so bad, that the man refused to talk about them.
This is when the man put two and two together the object was linked to the bad dreams and
this is why it was hidden.
After they rewrapped and hi the statue the family's nightmares subsided, but other
strange activity began to ramp up in their home.
Such odd occurrences as Electronics and lights flickering on and off, strange shadows darting
through the living room, and more than once, the family would return from work to find
their faucets running full blast.
Taking the object the investigator expressed his concern for the man's family and asked
one more time about the nightmares.
The man caved and began to tell of the horrible dreams he and his family had been having.
The man said: I had a dream that I held her down, put a sharp rock to her chest, and cut
her open.
I heard her ribs crack, felt the warmth of her blood..
I can remember the way she screamed..
Everything, it was all so vivid.
Then I dug out her heart with my bare hands and ate it.
It wasn't a regular dream.
It was terrible."
I don't know about you guys but that sure would do it for me.
The investigators took the object and made their way back home not really sure if the
stories were true, that was until they peaked into the bag.
As soon as they laid eyes on the object the vehicle in which they were traveling began
developing engine problems coughing and spluttering, radio cutting in and out.
Later inspection of the vehicle found no problems the mechanic even mentioned how a good of
a shape the truck was in.
They began to investigate the idol and with help from a friend discovered that they had
willingly took possession of Bloody Mary.
Her first words were, "you didn't unwrap it, did you?"
The idol carried some serious bad energy and a series of rituals would be needed to placate
the disturbed spirit which lived with the blackened wood.
This African effigy is in many cases, buried as part of a ritual intended to curse someone.
Once the curse is cast, the idol is wrapped in burlap and buried somewhere it can't
be disturbed.
This was a particularly important detail in the ritual, as any further meddling with the
object would result in the curse being visited upon the individual who cast it.
It would seem that by finding this object the man.. unwittingly woke the voodoo spirit
who showed its displeasure through nightmares and the other strange events reported.
The object is to this day kept with the paranormal investigator and anytime it is unwrapped or
handled those that look or touch it have terrifying nightmares
These nightmare gave way to hallucinations the idol appearing at random times accompanied
by a sense of terror.
These continue to this day.
This brings us back to the voodoo masks we started with, could they and the doll with
which they were found have a curse of some type?
Could removing them, or even selling them curse an unsuspecting collector with nightmares
and paranormal activity?
I guess we will only know if or when they are sold.
Do you have any thoughts on the origins of The Idol, the masks or the voodoo doll?
Have you had any spooky run-ins with any of your own haunted objects?
Let me know in the comments below
-------------------------------------------
How to Stay Focused in Your Business - Duration: 9:56.
now's the time of year where it's particularly important to maintain focus
and to narrow in on the key things that are gonna make the biggest difference
for your business next year I know as a business owner entrepreneur you're
constantly managing a thousand priorities and you need help narrowing
in and focusing so that you can get real results right away this video is going
to help you to implement a simple process for creating a breakthrough in
your business and getting stuff done so that you can mark things off the list
and focus on what really matters so watch the video until the end so you can
get access to the free get it done guide that has already helped thousands of
entrepreneurs to create a breakthrough in their business
my name is Kelly Roach I'm a business growth coach and I help entrepreneurs
and business owners around the world to make six and seven figure leaps
in their business quickly and without compromising their quality of life with
the strategies that I teach including the one that you are about to learn
today if you're ready to leverage your time and scale your business quickly
make sure you hit subscribe and tap the bell so you never miss an episode I
always like to take some time specifically at this time of year to
talk about setting the right goals and then setting yourself up to be able to
accomplish them we've all had the experience of setting these big goals
and big dreams that we so badly want to accomplish just to find ourselves a few
months later completely off track no real progress made and then we lose
energy and excitement and go get focused on something else it doesn't mean that
that dream disappeared but it means we lost focus on it which means it's
probably never gonna happen the goal for me creating this video today is to help
you stay focused on the things that really matter to you and how to
understand what you need to do to break them down appropriately and in a
systematic way so that you can actually make real progress and ultimately get to
the end goals that matter most to you comment below and tell me the number one
thing that distracts you from making real progress on your big goals that you
set at the beginning of each new year okay so let's get down to business and
talk about the get-it-done process that I have used to help thousands of
entrepreneurs create almost immediate breakthroughs in their business and I've
used this system for quite a while to help people to simplify their focus and
break down their goals in a meaningful way that is actually gonna keep them
focused on the things that really matter to them and get real results so let's
get started number one when you look at the big goal that you want to achieve
whether it's in your business your life your health nutrition whatever it is the
first thing that you have to do is break it down into meaningful milestones so
write that down meaningful milestones meaningful milestones are all of the
elements of working towards that goal like the chapters in a book that are
going to build up to you ultimately meeting your final
destination take some time now to comment in the chat below and tell me
what one meaningful milestone on the way to your big goal is okay so you know the
big goal and you now have written down the meaningful milestones the meaningful
milestones are each core component each lever that you're gonna have to pull in
order to get to that big goal now let's take it to the next step
here's where people fall off a cliff and this is why big dreams many times go to
the Graveyard with people meaningful milestones have to be broken down into
very specific daily actions write down daily actions now here is the essential
element in breaking down the daily actions part of this process what
happens is when we want to achieve a big goal that matters most to us we look at
are we there yet are we there yet are we there yet did it arrive have we
arrived and many times we're measuring ourselves against did we accomplish that
big goal and so what happens is we're always setting ourselves up for failure
because we're assessing ourselves against something that we probably are
not going to achieve for a period of months or maybe even years and so it's
this constant friction between wanting to keep the energy to keep going forward
but this constant disappointment that we're not there yet the way that you
sustain momentum and sustain focus so that you can follow through on big goals
and actually accomplish them is one understanding those milestones like we
talked about already and then to understanding the most important daily
actions that need to happen every single day to accomplish each milestone now the
daily action steps that you do in order to accomplish those milestones matter
and they also evolve and change so the things that you need to do to get from
point zero to milestone one could be very different from the things that you
need to do from point one to point two and that's a really important thing to
understand comment unstoppable below if you now understand that your goal has to
be broken down to milestones you're miles
certains have to be broken down into meaningful daily actions and those daily
actions are gonna change as you move through each milestone okay now let's
talk about reframing the way that you're measuring yourself against success so
that you can sustain the discipline needed to follow through on the focused
goals until you actually meet your big end result that you're looking for so
what you need to measure yourself against guys is do you clearly
understand what the next milestone is and are you consistently executing the
correct activities on a daily basis to get there and are the activities that
you're doing are they actually effective are they working right
sometimes your results especially in the beginning may be very hard to see in the
beginning all of the actions that you're taking may be underneath the surface
think about the iceberg right you only see what's above the water but the vast
majority of the iceberg is underneath that means that a lot of the work that
you're doing in the beginning of this process is underneath the surface you
may not yet be able to see results now the vast majority of people get totally
knocked off their game during this first piece because they think to themselves
what I'm doing is not working and so they quit because they worked really
really hard for a period of time they didn't see the the mountain hasn't moved
and they say to themselves okay well I tried I did my best it didn't work I'm
not getting there I'm not making progress let me go work on something
else so understanding this whole analogy about the iceberg and that those first
through few milestones that are gonna carry you forward towards your big goal
you may not be seeing a lot of the work that you're doing on the surface and
that is where the vast majority of people totally fall off the wagon and
it's why they give up on their dreams so comment unstopable below if you're never
gonna give up on your dreams and you now understand that a lot of that
foundational work is below the surface and you have to trust the process and
keep working at it in order to make it to the milestones that matter and in
order to get to the point where the work that you're doing does show above this
servus and you start to see the mountain move talking about goal-setting is
perhaps one of the oldest topics in the personal development space of all time
but interestingly enough it's one of the areas where we all still struggle we set
the wrong goals we don't follow through on our goals we don't set ourselves up
for success to accomplish our goals and that's why so many people are unhappy
because they don't accomplish their dreams I want to help you to accomplish
your goals and dreams and it's why I put together the get-it-done guide this has
literally been one of the most popular resources I've put together since I
started my business and I have had dozens of people come to me and say this
has totally changed my life. I understand now how to make real
progress and get real results in my life in the areas that matter and do it in a
simple easy-to-follow way with a methodology that's gonna keep me on
track so if you also want to have more success this year accomplishing the
goals and dreams that matter most to you and you want to make real progress each
and every day all you have to do is click the link below to get instant
access to the get-it-done guide and I can't wait to hear about your results
so remember break the goal down into meaningful milestones break the
milestones down into the activities that need to be done consistently on a daily
basis to move you to the next milestone remember the activities that get you
from one milestone to the next bite change and most importantly the first
few milestones that you're working towards a lot of that activity is
working wonders beneath the surface don't judge it by the fact that the
mountain hasn't yet mood stay strong stay focused and you're gonna achieve
your goal thank you so much for watching the video today and I want to remind you
that we release new episodes of unstoppable success radio every single
week is the best place online to grow your business for free all you have to
do is go to the podcast app on your phone search unstoppable success radio
hit subscribe you'll be notified every single week when a new episode comes
live and remember if you want to scale your business faster and leverage your
time make sure you hit subscribe and tap the bell right here on
you tube so you never miss an episode thanks for tuning in
I'll see you next week
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét